I wrote the below as my personal comment on a re-share on Goggle Plus. When I was done I thought it was worthy of a more permanent home here ( Read more... )

I usually hate DRM with a passion, and I'm not fully on-board with it. Sure my Kindle is full of DRM laden books, which I'm not particularly happy about. When I broke my last Kindle's screen, backed the files up to my PC and restored them to the new Kindle I found out even my public domain books from Amazon were full of DRM. Of course Amazon ( Read more... )

I overhear your channel all the time, my grandmother likes to watch it, my mother watches it, it's always on at the gym. There is something I hear on your channel all the time which I find rather insulting, stupid, and just plain wrong ( Read more... )

Sega - You're doing it right!

Here's the post I'm referencing.To sum up that previous post I argued that companies could cut down on piracy by continuing to offer their back catalog in a useful manner. Sega did that, they're cutting into the pirate market in more than one way, and they're doing it in a manner that respects the customers ( Read more... )

This is a subject that's often on my mind since I read Slashdot.

What sparked this brewing in my brain was a recent (and reoccurring) article stating game publishers want a piece of the resell market. Of course I don't see where they have any standing to make these demands. I like to shop at Half Price Books a national chain of book resellers ( Read more... )

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I just had this explained to me for a second time, because I was tagging along with one of the old timers and he had someone new to tell it to with us ( Read more... )

I was sitting around watching some fan made Dark Tower trailers. Some were utter garbage, but some were pretty danged good. I started thinking about casting since it will most likely be live action. Though I personally think a cell shade rendered series of movies with a color pallet that is usually limited, like was done in 300, only have the ( Read more... )

I was in Fry's electronics earlier to pick up a Blue Tooth mouse, and the power went out. In the back of the store where I was it got very dark and the emergency lighting was a joke. What was hilarious was since it's a technology store during the morning hours on a weekday its customers were largely professional people in the various technology ( Read more... )

Some of you may consider me to be old fashioned - for a tech - in one respect. I still buy CD's, that's right, actual physical media, of music, and everything else I want to keep ( Read more... )