lf l were an ISP, Netflix would "get" to install hardware in my network over my dead body - simply because l DO NOT TRUST HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE l HAVEN'T VERIFIED.
lF YOU'RE AN lSP THEN lNSTALLlNG RANDOM SHlT ONTO YOUR NETWORK lS WHAT YOU GET PAlD TO DO. SUCK lT UP AND DO YOUR FUCKING JOB.
NO IT ISNT.
An ISP's job is to provide internet services. Hence we call them a Internet Service Provider.
As such, it is their duty to provide a stable, reliable network and INSTALLING RANDOM SHIT is the antithesis of this. Please consult a sysadmin before making such asinine statements in the future. Conversely you can save time on asking this question to a sysadmin by forcibly removing 3 of your teeth and inflicting severe blunt force trauma to the forward left side of your skull.
Further to my first sentence, an ISP's only job is to provide internet service, not to decide how their customers utilise that service.
Telecommuting should have decimated* traffic already. Unfortunately it hasn't. I'm enthusiastic for the opportunities of automated cars (not so much for what that implies for motorcycling) but I'm concerned that it will have a lot of unnecessary obstacles.
*Yes, we all know the origin of "decimated".
I dont know about your work, but 1 in 10 jobs here are done by remote. It's probably closer to 1 in 7 if we include outsourced jobs not just teleworkers. Hell, my servers are half way across town in someone else's data centre.
Why should my car waste its time in my garage when it can make some extra money on the side as a taxi? I can call it back whenever I want to use it myself.
Because everyone else will have had the same idea.
m$ have signalled what is unfortunately the end of console gaming & console gaming rights, if sony dont implement this along the way, "forced by the nasty publishers" it will be implemented in the next offerings.
Fixed that for you.
But as a PC gamer I'm enjoying watching Sony and MS consoles implode. The destruction of these two consoles might mean that I'll see a game that will test the gaming rig I built in 2009 to it's limits.
Oh, by the by, read the Xbox360 and PS3 EULA's, console gamers never had any rights... It's just that Sony and MS couldn't enforce it until now.
I didn't say UKdians, I said Brits. You know, the English. You're reaching.
Way to completely miss the point. Which Brits?
Yorkshirmen, Londoners, South Londoners, Mancurians (from Manchester), Essex, Cornwall... All of these places have their own accents. Hell, even different parts of London have unique accents, thats multiple accents in one city.
This also explains why Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and so forth didn't retain the same supposed classic English accent either, because accents were all ultimately immigration driven - South Africa's English accent being influenced by the dutch for example.
Canada and South Africa ended up being influenced by other cultures as you said. But Australia and New Zealand were comprised of almost entirely English, Irish and Scottish immigrants until after the second world war. AU and NZ are simply examples of how accents diverge over time when isolated from each other. I think this is the key reason En_AU and En_NZ language wise are very, very close to En_UK despite being different accent wise. The biggest difference between En_UK and En_AU is that En_AU doesn't mark Wagga Wagga as a mistake (however we do admit that forming that town in the first place was a mistake).
Actually the English spoken in the US is much closer to the "original", meaning the common dialect spoken on both sides of the Atlantic in the Colonial Era. I used to think American English was a slightly bastardized version of English, but it's just the opposite. It's really fun to tell that to anyone who is English.
So what you're trying to say is that the version of English spoken in the US hasn't evolved like every other version of English spoken through out the rest of the world?
Having learned Spanish, the English language has changed a lot more than Spanish. The adaptability of English is it's strength, a semi-decent English speaker can understand all forms of English including heavily broken Indian/Asian dialects.
Also, US English is highly bastardised as you haven't included the "u" in many words like honour and favour which were always included in these words and have swapped out the "s" for "z" in the -ise prefix.
In Addendum to pointing out that you're an idiot, you also missed the point I and the OP were trying to make, price is immaterial as the corporate restrictions are the reason we are not purchasing these items.
You focused on price, when restrictions were the subject of the post. You missed this twice.
My cousin currently owns an Xbox 360 and likes to play Call of Duty series, Battlefield series, and similar first-person shooters. He has rejected the Xbox One and is trying to decide between a PlayStation 4 console and a new gaming PC this December. Which $400 gaming PC that can play games with comparable graphics to forthcoming PS4 games would you recommend?
The PS4 is yet to provide the same graphical experience as my 2009 vintage PC.
Along with this, the TCO for a PC is lower. over 3 years you'll spend more on games for your console than you would on buying a decent PC and the same games.
Must connect to the internet once a day or locks you out, extreme limitations on lending or buying used games, etc. An excellent reason to play Steam games under Linux overall.
Normally I'd snark this, but I got nothing. I mean, I'm just bone dry here. It's so stupidifying that I think it may have temporarily caused my brain to seize up like an old VW bug.
I think the fact that Dell is essentially creating a "Console PC" says a lot about how bad the PS4 and XBone consoles offerings are for this generation. Bad enough that other PC companies are going to try and mussel in on the action.
Really, with the poor offerings of the XBone and PS4, PC gaming is going to benefit a lot.
With Steam leading the charge with their SteamBox concept and Big Picture the "PC Wannabe" consoles are going to be in dire straits as more powerful, customisable and extensible machines extend into the lounge room.
The Wii U, which isn't trying to be a PC has already won this generation by default. The next big thing in the console world wont be another Xbox/PS3, it will be a tablet console (picture a tablet with HDMI out and Bluetooth controllers).
that at $700 (starting) it's not really a viable alternative to a $400 PS4. Yeah, yeah. I'm sure it'll be more powerful. But that didn't work out well this generation. Everything had to be toned down graphics wise so you could port it to the consoles. Even Crysis.
Actually, compared to the PS4 PC's are pretty good value. Not only will a PC run current generation games but you have a huge back catalogue, large indie scene and you can even emulate older consoles.
The PS4 in Australia will cost a minimum of A$600, closer to A$800 with the Trans-Pacific Price Dilation effect.
Now this is a PC with custom built components so it's going to be more expensive but you can get a high end gaming rig for A$1200 easy. This is with a GF670, high end i5 and and SSD. Considering that games for consoles consistently cost A$20 more per game (PC = $70-80, Xbox/PS $90-100) if you're a serious gamer it becomes cheaper to game on PC, buying two games a month costs an extra A$480 per year. This is before external costs like Xbox Live and replacement consoles (lets face it, the RROD and YLOD didn't give them a reputation for reliability).
And this is comparing new game to new game. Not even counting indie games, GOG's back catalouge, steam sales and so forth. PC gaming is cheaper if you're a gamer. If you only buy 1 game ever 2 months, console gaming is cheaper.
if they got nothing for the interns to internship in they shouldn't be taking them in. but free labor and intern bitches yayyyy so they take them even if they have no intention of teaching them anything or putting them into any work in the field their internship is supposed to be in.
This is exactly why interns need to be paid.
Yes, an intern fresh out of collage/uni can be paid far less, but paying them encorages businesses to train them towards making them a profitable part of the business. Which it the point of internships, to "get on the job" training.
To answer the GP:
If you have to pay interns like regular employees, what's the point of hiring interns?
You pay them because they will become productive employees.
Otherwise you're just training someone for your competition (I.E. an unpaid intern has no incentive what so ever to demonstrate loyalty and is just waiting until they can drop enough names to get a paid position somewhere else).
Clearly the slave owning society feel they are being overly generous by giving an education to their property. They even gave him a choice of where to work for free! Your vision of society fits perfectly in line with the Antebellum south. (To be clear, I'm not calling you a racist, you're just pro-slavery which is actually frowned upon in most societies in the 21st century)
The big difference between an unpaid internship and slavery is that a slave owner takes responsibility for the slaves welfare, ensures that they are fed, clothed and have shelter as well as for the slaves actions to some extent.
An unpaid intern has no such luxuries, they must provide their own food, shelter and clothing. Further more if the intern does something wrong the corporation will have no compunction against throwing them under the proverbial bus to save their own skin.
Hence why most civilised nations consider unpaid internships to be illegal. Yes you can hire an intern at minimum wage, but you must pay them for services rendered.
In the UK we've never really gone in for violent revolution, so I can understand why our national identity doesn't lend itself to direct action.
1642-1651.
Also the Troubles.
The history of the UK involves a lot of war, most notably between the various states of the British Isles but there has been at least 1 English civil war. Only in the last 200 odd years has the UK acted as a unified nation... mostly (they still dont like English Pounds in Scotland).
However my own nation, Australia voted for it's establishment as an independent state in 1901, before then we were six British colonies.
How do you keep those sort if ideas straight in your heads alongside the sort of 'my country, right or wrong' jingoism
The full quote is "My country, right or wrong. If right to be kept right, if wrong to be set right" and was said by an American senator (Carl Schultz IIRC). It's a statement that suggests one shouldn't blindly accept the superiority of ones own nation and if a problem exists with your own country, should be corrected.
I agree with your point... But you've used completely the wrong phrase. The US belief in "Manifest Destiny" would have been a much better example.
But you guys are always going on about the glory of the republic and the benefits that you gained via armed struggle against the state.
This I couldn't agree with more.
I mentioned the Troubles earlier, what glory has that bought to Ireland, Northern Ireland or the UK?
Violent revolution more often than not ends with a violent and despotic government. Understandably paranoid about the threat of a violent uprising. You need only look at some of the more famous revolutions in recent history, Russia, Iran, China... Even Russia and China still have very oppressive governments.
I remember Jobs saying general purpose computers are like trucks. Some people will always need trucks to haul things but most people really need a car or other forms of transportation. Now originally the only choice offered to consumers were general purpose computers. These days they have choices.
And Jobs was wrong.
Jobs would like to paint it this way but the reality of the matter is that PC's represent all types of cars from small runabouts to sports cars to six axle prime movers.
The PC in it's many factors fills all those roles. The Tablet is a single role device, so it's really nothing more than a Toyota Yaris. Netbooks are like Smart TwoFours (small, low powered), my laptop is more like a hot hatch (powerful, but sacrifices some power for practicality), servers are like prime movers (designed for doing heavy work) and my gaming rig is equivalent to a Lamborghini (in fact, you can buy Lambo cases for PC's these days).
The problem in Greece is mainly due to lack of involvement of the government and too much uncontrolled capitalism.
This is sarcasm right? It's kind of like looking at a car with a flat and claiming the problem is that the driver hasn't punctured the other three tires too. Greece didn't get into the mess it is in by unfettering capitalism, a thing incidentally that it has yet to do.
No, endemic levels of tax evasion (come on, you honestly expect me to believe you had no idea Greece was a tax haven) mixed with equally endemic levels of corruption means that Greece's tax revenues have consistently fallen below expectation. So even when the Greek minister balanced the books, the companies in Greece simply didn't pay tax.
It was cheaper to pay off the tax collector than to pay tax. Essentially companies could do what they wanted as long as they kept the right palms greased (which is cheap for any multinational).
Next thing you're going tell me is that your shocked that some Thai girl offered to have sex with you in Bangkok when prostitution is illegal in Thailand.
there is no compelling reason to buy a new computer
You'd think the idea of a permanently vulnerable OS connected to the net (sending your passwords, credit card numbers, or just about anything, to botnet owners) is not a reason compelling enough?
And who the fuck moderated this +5? Am I still on Slashdot?
Like home users give a crap about botnets or their own security.
Most are utterly convinced the bank will automagically protect them from all the baddies.
Hell, there are people on/. who think the bank gives them free money. I mean a bank, the most merciless profit oriented organisations on the planet... handing out free money?
Son. People are naive, if this needs to be explained to you at this point, you are one of those people.
I was going to build a steam box if this didn't happen. I collect consoles and games*, and I'm not sure if I want the Xbox One because it's not guaranteed I'll be able to play my games 10 years down the road.
Question: Do PC makers have a pro-DRM policy or prevent used game sales?
Some do, some dont. Most dont require activation and therefore, disks can be transfered between owners.
Question: Further, what prevents the DRM from being added to any game on the PS4 by the very same publishers who insist on it for the PC market?
The fact that Sony builds DRM it into the PS4 at the hardware level. Game manufacturers already pay for this in per-disc licensing fees so if Sony offered an additional level of DRM game manufacturers would scream until it was included in the already high license fee.
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lf l were an ISP, Netflix would "get" to install hardware in my network over my dead body - simply because l DO NOT TRUST HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE l HAVEN'T VERIFIED.
lF YOU'RE AN lSP THEN lNSTALLlNG RANDOM SHlT ONTO YOUR NETWORK lS WHAT YOU GET PAlD TO DO. SUCK lT UP AND DO YOUR FUCKING JOB.
NO IT ISNT.
An ISP's job is to provide internet services. Hence we call them a Internet Service Provider.
As such, it is their duty to provide a stable, reliable network and INSTALLING RANDOM SHIT is the antithesis of this. Please consult a sysadmin before making such asinine statements in the future. Conversely you can save time on asking this question to a sysadmin by forcibly removing 3 of your teeth and inflicting severe blunt force trauma to the forward left side of your skull.
Further to my first sentence, an ISP's only job is to provide internet service, not to decide how their customers utilise that service.
Telecommuting should have decimated* traffic already. Unfortunately it hasn't. I'm enthusiastic for the opportunities of automated cars (not so much for what that implies for motorcycling) but I'm concerned that it will have a lot of unnecessary obstacles.
*Yes, we all know the origin of "decimated".
I dont know about your work, but 1 in 10 jobs here are done by remote. It's probably closer to 1 in 7 if we include outsourced jobs not just teleworkers. Hell, my servers are half way across town in someone else's data centre.
Why should my car waste its time in my garage when it can make some extra money on the side as a taxi? I can call it back whenever I want to use it myself.
Because everyone else will have had the same idea.
Bumps in the road are not normally above bumper height.
Spoken like a man who has never driven a sports car.
m$ have signalled what is unfortunately the end of console gaming & console gaming rights, if sony dont implement this along the way, "forced by the nasty publishers" it will be implemented in the next offerings.
Fixed that for you.
But as a PC gamer I'm enjoying watching Sony and MS consoles implode. The destruction of these two consoles might mean that I'll see a game that will test the gaming rig I built in 2009 to it's limits.
Oh, by the by, read the Xbox360 and PS3 EULA's, console gamers never had any rights... It's just that Sony and MS couldn't enforce it until now.
I didn't say UKdians, I said Brits. You know, the English. You're reaching.
Way to completely miss the point. Which Brits? Yorkshirmen, Londoners, South Londoners, Mancurians (from Manchester), Essex, Cornwall... All of these places have their own accents. Hell, even different parts of London have unique accents, thats multiple accents in one city.
Canada and South Africa ended up being influenced by other cultures as you said. But Australia and New Zealand were comprised of almost entirely English, Irish and Scottish immigrants until after the second world war. AU and NZ are simply examples of how accents diverge over time when isolated from each other. I think this is the key reason En_AU and En_NZ language wise are very, very close to En_UK despite being different accent wise. The biggest difference between En_UK and En_AU is that En_AU doesn't mark Wagga Wagga as a mistake (however we do admit that forming that town in the first place was a mistake).
So it's like English in the USA....
Actually the English spoken in the US is much closer to the "original", meaning the common dialect spoken on both sides of the Atlantic in the Colonial Era. I used to think American English was a slightly bastardized version of English, but it's just the opposite. It's really fun to tell that to anyone who is English.
So what you're trying to say is that the version of English spoken in the US hasn't evolved like every other version of English spoken through out the rest of the world?
Having learned Spanish, the English language has changed a lot more than Spanish. The adaptability of English is it's strength, a semi-decent English speaker can understand all forms of English including heavily broken Indian/Asian dialects.
Also, US English is highly bastardised as you haven't included the "u" in many words like honour and favour which were always included in these words and have swapped out the "s" for "z" in the -ise prefix.
In Addendum to pointing out that you're an idiot, you also missed the point I and the OP were trying to make, price is immaterial as the corporate restrictions are the reason we are not purchasing these items.
You focused on price, when restrictions were the subject of the post. You missed this twice.
The only thing that post has proven is you're a complete idiot who has no idea what they are on about.
The iPad costs the same, and you can't run your software on it.
I don't see what the price has to do with that.
You may also note, I dont own one of those either.
I have a gaming PC and a Nexus 7 because fsck anyone who thinks that they control my devices.
My cousin currently owns an Xbox 360 and likes to play Call of Duty series, Battlefield series, and similar first-person shooters. He has rejected the Xbox One and is trying to decide between a PlayStation 4 console and a new gaming PC this December. Which $400 gaming PC that can play games with comparable graphics to forthcoming PS4 games would you recommend?
The PS4 is yet to provide the same graphical experience as my 2009 vintage PC. Along with this, the TCO for a PC is lower. over 3 years you'll spend more on games for your console than you would on buying a decent PC and the same games.
Sony may have screwed up in the past, but they also generated a metric fuckton of goodwill at E3.
Why are people acting like Sony and Microsoft are the only consoles available.
The Wii U may be meh, but it's miles ahead of the XBone or PS4.
Also, you're a complete fool if you think some fancy corporate moves at E3 has made Sony change.
Must connect to the internet once a day or locks you out, extreme limitations on lending or buying used games, etc. An excellent reason to play Steam games under Linux overall.
Normally I'd snark this, but I got nothing. I mean, I'm just bone dry here. It's so stupidifying that I think it may have temporarily caused my brain to seize up like an old VW bug.
Or a new VW DSG.
if I don't like a company I can boycott them and take my money elsewhere. Government, not so much.
What's stopping you from moving to a country that has a government more to your liking?
Immigration laws.
Countries that are nice to live in generally aren't easy to gain residency in.
Hell, it's difficult to gain residency in most third world nations even if you've got enough money to be self sufficient.
I think the fact that Dell is essentially creating a "Console PC" says a lot about how bad the PS4 and XBone consoles offerings are for this generation. Bad enough that other PC companies are going to try and mussel in on the action.
Really, with the poor offerings of the XBone and PS4, PC gaming is going to benefit a lot.
With Steam leading the charge with their SteamBox concept and Big Picture the "PC Wannabe" consoles are going to be in dire straits as more powerful, customisable and extensible machines extend into the lounge room.
The Wii U, which isn't trying to be a PC has already won this generation by default. The next big thing in the console world wont be another Xbox/PS3, it will be a tablet console (picture a tablet with HDMI out and Bluetooth controllers).
that at $700 (starting) it's not really a viable alternative to a $400 PS4. Yeah, yeah. I'm sure it'll be more powerful. But that didn't work out well this generation. Everything had to be toned down graphics wise so you could port it to the consoles. Even Crysis.
Actually, compared to the PS4 PC's are pretty good value. Not only will a PC run current generation games but you have a huge back catalogue, large indie scene and you can even emulate older consoles. The PS4 in Australia will cost a minimum of A$600, closer to A$800 with the Trans-Pacific Price Dilation effect. Now this is a PC with custom built components so it's going to be more expensive but you can get a high end gaming rig for A$1200 easy. This is with a GF670, high end i5 and and SSD. Considering that games for consoles consistently cost A$20 more per game (PC = $70-80, Xbox/PS $90-100) if you're a serious gamer it becomes cheaper to game on PC, buying two games a month costs an extra A$480 per year. This is before external costs like Xbox Live and replacement consoles (lets face it, the RROD and YLOD didn't give them a reputation for reliability).
And this is comparing new game to new game. Not even counting indie games, GOG's back catalouge, steam sales and so forth. PC gaming is cheaper if you're a gamer. If you only buy 1 game ever 2 months, console gaming is cheaper.
if they got nothing for the interns to internship in they shouldn't be taking them in. but free labor and intern bitches yayyyy so they take them even if they have no intention of teaching them anything or putting them into any work in the field their internship is supposed to be in.
This is exactly why interns need to be paid.
Yes, an intern fresh out of collage/uni can be paid far less, but paying them encorages businesses to train them towards making them a profitable part of the business. Which it the point of internships, to "get on the job" training.
To answer the GP:
If you have to pay interns like regular employees, what's the point of hiring interns?
You pay them because they will become productive employees.
Otherwise you're just training someone for your competition (I.E. an unpaid intern has no incentive what so ever to demonstrate loyalty and is just waiting until they can drop enough names to get a paid position somewhere else).
Clearly the slave owning society feel they are being overly generous by giving an education to their property. They even gave him a choice of where to work for free! Your vision of society fits perfectly in line with the Antebellum south. (To be clear, I'm not calling you a racist, you're just pro-slavery which is actually frowned upon in most societies in the 21st century)
The big difference between an unpaid internship and slavery is that a slave owner takes responsibility for the slaves welfare, ensures that they are fed, clothed and have shelter as well as for the slaves actions to some extent.
An unpaid intern has no such luxuries, they must provide their own food, shelter and clothing. Further more if the intern does something wrong the corporation will have no compunction against throwing them under the proverbial bus to save their own skin.
Hence why most civilised nations consider unpaid internships to be illegal. Yes you can hire an intern at minimum wage, but you must pay them for services rendered.
1642-1651.
Also the Troubles.
The history of the UK involves a lot of war, most notably between the various states of the British Isles but there has been at least 1 English civil war. Only in the last 200 odd years has the UK acted as a unified nation... mostly (they still dont like English Pounds in Scotland).
However my own nation, Australia voted for it's establishment as an independent state in 1901, before then we were six British colonies.
The full quote is "My country, right or wrong. If right to be kept right, if wrong to be set right" and was said by an American senator (Carl Schultz IIRC). It's a statement that suggests one shouldn't blindly accept the superiority of ones own nation and if a problem exists with your own country, should be corrected. I agree with your point... But you've used completely the wrong phrase. The US belief in "Manifest Destiny" would have been a much better example.
This I couldn't agree with more.
I mentioned the Troubles earlier, what glory has that bought to Ireland, Northern Ireland or the UK?
Violent revolution more often than not ends with a violent and despotic government. Understandably paranoid about the threat of a violent uprising. You need only look at some of the more famous revolutions in recent history, Russia, Iran, China... Even Russia and China still have very oppressive governments.
I remember Jobs saying general purpose computers are like trucks. Some people will always need trucks to haul things but most people really need a car or other forms of transportation. Now originally the only choice offered to consumers were general purpose computers. These days they have choices.
And Jobs was wrong.
Jobs would like to paint it this way but the reality of the matter is that PC's represent all types of cars from small runabouts to sports cars to six axle prime movers.
The PC in it's many factors fills all those roles. The Tablet is a single role device, so it's really nothing more than a Toyota Yaris. Netbooks are like Smart TwoFours (small, low powered), my laptop is more like a hot hatch (powerful, but sacrifices some power for practicality), servers are like prime movers (designed for doing heavy work) and my gaming rig is equivalent to a Lamborghini (in fact, you can buy Lambo cases for PC's these days).
There's been other similar prior work. For example, there's evidence that gamers can quickly allocate their attention in an efficient fashion. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2680769/ and that gamers have faster reaction times for a large variety of tasks http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/18/6/321.short.
No, no, no.
We all know that gaming is the work of the devil and teaches our chillin' nothing good.
Both Fox News and the Pastor told me so.
This "research" must be suppressed.
The problem in Greece is mainly due to lack of involvement of the government and too much uncontrolled capitalism.
This is sarcasm right? It's kind of like looking at a car with a flat and claiming the problem is that the driver hasn't punctured the other three tires too. Greece didn't get into the mess it is in by unfettering capitalism, a thing incidentally that it has yet to do.
No, endemic levels of tax evasion (come on, you honestly expect me to believe you had no idea Greece was a tax haven) mixed with equally endemic levels of corruption means that Greece's tax revenues have consistently fallen below expectation. So even when the Greek minister balanced the books, the companies in Greece simply didn't pay tax.
It was cheaper to pay off the tax collector than to pay tax. Essentially companies could do what they wanted as long as they kept the right palms greased (which is cheap for any multinational).
Next thing you're going tell me is that your shocked that some Thai girl offered to have sex with you in Bangkok when prostitution is illegal in Thailand.
there is no compelling reason to buy a new computer
You'd think the idea of a permanently vulnerable OS connected to the net (sending your passwords, credit card numbers, or just about anything, to botnet owners) is not a reason compelling enough?
And who the fuck moderated this +5? Am I still on Slashdot?
Like home users give a crap about botnets or their own security.
/. who think the bank gives them free money. I mean a bank, the most merciless profit oriented organisations on the planet... handing out free money?
Most are utterly convinced the bank will automagically protect them from all the baddies.
Hell, there are people on
Son. People are naive, if this needs to be explained to you at this point, you are one of those people.
I was going to build a steam box if this didn't happen. I collect consoles and games*, and I'm not sure if I want the Xbox One because it's not guaranteed I'll be able to play my games 10 years down the road.
Question: Do PC makers have a pro-DRM policy or prevent used game sales?
Some do, some dont. Most dont require activation and therefore, disks can be transfered between owners.
Question: Further, what prevents the DRM from being added to any game on the PS4 by the very same publishers who insist on it for the PC market?
The fact that Sony builds DRM it into the PS4 at the hardware level. Game manufacturers already pay for this in per-disc licensing fees so if Sony offered an additional level of DRM game manufacturers would scream until it was included in the already high license fee.