Slashdot is cherry-picking articles purely for agreeing with its editorial views, rather than any instrinsic merit. This article is complete nonsense.
Successful new business models are about creating those non-scarce goods and helping them increase value. Any new business model must be based around increasing the overall pie
But the music industry is making a product - the music! And anybody who think modern popular music as represented by the RIAA is anything but the product of an industry is kidding themselves. The Britney Spears of the world didn't get big due to their solitary musical genius, it was marketers and promoters and sound guys and hundreds of other people working behind the scenes.
The music industry is just working it's darnedest to inhibit unlimited copying. A number of industries do this. Publishing companies have sued Google to not put their books online. I can't buy Gucci knock-offs, attach a knock-off Gucci label, and then re-sell them from my expensive boutique store, unless I want to hear from Gucci lawyers. I can't create a site which scrapes msnbc.com content but replaces all the ads with my own. I can't publish a photography book, using images I ripped off from flickr.
And even if DRM is a flawed business model, is Slashdot the place where we review the sustainability of various business models? This cheerleading got tiresome a long time ago. Review how poorly-implemented DRM is a security hole, or DRM lowers the real value of buying a CD, but this BS doesn't deserve to be here.
He told me his take on the story and his frustrations and I told him mine, in the end we agreed to disagree on some level, but also decided that our readers and gamers in general would be best served if Sony and Kotaku could still play nicely together.
In a nutshell: The story remains up and Sony has re-invited us to the meetings and interviews initially scheduled for the Game Developers Conference.
Being gay is not a matter of having lapsed moral strength, possibly deriving from time spent away from Internet porn. It's a matter of being gay.
Honestly I can't imagine a more lunatic bigoted view, but on Slashdot even the idiots get modified insightful, as long as it tangentially goes along with the group-think.
Chinese life isn't quite the same as the US's propoganda evidently has made you believe. Even if the government sucks, it's not like it gets in the way of daily activities. People generally have happy, productive lives, with concerns that are essentially identical to what they would be in the US. 15 hours a day on the Internet is unhealthy & indicates a mental problem, just as it does in the US.
In point of fact, the US does extradite criminals to other nations. Duane Chapman is a recent high-profile example, looking at a long term in a Mexican jail (ouch). Italy is not requesting extradition in this case. It's a messy enough case as it is, and I wouldn't place a bet that Italian intelligence operatives will recieve any punishment for actions they took in Italy.
The European system doesn't comply with what Skype wants, either. Skype has already developed a version that will run on Nokia cell phones, but European carriers don't allow it. Actually, English carrier 3 allows it, but there's a 5 pound monthly surcharge. And as far as I know there is no single carrier which charges entirely on a data rate.
Actually, the fact that you commented you might buy another system could very well mean you aren't the demographic Nintendo was after. They've been pretty clear that while they'd like the hard core gamer, they're really after people who aren't really gamers or people who are no longer gamers.
Huh, what? Everybody gets annoyed at not being able to buy a product because it's sold out. It's not something that's limited to hard-core gamers.
What do you mean it "should"??? Adobe customers have some kind of fundamental right to all future products Adobe releases?
Lightshop isn't a replacement for Photoshop. It's an alternate interface for working with photos. Without doubt, Adobe will continue to develop Photoshop, and many photographers will continue to use it - it's still the best tool for most. Adobe also released a seperate tool you have the option of buying - or not.
The story write-up is a mystery. Aperature is not a market leader, it isn't available for PCs, it hasn't even been out all that long.
Not really. I am an American working at the Chinese branch on a Technology company.
First of all, there is indeed income tax. Of course! The tendency is, it's compiled by the company and paid in regular installments (out of salary) for the workers, which is the system in Japan and other Asian nations as well. The Chinese tax code is uncomplicated, without deductions, and there isn't a capital gains tax, so for most people it's very simply a percentage of income.
Secondly, live-work groups with dorms and meals? That's so old-school commie, I think of that with the old innefficient state-run factories. I've never heard of it for technology, and that's definitely not common in the industry. And the illegal 85 hour work weeks are common to factory workers, but not at all for skilled laborers. Honestly Chinese technology workers have laxer work hours than US technology workers. Or maybe I just had shit hours in the US - probably both.
Benign dictatorship is right...while I'm strongly opposed to the Chinese government, mostly it's for historical reasons, rather than what the government is today - regardless I think China should ditch the framework that led to the Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution, etc. I think American media tends to greatly exaggerate how much it fucks over the lives of normal people. Yelling things on street corners, mostly you'd look like a fucking loonie, same as anywhere else. Mostly the government gets down on famous people, or circumstances where normal people are recieving media attention. It's not right, but most people aren't famous and don't recieve media attention.
Well, even the smallest city would be much larger than anything talked about in this article.
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REAL courses in rationality! That will solve ALL the aforementioned problems! Thanks, Crazy Internet Guy! If you have any other pet peeves that don't really relate to what people are talking about, feel free to post about them to Slashdot!
What time limit would you suggest, before the US can arrest people in the US who have broken US law? Maybe they have to be in the country for 24 hours? Or should all criminals be allowed to leave the US freely? It would keep the prison population down, anyway...
How exactly would a system where the public can check if a person's name and ID number match, be a damper on democracy? Does democracy rely on defrauding people about your real ID number? In the US I have to give my ID number to get a credit card, go to the hospital, enroll in a school, etc. These institutions have to confirm my real identity. Is that anti-democratic?
What are you talking about? Of course Russia almost entirely uses Windows, and nothing is going to change in the short-term.
Teaching variations on a program or an operating system is a waste of time for most people. The skills will easily transfer. It's not like you master using Word, but then go back to square one when you load up another word processor.
That's ridiculous. At least 99% of bittorrent traffic is Linux distributions and homemade techno songs!
Oh wait, at least 99% of bittorrent traffic is piracy, and sending a notice is a reasonable response. If people were getting arrested, the bar of proof would be set a little higher.
The threat of being sued? I see that as a much larger motivation. It's trivial to download an album, a movie, or a tv show off an illegal file-sharing site. It takes me seconds to locate. That convenience for a free download explains why illegal file-sharing is much more popular than legal file-sharing. I'm willing to guess the large majority of legal file downloads is by people who only somewhat understand computers, but have read articles about people getting sued by the RIAA.
It definitely equates to a fraction of a lost sale. Personally I used to buy plenty CDs and DVDs, now I would never consider buying a CD or DVD unless for whatever reason it was impossible to download. Even a service like Netflix doesn't make all that much sense to me...
Just speaking for myself, I'd say a download =.5 lost sales. Because maybe I download twice as many CDs and DVDs as I would have bought.
Wow, it's too bad your axe to burn is only vaguely related to the topic at hand.
Anyway, good luck with the whole "central government mandating exactly what every single person studies through their junior year of college" idea. It really sounds like a winner, especially when you rave on about it like a drunken homeless man.
Actually, it didn't keep people offline in Asia. It just made international Internet connections incredibly slow. Using the Internet for national sites, which is the vast majority of Internet use, was barely effected. Here in China, nobody at my American-owned computer company even cared, except that MSN chat was pretty spotty for a couple days.
I seriously doubt you have ever done this for yourself, it's terrible advice. The series varies between child-level reading that even a beginner to a language can understand, and advanced gobbledy-gook about magical spells, that is often specific entirely to the Harry Potter series, or at least to English mythology.
Really I can't imagine much worse of a novel to use for brushing up on a language.
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Successful new business models are about creating those non-scarce goods and helping them increase value. Any new business model must be based around increasing the overall pie
But the music industry is making a product - the music! And anybody who think modern popular music as represented by the RIAA is anything but the product of an industry is kidding themselves. The Britney Spears of the world didn't get big due to their solitary musical genius, it was marketers and promoters and sound guys and hundreds of other people working behind the scenes.
The music industry is just working it's darnedest to inhibit unlimited copying. A number of industries do this. Publishing companies have sued Google to not put their books online. I can't buy Gucci knock-offs, attach a knock-off Gucci label, and then re-sell them from my expensive boutique store, unless I want to hear from Gucci lawyers. I can't create a site which scrapes msnbc.com content but replaces all the ads with my own. I can't publish a photography book, using images I ripped off from flickr.
And even if DRM is a flawed business model, is Slashdot the place where we review the sustainability of various business models? This cheerleading got tiresome a long time ago. Review how poorly-implemented DRM is a security hole, or DRM lowers the real value of buying a CD, but this BS doesn't deserve to be here.
He told me his take on the story and his frustrations and I told him mine, in the end we agreed to disagree on some level, but also decided that our readers and gamers in general would be best served if Sony and Kotaku could still play nicely together.
In a nutshell: The story remains up and Sony has re-invited us to the meetings and interviews initially scheduled for the Game Developers Conference.
Honestly I can't imagine a more lunatic bigoted view, but on Slashdot even the idiots get modified insightful, as long as it tangentially goes along with the group-think.
Or would you care to explain yourself further?
Europe also doesn't always extradite criminals to the US, for instance in cases where capital punishment is a possibility, or in cases of a middle aged celebrity who visited the US, loaded a thirteen year old girl up on alcohol and quaaludes, and then raped her in the ass.
Amazing!
Huh, what? Everybody gets annoyed at not being able to buy a product because it's sold out. It's not something that's limited to hard-core gamers.
Wow, that really is entirely unfunny.
Lightshop isn't a replacement for Photoshop. It's an alternate interface for working with photos. Without doubt, Adobe will continue to develop Photoshop, and many photographers will continue to use it - it's still the best tool for most. Adobe also released a seperate tool you have the option of buying - or not.
The story write-up is a mystery. Aperature is not a market leader, it isn't available for PCs, it hasn't even been out all that long.
First of all, there is indeed income tax. Of course! The tendency is, it's compiled by the company and paid in regular installments (out of salary) for the workers, which is the system in Japan and other Asian nations as well. The Chinese tax code is uncomplicated, without deductions, and there isn't a capital gains tax, so for most people it's very simply a percentage of income.
Secondly, live-work groups with dorms and meals? That's so old-school commie, I think of that with the old innefficient state-run factories. I've never heard of it for technology, and that's definitely not common in the industry. And the illegal 85 hour work weeks are common to factory workers, but not at all for skilled laborers. Honestly Chinese technology workers have laxer work hours than US technology workers. Or maybe I just had shit hours in the US - probably both.
Benign dictatorship is right...while I'm strongly opposed to the Chinese government, mostly it's for historical reasons, rather than what the government is today - regardless I think China should ditch the framework that led to the Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution, etc. I think American media tends to greatly exaggerate how much it fucks over the lives of normal people. Yelling things on street corners, mostly you'd look like a fucking loonie, same as anywhere else. Mostly the government gets down on famous people, or circumstances where normal people are recieving media attention. It's not right, but most people aren't famous and don't recieve media attention.
Because bicyclists are incapable of listening to music and paying attention to the traffic around them?
Well, even the smallest city would be much larger than anything talked about in this article.
REAL courses in rationality! That will solve ALL the aforementioned problems! Thanks, Crazy Internet Guy! If you have any other pet peeves that don't really relate to what people are talking about, feel free to post about them to Slashdot!
Life on Earth in considerably more varied and entertaining than life on a spaceship.
What time limit would you suggest, before the US can arrest people in the US who have broken US law? Maybe they have to be in the country for 24 hours? Or should all criminals be allowed to leave the US freely? It would keep the prison population down, anyway...
The parent is imagining something that just isn't true, and shouldn't be modified +5 informative.
How exactly would a system where the public can check if a person's name and ID number match, be a damper on democracy? Does democracy rely on defrauding people about your real ID number? In the US I have to give my ID number to get a credit card, go to the hospital, enroll in a school, etc. These institutions have to confirm my real identity. Is that anti-democratic?
Teaching variations on a program or an operating system is a waste of time for most people. The skills will easily transfer. It's not like you master using Word, but then go back to square one when you load up another word processor.
Oh wait, at least 99% of bittorrent traffic is piracy, and sending a notice is a reasonable response. If people were getting arrested, the bar of proof would be set a little higher.
Very impressive. It appears he will be the world's first recipient of both the Turing Award, and the Darwin Award!
The threat of being sued? I see that as a much larger motivation. It's trivial to download an album, a movie, or a tv show off an illegal file-sharing site. It takes me seconds to locate. That convenience for a free download explains why illegal file-sharing is much more popular than legal file-sharing. I'm willing to guess the large majority of legal file downloads is by people who only somewhat understand computers, but have read articles about people getting sued by the RIAA.
Just speaking for myself, I'd say a download = .5 lost sales. Because maybe I download twice as many CDs and DVDs as I would have bought.
Anyway, good luck with the whole "central government mandating exactly what every single person studies through their junior year of college" idea. It really sounds like a winner, especially when you rave on about it like a drunken homeless man.
Actually, it didn't keep people offline in Asia. It just made international Internet connections incredibly slow. Using the Internet for national sites, which is the vast majority of Internet use, was barely effected. Here in China, nobody at my American-owned computer company even cared, except that MSN chat was pretty spotty for a couple days.
Really I can't imagine much worse of a novel to use for brushing up on a language.