We do have problems. If you don't think we do, fire up the configuration page of your router, and take a look at the "DMZ" and "port redirection" pages.
I get what you're saying, but it's not like those things are complex, or even necessary for most home users. And even when IPv6 becomes commonplace they will still have their uses (thinking of stuff like workplaces and universities where you really want a single point of control for internet access).
The point was that they said this is a "fireproof" way of restoring your data - which is basically saying that throwing the hard drive into a fire would somehow recover the data.
Foolproof would have been a better word to use; as in "even a fool could protect their data using this method".
I bought a Wii, then gave it to my little sister a few months after getting my PS3, because the Wii was getting absolutely no use. It wasn't because of the graphics, it's just because of the lack of games with depth. The only games I played for more than a week were Zelda and NFS: Carbon.
You can plug mice into Xboxes and PS3s, so I don't see why playing an RTS on a console would be any more awful than it already is on PC. In fact my little brother used to play C&C on Playstation with a mouse, which we also used for playing Quake (bit of an unfair advantage for the person that had the mouse in multiplayer matches though).
Way to only read the last sentence and read the completely opposite meaning to what the guy intended. He is pro PC. Everyone whomps the space bar all day - when they're typing.
You can connect a mouse, keyboard and headset to the PS3, though not all games make use of them. I just picked up a PS3 back at the start of the year to help wean myself off Windows gaming and it's worked great (meaning I can now use any OS I want on my laptop 100% of the time).
I don't miss the keyboard, but I definitely miss the mouse in FPS style games. I don't even use a headset despite most networked games supporting it.
As for "20+ easily reached hotkeys", you get 16 pressable buttons (not including the PS3 button), two analog sticks and tilt/accelerometer sensors on a PS3 controller. They are all accessible without shifting your hand to a new position like you have to do with a full sized keyboard. If you use one of the buttons as a 'function' key then you have up to 30 functions right there. Use a second button as a function key and you can have 58 functions, etc. Lack of keys isn't really an issue these days - well, apart from on the Wii.
Fair point. Our current banking software is all Windows specific, but there's a chance it would work under WINE. Not so sure if the smartcard stuff for one of the apps would though.
Maybe there should be a way to click on it and it goes away. I mean, what if the notification is an IM from your lover "hey sweetie, meet at the usual spot at 5:30" and your spouse walks in the room?
Then perhaps you should disable desktop notifications in the preferences for VirtuaGirlfriend, or keep your mechanised Real Doll chained to the bed?
if MS just dumped XP and FORCE-FED Vista on Business
Then we'd move to full volume licensing for all machines that require Windows, and use our downgrade rights for XP (unless Windows Seven is actually worth using).
I've been running Ubuntu at work partially as a test to see how easy it would be to move people over to it if necessary. Things are working pretty nicely so far, I'm thinking everyone but our engineering design department could do their jobs fine with free software. In fact our Fabrication department would probably be better off with free software than the OmniForm crap that they're using at the moment. Sure, Evolution's Exchange integration isn't perfect - the unread messages number for each folder isn't updating like it should - but apart from that it works great. If MS try to force any shit onto us I'd be happy to move all our general office workers over to Linux, and yes I'd provide full support for them - it's part of what I get paid for after all;)
I didn't mean it wasn't a good book (not that I've read it, heard of it, or ever intend to read it), just that there is at least one reference in it that you are missing out on. As for me I'm sure if I reread a few Discworld books that I'd get far more of the jokes and references than I did as a teenager (such as the drop bears in XXXX).
I was thinking more that he sends out a fake update message and pretends to be mozilla.org, nothing to do with the real repositories necessary? Probably would require DNS cache poisoning and such too though, I'm no expert on security.
Exactly. Who wants to pay to run desktop apps over a network to their phone? Build a real client for the phone to save on network costs.
On top of that, most Windows apps aren't suited at all to be used with (relatively) low resolution screens and an all-touch interface. Even todays best smartphones still aren't the sort of thing you'd want to do serious work on for any length of time. Email and calendar work fine, but editing spreadsheets, word processing and presentation work is best left to a device with full input and output capabilities.
Not to mention that you can probably get VNC or Remote Desktop clients on the iPhone already and just set up your own system for free (with a VM server if you need multiple clients). Citrix is a waste of time for purely personal use.
With a certificate for mozilla.org and a knowledge of security procedures couldn't he release his own patch to install back doors into a very significant number of browsers and thereby have access to the username and password for millions of paypal, online shopping and banking accounts?
So you tell your browser to only trust those certs you manually accepted? Kind of a big hassle, don't you think? You really expect the average web user to go through that process?
How often do you visit completely new secure sites? Not that often unless you're a crazy shopaholic who likes to try out new online stores every day. He didn't say that the average user should do it though, just that he himself prefers that method. Me, I think I'll drop COMODO from my trusted certs for the moment..
'the one chance'. Sure. Amazon are doing all their music downloads as DRM free MP3s - good quality MP3s at that, even higher bitrate than I have been ripping myself - and they don't say "we expect this will increase music piracy, we're only doing this to prove the public are a bunch of lying bastards so that we can put DRM on everything in future". I am going to buy all my music from Amazon as MP3s where possible. I was going to buy this game until I saw the attitude of the head honcho. I don't feel guilty for that, and there will be plenty of other 'chances' for the industry if it wants to survive. I've already given up on PC gaming because it's just nowhere near as convenient as console gaming.
I'm fairly happy with DRM as long as it's useful - for example Steam type DRM where you have games tied to accounts and can download them onto any machine.
Apparently the original word piracy has always been used for stealing of ideas as well as property, so I'm okay with it now. It's just the the Federation Against Copyright Theft type adverts are so patronising and usually inaccurate that everything to do with this riles me up these days.
I thought the point isn't that a robot servant would be able to have attachments to be able to cut the grass or clean clothes, but that it could make use of the same tools that humans use for these things. A robot with decent legs, arms, and appropriate sensors (for balance, vision, grip, etc) is all you need.
The only thing missing is software, but make the robot's software expandable with plugins or firmware updates and it would count as general purpose in my book. It doesn't have to actually do everything. It just has to have the potential for doing it given the right software. Nobody would say that an x86 processor isn't a general purpose processor, but that doesn't mean programs currently exist for them to do everything imaginable. Even humans can't effectively use a dishwasher or clothes-washing machine without a little information and instruction.
So just because people in the past did something means they were right to do that? I guess I did learn something new today. We never should have had any elements beyond fire, water, wind and earth for simplicity's sake.
I don't mind piracy usually, but I hate the words "copyright theft", it seems a pretty weasely way to put it. You can't steal someone's copyright any more that you can steal someone's human rights. You can choose not to observe those rights but you can't steal them. It's all just semantics I guess.
You seem to have misunderstood him on both counts.
First, he's asking how you can tell how many people downloaded the game illegaly.
Secondly, he's not saying that piracy can only be done at sea, he's saying it can only be done with physical goods. I kind of agree, I think they should stick to calling it "copyright infringement" since that is what it is. It involves the same idea as piracy in that you end up with something that doesn't belong to you, but it isn't exactly the same thing as stealing, despite being a similar concept. Calling it copyright infringement doesn't make it less illegal, it just is the correct term. Saying copyright infringement is piracy to me is like saying assault is murder.
Considering how it might affect their business model, wouldn't be surprised if some DRM-creators try to push the "piracy" totals up
They already did by having some dick insult the public's honesty. Now I'm not stupid enough to fall for it, but I'm not going to buy the game anymore just to skew the numbers the other way like I initially was going to (despite not playing games on PC anymore). He's also convinced me not to buy any of the new Prince of Persia games for now (though I bought Prince of Persia Classic on PS3 for nostalgia's sake).
I was thinking that I might buy the game even though I don't play PC games anymore, just to make a statement. That was up until the part about the guy insulting the consumers' honesty. I've never played any of the series beyond the original Prince of Persia, but this has just made me even more averse to trying it out (I had been considering it after playing Prince of Persia Classic on PS3 and enjoying the new fluid movements and slow-mo stuff).
The whole point for me isn't that DRM increases piracy (though I used to download noCD cracked exes after buy somes games for example), it's that it inconveniences normal users and doesn't hinder the proper pirates who have experience bypassing copy protection schemes. I don't mind having to tie my game to an account like with Steam, but I do mind having to carry a collection of CDs everywhere with my laptop. I'd have to hump around 5 sports bags full of music and game CDs if I were to do that.
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We do have problems. If you don't think we do, fire up the configuration page of your router, and take a look at the "DMZ" and "port redirection" pages.
I get what you're saying, but it's not like those things are complex, or even necessary for most home users. And even when IPv6 becomes commonplace they will still have their uses (thinking of stuff like workplaces and universities where you really want a single point of control for internet access).
You were only a NAT's cock away, why not finish up the joke? Are puns allowed? Oh wait, too late.
Whoosh!
The point was that they said this is a "fireproof" way of restoring your data - which is basically saying that throwing the hard drive into a fire would somehow recover the data.
Foolproof would have been a better word to use; as in "even a fool could protect their data using this method".
I bought a Wii, then gave it to my little sister a few months after getting my PS3, because the Wii was getting absolutely no use. It wasn't because of the graphics, it's just because of the lack of games with depth. The only games I played for more than a week were Zelda and NFS: Carbon.
You can plug mice into Xboxes and PS3s, so I don't see why playing an RTS on a console would be any more awful than it already is on PC. In fact my little brother used to play C&C on Playstation with a mouse, which we also used for playing Quake (bit of an unfair advantage for the person that had the mouse in multiplayer matches though).
Way to only read the last sentence and read the completely opposite meaning to what the guy intended. He is pro PC. Everyone whomps the space bar all day - when they're typing.
You can connect a mouse, keyboard and headset to the PS3, though not all games make use of them. I just picked up a PS3 back at the start of the year to help wean myself off Windows gaming and it's worked great (meaning I can now use any OS I want on my laptop 100% of the time).
I don't miss the keyboard, but I definitely miss the mouse in FPS style games. I don't even use a headset despite most networked games supporting it.
As for "20+ easily reached hotkeys", you get 16 pressable buttons (not including the PS3 button), two analog sticks and tilt/accelerometer sensors on a PS3 controller. They are all accessible without shifting your hand to a new position like you have to do with a full sized keyboard. If you use one of the buttons as a 'function' key then you have up to 30 functions right there. Use a second button as a function key and you can have 58 functions, etc. Lack of keys isn't really an issue these days - well, apart from on the Wii.
Fair point. Our current banking software is all Windows specific, but there's a chance it would work under WINE. Not so sure if the smartcard stuff for one of the apps would though.
or them to have their machines off would mean they had to physically change the value from Restart to Shutdown
Or perhaps they just press the power button for ACPI shutdown instead of going into the menu?
Maybe there should be a way to click on it and it goes away. I mean, what if the notification is an IM from your lover "hey sweetie, meet at the usual spot at 5:30" and your spouse walks in the room?
Then perhaps you should disable desktop notifications in the preferences for VirtuaGirlfriend, or keep your mechanised Real Doll chained to the bed?
if MS just dumped XP and FORCE-FED Vista on Business
Then we'd move to full volume licensing for all machines that require Windows, and use our downgrade rights for XP (unless Windows Seven is actually worth using).
I've been running Ubuntu at work partially as a test to see how easy it would be to move people over to it if necessary. Things are working pretty nicely so far, I'm thinking everyone but our engineering design department could do their jobs fine with free software. In fact our Fabrication department would probably be better off with free software than the OmniForm crap that they're using at the moment. Sure, Evolution's Exchange integration isn't perfect - the unread messages number for each folder isn't updating like it should - but apart from that it works great. If MS try to force any shit onto us I'd be happy to move all our general office workers over to Linux, and yes I'd provide full support for them - it's part of what I get paid for after all ;)
I didn't mean it wasn't a good book (not that I've read it, heard of it, or ever intend to read it), just that there is at least one reference in it that you are missing out on. As for me I'm sure if I reread a few Discworld books that I'd get far more of the jokes and references than I did as a teenager (such as the drop bears in XXXX).
Wow - just think how many other little in-jokes you're missing out on!
I was thinking more that he sends out a fake update message and pretends to be mozilla.org, nothing to do with the real repositories necessary? Probably would require DNS cache poisoning and such too though, I'm no expert on security.
Exactly. Who wants to pay to run desktop apps over a network to their phone? Build a real client for the phone to save on network costs.
On top of that, most Windows apps aren't suited at all to be used with (relatively) low resolution screens and an all-touch interface. Even todays best smartphones still aren't the sort of thing you'd want to do serious work on for any length of time. Email and calendar work fine, but editing spreadsheets, word processing and presentation work is best left to a device with full input and output capabilities.
Not to mention that you can probably get VNC or Remote Desktop clients on the iPhone already and just set up your own system for free (with a VM server if you need multiple clients). Citrix is a waste of time for purely personal use.
With a certificate for mozilla.org and a knowledge of security procedures couldn't he release his own patch to install back doors into a very significant number of browsers and thereby have access to the username and password for millions of paypal, online shopping and banking accounts?
So you tell your browser to only trust those certs you manually accepted?
Kind of a big hassle, don't you think? You really expect the average web user to go through that process?
How often do you visit completely new secure sites? Not that often unless you're a crazy shopaholic who likes to try out new online stores every day. He didn't say that the average user should do it though, just that he himself prefers that method. Me, I think I'll drop COMODO from my trusted certs for the moment..
(they can't know which CA the site owner actually paid)
Isn't that what the 'issued by' field is for in a certificate?
'the one chance'. Sure. Amazon are doing all their music downloads as DRM free MP3s - good quality MP3s at that, even higher bitrate than I have been ripping myself - and they don't say "we expect this will increase music piracy, we're only doing this to prove the public are a bunch of lying bastards so that we can put DRM on everything in future". I am going to buy all my music from Amazon as MP3s where possible. I was going to buy this game until I saw the attitude of the head honcho. I don't feel guilty for that, and there will be plenty of other 'chances' for the industry if it wants to survive. I've already given up on PC gaming because it's just nowhere near as convenient as console gaming.
I'm fairly happy with DRM as long as it's useful - for example Steam type DRM where you have games tied to accounts and can download them onto any machine.
Apparently the original word piracy has always been used for stealing of ideas as well as property, so I'm okay with it now. It's just the the Federation Against Copyright Theft type adverts are so patronising and usually inaccurate that everything to do with this riles me up these days.
I thought the point isn't that a robot servant would be able to have attachments to be able to cut the grass or clean clothes, but that it could make use of the same tools that humans use for these things. A robot with decent legs, arms, and appropriate sensors (for balance, vision, grip, etc) is all you need.
The only thing missing is software, but make the robot's software expandable with plugins or firmware updates and it would count as general purpose in my book. It doesn't have to actually do everything. It just has to have the potential for doing it given the right software. Nobody would say that an x86 processor isn't a general purpose processor, but that doesn't mean programs currently exist for them to do everything imaginable. Even humans can't effectively use a dishwasher or clothes-washing machine without a little information and instruction.
So just because people in the past did something means they were right to do that? I guess I did learn something new today. We never should have had any elements beyond fire, water, wind and earth for simplicity's sake.
I don't mind piracy usually, but I hate the words "copyright theft", it seems a pretty weasely way to put it. You can't steal someone's copyright any more that you can steal someone's human rights. You can choose not to observe those rights but you can't steal them. It's all just semantics I guess.
You seem to have misunderstood him on both counts.
First, he's asking how you can tell how many people downloaded the game illegaly.
Secondly, he's not saying that piracy can only be done at sea, he's saying it can only be done with physical goods. I kind of agree, I think they should stick to calling it "copyright infringement" since that is what it is. It involves the same idea as piracy in that you end up with something that doesn't belong to you, but it isn't exactly the same thing as stealing, despite being a similar concept. Calling it copyright infringement doesn't make it less illegal, it just is the correct term. Saying copyright infringement is piracy to me is like saying assault is murder.
Considering how it might affect their business model, wouldn't be surprised if some DRM-creators try to push the "piracy" totals up
They already did by having some dick insult the public's honesty. Now I'm not stupid enough to fall for it, but I'm not going to buy the game anymore just to skew the numbers the other way like I initially was going to (despite not playing games on PC anymore). He's also convinced me not to buy any of the new Prince of Persia games for now (though I bought Prince of Persia Classic on PS3 for nostalgia's sake).
I say fer-tile. So does everyone else here in the UK. You're being an insensitive clod :(
I was thinking that I might buy the game even though I don't play PC games anymore, just to make a statement. That was up until the part about the guy insulting the consumers' honesty. I've never played any of the series beyond the original Prince of Persia, but this has just made me even more averse to trying it out (I had been considering it after playing Prince of Persia Classic on PS3 and enjoying the new fluid movements and slow-mo stuff).
The whole point for me isn't that DRM increases piracy (though I used to download noCD cracked exes after buy somes games for example), it's that it inconveniences normal users and doesn't hinder the proper pirates who have experience bypassing copy protection schemes. I don't mind having to tie my game to an account like with Steam, but I do mind having to carry a collection of CDs everywhere with my laptop. I'd have to hump around 5 sports bags full of music and game CDs if I were to do that.