I just don't want to wait 6 months or a year and then try to talk to my friends about the eps... It doesn't work.
Take the middle ground, then. Download the show now, watch it, talk about it, etc. But then buy the DVD when it comes out.
Personally, I think they could make some money from this if they offered high quality, speedy downloads of the show for very cheap. Say, $0.25-$0.50 per show. Make them available as soon as the episode airs. But then, they offer a rebate/discount on the DVD to anyone who bought episodes equal to the amount they spent on the downloads. It's win/win for the show's producer:
1) If someone downloads a season, then buys the DVD, they get some revenue up front, and a sale later on. That person would have bought the DVD anyways, and wouldn't have paid for the episode, so they still have the same amount coming in from that sale.
2) If someone downloads a season (or just some episodes) and doesn't buy the DVD, they probably weren't going to buy the DVD anyays (limited funds, didn't like the show). But the producer still made a couple bucks off them.
3) If someone still "pirates" the episode (either from a torrent, or by copying the "paid" download, etc), and buys the DVD, then the producer has still made a DVD sale, and lost nothing to someone who wouldn't have iTMS it anyways.
4) If someone still "pirates", and doesn't buy the DVD-- well, that person wasn't going to be buying the DVD or paying iTMS anyways, so no loss.
And the funniest part-- the whole things is still a derivative from George Lucas' work. So he should jump into the ring, and sue both of them. Sue them in Endor!
Nonono, dude, don't listen to the AC! Be your own lawyer-- on both sides. That way, when you sue yourself for everything you're worth, not only will you gain everything you own, but you'll also get 30% of it in lawyers fees. And if you defend yourself, you'll get another 30% in lawyers fees from you.
That's 160% of everything you're worth! My God, what a profit. No wonder everyone's suing-as-a-revenue-stream these days. Look at the return!
How do you know if you are being cheated? You wouldn't.
Actually, yes, you can.
First, a sucker who wants to lose their money will. They are the outside cases, and will be ignored.
There's secondary research you can do. You can check out any of the watchdog sites, like casinomeister, that catalog the casinos into categories like reputable, rogue, avoid, etc. Look up any casino you're thinking of putting your money into.
Or you can do primary research, which involves tracking thousands of results, and seeing if the resultant house edges are in statistical agreement with the game you're playing. There are other checks you can do-- such as, over several thousand hands, does the player friendly "Ace" card come up 1/13 times?
When it comes down to it, it isn't in an online casino's interest to cheat. They already have a guaranteed, built-in profit. The only thing they need is players to put money into it. So a dishonest casino will get some money, found out and have a ruined reputation-- or an honest one will get a bit less money, but will stay in business to keep generating revenue.
In the new imagining, all Tin Men have been replaced with human replicas, the dead Wicked Witch of the East appears to Dorothy in living daydream/hallucinations, and Scarecrow's a woman.
I wonder what would have happened if these people weren't the 400 richest Americans, and instead 400 Joe sixpacks. I imagine that these guys would have gotten away no problem.
Exactly, mostly because the Forbes people are famous enough to be recognized. I imagine the takedown went something like this:
Russian ID Thief: Ch-alo, yes. I am zee Hopera Vindfeeeed. I am chh-here to be pickings up zee gould vat is mine. Gold merchant: OK, let me just bag that for you and... wait a second...
cannot reliably tell whether a server is not responding because of a host hit or a broken server
Sure you can. Very easily. I can think of two ways right off the top of my head:
1) Open the host file. CTRL-F, enter name of server. Is it found?
2) Start -> Run -> cmd -> ping server.com Does it time out, or resolve to 127.0.0.1 (then time out)?
You can get even more creative. Set up a webserver on your browsing machine. Bind it to localhost. Have it serve up only a single, pleasant to look at image. Redirect all your 404's to there. Then when you load a page, if it's been host'd, you'll see your image. If the server is dead, you get the remote 404.
I've considered the same thing, especially after looking through the much more informative Mozilla "Page Info".
But then I realized there already was an extension that displays all the servers accessed on a page and gives you a GUI interface to block them. Ad Block. And it does wildcards to boot.
The downside is that if I ever have to open up a page in IE (blech) then the ads aren't blocked. Of course, I would only open up a very, very trusted page in IE, so it shouldn't be crap-ad ladened anyways.
Maybe they could put this in the next revision of Ad Block. When you block a site, it gives you the option to add the server to the host file (but only that server, since hosts.txt doesn't do wildcards)
I think I only ever one had an issue with a page no loading due to hosts, and that was when I tried to click on a "sponsored link" through Google. (Yes, I once tried to do that, when looking for a ballpark price on something). It didn't work, because the Google link tries to first go to an ad tracker. So instead, I just copy and pasted the URL listed in the search result, and it worked.
I used to run a custom host file, but it got tedious having to update every time I ran across a new ad site. With the linked host file, all the work's done for me-- and I can easily download and install it on friend/family computers.
If you're interested in populating your hosts file, check out http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm. There's a downloadable hosts file that's 406k, and was updated on July 31st, 2007. If you're running 2000/XP/Vista, be sure to read the Editor's Note about steps you must take to use a large hosts file.
I'd think that a better ad blocker would be one that just blocked flash and converted animated GIFs into non-animated images and then displayed them. A static image isn't that irritating, it still generates hits, and so long as advertisers aren't being dumbasses, their ads will still be seen.
In Firefox:
1) Go install Flashblock
2) Go to about:config and set image.animation_mode to NONE
They already have that. It's called Academic Math or Applied Math:
Academic courses develop students' knowledge and skills through the study of theory and abstract problems. These courses focus on the essential concepts of a subject and explore related concepts as well. They incorporate practical applications as appropriate.
Applied courses focus on the essential concepts of a subject, and develop students' knowledge and skills through practical applications and concrete examples. Familiar situations are used to illustrate ideas, and students are given more opportunities to experience hands-on applications of the concepts and theories they study.
Honestly, I don't think the piracy rates will go down at all. But that's still a good thing, because at least it might show that if people "pirate" DRM or non-DRM equally, then the studios should go with the cheaper non-DRM. And hey, as an added bonus, they can stop pissing off their customers with disabled crap. (Not that being customer friendly was ever part of the mission statement, but still...)
Good idea. Drop it into the suggestion box. It's already kinda-sorta there. They're able to add links to previous and related articles under the summary. Another type of sticky link would be great. There can even be many types. "How To Fix", "Download This", "Retraction", "FAQ", etc.
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Judge: Fine. In summary, shut the fuck up.
Take the middle ground, then. Download the show now, watch it, talk about it, etc. But then buy the DVD when it comes out.
Personally, I think they could make some money from this if they offered high quality, speedy downloads of the show for very cheap. Say, $0.25-$0.50 per show. Make them available as soon as the episode airs. But then, they offer a rebate/discount on the DVD to anyone who bought episodes equal to the amount they spent on the downloads. It's win/win for the show's producer:
1) If someone downloads a season, then buys the DVD, they get some revenue up front, and a sale later on. That person would have bought the DVD anyways, and wouldn't have paid for the episode, so they still have the same amount coming in from that sale.
2) If someone downloads a season (or just some episodes) and doesn't buy the DVD, they probably weren't going to buy the DVD anyays (limited funds, didn't like the show). But the producer still made a couple bucks off them.
3) If someone still "pirates" the episode (either from a torrent, or by copying the "paid" download, etc), and buys the DVD, then the producer has still made a DVD sale, and lost nothing to someone who wouldn't have iTMS it anyways.
4) If someone still "pirates", and doesn't buy the DVD-- well, that person wasn't going to be buying the DVD or paying iTMS anyways, so no loss.
And if you need to make Jenny yours, call 867-5309
No one's saying there wasn't slacking before. But this is different. This is cyberslacking. By new-paradigm employees on the information superhighway!
And the funniest part-- the whole things is still a derivative from George Lucas' work. So he should jump into the ring, and sue both of them. Sue them in Endor!
That's 160% of everything you're worth! My God, what a profit. No wonder everyone's suing-as-a-revenue-stream these days. Look at the return!
Actually, yes, you can.
First, a sucker who wants to lose their money will. They are the outside cases, and will be ignored.
There's secondary research you can do. You can check out any of the watchdog sites, like casinomeister, that catalog the casinos into categories like reputable, rogue, avoid, etc. Look up any casino you're thinking of putting your money into.
Or you can do primary research, which involves tracking thousands of results, and seeing if the resultant house edges are in statistical agreement with the game you're playing. There are other checks you can do-- such as, over several thousand hands, does the player friendly "Ace" card come up 1/13 times?
When it comes down to it, it isn't in an online casino's interest to cheat. They already have a guaranteed, built-in profit. The only thing they need is players to put money into it. So a dishonest casino will get some money, found out and have a ruined reputation-- or an honest one will get a bit less money, but will stay in business to keep generating revenue.
... window is a much easier way in.
In the new imagining, all Tin Men have been replaced with human replicas, the dead Wicked Witch of the East appears to Dorothy in living daydream/hallucinations, and Scarecrow's a woman.
Exactly, mostly because the Forbes people are famous enough to be recognized. I imagine the takedown went something like this:
Russian ID Thief: Ch-alo, yes. I am zee Hopera Vindfeeeed. I am chh-here to be pickings up zee gould vat is mine.
Gold merchant: OK, let me just bag that for you and... wait a second...
Sure you can. Very easily. I can think of two ways right off the top of my head:
1) Open the host file. CTRL-F, enter name of server. Is it found? 2) Start -> Run -> cmd -> ping server.com Does it time out, or resolve to 127.0.0.1 (then time out)?
You can get even more creative. Set up a webserver on your browsing machine. Bind it to localhost. Have it serve up only a single, pleasant to look at image. Redirect all your 404's to there. Then when you load a page, if it's been host'd, you'll see your image. If the server is dead, you get the remote 404.
But then I realized there already was an extension that displays all the servers accessed on a page and gives you a GUI interface to block them. Ad Block. And it does wildcards to boot.
The downside is that if I ever have to open up a page in IE (blech) then the ads aren't blocked. Of course, I would only open up a very, very trusted page in IE, so it shouldn't be crap-ad ladened anyways.
Maybe they could put this in the next revision of Ad Block. When you block a site, it gives you the option to add the server to the host file (but only that server, since hosts.txt doesn't do wildcards)
I think I only ever one had an issue with a page no loading due to hosts, and that was when I tried to click on a "sponsored link" through Google. (Yes, I once tried to do that, when looking for a ballpark price on something). It didn't work, because the Google link tries to first go to an ad tracker. So instead, I just copy and pasted the URL listed in the search result, and it worked.
You're welcome. Glad it helped.
But hey, if you enjoy virus-laden sex, then I'm sure you'll find lots of dirty, dirty places to send your header requests to...
I used to run a custom host file, but it got tedious having to update every time I ran across a new ad site. With the linked host file, all the work's done for me-- and I can easily download and install it on friend/family computers.
If you're interested in populating your hosts file, check out http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm. There's a downloadable hosts file that's 406k, and was updated on July 31st, 2007. If you're running 2000/XP/Vista, be sure to read the Editor's Note about steps you must take to use a large hosts file.
1st cd microwaved: AOL
In Firefox:
1) Go install Flashblock
2) Go to about:config and set image.animation_mode to NONE
Tah-dah.
I'll still take Flashblock
It's pronounced Trekkie. Fact Check'd!.
-- Ontario High School Curriculum
A better question is: Will it blend in a Chinese knockoff of a Blendtec blender?
Honestly, I don't think the piracy rates will go down at all. But that's still a good thing, because at least it might show that if people "pirate" DRM or non-DRM equally, then the studios should go with the cheaper non-DRM. And hey, as an added bonus, they can stop pissing off their customers with disabled crap. (Not that being customer friendly was ever part of the mission statement, but still...)
Thank you for the clarification.
It means Le Chaim, aka T[w]o Life!
Good idea. Drop it into the suggestion box. It's already kinda-sorta there. They're able to add links to previous and related articles under the summary. Another type of sticky link would be great. There can even be many types. "How To Fix", "Download This", "Retraction", "FAQ", etc.