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Now that is a load of BS. It's just the accounting arithmetic all large companies do to avoid large taxes. I mean Warner Bros claimed a loss on the lord of the rings movies... Every Hollywood production company claims a loss on their movies, I'm sure it's the same with game publishers. Not to mention how stupid it is to claim that piracy caused a loss on a game/movie.

Ah, apologies on my part then. I though you were intentionally muddying the water. I spent too much time in the Ukraine thread...

It's like you just selectively read my posts, almost like magic. Almost every popular game that is pirated makes enough money to cover it's production cost. It seems you skipped that part of my post. Also make no mistake, I am not condoning piracy or saying it's good, all that I'm saying is that I don't care that the big companies get ripped off, because they sure as hell have no qualms about ripping off their consumers.

I know, but in what thread was this anti-woman rant you talk about?

Where was the anti-woman rant?

But then it doesn't work like that does it, and I already explained it, but you are being intentionally daft to confuse the topic. Well I'll explain it again, devs have salaries, they are paid by the hour, part of the money made from the game goes in to covering the cost of the next game the rest of it goes to the CEO to do with what he will... wait no scratch that, all the money goes to the CEO and he decides what he is going to do with it. At least that is the case with big companies which I already said I was talking about.

They have enough to make games, that is my point, they don't have enough to meet their impossibly large numbers.

One more thing to add is that most pirates are children and while yes their parents will buy them a computer they may not be inclined (as is mostly the case) to purchase every game for them especially when the games cost 1/10 of a well off salary (in my country at least), new. Companies ramp up prices as high as they can get away with (great example is Australia(the best example there is Adobe)) and then aggressively market their products with non stop commercials that are borderline brain washing. So yeah excuse me if I don't blame the children for pirating games. Also don't paint it out like it's hurting the poor devs and costing them their jobs(true indie companies excluded(but they don't push their products as hard as the big publishers)), the fact is that devs have a set pay and work by the hour and almost every game covers that production cost, that the ceo's and stock holders have some impossible numbers they want to reach is another thing entirely and I am not at all said when they don't hit it. Those big companies aren't putting you well being as their main goal, so why should anyone put theirs?

What about the other half?

Dialect: 1. American (Standard) 2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics 3. Singaporean First Language 1. English 2. Dutch 3. Norwegian Heh, engrish gud.

Then I'm probably going to go for the 5820k version with a mid-range 2011 motherboard.

http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=compatibility_gen&products_id=68&lng=en

Are you going for air? If so then definitely go after market, you won't go wrong with a Noctua. There is even a new edition out that has pmw fans and is molded to clear high ram modules.

In an age when even the games you buy aren't your property I wouldn't expect any positive change, baring an outcry from the people, which if history is any indicator won't happen.

At that point she's still "good and Innocent". Plus she is young and filled with rage, she was not thinking clearly as the whole movie pointed out.

Because he experimented and killed mutants. She wanted revenge. Damn... That Disney business training really rubbed of on them.

2) That's insanely creepy and way to bring this thread into a whole new level of weird. Wait that is creepy? Turn in your man card.

Wait, so I'm Data. Cool.

But that is not how file transfer works. You always make copies, it's just that when you chose to use the move function the computer automatically deletes the original file once the copy is finished. The difference between you giving your friends copies and then them deleting them after reading and moving the ebook to their computer is the time it takes for other copies to be deleted. To further explain if you chose to use the move function, the copy you moved from will be deleted almost instantly, where as if you give out a copy to your friend to read, the file will be deleted after he has finished reading it. The difference between those two is just the measurement of time between deletion. Also files are never truly deleted until you format them or overwrite the place they occupied on the hard-drive plate with another file. This is why I said letter vs. spirit. If we follow the letter of the law things would need to get really complex for you to lend a digital file with copy-write protection. The sad thing is that companies are pushing the law and tech in a direction where even sharing is forbidden. Games now days are pretty hard to share with friends.

Ah but now you are deciding what is and isn't irrelevant, you can't have it both ways. When you copy a file there will exist 2 copies until you delete one, when you move a file there will exist two copies until the computer deletes the original upon the completion of the copy. The only simple way to get around this would be to give your friend your ebook reader with the book as loan. Spirit vs the letter of the law...

When you are transferring a file there are going to be 2 copies. Following your strict rules, that makes you a pirate.

Welcome to the club Monte, I'll show you the secret handshake latter.

Oh did you open a can of worms with that one. How does one accomplish what you are saying? At one point in the transfer there need to exist 2 copies of the ebook. Does that mean you broke the law? See what I said above about the letter vs. the spirit of the law.

Because someone somewhere wrote that it was illegal? Have you heard about a thing called the spirit of the law?

It's essentially like buying a real book and then giving it to your friends to read it, that you can easily copy an ebook so you can all read it at the same time is just semantics. Many times have I gone half and half on a book with a friend I would read it first because I am a speed reader then give it to him after. They could always delete their copies after, if they want to follow the letter of the law. Don't get me started on school books, all of which I photocopied. No one said a word against it, not even the professor on the university who was the author of it.