Re: Re: Increased tech skillsets to enable outsourcing of American Jobs
it's the circle of life man:
the standard of living and the exchange rate of the rupee make it cheaper to export labor to india. this hurts the american economy, standard of living, and the value of the dollar.
soon the standard of living and the value of the dollar will drop to the point that it will be cheaper for india to outsource back to the US.
Wow. You're amazingly ignorant. Copyright cases are heard in Federal court. All federal judges are appointed by the President of the United States, and confirmed by the Senate. There is no election.
indeed. federal judges cannot be bought off with campaign contributions. the have to be appointed by individuals who have been bought off with campaign contributions. that's a universe of difference.
since there will always be thieves, it is pointless to spend any time, money, or effort defending against them.
the point that you are missing is that the "thieves" are UNSTOPPABLE. as in, stopping them is not humanly possible. the largest and cleverest of efforts have managed to temporarily slow things down, but stopping them outright is simply not going to happen.
so, you can invest time, money and effort to stop something that is impossible to stop, which is ridiculous, OR you can focus your investment on those who do pay and on rewarding their patronage with things that encourage more patronage. lower prices seem like a good place to start, convenience too.
I guess at least your post is an effort to pay for it. For some reason the current generation seems to think there's never a reason to pay for something that everything is free that isn't physical.
ahh, the "shut up and get in line" argument. that line of thinking is exactly the problem.
if pirating a good movie helps sales, and pirating a bad one hurts sales, that means that piracy is a non-issue as long as you make more good movies than bad ones.
rather than waste money chasing pirates, why not spend those funds on making better pictures?
there is more to this conversation than "everyone must pay" and "everything must be free" and that is embracing the fact that some people will always pay, some people will never pay, and the best you can hope for is that most of the audience pays most of the time.
your energy would be better spent on the paying crowd. they are already paying and there are more of them than there are pirates. make the experience great for those who do pay and offer them something that's worth paying for so they will come back to pay for it again.
the issue isn't my willingness to pay. i do pay... a lot. the issue is the balance of price vs. quality and the fact that the movie industry holds all the cards. it's an all or nothing proposition right now: either i have to gamble my money and hope for a good picture (not as risky this summer as it was last) or pirate movies to see them for myself and decide. there are more good movies out this year so i have gone to the movies more often.
surely there is a compromise between the "pay up sucker" attitude of the studios and the "give me everything free" mentality of some consumers.
if there was a legal compromise i would be all for that, but there isn't and if the industry has their way, there won't be.
if a trip for two to the movies wasn't $50, i could be more forgiving of less than stellar releases. so far this summer has been a good one for movies, since the spring i have seen 21, prince caspian, ironman, wall-E, the dark knight, the x files all in the theater. last thursday i even paid $10 to see the 25th anniversary screening of "war games". i've seen it a hundred times and i STILL paid to see it in the theater. i go to the movies more than anyone i know and i probably download more than anyone i know. the fact remains that if it were more affordable, and the movies were better, i would go see a lot more in the theater because i love movies that much.
since the trip for two is $50, i am going to be quite selective in my review process and really only devote funds to pictures that present the least risk to me and my family in terms of enjoyment.
no, reviews by other people won't cut it. most reviewers are out of touch with me and my tastes. sure i read reviews when i run across them, but half the time they are paid off and the other half of the time they are needlessly academic.
the Hulk movie from a few summers ago leaked online, got terrible reviews and then no one went to see it.
leaked bad movies probably do hurt ticket sales: i saw a cam of the new hulk movie and it BLOWS! don't even bother downloading it.
i'll bet leaked good movies probably help sales: OMFG i saw a cam of the dark knight and it FREAKIN ROCKS!!! go see that shit in the theater!
this is what i love about the movie industry: they want you to pay full price to find out if it sucks. that way, they get their money, even if they didn't do their job of making movies that are worth watching.
i love how they get the option of making us pay to see the goods, but we don't get the option of making them show us the goods before we pay.
the "market" is still composed of people. people's opinions, however uninformed, determine the market. the market for vista just isn't that friendly.
MS is still high from the days when people camped out for windows 98 and is still trapped in the delusion that they can do no wrong.
it's a different world now. the great unwashed masses have had computers long enough to be comfortable with them, and with the internet, so they are a much harder sell for a new version of windows than in the past.
in the past, people got the latest version of windows with their first computer so they could finally get online. back then people didn't know any better. that's changed a bit.
while they may still not know any better, they are reluctant to change and vista is not compelling enough to overcome said reluctance.
i didn't think that was possible. imposing limitations on customers is standard operating procedure... i didn't think it was possible for a corporation to see it was making a mistake and change course BEFORE failing miserably.
lots of folks want to keep tight control over their stuff simply because of pride. they have trouble seeing the value of getting their work out to as many people as possible. they don't want their music used in crappy low budget movies or to appear in commercials.
Why are teachers so poorly paid ? Is their service not far more valuable to a human than a movie, a song, or a novel ?
teaching and education have no value at all. if teaching was that important it would generate more revenue and teachers would be famous. schools and teachers don't produce profits or celebrity, in fact all they do is cost money and generate controversy and lawsuits, so obviously they are unimportant.
Re: Re: Re: Good for Copyright Abolisionists and Anarchists
anarchy means chaos to pretty much everyone who hasn't read a book on the subject. until there is a sitcom or a will smith movie on the subject, no one will read a book on the subject. maybe you can get oprah to recommend a book for her club?
i imagine that the word "anarchist" causes most people to think of guys with mohawks and safety pins in their noses talking about how the us faked the moon landing as part of a plot for the government to collect our body fluids.
"copyright abolitionist" probably conjures a similar image.
sure they are compelling concepts, but they require thought to understand. thought is the sworn enemy of corporations and governments.
i'm as against big copyright as anyone, but in politics, especially the US, isn't czar a term for a person with a fancy title and lots of visibility, but with no real authority?
in the past the US has had crime czars, drug czars, and since crime and drugs are still alive and well, i would assume that a copyright czar would have a similar effect.
a child ate my cat the other day, and i'm pretty sure he found my cat using google maps. fortunately i purchased the google key word "don't eat my cat" so my new cat will be safe from child predators.
they are trying to stop people using camcorders to steal movies.
if you would pull your head out of your ass for half a second you would see that the best way to stop people from using a camcorder in a theater and uploading to the internet is to prevent people from recording pay per view programming in their homes.
i swear, sometimes it's like you people are being deliberately obtuse.
instead of trying to predict a new future, i think tomorrowland would be better done as a collection of futures from the past. i love old depictions of the future and i would love to visit a theme park devoted to preserving the past's views of the future.
each section could be devoted to decades past, or perhaps to unifying themes like the utopia, cyberpunk, post nuclear, and maybe something with zombies.
You chastize those persons/companies who engage in the business of developing and distributing software, calling the business models they use what I term the equivalent of "old school". Economic rationalization, academic studies, economic theories aside, it is in my view presumptuous of you to constantly harp that they need to see the light and give away their workproduct so that they can make it up (and possibly more) providing "scarce" goods and/or services. The simple fact is that not every business fits neatly into the economic mold you openly advocate. Yes, your models can and do work quite well for many businesses, but to generalize it as you do seems to me off the mark. Instead of saying such business have not adapted to the times, perhaps you may wish to consider offering them alternatives directed to their specific circumstances.
hell yeah, one size does not fit all, that's why everyone should go back to selling plastic discs in shrinkwrap.
you can have a standards war with physical formats, but to have one with digital formats is pointless.
someone will come up with a service/player that is open source and plays most of the popular formats (like vlc media player) and the world will settle on a semi-open format like divx/xvid.
see, big companies get a say on physical formats because you need money to buy a vote in the race. the internet plays by different rules.
streaming video will probably be the same thing... all this hustle and flow about formats, just to have most folks settle on their own semi-open standard.
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Re: Me take your job...
On the post: Forget The $100 PC; India Now Working On A $10 PC... Or Not
Re: Re: Increased tech skillsets to enable outsourcing of American Jobs
the standard of living and the exchange rate of the rupee make it cheaper to export labor to india. this hurts the american economy, standard of living, and the value of the dollar.
soon the standard of living and the value of the dollar will drop to the point that it will be cheaper for india to outsource back to the US.
On the post: Forget The $100 PC; India Now Working On A $10 PC... Or Not
Re: Re: Better Education
that's africa, not india. people like you always get your generalizations wrong.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Paying off judges?
indeed. federal judges cannot be bought off with campaign contributions. the have to be appointed by individuals who have been bought off with campaign contributions. that's a universe of difference.
On the post: MPAA Still Clueless; Claims Anti-Piracy Is Why Dark Knight Had A Huge Opening
Re: Re: Re: When will they ever learn?
the point that you are missing is that the "thieves" are UNSTOPPABLE. as in, stopping them is not humanly possible. the largest and cleverest of efforts have managed to temporarily slow things down, but stopping them outright is simply not going to happen.
so, you can invest time, money and effort to stop something that is impossible to stop, which is ridiculous, OR you can focus your investment on those who do pay and on rewarding their patronage with things that encourage more patronage. lower prices seem like a good place to start, convenience too.
On the post: MPAA Still Clueless; Claims Anti-Piracy Is Why Dark Knight Had A Huge Opening
Re: Re: tortured reasoning
ahh, the "shut up and get in line" argument. that line of thinking is exactly the problem.
if pirating a good movie helps sales, and pirating a bad one hurts sales, that means that piracy is a non-issue as long as you make more good movies than bad ones.
rather than waste money chasing pirates, why not spend those funds on making better pictures?
there is more to this conversation than "everyone must pay" and "everything must be free" and that is embracing the fact that some people will always pay, some people will never pay, and the best you can hope for is that most of the audience pays most of the time.
your energy would be better spent on the paying crowd. they are already paying and there are more of them than there are pirates. make the experience great for those who do pay and offer them something that's worth paying for so they will come back to pay for it again.
the issue isn't my willingness to pay. i do pay... a lot. the issue is the balance of price vs. quality and the fact that the movie industry holds all the cards. it's an all or nothing proposition right now: either i have to gamble my money and hope for a good picture (not as risky this summer as it was last) or pirate movies to see them for myself and decide. there are more good movies out this year so i have gone to the movies more often.
surely there is a compromise between the "pay up sucker" attitude of the studios and the "give me everything free" mentality of some consumers.
if there was a legal compromise i would be all for that, but there isn't and if the industry has their way, there won't be.
if a trip for two to the movies wasn't $50, i could be more forgiving of less than stellar releases. so far this summer has been a good one for movies, since the spring i have seen 21, prince caspian, ironman, wall-E, the dark knight, the x files all in the theater. last thursday i even paid $10 to see the 25th anniversary screening of "war games". i've seen it a hundred times and i STILL paid to see it in the theater. i go to the movies more than anyone i know and i probably download more than anyone i know. the fact remains that if it were more affordable, and the movies were better, i would go see a lot more in the theater because i love movies that much.
since the trip for two is $50, i am going to be quite selective in my review process and really only devote funds to pictures that present the least risk to me and my family in terms of enjoyment.
no, reviews by other people won't cut it. most reviewers are out of touch with me and my tastes. sure i read reviews when i run across them, but half the time they are paid off and the other half of the time they are needlessly academic.
On the post: MPAA Still Clueless; Claims Anti-Piracy Is Why Dark Knight Had A Huge Opening
tortured reasoning
leaked bad movies probably do hurt ticket sales:
i saw a cam of the new hulk movie and it BLOWS! don't even bother downloading it.
i'll bet leaked good movies probably help sales:
OMFG i saw a cam of the dark knight and it FREAKIN ROCKS!!! go see that shit in the theater!
this is what i love about the movie industry: they want you to pay full price to find out if it sucks. that way, they get their money, even if they didn't do their job of making movies that are worth watching.
i love how they get the option of making us pay to see the goods, but we don't get the option of making them show us the goods before we pay.
On the post: Microsoft Plays Practical Joke On People To Convince Them They Like Vista
people think vista sucks, that means it sucks.
MS is still high from the days when people camped out for windows 98 and is still trapped in the delusion that they can do no wrong.
it's a different world now. the great unwashed masses have had computers long enough to be comfortable with them, and with the internet, so they are a much harder sell for a new version of windows than in the past.
in the past, people got the latest version of windows with their first computer so they could finally get online. back then people didn't know any better. that's changed a bit.
while they may still not know any better, they are reluctant to change and vista is not compelling enough to overcome said reluctance.
On the post: As Expected, CW Realizes Gossip Girl Needs To Be Online
wait, a corporation changed it's mind?
did they sue someone or get sued by someone?
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pride
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Re: Re: Viva Italia!
dude, taunting crippled people is wrong... even when the disability is mental.
On the post: Now The Senate Wants To Add A Copyright Czar To The White House
Re: Of, By and For the Corporations
as soon as you have the money to buy it back.
Why are teachers so poorly paid ? Is their service not far more valuable to a human than a movie, a song, or a novel ?
teaching and education have no value at all. if teaching was that important it would generate more revenue and teachers would be famous. schools and teachers don't produce profits or celebrity, in fact all they do is cost money and generate controversy and lawsuits, so obviously they are unimportant.
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Re: Re: Re: Good for Copyright Abolisionists and Anarchists
i imagine that the word "anarchist" causes most people to think of guys with mohawks and safety pins in their noses talking about how the us faked the moon landing as part of a plot for the government to collect our body fluids.
"copyright abolitionist" probably conjures a similar image.
sure they are compelling concepts, but they require thought to understand. thought is the sworn enemy of corporations and governments.
On the post: Now The Senate Wants To Add A Copyright Czar To The White House
isn't czar a term for a symbolic figurehead?
in the past the US has had crime czars, drug czars, and since crime and drugs are still alive and well, i would assume that a copyright czar would have a similar effect.
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predatory children are a serious threat
On the post: MPAA Doubletalk On FCC Request To Block DVR Recordings
you miss the point
if you would pull your head out of your ass for half a second you would see that the best way to stop people from using a camcorder in a theater and uploading to the internet is to prevent people from recording pay per view programming in their homes.
i swear, sometimes it's like you people are being deliberately obtuse.
On the post: How Would You Build Tomorrowland?
how about a museum of past futures?
each section could be devoted to decades past, or perhaps to unifying themes like the utopia, cyberpunk, post nuclear, and maybe something with zombies.
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hell yeah, one size does not fit all, that's why everyone should go back to selling plastic discs in shrinkwrap.
On the post: And You Thought The Next Generation Video Standards Battle Was Over?
the digital video format war is over, vlc won
someone will come up with a service/player that is open source and plays most of the popular formats (like vlc media player) and the world will settle on a semi-open format like divx/xvid.
see, big companies get a say on physical formats because you need money to buy a vote in the race. the internet plays by different rules.
streaming video will probably be the same thing... all this hustle and flow about formats, just to have most folks settle on their own semi-open standard.
On the post: Blizzard Bot Ruling Sets A Dangerous Precedent On Copyright
Re: I've said it a few times here on various subjects
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