"synchronizing episodes to a portable media device" is not present, you can do whatever you want right?
I don't think this seems like a patent for podcasting so much as a patent for sort of an all inclusive...thing.
I agree that it would be *nice* to be able to sell a digitally distributed game, but on the other hand, I personally don't give a hoot if I can't sell a game if I bought it for a discounted price. When I buy a $40 or $50 game through Steam for $20, I couldn't care less that I'll never be able to sell it short of selling my entire account. For me $20 is expendable. I drop that much on lunch for friends all the time.
Your number 2 point is the real catch though, as I know I'm screwed when Steam goes down. And it WILL go down someday.
The problem with having the same email address for 15 years is that the amount of spam you are subjected to grows and grows every year. I am fairly careful about what I stick my email address into and I still get a few hundred spam messages per day on my (3,4,5?) year old first gmail address.
I took a good look at my handwriting when I got into college, realized it was complete shit, and switched over to using all caps. Granted, it took about three weeks to adjust, but now as you said it is "perfectly legible and unambiguous."
I believe this package is aimed at people like myself, who think this is fucking SWEET no matter what. Of course, first I'll have to come up with $995...and a Camaro...hmm
The F-14 did the same thing when it was first deployed until Tom Cruise got ahold of it. Once he did it was arguably the best carrier-borne air superiority aircraft of all time.
But they have to pay for all the production, shipping, packing, etc... costs for a second copy of the game as well. So at the end of the day the net gain is more or less zero.
Unless they go through Steam or the like, in which case they just say "On sale NOW for $30!" Consumers get a massive discount, albeit with no chance of reselling their game. The developer gets their cut of the sale, and doesn't have to pay a dime for packing, shipping, etc.
This is what I love about Steam- there are frequently discounts and I never have to worry about not being able to install my games (until Valve goes out of business, hopefully in a long time).
I think they'd be quite happy to sell ten million copies on launch day for $5 a pop, seeing as how they aren't selling NEARLY one million copies for $50 a pop. Just my $0.02
To be honest, the point of traditional radio stations seems to me that you can listen to X genre in Y area. With internet radio, Y no longer matters, and for many stations like Pandora and Last.fm neither does X, as they offer many different genres. Why do we need a large station like last.fm alongside a smaller internet radio station? What can the small one offer that the larger cannot if they are both free? These aren't rhetorical questions- If anyone prefers a smaller station to a larger I'd like to know why.
Can anyone explain to me how the HIV model the article describes works? I have spent the last 15 minutes trying to make sense of it.
If more HIV infected women are out and about having sex, wouldn't that mean more men are getting infected, thereby spreading it to even more women? I simply fail to see how women being more promiscuous would slow the spread of HIV.
I can see it now:
Posted by JConnor on April 21, 2011, @08:45PM
Another Mechanical AI Made In LittleBigPlanet
John writes
"This new AI, playfully named Skynet, was created to help students in Africa reach for the sky and learn to play checkers. Support this effort by downloading the fun new application."
Now, I only pulled a B in Physics, but couldn't you fix the current surge with an inductor? I won't pretend to be an expert on circuits, but would that not fix the problem?
True...I wonder, then, how do portable CD players work? Anyone know?
Re:Asheron's Call already had this quest...
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I agree with you there, Sobrique. Not sure if you're American, but I am, and one of the fundamental issues I take with my culture is how violence, drugs, and language are all taken in stride, but woe be to whoever (whomever?) shows sexuality in a video game. Remember the uproar over Mass Effect's alleged "hardcore" sex scenes? The media jumped all over it just based on these rumors, while in reality there is just a bit of ass shown in the game. Never mind the hundreds of people you have the option of killing. Don't like the people in the Feros colony? Kill them all as soon as you get the chance!
In The Great Gatsby, there's one scene where the woman (I've forgotten her name) gets hit by a car, and the book details one of her naked breasts halfway torn off and flapping in the wind. This is considered an art form. In games, ANY mention of sexuality is immediately torn to shreds by the media.
I play games for the story, and hence I consider my games a form of entertainment [like movies, books, etc], not simply a toy. I guess my point is, moral issues should carry the same weight in any entertainment medium.
Yes, this is definitely a concern with any optical drive.
Think about it. When you spin up a gyroscope, it will resist changes in it's orientation. Now, as far as I can tell, a spinning disc in a drive will act like said gyroscope. When you tilt it over, the disc will resist and pop out of the disc-gnomes' hands.
My opinion is, Microsoft SHOULD have put in the little bumpers TFA talked about regardless of the cost, but since the manual clearly states the console should not be turned around while playing a disc, the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of the users.
Not to take a dump all over your argument or anything, but if you could afford to buy a house and a new car when you graduated, why not spend the money on an ivy league (or similar) education?
I'm sure you had a great time at college, but many companies will offer a graduate of a big name college a job over other similarly qualified applicants. For example, as a sophomore I have an internship at a software company in Bozeman, and got offered another at the NAVSEA Warfare Center in Newport.
Since I switched majors, I'll get to go to S. America one summer and study geological formations as part of a required field course. I could also do a couple weeks in the SHOALS Marine Lab, or maybe go out on a ship and do some research.
My point is, there are a ton of great opportunities at expensive schools, and if you can afford them (i.e. get mad scholarships) I see no reason not to take advantage.
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I hear girls like smart men. Now intellectualism can be combined with everyone's favorite pastime, video games-- bonus!!
"synchronizing episodes to a portable media device" is not present, you can do whatever you want right?
I don't think this seems like a patent for podcasting so much as a patent for sort of an all inclusive...thing.
I agree that it would be *nice* to be able to sell a digitally distributed game, but on the other hand, I personally don't give a hoot if I can't sell a game if I bought it for a discounted price. When I buy a $40 or $50 game through Steam for $20, I couldn't care less that I'll never be able to sell it short of selling my entire account. For me $20 is expendable. I drop that much on lunch for friends all the time.
Your number 2 point is the real catch though, as I know I'm screwed when Steam goes down. And it WILL go down someday.
The problem with having the same email address for 15 years is that the amount of spam you are subjected to grows and grows every year. I am fairly careful about what I stick my email address into and I still get a few hundred spam messages per day on my (3,4,5?) year old first gmail address.
I took a good look at my handwriting when I got into college, realized it was complete shit, and switched over to using all caps. Granted, it took about three weeks to adjust, but now as you said it is "perfectly legible and unambiguous."
Bear in mind, Microsoft also provides service packs for free. In my mind, Snow Leopard is a service pack.
Actually, 7 is really quite nice. I'd recommend looking at the beta if you can still get your hands on a copy.
*YAWN* What was I saying?
I believe this package is aimed at people like myself, who think this is fucking SWEET no matter what. Of course, first I'll have to come up with $995...and a Camaro...hmm
The F-14 did the same thing when it was first deployed until Tom Cruise got ahold of it. Once he did it was arguably the best carrier-borne air superiority aircraft of all time.
Fixed that for ya.
But they have to pay for all the production, shipping, packing, etc... costs for a second copy of the game as well. So at the end of the day the net gain is more or less zero.
Unless they go through Steam or the like, in which case they just say "On sale NOW for $30!" Consumers get a massive discount, albeit with no chance of reselling their game. The developer gets their cut of the sale, and doesn't have to pay a dime for packing, shipping, etc.
This is what I love about Steam- there are frequently discounts and I never have to worry about not being able to install my games (until Valve goes out of business, hopefully in a long time).
I think they'd be quite happy to sell ten million copies on launch day for $5 a pop, seeing as how they aren't selling NEARLY one million copies for $50 a pop. Just my $0.02
I got to it fine. Try a different machine maybe?
To be honest, the point of traditional radio stations seems to me that you can listen to X genre in Y area. With internet radio, Y no longer matters, and for many stations like Pandora and Last.fm neither does X, as they offer many different genres. Why do we need a large station like last.fm alongside a smaller internet radio station? What can the small one offer that the larger cannot if they are both free?
These aren't rhetorical questions- If anyone prefers a smaller station to a larger I'd like to know why.
The framerate issues in the video might also be a result of recording a video of a video. Not sure, just a thought.
Did the fossils have marks near the heart-lung area, perhaps reminiscent of several chainsaw wounds?
You forgot one: 5) PROFIT!
Can anyone explain to me how the HIV model the article describes works? I have spent the last 15 minutes trying to make sense of it.
If more HIV infected women are out and about having sex, wouldn't that mean more men are getting infected, thereby spreading it to even more women? I simply fail to see how women being more promiscuous would slow the spread of HIV.
I can see it now:
Posted by JConnor on April 21, 2011, @08:45PM
Another Mechanical AI Made In LittleBigPlanet
John writes
"This new AI, playfully named Skynet, was created to help students in Africa reach for the sky and learn to play checkers. Support this effort by downloading the fun new application."
Now, I only pulled a B in Physics, but couldn't you fix the current surge with an inductor? I won't pretend to be an expert on circuits, but would that not fix the problem?
True...I wonder, then, how do portable CD players work? Anyone know?
I agree with you there, Sobrique. Not sure if you're American, but I am, and one of the fundamental issues I take with my culture is how violence, drugs, and language are all taken in stride, but woe be to whoever (whomever?) shows sexuality in a video game. Remember the uproar over Mass Effect's alleged "hardcore" sex scenes? The media jumped all over it just based on these rumors, while in reality there is just a bit of ass shown in the game. Never mind the hundreds of people you have the option of killing. Don't like the people in the Feros colony? Kill them all as soon as you get the chance!
In The Great Gatsby, there's one scene where the woman (I've forgotten her name) gets hit by a car, and the book details one of her naked breasts halfway torn off and flapping in the wind. This is considered an art form. In games, ANY mention of sexuality is immediately torn to shreds by the media.
I play games for the story, and hence I consider my games a form of entertainment [like movies, books, etc], not simply a toy. I guess my point is, moral issues should carry the same weight in any entertainment medium.
I've rambled on for far too long.
Yes, this is definitely a concern with any optical drive.
Think about it. When you spin up a gyroscope, it will resist changes in it's orientation. Now, as far as I can tell, a spinning disc in a drive will act like said gyroscope. When you tilt it over, the disc will resist and pop out of the disc-gnomes' hands.
My opinion is, Microsoft SHOULD have put in the little bumpers TFA talked about regardless of the cost, but since the manual clearly states the console should not be turned around while playing a disc, the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of the users.
Not to take a dump all over your argument or anything, but if you could afford to buy a house and a new car when you graduated, why not spend the money on an ivy league (or similar) education?
I'm sure you had a great time at college, but many companies will offer a graduate of a big name college a job over other similarly qualified applicants. For example, as a sophomore I have an internship at a software company in Bozeman, and got offered another at the NAVSEA Warfare Center in Newport.
Since I switched majors, I'll get to go to S. America one summer and study geological formations as part of a required field course. I could also do a couple weeks in the SHOALS Marine Lab, or maybe go out on a ship and do some research.
My point is, there are a ton of great opportunities at expensive schools, and if you can afford them (i.e. get mad scholarships) I see no reason not to take advantage.