I'm thinking that not being able to play used games like in the past will only push piracy.
You don't seem to understand the nature of the problem here.
From the perspective of the developers, people who actually MAKE the games, used games ALREADY ARE LIKE PIRACY.
It can not get any worse. There is no difference between someone buying a game used and someone else pirating it.
Used games trade is a conspiracy of the people who SELL games to cut the developers from the profit of the sale and take it all for themselves.
Being happy about being able to buy used games is very short sighted. You must understand that you need the developers, not the sales men, to get money so they can make more games. If developers die off the salesmen will just go rip off someone else and there will be no games at all.
It is obvious that there is a fundamental problem here with the current system of selling "licensed copies" of digital works for outrageous prices. People will never accept the fact that someone is charging them money for the copy they know is free to make. This needs to change. Maybe to a model where developers are somehow paid to create something which is then freely copied... It need to be fair to both sides to have a chance of working.
As for games being expensive, "proper" games take several dozen of man-years minimum to create and nobody can afford to do that for free. It is just not going to happen. How many open source/free games have you seen so far that would be of quality comparable to commercial titles? Even if you somehow got enough open source developers together to contribute the amount of work required, there would be too many of them to create something consistent... open source developers do only the fun part of the job.
Why? Select as many as you want:
(_) Because it takes them at least 5 major versions to get something right
(_) Because they Embrace and Extend and hijack someone else's work into an incompatible de facto standard by adding minor incompatibilities
(_) Because whatever happens MS somehow miraculously makes money on it
(_) Becuase by the time this gets standardized there will be no Microsoft anymore
Did I forget anything?:)
Maye it is time to rethink the architecture beyond single encrypted pipe bolted onto a legacy protocol made to mimic even older legacy protocols.
There is no reason proxies could not cache opaque encrypted and signed blobs - be it components of documents or fragments of a broadcast stream - they don't need to know whats inside and client does not care who he gets it from as long as the indentity and authenticity can be verified. But we would need to decouple transport from encryption. SSL will not help us there.
We'd need encrypted & signed content entities, and content distribution protocols that allow content distribution from multiple sites based on network distance. Take inspiration from the P2P networks lile BitTorrent.
Try something like that with china, and you find out it is YOU whose ass will explode because you buy the stuff they make from the stolen tech from them...
"Just drop"? One does not simply drop things from orbit... they keep orbiting. You need a big delta V, which means turning on engines, which means detected... probably harder to drop stuff from orbit than just lob it from surface!
Yeah I'm all for low level beginnings.
I started at 10 with digital electronics. Then went for assembler. Later I started C (what a relief not having to push arguments on stack, type safety etc). Then object oriented languages (C++ and Java). Each step made great sense, I appreciated what it brings me. Each step allows to write bigger and more complex programs, and if you are careful even as performant as before.
Not sure if someone who starts on high level can really understand why some things work better than others...
This was true only in some ancient versions (JDK 1.4??). Java has improved a lot over the years. Java 7 starts pretty nicely on contemporary hardware, even without such messy hacks.
Now if only my iPhone was running Java:)
Funny now you mention it I realize the only LCDs dying on me lately because of failing caps in backlight power supplies were all Samsung! (3 in the last few months)...
I thought Samsung was trying to position themselves as a sort of high quality vendor? Clear fail in that respect.
The problem is they keep the logs, instead of comparing the read plates to a known search list and discarding the ones they were not looking for immediately.
That way, they basically collect survelilance data on everyone "just in case they need it later".
The only data that can not be misused is the data that does not exist, period.
Reminds me of some of the shady second hand phone/electronics shops here in Czech Republic, that are open all night.
Sure, you want to sell your old phone in the middle of the night, right?
His final will stated that he be buried in a glossy white coffin with no visible hinges or latches.
That will guarantee that the Paulbearers "WILL HOLD IT WRONG!!!"
When the bearers and coffin get together, you can’t help but notice an instant connection. That’s because they designed them to work with the coffin — and the other way around. For starters, coffin has magnets built right into its frame — magnets that align perfectly with the bearers for an effortless fit. On the opposite side, magnets inside the bearers help them stay put. It’s ingenious yet simple. Secure yet easy to remove. In fact, the coffin and bearers work so well together, it’s easy to think of them as one device.
Top 5% makes sense if you want to punish customers for actually using what they paid for:)
However light the usage of the users will be, there will always be 5% of users in that group to punish...
So, from this, we can derive the long term business goal of the carriers cartel, which is to get paid and not provide any service in return!
I thought major version increments were for major, incompatible changes, while minor versions were for smaller, compatible ones?
I know, that was beofre marketing took over...
but not to the majority of games distributed by big publishers where game authors were already paid in advance for creation of the game.
Game developers most of the time get very very limited premium from well selling game - most if not all profits stay with the publishers.
Used to be like that. Not true for us anymore, thank god. I guess our management has learned a lesson. We got burned by a big publisher deal once already.
We now do self distribution, Steam, and have some localized deals with publishers in some areas. Much bigger share of profit gets to us now. Seems to work, so far...
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I'm thinking that not being able to play used games like in the past will only push piracy.
You don't seem to understand the nature of the problem here.
From the perspective of the developers, people who actually MAKE the games, used games ALREADY ARE LIKE PIRACY. It can not get any worse. There is no difference between someone buying a game used and someone else pirating it.
Used games trade is a conspiracy of the people who SELL games to cut the developers from the profit of the sale and take it all for themselves. Being happy about being able to buy used games is very short sighted. You must understand that you need the developers, not the sales men, to get money so they can make more games. If developers die off the salesmen will just go rip off someone else and there will be no games at all.
It is obvious that there is a fundamental problem here with the current system of selling "licensed copies" of digital works for outrageous prices. People will never accept the fact that someone is charging them money for the copy they know is free to make. This needs to change. Maybe to a model where developers are somehow paid to create something which is then freely copied... It need to be fair to both sides to have a chance of working.
As for games being expensive, "proper" games take several dozen of man-years minimum to create and nobody can afford to do that for free. It is just not going to happen. How many open source/free games have you seen so far that would be of quality comparable to commercial titles? Even if you somehow got enough open source developers together to contribute the amount of work required, there would be too many of them to create something consistent... open source developers do only the fun part of the job.
End of rant.
Why? Select as many as you want: :)
(_) Because it takes them at least 5 major versions to get something right
(_) Because they Embrace and Extend and hijack someone else's work into an incompatible de facto standard by adding minor incompatibilities
(_) Because whatever happens MS somehow miraculously makes money on it
(_) Becuase by the time this gets standardized there will be no Microsoft anymore
Did I forget anything?
Maye it is time to rethink the architecture beyond single encrypted pipe bolted onto a legacy protocol made to mimic even older legacy protocols. There is no reason proxies could not cache opaque encrypted and signed blobs - be it components of documents or fragments of a broadcast stream - they don't need to know whats inside and client does not care who he gets it from as long as the indentity and authenticity can be verified. But we would need to decouple transport from encryption. SSL will not help us there. We'd need encrypted & signed content entities, and content distribution protocols that allow content distribution from multiple sites based on network distance. Take inspiration from the P2P networks lile BitTorrent.
Patents need to die with the filing company, not be trasferrable to a patent troll.
Try something like that with china, and you find out it is YOU whose ass will explode because you buy the stuff they make from the stolen tech from them...
"Just drop"? One does not simply drop things from orbit... they keep orbiting. You need a big delta V, which means turning on engines, which means detected... probably harder to drop stuff from orbit than just lob it from surface!
Yeah I'm all for low level beginnings. I started at 10 with digital electronics. Then went for assembler. Later I started C (what a relief not having to push arguments on stack, type safety etc). Then object oriented languages (C++ and Java). Each step made great sense, I appreciated what it brings me. Each step allows to write bigger and more complex programs, and if you are careful even as performant as before. Not sure if someone who starts on high level can really understand why some things work better than others...
This was true only in some ancient versions (JDK 1.4??). Java has improved a lot over the years. Java 7 starts pretty nicely on contemporary hardware, even without such messy hacks. Now if only my iPhone was running Java :)
global broadcast storms! Yay!
Isn't mod_jk obsolete?? I thouht you are supposed to use mod_proxy_ajp, especially behind SSL...
Funny now you mention it I realize the only LCDs dying on me lately because of failing caps in backlight power supplies were all Samsung! (3 in the last few months)... I thought Samsung was trying to position themselves as a sort of high quality vendor? Clear fail in that respect.
The problem is they keep the logs, instead of comparing the read plates to a known search list and discarding the ones they were not looking for immediately. That way, they basically collect survelilance data on everyone "just in case they need it later". The only data that can not be misused is the data that does not exist, period.
Reminds me of some of the shady second hand phone/electronics shops here in Czech Republic, that are open all night. Sure, you want to sell your old phone in the middle of the night, right?
Have you seen a .NET app lately?
My phone resides in my pocket.
Transparent pants! (Transaprent underwear optional.)
This patenting of general ideas is so wrong... Patents should require a working prototype - it's not a problem when it is developed in secrecy...
Or a defenestration.
Usually a difficulty of distributing encryption keys to soldiers on the field watching the video stream.
I guess he meant flour. Which is pretty explosive when mixed with air and ignited.
His final will stated that he be buried in a glossy white coffin with no visible hinges or latches.
That will guarantee that the Paulbearers "WILL HOLD IT WRONG!!!"
When the bearers and coffin get together, you can’t help but notice an instant connection. That’s because they designed them to work with the coffin — and the other way around. For starters, coffin has magnets built right into its frame — magnets that align perfectly with the bearers for an effortless fit. On the opposite side, magnets inside the bearers help them stay put. It’s ingenious yet simple. Secure yet easy to remove. In fact, the coffin and bearers work so well together, it’s easy to think of them as one device.
Top 5% makes sense if you want to punish customers for actually using what they paid for :)
However light the usage of the users will be, there will always be 5% of users in that group to punish...
So, from this, we can derive the long term business goal of the carriers cartel, which is to get paid and not provide any service in return!
Ok, what's the catch? It's Microsoft right?
I thought major version increments were for major, incompatible changes, while minor versions were for smaller, compatible ones?
I know, that was beofre marketing took over...
If you don't mind the ping between 6 and 44 minutes and the ocassional outage due to Sun getting in the way, then by all means ;)
but not to the majority of games distributed by big publishers where game authors were already paid in advance for creation of the game.
Game developers most of the time get very very limited premium from well selling game - most if not all profits stay with the publishers.
Used to be like that. Not true for us anymore, thank god. I guess our management has learned a lesson. We got burned by a big publisher deal once already.
We now do self distribution, Steam, and have some localized deals with publishers in some areas. Much bigger share of profit gets to us now. Seems to work, so far...