So true, thanks! The problem w/ studios losing profits is that they are lazy and greedy bitches. I mean - where is the _legitimate_ online services where I can download a movie I read good comments about at midnight? Can I get a _legitimate_ copy of a movie (any movie for that!) without lifting my ass from the chair within half an hour? Furthermore - 80% of the movies I download I don't watch more than 15 minutes (maybe skipping to make sure I'm right in my feelings). Where is a service where I can get, say, any 30 minutes of a movie for, say, 50 cents? Nothing to piss your enthusiastic customer more that having to pay 20 bucks or more just to find out that you bought a piece of shit and can't return it. Ah... they are too "creative" to learn I guess.
... is it just me or does anyone else find it ironic that people that "fight against piracy" charge for a frigging CD/DVD the amount of money they do? Is it ironic that people that fight against zero-day warez release movies months later in Europe than US?
According to the DMCA ammendment 2 paragraph 3 you are sentenced to instant death penalty for violating the normal operation of ID device, resisting the government operations, and being a "smartass". Take him away guys!
Shit, man. Look at the map - do you realize what kind of country it is? It's (much) smaller than your average USian state. Maybe the size of Arkansas (too lazy to look it up). All they want as I see it is to be dorks (so that several party leaders can rip off the populace and feel cool) and to be left alone as it is. I don't think they want to "remake the world" or something. In short - please US, don't interfere! - you don't have enough political surgery skills required as has been proven several times lately. Actually, it's all between North Korea, South Korea, and Japan. Let them figure it out for themselves.
There are tons of alternative software packages providing the same user experience for Microsoft Internet Explorer. (Cough). Come on, people! One URL spoofing technique less, dozens more... If slashdot weren't so sensationalistically-oriented lately there would've been nothing interesting about it really. I wanted now to find that fake MS KB page recommending update from MSIE to Mozilla (with spoofed address looking like a real deal). Can't find it at whim - anybody help me? Also - don't forget that MS in past has been saying that URL spoofing is not even really a bug in MSIE and there's nothing serious about it (with which I tend to agree).
"I don't know if this is nonsense, but it's an interesting theory."
Well, here's another interesting theory for you. Yes, it's half a click less complicated but nonetheless. Here goes: If people have money they may actually buy something with it!! How was that? This economics stuff is way cool.
"...remember that I'm a computer scientist"
Whoosh! Scary... I'm sure that with the nick like yours there's some weird computer science going on regularly.:)
Now that someone (finally!) mentions Firebird, what if they "properly" buy out Interbase? IB7 has some really nice features added since the fork. I wonder where the fork could be re-merged with lots of the good things that the FB community done. FB is the clear winner IMO for most of small-to-medium complexity projects except for some "idioms", like case-sensitivity rules and generators.
Oh, brother, if only we could have a law passed that every "license agreement" is void and null if it exceeds, say, 500 characters of text, wouldn't world be a slightly better place?
Well, in the same sense that "Microsoft OS" has been stabilized for 20+ year, true. If you don't see the diffs between MacOS circa 1985 and now.... Well, it's up to you.
The OS that takes a gig of HD space and a hundred or two megs of RAM while still providing no true real-time responsibility does not a good gaming platform make. Be it Windows or Linux. Witness a _great_ decline of PC gaming quality during the move away from DOS games. Also - it is _much_ harder to program something like a game these days. Amazingly, despite the interfaces that were supposed to "protect" you from learning your hardware, you have to learn much bigger amount of stuffs these days to do it. Not to say that super-high-res graphics is harder to make than what it was in low-res days. Also - 3D is not the answer for everything, hear that gaming companies! Polygon-composed human models suck incredibly when compared to old-school animations (and blurred textures suck on everything). In short - to make _a_ game nowadays one should invest a huge amount of man/hours -> large stuff working on it -> big money -> no risks allowed -> PHB-style management -> crap. I dunno, maybe if we have some better game programming facilities provided to everyone than maybe there's a hope of revival of these sector. Come to think of it, it does apply not only to games.
Who cares? The PHB running company B will still make enough money before it goes ka-boom and after it does go ka-boom he will surely find a new (no less paying) "managerial" job much easier than some sys-admin/programmer who worked for the same company B that he drove into ground. The difference is that the PHB would be able to afford a nice vacation on exotic islands in between. The "long-playing" companies business model is _sooo_ obsolete. The groove of the day is to make money on the "establish-up-down-sold" type of business. The shorter the cycle the better.
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So true, thanks! The problem w/ studios losing profits is that they are lazy and greedy bitches. I mean - where is the _legitimate_ online services where I can download a movie I read good comments about at midnight? Can I get a _legitimate_ copy of a movie (any movie for that!) without lifting my ass from the chair within half an hour? Furthermore - 80% of the movies I download I don't watch more than 15 minutes (maybe skipping to make sure I'm right in my feelings). Where is a service where I can get, say, any 30 minutes of a movie for, say, 50 cents? Nothing to piss your enthusiastic customer more that having to pay 20 bucks or more just to find out that you bought a piece of shit and can't return it. Ah... they are too "creative" to learn I guess.
... is it just me or does anyone else find it ironic that people that "fight against piracy" charge for a frigging CD/DVD the amount of money they do? Is it ironic that people that fight against zero-day warez release movies months later in Europe than US?
If ever you need a definition of "pathetic" then this page fits 100%. 'nuff said.
You mean.. If one part of this chip is surrounded by more than three other parts actually doing anything useful then it will die from overheating? : )
According to the DMCA ammendment 2 paragraph 3 you are sentenced to instant death penalty for violating the normal operation of ID device, resisting the government operations, and being a "smartass". Take him away guys!
You mean the land of the... "Freeze! Police!".
(Oh, it was lame).
How many _patents_ do you own? How many patents does your average small-to-medium software house or single (shareware?) programmer own?
Shit, man. Look at the map - do you realize what kind of country it is? It's (much) smaller than your average USian state. Maybe the size of Arkansas (too lazy to look it up). All they want as I see it is to be dorks (so that several party leaders can rip off the populace and feel cool) and to be left alone as it is. I don't think they want to "remake the world" or something. In short - please US, don't interfere! - you don't have enough political surgery skills required as has been proven several times lately. Actually, it's all between North Korea, South Korea, and Japan. Let them figure it out for themselves.
Damn right! And as they say: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"
There are tons of alternative software packages providing the same user experience for Microsoft Internet Explorer. (Cough). Come on, people! One URL spoofing technique less, dozens more... If slashdot weren't so sensationalistically-oriented lately there would've been nothing interesting about it really. I wanted now to find that fake MS KB page recommending update from MSIE to Mozilla (with spoofed address looking like a real deal). Can't find it at whim - anybody help me? Also - don't forget that MS in past has been saying that URL spoofing is not even really a bug in MSIE and there's nothing serious about it (with which I tend to agree).
"I don't know if this is nonsense, but it's an interesting theory."
:)
Well, here's another interesting theory for you. Yes, it's half a click less complicated but nonetheless. Here goes: If people have money they may actually buy something with it!! How was that? This economics stuff is way cool.
"...remember that I'm a computer scientist"
Whoosh! Scary... I'm sure that with the nick like yours there's some weird computer science going on regularly.
"...enormous...charge...keyboard..."
Bingo! We have the keywords!
Now that someone (finally!) mentions Firebird, what if they "properly" buy out Interbase? IB7 has some really nice features added since the fork. I wonder where the fork could be re-merged with lots of the good things that the FB community done. FB is the clear winner IMO for most of small-to-medium complexity projects except for some "idioms", like case-sensitivity rules and generators.
Do we really, _really_ need another OS/Free RDBMS? What is it going to do what others don't?
Ie.. Let's simplify this:
1) ???
2) Prison!
Shut up and get back to coding, you worthless piece of shit!
With best regards, Management.
Oh, brother, if only we could have a law passed that every "license agreement" is void and null if it exceeds, say, 500 characters of text, wouldn't world be a slightly better place?
Godzilla's mother is a woman??? Uhm, it's not Ripley by any chance, right?
Anybody around here selling mod-points? Karma? 4-digit accounts? What is the going price? : )
Let's think about it. What makes these goods more "virtual" (ie not-real) than MP3 music or videos? No, really?
I guess you may skip to step 17 immediately.
Let's wait until Microsoft enters the oil industry!! Bwahahahaha!!! : )
Canon copier I see here says you are wrong.
Well, in the same sense that "Microsoft OS" has been stabilized for 20+ year, true. If you don't see the diffs between MacOS circa 1985 and now.... Well, it's up to you.
The OS that takes a gig of HD space and a hundred or two megs of RAM while still providing no true real-time responsibility does not a good gaming platform make. Be it Windows or Linux. Witness a _great_ decline of PC gaming quality during the move away from DOS games. Also - it is _much_ harder to program something like a game these days. Amazingly, despite the interfaces that were supposed to "protect" you from learning your hardware, you have to learn much bigger amount of stuffs these days to do it. Not to say that super-high-res graphics is harder to make than what it was in low-res days. Also - 3D is not the answer for everything, hear that gaming companies! Polygon-composed human models suck incredibly when compared to old-school animations (and blurred textures suck on everything). In short - to make _a_ game nowadays one should invest a huge amount of man/hours -> large stuff working on it -> big money -> no risks allowed -> PHB-style management -> crap. I dunno, maybe if we have some better game programming facilities provided to everyone than maybe there's a hope of revival of these sector. Come to think of it, it does apply not only to games.
Who cares? The PHB running company B will still make enough money before it goes ka-boom and after it does go ka-boom he will surely find a new (no less paying) "managerial" job much easier than some sys-admin/programmer who worked for the same company B that he drove into ground. The difference is that the PHB would be able to afford a nice vacation on exotic islands in between. The "long-playing" companies business model is _sooo_ obsolete. The groove of the day is to make money on the "establish-up-down-sold" type of business. The shorter the cycle the better.