* Posts by Random Moniker

4 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Aug 2012

Pirates scoff at games dev sim's in-game piracy lesson

Random Moniker
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The ignorance is astounding.

214 people are playing the legally bought version. Fine.

Know how many people would be playing an uncrackable DRM always-online version? Probably <170. (- ~20%)

Having always-online and/or other DRM is not going to make more people play your game. It is going to make it less accessible to people who would genuinely want to play it.

Australian Police say don't use Apple's iOS 6 Maps

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Commentards blaming the phone users (well - they were stupid enough to buy Apple) are obviously not Australian, or have never left their major city.

If I have an expensive device equipped with a GPS that's touted as a feature, I actually expect it to work. Unreasonable? Maybe. People were unreasonably expecting that the iPhone4 would work as a phone, but failed to realise its not a phone, it's an iPhone, whatever that is.

Seriously though: someone earlier said something about paying attention to the locals. Clearly from ol' blighty - no idea of the distances involved in Australian cross-country driving, or the fact that you can go from a full tank of petrol to empty without seeing another soul. Then you're screwed. You didn't get the chance to ask directions.

Yes - they should take precautions. They should also expect that their feature-packed phone which is heavily advertised as having a GPS is at least somewhat reliable. 200km off is not reliable. In the outback, that could be the difference between life and death.

Hackers leak 120,000 student records in raid on world's top unis

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Re: Dinosaurs?

Won't somebody think of the dinosaurs?

UK kids' charity lobbies hard for 'opt-in' web smut access

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Re: Why is Porn bad for you ?

No. It is all in the heads of god-botherers and puritanical idiots.

And a number of studies have shown conclusively that a bit of self-relaxation, is very good for you, physiologically and psychologically.