Showtime is a premium channel in most areas. That means you pay to have the ads turned off, much in the same way that GoogleTV is proposing. What the OP here is saying is that he feels that paying to turn off ads that the stations don't even need for revenue is extortion.
Agree or disagree, he is being consistent. He does not believe the ads are necessary to support the show, but that is mere greed that perpetuates them. Therefore, he chooses to revoke his support of the advertisers and networks that support them.
I, personally, think his pirating and the pirating of others is a potentially important catalyst towards change. When studios finally realize that annoying a customer to the point where he would rather steal than deal with your product, they might try a different model.
I can confirm this. I struggle to get much more than 150kbps on 3g. I have complaints about my download speed (can't get more than 800kbps anywhere in Phoenix, but that might just be Sprint's limit. Can anyone confirm that for me? My buddy on Verizon gets 2mbps down easily...
Which puts it on par with, not before the age rating of the games. I guess I just don't see the inconsistancy. Under 17 kids can't see R rated movies without consent either. Not saying its necessarily the "right" law, but I think its consistant at least.
Graphic calculators have no networking capability. Depending on what level of physics you're teaching though, some of TI series calculators can do an entire physics test for you...no knowledge or memory required other than memorizing what buttons to push.
If you're doing into level stuff, a simple calculator should be fine. If you're doing more advanced stuff, you can allow more powerful calculators, but be aware that most common functions are built into such devices and your tests should reflect this (IE: make them apply a formula, interpret a word problem, etc rather than just solve equations or the only thing you're testing is the ability of the student to push buttons).
...games released this year will be based on the same characters, plot devices and game mechanics as that title a quarter century ago. It's all summed up in Nintendo's motto: Why create when you can copy?
For one, I don't know why you're so hostile. For two, you made a big assumption about my statement and then used it as the basis for your entire attack on "my" position.
I made no mentions of exclusivity in my statement. I simply said that citizenship here signifies a choice to live here and agreement to live by our laws. I did not (as you suggest) make the statement that this is the ONLY way in which you make such an agreement. Certainly, presence within the state alone gives the local authorities the right to prosecute you under their rules, but this is perhaps without such formal "consent" as with citizenship or a visa. I also did not make any statement about citizenship in the US being a license to kill anywhere else in the world. I'm not sure where you even began to get that assumption from what I said.
With those two straw-mans out the window, I'm curious what you think of my actual statement, rather than the ones you suppose I made.
You are born a citizen, but keeping that status is your choice. I absolutely agree with the notion that you agree to the laws of the land by claiming citizenship. Until you lose your ability to relinquish citizenship, that will be my stance.
I mean, tobacco is ACTUALLY addictive and no one is suing them. Tons of other hobbies and activities are addictive, either mentally (sudoku) or chemically (jogging) and no one is suing puzzle designers or Nike.
People don't like to take responsibility for their actions any more. We're all victims of someone else's evil. It's never actually our fault.
Not really true....if he paid for all those PLEX (seems foolish to me, but some people have weird financial priorities), then he really did lose $1200 with no return. While you can say that digital goods are not real returns, it doesn't change the fact that $1200 was spent and nothing will come of it.
Someone already explained the reason these things exist (to legally trade real money for in game currency), but I just want to point out the stupidity of the pilot. PLEX do not take up any space at all. He could have transported them in a fully cloaked (read, impossible to detect) Covert Ops ship across the galaxy if he wanted to. Certain parts of space would still be risky, but there's no reason to go to those places since PLEX aren't really sold there....
To non-players, it seems like a development issue to allow a player to be exposed to suck loses as this, but I assure you, it was his own fault. The game has many many many ways of protecting a player when transporting goods such as this. If the player ignores them however....they lose it all (and someone else profits). That's why I love EVE.
"I just want you guys to know that in bowing to pressure from a bunch of religious radicals, you have successfully offended millions of Americans who believe freedom of speech needs to be preserved and protected. You have failed the american people and let the agents of terror dictate your actions.
Now that you have set this precedent, radicals know that all they have to do to get their way is to threaten with violence. Thanks for setting back hundreds of years worth of progressive thought and returning us to the days when the church gets to dictate what the masses can view."
Is that manufacturers are allowed to right EULA's that violate the basic rights of citizens. I'm all for reading the EULA and for receiving consequences upon it's violation, because that's fair. But what I'm confused on is why companies are allowed to write EULA's that specify exactly what can and cannot be done with it period.
Take away service? Ok,that's fair. You don't know what I put on this device, so I can understand if you don't want to support it.
Discontinue updates? I get that, for the same reason as above.
Void warranty? I get that too, since I could easily be an idiot who broke it and that's not your responsibility.
But the one I don't get is why companies are allowed to write EULA's that basically allow them to retain ownership of a device after it's been "purchased." For all legal purposes, this item belongs to the consumer. If it's stolen, it's returned to the consumer, not Apple. Why then, is Apple allowed to make this claim to ownership?
Again, I'm very much in favor of realizing and accepting consequences under the law...but I really think the law is flawed here. The rules for EULA's needs to be visited and rewritten such that purchases of technology amount to more than borrowing your big brother's gameboy.
That's why you think you're losing money, EA? Not the fact that you make shitty games or the fact that you screw over your customers, you think it's pirates that are taking your business away?
Reality check: The reason you want to stop offering Free Demos is because too many people are realizing the game is shit and aren't buying it as a result. Nothing to do with "luxury" or "giving the customer more." You don't "give" people more by charging them where there was no charge before.
I would have way more respect if EA came out and said it was about money for themselves rather than trying to paint it like they're looking out for the players. The players are last on their mind.
The question is will Google jump off the tracks before the China train hits them.
I really don't know who would be more hurt by this. On one hand, Google provides huge resources to China, but on the other hand...google surely gets a lot of revenue from such a huge market.
If the prof isn't getting the attention of the students, he isn't making them do so. Make the class harder/more interesting and people will pay attention or fail.
Banning the laptops is a powertrip and nothing more. The profs have all the control in the world over how easy the class is to pass.
Personally, I've gone to classes of 400 students that ban laptops and take attendance but are boring and easy to pass. So I'm forced to sit in a room and listen for 90 min while the prof drones on and I can't use my laptop to do something more productive and I can't skip class because I'll get marked off points for doing so.
Make the class interesting and challenging and the kids will pay attention, simple as that.
Somewhat true, but I find firefoxe's memory usage and startup time to be really irritating. That and it's gotten cluttered. Chrome's sleekness was the first big reason I switched over. Only the URL bar and bookmark bar take up screen space. The rest of it is dynamially hidden (status bar) or compartimentalized (the settings and configure menus) into smaller areas so as to not take up as much space.
Page loading is well and good, but when it comes down to it, browser's physical size, resource footprint and startup time are more noticible to me.
It still has a lot of compatibility issues. Sites like Youtube, ESPN and others still have bugs in formating and video playback with Flash. I love the speed and it's my primary browser at this point, but if the bugs aren't fixed and a better ad-block isn't added soon, I will be disappointed.
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Showtime is a premium channel in most areas. That means you pay to have the ads turned off, much in the same way that GoogleTV is proposing. What the OP here is saying is that he feels that paying to turn off ads that the stations don't even need for revenue is extortion.
Agree or disagree, he is being consistent. He does not believe the ads are necessary to support the show, but that is mere greed that perpetuates them. Therefore, he chooses to revoke his support of the advertisers and networks that support them.
I, personally, think his pirating and the pirating of others is a potentially important catalyst towards change. When studios finally realize that annoying a customer to the point where he would rather steal than deal with your product, they might try a different model.
You call that an ink defense? Blah!
I was hoping for a Farnsworth joke :(
I can confirm this. I struggle to get much more than 150kbps on 3g. I have complaints about my download speed (can't get more than 800kbps anywhere in Phoenix, but that might just be Sprint's limit. Can anyone confirm that for me? My buddy on Verizon gets 2mbps down easily...
Which puts it on par with, not before the age rating of the games. I guess I just don't see the inconsistancy. Under 17 kids can't see R rated movies without consent either. Not saying its necessarily the "right" law, but I think its consistant at least.
I guess I assumed "minors," in this case, referred to those under the age rating of the game. You are probably right, just not how I read it.
What? M games are 17 and up aren't they? You can't join the military until you're 18....what am I missing here?
Graphic calculators have no networking capability. Depending on what level of physics you're teaching though, some of TI series calculators can do an entire physics test for you...no knowledge or memory required other than memorizing what buttons to push. If you're doing into level stuff, a simple calculator should be fine. If you're doing more advanced stuff, you can allow more powerful calculators, but be aware that most common functions are built into such devices and your tests should reflect this (IE: make them apply a formula, interpret a word problem, etc rather than just solve equations or the only thing you're testing is the ability of the student to push buttons).
...games released this year will be based on the same characters, plot devices and game mechanics as that title a quarter century ago. It's all summed up in Nintendo's motto: Why create when you can copy?
...is an AOL account. What more do you need to know?
For one, I don't know why you're so hostile. For two, you made a big assumption about my statement and then used it as the basis for your entire attack on "my" position.
I made no mentions of exclusivity in my statement. I simply said that citizenship here signifies a choice to live here and agreement to live by our laws. I did not (as you suggest) make the statement that this is the ONLY way in which you make such an agreement. Certainly, presence within the state alone gives the local authorities the right to prosecute you under their rules, but this is perhaps without such formal "consent" as with citizenship or a visa. I also did not make any statement about citizenship in the US being a license to kill anywhere else in the world. I'm not sure where you even began to get that assumption from what I said.
With those two straw-mans out the window, I'm curious what you think of my actual statement, rather than the ones you suppose I made.
You are born a citizen, but keeping that status is your choice. I absolutely agree with the notion that you agree to the laws of the land by claiming citizenship. Until you lose your ability to relinquish citizenship, that will be my stance.
They were sued for false statements about their products. Never for being addictive, as far as I know.
I mean, tobacco is ACTUALLY addictive and no one is suing them. Tons of other hobbies and activities are addictive, either mentally (sudoku) or chemically (jogging) and no one is suing puzzle designers or Nike. People don't like to take responsibility for their actions any more. We're all victims of someone else's evil. It's never actually our fault.
Didn't you hear? It happened when Obama took over the Postal system! Oh wait...
Let the confusion between causation and correlation begin!
Not really true....if he paid for all those PLEX (seems foolish to me, but some people have weird financial priorities), then he really did lose $1200 with no return. While you can say that digital goods are not real returns, it doesn't change the fact that $1200 was spent and nothing will come of it.
Someone already explained the reason these things exist (to legally trade real money for in game currency), but I just want to point out the stupidity of the pilot. PLEX do not take up any space at all. He could have transported them in a fully cloaked (read, impossible to detect) Covert Ops ship across the galaxy if he wanted to. Certain parts of space would still be risky, but there's no reason to go to those places since PLEX aren't really sold there.... To non-players, it seems like a development issue to allow a player to be exposed to suck loses as this, but I assure you, it was his own fault. The game has many many many ways of protecting a player when transporting goods such as this. If the player ignores them however....they lose it all (and someone else profits). That's why I love EVE.
I just went to that link and submitted this:
"I just want you guys to know that in bowing to pressure from a bunch of religious radicals, you have successfully offended millions of Americans who believe freedom of speech needs to be preserved and protected. You have failed the american people and let the agents of terror dictate your actions.
Now that you have set this precedent, radicals know that all they have to do to get their way is to threaten with violence. Thanks for setting back hundreds of years worth of progressive thought and returning us to the days when the church gets to dictate what the masses can view."
Is that manufacturers are allowed to right EULA's that violate the basic rights of citizens. I'm all for reading the EULA and for receiving consequences upon it's violation, because that's fair. But what I'm confused on is why companies are allowed to write EULA's that specify exactly what can and cannot be done with it period.
Take away service? Ok,that's fair. You don't know what I put on this device, so I can understand if you don't want to support it.
Discontinue updates? I get that, for the same reason as above.
Void warranty? I get that too, since I could easily be an idiot who broke it and that's not your responsibility.
But the one I don't get is why companies are allowed to write EULA's that basically allow them to retain ownership of a device after it's been "purchased." For all legal purposes, this item belongs to the consumer. If it's stolen, it's returned to the consumer, not Apple. Why then, is Apple allowed to make this claim to ownership?
Again, I'm very much in favor of realizing and accepting consequences under the law...but I really think the law is flawed here. The rules for EULA's needs to be visited and rewritten such that purchases of technology amount to more than borrowing your big brother's gameboy.
That's why you think you're losing money, EA? Not the fact that you make shitty games or the fact that you screw over your customers, you think it's pirates that are taking your business away? Reality check: The reason you want to stop offering Free Demos is because too many people are realizing the game is shit and aren't buying it as a result. Nothing to do with "luxury" or "giving the customer more." You don't "give" people more by charging them where there was no charge before. I would have way more respect if EA came out and said it was about money for themselves rather than trying to paint it like they're looking out for the players. The players are last on their mind.
The question is will Google jump off the tracks before the China train hits them.
I really don't know who would be more hurt by this. On one hand, Google provides huge resources to China, but on the other hand...google surely gets a lot of revenue from such a huge market.
If the prof isn't getting the attention of the students, he isn't making them do so. Make the class harder/more interesting and people will pay attention or fail.
Banning the laptops is a powertrip and nothing more. The profs have all the control in the world over how easy the class is to pass.
Personally, I've gone to classes of 400 students that ban laptops and take attendance but are boring and easy to pass. So I'm forced to sit in a room and listen for 90 min while the prof drones on and I can't use my laptop to do something more productive and I can't skip class because I'll get marked off points for doing so.
Make the class interesting and challenging and the kids will pay attention, simple as that.
Somewhat true, but I find firefoxe's memory usage and startup time to be really irritating. That and it's gotten cluttered. Chrome's sleekness was the first big reason I switched over. Only the URL bar and bookmark bar take up screen space. The rest of it is dynamially hidden (status bar) or compartimentalized (the settings and configure menus) into smaller areas so as to not take up as much space.
Page loading is well and good, but when it comes down to it, browser's physical size, resource footprint and startup time are more noticible to me.
It still has a lot of compatibility issues. Sites like Youtube, ESPN and others still have bugs in formating and video playback with Flash. I love the speed and it's my primary browser at this point, but if the bugs aren't fixed and a better ad-block isn't added soon, I will be disappointed.