People are lazy and cheap, which is why if you make it cheap enough they will be to lazy to pirate it.
I don't pirate anything now that netflix and amazon have made it so easy and cheap to get more entertainment than I want. The safest and laziest way to pirate would still be to sign up for netflix and copy dvds and blu-rays.
If it is in under 20 years I would gladly give you $100 today for a guarantee of $10k at that date. We will need some sort of legal binding contract of course.
You mean made up pricing? They could easily release enough to quiet the masses and not give away that level of detail.
If they are cutting Munich a one time special deal that would be even more they don't want to release. Save $40 million now! Pay $80 million next year.
Name one for the PS3. I can't think of a single PS3 game I own that is not available on the 360.
Linux has quite a bit of commercial server room success, yet all or nearly its applications are available on other operating systems. It is not hardware, but it is sold with hardware.
I did not say that did not happen, just that those are not what really drive sales. The really good AAA games are going to be on all the consoles and PC.
I am not buying a 360 for all the Halo's in a frathouse.
64bit time will solve it for anything that uses time from the system directly. Meaning all those perl and bash scripts that run so much stuff no one thinks about, from billing to transferring data between companies to scheduling your next vacation are going to be fine.
What will not be fine is crusty old compiled code that was 32bit. Hopefully they are just a recompile away from being fixed. Sadly that is likely not to be the case as generally corporations do not have that kind of foresight.
Copyright violation should never be a criminal offense. It should be purely civil. Society already grants these people a monopoly for what amounts to forever, and now they want us to enforce it with our criminal justice system as well?
The fear Mr.Newell has is a very real one, MS will turn their store into the only way to get software onto the windows computer. It will take time, but that is the end goal.
Consoles are not moved by exclusive content. They are moved by advertising and ease of use. If Steam can get this box in stores next to the PS4 and Xbox720 they will make a decent go of it. Exclusive content is only something fanboys even know about. Most AAA games are not ever going to be exclusive and those that are will have a very comparable alternative.
No it is not. If it was a good clone I could use it instead of having to install winexe on linux to interact with windows machines.
The stupid thing uses objects, lacks normal tools people are used to and as far as I can tell does not bring along a proper text editor. No I will not waste time learning another shell that MS will just deprecate and replace in another couple years.
Streams of text are easy to handle, streams of objects are basically someone saying "What if we could have a shell with all the BS boilerplate of Java?"
Also most windows programs do not expect text input. Almost all are clickfests. So automating on windows is largely a pointless matter.
I bought it for PS3 and got the free steam copy. Which I already played in wine. Now I want to install it again since I got rid of my steam wine bottle.
ARCH already has it in AUR. So you can drop that off your list. I am also fairly confident I read something about rpms being made for fedora or instructions to do it yourself.
Maybe if installing packages for another distro is too hard for you, you should just stick to the supported one.
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People are lazy and cheap, which is why if you make it cheap enough they will be to lazy to pirate it.
I don't pirate anything now that netflix and amazon have made it so easy and cheap to get more entertainment than I want. The safest and laziest way to pirate would still be to sign up for netflix and copy dvds and blu-rays.
How do they steal back normal PDFs?
The format is well documented and surely you have backups.
By when do you predict this happening?
If it is in under 20 years I would gladly give you $100 today for a guarantee of $10k at that date. We will need some sort of legal binding contract of course.
So once these folks want unions where do the jobs go next?
I doubt penguins in Antarctica will be able to do this work.
That is what you get from corporate CYA.
On the other hand you get shops like mine where CENTOS is the standard.
I don't, I was just refuting your point.
Most of those are shovelware. None are what I would call must haves.
If you really want to look for a reason you could claim blu-ray, but even that is now a dime a dozen.
You mean made up pricing?
They could easily release enough to quiet the masses and not give away that level of detail.
If they are cutting Munich a one time special deal that would be even more they don't want to release. Save $40 million now! Pay $80 million next year.
Why would anyone ever release a bullshit FUD report?
If they release it someone could criticize it, if not they can keep making claims you can't refute.
Name one for the PS3.
I can't think of a single PS3 game I own that is not available on the 360.
Linux has quite a bit of commercial server room success, yet all or nearly its applications are available on other operating systems. It is not hardware, but it is sold with hardware.
I did not say that did not happen, just that those are not what really drive sales. The really good AAA games are going to be on all the consoles and PC.
I am not buying a 360 for all the Halo's in a frathouse.
64bit time will solve it for anything that uses time from the system directly. Meaning all those perl and bash scripts that run so much stuff no one thinks about, from billing to transferring data between companies to scheduling your next vacation are going to be fine.
What will not be fine is crusty old compiled code that was 32bit. Hopefully they are just a recompile away from being fixed. Sadly that is likely not to be the case as generally corporations do not have that kind of foresight.
I don't have any windows computers so I can't really try that.
I only wanted to suggest that lots of home users would be impacted. XP is still very popular.
Sounds like you need to fix your application.
Copyright violation should never be a criminal offense. It should be purely civil. Society already grants these people a monopoly for what amounts to forever, and now they want us to enforce it with our criminal justice system as well?
Because some is more than zero?
The fear Mr.Newell has is a very real one, MS will turn their store into the only way to get software onto the windows computer. It will take time, but that is the end goal.
Consoles are not moved by exclusive content. They are moved by advertising and ease of use. If Steam can get this box in stores next to the PS4 and Xbox720 they will make a decent go of it. Exclusive content is only something fanboys even know about. Most AAA games are not ever going to be exclusive and those that are will have a very comparable alternative.
That approach would make me uninstall it. If I wanted a bunch of libraries not in /lib never getting updated I would run windows.
Then they would have to update each of those libraries and be responsible for security patches to each one lest they be seen as a malware frontend.
Your silly idea is the common form on windows and is one of the things most wrong with it.
No it is not.
If it was a good clone I could use it instead of having to install winexe on linux to interact with windows machines.
The stupid thing uses objects, lacks normal tools people are used to and as far as I can tell does not bring along a proper text editor. No I will not waste time learning another shell that MS will just deprecate and replace in another couple years.
That is the biggest problem with it.
Streams of text are easy to handle, streams of objects are basically someone saying "What if we could have a shell with all the BS boilerplate of Java?"
Also most windows programs do not expect text input. Almost all are clickfests. So automating on windows is largely a pointless matter.
So how do you install IE9 on XP?
I bought it for PS3 and got the free steam copy. Which I already played in wine. Now I want to install it again since I got rid of my steam wine bottle.
ARCH already has it in AUR. So you can drop that off your list. I am also fairly confident I read something about rpms being made for fedora or instructions to do it yourself.
Maybe if installing packages for another distro is too hard for you, you should just stick to the supported one.
Runs fine on ARCH, it is even in their repos.
You know you can uninstall the Amazon thing right?
System76/Dell/etc will likely still provide hardware that is not bootloader locked.
Clearly the engine already does since Team Fortress has been ported. I wonder what the hold up is.
DAMMIT VALVE, let me play PORTAL 2!
Oh and get cracking on HL3.