I BUY all my software. I really do not like searching for the CDs of the games I play. I will use no-CD patches.
Sad part about this is that I bought SimCity 4 and then later the Rush Hour add-on. I had to go to a pirate site - just to use the software that I legally purchased.
A better protection method would be what StarDock Systems use. Constant free updates and patches requiring your original key. Lose/ destroy the media? No problem. You can download the entire game/ program from their servers.
Most idiotic thing software publishers do - they but the CD-Key on that lousy plastic case. - the ones usually thrown out after original CD is placed in binder. Now if US manufacturers would adopt the European way of using DVD cases for software. Much nicer that cheap plastic cases that break.
At University of Maryland University College (Europe), first non-Windows disappeared - Linux was removed from all campus lab machines - claimed it was a "security risk". Next most non-Microsoft software was removed from the lab. The IT director knows M$ and nothing else.
I teach computer science. No longer can I teach with Borland (or gcc) and Linux. Everything is pretty much Microsoft-only. Everything must be VS 6 (and.not). I have been reprimanded because I point out to my students flaws in M$ Windows. Want to take on-line courses - forget about it - Mozilla is barely supported and others are not.
I guess University of Maryland is really University of Microsoft.
So if every one who logged into a certain ISP was using the same kazaa user name, it would be pretty impossible to tell users apart? The RIAA terrorists are going by username and time of access.
I doubt an ISP would give up names/ addresses of 100's+ of users to the RIAA based upon username and time of access. IPs can easily be spoofed/ faked with a proxy server.
Maybe everyone should start using the same name. something like boycott_RIAA@kazaa or f*ck_RIAA@kazaa.
Don't make it too easy for them to violate your privacy and other rights. Remember, the police need a judical court-order, the RIAA just needs a clerk to sign-off on the transaction - i.e. filing fees paid.
Sh!t, I better stop using Linux and Windows BUILT-IN filesharing.
Guess that makes servers illegal as well - not to mention TCP and UDP?
As one of their primary functions is filesharing.
No, the RIAA should be illegal. The police, state and fedeal authorities need a court-order to do wire-tapping, the RIAA doesn't. Welcome to fascism, RIAA-style.
Could it be that people were dumping Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux + CrossOver Office + Microsoft Office.
For many people, Microsoft Office is the primary application that they use. It is mandated at the university that I teach at that documents must be distributed in MS Word, Excel,or PowerPoint format. CrossOver Office allows Linux to be pretty good (and much more stable) platform than Windows - free of DRM, spyware and the Microsoft tax.
As part of the install, you have (had) the option of downloading TrueType fonts (arial, Times New Roman, et al). This was so a document produced in Microsft Office running under Linux looked the same is it did running under native Windows.
This seems the only reason to download the fonts from M$.
Unfortunity true. I teach Java and require my students to download the Java SDK 1.4 from Sun. Java programming works fine, but many web sites which use "Java" no longer function UNLESS M$ "Java" 1.1.4 is used by default. I can't even access the online environment of Web Tycho (University of Maryland) to teach my classes though Linux or pure Java. Guess we know who pays the bills at the University of Maryland. Starting next year, students MUST use Visual Studio (previously it was Borland CBuilder.)
Welcome to the corporate-controlled academic environment.
I teach CS at an branch campus of a major state university in the US (next to Virginia) in Germany. In 1998, I caught 3 students cheating on a case project - lifting the entire text from the a CD-ROM contained in a similar book from the same author/ different publisher. These students (all from the same subcontinent) believed that copying wasn't cheating, claiming it was cultural. Same students caught cheating on another instructors homework assignment (turning in identical SQL programs).
The students were not expelled, but through complaints if this going on, the main campus "retired" the dean in charge of this overseas branch. I understand the students involved did graduate and no further action was taken.
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I BUY all my software. I really do not like searching for the CDs of the games I play. I will use no-CD patches.
Sad part about this is that I bought SimCity 4 and then later the Rush Hour add-on. I had to go to a pirate site - just to use the software that I legally purchased.
A better protection method would be what StarDock Systems use. Constant free updates and patches requiring your original key. Lose/ destroy the media? No problem. You can download the entire game/ program from their servers.
Most idiotic thing software publishers do - they but the CD-Key on that lousy plastic case. - the ones usually thrown out after original CD is placed in binder. Now if US manufacturers would adopt the European way of using DVD cases for software. Much nicer that cheap plastic cases that break.
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Chekov has those powers...
oh wait, wrong show...
I have Powerline Internet here in Mannheim. I no longer have to get screwed by T-Online, as I live too far from a DSL switch - and ISDN is metered.
More info:
www.vype.de
At University of Maryland University College (Europe), first non-Windows disappeared - Linux was removed from all campus lab machines - claimed it was a "security risk". Next most non-Microsoft software was removed from the lab. The IT director knows M$ and nothing else.
.not). I have been reprimanded because I point out to my students flaws in M$ Windows. Want to take on-line courses - forget about it - Mozilla is barely supported and others are not.
I teach computer science. No longer can I teach with Borland (or gcc) and Linux. Everything is pretty much Microsoft-only. Everything must be VS 6 (and
I guess University of Maryland is really University of Microsoft.
So if every one who logged into a certain ISP was using the same kazaa user name, it would be pretty impossible to tell users apart? The RIAA terrorists are going by username and time of access.
I doubt an ISP would give up names/ addresses of 100's+ of users to the RIAA based upon username and time of access. IPs can easily be spoofed/ faked with a proxy server.
Maybe everyone should start using the same name. something like boycott_RIAA@kazaa or f*ck_RIAA@kazaa.
Don't make it too easy for them to violate your privacy and other rights. Remember, the police need a judical court-order, the RIAA just needs a clerk to sign-off on the transaction - i.e. filing fees paid.
Welcome the the USA, RIAA-police-state style.
Damn, I'm busted. How many 100's of thousands are using this default name?
Filesharing is illegal?
Sh!t, I better stop using Linux and Windows BUILT-IN filesharing.
Guess that makes servers illegal as well - not to mention TCP and UDP?
As one of their primary functions is filesharing.
No, the RIAA should be illegal. The police, state and fedeal authorities need a court-order to do wire-tapping, the RIAA doesn't. Welcome to fascism, RIAA-style.
Gives a whole new meaning to sticky keys...
Could it be that people were dumping Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux + CrossOver Office + Microsoft Office.
,or PowerPoint format. CrossOver Office allows Linux to be pretty good (and much more stable) platform than Windows - free of DRM, spyware and the Microsoft tax.
For many people, Microsoft Office is the primary application that they use. It is mandated at the university that I teach at that documents must be distributed in MS Word, Excel
As part of the install, you have (had) the option of downloading TrueType fonts (arial, Times New Roman, et al). This was so a document produced in Microsft Office running under Linux looked the same is it did running under native Windows.
This seems the only reason to download the fonts from M$.
Another very MODable game, with some of the MODS better than the original game.
Shameless plug:
http://www.taldren.com
Unfortunity true. I teach Java and require my students to download the Java SDK 1.4 from Sun. Java programming works fine, but many web sites which use "Java" no longer function UNLESS M$ "Java" 1.1.4 is used by default. I can't even access the online environment of Web Tycho (University of Maryland) to teach my classes though Linux or pure Java. Guess we know who pays the bills at the University of Maryland. Starting next year, students MUST use Visual Studio (previously it was Borland CBuilder.)
Welcome to the corporate-controlled academic environment.
I teach CS at an branch campus of a major state university in the US (next to Virginia) in Germany. In 1998, I caught 3 students cheating on a case project - lifting the entire text from the a CD-ROM contained in a similar book from the same author/ different publisher. These students (all from the same subcontinent) believed that copying wasn't cheating, claiming it was cultural. Same students caught cheating on another instructors homework assignment (turning in identical SQL programs). The students were not expelled, but through complaints if this going on, the main campus "retired" the dean in charge of this overseas branch. I understand the students involved did graduate and no further action was taken.