I was with you until the last bit. The nonsense about carrying around a copy certainly doesn't imply that downloading doesn't deprive anyone of their copy, but the latter is still true. No matter how many digital copies there are, physical copies won't go *poof* and disappear into the ether.
No. The store has the right to kick you out or have you give up the disc, just like they have the right to not let you copy or play their shit in their store. The "why" (they're looking out for their monetary interests, which you'd "deprive" them of) aren't really relevant.
If you download something you were never going to buy or rent, no one is affected in any fashion. That's a major difference. As for people who use piracy as an alternative to paying for things they would buy or rent otherwise, that's a much more complicated thing.
Is 0.01 seconds on a single attempt what you consider "significant"? Because it's not. Try a statistically meaningful number of attempts with either (a) a larger file where hiccups have less effect on the total time or (b) real-world usage with multiple assets of various sizes.
Microsoft has had 90% marketshare in various PC markets at various times. That doesn't mean that consumers can't benefit from more diversity in those markets or that Microsoft was not stagnating at various times.
Um, wtf? The article is about Android dominating the market, some comments have pointed out that's not necessarily meaningful without connecting it to profits, and I'm adding and requesting information related to those profits. My comment had nothing to do with "caring".
No having rights granted to a collective doesn't imply that the individuals lose their rights. The individuals are still individuals regardless of what they come together and do.
So you're saying that no algorithm should be censored, only offensive implementations of such algorithms? Perhaps ones that are buggy? That sounds wonderful:D
That's what it seems like from the summary. If not can anyone explain why? I'm not about to read a kernel mailing list.
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Windows 98 was way better than 95. It wasn't XP but nothing was lost from 95, only improved.
Also throw Visual Studio on the "great" side. At least 2005 and 2010.
Regardless of whether piracy is right or wrong, people will always do it. It's an economic problem. Many people will stop if the price is low enough; for others, "free" in both senses is the only price low enough. This is reality, and it will never change. Creators and their associated industries need to get over it. There will never be a way to stop everyone, there will never be a way to catch everyone.
That said, it may also be good economics to implement DRM in some cases; you have to weigh the benefits against the costs. (This does not appear to be one of those instances; this company is fucked.)
That's true, and I'm sure that's a fair argument to make; my point was more that siding with the 80 side of a 80-20 probability and ending up correct doesn't imply the probabilities were incorrectly evaluated. Silver *could* be poorly calibrated, but the fact that his predictions were all correct doesn't mean that he certainly was.
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I was with you until the last bit. The nonsense about carrying around a copy certainly doesn't imply that downloading doesn't deprive anyone of their copy, but the latter is still true. No matter how many digital copies there are, physical copies won't go *poof* and disappear into the ether.
No. The store has the right to kick you out or have you give up the disc, just like they have the right to not let you copy or play their shit in their store. The "why" (they're looking out for their monetary interests, which you'd "deprive" them of) aren't really relevant. If you download something you were never going to buy or rent, no one is affected in any fashion. That's a major difference. As for people who use piracy as an alternative to paying for things they would buy or rent otherwise, that's a much more complicated thing.
it does not appear to be the work of high-level programmer or be meant for use in targeted attacks
So basically it's installed by some jerkoff contractor with root access, and it's not something involving a hole in the server security?
PayPal will take every opportunity to steal your money.
Is 0.01 seconds on a single attempt what you consider "significant"? Because it's not. Try a statistically meaningful number of attempts with either (a) a larger file where hiccups have less effect on the total time or (b) real-world usage with multiple assets of various sizes.
I support postnatal abortion.
Have you been to both types of schools? I have. They are wildly different, despite there being exceptions in both cases.
Poe's Law.
Animated PNGs are a lot more rare than GIFs.
You're seriously going prescriptivist on an initialism that exists only because of natural descriptivist language?
Who cares? No one uses that. Do you use "thou" and "thy" and shit?
Microsoft has had 90% marketshare in various PC markets at various times. That doesn't mean that consumers can't benefit from more diversity in those markets or that Microsoft was not stagnating at various times.
Um, wtf? The article is about Android dominating the market, some comments have pointed out that's not necessarily meaningful without connecting it to profits, and I'm adding and requesting information related to those profits. My comment had nothing to do with "caring".
I was joking. I do appreciate the nuance here.
And has anyone besides Samsung started profiting off their Android phones yet?
It was tweeted in the last couple minutes, I'm guessing that's when most of the comments start coming in.
Why wouldn't speech that is produced by a child be speech from its parents?
No having rights granted to a collective doesn't imply that the individuals lose their rights. The individuals are still individuals regardless of what they come together and do.
So you're saying that no algorithm should be censored, only offensive implementations of such algorithms? Perhaps ones that are buggy? That sounds wonderful :D
That's what it seems like from the summary. If not can anyone explain why? I'm not about to read a kernel mailing list.
Windows 98 was way better than 95. It wasn't XP but nothing was lost from 95, only improved. Also throw Visual Studio on the "great" side. At least 2005 and 2010.
That's not "fixed".
Regardless of whether piracy is right or wrong, people will always do it. It's an economic problem. Many people will stop if the price is low enough; for others, "free" in both senses is the only price low enough. This is reality, and it will never change. Creators and their associated industries need to get over it. There will never be a way to stop everyone, there will never be a way to catch everyone.
That said, it may also be good economics to implement DRM in some cases; you have to weigh the benefits against the costs. (This does not appear to be one of those instances; this company is fucked.)
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That's true, and I'm sure that's a fair argument to make; my point was more that siding with the 80 side of a 80-20 probability and ending up correct doesn't imply the probabilities were incorrectly evaluated. Silver *could* be poorly calibrated, but the fact that his predictions were all correct doesn't mean that he certainly was.