It's a good example of a well done solution to combat piracy, and which is actually more convenient and better than P2P. I'm sure they will try to expand, they've had plans for US for a long time now. Also, their client works perfectly under Wine. With subscription you can also use Despotify and other third party clients (theres some made for Windows Mobile at least)
They were going to provide all the front-end source code, but it looks like they've moved Flash based streaming now. Which is a good thing, that older client was pain in the ass to use on any other kind of computer than a media center.
Well obviously they're only going to send copyright infringement notices for Warner and NBC content because they work for them and are only authorized to send such notices for them. But what makes you think no one else has such departments? I'm quite sure they do, or have outsourced it.
It's not a competition. What they should do is offer Spotify like service for movies all around the world, not just in US, and either ad-supported version or $10-$19 per month paid subscription with perks like PS3 and mobile streaming and so on. After Spotify came around 1.5 years ago people haven't had a need to pirate MP3's anymore. It's actually nicer to use than P2P - that's something that movie industry needs to have to combat piracy (hopefully Voddler will get there). When the service works good and is reasonably priced, you win a lot of customers.
Personally, I'm not worried about the future of Flash either. I don't think it has one.
Except that it's pain in the ass to create Flash-like games with HTML5. You have to use all kinds of hacks to accomplish that, while designers and Flash game creators are familiar and love Flash authoring tools.
Flash isn't just about video, even if it's the most talked part of it here on slashdot.
Fat isn't the problem - it's actually healthy for body and keeps you feeling fulfilled for a long time. The problem is mixing it with carbohydrates. If you eat a lot of carbohydrates and a lot of fat, your body will start burning those carbohydrates first and during that time the fat will go into your body. That's why you gain weight. If you only stayed with fat (or had only a small amount of carbohydrates), your body could start burning the fat right away when it hits your body and it isn't left hanging around.
It doesn't need to change any fat/carb/protein content, but it's how your body reacts to them and their combination.
I disagree about the Baguette, monsieur. It's just bread, not particularly fat, though with a lot of slow sugar. It's basically cereals, and in a healthier form that what you yankees eat for breakfast. But then, it has to be made daily, and also purchased daily by walking to the boulangerie du quartier before breakfast, which explains why you understand nothing about it:-p
Any other white bread, like baguette, is high on carbs and sugar, and doesn't contain almost any fabric like dark bread does.
Bread itself is pretty bad food. If you have to eat bread, then just eat dark high-fabric bread.
where the calories come from (fat/carbs) isn't important when it comes to weight loss.
It is if you want to feel good and healthy, and to keep that food carving away while feeling full. High-fat food keeps you feeling full a lot longer than high-carb food.
Fat isn't the problem - it's actually healthy for body and keeps you feeling fulfilled for a long time. The problem is mixing it with carbohydrates. If you eat a lot of carbohydrates and a lot of fat, your body will start burning those carbohydrates first and during that time the fat will go into your body. That's why you gain weight. If you only stayed with fat (or had only a small amount of carbohydrates), your body could start burning the fat right away when it hits your body and it isn't left hanging around.
A lot of sausages actually contain a lot of carbohydrates. If you eat sausages, you should go with the ones that are almost full meat. The common belief is that bacon is some extremely fatty food, but it really isn't if you don't mix it with carbohydrates. It's salty though, and that's not really good either.
Windows Update does install security updates automatically. You are correct that you can't access Windows Update from the start menu, but if you have automated updates on (either to install automatically or notify you upon available updates), you can install security updates.
If you consider what the most fast and junk food are: pizzas, hamburgers, hot dogs, french fries, sandwiches, kebab rolls, baguettes, kfc's fried chicken, pan pizzas, nuggets and so on.. like this illustrative image shows.
It's not only high-fat thats the problem, but also high-carb. I never really crave for high-fat but low-carb food and my body feels a lot better with low-carb food. It's the combination of high-fat and high-carb that is bad, and leaves all the fat in your body because carbs burn first.
The only piracy they should EVER have gone after, are OEM's who use pirated Windows, and the mass producers of pirated CD's.
But that's what they're doing, they just need to know which OEM's and stores that sell pirated Windows. The WGA site has section where you can report which store you bought your Windows or computer from. I think they even replace your Windows copy free of charge if the store is actually doing that.
Like the another poster who replied, the install another OS feature was there for tax reasons. But then someone got closer exploiting the system to enable rampant piracy on PS3, so Sony thinks its good to close the hole once and for all. The slim versions don't have the feature anyway (and the earlier ones aren't sold anymore)
Baldur's Gate II was released during time when internet piracy wasn't so widespread. Another point is that publishers like to go the sure route instead of taking big changes with games like Baldur's Gate II. If piracy wasn't there, then publishers would most likely be able to take more risks too. Same goes for indie developers too, and they usually do that. Even World of Goo had piracy rate of around 90%.
Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors.
So yes, they have errors too and their software isn't perfect nor bug-free. But their acceptable cost versus bug-free threshold is just a lot more higher than usual software. Exactly what the summary and article is about.
I never said they would try to be fair. I said they would try to maximize the profits. By lowering your products price more people can/might buy it, especially now than there aren't pirates anymore. Some of those pirates don't have the money to buy the $50 game, but they might have for $15. If it's enough more people, then you're increasing your profits. Business ABC, really.
If there wasn't a way for pirates to pirate their game (like now with the Ubisoft always-online-DRM), that higher profit price point might also mean lower prices for everyone when more people would buy it, especially since the pc piracy rate is around 80-90%. If half of those bought the game, it would mean publishers could lower their price by 4 times ($50 -> $12.5) and they would still get the same profit.
No, it wont get higher prices because you can't increase price of a product infinitely just because it's one of a kind product. But it will get higher quality products as publishers and developers will get back a lot more revenue with the same budget. Hell, it can even get us back some more obscure and non-mainstream FPS games because then publishers can take more risks too.
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Pandora is an internet radio. Spotify is like your mp3 player, but instead of your local files you have access to their full huge library.
It's a good example of a well done solution to combat piracy, and which is actually more convenient and better than P2P. I'm sure they will try to expand, they've had plans for US for a long time now. Also, their client works perfectly under Wine. With subscription you can also use Despotify and other third party clients (theres some made for Windows Mobile at least)
They were going to provide all the front-end source code, but it looks like they've moved Flash based streaming now. Which is a good thing, that older client was pain in the ass to use on any other kind of computer than a media center.
Well obviously they're only going to send copyright infringement notices for Warner and NBC content because they work for them and are only authorized to send such notices for them. But what makes you think no one else has such departments? I'm quite sure they do, or have outsourced it.
It's not a competition. What they should do is offer Spotify like service for movies all around the world, not just in US, and either ad-supported version or $10-$19 per month paid subscription with perks like PS3 and mobile streaming and so on. After Spotify came around 1.5 years ago people haven't had a need to pirate MP3's anymore. It's actually nicer to use than P2P - that's something that movie industry needs to have to combat piracy (hopefully Voddler will get there). When the service works good and is reasonably priced, you win a lot of customers.
Maybe you did, but theres again the new generation of teens that play those games, in top of the old ones that still do.
Personally, I'm not worried about the future of Flash either. I don't think it has one.
Except that it's pain in the ass to create Flash-like games with HTML5. You have to use all kinds of hacks to accomplish that, while designers and Flash game creators are familiar and love Flash authoring tools.
Flash isn't just about video, even if it's the most talked part of it here on slashdot.
I explained it further in the discussion, but here's it again for you:
Fat isn't the problem - it's actually healthy for body and keeps you feeling fulfilled for a long time. The problem is mixing it with carbohydrates. If you eat a lot of carbohydrates and a lot of fat, your body will start burning those carbohydrates first and during that time the fat will go into your body. That's why you gain weight. If you only stayed with fat (or had only a small amount of carbohydrates), your body could start burning the fat right away when it hits your body and it isn't left hanging around.
It doesn't need to change any fat/carb/protein content, but it's how your body reacts to them and their combination.
I disagree about the Baguette, monsieur. It's just bread, not particularly fat, though with a lot of slow sugar. It's basically cereals, and in a healthier form that what you yankees eat for breakfast. But then, it has to be made daily, and also purchased daily by walking to the boulangerie du quartier before breakfast, which explains why you understand nothing about it :-p
Any other white bread, like baguette, is high on carbs and sugar, and doesn't contain almost any fabric like dark bread does.
Bread itself is pretty bad food. If you have to eat bread, then just eat dark high-fabric bread.
where the calories come from (fat/carbs) isn't important when it comes to weight loss.
It is if you want to feel good and healthy, and to keep that food carving away while feeling full. High-fat food keeps you feeling full a lot longer than high-carb food.
Fat isn't the problem - it's actually healthy for body and keeps you feeling fulfilled for a long time. The problem is mixing it with carbohydrates. If you eat a lot of carbohydrates and a lot of fat, your body will start burning those carbohydrates first and during that time the fat will go into your body. That's why you gain weight. If you only stayed with fat (or had only a small amount of carbohydrates), your body could start burning the fat right away when it hits your body and it isn't left hanging around.
A lot of sausages actually contain a lot of carbohydrates. If you eat sausages, you should go with the ones that are almost full meat. The common belief is that bacon is some extremely fatty food, but it really isn't if you don't mix it with carbohydrates. It's salty though, and that's not really good either.
Windows Update does install security updates automatically. You are correct that you can't access Windows Update from the start menu, but if you have automated updates on (either to install automatically or notify you upon available updates), you can install security updates.
If you consider what the most fast and junk food are:
pizzas, hamburgers, hot dogs, french fries, sandwiches, kebab rolls, baguettes, kfc's fried chicken, pan pizzas, nuggets and so on.. like this illustrative image shows.
It's not only high-fat thats the problem, but also high-carb. I never really crave for high-fat but low-carb food and my body feels a lot better with low-carb food. It's the combination of high-fat and high-carb that is bad, and leaves all the fat in your body because carbs burn first.
The only piracy they should EVER have gone after, are OEM's who use pirated Windows, and the mass producers of pirated CD's.
But that's what they're doing, they just need to know which OEM's and stores that sell pirated Windows. The WGA site has section where you can report which store you bought your Windows or computer from. I think they even replace your Windows copy free of charge if the store is actually doing that.
Like the another poster who replied, the install another OS feature was there for tax reasons. But then someone got closer exploiting the system to enable rampant piracy on PS3, so Sony thinks its good to close the hole once and for all. The slim versions don't have the feature anyway (and the earlier ones aren't sold anymore)
Again you can blame pirates for this.
DRM is a tool designed for the sole purpose to take stuff away from you, and you shouldn't tolerate its presence.
No, DRM allows you to watch content. That's why it's called Digital Rights Management.
Baldur's Gate II was released during time when internet piracy wasn't so widespread. Another point is that publishers like to go the sure route instead of taking big changes with games like Baldur's Gate II. If piracy wasn't there, then publishers would most likely be able to take more risks too. Same goes for indie developers too, and they usually do that. Even World of Goo had piracy rate of around 90%.
Because console makers all get their share from game sales, hence publishers have to compensate that. With PC that part is cut out.
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Consider these stats : the last three versions of the program -- each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors.
So yes, they have errors too and their software isn't perfect nor bug-free. But their acceptable cost versus bug-free threshold is just a lot more higher than usual software. Exactly what the summary and article is about.
I never said they would try to be fair. I said they would try to maximize the profits. By lowering your products price more people can/might buy it, especially now than there aren't pirates anymore. Some of those pirates don't have the money to buy the $50 game, but they might have for $15. If it's enough more people, then you're increasing your profits. Business ABC, really.
I know Civilization V will be released next fall. I'm not checking every day if it still is so, but I'm nevertheless waiting for the game.
If there wasn't a way for pirates to pirate their game (like now with the Ubisoft always-online-DRM), that higher profit price point might also mean lower prices for everyone when more people would buy it, especially since the pc piracy rate is around 80-90%. If half of those bought the game, it would mean publishers could lower their price by 4 times ($50 -> $12.5) and they would still get the same profit.
That classification is also flawed. What if people sometimes pay, sometimes pirate? You can classify the activity, but not the person.
That classification is also flawed. What if people sometimes pay, sometimes steal from store? You can classify the activity, but not the person.
No, it wont get higher prices because you can't increase price of a product infinitely just because it's one of a kind product. But it will get higher quality products as publishers and developers will get back a lot more revenue with the same budget. Hell, it can even get us back some more obscure and non-mainstream FPS games because then publishers can take more risks too.