From all the reports I've read on this situation, this was more a money-grab than anything else - it's the same company, same people working for them, doing the same old same old but one thing they're not doing is honoring the "lifetime" licenses that so many people purchased for AnyDVD and AnyDVD HD and expecting people to repurchase them all over again.
While that's not going to happen, I can't help but think that this was not the right solution to the problem of Hollywood targeting them for some kind of legal action.
Their software is very popular in terms of piracy, this particular action of stiffing all the people that sank money into the product will just cause those people to now resort to pirating the newer versions of the software to get what they paid for.
My personal best is 26 seconds give or take a half second and that was done with rather primitive basic solving methodology (was even published in a very tiny booklet, "The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube") and that was way back in the very very early 1980s.
These days with the vastly improved solutions I could probably do much better considering improvements in many things, including the improved construction of "speed cubes" which are much easier to spin and manipulate.
I had an original Rubik's Cube in those days, used some Vaseline to keep it smooth and loosened it up just a tad. I can still solve one pretty quickly with a few days of practice, consistently under 40 seconds but not quite down in the mid-20's anymore.
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While that's not going to happen, I can't help but think that this was not the right solution to the problem of Hollywood targeting them for some kind of legal action.
Their software is very popular in terms of piracy, this particular action of stiffing all the people that sank money into the product will just cause those people to now resort to pirating the newer versions of the software to get what they paid for.
Some companies/people just never learn.
Re: GovtOS
FBiOS
Right? :D
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These days with the vastly improved solutions I could probably do much better considering improvements in many things, including the improved construction of "speed cubes" which are much easier to spin and manipulate.
I had an original Rubik's Cube in those days, used some Vaseline to keep it smooth and loosened it up just a tad. I can still solve one pretty quickly with a few days of practice, consistently under 40 seconds but not quite down in the mid-20's anymore.
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