they could always remove the screen since it takes up power and replace it with a few more batteries... and a solar panel- then it would last forever, with no display you can play a lot more video. and with four times the battery power it would be more powerful than any phone on the market, and self charging.
durability for sure- I use a craptacular little 3 year old nokia no-feature because I can drop it and knock it around and it doesn't crack when I go through the turnstile when I get on the train to go to work- because hey all I want to be able to do is make a phone call- I have a better portable media solution in oh- say an actual dedicated pmp- w/a 60g hd that doesn't need to use iTunes and supports wider ranges of media formats (I don't see the iPhone supporting ogg or xvid do you?)
1. sorry, I don't know how ridiculous you are with $ coming out of your ears- but if something sucks- no, I will not buy it- not if it is popular, not if it is cheap- no, I am not going to go see the next line of the scary/epic/teen movie series- but if it is free- sure I will look at it- if just so that I can say how bad it was-
The deal with the game publisher- totally different than a movie. Online games are repeat customers. I can't say that I have ever gotten a movie pirated or legal on dvd and came home to watch it every day. Online games are crack for nerds- you cut the supply and they sell their grandma to keep doing it.
2. Your assumption is wrong as well- estimation of sales is not a valid number to calculate from, if it were I would be the richest man on earth I could go around investing in every buy low company that estimates their numbers will be high and WHAM!I am a billionaire. The fact of the matter is that the entertainment industry is out of touch. They have really been out of touch since the 70's. There have been nothing but copycats in every genre of music and movies since the days of the late 70s rock star and the lucas inspired summer blockbuster. Some great artists have come out of both of these camps, but more often 1 great artist comes out and then executives recruit 100 other copycats expecting that each will make as much as the first (same with sequal films). So I see that spiderman or batman or superman makes $ and then elektra and daredevil and a host of crappy comic book movies come out. Did the theaters expect daredevil to make as much as spiderman? probably. Should the public be held accountable for that? no, that is an executive decision that was wrong because it failed in the execution. The same goes for music- executives invest in album after album of pop stars and expect it to pay off, sometimes the stream runs dry. An estimated 2 billion dollars of loss has to be calculated not from download numbers but from intended sales. So the number is wrong.
I am a musician (so I speak at all of this first hand)who puts stuff out independently and if I suddenly said "hey my next album is GREAT I expect to sell a million records" but I sell 1000 is that piracy's fault?- no it is my fault for expecting too much and not reading the market, possibly not promoting well enough, maybe I think the album is better than other people did, maybe people think I am a dick 'cause I am blaming sales loss on dowloading and I go down the tubes further, maybe for god's sake I didn't take into account that inflation is going up and wages aren't. The estimated losses are a smokescreen that are used to target "piracy".
yeah- I'd like to see how he would feel if someone broke into his house raped his wife and kids and ransacked the place- I am sure that he wouldn't feel the same about ppl downloading mp3s in comparison to street crime
around here it is something in the range of $120 a month for cable with no pay channels- that is insane- I don't have cable for this reason- if I could choose the few channels that I would watch I might actually get cable-
also- I am all for freedom of the media but this bill really is all in the details- the idea of doing a "family oriented" designation actually sounds like a good idea since it lets all of the other channels off the hook and they won't be forced to do the "after 10pm" thing.
also- I can see this as good and bad for independents- It may be possible to bring more independents on the scene since they would be able to charge and be charged based on actual niche interests- the cable companies would want to have more channels for people to choose from- if places like IFC and such went down a lot of people would be turned off from cable since the overall amount of content would be lost and in the end they would conceivably want to have more stations since they can charge consumers per-channel. At the same time if say the "I am bob and here is my living room" channel came out and no one wanted to subscribe to it- it would go down. I think that the overall economics would need to be deeply examined.
this could be a good thing since for the first time it recognizes that there is a need for qualified people to review tech matters. honestly we should have the same process for technology based laws so that a guy with a good smile in congress isn't the one voting on and making tech laws. the original idea of congress creating the laws was good when matters were not so over their heads, but corporate lobbying and lack of knowledge is pushing us into self-destruction.
yes, but the d20 system made it impossible to do "feats" so it was less "star wars" and more D&D it became less of a jedi game. I am just hoping this means our old GM will pick it back up- we had a 8 year 2 era campaign with over 50 player characters in 3 states over the years till it was dropped about 5 years ago
concerning the privatization of law enforcement- this is the right way for it to be used- just like cops catching shoplifters or purse snatchers or burglars- as opposed to the WRONG way which is to hunt down someone for downloading the latest kelly clarkson album. This is the line that should be between illegal and legal- making a profit off of copyright infringement should be enforced and leave the filesharers alone.
it is actually a very simple policy- you need to image your servers to tape and archive them, and when they expire degauss them if you feel like it- if not the data is non-admissable- the difficult part is if you are involved in litigation and need to produce this data, which is where companies like mine come in and sort all of that junk out for you..... for a very large price
no he isn't saying right or wrong- what he is saying is what I keep saying to people- it doesn't matter if it is right or wrong- it is here and you can either kid yourself about it or try to adapt and innovate with the climate. In the long run I really wonder how big of a deal it will end up being later- since it is a symptom of a bigger issue and that is the national interest of business to refuse to adapt. It is what brought the dot-com boom down (hit us hard I have lived in san francisco for the last 16 years) and I have seen it is sooo many companies that I have worked for. The problem is that it weakens our global value. Business teaches that you are in business to do business. You are not in business to make a better product- if you don't have the better product then you aquire it and represent it as your own. If someone gets in your way- sue them. Can't sue them? Make a law that says you can. Other countries don't think this way- it may not be "ethical" by our standards- but they are on their way to doing a better job. In the end we will be sitting around puffing our chests and making rules that no one except ourselves care about- and that won't even be much because with no health care, restrictive laws and a dive in the economy we will become hated by the rest of the world- oh wait we already are hated in the rest of the world.
I am a musician and have been trying to explain this to my peers- though you won't make $ through performance- only merchandising. When you go on tour as an independent you are usually somewhere between -$100 to + $100 per show after expenditures not a lot of $ - though you can pull about 3 or 4 times your guarantee on t-shirt and other merch sales (including CDs - people do like to buy them at shows- and I have had ppl face to face buy them after telling me they downloaded my music) this just needs to be translated to online distro as well. As a musician I know that it is all about the music but depending on the music itself for your income is like walking on a pond right after it freezes- you might skate by but more than likely you'll end up in a world of hurt. I have personally- and I encourage others to add links to available merchandise in the comments (since rippers don't do it) when ppl upload torrents.
cool- when I am old and my brain goes I can install a new one and flash the firmware- or hell I can just flash someone else's brain and be in there... nice
the thing that I find amusing is the velociraptors and eve- and the fact that the bible somehow indicates that all animals were vegetarians-
also- has anyone ever thought what covering the entire earth in salt water would do? how the hell would we have the ecosystems that we do?
and if the "flood" was what killed the dinosaurs- what about plesiosaurs, pliosaurs, mosasaurs and ichthyosaurs? why do we not still find them?
"Contracts are formed all the time without signing anything. More often than not, the only questions for a court in a contract between businesses and consumers are: 1) was there proper notice of the terms and 2) are the terms unconscionable?"
what about things like the apple itunes EULA as follows:
"Apple reserves the right, at any time and from time to time, to update, revise, supplement, and otherwise modify this Agreement and to impose new or additional rules, policies, terms, or conditions on your use of the Service. Such updates, revisions, supplements, modifications, and additional rules, policies, terms, and conditions (collectively referred to in this Agreement as "Additional Terms") will be effective immediately and incorporated into this Agreement. Your continued use of the iTunes Music Store following will be deemed to constitute your acceptance of any and all such Additional Terms. All Additional Terms are hereby incorporated into this Agreement by this reference"
or gator- wich doesn't even show the EULA on install but states:
"You agree that you will not use, or encourage others to use, any unauthorized means for the removal of the GAIN AdServer, or any GAIN-Supported Software from a computer."
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I am skeptical as well, but a nintendo ds gets about that much (on high screen brightness) w/ 4m of ram and 2 backlit displays-
they could always remove the screen since it takes up power and replace it with a few more batteries... and a solar panel- then it would last forever, with no display you can play a lot more video. and with four times the battery power it would be more powerful than any phone on the market, and self charging.
"The iPhone is the BEST! (has 100% recommended dietary allowance of microwave radiation)."
durability for sure- I use a craptacular little 3 year old nokia no-feature because I can drop it and knock it around and it doesn't crack when I go through the turnstile when I get on the train to go to work- because hey all I want to be able to do is make a phone call- I have a better portable media solution in oh- say an actual dedicated pmp- w/a 60g hd that doesn't need to use iTunes and supports wider ranges of media formats (I don't see the iPhone supporting ogg or xvid do you?)
it isn't that thick either
and then there are those like me that can't do what I do on linux and mac- no software support
1. sorry, I don't know how ridiculous you are with $ coming out of your ears- but if something sucks- no, I will not buy it- not if it is popular, not if it is cheap- no, I am not going to go see the next line of the scary/epic/teen movie series- but if it is free- sure I will look at it- if just so that I can say how bad it was-
The deal with the game publisher- totally different than a movie. Online games are repeat customers. I can't say that I have ever gotten a movie pirated or legal on dvd and came home to watch it every day. Online games are crack for nerds- you cut the supply and they sell their grandma to keep doing it.
2. Your assumption is wrong as well- estimation of sales is not a valid number to calculate from, if it were I would be the richest man on earth I could go around investing in every buy low company that estimates their numbers will be high and WHAM!I am a billionaire. The fact of the matter is that the entertainment industry is out of touch. They have really been out of touch since the 70's. There have been nothing but copycats in every genre of music and movies since the days of the late 70s rock star and the lucas inspired summer blockbuster. Some great artists have come out of both of these camps, but more often 1 great artist comes out and then executives recruit 100 other copycats expecting that each will make as much as the first (same with sequal films). So I see that spiderman or batman or superman makes $ and then elektra and daredevil and a host of crappy comic book movies come out. Did the theaters expect daredevil to make as much as spiderman? probably. Should the public be held accountable for that? no, that is an executive decision that was wrong because it failed in the execution. The same goes for music- executives invest in album after album of pop stars and expect it to pay off, sometimes the stream runs dry. An estimated 2 billion dollars of loss has to be calculated not from download numbers but from intended sales. So the number is wrong.
I am a musician (so I speak at all of this first hand)who puts stuff out independently and if I suddenly said "hey my next album is GREAT I expect to sell a million records" but I sell 1000 is that piracy's fault?- no it is my fault for expecting too much and not reading the market, possibly not promoting well enough, maybe I think the album is better than other people did, maybe people think I am a dick 'cause I am blaming sales loss on dowloading and I go down the tubes further, maybe for god's sake I didn't take into account that inflation is going up and wages aren't.
The estimated losses are a smokescreen that are used to target "piracy".
yeah- I'd like to see how he would feel if someone broke into his house raped his wife and kids and ransacked the place- I am sure that he wouldn't feel the same about ppl downloading mp3s in comparison to street crime
I hate the term sheeple- I had a roommate that used to use it all of the time. Can't we just use a known term like the unaware or sleepers or idiots.
around here it is something in the range of $120 a month for cable with no pay channels- that is insane- I don't have cable for this reason- if I could choose the few channels that I would watch I might actually get cable-
also- I am all for freedom of the media but this bill really is all in the details- the idea of doing a "family oriented" designation actually sounds like a good idea since it lets all of the other channels off the hook and they won't be forced to do the "after 10pm" thing.
also- I can see this as good and bad for independents- It may be possible to bring more independents on the scene since they would be able to charge and be charged based on actual niche interests- the cable companies would want to have more channels for people to choose from- if places like IFC and such went down a lot of people would be turned off from cable since the overall amount of content would be lost and in the end they would conceivably want to have more stations since they can charge consumers per-channel. At the same time if say the "I am bob and here is my living room" channel came out and no one wanted to subscribe to it- it would go down. I think that the overall economics would need to be deeply examined.
hack someone by working in a restaurant and implanting a transmitter in their fork?
this could be a good thing since for the first time it recognizes that there is a need for qualified people to review tech matters. honestly we should have the same process for technology based laws so that a guy with a good smile in congress isn't the one voting on and making tech laws. the original idea of congress creating the laws was good when matters were not so over their heads, but corporate lobbying and lack of knowledge is pushing us into self-destruction.
yes, but the d20 system made it impossible to do "feats" so it was less "star wars" and more D&D it became less of a jedi game. I am just hoping this means our old GM will pick it back up- we had a 8 year 2 era campaign with over 50 player characters in 3 states over the years till it was dropped about 5 years ago
when it was a more open ended D6 system before wizards took over
maybe they collected 2526666.6666666666666666666666667 cd's that would put them @ $.30- about the production cost
OSX has been proven time and time again to have a ton of security flaws- it is not hacked often because it is not widespread in the business world
as if the $17.00 per ticket price tag doesn't already deter me most of the time.
concerning the privatization of law enforcement- this is the right way for it to be used- just like cops catching shoplifters or purse snatchers or burglars- as opposed to the WRONG way which is to hunt down someone for downloading the latest kelly clarkson album. This is the line that should be between illegal and legal- making a profit off of copyright infringement should be enforced and leave the filesharers alone.
it is actually a very simple policy- you need to image your servers to tape and archive them, and when they expire degauss them if you feel like it- if not the data is non-admissable- the difficult part is if you are involved in litigation and need to produce this data, which is where companies like mine come in and sort all of that junk out for you..... for a very large price
no he isn't saying right or wrong- what he is saying is what I keep saying to people- it doesn't matter if it is right or wrong- it is here and you can either kid yourself about it or try to adapt and innovate with the climate.
In the long run I really wonder how big of a deal it will end up being later- since it is a symptom of a bigger issue and that is the national interest of business to refuse to adapt. It is what brought the dot-com boom down (hit us hard I have lived in san francisco for the last 16 years) and I have seen it is sooo many companies that I have worked for. The problem is that it weakens our global value. Business teaches that you are in business to do business. You are not in business to make a better product- if you don't have the better product then you aquire it and represent it as your own.
If someone gets in your way- sue them.
Can't sue them?
Make a law that says you can.
Other countries don't think this way- it may not be "ethical" by our standards- but they are on their way to doing a better job.
In the end we will be sitting around puffing our chests and making rules that no one except ourselves care about- and that won't even be much because with no health care, restrictive laws and a dive in the economy we will become hated by the rest of the world- oh wait we already are hated in the rest of the world.
I am a musician and have been trying to explain this to my peers- though you won't make $ through performance-
only merchandising.
When you go on tour as an independent you are usually somewhere between -$100 to + $100 per show after expenditures not a lot of $ - though you can pull about 3 or 4 times your guarantee on t-shirt and other merch sales (including CDs - people do like to buy them at shows- and I have had ppl face to face buy them after telling me they downloaded my music) this just needs to be translated to online distro as well. As a musician I know that it is all about the music but depending on the music itself for your income is like walking on a pond right after it freezes- you might skate by but more than likely you'll end up in a world of hurt. I have personally- and I encourage others to add links to available merchandise in the comments (since rippers don't do it) when ppl upload torrents.
cool- when I am old and my brain goes I can install a new one and flash the firmware-
or hell I can just flash someone else's brain and be in there... nice
the thing that I find amusing is the velociraptors and eve- and the fact that the bible somehow indicates that all animals were vegetarians-
also- has anyone ever thought what covering the entire earth in salt water would do? how the hell would we have the ecosystems that we do?
and if the "flood" was what killed the dinosaurs- what about plesiosaurs, pliosaurs, mosasaurs and ichthyosaurs? why do we not still find them?
bad enough that you have to lock down your wi-fi - now you will have to lock down your electricity or the neighbors will use it
"Contracts are formed all the time without signing anything. More often than not, the only questions for a court in a contract between businesses and consumers are: 1) was there proper notice of the terms and 2) are the terms unconscionable?" what about things like the apple itunes EULA as follows: "Apple reserves the right, at any time and from time to time, to update, revise, supplement, and otherwise modify this Agreement and to impose new or additional rules, policies, terms, or conditions on your use of the Service. Such updates, revisions, supplements, modifications, and additional rules, policies, terms, and conditions (collectively referred to in this Agreement as "Additional Terms") will be effective immediately and incorporated into this Agreement. Your continued use of the iTunes Music Store following will be deemed to constitute your acceptance of any and all such Additional Terms. All Additional Terms are hereby incorporated into this Agreement by this reference" or gator- wich doesn't even show the EULA on install but states: "You agree that you will not use, or encourage others to use, any unauthorized means for the removal of the GAIN AdServer, or any GAIN-Supported Software from a computer."