I want a link i can cut+paste into wget, i DO NOT want anything to start downloading in my browser unless i explicitly tell it to. Given the nature of sourceforge, many users of the site will be downloading something not to their local box where their browser is running but to a server of some kind. And i would much rather download a file direct to a gigabit colocated box than first download it to my workstation over DSL and then upload it back to the colo box using the pitiful upstream connection we have here.
Sourceforge download pages detect wget and use HTTP redirect to the correct download link. So, I don't get what your problem is?
While Oracle software might be the cause of some of the problems, in reality there was no proper testing. I feel the fact that they only did two weeks of testing at the end of the project, when aren't doing any development after is more of an issue.
In the UK, the VAT is mostly 20% on everything purchased, there are a few exceptions like books and food, where they are simply taxed less or not taxed at all. Additionally, they don't confuse the issues by adding taxes after you have elected to buy something, the price you see on the box is the price you pay.
So how come larry gets to decide that all the people actually doing the work only gets a 1/1000th (or whatever) of what he gets?
It's a top-bottom organization, like most organizations in the world. The people at the top dictate what happens below. The people at the bottom are free to leave the firm if they wish. If they were really invested behind not wanting to support him from the bottom, they would go on strike, leave etc.
You think he is forced to take that money?
You think people at the bottom are forced to work there?
Note: I have no intent to irritate you, however, I strongly disagree with some of your points.
Content : BF4 has relatively little content. It's a multiplayer game. I own a hundred games with more content.
My own impression of the game actually left me hard to compare it to anything else that isn't an MMO, so I don't agree.
Graphics: Big fat shrug
In other words, you don't have other games that meets this bar of quality right now.
Gameplay: I want BF4 and it's only for the gameplay. But then again.. there are so many other FPS options out there. It's good, but it's not unique.
The gameplay provides something that keeps a massive community interested. This is despite the cost of the game, free2play can only really compete on price in comparison.
Community: It's nice to play online games against adults. I'm lazy, I'm old, I can't be arsed with the kiddies. So the BF4 community isn't necessarily going to appeal. Anyway, there's a TF2 community, fuck knows how many MMO communities, a mature and established Planetside 2 community..
Your alternatives are free2play communities in games that have a significantly lower bar technologically (graphics, audio, quality) and are simply 'free'.
Egosoft are going to get my money. EA are not. I'm not the one missing out here.
Egosoft use DRM too, their DRM was very successful at preventing piracy from working. x3: terran conflict required pirates to physically disconnect their optical drive and they still had to deal with the DRM - They didn't get a better deal out of it. Of course, as always, Egosoft removes their DRM after year, and shortly after, the game got pirated to hell (as seen by the numbers of seeds and peers on the new torrents). Additionally, it didn't even have much of a blip in increased gaming during that period either on Steam, which suggests that many people who pirated the game, probably didn't buy it on Steam after (or at least, not a notable amount).
You can't. The DRM has worked; we haven't got the full game. In fact, it's worked so fucking well that we haven't got any of the game, because why waste money on that poisoned malware when there are exceedingly good games being sold by companies that actually want our money.
Cool story, bro.
Good luck playing your new 'exceedingly good games' that feature full content modern content, graphics, game play and massive communities like Battlefield 4 out there without such DRM.
But it isn't stealing, and if they don't understand copyright infringement, just explain it to them.
I have no interest to be the definition police. I would argue that 'copyright infringement' is considered a form of 'stealing' to the common person, considering how common people use this definition. I am not saying that it is 'stealing' in the legal sense.
By calling it "stealing" or "theft," you only make them even more ignorant.
They were ignorant to begin with. Saying, "he just Bopydoored that Harry Potter book!" does not make them understand the definition of 'bopydoored'. 'Stealing', however is something that is taught from a young age and provides some context as to what you're trying to communicate.
And sure, there is a difference, but the difference where it matters is legally. Since there are are so many shades of grey in law and enforcement and rules, I don't think it really matters so much. I'm not promoting people not learn this stuff, but what I'm saying is, I don't think it's really that necessary to cry about general people who get what it is and are using the wrong word to describe it when everyone gets the gist of what they are saying.
The screen/lid does not flex when I open it (the Samsung did exactly that - freaky as hell at times)
I don't think I've ever seen a laptop do that. Even Sony VAIO's, with the super thin cases that felt like they would break if you applied pressure never did that.
I can run the aforementioned renderer, LibreOffice, and Chrome all at once in OSX without an appreciable slowdown. Windows 7? Not so much. Even Linux would struggle at times on the Samsung box if I dared to do that.
Pretty sure it would be fine using Windows 7 or Linux on the Mac (I get better performance on Windows and Linux on my MacBookPro 15" because OS X's I/O scheduler is pretty terrible in comparison, fairly noticeable when you use a HDD instead of a SSD. Just get some large read/write operation going and it just blocks other read/write operations notably).
Drivers? Who has to care about that anymore?
If you run Windows on a Mac, you have to, because Apple never bothered adding stuff like audio support to their Bluetooth drivers for Windows. OS X Mavericks drivers don't play well with DisplayLink which worked fine on previous versions. VirtualBox drivers stop working, which worked on previous versions. A whole bunch of CUPS printers stopped working with OS X Maverick's CUPS...
When you can show me an OEM that has that kind of quality and service at the same (let alone cheaper!) prices, come talk.
Lenovo so far has been better and cheaper for me (and they don't insult me with a 'pro' line of laptops with only two USB slots and no kensington locks).
Of course, this isn't about trying to pirate a game released 14 years ago. I imagine people pirating a 14 year old game wouldn't get that much attention.
I've seen younger people who thought that copyright infringement is not illegal, because they've never been told that it is illegal, all they've ever heard is copyright owners pretending that copyright infringement is JUST LIKE something illegal.
I've not encountered that.
Should we really continue pretending that copyright infringement is just like something illegal, instead of being actually illegal?
I think the confusion stems from the difference between civil law and criminal law.
They said, here's money, now tell us where we went wrong before and how we can improve with BF4. I studied BF4 about a year ago, and told them my thoughts. I even went the extra mile and told them to ditch the goddamn DRM or at least tame it. I told them that DLCs bundled with the game is a bad idea, and they said it's something they can't help because gamestop/bestbuy/etc got them by the balls and require it. Their commercials at the time were lackluster, so I don't know what the released version looks like but again, I was being a Gordon Ramsay on their ass and did they listen? No. Well, sorta. They listened on some portions of the game itself but not so much for marketing or removing / taming DRM. I wasn't the only one that offered a harsh review of it, but they need to know their place. The ones at the top are not gamers, they are just businessmen. They spend most of their days in meetings, not in a dev lab. How do you expect a game to appeal to gamers if the ones overseeing the game don't pay much attention to the games itself?
Actually, yes. People were sued for simply not buying a product.
I would sue them too for damaging the economy. The older generation always has excuses. It's always "things were better in my day", "I am too old work, you work and give me money", "You can't sue him, he's dead" etc.
Not doing so also causes confusion with people who don't understand copyright.
In my opinion, if they don't understand copyright, "copyright infringement" isn't going to mean much. Having hung around art communities, I have seen plenty of artists (that aren't exactly familiar with legal terminology) claim others have stolen their work (copied without permission), rather than call it "copyright infringement". So it seems "stealing" is something that is just better understood in this context outside of legal language.
They seem pretty comparable, until you take into account that Linux default shells will also auto complete the commands and various parameters for you.
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Sourceforge download pages detect wget and use HTTP redirect to the correct download link. So, I don't get what your problem is?
While Oracle software might be the cause of some of the problems, in reality there was no proper testing. I feel the fact that they only did two weeks of testing at the end of the project, when aren't doing any development after is more of an issue.
In the UK, the VAT is mostly 20% on everything purchased, there are a few exceptions like books and food, where they are simply taxed less or not taxed at all. Additionally, they don't confuse the issues by adding taxes after you have elected to buy something, the price you see on the box is the price you pay.
He is complying to the law, like people paying the USA income tax. If the law is unfair, then get the law changed.
It's a top-bottom organization, like most organizations in the world. The people at the top dictate what happens below. The people at the bottom are free to leave the firm if they wish. If they were really invested behind not wanting to support him from the bottom, they would go on strike, leave etc.
You think people at the bottom are forced to work there?
Note: I have no intent to irritate you, however, I strongly disagree with some of your points.
My own impression of the game actually left me hard to compare it to anything else that isn't an MMO, so I don't agree.
In other words, you don't have other games that meets this bar of quality right now.
The gameplay provides something that keeps a massive community interested. This is despite the cost of the game, free2play can only really compete on price in comparison.
Your alternatives are free2play communities in games that have a significantly lower bar technologically (graphics, audio, quality) and are simply 'free'.
Egosoft use DRM too, their DRM was very successful at preventing piracy from working. x3: terran conflict required pirates to physically disconnect their optical drive and they still had to deal with the DRM - They didn't get a better deal out of it. Of course, as always, Egosoft removes their DRM after year, and shortly after, the game got pirated to hell (as seen by the numbers of seeds and peers on the new torrents). Additionally, it didn't even have much of a blip in increased gaming during that period either on Steam, which suggests that many people who pirated the game, probably didn't buy it on Steam after (or at least, not a notable amount).
Then kill them instead of discussing it.
There is always an exception to the rule.
Cool story, bro.
Good luck playing your new 'exceedingly good games' that feature full content modern content, graphics, game play and massive communities like Battlefield 4 out there without such DRM.
I have no interest to be the definition police. I would argue that 'copyright infringement' is considered a form of 'stealing' to the common person, considering how common people use this definition. I am not saying that it is 'stealing' in the legal sense.
They were ignorant to begin with. Saying, "he just Bopydoored that Harry Potter book!" does not make them understand the definition of 'bopydoored'. 'Stealing', however is something that is taught from a young age and provides some context as to what you're trying to communicate.
And sure, there is a difference, but the difference where it matters is legally. Since there are are so many shades of grey in law and enforcement and rules, I don't think it really matters so much. I'm not promoting people not learn this stuff, but what I'm saying is, I don't think it's really that necessary to cry about general people who get what it is and are using the wrong word to describe it when everyone gets the gist of what they are saying.
What company is this? I would like to know so I don't do business with them.
About as hard as writing WINE.
I don't think I've ever seen a laptop do that. Even Sony VAIO's, with the super thin cases that felt like they would break if you applied pressure never did that.
Pretty sure it would be fine using Windows 7 or Linux on the Mac (I get better performance on Windows and Linux on my MacBookPro 15" because OS X's I/O scheduler is pretty terrible in comparison, fairly noticeable when you use a HDD instead of a SSD. Just get some large read/write operation going and it just blocks other read/write operations notably).
If you run Windows on a Mac, you have to, because Apple never bothered adding stuff like audio support to their Bluetooth drivers for Windows. OS X Mavericks drivers don't play well with DisplayLink which worked fine on previous versions. VirtualBox drivers stop working, which worked on previous versions. A whole bunch of CUPS printers stopped working with OS X Maverick's CUPS...
Lenovo so far has been better and cheaper for me (and they don't insult me with a 'pro' line of laptops with only two USB slots and no kensington locks).
Show me the battlelog profiles of the pirates then.
Considering Battlelog is central to leaderboards, gear unlocks based on progress etc. I have a hard time believing the pirates got the full game.
Can pirates even play with those who have a genuine copy of the game?
Of course, this isn't about trying to pirate a game released 14 years ago. I imagine people pirating a 14 year old game wouldn't get that much attention.
I've not encountered that.
I think the confusion stems from the difference between civil law and criminal law.
Cool story, bro.
EA uses suppliers and those suppliers have 'standard contracts' with various retailers. Like most publishing companies.
I would sue them too for damaging the economy. The older generation always has excuses. It's always "things were better in my day", "I am too old work, you work and give me money", "You can't sue him, he's dead" etc.
So what you're saying is, you should be forced to view the credits roll before you play the game.
In my opinion, if they don't understand copyright, "copyright infringement" isn't going to mean much. Having hung around art communities, I have seen plenty of artists (that aren't exactly familiar with legal terminology) claim others have stolen their work (copied without permission), rather than call it "copyright infringement". So it seems "stealing" is something that is just better understood in this context outside of legal language.
I don't run as root you insensitive clod!
To be honest, it's really easy now to get a version number out of people using Firefox. They just have to remember one number.. 25.
Meanwhile, Chrome: 30.0.1599.101 m
You install Windows or Linux on those iMacs and setup the appropriate update management configurations.
Well, let's compare!
Windows:
Linux:
They seem pretty comparable, until you take into account that Linux default shells will also auto complete the commands and various parameters for you.