Why they charge so much for stuff that would have done it's job perfectly when released for free is beyond my understanding though.
to earn money? They probably figure charging a few bucks isnt going to keep lots of people from getting it, and perhaps even that a non-free price adds an air of legitimacy and value to it. Also, gamers might be more inclined to try and actually enjoy the DLC when they spent money on it. If i download a level for game XYZ for free, and i hate the first five minutes, i will discard it. If i paid 5 bucks for it, i will give it about an hour to win me over before i toss it aside.
Mostly though, i think money is the reason, if they release loads of trinkets (free cars/guns/tracks/levels/team-jerseys), at some point the share holders will start asking questions, and when their money is involved, they can be a bitch to convince.
wow, talk about your deus ex machina "impervious to anything but light, antimater and gravity" that is like saying "always one more than you" in your classic playground match to see who gets the last word
Also, i wonder how you manage to feel safe in a car/bus/train, or if you never leave the house (because you dont feel safe in beforementioned modes of transportation) how you feel safe in a house. Given the possibility of huricanes, lightning strikes or meteorite impacts
MS is a clear case of "never ascribe to malice, that which can be adequately explained by incompetence". Balmer might give of some evil-vibes with the chair throwing and the occasional "Google, i'm going to fucking kill those guys", but in reality he is just a bumbling clumbsy guy trying to bring home the CEO bucks.
Larry Elison on the other hand.. i wouldnt be surprised at all if he has a secret underground lair under his house, stocked with plenty of black swiveling chairs, white cats and shark-pools (which may or may not be filled with seabass instead)
TFA mentions the factory will produce: - three white-knight IIs - five SpaceshipTwos
so, what will happen after these 8 builds? Any plans for spaceshipThree?
Cool stuff though, if branson can build some type of spaceshipthree which does orbital flight en masse, this might be the beginning of true private spaceflight
you dont do that with top-secret stuff you dont want anyone seeing. In this day and age of tubes, twitter and youtube, it poses a very serious risk of letting your enemy see things you dont want seen
i'm no expert at US military protocol, but i would assume that if this were a surprise launch by say, china, the US would keep it under wraps untill they have an apropriate public response
you dont test a super-secret missile that you dont want anyone knowing about, 30 miles of the coast. You do that sort of stuff in the middle of the pacific, way outside the normal shipping/aircraft routes
i am missing that too, if this was anywhere near the size implied, several radar tracking stations would have had this thing on their screens, including immediate trajectory calculations on where it is going, and when it would hit.
any sat launch would turn away from land (for various safety reasons), meaning that a launch from the california coast would launch counter to the earths rotation, which means it would need way more energy then when launching in the opposite direction.
furthermore, i doubt most SLBMs have the capability to get any meaningfull mass into orbit. In fact, orbital nukes are outlawed in various treaties, so it would be illegal for a SLBM to be able to orbit anything.
If the number of convoys/trucks halfs, then why would the number of available (suicide) attackers stay the same per convoy? After a few weeks of reduced convoying, the enemy will think "hey, we have a lot of trained guys ready to blow left over, might as well send some extra on the next attack", and you will end up with 40% kill rates on the following convoys.
The enemy probably has some infrastructure/plan in place for attacking convoys, why would they scale back that part of their operation when they still arent able to take out 100% of the targets?
right, i'm just lazy as hell and i dont know where the euro sign is on my thinkpad, add to that that the 99 euros includes 19% sales tax, and tipical US prices do not. Then compensate for the fact that electronics tend to be cheaper in the US anyway..
If your cell-phone market wasnt so ultimately FSCKed up, this device could easily have been sold for 99 dollars
yes i have, but giving some extension in firefox (with some updating scheme that i cant/wont review every single update) SUDO privileges seems like a rather large open door to me..
an extension which does this sort of stuff under-water would be an easy vector for phising sites to slip in their own server
the first solution that came to mind for power-loss problems was a UPS for me.... (actually, most electronic alarm clocks i had featured a bay for a 9v battery to keep it running in case of a power failure)
not subsidised, it was 99 euros prepaid at vodafone
the vodafone 845 nova (or huawei 8120 "joy", as it is know in china), is a pretty basic little phone, QVGA resistive touch screen, 128mb ram, android 2.1
I love it though, in a few days i'll upgrade to an htc desire, but even with the added features, i am not sure i wont be dissapointed. the 845 is just excellent bang for the buck
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not when you stamp the box with "halo", then even the small remainder of reason and value-awareness goes out the door.
Why they charge so much for stuff that would have done it's job perfectly when released for free is beyond my understanding though.
to earn money? They probably figure charging a few bucks isnt going to keep lots of people from getting it, and perhaps even that a non-free price adds an air of legitimacy and value to it. Also, gamers might be more inclined to try and actually enjoy the DLC when they spent money on it. If i download a level for game XYZ for free, and i hate the first five minutes, i will discard it. If i paid 5 bucks for it, i will give it about an hour to win me over before i toss it aside.
Mostly though, i think money is the reason, if they release loads of trinkets (free cars/guns/tracks/levels/team-jerseys), at some point the share holders will start asking questions, and when their money is involved, they can be a bitch to convince.
wow, talk about your deus ex machina "impervious to anything but light, antimater and gravity" that is like saying "always one more than you" in your classic playground match to see who gets the last word
Also, i wonder how you manage to feel safe in a car/bus/train, or if you never leave the house (because you dont feel safe in beforementioned modes of transportation) how you feel safe in a house. Given the possibility of huricanes, lightning strikes or meteorite impacts
yeah, i figured some kind of sub-orbital long distance travel would also be needed, but somehow i figured SS2 would be suited for that..
i would love for SSx to go for full orbital serial production
i was just wondering about that, how much cash would one need for a hostile take-over of oracle? and does google have that amount of cash?
i would have prefered Google buying sun right away, but if they happen to take down ellison on their way, that;s fine with me
MS is a clear case of "never ascribe to malice, that which can be adequately explained by incompetence". Balmer might give of some evil-vibes with the chair throwing and the occasional "Google, i'm going to fucking kill those guys", but in reality he is just a bumbling clumbsy guy trying to bring home the CEO bucks.
Larry Elison on the other hand.. i wouldnt be surprised at all if he has a secret underground lair under his house, stocked with plenty of black swiveling chairs, white cats and shark-pools (which may or may not be filled with seabass instead)
TFA mentions the factory will produce:
- three white-knight IIs
- five SpaceshipTwos
so, what will happen after these 8 builds? Any plans for spaceshipThree?
Cool stuff though, if branson can build some type of spaceshipthree which does orbital flight en masse, this might be the beginning of true private spaceflight
you dont do that with top-secret stuff you dont want anyone seeing. In this day and age of tubes, twitter and youtube, it poses a very serious risk of letting your enemy see things you dont want seen
i'm no expert at US military protocol, but i would assume that if this were a surprise launch by say, china, the US would keep it under wraps untill they have an apropriate public response
you dont test a super-secret missile that you dont want anyone knowing about, 30 miles of the coast. You do that sort of stuff in the middle of the pacific, way outside the normal shipping/aircraft routes
well, thats what we movie-go-ers get for letting MGM go bankrupt
i am missing that too, if this was anywhere near the size implied, several radar tracking stations would have had this thing on their screens, including immediate trajectory calculations on where it is going, and when it would hit.
any sat launch would turn away from land (for various safety reasons), meaning that a launch from the california coast would launch counter to the earths rotation, which means it would need way more energy then when launching in the opposite direction.
furthermore, i doubt most SLBMs have the capability to get any meaningfull mass into orbit. In fact, orbital nukes are outlawed in various treaties, so it would be illegal for a SLBM to be able to orbit anything.
ME does not use the same VM, as a matter of fact, ME is still stuck at the feature level of java SE 1.4
burns your nads while you rewind Lady Gaga videos for the 20th time in a row.
Natural selection at its finest!
Leo Apotheker, status: What's up doc.. eh Larry?
Larry Ellison, status: SSSHH i'm hunting Wabb.. eh.. CEOs
Larrys kind of crazy and ruthless behaviour is more befitting of a pirate i think..
So don't worry about ninjas clad in oracle red, three-mast 40-gun sailing ships however..
no it wont
If the number of convoys/trucks halfs, then why would the number of available (suicide) attackers stay the same per convoy? After a few weeks of reduced convoying, the enemy will think "hey, we have a lot of trained guys ready to blow left over, might as well send some extra on the next attack", and you will end up with 40% kill rates on the following convoys.
The enemy probably has some infrastructure/plan in place for attacking convoys, why would they scale back that part of their operation when they still arent able to take out 100% of the targets?
right, i'm just lazy as hell and i dont know where the euro sign is on my thinkpad, add to that that the 99 euros includes 19% sales tax, and tipical US prices do not. Then compensate for the fact that electronics tend to be cheaper in the US anyway..
If your cell-phone market wasnt so ultimately FSCKed up, this device could easily have been sold for 99 dollars
yes i have, but giving some extension in firefox (with some updating scheme that i cant/wont review every single update) SUDO privileges seems like a rather large open door to me..
an extension which does this sort of stuff under-water would be an easy vector for phising sites to slip in their own server
note to self: next time add "oh yeah *whoosh*" to end of post when replying seriously to a joke to ridicule a meme
since i prefer not to run my browser as root (and keep my /etc unmoddifiable to my own user), i'd rather not have that feature
but yeah, for windows users, this might be a usefull idea
unfortunately not..
When we got together she actually had sony *shudder* vaio *gag* laptop running vista *pukes*
the first solution that came to mind for power-loss problems was a UPS for me.... (actually, most electronic alarm clocks i had featured a bay for a 9v battery to keep it running in case of a power failure)
not subsidised, it was 99 euros prepaid at vodafone
the vodafone 845 nova (or huawei 8120 "joy", as it is know in china), is a pretty basic little phone, QVGA resistive touch screen, 128mb ram, android 2.1
I love it though, in a few days i'll upgrade to an htc desire, but even with the added features, i am not sure i wont be dissapointed. the 845 is just excellent bang for the buck