I'm sure retailers will lobby congress to pass legislation to uncap broadband. Taxes will be a compromise.
My ISP, comcast (who else) has the 250GB cap per month. Despite this, they still block bit torrent.
I have yet to reach my cap in any month. I know I will some day. The current system is unsustainable because the quantity of data increases with the average connection speed.
"Without compensation the creators' livelihood is unsustainable. It is therefore of utmost importance that licensing schemes and new legal services can emerge in the digital environment, while at the same time legislation says firmly no to grand scale businesses that are built on copyright infringement."
I have one better, instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on lawyers, pay your damn artists!
The RIAA has no credibility with me. They cry afoul about the artists not getting paid. It's they who aren't paying! It's they who treat the artists like plumbers. You can't have it both ways RIAA!
We now have some leaders who are slightly aware of the hypocrisy going on under their noses. Stop legislating revenues for industry.
I just tried watching a movie and the quality is much lower than it should be. Something is definitely not right about it.
I saw the menu. The bitrates avaialble to me were 500,1000, and 1500. 1500 was selected, but the quality was still much lower than I expected. loads of blockies. too many for 1500bps.
Netflix just changed something I'm sure of it. I will be contacting them for certain about it.
write a letter to the CEO of the company on the company's own letterhead. Make it a WRITTEN letter.
Ensure it's in the company's own stationary. Mail it to the company from your home.
Explain the situation. Tell the CEO that you don't believe your decision is subject to your supervisor's approval.
Also explain the complete lack of ethics your supervisor has shown. 3 Things could happen, a) the ceo will call your boss 'on the carpet', b) your ceo will pay you more money or fire your boss, or c) the CEO will ignore your letter and ask you to leave immediately.
Entities should not legally be allowed to own copyrights for living artists' and authors' work.
the MPAA's member companies should not disallow writers to hold copyrights on their work.
We should not be legally allowed or able to sign away our rights on the dotted line.
Copyright was thought up as a way to protect authors' and inventors' work. It was meant as a way to prevent plagiarism and protect the rights of the original creator.
The whole system has been bastardized and gamed to cut the creators out of their fair share and to protect revenue streams of investors.
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this guy is such a douche. He is a complete douche bag. So douchey that he smells like vinegar.
by the time you install all of the essential add-ons to firefox, it becomes slow again.
a few things I can't live without are adblock, rip, forecastfox, ietab, twitterfox, firebug, foxmarks and ubiquity.
With these installed, the browser is no longer fast.
Oh well.
yes, quite the conundrum isn't it?
I'm sure retailers will lobby congress to pass legislation to uncap broadband. Taxes will be a compromise.
My ISP, comcast (who else) has the 250GB cap per month. Despite this, they still block bit torrent.
I have yet to reach my cap in any month. I know I will some day. The current system is unsustainable because the quantity of data increases with the average connection speed.
when you blur out the 'soft' targets, blurry spots become targets.
This congressman is an idiot. Clearly.
Feinstein, Biden, Boucher just to name a few.
Proof: DRM
So, everyone is making it seem like it's only republicans against Net Neutrality.
With the utter lack of ethics in business now, employers confuse loose morals with not being trustworthy.
These same people checking up on you are most likely guilty of some breach of ethics and/or morals. They're human.
and who the fuck are they to judge? If you want to post photos of you passed out drunk on your myspace page, that's your choice.
If you pass out drunk at work then and only then can they start to worry about your competence as an employee.
Their behavior IS unethical.
I have one better, instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on lawyers, pay your damn artists!
The RIAA has no credibility with me. They cry afoul about the artists not getting paid. It's they who aren't paying!
It's they who treat the artists like plumbers. You can't have it both ways RIAA!
We now have some leaders who are slightly aware of the hypocrisy going on under their noses. Stop legislating revenues for industry.
plenty of democrats are opposed to net neutrality.
Hollywood is opposed to net neutrality.
It's not a liberal agenda persay, it's a really liberal agenda.
I could never install the game. kept getting a cryptography error.
NCSoft support were useless also. I'd say Garriot needs to make a new game so he can go into space again.
you're morons who have never played music in your life.
The drummer's job is to keep time. That's what he's there for. Not all drummers are good at it.
If they need a metronome to help keep time, let them. It's incredibly ignorant to say it sounds sterile.
yes, instead of blaming the greedy fucks who decided to gamble dangerously with other peoples' money, let's blame the math.
The math isn't wrong. The guy who made the math isn't wrong. The people who decided to ignore glaring risk factors are wrong.
I just figured it out.
use the ctrl-shift-alt M shortcut to bring up the menu. Then choose A/V Stats
You'll see the bitrate is actually 500. The buffering bitrate is 1500. WTF?
http://gamerslastwill.com/wp-content/uploads/netflix.png
I just tried watching a movie and the quality is much lower than it should be. Something is definitely not right about it.
I saw the menu. The bitrates avaialble to me were 500,1000, and 1500. 1500 was selected, but the quality was still much lower than I expected. loads of blockies. too many for 1500bps.
Netflix just changed something I'm sure of it. I will be contacting them for certain about it.
written by someone who was looking more at sales numbers than actual influence.
I'm sorry, but adventure was far more influential than mario kart
But the list isn't about influence, it's a list of the "top 50 console games of all time".
in that case, they forgot one: Madden football.
Simple. Use a truecrypt AES hidden volume.
when asked to give up the goods, give up the outer shell.
There is a reason why the G1 felt incomplete.
Google was smart to skip development of certain applications and features.
Let the OSS community do it for free.
This is why there was no video player built-in and also why we have yet to see the infamous cupcake.
There is still no video recording and no bluetooth tethering support unless your phone is rooted.
I always said I wanted a custom designed baby.
Then I saw my son. He's perfect. He's also wicked smart and has a crazy sense of humor. And he just turned one last month.
99% of the time, nature just does it better than we do.
write a letter to the CEO of the company on the company's own letterhead. Make it a WRITTEN letter.
Ensure it's in the company's own stationary. Mail it to the company from your home.
Explain the situation. Tell the CEO that you don't believe your decision is subject to your supervisor's approval.
Also explain the complete lack of ethics your supervisor has shown. 3 Things could happen, a) the ceo will call your boss 'on the carpet', b) your ceo will pay you more money or fire your boss, or c) the CEO will ignore your letter and ask you to leave immediately.
I don't see how any of those is a bad deal.
Agreed. Any attempts to 'act geek' will seem trite by comparison to those of us who were nerdy before 'geek was chic'.
Being a geek 99% of the time means enduring some sort of social torment before you can win over the rest of the mortals with your sheer genius.
Despite the obvious paranoia, honest players have nothing to fear from the punkbuster service.
If you're afraid of punkbuster, you must be a punk!
I run several websites.
I would never claim to be qualified to run a whole government agency.
What if your job responsibilities include developing security policy and protocols?
What happens if management wants you to violate those and provide open access to untrustworthy or unqualified people?
Would they have you arrested for following the policy and protocols they agreed to?
I can't help but wonder what impact this could have for all honest and qualified administrators.
Entities should not legally be allowed to own copyrights for living artists' and authors' work.
the MPAA's member companies should not disallow writers to hold copyrights on their work.
We should not be legally allowed or able to sign away our rights on the dotted line.
Copyright was thought up as a way to protect authors' and inventors' work. It was meant as a way to prevent plagiarism and protect the rights of the original creator.
The whole system has been bastardized and gamed to cut the creators out of their fair share and to protect revenue streams of investors.
Don't forget android.
I remember when $44.95 was really expensive for a game.
Now, console games cost $60.
I just wonder, why would the same game cost $10 more on consoles than PC? probably because PC gamers won't pay $60 for a regular edition.
That said, Steam really is great for me. They have sales all the time. When they lower the prices, people buy.
I prefer digital distribution now. Going to the store is bothersome. Having a box and DVD to worry about is too much hassle.