Keep in mind, they were also working on XBox 360 and Zune at the same time they were working on Vista. I'm not aware of any other *major* projects they were working on while working on Windows 7. Also, Windows 7 is mostly just an upgrade to Vista, while Vista has a lot of changes under the hood compared to XP.
Of course, to use snow leopard you have to have a mac, but let's not let the facts get in the way.
I do agree though that the prices are still too high. I'd say starting at $50 for home version and tacking on an extra $50 for each higher version would be about right.
In fact, the opposite may actually be true. If his usage drops to where he uses less power than he generates, he's going to be selling some back to the power company that month, and I'd be surprised if they pay the same amount as what they sell it for. Also, he's going to be saving less if he has less months where he hits the peak rate - quite a bit less actually.
Taking all that into account, there's no way he's actually going to get a positive ROI on it anywhere near as soon as he thinks. Possibly not even in the warranty period (30 years).
Maybe if someone were living in an area with both lots of sunlight and high energy costs it would be a good investment. Otherwise, not so much.
Normally I'd be more inclined to agree with you, but I think the main problem here for Blakey is that he didn't sign up to help test a beta and report bugs. He downloaded something that was supposed to be a complete working package, ready for anyone to use. Whether it is free or open source or not is really irrelevant. If it's still a beta (and it sounds like it is) then it should be posted as such.
So even though it takes only 45-50% of the popular vote to vote in a president, everyone else in that country also deserves everything bad that presidents brings about? And even though we only get to vote for the congress representatives for our own states, we still deserve everything bad brought on by representatives from all other states?
I think the term we're looking for here is "tyranny of the majority". Except in many cases it's not even the majority.
I personally didn't vote for either Bush or Obama. Not to say that my choice would have done better, but it really doesn't matter because I still have to put up with whatever garbage they throw on me regardless. My other choice is to raise a lot of money and move somewhere else, where I can put up with the same or worse.
I'm sure the marketing department will look at it that way too./sarcasm
They're always going to do what they think sells best, period. And the video game market is speaking louder than it ever has before: right now, targeting video games at "casual" players sells.
Very few "hardcore" players are going to just not buy a game because it has a "demo" mode like this, but many more "casual" players will buy it, because they know the whole game can be fun and not cause undue frustration. That is the whole point of videogames you know: fun. For some, an extreme challenge is fun. For others, it's not.
Until they start living up to their end of the copyright agreement, I don't give a fucking rat's ass what they have to say. That means putting copyrighted works into the public domain while they're still relevant, valuable, AND profitable. For most entertainment items, that would mean about 5 years or less.
They're also not helping themselves with the bullshit clips on DVDs claiming that downloading is stealing.
Word to the media distributors: when you play fair, I'll play fair. Until then, go sodomize yourselves with a retractable baton. And make sure to use a good quality one so it doesn't break during use.
Who says metered service is a bad thing? If they actually charged a fair rate, most (pulling a number out of my ass I'd guess greater than 95%) of broadband users would pay significantly less than they do now, and few if any would pay more. All their yelling about some people using too much is mostly a lot of smoke and mirrors and handwaving, in an attempt to increase the already obscene profits they rake in. If it were a metered utility, they would be forced to charge a more fair price almost by default, because it would be much much harder to hide just how much their costs per megabyte are versus what they charge (on average) per megabyte.
Yeah, at first I was like "cool, I might actually get to see some other people that play too!" and then I was like "oh wait, it's in Germany, nevermind". But now you're telling me it's like the crap they use to make necklaces and rings and shit? Fuck that, who needs that?
They're also working on Lego Universe. (They also list three other "current projects" on their site, but it seems that info may be outdated, as they still list Auto Assault which IIRC has already gone belly-up.)
However, as I know next to nothing about the company besides what I found in a quick 5-minute perusal of their site, could you tell me why exactly that they're not "indie"?
Those are the games that we know of. Just because we haven't heard about it doesn't mean it ain't happening. Take Blizzard for example. We know that they're working on SC2 and Diablo 3 right now. But they've also been working on an original-IP MMO that we just found out about in the last few weeks. Do you really think they hadn't been working on that for quite a while before they gave us this tiny bit of info? I'd put money on it that they've got at least another half a dozen more projects that we know nothing about. Same thing for any other developer that can be legitimately considered "big". Some of the projects may never be finished and released; some may not be for 5 years. But they're working on them.
Yeah, taken completely literally that is exactly what "indie" would be. However as it is generally used, I think that would only be part of it. The other part is the size of the developing company. So here is what I'd say is probably the simplest way to define "indie" as it is generally used:
1. The developer does the work on his own dime.
2. The developer is small enough that they only work on one or two games at a time.
The difference though is that you can actually find scientific evidence that would seem to indicate some kind of big bang event. (Which probably wasn't so much a "big bang" as just a sudden rapid expansion of the universe.)
Also, the big bang and "in the beginning was..." try to explain two different things. They are not mutually exclusive. Taking Genesis literally actually allows for a "big bang" event (initiated by God). "In the beginning" would be the explanation of what was before the big bang.
Yes, because having someone inflict physical pain and/or discomfort on you is exactly the same thing as not being able to do what you want in a video game this very second.
Honestly, it doesn't matter much any more. Except for certain things like audio and video ripping/encoding, 3D design rendering, etc., most any modern dual-core CPU will do whatever a home user needs just fine. Yes, even for gaming. I'm running a socket AM2 Athlon 5600+ and it's not been a bottleneck yet. My video card could stand to be upgraded for some games though.
So your method of choosing a CPU makes more sense than any other right now.
Yeah, and who would ever want or need to do homework at a place where there's no computer available? Seriously, spending time outside on a nice day is so overrated.
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how is that ANY different than your average MMO player?
how is that ANY different than your average lame troll post?
See the difference between our two questions is that mine is an actual rhetorical question, while yours is simply a troll masquerading as rhetoric.
Keep in mind, they were also working on XBox 360 and Zune at the same time they were working on Vista. I'm not aware of any other *major* projects they were working on while working on Windows 7. Also, Windows 7 is mostly just an upgrade to Vista, while Vista has a lot of changes under the hood compared to XP.
Of course, to use snow leopard you have to have a mac, but let's not let the facts get in the way.
I do agree though that the prices are still too high. I'd say starting at $50 for home version and tacking on an extra $50 for each higher version would be about right.
Also, that "Whoosh" sound you heard was neither superman nor an airplane.
In fact, the opposite may actually be true. If his usage drops to where he uses less power than he generates, he's going to be selling some back to the power company that month, and I'd be surprised if they pay the same amount as what they sell it for. Also, he's going to be saving less if he has less months where he hits the peak rate - quite a bit less actually.
Taking all that into account, there's no way he's actually going to get a positive ROI on it anywhere near as soon as he thinks. Possibly not even in the warranty period (30 years).
Maybe if someone were living in an area with both lots of sunlight and high energy costs it would be a good investment. Otherwise, not so much.
Normally I'd be more inclined to agree with you, but I think the main problem here for Blakey is that he didn't sign up to help test a beta and report bugs. He downloaded something that was supposed to be a complete working package, ready for anyone to use. Whether it is free or open source or not is really irrelevant. If it's still a beta (and it sounds like it is) then it should be posted as such.
So even though it takes only 45-50% of the popular vote to vote in a president, everyone else in that country also deserves everything bad that presidents brings about? And even though we only get to vote for the congress representatives for our own states, we still deserve everything bad brought on by representatives from all other states?
I think the term we're looking for here is "tyranny of the majority". Except in many cases it's not even the majority.
I personally didn't vote for either Bush or Obama. Not to say that my choice would have done better, but it really doesn't matter because I still have to put up with whatever garbage they throw on me regardless. My other choice is to raise a lot of money and move somewhere else, where I can put up with the same or worse.
I'm sure the marketing department will look at it that way too. /sarcasm
They're always going to do what they think sells best, period. And the video game market is speaking louder than it ever has before: right now, targeting video games at "casual" players sells.
No.
It's "no sale left unsold".
Very few "hardcore" players are going to just not buy a game because it has a "demo" mode like this, but many more "casual" players will buy it, because they know the whole game can be fun and not cause undue frustration. That is the whole point of videogames you know: fun. For some, an extreme challenge is fun. For others, it's not.
and an old beast as IE6 probably an utter beast at this point.
I probably would've gone with something else, but hey, cow is fine too.
Yeah, but that's because they had all their best people working on Vista at the time.
No, it's definitely about getting the facts. Just not all of the facts.
Until they start living up to their end of the copyright agreement, I don't give a fucking rat's ass what they have to say. That means putting copyrighted works into the public domain while they're still relevant, valuable, AND profitable. For most entertainment items, that would mean about 5 years or less.
They're also not helping themselves with the bullshit clips on DVDs claiming that downloading is stealing.
Word to the media distributors: when you play fair, I'll play fair. Until then, go sodomize yourselves with a retractable baton. And make sure to use a good quality one so it doesn't break during use.
Who says metered service is a bad thing? If they actually charged a fair rate, most (pulling a number out of my ass I'd guess greater than 95%) of broadband users would pay significantly less than they do now, and few if any would pay more. All their yelling about some people using too much is mostly a lot of smoke and mirrors and handwaving, in an attempt to increase the already obscene profits they rake in. If it were a metered utility, they would be forced to charge a more fair price almost by default, because it would be much much harder to hide just how much their costs per megabyte are versus what they charge (on average) per megabyte.
Yeah, at first I was like "cool, I might actually get to see some other people that play too!" and then I was like "oh wait, it's in Germany, nevermind". But now you're telling me it's like the crap they use to make necklaces and rings and shit? Fuck that, who needs that?
They're also working on Lego Universe. (They also list three other "current projects" on their site, but it seems that info may be outdated, as they still list Auto Assault which IIRC has already gone belly-up.)
http://www.netdevil.com/games/lego.php
However, as I know next to nothing about the company besides what I found in a quick 5-minute perusal of their site, could you tell me why exactly that they're not "indie"?
Those are the games that we know of. Just because we haven't heard about it doesn't mean it ain't happening. Take Blizzard for example. We know that they're working on SC2 and Diablo 3 right now. But they've also been working on an original-IP MMO that we just found out about in the last few weeks. Do you really think they hadn't been working on that for quite a while before they gave us this tiny bit of info? I'd put money on it that they've got at least another half a dozen more projects that we know nothing about. Same thing for any other developer that can be legitimately considered "big". Some of the projects may never be finished and released; some may not be for 5 years. But they're working on them.
Yeah, taken completely literally that is exactly what "indie" would be. However as it is generally used, I think that would only be part of it. The other part is the size of the developing company. So here is what I'd say is probably the simplest way to define "indie" as it is generally used:
1. The developer does the work on his own dime.
2. The developer is small enough that they only work on one or two games at a time.
The difference though is that you can actually find scientific evidence that would seem to indicate some kind of big bang event. (Which probably wasn't so much a "big bang" as just a sudden rapid expansion of the universe.)
Also, the big bang and "in the beginning was..." try to explain two different things. They are not mutually exclusive. Taking Genesis literally actually allows for a "big bang" event (initiated by God). "In the beginning" would be the explanation of what was before the big bang.
It sounds like they're all out of bubblegum.
Yes, because having someone inflict physical pain and/or discomfort on you is exactly the same thing as not being able to do what you want in a video game this very second.
I love summaries like this one. It's a great tool for figuring out who has poor reading comprehension and/or logic ability.
Honestly, it doesn't matter much any more. Except for certain things like audio and video ripping/encoding, 3D design rendering, etc., most any modern dual-core CPU will do whatever a home user needs just fine. Yes, even for gaming. I'm running a socket AM2 Athlon 5600+ and it's not been a bottleneck yet. My video card could stand to be upgraded for some games though.
So your method of choosing a CPU makes more sense than any other right now.
Yeah, and who would ever want or need to do homework at a place where there's no computer available? Seriously, spending time outside on a nice day is so overrated.
You found a job that lets you play MMOs at work?