We have sort of the same situation here in Germany, its very difficult for foreigners to start businesses, even EU nationals, the result is pretty much what you'd expect, businesses move to Austria and The Netherlands, where there's less paperwork and tax benefits for foreign nationals.
Dear Mr. Wise One and/or VRP, you must be correct because even I, able computer user and member of the information generation, do not know basic "arithmatic" nor the meaning of "grammer". Mainly because dictionary.reference.com does not know the meaning either, nor does www.urbandictionary.com! I would definitely not hire someone like me! Someone who has no concept of "grammer" or the subtle art of "arithmatics".
I must say I was very disturbed to read of you "have was" a defendant not too many years ago in a court case where you had to prove 6 incremented was not 6! I thumped my desk angrily while I mentally ruminated on that outrage. But I was much gladdened to read that the judge in said court case was not interested in new mathematics and that your "arithmatical" endeavours were subsequently vindicated. I shudder to imagine the much different outcome had said judge been a Computer User - he might have been interested in mathematics where 1+6=6!
Indeed, Mr. Wise one and/or VRP, we cannot expect anything other than the worst to happen to everyone in everything, because quite plainly it is us; the Computer Users who are the underlying infectious disease in society. And the only way to cure said disease is to cease all usings of the Computer!
I imagine the real reasons are somewhat more practical: it's still hard to make exact copies of a DVD to play in the DVD player that's conveniently hooked up to your living-room TV, mostly due to technical limitations and, yes, DRM. Piracy and pirate networks are still illegitimate, and they lack the "polish" of an interface like iTunes or the Amazon MP3 store. Rips from those networks aren't always done correctly or consistently, the metadata is wrong and hard to fix, and so on. Were piracy not illegal, it would be relatively easy and profitable for anyone to duplicate the "iTunes experience" without actually charging for the songs. (Note that when I say "profitable" here, I mean a model in which you only pay for bandwidth and the cost to develop the "store" application and support it with advertising, but not where you would have to subsidize the creation of the actual music).
You're joking right? "Its hard to make exact copies of a DVD"? Where are you from? The 1990's? Pirate network sites lack the "polish" of commercial sites? Have you actually ever visited any "Pirate network" sites, as you call it? You seem to have absolutely no clue about the reality of the matter. Here, let me provide you with a simple case study:
(1) A movie comes out which you really want to see but cannot because you live in a country where all films are dubbed to the local language (which takes a few months before they are released to cinema). If you want to watch it in English, you have to wait for the DVD or BD (BluRay Disc).
(2) A news site such as Zerosec or RLSLog publishes information regarding a BDRip of said film, long before the BD will ever reach your country.
(3) You retrieve a torrent of said BDRip via any number of convenient torrent search engines. Google works just as well.
(4) You download the content using a client on your NAS. Which, with your 32Mbit connection takes only a few hours.
(5) You watch the content, streamed from your NAS, at full HD and DTS encoded sound on your HTPC which is connected to your 50" LCD and 7 speaker surround system.
(6) A few months later you get an email from Amazon, in it the film you downloaded months ago has been released in BD in your country.
(7) You decide to purchase it because you found the film rather entertaining and you would like the director, cast and crew to continue making those movies.
(8) Two days later your BD arrives in the mail.
(9) You decide to watch it on your Blu Ray player because you'd forgotten the film a bit and besides, afterwards you could watch some of the extras included the BD.
(10) The BD doesn't play because your player needs an update. You tell you wife to put the popcorn in the oven because the player needs to connect to the internet for a bit.
(11) You wait a few minutes while your player updates. But after a waiting for 15 mins you decide, fuck it, you'll just play the rip from the NAS, at least that version was encoded without the black bars at the top and bottom.
Feel free to subsititude the terms "movie" and "film" in the above case study with "Console or PC Game" or "TV Show" or "Music".
See my friend, the reality is exactly the opposite, if the commercial offerings were even close to the convenience of the pirate offerings they'd be making money hand over fist.
The few successful commercial sites, such as iTunes, are as successful as they are because they provide the offerings of the "pirate network" sites (rapid access and convenience) at reasonable prices.
If anything commercial sites should be more like the pirate network sites, and not the other way around.
Reading the comments its quite obvious that the lazy fatass gamer is a stereotype propagated by people who haven't really experienced gaming for themselves. They're confused by it and probably intimidated by it as well. Myself, I've been boxing and doing Muay Thai for the past 8 years, I work 9 to 6, train 7 to 9 and thereafter play whatever I've got on my gaming rig (at the moment its Wolverine: Origins). Frankly I don't believe anyone should spend more than 2 hours a day training, more than that is unhealthy. Your kid doesn't need much more than that either. In fact, I'd rather have my kid spend a few hours on a console enhancing his multitasking capabilities rather than aimlessly sauntering outside.
And I reckon if Obama had spent a little bit of time on a Wii he'd have learnt to bowl straight.
"Dropping the tracker and such is a clear sign that they felt guilty or responsible at some point."
Why do you think that?
The argument brokep is giving is that by not hosting the tracker on the search indexer it becomes harder to bring down the whole network if either the search indexer or tracker host is taken down.
And congratulations on coming up with the lamest insult in the history of lameness. Not even George Bush stepping on a land mine during a paralympics race can top the lameness of it.
What you're doing isn't commenting, douchebag, it's whining. You get your content for free then you complain about your free content, as though you're a paying customer at a fucking restaurant. You're not, you're a whiny little poodle and nobody cares about your complaints, not here and especially not in real life. If you really were coming from . then every one of your comments probably got voted down to obscurity in the first few seconds of it appearing.
So take a lesson from the Black Eyed Peas and just shut the fuck up.
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Re: The reporter is also a lawyer and novelist (as Cixelsid)
Mystery Solved!
Bureacracy (as Cixelsid)
We have sort of the same situation here in Germany, its very difficult for foreigners to start businesses, even EU nationals, the result is pretty much what you'd expect, businesses move to Austria and The Netherlands, where there's less paperwork and tax benefits for foreign nationals.
Re: Computer user thinking! (as Cixelsid)
Dear Mr. Wise One and/or VRP, you must be correct because even I, able computer user and member of the information generation, do not know basic "arithmatic" nor the meaning of "grammer". Mainly because dictionary.reference.com does not know the meaning either, nor does www.urbandictionary.com! I would definitely not hire someone like me! Someone who has no concept of "grammer" or the subtle art of "arithmatics".
I must say I was very disturbed to read of you "have was" a defendant not too many years ago in a court case where you had to prove 6 incremented was not 6! I thumped my desk angrily while I mentally ruminated on that outrage. But I was much gladdened to read that the judge in said court case was not interested in new mathematics and that your "arithmatical" endeavours were subsequently vindicated. I shudder to imagine the much different outcome had said judge been a Computer User - he might have been interested in mathematics where 1+6=6!
Indeed, Mr. Wise one and/or VRP, we cannot expect anything other than the worst to happen to everyone in everything, because quite plainly it is us; the Computer Users who are the underlying infectious disease in society. And the only way to cure said disease is to cease all usings of the Computer!
In fact I shall start righ
Re: (as Cixelsid)
i before e except after c.
Re: Re: Re: (as Cixelsid)
Sarcasm is the escape for those with no counter arguments. I'll just chalk this one up for the good guys, shall I?
Re: (as Cixelsid)
I imagine the real reasons are somewhat more practical: it's still hard to make exact copies of a DVD to play in the DVD player that's conveniently hooked up to your living-room TV, mostly due to technical limitations and, yes, DRM. Piracy and pirate networks are still illegitimate, and they lack the "polish" of an interface like iTunes or the Amazon MP3 store. Rips from those networks aren't always done correctly or consistently, the metadata is wrong and hard to fix, and so on. Were piracy not illegal, it would be relatively easy and profitable for anyone to duplicate the "iTunes experience" without actually charging for the songs. (Note that when I say "profitable" here, I mean a model in which you only pay for bandwidth and the cost to develop the "store" application and support it with advertising, but not where you would have to subsidize the creation of the actual music).
You're joking right? "Its hard to make exact copies of a DVD"? Where are you from? The 1990's? Pirate network sites lack the "polish" of commercial sites? Have you actually ever visited any "Pirate network" sites, as you call it? You seem to have absolutely no clue about the reality of the matter. Here, let me provide you with a simple case study:
(1) A movie comes out which you really want to see but cannot because you live in a country where all films are dubbed to the local language (which takes a few months before they are released to cinema). If you want to watch it in English, you have to wait for the DVD or BD (BluRay Disc).
(2) A news site such as Zerosec or RLSLog publishes information regarding a BDRip of said film, long before the BD will ever reach your country.
(3) You retrieve a torrent of said BDRip via any number of convenient torrent search engines. Google works just as well.
(4) You download the content using a client on your NAS. Which, with your 32Mbit connection takes only a few hours.
(5) You watch the content, streamed from your NAS, at full HD and DTS encoded sound on your HTPC which is connected to your 50" LCD and 7 speaker surround system.
(6) A few months later you get an email from Amazon, in it the film you downloaded months ago has been released in BD in your country.
(7) You decide to purchase it because you found the film rather entertaining and you would like the director, cast and crew to continue making those movies.
(8) Two days later your BD arrives in the mail.
(9) You decide to watch it on your Blu Ray player because you'd forgotten the film a bit and besides, afterwards you could watch some of the extras included the BD.
(10) The BD doesn't play because your player needs an update. You tell you wife to put the popcorn in the oven because the player needs to connect to the internet for a bit.
(11) You wait a few minutes while your player updates. But after a waiting for 15 mins you decide, fuck it, you'll just play the rip from the NAS, at least that version was encoded without the black bars at the top and bottom.
Feel free to subsititude the terms "movie" and "film" in the above case study with "Console or PC Game" or "TV Show" or "Music".
See my friend, the reality is exactly the opposite, if the commercial offerings were even close to the convenience of the pirate offerings they'd be making money hand over fist.
The few successful commercial sites, such as iTunes, are as successful as they are because they provide the offerings of the "pirate network" sites (rapid access and convenience) at reasonable prices.
If anything commercial sites should be more like the pirate network sites, and not the other way around.
Evolution (as Cixelsid)
It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin)
Damn straight (as Cixelsid)
Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. That's how I code these days.
Re: No Politicians Don't Think That We Just Fell (as Cixelsid)
Dude, I love this comment.
People who don't know, like to pass judgement. (as Cixelsid)
Reading the comments its quite obvious that the lazy fatass gamer is a stereotype propagated by people who haven't really experienced gaming for themselves. They're confused by it and probably intimidated by it as well. Myself, I've been boxing and doing Muay Thai for the past 8 years, I work 9 to 6, train 7 to 9 and thereafter play whatever I've got on my gaming rig (at the moment its Wolverine: Origins). Frankly I don't believe anyone should spend more than 2 hours a day training, more than that is unhealthy. Your kid doesn't need much more than that either. In fact, I'd rather have my kid spend a few hours on a console enhancing his multitasking capabilities rather than aimlessly sauntering outside.
And I reckon if Obama had spent a little bit of time on a Wii he'd have learnt to bowl straight.
Re: (as Cixelsid)
"Dropping the tracker and such is a clear sign that they felt guilty or responsible at some point."
Why do you think that?
The argument brokep is giving is that by not hosting the tracker on the search indexer it becomes harder to bring down the whole network if either the search indexer or tracker host is taken down.
Re: Re: (as Cixelsid)
And I own Vickey Vole!
I don't get it (as Cixelsid)
Is being absent-minded some obscure insult in China?
France and Italy (as Cixelsid)
To be fair, Italy is a country populated by pricks and France is a country populated by arrogant pricks.
Re: Re: Re: (as Cixelsid)
And congratulations on coming up with the lamest insult in the history of lameness. Not even George Bush stepping on a land mine during a paralympics race can top the lameness of it.
What you're doing isn't commenting, douchebag, it's whining. You get your content for free then you complain about your free content, as though you're a paying customer at a fucking restaurant. You're not, you're a whiny little poodle and nobody cares about your complaints, not here and especially not in real life. If you really were coming from . then every one of your comments probably got voted down to obscurity in the first few seconds of it appearing.
So take a lesson from the Black Eyed Peas and just shut the fuck up.
Re: Just an interesting thought (as Cixelsid)
Oh yeah, life now is MUCH worse than it was in the late 1800s early 1900s. What with the emancipation of slaves and the abolishment of child labour.
Seriously, if you think that life was morally better a hundred years ago you should go back to high school and take a history course.