The problem is that the real thing is so much more time consuming and boring. You remember one of the Matrix movies showed Trinity using nmap? It was on screen for about 0.75 seconds, because using nmap is really, really tedious if you're not into that kind of thing.
How does this sound for action packed fun: "We need to get hold of his laptop and pull out the hard disk drive. We can then mount it as a slave and wait for 6 hours while it takes an image of the entire contents, then put it back in his laptops. From there, we can mount the image in a read only state and use a tool to brute force the encrypted partition key. It should take around 8 years."
Or "He has a 2048 bit encryption! We need to hack all of the code walls with a GUI worm!"
... significant means "statistically significant" i.e. there was a correlation. "Significant" doesn't mean large, great, or disasterous. Too often mainstream press will pressure the reader into assuming it means something more than this.
I have a friend who works in natural resource trading. He lives in a world where 10% of the workforce are fired every year for the most trivial of technicalities, simply because it opens up positions to new talent.
First against the wall is definitely the state of affairs, but not in the way you think. Ever wonder why traders burn out so young?
In most countries $SomethingNotTypicalOfNormalDrivingBehaviour is a signal to oncoming motorists that they are approaching a hazard. The accepted sign in the UK Highway Code is an arm extended out of driver's window, waved up and down. For oncoming traffic, though, it's better to not extend your arm fully.
Iodine 131 has a half life of 8 days, caesium 137 is 30 years. 20 seconds in Wikipedia would have told you that. As you got these two basic facts wrong, I'm not reading the rest of your post. Your ignorance is no better than big media's malevolence, so kindly STFU.
I don't know about $700, but I bought an 8800GTX when they were top of the range at £320 ($640 at the time). It's been 5 years since then, and I can play Bioshock 2, Crysis, CoD:MW2, Prototype, loads of games which came out in the past year (hell, month) at native 1920x1200 at over 40fps (I'd call it a day at 30). I'm probably upgrading at the end of the year when CPUs are due to scale down to 22nm, but before then I'm still rocking a 5 year old gaming system.
I have an Accelero Xtreme cooler on my 8800GTX; Very hot card. Runs at 60C under load with the fans inaudible over my case fans. I do have a Corsair H70 CPU cooler which warbles a little, but it's enclosed so no maintenance.
There are good aftermarket coolers which aren't water... With some high airflow fans pointed at the Accelero I've no doubt I could make it a passive cooler. I won't try until I upgrade, though... No point ruining the card if it fails.
Exactly the same here, with three that come to mind immediately. I watched House, Mad Men, and Fringe online from video streaming sites first. For Fringe, I got half way through the first season before I bought the Series 1 box set. For House and Mad Men, it was one episode.
As I don't watch TV at all, I would never have been exposed to these shows, and the companies which produced them would have missed out on upwards of £300 of my money so far. I'll be buying the next series of all of them when they come out, too.
Obviously there are opposite situations to this, but good luck returning a DVD because you think the movie sucked.
Absolutely! At no point did I say that copyright infringement doesn't affect the sale of media by artists or their publishers, and the money they make from it.
Oh, wait a minute... Looking at MPAA figures for movie ticket sales, from 1995 to 2010 revenue has steadily increased. http://www.the-numbers.com/market/
To address your final sentence, I expect content to be produced the same way it should always have been; By people who create content because they must do it, because it is what drives them and what fulfils their lives. We need distinctly less JLS's, Britney Spears', and other manufactured and bulk produced filler in the music market. We need less re-hashes of good old films with more explosions and CGI effects just to cash in on the brand. Art should be created for passion, not profit. People will pay for what is worthy of payment.
Disclaimer: I haven't downloaded unlicensed copyrighted media for many years, and ended up buying licensed copies of what I downloaded anyway. Last album I downloaded was Master of Puppets; I've since bought the entire back catalogue of Metallica (excluding St Anger. What were they thinking?). That was after they performed the whole album at Download in 2006.
A shoplifter deprives the store of property, which it then is unable to sell. A person who downloads unlicensed media deprives nobody of anything. There is no guarantee that the person would have bought the media had it not been available online. There is no such thing as a potential sale, or potential profit.
Rockstar North (responsible for the GTA franchise) are based in Scotland. Over this side of the Atlantic, we can appreciate satire. I don't see a lot of it in the American shows televised here (although admittedly I don't watch many). Could be that.
Because idiot parents will buy this for their 10 year old, and they will promptly "attitude adjust" a girl in their class. As is usual, the content of the game will be blamed for corrupting the youth of today, and the parent will get some free airtime talking about how she didn't know the game would be like that. It'll somehow be linked to extremism or a latent desire to commit homicide, and (mostly) mature adults will be left playing Happy Rainbow Pony Fair Ground Ride XVI and watching the god damn Teletubbies.
If you can't get Angry Birds on the phone you're recommending, you're not going to win anyone over.
Jo Sixpack / Jane Peroxide don't care about your open platform. They don't care about homebrew, tracking, licensing, DRM, locked bootloaders ("Is that like a shoehorn?") or any other of that stuff which matters to you and me. They want to play Scrabble and update their bookface status with twatter. Don't kid yourself that it's any different.
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"Heheh, you said nuclear. It's nucular, dummy! The S is silent." - Peter Griffin.
We don't have to, however our inaction just makes it seem we're happy to let them.
The problem is that the real thing is so much more time consuming and boring. You remember one of the Matrix movies showed Trinity using nmap? It was on screen for about 0.75 seconds, because using nmap is really, really tedious if you're not into that kind of thing.
How does this sound for action packed fun: "We need to get hold of his laptop and pull out the hard disk drive. We can then mount it as a slave and wait for 6 hours while it takes an image of the entire contents, then put it back in his laptops. From there, we can mount the image in a read only state and use a tool to brute force the encrypted partition key. It should take around 8 years."
Or "He has a 2048 bit encryption! We need to hack all of the code walls with a GUI worm!"
... significant means "statistically significant" i.e. there was a correlation. "Significant" doesn't mean large, great, or disasterous. Too often mainstream press will pressure the reader into assuming it means something more than this.
Pravda is Russian for "Truth". It doesn't get much more damning.
I have a friend who works in natural resource trading. He lives in a world where 10% of the workforce are fired every year for the most trivial of technicalities, simply because it opens up positions to new talent.
First against the wall is definitely the state of affairs, but not in the way you think. Ever wonder why traders burn out so young?
In most countries $SomethingNotTypicalOfNormalDrivingBehaviour is a signal to oncoming motorists that they are approaching a hazard. The accepted sign in the UK Highway Code is an arm extended out of driver's window, waved up and down. For oncoming traffic, though, it's better to not extend your arm fully.
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Iodine 131 has a half life of 8 days, caesium 137 is 30 years. 20 seconds in Wikipedia would have told you that. As you got these two basic facts wrong, I'm not reading the rest of your post. Your ignorance is no better than big media's malevolence, so kindly STFU.
I don't know about $700, but I bought an 8800GTX when they were top of the range at £320 ($640 at the time). It's been 5 years since then, and I can play Bioshock 2, Crysis, CoD:MW2, Prototype, loads of games which came out in the past year (hell, month) at native 1920x1200 at over 40fps (I'd call it a day at 30). I'm probably upgrading at the end of the year when CPUs are due to scale down to 22nm, but before then I'm still rocking a 5 year old gaming system.
I have an Accelero Xtreme cooler on my 8800GTX; Very hot card. Runs at 60C under load with the fans inaudible over my case fans. I do have a Corsair H70 CPU cooler which warbles a little, but it's enclosed so no maintenance.
There are good aftermarket coolers which aren't water... With some high airflow fans pointed at the Accelero I've no doubt I could make it a passive cooler. I won't try until I upgrade, though... No point ruining the card if it fails.
In other news, pirates are moving to other less trackable networks or methods.
Dude.
First rule.
I get the feeling that the days of being in public and anonymous are coming to an end.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=guy+fawkes+mask
Exactly the same here, with three that come to mind immediately. I watched House, Mad Men, and Fringe online from video streaming sites first. For Fringe, I got half way through the first season before I bought the Series 1 box set. For House and Mad Men, it was one episode.
As I don't watch TV at all, I would never have been exposed to these shows, and the companies which produced them would have missed out on upwards of £300 of my money so far. I'll be buying the next series of all of them when they come out, too.
Obviously there are opposite situations to this, but good luck returning a DVD because you think the movie sucked.
Absolutely! At no point did I say that copyright infringement doesn't affect the sale of media by artists or their publishers, and the money they make from it.
Oh, wait a minute... Looking at MPAA figures for movie ticket sales, from 1995 to 2010 revenue has steadily increased. http://www.the-numbers.com/market/
It seems that the music industry is doing pretty well too. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/mar/12/demise-music-industry-facts
To address your final sentence, I expect content to be produced the same way it should always have been; By people who create content because they must do it, because it is what drives them and what fulfils their lives. We need distinctly less JLS's, Britney Spears', and other manufactured and bulk produced filler in the music market. We need less re-hashes of good old films with more explosions and CGI effects just to cash in on the brand. Art should be created for passion, not profit. People will pay for what is worthy of payment.
Disclaimer: I haven't downloaded unlicensed copyrighted media for many years, and ended up buying licensed copies of what I downloaded anyway. Last album I downloaded was Master of Puppets; I've since bought the entire back catalogue of Metallica (excluding St Anger. What were they thinking?). That was after they performed the whole album at Download in 2006.
I lose patience writing this over and over again.
A shoplifter deprives the store of property, which it then is unable to sell. A person who downloads unlicensed media deprives nobody of anything. There is no guarantee that the person would have bought the media had it not been available online. There is no such thing as a potential sale, or potential profit.
I see your "artists are losing money" and raise you an "artists were never making money in the first place, media conglomerates were".
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/print.html
Does this make them liable for content which crosses their network?
It all comes down to "Squeaky wheel gets the oil."
Small clarification; The game is about killing aliens, not people.
How many of them are actually insane enough actually imitate the violence and try it on others?
One. Then, Fox News will get hold of the story, and it'll be the second coming of Pol Pot. Don't pretend it won't happen.
That sound you're hearing is the Whoooosh! of a low-flying aircraft, with unencrypted transponders.
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What could possibly go wrong?"
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Rockstar North (responsible for the GTA franchise) are based in Scotland. Over this side of the Atlantic, we can appreciate satire. I don't see a lot of it in the American shows televised here (although admittedly I don't watch many). Could be that.
Because idiot parents will buy this for their 10 year old, and they will promptly "attitude adjust" a girl in their class. As is usual, the content of the game will be blamed for corrupting the youth of today, and the parent will get some free airtime talking about how she didn't know the game would be like that. It'll somehow be linked to extremism or a latent desire to commit homicide, and (mostly) mature adults will be left playing Happy Rainbow Pony Fair Ground Ride XVI and watching the god damn Teletubbies.
So you're telling me that the Bible pretty much states "Nuke them from orbit"?
If you can't get Angry Birds on the phone you're recommending, you're not going to win anyone over.
Jo Sixpack / Jane Peroxide don't care about your open platform. They don't care about homebrew, tracking, licensing, DRM, locked bootloaders ("Is that like a shoehorn?") or any other of that stuff which matters to you and me. They want to play Scrabble and update their bookface status with twatter. Don't kid yourself that it's any different.