Thank you. That is correct. Sales will be lost by people making copies and passing them about to friends, but hopefully it at least puts the designers name in the back of people's minds. For an actual business to be bootlegging and selling the designs/training videos/etc is a whole other issue and is a problem.
This is clearly a case of a coalition getting together to become the next RIAA. However, my mother makes her living making embroidery machine instructional videos and custom designs (http://littlebrownjugdesigns.com/ for those interested...I didn't code the page, it's not my fault). Anyway, the granny-embroidery crowd can be viscious and there is an embedded culture of one person buying a design and giving a copy to everyone they know. This isn't really a big deal, however. The big deal is when an embroidery supply store buys one copy of a training dvd or design pack and just burns a copy to sell whenever a customer expresses an interest. For a one-person-show, it's impossible to track down all the stores operating this way, so some sort of industry coalition makes sense, but it should target infringing merchants not the Grandma who just wanted to stitch Faye Valentine on her grandson's backpack.
Matter of preference, I suppose. I was never able to get into BG, but my NWN CD never left my dvd drive until they released the no-cd patch. The expansion modules were all a bit short, but some of the user-created modules are fabulous (though there is, of course, a veritable cornucopia of crap content as well). The interface just works for me, I don't feel like I am always fighting the same fight as I do in Oblivion, I don't have to direct each henchman as I do in ToEE (not that I EVER play ToEE).
Dave
Nice...somehow I hardly think that is what I said. It certainly hasn't been unusual in the past for a certain amount of tickets to be held back for fan club members/radio shows/whatever. However, as recent ticket purchases have shown, there is now NO chance to purchase a "first class" ticket without slipping someone a little extra on the side. My wife happens to be a long-standing member of the fan club and even she called bullcrap.
What I do want is the following. The chance to buy a ticket to a show that strikes my interest. I would like to be able to buy that ticket (if I'm quick enough) in a location where I have a chance of visualizing a facial feature or two of the artist in question. I would like to buy that ticket at an advertised price (higher price for good seats, of courese) and not have a new fee added each time I push a button. Heck...I'd probably consider it a favor if they could explain why I can have the tickets snail mailed to me at no charge, but have to pay a fee to print them on my own printer?!?! There is a logical disconnect in this system that I just can't seem to fully comprehend.
Scalpers...I don't support them, and I don't use them. I wish no one would.
New jacket to impress date...$100 dollars
Dinner in the romantic restuarant....$90
Good seats to see your dates favorite musician $150...er now...$300...what?...$525....$700 EACH?!?!...oh Hell no...
Campfire and a bottle of wine at the beach...priceless
This may be old news, but Ticketmaster IS auctioning tickets. My wife just attended the Tim and Faith (ugh!) concert, and the best tickets were held for auction. It was also impossible to get decent tickets without joining the fan club or one of the other listed organizations to be eligible for the pre-sale. I call bullcrap.
Amen! I've seen plenty of grant applications with great titles that inevitably show that either the author has no idea how to write a grant to properly convey his ideas/requests or that he is a complete idiot and, while able to identify hot-button issues, couldn't design a decent research plan to save his life.
In this case, I would think that it is at least possible that the grant app didn't seem worth $40k to the review board (more due to the former rather than the latter judging by the PIs standing in the community). After he enjoys the free press, he will resubmit or move on to something else. Not every grant proposal can be funded.
See...now I read it differently. From their web page (http://howeandser.com/ it sounds more like "How We Answer" (the previous Caltech prank)...one moving company...two linguistic jokes...funny guys those engineers.
Of course, upon awarding the dosh, the game and/or flashmob would encourage you to donate the funds to whatever project you just completed....which isn't a bad thing....
Support for DOC is not good at this point. Open any doc file and watch the simplest format be mangled. Save an Awrite doc file and then open it in word...marvel at the fantasticrapistally mangled doc. Nice idea...needs work...lots of work.
Wow...cynical. Hmmm...now I'm a mouth-breathin'(terrible sinus issues), non-knuckle-draggin' former employee of McD's with two college degrees. I'll have to apply your formula and see into which percentile I fit.
In any case, my family is generally steel millers and Nascar watchers (I don't get it, but they are). I have to regularly delouse their machines of spyware and what not, but not one has been hit with a phishing scheme...few people...even knuckle-draggers believe the UK lottery has not only automatically entered them, but is also waiting to send them 1.6 million Euros. By that same token, their credit card company (as well as those banks and CC companies that regularly email even though they are not members) generally do not want to give out money for free. So...people are amazingly stupid, but not generally that stupid...mostly.
Gotta go...I just got an email about an incredible mortgate rate....
I have been hit with that Chase $20 email about 40 times this weekend. I have to wonder how stupid they think we really are....quite a bit apparently....
I have one of the MediaMax-infected albums, and the compensation offered is a free download of the songs on the album? If I had wanted a limited-quality download of the songs (probably rife with drm), I would have bought the album online in the first place. What I wanted was a CD that I could play anywhere and rip to whatever quality/format I wanted whenever I wanted. This is a joke.
Nope...I don't buy it. I dropped out of college mid-way to raise start a family and enjoy poverty-level wages. Through a lucky break, I managed to snag a job in a science-oriented field. I had no experience (I was looking the thing up in text books as I was driven to the interview), but can, when pressured, sell myself as an able person, so I got the job.
For the next eight years, I came a regular "Scotty" in this particular field and was recognized for my abilities and sought after by recruiters. However, every time the bean-counters came into the picture, I had to drop what I was doing and justify my position within the company because a minimum education of XXX was required, and I did not have it.
After a few years, I was tired of the annual bean-counter visit, so guess what I did. I went back and finished college (as it turns out finished college and then some...). Life is just that little bit nicer.
To the point...I was never discriminated against. I could always get a job in my field by proving my abilities. The degree is just like a Fast Pass at Disneyland. No need to fight/struggle/prove myself just to get the interview. Once in the room, of course, the degree takes a seat at the side and one's knowledge/experience are what lands a job.
Fine, but I still take you in yearly totals... br>
Dave
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Uhmmm...not to be all PC or anything, but I AM fat and there is nothing wrong with me. I eat a bit too much and tend to pray at the alter of convenience a bit too often. It's not a virus, it's nobody's fault but my own, and it's none of your @$*! business (societally-speaking, please don't feel that that is directed at you)!
I put more miles on a bicyle in a month than I'm betting most of you do in a year, I work out regularly and have developed a liking for yoga. Still fat, but I start a long-term diet program on Monday (after the trip out to see Kevin Smith talk in Indy) which will likely help take off unwanted pounds.
My point? We're all individuals. Some folks are fat; some are thin. Some folks want to blame someone/thing else for lifes woes; some don't. Some folks are fat for medical conditions beyond their control; some folks are fat because chicken wings is tasty. Whatever...it's individual and statements such as "Something is clearly wrong with these people" piss me off.
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No...but maybe Kaylie as a drunken sorority girl...
No sequel...I get it...so tell me about the prequel you are working on... Dave
Thank you. That is correct. Sales will be lost by people making copies and passing them about to friends, but hopefully it at least puts the designers name in the back of people's minds. For an actual business to be bootlegging and selling the designs/training videos/etc is a whole other issue and is a problem.
DAve
This is clearly a case of a coalition getting together to become the next RIAA. However, my mother makes her living making embroidery machine instructional videos and custom designs (http://littlebrownjugdesigns.com/ for those interested...I didn't code the page, it's not my fault). Anyway, the granny-embroidery crowd can be viscious and there is an embedded culture of one person buying a design and giving a copy to everyone they know. This isn't really a big deal, however. The big deal is when an embroidery supply store buys one copy of a training dvd or design pack and just burns a copy to sell whenever a customer expresses an interest. For a one-person-show, it's impossible to track down all the stores operating this way, so some sort of industry coalition makes sense, but it should target infringing merchants not the Grandma who just wanted to stitch Faye Valentine on her grandson's backpack.
Dave
Matter of preference, I suppose. I was never able to get into BG, but my NWN CD never left my dvd drive until they released the no-cd patch. The expansion modules were all a bit short, but some of the user-created modules are fabulous (though there is, of course, a veritable cornucopia of crap content as well). The interface just works for me, I don't feel like I am always fighting the same fight as I do in Oblivion, I don't have to direct each henchman as I do in ToEE (not that I EVER play ToEE). Dave
Nice...somehow I hardly think that is what I said. It certainly hasn't been unusual in the past for a certain amount of tickets to be held back for fan club members/radio shows/whatever. However, as recent ticket purchases have shown, there is now NO chance to purchase a "first class" ticket without slipping someone a little extra on the side. My wife happens to be a long-standing member of the fan club and even she called bullcrap.
What I do want is the following. The chance to buy a ticket to a show that strikes my interest. I would like to be able to buy that ticket (if I'm quick enough) in a location where I have a chance of visualizing a facial feature or two of the artist in question. I would like to buy that ticket at an advertised price (higher price for good seats, of courese) and not have a new fee added each time I push a button. Heck...I'd probably consider it a favor if they could explain why I can have the tickets snail mailed to me at no charge, but have to pay a fee to print them on my own printer?!?! There is a logical disconnect in this system that I just can't seem to fully comprehend.
Scalpers...I don't support them, and I don't use them. I wish no one would.
New jacket to impress date...$100 dollars
Dinner in the romantic restuarant....$90
Good seats to see your dates favorite musician $150...er now...$300...what?...$525....$700 EACH?!?!...oh Hell no...
Campfire and a bottle of wine at the beach...priceless
Dave
This may be old news, but Ticketmaster IS auctioning tickets. My wife just attended the Tim and Faith (ugh!) concert, and the best tickets were held for auction. It was also impossible to get decent tickets without joining the fan club or one of the other listed organizations to be eligible for the pre-sale. I call bullcrap.
Dave
But I like the talking gecko...
It's pie...and chips...fa free...
What's not to like?
Dave
I assume you mean his brother Edwin? Dave
I remember the first time I saw that movie! It was called the Crossbow Project, right?!? And Jordan...don't get me started on Jordan...perfect woman!
Dave
Amen! I've seen plenty of grant applications with great titles that inevitably show that either the author has no idea how to write a grant to properly convey his ideas/requests or that he is a complete idiot and, while able to identify hot-button issues, couldn't design a decent research plan to save his life.
In this case, I would think that it is at least possible that the grant app didn't seem worth $40k to the review board (more due to the former rather than the latter judging by the PIs standing in the community). After he enjoys the free press, he will resubmit or move on to something else. Not every grant proposal can be funded.
Dave
See...now I read it differently. From their web page (http://howeandser.com/ it sounds more like "How We Answer" (the previous Caltech prank)...one moving company...two linguistic jokes...funny guys those engineers.
DAve
Of course, upon awarding the dosh, the game and/or flashmob would encourage you to donate the funds to whatever project you just completed....which isn't a bad thing....
Dave
Support for DOC is not good at this point. Open any doc file and watch the simplest format be mangled. Save an Awrite doc file and then open it in word...marvel at the fantasticrapistally mangled doc. Nice idea...needs work...lots of work.
Dave
Awesome...and cancelled...they dropped the indie comics last month for personal reasons...
Dave
Wow...cynical. Hmmm...now I'm a mouth-breathin'(terrible sinus issues), non-knuckle-draggin' former employee of McD's with two college degrees. I'll have to apply your formula and see into which percentile I fit.
In any case, my family is generally steel millers and Nascar watchers (I don't get it, but they are). I have to regularly delouse their machines of spyware and what not, but not one has been hit with a phishing scheme...few people...even knuckle-draggers believe the UK lottery has not only automatically entered them, but is also waiting to send them 1.6 million Euros. By that same token, their credit card company (as well as those banks and CC companies that regularly email even though they are not members) generally do not want to give out money for free. So...people are amazingly stupid, but not generally that stupid...mostly.
Gotta go...I just got an email about an incredible mortgate rate....
Dave
I have been hit with that Chase $20 email about 40 times this weekend. I have to wonder how stupid they think we really are....quite a bit apparently....
Dave
I have one of the MediaMax-infected albums, and the compensation offered is a free download of the songs on the album? If I had wanted a limited-quality download of the songs (probably rife with drm), I would have bought the album online in the first place. What I wanted was a CD that I could play anywhere and rip to whatever quality/format I wanted whenever I wanted. This is a joke.
Dave
Schlock Mercenary...a good thing that has come out of Utah.
Uhm...that's all I have so far....
Dave
Nope...I don't buy it. I dropped out of college mid-way to raise start a family and enjoy poverty-level wages. Through a lucky break, I managed to snag a job in a science-oriented field. I had no experience (I was looking the thing up in text books as I was driven to the interview), but can, when pressured, sell myself as an able person, so I got the job.
For the next eight years, I came a regular "Scotty" in this particular field and was recognized for my abilities and sought after by recruiters. However, every time the bean-counters came into the picture, I had to drop what I was doing and justify my position within the company because a minimum education of XXX was required, and I did not have it.
After a few years, I was tired of the annual bean-counter visit, so guess what I did. I went back and finished college (as it turns out finished college and then some...). Life is just that little bit nicer.
To the point...I was never discriminated against. I could always get a job in my field by proving my abilities. The degree is just like a Fast Pass at Disneyland. No need to fight/struggle/prove myself just to get the interview. Once in the room, of course, the degree takes a seat at the side and one's knowledge/experience are what lands a job.
Dave
Of course, cleartype is wicked ugly on LCDs as well...
Fine, but I still take you in yearly totals...
br> Dave
Uhmmm...not to be all PC or anything, but I AM fat and there is nothing wrong with me. I eat a bit too much and tend to pray at the alter of convenience a bit too often. It's not a virus, it's nobody's fault but my own, and it's none of your @$*! business (societally-speaking, please don't feel that that is directed at you)!
I put more miles on a bicyle in a month than I'm betting most of you do in a year, I work out regularly and have developed a liking for yoga. Still fat, but I start a long-term diet program on Monday (after the trip out to see Kevin Smith talk in Indy) which will likely help take off unwanted pounds.
My point? We're all individuals. Some folks are fat; some are thin. Some folks want to blame someone/thing else for lifes woes; some don't. Some folks are fat for medical conditions beyond their control; some folks are fat because chicken wings is tasty. Whatever...it's individual and statements such as "Something is clearly wrong with these people" piss me off.
Dave
Brother...
Glad to see a publisher that can at least factor the consumer experience into the drm equation...
Dave
My wife finally came through and bought me an RIS 2.0 kit for Christmas...as punishment, Lego obsoletes it the moment I open it...bugger...
Dave