If there wasn't a stigma and technical difficulties to piracy, why would anybody every buy the actual product? A copy and the genuine article would be the exact same thing, only $60 cheaper. You'd have to be stupid. And yet Battlefield 3 sells millions of copies.
Sure it's not 100% effective, but saying it doesn't prevent piracy at all is ridiculous. EA doesn't do this to piss of Slashdot nerds, they do this because they realize selling a product with DRM is a better business model than giving things away for free and then asking for donations.
It's a chicken & the egg type problem - there's no good android games because there's no good hardware, and there's no good hardware because there's no good android games...
The hardware makers have to no this won't catch on quickly & right away, but if they make the hardware available perhaps some games Android controller-based games will be developed, which will make the hardware more common, which will make the games more common, and pretty soon everybody's buying better & extra Android devices in order to play some games.
Ironically, I see modern consoles as their own biggest enemy in that regard - Forced upgrades that break older features, forced online play even for simple single-player games, DRM that (especially for new releases) fails to authenticate the player as often as it works, for-pay premium content in games you've already bought... The console companies have done their damnedest to shift the experience as far as possible away from their one and only edge over general purpose devices: "it just works". Until... It doesn't.,
I have a 360 and when the console turns on I press "a" and it starts, and with no exceptions. Even if Sony gets rid of Linux or game companies sell expansions to their games, that is irrelevant to the main point.
The 360 is popular, & more people here run Windows than anything else I'm sure. So, why not?
I don't run Windows 8.1 - programs can be created that run interchangeably on an 8.1 computer, Windows phone, tablet, and now XBone? If that means XBox will be able to easily run apps, it's sort of cool I guess.
But of course unsettled desert in New Mexico was a better place to test-fire rockets than New England. Anyway Goddard was massively sponsored by the government and corporate interests at that point.
The most popular torrents at the moment are: Linux distribution Self-produced techno album
Just kidding, of course it's all piracy. It's really: 1) Despicable me 2 (in theaters) 2) Man of Steel (not released yet) 3) Arrow S02E02 (Hulu) 4) Walking Dead s04e01 (nope) 5) How I Met Your Mother s09e05 (Hulu, computers only for some reason)
I don't know but the list continues on like this. It seems the most popular stuff that gets torrented is movies that are just about to get released to disc, and TV shows that came out recently. Not that this justifies piracy.
Right, I've noticed Slashdot has a *huge* anti-EU bias.
Really, this line of discussion doesn't change anything. Whether websites want to protect against crap flooding, or how easy it is to moderate a discussion board, is an entirely different issue than if sites should be fined due to the postings of anonymous commentators. No court should have the right to say people can't be offensive in internet comments.
Right, I've been saying this for years. Before that, she worked in Japan, where the government has been refusing the apologize for war atrocities for years. Even today, Koreans aren't recognized at Hiroshima, despite being one fourth of the death toll. Why is Jane Silber anti-Korean? Why does Ubuntu hold a racist ideology?
And let's not even get started on her work for General Health, a health risk assessment firm.
Therapists can't prescribe drugs, you have to go to a psychiatrist for that. Psychiatrists center around diagnosing mental problems and prescribing appropriate care, therapists are about talking problems out.
It was a common charge against that book (the book is pretty dated BTW, with its focus on Communist states). A quick Google:
[In Chapter 5, Allen says that the financing of Hitler "was handled through the Warburg-controlled Mendelsohn Bank of Amsterdam..." He cites 2 sources on page 85 for thisassertion. However, neither source says anything about the Warburgs having helped finance Hitler and neither source mentions any role played by the Mendelsohn Bank of Amsterdam.]
2. In Chapter 3, Allen exhumes the charges made by Father Charles Coughlin, Eustace Mullins, and Dearborn Independent articles, that the Federal Reserve System was a scheme by international bankers, led by Paul Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb and Co. to gain control of the nation's economy. This theme has always been pre-eminent in anti-Semitic diatribes about the "Jewish plan for world control"
3. In Chapter 4, "Bankrolling the Bolshevik Revolution" Allen revives a lie originated by Czarist propagandists at the end of World War I - that Jewish bankers, especially Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., financed the Bolshevik takeover in Russia. This lie was first published in the Dearborn Independent in their series of articles entitled The International Jew.
Conspiracy theories are the WORST. As if "Intelligence operatives took intelligence on US senators" somehow logically leads to "world governments are secretly controlled by a Cabal straight out of 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.'"
There are countless factual problems with "None Dare Call It Conspiracy." Just let it go and come up with new crazy conspiracy theories to spout off on technology websites.
Speaking historically, there's never been a direct correlation between the economy and the stock market. There's been times where the economy does well but (in the short term) the stock market goes down. You simply can not say that this is the reason why the stock market and GDP currently don't directly match each other.
It's a myth. Negative yelp reviews will often stay there, no matter the company. 5 years ago or so these accusations were being made, it seems some Yelp salesmen were making unwarranted claims that advertising would make their negative reviews go away. So Yelp made their filtered reviews publicly available.
Sorry to stand up for the big guys and obviously there is some fraud going on, but "pay yelp to get rid of negative reviews" isn't one of them.
Tesla was a mysticist quack by the end of his life, endlessly promising inventions that he didn't have designs for and must seem impossible. He was a great scientist and experimenter in his early career, sure. He was a quack by the end.
This is one of the most trivial articles I've ever seen on Slashdot. XBone lets HDMI input pass through it for all sorts of HDMI devices, no just cable boxes. So what.
XP will be a 13 year old OS no longer getting updated, categorizing that as American imperialism or meddling is bizarre.
Poor Chinese people don't have 13 year old computers incapable of running Vista or 7 or 8, they use Internet off their phones or at internet gaming cafes (and internet gaming cafes would NEVER pay for a Windows license). You're assuming Chinese people actually pay for their OS, which doesn't happen - you can easily download the OS of Chinese sites, or buy a bootleg for 50 cents. Most computer places will install the bootleg for you.
You're projecting your own anti-Americanism onto a situation you don't really understand.
I don't use Linux myself, but set my parents up with a Linux machine running Ubuntu. 95% of what they do is web browsing or running a basic word processor, there's no issues with viruses. Basically it's zero maintenance, and it runs perfectly and at reasonable speed on their older machine.
Another factor is that WWI and medical practices at the time are blamed for making that flu much more deadly. Quoting wikipedia: "In civilian life, natural selection favours a mild strain. Those who get very ill stay home, and those mildly ill continue with their lives, preferentially spreading the mild strain. In the trenches, natural selection was reversed. Soldiers with a mild strain stayed where they were, while the severely ill were sent on crowded trains to crowded field hospitals, spreading the deadlier virus"
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If there wasn't a stigma and technical difficulties to piracy, why would anybody every buy the actual product? A copy and the genuine article would be the exact same thing, only $60 cheaper. You'd have to be stupid. And yet Battlefield 3 sells millions of copies.
Sure it's not 100% effective, but saying it doesn't prevent piracy at all is ridiculous. EA doesn't do this to piss of Slashdot nerds, they do this because they realize selling a product with DRM is a better business model than giving things away for free and then asking for donations.
It's a chicken & the egg type problem - there's no good android games because there's no good hardware, and there's no good hardware because there's no good android games...
The hardware makers have to no this won't catch on quickly & right away, but if they make the hardware available perhaps some games Android controller-based games will be developed, which will make the hardware more common, which will make the games more common, and pretty soon everybody's buying better & extra Android devices in order to play some games.
The first step is to stop using the word "sheeple."
Ironically, I see modern consoles as their own biggest enemy in that regard - Forced upgrades that break older features, forced online play even for simple single-player games, DRM that (especially for new releases) fails to authenticate the player as often as it works, for-pay premium content in games you've already bought... The console companies have done their damnedest to shift the experience as far as possible away from their one and only edge over general purpose devices: "it just works". Until... It doesn't.,
I have a 360 and when the console turns on I press "a" and it starts, and with no exceptions. Even if Sony gets rid of Linux or game companies sell expansions to their games, that is irrelevant to the main point.
The 360 is popular, & more people here run Windows than anything else I'm sure. So, why not?
I don't run Windows 8.1 - programs can be created that run interchangeably on an 8.1 computer, Windows phone, tablet, and now XBone? If that means XBox will be able to easily run apps, it's sort of cool I guess.
But of course unsettled desert in New Mexico was a better place to test-fire rockets than New England. Anyway Goddard was massively sponsored by the government and corporate interests at that point.
To be fair these could happen with Mac OS or definitely Linux as well. Losing background pictures is pretty minor.
I'd happily pay $5000 for a BMW, it's not available at that price so I don't buy one. I don't steal one either, though.
Jeff
The most popular torrents at the moment are:
Linux distribution
Self-produced techno album
Just kidding, of course it's all piracy. It's really:
1) Despicable me 2 (in theaters)
2) Man of Steel (not released yet)
3) Arrow S02E02 (Hulu)
4) Walking Dead s04e01 (nope)
5) How I Met Your Mother s09e05 (Hulu, computers only for some reason)
I don't know but the list continues on like this. It seems the most popular stuff that gets torrented is movies that are just about to get released to disc, and TV shows that came out recently. Not that this justifies piracy.
Yeah, and both NBC news and Fox News are reporting on the government shutdown. And English newspapers are also reporting on this mouse - Oreos- cocaine story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2462624/Oreos-addictive-cocaine-Connecticut-College-scientists.html
News is news, not every single website is expected to have unique content.
Right, I've noticed Slashdot has a *huge* anti-EU bias.
Really, this line of discussion doesn't change anything. Whether websites want to protect against crap flooding, or how easy it is to moderate a discussion board, is an entirely different issue than if sites should be fined due to the postings of anonymous commentators. No court should have the right to say people can't be offensive in internet comments.
Right, I've been saying this for years. Before that, she worked in Japan, where the government has been refusing the apologize for war atrocities for years. Even today, Koreans aren't recognized at Hiroshima, despite being one fourth of the death toll. Why is Jane Silber anti-Korean? Why does Ubuntu hold a racist ideology?
And let's not even get started on her work for General Health, a health risk assessment firm.
Therapists can't prescribe drugs, you have to go to a psychiatrist for that. Psychiatrists center around diagnosing mental problems and prescribing appropriate care, therapists are about talking problems out.
That's the reason behind any law.
Jesus Christ, it'll take almost 30 seconds to download a bootleg video! Why even bother?
It was a common charge against that book (the book is pretty dated BTW, with its focus on Communist states). A quick Google:
[In Chapter 5, Allen says that the financing of Hitler "was handled through the Warburg-controlled Mendelsohn Bank of Amsterdam..." He cites 2 sources on page 85 for thisassertion. However, neither source says anything about the Warburgs having helped finance Hitler and neither source mentions any role played by the Mendelsohn Bank of Amsterdam.]
2. In Chapter 3, Allen exhumes the charges made by Father Charles Coughlin, Eustace Mullins, and Dearborn Independent articles, that the Federal Reserve System was a scheme by international bankers, led by Paul Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb and Co. to gain control of the nation's economy. This theme has always been pre-eminent in anti-Semitic diatribes about the "Jewish plan for world control"
3. In Chapter 4, "Bankrolling the Bolshevik Revolution" Allen revives a lie originated by Czarist propagandists at the end of World War I - that Jewish bankers, especially Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., financed the Bolshevik takeover in Russia. This lie was first published in the Dearborn Independent in their series of articles entitled The International Jew.
Conspiracy theories are the WORST. As if "Intelligence operatives took intelligence on US senators" somehow logically leads to "world governments are secretly controlled by a Cabal straight out of 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.'"
There are countless factual problems with "None Dare Call It Conspiracy." Just let it go and come up with new crazy conspiracy theories to spout off on technology websites.
Speaking historically, there's never been a direct correlation between the economy and the stock market. There's been times where the economy does well but (in the short term) the stock market goes down. You simply can not say that this is the reason why the stock market and GDP currently don't directly match each other.
It's a myth. Negative yelp reviews will often stay there, no matter the company. 5 years ago or so these accusations were being made, it seems some Yelp salesmen were making unwarranted claims that advertising would make their negative reviews go away. So Yelp made their filtered reviews publicly available.
Sorry to stand up for the big guys and obviously there is some fraud going on, but "pay yelp to get rid of negative reviews" isn't one of them.
Tesla was a mysticist quack by the end of his life, endlessly promising inventions that he didn't have designs for and must seem impossible. He was a great scientist and experimenter in his early career, sure. He was a quack by the end.
This is one of the most trivial articles I've ever seen on Slashdot.
XBone lets HDMI input pass through it for all sorts of HDMI devices, no just cable boxes.
So what.
XP will be a 13 year old OS no longer getting updated, categorizing that as American imperialism or meddling is bizarre.
Poor Chinese people don't have 13 year old computers incapable of running Vista or 7 or 8, they use Internet off their phones or at internet gaming cafes (and internet gaming cafes would NEVER pay for a Windows license). You're assuming Chinese people actually pay for their OS, which doesn't happen - you can easily download the OS of Chinese sites, or buy a bootleg for 50 cents. Most computer places will install the bootleg for you.
You're projecting your own anti-Americanism onto a situation you don't really understand.
I don't use Linux myself, but set my parents up with a Linux machine running Ubuntu. 95% of what they do is web browsing or running a basic word processor, there's no issues with viruses. Basically it's zero maintenance, and it runs perfectly and at reasonable speed on their older machine.
Another factor is that WWI and medical practices at the time are blamed for making that flu much more deadly. Quoting wikipedia: "In civilian life, natural selection favours a mild strain. Those who get very ill stay home, and those mildly ill continue with their lives, preferentially spreading the mild strain. In the trenches, natural selection was reversed. Soldiers with a mild strain stayed where they were, while the severely ill were sent on crowded trains to crowded field hospitals, spreading the deadlier virus"
Well to be fair, New Zealand doesn't have a software industry.
The patent system encourages innovation, it just needs to be run intelligently.