So you have to send 6 SMS to pay 1 cent? In Euros you'd have to send even more... Guess with those prices I could use it for a whole year on one Euro or less...
I've done that way of changing the plane even though I've grown up with the angle pieces, there's just never enough of those damn things (especially for a sturdy connection) and sometimes different shapes require different mechanisms. Besides, I seem to recall official sets using that approach too.
Advertising is necessary, noone denies that. What we hate is when advertising inconveniences us (gets in the way) or even damages anyone attempting to be productive. Linkfarms make search engines useless because they're often designed to even direct unrelated searches to their ads (so you end up with ads for stuff you weren't even looking for), domain squatting prevents people who actually want to build a real website from using a domain name that's not needed by anyone else anyway (squatting isn't a need in my book and speculators are simple parasites IMO so don't bother with the free-market-supply-and-demand replies) and spam causes huge costs for mail services while making the medium less useful. In short, these are caused by dysfunctional individuals that try to get a small profit while causing huge damage to everyone and I wouldn't mind if they were all lined up and brutally executed, they are of no value to anyone except themselves.
I think removable is more about the ease of removing than being optional. You could not start some early computers without a floppy inserted but that doesn't make the floppy less removable.
Well, when you're being investigated because you were accused of a crime (I think it takes more than a mere accusation to get a warrant though) it's pretty normal that the police searches your property, no?
Oh yes, the infamous human condition. Can't say I've seen that in most books, at least not to a degree that differs much from how videogames depict it (ugh, don't get me started on jRPGs).
Not the, a. Especially with children who tend to mimic the characters in fictional stories the TV provides a lot of reference for characters to play. Of course they can make up their own but it helps to know what the character the other guy picked actually does.
DRM is when Alice is the RIAA, Bob the playback device and Eva the playback device's owner. The problem is preventing Eva from forcing Bob to divulge his keys or whatever data there is.
Yeah but what if the device used for the illegal playback does not use a restricted OS/hardware? Should it be made illegal to sell any system capable of executing code the RIAA has not approved of? This would make software development completely impossible.
However the US nuclear arsenal also employs a safety known as armed guards. If the nukes were unguarded, only protected by electronic measures they would have been abused long ago since it only takes one intrusion to set them off (if necessary one could remove the electronics and build their own missile around the warhead or just drop the warhead into a convenient location and trigger it). Hacking takes time with access and armed guards make it very hard to gain access for a sufficiently long time without being discovered. For DRM protecting data for home-use there's no sane way to detect hacking, sending policemen into every home just to protect entertainment data is a completely disproportionate response and costs more than the problem it would have to fix.
Basically any lock buys time, the stronger the lock the more time it buys. You just need to buy enough time that you can check if someone's trying to break the lock (or that the material it protects has expired).
Now of course DRM would be effective if the system employing it was capable of self-defense (in any situation, i.e. no unplugging) but embedding the decoders into killbots would be seriously insane.
To be fair it was a video review (i.e. contained both video and audio, he didn't just sit in front of a blank screen) of a game rated M for severe violence and swearing, even without him swearing it would not have been appropriate for children. I think it actually showed a warning that the game is rated M before the review started so people offended by swearing had plenty of time to stop watching it.
The review was shallow and didn't really say much about the problems of the game and failed to demonstrate any complaints he had (if you're doing a video review you should at least show what you're complaining about, not run a trailer while you babble positives/negatives). Supposedly it was rushed and only contained footage of the first level of the game and was only one entry in a long series of half-assed reviews by Gerstmann. In other words, he just sucked at his job so he lost it.
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Don't sell those users an unlimited data plan then!
You may be but most people simply don't care if their phone uses GSM, 3G or whatever. Almost noone uses features that GSM didn't already support.
So you have to send 6 SMS to pay 1 cent? In Euros you'd have to send even more... Guess with those prices I could use it for a whole year on one Euro or less...
I've done that way of changing the plane even though I've grown up with the angle pieces, there's just never enough of those damn things (especially for a sturdy connection) and sometimes different shapes require different mechanisms. Besides, I seem to recall official sets using that approach too.
Advertising is necessary, noone denies that. What we hate is when advertising inconveniences us (gets in the way) or even damages anyone attempting to be productive. Linkfarms make search engines useless because they're often designed to even direct unrelated searches to their ads (so you end up with ads for stuff you weren't even looking for), domain squatting prevents people who actually want to build a real website from using a domain name that's not needed by anyone else anyway (squatting isn't a need in my book and speculators are simple parasites IMO so don't bother with the free-market-supply-and-demand replies) and spam causes huge costs for mail services while making the medium less useful. In short, these are caused by dysfunctional individuals that try to get a small profit while causing huge damage to everyone and I wouldn't mind if they were all lined up and brutally executed, they are of no value to anyone except themselves.
Interesting. I'm not sure it works right on Opera either, last time I tried I couldn't adjust the thresholds.
I think removable is more about the ease of removing than being optional. You could not start some early computers without a floppy inserted but that doesn't make the floppy less removable.
For Americans, just think of Texas with lederhosen instead of cowboy garb.
Well, when you're being investigated because you were accused of a crime (I think it takes more than a mere accusation to get a warrant though) it's pretty normal that the police searches your property, no?
Well it fits right in wih the other GTAs then.
So you're saying the game turns into crap just because the camera is moved forward a few metres?
PCs supported DXT since some time around 2000, that's the 6:1 compression deal.
Oh yes, the infamous human condition. Can't say I've seen that in most books, at least not to a degree that differs much from how videogames depict it (ugh, don't get me started on jRPGs).
Not the, a. Especially with children who tend to mimic the characters in fictional stories the TV provides a lot of reference for characters to play. Of course they can make up their own but it helps to know what the character the other guy picked actually does.
Screw the books, get them some legos.
I've seen hot chicks talk about their WoW chars so there's some non-geek people on there too.
However "it's broken until you hire someone to fix it" is not standards compatibility either.
So if I were to implement a browser, how the fuck would I support this tag?
Now what I want to know is if there's a "set all styles to random values" setting for this tag just to fuck with IE users.
Technically file permissions are also DRM, just not the kind that attempts to turn the computer's admin into a user and appoint a remote admin.
DRM is when Alice is the RIAA, Bob the playback device and Eva the playback device's owner. The problem is preventing Eva from forcing Bob to divulge his keys or whatever data there is.
Yeah but what if the device used for the illegal playback does not use a restricted OS/hardware? Should it be made illegal to sell any system capable of executing code the RIAA has not approved of? This would make software development completely impossible.
However the US nuclear arsenal also employs a safety known as armed guards. If the nukes were unguarded, only protected by electronic measures they would have been abused long ago since it only takes one intrusion to set them off (if necessary one could remove the electronics and build their own missile around the warhead or just drop the warhead into a convenient location and trigger it). Hacking takes time with access and armed guards make it very hard to gain access for a sufficiently long time without being discovered. For DRM protecting data for home-use there's no sane way to detect hacking, sending policemen into every home just to protect entertainment data is a completely disproportionate response and costs more than the problem it would have to fix.
Basically any lock buys time, the stronger the lock the more time it buys. You just need to buy enough time that you can check if someone's trying to break the lock (or that the material it protects has expired).
Now of course DRM would be effective if the system employing it was capable of self-defense (in any situation, i.e. no unplugging) but embedding the decoders into killbots would be seriously insane.
To be fair it was a video review (i.e. contained both video and audio, he didn't just sit in front of a blank screen) of a game rated M for severe violence and swearing, even without him swearing it would not have been appropriate for children. I think it actually showed a warning that the game is rated M before the review started so people offended by swearing had plenty of time to stop watching it.
The review was shallow and didn't really say much about the problems of the game and failed to demonstrate any complaints he had (if you're doing a video review you should at least show what you're complaining about, not run a trailer while you babble positives/negatives). Supposedly it was rushed and only contained footage of the first level of the game and was only one entry in a long series of half-assed reviews by Gerstmann. In other words, he just sucked at his job so he lost it.