Nope. I still get a JS overlay demanding that I register for an account at The Recorder "Or sign in with LinkedIn!" before I get access to the article.
Which is why we have a dozen games or so in the Call of Duty franchise alone?
That's because they are maintaining the franchise. Just like the always-derided Madden series, they've long been established as popular and will continue to churn out the same things as long as people will keep buying them.
Way to completely fuck up your own point by blaming the wrong group of people.
It's Publishers that don't value the consumer. It's Publishers that want DRM on everything they own the copyright for. It's Publishers that want to enforce these draconian rulesets limiting your access to content across various media so they can force you to pay per platform rather than per piece of content.
You do know there is a book titled "Catch-22", by Joseph Heller, right? And you do know that AC was referring to the story in that book, rather than claiming that our free society is a catch-22, but rather the experience of living in our free society is very similar to the novel.
Because there's a difference in raking in the cash because you make a premium product and people are willing to pay for it, and selling your products at a premium so that you can pay back your investors.
One indicates the company is a market leader, the other indicates the company direction is beholden to a bunch of idiots with money who only want more of it.
You DO realize that the 2nd amendment states that the people's right to keep and bear arms is predicated on them maintaining a "well regulated milita", right?
The 2nd amendment does NOT condone everyone and their uncle hoarding a fucking ARSENAL so they can have masturbation fantasies of going all Neighborhood-Commando when the Federal Government finally decides that the lives and safety of the general public are no longer a concern of the State so or course they'll send out platoons of shock troopers over hill and dale to mow down the poor defenseless chattel, or some other idiotic conspiracy-theory reason.
The people who, as you say, "struggle day to day" take the bus. They don't see $4/gallon gas because they don't have a car. Where's you argument now? Oh, it's supporting the continued subsidization of dirty energy tech for rich people!
Clearly not, since I have no idea what your point is by name-dropping him. Was he killed in a drone strike while providing sensitive US military information to a terrorist organization?
I agree with your reservations about the government directly managing the infrastructure of internet access for all citizens, but maybe they could classify it as a utility and have it regulated similar to electricity and water.
I've had LastPass installed as a browser plugin ever since Gawker got hacked, what 1.5 years ago?
It's... all right. I have a few issues with the service:
The login field detection is utter crap for half of the websites I go to, anything with an in-frame popup login field is completely missed. Also, the auto-login functionality seems to be similarly effective, only about half of the time.
I really don't like that I have to "edit" my saved login credentials just to see the stored password.
I was originally convinced to set up and use LastPass for their customizable, random character password auto-generator. Up until then I had about 4 passwords that I used across all the online logins I had, and they weren't very secure. Given that XKCD has debunked that idea I have grown less interested in random character passwords.
Also, they don't have a free Android App. They give out a 2-week trial of their "Premium" version for free, and that's it.
The difficulty in choosing something like "net worth" is that it is essentially a self'-reported value, unless you want to give monitoring powers to the IRS or some other third party to vet your claims.
And even then, what constitutes to "net worth"? If we're talking assets held minus liabilities owed, then my student loans should keep me tax free for several years after I graduate next summer. What assets would be counted toward calculating net worth? How would I go about determining the value of my books, or my computer software? I know what I paid for my computer 6 years ago, but how much has it depreciated?
If, by extension, you're suggesting that people start recording and monitoring what they own and at least the aggregate value of it, similar to what businesses do, I'm all for it. Too many people don't know what they own, or if it's worth anything.
An Amendment is a ratified change to a legal document. it either replaces the original language, or adds additional provisions to it.
That means the amended document supersedes the original document. You cannot interpret the Constitution without the Bill of Rights, nor any of the other amendments that have passed. Legally, the Constitution doesn't exist without them.
I'm sorry, but you could not be more wrong about this if you tried.
Lovely idea, though since the first 4K monitors will be 84", we'll have to get some serious miniaturization to get the ppi you'd need to fit all that in roughly 1/16 the screen size
I just hope that the story lines in general don't get 'dumbed down' for a more 'general' audience (and by general I actually mean stupid) the same way Hollywood films have
But what happens when the hired fansub group doesn;t want to fansub one of the series that the company has liscensed, or the other way around?
I think fansub groups thrive because they are able to go and work on what they want, and thus have a particular passion about producing something of high quality.
Don't get me wrong, I would happily go bankrupt buying anime if it were subbed with the same care and quality of a fansub group release.
I think an interesting market strategy would be for a distro company to make two editions of an anime. One would be the investor and mother placating censored and dubbed edition, and the other would be fansubbed and uncensored.
The fansub disc extras could include lengthy editor and translator notes on recurring themes throughout the series.
[...] are much better than the dialog professionally translated from written scripts on those same DVDs?
Probably because the fansub translators and editors adhere to self-appointed standards, rather than being forced to work within the confines of corporate mandate.
Scroll up a bit, and you'll see some comments about the terrible censorship placed upon Dragonball Z by 4kids Ent. before it was released in the US.
It has been my experience that cultural idiom, signage, and humor are all either horribly done, or avoided completely by "professional translators"; whereas fansub groups will either have editor/translator notes at the beginning of an episode, or will put a small NB in an unobtrusive part of the screen during the dialog.
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Nope. I still get a JS overlay demanding that I register for an account at The Recorder "Or sign in with LinkedIn!" before I get access to the article.
Yes, that's exactly the problem that GP was illustrating.
Thank you for proving his point. Start recycling, asshole!
Which is why we have a dozen games or so in the Call of Duty franchise alone?
That's because they are maintaining the franchise. Just like the always-derided Madden series, they've long been established as popular and will continue to churn out the same things as long as people will keep buying them.
Way to completely fuck up your own point by blaming the wrong group of people.
It's Publishers that don't value the consumer. It's Publishers that want DRM on everything they own the copyright for. It's Publishers that want to enforce these draconian rulesets limiting your access to content across various media so they can force you to pay per platform rather than per piece of content.
Get it right.
If you attempt to interpret GP in the reverse of what you seem to have, I think you'll get closer to the true point of Tough Love's comment.
You do know there is a book titled "Catch-22", by Joseph Heller, right? And you do know that AC was referring to the story in that book, rather than claiming that our free society is a catch-22, but rather the experience of living in our free society is very similar to the novel.
Because there's a difference in raking in the cash because you make a premium product and people are willing to pay for it, and selling your products at a premium so that you can pay back your investors.
One indicates the company is a market leader, the other indicates the company direction is beholden to a bunch of idiots with money who only want more of it.
+5 Insightful indicates he's not alone in this opinion.
You DO realize that the 2nd amendment states that the people's right to keep and bear arms is predicated on them maintaining a "well regulated milita", right?
The 2nd amendment does NOT condone everyone and their uncle hoarding a fucking ARSENAL so they can have masturbation fantasies of going all Neighborhood-Commando when the Federal Government finally decides that the lives and safety of the general public are no longer a concern of the State so or course they'll send out platoons of shock troopers over hill and dale to mow down the poor defenseless chattel, or some other idiotic conspiracy-theory reason.
The people who, as you say, "struggle day to day" take the bus. They don't see $4/gallon gas because they don't have a car. Where's you argument now? Oh, it's supporting the continued subsidization of dirty energy tech for rich people!
How about that.
Bradley Manning.
Nuff Said.
Clearly not, since I have no idea what your point is by name-dropping him. Was he killed in a drone strike while providing sensitive US military information to a terrorist organization?
The problem is, of course, that the market already did it's "thing".
That thing was to dice up the country into little fiefdoms for each of the ISPs so they could charge whatever the hell they wanted to, which is why we have studies that show US citizens pay the most per megabyte for internet access than anyone else in the world.
I agree with your reservations about the government directly managing the infrastructure of internet access for all citizens, but maybe they could classify it as a utility and have it regulated similar to electricity and water.
It's... all right. I have a few issues with the service:
The login field detection is utter crap for half of the websites I go to, anything with an in-frame popup login field is completely missed. Also, the auto-login functionality seems to be similarly effective, only about half of the time.
I really don't like that I have to "edit" my saved login credentials just to see the stored password.
I was originally convinced to set up and use LastPass for their customizable, random character password auto-generator. Up until then I had about 4 passwords that I used across all the online logins I had, and they weren't very secure. Given that XKCD has debunked that idea I have grown less interested in random character passwords.
Also, they don't have a free Android App. They give out a 2-week trial of their "Premium" version for free, and that's it.
The difficulty in choosing something like "net worth" is that it is essentially a self'-reported value, unless you want to give monitoring powers to the IRS or some other third party to vet your claims.
And even then, what constitutes to "net worth"? If we're talking assets held minus liabilities owed, then my student loans should keep me tax free for several years after I graduate next summer. What assets would be counted toward calculating net worth? How would I go about determining the value of my books, or my computer software? I know what I paid for my computer 6 years ago, but how much has it depreciated?
If, by extension, you're suggesting that people start recording and monitoring what they own and at least the aggregate value of it, similar to what businesses do, I'm all for it. Too many people don't know what they own, or if it's worth anything.
When travelling from one body to the other in a LaGrange system, we're not really concerned about the other 4, are we?
My eyes were already very blue, this made them damn near glow.
They were spraying the crowd with Melange?
Umm... What?
An Amendment is a ratified change to a legal document. it either replaces the original language, or adds additional provisions to it.
That means the amended document supersedes the original document. You cannot interpret the Constitution without the Bill of Rights, nor any of the other amendments that have passed. Legally, the Constitution doesn't exist without them.
I'm sorry, but you could not be more wrong about this if you tried.
Given our debt-based and loan-centric society, one could argue that the money you keep in the bank isn't even money.
The fact that the FLAC conversion software is released under the GPL tells me that won't happen, ever.
No. He's just moved on from the 2001 notion of multimedia that you seem to be clinging to.
What are you referring to? Apple removed DRM from the music available on iTunes back in 2009.
I seriously hope you're not implying that GP thought, and encouraged the idea, that Apple still sells iTunes music with DRM.
Lovely idea, though since the first 4K monitors will be 84", we'll have to get some serious miniaturization to get the ppi you'd need to fit all that in roughly 1/16 the screen size
I just hope that the story lines in general don't get 'dumbed down' for a more 'general' audience (and by general I actually mean stupid) the same way Hollywood films have
Too late.
One Piece, anyone?
Try reading the last sentence of that paragraph.
"I am at my best friend's house, and am pretty bummed, because things are boring now. I hope I'll get it back."
Now, I don't know about you, but I would assume that meant the kid was at his/her friend's house while typing the message.
But what happens when the hired fansub group doesn;t want to fansub one of the series that the company has liscensed, or the other way around?
I think fansub groups thrive because they are able to go and work on what they want, and thus have a particular passion about producing something of high quality.
Don't get me wrong, I would happily go bankrupt buying anime if it were subbed with the same care and quality of a fansub group release.
I think an interesting market strategy would be for a distro company to make two editions of an anime. One would be the investor and mother placating censored and dubbed edition, and the other would be fansubbed and uncensored.
The fansub disc extras could include lengthy editor and translator notes on recurring themes throughout the series.
[...] are much better than the dialog professionally translated from written scripts on those same DVDs?
Probably because the fansub translators and editors adhere to self-appointed standards, rather than being forced to work within the confines of corporate mandate.
Scroll up a bit, and you'll see some comments about the terrible censorship placed upon Dragonball Z by 4kids Ent. before it was released in the US.
It has been my experience that cultural idiom, signage, and humor are all either horribly done, or avoided completely by "professional translators"; whereas fansub groups will either have editor/translator notes at the beginning of an episode, or will put a small NB in an unobtrusive part of the screen during the dialog.