People need to educate the voting public that the 12 year old next to them on the laughing and bragging about how he shot a rifle through someone's head yesterday and made it explode isn't a deraged lunatic.
Well, when Valve cut the price of Left 4 Dead by half, they saw a 3000% increase in sales. That goes to show that there is a large enough market of people holding out for a better price. (With Steam and its constant sales, a better price is inevitable - especially around the end of the year.
Valve can get away with it because they are only transmitting data. They don't have to worry as much about the physical media, transportation, and other logistics that come into play when they are selling a physical game.
I recalled reading in EGM about how prior to the current generation of consoles they were selling "special editions" of games with cheap plastic trinkets and whatnot for like $70. It was all basically a ploy to see if consumers were willing to pay USD$60 for software, and many of them were. That's one of the reasons why new games often retail for $65.
I have to wonder if slashing the prices of games will work at all when there's the consideration of physical media. It's a risk that I don't think very many game companies would like to take.
The ideal situation would be for the natural gas line to be owned by a government front company that is nigh-impossible to connect to any federal agency.
Gotta repair/upgrade the line? Dress up in uniform, close the area off due to a "gas leak", and get to work.
I gotta say, that's one of the things I respect about Apple. You don't see guys that make other operating systems (Linux, for example) contributing to their own project these days.
I've formed my opinion from working in the trenches as a computer repair tech going to people's home and fixing everyday problems. I don't have studies to cite or focus groups to quote; this is just my personal experience.
Are you really saying that because you had to sit down what sounds like a staunch Microsoftie and teach him OpenOffice.org that it means that Linux isn't ready? Also, what have you plugged into your distro that hasn't worked? When was the last time you used a tar.gz file for anything? Could you have just used the package manager?
He's not a Microsoftie, though. He's a "I don't wanna learn how to do new stuff"-tie, which is the attitude of most of my customers.
They want their computer to be easy, to work reliably, and not to change anytime soon.
I mean, honestly, I'm going to call troll on this one. Perhaps you could explain what you really mean and how you got to your conclusion with the examples you gave?
Okay.
Linux is too damn hard to use for the average user. That's the concise version.
The non-concise version: a Regular Joe's computer breaks down. He finds it'll cost him a couple hundred to repair it at Best Buy, or he could just buy a brand new one for a few hundred extra. (Big bonus: free computer parts that people throw out for garbage.)
He takes it home and plugs it in. Maybe it runs through a short setup, or maybe it works out of the box. Now he has his computer good to go.
Linux doesn't really have this nowadays. You can be pedantic and cite the one or two product lines a big box store might carry, or a little out-of-the-way shop or small franchise that carries a pre-installed Linux box, but it's nowhere remotely on the scale that Windows and Mac are out there. Hell, Linux even had itself in Wal-Mart's online store vis-a-vis Lindows and it was $100 cheaper than the XP PC, yet it's not there anymore and the company has been bought out. I'm not saying correlation = causation, but this is one of the few times that Linux in any form was in a chain of stores (albeit via their online division) and it bombed.
Joe can't drive to Staples or Best Buy and pick up a Linux PC, so he won't.
Next, Joe buys a printer, and wants to hook it up to his Windows or Mac. He plugs it in and reads in the instruction manual that he needs to insert the included CD. How many printers/cameras/devices etc. have Linux drivers on their CD, much less drivers at all?
Most Linux builds IMO ask way too much of the average user. I've had to explain what a.zip file is, what a driver is, etc. many many times to a lot of people who had the money to spend on expensive computers but had no idea on how to use them (much less an inclination to learn how to use them).
The consumer is ultimately lazy and wants a computer to work more like a television or appliance than a complicated device. The above "Vista dude" story was not relating how he was a Microsoft fanboy (he's not) but rather how he, like many average users, are highly resistant to change. Until Linux can unify around a single company and vastly improve the user-friendliness and corporate support (READ: plug & play and/or drivers ON the CD, click to install this downloaded program, a consistent visual theme and menu system, etc.), it's not going to be succeeding on a large consumer scale anytime soon.
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That's only because the dominatrix went a little too far with the riding crop.
People need to educate the voting public that the 12 year old next to them on the laughing and bragging about how he shot a rifle through someone's head yesterday and made it explode isn't a deraged lunatic.
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But if he starts making his summaries vague and misleading, then he might get tapped to become an editor for Slashdot.
Because some people don't even know what a torrent is?
Well, when Valve cut the price of Left 4 Dead by half, they saw a 3000% increase in sales. That goes to show that there is a large enough market of people holding out for a better price. (With Steam and its constant sales, a better price is inevitable - especially around the end of the year.
Valve can get away with it because they are only transmitting data. They don't have to worry as much about the physical media, transportation, and other logistics that come into play when they are selling a physical game.
I recalled reading in EGM about how prior to the current generation of consoles they were selling "special editions" of games with cheap plastic trinkets and whatnot for like $70. It was all basically a ploy to see if consumers were willing to pay USD$60 for software, and many of them were. That's one of the reasons why new games often retail for $65.
I have to wonder if slashing the prices of games will work at all when there's the consideration of physical media. It's a risk that I don't think very many game companies would like to take.
Hey dawg, I heard you liked cheating, so I put cheating in your cheating so you can cheat while you cheat.
To be fair, dogs are used to sniffing around huge piles of shit anyway.
Well, Chutzpah is a word derived from hebrew. The best english equivalent is "audacity", and it comes out as this. You can translate it here and hear what it sounds like.
(Too bad Slashdot will inevitably mess up any attempt at a foreign language. The word comes out like this: "ÑмÐÐоÑÑÑOE")
Yes, we would. To be a "knowledgeable industry insider", you have to find out what the company(s) you are working for want.
In a lot of these industry insider situations, if they don't hear what they want to hear you're not going to be in the industry for long.
How is babby Jesus formed?
How virgin get pragnent?
Aye, both are correct.
poor resluts
Resluts?
Sluts who were reformed and then went back to the gig?
Some kind of quantum double slut?
Sexy, trashy fans of the CGI cartoon Reboot?
My Insert key has been sitting in a drawer for years.
That's not really a bad thing though, is it? It's a fundamental check of power to verbally bitch-slap the government at every opportunity.
He already posts his business e-mail all over the internets.
The game was Track and Field.
That's a 10 hit mathematics K-Groove combo right there.
The ideal situation would be for the natural gas line to be owned by a government front company that is nigh-impossible to connect to any federal agency.
Gotta repair/upgrade the line? Dress up in uniform, close the area off due to a "gas leak", and get to work.
Don't forget the rocket-propelled cellphones! Your call gets through, even if you don't have a signal!
Shoiuldn't that be Cyber-Cyber-No?
I gotta say, that's one of the things I respect about Apple. You don't see guys that make other operating systems (Linux, for example) contributing to their own project these days.
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Are those the people that make those little Spanish Language buttons for teevees?
Wouldn't the British version be something like CERouN?
Well, it's so hot that going outdoors melts my eyeballs, but at least I can see the stars!
I've formed my opinion from working in the trenches as a computer repair tech going to people's home and fixing everyday problems. I don't have studies to cite or focus groups to quote; this is just my personal experience.
Are you really saying that because you had to sit down what sounds like a staunch Microsoftie and teach him OpenOffice.org that it means that Linux isn't ready? Also, what have you plugged into your distro that hasn't worked? When was the last time you used a tar.gz file for anything? Could you have just used the package manager?
He's not a Microsoftie, though. He's a "I don't wanna learn how to do new stuff"-tie, which is the attitude of most of my customers.
They want their computer to be easy, to work reliably, and not to change anytime soon.
I mean, honestly, I'm going to call troll on this one. Perhaps you could explain what you really mean and how you got to your conclusion with the examples you gave?
Okay.
Linux is too damn hard to use for the average user. That's the concise version.
The non-concise version: a Regular Joe's computer breaks down. He finds it'll cost him a couple hundred to repair it at Best Buy, or he could just buy a brand new one for a few hundred extra. (Big bonus: free computer parts that people throw out for garbage.)
He takes it home and plugs it in. Maybe it runs through a short setup, or maybe it works out of the box. Now he has his computer good to go.
Linux doesn't really have this nowadays. You can be pedantic and cite the one or two product lines a big box store might carry, or a little out-of-the-way shop or small franchise that carries a pre-installed Linux box, but it's nowhere remotely on the scale that Windows and Mac are out there. Hell, Linux even had itself in Wal-Mart's online store vis-a-vis Lindows and it was $100 cheaper than the XP PC, yet it's not there anymore and the company has been bought out. I'm not saying correlation = causation, but this is one of the few times that Linux in any form was in a chain of stores (albeit via their online division) and it bombed.
Joe can't drive to Staples or Best Buy and pick up a Linux PC, so he won't.
Next, Joe buys a printer, and wants to hook it up to his Windows or Mac. He plugs it in and reads in the instruction manual that he needs to insert the included CD. How many printers/cameras/devices etc. have Linux drivers on their CD, much less drivers at all?
Most Linux builds IMO ask way too much of the average user. I've had to explain what a .zip file is, what a driver is, etc. many many times to a lot of people who had the money to spend on expensive computers but had no idea on how to use them (much less an inclination to learn how to use them).
The consumer is ultimately lazy and wants a computer to work more like a television or appliance than a complicated device. The above "Vista dude" story was not relating how he was a Microsoft fanboy (he's not) but rather how he, like many average users, are highly resistant to change. Until Linux can unify around a single company and vastly improve the user-friendliness and corporate support (READ: plug & play and/or drivers ON the CD, click to install this downloaded program, a consistent visual theme and menu system, etc.), it's not going to be succeeding on a large consumer scale anytime soon.