Couple that with the entitlement mentality rampant today and you'll find without DRM people will just give other people's shit away for free without a second thought, and other people will download said shit for free without a twinge of conscience.
And how does DRM stop that from happening? The answer: it doesn't. People already strip the DRM and give stuff away online. DRM does nothing other than reduce profits, because you have to pay the DRM vendors to license the DRM (and pay for increased support costs from DRM-related issues). Seeing as it does nothing to protect you, wouldn't you be better off just keeping that money in your pocket and skipping the DRM?
Frankly, that's good enough for me, in this case; if it doesn't interfere with my legitimate use of a game or my music, I don't have a real problem with it.
That's what they all say, until it comes back to bite them on the ass. You'll probably find that their definition of "legitimate use" differs from yours.
Again, why don't you just burn a copy of the game to a disc, or copy it to an external hard drive, if you want to play it on a different machine without downloading it again?
My god, how do they come up with these awful names? Microsoft must have an entire division solely dedicated to coming up with the worst names they can possibly think of.
What does this one even mean? The user is protected? From what, Mode Audio?
Personally I agree that the Google killswitch is different from the iPhone one, which Apple already abused to prevent a possible iTunes rival.
What? Got any evidence of this? AFAIK, Apple simply rejected the application from the App Store. They didn't use the kill switch to disable copies that had been sold, because there were never any copies sold.
I dunno, I think they are very useful on heavy machinery in places like factories. I wouldn't want to operate my bench saw if it didn't have a prominent kill switch.
So, it's OK when the US does those things, but not when Muslims do? We've killed and raped lot more of them than they have us in the latest war. I guess you must be a moral exceptionalist - "your side" gets a free pass, while anybody else does anything, and they are evil.
I just answered factually. The other post claimed there was only one religion that did those things. I pointed out that it's not true.
I think it's a worry for Firewire users and Mac users, whether immediately affected or not. I think it's going to mean a drop in Firewire adoption, which is not good.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a refresh in 6 months where they drop the price of the MBs (possibly the MBPs) and discontinue the white older MB.
Well, that's my point. When they do that, do you think they'll put Firewire back in? I doubt it.
We got some hands-on time with this handsome wireless mouse and were impressed by its tracking accuracy, stylish design, and mesmerizing blue glow.
Yeah, because we haven't got enough glowing gadgets. I'm not sure who considers "mesmerizing" as a positive aspect of consumer electronics. End the madness, people! Or are you too hypnotized by blue LEDs to move?
Just off the top of my head, you have Homer Simpson meeting God at least once, a somewhat well-known science fiction writer doing a parody of Inferno with the hero as a science fiction writer who tries to rationalize Hell as an alien amusement park, and Penny Arcade frequently features Jesus who "throws up the horns" and "is fucking metal".
What? How is any of that even close to disparagingly quoting the bible? Your context also implied a "real" setting such as politics or public speeches, not fiction or comedy.
It only counts if you receive real death threats, i.e. threats that have a good potential for being carried out.
So, how do you know? Until it is carried out, you don't. Sounds like you are just shifting the goalposts to suit your argument.
The Christian death threats are nearly always just a level beyond "may you rot in Hell forever", a curse. Muslim death threats frequently result in a (sometimes successful) attempt on the target's life.
Got any statistics or actual data on that? You'd have to at least know how many muslims made death threats to know if that's true or not. And then you'd have to correlate it with the actual murders.
You sure? Big media companies do that stuff all the time and I've never heard of such a thing.
Got any examples? I don't recall any recent "highly visible public blashpemy" of the type you refer to.
All I know is that I've received death threats for criticising Christianity on website discussions. And that artists like Serrano receive death theats and actual violence against their property for making Christian-themed artwork. And those aren't exactly "highly visible" examples.
It seems it doesn't take much to rile the fundamentalists up - witness the shouted threats from the audience at recent McCain speeches.
But how long will that be available for? It feels to me like that model is similar to the "education" eMac that was sold alongside flat-panel iMacs for a while before being discontinued. I wouldn't count on that model being around for long.
When Andres Serrano dumped a crucifix in urine and photographed it he wasn't banned from displaying his work. Hell, a nun actually stated in an interview that the work was not blasphemous but rather an example of what people have done to Christ.
Actually, when it was exhibited in Melbourne, a Christian nutjob attacked it with a hammer, and it was removed from display. i think the exhibition was actually closed, if I remember correctly.
Practice highly visible public heresy, for example by quoting particularly unflattering passages of a particular religion's holy book.
Now: how many death threats do you receive?
If the answer is not "zero", then you can start with the snide remarks.
Well, if you did that with the Christian Bible, you're bound to get at least a couple of death threats from crazy fundamentalists. So, can we make the snide remarks now?
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Agenda or not, it was marketed as a game about evolution, but plays like a game about Intelligent Design. I think the comparison is very apt.
Firstly, where is the queue? Oh, you mean cue.
Couple that with the entitlement mentality rampant today and you'll find without DRM people will just give other people's shit away for free without a second thought, and other people will download said shit for free without a twinge of conscience.
And how does DRM stop that from happening? The answer: it doesn't. People already strip the DRM and give stuff away online. DRM does nothing other than reduce profits, because you have to pay the DRM vendors to license the DRM (and pay for increased support costs from DRM-related issues). Seeing as it does nothing to protect you, wouldn't you be better off just keeping that money in your pocket and skipping the DRM?
Frankly, that's good enough for me, in this case; if it doesn't interfere with my legitimate use of a game or my music, I don't have a real problem with it.
That's what they all say, until it comes back to bite them on the ass. You'll probably find that their definition of "legitimate use" differs from yours.
Again, why don't you just burn a copy of the game to a disc, or copy it to an external hard drive, if you want to play it on a different machine without downloading it again?
When your hard drive fails, you'll spend days re-downloading content (if you're lucky).
Uhhh, why wouldn't you have a backup of the content on your console's hard drive?
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My god, how do they come up with these awful names? Microsoft must have an entire division solely dedicated to coming up with the worst names they can possibly think of.
What does this one even mean? The user is protected? From what, Mode Audio?
No shit, but you miss the point. If you go the distance in less than a certain amount of time, you definitely, and definitively were speeding.
I thought they were just a social group of Marlon Brando look-alikes.
Personally I agree that the Google killswitch is different from the iPhone one, which Apple already abused to prevent a possible iTunes rival.
What? Got any evidence of this? AFAIK, Apple simply rejected the application from the App Store. They didn't use the kill switch to disable copies that had been sold, because there were never any copies sold.
I dunno, I think they are very useful on heavy machinery in places like factories. I wouldn't want to operate my bench saw if it didn't have a prominent kill switch.
I just user my finger for pointing.
So, it's OK when the US does those things, but not when Muslims do? We've killed and raped lot more of them than they have us in the latest war. I guess you must be a moral exceptionalist - "your side" gets a free pass, while anybody else does anything, and they are evil.
I just answered factually. The other post claimed there was only one religion that did those things. I pointed out that it's not true.
Then worry about when it's time to replace yours.
I think it's a worry for Firewire users and Mac users, whether immediately affected or not. I think it's going to mean a drop in Firewire adoption, which is not good.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a refresh in 6 months where they drop the price of the MBs (possibly the MBPs) and discontinue the white older MB.
Well, that's my point. When they do that, do you think they'll put Firewire back in? I doubt it.
From the article:
We got some hands-on time with this handsome wireless mouse and were impressed by its tracking accuracy, stylish design, and mesmerizing blue glow.
Yeah, because we haven't got enough glowing gadgets. I'm not sure who considers "mesmerizing" as a positive aspect of consumer electronics. End the madness, people! Or are you too hypnotized by blue LEDs to move?
You mean, you didn't expect anybody to tell the truth?
Just off the top of my head, you have Homer Simpson meeting God at least once, a somewhat well-known science fiction writer doing a parody of Inferno with the hero as a science fiction writer who tries to rationalize Hell as an alien amusement park, and Penny Arcade frequently features Jesus who "throws up the horns" and "is fucking metal".
What? How is any of that even close to disparagingly quoting the bible? Your context also implied a "real" setting such as politics or public speeches, not fiction or comedy.
It only counts if you receive real death threats, i.e. threats that have a good potential for being carried out.
So, how do you know? Until it is carried out, you don't. Sounds like you are just shifting the goalposts to suit your argument.
The Christian death threats are nearly always just a level beyond "may you rot in Hell forever", a curse. Muslim death threats frequently result in a (sometimes successful) attempt on the target's life.
Got any statistics or actual data on that? You'd have to at least know how many muslims made death threats to know if that's true or not. And then you'd have to correlate it with the actual murders.
Because I don't need to replace mine now, but I will eventually, and I don't know how long that will be.
You sure? Big media companies do that stuff all the time and I've never heard of such a thing.
Got any examples? I don't recall any recent "highly visible public blashpemy" of the type you refer to.
All I know is that I've received death threats for criticising Christianity on website discussions. And that artists like Serrano receive death theats and actual violence against their property for making Christian-themed artwork. And those aren't exactly "highly visible" examples.
It seems it doesn't take much to rile the fundamentalists up - witness the shouted threats from the audience at recent McCain speeches.
But how long will that be available for? It feels to me like that model is similar to the "education" eMac that was sold alongside flat-panel iMacs for a while before being discontinued. I wouldn't count on that model being around for long.
It probably says more about you that you find those ads "obnoxious" than it does about the ads or Apple.
When Andres Serrano dumped a crucifix in urine and photographed it he wasn't banned from displaying his work. Hell, a nun actually stated in an interview that the work was not blasphemous but rather an example of what people have done to Christ.
Actually, when it was exhibited in Melbourne, a Christian nutjob attacked it with a hammer, and it was removed from display. i think the exhibition was actually closed, if I remember correctly.
NOW come back and tell me you've actually studied it, in depth, before declaring it a "religion of peace."
I don't recall anybody in this thread declaring that Islam is a "religion of peace", so I'm not sure who your comment is directed at.
but there's one religion today where high-ranking leaders commonly call for the deaths of non-believers, blasphemers, rape victims, etc...
The US government? The Republican Party?
Practice highly visible public heresy, for example by quoting particularly unflattering passages of a particular religion's holy book. Now: how many death threats do you receive? If the answer is not "zero", then you can start with the snide remarks.
Well, if you did that with the Christian Bible, you're bound to get at least a couple of death threats from crazy fundamentalists. So, can we make the snide remarks now?
Which is the religion of peace again?
None of them?