why? Do you know who they are? where they are from? know the personally? You know who are current members of the groups, and what their motives are?
Personally I do not trust anonymous groups of coders on the internet who cannot be tracked down to run exes on my machine.
Well that covers most commercial software companies, so what software do you use? The only stuff that satisfies all that is FOSS, and while they have some games, they are kinda stale...
The price is never zero. My time has value. Figuring out that the tools I use for work are what is causing the game to ungracefully exit is a cost. Cleaning up the parts of the system that the game modified is a cost.
On the other side, finding a crack that works is a cost. Cleaning up the spyware from the websites that host cracks is a cost. Troubleshooting the buggy game with a boggy crack and no support because you have a no-cd crack is a big cost.
I use no CD cracks on all of my legally bought games. Having to put discs in and take them out is kind of cumbersome when I have them all safely stored in a metal CD binder. If I wanted to switch through game discs all day I'd play my console instead.
It is sad that this is considered insightful. Everyone in the wold knows this except for the content producers. Even your local grocer knows that convenience is king.
Furthermore, the commercial software companies are in competition with the pirates, and price is not the only factor. (For many not even the main factor) If it is easier to use the pirate version, or the pirate version is more stable, or the pirate version does not turn off parts of your system, it becomes more attractive, regardless of price.
Look at the music industry... Pay a lot of a drm'd music file that won't play in your car's mp3 player, or get a high quality mp3 for free? And what would you choose if both were free? What if the DRMd junk was free, and the mp3 was not? Amazing how the better product usually wins regardless of price.
This needs to be transparent for it to work. You've already lost the vast majority at "root cert". They have absolutely no fucking idea what you're talking about. That isn't going to change.
If it's not in the default install, it doesn't exist.
Hell, if they have to read more than 3 words you have lost them. They will just click "yes" and wonder why the website is broken.
If anybody can get an SSL certificate that will be accepted by Firefox, for free, no questions asked... then the entire point of having CA authorities goes down the drain.
And what was that point again? Security Theater? Because it doesn't offer any real technical security over self signed certs. Between social engineering, cross sight scripting, and frame abuse certs in no way guarantee that you are talking to who you think you are talking to.
Not sure how smooth this would be, since BT usually sends packets in the order of availability, not how it streams... And I am not sure if it is a strange algorithm in my client or I am cursed, but the first file in a torrent is always the last to finish for me.
Lot of biofuel startups out there, and they're doing middlin due to all the interest in biofuels. But they're not exactly setting the world on fire right now.
Now that wouldn't be very Green, would it? Imaging all that carbon from setting the world on fire... Sheesh...
Add FXS interfaces and use it as an SIP to Analog phone gateway.
I'm still looking for a device capable of ADSL + router + wireless + IPv6 + SIP(G729)FXS + USB Printserver, NAS + gigabit ethernet + backup Analog modem on the same line socket as ADSL (internal splitter), in a single box without having to use an ISP custom box. I want my SIP gateway not owned by my ISP. I want native IPv6 wan, routing and filtering. I do not want that cludge of multiple sucking power adaptors and boxes. Please, just one consistant device.
So buy a low power computer and build one. Those Atom motherboards look nice for that...
It always seems that whenever a company releases something open-source they have to make at least one component proprietary. As this allows Open-WRT to be installed on it perhaps it is really open, but just about every device that uses something open-source has something that makes it hard to install something new on it or they don't use a 100% open source OS (examples, N800, EEE PC, TiVo, etc)
EEE PC? You mean this EEE PC running Ubuntu right here? It can't do that? Hmmm... Well I better stop altering reality then...
It's time to start ditching backward compatibility. Every refresh of the 802.11 spec does not have to have backward compatibility.
I provide the WiFi in hotels. I generally put between 10 and 15 APs in, and guess what I will use if that is the case? The old standard most guests have. Hell, some hotels still have 802.11b in them. Slightly better range than G, and still faster than the pipe they have. So if you loose backwards compatibility, I hope you don't want to use any hotspots.
Next time you go to a museum, look at the little plaques under the items. You know... The ones that say "On loan from the collection of..." A museum frequently does not have enough cash to buy everything it shows.
For me the "Win" is having an open enough environment that you can use most software without "Having" to use Windows. Like the IBM PC eventually became. I also think Vista is Microsoft's "Micro-Channel Architecture" which was IBM's last attempt at lock in. It seems to be doing about as well.:)
Microsoft is loosing its death grip on the PC market. They are having to drag the loyal customer base kicking and screaming to Vista, and the biggest disruptive product surprises of the year (iPhone and eee) have nothing to do with them.
I hope people remember that there are some good reasons to avoid AMD besides pressure from Intel. More than a few people got burned by the poor support for OEM cpus that were DOA. I was one, and avoid AMD to this day because if it. Yes, they are better now, but I have a long memory.
He is actively hurting his cause. The Bean Free Library proves it. http://www.baen.com/library/ I have actually purchased books I started reading free. And they keep adding books, so I would guess it is not driving them out of business.
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I was going to post "Steam is the devil!" but with some many devils around these days they don't look too bad anymore.
why? Do you know who they are? where they are from? know the personally? You know who are current members of the groups, and what their motives are?
Personally I do not trust anonymous groups of coders on the internet who cannot be tracked down to run exes on my machine.
Well that covers most commercial software companies, so what software do you use? The only stuff that satisfies all that is FOSS, and while they have some games, they are kinda stale...
Local support...
When the price is zero the demand is infinite.
The price is never zero. My time has value. Figuring out that the tools I use for work are what is causing the game to ungracefully exit is a cost. Cleaning up the parts of the system that the game modified is a cost.
On the other side, finding a crack that works is a cost. Cleaning up the spyware from the websites that host cracks is a cost. Troubleshooting the buggy game with a boggy crack and no support because you have a no-cd crack is a big cost.
I use no CD cracks on all of my legally bought games. Having to put discs in and take them out is kind of cumbersome when I have them all safely stored in a metal CD binder. If I wanted to switch through game discs all day I'd play my console instead.
It is sad that this is considered insightful. Everyone in the wold knows this except for the content producers. Even your local grocer knows that convenience is king.
Furthermore, the commercial software companies are in competition with the pirates, and price is not the only factor. (For many not even the main factor) If it is easier to use the pirate version, or the pirate version is more stable, or the pirate version does not turn off parts of your system, it becomes more attractive, regardless of price.
Look at the music industry... Pay a lot of a drm'd music file that won't play in your car's mp3 player, or get a high quality mp3 for free? And what would you choose if both were free? What if the DRMd junk was free, and the mp3 was not? Amazing how the better product usually wins regardless of price.
I'd personally trust many of these "scene" hackers more than I'd trust Sony to not to try to pwn my machine.
I would trust a random stripper more than Sony.
This needs to be transparent for it to work. You've already lost the vast majority at "root cert". They have absolutely no fucking idea what you're talking about. That isn't going to change.
If it's not in the default install, it doesn't exist.
Hell, if they have to read more than 3 words you have lost them. They will just click "yes" and wonder why the website is broken.
If anybody can get an SSL certificate that will be accepted by Firefox, for free, no questions asked... then the entire point of having CA authorities goes down the drain.
And what was that point again? Security Theater? Because it doesn't offer any real technical security over self signed certs. Between social engineering, cross sight scripting, and frame abuse certs in no way guarantee that you are talking to who you think you are talking to.
Not sure how smooth this would be, since BT usually sends packets in the order of availability, not how it streams... And I am not sure if it is a strange algorithm in my client or I am cursed, but the first file in a torrent is always the last to finish for me.
Lot of biofuel startups out there, and they're doing middlin due to all the interest in biofuels. But they're not exactly setting the world on fire right now.
Now that wouldn't be very Green, would it? Imaging all that carbon from setting the world on fire... Sheesh...
Add FXS interfaces and use it as an SIP to Analog phone gateway.
I'm still looking for a device capable of ADSL + router + wireless + IPv6 + SIP(G729)FXS + USB Printserver, NAS + gigabit ethernet + backup Analog modem on the same line socket as ADSL (internal splitter), in a single box without having to use an ISP custom box. I want my SIP gateway not owned by my ISP. I want native IPv6 wan, routing and filtering. I do not want that cludge of multiple sucking power adaptors and boxes. Please, just one consistant device.
So buy a low power computer and build one. Those Atom motherboards look nice for that...
The "L" version was really just a WRT54G version 3 hardware, which they then priced a lot higher...
And weren't they surprised when it still sold well. Hint... There is a market for open stuff. Some of those folks will even pay more for it!
It always seems that whenever a company releases something open-source they have to make at least one component proprietary. As this allows Open-WRT to be installed on it perhaps it is really open, but just about every device that uses something open-source has something that makes it hard to install something new on it or they don't use a 100% open source OS (examples, N800, EEE PC, TiVo, etc)
EEE PC? You mean this EEE PC running Ubuntu right here? It can't do that? Hmmm... Well I better stop altering reality then...
802.11n operates on 5Ghz as well.
It's time to start ditching backward compatibility. Every refresh of the 802.11 spec does not have to have backward compatibility.
I provide the WiFi in hotels. I generally put between 10 and 15 APs in, and guess what I will use if that is the case? The old standard most guests have. Hell, some hotels still have 802.11b in them. Slightly better range than G, and still faster than the pipe they have. So if you loose backwards compatibility, I hope you don't want to use any hotspots.
If that is still too high, I have 2 DEC RA50 disk packs I can sell you. Talk about scientific history!
Next time you go to a museum, look at the little plaques under the items. You know... The ones that say "On loan from the collection of..." A museum frequently does not have enough cash to buy everything it shows.
Is everbody using linux the "win"-situation?
:)
For me the "Win" is having an open enough environment that you can use most software without "Having" to use Windows. Like the IBM PC eventually became. I also think Vista is Microsoft's "Micro-Channel Architecture" which was IBM's last attempt at lock in. It seems to be doing about as well.
Microsoft is loosing its death grip on the PC market. They are having to drag the loyal customer base kicking and screaming to Vista, and the biggest disruptive product surprises of the year (iPhone and eee) have nothing to do with them.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Microsoft is in the last stage now.
I sure it can't be load related...
I had a little trouble. It was nothing like the Swedish I learned on the Muppets.
I hope people remember that there are some good reasons to avoid AMD besides pressure from Intel. More than a few people got burned by the poor support for OEM cpus that were DOA. I was one, and avoid AMD to this day because if it. Yes, they are better now, but I have a long memory.
As a personal anecdote I was in a popular IRC book pirating channel on the day Harry potter 5 was released.
This gives me shudders on so many levels...
He is actively hurting his cause. The Bean Free Library proves it. http://www.baen.com/library/ I have actually purchased books I started reading free. And they keep adding books, so I would guess it is not driving them out of business.