I believe a lot of places in Canada confiscate the vehicles of the Johns, in addition to making them attend "John school" on a first offense, and jail later.
There's a difference between "conservative," and "Republican." Just like there's a difference between "Democrat" and "liberal." Thanks for taking offense to something that wasn't actually said.
Ceramic pistols. They exist. Expensive, but if you're strapping to get on a plane anyways, you'll probably spend the extra. So, no, there's no guarantee that either would show up in metal detectors. However, a quick pat-down would probably be more efficient than the scanner.
they don't just have quirky issues, they -often- have quirky issues.
You aren't kidding about "quirky issues." My old XPS put the rear right sound out the front left speaker. And the front left sound out the front left speaker. And it wasn't the speakers, since I'm still using them and they're working fine. It was some issue in the machine itself. I never did manage to fix it.
Ah, wasn't trying to imply that one's worse than the other, just that they're not equivalent. Like most legal issues, what's worse mostly depends on the circumstances of the case. Mea culpa.
Hell, I'd pay $20 for even one HD movie streamed to me a month. Granted, that's Canadian dollars. Which of course brings me to my biggest pet peeve of digital distribution. Seriously. Fuck you guys, stop region-locking your shit. If I want to legitimately purchase a download off Amazon.com, fucking LET ME, because your crippled-ass distribution system won't let Amazon.ca do any of the fun stuff. Argh.
My problem is they feel entitled to charge the same price for a digital copy as a hard copy, when obviously they're making magnitudes more profit on digital sales. You need to make one copy of the file available, and then a smackload of bandwidth, vs. pressing thousands of DVDs, cases, packaging, shipping, etc. Charge me more for regular def vs. high-def files, since it's more bandwidth, and takes higher-tech equipment on the front end, fine. But if I'm buying it and downloading it, rather than getting a physical medium, I want a discount. Not even a lot. Make that $30 movie $25. Make it worth my while to get the download from you instead of from the store (cheaper) or pirating it (since most pirated copies are just the film, no special features). If your customer base feels entitled, figure out why, and bloody PANDER to that. Make it cheaper, release it earlier, include features that aren't otherwise available. Most people aren't pirates for the hell of it, or to "stick it to the man." It's because they don't feel they're getting value for what's being charged.
Actually, I think he's saying that it's the companies that are saying "theft = infringement." Even if he isn't, I'm saying it now. You'll notice pretty much none of the *AA cases are focusing on "they stole" but "they're breaking copyright, thus infringing on our property." (or at least that's how they're presented in the media, which is as good as presenting the case that way, in the public's mind) Piracy's still theft. It's not "copyright infringement." Copyright was supposed to be about preventing others from using your work to their financial gain, thus reducing your profit. That's why derivative and fair use are in there as acceptable. Most pirates aren't out there selling the copies, they're acting more like a library, making the materials available for others to take. If you wanna liken it to criminal activity, it'd be someone shoplifting a DVD and then passing it around to all their friends to have a look. Most pirates are just simply missing the personal gain factor that would make it a true copyright infringement case.
Well hoo-fucking-rah for you. Through no choice of my own, I've moved 8 times since 2001. I've put things in storage, out of storage, etc. When you have to move that often, shit happens. CDs get lost and damaged in transit. I like a service that allows me to get a game back even after the media's been trashed. And did I mention piracy? No. I don't give a shit about that in this case. I don't look at it as a DRM service, I look at it as a "don't worry about keeping track of discs" service. As for the "not quite latest patch" bit, if I'm playing multi-player games such as TF2 or L4D, I fucking want you playing the same version I am so that you're not using an exploit from the previous version. For single player, I don't care. And you can turn off auto-updating, you know.
Are you intending to argue that listening to music that was produced by someone else (at a cost to the producer) is an inherent natural right of human beings and therefore downloading it (without compensation to the producer) constitutes no moral or ethical injustice?
I don't know what their intent was, but I venture the guess that it was more along the lines of "an individual has the right to not have his/her life destroyed beyond repair by a corporation." 3 years and 100k debt for this trial. It's a civil case, and damages against an individual should be both proportionate to the infraction and their means to make reparations. There's no call to be asking $200,000 for fewer than 50 songs when they can't prove they lost that much.
And yet again, the number of people who can play well enough to be teachers is much smaller than the pool of total players. And it still takes a lot of dedication to be good enough to teach guitar. Further more, people who just randomly bring their guitars to parties are FUCKING ANNOYING. You know why? If they weren't ask to, there's been no accommodations made for them, and they expect everyone else to bend over for them. If there's music playing, that needs to be turned down/off. They need relative quiet for tuning, then they want space to play in, and if not everyone wants to listen, you're still considered a rude asshole by the player if you don't hush up. And in the end, you're still just playing for yourself since no one else can play, and what you play is ultimately up to you and what you know.
With Guitar Hero, you can have multiple people playing, you're limited by the play list, not any one person's knowledge, everyone else can still carry on with what they want to do, people can swap in and out. Overall, it's a much more involving and social experience, and this looks like it will take it even further. So don't be a fan of GH if you want, no skin off my nose, but take your bullshit "Learn a real guitar instead" drek elsewhere.
Except they've gone on record that if Valve ever goes under, the last thing they'd do is unlock all the games. You look at it as long-term renting. I look at it as never losing a game by being unable to find the CD again.
maybe, but it's being handled differently now. It leaves an image of your corpse, and makes you invisible for a few seconds. So shooting a corpse more wouldn't help.
Except that would only lead them to the author, not the person who uploaded it. And if this person's trusting you that much, I doubt they'd give you up to the cops, especially when they're *the author*. Who cares about the distributor at that point, unless you're going for a "salt the earth" strategy.
I didn't seem anyone mention replayability. Just fun and personality. A game that's quality to go through the first time doesn't need collectables, or multiple paths, or any of that other shit. You play it again not for completion's sake, you play it 'cause it's frakking FUN!
Maybe when SSD drives have something resembling real world capacity, our machines will begin to feel less suggish.
First, I find this comment hilarious due to remembering the times when 1GB drives where hideously large, and games came on multiple CDs because there'd be no room to install the data, and SSDs are widely available at 64GB.
Second, I think I could probably get by with drives that small, if the price wasn't so stupid. I can get nearly a TB in HDD for $100 if I shop around. Or I can get 64GB SSD for 4x that price. So IMO, it's not the size, it's the price that's the limiter.
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I believe a lot of places in Canada confiscate the vehicles of the Johns, in addition to making them attend "John school" on a first offense, and jail later.
There's a difference between "conservative," and "Republican." Just like there's a difference between "Democrat" and "liberal." Thanks for taking offense to something that wasn't actually said.
Ceramic pistols. They exist. Expensive, but if you're strapping to get on a plane anyways, you'll probably spend the extra. So, no, there's no guarantee that either would show up in metal detectors. However, a quick pat-down would probably be more efficient than the scanner.
As it's probably about the only thing he'd be able to come up with, we'll have to settle for that.
they don't just have quirky issues, they -often- have quirky issues.
You aren't kidding about "quirky issues." My old XPS put the rear right sound out the front left speaker. And the front left sound out the front left speaker. And it wasn't the speakers, since I'm still using them and they're working fine. It was some issue in the machine itself. I never did manage to fix it.
Ah, wasn't trying to imply that one's worse than the other, just that they're not equivalent. Like most legal issues, what's worse mostly depends on the circumstances of the case. Mea culpa.
Hell, I'd pay $20 for even one HD movie streamed to me a month. Granted, that's Canadian dollars. Which of course brings me to my biggest pet peeve of digital distribution. Seriously. Fuck you guys, stop region-locking your shit. If I want to legitimately purchase a download off Amazon.com, fucking LET ME, because your crippled-ass distribution system won't let Amazon.ca do any of the fun stuff. Argh.
There's nothing in that link relating to anything here.
My problem is they feel entitled to charge the same price for a digital copy as a hard copy, when obviously they're making magnitudes more profit on digital sales. You need to make one copy of the file available, and then a smackload of bandwidth, vs. pressing thousands of DVDs, cases, packaging, shipping, etc. Charge me more for regular def vs. high-def files, since it's more bandwidth, and takes higher-tech equipment on the front end, fine. But if I'm buying it and downloading it, rather than getting a physical medium, I want a discount. Not even a lot. Make that $30 movie $25. Make it worth my while to get the download from you instead of from the store (cheaper) or pirating it (since most pirated copies are just the film, no special features). If your customer base feels entitled, figure out why, and bloody PANDER to that. Make it cheaper, release it earlier, include features that aren't otherwise available. Most people aren't pirates for the hell of it, or to "stick it to the man." It's because they don't feel they're getting value for what's being charged.
Yep. Disney's the one pushing the hardest for extensions in the US. Every time Mickey's about to go public, they get another 20 years tacked on.
Talk about your mickey mouse laws...
Actually, I think he's saying that it's the companies that are saying "theft = infringement." Even if he isn't, I'm saying it now. You'll notice pretty much none of the *AA cases are focusing on "they stole" but "they're breaking copyright, thus infringing on our property." (or at least that's how they're presented in the media, which is as good as presenting the case that way, in the public's mind) Piracy's still theft. It's not "copyright infringement." Copyright was supposed to be about preventing others from using your work to their financial gain, thus reducing your profit. That's why derivative and fair use are in there as acceptable. Most pirates aren't out there selling the copies, they're acting more like a library, making the materials available for others to take. If you wanna liken it to criminal activity, it'd be someone shoplifting a DVD and then passing it around to all their friends to have a look. Most pirates are just simply missing the personal gain factor that would make it a true copyright infringement case.
I've never in decades lost a single game.
Well hoo-fucking-rah for you. Through no choice of my own, I've moved 8 times since 2001. I've put things in storage, out of storage, etc. When you have to move that often, shit happens. CDs get lost and damaged in transit. I like a service that allows me to get a game back even after the media's been trashed. And did I mention piracy? No. I don't give a shit about that in this case. I don't look at it as a DRM service, I look at it as a "don't worry about keeping track of discs" service. As for the "not quite latest patch" bit, if I'm playing multi-player games such as TF2 or L4D, I fucking want you playing the same version I am so that you're not using an exploit from the previous version. For single player, I don't care. And you can turn off auto-updating, you know.
Are you intending to argue that listening to music that was produced by someone else (at a cost to the producer) is an inherent natural right of human beings and therefore downloading it (without compensation to the producer) constitutes no moral or ethical injustice?
I don't know what their intent was, but I venture the guess that it was more along the lines of "an individual has the right to not have his/her life destroyed beyond repair by a corporation." 3 years and 100k debt for this trial. It's a civil case, and damages against an individual should be both proportionate to the infraction and their means to make reparations. There's no call to be asking $200,000 for fewer than 50 songs when they can't prove they lost that much.
Um... you can. http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2008/11/official-guitar/
Whoever modded this insightful needs to do research, this was obviously a troll.
And yet again, the number of people who can play well enough to be teachers is much smaller than the pool of total players. And it still takes a lot of dedication to be good enough to teach guitar. Further more, people who just randomly bring their guitars to parties are FUCKING ANNOYING. You know why? If they weren't ask to, there's been no accommodations made for them, and they expect everyone else to bend over for them. If there's music playing, that needs to be turned down/off. They need relative quiet for tuning, then they want space to play in, and if not everyone wants to listen, you're still considered a rude asshole by the player if you don't hush up. And in the end, you're still just playing for yourself since no one else can play, and what you play is ultimately up to you and what you know.
With Guitar Hero, you can have multiple people playing, you're limited by the play list, not any one person's knowledge, everyone else can still carry on with what they want to do, people can swap in and out. Overall, it's a much more involving and social experience, and this looks like it will take it even further. So don't be a fan of GH if you want, no skin off my nose, but take your bullshit "Learn a real guitar instead" drek elsewhere.
Except they've gone on record that if Valve ever goes under, the last thing they'd do is unlock all the games. You look at it as long-term renting. I look at it as never losing a game by being unable to find the CD again.
yeah, but do they ever do it any other time?
maybe, but it's being handled differently now. It leaves an image of your corpse, and makes you invisible for a few seconds. So shooting a corpse more wouldn't help.
Except that would only lead them to the author, not the person who uploaded it. And if this person's trusting you that much, I doubt they'd give you up to the cops, especially when they're *the author*. Who cares about the distributor at that point, unless you're going for a "salt the earth" strategy.
That's two words. One of which is a hyphenid.
I didn't seem anyone mention replayability. Just fun and personality. A game that's quality to go through the first time doesn't need collectables, or multiple paths, or any of that other shit. You play it again not for completion's sake, you play it 'cause it's frakking FUN!
nope, with the can
Sunken? Are you kidding? The damned thing flies!
Damn. First time I ever laughed at a comment on here.
Maybe when SSD drives have something resembling real world capacity, our machines will begin to feel less suggish.
First, I find this comment hilarious due to remembering the times when 1GB drives where hideously large, and games came on multiple CDs because there'd be no room to install the data, and SSDs are widely available at 64GB.
Second, I think I could probably get by with drives that small, if the price wasn't so stupid. I can get nearly a TB in HDD for $100 if I shop around. Or I can get 64GB SSD for 4x that price. So IMO, it's not the size, it's the price that's the limiter.