It gives the impression you (the customer) is doing something wrong (breaking out of jail).
Call it "removing the DRM".
Personally, I don't know why anyone would want to buy a DRM-crippled device for hundreds of dollars and be beholden to 2 mega corporations dictating what you can and can't do with it.
But I'll defend to the death the right of the public to do what they please with what they buy (own).
F*** corporate rights!
of illegal unrepentant monopoly abuse and all they get is a slap on the wrist?
Crime truly pays and i would encourage not only corporations but individuals to practice the same.
Let's all make this a world where bribery/extortion/underhanded/anti-competitive behavior is rewarded.
Micro$oft got away virtually scott free and now Inte£, flush with 10's of billions of dollars (it bribed De££ 6Billion just in 2000-2006) can afford to be "punished" for some loose change.
In the eyes of the public Inte£ is still an innovator and corporate good guy, even though they have their own "DOS aint done till Lotus won't run" compiler anti-competitive behavior (check out how many games/apps use the Inte£ compiler and how they "run better on Inte£". All those cheap "review" sites never bother to dig in and ask why does an app/game really run better... software optimization can make any cpu look like a king or a pauper.
Same story with $vidia. They control (illegally/unethically) yet you see so many apologists and defenders. It makes me sick.
It's in all our best interests to have actual, legal and fair competition. No bribery, no shenanigans, no underhanded deals, no anti-competitive behavior. But you see very few people opt for it. They see something shiny and lose all sense of things.
Sometimes i wonder if it's really worth being good (corporate or individual) because this world absolutely rewards the evil.
They always manage to stay on top because they are a monopolist in the gfx industry. They are the Inte£/Micro$oft of their respective industry.
Remember the partial precision era (5800)? They just happened to continue using PP well up to the 8 series...
3Dmark? They threatened to leave the sponsors group when things didn't go their way, a few years back.
They have PhysX in 3Dmark, when no one else has it in hardware to artificially boost benchmark scores (which basically sells hardware to 99% of non-enthusiasts).
Remember when 3Dmark ran on rails? The biggest cheat that the public found out about....
They have a very long history of dirty tricks, anti-competitive and anti-consumer behavior. The latest one is the disabling of physx when not paired with an $vidia card as the renderer. The customers already bought the right to use physx with their ati cards but $vidia disabled it and then gave a complete bull$hit answer as to why.
That and lots more over the years.
They are a scum company, which is why i have been $vidia-free for 7 years.
What makes you think that it's only just Micro$oft's products that have back doors?
Do you really think tens of millions of O$X systems have no "entrance for 3 letter agencies"? Wasn't RMS saying this just a few weeks ago? He was forced to apologize but he was absolutely right. Commercial corporations are absolutely required to build in back doors in all their products.
Any software that is closed source is 100% assured to have anti-consumer chicanery going on.
But here's something you don't often hear: even Linux systems can harbor back doors... remember the obfuscated C contest? Imagine having to find that one line of code in the tens of millions of lines of a modern linux system. Code can easily be concealed from its true motive.
No one can be 100% sure that there is no back doors in their systems.
I remember reading a few months ago about an organization that was very compartmentalized, where each division had very little knowledge about what the others were doing. And 1 employee was adding a secret back door at the behest of his employer. No one would be the wiser.
Modern CPUs have certain undocumented features... it's very easy for encryption to be defective by design. Your local police dept won't know how to take advantage for it but you can bet those agencies can.
It's Microsoft, they take a very long time to do anything right (or do anything at all). Just look at Internet Explorer, they have been working on it since 1994. 15 years later, we are still YET to receive a browser from Microsoft that is at least more than 20% web compliant..
Microsoft does have the technical resources to make IE score 100% on the Acid3 test. However, it is not in their best interests to do so. Here is a quote from Bill Gates (taken from wikiquotes) which demonstrates Microsoft's business strategy.
One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
This is the attitude that Microsoft is developing software with. Just look at the number of businesses that are stuck with IE6 because of some legacy ActiveX application. Microsoft's strategy is working very well for them and I don't see them ever changing.
Locking in consumers is a good sound business strategy. Just ask App£e.
if you want to cheat, there are plenty of single player games for you to hack and crack.
when playing with other people, please exercise restraint from cheating.
in other words, don't be a cheating prick.
it's not right to ruin other people's gameplay solely to satisfy yourself.
but then again, other users have no recourse against cheaters except to stop playing the games in question. i did. and i'm not coming back till cheaters go away or armageddon, whichever one comes first.
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and furthermore a EULA is not a contract.
it's a strongly suggested lengthy piece of psuedo-legalese, designed to make people think it's binding.
My biggest PS2 complaint? Why couldn't they make it so I could save PS1 saves to PS2 memory cards? I don't think that should be that hard. Oh well.
because then they couldn't sell you massively overpriced flash memory yet again.
if they just stick to compact flash for each console, they could have the ultimate in storage and compatibility (forget SD, the S stands for "secure" if you know what i mean).
greed. and the short-sighted "consumers" who bend over for it every 5 years.
it has nothing to do with jealousy and everything to do with not letting the most aggressive nation on earth have control over a critical resource.
DNS root servers are only the begining.
would America (and by america i mean the right wing and left wing traitors to the constitution) like it if say China controlled major aspects of the internet? how about North Korea?
hell, America doesn't even like that there is oil under the ground of other countries. venezeula is under a constant barrage of CIA coup d'etat agents for the past couple of years.
the problem is, the internet shouldn't be under the control of any one nation or organization, ideally. it's a communication infrastructure that's too important to the future of humanity to be screwed with.
and that blurb in the summary about 2 republicans and 1 democrat.. real fancy maneouver... as if this or any other important issue is a "partisan" issue. the right and left (and middle) is a complete fabrication. whoever brings it up first, gets the prize of being recognized for what they are.
run the hell away from windows and microsoft if they know what's good for them.
there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to use windows unless you have a very specific reason and no other way of fulfulling that requirement.
in other words, NO.
why get tangled up in the MS web unless your life and livelihood were at stake?
proprietary software in general and the spyware infested (direct from redmond, not the 3rd party garbage from greedy scumbags) windows is terrible for the computing world.
if you're a gamer like i am, then i feel sorry for you as well. having to use garbage like windows to run your entertainment. i only wish for WINE or ReactOS to mature more quickly so that i and other gamers can ditch Genuine windows for something that isn't associated with this bugging device desguised as an OS.
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It gives the impression you (the customer) is doing something wrong (breaking out of jail). Call it "removing the DRM". Personally, I don't know why anyone would want to buy a DRM-crippled device for hundreds of dollars and be beholden to 2 mega corporations dictating what you can and can't do with it. But I'll defend to the death the right of the public to do what they please with what they buy (own). F*** corporate rights!
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/mac-osx-mistakes-and-malfeatures http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/29/stallman_withdraws_apple_backdoor_claim/
They are NOT "nice and shiny".
Where does this garbage come from?
Even people starting off by saying they hate App£€, say they have great design/look shiny/etc.
Since when is puke white and bland design make people "ooh" except by mass indoctrination (marketing).
Uuuuugly is all i can say and i'm not part of the iCult. I'd rather be a scientologist, at least most people know they are full of $hit.
Remember kids, just say no to iDRM.
is a loss for customer (public) rights.
Don't use the word "control" in the same sentence as App£€ when DRM is more accurate.
Telling the customer (or consumer if you support corporate rights over your own) what to do with a product after it has been sold = DRM.
of illegal unrepentant monopoly abuse and all they get is a slap on the wrist?
Crime truly pays and i would encourage not only corporations but individuals to practice the same.
Let's all make this a world where bribery/extortion/underhanded/anti-competitive behavior is rewarded.
Micro$oft got away virtually scott free and now Inte£, flush with 10's of billions of dollars (it bribed De££ 6Billion just in 2000-2006) can afford to be "punished" for some loose change.
In the eyes of the public Inte£ is still an innovator and corporate good guy, even though they have their own "DOS aint done till Lotus won't run" compiler anti-competitive behavior (check out how many games/apps use the Inte£ compiler and how they "run better on Inte£". All those cheap "review" sites never bother to dig in and ask why does an app/game really run better... software optimization can make any cpu look like a king or a pauper.
Same story with $vidia. They control (illegally/unethically) yet you see so many apologists and defenders. It makes me sick.
It's in all our best interests to have actual, legal and fair competition. No bribery, no shenanigans, no underhanded deals, no anti-competitive behavior. But you see very few people opt for it. They see something shiny and lose all sense of things.
Sometimes i wonder if it's really worth being good (corporate or individual) because this world absolutely rewards the evil.
I'm glad that 64-bit Firefox doesn't have a flash plugin.
"If there were no App£e, we'd have one less evil empire" A derivation of Voltaire.
Don't call it "jailbreaking"....
That implies that you're doing something immoral/unethical (breaking someone out of jail).
Call it for what it really is... removing DRM (taking back the ownership of a device you own).
And also on a similar subject, get rid of the word "homebrew".... makes it sound like it's substandard or promoting the corporate agenda.
Call it "arbitrary code execution". (ACE)
Sure it doesn't have the same ring but it's a helluva lot more honest and defeats corporate propoganda.
in that cultists support an anti-consumer DRM'd product to their own detriment.
Education is the only answer to people who think defending corporate rights over their own is a good idea.
You mean OS/A thru OS/W :)
They always manage to stay on top because they are a monopolist in the gfx industry. They are the Inte£/Micro$oft of their respective industry.
Remember the partial precision era (5800)? They just happened to continue using PP well up to the 8 series...
3Dmark? They threatened to leave the sponsors group when things didn't go their way, a few years back.
They have PhysX in 3Dmark, when no one else has it in hardware to artificially boost benchmark scores (which basically sells hardware to 99% of non-enthusiasts).
Remember when 3Dmark ran on rails? The biggest cheat that the public found out about....
They have a very long history of dirty tricks, anti-competitive and anti-consumer behavior. The latest one is the disabling of physx when not paired with an $vidia card as the renderer. The customers already bought the right to use physx with their ati cards but $vidia disabled it and then gave a complete bull$hit answer as to why.
That and lots more over the years.
They are a scum company, which is why i have been $vidia-free for 7 years.
Yeah, they're just so nasty that you can't bear to type Inte£.
MS (look what i did here. ooh!) and Inte£ and App£€...
You mean a thrice convicted monopolist is a good friend to linux?
Interesting times we live in...
then i'm all for it.
What makes you think that it's only just Micro$oft's products that have back doors?
Do you really think tens of millions of O$X systems have no "entrance for 3 letter agencies"? Wasn't RMS saying this just a few weeks ago? He was forced to apologize but he was absolutely right. Commercial corporations are absolutely required to build in back doors in all their products.
Any software that is closed source is 100% assured to have anti-consumer chicanery going on.
But here's something you don't often hear: even Linux systems can harbor back doors... remember the obfuscated C contest? Imagine having to find that one line of code in the tens of millions of lines of a modern linux system. Code can easily be concealed from its true motive.
No one can be 100% sure that there is no back doors in their systems.
I remember reading a few months ago about an organization that was very compartmentalized, where each division had very little knowledge about what the others were doing. And 1 employee was adding a secret back door at the behest of his employer. No one would be the wiser.
Modern CPUs have certain undocumented features... it's very easy for encryption to be defective by design. Your local police dept won't know how to take advantage for it but you can bet those agencies can.
It's Microsoft, they take a very long time to do anything right (or do anything at all). Just look at Internet Explorer, they have been working on it since 1994. 15 years later, we are still YET to receive a browser from Microsoft that is at least more than 20% web compliant..
Microsoft does have the technical resources to make IE score 100% on the Acid3 test. However, it is not in their best interests to do so. Here is a quote from Bill Gates (taken from wikiquotes) which demonstrates Microsoft's business strategy.
One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
This is the attitude that Microsoft is developing software with. Just look at the number of businesses that are stuck with IE6 because of some legacy ActiveX application. Microsoft's strategy is working very well for them and I don't see them ever changing.
Locking in consumers is a good sound business strategy. Just ask App£e.
the problem as you put it, is that they are not close enough to give a bloody nose to.
that should solve online cheating in an instant should such an invention come to fruition.
that's why lan parties are such a hit... cheating is virtually non-existant there. and when detected, they throw the bum out on their rear.
creation, means from nothing. no existing matter, space or time was used in its formation.
construction (assembly, building etc) means that other parts of the universe came together and formed a new entity.
the first is impossible according to science.
the second is a common occurance around the universe.
carl sagan and his apple pie example.
not created.
subtle but very important difference.
if you want to cheat, there are plenty of single player games for you to hack and crack.
when playing with other people, please exercise restraint from cheating.
in other words, don't be a cheating prick.
it's not right to ruin other people's gameplay solely to satisfy yourself.
but then again, other users have no recourse against cheaters except to stop playing the games in question. i did. and i'm not coming back till cheaters go away or armageddon, whichever one comes first.
and furthermore a EULA is not a contract.
it's a strongly suggested lengthy piece of psuedo-legalese, designed to make people think it's binding.
My biggest PS2 complaint? Why couldn't they make it so I could save PS1 saves to PS2 memory cards? I don't think that should be that hard. Oh well.
because then they couldn't sell you massively overpriced flash memory yet again.
if they just stick to compact flash for each console, they could have the ultimate in storage and compatibility (forget SD, the S stands for "secure" if you know what i mean).
greed. and the short-sighted "consumers" who bend over for it every 5 years.
it has nothing to do with jealousy and everything to do with not letting the most aggressive nation on earth have control over a critical resource.
DNS root servers are only the begining.
would America (and by america i mean the right wing and left wing traitors to the constitution) like it if say China controlled major aspects of the internet? how about North Korea?
hell, America doesn't even like that there is oil under the ground of other countries. venezeula is under a constant barrage of CIA coup d'etat agents for the past couple of years.
the problem is, the internet shouldn't be under the control of any one nation or organization, ideally. it's a communication infrastructure that's too important to the future of humanity to be screwed with.
and that blurb in the summary about 2 republicans and 1 democrat.. real fancy maneouver... as if this or any other important issue is a "partisan" issue. the right and left (and middle) is a complete fabrication. whoever brings it up first, gets the prize of being recognized for what they are.
run the hell away from windows and microsoft if they know what's good for them.
there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to use windows unless you have a very specific reason and no other way of fulfulling that requirement.
in other words, NO.
why get tangled up in the MS web unless your life and livelihood were at stake?
proprietary software in general and the spyware infested (direct from redmond, not the 3rd party garbage from greedy scumbags) windows is terrible for the computing world.
if you're a gamer like i am, then i feel sorry for you as well. having to use garbage like windows to run your entertainment. i only wish for WINE or ReactOS to mature more quickly so that i and other gamers can ditch Genuine windows for something that isn't associated with this bugging device desguised as an OS.