I have several people in my family that are servicemen in the US Military that have been looking forward to StarCraft 2. It is a pretty common sight for them to bring laptops while they are on subs (often for months at a time) for them to pass time playing networked games against each other.
Since LAN support has been taken out, is there any legal way for those in service to be able to play the game, or will they just be casualties to your anti-piracy efforts?
But Eric S. Raymond did write The Cathedral and the Bazaar. If the Sun execs didn't want to hear anything from this man, they shouldn't have made their comments using such a metaphor he made famous in the community Sun is attempted to appeal to.
I feel saddened that there are whole organizations that exist to rally against my favorite rock band...
Wait a minute.
I've been War Kayaking before...
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My friends and I all went in kayaks and canoes and started to tip each other over in a full-scale war it seemed. You could see many kamikazes flying off their kayaks in order to bring down the large fleets of canoes coming our way. Those with the larger paddles often attacked from below and many people begin to recover their equipment after being detached making this last longer...
Of course, had we brought our Wi-Fi equipment we would have been screwed.
actually, the sad truth is many bands start to degrade in quality after a record exec forces them to make a certain amount of albums within 2 or 3 years just to keep fueling on their name for the short time it lasts, I;ve seen it over and over again.
Also, it really helps if the bands you listen to also share the same disgust for the system.
I used to care about DRM in CDs of the mainstream music industry, but then I realized I never did buy from mainstream bands or artists.
Go listen to some indie music which is a hell of a lot better than Pink or Kenny G will ever aspire to be.
A good example is now, I'm listening to a lot of Red Martian on the punk side and John McCutcheon on the folk side. Both of which provide MP3s online of their stuff and actively support the promotion of online music. Not only that, but Red martian sells their albums anywhere from $2.50 to $6.00, you will never find that in any record company, with good music to boot.
I've also listened to my local scene enough with Side Project for their funk sound or Lithium for their Punk and Ska offerings.
My point is, it shouldn't really matter if DRM goes mainstream, because chances are, your local scene or offerings that you must actively find produce a better sound than the publicity machine. Forget about buying from Arista and similar big names, then start listening to new music. It benefits your ears and hurts the large record companies who use the DRM at the same time.
Yeah, that book was a decent read. I read it back in 7th grade when I couldn't find anything else in the library. I was surprised it was even in my middle school library since so many books people read for book reports had to be 'positive'. It's strange, but I think the school system seems to have a role as well, not only those who bully. Teachers can see it being done, but do nothing about it. There's also the element of boredom school brings by introducing tedious work and repeated lessons that, coupled with the bullying, make it a place you wouldn't like to be in for long for moe than one reason.
I personally think Nintendo has done, and is continuing with doing a great job on making games and releasing its systems. Honestly, I enjoy a good Quake 3 round in a Deathmatch and I find GTA3 to be a very well designed game, but Nintendo has always been the best at what they do, making good, innovative games. While the Gamecube may be getting flac about it being a "kiddie" console, I hardly find such games as Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Resident Evil, and TimeSplitters 2 to be "kiddie" by your definition. Nintendo is doing well with their plans, being a first-party developer, or just devoting more of their R&D to these so-called "kiddie" games is a great thing, their games have provided good gameplay and great innovation to the whole market. Miyamoto will always be young at heart, and as shown by the game Animal Crossing, he is still showing his creativity time and time again.
Anybody else remember a TechTV's "Big Thinkers" where they interviewed Adams just a few days before his death? I found it to be a good memory of him after watching that one.
Douglas' books are fun and hilarious, I've read the first 2 hitchhiker's books so far and I want to read Last Chance To See by him as well, I heard good things about it.
Throughout all the comments I see here, everyone just says, "Let's just switch these computers to Linux so they don't bother to pay them anymore", or "This is why they shouldn't rely on only one operating system". People in the school board really don't know of alternatives, sometimes you can even ask the System Administrators of schools who are just some honest, middle-aged workers who just recieved an MCSE who don't even know what Linux is. Not only that, but I remember in Elementary School, there used to be that PTA night where Microsoft Employees come around to show products and encourage them as i've seen in one of the earlier comments. Many kids may also be arrogant about how to get to programs they already know "I don't care about computers, as long as I go to Start>Programs>America Online that's what I'll use, would be what most teenagers would say. Not only are schools scared of change, but something like implementing Linux will take a a long time before it can be adopted by both teachers and students, so they may have documents sync well with AbiWord, Gnumeric, KPresenter and such. While implementing Linux as a free solution giving schools more power over what they use the money for, it needs marketing and customer familiarity. Companies like Mandrake and Red Hat should just go out there and market as well as make their products a few steps closer to how aWindows looks and feels.
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I have several people in my family that are servicemen in the US Military that have been looking forward to StarCraft 2. It is a pretty common sight for them to bring laptops while they are on subs (often for months at a time) for them to pass time playing networked games against each other. Since LAN support has been taken out, is there any legal way for those in service to be able to play the game, or will they just be casualties to your anti-piracy efforts?
But Eric S. Raymond did write The Cathedral and the Bazaar. If the Sun execs didn't want to hear anything from this man, they shouldn't have made their comments using such a metaphor he made famous in the community Sun is attempted to appeal to.
I feel saddened that there are whole organizations that exist to rally against my favorite rock band... Wait a minute.
My friends and I all went in kayaks and canoes and started to tip each other over in a full-scale war it seemed. You could see many kamikazes flying off their kayaks in order to bring down the large fleets of canoes coming our way. Those with the larger paddles often attacked from below and many people begin to recover their equipment after being detached making this last longer...
Of course, had we brought our Wi-Fi equipment we would have been screwed.
actually, the sad truth is many bands start to degrade in quality after a record exec forces them to make a certain amount of albums within 2 or 3 years just to keep fueling on their name for the short time it lasts, I;ve seen it over and over again. Also, it really helps if the bands you listen to also share the same disgust for the system.
I used to care about DRM in CDs of the mainstream music industry, but then I realized I never did buy from mainstream bands or artists. Go listen to some indie music which is a hell of a lot better than Pink or Kenny G will ever aspire to be.
A good example is now, I'm listening to a lot of Red Martian on the punk side and John McCutcheon on the folk side. Both of which provide MP3s online of their stuff and actively support the promotion of online music. Not only that, but Red martian sells their albums anywhere from $2.50 to $6.00, you will never find that in any record company, with good music to boot. I've also listened to my local scene enough with Side Project for their funk sound or Lithium for their Punk and Ska offerings.
My point is, it shouldn't really matter if DRM goes mainstream, because chances are, your local scene or offerings that you must actively find produce a better sound than the publicity machine. Forget about buying from Arista and similar big names, then start listening to new music. It benefits your ears and hurts the large record companies who use the DRM at the same time.
Yeah, that book was a decent read. I read it back in 7th grade when I couldn't find anything else in the library. I was surprised it was even in my middle school library since so many books people read for book reports had to be 'positive'.
It's strange, but I think the school system seems to have a role as well, not only those who bully. Teachers can see it being done, but do nothing about it. There's also the element of boredom school brings by introducing tedious work and repeated lessons that, coupled with the bullying, make it a place you wouldn't like to be in for long for moe than one reason.
Ah, but that problem will be fixed in the next Newspeak dictionary. Pretty soon, there will be no word for freedom! (/orwellian moment)
I personally think Nintendo has done, and is continuing with doing a great job on making games and releasing its systems. Honestly, I enjoy a good Quake 3 round in a Deathmatch and I find GTA3 to be a very well designed game, but Nintendo has always been the best at what they do, making good, innovative games. While the Gamecube may be getting flac about it being a "kiddie" console, I hardly find such games as Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Resident Evil, and TimeSplitters 2 to be "kiddie" by your definition. Nintendo is doing well with their plans, being a first-party developer, or just devoting more of their R&D to these so-called "kiddie" games is a great thing, their games have provided good gameplay and great innovation to the whole market. Miyamoto will always be young at heart, and as shown by the game Animal Crossing, he is still showing his creativity time and time again.
Anybody else remember a TechTV's "Big Thinkers" where they interviewed Adams just a few days before his death? I found it to be a good memory of him after watching that one. Douglas' books are fun and hilarious, I've read the first 2 hitchhiker's books so far and I want to read Last Chance To See by him as well, I heard good things about it.
Throughout all the comments I see here, everyone just says, "Let's just switch these computers to Linux so they don't bother to pay them anymore", or "This is why they shouldn't rely on only one operating system". People in the school board really don't know of alternatives, sometimes you can even ask the System Administrators of schools who are just some honest, middle-aged workers who just recieved an MCSE who don't even know what Linux is.
Not only that, but I remember in Elementary School, there used to be that PTA night where Microsoft Employees come around to show products and encourage them as i've seen in one of the earlier comments.
Many kids may also be arrogant about how to get to programs they already know "I don't care about computers, as long as I go to Start>Programs>America Online that's what I'll use, would be what most teenagers would say. Not only are schools scared of change, but something like implementing Linux will take a a long time before it can be adopted by both teachers and students, so they may have documents sync well with AbiWord, Gnumeric, KPresenter and such.
While implementing Linux as a free solution giving schools more power over what they use the money for, it needs marketing and customer familiarity. Companies like Mandrake and Red Hat should just go out there and market as well as make their products a few steps closer to how aWindows looks and feels.