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1 month ago
in I need to vent - I Hate Seattle on I Hate Seattle
In your 'Defense'? fuck that, if it weren't for Paul Allen there'd be nothing in the fucking town. No stupid 'Hawks no stupid ugly EMP, no useless street car. Seattle suck M$'s dick
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3 months ago
in Denis Dyack of Silicon Knights on how cloud computing will impact games on VentureBeat
Really great insight into the ramifications of interactive vs non-interactive entertainment on piracy. The only angle I might add is that given very low requirements on the client side then the console makers lose their stranglehold on the market. Right now they are in a similar position to distributors of non-interactive media. However I suppose they can still shift to providing the cloud computing resources but this would be a more competitive market as users would not necessarily be locked into one cloud or another. So they would not necessarily have any sort of unique advantage.
Miramon, the author is saying non-interactive has zero value because due to ability to copy the exact same product infinitely which means there is no scarcity of that digital item. Pork bellies aren't free because there are a limited quantity and they can't be copied.
Miramon, the author is saying non-interactive has zero value because due to ability to copy the exact same product infinitely which means there is no scarcity of that digital item. Pork bellies aren't free because there are a limited quantity and they can't be copied.
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That's a fair comment, BillyG, that pork-bellies cannot be copied trivially.
Games of course are all interactive in nature, but piracy is a huge deal for them on non-console platforms -- PC games are all cracked almost instantly on release. So interactivity per se is not the point. But I do understand that it's much harder to pirate a game whose logic partially or completely resides on a server someplace, this is of course the logic of MMOs, which are still however a small share of the total market.
But if piracy is the sole basis for the claim that fixed or non-interactive (not non-linear!) content is doomed, that's just silly.
Can anyone seriously imagine a future in which the only monetizable entertainment content is server-based games? Ridiculous! Literature, music, art, movies, etc. will never go away as professional endeavors. It is an open question exactly how monetization will occur in the future for various media, and how IP will be protected (or not), but it's absurd to suggest that no one will write and sell novels in the future because everyone will be playing slow server-round-trip MMO-style video games.
Games of course are all interactive in nature, but piracy is a huge deal for them on non-console platforms -- PC games are all cracked almost instantly on release. So interactivity per se is not the point. But I do understand that it's much harder to pirate a game whose logic partially or completely resides on a server someplace, this is of course the logic of MMOs, which are still however a small share of the total market.
But if piracy is the sole basis for the claim that fixed or non-interactive (not non-linear!) content is doomed, that's just silly.
Can anyone seriously imagine a future in which the only monetizable entertainment content is server-based games? Ridiculous! Literature, music, art, movies, etc. will never go away as professional endeavors. It is an open question exactly how monetization will occur in the future for various media, and how IP will be protected (or not), but it's absurd to suggest that no one will write and sell novels in the future because everyone will be playing slow server-round-trip MMO-style video games.
1 year ago
in Panels cite drugs as driving force for city crime, gangs as issues on Nashua Telegraph
What a joke of a meeting or article?
Cocaine price was absurd!
Pot ins't the villian it was made out to be. Opiates are!
How many Hells Angels were involved with the City's crime? I'll bet not many as they are smarter than the teen gangs.
I wonder what the Chamber put in breakfast that morning for the AG & police cheif to spew such nonsense!
Granted, we do have problems. Law enforcement executives shouldn't put such wrong twists to the real situation!
Goes to show that Law Enforcement is no immune to illegal activities. It's a crime to make such blatently flase statements. Why don't you two prosecute each other for perjury?
Cocaine price was absurd!
Pot ins't the villian it was made out to be. Opiates are!
How many Hells Angels were involved with the City's crime? I'll bet not many as they are smarter than the teen gangs.
I wonder what the Chamber put in breakfast that morning for the AG & police cheif to spew such nonsense!
Granted, we do have problems. Law enforcement executives shouldn't put such wrong twists to the real situation!
Goes to show that Law Enforcement is no immune to illegal activities. It's a crime to make such blatently flase statements. Why don't you two prosecute each other for perjury?
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perjury rocks !
It would be nice if they prosecuted officers for perjury. They do not!
If I had a dime for alln the perjured statements I heard come out of a law enforcement officers mouth.
If I had a dime for alln the perjured statements I heard come out of a law enforcement officers mouth.
Of course, the locals are unappreciative of this fact, they love to bash "the corporations" because they seem to think it gives them some kind of street cred. As an outsider, their behavior just reminds me of typical ignorant, spoiled suburban kids who like to think of themselves as rebels for badmouthing their parents -- while still taking their money.