"Do you really think the decadent godless fags of Europe will stand by idle in the face of theocracy?"
Yes. Much like WWWII with the Third Reich, France will roll over (they've already started) first and allow theocracy to gain a foothold in Europe makign it much easier for the Jihadist invasion to follow.
I want to know how he calculated Daisuke Matsuzaka's numbers since he's never played ball in the states. Theoretically he should dominate the AL given his performance in Japan but those numbers don't mean much when considering the power hitters in the AL, much less MLB. Here's hoping Bukiet is wrong though. I'd love to see the Yankees tank and not make the play-offs but I'm a Red Sox fan and I always hope that happens.
"Apple and Avid basically jointly own the entire industry). Compared to the rest of the costs of video production, Final Cut is a steal."
I think you're seriously underestimating Premiere Pro from Adobe. There was enough of an outcry from the Mac community that Adobe is now releasing an OSX version of Premiere Pro with their new CS3 Production Suite. Premiere Pro is a very capable video editing tool which does everything from standard def to HD with no problem whatsoever and it integrates well with After Effects (your timelines can be shared back and forth between the apps without the need for rendering) and Encore DVD (which is also being made for OSX as well). Sure, Avid is well known in the industry and pretty much dominates the film industry and Apple gets some PR value every now and then but I don't think it has the industry penetration Apple would have you believe. All the editing places I've worked at or know about either use Avid or Premiere Pro (Avid/Softimage being the dominant tools used of course), only a few have dabbled with Final Cut Pro.
$400 for a segway? you must be joking. Why do geeks pretend to be economists? Economists don't pretend to be geeks so cut it out already. If you don't understand how to establish the price point for a good or service, please don't just start pulling numbers out of your as, ok? Oh, you mean you actually didn't know what "order of magnitude meant" either? Perhaps you should look it up and realize how stupid your comment really is.
Get TrueLaunchBar. It's the best $20 I've evr spent on shareware. It basically extends the functionality of the QuickLaunch bar by allowing users to add menus and plug-ins in addition to shortcuts as well as add more than one quicklaunchbar. The options UI has grown a little unwieldy over time due to the number of features being implemented to control metrics and the look of all the UI elements but it's still a great app.
No need to put ideas into the public domain, they already are. What doesn't automatically, and rightfully so in my opinion, go into the public domain is the expression of an idea in a fixed medium.
Most images on stock photo sites, and Corbis is no different, are low quality, making them difficult to use even on the web, and they have a watermark across the image. Some sites, such as Masterfile, allow non-watermarked images to be obtained by people with an account but these are still of sufficiently low quality as to make them useless on the web unless you really don't care about quality at all. There are some exceptions to these rules of course, but for the most part comping images are at the very least low quality.
I don't now where David's buying his media center remote control but ebgames has the Microsoft Media Center remote control accessory for the XBOX 360 priced at $20. I know Logitech makes a two-way uber MCPC remote for the XBOX 360 that's priced at around $100 but even the Microsoft remote has far more capability than the AppleTV remote.
Then explain Windows Media Center. I'm able to not only record and pause live TV, I have a well designed guide for finding programs and setting them to record whenever that show comes on, all for free (well, the cost of the MCPC anyway). I can even use my XBOX 360 as a MCPC extender and keep my MCPC in anotehr room altogether.
How about a "why should I give a fuck what you're going to do" response? Honestly, why does every article like this have to turn into a mass geek therapy session on Dr. Phil or Oprah? I don't care if you plan to upgrade to Vista and I believe that just about anyone else on Slashdot cares even less - if that's even possible, because I truly don't care.
I don't think China or India should be members either but they are and there's little that can be done about it now. Russia, however, is not a member and they are violating the laws of the WTO by allowing rampant piracy, therefore they are being denied entrance. Others doing something illegal is no excuse for one's own illegal actions.
"This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is, without a doubt, the single dumbest thing I have ever seen any lawyers do in my thirty years of practicing law."
Apparently he's never taken a good close look at the lawsuits he's filed against Take Two or the laws he's helped write - which, by the way, have all been subsequently rejected on constitutional grounds. Part of me hopes he gets disbarred but that might be the only thing that's helped keep him in check (well reasonably in check compared to what he could possibly do without the fear of being disbarred - run for office for instance).
"Stop mucking with democratically chosen laws of sovereign nations."
Russia is requesting membership into the WTO and part one of the requirements is to respect international copyright law. They are more than welcome to ignore international copyright laws all they want but it will come at the cost of not being allowed membership into the WTO.
Oh, yeah, let's compare a small game developer to one of the largest software developers in the world. Could you be more of a fucking idiot? I don't think so.
Either intellectual property is tangible property and your horse and buggy analogy is incorrect or intellectual property and your horse and buggy analogy is irrelevant. You can't have it both ways. If IP is property then the situation woudl be akin to a Woolworth's coming into the horse and buggy factory, taking all the buggies they want, and selling them without giving any money to the horse and buggy manufacturer. If IP isn't property then your analogy is irrelevant because, well, you're compaing apples to oranges here.
Yeah, because it makes much greater business sense to create games that are going to ultimately cost the developer due to piracy. You're a real fucking genius, you know?
You're missing, or purposefully ignoring, the fact that a lot of broadcast content is being made available for free on sites like NBC.com or Comedy Central. iTunes and XBOX Live Marketplace also offer broadcast content for a nominal fee. As I'v been saying for years and years, the culture of copyright reform isn;t about getting content easier, it's all about getting shit for free. I've also been saying for years that music should NOT be distributed via digital files because you are not going to get hi-quality audio and you're likely going to be linked to a specific media player. Lo and behold, iTunes comes out and guess what? if you purchase music from iTunes you have to listen to it on an iPod or go through some convoluted hoops to rip to another format, thus degrading the quality of the audio even further then the already shitty quality Apple sells you. Buy the CD and rip i tto any format you want, learn to like the other non-radio hits you hadn't heard before. Maybe it's just the generation I'm a part of but we grew up loving music and albums, the art, the songs, the bands. That and perhaps the pot helped a little, I don't know.
If it's not just your opinion then you have actual facts top back up your claims then? *taps foot, patiently waiting* That's what I thought. Another slashbot talking straight out of their ass. Just admit that you want shit for free and you want the developers of the shows you like to "be cool" with this and you'll "like them and stuff" or some such bullshit.
Oh, what a load of horseshit. This is the same tired excuse that gets trounced out as an excuse to make "backup" copies. Will someone please think of the children? My brother has three kids and none of them have ever chewed on their DVDs or remote controls. Perhaps you just suck as a parent. not to mention that on the internet you can make any claim you want (probably why this is such a popular excuse) and no one can verify your story. Given how stupid and gullible many geeks are when it comes to issues like this it's no wonder this excuse has taken off.
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"Do you really think the decadent godless fags of Europe will stand by idle in the face of theocracy?"
Yes. Much like WWWII with the Third Reich, France will roll over (they've already started) first and allow theocracy to gain a foothold in Europe makign it much easier for the Jihadist invasion to follow.
I want to know how he calculated Daisuke Matsuzaka's numbers since he's never played ball in the states. Theoretically he should dominate the AL given his performance in Japan but those numbers don't mean much when considering the power hitters in the AL, much less MLB. Here's hoping Bukiet is wrong though. I'd love to see the Yankees tank and not make the play-offs but I'm a Red Sox fan and I always hope that happens.
"Apple and Avid basically jointly own the entire industry). Compared to the rest of the costs of video production, Final Cut is a steal."
I think you're seriously underestimating Premiere Pro from Adobe. There was enough of an outcry from the Mac community that Adobe is now releasing an OSX version of Premiere Pro with their new CS3 Production Suite. Premiere Pro is a very capable video editing tool which does everything from standard def to HD with no problem whatsoever and it integrates well with After Effects (your timelines can be shared back and forth between the apps without the need for rendering) and Encore DVD (which is also being made for OSX as well). Sure, Avid is well known in the industry and pretty much dominates the film industry and Apple gets some PR value every now and then but I don't think it has the industry penetration Apple would have you believe. All the editing places I've worked at or know about either use Avid or Premiere Pro (Avid/Softimage being the dominant tools used of course), only a few have dabbled with Final Cut Pro.
$400 for a segway? you must be joking. Why do geeks pretend to be economists? Economists don't pretend to be geeks so cut it out already. If you don't understand how to establish the price point for a good or service, please don't just start pulling numbers out of your as, ok? Oh, you mean you actually didn't know what "order of magnitude meant" either? Perhaps you should look it up and realize how stupid your comment really is.
Would a normal user know or even care what an IP address is, much less how or why to change it?
Get TrueLaunchBar. It's the best $20 I've evr spent on shareware. It basically extends the functionality of the QuickLaunch bar by allowing users to add menus and plug-ins in addition to shortcuts as well as add more than one quicklaunchbar. The options UI has grown a little unwieldy over time due to the number of features being implemented to control metrics and the look of all the UI elements but it's still a great app.
No need to put ideas into the public domain, they already are. What doesn't automatically, and rightfully so in my opinion, go into the public domain is the expression of an idea in a fixed medium.
Most images on stock photo sites, and Corbis is no different, are low quality, making them difficult to use even on the web, and they have a watermark across the image. Some sites, such as Masterfile, allow non-watermarked images to be obtained by people with an account but these are still of sufficiently low quality as to make them useless on the web unless you really don't care about quality at all. There are some exceptions to these rules of course, but for the most part comping images are at the very least low quality.
I don't now where David's buying his media center remote control but ebgames has the Microsoft Media Center remote control accessory for the XBOX 360 priced at $20. I know Logitech makes a two-way uber MCPC remote for the XBOX 360 that's priced at around $100 but even the Microsoft remote has far more capability than the AppleTV remote.
Then explain Windows Media Center. I'm able to not only record and pause live TV, I have a well designed guide for finding programs and setting them to record whenever that show comes on, all for free (well, the cost of the MCPC anyway). I can even use my XBOX 360 as a MCPC extender and keep my MCPC in anotehr room altogether.
How about a "why should I give a fuck what you're going to do" response? Honestly, why does every article like this have to turn into a mass geek therapy session on Dr. Phil or Oprah? I don't care if you plan to upgrade to Vista and I believe that just about anyone else on Slashdot cares even less - if that's even possible, because I truly don't care.
I wonder? Oh, yeah, ActiveX.
I don't think China or India should be members either but they are and there's little that can be done about it now. Russia, however, is not a member and they are violating the laws of the WTO by allowing rampant piracy, therefore they are being denied entrance. Others doing something illegal is no excuse for one's own illegal actions.
"This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is, without a doubt, the single dumbest thing I have ever seen any lawyers do in my thirty years of practicing law."
Apparently he's never taken a good close look at the lawsuits he's filed against Take Two or the laws he's helped write - which, by the way, have all been subsequently rejected on constitutional grounds. Part of me hopes he gets disbarred but that might be the only thing that's helped keep him in check (well reasonably in check compared to what he could possibly do without the fear of being disbarred - run for office for instance).
"Stop mucking with democratically chosen laws of sovereign nations."
Russia is requesting membership into the WTO and part one of the requirements is to respect international copyright law. They are more than welcome to ignore international copyright laws all they want but it will come at the cost of not being allowed membership into the WTO.
"The market wants a more dynamic approach to content acquisition."
"The market wants content for free." There, fixed that for you.
Oh, yeah, let's compare a small game developer to one of the largest software developers in the world. Could you be more of a fucking idiot? I don't think so.
Either intellectual property is tangible property and your horse and buggy analogy is incorrect or intellectual property and your horse and buggy analogy is irrelevant. You can't have it both ways. If IP is property then the situation woudl be akin to a Woolworth's coming into the horse and buggy factory, taking all the buggies they want, and selling them without giving any money to the horse and buggy manufacturer. If IP isn't property then your analogy is irrelevant because, well, you're compaing apples to oranges here.
"That doesn't make much business sense."
Yeah, because it makes much greater business sense to create games that are going to ultimately cost the developer due to piracy. You're a real fucking genius, you know?
You're missing, or purposefully ignoring, the fact that a lot of broadcast content is being made available for free on sites like NBC.com or Comedy Central. iTunes and XBOX Live Marketplace also offer broadcast content for a nominal fee. As I'v been saying for years and years, the culture of copyright reform isn;t about getting content easier, it's all about getting shit for free. I've also been saying for years that music should NOT be distributed via digital files because you are not going to get hi-quality audio and you're likely going to be linked to a specific media player. Lo and behold, iTunes comes out and guess what? if you purchase music from iTunes you have to listen to it on an iPod or go through some convoluted hoops to rip to another format, thus degrading the quality of the audio even further then the already shitty quality Apple sells you. Buy the CD and rip i tto any format you want, learn to like the other non-radio hits you hadn't heard before. Maybe it's just the generation I'm a part of but we grew up loving music and albums, the art, the songs, the bands. That and perhaps the pot helped a little, I don't know.
"For true emergencies, any working cell phone can still make 911 calls..."
No all emergencies require the police. Calling a tow truck for a flat tire is one such example.
"...pile on and try to get money for nothing."
Yeah, as opposed to Google who's paying for the copyrighted material to post on YouTube and obtain ad revenue, right? Right?!?!?
If it's not just your opinion then you have actual facts top back up your claims then? *taps foot, patiently waiting* That's what I thought. Another slashbot talking straight out of their ass. Just admit that you want shit for free and you want the developers of the shows you like to "be cool" with this and you'll "like them and stuff" or some such bullshit.
Oh, what a load of horseshit. This is the same tired excuse that gets trounced out as an excuse to make "backup" copies. Will someone please think of the children? My brother has three kids and none of them have ever chewed on their DVDs or remote controls. Perhaps you just suck as a parent. not to mention that on the internet you can make any claim you want (probably why this is such a popular excuse) and no one can verify your story. Given how stupid and gullible many geeks are when it comes to issues like this it's no wonder this excuse has taken off.
"And the worst part is that when the studios make good content I like, it's canceled or sunk very quickly."
There, fixed that for you. Or did you honestly think you are so important that your opinion of a very subjectve medium is the only one that matters?