So basically this means that you can crack your games so they keep on working if any of these services go under within the next 3 years and the individual game developers don't alter or strip the DRM out?
The point is large corporations have it so easy to lay copyright claims and when you go to dispute it you have to jump through hoops. Not only was the onus on his to prove to YT that it was his own work even though somebody else is making the claim but he had to contact multiple people at Sony, multiple times just to wake them up. And here is a guy who licensed his work to a large multinational corporation for FREE and he gets screwed over by them. If he didn't waste his time fighting it then he would have been the one losing the rights to his own work. So how is that fair?
Common law already has an eminently sensible solution to this problem - You can’t enforce specific performance on a labour contract. If the IT workers performance is poor, the bank needs to find a new IT worker. End of story.
I wouldn't buy a microsoft pc because they have a locked bootloader preventing you from installing other OS. Fair enough that ms doesn't want you installing other OS but when they cancelled windows rt and gave their own customers no way out to keep using their hardware, that was a dick move.
fuck hololens. Show me the view the person wearing it sees.
Showing videos of a computer generated 3rd person view (which is what all their videos are) is the most misleading thing ever because nobody EVER sees that view.
The two are basically a duopoly and it is highly unlikely for a duopoly to merge. As well as the regulatory obstacles there is very little benefit for either of them to merge together.
The hosts file blocks urls, it doesn't block ips. You need to do more than just adding urls to the host file like blocking the ips on a firewall. And ideally, the firewall should be running on a separate device/machine not running windows so windows can't give itself special privileges and bypass it.
Back in the day people ditched netscape for ie in troves because certain websites would work in ie only and nothing else. So people do pick what they use by the sites they can visit.
Agreed. People need to stop using the logical fallacy that if somebody else is doing it its somehow alright for somebody else to. Wrong is wrong and the reason why people talk about microsoft doing the wrong is because that's what the article is about. Also google is leaps and bounds different from microsoft. There is not one google product that you have to use because there are many viable alternatives to every google product. Even android doesnt have a killer app that you can't find on another os. windows is different. youre stuck with windows for games and programs and drivers. Thats why microsoft can pull this privacy shit and all the shit theyve been pulling for decades because they know you can't easily switch to another os without you losing out in a program, game or driver that you use.
I dont think they will go to a paid subscription model. That would change them from being the only mainstream OS that costs money to the only mainstream OS that charges subscription fees. ms is losing really badly inthe phone/tablet market. Even their console isn't doing too well this time around ( http://www.techradar.com/us/ne... )
I can believe windows 10 will be the last version of windows and it will just be continually patched. ms sees the writing on the wall and when 10 is out they will be pushing their app store hard to get more pc programs into there so they get a 30% cut. All those sales will add up to more than they will ever get from a single customer in a OS sale. The app store will help their struggling phone and tablet line too.
They did the same thing with directx10. It was only available on vista which was new at the time. I think some people managed to hack the installer to install on xp but I never tried it. I jumped from xp to 7 like most people. I wouldn't be surprised if someone works out how to install d12 into 7. Most people will probably just go the easier route and upgrade to 10 to get d12 because it's free anyway.
Probably because Sony's entertainment division didn't want the playstation to be able to easily copy/read files easily over the network because any copying/reading makes "omg piracy!" pop up in their tunnel vision eyes. The ps3 and 4 support DLNA for streaming though which is something at least. DLNA was started by Sony I believe and is a open standard while CIFS is microsoft and a closed standard. SMB was only possible by reverse engineering SMB but microsoft often changes the standard giving *nix distributions a lot of headaches. Sony can make sure the playstation always supports DLNA but it's a lot harder for them to fix SMB when windows changes the standard.
Even if console prices have come down like you say, they haven't come down as much as they should with zero copyright infringement. You can see this by comparing games that get released on consoles and the pc at the same time. The vast majority of the time, (maybe even all the time?), the pc release is cheaper than it is on a console. But at the same time the pc is the most open and 'pirated' platform. hmmm...
I think mlts has made some good points. It was always a sham blaming copyright infringement for the high price of software. Look at the price of a genuine windows licence worldwide. It is cheapest in the countries with high piracy rates. Hell, countries with high piracy rates get rewarded with lower prices while countries like Australia which has some of the lowest piracy rates pays some of the highest prices for software especially games on steam.
If you go back before there was any digital distribution for console games, the higher price for console games could be sort of justified by the buyer getting some of their money back by selling/trading in the game. But now that's gone too, once you buy it its worth basically nothing because you can't sell it to anyone. So not only have console companies kept prices higher with zero copyright infringement they've kept prices high after cutting out the second hard market.
Source 2 is what Valve have been waiting to finish before they bring out Half Life 3, Portal 3, L4D3 and TF3.
Yes Half Life 3, I said it. Half Life THREE.
What follows Source 2 is the '3' games. Afterall, you wouldn't continue your award winning franchise that everyone has been waiting for, on a aging engine, would you? And less face it, Source 1 is so behind modern engines, Valve really needs Source 2 finished to show HL3 in the best way possible.
They need their own games to use as tech demos to get other developers onto using Source 3 too. And with their console coming out at the end of the year they need first party games to help it sell. Not saying that those sequels will come out that quickly with the console but you need Source 2 out before the '3' games come out and with the Steam console out soon, it makes sense for Valve to bring out the '3' games sooner than later. So it's getting closer guys.
Yea. It's pretty amazing to think that the rock making up was once deep inside the ground and it slowly raised to the level it is at. Or when you look at a natural diamond and think about how deep it must have been inside the ground for the pressure required to create it.
Exactly. The acceleration changes which changes your weight. No physics teacher worth their salt would teach their students it's 9.81m^2 everywhere on the Earth.
Exactly. Your weight changes because it's not always 9.81m^2. No teacher worth their salt would teach their students that its 9.81m^2 all the time like the article states. The article might as well have said "You might’ve learned—in some long-ago English class—that I comes before E except after C, without fail. But it turns out...."
"You might’ve learned—in some long-ago physics class—that objects at the surface of the Earth all accelerate downwards, towards the Earth’s center, at 9.81 m/s^2 (or 32 feet/s^2), without fail."
Only if you had a really bad physics teacher.
If your physics teacher was good and explained how 9.81 came about you would quickly realize acceleration varies depending where you are on Earth. A good example is a object weighs differently around the world even though it's mass doesn't change.
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So basically this means that you can crack your games so they keep on working if any of these services go under within the next 3 years and the individual game developers don't alter or strip the DRM out?
The point is large corporations have it so easy to lay copyright claims and when you go to dispute it you have to jump through hoops. Not only was the onus on his to prove to YT that it was his own work even though somebody else is making the claim but he had to contact multiple people at Sony, multiple times just to wake them up. And here is a guy who licensed his work to a large multinational corporation for FREE and he gets screwed over by them. If he didn't waste his time fighting it then he would have been the one losing the rights to his own work. So how is that fair?
Or alternatively, include in the license fee an amount to allow for going to court with the company for their stupidity.
If apple did what microsoft did with the surface rt? yes.
Common law already has an eminently sensible solution to this problem - You can’t enforce specific performance on a labour contract. If the IT workers performance is poor, the bank needs to find a new IT worker. End of story.
I wouldn't buy a microsoft pc because they have a locked bootloader preventing you from installing other OS. Fair enough that ms doesn't want you installing other OS but when they cancelled windows rt and gave their own customers no way out to keep using their hardware, that was a dick move.
I'm genuinely interested in hearing your thoughts on this. How would have going x64 only in windows solved the problem for microsoft?
How does making windows x86 and x64 compatible hold microsoft back?
fuck hololens. Show me the view the person wearing it sees.
Showing videos of a computer generated 3rd person view (which is what all their videos are) is the most misleading thing ever because nobody EVER sees that view.
The two are basically a duopoly and it is highly unlikely for a duopoly to merge. As well as the regulatory obstacles there is very little benefit for either of them to merge together.
The hosts file blocks urls, it doesn't block ips. You need to do more than just adding urls to the host file like blocking the ips on a firewall. And ideally, the firewall should be running on a separate device/machine not running windows so windows can't give itself special privileges and bypass it.
Back in the day people ditched netscape for ie in troves because certain websites would work in ie only and nothing else. So people do pick what they use by the sites they can visit.
Agreed. People need to stop using the logical fallacy that if somebody else is doing it its somehow alright for somebody else to. Wrong is wrong and the reason why people talk about microsoft doing the wrong is because that's what the article is about. Also google is leaps and bounds different from microsoft. There is not one google product that you have to use because there are many viable alternatives to every google product. Even android doesnt have a killer app that you can't find on another os. windows is different. youre stuck with windows for games and programs and drivers. Thats why microsoft can pull this privacy shit and all the shit theyve been pulling for decades because they know you can't easily switch to another os without you losing out in a program, game or driver that you use.
What is sane about extending copyright expiry dates when it is about to run out? Why even have an expiry date if it's only going to be lengthened?
What is sane about taking things that were in the public domain and putting them back under copyright?
I dont think they will go to a paid subscription model. That would change them from being the only mainstream OS that costs money to the only mainstream OS that charges subscription fees. ms is losing really badly inthe phone/tablet market. Even their console isn't doing too well this time around ( http://www.techradar.com/us/ne... )
I can believe windows 10 will be the last version of windows and it will just be continually patched. ms sees the writing on the wall and when 10 is out they will be pushing their app store hard to get more pc programs into there so they get a 30% cut. All those sales will add up to more than they will ever get from a single customer in a OS sale. The app store will help their struggling phone and tablet line too.
They did the same thing with directx10. It was only available on vista which was new at the time. I think some people managed to hack the installer to install on xp but I never tried it. I jumped from xp to 7 like most people. I wouldn't be surprised if someone works out how to install d12 into 7. Most people will probably just go the easier route and upgrade to 10 to get d12 because it's free anyway.
Probably because Sony's entertainment division didn't want the playstation to be able to easily copy/read files easily over the network because any copying/reading makes "omg piracy!" pop up in their tunnel vision eyes. The ps3 and 4 support DLNA for streaming though which is something at least. DLNA was started by Sony I believe and is a open standard while CIFS is microsoft and a closed standard. SMB was only possible by reverse engineering SMB but microsoft often changes the standard giving *nix distributions a lot of headaches. Sony can make sure the playstation always supports DLNA but it's a lot harder for them to fix SMB when windows changes the standard.
Those are some good points made by mlts.
Even if console prices have come down like you say, they haven't come down as much as they should with zero copyright infringement. You can see this by comparing games that get released on consoles and the pc at the same time. The vast majority of the time, (maybe even all the time?), the pc release is cheaper than it is on a console. But at the same time the pc is the most open and 'pirated' platform. hmmm...
I think mlts has made some good points. It was always a sham blaming copyright infringement for the high price of software. Look at the price of a genuine windows licence worldwide. It is cheapest in the countries with high piracy rates. Hell, countries with high piracy rates get rewarded with lower prices while countries like Australia which has some of the lowest piracy rates pays some of the highest prices for software especially games on steam.
If you go back before there was any digital distribution for console games, the higher price for console games could be sort of justified by the buyer getting some of their money back by selling/trading in the game. But now that's gone too, once you buy it its worth basically nothing because you can't sell it to anyone. So not only have console companies kept prices higher with zero copyright infringement they've kept prices high after cutting out the second hard market.
2.5" inch drives require less power, generate less heat and are obviously smaller so the overall size of the console doesn't have to be as large.
You would have be ignorant to believe Valve won't keep milking their franchises like any business does.
Source 2 is what Valve have been waiting to finish before they bring out Half Life 3, Portal 3, L4D3 and TF3.
Yes Half Life 3, I said it. Half Life THREE.
What follows Source 2 is the '3' games. Afterall, you wouldn't continue your award winning franchise that everyone has been waiting for, on a aging engine, would you? And less face it, Source 1 is so behind modern engines, Valve really needs Source 2 finished to show HL3 in the best way possible.
They need their own games to use as tech demos to get other developers onto using Source 3 too. And with their console coming out at the end of the year they need first party games to help it sell. Not saying that those sequels will come out that quickly with the console but you need Source 2 out before the '3' games come out and with the Steam console out soon, it makes sense for Valve to bring out the '3' games sooner than later. So it's getting closer guys.
No, but Minecraft has. ;)
http://www.howtogeek.com/21090...
Yea. It's pretty amazing to think that the rock making up was once deep inside the ground and it slowly raised to the level it is at. Or when you look at a natural diamond and think about how deep it must have been inside the ground for the pressure required to create it.
Exactly. The acceleration changes which changes your weight. No physics teacher worth their salt would teach their students it's 9.81m^2 everywhere on the Earth.
Exactly. Your weight changes because it's not always 9.81m^2. No teacher worth their salt would teach their students that its 9.81m^2 all the time like the article states. The article might as well have said "You might’ve learned—in some long-ago English class—that I comes before E except after C, without fail. But it turns out...."
"You might’ve learned—in some long-ago physics class—that objects at the surface of the Earth all accelerate downwards, towards the Earth’s center, at 9.81 m/s^2 (or 32 feet/s^2), without fail."
Only if you had a really bad physics teacher.
If your physics teacher was good and explained how 9.81 came about you would quickly realize acceleration varies depending where you are on Earth. A good example is a object weighs differently around the world even though it's mass doesn't change.