andrewcamel

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by andrewcamel 15y ago
It isn't about efficiency. It's about giving stuff away for free versus charging for it. As one guy above put it, if you lay out a bunch of hotdogs on a table and let people take them for free, you'll give out a whole lot more than the guy
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
Yes! Thank you for laying out your opinion so intelligently and with such a perfect metaphor. It is really time for everyone to just grow up and as you so eloquently put it, "just start calling a spade a spade".
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
What do you mean by your first sentence? Didn't really understand. Regardless of whether you make a copy or remove the original, you are taking the property of another party without its permission to do so. That, by definition, is stealing.
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
I really like that argument and actually hope it would prove to be true - would completely change a significant part of the industry. However, it is by definition of US law illegal to pirate copyrighted content, so regardless of whether or
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
You can't think that you are paying for a no-cost digital copy. You are paying for a copy of a production that took over a year and millions of dollars to create! You wouldn't argue that you should only have to pay half-price for milk becau
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
Why would you do that to yourself? You're illegally downloading content. It's really cool and good and all that you're making up for your illegally downloaded content by actually purchasing the movie afterwards because that is what matters,
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
Could you please explain exactly why copyright infringement isn't stealing? I really don't understand any of the past arguments. Someone places a price on something that they paid money to create. Instead of paying that price (fair or not),
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
I am talking about one movie. If a pirate pirates a movie, it is incredibly unlikely that he/she is going to then go buy the movie. And yes, I do imply (and even say outright) that people who pirate would buy if they couldn't pirate, but no
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
Yeah, that's a great point about Notch. I think it goes along well with my point that theater-type production and distribution systems are reserved for the big guys. The smaller guys like Notch have their own channels and it has worked out
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
Thanks so much for the lengthy response - really cleared a lot of things up, but I had a few things to ask about: 1) So the main issue that we all have with these big production companies is that they make it difficult for small guys to get
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
That's a really interesting take on it - thanks so much for responding. I never thought about how all of the issues with trying to stop piracy could have decreased revenues as well. Really wish we could get some numbers on this to see if yo
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
I'm sure the economic analyses are well thought out, but isn't it just common sense that some proportion of those people who download content for free would have purchased that content had they not been able to download it for free? That wo
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
I don't really understand how they can have such a radical view... If the pirate bay were to be the only media distribution system left after all of the traditional "Hollywood" corporations went out of business (b/c of the pirate bay), ther
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
Yep. See comment above.
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
I tried the service and I am sorry to say that it is really just awful. I don't want to be mean, but it seems to pick a random sample of sentences. Great idea, poor execution. Much of the media attention has probably been around the fact th
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
I actually just replied with a suggestion that Github should implement some built-in functionality for simple error-checking. I think it's a great idea. It would be really helpful if you got a simple little list of notifications for a commi
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
It'd be great if Github would scan your code for errors like these and just let you know they exist (in case you didn't want them to, which I would assume you wouldn't for the most part).
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
Related to what Google is doing with their search statistics: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/draw
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
I completely agree. The simplicity that Gondor offers makes the service very appealing, but I'm not going to pay $100/month to host my 5 Django projects that I'm working on concurrently.
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
I think it is possibly the annoying and irresponsible business promotional tool anyone could implement. Many tried to do this to allow you to see videos on Facebook with "likes" as well.
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
I really do not understand why they cannot find someone to write for them who understands English grammatical rules. All I can think of when I'm reading that document are some troublemakers trying to justify malicious attacks. If they could
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by andrewcamel 15y ago
I definitely think it did. Google doesn't seem to be in the best of shape right now; Google+ got completely overwhelmed and started showing some serious bugs.
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by andrewcamel 16y ago
Chats.io, new HTML5 / Node.JS-powered social group chat, launches... and crashes.
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by andrewcamel 16y ago
Same setup, same issue.
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by andrewcamel 16y ago
Thank you so much for submitting that. I'm creating a Django application that has the potential to store and work with even more data than Disqus, so I've always been worrying about how to scale this to such a huge scale. Thanks to your sub
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by andrewcamel 16y ago
That's what I do, except I use svn rather than git.
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by andrewcamel 16y ago
Can someone please link to a download of the OpenFinder module?
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by andrewcamel 16y ago
What about the new HTML5 logo? Didn't they release that just two days ago? Seems like a bit of a waste...
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by andrewcamel 16y ago
Knowing the rate of page views would be good as well; having total page views is a bit misleading.
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by andrewcamel 16y ago
Well AT&T certainly got off easy... I expected something closer to 60 or 70%

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