ta_tatata

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by ta_tatata 13y ago
It is a dumb decision for it will not prevent a digital version to be shared on the internet and alienating your potential customers is not the best marketing move. The ability to search and to copy/paste is something programmers usual
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by ta_tatata 13y ago
DRM stands for digital right management, a book made of ink and paper is as non digital as possible. What you says is utter nonsense. Now if you talked of an anti-piracy measure ...
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by ta_tatata 13y ago
Seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot, creating a bigger incentive to scan the book and promoting the distribution of unofficial digital version of their book and not getting a dime for those. Now, not only they made thems
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by ta_tatata 13y ago
So it's ok to post links to third party instead of the original content now ? here's the link to the video instead of this portal profiting from it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keMpUaoA3Tg
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by ta_tatata 13y ago
KoL is something totally different, it started out as an attempt to create something that didn't exist and was more of a joke, now 10 years later it still lives on and to me it is one of the most enjoyable videogames I've played (
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by ta_tatata 13y ago
You advertise the game as free with voluntary donations (Mr. A and Mr. Eh accessories). Without pressing for financial info, can we ask: Does this translate into a full-time paying job, cover the expenses of running the project, or simply a
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by ta_tatata 13y ago
Nice FUD. But one could just scan it with an up-to-date antivirus to be sure. Unless it is some form of government funded virus it will most probably get detected. I have yet to encounter a hard to detect and remove virus coming from a down
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by ta_tatata 13y ago
For a second you had me doubt that the banner was an image illustrating the adobe experience, but then I remembered I don't have flash installed on any of my computers. At first the reason was that it was a resource hog diminishing bat
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by ta_tatata 13y ago
Is this OCR software called microsoft windows ?
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by ta_tatata 13y ago
This is not company policy, this is common sense and common usage.
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by ta_tatata 13y ago
You are not a normal person, for there are no such things. One perceive oneself as not abnormal when one tends to conform to societal norm and peer expectation. It is desirable to not be perceived as abnormal, because abnormality carries a
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by ta_tatata 13y ago
There are no normal people. By definition normal people do not exist in the world. With the title and point of the article being formulated in a way showing a lack of understanding of the matter, it is doubtful the rest of the post is any b
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by ta_tatata 13y ago
You can but you don't by choice.
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by ta_tatata 13y ago
You got it all wrong, it supposed to be "how offering to buy computers for 1% of our customers is cheaper and more advertising than actually buying an ads campaign ?"
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by ta_tatata 13y ago
This is a viral marketing scheme to get some free advertising. Seeing this kind of viral marketing advertising on hacker news frontpage is sad, this one is not even clever, it's mostly throwing a pile of money towards microsoft.