Unless I'm mistaken, this charge is about the condition that ebook sellers cannot allow their products to be sold anywhere for less than on ITS.
There's never been any doubt that they did that. The argument is whether or not it constitutes something illegal, and the judge was apparently not convinced by the preliminary arguments.
Because the only difference between the onerous behavior on consoles and PCs is that it's usually easier to find utilities of questionable legality to work around it. In the US, at least (I'm not up to speed on the developments re the legal decision in the EU that digital goods are resalable), Valve, EA, Activision, etc.. don't let you sell used games at all, and with Steam and Origin, e.g., they also get to hold "your" games hostage to whatever garbage they decide to throw into the TOS.
There are certainly advantages to PC gaming, but the lack of obnoxious DRM isn't one of them.
(Disclaimer: Primarily a PC gamer, since "community mods" are one of those advantages I mentioned earlier)
That's because Android puts a Phone/tablet interface on PHONES and GODDAMN TABLETS.
This single-window, single-task garbage has nothing to do with "why linux never succeeded on the desktop." It just wasn't enough TO make linux succeed on the desktop. It just means that it wasn't enough to MAKE Linux take off on the desktop. And that's not really surprising, because it's idiotic and counterproductive. The "hard core geeks" hated it when Ubuntu brought it to Linux, and everyone else hated it when Microsoft brought the misfeature to windows. So much that MS is actually back-pedaling on it in Windows 8 SP1.
It's horrible design that self-proclaimed "UX" experts (who throw up a big "full of shit" red flag by inventing a new masturbatory nonsense phrase for themselves) are completely clueless to anything that's actually important in software interface design. It's more important to them that iPads and Droids are popular, so why should they worry about dorky things like "use cases." There's a reason you don't drive a car with a flight yoke, why TVs moved to buttons instead of knobs, and why you don't use a single-task touchscreen interface on a non-touchscreen goddamned computer.
If "UX" means "turning a computer into a fucking cell phone," as implied by your delirious shout-out to Unity, then I think there are already more than enough of those unholy bastards infecting OSS already, tyvm.
To be fair, you're right, but that might be easier to accept if they were priced accordingly. When a replacement battery costs 25-30% of the replacement value of the machine, it's not hard to understand why running out of usable life feels like a hardware failure.
My super sekret source, "Gaping Gullet" is preparing an information pack which will reveal, irrefutably, that during a particularly nippy week in April, Ayers was, in fact, Milk Monitor in the cafeteria! Clearly, this is where the whole sordid mess began.
This is a good point, or at least a specific example of a problem that is a good point... It started with GNOME and Canonical, but it seems like more and more OSS devs are getting into that same mindset of "Quiet, users, the devs know what's best for you" to justify an utter lack of configurability, while simultaneously smashing usability with idiotic changes like the above.
Odd. When I called the support line (which I always do in the case of an outage, to see if the recording tells me it's a known issue) at around 9AM Eastern, the Estimate restoration was 7PM. Obviously, they beat that by several hours.
Maybe it's a regional thing, but I usually get estimates, even if they do go a little heavy on the Scotty coefficient.
75 years of indoctrination might have something to do with it. Hell, half of the idiots spouting off about it don't even seem to know what the word means.
Provided you're willing to eat whatever shit Valve decides to throw into the TOS. If not, well, kiss "your" games, and your cash, goodbye.
It's only "non-disruptive" if you're already suffering the same corporate Stockholm Syndrome as the Blizzard and EA fans, just saluting a different flag.
It's not about fairness, it's about reality. The mom needs more time as she is recovering from the labor. Plus she is often the primary care taker and can get exhausted easily.
This canard keeps getting brought up, and it just makes no sense.
Momma has to "recover from labor" and "can get exhausted easily?" Well, it's a damn shame that pop isn't treated like a parent instead of an ambulatory ATM, then, or he could be there to do some of those changings and feedings so that mom could rest and recover, isn't it?
Given that, I don't see how it's relevant that the woman "ejected" the child from her body - both parents are equally important to that child's well being.
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Unless I'm mistaken, this charge is about the condition that ebook sellers cannot allow their products to be sold anywhere for less than on ITS.
There's never been any doubt that they did that. The argument is whether or not it constitutes something illegal, and the judge was apparently not convinced by the preliminary arguments.
Because the only difference between the onerous behavior on consoles and PCs is that it's usually easier to find utilities of questionable legality to work around it. In the US, at least (I'm not up to speed on the developments re the legal decision in the EU that digital goods are resalable), Valve, EA, Activision, etc.. don't let you sell used games at all, and with Steam and Origin, e.g., they also get to hold "your" games hostage to whatever garbage they decide to throw into the TOS.
There are certainly advantages to PC gaming, but the lack of obnoxious DRM isn't one of them.
(Disclaimer: Primarily a PC gamer, since "community mods" are one of those advantages I mentioned earlier)
Basically, he's "Not doing Agile right!"
This is hardly a new phenomenon.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American Public" -- H. L. Menken (1880-1956)
Put it behind the TV where you can't see the printout of goatse you've tacked to the wall in front of it?
That's because Android puts a Phone/tablet interface on PHONES and GODDAMN TABLETS.
This single-window, single-task garbage has nothing to do with "why linux never succeeded on the desktop." It just wasn't enough TO make linux succeed on the desktop. It just means that it wasn't enough to MAKE Linux take off on the desktop. And that's not really surprising, because it's idiotic and counterproductive. The "hard core geeks" hated it when Ubuntu brought it to Linux, and everyone else hated it when Microsoft brought the misfeature to windows. So much that MS is actually back-pedaling on it in Windows 8 SP1.
It's horrible design that self-proclaimed "UX" experts (who throw up a big "full of shit" red flag by inventing a new masturbatory nonsense phrase for themselves) are completely clueless to anything that's actually important in software interface design. It's more important to them that iPads and Droids are popular, so why should they worry about dorky things like "use cases." There's a reason you don't drive a car with a flight yoke, why TVs moved to buttons instead of knobs, and why you don't use a single-task touchscreen interface on a non-touchscreen goddamned computer.
If "UX" means "turning a computer into a fucking cell phone," as implied by your delirious shout-out to Unity, then I think there are already more than enough of those unholy bastards infecting OSS already, tyvm.
To be fair, you're right, but that might be easier to accept if they were priced accordingly. When a replacement battery costs 25-30% of the replacement value of the machine, it's not hard to understand why running out of usable life feels like a hardware failure.
I tried that, and was disappointed.
Not that I expected some evil overlord-esque document to popup or anything like that, but I was kind of hoping it was one of Google's easter eggs.
Maybe returning some kind of reference to Pinky and The Brain...
My super sekret source, "Gaping Gullet" is preparing an information pack which will reveal, irrefutably, that during a particularly nippy week in April, Ayers was, in fact, Milk Monitor in the cafeteria! Clearly, this is where the whole sordid mess began.
Especially fire ants. I've got an ankle that serves nicely as evidence.
Little bastards...
Go home, Riccitiello. You're drunk.
This is a good point, or at least a specific example of a problem that is a good point... It started with GNOME and Canonical, but it seems like more and more OSS devs are getting into that same mindset of "Quiet, users, the devs know what's best for you" to justify an utter lack of configurability, while simultaneously smashing usability with idiotic changes like the above.
He didn't. He suggested that the names "LibreOffice" and "The GIMP" suck.
And, if we're being honest... they really do.
Florida State University, for one.
Maybe that's what we need to pull this society's collective head out of its ass: A Steve Jobs of Science!
I don't recall seeing people complain when a summary is explicit about something, only when it is not explicit.
Read the subthread with anon comments. You'll find that GP is a response to someone complaining about an explanation of the function in the summary.
Odd. When I called the support line (which I always do in the case of an outage, to see if the recording tells me it's a known issue) at around 9AM Eastern, the Estimate restoration was 7PM. Obviously, they beat that by several hours.
Maybe it's a regional thing, but I usually get estimates, even if they do go a little heavy on the Scotty coefficient.
75 years of indoctrination might have something to do with it. Hell, half of the idiots spouting off about it don't even seem to know what the word means.
Provided you're willing to eat whatever shit Valve decides to throw into the TOS. If not, well, kiss "your" games, and your cash, goodbye.
It's only "non-disruptive" if you're already suffering the same corporate Stockholm Syndrome as the Blizzard and EA fans, just saluting a different flag.
That's unusable junk.
Then it sounds pretty comparable to phpmyadmin, after all.
Because for good or ill you live in a Democracy not a Plutocracy.
Not so sure about that.
It's not about fairness, it's about reality. The mom needs more time as she is recovering from the labor. Plus she is often the primary care taker and can get exhausted easily.
This canard keeps getting brought up, and it just makes no sense.
Momma has to "recover from labor" and "can get exhausted easily?" Well, it's a damn shame that pop isn't treated like a parent instead of an ambulatory ATM, then, or he could be there to do some of those changings and feedings so that mom could rest and recover, isn't it?
Given that, I don't see how it's relevant that the woman "ejected" the child from her body - both parents are equally important to that child's well being.
You must be new to gender politics.
Not invulnerable. GGP mentioned not being able to "dock your ship."
Landing planes in Top Gun was an exercise in masochism.