The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 22 May 2012 @ 7:33am
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I have no doubt that sales have been lost to DRM...
Ten people I know who otherwise would have bought it without question won't be buying Diablo 3 after I explained the DRM.
Eight of them can't tell you the difference between a torrent and their own ass. Assuming 50% of those who could would have pirated it, that's nine lost sales at $60/per or a $540 current total direct cost for pissing me off.
I couldn't even guess at how much they've lost from my rants being spread to further generations and I'm for damn sure not the only one annoyed enough to talk people out of buying it.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 21 May 2012 @ 11:19am
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Europe does, obviously. That most of them who used to be capitalists are now socialists and vice versa changes nothing about their authority to dictate to the rest of the world.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 17 May 2012 @ 3:19am
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There's no reason the authorities or the company need to know what or from whom the items were stolen. It's almost certain that the customers know what was stolen and if they feel the need to inform the police, they're free to.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 16 May 2012 @ 12:48pm
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Meh, this is a silly argument. Bytes are just as relevant as bits for measuring anything appropriate. Saying otherwise is like saying your speedometer should be rated in meters instead of kilometers per hour because it's more precise. It's pedantic at best since once you start adding prefixes to a unit, precision of that degree is rarely useful on a human level. How many nanometers in a lightyear?
The actually useful argument to be had is 1000 vs. 1024 for prefixes in data measurements. Personally, I have to stick with base 2 because mebibyte just sounds retarded.
It's not just because there was a hacking article.
B&N sell 2600 so it can't be just because there was an article on hacking. Someone applied pressure or they're pulling this with an eye towards renegotiating their cut of distribution.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 3 May 2012 @ 11:07am
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Thankfully, that isn't an issue with Congress. They vote how they're paid to or how will get them reelected. Knowing what they're doing never even comes up as a consideration.
Humans as a species have reached a point of technical competence where it is entirely within the realm of feasibility to have a REAL direct democracy--all of a nation's people being directly involved with national decision making process.
True enough but it's a terrifying idea. Stop and think for a moment about the number of people who vote on American Idol vs the number who can explain how tariffs affect international trade or how tax policy affects the economy. The majority of the public are either stupid or willfully ignorant of most political issues and you think it would be a good idea to have them voting directly on important issues?
At best it would be a tragedy of the commons on a scale orders of magnitude greater than the world has ever seen.
Processing on ebooks is negligible; computers don't have to be paid. At most he'd have to sell 11-13 times more.
Yes, I expect this promotion will lead to a noteworthy net gain in the short term. In the long term, after the promotional price is back up to insane levels, I expect it to boost regular price sales by 1-2% on the books that were discounted and significantly more on the one that wasn't.
Really, this is no different than a brick and mortar having a sale. I don't expect it to prove much of anything since the value of having a sale has long been known. Keeping them at $0.99 would be the real test.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 28 Apr 2012 @ 6:55am
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You're absolutely right. I did assume you were poorly attempting some sort of insight when all you did was say, rather verbosely, that people who don't use social media don't use social media. You just confused the point with a lot of irrelevant statements. My apologies.
Though, again, with insight like that, please don't speak for me.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 28 Apr 2012 @ 4:20am
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You've got a bit of a problem in your argument. You've failed to give any reasons why book readers aren't more intelligent or any why those who socialize more are more intelligent. Given that, your position is that social media users are content to ignore those with little social skills even though they may be more intelligent.
That's an astoundingly foolish position to take. On behalf of myself at least, please don't speak for me.
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Ten people I know who otherwise would have bought it without question won't be buying Diablo 3 after I explained the DRM.
Eight of them can't tell you the difference between a torrent and their own ass. Assuming 50% of those who could would have pirated it, that's nine lost sales at $60/per or a $540 current total direct cost for pissing me off.
I couldn't even guess at how much they've lost from my rants being spread to further generations and I'm for damn sure not the only one annoyed enough to talk people out of buying it.
Way to work that word of mouth, Blizzard.
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Oh absolutely. We can send turds into the patent office as evidence of prior art.
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The actually useful argument to be had is 1000 vs. 1024 for prefixes in data measurements. Personally, I have to stick with base 2 because mebibyte just sounds retarded.
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It's not just because there was a hacking article.
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As to why their education isn't an issue, see my comment below.
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True enough but it's a terrifying idea. Stop and think for a moment about the number of people who vote on American Idol vs the number who can explain how tariffs affect international trade or how tax policy affects the economy. The majority of the public are either stupid or willfully ignorant of most political issues and you think it would be a good idea to have them voting directly on important issues?
At best it would be a tragedy of the commons on a scale orders of magnitude greater than the world has ever seen.
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Yes, I expect this promotion will lead to a noteworthy net gain in the short term. In the long term, after the promotional price is back up to insane levels, I expect it to boost regular price sales by 1-2% on the books that were discounted and significantly more on the one that wasn't.
Really, this is no different than a brick and mortar having a sale. I don't expect it to prove much of anything since the value of having a sale has long been known. Keeping them at $0.99 would be the real test.
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Though, again, with insight like that, please don't speak for me.
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That's an astoundingly foolish position to take. On behalf of myself at least, please don't speak for me.
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