I don't know about most people, but when I budget for a new build I budget the entire thing as a single purchase. So if the CPU+mobo+RAM cost $200 less I will put that money into faster graphics or more memory or a nicer display or whatever.
I suspect it's a small, small group who buy the best that's available on the market with no concern for an overall budget.
is that the CPU price is only one component of a significantly higher overall platform cost. Both memory and mainboard cost significantly more if you want to build an i7 rig.
So now, I get to spend a huge premium so I can have a car with the Lexus name, thereby making all the other suburbanites jealous, and on top of it I get "targeted" advertisements. I'll think about getting a car that spews ads at me if and only if you give me the car for free.
Once upon a time, people used to go to the movie theatre to enjoy an entertainment experience that was free from advertisements... to escape the constant barrage of commercials that accompany broadcast television.
Then, some executive in a boardroom somewhere uttered the words "say, what if we could get people to pay good money to come sit in our theatres and we could also make money by forcing them to watch ads before the movie starts?"
Mount the thing in the back window of your car, and set it up so that it's preloaded with around a dozen messages that can be displayed as the need arises while you drive.
My suggestions would be things like:
"Turn your highbeams off retard"
"Kindly move out of the fast lane"
"Next time try signalling"
"I'm boning your wife"
Yeah, those spontaneous resets (when the expansion pack loses contact with the mainboard) are real killers... especially if you haven't saved your BASIC program to cassette tape for a while.
Internet driving licenses would not prevent that 2-5% of the population that can't be taught to tie their shoes from answering unsolicited emails.
That's why we need to get proactive. We need some kind of white hat agency that sends out trojan-riddled spam to everybody on the planet. Those who are sufficiently stupid or gullible will open and act on the spam, which will immediately reconfigure their computer: my recommendation is that it irrevocably turn their machine into a slightly more advanced equivalent of a Fisher Price Activity Center, with lots of shiny buttons and spinning graphics the users can click on but no network connectivity of any kind.
As much as I love playing Freeciv, I worry that it's not quite ready for people who have never played either it or some other version of Civilization. It is not at all intuitive,
These are 13-16 year olds the OP is talking about... I'm sure they'll figure it out in short order.
instead of mind numbing violence and graphic eye candy, maybe it is a better idea to switch gears and provide something that actually cultivate the mind?
I think you're probably overstating the developmental capacity of checkers.
Scenario A: White-supremacist group delivers flyers (under cover of the night) to thousands of doorsteps in your neighborhood, in which they call for genocide against niggers, packies, and sub-humans of all colors
Scenario B: Random slashdotter places a billboard in your neighborhood with the words "I think gay hardcore manlove is a tender and beautiful thing, and this picture proves it" accompanied by a photo that makes goatse seem like a children's nursery rhyme
In both cases, laws would apply (hate speech laws and obscenity laws) because in neither case is it reasonable to tell people "just don't look at it and it's not a problem."
I just don't see a lot of mass appeal for a game that involves handing out disaster-relief supplies or carefully negotiating power-sharing deals in shaky democracies.
Okay, so some people during revolutionary times made an arbitrary decision of what is or is not to be considered free speech... and tomorrow somebody else might make some other arbitrary decision about what is free speech. They're all just lines in the sand intended to capture the essence of what is good vs. bad for the society we live in.
Would you find it offensive if somebody erected a billboard in your neighbourhood depicting hardcore porn? How about gay hardcore porn? Should it be illegal? It's just free speech right?
Many famous Scientists and Inventors in history have to overcome preconceived ideas, to battle against the existing paradigm of the time. Same is true now.
One good example (among many) is Alfred Wegener's attempt to advance his theory of continental drift.
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Never mind about the memory vs. the lights ... the important question is: did you get any that night?
I don't know about most people, but when I budget for a new build I budget the entire thing as a single purchase. So if the CPU+mobo+RAM cost $200 less I will put that money into faster graphics or more memory or a nicer display or whatever.
I suspect it's a small, small group who buy the best that's available on the market with no concern for an overall budget.
Come on ... put a little karma in the game and don't post AC.
is that the CPU price is only one component of a significantly higher overall platform cost. Both memory and mainboard cost significantly more if you want to build an i7 rig.
Unlike a car, however, only a gun can protect you from an assailant.
I think a car can do an admirable job protecting me from an assailant: it is made of steel, has locking doors, and can travel at a high rate of speed.
Hard to kill someone at ten yards with a hammer
Depends on your THAC0
You comment really blows
So now, I get to spend a huge premium so I can have a car with the Lexus name, thereby making all the other suburbanites jealous, and on top of it I get "targeted" advertisements. I'll think about getting a car that spews ads at me if and only if you give me the car for free.
Once upon a time, people used to go to the movie theatre to enjoy an entertainment experience that was free from advertisements ... to escape the constant barrage of commercials that accompany broadcast television.
Then, some executive in a boardroom somewhere uttered the words "say, what if we could get people to pay good money to come sit in our theatres and we could also make money by forcing them to watch ads before the movie starts?"
and the rest is history
my Supra was rear-ended and total'd by a police officer talking on his cellphone
Did he write himself up a ticket for careless driving, or did he have to call for backup to do that?
Modded offtopic? Is there really any such thing as offtopic on idle?
Amateurs.
I can think of several ways to add steps to this process.
Mount the thing in the back window of your car, and set it up so that it's preloaded with around a dozen messages that can be displayed as the need arises while you drive.
My suggestions would be things like:
"Turn your highbeams off retard"
"Kindly move out of the fast lane"
"Next time try signalling"
"I'm boning your wife"
I thought the Streisand effect was when somebody doesn't want information to become public, and by acting to suppress it they generate publicity.
depends on where the gear came from
I've learned from experience that you don't want used computer gear that's been exposed to heavy cigarette smoke for several years.
Yeah, those spontaneous resets (when the expansion pack loses contact with the mainboard) are real killers ... especially if you haven't saved your BASIC program to cassette tape for a while.
Internet driving licenses would not prevent that 2-5% of the population that can't be taught to tie their shoes from answering unsolicited emails.
That's why we need to get proactive. We need some kind of white hat agency that sends out trojan-riddled spam to everybody on the planet. Those who are sufficiently stupid or gullible will open and act on the spam, which will immediately reconfigure their computer: my recommendation is that it irrevocably turn their machine into a slightly more advanced equivalent of a Fisher Price Activity Center, with lots of shiny buttons and spinning graphics the users can click on but no network connectivity of any kind.
Your response demonstrates a ...
[ ] clueless
... approach to interpreting spam stories ...
[x] sarcasm-based
[ ] battlescarred
[ ] well informed
Yes, but LED backlighting changes that equation yet again
In my mind, they look like Wesley Crusher ... and they aren't cheering "It's a Gusher!!" they're crying "Get it off! It burns it burns!"
As much as I love playing Freeciv, I worry that it's not quite ready for people who have never played either it or some other version of Civilization. It is not at all intuitive,
These are 13-16 year olds the OP is talking about ... I'm sure they'll figure it out in short order.
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instead of mind numbing violence and graphic eye candy, maybe it is a better idea to switch gears and provide something that actually cultivate the mind?
I think you're probably overstating the developmental capacity of checkers.
Scenario A: White-supremacist group delivers flyers (under cover of the night) to thousands of doorsteps in your neighborhood, in which they call for genocide against niggers, packies, and sub-humans of all colors
Scenario B: Random slashdotter places a billboard in your neighborhood with the words "I think gay hardcore manlove is a tender and beautiful thing, and this picture proves it" accompanied by a photo that makes goatse seem like a children's nursery rhyme
In both cases, laws would apply (hate speech laws and obscenity laws) because in neither case is it reasonable to tell people "just don't look at it and it's not a problem."
I just don't see a lot of mass appeal for a game that involves handing out disaster-relief supplies or carefully negotiating power-sharing deals in shaky democracies.
*shrug*
Okay, so some people during revolutionary times made an arbitrary decision of what is or is not to be considered free speech ... and tomorrow somebody else might make some other arbitrary decision about what is free speech. They're all just lines in the sand intended to capture the essence of what is good vs. bad for the society we live in.
Would you find it offensive if somebody erected a billboard in your neighbourhood depicting hardcore porn? How about gay hardcore porn? Should it be illegal? It's just free speech right?
Lines in the sand.
Many famous Scientists and Inventors in history have to overcome preconceived ideas, to battle against the existing paradigm of the time. Same is true now.
One good example (among many) is Alfred Wegener's attempt to advance his theory of continental drift.