That's the way they have to live. If they lived in constant fear, they'd never live. Serious things do actually bother them, like the shelling of the island or the sinking of the boat, but grand standing doesn't.
digg desperate trying to make the news..a couple days ago they sent out an email saying "hey..do you remember us? it's so dark and lonely here.. please come back and pay attention to us. sure we ignored every wish the users had and just completely fucked things sideways..but..please? please? please???"
Yes anyone CAN be sexist and anyone CAN be racist but in our society, you ARE only racist and sexist if you are a white male.
It's why white people have to dance around saying "n word" while black people can spout off all the racist BS they want and the reason we have cities full of "womens programs" which men can't access, but you try to make a male only club and some woman can sue and be admitted without issue.
voting with your wallet had nothing to do with this. They broke SC sales records with this game, 1.1 million copies in the first couple weeks. As far as EA is concerned this is a success.
Because it's such a huge buffer.. the base in south korea is just as close to china there as it is in North Korea. If war ever broke out the US could just roll over NK anyway.
There are plenty of silent apps that will take video and pictures with a push anywhere on the screen that can be activated while holding the phone very casually. If someone really wants a picture of you, they'll get it.
That's your absolute limit..if someone were so inclined they could say... take hostages.. if the action being taken doesn't really generate a result, then it really isn't action.
There is nothing sweet about cities in motion It was pretty that was it the traffic patterns were shit the people you moved had no impact on the game, the development was completely pre-planned, the game didn't respond to a thing you did, and there were so many bugs that traffic became a nightmare, cars would always stop on crosswalks preventing people from crossing the road, trucks couldn't turn left because they could never get enough time to do it, boats would stop for oncoming boats when they had enough time to go to the other side and come back twice, trams had weird collision physics so that when they were pulled into a station, well back from the road (going in the direction away from the road) somehow they had an invisible caboose that would block traffic for awhile. Every map was the same, start plopping subways and watch the money roll in.
Cities in motion failed in just about every department but the graphics
What's funny is cheat code books.. I remember seeing in a shop, well after the internet was very built up with tons of websites detailing every cheat code possible, books claiming "10,000 cheat codes!!!! only $15"
In this day and age it just seems idiotic to try and print and sell that kind of thing.
getting? It's been at that point for a long time now. Basically since 9/11. Someone waved some dead bodies mythical enemies and everyone just rolled over, grabbed their ankles and said yes dear leader, please have your way with me. For the all the time Americans spend looking down on North Koreans and their apparent blind allegiance, they're doing a great impression..
Where do you live that your connection is so "unreliable"? The Congo? Antarctica? The moon? If the answer is any of these, then my guess is that you have other things to focus your attention on than an Xbox..if the answer is not one of these then you should be focusing your attention on the company you pay money to and/or slapping yourself for getting service with them.
I'm not sure how that is relevant. She is getting paid isn't she? As are the other artists, it might not be as much as they like, but they are getting paid. The users are also commodities, they're being sold advertising or subscriptions or other things of that nature.
But when it comes to art, why shouldn't you expect things for free? Isn't that the point of art?
Is it somehow our responsibility to make sure everyone has an equal income at everything they choose to do? That sounds a lot like communism. Here is a tip: Musicians, along with many other kinds of businesses have struggled and failed since the beginning of time. It is not society's job to prop you up and support your hobby. If you're just not good enough to make it, go out and get a different job. Just like it isn't society's responsibility to support your failed business model. Can't compete with online markets? Too bad. Can't compete with big box stores? Too bad. Your greed and selfishness hurts consumers, and they are a larger group than you are.
I do artistic photography, do you know how many people are making a living at that? Outside of a few iconic photographers who have created books or sold a few sought after pictures, nobody. Bu I don't sit around pissing and moaning about it because I believe in personal responsibility. I do it because I enjoy it. If I ever made money from it, great, but despite it being my main interest, I realize I still have to put a roof over my head and food in my belly, so I go out and go to work.
Art is, for the most part, just not valuable to the main stream. There is no way around that.
"A superman" is not the same as "superman" and there are lawyers who cost much more than your or I who could spend all day in court talking about that.
Obviously skype got mod points. It's easy to check: 1-Many companies large and small offer dial-in numbers to tie into VOIP services in Canada 2-Skype has Skype-in in many countries, Canada is not one of them 3-The Canadian Pension Plan is an investor in Skype (try a google news search) 4-Searching skype-in Canada shows forum posts, blog posts, new stories in print news papers going back years and years about this and the same stock answer from Skype being trotted out each time despite it being complete and utter bullshit.
Unfortunately due to Skype's idiocy we still can't get skype-in numbers in Canada. Despite the Canadian Pension plan being an investor in Skype. They keep whinging about E911 regulations, but other VOIP companies don't seem to have any trouble getting around that.
I use skype out as well, but I'd kill to have a nice skype in number that was actually served up by skype. originally when I bought a package from them it included a free skype-in number, but it was useless.
Why not? That is how the entertainment industry presents theirs. 1 download = 1 lost sale as far as they're concerned, despite the fact that they cannot prove that. They couldn't even prove that 1 million downloads = 1 lost sale. My proof is in the absence of proof from the other side. I made no blanket statement that every single incident of piracy was victimless. I said:
in certain circumstances piracy is a victimless crime
Those being the case where the person never would have bought the item in the first place and only uses it because it can be obtained for free and in obtaining and using the product the individual doesn't use any resources from the company (like an online service they didn't secure properly)
How about in a country/region where the rights holder refuses to make the product available? Do the people there have an obligation to wait months, years, or until the end of time for something to be made available?
All horseshit. If there's no value in having a thing then there's no reason to download it.
People download these games and play them. They download these movies and watch them. They download this music and put it on their ipods. Whether or not they later thought it would have been worth purchasing legally is largely irrelevant.
There isn't though. The only value is in that, to them, it's free. Any other price and they wouldn't download it. For them the product is worth no monetary compensation. if they can't download it for free, they'll go without and be no worse off for it. You can't translate this or analogize it though.
I asked where the damage was, and I see you've failed to show any. In order for something to be a crime there has to be some kind of damage done to the victim, and it's non-existent. So why exactly is this a crime? What about in places where it's perfectly legal behaviour, is this then suddenly "ok"?
I'm increasingly nauseated by the people who can't seem to understand that in certain circumstances piracy is a victimless crime and then trying to force their morality on others. If an individual would under no circumstances purchase the product in question, and the rights holder loses no resources in their making a digital copy, where exactly is the damage to anyone occurring here?
There is no mythical lost sale, there is no loss of bits and bytes. Some hurt feelings, but their attempts to manhandle various world governments hurts my feelings, so I'd say we're even.
Now, if the individual is truly stealing simply because they don't want to spend the money on that, that is one thing, but you really have no idea who is being cheap and who simply would never spend money on the product in question.
Their business model may or may not be broken but the fact remains that how they are doing it isn't making them happy. The entertainment industry still seems to have lots of money to throw around, so it seems to be doing fine. If they were truly losing so much money you'd think they'd be broke and destitute from all the years of bitching they've done.
The only thing I think that might be broken is their greed meter and their inability to logically think about what is happening when someone downloads something. I can guarantee you there has never been a single business or person harmed by piracy and I'd dare anyone who claims they have been to prove it. I'm not saying some company claiming 90% of the copies of their game is pirated so they closed their offices or killed the office dog because they couldn't afford to feed him. I'm claiming definitive proof that 1)the people who pirated the product would have actually paid cash for it 2)no sales were generated by people who used piracy as a demo and then turned around and bought it later because of that 3)the money they would have generated from #1 would have kept them afloat
They won't be able to prove a single one of those. They could make suppositions and guesses and theorize into the night, but they'd never be able to actually prove that piracy did any genuine damage to their business.
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People were upset about that, same as the sinking of the boat. They're upset when NK actually does something, not when just scream and yell.
That's the way they have to live. If they lived in constant fear, they'd never live. Serious things do actually bother them, like the shelling of the island or the sinking of the boat, but grand standing doesn't.
Since i live in South Korea, I base my concern level on the people around me, rather than western media.
Today all the girls were out in their 6 inch skirts, 10 inch heels, and all the guys were out following them around.
Seems to be just another day.
digg desperate trying to make the news..a couple days ago they sent out an email saying
"hey..do you remember us? it's so dark and lonely here.. please come back and pay attention to us. sure we ignored every wish the users had and just completely fucked things sideways..but..please? please? please???"
Like not play games?
It doesn't matter if the screen is the size of a fucking wall if there are no real decent games to play with it.
Yes anyone CAN be sexist and anyone CAN be racist but in our society, you ARE only racist and sexist if you are a white male.
It's why white people have to dance around saying "n word" while black people can spout off all the racist BS they want and the reason we have cities full of "womens programs" which men can't access, but you try to make a male only club and some woman can sue and be admitted without issue.
voting with your wallet had nothing to do with this. They broke SC sales records with this game, 1.1 million copies in the first couple weeks. As far as EA is concerned this is a success.
Because it's such a huge buffer.. the base in south korea is just as close to china there as it is in North Korea. If war ever broke out the US could just roll over NK anyway.
This whole buffer thing is BS.
There are plenty of silent apps that will take video and pictures with a push anywhere on the screen that can be activated while holding the phone very casually.
If someone really wants a picture of you, they'll get it.
That's your absolute limit..if someone were so inclined they could say... take hostages.. if the action being taken doesn't really generate a result, then it really isn't action.
private region with no invites is as single player as it gets.
There is nothing sweet about cities in motion
It was pretty
that was it
the traffic patterns were shit
the people you moved had no impact on the game, the development was completely pre-planned, the game didn't respond to a thing you did, and there were so many bugs that traffic became a nightmare, cars would always stop on crosswalks preventing people from crossing the road, trucks couldn't turn left because they could never get enough time to do it, boats would stop for oncoming boats when they had enough time to go to the other side and come back twice, trams had weird collision physics so that when they were pulled into a station, well back from the road (going in the direction away from the road) somehow they had an invisible caboose that would block traffic for awhile. Every map was the same, start plopping subways and watch the money roll in.
Cities in motion failed in just about every department but the graphics
What's funny is cheat code books..
I remember seeing in a shop, well after the internet was very built up with tons of websites detailing every cheat code possible, books claiming "10,000 cheat codes!!!! only $15"
In this day and age it just seems idiotic to try and print and sell that kind of thing.
When the same group made such a big deal out of killing ACTA? dog and pony show to make it look like they cared so they could turn around and do this.
getting? It's been at that point for a long time now. Basically since 9/11. Someone waved some dead bodies mythical enemies and everyone just rolled over, grabbed their ankles and said yes dear leader, please have your way with me.
For the all the time Americans spend looking down on North Koreans and their apparent blind allegiance, they're doing a great impression..
Where do you live that your connection is so "unreliable"?
The Congo?
Antarctica?
The moon?
If the answer is any of these, then my guess is that you have other things to focus your attention on than an Xbox..if the answer is not one of these then you should be focusing your attention on the company you pay money to and/or slapping yourself for getting service with them.
I'm not sure how that is relevant. She is getting paid isn't she?
As are the other artists, it might not be as much as they like, but they are getting paid. The users are also commodities, they're being sold advertising or subscriptions or other things of that nature.
But when it comes to art, why shouldn't you expect things for free? Isn't that the point of art?
Is it somehow our responsibility to make sure everyone has an equal income at everything they choose to do? That sounds a lot like communism. Here is a tip:
Musicians, along with many other kinds of businesses have struggled and failed since the beginning of time.
It is not society's job to prop you up and support your hobby. If you're just not good enough to make it, go out and get a different job.
Just like it isn't society's responsibility to support your failed business model.
Can't compete with online markets? Too bad.
Can't compete with big box stores? Too bad.
Your greed and selfishness hurts consumers, and they are a larger group than you are.
I do artistic photography, do you know how many people are making a living at that? Outside of a few iconic photographers who have created books or sold a few sought after pictures, nobody. Bu I don't sit around pissing and moaning about it because I believe in personal responsibility. I do it because I enjoy it. If I ever made money from it, great, but despite it being my main interest, I realize I still have to put a roof over my head and food in my belly, so I go out and go to work.
Art is, for the most part, just not valuable to the main stream. There is no way around that.
"A superman" is not the same as "superman"
and there are lawyers who cost much more than your or I who could spend all day in court talking about that.
They would have declared here a distinct society and built her a special school just for her already..
Obviously skype got mod points.
It's easy to check:
1-Many companies large and small offer dial-in numbers to tie into VOIP services in Canada
2-Skype has Skype-in in many countries, Canada is not one of them
3-The Canadian Pension Plan is an investor in Skype (try a google news search)
4-Searching skype-in Canada shows forum posts, blog posts, new stories in print news papers going back years and years about this and the same stock answer from Skype being trotted out each time despite it being complete and utter bullshit.
Further reading:
http://community.skype.com/t5/Online-Number/Online-Number-Canada/td-p/11006/page/12
Unfortunately due to Skype's idiocy we still can't get skype-in numbers in Canada. Despite the Canadian Pension plan being an investor in Skype. They keep whinging about E911 regulations, but other VOIP companies don't seem to have any trouble getting around that.
I use skype out as well, but I'd kill to have a nice skype in number that was actually served up by skype. originally when I bought a package from them it included a free skype-in number, but it was useless.
Why not? That is how the entertainment industry presents theirs.
1 download = 1 lost sale as far as they're concerned, despite the fact that they cannot prove that. They couldn't even prove that 1 million downloads = 1 lost sale.
My proof is in the absence of proof from the other side. I made no blanket statement that every single incident of piracy was victimless.
I said:
Those being the case where the person never would have bought the item in the first place and only uses it because it can be obtained for free and in obtaining and using the product the individual doesn't use any resources from the company (like an online service they didn't secure properly)
How about in a country/region where the rights holder refuses to make the product available? Do the people there have an obligation to wait months, years, or until the end of time for something to be made available?
There isn't though. The only value is in that, to them, it's free. Any other price and they wouldn't download it.
For them the product is worth no monetary compensation. if they can't download it for free, they'll go without and be no worse off for it. You can't translate this or analogize it though.
I asked where the damage was, and I see you've failed to show any. In order for something to be a crime there has to be some kind of damage done to the victim, and it's non-existent. So why exactly is this a crime? What about in places where it's perfectly legal behaviour, is this then suddenly "ok"?
I'm increasingly nauseated by the people who can't seem to understand that in certain circumstances piracy is a victimless crime and then trying to force their morality on others.
If an individual would under no circumstances purchase the product in question, and the rights holder loses no resources in their making a digital copy, where exactly is the damage to anyone occurring here?
There is no mythical lost sale, there is no loss of bits and bytes. Some hurt feelings, but their attempts to manhandle various world governments hurts my feelings, so I'd say we're even.
Now, if the individual is truly stealing simply because they don't want to spend the money on that, that is one thing, but you really have no idea who is being cheap and who simply would never spend money on the product in question.
Their business model may or may not be broken but the fact remains that how they are doing it isn't making them happy. The entertainment industry still seems to have lots of money to throw around, so it seems to be doing fine. If they were truly losing so much money you'd think they'd be broke and destitute from all the years of bitching they've done.
The only thing I think that might be broken is their greed meter and their inability to logically think about what is happening when someone downloads something. I can guarantee you there has never been a single business or person harmed by piracy and I'd dare anyone who claims they have been to prove it. I'm not saying some company claiming 90% of the copies of their game is pirated so they closed their offices or killed the office dog because they couldn't afford to feed him. I'm claiming definitive proof that
1)the people who pirated the product would have actually paid cash for it
2)no sales were generated by people who used piracy as a demo and then turned around and bought it later because of that
3)the money they would have generated from #1 would have kept them afloat
They won't be able to prove a single one of those. They could make suppositions and guesses and theorize into the night, but they'd never be able to actually prove that piracy did any genuine damage to their business.