Even as an adult of intelligence and wisdom, if no one has taught you how to properly and safely use a power tool, it would still be correct to say such a person should not be trusted to use one, yes?
Depends entirely on whether I may be there with a camera and get the international rights to the pictures.
Your kids will probably be seen as weirdos or at the very least have a hard time socializing in a teenage society that exists mostly via instagram and whatsapp, but that's a different concern. My business is security, not psychotherapy.
As someone who had ZERO privacy as a child, I can tell you with some certainty that this is the perfect way if you wanted to ensure your kids would not trust you with anything, even if you were the last person on earth or the only one who they'd know could solve a problem.
Actually, if you add DRM to your product, the value to me, as a potential buyer, goes down. If I have to expect the game to no longer work after a year or two when you turn off your always-online servers, the value of your product is that of a game I can only play for one or maybe two years, not one of a game I can play for however long I consider it good enough to be played.
I guess it's easy to see why the value for something like this is lower.
"We are not allowed to provide any benchmark results, but we can say that if you consider buying an Intel i9, we should maybe inform you that we have an Athlon that we don't need anymore and you might be interested."
Actually, it's still going on. We just replaced natural selection with our own. We now select, and for different traits. That's not necessarily better, only different.
You certainly have the right to receive compensation for your creation. You also have the right to set the terms, but in the end, it's the buyer that decides whether he accepts that price and the terms attached. And the terms become more and more the reason why I don't buy. There have been quite a few games in the past that I really wanted. Because I love the franchise, because I loved the idea presented, but then I saw the terms and decided that I cannot accept them. The 2013 Sim City was such a title. I had every SC before, from the first back on an Amiga 500 (actually bought the ram expansion just for that one game so I could play it), I still don't have the 2013 version. And by now I know just how badly it sucks and don't want it anyway, but hadn't it been for the copy protection, I would have bought it for the name alone.
So I guess I should be grateful that EA decided to pollute the game. It saved me money.
Whether you get my money for your product depends on the price you stick to it and the value I attribute to it. If I consider the price on par or lower with the value I give it, I buy. If not, I don't. This is why value is the key factor in the game here.
That you want to offset the costs and make a profit is a given, but you have to see the transaction from the point of view of the one who can decide whether or not it happens: The buyer. He, and only he, is the key factor here.
Whether that person copies the game or whether he continues without playing it, the net result is the same to you: No sale. You do assume, though, that anyone not buying your product is automatically someone who copies it. This is not the case. I can want a product and decide against buying it without having to copy it. I can, as astonishing as this may seem to narcissists, actually continue my life without your product.
Yes,/. is pretty much an echo chamber too. So it does help to poke the head out of it once in a while to see what else is there.
The problem is that it's way more comfortable to not do that. If everyone is telling me what I "already know" (read: believe to be true), I feel reinforced, approved and confirmed. What I think is true. Everyone else says so. So it must be true. Any crackpot idea can easily become "truth" that way. If you believe that purple things are out to get you, you'll usually be quite alone with that (and I hope we can agree on this) irrational belief. At least in your immediate circle of friends, acquaintances, coworkers and whatever other social circle you might exist in.
But I am fairly sure in the vast reaches of the internet you will find at least a handful of others who "know" that purple things are out to get you, enslave the world population and take over the world. Slowly and stealthily. And last week you even saw some president of a country nobody knew before with a purple scarf, so these nefarious things already reach for the power! Everyone thought it's just a fashion statement, if only they'd understand the danger we're in!
But you finally found others who understand you and who don't tell you that you're a crackpot, they understand you and they, too, have seen the light and know the truth! And they reinforce you in your knowledge because they, too, know that purple things are out to take over the world. They help you shed the last shreds of doubt you might have had because no longer everyone tells you that you're insane, now everyone tells you that you're absolutely right and they even provide their own "insight" and their own proof!
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Even as an adult of intelligence and wisdom, if no one has taught you how to properly and safely use a power tool, it would still be correct to say such a person should not be trusted to use one, yes?
Depends entirely on whether I may be there with a camera and get the international rights to the pictures.
He wanted fridge privileges last time, too, that's where I draw the line!
Your kids will probably be seen as weirdos or at the very least have a hard time socializing in a teenage society that exists mostly via instagram and whatsapp, but that's a different concern. My business is security, not psychotherapy.
As someone who had ZERO privacy as a child, I can tell you with some certainty that this is the perfect way if you wanted to ensure your kids would not trust you with anything, even if you were the last person on earth or the only one who they'd know could solve a problem.
No, that's the replacement for the CFO.
CEOs are still analogue, you replace them with magic 8-balls
How the hell can someone get the idea that it's ok to spy on someone they allegedly love?
Why would you want someone who you don't know the least thing about spy on your kids? Because he shares his findings with you?
Do you also hire some seedy looking hobo as a babysitter?
Actually, your chances for stress induced diseases are way lower if you're lazy, so...
I'd actually expect the majority of those installs to happen without the consent or even knowledge of those afflicted.
Now I'm curious, who am I shilling for?
And where's my paycheck?
While I don't condone this train of thought, it is sadly the way things are going. What we get to see more and more is this sequence of events:
1. Buy content
2. Try playing it
3. Notice it doesn't work
4. Find content in TPB
5. Download content
6. Play content
If that happens repeatedly, I can fully understand if the user omits steps 1-3 since they essentially are pointless to him.
Actually, if you add DRM to your product, the value to me, as a potential buyer, goes down. If I have to expect the game to no longer work after a year or two when you turn off your always-online servers, the value of your product is that of a game I can only play for one or maybe two years, not one of a game I can play for however long I consider it good enough to be played.
I guess it's easy to see why the value for something like this is lower.
Driverless startup eliminates driver.
Finally a company that puts its money where its mouth is!
"We are not allowed to provide any benchmark results, but we can say that if you consider buying an Intel i9, we should maybe inform you that we have an Athlon that we don't need anymore and you might be interested."
Go and die of a heart attack while trying to pursue "happiness".
I found happiness, and it's here in this comfy chair.
Actually, it's still going on. We just replaced natural selection with our own. We now select, and for different traits. That's not necessarily better, only different.
The early bird catches the worm, but the early worm gets eaten.
Actually, I was one of those buying Skylines. Pretty nice game, actually. Wouldn't have bought it without SC2013, though.
Thanks, EA! ;)
You certainly have the right to receive compensation for your creation. You also have the right to set the terms, but in the end, it's the buyer that decides whether he accepts that price and the terms attached. And the terms become more and more the reason why I don't buy. There have been quite a few games in the past that I really wanted. Because I love the franchise, because I loved the idea presented, but then I saw the terms and decided that I cannot accept them. The 2013 Sim City was such a title. I had every SC before, from the first back on an Amiga 500 (actually bought the ram expansion just for that one game so I could play it), I still don't have the 2013 version. And by now I know just how badly it sucks and don't want it anyway, but hadn't it been for the copy protection, I would have bought it for the name alone.
So I guess I should be grateful that EA decided to pollute the game. It saved me money.
Whether you get my money for your product depends on the price you stick to it and the value I attribute to it. If I consider the price on par or lower with the value I give it, I buy. If not, I don't. This is why value is the key factor in the game here.
That you want to offset the costs and make a profit is a given, but you have to see the transaction from the point of view of the one who can decide whether or not it happens: The buyer. He, and only he, is the key factor here.
Whether that person copies the game or whether he continues without playing it, the net result is the same to you: No sale. You do assume, though, that anyone not buying your product is automatically someone who copies it. This is not the case. I can want a product and decide against buying it without having to copy it. I can, as astonishing as this may seem to narcissists, actually continue my life without your product.
You honestly think that someone who wants Battlefield will buy CoD instead if he spots BF being available on TPB? For real?
None. So enjoy, it ain't on my bill. Add some gas for good measure.
We'd already settle for a clean and righteous Xi Jinping.
Well, that small minority even got Amazon to stop selling it due to complaints...
Yes, /. is pretty much an echo chamber too. So it does help to poke the head out of it once in a while to see what else is there.
The problem is that it's way more comfortable to not do that. If everyone is telling me what I "already know" (read: believe to be true), I feel reinforced, approved and confirmed. What I think is true. Everyone else says so. So it must be true. Any crackpot idea can easily become "truth" that way. If you believe that purple things are out to get you, you'll usually be quite alone with that (and I hope we can agree on this) irrational belief. At least in your immediate circle of friends, acquaintances, coworkers and whatever other social circle you might exist in.
But I am fairly sure in the vast reaches of the internet you will find at least a handful of others who "know" that purple things are out to get you, enslave the world population and take over the world. Slowly and stealthily. And last week you even saw some president of a country nobody knew before with a purple scarf, so these nefarious things already reach for the power! Everyone thought it's just a fashion statement, if only they'd understand the danger we're in!
But you finally found others who understand you and who don't tell you that you're a crackpot, they understand you and they, too, have seen the light and know the truth! And they reinforce you in your knowledge because they, too, know that purple things are out to take over the world. They help you shed the last shreds of doubt you might have had because no longer everyone tells you that you're insane, now everyone tells you that you're absolutely right and they even provide their own "insight" and their own proof!
so...
I needn't go on, do I?