This post reminded me about he movie 'Flash Of Genius', which was based on actual events. Sometimes the patent is not for creating 100% new tools , but in the creativity of how you use exsisting tools.
I believe the statement about not likign the show enough to watch it live went off course from his main concept: That people that watch the shows through DVR's are skipping the ads, while peopel who watch it live are watching them (or at least having them played while they do other things).
I could see someone who watches 8 hours of TV a day not seeing a need for a DVR.
I love having a DVR because without one I could never keep up with shows. I certainly love to watch TV, but I watch it on my schedule and not its. So, if something comes up, I go.
But if you are getting in 8 hours a day of TV time, well, you're available to watch it when its on.
According to the link posted above, 95% of South Korea's household have Broadband. So it seems that the Broadband penetration is much better there than in the US.
I do believe that PC gamers would tend to fall into the "Broadband" group. Although, a STREAM survey is a little biased, I'd think. Seeing as it involves sending large amounts of data over the internet and dial-up's might avoid their service.
Thank you for the link; It was certainly an eye opener.
I wonder how that 60/40% correlates to those that would buy/play PC video games.
However, just the basic numbers of 60% being able to connect via broadband and 40% not being able to refutes the posters claim that "most people cannot "connect online and play". . as most people can.
How does your office relate to "most people"? your office, your whole family, and even all of your friends could not have anything better than dial-up or no connection at all and it still woudl not be factual data to support your claim.
Do you ahv eany factual information to back up "No, actually, most people cannot "connect online and play". That guy, and apparently you, have some pretty serious brain damage if you think that dial-up is that rare." ?
If it comes down to your opinion versus his opinion, I have to personally give the win to him, not you. Probably because I am willing to wager that his opinion is based on some research.
I beleive that to be fairly true. On my first character I started (Started after TBC), I leveld up and did not have add-on's liek questhelper to help speed me through the content. After reaching 80 and raiding, I wanted to level up a different quest. This time, I was able to fly through the grind of leveling to get the 80 I wanted, so that I could paly the game I wanted.
You can still take time levelign up if you want to. Most of the quests are designed to play solo & all of the dungeons in Vanilla can b edone with a three man team at appropriate levels.
Blizzard has alienated a large number of us "casual" players who do not have three and four hours a night to spend running end-game content.
Didn't Blizzard just change it so that you can extent a saved isntance past the 1 week reset timer? Wasn't this done so that "casual" players, who coudl not complete it within a week, could take as long as they needed to go from start to end so that they could enjoy all of th eend game content in their own time?
#2 - If I remember correctly, he said the time table for getting out of Iraq was alogn the lines of 16-24 month. The only person talking about pulling out of Iraq on day one was Ron Paul. Everyone else realized that whether you agreed with going in the first place, we are there now and we have to clean up our mess before leaving the sandbox.
" I am also downloading Star Wars in HD. Bought the movies in VHS years ago, so certainly not going to pay full price for it again. "
If you don't want to pay for it in a better format than the format you purchased it in, than jsut enjoy it in its VHS format.
Just because you've purchased a copy of it (what 10+ years ago?), does not make you any less of a "pirate" than someone who has never purchased a copy. It certainly does not make your downloading of the content any more "justified".
You've shown in your post that their is a desire to obtain the content, but you are to cheap to be willing to pay for it.
The logical conclusion of this trend is to allow unrestricted sharing of everything and compensate artists from a tax imposed on consumer broadband. That would be great but I don't see it happening any time soon, or even in my lifetime.
I dont like this idea. I certainly do nto want to be taxed for material I don't want. And how does this tax go fro mmy bill to the individual artist? Who would keep track to make sure the right amount went to Indie bands(no label band & Indie label band) and britney spears?
In a skill based system you would be limited only by the number of skills that were placed in the game. So it would be possible to have more cobinations that a set system like WoW.
With a skill-based system it's hard to figure out where "abilities" come from - do you buy them with skill points? Do you get them automatically with certain levels of skill? Those approaches both have serious issues, both of which make the whole "skill balancing" thing even more difficult.
In UO they did not have levels. To advance with a skill, Say The ability to use a sword, you had to use the sword. The more you used the sword, the better your skill with the sword became. A much more "natural" system than "leveling up" in my opinion.
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This post reminded me about he movie 'Flash Of Genius', which was based on actual events. Sometimes the patent is not for creating 100% new tools , but in the creativity of how you use exsisting tools.
Well, they did get their patents by being innovate in the first place.
Hopefully, they will continue to be innovate. Things liek partnerships with Netflix are nice additions to the Tivo.
I believe the statement about not likign the show enough to watch it live went off course from his main concept: That people that watch the shows through DVR's are skipping the ads, while peopel who watch it live are watching them (or at least having them played while they do other things).
I could see someone who watches 8 hours of TV a day not seeing a need for a DVR.
I love having a DVR because without one I could never keep up with shows. I certainly love to watch TV, but I watch it on my schedule and not its. So, if something comes up, I go.
But if you are getting in 8 hours a day of TV time, well, you're available to watch it when its on.
According to the link posted above, 95% of South Korea's household have Broadband. So it seems that the Broadband penetration is much better there than in the US.
I do believe that PC gamers would tend to fall into the "Broadband" group. Although, a STREAM survey is a little biased, I'd think. Seeing as it involves sending large amounts of data over the internet and dial-up's might avoid their service.
Thank you for the link; It was certainly an eye opener.
I wonder how that 60/40% correlates to those that would buy/play PC video games.
However, just the basic numbers of 60% being able to connect via broadband and 40% not being able to refutes the posters claim that "most people cannot "connect online and play". . as most people can.
How does your office relate to "most people"? your office, your whole family, and even all of your friends could not have anything better than dial-up or no connection at all and it still woudl not be factual data to support your claim.
Do you ahv eany factual information to back up "No, actually, most people cannot "connect online and play". That guy, and apparently you, have some pretty serious brain damage if you think that dial-up is that rare." ?
If it comes down to your opinion versus his opinion, I have to personally give the win to him, not you. Probably because I am willing to wager that his opinion is based on some research.
Seems pretty short sighted to think that no other company would have thought of an "iPhone" like devise.
Of course, myself not beign a fan of touch screens, I think that could have been a good thing.
I beleive that to be fairly true. On my first character I started (Started after TBC), I leveld up and did not have add-on's liek questhelper to help speed me through the content. After reaching 80 and raiding, I wanted to level up a different quest. This time, I was able to fly through the grind of leveling to get the 80 I wanted, so that I could paly the game I wanted.
You can still take time levelign up if you want to. Most of the quests are designed to play solo & all of the dungeons in Vanilla can b edone with a three man team at appropriate levels.
Blizzard has alienated a large number of us "casual" players who do not have three and four hours a night to spend running end-game content.
Didn't Blizzard just change it so that you can extent a saved isntance past the 1 week reset timer? Wasn't this done so that "casual" players, who coudl not complete it within a week, could take as long as they needed to go from start to end so that they could enjoy all of th eend game content in their own time?
Because analogies and inherently bad
#2 - If I remember correctly, he said the time table for getting out of Iraq was alogn the lines of 16-24 month. The only person talking about pulling out of Iraq on day one was Ron Paul. Everyone else realized that whether you agreed with going in the first place, we are there now and we have to clean up our mess before leaving the sandbox.
Better yet, start up a Flickr competitor, only with hookers and blackjack.
You know what, forget the picture hosting and the blackjack.
Is it funny or sad that this comment was mod'ed "Insightful"
" I am also downloading Star Wars in HD. Bought the movies in VHS years ago, so certainly not going to pay full price for it again. "
If you don't want to pay for it in a better format than the format you purchased it in, than jsut enjoy it in its VHS format.
Just because you've purchased a copy of it (what 10+ years ago?), does not make you any less of a "pirate" than someone who has never purchased a copy. It certainly does not make your downloading of the content any more "justified".
You've shown in your post that their is a desire to obtain the content, but you are to cheap to be willing to pay for it.
The logical conclusion of this trend is to allow unrestricted sharing of everything and compensate artists from a tax imposed on consumer broadband. That would be great but I don't see it happening any time soon, or even in my lifetime.
I dont like this idea. I certainly do nto want to be taxed for material I don't want. And how does this tax go fro mmy bill to the individual artist? Who would keep track to make sure the right amount went to Indie bands(no label band & Indie label band) and britney spears?
Jsut because the tools are legal, does not mean the act is legal.
Bad analogy: It's legal for me to own a gun and bullets, but its illegal for me to shoot you.
and to the new owners of TPB too.
Except for the when Black Dye was "introduced" and everyone was running around in black.
In a skill based system you would be limited only by the number of skills that were placed in the game. So it would be possible to have more cobinations that a set system like WoW.
With a skill-based system it's hard to figure out where "abilities" come from - do you buy them with skill points? Do you get them automatically with certain levels of skill? Those approaches both have serious issues, both of which make the whole "skill balancing" thing even more difficult.
In UO they did not have levels. To advance with a skill, Say The ability to use a sword, you had to use the sword. The more you used the sword, the better your skill with the sword became. A much more "natural" system than "leveling up" in my opinion.
Yeah, Specially when it took stacks or reagents that were not cheap. Losing your GM was worse than the death sometimes.
Not according to Wikipedia!
/Hold on, I have to make a quick edit