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• On the post: Study Indicates College Textbook Piracy Is On The Rise, But Fails To Call Out Publishers For Skyrocketing Prices

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2014 @ 11:39am

  I started pirating textbooks after my freshman year after I bought a $200 textbook that was "required" for a course and then ended up never even opening it.
  
  It gets harder every year though, as it's harder to find higher level textbook scans since they're used less. This year I was lucky in finding torrents for the current edition for all 4 of the textbooks I needed. But apparently one of my teachers allowed open textbook exams but we couldn't use e-books or print outs. Thakfully I found a paperback international copy for only $30.
  
  If I had bought my textbooks at U.S. prices it would've cost me roughly $550, about a quarter of what I already pay for tuition. Instead I only spent $30. You can see the appeal of piracy now, yes?

• On the post: FCC's Tom Wheeler Admits There Isn't Really Broadband Competition

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2014 @ 03:24pm

  Why is the upstream so slow in the presentation? and why does the upstream get slower from the 4Mbps down to the 10Mbps down?

• On the post: Square Enix Nixes 3 Years Of Fan Translation Work On PSP, Despite Not Releasing English Version For PSP

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2014 @ 09:37pm

  Kinda sad when you compare it to games like Dangan Ronpa, also for the PSP/Vita, which attributes much of it's English success from the Somethingawful forums and other's "Let's Play" that translated the entire game.
  
  In fact it could be argued the large English fan base that resulted from these fan translations are what convinced Dangan Ronpa's developers to create an English port of the now 4 year old game earlier this year.

• On the post: DC Comics Refuses To Let Superman Logo Adorn The Headstone Of A Young Child Who Was Starved To Death [Updated]

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2014 @ 10:30am

  Re: Updated

  Didn't take them long did it?

• On the post: DailyDirt: What Will Humanity's Legacy Be?

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2014 @ 03:35am

  10,000 year clock

  Reminds me of the 10,000 year clock from the Long Now foundation. Just recently read up on that and it's pretty neat.

• On the post: Is Nvidia Playing Fair With Their New Development Tools?

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 31 May, 2014 @ 02:27am

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  The problem isn't Nvidia keeping their code secret, it's that GameWorks platform prevents developers who use it from getting any feedback from AMD. Pretty much barring AMD from even helping out with code that has nothing to do with Nvidia's GameWorks.

• On the post: Is Nvidia Playing Fair With Their New Development Tools?

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 31 May, 2014 @ 02:33am

  Damn that pisses me off. Just recently got a new AMD card! Nvidia taking a piss on AMD users sure as hell isn't winning them any points on me buying a new card of theirs.

• On the post: Nintendo Has A Plan To Share Ad Revenue With YouTubers, But Nobody's Happy About It

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 28 May, 2014 @ 03:16pm

  Shouldn't the title read: "Nintendo has a plan to steal a chunk of revenue from youTubers, who the hell thought this was a good idea?"

• On the post: Google Fiber: You Know How Comcast Is Making Netflix Pay Extra? We Don't Do That Kind Of Crap

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 22 May, 2014 @ 07:39pm

  Re: Re: Re: some BS from AT&T on Google Fiber

  Well he was wrong. And that's that.

• On the post: Commander Hadfield's Amazing Cover Of David Bowie's Space Oddity Disappears Today, Thanks To Copyright

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 13 May, 2014 @ 08:54pm

  Re: "muh freedoms"

  Freedom for the spacenoids!
  
  Seig Zeon! Seig Zeon!

• On the post: Commander Hadfield's Amazing Cover Of David Bowie's Space Oddity Disappears Today, Thanks To Copyright

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 13 May, 2014 @ 02:12pm

  Thanks for the heads up! The video is now safely archived on my computer for future viewing!

• On the post: Head-In-Sand Approach: White House Bans Current & Former Intelligence Staff From Discussing Any Media Leaks

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 09 May, 2014 @ 11:50am

  Wait... so how do they have authority to tell former federal employees what to do?
  
  Do you have to sign some binding contract to do whatever the White House says before they let you quit?

• On the post: Tone Of Comments Affects Perception Of Online Article's Content

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2014 @ 09:26pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  That's what the wifi is fore ;)

• On the post: Tone Of Comments Affects Perception Of Online Article's Content

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2014 @ 04:28pm

  Bullshit, I don't believe a word of it.

• On the post: YouTube Finally Admits It Totally Screwed Up Rolling Out ContentID To Multi-Channel Networks; Trying To Improve Tools

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2014 @ 10:55am

  Regardless of what they do for MCNs, ContentID is still a huge pain in the ass for the rest of us not in MCNs. ContentID is by principle biased towards rights holders, and always will be, regardless of any "improvements" they make to ContentID.

• On the post: Yahoo UK Moves To Dublin To Escape Surveillance; UK Asks It To Stay… For The Spies

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2014 @ 06:59am

  Does this mean Tumblr is safe from spies now?

• On the post: Kid Bullied For My Little Pony Backpack Told Not To Bring It To School Anymore

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2014 @ 09:24am

  Re: Response to: Watchit on Mar 19th, 2014 @ 4:37pm

  ah, but you must admit, it's nice that the boy in question was not bashed, no? I'm glad for that.

• On the post: Kid Bullied For My Little Pony Backpack Told Not To Bring It To School Anymore

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2014 @ 09:22am

  Re: Re:

  she* not he, but I get your point yes.

• On the post: Kid Bullied For My Little Pony Backpack Told Not To Bring It To School Anymore

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2014 @ 09:20am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  oh yeah, of course I have. But, you must admit, We Love Fine is not the norm.

• On the post: Turkish Prime Minister Bans Twitter… Turkish People Turn Around And Ban The Ban

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2014 @ 09:30am

  It's really sad seeing this. Turkey was such an open country last I visited...

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