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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?
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You are really missing the point. More than half of those people live in poverty. Is their access to the latest Game of Thrones episode really the most important issue?
We are talking about entertainment. Stop trying to make it into some grand social justice issue.
What about the other half?
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So, the embargo has been lifted, the official announcement has been made, and Devil's Canyon has been launched and should be available for purchase in about 3 weeks (Newegg has it listed as 6/25/14). I've seen a couple of reviews so far from places that managed to get their hands on a sample (other sites are still waiting for theirs), and, to be quite honest, I was not at all impressed. Hexus did a review, but they didn't overclock in their review, which is odd, to say the least, since the i7-4790K is specifically aimed at overclockers, it's the exact demographic that Intel is targeting with this chip and advertising it to. In fairness to Hexus, they mentioned that the chip they got had trouble staying stable at the stock max boost of 4.4GHz, so you could forget about overclocking it using the stock cooler and I guess they didn't want to (couldn't be bothered to) overclock it with aftermarket cooling. Regardless, that doesn't bode well, especially since engineering samples are usually cherry picked. Jagat also got their hands on a chip and with a little help from Google Translate I discerned that they did indeed overclock using a Noctua NH-U12S cooler. They managed to get it stable at 4.8GHz at 1.35V (which is frankly a scarier voltage than I'd feel good about running full time, I don't think I could bring myself to run at over 1.325V full time) with a $70 aftermarket cooler. They got it to 5 GHz on a 1.4V (yikes!) on a max clock run (no way in hell would I run a chip at 1.4V full time, I'd soil myself from worry).
Granted, this is a very small sample size, but, again, I'm not impressed. The stock speeds are impressive, but the overclocking potential seems like it's barely higher than i7-4770K, and, honestly, if you're buying a K chip then you're looking to overclock. Plus, it seems that the silicon lottery is still very much in effect for these chips, as it was with the first round of Haswells.
With that in mind, I decided to go with Plan B and ordered a Xeon E3-1231v3. 3.4GHz base, 3.8GHz max boost, hyperthreading, no completely useless IGP, lower TDP (due to not having to share TDP with aforementioned completely useless IGP), and all for $100 cheaper. Add to that another $40 or $50 I save by not buying an aftermarket cooler (no need if I'm going to run at stock speeds). So rather than wait another 3 weeks, spend $140 to $150 more and pay a buck or three more a month on electric bills, all to get to 4.7GHz, maybe 4.8 GHz max boost, if I get lucky in the silicon lottery, or as little as 4.5GHz if I don't, I'll get this much cheaper chip and be happy with it. Then, roughly a year from now, when Broadwell comes out, I'll take a look at it and see if the die shrink and architectual improvements are enough to warrant an upgrade. If so, I'll sell the E3-1231v3 on eBay for somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 less than I paid for it (I might be able to get more), and put that money toward a Broadwell chip. Honestly, I should have gone this route from the beginning, but I wanted to see if, by some miracle, Devil's Canyon was going to be some magic overclocking machine. Turns out it seems barely better than a 4770K, which isn't really a surprise.
Then I'm probably going to go for the 5820k version with a mid-range 2011 motherboard.
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Mostly aesthetic. Having the WASD keys be a different color, like the bright red, makes them easier to pick out and can help you not hit the wrong key in a tense game, though my fingers generally sit right on top of theose keys by default when I play games. As for the super keys, purely aesthetic, as the super key is not something I'll be pressing during a game anyway. I suppose it might help me not hit it by accident, since the orange key will be super easy to see and differentiate from the other keys, but I doubt it will make any difference.
Anyone here running Haswell care to comment on the stock coolers they come with? I'm wondering whether it might be wise to spend 30 or 40 bucks on an aftermarket cooler.
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.
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Honestly, how many centuries old is the custom of lending a book/lawnmower/whatever to your friend without it being a crime? Do we have to start now?
I mean yeah, it's a very blurry issue with the advent of digital posessions, but if my sister could lend me a novel (which is you know, her property now) without the police crashing the door down, that would be great.
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.
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Yes? Destroing his reputation would have been much better way of doing it. That way you destroy his future, everything he has been working for, and his life. Watch everybody slowly turn their backs at him until he has nothing and no one.
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.
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Days of Future Past
Why didn't Mystique simply destroy Trasks reputation?
Because he experimented and killed mutants. She wanted revenge.
So apparently Marvel doesn't have a very good relationship with Fox, as they are actively trying not to promote the Fox movies with comics. They are supposedly starting to push the Inhumans as a replacement for X-men, and may go as far as cancelling their Fantastic Four titles so as not to help promote the upcoming FF movie. Rumor started with FF and X-men characters being absent from a Marvel 75th anniversary book, and a leaked memo for trading card artists not to use any characters from or relating to the FF in an upcoming card set.
Comicbookmovie.com seems to think its to try to get the FF rights back by devaluing the brand.
Damn... That Disney business training really rubbed of on them.
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2) That's insanely creepy and way to bring this thread into a whole new level of weird.I also sometimes stare at girl's butts on the streets, but I don't pay them anything.
Wait that is creepy? Turn in your man card.
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Wait, so I'm Data. Cool.
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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.
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I'm not asking about "when you are transferring a file", I'm asking "When the transfer is done". If, at the end of that there are two copies and unless the activity is provided for by the EULA of the ebook (or equivalent) or applicable rules about making back up copies for personal use, then you have assumed the publishing role with respect to the second copy in so much as you have created and distributed a presumably* work under copyright.
Whether this is (or should be) legally actionable is a secondary point.
While the transfer of files is going on, and incomplete copy may exist in some secondary state, but unless this copy were not deleted upon completion of the file transfer, I'd suspect it'd be irrelevant to discussion. Hence why I'm stressing completion.
*I say presumably because this would be obviously moot for things that were legally in the public domain
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...
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When the transfer is done, does 2 copies exist or one? If only one you didn't act as an unauthorized publisher, did you? If the transfer is interrupted halfway through does 1.5 copies exist or 1? If only 1 you didn't act as an unauthorized publisher, did you?
When you are transferring a file there are going to be 2 copies. Following your strict rules, that makes you a pirate.
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If Bruce is told the truth by someone who doesn't share his views, he ignores them or asks for 'clarification.' It's actually patronising and insulting.
I shan't bother engaging with him any more.
Welcome to the club Monte, I'll show you the secret handshake latter.
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The only way it directly compares is if there is only one eBook; that you download the ebook and then send that ebook to the other person and retain no ebook for yourself.
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.
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Because someone somewhere wrote that it was illegal? Have you heard about a thing called the spirit of the law?
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It's piracy because he (they) are only buying one copy and distributing multiple
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.
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You guys do know you're talking about piracy on a developer's forum, right? The OP was talking about piracy over one of the PoE rewards, no less.
It's a sad friggin' day when fundraising rewards start getting pirated.
How is it getting pirated, he is going to pay for it. Get of you high horse before you break your neck.
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All I can say is that I can't wait to download a car.
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I'm bad at piracy. Back in the 90s I was a dumb kid who spent about $400 on an CD writer thinking it'd save me a ton of money in the long run, but ended up making copies of ....nothing. Possibly the worst $400 I've spent on computer stuff ever.
At least I didn't fall into the trap of buying an Iomega Zip drive though.
Thanks for the laugh, and just fyi it's "backups" not copies.
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But wait I thought the end point of the piracy is that it hurts the author. In my example beyond the first book that the library and the pirate buy, they will not be making any more profit of that book. That the library has less books to give and the torrent has more is another issue. If the library was optimal it would have one book for everyone who wants it.
Also you could always delete the book after you download it.
edit: Plus there are libraries now days that offer digital books.
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How about this one.
How is it different to torrent a book, from going to a library and getting it for free also.
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It's actually pretty savvy, they've rebooted in a way that they can still draw from the previous films without being chained to them.
I did not actually mind it, or was against it, it was just kind of funny to me.
Piracy or not?
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They have enough to make games, that is my point, they don't have enough to meet their impossibly large numbers.