That's partly why I say, if you want to play it, buy the game. Just don't use the secured version. Write to them, explain it to to them, and explain that the 'protection' was a complete waste of their money and of supporting people whose systems are screwed by by SecuROM.
To say that 'the Playstation does not include copy protection' is nonsense. The very tight licensing and sytem requirements to releae a Nintento compatible or Xbox game themselves form an effective copy protection. It's the felexibility and general utility of the PC that they're trying to restrict to _match_ the sales models of the consoles, by hamstringing your operating system.
The XBox and Playstation hardware and system is already hamstrung for them, so they need apply very little control to secure their business models.
If you want the game, wait for the crack to appera on www.piratebay.com so you can install it without this particular bit of system abuse, and pay for the game so you have a valid license. And write a friendly letter (anonymously) explaining why you had to wait until the crack before you felt safe installing it. Among other abuses, Securom makes sure that you have to have the CD installed while running the game, and this is simply stupid in the modern computer world.
Evolution produces surprising results. A lot of the difficulties in trans-continental rail shipping and travel in the US is from the failure to encourage a monopoly, and the difficulties of different mechanical standards among the different, sometimes niche markets. So there are powerful evolutionary forces encouraging companies to avoid easy transfer, and powerful forces that encourage consumers and especially governments to encourage such standards to avoid compoletely wasting time, energy, goods, and money on such transfers.
The results are predictable: a bureaucratic hash of local and federal regulations which each managerial 'organism' tries to tune to their own advantage. There are nations with a single train system, or phone system, and they do have some advantages in consistency of technology. There are tradeoffs: the pressure of competition can help avoid huge, wasteful, non-productive schemes that the cancer of a bad vice president can create, and encourages flexibility for the consumer.
What results, either way, can be said to be 'natural'. Evolution isn't smart: it sometimes does things stupidly, because they work well enough to allow an organization or organism to survive and continue.
Did others notice that the Justice Department can't be bothered? They must be too busy pursuing prosecutions against the Guantanamo detainees and publishing the records of the people actually prosecuted for Patriot Act discovered crimes. Oh, there haven't been any? Amazing.
I'm hoping that Mr. Obama will take a large paddle to the backside of that whole department and set them to actually prosecuting criminals, instead of wasting time inventing things like 'unlawful noncombatant' to ignore international treaties like the Geneva Convention.
Oh, it was grounds for a state prosecution of first degree murder by all three of the harassers. Death of a victim as a feasible consequence of a felony activity? That is 'murder one', in every state I've read newspapers from. It's why someone having a heart attack and dying as a result of a mugging leaves the mugger vulnerable to the gas chamber or poison needle in some states.
Are you under the impression that ISP's cannot be bribed, confused, or flat out lied to using stolen credit card information? Boy, I wish I had your ISP to tell me what singles ads are lying about.
Perhaps your existing company would cooperate with you to sign an agreement permitting you to work on such material, free from threats of lawsuit, in return for some perceived benefit such as being able to use the product you support in a very generous licensing or support agreement. Having even one corporate sponsor, and their formal agreement, for a spin-off project like this can really help you gain other customers. You might even consider GPL licensing it to get it out there and help protect your first customers against legal backlash from your current employer, if that's feasible. And they might get some positive publicity as well for doing so.
Think of it as an exercise in negotiation, and I hope your product does well. Please follow up and tell us what it is when you can.
It is. But those HP DL:380 G5 systems were a silly design. For the same price, you can put in 6 3.5" drives in other layouts and get up to 3 times the overall storage with no perceptible speed loss. Those G5's are too much price for too little performance: if I'm going to invest in 8xSAS drives, and spend the electricity and cooling on them, I want to get some significant storage space from it.
You mean like 'eating food'? The trace elements in typical tap water are just that, trace elements, easily obtained from other components of a healthy diet. There's no reason to put such minerals in the water.
No, it's for the cigarette butts, pocket litter, tampons, paper towels, soap wrappers, etc., etc., that people otherwise try to flush down the toilet and clog it.
It works for small and flexible companies. It gets tougher for large companies that become less flexible, and take six months to organize the meetings to plan the committee to do the feasibility study. A few skilled people in a small group can really drive a new product line to exciting places. Even somewhat moribund technologies can take off when new people get involved (as happened with Amanda and the Zmanda company, which addressed some longstanding flaws and has a tidy little market).
People will pay for polish, testing and support: they just won't pay as much as they might have to for a monopoly. F-Secure, for example, stopped opensourcing the SSH products, and as OpenSSH and Putty have gotten better, they've had to provide additional features to stay in business. RedHat does a fascinating split of RHEL for business use, and encourages bleeding edge development and testing on their much more open and less robust Fedora project.
It also helped set the groundwork for Microsoft's own patent FUD, which they've delivered in true McCarthy era style. (Look up '42 linux patent violations microsoft' for various articles about it. By keeping the waters muddied to outside observers, and helping SCO keep the lawsuits alive, they've ensured that people believe there must have been _something_ to it. For someone who doesn't read Groklaw or understand GNU licensing, it helps lend credence to Microsofot's claims of IP violations.
What they bought was invaluable: a proxy to carry on a determined FUD campaign against Linux and open source, lending an air of credibility to the claims without Microsoft being directly involved. It also crippled SCO from changing tactics to actually producing tools again: SCO operating systems are being deliberately phased out for other business level software vendors.
What moral component: saving money and time by stomping these idiots and demonstrating the invulnerability of IBM in intellectual property is a basic strategic goal. IBM has big pockets: they don't want the next idiot's bright idea about who owns what to drain their coffers.
There doesn't have to be a financial gain to shooting a rabid dog. Darl needs to be completely stripped of all legal resources to continue this nonsense, and preferably suffer personally and fiscally as a warning to others not to play these games.
The odds of Judge Kimball doing so are, unfortunately, zero. It took the current pending change of administration to get Kimball to get off his ass, stop listening to the FUD, and close this part of it. Or do you think the change in Washington doesn't signal a less 'business friendly' adminstration that does not look kindly on Kimball wasting thousands of taxpayer funded man-hours dealing with this nonsense?
They're already trying. They're trying to switch to mobile phone apps, and unload the devastated and moribund server business. Darl seems to be trying to spin off the legal claims business into a separate patent troll or copyright troll company, to try and continue the FUD against Linux and open source that Microsoft kept them alive for.
Or did you think that $50 million from Microsoft that enabled them to continue the lawsuits was an investment in actual business?
You hae to compost the raging eco-warrior first. But mammoths are long lived: they'll wait.
Note that I'm very glad of many eco-warrior behavior: stalking the illegal whaling ships and warning off the whales and reporting them is fine, as is many of their actions against foolishly designed power plants or waste dumping in third world countries. But the ones trying to break into biological research labs and free the animals are insane: some research cannot be done effectively without animal tests, both for human safety and safety for other animals.
It only takes one raving eco-warrier to kill your goldmine. And the vet bills are going to be incredible: every minor illness is going to be a research project to deal with, and it's unlikely to have immunity to many modern elephant diseases. So making a ton of money may not be the profit, but making even a modest profit may well be.
Try this one: "if we paid for additional training, or gave on-the-job support for it, what skills would you pursue"? And since you want experience, but you won't want to hire people who've reached their level of incompetence, ask them how much higher up the skills list they think they can go, and what they're doing to pursue that.
And do ask "what documentation you've written is still in use, and where"? Then go read it, if you can.
It depends on the price point you're at. Power consumption versus performance remains good with AMD at the lower end, and when you have racks full of them, power consumption and price adds up, especially when you're expanding into a limited space with no budget for more cooling and switching to quad-core and using virtualization to economize.
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That's partly why I say, if you want to play it, buy the game. Just don't use the secured version. Write to them, explain it to to them, and explain that the 'protection' was a complete waste of their money and of supporting people whose systems are screwed by by SecuROM.
To say that 'the Playstation does not include copy protection' is nonsense. The very tight licensing and sytem requirements to releae a Nintento compatible or Xbox game themselves form an effective copy protection. It's the felexibility and general utility of the PC that they're trying to restrict to _match_ the sales models of the consoles, by hamstringing your operating system. The XBox and Playstation hardware and system is already hamstrung for them, so they need apply very little control to secure their business models.
Stay calm, please. They own both domains. What crack did you use?
If you want the game, wait for the crack to appera on www.piratebay.com so you can install it without this particular bit of system abuse, and pay for the game so you have a valid license. And write a friendly letter (anonymously) explaining why you had to wait until the crack before you felt safe installing it. Among other abuses, Securom makes sure that you have to have the CD installed while running the game, and this is simply stupid in the modern computer world.
Evolution produces surprising results. A lot of the difficulties in trans-continental rail shipping and travel in the US is from the failure to encourage a monopoly, and the difficulties of different mechanical standards among the different, sometimes niche markets. So there are powerful evolutionary forces encouraging companies to avoid easy transfer, and powerful forces that encourage consumers and especially governments to encourage such standards to avoid compoletely wasting time, energy, goods, and money on such transfers. The results are predictable: a bureaucratic hash of local and federal regulations which each managerial 'organism' tries to tune to their own advantage. There are nations with a single train system, or phone system, and they do have some advantages in consistency of technology. There are tradeoffs: the pressure of competition can help avoid huge, wasteful, non-productive schemes that the cancer of a bad vice president can create, and encourages flexibility for the consumer. What results, either way, can be said to be 'natural'. Evolution isn't smart: it sometimes does things stupidly, because they work well enough to allow an organization or organism to survive and continue.
Did others notice that the Justice Department can't be bothered? They must be too busy pursuing prosecutions against the Guantanamo detainees and publishing the records of the people actually prosecuted for Patriot Act discovered crimes. Oh, there haven't been any? Amazing. I'm hoping that Mr. Obama will take a large paddle to the backside of that whole department and set them to actually prosecuting criminals, instead of wasting time inventing things like 'unlawful noncombatant' to ignore international treaties like the Geneva Convention.
Oh, it was grounds for a state prosecution of first degree murder by all three of the harassers. Death of a victim as a feasible consequence of a felony activity? That is 'murder one', in every state I've read newspapers from. It's why someone having a heart attack and dying as a result of a mugging leaves the mugger vulnerable to the gas chamber or poison needle in some states.
Are you under the impression that ISP's cannot be bribed, confused, or flat out lied to using stolen credit card information? Boy, I wish I had your ISP to tell me what singles ads are lying about.
Perhaps your existing company would cooperate with you to sign an agreement permitting you to work on such material, free from threats of lawsuit, in return for some perceived benefit such as being able to use the product you support in a very generous licensing or support agreement. Having even one corporate sponsor, and their formal agreement, for a spin-off project like this can really help you gain other customers. You might even consider GPL licensing it to get it out there and help protect your first customers against legal backlash from your current employer, if that's feasible. And they might get some positive publicity as well for doing so.
Think of it as an exercise in negotiation, and I hope your product does well. Please follow up and tell us what it is when you can.
It is. But those HP DL:380 G5 systems were a silly design. For the same price, you can put in 6 3.5" drives in other layouts and get up to 3 times the overall storage with no perceptible speed loss. Those G5's are too much price for too little performance: if I'm going to invest in 8xSAS drives, and spend the electricity and cooling on them, I want to get some significant storage space from it.
You mean like 'eating food'? The trace elements in typical tap water are just that, trace elements, easily obtained from other components of a healthy diet. There's no reason to put such minerals in the water.
That's what grad students are for.
No, it's for the cigarette butts, pocket litter, tampons, paper towels, soap wrappers, etc., etc., that people otherwise try to flush down the toilet and clog it.
It works for small and flexible companies. It gets tougher for large companies that become less flexible, and take six months to organize the meetings to plan the committee to do the feasibility study. A few skilled people in a small group can really drive a new product line to exciting places. Even somewhat moribund technologies can take off when new people get involved (as happened with Amanda and the Zmanda company, which addressed some longstanding flaws and has a tidy little market).
People will pay for polish, testing and support: they just won't pay as much as they might have to for a monopoly. F-Secure, for example, stopped opensourcing the SSH products, and as OpenSSH and Putty have gotten better, they've had to provide additional features to stay in business. RedHat does a fascinating split of RHEL for business use, and encourages bleeding edge development and testing on their much more open and less robust Fedora project.
It also helped set the groundwork for Microsoft's own patent FUD, which they've delivered in true McCarthy era style. (Look up '42 linux patent violations microsoft' for various articles about it. By keeping the waters muddied to outside observers, and helping SCO keep the lawsuits alive, they've ensured that people believe there must have been _something_ to it. For someone who doesn't read Groklaw or understand GNU licensing, it helps lend credence to Microsofot's claims of IP violations.
What they bought was invaluable: a proxy to carry on a determined FUD campaign against Linux and open source, lending an air of credibility to the claims without Microsoft being directly involved. It also crippled SCO from changing tactics to actually producing tools again: SCO operating systems are being deliberately phased out for other business level software vendors.
What moral component: saving money and time by stomping these idiots and demonstrating the invulnerability of IBM in intellectual property is a basic strategic goal. IBM has big pockets: they don't want the next idiot's bright idea about who owns what to drain their coffers.
There doesn't have to be a financial gain to shooting a rabid dog. Darl needs to be completely stripped of all legal resources to continue this nonsense, and preferably suffer personally and fiscally as a warning to others not to play these games.
The odds of Judge Kimball doing so are, unfortunately, zero. It took the current pending change of administration to get Kimball to get off his ass, stop listening to the FUD, and close this part of it. Or do you think the change in Washington doesn't signal a less 'business friendly' adminstration that does not look kindly on Kimball wasting thousands of taxpayer funded man-hours dealing with this nonsense?
They're already trying. They're trying to switch to mobile phone apps, and unload the devastated and moribund server business. Darl seems to be trying to spin off the legal claims business into a separate patent troll or copyright troll company, to try and continue the FUD against Linux and open source that Microsoft kept them alive for.
Or did you think that $50 million from Microsoft that enabled them to continue the lawsuits was an investment in actual business?
You hae to compost the raging eco-warrior first. But mammoths are long lived: they'll wait.
Note that I'm very glad of many eco-warrior behavior: stalking the illegal whaling ships and warning off the whales and reporting them is fine, as is many of their actions against foolishly designed power plants or waste dumping in third world countries. But the ones trying to break into biological research labs and free the animals are insane: some research cannot be done effectively without animal tests, both for human safety and safety for other animals.
Please read the _whole_ article before commenting
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It only takes one raving eco-warrier to kill your goldmine. And the vet bills are going to be incredible: every minor illness is going to be a research project to deal with, and it's unlikely to have immunity to many modern elephant diseases. So making a ton of money may not be the profit, but making even a modest profit may well be.
Have you ever seen an elephant give _birth_? That's scary enough. The mother steps on the newboard to help it start breathing.
Try this one: "if we paid for additional training, or gave on-the-job support for it, what skills would you pursue"? And since you want experience, but you won't want to hire people who've reached their level of incompetence, ask them how much higher up the skills list they think they can go, and what they're doing to pursue that.
And do ask "what documentation you've written is still in use, and where"? Then go read it, if you can.
It depends on the price point you're at. Power consumption versus performance remains good with AMD at the lower end, and when you have racks full of them, power consumption and price adds up, especially when you're expanding into a limited space with no budget for more cooling and switching to quad-core and using virtualization to economize.