Rather than paying artists approximately 30 cents of the 70 cents it receives for digital downloads (after deducting payments to music publishers), the suit alleges that Sony Music treats each download as a sale of a physical CD or cassette tape, only paying on 85 per cent of such "sales" (due to a fiction that there is breakage of product), deducting a further 20 per cent fee for container/packaging charges associated with the digital downloads (although there are none), and reducing its payments by a further 50 per cent "audiofile" deduction, yielding a payment to the Sony Music recording artists of approximately 4 1/2 cents per digital download
I'd rather pirate the track and give the artist the buck directly. If only there were a way to do that...
Mario, Zelda, Metroid. Nintendo never goes back to the well.
Because Super Mario Bros., Super Mario World, Mario 64 and Sunshine were all the exact same game. Because Metroid, Super Metroid and Metroid: Prime were all the exact same game. Because Legend of Zelda, Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess were all the exact same game.
And Halo and Halo 2 are unquestionably, inarguably, completely different.
that relies on everyone tailgating, which really isn't going to happen - a percentage of drivers will be at a proper 2 second gap..
If I had a camera... swarms of tailgaters and swervers at 70+ mph. Bloody frightning driving here. Oh, that percentage of drivers with a 2 second gap? Nonexistant. If there's open space, people will rush to fill it. Guarenteed. If people have a 2 second gap it's because there's like 12 cars on the road period.
They seem to assume that the driver has the reaction time of a sloth on mogadon, and is driving something with cable-drum brakes.
Having driven for two years in Southern California, I'd say their assumption is spot on target.
Friday, the 22nd, I almost rear ended someone at a turnoff. I was in the slow lane going my requisite 65mph, when traffic suddenly came to a complete stop. This offramp is two lanes about a mile long (one an exit only, the other a spinoff of the freeway), yet it was still backed up all the way into the freeway because of people trying to get to the mall.
Had I not had my two second gap I'd've rear ended the guy in front of me. I was assuming traffic just had a hiccup, I didn't fathom immediately that people had actually stopped so I didn't break as fast initially as I should've. Never happened before, completely unexpected. Obvious in retrospect (mall offramp, last Friday before Christmas), but cognitive thought like that isn't really applied during driving often.
Sure, people hate me for it, but screw em. I've made it a habit to be inordinately early so I never feel rushed, thus driving 65 on a freeway is fine and dandy for me.
Four languages, including English, will be supported by the service, which uses hand-held RFID terminals to get information about shops in the centre, including special offers...
At least I hope there's headphones attached to this. I doubt I want people around me to hear about special offers regarding bikini cut briefs and wifebeaters...
Isn't Sega vs. Accolade just a grandchild of Atari's attempt to file a restraining order against Activision releasing games for the Atari 2600 back in 1982?
Ya know, people keep bringing this up, wanting their money back, I'm wondering who ended up buying CS?...
I bought Half-Life and downloaded CS back when it was in Beta, and CS:S comes with HL2 for free (I bought it for HL2, don't play CS much these days)...
Did you actually buy the standalone CS or what exactly?...
Then just get it off a standard torrent and don't give them anything. No one said you had to get it this way.
What exactly "sucks" about paying for this? I can understand if it's outrageously priced, like CDs these days, but if it was a buck or two an episode it'd be cheaper than getting the DVDs and since you're not getting anything tangible, probably works out in the end.
Might check it out myself if it's not too much; I've been meaning to see Red Dwarf for a while (since someone introduced it to me and NEVER FINISHED IT! grr...) but at nearly $40 for seasons 1 and 2 (at only about 12 episodes total) it's a bit pricey. I personally think it's worth it to compensate them something for this, I did like it and I'd like to encourage more work like this.
DRM sucks, sure, but I don't see them ever getting rid of it. At least they're trying.
Forgetting for a moment that it has only ever carried one single person into the air and is equipped to carry only two, what happens if it is windy on the day of the tour?
Good thing the Wright Brothers never ran across you. The Flyer was only equipped to carry one person; and on one of their first passenger flights (possibly the first, I only skimmed the Wiki), the passenger was killed in the crash.
It has to be safe up to the point of detonation otherwise if it kills you off from, say, fumes, or is too unstable to even carry on the plane if you could sneak it on before you can blast a hole in the fuselage, what's the point in trying?
To set this, you flip the ignition key on and off some certain number of times, while hitting the door lock button in a certain way, with your left foot out the driver's window, and the truck parked facing east. It's in the manual somewhere...
While in park and engine idling... Driver side window up. Passenger side window up. Driver side window down. Passenger side window down. Flip left turn signal on then flip right turn signal on. Repeat. Press brakes. Turn on AC. Rev the engine and go into drive.
After touring the store my two friendly guides and I stopped outside to where two new automobiles were on display: two brand new Korean SUVs. Complexity again.
And just more things to break. Honestly. The more crap you shove into a compact space the higher chance something's going to break, fail and cost hundreds in repairs.
It's the automatic window conundrum. On the one hand, automatic windows are convenient, simple, free your hands and make life easier. On the other hand, when they break, what you do is severely limited by the position of the window. If it's stuck in the 'up' position, good luck going through cash toll roads or drive thrus. Stuck down? Hope you don't go to the car wash.
I have manual windows. I wouldn't trade em at all. (I do wish I had automatic doors though; at least those can be used manually...for now)
All this means is cars have reached a point where advancement has peaked and now they have to justify the new ones you buy every three years with gadgets and gizmos and ribbons you'll never actually use but somehow it makes you feel better.
Maybe the auto industry is a good parallel to the software industry...
And what if it turns out the Almighty is, in fact, a giant chicken? We're all screwed then.
Cept for some of those extreme vegans that won't even eat eggs. They might luck out.
Just because they may end up being 'wrong' doesn't mean they don't have a worse fate coming to them. You may call my argument absurd, but on what grounds? Your belief that I'm wrong? I don't mind you having your own system of belief, but I'll be damned if you attempt to squelch my recent conversion to Chickenanity.
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but the artists dont get *shit* when you buy your music there.
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Because artists make SO MUCH on sales in this country...
(Don't particularly like using this as a reference, it's not exactly CNN or BBC, but it's the first reference I saw that looked decent...)
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1
Rather than paying artists approximately 30 cents of the 70 cents it receives for digital downloads (after deducting payments to music publishers), the suit alleges that Sony Music treats each download as a sale of a physical CD or cassette tape, only paying on 85 per cent of such "sales" (due to a fiction that there is breakage of product), deducting a further 20 per cent fee for container/packaging charges associated with the digital downloads (although there are none), and reducing its payments by a further 50 per cent "audiofile" deduction, yielding a payment to the Sony Music recording artists of approximately 4 1/2 cents per digital download
I'd rather pirate the track and give the artist the buck directly. If only there were a way to do that...
That sucker looks eerily like the M Machine near the start of Metropolis.
Life imitating art? (More likely it's just an obvious design, but still.)
Probably not tissue paper either.
That would be socialism. This is capitalism, and wealth is seperate from rights.
Mario, Zelda, Metroid. Nintendo never goes back to the well.
Because Super Mario Bros., Super Mario World, Mario 64 and Sunshine were all the exact same game.
Because Metroid, Super Metroid and Metroid: Prime were all the exact same game.
Because Legend of Zelda, Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess were all the exact same game.
And Halo and Halo 2 are unquestionably, inarguably, completely different.
Talk about dead horse beating...
Plus, as everyone seems to forget, it's not only Sony backing blu-ray:
But also don't forget that it's only Sony gets the royalty check at the end of the day.
Different fuel sources. Solar power returns electric power. Algae would be converted to a liquid fuel source.
Instead of algae, try it with soybeans in your argument. Would you plow under an acre of soybeans to put solar panels there?
It's two different arguments. The means aren't just different, the ends are as well.
Never driven in Southern California, have you?
that relies on everyone tailgating, which really isn't going to happen - a percentage of drivers will be at a proper 2 second gap..
If I had a camera... swarms of tailgaters and swervers at 70+ mph. Bloody frightning driving here. Oh, that percentage of drivers with a 2 second gap? Nonexistant. If there's open space, people will rush to fill it. Guarenteed. If people have a 2 second gap it's because there's like 12 cars on the road period.
They seem to assume that the driver has the reaction time of a sloth on mogadon, and is driving something with cable-drum brakes.
Having driven for two years in Southern California, I'd say their assumption is spot on target.
Friday, the 22nd, I almost rear ended someone at a turnoff. I was in the slow lane going my requisite 65mph, when traffic suddenly came to a complete stop. This offramp is two lanes about a mile long (one an exit only, the other a spinoff of the freeway), yet it was still backed up all the way into the freeway because of people trying to get to the mall.
Had I not had my two second gap I'd've rear ended the guy in front of me. I was assuming traffic just had a hiccup, I didn't fathom immediately that people had actually stopped so I didn't break as fast initially as I should've. Never happened before, completely unexpected. Obvious in retrospect (mall offramp, last Friday before Christmas), but cognitive thought like that isn't really applied during driving often.
Sure, people hate me for it, but screw em. I've made it a habit to be inordinately early so I never feel rushed, thus driving 65 on a freeway is fine and dandy for me.
None of the non-game specific stuff for the Wii caused the price to increase $200...
Ahh! That's where I left my bulk eraser! I've been looking all over for that.
Four languages, including English, will be supported by the service, which uses hand-held RFID terminals to get information about shops in the centre, including special offers...
At least I hope there's headphones attached to this. I doubt I want people around me to hear about special offers regarding bikini cut briefs and wifebeaters...
It was ONE TIME and I was curious, damnit!
With Exchange Standard 2003 SP2 it's a 75GB limit. You do have to reghack it, but it's there. SP1 is still 16GB total.
Isn't Sega vs. Accolade just a grandchild of Atari's attempt to file a restraining order against Activision releasing games for the Atari 2600 back in 1982?
Can't find a good article on it...not that I'm looking *too* hard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision hints to it.
Ya know, people keep bringing this up, wanting their money back, I'm wondering who ended up buying CS?...
I bought Half-Life and downloaded CS back when it was in Beta, and CS:S comes with HL2 for free (I bought it for HL2, don't play CS much these days)...
Did you actually buy the standalone CS or what exactly?...
Seriously, I'm really curious about this.
Then just get it off a standard torrent and don't give them anything. No one said you had to get it this way.
What exactly "sucks" about paying for this? I can understand if it's outrageously priced, like CDs these days, but if it was a buck or two an episode it'd be cheaper than getting the DVDs and since you're not getting anything tangible, probably works out in the end.
Might check it out myself if it's not too much; I've been meaning to see Red Dwarf for a while (since someone introduced it to me and NEVER FINISHED IT! grr...) but at nearly $40 for seasons 1 and 2 (at only about 12 episodes total) it's a bit pricey. I personally think it's worth it to compensate them something for this, I did like it and I'd like to encourage more work like this.
DRM sucks, sure, but I don't see them ever getting rid of it. At least they're trying.
Forgetting for a moment that it has only ever carried one single person into the air and is equipped to carry only two, what happens if it is windy on the day of the tour?
Good thing the Wright Brothers never ran across you. The Flyer was only equipped to carry one person; and on one of their first passenger flights (possibly the first, I only skimmed the Wiki), the passenger was killed in the crash.
Designs improve and compensate.
Ain't it funny his writing was entitled, "The Origin of the Species." When he did not mean origin. Heh.
Actually, it's "The Origin of Species." The second 'the' in yours changes the meaning dramatically.
It has to be safe up to the point of detonation otherwise if it kills you off from, say, fumes, or is too unstable to even carry on the plane if you could sneak it on before you can blast a hole in the fuselage, what's the point in trying?
Natural selection can be a harsh mistress and if you can't keep up you shouldn't be suprised when something kills every last one of you.
Cause we all know how cruel those natural fishing nets and shipping barges are...
i would love to see someone bring up a single case of a time where a blind hunter, being assisted by a seeing person, hurt somebody.
Now, I wonder, would the blind hunter be at fault, or the assistant because he's the one that said 'shoot'?
To set this, you flip the ignition key on and off some certain number of times, while hitting the door lock button in a certain way, with your left foot out the driver's window, and the truck parked facing east. It's in the manual somewhere...
While in park and engine idling...
Driver side window up. Passenger side window up.
Driver side window down. Passenger side window down.
Flip left turn signal on then flip right turn signal on. Repeat.
Press brakes.
Turn on AC.
Rev the engine and go into drive.
Plus you get a tenfold increase in MPG!
After touring the store my two friendly guides and I stopped outside to where two new automobiles were on display: two brand new Korean SUVs. Complexity again.
And just more things to break. Honestly. The more crap you shove into a compact space the higher chance something's going to break, fail and cost hundreds in repairs.
It's the automatic window conundrum. On the one hand, automatic windows are convenient, simple, free your hands and make life easier. On the other hand, when they break, what you do is severely limited by the position of the window. If it's stuck in the 'up' position, good luck going through cash toll roads or drive thrus. Stuck down? Hope you don't go to the car wash.
I have manual windows. I wouldn't trade em at all. (I do wish I had automatic doors though; at least those can be used manually...for now)
All this means is cars have reached a point where advancement has peaked and now they have to justify the new ones you buy every three years with gadgets and gizmos and ribbons you'll never actually use but somehow it makes you feel better.
Maybe the auto industry is a good parallel to the software industry...
I think you're thinking of John Glenn. McCain is the Vietnam POW.
And what if it turns out the Almighty is, in fact, a giant chicken? We're all screwed then.
Cept for some of those extreme vegans that won't even eat eggs. They might luck out.
Just because they may end up being 'wrong' doesn't mean they don't have a worse fate coming to them. You may call my argument absurd, but on what grounds? Your belief that I'm wrong? I don't mind you having your own system of belief, but I'll be damned if you attempt to squelch my recent conversion to Chickenanity.