You can usually configure most ports, try doing a "make config" on the port dir... You should be able to turn those X11/OpenGL demo apps off if the port is well written. What i hate about binary packages, and debian suffers from this greatly, is when a feature is optional to compile in (as opposed to comprising solely of separate files as in your example).. a binary package will typically be compiled with all the options turned on, thus necessitating dependencies you may not want or use.
Then use a pdf viewer which ignores that setting? I wasn't even aware such an option existed, I have never encountered a PDF like that (or the viewers i've used simply ignore it).
Fixed line phones are different... If the line is in their building, then it's under their control and they know where they are all located. Mobiles represent a lack of control, since unknown phones could exist in any location and cannot be centrally monitored.
I have been at datacenters where "USB Devices" are explicitly banned as stated on big signs on the doors and above the security desk outside... Yet, most of the servers in there have USB ports, thus making them USB devices. Perhaps i should go in there and remove every server that has USB in the name of security.
A whitelist would be completely unmanageable... Government lists like that are maintained and updated very slowly indeed, while mobile phones are released and updated rapidly. You would find that the only phones on the approved list would be several years old and no longer available to purchase.
Any mobile phone is by definition an audio recorder, call up your own voicemail and leave the phone connected. This is why may places ban any kind of mobile phone.
Most of these places are happy if you put a sticker to cover the camera... And most of those $12/hour security guards won't even notice your laptop has a camera if there's a sticker covering it.
No, now is not the time to take risks, and if MS were to continue supporting their old products they would keep 99.9% of their customer base easily. On the other hand, when you give the customer a choice between expensive risk A (newest windows) and cheap risk B (linux) many will choose B. Sticking with what they have becomes a significant risk if the vendor stops supporting it.
iPhone runs the same OSX kernel, recompiled for Arm... Tho the interface is obviously quite different. Windows mobile is an entirely different platform to windows desktop, that has little in common except the name.
Aren't the stats based on web site traffic tho?... iPhone has a pretty good browser that can browse most sites quite adequately, other phones have stripped down browsers that really only work with specially designed sites. Blackberry etc may be heavily used for email, but i doubt they are really the tool of choice for people wanting to web browse on the move.
What happens when the steam servers are no longer running? GBP5.99 might not be too bad for "rental of a game for an unspecified length of time"... But still, it's unspecified. They could go bankrupt tomorrow and have to shut down the servers.
By not buying Spore you must have pirated it... Everyone wants spore, it's the greatest game ever and anyone who didn't buy it obviously pirated it instead!
No, information is not more valuable... Value is based on supply and demand. Information is trivially duplicated, thus supply exceeds demand resulting in extremely low costs. What people are trying to do is to artificially limit supply in order to drive up cost, a decidedly underhanded practice... In other markets, you would need to create a cartel in order to artificially limit supply, an activity which is illegal.
You do not "take" information, you "duplicate" it which is an entirely different action. Taking a physical object deprives the original owner of it, duplicating a piece of information does not harm the original owner.
Information is duplicated all the time, whenever you walk down the street a security camera could take a copy of your image.
No, but i can build my own car (ie make a copy) using the components (or equivalent copies) used to build a Mercedes.
Whether that's financially viable or not is the difference. The cost of purchasing the parts and required tools, plus the time it takes me to assemble the vehicle and ensure everything works as expected is probably going to be more than $50,000 thus Mercedes are providing good value for money.
On the other hand, the cost of purchasing a blank CD/DVD, downloading a game and writing it is unlikely to outweigh $50 plus the inconvenience of waiting for delivery or visiting a store, thus the game publisher is providing poor value for money.
If car manufacturers increased their prices such that it was possible to assemble a vehicle from components for less money (including your time spent, or the cost of hiring someone to do it) then i would do that rather than buying a new pre-assembled car.
It is perfectly legal to build your own car from components, even if you build a car which is an exact copy (replica) of an existing model.
Many of the components could be bought directly from the manufacturer you are trying to copy, third parties also make copies of components and if you have the appropriate tools there's nothing stopping you from producing your own components from scratch using raw materials.
No, it's not.. This guy has it right on the money, his company should concentrate it's efforts on those who are willing to purchase games, giving those who purchased their games the best possible experience so that they will tell their friends and buy more games in future.
Most DRM schemes actually hurt the legitimate consumer, far more than they ever hurt pirates.
Piracy is often used as an excuse for poor sales figures, when quite often those poor sales figures have more to do with the game being lousy than being pirated.
I used to have loads of bought and paid for games on my Amiga as a kid, I spent virtually all of my disposable income on games, and had about 40 in total. Of those 40, about 5 provided lasting entertainment and the rest kept me amused for a couple of hours at most before i grew tired, ie they were a complete waste of money, but the reviews or demos looked good! quite often the couple of hours entertainment was entirely contained in the demo, and the full game although it promised more of the same, delivered very little. Worms, WormsDC, Civilization, Colonization, Frontier Elite 2 - the 5 i played again and again...
Some people will pirate games, and if they can't pirate they will do without... As a game publisher, don't give these people a second thought, they are never going to be your customers, so you can either derive a minor benefit from them - some may like your game and show friends, you can try to get them all arrested, which is never going to work and will just generate bad will, or you can try to stop them with technical measures like drm which these pirates will quickly crack while your legitimate customers will suffer.
What would you prefer, that someone pirates your game, or that someone doesn't give your game a second thought? Surely a community of pirates spreading the word is better than nothing.
I don't see why they really have to compete... Sun sell hardware and support packages, do they really care what you run on their hardware so long as it's sun hardware and comes with a lucrative maintenance contract?
But what plans do Oracle have? They are working on BTRFS, but will also soon be the owners of ZFS... What's to stop them re-releasing ZFS under compatible terms, or even merging the two filesystems?
Someone will try to burn a cd for whatever purpose, on an infected machine. The malware will hijack the burning process and add itself before it burns whatever content you were trying to burn.
Modern systems come with cd/dvd recorders by default... A piece of malware could hijack your burning apps and add itself to any optical media you burn.
The ISPs are greedy.. If it was a company making profit running this service they would just buy them out and bury the service, or just increase it's price so they made the same level of profit on it.
There's no reason a private company couldn't have done what the government did... The government run operation is profitable, and a private company providing the same service would be too. Big players just don't like competition, they want a free ride so they can gouge their customers.
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You can usually configure most ports, try doing a "make config" on the port dir... You should be able to turn those X11/OpenGL demo apps off if the port is well written.
What i hate about binary packages, and debian suffers from this greatly, is when a feature is optional to compile in (as opposed to comprising solely of separate files as in your example).. a binary package will typically be compiled with all the options turned on, thus necessitating dependencies you may not want or use.
He only got it back because it had a broken screen... If it was fully working it would have been stolen for sure.
Then use a pdf viewer which ignores that setting? I wasn't even aware such an option existed, I have never encountered a PDF like that (or the viewers i've used simply ignore it).
Fixed line phones are different...
If the line is in their building, then it's under their control and they know where they are all located. Mobiles represent a lack of control, since unknown phones could exist in any location and cannot be centrally monitored.
Maybe try latex, it's designed to let you concentrate on content...
Why can't you select text in a PDF? it works for me...
I have been at datacenters where "USB Devices" are explicitly banned as stated on big signs on the doors and above the security desk outside...
Yet, most of the servers in there have USB ports, thus making them USB devices. Perhaps i should go in there and remove every server that has USB in the name of security.
A whitelist would be completely unmanageable... Government lists like that are maintained and updated very slowly indeed, while mobile phones are released and updated rapidly. You would find that the only phones on the approved list would be several years old and no longer available to purchase.
Any mobile phone is by definition an audio recorder, call up your own voicemail and leave the phone connected. This is why may places ban any kind of mobile phone.
Most of these places are happy if you put a sticker to cover the camera... And most of those $12/hour security guards won't even notice your laptop has a camera if there's a sticker covering it.
No, now is not the time to take risks, and if MS were to continue supporting their old products they would keep 99.9% of their customer base easily.
On the other hand, when you give the customer a choice between expensive risk A (newest windows) and cheap risk B (linux) many will choose B. Sticking with what they have becomes a significant risk if the vendor stops supporting it.
iPhone runs the same OSX kernel, recompiled for Arm... Tho the interface is obviously quite different.
Windows mobile is an entirely different platform to windows desktop, that has little in common except the name.
Aren't the stats based on web site traffic tho?... iPhone has a pretty good browser that can browse most sites quite adequately, other phones have stripped down browsers that really only work with specially designed sites. Blackberry etc may be heavily used for email, but i doubt they are really the tool of choice for people wanting to web browse on the move.
What happens when the steam servers are no longer running?
GBP5.99 might not be too bad for "rental of a game for an unspecified length of time"... But still, it's unspecified. They could go bankrupt tomorrow and have to shut down the servers.
By not buying Spore you must have pirated it...
Everyone wants spore, it's the greatest game ever and anyone who didn't buy it obviously pirated it instead!
No, information is not more valuable...
Value is based on supply and demand. Information is trivially duplicated, thus supply exceeds demand resulting in extremely low costs.
What people are trying to do is to artificially limit supply in order to drive up cost, a decidedly underhanded practice... In other markets, you would need to create a cartel in order to artificially limit supply, an activity which is illegal.
You do not "take" information, you "duplicate" it which is an entirely different action. Taking a physical object deprives the original owner of it, duplicating a piece of information does not harm the original owner.
Information is duplicated all the time, whenever you walk down the street a security camera could take a copy of your image.
No, but i can build my own car (ie make a copy) using the components (or equivalent copies) used to build a Mercedes.
Whether that's financially viable or not is the difference. The cost of purchasing the parts and required tools, plus the time it takes me to assemble the vehicle and ensure everything works as expected is probably going to be more than $50,000 thus Mercedes are providing good value for money.
On the other hand, the cost of purchasing a blank CD/DVD, downloading a game and writing it is unlikely to outweigh $50 plus the inconvenience of waiting for delivery or visiting a store, thus the game publisher is providing poor value for money.
If car manufacturers increased their prices such that it was possible to assemble a vehicle from components for less money (including your time spent, or the cost of hiring someone to do it) then i would do that rather than buying a new pre-assembled car.
It is perfectly legal to build your own car from components, even if you build a car which is an exact copy (replica) of an existing model.
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2007/08/jaguar-e-type-convertible-replica-based.html gives an example of someone who built a replica of a Jaguar E-type,
Many of the components could be bought directly from the manufacturer you are trying to copy, third parties also make copies of components and if you have the appropriate tools there's nothing stopping you from producing your own components from scratch using raw materials.
No, it's not..
This guy has it right on the money, his company should concentrate it's efforts on those who are willing to purchase games, giving those who purchased their games the best possible experience so that they will tell their friends and buy more games in future.
Most DRM schemes actually hurt the legitimate consumer, far more than they ever hurt pirates.
Piracy is often used as an excuse for poor sales figures, when quite often those poor sales figures have more to do with the game being lousy than being pirated.
I used to have loads of bought and paid for games on my Amiga as a kid, I spent virtually all of my disposable income on games, and had about 40 in total. Of those 40, about 5 provided lasting entertainment and the rest kept me amused for a couple of hours at most before i grew tired, ie they were a complete waste of money, but the reviews or demos looked good! quite often the couple of hours entertainment was entirely contained in the demo, and the full game although it promised more of the same, delivered very little.
Worms, WormsDC, Civilization, Colonization, Frontier Elite 2 - the 5 i played again and again...
Some people will pirate games, and if they can't pirate they will do without... As a game publisher, don't give these people a second thought, they are never going to be your customers, so you can either derive a minor benefit from them - some may like your game and show friends, you can try to get them all arrested, which is never going to work and will just generate bad will, or you can try to stop them with technical measures like drm which these pirates will quickly crack while your legitimate customers will suffer.
What would you prefer, that someone pirates your game, or that someone doesn't give your game a second thought? Surely a community of pirates spreading the word is better than nothing.
I don't see why they really have to compete... Sun sell hardware and support packages, do they really care what you run on their hardware so long as it's sun hardware and comes with a lucrative maintenance contract?
But what plans do Oracle have?
They are working on BTRFS, but will also soon be the owners of ZFS... What's to stop them re-releasing ZFS under compatible terms, or even merging the two filesystems?
You don't intentionally burn an autorun cd...
Someone will try to burn a cd for whatever purpose, on an infected machine. The malware will hijack the burning process and add itself before it burns whatever content you were trying to burn.
A very small number of people are qualified to operate jet planes.
Being a passenger on a plane is a massive difference from flying it yourself...
Modern systems come with cd/dvd recorders by default...
A piece of malware could hijack your burning apps and add itself to any optical media you burn.
The ISPs are greedy..
If it was a company making profit running this service they would just buy them out and bury the service, or just increase it's price so they made the same level of profit on it.
There's no reason a private company couldn't have done what the government did... The government run operation is profitable, and a private company providing the same service would be too.
Big players just don't like competition, they want a free ride so they can gouge their customers.