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by cube13 14y ago
>they complain about paying to be a platform exclusive. This smells wrong. There's absolutely no benefit for the developer to release an exclusive game on a platform if the developer is paying the platform holder for the exclusive righ
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by cube13 14y ago
Because the pirate that's selling the MP3 didn't go through any of the effort to make it. They are benefiting from the work of others, without giving them any credit. When the copy is free, there's a non-zero cost associated with making th
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by cube13 14y ago
It's a perfectly valid argument if it's over game mechanics or rules. Those are not copyrightable, and while it is ethically questionable, there's nothing illegal about copying mechanics completely while putting a new skin onto the game. I
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by cube13 14y ago
>Runic can, through the DCMA ensure that the content is either taken down, or they are put in touch with the party they assert are infringing. From there on out, it is the responsibility of the two parties to work out, as far as the DCM
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by cube13 14y ago
Given the terminology used in the article, this could have been in Austrailia or New Zealand. Both countries use a similar court system(High Court->Court of Appeals->Supreme Court). Between those two, the UK, and the US, the only p
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by cube13 14y ago
No. While I am from the US, it's difficult to tell exactly where in the entire world this court case applies to. If it was clearly stated that this was in the UK in the article, I wouldn't have that much of an issue. Unfortunately, the on
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by cube13 14y ago
Came here to post that. It would be nice to mention it in the title, since it's buried in one of the links to the actual judgements.
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by cube13 14y ago
It means one of two different things: Either Apple has changed the glue used in the retina MBP's to go in-line with EPEAT's certification, or the glue was not rated by EPEAT, which would cause them to not certify it in the first place, but
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by cube13 14y ago
The difference is that the iPhone is a phone, not a gaming platform.
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by cube13 14y ago
I think it's more of how far out the release date is, honestly. If they were pitching this for, say, Q1 2014, this wouldn't be that much of a red flag. That's plenty of time to get a dev SDK out for developers to have enough time to make s
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by cube13 14y ago
Here's my problem with it: I have an iPhone, an Android tablet, a gaming PC, and consoles. I don't play the same games on my phone that I play on my consoles or PC. They're different experiences. I expect different game experiences from
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by cube13 14y ago
Getting the hardware is not a certainty. Kickstarter does not guarantee that you will get anything out of the projects that you give money too.
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by cube13 14y ago
The problem with mindstab's entire point is that there already is a platform for interesting, independently published games. It's called the Personal Computer. Everyone has one, and it has several distribution platforms, lots of people wor
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by cube13 14y ago
>At the risk of sounding like Scrooge: I would assume most people think of Penny Arcade as the thrice weekly "content drops" (while viewing the rest as peripheral) and it certainly doesn't take 14 people to draw a comic. I get the feeli
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by cube13 14y ago
Or "Touch the blue rectangle with another finger, without moving the first".
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by cube13 14y ago
They can't do that because there is nowhere really safe to put the BTC. They cannot loan it out because nobody needs that much BTC, and it's unwise to invest it in USD or anything else because the currency's fickleness compared to USD(you
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by cube13 14y ago
This is actually a pretty weird continuum now between the three set-top boxes. The Apple TV is really focused on getting content onto your TV. Out of the box, you can stream content from Amazon, Youtube, Hulu, Netflix, etc. without an addi
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by cube13 14y ago
Or the $50 Roku. Doesn't make sense to get one, at all.
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by cube13 14y ago
If I recall correctly, that's what the judge did. He held up both devices, one in each hand, and asked the defense's council to identify which one was which. They could not. Ovbiously, this wasn't the only reason for the ruling, but it def
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by cube13 14y ago
Endgadget's preview from last year( http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/22/samsung-galaxy-tab-8-9-an... ) doesn't have Samsung branding on the front. It's on the back. It does appear that the current models have the Samsung branding on the f
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by cube13 14y ago
>Just like you should not pass strings in place of numbers, in accounting software of all things. Why can't just everbody get it absolutely right the first time? Because the input is a text box? Text is, after all, the way for people t
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by cube13 14y ago
Kickstarter only allows projects that have a tangible end. They don't allow projects that have non-concrete goals like "make a business" or "hire people".
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by cube13 14y ago
Or a large, international organization with employees and clients all around the world, each of whom believe that their problem is the most important thing in the world.
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by cube13 14y ago
>Is it just me, or is it not freaking obvious that Microsoft should fire their phone strategists, and focus on building the ultimate business phone? Something that competes with Blackberry? Something that corporations around the world w
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by cube13 14y ago
I agree, they get points for not trying to hide the fact that Linus is right. Unfortunately, "Yeah, so what?" is not the kind of PR you want here. This was an opportunity to go "Yes, that's how it is now, but in the future, we're planning
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by cube13 14y ago
>If the result differs from the specification, it is a bug. A large part of the C standard is implementation defined(see acqq's post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4131828 ), so the result could be different on multiple com
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by cube13 14y ago
If they're all running an unlocked Windows shell, there's really nothing that differentiates them from the rest of the pack. The first thing anyone looks at on a laptop(unless it's closed) is the screen. And often, there is little to no br
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by cube13 14y ago
Prices for non-Valve developed and published games are also determined by the individual publishers. Unfortunately, that means that the real reason is "Because they can".
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by cube13 14y ago
Google didn't pull Android from the market during the lawsuit because the judge stopped that motion from Oracle. If PRC made that motion, and the judge allowed it, Speak for Yourself WOULD have to pull the APK.
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by cube13 14y ago
>Bad PR is a risk too (I mean really: did you see that girl's face? You seriously aren't sympathetic? You think no one else is?). Why'd they take it down if they were going to "stay silent"? I really am sympathetic to her, and that's th

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