the movie industry has few methods other than movie sales to generate a profit
that would be correct if only they didn't make huge amounts of cash on DVDs, soundtracks, merchandising, promotional tie-ins, and TV/Cable showings.
there is simply no evidence to correlate a decrease in theater tickets sold to pirating. There are too many unmentioned variables to consider.
I usually just filter comments to 4+. It's an interesting read at 4+, almost exclusively people daring to go against the grain and support nintendo. One post after the other saying, "I don't care what everyone else is saying, nintendo is the bestest!"
I guess i'd have to go down to 1 or even lower to see what those other people are saying.
Once you reach a certain point in just about any product category, you're usually paying two or three times as much money for a product only a few percent better. The performance difference between a $100,000 sports car and a $300,000 sports car isn't that great, certainly not 3x as much. When people have that much money to pay, they're almost always doing it to impress people. A $1,000 graphics card isn't for people who need more processing, it's for people who want to brag about having a $1,000 graphics card
I remember hearing rumors before enterprise aired of the subject matter in the upcoming ST series, and enterprise is so bad i think i'd prefer the WB-style teen drama set in starfleet academy. So bring on whatever these new people have, gotta be better than enterprise.
That reminds me of another appropriate Asimov quote.
"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
I think no one can beat iRiver when it comes to flash players. They're not the smallest, they're not the cheapest, but they're the best. Ergonomics are perfect for its size, controls are easy to use, no tiny awkwardly placed buttons. Sound is superb, customizable equalizer and a plethora of options that you won't find on a player in its class. Radio (+ recording), voice, input recording. Can be used as a removable hard drive (with the right firmware). plays ogg.
For my needs, flash is the way to go. Throw it around, put it anywhere, no skipping ever. And incredible battery life. I have the 512 MB model. I'm not so picky as far as bitrate, 192 kbps is good enough for me, so that's a good 6 hours of music. I don't know why a person would need his entire music collection with him beyond a sort of mental satisfaction. I change the contents of my player every other week.
This is a smart move by apple. As long as the product is mediocre or better, a flash iPod will outsell everything else, even if it is inferior to others. I don't like that one bit, but them's the facts, most consumers don't care to look for reviews online and read at least 20-50 of them before putting down $150.
And there's no way apple will make this thing expandable. Let people get more space cheap? forget about it. They'll make several size capacities, set the price increments greater than the cost of purchasing memory cards alone, and force people who want bigger sizes to give them the cash instead of some discount vendor.
There are greater implications to consider beyond ownership. Dr. Strangelove has become a part of American Culture, often referenced, being a part of the era and defining (and defying) it fairly well. Kubrick and now his estate have made boatloads of money on it. I think people should not only be able to watch Dr. Strangelove for free, they should be allowed to use bits of it in their own creative works without asking permission. We need some sort of mechanism in the law which allows for these type of considerations. I don't believe this is punishing people for being too succesfull. Our society runs on things created in the past, everything is built from something else, and we should be able to use the elements that these are built on to make newer works faster, rather than waiting a century before it becomes acceptable. Many great poets of the past thought nothing of plagarizing something they heard the week before, to use it and expand on it, create something greater. Making countless rules, having to acquire legal permission when reproducing anything, something you grew up with that shaped the way you are, not letting you express yourself fully, is counter-productive to the aims of advancing and expanding society.
I know this discussion is about the nintendo games being copied and used rather than using them for creative purposes, but I believe the law is still inadequate. Selling them, I'll admit, is wrong under almost any circumstance, but downloading them is more of a gray issue.
There's nothing in this aticle that isn't blatantly obvious.
WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE OLD GEAR
- When it's completely busted
Oh gee thanks. Next time my MP3 player completely breaks down I'll make sure to get a new one rather than carry around the fubar'ed one trying to read the track off the crushed display while the exposed hard drive spins like a buzz saw and i hear nothing but a screeching static from the headhpones.
Thank you GearLive!
Another trick Best Buy has is the extended warranty. It sounds like a great idea, and it is. Extended two year warranty, no questions asked, for a few extra dollars.
However, you need the warranty receipt. Most people lose it after a few months, usually sooner, or totally forget about it. Two years is a long time. Only a small percentage of those who get the warranty actually cash it in so to speak. That's where a lot of their profits are coming from.
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I never played it on console, but when it was finally ported to PC, i played for a couple hours. Was that it? Maybe they took all the fun out of the PC version somehow, put in a boring mod.
Uninstalled and went right back to UT2k4.
It's beyond hating it because other people are watching it. The networks are airing more and more of this crap, people are watching more and more, and good shows get canceled or not picked up to make room for more mindless reality shows. That's what pisses people off about them.
[quote]The battery life is a bit worse, too.[/quote]
watchu talkin bout
It says right there in the pcmag article, claimed battery life is for hours MORE than the iPod mini. I think people are really searching for things to fault this player.
With torrent users, there is only the one song that the user is currently downloading that is easily discoverable. So for the average user, how will they generate the large damage figures.
According to US law, you can be sued up to $150,000 for EACH infraction, that means each song. They're usually on an album, so that's 12 songs x $150,000 = $1.8 million. Now, it's no half a billion, but it's enough for most people.
It is peer-to-peer and egalatarian as hell, but everybody (with linux anyway) already has the software and you have to search it *by* *hand*.
Usenet can kind of be a pain to search sometimes . ..There's also probably even more viruses and false stuff on usenet than P2P networks
No need to anymore. http://www.newzbin.com/ indexes all the binaries posted to usenet. Newzbin sorts groups of headers into single posts that you can search through for free. Relatively recently.nzb files were introduced. You may take these posts on Newzbin and import all the associated headers into many usenet binary programs now with these.nzb files. No need to manually update heades and search through them. Just search newzbin, hit the button, make sure.nzb is associated with a supported program, and the your download begins.
However, for the.nzb and complete header indexing service, you must pay a small monthly fee. An experimential release of grabit, http://www.shemes.com/, however, allows you to search through recent headers posted throughout usenet and then select them for download. This latest build is avaialbe in the announcements forum.
Also, http://www.packetnews.com/, an IRC search engine, has a currently unavailable option to also search usenet. I'm not sure of the details, but it does say (soon!)
As I understand the US law, when a duality exists in some form of technology, when it has the potential for both legitamate and illegal use, as long as it can be show that the technology is at least capable of having widescale legitamate uses, it is legal. Usenet is ancient among internet standards, dating back all the way to 1979. For much of its existence it was used solely for communication; this fuction is still used to a large extent today. Even while it is being used for illegal purposes, it cannot be shut down anymore than knives and axes can be banned for their continued role in crime and murder.
Why is it that when actors have to act with no sets and very few props, and then GGI is added, it's always a sell-out, a commercialized ploy which makes it difficult for actors to act naturally and therefore makes the whole project suffer, but when they produce minimalist plays with no sets and even fewer props it's the height of artistic theater, professional acting in its purest form that wouldn't be possible with sets?
another thing he did that is comendable, he's tearing down all the seedy motels along Lincoln avenue. My area is looking a hell of a lot nicer now.
Here's something not at all surprising, food vendors in the hugely attracting Navy Peer make tons of money. A single cart can make millions a year. And the Sun-Times did some investigation a few years back and found that every single vendor owner in navy peer (they need special licenses) had some sort of connection to Daley.
It needs to be a space-based game above all else. IMO each player should play as an entire ship. You start out as a tiny ship, work your way up the chain of command by doing missions and shit so you can get upgrades, and every milestone you can get a bigger and better class ship. I'd like to see at least some micromanagment aboard the ship, not just point-and-click battles. I think it has a lot of potential. You can include all the familiar races in their respective roles.
With any MMPORPG, you can imagine a lot of cool features. Instead of resting you'd have to give the crew shore-leave, get damaged too much and you have to go to space-dock to get repairs. Meeting places can be space stations or planets. You can get items from aliens you defeat (or save if you're federation) to upgrade your ship. I wasn't able to read all the posts, but this is the best concept they can take advantage of.
It's not an issue of yapping on the phone too long and not being able to control it. I live about 40 minutes from the airport. If I have to wait until I land to call for a ride, i'd be waiting at least that long. I can always make the call before I get on the plane, but there are frequently delays, even after you get on a plane. Making the call in-flight would be far more efficient.
You're closer to the ballpark. number of particles in the universe is either 1x10^80 or 1x10^120-130 depending on who you ask, but the number 1 x 10^500000 is a pretty big number. Perhaps if you counted infinite universes you can reach it, and of course all the way up to infinity, but otherwise, that's a 1 followed by 500,000 zero's. If 1 out of that many suns has life then there's no chance in hell life is out there.
My mind has lapsed, didn't even think about what the number meant till you mentioned it.
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what about winrar indead. I've used nothing but winrar for ages, it's the Usenet standard. Some use that hjsplit/hjjoin garbage though.
the movie industry has few methods other than movie sales to generate a profit that would be correct if only they didn't make huge amounts of cash on DVDs, soundtracks, merchandising, promotional tie-ins, and TV/Cable showings. there is simply no evidence to correlate a decrease in theater tickets sold to pirating. There are too many unmentioned variables to consider.
I usually just filter comments to 4+. It's an interesting read at 4+, almost exclusively people daring to go against the grain and support nintendo. One post after the other saying, "I don't care what everyone else is saying, nintendo is the bestest!" I guess i'd have to go down to 1 or even lower to see what those other people are saying.
Once you reach a certain point in just about any product category, you're usually paying two or three times as much money for a product only a few percent better. The performance difference between a $100,000 sports car and a $300,000 sports car isn't that great, certainly not 3x as much. When people have that much money to pay, they're almost always doing it to impress people. A $1,000 graphics card isn't for people who need more processing, it's for people who want to brag about having a $1,000 graphics card
Shattered Glass 2: What's the Delio?
I remember hearing rumors before enterprise aired of the subject matter in the upcoming ST series, and enterprise is so bad i think i'd prefer the WB-style teen drama set in starfleet academy. So bring on whatever these new people have, gotta be better than enterprise.
That reminds me of another appropriate Asimov quote. "Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
Shame on Canada.
For my needs, flash is the way to go. Throw it around, put it anywhere, no skipping ever. And incredible battery life. I have the 512 MB model. I'm not so picky as far as bitrate, 192 kbps is good enough for me, so that's a good 6 hours of music. I don't know why a person would need his entire music collection with him beyond a sort of mental satisfaction. I change the contents of my player every other week.
This is a smart move by apple. As long as the product is mediocre or better, a flash iPod will outsell everything else, even if it is inferior to others. I don't like that one bit, but them's the facts, most consumers don't care to look for reviews online and read at least 20-50 of them before putting down $150.
And there's no way apple will make this thing expandable. Let people get more space cheap? forget about it. They'll make several size capacities, set the price increments greater than the cost of purchasing memory cards alone, and force people who want bigger sizes to give them the cash instead of some discount vendor.
There are greater implications to consider beyond ownership. Dr. Strangelove has become a part of American Culture, often referenced, being a part of the era and defining (and defying) it fairly well. Kubrick and now his estate have made boatloads of money on it. I think people should not only be able to watch Dr. Strangelove for free, they should be allowed to use bits of it in their own creative works without asking permission. We need some sort of mechanism in the law which allows for these type of considerations. I don't believe this is punishing people for being too succesfull. Our society runs on things created in the past, everything is built from something else, and we should be able to use the elements that these are built on to make newer works faster, rather than waiting a century before it becomes acceptable. Many great poets of the past thought nothing of plagarizing something they heard the week before, to use it and expand on it, create something greater. Making countless rules, having to acquire legal permission when reproducing anything, something you grew up with that shaped the way you are, not letting you express yourself fully, is counter-productive to the aims of advancing and expanding society. I know this discussion is about the nintendo games being copied and used rather than using them for creative purposes, but I believe the law is still inadequate. Selling them, I'll admit, is wrong under almost any circumstance, but downloading them is more of a gray issue.
There's nothing in this aticle that isn't blatantly obvious. WHEN YOU SHOULD REPLACE OLD GEAR - When it's completely busted Oh gee thanks. Next time my MP3 player completely breaks down I'll make sure to get a new one rather than carry around the fubar'ed one trying to read the track off the crushed display while the exposed hard drive spins like a buzz saw and i hear nothing but a screeching static from the headhpones. Thank you GearLive!
Another trick Best Buy has is the extended warranty. It sounds like a great idea, and it is. Extended two year warranty, no questions asked, for a few extra dollars. However, you need the warranty receipt. Most people lose it after a few months, usually sooner, or totally forget about it. Two years is a long time. Only a small percentage of those who get the warranty actually cash it in so to speak. That's where a lot of their profits are coming from.
I never played it on console, but when it was finally ported to PC, i played for a couple hours. Was that it? Maybe they took all the fun out of the PC version somehow, put in a boring mod. Uninstalled and went right back to UT2k4.
It's beyond hating it because other people are watching it. The networks are airing more and more of this crap, people are watching more and more, and good shows get canceled or not picked up to make room for more mindless reality shows. That's what pisses people off about them.
oops with the [quote]. Should have previewed, i always forget that this uses HTML.
[quote]The battery life is a bit worse, too.[/quote] watchu talkin bout It says right there in the pcmag article, claimed battery life is for hours MORE than the iPod mini. I think people are really searching for things to fault this player.
With torrent users, there is only the one song that the user is currently downloading that is easily discoverable. So for the average user, how will they generate the large damage figures.
According to US law, you can be sued up to $150,000 for EACH infraction, that means each song. They're usually on an album, so that's 12 songs x $150,000 = $1.8 million. Now, it's no half a billion, but it's enough for most people.
It is peer-to-peer and egalatarian as hell, but everybody (with linux anyway) already has the software and you have to search it *by* *hand*.
.There's also probably even more viruses and false stuff on usenet than P2P networks
.nzb files were introduced. You may take these posts on Newzbin and import all the associated headers into many usenet binary programs now with these .nzb files. No need to manually update heades and search through them. Just search newzbin, hit the button, make sure .nzb is associated with a supported program, and the your download begins.
.nzb and complete header indexing service, you must pay a small monthly fee. An experimential release of grabit, http://www.shemes.com/, however, allows you to search through recent headers posted throughout usenet and then select them for download. This latest build is avaialbe in the announcements forum.
Usenet can kind of be a pain to search sometimes . .
No need to anymore. http://www.newzbin.com/ indexes all the binaries posted to usenet. Newzbin sorts groups of headers into single posts that you can search through for free. Relatively recently
However, for the
Also, http://www.packetnews.com/, an IRC search engine, has a currently unavailable option to also search usenet. I'm not sure of the details, but it does say (soon!)
As I understand the US law, when a duality exists in some form of technology, when it has the potential for both legitamate and illegal use, as long as it can be show that the technology is at least capable of having widescale legitamate uses, it is legal. Usenet is ancient among internet standards, dating back all the way to 1979. For much of its existence it was used solely for communication; this fuction is still used to a large extent today. Even while it is being used for illegal purposes, it cannot be shut down anymore than knives and axes can be banned for their continued role in crime and murder.
what the fuck is the internet
Why is it that when actors have to act with no sets and very few props, and then GGI is added, it's always a sell-out, a commercialized ploy which makes it difficult for actors to act naturally and therefore makes the whole project suffer, but when they produce minimalist plays with no sets and even fewer props it's the height of artistic theater, professional acting in its purest form that wouldn't be possible with sets?
another thing he did that is comendable, he's tearing down all the seedy motels along Lincoln avenue. My area is looking a hell of a lot nicer now. Here's something not at all surprising, food vendors in the hugely attracting Navy Peer make tons of money. A single cart can make millions a year. And the Sun-Times did some investigation a few years back and found that every single vendor owner in navy peer (they need special licenses) had some sort of connection to Daley.
Oh, I thought it means that you can burn whatever DVD's you want, but 28 days later an evil army of MPAA zombies will come to get you.
It needs to be a space-based game above all else. IMO each player should play as an entire ship. You start out as a tiny ship, work your way up the chain of command by doing missions and shit so you can get upgrades, and every milestone you can get a bigger and better class ship. I'd like to see at least some micromanagment aboard the ship, not just point-and-click battles. I think it has a lot of potential. You can include all the familiar races in their respective roles. With any MMPORPG, you can imagine a lot of cool features. Instead of resting you'd have to give the crew shore-leave, get damaged too much and you have to go to space-dock to get repairs. Meeting places can be space stations or planets. You can get items from aliens you defeat (or save if you're federation) to upgrade your ship. I wasn't able to read all the posts, but this is the best concept they can take advantage of.
It's not an issue of yapping on the phone too long and not being able to control it. I live about 40 minutes from the airport. If I have to wait until I land to call for a ride, i'd be waiting at least that long. I can always make the call before I get on the plane, but there are frequently delays, even after you get on a plane. Making the call in-flight would be far more efficient.
You're closer to the ballpark. number of particles in the universe is either 1x10^80 or 1x10^120-130 depending on who you ask, but the number 1 x 10^500000 is a pretty big number. Perhaps if you counted infinite universes you can reach it, and of course all the way up to infinity, but otherwise, that's a 1 followed by 500,000 zero's. If 1 out of that many suns has life then there's no chance in hell life is out there. My mind has lapsed, didn't even think about what the number meant till you mentioned it.