But you can only do that if you are sure your program and DRM code are both 100% bug-free. Wouldn't want to start the lawsuit and then find out that it was actually a bug in your DRM code that was enabling the buggy behavior in an honest reviewer's copy of your program. Most people would consider adding code that is intentionally broken to be a bad idea, not in the world of DRM, though. And even if you could somehow sue all the reviewers in the world who pirated your program and posted bad reviews you still have word of mouth. Unless you also plan to sue everyone in the world who is speaking ill of your program.
You are basically killing a house fly with a bazooka and blowing yourself up in the process
And you will be in for a ton of fun. I had a problem with Half Life 2 where the AI turned off automatically. The root cause was that, for some reason, Half Life 2 was thinking I pirated the game. After contacting Steam I was received with a "boo hoo! Pirates cannot play" response and mockery in the public forums. It took me weeks to get help from someone in Steam who, after being shown proof of purchase, finally resolved my problem.
Non-surprisingly The Orange Box was the first and last Steam game I buy
This woman, when having her vision compromised, should have treated it as any other similar hazard. If there was mud that was thrown on her windshield, she wouldn't have kept going the same speed.
Well, she treated it in the same way she would have treated any similar hazard:
"Hey guys, mud was just thrown to windshield LOLOLOL, will slow down once I finish updating my FB sta---"
What differentiates Glen Beck from some homeless idiot claiming that the world is flat is that he has an audience. He has thousands (millions?) of viewers. They actually listen to him. If he claims that Google is in league with the devil, they'll believe it. They'll go use Bing instead.
Space Quest Collection works perfectly fine in a modern computer running Windows 7 x64, even the timing is better than it used to be in my 486. Internally it seems to be using DOSBox.
The CEO of iFixit talks about how evil Apple is for changing the screws in their iPhone, but thankfully his company has a solution, a $10 USD "liberation kit" which liberates you from the evil hands of Apple by selling you a pentalobular screw driver for three times its normal cost. Gee, thanks!
I think there are two types of games (and I think you can broadly apply the thought to other arts as well): revolutionary games and evolutionary games. Revolutionary games change a genre or create it: Super Mario Bros changed plataformers with solid controls and inspired level design which are still awesome, as such, playing it again still gives me a good amount of fun. The Birds was a revolutionary film which treats human nature and relationships in a way I am not really qualified to discuss and its filming techniques and themes are still being explored in today's films.
On the other hand, evolutionary games only improve on a previous experience but do not provide a whole lot else (nicer graphics, slightly better storyline, old game in a new console). These games are not bad and their technical achievements can make them hits on release, but they do not age well. At least for me Goldeneye is only evolutionary, multiplayer had been introduced in FPS before (Team Fortress was released exactly a year before and I am sure if I searched enough I would find other multiplayer FPSs much earlier) and the single player campaign wasn't as good as other contemporary games (Elder Scrolls 2 comes to mind). The thing that made it so popular was that it was one of the first FPSs in a console, but as a game it provided nothing new or revolutionary.
It certainly is an entertaining game, but it is not in the same breath with masterpieces like Super Mario Bros or The Birds.
And there is also the very vague definition of "producing something of value". Programmers can create something of great value, but they can also create a buggy, slow, lazily coded program that will cost an insane amount of money to maintain and, eventually cost the company more than just cancelling the project in the first place. The same thing can probably be said of most positions in a company.
Agreed, all else being equal a good build order will have a strong advantage. But the same thing could be said of a number of other things (all else being equal knowing the keyboard shortcuts will give you a strong advantage).
I have not seen that game, but I will look for it, thanks:)
Yes, and capitalization, intent and punctuation are also important, but that has nothing to do with my previous statement. If you have a spell checker and a dictionary you do not have to know the precise spelling of every word in the English language. If you refuse to use them and type the words by ear then it is true that you will get horrible sentences.
That is why I think programming is so dumb, it is just memorizing the optimal code to solve all problems in the universe and then being able to type really fast, no thinking involved at all.
When teaching chess Josh Waitzkin always put a lot of focus on the endgame and understanding the strengths of every piece, instead of memorizing openings. While it is true that a good opening will give you a good economic foundation for the rest of the game, a good understanding of counters and strategy or incredible reflexes in order to fight two battles at once would beat a good build order most of the time (for example: watch the first games of Boxer. He did not know openings as well as his opponents yet still outmatched them).
To be fair, he did specify that fundamental theory had to be taught. The more precise analogy would be: with automatic spell checking and dictionaries nobody needs to know the precise spelling of every single word in the English language.
Weird thing, I have met more people in a couple months of Starcraft 2 than I did in all of Starcraft 1, because in SC we were always in the same channel and didn't really play with anyone else. This time around after some games I get a message or I send a message to one of the people who played and we chat a little about the game, sometimes we 2v2 and add them as friends so that the next time they are online I get a notification. There is not a lot of social interaction but I am playing the game to play the game, not to chat.
On the other hand, maybe what I experienced in SC was not the whole social experience and I missed on something really cool.
The problem with hackers is that they are not "an easy game". Since they are cheating they have an unfair advantage and are usually pretty bad about it, too. If they want to cheat their way through single player, all power to them; if they want to play the single player challenges with cheats, that's fine too; hell, if they want to use cheats on custom games I'm all for it. But if they want to play competitively then they have to stick to the rules as much any other competitive activity.
Do you mean a lot of us geeks in slashdot or do you mean a significant percentage of a population sized close to the 160 million population they used to gather their information? If it is the former, based on the anecdotal evidence of a person who is surrounded with computer savvy people, then I guess your first point is not as strong as you would like to believe.
And there has been a big shift in gaming towards competitive gaming. Sure, you destroyed the Overmind, but how would you fare against WhiteRa or The Little One or so many other Starcraft legends? Where do you rank in the ladder? Or in Starcraft 2, which league are you in? With automatic matchmaking you can get enough of a challenge and all the "cool" factor you want.
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But you can only do that if you are sure your program and DRM code are both 100% bug-free. Wouldn't want to start the lawsuit and then find out that it was actually a bug in your DRM code that was enabling the buggy behavior in an honest reviewer's copy of your program. Most people would consider adding code that is intentionally broken to be a bad idea, not in the world of DRM, though. And even if you could somehow sue all the reviewers in the world who pirated your program and posted bad reviews you still have word of mouth. Unless you also plan to sue everyone in the world who is speaking ill of your program.
You are basically killing a house fly with a bazooka and blowing yourself up in the process
And you will be in for a ton of fun. I had a problem with Half Life 2 where the AI turned off automatically. The root cause was that, for some reason, Half Life 2 was thinking I pirated the game. After contacting Steam I was received with a "boo hoo! Pirates cannot play" response and mockery in the public forums. It took me weeks to get help from someone in Steam who, after being shown proof of purchase, finally resolved my problem.
Non-surprisingly The Orange Box was the first and last Steam game I buy
This woman, when having her vision compromised, should have treated it as any other similar hazard. If there was mud that was thrown on her windshield, she wouldn't have kept going the same speed.
Well, she treated it in the same way she would have treated any similar hazard:
"Hey guys, mud was just thrown to windshield LOLOLOL, will slow down once I finish updating my FB sta---"
What differentiates Glen Beck from some homeless idiot claiming that the world is flat is that he has an audience. He has thousands (millions?) of viewers. They actually listen to him. If he claims that Google is in league with the devil, they'll believe it. They'll go use Bing instead.
Bing? Oh God, Glenn Beck is evil!!
Space Quest Collection works perfectly fine in a modern computer running Windows 7 x64, even the timing is better than it used to be in my 486. Internally it seems to be using DOSBox.
From TFA:
players are rewarded for shooting enemies in the private parts (such as the buttocks).
Phew! Good thing they exemplified, at first I was thinking "private parts" meant their motherboards.
I recently purchased the Space Quest collection at Amazon, which contains the six Space Quests for half the price I found them in GOG.com
The CEO of iFixit talks about how evil Apple is for changing the screws in their iPhone, but thankfully his company has a solution, a $10 USD "liberation kit" which liberates you from the evil hands of Apple by selling you a pentalobular screw driver for three times its normal cost. Gee, thanks!
I think there are two types of games (and I think you can broadly apply the thought to other arts as well): revolutionary games and evolutionary games. Revolutionary games change a genre or create it: Super Mario Bros changed plataformers with solid controls and inspired level design which are still awesome, as such, playing it again still gives me a good amount of fun. The Birds was a revolutionary film which treats human nature and relationships in a way I am not really qualified to discuss and its filming techniques and themes are still being explored in today's films.
On the other hand, evolutionary games only improve on a previous experience but do not provide a whole lot else (nicer graphics, slightly better storyline, old game in a new console). These games are not bad and their technical achievements can make them hits on release, but they do not age well. At least for me Goldeneye is only evolutionary, multiplayer had been introduced in FPS before (Team Fortress was released exactly a year before and I am sure if I searched enough I would find other multiplayer FPSs much earlier) and the single player campaign wasn't as good as other contemporary games (Elder Scrolls 2 comes to mind). The thing that made it so popular was that it was one of the first FPSs in a console, but as a game it provided nothing new or revolutionary.
It certainly is an entertaining game, but it is not in the same breath with masterpieces like Super Mario Bros or The Birds.
And there is also the very vague definition of "producing something of value". Programmers can create something of great value, but they can also create a buggy, slow, lazily coded program that will cost an insane amount of money to maintain and, eventually cost the company more than just cancelling the project in the first place. The same thing can probably be said of most positions in a company.
Also VIM uses either key i or insert to enable writing, and to get to replace mode only key allowing that is insert.
Or R, unless I am missing something.
The official release date is December 16 in the US and December 20 in the UK
That he decided to buy an iPad does not mean that he cannot learn from his mistakes.
Mod parent awesome
Agreed, all else being equal a good build order will have a strong advantage. But the same thing could be said of a number of other things (all else being equal knowing the keyboard shortcuts will give you a strong advantage).
I have not seen that game, but I will look for it, thanks :)
Yes, and capitalization, intent and punctuation are also important, but that has nothing to do with my previous statement. If you have a spell checker and a dictionary you do not have to know the precise spelling of every word in the English language. If you refuse to use them and type the words by ear then it is true that you will get horrible sentences.
That is why I think programming is so dumb, it is just memorizing the optimal code to solve all problems in the universe and then being able to type really fast, no thinking involved at all.
When teaching chess Josh Waitzkin always put a lot of focus on the endgame and understanding the strengths of every piece, instead of memorizing openings. While it is true that a good opening will give you a good economic foundation for the rest of the game, a good understanding of counters and strategy or incredible reflexes in order to fight two battles at once would beat a good build order most of the time (for example: watch the first games of Boxer. He did not know openings as well as his opponents yet still outmatched them).
To be fair, he did specify that fundamental theory had to be taught. The more precise analogy would be: with automatic spell checking and dictionaries nobody needs to know the precise spelling of every single word in the English language.
Weird thing, I have met more people in a couple months of Starcraft 2 than I did in all of Starcraft 1, because in SC we were always in the same channel and didn't really play with anyone else. This time around after some games I get a message or I send a message to one of the people who played and we chat a little about the game, sometimes we 2v2 and add them as friends so that the next time they are online I get a notification. There is not a lot of social interaction but I am playing the game to play the game, not to chat.
On the other hand, maybe what I experienced in SC was not the whole social experience and I missed on something really cool.
He said that Microsoft never supported the MS JVM so essentially: he is right.
The problem with hackers is that they are not "an easy game". Since they are cheating they have an unfair advantage and are usually pretty bad about it, too. If they want to cheat their way through single player, all power to them; if they want to play the single player challenges with cheats, that's fine too; hell, if they want to use cheats on custom games I'm all for it. But if they want to play competitively then they have to stick to the rules as much any other competitive activity.
First, a lot of us use tools like click2flash
Do you mean a lot of us geeks in slashdot or do you mean a significant percentage of a population sized close to the 160 million population they used to gather their information? If it is the former, based on the anecdotal evidence of a person who is surrounded with computer savvy people, then I guess your first point is not as strong as you would like to believe.
Brakes are made to be limited?
And there has been a big shift in gaming towards competitive gaming. Sure, you destroyed the Overmind, but how would you fare against WhiteRa or The Little One or so many other Starcraft legends? Where do you rank in the ladder? Or in Starcraft 2, which league are you in? With automatic matchmaking you can get enough of a challenge and all the "cool" factor you want.