The Guardian is a left wing paper, probably dangerously left wing by US standards, but it's not a tabloid of the same ilk as the Daily Mail or the Sun.

Graphing Calculator - $1.99 on the app store right now.

There has to be some middle ground / compromise in this battle.

Producers need to acknowledge that making digital copies is not the same as physical theft.

Consumers need to acknowledge that massive wholesale copyright infringement isn't good.

How about limiting the copyright period for a work to when the producers has recovered their legitimate production costs * X (X to be debated)? Producers won't be driven out of business, consumers will get a chance to get their hands on the work for free in a reasonable time frame.

Follow the logic...

Piracy = !Bad
Piracy = Copyright Infringement
GPL = Copyright
GPL Infringment = !Bad

Well, I'm off to infringe the GPL as it's not bad to do that apparently.

Another triumph for Slashdot accuracy...

6. Get a rubber stamp made of the word PLEASE.

Interesting and providing the link was useful. It allowed me to find my own quote from that article:

I am a profession game developer (animation programmer) and programming is only one discipline, probably less than a third of the staff, that it takes to make a game.

PC / 360 / PS3 game development is a massive undertaking these days with team sizes in the several hundreds. There are plenty of people in these teams (designers, artists, level designers, production etc.) who have no experience in programming.

Even within the programming staff the "close to the metal" programmers are limited in numbers. Most performance optimizations are made at the algorithm level, not the fancy assembler trick level.

The problem with all of the Apollo and Shuttle era technologies that they don't scale. We're never going colonize anywhere sending six people at a time.

If we define the problem as building a spacecraft capable of transporting 1000 people to Mars with equipment to support them for 10 years, and that it should be able to make this journey four times a year for the next 50 years, you would have to come up with a solution that is based on fundamentally different principles.

The first powered aircraft that where built share similar principles to our largest air transports today. I believe Apollo and the Shuttle are not going to share principles with the spacecraft we colonize the solar system with.

P.S. I'm a big space elevator fan :)

I call bullshit! The top of the range model costs $829.99. http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad

I actually agree with you, but your fighting a lost cause here.

The George Bernard Shaw quote would seem to apply: "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it."

Word 2010 supports ligatures.

(full disclosure, I worked for GW for a year back in 1995)

I don't disagree that their behavior is shady and underhanded, but if you're signing a contract with all these restrictions surely alarm bells should be going off. It's only sensible then that you should do some research into what you're getting yourself into.

It just sounds like classic selling your soul to the devil for short term gain.

I don't get this whining about contracts that have been freely entered into. If it's so bad, why do people (you?) agree to their terms? Just don't sell Games Workshop product, sell something else.

This is not entirely correct. You don't need a license to view catch-up programmes but you do need one for live simulcast programming.

Do I need a TV licence to watch programmes on BBC iPlayer?