I regularly clean out my cookies with "delete all", but I'd prefer to keep the ones for sites that require a login. But it's too hard to delete cookies individually.
You can achieve that in Firefox without any extra extensions:
Under Privacy:
1. Use Custom settings for history
- Accept cookies from sites
- Keep until: I close Firefox
2. Under Exceptions:
- Add sites you want to allow permanent cookies sites using "Allow" button
Done. Sites you allow can store cookies until they expire while other cookies are cleared every time you close the browser.
That only applies to "ilmaisjakelu" (eg. distribution of "free" ads and rarely some local ad supported newspapers). Itella will deliver the ads they are distributing.
It's true though that most ads come through the companies doing "ilmaisjakelu".
Neverwinter Nights 2 (published by Atari), while it has client side copy protection which can be easily bypassed if need be, allows transfer of game to others.
Personally I find Stardock's method more annoying than, for example, Neverwinter Nights 2 method as client side copy protection can always be bypassed unlike Stardock's style of not giving out updates from official sources without CD-key which cannot be transferred.
Obviously if client side protection is overdone (like EA tends to) it is different matter, on that point I agree with you, and would prefer games without copy protections as in the end they do not work.
If going straight by the license used by Sins of Solar Empire I am not allowed to transfer the game to other even if I wanted to.
For Stardock to score 10 from me all they would have to do is to allow users to tell to their system that "Hey, I no longer have this game, remove the CD-key and my access to the updates" and the new guy who bought it "I have now this CD-key".
Regarding Stardock's games: I liked GalCiv1 and would have liked to buy GalCiv2 and expansions but decided not to (and no, I haven't played them). Sins of Solar Empire on other hand I played when a friend of mine bought it and showed the game to me. To me the game seemed to be quite simple RTS game with some nice ideas, won't end up in my buying list especially since I don't really like RTS games and even less in multiplayer which Sins seems to be designed.
The problem I have with Stardock's method is that I can't (according to them) resell the game should I no longer want to play it. If they want to lease games then they should say that it is a lease and price them accordingly.
No need. Stardock has never had DRM or used CD checking.
Stardock does use product activation/binding CD-key to specific user to get updates and licenses which do not allow resale of the already bought game. Stardock is not the perfect angel here if you ask me.
Let's clarify that Swedish is the second official language in Finland. First one is of course Finnish.:)
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Maybe we don't live in same universe or something but actually Finland has never been a communist country.
Yes, there is a communist party in Finland but it never has been very popular (it didn't even make to the Parliament in the last elections). Also, Finland had to "bow down to" Moscow from time to time during cold war to ensure that we wouldn't become communist country. Maybe you just misunderstood that part of history?
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I regularly clean out my cookies with "delete all", but I'd prefer to keep the ones for sites that require a login. But it's too hard to delete cookies individually.
You can achieve that in Firefox without any extra extensions: Under Privacy: 1. Use Custom settings for history - Accept cookies from sites - Keep until: I close Firefox 2. Under Exceptions: - Add sites you want to allow permanent cookies sites using "Allow" button Done. Sites you allow can store cookies until they expire while other cookies are cleared every time you close the browser.
"Published: September 09, 1999" This is pretty much oldest news I have seen here.
That only applies to "ilmaisjakelu" (eg. distribution of "free" ads and rarely some local ad supported newspapers). Itella will deliver the ads they are distributing. It's true though that most ads come through the companies doing "ilmaisjakelu".
.. on Ars Technica. No ads. I guess their ads are broken if the browser is blocking JavaScript from 3rd party domains.
20 pages for 20 smallish pictures? Really? The site must be desperate for ad revenue.
Neverwinter Nights 2 (published by Atari), while it has client side copy protection which can be easily bypassed if need be, allows transfer of game to others. Personally I find Stardock's method more annoying than, for example, Neverwinter Nights 2 method as client side copy protection can always be bypassed unlike Stardock's style of not giving out updates from official sources without CD-key which cannot be transferred. Obviously if client side protection is overdone (like EA tends to) it is different matter, on that point I agree with you, and would prefer games without copy protections as in the end they do not work.
If going straight by the license used by Sins of Solar Empire I am not allowed to transfer the game to other even if I wanted to. For Stardock to score 10 from me all they would have to do is to allow users to tell to their system that "Hey, I no longer have this game, remove the CD-key and my access to the updates" and the new guy who bought it "I have now this CD-key". Regarding Stardock's games: I liked GalCiv1 and would have liked to buy GalCiv2 and expansions but decided not to (and no, I haven't played them). Sins of Solar Empire on other hand I played when a friend of mine bought it and showed the game to me. To me the game seemed to be quite simple RTS game with some nice ideas, won't end up in my buying list especially since I don't really like RTS games and even less in multiplayer which Sins seems to be designed.
The problem I have with Stardock's method is that I can't (according to them) resell the game should I no longer want to play it. If they want to lease games then they should say that it is a lease and price them accordingly.
No need. Stardock has never had DRM or used CD checking.
Stardock does use product activation/binding CD-key to specific user to get updates and licenses which do not allow resale of the already bought game. Stardock is not the perfect angel here if you ask me.
Just to clarify: the video released is just a teaser.
Let's clarify that Swedish is the second official language in Finland. First one is of course Finnish. :)
Maybe we don't live in same universe or something but actually Finland has never been a communist country.
Yes, there is a communist party in Finland but it never has been very popular (it didn't even make to the Parliament in the last elections). Also, Finland had to "bow down to" Moscow from time to time during cold war to ensure that we wouldn't become communist country. Maybe you just misunderstood that part of history?