Yeah, I can actually agree on that. I think there's a few times where I've registered and jumped through hoops only to find that, no indeed, "we do not ship outside of the USA"
My computer club has used nginx since it first came out in 2004. We also had a bit of contact with Igor to get it running on Solaris. Since then it has been a very reliable piece of web infrastructure for us, and I wish Igor and the rest of the team the best of luck. I have high hopes that really great things will come out of this.
He has accepted an order of summary punishment, so at most it'll be a fine. It might not even be that, depending on how serious the prosecution will see it.
Technically, it's only everyone but GNU that (re)distributes emacs with the generated code that violate GPL, so you are correct in not calling that particular part a problem.
He is still a man with great ideas, and an amazing ability to hype them. But yes, they get overhyped. Black & White sounded a lot more awesome than it turned out to be when released (still a good game, though, but nowhere near as epic as we'd all heard). Fable was, in essence, the same thing. The Movies, I feel, isn't much of a game, but curtains for the movie making thing (which worked nice), but by that time I had figured out the hype machine and expected less. Lionhead makes solid games overall, but it amazes me how the gaming magazines and sites swallow everything Molyneux says hook, line and sinker.
I hardly think a guy that LIES about what his product is doing and has success merely because people decided to buy the product regardless. It is almost like he owes his success to the low self-worth of gamers that they would still play a game that is lacking NEARLY ALL the features that were promised.
You can listen to what he has to say, but in my mind, he is a liar and uses his costumers gullibility to his advantage. That is the only secret to his success, and really it is not repeatable in most industries. And if it were, I wouldn't recommend using it because it is insanely immoral, not to mention that living on lies is just a horrible way to go through life.
I'm not sure if he'd get away with it but for the fact he had some great successes with his name attached in the past, so people seem willing to keep giving him a pass. Why after so long, I have no idea.
He does still produce interesting products I think, just overhyped. For example, Fable 2 actually comes somewhat close to what Fable promised, albeit a few years later, and not hitting much of what Fable 2 itself promised. But it's still one of the more interesting games in that space that's come out in the past few years.
I don't think you realize the severity of his lies over Fable, and Fable 2.
Back when it was Project Mayhem (can't recall exact name) he promised very life accurate features, graphic engines that would redefine presentation, and gameplay mechanics that still do not exist today.
He didn't say, "We are toying with the idea," or something like that. He said, each blade of grass would sway in the wind. That you could free roam maps like never before.
Among the features not delivered in Fable 1,2 or 3:
- When you die or age, you can play as your child to advance the plot.
- You can workout to increase your strength. Not working over time makes you weaker.
- You can roam freely thorughout the world.
- You can steal anything.
- You can break anything.
- You can use any object as weapon.
This list goes on for pages that I do not care to relive.
What did fable II feature? A dog? What the hell is that? How is this related to the core concept? Peter is the result of giving a 5 year old a gaming company. All the grandest coolest plans in the world and in the end having neither the resources, discipline or skill to carry it out.
But it is okay, because people are willing to accept an inferior product, and really just forget all the lies he tells. Just like your comments.
Isn't this supposed to be capitalism where this type of behavior gets you punished?
I'd rather shove a stake in my eye than take his advice on how to be successful. I could learn more about how to be successful interviewing a child about a lemonade stand. They atleast would have interesting comments on sales techniques, that don't rely on your audience not minding being abused.
If having your password on a note is good enough for Schneier ( http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_you... ), it's good enough for me. For pretty much the same reason. If you're going to even use a password, it should be a good one. And if it's a good one, you aren't very likely to be able to memorize it.
With upper and lower case and "1337" speak thrown in between and a few other characters replaced, it should not be that hard to come up with a decent enough password that you can even remember.
And why not a password manager instead of paper? Would be even better if it was one that reads your fingerprint or so.
Wouldn't a OTP scheme like OPIE be able to do this decently? My own computers do not permit root login via ssh, but still it'd be more or less a trivial matter to set up a local account for your "SSH buddy", and then over the phone give him the next OTP in sequence for the root account or so for a successful su - -c halt.
It would be interesting to know the reason for the article having been removed, as I would've liked to re-read it, having only more or less skimmed it yesterday.
It is indeed a decent service, and I guess it was worth the money I've paid for it, but there certainly are a bunch of flaws. I miss a lot of my personal music library in it, for example, (and yes, while you can add them, but I pretty much only use/used spotify at work). To be honest, I didn't even remember to enable the HQ option when I had a paid subscription. I also use it on gnu/linux, where the windows client under wine for me is very sluggish (but only at work, not at home), and the native client still has ways to go.
Anyway, I seem to have gotten quite sidetracked, the point I was trying to make is that at least OP is giving them direct feedback and thus an opportunity to improve. While you think it's a great service, surely you can find some ways to improve it? I could, for example, live with a larger cache on the android app so that I can enter a store under ground without the music stopping when the cell service does...
It's always room for improvement on any service, but it's not really fair to complain that a service costing $10 a month is not suitable for critical classical listening on a stereo that cost $10.000.
Best step IMHO is to push more online music retailers to sell lossless files for critical listening or maybe Spotify could sell it, hopefully for more than $10 a month.
Eh, my stereo equipment didn't cost anywhere near ten grand, but I wager it can still show the difference between 160 and 320 kilobits of compressed music. From what I gathered from the op, though, it's not so much about the practical difference than the fact that he feels he's paying for something he's not actually getting - and that's something that is fair to complain about.
Well, for example, an ncurses interface would be nice. That way I wouldn't need to use NX or other RDP software if I wanted to use spotify from my jukebox computer.
Depending on the functionality you need, you can also use DBus with the native client. We implement parts of the Mpris2 specification. If all you need to do is change tracks and play/pause on your jukebox machine that should work with a few simple scripts.
