Fair enough, but how much did the solicitor cost you? Just the court time must have cost you a few hundred. And it's not like you weren't speeding any of those times. Seems you got off on technicalities, not because you were innocent.
Surprised you didn't get the magistrate to throw the case out the second time. They had months to get their paperwork in order.
Radar is quite accurate, but it's more useful for a machine than a person.
But that's not a problem. The Cameras in Britain are radar triggered, but snap two photos. If the ticket is challenged, the photos are used as evidence. Markings are painted on the road with known spacings and the maths is quite simple.
To be honest, as long as it's clear from context it rarely matters. Speed is a convenient term for anything that is measured in quantify per unit time and gives you the "fast"/"slow" vocabulary.
It's not the same! I want atheists being smug about not believing in god (and refusing to capitalise), and liberal lefties telling each other that the government needs to be more liberal while Libertarians accuse them of worshipping Obama, photoshopped pictures that have been debunked dozens of times before, people claiming to be things that they aren't and answering questions, and hero worshipping of Ron Paul!
They're not substantially. Nor are they preventing them from doing so. It does allow the better ones to spend more time writing songs once they are established though.
It might happen. But generally a studio knows when it has a good game. Halo 3 wasn't too bad but MS still felt the need to spend $55 million or so promoting it.
Rather than wade through several google results and a detailed but verbose article, I'll actually answer your question. After all, others might wish to know as well.
The Digital Economy Act was a piece of legislation rushed through at the end of the last parliament just before the election. It's common to do a sort of tidy-up before an election usually this is with the less controversial bills.
The act requires ISPs to send warning letters to infringers and may be used to force ISPs to disconnect the service for repeat infringers. This is seen as placing too heavy a burdn on the ISPs and somewhat draconian against accused file sharers, especially because they may not actually be guilty of any wrongdoing.
That's fine. But I buy media (and pirate it), and would actually like the existence of reasonable measures to ensure that enough people do buy to encourage more media to be produced.
In exactly the same way car manufacturers are currently benefiting from illegal behaviour (getaway cars, etc.).
Yes. Exactly like that. They need to fit immobilisers and alarm systems. Something that offers no direct benefit to the customer but increases costs. If cars are being used for getaways on a large scale, then there would be an onus on manufacturers to pay for measures to prevent that. Registration plates are used primarily for preventing illegal activity and that's a cost to the car manufacturer.
Ok, so I assume you're going to say "Well, it protects the artists"..
Actually I'm more likely to say that this act was a terrible rushed piece of legislation that I wrote to my MP about and urged him to vote against it (which was useless but never mind). But if we do have measures to prevent this it's perfectly reasonable that the ISPs pay for it.
Note: I really do believe that copyright is as bad as patents.
Copyright doesn't prevent you from doing anything that you'd be able to do if there was no copyright.
You seem to be munging up patent and copyright. Patents rarely encourage production. Actually getting something to market usually gives enough competitive edge to justify the innovation. But we're talking about copyright. Would big budget movies get made at all without copyright? Would we see as many songs if songwriters couldn't support themselves through writing songs?
I agree. The solution is to change the public perception of copyright. Not eliminate it entirely.
I would quite like one. I can afford one. I just don't want to have to check every beforehand every single time I go to buy an imported DVD whether it will work.
A lot of the discs are multi-region now. Most studios have realised it's not actually helping them, but I'm still obligated to buy a crippled player.
Well, I can wait. I can get perfectly adequate 720p video files online while I wait.
I've worked in the industry for 10 years. We're just not that cynical.
Adult gamers like violence. If a game is rated as suitable for teens then you would expect it to be pretty tame. Call of Duty sounds liek a marketing screw-up where marketing wanted to target it at the Teen age group and the developers were developing for an adult age group.
Scandals are great free publicity
They're unpredictable. It might work out well. It could backfire, especially if it turns out that you actively tried to create the scandal. They're expensive to manage and cause share prices to go a little crazy. This does not please investors.
They have no interest in making violent games available to kids. If they want to make a game available to kids, they'll make a non violent game! They design the game to the rating, not make a game and then see what the rating is. Hell, if you saw a game and it said suitable for children, wouldn't you think perhaps it might be a little tame?
Games are targeted at a specific age group. There's really very little interest in selling to people outside that age group. Scandals are too much hassle.
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Fair enough, but how much did the solicitor cost you? Just the court time must have cost you a few hundred. And it's not like you weren't speeding any of those times. Seems you got off on technicalities, not because you were innocent.
Surprised you didn't get the magistrate to throw the case out the second time. They had months to get their paperwork in order.
Radar is quite accurate, but it's more useful for a machine than a person.
But that's not a problem. The Cameras in Britain are radar triggered, but snap two photos. If the ticket is challenged, the photos are used as evidence. Markings are painted on the road with known spacings and the maths is quite simple.
To be honest, as long as it's clear from context it rarely matters. Speed is a convenient term for anything that is measured in quantify per unit time and gives you the "fast"/"slow" vocabulary.
Surely it's a datarate, since bandwidth refers to a range of frequencies in an analogue signal.
Just because self regulation can fail doesn't mean it always fails.
I don't know anyone who would seriously wait till they are 17 to play Grand Theft Auto. I mean you can drive to the store to buy it at 16.
No, but it should at least mean that fewer 8-year olds are going to play it.
It's not the same! I want atheists being smug about not believing in god (and refusing to capitalise), and liberal lefties telling each other that the government needs to be more liberal while Libertarians accuse them of worshipping Obama, photoshopped pictures that have been debunked dozens of times before, people claiming to be things that they aren't and answering questions, and hero worshipping of Ron Paul!
You just don't get enough of that here.
I'm not a databases guy, so sorry if this is a silly question, but reddit does have a lot of stuff being written to the database all the time.
So if you spread over multiple sites, is this managable without dramatically increasing server load?
Who cares? If he came back and drafted a good law it would be a good law and if he hadn't have done that this would still be a bad law.
They're not substantially. Nor are they preventing them from doing so. It does allow the better ones to spend more time writing songs once they are established though.
But he didn't have as much say in the final product. Also the book was pretty good...
The only crime would be a "book of the film".
There was a novelization of the movie for Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. I'm hoping they make a movie of it.
Sounds reasonable. Although you can understand why the established players are concerned.
It might happen. But generally a studio knows when it has a good game. Halo 3 wasn't too bad but MS still felt the need to spend $55 million or so promoting it.
Do they have to fit alarms and immobilisers by law?
Depends where you live.
You sell a $5 app and hope you make 12 times the sales. Or that other costs are sufficiently lower to justify the reduced income per unit
Rather than wade through several google results and a detailed but verbose article, I'll actually answer your question. After all, others might wish to know as well.
The Digital Economy Act was a piece of legislation rushed through at the end of the last parliament just before the election. It's common to do a sort of tidy-up before an election usually this is with the less controversial bills.
The act requires ISPs to send warning letters to infringers and may be used to force ISPs to disconnect the service for repeat infringers. This is seen as placing too heavy a burdn on the ISPs and somewhat draconian against accused file sharers, especially because they may not actually be guilty of any wrongdoing.
That's fine. But I buy media (and pirate it), and would actually like the existence of reasonable measures to ensure that enough people do buy to encourage more media to be produced.
Not quite sure why it matters at all to you.
Are you suggesting that hoarding information is morally equivalent to owning a human being?
In exactly the same way car manufacturers are currently benefiting from illegal behaviour (getaway cars, etc.).
Yes. Exactly like that. They need to fit immobilisers and alarm systems. Something that offers no direct benefit to the customer but increases costs. If cars are being used for getaways on a large scale, then there would be an onus on manufacturers to pay for measures to prevent that. Registration plates are used primarily for preventing illegal activity and that's a cost to the car manufacturer.
Ok, so I assume you're going to say "Well, it protects the artists"..
Actually I'm more likely to say that this act was a terrible rushed piece of legislation that I wrote to my MP about and urged him to vote against it (which was useless but never mind). But if we do have measures to prevent this it's perfectly reasonable that the ISPs pay for it.
Note: I really do believe that copyright is as bad as patents.
Copyright doesn't prevent you from doing anything that you'd be able to do if there was no copyright.
You seem to be munging up patent and copyright. Patents rarely encourage production. Actually getting something to market usually gives enough competitive edge to justify the innovation. But we're talking about copyright. Would big budget movies get made at all without copyright? Would we see as many songs if songwriters couldn't support themselves through writing songs?
I agree. The solution is to change the public perception of copyright. Not eliminate it entirely.
Why should the ISP have to be burdened with the costs?
Because they're the ones currently benefiting from illegal behaviour,
Few of them, but you can pirate them quite easily. It's pretty good. It's cheaper and you don't get annoying ads that you can't skip.
No multi-region.
I would quite like one. I can afford one. I just don't want to have to check every beforehand every single time I go to buy an imported DVD whether it will work.
A lot of the discs are multi-region now. Most studios have realised it's not actually helping them, but I'm still obligated to buy a crippled player.
Well, I can wait. I can get perfectly adequate 720p video files online while I wait.
Well, I do care about picture quality to a degree, but you get diminishing returns.
VHS is horrible once you're used to DVD, but DVD is perfectly adequate. HD looks a bit nicer but not so much that it makes DVD look hideous.
I've worked in the industry for 10 years. We're just not that cynical.
Adult gamers like violence. If a game is rated as suitable for teens then you would expect it to be pretty tame. Call of Duty sounds liek a marketing screw-up where marketing wanted to target it at the Teen age group and the developers were developing for an adult age group. Scandals are great free publicity
They're unpredictable. It might work out well. It could backfire, especially if it turns out that you actively tried to create the scandal. They're expensive to manage and cause share prices to go a little crazy. This does not please investors.
They have no interest in making violent games available to kids. If they want to make a game available to kids, they'll make a non violent game! They design the game to the rating, not make a game and then see what the rating is. Hell, if you saw a game and it said suitable for children, wouldn't you think perhaps it might be a little tame?
Games are targeted at a specific age group. There's really very little interest in selling to people outside that age group. Scandals are too much hassle.