For precisely that reason I think any information about its final resulting benefit should be held "secret" for a while.
On the other hand, the number of sales does seem interesting to publish. But, as soon as anyone sees "52012 sales! And counting!" he'll naturally ask about the average price.
So, I'd recommend not giving any information about the results of this last sale campaign until it's considered finished.
Rather than imagining an eternal life for their products, more developers could find ways (not necessarily this one) of selling their obsolete products to pay for the newer ones.
For example, l4d costs now about 15$ if bought together with the still unreleased l4d2. As they are almost equal and not very distant in time, the developers could wait another year or so and then release l4d for 2$. Make a little cash and go on.
Instead, they get so attached to IP they end up owning games that nobody wants to buy.
And, as today's pointless bad analogy, it's like trying and failing to sell the last apples at half the original price after they've started rotting, when they could be sold as fertilizer and use the money to buy more land, even if just a little.
Another use would be to apply the algorithms to religious books to reveal which parts were really inspired by a divinity, and which parts were simply invented by some random, power hungry, con man, to control his peers.
(fucking meetings... I wrote this crap two hours ago. But don't worry, you won't lose the shining beacon of my sharp wit because of bad business practices)
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Known as "The Red Blackout", "The Redout" or simply "Ketchup monday".
Well, of course! It just doesn't sound the same when one says "I wouldn't touch that with a 3-meter pole."
You mean: "I wouldn't touch that with a 3-meter american".
No, no, you got it wrong.
"parts of the brain that control decision-making and reasoning"
This is clearly about the decision-making brain, not the intracraneal mundane problems solver.
"After seeing the media impact of the previous results we decided to treat it with elementary PR care".
Well, in an environment with so many PR failures, I guess it's something.
1 - Click browser's search box.
2 - Type 'P', 'O', 'R', 'N'.
3 - Press 'Enter'.
I can't imagine a scenario where a search stimulates brain acti... Ohhh, ok. I get it now.
stores [open] 3 hours before local midday
You imply that the entire population can consistently and correctly subtract 3 from a number.
I always have to stop and think for a second when trying to remember how long "five feet" is,
What's to remember? Five feet is the reach of your longsword.
And I don't care where you live, you should always carry a longsword.
And 30 feet of rope.
Don't even get me started on our lack of metric....
But you have a beautiful metric, in bodyparts!
It's perfect for D&D. "I advance five feet" is much more immersive than "I advance two meters".
Pity that you didn't make a corresponding time system replacing seconds, hours and days by heartbeats, digestions and bodyrottings.
Local time is one of those aspects of reality that could already be set to a more technologically requiring standard.
What would you set as a reasonable "perfect time" system?
I think it should be a combination of universal time and real (sun driven) time. So It could be 10:30 in universal time and 21:17 in sun time.
You'd go to work (for a local example) with solar time and expect a global movie release or an international package transport in universal time.
However, that system is not very reasonable. :)
Not that it matters, but I have a vague memory of WoG already having generated massive amounts of money. Possibly $100k more is just for beers.
Or, more content in their next game.
Yes, I do believe in whan I just said.
For precisely that reason I think any information about its final resulting benefit should be held "secret" for a while.
On the other hand, the number of sales does seem interesting to publish. But, as soon as anyone sees "52012 sales! And counting!" he'll naturally ask about the average price.
So, I'd recommend not giving any information about the results of this last sale campaign until it's considered finished.
I'd read that book.
Rather than imagining an eternal life for their products, more developers could find ways (not necessarily this one) of selling their obsolete products to pay for the newer ones.
For example, l4d costs now about 15$ if bought together with the still unreleased l4d2. As they are almost equal and not very distant in time, the developers could wait another year or so and then release l4d for 2$. Make a little cash and go on.
Instead, they get so attached to IP they end up owning games that nobody wants to buy.
And, as today's pointless bad analogy, it's like trying and failing to sell the last apples at half the original price after they've started rotting, when they could be sold as fertilizer and use the money to buy more land, even if just a little.
Another use would be to apply the algorithms to religious books to reveal which parts were really inspired by a divinity, and which parts were simply invented by some random, power hungry, con man, to control his peers.
They could call it Bl@sphemy.
Why would you want to update your entire OS while leaving the OOo on an outdated version?
No, no. He's truly anonymous.
Even to himself.
For all he knows, he could be you.
Just in case Visible Technologies crawls /. looking for it's own name: Fuck Off
Salutations from a common SLASHDOT.ORG entity,
Do you mind if I ask you a question?
How influential are you among the other entities of SLASHDOT.ORG.
Thank you.
"Fuck The Fuck Yeah" was so much better...
(fucking meetings... I wrote this crap two hours ago. But don't worry, you won't lose the shining beacon of my sharp wit because of bad business practices)
Ok, let's say I attack four wheels and a computer to a standard kitchen dish. Then I put a human brain in the dish.
Does it count as brain controlled robot if I make the robot turn left if the brain's temperature is an even number and right if it's odd?
Well, the "new Chilenean telescope" the summary is referring to [...] started operation in 1976...
Which, compared to the age of the universe, is certainly new.
Hype for OCD players?
Does seem the right objective public.
You thought grinding xp by combat was bad, wait until you see stealth grinding.
Follow 20 different sewer rats for 1min each without being seen.
The prime minister will come here at some point in the next three days. Stand in this dark corner until he passes by and give him this piece of paper.
Thank you very much. I will indeed consider Macau.
"John Ubuli, Fictiana's prime minister, was assassinated tonight. Apparently 12502 assassins entered the embassy simultaneously screaming 'LEEEEROY JEEenkins!'"
And how will you collect the debt when you win?
Don't worry if you don't know the answer. Vegas has a large population of debt collectors who'll be happy to help you for a small fee.
On a completely unrelated note, you don't count running among your most loved hobbies, right? What about walking?