Your point, though somewhat...ummm...whiny...is well taken. I will admit that there have been times when I've questioned the relevancy of this whole "must have CD to play" concept as a deterrent to piracy.
I own a few PC games and just about everyone has forced me to grab a No-CD "crack / patch". I travel a lot for work and I refuse to have to decide between packing an extra pair of shoes vs. a few CD/DVDs for products that I've installed (full install) and registered.
We live & work in a "webbed" world where it would be very simple for the game or application to contact a server at the time of registration, make a note of my legitimacy and then tell the executable that it's ok for this person to run the game, he's legit !
As for the excuse that the CD/DVD has to be in because of the extra content on the disc, I thought I just did a FULL install. If I wanted to leave crap on the disc then I wouldn't complain but I want to travel light, have everything on my lappie and damn the media I have to lug around.
Pi may be useful to those people actually designing the next widget or thing-a-ma-bob...but being able to recite it to 80k + digits ?
Maybe I'm lazy but the old "22 / 7" OR "3.14" works fine with me.
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Your point, though somewhat...ummm...whiny...is well taken. I will admit that there have been times when I've questioned the relevancy of this whole "must have CD to play" concept as a deterrent to piracy. I own a few PC games and just about everyone has forced me to grab a No-CD "crack / patch". I travel a lot for work and I refuse to have to decide between packing an extra pair of shoes vs. a few CD/DVDs for products that I've installed (full install) and registered. We live & work in a "webbed" world where it would be very simple for the game or application to contact a server at the time of registration, make a note of my legitimacy and then tell the executable that it's ok for this person to run the game, he's legit ! As for the excuse that the CD/DVD has to be in because of the extra content on the disc, I thought I just did a FULL install. If I wanted to leave crap on the disc then I wouldn't complain but I want to travel light, have everything on my lappie and damn the media I have to lug around.
Pi may be useful to those people actually designing the next widget or thing-a-ma-bob...but being able to recite it to 80k + digits ? Maybe I'm lazy but the old "22 / 7" OR "3.14" works fine with me.