Orogun01

I'm your Huckleberry

This is something I see often, accusing businesses of greed, but is it really greedy to want to stop those who take your product for nothing? When does something move from a legitimate attempt at defending their business to just being greedy? If a company has 100 million dollars, and they come after me to get the 1 million I stole from them, are they just being greedy because, like, they've still got another 99 million? There is a proper manner to conduct yourself on that situation, basically don't stoop to the level of the pirates (who are probably a great majority of teenagers and young adults) You don't bring the whole bearing of your force on someone weaker than you; makes you look like a bully. Nor do you whine about them, that only makes you look weak. Basically they shouldn't even be acknowledging them as the problem and just try to improve either their DRM or their market tactics.

Black market for games suck. There is better profit on electric appliances, I know I used to work on it.

Volo, most people download pirated products because they don't want to pay for it. How is that purchasing?

I actually heard the news yesterday. I slept badly Does anyone know where they are holding his funeral? NVM, I found it.

It's important because we it's a "crimeless" crime; it is theft but it's never treated as such. There isn't an attempt to cut down on it by legal authorities because of the worldly expanse of the internet and the fact that they are actually shorthanded if they were to arrest every person who downloaded a song illegally. I don't know much about the economic models of game developing, but seeing as every chant against piracy it's sung by the corporations I'm partial to think that it's just them being greedy. Since piracy it's not as widespread as they make it.

Gee, thanks for the name calling I have never said that it was ok, it's just that there is both a lack of impartial opinions (and studies) and a lack of appropriate legislation for the crime. Unless we can appropriately determinate how is piracy hurting each industry we won't we able to reach a consensus on the course of action. Quite frankly I see no stopping to piracy, they should just seek alternative ways to counter it/

Uh, what? I don't think this is a hard concept. A person spends a bunch of their time creating something, they ask for payment for it. When you take it without paying, even if it is digital, how is that not completely wrong? What does this have to do with the Middle East again? Just a little red herring to illustrate my point. My point it's that there is an obvious bias with invested interests, it's illegal there is no doubt of that. The only problem is determining how much piracy hurts the industry. Hey, there is guys who steal millions of dollars and get away with just a slap on the wrist, just how wrong is downloading a pirated product? Should we send those guys to jail and make them pay for lost revenue?

This is why it is hard to understand your viewpoint. Not a big deal to whom? We've had two developers come in here and tell you otherwise. We've had a writer tell you it is a big deal to copy their work. These are people with invested interests telling you it is a big deal. So who are you talking about? It's not a big deal to the pirates? Of course it isn't, they have no invested interest. Copyright infringement is also a crime. In many countries the penalties are identical to theft. I'm not sure why you are so hung up on that. "People with invested interests" Same as the people with invested interests on the middle east that dragged us to war? The profit bias is obvious, they are the afflicted party here and not the judge. So far there hasn't been an impartial study of the subject, it's either done by groups supporting or against piracy. Is it a crime? Yeah Are the companies exaggerating their losses? Of course. Will people continue to pirate games in the future? Yeah. Piracy is and it isn't a crime; technically it's the provider who steals the product but for some reason the customer is also held liable.

This guy

Ok what are they hoping to learn?

Happy Birthday! Ah, 22, I remember it fondly. That was the age I met my wife. Enjoy it! Thanks now to get drunk and eat meat.

Woke up, realized that i'm now 22 and went back to sleep.

FOOK, just FOOK and fast.

I agree, my disappointment comes with the speed of advancement on these fields. Probably because they are more unconventional than any other, as we become more dexterous on translating these finds into practical applications we may see faster development. The problem is that the layman usually doesn't have an advanced degree on physics, which leaves only a small amount of people with the knowledge to invent using these discoveries. As opposed to electricity who Edison rode to glory. Technology is leaving us behind.

Didn't NASA's budget got cut up? How are they going to afford it?

That is absolute bull****. USB drives use quantum tunnelling for smeg's sake and I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a decent solar array that didn't rely on quantum-mechanical discoveries. Have you ever heard of nanotechnology or materials science? Do you understand the basis of modern polymer science (e.g. conductive polymers via quantum decoherence)? Or chip design? Do you know why graphene is important to tech companies (quantum Hall effect)? Or what an ultracapacitor is? What about OLED's - super LED's which exist because we are able to understand excitons thanks to QM? And what about the scanning tunnelling microscope developed in 1981 (again, quantum tunnelling)? Superconductor science ring any bells? In fact, the basis of lasers is raising electrons into higher quantum states. Lasers rely on a knowledge of quantum mechanics which Einstein first detailed in his work "On the Quantum Theory of Radiation". "Very little applications" my arse. If you want to use a modern computer, many somebodies out there need to understand QM intimately. Very recent inventions, what i'm talking about it's the gap between the formulation of quantum mechanics and the practical applications. What was it, like 20 years or so? So I expect to see this yield fruit in the next 20 years. Also, let's face it; the vast potential of these fields remains yet untapped.

Should we filter Colonel Angus too?

Pffft, that's what they said about light amplification via stimulated emission of radiation (also known as LASER)! From the Nature article:

Still too far away for any practical application but it's a nice find. Great touch using dye.

Wow, that's a lot of orgasms.

Wouldn't be easier to stereotype your target demographic and work from that frame?

Who cares?

Actually after the first 2 or 3 stabs (or one depending where it hits) adrenaline and pain shock responses will dull the pain and all that he feels is the bleeding. Unless you hit him to the head, death ensued in 12 sec approx. Don't you feel better knowing he won't suffer.

The USS Maine battleship, Pearl Harbor, the World Trade center; history proves that we have been wusses for a long time