If I was foolish enough to have given them money for Sim City locking me out of my origin account for wanting my money back is a scarey threat. oooh, I'm forced to continue not playing Star Wars: TOR instead of not playing it by choice.
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To put in the appropriate abusive relationship analogy. You are complaining about being punched in the right eye. EA is offering you a free punch in the left eye if you will stick around.
Exactly. The DRM from Steam is tolerable becasue they have earned my trust that games will continue to be available. If the game was from EA but only required steam authentication I would have bought it without a second thought. Since it requires that I use EA/Origin and Steam to authenticate the game they get nothing from me.
GoG and steam have both sold me games I already owned on physical media to support good publishers and for the convienence should I want to play again in the future. I have also bought games from both services that I had pirated and enjoyed in the past when I didn't have the disposable income that I have now. Provide a good service and people will do the right thing.
This online DRM and it's spectacular failure doesn't just destroy the value of the new sim city it also destroys value of other games from EA. Gatling Gears is on sale from steam this week for about $2.50 normal price is $10. Since I like the genre and the style I looked at it. As soon as I saw the note that it requires the use of EA/origin to authenticate the copy I immediately hit the back button. This isn't even online DRM, as far as I can tell this is just a registration requirement. However even with a 75% discount I am not buying the game.
If each incident where he "forgets" to turn on the camera resulted in a mandatory 30 day unpaid suspension it might matter to the trooper. Of course the other half of that should be that troopers on suspension cannot trade on their membership in the state patrol for jobs. I.E. no moonlighting as a security guard or bouncer while on suspension. I'm not sure if acting as a stripper should count as taking advantage of their position as a trooper or not. If it actually hurts him in the wallet he may change his ways or he will have to start living out of his squad car.
If her tweets are not publishable how is she publishing them to twitter? If she instead meant to say her tweets are not re-publishable how does she expect twitter to provide the service of republishing her tweets in the process of deliviring them to her followers. She keeps using that word, I do not think it means what she thinks it means.
I would like to see some actual numbers showing that there is a real uptick in incidents. From where I am sitting these look like incredibly rare occurances and becasue if it is both rare and bloody it makes great news. Last I heard violent crime has been trending downward for the last 2-3 decades.
If I were in Ryan Lanza's position right now I think I would be talking to a lawyer about filing a few libel/slander suits a donating the winnings to support the families of the victims.
Tthe first amaendment was writtin in the days of lead type and sketches. But now the world has streaming video and the internet, bring the laws up to date...
Inanimate objects are not at fault here. Also approximately 80 million legal gun owners didn't shoot anyone this weekend.
It should be pretty easy to figure out actal damages in this case.
Expected continuing income from the tattoo: $0
Actual continuing income from the likeness: $0
Change in business as a result of the likeness/lawsuit +$$
Sounds like he owes THQ for the additional publicity.
I think the ITU should feel welcome to try to regulate the internet the same way the IEEE does. Write standards proposals and see buys in and starts manufacturing equipment or supplying software that meets the standards requirements. I predect the this will lead to ITUnet with a few thousand users, mostly government sponsored and the continuation of the internet with millions/billions of users.
When it comes to the parts of the computer that I will have my hands on constantly. (Mouse, keyboard, joystick) I will swear by (and occasionaly at) Microsoft and Logitech. Most of their kit fits my hands nicely and is quite durable. It took me about 5 years you wear out the left mouse buttion on my Logitech trackman wheel.
I think these J-school professors need to be turfed out to the public relations or advertising departments. Journalists should be reporting what is rather than trying to influence trends. Gaming Klout scores is perfect training for someone trying to become influential and sell products or ideas, but really doesn't have much impact on journalism.
No outlook is terrible, and lives on because the other enterprise e-mail/calendering/scheduling software is even worse. As it is I would still rather run outlook than stick my hand in a meat grinder, but I don't run it on my own machines.
A simpler solution might to be go back to having a requirement of providing a working model. Not a document the "describes" how something theoretically works but an actual working device or program. I'm not sure if the requirement should be on filing or simply be a requirement for beginning litigation. either way it make patents a protection for inventions, not ideas that might eventually become an invention after the problems are worked out. It also greatly limits but does not eliminate non-practicing entities (patent trolls) as they just need someone to be using the invention somewhere so they can bring the working model to court, they don't have to produce it themselves. However whoever is producing it may be vulnerable to counter suits which makes loaning it to a NPE much less attractive.
I'm having difficulty understanding the timeline as written. By my math if the ride opened 4 years ago that would be 2008. And if the AFM if talking about new uses as a result of a 2010 agreement. Then shouldn't the use for the ride already be "grandfathered" in as something that happened before the agreement.
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DRM destroys value
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Make suspensions matter
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Publishable?
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Inanimate objects are not at fault here. Also approximately 80 million legal gun owners didn't shoot anyone this weekend.
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Expected continuing income from the tattoo: $0
Actual continuing income from the likeness: $0
Change in business as a result of the likeness/lawsuit +$$
Sounds like he owes THQ for the additional publicity.
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