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How Much Do Music and Movie Piracy Really Hurt the U.S. Economy?(freakonomics.com)
7 points by rythie 15y ago|0 comments
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by rythie 15y ago
Don't make the mistake of assuming that pirating users would pay for something they currently value as zero. Also there is a trial effect where people pirate software like Photoshop at home, learn how to use it and later on get employers to
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by rythie 15y ago
You can't eliminate it completely, though companies like Nike, Apple and Microsoft are able to continue being profitable despite widespread pirating of their goods. In part the problem is that piracy is easier than current methods of gettin
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SOPA: Infographic(americancensorship.org)
1 points by rythie 15y ago|0 comments
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by rythie 15y ago
I don't think he reads up on this stuff, wouldn't have the time, his researchers cut it down and he makes it funny. I'm sure it's because his researchers are largely unaware that it's an issue.
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by rythie 15y ago
I think governments care about the amount of tax they generate, which is mostly the salary bill and the profit.
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by rythie 15y ago
Someone [a designer probably] needs to make one of those really nicely designed micro-sites with a really clear explaination of why SOPA is bad. For example this is nice: http://rogerdudler.github.com/git-guide/ but what if the same effor
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by rythie 15y ago
Yes. This is not about some geeks with a minor website, it's about a multi-trillion dollar [1] industry being sabotaged by some old school media companies that can't adapt to the new world. What's more, what they want to do won't even solve
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by rythie 15y ago
Did you actually read the description of the product? Looks like they know what it means.
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by rythie 15y ago
You should see the command line interface my travel agent has (maybe all of them, I don't know), they seem to memorize 100s of airport short codes and use an odd syntax surprisingly quickly for 'non-computer' people.
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by rythie 15y ago
I remember in 90s you were called a computer wizard if you how to type a document and print it. Expectations change.
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We’re auctioning ten beta Raspberry Pis(raspberrypi.org)
37 points by rythie 15y ago|16 comments
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by rythie 15y ago
Does the average person do that? I've seen nothing to suggest they do, except you might. Also, when is morning? people are in lots of different timezones that are following companies and celebs.
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by rythie 15y ago
It misses out BitKeeper, which inspired both Git and Mercurial, which was launched 5 years earlier.
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by rythie 15y ago
Ok, where are your references for these statements? I'm especially dubious of the 50% figure.
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by rythie 15y ago
"Twenty percent of women in their 40s do not have children" - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/us/13generations.html?_r=1
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by rythie 15y ago
The Crunchpad was merely an extension of the ideas from the iPhone/iPod Touch, I think a lot of people could see there was a market for a big iPod Touch. Mostly the competition didn't have an OS ready and Apple was late to the market due to
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by rythie 15y ago
You have to wonder if people would even learn to drive manually in a world of driverless cars, maybe only a minority of enthusiasts would want to (cost/time concerns). Also, if some enthusiasts were perceived to be driving dangerously compa
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by rythie 15y ago
Well fuel is still not free. In the U.K. at least you would hesitate due to the high cost (much lower in U.S.).
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Safest seats on a plane are at the back(popularmechanics.com)
2 points by rythie 15y ago|1 comments
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by rythie 15y ago
Disruption and innovation is cool, not big companies relying on a cash cow business model created decades ago.
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How Spotify Works(pansentient.com)
162 points by rythie 15y ago|51 comments
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by rythie 15y ago
The main problem with most sites on the iPad and even more so on the iPhone/other phones is that with font is too small and the text doesn't use the full browser width. (Zooming means you have to constantly swipe left and right). [FYI I hav
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by rythie 15y ago
Publishers are clearly struggling to make money from their sites and decline in the quality and increase in annoyance of the adverts is the result. I wrote this a while ago (though not much has changed): http://posterous.richardcunningham.
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by rythie 15y ago
I didn't even realise there were images until you said. I guess he shouldn't have used 'ads' in his image names.
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by rythie 15y ago
In the long term they do need to be beneficial to the businesses that do it, otherwise they'll die in a few years from word of mouth. Who writes the copy is an issue, though just someone writing that would be cheap compared to chasing tons
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by rythie 15y ago
If Groupon could cut costs by using a self-serve model (rather than 1000s of sales staff) it could drastically cut costs and potentially make a large profit. Surely at some point in the next few years they will be well known enough for busi
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by rythie 15y ago
He's actually disrupting the market for the $7000+ device, I wonder how many the $7000+ people sell, presumably he could take most/all of their sales + a load on top who couldn't afford it in the first place. I assume at this point the $700
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by rythie 15y ago
The thing is that the Console companies control the supply of games so that only games that run fast (60fps+) are released. Basically you can't release a game that runs slow, so it's not an issue. BluRay is that same, it's a standard and di
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by rythie 15y ago
I've seen several people who bought machines with 512Mb, not realising that was a small amount, who then complain that their computer is very slow, despite being brand new. It does make a difference, however, most people don't understand th

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