Not You(capital Y - singular) personally, but you (in all small caps - plural)
This is why we need to popularize the use of "y'all". Then it is immediately obvious which pronoun is singular and which is plural. Offtopic, I know. But it needs to be said.
IGN and MySpace are similar only in that they are both websites. Comparing their prices is next to meaningless.
Quite to the contrary, I believe that News Corp overpaid. MySpace represents the worst of the worst in the world of user generated content. News Corp would have been better served waiting for a more competent successor.
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that seems like a good point about the DVD player buttons, but i think you missed the obvious, which is that the buttons are designed to be pushed by your right thumb, which approaches the buttons at an angle, so they put the buttons at that angle. it only stops making sense if you look down with your eyes, which are at a different angle of incidence than your thumb, and you see the little arrow icons printed there for your eyes to see. so, the icons are for your eyes, but the buttons are for your thumb. i think that's reasonable.
Not as obvious as you might think. The human hand can eaisly adapt to a wide variety of odd orientations. Take a look at mice. When was the last time you saw one perfectly oriented to the mousepad / desk edge / keyboard? Most of them are at an angle. Interestingly, the advent of wireless mice has caused a profusion of mouse angles since they are no longer bound by the cord. In my entirely non-scientific sample, the less expeirenced the user, the more dramatic the mouse angle. My point is all these people can use their mice at all these odd and often cramped angles without having to reconfigure the mouse settings.
I wager that, when presented with directional buttons on the DVD, the average user would find it easier to navigate up based on the orientation of the buttons with respect to the DVD unit than with respect to whatever orientation their thumb happens to be at the moment. If finger orientation is important, imagine the confusion the lefty feels when she reaches across the unit to manipulate the buttons with her index finger. An exhaustive explaination, but like most obvious things it takes a while to do right.
Even worse is the disconnect between the printed arrows on the case and the embossed arrows on the buttons themselves. Looking at the buttons, can you really be sure what any given button press will do? Mold costs are getting really low, couldn't they have made buttons embossed with the intended orientation?
"Please feel free to copy and use this music however you see fit, share it with friends, put it on P2P, make a mix, or include it into other works. Do not include, encode with, or wrap this work in any anti-copying system or use any technological protection measures upon this work. If you value this work, feel free to contribute. Donation details can be found at (website addresses). Enjoy!".
It seems perfectly clear to me that he intends redistribution through ripping the CD and P2P.
I disagree with your views on the purpose of DRM. DRM' purpose is to make exercising fair use so difficult that the average user will just not bother.
Furthermore, it is not the role of the media player to decide what level of copyright protection the artist desires. If the artist (or in most cases, the distributor) decides that DRM in necessary for restricting distribution, then it is their responsibility to apply said DRM.
Your revenue stream in this example is based on donations. Nothing the end user can do in regard to DRM-limiting his own copies can possibly effect that. Stop being absurd.
A donation based revenue stream relies heavily on the unfettered distirbution of the work. When a third-party, such as MicroSoft, arbitrary applies DRM to any copy, the distribution chain is temrinated and any potential additional users for that copy are lost. These lost users do not exerience the work and are therefore highly unlikely to contribute donations. Therefore revenue is lost. DRM harms donation-based artists.
Actually, I was mostly serious. IMHO, this shortcoming is common to all of the "fuel" type consumer battery replacement concepts. Electrical outlets are ubiquitous and often free for the mooching. Ironically, non-battery consumer electronics would face similar infrastructure challenges as (pure) electric cars do. There is little insentive to duplicate the existing infrastructure to accomodate a new technology.
Additionally, I don't think that battery life is that much of a concern, otherwise you would have manufacturers competing for the longest battery life instead of the largest monitor / fastest computer / lightest wieght.
I disagree. Several of them were both apt and humorous.
Or is your comment some sort of ill-placed metahumor? (hint: Feigning the lack of a sense of humor for satire does not make you ironic. It makes you stupid.)
That doesn't make much sense though, why would the "B" movie be played first? I agree that the theater operators would play the lower quality movie first, but would expect the first movie played to be the "A" movie.
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This is why we need to popularize the use of "y'all". Then it is immediately obvious which pronoun is singular and which is plural. Offtopic, I know. But it needs to be said.
Especially when you consider FF 2.0 has built in spell checking.
...for sufficiently large values of Today.
Or people who bust their ass to make that 10-14% more have no social life outside work, therefore are more likely to socialize with coworkers.
But don't worry, they are working on other CPU hogs.
I thought this was for Nintendo's new cheese-based controller. The WiiBrie.
Where do you get your yogurt? Mine is closed in all 13 dimensions I can currently access.
From the inside? How do I get in there?
Well, bob was taken YEARS earlier.
Not as obvious as you might think. The human hand can eaisly adapt to a wide variety of odd orientations. Take a look at mice. When was the last time you saw one perfectly oriented to the mousepad / desk edge / keyboard? Most of them are at an angle. Interestingly, the advent of wireless mice has caused a profusion of mouse angles since they are no longer bound by the cord. In my entirely non-scientific sample, the less expeirenced the user, the more dramatic the mouse angle. My point is all these people can use their mice at all these odd and often cramped angles without having to reconfigure the mouse settings.
I wager that, when presented with directional buttons on the DVD, the average user would find it easier to navigate up based on the orientation of the buttons with respect to the DVD unit than with respect to whatever orientation their thumb happens to be at the moment. If finger orientation is important, imagine the confusion the lefty feels when she reaches across the unit to manipulate the buttons with her index finger. An exhaustive explaination, but like most obvious things it takes a while to do right.
Even worse is the disconnect between the printed arrows on the case and the embossed arrows on the buttons themselves. Looking at the buttons, can you really be sure what any given button press will do? Mold costs are getting really low, couldn't they have made buttons embossed with the intended orientation?
A dyslexic who likes anagrams. Vaugly disturbing and yet oddly appropriate.
It seems perfectly clear to me that he intends redistribution through ripping the CD and P2P.
I disagree with your views on the purpose of DRM. DRM' purpose is to make exercising fair use so difficult that the average user will just not bother.
Furthermore, it is not the role of the media player to decide what level of copyright protection the artist desires. If the artist (or in most cases, the distributor) decides that DRM in necessary for restricting distribution, then it is their responsibility to apply said DRM.
A donation based revenue stream relies heavily on the unfettered distirbution of the work. When a third-party, such as MicroSoft, arbitrary applies DRM to any copy, the distribution chain is temrinated and any potential additional users for that copy are lost. These lost users do not exerience the work and are therefore highly unlikely to contribute donations. Therefore revenue is lost. DRM harms donation-based artists.
Run it on B20 biodiesel, and you have cut the (net) carbon dioxide emissions by 20%.
"Farmwork"? Kinky....
Talented? Maybe. Genius? Not really.
My inner geek loves the idea, but my inner slacker says it's never gonna happen. (And then my defences say I didn't want it anyway)
Actually, I was mostly serious. IMHO, this shortcoming is common to all of the "fuel" type consumer battery replacement concepts. Electrical outlets are ubiquitous and often free for the mooching. Ironically, non-battery consumer electronics would face similar infrastructure challenges as (pure) electric cars do. There is little insentive to duplicate the existing infrastructure to accomodate a new technology. Additionally, I don't think that battery life is that much of a concern, otherwise you would have manufacturers competing for the longest battery life instead of the largest monitor / fastest computer / lightest wieght.
Yeah, when my laptop runs out of butane, I could just plug it into that butane outlet in the wall...
Even worse, IMHO. What is the point of buying a company if you do not combine the strongest components of each company?
Or is your comment some sort of ill-placed metahumor? (hint: Feigning the lack of a sense of humor for satire does not make you ironic. It makes you stupid.)
My hovercraft is full of eels.
That doesn't make much sense though, why would the "B" movie be played first? I agree that the theater operators would play the lower quality movie first, but would expect the first movie played to be the "A" movie.
Actually, she was happily banging away at the keyboard. No idea what key combination she hit...