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by chris11 15y ago
I'd also say that steam's more convenient than piracy. And the drm is usually painless. And you throw in their sales, and games will go for 5 or 10 dollars. To me the convenience alone is worth the money.
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by chris11 15y ago
My internet connection is a little bit sketchy so I have had the problem of steam thinking it is connected to the internet but not connecting to my account. Then it asks for my password again and will not let me log in until I have internet
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by chris11 16y ago
There might be some lawsuits, but I doubt there will be any significant legal problems. Google would have a market cap several times larger than any potential plaintiff. So they definitely have resources for any legal battle.
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by chris11 16y ago
IMO Twitter/Facebook are not directly competing with digg. Digg was a news aggregator, Twitter/Facebook aren't.
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A main developer for VLC is doing an AMA on reddit(reddit.com)
1 points by chris11 16y ago|0 comments
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by chris11 16y ago
I think it would be doable. About a year ago I was getting shared internet from someone a couple miles away. There was line of sight between the two antennas, but the internet signal was pretty good.
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by chris11 16y ago
I think that was kind of the point. The only advertising and marketing a blog should be doing is for the author or products the author feels passionate about.
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by chris11 16y ago
In my opinion the daemon was just one big deus ex machina. It definitely is not in the same league as Snow Crash.And I don't think Suarez had a very good sense of tension. The book is fast-paced, but it never takes a break. And the protagan
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by chris11 16y ago
I wonder how long it will take before someone hacks it to stream hulu and netflix. It should be able to if it streams video games in 720p;
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by chris11 16y ago
I worked at a place that used hushmail for the corporate email. It was a business account, so they had their own domain, but it was through hushmail. So I guess they are doing some business.
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by chris11 16y ago
Exactly. For example a judge in Texas recently ruled that plaintiffs in piracy cases should file against individuals. This means that each lawsuit will cost around $350 in filing fees. It isn't financially attractive to spend six figures to
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by chris11 16y ago
If it made 5 million that year it is one of the few that made money. And besides, I doubt the school would have made money if only profitable teams were allowed to play in the division, so its still a net loss. And that plane trip shouldn't
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by chris11 16y ago
While there might be a little money in piracy, I doubt there is any serious money. I think that if you had the ability and talent to set up a popular site dealing with piracy, then it would be much more profitable to do something in some ot
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by chris11 16y ago
Practically the existence of other extraterrestrial life forms can't really affect humanity that much.The closest star is over 4 light years away. I doubt communication would be very successful with a 4 year gap between any response. Any ph
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by chris11 16y ago
It may make some people regret buying the high-end product, but it makes the lower-end product more attractive. And besides, other companies get away with doing this all the time. In fact one of the selling points of the dual-core Amd pheno
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by chris11 16y ago
I'd also argue even including Gates in a list of typical college dropouts. He was taking graduate level computer science and mathematics classes his first and second year in college. Anyone who can take handle graduate level technical clas
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by chris11 16y ago
I'd chose linux if it was cheaper. MSDNAA is free so there is no reason for me to pay any money for another copy of windows.
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by chris11 16y ago
I don't know what restrictions a seller can have on a sale, but I do know that some products cannot be sold to people who will use them illegally. For instance, in some places shop owners can get arrested for selling tobacco pipes to people
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by chris11 16y ago
That does help. My dad was in the army and was stationed in Korea for a few years. One weekend he was eating lunch with some Koreans he would be working with. Well, near the end of the meal he was offered some burnt rice. He graciously acce
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by chris11 16y ago
What's wrong with the design? I love the minimalist feel. I think Reddit's and HN's design works great for news aggregators.
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by chris11 16y ago
I have one. I was trying to get an internship with a local engineering firm. Well, I knew one of the engineers there and he managed to get me an interview. Unfortunately through traveling and not checking my phone I managed to miss the phon
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by chris11 16y ago
What is worse is that some anti-piracy groups are refusing to release the names of sites they are shutting down. Brein recently shut down nearly 30 file-sharing sites and has refused to release info on the targeted sites. http://torrentfre
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by chris11 16y ago
Commissaries on U.S. military bases use a one line multi-cashier setup, yet each cashier has a bunch of novelty items near their section. I seem to remember that setup be a little bit faster too, though it's not immediately apparent when st
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by chris11 16y ago
I'm not sure if you can answer this or not, but in your opinion what would it take to get some type of voluntary licensing going for music? I personally would rather pay a monthly fee than pay for each individual song or cd. I also want the
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by chris11 16y ago
Won't happen.I think it would be horrible politically to offer vacations to families with members in jail, no matter how much was saved.
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by chris11 16y ago
What really upset me is when I heard that Radiohead licensed their 2007 album In Rainbows to music labels. Now the RIAA is sending takedown notices to people who host the album online. http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-protects-radioheads-in-ra
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by chris11 16y ago
That is one of the reasons I like my Sony Touch ebook reader. It basically is only good for reading, so I don't end up interrupting my reading to do something else on it.
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by chris11 16y ago
What exactly were your problems with Lulu? I have been meaning to get a hard copy of Creative Commons licensed math textbook made and was considering using Lulu. Is it okay for printing technical books?
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by chris11 16y ago
This is more than lip service, Obama filled the DOJ with former RIAA lawyers. And Biden's always been pro-RIAA. It may be cynicism, but Biden's statement is really not surprising. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/obama-taps-fift/
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Derek Sivers: How to start a movement(ted.com)
6 points by chris11 16y ago|0 comments

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