Re:Long term support, removal of security, etc
on
Diablo III Released
·
· Score: 1
They were not bought by Activision. Their parent company, Vivendi, bought Activision. Activision and Blizzard are subsidiaries of Activision Blizzard.
Re:Hate to put a damper on the celebration
on
Diablo III Released
·
· Score: 1
Activision didn't buy Blizzard. Vivendi bought Activision, and merged it into Vivendi Games to create Activision Blizzard Inc, of which Activision Publishing Inc and Blizzard Entertainment Inc are both subsidiaries.
Re:Hate to put a damper on the celebration
on
Diablo III Released
·
· Score: 1
No it won't. Diablo III's always on DRM is achieved by running your single player game on the server. Your copy of the game is literally incapable of running without a Battle.Net server to run the realm for it. It's like single player WoW.
That is because in the event of a STOP error, Windows needs a page file at least as large as the memory in order to generate a crash dump (or core dump in Linux parlance).
I think the messed up thought processes are the ones in your head. The advertising says it connects to 4G networks. There are 4G networks in your country. The iPad does not connect to them, because Apple did not bother supporting the frequency they are on. Ergo, the claim is a lie (no, a tiny asterisk pointing to a tiny light grey on white statement that it's US and Canada only isn't good enough).
The Académie is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power — sometimes, even governmental authorities disregard the Académie's rulings.
Basically you just tanked your own statement by providing a source.
New Zealand had to do the same for the Rugby World Cup, and by comparison to the Olympics it's a bake sale. Basically we included laws on the books preventing ticket scalping (but only for major international events - nothing local), preventing the use of even non-trademarked phrases which might be potentially interpreted as endorsement (such as the word "Rugby") in advertising, preventing any local businesses advertising anywhere near the stadiums hosting it (even sausage sizzles by scout groups could have gotten a $10K fine) and all sorts of other scummy stuff that protects noone except the big international event. It was so bad that even sponsors of the teams weren't allowed to have their logos on the team jerseys because it would compete with the event sponsors advertising.
In Auckland, New Zealand, the reason your light is red is because there's a late bus coming in the other direction - our buses are GPS equipped and if one is running behind schedule and is approaching a traffic light, the system will either short-phase the other directions to fast-track a green light for it, or hold a green light past the end of a phase for it. Funnily enough, emergency services vehicles do not trip the lights.
Then again, if you speed enough to attract the attention of a police officer while running a pregnant person to the hospital, you'll end up with a police escort.
Except that if you're using Bittorrent, you are breaking the law, because uploading is part of the download process, and even in Holland you can't upload legally.
Now, downloading from a BT proxy, or a file locker, you'd be OK.
I cower in fear of your legendary tolerance of god-awful, slow, IDEs. And who cares about "integrating the provisioning/code signing" - are you really so lazy you won't log into the Provisioning Portal for a measly 30 seconds to provision your apps? How thoroughly lazy.
And as it happens, I do trust JetBrains not to screw me over - they're a big name that's been in business for over a decade making awesome software (of which I use several).
The US is treating properties which are located in the US as subject to US law, which is the natural right of any sovereign nation. Domain names, under the current DNS system, effectively reside in the US because they are managed by ICANN, an organization located in the US. That makes DNS digital property subject to US law.
Not quite correct. The US does not claim jurisdiction over ccTLDs, the TLDs which are delegated down to other countries - which are in fact not managed by ICANN (e.g. Australia's ccTLDs are managed by auDA, New Zealand's by InternetNZ, USA's by NeuStar). There are various reasons for this, but mostly it's the technical near impossibility of injecting a "poisoned" DNS entry for a ccTLD by adding it to the root zone, since most DNS servers won't go all the way to the root servers to ask for a single domain.
Put enough of them together, and literally nothing ever gets done. Basically, just put an independent committee run by a music company, a tech company, and a retailer in charge, and they'll never agree on anything.
Er, you know that when you're browsing your WMP library over DLNA (NOT Media Center) you can copy tracks from the music library to the Xbox 360's hard drive and play them from there without the PC right? It already does what you want.
Similar ideas? The PS3 sports a full browser - with Flash even - that works perfectly fine and does not create virus vectors. I'm relatively confident that Xbox 360 could also support it just as well.
Also, why does every person who uses and likes Bing have to be a shill? Isn't it possible they're just crazy?
Ah, but how many people were involved in Angry Birds, now available on "every fucking platform under the sun"? Or Fruit Ninja, now available on "even a few platforms that Angry Birds isn't". That's probably the two best examples of formerly unknowns coming out with a product so successful that they don't need to apply to the console vendors, the console vendors approach them. Hell, Microsoft likely paid big money to Halfbrick for Fruit Ninja Kinect to be made.
None. The Xbox 360 browser won't be supporting plugins, of that you can be certain. And with a cursory glance at the exploits list, almost all are either socially engineered ("your computer has a virus, click here to scan!") which won't work on a 360, or related to plugins such as Flash, Java or Adobe Reader - also a no-go on the 360.
I guess he's referring to.NET features like WPF that are actually available on all OS versions supporting.NET. Since every.NET feature at its core still has to use the Win32 API to implement the nitty gritty, a Windows feature that's.NET only is impossible.
Slashdot Mirror
They were not bought by Activision. Their parent company, Vivendi, bought Activision. Activision and Blizzard are subsidiaries of Activision Blizzard.
Activision didn't buy Blizzard. Vivendi bought Activision, and merged it into Vivendi Games to create Activision Blizzard Inc, of which Activision Publishing Inc and Blizzard Entertainment Inc are both subsidiaries.
No it won't. Diablo III's always on DRM is achieved by running your single player game on the server. Your copy of the game is literally incapable of running without a Battle.Net server to run the realm for it. It's like single player WoW.
ActivisionBlizzard begs to differ.
That is because in the event of a STOP error, Windows needs a page file at least as large as the memory in order to generate a crash dump (or core dump in Linux parlance).
No. It relies on System Restore, which annexes a percentage of the total drive space for its exclusive use. Usually about 10% - 20%.
And you'd be wrong, because the law does not say what you want it to say - it says what it says.
Also, even Apple calls DC-HSDPA a 3G network. So the AC's argument is tanked by that alone.
I think the messed up thought processes are the ones in your head. The advertising says it connects to 4G networks. There are 4G networks in your country. The iPad does not connect to them, because Apple did not bother supporting the frequency they are on. Ergo, the claim is a lie (no, a tiny asterisk pointing to a tiny light grey on white statement that it's US and Canada only isn't good enough).
Stop trying to defend the practice.
I am confused. From your own link:
The Académie is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power — sometimes, even governmental authorities disregard the Académie's rulings.
Basically you just tanked your own statement by providing a source.
So, an OS X Help menu then? (If you type something into the help search box, it shows you matching menu items from the other menus).
New Zealand had to do the same for the Rugby World Cup, and by comparison to the Olympics it's a bake sale. Basically we included laws on the books preventing ticket scalping (but only for major international events - nothing local), preventing the use of even non-trademarked phrases which might be potentially interpreted as endorsement (such as the word "Rugby") in advertising, preventing any local businesses advertising anywhere near the stadiums hosting it (even sausage sizzles by scout groups could have gotten a $10K fine) and all sorts of other scummy stuff that protects noone except the big international event. It was so bad that even sponsors of the teams weren't allowed to have their logos on the team jerseys because it would compete with the event sponsors advertising.
In Auckland, New Zealand, the reason your light is red is because there's a late bus coming in the other direction - our buses are GPS equipped and if one is running behind schedule and is approaching a traffic light, the system will either short-phase the other directions to fast-track a green light for it, or hold a green light past the end of a phase for it. Funnily enough, emergency services vehicles do not trip the lights.
Then again, if you speed enough to attract the attention of a police officer while running a pregnant person to the hospital, you'll end up with a police escort.
Except that if you're using Bittorrent, you are breaking the law, because uploading is part of the download process, and even in Holland you can't upload legally.
Now, downloading from a BT proxy, or a file locker, you'd be OK.
I cower in fear of your legendary tolerance of god-awful, slow, IDEs. And who cares about "integrating the provisioning/code signing" - are you really so lazy you won't log into the Provisioning Portal for a measly 30 seconds to provision your apps? How thoroughly lazy.
And as it happens, I do trust JetBrains not to screw me over - they're a big name that's been in business for over a decade making awesome software (of which I use several).
The US is treating properties which are located in the US as subject to US law, which is the natural right of any sovereign nation. Domain names, under the current DNS system, effectively reside in the US because they are managed by ICANN, an organization located in the US. That makes DNS digital property subject to US law.
Not quite correct. The US does not claim jurisdiction over ccTLDs, the TLDs which are delegated down to other countries - which are in fact not managed by ICANN (e.g. Australia's ccTLDs are managed by auDA, New Zealand's by InternetNZ, USA's by NeuStar). There are various reasons for this, but mostly it's the technical near impossibility of injecting a "poisoned" DNS entry for a ccTLD by adding it to the root zone, since most DNS servers won't go all the way to the root servers to ask for a single domain.
Put enough of them together, and literally nothing ever gets done. Basically, just put an independent committee run by a music company, a tech company, and a retailer in charge, and they'll never agree on anything.
Er, you know that when you're browsing your WMP library over DLNA (NOT Media Center) you can copy tracks from the music library to the Xbox 360's hard drive and play them from there without the PC right? It already does what you want.
You can bet Opera's going to have something to say about this...
Similar ideas? The PS3 sports a full browser - with Flash even - that works perfectly fine and does not create virus vectors. I'm relatively confident that Xbox 360 could also support it just as well.
Also, why does every person who uses and likes Bing have to be a shill? Isn't it possible they're just crazy?
Ah, but how many people were involved in Angry Birds, now available on "every fucking platform under the sun"? Or Fruit Ninja, now available on "even a few platforms that Angry Birds isn't". That's probably the two best examples of formerly unknowns coming out with a product so successful that they don't need to apply to the console vendors, the console vendors approach them. Hell, Microsoft likely paid big money to Halfbrick for Fruit Ninja Kinect to be made.
To not use Flash, the browser needs to support WebM. The Xbox360 will not, so the question is still irrelevant.
It's cryptographically signed with certificates, not quite the same as the encryption (in fact, I don't think the disc is even encrypted).
None. The Xbox 360 browser won't be supporting plugins, of that you can be certain. And with a cursory glance at the exploits list, almost all are either socially engineered ("your computer has a virus, click here to scan!") which won't work on a 360, or related to plugins such as Flash, Java or Adobe Reader - also a no-go on the 360.
I guess he's referring to .NET features like WPF that are actually available on all OS versions supporting .NET. Since every .NET feature at its core still has to use the Win32 API to implement the nitty gritty, a Windows feature that's .NET only is impossible.