>Gabe also told in some interview that when some game's price is cranked back up, it still continues to get significantly more
>customers than before the price was lowered. Interesting stuff.
This seems obvious in regard to multiplayer games. If you get a good game into people's hands, they'll sell their friends on it so they can play together.
You start by insulting people who disagree with you by claiming that they can't see past their immediate desires, so I should probably just ignore you.
Instead I'll point out that copyright isn't being undermined by the people who violate it, it was already undermined by the people who extended copyrights for insane lengths of time that rather than promote the general welfare, protect the profits of those who would set up toll booths to access our own culture. This is what destroyed respect for copyrights.
It's fair to say that violating copyright on new works is wrong, but respecting copyrights that are more than 7 years old is for chumps who want to pay for things that belong in the public domain.
It appears that SR was a tiny part of the BTC economy. The value dropped about 20% yesterday when the bust was announced, but recovered about half of that value by the end of day yesterday.
This guy keeps turning out to be worse than we thought the day before.
It would be nice if the out of control authoritarians would end their insane drug war so that above-board businesses could replace murderous criminals in this thriving economy.
Single payer would require that a lot more sane people start voting to offset the effects of the right-wing-extremists, and either vote in sane Republicans, or sweep the Republicans out of office. It hasn't happened yet, but the crazy is more and more in our faces, so maybe...
I used to think that the Republicans just lagged 50-100 years behind the rest of us, and would eventually get up to speed, but they seem to be becoming increasingly paranoid, superstitious, and antisocial as sane people are driven out of the party by the far-right nutjobs.
I thought they were bad when they wanted to roll back every bit of social progress we've made in the US, but that was before the Internet exposed me to the Republicans that wan't to roll back the whole Enlightenment, including the scientific method, and have superstition rule the country.
Agreed. This was a government screwup. They should have provisioned these systems on multiple cloud services, using massive capacity for the first few weeks, then scaling back when the rush ended. There's no way they could have not expected tons of traffic on day 1.
It's awesome when someone who's so much of a clueless Republican dittohead that they need to post their crazy as AC calls reality based people zombies.
Congress doesn't get to not fund bills that have passed. This is an attempt at an end-run around the legislative process by right-wing extremists, and would screw our political process forever if the Democrats gave in to their insane behavior. We can't allow a small group of cranks to hijack our government whenever they don't get their way. This is especially important when dealing with wingnuts, since if you give them an inch, they'll take a mile, whining that they're persecuted the whole time.
Correct, but idiots and propagandists will continue to insist that it's both party's fault, as if the Republicans hadn't descended into insanity over the past few decades.
Part of the problem is that news media have a bad habit of pretending that there are two sides to a story and the truth is in the middle, when in reality one of these sides is often made up of crackpots.
Most of us manage to get along in a diverse culture just fine. Let's be honest and call out the ignorant Social Conservatives specifically for hating the idea of helping anyone who's different from them.
Civilized people are fine with Conservatives being able to benefit from our society, but the Conservatives want it all for themselves. They go crazy at the thought of a poor person getting healthcare. They whine that it's so unfair that a jobless person doesn't starve in the streets, when they have to work so hard, and embrace a mirror-mirror version of Christianity based on persecution complex and hatred of anyone smarter than they are.
That this completely fucked up subculture took control of the Republican party is a tragedy. Thanks Nixon and Reagan!
Like most lying wingnuts, you don't have the courage to post under your own account.
The reality is that the Republicans have gerrymandered districts to create wingnut majority districts to keep toxic politicians in office. If too many rational people are able to vote in a congressional district, the extremists Republicans get replaced with Democrats or moderate Republicans. As it is with these crazy districts, reasonable Republicans get voted out in primaries by the extremist base that's made the Republican party the trainwreck it is today. If the Republicans were still Eisenhower's party, they would have taken the presidency, the senate, and gained a lot of seats in the house. No one who isn't drinking the kool-aid wants to be part of the extremism the Republicans have devolved into.
If you intentionally sent wingnuts to congress to screw up the government, you're a big part of the problem. They're currently trying to change how government works, making it completely dysfunctional when an extremist subgroup of a minority party can hold the country hostage. The remaining sane Republicans need to slap these morons into line before their ignorance and arrogance destroys the economy.
To help a wingnut understand, imagine if the Republican theocrats managed to ban abortion and controlled the presidency, senate, and nearly half the house. The Democrats then refuse to fund the government until women's reproductive rights are reinstated, completely bypassing the legislative process like the teabaggers are trying to do now. Someone like you would go completely bonkers, and in that case, unlike all the wingnut fake controversies, you'd actually be right to go berserk.
Snowden got in way over his head, fell in with a bad crowd (Greenwald/Wikileaks), and made himself into an FSB asset. This may wind up worse than what Malala experienced.
LOL, you just reminded me of how my grandmother was. There was no stopping her going on about the Jews at home or in public. I do not miss having to take her shopping and to the doctor.
How's that sub-par? It's the fastest phone available that doesn't lock you into Apple's walled garden. The iPhone isn't really useful for comparison, because then you're stuck with all the limitations that go with Apple products.
You're wrong. The optimizations were found to only run with the particular executables identified by name. Ars renamed the file, and performance plummeted. No app maker can modify the hard-coding in the OS that locks the CPU into high-speed mode. Samsung, other cheating manufacturers, and I suppose ROM modders are the only ones that can access that functionality.
Anand is reporting that many Android handset makers are cheating, not just Samsung, so HTC and/or Motorola may be cheating as well. They do mention that Nexus line does not cheat.
I'm trying to encourage nutjobs to use really long tags so they can't annoy with their "thoughts."
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>Gabe also told in some interview that when some game's price is cranked back up, it still continues to get significantly more
>customers than before the price was lowered. Interesting stuff.
This seems obvious in regard to multiplayer games. If you get a good game into people's hands, they'll sell their friends on it so they can play together.
You start by insulting people who disagree with you by claiming that they can't see past their immediate desires, so I should probably just ignore you.
Instead I'll point out that copyright isn't being undermined by the people who violate it, it was already undermined by the people who extended copyrights for insane lengths of time that rather than promote the general welfare, protect the profits of those who would set up toll booths to access our own culture. This is what destroyed respect for copyrights.
It's fair to say that violating copyright on new works is wrong, but respecting copyrights that are more than 7 years old is for chumps who want to pay for things that belong in the public domain.
It appears that SR was a tiny part of the BTC economy. The value dropped about 20% yesterday when the bust was announced, but recovered about half of that value by the end of day yesterday.
This guy keeps turning out to be worse than we thought the day before.
It would be nice if the out of control authoritarians would end their insane drug war so that above-board businesses could replace murderous criminals in this thriving economy.
Do you have any evidence that this happened, or are you confusing Silk Road with Freedom Hosting?
Pretty sure you're not going to get an answer to this that makes any sense outside ACs head.
Have you been diagnosed? It's clear that you're hallucinating.
Single payer would require that a lot more sane people start voting to offset the effects of the right-wing-extremists, and either vote in sane Republicans, or sweep the Republicans out of office. It hasn't happened yet, but the crazy is more and more in our faces, so maybe...
I used to think that the Republicans just lagged 50-100 years behind the rest of us, and would eventually get up to speed, but they seem to be becoming increasingly paranoid, superstitious, and antisocial as sane people are driven out of the party by the far-right nutjobs.
I thought they were bad when they wanted to roll back every bit of social progress we've made in the US, but that was before the Internet exposed me to the Republicans that wan't to roll back the whole Enlightenment, including the scientific method, and have superstition rule the country.
Agreed. This was a government screwup. They should have provisioned these systems on multiple cloud services, using massive capacity for the first few weeks, then scaling back when the rush ended. There's no way they could have not expected tons of traffic on day 1.
It's awesome when someone who's so much of a clueless Republican dittohead that they need to post their crazy as AC calls reality based people zombies.
Congress doesn't get to not fund bills that have passed. This is an attempt at an end-run around the legislative process by right-wing extremists, and would screw our political process forever if the Democrats gave in to their insane behavior. We can't allow a small group of cranks to hijack our government whenever they don't get their way. This is especially important when dealing with wingnuts, since if you give them an inch, they'll take a mile, whining that they're persecuted the whole time.
Correct, but idiots and propagandists will continue to insist that it's both party's fault, as if the Republicans hadn't descended into insanity over the past few decades.
Part of the problem is that news media have a bad habit of pretending that there are two sides to a story and the truth is in the middle, when in reality one of these sides is often made up of crackpots.
Most of us manage to get along in a diverse culture just fine. Let's be honest and call out the ignorant Social Conservatives specifically for hating the idea of helping anyone who's different from them.
Civilized people are fine with Conservatives being able to benefit from our society, but the Conservatives want it all for themselves. They go crazy at the thought of a poor person getting healthcare. They whine that it's so unfair that a jobless person doesn't starve in the streets, when they have to work so hard, and embrace a mirror-mirror version of Christianity based on persecution complex and hatred of anyone smarter than they are.
That this completely fucked up subculture took control of the Republican party is a tragedy. Thanks Nixon and Reagan!
Like most lying wingnuts, you don't have the courage to post under your own account.
The reality is that the Republicans have gerrymandered districts to create wingnut majority districts to keep toxic politicians in office. If too many rational people are able to vote in a congressional district, the extremists Republicans get replaced with Democrats or moderate Republicans. As it is with these crazy districts, reasonable Republicans get voted out in primaries by the extremist base that's made the Republican party the trainwreck it is today. If the Republicans were still Eisenhower's party, they would have taken the presidency, the senate, and gained a lot of seats in the house. No one who isn't drinking the kool-aid wants to be part of the extremism the Republicans have devolved into.
If you intentionally sent wingnuts to congress to screw up the government, you're a big part of the problem. They're currently trying to change how government works, making it completely dysfunctional when an extremist subgroup of a minority party can hold the country hostage. The remaining sane Republicans need to slap these morons into line before their ignorance and arrogance destroys the economy.
To help a wingnut understand, imagine if the Republican theocrats managed to ban abortion and controlled the presidency, senate, and nearly half the house. The Democrats then refuse to fund the government until women's reproductive rights are reinstated, completely bypassing the legislative process like the teabaggers are trying to do now. Someone like you would go completely bonkers, and in that case, unlike all the wingnut fake controversies, you'd actually be right to go berserk.
Yes, because I didn't go off the deep-end with Ars and /. I must work for the government. Get a grip dopey.
Snowden got in way over his head, fell in with a bad crowd (Greenwald/Wikileaks), and made himself into an FSB asset. This may wind up worse than what Malala experienced.
LOL, you just reminded me of how my grandmother was. There was no stopping her going on about the Jews at home or in public. I do not miss having to take her shopping and to the doctor.
How's that sub-par? It's the fastest phone available that doesn't lock you into Apple's walled garden. The iPhone isn't really useful for comparison, because then you're stuck with all the limitations that go with Apple products.
You're wrong. The optimizations were found to only run with the particular executables identified by name. Ars renamed the file, and performance plummeted. No app maker can modify the hard-coding in the OS that locks the CPU into high-speed mode. Samsung, other cheating manufacturers, and I suppose ROM modders are the only ones that can access that functionality.
LOL, you're way too late for that astroturfing.
Anand is reporting that many Android handset makers are cheating, not just Samsung, so HTC and/or Motorola may be cheating as well. They do mention that Nexus line does not cheat.
Michelle Bachmann recently admitted this, with deranged wingnut spin of course.
Crazy Eyes Bachmann: Obama Peddling Crack Cocaine of Dependency
Be fair, his plan sounds really good if you're high enough.
I'm trying to encourage nutjobs to use really long tags so they can't annoy with their "thoughts."
For example: #RealAmericanFoxPatriots WhoFightAgainstAPresidentWhoIsA KenyanSocialistWhoWantsToSetHisLiberal AtheistMuslimArmyAgainstRealAmericanFoxPatriots
Spaces added to bypass the filter.
If Facebook is effecting the outcome of the games, then yes it would.