Based on my recent observations of friends and colleagues buying computer parts, if someone offered the same box $5 cheaper, but 2 miles FURTHER away from their local computer store, they'd still drive the extra distance to save what amounts to pocket change.
Read the article again, it doesn't say the cable companies are conning people, they are saying that the people selling the devices to steal the signal "conned" people.
If you are having problems launching setup.exe in WindowsXP, rename the install folder from GTAINSTALLER to something like GTA and it'll run succesfully.
"9: It Requires a Mastery of Too Many Disciplines Oooh, I thought that was half the fun. It's like saying "the tech tree is just too darned big!" in MoO3"
I have to wonder if you actually read the article since it's very clear that he is not talking about the mastery of disciplines by players of the game, rather, the actual game creators.
I don't agree with everything this guy says by any means, but you sound pretty ill informed yourself and that lowers the credibility of your other points.
While at first it seems like it would be fairly popular, if you look at the figures a bit closer, I can't see that many people using it.
A brand new 32x burner costs under $200 australian here and a most cost effective 16x burner can be found under $100AU. At $5 a copy on the public machine, it's only 20 copies before you could have bought a new burner for your home machine.
That may seem like alot of copies, but the conveniance of having a home burner would outweigh the initial cost (want to burn a cd? drive down to where ever it is, spent time parking etc etc and any additional costs such as fuel). Even if the machine cost $1 per burn, it's still inconveniant enough to buy a home burner.
Even people who burn 1 CD a year probably have a friend who can burn a cd for them, and even then, the casual users of this machine would probably not bring in the profit margins that store owners would be looking for (the site seems to indicate each machine costs $6000 or $35 a week).
If this had been around mayb 3 or 4 years ago when a large amount of people didn't own burners then yes I could see it being a success, but now, I doubt it.
Don't forgot that they are using AU dollar value, most new music cds here are around $25-$30 Australian.
They are probably estimating closer to 2.5 - 3 million illegal copies each year. Still sounds fairly unrealistic, but probably closer to the mark than 7 million.
Another note, when it says it costs $5 to use, thats closer to $2.50 american, so it's cheaper than other people have been pointing out.
We send Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Ben Affleck to stop it. Bruce will sacrifice his life so that Affleck can return to Earth and marry his daughter.
It's worked before and it will certainly work again...
This link clearly shows how much of a non issue this is. You can clearly see which results are the paid advertisements and which are the real search results. Don't worry about it.
I can't believe they forgot The Ancient Art of War. That was the first game I ever played on a computer system and even though it had it's flaws (archers anyone?) it was still damned addictive. As far as I can remember it did have some color (about 4 of them).
I tried downloading it last year but it simply wouldn't run properly on todays machines (even with a cpu slowdown program).
Thats ok. Just sign up for a new ms hotmail account and you'll have enough spam to write the spam equivilant of War and Peace by the time the competition ends.
"The two greatest warriors are time and patience: they will do everything, and your real university diploma is waiting for an individual like yourself"
Slashdot Mirror
Please get rid of the space that was introduced by Slashdot in the URL Fixed Link
http://pcdb.overclockers.com.au/view.php?name=Pilo ux71&page=pics
Has some additional pics of this case that showoff the keyboard and some of the lighting a bit better.
Based on my recent observations of friends and colleagues buying computer parts, if someone offered the same box $5 cheaper, but 2 miles FURTHER away from their local computer store, they'd still drive the extra distance to save what amounts to pocket change.
Yes, you will never require more processor cache than 640k.
Read the article again, it doesn't say the cable companies are conning people, they are saying that the people selling the devices to steal the signal "conned" people.
If you are having problems launching setup.exe in WindowsXP, rename the install folder from GTAINSTALLER to something like GTA and it'll run succesfully.
"9: It Requires a Mastery of Too Many Disciplines
Oooh, I thought that was half the fun. It's like saying "the tech tree is just too darned big!" in MoO3"
I have to wonder if you actually read the article since it's very clear that he is not talking about the mastery of disciplines by players of the game, rather, the actual game creators.
I don't agree with everything this guy says by any means, but you sound pretty ill informed yourself and that lowers the credibility of your other points.
Really? Where is this page and how much is this snake oil, I'll pay anything...
We'll all meet again in The Matrix 1.1 - The Search For More Money.
"With a fast CPU, wizzy graphics card, ethernet, DVD and TV out"
A game console with tv out? Amazing, it's bound to sell like hotcakes with innovation like this.
"The children also knew how to use Ctrl+Alt+Del and could restart the computer."
Interesting that thats one of the first things learnt by Windows users.
While at first it seems like it would be fairly popular, if you look at the figures a bit closer, I can't see that many people using it.
A brand new 32x burner costs under $200 australian here and a most cost effective 16x burner can be found under $100AU. At $5 a copy on the public machine, it's only 20 copies before you could have bought a new burner for your home machine.
That may seem like alot of copies, but the conveniance of having a home burner would outweigh the initial cost (want to burn a cd? drive down to where ever it is, spent time parking etc etc and any additional costs such as fuel). Even if the machine cost $1 per burn, it's still inconveniant enough to buy a home burner.
Even people who burn 1 CD a year probably have a friend who can burn a cd for them, and even then, the casual users of this machine would probably not bring in the profit margins that store owners would be looking for (the site seems to indicate each machine costs $6000 or $35 a week).
If this had been around mayb 3 or 4 years ago when a large amount of people didn't own burners then yes I could see it being a success, but now, I doubt it.
Don't forgot that they are using AU dollar value, most new music cds here are around $25-$30 Australian.
They are probably estimating closer to 2.5 - 3 million illegal copies each year. Still sounds fairly unrealistic, but probably closer to the mark than 7 million.
Another note, when it says it costs $5 to use, thats closer to $2.50 american, so it's cheaper than other people have been pointing out.
Go to news.com and it has the same story, not at all proof that it's not an april fools joke, but still...
www.com.com seems to bepart of the CNET networks.
We send Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Ben Affleck to stop it. Bruce will sacrifice his life so that Affleck can return to Earth and marry his daughter.
It's worked before and it will certainly work again...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=adwords&btnG= Google+Search
This link clearly shows how much of a non issue this is. You can clearly see which results are the paid advertisements and which are the real search results. Don't worry about it.
Just wanted to add my words of congratulations to the other 25,000 odd posts saying exactly the same thing.
Anyway, Congratulations.
I can't believe they forgot The Ancient Art of War. That was the first game I ever played on a computer system and even though it had it's flaws (archers anyone?) it was still damned addictive. As far as I can remember it did have some color (about 4 of them).
I tried downloading it last year but it simply wouldn't run properly on todays machines (even with a cpu slowdown program).
"6. a new hotmail exploit on Bugtraq "
It's not too late for your christmas dream to come true.... this IS MS hotmail we are talking about here.
First Spam5 q% 40herald.indirect.com
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http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2odj9q%242
Thats ok. Just sign up for a new ms hotmail account and you'll have enough spam to write the spam equivilant of War and Peace by the time the competition ends.
"The two greatest warriors are time and patience: they will do everything, and your real university diploma is waiting for an individual like yourself"