damicatz

[quote who="mrakomo" reply="12" id="1891419"] Quoting Campaigner, reply 10No, there shouldn't be a secondary market for software. I strongly disagree. If the software costs a lot of money, the secondary market or the possibility to transfer the licence can be usefull. Hovewer if the price of the license does not exceeed let's say $50, it does not make any sense.[/quote] You aren't paying for the license, you are paying for a good. Law and stare decici

Depends if updates are advertised on the product packaging.

If you bought a boxed copy of Sins of a Solar Empire in the United States, you DO have the legal right to resell it and no EULA can get around that. Restricting the right of first sale through technological measures is an actionable offense in a court of law. It's called the first sale doctrine and it was established by the US Supreme Court when they ruled that a copyright holder only has the right to control the sale of a copyrighted work the first time around. It's al

[quote]Hellgate London is not like Diablo in that the entire world is persistent. Anytime you are playing online, you are playing through Flagship's servers and using their bandwidth. It's not like Diablo where the only think Blizzard's servers did was host the lobby and keep track of stats and items.Not so much. As I recall, only the towns/hubs in HGL are what you might call peristent. All of the actual play areas are random and instanced.[/quote] They are instanced. But you are still

[quote]Flagship Studios had promise. Unfortunately, greedy executives at companies like EA and Hanbitsoft didn't give them the time or money to properly develop the game Hellgate London.plz do some research, maybe there.The really greedy ppl were Ropper and co. They invented this half arsed MMO concept. They wanted to be a Diablo 2.5 and force ppl to pay monthly for even simply features like shared stashes to enjoy the full game.So they asked for money like they are a real MMO while saying ever

[quote]greedy executives at companies like EA and Hanbitsoft didn't give them the time or money to properly develop the game Hellgate London.You don't know what you're talking about. EA had nothing to do with this, and Hanbitsoft was trying to give them money. Evidently it is preferable to destroy a company and throw everyone into unemployment rather than implement any type of constructive suggestions as to how to turn around a broken franchise. The people who founded Flagship are idiots. Blizza

[quote]Publishers are pirates. Agreed. But at least they offer a service. They are more like insurence companies than anything else. They cost more than they are worth, but you don't want to go without one.[/quote] In the old days, before broadband became a commodity in most countries, that may have been true. But now days, a developer can skip the publisher and go straight to Steam/Impulse. Take for example [link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introversion_Software#Fin

Flagship Studios had promise. Unfortunately, greedy executives at companies like EA and Hanbitsoft didn't give them the time or money to properly develop the game Hellgate London. Screw traditional game publishers. They are little more than parasites that feed off of the artistic talent of game developers. They are the reason so many game developers with so much promise have folded. In this day and age, with digital distribution systems such as Steam and Impulse,

[quote]It should be noted that 64 bit integers use more space in memory then 32 bit ones, so while you may have your full 4 GB addressable (vs ~3.25GB), you may find more space being used.... Kinda swings and roundabouts...[/quote] Which would only be an issue if integers were 64-bits to begin with. [link="http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html"]WWW Link[/link] x64 editions of Windows use the LLP64 data model. Integers and Longs are still 32-bits.

[quote]Name one company which was driven extinct by piratesAccording to their THQ publisher, that is why IronLore recently closed their doors.Too bad, the Titan Quest games were OK.WWW Link~ Wyndstar[/quote] THQ is why Iron Lore failed. 1.They forced them to release their game before it was finishd. 2.They then refused to allocate money for patches to fix the issues with Titan Quest. 3.They then refused to provide funding to Iron Lore for further games. THQ com

Just what this forum needs. Another sermon by the church of intellectual property to rally people to the cause of your holy jihad against pirates. > That sounds rather "open-minded" to me. See, that makes you a liberal. I am not > open-minded. I know what is right, what is wrong, and which is thievery, and I intend to > demand punishment for criminal actions, to the extend that those punishments deter the > crimes. I dream of a nearly unrestricted free-market in which an

I won't give AT&T a cent. They are just as corrupt as the US Government and willfully assist them in spying on their own citizens. Apple's on my blacklist as well for a history of abusive and illegal litigation and bullying. They make Microsoft look like a saint.

[quote]"Two mistakes:-Saying EA is stealing. Are they really? If they are, you can go to court over it if you want.-The whole "two wrongs make a right" philosophy. Sorry, but just because wrong to you does not give you the right to commit another wrong against them."That be one "mistake" and one question. To go to court, I would have to let them steal from me in the first place, then I would have to expend vast quantities of a resource I don't have to get repaid for their theft. I'd prefer to

Alternatively, you could tell the traditional publisher to go pound sand and go straight to digital distribution without signing away your rights. As far as I'm concerned, traditional publishers like EA, 2K, THQ (especially after the Iron Lore incident) and Atari are scourge. They are parasites that live off the backs of (formerly) independent game developers. They compromise the artistic integrity of the work in pursuit of the almighty dollar. The traditional publishers have

[quote]damicatz, excellent point you make.A question though, why wouldn't Microsoft put the word out to the vendors like ZoneAlarm so they could issue an update to go along with it? [/quote] I'm pretty sure ZoneAlarm was notified. Microsoft, however, wasn't the one coordinating the effort between vendors.

[quote]Pretend that there was a portable scanning/storage device that would allow you to walk into any store and swipe at any digital product on the shelf to 'copy' its contents in a short period of time. Now lets assume that the internet does not exist, however anyone with a personal computer could easily obtain such a device at virtually no cost. If the uses of this device was not considered illegal, why on earth would any immoral person purchase any digital&

It's a ZoneAlarm problem not a Microsoft problem. The update in question patches a vulnerability in the design of the domain name system. It's a vulnerability that affects all vendors and the patch is not exclusive to Microsoft (all of the major software vendors affected by this issue released the patch this week). The update is critical. Telling people to uninstall it not only bad advice, it's dangerous. The vulnerability in question is not one that Zonealarm can protect you f

You all should start a church. Seriously. The amount of vitriolic hatred that people in the "piracy is the end of the world crowd" is amazing. It's like you've all declared a jihad. (Public executions? Get a grip) For the record, I legally bought Sins. I legally bought Gal Civ II and it's two expansions. I have dozens of games that I've legally bought on Steam. I have shelves full of game boxes that I've legally bought. Saying that Usenet exists isn't helping people pirate. Tha

The content industry's definition of "piracy" is any time you make a copy of something, even if it's for legal fair use or backup reasons. They are little more than a criminal cartel. This is not being done for the benefit of software companies, it's being done for the benefit of the media industry. Anyone who's smart doesn't use BitTorrent or P2P. At least publicly. Those that actually know what they are doing use something like a 256-bit SSL-encrypted NNTP connection with a g

Sometimes I hate this country. You want to know what the difference between the US and Europe is? Europeans know how to conserve fuel. They don't take their cars and drive around to stuff that's in walking distance (and yes, we have cities in the US too where there are plenty of things in walking distance from a residence so don't give me that more spread out excuse). And they don't make 10 car trips a day simply because it's not convenient to consolidate your errands into one longer t

Godwin's law : [I]As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.[/I] Godwin's law refers to the phenomenon in which the longer an internet discussion goes on, the higher the probability of a reference to Nazis. A law which you have demonstrated quite impeccably, I might add. You may also wish to read up on the logical fallacies of Guilt By Association, Questionable Cause and Reductio ad Hitlerum. See :

You countered nothing. Everytime I have made an argument or a point, you have responded with insults. Calling me mentally ill is not an argument. Calling me a nazi is not an argument. Comparing me to lucifer is not an argument. Calling me a subhuman is not an argument. Calling me a monster is not an argument. Posting links to activist groups and then attempting to pass it off as fact is not an argument. Poems do not form arguements. You also have a bad h

Once again, you've demonstrated my point. Rather than trying to counter my points in logical discourse, you resort to insults. You still haven't answered my question. About how being opposed to Israel makes one a nazi. Stop skirting around the issues. You are delusional if you believe that the allied nations were any better than the axis nations. Nuking civilian targets. Rounding up Japanese, German, and Italian Americans and hording them into concentration (sorry, "internment

Ok, you keep believing that the Nazi party is still around and controls the Middle East. Maybe Hitler is like Elvis and he never really died. Maybe Hitler was even behind the 9/11 attacks. As for hate propaganda, perhaps you should check your sources. Zionists are some of the most hateful people that I know. They look down upon non-Jews and view them as inferior. Have you ever actually been to Israel? Looked at their laws? If you aren't a jew in Israel, you are a second-class

Maybe you should lay off the neo-con kool-aid for a bit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Semitic_peoples [quote]"His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom request the Secretary-Gen[/quote] [quote]Israel is an illegitimate country to begin with. If the United Nations carved out a portion of the US and gave it to an ethnic group who then instituted an apartheid government and waged war against us, you'd be upset too. The United Nations along with the US and ot