Re: Huh

Music is far cheaper than it was 10 years ago. Let's see the facts showing that piracy has reduced as a result.

Oh, and TBP is not illegal as they host no content.

I really fail to see how anyone believes this is a defence. It's about intent... Google exists to allow people to search all public info on the web, except that they DO attempt to block some things from searches. Maybe poor attempts, but they show the intent.

Whereas TPB exists purely and wholly to help people find ways to download content they aren't allowed to have. Yes I know people use it for other things, but it's called the PIRATE bay for a reason.

In real life, knowingly aiding someone to commit a crime makes you an accomplice to the crime. It's just common sense.

Re: Censorship is bad. Always

It makes logical sense to examine the most extreme case as this tests the arguments are solid or not.

Re: Stand up for your rights

>>If prices were low and quality high then the levels of copyright infringement (Note not piracy) would be greatly reduced.

1)Mark why would copyright infringement be reduced but piracy wouldn't?

2)Bringing quality into it is dumb. The high-quality/popular items are the ones shared the most

3)I assert lowering price wouldn't have this affect... it is a mindset thing not a case of being unable to afford it

Censorship is bad. Always

Even of illegal material (forget if TPB is illegal, I mean generically)?

Re: to JDX

Yes, beautiful like those but gigantic.

Re: See, this is what I like about Google

Of course they want to make profit, they'd be a useless company if they didn't. That takes nothing away from the fact that spending their vast profits on many areas of R&D is a good move... historically a lot of our science was done by the rich.

Playing the "they're only doing it to make money" card just shows a total lack of understanding of the world...

Re: @Dave 126

I would expect that the number of times a human has to suddenly jump in to ensure safety is VERY low, otherwise it would not be deemed safe for use. I'd love to see information too, but I think we're all underestimating how smart the car is in the same way we stereotype computer speech recognition as being the way it was in the 90s.

I would not be too surprised if this is Google's 2nd "big product" after Google Search in terms of revenue.

I agree - if this was a PC app £5 would be cheap. SmartPhone apps are real applications and of course this one doesn't have worldwide market so that means prices have to be higher.

Re: Another business model: CCL

Interesting - and as someone who plays music in a church I never even realised CCL WAS a church-specific thing!

Re: So Sad

However acting like dicks doesn't exactly help their cause - makes classifying them as a bunch of internet vandals far easier to the suits.

how much work has been done on compilers in the last few years

People have also been saying that for years. It's undoubtedly true but a good optimiser can still beat the hell out of the compiler through knowing the context and stuff like SSE. The claim "modern compilers can't be beaten by hand coding" is simply bogus - however the truth is it doesn't normally need optimising.

Re: Lighters work too

Or use your teeth.

Re: How quaint

One of the few things that America could have usefully exported to the UK, instead of all that other crud.

Re: Will we actually be able to buy FB?

It might be gambling but we've seen IPOs of tech stock very commonly show a huge initial jump on launch day, before settling back over the short term.

Re: why not admit to it?

But it could be a big marketing opportunity to say:

"due to unprecedented continued support for RockBand, we have taken the decision not to end the service as previously announced. EA takes our users' feedback very seriously and is delighted to announce the service will remain live"

Re: I wonder ...

"which of the comment/forum rules all those people whose comments got deleted broke? I think it's important we're told so we can avoid a similar fate ourselves."

Private web forums nearly always have the rule "we maintain the right to do what the hell we like".

Re: Where's my refund?

"Can you think of any other industry where the raw materials of the product you're buying cost 5p but they ask you to pay 2000 times that to purchase it?"

A ticket to absolutely any entertainment event. What kind of idiot expects to be able to ask for money back because they "don't like" a piece of subjective art?

Re: "The dodgy drives put fanboys' data at risk, Apple said in its recall notice."

Apparently everyone using a Mac who thinks they're "quite good" is safe.

Re: Well done...

It's not about blocking access, full-stop. It's about making it clear that it's not allowed - to the casual user who hasn't ever really stopped to think beyond "cool, free movies", the fact you have to circumvent even quite simple obstacles will make it seem much clearer, and probably worry them that they might get some attention for it. Joe Public thinks you can visit sites without anyone knowing, and has no idea how to use VMs and other stuff to be anonymous.

If they can cut users down to tech-savvy geeks rather than the mainstream, that's a huge achievement for their purposes.

Re: Never use credit cards.

I've got a spare tin-foil hat you can have if you like? It will stop anyone reading you mind to know which floorboard you hid the cash underneath.

Just how much malware is there for Windows, and how much for OSX?

Scale aside, the Windows malware creators have multiple decades of a headstart.

MS probably put more money and work into security alone than Apple's entire software development budget.

Sometimes I think there's no hope for humanity.

I'm sure many would say the exact same thing about a man wanting to cut his bits off :)

Why would you want to build your own two socket servers?

If you need enough, it can make sense to design your own. I don't know how many that number is or how many FB need but I wouldn't be surprised.

Because laptops are less portable.

how is this different

MS had a monopoly on desktop OS which they used to gain a monopoly on browser software. Apple do not have a monopoly on smartphones, they're not even the biggest market share.

warranty void after a simple software manipulation

Installing Linux shouldn't break your warranty, but upgrading your BIOS quite possibly should since this can easily kill the thing... isn't JailBreaking more similar to the latter?

Re: Smart 'phones..!!

You still have the app, but they turned off the server. It is entirely normal that old games lose online/multiplayer functionality... I doubt that many PS2 titles still get great support.

Re: Blimey

Misogyny means "hatred of women". Either you don't know that or you're really keen to get on that high-horse, since nothing I said implied hatred.

And why you think hating women is not as bad as hatred for trans-gender people is rather baffling.

Re: Breaking News ....

They should partner with Google, and their fleet of snoopmobiles.

Intel are horrified at a whole new generation of kids growing up with ARM development

I very much doubt it. The new generation of kids learning Python or Java are really not going to care it's an Arm chip. They quite probably won't even know what that implies... it's just a computer.

Apple's new password requires upper and lower case letters as well as numbers

I got screwed by this... as a new iPad user I didn't realise the "Caps-Lock button" was actually only for the next key, which meant I kept entering the password wrong!

Re: Sex life

Indeed given that Apple fans are the cool kids, and we all know girls are too stupid to prefer brains over cool :)

Note to self: perhaps calling them "too stupid" is a bad move...

You're not supposed to give the 'correct' answers

Yes but unless there is an obvious answer, I WILL forget. Ending up playing guessing games with myself "what would I have said here" is a waste of my time :)

Re: Simply....

Why write handwritten letters on posh writing paper with a fountain pen when you can rip pages out of a spiral pad and write using a biro?

No reason other than aesthetic.

Re: Resolution

What are you on about? 1280x1024 is still a very common desktop resolution for those with 4:3 monitors, and a 17" laptop screen is much smaller than even a small desktop monitor.