Both of those numbers pretty much represent standard mmorpg pricing at their respective times. The Urban Consumer Price Index (CPI-U which was the first one I found figures for) gives inflation between 1999 and 2010 as 32%, so the price increase is not too different from average inflation.
Using Antivirus programss is like fucking without a condom, blacklisting any registered sex disease carriers. Sooner or later you will catch something.
If you want actual security, you restrict program (not user) access with sandboxing of some kind or another. Of course, most people on the Internet are like horny teenagers and can't be bothered with the trouble of using real protection. And operating system manufacturers are more worried about if you have the rights to fuck someone than how safe the actual fucking is.
The GPL is designed to short-circuit copyright and subvert it against itself, so there really is no hypocrisy. In both cases, the "slashdotter" you're complaining about is railing against copyright.
Start talking about reducing copyrights to 5 years and you will immediately see that what you said doesn't hold true in practice. GPL advocates generally turn out to be firm copyright supporters when you do, begging for an exception that applies to just their code.
OK, that is just another generalization, but there is some actual truth behind it.
It is extremely bad in that you can't increase availability of physical goods by taking it. Using ten year outdated arguments like that makes it hard for me to take you seriously.
On the other hand, the basics of the analogy does describe how things work when groups of people disagree. Violence and crime breaks out until either both sides come to a compromise, or one side beats the other to submission. (and often the compromise comes about by people who aren't on either side decides to step up and take a firmer middle ground)
When it comes to Somalia, there is little chance to come to any kind of compromise, because of the bad state of the country, so force and violence dictates the rules.
The problem is that pro copyright people argue based on "to promote the progress of science and useful arts", which is generally interpreted as the creation of new science and arts. Now, there is a lot to be said about how much copyright actually does promote this, but at least a good argument can be made for it.
But the thing is that the other side simply aren't that concerned about creation. Most probably feel that there is more than enough creation going on already, and instead they are much more concerned about the availability of what has been created. And that is an area where copyright fail by definition, as the act of copyright restricts availability under the pretense of promoting creation.
Only by negotiating a balance of availability and creation that both sides can respect, will this issue ever be resolved. And that may take a long long time.
if I make an appointment with my doctor for 2010-10-11, the year and even the month are given. I want to know the DAY.
In that case you write the day only. As soon as you write the month, you are directly implying that there is an actual need to know the month, and hence makes it more important.
No. Predictions have steadily pointed at 2011-2012 for quite a while. Just look at potaroo.net's ipv4 report that has multiple versions on archive.org.
* You are a sociopath/psychopath. * You do it because "you have no other choice". * You redefine worthwhile being to not include your victims. (usually via some kind of ideology/religion) * You manage cognitive dissonance by using mental compartments. (and humans are very good at that)
No need to cite. My statement stands at it is. Where are the figures that show that we can feed the planet multiple times over without using fossil fuel.
And how much fossil fuel is expended every day to produce all that food. Sustainability is exactly that, sustainability. Burning fossil fuel to support a qualitative life for the world population is not sustainable.
And as I very much prefer qualitative life over quantitative life I am very much in favor of general birth control.
sit in their parents basements sending 3,000 texts a day and spending the 12 hours a day that they are not sleeping playing World of Warfare.
That would be pretty much the ideal citizen with minimal physical resource usage.
Meanwhile you have people driving alone to work every day where they design plastic stuff that will break after a certain amount of time, that then is produced in a factory in a 3rd world country before shipped between continents so that the person can buy the plastic stuff that soon will break with the money he earned designing it. What an amount of resource wastage.
Of course, we will soon to start to see the real toll on the current wastage in society. Resource access will be increasingly expensive during the 21st century as fossil energy gets more and more expensive to extract in sufficient amounts. Meanwhile the worlds population will continue to creep up, and may very well hit roof when we least expect it. The problem with exponential growth is that it is very difficult to correctly estimate when you will hit the roof as you can't truly see it until it is too late.
There are two types of people concerned about over population: suicides and hypocrites. Given that you're still pounding away on your keyboard, we know which category you fall into.
Advocating that exponential growth is a bad thing does not make you a hypocrite if you aren't a suicider. But at least we know one thing. Only a complete moron would fall into that kind of reasoning, so we know which category you fall into.
Crime rates in states with permissive gun laws are almost invariably much lower than in states and cities (like DC and Chicago) with very strict gun laws.
Correlation does not imply causation though. Is it high crime rates that lead to strict gun laws or is it strict gun laws that lead to high crime rates.
It isn't due to mismanagement of resources exactly. Companies lean on their political "friends". The politicians then lean on the FBI, and the work gets done. While this should be considered mismanagement, the FBI is a government organization, and political pressures do come into play
That is pretty much the definition of mismanagement in a government organization.
Frequency does not equal liquidity. That is a lie brought up by bankers to justify HFT. What you get from HFT is nothing but fake liquidity. Volume that doesn't matter to the actual liquidity of the market, and in fact hurts it and can disappear at the blink of an eye. Real liquidity comes from a transparent market where traders can believe in the value of what is sold, and can discover what is for sale on a reasonably fast timescale.
And "fast timescale" doesn't have to be that fast, since pretty much nothing on a real business timescale moves faster than on a day to day basis. The whole idea that you need millisecond, second or minute based liquidity is bullshit from start to finish. The only thing fast trading like that accomplishes is to obscure information from buyers, creating a market with less actual liquidity.
Slashdot Mirror
MMO prices haven't gone up in two decades
1999: $9,89 (Source: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/history/patches-1999.html)
2010: $14,99 (Source: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/faq/general.html)
Both of those numbers pretty much represent standard mmorpg pricing at their respective times. The Urban Consumer Price Index (CPI-U which was the first one I found figures for) gives inflation between 1999 and 2010 as 32%, so the price increase is not too different from average inflation.
or another more intelligent solution?
Using Antivirus programss is like fucking without a condom, blacklisting any registered sex disease carriers. Sooner or later you will catch something.
If you want actual security, you restrict program (not user) access with sandboxing of some kind or another. Of course, most people on the Internet are like horny teenagers and can't be bothered with the trouble of using real protection. And operating system manufacturers are more worried about if you have the rights to fuck someone than how safe the actual fucking is.
The GPL is designed to short-circuit copyright and subvert it against itself, so there really is no hypocrisy. In both cases, the "slashdotter" you're complaining about is railing against copyright.
Start talking about reducing copyrights to 5 years and you will immediately see that what you said doesn't hold true in practice. GPL advocates generally turn out to be firm copyright supporters when you do, begging for an exception that applies to just their code.
OK, that is just another generalization, but there is some actual truth behind it.
Both a bad and good analogy.
It is extremely bad in that you can't increase availability of physical goods by taking it. Using ten year outdated arguments like that makes it hard for me to take you seriously.
On the other hand, the basics of the analogy does describe how things work when groups of people disagree. Violence and crime breaks out until either both sides come to a compromise, or one side beats the other to submission. (and often the compromise comes about by people who aren't on either side decides to step up and take a firmer middle ground)
When it comes to Somalia, there is little chance to come to any kind of compromise, because of the bad state of the country, so force and violence dictates the rules.
The problem is that pro copyright people argue based on "to promote the progress of science and useful arts", which is generally interpreted as the creation of new science and arts. Now, there is a lot to be said about how much copyright actually does promote this, but at least a good argument can be made for it.
But the thing is that the other side simply aren't that concerned about creation. Most probably feel that there is more than enough creation going on already, and instead they are much more concerned about the availability of what has been created. And that is an area where copyright fail by definition, as the act of copyright restricts availability under the pretense of promoting creation.
Only by negotiating a balance of availability and creation that both sides can respect, will this issue ever be resolved. And that may take a long long time.
destruction of the value of human labor
What an interesting way of saying "increasing productivity".
A Democracy allows you to execute a man with a simple majority vote.
And a Republic allows you to execute a man with less votes than that.
Of course! That's why OxyContin, Vicodin, morphine, and countless other prescription drugs
Prescription is just a subgroup of illegal. Of course, the propaganda ministry uses the oxymoronic term "legal with restrictions".
if I make an appointment with my doctor for 2010-10-11, the year and even the month are given. I want to know the DAY.
In that case you write the day only. As soon as you write the month, you are directly implying that there is an actual need to know the month, and hence makes it more important.
most important information first format of DAY-MONTH-YEAR.
I was born on day six. You obviously have no need to know the month and year since it is less important according to you.
Weren't all addresses supposed to be gone by now?
No. Predictions have steadily pointed at 2011-2012 for quite a while. Just look at potaroo.net's ipv4 report that has multiple versions on archive.org.
consuming
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Are you kidding. They will raise prices by 50% because there is less competition.
* You are a sociopath/psychopath.
* You do it because "you have no other choice".
* You redefine worthwhile being to not include your victims. (usually via some kind of ideology/religion)
* You manage cognitive dissonance by using mental compartments. (and humans are very good at that)
I've yet to see any evidence it's irreplaceable.
No need to cite. My statement stands at it is. Where are the figures that show that we can feed the planet multiple times over without using fossil fuel.
We already know we can feed the planet several times over on today's technology if we could just sort out the politics.
No we don't. All figures saying that are based on unsustainable ways of producing and transporting said food.
And how much fossil fuel is expended every day to produce all that food. Sustainability is exactly that, sustainability. Burning fossil fuel to support a qualitative life for the world population is not sustainable.
And as I very much prefer qualitative life over quantitative life I am very much in favor of general birth control.
sit in their parents basements sending 3,000 texts a day and spending the 12 hours a day that they are not sleeping playing World of Warfare.
That would be pretty much the ideal citizen with minimal physical resource usage.
Meanwhile you have people driving alone to work every day where they design plastic stuff that will break after a certain amount of time, that then is produced in a factory in a 3rd world country before shipped between continents so that the person can buy the plastic stuff that soon will break with the money he earned designing it. What an amount of resource wastage.
Of course, we will soon to start to see the real toll on the current wastage in society. Resource access will be increasingly expensive during the 21st century as fossil energy gets more and more expensive to extract in sufficient amounts. Meanwhile the worlds population will continue to creep up, and may very well hit roof when we least expect it. The problem with exponential growth is that it is very difficult to correctly estimate when you will hit the roof as you can't truly see it until it is too late.
There are two types of people concerned about over population: suicides and hypocrites. Given that you're still pounding away on your keyboard, we know which category you fall into.
Advocating that exponential growth is a bad thing does not make you a hypocrite if you aren't a suicider. But at least we know one thing. Only a complete moron would fall into that kind of reasoning, so we know which category you fall into.
Crime rates in states with permissive gun laws are almost invariably much lower than in states and cities (like DC and Chicago) with very strict gun laws.
Correlation does not imply causation though. Is it high crime rates that lead to strict gun laws or is it strict gun laws that lead to high crime rates.
The "old way" to cope was to get a hooker, but apparently Japan's become too prudish for that.
Seriously, did you just compare a visit to a hooker with a longer term emotional attachment?
Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard.
Really? |I'm not sure what the hosting company did wrong.
They challenged a lawful evil company in a country where laws are bought. Not a good idea.
It isn't due to mismanagement of resources exactly. Companies lean on their political "friends". The politicians then lean on the FBI, and the work gets done. While this should be considered mismanagement, the FBI is a government organization, and political pressures do come into play
That is pretty much the definition of mismanagement in a government organization.
Frequency does not equal liquidity. That is a lie brought up by bankers to justify HFT. What you get from HFT is nothing but fake liquidity. Volume that doesn't matter to the actual liquidity of the market, and in fact hurts it and can disappear at the blink of an eye. Real liquidity comes from a transparent market where traders can believe in the value of what is sold, and can discover what is for sale on a reasonably fast timescale.
And "fast timescale" doesn't have to be that fast, since pretty much nothing on a real business timescale moves faster than on a day to day basis. The whole idea that you need millisecond, second or minute based liquidity is bullshit from start to finish. The only thing fast trading like that accomplishes is to obscure information from buyers, creating a market with less actual liquidity.