watsix

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by watsix 14y ago
In essence, you were never paying for the news, and so unfortunately, you don't have a firm grasp of the true cost. This is such a critical thing to understand. No one understands the true cost, because no one has ever paid for the new
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by watsix 14y ago
In my eyes (and maybe this is unreasonable of me, anyone else?), you lose credibility when you state, as fact, your own opinions that you know other people disagree on. You begin your comment by saying "You make one good point…" Is that
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by watsix 14y ago
Here's hoping your current position as comment #1 means you're not the only one who cares. You certainly aren't! But this kind of stuff has become religion here: I'm seeing perfectly valid comments being downvoted if they take the side th
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by watsix 14y ago
That only works if you contend that every single person who pirated something would not have purchased the thing otherwise. I'm pretty sure that's wrong in the same way that saying every single pirated copy of something results in lost rev
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by watsix 14y ago
Using drugs, "facilitating underage drinking" and even jaywalking are quite a bit different than stealing. You say you "don't steal (physical things)" as if that makes it ok, but you are stealing. It's a different form of stealing, but
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by watsix 14y ago
I'm one of those that really wants trial versions, but I wonder if this evidence suggests that trial versions would be equally pointless for conversions to paid. The primary reason I search for ad-supported versions of apps is because I a
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by watsix 15y ago
In nirvana's defence, if you spent any time in video editor's forums when FCPX was launched, it would have been very easy to get the impression that editors, as a group, simply didn't like anything new. The amount of misinformation was sta
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by watsix 15y ago
That's just like saying 'programmers' don't want to learn Logo because they are programming by rote in Java or whatnot. There are many programmers who resist learning another language because it's different than what they originally learn