third, who are you to decide what is fair? you didn't write the app, and have no idea how much time, effort, and resources went into the development. if it took me 3 man years of development, and i had to pay to license some technology, and i decide it needs to cost $30 for me to recoup my losses and make a small profit, who are you to tell me different?
I am the only one with access to the necessary data to decide what value I attain from the use of the software. It doesn't matter how much it cost you to provide, if you can't provide it at a price that matches the value it gives to me then it costs too much.
In your example, if you need to charge $30 to make money and I don't get $30 of value from the use of your software, then you're the one that fucked up, not me.
In what way does it "actually work?" There are DRM free pirate releases of every game ever released in the past with "always on" DRM. It may take a few more days to crack, but it's hardly "working," especially when it's pissing off nearly all your actual customers.
To be fair, at 25 years old and over 200 games bought on steam I think I fit the target market for PC games pretty squarely, and I just upgraded my 8800 GTS to a GTX550Ti on my computer that is around 6 years old. I went from needing to run at medium/low settings at 1080 to being able to run just about everything maxed out at 1920x1200 for about $120.
I pretty sure no serious (by which I mean logically sound) skeptical arguments deny that CO2 contributes to warming. The actual controversy is over how we can expect the warming to be exacerbated or alleviated by feedback loops. "Alarmists" tend to claim runaway positive feedback loops will cause a dramatic rise in temperature in the near future, while "denialists" tend to argue that these positive feedback loops are counteracted by negative feedback loops that tend to keep the temperature within a reasonable range.
In your own home, with your parents present you are allowed to drink with their permission. However I've never known anyone who drank even primarily in such a fashion, let alone exclusively. By far the most common form of alcohol consumption as a teenager in the US is binge drinking at a party: http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/underage-drinking.htm
If you're under 21 and at a party drinking alcohol you are a minor in possession, which is against the law in the US. Nearly everyone drinks before 21, as a point of reference I was home-schooled by fundamentalist Christians, wasn't a particularly wild child, and I still was drinking (illegally) long before 21.
I think many people don't understand how tilted the odds are against life. It's likely that we would need to search billions of "earth like" planets to find one that had any life potential, let alone one where that potential has given rise to complex organisms.
Find me a windows system where every driver works without a single forum hunt... You're delusional. I use windows almost exclusively, mostly because I game a lot, and I have problems requiring forum hunting all the time. Just today I've spent ages trying to get this stupid usb headset driver to work in 7x64. Apparently Rosewill still hasn't made it easy after however many years 7 has been out.
A normal user using Ubuntu or another well crafted distro will have a computer exactly as messed up as their windows computer would be.
on many consumer firearms, barrel shrouds ARE nothing more than cosmetic
This is the important distinction in my opinion. The definition of an "assault weapon" is largely based on cosmetic features that *can* have functional uses, rather than on any actual functional difference. In contrast, the technical definition of an "assault rifle" is quite clearly based on functional differences, irrespective of the cosmetic features of the rifle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle#Definition
This ambiguity contributes greatly to the amount of FUD pumped out about guns in general.
This is a good point, however it is an unfortunate truth that the terms are used interchangeably by the uninformed, including most reporters. I've seen at least a couple news stories saying that the Colorado shooter was using an "assault rifle" in spite of the actual definition including the criteria of selective fire.
Body armor does a great job of keeping you alive, and a shit job of keeping you comfortable. It's incredibly hard to continue whatever you're doing while you're being punched repetitively in the center of mass. If a "John Wayne wannabe" would have knocked the breath out of, or even just distracted, the shooter, then there would have been an opportunity for him to be attacked. Your assumption that there is nothing that can be done about an armored attacker with a gun is most likely the product of your unfamiliarity with guns and does not reflect reality.
Furthermore, your ignorance of the subject is showing, the Colorado shooter had no automatic weapons. You were probably confused by the term "assault rifle" which is commonly assumed to mean an automatic weapon, but in fact (in the US) is legally defined as a weapon that has a detachable magazine and at least two of several cosmetic features such as a forward grip or a barrel shroud. This is why assault weapon bans are commonly ridiculed as bans on scary looking guns.
Ultimately, of course, this is all just a bunch of people being brave in hindsight. We know that guns are effective at deterring normal crimes, however an insane shooter obviously offers a different problem. At some point a shooter is going to run up against an armed citizen, and then we'll find out for sure just how effective they will be. Hopefully that armed citizen is responsible and capable of using their weapon effectively and are not just carrying around a gun to feel safe.
You're wrong. You can have degrees of majority. For example you can have a 1% majority, which is a smaller majority than a 42% or a 69% majority. Using a synonym of 'large' in describing a majority is perfectly valid.
This. I run Windows because it is free (MSDN Academic Alliance). There is no way I would pay hundreds of dollars for an OS that I can replace perfectly well for free with a bit of extra work.
You're confused about what the crime here is. The "victims" here are legitimate customers who are being sold sub par goods at premium prices, not the media companies.
I cracked mine by setting it on top of a toilet paper dispenser and then brushing it off to land on it's corner on the concrete a couple feet below... I dunno about "prone" but it certainly can be done.
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when people say "printing money" usually they mean "creating money."
What dialogs are you using to shut down? I go to the start menu and click "shut down."
third, who are you to decide what is fair? you didn't write the app, and have no idea how much time, effort, and resources went into the development. if it took me 3 man years of development, and i had to pay to license some technology, and i decide it needs to cost $30 for me to recoup my losses and make a small profit, who are you to tell me different?
I am the only one with access to the necessary data to decide what value I attain from the use of the software.
It doesn't matter how much it cost you to provide, if you can't provide it at a price that matches the value it gives to me then it costs too much.
In your example, if you need to charge $30 to make money and I don't get $30 of value from the use of your software, then you're the one that fucked up, not me.
I'm going to go buy something from EA just for the fuck of twisting your nuts
Mod this Funny! I'm still chortling at the though of someone buying an EA game to spite someone else. :-D
In what way does it "actually work?" There are DRM free pirate releases of every game ever released in the past with "always on" DRM. It may take a few more days to crack, but it's hardly "working," especially when it's pissing off nearly all your actual customers.
Code Monkey is not a cover.
To be fair, at 25 years old and over 200 games bought on steam I think I fit the target market for PC games pretty squarely, and I just upgraded my 8800 GTS to a GTX550Ti on my computer that is around 6 years old.
I went from needing to run at medium/low settings at 1080 to being able to run just about everything maxed out at 1920x1200 for about $120.
I pretty sure no serious (by which I mean logically sound) skeptical arguments deny that CO2 contributes to warming.
The actual controversy is over how we can expect the warming to be exacerbated or alleviated by feedback loops.
"Alarmists" tend to claim runaway positive feedback loops will cause a dramatic rise in temperature in the near future, while "denialists" tend to argue that these positive feedback loops are counteracted by negative feedback loops that tend to keep the temperature within a reasonable range.
In your own home, with your parents present you are allowed to drink with their permission. However I've never known anyone who drank even primarily in such a fashion, let alone exclusively.
By far the most common form of alcohol consumption as a teenager in the US is binge drinking at a party: http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/underage-drinking.htm
If you're under 21 and at a party drinking alcohol you are a minor in possession, which is against the law in the US.
Nearly everyone drinks before 21, as a point of reference I was home-schooled by fundamentalist Christians, wasn't a particularly wild child, and I still was drinking (illegally) long before 21.
I think many people don't understand how tilted the odds are against life.
It's likely that we would need to search billions of "earth like" planets to find one that had any life potential, let alone one where that potential has given rise to complex organisms.
Find me a windows system where every driver works without a single forum hunt... You're delusional. I use windows almost exclusively, mostly because I game a lot, and I have problems requiring forum hunting all the time.
Just today I've spent ages trying to get this stupid usb headset driver to work in 7x64. Apparently Rosewill still hasn't made it easy after however many years 7 has been out.
A normal user using Ubuntu or another well crafted distro will have a computer exactly as messed up as their windows computer would be.
You should try the HFR 3d, it probably will help with that.
How many libraries of congress is that, exactly?
on many consumer firearms, barrel shrouds ARE nothing more than cosmetic
This is the important distinction in my opinion. The definition of an "assault weapon" is largely based on cosmetic features that *can* have functional uses, rather than on any actual functional difference.
In contrast, the technical definition of an "assault rifle" is quite clearly based on functional differences, irrespective of the cosmetic features of the rifle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle#Definition
This ambiguity contributes greatly to the amount of FUD pumped out about guns in general.
This is a good point, however it is an unfortunate truth that the terms are used interchangeably by the uninformed, including most reporters. I've seen at least a couple news stories saying that the Colorado shooter was using an "assault rifle" in spite of the actual definition including the criteria of selective fire.
For anyone interested, Wikipedia has a decent definition of the differences:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle#Assault_rifles_vs._.22Assault_weapons.22
How many people you know these days that build their own furniture?
I shop at IKEA you insensitive clod!
Body armor does a great job of keeping you alive, and a shit job of keeping you comfortable. It's incredibly hard to continue whatever you're doing while you're being punched repetitively in the center of mass. If a "John Wayne wannabe" would have knocked the breath out of, or even just distracted, the shooter, then there would have been an opportunity for him to be attacked. Your assumption that there is nothing that can be done about an armored attacker with a gun is most likely the product of your unfamiliarity with guns and does not reflect reality.
Furthermore, your ignorance of the subject is showing, the Colorado shooter had no automatic weapons. You were probably confused by the term "assault rifle" which is commonly assumed to mean an automatic weapon, but in fact (in the US) is legally defined as a weapon that has a detachable magazine and at least two of several cosmetic features such as a forward grip or a barrel shroud. This is why assault weapon bans are commonly ridiculed as bans on scary looking guns.
Ultimately, of course, this is all just a bunch of people being brave in hindsight. We know that guns are effective at deterring normal crimes, however an insane shooter obviously offers a different problem. At some point a shooter is going to run up against an armed citizen, and then we'll find out for sure just how effective they will be. Hopefully that armed citizen is responsible and capable of using their weapon effectively and are not just carrying around a gun to feel safe.
I thought A Scanner Darkly was pretty close to the book...
T-Mobile has an "unlimited" data (up to 5gigs full speed) plan with unlimited texts and 100 talk minutes prepaid for 30 bucks a month.
You're wrong. You can have degrees of majority. For example you can have a 1% majority, which is a smaller majority than a 42% or a 69% majority. Using a synonym of 'large' in describing a majority is perfectly valid.
At this stage of my life, my money is worth way more than my time :-)
This. I run Windows because it is free (MSDN Academic Alliance). There is no way I would pay hundreds of dollars for an OS that I can replace perfectly well for free with a bit of extra work.
You're confused about what the crime here is. The "victims" here are legitimate customers who are being sold sub par goods at premium prices, not the media companies.
I cracked mine by setting it on top of a toilet paper dispenser and then brushing it off to land on it's corner on the concrete a couple feet below... I dunno about "prone" but it certainly can be done.