get more and more people to slow down airports with legal homemade electronics. it'd make me smile at the wholly retarded nature of the entire situation.
i agree, if you mean we should all benefit from government services, but nothing publicly subsidized should be privately profitable. if industries need the money so badly, perhaps the government should just buy-in and reap the rewards. for certain areas, like the military-industrial complex, i'd even let the government go all eminent domain. if we got rid of most of the ways that the government can funnel tax money into private industry, i'd imagine there'd be less backroom deals and greasy handshakes, which is definitely a step forward. it's about time we get our money's worth.
until they start broadcasting in 1080p, people won't getting the most out of what they have, so why, besides the manufacturers' greed, would they need to do this? sure, there are blu-rays and video games at 1080p, but how many cable/netlix/satellite/etc boxes are even doing 1080p right now?
perhaps they named the latest transformers movie "dark of the moon" only because they feared they'd get sued from pink floyd if they used "dark side of the moon". "dark of the moon" doesn't even sound appealing. "dark side", however, makes so much more sense.
is that the fbi has to contract out for this. all government agencies should be completely self-sufficient. none of these third party money grabs. this is where most of the government waste lies. all those industries jockeying for a piece of the pie while demonizing the poor and disheveled. this is the real problem. no one should profit of the government.
without the wars going on, we are still way over cold war era spending. all those businesses leeching of the government's teet, having their politicians funnel funds to useless, unneeded projects to keep useless, unneeded jobs, yet, at the same time, supporters of this kind of bullshit will still find the time to demonize the poor, who take far less in government handouts. pretty pathetic situation we have got going on.
it'll be okay for comsumer data storage, but if gets in the hands of media companies, they will fuck it up for sure. just look at blu-ray. here we could could put entire an entire tv season in dvd resolution (especially stuff that can never be made HD), plus how much physical space would that save if thin-packed, but no. even more-so with sd cards, but nooo. fucking. retards.
yuck! sorry to hear that. it won't be long until those are on the retail discs, too, just like the skippable ones used to be rare, then, after gaining rental share, moved on to the consumer space.
the problem is, they'd still think they deserve $20+ for that file. digital logistics are so much cheaper that the physical world of packaging/shipping/running a brick-n-mortar retailer, they're going to have to have much lower prices to reflect that. i'm sorry, but if they want me to buy a downloadable movie, it'll have to be like $1-2 for older stuff, maybe $5-7 for new releases. that is, of course, only if said files are drm-free, re-sellable, lendable, and up to current home theater standards (1080p being the current, not some 5-10mbps 720p stream).
netflix already pays for their own server bandwidth. so sick of the streaming companies getting blamed for the isps' customers' bandwidth usage. about all they could do is try to extort money from netflix.
gotta love those welfare recipients, i mean arms dealers, who milk the system for all its worth. at this point in history, the armed forced should certainly be consolidated doing all their own r&d and logistics, in-house. we need as little businesses as possible profiteering off the government. even without the current conflicts, we'd be still be spending more than we did in the cold war. it's so damn retarded. we could take all that extra money and do so many other things that actually benefit citizens. not this secret deals, friends come first circle jerk that is the military industrial complex. shut the whole thing down.
these online passes are nothing short of greed. if the purchase of a new game covers online play, then a used copy would not add to the overhead: it is the same disc. then again, its not surprising. hell, in 20 years, we will have to pay for every single individual listening/viewing/etc. of all media anyways. might as well start now.
obviously, there are some, but the odds and the money spent trying to prevent them is such an incredible waste compared to the many lives that could be saved if it was spent elsewhere. if terrorism was a real enough threat in the u.s., i'd expect to see one-off acts, specifically attributed to known entities, happening at least weekly in major cities (you know, like over there.../points to some 'hot spot' on a map). this is not happening, and i'd be hard-pressed to believe it was, in any sizable part, because of anything our security apparatus is up to. i surely will not count some small-time idiot getting into bed with undercover agents, who, upon supplying said individual with weapons, arrest him as a big bad terrorist, as relevant.
i do not plan on living until retirement so why the can't i opt out? my payments should only be going to an account for my retirement alone. of course, the system was fucked from the beginning, so it's not surprising that it is going to crumble completely a some point.
the problem is that there are no alternatives for online play other than PSN. that itself is the fucking problem. if overhead costs are the issue, the best answer is to allow for non-PSN services. hell, make the game developer or publisher run the services for each game. it' pretty retarded to prop up a walled garden, then complain about the costs that arise solely because of it.
if that "service" is a part of the game, as sold (i.e. online play), then it is not secondary at all. that has nothing to do with entitlement. if a game is sold with online play as a feature, it should work out of the box: used, new or otherwise.
i'll purchase movies via download when they are:
1. 1080p or whatever the standard is at that time
2. drm-free.
3. all resale/lending rights that'd i get with the physical
4. in the format of my choosing, definitely not some non-standard web-based player.
on top of those, it has to be much cheaper than the physical copy. digital distribution is much cheap than the logistics involved in packaging & shipping to a retail outlet (and the running of said outlet). if the middle man gets cut out, so should that chunk of the price.
all and all, for a movie in the current system (drmed and not necessarily up to spec, locked to specific players/websites, non-resellable), i'd pay $1 for older stuff and $3 for new releases. if they gave me all asked for above, i'd go $5-7/$10-15. Same day as theaters, $20. anything else is ridiculous.
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cs got lame the minute valve made it retail. it peaked in awesomeness somewhere around beta5-6.
get more and more people to slow down airports with legal homemade electronics. it'd make me smile at the wholly retarded nature of the entire situation.
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i agree, if you mean we should all benefit from government services, but nothing publicly subsidized should be privately profitable. if industries need the money so badly, perhaps the government should just buy-in and reap the rewards. for certain areas, like the military-industrial complex, i'd even let the government go all eminent domain. if we got rid of most of the ways that the government can funnel tax money into private industry, i'd imagine there'd be less backroom deals and greasy handshakes, which is definitely a step forward. it's about time we get our money's worth.
until they start broadcasting in 1080p, people won't getting the most out of what they have, so why, besides the manufacturers' greed, would they need to do this? sure, there are blu-rays and video games at 1080p, but how many cable/netlix/satellite/etc boxes are even doing 1080p right now?
or 21st Century Blocks (or Blox?), as they are building things in said century.
perhaps they named the latest transformers movie "dark of the moon" only because they feared they'd get sued from pink floyd if they used "dark side of the moon". "dark of the moon" doesn't even sound appealing. "dark side", however, makes so much more sense.
is that the fbi has to contract out for this. all government agencies should be completely self-sufficient. none of these third party money grabs. this is where most of the government waste lies. all those industries jockeying for a piece of the pie while demonizing the poor and disheveled. this is the real problem. no one should profit of the government.
without the wars going on, we are still way over cold war era spending. all those businesses leeching of the government's teet, having their politicians funnel funds to useless, unneeded projects to keep useless, unneeded jobs, yet, at the same time, supporters of this kind of bullshit will still find the time to demonize the poor, who take far less in government handouts. pretty pathetic situation we have got going on.
nah, just download them. you've already paid for the fucked up version, so they owe you the good version.
it'll be okay for comsumer data storage, but if gets in the hands of media companies, they will fuck it up for sure. just look at blu-ray. here we could could put entire an entire tv season in dvd resolution (especially stuff that can never be made HD), plus how much physical space would that save if thin-packed, but no. even more-so with sd cards, but nooo. fucking. retards.
yuck! sorry to hear that. it won't be long until those are on the retail discs, too, just like the skippable ones used to be rare, then, after gaining rental share, moved on to the consumer space.
the problem is, they'd still think they deserve $20+ for that file. digital logistics are so much cheaper that the physical world of packaging/shipping/running a brick-n-mortar retailer, they're going to have to have much lower prices to reflect that. i'm sorry, but if they want me to buy a downloadable movie, it'll have to be like $1-2 for older stuff, maybe $5-7 for new releases. that is, of course, only if said files are drm-free, re-sellable, lendable, and up to current home theater standards (1080p being the current, not some 5-10mbps 720p stream).
In the disc space they're competing with Blockbuster that's pretty competitive with them right now.
probably moreso with red box at this point.
netflix already pays for their own server bandwidth. so sick of the streaming companies getting blamed for the isps' customers' bandwidth usage. about all they could do is try to extort money from netflix.
gotta love those welfare recipients, i mean arms dealers, who milk the system for all its worth. at this point in history, the armed forced should certainly be consolidated doing all their own r&d and logistics, in-house. we need as little businesses as possible profiteering off the government. even without the current conflicts, we'd be still be spending more than we did in the cold war. it's so damn retarded. we could take all that extra money and do so many other things that actually benefit citizens. not this secret deals, friends come first circle jerk that is the military industrial complex. shut the whole thing down.
these online passes are nothing short of greed. if the purchase of a new game covers online play, then a used copy would not add to the overhead: it is the same disc. then again, its not surprising. hell, in 20 years, we will have to pay for every single individual listening/viewing/etc. of all media anyways. might as well start now.
obviously, there are some, but the odds and the money spent trying to prevent them is such an incredible waste compared to the many lives that could be saved if it was spent elsewhere. if terrorism was a real enough threat in the u.s., i'd expect to see one-off acts, specifically attributed to known entities, happening at least weekly in major cities (you know, like over there.../points to some 'hot spot' on a map). this is not happening, and i'd be hard-pressed to believe it was, in any sizable part, because of anything our security apparatus is up to. i surely will not count some small-time idiot getting into bed with undercover agents, who, upon supplying said individual with weapons, arrest him as a big bad terrorist, as relevant.
i do not plan on living until retirement so why the can't i opt out? my payments should only be going to an account for my retirement alone. of course, the system was fucked from the beginning, so it's not surprising that it is going to crumble completely a some point.
the problem is that there are no alternatives for online play other than PSN. that itself is the fucking problem. if overhead costs are the issue, the best answer is to allow for non-PSN services. hell, make the game developer or publisher run the services for each game. it' pretty retarded to prop up a walled garden, then complain about the costs that arise solely because of it.
if that "service" is a part of the game, as sold (i.e. online play), then it is not secondary at all. that has nothing to do with entitlement. if a game is sold with online play as a feature, it should work out of the box: used, new or otherwise.
i'll purchase movies via download when they are:
1. 1080p or whatever the standard is at that time
2. drm-free.
3. all resale/lending rights that'd i get with the physical
4. in the format of my choosing, definitely not some non-standard web-based player.
on top of those, it has to be much cheaper than the physical copy. digital distribution is much cheap than the logistics involved in packaging & shipping to a retail outlet (and the running of said outlet). if the middle man gets cut out, so should that chunk of the price.
all and all, for a movie in the current system (drmed and not necessarily up to spec, locked to specific players/websites, non-resellable), i'd pay $1 for older stuff and $3 for new releases. if they gave me all asked for above, i'd go $5-7/$10-15. Same day as theaters, $20. anything else is ridiculous.
this shit should have been commonplace 20 years ago. huury up with the cyborgs alreadY!!!
despite the fact that that's the worst sin a Christian could possibly commit (worse than mass murder).
with the exception of catholics, i'm pretty sure sin is binary.
^^this