Because the money Uncle Steve makes selling Paramount's Star Trek movies on the App Store probably pays for a big enough number of personal swimming pools to the point where he probably would block any app going on the App Store that might piss off Paramount's IP lawyers.
As an ex-Amiga owner, I was a bit of a latecomer to PCs and it was Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior & Blood that were the first FPS games that I actually played (and still love to this day) when it became clear that the unexpanded Amiga couldn't cope well with 3D unless you went for some seriously priced accelerator boards.
I played Doom for the first time around 1999-2000 and still do so today, they're great games - but my first PC LAN parties with friends were to the tune of "My face, your ass... what's the difference?", "Who wants some Wang?", "IT BURNS! IT BURNS!" and other great catchphrases in the Build engine games.
Using your very same argument, that means it's okay for me to walk into a supermarket and walk out with a trolley-full of groceries without paying; but to send a donation to the supermarket afterwards if I enjoyed the food.
I don't support DRM, I don't pirate games either but your comments make no sense.
Students are notorious fashion and fad followers and it's probably fashionable amongst that fickle lot to buy Apple currently. Linux was probably fashionable with them a few years ago, now it isn't.
No, they are completely different - one is a bunch of rich religious zealots trying to force their opinions on everyone else, the other was founded by L. Ron Hubbard.
It isn't deceit if the consumer can't be bothered to read the Terms & Conditions properly.
Don't get me wrong, I'm totally anti-DRM and if developers want to use it then they won't have me as a customer, it's that simple. But for every DRM-ed app or game out there, there are free alternatives, so it doesn't bother me.
And if an app or game uses DRM then it will be there in the Terms & Conditions somewhere - or just wait & week after it's release & check reviews or comments because it will be there.
Sorry, but I don't *NEED* to be protected from my own laziness or stupidity.
Science deals with evidence, not proof. And there is a huge amount of evidence that the warming is man-made. In fact, all the research points to that.
And there's a huge amount that doesn't - like, for example, the proven fact that as the seas warm, they release more CO2 - i.e. that CO2 increases are an *EFFECT* not a *CAUSE* of climate change.
Yes, but our position between ice ages means that the climate should have been cooler, especially since the sun is warming the planet less. And yet it is warmer.
No it doesn't. If the planet slips into Ice Ages (gets cooler) then presumably it also slips out them as well (gets warmer). What's to say we're still not in the "warming up" period after the last Ice Age?
But there's proxy data for millions of years of climate on earth.
I don't deny that data exists or that it is useful data - however, any scientist will tell you that the further back you go into history, the more speculative you have to be about the evidence that's available. You make reasoned assumptions based on that evidence but accept that the further back you go, the greater the margin for error.
...because there's nothing like good old over-reaction!
How long have you been using a PC for and how long has DRM been around for PC games?
Here's a clue: As long as there are plenty of non-DRM alternatives, as there already are on Android phones & PCs, then *DON'T BUY DRM PRODUCTS* whilst still continuing to enjoy those platforms.
...because if she "watched him remove pictures via email" then 4 seconds of holding down the laptop's power button would have stopped him in his tracks.
1. If you're too stupid to do remove "sensitive" data from your computer & then do a secure erase on the empty disk space before giving it to someone else, that's your problem.
2. If you have naked pictures of yourself on your computer then it's for one of three reasons:
a) You're an attention seeker just waiting for someone to find them & post them publicly anyway,
b) You're planning to make money by selling them, in which case you probably need to get yourself on a training course to get a proper job or get some porno company to do the distribution for you
c) You've set up a deliberate honey-trap to make money from precisely this kind of thing happening.
3. Perhaps if companies didn't have dollar/pound signs in their eyes over outsourcing, they'd vet their employees better & hire people with some honesty & credibility. I fix the PCs of friends & relatives all the time, I know that if I trawled their hard drives I could find stuff they wouldn't want me to see, so I just don't do it.
4. In this woman's case, I don't think she need worry too much as I understand the market for granny porn is very small anyway.
I accept the presence of "global warming" but I have not yet seen any proof of "man-made global warming".
Based on the fact that it *MIGHT* be proven that mankind's activities are a major contributory cause of climate change, I am more than happy, as a precautionary measure, to recycle more & do my best to burn fewer hydrocarbons. I also don't mind paying a bit more tax if it genuinely goes into renewable energy sources.
However, there is undeniable geological evidence of at least four Ice Ages that predate man's presence on this planet. Since there was not "one long Ice Age which we are still in", this suggests that the Earth goes through natural warming and cooling cycles, no matter what we do.
Mankind has also had enough technology and record-keeping to log climatic events for maybe three hundred years at the most, or "a blink of an eye" in geological terms.
So I'm "all ears" for the proof of man-made global warming as soon as it appears...
No idea - but then I'd argue if homebrew is what you're into (and I've no reason to believe it's not), then there are much more accessible and open platforms onto which you can develop homebrew software.
Jailbreaking a phone in order to install the software you want on it (that may be free software or software you legally own) is not the same as hacking a console to play pirated games.
Not that I actually give a shit either way because I don't buy any of Apple's products and if its important I run the software I want to on a device, then I buy an open device.
People who jailbreak are "brand monkeys" who have more money than common sense - if it doesn't do what you need it to, then why buy it in the first place?
Releasing software as open source can be altruistic and kind but it can also be means to stroke one's own ego. If you pick the GPL for example, your primary concern is not to help others but rather to further your project by ensuring that anyone else working on the code has to contribute back to your project thereby improving on the original work. You can then then release again and collect fame and glory.
UTTER RUBBISH!!! Yes, people can contribute to Open Source projects to stroke their own ego's and make a name for themselves, but that might actually be as part of a university degree paper or as something they can include on a CV/resume if they plan on applying for jobs in software programming - in those cases it's called "selling yourself" and there's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to get the best possible job with the best pay.
And your interpretation of the GPL is WRONG! The GPL simply guarantees that if someone gives their time freely to a software project, than anyone else who comes into that project at a later stage to make improvements has to do the same. It's no different to one person giving his/her free time to do charitable work and happy to continue doing so provided everyone else is doing it for free also. All the GPL does is sets out a benchmark and a statement of intent of exactly how things will be while that free contribution is made.
That's not to say that altruism cannot be one of the motivations behind the project but picking the GPL does tend to place the emphasis on the "work" rather than a notion of "giving" back to the community without any expected reward.
I think you need to re-read that statement because it makes bugger all sense to me. Do you really not believe that people contribute into the Mozilla Firefox project, for example, just because they want to build a better browser than, say, Microsoft, and maybe give some big evil corporation a poke in the eye in the process?
If this study equates being a "fan" of variants like Android as being altruistic then it is seriously flawed. Fans rarely contribute anything. They like linux because it is "free" which means that Android phones are likely to be cheaper. That is the opposite of altruism.
I use Linux and Android because I *believe* in open standards. I'm not a particularly good C programmer but I write shell and PERL scripts a lot of the time, sometimes at work and sometimes at home. If people have wanted those scripts in the past, then I've happily given them to them.
I've also been in tech support-type roles for 30-odd years, I'm damned good in those roles and I treat my head as "Open Source" - namely, if you want to know something, I will tell you. I've always been that way because I've always remembered the fact that that is precisely the way I learnt my stuff, by asking people who I knew could tell me. I've never had to be protectionist about my job, I've never had to withhold anything from anyone because those people who work alongside me or manage me know I've got a lot of good and useful technical knowledge.
Likewise I've written training courses on TCP/IP, Linux and shell-scripting and, again, anyone who has ever asked me for copies of the training materials has always been given them.
So, again, your comments are utter rubbish. I use Linux and Android because I like openness and I like being given a box of tools and left to see what I can make with them. It doesn't automatically make me an altruist but, at the same time, if I use open systems but were closed in the way I did everything, then to me that would make me a hypocrite.
PS. I should also say that my wife and I have credit cards but have had zero balance on them all at the end of each month for about the past five years or so - the only loan we have is the mortgage for our house. Yet most younger people that I know have maxed-out credit cards and pockets bulging with the latest gadgets - another illustration that the younger generation are more compelled by advertising and therefore prepared to get into debt for owning stuff that's advertised at them.
Actually, I disagree completely. The longer I've been out of school, the older I've become and the more cynical I've got with marketing and advertising.
The best anti-consumer therapy I've ever been through was to clear my attic and life of most of my junk by selling the good stuff on eBay and giving the not-so-good stuff away to charity. It took me about 5 years to do overall (not full time) and as I did it I realised the amount of money that I had wasted over the years, especially in my younger days.
These days I have more disposable income than ever because of holding down a good job, but I am also more thrifty than ever.
It's just a shame there's not a USB slot in it to make it *EASY* to copy things to and from it via a memory card or external hard disk.
It also lacks wi-fi tethering.
Plus MP3s are not synonymous with iTunes.
Oh, and you cannot get more applications than all the Open Source stuff that is already out there that, were the iPad an open platform, you could download and compile onto it to your heart's content.
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Because the money Uncle Steve makes selling Paramount's Star Trek movies on the App Store probably pays for a big enough number of personal swimming pools to the point where he probably would block any app going on the App Store that might piss off Paramount's IP lawyers.
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As an ex-Amiga owner, I was a bit of a latecomer to PCs and it was Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior & Blood that were the first FPS games that I actually played (and still love to this day) when it became clear that the unexpanded Amiga couldn't cope well with 3D unless you went for some seriously priced accelerator boards.
I played Doom for the first time around 1999-2000 and still do so today, they're great games - but my first PC LAN parties with friends were to the tune of "My face, your ass... what's the difference?", "Who wants some Wang?", "IT BURNS! IT BURNS!" and other great catchphrases in the Build engine games.
Mr. Hurd probably dines nightly on bottles of vintage champagne that are *STILL* cheaper, litre-by-litre, than HP printer ink!
Sorry, but that's utter nonsense...
Using your very same argument, that means it's okay for me to walk into a supermarket and walk out with a trolley-full of groceries without paying; but to send a donation to the supermarket afterwards if I enjoyed the food.
I don't support DRM, I don't pirate games either but your comments make no sense.
Students are notorious fashion and fad followers and it's probably fashionable amongst that fickle lot to buy Apple currently. Linux was probably fashionable with them a few years ago, now it isn't.
Nothing to see here...
...but was essentially a screensaver of 3D set pieces wrapped around a very thin plot.
As a bit of a sci-fi buff, District 9 and Moon, both also released in 2009, were far more entertaining movies overall.
And Cameron himself has never bettered "Aliens".
No, they are completely different - one is a bunch of rich religious zealots trying to force their opinions on everyone else, the other was founded by L. Ron Hubbard.
It isn't deceit if the consumer can't be bothered to read the Terms & Conditions properly.
Don't get me wrong, I'm totally anti-DRM and if developers want to use it then they won't have me as a customer, it's that simple. But for every DRM-ed app or game out there, there are free alternatives, so it doesn't bother me.
And if an app or game uses DRM then it will be there in the Terms & Conditions somewhere - or just wait & week after it's release & check reviews or comments because it will be there.
Sorry, but I don't *NEED* to be protected from my own laziness or stupidity.
Science deals with evidence, not proof. And there is a huge amount of evidence that the warming is man-made. In fact, all the research points to that.
And there's a huge amount that doesn't - like, for example, the proven fact that as the seas warm, they release more CO2 - i.e. that CO2 increases are an *EFFECT* not a *CAUSE* of climate change.
Yes, but our position between ice ages means that the climate should have been cooler, especially since the sun is warming the planet less. And yet it is warmer.
No it doesn't. If the planet slips into Ice Ages (gets cooler) then presumably it also slips out them as well (gets warmer). What's to say we're still not in the "warming up" period after the last Ice Age?
But there's proxy data for millions of years of climate on earth.
I don't deny that data exists or that it is useful data - however, any scientist will tell you that the further back you go into history, the more speculative you have to be about the evidence that's available. You make reasoned assumptions based on that evidence but accept that the further back you go, the greater the margin for error.
...because there's nothing like good old over-reaction!
How long have you been using a PC for and how long has DRM been around for PC games?
Here's a clue: As long as there are plenty of non-DRM alternatives, as there already are on Android phones & PCs, then *DON'T BUY DRM PRODUCTS* whilst still continuing to enjoy those platforms.
...because if she "watched him remove pictures via email" then 4 seconds of holding down the laptop's power button would have stopped him in his tracks.
1. If you're too stupid to do remove "sensitive" data from your computer & then do a secure erase on the empty disk space before giving it to someone else, that's your problem.
2. If you have naked pictures of yourself on your computer then it's for one of three reasons:
a) You're an attention seeker just waiting for someone to find them & post them publicly anyway,
b) You're planning to make money by selling them, in which case you probably need to get yourself on a training course to get a proper job or get some porno company to do the distribution for you
c) You've set up a deliberate honey-trap to make money from precisely this kind of thing happening.
3. Perhaps if companies didn't have dollar/pound signs in their eyes over outsourcing, they'd vet their employees better & hire people with some honesty & credibility. I fix the PCs of friends & relatives all the time, I know that if I trawled their hard drives I could find stuff they wouldn't want me to see, so I just don't do it.
4. In this woman's case, I don't think she need worry too much as I understand the market for granny porn is very small anyway.
I accept the presence of "global warming" but I have not yet seen any proof of "man-made global warming".
Based on the fact that it *MIGHT* be proven that mankind's activities are a major contributory cause of climate change, I am more than happy, as a precautionary measure, to recycle more & do my best to burn fewer hydrocarbons. I also don't mind paying a bit more tax if it genuinely goes into renewable energy sources.
However, there is undeniable geological evidence of at least four Ice Ages that predate man's presence on this planet. Since there was not "one long Ice Age which we are still in", this suggests that the Earth goes through natural warming and cooling cycles, no matter what we do.
Mankind has also had enough technology and record-keeping to log climatic events for maybe three hundred years at the most, or "a blink of an eye" in geological terms.
So I'm "all ears" for the proof of man-made global warming as soon as it appears...
...and there were these three short guys with hairy feet that went and climbed a volcano to drop a ring in the top.
Well, if you're going to paraphrase a fantasy book like the Bible, then so can I...
...and they tell us the planet's climate changes.
How many millions did we tax-payers pay this time for that report brimming with previously unknown information?
No idea - but then I'd argue if homebrew is what you're into (and I've no reason to believe it's not), then there are much more accessible and open platforms onto which you can develop homebrew software.
You are not comparing like-for-like.
Jailbreaking a phone in order to install the software you want on it (that may be free software or software you legally own) is not the same as hacking a console to play pirated games.
Not that I actually give a shit either way because I don't buy any of Apple's products and if its important I run the software I want to on a device, then I buy an open device.
People who jailbreak are "brand monkeys" who have more money than common sense - if it doesn't do what you need it to, then why buy it in the first place?
...please take note from Valve's fine example of good customer service.
"We fucked up, we're not going to bullshit our customers, and here's quite a nice present to say we're sorry".
I'm not a fan of games companies as a rule, but kudos to Valve for demonstrating that they care about their customers.
Releasing software as open source can be altruistic and kind but it can also be means to stroke one's own ego. If you pick the GPL for example, your primary concern is not to help others but rather to further your project by ensuring that anyone else working on the code has to contribute back to your project thereby improving on the original work. You can then then release again and collect fame and glory.
UTTER RUBBISH!!! Yes, people can contribute to Open Source projects to stroke their own ego's and make a name for themselves, but that might actually be as part of a university degree paper or as something they can include on a CV/resume if they plan on applying for jobs in software programming - in those cases it's called "selling yourself" and there's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to get the best possible job with the best pay.
And your interpretation of the GPL is WRONG! The GPL simply guarantees that if someone gives their time freely to a software project, than anyone else who comes into that project at a later stage to make improvements has to do the same. It's no different to one person giving his/her free time to do charitable work and happy to continue doing so provided everyone else is doing it for free also. All the GPL does is sets out a benchmark and a statement of intent of exactly how things will be while that free contribution is made.
That's not to say that altruism cannot be one of the motivations behind the project but picking the GPL does tend to place the emphasis on the "work" rather than a notion of "giving" back to the community without any expected reward.
I think you need to re-read that statement because it makes bugger all sense to me. Do you really not believe that people contribute into the Mozilla Firefox project, for example, just because they want to build a better browser than, say, Microsoft, and maybe give some big evil corporation a poke in the eye in the process?
If this study equates being a "fan" of variants like Android as being altruistic then it is seriously flawed. Fans rarely contribute anything. They like linux because it is "free" which means that Android phones are likely to be cheaper. That is the opposite of altruism.
I use Linux and Android because I *believe* in open standards. I'm not a particularly good C programmer but I write shell and PERL scripts a lot of the time, sometimes at work and sometimes at home. If people have wanted those scripts in the past, then I've happily given them to them.
I've also been in tech support-type roles for 30-odd years, I'm damned good in those roles and I treat my head as "Open Source" - namely, if you want to know something, I will tell you. I've always been that way because I've always remembered the fact that that is precisely the way I learnt my stuff, by asking people who I knew could tell me. I've never had to be protectionist about my job, I've never had to withhold anything from anyone because those people who work alongside me or manage me know I've got a lot of good and useful technical knowledge.
Likewise I've written training courses on TCP/IP, Linux and shell-scripting and, again, anyone who has ever asked me for copies of the training materials has always been given them.
So, again, your comments are utter rubbish. I use Linux and Android because I like openness and I like being given a box of tools and left to see what I can make with them. It doesn't automatically make me an altruist but, at the same time, if I use open systems but were closed in the way I did everything, then to me that would make me a hypocrite.
PS. I should also say that my wife and I have credit cards but have had zero balance on them all at the end of each month for about the past five years or so - the only loan we have is the mortgage for our house. Yet most younger people that I know have maxed-out credit cards and pockets bulging with the latest gadgets - another illustration that the younger generation are more compelled by advertising and therefore prepared to get into debt for owning stuff that's advertised at them.
Actually, I disagree completely. The longer I've been out of school, the older I've become and the more cynical I've got with marketing and advertising.
The best anti-consumer therapy I've ever been through was to clear my attic and life of most of my junk by selling the good stuff on eBay and giving the not-so-good stuff away to charity. It took me about 5 years to do overall (not full time) and as I did it I realised the amount of money that I had wasted over the years, especially in my younger days.
These days I have more disposable income than ever because of holding down a good job, but I am also more thrifty than ever.
Perhaps a story that simply says "Fuck you Apple Fanboys" would suffice.
No, that is a little too extreme. However, please don't let the door hit you in the backside on your way out.
I'm sure that if I next to a busy main road during rush hour on a schoolday, maybe 10% of SUVs would have more than one person in them.
It's just a shame there's not a USB slot in it to make it *EASY* to copy things to and from it via a memory card or external hard disk.
It also lacks wi-fi tethering.
Plus MP3s are not synonymous with iTunes.
Oh, and you cannot get more applications than all the Open Source stuff that is already out there that, were the iPad an open platform, you could download and compile onto it to your heart's content.