What the hell are you talking about? You think it's OK for me to spend a great deal of money/time/effort making something (TV show, book, movie, game) and then you can just take it and make money off it without giving me anything in return? Why on earth would you think that's OK? Clearly you don't make IP for a living? You're just a consumer that thinks this stuff flows for free.
Please explain to me how, in this world of no IP laws that any movie or game would be made that wasn't some amateurish piece of crap? Seriously, please explain that to me and please be detailed and think off all the issues. Pick your favorite movie or game and please explain how this would have worked?
Yes, and I've seen these HDTV's and they are HD in that they accept HD input, but the resolution is NTSC. You see them all over the place at Sears and Walmark. That is what most people are buying, and they do look nicer than CRT's because they are digital and LCD. But they are not HD as most people here would think of it.
Man do I agree with that. Scoble is just in a big circle jerk with the rest of the self-proclaimed A-list bloggers. No one really cares except them, and they just go around linking to each other saying "hey, look at how great we are".
And who do you think provides all this "free" news you can find on the web? Print magazines and newspapers, that's who. Take them all away, and what do you have left? I bunch of bloggers that don't really do any investigative reporting. All those journalist that are over in Iraq, who pays them? Print media, that's who. So, in you brave new world, where print media goes away, who will provide the investigation? Who will spend months digging into stories and holding our leaders accountable?
Look a couple levels deep and you'll see you should be supporting the print media, not calling for their demise.
I have a good friend that was raped, and she really wished she was dead. Rape is a horrible thing. If you've never been rapped or had a good friend rapped, it's impossible to make you understand. Rape is not over in a few minutes, it destroys people for many years, and sometimes for their whole life.
Cory's problem is that he doesn't make a living off of something that is easily copied that people want in a digital format, so he's largely unaffected by piracy. Yeah, he writes books and releases them as text, but the fact is 99% of book buyers want paper books right now, so he's in no real danger.
Cory can rant and rave all he wants, but he's not living the problem.
I don't. It's all about religion, the most horrible thing ever created by man.
Religion is responsible for more hate and death in this world than anything else. It breads hate and robs people of the tool of reason to overcome that hate.
I had a run-in with the FBI once. A friend got caught up in something bad, and the FBI thought I might be involved (I wasn't and knew nothing about it). I must say...the FBI was very professional, polite and treated me very well. I am a pretty paranoid person, but I was very impressed. Even my friend, who was arrested, later commented on how professional they were.
No, that's not the problem, the problem is that fighter pilots spend thousands of hours training. Even a private pilot will spend hundreds of hours (and never stop) training.
If drivers did the same thing, here would be no problem.
But they don't care!!! They just want to listen to their music, the how and why of it doesn't matter to them at all. That is something we NEED to understand if we're going to change anything, and for the most part this is lost on the geek world.
Most people like iPods because they work, no muss, no fuss. They just don't care about anything else. Maybe they will start to care 5 years from now when they buy another music player and it won't play any of the music they own, but until that smacks them in the face...they don't care and there is nothing you can do to change that.
I have a bunch of "cookbooks", and I don't read them because I'm looking for a specific solution, I read them because it's a great way to learn a lot of tricks and see a lot of code in a concentrated place that covers a bunch of areas.
I sit on the couch and just read them and learn a lot.
I know several people that work at Google, and yes it's true. There are a lot of Mac laptops, but mostly IBM thinkpads. Every programmer I've seen as a Linux system at their desk for the programming work, but they also have the Mac/Thnkpad right next to it for email, IM, Word, etc.
Nice idea, but, how much money? If I create some new and cool that everyone loves, I can only make $1M? $10M? $100M? How much is too much? Is that profit or net? What if, like a movie, it cost me $100M to make, then how much before it goes PD?
Remember, people investing in things to make money, not to break even, and a healthy creative environment needs to allow people to fail, or they will never take chances, which mean investors need to make 5 or 6 times what they put into something.
Ultimately, if video game developers feel their innovation is being stifled by big box brand stores, then simply go the route of Valve and distribute your software via Steam or some other online service. Bypass the big box stores and their "family values" kind of crap mentality.
ok, first of all, developers don't decide where their game is sold, publishers do and publishers are happy to let Walmart tell them what to build because it means less thinking and an order "in the books".
As for Steam, yes a developer could use Steam, but Value doesn't pay development cost (like a publisher does), so where do developers get the money to make the game?
>> Lets pretend that you have virtually unlimited bandwidth to your house.
The future is in video on demand. HDDVD, HDTV and remember, with today's families, 4 people are going to want to watch 4 different shows at the same time.
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What the hell are you talking about? You think it's OK for me to spend a great deal of money/time/effort making something (TV show, book, movie, game) and then you can just take it and make money off it without giving me anything in return? Why on earth would you think that's OK? Clearly you don't make IP for a living? You're just a consumer that thinks this stuff flows for free.
Please explain to me how, in this world of no IP laws that any movie or game would be made that wasn't some amateurish piece of crap? Seriously, please explain that to me and please be detailed and think off all the issues. Pick your favorite movie or game and please explain how this would have worked?
Yes, and I've seen these HDTV's and they are HD in that they accept HD input, but the resolution is NTSC. You see them all over the place at Sears and Walmark. That is what most people are buying, and they do look nicer than CRT's because they are digital and LCD. But they are not HD as most people here would think of it.
Man do I agree with that. Scoble is just in a big circle jerk with the rest of the self-proclaimed A-list bloggers. No one really cares except them, and they just go around linking to each other saying "hey, look at how great we are".
I have no doubt MS was happy to be rid of him.
This is MS's latest attempt to play catch-up. When will they come out with something new and be a leader.
And who do you think provides all this "free" news you can find on the web? Print magazines and newspapers, that's who. Take them all away, and what do you have left? I bunch of bloggers that don't really do any investigative reporting. All those journalist that are over in Iraq, who pays them? Print media, that's who. So, in you brave new world, where print media goes away, who will provide the investigation? Who will spend months digging into stories and holding our leaders accountable?
Look a couple levels deep and you'll see you should be supporting the print media, not calling for their demise.
I have a good friend that was raped, and she really wished she was dead. Rape is a horrible thing. If you've never been rapped or had a good friend rapped, it's impossible to make you understand. Rape is not over in a few minutes, it destroys people for many years, and sometimes for their whole life.
>>Isn't it amusing I found this article by using /.'s own RSS fee!"$%&() ****NO CARRIER****
Why are you still using dial-up?
Cory's problem is that he doesn't make a living off of something that is easily copied that people want in a digital format, so he's largely unaffected by piracy. Yeah, he writes books and releases them as text, but the fact is 99% of book buyers want paper books right now, so he's in no real danger.
Cory can rant and rave all he wants, but he's not living the problem.
>>But I do find it odd that it continually
I don't. It's all about religion, the most horrible thing ever created by man.
Religion is responsible for more hate and death in this world than anything else. It breads hate and robs people of the tool of reason to overcome that hate.
>>Try to be less insulting the next time you say something dumb.
You did say *NONE*, next time use *MOST* or *SOME* or *A LOT* or *DAMN NEAR ALL*
I had a run-in with the FBI once. A friend got caught up in something bad, and the FBI thought I might be involved (I wasn't and knew nothing about it). I must say...the FBI was very professional, polite and treated me very well. I am a pretty paranoid person, but I was very impressed. Even my friend, who was arrested, later commented on how professional they were.
>>So multitasking isnt the problem....
No, that's not the problem, the problem is that fighter pilots spend thousands of hours training. Even a private pilot will spend hundreds of hours (and never stop) training.
If drivers did the same thing, here would be no problem.
But they don't care!!! They just want to listen to their music, the how and why of it doesn't matter to them at all. That is something we NEED to understand if we're going to change anything, and for the most part this is lost on the geek world.
Most people like iPods because they work, no muss, no fuss. They just don't care about anything else. Maybe they will start to care 5 years from now when they buy another music player and it won't play any of the music they own, but until that smacks them in the face...they don't care and there is nothing you can do to change that.
I have a bunch of "cookbooks", and I don't read them because I'm looking for a specific solution, I read them because it's a great way to learn a lot of tricks and see a lot of code in a concentrated place that covers a bunch of areas.
I sit on the couch and just read them and learn a lot.
The reason that google and others can search billions of pages in a few seconds is because it's all pre-indexed. Adding regex really messes that up.
I know several people that work at Google, and yes it's true. There are a lot of Mac laptops, but mostly IBM thinkpads. Every programmer I've seen as a Linux system at their desk for the programming work, but they also have the Mac/Thnkpad right next to it for email, IM, Word, etc.
Yeah, but how many of those hours are "quality" hours. I can make a game that takes 1000 hours to play, but it's not going to be very fun.
I'd rather play a 5 hour game that was great from start to finish than a 40 hour game with a bunch of filler and save/load sessions.
Nice idea, but, how much money? If I create some new and cool that everyone loves, I can only make $1M? $10M? $100M? How much is too much? Is that profit or net? What if, like a movie, it cost me $100M to make, then how much before it goes PD?
Remember, people investing in things to make money, not to break even, and a healthy creative environment needs to allow people to fail, or they will never take chances, which mean investors need to make 5 or 6 times what they put into something.
No thanks, MS.
Like you have a choice?
Ultimately, if video game developers feel their innovation is being stifled by big box brand stores, then simply go the route of Valve and distribute your software via Steam or some other online service. Bypass the big box stores and their "family values" kind of crap mentality.
ok, first of all, developers don't decide where their game is sold, publishers do and publishers are happy to let Walmart tell them what to build because it means less thinking and an order "in the books".
As for Steam, yes a developer could use Steam, but Value doesn't pay development cost (like a publisher does), so where do developers get the money to make the game?
Because when they do buy a game, they buy a fuck-load of copies.
>> Lets pretend that you have virtually unlimited bandwidth to your house.
The future is in video on demand. HDDVD, HDTV and remember, with today's families, 4 people are going to want to watch 4 different shows at the same time.
That's bandwidth baby!
>> Man, this went down faster than a transvestite hooker going down on Hugh Grant.
Not to nitpick, but this should be:
Man, this went down faster than a transvestite hooker on Hugh Grant.
The second "down" wrecks the flow of the sentence.
Comedy is hard.
"Per cent"?
Isn't it "Percent"?
Maybe from a math standpoint they might be the same thing...
"the more you tighten your grip, the more sand will slip through your fingers..."
WRONG
"the more you tighten your grip, the more *systems* will slip through your fingers..."