"Hopefully, if the piracy rate for the game is low, perhaps EA will get comfortable enough to ship with even less DRM in the future."
The use of DRM and the rate of piracy has nothing to do with eachother. Pirates will find a way to crack any DRM, as history shows only too well. In effect, all DRM does is annoy people who choose to pay for the product instead of downloading it from one of the gazillion torrent websites who has a non-drm version ready for download.
In Denmark, where i live, this would be against the law and the company in question would get into serious trouble for doing it. I am amazed that this is legal anywhere in the western world...
For some reason my ipod (gen 3) often freezes so none of the buttons work anymore ie. you can't control it or turn it off in any way.
I found out by pure chance that blowing very hard into the bottom connection port several times will unfreeze it. I have no explanation to why this works, but it does, and has worked for over a year now - otherwise the ipod works fine, and i have no idea why it ever started freezing.
The "engine" that drives software piracy has little to do with money, but more to do with mentality.
Most people in "the scene" do it for fun and the recognition they get from their immediate peers, not because of money. Since they will keep releasing "free" versions of the software, others will keep (ab)using it.
This sounds like a score for the good guys, with Intel finally realizing what others (like AMD) have realized alot earlier.
But...
Lets see what is actually going to happen. There are plenty of previous examples of Intel changing direction, and it is not always for obvious reasons. Remember slot1 and slot2, that Intel praised as a superior way to interface cpu's to motherboards as opposed to sockets, and when all came down to it, it was nothing but a stunt to try and make life harder for competitors.
Could this be a forced move by Intel, because they aren't capable of increasing the clockspeed and keeping cpus stable?
Would the world really be better of if we stopped progressing,stopped inventing? Just because these new inventions can be abused by nasty-bad evil people, should we stop advancing?
Maybe we should have stopped when we "invented" fire way back when, because it can be used for detructive purposes, but seriously, what kind of life and society would we have today if we had?
Lets try to learn a lessons from the dark middleages and maybe not fear knowledge, science and progress so much.
And the OQO is...
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OQO For Sale
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· Score: 0, Flamebait
"Out of the available and soon to be released handtops, the OQO is easily the lightest and smallest. The size is 124 x 86 x 23mm (4.9 x 3.4 x.9") and weighs only.397kg or 0.88lbs (14oz)."
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"Hopefully, if the piracy rate for the game is low, perhaps EA will get comfortable enough to ship with even less DRM in the future."
The use of DRM and the rate of piracy has nothing to do with eachother. Pirates will find a way to crack any DRM, as history shows only too well.
In effect, all DRM does is annoy people who choose to pay for the product instead of downloading it from one of the gazillion torrent websites who has a non-drm version ready for download.
Countries like Denmark, Sweden & Norway have had stronger economies than the US for a long time... we don't really need or want your money.
In Denmark, where i live, this would be against the law and the company in question would get into serious trouble for doing it.
I am amazed that this is legal anywhere in the western world...
After all, we don't need to hunt wild animals to survive anymore.
Siting fox news as the source for confirmation :P
For some reason my ipod (gen 3) often freezes so none of the buttons work anymore ie. you can't control it or turn it off in any way.
I found out by pure chance that blowing very hard into the bottom connection port several times will unfreeze it. I have no explanation to why this works, but it does, and has worked for over a year now - otherwise the ipod works fine, and i have no idea why it ever started freezing.
E=mc^2
The "engine" that drives software piracy has little to do with money, but more to do with mentality.
Most people in "the scene" do it for fun and the recognition they get from their immediate peers, not because of money. Since they will keep releasing "free" versions of the software, others will keep (ab)using it.
I just tested his CGI using FireFox 1.0PR. I reloaded it 50 times, and the browser never crashed.
;)
Maybe his testing skills aren't that up to date? (From viewing the source, it is obvious that his html skills are lacking)
This sounds like a score for the good guys, with Intel finally realizing what others (like AMD) have realized alot earlier.
But...
Lets see what is actually going to happen. There are plenty of previous examples of Intel changing direction, and it is not always for obvious reasons. Remember slot1 and slot2, that Intel praised as a superior way to interface cpu's to motherboards as opposed to sockets, and when all came down to it, it was nothing but a stunt to try and make life harder for competitors.
Could this be a forced move by Intel, because they aren't capable of increasing the clockspeed and keeping cpus stable?
Would the world really be better of if we stopped progressing,stopped inventing? Just because these new inventions can be abused by nasty-bad evil people, should we stop advancing?
Maybe we should have stopped when we "invented" fire way back when, because it can be used for detructive purposes, but seriously, what kind of life and society would we have today if we had?
Lets try to learn a lessons from the dark middleages and maybe not fear knowledge, science and progress so much.
"Out of the available and soon to be released handtops, the OQO is easily the lightest and smallest. The size is 124 x 86 x 23mm (4.9 x 3.4 x .9") and weighs only .397kg or 0.88lbs (14oz)."
The Supreme Court of USA for those of you who (like me) didn't have a clue at first.
Using webservices for something like this seems like an enormous bandwidth waste to me. Whatever happened to optimization?