As someone who works at Ubisoft, I can guarantee you that this practice will NOT stop. The CEO pretty much said so... often.
Please deliver this hand gesture message to your CEO.
1: Hold your right hand up, palm facing you, and thumb tucked in. 2: Wiggle the four raised fingers rapidly for a few seconds. 3: Wait for the CEO to ask what that was. 4: Tell him "It's an encrypted one of these..." 5: Lower all but the middle finger.
And yet you not only read but post in an article about games?
I'm sorry I missed the commandment that decrees that you can only read and comment on articles in which you have a first person experience. At this point I should also add a "whoosh" as well.
I reckon that is related to the same unwritten rule that seems to cause so many here to declare that they do anal whenever discussing legal matters.;)
And here's my problem: I WANT to give them not only a red cent but I WANT to buy that game legally. I DO NOT want to pirate a game (and hence I don't do it).
But there are games that I really, really wanted to have. Wanted to buy. Wanted to play. Yet I will not be able to do that because I am not willing to reduce my system security to zero and bend over to get an anal probe every time I want to play a friggin' game!
This is exactly the problem I'm facing here.
If you really really really want to play it and make sure the publisher gets compensated, but don't want your system compromised, then the obvious solution is to purchase it legally, keep the box safely sealed on your shelf, then download a cleaned up version. Publisher doesn't like that? Well, call the wahmbulance for them. They got their money and you have proof that you are legally authorized to use the product that you purchased and paid for. And this is another way to reclaim first sale rights. If you get tired of the game, then you can uninstall and delete the crapware free version you have been using, and have a still sealed retail box to sell off to some other gamer.
I miss two things about disc-and-box games: Being able to resell them, and the box. I do prefer my first-sale doctrines un-eroded, and I'm sitting in front of a bookshelf of old MicroProse games.
I liked a suggestion I saw recently on how to reclaim your first sale rights on Steam games. Simply create a new Steam account each time you buy a game from them (yay for unlimited GMail addresses). Then if you get tired of a game and want to resell it, sell the account it is tied to. Steam ToS says that you can't do that? Well, too bad for Steam. If corporations go to convoluted lengths to take away rights, then the customers can return the favor and go to whatever lengths are needed to reclaim those rights.
Didn't the "Don't call me Shirley" line get used in the 1978 Superman film as well? I may be misremembering, but I thought that that fellow who was the editor of the Daily Planet (can't remember his name) said "Don't call me Shirley" to either Lois, Clark, or Jimmy.
What this needs is an icon on the desktop titled "Activate Now". Running it then connects to the relevant repositories and installs all the codecs that typical users were accustomed to back in the Windows world. And during installation, various tip screens come up explaining in layman's terms the reasons why these were unable to be installed at the factory.
Remember, you may not be able to change the world, but you can at least make a dent.
Before I retired, the couple of blokes I worked with who were born and raised in Africa before becoming U.S. citizens preferred to be referred to as Kenyans. That is probably because they were from this certain nation on the continent of Africa known as Kenya.
Likewise, I've known plenty of people from the Asian continent who referred to themselves by very descriptive terms such as: Russian, Indian, Pakistani, Afghani, Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian...
Use of terms such as Asian, African, Latino, or whatever is referring to general ethnicity, not a specific national citizenship.
The name of their country is United States of America, but many have fallen in to the habit of referring to it simply as America. And I don't have a problem with that; America is a lovely name, and American rolls off the tongue a lot better than "Usians."
Citizens of Los Estados Unidos de Mexico are called Mexicans. Citizens of the People's Republic of China are Chinese. Citizens of what used to be known as the Dominion of Canada are called Canadians. And going by the above few examples, it only makes sense that the citizens of The United States of America be known as Americans.
People tend to identify their nationality by the last bit of their nation's name, not by their continent (Australia being the obvious exception).
According to Tron, his user was Alan1 (most likely because some smug fucker in Accounting managed to get the user name Alan before he could grab it. Granted, that never gets revealed or even hinted at, but it is a logical deduction.)
Don't overlook chapters 4 and 5. Remember, according to those who take the Bible as factual history flat out believe that Adam and Eve were the first two Humans, period. What they don't like to think about is that means that in order to populate the earth, they and their offspring had to engage in a rather lengthy incestuous fuckfest with their siblings (and possibly their parents).
This obviously means that we are going to need better technology. We'll need technology that will be able to give us a full color representation of your completely nude body, but only if you're a hot chick. - Your Friendly local TSA Agent
Even better, implement beer goggle technology into these full body scanners, so no matter how the passenger really looks, the TSA agent will never need eye bleach at the end of his or her shift.
That's impossible. Irons don't have operating systems or otherwise run software, so they can't crash.
And as for whether or not linking is publishing...
I hold this truth to be self evident that merely linking to a page such as my Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party 3 Detroit Rock City Demo is not the same in any way shape or form as actually publishing my Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party 3 Detroit Rock City Demo.
(And don't worry. It is not a goatse link in any way shape or form.)
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We want to make certain he doesn't merely become yesterday's gyro.
As someone who works at Ubisoft, I can guarantee you that this practice will NOT stop. The CEO pretty much said so ... often.
Please deliver this hand gesture message to your CEO.
1: Hold your right hand up, palm facing you, and thumb tucked in.
2: Wiggle the four raised fingers rapidly for a few seconds.
3: Wait for the CEO to ask what that was.
4: Tell him "It's an encrypted one of these..."
5: Lower all but the middle finger.
And yet you not only read but post in an article about games?
I'm sorry I missed the commandment that decrees that you can only read and comment on articles in which you have a first person experience. At this point I should also add a "whoosh" as well.
I reckon that is related to the same unwritten rule that seems to cause so many here to declare that they do anal whenever discussing legal matters. ;)
And here's my problem: I WANT to give them not only a red cent but I WANT to buy that game legally. I DO NOT want to pirate a game (and hence I don't do it).
But there are games that I really, really wanted to have. Wanted to buy. Wanted to play. Yet I will not be able to do that because I am not willing to reduce my system security to zero and bend over to get an anal probe every time I want to play a friggin' game!
This is exactly the problem I'm facing here.
If you really really really want to play it and make sure the publisher gets compensated, but don't want your system compromised, then the obvious solution is to purchase it legally, keep the box safely sealed on your shelf, then download a cleaned up version. Publisher doesn't like that? Well, call the wahmbulance for them. They got their money and you have proof that you are legally authorized to use the product that you purchased and paid for. And this is another way to reclaim first sale rights. If you get tired of the game, then you can uninstall and delete the crapware free version you have been using, and have a still sealed retail box to sell off to some other gamer.
I miss two things about disc-and-box games: Being able to resell them, and the box. I do prefer my first-sale doctrines un-eroded, and I'm sitting in front of a bookshelf of old MicroProse games.
I liked a suggestion I saw recently on how to reclaim your first sale rights on Steam games. Simply create a new Steam account each time you buy a game from them (yay for unlimited GMail addresses). Then if you get tired of a game and want to resell it, sell the account it is tied to. Steam ToS says that you can't do that? Well, too bad for Steam. If corporations go to convoluted lengths to take away rights, then the customers can return the favor and go to whatever lengths are needed to reclaim those rights.
Didn't the "Don't call me Shirley" line get used in the 1978 Superman film as well? I may be misremembering, but I thought that that fellow who was the editor of the Daily Planet (can't remember his name) said "Don't call me Shirley" to either Lois, Clark, or Jimmy.
See, watch:
1) I, for one, welcome our Open Source dupe overlords, but do they run Linux?
Well, they certainly aren't running HURD.
Now imagine a Beowulf clusterfuck of these guys... er on second thought, can we get some brain bleach here please?
What this needs is an icon on the desktop titled "Activate Now". Running it then connects to the relevant repositories and installs all the codecs that typical users were accustomed to back in the Windows world. And during installation, various tip screens come up explaining in layman's terms the reasons why these were unable to be installed at the factory.
Remember, you may not be able to change the world, but you can at least make a dent.
The Commissaries at our military bases do this too.
NEXT Please!
Oh, but maybe they patented _charging for it_. And that's a huge leap!
It's like the difference between a slut and a whore, and we all know that's about $250.
The difference has nothing to do with any set price. The difference is much more simple.
A whore will sleep with anyone. ;)
A slut will sleep with anyone except you.
Remember: A body count is fine and dandy. A booty count is abhorrent.
People of the continent of Africa are "Africans"
Before I retired, the couple of blokes I worked with who were born and raised in Africa before becoming U.S. citizens preferred to be referred to as Kenyans. That is probably because they were from this certain nation on the continent of Africa known as Kenya.
Likewise, I've known plenty of people from the Asian continent who referred to themselves by very descriptive terms such as: Russian, Indian, Pakistani, Afghani, Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian...
Use of terms such as Asian, African, Latino, or whatever is referring to general ethnicity, not a specific national citizenship.
The name of their country is United States of America, but many have fallen in to the habit of referring to it simply as America. And I don't have a problem with that; America is a lovely name, and American rolls off the tongue a lot better than "Usians."
Citizens of Los Estados Unidos de Mexico are called Mexicans.
Citizens of the People's Republic of China are Chinese.
Citizens of what used to be known as the Dominion of Canada are called Canadians.
And going by the above few examples, it only makes sense that the citizens of The United States of America be known as Americans.
People tend to identify their nationality by the last bit of their nation's name, not by their continent (Australia being the obvious exception).
I suspect this game was simply called Disc.
End of line...
Except the binary aspect was only due to the answers BIT could give, not its state.
It could only answer yes or no, which makes it binary. If it could also answer Maybe So, then it could be called TIT.
According to Tron, his user was Alan1 (most likely because some smug fucker in Accounting managed to get the user name Alan before he could grab it. Granted, that never gets revealed or even hinted at, but it is a logical deduction.)
End of line...
For this discussion, you should have ended it with...
End of line.
For the era when ROTJ was filmed, it probably would have been a wee bit too much for the ratings goons if they had used Wookies instead of Ewoks.
Don't overlook chapters 4 and 5. Remember, according to those who take the Bible as factual history flat out believe that Adam and Eve were the first two Humans, period. What they don't like to think about is that means that in order to populate the earth, they and their offspring had to engage in a rather lengthy incestuous fuckfest with their siblings (and possibly their parents).
Just remember this:
A body count is acceptable.
A booty count is abhorrent.
Also, "You can have your gore, but you can't have a whore."
(And for the record, I caused my younger brother to shoot coffee out his nose when I coined those two sayings a couple weeks back.)
That depends on if the passenger had Taco Hell the previous night.
Not to sound like a broken record (does that phase mean anything to people or did I just show my age)...
That is right along the lines of "Don't touch that dial."
And personally, I have started using "Not to sound like a scratched record" instead of "Not to sound like a broken record."
If you think about it, a broken record would sound li...
Whereas a scratched record would sound like...record would sound like...record would sound like...
This obviously means that we are going to need better technology. We'll need technology that will be able to give us a full color representation of your completely nude body, but only if you're a hot chick. - Your Friendly local TSA Agent
Even better, implement beer goggle technology into these full body scanners, so no matter how the passenger really looks, the TSA agent will never need eye bleach at the end of his or her shift.
Dude, you just crashed my irony detector.
That's impossible. Irons don't have operating systems or otherwise run software, so they can't crash.
And as for whether or not linking is publishing...
I hold this truth to be self evident that merely linking to a page such as my Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party 3 Detroit Rock City Demo is not the same in any way shape or form as actually publishing my Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party 3 Detroit Rock City Demo.
(And don't worry. It is not a goatse link in any way shape or form.)
I always think of that article whenever my lack of TV viewing over the past decade comes up as a conversational topic.
Long live The Onion.