A person's credit report in the US also determines whether they can obtain a loan/mortgage and sometimes whether they can even rent. Hence, someone with a poor credit report may find it difficult even to find a place to live.
That's a pretty helpful post.
One doesn't miss potable water until only non-potable water is available.
Skin moisturizers are also pretty important I think. Bring some in case there isn't any in the BX/PX.
Base life isn't all that bad. In addition to books, many people watch pirated DVDs. For those who like to socialize, they can visit the MWR to go online, play console games (shooters and football are especially popular), play pool, play poker, watch TV/movies on a larger screen, etc.
In my opinion, it's not common to request work in a warzone. In general, the companies involved will put out job postings for internal and external candidates. Those job postings will specifically spell out which warzone and the type of work involved. They will also point out the hazard pay for taking that risk.
Sometimes it's live, depending on the particular train. The probability of a live voice on an older train is high, particular when the voice starts cursing.
For an analogy, I think it's more like renting a car and paying extra for satellite radio. While the seatbelt is a "need" due to various laws, satellite radio is just a "want" as it is for convenience. One can drive the car just fine without satellite radio versus not having seatbelts.
While I haven't personally played Eve, it sounds like what people are getting from the micropayments are mostly cosmetic items rather than something game changing.
That's still 50% more expensive for a "used" older generation product. Quite a few people have a real aversion to refurbished electronics, especially personal electronics.
I brought the game on CD (but never played the CD version) because I was worried about the floppies going bad!
I remember that the gameplay was actually sort of fun.
I had 20 year old floppies, those DD 3.5" disks that only had the write-protect hole. About 95% of them (sample size of 300+) were completely readable as of last month. It could be because I organized them into boxes which were then placed away from sources of EM radiation.
I was doing what the submitter was doing during the last holiday weekend as part of clearing out junk. I certainly found some "interesting" media files, old software/games that I will never run again, and other items that are obsolete / replaceable. After spending all that time transferring and recovering data, I haven't looked at it again since. Thinking on it now, I should've just destroyed (not dumped) it all, and looked forward to getting new data.
You paid for the physical box/manuals, physical CD/DVD, and probably a period of server access time (I assume that the $50 gives you at least 1 month of play time on their server.) That $50 doesn't mean that you would have ability to play the game forever. It's why I dislike MMOs that have both an initial cost (the box) and a subscription cost.
I don't think SWG will ever become public domain. Like most of the great single player games that are no longer published, even if the company disappears, they will not release it to the public.
I like Flickr because I can upload an unlimited amount of 20MB photos for one low yearly fee.
Last I checked, G+ 's unlimited photo storage limits the resolution of the photos to 800x800 and Picasa's storage is proportional to the yearly fee.
I cute one I saw was "Captain America Runs on Dunkin" where it was an extra icon containing the shield placed before the usual Dunkin Donuts slogan icons.
Except that to the people within the industry that do see the numbers, microtransactions do not seem to break the game and people continue to play it. So they could see "If you put a microtransaction around [game element], the numbers from [existing game] shows a rise in revenue by $x per quarter."
I'm thinking of the shiny cash shop mounts in WoW that I've heard people complain about when I wrote the above.
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A person's credit report in the US also determines whether they can obtain a loan/mortgage and sometimes whether they can even rent. Hence, someone with a poor credit report may find it difficult even to find a place to live.
That's a pretty helpful post. One doesn't miss potable water until only non-potable water is available. Skin moisturizers are also pretty important I think. Bring some in case there isn't any in the BX/PX.
The Under Armour brand seems pretty popular there. The desert nights can get quite chilly too
Base life isn't all that bad. In addition to books, many people watch pirated DVDs. For those who like to socialize, they can visit the MWR to go online, play console games (shooters and football are especially popular), play pool, play poker, watch TV/movies on a larger screen, etc.
In my opinion, it's not common to request work in a warzone. In general, the companies involved will put out job postings for internal and external candidates. Those job postings will specifically spell out which warzone and the type of work involved. They will also point out the hazard pay for taking that risk.
Public transportation, quite common in the modern world.
Sometimes it's live, depending on the particular train. The probability of a live voice on an older train is high, particular when the voice starts cursing.
I was just there this week with all the map cops on Segways. Seems perfectly fine to take photos there.
For an analogy, I think it's more like renting a car and paying extra for satellite radio. While the seatbelt is a "need" due to various laws, satellite radio is just a "want" as it is for convenience. One can drive the car just fine without satellite radio versus not having seatbelts. While I haven't personally played Eve, it sounds like what people are getting from the micropayments are mostly cosmetic items rather than something game changing.
WoW has had a micropayment model for awhile now with its shiny horses and various pets.
That's still 50% more expensive for a "used" older generation product. Quite a few people have a real aversion to refurbished electronics, especially personal electronics.
I brought the game on CD (but never played the CD version) because I was worried about the floppies going bad! I remember that the gameplay was actually sort of fun.
I had 20 year old floppies, those DD 3.5" disks that only had the write-protect hole. About 95% of them (sample size of 300+) were completely readable as of last month. It could be because I organized them into boxes which were then placed away from sources of EM radiation.
I was doing what the submitter was doing during the last holiday weekend as part of clearing out junk. I certainly found some "interesting" media files, old software/games that I will never run again, and other items that are obsolete / replaceable. After spending all that time transferring and recovering data, I haven't looked at it again since. Thinking on it now, I should've just destroyed (not dumped) it all, and looked forward to getting new data.
You paid for the physical box/manuals, physical CD/DVD, and probably a period of server access time (I assume that the $50 gives you at least 1 month of play time on their server.) That $50 doesn't mean that you would have ability to play the game forever. It's why I dislike MMOs that have both an initial cost (the box) and a subscription cost. I don't think SWG will ever become public domain. Like most of the great single player games that are no longer published, even if the company disappears, they will not release it to the public.
Oh, I always refuse to send a receipt...
Some organizations block outgoing emails from the scanner if the destination email address is external.
Michael Bloomberg of Bloomberg LP and Rupert Murdoch of News Corporation
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I like Flickr because I can upload an unlimited amount of 20MB photos for one low yearly fee. Last I checked, G+ 's unlimited photo storage limits the resolution of the photos to 800x800 and Picasa's storage is proportional to the yearly fee.
Everytime I see Pizza Hut, I think of Code Geass....
I cute one I saw was "Captain America Runs on Dunkin" where it was an extra icon containing the shield placed before the usual Dunkin Donuts slogan icons.
Because it's a single player game? If I wanted an online game, I'd just choose one of the many MMOs instead.
Yes, I was worried until I saw that the breach happened in 2009.
Except that to the people within the industry that do see the numbers, microtransactions do not seem to break the game and people continue to play it. So they could see "If you put a microtransaction around [game element], the numbers from [existing game] shows a rise in revenue by $x per quarter." I'm thinking of the shiny cash shop mounts in WoW that I've heard people complain about when I wrote the above.