I think the mentality / nature of the people doing the work dictates how they feel to an extent.
A 'true' scientist loves* learning, telling and sharing information because it helps them do their job better. I mean all scientists, not just astronomers, etc. True, most either do it for the love, or because they've got a grant of some description.
A journalist is* different - but they need their name on the byline as well - a journalist needs being quick. They get paid rather than have a grant. Sure they like sharing knowledge but only if they're the one telling it.
That's the way I think about it, and I may have oversimplified it but it's clear enough.
* Disclaimer: the above most likely contains statements that do not accurately portray every single member of the named groups.
Was she using Street View ? She should have used the overhead view on a separate tab in her browser. Or turned her phone upside down to illuminate her path .. sad thing is for some stupid technicality she'll probably win ..
Consider the land mass vs population density .. and I suspect that the cost per person for us Aussies would be higher than for the US.. (http://maps.unomaha.edu/peterson/funda/MapLinks/Australia/Australia_files/image013.jpg) vs (http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/catalog/national/images/maps/Population.dir/USpop1990.gif)
Agreed. It comes out weeks later in Australia too. When it airs they air it at 830 for 2 weeks on Monday,then it moves to 930 on Sunday, a bit later it's 1030 on a Thursday.. and since by then everyone's downloading the ad-free US copies, nobody's watching it on TV, so they cancel it.
It's like suicide, only slower and even more pointless.
I think that this is hilarious, I really do. I accept that companies need to protect their work, don't get me wrong. At the ripe old age of 39 I've seen games cracked on everything from the CBM64 upwards. (I had them but no idea about piracy on the Intellivision or Atari 2600). No matter how hard the developer tries all DRM will be beatable one way or another. The more draconian or evil it is, the more likely people are going to want to get around it. Consider that a lot of people get no-CD exes for games just to save having their legit disc in the drive.
The only real way to beat piracy is with something *physical* like a dongle of some sort but even then I imagine software can duplicate that. I quite enjoyed whichever Splinter Cell I played when my son brought his one over ages back, but do I really want to chew my limited bandwidth just to play an offline game ? No frakking way.
Ubisoft has just become like EA - an overbearing, intrusive and basically offensive bunch of arseholes that just want money. They may make nice games sure, but they're still arseholes.
1. Make game.
2. Be an arsehole
3. ???
4. PROFIT !
5. Not.
The only real cure for this sort of behaviour is not to buy anything from them, and make sure they know why. I have, but no reply.(support@ubisoft.com.**) obviously replace ** with a relevant country code.
Admittedly I'm not from the US but I am a motorcyclist. I don't see a marked car at all, though it appears it is the car *behind* the car that pulls in front. It appears to me the biker hears a siren and pulls over, then has some **** haul up in front of him and whip out a gun. Either way it's appallingly stupid behaviour for the unmarked vehicle - the bike had already stopped, the marked car was there, and aside from getting to go home and masturbate about pulling his gun on someone, there was no need for the unmarked car to even stop. Personally he should be behind a desk for the rest of his life.
If I sign up to an RSS feed it's for a site I am interested in. I already know about the site, otherwise I would not be there looking for an RSS feed. Often I'll put a site on a feed and not visit the site unless I need to, eg a story's interesting, or I want to comment.
If I put a site on RSS it could be because
a)I want to be advised of updates without having to look for them (eg a wallpapers site). Let's call this "quite interested"
b)I'm becoming sick of it, and this way I can still see it if I want to but don't have to actively look for it - let's call this "disinterested"
The comparison makes more sense if you view the centre option (interested) as those who browse to the site -so those with a bit more or a bit less interest use RSS.
If it's a) and it's truncated, it annoys me as I still need to visit the site to see if the content is worth reading. That was kinda why I had the RSS feed .. In this instance, counter productive.
If it's b) and it's truncated, the site will be lucky to keep my interest for a week. Since I'm using the feed to see if the site's worth visiting, forcing me to visit the site is likely to push me away. In this instance, counter productive too.
So there you have it, in simple terms, why an RSS feed that's truncated can lose you visitors whether they're quite, or losing interest in your site.
"hardcover_book.txt" 5300bytes, last modified 1/1/2010. $20
"paperback_book.txt" 5300bytes, last modified 1/1/2010. $50.
err .. yeah I'll buy the more expensive one. right.
Like a hard-cover book vs paperback, the only real difference is the weight and volume of the book. Digitally, there's no equivalent - unless you include the book jacket in the book or something.
I don't use ebooks, so I am somewhat curious. What is the difference between a hardcover ebook and a softcover ? If the only difference is waiting, I reckon I can wait a year to save whatever the difference is.
I definitely agree with the last para of YAA :- Yet Another Aussie. Though once ACTA gets in, we'll all be in the same boat.
Of the 6 I've used, I can think of one ISP that's made me happy.. iiNet.
Sadly though since AFACT is just a franchise of MPAA .. and I assume the situation is similar with other countries, it's going to drag on for quite a while and then just when you think they've gone broke the US Government will decide they're too big to fail .. sigh.
Senator Conroy is also removing searches for the filter from his tag cloud .. http://www.news.com.au/technology/conroys-website-removes-references-to-filter/story-e6frfro0-122583 4474153
As to what planet they're on, sadly the same one as you. Even more sadly I'm on the same continent as they are .. Problem is though, once one "democracy" gets it "working" .. it's the thin edge thing.
Don't laugh though, once it's proven there's some demand for this sort of thing, development will proceed with more complex stuff. Imagine the MPAA/RIAA (etc) reaction once someone gets a working filter that'll spot encrypted P2P traffic.
I am yet to be convinced that any person reading this blog is just your average, non technical user.
All of the things that people are mentioning (besides work stuff) are entertainment and a voluntary choice (legitimate, but voluntary). Someone who needs to move several hundred gigs a month for work should have some method in place from their employer.
Most of this bandwidth consumption stuff is either games, music, movies or similar.
Now go on, tell me how you -need- all this bandwidth now, and how if you don't download whatever item, you can't get it at a physical shop.
Absolutely facetiously, perhaps all the free bandwidth is the cause of the reputed obesity problem over there if all you do is sit on the net all day ;)
Gino, at no point did I claim to be 'Mr Australia' but if my posts make you think that of me, and you feel the need to advise me of that, perhaps I should let you know your post makes me think of you as a self obsessed juvenile.
We have the same ISP. :) I evidently don't use the net in as bandwidth-heavy a fashion as many people, but this is the internet, so I can't say I was wrong.
AAPT's unlimited plan is only unlimited in an offpeak period. The peak time has a 20G limit. Anecdotally (not factually) they throttle data types and running any sort of server will get you booted.
iiNet's ADSL1 limits (my exchange sucks) were lower than ADSL2 'til the last upgrade which I think (for me) tripled my peak to 30, and doubled my off to 30 - I rarely go near those limits though.
OK I can't account for Hulu or Netflix, as (of course) they'll only stream to US IP addresses. I presume that if such things were available here, forward thinking ISPs would do like mine and get some of that content in the 'freezone' (not counted to your cap) as mine has done with at least one TV station and several other content providers. They're also adding IPTV stations. Then their size would be entirely irrelevant. However what proportion of people do watch a movie a day over their net connection ? Over here the average person watches TV on the TV.
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It's quite simple really.
A 'true' scientist loves* learning, telling and sharing information because it helps them do their job better. I mean all scientists, not just astronomers, etc. True, most either do it for the love, or because they've got a grant of some description.
A journalist is* different - but they need their name on the byline as well - a journalist needs being quick. They get paid rather than have a grant. Sure they like sharing knowledge but only if they're the one telling it.
That's the way I think about it, and I may have oversimplified it but it's clear enough.
* Disclaimer: the above most likely contains statements that do not accurately portray every single member of the named groups.
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They also put smokes up 25%. !
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Re: Re: TV shows suffer from the same problem.
It's like suicide, only slower and even more pointless.
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Re: Christ
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The only real way to beat piracy is with something *physical* like a dongle of some sort but even then I imagine software can duplicate that. I quite enjoyed whichever Splinter Cell I played when my son brought his one over ages back, but do I really want to chew my limited bandwidth just to play an offline game ? No frakking way.
Ubisoft has just become like EA - an overbearing, intrusive and basically offensive bunch of arseholes that just want money. They may make nice games sure, but they're still arseholes.
1. Make game.
2. Be an arsehole
3. ???
4. PROFIT !
5. Not.
The only real cure for this sort of behaviour is not to buy anything from them, and make sure they know why. I have, but no reply.(support@ubisoft.com.**) obviously replace ** with a relevant country code.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBO5dh9qrIQ
It's more Hitler having a rant about the takedowns and like many of them, not entirely SFW.
"Don't worry, he'll realise the irony soon"
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Above was me, sorry for the AC
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Truncated feed is truncated
If I put a site on RSS it could be because
a)I want to be advised of updates without having to look for them (eg a wallpapers site). Let's call this "quite interested"
b)I'm becoming sick of it, and this way I can still see it if I want to but don't have to actively look for it - let's call this "disinterested"
The comparison makes more sense if you view the centre option (interested) as those who browse to the site -so those with a bit more or a bit less interest use RSS.
If it's a) and it's truncated, it annoys me as I still need to visit the site to see if the content is worth reading. That was kinda why I had the RSS feed .. In this instance, counter productive.
If it's b) and it's truncated, the site will be lucky to keep my interest for a week. Since I'm using the feed to see if the site's worth visiting, forcing me to visit the site is likely to push me away. In this instance, counter productive too.
So there you have it, in simple terms, why an RSS feed that's truncated can lose you visitors whether they're quite, or losing interest in your site.
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"paperback_book.txt" 5300bytes, last modified 1/1/2010. $50.
err .. yeah I'll buy the more expensive one. right.
Like a hard-cover book vs paperback, the only real difference is the weight and volume of the book. Digitally, there's no equivalent - unless you include the book jacket in the book or something.
I don't use ebooks, so I am somewhat curious. What is the difference between a hardcover ebook and a softcover ? If the only difference is waiting, I reckon I can wait a year to save whatever the difference is.
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Of the 6 I've used, I can think of one ISP that's made me happy.. iiNet.
Sadly though since AFACT is just a franchise of MPAA .. and I assume the situation is similar with other countries, it's going to drag on for quite a while and then just when you think they've gone broke the US Government will decide they're too big to fail .. sigh.
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As to what planet they're on, sadly the same one as you. Even more sadly I'm on the same continent as they are .. Problem is though, once one "democracy" gets it "working" .. it's the thin edge thing.
Don't laugh though, once it's proven there's some demand for this sort of thing, development will proceed with more complex stuff. Imagine the MPAA/RIAA (etc) reaction once someone gets a working filter that'll spot encrypted P2P traffic.
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All of the things that people are mentioning (besides work stuff) are entertainment and a voluntary choice (legitimate, but voluntary). Someone who needs to move several hundred gigs a month for work should have some method in place from their employer.
Most of this bandwidth consumption stuff is either games, music, movies or similar.
Now go on, tell me how you -need- all this bandwidth now, and how if you don't download whatever item, you can't get it at a physical shop.
Absolutely facetiously, perhaps all the free bandwidth is the cause of the reputed obesity problem over there if all you do is sit on the net all day ;)
Gino, at no point did I claim to be 'Mr Australia' but if my posts make you think that of me, and you feel the need to advise me of that, perhaps I should let you know your post makes me think of you as a self obsessed juvenile.
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Re: Re: Re: Yeebok
AAPT's unlimited plan is only unlimited in an offpeak period. The peak time has a 20G limit. Anecdotally (not factually) they throttle data types and running any sort of server will get you booted.
iiNet's ADSL1 limits (my exchange sucks) were lower than ADSL2 'til the last upgrade which I think (for me) tripled my peak to 30, and doubled my off to 30 - I rarely go near those limits though.
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