The Aussies are just pissed off because they didn't read the advertiser's fine print that stated "Results not typical. Not all users will experience the same gain in length or width. Some users may not notice any change at all."
How does it even know what is open source and what isn't? Does it have a master database of programs? How does it match it? Against an MD5 hash? What if I download a Firefox trunc source code, change a line and recompile it? Will it find it?
And what about something like this:
/* Released as open source. Free to copy, redistribute or whatever you want */ #include iostream.h
main() { int myint; cout << "Enter a number: " cin >> myint; cout << "The number " << myint << " sucks and so do you!"; return 0; }
If someone downloads and compiles this, will yournumbersucks.exe show up on the scanner?
There isn't a difference between my folder, and an unreleased song or unfinished movies. For all the thing's I'm fine with, I don't think those things should be taken and distributed. Not for any copyright reasons, but for the simple fact that the author/musician/director isn't finished creating it yet. They haven't consented to it being released for public consumption. If the creator had wanted people to see the work in progress, they would have had a beta edition, or would blog about it, or post a rough draft. Not ready works shouldn't be the target of "unauthorized" (for lack of a better term, bleh) distribution. And if someone does come across it, the ethical (there's that word again) thing to do would be to return it (or destroy copies, or at least don't send it all about).
Once it has been released, it's out there, and there's very little any copyright laws can ever do about it being shared. That is a whole other barrel of arguing monkeyfish, though.
Maybe there's a level below -1, but I don't see any whining posts.
If someone wants to copy my \music\mp3 directory, more power to them. But, as another person posted, if they go into my \documents\creative_writing I'd be a bit ticked. I'll admit that. Mostly because unlike the music directory, none of the stuff in there is for public consumption. Also, the mp3 directory is 100% reproducible from public networks. It's already out there. Them taking a copy of all my mp3s is just a way for them to save time and bandwidth. My personal files, on the other hand, aren't.
Of course, as a use case this isn't likely, because I wouldn't buy a computer from Best Buy, let alone entrust them with repairing my box. (And of course, I can fix my own damn computer, so...)
This isn't a matter of stealing or copyright or anything like that. It's an invasion of privacy. Best Buy is giving you a contract (both social and written) saying that they respect you private data, and that you can trust them. If their employees root around in stuff they shouldn't, that's a breach of privacy.
Plus, it's a chance to lay down a strawman beat on Best Buy, and who wants to pass up that opportunity?
According to the bill, it would count if it was produced for the purposes of sexual arousal.
So you're saying that if I make a film about the violent rape and murder of an orphaned nun-- but I make the film for the express purpose of tipping an unbalanced mind-- it's okay? I mean, I'm not making it for purposes of sexual arousal. Heavens no. That might cause the tipping of an unbalanced mind!
Seriously? There are tons of educational games that are fun.
wtf games have you been playing? Did you never play The Oregon Trail? What about Lemonade Stand? Mathville, for the old Unisys Icons (if you went to school in Canada, that is). Did you think all of the location-based info-dumps in Carmen Sandiago were just for kicks?
So let me get this straight. 1 search result, and brand it 4 different ways. Then you take 32 people, and show each all of the results. There's no way that's enough to overcome statistical errors, biases, vague worded questions, morons, etc.
And most importantly, you taint the results by showing each person all four!
"Do you like Result 1?"
"Sure"
"Do you like Result 2?"
(thinking) "That looks familiar" (said) "I guess."
"Do you like Result 3?"
(thinking) "Okay, now that has to be the same thing" (said) "I guess so, sure."
"Do you like Result 4?"
(thinking) "wtf?" (said) "Whatever."
Especially if you are measuring not by written or oral results, but by "brainwaves". Of course there's going to be different activity in the brain. The brain is seeing patterns and getting confused. Is that skew trust, or taint?
I expect them to have some sort of a plan, if they intend to be the market leaders. "Shit happens" is not an acceptable mission statement. What will they do if the government requires them to hand over tax information for all their US based users? What will happen to non-US based users in that case? Same question, but for Canada. UK. Australia. What if they are told to start charging sales tax on all transactions. Can their system adapt to that. Will I get a tax credit if I'm exempt? Do they put some of their profit in reserve in case they are suddenly asked for a year's worth of back taxes? Will they help me get receipts for income tax purposes?
There are lots of things they can plan for. Saying "Go ask someone else, we don't know" is not a plan.
One of the techies here at work put Zork on the Asterisk phone system. It's narrated by an awful Stephen Hawking impersonator, and "works" by voice commands. In other words, not very well.
But if you're ever bored, start calling up Asterisk-based phone systems. Try extension 9675. Beware of the dark.
Wow, that was-- useless. There wasn't any new information put out there, except for a bunch of PR marketspeak for "We don't have a real business plan, and are hoping everything will work itself out."
Allow me to summarize:
Is this a marketing stunt?
No. It's just a way to get word of our product out to our target demo.
Will your product get us banned from WoW?
Probably, but use our service anyways 'cause Blizzard is such a meanie.
Will you get sued?
We're hoping not to.
How are you going to prevent farmers from selling?
We aren't 'cause, like, farmers will pay us too. Did we mention that other RMT sites totally suck?
Do the makers of the games like you?
Our business plan is awesome, and the game makers think so. At least, we think they should. We haven't really asked them. But we're totally going to real soon.
Can a buyer cheat a seller?
Yes. Nothing we can do about it, and that's totally Blizzard's fault for not liking us.
How will you "eliminate the middleman"? What about sweatshops?
Middleman: We don't (please ignore that we say we do). Sweatshops: By pretending they don't exist, lalalala.
Will you tell us about the "anti-fraud" tech you use?
No, because we don't actually have any aside from looking at the logs every now and then.
How will you handle conversion? How will you stop someone from hording gold?
Conversion: Duh, dunno. Somehow. Hording: Uhh, we're hoping someone else will do that for us. For free. Any takers?
How will you deal with players being taxed, present and possible future?
We have no fucking clue. Go ask H&R Block or something.
They managed to evade answering any of the questions asked of them by either redirecting the answer to a talking-point, or by ignoring the question altogether. Everything was put in the frame of their "average, ideal customer" who is bright eyed Johnny trying to trade his extra Sword of Goodness for a few dollars to take Molly to the drive-in. They have no plans or use cases for dealing with fraudsters, changing markets, hoarders, an intrusive government, lawsuits, customer disputes (legitimate or not), human rights violations, international law, changing tax environments, or business-to-business relations. They are literally assuming that everything will just go right-- and their entire business model depends entirely on everything going right.
So in other-words, another buzzy company with no clue who is going to singlehandedly revolutionize the marketplace, and everyone will love them. Sure thing. I'll be by in 3 months to purchase your astroglide chairs and pinball machines for pennies on the dollar at your bankruptcy auction.
This just means that artists have a different canvas in which to be creative. Just take a look at any Tool CD. There's no arguing that, even on a small square, it's a work of art.
Yes, but the Star Control II Eta Carinae isn't the same star:
Defined long ago by Chenjesu stargazers, the constellations are now accepted by all Alliance races as the standard. Due to the great difficulty in pronouncing the Chenjesu language, each race has translated the names into their own tongue. When it came time for Earth to adopt this system, the United Nations decided to use traditional astrological designations, assigned at random. This has caused some confusion, but it is considered preferable to the suggested alternative: using the names of past politicians.
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1.5% of users said they copied DVDs.
12.5% of users said they didn't copy DVDs
86% of users shifted their eyes back and forth, coughed and changed the subject
Arg, it's like trying to read the back of a movie at a rental place. Please stop letting your ADHD marketing drones masturbate out the preview-text.
The Aussies are just pissed off because they didn't read the advertiser's fine print that stated "Results not typical. Not all users will experience the same gain in length or width. Some users may not notice any change at all."
Not a problem. Her 10/100 Ethernet nic goes up to 11.
How does it even know what is open source and what isn't? Does it have a master database of programs? How does it match it? Against an MD5 hash? What if I download a Firefox trunc source code, change a line and recompile it? Will it find it?
And what about something like this:
/* Released as open source. Free to copy, redistribute or whatever you want */
#include iostream.h
main()
{
int myint;
cout << "Enter a number: "
cin >> myint;
cout << "The number " << myint << " sucks and so do you!";
return 0;
}
If someone downloads and compiles this, will yournumbersucks.exe show up on the scanner?
26% of 61 is 15.86! They chopped 14% off one of the surveyees! I wonder if that tainted the rest of the sample?
Or the disgruntled employee being dragged out of the building, all the while shouting "FORMAT C: YES"
Once it has been released, it's out there, and there's very little any copyright laws can ever do about it being shared. That is a whole other barrel of arguing monkeyfish, though.
Hell yeah! Run a train on that fileserver!
If someone wants to copy my \music\mp3 directory, more power to them. But, as another person posted, if they go into my \documents\creative_writing I'd be a bit ticked. I'll admit that. Mostly because unlike the music directory, none of the stuff in there is for public consumption. Also, the mp3 directory is 100% reproducible from public networks. It's already out there. Them taking a copy of all my mp3s is just a way for them to save time and bandwidth. My personal files, on the other hand, aren't.
Of course, as a use case this isn't likely, because I wouldn't buy a computer from Best Buy, let alone entrust them with repairing my box. (And of course, I can fix my own damn computer, so...)
This isn't a matter of stealing or copyright or anything like that. It's an invasion of privacy. Best Buy is giving you a contract (both social and written) saying that they respect you private data, and that you can trust them. If their employees root around in stuff they shouldn't, that's a breach of privacy.
Plus, it's a chance to lay down a strawman beat on Best Buy, and who wants to pass up that opportunity?
So you're saying that if I make a film about the violent rape and murder of an orphaned nun-- but I make the film for the express purpose of tipping an unbalanced mind-- it's okay? I mean, I'm not making it for purposes of sexual arousal. Heavens no. That might cause the tipping of an unbalanced mind!
Of course not. Those papers contain inappropriate material and have been properly disposed of.
You are so wrong. Science and technology advance because the government has a gigantic alien robot frozen beneath Hoover Dam.
Actually, I think the issue was that the power went out in the presentation room.
wtf games have you been playing? Did you never play The Oregon Trail? What about Lemonade Stand? Mathville, for the old Unisys Icons (if you went to school in Canada, that is). Did you think all of the location-based info-dumps in Carmen Sandiago were just for kicks?
Simple enough. Insist on videotaping the install or something similar.
Of course, if she still wanted to cheat, just install this:
Detect that!
Actually, your phone warning you that the office has burnt down might be a useful feature.
Or a fire extinguisher. Whichever's more useful.
And most importantly, you taint the results by showing each person all four!
"Do you like Result 1?"
"Sure"
"Do you like Result 2?"
(thinking) "That looks familiar" (said) "I guess."
"Do you like Result 3?"
(thinking) "Okay, now that has to be the same thing" (said) "I guess so, sure."
"Do you like Result 4?"
(thinking) "wtf?" (said) "Whatever."
Especially if you are measuring not by written or oral results, but by "brainwaves". Of course there's going to be different activity in the brain. The brain is seeing patterns and getting confused. Is that skew trust, or taint?
There are lots of things they can plan for. Saying "Go ask someone else, we don't know" is not a plan.
One of the techies here at work put Zork on the Asterisk phone system. It's narrated by an awful Stephen Hawking impersonator, and "works" by voice commands. In other words, not very well. But if you're ever bored, start calling up Asterisk-based phone systems. Try extension 9675. Beware of the dark.
Allow me to summarize:
Is this a marketing stunt?
No. It's just a way to get word of our product out to our target demo.
Will your product get us banned from WoW?
Probably, but use our service anyways 'cause Blizzard is such a meanie.
Will you get sued?
We're hoping not to.
How are you going to prevent farmers from selling?
We aren't 'cause, like, farmers will pay us too. Did we mention that other RMT sites totally suck?
Do the makers of the games like you?
Our business plan is awesome, and the game makers think so. At least, we think they should. We haven't really asked them. But we're totally going to real soon.
Can a buyer cheat a seller?
Yes. Nothing we can do about it, and that's totally Blizzard's fault for not liking us.
How will you "eliminate the middleman"? What about sweatshops?
Middleman: We don't (please ignore that we say we do). Sweatshops: By pretending they don't exist, lalalala.
Will you tell us about the "anti-fraud" tech you use?
No, because we don't actually have any aside from looking at the logs every now and then.
How will you handle conversion? How will you stop someone from hording gold?
Conversion: Duh, dunno. Somehow. Hording: Uhh, we're hoping someone else will do that for us. For free. Any takers?
How will you deal with players being taxed, present and possible future?
We have no fucking clue. Go ask H&R Block or something.
They managed to evade answering any of the questions asked of them by either redirecting the answer to a talking-point, or by ignoring the question altogether. Everything was put in the frame of their "average, ideal customer" who is bright eyed Johnny trying to trade his extra Sword of Goodness for a few dollars to take Molly to the drive-in. They have no plans or use cases for dealing with fraudsters, changing markets, hoarders, an intrusive government, lawsuits, customer disputes (legitimate or not), human rights violations, international law, changing tax environments, or business-to-business relations. They are literally assuming that everything will just go right-- and their entire business model depends entirely on everything going right.
So in other-words, another buzzy company with no clue who is going to singlehandedly revolutionize the marketplace, and everyone will love them. Sure thing. I'll be by in 3 months to purchase your astroglide chairs and pinball machines for pennies on the dollar at your bankruptcy auction.
So there.
This just means that artists have a different canvas in which to be creative. Just take a look at any Tool CD. There's no arguing that, even on a small square, it's a work of art.
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