Indeed I'm a supporter, all my games/music/movies are purchased, but I do use rental services like GameFly and Red Box, and listen to Last.FM quite a bit, so it helps limit those costs. Only something if it's something I really like I'll wind up buying it eventually.
Nah. I try not to pirate stuff. I believe in compensating artists for their work in hopes that the same might be said for myself one day.
I try to be that way, and I always feel guilty if I pirate something myself. But if I mention it to someone, and they happen to have it already and offer me a copy, or offer to get it for me, that's hard to ressist. It's just rude to turn down filez! I know that's not a good excuse for ripping off people who have worked hard to develop a product though.
I seriously think the best way to prevent piracy is not trying to police it though. I don't think it will ever be possible. It takes a three prong strategy. 1. Make pirating difficult enough that most people won't bother. 2. Make your prices reasonable enough that its worth the cost to people, to keep from having to make the effort to pirate things. 3. Offer things to paying customers that pirates can't have, but serious customers will want, like elaborate packaging and pack-ins, or in software, cloud and server based features that you have to have a legit license for. None of this eliminates piracy, but it makes your retail product more attractive and reduces the effect piracy has on your income.
My bro and I buy heaps of tv shows on dvd. However, because where in Australia we get some shows from 3 - 12 months behind the US. We download the shows not being shown in Australia and buy them when they eventually make it to DVD.
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@vegasrage If the air is dry, I can handle pretty high temperatures. Anything above 100 though, and I'd rather be inside! 105 would definitely be rough for a long hike. And 123 would probably kill me literally.
Here, the temperatures are rarely more than mid to high 90s,but the hunidty is ridiculuos in southern Kentucky. It's like breathing heated water, and your sweat never evaporates becase the air is already saturated. My home state is one of the worst places I've hiked in summer.
D3 in May!!!!
I grew up in Iowa with swim to your car humidity, I must be weird because I like humidity, I feel like I can breath in it.
After living in both environments for some time now, I can report the desert is really just the most f***ing brutal place to live. The hottest time of day isn't high noon like some would expect, it's about 3 to 4 in the afternoon when the ambient heat radiating off the streets hits you. Worse than the heat is the rarely shielded relentless sun which just shears through you regardless of the time of day.
In humid states there are 3 to 4 layers of humidity in the sky at different heights, not just clouds, but thin layers of humidity which diffuse much of the sun's harshness. When flying, you can see them as you pass through them taking off or landing. In the desert there is nothing between the ground (Troposphere) and the next gas layer up, the Stratosphere. The sun is the real culprit in the desert because it's harsh even in cool weather for the aforementioned reasons.
I took this panorama of the Las Vegas valley last May 30th 2011 when I climbed to the top of a small foothill/mountain testing the video on my then new Canon G12. Even then last May it was already hitting a 100 degrees, as you can see there are but only some light high clouds in the far off distance. It is typical to not see a cloud in the sky for most of the summer, day after day, week after week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR_6b5X1Lf0
I never had much of an issue with humidity. Then again, I never had much of an issue with dry heat either. It seems in West Virginia like we get a bit of both.
Then again, we have a saying here in the Mid Ohio Valley (That's not just Ohio, fyi). If you don't like the weather, wait five minute and it'll change.
I think celcius makes more sense than Fahrenheit. The freezing point of water makes more sense as a 0 point than the Fahrenheit one. And the degrees being bigger makes everything easier to understand if you are used to it probably. But I grew up on fahrenheit, and I think in terms of it.
@vegasrage If the air is dry, I can handle pretty high temperatures. Anything above 100 though, and I'd rather be inside! 105 would definitely be rough for a long hike. And 123 would probably kill me literally.
Here, the temperatures are rarely more than mid to high 90s,but the hunidty is ridiculuos in southern Kentucky. It's like breathing heated water, and your sweat never evaporates becase the air is already saturated. My home state is one of the worst places I've hiked in summer.
D3 in May!!!!
when i set foot in iraq the humidity was high, i felt like i was taking a hot bath of soaked towels, try 140 degrees f, no need to take a shower or better yet, just stand outside with a bar of soap, just dont let the sweat get sucked into your eyes or youll go crying to mom like a little demon imp brat.
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Illegal download---->like---->delete from hard drive---->buy
Dislike? Well it stops at deleting.
Thanks to youtube now though, there's no need to download anything.
But the Nazis will probably strangle this site down too.
I try to be that way, and I always feel guilty if I pirate something myself. But if I mention it to someone, and they happen to have it already and offer me a copy, or offer to get it for me, that's hard to ressist. It's just rude to turn down filez! I know that's not a good excuse for ripping off people who have worked hard to develop a product though.
I seriously think the best way to prevent piracy is not trying to police it though. I don't think it will ever be possible. It takes a three prong strategy. 1. Make pirating difficult enough that most people won't bother. 2. Make your prices reasonable enough that its worth the cost to people, to keep from having to make the effort to pirate things. 3. Offer things to paying customers that pirates can't have, but serious customers will want, like elaborate packaging and pack-ins, or in software, cloud and server based features that you have to have a legit license for. None of this eliminates piracy, but it makes your retail product more attractive and reduces the effect piracy has on your income.
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I never new that my piracy of movies, games, videos, and other assorted goods cost the entertainment industry so much money in ring tone sales. Lol!
Adorable.
*Stabs over-ambitious steward with tail and throws him into a wall, leaving nothing but a puddle of flesh and blood. Cleans Throne.*
Will you reclaim your throne, your Highness?
I shall my loyal General, I've come again in this auspicious day in which the old prayers have been answered. Tell me, which news you have of my kingdom?
After living in both environments for some time now, I can report the desert is really just the most f***ing brutal place to live. The hottest time of day isn't high noon like some would expect, it's about 3 to 4 in the afternoon when the ambient heat radiating off the streets hits you. Worse than the heat is the rarely shielded relentless sun which just shears through you regardless of the time of day.
In humid states there are 3 to 4 layers of humidity in the sky at different heights, not just clouds, but thin layers of humidity which diffuse much of the sun's harshness. When flying, you can see them as you pass through them taking off or landing. In the desert there is nothing between the ground (Troposphere) and the next gas layer up, the Stratosphere. The sun is the real culprit in the desert because it's harsh even in cool weather for the aforementioned reasons.
I took this panorama of the Las Vegas valley last May 30th 2011 when I climbed to the top of a small foothill/mountain testing the video on my then new Canon G12. Even then last May it was already hitting a 100 degrees, as you can see there are but only some light high clouds in the far off distance. It is typical to not see a cloud in the sky for most of the summer, day after day, week after week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR_6b5X1Lf0
Now ask me how if like the desert
Likewise :Thumbs Up:
You would love Florida, then. I'm like 10% fish by now from living here for so long, I'm sure.
I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
Then again, we have a saying here in the Mid Ohio Valley (That's not just Ohio, fyi). If you don't like the weather, wait five minute and it'll change.
* i enjoy peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
* im 5'8
* i listen to oldies music
* ive pre ordered both se and ce
* i have an older brother whos in the army