I am sure the government will start laying off policemen when organized crime starts laying off criminals, and laying off teachers when families start laying off children...
Yeah but the Woz started his carreeer making devices which allowed people to make free calls (i.e. on the phone company's expense), so that is just his modus operandi.
Yes, because keeping dev tools up to date, setting up your own online store, contracts with CC companies, hosting and bandwidth etc. would cost $nothing... how can Apple take a cut for providing something that is probably free?
Really? You can load anything you want on a Zune? Or an XBox 360? Or are you thinking of Windows, in which case the equivalent would be Macs where you can run anything you like. Heck they even supply XCode for free which is more feature-rich than the free version of Visual Studio.
Still way less than e.g. Nintendo's cut for DS (and perhaps DSi) software, which is what most people compare it to.
It is a device with a built-in store. That is worth quite a lot in the "customer presence" stakes, it does not help that running your own store with a CC processor deal if the customer has to go through fricking hoops when it comes to access, buy, download and install the software, for instance. Selling for 70% of $1000 beats not selling squat or getting 98% of $100.
Yeah, eBooks are wise in porting their client to every hand-held platform out there; the books I bought to read on my Palm Vx back in the day can be read on my "iTouch" now.
The people who buy gold are people who value their time.
If they valued their time they would not be playing WoW. I mean, first they buy a computer game, then they start paying a monthly fee, and then they pay even more money to avoid experiencing the content in the game they bought... it does not make any sense.
Botting and power-leveling to 80 so that you wipe the first raid you join because you have not learned to actually play your character? Bypassing the casual content so that you can grind the "game-as-a-job" raid game does not make sense if you "value your time".
But frequently cracked versions appear BEFORE the product is available in stores, because of cheap labour in the replication plants that adds to their income by selling it to the crackers before they hit the stores.
Again: DRM is snake oil because it adds an inconvenience for the paying customer that the non-paying customer is spared.
You do not get it and are pulling numbers from your ass:
1) DRM is ALWAYS cracked at some point.
2) You only need ONE cracked copy to get on the internet, then everyone will have access to it. At that point the DRM is worthless as a means to prevent copying since anyone can download it for free and do not need to make a copy of someone else's purchased (legal) copy.
3) DRM is usually intrusive, and thus represent an inconvenience. This inconvenience is only experienced by honest customers, while freeloaders who get hassle-free copies gratis are the benefactors of the whole sorry mess.
And DRM solutions are usually licensed from some snake-oil salesman from a third party and thus ADDs cost to the product anyway.
Ah, first it's the ISP. But should not restaurants provide food for free to the investigators as well? Free cab rides? Where does it end? Will you be willing to pay extra to a hundred different businesses to "save your child"? And should the childless be excempt?
And so your child grows, and becomes a teen, and one day the 16-year old comes crying home because she thought it would be fun to take a nude photo of herself and she showed it to someone and they called the police and now she was charged with manufacturing and possessing child porn and would probably end up in a register of sex offenders... will you still be loving your Big Brother?
No, because child pornography has a VERY much wider definition than what you and others believe. The definition generally covers any person under the age of 18, so a 17 year old using her phone's camera to send an "erotic" snap to her boyfriend is guilty of producing and distributing child porn, and the boyfriend becomes guilty of possessing child porn. Ref. a recent case in the U.S. involving teens sending lurid photos of themselves to each other.
Some coutries also add text, drawings etc. to the definition, so that e.g. the Munch Museum in Oslo should have been charged with "possession" because of the "Puberty" painting...
No children necessarily abused. But plenty of teens wrecked by the law since their coy playing brands them as sex offenders for the rest of their lives...
But shouldn't we require better assurance than that?
The doomsayers have grabbed onto this idea of horrible black holes, but the proof that these will even appear are from the same scientists that try to convince them that any black holes, in the unlikely case they will appear, will be harmless. "Assurance" seems to be a requirement directed at only one side of the fence while the other is free to do its unscientific fantasizing without any need to provide actual proof.
I mean after they have proven that the Earth will not be swallowed by a black hole when they perform the experiments, what next?
Prove that a dimensional gate will not open, letting in Yog-Sothoth from the great beyond.
Prove that the collision will not exterminate the (ultra-rare) unicorns.
Prove that the collider doesn't employ Goa'uld technology.
It never ends.
Meanwhile, said doomsayers carry mobile phones in their pockets even though it hasn't been proven that the radiation doesn't cause infertility and cancer. They drive cars even though the probability of getting killed that way is many orders of maginitude higher than the black hole forming hypothesis...
No proof? Several ex-farmers from the Maldives would like to drag you to their farms and dip your silly head in the sea flooding over where they used to farm. The people of Greenland and other plaves with glaciers would like to invite you to observe how ancient ice is receding until there's just some dirty snow left. Maybe you would like some polar bears in your back yard? They can no longer hunt the way they have done for millennia because the ice they use as "ground" then hunting seal is no longer there.
Actually, if I recall correctly some countries back in the day did have the death penalty for attempted suicide because it was considered a major sin to try and kill yourself...
Successfully bleeding to death from slitting your wrists beats being torn apart by wild horses (or whatever crazy shit they thought up) though.
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... with a bow and arrow, no less, not these new-fangled guns...
I am sure the government will start laying off policemen when organized crime starts laying off criminals, and laying off teachers when families start laying off children...
"awesome!"
... such as?
MMS is not a "basic feature" it is a hack for low-bandwith, no-email-client phones.
Yeah but the Woz started his carreeer making devices which allowed people to make free calls (i.e. on the phone company's expense), so that is just his modus operandi.
Yes, because keeping dev tools up to date, setting up your own online store, contracts with CC companies, hosting and bandwidth etc. would cost $nothing... how can Apple take a cut for providing something that is probably free?
Really? You can load anything you want on a Zune? Or an XBox 360? Or are you thinking of Windows, in which case the equivalent would be Macs where you can run anything you like. Heck they even supply XCode for free which is more feature-rich than the free version of Visual Studio.
Still way less than e.g. Nintendo's cut for DS (and perhaps DSi) software, which is what most people compare it to.
It is a device with a built-in store. That is worth quite a lot in the "customer presence" stakes, it does not help that running your own store with a CC processor deal if the customer has to go through fricking hoops when it comes to access, buy, download and install the software, for instance. Selling for 70% of $1000 beats not selling squat or getting 98% of $100.
Easy for developer, easy for customer, win-win.
Well, formally that was an (AC/DC) EP. Now, Thin Lizzy's on the other hand...
Yeah, eBooks are wise in porting their client to every hand-held platform out there; the books I bought to read on my Palm Vx back in the day can be read on my "iTouch" now.
Um, just to point out: All IP laws (copyright, patents, trademarks) are "the government meddling in the market".
If they valued their time they would not be playing WoW. I mean, first they buy a computer game, then they start paying a monthly fee, and then they pay even more money to avoid experiencing the content in the game they bought... it does not make any sense.
Botting and power-leveling to 80 so that you wipe the first raid you join because you have not learned to actually play your character? Bypassing the casual content so that you can grind the "game-as-a-job" raid game does not make sense if you "value your time".
But frequently cracked versions appear BEFORE the product is available in stores, because of cheap labour in the replication plants that adds to their income by selling it to the crackers before they hit the stores.
Again: DRM is snake oil because it adds an inconvenience for the paying customer that the non-paying customer is spared.
You do not get it and are pulling numbers from your ass:
1) DRM is ALWAYS cracked at some point.
2) You only need ONE cracked copy to get on the internet, then everyone will have access to it. At that point the DRM is worthless as a means to prevent copying since anyone can download it for free and do not need to make a copy of someone else's purchased (legal) copy.
3) DRM is usually intrusive, and thus represent an inconvenience. This inconvenience is only experienced by honest customers, while freeloaders who get hassle-free copies gratis are the benefactors of the whole sorry mess.
And DRM solutions are usually licensed from some snake-oil salesman from a third party and thus ADDs cost to the product anyway.
[citation needed]
This lecture will self-destruct in five seconds...
Silly Ajax mod system, I accidentally selected "Funny" instead of "Informative". Posting to cancel that wrong mod...
Ah, first it's the ISP. But should not restaurants provide food for free to the investigators as well? Free cab rides? Where does it end? Will you be willing to pay extra to a hundred different businesses to "save your child"? And should the childless be excempt?
And so your child grows, and becomes a teen, and one day the 16-year old comes crying home because she thought it would be fun to take a nude photo of herself and she showed it to someone and they called the police and now she was charged with manufacturing and possessing child porn and would probably end up in a register of sex offenders... will you still be loving your Big Brother?
No, because child pornography has a VERY much wider definition than what you and others believe. The definition generally covers any person under the age of 18, so a 17 year old using her phone's camera to send an "erotic" snap to her boyfriend is guilty of producing and distributing child porn, and the boyfriend becomes guilty of possessing child porn. Ref. a recent case in the U.S. involving teens sending lurid photos of themselves to each other.
Some coutries also add text, drawings etc. to the definition, so that e.g. the Munch Museum in Oslo should have been charged with "possession" because of the "Puberty" painting...
No children necessarily abused. But plenty of teens wrecked by the law since their coy playing brands them as sex offenders for the rest of their lives...
The doomsayers have grabbed onto this idea of horrible black holes, but the proof that these will even appear are from the same scientists that try to convince them that any black holes, in the unlikely case they will appear, will be harmless. "Assurance" seems to be a requirement directed at only one side of the fence while the other is free to do its unscientific fantasizing without any need to provide actual proof.
I mean after they have proven that the Earth will not be swallowed by a black hole when they perform the experiments, what next?
Prove that a dimensional gate will not open, letting in Yog-Sothoth from the great beyond.
Prove that the collision will not exterminate the (ultra-rare) unicorns.
Prove that the collider doesn't employ Goa'uld technology.
It never ends.
Meanwhile, said doomsayers carry mobile phones in their pockets even though it hasn't been proven that the radiation doesn't cause infertility and cancer. They drive cars even though the probability of getting killed that way is many orders of maginitude higher than the black hole forming hypothesis...
No proof? Several ex-farmers from the Maldives would like to drag you to their farms and dip your silly head in the sea flooding over where they used to farm. The people of Greenland and other plaves with glaciers would like to invite you to observe how ancient ice is receding until there's just some dirty snow left. Maybe you would like some polar bears in your back yard? They can no longer hunt the way they have done for millennia because the ice they use as "ground" then hunting seal is no longer there.
Or you can wake the fuck up.
To send, or to receive?
Aren't people who think of children considered perverts? BURN @ STAKE!
Actually, if I recall correctly some countries back in the day did have the death penalty for attempted suicide because it was considered a major sin to try and kill yourself...
Successfully bleeding to death from slitting your wrists beats being torn apart by wild horses (or whatever crazy shit they thought up) though.
So is the commandment to be fruitful, yet there are no laws mandating married couples to produce children.
Conclusion: Marriage is a secular social institution and religions are full of poo.