The Invention of Lying had *Literally* 20 minutes of previews. You could not skip them. You could not reach the title screen through top, or menu. You could not scan through them (at the end of the first trailer, it would simply repeat.) Ultimately had to use a title/chapter search feature of my dvd player to get to the title.
20 minutes of unskippable bullshit? seriously, it made me want to crack the disk before sending it back to netflix.
And please, I have heard the arguments before "but people wouldn't create if there were no money in it!" Pure nonsense. Fan films and other amateur work if littering the internet like never before. People love creating and building and showing off. They don't do it for money. They do it for attention or as an outlet or just to make people smile.
Not to mention, the *vast majority* of artists, make more money when their work is freely shared.
You actually are losing your ability to grow your own food here. More and more, genetic material from monsanto shows up in crops, they own said crops.
You already do not have the right to build your own shelter, unless you already own the land, and permits, and have the ability to buy the materials, and pay the taxes on them in perpetuity.
Didn't a bunch of folks buy a game, with a stated pricing and gameplay model? And then later, EA changed the pricing and gameplay model to something that makes more money?
Sounds like classic bait and switch to me. They probably need to be sued for this one...
The Bush tax cuts increased tax revenue through increasing the volume of assets flowing through the economy as well, and they must have had some positive effect on domestic jobs to keep unemployment around 4-5% all those years.
Wow, how's that Kool-Aid? We are still sorting out the fallout from Bush's policies, economic and otherwise. If you think our current predicament is not the result of the Bush administration, I got a bridge to sell you.
WTF? I thought that was what the current argument was about, whether we were going to HAVE a single "US health system" or not. We currently don't have a single system so how does this asshat ascribe policies to the current industry? The 'aim' of most of the people in the current semi-free market system is the same as any business. Balance customer (patient) service against earning a living.
No, actually the current argument is about whether or not there will be an INSURANCE option for our current system, that you cannot be denied, or dropped from.
Everyone keeps screaming BUT THE FREE MARKET! Sorry folks, health care is not a free market. It's an oligopoly that massively influences government. The argument is about breaking that (monopoly.) That's the irony... it'll be a much free-er market, when there's a public option delivering competition.
I've had 2 units replaced under warranty for the ring of death, and the service for the repair/replacement was excellent.
Yes it did suck that I was without my console for a month. But, I didn't have to spend a dime, and it was very painless to deal with. This is why I would still buy one (and Xbox Live is definitely excellent.)
At least on this one, M$ has done exactly the right thing, at least for me.
What I find interesting, is mandatory use of your vacation.
I work at a megatech company, and am 'required' to take 6 of my 20 days of vacation this year, during Q1 this year.
MOST people, don't really know the situation going in. All they see are pretty picture on their telivision, with some cool song that they probably haven't heard before, but love... and fancy things their phones can do because of the appstore.
MOST people don't realize the anticompetitve stuff, and the the risk you assume as a developer to work with them.
MOST people don't realize there is no refund mechanism for any kind of a warranty, whether that's due to apple or the developer.
For most people, it's just a fancy phone, that connects to their itunes.
Even more generally... life is always sex and violence. It's everywhere in the animal kingdom.
Violence as the way to feed yourself, protect yourself from being something elses food, gain, retain and defend breeding rights (and territory.)
Every last animal exists to have sex (and procreate) and the violence is how they do it. Sure... there are prey species too, and they mostly have to RUN!
This only makes sense, if they have products that people will buy TODAY, so they can stay in business long enough to get the downstream benefits of technology development. They needed to be doing this 20 years ago, instead of dumping their R&D into overly large SUVs.
The bottom line for GM is that they have produce crap for 20+ years, and have FAR too much forward looking retirement/pension expenses.
They simply don't have product people are willing to buy, in numbers sufficient to make the company profitable. One very expensive family car will not save this company.
And using electricity means that everyone has a fuel source right at home, ready to go.
Not exactly... our electric grid could not support a population of people charging cars at home. At least not as it is now... so, 'ready-to-go' not exactly. (Incidentally, improving the electric grid is in Obama's agenda, so that is good.)
For the record though, I agree 100% on the comments of efficiency, and the principle in general. I'll add too, that electric motors are vastly more efficient than internal combustion motors.
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Ya seems like there needs to be a crime to be obstructing justice.
That the internet was built on porn.
Apple has not learned their lesson from the years when they were irrelevant.
It seems to me, this just means that Adobe et al. have to make it impossible to tell that their tools were used to create the app.
The Invention of Lying had *Literally* 20 minutes of previews.
You could not skip them.
You could not reach the title screen through top, or menu.
You could not scan through them (at the end of the first trailer, it would simply repeat.)
Ultimately had to use a title/chapter search feature of my dvd player to get to the title.
20 minutes of unskippable bullshit? seriously, it made me want to crack the disk before sending it back to netflix.
And please, I have heard the arguments before "but people wouldn't create if there were no money in it!" Pure nonsense. Fan films and other amateur work if littering the internet like never before. People love creating and building and showing off. They don't do it for money. They do it for attention or as an outlet or just to make people smile.
Not to mention, the *vast majority* of artists, make more money when their work is freely shared.
Small correction:
China is not the biggest single market in the world.
The US is still the biggest market in the world.
The Chinese market is the biggest emerging market, but isn't close to the US market, per capita, or otherwise.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=compare+gdp+of+us+vs+china
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=compare+per+capita+gdp+of+us+vs+per+capita+gdp+of+china
You actually are losing your ability to grow your own food here.
More and more, genetic material from monsanto shows up in crops, they own said crops.
You already do not have the right to build your own shelter, unless you already own the land, and permits, and have the ability to buy the materials, and pay the taxes on them in perpetuity.
False premise.
There are 50 marketing guys lined up for the job, but not 50 engineering guys.
Didn't a bunch of folks buy a game, with a stated pricing and gameplay model?
And then later, EA changed the pricing and gameplay model to something that makes more money?
Sounds like classic bait and switch to me.
They probably need to be sued for this one...
It works, if you are on the Yankees.
The Bush tax cuts increased tax revenue through increasing the volume of assets flowing through the economy as well, and they must have had some positive effect on domestic jobs to keep unemployment around 4-5% all those years.
Wow, how's that Kool-Aid?
We are still sorting out the fallout from Bush's policies, economic and otherwise. If you think our current predicament is not the result of the Bush administration, I got a bridge to sell you.
Not a cop out... nobody said they couldn't.... just that they didn't.
The Media's audience is The Public.
Will sure make it easier to satisfy the requirements for broadband stimulus package money.
WTF? I thought that was what the current argument was about, whether we were going to HAVE a single "US health system" or not. We currently don't
have a single system so how does this asshat ascribe policies to the current industry? The 'aim' of most of the people in the current semi-free market system is the same as any business. Balance customer (patient) service against earning a living.
No, actually the current argument is about whether or not there will be an INSURANCE option for our current system, that you cannot be denied, or dropped from.
Everyone keeps screaming BUT THE FREE MARKET!
Sorry folks, health care is not a free market. It's an oligopoly that massively influences government.
The argument is about breaking that (monopoly.)
That's the irony... it'll be a much free-er market, when there's a public option delivering competition.
I've had 2 units replaced under warranty for the ring of death, and the service for the repair/replacement was excellent.
Yes it did suck that I was without my console for a month. But, I didn't have to spend a dime, and it was very painless to deal with.
This is why I would still buy one (and Xbox Live is definitely excellent.)
At least on this one, M$ has done exactly the right thing, at least for me.
What I find interesting, is mandatory use of your vacation. I work at a megatech company, and am 'required' to take 6 of my 20 days of vacation this year, during Q1 this year.
MOST people, don't really know the situation going in. All they see are pretty picture on their telivision, with some cool song that they probably haven't heard before, but love... and fancy things their phones can do because of the appstore. MOST people don't realize the anticompetitve stuff, and the the risk you assume as a developer to work with them. MOST people don't realize there is no refund mechanism for any kind of a warranty, whether that's due to apple or the developer. For most people, it's just a fancy phone, that connects to their itunes.
Even more generally... life is always sex and violence.
It's everywhere in the animal kingdom.
Violence as the way to feed yourself, protect yourself from being something elses food, gain, retain and defend breeding rights (and territory.)
Every last animal exists to have sex (and procreate) and the violence is how they do it.
Sure... there are prey species too, and they mostly have to RUN!
Not to mention the ability to sell nuclear weapons to groups of people that might like to have them.
I don't understand why Joss Whedon continues to do work with them...
This only makes sense, if they have products that people will buy TODAY, so they can stay in business long enough to get the downstream benefits of technology development. They needed to be doing this 20 years ago, instead of dumping their R&D into overly large SUVs.
The bottom line for GM is that they have produce crap for 20+ years, and have FAR too much forward looking retirement/pension expenses.
They simply don't have product people are willing to buy, in numbers sufficient to make the company profitable. One very expensive family car will not save this company.
Correction, they WERE offering a better experience.
If it was possible to provide a competing service for online matchmaking, go somewhere else would be a viable alternative.
However, it's not.
This seems like an obvious freedom of speech issue to me.
And using electricity means that everyone has a fuel source right at home, ready to go.
Not exactly... our electric grid could not support a population of people charging cars at home. At least not as it is now... so, 'ready-to-go' not exactly. (Incidentally, improving the electric grid is in Obama's agenda, so that is good.)
For the record though, I agree 100% on the comments of efficiency, and the principle in general. I'll add too, that electric motors are vastly more efficient than internal combustion motors.