Chode is a silly ambiguous word that means too many things in different regions/circles.
I've heard it used to describe:
1. According to you it means "girth" (girth is the correct word)
2. The skin between the balls and anus (taint)
3. A turd
Normally I flat-out disagree with arguments justifying piracy, or piracy as a protest, but yours is especially good. It doesn't suggest that you are doing it to protest, you are doing it as a personal fuck-you to the man.
And I'd really like to jump on your bandwagon, but after some critical thinking of my own, I see that you are only trying to justify piracy. So first-sale does not apply to video games any more. If its legal to do that (and right now it looks like it is, since they are doing it), then they have jacked up their price by the amount of money you would have sold it for. So your game costs 60$ now. And you don't want to pay that, so you are going to pirate it. You don't have to pirate it, but you want to play it, and you don't want to pay 60$. You are a pirate.
Trying to make sense of this, real numbers may have made your point better, so let's see how your argument looks with them, substituting 50 for x and 20 for y.
Actually, he'll just buy less often. The price of a new game is 50. The expected return when it is sold on the second-hand market is 20. Then the cost to the customer is (50-20)=30. If you eliminate the second-hand market, then you have effectively jacked up the price of your game by 20. That will put off customers, who will therefore buy fewer games. Until you cut prices by, oh, about 20, leaving you right back where you started.
The publishers are being paid for second-hand sales, because the existence of a second-hand market allows them to charge more for a new product than they could otherwise.
OK I see what you're saying now. Good argument, though I don't see why you avoided using real world values since they are pretty well established.
I'd guess it's so that if it jumps up and rests at an angle, that downward pressure of road traffic or gravity is much more likely to push it back in if it's round than if it's square.
What's the right answer?
I'm fine with schemes like this provided the ISP makes it perfectly clear and obvious when you sign up what your download limitations are and the costs of running over. This allows consumers to make an educated choice about which provider they want to use.
Most customers have no idea what 50GB or 150GB monthly caps would mean. I definitely wouldn't expect my mom to be able to make an educated choice about usage caps.
Hell, I'm good with PCs and I don't know how much bandwidth I would need in a month. How many people would really know how much bandwidth they use when you consider flash advertisements, youtube, etc.?
IMHO, white boy is offensive. It is a degrading term, much more so than the official "Honky", but it's much more acceptable also. Spanish variation "Blanco" is also degrading.
I know that PC states that white people can't be offended by racism, but if you one day find yourself in the wrong place and someone randomly calls you white boy, prepare yourself for an ass-whooping, because its not meant to be friendly.
Nevertheless, censorship is bad.
f vendors didn't intentionally cripple their devices in firmware then hackers wouldn't have to crack the firmware to enable homebrew development on these platforms. both the vendor and the homebrew developers' time and resources could be better spent on improving the platform rather than participating in this fruitless arms race. and often it's homebrew developers that add more value to a system through CFW than the official firmware updates that just cripple the system.
Yes homebrewer's time could be used better, but you've failed to acknowledge that Sony has little interest in ignoring something that allows pirating games, and that will ultimately cost them money. Because Sony sells hardware at a loss, it's the games that bring them income. Homebrew applications may add value for the consumer, but any benefit from geek appeal will be outweighed by losses. People would rather play free games than expensive ones, atleast from Sony's perspective.
You go to wikipedia for the definition, and then criticize wikipedia for not being reliable.
If you personally consider wikipedia to be a good source for the definition of goodwill, then don't denounce it, appreciate it.
Every bittorrent client I've ever used has easy to set upstream and downstream limits. Simply set your upstream and downstream to 65% and 75% of you're max connection and you'll never be slowed down.
I hope they include a way to disable this feature, or password-protect it. I don't want my kid to have anonymous unaccountable internet access, (thought I'd definitely want to use it myself).
I fell for this trick, as did alot of the people in my office, but there are some important points before you reinforce your "ignorant military" stereotype.
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But did taxes go down in Alberta after the sale? Doubt it.
Chode is a silly ambiguous word that means too many things in different regions/circles.
I've heard it used to describe:
1. According to you it means "girth" (girth is the correct word)
2. The skin between the balls and anus (taint)
3. A turd
How about the other 50% just evolve themselves tighter vaginas
Normally I flat-out disagree with arguments justifying piracy, or piracy as a protest, but yours is especially good. It doesn't suggest that you are doing it to protest, you are doing it as a personal fuck-you to the man.
And I'd really like to jump on your bandwagon, but after some critical thinking of my own, I see that you are only trying to justify piracy. So first-sale does not apply to video games any more. If its legal to do that (and right now it looks like it is, since they are doing it), then they have jacked up their price by the amount of money you would have sold it for. So your game costs 60$ now. And you don't want to pay that, so you are going to pirate it. You don't have to pirate it, but you want to play it, and you don't want to pay 60$. You are a pirate.
Actually, he'll just buy less often. The price of a new game is 50. The expected return when it is sold on the second-hand market is 20. Then the cost to the customer is (50-20)=30. If you eliminate the second-hand market, then you have effectively jacked up the price of your game by 20. That will put off customers, who will therefore buy fewer games. Until you cut prices by, oh, about 20, leaving you right back where you started.
The publishers are being paid for second-hand sales, because the existence of a second-hand market allows them to charge more for a new product than they could otherwise.
OK I see what you're saying now. Good argument, though I don't see why you avoided using real world values since they are pretty well established.
I'd guess it's so that if it jumps up and rests at an angle, that downward pressure of road traffic or gravity is much more likely to push it back in if it's round than if it's square. What's the right answer?
I'm fine with schemes like this provided the ISP makes it perfectly clear and obvious when you sign up what your download limitations are and the costs of running over. This allows consumers to make an educated choice about which provider they want to use.
Most customers have no idea what 50GB or 150GB monthly caps would mean. I definitely wouldn't expect my mom to be able to make an educated choice about usage caps.
Hell, I'm good with PCs and I don't know how much bandwidth I would need in a month. How many people would really know how much bandwidth they use when you consider flash advertisements, youtube, etc.?
IMHO, white boy is offensive. It is a degrading term, much more so than the official "Honky", but it's much more acceptable also. Spanish variation "Blanco" is also degrading. I know that PC states that white people can't be offended by racism, but if you one day find yourself in the wrong place and someone randomly calls you white boy, prepare yourself for an ass-whooping, because its not meant to be friendly. Nevertheless, censorship is bad.
f vendors didn't intentionally cripple their devices in firmware then hackers wouldn't have to crack the firmware to enable homebrew development on these platforms. both the vendor and the homebrew developers' time and resources could be better spent on improving the platform rather than participating in this fruitless arms race. and often it's homebrew developers that add more value to a system through CFW than the official firmware updates that just cripple the system.
Yes homebrewer's time could be used better, but you've failed to acknowledge that Sony has little interest in ignoring something that allows pirating games, and that will ultimately cost them money. Because Sony sells hardware at a loss, it's the games that bring them income. Homebrew applications may add value for the consumer, but any benefit from geek appeal will be outweighed by losses. People would rather play free games than expensive ones, atleast from Sony's perspective.
You go to wikipedia for the definition, and then criticize wikipedia for not being reliable. If you personally consider wikipedia to be a good source for the definition of goodwill, then don't denounce it, appreciate it.
Didn't Aliens TC get cease and desisted? I remember looking for a download of it years ago and everyone was afraid to host it. Was it completed?
Of course, if Windows hibernation operated anything like Linux hibernation, it would work a lot better.
Except, Linux hibernation has never worked for me, ever.
No link to some of these alternative news sources?
he was so convincing that I assumed that the human being with whom I was simultaneously conversing was a computer
Am I the only one who read this and thought that it doesn't make any sense? Don't really want to nitpick but it's completely illogical, and just s.
Good point if you do in fact get 90%.
However, each time I have experienced being throttled by an ISP, the punishment has been severe.
So this only hurts the dumb.
Every bittorrent client I've ever used has easy to set upstream and downstream limits. Simply set your upstream and downstream to 65% and 75% of you're max connection and you'll never be slowed down.
Yes.. but you can't have the entire functionality. As you've said, it can _read_ Office 2007. So you would have a good argument if it was true.
Other programs offered to treat PTSD include Virtual Airplane, Virtual Audiences, Virtual Heights, Virtual Storm, and Virtual Vietnam."
I'm pretty sure that if if you have PTSD from falling great distances, you have alot more to worry about than PTSD.
I hope they include a way to disable this feature, or password-protect it. I don't want my kid to have anonymous unaccountable internet access, (thought I'd definitely want to use it myself).
The story is about international borders. I think shipping clothes and shampoo by international air would be prohibitively costly.
Perhaps more than that even
But the malicious link poster was not an AC..
Or did he post as AC and then get revealed because he posted a malicious link?
Now if it would just stop asking me for my key-ring password every time it wants to go wireless...
I fell for this trick, as did alot of the people in my office, but there are some important points before you reinforce your "ignorant military" stereotype.