Commodities like food and transportation has already reached its base point - they are sold at just barely above material cost - sometimes below when subsidized by outside sources such as the government. The profit margin is miniscule, which is part of why food costs the same and farmers are making such piss-poor money compared to 10 years ago, and why auto makers are constantly getting bailed out.
If the video game industry charged just over cost of programmer time, API licensing, and distribution costs, we'd be left with a $10 game, online distro only. Hm, it's almost like it has beendone before.
In an open source community where you don't usually pay the devs and digital distribution is free, you can theoretically create full commercial products for free. Look at OpenOffice. Do you think they're making money like Microsoft? Of course not.
Right, so Skyrim cost him $91.05 USD approximately, and you're calling HIM a troll? That's fucking ridiculous.
If it were $60AUD, which is about $62USD - about what the game cost here in the states, that would be a fair price. $90 is WAY too much. Do they just not check the currency converter before setting huge prices?
They will gouge anyone, anywhere they can. This is how the big development houses operate, this is how they profit, this is why we pirate. He is not trolling, he is stating an unfortunate fact.
As a professional video game developer on the same platforms, I have to ask: why are you charging more? The cost of bringing games like this to the market has plummeted for large dev houses compared to their retail cost. Their labor is at a fixed rate and has an easy transition to existing properties like this, leaving just content development and level planning for a "new" rehashed game from one of their franchises.
If they were rewriting the graphics and physics engine each time, I would believe it and say it's a fair price - those parts of a game are a lot of work when done from scratch. However, I would guess they're just using Havok or Unreal or something of that nature instead, which just costs them a small licensing fee and not a shit-ton of programmer time. That alone should knock some of the game price off.
They have a subsidized online subscription service. On top of the already-too-expensive game purchase, they want you to pay a 'premium fee' to play online? Hell no. You get one or the other, trying to collect on both is far too greedy and people just aren't going to buy your steaming pile of rehashed done-and-done-again shit.
I still play Counterstrike / Condition Zero / Day of Defeat / HL2 Deathmatch which ran me about $10 years and years ago. Those are some rock-solid classic shooters, and I find the community supports them even more now that the gawkers and "ooh, new shiny" players have moved on to other games.
EA is just in this for money - don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They don't have their staff or customers' best interests in mind, and they never will. Don't believe the hype, and don't feed the trolls.
My thought is: There are already so many better online shooters that aren't infested with mouthbreathing numpty jackasses, why would I pay more for the one that is?
Who says it has overtaken anything? For who? Where I code, we all use good 'ol C++. No matter how many times we tried to adopt Obj-C it just failed. Unless we wanted to write an iPad/iPhone app. Is this actually posted by an Apple shill? That would make more sense to me.
I have never found a non-Apple task that works better in Obj-C than a C/C++ setup.
What is this future tense bullshit? They already do. If they didn't spy on you, how would they know what you were browsing/downloading to issue the 'strikes' now available to them?
They also have an RSA key, which is super secure at 4096-bit...except they include the raw key in a compiled library with the software. Gee, let's see how long it takes me to find this key with my trusty decompiler and a good CS education.
To guarantee the immutability of the data, IP, date and time is signed with a private 4096 bit RSA key. The RSA key is included internally in the IPTRACKER program using a precompiled library and cannot be read or used elsewhere.
Challenge accepted. Now where do I pirate IPTRACKER from?
That's all well and good, but you can't patent a bacon-wrapped fillet if the bacon and fillet have already been made by someone else. That is the point here.
Honestly, I'm surprised they didn't win the slide-lock case. As far as i can tell, they were the first company to have a broad distribution of phones that had that feature.
That being said, I'm glad they lost due to their recent success with other, more bullshit patent trolling, such as "Oh no, we patented a rounded rectangle with a single button, you can't make your phone like that."
Having never deleted a single email since starting to use GMail in 2004, I still don't use even a gig of storage. Not sure who would ever need the full 7.some gigs from GMail.
What does a prefecture on the northeast coast of Japan have to do with China's nuclear power ambitions? More posturing from world governments over nuclear power 'dangers'?
I hear people say "Oh, the nuclear disaster!" It's over. There is no disaster, and honestly there never was a nuclear disaster. The radiation is quite well-contained, and unless you live within a block or two of the plant, there really isn't any danger.
All of the stories about "Oh! Fukushima's reactor is DOOOOOOM!" are hyperbole, exaggerations, and outright lies by the media to milk one more story from a dead event. Japan's reaction of shutting down all reactors was nonsense as well - just some dumb politician overriding a scientist trying to persuade him not to do stupid things like shut down all nuclear power(which some of has since been restored to meet demand).
It looks like they took the guts of a 7" tablet, moved the touchscreen to a touchpad, added a crap keyboard and Win7 Embedded(lol), and sold it for as little as physically possible.
128MB ram is abysmal. You can't get anything done with that, and even my Firefox routinely goes above that by almost double when working with a lot of sites at once, or streaming video, or using any sort of complex web app.
I think a much better use of their time would be to remove videos that are blatantly detrimental to common knowledge, like factual statements about the existence of Nabiru, or pseudoscience claiming the end of the world, or 'cure AIDS by praying', various conspiracy theories, etc. These things give people false hope which they believe as fact because it is presented in a semi-professional manner. That is the REAL danger on YouTube.
Now I understand if it is regarding material on how to construct IEDs or similar things.
This, also, is protected speech under the first amendment. Even some questionable material should remain available. Picking and choosing what is acceptable and what is not is the first step on a slippery slope to tyranny and dictatorship.
Now if someone is doing something illegal on video, threatening illegal action, or inciting others to illegal action, then that should be removed. Saying "Go build one of these and throw it at a government building" should not be allowed. Simply showing HOW to build one should be perfectly acceptable.
For example, a tripwire-activated firecracker to scare your friend can be upscaled to a stick of dynamite for nefarious purposes. That does not mean nobody should be able to see the initial prank video.
The rest I completely agree with. Nobody is going to 'join the terrorist cause' because they saw someone shouting nonsense about the 'evil western powers'. The personal ideals videos are harmless except to my ears and opinion of the Human race.
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Commodities like food and transportation has already reached its base point - they are sold at just barely above material cost - sometimes below when subsidized by outside sources such as the government. The profit margin is miniscule, which is part of why food costs the same and farmers are making such piss-poor money compared to 10 years ago, and why auto makers are constantly getting bailed out.
If the video game industry charged just over cost of programmer time, API licensing, and distribution costs, we'd be left with a $10 game, online distro only. Hm, it's almost like it has been done before.
In an open source community where you don't usually pay the devs and digital distribution is free, you can theoretically create full commercial products for free. Look at OpenOffice. Do you think they're making money like Microsoft? Of course not.
Right, so Skyrim cost him $91.05 USD approximately, and you're calling HIM a troll? That's fucking ridiculous.
If it were $60AUD, which is about $62USD - about what the game cost here in the states, that would be a fair price. $90 is WAY too much. Do they just not check the currency converter before setting huge prices?
They will gouge anyone, anywhere they can. This is how the big development houses operate, this is how they profit, this is why we pirate. He is not trolling, he is stating an unfortunate fact.
I just unlocked the "Fabulous Fire" perk. Check it out, my tracers are rainbow-colored and my camo turned into assless chaps!
As a professional video game developer on the same platforms, I have to ask: why are you charging more? The cost of bringing games like this to the market has plummeted for large dev houses compared to their retail cost. Their labor is at a fixed rate and has an easy transition to existing properties like this, leaving just content development and level planning for a "new" rehashed game from one of their franchises.
If they were rewriting the graphics and physics engine each time, I would believe it and say it's a fair price - those parts of a game are a lot of work when done from scratch. However, I would guess they're just using Havok or Unreal or something of that nature instead, which just costs them a small licensing fee and not a shit-ton of programmer time. That alone should knock some of the game price off.
They have a subsidized online subscription service. On top of the already-too-expensive game purchase, they want you to pay a 'premium fee' to play online? Hell no. You get one or the other, trying to collect on both is far too greedy and people just aren't going to buy your steaming pile of rehashed done-and-done-again shit.
I still play Counterstrike / Condition Zero / Day of Defeat / HL2 Deathmatch which ran me about $10 years and years ago. Those are some rock-solid classic shooters, and I find the community supports them even more now that the gawkers and "ooh, new shiny" players have moved on to other games.
EA is just in this for money - don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They don't have their staff or customers' best interests in mind, and they never will. Don't believe the hype, and don't feed the trolls.
My thought is: There are already so many better online shooters that aren't infested with mouthbreathing numpty jackasses, why would I pay more for the one that is?
Once again, I blame this phenomenon squarely on the Higgs Boson.
Who says it has overtaken anything? For who? Where I code, we all use good 'ol C++. No matter how many times we tried to adopt Obj-C it just failed. Unless we wanted to write an iPad/iPhone app. Is this actually posted by an Apple shill? That would make more sense to me.
I have never found a non-Apple task that works better in Obj-C than a C/C++ setup.
What is this future tense bullshit? They already do. If they didn't spy on you, how would they know what you were browsing/downloading to issue the 'strikes' now available to them?
the cloud isn't always accessible.
I hate the concept of 'the cloud' as much as any legitimate developer, but...
as I write this on a cross-country train with no wifi, I would have to disagree with you.
They also have an RSA key, which is super secure at 4096-bit...except they include the raw key in a compiled library with the software. Gee, let's see how long it takes me to find this key with my trusty decompiler and a good CS education.
To guarantee the immutability of the data, IP, date and time is signed with a private 4096 bit RSA key. The RSA key is included internally in the IPTRACKER program using a precompiled library and cannot be read or used elsewhere.
Challenge accepted. Now where do I pirate IPTRACKER from?
That lawyer has only his clients' best interests in mind...said nobody ever.
Buy an iPhone. Try to use it for a month. I assure you that you will reverse your opinion of the hardware.
Don't worry, we'll wait. Go ahead.
That's all well and good, but you can't patent a bacon-wrapped fillet if the bacon and fillet have already been made by someone else. That is the point here.
Honestly, I'm surprised they didn't win the slide-lock case. As far as i can tell, they were the first company to have a broad distribution of phones that had that feature.
That being said, I'm glad they lost due to their recent success with other, more bullshit patent trolling, such as "Oh no, we patented a rounded rectangle with a single button, you can't make your phone like that."
Having never deleted a single email since starting to use GMail in 2004, I still don't use even a gig of storage. Not sure who would ever need the full 7.some gigs from GMail.
Fortunately, I show my 'no mac' popup not by browser but by OS.
http://www.geekpedia.com/code47_Detect-operating-system-from-user-agent-string.html
My site already pops up a "Why you shouldn't use Mac" div when you surf there with an OSX or iOS device.
Nazi faggots. The lot of them.
Real pirates have a main trunk line.
What does a prefecture on the northeast coast of Japan have to do with China's nuclear power ambitions? More posturing from world governments over nuclear power 'dangers'?
I hear people say "Oh, the nuclear disaster!" It's over. There is no disaster, and honestly there never was a nuclear disaster. The radiation is quite well-contained, and unless you live within a block or two of the plant, there really isn't any danger.
All of the stories about "Oh! Fukushima's reactor is DOOOOOOM!" are hyperbole, exaggerations, and outright lies by the media to milk one more story from a dead event. Japan's reaction of shutting down all reactors was nonsense as well - just some dumb politician overriding a scientist trying to persuade him not to do stupid things like shut down all nuclear power(which some of has since been restored to meet demand).
Well now they have the technology they need to make it...badass! After all, everything is better on an iPad, right? /sarcasm
Nobody would consider this heap a laptop.
It looks like they took the guts of a 7" tablet, moved the touchscreen to a touchpad, added a crap keyboard and Win7 Embedded(lol), and sold it for as little as physically possible.
128MB ram is abysmal. You can't get anything done with that, and even my Firefox routinely goes above that by almost double when working with a lot of sites at once, or streaming video, or using any sort of complex web app.
Good luck with that, bros. I'm not getting one.
Guess they didn't know that the cute kittens were secretly a distraction technique for the terrorist forces. Well played, sirs. Well played.
Terrorist: Blows up buildings and transportation.
Troll: Blows up chat rooms and forums (with nonsense)
I think a much better use of their time would be to remove videos that are blatantly detrimental to common knowledge, like factual statements about the existence of Nabiru, or pseudoscience claiming the end of the world, or 'cure AIDS by praying', various conspiracy theories, etc. These things give people false hope which they believe as fact because it is presented in a semi-professional manner. That is the REAL danger on YouTube.
Now I understand if it is regarding material on how to construct IEDs or similar things.
This, also, is protected speech under the first amendment. Even some questionable material should remain available. Picking and choosing what is acceptable and what is not is the first step on a slippery slope to tyranny and dictatorship.
Now if someone is doing something illegal on video, threatening illegal action, or inciting others to illegal action, then that should be removed. Saying "Go build one of these and throw it at a government building" should not be allowed. Simply showing HOW to build one should be perfectly acceptable.
For example, a tripwire-activated firecracker to scare your friend can be upscaled to a stick of dynamite for nefarious purposes. That does not mean nobody should be able to see the initial prank video.
The rest I completely agree with. Nobody is going to 'join the terrorist cause' because they saw someone shouting nonsense about the 'evil western powers'. The personal ideals videos are harmless except to my ears and opinion of the Human race.