Fair point, I was thinking more along the lines of online distribution
Okay, so let's assume you have the credit card information of the original person (majority of piracy comes from Russian and Chinese groups I believe) who bought the game and some how his copy ended up getting in piracy stuff. Now what?
I guess that means every game on Steam will be free to anyone that wants it. No cracks. No hacks. Do you think all the publishers that have games on Steam would let that happen?
While it is interesting to consider what Google should be able to do, it is also important to recognize what they can do. AdWords is theirs. They control it. They can set the rules, and your only choices are to accept the rules, or to not play.
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"
1. A lot of the high dollar computer buyers are going to Apple.
I haven't seen this behavior in the UK.
People willing so spend money on their PC see the Apple and Mac OS X as better value.
Nor have I observed this. Beyond the iPod, Apple products are mostly rare here. Many computers stores don't even offer a Mac, and when they do, it's usually just a single Mac Mini on display etc.
2. Budget minded shoppers are going to less expensive desktops and laptop where the cost of the Windows license is becoming a greater share of the price of the product. This is moving more customers to inexpensive Linux desktops and ultra-compact notebooks.
While there have been a notable amount of people buying stuff like the Asus Eee PC. It's been generally bought as a extra computer, not as a replacement for their laptop etc.
Put some money on developing a font system with sharp good looking fonts.
I find the terminal fonts like Terminus tend to be quite sharp and wonderful (which is why I set my desktop environment to use them). Liberation fonts that replace Microsoft's fonts are also quite decent, but they don't have a wonderful sharp look that terminal fonts do.
As far as I can tell, the killer app preventing linux from taking over the corporate world is the lack of an outlook replacement.
I am aware of three different practically well known solutions for "outlook replacement" on Linux (Novell, Open-Xchange and IBM provide various solutions), please stop spreading this non-sense.
There's no reason Shuttleworth can't deliver something on par with OS X. All he needs to do is concentrate on less functionaliy, broken usability guidelines, big icons, a phone and marketability, and not worry that much about ideology. I.e., the same things Apple worries about.
This last weekend, I had the biggest scare in the last 3 years of using Ubuntu. After downloading and installing the latest XML update for some thing, I rebooted (because I felt like it), and Gnome, my usual windowmanager, absolutely would not boot up.
I did not see a single user on #Ubuntu report this problem at all. Must of been one of those one in a billion chances.
After a bad experience with the Starforce DRM that was included with my copy of X3, I've avoided DRM protected games until the publisher or the developer removed it.
Since X3 no longer has DRM on it with the last updates, I take it you're playing it again?
Prove that Linux was "alive" and then provide the evidence that shows it is dying. Otherwise we are going to consider this to be a non-sense statement.
The wife routinely jerks the plug to my OpenBSD router out of the wall. She doesn't know how to ssh in and shut it down, so she just unplugs it. She's been doing this for more than a year. It's only had fsck problems twice (nothing serious).
Why don't you get the computer to just trigger a shutdown when you hit the power button?
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*shrug*. I've come to expect all manner of instability and other problems from the Kubuntu KDE packages, but SuSE normally does a good job. Guess all I can say is, not my experience.
Beyond Konqueror's khtml being unstable in Kubuntu (works absolutely fine for anything else), not had any other stability issues in KDE, ever.
Yea, this laptop is so good with WIFI I got first post!
I think you need to upgrade your madwifi kernel module or something.
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Rather than waiting for Chrome, why not try Opera or Konqueror?
Note: I am not the grand parent. I am also a KDE user, but I use Firefox 3 currently - I am not really a advocate for Firefox.
My personal experiences with Opera, is that it wouldn't display the plugins installed on the system, they just came up as gray boxes and I could hear sound from the plugin.
With Konqueror, it is quite unstable, doesn't work with the bank sites I use (javascript issues, opera had a problem with less bank sites too related to javascript), my system would end up becoming less responsive after having many windows and tabs open when compared to FF3.
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Firefox is MPL, not GPL.
Okay, so let's assume you have the credit card information of the original person (majority of piracy comes from Russian and Chinese groups I believe) who bought the game and some how his copy ended up getting in piracy stuff. Now what?
They seem to be allowing it with Steampac.
"We know game 3134 sent to WH Smith chain of stores is being distributed illegally." ...
Not really useful?
The DRM has been cracked already by pirates, like every other game. So not really a problem if EA or any other game company goes belly up.
I don't think that would influence the piracy figures much. I know people pirating the game before it was even out in the stores.
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"
What about Angband?
I haven't seen this behavior in the UK.
Nor have I observed this. Beyond the iPod, Apple products are mostly rare here. Many computers stores don't even offer a Mac, and when they do, it's usually just a single Mac Mini on display etc.
While there have been a notable amount of people buying stuff like the Asus Eee PC. It's been generally bought as a extra computer, not as a replacement for their laptop etc.
There's an Emacs command to do that, just use good ol C-x M-C M-Butterfly...
I find the terminal fonts like Terminus tend to be quite sharp and wonderful (which is why I set my desktop environment to use them). Liberation fonts that replace Microsoft's fonts are also quite decent, but they don't have a wonderful sharp look that terminal fonts do.
It worked for Windows and OS X.
I screwed up security descriptors when defragging a win2k3 NTFS partition under Win2k and had to very manually fix them.
I am aware of three different practically well known solutions for "outlook replacement" on Linux (Novell, Open-Xchange and IBM provide various solutions), please stop spreading this non-sense.
There, fixed it for you.
I did not see a single user on #Ubuntu report this problem at all. Must of been one of those one in a billion chances.
Yes. But the video support should work with regular AIM/ICQ/MSN clients, depending on which protocol you're using.
Since X3 no longer has DRM on it with the last updates, I take it you're playing it again?
Prove that Linux was "alive" and then provide the evidence that shows it is dying. Otherwise we are going to consider this to be a non-sense statement.
Why don't you get the computer to just trigger a shutdown when you hit the power button?
Beyond Konqueror's khtml being unstable in Kubuntu (works absolutely fine for anything else), not had any other stability issues in KDE, ever.
In my experience, doesn't work with sites that require HTTP authentication, FTP nor Gopher.
Kubuntu Hardy, KDE3 on this laptop. I use KDE3 on SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.2 on another computer too.
I think you need to upgrade your madwifi kernel module or something.
Note: I am not the grand parent. I am also a KDE user, but I use Firefox 3 currently - I am not really a advocate for Firefox.
My personal experiences with Opera, is that it wouldn't display the plugins installed on the system, they just came up as gray boxes and I could hear sound from the plugin.
With Konqueror, it is quite unstable, doesn't work with the bank sites I use (javascript issues, opera had a problem with less bank sites too related to javascript), my system would end up becoming less responsive after having many windows and tabs open when compared to FF3.