But isn't evidence something that is absolutely necessary, especially for this? When you are trying to show increased sales for DRM vs non-DRM?
We can talk all day about how things "should" work, or how we "think" it should work, but what good is that if there is no evidence to prove it?
I can hardly constitute myself as evidence, but I can say one experience. A few years ago I wished to play a game that had online multiplayer, however, an unique serial key was needed to play online. So I went out and bought the game.
There, the sale of the game just increased by one.
And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one since there are many people still playing on the servers.
A wise decision would be to forgo the DRM altogether, and apply the savings to reducing the retail price of the games. I guarantee that will have a far greater effect on sales than any DRM scheme ever would. And I love it when people start guaranteeing how the market will perform. First of all this "guarantee" doesn't even take into account any kind of data/figures/costs,
BUT NO FOLKS, HE CAN GUARANTEE IT.
Why dont you just RTFA?
It clearly says
"Recommendation: Do not open or save Word files that you receive from un-trusted or that are received unexpected from trusted sources."
But instead of reading, people are just to busy to type "OMG OFFICE SUCKS(etc)" or "OPENOFFICE is the BEST"
Sidenote: Currently using 2007 Standard Trial, and liking it.
As a person in high school, the time has come where I need to decide which path I want to follow for a career, but when I was starting to show interest I've been bombarded with differing views.
One one hand, my father who works in a Fortune 500 company tells me that I shouldn't even think about doing anything with programming or software engineering, etc. His primary reason is that this field doesn't have much job security and its impossible to know even if today is your last day before being laid off. Which I do completely understand,
But then I turn on CNN and I see one report saying how Tech jobs are being outsourced and then I see another news report saying how we(America) are lacking CSs or related.
And here I am totally confused, I don't really know who to listen to, family or media???
That's the main reason why I've steered myself away from programming, tech, etc. Instead of going through college to find out if I made the right decision or not, I chose something else that doesn't interest me as much, but I know there is job security.
I also know that many others are in my boat too, If we can just get a reliable source to tell us the truth, that would boost confidence of the future students, and hopefully this will happen in the future.
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But isn't evidence something that is absolutely necessary, especially for this? When you are trying to show increased sales for DRM vs non-DRM? We can talk all day about how things "should" work, or how we "think" it should work, but what good is that if there is no evidence to prove it? I can hardly constitute myself as evidence, but I can say one experience. A few years ago I wished to play a game that had online multiplayer, however, an unique serial key was needed to play online. So I went out and bought the game. There, the sale of the game just increased by one. And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one since there are many people still playing on the servers.
Why dont you just RTFA? It clearly says "Recommendation: Do not open or save Word files that you receive from un-trusted or that are received unexpected from trusted sources." But instead of reading, people are just to busy to type "OMG OFFICE SUCKS(etc)" or "OPENOFFICE is the BEST" Sidenote: Currently using 2007 Standard Trial, and liking it.
As a person in high school, the time has come where I need to decide which path I want to follow for a career, but when I was starting to show interest I've been bombarded with differing views.
One one hand, my father who works in a Fortune 500 company tells me that I shouldn't even think about doing anything with programming or software engineering, etc. His primary reason is that this field doesn't have much job security and its impossible to know even if today is your last day before being laid off. Which I do completely understand,
But then I turn on CNN and I see one report saying how Tech jobs are being outsourced and then I see another news report saying how we(America) are lacking CSs or related.
And here I am totally confused, I don't really know who to listen to, family or media???
That's the main reason why I've steered myself away from programming, tech, etc. Instead of going through college to find out if I made the right decision or not, I chose something else that doesn't interest me as much, but I know there is job security.
I also know that many others are in my boat too, If we can just get a reliable source to tell us the truth, that would boost confidence of the future students, and hopefully this will happen in the future.