There isn't much legal video content around (the iTunes store in the UK has very little). As a pirate, I've been watching BBC programs on my phone for over a year. Ironic.
Being able to do it legally would probably take decades. Escpecially since I'm not British. Implementing a service that is less useful than piracy is just silly. Make them freely availiable, and I will happily pay for excellent shows!
I guess I should send them an email and thank them heartfully for their shows, then ask them how to pay for it. Piracy privides me with open formats in high quality and is really user-friendly. All that is missing is some way for me to plop them my cash.
She also feels a need to support the artists. I would encourage her to pirate the songs and send cash directly to the artists. If you buy records, she is mostly supporting the middlemen which keep pretty much everything. Artists only get 6-18 cents per song. Horribly inefficient system, yes.
You got the -1 because this is neither DRM now a watermark. Go read up on some definitions instead of creating your own.
QED, bitches. Sounds like you enjoy those -1s.
Somehow I think the universe will get along just fine without us. Perhaps even a bit better. So... you're attending that mass-suicide event tomorrow, then?
I guess you're still cursing that first cell for not rolling over and die instead of starting this whole stupid "life" thing to begin with. And curse the bloody plants for starting to grow on land, and doubly curse the bloody stupid animals that decided to crawl up from the sea afterwards. Damn them all, why did they bother? It's not like the universe cares, is it? If only Earth could be like Mars or Venus, all dead and hostile.
Sorry. Life has been fighting for survival for 3.7 billion years. Spread and reproduce, old habits die hard, I guess.
But why assume that we must colonize space using machines that are identical to the ones on earth?
Especially because the machinery we send with any space flight will be extremely delicate and difficult to reproduce, all in the name of keeping the weight down. But when you arrive, you can build a 30-ton inefficient monster of a machine.
We're not going to reproduce earth hardware in space. We're going to develop types of hardware that are more suited to their respective planets. Start with extracting resources, then bootstrap new machinery from those resources. It does not need to compete with earth designs, because shippign costs for those will be crazy.
Finally, you can spend a few hundred or thousands of years to do this. It's not like we need that self-sufficient colony by next friday.
In a ruling issued last month but disclosed today by file-sharing attorney Ray Beckerman, Judge Lorenzo F. Garcia denied the RIAA's motion to engage in discovery. Hey,
Are the addresses for judges freely availiable in the US? Work address should do fine, no need for personal.
When reading this, I just kept thinking to myself: What if lots of people that are against RIAA tactics sat down and wrote a short letter each? Some positive words showing him that this is an issue that people actually care about. It's obvious that there are a lot of supporters on the net.
BTW, how many praise-letters does a judge need before it itself would become a news item?
If you don't like that quit selling us "Unlimited" Service and then crying when we actually use it as such. Thank you. I wish more people could focus on this point.
On the other hand... Nothing would hurt piracy more than ISPs switching to reasonable pay-per-gig subscrption plans. A major reason for P2P being popular is that people can publish pirated content without paying extra for doing so. If every upload to every peer had a price tag, P2P would have major issues.
Though it wouldn't really matter that much, the Sneakernet would just have a renaissance.
Going for the cause instead of the symptom. Makes a lot of sense.
Exactly as he states, issues with IP are all because of the deeper roots. Fix the deeper problems, and IP issues would hopefully fix itself. Although as it often is, treating the cause instead of the symptoms are going to be a lot harder.
I want to charge up the hill with people that know a thing or two about fire/movement tactics, and have some fun! I don't care about the inner politics of the gaming community. Sounds like you want to join a clan.;)
But seriously, playing with people you know and discussing tactics beforehand will probably give you a completely different tactical experience that charging up a hill with 20 other individuals all knowing different things about tactics and acting according to their own plans.
she was a dude! Total mood killer! Yeah. I never use voice chat. I don't even want to imagine that undead chick last friday. If she was actually a live human... ugh, that's just gross.
The social norms of 30- and 11-year-olds are different, obviously.
Text is a very slow medium, so only the most information is conveyed. Little overhead. If you use text, you don't have time for chatter and socializing. The game is in focus. If someone knows how to play, he can be 5 or 50, it does not matter.
Speech is much faster, and allows for a great deal of nuances. Subtle jokes, puns and references. A different social context between the person will be extremely obvious. The way you normally talk to your friends doesn't connect with the other person. It doesn't really matter for the game, but your instincs will tell you that you're interacting with people ouside your "group".
In closing: Have anyone here ever met a group of roleplay'ers that coordinate internally using voice chat? everything you see will match their character, and be wonderfully synchronized. Voice chat improve the mood, too.
Indeed, a majority of people will likely commute a certain distance.
However, even with great public transport and pick-up services that would bring you to the nearest station in minutes, you'd still want your car a lot of the time.
Cars serves another purpose beside transportation. Portable private property. If you go shopping, you can leave the stuff in your car while you go to the next store / museum / cinema / restaurant. Lockers are nice, but that's 5 minutes wasted. Not to mention that everything needs to be brought back home at the end of the day. 4 big and heavy bags on public transport kinda sucks. Cars are huge lockers that follow you home.
Time to get outside the box. If there was a cheap and reliable storage system availiable, people might use public transport more. Maybe combine with redridgerated storage to offer something a car can't. And obviously some carts so I can just grab everything and bring it on the bus and the train without ever getting it bumped or broken. Public transport needs to do more than just get me from A to B.
It's much more interesting to focus on the game design instead of only discussing the act of buying versus grinding.
IMO, MMOs are still in their toddler stage. Single-player games also had lots of grind 10 years ago. As the genre matured, repetetive and boring gameplay has largely been removed.
Though there is some deeply rooted satisfaction in repeating activities to gain power in a virtual world. So it may take awhile before someone tried to make a non-repetitive MMO. Not to mention it would be insanely expensive. Repetetive content is obviously much, much cheaper.
Paying someone else to perform what is supposed to be a leisure activity, because one finds a large portion of the game to be tedious seems like the height of stupidity. Or the height of bad game design.
No matter how you look at this, subscribers are paying money to avoid playing parts of the game. How much sense does that make?!?
What family would play monopoly when you could buy a thousand dollars in the game for a dollar. The parents could win any game because they have more money. If monopoly was a MMO, the parents would be pwnz0rd because the kids have played 24/7 and are level 1000. To get even close to a fair game the parents would probably have to spend at least $500 each on gold and leveling services.
Or maybe the parents have accumulated XP for their whole lifetime, so they just push their "I win" buttons. Sorry kids, but you'll probably need to powerlevel for another three months.
You can't compare a 1-evening board game with a subscription game designed to encourage months and months of leveling. Analogies just fall apart.
They want a place where the $12/hr UPS package handler can beat the shit out of the $650/hr attorney, if he can play the game enough, gather enough widgets, go on more quests, whatever. That's the whole point of the game. If you reintroduce a way to capitalize on real-life success within the context of the game, it stops being a game anymore, and instead just becomes a pastel-colored extension of real life. I want a place where a $12/hr UPS package handler beat the shit out of the $650/hr attorney, beacause he is a better player.
The "play enough" is backwards, turning games into work and causing the whole mess in the first place. Repetitive and time-intensive by design, indeed, this is one of the elements that makes MMOs so lucrative.
I quit WoW. Too much grind. Timesinks that's not about improving your skills as a player, just increasing character stats.
I'm waiting for a MMO where all time is spent on increasing your skills as a player, instead of pumping character stats.
If dell is trying to figure out why its market share is declining, it is likely because of the difficulty in knowing what you are buying is the best price. When I decided to buy a new laptop, I postphoned it for well over a month, checking out their discounts regularly. Which was a very godo thing, as they had an almost suprising overlap of "double memory" and "15% off" on a high-end laptop, causing a major price difference. (And certainly much better than a free crappy pinter)
One tip he forgot, though: Never buy from dell in december. All the best discounts seems to be mysteriously gone before Christmas. Wonder why... Buy in november, or wait until january.
Note that I write without any real knowledge of the biology behind genes.
However, I could imagine that it could be beneficial for network effects to keep track of any dependencies for the different modules in an evolutionary algoriths. For example, let's make a wild guess that blond hair, blue eyes and pale skin also have some common "junk" elements. Since they are all related to the concept of "not much sunlight", it would be very useful to have some form of abstraction mechanic in the genes that could link them together.
Maybe it could be a way for nature to make groupings or "templates" of related attributes. Different environments may require different attributes, but for all environments there are some groups of attributes that are more efficient.
If genes have a mechanism to group related attributes, it would make it slightly faster to switch between such "templates". This could in turn cause a slighty higher chance to inherit a group of features that together has provided an advantage in the past, instead of just inheriting a random mix of the parents.
So maybe a way to keep track of previous successful combinations? Even if the "active" genes are highly successful in the current environment, a species might come in a situation where it would be beneficial to rapidly evolve to fit an environment their ancestors lived in.
Nobody said that humans recognize family members by sniffing out their genetic makeup. But this does in no way invalidate the fact that for throughout history, families have shared genes, so helping your family is indirectly helping your own genes.
Second, the ultimate goal have never been to maximize the progeny. The goal is to preserve and spread your genes, which in a basic form is acheived by maximize progeny. Don't confuse the two, because humans are more complex than plants.
CMPDA draft bill similarly envisioned a maximum of five years imprisonment for "any person who knowingly operates the audiovisual recording function of any device in a public place while a cinematographic work is being exhibited." Does your mobile phone support video recordings?
Flip it on during the show, and enjoy performing a crime with a maximum penalty of 5 years imprisonment.
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Being able to do it legally would probably take decades. Escpecially since I'm not British. Implementing a service that is less useful than piracy is just silly. Make them freely availiable, and I will happily pay for excellent shows!
I guess I should send them an email and thank them heartfully for their shows, then ask them how to pay for it. Piracy privides me with open formats in high quality and is really user-friendly. All that is missing is some way for me to plop them my cash.
I guess you're still cursing that first cell for not rolling over and die instead of starting this whole stupid "life" thing to begin with. And curse the bloody plants for starting to grow on land, and doubly curse the bloody stupid animals that decided to crawl up from the sea afterwards. Damn them all, why did they bother? It's not like the universe cares, is it? If only Earth could be like Mars or Venus, all dead and hostile.
Sorry. Life has been fighting for survival for 3.7 billion years. Spread and reproduce, old habits die hard, I guess.
But why assume that we must colonize space using machines that are identical to the ones on earth?
Especially because the machinery we send with any space flight will be extremely delicate and difficult to reproduce, all in the name of keeping the weight down. But when you arrive, you can build a 30-ton inefficient monster of a machine.
We're not going to reproduce earth hardware in space. We're going to develop types of hardware that are more suited to their respective planets. Start with extracting resources, then bootstrap new machinery from those resources. It does not need to compete with earth designs, because shippign costs for those will be crazy.
Finally, you can spend a few hundred or thousands of years to do this. It's not like we need that self-sufficient colony by next friday.
Big thumbs up!
Are the addresses for judges freely availiable in the US? Work address should do fine, no need for personal.
When reading this, I just kept thinking to myself: What if lots of people that are against RIAA tactics sat down and wrote a short letter each? Some positive words showing him that this is an issue that people actually care about. It's obvious that there are a lot of supporters on the net.
BTW, how many praise-letters does a judge need before it itself would become a news item?
On the other hand... Nothing would hurt piracy more than ISPs switching to reasonable pay-per-gig subscrption plans. A major reason for P2P being popular is that people can publish pirated content without paying extra for doing so. If every upload to every peer had a price tag, P2P would have major issues.
Though it wouldn't really matter that much, the Sneakernet would just have a renaissance.
Going for the cause instead of the symptom. Makes a lot of sense.
Exactly as he states, issues with IP are all because of the deeper roots. Fix the deeper problems, and IP issues would hopefully fix itself. Although as it often is, treating the cause instead of the symptoms are going to be a lot harder.
Good luck cleaing up the government, everyone!
But seriously, playing with people you know and discussing tactics beforehand will probably give you a completely different tactical experience that charging up a hill with 20 other individuals all knowing different things about tactics and acting according to their own plans.
The social norms of 30- and 11-year-olds are different, obviously.
Text is a very slow medium, so only the most information is conveyed. Little overhead. If you use text, you don't have time for chatter and socializing. The game is in focus. If someone knows how to play, he can be 5 or 50, it does not matter.
Speech is much faster, and allows for a great deal of nuances. Subtle jokes, puns and references. A different social context between the person will be extremely obvious. The way you normally talk to your friends doesn't connect with the other person. It doesn't really matter for the game, but your instincs will tell you that you're interacting with people ouside your "group".
In closing: Have anyone here ever met a group of roleplay'ers that coordinate internally using voice chat? everything you see will match their character, and be wonderfully synchronized. Voice chat improve the mood, too.
Indeed, a majority of people will likely commute a certain distance.
However, even with great public transport and pick-up services that would bring you to the nearest station in minutes, you'd still want your car a lot of the time.
Cars serves another purpose beside transportation. Portable private property. If you go shopping, you can leave the stuff in your car while you go to the next store / museum / cinema / restaurant. Lockers are nice, but that's 5 minutes wasted. Not to mention that everything needs to be brought back home at the end of the day. 4 big and heavy bags on public transport kinda sucks. Cars are huge lockers that follow you home.
Time to get outside the box. If there was a cheap and reliable storage system availiable, people might use public transport more. Maybe combine with redridgerated storage to offer something a car can't. And obviously some carts so I can just grab everything and bring it on the bus and the train without ever getting it bumped or broken. Public transport needs to do more than just get me from A to B.
It's much more interesting to focus on the game design instead of only discussing the act of buying versus grinding.
IMO, MMOs are still in their toddler stage. Single-player games also had lots of grind 10 years ago. As the genre matured, repetetive and boring gameplay has largely been removed.
Though there is some deeply rooted satisfaction in repeating activities to gain power in a virtual world. So it may take awhile before someone tried to make a non-repetitive MMO. Not to mention it would be insanely expensive. Repetetive content is obviously much, much cheaper.
No matter how you look at this, subscribers are paying money to avoid playing parts of the game. How much sense does that make?!?
Or maybe the parents have accumulated XP for their whole lifetime, so they just push their "I win" buttons.
Sorry kids, but you'll probably need to powerlevel for another three months.
You can't compare a 1-evening board game with a subscription game designed to encourage months and months of leveling. Analogies just fall apart.
The "play enough" is backwards, turning games into work and causing the whole mess in the first place. Repetitive and time-intensive by design, indeed, this is one of the elements that makes MMOs so lucrative.
I quit WoW. Too much grind. Timesinks that's not about improving your skills as a player, just increasing character stats.
I'm waiting for a MMO where all time is spent on increasing your skills as a player, instead of pumping character stats.
One tip he forgot, though: Never buy from dell in december.
All the best discounts seems to be mysteriously gone before Christmas. Wonder why... Buy in november, or wait until january.
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Torrent:
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Download & Streams, various bitrates:
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Regarding the last link:
HTTP download of 3 x 1GB+ files? Go get 'em, slashdotteres!
Note that I write without any real knowledge of the biology behind genes.
However, I could imagine that it could be beneficial for network effects to keep track of any dependencies for the different modules in an evolutionary algoriths. For example, let's make a wild guess that blond hair, blue eyes and pale skin also have some common "junk" elements. Since they are all related to the concept of "not much sunlight", it would be very useful to have some form of abstraction mechanic in the genes that could link them together.
Maybe it could be a way for nature to make groupings or "templates" of related attributes. Different environments may require different attributes, but for all environments there are some groups of attributes that are more efficient.
If genes have a mechanism to group related attributes, it would make it slightly faster to switch between such "templates". This could in turn cause a slighty higher chance to inherit a group of features that together has provided an advantage in the past, instead of just inheriting a random mix of the parents.
So maybe a way to keep track of previous successful combinations? Even if the "active" genes are highly successful in the current environment, a species might come in a situation where it would be beneficial to rapidly evolve to fit an environment their ancestors lived in.
I thought a key point of the Data Segment was that you could alter it at runtime.
Don't know about your genes, but my personal preference is to keep mine read-only.
Nobody said that humans recognize family members by sniffing out their genetic makeup. But this does in no way invalidate the fact that for throughout history, families have shared genes, so helping your family is indirectly helping your own genes.
Second, the ultimate goal have never been to maximize the progeny. The goal is to preserve and spread your genes, which in a basic form is acheived by maximize progeny. Don't confuse the two, because humans are more complex than plants.
Flip it on during the show, and enjoy performing a crime with a maximum penalty of 5 years imprisonment.
This is just idiotic.
Thanks!
A camera zune would delete the pictures on the third viewing. Without DRM, it's a sound idea.