I'd love to see the age demographics on who voted/didn't vote in this election. Is it unreasonable to expect that only the 18-25 year old's were able to even achieve a quorum among their age group?
Put another way, the folks who downloaded bootleg copies of this title but won't buy the retail copies boil down to three categories:
1) people who won't ever pay for anything anyway,
2) people who would have bought the retail version but are happy with a half-assed broken bootleg, and
3) people who were going to buy the retail copy, and couldn't wait for an (illegal) taste, but then discovered it was crap.
So the last two are categories that EA can count as "losses due to piracy." Group 1) ain't gonna give EA no money, no how, so worrying about them for even a second is a waste of time. However, we can reasonably and confidently count group 2) as a slim minority, so we're left dealing with the last group.
Gee. How do we entice people to buy our games after they've had a sample? Hmm... that's a toughie. Clearly, we must force them to pay full price before learning that our product is crap. Yeah. That's it. We have a fundamental legal right to sell shit to our customers, and conceal it's shittiness from them until we've collected their money.
Because making a quality product is unnecessarily difficult, clearly.
Christ, is outerspace that boring already? I mean, even if I'd been up there a week, I expect I'd be grateful for a few hours to do nothing but stare out the porthole and play zero gee paper football.
Watch a DVD? Christ, that can wait until I'm back home, suffering from microgravity withdrawal.
The submitter assumes that RQ-11B Ravens are simple RC planes. Not quite. They have fully autonomous piloting and navigation features, and include state of the art EQ and IR cameras, and a sophisticated ground system, which includes a CF-19 Toughbook.
I build cameras for RQ-11B Ravens. The L3-Com transmitters and receivers alone cost ~$5k per set (both air and ground Tx and Rx).
And still, assuming you can get those surplus for $5, the custom avionics and firmware in the planes will cost you many k$ in equivalent effort to duplicate.
I was wondering when that smarmy meme was gonna migrate here from 4chan/SA - if I had mod points today I'd bury it. It's not witty nor insightful nor interesting, and it degrades from anything informative you might offer, since its original intent was to accompany a trollish image.
I worked on developing this capability for Process Analytical Chemistry for the food, petroleum, and pesticide industry twenty years ago when I worked for Perkin-Elmer Corp. It's currently owned by Hamilton Sundstrand and marketed under the name PIONIR. The samples are delivered to the spectral analyzer via NIR optical fibers, and other types of analysis are possible, too, including Fourier Transform spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy. The analyzer can be as far as 200 meters from the samples. It's not cheap, though.
Either that, or the home dimension of Mr. Mxyzptlk, probably Superman's most annoying foe.
Therefore to retrieve your data, you need to write it backwards... and hope it doesn't come back all Bizarro.
Ransomware. Crippleware. Shareware. Nagware. Beerware... it's all been done before. The only difference is that this is an "operating system" not an "application."
Apparently, that's enough of a distinction for the USPTO to award a patent.
They seem over-generalized because the Network World author tried to summarize a 57-page strategic plan into a 2-page fluff piece. And strategic plans are rather generalized to begin with.
My employer holds some DARPA contracts, and while I am not free (as in speech) to be specific at this time, I can alert you to stay tuned for some very specific announcements and demos of some Really Cool Shit in the area of unmanned aerial vehicles...
You're moving the goalposts. The original argument was whether there was a nutritional difference between organically-fed cows and corn-fed cows. You have a second- or third-hand account of one person's unscientific opinion on the state of health of the corn fed cow, and now all of a sudden it's inviable, collapsing and dying in front of me, and implying that it will sicken me if I eat it.
You know, I agree that it's better to treat farm animals humanely, but my reasons differ. I like animals, and consider them innocent creatures. And my granddaddy used to feed his cows sweetgruel for a month before slaughtering it, because it made the flesh tastier. But when you start engaging in PETA-grade irrationality and inconsistency to try and convince me that corn-fed beef will make me ill, you're not doing any service to your position.
And the answer to your question is: "If I was hungry and it was easier to eat the cow than drive to Vons and buy a steak, then hell yea -- That puppy would be steaks and chops in the freezer within 24 hours."
A being better than B does not mean B is bad. Organically-raised beef is certainly better than commercially-farmed McBeef in flavor, and for the sake of argument, let us also concede that it is even marginally better nutritionally. However that does NOT mean that McBeef is nutritionally BAD. If you need proof that McBeef is bad food, you need to look elsewhere, or redefine 'bad.'
How come so many people equate "the lost sale argument is false" with "piracy is OK?"
The two theses are different. The former is claiming that the publishers are rationalizing their DRM and pricing policies on a fallacious argument. The latter is a defense of an illegal act. (I won't even go into the semantics of the term, which is a whole other can of worms.) Perhaps you're predisposed to filter everything into the latter category?
People who point out that the DRM-mongers are being intellectually dishonest do not want "free warez." The people who want "Free Warez" are already getting them despite the DRM, so why would they give a damn about some logical fallacy? We who pay the asked price for this software don't want it crippled, especially unnecessarily.
Well, you're claiming I'm lying, and then imply I'm rationalizing piracy.
Don't confuse my thesis. Go read my message again. I don't pirate, as a matter of principle. My freinds and colleagues feel the same way, so there's a significant number of people in my category. (e.g., If I got use out of a title I acquired by "warez" then I eventually purchased a legal copy for my library. If it sucked, I didn't buy the product. Nor did I keep or distribute the bootleg. I don't have the money to buy items based only on the pretty marketing lies on the packaging.)
You can poo-poo my argument all you want, but if there's even a modest minority of people who operate by these same principles, then my thesis is still correct: The "every pirate is a lost sale" theory is.FALSE.
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I'd love to see the age demographics on who voted/didn't vote in this election. Is it unreasonable to expect that only the 18-25 year old's were able to even achieve a quorum among their age group?
Put another way, the folks who downloaded bootleg copies of this title but won't buy the retail copies boil down to three categories:
1) people who won't ever pay for anything anyway,
2) people who would have bought the retail version but are happy with a half-assed broken bootleg, and
3) people who were going to buy the retail copy, and couldn't wait for an (illegal) taste, but then discovered it was crap.
So the last two are categories that EA can count as "losses due to piracy." Group 1) ain't gonna give EA no money, no how, so worrying about them for even a second is a waste of time. However, we can reasonably and confidently count group 2) as a slim minority, so we're left dealing with the last group.
Gee. How do we entice people to buy our games after they've had a sample? Hmm... that's a toughie. Clearly, we must force them to pay full price before learning that our product is crap. Yeah. That's it. We have a fundamental legal right to sell shit to our customers, and conceal it's shittiness from them until we've collected their money.
Because making a quality product is unnecessarily difficult, clearly.
Christ, is outerspace that boring already? I mean, even if I'd been up there a week, I expect I'd be grateful for a few hours to do nothing but stare out the porthole and play zero gee paper football.
Watch a DVD? Christ, that can wait until I'm back home, suffering from microgravity withdrawal.
Sorry - those are all six-sided dice. Clearly, this machine plays GURPS.
Or maybe Traveller.
(We need a percentile version of one of these bots for our Rolemaster/Spacemaster games.)
We were here first, dammit.
(And your track record precedes you, thief.)
No one's saying it can't be done. Everyone with a clue says it takes more than $1000.
Hint: it takes more than a few lines of python running on a cellphone to instantiate a Kalman Filter that's been fine-tuned and HITL-tested.
The submitter assumes that RQ-11B Ravens are simple RC planes. Not quite. They have fully autonomous piloting and navigation features, and include state of the art EQ and IR cameras, and a sophisticated ground system, which includes a CF-19 Toughbook.
I build cameras for RQ-11B Ravens. The L3-Com transmitters and receivers alone cost ~$5k per set (both air and ground Tx and Rx).
And still, assuming you can get those surplus for $5, the custom avionics and firmware in the planes will cost you many k$ in equivalent effort to duplicate.
In the US South? 'Colored.'
I'll just leave this here
I was wondering when that smarmy meme was gonna migrate here from 4chan/SA - if I had mod points today I'd bury it. It's not witty nor insightful nor interesting, and it degrades from anything informative you might offer, since its original intent was to accompany a trollish image.
I worked on developing this capability for Process Analytical Chemistry for the food, petroleum, and pesticide industry twenty years ago when I worked for Perkin-Elmer Corp. It's currently owned by Hamilton Sundstrand and marketed under the name PIONIR. The samples are delivered to the spectral analyzer via NIR optical fibers, and other types of analysis are possible, too, including Fourier Transform spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy. The analyzer can be as far as 200 meters from the samples. It's not cheap, though.
Either that, or the home dimension of Mr. Mxyzptlk, probably Superman's most annoying foe. Therefore to retrieve your data, you need to write it backwards... and hope it doesn't come back all Bizarro.
That's been covered too.
Sisterware.
Ransomware. Crippleware. Shareware. Nagware. Beerware... it's all been done before. The only difference is that this is an "operating system" not an "application."
Apparently, that's enough of a distinction for the USPTO to award a patent.
They seem over-generalized because the Network World author tried to summarize a 57-page strategic plan into a 2-page fluff piece. And strategic plans are rather generalized to begin with.
My employer holds some DARPA contracts, and while I am not free (as in speech) to be specific at this time, I can alert you to stay tuned for some very specific announcements and demos of some Really Cool Shit in the area of unmanned aerial vehicles...
Aye - talk about backlit. This has gotta be the worst example ever.
Dunno - he may enjoy that. He makes his living for a company that profits by ass-raping talent and crew until they're unable to put up any resistance.
I suggest BBW erotica.
You're moving the goalposts. The original argument was whether there was a nutritional difference between organically-fed cows and corn-fed cows. You have a second- or third-hand account of one person's unscientific opinion on the state of health of the corn fed cow, and now all of a sudden it's inviable, collapsing and dying in front of me, and implying that it will sicken me if I eat it.
You know, I agree that it's better to treat farm animals humanely, but my reasons differ. I like animals, and consider them innocent creatures. And my granddaddy used to feed his cows sweetgruel for a month before slaughtering it, because it made the flesh tastier. But when you start engaging in PETA-grade irrationality and inconsistency to try and convince me that corn-fed beef will make me ill, you're not doing any service to your position.
And the answer to your question is: "If I was hungry and it was easier to eat the cow than drive to Vons and buy a steak, then hell yea -- That puppy would be steaks and chops in the freezer within 24 hours."
A being better than B does not mean B is bad. Organically-raised beef is certainly better than commercially-farmed McBeef in flavor, and for the sake of argument, let us also concede that it is even marginally better nutritionally. However that does NOT mean that McBeef is nutritionally BAD. If you need proof that McBeef is bad food, you need to look elsewhere, or redefine 'bad.'
No, that's the stuff they have to scrape off the shuttle's windshield after each mission.
That's a pretty good rule for dating, as well.
Hey - I used to work at NIST-Boulder many decades ago... when it was still NBS.
Fun times, sneaking all that fluorescent dye into my cow-orkers' coffee. Boy did they come out of the crappers looking surprised.
For a second, I thought it was Friday on Slashdot.
Most =/= all, which is my thesis, writ simple. And I venture a hypothesis that it's not even "Most."
How come so many people equate "the lost sale argument is false" with "piracy is OK?"
The two theses are different. The former is claiming that the publishers are rationalizing their DRM and pricing policies on a fallacious argument. The latter is a defense of an illegal act. (I won't even go into the semantics of the term, which is a whole other can of worms.) Perhaps you're predisposed to filter everything into the latter category?
People who point out that the DRM-mongers are being intellectually dishonest do not want "free warez." The people who want "Free Warez" are already getting them despite the DRM, so why would they give a damn about some logical fallacy? We who pay the asked price for this software don't want it crippled, especially unnecessarily.
Well, you're claiming I'm lying, and then imply I'm rationalizing piracy.
Don't confuse my thesis. Go read my message again. I don't pirate, as a matter of principle. My freinds and colleagues feel the same way, so there's a significant number of people in my category. (e.g., If I got use out of a title I acquired by "warez" then I eventually purchased a legal copy for my library. If it sucked, I didn't buy the product. Nor did I keep or distribute the bootleg. I don't have the money to buy items based only on the pretty marketing lies on the packaging.)
You can poo-poo my argument all you want, but if there's even a modest minority of people who operate by these same principles, then my thesis is still correct: The "every pirate is a lost sale" theory is .FALSE.