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not really, since the lesson is: download copywritten material and pay a fine- unless it is someone else's network- then they are responsible it fails to strike fear when someone else is getting nailed for your actions
I work for a firm and have had to put up with this kind of thing for years, the thing that is irritating isn't that you are like a firefighter who sits around the firehouse, you are expected to work your 40 hour week AND be on call if something goes wrong- the last place I worked at it was pretty common to work 70-80 hour weeks with no overtime pay
Actually, I don't really pirate because there's not a whole lot worth pirating.
the same is true for the distribution, since hulu and netflix are streaming in the home I only pirate things that are not available and hence have virtually no impact even theoretically on sales- if netflix teamed with hulu and the mpaa to widen the catalog of movies and tv shows and split the membership- even if the fee were raised from the current $9 to say $12-15 and split amongst the groups, piracy would dwindle on available media and all of the the groups would get a cut-
think of it this way-
in my house alone:
ps3
wii
3pcs
2laptops
internet enabled media player
psp (2)(ds isn't online as it only supports wep)
internet enabled blue ray player
wifi enabled non blackberry phone
I am sure that I am forgetting something, but according to the way that the #s are it would prolly register as 1 pc on the survey.
so my choice is to say screw the legal route dump my provider and be able to use my consoles and pc on my tv and pirate what I want to watch or give up my consoles and pc on my tv in favor of an expensive switch box and new cables/converters so that I can pay for content, I wonder what my decision would be? Sorry MPAA but I am trying to be legal you are just making it really difficult to do so.
It means I will get more idiots sending me takedown notices to stop distributing my own music that I own the rights to... and then they can boot me from my ISP
A year after - you're fine. Different and less comfortable, but fine.
I beg to differ- It would be a lot worse than all of that- it would be like if they turned the phones off in the 50's or 60's- business really depends on internet communication, so banks, investment houses, legal services, shipping and a number of other major backbones of the economy would be crippled and need to reset- it would basically trigger an instant depression and be an extremely painful recovery-
I would expect that a young hacker who can pay $400 for an iPhone just might have $2 for a game.
this is probably true and probably why the app store has made a lot of $, though the entry level to the app store with the ipod touch and older generations of iphone has changes this- now the entry level is more like $200 which you will see a lot more parents shelling for, that is pretty par for the course though with most early adptions vs. saturation
"Copying music and movies and sharing them with your friends is illegal under most circumstances in most of the Western World"
actually it isn't, you can sue to recover damages and there are standard penalties under these suits based on DMCA, but so far as actually being "illegal", that is a misconception by most people. It is up to states to write their own rules on it and most states don't see this as a wise use of their resources to pursue action or to write specific laws supporting IP. Tell me how you are supposed to explain that to a bunch of kids when most adults don't even understand the difference between civil and criminal proceedings.
even if sony is fudging the numbers by 100% it becomes a 1% failure rate, standard acceptable failure rates for electronics seems to be anywhere from 1 in 6 to 1 in 8 and the 360 has had reports ranging from 16 to 60 % depending on the source so it seems to me to be a little silly to be freaking out about a.5% reported failure rate- or am I crazy on this?
wow, what does that mean for places like best buy that have both win and mac in the store- will it need to be installed on a windows pc or will it be able to drain batteries from the install disc?
carnage heart:
they made a psp version for japan, but I would love to see a newer version of it with improved programming functions-
for those that don't know it was an arena based mech battle game where you flowchart programmed the unit and just watched it fight- no live interaction
the bulk of the ds games that ubisoft puts out are the "imagine" series of games- that is imagine: figure skater, imagine: babysitter, imagine: makeup artist and all other types of drivel- they need to be happy that someone is even spending the 5 megs a pop to pirate these glorified flash games for 10 year old girls because they wouldn't sell too well in the first place....
put out better games and more people might pay for them
Actually, marginal cost is not made obsolete. It is very much applicable. But a low marginal cost and the larger audience that the Internet affords should dictate a lowering of the selling price.
actually by this definition most music by independent artists (like myself) can tend to have an actual production cost of $0 outside of labor (since the only costs are hardware which are re-used but I do put many many hours into production ) - I do agree that there should be some compensation when applicable though for the very reason you give I usually give my music away for cheap to free.
well it is kind of funny, but like a lot of other people I know who have worked in coding, scripting, programming, etc. I am not really that good at "math" but have a good deal of talent relating to "conceptual" math- that is I am really good at figuring out the way to get to a problem (logic) but I am not good at taking a bunch of numbers and computing them- arguably I think that I am more on the right track than those that have the opposite issue- but in school it was just "you are bad at math". Once I started actually applying things in real life I quickly learned that calculators and computers are there to give you the answers and you need to learn how to ask the right questions- a task that not many are good at. I think that this is really one of the dividing lines between science and mathematics- the ability to make educated judgments and ability to test it as opposed to the ability to correct someone who has done the tests.
when I was a kid I was brought up with logo in the art class and basic in our math class as part of an experimental learning program. I think that it is really important to give kids the understanding of logic and result, a lot more important than teaching actual code since in the end the language itself is transitory but the concepts of logic will remain the same in any programming or scripting language.
"bad day LA", "psychonauts", "armed and dangerous", etc- but they are all generally the same time period- Portal more recently was hilarious which is really one of the biggest appeals to the game (though gameplay was of course awesome)
80K/year is "barely a living wage"? If you want a 4 bedroom house with a three car garage, 2 Hummers, 3 kids, a couple of dogs, and a 2-week overseas vacation every year, maybe.
I live in San Francisco- seriously you can't even buy a rathole making 80k a year here (let alone the other crap you listed)- I have been making (until laid off recently like the rest of the world) about 70k and have been making ends meet in a 1 bedroom apt. with the wife and saving just enough that we not homeless right now with the economy shitting and having to live from contract to contract till full time positions open somewhere
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This story brought to you by the RIAA, striking fear across the globe.
not really, since the lesson is: download copywritten material and pay a fine- unless it is someone else's network- then they are responsible
it fails to strike fear when someone else is getting nailed for your actions
I work for a firm and have had to put up with this kind of thing for years, the thing that is irritating isn't that you are like a firefighter who sits around the firehouse, you are expected to work your 40 hour week AND be on call if something goes wrong- the last place I worked at it was pretty common to work 70-80 hour weeks with no overtime pay
Actually, I don't really pirate because there's not a whole lot worth pirating.
the same is true for the distribution, since hulu and netflix are streaming in the home I only pirate things that are not available and hence have virtually no impact even theoretically on sales- if netflix teamed with hulu and the mpaa to widen the catalog of movies and tv shows and split the membership- even if the fee were raised from the current $9 to say $12-15 and split amongst the groups, piracy would dwindle on available media and all of the the groups would get a cut-
think of it this way- in my house alone: ps3 wii 3pcs 2laptops internet enabled media player psp (2)(ds isn't online as it only supports wep) internet enabled blue ray player wifi enabled non blackberry phone I am sure that I am forgetting something, but according to the way that the #s are it would prolly register as 1 pc on the survey.
I quit like, 8 months ago after smoking for 15 years- I coulda just waited for the shot- ah well it wasn't so bad with the patch
so my choice is to say screw the legal route dump my provider and be able to use my consoles and pc on my tv and pirate what I want to watch or give up my consoles and pc on my tv in favor of an expensive switch box and new cables/converters so that I can pay for content, I wonder what my decision would be?
Sorry MPAA but I am trying to be legal you are just making it really difficult to do so.
I think you are confusing most Californians with most angelinos
It means I will get more idiots sending me takedown notices to stop distributing my own music that I own the rights to... and then they can boot me from my ISP
did the inspectors inspect the code that is driving the electronic systems or just turn it on and see if it works?
Who Installs the Most Crapware?
My father in law
A year after - you're fine. Different and less comfortable, but fine.
I beg to differ- It would be a lot worse than all of that- it would be like if they turned the phones off in the 50's or 60's- business really depends on internet communication, so banks, investment houses, legal services, shipping and a number of other major backbones of the economy would be crippled and need to reset- it would basically trigger an instant depression and be an extremely painful recovery-
I would expect that a young hacker who can pay $400 for an iPhone just might have $2 for a game.
this is probably true and probably why the app store has made a lot of $, though the entry level to the app store with the ipod touch and older generations of iphone has changes this- now the entry level is more like $200 which you will see a lot more parents shelling for, that is pretty par for the course though with most early adptions vs. saturation
What, no keyboard + mouse option?
-l
you don't need a mouse- W+A+S+D+spacebar+ctrl, gears are fkeys, in addition you can hook it to your phone and text while driving
"Copying music and movies and sharing them with your friends is illegal under most circumstances in most of the Western World"
actually it isn't, you can sue to recover damages and there are standard penalties under these suits based on DMCA, but so far as actually being "illegal", that is a misconception by most people. It is up to states to write their own rules on it and most states don't see this as a wise use of their resources to pursue action or to write specific laws supporting IP.
Tell me how you are supposed to explain that to a bunch of kids when most adults don't even understand the difference between civil and criminal proceedings.
It reminds me of the old PCs with a turbo button on the front.
that's what I was thinking, it always seems to be a running gag that when things are going slow that you "forgot to push the turbo button"
even if sony is fudging the numbers by 100% it becomes a 1% failure rate, standard acceptable failure rates for electronics seems to be anywhere from 1 in 6 to 1 in 8 and the 360 has had reports ranging from 16 to 60 % depending on the source so it seems to me to be a little silly to be freaking out about a .5% reported failure rate-
or am I crazy on this?
wow, what does that mean for places like best buy that have both win and mac in the store- will it need to be installed on a windows pc or will it be able to drain batteries from the install disc?
carnage heart:
they made a psp version for japan, but I would love to see a newer version of it with improved programming functions- for those that don't know it was an arena based mech battle game where you flowchart programmed the unit and just watched it fight- no live interaction
the bulk of the ds games that ubisoft puts out are the "imagine" series of games- that is imagine: figure skater, imagine: babysitter, imagine: makeup artist and all other types of drivel- they need to be happy that someone is even spending the 5 megs a pop to pirate these glorified flash games for 10 year old girls because they wouldn't sell too well in the first place....
put out better games and more people might pay for them
"It happens to all guys sometimes"
Actually, marginal cost is not made obsolete. It is very much applicable. But a low marginal cost and the larger audience that the Internet affords should dictate a lowering of the selling price.
actually by this definition most music by independent artists (like myself) can tend to have an actual production cost of $0 outside of labor (since the only costs are hardware which are re-used but I do put many many hours into production ) - I do agree that there should be some compensation when applicable though for the very reason you give I usually give my music away for cheap to free.
well it is kind of funny, but like a lot of other people I know who have worked in coding, scripting, programming, etc. I am not really that good at "math" but have a good deal of talent relating to "conceptual" math- that is I am really good at figuring out the way to get to a problem (logic) but I am not good at taking a bunch of numbers and computing them- arguably I think that I am more on the right track than those that have the opposite issue- but in school it was just "you are bad at math". Once I started actually applying things in real life I quickly learned that calculators and computers are there to give you the answers and you need to learn how to ask the right questions- a task that not many are good at. I think that this is really one of the dividing lines between science and mathematics- the ability to make educated judgments and ability to test it as opposed to the ability to correct someone who has done the tests.
when I was a kid I was brought up with logo in the art class and basic in our math class as part of an experimental learning program. I think that it is really important to give kids the understanding of logic and result, a lot more important than teaching actual code since in the end the language itself is transitory but the concepts of logic will remain the same in any programming or scripting language.
"bad day LA", "psychonauts", "armed and dangerous", etc- but they are all generally the same time period- Portal more recently was hilarious which is really one of the biggest appeals to the game (though gameplay was of course awesome)
80K/year is "barely a living wage"? If you want a 4 bedroom house with a three car garage, 2 Hummers, 3 kids, a couple of dogs, and a 2-week overseas vacation every year, maybe.
I live in San Francisco- seriously you can't even buy a rathole making 80k a year here (let alone the other crap you listed)- I have been making (until laid off recently like the rest of the world) about 70k and have been making ends meet in a 1 bedroom apt. with the wife and saving just enough that we not homeless right now with the economy shitting and having to live from contract to contract till full time positions open somewhere