saying "people involved in piracy would have never bought it anyway!!" is even MORE skewed.
However, you can often say with confidence that they would never have bought it at the full retail price, because if they would have bought it, then they would have bought it.
Granted, not in this case, but that's simple because the product isn't legally available anyway. And here we can definitely say that Apple haven't "lost" anything in the Chinese market, because the cost of their products in China is $0.
Cuba is a thorn in the USA's paw merely by dint of its continued existence. Castro's ability to make the peons eat crap while he lives in a palace set the pattern for every other two bit tinpot dictatorship to resist the pressure of US sanctions as well.
You Goddamn surrenderniks make me sick. Get rid of the blinkenlights? Blinkenlights are the only thing that separates us from the animals (or the "Chinamen", as we're apparently supposed to call them these days). More blinkenlights! I want those things lit up like Xebusmass trees. I want the commies to look up and have our superior technology slap them in the face like the dangling genitalia of an angry neon God. More blinkenlights!
It's OK, we're pretty close to handing the baton over to our new computer overlords. Look at Slashdot: they replaced their "editors" with shell scripts in 2004, and nobody noticed.
What makes you think that the GP works in an IT department? Support professionals have clients outside of corporations, and some of them do really stupid things from time to time, like installing service packs that have been released through MSDN. Note that GP didn't say anything about "public".
Why would you have to "let [it] in"? The white hat worm spreads itself via the same mechanism as the black hat worm, and closes the vulnerability behind it. You're vulnerable to both of them or neither of them, but either way, you don't have to "let" anything in.
Indeed. The 'article' author is a troll or a cretin. The sales figure for Wii Play are no more indicative of choice than those of Windows Vista. For the majority of purchasers, they're 'freebies' with the hardware.
Hacked By Chinese! A true story of their 1337n355:
Rogerborg: WTF have you cut me off for?
Telewest drone: We detected that you were infected with Code Red and for your safety and convenience blah blah blah.
Rogerborg: Code Red? The IIS worm?
Telewest drone: Indeed.
Rogerborg: I'm running Apache. On SUSE Linux.
Telewest drone: [pauses for "thought"] Well, Code Red can infect Apache as well.
Rogerborg: Please stop talking. Either restore my service immediately, or our contract will be voided and I will cease payments.
Telewest drone: [pauses for long conversation with his "peers"] After careful consideration we have decided to restore your service in this occasion but in futu..
Rogerborg: [click]
It's not so much the initial misidentification that bothers me, it's that they employee front line support who shouldn't be allowed to play with Big Boy Scissors, let alone to deal with technical issues.
If your name doesn't come before the title, then you're never, ever getting a sniff of the gross. Even headline producers, writers and directors often can't demand that, and end up with less than the guy working the clapboard for union salary.
One of the most egregious cases is creator/producer/writer J. Michael Straczynski getting boned over Babylon 5. He was in for a share of the net, and Warner Brothers demonstrated by their actions that the show was making a net profit every season (or else it would have been shitcanned). However, the final figure, after all production expenses had long since ceased, and all the money from merchandise and DVD sales (half a billion gross!) was in worked out to a claimed $80 million loss. Riddle me that.
Ooh, I'd love to see that one argued in court. Unfortunately, since studios stopped paying their employees and started buying politicians, you damages aren't actual, they're statutory and punitive.
Look, I'm going to type this very slowly, because you are clearly hard of understanding. Also, you will need to sit down, because what I am going to tell you will shock you to your very core.
Studios lie.
Are you all right? Can you speak? Just keep breathing!
Please read this. Read all the words. Note how WB acknowledged though their actions that Babylon 5 made a net profit each and every season (or else they'd have shitcanned it). And yet the final figure, long after all production expenses ceased and all the post production merchandising and DVDs sales were in, was a net $80 million loss.
Studios lie. They lie all the time, to almost everyone. The only people that they have to keep sweet are their big names, and only if they think they can't be replaced. Everyone else has to sue them to get any money, and the studios gamble (and often win) that the peons don't have the necessary resources to do it.
So feel free to go on arguing about how things should work. The rest of us can discuss how they actually work.
Slashdot Mirror
If you have any bags of rubies that you need counting, send them my way. I assure you that I won't take all of them.
Look, I've told you this before: you have got to stop referring to in-game events in the first person.
I agree. If we just love them enough, then they'll change.
Hey, here's a big bag of rubies. If you count them and tell me how many there are, then I'll give you three of them.
Ahem. If they police and monitor the Chinese market, how reliable is their information?
However, you can often say with confidence that they would never have bought it at the full retail price, because if they would have bought it, then they would have bought it.
Granted, not in this case, but that's simple because the product isn't legally available anyway. And here we can definitely say that Apple haven't "lost" anything in the Chinese market, because the cost of their products in China is $0.
Taxes, and all the damn immigrants stealing their jobs. Same as the rest of us.
Cuba is a thorn in the USA's paw merely by dint of its continued existence. Castro's ability to make the peons eat crap while he lives in a palace set the pattern for every other two bit tinpot dictatorship to resist the pressure of US sanctions as well.
OK, let's discuss the computers made in Cuba. You go first.
You Goddamn surrenderniks make me sick. Get rid of the blinkenlights? Blinkenlights are the only thing that separates us from the animals (or the "Chinamen", as we're apparently supposed to call them these days). More blinkenlights! I want those things lit up like Xebusmass trees. I want the commies to look up and have our superior technology slap them in the face like the dangling genitalia of an angry neon God. More blinkenlights!
It's OK, we're pretty close to handing the baton over to our new computer overlords. Look at Slashdot: they replaced their "editors" with shell scripts in 2004, and nobody noticed.
Your inability to find it doesn't mean that it's unavailable.
What makes you think that the GP works in an IT department? Support professionals have clients outside of corporations, and some of them do really stupid things from time to time, like installing service packs that have been released through MSDN. Note that GP didn't say anything about "public".
I was just thinking that what Congress really needs is another lawyer.
If he doesn't want to fix it himself, can't he just hire a stupid and unskilled Mexican to do it for him? Rush, man, live up to your own principles.
Why would you have to "let [it] in"? The white hat worm spreads itself via the same mechanism as the black hat worm, and closes the vulnerability behind it. You're vulnerable to both of them or neither of them, but either way, you don't have to "let" anything in.
Meesa gonna mock you now.
Indeed. The 'article' author is a troll or a cretin. The sales figure for Wii Play are no more indicative of choice than those of Windows Vista. For the majority of purchasers, they're 'freebies' with the hardware.
You taste bland. I want more meet food.
It's not so much the initial misidentification that bothers me, it's that they employee front line support who shouldn't be allowed to play with Big Boy Scissors, let alone to deal with technical issues.
Can you please explain to me how the ISP is supposed to route packets to you if you've spoofed your IP?
Or are you suggesting that m4d h4xx0rz are spoofing IPs purely out of malice and/or to misdirect The Man?
If your name doesn't come before the title, then you're never, ever getting a sniff of the gross. Even headline producers, writers and directors often can't demand that, and end up with less than the guy working the clapboard for union salary.
One of the most egregious cases is creator/producer/writer J. Michael Straczynski getting boned over Babylon 5 . He was in for a share of the net, and Warner Brothers demonstrated by their actions that the show was making a net profit every season (or else it would have been shitcanned). However, the final figure, after all production expenses had long since ceased, and all the money from merchandise and DVD sales (half a billion gross!) was in worked out to a claimed $80 million loss. Riddle me that.
Ooh, I'd love to see that one argued in court. Unfortunately, since studios stopped paying their employees and started buying politicians, you damages aren't actual, they're statutory and punitive.
Look, I'm going to type this very slowly, because you are clearly hard of understanding. Also, you will need to sit down, because what I am going to tell you will shock you to your very core.
Studios lie.
Are you all right? Can you speak? Just keep breathing!
Please read this. Read all the words. Note how WB acknowledged though their actions that Babylon 5 made a net profit each and every season (or else they'd have shitcanned it). And yet the final figure, long after all production expenses ceased and all the post production merchandising and DVDs sales were in, was a net $80 million loss.
Studios lie. They lie all the time, to almost everyone. The only people that they have to keep sweet are their big names, and only if they think they can't be replaced. Everyone else has to sue them to get any money, and the studios gamble (and often win) that the peons don't have the necessary resources to do it.
So feel free to go on arguing about how things should work. The rest of us can discuss how they actually work.
JUMBO SHRIMP.
I do it the other way around. First, download a crack and virus check it, then purchase the game.