If I put the songs onto a CD-RW, and sold it as a CD, I'm sure that would be coopyright infringement, even if the person already owned the songs. Are these people doing something different because the medium also has the ability to play the music? Or is there another reason this is different?
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Don't want to obsess over chess. There are a lot of other games she hasn't even heard of. We have the other popular strategy games (Backgammon, the obligatory Go, Mancala, and maybe some of the weirder ones like hnefatafl), card games (possibly some card tricks - they can be fun), and maybe some of the better commercial games.
Personally, I think at that age a whole range of experiences is healthy. But feel free to ignore me.
Fair enough. But really, my point was that people aren't buying second hand games with any ulterior motive along the lines of punishing the games companies. They're buying them because they want them at that price.
And as much as I agree that the price point of games is probably too high, buying second hand games and complaining is not going to make things better, it will make things worse.
Possibly true, but it doesn't matter. People don't buy secodn hand games for any other reason than they want to buy a game that they could not afford to buy at the original retail price. Bitching about this from the industry is not going to change this. It's up to them to change to fit our demands.
The more second hand games we buy, the more publishers have to increase price to compensate
This is not the case at all. It doesn't work like that. If they could make more money by raising prices, why don't they do so already? Companies are in the business of making as much money as possible, Not in making a reasonable amount for the maximum benefit of their customers.
Nintendo, Sony and MS have the advantage that they can let themselves off the share of royalties that they owe to the console manufacturer. Since this get's inflated by the retail markup, it reduces the profits quite significantly.
There's a supply demand curve. They know this! Increase the price, and as a rule, demand goes down. You don't increase the price because your initial costs are higher. The only reason for increasing prices is that you believe that the increase in per-unit profit will compensate for the loss of sales. If people spent more money on games, they'd be less innovative! Not more. Why would they bother to take the risk?
And anyway, innovation is cheap!. A game with a clever idea can get away with poor graphics and smaller levels. It just needs the clever idea. Just how much extra did it cost to develop Tetris?
I've often felt it would make more sense to lobby for some smaller fine along the lines of a parking ticket - $100, say - and find some means to make it easy for the file sharers to be fined, with a fairly simple procedure for dealing with false accusations. (Yes, I know this is vague, but I only put it forward as a starting point for discussion).
The result would be a reasonable deterrent for file sharers and the record industry looking less like villians, since they'd only be trying to wrest an easily payable amount from people rather than several thousand dollars,
But we expect some consistency. A humanoid looks like a human but isn't. A planetoid looks like a planet, but isn't. Why should a factoid break the pattern? Why should we arbitrarily change meanings of words to mean the opposite from what would be consistent?
Granted - there are arbitrary exceptions to most rules, but for clarity of communication, we should try to avoid adding new ones. As it happens, the variance of the meaning if the word "nice" over the centuries has made the meaning of a few historical sources a little unclear.
So, if Disney buys Pixar and Lassiter etc. walk out and start their own company Disney ends up with nothing more than a brand which they'll screw up as badly as they have their own.
True, but from the summary, it looks like they might be buying Steve Jobs. He's pretty good at giving people what they want. Something that Disney has been struggling with recently.
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I use Skype every weekday to talk to Australia
Have you tried using POTS to Australia though? If it's anything like the difference in calling Israel you'd be surprised at the quality difference. And the price difference... Skype wins here.
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Value for money is fantastic, but have you actually compared with POTS? I called a friend using Skype, then my internet connection died. So I picked up the phone and called back.
The lag in conversation was considerably smaller. The audio quality was a lot better. There were no dropouts. The audio never went crackly. It's a much better service, and the amount that people spend on ordinary landline calls these days is so small that the cost of broadband and equipment needed isn't worth the investment.
Yeah. Its psychological. Waiting in an elevator isn't a problem because you feel you're progressing. Waiting for an elevator feels like it takes longer. People don't actually do anythign with the precious few seconds they save. They're happy if they just thik they've saved time.
This will provide employment to hundreds of scientists, and engineers, as well as the general low level staff needed to do all the jobs in the space centre. It will mean that they will have developed their own space technology, which they will be able to licence out to industry in other countries, and they are bound to have a handful of spin off technologies, as well as a low cost launch vehicle to offer for commercial launches.
So what happens if I make up a result (in reqasonable detail), register the copyright, and then major league baseball actually has that result? Do they owe me for breach of copyright? Seems ludicrous, but I'm not sure I see the difference.
It's a difference of opinion of the purpose of prison. The most liberal reason is simply as a preventative measure. These people are a danger to society, so we keep them away. Other people see prison as a means of deterrence, or retribution (or occasionally reform but this seems to be a rare opinion). There are other means of deterrence, and retribution that are more beneficial for society
Patents are often more specific than that. There are a number of ways to implement regenerative braking. Toyota may well infrnge on the specific method indicaed in the patent.
You need to know at minimum three things about a car to know what its power performance (as opposed to handling performance) is going to be like;
Yes, but do you need to know what the power performance is going to be like? It matters to you, but some people just want a car with an engine and 4 wheels.
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If I put the songs onto a CD-RW, and sold it as a CD, I'm sure that would be coopyright infringement, even if the person already owned the songs. Are these people doing something different because the medium also has the ability to play the music? Or is there another reason this is different?
Don't want to obsess over chess. There are a lot of other games she hasn't even heard of. We have the other popular strategy games (Backgammon, the obligatory Go, Mancala, and maybe some of the weirder ones like hnefatafl), card games (possibly some card tricks - they can be fun), and maybe some of the better commercial games.
Personally, I think at that age a whole range of experiences is healthy. But feel free to ignore me.
There's some comments on the unofficial site. Look at the "In Response to Jack Thompson, " article in latest news.
Fair enough. But really, my point was that people aren't buying second hand games with any ulterior motive along the lines of punishing the games companies. They're buying them because they want them at that price.
And as much as I agree that the price point of games is probably too high, buying second hand games and complaining is not going to make things better, it will make things worse.
Possibly true, but it doesn't matter. People don't buy secodn hand games for any other reason than they want to buy a game that they could not afford to buy at the original retail price. Bitching about this from the industry is not going to change this. It's up to them to change to fit our demands.
The more second hand games we buy, the more publishers have to increase price to compensate
This is not the case at all. It doesn't work like that. If they could make more money by raising prices, why don't they do so already? Companies are in the business of making as much money as possible, Not in making a reasonable amount for the maximum benefit of their customers.
Nintendo, Sony and MS have the advantage that they can let themselves off the share of royalties that they owe to the console manufacturer. Since this get's inflated by the retail markup, it reduces the profits quite significantly.
There's a supply demand curve. They know this! Increase the price, and as a rule, demand goes down. You don't increase the price because your initial costs are higher. The only reason for increasing prices is that you believe that the increase in per-unit profit will compensate for the loss of sales. If people spent more money on games, they'd be less innovative! Not more. Why would they bother to take the risk?
And anyway, innovation is cheap!. A game with a clever idea can get away with poor graphics and smaller levels. It just needs the clever idea. Just how much extra did it cost to develop Tetris?
But did he change his mond because he has no control, or because he values the creative opinions of the people he hired to be creative?
I've often felt it would make more sense to lobby for some smaller fine along the lines of a parking ticket - $100, say - and find some means to make it easy for the file sharers to be fined, with a fairly simple procedure for dealing with false accusations. (Yes, I know this is vague, but I only put it forward as a starting point for discussion).
The result would be a reasonable deterrent for file sharers and the record industry looking less like villians, since they'd only be trying to wrest an easily payable amount from people rather than several thousand dollars,
But we expect some consistency. A humanoid looks like a human but isn't. A planetoid looks like a planet, but isn't. Why should a factoid break the pattern? Why should we arbitrarily change meanings of words to mean the opposite from what would be consistent?
Granted - there are arbitrary exceptions to most rules, but for clarity of communication, we should try to avoid adding new ones. As it happens, the variance of the meaning if the word "nice" over the centuries has made the meaning of a few historical sources a little unclear.
So, if Disney buys Pixar and Lassiter etc. walk out and start their own company Disney ends up with nothing more than a brand which they'll screw up as badly as they have their own.
True, but from the summary, it looks like they might be buying Steve Jobs. He's pretty good at giving people what they want. Something that Disney has been struggling with recently.
I use Skype every weekday to talk to Australia
Have you tried using POTS to Australia though? If it's anything like the difference in calling Israel you'd be surprised at the quality difference. And the price difference... Skype wins here.
Value for money is fantastic, but have you actually compared with POTS? I called a friend using Skype, then my internet connection died. So I picked up the phone and called back.
The lag in conversation was considerably smaller. The audio quality was a lot better. There were no dropouts. The audio never went crackly. It's a much better service, and the amount that people spend on ordinary landline calls these days is so small that the cost of broadband and equipment needed isn't worth the investment.
I always feel "Digitial restrictions mechanism" sounds better. Dont' seem to be able to popularise it though.
Yeah. Its psychological. Waiting in an elevator isn't a problem because you feel you're progressing. Waiting for an elevator feels like it takes longer. People don't actually do anythign with the precious few seconds they save. They're happy if they just thik they've saved time.
Eh? How does that work then?
If it wasn't for the French, you guys would be speaking British!
So did SS1.
In much the same way that flying from the south of Spain to north of Marrocco is an intercontinatal flight, but it did get into space.
This will provide employment to hundreds of scientists, and engineers, as well as the general low level staff needed to do all the jobs in the space centre. It will mean that they will have developed their own space technology, which they will be able to licence out to industry in other countries, and they are bound to have a handful of spin off technologies, as well as a low cost launch vehicle to offer for commercial launches.
So what happens if I make up a result (in reqasonable detail), register the copyright, and then major league baseball actually has that result? Do they owe me for breach of copyright? Seems ludicrous, but I'm not sure I see the difference.
It's a difference of opinion of the purpose of prison. The most liberal reason is simply as a preventative measure. These people are a danger to society, so we keep them away. Other people see prison as a means of deterrence, or retribution (or occasionally reform but this seems to be a rare opinion). There are other means of deterrence, and retribution that are more beneficial for society
Patents are often more specific than that. There are a number of ways to implement regenerative braking. Toyota may well infrnge on the specific method indicaed in the patent.
By definition, the "Giga" prefix means 10^9. Just because RAM manufacturers have been approximating for so long doesn't make them right.
You need to know at minimum three things about a car to know what its power performance (as opposed to handling performance) is going to be like;
Yes, but do you need to know what the power performance is going to be like? It matters to you, but some people just want a car with an engine and 4 wheels.
Erm... Yes. Don't they use that terminology in techno-vampireland or wherever you live?