Independent developer Cliff Harris, of Positech Games, asked pirates why they choose to pirate his games, promising them immunity and anonymity in exchange for their honest rationales, which he would aggregate and post on his blog. They reciprocated, and of about six reasons, a righteous indignation at DRM seemed to lead the list. Harris is actuall
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Dell told Arthur to replace his broken DVD drive himself, even after he shipped his laptop to Dell expressly so they could perform the replacement.
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Almost exactly four years after the release of its predecessor, OpenGL 2.0, OpenGL 3.0 is here and now has a vendor officially supporting it. Nvidia announced this week that they are the first vendor to do such, with a beta driver package available that supports OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30.
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The ISO has revealed that official publication of Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) standard will proceed despite the strong objections voiced by several national standards bodies that participated in the OOXML process
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Microsoft is feeling Sony’s heat when it comes to hardware sales in the US, and the 360 continues to falter worldwide. How to fix these things is a complicated question, but Ars is ready to point out Microsoft’s main weaknesses, things that need to be shored up yesterday.
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A little over a year ago, I wrote an article about the IPv4 address consumption with the subtitle IPv4 Address Space: 2.46 Billion Down, 1.25 Billion to Go. A week ago, we reached the magic number of 2.7 billion IPv4 addresses used. With 3.7 billion possible addresses,¹ this means we now have less than a billion unused IPv4 addresses left.
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In part one of our look into the anti-piracy efforts at universities, we saw that Missouri S&T used a simple home grown system, ignoring the favorites of the entertainment industry. In part two, we look at Ohio University, Texas A&M University, Tulane University and others that do use one of the methods preferred by the RIAA and MPAA.
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