What we need instead is a professional guild association, much as the legal and medical professions have. Unions are more appropriate for low skilled industrial professions.
"I manage an area that fortunately has lots of people interested in working for us, doing sys admin work amongst other things. I wouldn't hire you. The problem is, all things being equal, the guy with a college education is going to win. Unfortunately, all things generally are equal. There's no shortage of people with good attitudes, good experience, and are bright. So, often the education becomes a focus. It proves you know how to learn, can follow directions, and have some discipline to pursue a long-term goal."
I have worked in IT for 14 years now. Don't have a degree and don't see a point in it. I personally don't place much value on certifications either. I think we all learned from the "paper MCSE" fiasco of the "dot bomb" days that certifications (or degrees) alone tell you NOTHING of someone's skills or ability. I currently work as an IT manager for a publicly traded company.
I've seen them come and I've seen them go. I've personally trained many people from the ground up with hardware repair and network skills, and I can tell you that most of those I get who come out of college with the hogwash taught to them by professors who teach from a book but who have never actually HAD to build a network or manage a server infrastructure have to be UNTAUGHT for a period before they are ready.
The most important trait of someone I look for when hiring is their personality. After all, where I work we have to interact with users and have to also deal with non technical management. If they lack the proper attitude to deal with users, then they are out. The second trait is their intelligence and learning aptitude. Are they smart enough to pick things up? Do I have to show them the same simple thing over and over before they learn it or do they retain almost everything they are shown?
Honestly the last thing I am concerned with is what they already know how to do when they get assigned to me. Any good knowledge is merely a plus, I'm more concerned with how much I can teach them and how fast can they learn it. I'd rather have someone who can learn who comes in raw than someone who has already learned the wrong way.
Hiring by degree and/or certification is for the lazy manager. I'm not saying it's a bad thing to have those, but if you expect to get hired because of them rather than your actual ability and potential, expect to have a short career in IT. If you hire based on papers over personality and brains, expect to have an IT department that runs like crap. That might cut it in companies that can "paper over" ability with numbers (ie: having a larger staff than actually needed) but it won't out in the majority of corporate America, such as my company where we manage a very large VPN network with 16 remote sites, 500 users, and more than 20 servers with two full time people and two interns. Neither of us, btw, have degrees.
Seriously, there has yet to be a DRM scheme that hasn't been broken yet, and there likely never will be. As long as DRM has to allow the media to play on... SOMETHING, it will be breakable.
However, this being done on a Mac, where Apple controls not only the software, OS, but also the hardware, might be a LOT harder than on a PC, which is much more open, has much more varied hardware, and you have the choice not only of several flavors of Windows (I've never gone Vista and never will) but also of OS's.
One wonders though in this particular instance if Apple has opened itself up to liability. If someone has bought their hardware from Apple, and happens to use a display that isn't "DRM compliant" that Apple sold them, and suddenly their Itunes collection won't play, isn't that Apple's fault? Could be a potential lawsuit there.
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Indeed, journalism is dead. The only difference between the "mainstream media" and conservative talk radio is that the radio people are more honest, as in they admit that what they are doing is opinion, and state plainly their stances whilst the old media pretends to be "unbiased".
BTW, could it be that people are waking up to this have something to do with ALL the major newspapers losing circulation rapidly, and the Big 3 networks also continuing to lose viewers? Fox News is #1 not because they are any less biased, but because they ALONE in major media gives voice to the other side.
EA can live in their alternate reality bubble all they want, but there is no way that 98% of gamers support Digital Restrictions Management.
Maybe it hasn't hit most yet, but their recent egregious DRM that limits the number of re installs does (as it will inevitably happen) it sure as hell will piss people off.
Is going to get a LONG stay in Club Fed. Alaska also has very strong privacy laws. Also, "reporters" who knowingly published them better be lawyering up.
"You know what is even better and a guarantee that you never need to pay a fine? Don't run red lights and don't speed."
Not necessarily true. It's been found time and again that cities put red light cameras in for REVENUE GENERATION, that when the cameras start actually deterring red light running and revenue falls they mess around with yellow light timing so as to create more red light runners.
An excuse to dump PC games completely. They already have pulled most of their sports franchise games (which pissed me off).
Look for Bioware even to drop the PC.
In the short term, dinosaur clueless behemoths like EA getting out of the PC gaming market will be bad, BUT keep in mind the installed base of PC's is STILL far greater than that of any console, that means opportunity for others to enter the market. There is opportunity there, and where there is opportunity, there will be those who will take advantage of it.
EA et all pulling out of the PC arena will serve to give indy and start up gaming companies more oxygen.
EA has been only barely relevant as a game publisher for some time in the PC arena anyway. Other than their sports sequels it's been forever since they've put out anything groundbreaking. Burdening their mediocre game lineup with DRM just makes it worse.
That I wish she were the PRESIDENTIAL nominee. Sarah Palin has excellent credentials of taking on corruption (even in her own party). She said no thanks to Sen. Ted "Internet Tubes" Steven's 100 million dollar "bridge to nowhere", and called for his investigation in a corruption scandal. I hear crickets from the Dems with respect to Rep William Jefferson (of New Orleans) and the $100K found in his freezer, etc...
The best thing about this is that it sets her up to be the nominee next time out.
Of course I use Firefox 3, but ENOUGH with software pushing "upgrades". Seems like every other day some program or another is nagging me to upgrade or check for updates. Java, Quicktime, Acrobat, whatever.
Fact of the matter is that you don't always need to upgrade software, nor should you always. Take Acrobat for example. All I want it to do is display a PDF. That's IT. Acrobat 6 (which is way the hell smaller and uses less RAM) does the job perfectly fine. I don't NEED Acrobat 9 and it's bloat.
Increasingly software publishers/creators seem to think that because their program is installed that they are entitled to some say in how I use it, and that it can do whatever the hell it wants on my machine. Piss on that. It's disturbing that Mozilla is following this trend.
Also disturbing is that they are apparently adding this "function" to existing Firefox 2.x browsers. How are they doing this? Did they ask for consent? Are they installing something without permission? If Mozilla can do this sort of thing, doesn't that SCREAM spyware/trojan vulnerability?
Can travel on huge private jets, in motorcades of Suburbans, etc, why should I feel guilty to drive a 4 cyl compact and use... Air conditioning?
Sorry, I don't buy into the global warming alarmism until the "high priests" start practicing what they preach. These guys are nothing more than the 1980's televangelists (Swaggert, Baker, etc) reincarnated as profiteering "Gaia" evangelists.
"I almost feel like there needs to be a "pre-lawyer" stage to all suits, where the actual parties involve notify each other of their stance before any threatening of a lawsuit occurs. I'm not sure how well this would work out in practice, but it seems it would be much better than the current situation."
How about this: Once the initiator (RIAA) launches a suit, they must see it to completion or the suit is dismissed... with prejudice, meaning it couldn't be brought again.
At any rate, there now are several court precedents out there now that "making available" isn't in and of itself copyright infringement. What the RIAA is doing here is "judge shopping", rather than try another argument, they are shopping for judges who agree with them.
One thing I'd really like to see is an anti-trust and RICO lawsuit filed against the RIAA. What standing does the RIAA itself have in these suits? It itself doesn't own the copyrights, the 4 member record labels do. If it is able to represent the copyrights, then it is a trust or monopoly. The RIAA and it's members clearly are a corrupt organization, having been found guilty of behaving like a cartel, price fixing illegally more than once. This should invoke the RICO statute, especially given the fact that it behaves like an industry monopoly.
Of course, the bottom line is that the recording industry as it currently is incarnated is obsolete, running on a business model that simply is no longer viable. Imagine if the candle, oil lamp, and buggy industries had fought like the RIAA to keep from having to evolve...
The irony here is that people still make and buy candles, oil lamps, and buggies, those industries adapted and survived the new realities, whilst the RIAA may very well cease to be. I mean, would the world REALLY suffer if there were no more Top 40 cookie cutter "music"?
Seems to me that what they did here was clearly an action in contempt of court, since they ostensibly refiled the same case, hoping to get a free "reset" button with a new judge.
This is one of the real illustrative reasons why we need a "loser pays" system in the courts (where the initiating party would be liable for all legal and court expenses if they lose), since it would discourage megacartels like the MAFIAA from using their financial advantage to manipulate the legal system.
What the defendants should do is immediately file a contempt motion in the original court.
Why do we allow nearly half our wealth to be confiscated by government for one thing or another in various taxes?
SO THAT THE FREAKING GOVERNMENT DOES things like have search and rescue teams!
What's next, getting a bill from the police for investigating a crime done against you?
If the government is going to charge the recepients of services for those services it needs to quit collecting taxes completely and live off the income from these services.
I haven't bought a new CD in years. Is it because I'm "pirating"? Nope, I don't even download music anymore.
The reason: I already OWN all the good music that I want. There is NOTHING out there new that I want.
If the RIAA wants people like me to buy new music, they need to produce new music that I want. Which isn't manufactured teeny pop and whiney emo "rock". Sorry, but the days of being able to cater to teens and have them drive the adults into buying that crap are over. The US population is getting older, and if you want anyone over the age of 30 to buy your crap, you are going to have to (gasp) maybe consider releasing content that we LIKE?
Whenever a company operates from "consent by omission" (by not getting permission first, as in "opt in" they are opening themselves up for such questions.
Frankly, I dislike a lot of what Google is doing with this feature. There is a big difference between showing street level photos of commercial areas and residential areas. I think Google has crossed that line here.
If Google operated on an "opt in" basis they'd be using those photos with permission and thus, be immune from lawsuits.
Frankly, Google is acting more like Microsoft and less like Google of 4-5 years ago every day...
In my opinion, Sony is the race to the bottom PERSONIFIED... After my experience with SWG, and the fraud, lies, and deceit there, I've avoided buying anything Sony.
Too bad blueray won, I don't see myself wanting a new high def DVD player any time soon since it will require me to pay tribute to Sony.
If cheap computers helps put customer unfriendly, bloated price dinosaurs like Sony out of business, how can this be a bad thing?
Ron Paul has a fanatical support base, at least they contribute money. And they are vocal all over the internet. However, this hasn't translated to him even breaking into the double digits, much less winning ANY of the primaries.
He has as much chance of getting the nomination as I have. And I'm not running.
I do think he has some good ideas, and some that are crazy. But I am really sick of the Ronulans spamming internet forums and polls. A lot of us are annoyed by you, and this actually harms your candidate.
When the RIAA goes after people who use Limewire, that's one thing. And even that with the Keystone Kops manner in which they have managed to sue 70 year old grandmothers without computers and 8 year old girls hasn't gone too well for them.
Suing people who clearly BOUGHT the product, then ripped it to their Ipod is going to cause them the mother of all backlashes. Too many people have been doing this for too long for that genie to be put back into the bottle. This is a case in which the RIAA can't buy themselves a law, the people will hang the congress that passes and tries to enforce such a law.
Sometimes, when the people are riled up enough, they DO force Congress to do what they want instead of what the special interests want, recent example being the amnesty for illegal aliens bill the Congress tried to ram through despite overwhelming opposition.
If the congress tries to give them a special law here it will never fly.
And any judge who finds that ripping a CD to MP3 for personal use isn't fair use, and isn't covered under the part of copyright law THAT ALLOWS YOU TO ARCHIVE (ie: backup) stuff you buy should be dragged off his throne and flogged.
SWG (before the NGE) was a great game, it was just grossly mismanaged and buggy. When your developers are wasting more than half their resources on backroom top secret mass game revamps (NGE) that take away far more than they add the game isn't going to get fixed, it's going to get worse.
I played SWG through all that, from when we had over 300,000 players who were begging for them to FIX THE BUGS down to where it is now, 30,000 players begging for the game that we had previously back. Oh, and it's still just as buggy as ever.
SWG failed because of SOE, and I will tell you that I despise SOE for stealing my game, and watching them circle the toilet like some turd on it's way down gives me some satisfaction.
The Bioware MMO team is led by the former SWG lead producer and lead developer, Rich Vogel and Gordon Walton, who both quit SOE shortly before or after the first of 2005's twin atrocities, the CU (which we knew as the Combat Downgrade).
Cable TV is cheaper than it would be if there were no ads at all. And premium channels (like HBO) have no ads at all. When you are shoving ads into a $50 game (which is typically what games cost these days, maybe even a little ABOVE average priced) you are expecting me to pay full price PLUS put up with ads.
Slashdot Mirror
What we need instead is a professional guild association, much as the legal and medical professions have. Unions are more appropriate for low skilled industrial professions.
"I manage an area that fortunately has lots of people interested in working for us, doing sys admin work amongst other things. I wouldn't hire you. The problem is, all things being equal, the guy with a college education is going to win. Unfortunately, all things generally are equal. There's no shortage of people with good attitudes, good experience, and are bright. So, often the education becomes a focus. It proves you know how to learn, can follow directions, and have some discipline to pursue a long-term goal."
I have worked in IT for 14 years now. Don't have a degree and don't see a point in it. I personally don't place much value on certifications either. I think we all learned from the "paper MCSE" fiasco of the "dot bomb" days that certifications (or degrees) alone tell you NOTHING of someone's skills or ability. I currently work as an IT manager for a publicly traded company.
I've seen them come and I've seen them go. I've personally trained many people from the ground up with hardware repair and network skills, and I can tell you that most of those I get who come out of college with the hogwash taught to them by professors who teach from a book but who have never actually HAD to build a network or manage a server infrastructure have to be UNTAUGHT for a period before they are ready.
The most important trait of someone I look for when hiring is their personality. After all, where I work we have to interact with users and have to also deal with non technical management. If they lack the proper attitude to deal with users, then they are out. The second trait is their intelligence and learning aptitude. Are they smart enough to pick things up? Do I have to show them the same simple thing over and over before they learn it or do they retain almost everything they are shown?
Honestly the last thing I am concerned with is what they already know how to do when they get assigned to me. Any good knowledge is merely a plus, I'm more concerned with how much I can teach them and how fast can they learn it. I'd rather have someone who can learn who comes in raw than someone who has already learned the wrong way.
Hiring by degree and/or certification is for the lazy manager. I'm not saying it's a bad thing to have those, but if you expect to get hired because of them rather than your actual ability and potential, expect to have a short career in IT. If you hire based on papers over personality and brains, expect to have an IT department that runs like crap. That might cut it in companies that can "paper over" ability with numbers (ie: having a larger staff than actually needed) but it won't out in the majority of corporate America, such as my company where we manage a very large VPN network with 16 remote sites, 500 users, and more than 20 servers with two full time people and two interns. Neither of us, btw, have degrees.
Seriously, there has yet to be a DRM scheme that hasn't been broken yet, and there likely never will be. As long as DRM has to allow the media to play on... SOMETHING, it will be breakable.
However, this being done on a Mac, where Apple controls not only the software, OS, but also the hardware, might be a LOT harder than on a PC, which is much more open, has much more varied hardware, and you have the choice not only of several flavors of Windows (I've never gone Vista and never will) but also of OS's.
One wonders though in this particular instance if Apple has opened itself up to liability. If someone has bought their hardware from Apple, and happens to use a display that isn't "DRM compliant" that Apple sold them, and suddenly their Itunes collection won't play, isn't that Apple's fault? Could be a potential lawsuit there.
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Indeed, journalism is dead. The only difference between the "mainstream media" and conservative talk radio is that the radio people are more honest, as in they admit that what they are doing is opinion, and state plainly their stances whilst the old media pretends to be "unbiased".
BTW, could it be that people are waking up to this have something to do with ALL the major newspapers losing circulation rapidly, and the Big 3 networks also continuing to lose viewers? Fox News is #1 not because they are any less biased, but because they ALONE in major media gives voice to the other side.
How dare we answer their robot dialers with a robot answerer!
The telespammers "time" is very valuable :)
EA can live in their alternate reality bubble all they want, but there is no way that 98% of gamers support Digital Restrictions Management.
Maybe it hasn't hit most yet, but their recent egregious DRM that limits the number of re installs does (as it will inevitably happen) it sure as hell will piss people off.
Is going to get a LONG stay in Club Fed. Alaska also has very strong privacy laws. Also, "reporters" who knowingly published them better be lawyering up.
"You know what is even better and a guarantee that you never need to pay a fine? Don't run red lights and don't speed."
Not necessarily true. It's been found time and again that cities put red light cameras in for REVENUE GENERATION, that when the cameras start actually deterring red light running and revenue falls they mess around with yellow light timing so as to create more red light runners.
An excuse to dump PC games completely. They already have pulled most of their sports franchise games (which pissed me off).
Look for Bioware even to drop the PC.
In the short term, dinosaur clueless behemoths like EA getting out of the PC gaming market will be bad, BUT keep in mind the installed base of PC's is STILL far greater than that of any console, that means opportunity for others to enter the market. There is opportunity there, and where there is opportunity, there will be those who will take advantage of it.
EA et all pulling out of the PC arena will serve to give indy and start up gaming companies more oxygen.
EA has been only barely relevant as a game publisher for some time in the PC arena anyway. Other than their sports sequels it's been forever since they've put out anything groundbreaking. Burdening their mediocre game lineup with DRM just makes it worse.
That I wish she were the PRESIDENTIAL nominee. Sarah Palin has excellent credentials of taking on corruption (even in her own party). She said no thanks to Sen. Ted "Internet Tubes" Steven's 100 million dollar "bridge to nowhere", and called for his investigation in a corruption scandal. I hear crickets from the Dems with respect to Rep William Jefferson (of New Orleans) and the $100K found in his freezer, etc...
The best thing about this is that it sets her up to be the nominee next time out.
My company has 20 locations and 800 employees. And employs only 2 full time IT people, with 2 interns to help us...
Of course I use Firefox 3, but ENOUGH with software pushing "upgrades". Seems like every other day some program or another is nagging me to upgrade or check for updates. Java, Quicktime, Acrobat, whatever.
Fact of the matter is that you don't always need to upgrade software, nor should you always. Take Acrobat for example. All I want it to do is display a PDF. That's IT. Acrobat 6 (which is way the hell smaller and uses less RAM) does the job perfectly fine. I don't NEED Acrobat 9 and it's bloat.
Increasingly software publishers/creators seem to think that because their program is installed that they are entitled to some say in how I use it, and that it can do whatever the hell it wants on my machine. Piss on that. It's disturbing that Mozilla is following this trend.
Also disturbing is that they are apparently adding this "function" to existing Firefox 2.x browsers. How are they doing this? Did they ask for consent? Are they installing something without permission? If Mozilla can do this sort of thing, doesn't that SCREAM spyware/trojan vulnerability?
Can travel on huge private jets, in motorcades of Suburbans, etc, why should I feel guilty to drive a 4 cyl compact and use... Air conditioning?
Sorry, I don't buy into the global warming alarmism until the "high priests" start practicing what they preach. These guys are nothing more than the 1980's televangelists (Swaggert, Baker, etc) reincarnated as profiteering "Gaia" evangelists.
"I almost feel like there needs to be a "pre-lawyer" stage to all suits, where the actual parties involve notify each other of their stance before any threatening of a lawsuit occurs. I'm not sure how well this would work out in practice, but it seems it would be much better than the current situation."
How about this: Once the initiator (RIAA) launches a suit, they must see it to completion or the suit is dismissed... with prejudice, meaning it couldn't be brought again.
At any rate, there now are several court precedents out there now that "making available" isn't in and of itself copyright infringement. What the RIAA is doing here is "judge shopping", rather than try another argument, they are shopping for judges who agree with them.
One thing I'd really like to see is an anti-trust and RICO lawsuit filed against the RIAA. What standing does the RIAA itself have in these suits? It itself doesn't own the copyrights, the 4 member record labels do. If it is able to represent the copyrights, then it is a trust or monopoly. The RIAA and it's members clearly are a corrupt organization, having been found guilty of behaving like a cartel, price fixing illegally more than once. This should invoke the RICO statute, especially given the fact that it behaves like an industry monopoly.
Of course, the bottom line is that the recording industry as it currently is incarnated is obsolete, running on a business model that simply is no longer viable. Imagine if the candle, oil lamp, and buggy industries had fought like the RIAA to keep from having to evolve...
The irony here is that people still make and buy candles, oil lamps, and buggies, those industries adapted and survived the new realities, whilst the RIAA may very well cease to be. I mean, would the world REALLY suffer if there were no more Top 40 cookie cutter "music"?
Contempt of court citations?
Seems to me that what they did here was clearly an action in contempt of court, since they ostensibly refiled the same case, hoping to get a free "reset" button with a new judge.
This is one of the real illustrative reasons why we need a "loser pays" system in the courts (where the initiating party would be liable for all legal and court expenses if they lose), since it would discourage megacartels like the MAFIAA from using their financial advantage to manipulate the legal system.
What the defendants should do is immediately file a contempt motion in the original court.
Why do we allow nearly half our wealth to be confiscated by government for one thing or another in various taxes?
SO THAT THE FREAKING GOVERNMENT DOES things like have search and rescue teams!
What's next, getting a bill from the police for investigating a crime done against you?
If the government is going to charge the recepients of services for those services it needs to quit collecting taxes completely and live off the income from these services.
I haven't bought a new CD in years. Is it because I'm "pirating"? Nope, I don't even download music anymore.
The reason: I already OWN all the good music that I want. There is NOTHING out there new that I want.
If the RIAA wants people like me to buy new music, they need to produce new music that I want. Which isn't manufactured teeny pop and whiney emo "rock". Sorry, but the days of being able to cater to teens and have them drive the adults into buying that crap are over. The US population is getting older, and if you want anyone over the age of 30 to buy your crap, you are going to have to (gasp) maybe consider releasing content that we LIKE?
vs "Opt In"
Whenever a company operates from "consent by omission" (by not getting permission first, as in "opt in" they are opening themselves up for such questions.
Frankly, I dislike a lot of what Google is doing with this feature. There is a big difference between showing street level photos of commercial areas and residential areas. I think Google has crossed that line here.
If Google operated on an "opt in" basis they'd be using those photos with permission and thus, be immune from lawsuits.
Frankly, Google is acting more like Microsoft and less like Google of 4-5 years ago every day...
My 3 favorite, and the 3 who most influenced me are now gone... Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein..
But their stories, intellect, and vision for the future will inspire generations more.
Is related to the whole "man made global warming" hoax.
Which is junk science at it's worst.
In my opinion, Sony is the race to the bottom PERSONIFIED... After my experience with SWG, and the fraud, lies, and deceit there, I've avoided buying anything Sony.
Too bad blueray won, I don't see myself wanting a new high def DVD player any time soon since it will require me to pay tribute to Sony.
If cheap computers helps put customer unfriendly, bloated price dinosaurs like Sony out of business, how can this be a bad thing?
ENOUGH with the Ronulans...
Ron Paul has a fanatical support base, at least they contribute money. And they are vocal all over the internet. However, this hasn't translated to him even breaking into the double digits, much less winning ANY of the primaries.
He has as much chance of getting the nomination as I have. And I'm not running.
I do think he has some good ideas, and some that are crazy. But I am really sick of the Ronulans spamming internet forums and polls. A lot of us are annoyed by you, and this actually harms your candidate.
When the RIAA goes after people who use Limewire, that's one thing. And even that with the Keystone Kops manner in which they have managed to sue 70 year old grandmothers without computers and 8 year old girls hasn't gone too well for them.
Suing people who clearly BOUGHT the product, then ripped it to their Ipod is going to cause them the mother of all backlashes. Too many people have been doing this for too long for that genie to be put back into the bottle. This is a case in which the RIAA can't buy themselves a law, the people will hang the congress that passes and tries to enforce such a law.
Sometimes, when the people are riled up enough, they DO force Congress to do what they want instead of what the special interests want, recent example being the amnesty for illegal aliens bill the Congress tried to ram through despite overwhelming opposition.
If the congress tries to give them a special law here it will never fly.
And any judge who finds that ripping a CD to MP3 for personal use isn't fair use, and isn't covered under the part of copyright law THAT ALLOWS YOU TO ARCHIVE (ie: backup) stuff you buy should be dragged off his throne and flogged.
SWG (before the NGE) was a great game, it was just grossly mismanaged and buggy. When your developers are wasting more than half their resources on backroom top secret mass game revamps (NGE) that take away far more than they add the game isn't going to get fixed, it's going to get worse.
I played SWG through all that, from when we had over 300,000 players who were begging for them to FIX THE BUGS down to where it is now, 30,000 players begging for the game that we had previously back. Oh, and it's still just as buggy as ever.
SWG failed because of SOE, and I will tell you that I despise SOE for stealing my game, and watching them circle the toilet like some turd on it's way down gives me some satisfaction.
The Bioware MMO team is led by the former SWG lead producer and lead developer, Rich Vogel and Gordon Walton, who both quit SOE shortly before or after the first of 2005's twin atrocities, the CU (which we knew as the Combat Downgrade).
Cable TV is cheaper than it would be if there were no ads at all. And premium channels (like HBO) have no ads at all. When you are shoving ads into a $50 game (which is typically what games cost these days, maybe even a little ABOVE average priced) you are expecting me to pay full price PLUS put up with ads.