That's right, Microsoft should not be held liable. They include clauses in their EULA dealing with this type of thing for all their products. Besides that fact, you can't have a 100% secure system. As long as the manufacturer addresses new-found security issues in a timely fashion they shouldn't be held legally liable.
How can people say Squaresoft is so good at making video games when the very design of their games is terrible? The latest installments in the final fantasy series have been marked by plot holes, lousy character development, poor and annoying combat systems, and too much combat to begin with. Everything that makes an RPG great as far as I'm concerned has been missing from the latest in the Final Fantasy series. The last good Final Fantasy was number IV. They should have just ended the series there. I think everyone is far too distracted by Square's flashy graphics to notice all the shoddy development in the games they've been producing as of late.
The music business puts out a product that you are expected to pay for, you can choose to buy the product or you can steal it and suffer the consequences should you be caught. That's fair. If you don't like the prices they charge, then you can choose not to buy. After a while they will be forced to lower the prices if no one is buying. So finding better ways to steal things is not the way to go in my opinion.. it's still just plain wrong. If people really don't want to pay anything for music they should just form free music communities, sort of like how Linux came about. Of course there are reasons why this hasn't happened yet, but I won't get into those here.
As a student at the university of Maine, I've noticed this year that the ds3 pair coming out of portland up here has been so incredibly saturated since everyone has arrived, I can't get much better than 56k-like connections to most internet sites. I, like many many many other people up here right now blame P2P programs, specifically Kazaa, for this massive traffic increase this year. At this point I'm so frustrated with it that I'd rather just see the RIAA and the MPAA bring down P2P because the traffic it generates ultimately ruins everyone's connection. It doesn't really have a "useful" use anyhow. At least I have I2 connectivity up here, so I can get SOME things at a reasonable speed.
I don't think this is a big deal at all, they won't even do it unless they really think you're going to do some nasty stuff. As someone else pointed out in a previous post, during a peroid of threat to national security you don't really have many of your constitutional rights at all anyway. This is very understandable... I mean if the country is threatened the government isn't going to wait around for a search warrant to catch the suspected party, that would be insane.
The linux "business" is not really a great one in my opinion. I love linux, but I just don't think it will ever be a really amazing "for pay" product by itself. Now selling IBM-PC clones with Linux on them, or just giving the customer an option between Windows and Linux is a really good idea I think.. you can make money that way off the hardware for sure. I know someone is going to bring up the subject "PC clones! How about a wristwatch!". Sure.. wristwatches too.. toasters, televisions... whatever works.:)
If the RIAA eventually succeeds in making CD-Rs too expensive to use for the average joe.. like they did with DAT.. then the musicians who want to burn CDs full of their own stuff are going to be screwed... they'll have to sign up with a recording company and get raped. Going after Napster I could understand, but going after CD-Rs in general? There is something very wrong with that idea in my opinion. Perhaps the country should focus their anti-trust eyes on the RIAA...
I could care less about Microsoft at this point.
After playing FF IX and finding it revolting (after the 2nd disc it got BAD, FAST). I have decided that only FF IV (FF II american) for the Super NES is worth playing, and that doesn't even use 3D graphics! People are getting to carried away with all this 3D stuff to actually stop and realize that games are about having fun playing them and not just a bunch of flashy graphics... I say story and character development first, flashy graphics last.
Oh yeah, and I love Moxie.
--J
Apple's going to die pretty soon anyway. It's losing too much money. The nature of their product will kill them. Only Apple can produce Apple hardware, so in time their high hardware costs will drive them out of business anyway. I hope to see them die sooner as they do more things like this. Punishing people who would have liked them... tsk tsk, bad for any company. It just goes to show you that their flashy graphics are all that is keeping them barely afloat. I can either get an imac for 1500 bucks or its IBM-PC clone equivalent for $500 or less (in most cases)... with the floppy.;)
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That's right, Microsoft should not be held liable. They include clauses in their EULA dealing with this type of thing for all their products. Besides that fact, you can't have a 100% secure system. As long as the manufacturer
addresses new-found security issues in a
timely fashion they shouldn't be held legally
liable.
This was doomed to fail from the beginning. It's just not good enough. Never was. Sad but true.
How can people say Squaresoft is so good at making video games when the very design of their games is terrible? The latest installments in the final fantasy series have been marked by plot holes, lousy character development, poor and annoying combat systems, and too much combat to begin with. Everything that makes an RPG great as far as I'm concerned has been missing from the latest in the Final Fantasy series. The last good Final Fantasy was number IV. They should have just ended the series there. I think everyone is far too distracted by Square's flashy graphics to notice all the shoddy development in the games they've been producing as of late.
Stars Supernova Genesis will be the ultimate strategy game available.
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The music business puts out a product that you are expected to pay for, you can choose to buy the product or you can steal it and suffer the consequences should you be caught. That's fair. If you don't like the prices they charge, then you can choose not to buy. After a while they will be forced to lower the prices if no one is buying. So finding better ways to steal things is not the way to go in my opinion.. it's still just plain wrong. If people really don't want to pay anything for music they should just form free music communities, sort of like how Linux came about. Of course there are reasons why this hasn't happened yet, but I won't get into those here.
As a student at the university of Maine, I've noticed this year that the ds3 pair coming out of portland up here has been so incredibly saturated since everyone has arrived, I can't get much better than 56k-like connections to most internet sites. I, like many many many other people up here right now blame P2P programs, specifically Kazaa, for this massive traffic increase this year. At this point I'm so frustrated with it that I'd rather just see the RIAA and the MPAA bring down P2P because the traffic it generates ultimately ruins everyone's connection. It doesn't really have a "useful" use anyhow. At least I have I2 connectivity up here, so I can get SOME things at a reasonable speed.
I don't think this is a big deal at all, they won't even do it unless they really think you're going to do some nasty stuff. As someone else pointed out in a previous post, during a peroid of threat to national security you don't really have many of your constitutional rights at all anyway. This is very understandable... I mean if the country is threatened the government isn't going to wait around for a search warrant to catch the suspected party, that would be insane.
The linux "business" is not really a great one in my opinion. I love linux, but I just don't think it will ever be a really amazing "for pay" product by itself. Now selling IBM-PC clones with Linux on them, or just giving the customer an option between Windows and Linux is a really good idea I think.. you can make money that way off the hardware for sure. I know someone is going to bring up the subject "PC clones! How about a wristwatch!". Sure.. wristwatches too.. toasters, televisions... whatever works. :)
If the RIAA eventually succeeds in making CD-Rs too expensive to use for the average joe.. like they did with DAT.. then the musicians who want to burn CDs full of their own stuff are going to be screwed... they'll have to sign up with a recording company and get raped. Going after Napster I could understand, but going after CD-Rs in general? There is something very wrong with that idea in my opinion. Perhaps the country should focus their anti-trust eyes on the RIAA...
I could care less about Microsoft at this point.
After playing FF IX and finding it revolting (after the 2nd disc it got BAD, FAST). I have decided that only FF IV (FF II american) for the Super NES is worth playing, and that doesn't even use 3D graphics! People are getting to carried away with all this 3D stuff to actually stop and realize that games are about having fun playing them and not just a bunch of flashy graphics... I say story and character development first, flashy graphics last. Oh yeah, and I love Moxie. --J
Apple's going to die pretty soon anyway. It's losing too much money. The nature of their product will kill them. Only Apple can produce Apple hardware, so in time their high hardware costs will drive them out of business anyway. I hope to see them die sooner as they do more things like this. Punishing people who would have liked them... tsk tsk, bad for any company. It just goes to show you that their flashy graphics are all that is keeping them barely afloat. I can either get an imac for 1500 bucks or its IBM-PC clone equivalent for $500 or less (in most cases)... with the floppy. ;)