If you're not proof-reading messages before hitting send, you're doing it wrong anyway. Touchscreen or physical keyboard. That said, I message far faster on an android device than BB's keyboards or iOS thanks to SwiftKey. BB nor iOS efficiently learn typing habits of their users, so in the past 2 years, I've never had an autocorrect happen. Food for thought.
I've got the feeling that this is just RIM being predictably frustrated with their own failures in the tablet market. Just look at the Playbook when it shipped. It lacked so much native functionality, requiring owners to already have or purchace a Blackberry just to do things that other tablets had by default. It took them forever to get those features built into their platform. So is it really any surprise RIM is trying to make these claims? It's jealousy and little else over the fact they couldn't compete with iOS or Android. This is true for both the tablet market AND the smartphone market. Don't believe it, take a quick look at sales and market share.
They've done a few things to improve security. Enforcing DEP, making UAC the default, and enforcing ASLR all go a long way to keeping Windows secure. But at the same time, it doesn't keep the user from being a complete and total idiot and rendering their system FUBAR. To paraphrase from Kevin Mitnick, it doesn't matter how secure the system is if the user is allowed to interact with it.
Or they could start caring about it now and save themselves even more litigation. I'm sure Apple's lawyers would rather deal with Apple's constant patent trolling than something serious.
Agreed. Digg was just one of those things I never bothered with since everything that mattered was either here or at Engadget, both of which have RSS feeds for conviencence.
That's a load of crap. Team Fortress 2 has micro-transactions, perfectly playable. Every major FPS game has DLC map packs, they're all perfectly playable. So yes, they are optional both in technicalities and reality. Don't believe me? Try it yourself. In the case of map packs, all of those games have special playlists just for those maps. That doesn't prevent you from playing in the stock playlists.
No, the digital age as we know it now started in the 1990s and early 2000s. Again, this all boils down to license agreements. You've got to remember, you're not buying ownership of a game anymore. Haven't been able to buy legitimate ownership of a game for coming up on 10 years now. You're buying a license, that's it. That license doesn't entitle you do everything on the game media, it entitles you to whatever the license states. You may not like it, but that's the truth of the matter.
You're forgetting that this is a modern age of licensing.. Just because you've paid 60$ for the game license and disc, that doesn't mean the license you bought covers everything on that disc. It sucks, but that's what we've gotten ourselves into with the coming of the digital age.
I'm struggling to see why people are having a problem with this? So long as these microtransactions are 100% optional, who cares? Nobody's forcing you do buy them, and in the case of Dead Space 3 and Mass Effect 3, they're attainable with in-game currency.
Actually, if you're not a complete moron, it is a non-issue. You can copy the online pass license file to a formatted USB device, take it to the friend's house and log in with your gamertag/PSN ID. Suddenly it works just as if you were at home, and it's so simple too.
But isn't an issue. I can hand someone my copy of Dragon Age 2 for 360 to someone and the game will work without a single hassle. On the other hand, that same game for PC (which I bought before Origin released) won't work on anyone else's PC but mine. Why? Software activations and licensing being bound to my email address. That is a problem that does not exist at all on consoles.
No, it's really not an issue. There's no activations, no serials, no software playing cybernanny on the user to make sure they're behaving. The DRM is the physical media the game is shipped on, which is freely exchangable to other users. PC games can't be treated like this anymore, and PC gaming is somewhat suffering for it. The PC gamer is treated like a criminal and punished, punished for something that they haven't even done. Getting caught in the crossfire isn't what I'd call a good customer experience.
I doubt that CCP is going to loose too much sleep over Vendetta. While the games are both about the same age, EvE is the better of the two just from depth and scale alone. I doubt that VO is even close to being able to support 4K players in the same star system, much less 3000 players fighting it out.
Technically, yes. But it'd never be upheld and I'm fully aware of it. Intentionally building or modifying a movie theater or auditorium to have the properties of a Faraday cage on the other hand, that would be upheld as an illicit disruption of services.
You're forgetting that there are also laws against intentionally disrupting essential services. Nobody gets their panties twisted when a building accidentally becomes a Faraday cage, but it's a different matter all together when it's by design for buildings accessible by the public. So turning an existing theater into a Faraday cage or building one on purpose is still illegal.
You'd be surprised at just how many people with jammers get caught. People will gladly inform their carriers of deadzones, moreso if they know there's supposed to be service where they are. A few complaints, an inquiry, and they'll establish the pattern. Once that happens, you're busted.
Possibly, since it's not illegal in the same manner that a cell site jammer is. But, there's the distinction between the text of a law and the spirit behind it. While turning a theater into a Faraday cage isn't violating the text of the law, it does violate the spirit of it and can be subject to litigation.
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If you're not proof-reading messages before hitting send, you're doing it wrong anyway. Touchscreen or physical keyboard. That said, I message far faster on an android device than BB's keyboards or iOS thanks to SwiftKey. BB nor iOS efficiently learn typing habits of their users, so in the past 2 years, I've never had an autocorrect happen. Food for thought.
I've got the feeling that this is just RIM being predictably frustrated with their own failures in the tablet market. Just look at the Playbook when it shipped. It lacked so much native functionality, requiring owners to already have or purchace a Blackberry just to do things that other tablets had by default. It took them forever to get those features built into their platform. So is it really any surprise RIM is trying to make these claims? It's jealousy and little else over the fact they couldn't compete with iOS or Android. This is true for both the tablet market AND the smartphone market. Don't believe it, take a quick look at sales and market share.
Are there any plans to resurrect the Babylon 5 successor series 'Crusade'?
They've done a few things to improve security. Enforcing DEP, making UAC the default, and enforcing ASLR all go a long way to keeping Windows secure. But at the same time, it doesn't keep the user from being a complete and total idiot and rendering their system FUBAR. To paraphrase from Kevin Mitnick, it doesn't matter how secure the system is if the user is allowed to interact with it.
Or they could start caring about it now and save themselves even more litigation. I'm sure Apple's lawyers would rather deal with Apple's constant patent trolling than something serious.
Agreed. Digg was just one of those things I never bothered with since everything that mattered was either here or at Engadget, both of which have RSS feeds for conviencence.
Don't we already have this to a limited extent with the Feedly addon for every browser that actually matters?
That's a load of crap. Team Fortress 2 has micro-transactions, perfectly playable. Every major FPS game has DLC map packs, they're all perfectly playable. So yes, they are optional both in technicalities and reality. Don't believe me? Try it yourself. In the case of map packs, all of those games have special playlists just for those maps. That doesn't prevent you from playing in the stock playlists.
No, the digital age as we know it now started in the 1990s and early 2000s. Again, this all boils down to license agreements. You've got to remember, you're not buying ownership of a game anymore. Haven't been able to buy legitimate ownership of a game for coming up on 10 years now. You're buying a license, that's it. That license doesn't entitle you do everything on the game media, it entitles you to whatever the license states. You may not like it, but that's the truth of the matter.
You're forgetting that this is a modern age of licensing.. Just because you've paid 60$ for the game license and disc, that doesn't mean the license you bought covers everything on that disc. It sucks, but that's what we've gotten ourselves into with the coming of the digital age.
I'm struggling to see why people are having a problem with this? So long as these microtransactions are 100% optional, who cares? Nobody's forcing you do buy them, and in the case of Dead Space 3 and Mass Effect 3, they're attainable with in-game currency.
Actually, if you're not a complete moron, it is a non-issue. You can copy the online pass license file to a formatted USB device, take it to the friend's house and log in with your gamertag/PSN ID. Suddenly it works just as if you were at home, and it's so simple too.
But isn't an issue. I can hand someone my copy of Dragon Age 2 for 360 to someone and the game will work without a single hassle. On the other hand, that same game for PC (which I bought before Origin released) won't work on anyone else's PC but mine. Why? Software activations and licensing being bound to my email address. That is a problem that does not exist at all on consoles.
No, it's really not an issue. There's no activations, no serials, no software playing cybernanny on the user to make sure they're behaving. The DRM is the physical media the game is shipped on, which is freely exchangable to other users. PC games can't be treated like this anymore, and PC gaming is somewhat suffering for it. The PC gamer is treated like a criminal and punished, punished for something that they haven't even done. Getting caught in the crossfire isn't what I'd call a good customer experience.
Or at least get it for consoles, where DRM isn't an issue.
I doubt that CCP is going to loose too much sleep over Vendetta. While the games are both about the same age, EvE is the better of the two just from depth and scale alone. I doubt that VO is even close to being able to support 4K players in the same star system, much less 3000 players fighting it out.
Technically, yes. But it'd never be upheld and I'm fully aware of it. Intentionally building or modifying a movie theater or auditorium to have the properties of a Faraday cage on the other hand, that would be upheld as an illicit disruption of services.
You're forgetting that there are also laws against intentionally disrupting essential services. Nobody gets their panties twisted when a building accidentally becomes a Faraday cage, but it's a different matter all together when it's by design for buildings accessible by the public. So turning an existing theater into a Faraday cage or building one on purpose is still illegal.
This would only effect ringer volume, not call volume.
Too bad robo-dialing cell phones is illegal, or else I'd have almost taken that seriously.
That'd be nice if Bluetooth was enabled by default on every cell phone and Bluetooth wasn't a massive power hog when the radio is in idle mode.
So you're saying they shouldn't try to have a life outside of their work? Who's the unreasonable person now?
You'd be surprised at just how many people with jammers get caught. People will gladly inform their carriers of deadzones, moreso if they know there's supposed to be service where they are. A few complaints, an inquiry, and they'll establish the pattern. Once that happens, you're busted.
I agree, such laws should be universally applied without preferential treatment given to inebriated law enforcement officers.
Possibly, since it's not illegal in the same manner that a cell site jammer is. But, there's the distinction between the text of a law and the spirit behind it. While turning a theater into a Faraday cage isn't violating the text of the law, it does violate the spirit of it and can be subject to litigation.