I wish I had mod points. I hadn't thought of it, but I have been in one of those situations where I favored the product I had heard of over the no-name product.
And I'm sure that making it a game had given it a more favorable learning curve and made it easier for some people to find the hour a day needed to get good at it.
If you keep your eyes peeled (or set a slickdeals.net alert) you can occasionally find deals on the stuff. When "Rock Band/Guitar Hero X+1" comes out, you can usually find "Rock Band/Guitar Hero X" on clearance somewhere for a much better deal.
No, it's ok to enable murder but not piracy. And it makes sense when you think about it. Piracy costs businesses a trillion gazillion dollars a year and makes baby Jesus cry*.
Murder creates jobs. Somebody has to bury the stiff, and then someone else has to show up for work in his place, the next day. So have you hugged your local murderer today?
* that phrase may be copyrighted. Don't ever say it again, just to be safe.
But that is a good precedent. If VCRs are legal, then why not 3D printers? In fact 3D printers probably have a stronger case because their non-infringing use seems more likely to occur and less likely to be abused.
Yawn... Sure, I can't compare an Omnia 1 with a Droid 2. It wouldn't be fair to MS, but, the Omnia was so disappointing. About once every 6 months, it magically forgot how to connect to the internet, and "Hard reset" (the equivalent of "wipe your hard drive and reinstall") was the only answer tech support could provide. The phone crashed on me once a month.
The icons were so small that you had to use a stylus. It hadn't quite outgrown its' PDA roots. Windows Media player Mobile was almost as bad (the play/pause, fast forward, and rewind buttons are right on top of each other. I wrote a really awful-looking skin that at least separated these buttons enough so that you could pause a podcast without hitting the "next button" at the same time).
And there are very few good apps for it. WinMo is one of the least restrictive platforms out there, and I don't need an "app store", but there is just so much more cool stuff for Android. (And a key difference is that with WinMo, you can write your own app to replace the broken crap that comes with it. With Android, it's less likely to be broken, and other people have already done it for you).
So is it possible that one factor in the lack of excitement for WinMo7 is their experience with WinMo6? My three main criteria, after leaving the Omnia were
My wife works at a grocery store, and I am surprised at how many teenagers I see, both there, and, occasionally, at fast food restaurants who are typing away on cheap blackberrys during their break.(I haven't seen many iPhones or androids, however). Meanwhile, I know of a few competent coworkers (outside of IT) who do not have smart phones.
that an infinate number of monkeys, working for an infinate amount of time will eventually recreate the works of shakespere.. does this mean the *IAA will seek to outlaw monkeys, or just the practice of giving monkeys keyboards?
If the RIAA has proven anything, it's that an infinite number of monkeys, working for an infinate amount of time will eventually write a series of Vin Diesel movies.
Nope. That's why they call it a parody. IANAL, so I can't give the specifics, but you can get away with quite a bit more when you are making a parody, as opposed to a porn that attempts to capitalize on a theme.
I am assuming that you are European. Pardon me if I'm wrong. Here in the states, Greece has become the poster-boy for "European Socialism". ("Socialism" being defined as anything to the left of where we were after the last Bush tax cut, but before the Bush bailout).
That is the big fear. If we do anything Europe does, then our economy will collapse like that of Greece (all while never noticing that the rest of Europe is still strong enough to give the Greeks a bailout).
In addition, the republicans would threaten to filibuster, and the democrats would say "ok, I give up now". Why not call them on that? Why didn't they try to pass the bill that dems could agree on, let the GOP filibuster and then complain about "obstructionist republicans".
When Bush took office, "obstructionist democrats" was the official FoxNews narrative, despite the fact that the democrats were filibustering less under W than they were under Clinton. Now we have a congress full of obstructionists, who were openly hoping for the president to fail, at a time when people were worried about slipping into another great depression, and the dems said very little.
No need to manage taxes for your employees paycheck, figure out your deductions, find tax credits, buy your car with your company, buy your vacation home as a company asset. It would no longer matter, because all of these things would become moot points. You would pay taxes on them, end of story.
Under the fair tax, would businesses not get exemptions for business expenses? Would a factory have to pay sales tax on every raw material purchased? Wouldn't this penalize small businesses that have to rely more on third party services and parts produced by other companies?
There is no double-taxing. Everything is taxed one time, at retail.
How do you get that? When discussing income tax, you take one level of abstraction; you factor in the taxes the plumber pays as part of the cost of service. Under an income tax system, that plumber is still going to pay taxes, and that will still affect his cost of living. So, if he is paying 35% taxes then what does it matter if that is in the form of income tax or sales tax? Either way, it is going to be passed on to his customers.
Old post, I know, but I wanted to comment on this:
Stargate Universe was slow to start (hey, the damn ship was falling apart), too bad too many viewers stopped watching. Their loss may end up being everyone's loss.
The ship falling apart was one of the things I loved about the first few episodes of SGU. The whole notion of people who really don't know what they're doing, on a ship that is falling apart, spending every week trying to figure out "how do we power this thing? How do we jury rig a life support system? Where does our food come from? Who's in charge?"
I haven't watched the last four episodes because they're getting away from that and getting more toward "on no! Bad guy!! Beat him up and take his gun!!!"
I wonder if you could patent a recipe? You can patent equations, inventions and "processes". (Of course recipes do not bring in enough money to make it viable, but just curious)
Considering that this is about copyright laws being applied to recipes, I have some questions about whether perpetual copyrights are scalable in that context. Should everyone who ever cooks anything should pay licensing fees (even if it's just a one-time fee) to the person who originally wrote that recipe down? Should we have to track down the first guy who made s'mores to pay him his cut, before our first camping trip? Should the guy who first thought to combine ketchup, mustard, pickles and onions get paid when we make a hamburger with those toppings? What if I decide to make mine with jalapenos, or grilled onions and barbecue sauce? Should I have to track down the guy who "owns" those recipes*?
* I'm sure that an iPhone app would make that easier than it sounds.
It's not just a matter of maximizing profits. If the competitor's product is subsidized by Google/Facebook/etc, then that gives them an unfair advantage in the price war. Once the competitor is unable to compete on price, their days are numbered.
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But i got it from a Dark Sun novel.
They got the bugs pointed out for $20,000. They still have to fix them.
I wish I had mod points. I hadn't thought of it, but I have been in one of those situations where I favored the product I had heard of over the no-name product.
Look,
They just want raw, killer soldiers - who won't come back with either PTSD or a human soul.
This is the kind of research that begins looking lie rational inquiry into the determining mechanisms of everyday psychology, and ends in horrors.
If it happens, blame the gunman, not the gun.
And I'm sure that making it a game had given it a more favorable learning curve and made it easier for some people to find the hour a day needed to get good at it.
If you keep your eyes peeled (or set a slickdeals.net alert) you can occasionally find deals on the stuff. When "Rock Band/Guitar Hero X+1" comes out, you can usually find "Rock Band/Guitar Hero X" on clearance somewhere for a much better deal.
Exactly. The "M" in "MTV" hasn't stood for "music" in at least 10 or 12 years, if not longer than that. These days it stands for "moron."
In their defense, "16 and pregnant hero" would have never sold. They had to try the music thing.
No, it's ok to enable murder but not piracy. And it makes sense when you think about it. Piracy costs businesses a trillion gazillion dollars a year and makes baby Jesus cry*.
Murder creates jobs. Somebody has to bury the stiff, and then someone else has to show up for work in his place, the next day. So have you hugged your local murderer today?
* that phrase may be copyrighted. Don't ever say it again, just to be safe.
But that is a good precedent. If VCRs are legal, then why not 3D printers? In fact 3D printers probably have a stronger case because their non-infringing use seems more likely to occur and less likely to be abused.
Posted one minutes after the original comment. You're the man!
Yawn... Sure, I can't compare an Omnia 1 with a Droid 2. It wouldn't be fair to MS, but, the Omnia was so disappointing. About once every 6 months, it magically forgot how to connect to the internet, and "Hard reset" (the equivalent of "wipe your hard drive and reinstall") was the only answer tech support could provide. The phone crashed on me once a month.
The icons were so small that you had to use a stylus. It hadn't quite outgrown its' PDA roots. Windows Media player Mobile was almost as bad (the play/pause, fast forward, and rewind buttons are right on top of each other. I wrote a really awful-looking skin that at least separated these buttons enough so that you could pause a podcast without hitting the "next button" at the same time).
And there are very few good apps for it. WinMo is one of the least restrictive platforms out there, and I don't need an "app store", but there is just so much more cool stuff for Android. (And a key difference is that with WinMo, you can write your own app to replace the broken crap that comes with it. With Android, it's less likely to be broken, and other people have already done it for you).
So is it possible that one factor in the lack of excitement for WinMo7 is their experience with WinMo6? My three main criteria, after leaving the Omnia were
I haven't looked back.
My wife works at a grocery store, and I am surprised at how many teenagers I see, both there, and, occasionally, at fast food restaurants who are typing away on cheap blackberrys during their break.(I haven't seen many iPhones or androids, however). Meanwhile, I know of a few competent coworkers (outside of IT) who do not have smart phones.
Maybe they can get the people who do farmville to do cutesy icons and status updates for each of the diseases.
Johnnie has the clap! Oh No! Will you help him get to the clinic?
that an infinate number of monkeys, working for an infinate amount of time will eventually recreate the works of shakespere.. does this mean the *IAA will seek to outlaw monkeys, or just the practice of giving monkeys keyboards?
If the RIAA has proven anything, it's that an infinite number of monkeys, working for an infinate amount of time will eventually write a series of Vin Diesel movies.
Nope. That's why they call it a parody. IANAL, so I can't give the specifics, but you can get away with quite a bit more when you are making a parody, as opposed to a porn that attempts to capitalize on a theme.
I am assuming that you are European. Pardon me if I'm wrong. Here in the states, Greece has become the poster-boy for "European Socialism". ("Socialism" being defined as anything to the left of where we were after the last Bush tax cut, but before the Bush bailout).
That is the big fear. If we do anything Europe does, then our economy will collapse like that of Greece (all while never noticing that the rest of Europe is still strong enough to give the Greeks a bailout).
In addition, the republicans would threaten to filibuster, and the democrats would say "ok, I give up now". Why not call them on that? Why didn't they try to pass the bill that dems could agree on, let the GOP filibuster and then complain about "obstructionist republicans".
When Bush took office, "obstructionist democrats" was the official FoxNews narrative, despite the fact that the democrats were filibustering less under W than they were under Clinton. Now we have a congress full of obstructionists, who were openly hoping for the president to fail, at a time when people were worried about slipping into another great depression, and the dems said very little.
No need to manage taxes for your employees paycheck, figure out your deductions, find tax credits, buy your car with your company, buy your vacation home as a company asset. It would no longer matter, because all of these things would become moot points. You would pay taxes on them, end of story.
Under the fair tax, would businesses not get exemptions for business expenses? Would a factory have to pay sales tax on every raw material purchased? Wouldn't this penalize small businesses that have to rely more on third party services and parts produced by other companies?
There is no double-taxing. Everything is taxed one time, at retail.
How do you get that? When discussing income tax, you take one level of abstraction; you factor in the taxes the plumber pays as part of the cost of service. Under an income tax system, that plumber is still going to pay taxes, and that will still affect his cost of living. So, if he is paying 35% taxes then what does it matter if that is in the form of income tax or sales tax? Either way, it is going to be passed on to his customers.
Old post, I know, but I wanted to comment on this:
Stargate Universe was slow to start (hey, the damn ship was falling apart), too bad too many viewers stopped watching. Their loss may end up being everyone's loss.
The ship falling apart was one of the things I loved about the first few episodes of SGU. The whole notion of people who really don't know what they're doing, on a ship that is falling apart, spending every week trying to figure out "how do we power this thing? How do we jury rig a life support system? Where does our food come from? Who's in charge?"
I haven't watched the last four episodes because they're getting away from that and getting more toward "on no! Bad guy!! Beat him up and take his gun!!!"
It looks like their site has stopped responding and offline. Making a dumb move and then a stupid comment can cause website outage.
Their Facebook page is still up though.
Because facebook is immune to stupid comments...
I wonder if you could patent a recipe? You can patent equations, inventions and "processes". (Of course recipes do not bring in enough money to make it viable, but just curious)
Considering that this is about copyright laws being applied to recipes, I have some questions about whether perpetual copyrights are scalable in that context. Should everyone who ever cooks anything should pay licensing fees (even if it's just a one-time fee) to the person who originally wrote that recipe down? Should we have to track down the first guy who made s'mores to pay him his cut, before our first camping trip? Should the guy who first thought to combine ketchup, mustard, pickles and onions get paid when we make a hamburger with those toppings? What if I decide to make mine with jalapenos, or grilled onions and barbecue sauce? Should I have to track down the guy who "owns" those recipes*?
* I'm sure that an iPhone app would make that easier than it sounds.
(At risk of being redundant)
There has to be a limit. And of course there is a limit, except for the fact that they keep changing it every time it threatens Disney's assets.
There has to be a limit. And they keep changing it every time Disney almost reaches it.
It's not just a matter of maximizing profits. If the competitor's product is subsidized by Google/Facebook/etc, then that gives them an unfair advantage in the price war. Once the competitor is unable to compete on price, their days are numbered.