Apple cheats somewhat. When you buy an app/song/movie from the iTunes store, you are not debited right then. What instead happens is an authorisation is created, and Apple holds the record of the sale for up to three days. At the end of the time, all of your purchases are tallied up into a single larger charge and batched to your card. This means that there is only a single transaction charge for many, even tens to hundreds of item purchases.
This isn't actually unusual in the online purchase arena - many other sellers do this too.
I would trust his opinion somewhat more than even the SDK documentation - unlike us his company actually DOES do development for Apple systems. And quite a lot of it too.
Erm, I wouldn't say American Freedom of Speech is all that wide in scope. If what I read on Slashdot is correct, American Freedom of Speech only applies where the government wants it to apply and when the government wants it to apply.
No, it doesn't download it. It's probably just encrypted details about when you went offline (and most likely was actually initially created the last time you logged in, so it'd contain details about when you logged in too)
Yes, except that a lot of Steam games come in a box now. Dawn of War II for example, has to install Steam then install the Dawn of Warm II "Steam Cache" then activate THEN you can play. If you're logged into Steam. And Games for Windows Live.
That's weird, whenever my network connection breaks at home I get Steam popping up saying "Failed to connect to the Steam Network [Retry Connection] [Start in Offline Mode]" - granted "Start in Offline Mode" doesn't always work... but meh.
If I've got the boxed copy, it's still mine and I can still play it, sell it or whatever I want.
Unless the boxed copy of the game has Steamworks, in which case Steam (and all the lockin that entails) is still required to play the game. For example, Dawn of War II requires Steam to even install the game because it needs Steamworks. It doesn't even install a normal copy of DoW2, the CD installs a fucking Steam cache!
Control Panel -> Mouse -> Pointer Options -> Hide pointer while typing. Doesn't work in non-standard text boxes (like a Firefox textarea) though, and it only hides it if it's "in the way".
Indeed. I wouldn't really call MSSQL a tinkertoy DB either - it's built on a proven base (Sybase Server) and for all intents and purposes appears to be one of Microsoft's better products.
(Well, in my opinion, Microsoft's non-consumer groups seem to make very good products - later versions of Windows Server, Visual Studio, SQL Server, etc - it's the consumer stuff that tends to suck)
Actually, Microsoft doesn't produce any ready made software packages for Sat Nav products. They provide a base platform (Windows Embedded) that could be used, but I'd imagine that Tom Tom is probably already licensing that for something.
You're right, and not. GGP was claiming that if Microsoft cared about Openness, they'd use GPL. Which is wrong, because BSD is just as open (perhaps more so) and isn't GPL. So why must something be GPL to be open? Or even GPL-compatible for that matter? Lots of licenses aren't GPL compatible - including other versions of itself! Does that make them not open? I propose that the answer to this is: no.
Others do it as well. Look at the first line of a Unix script, such as a Perl script, which reads with a "#!" - which is also not used for logical negation.
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Apple cheats somewhat. When you buy an app/song/movie from the iTunes store, you are not debited right then. What instead happens is an authorisation is created, and Apple holds the record of the sale for up to three days. At the end of the time, all of your purchases are tallied up into a single larger charge and batched to your card. This means that there is only a single transaction charge for many, even tens to hundreds of item purchases.
This isn't actually unusual in the online purchase arena - many other sellers do this too.
I would trust his opinion somewhat more than even the SDK documentation - unlike us his company actually DOES do development for Apple systems. And quite a lot of it too.
Erm, I wouldn't say American Freedom of Speech is all that wide in scope. If what I read on Slashdot is correct, American Freedom of Speech only applies where the government wants it to apply and when the government wants it to apply.
You work here, and even you don't read the ... well, the headline.
I believe that's exactly what he's saying. I make no statement as to whether I can agree or not though.
So it'll be just like living in New Zealand then?
I think the Pirate Bay's beta service is better. They don't log. For obvious reasons.
No, it doesn't download it. It's probably just encrypted details about when you went offline (and most likely was actually initially created the last time you logged in, so it'd contain details about when you logged in too)
Offline Mode creates a binary blob file in the Steam install directory. If it weren't able to do that...
If by "countless" you mean "once", by "witch" you mean "which" and by "said" you mean "hollowly promised with nothing to back them up", then yes.
1 month != "pretty much permanently"
Yes, except that a lot of Steam games come in a box now. Dawn of War II for example, has to install Steam then install the Dawn of Warm II "Steam Cache" then activate THEN you can play. If you're logged into Steam. And Games for Windows Live.
That's weird, whenever my network connection breaks at home I get Steam popping up saying "Failed to connect to the Steam Network [Retry Connection] [Start in Offline Mode]" - granted "Start in Offline Mode" doesn't always work... but meh.
It's possible he had it installed in Program Files. Bad things happen in Vista with stuff trying to write to Program Files with UAC enabled.
Oh, so Starcraft Spawn doesn't exist then?
If I've got the boxed copy, it's still mine and I can still play it, sell it or whatever I want.
Unless the boxed copy of the game has Steamworks, in which case Steam (and all the lockin that entails) is still required to play the game. For example, Dawn of War II requires Steam to even install the game because it needs Steamworks. It doesn't even install a normal copy of DoW2, the CD installs a fucking Steam cache!
Control Panel -> Mouse -> Pointer Options -> Hide pointer while typing. Doesn't work in non-standard text boxes (like a Firefox textarea) though, and it only hides it if it's "in the way".
Indeed. I wouldn't really call MSSQL a tinkertoy DB either - it's built on a proven base (Sybase Server) and for all intents and purposes appears to be one of Microsoft's better products.
(Well, in my opinion, Microsoft's non-consumer groups seem to make very good products - later versions of Windows Server, Visual Studio, SQL Server, etc - it's the consumer stuff that tends to suck)
Actually, Microsoft doesn't produce any ready made software packages for Sat Nav products. They provide a base platform (Windows Embedded) that could be used, but I'd imagine that Tom Tom is probably already licensing that for something.
There is no anti-trust here.
What meta-moderation?
You're right, and not. GGP was claiming that if Microsoft cared about Openness, they'd use GPL. Which is wrong, because BSD is just as open (perhaps more so) and isn't GPL. So why must something be GPL to be open? Or even GPL-compatible for that matter? Lots of licenses aren't GPL compatible - including other versions of itself! Does that make them not open? I propose that the answer to this is: no.
Uh, our government can't do that. "Rider" bills are a completely American invention.
You've seen the borderline insane ACC minister, right?
Others do it as well. Look at the first line of a Unix script, such as a Perl script, which reads with a "#!" - which is also not used for logical negation.
Don't forget Quicktime.
Please don't forget Quicktime.