I think people often underestimate how roomy a small car can be. They are mislead by how small it looks, when it can be actually quite roomy for the driver inside.
I think the LAN population is being over represented. Sure, there are those that run LAN parties, but its a small number of gamers. Probably been shrinking too, with faster internet connections and no real need to get everyone in the same room together.
I'm sure if you went with one of the premium connection plans you'd be ok. I have not trouble playing MMOs and I run on the basic 1meg cable connection. However, someone who knows more then could could correct or support me.
While you purcahsed 8 copies for your 8 computers, someone else purchased one and placed it on all 8 of theirs. The goal with the system the way it is, is that everyone will have to purcahse thier own copy to play through battle net.
You can still have 8 computers set up in your house to play through battle net if you so desire everyone playing in the same room. Realistically, your style of game play is not effected (Out side of being required to have an internet connection, that you probably already have).
I'd say you get a fair amount of people in positions that should not be there, but are there for various reasons (liek seniority) and are entrenched and hard to remove. So you have people doing jobs they don't know because the job they did know was elimintated and they had 10 years. So the guy who knew his job, but only ahd 3 years is let go so they can keep the guys with 10 years.
You also get a fair amount of the "that's not my job" types. Their job has a job description and a list of tasks on their yearly review. If a task does not show up on them, they refuse to do it. They have the right to be this wy, because they do do the task that are on their yearly review. In the private sector (non-union), you get rid of these people.
Why have they not implemented this "No line to get in or at any ride" concept at Disney Land? I'd love to see the Roller Coaster that is always ready for me to get in when I walk up, and don't have to wait in line to get on it.
For one, why am I standing in line? Lines usually indicate a lack of planning on the part of the line-maker. There's not much in this world that actually requires a line except to provide a terrible job for the otherwise unemployable
Why do you say that? The line at the bank hardly indicates a lack of planning. They know what days are heavy (Beg/End of the month, Fridays, etc.) However, it is finacially and logistically illogical to thin kthat they would ahve enough tellers working ot ensure that everyone has instant access.
Similar arguements could be made for other places with lines (Fast Food, Amussement Parks, etc.). Anything where you ahve more people that want to do something at the same time then can be provided for requires a line. Or should airplanes be designed that ~200 (everyone on the plane) people can board at once? Because by your standards, it is poor planning that they designed the plan with the concept of you waiting in line to get on and off.
Really? It's a cell phone, not a condo in Cancoon. Seems it would be hard for the IRS to Audit every business cellphone plan looking for Personal Phone calls that were not reported. A lot of time and money to regulate a very small "perk". My company provides free Coffee every morning and free Cokes in the fridge. I have not been reporting those on my taxes either, should I? ~$0.50 every time I reach into the fridge for a coke?
Nit pic the word if you want. Maybe Selfish was a poor word to use. But lets not focus on semantics, lets focus on meaning, ok?
If you don't want to pay for music/movies/etc. for reasons X, Y, or Z, then don't use them. Companies/Artists/etc. produced them, and within our society they own the rights to them. If you feel that it should not be this way, then work towards changing the laws. And no, your downloading the files is not akin to the protestign done for Civil Rights.
Pro-Artist is buying their stuff if you want it, or gettign it for free if they make it available for free. If they did not make it available to you for free, then one can only assume that they do not want you to have it for free. Of course, this is complicated by the fact that Artist sell their rights to the music. But then, they don't won it any more and there is a social responisbility to respect the owner.
So the Pro-Artist mantra is, if you want it buy it. Else, listen to it in the free format they provide (radio, etc.). But don't infringe on their copyrights.
When I can take a game/CD/DVD I bought and bring it back to the store for refund because it's a steaming pile of male cow feces, then I will never *EVER* download illegally anything
You say that now, but it's an excuse you use to make yourself feel better. Copy Right Infringment feels much better when you give yourself a glorified moral highground to be traveling. Much better then the reality that you're just cheap and like free crap (As most of us do). Even wit hthat policy, you'd still download for free.
A $ can be spent multiple times. The concept is that if people paid for all of thier music, sure they would spend less elsewhere. But, those $ would not disapear, they would then be spent again and again and again. So the new jobs being made with the money spent on music would be able to be spent on the thing that it is being spent on now. the same $1 is spen multiple times within a year.
Whne they spend the money on "other stuff", that money goes into someone elses pocket and then could be spent again on new stuff. Within a year, the same $1 is spent multiple times and the more times it is spent the better off we all are in theory.
Then hopefully you are doing the responsible thing and boycotting their artists and not doing the selfish thing of downloading their material for free.
Some training and the temp should be able to recognize different file types and where/how to classify them. The temp doesn't have to understand the information, just has to know that "Hey this looks like X, I was told X goes here" or "Oh, it says Y in spot B in the file, it must go to Place Z". The person with technical know how is going ot have to look in th efile for a clue as to where it should be filed; they can impart that small bit of information to a temp without having to teach taech them everything..
I have never played a ANY MMO that didn't have someone running around the home city just shouting out advertisements.
Have not read the article, but it seems fro mthe summary that they know that most people are going ot play for free. But the free draws them in and then some pay for things and they make enough to stay in business.
A good business model does not require making millions of profit. If a company makes enough to pay it's employees well with a little leftover capitol to grow then it is doing well.
But they probably have to strike a deal with the channels to broadcast them. So the Disney channel might charge your cable provider a bit more then the Discovery channel.
1)They charge for for the popular channels - So, the big channels still sub. the little ones and your bill remains the same or more.
2)They charge more for the un-popular channels to maek them worth offering. You find out that some of the channels that you like (like discovery, sci-fi, and others) are not as pupular as Lifetime and you end up paying more to get those channels and you bill remains the same or more.
Why is that better then having a reg. phone line? Do you get access to something that you can't get with also having reg. phone lines? Else, it sound like you've got less.
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The do offer a yearly subscription optn, if you so choose.
I think people often underestimate how roomy a small car can be. They are mislead by how small it looks, when it can be actually quite roomy for the driver inside.
That movie would probably make enough on opening weekend every year to turn a profit too.
I think the LAN population is being over represented. Sure, there are those that run LAN parties, but its a small number of gamers. Probably been shrinking too, with faster internet connections and no real need to get everyone in the same room together.
I'm sure if you went with one of the premium connection plans you'd be ok. I have not trouble playing MMOs and I run on the basic 1meg cable connection. However, someone who knows more then could could correct or support me.
I am willing to bet that this budget analysis guys rand the lost sales versus the gained revenue and it came out ahead to do drop the LAN.
but you do need multiple copies if you want to run it on more then one Wii.
While you purcahsed 8 copies for your 8 computers, someone else purchased one and placed it on all 8 of theirs. The goal with the system the way it is, is that everyone will have to purcahse thier own copy to play through battle net.
You can still have 8 computers set up in your house to play through battle net if you so desire everyone playing in the same room. Realistically, your style of game play is not effected (Out side of being required to have an internet connection, that you probably already have).
Guess he meant to say we don't legally sell guns to Iran.
I'd say you get a fair amount of people in positions that should not be there, but are there for various reasons (liek seniority) and are entrenched and hard to remove. So you have people doing jobs they don't know because the job they did know was elimintated and they had 10 years. So the guy who knew his job, but only ahd 3 years is let go so they can keep the guys with 10 years.
You also get a fair amount of the "that's not my job" types. Their job has a job description and a list of tasks on their yearly review. If a task does not show up on them, they refuse to do it. They have the right to be this wy, because they do do the task that are on their yearly review. In the private sector (non-union), you get rid of these people.
Why have they not implemented this "No line to get in or at any ride" concept at Disney Land? I'd love to see the Roller Coaster that is always ready for me to get in when I walk up, and don't have to wait in line to get on it.
Why do you say that? The line at the bank hardly indicates a lack of planning. They know what days are heavy (Beg/End of the month, Fridays, etc.) However, it is finacially and logistically illogical to thin kthat they would ahve enough tellers working ot ensure that everyone has instant access.
Similar arguements could be made for other places with lines (Fast Food, Amussement Parks, etc.). Anything where you ahve more people that want to do something at the same time then can be provided for requires a line. Or should airplanes be designed that ~200 (everyone on the plane) people can board at once? Because by your standards, it is poor planning that they designed the plan with the concept of you waiting in line to get on and off.
Really? It's a cell phone, not a condo in Cancoon. Seems it would be hard for the IRS to Audit every business cellphone plan looking for Personal Phone calls that were not reported. A lot of time and money to regulate a very small "perk". My company provides free Coffee every morning and free Cokes in the fridge. I have not been reporting those on my taxes either, should I? ~$0.50 every time I reach into the fridge for a coke?
Nit pic the word if you want. Maybe Selfish was a poor word to use. But lets not focus on semantics, lets focus on meaning, ok?
If you don't want to pay for music/movies/etc. for reasons X, Y, or Z, then don't use them. Companies/Artists/etc. produced them, and within our society they own the rights to them. If you feel that it should not be this way, then work towards changing the laws. And no, your downloading the files is not akin to the protestign done for Civil Rights.
Pro-Artist is buying their stuff if you want it, or gettign it for free if they make it available for free. If they did not make it available to you for free, then one can only assume that they do not want you to have it for free. Of course, this is complicated by the fact that Artist sell their rights to the music. But then, they don't won it any more and there is a social responisbility to respect the owner.
So the Pro-Artist mantra is, if you want it buy it. Else, listen to it in the free format they provide (radio, etc.). But don't infringe on their copyrights.
You say that now, but it's an excuse you use to make yourself feel better. Copy Right Infringment feels much better when you give yourself a glorified moral highground to be traveling. Much better then the reality that you're just cheap and like free crap (As most of us do). Even wit hthat policy, you'd still download for free.
A $ can be spent multiple times. The concept is that if people paid for all of thier music, sure they would spend less elsewhere. But, those $ would not disapear, they would then be spent again and again and again. So the new jobs being made with the money spent on music would be able to be spent on the thing that it is being spent on now. the same $1 is spen multiple times within a year.
Whne they spend the money on "other stuff", that money goes into someone elses pocket and then could be spent again on new stuff. Within a year, the same $1 is spent multiple times and the more times it is spent the better off we all are in theory.
Then hopefully you are doing the responsible thing and boycotting their artists and not doing the selfish thing of downloading their material for free.
The thought makes me a little sick. I wouldn't even want the hassle of reorganizing that.
Some training and the temp should be able to recognize different file types and where/how to classify them. The temp doesn't have to understand the information, just has to know that "Hey this looks like X, I was told X goes here" or "Oh, it says Y in spot B in the file, it must go to Place Z". The person with technical know how is going ot have to look in th efile for a clue as to where it should be filed; they can impart that small bit of information to a temp without having to teach taech them everything..
Hire a temp employee for $10/hr to go through and rename everything, or do any other clerical grunt work.
I have never played a ANY MMO that didn't have someone running around the home city just shouting out advertisements.
Have not read the article, but it seems fro mthe summary that they know that most people are going ot play for free. But the free draws them in and then some pay for things and they make enough to stay in business.
A good business model does not require making millions of profit. If a company makes enough to pay it's employees well with a little leftover capitol to grow then it is doing well.
But they probably have to strike a deal with the channels to broadcast them. So the Disney channel might charge your cable provider a bit more then the Discovery channel.
2 possible ways I could see ala-cart going:
1)They charge for for the popular channels - So, the big channels still sub. the little ones and your bill remains the same or more.
2)They charge more for the un-popular channels to maek them worth offering. You find out that some of the channels that you like (like discovery, sci-fi, and others) are not as pupular as Lifetime and you end up paying more to get those channels and you bill remains the same or more.
Why is that better then having a reg. phone line? Do you get access to something that you can't get with also having reg. phone lines? Else, it sound like you've got less.