In fact, yes, I think that is as bad. You can't unsee the movie can you? You don't pay for the DVD disk, you pay to see the movie. In case of DVD, as many times as you like.
Don't mix game creators with game distributors into the same bag. Game creators don't create games to sell DVD media thay are on. They sell you the experience of the game, and that is what they should be paid for. In that regard, only the first sale pays.
Used game shops make money on each sale. But they didn't make the game. Game authors get nothing. That is why it's bad. Keep that up, and soon nobody will create anything anymore. Why feed the leeches? Can't you see that?
I don't know about your area, but here in Czech Republic old games get progressively cheaper. If you are a cheapskate and can't afford a shiny new game, you probably can't afford the beefy gear required to run the new games either. So you simply play older games on older hardware and you are fine, just say two years behind...
Used games are like selling your movie ticket after you have seen the movie, and the person you sold it to demanding to see the movie too.
It hurts the game developers by denying them a fair share of profit. It's the same as for-profit piracy.
Disclosure: I work for a game development company.
Not true. In C64, the on-CPU 6510 specific I/O accessible at addresses $00 , $01 has been used for switching the Basic ROM, character ROM, attribute color memory and I/O mapped area on/off in the CPU address space, allowing you to access to the parts of RAM normally obscured by them.
It amuses me how the "artists" are changing their business model from actually having to sell stuff (and make it good enough for anyone to want it) to something that boils down to a private tax on certain products...
ACID? Last time I looked, Postgresql was using a flawed "optimistic" isolation model that can work only for read-only transactions, has that been changed?
Just wait until they push a law to force mandatory eye implants for everyone with DRM that blind you when you watch a HD movie outside their cinema! Just allow for a few more years of increasing desperation...
IP owners are stealing the rights of others to create similar IP themselves, independently. That is just wrong. There can be no peace until this is fixed.
Code is vulnerable because app tries to create a whole SQL command string with parameters in it dynamically and passes it to SQL driver to execute. Not only is it slow but you also easily forget to escape the parameters.
It is better to use the bound parameters method instead, having static SQL command string (with placeholders for parameters) and bound parameters passed along it. In that case, the SQL is static, does not contain any externally provided data and can be better optimized by the server, and you avoid any escaping issues and cost alltogether.
For example, in JDBC you would use PreparedStatement.
Of course, some databases/SQL APIs do not support it;(
It should be enough to stop patent trolls from being able to "buy" patents. Original inventor should be allowed to sell the patent just once, then the patent should become invalid if the new owner sold it again to someone else. Just fix the friggin patent system.
spending doesn't seem to worry them at all
Why would it? They are the ones printing the money! A few billion more is nothing, it just costs the paper;)
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With this attitude, you will be back to watching TV soon, hero. There will be nothing to play :)
In fact, yes, I think that is as bad. You can't unsee the movie can you? You don't pay for the DVD disk, you pay to see the movie. In case of DVD, as many times as you like. Don't mix game creators with game distributors into the same bag. Game creators don't create games to sell DVD media thay are on. They sell you the experience of the game, and that is what they should be paid for. In that regard, only the first sale pays. Used game shops make money on each sale. But they didn't make the game. Game authors get nothing. That is why it's bad. Keep that up, and soon nobody will create anything anymore. Why feed the leeches? Can't you see that?
I don't know about your area, but here in Czech Republic old games get progressively cheaper. If you are a cheapskate and can't afford a shiny new game, you probably can't afford the beefy gear required to run the new games either. So you simply play older games on older hardware and you are fine, just say two years behind...
Used games are like selling your movie ticket after you have seen the movie, and the person you sold it to demanding to see the movie too. It hurts the game developers by denying them a fair share of profit. It's the same as for-profit piracy. Disclosure: I work for a game development company.
Not true. In C64, the on-CPU 6510 specific I/O accessible at addresses $00 , $01 has been used for switching the Basic ROM, character ROM, attribute color memory and I/O mapped area on/off in the CPU address space, allowing you to access to the parts of RAM normally obscured by them.
EE is just a set of APIs on top of SE. It's not a different version of Java.
No, they want to lock everyone that comes in, and pretend they didn't come ;) Control the toublemakers, and the herd will obey
It amuses me how the "artists" are changing their business model from actually having to sell stuff (and make it good enough for anyone to want it) to something that boils down to a private tax on certain products...
Now that the Ion Cannon is up and running, Europe announces formation of the Global Defense Initiative ;)
ACID? Last time I looked, Postgresql was using a flawed "optimistic" isolation model that can work only for read-only transactions, has that been changed?
Just wait until they push a law to force mandatory eye implants for everyone with DRM that blind you when you watch a HD movie outside their cinema! Just allow for a few more years of increasing desperation...
IP owners are stealing the rights of others to create similar IP themselves, independently. That is just wrong. There can be no peace until this is fixed.
Code is vulnerable because app tries to create a whole SQL command string with parameters in it dynamically and passes it to SQL driver to execute. Not only is it slow but you also easily forget to escape the parameters. It is better to use the bound parameters method instead, having static SQL command string (with placeholders for parameters) and bound parameters passed along it. In that case, the SQL is static, does not contain any externally provided data and can be better optimized by the server, and you avoid any escaping issues and cost alltogether. For example, in JDBC you would use PreparedStatement. Of course, some databases/SQL APIs do not support it ;(
Image the noise a LAN party will make with this ;)
It should be enough to stop patent trolls from being able to "buy" patents. Original inventor should be allowed to sell the patent just once, then the patent should become invalid if the new owner sold it again to someone else. Just fix the friggin patent system.
...if the US government can figure that out, it might work even better than Reagan's "cheer up america" campaign ;)
spending doesn't seem to worry them at all ;)
Why would it? They are the ones printing the money! A few billion more is nothing, it just costs the paper
It has something to do with nukes, theferore nucular ;)