Exactly. You don't like a certain aspect of your job, sunshine? Here, have a muffin and tell me all about it. No one cares that some random dude dislikes live chat.
I think it's safe to assume that Steam isn't going to allow them to ride on their systems for this, and neither is Origin. You also have the issue of games that have one time use serial numbers (most notably, MMOs) and day one DLC content. For them to be able to do this at all, they would have to come up with their own distribution system.
Since IP owners have more rights than anyone else in the US, there's no way they'd be able to put games in their system without the permission of said owners. But how do you get someone's permission to make money off of their product, while giving them nothing? They would have to pay royalties to the studios/producers (let's not start nitpicking terminology here - you know where I'm going with this), which is precisely what they're currently avoiding with physical media in order to make money hand over fist with used games.
Of course they -want- to sell secondhand digital downloads; I just don't see it working out for them.
The only difference between iGoogle and a dashboard you could write yourself is how it looks. Just yoink all the CSS while it's still up, and make yourself a replacement.
The author seems to think the buttons look "slick", but they look cheap and cheesy to me. A regular touch screen looks a whole hell of a lot better, in my opinion.
We've all rightly been suspicious of wikipedia since its inception. This isn't really news to anyone on slashdot. Sadly, the type of person who really needs to read this article (those who aren't very technologically proficient), will probably never see it.
Surely you're not saying that you think a particular travel agency represents the entirety of a country, and has any influence whatsoever on law enforcement?
Also known as the Department of Shit We Already Know. Next, we explain how fewer people write handwritten letters after the advent of "electronic mail".
Belize Telecommunications Limited, which is essentially a monopoly in Belize (there is another cell phone provider and some cable companies provide internet, but BTL owns all the infrastructure pretty much), charges an already poor nation ridiculously high prices. International calls to and from the country are incredibly high, sometimes measured in dollars (!!!) per minute. On top of that, they bought censorship software from China in order to block VOIP traffic. Their justification for this was so that they could maintain low (?) prices on their phone rates. When this happened, it broke a lot of things, most notably MMOs.
I left the country three years ago, and things have improved slightly since then, but at the time, a 128k DSL line cost a total of about $85usd a month, when all the charges were added up. This is in a country where minimum wage is around $1.50usd. There are about 350,000 people in the whole country, and if I'm not mistaken, BTL reported a net profit of $13.5mil USD last year. So I'm going to have a hard time with ISPs attempting to justify this sort of thing.
What a cheap way to get extra pageviews. One or two tiny paragraphs and an inconsequential image per slide. I assume that's what's on every slide, anyway. I didn't actually click through everything. No point in giving them additional ad impressions.
Let's say, hypothetically, John Doe gets brought up on child pornography possession charges. He has one computer in his home, and the cops are reasonably sure that said porn was accessed and stored at that physical location only. They order him to decrypt his hard drive, because they know it has evidence of his illegal porn habits. He replies, "No it doesn't. It has other stuff. Stuff you don't know about. You can't see it."
Now, they could say that they know for certain that he's a lying sack of crap and force him to decrypt it anyway. No child porn evidence, but he's be embezzling from his company, according to what they find. Now what?
Does it come with testing hardware so that it can determine precisely how strong your coffee is, and thus more accurately calculate your intake? Does it come with measuring tools to know how much you're pouring into your mug? How about accountability for the additional influence of sugar? What about people who have become desensitized to caffeine? There are too many factors they haven't considered, not least of which being how they're going to convince me to jam a needle in my liver so they can determine how well it's working.
I had thoroughly convinced myself that the days of people using passwords this stupid was behind us, left to rot in the dark ages of the internet. $faithInHumanity--
I can't remember who said it first, but I remember hearing something along the following lines:
"The media really screwed up when they called it 'music piracy'. Everyone wants to be a pirate. If they'd called it 'music faggotry' we'd all still be buying CDs."
We get 50M for about $30usd a month, and 100M residential lines aren't uncommon. Get over yourself, Canada. Taiwan is just one entry in a very long list of people with better internet access.
No clue in that regard. Actually, I'm no fan of the day 1 DLC concept in general. Look at what Dragon Age did in their various releases if you want to see what I think DLCs should be like. With the exception of their screw up on the first one (with the clown who stands by your camp and begs you for real money to go do his quest line), they generally provided good content that kept people playing. Let's say you're no longer interested in DA anymore, perhaps because DA2 came out. You sell it used, and the publisher still has the possibility of making money off of the DLCs, which are actual additional content that did not exist in the original game.
Just want to point out that you actually can get the DLC without buying a new copy of the game. Mr. 38 himself said it would be purchasable for $10 online.
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Exactly. You don't like a certain aspect of your job, sunshine? Here, have a muffin and tell me all about it. No one cares that some random dude dislikes live chat.
I think it's safe to assume that Steam isn't going to allow them to ride on their systems for this, and neither is Origin. You also have the issue of games that have one time use serial numbers (most notably, MMOs) and day one DLC content. For them to be able to do this at all, they would have to come up with their own distribution system.
Since IP owners have more rights than anyone else in the US, there's no way they'd be able to put games in their system without the permission of said owners. But how do you get someone's permission to make money off of their product, while giving them nothing? They would have to pay royalties to the studios/producers (let's not start nitpicking terminology here - you know where I'm going with this), which is precisely what they're currently avoiding with physical media in order to make money hand over fist with used games.
Of course they -want- to sell secondhand digital downloads; I just don't see it working out for them.
What entertainment value?
How about the fact that we don't want to all die? Global extinction is a natural phenomenon, but I'd rather not witness it.
The only difference between iGoogle and a dashboard you could write yourself is how it looks. Just yoink all the CSS while it's still up, and make yourself a replacement.
The author seems to think the buttons look "slick", but they look cheap and cheesy to me. A regular touch screen looks a whole hell of a lot better, in my opinion.
There's no article here. It's just a bunch of marketing crap.
An inconsequential person has an idiotic belief. This isn't news to anyone.
Oh man! It was so funny when those thirty people posted comments about immortality! We need that joke some more!
We've all rightly been suspicious of wikipedia since its inception. This isn't really news to anyone on slashdot. Sadly, the type of person who really needs to read this article (those who aren't very technologically proficient), will probably never see it.
Surely you're not saying that you think a particular travel agency represents the entirety of a country, and has any influence whatsoever on law enforcement?
Is there a less shitty set of pictures? Opening the slideshow gives you access to a series of thumbnails and a bunch of frivolous crap all around it.
Mine -were- completely buried in my gums and I wasn't put under. Recovery sucked somewhat, but the surgery was fine.
Also known as the Department of Shit We Already Know. Next, we explain how fewer people write handwritten letters after the advent of "electronic mail".
Belize Telecommunications Limited, which is essentially a monopoly in Belize (there is another cell phone provider and some cable companies provide internet, but BTL owns all the infrastructure pretty much), charges an already poor nation ridiculously high prices. International calls to and from the country are incredibly high, sometimes measured in dollars (!!!) per minute. On top of that, they bought censorship software from China in order to block VOIP traffic. Their justification for this was so that they could maintain low (?) prices on their phone rates. When this happened, it broke a lot of things, most notably MMOs.
I left the country three years ago, and things have improved slightly since then, but at the time, a 128k DSL line cost a total of about $85usd a month, when all the charges were added up. This is in a country where minimum wage is around $1.50usd. There are about 350,000 people in the whole country, and if I'm not mistaken, BTL reported a net profit of $13.5mil USD last year. So I'm going to have a hard time with ISPs attempting to justify this sort of thing.
What a cheap way to get extra pageviews. One or two tiny paragraphs and an inconsequential image per slide. I assume that's what's on every slide, anyway. I didn't actually click through everything. No point in giving them additional ad impressions.
It must also augment his reflection in the mirror if he thinks he should go outside with a smartphone and a block of styrofoam taped to his hat.
Let's say, hypothetically, John Doe gets brought up on child pornography possession charges. He has one computer in his home, and the cops are reasonably sure that said porn was accessed and stored at that physical location only. They order him to decrypt his hard drive, because they know it has evidence of his illegal porn habits. He replies, "No it doesn't. It has other stuff. Stuff you don't know about. You can't see it."
Now, they could say that they know for certain that he's a lying sack of crap and force him to decrypt it anyway. No child porn evidence, but he's be embezzling from his company, according to what they find. Now what?
Does it come with testing hardware so that it can determine precisely how strong your coffee is, and thus more accurately calculate your intake? Does it come with measuring tools to know how much you're pouring into your mug? How about accountability for the additional influence of sugar? What about people who have become desensitized to caffeine? There are too many factors they haven't considered, not least of which being how they're going to convince me to jam a needle in my liver so they can determine how well it's working.
I had thoroughly convinced myself that the days of people using passwords this stupid was behind us, left to rot in the dark ages of the internet. $faithInHumanity--
I can't remember who said it first, but I remember hearing something along the following lines:
"The media really screwed up when they called it 'music piracy'. Everyone wants to be a pirate. If they'd called it 'music faggotry' we'd all still be buying CDs."
We get 50M for about $30usd a month, and 100M residential lines aren't uncommon. Get over yourself, Canada. Taiwan is just one entry in a very long list of people with better internet access.
No clue in that regard. Actually, I'm no fan of the day 1 DLC concept in general. Look at what Dragon Age did in their various releases if you want to see what I think DLCs should be like. With the exception of their screw up on the first one (with the clown who stands by your camp and begs you for real money to go do his quest line), they generally provided good content that kept people playing. Let's say you're no longer interested in DA anymore, perhaps because DA2 came out. You sell it used, and the publisher still has the possibility of making money off of the DLCs, which are actual additional content that did not exist in the original game.
Just want to point out that you actually can get the DLC without buying a new copy of the game. Mr. 38 himself said it would be purchasable for $10 online.
Bubbly sarcasm is just about the most obnoxious tone in written communication. How did this make slashdot, exactly?