Actually, from that first graph you link to, IE has ~160% of the market share that FF (the 2nd most popular browser) has, so "62% lead" could make sense.
Wow, I didn't know that! Could you try tracing my microwave oven, please? Just to give you a bit of a head start, it's 800W, and I'll probably be using it tonight around 7pm, somewhere in the UK.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that a missile running at supersonic speeds is pretty difficult to target, let alone target long enough to destroy with a laser or anything else that can reach it fast enough and accurately enough (which is basically nothing). If the missile could perform evasive maneuvers when it detects that it's being heated by a laser then that makes it even more difficult to hit.
it is currently the better option for the consumer to pirate a song than to legitimately purchase it
Hmm yeah, I'm definitely the one being the arse here. Acquiring things illegitimitely is definitely the way to go, then you don't have to worry about being responsible and looking after things! Thanks for setting me straight.
I don't even have to take the album out of its wrapper.
Yeah, that sounds really worth the extra money. I have barely any space to store my DVDs and blu-rays in my flat right now. I'm glad I could shove all my CDs into my mum's attic. I used to have some kind of sentimental attachment to them, but that starting going after Amazon began offering cheap MP3 albums, and completely evaporated last time I had to move flat. Storing and moving CDs and DVDs is a real pain - and records would be even worse in terms of space - not to mention more fragile. I don't see anything empowering about needing to keep highly inefficient backups of what is essentially just something you want to hear - not something you need to look at or touch.
It's just a pain in the ass. It's much nicer to have one device that does everything. At my mum's house there is a freeview box, PS2 and a Wii. The TV only has 2 SCART inputs too - one of which is taken up by the freeview box. So if the Wii is plugged in and you want to watch a DVD you have to go round the back of the TV and switch the cables around (or use a switcher box as I'm sure some people want to point out).
Compare this to my PS3: I can play my music, watch digital video files, watch TV (with the PlayTV freeview receiver), play CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays, browse the internet, all using one device - only needing one remote control even (although I think the lack of volume control on the PS3 remote is a major oversight, so I do usually still keep the hi-fi remote handy). I've not had to change the input on my TV since I got my PS3. I definitely think Sony have the right idea here.
I'm trying not to be too much of a Sony fanboy here - just pointing out that convergence of devices in the living room is a Good Thing. And short of rolling your own combo gaming rig/media center PC (which even now has got to be more expensive than buying a PS3 when you factor in stuff like a blu-ray drive and small form factor) there isn't anything equivalent out there right now.
Some games do restrict copying of savegames. Others don't. I don't see why it should matter anyway, it's up to the player if they want to miss out on half of the game by cheating.. personally I don't usually mess around with cheats until I've completed the game properly.
For comparison I've upgraded my PS3 with a 320GB internal drive for installing games and recording TV, and I regularly connect up external USB drives to transfer media or save games. Any FAT32 formatted drive works, including my 500GB Passport.
Microsoft are really fucking people over here. Big surprise..
It'll be because of region restrictions. I had to buy a region free DVD player to play some stuff. AFAIK they haven't started enforcing region coding on any blu-rays yet.
Yeah, and all those people with mansions should get 90% discounts on their furniture, fittings, and utility bills - it's ludicrous that they should have to spend so much money to make use of all that space that they unwittingly managed to purchase!
By the time we have 1TB media players, they should be paying us to listen to music and watch movies - otherwise it's just not fair! Waaah!
Hmm okay, it's not a straw man then, but it is completely nonsensical and irrelevant as an argument on the value of art and entertainment. The GGGP mentioning that an MP3 player can hold $10,000 of music was also irrelevant.. it's kind of like saying that fuel should be cheaper for cars with larger fuel tanks.
Charging for digital media by the bit makes about as much sense as charging for all electronic equipment by weight. I think this is one of those "straw man" arguments..
Sure, it's pretty much impossible to tell if Jesus even really existed, but people here also talk about Star Trek characters as if they're real - so what's your point?
To those who demand we pay, the simple question is: why? If I'm using volunteered resources to distribute the game (eg. P2P) then it is costing the developers and publishers nothing. If you disagree please, please message me with your request to donate a few thousand pounds, or local equivalent, to the cause of giving me £~70000 this year, since it's so affordable to you. It sure isn't to me
And right there is where your post turned retarded. Unless you can guarantee that nobody who downloads the game was going to pay for it were that option not available, then you know you're just being a moocher who is contributing nothing useful to the economy - and with that type of attitude, probably not really contributing well to society in general if you're so happy to scam people out of stuff when you think you can get away with it.
I don't really have a problem with people pirating games to make a statement against DRM, or even insane pricing for example. These issues are worth taking a stand over.. but downloading stuff simply because you want it for free is never going to be justifiable. You're of course free to do it if you wish, but please just don't try to justify it with your bullshit strawman argument, it's pathetic. You are not saving the publisher £70K a year. And we're talking about DRM right now, not distribution. It would be far cheaper for the publishers to run some download servers than manufacture all those discs, boxes and manuals..
There's a slightly unfortunate difference here though, in that the DRM in music tended to be added on by individual stores rather than added by the artist or publisher.. so it's going to take a while longer before those fucktards realise that the only thing this achieves is to inconvenience legitimate users and in fact drive up piracy rates.
But you can win against some profit motives. In this case by pointing out that they will get more profit if they stopped with the DRM. There are some games that I may have tried out were it not for the moaning over DRM. Spore for example. It sounded pretty cool but there was too much bitching going on and I decided that I wouldn't even buy the PS3 version. I think Bioshock was another. Apparently it's a great game, but for the last couple of years I'd been avoiding it and couldn't even remember why any more - but now I think it probably was because of the DRM issue.
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Actually, from that first graph you link to, IE has ~160% of the market share that FF (the 2nd most popular browser) has, so "62% lead" could make sense.
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Wow, I didn't know that! Could you try tracing my microwave oven, please? Just to give you a bit of a head start, it's 800W, and I'll probably be using it tonight around 7pm, somewhere in the UK.
That's some !impeccable logic right there.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that a missile running at supersonic speeds is pretty difficult to target, let alone target long enough to destroy with a laser or anything else that can reach it fast enough and accurately enough (which is basically nothing). If the missile could perform evasive maneuvers when it detects that it's being heated by a laser then that makes it even more difficult to hit.
it is currently the better option for the consumer to pirate a song than to legitimately purchase it
Hmm yeah, I'm definitely the one being the arse here. Acquiring things illegitimitely is definitely the way to go, then you don't have to worry about being responsible and looking after things! Thanks for setting me straight.
Ah, that's not so bad then - but the artificial limitations are still pathetic money grubbing on Microsoft's part.
I don't even have to take the album out of its wrapper.
Yeah, that sounds really worth the extra money. I have barely any space to store my DVDs and blu-rays in my flat right now. I'm glad I could shove all my CDs into my mum's attic. I used to have some kind of sentimental attachment to them, but that starting going after Amazon began offering cheap MP3 albums, and completely evaporated last time I had to move flat. Storing and moving CDs and DVDs is a real pain - and records would be even worse in terms of space - not to mention more fragile. I don't see anything empowering about needing to keep highly inefficient backups of what is essentially just something you want to hear - not something you need to look at or touch.
I didn't say they don't have it, I said they haven't been enforcing/using it AFAIK. Now I know slightly better.
It's just a pain in the ass. It's much nicer to have one device that does everything. At my mum's house there is a freeview box, PS2 and a Wii. The TV only has 2 SCART inputs too - one of which is taken up by the freeview box. So if the Wii is plugged in and you want to watch a DVD you have to go round the back of the TV and switch the cables around (or use a switcher box as I'm sure some people want to point out).
Compare this to my PS3: I can play my music, watch digital video files, watch TV (with the PlayTV freeview receiver), play CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays, browse the internet, all using one device - only needing one remote control even (although I think the lack of volume control on the PS3 remote is a major oversight, so I do usually still keep the hi-fi remote handy). I've not had to change the input on my TV since I got my PS3. I definitely think Sony have the right idea here.
I'm trying not to be too much of a Sony fanboy here - just pointing out that convergence of devices in the living room is a Good Thing. And short of rolling your own combo gaming rig/media center PC (which even now has got to be more expensive than buying a PS3 when you factor in stuff like a blu-ray drive and small form factor) there isn't anything equivalent out there right now.
Yep, but they don't tend to chip in so much and so obnoxiously in these console wars.
Disclaimer: I own a PS3, Wii, DS, PSP and used to love PC gaming too but have no need for it at the moment.
Some games do restrict copying of savegames. Others don't. I don't see why it should matter anyway, it's up to the player if they want to miss out on half of the game by cheating.. personally I don't usually mess around with cheats until I've completed the game properly.
For comparison I've upgraded my PS3 with a 320GB internal drive for installing games and recording TV, and I regularly connect up external USB drives to transfer media or save games. Any FAT32 formatted drive works, including my 500GB Passport.
Microsoft are really fucking people over here. Big surprise..
Whoever modded that redundant clearly has no knowledge of Lord of the Rings..
It'll be because of region restrictions. I had to buy a region free DVD player to play some stuff. AFAIK they haven't started enforcing region coding on any blu-rays yet.
I'm surprised I haven't seen PS3 fanboys laughing about this before.. it's even worse than not being able to watch DVDs on your Wii's DVD drive..
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V.. v.. v-v-voldemort?
Yeah, and all those people with mansions should get 90% discounts on their furniture, fittings, and utility bills - it's ludicrous that they should have to spend so much money to make use of all that space that they unwittingly managed to purchase!
By the time we have 1TB media players, they should be paying us to listen to music and watch movies - otherwise it's just not fair! Waaah!
Hmm okay, it's not a straw man then, but it is completely nonsensical and irrelevant as an argument on the value of art and entertainment. The GGGP mentioning that an MP3 player can hold $10,000 of music was also irrelevant.. it's kind of like saying that fuel should be cheaper for cars with larger fuel tanks.
Charging for digital media by the bit makes about as much sense as charging for all electronic equipment by weight. I think this is one of those "straw man" arguments..
Yes, books say a lot of things.
Sure, it's pretty much impossible to tell if Jesus even really existed, but people here also talk about Star Trek characters as if they're real - so what's your point?
"Buddy whispers you, 'Why are we whispering?'"
To those who demand we pay, the simple question is: why? If I'm using volunteered resources to distribute the game (eg. P2P) then it is costing the developers and publishers nothing. If you disagree please, please message me with your request to donate a few thousand pounds, or local equivalent, to the cause of giving me £~70000 this year, since it's so affordable to you. It sure isn't to me
And right there is where your post turned retarded. Unless you can guarantee that nobody who downloads the game was going to pay for it were that option not available, then you know you're just being a moocher who is contributing nothing useful to the economy - and with that type of attitude, probably not really contributing well to society in general if you're so happy to scam people out of stuff when you think you can get away with it.
I don't really have a problem with people pirating games to make a statement against DRM, or even insane pricing for example. These issues are worth taking a stand over.. but downloading stuff simply because you want it for free is never going to be justifiable. You're of course free to do it if you wish, but please just don't try to justify it with your bullshit strawman argument, it's pathetic. You are not saving the publisher £70K a year. And we're talking about DRM right now, not distribution. It would be far cheaper for the publishers to run some download servers than manufacture all those discs, boxes and manuals..
There's a slightly unfortunate difference here though, in that the DRM in music tended to be added on by individual stores rather than added by the artist or publisher.. so it's going to take a while longer before those fucktards realise that the only thing this achieves is to inconvenience legitimate users and in fact drive up piracy rates.
But you can win against some profit motives. In this case by pointing out that they will get more profit if they stopped with the DRM. There are some games that I may have tried out were it not for the moaning over DRM. Spore for example. It sounded pretty cool but there was too much bitching going on and I decided that I wouldn't even buy the PS3 version. I think Bioshock was another. Apparently it's a great game, but for the last couple of years I'd been avoiding it and couldn't even remember why any more - but now I think it probably was because of the DRM issue.
Kind of like an olden times Saddam Hussein, you could say?