I really like the idea, TFA mentions that each reactor costs $30 million. $30 million / 20,000 homes is $1500 each. Over 10 years that's $150/year for all your electricity needs and that sounds pretty cheap. The company says they have 100 "firm" orders. Hopefully it catches on, but a small town of 20,000 people will probably have a hard time approving $30 million...
It's a partial solution -- don't by games with DRM. The other part is to buy games that don't have DRM. I think Sins of a Solar Empire is one of those...
Even corporate drones might catch on that "hey, games the don't have DRM are outselling ones that do!"
btw, PCGamer includes DRM info in its reviews. I'm sure other magazines do, too. It has now become the most important part of any review for me. I read that before even considering the rest of the review.
They could do the same thing as Gamestop -- offer cash or credit towards a new game, and resell the ones they buy back at a discount. The credit would obviously have to be for another title from the same publisher, but if the second hand market is really that lucrative, and they're sick of losing sales to it, why wouldn't they do this?
Could take it a step further and package pre-paid envelopes (ala Netflix) in their game boxes to give the buyers incentive to sell it back to the publisher rather than to a third-party store.
I guess the fact that they haven't done this yet means that, like many posts are saying, he's totally full of B.S.
I would rather face a robotic soldier programmed to kill me than a cruise missile that's been programmed to lock onto me. They're both machines that are out to get me, but one has a range of hundreds of miles and moves at supersonic speeds. I'll take my chances with the one that can be foiled by, you know, stairs.
I'm still waiting for an MMO that really feels like a living world. Where the quests I'm on are only mine: they haven't been done by anyone, and after me no one will do them again. A shared world, but the experience, the goals, and the journey are mine alone. When our paths cross, it isn't because we both clicked on the bright exclamation point over Quest Giver Cletus, but because our individual journeys have fallen in step for a time. And maybe I can develop my character not through killing and loot, but by making real moral decisions. Not the simplistic "Either take your reward (neutral), refuse the reward (good), or kill the guy and take the reward anyway (evil)" choices, but the ones that aren't very clear: Do you steal from the king, who you've sworn allegiance, in order to give some food to somebody who's starving? Do you kill one innocent child in order to save a village?
Not that I don't mind a little level grinding now and then. It's just that sometimes I want something with a little more meat to it.
Maybe someday I'll play a game that puts the "character" back in "character building".
Next week's headline: US Military invents a grenade with a "Surrender" button. Throw the grenade, and if the enemy wants to surrender, they can simply press the button and the grenade deactivates. Maybe it opens up and dispenses little handcuffs to all of them and a gps showing them where the nearest US POW camp is. That way, they can all cuff themselves and use the GPS to find the nearest surrendering station to check themselves in. Maybe it'll come with a little PDA so they can register their favorite meals and preferred accommodations and check off special needs like "wheelchair accessible", "wake-up call", and "preferred method of torture".
With a pickle mind, we kick the nipple beer,
Steady as she goes, we're flying over trout,
Ghetto down the highway, at the speed of light,
All I want to feel now is the wind in my eye!
Sack of monkeys in my pocket,
My sister's ready to go,
Hear the engines roll now (Hear the engines roll now)
Idiot control now (Idiot control now)
Hideous control now (Hideous control now)
Nini on the road now (nini on the road now)
Nini in control, wheels on fire, burning rubber tires!
I would like to point out that the Democrats were overwhelmingly in favor of the bailout that has led to the government taking over several large financial institutions, while the Republicans generally opposed it.
IANAEconomist, but I didn't like the bailout. At all. The way I understood it, we had a choice between some pain now or more pain later. I would have preferred some pain now, and from what I could tell from news sites and stuff, a lot of other people agreed with me. But very few of us were represented in that vote. Both Obama and McCain voted for the bailout. Because of that, I'm not voting for either of them. Third party, ftw!
I also looked up how my senators and representative voted and will adjust my votes accordingly. It will be the first time I vote for a democrat.
In a way, I'm thankful for the bailout. Really made my decision easier this election year.
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The government is paying to fix a problem that THEY caused.
Just a small nit, but the government doesn't pay for anything. Tax payers pay for everything.
Nits aside, maybe the coupon program just needs a bailout?
I really like the idea, TFA mentions that each reactor costs $30 million. $30 million / 20,000 homes is $1500 each. Over 10 years that's $150/year for all your electricity needs and that sounds pretty cheap. The company says they have 100 "firm" orders. Hopefully it catches on, but a small town of 20,000 people will probably have a hard time approving $30 million...
31 years since the *movie*. But TFA is talking about the *tech*, which didn't come out until a year later, star wars being sci-fi and all...
You're all amateurs. It was a d7.
And not a single goatse.x reference? You're losing it, guys. I was expecting the article to be friggin' tagged 'goatse'.
Maybe I should have gone with +19% to all resistances instead...
It's a mass grave.
You might say he gives +69% damage to undead.
"Oh, Fry, I love the way you NOTICE DIFFERENT THINGS."
Even corporate drones might catch on that "hey, games the don't have DRM are outselling ones that do!"
btw, PCGamer includes DRM info in its reviews. I'm sure other magazines do, too. It has now become the most important part of any review for me. I read that before even considering the rest of the review.
Could take it a step further and package pre-paid envelopes (ala Netflix) in their game boxes to give the buyers incentive to sell it back to the publisher rather than to a third-party store.
I guess the fact that they haven't done this yet means that, like many posts are saying, he's totally full of B.S.
I would rather face a robotic soldier programmed to kill me than a cruise missile that's been programmed to lock onto me. They're both machines that are out to get me, but one has a range of hundreds of miles and moves at supersonic speeds. I'll take my chances with the one that can be foiled by, you know, stairs.
Not that I don't mind a little level grinding now and then. It's just that sometimes I want something with a little more meat to it.
Maybe someday I'll play a game that puts the "character" back in "character building".
Next week's headline: US Military invents a grenade with a "Surrender" button. Throw the grenade, and if the enemy wants to surrender, they can simply press the button and the grenade deactivates. Maybe it opens up and dispenses little handcuffs to all of them and a gps showing them where the nearest US POW camp is. That way, they can all cuff themselves and use the GPS to find the nearest surrendering station to check themselves in. Maybe it'll come with a little PDA so they can register their favorite meals and preferred accommodations and check off special needs like "wheelchair accessible", "wake-up call", and "preferred method of torture".
It wasn't like no one knew what she was doing.
Maybe she tricked them because she was so smart.
Steady as she goes, we're flying over trout,
Ghetto down the highway, at the speed of light,
All I want to feel now is the wind in my eye!
Sack of monkeys in my pocket,
My sister's ready to go,
Hear the engines roll now (Hear the engines roll now)
Idiot control now (Idiot control now)
Hideous control now (Hideous control now)
Nini on the road now (nini on the road now)
Nini in control, wheels on fire, burning rubber tires!
I had it: "Baracka wins! Fatality!"
I would like to point out that the Democrats were overwhelmingly in favor of the bailout that has led to the government taking over several large financial institutions, while the Republicans generally opposed it.
McCain voted for the bailout. fyi.
I also looked up how my senators and representative voted and will adjust my votes accordingly. It will be the first time I vote for a democrat.
In a way, I'm thankful for the bailout. Really made my decision easier this election year.
It will rise again.
We now have a fleet of spacecraft orbiting and on the surface of Mars...
Makes me wonder if anyone on Mars has welcomed their new robotic earthling overlords...
It seems in such a scenario it would be possible to form a black hole with double the "maximum" mass.
I call it a "Hawking Hole".
No, Slashdot has trolls.
"Ramming speed!"
If we can't have flying cars, at least we can have walking houses.