the only time you can sell a game is if you sell the original CD. selling (or distributing) any other derivatives of that original CD is illegal for you because those derivates are legal only for your own use. even if you destroy the original CD, it doesn't matter - the burned in file is for you and only you to use.
when you buy a game, you buy the license to play the game from the CD and also make any appropriate copies/derivatives of that CD/game for your own use. you don't own one copy of the game in any form. you only own the CD copy.
>Personally I'm waiting for the XBox2 to come out and everyone to drop their XBox1's on Ebay so I can get them cheap as hell for a media center machine.
off topic, but i thought xbox2 is not backward compatible with the current xbox? if such is the case, the release of xbox2 will have no effect on xbox users dumping their system,
i think it's more like they built the foundation incorrectly so that the basement couldn't be secured and the house can be broken into from the foundation. (which you had no control over in the design. )
if i put up a door myself and leave it insecure, then it's my problem to secure the door, not microsoft's. and in this case, application didn't create the exploitable hole - the hole was there to begin with in the OS and the application happens to use it in a way that's exploitable it.
now they are saying - oh, it's exploitable. we are going to fix it now, whatever happens to you, it's not our problem. my question is: when will they either 1) owe up to the fact what they provide has holes in it and causes great inconvenience (closed source mode) or 2) tell us how their product work so that we can avoid the holes ourselves? (open source mode.)
don't make people pay (in $$$, effort and time) twice - once for the product and again for them to fix their own mistakes.
>Because those applications depend on poor security. Break them. They shouldn't work.
fair enough, but i still don't buy the philosophy that's echoed in my quote.
say i have my house's foundation done by a contractor, but the contractor won't disclose me what's being done and i have no practical choice of the contractor. i take what they give me as a foundation and kluges together a house over it. later, the contractor tells me that i need to gut the entire house because they made a poor design choice in finishing the foundation and one of the kluges i made to make the house functional happens to exploit one of their bad design elements. will i be willing to listen to the contractor's claim that "the gutting and the improvements will improve your drainage and will be worth it."??
like i said, it might be the truth. maybe i do need to gut the whole house and i really have no choice and/or i myself may be at fault to a degree for kluging. that doesn't mean i have to agree with their philosophy that since they are going to improve things in the end, they are ok to gut my house - instead of promising that the next time, they will design the foundation better to begin with. i find Microsoft's attitude so arrogant and irresponsible - i wish they'd be a bit more humble and compassionate in their position of incredible power and dominance.
>'The company argues that the improvements are important enough that applications should be changed to accommodate them.'
so, does the PC exist to run the OS or the application? i thought the point of PC and the OS was to run the application that's useful. why does running of the application, which actually accomlishes something, must be compromise to enable the OS to run better?
i'm not arguing that OS is an important/integral part of using a PC to accomplish a task. but i feel that their philosophy is backwards. even if it's the truth, they shouldn't say it. PCs do not exist to run the OS. PCs exist to run the applications. no one cares about a PC that can run the OS perfectly if it can't run useful apps.
perhaps an indication that money money spent doesn't mean better education? just a biased opinion from an old timer who did all the math problems using paper and pencils but fancy graphing calculators and laptop computers will cost more money but don't necessarily mean you learn better using them.
one thing is that just like other merchants, iTMS song/album prices end in 0.X9. $0.99 in the U.S./canada, 0.79 pounds in U.K., 0.99 euros...
at this moment, the easiest thing to do is to lower the british price to 0.69 pounds, which is consistent with the exchange rate. it may fluctuate - how much of a fluctuation is considered ok? or should apple open up iTMS for the entire european continent and accept credit cards from everywhere? how often will they have to change the prices with the exchange rate? will apple keep 0.99 euros and change the british price or keep 0.69 pounds and change the euro price?
i think people need to get over this. apple does nothing "cheap." a lot of people complain how apple products are "overpriced" but they still want them. asking for cheaper stuff is natural, but nothing interesting or insightful. of course things will sell better if they are made cheaper. the fact people complain about the price (but mostly don't go for the cheaper alternatives - notice not too many says "i couldn't afford an iPod so i got an iRiver instead." most of the complaints say "i wish iPod was cheaper." that's because they actually want the iPod, not iRiver.) proves that apple is doing the right thing in charging premium for their superior functionality and usability which results in superior user experience.
apple products are full featured and seem overpriced. a screenless flash iPod at $99 is neither. i highly doubt this rumor has much truth in it.
this is one problem with the internet advertising... it's all computerized. numbers are too accurate... you know how many visits and how many sales through a website.
contrast that to tv or print ads. there's no way to track how many store visits or sales as a result. you will get a vague idea, but not as accurately as the web tracking...
it's a novel idea and with novelty comes unexpected problems. i hope google finds an effective fix.
i think canadian iTMS will do quite well, actually... iTMS has been successful because it's relatively cheap, allows a lot of individual tracks to be purchased (instead of an album), easy to use, easy to find the songs you want quickly and you are guaranteed a certain download quality. i think the "fear" of being sued because you use downloading (which hasn't happened anyway... only lawsuits have been for uploaders) is not the only reason iTMS has been successful.
of course not... you need a credit card with a canadian billing address...
if you could just pick and buy from anywhere, don't you think europeans would have skipped waiting for the european iTMS and instead, just purchase from the U.S. iTMS?
you are absolutely right. even before this act, you could get "free" credit reports from the agencies when you issued a fraud warning flag on it. but they only give you the credit histories/status - not the "score" used to assess the mortage rate, as one example.
there are "exemptions" for foreign residents. but you are still "taxed." just because you pay nothing doesn't mean you aren't taxed - you still are. you happen to owe nothing. just like the grantparent - if you want to play word games, fine by me, "outlaw" or "taxed."
by the way, among the industrialized nations, the U.S. is the only one who gets away with this. i'm a foreign national living in the U.S. but i have not paid, nor am i required to, pay taxes to my birth country.
my goodness, i just gave an example that just because something isn't "outlawed" doesn't mean it's not highly suppressed or discouraged. that's all i wanted to say. i didn't mean cutting funding is the same as taxing. of course it isn't.
i am, obviously, talking about research within the U.S. any time federal funding is cut/limited for something like this, it will significantly affect the research.
the fact the you made your post pre-empting bush bashing for something that happened in s. korea is the same reason i'm making a post about how what he did is affecting the U.S. issues.
no, it's not taxing, but limiting funding is a pretty darn big deal. no, it's not outlawed, but it's pretty effective. that's all i wanted to point out.
by the way, yeah, if you are a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident, you are taxed by the U.S. government wherever you live, including s. korea.
well, let's also get it out of the way that "ceasing to give federal funding for new stem cell lines" is pretty darn close to, in practicality, to outlawing stem cell research.
if government put a $1,000 tax per ounce on tobacco, yeah, tobacco isn't "outlawed" but it effectively will be.
yeah, right - i hate that attitude. it's so self-serving
i got a phd in particle physics - as a grad student, i got paid to satisfy my own curiosity. (and for me, as a bonus, got to live at CERN for a few years.) how many people can say that about their job? if you didn't enjoy what you are learning, you can always quit - in fact, you should quit. it's an avenue you chose to pursue - so complaining about it sounds pretty weak.
>ever hear of jason blair and his supervisors? that and boston globe which is the local division of NYT had a hand in the forged bush national guard memo story.
care to explain how those two incidents are "a tendency to editoralize or fabricate news", as opposed to being isolated ones?
(mostly, but not exclusively) college students have managed to come together and hold considerable influence on improving the working conditions of sweatshops that sponsor their school, ex. Nike and many schools it sponsors.
can the gamers come together to influence the EA situation?
i assume you are just in mood to play a game, right? this is a/. story (geez, a computer and internet... what are those?), catering to u.s.-centric readers/posters, discussing issues related to tivo, an american company...
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when you buy a game, you buy the license to play the game from the CD and also make any appropriate copies/derivatives of that CD/game for your own use. you don't own one copy of the game in any form. you only own the CD copy.
clear?
off topic, but i thought xbox2 is not backward compatible with the current xbox? if such is the case, the release of xbox2 will have no effect on xbox users dumping their system,
if i put up a door myself and leave it insecure, then it's my problem to secure the door, not microsoft's. and in this case, application didn't create the exploitable hole - the hole was there to begin with in the OS and the application happens to use it in a way that's exploitable it.
now they are saying - oh, it's exploitable. we are going to fix it now, whatever happens to you, it's not our problem. my question is: when will they either 1) owe up to the fact what they provide has holes in it and causes great inconvenience (closed source mode) or 2) tell us how their product work so that we can avoid the holes ourselves? (open source mode.)
don't make people pay (in $$$, effort and time) twice - once for the product and again for them to fix their own mistakes.
fair enough, but i still don't buy the philosophy that's echoed in my quote.
say i have my house's foundation done by a contractor, but the contractor won't disclose me what's being done and i have no practical choice of the contractor. i take what they give me as a foundation and kluges together a house over it. later, the contractor tells me that i need to gut the entire house because they made a poor design choice in finishing the foundation and one of the kluges i made to make the house functional happens to exploit one of their bad design elements. will i be willing to listen to the contractor's claim that "the gutting and the improvements will improve your drainage and will be worth it."??
like i said, it might be the truth. maybe i do need to gut the whole house and i really have no choice and/or i myself may be at fault to a degree for kluging. that doesn't mean i have to agree with their philosophy that since they are going to improve things in the end, they are ok to gut my house - instead of promising that the next time, they will design the foundation better to begin with. i find Microsoft's attitude so arrogant and irresponsible - i wish they'd be a bit more humble and compassionate in their position of incredible power and dominance.
so, does the PC exist to run the OS or the application? i thought the point of PC and the OS was to run the application that's useful. why does running of the application, which actually accomlishes something, must be compromise to enable the OS to run better?
i'm not arguing that OS is an important/integral part of using a PC to accomplish a task. but i feel that their philosophy is backwards. even if it's the truth, they shouldn't say it. PCs do not exist to run the OS. PCs exist to run the applications. no one cares about a PC that can run the OS perfectly if it can't run useful apps.
perhaps an indication that money money spent doesn't mean better education? just a biased opinion from an old timer who did all the math problems using paper and pencils but fancy graphing calculators and laptop computers will cost more money but don't necessarily mean you learn better using them.
at this moment, the easiest thing to do is to lower the british price to 0.69 pounds, which is consistent with the exchange rate. it may fluctuate - how much of a fluctuation is considered ok? or should apple open up iTMS for the entire european continent and accept credit cards from everywhere? how often will they have to change the prices with the exchange rate? will apple keep 0.99 euros and change the british price or keep 0.69 pounds and change the euro price?
apple products are full featured and seem overpriced. a screenless flash iPod at $99 is neither. i highly doubt this rumor has much truth in it.
contrast that to tv or print ads. there's no way to track how many store visits or sales as a result. you will get a vague idea, but not as accurately as the web tracking...
it's a novel idea and with novelty comes unexpected problems. i hope google finds an effective fix.
did you read the parent i replied to? that post implied that the canadian iTMS would fail because downloading is legal.
potential marketsize-wise, it's a no brainer where the next iTMS has to be: japan.
i think canadian iTMS will do quite well, actually... iTMS has been successful because it's relatively cheap, allows a lot of individual tracks to be purchased (instead of an album), easy to use, easy to find the songs you want quickly and you are guaranteed a certain download quality. i think the "fear" of being sued because you use downloading (which hasn't happened anyway... only lawsuits have been for uploaders) is not the only reason iTMS has been successful.
if you could just pick and buy from anywhere, don't you think europeans would have skipped waiting for the european iTMS and instead, just purchase from the U.S. iTMS?
you are absolutely right. even before this act, you could get "free" credit reports from the agencies when you issued a fraud warning flag on it. but they only give you the credit histories/status - not the "score" used to assess the mortage rate, as one example.
i can trickle charge my mini over usb...
by the way, among the industrialized nations, the U.S. is the only one who gets away with this. i'm a foreign national living in the U.S. but i have not paid, nor am i required to, pay taxes to my birth country.
my goodness, i just gave an example that just because something isn't "outlawed" doesn't mean it's not highly suppressed or discouraged. that's all i wanted to say. i didn't mean cutting funding is the same as taxing. of course it isn't.
the fact the you made your post pre-empting bush bashing for something that happened in s. korea is the same reason i'm making a post about how what he did is affecting the U.S. issues.
no, it's not taxing, but limiting funding is a pretty darn big deal. no, it's not outlawed, but it's pretty effective. that's all i wanted to point out.
by the way, yeah, if you are a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident, you are taxed by the U.S. government wherever you live, including s. korea.
if government put a $1,000 tax per ounce on tobacco, yeah, tobacco isn't "outlawed" but it effectively will be.
where can i get a digital music player overview overview?
i got a phd in particle physics - as a grad student, i got paid to satisfy my own curiosity. (and for me, as a bonus, got to live at CERN for a few years.) how many people can say that about their job? if you didn't enjoy what you are learning, you can always quit - in fact, you should quit. it's an avenue you chose to pursue - so complaining about it sounds pretty weak.
care to explain how those two incidents are "a tendency to editoralize or fabricate news", as opposed to being isolated ones?
can the gamers come together to influence the EA situation?
i assume you are just in mood to play a game, right? this is a /. story (geez, a computer and internet... what are those?), catering to u.s.-centric readers/posters, discussing issues related to tivo, an american company...
right, but you know that most people do watch TV, don't you?