Comment Re:Redundant keys (Score 1) 665
Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, most people think it's one of the few things Microsoft did right!
Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, most people think it's one of the few things Microsoft did right!
Snark aside, you have it absolutely correct. No one has as a "right" to your work.
You've obviously never signed a contract with the RIAA...
I think it's reasonable that the time and effort a creator puts behind a work is rewarded appropriately.
The "piracy" conflict is mostly down to the music mogul's definition of "appropriate".
Remember that the actual artists very rarely get paid, if at all (see Internet for further details...)
Government protection for a business model that's failing (for whatever reason) is a very slippery slope.
(Before answering, consider that the music industry's golden years were when people used to freely record music which was being broadcast by radio...)
No business should expect that profits will always go upwards to infinity. Every market will plateau. Some markets will collapse. Some will no longer be able to support a huge amount of middlemen (which is who's inventing the figures for 'losses' by the music industry, despite all independent studies to the contrary).
I want to know what we block after piracy?
If we can block child porn and pirate sites, we can also block everything else that somebody, somewhere doesn't like. Right?
Shooting the messenger isn't the way to stop piracy (or child porn for that matter). All it does is drive it underground.
Yep. The BBC isn't supposed to be chasing ratings, it was created to inform/educate* the public so this is exactly the sort of program the they're supposed to be producing. The low on budget, high on imagination approach has brought some truly great TV to the world. It also attracts people like Patrick Moore and David Attenborough who are in it for the passion, not the paycheck.
[*] Yes, those are the exact words used in the BBC charter: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/about/how_we_govern/charter.pdf
(nb. For the Americans: there's no adverts on the BBC so audience figures don't translate into profits).
Yep. He was great friends with Patrick Moore and knows the program well.
Placebos?
It's as if they're honestly trying to get everyone to delete their facebook account.
No, I think your average Facebook user would welcome this.
I was quite interested in a Surface Pro last week.
Then I found out it only has a 1 megapixel camera. Weirdly enough the cheaper Surface RT has a 5 megapixel camera.
Maybe I'll wait for Surface Pro 3 then....eh, Microsoft?
Most family's are forced to send there child to public schools by there circumstances.
And some people fail to take advantage of even that standard of education, failing at basic grammar.
I defy you to type the name of any game you used to enjoy into the search box and come up blank...
Citing them for texting, sure. Citing for using the GPS is fucking stupid. We do NOT want to revert to the days when people tried to manage folding and unfolding maps as they drove.
-jcr
Yeah, because neither of those activities can be done by pulling over somewhere safe and switching off the engine while you do it.
Wrong. You can blame the po-po for giving tickets. They make the final call to give someone a ticket or not. They can also just give a warning or ignore it altogether. A good cop has had sufficient education and experience to make that judgement...
I'm guessing Officer Jessie "I issue more tickets for texting and driving than any other officer in the state" Myers isn't following your policy.
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Someone do this, I loved playing the text-based adventure games as a kid. Someone should bring these back.
If only there was a way to search for things like that on the Internet...
If you analyse anything, you destroy it. -- Arthur Miller
