Sins of a Solar Empire wasn't a small indie game, it was made by Stardock, an already established studio and released for full retail price. For a better indie game, consider World of Goo: two coders, $10,000 development (including food and rent), sold over $450,000 on WiiWare alone.
Given an omnipotent deity, yes, He could in fact have created the universe in 6 days 6,000 years ago. Similarly, I can drive to the nearest deli, get a sandwich, then come home and turn it into a milkshake. I'm not going to, but I can. See, people (and presumably God) don't always do something just because they can. Just because He could have created the universe in 6 days doesn't mean that He actually did.
This summary is so much worse than anything I've ever seen here before. Let's try to standardize the name of the plugin (it's "Adblock Plus", by the way, not "ad block plus" or "Ad Block plus"), and remove the sentence fragment in the middle. Thanks!
I just tried this out of curiosity in Word 2008. While "Playstation" fails, "PlayStation" registers as a real word. It also identifies "Xbox" as a word and "XBox" as incorrect. "Wii" does, admittedly, fail, although that's a much newer brand name. I don't see a bias here.
At most schools a GPA of 4.0 means anywhere from, say, 93% and up. So it's quite possible to get a 4.0 without getting everything right. (For the record, I presently have about a 3.9 and have some A-s and a B+ on my transcript, so I know it's possible to have a great GPA with some errors along the way).
So now they're cutting extra costs by only delivering physical media to the largest retailers, and maybe putting that effort into online sales. If so, for me this sounds good
Y'know, a year ago I would've agreed with you. But in that year I went off to college and discovered a wonderful little record store just off campus. Prior to this, the only places I ever got music were iTunes, my friends, and The Pirate Bay. I'm going to assume that's the case with you, that you've never been to a really good record store. Let me tell you what it's like.
Inside the store they have three separate racks: new, used, and used-and-no-one-likes-it. The new rack generally sells albums for $12-$14, which is slightly more than iTunes would run you. The used rack sells albums for $5-$9, or slightly less. The third rack sells albums for $2, or $1 if you buy 10 or more at a time. The third rack's quality, however, is a lot more suspect than the other two.
At this store, I found used albums by bands I had heard of, but never actually listened to (in this case, The Decemberists and Neutral Milk Hotel). I bought the used albums, listened to them, then went back and bought as many of their albums new as I could. I randomly stumbled upon a few great bands among the duds on the $1 rack, then bought some of their new stuff too. I splurged for the special editions of albums which I would not have on iTunes. In the past year, I have probably sent ~$100 on music. That's probably at least twice what I spent in the 18 years before that.
If this news is true, it's very sad. In my mind, the way the music industry can stay afloat is as follows:
Support indie music stores, because (in my experience at least) people spend more there.
Stop using DRM. I've avoided a few albums specifically because I know they have DRM.
Stop going after legitimate customers. I'm overall a legitimate customer, but I do have some pirated stuff. My absolute favorite artists though, like Sufjan Stevens and Andrew Bird, I originally got from friends. I then went back and bought as much of their discography as I could.
So that's why I really don't want this to be true. I can't stand buying music in a large retailer, and hope that small independent stores can make a comeback.
I think it's not so much that people think that Apple invented podcasting as it is that if you can prove Apple offered podcasts prior to November 2003, then the patent is obviously bullshit.
I'd like to see some proof of what you're saying. I'm 19 years old and going into my sophomore year of college. Although that means I was past elementary school by NCLB (I was between fifth and sixth grades when it was passed), I'm still part of the generation that people always say can't write in complete sentences or form coherent thoughts. You specifically called out children who attended elementary school in the last ten years. Ten years ago, I was between third and fourth grade. I guess that counts.
In my experience, however, people my age are likely no better or worse than previously. Almost all of my friends will complain if you mess up there/their/they're, or even its/it's. Most of us use complete sentences on IM or in a text message, even if the punctuation isn't perfect (it's a speed thing, not an intelligence thing). We correct typos when we're talking. I've seen people use words like halcyon or androgyny in text messages. When was the last time you saw that? I've also seen a disgusting number of road signs with hideous punctuation, or television ads with awful grammar. None of it is any worse than the worst of what I commonly see among my peers.
A lot of people are doing a great job of claiming that my generation is the dumbest generation. That's simply not true, at least not as far as I'm aware. Everyone I know can write well enough for most forms of communication, and certainly no worse than the worst adult writing I've seen.
Oh, and about your claim that ESL students speak English better than native speakers? I've yet to see any proof of that. Admittedly, my experience is quite limited: just a few exchange students in high school. Still, most of them spoke English the same way I spoke Spanish: terribly.
Stop saying my generation is stupid. No, we're not good at cursive, or even manuscript. We never had to. I rarely write by hand. I haven't written in cursive since probably fourth grade (to the point where a cursive section of the SATs was my most feared section). Our education has been different, and we're very different from what all adults are used to. It's the function of growing up in a technology-heavy world. We're hardly stupid though, and we definitely have the ability to form complete sentences.
First, hari assumed that it's a direct sale between Alice and Bob, not going through an intermediary like GameStop. Those do rip you off quite a lot: my catalog of about 15 Dreamcast games would have sold for about $12. On eBay, I can get about $300-$400.
Second, the point of the argument wasn't about the amount of money Alice gets. It was about the fact that without used games, Bob keeps his money. That $30 is not going to anyone. If Alice sells her game to Bob, that money will ultimately end up in the hands of the makers of Gears of War. With used games, Alice and Bob have given their sum total of $120 to the publisher. Without, they each hold onto $30 because they don't have enough money to buy games. Which option sounds preferable to the studio?
I have long argued that Office '97 was the best version they ever put out. All the features you need, very few you don't, and a decent enough UI and the ability to turn off AutoCorrect. I discovered OpenOffice a few years back, realized how similar it was to '97, and haven't looked back.
Money tends to follow different formatting from straight decimals. While technically $0.4 == $0.40, it would make sense if he was trying to say 4 cents and dropped a 0.
Can I ask why this article is tagged "republicans"? Bernard Madoff isn't one, since he gave 88% of his political spending to the Democratic party (source). Nor is Judge Denny Chin a definite Republican (his affiliation is unknown). Alright, so some of the victims were, and probably some of the conspirators, but there's no reason this should be tagged the way it is.
Holy shit, it's just an expression! To "play god" doesn't mean you have to believe in a god any more than celebrating a "holiday" means you think the day is holy, only that you're messing with forces that are beyond what human beings should toy with. It's not necessarily religion that's holding back science and medicine. Was Gattaca terrifying because of religion? No, it was because of unintended consequences that arose because of dramatic changes to the way we viewed humanity as a result of people playing god.
Congratulations on the knee-jerk reaction to religion.
Yes, because there's never been anyone like Martin Luther or anything like the Great Schisms that could have negatively affected PR for Christianity. Nope, they've been completely and totally uniform in only letting good things come into public view.
Let's say I write a game involving falling shapes with completely different gameplay from Tetris (say, Dr. Mario). Is this infringement? How about a game with gameplay similar to Tetris but five segments? How about a game with different gameplay and the Tetris pieces? How about a game with the same gameplay and shapes, but new graphics, etc? How about a 100% accurate remake of one of the official Tetris games? How about merely redistributing the ROM of the Game Boy version? Clearly some of these are infringement (most notably the last one, which is straight-up theft), while others aren't (a completely new falling-block game, for instance). The others are in a grey area. All it boils down to is that the company with the copyright believes it has more control than you think it should. I'm probably more likely to side with you than the Tetris Company, but they certainly have a right to try to protect against anything they view as a threat, just as you have a right to disagree with them.
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Sins of a Solar Empire wasn't a small indie game, it was made by Stardock, an already established studio and released for full retail price. For a better indie game, consider World of Goo: two coders, $10,000 development (including food and rent), sold over $450,000 on WiiWare alone.
Given an omnipotent deity, yes, He could in fact have created the universe in 6 days 6,000 years ago. Similarly, I can drive to the nearest deli, get a sandwich, then come home and turn it into a milkshake. I'm not going to, but I can. See, people (and presumably God) don't always do something just because they can. Just because He could have created the universe in 6 days doesn't mean that He actually did.
This summary is so much worse than anything I've ever seen here before. Let's try to standardize the name of the plugin (it's "Adblock Plus", by the way, not "ad block plus" or "Ad Block plus"), and remove the sentence fragment in the middle. Thanks!
I just tried this out of curiosity in Word 2008. While "Playstation" fails, "PlayStation" registers as a real word. It also identifies "Xbox" as a word and "XBox" as incorrect. "Wii" does, admittedly, fail, although that's a much newer brand name. I don't see a bias here.
At most schools a GPA of 4.0 means anywhere from, say, 93% and up. So it's quite possible to get a 4.0 without getting everything right. (For the record, I presently have about a 3.9 and have some A-s and a B+ on my transcript, so I know it's possible to have a great GPA with some errors along the way).
Y'know, a year ago I would've agreed with you. But in that year I went off to college and discovered a wonderful little record store just off campus. Prior to this, the only places I ever got music were iTunes, my friends, and The Pirate Bay. I'm going to assume that's the case with you, that you've never been to a really good record store. Let me tell you what it's like.
Inside the store they have three separate racks: new, used, and used-and-no-one-likes-it. The new rack generally sells albums for $12-$14, which is slightly more than iTunes would run you. The used rack sells albums for $5-$9, or slightly less. The third rack sells albums for $2, or $1 if you buy 10 or more at a time. The third rack's quality, however, is a lot more suspect than the other two.
At this store, I found used albums by bands I had heard of, but never actually listened to (in this case, The Decemberists and Neutral Milk Hotel). I bought the used albums, listened to them, then went back and bought as many of their albums new as I could. I randomly stumbled upon a few great bands among the duds on the $1 rack, then bought some of their new stuff too. I splurged for the special editions of albums which I would not have on iTunes. In the past year, I have probably sent ~$100 on music. That's probably at least twice what I spent in the 18 years before that.
If this news is true, it's very sad. In my mind, the way the music industry can stay afloat is as follows:
So that's why I really don't want this to be true. I can't stand buying music in a large retailer, and hope that small independent stores can make a comeback.
I think it's not so much that people think that Apple invented podcasting as it is that if you can prove Apple offered podcasts prior to November 2003, then the patent is obviously bullshit.
I'd like to see some proof of what you're saying. I'm 19 years old and going into my sophomore year of college. Although that means I was past elementary school by NCLB (I was between fifth and sixth grades when it was passed), I'm still part of the generation that people always say can't write in complete sentences or form coherent thoughts. You specifically called out children who attended elementary school in the last ten years. Ten years ago, I was between third and fourth grade. I guess that counts.
In my experience, however, people my age are likely no better or worse than previously. Almost all of my friends will complain if you mess up there/their/they're, or even its/it's. Most of us use complete sentences on IM or in a text message, even if the punctuation isn't perfect (it's a speed thing, not an intelligence thing). We correct typos when we're talking. I've seen people use words like halcyon or androgyny in text messages. When was the last time you saw that? I've also seen a disgusting number of road signs with hideous punctuation, or television ads with awful grammar. None of it is any worse than the worst of what I commonly see among my peers.
A lot of people are doing a great job of claiming that my generation is the dumbest generation. That's simply not true, at least not as far as I'm aware. Everyone I know can write well enough for most forms of communication, and certainly no worse than the worst adult writing I've seen.
Oh, and about your claim that ESL students speak English better than native speakers? I've yet to see any proof of that. Admittedly, my experience is quite limited: just a few exchange students in high school. Still, most of them spoke English the same way I spoke Spanish: terribly.
Stop saying my generation is stupid. No, we're not good at cursive, or even manuscript. We never had to. I rarely write by hand. I haven't written in cursive since probably fourth grade (to the point where a cursive section of the SATs was my most feared section). Our education has been different, and we're very different from what all adults are used to. It's the function of growing up in a technology-heavy world. We're hardly stupid though, and we definitely have the ability to form complete sentences.
That would be a 0D camera. Get out, we don't want your kind here.
There isn't anything besides GameStop in my area. They bought out all of the competition.
First, hari assumed that it's a direct sale between Alice and Bob, not going through an intermediary like GameStop. Those do rip you off quite a lot: my catalog of about 15 Dreamcast games would have sold for about $12. On eBay, I can get about $300-$400.
Second, the point of the argument wasn't about the amount of money Alice gets. It was about the fact that without used games, Bob keeps his money. That $30 is not going to anyone. If Alice sells her game to Bob, that money will ultimately end up in the hands of the makers of Gears of War. With used games, Alice and Bob have given their sum total of $120 to the publisher. Without, they each hold onto $30 because they don't have enough money to buy games. Which option sounds preferable to the studio?
Not sure if he could have made it to the West Coast in just a week though. After all, he was probably in PA for the Blobfest this past weekend.
I have long argued that Office '97 was the best version they ever put out. All the features you need, very few you don't, and a decent enough UI and the ability to turn off AutoCorrect. I discovered OpenOffice a few years back, realized how similar it was to '97, and haven't looked back.
...assuming you have no arms.
Money tends to follow different formatting from straight decimals. While technically $0.4 == $0.40, it would make sense if he was trying to say 4 cents and dropped a 0.
Is that $0.04 or $0.40?
Can I ask why this article is tagged "republicans"? Bernard Madoff isn't one, since he gave 88% of his political spending to the Democratic party (source). Nor is Judge Denny Chin a definite Republican (his affiliation is unknown). Alright, so some of the victims were, and probably some of the conspirators, but there's no reason this should be tagged the way it is.
Well. At least we're not jumping to conclusions.
You had a hand? I had to use a hook.
Webcams and cell phone cameras are not nice digital cameras. Anyone who buys one as their primary camera is, frankly, an idiot.
Yes, but how do you really feel?
Holy shit, it's just an expression! To "play god" doesn't mean you have to believe in a god any more than celebrating a "holiday" means you think the day is holy, only that you're messing with forces that are beyond what human beings should toy with. It's not necessarily religion that's holding back science and medicine. Was Gattaca terrifying because of religion? No, it was because of unintended consequences that arose because of dramatic changes to the way we viewed humanity as a result of people playing god.
Congratulations on the knee-jerk reaction to religion.
Yes, because there's never been anyone like Martin Luther or anything like the Great Schisms that could have negatively affected PR for Christianity. Nope, they've been completely and totally uniform in only letting good things come into public view.
Let's say I write a game involving falling shapes with completely different gameplay from Tetris (say, Dr. Mario). Is this infringement? How about a game with gameplay similar to Tetris but five segments? How about a game with different gameplay and the Tetris pieces? How about a game with the same gameplay and shapes, but new graphics, etc? How about a 100% accurate remake of one of the official Tetris games? How about merely redistributing the ROM of the Game Boy version? Clearly some of these are infringement (most notably the last one, which is straight-up theft), while others aren't (a completely new falling-block game, for instance). The others are in a grey area. All it boils down to is that the company with the copyright believes it has more control than you think it should. I'm probably more likely to side with you than the Tetris Company, but they certainly have a right to try to protect against anything they view as a threat, just as you have a right to disagree with them.