"Yes, because comparing a Volt to a motorcycle makes a ton of sense and isn't at all a strawman. Why not compare it with riding the bus, or getting on a bike? The guy has a car, he's in the market for a new car, and he's getting the Volt. Please compare within those parameters."
With those parameters, the only thing to compare is Volt against... Volt! You've left no other options.
Why should he restrict his comparisons to only 4-wheeled automobiles? Why should he restrict it to only personal automobiles?
If it's cheaper, faster, and better to take a bus, then he should take a bus! The same goes for taxi, subway, train, airplane, motorcycle, bicycle, hovercraft, walking, or any other method of transportation.
Don't try to restrict the conversation to only the things you want to talk about. Instead, properly compare all the things discussed and their individual pros and cons. Leaving out some aspects of the comparison just leaves you with a useless conversation.
It's not a free market. There are government controls that prevent it from being a free market, like allowing people/corporations to own certain frequencies of radio waves.
The developers may have 'chosen' to censor their work, but only because it was the only way their work could exist at all. That's still censorship.
Apple claiming that the developers chose to do it is like saying someone chose to jump in front of a bullet that was aimed at their child. Yes, they chose to... But it's hardly their fault.
It occurs to me that if you're saying something important, and want people to see it, the best way on the internet is to manufacture a Streisand Effect on yourself. Pretend that someone wants to muffle you. And do it by crashing major sites.
Not saying that's what happened here, but it's definitely a possibility.
So now programmers can write code that will work on either processor and will be optimized on neither. Brilliant. I'm sure this is somehow a great step forward.
I'm guessing everyone going 'omg she's stupid!' has never heard a college/uni promise to find you a job after you graduate. Of course, I heard the promise and knew it for what it was: Nothing. But I did briefly wonder at the time if there was any recourse after spending 10's of thousands of dollars and having them break their promise.
In fact, I didn't find a job for a year and a half after I graduated. My 'degree' didn't help me get the job -at all-. It ended up being knowledge that I had before I even went to college that got me the job.
Actually, I've noticed that developers -are- spending a lot more time including other races in video games in the last few years. And I think it's a good thing. They were reaching for 'reality' but ignoring a large part of it. Admittedly, they usually just use the stereotypes from other races right now, but that's better than just ignoring them... By a little, anyhow.
And lately, there have been a lot of games that feature female main characters. Used to be that was taboo... It shouldn't be too much longer before they start pouring on the games that feature non-whites as the main characters, without a choice to switch away. (There have been some lately that defaulted to non-white, but you could change... Like Saints Row 2. But that's not exactly a great example due to the massive stereotyping in it.;) )
Constantly raping people for a full CD's price for only 1 or 2 good songs is another. (Or in a case very near and dear to me, a CD with -zero- good songs, despite having heard it on the radio over and over and loving it. Yes, the 1 song guaranteed to be good was bad on the CD.)
So how -can- they make the legal one better, other than be online?
As for 'better' for the MMO servers... That's opinion. Personally, I think the experience on 'pirate' MMO servers is a lot better. In fact, I'd be willing to pay for them, if they'd set up the live ones to be as much fun, instead of having so much grind.
"Instead, you can stop it by making the legitimate copy a better product than the pirated one."
They think they are! That's the whole point of DRM... Make it so the pirate copy isn't as good as the legal one. Of course, it actually backfires, once the DRM is cracked...
But let's face it: There's no way to make the legal copy better than the pirate one, other than the fact that it's legal and you don't feel bad about it. Even MMOs eventually get server emulators.
I'm just going to reply to myself, since everyone that replied to me seems to have missed it:
People don't work in 'academics' just for fun or altruism. You know, like artists. They expect to receive something for their work, like money, fame, etc etc. Take away their motivation and you'll lose them, just like artists.
Yes, the government helps fund it... But it doesn't fund -all- of it, and the 'taxpayer' -does- get a benefit from that funding. Like new medicines, or toaster ovens. There are plenty of things we wouldn't have yet if the government hadn't funded the research. Oh, we probably would have had them -eventually-, but that's the point... Progress is faster with more funding.
The 'taxpayer' is investing in the welfare of the entire country by funding 'academics', not a single piece of knowledge in particular.
The point of working in the music industry is to create music and share it with others. Copyright prevents or severely limits that. If music isn't shared, we're all less cultured because of it. Music works should all be published under the creative commons attribution license, or something similar.
It wasn't that long ago that there was a study saying that 'beauty' was actually what turned out to be a perfectly average face. Too far in any direction and it wasn't 'beautiful' any more, and all the 'perfectly normal' faces were labeled beautiful by the study's participants.
So this new study basically says that women are getting more average.
No wait, it actually says that the concept of beauty changes with each generation. So yeah, each generation is going to think their women are more beautiful than the previous generation's.
I think I'd actually be more likely to play MMOs under that model now. In the past, when I had tons of time, I wanted the unlimited account... But now, where my time is more precious, I'd rather pay for what I actually use than pay a monthly fee on a game I might not play at all that month.
"This summary makes it seem as though Apple conciously went out of their way to cripple the app,"
Actually, they did. Didn't you read the part of the summary where Apple insisted that it not be a native app and had to be a web-app instead? They -are- going out of their way to cripple it.
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"Yes, because comparing a Volt to a motorcycle makes a ton of sense and isn't at all a strawman. Why not compare it with riding the bus, or getting on a bike? The guy has a car, he's in the market for a new car, and he's getting the Volt. Please compare within those parameters."
With those parameters, the only thing to compare is Volt against ... Volt! You've left no other options.
Why should he restrict his comparisons to only 4-wheeled automobiles? Why should he restrict it to only personal automobiles?
If it's cheaper, faster, and better to take a bus, then he should take a bus! The same goes for taxi, subway, train, airplane, motorcycle, bicycle, hovercraft, walking, or any other method of transportation.
Don't try to restrict the conversation to only the things you want to talk about. Instead, properly compare all the things discussed and their individual pros and cons. Leaving out some aspects of the comparison just leaves you with a useless conversation.
It's not a free market. There are government controls that prevent it from being a free market, like allowing people/corporations to own certain frequencies of radio waves.
And how long did he wait? Maybe the maintainer is on a vacation. People have lives, and he's under no obligation to answer immediately.
The developers may have 'chosen' to censor their work, but only because it was the only way their work could exist at all. That's still censorship.
Apple claiming that the developers chose to do it is like saying someone chose to jump in front of a bullet that was aimed at their child. Yes, they chose to... But it's hardly their fault.
It occurs to me that if you're saying something important, and want people to see it, the best way on the internet is to manufacture a Streisand Effect on yourself. Pretend that someone wants to muffle you. And do it by crashing major sites.
Not saying that's what happened here, but it's definitely a possibility.
I'm not sure why you linked to ipdf.org ... I think you meant http://www.webscription.net/
I definitely recommend them, and they have a few different DRM-free formats to choose from. (And no DRM'd formats at all.)
So now programmers can write code that will work on either processor and will be optimized on neither. Brilliant. I'm sure this is somehow a great step forward.
-sigh-
I know you're joking, but there -have- been positives from SETI that actually came from Earth, so... It has.
Does this patent event fit Twitter? Things I think don't fit:
1a ... In other words, most of it.
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They aren't -supposed- to. They're supposed to be really wishy-washy like that. But they hire salespeople, and salespeople get greedy.
I'm guessing everyone going 'omg she's stupid!' has never heard a college/uni promise to find you a job after you graduate. Of course, I heard the promise and knew it for what it was: Nothing. But I did briefly wonder at the time if there was any recourse after spending 10's of thousands of dollars and having them break their promise.
In fact, I didn't find a job for a year and a half after I graduated. My 'degree' didn't help me get the job -at all-. It ended up being knowledge that I had before I even went to college that got me the job.
I hope she wins.
I have lived in places that they do, yes.
Actually, I've noticed that developers -are- spending a lot more time including other races in video games in the last few years. And I think it's a good thing. They were reaching for 'reality' but ignoring a large part of it. Admittedly, they usually just use the stereotypes from other races right now, but that's better than just ignoring them... By a little, anyhow.
And lately, there have been a lot of games that feature female main characters. Used to be that was taboo... It shouldn't be too much longer before they start pouring on the games that feature non-whites as the main characters, without a choice to switch away. (There have been some lately that defaulted to non-white, but you could change... Like Saints Row 2. But that's not exactly a great example due to the massive stereotyping in it. ;) )
It's one of the ways they are born, yes.
Constantly raping people for a full CD's price for only 1 or 2 good songs is another. (Or in a case very near and dear to me, a CD with -zero- good songs, despite having heard it on the radio over and over and loving it. Yes, the 1 song guaranteed to be good was bad on the CD.)
Charging too much is yet another.
Or maybe, they just don't care about authenticity in their fiction and it doesn't affect them either way.
So how -can- they make the legal one better, other than be online?
As for 'better' for the MMO servers... That's opinion. Personally, I think the experience on 'pirate' MMO servers is a lot better. In fact, I'd be willing to pay for them, if they'd set up the live ones to be as much fun, instead of having so much grind.
"Instead, you can stop it by making the legitimate copy a better product than the pirated one."
They think they are! That's the whole point of DRM... Make it so the pirate copy isn't as good as the legal one. Of course, it actually backfires, once the DRM is cracked...
But let's face it: There's no way to make the legal copy better than the pirate one, other than the fact that it's legal and you don't feel bad about it. Even MMOs eventually get server emulators.
I'm just going to reply to myself, since everyone that replied to me seems to have missed it:
People don't work in 'academics' just for fun or altruism. You know, like artists. They expect to receive something for their work, like money, fame, etc etc. Take away their motivation and you'll lose them, just like artists.
Yes, the government helps fund it... But it doesn't fund -all- of it, and the 'taxpayer' -does- get a benefit from that funding. Like new medicines, or toaster ovens. There are plenty of things we wouldn't have yet if the government hadn't funded the research. Oh, we probably would have had them -eventually-, but that's the point... Progress is faster with more funding.
The 'taxpayer' is investing in the welfare of the entire country by funding 'academics', not a single piece of knowledge in particular.
The point of working in the music industry is to create music and share it with others. Copyright prevents or severely limits that. If music isn't shared, we're all less cultured because of it. Music works should all be published under the creative commons attribution license, or something similar.
Now, see how similar that is?
It wasn't that long ago that there was a study saying that 'beauty' was actually what turned out to be a perfectly average face. Too far in any direction and it wasn't 'beautiful' any more, and all the 'perfectly normal' faces were labeled beautiful by the study's participants.
So this new study basically says that women are getting more average.
No wait, it actually says that the concept of beauty changes with each generation. So yeah, each generation is going to think their women are more beautiful than the previous generation's.
I think I'd actually be more likely to play MMOs under that model now. In the past, when I had tons of time, I wanted the unlimited account... But now, where my time is more precious, I'd rather pay for what I actually use than pay a monthly fee on a game I might not play at all that month.
"This summary makes it seem as though Apple conciously went out of their way to cripple the app,"
Actually, they did. Didn't you read the part of the summary where Apple insisted that it not be a native app and had to be a web-app instead? They -are- going out of their way to cripple it.
Since it will be downloaded, it might indeed get queued by many people... However, I'm pretty sure you mean 'cue'.
Right, because an empty bank account is 'proof'. There's a billion ways to make all your bank accounts empty and still have money.
He was imprisoned because the just -though- he was lying. No proof, just a judge's whim. You can't see how that affects you?