Heisenberg himself claimed that he had worked against the project's success, but any such claims are suspect given his obvious motive to avoid ending up at Nuremberg.
You've been modded insightful, but that just means the mods are as ignorant as you. Honor killings? Sharia Law? Feudal social systems? I mean, I think those ways of life SHOULD be eradicated, but I'm not pretending to be tolerant of barbaric cultural practices. As for Islam itself, it's really only Wahabi Islam that I have a problem with (well, and some of the kookier Shia sects), but I have the same opinion of certain Evangelical Christian sects (and Scientology, whatever Shinto sect committed the sarin nerve gas attacks in Tokyo, and a few others I can't think of at the moment).
Any cultural practice that denies the rights of the individual to self-determination on any grounds is barbaric, and should be eradicated (yes, the irony is obvious to me--but it's not hypocrisy for reasons that are too subtle to be obvious in English).
Correct, but most Muslims speak Arabic as a second language if it isn't their first, what with the Qu'ran being written in Arabic, and it being the language of the afterlife, etc.
I think the word you are looking for is 'anecdotal.' Although, valuable research data is also not apocryphal, I don't see how that is relevant to the rest of your post.
What talk radio IS guilty of is damnable rhetoric, and some of it fairly well constructed rhetoric (from a theoretic point of view). That is not the same as newspeak -- unless you assert that Aristotle practiced newspeak.
The GP is either an uneducated twit, or just being cheeky.
What an utter crock of horse shit. Pure, grade A, USDA choice lawn fertilizer. I'm talking primo dung, the kind your Aunt Milly used to rub on your upper lip so she could say you gave her a moustache ride.
No, pirating only sends one message: the pirated version is a superior product and lower cost.
That developers are too stupid to understand it is irrelevant, there is still only one message being sent.
Trying to up the cost of piracy with DRM is a losing proposition because it always damages the value of the real product faster than it can increase the cost of piracy (which, let's face it, will pretty much never be anything other than just north of zero), and the equation remains tipped in piracy's favor.
The only real solution is to make the paid version superior to the pirated version--this ain't hard to do either, in fact it's probably easier than a DRM arms race.
Almost certainly not enough spare bandwidth to deal with a halfway decent DDOS--which if a piracy/bot ring wants to convince people to install their infected/pirated version, best way would be to use their botnet to bring down the server a few times.
Most of us live in places where the power doesn't go out often enough to justify having one, much less three, like the guy you're replying to. Unless you need one for business purposes very few people have a UPS in their home.
No the parent is NOT correct, because he has not (nor has any development exec) demonstrated that DRM has ever stopped even 1 pirate. The evidence is overwhelmingly to the contrary, drm ONLY inconveniences paying customers while doing nothing to solve the problem of piracy.
Do I blame developers for trying to do SOMETHING to stop game piracy? Not really. But I do blame them for pointlessly inconveniencing their paying customers and decreasing the value of their product to the point that the pirated version is a superior product, without ever preventing any piracy. All drm does is ENCOURAGE piracy by making the pirated version a superior product for a lower price.
Right...so you picked a poorly designed, vastly overkill home made device as a counterexample?
Are you retarded? Do I actually have to explain that I'm talking about the kind of thing you buy in the damn store, which is high voltage but with so high an internal impedance that it is incapable of taking out a person?
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Heisenberg himself claimed that he had worked against the project's success, but any such claims are suspect given his obvious motive to avoid ending up at Nuremberg.
Stupid British slang. Of course, its hardly a real news source, hence the slang in the first place.
Anyone who ever lived in Orange County. Jesus Christ that place is scary.
You've been modded insightful, but that just means the mods are as ignorant as you. Honor killings? Sharia Law? Feudal social systems? I mean, I think those ways of life SHOULD be eradicated, but I'm not pretending to be tolerant of barbaric cultural practices. As for Islam itself, it's really only Wahabi Islam that I have a problem with (well, and some of the kookier Shia sects), but I have the same opinion of certain Evangelical Christian sects (and Scientology, whatever Shinto sect committed the sarin nerve gas attacks in Tokyo, and a few others I can't think of at the moment).
Any cultural practice that denies the rights of the individual to self-determination on any grounds is barbaric, and should be eradicated (yes, the irony is obvious to me--but it's not hypocrisy for reasons that are too subtle to be obvious in English).
Did they cast the heal spell? Did they whack the mob?
the Iranians speak Farsi, not Arabic, you dolt!
Correct, but most Muslims speak Arabic as a second language if it isn't their first, what with the Qu'ran being written in Arabic, and it being the language of the afterlife, etc.
Valuable research data is not apocryphal.
I think the word you are looking for is 'anecdotal.' Although, valuable research data is also not apocryphal, I don't see how that is relevant to the rest of your post.
Sure it does, GP just failed abysmally. For pointers see the works of Mark Twain.
I'm going for option 2. Drinks are cheaper than bullets.
Somebody must have had a humor-ectomy.
...what could possibly go wrong?
Then how come only Harry can do it?
He can't because it doesn't.
What talk radio IS guilty of is damnable rhetoric, and some of it fairly well constructed rhetoric (from a theoretic point of view). That is not the same as newspeak -- unless you assert that Aristotle practiced newspeak.
The GP is either an uneducated twit, or just being cheeky.
This is clever DRM that from the sound of it does not inconvenience paying customers--I'm all for it.
What I have a problem with is DRM that diminishes the value of the product for paying customers.
Yeah, Franco won.
Added services?
What an utter crock of horse shit. Pure, grade A, USDA choice lawn fertilizer. I'm talking primo dung, the kind your Aunt Milly used to rub on your upper lip so she could say you gave her a moustache ride.
No, pirating only sends one message: the pirated version is a superior product and lower cost.
That developers are too stupid to understand it is irrelevant, there is still only one message being sent.
Trying to up the cost of piracy with DRM is a losing proposition because it always damages the value of the real product faster than it can increase the cost of piracy (which, let's face it, will pretty much never be anything other than just north of zero), and the equation remains tipped in piracy's favor.
The only real solution is to make the paid version superior to the pirated version--this ain't hard to do either, in fact it's probably easier than a DRM arms race.
Almost certainly not enough spare bandwidth to deal with a halfway decent DDOS--which if a piracy/bot ring wants to convince people to install their infected/pirated version, best way would be to use their botnet to bring down the server a few times.
Why do you want us to think of fucking the children?
Maybe you and Chris Hansen should have a chat.
Most of us live in places where the power doesn't go out often enough to justify having one, much less three, like the guy you're replying to. Unless you need one for business purposes very few people have a UPS in their home.
No the parent is NOT correct, because he has not (nor has any development exec) demonstrated that DRM has ever stopped even 1 pirate. The evidence is overwhelmingly to the contrary, drm ONLY inconveniences paying customers while doing nothing to solve the problem of piracy.
Do I blame developers for trying to do SOMETHING to stop game piracy? Not really. But I do blame them for pointlessly inconveniencing their paying customers and decreasing the value of their product to the point that the pirated version is a superior product, without ever preventing any piracy. All drm does is ENCOURAGE piracy by making the pirated version a superior product for a lower price.
I'm willing to bet the error won't be in the dupe of this article, but it will be reentered in the dupe of that one.
Right...so you picked a poorly designed, vastly overkill home made device as a counterexample?
Are you retarded? Do I actually have to explain that I'm talking about the kind of thing you buy in the damn store, which is high voltage but with so high an internal impedance that it is incapable of taking out a person?
You must be new here--they can't even catch articles that dupes of other /. articles. You expect them to catch a dupe of an article on another site?
I, for one, welcome our new hyper-reflective, hyper-intelligent mosquito overlords.