First have a proposed act that is so ridiculous no one can sanely accept it, then turn around and seem to offer a compromise, and suddenly the masses gobble it all up!
"..For example, compare the current street pricing for "Monsieur Ibrahim" (a recent French movie, that I'm guessing had a budget of about $1M) vs street pricing for "the last samurai" with Tom Cruise and a budget of approximately $100M. Ibrahim is streeting for about twice what samurai is (~$2o vs ~$1o on the low end per dvdpricesearch).."
Probably because Ibrahim is not so much of a "mainstream" movie? Hence fewer would watch it, and theatres would have to run the show half full?
Likewise we don't need to play the latest Doom 3 games on our desktops too. All those fancy rendering, takes a lot of computing power! We don't NEED those, they should only be playable on supercomputers!
Otherwise we will see a new trend, any slack jawed yokal can just..
1) set up a domain www.elitesoftware.org
2) garner people to write the new OS, elinux!
3) change licensing
4) ????
5) $$$$$$PROFIT$$$$$
Seems like these guys are the masters of Newspeak!
War is peace!
Freedom is slavery!
Ignorance is strength!
Oh wait, they don't even have the words for the party slogan...
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Could it be another trick by Orin Hatch?
First have a proposed act that is so ridiculous no one can sanely accept it, then turn around and seem to offer a compromise, and suddenly the masses gobble it all up!
Yeap, it seems like only Airstrip one was referenced. And of course the solution lies in the proles!
The proles! That's you!
Vote those bastards out of office this november!
So I can travel from Australia to the US for a little more than one bottle of heavy water? /me sells stocks to airline companies!
"..For example, compare the current street pricing for "Monsieur Ibrahim" (a recent French movie, that I'm guessing had a budget of about $1M) vs street pricing for "the last samurai" with Tom Cruise and a budget of approximately $100M. Ibrahim is streeting for about twice what samurai is (~$2o vs ~$1o on the low end per dvdpricesearch).."
Probably because Ibrahim is not so much of a "mainstream" movie? Hence fewer would watch it, and theatres would have to run the show half full?
Guess I am too slow, oh well! :)
"..licensing the AAC technology to a third party to allow them to set up their own store.."
I thought Apple licensed the AAC technology from some consortium of companies?
http://www.aac-audio.com/
Likewise we don't need to play the latest Doom 3 games on our desktops too. All those fancy rendering, takes a lot of computing power! We don't NEED those, they should only be playable on supercomputers!
Progress man! Progress!
Otherwise we will see a new trend, any slack jawed yokal can just.. 1) set up a domain www.elitesoftware.org 2) garner people to write the new OS, elinux! 3) change licensing 4) ???? 5) $$$$$$PROFIT$$$$$
You will accumulate so many transcription errors, that one fine day your boss will find a monkey sitting in your cubicle...
Oh rats! Nobody gave me a "Funny" :)
In other news, google sues software developer for violation of DMCA
Seems like these guys are the masters of Newspeak! War is peace! Freedom is slavery! Ignorance is strength! Oh wait, they don't even have the words for the party slogan...
ICQ Pro does require admin rights to work... :D