From my experience, the Linux folks that try to work in Windows just simply don't know WTF they are doing.
Likewise, Windows Admins who work in Linux don't know either.
It's always easy to curse the platform if you don't have the knowledge. I've built stable environments out of Windows and out of Linux, and they all serve their purpose with perfectly fine uptime. Just a different delivery platform for different things.
That said, if you have a Linksys firewall in place, it usually takes care of the issue. Granted the attacks you'll get internally *can* happen, but we have managed to circumvent SMB exploitation via policy settings in Windows. It works fine for us, nice to see they finally patched it though.
Makes little business sense right now to go to Win7/Vista, but XP is still a smart move for most people.
It's too bad Slashdotters here are so entranced with the platform, they forget what it's supposed to delivery. I don't really care what OS is on the desktop, so long as it allows us to achieve what we are trying to do. Usually, it's the software that does that, not the OS.
Nobody was using Apple *to begin with* when they introduced OSX. They had less than 2% market share at the time, and it would have been a moot point to rewrite the handful of applications that worked on the Mac.
Quark? Photoshop? Final Cut? That's about the extent to which Apple was useful pre-OSX. The idea that people rewrote their applications is ridiculous -- a new spawn of programmers propped up enthralled with the new OS and started developing for it. Go ahead and Google it -- find the big applications that are used for the Mac nowadays -- they are all from NEW developers that never bothered to write a line of code for OS9 or 8.
That said, Microsoft's money maker is the fact that MOST applications maintain compatibility while giving more technological advantages over the previous OS. Windows XP for corporations, introduced desktop policy setting, active directory, centralized user management and control, and more. Don't think of the OS as important -- it's a delivery mechanism for their technologies. And some corporations are very happy with what they have in Windows XP/2003 Server for active directory control, user control and creation, etc.
Vista now gives you 'preferences' which allows you to change EVEN MORE in a centralized manner. People don't realize this because they all use it as a desktop OS, but in a corporate world these changes are valuable and useful. The backward compatibility is also with their OWN stuff, so while it's a nice idea to drop everything, create a VM for the apps etc -- it's unrealistic and would let Microsoft die in a fire. I'm sure many people here would love to see that, but it's not realistic to think that.
Apple's are great PCs for certain tasks, but there's nothing you cannot do in a Mac (or Linux) that Windows can't do. Now whether it does it BETTER is a different situation, and I'll fully admit I'd rather (and DO) have my website hosted on Apache with a RHEL backend and MySQL database because it's STABLE and it's FREE. I'd rather do video editing and audio editing on a Mac because the applications are better suited for that task.
But I can do all of that on Windows too. And that's why it's going to continue to sell, and they won't change a working formula. They are only building up the pieces AROUND Windows that make it a success -- and that includes Office, Sharepoint, System Center, BizTalk, and more all to tie your organization in, to use MS technologies that all leverage one another, and in comparison to some competitors -- are actually cheaper too.
It's not just Windows. People really need to get that.
I'm in the same boat... and I haven't had the time to 'learn' because I already made the mistakes.
First off -- Harvard, MIT, etc.. great schools, but unless you're going on a full ride they simply are NOT worth it (at least as an undergraduate). The simple fact is that you're going to waste a lot of time in your undergrad partying, having fun, and not taking it seriously, regardless of whether it's MIT or Harvard or a state school. I wound up going to a private school and graduated $60k in debt, AFTER a half scholarship.
I'm one of the lucky ones though... while my educational loans are very high, I make a good salary and I'm working on paying it off soon. But I am also married and rent out an apartment off of my parent's house -- it helps a lot in offsetting the debt, and I'm working on offsetting even more. Hopefully in another few years, I'll have it all paid off and be debt free. That time is a long way off though, but slowly but surely I'm working there.
I'm trying to convince people like my sister, who is majoring in philosophy and by the time she graduates, will be 40k in debt -- NOT to keep on her current track lest she want to screw up her entire life. Like I said I'm fortunate, and I realize I am -- but most people are stupid in addition to naive with regards to student loans and eventual salaried positions. My sister is going to philosophize why she's broke, and she still has plans to go to grad school and become a professor eventually.
I just hope people don't make the same mistakes, and predatory lending is banished ESPECIALLY for those in educational debt. I've already screwed myself and I'm working it off -- but there are going to be a LOT more who simply can't pay, and they are going to eat up our country in bankruptcies just like the housing crisis is now. The fact that they are deferred on payments only helps that it hasn't hit us at the same time.
Often I stay away from political arguments on Slashdot given that they get out of control pretty fast, and opinions on either side are heated.
Regarding healthcare, most people actually *agree* on more than they disagree on. That our healthcare system as a whole sucks, it costs too much, and a lot of people get screwed because of it.
I have a little experience in dealing with multiple forms of healthcare systems, through what my mother has gone through as I was growing up. It all started with a doctor giving her too much anesthesia during my birth, and she had a heart attack from that. Being new to the country, she didn't sue as the hospital was taking care of her immediate bills, and checking up with her -- right until the statute of limitations was reached and they dropped her like a bad habit. Her heart problems continue, and it's caused my 67 year old father to continue to work until this day, for nothing more than health coverage, because my mother is not in the age range of Medicare yet.
First off -- medical bills tear families apart. When you have a sick family member, there is nothing you won't do to get them fixed and this was the case for my mother. Over the years my parents came close to bankruptcy multiple times, especially when my father was laid off from his job. If he hadn't filed a suit against his employer for discrimination (which was pretty much a given, since they settled very quickly) he would not have made it through a trying time and I may not be in the position I am today.
People with healthcare always tell others that it's 'earned', it's 'not a right'. But they quickly forget that we ALL pay (as taxpayers) when somebody walks into an emergency room for a sickness, rather than into the doctor's office when they first get sick to get some simple medication and treatment. It usually spirals out of control, and the ER is forced to take in the patients regardless. In a sense, making healthcare available to everybody is something that will lower the cost to the rest of the country, and also allow for us to spend less over the course of a person's life due to increased longevity and overall health.
I had an idea a while ago, and I'll share it again here in as simple terms as I can. There are a few things to take into consideration first -- we need to provide healthcare for patients, ALL Americans. We need to ensure that being a doctor is a field that people still want to pursue and is lucrative to be in. We need to reduce problems with litigious people who are "sue happy" and drive up the cost for doctors, who then pass it on to the patients. And also, we have to ensure patients don't go to the doctor because they are lonely. I have ideas that address all these issues.
First, we have to nationalize healthcare. Yes, socialize, nationalize, whatever evil word you want to call it -- take the *money* out of the paperwork. There should be no profit incentive for just filing paperwork and essentially it boils down to our HMOs and PPOs out there living in that role. Taxes would be taken out from EVERY person's paycheck (much like they are for schooling, roads, etc). This is not a number I can give you, but I imagine it would probably be less than what your employer pays since we are including everybody into the mix here. There would be a tiered plan that you'd have to file for every year, just like your employer makes you do. You have TWO options -- one is a high copay plan that takes out less cash from your paycheck, and the other is a LOW copay plan that takes out MORE money from your paycheck. If you're a sick person, or like to go to the doctor, you essentially pay an increased monthly fee in order to keep your doctor visits and their costs at a minimum. If you don't go to the doctor that often, it pays for you to go with the cheaper plan, and the high copay keeps you from going to the doctor and just sitting and chatting with them because you're lonely. You pay for that privilege, but not enough to break your back or make you bankrupt.
I've seen people recreate entire scenes from "Lost" in MS Paint, but it doesn't mean it's the easier or faster way to do it.
Just means it can be done. I'm not devaluing the work done here, or the benefit of open source software but seriously... I don't see the big deal in this article.
Why are you running an entire server, when our datacenter (and I personally admin over 300 servers at this location) runs at an average of 30% efficiency?
We are migrating (on mine and one other SA's recommendation) to a totally virtualized environment for development and testing. Production is still a no-no, but if we can show the gains with virtualizing the first two, it's easy to make a case for the last.
We can run a single blade at close to 80 or 90% efficiency, because we're using cores individually, memory, etc... and VMWare is getting pretty smart about it. I am still investigating Hyper-V, and while much of the/. crowd here would tell me not to because it's an MS product -- most of our servers are Windows based, and Hyper-V is dirt cheap compared to VMWare.
That said... virtualization is the answer, not power down servers. You get multiple benefits, and save in overall costs with power, hardware, cooling, and utilization.
Although as a caveat, I did format and build my machine from scratch, and if I didn't have to do Windows Updates from time to time... I'd have even longer system uptime -- take a look (That's in Hours:Minutes:seconds)
I haven't had any problems with Vista other than it being rather mediocre in terms of an 'upgrade' from what it offers compared to XP.
I mainly do development (.NET, sorry folks), play games and surf the web. It works fine for my needs. The FPSes aren't far off what I got in XP, and given that the driver model isn't changing at all in Windows 7, I'm sure it will improve more as time goes by.
As I recall, the drivers in XP sucked when they were first released -- we can give folks a little while to get it all sorted in Vista and migrate it right into Windows 7.
It's really not that bad.. and with over 1200 hours of uptime now, I am not complaining. Windows 7 seems to address GUI complaints I have had, and that's good... I'll be patient to see what else comes of it.
Waiting for Windows Mobile 7 myself before I start writing any code, but I think the advancements in.NET make it easy to write, though I'm not really sure how worthwhile on a whole.
I like Apple's applications, but it's a big fuss to get development rights, and it never touches an enterprise.
I guess it is something up to you, and your skillsets.
They are taking the existing Macbook which was offered for $1099 and lowering to $999. That's NO NEW TECH, just the same old Macbook with the horrible onboard graphics for a thousand smackers. Fine.
Then they are offering a higher class Macbook for $1299, which offers a graphics card that is already far surpassed by everything on the market. Looking at the price point, I can get myself a Gateway laptop with a 9800M, 4GB of RAM, big fat hard drive, faster processor, for about the same money. I can dual boot Ubuntu and Windows on it, and it will FLY. In fact, it actually will surpass the Macbook PRO for the same money. So you're talking about a $1000 premium (if not more) for the Macbook Pro to get a computer that is no better than something I can buy for about $800 (if I opt for a slower graphics card to match the 9600 the MBP comes with).
I like OS X. It's pretty. But unless it's video or audio editing, I don't have a specific need for a Mac over a PC/Linux dual boot. I can run my website on my Red Hat server (which I do), and use XP on my day-to-day. Aside from cutesy graphics and slick user interface, I don't think that it's worth a $1000 premium when I'm actually getting a more poor performing laptop for the money.
I'm sure I'll get modded down, but it is the truth. There's nothing a Mac can do that a PC or Ubuntu system can't do as well. Some Mac does better, but it's a function more of the software, than the platform.
I've read lots of MS Documentation over the years -- white papers, APIs, and just general guidelines for things.
It's damned good documentation. It may not go to the border of 'special olympics' readers for Apple users, but for the majority of developers that are working on 'interoperability' the documentation is quite good. Not amazing, but the irony is still lost on me that a lawyer decided somebody else's documentation was bad.
Have you ever read the way bills are introduced into law? Jeez.
That all the World of Warcraft players, when installing the new patch for the Lich King, will now be subject to slower download rates cuz they need a 1GB patch?
And as some comments have stated, the article doesn't do justice to actually watching the show.
They are my favorite band and it was an amazing thing to watch them perform... I'll go again if I get a chance to:)
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It's relative -- I always look at a game as having some goal, some achievement, something to do and mark the world.
Just wandering around aimlessly doesn't suit my style of saying it's a "game".
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Untrue -- I have bought 100% of the games I play, after either seeing the demo or just hedging on whether it'd be good or not.
Just picked up Bioshock the other day for $20 used -- I don't always buy new, but I don't pirate anything for extended periods of time.
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It's a toy.
You just muddle around in the world, you play here and there, and don't accomplish much of anything.
While it's a neat 'toy', for a *gamer* like myself it's ridiculous. Besides, while I love Will Wright, and I *want* to support him -- he knew what EA would do, I'm sure he was aware of the DRM scheme, and he let it go in. While it might be ignorance on his part, I will not buy this game in an effort to send that message that even a good game developer will not be tolerated if they infuse their brilliance with the stupidity of draconian DRM.
That said, Pirate Bay is very appealing in this instance and has been for me to determine it's not worth buying anyway, DRM or not.
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From my experience, the Linux folks that try to work in Windows just simply don't know WTF they are doing.
Likewise, Windows Admins who work in Linux don't know either.
It's always easy to curse the platform if you don't have the knowledge. I've built stable environments out of Windows and out of Linux, and they all serve their purpose with perfectly fine uptime. Just a different delivery platform for different things.
I do.
You can make fun of me :)
That said, if you have a Linksys firewall in place, it usually takes care of the issue. Granted the attacks you'll get internally *can* happen, but we have managed to circumvent SMB exploitation via policy settings in Windows. It works fine for us, nice to see they finally patched it though.
Yes, lots of people still do.
Makes little business sense right now to go to Win7/Vista, but XP is still a smart move for most people.
It's too bad Slashdotters here are so entranced with the platform, they forget what it's supposed to delivery. I don't really care what OS is on the desktop, so long as it allows us to achieve what we are trying to do. Usually, it's the software that does that, not the OS.
Making games that don't suck.
Oh wait... that hasn't been since Ultima Online, pre-UO:R. It was all downhill from there.
Nobody was using Apple *to begin with* when they introduced OSX. They had less than 2% market share at the time, and it would have been a moot point to rewrite the handful of applications that worked on the Mac.
Quark? Photoshop? Final Cut? That's about the extent to which Apple was useful pre-OSX. The idea that people rewrote their applications is ridiculous -- a new spawn of programmers propped up enthralled with the new OS and started developing for it. Go ahead and Google it -- find the big applications that are used for the Mac nowadays -- they are all from NEW developers that never bothered to write a line of code for OS9 or 8.
That said, Microsoft's money maker is the fact that MOST applications maintain compatibility while giving more technological advantages over the previous OS. Windows XP for corporations, introduced desktop policy setting, active directory, centralized user management and control, and more. Don't think of the OS as important -- it's a delivery mechanism for their technologies. And some corporations are very happy with what they have in Windows XP/2003 Server for active directory control, user control and creation, etc.
Vista now gives you 'preferences' which allows you to change EVEN MORE in a centralized manner. People don't realize this because they all use it as a desktop OS, but in a corporate world these changes are valuable and useful. The backward compatibility is also with their OWN stuff, so while it's a nice idea to drop everything, create a VM for the apps etc -- it's unrealistic and would let Microsoft die in a fire. I'm sure many people here would love to see that, but it's not realistic to think that.
Apple's are great PCs for certain tasks, but there's nothing you cannot do in a Mac (or Linux) that Windows can't do. Now whether it does it BETTER is a different situation, and I'll fully admit I'd rather (and DO) have my website hosted on Apache with a RHEL backend and MySQL database because it's STABLE and it's FREE. I'd rather do video editing and audio editing on a Mac because the applications are better suited for that task.
But I can do all of that on Windows too. And that's why it's going to continue to sell, and they won't change a working formula. They are only building up the pieces AROUND Windows that make it a success -- and that includes Office, Sharepoint, System Center, BizTalk, and more all to tie your organization in, to use MS technologies that all leverage one another, and in comparison to some competitors -- are actually cheaper too.
It's not just Windows. People really need to get that.
I'm in the same boat... and I haven't had the time to 'learn' because I already made the mistakes.
First off -- Harvard, MIT, etc.. great schools, but unless you're going on a full ride they simply are NOT worth it (at least as an undergraduate). The simple fact is that you're going to waste a lot of time in your undergrad partying, having fun, and not taking it seriously, regardless of whether it's MIT or Harvard or a state school. I wound up going to a private school and graduated $60k in debt, AFTER a half scholarship.
I'm one of the lucky ones though... while my educational loans are very high, I make a good salary and I'm working on paying it off soon. But I am also married and rent out an apartment off of my parent's house -- it helps a lot in offsetting the debt, and I'm working on offsetting even more. Hopefully in another few years, I'll have it all paid off and be debt free. That time is a long way off though, but slowly but surely I'm working there.
I'm trying to convince people like my sister, who is majoring in philosophy and by the time she graduates, will be 40k in debt -- NOT to keep on her current track lest she want to screw up her entire life. Like I said I'm fortunate, and I realize I am -- but most people are stupid in addition to naive with regards to student loans and eventual salaried positions. My sister is going to philosophize why she's broke, and she still has plans to go to grad school and become a professor eventually.
I just hope people don't make the same mistakes, and predatory lending is banished ESPECIALLY for those in educational debt. I've already screwed myself and I'm working it off -- but there are going to be a LOT more who simply can't pay, and they are going to eat up our country in bankruptcies just like the housing crisis is now. The fact that they are deferred on payments only helps that it hasn't hit us at the same time.
Often I stay away from political arguments on Slashdot given that they get out of control pretty fast, and opinions on either side are heated.
Regarding healthcare, most people actually *agree* on more than they disagree on. That our healthcare system as a whole sucks, it costs too much, and a lot of people get screwed because of it.
I have a little experience in dealing with multiple forms of healthcare systems, through what my mother has gone through as I was growing up. It all started with a doctor giving her too much anesthesia during my birth, and she had a heart attack from that. Being new to the country, she didn't sue as the hospital was taking care of her immediate bills, and checking up with her -- right until the statute of limitations was reached and they dropped her like a bad habit. Her heart problems continue, and it's caused my 67 year old father to continue to work until this day, for nothing more than health coverage, because my mother is not in the age range of Medicare yet.
First off -- medical bills tear families apart. When you have a sick family member, there is nothing you won't do to get them fixed and this was the case for my mother. Over the years my parents came close to bankruptcy multiple times, especially when my father was laid off from his job. If he hadn't filed a suit against his employer for discrimination (which was pretty much a given, since they settled very quickly) he would not have made it through a trying time and I may not be in the position I am today.
People with healthcare always tell others that it's 'earned', it's 'not a right'. But they quickly forget that we ALL pay (as taxpayers) when somebody walks into an emergency room for a sickness, rather than into the doctor's office when they first get sick to get some simple medication and treatment. It usually spirals out of control, and the ER is forced to take in the patients regardless. In a sense, making healthcare available to everybody is something that will lower the cost to the rest of the country, and also allow for us to spend less over the course of a person's life due to increased longevity and overall health.
I had an idea a while ago, and I'll share it again here in as simple terms as I can. There are a few things to take into consideration first -- we need to provide healthcare for patients, ALL Americans. We need to ensure that being a doctor is a field that people still want to pursue and is lucrative to be in. We need to reduce problems with litigious people who are "sue happy" and drive up the cost for doctors, who then pass it on to the patients. And also, we have to ensure patients don't go to the doctor because they are lonely. I have ideas that address all these issues.
First, we have to nationalize healthcare. Yes, socialize, nationalize, whatever evil word you want to call it -- take the *money* out of the paperwork. There should be no profit incentive for just filing paperwork and essentially it boils down to our HMOs and PPOs out there living in that role. Taxes would be taken out from EVERY person's paycheck (much like they are for schooling, roads, etc). This is not a number I can give you, but I imagine it would probably be less than what your employer pays since we are including everybody into the mix here. There would be a tiered plan that you'd have to file for every year, just like your employer makes you do. You have TWO options -- one is a high copay plan that takes out less cash from your paycheck, and the other is a LOW copay plan that takes out MORE money from your paycheck. If you're a sick person, or like to go to the doctor, you essentially pay an increased monthly fee in order to keep your doctor visits and their costs at a minimum. If you don't go to the doctor that often, it pays for you to go with the cheaper plan, and the high copay keeps you from going to the doctor and just sitting and chatting with them because you're lonely. You pay for that privilege, but not enough to break your back or make you bankrupt.
Next, we have to address
What's the big deal?
I've seen people recreate entire scenes from "Lost" in MS Paint, but it doesn't mean it's the easier or faster way to do it.
Just means it can be done. I'm not devaluing the work done here, or the benefit of open source software but seriously... I don't see the big deal in this article.
Why are you running an entire server, when our datacenter (and I personally admin over 300 servers at this location) runs at an average of 30% efficiency?
We are migrating (on mine and one other SA's recommendation) to a totally virtualized environment for development and testing. Production is still a no-no, but if we can show the gains with virtualizing the first two, it's easy to make a case for the last.
We can run a single blade at close to 80 or 90% efficiency, because we're using cores individually, memory, etc... and VMWare is getting pretty smart about it. I am still investigating Hyper-V, and while much of the /. crowd here would tell me not to because it's an MS product -- most of our servers are Windows based, and Hyper-V is dirt cheap compared to VMWare.
That said... virtualization is the answer, not power down servers. You get multiple benefits, and save in overall costs with power, hardware, cooling, and utilization.
Although as a caveat, I did format and build my machine from scratch, and if I didn't have to do Windows Updates from time to time... I'd have even longer system uptime -- take a look (That's in Hours:Minutes:seconds)
I haven't had any problems with Vista other than it being rather mediocre in terms of an 'upgrade' from what it offers compared to XP.
I mainly do development (.NET, sorry folks), play games and surf the web. It works fine for my needs. The FPSes aren't far off what I got in XP, and given that the driver model isn't changing at all in Windows 7, I'm sure it will improve more as time goes by.
As I recall, the drivers in XP sucked when they were first released -- we can give folks a little while to get it all sorted in Vista and migrate it right into Windows 7.
It's really not that bad.. and with over 1200 hours of uptime now, I am not complaining. Windows 7 seems to address GUI complaints I have had, and that's good... I'll be patient to see what else comes of it.
Waiting for Windows Mobile 7 myself before I start writing any code, but I think the advancements in .NET make it easy to write, though I'm not really sure how worthwhile on a whole.
I like Apple's applications, but it's a big fuss to get development rights, and it never touches an enterprise.
I guess it is something up to you, and your skillsets.
Just wait for it to land on every standalone type of game that Blizzard makes -- Starcraft 2 and Diablo III.
I fear the worst :(
So you want to pay a $1000 premium for a mag safe adaptor and backlit keyboard?
I'm not saying buy a Gateway. I'm just saying that for the money, and for what you get, it's simply not worth it.
Sorry, but they are.
They are taking the existing Macbook which was offered for $1099 and lowering to $999. That's NO NEW TECH, just the same old Macbook with the horrible onboard graphics for a thousand smackers. Fine.
Then they are offering a higher class Macbook for $1299, which offers a graphics card that is already far surpassed by everything on the market. Looking at the price point, I can get myself a Gateway laptop with a 9800M, 4GB of RAM, big fat hard drive, faster processor, for about the same money. I can dual boot Ubuntu and Windows on it, and it will FLY. In fact, it actually will surpass the Macbook PRO for the same money. So you're talking about a $1000 premium (if not more) for the Macbook Pro to get a computer that is no better than something I can buy for about $800 (if I opt for a slower graphics card to match the 9600 the MBP comes with).
I like OS X. It's pretty. But unless it's video or audio editing, I don't have a specific need for a Mac over a PC/Linux dual boot. I can run my website on my Red Hat server (which I do), and use XP on my day-to-day. Aside from cutesy graphics and slick user interface, I don't think that it's worth a $1000 premium when I'm actually getting a more poor performing laptop for the money.
I'm sure I'll get modded down, but it is the truth. There's nothing a Mac can do that a PC or Ubuntu system can't do as well. Some Mac does better, but it's a function more of the software, than the platform.
Well, what do you think Windows 7 is?
It's Vista R2.
Hopefully they fix the start menu stupidity (shutdown/hibernate/etc), otherwise I really have no issues with it.
I've read lots of MS Documentation over the years -- white papers, APIs, and just general guidelines for things.
It's damned good documentation. It may not go to the border of 'special olympics' readers for Apple users, but for the majority of developers that are working on 'interoperability' the documentation is quite good. Not amazing, but the irony is still lost on me that a lawyer decided somebody else's documentation was bad.
Have you ever read the way bills are introduced into law? Jeez.
Comon Jobs, you know that your ego isn't small enough not to produce the chips inside those Macs of yours!
So buy it and put them into your Macs, and then increase prices more so Apple dies a horrible death and I don't have to keep talking to Mac fanboys :(
Sorry I'm a tad unstable, it's almost Friday... but not yet :p
That all the World of Warcraft players, when installing the new patch for the Lich King, will now be subject to slower download rates cuz they need a 1GB patch?
Woo hoo!?!
That's the only thing that I really wanted in Vista that didn't make it. I'm still waiting.
You'd think that with the BluRay+ features, that people would have a hint?
You'd think that with the rootkit fiasco, people would get a clue?
You'd think with the ATRAC format, and the way Sony MP3 players behaved in 'converting' ALL YOUR MUSIC, that it would be an iota of a hint...
Nope. We are all just idiots and want "bluray". It's exactly why I supported HD-DVD at the time. You reap what you sow.
Either way, I've been boycotting Sony on all fronts until their ways change.
And as some comments have stated, the article doesn't do justice to actually watching the show.
They are my favorite band and it was an amazing thing to watch them perform... I'll go again if I get a chance to :)
It's relative -- I always look at a game as having some goal, some achievement, something to do and mark the world.
Just wandering around aimlessly doesn't suit my style of saying it's a "game".
Untrue -- I have bought 100% of the games I play, after either seeing the demo or just hedging on whether it'd be good or not.
Just picked up Bioshock the other day for $20 used -- I don't always buy new, but I don't pirate anything for extended periods of time.
It's a toy.
You just muddle around in the world, you play here and there, and don't accomplish much of anything.
While it's a neat 'toy', for a *gamer* like myself it's ridiculous. Besides, while I love Will Wright, and I *want* to support him -- he knew what EA would do, I'm sure he was aware of the DRM scheme, and he let it go in. While it might be ignorance on his part, I will not buy this game in an effort to send that message that even a good game developer will not be tolerated if they infuse their brilliance with the stupidity of draconian DRM.
That said, Pirate Bay is very appealing in this instance and has been for me to determine it's not worth buying anyway, DRM or not.
Go vote and tell your friends and family to do the same.
And don't bitch if you don't bother to go and do it.