1. you wouldn't have had to pay all right away. get the vanilla(lvls 1-60), then the expacs(-70,-80,-85) as you get to the levels that need them.
2. currently, it is a whole $35 to get all of wow's releases (vanilla+bc is $5, wotlk is $10 and cata is $20).
the worst thing lucasfilm does is let people expand its universe, then years later, retcon the shit out of it. for me, boba fett's back story will always be the jaster mareel one, not the lame prince of the clones bullshit.
in your situation, if there was a recall, the car seller would just come and take your vehicle, and leave a check and any personal items, whenever/wherever they wanted to. parent is saying that, once sold, the car seller should contact the buyers and let them know, and IF they wanted to, they can bring back the car with the faulty battery. you know, because of ownership and all.
the same labels that then deduct those costs from the artists' already small piece of the pie?
really, for a $15 cd, the people that created it should be getting at least $5.
how can companies sell products that are able to use bandwitdth-hungry features like streaming netflix, then get mad when users do that? if i am sold a phone capable of using netflix, i expect to be able to get the highest quality stream, limited only by hardware and connection speed. these companies are always putting the horse before the cart. maybe make sure all your users can fully use all the features of the product you are selling them, before you sell them. fail infrastructure is fail.
i understand it is mpeg la's ip. some hardware/software is licensed to decode it. other hardware/software is licensed to encode it. how is it different than every other codec?
i was parent, at work so was anonymous. i never knew this. thanks for the info. i guess they consider streaming to be broadcasting then, huh? i always imagined that renting was some sort of distribution. oh well.
i really do wish hulu or netflix would pick-up hbo and/or shotime as a partner, with an additional but fair price increase, say $5-7. it's $14.99 thru cable but that quality is better, i can record it(if only at lower dvd res), etc., so a balance must be struck. i think that is part of the problem. these companies expect the same pricing when they take away more consumer abilities. if i can no longer record to a permanent copy, then you must charge less. they think just because they found a new (at the time) revenue stream of tv on dvd, that they can eschew all the people that had been home recording for the previous 2 decades, but i'm not having that. i personally subscribe to cable and have a dvr, but for some reason i can't just dump all the hd recordings via firewire, so i do download copies of all the shows i watch. find me a legit way to do that, included in my subscription for no increase, and we'll be about square. kind of went off-topic but whatevs.
with congress, in particular, all these asshats that sit in congress for so long? one shouldn't have to learn the ins-and-outs, as one should know how to do the job before getting on the ballot. either all offices should have zero term limits or none. i'd really like 1-2 max for these douchebags.
Media should fall into the public domain once the original authors stop selling it.
exactly. i 've always thought it should have to be made available to be protected. it'd also help do away with back-in-the-vault shenanigans. there is plenty of media that will never be released because they are not commercially viable, but will they just sell me the fucking.iso download (at a rate that makes up for the removal of all third parties. sure bandwidth costs something but is nothing compared to packaging/shipping/retail) and make their cash? noooo. people WILL get what they want, one way or the other.
i guess it would depend on the ISP's terms of service. i'm sure there is something in there about not "subletting" your connection, so to speak. if that were the case, a dummy subletter (anonymous, of course, that pays with a pre-paid card through paypal or somesuch) would surely make anyone non-liable. maybe we're on to something...
I bought a Blu-ray player from there earlier this year (was on sale and cheaper than newegg/amazon). It was taped up in the "inspected by best buy" sticker tape.
When I got home and set it up, I noticed the batteries were nowhere to be found. I called the store, and they said to come in; they'd give me some. I told them I wasn't wasting my time to go all the way back and wanted them to delivery them to me. Just as they got my address, my phone call dropped. I was too pissed to call them back. About a week later they arrived in the mail.
fine. let's fix the system. from now on, anything publicly subsidized will also be publicly profitable, in any industry. if you get any sort of government money while making money, the goverment gets a return on its investment, before you do. how about that?
isn't a huge part of why everyone bashes government in regards to its spending directly related to shit like this? why is it that, even without the wars, our military spending still goes up every year, even more than during the cold war? is it because contractors funnel money to congress to funnel even more back to their districts as 'jobs', many of which exist only to keep the cycle going? do we really need whatever that new jet is that they've been dumping billions into for the past decade? can any branch of the military really not do any of its own logistics?
i mean if we're so gung-ho about the government giving out money willy-nilly, where is the free health care, college-for-all and what-not? surely those are equally important for the preservation of our nation's future, right?
because instead of having the military do their own r&d in-house and at cost, we waste billions on these third party crooks who are getting fat suckling the teet of our government. lockheed-martin, boeing, raytheon, et. al. can all die in a fire.
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1. you wouldn't have had to pay all right away. get the vanilla(lvls 1-60), then the expacs(-70,-80,-85) as you get to the levels that need them.
2. currently, it is a whole $35 to get all of wow's releases (vanilla+bc is $5, wotlk is $10 and cata is $20).
the worst thing lucasfilm does is let people expand its universe, then years later, retcon the shit out of it. for me, boba fett's back story will always be the jaster mareel one, not the lame prince of the clones bullshit.
in your situation, if there was a recall, the car seller would just come and take your vehicle, and leave a check and any personal items, whenever/wherever they wanted to. parent is saying that, once sold, the car seller should contact the buyers and let them know, and IF they wanted to, they can bring back the car with the faulty battery. you know, because of ownership and all.
this is exactly what i was thinking. purposely left for goal of infecting.
can't you just out the audio via spdif or optical? it worked like that for me on vista. haven't tried on 7 as i now have a stand-alone blu-ray player.
slap a eula on the cover?
of course, for true archiving, all that data should've been transferred from tech to tech as it emerged, and plenty of copies made as well.
the same labels that then deduct those costs from the artists' already small piece of the pie?
really, for a $15 cd, the people that created it should be getting at least $5.
if these phones makers dumped the exclusivity-amongst-carriers shenanigans?
or just his pillowcase.
how can companies sell products that are able to use bandwitdth-hungry features like streaming netflix, then get mad when users do that? if i am sold a phone capable of using netflix, i expect to be able to get the highest quality stream, limited only by hardware and connection speed. these companies are always putting the horse before the cart. maybe make sure all your users can fully use all the features of the product you are selling them, before you sell them. fail infrastructure is fail.
i understand it is mpeg la's ip. some hardware/software is licensed to decode it. other hardware/software is licensed to encode it. how is it different than every other codec?
i was parent, at work so was anonymous. i never knew this. thanks for the info. i guess they consider streaming to be broadcasting then, huh? i always imagined that renting was some sort of distribution. oh well.
i really do wish hulu or netflix would pick-up hbo and/or shotime as a partner, with an additional but fair price increase, say $5-7. it's $14.99 thru cable but that quality is better, i can record it(if only at lower dvd res), etc., so a balance must be struck. i think that is part of the problem. these companies expect the same pricing when they take away more consumer abilities. if i can no longer record to a permanent copy, then you must charge less. they think just because they found a new (at the time) revenue stream of tv on dvd, that they can eschew all the people that had been home recording for the previous 2 decades, but i'm not having that. i personally subscribe to cable and have a dvr, but for some reason i can't just dump all the hd recordings via firewire, so i do download copies of all the shows i watch. find me a legit way to do that, included in my subscription for no increase, and we'll be about square. kind of went off-topic but whatevs.
with congress, in particular, all these asshats that sit in congress for so long? one shouldn't have to learn the ins-and-outs, as one should know how to do the job before getting on the ballot. either all offices should have zero term limits or none. i'd really like 1-2 max for these douchebags.
Media should fall into the public domain once the original authors stop selling it.
exactly. i 've always thought it should have to be made available to be protected. it'd also help do away with back-in-the-vault shenanigans. there is plenty of media that will never be released because they are not commercially viable, but will they just sell me the fucking .iso download (at a rate that makes up for the removal of all third parties. sure bandwidth costs something but is nothing compared to packaging/shipping/retail) and make their cash? noooo. people WILL get what they want, one way or the other.
i guess it would depend on the ISP's terms of service. i'm sure there is something in there about not "subletting" your connection, so to speak. if that were the case, a dummy subletter (anonymous, of course, that pays with a pre-paid card through paypal or somesuch) would surely make anyone non-liable. maybe we're on to something...
portmanteau ftw!
and i JUST canceled starz from my cable service as it was available via netflix.
i say we switch to six 28-hour days.
I bought a Blu-ray player from there earlier this year (was on sale and cheaper than newegg/amazon). It was taped up in the "inspected by best buy" sticker tape. When I got home and set it up, I noticed the batteries were nowhere to be found. I called the store, and they said to come in; they'd give me some. I told them I wasn't wasting my time to go all the way back and wanted them to delivery them to me. Just as they got my address, my phone call dropped. I was too pissed to call them back. About a week later they arrived in the mail.
woot! + grats! = woots!
fine. let's fix the system. from now on, anything publicly subsidized will also be publicly profitable, in any industry. if you get any sort of government money while making money, the goverment gets a return on its investment, before you do. how about that?
isn't a huge part of why everyone bashes government in regards to its spending directly related to shit like this? why is it that, even without the wars, our military spending still goes up every year, even more than during the cold war? is it because contractors funnel money to congress to funnel even more back to their districts as 'jobs', many of which exist only to keep the cycle going? do we really need whatever that new jet is that they've been dumping billions into for the past decade? can any branch of the military really not do any of its own logistics?
i mean if we're so gung-ho about the government giving out money willy-nilly, where is the free health care, college-for-all and what-not? surely those are equally important for the preservation of our nation's future, right?
let's do it! which offices should be firebombed first?
because instead of having the military do their own r&d in-house and at cost, we waste billions on these third party crooks who are getting fat suckling the teet of our government. lockheed-martin, boeing, raytheon, et. al. can all die in a fire.