Really? It's been my experience that companies go out of their way to ensure nothing like this ever gets out. Requiring better passwords means they need to hire a few more guys to man the help desk. Bad press hurts more than that.
Not that they are overly effective. Also, in my experience, "going out of their way" consists of choosing random -- rather than the most effective -- methods to secure networks and data.
People don't use AutoCad because they like the company behind it, they use it because they've decided it's the best tool for the job. The people using it cost a whole lot more than software, so you give them what will make them the most productive.
I hope people realize this is evidence of how reasonable it is for a company do monitor your e-mail rather than acting like they are being violated. You can't chat online with babes all day.
"A conscious decision in production was made to steer clear of CGI effects when possible and perform stunts the old-fashioned way"
Thank god. CGI made Star Wars 3 one of the worst movies I've ever seen. "This chair doesn't look quite right, can you paint it orange?" "I'll just make a quick 3d model of it instead. You know -- to ensure the movie doesn't look too real."
It looks to me to be just as useful as widgets in Mac/Windows/Linux -- nice enough that I toyed around with them and decided they were unnecessary.
The biggest problem, in my mind, is that it's showing one widget at a time. Looking at it to find out the information you want is, by design, not convenient. You have to make it a point to watch the thing to see the widget you want to see. Sidebars on computers at least have that going for them.
The clock widgets seem especially worthless -- if you have a lot of widgets in your rotation and just missed the clock, you're going to end up wondering what time it was when you started watching, waiting for the clock. (If you go to Walmart, you can get a nifty device that does a better job of telling you what time it is for $5.)
Honestly, dedicated devices for pretty much everything I've heard of the Chumby doing already exist, do a better job, and you could have one of each of them for about what the Chumby costs.
Spore is set to be one of the best selling games of all time, with huge numbers of the target audience the same "non-gamers" that The Sims sold to. There's no way a boycott of THIS game would attract enough people.
BUT, everyone here, for the most part, has it all wrong. Instead of telling me to read the other comments so I have an idea what other people's opinions are, YOU should be reading the article and see that this is NOT every 10 days -- it's once within 10 days of installing. I'd definately rather deal with that than putting a cd in every time I want to use it.
Don't get me wrong -- copy protection frustrates me as much as the next guy. I've probably spent more time reinstalling and screwing with Starcraft and Warcraft and their expansion packs than I've actually spent playing them, and I can't even watch a movie on this stupid DVD recorder I got from Woot last week. I don't think Spore's install-it-and-connect-to-the-internet-once approach is the right problm to be attacking, though.
And for what it's worth, to the guy who doesn't like the fact that I don't like linux -- that sig is about 4 years old and it just so happens that two weeks ago I finally gave Ubuntu another chance. Once I get Starcraft and Warcraft working right, the Windows partition just might get formatted.
"Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo should all be forced, by lack of customers, to open up their platform and allow people who bought these devices to actually control their property."
If they did that, they'd be forced, by lack of licensing revenue, to stop making consoles all together. You're talking about a completely unrelated issue, anyway. Ever read up on the video game market crash?
Honestly, this is not going to affect Spore at all. 99% of people have an internet connection, 95% won't care that they have to use it to verify their legal software is in fact legal. The people that don't have legal copies will either get one, hassle with it, or give up because it's too annoying. Copy protection measures like this are annoying to me because I don't plan on buying the software, but at least it isn't as annoying as having to dig through all your cds to make sure the right one is in the drive.
Take a step back here. This is a method of copy protection that is less annoying to 99% of legitimate users than the current system of making sure you have the disc in the drive. EVERYONE here is in that 99%. What's the problem?
I looked in to solar panels for our house recently and came to the simple solution that it takes practically forever to recoup your costs. If you want to use solar energy just for the sake of it (maybe you're green, but I'm not), you're going to have to pay for it. If you're looking to save money, look elsewhere.
Starbucks should also start charging 1/3 of what they do for their coffee. I don't think either is hurting them much, though.
Also, in my opinion, Starbucks should just go to hell. Aside from the fact that I think coffee is disgusting, my generalization of a Starbucks customer is a person I'd love to punch in the face. I can't decide if I dislike the yuppie small coffee shop goers more or less.
You state a lot of things as fact without any evidence there, Che. Sure, the government is incredibly wasteful, but not only would you be unable to put a definate number on just how wasteful they are, you probably have even less of a clue what it would cost to provide this perfect health care. The fact that you think a (completely off-topic) war has cost us the silver bullet for eternal life is pretty naive.
Since I'm a developer and prefer widescreen, and it seems the vast majority of other users (other, being non-developers, accounting for perhaps 99% (yes, totally made up, but my point stands) of the market) prefer widescreen, just how "obvious" is it that the move widescreen is selfish?
Anyway, if you want to develop and see more lines of code, why are you using a laptop?
A girl my wife works with is apparently ALWAYS texting. One day she fainted at work, an ambulance came, and while they were loading her up, she was laying on the stretcher texting someone.
While waiting for Blue Man Group to start their show, the homo sitting in front of me pulled his iPhone out. And I could see in his dumbass face that he was just trying to think of something he could use it for. He'd open a browser, put his hand on his chin for a minute, then close it and open another app. Get a life.
[blockquote]Installing the analog wiring in all my rooms would cost me thousands of dollars.[/blockquote]
These contractors you're hiring, they're getting paid by the hour, yeah?
What the hell are you talking about? I don't know where you shop, but last I checked you could get about 700,000 feet of suitable analog wiring (be it RCA, speaker wire or 3.5mm jacks) -- enough to wire my entire house, anyway -- for well under $100 at Walmart. And, you know, I'm talking wire of suitable quality as to not be any worse than the DSPs on this soundcard.
I mistakenly feared slashdot users would have one less thing to whine about now. But the real difference is instead of "Comcast sucks because they do this!" we'll be hearing "Comcast sucks because they once did this!"
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Really? It's been my experience that companies go out of their way to ensure nothing like this ever gets out. Requiring better passwords means they need to hire a few more guys to man the help desk. Bad press hurts more than that.
Not that they are overly effective. Also, in my experience, "going out of their way" consists of choosing random -- rather than the most effective -- methods to secure networks and data.
People don't use AutoCad because they like the company behind it, they use it because they've decided it's the best tool for the job. The people using it cost a whole lot more than software, so you give them what will make them the most productive.
I hope people realize this is evidence of how reasonable it is for a company do monitor your e-mail rather than acting like they are being violated. You can't chat online with babes all day.
"That means they watched in 'real time' something that happened about 100 million years ago?"
Thanks, HughesNet!
"A conscious decision in production was made to steer clear of CGI effects when possible and perform stunts the old-fashioned way"
Thank god. CGI made Star Wars 3 one of the worst movies I've ever seen. "This chair doesn't look quite right, can you paint it orange?" "I'll just make a quick 3d model of it instead. You know -- to ensure the movie doesn't look too real."
I can't stand the guy and the only way I'll consider the movie a success is if he's playing the role of Short Round. Mister Jones! Mister Jones!
It looks to me to be just as useful as widgets in Mac/Windows/Linux -- nice enough that I toyed around with them and decided they were unnecessary.
The biggest problem, in my mind, is that it's showing one widget at a time. Looking at it to find out the information you want is, by design, not convenient. You have to make it a point to watch the thing to see the widget you want to see. Sidebars on computers at least have that going for them.
The clock widgets seem especially worthless -- if you have a lot of widgets in your rotation and just missed the clock, you're going to end up wondering what time it was when you started watching, waiting for the clock. (If you go to Walmart, you can get a nifty device that does a better job of telling you what time it is for $5.)
Honestly, dedicated devices for pretty much everything I've heard of the Chumby doing already exist, do a better job, and you could have one of each of them for about what the Chumby costs.
I'm waiting for an answer from a legitimate authority.
Just wanted to mention that the OP neglected to put "inaccurate maps" in quotes, or at least italicized.
My "global climate change prediction", sans iPod:
HOT
And all they were using them for was to type "turban" or a racist synonym in to a Google Images search!
Spore is set to be one of the best selling games of all time, with huge numbers of the target audience the same "non-gamers" that The Sims sold to. There's no way a boycott of THIS game would attract enough people.
BUT, everyone here, for the most part, has it all wrong. Instead of telling me to read the other comments so I have an idea what other people's opinions are, YOU should be reading the article and see that this is NOT every 10 days -- it's once within 10 days of installing. I'd definately rather deal with that than putting a cd in every time I want to use it.
Don't get me wrong -- copy protection frustrates me as much as the next guy. I've probably spent more time reinstalling and screwing with Starcraft and Warcraft and their expansion packs than I've actually spent playing them, and I can't even watch a movie on this stupid DVD recorder I got from Woot last week. I don't think Spore's install-it-and-connect-to-the-internet-once approach is the right problm to be attacking, though.
And for what it's worth, to the guy who doesn't like the fact that I don't like linux -- that sig is about 4 years old and it just so happens that two weeks ago I finally gave Ubuntu another chance. Once I get Starcraft and Warcraft working right, the Windows partition just might get formatted.
"Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo should all be forced, by lack of customers, to open up their platform and allow people who bought these devices to actually control their property."
If they did that, they'd be forced, by lack of licensing revenue, to stop making consoles all together. You're talking about a completely unrelated issue, anyway. Ever read up on the video game market crash?
Honestly, this is not going to affect Spore at all. 99% of people have an internet connection, 95% won't care that they have to use it to verify their legal software is in fact legal. The people that don't have legal copies will either get one, hassle with it, or give up because it's too annoying. Copy protection measures like this are annoying to me because I don't plan on buying the software, but at least it isn't as annoying as having to dig through all your cds to make sure the right one is in the drive. Take a step back here. This is a method of copy protection that is less annoying to 99% of legitimate users than the current system of making sure you have the disc in the drive. EVERYONE here is in that 99%. What's the problem?
I looked in to solar panels for our house recently and came to the simple solution that it takes practically forever to recoup your costs. If you want to use solar energy just for the sake of it (maybe you're green, but I'm not), you're going to have to pay for it. If you're looking to save money, look elsewhere.
Starbucks should also start charging 1/3 of what they do for their coffee. I don't think either is hurting them much, though.
Also, in my opinion, Starbucks should just go to hell. Aside from the fact that I think coffee is disgusting, my generalization of a Starbucks customer is a person I'd love to punch in the face. I can't decide if I dislike the yuppie small coffee shop goers more or less.
I just can't help it. You are a huge loser and a moron.
My old neighbor had a picture of her one-time boyfriend at a (real) party playing games on his TI-85. Hard to top that.
You state a lot of things as fact without any evidence there, Che. Sure, the government is incredibly wasteful, but not only would you be unable to put a definate number on just how wasteful they are, you probably have even less of a clue what it would cost to provide this perfect health care. The fact that you think a (completely off-topic) war has cost us the silver bullet for eternal life is pretty naive.
Unfortunately for the Drake equation, at least one of the factors is 0.
Since I'm a developer and prefer widescreen, and it seems the vast majority of other users (other, being non-developers, accounting for perhaps 99% (yes, totally made up, but my point stands) of the market) prefer widescreen, just how "obvious" is it that the move widescreen is selfish? Anyway, if you want to develop and see more lines of code, why are you using a laptop?
A girl my wife works with is apparently ALWAYS texting. One day she fainted at work, an ambulance came, and while they were loading her up, she was laying on the stretcher texting someone. While waiting for Blue Man Group to start their show, the homo sitting in front of me pulled his iPhone out. And I could see in his dumbass face that he was just trying to think of something he could use it for. He'd open a browser, put his hand on his chin for a minute, then close it and open another app. Get a life.
People that think they aren't computer illiterate are a bigger problem. Even if they're right. Thank god cleaning up their mess isn't my job.
[blockquote]Installing the analog wiring in all my rooms would cost me thousands of dollars.[/blockquote] These contractors you're hiring, they're getting paid by the hour, yeah?
What the hell are you talking about? I don't know where you shop, but last I checked you could get about 700,000 feet of suitable analog wiring (be it RCA, speaker wire or 3.5mm jacks) -- enough to wire my entire house, anyway -- for well under $100 at Walmart. And, you know, I'm talking wire of suitable quality as to not be any worse than the DSPs on this soundcard.
Got an attic? Basement?
I mistakenly feared slashdot users would have one less thing to whine about now. But the real difference is instead of "Comcast sucks because they do this!" we'll be hearing "Comcast sucks because they once did this!"
what if I were an abnormal player who is on nearly 24/7;
I don't think that's so abnormal..