Enough already. When they say 'Canadian Culture' they mean 'The lack of choices so we can charge high prices'
That's all it is. They're mad that someone else is doing it cheaper so they can't get as much money as they want to gouge Canadians for.
They want restrictions to force Canadians to pay higher prices for products and a limited market to maintain it. If we have a wide open free range market for material, TV shows and everything else, you'll have...dun dun dun..competitors. They hate those.
Companies I have worked for said the US market can be difficult, because everyone is used to having choices and options available to them, so if you're not competitive in pricing, technology, and features, you won't make it.
Think about that, that's/exactly/ what my manager said to me at this company, based in Canada that Markets in the US.
That to me says - In Canada, it's not as hard because people have no choice but to buy your crappy products at higher prices. Heck, we're a major oil supplier to the US, and yet our prices for gas are higher. Go figure. If anything the unification of culture by CHOICE is a good thing. Then finally people can start truly putting differences aside and advance globally.
I've always wanted something like this. Eventually I can have a house with a huge open facing digital window system like this and project places other than my neighbors. Suddenly I can have a beach front home!
The DRM free version that functions perfectly, quick and hassle free, or to purchase one with DRM that will hassle you.
As a consumer, I'm concerned with just getting the product. It's up to the distributors to ensure they're licensed to distribute the product. If given the choice to spend 50$ on the DRM free version that just works and gives me no problems versus 50$ for one that has special r-tard DRM in it..it's simple. I'd buy the product that works without any problems - it's the superior product.
You would think the pirated version should be riddled with issues, not the legitimate purchased copy. Never mind the fact that the pirated version is free. Tough sell ubisoft.
Seriously, make my day. We get a lot of mainstream content and it's a difficult market place for budding artists. Crack down on copyright material, make it harder to reach all the popular songs for free and you have to buy everything.
You'll be doing a favour for a lot of independent artists out there. There's a lot of good music that doesn't make the radio or that a particular crowd will really enjoy, or a less popular genre that will get more exposure. All you'll do it as allow small artists to release tracks for free or exceptionally cheap, which people will then become aware of and start listening to their music.
You know, people you don't have record deals with. E.G you'll be doing your competition a favour. So, I'm good with it either way.
I wouldn't have a way of knowing, and even if I could, I could be hit by a bus tomorrow, suddenly it doesn't matter.
My point is just because I wouldn't know if it caused it, doesn't mean I want to increase the chances it does. I also don't smoke, have had maybe two x-rays my entire life, I don't like / eat seafood, and I've never taken a flight.
So...yeah. You can keep your radiation to yourself. (I don't like Bananas either)
It wasn't Japan that lost the war. It was Japan's army, it was there fault.
In this case it's not the Japan government letting their people get radiation, it's radiations fault. If I lived there, I'd have radiation meters weaved into my clothes.
People go 'OH it's not that much' FINE, let government leaders live in those places. I wouldn't want my life shortened at all, I'm thinking 40 years down the road I don't want to die from horrible radiation inflicted disease, nor do I want to find out some sort of penis monster finds me attractive.
Let's be in the hypothetical mind of someone who allegedly downloads and uses copyright software 'illegally'. Music, video, you name it. Let's call him Smith.
Maybe this person buys things that they consider good and worth it, but on occasion will download some software for personal use, maybe a game or two here and there, but when something really good comes along, they buy it. Buy a good game, or a CD from an artist they support. Maybe a movie looks really good so they actually want to see it in theater.
Now, the US posts a big flaming sign with a giant middle finger saying, 'Screw you, for downloading anything or sharing, we'll get you'.
Let's assume most humans are similar in how they react to messages like this. So Smith decided, screw you back. I'm not buying anything and hope your company squanders, and there happens to be thousands of people like Smith. Will Smith hold on to this forever? He's just an average person. Probably not, in a few months, he'll see something he wants, and he'll buy it again.
In the mean time though, the thousands, or hundreds of thousands of Smiths, are going to increase their piracy for a few months in protests, to send a message back to entities such as the RIAA. Their profits will drop temporairly as punishment for their actions. Did they send a message that makes people buy more? Nope.
Will it increase profits? Not really. Will a few people buy in fear? Sure. Many more will pirate. Also you've just advertised to the average user that they can look up online for links to files to get 'free' content.
Sorry, it must have seemed like I was implying it would be a sufficiently reliable tool to place into medical use immediately and start production.
It never said anything about accuracy margins or what illnesses it had to detect. With that in mind, you can probably develop something that is functional and can potentially identifying fifteen different diseases within a certain percentage of accuracy.
I'm sure they have rules for accuracy, but not knowing what they are means there's a chance that the device does not need to match the skills of a doctor or any other medical device / test designed exclusively to detect a particular disease.
Obviously if the design was innovative enough, to push it into practical and safe use, including licensing, FDA testing etc, would cost a lot more.
Events like this are really great, it really spurs innovation.
It encourages people to think outside the box and build something normally only researched if there's great market value. If companies are making fair change with current products, they'll milk research till later and slowly release tech to keep the market at the right level of saturation.
The fact that a reward to cover research expenses and advance technology like that is just out there is great. It might not be perfect, whatever is developed, but it's a start in a good direction. It might not be a mass marketed product, the original anyway, but that 10 mill will at least get the ball rolling.
Someone was just sitting there with a powerful space toy, by themselves, as the boss was out, with no orders or anything and went to his coworker.
'Hey..pssst..hey..hey look..it's that Russian space probe..watch this. No really, just watch. I'm going to point our radar at it..shhh..quiet...okay shh...heh heh...okay...watch. (sets to full power.,..bwaroongwwwrerrooonng) 'Omg omg it's backwards, look! (lots of giggle, snickering and almost falling over) shh don't tell anyone we'll get in so much trouble...okay quiet quiet, supervisor is coming from break. Supervisor: Anything happen while I was gone?
Guy who fapped satillite: (Barely holding laughter) No..no nothing at all...just..you know..scanning n stuff...
I've experienced outages but none while playing games that required internet connectivity as a LAN party. I suppose I'm also not looking at this from the correct point of view. I work in IT, I have wire cutters, crimpers, connectors and cat5 cable on a spool. When we have lan parties far from an internet source I'll spend five minutes and make a cable up to 55m long to resolve the issue.
Not every has that equipment handy to do that or know how. Although I don't still consider lan features super critical, I appreciate your point of view and do think they should include it on games that are best played with friends.
I don't have latency issues playing diablo 2 or starcraft, or world of warcraft. Actually, any game.
So fair point if your internet connection generally has poor latency or the servers you can stuck on by location aren't very reliable. This mattered much more though back in the days of dial up internet. Most people's broadband connection will have no issues in many parts of North America.
Lack of LAN IS a gameplay flaw. LANs create an immersion environment that cant be replicated any other way.
You can all sit in the same room, on the same network, and play Starcraft 2.
You can just play with each other, you can play lan games.
The only real complaint I'm seeing here is "It's not easy to download copies for all our friends and play together without buying the game"
If you like it enough to have a lan party for it, you like it enough to buy it. If your arguement was 'I should be able to have spawn copies in the past like the original starcraft did to play LAN with a few friends' I'd completely agree with you.
I think they should allow people to play games with spawn copies or something similiar so a few friends can get together to play. Other than that, you can 100% recreate the experience, as long as you have internet access.
They want to market these features but hope people only impulse buy them for the novelty. God forbit if you actually start to use it on a regular basis.
They want you to buy it because it's cool, forget about it because it's complicated, and never use it while paying for your 3 year term dataplan.
The problem is a lot of people don't use the features they buy, and the phone companes LOVE that. So then they get mad when there's people who actually do use the service since the pie chart isn't a greedily big like when people buy extended warranties.
That's right, this is just as bad as if they offered extending warranties and starting QQing really hard when people started making claims.
Most movies, music, and books aren't worth paying for.
Okay, I can probably agree with that, but that's up to an individuals taste. (So?)
Sorry, I refuse to bow to your little green god.
Do you work? Do you pay bills? Do you exchange currency for any services? You bow every day. That statement is nonsensical at best. You can't boast a 'I'm not part of the system' statement' when you're just a cog in it.
This isn't intended to be an insult even thought it likely comes across this way. I just don't understand what you're refusing to bow to or how in general. From the presentation of the statement and understanding, my above statement accurately depicts what you do daily.
The pattern I see is grade school teachers not doing their damned jobs well. Why do you guys put an apostrophe for a plural? It's pennies. Your spell checker dodn't catch it because "the penny's color is copper" is correct. I hope you're not a native English speaker, because "Count your penny's" makes you look like an uneducated, aliterate fool that only another aliterate fool would take seriously.
Alright, you got me. I can make excuses like, I haven't had my morning coffee or what not, but the truth is, I made a spelling mistake. Clearly anything else I've said is worthless now. Do I realize the mistake? Find it silly? sure. Do I know how to spell it correctly? You bet. Why didn't I? I don't know.
Anything else is just up to speculation. So, I don't know what you were trying to accomplish more than a troll. If so, I tip my hat to you.
P.S. It sounds like you spend a lot of time confirming fancy words you use by websters or likely just googling it. That's like completing an open book test. I wouldn't insult teachers so readily, less you be stricken of internet and your true capacity revealed.
Have you seen the general population these days? I'd consider that the upper range. I think cognitive decline starts right around when you become a teenager, and for a lot of people it just gets worse as they get older...
Slashdot Mirror
Send all the psychics to the moon so they can prove it and meet the aliens.
Problem solved.
P.S Fuel prices keep going up, may have to employ some fuel related cutbacks, like enough to just get there.
Enough already. When they say 'Canadian Culture' they mean 'The lack of choices so we can charge high prices'
That's all it is. They're mad that someone else is doing it cheaper so they can't get as much money as they want to gouge Canadians for.
They want restrictions to force Canadians to pay higher prices for products and a limited market to maintain it. If we have a wide open free range market for material, TV shows and everything else, you'll have...dun dun dun..competitors. They hate those.
Companies I have worked for said the US market can be difficult, because everyone is used to having choices and options available to them, so if you're not competitive in pricing, technology, and features, you won't make it.
Think about that, that's /exactly/ what my manager said to me at this company, based in Canada that Markets in the US.
That to me says - In Canada, it's not as hard because people have no choice but to buy your crappy products at higher prices.
Heck, we're a major oil supplier to the US, and yet our prices for gas are higher. Go figure. If anything the unification of culture by CHOICE is a good thing. Then finally people can start truly putting differences aside and advance globally.
I've always wanted something like this. Eventually I can have a house with a huge open facing digital window system like this and project places other than my neighbors. Suddenly I can have a beach front home!
The DRM free version that functions perfectly, quick and hassle free, or to purchase one with DRM that will hassle you.
As a consumer, I'm concerned with just getting the product. It's up to the distributors to ensure they're licensed to distribute the product. If given the choice to spend 50$ on the DRM free version that just works and gives me no problems versus 50$ for one that has special r-tard DRM in it..it's simple.
I'd buy the product that works without any problems - it's the superior product.
You would think the pirated version should be riddled with issues, not the legitimate purchased copy. Never mind the fact that the pirated version is free. Tough sell ubisoft.
Seriously, make my day. We get a lot of mainstream content and it's a difficult market place for budding artists. Crack down on copyright material, make it harder to reach all the popular songs for free and you have to buy everything.
You'll be doing a favour for a lot of independent artists out there. There's a lot of good music that doesn't make the radio or that a particular crowd will really enjoy, or a less popular genre that will get more exposure. All you'll do it as allow small artists to release tracks for free or exceptionally cheap, which people will then become aware of and start listening to their music.
You know, people you don't have record deals with. E.G you'll be doing your competition a favour. So, I'm good with it either way.
It still won't learn! We can't get it to read the TOS! When will you learn iCentipede!
Psht...reading TOS.
Well, we all heard that phone calls get recorded if you say specific messages like president and bomb in the same conversation.
What about facebook messages? Does it suddenly become not anon if they see phrases like that?
What if it was, 'I love Obama, he is the bomb'. What happens?
I wouldn't have a way of knowing, and even if I could, I could be hit by a bus tomorrow, suddenly it doesn't matter.
My point is just because I wouldn't know if it caused it, doesn't mean I want to increase the chances it does. I also don't smoke, have had maybe two x-rays my entire life, I don't like / eat seafood, and I've never taken a flight.
So...yeah. You can keep your radiation to yourself. (I don't like Bananas either)
It wasn't Japan that lost the war. It was Japan's army, it was there fault.
In this case it's not the Japan government letting their people get radiation, it's radiations fault.
If I lived there, I'd have radiation meters weaved into my clothes.
People go 'OH it's not that much' FINE, let government leaders live in those places. I wouldn't want my life shortened at all, I'm thinking 40 years down the road I don't want to die from horrible radiation inflicted disease, nor do I want to find out some sort of penis monster finds me attractive.
Let's be in the hypothetical mind of someone who allegedly downloads and uses copyright software 'illegally'. Music, video, you name it. Let's call him Smith.
Maybe this person buys things that they consider good and worth it, but on occasion will download some software for personal use, maybe a game or two here and there, but when something really good comes along, they buy it. Buy a good game, or a CD from an artist they support. Maybe a movie looks really good so they actually want to see it in theater.
Now, the US posts a big flaming sign with a giant middle finger saying, 'Screw you, for downloading anything or sharing, we'll get you'.
Let's assume most humans are similar in how they react to messages like this. So Smith decided, screw you back. I'm not buying anything and hope your company squanders, and there happens to be thousands of people like Smith. Will Smith hold on to this forever? He's just an average person. Probably not, in a few months, he'll see something he wants, and he'll buy it again.
In the mean time though, the thousands, or hundreds of thousands of Smiths, are going to increase their piracy for a few months in protests, to send a message back to entities such as the RIAA. Their profits will drop temporairly as punishment for their actions. Did they send a message that makes people buy more? Nope.
Will it increase profits? Not really. Will a few people buy in fear? Sure. Many more will pirate. Also you've just advertised to the average user that they can look up online for links to files to get 'free' content.
Good job. We're angstier than you think.
Sorry, it must have seemed like I was implying it would be a sufficiently reliable tool to place into medical use immediately and start production.
It never said anything about accuracy margins or what illnesses it had to detect. With that in mind, you can probably develop something that is functional and can potentially identifying fifteen different diseases within a certain percentage of accuracy.
I'm sure they have rules for accuracy, but not knowing what they are means there's a chance that the device does not need to match the skills of a doctor or any other medical device / test designed exclusively to detect a particular disease.
Obviously if the design was innovative enough, to push it into practical and safe use, including licensing, FDA testing etc, would cost a lot more.
Events like this are really great, it really spurs innovation.
It encourages people to think outside the box and build something normally only researched if there's great market value. If companies are making fair change with current products, they'll milk research till later and slowly release tech to keep the market at the right level of saturation.
The fact that a reward to cover research expenses and advance technology like that is just out there is great. It might not be perfect, whatever is developed, but it's a start in a good direction. It might not be a mass marketed product, the original anyway, but that 10 mill will at least get the ball rolling.
Someone was just sitting there with a powerful space toy, by themselves, as the boss was out, with no orders or anything and went to his coworker.
'Hey..pssst..hey..hey look..it's that Russian space probe..watch this. No really, just watch. I'm going to point our radar at it..shhh..quiet...okay shh...heh heh...okay...watch. (sets to full power.,..bwaroongwwwrerrooonng) 'Omg omg it's backwards, look! (lots of giggle, snickering and almost falling over) shh don't tell anyone we'll get in so much trouble...okay quiet quiet, supervisor is coming from break.
Supervisor: Anything happen while I was gone?
Guy who fapped satillite: (Barely holding laughter) No..no nothing at all...just..you know..scanning n stuff...
In Soviet Russia, Smart TV watches YOU!
Why would anyone want to live anywhere else in the world besides North America? :D
I guess I'm spoiled. Highest latency is usually under 100 ms...
Well put. I see your point.
I've experienced outages but none while playing games that required internet connectivity as a LAN party.
I suppose I'm also not looking at this from the correct point of view. I work in IT, I have wire cutters, crimpers, connectors and cat5 cable on a spool. When we have lan parties far from an internet source I'll spend five minutes and make a cable up to 55m long to resolve the issue.
Not every has that equipment handy to do that or know how. Although I don't still consider lan features super critical, I appreciate your point of view and do think they should include it on games that are best played with friends.
I guess it depends where you live.
I don't have latency issues playing diablo 2 or starcraft, or world of warcraft. Actually, any game.
So fair point if your internet connection generally has poor latency or the servers you can stuck on by location aren't very reliable.
This mattered much more though back in the days of dial up internet. Most people's broadband connection will have no issues in many parts of North America.
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Lack of LAN IS a gameplay flaw. LANs create an immersion environment that cant be replicated any other way.
You can all sit in the same room, on the same network, and play Starcraft 2.
You can just play with each other, you can play lan games.
The only real complaint I'm seeing here is "It's not easy to download copies for all our friends and play together without buying the game"
If you like it enough to have a lan party for it, you like it enough to buy it.
If your arguement was 'I should be able to have spawn copies in the past like the original starcraft did to play LAN with a few friends' I'd completely agree with you.
I think they should allow people to play games with spawn copies or something similiar so a few friends can get together to play.
Other than that, you can 100% recreate the experience, as long as you have internet access.
You could be right. I can't directly comment on teachers in America. I'm not American nor do I live in America.
Probably should check that in the future before assuming it's a problem related to the American education system.
Not everyone lives in America.
They want to market these features but hope people only impulse buy them for the novelty. God forbit if you actually start to use it on a regular basis.
They want you to buy it because it's cool, forget about it because it's complicated, and never use it while paying for your 3 year term dataplan.
The problem is a lot of people don't use the features they buy, and the phone companes LOVE that. So then they get mad when there's people who actually do use the service since the pie chart isn't a greedily big like when people buy extended warranties.
That's right, this is just as bad as if they offered extending warranties and starting QQing really hard when people started making claims.
Most movies, music, and books aren't worth paying for.
Okay, I can probably agree with that, but that's up to an individuals taste. (So?)
Sorry, I refuse to bow to your little green god.
Do you work? Do you pay bills? Do you exchange currency for any services? You bow every day. That statement
is nonsensical at best. You can't boast a 'I'm not part of the system' statement' when you're just a cog in it.
This isn't intended to be an insult even thought it likely comes across this way. I just don't understand what you're refusing to bow to
or how in general. From the presentation of the statement and understanding, my above statement accurately depicts what you do daily.
The pattern I see is grade school teachers not doing their damned jobs well. Why do you guys put an apostrophe for a plural? It's pennies. Your spell checker dodn't catch it because "the penny's color is copper" is correct. I hope you're not a native English speaker, because "Count your penny's" makes you look like an uneducated, aliterate fool that only another aliterate fool would take seriously.
Alright, you got me. I can make excuses like, I haven't had my morning coffee or what not, but the truth is, I made a spelling mistake. Clearly anything else I've said is worthless now. Do I realize the mistake? Find it silly? sure. Do I know how to spell it correctly? You bet. Why didn't I? I don't know.
Anything else is just up to speculation. So, I don't know what you were trying to accomplish more than a troll. If so, I tip my hat to you.
P.S. It sounds like you spend a lot of time confirming fancy words you use by websters or likely just googling it. That's like completing an open book test. I wouldn't insult teachers so readily, less you be stricken of internet and your true capacity revealed.
I'd say 80% of the population continues their puberty-induced not-so-temporary brain damage well into their 40s.
Ever met an asshole? Now we know what happend.
Have you seen the general population these days? I'd consider that the upper range. I think cognitive decline starts right around when you become a teenager, and for a lot of people it just gets worse as they get older...
The Matrix 4
You finally discover that really it was humans that lived above ground and developed the heat feeding system. People of Zion are really the robots.