There is this thing called the core and it's made of molten lava
Technically, lava is magma that has erupted onto the surface. The mantle is made of magma, which is molten rock. The outer core is liquid and mostly made of iron. The inner core is solid (because of the enormous pressure) and mostly made of iron.
Well, you have nobody else to blame when the DRM system screws up your computer or the publishers turn off the activation servers. I just hope the DRM hits you in the head hard and soon.
Acting like DRM will go away if you cry about it is childish.
I don't think that anyone believes that it will go away completely, but declaring your opposition against Spore-like DRM schemes with limited number of installs and activation is simply a way to tell the publishers that you won't buy a game "protected" by such a scheme.
I had planned on buying Spore, I had planned to buy Red Alert 3, but now I'm not going to buy any one of them because of their draconian DRM schemes. This is not whining, it is just stating a plain fact. If the publishers don't want my money, then I'll keep it and buy something else for it. I'm not buying any game with draconian DRM, and that's final.
Even if I realize that it will likely never happen, I really wish that one day enough gamers would care so much that including draconian DRM would hurt the game publishers badly enough to conclude that DRM offers them more disadvantages than advantages.
If software developer ceases to be a high paying job, you will see less people trying to become software developers. Simple economics. Once you have less people doing something, the less likely you are to get that one brilliant person who creates something great.
The people getting into software development only because of the high wages are very seldom brilliant, and seldom create great things. The great things come out of the minds of the people who are actually interested in the field, and are not just in it for the money.
To put it in perspective, we're looking at spending $700B to bail out the banks this week. Over the course of the life of the shuttle, each launch as ended up costing $1.3B. So, for a little over a tenth of the bank buyout, or less than 10 shuttle launches
A tenth of the bank bailout would be $70B. $9.5B would rather be like a little less than a 70th of the bank bailout.
boot a GUI-less linux install and use pico/nano for text editing.
I agree. Booting my CentOS 5 servers in single-user mode take less than 20 seconds from the kernel starts to load until I can run Emacs. It's actually more like 10 seconds.
I excluded BIOS startup because it is highly variable. My home desktop passes its BIOS startup in around 10 seconds, while our HP server blades at work take almost a minute to just get to GRUB.
But we're hoping that everyone understands that DRM policy is essential to the economic structure we use to fund our games
I don't have to understand or accept anything at all. If I'm out to buy a game, I set the criteria for what is worth buying, not you (you = EA, or any other publisher, in this reply). Having no activation scheme is such a criteria, and no complaining that you need it will make me change my mind. If you stick with any activation scheme, my money will remain in my wallet, and you can keep your game to yourself.
If everybody did this, your so-called "economic structure" would break down completely, despite (or rather because) of you keeping your silly DRM.
What's the point of having this huge (...) amount of memory to just let it sit there
Modern operating systems never let the memory stay unused. Any memory not used by applications or the system is used as a block cache for hard drives and optical disks, thus speeding up their operations immensely. Thus, even if you are just using applications with small memory footprints, having a large amount of memory installed does not mean that this memory is unused.
If I have to have my laptop searched, then so be it.
They won't just search it, they'll outright steal it. Probably some DHS official gives it to his kids to play with, after his business friends can search it for business secrets to exploit.
Realy, 3D glasses manufacturers fucked the market with crap products for years.
I agree. I had an ASUS GeForce 256 card that came with 3D glasses, the effect was awesome, and the update frequency was not a problem. My problem was that the shutters didn't completely block the light when closed, so there were always a faint double-vision problem present, especially with high-contrast images such as laser beams in the night. That was really irritating and is the main reason I used them just a few times.
or a single person erect a big red cloth over an empty field and reveal fully stocked shopping center from it 2 minutes later?
That wouldn't be awesome, except for the awesomeness of good trickery. Everyone by the creationists would understand that he must be an illusionist. Who knows, maybe you just read the manuscript for David Copperfield's next illusion?
I agree concepts like Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design, Astrology and Scientology should be mentioned at some appropriate time of the curriculum.
But science classes is not that place.
Creationism and Intelligent Design should be taught in Politics classes, since that is what they are mostly about. Scientology and Astrology should be taught in Superstition classes, together with other fairy tales. Tarot cards also belong there, along with all the religions.
Try finding a corporation with lawyers that think "two files in some system folder (probably/usr/share/firefox) that people are highly unlikely to look in" is sufficient for the warranty and liability disclaimer, though.
I agree. If manufacturers of plastic bags feel that they have to write "don't put these on your head, you can choke and die" (DUH!) on their bags to avoid getting sued when someone does this, I can see that Mozilla feels that they have to be more upfront than putting the stuff in some text file buried deep in some directory hierarchy.
but Mozilla has every right to put an EULA on compiled binaries
This isn't really about binaries, it's about branding and trademark. Since Ubuntu likely want to use the Firefox name and branding (for familiarity), they have to comply with Mozilla's demands. If they would strip the branding and call it something else, Mozilla would have no case demanding an EULA, regardless of whether the application would be distributed as binaries or source code.
No, but America is the only country in the civilized world that has such a strong religious/anti-science movement. America is largely a country of fundamentalist Christians, with a few islands of scientifically minded people in the northeast and in the far west. The rest is a hell hole of religious fundamentalism.
You are pushing a false religion on the defenseless children. You should be ashamed. Everyone knows that the Invisible Pink Unicorn is the only true god.
would it be so bad to have a "World Religions" course in high school? Maybe one that covered the top 10 relgions in the world, talked about what they believe and explained their common practices.
You don't have that yet? When I went to school 10-20 years ago we had religion classes, where we were taught about various religions, including the five "world religions" (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism), as well as covering minor religions to a lesser extent.
Now give the scientifically orientated people GPS units. The creationists can rely on their God to help them.
Not only that, but also give the scientists guns. They'll be able to shoot animals threatening them, while the creationists can defend themselves by praying to god.
Personally, I'd strip the creationists of their clothes too. Wanna live like Adam and Eve? Then do so all the way.
I was going to write essentially the same thing. Pushing something extremely much in one direction and then easing it marginally in the other does not count as a "compromise".
Just like Spore, Red Alert 3 is now another game to put on my No Buy list, despite previously having been on the Will Buy list.
The Google Chrome fanboys that has been all over the web touting Chrome as the future and "advising" Mozilla to drop Gecko and adopt Webkit.
Some of them even claim that Mozilla now has no reason to exist, since Google Chrome is so ooh, aah, etc. The silliest comment that I read even went as far as claiming that "the computing world has moved on (to Webkit) and left Mozilla/Firefox/Gecko behind".
remember all those "this site viewed best with Internet Explorer/Netscape Navigator" warnings?
If I would make a personal web site today, where I could ignore IE users at will, I would seriously consider putting up a "Best viewed with anything but Internet Explorer" sign.
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Whoosh!
Paraphrasing Joe Pesci as Harry of the Sticky Bandits in Home Alone 2: That was the sound of a joke, flying over your head.
There is this thing called the core and it's made of molten lava
Technically, lava is magma that has erupted onto the surface. The mantle is made of magma, which is molten rock. The outer core is liquid and mostly made of iron. The inner core is solid (because of the enormous pressure) and mostly made of iron.
Well, you have nobody else to blame when the DRM system screws up your computer or the publishers turn off the activation servers. I just hope the DRM hits you in the head hard and soon.
Happy playing.
Acting like DRM will go away if you cry about it is childish.
I don't think that anyone believes that it will go away completely, but declaring your opposition against Spore-like DRM schemes with limited number of installs and activation is simply a way to tell the publishers that you won't buy a game "protected" by such a scheme.
I had planned on buying Spore, I had planned to buy Red Alert 3, but now I'm not going to buy any one of them because of their draconian DRM schemes. This is not whining, it is just stating a plain fact. If the publishers don't want my money, then I'll keep it and buy something else for it. I'm not buying any game with draconian DRM, and that's final.
Even if I realize that it will likely never happen, I really wish that one day enough gamers would care so much that including draconian DRM would hurt the game publishers badly enough to conclude that DRM offers them more disadvantages than advantages.
If software developer ceases to be a high paying job, you will see less people trying to become software developers. Simple economics. Once you have less people doing something, the less likely you are to get that one brilliant person who creates something great.
The people getting into software development only because of the high wages are very seldom brilliant, and seldom create great things. The great things come out of the minds of the people who are actually interested in the field, and are not just in it for the money.
To put it in perspective, we're looking at spending $700B to bail out the banks this week. Over the course of the life of the shuttle, each launch as ended up costing $1.3B. So, for a little over a tenth of the bank buyout, or less than 10 shuttle launches
A tenth of the bank bailout would be $70B. $9.5B would rather be like a little less than a 70th of the bank bailout.
boot a GUI-less linux install and use pico/nano for text editing.
I agree. Booting my CentOS 5 servers in single-user mode take less than 20 seconds from the kernel starts to load until I can run Emacs. It's actually more like 10 seconds.
I excluded BIOS startup because it is highly variable. My home desktop passes its BIOS startup in around 10 seconds, while our HP server blades at work take almost a minute to just get to GRUB.
But we're hoping that everyone understands that DRM policy is essential to the economic structure we use to fund our games
I don't have to understand or accept anything at all. If I'm out to buy a game, I set the criteria for what is worth buying, not you (you = EA, or any other publisher, in this reply). Having no activation scheme is such a criteria, and no complaining that you need it will make me change my mind. If you stick with any activation scheme, my money will remain in my wallet, and you can keep your game to yourself.
If everybody did this, your so-called "economic structure" would break down completely, despite (or rather because) of you keeping your silly DRM.
What's the point of having this huge (...) amount of memory to just let it sit there
Modern operating systems never let the memory stay unused. Any memory not used by applications or the system is used as a block cache for hard drives and optical disks, thus speeding up their operations immensely. Thus, even if you are just using applications with small memory footprints, having a large amount of memory installed does not mean that this memory is unused.
If I have to have my laptop searched, then so be it.
They won't just search it, they'll outright steal it. Probably some DHS official gives it to his kids to play with, after his business friends can search it for business secrets to exploit.
Realy, 3D glasses manufacturers fucked the market with crap products for years.
I agree. I had an ASUS GeForce 256 card that came with 3D glasses, the effect was awesome, and the update frequency was not a problem. My problem was that the shutters didn't completely block the light when closed, so there were always a faint double-vision problem present, especially with high-contrast images such as laser beams in the night. That was really irritating and is the main reason I used them just a few times.
why would you make XP or Linux drivers first... XP is on its way out.
XP still has a much higher market share than Vista, so ignoring it would be pretty stupid.
or a single person erect a big red cloth over an empty field and reveal fully stocked shopping center from it 2 minutes later?
That wouldn't be awesome, except for the awesomeness of good trickery. Everyone by the creationists would understand that he must be an illusionist. Who knows, maybe you just read the manuscript for David Copperfield's next illusion?
I agree concepts like Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design, Astrology and Scientology should be mentioned at some appropriate time of the curriculum.
But science classes is not that place.
Creationism and Intelligent Design should be taught in Politics classes, since that is what they are mostly about. Scientology and Astrology should be taught in Superstition classes, together with other fairy tales. Tarot cards also belong there, along with all the religions.
They always attack, attack attack.
Sounds like a good description of most creationists.
Try finding a corporation with lawyers that think "two files in some system folder (probably /usr/share/firefox) that people are highly unlikely to look in" is sufficient for the warranty and liability disclaimer, though.
I agree. If manufacturers of plastic bags feel that they have to write "don't put these on your head, you can choke and die" (DUH!) on their bags to avoid getting sued when someone does this, I can see that Mozilla feels that they have to be more upfront than putting the stuff in some text file buried deep in some directory hierarchy.
but Mozilla has every right to put an EULA on compiled binaries
This isn't really about binaries, it's about branding and trademark. Since Ubuntu likely want to use the Firefox name and branding (for familiarity), they have to comply with Mozilla's demands. If they would strip the branding and call it something else, Mozilla would have no case demanding an EULA, regardless of whether the application would be distributed as binaries or source code.
American? You think creationism arose in America?
No, but America is the only country in the civilized world that has such a strong religious/anti-science movement. America is largely a country of fundamentalist Christians, with a few islands of scientifically minded people in the northeast and in the far west. The rest is a hell hole of religious fundamentalism.
You are pushing a false religion on the defenseless children. You should be ashamed. Everyone knows that the Invisible Pink Unicorn is the only true god.
would it be so bad to have a "World Religions" course in high school? Maybe one that covered the top 10 relgions in the world, talked about what they believe and explained their common practices.
You don't have that yet? When I went to school 10-20 years ago we had religion classes, where we were taught about various religions, including the five "world religions" (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism), as well as covering minor religions to a lesser extent.
Now give the scientifically orientated people GPS units. The creationists can rely on their God to help them.
Not only that, but also give the scientists guns. They'll be able to shoot animals threatening them, while the creationists can defend themselves by praying to god.
Personally, I'd strip the creationists of their clothes too. Wanna live like Adam and Eve? Then do so all the way.
I was going to write essentially the same thing. Pushing something extremely much in one direction and then easing it marginally in the other does not count as a "compromise".
Just like Spore, Red Alert 3 is now another game to put on my No Buy list, despite previously having been on the Will Buy list.
What other windows apps do you run that require drivers to be installed?
Daemon Tools? :P
Who exactly is claiming that Gecko is bloated?
The Google Chrome fanboys that has been all over the web touting Chrome as the future and "advising" Mozilla to drop Gecko and adopt Webkit.
Some of them even claim that Mozilla now has no reason to exist, since Google Chrome is so ooh, aah, etc. The silliest comment that I read even went as far as claiming that "the computing world has moved on (to Webkit) and left Mozilla/Firefox/Gecko behind".
remember all those "this site viewed best with Internet Explorer/Netscape Navigator" warnings?
If I would make a personal web site today, where I could ignore IE users at will, I would seriously consider putting up a "Best viewed with anything but Internet Explorer" sign.