You are making the mistake of valuing something compared to something else (not unexpected from the slashdot community...very logical after all). The real value in a Steam game or an iPhone App, or a Best Buy cable, or a Brand-X Widget, is what the consumer will pay. This mistake of saying "product A costs 3x as much as product B but is only 2x as good" is the root of every Mac vs. PC argument on the planet (usually by the overly logical PC guy who can't see past his overly logical logic of why anybody would spend $1200 on a computer).
Rich kids make up the user base of a phone that costs the same or less than pretty much every other phone on the market? A $199 phone qualifies somebody as rich. I have two iPhones...I'm rich bitches!
Your post is completely inaccurate. When I first looked to get a P2P client, I spent HOURS reading up on how it worked. Five or six years later, I still don't understand what a "seed" is, or why some files take 3 days to download, while others of the same size download in two minutes. The real boon to legitimate stores is the complexity and shaky quality of P2P clients. Most of the time it's just easier to click on iTunes and pay $9 than it is to weed through the fifth or sixth copy off of P2P that is labeled by a third grade dyslexic moron, or a song recorded off the radio in a bathroom with a 1984 Sony Walkman.
By the very definition of pirate: no. They have hording disorder. They download stuff they'll never use (that's why it isn't illegal, because they would have never paid for it in the first place, gawsh, don't you read slashdot!)
Japanese car companies have made engines more durable (usually at the expense of performance), which could be considered better--depending on your definition of "good". A lot of people don't care if an engine is good from a horsepower, torque, fuel-mileage point of view as long as it gets them from point A to point B reliably for many years with little maintenance. I don't know ANYBODY who gets excited about a Toyota Corolla, for example, but I'd buy one of those over a Chevy Cobalt any day. Even though the Cobalt might out-accelerate, turn better, get better gas mileage than a Corolla, GM has yet to prove they can build a non-truck that can go 200,000+ reliably, as Honda and Toyota have. There's a reason a lot of people in the Auto-rag industry think Japanese cars are "soulless", but most consumers don't measure a car payment + maintenance in measurements of "soul". I mean, only a Toyota (Scion) can make a boxy small truck like vehicle with a 105 hp engine "sporty".
It's wrong to the extent that courts have interpreted laws that say so. That doesn't mean I don't think it is wrong, only that I am able to understand that a nutjob defense doesn't make it legal for me to do something illegal.
Flash is simply the most inefficient way to build anything today.
Yes because it would be so much more efficient to hire a bunch of programmers to develop rapid e-learning one line of code at a time. Flash, in opposition to your belief, is one of the most efficient ways to build training, simulations and demonstrations, which to me, all count as "anything today".
The reason some people are reverting to making iPhone specific web sites is because there is a large enough user base to justify the time. I think it's a waste of time, considering the iPhone displays normal pages just fine. I really hate the fact that sites like cnnsi.com "detect" that I'm browsing from a mobile phone so it delivers a watered-down version of the main page.
Few non mobile phone optimized pages are going to display on that. The N8x0 series has 800x480. Do the math.
There's no math involved. Web pages look great on iPhones, even when browing the non-mobile phone optimized pages. Diminishing returns much? More importantly, the quality of individual pixels is more important than the number of pixels, unless you want to spend $1000 for a 10megapixel point-and-shoot camera because of its high pixel count (regardless of its poor image quality).
Besides writing a full GTK app you can program something up in one of the SIMPLE SCRIPTING LANGUAGES THAT APPLE FORBIDS. And you don't need to get anything signed by Apple before passing it around. So your point was?
I believe his or her point is that there are thousands of apps available for iPhone, and there are maybe a thousand people who have actually heard of a Nokia n810. (I kid, I kid...)
Yea and an N810 is $259
..which is misleading, because I see it from $222 all the way up to $500.
yeaf it[s grue - I am tyoinh on mu iPhone riggt now and I can ty[e p5etty fadt on tjis thing
Actually, that's not very funny, because it's not very accurate. If anything, the iPhone auto-correct feature would replace your mistyped word with a real word (but probably not the one you wanted). You'd have to manually over-ride the auto-correct feature to get gibberish like you posted. That's ok--just shows you've never actually used that which you are trying to mock.
err, "possessive" pronouns that is. Seems like I should master singular vs. plural (or proof better) before I hit reply...stupid slashdot, worst discussion forum technology on the 'net (oh, the irony).
By no rights does it "belong" to the customer, because by banking with that bank, the customer has agreed to the shitty terms of not having funds available for 24 hours. The customer has a right to take their money to a bank that doesn't put deposits on 24-hour holds, though.
The credit card companies already analyze purchasing habits to fight fraud. Is it really that much of a stretch that the credit card companies are going to use this data to provide targeted advertising? Detailed profiles on individual customers?
Last I checked, JC Pennys, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, your-local-eatery are NOT the government. A company that is analyzing your spending habits to accurately target you from a marketing standpoint is a much different thing than the government analyzing your spending habits to do whatever evil-deed you paranoids think they have the time/inclination to do.
Making money for your works of art is not a right? That's about the most anti-capitalist thing I've ever seen on slashdot. I suppose you need to reword it to say you have a right to charge for your works of art, but not a right to profit from them (if it sucks, or not enough people buy it, or whatever). But still, denying an artist the opportunity to even TRY to make money because it isn't their right to do so?
I don't think the recording industry cares about unbreakable DRM. They put enough on there for it to be a PITA for a non-geek to crack, which in there view, is enough to preserve their beloved profits (well that, and a few thousand obsessive law suits).
Reverse-engineered does not mean broken. The guy broke it by reverse engineering it. DRM is broken enough already to need sensationalist summaries like this one.
You are talking about ripping from CDs and I'm talking about downloading from P2P. I have no gripes with you ripping something you rightfully own, but that's not what this article or discussion thread is about. Lars Ulrich didn't say, "so I ripped our new CD to my computer today, and it was really easy!". He said he went online and downloaded it. Please try to keep up with the conversation.
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1. The TV has not "lost" anything. 2. Normal people don't watch tv shows on their computer. 3. Facebook hasn't killed anything TV related. 4. WoW cuts into my normal TV time significantly.
I simply go outside and find an appropriately sized stick laying on the ground, my behavior is unacceptable?
Something tells me when you go on a P2P server, you aren't downloading an "appropriately sounding song" as a substitute for the real song that you otherwise would have to pay for.
The government is not telling anybody what they are allowed to drive in my scenario. Government de-incentivizes those activities society deem harmful all the time, all the way from criminalization on one extreme to public service announcements on the other. Sin taxes are somewhere in the middle, and a good way to encourage people not to do/buy something that they themselves are too stupid to realize they should do/buy. Consider it a carrot that can act like a stick when needed.
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You are making the mistake of valuing something compared to something else (not unexpected from the slashdot community...very logical after all). The real value in a Steam game or an iPhone App, or a Best Buy cable, or a Brand-X Widget, is what the consumer will pay. This mistake of saying "product A costs 3x as much as product B but is only 2x as good" is the root of every Mac vs. PC argument on the planet (usually by the overly logical PC guy who can't see past his overly logical logic of why anybody would spend $1200 on a computer).
Rich kids make up the user base of a phone that costs the same or less than pretty much every other phone on the market? A $199 phone qualifies somebody as rich. I have two iPhones...I'm rich bitches!
Your post is completely inaccurate. When I first looked to get a P2P client, I spent HOURS reading up on how it worked. Five or six years later, I still don't understand what a "seed" is, or why some files take 3 days to download, while others of the same size download in two minutes. The real boon to legitimate stores is the complexity and shaky quality of P2P clients. Most of the time it's just easier to click on iTunes and pay $9 than it is to weed through the fifth or sixth copy off of P2P that is labeled by a third grade dyslexic moron, or a song recorded off the radio in a bathroom with a 1984 Sony Walkman.
I wonder if there is a threshold for pirates?
By the very definition of pirate: no. They have hording disorder. They download stuff they'll never use (that's why it isn't illegal, because they would have never paid for it in the first place, gawsh, don't you read slashdot!)
Japanese car companies have made engines more durable (usually at the expense of performance), which could be considered better--depending on your definition of "good". A lot of people don't care if an engine is good from a horsepower, torque, fuel-mileage point of view as long as it gets them from point A to point B reliably for many years with little maintenance. I don't know ANYBODY who gets excited about a Toyota Corolla, for example, but I'd buy one of those over a Chevy Cobalt any day. Even though the Cobalt might out-accelerate, turn better, get better gas mileage than a Corolla, GM has yet to prove they can build a non-truck that can go 200,000+ reliably, as Honda and Toyota have. There's a reason a lot of people in the Auto-rag industry think Japanese cars are "soulless", but most consumers don't measure a car payment + maintenance in measurements of "soul". I mean, only a Toyota (Scion) can make a boxy small truck like vehicle with a 105 hp engine "sporty".
It's wrong to the extent that courts have interpreted laws that say so. That doesn't mean I don't think it is wrong, only that I am able to understand that a nutjob defense doesn't make it legal for me to do something illegal.
Flash is simply the most inefficient way to build anything today.
Yes because it would be so much more efficient to hire a bunch of programmers to develop rapid e-learning one line of code at a time. Flash, in opposition to your belief, is one of the most efficient ways to build training, simulations and demonstrations, which to me, all count as "anything today".
The reason some people are reverting to making iPhone specific web sites is because there is a large enough user base to justify the time. I think it's a waste of time, considering the iPhone displays normal pages just fine. I really hate the fact that sites like cnnsi.com "detect" that I'm browsing from a mobile phone so it delivers a watered-down version of the main page.
You forgot to throw some homophobic line in there for the AntiFanbois--because when you disagree, call somebody gay.
Few non mobile phone optimized pages are going to display on that. The N8x0 series has 800x480. Do the math.
There's no math involved. Web pages look great on iPhones, even when browing the non-mobile phone optimized pages. Diminishing returns much? More importantly, the quality of individual pixels is more important than the number of pixels, unless you want to spend $1000 for a 10megapixel point-and-shoot camera because of its high pixel count (regardless of its poor image quality).
Besides writing a full GTK app you can program something up in one of the SIMPLE SCRIPTING LANGUAGES THAT APPLE FORBIDS. And you don't need to get anything signed by Apple before passing it around. So your point was?
I believe his or her point is that there are thousands of apps available for iPhone, and there are maybe a thousand people who have actually heard of a Nokia n810. (I kid, I kid...)
Yea and an N810 is $259
..which is misleading, because I see it from $222 all the way up to $500.
I wouldnt call the iPhone 'low cost'...
I wouldn't call the Nokia n810 low cost either, but evidently it is low cost enough to hog half of this discussion thread.
Asus EeePC netbook
The person specifically disqualified such devices in the summary.
yeaf it[s grue - I am tyoinh on mu iPhone riggt now and I can ty[e p5etty fadt on tjis thing
Actually, that's not very funny, because it's not very accurate. If anything, the iPhone auto-correct feature would replace your mistyped word with a real word (but probably not the one you wanted). You'd have to manually over-ride the auto-correct feature to get gibberish like you posted. That's ok--just shows you've never actually used that which you are trying to mock.
Frys is actually the best store for nerds.
Judging by the smell the last time I was there, I'd say you are correct.
err, "possessive" pronouns that is. Seems like I should master singular vs. plural (or proof better) before I hit reply...stupid slashdot, worst discussion forum technology on the 'net (oh, the irony).
Isn't checkbook registers proven technology, and there use is taught in highschool?
Yes, right next to conjugating the english verb "to be."
But not until you master possessives pronouns and compound words (or in this case, NOT compound words).
By no rights does it "belong" to the customer, because by banking with that bank, the customer has agreed to the shitty terms of not having funds available for 24 hours. The customer has a right to take their money to a bank that doesn't put deposits on 24-hour holds, though.
The credit card companies already analyze purchasing habits to fight fraud. Is it really that much of a stretch that the credit card companies are going to use this data to provide targeted advertising? Detailed profiles on individual customers?
Last I checked, JC Pennys, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, your-local-eatery are NOT the government. A company that is analyzing your spending habits to accurately target you from a marketing standpoint is a much different thing than the government analyzing your spending habits to do whatever evil-deed you paranoids think they have the time/inclination to do.
You said, "halfway competent salespeople" in the context of big-box electronics. I have a new example to demonstrate the meaning of oxymoron.
Making money for your works of art is not a right? That's about the most anti-capitalist thing I've ever seen on slashdot. I suppose you need to reword it to say you have a right to charge for your works of art, but not a right to profit from them (if it sucks, or not enough people buy it, or whatever). But still, denying an artist the opportunity to even TRY to make money because it isn't their right to do so?
I don't think the recording industry cares about unbreakable DRM. They put enough on there for it to be a PITA for a non-geek to crack, which in there view, is enough to preserve their beloved profits (well that, and a few thousand obsessive law suits).
Reverse-engineered does not mean broken. The guy broke it by reverse engineering it. DRM is broken enough already to need sensationalist summaries like this one.
You are talking about ripping from CDs and I'm talking about downloading from P2P. I have no gripes with you ripping something you rightfully own, but that's not what this article or discussion thread is about. Lars Ulrich didn't say, "so I ripped our new CD to my computer today, and it was really easy!". He said he went online and downloaded it. Please try to keep up with the conversation.
1. The TV has not "lost" anything. 2. Normal people don't watch tv shows on their computer. 3. Facebook hasn't killed anything TV related. 4. WoW cuts into my normal TV time significantly.
I simply go outside and find an appropriately sized stick laying on the ground, my behavior is unacceptable?
Something tells me when you go on a P2P server, you aren't downloading an "appropriately sounding song" as a substitute for the real song that you otherwise would have to pay for.
The government is not telling anybody what they are allowed to drive in my scenario. Government de-incentivizes those activities society deem harmful all the time, all the way from criminalization on one extreme to public service announcements on the other. Sin taxes are somewhere in the middle, and a good way to encourage people not to do/buy something that they themselves are too stupid to realize they should do/buy. Consider it a carrot that can act like a stick when needed.