they won't be allowed in the rest of the world due of syndication/greed/whatever is new reason for MAFIAA to restrict their product to be available for rest of us;
The same as if it was NBC or HBO, Netflix will own the international copyright and will most probably sell the rights to broadcast elsewhere. At the very least they'll wait a while and put out a DVD.
And yes. You don't like copyrighted products so you use free software, great. Similarly, there is a huge amount of freely available music and videos, follow those. You aren't obligated to follow big studio entertainments, just as the studios aren't obligated to make their products freely available to you.
No. It's just an animal native to Japan. It really does have very large testicles. Badgers aren't tanuki. Tanuki are tanuki. There are animals at the zoo you can point to and say "look at the tanuki over there," and the zookeeper will not butt in to correct you. Tanuki do not refer to badgers, although there's other local dialect names for the same animal, same as lynx/mountain lion/cougar. Or garbanzo/chickpeas. Or a million other examples.
They have a place in stories, the same way Mickey Mouse or maybe the snake in the Garden of Eden does. Big testicles, I'm sure you can imagine the relevance it would have to folklore.
then the only option left to Americans is to fire every single person in every level of government with extreme prejudice, convene a constitutional convention, and start all over again from scratch.
Have you ever considered that you are a moron who shouldn't publicly discuss their political views?
150 years ago half the country revolted against the government and then there was a long drawn out painful reconciliation process. 60 years ago some state governments enforced an apartheid system. Currently there's 99% demonstrations around the country and people are so very afraid of violent government crackdown that they are a large tourist draw and people go just for fun. I don't know by what metric you determined Americans are currently more than ever afraid of their government, but I suspect you just pulled it out of your ass as some kind of inane anti-American statement. Do you watch Rocky IV and find yourself rooting for Ivan Drago?
Video games have been about making money since the beginning. Arcade games used to last approximately 26 seconds a play, and you put in a quarter every game. If you want I guess you could couch it in really loaded terms: "business men in suits crawl out of the gutter and analyze player behavior to get more and more quarters into their greedy hands."
And are there actually businessmen in suits looking over the computer-generated databases on player behavior? If there are, is this a bad thing? This whole article is bullshit with some kind of weird nonsensical anti-establishment bias. Perhaps you'd be better off occupying Wall Street.
It's not trash, they didn't leave stuff on the moon because it saved them the inconvenience of taking it to the garbage can out back. There's a cost of bringing things back from the moon to the Earth so that certain things aren't worth taking. However, obviously everything that has been to the moon is of sentimental worth. Otherwise the auction house wouldn't be interested, they would just say "oh, this old junk?"
Another possibility is they know more than a random slashdot commenter making shit up off the top of his head. They surely accounted for such an immediately obvious factor.
There was a dark spot on the wall that the ball went right through. Aside from the dimensions of the playing field corresponding to the dimensions of the building, there wasn't a building-game correspondence. Even if there was, it still wouldn't be impressive, but the story summary and the website talk like this 80s video game projected against a wall is really something amazing, when it simply isn't.
This isn't nearly as impressive as those displays on the ground where there's a projected soccer ball field where the ball can be kicked. And that is cheesy shit that has been around for five or ten years.
Maybe the video didn't help, with the focus problems and the music video feel.
Thought it might have incorporated the building architecture or something sort of cool. Instead, this is just a 80s video game projected against a blank wall at night. Instead of pressing the button to go left, you lean to the left to go left, the same as every other Kinect game but much simpler. Totally unimpressive.
Yeah. It means the CEO knew it was going bankrupt. A specialist was called in to see if there was anything that could be done, and he determined there wasn't. So they declared bankruptcy.
No, no it is not. Legitimate DVDs/software released are almost impossible to find in China, just because bootleg DVDs are selling for around sixty cents. The various sellers reduced the cost of them greatly for the Chinese market, for less than $5 (often with a few ads in front), but they're only available in the Potemkin downtown stores made to impress foreigners (every major Chinese city has a Potemkin downtown to impress foreigners).
Recently, even bootleg DVD sales have been hurting, because sixty cents for a disk is too much. People prefer free downloads. When quality DVDs are available on the street corner in front of your house for sixty cents, displayed in attractive packaging, and people still don't want to pay that much, obviously there isn't a mentality of paying for software because you "like" the company. There's a mentality that it would be stupid to waste the money when you can get a free version that's just as good.
By the way, these sixty cent DVDs are either straightforward copies of the legitimate DVD but with added subtitles, or maybe they'll contain a complete season of a TV show on just a few disks. Quality is great, and even street sellers will accept returns with no questions asked if there is a problem with it not playing or the quality is unacceptable for whatever reason.
Talk bad about MS and vista, but a great case study in how little software is actually bought is Windows Vista, which after a huge marketing campaign sold 244 copies. Sure Vista sucked, but it was good enough that everybody still installed it. Linux and Mac are basically unused in China. Every single computer is running Windows.
Consider many of the social issues that define the modern Democrat party (obviously in ideal rather than 100% commitment). Affirmative action, right to abortion, homosexual marriage, opposition to torture, Gun control, etc. These were not social issues embraced by either the old-time Democrat or Republican parties.
The change in the parties has more to do with racial politics - both sides ignored the black vote, but the Democrats even more (with white Southerners completely unwilling to vote for "The Party of Lincoln.") The South was solidly Democrat, and the conservative social values of the South helped define Democrat policy.
The Democrats started specifically aiming for the minority vote, and predictable enough lost their solid Southern White support, which fled to the GOP. The GOP took on a more socially conservative bent.
I suppose you're suggesting that the US political dialogue is far more socially conservative now than it was in the early 20th century, which of course is complete nonsense. The US is more liberal now than then.
Oh totally! That is an excellent comparison, since basically everything we know about Martian geology comes from the Opportunity and the Spirit! They have been the backbone that has given mankind untold amounts of information about the planet! They were in no way kept operating mostly because they gave NASA good publicity! NASA never planned to take them offline but reneged because of a furor given by non-scientists! I'm not being sarcastic, I just can't help ending my sentences with exclamation points!
Your post makes no sense. If you can't figure out how to change the shell, even if it's not included with the default installation, why are you using Linux?
That said, it's believable: 1) Foreign adoption for money, with foreign adopters not realizing it's illegal, just think they're paying adoption fees and/or standard kickbacks. 2) Buying a kid or even a wife is accepted in large parts of China, which let's face it is pretty fucking backwards despite a few Potemkin city centers. 300 million Chinese people live in caves.
It's not mentioned much in the US, either. Mostly it's a discussion of his being a right-wing weirdo. Slashdot just loves getting butt hurt at even the suggestion that violent media might lead to violent behavior. The fact that this is a violent tragedy touching on issues of race and politics and religion doesn't stop Slashdot from using this as an excuse to make some inane constantly-repeated point about video games.
The games are bad and they don't make much money...not sure on your metric of success. Philosophically, indie games are great. Realistically, at best they're trifles you play on an iPhone for 5 minutes and then forget.
I like the program and hope to see it expanded. I think the US should have these continually flying sortees all over the world. So if a bad guy shows up in Europe, the US can easily take him out with a Tomahawk missile or two.
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they won't be allowed in the rest of the world due of syndication/greed/whatever is new reason for MAFIAA to restrict their product to be available for rest of us;
The same as if it was NBC or HBO, Netflix will own the international copyright and will most probably sell the rights to broadcast elsewhere. At the very least they'll wait a while and put out a DVD.
And yes. You don't like copyrighted products so you use free software, great. Similarly, there is a huge amount of freely available music and videos, follow those. You aren't obligated to follow big studio entertainments, just as the studios aren't obligated to make their products freely available to you.
No. It's just an animal native to Japan. It really does have very large testicles. Badgers aren't tanuki. Tanuki are tanuki. There are animals at the zoo you can point to and say "look at the tanuki over there," and the zookeeper will not butt in to correct you. Tanuki do not refer to badgers, although there's other local dialect names for the same animal, same as lynx/mountain lion/cougar. Or garbanzo/chickpeas. Or a million other examples.
They have a place in stories, the same way Mickey Mouse or maybe the snake in the Garden of Eden does. Big testicles, I'm sure you can imagine the relevance it would have to folklore.
then the only option left to Americans is to fire every single person in every level of government with extreme prejudice, convene a constitutional convention, and start all over again from scratch.
Have you ever considered that you are a moron who shouldn't publicly discuss their political views?
150 years ago half the country revolted against the government and then there was a long drawn out painful reconciliation process. 60 years ago some state governments enforced an apartheid system. Currently there's 99% demonstrations around the country and people are so very afraid of violent government crackdown that they are a large tourist draw and people go just for fun. I don't know by what metric you determined Americans are currently more than ever afraid of their government, but I suspect you just pulled it out of your ass as some kind of inane anti-American statement. Do you watch Rocky IV and find yourself rooting for Ivan Drago?
Video games have been about making money since the beginning. Arcade games used to last approximately 26 seconds a play, and you put in a quarter every game. If you want I guess you could couch it in really loaded terms: "business men in suits crawl out of the gutter and analyze player behavior to get more and more quarters into their greedy hands."
And are there actually businessmen in suits looking over the computer-generated databases on player behavior? If there are, is this a bad thing? This whole article is bullshit with some kind of weird nonsensical anti-establishment bias. Perhaps you'd be better off occupying Wall Street.
It's not trash, they didn't leave stuff on the moon because it saved them the inconvenience of taking it to the garbage can out back. There's a cost of bringing things back from the moon to the Earth so that certain things aren't worth taking. However, obviously everything that has been to the moon is of sentimental worth. Otherwise the auction house wouldn't be interested, they would just say "oh, this old junk?"
Another possibility is they know more than a random slashdot commenter making shit up off the top of his head. They surely accounted for such an immediately obvious factor.
There was a dark spot on the wall that the ball went right through. Aside from the dimensions of the playing field corresponding to the dimensions of the building, there wasn't a building-game correspondence. Even if there was, it still wouldn't be impressive, but the story summary and the website talk like this 80s video game projected against a wall is really something amazing, when it simply isn't.
This isn't nearly as impressive as those displays on the ground where there's a projected soccer ball field where the ball can be kicked. And that is cheesy shit that has been around for five or ten years.
Maybe the video didn't help, with the focus problems and the music video feel.
Thought it might have incorporated the building architecture or something sort of cool. Instead, this is just a 80s video game projected against a blank wall at night. Instead of pressing the button to go left, you lean to the left to go left, the same as every other Kinect game but much simpler. Totally unimpressive.
Yeah. It means the CEO knew it was going bankrupt. A specialist was called in to see if there was anything that could be done, and he determined there wasn't. So they declared bankruptcy.
What the fuck? It's just a couple of dots. Is this some kind of performance art?
No, no it is not. Legitimate DVDs/software released are almost impossible to find in China, just because bootleg DVDs are selling for around sixty cents. The various sellers reduced the cost of them greatly for the Chinese market, for less than $5 (often with a few ads in front), but they're only available in the Potemkin downtown stores made to impress foreigners (every major Chinese city has a Potemkin downtown to impress foreigners).
Recently, even bootleg DVD sales have been hurting, because sixty cents for a disk is too much. People prefer free downloads. When quality DVDs are available on the street corner in front of your house for sixty cents, displayed in attractive packaging, and people still don't want to pay that much, obviously there isn't a mentality of paying for software because you "like" the company. There's a mentality that it would be stupid to waste the money when you can get a free version that's just as good.
By the way, these sixty cent DVDs are either straightforward copies of the legitimate DVD but with added subtitles, or maybe they'll contain a complete season of a TV show on just a few disks. Quality is great, and even street sellers will accept returns with no questions asked if there is a problem with it not playing or the quality is unacceptable for whatever reason.
Talk bad about MS and vista, but a great case study in how little software is actually bought is Windows Vista, which after a huge marketing campaign sold 244 copies. Sure Vista sucked, but it was good enough that everybody still installed it. Linux and Mac are basically unused in China. Every single computer is running Windows.
Who buys? That business model is dead and gone. Much cheaper just to download off a bittorrent site.
Consider many of the social issues that define the modern Democrat party (obviously in ideal rather than 100% commitment). Affirmative action, right to abortion, homosexual marriage, opposition to torture, Gun control, etc. These were not social issues embraced by either the old-time Democrat or Republican parties.
The change in the parties has more to do with racial politics - both sides ignored the black vote, but the Democrats even more (with white Southerners completely unwilling to vote for "The Party of Lincoln.") The South was solidly Democrat, and the conservative social values of the South helped define Democrat policy.
The Democrats started specifically aiming for the minority vote, and predictable enough lost their solid Southern White support, which fled to the GOP. The GOP took on a more socially conservative bent.
I suppose you're suggesting that the US political dialogue is far more socially conservative now than it was in the early 20th century, which of course is complete nonsense. The US is more liberal now than then.
Totally! And I've driven drunk a bunch of times (including right now) and never had any problems - drunk driving should also be legal!
Oh totally! That is an excellent comparison, since basically everything we know about Martian geology comes from the Opportunity and the Spirit! They have been the backbone that has given mankind untold amounts of information about the planet! They were in no way kept operating mostly because they gave NASA good publicity! NASA never planned to take them offline but reneged because of a furor given by non-scientists! I'm not being sarcastic, I just can't help ending my sentences with exclamation points!
Right. That would explain why "Worlds of Warcraft" is by far the most popular MMORPG in China.
Right! Instead of doing new experiments, scientists should just do the same thing over and over and over. They can save a lot of money that way!
Your post makes no sense. If you can't figure out how to change the shell, even if it's not included with the default installation, why are you using Linux?
Personally I sort of like Unity.
Story is probably not true. China Daily runs stories that are obviously not true but carry some important moral just about every single day - http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/viewthread.php?gid=2&tid=684280 discusses one classic.
That said, it's believable:
1) Foreign adoption for money, with foreign adopters not realizing it's illegal, just think they're paying adoption fees and/or standard kickbacks.
2) Buying a kid or even a wife is accepted in large parts of China, which let's face it is pretty fucking backwards despite a few Potemkin city centers. 300 million Chinese people live in caves.
It's not mentioned much in the US, either. Mostly it's a discussion of his being a right-wing weirdo. Slashdot just loves getting butt hurt at even the suggestion that violent media might lead to violent behavior. The fact that this is a violent tragedy touching on issues of race and politics and religion doesn't stop Slashdot from using this as an excuse to make some inane constantly-repeated point about video games.
You are very ignorant about this. Why are you publicly discussing something you clearly know almost nothing about?
The games are bad and they don't make much money...not sure on your metric of success. Philosophically, indie games are great. Realistically, at best they're trifles you play on an iPhone for 5 minutes and then forget.
Some guy from GNUStep is calling Slashdot irrelevant? Glass houses, my good sir.
I like the program and hope to see it expanded. I think the US should have these continually flying sortees all over the world. So if a bad guy shows up in Europe, the US can easily take him out with a Tomahawk missile or two.