I seem to remember an online game doing exactly this, you could skip the video ad if you had seen it before but in order to earn the "credits" which were essential to playing the game, you had to correctly answer a question about the video, typically involving to simply answer what the specific product was. (I do believe the site in question is now dead FWIW)
Or how about a GPS system mounted in the back, where you could input the address you wanted to go to?
It would have the added benefit of showing you the trip you were taking and your expected arrival time; it'd also give visitors a way to make sure that the cab driver isn't taking a longer way for a higher fare.
Because nobody except NYC locals (who would already know if its a ripoff route) would be able to actually use the device quickly enough to make sense. Do you have any clue how much in profits would be lost every year if this added even 10 seconds worth of wasted time per user?
This has nothing to do with ability of the system as there has been homebrew for a while that enables this feature, but rather that royalties would have to be paid in order to legally enable it. If consumers would be willing to eat the price of the upgrade without bitching, I am sure they would be willing to sell it to you. (Remember how the original xbox required a seperate remote in order to use DVD playback?)
There are people who have HIV and didnt contract it through sex or drugs.
There are people who were born HIV+ because their mother was a carrier, there are people who have been raped and now carry the virus
Does not compute.
There are people who were born HIV+ because their mother was a carrier, there are people who have been raped and now carry the virus, there are people in the medical field that contract it because some drug addict freaks out while they tend to them. Hell, even though we test blood now many people contracted it through blood transfusions before they tested it.
Care to back this up with anything? Although I agree with you 100% in spirit and i don't doubt that it HAS happened more than once, how about sticking to facts instead of what comes off as even more alarmist than a Fox News story on people sticking razor blades in Halloween candy? Or is "getting needle stabbed by a crazed junkie" now the most likely way one will contract the disease?
When the fact that he has stated they are a design firm makes it pretty clear that at least one of the pirated pieces of software is Adobe Photoshop?
Nobody would actually be so naive to claim that GIMP is a legitimate and complete open source alternative for Photoshop for a design firm at this point in time? Right? (Although I obviously hope that it will be at some point in the future and GIMP currently is great to give to friends that are learning photo manipulation software for the first time)
He is comparing the download of a demo of an emulated game for all three systems, all of which are "wildly different in size", as he admits in the article.
Mega Man 9 demo, PS3: 63 MB
-Mega Man 9 demo, Xbox 360: 88.7 MB
-Mega Man 9 game, Wii: 8.3 MB
How many times did he test? Four times, on 3 different peoples connections.
Except for when I don't use VoIP but half my neighbors do, and I get less connection than my neighbors for the same price just because the company doesn't have the infrastructure to handle what they sold me.
Hasn't this myth been debunked a hundred times before? Namely that a single P2P user uses several magnitudes of bandwidth more than a single VoIP user.
I think the US should just leave both sides to fend for themselves.
Even though I am unabashedly pro-Israel, all this would do is result in the Palestinians being wiped completely off the fucking map in about a week and a half, destabilizing the middle east more than we have ever experienced in our lifetimes.
Even if per-capita criminal activity goes down, the sheer increase in the number of prostitutes is very likely to more than counter-act that effect.
IMHO, a supply of easy money is unhealthy for anybody, and professions where such success is very short-term, quickly leads to large numbers of poor people, desperate to maintain their expensive habits (and I don't *just* mean drugs).
Except for the fact that if there was any increase in the number of prostitutes (because of it being legal), the average amount of money a prostitute is paid would go down an according amount, keeping both sides in check and resulting in no long term difference.
And then there's WiiWare. Awesome, great, terrific, incredible games like Defend Your Castle, Toki Tori, Strong Bad, World of Goo, Wild West Guns (if you like light-gun games), Mega Man 9, Bomberman Blast, and LostWinds, yet most of the Wii owners I see don't even bother to hook up their Wii's Wifi.
I don't know if this is a failure to market on Nintendo's part or what. Obviously Nintendo's stuff sells well enough, so one has to wonder what gives.
What is so hard to understand that the whole reason these downloadable small-market games are able to be profitable is because they DONT spend an amount greater than the budget for the game itself to advertise, which would be exactly the case if they advertised them in any major media outlet.
The sample sizes used are so ludicrously small compared to how many numerical possibilities exist to test for that anything you get out this would be a joke no matter the circumstances.
Western Union or E-Gold, both relatively untraceable when used by people that know what they are doing. (Which is why a trust-based system such as an online forum is essential to the entire enterprise being able to function, and even so, criminals ripping off other criminals runs rampant)
Microsoft and many other companies already have license-free picture repositories for use for this (flikr and the like).
This is the problem, is that unless you had near infinite amounts of pictures (which is why we currently use "random" data), it would soon be cracked to the point of perfection.
I know Newegg is popular, but I've always felt their restocking fees were basically insulting.
Truly spoken like someone that has never run any sort of internet-based business before...there is an obscene amount of fraud when it comes to abuse of the return policy regarding pc parts and other commodity electronics.
Nerdy viewers who think that this was supposed to be aimed at them are missing the point so badly its not even funny.
To the average computer user, Gates IS Windows so why would you shove messages down the viewers throats when the real point is to make windows seem more cool? (even if the apparent intended method is in a semi-ironic-but-still-self-aware-of-it kind of way)
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I seem to remember an online game doing exactly this, you could skip the video ad if you had seen it before but in order to earn the "credits" which were essential to playing the game, you had to correctly answer a question about the video, typically involving to simply answer what the specific product was. (I do believe the site in question is now dead FWIW)
Can anyone back this up? That they somehow dont meter bandwith with this kind of setup?
Or how about a GPS system mounted in the back, where you could input the address you wanted to go to?
It would have the added benefit of showing you the trip you were taking and your expected arrival time; it'd also give visitors a way to make sure that the cab driver isn't taking a longer way for a higher fare.
Because nobody except NYC locals (who would already know if its a ripoff route) would be able to actually use the device quickly enough to make sense. Do you have any clue how much in profits would be lost every year if this added even 10 seconds worth of wasted time per user?
Um, the wireless data infrastructure in Japan is FAR superior to what we have in the USA anyway, talk about an apples to oranges comparison.....
Also, you don't really need the Twilight Hack once you've installed the Homebrew Channel
Is this true? Because its the only reason I even own zelda, and would love to be able to give it to a friend to have if this is the case.
This has nothing to do with ability of the system as there has been homebrew for a while that enables this feature, but rather that royalties would have to be paid in order to legally enable it. If consumers would be willing to eat the price of the upgrade without bitching, I am sure they would be willing to sell it to you. (Remember how the original xbox required a seperate remote in order to use DVD playback?)
There are people who have HIV and didnt contract it through sex or drugs.
There are people who were born HIV+ because their mother was a carrier, there are people who have been raped and now carry the virus
Does not compute.
There are people who were born HIV+ because their mother was a carrier, there are people who have been raped and now carry the virus, there are people in the medical field that contract it because some drug addict freaks out while they tend to them. Hell, even though we test blood now many people contracted it through blood transfusions before they tested it.
Care to back this up with anything? Although I agree with you 100% in spirit and i don't doubt that it HAS happened more than once, how about sticking to facts instead of what comes off as even more alarmist than a Fox News story on people sticking razor blades in Halloween candy? Or is "getting needle stabbed by a crazed junkie" now the most likely way one will contract the disease?
When the fact that he has stated they are a design firm makes it pretty clear that at least one of the pirated pieces of software is Adobe Photoshop?
Nobody would actually be so naive to claim that GIMP is a legitimate and complete open source alternative for Photoshop for a design firm at this point in time? Right? (Although I obviously hope that it will be at some point in the future and GIMP currently is great to give to friends that are learning photo manipulation software for the first time)
He is comparing the download of a demo of an emulated game for all three systems, all of which are "wildly different in size", as he admits in the article.
Mega Man 9 demo, PS3: 63 MB -Mega Man 9 demo, Xbox 360: 88.7 MB -Mega Man 9 game, Wii: 8.3 MB
How many times did he test? Four times, on 3 different peoples connections.
FAIL.
Except for when I don't use VoIP but half my neighbors do, and I get less connection than my neighbors for the same price just because the company doesn't have the infrastructure to handle what they sold me.
Hasn't this myth been debunked a hundred times before? Namely that a single P2P user uses several magnitudes of bandwidth more than a single VoIP user.
I do that on my home phone line (actually even simpler than that -- "Press 1 to continue in English"), and it works quite well.
Could you please provide a link that could explain how one would go about doing this themselves?
How selfish do you have to be to care about something like the retrieval of your body if you die doing something that is known to be this dangerous?
I think the US should just leave both sides to fend for themselves.
Even though I am unabashedly pro-Israel, all this would do is result in the Palestinians being wiped completely off the fucking map in about a week and a half, destabilizing the middle east more than we have ever experienced in our lifetimes.
Even if per-capita criminal activity goes down, the sheer increase in the number of prostitutes is very likely to more than counter-act that effect.
IMHO, a supply of easy money is unhealthy for anybody, and professions where such success is very short-term, quickly leads to large numbers of poor people, desperate to maintain their expensive habits (and I don't *just* mean drugs).
Except for the fact that if there was any increase in the number of prostitutes (because of it being legal), the average amount of money a prostitute is paid would go down an according amount, keeping both sides in check and resulting in no long term difference.
Supply, meet demand.
And then there's WiiWare. Awesome, great, terrific, incredible games like Defend Your Castle, Toki Tori, Strong Bad, World of Goo, Wild West Guns (if you like light-gun games), Mega Man 9, Bomberman Blast, and LostWinds, yet most of the Wii owners I see don't even bother to hook up their Wii's Wifi.
I don't know if this is a failure to market on Nintendo's part or what. Obviously Nintendo's stuff sells well enough, so one has to wonder what gives.
What is so hard to understand that the whole reason these downloadable small-market games are able to be profitable is because they DONT spend an amount greater than the budget for the game itself to advertise, which would be exactly the case if they advertised them in any major media outlet.
The sample sizes used are so ludicrously small compared to how many numerical possibilities exist to test for that anything you get out this would be a joke no matter the circumstances.
Western Union or E-Gold, both relatively untraceable when used by people that know what they are doing. (Which is why a trust-based system such as an online forum is essential to the entire enterprise being able to function, and even so, criminals ripping off other criminals runs rampant)
Why do so many people have anger at the idea of cheap gasoline when it is actually subsidized gasoline that they have a problem with?
Nice job completely leaving out that her conviction was overturned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samina_Malik
Microsoft and many other companies already have license-free picture repositories for use for this (flikr and the like).
This is the problem, is that unless you had near infinite amounts of pictures (which is why we currently use "random" data), it would soon be cracked to the point of perfection.
you can get USB cuecats for like $11 including shipping on ebay.
I know Newegg is popular, but I've always felt their restocking fees were basically insulting.
Truly spoken like someone that has never run any sort of internet-based business before...there is an obscene amount of fraud when it comes to abuse of the return policy regarding pc parts and other commodity electronics.
You really hit the nail on the head...
Nerdy viewers who think that this was supposed to be aimed at them are missing the point so badly its not even funny.
To the average computer user, Gates IS Windows so why would you shove messages down the viewers throats when the real point is to make windows seem more cool? (even if the apparent intended method is in a semi-ironic-but-still-self-aware-of-it kind of way)
Burnout Paradise City also requires it.
Probably a lot easier to source yourself a few liters of Cray blood (or some similar non-conductive coolant) to submerge the board in instead.
Cheers,
A Google image search brought up nothing for cray blood, could you provide a link?