New MMO's keep coming out all of the time. Sure, they don't get the 4m+ numbers of Wow, but they still sell a couple hundred thousand copies and manage to stay afloat for a couple of years.
Plus, look at games like Spore. That was a PC game that did very well. There are many games that come out on the PC.
I haven't looked at the site but I would think that some questions about Obama's birth certificate were probably flagged too. There might need a meta moderation, but the moderation system does work.
What would probably work well is if they could flag posts as "already answered", and then have the answer attached to the post. That way it is not perminitally deleted, while hopefully not requiring too much more effort then removing the post in the first place.
They are probably more stupid then one would expect.
Don't be so biased against uneducated individuals.
Institutional education, intelligence, and common sense don't always have a correlation to each other. There are intelligent people who are uneducated, and vice versa.
They have as much a right to address the government with their grievances as you do.
Well they are talking about attracting developers in the long run. Which one is more appealing to a software company? An open platform that exposes itself to the world, or one that is closed?
Which ever one has the most users that they can sell their product to so they can make the most money possible.
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Why don't more companies just use the old "Shipping & Handling" charge to cover the costs of shipping without having to calculate the rate the the USPS is going ot charge them. Charge a fee that is close to what you expect to pay. Over on a few and under on a few, but should even out at the end.
Your analogy does not work, because they are two vastly different products.
At the end of the day, they have a product and you may or may not want that product. Sure, it is a gamble. You might purchase, or rent, something that you don't like. You don't have to take the gamble. You can forgo viewing their product if you don't like the gamble. But it is their product, and you don't automatically have a right to it. You can live life without their product.
The troll was not the opinion you expressed, but the manor in which you expressed it. You mention be not insulting you by sayign your post was a troll, but your post directly insulted me because I have a difference in opinion then you. I did not "insult" your opinion, I called the way you expressed your opinion what I thought it was, a troll. If it was not a troll, then sorry. I might add that you would better express yourself by not attacking people.
It might be not worth watching, I'm certainly not going to watch it. But that does not mean it is ok to watch it without paying for it.
I have a right to not throw away money on junk.
you are right, you have the right not to watch it in the first place. Just because it is crap, does not mean you get to watch it for free.
As for the attacks of working for a living vs. having things paid for you. That does not change that if you want to watch something, you should pay for it. Just because you have to spend your own money instead of someone elses does not mean that it is ok to download things without paying for them. (BTW, I am not a child at home, so once again your arguement is moot).
analogies are not good, because they never translate perfectly.
However, just because you are not physically taking something from the company, does not grant you the right to play it without paying for it. The company has the right to choose how they want to release the game. You ahve the right if you want to purchase it under those terms, or not play the game.
If you don't like the terms they set for playing their game, then don't play their game. Believing you have the right to play their game, without adhering to their terms means you are part of the "entitlement generation"
If people took a righteous stance against these companies, we would probably see a change in their behaviour.
When you file a chargeback, you specify the reason for a chargeback. Under these circumstances you would file for failure to refund and you would attach your documentation that you returned the product.
This could easily be disputed by the company, all they have to do is send a copy of the return policy back to the credit card company and have the chargeback reversed.
However, as I stated in another post. They get a $10~$30 fee for each chargeback, and you can chargeback for the same charge more then once. And if you continue to dispute the chargeback, then you have to go to a form of mediation, where the card company (Visa, MC) choose who is in the right. But doing that costs $250+. So, for a low dollar amount charge, many companies will just let the chargeback slide.
Discover and American Express are a little different, and will almost always take the card holders side in the issue. So, if you are purchasing something that you want to possible return later, use and American Express card.
Jurisdiction would not be an issue, because once it crosses state lines it is an FBI issue. Seeign as it involves the mail, it could also be a Post Master issue. Two groups that you'd rather not deal with.
However, returning a product for a refund and charging back once said refund is not received is not an issue. Specially as you satted, most of the items are low dollar amount.
Having worked for a company that disputed chargebacks, you are right. It is usually not worth disputing small dollar amount chargebacks because there are fee's that you have to pay when someone files a chargeback. If you dispute it, and they refile the charge back, you've doubled your fee's. Many companies will not dispute small dollar amount charges to avoid the extra fee's. Plus, so few people know about filling chargebacks that it is not much of an issue for many businesses.
Well, maybe not purchase, but you should have rented it instead of downloading it. You don't get to eat half a candy bar before you choose to purchase it.
How is using a script similar to robbing a bank? One is using a tool to make using a service easier, and the other involves the theft of goods (Money). Completely unrelated. If I could mod you down (Overrated), I would have.
I know of the Bill Gates (mis)qoute. I was just offering my commentary on how as Hardware advances, the software bloats to nullify the advancement to an extent. So, I'll come back in and look at this comment when my computer has 160GB of RAM and WORD takes 4GB of RAM just to run.
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Shouldn't someone pop in and say something about 640k being enough for anyone, or has that been played out yet?
You can do this for the Country you live in, but you cannot enforce it on a developing country.
New MMO's keep coming out all of the time. Sure, they don't get the 4m+ numbers of Wow, but they still sell a couple hundred thousand copies and manage to stay afloat for a couple of years.
Plus, look at games like Spore. That was a PC game that did very well. There are many games that come out on the PC.
"Portugal (a small country near Spain)"
This made me laugh. I would like to think that you would not need to say that, but then I remember that you probably do.
And yeah, the education is pretty bad there. Just look at how poorly people in Portugal speak Spanish, it's almost as bad as Brazil!
'absent minded', might be unfair. However, 'rogue' sounds fair. He went against the common belief.
What would probably work well is if they could flag posts as "already answered", and then have the answer attached to the post. That way it is not perminitally deleted, while hopefully not requiring too much more effort then removing the post in the first place.
They are probably more stupid then one would expect.
Institutional education, intelligence, and common sense don't always have a correlation to each other. There are intelligent people who are uneducated, and vice versa.
Certainly.
They should be left to be voted on. IF the people don't care about them, they don't get voted to the top.
30% seems like a lot to me.
Which ever one has the most users that they can sell their product to so they can make the most money possible.
Why don't more companies just use the old "Shipping & Handling" charge to cover the costs of shipping without having to calculate the rate the the USPS is going ot charge them. Charge a fee that is close to what you expect to pay. Over on a few and under on a few, but should even out at the end.
Quality over Quantity
Your analogy does not work, because they are two vastly different products.
At the end of the day, they have a product and you may or may not want that product. Sure, it is a gamble. You might purchase, or rent, something that you don't like. You don't have to take the gamble. You can forgo viewing their product if you don't like the gamble. But it is their product, and you don't automatically have a right to it. You can live life without their product.
The troll was not the opinion you expressed, but the manor in which you expressed it. You mention be not insulting you by sayign your post was a troll, but your post directly insulted me because I have a difference in opinion then you. I did not "insult" your opinion, I called the way you expressed your opinion what I thought it was, a troll. If it was not a troll, then sorry. I might add that you would better express yourself by not attacking people.
It might be not worth watching, I'm certainly not going to watch it. But that does not mean it is ok to watch it without paying for it.
you are right, you have the right not to watch it in the first place. Just because it is crap, does not mean you get to watch it for free.
As for the attacks of working for a living vs. having things paid for you. That does not change that if you want to watch something, you should pay for it. Just because you have to spend your own money instead of someone elses does not mean that it is ok to download things without paying for them. (BTW, I am not a child at home, so once again your arguement is moot).
True,
analogies are not good, because they never translate perfectly.
However, just because you are not physically taking something from the company, does not grant you the right to play it without paying for it. The company has the right to choose how they want to release the game. You ahve the right if you want to purchase it under those terms, or not play the game.
If you don't like the terms they set for playing their game, then don't play their game. Believing you have the right to play their game, without adhering to their terms means you are part of the "entitlement generation"
If people took a righteous stance against these companies, we would probably see a change in their behaviour.
rewriting is fine, as long as you save the original too. The propaganda that was written on there is a much a part of history as the picture itself.
When you file a chargeback, you specify the reason for a chargeback. Under these circumstances you would file for failure to refund and you would attach your documentation that you returned the product.
This could easily be disputed by the company, all they have to do is send a copy of the return policy back to the credit card company and have the chargeback reversed.
However, as I stated in another post. They get a $10~$30 fee for each chargeback, and you can chargeback for the same charge more then once. And if you continue to dispute the chargeback, then you have to go to a form of mediation, where the card company (Visa, MC) choose who is in the right. But doing that costs $250+. So, for a low dollar amount charge, many companies will just let the chargeback slide.
Discover and American Express are a little different, and will almost always take the card holders side in the issue. So, if you are purchasing something that you want to possible return later, use and American Express card.
Jurisdiction would not be an issue, because once it crosses state lines it is an FBI issue. Seeign as it involves the mail, it could also be a Post Master issue. Two groups that you'd rather not deal with.
However, returning a product for a refund and charging back once said refund is not received is not an issue. Specially as you satted, most of the items are low dollar amount.
Having worked for a company that disputed chargebacks, you are right. It is usually not worth disputing small dollar amount chargebacks because there are fee's that you have to pay when someone files a chargeback. If you dispute it, and they refile the charge back, you've doubled your fee's. Many companies will not dispute small dollar amount charges to avoid the extra fee's. Plus, so few people know about filling chargebacks that it is not much of an issue for many businesses.
Well, maybe not purchase, but you should have rented it instead of downloading it. You don't get to eat half a candy bar before you choose to purchase it.
How is using a script similar to robbing a bank? One is using a tool to make using a service easier, and the other involves the theft of goods (Money). Completely unrelated. If I could mod you down (Overrated), I would have.
No,
I know of the Bill Gates (mis)qoute. I was just offering my commentary on how as Hardware advances, the software bloats to nullify the advancement to an extent. So, I'll come back in and look at this comment when my computer has 160GB of RAM and WORD takes 4GB of RAM just to run.
To them and the millions of people that have purcahsed a Wii
It should be. However, people will keep developing bloated programs that require far more RAM then is required to perform their task.
Isn't that prrof that the Free Market System does not work without Government regualtion?