In 1992 this video was produced to show why you shouldn’t copy a floppy. Then in 2009 the same organization produced a sequel to the “Don’t Copy That” video. Both of these videos are campaigns against piracy. They also feature the same rapper as before. At the end of the music video, there are people that explain the dangers of copying software.

The original video:

The 2009 edition:

This is my first review of a Facebook App…

If you are a Facebook user, you’ve probably have heard of this game whether you play it or not. You’ve seen it when others have reached another level or when they have found some animal on their farm.

Background: Farmville is a game where you create a virtual farm. On the farm you have to plant or host animals to make money. The things that you plant will need to be harvested dependent on the times stated in the market. Growing times range from a couple hours to 4 day or more. You get experience points and cash for almost everything you do in Farmville.

So what intrigued me to participate in the game? The game is very simple to understand with its simple UI. If you have played other games by Zynga, then the layout is pretty similar. I have always been a fan of simulation games. In this game you simply plant, harvest, and plow. Very simple to understand.

I also enjoy the special holiday items that have incorporated in the game. For example, for Halloween they had limited edition gifts and items you could buy from the store. Of course many of the things you could buy from the store costs a lot of money.

Gifting is something that many people do religiously in the game. However, I don’t always find time to send a gift everyday. You can only send a certain amount a day and can only send one gift to a certain person each day.

Is there anything I don’t like about the game? Yes, sort of. I cannot stand it when the game has some sort of connectivity issues. However Farmville does not have as many connectivity issues as any of the Playfish games. I do understand that sometimes servers go down, but Zynga offers no protection to the crops when servers go down. For example lets say I planted raspberries, which take 2 hours to grow. I have to harvest them within 2 hours after the 2 hours then have grown. However, what is something happened to the network and I can’t get into the game for another 3 hours later. All my crops have withered away costing me games money and points.

I also am not thrilled with the cost of some of the items in the market. Most of them require Farm Cash (there is no clear way of making cash). You can however add cash via Paypal and your cell phone. I find that pretty useless. I see many items in the market have a high price that requires Farmville Cash not coins. I think they should completely get rid of the Farmville Cash and use just coins which you CAN make.

I encourage everyone to check out this game.