As I understand it, the OURA doesn't actually require the cloud, which is nice. The recording and processing is actually done in the ring which is damn impressive - that tiny thing crams in memory and an ARM processor, and it can run without offloading data to the app for 3 weeks. The app, as far as I can tell, operates without the need for the cloud, and the sharing partnership with the online platform is an entirely optional thing - however, some of this isn't spelled out quite as clearly or as prominently as it probably should be.
a successful project means the creators find it easier to crowd-fund their next project.
Plus, Realm Pictures is an active production and VFX studio that does contract work for commercials and other films and such. Viral in-house projects like these are the best possible type of advertising.
Uh huh. Well, you clearly have a narrow and simplistic understanding of the topic. Here we have a platform facilitating millions of dollars of transactions between consumers and businesses, successfully funding the creation of countless products, launching new companies, revitalizing entire creative fields, and in general generating a massive amount of positive economic activity in the free market -- but you think it's somehow anti-capitalist because it doesn't follow one particular narrow pattern that you're used to.
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I dunno about everyone else, but I get a surprising amount of joy from picturing this idiot obsessively reloading some random forum where all our stories are apparently auto-posted and convincing himself he's discovered something meaningful.
Who's talking all or nothing? Not us - the maximalists. For the umpteenth time, none of the ideas in this podcast are mutually exclusive with the existence of intellectual property. On the flipside, you've got the MPAA freaking out about fair use, and ASCAP claiming Creative Commons hurts artists...
I will grant you that very few people would flatly claim "without copyright all art would stop." And yet the consistent underlying message when people talk in favour of strengthening/expanding/strictly enforcing copyright is that there is a direct causal relationship between the amount of legal control afforded to and exercised by artists, and the quantity/quality of art produced by our society. The implication is entirely clear: "without copyright we would have less art, possibly no art, or at least no good art". And that's utter nonsense.
There's also the RIAA's Neil Turkewitz last month, saying:
"Communities throughout the globe-particularly in parts of the Middle East and Africa, bear silent witness to the devastating impact that lack of effective copyright protection has on the ability to create. Where there is no financial incentive for the creation and distribution of cultural materials, the distribution of local cultural materials ceases, much to the detriment of society, as well as to the putative creators who are foreclosed from adding their voices to the cultural mix."
These devices have nothing to do with cars. And no, it's not a marketing ploy. Do you have any proof of that or reason to believe it other than a wearying level of unnecessary cynicism? Mobile device batteries have been rated in mAh for a long time because their capacities have only ever been in the range of a few Ah and only sometimes round numbers, so it makes no sense to list everything in Ah with decimal places. This is also a standard that was established when capacities were lower.
Honestly, you think this is a marketing ploy? The average phone consumer doesn't know what an ampere is let alone a milliamp hour, nor do they care. As for us, we're going to continue listing products in the way that literally all products of this category and with which these things are designed to interoperate are currently listed in. If you want to think that's some idiotic cheap marketing conspiracy, go ahead I guess, but I think you're being too "clever" for your own good.
I'm sure in time, as capacities grow, the standard for listing mobile device batteries will shift to Ah. But at the moment it's mAh, and I see no reason to make a stand about it.
Yes, since there are now dozens of ways to get content legally and conveniently in the US, piracy has disappeared there.
Can you imagine if this guy opened a restaurant? When you walked in, the staff would chuck eggs at your head then light you on fire, and he'd wonder why anyone was still eating at home.
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Not entirely sure what that means but: I am just curious. You seemed certain that this was in violation of their rules, and seemed somewhat gleeful about that fact based on your choice of the name "bursting bubbles" and your snarky (or so I read it) comment about wanting to use Kickstarter to get yourself an assistant. And since it's entirely clear from even a cursory glance that this project in no way violates KS rules, I had to wonder if you'd actually read them before getting on your high horse.
The project is expanding GovTrack to include something it never has before: original analysis and plain-language summaries of all the bills. If you look at their budget breakdown on the page, the money is also covering stuff like office space -- the researcher is just the crux of it all. And I see nothing in the Kickstarter rules that would prevent this in any way -- have you read them?
You can use Kickstarter to get yourself a research assistant if you want -- as long as it's for a creative project that you will share with others.
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Plus, Realm Pictures is an active production and VFX studio that does contract work for commercials and other films and such. Viral in-house projects like these are the best possible type of advertising.
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I will grant you that very few people would flatly claim "without copyright all art would stop." And yet the consistent underlying message when people talk in favour of strengthening/expanding/strictly enforcing copyright is that there is a direct causal relationship between the amount of legal control afforded to and exercised by artists, and the quantity/quality of art produced by our society. The implication is entirely clear: "without copyright we would have less art, possibly no art, or at least no good art". And that's utter nonsense.
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"Communities throughout the globe-particularly in parts of the Middle East and Africa, bear silent witness to the devastating impact that lack of effective copyright protection has on the ability to create. Where there is no financial incentive for the creation and distribution of cultural materials, the distribution of local cultural materials ceases, much to the detriment of society, as well as to the putative creators who are foreclosed from adding their voices to the cultural mix."
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Honestly, you think this is a marketing ploy? The average phone consumer doesn't know what an ampere is let alone a milliamp hour, nor do they care. As for us, we're going to continue listing products in the way that literally all products of this category and with which these things are designed to interoperate are currently listed in. If you want to think that's some idiotic cheap marketing conspiracy, go ahead I guess, but I think you're being too "clever" for your own good.
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Can you imagine if this guy opened a restaurant? When you walked in, the staff would chuck eggs at your head then light you on fire, and he'd wonder why anyone was still eating at home.
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You can use Kickstarter to get yourself a research assistant if you want -- as long as it's for a creative project that you will share with others.
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