Right, to be ethical they need to get a CEO who sells a product he is pretty maudlin about, and thinks won't be very successful in the face of a product which essentially came out in 2007 and hasn't even touched their business.
Maybe instead of a standard investor meeting, he can say "Well who cares anyway, it's just a stupid TV company. Don't people have anything better to do?"
So imagine if bittorrent downloading movies wasn't illegal. Piratebay could be built into your DVD player with a better interface, everybody would be using piratebay so volume would be higher, etc. Basically, the illegality keeps bittorrent from being quite as much as it could be.
But regardless, get real. Netflix selection is shit, the chances they have the movie I want to see is maybe 10-20%. Bittorrents have everything, and have it an or two hour after it broadcasts. Bittorrent is free. Bittorrent is higher quality. Bittorrent gives you a file you can watch offline. Netflix has a nice interface but that's the only advantage.
I don't even bother turning on the TV, using Piratebay to steal the shows is easier (on the West Coast, so TV shows are available at about the same time). Of course the same is even more true for DVDs or movies. There's no possible business model better than piratebay, the only alternative is encouraging people to feel guilty for piracy, or criminally prosecuting pirates.
You can invent and then sell whatever you want. It can be made cheaper in China. Some sort of patent protection is necessary to reward people who do the invention and innovation. Otherwise, why would any company even bother?
He also was a big part of "World Enough and Time," which even though it's basically a video fanfic, is actually quite watchable and done on a very low budget. I don't think it's realistic to compare this to a top-end science fiction show, but I'm definitely looking forward to this.
I'm writing this from a Mac and just want to put in a negative word for them, because everybody else is recommending one. They're simply too expensive for what they are. Not to say they're terrible, in the end I can use it just as well as Windows, with the exception that Macs can't natively play games or run the translation software I use. In the end I'd say they're pretty much the same in practice, only not quite as good. Why pay hundreds of dollars extra for something, unless it's markedly better?
Hardware isn't quality, at least for me (and my friends with Macs) there's hardware problems with all of them, fixing is an ordeal.
I just can't imagine being flustered by options. "Oh my god one has an SSD, the other doesn't!" You're overthinking things.
If you don't like them, stop watching them. Play video games, take up gardening.
They're not idiots for wanting money for the product that they created. Yet DVDs and the rental market have been basically supplanted by stealing. Putting movies on Netflix or Hulu may turn that down a very slight amount, but they only recieve a pittance.
Meanwhile, the audience is a bunch of entitled bitches who think having any movie they want for free is some kind of god-given right.
The rights of salvage on the fucking moon are obviously new legal territory. Anyway, salvage is not a concept passed down from god and the basic historicity of the site takes precedence.
On a serious note, what right does the MPAA have to place 'undercover' agents? And what right do department stores have to have fake buyers to keep an eye on shoplifters? What right do malls have to hire mall cops? What right does any person on the street have to enlist a private investigator?
A crime was committed, and so the MPAA legally hired a person to uncover the crime, and then pass the information on to the police. Bully for them. I know the MPAA is just supposed to roll over and let everybody steal from them, but they didn't do anything wrong or even questionable.
What people want is to get the show for free and have it be really conveniently available all around the world. There is no possible business model of "release an elaborate fantasy television series for free."
Because people don't know what hunter gatherers ate. So really it becomes a pseudo-scientific way to rationalize whatever food dogma they believe in. For instance, another AC says they mostly ate starchy tubers and not meat. But normal paleo diet says they ate large amounts of meat and ate basically no tubers at all. Classically grains are thought to date back only 6,000 years or so. But recent evidence has primitive man eating grains for at least 100,000 years. Also, how quickly do people evolve? For all the talk about 6,000 years being an evolutionary blip, Europeans were a lot more resistant to pandemics than Native Americans.
If I was to enter my own beliefs, paleo man probably ate a wide range of different diets. And the foods available then bore little resemblance to the foods available today, due to increased trade, increased breeding, invasive species, etc.
Here's what's not accurate: you don't burn 960 calories in an hour. Burning 15 calories/minute for an hour is something a high-level athlete does, not some guy on Slashdot who runs 7:30 miles.
You burn calories, maybe you enjoy it. Just, probably somewhere around 500.
Do you lift heavy weights? Have you done so for years? Unless you have, you are part of the 98% of people for whom BMI is a valid measure.
Morbidly obese implies that (say) a 5'5" woman weighs at least 210 pounds. I am 6'5" and I weigh less than 210 pounds. I've done powerlifting tournaments, frankly I'm very muscular and have lifted heavy weights for years and surely have dense bones from weightlifting. And I'm not particularly skinny, just sort of normal (for California). Just the thought of my weight on a woman being "normal" is ridiculous.
Sorry but there is no way that you are anything but extremely overweight. Absolutely you should weight less. Even if BMI isn't perfect, it serves a purpose as a pretty good objectification of something that people take emotional issue with. Claiming that you must be an outlier isn't the solution.
Yep. You're not going to burn more than 500 calories in an hour of treadmill or biking (the "calories burnt" number on the device is basically just marketing). Pushing away 500 calories of food is a hell of a lot easier.
Of course some cardio exercise is good for one's health. It's just a shitty way to lose weight.
In general, I think for most people (not just geeks) fitness stuff comes down to a matter of time and practicality more than knowledge anyway.
I strongly disagree...I have friends who ask me fitness advice and time after time I see people who just have no idea how things work...the biggest problem are people who think "low fat" means healthy, even if it's a big bowl of sugary cereal. Or don't understand the importance of meat & vegetables. Or follow some strange fad diet. This doesn't come down to time, just having a basic understanding.
Of course exercise is going to take time, and some people aren't going to have it. But if the goal is general fitness, there's diminishing returns. 15 minutes a day won't get anybody into the Olympics, but would be of huge benefit to anybody who's out of shape.
In China, PCs are often theoretically sold with Linux, meaning you don't have to pay the cost of a Windows license. I don't know a single person using Linux on their personal PC. Everybody installs bootleg windows, generally the store themselves will install bootleg Windows for you, or you can easily find a copy on disk for maybe seventy cents.
Brain Fargo's track record? In the last 20 years he's just done a crap re-make of Baldur's Gate and iPhone shovelware.
That Wikipedia article is ridiculous, does "has found critical and commercial success with iPhone and Flash games continuing Fargo's string of hit games into a fourth decade" even imply an objective look? It's a promotional fluff piece disguised as a Wikipedia article.
True Scotsman Fallacy? I prefer to think of it as the "pretending your point is proved by an economics paper published in some shitty journal without peer review or any sort of influence" fallacy.
Wow, citing research published in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, the publishing arm of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society! Well I guess that proves everything, case closed!
Cherry-picking sympathetic journals while not even addressing the obvious correlation between piracy and decreased music sales is intellectually dishonest.
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Kids should stop using numbers and just have some sort of directed play-time, all the time.
Maybe instead of having to read Chaucer they can just watch the Lord of the Ring movies?
Right, to be ethical they need to get a CEO who sells a product he is pretty maudlin about, and thinks won't be very successful in the face of a product which essentially came out in 2007 and hasn't even touched their business.
Maybe instead of a standard investor meeting, he can say "Well who cares anyway, it's just a stupid TV company. Don't people have anything better to do?"
So imagine if bittorrent downloading movies wasn't illegal. Piratebay could be built into your DVD player with a better interface, everybody would be using piratebay so volume would be higher, etc. Basically, the illegality keeps bittorrent from being quite as much as it could be.
But regardless, get real. Netflix selection is shit, the chances they have the movie I want to see is maybe 10-20%. Bittorrents have everything, and have it an or two hour after it broadcasts. Bittorrent is free. Bittorrent is higher quality. Bittorrent gives you a file you can watch offline. Netflix has a nice interface but that's the only advantage.
I don't even bother turning on the TV, using Piratebay to steal the shows is easier (on the West Coast, so TV shows are available at about the same time). Of course the same is even more true for DVDs or movies. There's no possible business model better than piratebay, the only alternative is encouraging people to feel guilty for piracy, or criminally prosecuting pirates.
You can invent and then sell whatever you want. It can be made cheaper in China. Some sort of patent protection is necessary to reward people who do the invention and innovation. Otherwise, why would any company even bother?
He also was a big part of "World Enough and Time," which even though it's basically a video fanfic, is actually quite watchable and done on a very low budget. I don't think it's realistic to compare this to a top-end science fiction show, but I'm definitely looking forward to this.
I'm writing this from a Mac and just want to put in a negative word for them, because everybody else is recommending one. They're simply too expensive for what they are. Not to say they're terrible, in the end I can use it just as well as Windows, with the exception that Macs can't natively play games or run the translation software I use. In the end I'd say they're pretty much the same in practice, only not quite as good. Why pay hundreds of dollars extra for something, unless it's markedly better?
Hardware isn't quality, at least for me (and my friends with Macs) there's hardware problems with all of them, fixing is an ordeal.
I just can't imagine being flustered by options. "Oh my god one has an SSD, the other doesn't!" You're overthinking things.
If you don't like them, stop watching them. Play video games, take up gardening.
They're not idiots for wanting money for the product that they created. Yet DVDs and the rental market have been basically supplanted by stealing. Putting movies on Netflix or Hulu may turn that down a very slight amount, but they only recieve a pittance.
Meanwhile, the audience is a bunch of entitled bitches who think having any movie they want for free is some kind of god-given right.
The rights of salvage on the fucking moon are obviously new legal territory. Anyway, salvage is not a concept passed down from god and the basic historicity of the site takes precedence.
England does too. Love how some totally ignorant comment gets modified informative because it's vaguely anti-USA.
On a serious note, what right does the MPAA have to place 'undercover' agents?
And what right do department stores have to have fake buyers to keep an eye on shoplifters? What right do malls have to hire mall cops? What right does any person on the street have to enlist a private investigator?
A crime was committed, and so the MPAA legally hired a person to uncover the crime, and then pass the information on to the police. Bully for them. I know the MPAA is just supposed to roll over and let everybody steal from them, but they didn't do anything wrong or even questionable.
A retail copy of Windows costs $300? I guess you're including the price of the netbook?
What people want is to get the show for free and have it be really conveniently available all around the world. There is no possible business model of "release an elaborate fantasy television series for free."
This would be the most inane astroturfer ever. "It would be nice if more distribution platforms would start supporting OS X."
That's "dozens of yards" for those of you who don't live in a swishy country.
Because people don't know what hunter gatherers ate. So really it becomes a pseudo-scientific way to rationalize whatever food dogma they believe in. For instance, another AC says they mostly ate starchy tubers and not meat. But normal paleo diet says they ate large amounts of meat and ate basically no tubers at all. Classically grains are thought to date back only 6,000 years or so. But recent evidence has primitive man eating grains for at least 100,000 years. Also, how quickly do people evolve? For all the talk about 6,000 years being an evolutionary blip, Europeans were a lot more resistant to pandemics than Native Americans.
If I was to enter my own beliefs, paleo man probably ate a wide range of different diets. And the foods available then bore little resemblance to the foods available today, due to increased trade, increased breeding, invasive species, etc.
Here's what's not accurate: you don't burn 960 calories in an hour. Burning 15 calories/minute for an hour is something a high-level athlete does, not some guy on Slashdot who runs 7:30 miles.
You burn calories, maybe you enjoy it. Just, probably somewhere around 500.
Do you lift heavy weights? Have you done so for years? Unless you have, you are part of the 98% of people for whom BMI is a valid measure.
Morbidly obese implies that (say) a 5'5" woman weighs at least 210 pounds. I am 6'5" and I weigh less than 210 pounds. I've done powerlifting tournaments, frankly I'm very muscular and have lifted heavy weights for years and surely have dense bones from weightlifting. And I'm not particularly skinny, just sort of normal (for California). Just the thought of my weight on a woman being "normal" is ridiculous.
Sorry but there is no way that you are anything but extremely overweight. Absolutely you should weight less. Even if BMI isn't perfect, it serves a purpose as a pretty good objectification of something that people take emotional issue with. Claiming that you must be an outlier isn't the solution.
No hating.
Yep. You're not going to burn more than 500 calories in an hour of treadmill or biking (the "calories burnt" number on the device is basically just marketing). Pushing away 500 calories of food is a hell of a lot easier.
Of course some cardio exercise is good for one's health. It's just a shitty way to lose weight.
In general, I think for most people (not just geeks) fitness stuff comes down to a matter of time and practicality more than knowledge anyway.
I strongly disagree...I have friends who ask me fitness advice and time after time I see people who just have no idea how things work...the biggest problem are people who think "low fat" means healthy, even if it's a big bowl of sugary cereal. Or don't understand the importance of meat & vegetables. Or follow some strange fad diet. This doesn't come down to time, just having a basic understanding.
Of course exercise is going to take time, and some people aren't going to have it. But if the goal is general fitness, there's diminishing returns. 15 minutes a day won't get anybody into the Olympics, but would be of huge benefit to anybody who's out of shape.
In China, PCs are often theoretically sold with Linux, meaning you don't have to pay the cost of a Windows license. I don't know a single person using Linux on their personal PC. Everybody installs bootleg windows, generally the store themselves will install bootleg Windows for you, or you can easily find a copy on disk for maybe seventy cents.
I feel there's a difference between donating to charity and donating money to a private business.
Brain Fargo's track record? In the last 20 years he's just done a crap re-make of Baldur's Gate and iPhone shovelware.
That Wikipedia article is ridiculous, does "has found critical and commercial success with iPhone and Flash games continuing Fargo's string of hit games into a fourth decade" even imply an objective look? It's a promotional fluff piece disguised as a Wikipedia article.
True Scotsman Fallacy? I prefer to think of it as the "pretending your point is proved by an economics paper published in some shitty journal without peer review or any sort of influence" fallacy.
Wow, citing research published in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, the publishing arm of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society! Well I guess that proves everything, case closed!
Cherry-picking sympathetic journals while not even addressing the obvious correlation between piracy and decreased music sales is intellectually dishonest.