Of course manufacturers and IP-holders will not be amused when you can suddenly make your own product or part that you'd otherwise have to buy for lots of cash.
They'll win that battle just as easily and decisively as the content industry has won its battle against filesharing and copying... Oh, wait.
I think you're both right. One one hand, you can never truly speak your mind, unless you have absolute certainty, that no negative or positive consequences will follow.
On the other hand, there's a difference between being critical about your government or someone you have to work with on a daily basis. It must, in turn, be your bosses freedom to fire you, if the personal differences run too deeply, right?
Strictly speaking, we need food, water, shelter and human companionship. Some of us would beg to differ on the latter.
Everything else is a luxury. We defined that certain luxuries should now be considered essential. That's okay. But the reason for this reassignment can have its root in pure wishing, liking and wanting.
I'm not gonna die if I can't download whatever off the internet in the blink of an eye. But I'm gonna like being able to do it a hell of a lot.
I don't NEED FTTH. I just WANT it very, very badly.
...and you may, of course, disagree with me, is that the internet WOULD be open if there was an open market. As it stands, this market is only available to a small percentage of companies, because investment is so high. After all, every company needs their own network. Reselling makes even inventive and unconventional companies dependant on the network provider's prices. This means that onlyx a very select few companies control access to the network. In Switzerland, that's basically two companies: Swisscom for DSL and Cablecom for, you guessed it, cable. There cannot be real competition with only two networks.
I propose that the government should own the network (as it should gas, water and electricity lines, railways, streets and so on) and 'hire' a company to maintain and upgrade it. This should happen in a non-profit fashion and the available capacity should then be sold at the lowest price possible to providers (of internet, TV, phone services and so on). There would only be one line to your house for all data related services.
I just don't quite see how it could ever be a good idea to privatize infrastructure the public is so very dependant on.
All the popular titles use some kind of DRM. Did they keep this in mind? What will the publishers say? Are there for rent versions or will the librarians just have to go and unlock the games through dozens of different hotlines or however this works?
You misunderstood what I was saying. I wasn't saying people don't drive those cars (heck, I drive a 5000 CHF 10 year old Chrysler Voyager), but that those whom I most frequently see with a hand glued to the phone glued to the ear are the ones driving the expensive cars.
The people that ignore those laws and accept the danger inherent in being distracted from driving don't do so because they don't know better. No, I'm not shitting you!
You can forget to put a seatbelt on, although it is quite hard, and you can easily forget to turn the headlights off. But you cannot forget that you are texting while driving. So unless this system pulls the car over at the next save opportunity and doesn't let you start the engine until you've put the fricking phone away, this won't do squat.
Everyone else who commented that there are other, and worse, distractions, are correct. But people talking on the phone is something that is so easily fixed with just a few bucks, that I find it really annoying that people still keep holding onto their phones.
The interesting part around here (Switzerland)? Most of those people don't drive cheap, old Skodas or Renaults, no siree-bob. They're usually wearing business suits and driving new Audi, BMW, Mercedes or Lexus. Now if a single mother of three without a job is on her way to an interview and needs to contact her potential employer due to a detour, that I could understand. Fifty bucks, to her, are probably a lot of cash.
But this guy with the 1000$ suit and the 130'000$ car just does not get to use that excuse.
Windmills? Boy, will you be disappointed. I can't remember having seen one single windmill in this coutnry, ever. Perhaps you should stop expecting stereotyes, eh? Or at least you should stop confusing this country with the Netherlands. Or was it Sweden? You people love to confuse that one with us very much.
Being Swiss too, I call bullshit. That is a very lame excuse that has been parrotted far too often.
Had we prohibited any kind of religios buildings with phallic dimensions tha thad the potential to disturb people with noise, that would have been okay.
We singled out one religion and kicked them in the 'nads. And for what? During the last forty years we've managed to get ourselves a whooping four minarettes built in the whole country. Not a single one of them caused the problems everyone was afraid of.
If nothing else, this thing is a case of political douchebaggery without precedent I can remember. People act as if muslims would come here and build those things on every corner without any kind of order. But as it is, each and every last minarett has had to be approved by the town it was built in giving the people that live there the option to appeal.
Being a federalistic country, we've managed to add even more bureaucracy by taking this single instance out of local communities' hands and making them the union's business.
Fucked up beyond all recognition is what it was. Nothing else. In my opinion, every one who would vote for something like this should be demoted to back to slave status because they clearly have no grasp of this country's procedures.
I always loved the game but I could never fully enjoy it either. I probably just suck at it, but war is no fun if one phalanx obliterates half a dozen tanks. What do I invest in science for when my future technology is trumped by this bronze age unit?
I usually win by being first to colonize another world or by building the UN. But to have a chance at that, I need to set hostilities to a minimum... it's only half as much fun to play a castrated version of the game.
I think next time I'll invest a few hours to read some guides and tactics.
That's all I really want to know. If I can put them on my roof for a reasonable price, I'll be one happy wanker, but lab situations just don't necessarily translate so well into real life.
Not having read the article I don't know whether it was mentioned.
Assuiming that production of these is not too difficult, this seems like a very good way to produce power for you and at least one neighbour just by tiling one roof (I'm pulling the figures for that calculation out of my ass, so if you want to comment on that don't go physics nazi on my ass, please). Imagine only one third of the homeowners doing this kind of thing, we could probably have ourselves a very decentralized power grid in no time. Especially you in the US should welcome that, seeing as your grid has a lot of problems with delivery today.
Anyway, I'm really hoping this turns out to be something of real value. It makes me all giddy with anticipation.
Yes, indeed! Let's dry out any kind of outlet for those freaks! Once they wont be able to get off from something besides the real deal, they are bound to stop and suddenly turn into normal, heterosexual human beings.
Yeah, imagine a combined flashback of Matrix sequels and Star Wars prequels. I shudder at the mere thought.
Me, I have this dark corner in my mind where those things are huddled together being watched by all my childhood heros. One step out of line, and BAM, they'll open a can of whoopass on those things that should never have been.
I remember them. But I control the pain and fear, not the other way round.
Heh. When you manage to write three consecutive sentences without the use of the word 'fuck' we'll talk about you being allowed to call other people's posts 'drivel' again, okay?
Of course he's a troll but let's get over the same old arguments again, shall we?
Isn't it true that today, you don't need to be tech-savvy to get media for free? Is it not true that even if you had to be tech-savvy, EVERYONE knows someone who is?
If it therefore were true that, with media illegally being available for free, everyone would stop paying for it, then there couldn't possibly be any music recording studio or movie company left. Today.
The fact remains that only socially inept assholes don't pay for entertainment they enjoy (or people who don't have the money anyway). Those people always have the drive to smooch off of someone else. The technology has never mattered and will never matter. Those people don't pay, no matter the DRM. They are not lost sales due to P2P, they are lost sales, PERIOD.
There will always be people creating entertainment without getting rich in mind. Those are, arguably, the good entertainers. So I say kill copyright. Perhaps then the only thing remaining will be stuff that isn't the same old shit over and over again. After all, without any direct monetary incentive, those media conglomerate bastards just might not see the point in producing shit anymore. One can always hope, eh?
Yes, but Warcraft has actually had some kind of plot and usable characters.
I think it was Command and Conquer: Red Alert that actually had good video sequences that featured believable army officers in not cheaply made uniform imitations. RA3 was just... I don't know, if I were fourteen years old I might have latched onto the eye-candy, but seeing as I'm twice that age I couldn't help but feel those scantily clothed super-soldieresses made the whole thing look very, very cheap.
It scares me to think how EA would one-up that in an MMO *brrr*.
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Note that animal husbandry is okay, as long as it's not video documented.
This is surprising how?
Of course manufacturers and IP-holders will not be amused when you can suddenly make your own product or part that you'd otherwise have to buy for lots of cash.
They'll win that battle just as easily and decisively as the content industry has won its battle against filesharing and copying... Oh, wait.
He's a total Stargate Geek. For him, this whole thing was like an epic drama.
My friend will be very sad today.
But then, Europeans never seem to complain about "welfare moms,"
Oh, don't you worry, we have those too.
This sounds rather good. Better than Switzerland, at any rate. Where do you live?
I think you're both right. One one hand, you can never truly speak your mind, unless you have absolute certainty, that no negative or positive consequences will follow.
On the other hand, there's a difference between being critical about your government or someone you have to work with on a daily basis. It must, in turn, be your bosses freedom to fire you, if the personal differences run too deeply, right?
What is this 'need' you are speaking of?
Strictly speaking, we need food, water, shelter and human companionship. Some of us would beg to differ on the latter.
Everything else is a luxury. We defined that certain luxuries should now be considered essential. That's okay. But the reason for this reassignment can have its root in pure wishing, liking and wanting.
I'm not gonna die if I can't download whatever off the internet in the blink of an eye. But I'm gonna like being able to do it a hell of a lot.
I don't NEED FTTH. I just WANT it very, very badly.
...and you may, of course, disagree with me, is that the internet WOULD be open if there was an open market. As it stands, this market is only available to a small percentage of companies, because investment is so high. After all, every company needs their own network. Reselling makes even inventive and unconventional companies dependant on the network provider's prices. This means that onlyx a very select few companies control access to the network. In Switzerland, that's basically two companies: Swisscom for DSL and Cablecom for, you guessed it, cable. There cannot be real competition with only two networks.
I propose that the government should own the network (as it should gas, water and electricity lines, railways, streets and so on) and 'hire' a company to maintain and upgrade it. This should happen in a non-profit fashion and the available capacity should then be sold at the lowest price possible to providers (of internet, TV, phone services and so on). There would only be one line to your house for all data related services.
I just don't quite see how it could ever be a good idea to privatize infrastructure the public is so very dependant on.
All the popular titles use some kind of DRM. Did they keep this in mind? What will the publishers say? Are there for rent versions or will the librarians just have to go and unlock the games through dozens of different hotlines or however this works?
Or are they only talking about console games?
You misunderstood what I was saying. I wasn't saying people don't drive those cars (heck, I drive a 5000 CHF 10 year old Chrysler Voyager), but that those whom I most frequently see with a hand glued to the phone glued to the ear are the ones driving the expensive cars.
Heck, the 130'000$ car probably has the sucker built in already.
The people that ignore those laws and accept the danger inherent in being distracted from driving don't do so because they don't know better. No, I'm not shitting you!
You can forget to put a seatbelt on, although it is quite hard, and you can easily forget to turn the headlights off. But you cannot forget that you are texting while driving. So unless this system pulls the car over at the next save opportunity and doesn't let you start the engine until you've put the fricking phone away, this won't do squat.
Everyone else who commented that there are other, and worse, distractions, are correct. But people talking on the phone is something that is so easily fixed with just a few bucks, that I find it really annoying that people still keep holding onto their phones.
The interesting part around here (Switzerland)? Most of those people don't drive cheap, old Skodas or Renaults, no siree-bob. They're usually wearing business suits and driving new Audi, BMW, Mercedes or Lexus. Now if a single mother of three without a job is on her way to an interview and needs to contact her potential employer due to a detour, that I could understand. Fifty bucks, to her, are probably a lot of cash.
But this guy with the 1000$ suit and the 130'000$ car just does not get to use that excuse.
Windmills? Boy, will you be disappointed. I can't remember having seen one single windmill in this coutnry, ever. Perhaps you should stop expecting stereotyes, eh? Or at least you should stop confusing this country with the Netherlands. Or was it Sweden? You people love to confuse that one with us very much.
Being Swiss too, I call bullshit. That is a very lame excuse that has been parrotted far too often.
Had we prohibited any kind of religios buildings with phallic dimensions tha thad the potential to disturb people with noise, that would have been okay.
We singled out one religion and kicked them in the 'nads. And for what? During the last forty years we've managed to get ourselves a whooping four minarettes built in the whole country. Not a single one of them caused the problems everyone was afraid of.
If nothing else, this thing is a case of political douchebaggery without precedent I can remember. People act as if muslims would come here and build those things on every corner without any kind of order. But as it is, each and every last minarett has had to be approved by the town it was built in giving the people that live there the option to appeal.
Being a federalistic country, we've managed to add even more bureaucracy by taking this single instance out of local communities' hands and making them the union's business.
Fucked up beyond all recognition is what it was. Nothing else. In my opinion, every one who would vote for something like this should be demoted to back to slave status because they clearly have no grasp of this country's procedures.
I always loved the game but I could never fully enjoy it either. I probably just suck at it, but war is no fun if one phalanx obliterates half a dozen tanks. What do I invest in science for when my future technology is trumped by this bronze age unit?
I usually win by being first to colonize another world or by building the UN. But to have a chance at that, I need to set hostilities to a minimum... it's only half as much fun to play a castrated version of the game.
I think next time I'll invest a few hours to read some guides and tactics.
That's all I really want to know. If I can put them on my roof for a reasonable price, I'll be one happy wanker, but lab situations just don't necessarily translate so well into real life.
Not having read the article I don't know whether it was mentioned.
Assuiming that production of these is not too difficult, this seems like a very good way to produce power for you and at least one neighbour just by tiling one roof (I'm pulling the figures for that calculation out of my ass, so if you want to comment on that don't go physics nazi on my ass, please). Imagine only one third of the homeowners doing this kind of thing, we could probably have ourselves a very decentralized power grid in no time. Especially you in the US should welcome that, seeing as your grid has a lot of problems with delivery today.
Anyway, I'm really hoping this turns out to be something of real value. It makes me all giddy with anticipation.
Exactly. While it's the individual's right to be protected it should also be the individual's right to decline said protection.
Yes, indeed! Let's dry out any kind of outlet for those freaks! Once they wont be able to get off from something besides the real deal, they are bound to stop and suddenly turn into normal, heterosexual human beings.
Right? Right?!
I just thought: A sequel to Spaceballs that revolves around making fun of sequels. Frankly, that might actually be very awesome ;).
Yeah, imagine a combined flashback of Matrix sequels and Star Wars prequels. I shudder at the mere thought.
Me, I have this dark corner in my mind where those things are huddled together being watched by all my childhood heros. One step out of line, and BAM, they'll open a can of whoopass on those things that should never have been.
I remember them. But I control the pain and fear, not the other way round.
Wait, what? It CALMS you that reality tops even your brain, ladden with horror scenarious as it is? That actually makes you feel better?
Man, please tell me what you're taking, because I want some, too!
Heh. When you manage to write three consecutive sentences without the use of the word 'fuck' we'll talk about you being allowed to call other people's posts 'drivel' again, okay?
Of course he's a troll but let's get over the same old arguments again, shall we?
Isn't it true that today, you don't need to be tech-savvy to get media for free? Is it not true that even if you had to be tech-savvy, EVERYONE knows someone who is?
If it therefore were true that, with media illegally being available for free, everyone would stop paying for it, then there couldn't possibly be any music recording studio or movie company left. Today.
The fact remains that only socially inept assholes don't pay for entertainment they enjoy (or people who don't have the money anyway). Those people always have the drive to smooch off of someone else. The technology has never mattered and will never matter. Those people don't pay, no matter the DRM. They are not lost sales due to P2P, they are lost sales, PERIOD.
There will always be people creating entertainment without getting rich in mind. Those are, arguably, the good entertainers. So I say kill copyright. Perhaps then the only thing remaining will be stuff that isn't the same old shit over and over again. After all, without any direct monetary incentive, those media conglomerate bastards just might not see the point in producing shit anymore. One can always hope, eh?
Lucky you. The video sequences were a joke. It felt like an Anime-parody. A bad one at that.
I, for one, am very grateful for pirated copies of such games. Saves me a lot of frustration.
Yes, but Warcraft has actually had some kind of plot and usable characters.
I think it was Command and Conquer: Red Alert that actually had good video sequences that featured believable army officers in not cheaply made uniform imitations. RA3 was just... I don't know, if I were fourteen years old I might have latched onto the eye-candy, but seeing as I'm twice that age I couldn't help but feel those scantily clothed super-soldieresses made the whole thing look very, very cheap.
It scares me to think how EA would one-up that in an MMO *brrr*.