Comment Re:How does he know MS isn't doing anything else? (Score 0, Redundant) 275
The parent is a really insightful comment on Slashdot!
Given advertisement being the main cash income for online service, how could MS be doing nothing at all?
The parent is a really insightful comment on Slashdot!
Given advertisement being the main cash income for online service, how could MS be doing nothing at all?
John Carmack specifically told he did not want to be like Epic. They had (relatively) huge success with Quake 3 engine sales, however he had to spend lots of time for technical support of engine licensees, while he could've spend those times on this on games.
Please look at this:
http://kotaku.com/5339057/john-carmack-ok-with-id-not-becoming-an-epic-or-valve
There are cases in which no individual can reasonably pay for something because one copy would cost tens of billions of dollars. The only way to buy a legitimate copy of, say, Disney's Song of the South would be to buy a controlling interest in the company and then force the company to make and distribute copies of the film on home video.
Wow, we have an extreme case here. I persoanlly do not have any interest in Disney, except for Pixar movies. Even if I did, I'd probably make use of libraries/blockbuster/netflix.
The article is about video games, and a lot of them don't have a Free alternative. What's the open source alternative to Animal Crossing series? What's the open source alternative to Super Smash Bros. series?
It goes on to the first thing I said. If I have money, and want to play this game (i.e.: it's worth my time), I believe the designer should be compensated for it.
If it's too expensive (like $60 games), I can etiher wait a year, where it becomes $20, or rent it for $10, or buy / resell on eBay (which'll cost around $15).
If it's still feels too expensive, we go back to the beginning: it's not worth my time.
Same here. There is absolutely no reason to pirate if you can pay for it.
And if I don't want to pay for something, it's either not worth it - That also means, it's not worth my time either.
Or... It's too expensive for the purpose. Then I try to find an open source / trial alternative, or get it through my university.
This has worked for me for long time now.
Mod this one (parent) up.
Whoever sent the facebook photo, either is doing something *very* wrong, or found a bug. MS does not sell DRM'ed music via Zune Marketplace. And it does not delete your music, unless yo request it. The only DRM is in subscription, which is fine.
Defense does not necessarily need to be incompetent. As long as the accuser can demonstrate that the patent applies, defense has no choice, until the patent used itself is invalidated, which is not easy. (Remember that one-click shopping patent of Amazon).
I've only seen one recent case of Microsoft using patents against competition (FAT vs TomTom). However, every year they have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to unknown companies. Especially the Eolas case was ridiculous, and those money, unfortunately, goes from our wallets, as the MS tax, when we purchase a new Dell system.
The main point is, automated Google translation from Turkish is nowhere is good, and any respectable news source (i.e: slashdot) should not refer to it, unless they want to look funny.
As someone mentioned above: "they set us the bomb". But given the context of the article, probably "all your base are belong to us".
Thanks for you mature comment. I hope by writing this, and listening to music on my computer I don't become a hypocrite.
Well, actually I don't think so
A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.