The record companies need to make money to, so please think of the money grabbing executives who can't count on their subpar talent pool to provide them their golden parachutes.
I hope they make enough money to all get golden parachutes. Then they'd all die and we would be rid of them ?
I mean, a parachute made of gold won't help you stop falling.
People have successfully cloned sheep, cows, dogs, cats and monkeys. They are NOT particularly different from humans folks, at least in reproductive terms. IMO, the cloning thing happened, and the hoax is that it was a hoax, some of the powers that be deciding the civilian world wasn't quite ready for it to be real.
Dogs are very different in reproductive terms. Heck, to get a dog pregnant, you have to get very specific conditions.
Producing most of the worlds heroin is just fine and dandy.
From Wikipedia on Afghanistan :
During the Taliban's seven-year rule, much of the population experienced restrictions on their freedom and violations of their human rights. Women were banned from jobs, girls forbidden to attend schools or universities.[54] Communists were systematically eradicated and thieves were punished by amputating one of their hands or feet.[55] The majority of the opium production was eradicated by 2001.[56]
Don't worry, after a few weeks somebody will have created an utility to be able to play on a lan. It's not like it's terribly complicated to do anyways.
And for having tried the Express version... Well, let's say I downloaded gcc + qt instead. Express version was so crippled I could not code anything interesting with it. It was discouraging.
And, as for Eclipse, to even hear of it, you must have been interested in programming in the first place.
As a mater of fact, yes I have stopped pirating once I got a job. I used to be a pirate when I was a student, but right now to me it seems less troublesome to just buy what I want.
And as for your solutions, they are a start. The main problem with them is that it still sucks. Until they fix their buisness model for something usable, ill continue listening to free music or rent my disks at the Bibliotheque National.
If I steal a 20$ album at a music shop without paying. That music shop will lose 15$ (not accurate) because they had to buy those disks and put them on display and pay a clerk to look bored on the front desk.
If I download it, said shop will still have the disk. Thus, downloading it can be said not to be as wrong as stealing it.
Then, we have the argument that if we download, the recording companies lose something. That's right, they do. They lose the chance to get someone to buy something on impulse, they lose the chance to make someone buy something they, after a while, will regret, because the distribution model is retarded.
Yes, the current distribution model is retarded. It forces you to buy a bundle of things you may not want (wanting only THAT song that haunts you day and night) instead of exactly what you want. I stopped buying disks because of that.
It forced me to explore other way to get music, like finding indie groups no one knows, that freely distribute their stuff on the web (MachinaeSupremacy is a very good example), and that gives enough sample of an album that I can then in good conscience, and knowing that it is exactly what I want, try to buy.
All in all, if this problem exists, it is because the current infrastructure and way of doing is wrong and NEEDS to be changed.
Even worst : Garry the one eyed is a 14 year old kid. He likes computers and doesn't know what he want to do in his life. He hears the pirate call and download a version of visual studio YARRR and gets interested in computer programming. Several years later, he gets a degree and is employed by a company that will buy several licenses of visual studio YARRR 2.
I don't know from where in Canada you are but no one I know in Montreal has central heating. Even in big apartment buildings. Everybody use that expensive electric heating. Maybe that's because electricity is cheap in Quebec...
While looking at your employment notices, I saw that you were looking for people for a next generation MMO (From your site : Software Engineer, Server - Next-Gen MMO http://www.blizzard.com/us/jobopp/mmo-software-engineer-server.html). It surprised me at first because Blizzard own such a great part of the MMO Market and I did not see the use of creating a new product when your first one is such a commercial success.
I know that this project has not been announced yet but I was wondering what was the logic behind that ? The only guess I have is that the new project is dramatically different and will appeal to an extremely different crowd.
I'm fan who got left behind when you guys moved towards story based and online games. Will there ever be another RTS game from Blizzard?
Side Note: The reason I never tried the online games was because of the immature community on Blizzard.net when playing the older games. Matchmaking just worked way better for me when handled outside Blizzard's scope of control.
Starcraft 2 ?
And the fact that you call WoW story based is highly amusing to me.
For a long time one might have found it spelled either way, but since "Czar" started being used to describe a high government official, e.g., "Drug Czar" the CZ spelling has tended to be applied to that use, while the TS spelling has now nearly always come to be applied to the rulers of the Russian Empire.
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They were only bystanders... they had nothing to do with it... That's so cruel. Oh the humanity!
Come live in Quebec where taxes are half your pay check!
The record companies need to make money to, so please think of the money grabbing executives who can't count on their subpar talent pool to provide them their golden parachutes.
I hope they make enough money to all get golden parachutes. Then they'd all die and we would be rid of them ?
I mean, a parachute made of gold won't help you stop falling.
Seriously.
People have successfully cloned sheep, cows, dogs, cats and monkeys. They are NOT particularly different from humans folks, at least in reproductive terms. IMO, the cloning thing happened, and the hoax is that it was a hoax, some of the powers that be deciding the civilian world wasn't quite ready for it to be real.
Dogs are very different in reproductive terms. Heck, to get a dog pregnant, you have to get very specific conditions.
Humans are way easier to clone than dogs.
Ever heard of a Tigon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigon or a Liger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger ? Interbreedability is a ... weird thing.
These stats are for those who do buy games. Those who pirates are not counted in that survey.
This only serves to prove that those who buy games are those with a good income.
Thanks for the information!
If I remember well, most socialist country had that kind of law.
Producing most of the worlds heroin is just fine and dandy.
From Wikipedia on Afghanistan :
During the Taliban's seven-year rule, much of the population experienced restrictions on their freedom and violations of their human rights. Women were banned from jobs, girls forbidden to attend schools or universities.[54] Communists were systematically eradicated and thieves were punished by amputating one of their hands or feet.[55] The majority of the opium production was eradicated by 2001.[56]
I'm very interested to know who the germans were better than.
I just can't figure it out.
Unless you count Napoleon ... Yeah, well, no, I can't say that the germans where better than frenchs under Napoleon.
you'll need to peel your tape in a vacuum
I hope they don't open their presents in the vacuum cleaner.
Don't worry, after a few weeks somebody will have created an utility to be able to play on a lan. It's not like it's terribly complicated to do anyways.
Interesting!
And for having tried the Express version... Well, let's say I downloaded gcc + qt instead. Express version was so crippled I could not code anything interesting with it. It was discouraging.
And, as for Eclipse, to even hear of it, you must have been interested in programming in the first place.
And as for your solutions, they are a start. The main problem with them is that it still sucks. Until they fix their buisness model for something usable, ill continue listening to free music or rent my disks at the Bibliotheque National.
If I steal a 20$ album at a music shop without paying. That music shop will lose 15$ (not accurate) because they had to buy those disks and put them on display and pay a clerk to look bored on the front desk.
If I download it, said shop will still have the disk. Thus, downloading it can be said not to be as wrong as stealing it.
Then, we have the argument that if we download, the recording companies lose something. That's right, they do. They lose the chance to get someone to buy something on impulse, they lose the chance to make someone buy something they, after a while, will regret, because the distribution model is retarded.
Yes, the current distribution model is retarded. It forces you to buy a bundle of things you may not want (wanting only THAT song that haunts you day and night) instead of exactly what you want. I stopped buying disks because of that.
It forced me to explore other way to get music, like finding indie groups no one knows, that freely distribute their stuff on the web (MachinaeSupremacy is a very good example), and that gives enough sample of an album that I can then in good conscience, and knowing that it is exactly what I want, try to buy.
All in all, if this problem exists, it is because the current infrastructure and way of doing is wrong and NEEDS to be changed.
Once it is done, piracy will resolve itself.
Even worst : Garry the one eyed is a 14 year old kid. He likes computers and doesn't know what he want to do in his life. He hears the pirate call and download a version of visual studio YARRR and gets interested in computer programming. Several years later, he gets a degree and is employed by a company that will buy several licenses of visual studio YARRR 2.
Those numbers don't mean anything.
Fixed charge per day 0.4064$
First 30 kWh per day 0.0540$
Remaining energy consumption 0.0733$
Exceeding 50 kW in winter (December 1 to March 31) 6.21$ (per month)
I don't know from where in Canada you are but no one I know in Montreal has central heating. Even in big apartment buildings. Everybody use that expensive electric heating. Maybe that's because electricity is cheap in Quebec...
Still , shame on them for not editing their stuff properly (If they meant PSU)
While looking at your employment notices, I saw that you were looking for people for a next generation MMO (From your site : Software Engineer, Server - Next-Gen MMO http://www.blizzard.com/us/jobopp/mmo-software-engineer-server.html). It surprised me at first because Blizzard own such a great part of the MMO Market and I did not see the use of creating a new product when your first one is such a commercial success.
I know that this project has not been announced yet but I was wondering what was the logic behind that ? The only guess I have is that the new project is dramatically different and will appeal to an extremely different crowd.
I'm fan who got left behind when you guys moved towards story based and online games. Will there ever be another RTS game from Blizzard?
Side Note: The reason I never tried the online games was because of the immature community on Blizzard.net when playing the older games. Matchmaking just worked way better for me when handled outside Blizzard's scope of control.
Starcraft 2 ?
And the fact that you call WoW story based is highly amusing to me.
For a long time one might have found it spelled either way, but since "Czar" started being used to describe a high government official, e.g., "Drug Czar" the CZ spelling has tended to be applied to that use, while the TS spelling has now nearly always come to be applied to the rulers of the Russian Empire.
I love that quote!
High ranking government officials = Drug lords!
Is propaghanda something that Gandhi said ?