That's well and good if you have a handful of documents. The problem is when you do something like integrate Google Docs into a business where you have a large cache of documents. It's time consuming to get everything back in shape, everyone will have to learn the new software if they don't know it already, and it's really just a wrench in the machine until everything is sorted and running again.
If this is a possibility, why waste time with something like Docs when LibreOffice or Microsoft Office doesn't have this sort of risk? That's the point Microsoft is trying to make (granted they're making that point more for Microsoft Office and less for LibreOffice). I tend to agree with them. I think Docs has its place (I use it personally), but I don't think it's in a business setting.
You're comparing apples and oranges. Microsoft can end support for Microsoft Bob and that won't affect your ability to use the copy you already have. As for Plays4Sure, users were able to recover their media before the licensing servers went offline. If you can figure out how to use Google services after they've stopped supporting them, I'd love to hear it. You'd put all our minds at ease.
Riding a horse is incredibly easy. Anyone could understand the basic principle behind horse riding within 5 minutes. Certainly nothing to hold up on a pedestal.
You're better off sticking to the shtick that Americans are too fat and would crush the horse's back if you're going to come down on an entire nationality.
Well, you wouldn't need to store the video processing code on the dongle. You would want to tailor whatever dongle-housed code to be something not inconsequential but not computationally heavy. Something it could contribute while still being completely necessary.
As for uploading the dongle contents to the internet -- that's always a possibility if the user has a means to even do it. I mean it's not like the dongle would be an ordinary USB thumb drive. But you could always watermark the binary in the dongle and use that to get an idea who leaked, and report them to the BSA or something.
Nothing is perfect as we're all aware. It will always be a race, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be done.
As much as I hate the facebook +1 button, logging in with facebook, the google variants, and other such functionality that is appearing on pretty much every website, I just can't fault Google that hard for this. The P3P spec is old. Ancient. No one follows it. The standards body who created it doesn't even want anything to do with it. The only reason Microsoft is even bringing this up as to take a shot at Google while Apple is taking a shot at Google for their Safari stuff.
That's unfortunate. I've had no difficult problems with Samsung myself. In fact, they've proven quite dependable to me, and I've owned a good number of them over the years. I only had to deal with customer service once and they got the problem fixed without any bullshit.
Words cannot express the rage I felt when I needed to register an XBox Live account to play a game I purchased because of the stupid G4WL DRM nonsense. I spent around 10 minutes on the bloody captcha because it differentiated capital, lowercase, number, and symbols. It was the most absurd captcha system I've seen to date. Was it an O, and 0? lowercase L or uppercase I? Was that a dollar sign or just some lines thrown in to distort the word further? An M or a W flipped on its side (was a 90 degree squiggle that could have been either). Was that a semicolon or a regular colon with some added distortion?
By the time I got it all sorted, I wasn't sure if I even wanted to play the game anymore.
I think it's hilarious you got modded troll for this post. Just goes to show that they seem to be up to the same tactics they're claiming of other people.
I disagree. MSE is actually a dependable package as far as free AV software goes, and even compares well to subscription based products. This is nothing new; AV software has been issuing false positives for ridiculous things since signature based AV has existed. This didn't even do any damage. It issued a scary warning and then went away.
As for making AV software obsolete, you should know that it's not possible to just suddenly make AV obsolete. Microsoft is better off trying to contain the potential damage as best they can while increasing security-- something that has been improving over the years. Nothing is going to be perfect when they need to maintain backward compatibility and deal with the average inept user ignoring security warnings and running anything they find on the most dangerous websites.
Embarrassing I guess, but really? This sort of mistake happens with every single anti-virus on the market. Some will even flag and delete core system files causing the installation of the OS to get crippled. I'd say that's embarrassing. It happens. It always will happen. It's not like this is some new slip up that only Microsoft could cause.
Companies have to respect each other’s legal and IP ownership rights in the form of copyrights and trademarks. In the case of Vostu, you can see for yourself that Vostu crossed the line and chose to use our copyrighted IP and artwork.
I looked at the video he linked when he made this claim and I just don't see it. I see different drawn characters with similar aesthetic choices and different UI elements while still looking pretty much like the same game, exactly what Zynga does with every single one of their games.
I don't disagree with you but that's not really contrary to anything I've said either. I agree that if you take the average indie developer and they make a game, it's likely going to be a bit of a mess. However they don't need to just let anyone put a game into the marketplace. Microsoft should keep XBLIG, but they should expand XBLA to encompass more indie developers that would otherwise be stuck in XBLIG. More developers should be able to pitch an idea and get the approval from Microsoft as long as the idea is solid and they have something to show for it, because currently you need to have nothing short of a best seller with a diamond encrusted proven track record before Microsoft will even look in your general direction. That shouldn't be the case.
If Microsoft took some notes from Steam regarding approval of indie titles, the service would be far greater for the developers, the gamers, and for Microsoft.
I think you put too little faith in indie games. No indie game needs to be as popular as Minecraft to be a financial success for everyone involved.
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That's well and good if you have a handful of documents. The problem is when you do something like integrate Google Docs into a business where you have a large cache of documents. It's time consuming to get everything back in shape, everyone will have to learn the new software if they don't know it already, and it's really just a wrench in the machine until everything is sorted and running again.
If this is a possibility, why waste time with something like Docs when LibreOffice or Microsoft Office doesn't have this sort of risk? That's the point Microsoft is trying to make (granted they're making that point more for Microsoft Office and less for LibreOffice). I tend to agree with them. I think Docs has its place (I use it personally), but I don't think it's in a business setting.
You're comparing apples and oranges. Microsoft can end support for Microsoft Bob and that won't affect your ability to use the copy you already have. As for Plays4Sure, users were able to recover their media before the licensing servers went offline. If you can figure out how to use Google services after they've stopped supporting them, I'd love to hear it. You'd put all our minds at ease.
Oh my god. Do you know what you've just done?!
Riding a horse is incredibly easy. Anyone could understand the basic principle behind horse riding within 5 minutes. Certainly nothing to hold up on a pedestal.
You're better off sticking to the shtick that Americans are too fat and would crush the horse's back if you're going to come down on an entire nationality.
Boy, you sure have a long ways to go if this is the worst idea you've found.
Well, you wouldn't need to store the video processing code on the dongle. You would want to tailor whatever dongle-housed code to be something not inconsequential but not computationally heavy. Something it could contribute while still being completely necessary.
As for uploading the dongle contents to the internet -- that's always a possibility if the user has a means to even do it. I mean it's not like the dongle would be an ordinary USB thumb drive. But you could always watermark the binary in the dongle and use that to get an idea who leaked, and report them to the BSA or something.
Nothing is perfect as we're all aware. It will always be a race, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be done.
No, what he said is they hand code a number of them and then through automated augmentation diversifies them further.
As much as I hate the facebook +1 button, logging in with facebook, the google variants, and other such functionality that is appearing on pretty much every website, I just can't fault Google that hard for this. The P3P spec is old. Ancient. No one follows it. The standards body who created it doesn't even want anything to do with it. The only reason Microsoft is even bringing this up as to take a shot at Google while Apple is taking a shot at Google for their Safari stuff.
Why would 2.2 getting destroyed matter when 2.4.1 is the current prod version?
Thanks for adding to the garbage.
...5 lines of code? Seriously? I've heard of keeping your functions small, but "wrong" at 5 lines of code is ridiculous.
I wish I still had ol' dependable. I miss CRTs and their ability to display virtually any resolution without looking like trash.
That's unfortunate. I've had no difficult problems with Samsung myself. In fact, they've proven quite dependable to me, and I've owned a good number of them over the years. I only had to deal with customer service once and they got the problem fixed without any bullshit.
Words cannot express the rage I felt when I needed to register an XBox Live account to play a game I purchased because of the stupid G4WL DRM nonsense. I spent around 10 minutes on the bloody captcha because it differentiated capital, lowercase, number, and symbols. It was the most absurd captcha system I've seen to date. Was it an O, and 0? lowercase L or uppercase I? Was that a dollar sign or just some lines thrown in to distort the word further? An M or a W flipped on its side (was a 90 degree squiggle that could have been either). Was that a semicolon or a regular colon with some added distortion?
By the time I got it all sorted, I wasn't sure if I even wanted to play the game anymore.
I think it's hilarious you got modded troll for this post. Just goes to show that they seem to be up to the same tactics they're claiming of other people.
Jesus christ, man. Get over it.
My poor brain. What did I just read?
I don't get it.
Virtualization..?
I think you proved his point for him. Yes.
So, what, open is a synonym for standard now?
I disagree. MSE is actually a dependable package as far as free AV software goes, and even compares well to subscription based products. This is nothing new; AV software has been issuing false positives for ridiculous things since signature based AV has existed. This didn't even do any damage. It issued a scary warning and then went away.
As for making AV software obsolete, you should know that it's not possible to just suddenly make AV obsolete. Microsoft is better off trying to contain the potential damage as best they can while increasing security-- something that has been improving over the years. Nothing is going to be perfect when they need to maintain backward compatibility and deal with the average inept user ignoring security warnings and running anything they find on the most dangerous websites.
Embarrassing I guess, but really? This sort of mistake happens with every single anti-virus on the market. Some will even flag and delete core system files causing the installation of the OS to get crippled. I'd say that's embarrassing. It happens. It always will happen. It's not like this is some new slip up that only Microsoft could cause.
So, Mark Pincus said and I quote:
Companies have to respect each other’s legal and IP ownership rights in the form of copyrights and trademarks. In the case of Vostu, you can see for yourself that Vostu crossed the line and chose to use our copyrighted IP and artwork.
I looked at the video he linked when he made this claim and I just don't see it. I see different drawn characters with similar aesthetic choices and different UI elements while still looking pretty much like the same game, exactly what Zynga does with every single one of their games.
Zynga should not have won this.
I don't disagree with you but that's not really contrary to anything I've said either. I agree that if you take the average indie developer and they make a game, it's likely going to be a bit of a mess. However they don't need to just let anyone put a game into the marketplace. Microsoft should keep XBLIG, but they should expand XBLA to encompass more indie developers that would otherwise be stuck in XBLIG. More developers should be able to pitch an idea and get the approval from Microsoft as long as the idea is solid and they have something to show for it, because currently you need to have nothing short of a best seller with a diamond encrusted proven track record before Microsoft will even look in your general direction. That shouldn't be the case.
If Microsoft took some notes from Steam regarding approval of indie titles, the service would be far greater for the developers, the gamers, and for Microsoft.
I think you put too little faith in indie games. No indie game needs to be as popular as Minecraft to be a financial success for everyone involved.