MrScruff

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by MrScruff 15y ago
I'm not really sure what's so disgusting about it. Anyone with a pair of eyes can see that Samsung have been systematically pushing the boundaries of what you get away with in cloning a design. If Apple didn't show willingness to push back
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by MrScruff 15y ago
Funny, because I work in the content industry and don't regard myself as being ripped off. Box office & DVD sales pay my rent.
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by MrScruff 15y ago
I think in the past the 'Don't be evil' thing as an informal company ethos was ok, and people respected that as a target. Then they started using this as a stick to beat their competitors with and it had the result of putting their own cond
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by MrScruff 15y ago
Great, but how are you planning on paying the rest of the production, which after all makes up the majority of that $200 million.
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by MrScruff 15y ago
Now your twisting things - I didn't claim I have no ambition to help 'anyone', I said I have no ambition to devote my time to charity work. If that makes me a bad person in your eyes, I guess I'll have to learn to live with it. Also, there
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by MrScruff 15y ago
People look up to Jobs because he managed to achieve the ambitions of many here without giving up his principals. I personally have no burning ambition to cure malaria, does that make me a bad person also?
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by MrScruff 15y ago
If you reduce your price by 10x then you need to attract 10x as much custom to break even. I don't think it's a given at all that moving to internet streaming and ultra cheap pricing is going to be good for business.
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by MrScruff 15y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by MrScruff 15y ago
Yes, I'm aware of this. But I don't think lumping fair use in with people downloading torrents makes a lot of sense. Hollywood want complete control over all access and distribution of their content, while the Pirate Party want copyright ab
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by MrScruff 15y ago
If we are talking about wealth in the broadest sense, as discussed by PG in the link below then I certainly class copying a DVD that you haven't purchased as profiting, yes. http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html I don't think anyone realistic
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by MrScruff 15y ago
So you're saying the difference is that the perpetrator intends to profit from copying? Surely by copying a movie for personal use you are still profiting, if not by much.
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by MrScruff 15y ago
Whether somebody buys a copy or makes it himself also isnt up to debate here. The question is whether copying itself against the wish of the author should be illegal or not. Copying can be legal and you'd still have people buying copies to
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by MrScruff 15y ago
Why should we? We don't hold referendums on every other issue. I'm not sure you'd like a world where politics was entirely reduced to the lowest common denominator as much as you think you would.
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by MrScruff 15y ago
The key difference here is you're talking about commoditizing human creativity, which is what a large fraction of a typical film budget is paying for.
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by MrScruff 15y ago
Sure, I know they get used for reference and elements. Getting a lower quality plate just increases the post production costs anyway so it's generally a false economy. That said, digital is certainly here to stay and the cost of professiona
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by MrScruff 15y ago
Honestly, what do you think YCombinator can bring to the table that isn't already there? How exactly do you propose to disrupt something you know nothing about? It's the equivalent of the head of the MPAA saying 'Fuck it, we'll build our ow
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by MrScruff 15y ago
Do you know what's involved in making high end mass-market entertainment as produced by Hollywood or the games industry? A massive amount of work by large groups of very talented, highly qualified, incredibly hard working people. You see, u
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by MrScruff 15y ago
The problem with this discussion is that it's an echo chamber for people who know nothing about the film industry. For people who do (a few of whom are valiantly trying to impart some perspective), most of the posts here are laughably naive
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by MrScruff 15y ago
Great idea, I can't see anyone paying to watch Avatar 2 when they can see someone overdubbing their Skyrim avatar with Battlestar Galactica fanfic.
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by MrScruff 15y ago
Disclaimer: I work in film. This discussion is very strange. Hollywood films are extremely expensive and difficult to make, do you think the studios would spend all that money and effort if they could get the same return of investment knock
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by MrScruff 15y ago
What a great term! I, too, am scared of yak-shaving although I recently switched to Vim which you could argue is the mother of all yak-shaving exercises (I don't regret it though).
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by MrScruff 15y ago
I don't buy that line of argument at all. You're claiming that if you can establish some line of cause and effect then anyone in that chain must take moral responsibility for the outcome. That's like saying an author who writes something th
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by MrScruff 15y ago
I thought there were sections where your shout powers are required to progress the plot?
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by MrScruff 15y ago
The thing that always brings this home to me is how much harder it is (for a developer) to rethink a design to remove the need for an option than to not bother and defer the decision to the user. It's sometimes instinctual in these situatio
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by MrScruff 15y ago
I think that's unfair. While WP7 obviously is derived from the 'physics based touch screen phone' category that the iPhone defined, it's also true that Microsoft took it in a different direction that genuinely looks different to iOS. They b
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by MrScruff 15y ago
Fair enough. I'm currently using Freya since I have a love of low contrast dark schemes with muted colours. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1651
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by MrScruff 15y ago
The after/plugin thing is new to me, thanks.
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by MrScruff 15y ago
As another recent convert to Vim, I always get something out of reading these articles. However my primary advice would be to just accept that the process of learning Vim is inherently painful, but the suffering is mostly over after a coupl
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by MrScruff 15y ago
Out of curiosity, why would you suggest choosing from the default schemes? I picked my scheme from a downloaded bundle and then installed a plugin to make it work on a 256 colour terminal.
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by MrScruff 15y ago
One problem I had with Pathogen using git submodules (and presumably Vundle as well) was the inability to tweak my plugins. I wanted the ability to be able to modify several of the plugins I had installed and I couldn't figure out a nice wa

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