Too little too late.
I bought a Wii a few months after release, hooked it up, played Wii sports and thought "this is cool".
A month later I sold the Wii because of the following.
1) Horrible Graphics compared to the XBOX 360 I had at the time (got a PS3 now).
2) Games were fun to play with others but for some reason I couldn't find that many people to play with at 1 AM.
3) No good singleplayer titles that I could play online.
To be honest, the XBOX 360 was better then the Wii in every aspect except social gaming, and although my girlfriend would play sometimes, in the month I had the Wii, after the first week, I hardly ever turned it on.
Finally, the majority of people I know who like console gaming who have a Wii, also have either the XBOX 360 or a PS3.
Nintendo did find a nice segment and are not competing with the other consoles as much as MSoft and Sony are competing with eachother, but I have to agree with TFA, that segment does not include many single-player online gamers.
Now back to COD 4 on the PS3, feel the wrath of my P90!
You missed a few pertinent words in your question Let me add them for you - they make the answer obvious.
How is it legitimate to force Australian people to pay for research and then deny American & European Corporations access to the results?
Yes because Australians are paying other countries for their tax-funded inventions right?
Taking this path is scary, I think it's the wrong move and I hope it will come back and bite the aussies in the behind. You are happily using inventions (many of them medical saving Australian lives) created by tax-money in other countries yet when you have such an invention you want money for it. Where is the fairness in that?
Only a few months ago did I manage to explain how email works to my parents (and what the purpose of email is).
Somehow, I don't think I'll see my father on facebook any time soon, and just the thought of my mother using Google Wave makes me chuckle.
I seriously doubt e-mail is being replaced anytime soon. There are a lot of companies having issues with in-the-cloud spam filtering for email, I just cannot see them accepting the loss of control of their data by moving to Google Wave.
What about all the similar crap that goes on with other devices? iPhone, XBOX, Wii, NDS, plus loads others?! EFF, why aren't you defending user's rights there?
Hacking or modding any of the consoles you listed will allow you to run copied games. You can see why the companies making the console (and apart from Wii selling the consoles at a loss) doesn't like the modding. However, you can't really claim that you are selling a TI calculator at a loss hoping to make the additional money from software sales, nor can you really claim that hacking the calculator makes you loose any money.
Say what you will about homebrews etc, I think the vast majority who has a chipped Wii is using it to play copied games. I don't think the vast majority of TI calculator owners use it to pirate anything.
...software with ads usually hangs while trying to load them, lacks essential features and of course looks junky
The publisher of the app is probably more relevant than the "ad supported" part in regards to "hangs while trying to load".
You cant say "will lack essential features" when you dont know what will be in there or what people who will actually use this version requires. Personally I think they are happy enough being able to read word docs and write the occasional one-pager.
I very much doubt it will look "junky". Hate Microsoft all you want but you cannot deny that a lot of their success has to do with their "eye-candy". Perhaps companies like Apple have passed them with both looks and usability, but I still doubt Microsoft will release an office version that looks "junky". Again you say this like it was true but you have no proof, not even a screenshot, of what it would look like.
I think this is a good move by Microsoft and I also think they should have done this a long time ago.
While not on a phone, regular skype on a laptop with a 3G dongle is fairly poor. On a good day it will work, but it is not consistent. 3g doesn't seem to be fast enough for it.
Skype on a jailbroken phone over 3g (with VoIPover3g) works just fine, can even run it with backgrounder so don't think the 3g network is the problem in your case.
I hadn't installed it but thanks to your post I now have.
To be honest I am a quite new iPhone user and althought I should have expected the same behaviour on iPhone apps we see on the computer side, I didn't. Now I have UDIDFaker installed as well as the update hosts file.
Reading some of the info that gets stolen, such as Storm8 stealing phonenumbers combined with Apple not caring really scared me.
UDIDFaker and compiledadhosts are two packages that will ALWAYS be installed on my iPhone.
I thank you for this tip and I am certain you have helped more people then just me today, so cheers, you opened my eyes!
The carriers have an intrinsic collision avoidance
system, which increases availability. Because IP only guarantees best effort delivery, loss
of a carrier can be tolerated. With time, the carriers are self-regenerating. Audit trails are automatically generated, and can often be
found on logs and cable trays.
Seems like whenever an story about Hulu/etc somes on all the non-USians come to complain about that.
So can I complain about it not being offered here in the states and how that's so unfair so I'll just download the stuff instead of pay for it?
Difference is in Europe you can download without the risk of having to pay fines that are so far out of proportion that it's beyond sad. Of course the risk of getting caught is always there but I doubt you will find any country in Europe where your fine will be $750 per song!
Plus, you should have spotify in the US before the year is over.
So, to sum it up, I say go for the illegal downloads ^^
There is information on their blog about this, which includes the following statement in one of the posts (by a spotify employee): "Rest assured we're working on the Android version. Keep an eye out on the blog for updates!"
Another bit that was lost in the original article is that you need a premium account to use the iphone app (current cost is 99SEK.. approx $13).
I did like this part in the blog post:
Spotify on the iPhone will include many of the features our users enjoy on the desktop, with the added advantage of letting you listen to your playlists even when you haven't a network connection, for instance when on a plane or the underground.
I saw a documentary on Discovery a few months ago, it was an episode part of "Discovery Project Earth".
I found it extremely fascinating and was wondering if it would just die or if there would be some actual results from the project, seems like we are getting somewhere now!
I remember from the documentary that the biggest problem was the beam being split in two, rather than one focused beam. Hopefully they found a solution to this problem.
Anyways, I strongly suggest watching the documentary if you are interested in this, it really shows how the idea was born and all the small advancements they made which resulted in a successful test.
But now what you're really here for - the PDF decryption tool: REMOVED. (And if you don't already have it, the key-retrieval tool: REMOVED.) Edit: Links to tools removed due to DMCA complaint from Adobe.
This is not the next Dmitri, if anything, it may turn in to the new DeCSS as Adobe is trying to stop the tool(s) from spreading, which tends to have the opposite effect.
I really wonder if it hadn't been better for Adobe not to say anything, now they are giving it publicity it wouldn't have had otherwise.
As for the "Money" bit, you do realized this is a fully government funded organization don't you?
Yes, but if I was a Norwegian citizen and they asked me to vote on something that would slightly raise taxes to pay for upgrades, new shows, etc, I might actually vote for it because the government in this case is actually using taxpayer money responsibly.
In Sweden, the state-television (SVT) setup SVT Play not too long ago.
Last month I started paying the TV License because I found SVT Play to be just excellent, and I feel that it is actually something I am willing to pay for.
... and no, I don't have to pay the TV license if I don't want to since I don't actually own a TV.
Pricing is an issue with Digital Downloads though, the supplier won't be left with an excessive stock of games they have to get rid of for a low price.
The benefit of physical media is, for the consumer at least, the price dumping that sometimes happen.
Another example, especially in these times, are shops that are closing down and selling their stock for really low prices.
I wanted to buy GTA IV for the PC just a few days ago, and looked at steam, they charged 50 euros for it which is the RRP.
Shops are charging around 25 euros for it, and talking to some of the local shops they are saying they dumped the price because it didn't sell as well as they thought it would.
On the flip-side, after re-installing my PC I installed the steam client and started an installation on all the games I have bought from there, and left it running over-night.
Next morning when I woke up and all the games were nicely installed, patched and completely up-to-date.
Just noticed that you cannot type the euro sign on the slashdot forums, but the $$$ works just fine???
Annoying!
Slashdot Mirror
Too little too late.
I bought a Wii a few months after release, hooked it up, played Wii sports and thought "this is cool".
A month later I sold the Wii because of the following.
1) Horrible Graphics compared to the XBOX 360 I had at the time (got a PS3 now).
2) Games were fun to play with others but for some reason I couldn't find that many people to play with at 1 AM.
3) No good singleplayer titles that I could play online.
To be honest, the XBOX 360 was better then the Wii in every aspect except social gaming, and although my girlfriend would play sometimes, in the month I had the Wii, after the first week, I hardly ever turned it on.
Finally, the majority of people I know who like console gaming who have a Wii, also have either the XBOX 360 or a PS3.
Nintendo did find a nice segment and are not competing with the other consoles as much as MSoft and Sony are competing with eachother, but I have to agree with TFA, that segment does not include many single-player online gamers.
Now back to COD 4 on the PS3, feel the wrath of my P90!
Yes because Australians are paying other countries for their tax-funded inventions right?
Taking this path is scary, I think it's the wrong move and I hope it will come back and bite the aussies in the behind.
You are happily using inventions (many of them medical saving Australian lives) created by tax-money in other countries yet when you have such an invention you want money for it. Where is the fairness in that?
You can try something like this.
I use that with my Media PC and it works well.
Only a few months ago did I manage to explain how email works to my parents (and what the purpose of email is).
Somehow, I don't think I'll see my father on facebook any time soon, and just the thought of my mother using Google Wave makes me chuckle.
I seriously doubt e-mail is being replaced anytime soon. There are a lot of companies having issues with in-the-cloud spam filtering for email, I just cannot see them accepting the loss of control of their data by moving to Google Wave.
Hacking or modding any of the consoles you listed will allow you to run copied games. You can see why the companies making the console (and apart from Wii selling the consoles at a loss) doesn't like the modding. However, you can't really claim that you are selling a TI calculator at a loss hoping to make the additional money from software sales, nor can you really claim that hacking the calculator makes you loose any money.
Say what you will about homebrews etc, I think the vast majority who has a chipped Wii is using it to play copied games. I don't think the vast majority of TI calculator owners use it to pirate anything.
She hasn't actually been screwed before, Bill's been busy with other women!
They have done this before, for example they gave the price to Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 because he was trying to open up the Soviet Union.
:)
Then of course you can say what a lot of in people in Sweden says, Norwegians are giving out the award, what did you expect?
The publisher of the app is probably more relevant than the "ad supported" part in regards to "hangs while trying to load".
You cant say "will lack essential features" when you dont know what will be in there or what people who will actually use this version requires. Personally I think they are happy enough being able to read word docs and write the occasional one-pager.
I very much doubt it will look "junky". Hate Microsoft all you want but you cannot deny that a lot of their success has to do with their "eye-candy". Perhaps companies like Apple have passed them with both looks and usability, but I still doubt Microsoft will release an office version that looks "junky". Again you say this like it was true but you have no proof, not even a screenshot, of what it would look like.
I think this is a good move by Microsoft and I also think they should have done this a long time ago.
Skype on a jailbroken phone over 3g (with VoIPover3g) works just fine, can even run it with backgrounder so don't think the 3g network is the problem in your case.
Don't forget backgrounder if you have a jailbroken phone and want to run Skype over 3g. Works quite well although you get the occasional crashes.
I hadn't installed it but thanks to your post I now have.
To be honest I am a quite new iPhone user and althought I should have expected the same behaviour on iPhone apps we see on the computer side, I didn't. Now I have UDIDFaker installed as well as the update hosts file.
Reading some of the info that gets stolen, such as Storm8 stealing phonenumbers combined with Apple not caring really scared me.
UDIDFaker and compiledadhosts are two packages that will ALWAYS be installed on my iPhone.
I thank you for this tip and I am certain you have helped more people then just me today, so cheers, you opened my eyes!
So lets see if I got this correctly, they can't use phones to navigate and they can't use them to make phonecalls.
Anyone wanna buy an island, it's located a bit outside Australia and for some reason all the people that used to live there are lost in the woods.
They forgot to mention that they also got the pigeon to stop and poop all over the Telkom bosses enroute.
It's the logfiles!
>> but did they think about pigeon packet loss ?
The carriers have an intrinsic collision avoidance system, which increases availability.
Because IP only guarantees best effort delivery, loss of a carrier can be tolerated. With time, the carriers are self-regenerating. Audit trails are automatically generated, and can often be found on logs and cable trays.
... when I had to move this RFC to the "useful RFC's" bookmark folder
Difference is in Europe you can download without the risk of having to pay fines that are so far out of proportion that it's beyond sad. Of course the risk of getting caught is always there but I doubt you will find any country in Europe where your fine will be $750 per song!
Plus, you should have spotify in the US before the year is over.
So, to sum it up, I say go for the illegal downloads ^^
In a Swedish article on IDG.SE they were waiting for the iPhone app before the US launch. Currently they expect spotify in the US before year-end.
You can a preview of the app here
There is information on their blog about this, which includes the following statement in one of the posts (by a spotify employee): "Rest assured we're working on the Android version. Keep an eye out on the blog for updates!"
.. approx $13).
Another bit that was lost in the original article is that you need a premium account to use the iphone app (current cost is 99SEK
I did like this part in the blog post:
Spotify on the iPhone will include many of the features our users enjoy on the desktop, with the added advantage of letting you listen to your playlists even when you haven't a network connection, for instance when on a plane or the underground.
I saw a documentary on Discovery a few months ago, it was an episode part of "Discovery Project Earth".
I found it extremely fascinating and was wondering if it would just die or if there would be some actual results from the project, seems like we are getting somewhere now!
I remember from the documentary that the biggest problem was the beam being split in two, rather than one focused beam. Hopefully they found a solution to this problem.
Anyways, I strongly suggest watching the documentary if you are interested in this, it really shows how the idea was born and all the small advancements they made which resulted in a successful test.
If you are using Firefox you can get the slashdotter addon, amongst other things it gives you cache links in case the page gets slashdotted.
If you aren't using Firefox, you can get it here
If you aren't using Firefox and don't want to get it, you should go here
The tools are not on the site anymore...
But now what you're really here for - the PDF decryption tool: REMOVED. (And if you don't already have it, the key-retrieval tool: REMOVED.)
Edit: Links to tools removed due to DMCA complaint from Adobe.
This is not the next Dmitri, if anything, it may turn in to the new DeCSS as Adobe is trying to stop the tool(s) from spreading, which tends to have the opposite effect.
I really wonder if it hadn't been better for Adobe not to say anything, now they are giving it publicity it wouldn't have had otherwise.
In Sweden, the state-television (SVT) setup SVT Play not too long ago.
... and no, I don't have to pay the TV license if I don't want to since I don't actually own a TV.
Last month I started paying the TV License because I found SVT Play to be just excellent, and I feel that it is actually something I am willing to pay for.
Pricing is an issue with Digital Downloads though, the supplier won't be left with an excessive stock of games they have to get rid of for a low price. The benefit of physical media is, for the consumer at least, the price dumping that sometimes happen.
Another example, especially in these times, are shops that are closing down and selling their stock for really low prices.
I wanted to buy GTA IV for the PC just a few days ago, and looked at steam, they charged 50 euros for it which is the RRP.
Shops are charging around 25 euros for it, and talking to some of the local shops they are saying they dumped the price because it didn't sell as well as they thought it would.
On the flip-side, after re-installing my PC I installed the steam client and started an installation on all the games I have bought from there, and left it running over-night. Next morning when I woke up and all the games were nicely installed, patched and completely up-to-date.
Just noticed that you cannot type the euro sign on the slashdot forums, but the $$$ works just fine???
Annoying!
I was in a company where a person who was leaving attached a 9Meg video file to the email and sent it to everyone!
:)
Guess DOS'ing the mail server is a good way to go
I am certain this will work!