Just think, if the exploit had been posted yesterday, you would have had 24 hours of running precious swap-tastic homebrew apps before your wife knocked it off the table and broke it.
They're not wasting their money. They're wasting our money. When you buy a new PC now, you're paying for the DRM that they put in it that you didn't ask for. This will just be another thing rolled into the price.
This got modded Insightful? Slashdot needs "-1, Bad Economics".
The price of a PC is set by what the market will bear; fluctuations are not based on the fractional cost of a minor software change. Or do you think that Windows would only cost $99.98 if only they hadn't wasted "our money" drawing the wallpaper with the rolling hills?
Oh great! Now I need three copies of Spiderman 2 for each device in my house! A VHS for my old TV, a DVD for my other television with a DVD player, and now I need to buy another copy of it for my PSP! Joy, I love buying the same product three times!
But really, can we decide on one format, instead of pumping out a new format for every single device?
Unfortunately, the VHS-based PSPs didn't do very well in focus groups.
What about the environmental waste of shipping back the DVD version and shipping out the CDs? This could have been easily solved by allowing the customer to choose one or the other.
Soon we will realize that all this electronic crap we have around us is actually somewhat boring and we will spend time... going out once in a while.
Just the other day, I thought about going outside. I didn't quite make it, but I'm sure that I'll soon tire of all this electronic crap around me and venture out.
The Supreme Court declined to look at the Schiavo case not because it's unimportant, but because the law in that area is quite well defined already. As much as the media and the right to lifers are talking this up, it's really not a contentious case with respect to Constitutional law.
The two that are on my mind right now are the new UN ambassador who is pledged to destroying the UN, and appointing the master planner of the Iraq fiasco to the World Bank.
That's incredible! The same two issues were on The Daily Show the past two days. What are the odds?!
I don't want to fix their computers, so I charge enough that almost nobody takes me up on it. That used to be about $50/hr, but I've actually gotten some people to pay that, so I'm considering upping my rates to $80.
Oh, I'm well aware of the distinction; my comment was mostly joking. But you can see where MLB would be quite happy to quash any kind of fair use rights that exist, and are generally in favor of this kind of action by the RIAA.
Society shouldn't have to pick up the tab. So if you smoke, and get cancer, you need to get treatment from your own health insurance, not from state supplied medical care.
If you break an arm, it should be covered. If you have lung cancer from LA smog, you should be covered....
Wait a minute. What about skydivers who hurt themselves? Clearly no one needs to skydive. I broke my wrist once while trying to do tricks on inline skates. Why should society have to pay for that? My father requires blood-pressure medicine because he eats too much and is overweight. Why should society have to pay for that? People can certainly choose lifestyles with more or less risk in them.
On what basis do you draw the line between acceptable risk and unacceptable? You've put smoking on one side and arm-breaking on the other, but what for? The only answer I can think of is that you just don't like smoking. Smoking has been moralized in your mind. It's not just a habit you don't care for; it's a dirty evil affliction and those who smoke get exactly what they deserve.
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That level of excessive greed pisses me off and I have a long memory.
I take it you don't remember taking Econ 101, then?
It's not like the door charges your credit card...
Yet.
You're just choosing a particularly easy AI component. What about the Hammer Bros.?
int i = 0;
while (TRUE) {
Throw_Hammer();
if (i %5 == 0)
Jump();
}
The phone can't ring if the phone doesn't exist.
This must be some kind of Zen thing.
That first link sums up the internet pretty well: "Popular Categories: Cleavage, Free Credit Report"
Just think, if the exploit had been posted yesterday, you would have had 24 hours of running precious swap-tastic homebrew apps before your wife knocked it off the table and broke it.
Huh? Since when did the MPAA become part of the legislative body? Where in the constitution does it grants rights to the MPAA to write legislation?
Anyone can write legislation. All the Constitution has to say about legislation is how it gets passed and implemented.
They're not wasting their money. They're wasting our money. When you buy a new PC now, you're paying for the DRM that they put in it that you didn't ask for. This will just be another thing rolled into the price.
This got modded Insightful? Slashdot needs "-1, Bad Economics".
The price of a PC is set by what the market will bear; fluctuations are not based on the fractional cost of a minor software change. Or do you think that Windows would only cost $99.98 if only they hadn't wasted "our money" drawing the wallpaper with the rolling hills?
So for that price, I can buy 3 PS3s, or a PS3 with a large TV, or a PS3 with LOTS of titles.
Not without a time machine, you can't.
their lifestyle sucks... never been to europe...
And, as we all know, the average McDork manages to summer on the continent at least once every few years.
Oh great! Now I need three copies of Spiderman 2 for each device in my house! A VHS for my old TV, a DVD for my other television with a DVD player, and now I need to buy another copy of it for my PSP! Joy, I love buying the same product three times! But really, can we decide on one format, instead of pumping out a new format for every single device?
Unfortunately, the VHS-based PSPs didn't do very well in focus groups.
What about the environmental waste of shipping back the DVD version and shipping out the CDs? This could have been easily solved by allowing the customer to choose one or the other.
Soon we will realize that all this electronic crap we have around us is actually somewhat boring and we will spend time... going out once in a while.
Just the other day, I thought about going outside. I didn't quite make it, but I'm sure that I'll soon tire of all this electronic crap around me and venture out.
The Supreme Court declined to look at the Schiavo case not because it's unimportant, but because the law in that area is quite well defined already. As much as the media and the right to lifers are talking this up, it's really not a contentious case with respect to Constitutional law.
The two that are on my mind right now are the new UN ambassador who is pledged to destroying the UN, and appointing the master planner of the Iraq fiasco to the World Bank.
That's incredible! The same two issues were on The Daily Show the past two days. What are the odds?!
I have absolutely _no_ sympathy for people who think that because it's just a "little crime" there should be just a "little penalty".
Yeah! Death to all jaywalkers!
I don't want to fix their computers, so I charge enough that almost nobody takes me up on it. That used to be about $50/hr, but I've actually gotten some people to pay that, so I'm considering upping my rates to $80.
Yeah, but it's the 25% of the earth that has about 0.1% of the people on it.
Really? I thought it was a pretty cool cover.
I went straight to Kazaa to get myself a copy.
You forgot
4) Having to administer all that crap.
Piracy isn't the only activity one might want to keep private and decentralized. Political dissent in totalitarian states, for example, is another.
Oh, I'm well aware of the distinction; my comment was mostly joking.
But you can see where MLB would be quite happy to quash any kind of fair use rights that exist, and are generally in favor of this kind of action by the RIAA.
Office of the Commisioner of Baseball (wtf?)
What part of may not be recorded without the express written consent of Major League Baseball is hard to understand?!
in one article I read they listed Halo 2 and Half Life 2 along side Doom 3 and GTA. Like there's any real comparison between those games.
They all involve killing people, right?
Which part confused you?
Society shouldn't have to pick up the tab. So if you smoke, and get cancer, you need to get treatment from your own health insurance, not from state supplied medical care.
If you break an arm, it should be covered. If you have lung cancer from LA smog, you should be covered....
Wait a minute. What about skydivers who hurt themselves? Clearly no one needs to skydive. I broke my wrist once while trying to do tricks on inline skates. Why should society have to pay for that? My father requires blood-pressure medicine because he eats too much and is overweight. Why should society have to pay for that? People can certainly choose lifestyles with more or less risk in them.
On what basis do you draw the line between acceptable risk and unacceptable? You've put smoking on one side and arm-breaking on the other, but what for? The only answer I can think of is that you just don't like smoking. Smoking has been moralized in your mind. It's not just a habit you don't care for; it's a dirty evil affliction and those who smoke get exactly what they deserve.