This is a trend which I personally find revolting, but apparently the rest of the world is quite content to trade their valuable intellectual property for 3 seconds of fame. I think it's the reality show syndrome gone to absurd extremes. I've seen numerous companies asking for people to submit their art, their songs, their recipes, their inventions, and they might be the lucky submitter who sees their creation used in a national media blitz. What do the contestants receive? The possibility of seeing their creation used in a national media blitz. Thanks for the free design, now go away, we have money to make.
These same companies would sue you blind if you used their intellectual property without paying a huge royalty, yet some people seem eager to give them free content for essentially nothing in return. I can only hope it's a passing fad.
Absolutely, and it's one of the reasons (the other is DRM) I will not currently purchase music online. Formats change, and if you start with a lossy format, the next format change will wreck your music. You may not be able to tell the difference between lossy and lossless right now on your first generation AAC or MP3 file, but when you've run that thing through a couple more converters in the next 10 years it WILL sound like crap. Your only option then will be to buy new source and that is the reason you will not see lossless download. The music cartel wants to sell you a new format every few years.
I felt kind of bad after writing that reply, it was just the first thing to came to mind. I went and downloaded the demo for Democracy, I figured I should check it out. I owed you at least that much. Interesting take on the government sim. I don't know if I'd use it as evidence for anything in the real world though, since the relationships between policies and outcomes are designed using your views on how the world works rather than a true model. Not that such a model is even possible, humans are fickle creatures. I found it interesting that when I lowered the limits on handguns from Strict Control to Licensed that you Brits turned into a bunch of homicidal maniacs. And I never could please those damn environmentalists.:P
Anyway, it does look like an interesting game. Unfortunately I'm not in the position to spend any money on computer games at the moment, though I do applaud your indie efforts.
Are we talking about "can't pay" or "don't want to pay"? Perhaps if the person I was replying to would check facts instead of speaking through his anus and using this as just another opportunity to bash the US he'd know that we do have Medicare/Medicaid for those who need it. Despite the problems those systems have, they do exist and plenty of people do use them.
The original question posted indicates that this person runs a business, and does make money, and therefore can afford healthcare. Does Australia provide healthcare for anybody that wants it, regardless of income? If not, then his answer is off topic and deserving of nothing more than to be trolled.
Either way you're being a douchebag and jumping on the bash America bandwagon with him.
What does unemployment pay over there? I'm pretty lazy and don't really care for the whole "job" thing. How much would I take in per year in Australia if I just moved in and didn't work?
I haven't played your game. It might be quite good for all I know. But why does it seem every time I see you post, you're whoring your software and trying to work it into the conversation somehow?
At least all they did was use a picture of a foreign car. I guess they couldn't figure out how to photoshop smoldering compact cars and dozens of missiles and keep it believable.
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At least the 20 year old can use inexperience as an excuse. The 50 year old should know better.
I haven't bought a CD in years, I will never purchase DRM infested garbage online. I don't go to theaters anymore, and it's been a long time since I bought a DVD. I'm about to cancel my cable TV because, well, TV sucks.
I imagine the media industry includes people like me in the figures about how piracy is affecting business. I have on my To Do list an item about writing to my representatives explaining why I am no longer a media consumer, and copying it to major media companies. Not that I expect it to make a difference, but it's really the only thing I can do.
SWG attempted it, but failed miserably. They had some of the concepts such as player run cities, a deep crafting system and player run stores and malls. Unfortunately they also included a grind which started as a skill grind, then became the jedi grind. They also had a severe lack of content. They got the sandbox built, but didn't give people enough toys to keep them playing there.
[blockquote]You know what that is? That's the point in a journey where it's harder to go back to the beginning than to continue on to the end. It's like when those astronauts got in trouble when they were going to the moon. Somebody messed up or something and they had to get them back to Earth but first they had to go around the moon. They were out of contact for hours. Everybody waited breathlessly to see if a bunch of dead guys in a can would pop out the other side.[/blockquote]You're not about to go shoot up a fast food joint, are you?
There's a fitness "game" on the Xbox, my wife actually uses it. She finds it more interesting than doing the same exact fitness DVD over and over and over. I wouldn't be surprised to see it on the Wii with enhanced features.
There's your fatal flaw. The bible has changed throughout history. Books added, taken away. Various kings changed it, in more recent history the mormons added books I believe. There are numerous translations, since most people don't speak Aramaic. It was written by dozens and dozens of authors and cobbled into a book as ancient texts were found and people saw fit to include or exclude text. It does not exist in the exact form it did 2000 years ago and as such any interpretation of it as though it were would be wrong. So in fact, the fundamentalists are the ones who are incorrectly hanging on to the past.
As for Christians distinguishing themselves from bad people, do you distinguish yourself from everybody guilty of bad acts? Assuming you are an American, do you call yourself an American? Or do you call yourself something else to distinguish yourself from Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, and the KKK? If not you're being hypocritical to expect Christians to do so.
You said that the bible must be taken literally or else discarded completely. Beyond that, I'm not sure what your point was, and your attempt to further my analogy really doesn't make any sense. The book is not called "Contains gold-ish content---really, trust me! Or else!" it's called "The Bible" and the title in no way serves as instructions on how to use the information contained therein. That some people have chosen to use it as a factual reference book while others have chosen to use it as an example of how to be a good person does not give one group a monopoly on the term 'Christian'.
When there is disagreement by judges on the interpretation of a law (something written far more recently than 2,000 years ago mind you) do we discard our entire system and fall back to anarchy until we can start from scratch and build a new set of laws? Do we have to find a new term to refer to those judges who disagree with the fundamentalist judges?
I guess weak fabrics and cheap construction just weren't forcing us to replace our clothes often enough. Now they're going to make our clothes technologically obsolete every 6 months.
"I'm sorry sir, your shirt is not compatible with Windows Vista, and we no longer support Windows XP."
Hosting servers in every city? That's a great answer for a handful of companies. Unless you're the scale of Blizzard or Microsoft, that's just not an option. Small projects simply don't have the revenue or client base to support millions of dollars in monthly server farm costs. Even somewhat successful projects like EVE Online which has over 100,000 users last I heard is based on a single server. (Multiple physical servers obviously, but all users use are in a single universe)
You say look at internet2? I say the same. If people want a network where certain traffic gets priority they should start internet3 and sell it to people who expect it. What they should not do is take a resource which people have built their businesses and lives around and completely change the way it operates.
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This is a trend which I personally find revolting, but apparently the rest of the world is quite content to trade their valuable intellectual property for 3 seconds of fame. I think it's the reality show syndrome gone to absurd extremes. I've seen numerous companies asking for people to submit their art, their songs, their recipes, their inventions, and they might be the lucky submitter who sees their creation used in a national media blitz. What do the contestants receive? The possibility of seeing their creation used in a national media blitz. Thanks for the free design, now go away, we have money to make.
These same companies would sue you blind if you used their intellectual property without paying a huge royalty, yet some people seem eager to give them free content for essentially nothing in return. I can only hope it's a passing fad.
Absolutely, and it's one of the reasons (the other is DRM) I will not currently purchase music online. Formats change, and if you start with a lossy format, the next format change will wreck your music. You may not be able to tell the difference between lossy and lossless right now on your first generation AAC or MP3 file, but when you've run that thing through a couple more converters in the next 10 years it WILL sound like crap. Your only option then will be to buy new source and that is the reason you will not see lossless download. The music cartel wants to sell you a new format every few years.
Of course, because you have nothing to hide. For now.
I felt kind of bad after writing that reply, it was just the first thing to came to mind. I went and downloaded the demo for Democracy, I figured I should check it out. I owed you at least that much. Interesting take on the government sim. I don't know if I'd use it as evidence for anything in the real world though, since the relationships between policies and outcomes are designed using your views on how the world works rather than a true model. Not that such a model is even possible, humans are fickle creatures. I found it interesting that when I lowered the limits on handguns from Strict Control to Licensed that you Brits turned into a bunch of homicidal maniacs. And I never could please those damn environmentalists. :P
Anyway, it does look like an interesting game. Unfortunately I'm not in the position to spend any money on computer games at the moment, though I do applaud your indie efforts.
So what was Florida's excuse in 2000?
Are we talking about "can't pay" or "don't want to pay"? Perhaps if the person I was replying to would check facts instead of speaking through his anus and using this as just another opportunity to bash the US he'd know that we do have Medicare/Medicaid for those who need it. Despite the problems those systems have, they do exist and plenty of people do use them.
The original question posted indicates that this person runs a business, and does make money, and therefore can afford healthcare. Does Australia provide healthcare for anybody that wants it, regardless of income? If not, then his answer is off topic and deserving of nothing more than to be trolled.
Either way you're being a douchebag and jumping on the bash America bandwagon with him.
What does unemployment pay over there? I'm pretty lazy and don't really care for the whole "job" thing. How much would I take in per year in Australia if I just moved in and didn't work?
I haven't played your game. It might be quite good for all I know. But why does it seem every time I see you post, you're whoring your software and trying to work it into the conversation somehow?
At least all they did was use a picture of a foreign car. I guess they couldn't figure out how to photoshop smoldering compact cars and dozens of missiles and keep it believable.
At least the 20 year old can use inexperience as an excuse. The 50 year old should know better.
I haven't bought a CD in years, I will never purchase DRM infested garbage online. I don't go to theaters anymore, and it's been a long time since I bought a DVD. I'm about to cancel my cable TV because, well, TV sucks.
I imagine the media industry includes people like me in the figures about how piracy is affecting business. I have on my To Do list an item about writing to my representatives explaining why I am no longer a media consumer, and copying it to major media companies. Not that I expect it to make a difference, but it's really the only thing I can do.
SWG attempted it, but failed miserably. They had some of the concepts such as player run cities, a deep crafting system and player run stores and malls. Unfortunately they also included a grind which started as a skill grind, then became the jedi grind. They also had a severe lack of content. They got the sandbox built, but didn't give people enough toys to keep them playing there.
You're wasting your time trying to discuss things in terms of logic with someone who says bullshit like "the fact is that the Earth is Dying(tm)".
Funny, I do the exact same to pompous douchebags who cut me off in their hybrids.
[blockquote]You know what that is? That's the point in a journey where it's harder to go back to the beginning than to continue on to the end. It's like when those astronauts got in trouble when they were going to the moon. Somebody messed up or something and they had to get them back to Earth but first they had to go around the moon. They were out of contact for hours. Everybody waited breathlessly to see if a bunch of dead guys in a can would pop out the other side.[/blockquote]You're not about to go shoot up a fast food joint, are you?
There's a fitness "game" on the Xbox, my wife actually uses it. She finds it more interesting than doing the same exact fitness DVD over and over and over. I wouldn't be surprised to see it on the Wii with enhanced features.
There's your fatal flaw. The bible has changed throughout history. Books added, taken away. Various kings changed it, in more recent history the mormons added books I believe. There are numerous translations, since most people don't speak Aramaic. It was written by dozens and dozens of authors and cobbled into a book as ancient texts were found and people saw fit to include or exclude text. It does not exist in the exact form it did 2000 years ago and as such any interpretation of it as though it were would be wrong. So in fact, the fundamentalists are the ones who are incorrectly hanging on to the past.
As for Christians distinguishing themselves from bad people, do you distinguish yourself from everybody guilty of bad acts? Assuming you are an American, do you call yourself an American? Or do you call yourself something else to distinguish yourself from Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, and the KKK? If not you're being hypocritical to expect Christians to do so.
Don't forget his wife Incontinentia Buttocks.
You said that the bible must be taken literally or else discarded completely. Beyond that, I'm not sure what your point was, and your attempt to further my analogy really doesn't make any sense. The book is not called "Contains gold-ish content---really, trust me! Or else!" it's called "The Bible" and the title in no way serves as instructions on how to use the information contained therein. That some people have chosen to use it as a factual reference book while others have chosen to use it as an example of how to be a good person does not give one group a monopoly on the term 'Christian'.
When there is disagreement by judges on the interpretation of a law (something written far more recently than 2,000 years ago mind you) do we discard our entire system and fall back to anarchy until we can start from scratch and build a new set of laws? Do we have to find a new term to refer to those judges who disagree with the fundamentalist judges?
No kidding. It's people like the grandparent that are poster children for science as a religion. He's right, and he'll kill anyone that disagrees.
So your argument is "Why practice the Golden Rule, when in fact it doesn't have any Au content?"
They're OK, but have you figured out how to disable the nag screen?
No, I thought of that as well. If you can choose to have it shipped, presumably you still have to pay for the item and tell them where to ship it.
I guess weak fabrics and cheap construction just weren't forcing us to replace our clothes often enough. Now they're going to make our clothes technologically obsolete every 6 months.
"I'm sorry sir, your shirt is not compatible with Windows Vista, and we no longer support Windows XP."
Hosting servers in every city? That's a great answer for a handful of companies. Unless you're the scale of Blizzard or Microsoft, that's just not an option. Small projects simply don't have the revenue or client base to support millions of dollars in monthly server farm costs. Even somewhat successful projects like EVE Online which has over 100,000 users last I heard is based on a single server. (Multiple physical servers obviously, but all users use are in a single universe)
You say look at internet2? I say the same. If people want a network where certain traffic gets priority they should start internet3 and sell it to people who expect it. What they should not do is take a resource which people have built their businesses and lives around and completely change the way it operates.