Damn right. Those "hundreds of thousands" made a ton of money before that incident. You share in the success, and you share in the failures. Everyone together. No, the majority of those "hundreds of thousands" are probably on minimum wage, only sticking it because they need the money to feed the family and they can't afford to lose the retirement.
If you have mod points, please do mod up the target of that link by the way. I would think that someone would actually mod up a legal statement from a lawyer surrounded by upmodded "IANAL but..." posts which are all completely wrong.
Um, you haven't seen the latest GPL lawsuit have you? The one against Monsoon Multimedia, they had failed to distribute source with their modified BusyBox code, and the Software Freedom Law Centre was demanding that Monsoon hand over ALL money they got by selling the device. Sounds like a money grab to me.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. If you abolish copyright on "digital media" then people would just stop making it, because they can't afford to do so, because noone would fucking pay. Of course you freeloaders don't care about that, all you care about is getting whatever you want for free.
Apple: Introducing the iPod with video. Now with iTunes you can watch your favorite shows and clips. Nay-sayers: Where is my wireless? Where is my iPod/phone hybrid? And the video is only 320x240. Why isn't it wide-screen? Why isn't it a touch screen? (Despite the fact that no one had video or a touch controls yet?) Noone had video? I think Creative might be offended by that (haven't you heard of the early Creative Zen?)
Apple: Introducing the iPhone: Phone, browser, widescreen iPod with touch controls and wireless Nay-sayers: Really I wanted all those features without a phone. How come I have to use AT&T? Why can't I wireless buy music from iTunes? It's $600! That's $400 too much. (Despite the fact that no other device can do everything an iPhone can do for any price.) Everything an iPhone can do can be duplicated on any smartphone on the market, with a little effort.
Why is parent modded up? Apple did NOT invent online music stores. There have been online music stores for much longer than iTunes Music Store has existed. Mod down!
The Danger there is artists can cut out all the middle men. When will MySpace open a music store I wonder? You operate under the mistaken impression that a MySpace music store will cut out the middle man. I assure you, MySpace wont be passing on 100% profits to the artists.
Ah, no. If you actually looked, you'd see that "that real defecation" is NOT a back-reference to the Zune mentioned prior to it, but hyperlinked to "Real Audio", which is arguably a piece of shit.
Well, at least you GET an educational discount. In our country, the Apple store charges $199 for OS X Leopard retail, and has no educational version at all.
Unfortunately, what congress and the courts don't seem to understand is that the sale of copyrights is unconstitutional Excellent. Tell the FSF that, since they require copyright assignment on all GNU application (those specifically managed by them directly I mean, not anything under GPL). Are you trying to encourage people to sabotage the GNU userland?
This could make an interesting discussion actually... but it'll probably get modded Flamebait instead.
If it helps any, I refer to last year (2006) where utterly crap PSP/PS2 sales were responsible for major loss. Microsoft's current year loss (apples to oranges I guess, comparing Sony 2006 to Microsoft 2007) is apparently estimated at $1.7b after the $1b writeoff for the warranty thing. This is going solely off news sources, not actual company portfolios so accuracy cannot be 100% verified.
Your option B there seems to indicate that Sony should have dumped its gaming division long ago. A few years back, it was $17 billion in the hole - I would say that if companies were that unwilling to accept short term loss, we probably wouldn't have any consoles at all - Sony would never have released the PS3 (or likely even the PS2), Nintendo may have just closed up shop entirely, same with Sega, and Microsoft would have just dumped the entertainment division.
Like Sony and Nintendo, they can see that there's still money to be made as long as there are people that don't own consoles yet, and third party developers to license games to their hardware. I don't see the Xbox line being discontinued (perhaps overhauled, though).
Personally, I'd take "SAP needs BEA to survive" with a grain of salt. SAP just bought Business Objects, which is widely used, and I don't see them going away anytime soon.
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No, there's no update that fixes that. All versions of the game have done that.
I think the reason is best answered by "EA" as a few other games with the EA tag do it too.
What's exec()? Windows has ShellExecute(). ShellExecute for parameters accepts a single blind string. With this string, it passes it straight to an app to decide how it wants to interpret it. In your example, it's because it doesn't need to escape quotes to open "C:\Program Files\Somewhere" - which is good, because it has no idea how your application escapes quotes anyway. Does it use C syntax? Does it use BASIC syntax? Does it use Pascal syntax? Since it doesn't know these, it cannot escape your URL. As a result, you shouldn't be writing applications that expect it to.
Well, actually, there are two issues being mentioned here. One, where Windows itself mishandles the URI. This is the one where a % symbol is included in the URI and ShellExecute stupidly tries to fix it (demons know how it manages to mangle it into an actual working executable path). The other, which Microsoft correctly attributes to third party vendors, is where when a protocol handler is called, no escaping of quotes is done - often causing apps like Firefox, or Trillian, or whatever, to actually accept half the URI as command line parameters.
The mistake made by the GP (and potentially yourself, as you refer to the "blame cast" with the Firefox team which from memory only occurred with the issue in June with a malicious URIs terminating the quoted string and including Chrome parameters) is that they assume the second option is the one which is being fixed. It is not. This will potentially still be a problem if applications don't continue to validate their URIs appropriately, as Windows doesn't know exactly what your application does to escape quotes.
One of these is a vulnerability. The other is third party applications violating a basic tenet of development (no input is trusted).
Hey, Bethesda can afford to hire Patrick Stewart for voiceovers. I don't think they'll be caving to EA anytime soon.
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Here's looking at you, Black & White/Black & White 2. I hate that when you install it on a PC, it forces you to go through the tutorial (and rubs it in by making the dialogue sound like you can skip it when you really can't) and all cutscenes are compulsory.
How many games (apart from on consoles) actually use optical disks for resources? I've actually seen one or two games where the cutscenes only occur when the optical disk is in the drive - and that's because the cutscene is on it. Take out the disk, no cutscene. On consoles, most of the loading occurs either before or after cutscenes (case in point, Halo3 - which sits you at a loading screen for a cutscene, followed by a loading screen for the level)
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Actually it doesn't answer your question. It's the 14th being referred to here, as is evidenced by word from a real lawyer.
If you have mod points, please do mod up the target of that link by the way. I would think that someone would actually mod up a legal statement from a lawyer surrounded by upmodded "IANAL but..." posts which are all completely wrong.
Sounds like the AllOfMP3 judgement, right?
You know, where they deemed that the entire GDP of Russia was in fact an appropriate award for copyright infringement?
Um, you haven't seen the latest GPL lawsuit have you? The one against Monsoon Multimedia, they had failed to distribute source with their modified BusyBox code, and the Software Freedom Law Centre was demanding that Monsoon hand over ALL money they got by selling the device. Sounds like a money grab to me.
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/sep/20/busybox/complaint.pdf
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. If you abolish copyright on "digital media" then people would just stop making it, because they can't afford to do so, because noone would fucking pay. Of course you freeloaders don't care about that, all you care about is getting whatever you want for free.
Come back when you get past the age of 7.
Nay-sayers: Where is my wireless? Where is my iPod/phone hybrid? And the video is only 320x240. Why isn't it wide-screen? Why isn't it a touch screen? (Despite the fact that no one had video or a touch controls yet?) Noone had video? I think Creative might be offended by that (haven't you heard of the early Creative Zen?) Apple: Introducing the iPhone: Phone, browser, widescreen iPod with touch controls and wireless
Nay-sayers: Really I wanted all those features without a phone. How come I have to use AT&T? Why can't I wireless buy music from iTunes? It's $600! That's $400 too much. (Despite the fact that no other device can do everything an iPhone can do for any price.) Everything an iPhone can do can be duplicated on any smartphone on the market, with a little effort.
Why is parent modded up? Apple did NOT invent online music stores. There have been online music stores for much longer than iTunes Music Store has existed. Mod down!
Ah, no. If you actually looked, you'd see that "that real defecation" is NOT a back-reference to the Zune mentioned prior to it, but hyperlinked to "Real Audio", which is arguably a piece of shit.
Well, at least you GET an educational discount. In our country, the Apple store charges $199 for OS X Leopard retail, and has no educational version at all.
Logic is available on Windows too. (Or is that Reason I'm thinking of?)
This could make an interesting discussion actually... but it'll probably get modded Flamebait instead.
If it helps any, I refer to last year (2006) where utterly crap PSP/PS2 sales were responsible for major loss. Microsoft's current year loss (apples to oranges I guess, comparing Sony 2006 to Microsoft 2007) is apparently estimated at $1.7b after the $1b writeoff for the warranty thing. This is going solely off news sources, not actual company portfolios so accuracy cannot be 100% verified.
Oops, minor correction. That $17 billion should be $1.7 billion. I missed a decimal point. Frigging dodgy keyboard.
Still Sony's gaming division loss is the same as, if not more than, Microsoft's gaming divisions loss. Is Sony intending to leave the console market?
Fun Fact: there is no UID 0.
Your option B there seems to indicate that Sony should have dumped its gaming division long ago. A few years back, it was $17 billion in the hole - I would say that if companies were that unwilling to accept short term loss, we probably wouldn't have any consoles at all - Sony would never have released the PS3 (or likely even the PS2), Nintendo may have just closed up shop entirely, same with Sega, and Microsoft would have just dumped the entertainment division.
Like Sony and Nintendo, they can see that there's still money to be made as long as there are people that don't own consoles yet, and third party developers to license games to their hardware. I don't see the Xbox line being discontinued (perhaps overhauled, though).
Personally, I'd take "SAP needs BEA to survive" with a grain of salt. SAP just bought Business Objects, which is widely used, and I don't see them going away anytime soon.
No, there's no update that fixes that. All versions of the game have done that.
I think the reason is best answered by "EA" as a few other games with the EA tag do it too.
Well, here's the thing:
What's exec()? Windows has ShellExecute(). ShellExecute for parameters accepts a single blind string. With this string, it passes it straight to an app to decide how it wants to interpret it. In your example, it's because it doesn't need to escape quotes to open "C:\Program Files\Somewhere" - which is good, because it has no idea how your application escapes quotes anyway. Does it use C syntax? Does it use BASIC syntax? Does it use Pascal syntax? Since it doesn't know these, it cannot escape your URL. As a result, you shouldn't be writing applications that expect it to.
Well, actually, there are two issues being mentioned here. One, where Windows itself mishandles the URI. This is the one where a % symbol is included in the URI and ShellExecute stupidly tries to fix it (demons know how it manages to mangle it into an actual working executable path). The other, which Microsoft correctly attributes to third party vendors, is where when a protocol handler is called, no escaping of quotes is done - often causing apps like Firefox, or Trillian, or whatever, to actually accept half the URI as command line parameters.
The mistake made by the GP (and potentially yourself, as you refer to the "blame cast" with the Firefox team which from memory only occurred with the issue in June with a malicious URIs terminating the quoted string and including Chrome parameters) is that they assume the second option is the one which is being fixed. It is not. This will potentially still be a problem if applications don't continue to validate their URIs appropriately, as Windows doesn't know exactly what your application does to escape quotes.
One of these is a vulnerability. The other is third party applications violating a basic tenet of development (no input is trusted).
Bah. I thought hiring him would be expensive enough that having the money to bring him in would mean that EA hasn't a hope in hell.
Still, Bethesda seems to be large enough to stand up to EA. Hell, Bethesda once sued EA.
Hey, Bethesda can afford to hire Patrick Stewart for voiceovers. I don't think they'll be caving to EA anytime soon.
Here's looking at you, Black & White/Black & White 2. I hate that when you install it on a PC, it forces you to go through the tutorial (and rubs it in by making the dialogue sound like you can skip it when you really can't) and all cutscenes are compulsory.
How many games (apart from on consoles) actually use optical disks for resources? I've actually seen one or two games where the cutscenes only occur when the optical disk is in the drive - and that's because the cutscene is on it. Take out the disk, no cutscene. On consoles, most of the loading occurs either before or after cutscenes (case in point, Halo3 - which sits you at a loading screen for a cutscene, followed by a loading screen for the level)
You're referring to PIE (Pocket Internet Explorer. Tastes bad, not to be confused with Apple PIE or Apricot PIE).
... wait a minute... can I get it for Windows XP?
Details page: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/microsoftprograms/iemobile.mspx.
It's ultra basic. No popup support, no Flash, no