There's plenty of Apple fanbois who can't accept that the iPod was simply the next step in portable music player technology, and that the coveted menu interface was ripped off from Creative.
I had one no-name mp3 player and I have one creative mp3-player, both are post-iPod. Yet, both are crap, you know why? For the first there were some guys, who wrote a program to order the files... WTF? I can deal with that, but it is just annoying.
Apple products are high quality and the handling the interfaces are top notch. Using Numbers (= Apple Excel) is just a charm, also keynote (=Apple Power Point). I like it, therefore I pay a bit more. If I want a secure machine I get a PC and install linux. If I want to play computer games than PC with windows.
If I want an open phone I do NOT get an iPhone.
there is a solution and tradeoff for nearly everything.
back to the point, the available mp3-players were mostly crap and probably would still be. The change made is really obvious after it is done...
it said "expensive training"... probably like university/school... thus it doesn't necessarily makes the attendee - or in that case the attendog - smarter.
and maybe one course was about biting boards...
thanks for the info, I am well aware what I can do, I already have company of heroes ordered in the uk and I usually do that, yet sometimes I am "forced" to not buy games in content-delivery stuff, because of the happy-censoring mentality in Germany (and Austria), you can asked Heinrich Heine about that, this is not something new.
simply put, I know all the stuff you write, also about maximizing profits, yet it is just - in my worldview - stupid, ineffective, partially anti-democratic and mostly against freedom of speech.
the strategy with maximizing profits is in my opinion the real good indicator that we are dealing with a real censorship practice here, because Germany is BIG market, yet, many content-delivery shops choose to DENY selling to this market! Because they are afraid of the legal consequences of selling a video game to someone in Germany, who has access to a credit card... scary isn't it? Companies forfeiting profit and driving away customers not out of stupidity but they are afraid...
both games in question were "ancient" to the time I wanted to buy them. Star Wars Battlefront 2 & Company of Heroes bundle in 2010. Star Wars Battlefront 2 is lying around at any brick & mortar although in the German version, which I refuse to buy, I prefer English. Company of Heroes has a USK rating of 16... so well.
>> sought a ban on violent games
>Good thing the word sought is there. The conservative hardliners have been talking about it for 20 years now and so far not much has happened.
> Preemptive censorship by the publishers is far worse.
let me guess why? I am pretty fucking sick of "available in the EU except Germany", "worldwide (except Germany)", etc. on steam, impulse, etc.
This happens for games with different themes like Star Wars: Battlefront, Company of Heroes (which as far as I can remember, doesn't have any swastikas in it)...
well, maybe these "preemptive censorship" is due to the fact that the put a "ban" (no commercials etc. allowed) on Dark Forces and several other titles ages ago? The content-delivery services seem to be very cautious about what you can buy from German soil...
Lars is still an asshole.
I probably would download it off the net though, with the help of my.torrent friends. yeah for sure that was very insightful.
how about funny?
Would you buy a Metallica online album despite their former views?
The point of being a musician, or another kind of artist, is to share the art, not to make a profit. There's nothing wrong with expecting to make some money off of it, but that should not be the focus.
well, did you ever took a close look on the average rock musician/artist? These guys haven chosen - at some point in their life - to make a living out of their music, thus they usually stopped performing a regular job and/or education. Hence, the first produce a product and not art. (Also at a certain point in time for some it is the only thing they can do...)
So simply said they just do their job.
Yeah and like everywhere, there are morons and geniuses, but it is about the product ("art") and not the producer ("artist").
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thx for modding me down, humor is a strange thing
... it is LOUD and slow... awesome... not really... NO!
if suffer also implies that the attacker were successful or was it the only one that was successful?
... but next time when I see someone in Team Fortress I probably will think "should I help this person crossing the street" before shooting them ...
yeah, well, but the last one (reason #1) still nails the coffin.
uhmm well: http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly.html
I had one no-name mp3 player and I have one creative mp3-player, both are post-iPod. Yet, both are crap, you know why? For the first there were some guys, who wrote a program to order the files... WTF? I can deal with that, but it is just annoying. Apple products are high quality and the handling the interfaces are top notch. Using Numbers (= Apple Excel) is just a charm, also keynote (=Apple Power Point). I like it, therefore I pay a bit more. If I want a secure machine I get a PC and install linux. If I want to play computer games than PC with windows. If I want an open phone I do NOT get an iPhone. there is a solution and tradeoff for nearly everything. back to the point, the available mp3-players were mostly crap and probably would still be. The change made is really obvious after it is done...
it said "expensive training"... probably like university/school... thus it doesn't necessarily makes the attendee - or in that case the attendog - smarter. and maybe one course was about biting boards...
thanks for the info, I am well aware what I can do, I already have company of heroes ordered in the uk and I usually do that, yet sometimes I am "forced" to not buy games in content-delivery stuff, because of the happy-censoring mentality in Germany (and Austria), you can asked Heinrich Heine about that, this is not something new. simply put, I know all the stuff you write, also about maximizing profits, yet it is just - in my worldview - stupid, ineffective, partially anti-democratic and mostly against freedom of speech. the strategy with maximizing profits is in my opinion the real good indicator that we are dealing with a real censorship practice here, because Germany is BIG market, yet, many content-delivery shops choose to DENY selling to this market! Because they are afraid of the legal consequences of selling a video game to someone in Germany, who has access to a credit card... scary isn't it? Companies forfeiting profit and driving away customers not out of stupidity but they are afraid...
both games in question were "ancient" to the time I wanted to buy them. Star Wars Battlefront 2 & Company of Heroes bundle in 2010. Star Wars Battlefront 2 is lying around at any brick & mortar although in the German version, which I refuse to buy, I prefer English. Company of Heroes has a USK rating of 16... so well.
>> sought a ban on violent games >Good thing the word sought is there. The conservative hardliners have been talking about it for 20 years now and so far not much has happened. > Preemptive censorship by the publishers is far worse. let me guess why? I am pretty fucking sick of "available in the EU except Germany", "worldwide (except Germany)", etc. on steam, impulse, etc. This happens for games with different themes like Star Wars: Battlefront, Company of Heroes (which as far as I can remember, doesn't have any swastikas in it)... well, maybe these "preemptive censorship" is due to the fact that the put a "ban" (no commercials etc. allowed) on Dark Forces and several other titles ages ago? The content-delivery services seem to be very cautious about what you can buy from German soil...
The point of being a musician, or another kind of artist, is to share the art, not to make a profit. There's nothing wrong with expecting to make some money off of it, but that should not be the focus.
well, did you ever took a close look on the average rock musician/artist? These guys haven chosen - at some point in their life - to make a living out of their music, thus they usually stopped performing a regular job and/or education. Hence, the first produce a product and not art. (Also at a certain point in time for some it is the only thing they can do...) So simply said they just do their job. Yeah and like everywhere, there are morons and geniuses, but it is about the product ("art") and not the producer ("artist").