Hardly an apples to apples comparison to the 2 titles i mentioned. Im more then willing to pay full price on games im really interested in. The super cheap games i grab off steam are transactions that would not have happened otherwise. I wouldnt have bought Rage at even $10, but $5 makes it worth it if for nothing else then to check out the artwork in the game. That $5 was free money the devs would have otherwise never received. Thats being a cheapskate?
Why? If something happens in public, it happened, and trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle can only be done through evil means. Its life and its not always fair, but dont blind the world for your vanity.
There are no sales on console that come anywhere near Steam Sales. Its not even close. Rage for $5 on Xbox360, never happening. Sleeping Dogs for $16, forget it Console's purpose is to establish a locked in fanbase, and exploit them heavily and to always keep the premium facade up. You will NEVER see sales on console like they have on Steam because Microsoft/Sony wont allow it.
A. Hes not a good business man, but a great Dr. He is also 70+ years old and his practice is winding down. I have offered help with SEO etc, but hes not interested.
B. He has no budget, no writes offs, pro-bono accountant (/wrists)
C. He has an office with a business connection, i plan on moving the device to the business connection when/if i take it live. As of now, the only person hitting the site at his house is me.
D. I realize i could get a better deal on hosting, but keep in mind all my work on this is pro-bono and I went with something quick and dirty.
E. The whole idea was to prove it could be done for our use-case, was never about the money in and of itself.
I would rather not, sorry. I havent done any security review at all, yet. Its a simple static site with several pages, HTML only, nothing dynamic at all. IM using lighttpd as the webserver.
'quite well' is a bit of an overstatement. It plays videos wonderfully, but the menu system is laggy as hell. They would be better served stripping out a ton of stuff and just offering up a video player interface. Make it super simple, like putting in a DVD.
I deployed one as a webserver at my in-laws. My father-in-law is a psychologist with a small but lucrative client base. He currently has a website running on a host from netsol @ $140/year. I looked at his metrics and he gets a hit a day if hes lucky. I dropped his website on the raspberry pi and am serving it from his house under a different URL. If the site holds up after a year, ill move the domain over to his house server and save $140/year. While not a killer app, it exposes a real world use case. I think that you wont find a 'killer app', but rather a huge range of special use cases.
I was just theorizing, but in my head i imagined the consumer would have a special 'branded' drive that goes specifically to the console. This solves the no optical drive/capped bandwidth problem. Im not saying its 100% practical, or even feasible, but it COULD work. Gamestop becomes a physical CDN cache basically.
Biggest non MMO PC game I have seen yet is Max Payne 3 at 30 GB, RAGE is second at 21 GB. Most games are 7-8 GB, roughly the size of a dual layer DVD that Xbox games are made on.
With USB 3 and cheap flash, we could see scenarios where you go into "Future GameStore" with your 128-512 GB USB 3.0 stick you bought for $20 and have your game loaded on it at 90MB/sec. Take it home, load onto consoles, authenticate, play.
This is the problem. If you ignore copyright, digital copies are VASTLY superior in almost any metric, including the ability to make a physical copy trivially.
Those days are coming. Dont you think an ancient Egyptian would look at modern newspaper as astonishing but hardly practical considering all the industrial-age tools needed, compared to hand-made papyrus.
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Hardly an apples to apples comparison to the 2 titles i mentioned. Im more then willing to pay full price on games im really interested in. The super cheap games i grab off steam are transactions that would not have happened otherwise. I wouldnt have bought Rage at even $10, but $5 makes it worth it if for nothing else then to check out the artwork in the game. That $5 was free money the devs would have otherwise never received. Thats being a cheapskate?
Women dressing provocatively is why men rape them, amirite?
Why? If something happens in public, it happened, and trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle can only be done through evil means. Its life and its not always fair, but dont blind the world for your vanity.
The vast majority ARE culpable, either through action or inaction.
Upskirt you may have a point, but infrared? Fair game all day long.
You REALLY need understand intent better, and liberty.
There are no sales on console that come anywhere near Steam Sales. Its not even close. Rage for $5 on Xbox360, never happening. Sleeping Dogs for $16, forget it Console's purpose is to establish a locked in fanbase, and exploit them heavily and to always keep the premium facade up. You will NEVER see sales on console like they have on Steam because Microsoft/Sony wont allow it.
A. Hes not a good business man, but a great Dr. He is also 70+ years old and his practice is winding down. I have offered help with SEO etc, but hes not interested.
B. He has no budget, no writes offs, pro-bono accountant (/wrists)
C. He has an office with a business connection, i plan on moving the device to the business connection when/if i take it live. As of now, the only person hitting the site at his house is me.
D. I realize i could get a better deal on hosting, but keep in mind all my work on this is pro-bono and I went with something quick and dirty.
E. The whole idea was to prove it could be done for our use-case, was never about the money in and of itself.
F. Thank you for your insight.
I would rather not, sorry. I havent done any security review at all, yet. Its a simple static site with several pages, HTML only, nothing dynamic at all. IM using lighttpd as the webserver.
No points so i just want to thank you for posting this. Adafruit is really pushing education right now, I have great respect for that woman.
I use a Tenda $10 wifi adapter and it works great, although SSH drops off a lot faster then wired.
'quite well' is a bit of an overstatement. It plays videos wonderfully, but the menu system is laggy as hell. They would be better served stripping out a ton of stuff and just offering up a video player interface. Make it super simple, like putting in a DVD.
I deployed one as a webserver at my in-laws. My father-in-law is a psychologist with a small but lucrative client base. He currently has a website running on a host from netsol @ $140/year. I looked at his metrics and he gets a hit a day if hes lucky. I dropped his website on the raspberry pi and am serving it from his house under a different URL. If the site holds up after a year, ill move the domain over to his house server and save $140/year. While not a killer app, it exposes a real world use case. I think that you wont find a 'killer app', but rather a huge range of special use cases.
Be careful who you dehumanize, for we may decide next it is you who is not human.
The hardware to run XP would cost FAR less then the CS2 software itself. Also, virtual machines.
That doesnt stop them from piling on punishments ex post facto to people convicted of sexual crimes.
I was just theorizing, but in my head i imagined the consumer would have a special 'branded' drive that goes specifically to the console. This solves the no optical drive/capped bandwidth problem. Im not saying its 100% practical, or even feasible, but it COULD work. Gamestop becomes a physical CDN cache basically.
http://www.livescience.com/26017-kilogram-gained-weight.html Not an argument, just happened to be the next article i came across.
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Sure they do, right until you leave sea level. After that you need to start compensating.
Biggest non MMO PC game I have seen yet is Max Payne 3 at 30 GB, RAGE is second at 21 GB. Most games are 7-8 GB, roughly the size of a dual layer DVD that Xbox games are made on.
With USB 3 and cheap flash, we could see scenarios where you go into "Future GameStore" with your 128-512 GB USB 3.0 stick you bought for $20 and have your game loaded on it at 90MB/sec. Take it home, load onto consoles, authenticate, play.
This is the problem. If you ignore copyright, digital copies are VASTLY superior in almost any metric, including the ability to make a physical copy trivially.
Those days are coming. Dont you think an ancient Egyptian would look at modern newspaper as astonishing but hardly practical considering all the industrial-age tools needed, compared to hand-made papyrus.
Now you are starting to get it. Each man is a kingdom unto himself.
Ignore copyright. Also, Project Gutenberg has more books then you can read in a lifetime.