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I would be willing to be 100 downloads of my app that price isn't really the issue on music piracy. If you charged $0.10 per song, it wouldn't result in a massive sales increase. The barrier to paid downloads is that people have to use a credit/debit card, usually register somehow and other things that form a barrier to entry. I think $0.99 isn't much to pay for a song or an app, but there are people (a fairly sizable number) who just want to download without going through the presumed hassle of the payment process. I bet if you were giving away CDs outside of the mall and charged $0.25, people wouldn't think twice about tossing a quarter into the can. Take that same song and put it online and the same people happy to toss you the quarter would rather steal the song than process a payment of 25 cents.

The problem isn't price -- it's the barrier of payment.
It's a movement desperately in need of leadership.

The financial system is incredibly complex. It makes protesting it extremely difficult because there are so many aspects that are broken. Anyone who ends up leading it will inevitably have to be pretty closely connected to the so-called 1%, because frankly that's who runs the show right now and those are the people who understand the system and how to change it.

I'd love to help but I'm afraid I'm on the wrong side of the country. If you want to help me with PlainSite (http://www.plainsite.org), though, I think it could help articulate the movement's message.
Rage Against The Machine (and Michael Moore) stormed the NYSE to film a music video on Wall Street in 2000:

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1433553/rage-shoots-video-w...
I'm going to get one of these, or a Karma. I think for daily use around the Bay Area, having a white HOV sticker would be enough of a benefit to make this an ideal choice; keep an older, gasoline or diesel car for long road trips, which also keeps depreciation off the more expensive new car.
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I don't want to bag out on id.. but the games they've done in the past that qualified as FUN - the basic premise was to just kill wave after wave of bad guy/demon/robot type soldier guy. Their games have never been very "deep", but they have been fun to play. This looks to me like they felt a bioware style game was more appropriate but have none of the bioware talent for making engaging story/dialogue.

I'm sure I read somewhere that id were no longer going to be in the game of tech licensing, but I could just be mistaken.
Completely agree with the above but would add:

- Provides a mechanism for developers to receive feedback to promote learning and improve code quality.
You didn't steal anything (nobody no longer has it because of you), you pirated it.
There is no reason to support anything earlier than iOS 4.3 for an app being released today.

For whatever reasons, some users still stick with older firmware versions. 100% of our userbase is iOS 4+, but about 10% of it is below 4.3.
My outside view of him is the same as yours, but remember that he isn't being hired by the outside based on what he is written - he's being hired by someone who has known him extremely well personally, and presumably therefore knows him better than readers do.
1-5 hours a week is really little. On a level of commitment that only implies cursory level...or am I missing something?
Yup. If they'll so blatantly and publicly screw a big company, it seems pretty likely they'll be willing to do it to any startups that deal with them.
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Does the original photo from Google Maps show the actual protesting crowd? Google Maps says the photo is copyright 2011.

How often does Google Maps refresh its satellite photos? Someday they will be live, which is both cool and scary..
I thought they stopped distributing those HOV stickers for hybrids years ago. Can you still get them these days?
Ooops, that's a good point. I suspect that the whole DMCA safe harbour "we honour all correctly submitted takedown requests" is a bit of a get-out for a lot of these sites. Especially the ones that are pretty much basing their entire business model on access to pirated content.

At the same time, there are legitimate indexing & hosting services who probably are genuinely displeased with the abuse of their systems. The same problem as the homebrew console hackers often enabling subsequent game piracy.

The tricky part is how to tell them apart, and what the legitimate concerns can do to prevent abuse, and the content rights-holders can do to deal with the bad-faith lot.

Providing the value/product that consumers are looking for as well is another big deal - from what little I know of mobile app-stores, the low-friction discovery/payment/install process, along with low-cost high volume business models is reducing piracy to some extent. Contrast with music, where DRM, onerous formats, and unavailability of a lot of content is encouraging or even forcing people to go the illegitimate route.
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I didn't know that.. Oh well, NYTimes corporate ethics has never really been their forte. I guess they need to diversify to make up for their increasing irrelevance in the news space.
Nope. The problem is granting monopolies and expecting to encourage growth. It's nonsensical.

Even if our courts were up to it, and we see time and hand again that they are not, you simply cannot consistently enforce incoherent laws.

All IP laws other than trademark are harmful to society and the economy and need to be abolished.
The story tomorrow isn't going to be the bad reviews, it's going to be the fact that almost nobody seems to be able to actually play the game. There are tons of graphics issues and crashes. It really looks like they botched the launch (on Steam, anyway.)
Tesla makes all-electric cars; no gas involved. HOV stickers are for all-electric cars only, now. I've seen them on Nissan Leafs.
The yellow ones were for hybrids.

The white ones are for CNG, plug-in hybrid, or battery electric, and are good until the end of the world (or 2015, whichever comes first)
I think you're missing the bigger picture here. It's not about a specific application, it's about the notion that the way we write software is fundamentally broken. All of these projects agree that each problem domain can potentially see orders of magnitude reduction in both LOC and bugs if custom languages are designed that fit the domain more appropriately than a one-size-fits-all approach that's been the status quo.
OK, this is going to be unpopular, but here it goes.

Life isn't supposed to be beautiful or elegant or simple or perfect.

If an entrepreneur can make money while improving the parts of life (no matter how small) that others benefit from, what can possibly be the issue?
It is good that this is getting some publicity but the whole protest is misdirected without a clear message or demands. I would love to see more of the '99%' take a relatively smaller step forward and participate in elections. With so many close races, even a few unified percent, of the '99%', can hold a lot of political clout thereby making a stronger statement. As a bonus, you can take work off to vote and you don't have to get arrested!
Movements like this, unfortunately, don't have a central cohesive agenda. This isn't civil rights or women's suffrage. These occupations are comprised of people who are upset with some aspect of the system enough to take a stance in the meat world and try to deal with it. It seems hokey and cheesy at times but that's because people need to keep their spirits up for motivation... and some people are just kooks. But you can't confuse that with pointlessness.

If you want to see something come out of this, you need to be that something. You need to go down there and find people like you and make something happen.

Pretending like the occupation is pointless, or even counter productive, is missing the point. It's about you. What do you have to say? What are you dissatisfied with? Go down there and find people who are willing to get out of their houses and try to do something about it.
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I gave a talk a couple of years ago on this topic (I read Code Complete and some of the same papers referenced). My goal was to get people to think more about doing things in addition to developer testing to find problems. Personally, I've found (cheap, informal) usability tests to be pretty amazing at finding fundamental problems with software -- the kind of stuff that doesn't show up in a unit test. After all, 100% test coverage can't tell you if your app sucks.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/francl-testing-overrated

http://railspikes.com/2008/7/11/testing-is-overrated

http://www.scribd.com/doc/8585284/Testing-is-Overrated-Hando...
The problem is the leaf doesn't have enough practical range to go from SF to Mountain View and back, and certainly not enough to do a full day of driving around the Bay Area. A roadster does, and a model s probably does, at least with the larger battery packs.
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What I don't get is why people who go on and on about how the new media is so much better than the old like Arrington and Seigler (latest example: http://parislemon.com/post/10774472888/fake-steve-jobs-funny...) are so eager to leave it.
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So I guess since it didn't work with Iraq we'll just stop trying then?
I think nearly everyone here is aware of the distinction. Speaking only for myself, I will continue to say "steal" since both words describe the same action (assuming you're not a prescriptive linguist), and steal better connotes what I believe to be the economic impact.
He stole it. However, I think it's perfectly moral although illegal to download the materials and then buy the hard copy.
Nine Inch Nails seem to be one of the few bands who are able to look into the future. They offer most(all?) of their music for free to download and make their money touring and selling other merchandise.
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I don't see how it has to be about music piracy. Software piracy is just as real.
My alternate thesis ...

Anonymity will not die but be self-regulated to those adult enough to handle its set of responsibilities to serve the greater good of the world..

Anonymous seems to come close to it as far as different factions within Anonymous now getting clued in that criminals have infiltrated their group and splitting of to continue specific goals..
In a future with rampant piracy, what I see is a whole lot less music and software. We won't even notice. It's not like we'll wake up and suddenly apps will be gone. We probably won't even be able to measure a decrease year-over-year in app production. What we'll never notice is that twice as many apps or ten times as many apps would have been created, or would have had much better quality, if the creators had been properly incentivized.
Yep, it's definitely a steep jump from 20GB shared to dedicated. At that point it might be better to move onto your own hardware (if I fill up 20GB database then I'm doing something right).
Hm yeah. As one who functions better as an entrepreneur than a subordinate/employee in a corporation, I'm thinking increasingly that it doesn't matter much what the ratings etc. of a school are any more. Thinking it's better to cherry pick knowledge from various sources without going further into debt and let my work speak for itself.

The only caveat is that with this path, while there is no ceiling to the amount of success, impact or satisfaction in life that one can have, some highly specialized fields requiring advanced academic knowledge would generally remain out of reach.
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I agree with your assertion of a decrease in apps and music in time, but for complete different reasons. There are numerous songs and apps out there which aren't even worth the cost of listing them.

Hopefully in time we'll see a lot less fart apps for $5 and the umpteenth song about a weekday from people who see it as a quick way to make cash and not something they have a passion for.

If both of these industries were about passion and not money then piracy wouldn't be such an issue.
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> For her, the network effect is incredibly strong: all her friends and family are on Verizon, so she is very hesitant to switch as she gets the in-network minutes free.

Sprint has unlimited mobile to mobile for plans with data, so as long as the other person is on a mobile line (probable since they are on Verizon), the call is free.
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You should have realized this years ago, and made your peace with it. I think I made my peace at about 23, after over 10 years of programming and wading through this crap (and this process was frankly like coming out of a mild depression). I'll reiterate what I said in the previous discussion about Ryan's rant:

"Just about everybody knows that all our software is imperfect crap on top of imperfect crap, from top to bottom. Everybody, when met with a new codebase above a certain size, thinks they could do better if they started over and did it "properly this time". Everybody can look at a simple thing like a submit form in a web browser, and sigh at the inefficiencies in the whole stack of getting what they type at the keyboard onto the wire in TCP frames, the massive amount of work and edifices of enormous complexity putting together the tooling and build systems and source control and global coordination of teams and the whole lot of it, soup to nuts, into a working system to do the most trivial of work.

"But this is not a new or interesting realization by any means. It's not hard to point almost anywhere in the system and think up better ways of doing it. Pointing it out without some prescription for fixing it is idle; and suggesting that it will be fixed by wholesale replacement by another complex system is, IMO, fantasy."

(Things probably only seemed like they worked in the old days because you hadn't realized what was going on in the sausage factory; or it was an almost useless piece of hardware whose software did almost nothing, owing to its simplicity.)
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In his reddit IAMA he says the plan has always been for the 3rd-generation (post-S) car to be a high-volume, low-price car. Based on the time between the Roadster and S releases, it will probably be a few years before they get around to that.

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But do you still report bugs?

I've gone to report GNOME or Ubuntu bugs, only to find that the problem already has a bug report from 5 years ago. The bugs are still open and unfixed, with a poor sap adding a "me too" comment every few months.
I remember when it was, when it seemed like most things just worked, even though they didn't look pretty.

I remember spending hours moving around jumpers to set DMA and IRQ. Only to find out that the only free IRQ was #9 and bloody Packard Bells sometimes didn't have a frikkin' 9 because that batch of boards was $2 cheaper that month...

I remember when it wasn't pretty and it took ridiculous efforts to make it work even a little. Now I mostly jam a USB thing in the side and it goes. There has been much improvement.

I'm actually a little psyched by it all. This just happens to be a really hard problem that arrived at humanity's doorstep before we were really evolved enough to make much of it. It might mean we're ahead of the game, and it almost certainly means that the best is still yet to come.
Seems odd that this story would get flagged or moderated off the homepage so quickly. The technology issues it raises about manipulation of social media are more interesting than the politics of OWS itself.
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Yep, there are problems there too, the point of my post was to refute the parent's opinion that the market would naturally take care of it.

I'm afraid I don't have a good solution short of some way of screening for only people who are allergic to cronyism.

Thanks for the link on Regulatory capture, I didn't realize that that phenomenon had a name, but I'm glad it does. It's one of the more infuriating things about the US government and the SEC in particular when it seems to handle lots of things with kid gloves when they should be prosecuting them with all the zeal they seem to have for prosecuting minor drug dealers.
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You have to compare it to the alternative -- how many sales on Verizon / AT&T will they lose with this exclusivity? How many phones would they sell on Sprint if it was available there, just not exclusively?
I think you are absolutely wrong about this. You might be correct when it comes to mid- to low level professional music/software. But the threshold to producing and releasing music and software is getting lower all the time.
These days, kids can go online and find tons and tons of instructional material and peer support for learning to play musical instruments or make software. They can noodle around at home with amazingly cheap equipment, record using the best recording software in the world at levels of fidelity only dreamt of a few years ago, and release it to the public without paying a single dime.

I think we'll see amateur music and free/open software quickly fill the gap left by professional musicians. And people will keep finding ways of financing their love (playing music). In fact, I don't know many of my favorite musicians today who make a living from their music. They all work day jobs. Music is their passion. If anything, they lose money from releasing albums.
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I wish every gas station in the world turned into a battery exchange facility overnight. Or if there was some mass produced battery that charges instantly. Throw in some massive clean energy projects for generating all that power. So many problems facing this country would be eliminated. I hope that day comes soon.
You know that death by lethal injection is actually not painful? Not that I support your hyperbole (if it is hyperbole), just clarifying the facts.
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Yes, but WIMAX is pretty much dead, even Sprint's dropping it for LTE. I just don't see Apple producing a new phone with WiMAX and having to test a completely different radio technology when they pretty much know it won't last for more than a few years.
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Reading and commenting on what's posted, asking the community questions, and asking PG questions is exactly why I signed up here.

What's a little annoying is: who the heck are you? ;)
Sorry, that doesn't actually work.

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They also were famous without and long before the whole Internet MP3 craze. They already had a fanbase.
To be fair, it's more like saying you'd wait for Oreos to come to town, pay an outrageous sum of money to view them and then buy milk at four times what you'd normally pay for it.

It's not that I think music piracy is justified, but let's not understate the reality of merchandising and touring prices in the music industry.

When people feel they're being ripped off, they're probably going to be more likely to not feel so bad when they return the favor.
Why can't we let people have passion for software or music and also make money at it? Should I need to pursue software development in my 2 free hours at night after coming home from flipping burgers because only jobs that involve production of physical goods that can't yet be copied still pay the bills? How can anyone afford the time to become a professional in this kind of future? Even if someone had the "passion" to give up everything else in their life, I don't think they should have to. Just thinking about it is depressing. The parasites will walk around happily listening to their free music in their makerbot printed mp3 player (from pirated plans) and collect their social security checks from the government, while software developers and musicians slave away in $200 basement apartments 10 hours per day, and are looked down upon by everybody around them for not being successful by doing something profitable. That's where I see this going.
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DB2 has a MERGE INTO command that lets you accomplish this - I expect lots of other DBs have similar functionality.
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As a programmer I find this offensive, we work all day trying to make software good (enough).
As I see it the problem is with users, they think they should get programs, like firefox, for free.
Most programs you use on a daily basis are now larger than anything a single person can build in a lifetime, and it should be free ?
No business constraints and lack of money is what is keeping software down.
Nobody is paying anyone to 'reinvent the wheel' to be better.