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Comment Re:Pay Once and Play; Minecraft mods (Score 1) 188

So "mods" is your new edge-case Axe to Grind

Yes. I have realized that a mod is more reasonable in scope for a community project than a complete game. Would Half-Life have been nearly as popular without Team Fortress Classic and Counter-Strike? Yes, I'm aware that Counter-Strike was eventually ported, but if Half-Life were a console exclusive, Counter-Strike would never have been created in the first place.

Comment Forced waiting (Score 1) 81

YouTube videos also tend to be a lot shorter than segments of children's broadcast television. Compare the 11-minute segments of an animated TV series for children with the 1- to 4-minute YouTube videos. This makes the requirements described in the "Commercial Time Limitations" section more practical to fulfill for broadcast television than for YouTube. For example, a 15-second commercial might be shown before a 45-second video, which would exceed the FCC's 1 to 4 ratio for weekdays, let alone the 1 to 4.7 ratio for weekends. Would you prefer to have the YouTube Kids app just block viewing of partner or claimed videos when the app has displayed too many partner or claimed videos within a 60-minute period? That'd feel like the forced waiting in Candy Crush Saga.

Comment Re:Kid-friendly ads (Score 1) 81

A lot of partners and claimants are unwilling to allow a video to be viewed at all unless an ad is presented first. So to limit ad impressions to fewer than what an adult would see, the app would have to limit the total number of video views fewer than what an adult would see. This would tie into the time limit feature.

Comment Re:Nintendo is next.... (Score 1) 153

the writing is on the wall for console monopolies when computers are becoming a commodity everyday device.

Are computers an "everyday device" in the living room yet? And how well do games that aren't point-and-click work on mobile phones? If not, please help explain how "the writing is on the wall for console monopolies".

Gamers want to buy games they care not what platform it is on but they are no longer going to buy 3 different consoles just to play a few games as adults

But are they going to buy three gaming PCs so that everybody in the same household can play?

Comment Re:Installable devkits (Score 1) 69

You aren't going to get an audience without content.

I agree. But these naysayers have kept telling me that a PC game developer won't get an audience even with content because effectively all the audience for local multiplayer content are console users.

Comment Re: Hopefully better than SafeSearch... (Score 1) 81

And then he would have gone around telling us, his grandparents, and anyone else that he had to shit.

If that's the only time the child says "shit", not as an all-purpose swear word, I'd say mission accomplished. And if the child ends up learning "bullshit", you can take the child to a dairy farm.

How would you describe the words Fuck, or Bitch?

Be consistent in associating each taboo word with a place, and be honest and logical about this place. "Fuck" is for the bedroom, and "bitch" is for a place that you have associated with dogs. ("Blurred Lines" is about adopting a dog and discovering her arthritis.) This teaches the child that there's a place for everything. You're laying a conceptual foundation that will make it easier for the child to accept later on that school is not the place for some things.

Comment William Shakespeare's estate (Score 1) 305

Why should something that generates revenue over time not be paid out the same way to the creator?

After how much time should the revenue cease? For example, why should or should not the estate of William Shakespeare still receive royalties for performances and film adaptations of the play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, which premiered around 1602?

Comment How is 28 years after publication not enough? (Score 2) 305

He's killed in a tour bus accident. Yes, she should continue to collect royalties.

Under current law, her copyright would end sooner just because he died young. Why is this desirable? A copyright term of a fixed period after first publication of a work, such as the copyright term of 28 years under the Copyright Act of 1790 or the present 20-year patent term, would have provided ample time to find other sources of income.

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