You'll be waiting quite a while on MW2. MW1 is still $49 USD new. I suppose nobody ever heard of GameFly (you can keep the game if you really like it, for less than retail) or simply renting games at a brick and mortar store?
Radiohead made a effort to circumvent the industry, at least at first, with their release of In Rainbows. It was released via digital download, and only available for ten days. However, anyone who downloaded it could pay whatever they wanted, including nothing. After 1.2 million downloads, it was estimated that the average downloader paid approximately $6, earning the band somewhere in the neighborhood of $6+ million dollars. All of this with no astounding amount of expenditure for marketing, packaging, or distribution. I'm sure more solid figures are available all over the internet.
Ok Go would be in a different situation, not having the fan base and clout for those kind of numbers. However, this does leave something to be said for digital distribution as a means to avoid the record companies.
If I recall, Yamaha created a special version of a standard CD-ROM for the Sega Dreamcast. It was called a GD-ROM and could hold approximately 1.1GB. From what I remember, this was achieved with some sort of laser tweak.
Autism rates grow by signigicant amounts when older adults have children (especially when the woman is older). Therefore, in theory, if an older couple decides to have a child, it IS the parents fault.
I dont understand why anyone would think this is such a bad thing. If it exposes a whole new group of people to programming, who is to say that they wont be willing to try some other, more difficult, language once they enjoy learning to program like this?
I understand alot of old schoolers who are incredible at C++, Assembly, or any of the myriad of difficult languages would scoff at things being so easy, but learning programming might not seem like such a daunting task to younger kids and newcomers. Back in junior high school, I remember learning Basic, which was rather easy but didn't seem very robust. It encouraged me to expand my horizons outward, more and more, with Pascal and the like. I got reinterested in programming during college while taking a Visual Basic course, being amazed at what impressive things could be accomplished so easily since I was gone.
I supposed many older schoolers would see this the same way as retired players would see Major League Baseball allowing steroids. They didn't have to pay their dues learning a difficult and convoluted language while creating thousands of line of code to create something worthwhile. Just like how MLB players on steroids didn't have to lay the foundation of hard work to earn their stripes. The accomplishments would seem to come too easy. Thats the way life is nowadays, thats all I have to say about that. It happens in almost every facet of existence anymore, there are easier ways to do or learn anything invented everyday. The important thing to do is keep your chin up, all you old schoolers, because you will always be a repository of knowledge when it comes to things such as proper programming structure, redundancy elimination, and the like. Not to mention that you'll have a different perspective on error elimination, efficiency, and process improvement. Programming could become too easy, but they can't take your wisdom.
There was a recent case (a week ago) when, IIRC, three street thugs conspired to kill someone; one obtained the gun, another fired it, and third disposed of the weapon. All three got prison terms.
Sounds like a "How many gang memebers does it take to commit a murder?" joke.
Oh, I forgot to mention our IT department consists of 2 (TWO) Seimens contracted employees (to service an entire worksite of 500+ employees, consisting mostly luddite grandmothers over 55) who throw parts at a machine for a hardware problem, and attempt to do the obvious driver & reinstall fixes when you have to have them work on a software issue at your workstation. The choice to call IT for service is moot. We're still using IE6 (due to propriety software designed to work within the IE6 environment), to give you an idea of how amazing the pissy setup actually is. I could work faster using pulse-dialed phone calls and papyrus on most days.
Why is Lotus Notes so terrible? I work for a major worldwide insurance provider (never involved in any of the recent scandals and bailouts, you can figure it out) and we use the Lotus Notes / Sametime suite for our communication. It's complete garbage! I only restart my PC on Friday nights to log-in fresh on Monday morning because my Lotus Notes takes upwards of 18-20 minutes get up and running on a fresh boot. I kid you not. The worst part, is it only fucks up about 10 percent of the users in my department, so we look like slackers bright and early every Monday morning. Since out supervisors are technologically inept, they don't understand why you have to stare at the splash screen for all that time (as it racks your hard drive for a reason I don't understand).
I just never understood why the Lotus package is so woefully shitty. It doesn't seem as if the technology is so complicated, be it Notes or Sametime. For Christ sake, Outlook is a gem compared to Notes, and ICQ has been doing what Sametime does for over a decade, only much better.
Lotus Notes was pure crap, and I say that as an ex-Lotus employee.
As an ex-Lotus employee, what the hell did you guys do for all these years?
Um, why would I want to drag a laptop, or a USB/Firewire terabyte drive across the country when a BD-R is much more easy to transport? Did it dawn on you that portability might be part of the thought process?
Actually, you can rent Blu-Ray from Netflix at no additional charge on your standard monthly fee. No "upgrade" to your snail mail service necessary.
I find most people that don't get into the latest trends/gadgets (which I can assure you, Blu-Ray is not a trend), and mock the idea of upgrading, simply can't afford to do so. That, or they really aren't that into entertainment of that sort. Since you still haven't purchased an HDTV, maybe you aren't a movie/TV person and it wouldn't matter to YOU. $1000 is more than worth the cost of entry for the HDTV channels on cable/satellite combined with gaming and Blu-Ray (not that you can't get a nice size, quality HDTV for way under $1000 nowadays anyhow).
Vista, on the other hand, sucks. I wouldn't "upgrade" the XP box to Vista if they paid me to use it. It'd be paying to downgrade.
If you're going through the trouble of getting lemons, why not just borrow Ford's "thinking cap" from Zaphod. Should institue a good ten mintues of focus, surely enough to solve the problem.
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You'll be waiting quite a while on MW2. MW1 is still $49 USD new. I suppose nobody ever heard of GameFly (you can keep the game if you really like it, for less than retail) or simply renting games at a brick and mortar store?
Ok Go would be in a different situation, not having the fan base and clout for those kind of numbers. However, this does leave something to be said for digital distribution as a means to avoid the record companies.
Interestingly, thats what Domino's pizza WAS made from prior to the "new" recipe.
If I recall, Yamaha created a special version of a standard CD-ROM for the Sega Dreamcast. It was called a GD-ROM and could hold approximately 1.1GB. From what I remember, this was achieved with some sort of laser tweak.
Autism rates grow by signigicant amounts when older adults have children (especially when the woman is older). Therefore, in theory, if an older couple decides to have a child, it IS the parents fault.
What do my ex-girlfriends have to do with this?
I understand alot of old schoolers who are incredible at C++, Assembly, or any of the myriad of difficult languages would scoff at things being so easy, but learning programming might not seem like such a daunting task to younger kids and newcomers. Back in junior high school, I remember learning Basic, which was rather easy but didn't seem very robust. It encouraged me to expand my horizons outward, more and more, with Pascal and the like. I got reinterested in programming during college while taking a Visual Basic course, being amazed at what impressive things could be accomplished so easily since I was gone.
I supposed many older schoolers would see this the same way as retired players would see Major League Baseball allowing steroids. They didn't have to pay their dues learning a difficult and convoluted language while creating thousands of line of code to create something worthwhile. Just like how MLB players on steroids didn't have to lay the foundation of hard work to earn their stripes. The accomplishments would seem to come too easy. Thats the way life is nowadays, thats all I have to say about that. It happens in almost every facet of existence anymore, there are easier ways to do or learn anything invented everyday. The important thing to do is keep your chin up, all you old schoolers, because you will always be a repository of knowledge when it comes to things such as proper programming structure, redundancy elimination, and the like. Not to mention that you'll have a different perspective on error elimination, efficiency, and process improvement. Programming could become too easy, but they can't take your wisdom.
Everyone here on /. is really in trouble!
I guess Mark Cuban can save his millions now.
There was a recent case (a week ago) when, IIRC, three street thugs conspired to kill someone; one obtained the gun, another fired it, and third disposed of the weapon. All three got prison terms.
Sounds like a "How many gang memebers does it take to commit a murder?" joke.
Maybe you should have instabuilt some self control.
So Long Bioware, and thanks for the fish.
So long, and thanks for ALL the fish. DLC has become so widespread that even your witty quote didn't come complete!
If you can buy a 50+ gig flash drive for $15-20, you'd be a rich man reselling them. I'll give you the Blu-Ray reader part.
That was a reply by me, BigSes, the original comment poster. I didn't realize I had been timed-out while I was away.
Use only as a pure conductive option? There should be so many more intelligent applications that could be used.
Oh, I forgot to mention our IT department consists of 2 (TWO) Seimens contracted employees (to service an entire worksite of 500+ employees, consisting mostly luddite grandmothers over 55) who throw parts at a machine for a hardware problem, and attempt to do the obvious driver & reinstall fixes when you have to have them work on a software issue at your workstation. The choice to call IT for service is moot. We're still using IE6 (due to propriety software designed to work within the IE6 environment), to give you an idea of how amazing the pissy setup actually is. I could work faster using pulse-dialed phone calls and papyrus on most days.
Why is Lotus Notes so terrible? I work for a major worldwide insurance provider (never involved in any of the recent scandals and bailouts, you can figure it out) and we use the Lotus Notes / Sametime suite for our communication. It's complete garbage! I only restart my PC on Friday nights to log-in fresh on Monday morning because my Lotus Notes takes upwards of 18-20 minutes get up and running on a fresh boot. I kid you not. The worst part, is it only fucks up about 10 percent of the users in my department, so we look like slackers bright and early every Monday morning. Since out supervisors are technologically inept, they don't understand why you have to stare at the splash screen for all that time (as it racks your hard drive for a reason I don't understand).
I just never understood why the Lotus package is so woefully shitty. It doesn't seem as if the technology is so complicated, be it Notes or Sametime. For Christ sake, Outlook is a gem compared to Notes, and ICQ has been doing what Sametime does for over a decade, only much better.
Lotus Notes was pure crap, and I say that as an ex-Lotus employee.
As an ex-Lotus employee, what the hell did you guys do for all these years?
If sex, violence, and drugs didn't bring the kids flocking back to comic books, I'm POSITIVE this will do it.
No, really.
Um, why would I want to drag a laptop, or a USB/Firewire terabyte drive across the country when a BD-R is much more easy to transport? Did it dawn on you that portability might be part of the thought process?
Actually, you can rent Blu-Ray from Netflix at no additional charge on your standard monthly fee. No "upgrade" to your snail mail service necessary. I find most people that don't get into the latest trends/gadgets (which I can assure you, Blu-Ray is not a trend), and mock the idea of upgrading, simply can't afford to do so. That, or they really aren't that into entertainment of that sort. Since you still haven't purchased an HDTV, maybe you aren't a movie/TV person and it wouldn't matter to YOU. $1000 is more than worth the cost of entry for the HDTV channels on cable/satellite combined with gaming and Blu-Ray (not that you can't get a nice size, quality HDTV for way under $1000 nowadays anyhow). Vista, on the other hand, sucks. I wouldn't "upgrade" the XP box to Vista if they paid me to use it. It'd be paying to downgrade.
If you play WoW for more than 12 hours straight, your body begins to emit the same odor.
If you're going through the trouble of getting lemons, why not just borrow Ford's "thinking cap" from Zaphod. Should institue a good ten mintues of focus, surely enough to solve the problem.
You got your child cell service early enough, as long as it works from the back of a rusted GMC van driven by a kidnapper.