imtyler

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by imtyler 7y ago
When it comes to DRM and content hosting, the recent closure of the Microsoft ebook store comes to mind. If a marketplace is underutilized it risks becoming obsolete. And, unfortunately, sometimes that means loosing access to content. There
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by imtyler 7y ago
GOG Connect may be along the lines of what you're describing. The compatibly of games is on a temporary basis set by the publisher, but, yes, it does allow you to activate Steam purchases on GOG.
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by imtyler 7y ago
My two cents on Stadia: people don't like platforms that challenge Steam. Steam was the first big digital games marketplace, and people have been using it for a long time. They've amassed many games, the future playability of whic
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by imtyler 7y ago
Wow. The password manager I've been using for the past few years has dedicated buttons/gestures for copying the password to the clipboard (like many others, I'd assumed.) I feel like the expectations in this case are clear: a
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by imtyler 7y ago
>...They set up a legal landscape for their own benefit and everyone else’s detriment. So if I’m understanding correctly, the problem is not a lack of willingness to break up/regulate this monopoly, but instead the regulations and l
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by imtyler 7y ago
>People seem to think that the defective US healthcare system is an indictment on free-market capitalism. But there's nothing free-market at all about our system. What it's really an indictment on is cronyism, corruption, and r
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by imtyler 7y ago
This is, of course, why they’ve qualified the association as being a personal one. “For us,” the circle represents… Implying that this interpretation may/should be true for others comes across to me as self-serving, though. You can att
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by imtyler 7y ago
I understand your point, but what good are master tapes if they're not available to be heard? I think you could argue that destroying a musical distribution network has the same effect as destroying music: it's no longer available
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by imtyler 8y ago
If the cost of maintaining one's business practices requires subsidization by means of deception then really shouldn't matter. Even if you're one of the ones who are benefitting and not getting screwed.
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by imtyler 8y ago
I feel like there's some hindsight bias here. By that I mean: If I took two equally bad games-- one by a legitimate developer who may need some practice, and another by a developer whose intention is to scam the system-- would you be a
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by imtyler 8y ago
This may not be a bad thing, though. (As long as they're doing it with discretion.) A comment by 'vatueil' in this thread hinted at an important point: Steam is currently battling the massive library of half-baked 'crapw
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by imtyler 8y ago
Well, from a consumer's prospective, there's no compelling reason to spread out one's purchases (if the option exists to get them all in one place.) Having to download a separate launcher for each game isn't necessarily
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by imtyler 8y ago
>Nobody is entitled to live in a certain area for a certain amount of money. Not inherently, no. But legally speaking there are concepts like "rent control" and "adverse possession" that were created to assert on some
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by imtyler 8y ago
>You say gentrification like its a pejorative term. I mean, it kind of is. It not only refers to 'improvements' but also the displacement of anyone below the middle class as a result of those improvements.
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by imtyler 8y ago
>My observation is that the poor just throw more trash on the ground, they don't make their beds, they live in filthy or cluttered houses... I would argue here that you've confused correlation with causation. Perhaps a minimum
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by imtyler 8y ago
According to Wired it looks like a grey area[1]. Also, Red Shell, the company behind the software, seems to be aware of this[2]. [1] http://www.wired.co.uk/article/red-shell-game-tracking-gdpr [2] https://blog
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by imtyler 8y ago
Isn't the system specifically designed with 'disengagement' in mind? It leaves the driver with nothing to do. Let's not pretend that sitting there for hours with nothing to do isn't uncomfortable. It would be unusua
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by imtyler 8y ago
>maybe happened once [and] it's going to get put out there as the norm. According to employees, it happens frequently. I extend my arguemets about whether or not the behavior occurred (at all) to the frequency of the behavior: eithe
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by imtyler 8y ago
>They don't really do that, you know. I doubt there will ever be an official metric, so it's your word against theirs. I, for one, find the narrative that "they're just making it up so they can extort their employer f
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by imtyler 8y ago
I just don't think the _possibility_ of a backlash (for defensible numbers, no less) justifies withholding information about personal safety. It's not like we're talking about sales figures, production stats, or other trivial
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by imtyler 8y ago
Regardless of how the numbers compare, if they're bad, shouldn't it be the responsibility of the company to attempt to alleviate the problem (instead of just covering it up)? I suppose they could technically do both, but not ackno
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by imtyler 9y ago
"Pontificate" implies a pompous demeanor, I think you meant pondering?
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by imtyler 14y ago
I use http://mytvrss.com (no affiliation). You check off the shows you watch and it creates a customized RSS feed for you. Combined with Google Reader I never miss a show.
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by imtyler 14y ago
I agree. I'm sure Google has at least some idea of what's going on. I'll assume you're using pseudonyms and other falsified credentials in order to prevent Google from linking your information... but your phone's MAC address and IP indica
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by imtyler 14y ago
I visit hundreds of websites every week, not just Google. Would that mean I have to pay them all "nontrivial" amounts of money? The internet is largely ad-supported; you're talking about a (admittedly) radical shift in the _entire_ internet
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by imtyler 14y ago
Could this perhaps have been Microsoft's intention? They've implemented a widely unpopular feature that is bound to be circumvented on a large scale. They basically bastardized the execution of DNT, making it moot while at the same time pro
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by imtyler 14y ago
What I said wasn't meant to be construed as a universally applicable statement, quite the opposite. It's highly specific to the industry. Music isn't the same as software. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs [1] (which is a theory, adm
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by imtyler 14y ago
There's no empirical way to measure the amount of effort or creativity that goes into something. It just seems to me like 20 dollars for a movie is more justifiable than 15 on an album, based on the _apparent_ amount of work that went towar
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by imtyler 14y ago
This is probably going to end up being a controversial opinion, but I just don't think music is worth that much anymore (fiscally speaking). Sure, there was a time when being popular meant signing a contract-- it was the only way to distrib
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by imtyler 14y ago
The pricing page utilizes some odd phrasing. Apparently the free plan does not include "privacy". Am I the only one who was thrown by that?

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