It is interesting to note that the Christian conversion of the Mayan people brought about some surprising abnormalities (or outright perversions) in the spoken language itself. Even amongst the most pure speakers of Mayan dialects, Spanish has left its indelible mark. Take for example the word for 'people' in Q'eqchi': kristiaan. Any Spanish speaker would recognize the transliteration of that word as 'cristiano'. Therefore, in a very subtle way, you are not a person or a group of people unless you are in fact Christian. Crazy, huh?
um, Catholic, not christian. While some peeps might think they are the same, they aren't.
That one in ten cases is incorrectly sentenced by this system says to me that some of the attorneys are filling these forms out; When the clerks take care of it, they usually get it right.
totally agree.
I had a court case once were the court clerk ended up telling the judge that the sentence I was getting was wrong, and that her superior (the clerk's) would end up giving the paperwork back because it was wrong.
I would of laughed at the judge, but decided to keep my mouth closed since I was getting out of jail.
Just shows me that the real peeps doing all the correct work are usually the ones who aren't getting paid for it.
Good question, which I don't have a "true" answer for.
My feeling is, as very little percentage of pirate finally bought the app after "trying it", having them downloading the app for free did not help on the sales after. Almost none of those hackers did post on blogs, Twitter, etc so it doesn't help neither.
What might have helped a bit is being listed on appulous, I guess some people are tracking the 'hacker' websites to see what's hot, and what was released recently. What might happen is people buying the app straight without going through the hacker stage. However, as I had 99.3% of hackers on the next days after it was published on appulous, which only 1% bought the app after, I would say it did not impact on my real sales.
I think Photoshop is a different case which you can't compare with mine. I agree with what you say about it, but I don't think it applies on mine (sadly;).
how can someone that supposedly (can we say ebay?) have such a low slashdot UID make such a noob mistake?
You start by calling them pirates. that works okay, but you finish by calling them hackers.
One interesting thing I found in 1991: I tried selling "shareware" where you are suppose to buy the application if you use it and like it. It was downloaded and obviously heavily used a few thousand times. It was a memory checker for Windows programmers. How many programmers sent me a check for $10? One. Good grief. At the same time, my father wrote a shareware application useful for Delta pilots to "bid" on their routes for the next month. Dad made $32K on it! The difference?
here's the difference. Your dad wrote a useful program that got used a bunch. You wrote a util that doesn't get a lot of use. peeps downloaded, used it, saw there memory was fine, and that was it.
Know your market is a rule of business, which you obviously failed to grasp.
"Since a common excuse for piracy is "try before you buy," they also looked at the related iPhone DeviceIDs to see how many of the pirates went on to purchase the game. None of them did."
Dude, none of them bought the app, because it sucked.
the chinese hackers doing this are mostly motivated by ultranationalist impulses. they are self-starting, they are not command and control from the central government. if they discover any informational gems, the desire to report this to the government is also completely voluntary and desirable from an individual nationalistic point of view. if useful enough, such hackers can be brought into the fold and become a genuine command and control tool of the government, but this is at the late stage of things
of course, by completely controlling media, the government is creating a population of robots who aren't thinking critically and are ultranationalist only by default
luckily, tribalism is never stronger than principles in terms of motivations that win over others on the global stage. chinese censorship is creating a generation of cottonheads in its youth, unable to see the wider world for what it is. youth from countries with open and transparent media, and without hermetically sealed censorship of the level china employs, are meanwhile more globalistic and principled in their attitudes, rather than tribal. of course nationalistic, tribal thinking exists in all countries. but only in places like china and iran, who feel the need to control the media, does the nationalism rise to the level of blind passion: these minds simply aren't exposed to other opinions
so china has developed a wonderful machine for keeping china safe and secure from the outside. but as china begins to emerge as a player on the world stage, it is going to have to think on the world stage, not simply react from the point of view a cloistered hermit kingdom that imagines itself walled off from the wider world and its concerns
china will never lead in this world as long as it breeds children who can't think about anything except china. critical thinking only comes from exposure to alternative opinions and points of view. the chinese are raising their children to have no criticla thinking skills, to be blind cottonheaded nationalistic robots
And I suppose you have sources?
otherwise, what I read here was, well, dribble spouting out of your mouth.
... I expect that my government will make it difficult to China to spy on us. Why the hell should I care about the moral relativism some people stupidly believe in, that China is justified because America does it to. I guarantee you that most Chinese not only support espionage on the part of their government, but have pride in the fact that their government is screwing ours, whether or not that is actually true. I have Chinese friends who have shown more pride in their country, despite having lived in the US for years, than I've seen from most Americans.
Okay, first our government likes spying on us, so how the hell they going to make it hard for China to?
And second, those chinese friends that have pride for China? Not unusual. besides being brainwashed from childhood to believe your country is the greatest, you'll find that for almost every nationality.
So while you may have some good points in your post, you don't seem to be saying much.
I rather enjoy getting those letters. The last one I replied that I was extremely interested but that I had recently had a dispute with my Internet Service Provider and my access to email would be shut down soon. I would be more than willing to help them if they could send $98.43 to Time Warner Cable referencing account number ################.
There are other variations. Such as I can help them get the money out of the country but I need more money to pay my lawyer to settle some estate disputes. Buy me a ticket to Nigeria and I will come there personally. My rich family members think this is a joke and I have been cut off from the family money but I can show them if I can just get to Nigeria and show them that this is real.
My record so far is stringing these guys along for 2 weeks. They finally give up frustrated. I actually had one of them write me back asking to be left alone and stop sending him emails.
But it seems to me that he should be able to take those out, and then make a program that could add them however.
I've been considering rooting my phone, mainly since I heard that they weren't updating my phone with new android releases. Now if googles getting all butthurt over this stuff, then maybe I should.
I'd remove those apps from the release of his rom, and then see what they say. Seems if they wanted to talk they would of gotten a hold of him first though, unless doing polite business went out last thursday.
PC games are usually at $40 new where I live (Seattle). I can usually get them at $30 bucks if I wait a few months after release.
I have a Xbox 360 and those games are like $60 new. Most games that I can play on both my PC and 360, the 360 looks worse. And on top of it, I'd have to pay for the Gold live to play online. Not to mention all the little crap MS wants to nickle and dime you on their live service.
I only have a few 360 games, bought used. I don't pay for live, and even though I have a 3 month pass for Gold, I doubt I will use it. It's just designed to line MS's pocket, and I think thats the wrong approach to take with consoles and video games.
I don't have a PS3, but I do know their online system is free. Games are about the same price.
Not sure actually why consoles games have to be $60 while PC games aren't. If a game is being developed for all 3 systems, like most of them are, then I guess maybe it's cheaper for the PC as a way of apologizing for the crappy 360 port?
I don't know, but here's some advice to anyone that wants to read this far:
Drop your price. $40 is a magic number. And quit, for the love of (insert your diety here), quit making these stupid behind the charcters shoulder 3rd person view already! While it works with Batman, it doesn't with shooters. Ya, I know, some peeps think you need to use a gamepad to play shooters. And then trying to force it with a off center viewing angle. And do not ever spend more money on advertising then you do on producing the game. oh, and quit making crappy ports. Seriously, spend a little extra time making it special for each system.
"Abnormal behavior"... You know, like disagreeing with the government about what the definition of that may be.
Not to mention this is the EU we're talking about: a place with 23 different official languages. With this kind of diversity, there's probably nothing that can be classified as "abnormal".
Non-EU example: In the Netherlands, the Gay Pride is a cultural event. In Serbia, protesters beat the shit out of them. In Moscow, the police did. Which one of these is normal, and to whom?
Think your mixing up the Gay peeps and they peeps who are into getting beat up.
Seems to me, if you know your going to get beat up, and you into that, you'd go to the Gay Pride events in Serbia and Moscow.
Slashdot Mirror
Uh, no... that was the alien women's motivation in fucking him. Why else would any of them engage in such an unpleasant task?
why do humans have sex with animals?
They are making porn of course.
man, I see it now.
Police: "Eh, you took your, eh, hand off the steering wheel, eh. Thats a fine, eh."
Driver: "Eh, I had to shift out of 3rd gear. eh"
I use google groups, and maybe i'm lucky, but I don't get spam hardly ever in my groups.
I get more spam in my mail then I do in groups, and I probably get less emails then I do new group posts a day.
(i get maybe 10 new emails a day, and 100+ new messages in my fav groups)
It is interesting to note that the Christian conversion of the Mayan people brought about some surprising abnormalities (or outright perversions) in the spoken language itself. Even amongst the most pure speakers of Mayan dialects, Spanish has left its indelible mark. Take for example the word for 'people' in Q'eqchi': kristiaan. Any Spanish speaker would recognize the transliteration of that word as 'cristiano'. Therefore, in a very subtle way, you are not a person or a group of people unless you are in fact Christian. Crazy, huh?
um, Catholic, not christian. While some peeps might think they are the same, they aren't.
the keys are tied to the OS type (home, premium, business, etc), not to languages.
So you could buy in China and install the English version.
I live in washington and I want them to pay up.
Or move out.
actually, I'd rather they pay up, we need the money.
if they turn the internet off, then it will give me time to watch all the videos, anime, and read all the comics & ebooks i've downloaded.
I have a huge pile of disks just waiting for that day.
That one in ten cases is incorrectly sentenced by this system says to me that some of the attorneys are filling these forms out; When the clerks take care of it, they usually get it right.
totally agree.
I had a court case once were the court clerk ended up telling the judge that the sentence I was getting was wrong, and that her superior (the clerk's) would end up giving the paperwork back because it was wrong.
I would of laughed at the judge, but decided to keep my mouth closed since I was getting out of jail.
Just shows me that the real peeps doing all the correct work are usually the ones who aren't getting paid for it.
Am I the only one who thinks about the video game crash of the 80's when I hear about how the app store has 70,000 apps?
Just because you have 70k apps don't mean any of them are good, and in fact, it means peeps have to wade thru more crud to find the few good apps.
guess maybe this is modern gold pan mining. Maybe, just maybe, you'll find a gold nugget...
Good question, which I don't have a "true" answer for.
My feeling is, as very little percentage of pirate finally bought the app after "trying it", having them downloading the app for free did not help on the sales after. Almost none of those hackers did post on blogs, Twitter, etc so it doesn't help neither.
What might have helped a bit is being listed on appulous, I guess some people are tracking the 'hacker' websites to see what's hot, and what was released recently. What might happen is people buying the app straight without going through the hacker stage. However, as I had 99.3% of hackers on the next days after it was published on appulous, which only 1% bought the app after, I would say it did not impact on my real sales.
I think Photoshop is a different case which you can't compare with mine. I agree with what you say about it, but I don't think it applies on mine (sadly ;).
how can someone that supposedly (can we say ebay?) have such a low slashdot UID make such a noob mistake?
You start by calling them pirates. that works okay, but you finish by calling them hackers.
Pirates are NOT hackers.
you should be ashamed.
One interesting thing I found in 1991: I tried selling "shareware" where you are suppose to buy the application if you use it and like it. It was downloaded and obviously heavily used a few thousand times. It was a memory checker for Windows programmers. How many programmers sent me a check for $10? One. Good grief. At the same time, my father wrote a shareware application useful for Delta pilots to "bid" on their routes for the next month. Dad made $32K on it! The difference?
here's the difference. Your dad wrote a useful program that got used a bunch. You wrote a util that doesn't get a lot of use. peeps downloaded, used it, saw there memory was fine, and that was it.
Know your market is a rule of business, which you obviously failed to grasp.
"Since a common excuse for piracy is "try before you buy," they also looked at the related iPhone DeviceIDs to see how many of the pirates went on to purchase the game. None of them did."
Dude, none of them bought the app, because it sucked.
I'm sorry, but I seem to be missing something here.
these work by magnets, as I understand.
While I'm not sure that that magnets are bad for electronics/flash type drives, they sure as hell can't be good for my ipod classic (120gb).
I just hope they wear protection before poking around in a strange hole.
the chinese hackers doing this are mostly motivated by ultranationalist impulses. they are self-starting, they are not command and control from the central government. if they discover any informational gems, the desire to report this to the government is also completely voluntary and desirable from an individual nationalistic point of view. if useful enough, such hackers can be brought into the fold and become a genuine command and control tool of the government, but this is at the late stage of things
of course, by completely controlling media, the government is creating a population of robots who aren't thinking critically and are ultranationalist only by default
luckily, tribalism is never stronger than principles in terms of motivations that win over others on the global stage. chinese censorship is creating a generation of cottonheads in its youth, unable to see the wider world for what it is. youth from countries with open and transparent media, and without hermetically sealed censorship of the level china employs, are meanwhile more globalistic and principled in their attitudes, rather than tribal. of course nationalistic, tribal thinking exists in all countries. but only in places like china and iran, who feel the need to control the media, does the nationalism rise to the level of blind passion: these minds simply aren't exposed to other opinions
so china has developed a wonderful machine for keeping china safe and secure from the outside. but as china begins to emerge as a player on the world stage, it is going to have to think on the world stage, not simply react from the point of view a cloistered hermit kingdom that imagines itself walled off from the wider world and its concerns
china will never lead in this world as long as it breeds children who can't think about anything except china. critical thinking only comes from exposure to alternative opinions and points of view. the chinese are raising their children to have no criticla thinking skills, to be blind cottonheaded nationalistic robots
And I suppose you have sources?
otherwise, what I read here was, well, dribble spouting out of your mouth.
here's a napkin to wipe it off.
... I expect that my government will make it difficult to China to spy on us. Why the hell should I care about the moral relativism some people stupidly believe in, that China is justified because America does it to. I guarantee you that most Chinese not only support espionage on the part of their government, but have pride in the fact that their government is screwing ours, whether or not that is actually true. I have Chinese friends who have shown more pride in their country, despite having lived in the US for years, than I've seen from most Americans.
Okay, first our government likes spying on us, so how the hell they going to make it hard for China to?
And second, those chinese friends that have pride for China? Not unusual. besides being brainwashed from childhood to believe your country is the greatest, you'll find that for almost every nationality.
So while you may have some good points in your post, you don't seem to be saying much.
And do you think that they aren't entitled to make a living?
People like you make me sick.
really? peeps who can't quote what they are replying to make me sick.
well, actually it makes me think your a dumb fuck for thinking that your reply is going to actually stay right underneath what your answering.
Quote next time, sick boy!
I rather enjoy getting those letters. The last one I replied that I was extremely interested but that I had recently had a dispute with my Internet Service Provider and my access to email would be shut down soon. I would be more than willing to help them if they could send $98.43 to Time Warner Cable referencing account number ################.
There are other variations. Such as I can help them get the money out of the country but I need more money to pay my lawyer to settle some estate disputes. Buy me a ticket to Nigeria and I will come there personally. My rich family members think this is a joke and I have been cut off from the family money but I can show them if I can just get to Nigeria and show them that this is real.
My record so far is stringing these guys along for 2 weeks. They finally give up frustrated. I actually had one of them write me back asking to be left alone and stop sending him emails.
screenshots or it didn't happen.
> You start in a room, no idea what's going on [...] You have to read the manual and supporting media to get a grip on it all
looks like my own life
born in room
no idea what's going on
need to read holy book (manual) to get a grip on it all
ans life seems laking sense if I don't follow the book
at least a game is WYSIWYG
which is not the case with life
that "manual" you have is fake.
Sorry, I'm new.
Dang, if you new with that low of number, then you must of really rock'd Taco's socks off.
Did ya do a reacharound?
My G1. It's always with me, and reading books don't tax the power on it like using the internet, or playing a game.
How much of the books page do you need to see at one time?
I have a G1, and I don't run his rom.
But it seems to me that he should be able to take those out, and then make a program that could add them however.
I've been considering rooting my phone, mainly since I heard that they weren't updating my phone with new android releases.
Now if googles getting all butthurt over this stuff, then maybe I should.
I'd remove those apps from the release of his rom, and then see what they say. Seems if they wanted to talk they would of gotten a hold of him first though, unless doing polite business went out last thursday.
Honestly, I think $60 is too much for a game.
PC games are usually at $40 new where I live (Seattle).
I can usually get them at $30 bucks if I wait a few months after release.
I have a Xbox 360 and those games are like $60 new.
Most games that I can play on both my PC and 360, the 360 looks worse.
And on top of it, I'd have to pay for the Gold live to play online.
Not to mention all the little crap MS wants to nickle and dime you on their live service.
I only have a few 360 games, bought used. I don't pay for live, and even though I have a 3 month pass for Gold, I doubt I will use it.
It's just designed to line MS's pocket, and I think thats the wrong approach to take with consoles and video games.
I don't have a PS3, but I do know their online system is free. Games are about the same price.
Not sure actually why consoles games have to be $60 while PC games aren't. If a game is being developed for all 3 systems, like most of them are, then I guess maybe it's cheaper for the PC as a way of apologizing for the crappy 360 port?
I don't know, but here's some advice to anyone that wants to read this far:
Drop your price. $40 is a magic number. And quit, for the love of (insert your diety here), quit making these stupid behind the charcters shoulder 3rd person view already! While it works with Batman, it doesn't with shooters. Ya, I know, some peeps think you need to use a gamepad to play shooters. And then trying to force it with a off center viewing angle. And do not ever spend more money on advertising then you do on producing the game. oh, and quit making crappy ports. Seriously, spend a little extra time making it special for each system.
anyways, sorry for the rant.
"Abnormal behavior"... You know, like disagreeing with the government about what the definition of that may be.
Not to mention this is the EU we're talking about: a place with 23 different official languages. With this kind of diversity, there's probably nothing that can be classified as "abnormal".
Non-EU example: In the Netherlands, the Gay Pride is a cultural event. In Serbia, protesters beat the shit out of them. In Moscow, the police did. Which one of these is normal, and to whom?
Think your mixing up the Gay peeps and they peeps who are into getting beat up.
Seems to me, if you know your going to get beat up, and you into that, you'd go to the Gay Pride events in Serbia and Moscow.
Swear Las Vegas was in a desert. Not sure how the house would be "underwater anyways"