> But you tell me a better method for us Don't get your cds pressed in a cheap labor country, like China. If you're in the US, get them pressed in the US, then sue the hell out of them if they do leak the thing. You get what you pay for. Pay less, get shoddy service. Also, why do you think that a person who can make half a million copies of your game would be deterred by DRM?
I know it's probably, most likely, not that easy, I appreciate that it's not your choice, that for global distribution it's probably easier/better to have multiple plants press your media.
The point of TFA is that you have your legitimate customers who you deprive of value. You call it "collateral damage", I call it "I'll buy from someone else."
> to guarantee that no wholesale bootlegging will occur
Either with or without DRM, wholesale bootlegging "occurs." This is not something you're going to stop, as has been demonstrated by DVD, Blue Ray, CD protection rackets of various sorts, etc. Any and all media are distributed freely over the internet. DRM lost (didn't see that one coming?) so it might be just better to create a better game for the money and run with the people who are willing to pay for it, your loyal customers, the one group you do not want to piss off.
The aluminium case, the LED backlight, the great keyboard, the expresscard slot. The entire slick package. The oversized trackpad.
The ability to run OSX (legally.)
(Let's ignore aftermarket stuff like the virus scanner, office, etc)
Yes, you may not NEED all of that. If you don't you're welcome to buy the HP at half the price. Just don't say/imply that the MB Pro isn't worth the 2K they're asking. No-one is saying you have to buy Apple. Again: if you can't see the value in the package, you are most likely not the target market.
The "other side" somehow conveniently forgets that in the 1950 it invaded Tibet, a sovereign nation. Fencing with the opinion of a bunch of kids doesn't make it right. Tibet was invaded and now the Chinese want to modernise it; what exactly is the other side to that story?
This would have been a decent comment four years ago. But then the knuckledragging retards voted for another four years of GWB. Your right to complain, let me show you it.
That is the most bullshittest bullshitting bullshit. I mean, apart from the other bullshit, pointed out in abundance above.
The entire roaming issue, at least in Europe, is a scam. Carriers do not need to work together at all. He makes it sound like there are all these small carriers that are separate from all the other small carriers and when abroad, you're marooned. There are no more small carriers. All the little fish have been eaten by the big fish. It's either Vodafone, Orange or T-mobile. If I'm on Vodafone, I can use their network in pretty much all of Europe, or at least in the countries I'm likely to visit. Still, they charge a ton, because some imaginary line was crossed. There is no difference in the network, there is no difference in carrier, there is no difference in service or speed or whatever. Just in the bill at the end of the month.
Agreed, bad idea. Just wanted to say that second life has OSX and Linux clients out, although the Linux one is beta and has been since the last (and first) time I tried it, several years ago. Their server software is open source.
> Make no mistake about it Photosynth is a world changing technology.
Finally! The cure for cancer? No? What, solves world hunger? Peace for mankind? Not even a better aspirin? What you say, a neat imaging trick? Your world must be very small.
In IE7 I really don't see the importance of the about:tabs or about:blank homepage. It's not unsettable as far as I can tell, the text is always there. Sure, it's selected, but sometimes I click in the address bar and have to remove the text. A nitpick, surely, but annoying. Start with a blank screen and a blank address bar. What can be so hard?
Wake me up when the Dubai Royalty flies two jumbos into New York city landmarks, why don't you. Double points if they manage to hit the Pentagon as well.
Agreed. Of course, it will be good for consumers (more choice) and if spun right, good for MS as well: they will have to dig up the binder "Compete on merits, not on lock-in! (for dummies)", blow off the dust, and start making quality products again. I'm positive they can do it. This will make them look that much better, not only to customers but to us techies as well.
I don't think that's how it works. Not the actual file is being encrypted with a known key, but the peer to peer connection is.
If the file was being encrypted with a known key, the ISP can simply filter that data and it doesn't matter if it's encrypted or not.
If the connection between peers is encrypted, it's not obvious what is being done. Could be ftp-ing legal stuff, could be torrenting the latest blockbuster.
I think the trend is toward traffic analysis based on timing between packages or something like that. Ftp has a different footprint than bittorrent, and it doesn't matter if it's encrypted or not. Then again, the evil hackers will come up with a way to obfuscate any kind of traffic pulses.
Drupal can be themed on differents levels. From easy to hard: - some themes come with settings that can change colours in the admin backend - CSS level (download a theme or use the default, change around some CSS, done) - edit or create template pages, which use standard php - use a different template system such as smarty - edit or create theme_xxx() functions
Especially if the book covers the creation of theme_ functions and their proper use, I can understand they use 260 pages to explain.
Drupal has its weaknesses, but the theming is pretty solid.
Yeah but isn't that just the point? Churches are trying to put the genie back in the bottle, trying to create a world that's rose colored, without dog shit on the street and without beer ads. And without condoms. (I'm making huge blanket statements for argument's sake here)
This makes people wonder: why would they do that? It makes the church in question look kind of stupid, because everyone knows there is beer, and aids, and kids out of marriage, and dog shit as well. It makes the "true believers" look REALLY stupid because they're adhering to a world view that's proposed by this church, a world view that's just not real, without question.
Why not? Because it screws up your world view, that's why. Here at Slashdot, we KNOW that there is a Microsoft. We see the ads, we use the products. This is not a problem, because we have made an informed choice: we want to use Apache, not IIS. Or Firefox, not IE. Or, heavens forbid, Windows, not Linux. See where I'm going? There are (at least!) two sides to the story, the one with the corporate MS values and products, and the one with the hippies with the long hair.
As a church, if you replace the ads with ones that you think are better, you're keeping people ignorant. An empowered person is one who chooses to believe, in this case, in the Jeebus. There should be no force, there needs to be no obscuring of other world views.
Incidentally, this is exactly what sucks about MS: if the products are so great, there needs to be no vendor lock in or anything like that. Very disappointing.
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> But you tell me a better method for us
Don't get your cds pressed in a cheap labor country, like China. If you're in the US, get them pressed in the US, then sue the hell out of them if they do leak the thing. You get what you pay for. Pay less, get shoddy service. Also, why do you think that a person who can make half a million copies of your game would be deterred by DRM?
I know it's probably, most likely, not that easy, I appreciate that it's not your choice, that for global distribution it's probably easier/better to have multiple plants press your media.
The point of TFA is that you have your legitimate customers who you deprive of value. You call it "collateral damage", I call it "I'll buy from someone else."
> to guarantee that no wholesale bootlegging will occur
Either with or without DRM, wholesale bootlegging "occurs." This is not something you're going to stop, as has been demonstrated by DVD, Blue Ray, CD protection rackets of various sorts, etc. Any and all media are distributed freely over the internet. DRM lost (didn't see that one coming?) so it might be just better to create a better game for the money and run with the people who are willing to pay for it, your loyal customers, the one group you do not want to piss off.
The aluminium case, the LED backlight, the great keyboard, the expresscard slot. The entire slick package. The oversized trackpad.
The ability to run OSX (legally.)
(Let's ignore aftermarket stuff like the virus scanner, office, etc)
Yes, you may not NEED all of that. If you don't you're welcome to buy the HP at half the price. Just don't say/imply that the MB Pro isn't worth the 2K they're asking. No-one is saying you have to buy Apple. Again: if you can't see the value in the package, you are most likely not the target market.
[citation needed]
The "other side" somehow conveniently forgets that in the 1950 it invaded Tibet, a sovereign nation. Fencing with the opinion of a bunch of kids doesn't make it right. Tibet was invaded and now the Chinese want to modernise it; what exactly is the other side to that story?
That Mark Twain fellow sure was a bad speller, for all his virtues.
This would have been a decent comment four years ago. But then the knuckledragging retards voted for another four years of GWB. Your right to complain, let me show you it.
Israelis sue government! Bring out! Dangerous weapon! They call. It. The short sentence. For effect. Profit. The. Win.
That is the most bullshittest bullshitting bullshit. I mean, apart from the other bullshit, pointed out in abundance above.
The entire roaming issue, at least in Europe, is a scam. Carriers do not need to work together at all. He makes it sound like there are all these small carriers that are separate from all the other small carriers and when abroad, you're marooned. There are no more small carriers. All the little fish have been eaten by the big fish. It's either Vodafone, Orange or T-mobile. If I'm on Vodafone, I can use their network in pretty much all of Europe, or at least in the countries I'm likely to visit. Still, they charge a ton, because some imaginary line was crossed. There is no difference in the network, there is no difference in carrier, there is no difference in service or speed or whatever. Just in the bill at the end of the month.
The EC looked into this, but it's not better. See for example: http://www.physorg.com/news12195.html
Keyword is "improve." One article described IE8 as being "standards-based", which is probably the best description.
Agreed, bad idea. Just wanted to say that second life has OSX and Linux clients out, although the Linux one is beta and has been since the last (and first) time I tried it, several years ago. Their server software is open source.
But yeah, not a likely successor to ebay.
> Make no mistake about it Photosynth is a world changing technology.
Finally! The cure for cancer? No? What, solves world hunger? Peace for mankind? Not even a better aspirin? What you say, a neat imaging trick? Your world must be very small.
In IE7 I really don't see the importance of the about:tabs or about:blank homepage. It's not unsettable as far as I can tell, the text is always there. Sure, it's selected, but sometimes I click in the address bar and have to remove the text. A nitpick, surely, but annoying. Start with a blank screen and a blank address bar. What can be so hard?
... about a blowjob?
... about a war on a sovereign nation under false pretense?
vs.
Fixed that for you. Now you fix your country please.
Wake me up when the Dubai Royalty flies two jumbos into New York city landmarks, why don't you. Double points if they manage to hit the Pentagon as well.
> Microsoft has got a real long-term problem.
Agreed. Of course, it will be good for consumers (more choice) and if spun right, good for MS as well: they will have to dig up the binder "Compete on merits, not on lock-in! (for dummies)", blow off the dust, and start making quality products again. I'm positive they can do it. This will make them look that much better, not only to customers but to us techies as well.
That was an example.
Although I don't think the lawmakers will see it our way... BT = bad, FTP = ?? ("isn't that the acro for the new Farmer's Trade Policy?)
I don't think that's how it works. Not the actual file is being encrypted with a known key, but the peer to peer connection is.
If the file was being encrypted with a known key, the ISP can simply filter that data and it doesn't matter if it's encrypted or not.
If the connection between peers is encrypted, it's not obvious what is being done. Could be ftp-ing legal stuff, could be torrenting the latest blockbuster.
I think the trend is toward traffic analysis based on timing between packages or something like that. Ftp has a different footprint than bittorrent, and it doesn't matter if it's encrypted or not. Then again, the evil hackers will come up with a way to obfuscate any kind of traffic pulses.
In the end, we'll all be using Tor.
Drupal can be themed on differents levels. From easy to hard:
- some themes come with settings that can change colours in the admin backend
- CSS level (download a theme or use the default, change around some CSS, done)
- edit or create template pages, which use standard php
- use a different template system such as smarty
- edit or create theme_xxx() functions
Especially if the book covers the creation of theme_ functions and their proper use, I can understand they use 260 pages to explain.
Drupal has its weaknesses, but the theming is pretty solid.
You sound like a typical MS user ;)
(See that emoticon? Joking!)
> It doesn't always work that way (e.g. Iraq)
Can you give me an example of where it DID work?
Yeah but isn't that just the point? Churches are trying to put the genie back in the bottle, trying to create a world that's rose colored, without dog shit on the street and without beer ads. And without condoms. (I'm making huge blanket statements for argument's sake here)
This makes people wonder: why would they do that?
It makes the church in question look kind of stupid, because everyone knows there is beer, and aids, and kids out of marriage, and dog shit as well.
It makes the "true believers" look REALLY stupid because they're adhering to a world view that's proposed by this church, a world view that's just not real, without question.
Sure, and I could also understand them saying: hey, there are children present, we don't want them watching beer ads.
Why not? Because it screws up your world view, that's why. Here at Slashdot, we KNOW that there is a Microsoft. We see the ads, we use the products. This is not a problem, because we have made an informed choice: we want to use Apache, not IIS. Or Firefox, not IE. Or, heavens forbid, Windows, not Linux. See where I'm going? There are (at least!) two sides to the story, the one with the corporate MS values and products, and the one with the hippies with the long hair.
As a church, if you replace the ads with ones that you think are better, you're keeping people ignorant. An empowered person is one who chooses to believe, in this case, in the Jeebus. There should be no force, there needs to be no obscuring of other world views.
Incidentally, this is exactly what sucks about MS: if the products are so great, there needs to be no vendor lock in or anything like that. Very disappointing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
Any other questions?
The entire "it's a license, not a sale" is the software industry trying to weasel their way out of this principle.
Yes, but not the project files, tags, notes, and other aggregated data. The added benefit of using anything except explorer to begin with.