It makes little difference if you are making 1 or 2 submissions, but it does mean that people wont post 100 submissions in the hope of getting one right.
If you charged as much as $500 an entry you would get 10 entries probably cropping about 99% of all possible entries.
On the other hand if you charged $5 an entry, any determined person will still submit their best idea, and you will get 80% of good ideas, and miss out on 85% of all stupid ideas (use the money to buy food)
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Copyright should last 15 years, not infinity plus 1
XP forces you to activate your copy of windows within 30 days or cuts you off.
If you do it via phone, the program gives you a number to type into your phone, and the phone program gives you a number to type into XP(based on your PC, and the time)
Leave the code for too long, and it wont work. Change 2 components of your PC and it may require reactivation
Too many people trying to activate the same copy of XP? stop providing keys for it...
how about these:
1.A character tells you their name, then forgets they told you it and refuse to tell you their name.
2.Little robot agrees to destroy something after you leave, big robot says he wont let it, and destroys the little robot. The object is still destroyed.
3. Many of your party can be turned into jedi, but it only happen really late in the game where they end up with like 18 force points, not enough to string together 2 attacks
4. Near the middle you have to rescue or kill 4 people who will mend the jedi temple. Kill them all and the temple rebuilds itself
5.The boxart - there are at least 2 pictures on the box which are wrong - one with your character with a lightsaber before you get one, and another with a female character and a male character only NPC
6.Near the beginning there is an area of mist, walk into it and your character freezes(mid step) the only way through is to use a speed boost, or target an enemy on the other side
7. Unnamed villain - the guy on the box is never named until after you kill him
8. One character keeps talking about a sith either them self or someone else, in the third person. It is never revealed who it is
There are MANY more, but I don't want to bore you
And in the original Kotor - you can kill members of your party, but at the end they are all there cheering with you
They just don't make glitches like they used to in my day...
How about an entire Glitch Pokemon?
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Missingno.
In orderto figth it you have to go for the training of how to catch a pokemon, fly somewhere, and then surf.
And best of all is that it duplicates the item in your 6th slot 150 times.
There is also a strange truck that you can use push on(???)
And a very strange bug to get mew(supposed to require going to a nintendo event)
Later games even had a very slow saving sequence, making Pokemon duplication easy
This is just a joke to teach kids how to do things they already do. These days your kids know how to use your new DVD player or computer before you do. Ratherteach kids the meaning of the word "Library" and "citation needed" if they have to go the wikipedia way.
Teaching them how to admin a linux VM would be more useful
Never mind that never gonna give you up was written in the 80's. How many other products sell themselves 20 years after you create them? Even Coke have had several rebrandings/new flavours/numerous promotions.
What does Pete still do to promote and grow his song? He should take advantage of the new popularity to release a "rickrolled-remix" or something. Look what Id software is doing with wolfenstein 3d 9opensource the iphone port but also sell it)
of course £11 was worth a lot more when he wrote it...
And this is £11 that he would NEVER have gotten if google hadn't posted it.
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Copyright should only last 10 years. After that you are on your own.
what is really sad is comparing this to the caps we get in SA. 20GB? wow, here it costs about $60 for 3GB. with about $6-8 per additional gig. The only good thing is it makes you think before you D/l anything.
It should be 10-15 years. 10 years would mean that as the last harry potter book was printed, so the first would be going out of copyright. Seems balanced. 15 would allow rowling's sequels as well.
Vote for 10-15 year copyright
What do you think the next xbox will be called? xbox 720? xii 360(stolen from ninty)? xbox3(from sony)? xcube(nintendo again)?dreamgrasp (sega)?
Any better ones?
Microsoft in south africa are now charging R1000 for new xbox games (that is about $100/50 GBP) i only paid twice that for the console. That has gotten way out of hand.
One local shop has even put a sticker on a 512 memory card upping the price from R250 to R1000.
That is roughly the price of a HDD. Luckily some sites still import games at better prices.
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And in ChuckNorrisLand Chuck doesn't cite sources, sources cite chuck
It makes little difference if you are making 1 or 2 submissions, but it does mean that people wont post 100 submissions in the hope of getting one right.
If you charged as much as $500 an entry you would get 10 entries probably cropping about 99% of all possible entries.
On the other hand if you charged $5 an entry, any determined person will still submit their best idea, and you will get 80% of good ideas, and miss out on 85% of all stupid ideas (use the money to buy food)
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Copyright should last 15 years, not infinity plus 1
XP forces you to activate your copy of windows within 30 days or cuts you off.
If you do it via phone, the program gives you a number to type into your phone, and the phone program gives you a number to type into XP(based on your PC, and the time)
Leave the code for too long, and it wont work. Change 2 components of your PC and it may require reactivation
Too many people trying to activate the same copy of XP? stop providing keys for it...
Kotor 2 is just a huge glitch
how about these:
1.A character tells you their name, then forgets they told you it and refuse to tell you their name.
2.Little robot agrees to destroy something after you leave, big robot says he wont let it, and destroys the little robot. The object is still destroyed.
3. Many of your party can be turned into jedi, but it only happen really late in the game where they end up with like 18 force points, not enough to string together 2 attacks
4. Near the middle you have to rescue or kill 4 people who will mend the jedi temple. Kill them all and the temple rebuilds itself
5.The boxart - there are at least 2 pictures on the box which are wrong - one with your character with a lightsaber before you get one, and another with a female character and a male character only NPC
6.Near the beginning there is an area of mist, walk into it and your character freezes(mid step) the only way through is to use a speed boost, or target an enemy on the other side
7. Unnamed villain - the guy on the box is never named until after you kill him
8. One character keeps talking about a sith either them self or someone else, in the third person. It is never revealed who it is
There are MANY more, but I don't want to bore you
And in the original Kotor - you can kill members of your party, but at the end they are all there cheering with you
They just don't make glitches like they used to in my day...
How about an entire Glitch Pokemon? http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Missingno. In orderto figth it you have to go for the training of how to catch a pokemon, fly somewhere, and then surf.
And best of all is that it duplicates the item in your 6th slot 150 times. There is also a strange truck that you can use push on(???)
And a very strange bug to get mew(supposed to require going to a nintendo event)
Later games even had a very slow saving sequence, making Pokemon duplication easy
How to Google.
This is just a joke to teach kids how to do things they already do. These days your kids know how to use your new DVD player or computer before you do. Ratherteach kids the meaning of the word "Library" and "citation needed" if they have to go the wikipedia way.
Teaching them how to admin a linux VM would be more useful
Never mind that never gonna give you up was written in the 80's. How many other products sell themselves 20 years after you create them? Even Coke have had several rebrandings/new flavours/numerous promotions.
What does Pete still do to promote and grow his song? He should take advantage of the new popularity to release a "rickrolled-remix" or something. Look what Id software is doing with wolfenstein 3d 9opensource the iphone port but also sell it)
of course £11 was worth a lot more when he wrote it...
And this is £11 that he would NEVER have gotten if google hadn't posted it.
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Copyright should only last 10 years. After that you are on your own.
what is really sad is comparing this to the caps we get in SA. 20GB? wow, here it costs about $60 for 3GB. with about $6-8 per additional gig. The only good thing is it makes you think before you D/l anything.
It should be 10-15 years. 10 years would mean that as the last harry potter book was printed, so the first would be going out of copyright. Seems balanced. 15 would allow rowling's sequels as well. Vote for 10-15 year copyright
As long as the downgrade to xp option still works they would take it and use that. or being fed up with MS, install linux/os x
What do you think the next xbox will be called? xbox 720? xii 360(stolen from ninty)? xbox3(from sony)? xcube(nintendo again)?dreamgrasp (sega)? Any better ones?
Microsoft in south africa are now charging R1000 for new xbox games (that is about $100/50 GBP) i only paid twice that for the console. That has gotten way out of hand. One local shop has even put a sticker on a 512 memory card upping the price from R250 to R1000. That is roughly the price of a HDD. Luckily some sites still import games at better prices.