It would be easier to understand if I understood WHY and eventually found a source telling me how.
But well, I can't understand why one would want to encrypt anything. Encrypting the DRM:ed content seems good enough. Or well, not doing that would be ok to:D
Btw the reason I asked was because he said "that is not cracked or disabled 99% of the time." so I'd assume it used some method of awesomest (thru safari or whatever) to do it's thing. As in "even how hard you try it will be able to contact Adobe."
Which sound kind off weird because if nothing else if I block all IPs of Adobe or whatever it wants to contact I should be pretty safe..
I doubt I would get to court even if I blocked it. I'd assume the serial would get blocked faster though, and eventually my installation wouldn't work longer.
Btw, should it really be: 127.0.0.1 activate adobe in/etc/hosts? Shouldn't there be a com in there to?
Well, I guess Nintendo may have been forced into it because earlier they may have been able to take out more money for being able to license a title for Nintendo consoles. Thereby earning more money on games and being able to earn less on consoles. But in todays market maybe Microsoft and Sony ask for less money for their consoles, what do I know.
Your later assumption is right but then again using more common chips such as Microsoft and Nintendo has done with both the Xbox, Xbox360, Gamecube and Wii as far as CPU goes may give you more for your money than designing your own ones such as Sony has done (Atleast the PS had some weird hardware? Don't know about PS2 and as we all know Cell is more exotic than one or multiple PPC cores.)
Less advanced? Maybe to code for but the Gamecube is still superior to the PS2.
Third party developers however pulled back since it was so expensive to develop for the N64 using cartridges instead of CDs.
Also I think someone mentioned earlier in another story that the MIPS chip was a pain to code for and that one of the modes offered very good quality but way to slow speed.
Gamecube was profitable when they sold them for 699 SEK I'd assume
Wii still cost 2699 SEK.
Sure Wii probably is MORE profitable now but it would probably still be profitable with better hardware / lower price.
Heck, isn't even Microsofts Xbox360 division making money now? And they sell Xbox360s for 1799 SEK normally but down to 1599 SEK or something such I believe. Haven't checked prices lately.
Also I think you're just making bad guessing.
Imho Wii is probably inferior in hardware specs simply because Nintendos consoles had got a smaller and smaller piece of the market and since they don't have any other business to fall back on such as Microsoft and Sony they simply can't risk it investing to much money in developing expensive new technology without knowing if they will get a huge piece of the market or not.
For Microsoft console risk taking won't kill them, for Nintendo it will.
But the Wii and DS are drastically less powerful than their competitors. This strategy has worked very well for them so it's only logical to think they'll do the same next time.
But DS and Wii doesn't work well because they are technically inferior (or cheap, the others was cheap to.)
The DS and Wii sell well because the offer something new.
After all, they're the only ones actually making a profit on their consoles.
And they have always made money on their consoles, the Gamecube to.
Of course they will try to repeat finding out something new and innovative in gaming, but they won't try to repeat "release inferior hardware", they may still do it but it's not point on it's own.
This is wrong. Since the serial would most likely be there as a comment on a torrent or in a text-fil of a torrent download or in the end show up in serial box whose clients do not use any tunes.
Wtf, and I got moderated troll for mentioning that even though I DO block flash the damn block occured on top of the article until I loaded the flash anim, just to run a minimizing animation when I closed it and then pop up again if I wanted to load the very nice stuff again...
Not to mention that I got a separate ad page when I first visited the article and then was going to switch to page 2 to see if there was anything interesting.
It was a fucking ad, which wasn't interesting, so I left.
Weird how Slashdot users LIKE ads today. We should boycot any stories from pages which does this shit, why give them tens of thousand to millions of hits when they behave like this?
Or rather, how the stock market believes the rest of the stock markets sees the stocks potential to raise regardless of the companies ability to generate revenue, their knowledge, experience, code or products:D
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Ok, am I free of this in OS X?
It would be easier to understand if I understood WHY and eventually found a source telling me how.
But well, I can't understand why one would want to encrypt anything. Encrypting the DRM:ed content seems good enough. Or well, not doing that would be ok to :D
To what extent does this affect OS X?
Btw the reason I asked was because he said "that is not cracked or disabled 99% of the time." so I'd assume it used some method of awesomest (thru safari or whatever) to do it's thing. As in "even how hard you try it will be able to contact Adobe."
Which sound kind off weird because if nothing else if I block all IPs of Adobe or whatever it wants to contact I should be pretty safe ..
I doubt I would get to court even if I blocked it. I'd assume the serial would get blocked faster though, and eventually my installation wouldn't work longer.
Btw, should it really be: /etc/hosts? Shouldn't there be a com in there to?
127.0.0.1 activate adobe
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In any case I got little snitch to so ..
Well, I guess Nintendo may have been forced into it because earlier they may have been able to take out more money for being able to license a title for Nintendo consoles. Thereby earning more money on games and being able to earn less on consoles. But in todays market maybe Microsoft and Sony ask for less money for their consoles, what do I know.
Your later assumption is right but then again using more common chips such as Microsoft and Nintendo has done with both the Xbox, Xbox360, Gamecube and Wii as far as CPU goes may give you more for your money than designing your own ones such as Sony has done (Atleast the PS had some weird hardware? Don't know about PS2 and as we all know Cell is more exotic than one or multiple PPC cores.)
Less advanced? Maybe to code for but the Gamecube is still superior to the PS2.
Third party developers however pulled back since it was so expensive to develop for the N64 using cartridges instead of CDs.
Also I think someone mentioned earlier in another story that the MIPS chip was a pain to code for and that one of the modes offered very good quality but way to slow speed.
The Gamecube uses a PPC-chip.
Yeah, I know about the MegaDrive CPU since I was into Amigas and those had the M68k to.
And yes, SNES audio is supposed to be much better.
But I was too lazy to check up complete specs =P
Gamecube was profitable when they sold them for 699 SEK I'd assume
Wii still cost 2699 SEK.
Sure Wii probably is MORE profitable now but it would probably still be profitable with better hardware / lower price.
Heck, isn't even Microsofts Xbox360 division making money now? And they sell Xbox360s for 1799 SEK normally but down to 1599 SEK or something such I believe. Haven't checked prices lately.
Also I think you're just making bad guessing.
Imho Wii is probably inferior in hardware specs simply because Nintendos consoles had got a smaller and smaller piece of the market and since they don't have any other business to fall back on such as Microsoft and Sony they simply can't risk it investing to much money in developing expensive new technology without knowing if they will get a huge piece of the market or not.
For Microsoft console risk taking won't kill them, for Nintendo it will.
Yeah, let us decide how much energy to consume, it's not like they will regulate it all, they could start with regular light bulbs in that case.
Also if you have electric heating a high energy consuming TV or light bulb doesn't make of a difference (in the summer it do.)
But the Wii and DS are drastically less powerful than their competitors. This strategy has worked very well for them so it's only logical to think they'll do the same next time.
But DS and Wii doesn't work well because they are technically inferior (or cheap, the others was cheap to.)
The DS and Wii sell well because the offer something new.
After all, they're the only ones actually making a profit on their consoles.
And they have always made money on their consoles, the Gamecube to.
Of course they will try to repeat finding out something new and innovative in gaming, but they won't try to repeat "release inferior hardware", they may still do it but it's not point on it's own.
So "Wii Too" will be less powerful than its competitors, but more powerful than the PS3 or 360.
Where do that come from? Nintendo consoles haven't always been technically inferior.
Wasn't snes faster than megadrive? I don't remember.
Gamecube is more competent than PS2, and PS2 still sold at higher prices and way more consoles.
So just because something is affordable don't mean it has to be crap.
http://www.ubi.com/US/Games/Search.aspx?plTag=pc
right!
Funny how my Amiga with DOpus 4.x or Magellan had no problem whatsoever doing the right thing with files but Windows still do ..
And it uses a method which let it pass little snitch? Or a modified host file? Or block in your "firewall"?
I don't :D
This is wrong. Since the serial would most likely be there as a comment on a torrent or in a text-fil of a torrent download or in the end show up in serial box whose clients do not use any tunes.
Though I know you were joking ..
Hum, I wonder if that is what I did? I don't remember :/
Why didn't they gave a link to the infected torrents so we'd know if we should be worried or not! :D
Also I'd assume Little Snitch would start complaining if it tried to call home during installation.
Wtf, and I got moderated troll for mentioning that even though I DO block flash the damn block occured on top of the article until I loaded the flash anim, just to run a minimizing animation when I closed it and then pop up again if I wanted to load the very nice stuff again ...
Not to mention that I got a separate ad page when I first visited the article and then was going to switch to page 2 to see if there was anything interesting.
It was a fucking ad, which wasn't interesting, so I left.
Weird how Slashdot users LIKE ads today. We should boycot any stories from pages which does this shit, why give them tens of thousand to millions of hits when they behave like this?
Or rather, how the stock market believes the rest of the stock markets sees the stocks potential to raise regardless of the companies ability to generate revenue, their knowledge, experience, code or products :D
Fixed that for us.
No matter how Windows is coded and designed is the problem really the DRM or Microsofts implementation of it?
(differently = who is more likely to make money of their knowledge, experience, code and products :D)
Personally if I got to choose one of either all of Suns knowledge, experience, code and products or Redhats I'd for sure go with Sun.
Obviously the market works differently =P
I've never understood why the DRM crap matters as long as you don't run anything using it but whatever. Sounds like a bad excuse.
Too much ads: Didn't read.
Great job linking to a five page story with on-top layered flash ads and new whole page ads for each page.
Like I'd give a shit about the page at all in that case.
Summary says DISPLAYS.