(I'm going to use Apple as an example here but it applies to most cases )
I don't think the problem is DRM at all. The purpose of DRM is to restrict your use of the item/software/music/whatever to what you are legally entitled to do. The REAL problem is that companies are using DRM to enforce a set of rights THEY believe you should have, overriding your legal ones.
For example, in the US, copying music should be allowed under the fair use clauses in the constitution and other court rulings, by Apple, However, in Australia for example, you are not allowed to copy music because there is NO fair use clause allowing you to copy music. In actualality The DRM Apple provides by using FairPlay is actually less restrictive than what the government has allowed.
You can go through all the Oblivion gates in Oblivion; that's like 80 hours of gameplay alone. (There's like 20 of them, and each one takes like 4 hours).
It takes you 4 hours to clear a gate??!!! What the hell.. do you stop and take a sight seeing tour? It should take you 60 minutes max, 30 if you are in a hurry.
A common perception is that they just make huge profits from a line of drugs and that's it. No it isn't!
I'm not saying that, i'm just saying that they would make huge profits off this particular drug.
Otherwise i don't see the point of your post, you essentially agree with the two points i made.
1. The drug companies would be more interested in making insane profits from any cure for AIDS instead of making it because they feel some kind of moral obligation.
2. They wouldn't make the formula free ( as in beer ) but would rather try to make as much money as possible from it inlcuding aggressively targetting people trying to reverse engineer the drug to benifit humankind.
Sure i can see why they would want to make money, it costs alot in development, however, the GPS satellite also cost billions to develop and cost billions to maintain and they are free to use with no cost, because they are for common goodwill.
What does it matter if potential customers die? Really? The world population is increasing, it matters not that this year 7 million people died from HIV, because 95 million will be born. There will always be more people to buy more medicine. http://www.worldometers.info/
You're going down a dangerous slope blaming the U.S. for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Oh? Who else is to blame? The president of the US chose to do it. He is to blame, nobody else.
As for nukes themselves. IMHO they should NEVER have been used... ever. They are one of the most horribly destructive things known to humans and should never be used in defensive or offensive. It's better to take a pacifist stand than to retaliate with nuclear weapons.
But.. this is a debate that will never end and this will probably just turn into a flamewar(as indicated by the flamebait moderation).:(
If we found a cure for AIDS, there's no doubt in my mind that we'd share it.
Ahhahahahaha. You made me laugh.. *wipes tears* You are joking right? You are saying that in this day and age of patents/trademarks and corporate secrets they would share the biggest cash cow of the millenium! I think not.. they will milk it for every drop it's worth, you will have to pay the discoverers royalties whenever you produce it, if they even let you produce it, assuming they don't set up their own production plant. Imagine it.. The cure! You could charge whatever price you want, sell it on ebay! it'd be worth trillions, if you ever sell it, and if someone figures out the chemical breakdown and produces it you could sue their ass off for even more money.
It just never felt right. More often than not I was fighting it, even moreso than when using Windows
Wow.. that is exactly what i thought when i used GNOME, i tried both KDE and GNOME, and i always found that when using GNOME it was harder to do things, i always had to put more effort into getting the results i wanted.
I personally know about six people who used GNOME, and swore that they'd never touch it again after seeing that monstrosity. One went back to Windows, to the best of my knowledge. The rest switched to KDE, and have been quite pleased, as far as I know.
Me as well, it was the main reason i stopped using GNOME, it still shows up time to time when you use a GNOME app in KDE, so i'm not completely rid of it. I had been using GNOME for about two weeks before i even discovered you could actually type in a pathname, it's so un-intuitive it's not funny.
I found a vi plugin for Eclipse a while ago, it emulates almost of all vi's features in Eclipse, and it's very handy. The only problem is that it costs money and the trial has an idiotic nag screen that pops up like every 45secs, but i thought it was worth every cent when i bought it.
http://satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Ewwww.. SuperKaramba? I found it buggy, slow, and took up 15% of my cpu when everything else was idle, WHY would i want it builtin to my desktop?
And secondly...
just a way of putting HTML or Animations on the desktop - they weren't programs per-se, that could tell you useful stuff.
You're kidding right? The same way the web dosn't tell you usefull stuff? Nah.. i couldn't embed a flash/javascript/activex program into HTML and put it into my desktop, that's way too hard.. and they couldn't tell you any USEFULL stuff anyway.. not like all the cool apps here http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/previous/g allery/default.mspx like J-Track Satellite Tracking. That's not usefull to astronomers??
What about being able to embed your favourite ctrl-alt-del into your desktop.. or your corporate intranet site?
Oh and btw, superkaramba widgets are just done in XML anyway(although they can link to external libs).. so really all SuperKaramba provides is just a way of putting XML on the desktop - they aren't programs per-se, that could tell you useful stuff.
You seem to be focusing only on the gameplay mechanics and gfx. The gameplay and gfx we similar for Half-Life as for Quake 2 but the difference was the way the story was implemented. I really enjoyed the story in Star Control 2, in my exmple i enjoy Half-Life much more because it's story was more interesting and engaging than Q2
The Jin Chess Client code was taken and changed so that it loaded a DLL made by IChessU. Now, loading DLL's dynamically from a GPL'd program does not violate GPL if the DLL is not statically linked, if all the entry points are accessed DYNAMICALLY. They released the source to this extended version, but not the DLL ( which is their own code not under GPL ).
Where is the problem? What violation has occurred? Or am i mis-understanding something?
I was going to say, the sad thing is i actually know what that means.. i can still remember how to write a helloworld.com program using debug. Those were the days! I actually taught myself assembly language using Ralf Browns PC Interrupts book and debug. And then i upgraded to Issac's A86 and D86, yep.. those were fun... especially when i was doing TSR's and got the interrupt return vector wrong!:)
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(I'm going to use Apple as an example here but it applies to most cases )
I don't think the problem is DRM at all. The purpose of DRM is to restrict your use of the item/software/music/whatever to what you are legally entitled to do. The REAL problem is that companies are using DRM to enforce a set of rights THEY believe you should have, overriding your legal ones.
For example, in the US, copying music should be allowed under the fair use clauses in the constitution and other court rulings, by Apple, However, in Australia for example, you are not allowed to copy music because there is NO fair use clause allowing you to copy music. In actualality The DRM Apple provides by using FairPlay is actually less restrictive than what the government has allowed.
Nah, Can't be Robot Jox without a secret Green Laser
Ah.. does this mean we can all be Robot Jox now??
Ohhh. good point!
What does it matter if potential customers die? Really? The world population is increasing, it matters not that this year 7 million people died from HIV, because 95 million will be born. There will always be more people to buy more medicine. http://www.worldometers.info/
I found a vi plugin for Eclipse a while ago, it emulates almost of all vi's features in Eclipse, and it's very handy. The only problem is that it costs money and the trial has an idiotic nag screen that pops up like every 45secs, but i thought it was worth every cent when i bought it. http://satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Dammit, an educated person on slashdot who actually reads thing? go back to where you came from!!... :P
http://pepper.idge.net/disaster.html
And secondly...
You're kidding right? The same way the web dosn't tell you usefull stuff? Nah.. i couldn't embed a flash/javascript/activex program into HTML and put it into my desktop, that's way too hard.. and they couldn't tell you any USEFULL stuff anyway.. not like all the cool apps here http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/previous/
What about being able to embed your favourite ctrl-alt-del into your desktop.. or your corporate intranet site?
Oh and btw, superkaramba widgets are just done in XML anyway(although they can link to external libs).. so really all SuperKaramba provides is just a way of putting XML on the desktop - they aren't programs per-se, that could tell you useful stuff.
And we all know that CNN can be trusted to tell the unbiased truth!
You seem to be focusing only on the gameplay mechanics and gfx. The gameplay and gfx we similar for Half-Life as for Quake 2 but the difference was the way the story was implemented. I really enjoyed the story in Star Control 2, in my exmple i enjoy Half-Life much more because it's story was more interesting and engaging than Q2
Stars! yes.. that was awesome.. i was playing that about the same time i was playing Mordor
No.. but i can say "Oblivion"
True, but it's still enjoyable getting to find all the new quests and stuff you never did b4
I salute you with respect Sir Montaq, all the above are great games, although i'd personally change Masters of Orion to Betrayal at Krondor.
It seems to me that better wording is required in GPL. After reading your post i did what i should have done in the first place. RTFM
g gregation
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCMereA
The Jin Chess Client code was taken and changed so that it loaded a DLL made by IChessU. Now, loading DLL's dynamically from a GPL'd program does not violate GPL if the DLL is not statically linked, if all the entry points are accessed DYNAMICALLY. They released the source to this extended version, but not the DLL ( which is their own code not under GPL ).
Where is the problem? What violation has occurred? Or am i mis-understanding something?
I was going to say, the sad thing is i actually know what that means.. i can still remember how to write a helloworld.com program using debug. Those were the days! I actually taught myself assembly language using Ralf Browns PC Interrupts book and debug. And then i upgraded to Issac's A86 and D86, yep.. those were fun... especially when i was doing TSR's and got the interrupt return vector wrong! :)
Check this page out http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Gripes and see if your personal gripe is mentioned