No... the shitstorm would be epic. Even better, they could claim they're using RIAA and MPAA IP addresses and get those guys to block themselves. Reminds me of the first Hackers movie...
This concerns me slightly. It's like the people making the advertising decisions are saying "Let's put as *many* ads on as annoying as possible until there's a huge consumer backlash. Then we'll just scale back to the most recent level of advertising, and everyone will be thanking us for being so responsive to the consumers' wishes!"
That's crap. Bottom line is that I, personally, refuse to pay for commercials. If you want your money from commercials, that's fine, but don't expect me to pay for it on top of that. Anything more than that is unacceptable - my life's time is precious and I won't *pay* to have it wasted.
Obviously it's silly to sue someone over this tech, however, if users reduce the value of advertising on television by not watching them then these lost revs will have to be made up elsewhere. And that will likely translate to more direct costs to the user.
"Users reducing the value of advertising on television" should send a very clear message to the companies that provide us their service. They (the providers - Fox, CNN, Comcast, etc.) are behaving as if their service were a required necessity of life and any tampering would undoubtedly destroy us all. Their services are *not* required, nor are they necessary. People need only to wake up and realize that they don't need these things which we have been programmed to believe we need.
Isn't it? Removing the double-negative from "no non-infringing use" reads to me as "infringing use". Not being sarcastic, just trying to see the part I missed here.
I can totally see this as being the case. Just as with the music industry and, to a lesser extent, the movie and game industries, the landscape is changing dramatically and those that can't or won't keep up with what their customers want and how they want it will lose those customers in their attempt to cling to a dying business model and profit margins.
The days of big media (at least in its current incarnation) are coming to a close. Technology has become common enough that *many* more people and companies are going to be able to supply similar (or better) services than any of the big media conglomerates. I find it very unlikely that these 800lb. gorillas are going to be agile enough to keep up with the smaller start-ups that come and take their customer base away with superior service.
I like the peace of mind I get from not having to worry about bandwidth caps. Granted, I use a lot of bandwidth with internet being the primary source of entertainment (Netflix, MMOs, browsing, all * multiple family members). Glad I'm not on Comcast anymore... I hope they get severe consumer backlash and none of the other ISPs attempt to do the same thing.
These numbers are displaying *public* posts. I post quite frequently on my G+ account. Just not to the public because what I have to say is none of the public's business unless I want it to be (or am posting on/.)
Quite simple... I take some time to play a game that I want to play, then I give up the console and let the next person play a game that they want to play, and so on. If we want to play a game at the same time, we choose from the available games that support split-screen, hotseat, or otherwise-simultaneous play. Otherwise, we take turns playing single player games. I don't think it's that difficult of a concept, but, granted, we aren't able to simultaneously play this year's version of last year's FPS.
In terms of "whose multiplayer is online", we only have one XBL account and find it wasteful to have more than one just so that "my" stats don't get mixed in with "their" stats (not that we play many console games where multiplayer is online-only; I have MMOs on my PC for that). YMMV.:)
This probably works for use because we don't buy many games, if any, that don't support local multiplayer and have very short singleplayer, such as the game you suggest. To each their own, though, yes?
My house has 3 gamers (me, my spouse, and our child) and we only have one console. We don't need multiple consoles, we play together if the game supports it, or we take turns. Why would you need to multiply by the number of gamers? Because you think that everyone needs their own console? Talk about spoiled... Do you do accounting for Hollywood, by chance?:)
And, please note, your IP addresses will *not* be monitored or collected by any government agency, spider bot, or anything else of that nature, so please feel comfortable admitting to breaking the law in a publicly accessible network location.:)
So if the entertainment industry can't keep up with the times, here's the world's smallest violin playing just for them.
IMHO, this is exactly what's going on and exactly why the *AA agencies are fighting so hard and exaggerating data (if not outright lying). By the same token, however, several other industries (not companies, entire industries) have received government bailouts in recent years. Why have these industries (those bailed out and those receiving "special" legislation [i.e.: increasing length of copyright]) been yanked out of the fire and allowed to continue to exist in a supposed "free market"?
Hmm... thanks for that info, guys. I'd no idea that windows made a USB installation. Also, I've not had to tinker with any BIOS for quite some time, let alone different ones, so I didn't realize boot from USB become that mainstream.
ugh... need to preview comments more. that was supposed to have </sarcasm> at the end of it, but, silly me, I don't normally think to use HTML in every-day conversation.
So... what do you do if you have a machine with no OS on it to download anything from? Install from USB? I've seen some Linux distros that might be able to accomplish that, but they're not for the novice.
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No... the shitstorm would be epic. Even better, they could claim they're using RIAA and MPAA IP addresses and get those guys to block themselves. Reminds me of the first Hackers movie...
Isn't that just semantics? Logically, it seems to me that "least bad" and "best" are pretty much the same thing.
This concerns me slightly. It's like the people making the advertising decisions are saying "Let's put as *many* ads on as annoying as possible until there's a huge consumer backlash. Then we'll just scale back to the most recent level of advertising, and everyone will be thanking us for being so responsive to the consumers' wishes!"
That's crap. Bottom line is that I, personally, refuse to pay for commercials. If you want your money from commercials, that's fine, but don't expect me to pay for it on top of that. Anything more than that is unacceptable - my life's time is precious and I won't *pay* to have it wasted.
Sorry - came out a little ranty there.
Audio cassette recorders are not digital - they are analogue. Just saying... :)
Obviously it's silly to sue someone over this tech, however, if users reduce the value of advertising on television by not watching them then these lost revs will have to be made up elsewhere. And that will likely translate to more direct costs to the user.
"Users reducing the value of advertising on television" should send a very clear message to the companies that provide us their service. They (the providers - Fox, CNN, Comcast, etc.) are behaving as if their service were a required necessity of life and any tampering would undoubtedly destroy us all. Their services are *not* required, nor are they necessary. People need only to wake up and realize that they don't need these things which we have been programmed to believe we need.
I'm surprised people still watch it at all, personally.
Isn't it? Removing the double-negative from "no non-infringing use" reads to me as "infringing use". Not being sarcastic, just trying to see the part I missed here.
I can totally see this as being the case. Just as with the music industry and, to a lesser extent, the movie and game industries, the landscape is changing dramatically and those that can't or won't keep up with what their customers want and how they want it will lose those customers in their attempt to cling to a dying business model and profit margins.
The days of big media (at least in its current incarnation) are coming to a close. Technology has become common enough that *many* more people and companies are going to be able to supply similar (or better) services than any of the big media conglomerates. I find it very unlikely that these 800lb. gorillas are going to be agile enough to keep up with the smaller start-ups that come and take their customer base away with superior service.
I like the peace of mind I get from not having to worry about bandwidth caps. Granted, I use a lot of bandwidth with internet being the primary source of entertainment (Netflix, MMOs, browsing, all * multiple family members). Glad I'm not on Comcast anymore... I hope they get severe consumer backlash and none of the other ISPs attempt to do the same thing.
These numbers are displaying *public* posts. I post quite frequently on my G+ account. Just not to the public because what I have to say is none of the public's business unless I want it to be (or am posting on /.)
As if I don't have enough problems with people trying to scan my data to hit me with targeted advertising...
They're probably right.
Quite simple... I take some time to play a game that I want to play, then I give up the console and let the next person play a game that they want to play, and so on. If we want to play a game at the same time, we choose from the available games that support split-screen, hotseat, or otherwise-simultaneous play. Otherwise, we take turns playing single player games. I don't think it's that difficult of a concept, but, granted, we aren't able to simultaneously play this year's version of last year's FPS.
:)
In terms of "whose multiplayer is online", we only have one XBL account and find it wasteful to have more than one just so that "my" stats don't get mixed in with "their" stats (not that we play many console games where multiplayer is online-only; I have MMOs on my PC for that). YMMV.
This probably works for use because we don't buy many games, if any, that don't support local multiplayer and have very short singleplayer, such as the game you suggest. To each their own, though, yes?
[...] even though Apple bashing is a favorite activity here on Slashdot?
Mmm... Apple bashing. Haven't seen a good one of these in a while. Quick! Someone go find an Apple story real quick so we can have a good bashing! :)
My house has 3 gamers (me, my spouse, and our child) and we only have one console. We don't need multiple consoles, we play together if the game supports it, or we take turns. Why would you need to multiply by the number of gamers? Because you think that everyone needs their own console? Talk about spoiled... Do you do accounting for Hollywood, by chance? :)
And, please note, your IP addresses will *not* be monitored or collected by any government agency, spider bot, or anything else of that nature, so please feel comfortable admitting to breaking the law in a publicly accessible network location. :)
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So if the entertainment industry can't keep up with the times, here's the world's smallest violin playing just for them.
IMHO, this is exactly what's going on and exactly why the *AA agencies are fighting so hard and exaggerating data (if not outright lying). By the same token, however, several other industries (not companies, entire industries) have received government bailouts in recent years. Why have these industries (those bailed out and those receiving "special" legislation [i.e.: increasing length of copyright]) been yanked out of the fire and allowed to continue to exist in a supposed "free market"?
(This is a rhetorical question, btw...)
Hmm... thanks for that info, guys. I'd no idea that windows made a USB installation. Also, I've not had to tinker with any BIOS for quite some time, let alone different ones, so I didn't realize boot from USB become that mainstream.
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Good stuff!.
Love it. Imaginary +1 funny for you :)
ugh... need to preview comments more. that was supposed to have </sarcasm> at the end of it, but, silly me, I don't normally think to use HTML in every-day conversation.
Are you implying that you don't want to be snooped on because you have something to hide?
Because we don't have enough problems with crackers already!
So... what do you do if you have a machine with no OS on it to download anything from? Install from USB? I've seen some Linux distros that might be able to accomplish that, but they're not for the novice.
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Thank you, sir.