If Rupert Murdock sells you a portable reader, you will be stuck with only being able to read news his agency's put out. I don't care as much about the coping or printing of it, and I doubt they would either. But the fact that your stuck with a device that will only feed you certain news is what I was using as a hardware DRM.
Anything other then their own device distributing their news, and they end up back in the same boat with the internet. People getting around whatever subscription or ad-based model they have by using devices that just clip it all out.
Once you have a happy DRM'd subscription base, you can fire your good expensive writers and hire on new sellouts who work for either ad-money or next to nothing. The masses won't know the diff, they are paying a monthly fee, and news pops up on their device everyday.
Doesn't matter if its good or not. Its news right? And besides, you own the device, and already have it linked to your bank account in a way that you never even see that monthly transaction happen. Seems almost free.
Wish I had mod points for you, and I wish slashdot would retitle this article. Sucks that all day people are going to be talking about that headline they saw on slashdot. I too thought it was a flop for them until i read comments and also found that same link you did and actually you know, RTFA to find out, this was their timeline for the campaign. heh, BAD SLASHDOT! BAD!
You hit my two all time favs! LoRD and Tradewars! I spent many many nights in Tradewars micromanaging dozens of planets and securing my string of sectors.
LoRD really was a great game! On the Local BBS I used to haunt I pulled 1st place 3 seasons in a row. Though you really could only play for about 15 - 20 minutes a day, then you were out of turns.
But it worked out, the BBS had Tele-Arena, MajorMUD, and Trade Wars. Them was the good ol' days..
Don't drugs like Adderall trip amphetamine use? And since people are prescribed that on a daily basis, wouldn't that account for the daily use of meth?
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If Rupert Murdock sells you a portable reader, you will be stuck with only being able to read news his agency's put out. I don't care as much about the coping or printing of it, and I doubt they would either. But the fact that your stuck with a device that will only feed you certain news is what I was using as a hardware DRM.
Anything other then their own device distributing their news, and they end up back in the same boat with the internet. People getting around whatever subscription or ad-based model they have by using devices that just clip it all out.
Once you have a happy DRM'd subscription base, you can fire your good expensive writers and hire on new sellouts who work for either ad-money or next to nothing. The masses won't know the diff, they are paying a monthly fee, and news pops up on their device everyday.
Doesn't matter if its good or not. Its news right? And besides, you own the device, and already have it linked to your bank account in a way that you never even see that monthly transaction happen. Seems almost free.
You have a more powerful Flux Capacitor? Mine only needs 3.21 Jigawatts to run.
Wish I had mod points for you, and I wish slashdot would retitle this article. Sucks that all day people are going to be talking about that headline they saw on slashdot. I too thought it was a flop for them until i read comments and also found that same link you did and actually you know, RTFA to find out, this was their timeline for the campaign. heh, BAD SLASHDOT! BAD!
You hit my two all time favs! LoRD and Tradewars! I spent many many nights in Tradewars micromanaging dozens of planets and securing my string of sectors.
LoRD really was a great game! On the Local BBS I used to haunt I pulled 1st place 3 seasons in a row. Though you really could only play for about 15 - 20 minutes a day, then you were out of turns.
But it worked out, the BBS had Tele-Arena, MajorMUD, and Trade Wars. Them was the good ol' days..
Don't drugs like Adderall trip amphetamine use? And since people are prescribed that on a daily basis, wouldn't that account for the daily use of meth?