Currently a Mechanical Engineer(B.S.)
Pursuing a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science.
I work at a major university and hope to start my own software company one day.
Instead of having to deal with constantly searching people for belongings. How about we just all adopt a nudist society where no one can hide "dangerous" weapons and items. If you are carrying a gun or knife, its obvious.
If everyone is naked, no one could hide things on their person.
Things like this just make me think of Valve/Steam and how wonderful the steam platform is.
They have said numerous times how the steam platform fights piracy by offering a far superior platform. Faster downloads, easy and very quick alternatives. I've never had issues with it.
Not only can I install as many times as I want and re download as many times as I want.(Ive seen some places say you can install infinite, but can only download 3 times)
I can go to friends computer and play using my own settings/saves and even install the same game on 100 computers. Only limit is that obviously I can only log onto 1 account/computer at a time. But since I am the one playing/owning it. That is fine with me.
The funny thing is that half of the time, half the games in the humble bundle, I had already purchased within a few weeks of their release, sometimes the day of their release because they were worth while games that I was quite excited for.
I know Ive put in at least 30 hours of super meat boy, prior to this humble bundle. I also bought this humble bundle because there were some additional no name games. I'll admit that since I already own the bigger titles here, I am not paying as much but the few games I haven't heard, of I have enjoyed quite a bit, this time.
Ive not bought all humble bundles because 1 of the recent ones had average and mediocre games, at least to my gamestyle. I don't buy it, just because.
I do buy it because I want a game and to support developers, I often put nothing to charity, a little to humble bundle, and mostly 90% to developers.
Although Super Meat Boy is a platformer, and Super Mario Brothers is also a platformer, it is most definitely NOT a knock off. It is a completely different gameplay style in every sense.
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Everything from violence to level design to scrolling level to art style. Aside from the fact that they are both jumping type games, there are no other similiarities.
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Most of the humble bundles have often had pretty well known developers. Albiet, they aren't hundreds of million $$ strong but very well known nonetheless.
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I think major titles like the ones you listed would make a lot of money, perhaps not the same as they sell outright. But perhaps after a year release and most sales are leveled off, itd be interesting to see how well it truly holds up to see what people pay on those games.
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I also oppose your final statement, I don't think this particular model would work for every game company/music. I am quite sure they would need their own customized versions of packages if they were to fair well.
At first I was thinking, these developers are stupid. Then it was like, this is brilliant. Hopefully they can find some better medium ground that permits both their company game business to flourish but also to allow pirated copies(word of mouth) to work in unison
When I first read this, I thought he meant to use "godly powers" to acquire "donations" and "fake profits" off it. By manipulating the masses into believing you have communicated with god and have been given the gift of god and the power to heal people. Then hysterical people become cured and the guy makes millions.
If he succeeded, he could sue all those extremists religious groups on TV that make millions of dollars.
Oh I am quite positive he doesn't allow youtube. I wasn't trying to comment that in his particular case he should. I was just speaking more vaguely about the product in comparative to his situation.
Some places will always have everything locked down, that is fine with me. But in the areas that it's not, then it clearly is a major advantage.
Eric, Although the bandwidth is a potential concern.
I know myself and many others often just use youtube to play music we want on our phones or at work.(at least 20 youtube songs a day)(often the same ones, I at least try to keep the window open(multiple tabs) to keep cached. to prevent bandwidth burn)
A streamed mp3 is far far more efficient then restreaming the same youtube video everyday.
My first thought after hearing google music locker was how will they prove that you own or don't legally own the music?
How will they regulate someone making a dummy account and sharing it with their friends?
Would they prevent multiple users not be able to stream simultaneously, even though some couples/married share 1 email, and only purchase their music once.
lol @ we promise to take down music, as if you could ever know who, statement.
I would be interested to know the statistics of TSA agents ever actually finding anything using this method?
I would also like to see the same statistics comparing what they do find, to actual threat based things. I.e. I don't care if someone had a 1oz too large toothpaste bottle in their pocket or a misc overzealous rule violation.
Pocket knives, scissors, explosives.
I also don't care about them finding drugs through this method.
I personally feel like it only adds inconvenience to everyone, and protects no one. Though I understand the airlines desire to look "proactive" in security and the public image of trying to be "safe" even if their methods are completely misguided and useless. Too bad we didn't have a choice. "Safe airline" and "dangerous airline" whereas safe airline is current standards, and dangerous one did very minimal intrusion.
Although it was probably said in another comment, I still feel I need to re state the following.
I could clearly understand the need to define a photocopier. The lawyer could have tried to be more creative in such that he could use other terms such as Copy Machine, Copier, Xerox, or as he eventually did, describe the function of the device.
Because in the modern world, technically couldn't a cell phone be called a copymachine? You can take a photo of something and then wirelessly print it to a printer.
As someone who works with a lot of various technical fields. There is a constant confusion over what is common acronyms and other technical slang. I think its short sighted of the lawyer simply because he is so familiar with a term that he deemed it as "common language."
The lawyer constantly tried to push the same angle, repeatedly, instead of trying to approach the question at different perspectives and terminology.
Also, it could potentially be that a photocopier only copies photos and a document copier only copies documents.
I've met people who believed they needed to buy the Office Max's CDs with the label printed "Music CDs" to make a music CD and they would argue that a regular any CD wouldn't work.
I think one thing that although short term, is easily overlooked.
Lets say Company A has 20 employees from various departments, all with their own individual twitter/blog/facebook/etc... pages. The company links to them, as they are to post relevant stuff about things they are working on, and other misc stuff, they are free to do what they want, with only minimum guidance.
They all build followers(of different types)
Sure company A will be mad with employee Bob leaves, taking his twitter account with 50,000 followers.
But maybe, Company B will be THAT much happier to have Employee Bob? Because now Bobs new company can take advantage of it.
Perhaps in the future, we will have as part of a resume, how many youtube or twitter followers we have in our professional lives?
It wouldn't be a requirement for every job, but it could definitely be considered an added perk.
It will make a few companies a bit disgruntled in the beginning. But I think overall in the long run, it'll be beneficial for everyone. Even if some companies don't ever see it that way.
Although I think class rooms can function without cellphones. One must recognition and embrace technology as it comes because it could potentially accelerate education in methods we can not fully see. As some of the education and learning topics at ted have discussed previously. I would like to reiterate some points. When kids are interested in something, learning happens at an exponentially increased rate.
Let me run through a few of my personal thoughts and uses that cell phones could be used for.
Although some schools/colleges have anonymous multiple choice answer things for large class room public debates
each student is given a device where they can press A, B, C, or D on it and when the teacher asks a question, they can take short polls and find out quick answers on topics.
These devices are expensive, limited, and cumbersone, and sometimes lost/forgotten.
If all the kids in a class had cellphones they could text their teachers(with their lightning fast typing skills) A, B, C, or D for general questions. The students wouldn't know what others neccesarily always said and the teacher could more quickly gauge if all the students understand it, instead of the few outgoing loud ones.
For example, Although VERY simple question, what is 24/6?
A) 3, B)4, C)5, D)6
In old class room styles, 1 or 2 students may say what the answer is, but now the teacher could see on their computer/display that 85% of kids got it right.
Take this a step further, and have free response answers
What do you guys think of ________?
Kids could respond, teacher could see on their private computer the answers and choose to show answers(on projector but names of student anonymous) The reason the teacher chooses is to prevent random name calling or inappropriate things from showing up on the screen.
A lot of students I think would like to answer but are too shy to speak out, or there is limited time to hear from all students but a teacher could quickly pick out 2-3 better ones from a read list, instead of a listened list.
Same concept applies to questions in class, a lot of students may feel insecure about asking a question.
Since cellphones would be permitted, youd have to establish some rules like (if your phone rings or makes noise you can get in trouble, or lose points, sent to principal, etc...)
It could incorporate more student participation. By requiring students to respond to at least 75% of questions in a semester. Obviously the class won't have a ton of these every class, but the few that occur.
The major downside to this are
Does this reinforce an ever growing less face to face social society by allowing students to rely and depend on texts/phones more? Instead of fixing the root problems?
What about students who don't have cell phones? texting?
I have been a long time follower of techdirt and I personally feel the lengths/depths of your articles are the perfect length for me. Where I can skim over and get the gist of what I want. If I am interested, I read the whole thing. If I still want more there is usually links/sources/etc... where I can just find out more on my own and create my own decisions and opinions with an excellent jump start and intelligent observations from Mike.
I wouldn't be opposed to an occasional long article but I don't think it should be a regular thing, but that also depends upon the definition of how long is a long article and how much does it take away from the other short articles.
Also, I love the fact that there are so many updates each day. Not everyone is super interesting for me personally but I tend to lose interest in sites if I check back semi often and have no updates. But I feel like techdirt is a heartbeat of technology news and insight.
nom nom nom
If food is patentable
You eat the patented food
You are what you eat
You have just been patented!
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Although I think copyright should be 99% abolished.
The longer the professors are kept out, the more likely they will promote open source and public domain projects among their students and peers.
Strip Search
Instead of having to deal with constantly searching people for belongings. How about we just all adopt a nudist society where no one can hide "dangerous" weapons and items. If you are carrying a gun or knife, its obvious.
If everyone is naked, no one could hide things on their person.
(untitled comment)
Things like this just make me think of Valve/Steam and how wonderful the steam platform is.
They have said numerous times how the steam platform fights piracy by offering a far superior platform. Faster downloads, easy and very quick alternatives. I've never had issues with it.
Not only can I install as many times as I want and re download as many times as I want.(Ive seen some places say you can install infinite, but can only download 3 times)
I can go to friends computer and play using my own settings/saves and even install the same game on 100 computers. Only limit is that obviously I can only log onto 1 account/computer at a time. But since I am the one playing/owning it. That is fine with me.
Re: Re: Re: no name games (as Adam G)
The funny thing is that half of the time, half the games in the humble bundle, I had already purchased within a few weeks of their release, sometimes the day of their release because they were worth while games that I was quite excited for.
I know Ive put in at least 30 hours of super meat boy, prior to this humble bundle. I also bought this humble bundle because there were some additional no name games. I'll admit that since I already own the bigger titles here, I am not paying as much but the few games I haven't heard, of I have enjoyed quite a bit, this time.
Ive not bought all humble bundles because 1 of the recent ones had average and mediocre games, at least to my gamestyle. I don't buy it, just because.
I do buy it because I want a game and to support developers, I often put nothing to charity, a little to humble bundle, and mostly 90% to developers.
Re: no name games (as Adam G)
Although Super Meat Boy is a platformer, and Super Mario Brothers is also a platformer, it is most definitely NOT a knock off. It is a completely different gameplay style in every sense.
_
Everything from violence to level design to scrolling level to art style. Aside from the fact that they are both jumping type games, there are no other similiarities.
_
Most of the humble bundles have often had pretty well known developers. Albiet, they aren't hundreds of million $$ strong but very well known nonetheless.
_
I think major titles like the ones you listed would make a lot of money, perhaps not the same as they sell outright. But perhaps after a year release and most sales are leveled off, itd be interesting to see how well it truly holds up to see what people pay on those games.
_
_
I also oppose your final statement, I don't think this particular model would work for every game company/music. I am quite sure they would need their own customized versions of packages if they were to fair well.
Netwiches and Netflix (as Adam G)
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/netflix
Link/comic posted is Perfect example of it
Buy your burger meat and lettuce across the street
But buy your burger buns here!
Oh yeah, you get them in the same looking container!
(untitled comment) (as Adam G)
At first I was thinking, these developers are stupid. Then it was like, this is brilliant. Hopefully they can find some better medium ground that permits both their company game business to flourish but also to allow pirated copies(word of mouth) to work in unison
(untitled comment) (as Adam G)
When I first read this, I thought he meant to use "godly powers" to acquire "donations" and "fake profits" off it. By manipulating the masses into believing you have communicated with god and have been given the gift of god and the power to heal people. Then hysterical people become cured and the guy makes millions.
If he succeeded, he could sue all those extremists religious groups on TV that make millions of dollars.
Re: Re: Re: Still wondering how great any music locker is? (as Adam G)
Oh I am quite positive he doesn't allow youtube. I wasn't trying to comment that in his particular case he should. I was just speaking more vaguely about the product in comparative to his situation.
Some places will always have everything locked down, that is fine with me. But in the areas that it's not, then it clearly is a major advantage.
Re: Still wondering how great any music locker is? (as Adam G)
Eric, Although the bandwidth is a potential concern.
I know myself and many others often just use youtube to play music we want on our phones or at work.(at least 20 youtube songs a day)(often the same ones, I at least try to keep the window open(multiple tabs) to keep cached. to prevent bandwidth burn)
A streamed mp3 is far far more efficient then restreaming the same youtube video everyday.
(untitled comment) (as Adam G)
Random thoughtS:
My first thought after hearing google music locker was how will they prove that you own or don't legally own the music?
How will they regulate someone making a dummy account and sharing it with their friends?
Would they prevent multiple users not be able to stream simultaneously, even though some couples/married share 1 email, and only purchase their music once.
lol @ we promise to take down music, as if you could ever know who, statement.
(untitled comment) (as Adam G)
Did I give you permission to give people directions to my restaurant?
I don't care if I got more business! Next time, call us for permission before you give directions!
(untitled comment) (as Adam G)
I would be interested to know the statistics of TSA agents ever actually finding anything using this method?
I would also like to see the same statistics comparing what they do find, to actual threat based things. I.e. I don't care if someone had a 1oz too large toothpaste bottle in their pocket or a misc overzealous rule violation.
Pocket knives, scissors, explosives.
I also don't care about them finding drugs through this method.
I personally feel like it only adds inconvenience to everyone, and protects no one. Though I understand the airlines desire to look "proactive" in security and the public image of trying to be "safe" even if their methods are completely misguided and useless. Too bad we didn't have a choice. "Safe airline" and "dangerous airline" whereas safe airline is current standards, and dangerous one did very minimal intrusion.
(untitled comment) (as Adam G)
Although it was probably said in another comment, I still feel I need to re state the following.
I could clearly understand the need to define a photocopier. The lawyer could have tried to be more creative in such that he could use other terms such as Copy Machine, Copier, Xerox, or as he eventually did, describe the function of the device.
Because in the modern world, technically couldn't a cell phone be called a copymachine? You can take a photo of something and then wirelessly print it to a printer.
As someone who works with a lot of various technical fields. There is a constant confusion over what is common acronyms and other technical slang. I think its short sighted of the lawyer simply because he is so familiar with a term that he deemed it as "common language."
The lawyer constantly tried to push the same angle, repeatedly, instead of trying to approach the question at different perspectives and terminology.
Also, it could potentially be that a photocopier only copies photos and a document copier only copies documents.
I've met people who believed they needed to buy the Office Max's CDs with the label printed "Music CDs" to make a music CD and they would argue that a regular any CD wouldn't work.
(untitled comment) (as Adam G)
I think one thing that although short term, is easily overlooked.
Lets say Company A has 20 employees from various departments, all with their own individual twitter/blog/facebook/etc... pages. The company links to them, as they are to post relevant stuff about things they are working on, and other misc stuff, they are free to do what they want, with only minimum guidance.
They all build followers(of different types)
Sure company A will be mad with employee Bob leaves, taking his twitter account with 50,000 followers.
But maybe, Company B will be THAT much happier to have Employee Bob? Because now Bobs new company can take advantage of it.
Perhaps in the future, we will have as part of a resume, how many youtube or twitter followers we have in our professional lives?
It wouldn't be a requirement for every job, but it could definitely be considered an added perk.
It will make a few companies a bit disgruntled in the beginning. But I think overall in the long run, it'll be beneficial for everyone. Even if some companies don't ever see it that way.
(untitled comment) (as Adam G)
I cant find the edit button and I swear I spaced that stuff out. I don't know why its a giant wall of text :(
(untitled comment) (as Adam G)
Although I think class rooms can function without cellphones. One must recognition and embrace technology as it comes because it could potentially accelerate education in methods we can not fully see. As some of the education and learning topics at ted have discussed previously. I would like to reiterate some points. When kids are interested in something, learning happens at an exponentially increased rate. Let me run through a few of my personal thoughts and uses that cell phones could be used for. Although some schools/colleges have anonymous multiple choice answer things for large class room public debates each student is given a device where they can press A, B, C, or D on it and when the teacher asks a question, they can take short polls and find out quick answers on topics. These devices are expensive, limited, and cumbersone, and sometimes lost/forgotten. If all the kids in a class had cellphones they could text their teachers(with their lightning fast typing skills) A, B, C, or D for general questions. The students wouldn't know what others neccesarily always said and the teacher could more quickly gauge if all the students understand it, instead of the few outgoing loud ones. For example, Although VERY simple question, what is 24/6? A) 3, B)4, C)5, D)6 In old class room styles, 1 or 2 students may say what the answer is, but now the teacher could see on their computer/display that 85% of kids got it right. Take this a step further, and have free response answers What do you guys think of ________? Kids could respond, teacher could see on their private computer the answers and choose to show answers(on projector but names of student anonymous) The reason the teacher chooses is to prevent random name calling or inappropriate things from showing up on the screen. A lot of students I think would like to answer but are too shy to speak out, or there is limited time to hear from all students but a teacher could quickly pick out 2-3 better ones from a read list, instead of a listened list. Same concept applies to questions in class, a lot of students may feel insecure about asking a question. Since cellphones would be permitted, youd have to establish some rules like (if your phone rings or makes noise you can get in trouble, or lose points, sent to principal, etc...) It could incorporate more student participation. By requiring students to respond to at least 75% of questions in a semester. Obviously the class won't have a ton of these every class, but the few that occur. The major downside to this are Does this reinforce an ever growing less face to face social society by allowing students to rely and depend on texts/phones more? Instead of fixing the root problems? What about students who don't have cell phones? texting?
(untitled comment) (as Adam G)
I have been a long time follower of techdirt and I personally feel the lengths/depths of your articles are the perfect length for me. Where I can skim over and get the gist of what I want. If I am interested, I read the whole thing. If I still want more there is usually links/sources/etc... where I can just find out more on my own and create my own decisions and opinions with an excellent jump start and intelligent observations from Mike.
I wouldn't be opposed to an occasional long article but I don't think it should be a regular thing, but that also depends upon the definition of how long is a long article and how much does it take away from the other short articles.
Also, I love the fact that there are so many updates each day. Not everyone is super interesting for me personally but I tend to lose interest in sites if I check back semi often and have no updates. But I feel like techdirt is a heartbeat of technology news and insight.