It's immoral to pay the assholes who sell physical CDs, major labels, etc. To me, the moral question is more : How much more convenient & pleasant do they need to make it before I buy the product?
I know apple is "the enemy" but to me they are convenient enough. For movies, for example, i have a few choices. I torrent it, watch it once, and store it on my hard drive for years taking up space just in case i want to watch it again and cbf finding a decent torrent. I get in my car, go to the local video library and rent it (and suffer late fees if i forget to return it on time). I stream it to my AppleTV where i can watch as many times as I like for 48 hrs.
For me, its a no brainer. If you have the bandwidth, AppleTV works pretty well. I'm totally willing to pay the few dollars for a rental to save me wasting time and energy to find a torrent, wait for the download, only to find its badly encoded
If you don't think content is worth the asking price, then don't consume it.
Its not just the ones who work for companies who sell IP. ANY company who has geeks on the payroll is using them (and by extension, their IP) to gain a competitive advantage. No competitive advantage = no employer = no salary.
It baffles me how *GEEKS* of all people are so antagonistic against their own beliefs out of small scale greed.
They are until they: 1. start earning real money. 2. create something themselves, and the "shoe is on the other foot", and they'd like to try and protect their own IP.
The problem is, that many geeks are young, not yet making a real living for themselves and also fairly naive with regards to the way the real world works.
Those who move into gainful employment actually making money from their own IP "get it".
I'm not saying that DRM or everything that studios do is justified, but blatantly ripping off other people's work if you have the means to pay for it, ESPECIALLY if you use it and like it, is crap.
I warezed a lot of games and stuff when i was younger - my disposable income was not enough to pay for it. I'll still download stuff occasionally as a "try before you buy" now. I'll still download sports coverage from the internet because local coverage in my country sucks. But if something is available to buy and I have downloaded it and liked it, I'll make an effort to buy it.
You realise.net is more than a language variant, and that.net objects are pervasive throughout the core of Windows these days - and that every administration tool has been rebuilt to work with Powershell cmdlets and.net objects?
I love seeing anti-microsoft trolls who run decades old operating systems because they refuse to upgrade talking about how the new tech sucks or is being obsoleted because of reason X when its clear they have zero experience with current offerings.
The performance issues I see are when a rogue javascript locks up the UI in some sort of busy loop. On chrome it locks up a tab, and the rest of my browser carries on unaffected. That was the nail in firefox's coffin for me - i don't care about extensions, i just want a responsive browser UI.
I'll call you justifiably paranoid. With fiat money, a government has two choices to increase spending. 1. Increase taxes. 2. print more money. Guess which wins? The problem if inflated currency being worth slightly less than a pinch of shit is something for the next guy to work out.
Firefox has been going downhill since version 2.0, and been totally blown out of the water in terms of performance and reliability since the release of Chrome.
They haven't managed to get firefox 4 to work properly yet (and not consume all available resources), but fuck, abandon that idea, just bump version number and maybe people will forget the bad rep that v4 had.
More diplomatically put: they're having enough problems getting firefox 4 to work as a browser, getting an entire operating sytem platform up and running is going to prove more difficult than that.
LOL. QE was done to be able to maintain the US commitments to war in 2 countries and fund health care reform. Oh, and to prop up wall street. The USA would be in a bad way for a short period of time without it. Essentially QE is a stealth tax on the holders of USD (by devaluing their dolalrs).
Don't count russia out. Moscow is currently the most expensive city in the world to live, and Russia has a decent number of people. The chinese can sell to the russians just fine.
Be that as it may, the money is moving to china. The clever people will go earn money where the money is. The US has been living on borrowed money and time for far too long and eventually people will lose confidence in the dollar (its already happening, our exchange rate in AU has gone from $0.70au:$1usd to $1.1au:1usd fairly rapidly) and stop extending any more credit.
Once that happens, the US will need to work to repay its debts without any more spending.
... is that the chinese have all the credit, the USA has all the debt, and they farm out work to the USA's totally fucked up jobless economy for cheap(er than they earn).
This is where the USA repays its debt (from living on and inflating markets with borrowed money) to the world, Good luck guys, its not going to be pretty.
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I know apple is "the enemy" but to me they are convenient enough. For movies, for example, i have a few choices. I torrent it, watch it once, and store it on my hard drive for years taking up space just in case i want to watch it again and cbf finding a decent torrent. I get in my car, go to the local video library and rent it (and suffer late fees if i forget to return it on time). I stream it to my AppleTV where i can watch as many times as I like for 48 hrs.
For me, its a no brainer. If you have the bandwidth, AppleTV works pretty well. I'm totally willing to pay the few dollars for a rental to save me wasting time and energy to find a torrent, wait for the download, only to find its badly encoded
If you don't think content is worth the asking price, then don't consume it.
Its not just the ones who work for companies who sell IP. ANY company who has geeks on the payroll is using them (and by extension, their IP) to gain a competitive advantage. No competitive advantage = no employer = no salary.
They are until they: 1. start earning real money. 2. create something themselves, and the "shoe is on the other foot", and they'd like to try and protect their own IP.
The problem is, that many geeks are young, not yet making a real living for themselves and also fairly naive with regards to the way the real world works.
Those who move into gainful employment actually making money from their own IP "get it".
I'm not saying that DRM or everything that studios do is justified, but blatantly ripping off other people's work if you have the means to pay for it, ESPECIALLY if you use it and like it, is crap.
I warezed a lot of games and stuff when i was younger - my disposable income was not enough to pay for it. I'll still download stuff occasionally as a "try before you buy" now. I'll still download sports coverage from the internet because local coverage in my country sucks. But if something is available to buy and I have downloaded it and liked it, I'll make an effort to buy it.
Just how is this different to the Apple app store again?
No garbage collection on iOS. But thats not Cocoa's fault as such, its a design decision to minimize overhead on the memory/cpu constrained i-devices.
You realise .net is more than a language variant, and that .net objects are pervasive throughout the core of Windows these days - and that every administration tool has been rebuilt to work with Powershell cmdlets and .net objects?
I love seeing anti-microsoft trolls who run decades old operating systems because they refuse to upgrade talking about how the new tech sucks or is being obsoleted because of reason X when its clear they have zero experience with current offerings.
If you think .net is going anywhere, you've got rocks in your head.
The performance issues I see are when a rogue javascript locks up the UI in some sort of busy loop. On chrome it locks up a tab, and the rest of my browser carries on unaffected. That was the nail in firefox's coffin for me - i don't care about extensions, i just want a responsive browser UI.
Probably because the merchant is charged per transaction on their EFT machine.
I'll call you justifiably paranoid. With fiat money, a government has two choices to increase spending. 1. Increase taxes. 2. print more money. Guess which wins? The problem if inflated currency being worth slightly less than a pinch of shit is something for the next guy to work out.
Firefox has been going downhill since version 2.0, and been totally blown out of the water in terms of performance and reliability since the release of Chrome.
I can do both those things in IE9 just fine, maybe your hardware/os is broken.
They haven't managed to get firefox 4 to work properly yet (and not consume all available resources), but fuck, abandon that idea, just bump version number and maybe people will forget the bad rep that v4 had.
Awesome. I can bump major version numbers without making major upgrades, too.
we switched here in australia about 22 years ago.
More diplomatically put: they're having enough problems getting firefox 4 to work as a browser, getting an entire operating sytem platform up and running is going to prove more difficult than that.
Electronic only media can be altered retroactively. People in power don't like history? Re-write it.
Impossible to do with existing copies of paper books, trivial with DRM'ed electronic only media that is streamed from the cloud.
LOL. QE was done to be able to maintain the US commitments to war in 2 countries and fund health care reform. Oh, and to prop up wall street. The USA would be in a bad way for a short period of time without it. Essentially QE is a stealth tax on the holders of USD (by devaluing their dolalrs).
You have around that level of debt, but it is increasing at a fairly rapid rate. It is not shrinking.
Wii sold a lot of consoles simply based on price and Mario. VHS killed betamax too - number of units moved does not equal "revolutionary".
Don't count russia out. Moscow is currently the most expensive city in the world to live, and Russia has a decent number of people. The chinese can sell to the russians just fine.
Be that as it may, the money is moving to china. The clever people will go earn money where the money is. The US has been living on borrowed money and time for far too long and eventually people will lose confidence in the dollar (its already happening, our exchange rate in AU has gone from $0.70au:$1usd to $1.1au:1usd fairly rapidly) and stop extending any more credit.
Once that happens, the US will need to work to repay its debts without any more spending.
This is where the USA repays its debt (from living on and inflating markets with borrowed money) to the world, Good luck guys, its not going to be pretty.
Uh, most price crashes ARE completely artificial.
i thought they said a couple of days ago (when some dude got hacked for 1/2 mil worth) that bitcoin transactions couldn't be reversed?