Blizzard opens themselves up to no such abuses. If the system were well engineered it would be a simple matter of keeping only one account active per authentication key; thus the game could be transfered any number of times but only one account would ever be usable. Problem solved.
Additionally this is not a case in which nothing about transfers is mentioned. The EULA expressly permits transfer of ownership: You may permanently transfer ownership of the Game and all parts thereof. It's fairly explicit.
I think Blizzard is the one that needs to learn a lesson not the end user.
I've never understood how talking on a cell phone with a hands free kit is any different from talking with another passenger... Does this mean we should ban all passengers from cars as well or (as is more likely the case) admit that this study is full of crap?
Totally agree... I don't think schools should teach anything that isn't grounded purely in facts. I wish schools would learn that they stay away from other "soft" topics too such as philosophy (which is really just religion for atheists) and art (which is always pushing some sort of agenda). To make things really fair schools should also stay away from any literature that draws any moral conclusions because who knows what agenda is being pushed through those avenues; of course technical books are ok since they are grounded in facts, but a lot of other text clearly push an agenda that someone may disagree with. Also history can be a tricky one... Seems we are always revising it. Schools should refrain from teaching any history that isn't totally provable and agreed upon by everyone since teaching otherwise means that someone has interject their own opinion - which we clearly need to stay away from.
The sooner that schools learn to stop pushing any moral agenda what so ever the better off our misinformed children will be.
The solution is really simple in most cases. Most non compete clauses are void if the employee is fired (for the obvious reason that an employeer can't fire an individual and then tell them they can't work elsewhere eiether). Just stop showing up for work and your set either way... On the one hand you get to work where you please, or you get paid for doing nothing:)
-IANAL
Clearly when the author puts the word "off" in "quotes" he means to imply a state in which the computer is considered to be off by the user, but in fact not actually off. For many users if the monitor is off the computer is off. While the wording could and probably should have been clearer, I think it is clear enough that this is what the author meant.
I continue to see posts about how everyone is excited to see Nintendo innovating in the handheld market, and excited by the processing power the new DS boasts. I'd like to point out though that the real key to the handheld gaming market is far less the system, and far more the games. What it seems to me that most reviewers and market watchers miss is that handheld gaming is really a paradigm shift from standard video gaming.
Consider how handheld gamers play: they are constantly on the go, often they want to play for only a couple of minutes at a time to fill time in between other tasks. Screen size, more than screen resolution, limits the detail with games may be displayed, etc, etc...
I am far more interested in seeing what games come out for the DS than the system itself - this is the reason that I put little faith in the PSP (disclaimer: I am platform agnostic, owning both a GameCube, and PS2). Truth be told this is really where Nintendo's strength lies; creating and publishing high quality games appropriate for the system on which they have been created.
Right because the 3D0 didn't serve as a general use COMPUTER!! It also didn't replace your video playing device (VCR or DVD, or PVR). So lets think should I spend $299 (price of the XBOX when it came out) for the console, $200 for a video player, and then lets just say an easy $500 for a box that could play Halo at decent speeds, a total of $999 or would I perhaps choose $600 for the media console. Hell I'd pay more just because it's integrated and I dont have to have 2 or 3 different devices. Now I'm no M$ fan, but this is the direction consoles are going; they are maturing from single purpose gaming machines to entertainment media systems, and this is a good thing! Imagine how nice it will be to have all of your entertainment needs served by one machine with a common interface instead of having a cable box, DVD player, PVR, Xbox, etc...
You are a moron... One of the thousands of differences between the Taliban and the U.S. Government is that as you stated in your post our 'strict politicians' get elected to office... If you don't like it vote 'em out. Can you do that in Afghanistan?
You are a moron, and I can't even imagine why you were modded up to a 5!! How the hell is the term 'Dell' generic within a computing context? It's from old english for crying out loud and nobody even uses the word to refer to 'a small secluded wooded valley'. Apple is at least a common word, but not in a computing context!
I keep hearing this issue over and over... It seems to me that the answer is obvious: at home, where all these lindows computers are running there is no administrator. What??? Crazy!!! No administrator... who would run as root to do crazy special things...? No folks there is not! Now I hear some/.ers streaming in the background Well I run Linux at home and I don't run as root, when I need to perform special voodoo magic I log into my box as root and then and only then do I run as root, so there HA! Well guess what you all too smart/.er you are an administrator! Yes that's right... Most folks have absolutely no idea what root is or what it does, and they don't want to know. They just want to click on install and as if by magic things start working. Now if you are smarter than the average snail you can create accounts on your Lindows box and only use root when you need to, but as we all know most computer users when enchanted by the glowing throb of a 60Hz screen loose all but the thinnest shred of intelligence and revert to a primal mix of fear and conquest. So the sad fact is that most of the world would simply run as root even if you set it to default to something else because then the computer would "work". I think to do things any other way would be to try and fit the user to the interface rather then the interface to the user which always turns out in a tangled mess.
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not quite :)
PSP = Play Station Portable - which uses it's own video format.
Blizzard opens themselves up to no such abuses. If the system were well engineered it would be a simple matter of keeping only one account active per authentication key; thus the game could be transfered any number of times but only one account would ever be usable. Problem solved.
Additionally this is not a case in which nothing about transfers is mentioned. The EULA expressly permits transfer of ownership: You may permanently transfer ownership of the Game and all parts thereof. It's fairly explicit.
I think Blizzard is the one that needs to learn a lesson not the end user.
perhaps you mean: http://mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/develope rId=19434/
I've never understood how talking on a cell phone with a hands free kit is any different from talking with another passenger... Does this mean we should ban all passengers from cars as well or (as is more likely the case) admit that this study is full of crap?
Oh great now you've tiped Osamma we'll never catch him!
Totally agree... I don't think schools should teach anything that isn't grounded purely in facts. I wish schools would learn that they stay away from other "soft" topics too such as philosophy (which is really just religion for atheists) and art (which is always pushing some sort of agenda). To make things really fair schools should also stay away from any literature that draws any moral conclusions because who knows what agenda is being pushed through those avenues; of course technical books are ok since they are grounded in facts, but a lot of other text clearly push an agenda that someone may disagree with. Also history can be a tricky one... Seems we are always revising it. Schools should refrain from teaching any history that isn't totally provable and agreed upon by everyone since teaching otherwise means that someone has interject their own opinion - which we clearly need to stay away from.
The sooner that schools learn to stop pushing any moral agenda what so ever the better off our misinformed children will be.
The solution is really simple in most cases. Most non compete clauses are void if the employee is fired (for the obvious reason that an employeer can't fire an individual and then tell them they can't work elsewhere eiether). Just stop showing up for work and your set either way... On the one hand you get to work where you please, or you get paid for doing nothing :)
-IANAL
Clearly when the author puts the word "off" in "quotes" he means to imply a state in which the computer is considered to be off by the user, but in fact not actually off. For many users if the monitor is off the computer is off. While the wording could and probably should have been clearer, I think it is clear enough that this is what the author meant.
I continue to see posts about how everyone is excited to see Nintendo innovating in the handheld market, and excited by the processing power the new DS boasts. I'd like to point out though that the real key to the handheld gaming market is far less the system, and far more the games. What it seems to me that most reviewers and market watchers miss is that handheld gaming is really a paradigm shift from standard video gaming.
Consider how handheld gamers play: they are constantly on the go, often they want to play for only a couple of minutes at a time to fill time in between other tasks. Screen size, more than screen resolution, limits the detail with games may be displayed, etc, etc...
I am far more interested in seeing what games come out for the DS than the system itself - this is the reason that I put little faith in the PSP (disclaimer: I am platform agnostic, owning both a GameCube, and PS2). Truth be told this is really where Nintendo's strength lies; creating and publishing high quality games appropriate for the system on which they have been created.
-Just my 2 Cents
Right because the 3D0 didn't serve as a general use COMPUTER!! It also didn't replace your video playing device (VCR or DVD, or PVR). So lets think should I spend $299 (price of the XBOX when it came out) for the console, $200 for a video player, and then lets just say an easy $500 for a box that could play Halo at decent speeds, a total of $999 or would I perhaps choose $600 for the media console. Hell I'd pay more just because it's integrated and I dont have to have 2 or 3 different devices. Now I'm no M$ fan, but this is the direction consoles are going; they are maturing from single purpose gaming machines to entertainment media systems, and this is a good thing! Imagine how nice it will be to have all of your entertainment needs served by one machine with a common interface instead of having a cable box, DVD player, PVR, Xbox, etc...
You are a moron... One of the thousands of differences between the Taliban and the U.S. Government is that as you stated in your post our 'strict politicians' get elected to office... If you don't like it vote 'em out. Can you do that in Afghanistan?
You are a moron, and I can't even imagine why you were modded up to a 5!! How the hell is the term 'Dell' generic within a computing context? It's from old english for crying out loud and nobody even uses the word to refer to 'a small secluded wooded valley'. Apple is at least a common word, but not in a computing context!
Seriously people...
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I keep hearing this issue over and over... It seems to me that the answer is obvious: at home, where all these lindows computers are running there is no administrator. What??? Crazy!!! No administrator... who would run as root to do crazy special things...? No folks there is not! Now I hear some /.ers streaming in the background Well I run Linux at home and I don't run as root, when I need to perform special voodoo magic I log into my box as root and then and only then do I run as root, so there HA! Well guess what you all too smart /.er you are an administrator! Yes that's right... Most folks have absolutely no idea what root is or what it does, and they don't want to know. They just want to click on install and as if by magic things start working. Now if you are smarter than the average snail you can create accounts on your Lindows box and only use root when you need to, but as we all know most computer users when enchanted by the glowing throb of a 60Hz screen loose all but the thinnest shred of intelligence and revert to a primal mix of fear and conquest. So the sad fact is that most of the world would simply run as root even if you set it to default to something else because then the computer would "work". I think to do things any other way would be to try and fit the user to the interface rather then the interface to the user which always turns out in a tangled mess.