If we were talking about a BIOS update, I might believe you. However, Nintendo makes a profit on these machines. They're keeping it 'fresh and exciting'. Slowing 'arrr 4' isn't going to make them more money, at least not in comparison to how much they'll make if the features of the system are interesting to the market.
Ok.. so a probe is regularly returning terabytes across the solar system, but ISP's are forming lobbying pacs proclaiming they can't offer the speeds they advertised for people on earth.
Something's rotten in the state of denmark.
Yeah because one probe with line of sight to the planet is just as complicated as networking millions of homes across a country that's several thousand miles wide.
Look, I'm annoyed at Comcast too, but let's not create any new PHB dialogue for Dilbert.
"Harshly judgemental?" Maybe you're just being defensive? It would be harshly judgemental if I said "you people are going to hell for this", or something like that.
You said they're maladjusted, cruel, and you're attempting to elevate yourself above them. You're also calling people maladjusted based on one email. Their behaviour may be maladjusted, but you are not qualified to say any more than that.
I guess I just feel sorry for people who end up being used as public examples of incompetence.
Their behaviour is what's being put up as a public example. If appears as though you are using that to judge their character. Ponder the significance of that.
Frankly, I find it a bit discouraging that making light of maladjusted individuals seems to rank fairly high on so many people's list of acceptable pastimes. It's quite cruel. Of course, the irony is that those who laugh loudest are themselves quite maladjusted, otherwise they'd know better.
So why doesn't being so harshly judgemental of people qualify?
They're companies, motivated purely by profit, and they wouldn't pursue action against individual downloaders if it wasn't somehow in their interests.
That'd be great, if they were actually pursuing people based on actual 'piracy'. They're not. They're pursuing people out of the fear that they might not pay them money. If you'd like some interesting reading, look up the movie industry's view on VHS sales of movies back in the early 80s. You'll find that they were against it, claiming casual copying would destroy peoples' interest in going to the theater. Go back to roughly the year 2000, you'll see Eisner criticizing Apple's "Rip, Mix, and Burn" campaign. That was actually kinda funny. Apple had a commercial of a dude on a plane taking his music collection and burning his own CD. Eisner said it was a pro-piracy campaign, but the commercial didn't show the guy handing the CD to anybody. It was just assumed Apple meant for you to run out, buy a CD, then... and I don't understand the logic here... make copies and give them to all your friends. You'd also find that they made claims like '2 billion songs were flying around the net every month' just before announcing an increase of profits.
They're not seeing a million dollars missing and are combating losing another million. They're seeing 300 million people who'd crawl on their bellies over broken glass with their flies unzipped to avoid paying for a CD. They also see a shift in demand from CD albums to a-la-carte music (like iTunes). Not as lucrative. Oops.
If music piracy were really a profit-related problem, they could substantiate it. Instead, they're propagandizing it. Think about it.
Venture capitalists should no doubt appreciate not wasting large amounts of money developing products that Apple ultimately has no obiligation to approve. At least on Android they're guaranteed a chance to market and sell their product.
Fair point. However, Apple's training their customers to pay for the iPhone software. Is Android going to go that way, or is it going to be like Palm where most of the software is free except for unusual circumstances? Let me rephrase: Will they see it that way?
One-Star reviews on Amazon worked to do what exactly?
They changed their policy. Not enough, I'd say, but it did cause a rather rapid change.
There's no way to demonstrate that, without the DRM, any of those reviewers would have bought the game.
That obviously didn't matter. What did matter was the review looked grim, thus notifying potential customers of the problem with their software. A few negative reviews obviously went a LOT farther than a bunch of people sitting around not buying it.
They work if the people boycotting are a significant segment of their market, however they often aren't.
They can't if they cannot distinguish a boycott from a slow economy, piracy, lack of interest, etc.
Don't impose your will on others, because of your percieved "injustice".
Making oneself heard != imposing your will. You're free to disagree and argue for DRM if you like.
DRM is fine if they want it to have DRM, they will learn.
Are you saying you're pro-DRM? (IF that's the case, I'd love to hear why.) Or are you saying "shaddup, I'm sick of hearing about it." (In that case, grow up.)
Boycotts don't work in this industry. They never have. The closest things to a successful boycott was the Mortal Kombat issue between the Sega Genesis and Super NES. Which was easily corrected by the time Mortal Kombat 2 rolled around.
Fun fact: That wasn't just a boycott, a lot of people got very noisy at Nintendo about it. It was fun being a subscriber to several magazines at the time. It was a very hot topic.
Granted, I think it's sad that users of a game need to go over a EULA to feel good about their purchase but I guess that is the nature of the beast today.
When you have to start deeply researching the details of a particular product to see if you agree with its idea of what a 'sale' is, it is no longer an impulse buy. It's bum-fuck stupid of EA or any other publisher to make their customers more wary.
and do the same for any other DRM laden product, it'll teach the manufacturers quickly to stay away from DRM.
Note to everybody: This comes up in every single thread about DRM and it's always debunked in every single thread. Boycotting will not do anything to get a company to change its mind about DRM. Your lack of a purchase cannot be distinguished from a lack of interest, a pirated copy, or even a slow economy. Boycotting will never work with creative products like movies, music, or video games. It works on products such as Coca Cola. That's because the company can see a change in the average number of sales. With products like video games, a boycott cannot be measured.
Please stop suggesting it. Please stop modding it up. It is not a solution. One-star reviews on Amazon worked, being silent did not. Shush.
Let me guess. Your idea of a limitation for a Music Player is that it doesn't allow Wifi Skype to make phone calls?
Sorry to reply twice to your message, but I think the troll mod is lame. I think you're bringing up a valid point about fickleness. I agree that it's silly to base a judgement over what something doesn't have when the value is clearly in what it does have. I don't think you should have gotten a troll mod for pointing that out.
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Now I have to buy yet another Nintendo DS!
Why? Because it's tempting?
Nintendo won't make more money if it keeps losing customers to the rom sites.
Do you really think millions of people are exclusively using DS ROM sites and not paying Nintendo a cent?
To reduce demand for R4, as I mentioned.
If we were talking about a BIOS update, I might believe you. However, Nintendo makes a profit on these machines. They're keeping it 'fresh and exciting'. Slowing 'arrr 4' isn't going to make them more money, at least not in comparison to how much they'll make if the features of the system are interesting to the market.
BTW, palm wasn't good as an alarm clock either.
This is anecdotal, of course, but my Treo has reliably been my alarm clock for nearly two years.
I think I speak for everyone else when I say F*** you Japan! We never liked you anyway!
Settle down and find some pictures of Japanese bondage. You'll forgive their bandwidth. ;)
If there were more than just the two of us involved in this conversation, that might be cause for worry. ;)
Ok.. so a probe is regularly returning terabytes across the solar system, but ISP's are forming lobbying pacs proclaiming they can't offer the speeds they advertised for people on earth.
Something's rotten in the state of denmark.
Yeah because one probe with line of sight to the planet is just as complicated as networking millions of homes across a country that's several thousand miles wide.
Look, I'm annoyed at Comcast too, but let's not create any new PHB dialogue for Dilbert.
Wow, how childish. Also, you are projecting.
*Shrug* You're not fooling anybody by posting anonymously.
OP already admitted his own fault, it is you who are resisting objectivity.
You denied being judgemental though you clearly were.
No. You're missing the biggest part -- ...
Nah. You negated it by labelling people.
Sorry, but that is definitely you being defensive. Or perhaps you are just "misreading" me on purpose, hoping that I will sneer at you?
Nope. I explained already.
Either way, I think your need to reply to what I said in the way you did is what you might want to look at. :)
Maybe. Or maybe you're unable to see fault in yourself. Dare ya to try!
"Harshly judgemental?" Maybe you're just being defensive? It would be harshly judgemental if I said "you people are going to hell for this", or something like that.
You said they're maladjusted, cruel, and you're attempting to elevate yourself above them. You're also calling people maladjusted based on one email. Their behaviour may be maladjusted, but you are not qualified to say any more than that.
I guess I just feel sorry for people who end up being used as public examples of incompetence.
Their behaviour is what's being put up as a public example. If appears as though you are using that to judge their character. Ponder the significance of that.
Frankly, I find it a bit discouraging that making light of maladjusted individuals seems to rank fairly high on so many people's list of acceptable pastimes. It's quite cruel. Of course, the irony is that those who laugh loudest are themselves quite maladjusted, otherwise they'd know better.
So why doesn't being so harshly judgemental of people qualify?
Nividia posted sales of USD 892.7 million.
So they offer to settle for $850 thousand?
0.1% of their sales???
Were all of their sales a result of price fixing? The article says it's about stuff ordered from their site between certain dates.
Gamers are phags. Chew on that, bitches!
As a heterosexual non-gamer who is on Slashdot anonymously calling people names on a Friday, you can pump your fist in victory!
I hate it when I peel of a woman's panties and discover sh doesn't shave it :(
Yeah, I hate that about European porn, too.
Since when it is a troll to expect people to actually research what they're buying instead of bitching about it a suing later?
It probably had something to do with not having a bleedin' thing to do with my post. Heh.
They're companies, motivated purely by profit, and they wouldn't pursue action against individual downloaders if it wasn't somehow in their interests.
That'd be great, if they were actually pursuing people based on actual 'piracy'. They're not. They're pursuing people out of the fear that they might not pay them money. If you'd like some interesting reading, look up the movie industry's view on VHS sales of movies back in the early 80s. You'll find that they were against it, claiming casual copying would destroy peoples' interest in going to the theater. Go back to roughly the year 2000, you'll see Eisner criticizing Apple's "Rip, Mix, and Burn" campaign. That was actually kinda funny. Apple had a commercial of a dude on a plane taking his music collection and burning his own CD. Eisner said it was a pro-piracy campaign, but the commercial didn't show the guy handing the CD to anybody. It was just assumed Apple meant for you to run out, buy a CD, then ... and I don't understand the logic here ... make copies and give them to all your friends. You'd also find that they made claims like '2 billion songs were flying around the net every month' just before announcing an increase of profits.
They're not seeing a million dollars missing and are combating losing another million. They're seeing 300 million people who'd crawl on their bellies over broken glass with their flies unzipped to avoid paying for a CD. They also see a shift in demand from CD albums to a-la-carte music (like iTunes). Not as lucrative. Oops.
If music piracy were really a profit-related problem, they could substantiate it. Instead, they're propagandizing it. Think about it.
Venture capitalists should no doubt appreciate not wasting large amounts of money developing products that Apple ultimately has no obiligation to approve. At least on Android they're guaranteed a chance to market and sell their product.
Fair point. However, Apple's training their customers to pay for the iPhone software. Is Android going to go that way, or is it going to be like Palm where most of the software is free except for unusual circumstances? Let me rephrase: Will they see it that way?
One-Star reviews on Amazon worked to do what exactly?
They changed their policy. Not enough, I'd say, but it did cause a rather rapid change.
There's no way to demonstrate that, without the DRM, any of those reviewers would have bought the game.
That obviously didn't matter. What did matter was the review looked grim, thus notifying potential customers of the problem with their software. A few negative reviews obviously went a LOT farther than a bunch of people sitting around not buying it.
They work if the people boycotting are a significant segment of their market, however they often aren't.
They can't if they cannot distinguish a boycott from a slow economy, piracy, lack of interest, etc.
Don't impose your will on others, because of your percieved "injustice".
Making oneself heard != imposing your will. You're free to disagree and argue for DRM if you like.
DRM is fine if they want it to have DRM, they will learn.
Are you saying you're pro-DRM? (IF that's the case, I'd love to hear why.) Or are you saying "shaddup, I'm sick of hearing about it." (In that case, grow up.)
Boycotts don't work in this industry. They never have. The closest things to a successful boycott was the Mortal Kombat issue between the Sega Genesis and Super NES. Which was easily corrected by the time Mortal Kombat 2 rolled around.
Fun fact: That wasn't just a boycott, a lot of people got very noisy at Nintendo about it. It was fun being a subscriber to several magazines at the time. It was a very hot topic.
Granted, I think it's sad that users of a game need to go over a EULA to feel good about their purchase but I guess that is the nature of the beast today.
When you have to start deeply researching the details of a particular product to see if you agree with its idea of what a 'sale' is, it is no longer an impulse buy. It's bum-fuck stupid of EA or any other publisher to make their customers more wary.
and do the same for any other DRM laden product, it'll teach the manufacturers quickly to stay away from DRM.
Note to everybody: This comes up in every single thread about DRM and it's always debunked in every single thread. Boycotting will not do anything to get a company to change its mind about DRM. Your lack of a purchase cannot be distinguished from a lack of interest, a pirated copy, or even a slow economy. Boycotting will never work with creative products like movies, music, or video games. It works on products such as Coca Cola. That's because the company can see a change in the average number of sales. With products like video games, a boycott cannot be measured.
Please stop suggesting it. Please stop modding it up. It is not a solution. One-star reviews on Amazon worked, being silent did not. Shush.
Want to convert units on your iPhone or Touch? Open Safari, google "$x $unit in $metric". Can I have $0.99 now? ;)
Sure, if you can get wifi access into the building I'll need it in. ;)
It's effectively impossible for any of your confidential information to be stolen as a result of leaving the toilet seat up...
Not true. Tell me this doesn't sound familiar:
"My husband left the toilet seat up last night."
"That's nothing, my husband hasn't been able to get it up for 3 months."
;)
Let me guess. Your idea of a limitation for a Music Player is that it doesn't allow Wifi Skype to make phone calls?
Sorry to reply twice to your message, but I think the troll mod is lame. I think you're bringing up a valid point about fickleness. I agree that it's silly to base a judgement over what something doesn't have when the value is clearly in what it does have. I don't think you should have gotten a troll mod for pointing that out.