Comment: Re:Ok, how do they know? (Score 1) 862
I'm with 0racle here, How do they know that the start button usage has declined so much?
Comment: Re:How Ironic (Score 1) 350
I agree that both games had their roots in artillery type games, but when I am saying that Angry Birds is a rip-off of Crush the Castle, I mean just that, it is the *exact* same game, with different graphics.
And yes the main point of my original comment was that the creator of Angry Birds has no room to criticize other developer's innovation, when his company has yet to have demonstrated any themselves.
Comment: How Ironic (Score 4, Interesting) 350
He talks about how "innovation wasn't coming from large development firms like EA and Ubisoft, but from smaller, more nimble developers like his own.".... yet, angry birds is an obvious rip off of another game, Crush the Castle, which was developed by Armor Games quite some time before A.B.
Try it out for yourself...
http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle
Comment: Meh... (Score 1) 449
So, you are saying a whole multitude of devices combined can outsell a singe device. So what?
Comment: Re:need more input (Score 1) 449
Oh, and he better not use Windows, or Unix, or Linux, since they also have built in encryption.
Comment: Re:Virus? Malware? (Score 1) 117
Actually I agree, but I prefer to call most of these things a virus.
While I am aware that it is not always technically accurate, it has a greater emotional impact on non-technical people.
The fact is, Joe average user is much more likely to take it serious when you say.. your computer has about 10 viruses on it.
If you tell them your computer is infected with malware, they are likely to just say "What's that?".
While I am aware that it is not always technically accurate, it has a greater emotional impact on non-technical people.
The fact is, Joe average user is much more likely to take it serious when you say.. your computer has about 10 viruses on it.
If you tell them your computer is infected with malware, they are likely to just say "What's that?".
Comment: Re:Symantec is saying this? (Score 1) 459
It's not just AV software. The entire software industry operates this way.
1. Shovel feature-rich bug-ware onto unsuspecting schlubs to build "brand" (especially in the enterprise/IT market where the person purchasing the software is often not the person who has to use it, so they make decisions based on feature list and brand name rather than quality) 2. Wait for hobbyists, researchers, or smaller companies to figure out how to do it right 3. Buy their companies 4. Repeat
Remember when Norton was actually decent? It was before Symantec bought them. After the acquisition, Symantec went back to Step 1 and gradually bloated and encrapified the antivirus. Now they are on Step 2. I wouldn't be surprised if they bought up someone like TrendMicro soon, spouting promises of a glorious and euphoria-inducing Norton/PC-cillin integration.
-- 77IM
They already have, they bought up Sygate and shut it down, since it was competing with their firewall product. Now they are supposedly impementing some of sygate's technologies, but honestly I just no longer trust Nortons products. Sygate Personal Firewall
RIAA's Bid to Stop Jammie From Objecting Fails->
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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's motion to prevent Jammie Thomas-Rasset from objecting to evidentiary problems with the RIAA's copyright registrations has been denied. The decision by Judge Michael J. Davis (PDF) held that 'The Court's Order granting a new trial in this matter granted an entirely new trial on all issues. The fact that Defendant did not object to Plaintiffs' evidence of registration in the First Trial does not preclude Defendant from putting Plaintiffs to their burden of proof on this issue in the retrial.' Judge Davis rejected the RIAA's contention that he could take 'judicial notice' of the validity of the registrations, since 'judicial notice' doctrine is only applicable to matters which are 'not subject to reasonable dispute'."
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Comment: Loss of Business (Score 1) 361
Also I feel it should be said that these calls cause a huge disruption in small businesses that have to deal with customer service.
Since pretty much all businesses have land lines they get bombarded with robocalls all the time. And a lot of them cannot afford to have someone sit and watch a phone all day. So the people who are waiting on customers have to deal with the phone calls.
If I am on the phone I am not helping a customer.