How did they determine how many people know how or can use the cameras on their phones? Did they ask the providers how many transfer media messages from their phones and use that to determine it? Or did they take a survey?
all Verizon phones have to essentially have a geek owner to get pictures off the phone without paying a fee. Due to this, the survey would be more accurate.
Also, what age ranges did they check? Did they even check DESIRE to use them?
It's fairly hard to find a phone that doesn't have a camera on it at this point, especially during the contract promotions. I know my first camera phone was at least 4 times better than the cheapest store phone I could buy when I had to replace it due to an accident. And that 'cheap' phone ended up costing a good $100 MORE then the camera phone did since the camera phone was within the contract discount selection.
neoform seems to.. so let HIM quit his job/transfer, sell his house, buy a new one for half the price in possibly a much safer neighborhood, and move so that he can play games.
honestly dude.. for me, it's the online purchase. (I'll buy hardware online, but for some reason.. I'd rather have a disk and nice printed box for my games)
I only pirate a game if I already have my mind set on buying it, and need to make sure my system is able to run it smoothly, and/or until I can finally afford it (low income FTW!).
I personally haven't even tried to pirate your games, though I did try starship tycoon, and democracy 1. Your starship tycoon needs a better demo dude.
I spent like 2 hours restarting till I finally beat the demo mission within the allotted time, then suddenly felt that the full game probably didn't have much more to offer then the experience I had just had (fun up till that point though, I'll give you that.)
As for Democracy.. just didn't end up being my style. The demo for it seemed fine though. Gave a good idea of what the game would be like, and I felt jipped when I found out what the limit was. Jipped in the good way though, where I was curious on if I would have beat that setup.
Anyhow, I normally don't post this in depth on ideas unrelated to the article, but I remember you wanted feedback a short while ago from why people pirated your games.
P.S. If you're making over $500 a month off of just game sales though, don't complain too much. It doesn't have a whole lot of marketing after all, and I never even heard of your website or your games prior to your/. article. Move to a small town, and you can find a place to live for less then $500 a month.. then you don't have to worry about anything but making your next game.
that's why you mix with a couple non-steam games. Or.. move to the northwest, into a smaller town. Cable-One here in Idaho does fairly good. My apartment complex forced a switch over to some DSL company that sucks, and I miss the near perfect 100% uptime with full purchased bandwidth. (By near perfect, I don't mean a mere 98% either.. Out of the year of experience I had with them, their service went down once, maybe twice, and only for a couple hours tops.)
Not only that, but since water diffusion goes from most pure source to least pure source he's also calling us inherently 'more pure' then those that learn from us..
Nope. It's brown now. They decided they wanted to capture the essence of how most think the word "shit" when it enters the BSOD, yet keep the acronym so that people don't have to be retrained on key MS buzz words.
I don't know many cars that have bad speakers.. And if these guys are assuming that everyone who owns guitar hero is likely to have better speakers than what came with the TV, they have those versions backwards. I know many more people with high quality speakers in their cars and cable TV quality speakers in their house..
I'm willing to bet it probably has more to do with the thought of having more room on the downloaded content then on the CD.
~22MB for typical loss less from the CD vs 60MB+ if desired for downloaded content
I'm still stuck with a machine running DDR400.. Your idea of slow RAM and my idea of slow RAM may be a bit different 0.o After all, anything in the DDR2 spectrum would make me giddy with performance boosts..
The Government doesn't have the right to privacy.. so no a Government can't demand that it's people do anything that say.. inhibits free speech such as this.
Hmm.. Seems you and the parent here (as most people are) are unaware that the United States is not and never was a democracy.
I demonstrate my point 1 one very simple exercise.
Say the Pledge of Allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
On top of that, democracies are bad.
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
- Benjamin Franklin
Also, nothing the government does can supersede the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is not a declaration of what the people are allowed. It is a list to remind the government of what they cannot prevent. We made the Government, and gave it privileges. It can NOT infringe on the rights we have for being sovereign individuals. In fact...
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson
(ok, so I never actually studied C. but I did try to learn a little C++ and the difference showed in my post.) Anyway, the point is weeding people out. Those that aren't versed enough to have ever seen someone do ++i will flat out answer as i++ with no other statement attached. those people fail the test.
In that case. Is it unreasonable to say.. ask for monetary compensation if the testing process itself takes a while (over an hour). You could even do it so that if you don't pass the test, the compensation is minimum wage, and if you do, it's the hourly of that position. They may also stop the test on their own at any point with the knowledge of them paying you for at least an hour of time if they stop it between 30 minutes and an hour.
I find those terms reasonable. You are technically working for them at the time.
from my interviewing past.. it also seems to take a trained psychologist to realize when you've fluffed the heck out of your answers into the far far "Hire me. I'm never sick, always happy, a total snitch, and am far superior to my coworkers in every way with the willingness to work for 5 cents a day" spectrum.
the point was that commodoresloat was pointing out that a terrorist was the source, which would imply we shouldn't trust it. Whereas he was referring to the subject of the source opposed to the source itself.
Incorrect. The 'Source' is wikinews, who's source is wikileaks, who claims the document to be Identical to one presented by Steven Aftergood of secrecy news, a section of fas.org (Federation of American Scientists.)
really? Because bash.org has a perfect stupidity case to prove you wrong for some of the populous.
since bash.org is currently down I'll post the quote instead of the link. Any mod is welcome and requested to edit my quote to just the link if they notice the site come back up.
gentoogod: omg dude
gentoogod: today i might the stupidest 3 people i ever met
gentoogod: thier 3 brains combined couldnt solve the dilemma they faced today
siral21: what was it
gentoogod: ok before i say this
gentoogod: 100% true, not one second of a lie
gentoogod: this lady went into mcdonalds today and ordered a big mac for her
gentoogod: and ordered 2 mcgrittles one for each kid. one had bacon one without
gentoogod: her sons are around 18 or 19 so not infants
gentoogod: she went to the counter furious cause the son that wanted bacon has no bacon on his and the one that didnt want bacon has bacon on his
gentoogod: i fell on the floor beside her and couldnt stop laughing
gentoogod: so i finally stood up and asked her to repeat, thinking maybe shes drunk
gentoogod: i swear to god she looked at me straight faced and repeated it. and her 2 sons were beside her mad that they didnt get the order they wanted
There are a number of examples in modern economy that follow the "patron model" of producing works, where a wealthy person or company pays for the creation of intellectual property which is freely distributed in promoting some tangible good (hardware, say).
(quote)
Few and far between.
umm.. here's one that's not few and far between. TV commercials. distributed freely.. In fact they pay to have it distributed.. so these IP's LOVE pirating.. free distribution
didn't QA properly? They didn't QA at all if they didn't even try at least once with the latest operating system from the largest consumer software company on the planet 0.o
well.. it helps that most engineers and scientists had to take computer courses and don't have to call you when they see "Internet Explorer has encountered an error and must close.";)
When I worked for my high school it was around 400+ desktops, 500 students, ~30-40 staff members and the tech department was 1 guy plus what ever time I had to spare to help him out. so that's what? 200:1 for desktops to us, 270:1 for users to us, and 15-20 to 1 for staff to us. I was able to keep up with almost all the issues by myself honestly.. so yea 7:1 ratio? those techs must have a whole lot work they have to do per change 0.o
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What do they do, and is there a position open?
As for expensive living, and selling your games for half price due to currency conversion.. that sucks dude. Good luck for the future.
Did they ask the providers how many transfer media messages from their phones and use that to determine it?
Or did they take a survey?
all Verizon phones have to essentially have a geek owner to get pictures off the phone without paying a fee. Due to this, the survey would be more accurate.
Also, what age ranges did they check? Did they even check DESIRE to use them?
It's fairly hard to find a phone that doesn't have a camera on it at this point, especially during the contract promotions. I know my first camera phone was at least 4 times better than the cheapest store phone I could buy when I had to replace it due to an accident. And that 'cheap' phone ended up costing a good $100 MORE then the camera phone did since the camera phone was within the contract discount selection.
neoform seems to.. so let HIM quit his job/transfer, sell his house, buy a new one for half the price in possibly a much safer neighborhood, and move so that he can play games.
I only pirate a game if I already have my mind set on buying it, and need to make sure my system is able to run it smoothly, and/or until I can finally afford it (low income FTW!).
I personally haven't even tried to pirate your games, though I did try starship tycoon, and democracy 1. Your starship tycoon needs a better demo dude.
I spent like 2 hours restarting till I finally beat the demo mission within the allotted time, then suddenly felt that the full game probably didn't have much more to offer then the experience I had just had (fun up till that point though, I'll give you that.)
As for Democracy.. just didn't end up being my style. The demo for it seemed fine though. Gave a good idea of what the game would be like, and I felt jipped when I found out what the limit was. Jipped in the good way though, where I was curious on if I would have beat that setup.
Anyhow, I normally don't post this in depth on ideas unrelated to the article, but I remember you wanted feedback a short while ago from why people pirated your games.
P.S. If you're making over $500 a month off of just game sales though, don't complain too much. It doesn't have a whole lot of marketing after all, and I never even heard of your website or your games prior to your /. article. Move to a small town, and you can find a place to live for less then $500 a month.. then you don't have to worry about anything but making your next game.
that's why you mix with a couple non-steam games. Or.. move to the northwest, into a smaller town. Cable-One here in Idaho does fairly good. My apartment complex forced a switch over to some DSL company that sucks, and I miss the near perfect 100% uptime with full purchased bandwidth. (By near perfect, I don't mean a mere 98% either.. Out of the year of experience I had with them, their service went down once, maybe twice, and only for a couple hours tops.)
Not only that, but since water diffusion goes from most pure source to least pure source he's also calling us inherently 'more pure' then those that learn from us..
the hex values and the word "read" all had full quotation marks.
Nope. It's brown now. They decided they wanted to capture the essence of how most think the word "shit" when it enters the BSOD, yet keep the acronym so that people don't have to be retrained on key MS buzz words.
I'm willing to bet it probably has more to do with the thought of having more room on the downloaded content then on the CD.
~22MB for typical loss less from the CD vs 60MB+ if desired for downloaded content
I'm still stuck with a machine running DDR400.. Your idea of slow RAM and my idea of slow RAM may be a bit different 0.o After all, anything in the DDR2 spectrum would make me giddy with performance boosts..
The Government doesn't have the right to privacy.. so no a Government can't demand that it's people do anything that say.. inhibits free speech such as this.
I demonstrate my point 1 one very simple exercise. Say the Pledge of Allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
On top of that, democracies are bad.
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
- Benjamin Franklin
Also, nothing the government does can supersede the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is not a declaration of what the people are allowed. It is a list to remind the government of what they cannot prevent. We made the Government, and gave it privileges. It can NOT infringe on the rights we have for being sovereign individuals. In fact...
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson
/rant
(ok, so I never actually studied C. but I did try to learn a little C++ and the difference showed in my post.) Anyway, the point is weeding people out. Those that aren't versed enough to have ever seen someone do ++i will flat out answer as i++ with no other statement attached. those people fail the test.
I find those terms reasonable. You are technically working for them at the time.
how about this one. "Ok, you know C. Which is correct? ++i or i++?" You just removed even more with that one.
from my interviewing past.. it also seems to take a trained psychologist to realize when you've fluffed the heck out of your answers into the far far "Hire me. I'm never sick, always happy, a total snitch, and am far superior to my coworkers in every way with the willingness to work for 5 cents a day" spectrum.
the point was that commodoresloat was pointing out that a terrorist was the source, which would imply we shouldn't trust it. Whereas he was referring to the subject of the source opposed to the source itself.
Incorrect. The 'Source' is wikinews, who's source is wikileaks, who claims the document to be Identical to one presented by Steven Aftergood of secrecy news, a section of fas.org (Federation of American Scientists.)
since bash.org is currently down I'll post the quote instead of the link. Any mod is welcome and requested to edit my quote to just the link if they notice the site come back up.
gentoogod: omg dude
gentoogod: today i might the stupidest 3 people i ever met
gentoogod: thier 3 brains combined couldnt solve the dilemma they faced today
siral21: what was it
gentoogod: ok before i say this
gentoogod: 100% true, not one second of a lie
gentoogod: this lady went into mcdonalds today and ordered a big mac for her
gentoogod: and ordered 2 mcgrittles one for each kid. one had bacon one without
gentoogod: her sons are around 18 or 19 so not infants
gentoogod: she went to the counter furious cause the son that wanted bacon has no bacon on his and the one that didnt want bacon has bacon on his
gentoogod: i fell on the floor beside her and couldnt stop laughing
gentoogod: so i finally stood up and asked her to repeat, thinking maybe shes drunk
gentoogod: i swear to god she looked at me straight faced and repeated it. and her 2 sons were beside her mad that they didnt get the order they wanted
(quote)
There are a number of examples in modern economy that follow the "patron model" of producing works, where a wealthy person or company pays for the creation of intellectual property which is freely distributed in promoting some tangible good (hardware, say).
(quote)
Few and far between.
umm.. here's one that's not few and far between. TV commercials. distributed freely.. In fact they pay to have it distributed.. so these IP's LOVE pirating.. free distribution
$2,000? I can find a computer to do it for $200...
didn't QA properly? They didn't QA at all if they didn't even try at least once with the latest operating system from the largest consumer software company on the planet 0.o
well.. it helps that most engineers and scientists had to take computer courses and don't have to call you when they see "Internet Explorer has encountered an error and must close." ;)
When I worked for my high school it was around 400+ desktops, 500 students, ~30-40 staff members and the tech department was 1 guy plus what ever time I had to spare to help him out. so that's what? 200:1 for desktops to us, 270:1 for users to us, and 15-20 to 1 for staff to us. I was able to keep up with almost all the issues by myself honestly.. so yea 7:1 ratio? those techs must have a whole lot work they have to do per change 0.o