No, some movies are so terrible that anyone involved in the creation of it should not be rewarded in any way, shape or form, but at the same time, there's the trainwreck factor. You *want* to see an example of something done so poorly. Thus, pirate it.
I own over 200 movies and 50 television seasons, and I think there's *one* with previews I can't skip. The only time I've run in to that sort of thing regularly is when I tried renting from Blockbuster, but even that doesn't happen often now.
Now anyone with common sense could have looked at my Maryland license plus how I was dressed (shorts/Tshirt), and realized I was a tourist not a smuggler.
While I congratulate you on your refusal to comply for no reason, I have to point out this is one of the absolute butt-fuckingly stupidest things I've ever read. In your world, do burglars go around in striped shirts and small black masks over their eyes, carrying sacks with dollar signs on them? Do pirates all have wooden peg legs and eye patches?
"I didn't look like a smuggler so obviously I wasn't one." Christ.
*points to sig* I'm Canadian. I'm never near a server. I'm so not near a server that when I used to play TF2, I managed to get fairly good at playing with a ping of 700. Never quite managed the 800. Eventually moved to where I could change ISP, and now I deal with 150-200 as a regular ping.
I can't recall any service ever placing a server in Canada. So even if they placed a server right on the border, I'd be hundreds of kilometres away. But a server on the border would be in Montana, which I imagine gets screwed over nearly as often. So, if I was lucky, they'd place a server in Seattle, something like 700 km away.
However, the plus side of my situation is I already know exactly how services like this will work for anyone not in the exact region of the server: poorly.
Except that electrons travel a fuckton slower than the speed of light through a wire. 66% through standard coaxial.
Further, the issue is latency. In an average multiplayer game with a dedicated server and a good connection, I can still have a ping of 200 ms, which is noticeable. And that's without the server needing to render the entire scene, saturating my bandwidth. So, for a SINGLE PLAYER GAME, I'm using a good chunk of my bandwidth, looking at possibilities of 200 ms latencies, less if I'm lucky, more if I'm not, and if my network spazzes out and drops for a minute, or any router along the way fucks up and needs to reroute, I get fucked over.
How the fuck can anyone think this is a good idea? It's like Ubisoft's DRM, but somehow even MORE retarded.
Oh my, YOU haven't heard of a meme, so therefore it must not be common?! *gasp* how the FUCK could I have been so blind? Toss off, you arrogant fuck. It's a dirt-old meme, and more common than your mom's phone number in bathroom stalls. And I believe that since you practically live online, YOU fail at life.
(And I'm aware that ranting at an AC also puts me in running for that failure, but I'm comfortable with that)
Not when it's done through government intervention. That's the very antithesis of the Free Market. The Invisible Hand is supposed to take care of all of society's needs, relegating government to a law enforcement role at best. But if there's no profit in something, the free market will seldom-if-ever take an interest in something. And thus hybrid markets where the government steps in to fill holes is proven to be a much more logical and reasonable option.
That's not from lack of awareness. That's from both fear and lack of access to medical treatment. Are you aware of the cost of things like mammograms? How do you expect the average American without health insurance to swing inspections like that? And if they *can,* then they have to overcome the "if I don't know about it, it's not real" thinking. Increasing awareness won't help either of those things. Increasing access to medical testing facilities and improving detection methods to in-clinic abilities would help that.
Except in cases like this, "losing the customers" doesn't mean they go to a different company, it means the customer died. And a dead customer is one you don't need to worry about any more. So, in a case where the customer's choice is "pay or die," you don't need to give a shit about them. Few people are going to willingly choose death.
You don't "depart" facebook. You can't delete your profile. Trust me. I tried. The best you can do is remove *most* of the information, and try and falsify the rest, and then hope they don't go too far in to the backups to get your old information.
While the relevancy criteria is retarded, the problem is joke entries in any collection of knowledge damage the collection as a whole. I doubt XKCD-tards would be willing to have it labelled clearly as a joke, which it would need to be, in order to not confuse people.
I don't think they care about teasing, but XKCD fans continually vandalize pages. Any time *anything* is even *tangentially* mentioned on XKCD, within minutes you have morons trying to edit related pages to add in the XKCD reference. It creates a lot of bullshit work for them, and by this point in time, I wouldn't be surprised if Wikipedia just auto-reverted any edit that mentioned XKCD. After years of bullshit from XKCD fans, I'm not surprised they don't have a sense of humour about this any more.
then congratulations, you're a fucking moron. XKCD hasn't been even so much as clever in hundreds of comics. Any time it's not contrived and poorly set up, it's poorly executed. Sure, there's concepts that could be funny, but Munroe needs an editor, or an assistant. Someone to point out the retarded edges in his work, and get him back up to the standard he was at in his early work.
No, Wikipedia is not proof in that statement. I suggest you go look up the meaning of "proof." It could be part of A proof, such as "Person + Citation of Wikipedia = idiot," but since it's not Wikipedia saying that people who use it are idiots, it, itself, is not proof.
Market share has absolutely nothing to do with vertical monopolies, which is what Apple has. That's where you control each step of production along the way. Apple doesn't have a total vertical monopoly, since they don't make the individual components, but they've got a stranglehold on the consumer's end, and that's what they should be nailed on if an anti-monopoly investigation goes through.
Huh. I thought Apple would have taken issue with them being retailed as such. Really, I'd just extrapolated from the reaction to Mac Clones. Probably not the best comparison, in retrospect.
Within a year 90%+ of online videos will have a HTML5 alternative.
Bullshit. Maybe 90% of YOUTUBE videos will have an HTML5 equivalent, but I doubt you're going to see any mass conversions by sites like blip.tv, and more and more people are moving away from YouTube due to their insane overreactions on any random DMCA claim, and other issues, not to mention the blackbox-style account suspensions and deletions.
Saying "Flash will be dead in a year" is like saying "This is the year of the Linux Desktop." Yeah, we'd like to believe it, it'd even be nice if it was true! But in your heart of hearts, you know it sure as heck ain't happening.
This isn't true on OS X where a Core 2 Duo @ 3Ghz isn't fast enough to watch a flash video without stuttering.
People keep saying this, but I was able to watch it on a 2.5 GHz machine on full screen with no issues. So I don't know what the fuck YOU people are doing, but you're obviously damn well doing it WRONG.
Um, there's a lot of video sites beyond youtube that are mostly flash-contained videos. In fact, the streaming sites like Ustream, that seem right up the mobile market's alley, are flash. And it's not "the iPhone supports youtube," it's "Youtube supports the iphone." You've got it backwards.
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No, some movies are so terrible that anyone involved in the creation of it should not be rewarded in any way, shape or form, but at the same time, there's the trainwreck factor. You *want* to see an example of something done so poorly. Thus, pirate it.
I own over 200 movies and 50 television seasons, and I think there's *one* with previews I can't skip. The only time I've run in to that sort of thing regularly is when I tried renting from Blockbuster, but even that doesn't happen often now.
Now anyone with common sense could have looked at my Maryland license plus how I was dressed (shorts/Tshirt), and realized I was a tourist not a smuggler.
While I congratulate you on your refusal to comply for no reason, I have to point out this is one of the absolute butt-fuckingly stupidest things I've ever read. In your world, do burglars go around in striped shirts and small black masks over their eyes, carrying sacks with dollar signs on them? Do pirates all have wooden peg legs and eye patches?
"I didn't look like a smuggler so obviously I wasn't one." Christ.
*points to sig* I'm Canadian. I'm never near a server. I'm so not near a server that when I used to play TF2, I managed to get fairly good at playing with a ping of 700. Never quite managed the 800. Eventually moved to where I could change ISP, and now I deal with 150-200 as a regular ping.
I can't recall any service ever placing a server in Canada. So even if they placed a server right on the border, I'd be hundreds of kilometres away. But a server on the border would be in Montana, which I imagine gets screwed over nearly as often. So, if I was lucky, they'd place a server in Seattle, something like 700 km away.
However, the plus side of my situation is I already know exactly how services like this will work for anyone not in the exact region of the server: poorly.
Except that electrons travel a fuckton slower than the speed of light through a wire. 66% through standard coaxial.
Further, the issue is latency. In an average multiplayer game with a dedicated server and a good connection, I can still have a ping of 200 ms, which is noticeable. And that's without the server needing to render the entire scene, saturating my bandwidth. So, for a SINGLE PLAYER GAME, I'm using a good chunk of my bandwidth, looking at possibilities of 200 ms latencies, less if I'm lucky, more if I'm not, and if my network spazzes out and drops for a minute, or any router along the way fucks up and needs to reroute, I get fucked over.
How the fuck can anyone think this is a good idea? It's like Ubisoft's DRM, but somehow even MORE retarded.
Okay.
TACHYONS! Obviously BT has cornered the UK market on Tachyons, and so they're going to be able to run the service flawlessly!
Oh my, YOU haven't heard of a meme, so therefore it must not be common?! *gasp* how the FUCK could I have been so blind? Toss off, you arrogant fuck. It's a dirt-old meme, and more common than your mom's phone number in bathroom stalls. And I believe that since you practically live online, YOU fail at life.
(And I'm aware that ranting at an AC also puts me in running for that failure, but I'm comfortable with that)
I'm in Edmonton, and I accessed it fine. So either a *highly* selective region block, or it was broken for a while.
Not when it's done through government intervention. That's the very antithesis of the Free Market. The Invisible Hand is supposed to take care of all of society's needs, relegating government to a law enforcement role at best. But if there's no profit in something, the free market will seldom-if-ever take an interest in something. And thus hybrid markets where the government steps in to fill holes is proven to be a much more logical and reasonable option.
That's not from lack of awareness. That's from both fear and lack of access to medical treatment. Are you aware of the cost of things like mammograms? How do you expect the average American without health insurance to swing inspections like that? And if they *can,* then they have to overcome the "if I don't know about it, it's not real" thinking. Increasing awareness won't help either of those things. Increasing access to medical testing facilities and improving detection methods to in-clinic abilities would help that.
Except in cases like this, "losing the customers" doesn't mean they go to a different company, it means the customer died. And a dead customer is one you don't need to worry about any more. So, in a case where the customer's choice is "pay or die," you don't need to give a shit about them. Few people are going to willingly choose death.
You don't "depart" facebook. You can't delete your profile. Trust me. I tried. The best you can do is remove *most* of the information, and try and falsify the rest, and then hope they don't go too far in to the backups to get your old information.
Hmm. While they don't come right out and say it, yes, the implication is there. I suppose I stand corrected. I thank you, kind AC.
I agree with the online use. In a casual conversation or argument, Wikipedia is fine. Like many other tools, you must know how and when to use it.
Wait, are you saying that being equal to 4chan is defcon 1?
While the relevancy criteria is retarded, the problem is joke entries in any collection of knowledge damage the collection as a whole. I doubt XKCD-tards would be willing to have it labelled clearly as a joke, which it would need to be, in order to not confuse people.
I don't think they care about teasing, but XKCD fans continually vandalize pages. Any time *anything* is even *tangentially* mentioned on XKCD, within minutes you have morons trying to edit related pages to add in the XKCD reference. It creates a lot of bullshit work for them, and by this point in time, I wouldn't be surprised if Wikipedia just auto-reverted any edit that mentioned XKCD. After years of bullshit from XKCD fans, I'm not surprised they don't have a sense of humour about this any more.
"What's the deal with airline peanuts?!"
That's damn near the exact same joke as the XKCD strip in question. Just rephrase it slightly to:
"What's the deal with Wikipedia and certain words?!"
If you're stooping to Seinfeldian-stand up materials, you're really starting to hit the bottom of the barrel.
then congratulations, you're a fucking moron. XKCD hasn't been even so much as clever in hundreds of comics. Any time it's not contrived and poorly set up, it's poorly executed. Sure, there's concepts that could be funny, but Munroe needs an editor, or an assistant. Someone to point out the retarded edges in his work, and get him back up to the standard he was at in his early work.
No, Wikipedia is not proof in that statement. I suggest you go look up the meaning of "proof." It could be part of A proof, such as "Person + Citation of Wikipedia = idiot," but since it's not Wikipedia saying that people who use it are idiots, it, itself, is not proof.
http://forums.xkcd.com/index.php?sid=8c08665f1da236f070e4643112e61c0e
The name of the forums alone proves the rampant idiocy inherent in them. "Echo Chamber." Where you hear the same thing endlessly, reinforcing itself.
Market share has absolutely nothing to do with vertical monopolies, which is what Apple has. That's where you control each step of production along the way. Apple doesn't have a total vertical monopoly, since they don't make the individual components, but they've got a stranglehold on the consumer's end, and that's what they should be nailed on if an anti-monopoly investigation goes through.
Huh. I thought Apple would have taken issue with them being retailed as such. Really, I'd just extrapolated from the reaction to Mac Clones. Probably not the best comparison, in retrospect.
Within a year 90%+ of online videos will have a HTML5 alternative.
Bullshit. Maybe 90% of YOUTUBE videos will have an HTML5 equivalent, but I doubt you're going to see any mass conversions by sites like blip.tv, and more and more people are moving away from YouTube due to their insane overreactions on any random DMCA claim, and other issues, not to mention the blackbox-style account suspensions and deletions.
Saying "Flash will be dead in a year" is like saying "This is the year of the Linux Desktop." Yeah, we'd like to believe it, it'd even be nice if it was true! But in your heart of hearts, you know it sure as heck ain't happening.
This isn't true on OS X where a Core 2 Duo @ 3Ghz isn't fast enough to watch a flash video without stuttering.
People keep saying this, but I was able to watch it on a 2.5 GHz machine on full screen with no issues. So I don't know what the fuck YOU people are doing, but you're obviously damn well doing it WRONG.
Um, there's a lot of video sites beyond youtube that are mostly flash-contained videos. In fact, the streaming sites like Ustream, that seem right up the mobile market's alley, are flash. And it's not "the iPhone supports youtube," it's "Youtube supports the iphone." You've got it backwards.