A jury of your peers came up with these amounts. It's the public that has been convinced these cases are harsher than rape. You have to take some citizen responsibility. The government has nothing to do with this. The public's consensus is the driving force behind the RIAA's motor
I'm still confused about how 24 songs amounts to even $1000 worth of damages. Where are they coming up with these losses? How do 3 separate juries of peers conclude that copying music is worth millions of dollars? Maybe these are the reasons that allow the RIAA to run so rampant in America. The general public is convinced file sharing is atrocious so RIAA has their full support.
You can't rip off a rip off. Farmville AND town were racing to ripoff HappyFarm.
Harvest moon provided only basic mechanics. Inspired by but not ripped off.
Valve does have Steam which makes them a publisher. They are EA's most direct competition in my opinion. Bethesda is doing the same strategy as EA did in the 90's. Buy up every studio that they can. People love them more than EA though because the people running the companies engage with the gamers. Try to name one EA exec who regularly engages their audience. Now consider if that changes anything other than your feelings.
Zynga in their early day, partnered with many of these cell phone survey companies. Offerpal was a huge one they operated with. You would sign up for a free DS only if you gave your credit card, did 3 marketing surveys, and had your cell phone billed for a subscription based joke service. They had all sorts of deals involving subscriptions or free shit, which ended up eating your wallet without you realizing it.
Nobody can say that Zynga was never out to scam people. Zuckerberg knew this too. Just like the youtube guys didn't want to remove infringing content too soon, or else they'd lose traffic, zuckerberg allowed these scams to take place because he wanted zynga to grow. Now look where we are.
you'll be able to do that with windows phone 7 as well. obviously they want protections in place to satisfy digital rights fanatics, but we'll see a jailbroken wp7 in no time. Microsoft has to allow it in order to compete.
Despite a tag being deprecated, safari is being irresponsible by not implementing it. I can remember when IE implemented a new rendering engine and "broke the internet"
I guess it doesn't matter when an insignificant market share holder doesn't do things properly. People just use what works in the end.
This pretty much secures Microsoft Office as the dominant suite for another 10 years. Even if a fork doesn't create fragmentation of compatibility, the brand recognition and acceptance that has been developed over the years for OO is destroyed by creating a new fork. Essentially it's starting over. I knew that Sun getting bought would be a nail in the coffin for OO, but I didn't think the developers would be the ones swinging the hammer. The entirety of OSS office branding (which i think OO championed), is in a landslide right now. These events will be the focus point of why proprietary software is better.
That perceivable by the human eye hogwash was just marketing buzz. Welcome to being suckered.
This is all a theorized limit that the marketing team at Apple ran with. Very little research from them went into it. It looks closer to magazine print than most screens sure, but to say it is the upper limit of the human eye?? Why then does real life look so much more vivid and detailed to me? Why then can i examine the detail in a pebble 2 meters away? Because my eye doesn't care about pixel density that's why/rhetoric
Stuart Turton is obviously a complete tool. How does he get away with calling himself a journalist. This is a completely speculative article and he doesn't mention anything about mozilla's experimental cloud based text editor, bespin. Not one ounce of research went into this article. It's mostly a stroke job on his opinions. Which suck.
Many geniuses have always felt this way about their personal documents. I'm not sure how common of a trait it is, but some are just weirded by others seeing their notes. Other's prefer a more private means. Take de Vinci for example: He wrote his notes so they were mirrored and hard to read at a glance. Encryption is a good choice for digital information.
This is precisely it. Astronomical events like the solstice are what the Mayan calendar is built upon. The Gregorian date I always thought was calculated from the same source material, rather than trying to align the complete inaccuracies that are known about and well documented. Whoever did this study is doing it wrong.
December 21, 2012 is the date of the solstice that we suspect is the one they were talking about. And even then, it would just roll their clock back to 000,000,000. This is commonly misrepresented as the end, rather than rebirth or new beginnings.
I don't get it. Developers already do this. It's not a bad thing. If we are developing for any pc os, we have to test on different install configs and platforms. this is normal.
He's pretty much saying cross platform development is bad. When seen in the light of his previous tirade against flash and the compilation of as3 to iphone app; You know, the one where he artificially makes it unable to happen with legaleeze; We can start to see some anti trust violations happening. He is first artificially preventing cross platform languages on the iphone. Then he says the competition is horrible for doing what the natural market has done for decades.
This is going a little farther than when Microshit put the crush on Netscrap.
I said this elsewhere in this discussion, and I'll say it again. If you're considering your time too valuable to do a mostly automated task, then it's defiantly too valuable to be playing video games. Also, where is the time saved by unhooking all the wires from your home entertainment system, driving to best buy, leaving it with them for a day, driving back to pick it up and then hooking it all back up yourself? Assuming things all went smoothly with them, there is absolutely no time saved. There is actually a greater amount of 'time wasted' then by doing it yourself.
If there are techies making $150/hour and still unable to do a firmware update, they probably are the type of techies who came out of a conveyor belt school and only know what was in their text books at the time. I would say they are faking it if they couldn't be bothered with a firmware update.
These firmware updates and account setup are not hard. You must be a retard or too rich to be bothered with knowing things, if you can't figure it out. If you want to claim your time is too valuable to be doing this, then it's too valuable to be wasted on video games.
Back in January I was shopping for a new gaming mouse. the Rat9 was a contender because of the adjustments, but the wireless made me reconsider. I could not find the wired model. I can't stand when I'm in the heat of a game and my cell phone kills my mouse connectivity for 30 seconds while it transmits.
In the article, it is said it took them hours to fit it into his left ventricle. I suspect it is one of these devices | http://bit.ly/nopulseman | Or similar. They are classed as Left Ventricle Assist Devices.
This tech, as mentioned in the comments already, is simply shifting the inconvenience from wearing glasses to staying still. Microsoft has come up with a prototype of 3D displays with head tracking technology, and a lens that can shift exactly which direction the light is seen from.
If in the case the defendant of this lawsuit was not in the technology sector, then using pod would be something within their rights.
This is a case where they are selling the brand pod in the same trade industry as Apple selling their ipod products. Apple is not trying to change the English language, as some of the comments would lead you to believe. Simply, they own that trademark in that industry.
Ana Christian, Kokin's lawyer, says the fight is about more than allowing small businesses to use 'Pod' in their product names. She noted a trend in the tech industry, in which large corporations have been attempting to assume ownership of ordinary words."
Yeah. It's a trend in any industry. Ordinary words, given proper context, become a trade mark. There are laws describing whats aloud and not. If she's putting up a fight for this reason, then she's putting up a fight for trademark reform. Personally I think right now, this is the best system to have for consumers.
It's not entirely horseshit: Burglars didn't use the places okay. Though there is no denying that it could be used for this means. It may even be more effective of a tool than simple status searches. The original submitter has good intentions. Your's are blinded by the hype job that is location based services right now. They are in no way a benefit to consumers, only marketers.
This specific situation may not be tied to FB:Places; However, the story is a great example of how burglars today are colluding their plans using social networks. We can't pretend that FB:Places won't encourage this kind of operation in the future. Awareness of the dangers to the general public must be demonstrated immediately and effectively. If this is done through a little bit of sensationalism, then so be it. There's nothing inherently evil about a hyperbole.
Okay, say you're fighting a war, and you constantly have no people telling you about the same problem.. the enemy. These reports are all slightly different yet amount to the same problem: The enemy is killing your dudes. Do you tell these people to stop bringing you all these reports of dudes getting killed?
That would be bad strategy in my opinion. Blizzard requires it's player base to be their eyes and ears when it comes to these kind of scams. They wouldn't have much to go on without that email account.
Personal email addresses are another thing. I ignore emails all the time that look unimportant. I never asked for them. The ones I am expecting to receive I'll read.
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Convinced the government??
A jury of your peers came up with these amounts. It's the public that has been convinced these cases are harsher than rape. You have to take some citizen responsibility. The government has nothing to do with this. The public's consensus is the driving force behind the RIAA's motor
I'm still confused about how 24 songs amounts to even $1000 worth of damages. Where are they coming up with these losses? How do 3 separate juries of peers conclude that copying music is worth millions of dollars?
Maybe these are the reasons that allow the RIAA to run so rampant in America. The general public is convinced file sharing is atrocious so RIAA has their full support.
You can't rip off a rip off. Farmville AND town were racing to ripoff HappyFarm. Harvest moon provided only basic mechanics. Inspired by but not ripped off.
Valve does have Steam which makes them a publisher. They are EA's most direct competition in my opinion. Bethesda is doing the same strategy as EA did in the 90's. Buy up every studio that they can. People love them more than EA though because the people running the companies engage with the gamers. Try to name one EA exec who regularly engages their audience. Now consider if that changes anything other than your feelings.
No. Those games are made by other people. Battlefield as well. One of the definitive PC FPS brands in my opinion.
Remember that EA doesn't make every game their logo is on. They are a publishing house also.
EA doesn't make every single game they have their logo on. They are a publishing house first.
Zynga in their early day, partnered with many of these cell phone survey companies. Offerpal was a huge one they operated with. You would sign up for a free DS only if you gave your credit card, did 3 marketing surveys, and had your cell phone billed for a subscription based joke service. They had all sorts of deals involving subscriptions or free shit, which ended up eating your wallet without you realizing it.
Nobody can say that Zynga was never out to scam people. Zuckerberg knew this too. Just like the youtube guys didn't want to remove infringing content too soon, or else they'd lose traffic, zuckerberg allowed these scams to take place because he wanted zynga to grow. Now look where we are.
you'll be able to do that with windows phone 7 as well. obviously they want protections in place to satisfy digital rights fanatics, but we'll see a jailbroken wp7 in no time. Microsoft has to allow it in order to compete.
Despite a tag being deprecated, safari is being irresponsible by not implementing it. I can remember when IE implemented a new rendering engine and "broke the internet"
I guess it doesn't matter when an insignificant market share holder doesn't do things properly. People just use what works in the end.
This pretty much secures Microsoft Office as the dominant suite for another 10 years. Even if a fork doesn't create fragmentation of compatibility, the brand recognition and acceptance that has been developed over the years for OO is destroyed by creating a new fork. Essentially it's starting over. I knew that Sun getting bought would be a nail in the coffin for OO, but I didn't think the developers would be the ones swinging the hammer. The entirety of OSS office branding (which i think OO championed), is in a landslide right now. These events will be the focus point of why proprietary software is better.
That perceivable by the human eye hogwash was just marketing buzz. Welcome to being suckered.
This is all a theorized limit that the marketing team at Apple ran with. Very little research from them went into it. It looks closer to magazine print than most screens sure, but to say it is the upper limit of the human eye?? Why then does real life look so much more vivid and detailed to me? Why then can i examine the detail in a pebble 2 meters away? Because my eye doesn't care about pixel density that's why /rhetoric
Stuart Turton is obviously a complete tool. How does he get away with calling himself a journalist. This is a completely speculative article and he doesn't mention anything about mozilla's experimental cloud based text editor, bespin. Not one ounce of research went into this article. It's mostly a stroke job on his opinions. Which suck.
Many geniuses have always felt this way about their personal documents. I'm not sure how common of a trait it is, but some are just weirded by others seeing their notes. Other's prefer a more private means. Take de Vinci for example: He wrote his notes so they were mirrored and hard to read at a glance. Encryption is a good choice for digital information.
I blame book writers for not using simpler words! I can't read books because they're long and junk. TLDR
This is precisely it. Astronomical events like the solstice are what the Mayan calendar is built upon. The Gregorian date I always thought was calculated from the same source material, rather than trying to align the complete inaccuracies that are known about and well documented. Whoever did this study is doing it wrong.
December 21, 2012 is the date of the solstice that we suspect is the one they were talking about. And even then, it would just roll their clock back to 000,000,000. This is commonly misrepresented as the end, rather than rebirth or new beginnings.
I don't get it. Developers already do this. It's not a bad thing. If we are developing for any pc os, we have to test on different install configs and platforms. this is normal.
He's pretty much saying cross platform development is bad. When seen in the light of his previous tirade against flash and the compilation of as3 to iphone app; You know, the one where he artificially makes it unable to happen with legaleeze; We can start to see some anti trust violations happening. He is first artificially preventing cross platform languages on the iphone. Then he says the competition is horrible for doing what the natural market has done for decades.
This is going a little farther than when Microshit put the crush on Netscrap.
I said this elsewhere in this discussion, and I'll say it again. If you're considering your time too valuable to do a mostly automated task, then it's defiantly too valuable to be playing video games. Also, where is the time saved by unhooking all the wires from your home entertainment system, driving to best buy, leaving it with them for a day, driving back to pick it up and then hooking it all back up yourself? Assuming things all went smoothly with them, there is absolutely no time saved. There is actually a greater amount of 'time wasted' then by doing it yourself.
If there are techies making $150/hour and still unable to do a firmware update, they probably are the type of techies who came out of a conveyor belt school and only know what was in their text books at the time. I would say they are faking it if they couldn't be bothered with a firmware update.
These firmware updates and account setup are not hard. You must be a retard or too rich to be bothered with knowing things, if you can't figure it out. If you want to claim your time is too valuable to be doing this, then it's too valuable to be wasted on video games.
it scales in the refresh rate. at 240hz, it can deliver 3d at 60hz to 4 people
Back in January I was shopping for a new gaming mouse. the Rat9 was a contender because of the adjustments, but the wireless made me reconsider. I could not find the wired model. I can't stand when I'm in the heat of a game and my cell phone kills my mouse connectivity for 30 seconds while it transmits.
In the article, it is said it took them hours to fit it into his left ventricle. I suspect it is one of these devices | http://bit.ly/nopulseman | Or similar. They are classed as Left Ventricle Assist Devices.
This tech, as mentioned in the comments already, is simply shifting the inconvenience from wearing glasses to staying still. Microsoft has come up with a prototype of 3D displays with head tracking technology, and a lens that can shift exactly which direction the light is seen from.
http://bit.ly/MS3ddisplay
If in the case the defendant of this lawsuit was not in the technology sector, then using pod would be something within their rights.
This is a case where they are selling the brand pod in the same trade industry as Apple selling their ipod products. Apple is not trying to change the English language, as some of the comments would lead you to believe. Simply, they own that trademark in that industry.
Ana Christian, Kokin's lawyer, says the fight is about more than allowing small businesses to use 'Pod' in their product names. She noted a trend in the tech industry, in which large corporations have been attempting to assume ownership of ordinary words."
Yeah. It's a trend in any industry. Ordinary words, given proper context, become a trade mark. There are laws describing whats aloud and not. If she's putting up a fight for this reason, then she's putting up a fight for trademark reform. Personally I think right now, this is the best system to have for consumers.
It's not entirely horseshit: Burglars didn't use the places okay. Though there is no denying that it could be used for this means. It may even be more effective of a tool than simple status searches. The original submitter has good intentions. Your's are blinded by the hype job that is location based services right now. They are in no way a benefit to consumers, only marketers.
This specific situation may not be tied to FB:Places; However, the story is a great example of how burglars today are colluding their plans using social networks. We can't pretend that FB:Places won't encourage this kind of operation in the future. Awareness of the dangers to the general public must be demonstrated immediately and effectively. If this is done through a little bit of sensationalism, then so be it. There's nothing inherently evil about a hyperbole.
Okay, say you're fighting a war, and you constantly have no people telling you about the same problem.. the enemy. These reports are all slightly different yet amount to the same problem: The enemy is killing your dudes. Do you tell these people to stop bringing you all these reports of dudes getting killed? That would be bad strategy in my opinion. Blizzard requires it's player base to be their eyes and ears when it comes to these kind of scams. They wouldn't have much to go on without that email account. Personal email addresses are another thing. I ignore emails all the time that look unimportant. I never asked for them. The ones I am expecting to receive I'll read.