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Ubisoft’s server mishandling leaves single player games inaccessible
This is one of the reasons DRM is awful. Online authentication for single player games is offensive. Pirates get to keep playing their Ubisoft titles while paying customers take it in the shorts. That’ll learn ‘em real good, Ubisoft. Smooth.
Gandhi’s views came under heavy criticism in Britain when it was under attack from Nazi Germany, and later when the Holocaust was revealed. He told the British people in 1940, “I would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions… If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourselves, man, woman, and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them.”
I just don’t get the hero worship of Gandhi. Letting bad people hurt others because of some spiritual mystic philosophy is categorically wrong.
Avast!
Here is an email exchange between myself and Kristýna Mazánková, a PR rep from avast! antivirus. I’ve left the emails in tact, and that includes my embarrassing typos (“is is” and “an grammatical”). I don’t reference their product at all in my article, and I will not change it because some company doesn’t like the way I use my own language.
Hello,
I read your atrical from yesterday http://www.macgasm.net/2012/01/04/apple-war-path-app-piracy/.
Apptracker is not a product of AVAST Software and we are not in a conflict with Apple company.
Therefore I would like to kindly ask you to remove the Avast! name from your article.
Thank you for your understanding.
Kind regards,
__________________________
Kristýna Mazánková
PR administration executive
AVAST Software a.s.
Budějovická 1518/13a
Praha 4 - Michle
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Kristýna,
I’m sorry you misunderstand, but the word “Avast” is is a nautical command to stop. It’s a play on words because we are talking about piracy.
I don’t imply anywhere in the article that your company is involved with Apptrackr, and I will not be removing the word “Avast” from the article.
Have a good day.
Sincerely,
Grant Brunner
Hi Grant,
Avast! is indeed a nautical term meaning stop, but as an imperative command it needs an intended recipient. The way the sentence is written currently makes Apptrackr appear to be an avast! product – removing the sub-clause “a repository for cracked iOS apps” might help you to understand this:
Avast! Apptrackr… is under attack from Apple’s legal team.
If you are saying “Avast!” to Apptrackr, then the sentence would read:
Avast, Apptrackr! A repository for cracked iOS apps, called Apptrackr, is under attack from Apple’s legal team.
Please clarify somehow that Apptrackr is not an avast! product.
Thank you,
Kristyna
Kristýna,
“Avast!” is an grammatical ejaculation here. It is being used as a hook.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_(rhetoric)I will not be changing the article at all. Please stop.Thanks,Grant Brünner
