I think he was refering to retail markup. 50% is about correct, meaning the companies sell for 7.50, the CD retails for 15.
I think that his guess was off though, must suggested retail prices are closer to 17 or 18 dollors meaning 8.50 or 9.00 is the price the companies get for each cd. On top of that you have to factor thatthe 500,000 number is probably for hit CD's or some BS like that.
Anyway the figuring does show pretty blatently that the industry is not presenting numbers in good faith, if nothing else (saying the average cost is 500,000 dollors for a CD when it isn't is bad faith, even if they were n0ot flat out lieing).
Wow, arn't you a big man, you have a computer that people don't even need to know about and you can lock it down. So special.
My Grandma uses a computer for card games and my grandpa for spreadsheets. And noone ever got them into a DOS. Wow, you're right, bragging on slashdot does make your dick bigger.
I got a 28 inch (I think) Trinitron TV and it looks great (80.00 at an auction). I saw these huge HDTV's at the store being showcased and was unipressed (though for sports I could see how it would make a difference. My biggest beef was that they all had normal TV aspect ratios, and one had a stretch option to fill the display by stretching a wide picture. The sales people were touting it as a huge benifit that will be great when all you can get is HDTV, and everyone else is stuck with letterboxes. How can they get away with blabbing about great picture, then trying to sell their product on distorting said picture? I was dumbfounded.
Funny that you look at that as a problem. I think the same thing is a virtue.
If I want this discussion to be in my foward/backwardness I would click the big slashdot in the top left. If I do not I click the back button. I personally want to be able to get to the previous sight I viseted in as few backs possible (usually around 3). It were setup the way you want it could easily be 12 or more after going on slashdot. After every 0 coment I choose to read it will set me back even further. Sometimes I like to read the spicif mods on a post, again more things in my history. If every page in my history was in the back button que that would be very bad.
I fI were to decide I was too lazy to check spelling ect. (I am) and that I would be ashamed to post in such a state (I am not), and therefore aborted this comment, I would have all sorts of crap that was worthless in my back button que (I still will, but at least it will have been somethomething).
My biggest problem with FPS on consoles is that they don't allow full custimization of controls. I find that there is a setup I like except I want to swap the L trigger for the up D-pad (dreamcast Unreal, And something simmilare for the PSone QuakeII). Is there fully custom controls in this?. I will say that with the auto aiming (close to a hit hits) and the control pad the game is playable. You still can't whip the view around so quick if you are getting toased from behind though.
Is there not to be mouse and keyboard support for the Xbox? If there is that kind of invalidates the whole mouse==uber argument.
Is the TV a disadvantage in this type of game? (less resolution, slower interlaced refresh, Less crisp picture) I am just curious.
If they really were selling huge amounts of blanks on the black market to pirates I would hope that they would get in lots of trouble. They are fueling a type of priracy that from what I gathered the majority of slashdotters don't support. And they are cheating on their taxes in a way that costs everyone money. Also the money laundering side of things would quite likley involve funding all other sorts of no good.
The problem with hyper simplicity is lack of functionality/custimization.
The problem with custimization is that it adds incosistency and complexity.
There is no way for a single consistent desktop to appease all power users and noobs alike.
You can go like Windows and force 3rd parties to make custimizations, or you can go like Linux and allow any user to access them. Probably they idea way is have a beginner/expert setting in the custimizations to keep people that don't feel they are experts away from obscure things (to them) like windows focus.
Also, was the Grandparent trying to imply that OSX was perfected? Because lots of unnessacery animation (zoom on mouse over of something plenty big to see already) is hardly what I would call a feature of a perfected UI.
Whoah, I bet the game developers are itching to get on the free as in beer racing and sports game bandwagon. Especially since so few people buy racing and sports games they really need to peek some interest.
Maybe some open sourcer will exploit it for fun, but I don't think your defanition of the market will get that many game developers.
I bet 2000 years from now they can figure out the algorythem if they know what they are looking for. If they know that it is binary information, information therory will still be the same. The ways to encrypt information will be the same. I bet they could figure out the data, if they knew it was binary data. Think about what we can do with old languages. Besides, how do you explain the algorythm? Plain text I would imagine, because I ascii would need explenation if you encoded it digitaly. Maybe someone with more knowledge can fill me in on why we need to explain this stuff, but I don't think that cracking an algorythm can be much harder then crypto cracking.
I agree, except they are usually full grown adults that pirate photoshop instead of buying photo delux. I have not seen anybody really using photoshop on a pirated copy. But somehow people don't want to use a nerfed version because it is cheaper, despite it meeting their needs.
I will second the Jules Verne comment, 20,000 leagues is amzingly accurate. I am suprised yours is the first comment to mention him.
But the Matrix is plausable? Come on, do you know about conservation of energy?
you cannot get energy out of feeding people to themselves. Think about how much you eat. One human carcus will not feed you to produce the precious heat the robots need for very long at all. You cannot have a closed system produce energy like that, there is no way. Without breaking out the nuclear energy you cannot get more energy from a person then is possible by drying them out and setting them on fire (well perhaps you coukld go a little further, but not much). You cannot make energy using people without a food large food supply (corpses of other people don't count, unless you drop your population by an order of magnatude at least (probably more like 2 or 3) each generation. The large food supply would need the sun (oops, no sun).
I have a DC and can't find any good lists that mention anything new I missed.
My list of must have DC games is:
Crazy Taxi GrandiaII (the first RPG I really got into in a looong time) Soul Caliber Wacky Races (the best cart racer I have played since the original Mario Cart) JoJo's Bizarre adventure (great 2-d fighter) Power Stone (Perhaps the funnest fighter ever) download and burn an NES emulator with a bunch of games (there is a snes emulator too, but it is not full speed, and skips a lot of frames)
If you like classic games, the Sega and Midway classics are great If you like really classic games the atari classic is good too, though you suffer badly from resolution change or something, I found most games to be unplayable
There are plenty of other good games, but, I can't think of any other must haves off the top of my head.
My dreamcast and pretty big game library was under 200.00 dollors, well worht every penny.
This was a year ago, so the graphics weren't even dated (Resident evil was the same as PS2, Sonic adventure was amazingly detailed, and AFAIN Grandia 2 was exactly the same.)
One of the coolest things about the dreamcast was the web-browser, you could go and download saved games with everything unlocked. If you like to play games with people, but not waste hours unlocking everything, this was a spectacular feature.
That is a far cry from the 10 inches of mouse move and 2 clicks of
file --> print preview
or
three key alt+f v
If Abiword came with a script that did all you say and was under file, or a button, that would be fine, but it doesn't that I know of.
of course if a standard print program were to have a preview printer (like your suggestion) it would be close enough. It would have to be implemented at the print program level (CUPS?) I don't own a printer so I don't really know much about Linux printing, but it should be an easy feature to add with the source available and all.
To bad I am a back seat coder, or I might just try it.
or we could get reliable printing in open source software too, so that you don't need to check your printing (like quark Xpress)
I don't mind banners at all, even the new really big ones (they are the same physical size as an old banner was for me a few years ago).
What I really hate is pop-ups though, not even limited to advirtising ones.
Why do websites automatically open in a new window sometimes? I have two buttons on my mouse (well 5 if you could mouse wheel, wheel up and wheel down). I can right click open in new window (as can 90% of computer users, the other 10% hold some keyboard button and click).
So why do sights do this too me?
As an example I will give mail2web.com. Why is every message I view it's own window? I really don't get it.
Anyway, pop-ups and pop-unders suck, I prefer 10 seconds of full screen forced diversion flash adds to pop-ups.
True, I guess it was the 15 dollor OEM CD-rom drive that really did that for me, and not Win XP, but still, but 4 or 5 years ago the ability to play most games with music playing was not very available in Windows, but old DOS games worked fine that way with no fuss.
One time when my good computer died I went back to DOS. Using TSR programs I was able to play games (duke 3d and arena, niether of which I can get to run now) and listen to CD's at the same time. I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
Now in Windows there is no way to listen to music and play games without getting a noCD crack with every version of a game to be released. Of course with XP (and maybe 2k) you can rip your CD's and listen while you play, but until then my DOS had win so obsoleeted.
A company that uses genetically modified plants to produce pharmacuticals recently had there plants genes jump to what was supposed to be an edible batch of corn.
This was a cross spicies jump that required the destruction of a whole lot of food.
I can't find proof, but it was in the news opn tuesday or monday.
Slashdot Mirror
I think he was refering to retail markup. 50% is about correct, meaning the companies sell for 7.50, the CD retails for 15.
I think that his guess was off though, must suggested retail prices are closer to 17 or 18 dollors meaning 8.50 or 9.00 is the price the companies get for each cd. On top of that you have to factor thatthe 500,000 number is probably for hit CD's or some BS like that.
Anyway the figuring does show pretty blatently that the industry is not presenting numbers in good faith, if nothing else (saying the average cost is 500,000 dollors for a CD when it isn't is bad faith, even if they were n0ot flat out lieing).
That's really funny 'cause it's true.
Probably the must insightful thing on slashdot ever.
Wow, arn't you a big man, you have a computer that people don't even need to know about and you can lock it down. So special.
My Grandma uses a computer for card games and my grandpa for spreadsheets. And noone ever got them into a DOS. Wow, you're right, bragging on slashdot does make your dick bigger.
I got a 28 inch (I think) Trinitron TV and it looks great (80.00 at an auction). I saw these huge HDTV's at the store being showcased and was unipressed (though for sports I could see how it would make a difference. My biggest beef was that they all had normal TV aspect ratios, and one had a stretch option to fill the display by stretching a wide picture. The sales people were touting it as a huge benifit that will be great when all you can get is HDTV, and everyone else is stuck with letterboxes. How can they get away with blabbing about great picture, then trying to sell their product on distorting said picture? I was dumbfounded.
Funny that you look at that as a problem. I think the same thing is a virtue.
If I want this discussion to be in my foward/backwardness I would click the big slashdot in the top left. If I do not I click the back button. I personally want to be able to get to the previous sight I viseted in as few backs possible (usually around 3). It were setup the way you want it could easily be 12 or more after going on slashdot. After every 0 coment I choose to read it will set me back even further. Sometimes I like to read the spicif mods on a post, again more things in my history. If every page in my history was in the back button que that would be very bad.
I fI were to decide I was too lazy to check spelling ect. (I am) and that I would be ashamed to post in such a state (I am not), and therefore aborted this comment, I would have all sorts of crap that was worthless in my back button que (I still will, but at least it will have been somethomething).
My biggest problem with FPS on consoles is that they don't allow full custimization of controls. I find that there is a setup I like except I want to swap the L trigger for the up D-pad (dreamcast Unreal, And something simmilare for the PSone QuakeII). Is there fully custom controls in this?. I will say that with the auto aiming (close to a hit hits) and the control pad the game is playable. You still can't whip the view around so quick if you are getting toased from behind though.
Is there not to be mouse and keyboard support for the Xbox? If there is that kind of invalidates the whole mouse==uber argument.
Is the TV a disadvantage in this type of game? (less resolution, slower interlaced refresh, Less crisp picture) I am just curious.
If they really were selling huge amounts of blanks on the black market to pirates I would hope that they would get in lots of trouble. They are fueling a type of priracy that from what I gathered the majority of slashdotters don't support. And they are cheating on their taxes in a way that costs everyone money. Also the money laundering side of things would quite likley involve funding all other sorts of no good.
In EverQuest, you play Soviet Russia
Damn you are the funniest troll ever.
The problem with hyper simplicity is lack of functionality/custimization.
The problem with custimization is that it adds incosistency and complexity.
There is no way for a single consistent desktop to appease all power users and noobs alike.
You can go like Windows and force 3rd parties to make custimizations, or you can go like Linux and allow any user to access them. Probably they idea way is have a beginner/expert setting in the custimizations to keep people that don't feel they are experts away from obscure things (to them) like windows focus.
Also, was the Grandparent trying to imply that OSX was perfected? Because lots of unnessacery animation (zoom on mouse over of something plenty big to see already) is hardly what I would call a feature of a perfected UI.
Whoah, I bet the game developers are itching to get on the free as in beer racing and sports game bandwagon. Especially since so few people buy racing and sports games they really need to peek some interest.
Maybe some open sourcer will exploit it for fun, but I don't think your defanition of the market will get that many game developers.
I think the problem is the hords of semi geek 18 year old drop outs and haxor wanna bes.
if you are serious into programming you are more likly to have some respect.
Your quaking was not malicious, and probably did not cause support headaches. So how was your bypassing the system so bad?
is it really that hopless to read an 80 year old format?
If so SETI has us so played it ain't even funny.
My point thouhg is that in 2000 years any language we have to communicate is goin to be quite foreign.
Unless you can draw a pictogram of an algorythim I don't think you are going to be too much help.
I bet 2000 years from now they can figure out the algorythem if they know what they are looking for. If they know that it is binary information, information therory will still be the same. The ways to encrypt information will be the same. I bet they could figure out the data, if they knew it was binary data. Think about what we can do with old languages. Besides, how do you explain the algorythm? Plain text I would imagine, because I ascii would need explenation if you encoded it digitaly. Maybe someone with more knowledge can fill me in on why we need to explain this stuff, but I don't think that cracking an algorythm can be much harder then crypto cracking.
because someone with trouble typing can so easily dial all the numbers into a phone?
I don't think that would solve much.
I agree, except they are usually full grown adults that pirate photoshop instead of buying photo delux. I have not seen anybody really using photoshop on a pirated copy. But somehow people don't want to use a nerfed version because it is cheaper, despite it meeting their needs.
I will second the Jules Verne comment, 20,000 leagues is amzingly accurate. I am suprised yours is the first comment to mention him.
But the Matrix is plausable? Come on, do you know about conservation of energy?
you cannot get energy out of feeding people to themselves. Think about how much you eat. One human carcus will not feed you to produce the precious heat the robots need for very long at all. You cannot have a closed system produce energy like that, there is no way. Without breaking out the nuclear energy you cannot get more energy from a person then is possible by drying them out and setting them on fire (well perhaps you coukld go a little further, but not much). You cannot make energy using people without a food large food supply (corpses of other people don't count, unless you drop your population by an order of magnatude at least (probably more like 2 or 3) each generation. The large food supply would need the sun (oops, no sun).
How about a Game list?
I have a DC and can't find any good lists that mention anything new I missed.
My list of must have DC games is:
Crazy Taxi
GrandiaII (the first RPG I really got into in a looong time)
Soul Caliber
Wacky Races (the best cart racer I have played since the original Mario Cart)
JoJo's Bizarre adventure (great 2-d fighter)
Power Stone (Perhaps the funnest fighter ever)
download and burn an NES emulator with a bunch of games (there is a snes emulator too, but it is not full speed, and skips a lot of frames)
If you like classic games, the Sega and Midway classics are great
If you like really classic games the atari classic is good too, though you suffer badly from resolution change or something, I found most games to be unplayable
There are plenty of other good games, but, I can't think of any other must haves off the top of my head.
My dreamcast and pretty big game library was under 200.00 dollors, well worht every penny.
This was a year ago, so the graphics weren't even dated (Resident evil was the same as PS2, Sonic adventure was amazingly detailed, and AFAIN Grandia 2 was exactly the same.)
One of the coolest things about the dreamcast was the web-browser, you could go and download saved games with everything unlocked. If you like to play games with people, but not waste hours unlocking everything, this was a spectacular feature.
That is a far cry from the 10 inches of mouse move and 2 clicks of
file --> print preview
or
three key alt+f v
If Abiword came with a script that did all you say and was under file, or a button, that would be fine, but it doesn't that I know of.
of course if a standard print program were to have a preview printer (like your suggestion) it would be close enough.
It would have to be implemented at the print program level (CUPS?) I don't own a printer so I don't really know much about Linux printing, but it should be an easy feature to add with the source available and all.
To bad I am a back seat coder, or I might just try it.
or we could get reliable printing in open source software too, so that you don't need to check your printing (like quark Xpress)
I disagree, some photos of the moon lander taken from earth would be really cool IMHO.
Even if there were no doubters I think it would be a cool thing to do.
Isn't ECS a totally garbagew company?
I baught one of their motherboards... oops.
I went online and found so many, I got x number of these with 3/4 not working posts when I searched.
My computer had an uptime of approx 5 mins when using mine.
I would not spend anymore then 30 dollors on one of their products ever again.
Pop Ups are terible.
I don't mind banners at all, even the new really big ones (they are the same physical size as an old banner was for me a few years ago).
What I really hate is pop-ups though, not even limited to advirtising ones.
Why do websites automatically open in a new window sometimes? I have two buttons on my mouse (well 5 if you could mouse wheel, wheel up and wheel down). I can right click open in new window (as can 90% of computer users, the other 10% hold some keyboard button and click).
So why do sights do this too me?
As an example I will give mail2web.com. Why is every message I view it's own window? I really don't get it.
Anyway, pop-ups and pop-unders suck, I prefer 10 seconds of full screen forced diversion flash adds to pop-ups.
True, I guess it was the 15 dollor OEM CD-rom drive that really did that for me, and not Win XP, but still, but 4 or 5 years ago the ability to play most games with music playing was not very available in Windows, but old DOS games worked fine that way with no fuss.
I think he meant cygwin actually:)
One time when my good computer died I went back to DOS. Using TSR programs I was able to play games (duke 3d and arena, niether of which I can get to run now) and listen to CD's at the same time. I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
Now in Windows there is no way to listen to music and play games without getting a noCD crack with every version of a game to be released. Of course with XP (and maybe 2k) you can rip your CD's and listen while you play, but until then my DOS had win so obsoleeted.
Wasn't the corn thing in recent news?
A company that uses genetically modified plants to produce pharmacuticals recently had there plants genes jump to what was supposed to be an edible batch of corn.
This was a cross spicies jump that required the destruction of a whole lot of food.
I can't find proof, but it was in the news opn tuesday or monday.