a 10% increase in clicks on illegal downloading websites leads to a 0.2% increase in clicks on legal purchase websites
uh oh, cue the correlation/causation nazis. ok, i'll go first. just cuz thy measured a 10% increase in pirate clicks and an 0.2% increase in legal purchase clicks doesn't mean there is a connection. Heck, perhaps if there had been fewer pirate clicks then there would have been more legal clicks! Also, what the heck is a click? shouldnt the metric be downloads or purchases?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sjuBF0-sRE. who is misusing language? do you go around calling women twats? is your mom a twat? is your wife a twat? you see how casual calling women twats may discourage women from posting to slashdot? This is dumb.
hey Michael Scott: "You don't call retarded people retards, it's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they're acting retarded". I can't help you if you don't understand basic social concepts.
wait a minute, never mind, the GP post throws around twats first, so fuck it, whatever. I still stand behind the price thing. also, so what one phone has more hertz than the other? show me what you can do with it, and how you can do it faster on one phone than the other. websurfing speed? angry birds? dropped calls? what else matters?
when a slashdot poster identifies herself as female, you call her a twat. that's misogynistic - tearing down the GP because she's female. same way if a slashdot poster identified himself as black, and you said "you're a n*" or if a poster identified himself as gay you say "you're a f*"
I'm not arguing with you, I'm agreeing with you. you said:
3) Making non-infringing (or at least non-actionable) any otherwise infringing act engaged in by a natural person, acting non-commercially;
I'm agreeing with you that when you download the new bieber song instead of purchasing it you are committing a commercial act. Then you agree with me that under your utopia IP regime, illegal filesharers would be committing a crime. we agree! where do I sign?
but simply the fact that more expensive device that came out, what, 6 months later, performs less well. Most end users would probably be a bit suprised to find that out given that they'd expect the more expensive device to perform better, especially when it was so much newer.
I'm so over this meme. all new top-shelf cell phones cost the same. $199 with contract. All cheap bargain bin cell phones cost the same. there is no such thing as "iphone more expensive than galaxy s"
You may not be an Apple fangirl, but you're obviously comfortable being a bit dishonest with the truth when it comes to Samsung, so fangirl or not, you're still a twat.
thank you, what was missing from this conversation was a bit of misogyny.
If I could download a decent quality (doesn't have to be super duper 1080p or anything like that) at the time it comes out and without a plethora of ads in it for $1 per episode, or get access to the whole season for say $15 or $20, I would gladly do so.
you can buy season passes on itunes. you get access the day after the show airs. i solved your problem! you may thank me now.
(3) if a person downloads a song instead of buying it then it is inherently a commercial act. perhaps there is a small niche of non-commercial infringing acts, but I can't think of any.
(4) I thought the author was free to publish or not publish, isn't that what you said? Surely he's free to publish in certain places, or on specific media. why cant he publish in whatever file type he chooses? This goes against your earlier argument.
(4) cont... oh goodie another gov't program. way to go liberty boy!
(5) copyright treaties have nothing to do with our national laws.
echo everything said, however you have to admit the design was pretty cool. and products such as this: http://www.griffintechnology.com/twenty show that there's a demand for wireless products with integrated amps.
Why "luckily"? Are you projecting an image of who your daughter "should" be? Hw will she feel when she can't fit the mold you made for her? It can go one of three ways.
C'mon man, birthdays only come once a year and it's a really big deal to kids. Indulge her, what's the harm? Get her an iShiny. Gift certificate to buy clothes, if that's whT she's into. Books are fun. It not your old tech that you don't want any more. Why not get her an S4?
The gp claimed that apple actively prevents installing older os's. I asked for citation on this. You say that you can't install a ppc OS on new computers with x86. I don't know if it's true or not, but it sounds reasonable. However, there's a huge gulf between technical barriers between chip architectures and *actively* preventing old OS installs. I ask again, citation?
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a 10% increase in clicks on illegal downloading websites leads to a 0.2% increase in clicks on legal purchase websites
uh oh, cue the correlation/causation nazis. ok, i'll go first. just cuz thy measured a 10% increase in pirate clicks and an 0.2% increase in legal purchase clicks doesn't mean there is a connection. Heck, perhaps if there had been fewer pirate clicks then there would have been more legal clicks! Also, what the heck is a click? shouldnt the metric be downloads or purchases?
perhaps this is a cultural thing? are you british or something? In US you never hear twat, and the closest synonym is c*nt, which is deeply offensive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sjuBF0-sRE. who is misusing language? do you go around calling women twats? is your mom a twat? is your wife a twat? you see how casual calling women twats may discourage women from posting to slashdot? This is dumb.
hey Michael Scott: "You don't call retarded people retards, it's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they're acting retarded". I can't help you if you don't understand basic social concepts.
wait a minute, never mind, the GP post throws around twats first, so fuck it, whatever. I still stand behind the price thing. also, so what one phone has more hertz than the other? show me what you can do with it, and how you can do it faster on one phone than the other. websurfing speed? angry birds? dropped calls? what else matters?
when a slashdot poster identifies herself as female, you call her a twat. that's misogynistic - tearing down the GP because she's female. same way if a slashdot poster identified himself as black, and you said "you're a n*" or if a poster identified himself as gay you say "you're a f*"
so, yes, it's misogynistic, racist, etc.
3) Making non-infringing (or at least non-actionable) any otherwise infringing act engaged in by a natural person, acting non-commercially;
I'm agreeing with you that when you download the new bieber song instead of purchasing it you are committing a commercial act. Then you agree with me that under your utopia IP regime, illegal filesharers would be committing a crime. we agree! where do I sign?
no. if you decide to download via torrent bieber's newest single instead of purchasing it, then it is a commercial act and would not be exempted.
but simply the fact that more expensive device that came out, what, 6 months later, performs less well. Most end users would probably be a bit suprised to find that out given that they'd expect the more expensive device to perform better, especially when it was so much newer.
I'm so over this meme. all new top-shelf cell phones cost the same. $199 with contract. All cheap bargain bin cell phones cost the same. there is no such thing as "iphone more expensive than galaxy s"
You may not be an Apple fangirl, but you're obviously comfortable being a bit dishonest with the truth when it comes to Samsung, so fangirl or not, you're still a twat.
thank you, what was missing from this conversation was a bit of misogyny.
this just in: new smart phone faster than smart phones released 6mo/1yr ago. Film at 11.
If I could download a decent quality (doesn't have to be super duper 1080p or anything like that) at the time it comes out and without a plethora of ads in it for $1 per episode, or get access to the whole season for say $15 or $20, I would gladly do so.
you can buy season passes on itunes. you get access the day after the show airs. i solved your problem! you may thank me now.
personal filesharing is a commercial act if it results in fewer sales. you cannot disagree with this.
I'm cool with (1) and (2) to an extent. but:
(3) if a person downloads a song instead of buying it then it is inherently a commercial act. perhaps there is a small niche of non-commercial infringing acts, but I can't think of any.
(4) I thought the author was free to publish or not publish, isn't that what you said? Surely he's free to publish in certain places, or on specific media. why cant he publish in whatever file type he chooses? This goes against your earlier argument.
(4) cont... oh goodie another gov't program. way to go liberty boy!
(5) copyright treaties have nothing to do with our national laws.
During the apple / java problem debacles the consensus arose that even though the flaw was in java, apple was to blame. Surely the same applies here.
my guess? doom 3 was an anti-loss leader... get people excited about an old product, then BOOM free upgrade to new product!
"Tom's Hardware has published a lengthy article and a set of benchmarks on the new "Haswell" CPUs from Intel.
Yes, but will it blend?
echo everything said, however you have to admit the design was pretty cool. and products such as this: http://www.griffintechnology.com/twenty show that there's a demand for wireless products with integrated amps.
What does this story have to do with porn? Is porn troll a new fetish?
Why "luckily"? Are you projecting an image of who your daughter "should" be? Hw will she feel when she can't fit the mold you made for her? It can go one of three ways.
Sweet, I hope I can play it over OnLive. I played sr3 there, and it was a blast. I think that rumors of OnLive's demise are premature!
C'mon man, birthdays only come once a year and it's a really big deal to kids. Indulge her, what's the harm? Get her an iShiny. Gift certificate to buy clothes, if that's whT she's into. Books are fun. It not your old tech that you don't want any more. Why not get her an S4?
Might wipe the S1 and give it to my kid for her birthday. I feel a bit guilty at giving her a hand-me-down, but it still looks and works good as new.
dude, you can't buy your daughter a birthday present? "daddy, daddy, I really want your old crap for my birthday!"
how do you pronounce it? Is it "Pony Pad"? or "Ownie Pad"?
The gp claimed that apple actively prevents installing older os's. I asked for citation on this. You say that you can't install a ppc OS on new computers with x86. I don't know if it's true or not, but it sounds reasonable. However, there's a huge gulf between technical barriers between chip architectures and *actively* preventing old OS installs. I ask again, citation?
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