Re: Far too dangerous... Encrypted mesh networks...
Never mind that shit, what about all that Vodafone lost revenue???!!!????!
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'These are well-paid gigs. Contrast this with the lot of the creator, who makes the stuff that Justified Bloke downloads for free. 80 per cent of musicians in the UK earn less than £10,000 a year, while 95 per cent of songwriters and composers earn less than £15,000 in royalty income.'
Except that ABC1 bloke isn't taking bread off the tables of the aforementioned artists, he's taking bread off the table of the multi-millon dollar music executives and spoilt, air-theiving, prima donnas.
Indeed, worked extremely well for iD software.
The demo for Q2, allowed you to play online too.
How ironic then, that that software house (iD), is one of the most successful and one of the first to embrace user generated content and open-sourcing.
Most true gamers, will always buy their games, because they understand the work that went in to making the game and feel genuine pleasure playing the game.
Pirates do it just because they can and more than likely stop playing their pirated game 3 days after installing it, so it's really not a lost sale (unless your business model is based on people only playing your game for 3 days).
So much butthurt :)
They're all as bad as each other, it's not Microsoft's fault, it's the game that's being played.
If these companies don't want to pay royalties, they're perfectly free to innovate their own solution, but they instead choose to take the easy route and pay Microsoft. No problem here, move along!
Both of which pale into insignificance when compared to ASICs.
It's an arms race based on GH/KWH and therefore, those that have the money to buy custom-built ASIC farms, have the very real advantage. Perhaps the only chance as an independent prospector is to group buy ASIC or join a pool.
As sad as it is, the money goes to the money and therefore Bitcoin investment is no different to any other, however, unregulated currency distribution is novel and exciting, if only to see how the established institutions deal with it.
I prefer the concept of SmartPhone Ad-Hoc Networking, which largely negates the need for cellphone masts AND billing, but this is a step in the right direction. I'm currently sitting in a house where I have no signal from the mast, yet a full wireless signal from a router and it makes no sense at all that I can't receive cellular traffic!
SPAN is gaining traction and there are already kernels for some devices that put the wireless adapter in ad-hoc mode. The more devs get into the idea, the quicker we can put the cellco's in their place.
If you're in NZ and really want to rub their noses in it, install BitTorrent, grab this, :D
The Pirate Bay - Away From Keyboard and seed like mad!
You misunderstand, I grew up with consoles that used far more reliable ROM than shitty plastic discs that like to delaminate and suffer from many other issues if not treated with kid gloves. I am not pro cloud.
We have large capacity flash memory cards and I personally have had a decent RAID6 card for the last 5 years at home.
So for me, the optical disc thing, particularly with game consoles was a huge step backwards.
One example, my son's Force Unleashed delaminated within 2 months and Microsoft wanted £20 to replace it.
So...give me back solid state ROM, please! I still have ROM cartridges from 'consoles' as far back as my ZX Spectrum that are in perfect working order! Where's my choice to have that?
So many fail arguments and analogies, how old is your car? and therefore the software in your car?
How old is your phone? Your set top box? Your operating system? Your TV?
You can argue it around all you like, but buying Microsoft Office once or twice a decade is really no big deal when you examine it honestly!
Money goes around, deal with it lol, we're all money movers. Microsoft employ people and when we buy stuff from them, they pay people and then those people buy things from Tesco, who pay their people, it's a blindingly simple concept.
I've just realised I'm starting to understand the word freetard lol
Well, considering you two tightwads are still using a version from 13 years ago, what choice do Microsoft have?
What would you like them do do? Keep patching Office 2000 ad infinitum and have no money for research and development?
I expect downvotes for this, but seriously, they gave you a decent Office product 13 years ago, it wouldn't hurt to buy a new copy would it?
Thank fuck I'm not in the software business.
Not sure I know anyone who thinks like that. I just hope the Chinese become the next superpower using economy, rather than war. Presumably this research is for their own protection in case the USA won't go down without a fight.
For the record, I'm a global citizen with interstellar potential, so have no allegiance to any particular form of governance.
On demand TV, cloud hosted media libraries, remote working. clustered computing projects like SETI and Folding, bandwidth for the ever increasing number of devices in the home or office that use it, lower latency, less reliability issues......
It's obvious to me, that replacing ancient cabling, in some places aluminium, with glass is the way forward.
Hell, Japan, most of Scandinavia and a large part of Europe already have this. Some of them have had for ages.