Brave words for an AC who probably makes minimum wage flipping burgers. If it's so easy to do that shit, why is it that we haven't seen Anonymous Coward Studios taking over the industry? I mean, if you can do the same shit as ILM does in a couple of hours (where those slow bastards take MONTHS) you've got to be the hottest shit since toasted subs.
And then who runs the show? It'll still be the huge corporations. Without the government we have no one to protect us, but there isn't any other institution in a position to do so.
The only other option is for a bunch of us to band together with a lot of guns and protect ourselves. But then there's always the government to stop that.
We're kind of fucked any way you look at it unless we can correct the inconceivable ignorance of the population. Good luck on that count, though.
Don't forget that PSP can also replace your portable DVD player if all of your movies are released by Sony and you want to replace them on UMD (assuming they are released) or shell out the HUGE scrilla for a big memory stick to put them on. Of course if you have the money for a PSP you might just have the money to do one or both of those. If only money could solve the problem of battery life short of carrying a suitcase full of batteries around.
I didn't say that they *do* sabotage their software. I said that if a corporation can make money doing so, they will. windows seems pretty sabotaged to me from a price-to-features standpoint. This is not even to include the obvious stability issues associated with running any version of windows.
Do you even need to ask such a stupid question? I'd say there are very few corporations that would not sabotage their products if it somehow managed to sell more units. The question you should be asking is does sabotaging their product actually sell more units, and given the lackluster features of windows and the huge installed user base I'd say that in this case it probably does.
Companies that make products that deliberately resist removal are spyware in my view.
They might be malware, but resisting removal definitely does not constitute spyware by itself. If it's not keylogging or sending information from your computer back to anyway (you know, spying) then it's not spyware so you might want to correct that view of yours.
Should be noted, because a lot of the creationist kids around here don't seem to understand, that when someone says "know" or "they can tell" or "they decide" in these contexts, the poster is NOT talking about a conscious intelligence making a decision. They are making an anthropomorphization and only a moron would take it literally (as I have already seen several people do on this page.)
Yeah, and it's technically still illegal for me to rip that DVD to play off of a harddrive or to use it on my Linux desktop except with the one crappy windows-ported "legal" DVD player. Also, I can't "buy" a DVD from another region and "legally" play it here. So you tell me how much they're not trying to license it instead of sell? Though I completely agree, I am buying it and that's why I have and will continue to do with it as I please.
So using any words in any way derived from, related to, or part of the German language is now "nazi jargon"? It's not like someone suggested they call it "UberLinux: The Final Solution". Would it similarly be "tasteless and flirting with nazi jargon" if some Germans put out a native Linux distro called "DeutschLinux"? Because I seem to remember hitler saying that all the time too.
Or unless you already have or at any point will switch to a non-supported operating system or portable audio player. The point isn't that you can't send a song to a friend, it's that you can't play it without an iPod. You can't play it from your DVD player. You can't play it from you Linux media player. You can't even play it in Winamp!
Luckily DRM will be effective as long as the software and hardware have to know how it works to "unlock" it.
Maybe Visual Studio or whatever MSFT packs C# with has an "awesome IDE", but the language certainly doesn't. C# isn't exclusive to VS.net or even MSFT.
And remember, son, your time obviously has no value if you waste it on Debian.
Some forms of DRM can actually aid in backing up, by having the right to download it again.
But who does that? And how does that require DRR? That could be much more effectively controlled by just keeping a database of customer purchases. Besides, DRR technology doesn't really work for allowing redownloads since the main reason to redownload something is because you no longer have it.
It's time to face up to the facts. The ONLY people who stand to be hurt by DRR are those foolish enough to pay for it. And why should a "pirate" have a superior version for free when I'm paying my hard-earned money for it?
That is the first sale doctrine, and generally it's been upheld that if someone claims they're selling something to you they _are_ in fact selling something to you, no matter how they wish to later claim licensing or rental.
Just wait till they smarten up and stop claiming to sell you anything. "License it today on VHS or DisneyDVD."
Which has nothing to do with the fact that you were raised speaking a phonetic language? I mean, I totally agree with you that phonetic languages own. But then again I was raised on pseudo-English.
How many songs can you put on a memory stick? How's the battery life on a PSP vs an iPod? Also, a PSP is pretty damned heavy from what I've heard and requires an external case to keep that huge screen from getting scratched.
Maybe if they packed in the PSP version of a game with it's PS2 counter-part it'd be a different story, but their pricing and features seem way out of line to me.
Of course, I'm not interested in the DS either. I guess I just don't care about a handheld without Dragon Warrior 1+2 anymore.
Are you thinking of the one that was going to pay users like.01$/hour to run their software and then sell that computing time to other companies? Or was it soemthing else?
I don't know about anyone else, but it takes me about 20 minutes to install Slackware and maybe a few hours to install and configure the software that I use on a clean install. Even less if I am transitioning to a new primary machine in which case I will copy over my home directory and at worst have to make a few small configuration changes. This is hardly worth 500$.
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This is /., good luck finding someone with one of those.
Brave words for an AC who probably makes minimum wage flipping burgers. If it's so easy to do that shit, why is it that we haven't seen Anonymous Coward Studios taking over the industry? I mean, if you can do the same shit as ILM does in a couple of hours (where those slow bastards take MONTHS) you've got to be the hottest shit since toasted subs.
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I always thought it was more the "free, you haul" license.
The only other option is for a bunch of us to band together with a lot of guns and protect ourselves. But then there's always the government to stop that.
We're kind of fucked any way you look at it unless we can correct the inconceivable ignorance of the population. Good luck on that count, though.
Don't forget that PSP can also replace your portable DVD player if all of your movies are released by Sony and you want to replace them on UMD (assuming they are released) or shell out the HUGE scrilla for a big memory stick to put them on. Of course if you have the money for a PSP you might just have the money to do one or both of those. If only money could solve the problem of battery life short of carrying a suitcase full of batteries around.
I didn't say that they *do* sabotage their software. I said that if a corporation can make money doing so, they will. windows seems pretty sabotaged to me from a price-to-features standpoint. This is not even to include the obvious stability issues associated with running any version of windows.
Do you even need to ask such a stupid question? I'd say there are very few corporations that would not sabotage their products if it somehow managed to sell more units. The question you should be asking is does sabotaging their product actually sell more units, and given the lackluster features of windows and the huge installed user base I'd say that in this case it probably does.
They might be malware, but resisting removal definitely does not constitute spyware by itself. If it's not keylogging or sending information from your computer back to anyway (you know, spying) then it's not spyware so you might want to correct that view of yours.
Should be noted, because a lot of the creationist kids around here don't seem to understand, that when someone says "know" or "they can tell" or "they decide" in these contexts, the poster is NOT talking about a conscious intelligence making a decision. They are making an anthropomorphization and only a moron would take it literally (as I have already seen several people do on this page.)
Yeah, and it's technically still illegal for me to rip that DVD to play off of a harddrive or to use it on my Linux desktop except with the one crappy windows-ported "legal" DVD player. Also, I can't "buy" a DVD from another region and "legally" play it here. So you tell me how much they're not trying to license it instead of sell? Though I completely agree, I am buying it and that's why I have and will continue to do with it as I please.
So using any words in any way derived from, related to, or part of the German language is now "nazi jargon"? It's not like someone suggested they call it "UberLinux: The Final Solution". Would it similarly be "tasteless and flirting with nazi jargon" if some Germans put out a native Linux distro called "DeutschLinux"? Because I seem to remember hitler saying that all the time too.
Yes.
See! Proof that windows is in fact malware!
Luckily DRM will be effective as long as the software and hardware have to know how it works to "unlock" it.
Maybe Visual Studio or whatever MSFT packs C# with has an "awesome IDE", but the language certainly doesn't. C# isn't exclusive to VS.net or even MSFT.
And remember, son, your time obviously has no value if you waste it on Debian.
But who does that? And how does that require DRR? That could be much more effectively controlled by just keeping a database of customer purchases. Besides, DRR technology doesn't really work for allowing redownloads since the main reason to redownload something is because you no longer have it.
It's time to face up to the facts. The ONLY people who stand to be hurt by DRR are those foolish enough to pay for it. And why should a "pirate" have a superior version for free when I'm paying my hard-earned money for it?
Just wait till they smarten up and stop claiming to sell you anything. "License it today on VHS or DisneyDVD."
You're right, he should have said, "Fucking Google it!"
Which has nothing to do with the fact that you were raised speaking a phonetic language? I mean, I totally agree with you that phonetic languages own. But then again I was raised on pseudo-English.
Or to play the music they got off iTMS because it was free with their Pepsi on their Linux boxen?
Maybe if they packed in the PSP version of a game with it's PS2 counter-part it'd be a different story, but their pricing and features seem way out of line to me.
Of course, I'm not interested in the DS either. I guess I just don't care about a handheld without Dragon Warrior 1+2 anymore.
Are you thinking of the one that was going to pay users like .01$/hour to run their software and then sell that computing time to other companies? Or was it soemthing else?
I don't know about anyone else, but it takes me about 20 minutes to install Slackware and maybe a few hours to install and configure the software that I use on a clean install. Even less if I am transitioning to a new primary machine in which case I will copy over my home directory and at worst have to make a few small configuration changes. This is hardly worth 500$.
Win-modem? What's that? Is that like that "dialup" thing my grandpa is always ranting about?