I think the principle is "If you're going to crack my software, at least have a decency to do it properly, in a way that doesn't otherwise affect the functionality".
After all, you don't want people thinking your software is buggy and unstable just because someone can't write a decent crack for it.
But with USB 3.0, even though the plug looks the same, the cable has extra wires. Because of this, it will not work in a 2.0 port. The edge of a USB 3.0 plug is colored blue so you know it’s a 3.0.
But it'll still take you 3 tries to get it plugged in the right way around.
How about -space as a social networking suffix? or -dot or -gadget for tech sites or the file- prefix for download sites?
At which point does an entity get to decide that it owns a random word that forms *part* of its name? Just because they're the biggest? It would seem that they're not the first, so that argument doesn't stand up. Why -book and not face-, or will the face- lawsuits be coming shortly?
I think the problem with Linux is that those who develop it push their philosophy too much and refuse to give room for other philosophies
I'm probably going to upset a lot of people here by comparing Linux to religion; specifically Christianity, but the others are just as guilty of it:
When Monty Python's Life of Brian was released the church was up in arms about it, protesting and demanding it was banned because *they* didn't like it and *they* felt it was unacceptable for people to watch, that it had a negative effect on the church because it went against what they believed in. It never occurred to them that *other* people might be quite happy to go and see it without any issues at all, they just saw it as their duty to protect all us witless heathens from ourselves.
A lot of Linux users are exactly the same with anything closed source; *they* don't want closed source software and drivers because *they* feel it's unacceptable for people to use them and that it will have a negative effect on Linux because it goes against what they believe in. It never occurs to them that *other* people might be quite happy to use closed source software & drivers without any issues at all and just see it as their duty to protect all us witless heathens from ourselves.
Any store operating in the UK is legally required to if the product is faulty (though not if you just don't like it) under the Sale of Goods Act, no matter how much they protest otherwise.
Police dept. won't do anything as they haven't "infringed the law yet"
I don't know about you, but I'm quite fond of the idea of the police not doing anything to people who haven't "infringed the law yet" unless there is clear evidence that they are going to do so.
To clarify, me talking about hating work and having fantasies of blowing it up *is not* clear evidence that I'm going to do so. Once I start buying explosives and sending the boss death threats then it's probably a good idea to do something about me.
You know, until they run out of food and water and start fighting each other and there's always one idiot who spots their zombie grandmother outside and opens the door to try and save them.
Microsoft were shipping their own, crippled JVM with Windows in an attempt to screw Sun over, I'm not really sure you can put Google in the same category here.
I have no concern about targeted advertising, though I understand why people dislike it when it follows you beyond its original context (You visited the abortion clinic last week, perhaps you'd like some adverts for other abortion clinics splattered all over your Facebook page, for example); it was more a case of the motivations for offering the service (i.e. More money, obviously).
Reboot: To start over from scratch. These days it's not entirely accurate what with these new-fangled "hard drive" things, but go back a bit and that's exactly what a reboot did.
What's that? You want me to register for a GFWL account and sign in every time I load the game just so I can play in single player? Good luck with that.
Yes, I know, you can create offline accounts, but you still have to create them and sign in just to play single player and yes, I know Blizzard have done the same thing with Starcraft II & Battle.net and they're fuckers for doing it too.
I don't know, I've always found that "newbie" is a fairly neutral term for someone new to an environment whereas "noob" is used as a pejorative term for people who *aren't* new but still act like they don't have a clue what they're doing.
Duh, because if you work hard and earn a good living out of it then you should obviously be required to pay proportionally more in taxes than someone who didn't bother working hard and only earns half what you do.
That's the bit that irks me, I *already* pay more in tax because I earn more, simply by virtue of it being a percentage of income, but I also pay more tax because a chunk of my income is taxed at double the rate of the rest of it.
Hypothetically, what if NONE of those 90% would have bought the game if they hadn't pirated it?
The problem with a "90% of copies are pirated" statistic is that there's absolutely no way of knowing, as was pointed out by the GP, how many people would have purchased the game were it not piratable.
I don't know how all their NHS changes will work out; my cynical side says it'll fail miserably, but there's always a chance it'll be successful.
However, they have done some things that are amazingly stupid, like cancelling the NHS-wide Microsoft Enterprise Agreement for licensing. They've gone from spending £100 million/year on licenses that allowed free use of Windows & Office and Server CALs across the 1.5 million user organisation to forcing each NHS Trust to negotiate their own agreements that are going to cost at least 3 times as much in total.
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Expire 30 days after you purchased the machine and then have all their warnings ignored by their users.
Alternatively, be forced into permitting the execution of malicious code because their users really, really want to see the dancing bunny.
I think the principle is "If you're going to crack my software, at least have a decency to do it properly, in a way that doesn't otherwise affect the functionality".
After all, you don't want people thinking your software is buggy and unstable just because someone can't write a decent crack for it.
But with USB 3.0, even though the plug looks the same, the cable has extra wires. Because of this, it will not work in a 2.0 port. The edge of a USB 3.0 plug is colored blue so you know it’s a 3.0.
But it'll still take you 3 tries to get it plugged in the right way around.
How about -space as a social networking suffix? or -dot or -gadget for tech sites or the file- prefix for download sites?
At which point does an entity get to decide that it owns a random word that forms *part* of its name? Just because they're the biggest? It would seem that they're not the first, so that argument doesn't stand up. Why -book and not face-, or will the face- lawsuits be coming shortly?
I think the problem with Linux is that those who develop it push their philosophy too much and refuse to give room for other philosophies
I'm probably going to upset a lot of people here by comparing Linux to religion; specifically Christianity, but the others are just as guilty of it:
When Monty Python's Life of Brian was released the church was up in arms about it, protesting and demanding it was banned because *they* didn't like it and *they* felt it was unacceptable for people to watch, that it had a negative effect on the church because it went against what they believed in. It never occurred to them that *other* people might be quite happy to go and see it without any issues at all, they just saw it as their duty to protect all us witless heathens from ourselves.
A lot of Linux users are exactly the same with anything closed source; *they* don't want closed source software and drivers because *they* feel it's unacceptable for people to use them and that it will have a negative effect on Linux because it goes against what they believe in. It never occurs to them that *other* people might be quite happy to use closed source software & drivers without any issues at all and just see it as their duty to protect all us witless heathens from ourselves.
If you build it properly does it matter where you build it?
Any store operating in the UK is legally required to if the product is faulty (though not if you just don't like it) under the Sale of Goods Act, no matter how much they protest otherwise.
Police dept. won't do anything as they haven't "infringed the law yet"
I don't know about you, but I'm quite fond of the idea of the police not doing anything to people who haven't "infringed the law yet" unless there is clear evidence that they are going to do so.
To clarify, me talking about hating work and having fantasies of blowing it up *is not* clear evidence that I'm going to do so. Once I start buying explosives and sending the boss death threats then it's probably a good idea to do something about me.
You know, until they run out of food and water and start fighting each other and there's always one idiot who spots their zombie grandmother outside and opens the door to try and save them.
Microsoft were shipping their own, crippled JVM with Windows in an attempt to screw Sun over, I'm not really sure you can put Google in the same category here.
After all, what were the end results of Sun v. Microsoft?
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All of the tracking, none of the benefits.
When it's worth their while to do so.
I have no concern about targeted advertising, though I understand why people dislike it when it follows you beyond its original context (You visited the abortion clinic last week, perhaps you'd like some adverts for other abortion clinics splattered all over your Facebook page, for example); it was more a case of the motivations for offering the service (i.e. More money, obviously).
And so we know exactly where you are all the time and which adverts to serve you.
Reboot: To start over from scratch. These days it's not entirely accurate what with these new-fangled "hard drive" things, but go back a bit and that's exactly what a reboot did.
Half the people I know still use 1024 on 19"+ monitors because otherwise "the screen is too small" for them to read.
Registering * Signing In to get Bonus Content is *not* the same a having to do so just to play the game.
What's that? You want me to register for a GFWL account and sign in every time I load the game just so I can play in single player? Good luck with that.
Yes, I know, you can create offline accounts, but you still have to create them and sign in just to play single player and yes, I know Blizzard have done the same thing with Starcraft II & Battle.net and they're fuckers for doing it too.
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I don't know, I've always found that "newbie" is a fairly neutral term for someone new to an environment whereas "noob" is used as a pejorative term for people who *aren't* new but still act like they don't have a clue what they're doing.
Duh, because if you work hard and earn a good living out of it then you should obviously be required to pay proportionally more in taxes than someone who didn't bother working hard and only earns half what you do.
That's the bit that irks me, I *already* pay more in tax because I earn more, simply by virtue of it being a percentage of income, but I also pay more tax because a chunk of my income is taxed at double the rate of the rest of it.
I suspect that's more likely because you were using the VLC browser plugin to playback those videos.
Hypothetically, what if NONE of those 90% would have bought the game if they hadn't pirated it?
The problem with a "90% of copies are pirated" statistic is that there's absolutely no way of knowing, as was pointed out by the GP, how many people would have purchased the game were it not piratable.
I don't know how all their NHS changes will work out; my cynical side says it'll fail miserably, but there's always a chance it'll be successful.
However, they have done some things that are amazingly stupid, like cancelling the NHS-wide Microsoft Enterprise Agreement for licensing. They've gone from spending £100 million/year on licenses that allowed free use of Windows & Office and Server CALs across the 1.5 million user organisation to forcing each NHS Trust to negotiate their own agreements that are going to cost at least 3 times as much in total.