My software, codecs, etc. will be free or I will just not do whatever it is that requires that. I'll buy a $300 throw-down windows box (easy at Fry's) before I'll do that. With multi-terabyte drives, I can wait 15 years to get a codec that makes the video 3% tighter.
It really is true that people drop dead from a heart attack taking coke. My grandfather died at 64 from a heart attack. I'll pass.
It may have to do with the quality of the coke but the fact is there is a subgroup of people whose bodies over and under react to anything (alchohol, grain, meat, shellfish, peanuts, cocaine). Amazingly, pot seems to be an exception (I think reported death ever). If it were legal, I'd do pot over alchohol in a heartbeat since I'm on the edge of being diabetic.
The problem with the lying anti-drug campaign is that it makes people skeptical of the very real drawbacks of using various substances (impotence, dependency, death). But what are we going to do??? Live in a 5' box our entire lives fed pap through a straw? No- you inform yourself on the risks of your activity (I will *never* skydive for example- the odds are worse than coke for sure) and then you decide if it is worth it.
Colbert asked Kevin Costner if he would run for office and Costner laughed and said something like, 'No... I've lead a colorful life."
I think that would probably be the issue with *most* people like Colbert and John Stewart. The facts of Bush's "colorful" youth were largely ignored when he was running for election. I couldn't believe he got away with "I haven't used cocaine since January of 1987." but more power to him since i think cocaine and pot should be legal. I'd never do cocaine-- taking something that has a 1/100,000 chance of killing you the first time you use it isn't my thing. But wise men throughout history have altered their conciousness. And suddenly we disallow it and insist that only the most prissy, straight-laced people who don't even match 90% of the population in actual behavior should be our political leaders. Basically-- PRIESTS should be our leaders. The kings and lords and barons of industry had strong passions and lead bold lives and it gave them the strength of character needed to truly do the right thing.
Perhaps it is time to stop throwing away good leaders because they lead "colorful" lives and aren't priests. I imagine most leaders throughout history were alpha males and lead colorful lives filled with fighting, boozing, womanizing, and drinking. Since our memory is now much longer and much more through, it may be time to adjust the rules to the new "no privacy" reality.
Maybe it is the libertarian in me, but if I set up an organization of amateur, undoped athletes, I want only amateur, undoped athletes participating in the events.
If doping athletes want to set up an event for them- more power to them.
But I want freedom to assemble.
I don't someone showing up with a three million dollar dragster at my 890 class (basically $50k back in early 00's) races. Of course they would win.
I don't want a heavyweight boxer participating in my bantam weight boxing match.
I don't want a bantam weight boxer who is drugged to not feel pain and has steel plates installed on his knuckles either.
Who said most of these people were willing and/or giving truly informed consent?
If you take this, you will win- and you will become impotent and die in your 40's. You'll probably be prone to fits of uncontrollable rage and may kill your family and friends at random.
Yes but playing the odds can result in 2% lower costs.
Which means your products are 4% cheaper than a competitor who is using good backup strategies. So if the odds work in your favor, your competitor goes out of business before you get hit by something bad like this.
Companies make these kind of hard choices all the time. And a lot of times, they successfully destroy their competitors and hear the lamentations of their women.
Console games by definition have STRONG copyright protection... None of my friends with Console's play pirated games on them. So your "rent/pirate" must be an obscure corner of the market.
PC games are almost all broken and available for download.
Number of console games you bought.. 80. Number of PC games you bough... 0.
Some random stranger will or will not produce a game.
Meanwhile, your monkey tribe preserves $3,000 of its resources. Then when bad times come, your tribe survives while others die of starvation.
Doesn't matter if it is digital or not. At the tribal level, sharing is historically correct. Libraries are a good thing which modern content producers are doing what they can to kill for new media.
Copyright and digital objects are completely new ideas fighting against 50,000 years of successful "morality".
it's a question of which pirate channel you want to stop.
1) the "hey chris, want a copy of this new game I got? It's great and there is no protection"
2) the "Arrrr, we've stripped out all the protection so you can now put a copy of this on yer hard disk and make easy backups"
All games should have *some* method of trivial protection to stop case 1 because it destroys sales. Most people are immoral when they are anonymous.
The most effective protection I've ever seen is new content created by the developer on their web site that the game must phone home for. It must sign in with a unique id and after a couple successful downloads, that id is locked until the next content release. The protection is on the server side.
I would recommend the following model.
1) Create content on the web site that must be downloaded with an ID that updates the program as well. Tightly integrate the downloaded data with the multiple gigabytes of data that already exists. Don't be an idiot and make it a stand alone 2mb file.
2) Set an arbitrary date when the content will stop (12-24 months) and the game will be unlocked due to an expectation that sales will drop to a level that support for problems is impossible. At that point, make the game unprotected and get good will and trust from your customers. And even then, you'll still get new sales- but the main wave of "hey chris" copies has passed.
Fundamental problem is not the unions (sure a little rigidity and bureaucratic overhead sucks but multi billion dollar corporations have that from everyone- not just union labor).
The fundamental problem is the unions accepted the promise of $2 tomorrow instead of $1 today.
Now it is tomorrow, and the car companies are not going to be able to stay in business keeping promises they made 30 years ago. Just like the US government isn't going to be able to keep its promises on medicare and social security.
So at some point, pensions, health care for 70 year olds, social security are all going to be cut until we are competative again. We just are not ready for that reality yet because a lot of 65+ people VOTE. When the 18 to 30 year olds start VOTING then policies will change to favor them.
You said... "If you don't like the war, and you protest, and make speeches that the war is bad, and that you think the president is mistaken, that's protected under the freedom of speech."
"Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), was a United States Supreme Court decision concerning the question of whether the defendant possessed a First Amendment right to free speech against the draft during World War I. Charles Schenck was the Secretary of the Socialist party and was responsible for printing, distributing, and mailing 15,000 leaflets to men eligible for the draft that advocated opposition to the draft. These leaflets contained statements such as; "Do not submit to intimidation", "Assert your rights", "If you do not assert and support your rights, you are helping to deny or disparage rights which it is the solemn duty of all citizens and residents of the United States to retain." Ultimately, the case served as the founding of the "clear and present danger" rule.... The Court, in a unanimous opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., held that Schenck's criminal conviction was constitutional.... This case is also the source of the phrase "shouting fire in a crowded theater," a misquotation of Holmes' view that "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic." "
Identify 150 year old folks song. Identify note sequences in it and build a database of such note sequences plus known public domain songs. Melody creator ("thief") is sued, they can use the database to point out their song is a unique composition but composed of public domain sequences.
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I have no interest in that.
My software, codecs, etc. will be free or I will just not do whatever it is that requires that.
I'll buy a $300 throw-down windows box (easy at Fry's) before I'll do that. With multi-terabyte drives, I can wait 15 years to get a codec that makes the video 3% tighter.
Some priests. Probably under 10% of them.
90% of them are decent, good men who work hard and selflessly.
Well maybe 80% of the catholic church priests- its so big and old it has more corruption.
No.
Morality is respecting other people and them respecting you.
Cheating shows you have no respect for yourself or those you are unfairly competing against.
It's not a very far walk from having no respect for them as human being so it is okay to take their stuff and kill them.
The best of religions try to capture rules that promote success of their group- these are often pretty good morals too.
However, power always corrupts and any successful religion always becomes corrupt.
It really is true that people drop dead from a heart attack taking coke. My grandfather died at 64 from a heart attack. I'll pass.
It may have to do with the quality of the coke but the fact is there is a subgroup of people whose bodies over and under react to anything (alchohol, grain, meat, shellfish, peanuts, cocaine). Amazingly, pot seems to be an exception (I think reported death ever). If it were legal, I'd do pot over alchohol in a heartbeat since I'm on the edge of being diabetic.
The problem with the lying anti-drug campaign is that it makes people skeptical of the very real drawbacks of using various substances (impotence, dependency, death). But what are we going to do??? Live in a 5' box our entire lives fed pap through a straw? No- you inform yourself on the risks of your activity (I will *never* skydive for example- the odds are worse than coke for sure) and then you decide if it is worth it.
Colbert asked Kevin Costner if he would run for office and Costner laughed and said something like, 'No... I've lead a colorful life."
I think that would probably be the issue with *most* people like Colbert and John Stewart. The facts of Bush's "colorful" youth were largely ignored when he was running for election. I couldn't believe he got away with "I haven't used cocaine since January of 1987." but more power to him since i think cocaine and pot should be legal. I'd never do cocaine-- taking something that has a 1/100,000 chance of killing you the first time you use it isn't my thing. But wise men throughout history have altered their conciousness. And suddenly we disallow it and insist that only the most prissy, straight-laced people who don't even match 90% of the population in actual behavior should be our political leaders. Basically-- PRIESTS should be our leaders. The kings and lords and barons of industry had strong passions and lead bold lives and it gave them the strength of character needed to truly do the right thing.
Perhaps it is time to stop throwing away good leaders because they lead "colorful" lives and aren't priests. I imagine most leaders throughout history were alpha males and lead colorful lives filled with fighting, boozing, womanizing, and drinking. Since our memory is now much longer and much more through, it may be time to adjust the rules to the new "no privacy" reality.
No the problem is a basic lack of morality and sense of fair play.
Those are the things that also keep us from killing each other.
Maybe it is the libertarian in me, but if I set up an organization of amateur, undoped athletes, I want only amateur, undoped athletes participating in the events.
If doping athletes want to set up an event for them- more power to them.
But I want freedom to assemble.
I don't someone showing up with a three million dollar dragster at my 890 class (basically $50k back in early 00's) races. Of course they would win.
I don't want a heavyweight boxer participating in my bantam weight boxing match.
I don't want a bantam weight boxer who is drugged to not feel pain and has steel plates installed on his knuckles either.
yada Ya.da. Ya...DA!
Who said most of these people were willing and/or giving truly informed consent?
If you take this, you will win- and you will become impotent and die in your 40's. You'll probably be prone to fits of uncontrollable rage and may kill your family and friends at random.
Mod Parent Up!~
This is one of the best and most informative posts I've ever read on the situation.
The skeptoid article should be required reading for anyone who wants to get involved in this issue on either side.
Yes but playing the odds can result in 2% lower costs.
Which means your products are 4% cheaper than a competitor who is using good backup strategies.
So if the odds work in your favor, your competitor goes out of business before you get hit by something bad like this.
Companies make these kind of hard choices all the time. And a lot of times, they successfully destroy their competitors and hear the lamentations of their women.
And nothing can make me thing... me thing... grr. me thing differently!
Huh.
Console games by definition have STRONG copyright protection... None of my friends with Console's play pirated games on them. So your "rent/pirate" must be an obscure corner of the market.
PC games are almost all broken and available for download.
Number of console games you bought.. 80.
Number of PC games you bough... 0.
True, if they never ever have internet- not temporarily don't have internet.
You can play the game with old data on your trip and get the new content pack when you get back.
It's all so clear to me now.
I must kill the prime minister of malasia!
That's the great thing.
The new CFL's generate the same light with 1/5 the heat.
I'm sure industrial growers would have an issue but the closet farmer is fine.
Now Italy will be exporting its wealth to the rest of the world and becoming relatively poorer.
Some random stranger will or will not produce a game.
Meanwhile, your monkey tribe preserves $3,000 of its resources. Then when bad times come, your tribe survives while others die of starvation.
Doesn't matter if it is digital or not. At the tribal level, sharing is historically correct. Libraries are a good thing which modern content producers are doing what they can to kill for new media.
Copyright and digital objects are completely new ideas fighting against 50,000 years of successful "morality".
Sharing is highly moral.
It is a great way to preserve resources for your "pack".
Who gives a crap about someone out of your 150 person monkey tribe?
Who doesn't do immoral and illegal things all the time when they think they won't get caught?
Immorality is the norm. Only public shame and rules keep it in check. Those rules are to protect society- not to follow people's personal norms.
it's a question of which pirate channel you want to stop.
1) the "hey chris, want a copy of this new game I got? It's great and there is no protection"
2) the "Arrrr, we've stripped out all the protection so you can now put a copy of this on yer hard disk and make easy backups"
All games should have *some* method of trivial protection to stop case 1 because it destroys sales. Most people are immoral when they are anonymous.
The most effective protection I've ever seen is new content created by the developer on their web site that the game must phone home for. It must sign in with a unique id and after a couple successful downloads, that id is locked until the next content release. The protection is on the server side.
I would recommend the following model.
1) Create content on the web site that must be downloaded with an ID that updates the program as well. Tightly integrate the downloaded data with the multiple gigabytes of data that already exists. Don't be an idiot and make it a stand alone 2mb file.
2) Set an arbitrary date when the content will stop (12-24 months) and the game will be unlocked due to an expectation that sales will drop to a level that support for problems is impossible. At that point, make the game unprotected and get good will and trust from your customers. And even then, you'll still get new sales- but the main wave of "hey chris" copies has passed.
Fundamental problem is not the unions (sure a little rigidity and bureaucratic overhead sucks but multi billion dollar corporations have that from everyone- not just union labor).
The fundamental problem is the unions accepted the promise of $2 tomorrow instead of $1 today.
Now it is tomorrow, and the car companies are not going to be able to stay in business keeping promises they made 30 years ago. Just like the US government isn't going to be able to keep its promises on medicare and social security.
So at some point, pensions, health care for 70 year olds, social security are all going to be cut until we are competative again. We just are not ready for that reality yet because a lot of 65+ people VOTE. When the 18 to 30 year olds start VOTING then policies will change to favor them.
You said...
"If you don't like the war, and you protest, and make speeches that the war is bad, and that you think the president is mistaken, that's protected under the freedom of speech."
No... it's not during an actual war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
"Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), was a United States Supreme Court decision concerning the question of whether the defendant possessed a First Amendment right to free speech against the draft during World War I. Charles Schenck was the Secretary of the Socialist party and was responsible for printing, distributing, and mailing 15,000 leaflets to men eligible for the draft that advocated opposition to the draft. These leaflets contained statements such as; "Do not submit to intimidation", "Assert your rights", "If you do not assert and support your rights, you are helping to deny or disparage rights which it is the solemn duty of all citizens and residents of the United States to retain." Ultimately, the case served as the founding of the "clear and present danger" rule. ... ...
The Court, in a unanimous opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., held that Schenck's criminal conviction was constitutional.
This case is also the source of the phrase "shouting fire in a crowded theater," a misquotation of Holmes' view that "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic."
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He served 6 months.
"You cannot kill that which does not live" would be the judge death saying...
I see a lot of Segways in houston for security patrols. I'm betting because it is a lot cheaper than a car now.
And those things book. AND they DO look so frikkin cool.
Yes. That is what I was saying up top.
Identify 150 year old folks song.
Identify note sequences in it and build a database of such note sequences plus known public domain songs.
Melody creator ("thief") is sued, they can use the database to point out their song is a unique composition but composed of public domain sequences.
Salary and benefits in Houston are up to about 110k. And the pensions are murder.
No but it does prevent the copyright holder from suing another songwriter from suing another songwriter for using the same sequence of 7 notes.