Their strategy so far has been to lump the term DRM into the protection / security category. I predict they'll increasingly abuse the critical patch cycle to include all types of DRM functionality and updates. After all, DRM (like spyware) doesn't benefit users so the only way to get them to install it is to force it on them through automatic installs.
Why aren't there three companies headquartered at the Microsoft campus right now?
Because the Bush Administration, which included a new DoJ, happened to come into power during the penalty phase of the trial. IIRC, he even publicly proclaimed his support for MS shortly before the election in at least one speech (using their buzzwords and propaganda, but without mentioning them directly by name).
Why are you so afraid of people being suspicious of Microsoft? Something wrong with that? Should we suddenly just ignore Microsoft's reputation and start accepting their word as truth? If so, why?
Developers will not receive quality feedback from players until they start giving some of their own. When a player submits a bug report, no matter how detailed, how obvious, how easily-reproduced, how easily-corrected it is -- what happens? Nothing. No questions back to the player, no fix produced, not even acknowledgement of receipt. I honestly don't see the point of beta programs or official bug reporting mechanisms when they are routinely ignored by the developers.
A person like me would say the industry is stuffed full of people who don't value quality.
I've always taken "I could care less" to mean "As little as I care, you are lucky for the amount of caring that I have because it is possible for me to care even less". I don't know if that's correct, but at least I have the luxury of not getting bothered by that particular phrasing.
I am paying like I am buying, I am told I am buying, but the reality remains I still have to get someone else to give me permission to do as I please with my device.
There used to be one a while back, but the preferences got reshuffled. I can't for the life of me find a current way to filter this highly niched topic off the main page. Anyone?
many of them with cell phones have contacts willing to come rescue them, but people are not being allowed through to pick them up.
A) Even if a contact knew the original way to get to the Convention Center, he's not going to know the way through waterlogged streets, around the various broken and completely unpassable sections of roads, highways, and bridges, and around waters too deep to drive through, all while avoiding a gauntlet of armed gangs, police, and military
B) Any car arriving is going to be mobbed by other people desperate for a ride out
C) The rescuer may find himself added to those who need rescued.
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Why limit those legal contracts to couples? You're discriminating against triangles now.
Windows XP Home for a custom built PC costs $181 from Amazon, for example. That's a major cost.
What do you think the "R" in CSR stands for?
Why do people type that way?
Assuming
It's people like you who are the reason the world is so fucked up.
user is dumb enough to click install w/o knowing fully what he/she is doing (about 90% of how all malwares are installed these days)
You pulled that number out of your ass.
They're putting DRM into high priority updates.
Their strategy so far has been to lump the term DRM into the protection / security category. I predict they'll increasingly abuse the critical patch cycle to include all types of DRM functionality and updates. After all, DRM (like spyware) doesn't benefit users so the only way to get them to install it is to force it on them through automatic installs.
Why are all of your punctuation marks tripled?
So what's your point? That Slashdot should convert from a discussion forum to an activist forum? Stupid.
They could overlap the ad flags for a random few seconds into the programming on each end of the ad block.
Heh.
Just more evidence of 100% glitz, 0% substance, on the path that this company has always been taking. Links to eye candy and imagery, indeed.
Instead of rape, compare abortion, manslaughter, and eating tasty animals with murder.
Why aren't there three companies headquartered at the Microsoft campus right now?
Because the Bush Administration, which included a new DoJ, happened to come into power during the penalty phase of the trial. IIRC, he even publicly proclaimed his support for MS shortly before the election in at least one speech (using their buzzwords and propaganda, but without mentioning them directly by name).
What good is being the last man alive? There would be no one to share your "accomplishment" with.
Why are you so afraid of people being suspicious of Microsoft? Something wrong with that? Should we suddenly just ignore Microsoft's reputation and start accepting their word as truth? If so, why?
Developers will not receive quality feedback from players until they start giving some of their own. When a player submits a bug report, no matter how detailed, how obvious, how easily-reproduced, how easily-corrected it is -- what happens? Nothing. No questions back to the player, no fix produced, not even acknowledgement of receipt. I honestly don't see the point of beta programs or official bug reporting mechanisms when they are routinely ignored by the developers.
A person like me would say the industry is stuffed full of people who don't value quality.
I've always taken "I could care less" to mean "As little as I care, you are lucky for the amount of caring that I have because it is possible for me to care even less". I don't know if that's correct, but at least I have the luxury of not getting bothered by that particular phrasing.
Lol, I can tell from reading that which side you're on.
What's asinine is people who refuse to acknowledge the concepts of ignorance and scale.
I am paying like I am buying, I am told I am buying, but the reality remains I still have to get someone else to give me permission to do as I please with my device.
Doesn't that exactly describe a condo?
Atari 2600 was most certainly mainstream and there have been mainstream consoles ever since.
They sue uploaders, not downloaders. No one cares what you download.
How about a checkbox to ignore Anime stories?
There used to be one a while back, but the preferences got reshuffled. I can't for the life of me find a current way to filter this highly niched topic off the main page. Anyone?
Well there's this nasty little thing called "reputation" that, when decidedly earned, has a habit of not going away very easily.
many of them with cell phones have contacts willing to come rescue them, but people are not being allowed through to pick them up.
A) Even if a contact knew the original way to get to the Convention Center, he's not going to know the way through waterlogged streets, around the various broken and completely unpassable sections of roads, highways, and bridges, and around waters too deep to drive through, all while avoiding a gauntlet of armed gangs, police, and military
B) Any car arriving is going to be mobbed by other people desperate for a ride out
C) The rescuer may find himself added to those who need rescued.
Not gonna work.