That's definitely part of the "shine wearing off" that I was alluding to, when you realize that everything you'd paid so much money for is so tightly controlled that you feel like you never really own or have control over the stuff you buy. But you're right, it's ultimately this kind of control that consumers are going to reject in the long run.
I always get a good chuckle out of those that insist gaming will go all-digital and never look back. It's a fad, plain and simple. People hopped on the e-book bandwagon because it was cool, hip, and trendy to whip out your Kindle in the coffee shop or on the train, but now that people have gotten to see all the downsides of having books but not really having books the shine has worn off and they're back to buying hardcopies.
The same will happen with games. Once the shine of digital-only gaming (especially in the console arena) wears off and people realized they're getting screwed by not having a disc the trend will reverse itself and those companies that refuse to offer games on disc will ultimately suffer.
Not a single Wall Street banker has been thrown in jail, despite dealings that nearly bankrupt the country and destabilized the global economy.
I'd think that's a bit more egregious behavior than price fixing car batteries. But clearly the US Government knows best how to protect us from unscrupulous business behavior.
Someone accidentally or purposefully takes down your cloud server, and then there's not a damned thing you can do about it but wait until the problem is solved by the people who run those servers. Which, depending upon the situation, could be weeks, months, or even never.
Doesn't sound like a very smart idea to me. Using the cloud as an additional backup measure seems perfectly reasonable. Using it as your primary solution? Nope, pretty damned stupid.
Microsoft screwed the pooch on this and we all knew it from the day it was announced. They come to the tablet party with their own proprietary OS and app store 2 years AFTER the two dominant players in this arena have already obliterated all their competition. Strike 1.
And hey, let's call it Windows RT and make it look like it's running the PC version of Windows and is fully compatible so we can trick people into buying it and hope they're not so thoroughly disgusted by the ruse that they return it. Yeah, well that strategy surely had no flaws. Strike 2.
The third nail in the coffin: price. Let's charge a premium price for a deceptive device that has a fraction of the usability of competing tablets. Aaaand strike 3, you're OUT!
Honestly, a better way to go would have been to make these Android tablets with a Windows 8 launcher/shell. So you get the benefits of promoting your brand, the interface of your new PC OS, and some genuinely innovative hardware features, but without actually deceiving people and delivering an overpriced tablet that has no ecosystem to support it.
But since when in recent memory has Microsoft ever done the smart thing? They just keep proving over and over again in the last 5 years they are COMPLETELY CLUELESS. So none of this should come as a shock to anyone.
...break it to him, but if legislators aren't getting tickets and innocent civilians are getting tickets that should be going to legislators then your system DOESN'T work. It's BROKEN.
Not that it should surprise anyone that these "special" plates are conveniently missing from the DMV database and/or treated differently than regular plates. Just an unfortunate coincidence or oversight I'm sure. Riiiiight.
But I actually like the idea of the government snooping around, hacking into accounts, and logging everything. If for no other reason it makes people worried and nervous. And when people are worried and nervous they are less likely to do things they know they shouldn't do for fear of being watched and caught.
That whirring/grinding sound? That's Stevie J doing 2500 RPMs in his grave. Poor thing, if he weren't already did what Cook is doing to Apple would kill him all over again. The stock dividends alone would give him a stroke, forget about falling behind Samsung in phone sales for the very first time.
The clock is ticking Apple, and I for one can't wait until you fucking crash and burn once and for all.
Virtually no one cares about Titan now, imagine how little we'll care in 2016.
Here's the problem with these stupidly retarded long development cycles; by the time the game actually comes out a majority of the code can be up to a decade old, and it shows, re: Duke Nukem Forever and Tabula Rasa.
But whatever. Blizzard isn't the Blizzard we all once knew and loved anymore, now it's just a corporate nameplate, shill, and underling for Activision. No vision, no breakthroughs, nothing new or exciting. Just stale old concepts with a fresh coat of paint showered with all the trappings of DRM, day one DLC, always-on Internet, and nickel-and-diming microtransactions that every single gamer HATES.
You have crappy, slow, or intermittent Internet, like 65%+ of the country does. Then I guess you're SOL and won't be able to play the $80 game you just bought, and won't be able to sell it either.
Yeah, this is going to work out sooo well. It simply amazes me that no one in a position of power at Microsoft can see how retarded this plan is.
Please stop teasing me with talk of a massive population-thinning plague this planet desperately needs. It gets my hopes up, only to later be dashed by hearing only a few dozen people ultimately die. Disappointing to say the least.
Maybe we as a species have a built in biological disgust of obesity, so trying to change or alter our attitudes is probably pointless. And before anyone flames me, you all know it's true. Just think, how many times have you seen a morbidly obese person and felt disgusted? Admit it, all the time. And studies have shown that morbidly obese people are actually disgusted by themselves. I'm telling you, it's genetic. Our brains are just wired that way.
If you think about it it makes sense too. Throughout most of the course of human history food has always been scarce and a valuable commodity. Someone who was morbidly obese meant they were clearly getting a disproportionate amount of food than other people, meaning they were a hindrance to a community. Not only could they not physically contribute, but they were consuming far more than their fair share of food. Very easy to see why such people would be shunned, despised and disgusted.
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Yeah, that's not the type of games I'm talking about and you know it. Are you always such a prick or is today just a special day?
Yeah, celebrity. Woman. Not a banker. She never stood a chance.
That's definitely part of the "shine wearing off" that I was alluding to, when you realize that everything you'd paid so much money for is so tightly controlled that you feel like you never really own or have control over the stuff you buy. But you're right, it's ultimately this kind of control that consumers are going to reject in the long run.
I always get a good chuckle out of those that insist gaming will go all-digital and never look back. It's a fad, plain and simple. People hopped on the e-book bandwagon because it was cool, hip, and trendy to whip out your Kindle in the coffee shop or on the train, but now that people have gotten to see all the downsides of having books but not really having books the shine has worn off and they're back to buying hardcopies.
The same will happen with games. Once the shine of digital-only gaming (especially in the console arena) wears off and people realized they're getting screwed by not having a disc the trend will reverse itself and those companies that refuse to offer games on disc will ultimately suffer.
It's the same as other shit we do every single day of our lives. Why is this written as a DOOM! story???
Not a single Wall Street banker has been thrown in jail, despite dealings that nearly bankrupt the country and destabilized the global economy.
I'd think that's a bit more egregious behavior than price fixing car batteries. But clearly the US Government knows best how to protect us from unscrupulous business behavior.
Someone accidentally or purposefully takes down your cloud server, and then there's not a damned thing you can do about it but wait until the problem is solved by the people who run those servers. Which, depending upon the situation, could be weeks, months, or even never.
Doesn't sound like a very smart idea to me. Using the cloud as an additional backup measure seems perfectly reasonable. Using it as your primary solution? Nope, pretty damned stupid.
Microsoft screwed the pooch on this and we all knew it from the day it was announced. They come to the tablet party with their own proprietary OS and app store 2 years AFTER the two dominant players in this arena have already obliterated all their competition. Strike 1.
And hey, let's call it Windows RT and make it look like it's running the PC version of Windows and is fully compatible so we can trick people into buying it and hope they're not so thoroughly disgusted by the ruse that they return it. Yeah, well that strategy surely had no flaws. Strike 2.
The third nail in the coffin: price. Let's charge a premium price for a deceptive device that has a fraction of the usability of competing tablets. Aaaand strike 3, you're OUT!
Honestly, a better way to go would have been to make these Android tablets with a Windows 8 launcher/shell. So you get the benefits of promoting your brand, the interface of your new PC OS, and some genuinely innovative hardware features, but without actually deceiving people and delivering an overpriced tablet that has no ecosystem to support it.
But since when in recent memory has Microsoft ever done the smart thing? They just keep proving over and over again in the last 5 years they are COMPLETELY CLUELESS. So none of this should come as a shock to anyone.
Isn't the destruction of government and/or military-owned equipment considered an act of treason?
I'm sure he'll be a perfect candidate for a Republican governor, congressman, or even Presidential candidate. His future looks very bright indeed!
...break it to him, but if legislators aren't getting tickets and innocent civilians are getting tickets that should be going to legislators then your system DOESN'T work. It's BROKEN.
Not that it should surprise anyone that these "special" plates are conveniently missing from the DMV database and/or treated differently than regular plates. Just an unfortunate coincidence or oversight I'm sure. Riiiiight.
Everyone knows you need to have good, fully functional Heisenberg compensators, right?
Apple is once again lying to people??? You mean the iPad isn't really "magical"??? /mind blown
But I actually like the idea of the government snooping around, hacking into accounts, and logging everything. If for no other reason it makes people worried and nervous. And when people are worried and nervous they are less likely to do things they know they shouldn't do for fear of being watched and caught.
I like it. Yes indeedy I like it a lot.
That that are breathing. IT Managers, by definition, are incompetent.
should read "already dead". Damn lack of editing...
That whirring/grinding sound? That's Stevie J doing 2500 RPMs in his grave. Poor thing, if he weren't already did what Cook is doing to Apple would kill him all over again. The stock dividends alone would give him a stroke, forget about falling behind Samsung in phone sales for the very first time.
The clock is ticking Apple, and I for one can't wait until you fucking crash and burn once and for all.
Virtually no one cares about Titan now, imagine how little we'll care in 2016.
Here's the problem with these stupidly retarded long development cycles; by the time the game actually comes out a majority of the code can be up to a decade old, and it shows, re: Duke Nukem Forever and Tabula Rasa.
But whatever. Blizzard isn't the Blizzard we all once knew and loved anymore, now it's just a corporate nameplate, shill, and underling for Activision. No vision, no breakthroughs, nothing new or exciting. Just stale old concepts with a fresh coat of paint showered with all the trappings of DRM, day one DLC, always-on Internet, and nickel-and-diming microtransactions that every single gamer HATES.
If it were they'd already be lining up at the Apple stores waiting for launch day.
You have crappy, slow, or intermittent Internet, like 65%+ of the country does. Then I guess you're SOL and won't be able to play the $80 game you just bought, and won't be able to sell it either.
Yeah, this is going to work out sooo well. It simply amazes me that no one in a position of power at Microsoft can see how retarded this plan is.
Please stop teasing me with talk of a massive population-thinning plague this planet desperately needs. It gets my hopes up, only to later be dashed by hearing only a few dozen people ultimately die. Disappointing to say the least.
Maybe we as a species have a built in biological disgust of obesity, so trying to change or alter our attitudes is probably pointless. And before anyone flames me, you all know it's true. Just think, how many times have you seen a morbidly obese person and felt disgusted? Admit it, all the time. And studies have shown that morbidly obese people are actually disgusted by themselves. I'm telling you, it's genetic. Our brains are just wired that way.
If you think about it it makes sense too. Throughout most of the course of human history food has always been scarce and a valuable commodity. Someone who was morbidly obese meant they were clearly getting a disproportionate amount of food than other people, meaning they were a hindrance to a community. Not only could they not physically contribute, but they were consuming far more than their fair share of food. Very easy to see why such people would be shunned, despised and disgusted.
*cough*webOS*cough*
SCOTUS proves they are suckling off the teats of big business. They should all be impeached and removed. They are all a disgrace.
So it's basically The Clapper, except with whistles? How soon will we start seeing infomercials for it?