a disease that is entirely preventable, and transmitted through risky behavior (in probably 95% of cases?) vs a disease that maims and scars children for life -- even if Salk's vaccine had caused AIDS, it probably still would have been a net positive. Hopefully he took a bit of comfort in that calculus (as bleak and depressing as it may be.)
Rare form for the record labels! Think of all the revenue they could have lost out on had they stuck to their tried and true tactics? (that is shutting down spotify with a series of lawsuits)
not to be pedantic, but it should be marginally higher, else there's really no reason to pay for it at all (best case, you get the show for free, worst you just pay the list amount)
but yep, 10 years in the clink or several thousand in fines is just a joke.
it's really.. 10 bucks for netflix, 0 dollars for anything else not foudn on netflix and that's available on TPB (or wherever)
Really the value proposition here definitely swings towards services like hulu, or barring that $70+ per month for cable tv right? The prospect of getting to pay MORE for an inferior product is absolutely the way to go.
side note: a clue that these companies could take regarding their business models.. if you have to resort to legislation in order to drive the behavior of your consumers in an attempt to stay relevant, you've already lost, just pack it in.
speak for yourself. I play video games, and the idea of dating a socially awkward mumbling chick with interests limited to cat videos and minecraft sounds painful.
well, mushroom hunting might be one of those things where internet connectivity is a lifesaver (literally) -- being able to check if a mushroom is poisonous, because if you're like me, you'd forget to bring a book with that information. =)
eh, usually (at least what i've seen?) it's a mobile variant of a desktop card (such as the one i cited, 960m)
but they add considerable cost, and i'd presume bulk due to cooling needs.
basically give me a thin, sleek laptop with a proper i7 caliber CPU and whatever onboard intel bullshit it needs for 2d video.
When i want to game i'd hook up an eGPU enclosure/dock. (yes there's a few on the market currently, but they're crazy expensive for what amounts to a pcie ->thunderbolt3 interface and janky as fuck power supply)
i'm wondering if dedicated GPU's in laptops will eventually go the way of the dodo; once eGPU's via thunderbolt 3 gain a bit more traction, it will no longer really make sense to bother with integrated 3d video.
i'd much rather save a few hundred bucks and not have a shitty geforce 'm" card, and instead use a desktop card of my choosing. it's upgrade-able, performance isn't quite as gimped due to heat/power issues, and laptop is lighter and cheaper..
Looking at benchmarks the 960m card in my asus laptop is roughly 1/3 as powerful as the desktop 970GTX i have sitting in my closet collecting dust.
I was just being flippant; and of course amazon has the legal clout to not be on the hook for such things.. but yeah, there's cases of people having photos developed of their young toddlers swimming nude, and getting the cops called on them -- so stranger things have happened.
the thing that bothers me with this story is that you have a disconnect between government funded healthcare, and profit seeking private corporations.
if you have a government entity such as medicare (or really any socialized institution), that essentially guarantees payment to a drug company for a treatment; coupled with a corporation which has a responsibility to shareholders to maximize profit.. The situation that arises absolutely incentivizes the company to charge as much as they can get away with, since after all the US gov't has essentially infinitely deep pockets. And a very similar situation arises with the military and higher education.
And the shitty thing is, any attempt by the government to reign in profit margins and/or maximum price on a drug company would be met with the usual right winger response of "less regulation, free market!" (And this is coming from a republican.. I just don't get mental gymnastics on this level.)
did you see the guy's house in the story? he clearly has money, and as such at least one of these applies 1) arrogant in thinking he'd get away with it in the long term 2) has much to lose by fleeing the US for some third world country (do any first world countries lack extradition?) 3) he didn't do it, that whole presumption of innocence thing strikes again.
it's also just easy to copy music with a computer.. (even easier than via napster i'd argue, albeit possibly slower) step 1. spotify free/youtube, whatever step 2. audacity step 3. record whatever you like.
done.
as long as the analog hole exists, there will be pirates. the goal should be make purchasing the music as cheap and effortless as possible. because at the end of the day, they are competing against free. more carrot, less stick -- is the only way forward.
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they were just waiting for their big break. (Alternatively to burst out onto the scene?)
a disease that is entirely preventable, and transmitted through risky behavior (in probably 95% of cases?) vs a disease that maims and scars children for life -- even if Salk's vaccine had caused AIDS, it probably still would have been a net positive. Hopefully he took a bit of comfort in that calculus (as bleak and depressing as it may be.)
Rare form for the record labels! Think of all the revenue they could have lost out on had they stuck to their tried and true tactics? (that is shutting down spotify with a series of lawsuits)
They're slipping towards survival apparently.
probably by compelling Austrian ISP's to block access to FB.
it's like you just described a lingua franca
not to be pedantic, but it should be marginally higher, else there's really no reason to pay for it at all (best case, you get the show for free, worst you just pay the list amount)
but yep, 10 years in the clink or several thousand in fines is just a joke.
it's really.. 10 bucks for netflix, 0 dollars for anything else not foudn on netflix and that's available on TPB (or wherever)
Really the value proposition here definitely swings towards services like hulu, or barring that $70+ per month for cable tv right? The prospect of getting to pay MORE for an inferior product is absolutely the way to go.
side note: a clue that these companies could take regarding their business models.. if you have to resort to legislation in order to drive the behavior of your consumers in an attempt to stay relevant, you've already lost, just pack it in.
regardless, fuck advertisements. that's precisely why many people (myself included) have cut the cord.
it's why netflix is so successful.
At this point time being forced to watch or listen to advertisements is an insult.
Madison Avenue's days are numbered.. (okay not quite yet, but one can hope.)
speak for yourself. I play video games, and the idea of dating a socially awkward mumbling chick with interests limited to cat videos and minecraft sounds painful.
well, mushroom hunting might be one of those things where internet connectivity is a lifesaver (literally) -- being able to check if a mushroom is poisonous, because if you're like me, you'd forget to bring a book with that information. =)
Are you implying that the stock market is something other than legalized gambling requiring ever expanding growth (and nothing more?)
eh, usually (at least what i've seen?) it's a mobile variant of a desktop card (such as the one i cited, 960m)
but they add considerable cost, and i'd presume bulk due to cooling needs.
basically give me a thin, sleek laptop with a proper i7 caliber CPU and whatever onboard intel bullshit it needs for 2d video.
When i want to game i'd hook up an eGPU enclosure/dock. (yes there's a few on the market currently, but they're crazy expensive for what amounts to a pcie ->thunderbolt3 interface and janky as fuck power supply)
that sounds like a really shitty camping trip.
mental note: Only go camping with t-mobile users.
i'm wondering if dedicated GPU's in laptops will eventually go the way of the dodo; once eGPU's via thunderbolt 3 gain a bit more traction, it will no longer really make sense to bother with integrated 3d video.
i'd much rather save a few hundred bucks and not have a shitty geforce 'm" card, and instead use a desktop card of my choosing. it's upgrade-able, performance isn't quite as gimped due to heat/power issues, and laptop is lighter and cheaper..
Looking at benchmarks the 960m card in my asus laptop is roughly 1/3 as powerful as the desktop 970GTX i have sitting in my closet collecting dust.
well it would have been, but somewhere along the line the concept of colonialism got turned into a negative.
Probably that musk wants to have intercourse with his mother and kill his father.
Isn't that pretty much the sum total of Freud? (cocaine, it's a helluva drug)
It's a shame that the driver behind all of those things is a way to monetize people and their behaviors.
I was just being flippant; and of course amazon has the legal clout to not be on the hook for such things.. but yeah, there's cases of people having photos developed of their young toddlers swimming nude, and getting the cops called on them -- so stranger things have happened.
What would happen if a child wandered in front of the camera nude, and amazon stored that on their server -- would they be responsible for CP?
The Fappening 2: electric boogaloo
the thing that bothers me with this story is that you have a disconnect between government funded healthcare, and profit seeking private corporations.
if you have a government entity such as medicare (or really any socialized institution), that essentially guarantees payment to a drug company for a treatment; coupled with a corporation which has a responsibility to shareholders to maximize profit.. The situation that arises absolutely incentivizes the company to charge as much as they can get away with, since after all the US gov't has essentially infinitely deep pockets. And a very similar situation arises with the military and higher education.
And the shitty thing is, any attempt by the government to reign in profit margins and/or maximum price on a drug company would be met with the usual right winger response of "less regulation, free market!" (And this is coming from a republican.. I just don't get mental gymnastics on this level.)
did you see the guy's house in the story? he clearly has money, and as such at least one of these applies
1) arrogant in thinking he'd get away with it in the long term
2) has much to lose by fleeing the US for some third world country (do any first world countries lack extradition?)
3) he didn't do it, that whole presumption of innocence thing strikes again.
it's also just easy to copy music with a computer.. (even easier than via napster i'd argue, albeit possibly slower)
step 1. spotify free/youtube, whatever
step 2. audacity
step 3. record whatever you like.
done.
as long as the analog hole exists, there will be pirates. the goal should be make purchasing the music as cheap and effortless as possible. because at the end of the day, they are competing against free. more carrot, less stick -- is the only way forward.
i don't think coal burning is what he was referring to.
playing an FPS game in detroit would be like playing a surfing simulator in hawaii.