It might be worse in cuba, but that doesn't make what he said about the USA incorrect. Hell, I wish he wasn't correct.
No, the fact that there are not police on every corner makes the original statement incorrect. If you are seeing this, I'd like to know your zipcode. Hell, my apartment complex alone has at least a half dozen law enforcement officers living there, yet I never see them patrolling the sidewalk in front of my dwelling (and my car got broken into once). Hyperbole is one thing; pretending the exaggeration is fact is quite another.
I look at the pirate sites to see what's popular on TV. That's a truer reflection of what the general public wants to watch, because the seed and leech count isn't some complex proprietary formula.
The demographic that gets/views torrents is skewed towards the technologically minded. Contrary to the prevailing slashdot wisdom, this site is not 'the general public'. Sure, the actual general public is closer to the slashdot demo than, say, 15 years ago, but they are not identical.
The problem with pirate sites is monetization. Let's suppose that the number of downloads of Game of Thrones from The Pirate Bay is the most accurate assessment of its popularity. Further, let's posit that 90% of the views come from that. Why does it matter to HBO? How do they recoup the development costs from a TPB viewer? And it matters not whether it is HBO, A&E, or NBC. Someone has to pay actors, writers, directors, etc. Until there is a better method of determining paying customers/viewers, there is still some relevance to traditional ratings. How much and to what degree, we can argue (well, you can. I'm not interested in those minutiae).
So yes, the viewership through pirate sites is interesting for help in determining popularity, but not necessarily in determining what gets made. The reign of 'non-scripted' shows as an example, is as much due to decreased costs of production (especially avoiding the WGA and DGA) at least as much, if not more than how popular they are.
Seems like Roger Ebert's piece on video games as art should be included in this discussion. (Yes, I'm too lazy to RTFA and see if it is already referenced).
Unless you were sitting on the phones and emails while the discussions were going on, you have absolutely no proof of the real reason he was fired. Everything coming from him and the company is PR. Conjecture that he had to leave due to SimCity is just as valid as conjecture that he left due to poor financial performance. Or it could be some combination of the two. Or something wholly unrelated.
If my theories about Mr. Hosts are correct, it should be another week before he shows up, minimum.
I wasn't saying to feed or not feed Ethanol-Fueled. Heck, I'm not even saying he's a troll per se. He could be a bit abrasive at times, but a mod bombing down to two posts a day status? Ouch.
You might want to turn off your sig before you post as AC next time;)
He's been doing that since getting mod-bombed a few months back. Ironically, his posts have been far less temperate since then, defeating the purpose of the 2 posts per day penalty of low karma accounts.
I was under the impression that Colt was forced to by the ATF as the ATF was most concerned about people making/having full auto guns. The receiver is where that particular 'magic' happens in the AR-15.
I propose that we find 200,000 hackers and barricade them inside a giant command center. From there, they will fight our enemies! Of course, the command center would be stocked with a high female-to-male ratio....wait, who am I kidding. More like 199,900 men and 100 women.
Came for the 2001 reference. Left satisfied (Eventually. I mean, WTF, mentioning both 'Discovery' and 'Europa' in the title, and a 2001 reference wasn't the frost piss?)
I can't think of a better article to get another fine Troll Tuesday off to a rollicking good start. I'm sure the discussion will be completely free of slander and polemics and a classic example of the betterment of humanity that can come from true communication.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, but in the grand 'logic' of 'girlintraining', quality content will magically appear on TPB merely because it is popular.
You know, I had typed out a thoughtful reply, then I remembered 'swine', 'pearls', etc.
Good job missing the forest for the trees.
It might be worse in cuba, but that doesn't make what he said about the USA incorrect. Hell, I wish he wasn't correct.
No, the fact that there are not police on every corner makes the original statement incorrect. If you are seeing this, I'd like to know your zipcode. Hell, my apartment complex alone has at least a half dozen law enforcement officers living there, yet I never see them patrolling the sidewalk in front of my dwelling (and my car got broken into once). Hyperbole is one thing; pretending the exaggeration is fact is quite another.
I look at the pirate sites to see what's popular on TV. That's a truer reflection of what the general public wants to watch, because the seed and leech count isn't some complex proprietary formula.
The demographic that gets/views torrents is skewed towards the technologically minded. Contrary to the prevailing slashdot wisdom, this site is not 'the general public'. Sure, the actual general public is closer to the slashdot demo than, say, 15 years ago, but they are not identical.
The problem with pirate sites is monetization. Let's suppose that the number of downloads of Game of Thrones from The Pirate Bay is the most accurate assessment of its popularity. Further, let's posit that 90% of the views come from that. Why does it matter to HBO? How do they recoup the development costs from a TPB viewer? And it matters not whether it is HBO, A&E, or NBC. Someone has to pay actors, writers, directors, etc. Until there is a better method of determining paying customers/viewers, there is still some relevance to traditional ratings. How much and to what degree, we can argue (well, you can. I'm not interested in those minutiae).
So yes, the viewership through pirate sites is interesting for help in determining popularity, but not necessarily in determining what gets made. The reign of 'non-scripted' shows as an example, is as much due to decreased costs of production (especially avoiding the WGA and DGA) at least as much, if not more than how popular they are.
Seems like Roger Ebert's piece on video games as art should be included in this discussion. (Yes, I'm too lazy to RTFA and see if it is already referenced).
Damnit, 20 mod points last week, and none this week. Was hoping someone would make this reply. Good job.
'We' generally vote for people who will treat 'those other people' like morons, not ourselves.
Citation needed.
That's an interesting way of requesting links to man-donkey porn.
It's rather harder to bribe 50 million people than 500..
I bet Goebbels would disagree with you.
Unless you were sitting on the phones and emails while the discussions were going on, you have absolutely no proof of the real reason he was fired. Everything coming from him and the company is PR. Conjecture that he had to leave due to SimCity is just as valid as conjecture that he left due to poor financial performance. Or it could be some combination of the two. Or something wholly unrelated.
A writing is not always necessary for a contract (IIRC, only for real property), but it makes life easier later on.
How about a good HOSTS file?
Not to mention that the idea put forward here was done on a Seinfeld episode years ago.
Not sure why anyone would care about the article. Nothing in it to indicate it's not 1997 with the whole VR thing. Crappy slashdot article as usual.
If my theories about Mr. Hosts are correct, it should be another week before he shows up, minimum.
I wasn't saying to feed or not feed Ethanol-Fueled. Heck, I'm not even saying he's a troll per se. He could be a bit abrasive at times, but a mod bombing down to two posts a day status? Ouch.
You're a dumb faggot [...]
-- Ethanol-fueled
You might want to turn off your sig before you post as AC next time ;)
He's been doing that since getting mod-bombed a few months back. Ironically, his posts have been far less temperate since then, defeating the purpose of the 2 posts per day penalty of low karma accounts.
I was under the impression that Colt was forced to by the ATF as the ATF was most concerned about people making/having full auto guns. The receiver is where that particular 'magic' happens in the AR-15.
I got it a gun with Micky Mouse(r) ears for iron sights!
That... that actually sounds kinda awesome...
Hey there, hi there, ho there, it's made for you and me. M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
Only half? She's aiming low.
I propose that we find 200,000 hackers and barricade them inside a giant command center. From there, they will fight our enemies! Of course, the command center would be stocked with a high female-to-male ratio....wait, who am I kidding. More like 199,900 men and 100 women.
So... the Internet?
Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!
While people are learning things, may I suggest learning about paragraphs?
Came for the 2001 reference. Left satisfied (Eventually. I mean, WTF, mentioning both 'Discovery' and 'Europa' in the title, and a 2001 reference wasn't the frost piss?)
Choose color of tape. No wonder they make the big bucks.
The irony is, both executives were color blind.
I can't think of a better article to get another fine Troll Tuesday off to a rollicking good start. I'm sure the discussion will be completely free of slander and polemics and a classic example of the betterment of humanity that can come from true communication.
If you hear her complaining, the ball gag isn't installed properly.