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Submission + - Software Developer welcomes Piracy (blogspot.com) 2

Submitted by eiapoce on Thursday December 10, 2009 @08:21AM

eiapoce writes: Tabbles got cracked again — a real crack this time (a dll was patched). I guess it's pretty uncommon to see a software developer blogging about his software begin cracked, but in reality the thing its quite cool ... seeing that someone out there cares and takes the time to crack it is quite cool...and feels rewarding. Plus, there are a bunch of case studies out there showing that the more the software gets cracked, the more cash flows in and even that easily crackable softwares win over hard-to-crack competitors.

More here http://tabbles-dev.blogspot.com/2009/12/tabbles-got-cracked-this-time-its-real.html

Mega Man 10 Confirmed For WiiWare 104

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 10, 2009 @02:01AM from the with-new-bosses-chair-man-and-bread-man dept.

The upcoming issue of Nintendo Power revealed that Capcom is working on Mega Man 10 for a release via WiiWare sometime in the future. "Like Mega Man 9 (released for WiiWare in 2008), Mega Man 10 remains true to the series's roots with 8-bit-style graphics and sound, and tried-and-true Mega Man gameplay." According to the early look at Nintendo Power's article, the game may include an easier difficulty mode, likely inspired by complaints that the previous game was too hard. It also previews one of the new bosses, who is apparently called "Sheep Man." Make of that what you wool.

Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released 272

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @06:48PM from the hot-bits dept.

supersloshy writes Today Mozilla released Thunderbird 3. Many new features are available, including Tabs and enhanced search features, a message archive for emails you don't want to delete but still want to keep, Firefox 3's improved Add-ons Manager, Personas support, and many other improvements. Download here."

Will Tabbed Windows Be the Next Big Thing? 528

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 06, 2009 @05:40PM from the oh-for-the-love-of-gimp dept.

kai_hiwatari writes "The recently released KDE SC 4.4 Beta 1 has introduced tabbed windows as a new feature. It is now possible to tab together windows from different applications. This looks like it will be a very good productivity tool. Like the tabbed browsers, this may well end up as a feature in all desktop environments in the years ahead."

Comment Re:Question. Possible DRM-free anti-piracy techniq (Score 1) 734

by seguso on Thursday August 14, 2008 @10:38AM (#24599127) Attached to: Game Developer's Response To Pirates

Thanks for your comment Digital_Quartz.

For some games it might be possible to move substantial logic on the server. These may be: 1) games where there are no strict lag requirements (e.g. adventure games, puzzle games like Puzzle Pirates); 2) games where the needed bandwidth for each client is small and the client does some prediction and/or interpolation.

It is true that you have the additional cost of the server (which would need a lot of bandwidth _and_ computational power); but this cost might be more than compensated by the additional income due to less "piracy". (Or it might not.)

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