A method patent still is not a thing, which is why I really don't like it. I don't think anyone should be allowed to patent a process/method of doing something, but instead they should only be allowed to patent the device that does the process. And the broader the method is, the worse it gets. And just add internet to it, and you get really silly patents.
An (bad?) example of my view would be something like this:
You should not be allowed to patent method of transforming liquid fuel into locomotion. Or even transforming liquid fuel into combustable mist.
Instead you should be allowed to patent specific design of a carburetor. This would allow other people to learn from your invention and strive to invent a better carburetor, or maybe even invent fuel injection etc.
Well, not really. I just don't agree with imaginary patents, those I think to be non-valid, thus trollish. For me, a patent has to be a thing and it should be possible to engineer around someones patent. By that I mean, one shouldn't be allowed to patent a general idea of a lift, but instead allowed to patent a specific way to create a lift.
I got a fairly good deal after buying the Orange Box that came with HalfLife2 + ep1 + ep2 and Portal. I had purchased HL2 when it came out and Steam was nice enough to notice that I now have to copies of HL2 and allowed me to send the extra one as a gift to a friend. But the thing that made the box very nice was that it was accidently priced as single discounted game, so I paid 18eur for the whole box:)
It actually isn't a guaranteed way, perhaps I hate DRM so much that I will strip it off from all the iPhone apps I use. Though in most cases it will be enough to detect a illegally copied version, though if you have a good enough app, there will probably be someone that will strip out the apps plist-detection code too.
I wrote a little script that simulated this competition and on 10000 runs, if I didn't switch I won the price 3295 times and if I did switch I won it 4997 times.
A more realistic game would uninstall itself after you die for the first time and force you to buy a new copy of the game unless you happened to select a religion that believes in reincarnation.
You could align the partitions to 4K manually via CLI tool in XP and it should work without performance penalty, atleast it works so with external RAIDs.
XP can be installed on partitions that are properly aligned and you also get nice speed boost. After aligning XP to 64kB stripe size of my Intel ICH9R raid5 block size, the write speeds went up from 1-5MB/s to 50-100MB/s. The partition just has to be created in CLI tool before installing XP, so majority of people cannot do so, but maybe they should be installing a more modern Windows.
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A method patent still is not a thing, which is why I really don't like it. I don't think anyone should be allowed to patent a process/method of doing something, but instead they should only be allowed to patent the device that does the process. And the broader the method is, the worse it gets. And just add internet to it, and you get really silly patents.
An (bad?) example of my view would be something like this:
You should not be allowed to patent method of transforming liquid fuel into locomotion. Or even transforming liquid fuel into combustable mist.
Instead you should be allowed to patent specific design of a carburetor. This would allow other people to learn from your invention and strive to invent a better carburetor, or maybe even invent fuel injection etc.
Well, not really. I just don't agree with imaginary patents, those I think to be non-valid, thus trollish. For me, a patent has to be a thing and it should be possible to engineer around someones patent. By that I mean, one shouldn't be allowed to patent a general idea of a lift, but instead allowed to patent a specific way to create a lift.
Humm, checked the patents and it seems all of them have expired at where I live. Oh, and method patents are trollish in my book too.
In my books anyone having software patents are patent trolls, fortunately software patents aren't valid here, yet..
That could be quite nice way to do it. Even better, put some flash on that dongle and distribute the game that way, no more silly CDs or DVDs.
I got a fairly good deal after buying the Orange Box that came with HalfLife2 + ep1 + ep2 and Portal. I had purchased HL2 when it came out and Steam was nice enough to notice that I now have to copies of HL2 and allowed me to send the extra one as a gift to a friend. But the thing that made the box very nice was that it was accidently priced as single discounted game, so I paid 18eur for the whole box :)
ActionScript 3 is one dialect of ECMAScript as is Javascript and JScript. Nothing really to do with Java.
Wow, didn't know things were so bad in US, the police goes on and tasers everyone once per year.. *sigh*
How do you handle the case of user having multiple devices and installs the game on each of them?
It actually isn't a guaranteed way, perhaps I hate DRM so much that I will strip it off from all the iPhone apps I use. Though in most cases it will be enough to detect a illegally copied version, though if you have a good enough app, there will probably be someone that will strip out the apps plist-detection code too.
Stolen by internet pirates....
How are you detecting warez versions? And are you counting correctly people who buy the app and then use it on multiple iPhones/Touches?
Works just fine.
Well, you would have cost something as there would be wear&tear and the mileage would be higher and that affects the resale value.
To be even more accurate; stolen = copyright infringed, pirated = selling those "stolen" goods. It isn't piracy if there is no monetary gain.
The rules of D&D books are free, how they are put on the pages, art, names, adventures, etc are protected.
I wrote a little script that simulated this competition and on 10000 runs, if I didn't switch I won the price 3295 times and if I did switch I won it 4997 times.
Yes, unlike Coke, Pepsi is actually drinkable.
That seems somewhat silly. My ISP gives me 5 public IPs and they are given via DHCP from /22 network block, less waste that way.
A more realistic game would uninstall itself after you die for the first time and force you to buy a new copy of the game unless you happened to select a religion that believes in reincarnation.
That formatting limitation in XP only applies to FAT32, you can make much much bigger NTFS formatted partitions.
You could align the partitions to 4K manually via CLI tool in XP and it should work without performance penalty, atleast it works so with external RAIDs.
XP can be installed on partitions that are properly aligned and you also get nice speed boost. After aligning XP to 64kB stripe size of my Intel ICH9R raid5 block size, the write speeds went up from 1-5MB/s to 50-100MB/s. The partition just has to be created in CLI tool before installing XP, so majority of people cannot do so, but maybe they should be installing a more modern Windows.
But there probably is more delivery guys than fishermen, thus deaths per capita is lower.
I wonder if his estimate includes my iPod that I did jailbreak and later unbreaked. Too bad there is no info about how he got that number.