It should also be noted that there is no connection whatsoever between the the statements/actions of either company and there is no point in the above sentence being in the article summary.
On the same day Sony dropped a feature from the PS3, Nintendo announced a feature on the Revolution (with next to nothing known about it). Now it may have been a co-incidence, but they're both about features for the next consoles. I'd say there's very much a point of it being in the summary.
Actually, one of the links you included was included in the story, so I'd hardly call it a dupe. It acknowledged that it had been covered before, but the editors obviously felt the BBC article was worth mentioning (I also saw no mention of the offer for someone else to take up the e-zine in the previous articles).
I know calling dupe is a favourite past-time on slashdot, but how about we reserve it for when it is actually a dupe?
He was detained while visiting the USA for a conference.
What you forget to mention (and I believe it was an honest mistake;)) is that he was giving a presentation called "eBook's Security -- Theory and Practice" in Las Vegas, and wasn't charged with creating the software, but distributing it while in America.
Hit the route of the problem , over pricing and then you may get somewhere.
It's a little difficult to compete with $0.00
Would lowering prices reduce some pirating? Sure. Would it reduce even most pirating? I doubt it very much, and I doubt you can post any statistics to prove otherwise.
hell the Australian government doesn't even care that it has a citizen in Guantanemo Bay.
I heard about that a year or two ago, and I recently did a search to see if he was still in there but found nothing. Do you know for certain the guy's still in there (last I heard there were actually two)?
If you believe that most people who run warez sites, have the content legally, and those that use the sites have the content legally, then you're either naieve, clueless or an idiot.
Most people who use warez sites and p2p do so illegally. Everyone (with a clue anyway) knows this. Bringing up it being legal in very specific cases is a red herring. Anyone that is being investigated due to this "operation" that didn't break a law, won't be found guilty of any crime. But I can gurantee the amount of people that are in this circumstance is very, very, very small (if any actually exist).
Doesn't make it any less illegal.
Regardless of what you hear on Slashdot, breaking a crime isn't okay. You cannot break the law, and expect to get away with it. Ghandi (who organized events where lots and lots of people would go and break a particular law) understood this concept. He understood that if you break the law, then you have to do the time.
If you want to share programs, movies, songs, books, etc when the law says you can't. Then you should either work on changing the law, or expect to do the time if you break it.
The high virus infestation rate is an incentive for sucke^Wcustomers
One day they'll invent a key that allows you to delete previous characters, so that people will no longer have to type "^H" or "^W." I imagine it will be called a "delete previous character" key, or perhaps a "backspace" key.
I know this is funny, but a laptop isn't actually a viable option for certain features. I went to get a laptop, but the battery life was too small for me (I needed it to last all day at university without a recharge and I couldn't find one that would), so I went for a Palm instead, which does last me all day at university.
It was a parody! I went so overboard so that it would be obvious at a glance that I couldn't be serious. I typed it up in Firefox! I even added a disclaimer at the end of the post. I know PNG isn't new, I slipped it in to hopefully make it obvious I was joking.
Because Firefox renders PNG completely, it is prone to these sort of errors. However there is one browser that won't need a patch issued to be safe from this bug, which is Internet Explorer. While IE can render PNG a little, it hasn't implemented the full technology. By using IE, you ensure that you will be safe from any bugs that arise from new technologies, such as PNG.
So next time someone recommends a browser. Stop and wonder about what technology the latest browser has implemented properly without regard to any security issues, and remember that it will be decades before IE implements the technology (if it ever does) so it will be safe for quite some time, by being a stable browser that rarely changes.
Mods: This is not an attempt at troll, but a parody of the typical "This is why you should switch to Firefox" posts whenever a vulnerability involving IE. It should be painfully obvious, but then again most of you are on crack.
Then the economics of supply and demand (for products and services) comes into play. Again, no need to create artificial barriers for small businesses.
The source code comes uncompiled with the post. For most browsers you can right click on the page and something along the lines of "View Source" will appear in the menu. If this doesn't work, please view your browsers help and/or google for help. I have tested this method of transmitting source code in numerous browsers and it has always worked.
Nice try, but it isn't quite that bad in the book industry. Authors do actually get a percentage of books sold. They get an advance, which is sort of a loan. The company keeps track of how much money is made and the author's percentage of it. If the author's share exceeds the advance, then he'll start getting checks. The advance is partly the publishers guess on how much the author's share will be, so it's unlikely for the author to get more. This is of course for medium-sized authors (not bestsellers or first-time authors).
Are parents really going to line up at midnight to buy a kids book? Why bother? the kid should be in bed at that time anyways.
Welcome to the age where parents can't say no and instant gratification is more important then an education. Yes, there will be plenty of parents lining up with and without their fat kids in tow.
Here's one publisher that understands this (and one publisher that will see more business from me because of this). Not everyone is trying to screw you over. Much as in the music industry, small publishers/small time authors do understand that not screwing over customers is important.
The reason you have release dates is so that ALL dealers have a chance to sell the book. Otherwise the stores with better distribution systems would get it in stock first, while the others would have to wait.
....
Eventually, every small bookstore goes out of business.
Or they could, of course, adapt to the situation and offer services that the big chains don't (such as stocking books from smaller publishers that the big chains won't stock by default).
Despite what you read on slashdot, creating artificial limitations so small businesses don't die out, isn't a good thing. When competing with the big chains, small businesses can either adapt (which is an option! Despite what some small business owners seem to think) or find a customer-base that isn't reliant upon the big chains (such as a small town).
Or we could, of course, continue to support businesses that aren't able to compete properly.
"Hey buddy, I have one and you can buy it before anyone else for only $150" Thats what they're trying to prevent. Gouging. This is perfectly acceptable.
Customers practicing something called self-restraint would also acheive this. But no, it's much better to have customers need publishers to stop themselves from being screwed over.
Adults are able to control their desires to a degree, and not need something as soon as it's available. Creating an artificial release date is just silly, and if it truly is to avoid certain distributors from price-gouging, it says that the publisher doesn't think that it's customers* aren't adult enough to be able to decide how much they want to spend on a product.
* Parents should be buying the books for their children, especially if the books $150. Good parents are able to say no to their kids.
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It should also be noted that there is no connection whatsoever between the the statements/actions of either company and there is no point in the above sentence being in the article summary.
On the same day Sony dropped a feature from the PS3, Nintendo announced a feature on the Revolution (with next to nothing known about it). Now it may have been a co-incidence, but they're both about features for the next consoles. I'd say there's very much a point of it being in the summary.
Perhaps now with the cash saved PS3 could TRULY revolutionize console gaming and include a friggin second controller out of the box.
That's about as revolutionary as upgrading the graphics card.
They are removing the /router/ functionality.
They're not even doing that. They're just admitting they can't deliver router functionality when the PS3 is released.
Actually, one of the links you included was included in the story, so I'd hardly call it a dupe. It acknowledged that it had been covered before, but the editors obviously felt the BBC article was worth mentioning (I also saw no mention of the offer for someone else to take up the e-zine in the previous articles).
I know calling dupe is a favourite past-time on slashdot, but how about we reserve it for when it is actually a dupe?
He was detained while visiting the USA for a conference.
;)) is that he was giving a presentation called "eBook's Security -- Theory and Practice" in Las Vegas, and wasn't charged with creating the software, but distributing it while in America.
What you forget to mention (and I believe it was an honest mistake
Hit the route of the problem , over pricing and then you may get somewhere.
It's a little difficult to compete with $0.00
Would lowering prices reduce some pirating? Sure. Would it reduce even most pirating? I doubt it very much, and I doubt you can post any statistics to prove otherwise.
hell the Australian government doesn't even care that it has a citizen in Guantanemo Bay.
I heard about that a year or two ago, and I recently did a search to see if he was still in there but found nothing. Do you know for certain the guy's still in there (last I heard there were actually two)?
If you believe that most people who run warez sites, have the content legally, and those that use the sites have the content legally, then you're either naieve, clueless or an idiot.
Most people who use warez sites and p2p do so illegally. Everyone (with a clue anyway) knows this. Bringing up it being legal in very specific cases is a red herring. Anyone that is being investigated due to this "operation" that didn't break a law, won't be found guilty of any crime. But I can gurantee the amount of people that are in this circumstance is very, very, very small (if any actually exist).
Doesn't make it any less illegal. Regardless of what you hear on Slashdot, breaking a crime isn't okay. You cannot break the law, and expect to get away with it. Ghandi (who organized events where lots and lots of people would go and break a particular law) understood this concept. He understood that if you break the law, then you have to do the time. If you want to share programs, movies, songs, books, etc when the law says you can't. Then you should either work on changing the law, or expect to do the time if you break it.
There is an article over at Ars Technica with some insider information about the reasons behind Apples x86 switch
Ars Technica is damn lucky it's not an apple fansite. Otherwise it would have been sued by Apple.
The high virus infestation rate is an incentive for sucke^Wcustomers
One day they'll invent a key that allows you to delete previous characters, so that people will no longer have to type "^H" or "^W." I imagine it will be called a "delete previous character" key, or perhaps a "backspace" key.
Who knows! The future is limitless.
I know this is funny, but a laptop isn't actually a viable option for certain features. I went to get a laptop, but the battery life was too small for me (I needed it to last all day at university without a recharge and I couldn't find one that would), so I went for a Palm instead, which does last me all day at university.
It was a parody! I went so overboard so that it would be obvious at a glance that I couldn't be serious. I typed it up in Firefox! I even added a disclaimer at the end of the post. I know PNG isn't new, I slipped it in to hopefully make it obvious I was joking.
Because Firefox renders PNG completely, it is prone to these sort of errors. However there is one browser that won't need a patch issued to be safe from this bug, which is Internet Explorer. While IE can render PNG a little, it hasn't implemented the full technology. By using IE, you ensure that you will be safe from any bugs that arise from new technologies, such as PNG.
So next time someone recommends a browser. Stop and wonder about what technology the latest browser has implemented properly without regard to any security issues, and remember that it will be decades before IE implements the technology (if it ever does) so it will be safe for quite some time, by being a stable browser that rarely changes.
Mods: This is not an attempt at troll, but a parody of the typical "This is why you should switch to Firefox" posts whenever a vulnerability involving IE. It should be painfully obvious, but then again most of you are on crack.
Just for fun
Dear vinn,
Get a life
Yours Truly
God
By weight, they may even be worth more than gold bars.
I know for sure that the e-book version is worth more then gold bars.
Then the economics of supply and demand (for products and services) comes into play. Again, no need to create artificial barriers for small businesses.
The source code comes uncompiled with the post. For most browsers you can right click on the page and something along the lines of "View Source" will appear in the menu. If this doesn't work, please view your browsers help and/or google for help. I have tested this method of transmitting source code in numerous browsers and it has always worked.
Oh, wait, that already happened.
Nice try, but it isn't quite that bad in the book industry. Authors do actually get a percentage of books sold. They get an advance, which is sort of a loan. The company keeps track of how much money is made and the author's percentage of it. If the author's share exceeds the advance, then he'll start getting checks. The advance is partly the publishers guess on how much the author's share will be, so it's unlikely for the author to get more. This is of course for medium-sized authors (not bestsellers or first-time authors).
Are parents really going to line up at midnight to buy a kids book? Why bother? the kid should be in bed at that time anyways.
Welcome to the age where parents can't say no and instant gratification is more important then an education. Yes, there will be plenty of parents lining up with and without their fat kids in tow.
No DRM = more readers
Here's one publisher that understands this (and one publisher that will see more business from me because of this). Not everyone is trying to screw you over. Much as in the music industry, small publishers/small time authors do understand that not screwing over customers is important.
The reason you have release dates is so that ALL dealers have a chance to sell the book. Otherwise the stores with better distribution systems would get it in stock first, while the others would have to wait.
....
Eventually, every small bookstore goes out of business.
Or they could, of course, adapt to the situation and offer services that the big chains don't (such as stocking books from smaller publishers that the big chains won't stock by default).
Despite what you read on slashdot, creating artificial limitations so small businesses don't die out, isn't a good thing. When competing with the big chains, small businesses can either adapt (which is an option! Despite what some small business owners seem to think) or find a customer-base that isn't reliant upon the big chains (such as a small town).
Or we could, of course, continue to support businesses that aren't able to compete properly.
"Hey buddy, I have one and you can buy it before anyone else for only $150" Thats what they're trying to prevent. Gouging. This is perfectly acceptable.
Customers practicing something called self-restraint would also acheive this. But no, it's much better to have customers need publishers to stop themselves from being screwed over.
Adults are able to control their desires to a degree, and not need something as soon as it's available. Creating an artificial release date is just silly, and if it truly is to avoid certain distributors from price-gouging, it says that the publisher doesn't think that it's customers* aren't adult enough to be able to decide how much they want to spend on a product.
* Parents should be buying the books for their children, especially if the books $150. Good parents are able to say no to their kids.
It's Harry Potter, not Satan's bible!
This person would disagree.
I don't get it.
You see you've made a spelling mistake, so you correct it. I do it all the time.