Show the numbers or it doesn't count. I'm sorry, but I'm not taking a couple of "studies have shown"s and a detail free general anecdote to mean anything at all.
You know what you have proven? You have proven that people will devote considerable effort into justifying piracy in other ways now that this justification has been removed. You've crafted two walls of well written, grammatically correct text in support of piracy. You've been a justification factory! You are the perfectly timed anecdote that precipitates the teaching moment.
"It doesn't matter if pirates pirate, because at the end of the day, they weren't going to buy the game anyway. "
This is, and always has been, an un-proven assumption. If by some miraculous technology, something like Halo came out and was uncrackable, some of the people that would have otherwise pirated would be plonking down their cash to get it.
It was the same way in the 80s when cable piracy was so easy. Then the cable operators made piracy too difficult, and people didn't go without... they started paying.
It doesn't matter if pirates pirate, it matters whether they buy.
Thing is, the guy going 60 forces the guy going 62 into the passing lane, and that blocks the people coming up at 85. You've got the initial event, and then the building road rage of those trapped behind, which carries on down the road even after the 62mph guy gets done passing.
I saw it all the time with trucks in california... speed for them was 10mph below everyone else.
They'll scoot about in gleaming alloy aircars, two lanes wide, no doubt.
Until then, the robot car is going to impede the monkey cars, and it's going to cause monkey car crashes.
Maybe the thing to do is to let the robot car speed along with traffic.
Or stick a streetcam on it, declare it a pace car, and ticket anybody that flouted it, by mail, with panoramic video of the offense. You could probably manage the LA area with a few thousand of those, a couple miles apart.
Streaming footage out of those might be pretty entertaining to watch, actually...
I'm not talking about the robot cars crashing. I'm talking about the people that come up behind them suddenly and have to react to a car going 20mph slower than them in heavy traffic.
Try driving the speed limit on the 101 or the 5 in LA when traffic is moving freely, and observe the effect on other cars.
The problem with linux on the desktop is that the window managers and apps are unpolished and crude. The devs don't put in the effort to fix the little things, and it makes their apps feel shabby in comparison to commercial alternatives.
So let Nintendo stagnate, and people with fresh ideas take over. Why let new people stagnate with the same characters as Nintendo? Even if, under your idea, you could make a Sonic game, so could everybody else. The barrier to entry would be replaced with a swamp of crappy titles that obscured anything good.
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... google taking it down wouldn't help at this point.
...that of the millions of people that got the game, under 100 paid anything at all for it.
Not a lack of food. A lack of cheap food. When you spend a large percentage of your income on food, it matters more.
...kind of puts the lie to "pirates will pay in their own good time" trope.
it needs more desktop applications that have well designed UIs and that WORK RIGHT.
Show the numbers or it doesn't count. I'm sorry, but I'm not taking a couple of "studies have shown"s and a detail free general anecdote to mean anything at all.
You know what you have proven? You have proven that people will devote considerable effort into justifying piracy in other ways now that this justification has been removed. You've crafted two walls of well written, grammatically correct text in support of piracy. You've been a justification factory! You are the perfectly timed anecdote that precipitates the teaching moment.
It's... beautiful.
"It doesn't matter if pirates pirate, because at the end of the day, they weren't going to buy the game anyway. "
This is, and always has been, an un-proven assumption. If by some miraculous technology, something like Halo came out and was uncrackable, some of the people that would have otherwise pirated would be plonking down their cash to get it.
It was the same way in the 80s when cable piracy was so easy. Then the cable operators made piracy too difficult, and people didn't go without... they started paying.
It doesn't matter if pirates pirate, it matters whether they buy.
...to pirate. This will make no difference in the piracy rate, but it's nice for their user base.
Thing is, the guy going 60 forces the guy going 62 into the passing lane, and that blocks the people coming up at 85. You've got the initial event, and then the building road rage of those trapped behind, which carries on down the road even after the 62mph guy gets done passing.
I saw it all the time with trucks in california... speed for them was 10mph below everyone else.
And you are an obtuse asshole that went right for the ad hominem rather than troubling to understanding the post.
... with perfect touch detection and the power of my mac pro, and I'll drop my keyboard and mouse like they're hot.
They'll scoot about in gleaming alloy aircars, two lanes wide, no doubt.
Until then, the robot car is going to impede the monkey cars, and it's going to cause monkey car crashes.
Maybe the thing to do is to let the robot car speed along with traffic.
Or stick a streetcam on it, declare it a pace car, and ticket anybody that flouted it, by mail, with panoramic video of the offense. You could probably manage the LA area with a few thousand of those, a couple miles apart.
Streaming footage out of those might be pretty entertaining to watch, actually...
I'm not talking about the robot cars crashing. I'm talking about the people that come up behind them suddenly and have to react to a car going 20mph slower than them in heavy traffic.
Try driving the speed limit on the 101 or the 5 in LA when traffic is moving freely, and observe the effect on other cars.
They are to be forced to give a shit? What is this, a shit dairy?
You fail to see reality. You talk about what should be, and willfully ignore what is.
The problem is, all cars are NOT self driving, and probably won't be in our lifetimes.
Eventually sure. It's gonna be a trainwreck getting there, though.
It's not safe for the simple reason that the automatic cars will drive the speed limit, and cause accidents because everybody else is going 20 over.
The prohibition I can handle, but a guy that wears magic underpants in control of the world's largest nuclear arsenal give me the heeb jeebs.
The problem with linux on the desktop is that the window managers and apps are unpolished and crude. The devs don't put in the effort to fix the little things, and it makes their apps feel shabby in comparison to commercial alternatives.
...by pirating. Because information wants to be free, maaan, and you have no right to keep it from us.
We pay plenty of taxes to cover all that. Unfortunately the money is spent on weapons.
What? There are brown people to bomb. We cant mess around with fibers.
So let Nintendo stagnate, and people with fresh ideas take over. Why let new people stagnate with the same characters as Nintendo? Even if, under your idea, you could make a Sonic game, so could everybody else. The barrier to entry would be replaced with a swamp of crappy titles that obscured anything good.
Agreed. Like we NEED more people....