Anecdotal and all, but, I have pirated things, and I know people who have. At the time, it was primarily due to low income (too young, students with no job, etc). There is a collection-compulsion to some of it as well. So just because you have X-thousands of pirates, does not mean they all would have been paying customers in the first place. At the time, if I couldn't pirate what I did, I would have just done without. Either way, the developer would have gotten nothing from me.
Today, with a good job, family, it's easier for me to buy something off Steam, Android Market, etc than to hunt down pirating resources. I'd say it's this way for a lot of people. Google Checkout doesn't even work in many countries, so for those, pirating is the only way to see a great many apps. With all Google's power, why aren't they pursuing that potential market more?
The chances the baby will be normal are actually pretty good. The big worry after they are first delivered is bleeding on the brain leading to cerebral palsy. By the time the baby is going home, they would have done numerous ultrasounds and know if that were the case.
I live near a fancier hospital, they used bubble wrap as a blanket over our daughter (born 2 pounds) to maintain body heat. It's amazing how many tiny premature babies like this do actually go home and lead normal lives. Aside from being skinny, our daughter is a normal hyper four-year-old.
Obviously, the best solution is for a nation (or world) wide tax. This is the only fair thing so the artists can create these masterful works. Otherwise, there will be no art. Everyone on Earth listens to music of some sort, so it's only reasonable that the Agency collects money from everyone so it can distribute it to the starving artists. Think of the children!
So they put a map of the moon into a microwave. This is considered news these days?? Guess what, I put a marshmellow in the microwave the other day. Yippee!
What are governments supposed to do when they want more money? Of course you raise the taxes! The last thing anyone wants is an evaluation of where the money is being spent, wasted, or otherwise.
And for those from other parts of the globe, this is just the Washington state tax. The federal tax is still applied (and may be going up as well for the >$200k club).
Well, with a statement like that it would be reasonable to figure the person is in a state with carry permits, but he knows of no one with one. Otherwise, it'd be like me (living in the US) saying I don't know any Norwegians. Pointless.
Or he hasn't done anything for someone to point out they have a gun with them. Which is a good thing. Of those I know with guns, they don't have them on their lap while watching TV in the living room. So, of course, you wouldn't know it under normal circumstances.
But you have to discard 90% of those people because they don't matter to said Slashdotters. They are just hillbillys, hicks, etc. Because they don't have a need for X (be it guns, KDE, vi, or Fortran), there is no reason for anyone to have it. If we just put all the intelligence of gun makers, KDE programmers, vi enthusiasts, etc to work on cancer, global warming, or whatever cause-of-the-day, then those problems will get cured.
If you want to live a life of only what you purely need to continue existing, you're more than welcome to it. But if people want to hunt, play video games, view web sites, they can. The only difference is you want to decide what people should want to do.
Since there is but one camera to do the tracking, how many different Move controllers does this allow? It would seem harder to coordinate tracking of four balls flying around the room.
And I don't know if this was the cheapest way. It's coming mighty close the price of the Wii itself. Wouldn't Nintendo's method thusly be cheaper?
Just back up the Steam (or only steamapps if you want) and it works. I did a Windows reinstall a few months back, reinstalling the steam client to the same path. It picked up all the games I already had flawlessly.
Well, a quick search at mozzila.org shows, "Showing 1 - 20 of 64 results for adblock". So I'd say Chrome needs another 39 extensions to do the same thing.
All this talk about Adblock extensions here has me curious why people don't use the hosts file to block all the ad hostnames? I've used 'em for a few years, and it's reasonable. It doesn't matter what browser I start up, and it works. Then again, even if one gets through, I just don't click on it. That's just the kinda guy I am. Maybe I should type up a long rant about it on the Internets.
Gamasutra recently ran a story from an ex-employee that summed up how to not make an MMO.
"Fun never seemed to be a criterion for what they were doing; managers with little clipboards would go around and tick off things, saying 'OK that's done' and moving on. There was never any consideration for whether or not what had been done was any fun."
I'd imagine this will be a hot thing to buy. You could take it, and then sue all these big Linux companies. It's a win-win situation. What could go wrong?
Why? Because you aren't in the market for an MMO? If anything, this shows you can't be just a "me too" wanting to cash-in on the current fads. Games came and went during the Doom-clone era, MMOs will come and go if they don't do anything fun for the players.
This could be sort of a culmination of everything they have learned from previous projects. Take a little Buzz, a bit of Wave, toss in some Profiles, Blogger, etc, add some games to keep people busy.
Funny how we can be so strict with visitors (or in this case, potential future visitor), but make a statement about people entering this country illegally, and you're racist, xenophobic, etc.
The trouble with this model is that the money is put up front. I'd pay X price up front for some added content to recognize the effort that went into it. Then, after playing, I'd be willing to pay a "tip" if that content made me say, "Wow, that was hella fun."
That would tell an indie developer more about what their player-base like/dislike.
I signed up for Facebook to see what all the hype was about these Facebook Games. I had a relative that loved Mafia Wars. Ok, I enjoy me some mafia-style video games, let's see. I get there and it's all these "come back in X hours to collect your loot" buttons. Fighting someone sounds neat, then you click and get a randomly generated "you did X points damage, you win" message. Whoopee. Not even a simple cartoon shootout video or something. This is what people spend hours and hours every day doing?? I can't understand it.
It's simple, just set it up like bittorents. Set up several thousand accounts, putting just a bit into each. Then when the time comes to make the deal, do a mass transfer of all them to GoDaddy's account, and voila.
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Anecdotal and all, but, I have pirated things, and I know people who have. At the time, it was primarily due to low income (too young, students with no job, etc). There is a collection-compulsion to some of it as well. So just because you have X-thousands of pirates, does not mean they all would have been paying customers in the first place. At the time, if I couldn't pirate what I did, I would have just done without. Either way, the developer would have gotten nothing from me.
Today, with a good job, family, it's easier for me to buy something off Steam, Android Market, etc than to hunt down pirating resources. I'd say it's this way for a lot of people. Google Checkout doesn't even work in many countries, so for those, pirating is the only way to see a great many apps. With all Google's power, why aren't they pursuing that potential market more?
The Shift isn't necessary. I often misplace the bookmarks bar, hitting Ctrl-B instead of Ctrl-V on Windows.
The chances the baby will be normal are actually pretty good. The big worry after they are first delivered is bleeding on the brain leading to cerebral palsy. By the time the baby is going home, they would have done numerous ultrasounds and know if that were the case.
I live near a fancier hospital, they used bubble wrap as a blanket over our daughter (born 2 pounds) to maintain body heat. It's amazing how many tiny premature babies like this do actually go home and lead normal lives. Aside from being skinny, our daughter is a normal hyper four-year-old.
Obviously, the best solution is for a nation (or world) wide tax. This is the only fair thing so the artists can create these masterful works. Otherwise, there will be no art. Everyone on Earth listens to music of some sort, so it's only reasonable that the Agency collects money from everyone so it can distribute it to the starving artists. Think of the children!
We are dealing with reality here sir, please kindly keep your ficticiousness to yourself.
So they put a map of the moon into a microwave. This is considered news these days?? Guess what, I put a marshmellow in the microwave the other day. Yippee!
What else would it be, furlongs per hour?
What are governments supposed to do when they want more money? Of course you raise the taxes! The last thing anyone wants is an evaluation of where the money is being spent, wasted, or otherwise.
And for those from other parts of the globe, this is just the Washington state tax. The federal tax is still applied (and may be going up as well for the >$200k club).
Well, with a statement like that it would be reasonable to figure the person is in a state with carry permits, but he knows of no one with one. Otherwise, it'd be like me (living in the US) saying I don't know any Norwegians. Pointless.
Or he hasn't done anything for someone to point out they have a gun with them. Which is a good thing. Of those I know with guns, they don't have them on their lap while watching TV in the living room. So, of course, you wouldn't know it under normal circumstances.
But you have to discard 90% of those people because they don't matter to said Slashdotters. They are just hillbillys, hicks, etc. Because they don't have a need for X (be it guns, KDE, vi, or Fortran), there is no reason for anyone to have it. If we just put all the intelligence of gun makers, KDE programmers, vi enthusiasts, etc to work on cancer, global warming, or whatever cause-of-the-day, then those problems will get cured.
There is no need for the web.
If you want to live a life of only what you purely need to continue existing, you're more than welcome to it. But if people want to hunt, play video games, view web sites, they can. The only difference is you want to decide what people should want to do.
So, how many controllers does the system allow? Or is it game specific?
Since there is but one camera to do the tracking, how many different Move controllers does this allow? It would seem harder to coordinate tracking of four balls flying around the room.
And I don't know if this was the cheapest way. It's coming mighty close the price of the Wii itself. Wouldn't Nintendo's method thusly be cheaper?
Just back up the Steam (or only steamapps if you want) and it works. I did a Windows reinstall a few months back, reinstalling the steam client to the same path. It picked up all the games I already had flawlessly.
Well, a quick search at mozzila.org shows, "Showing 1 - 20 of 64 results for adblock". So I'd say Chrome needs another 39 extensions to do the same thing.
All this talk about Adblock extensions here has me curious why people don't use the hosts file to block all the ad hostnames? I've used 'em for a few years, and it's reasonable. It doesn't matter what browser I start up, and it works. Then again, even if one gets through, I just don't click on it. That's just the kinda guy I am. Maybe I should type up a long rant about it on the Internets.
Gamasutra recently ran a story from an ex-employee that summed up how to not make an MMO.
"Fun never seemed to be a criterion for what they were doing; managers with little clipboards would go around and tick off things, saying 'OK that's done' and moving on. There was never any consideration for whether or not what had been done was any fun."
I'd imagine this will be a hot thing to buy. You could take it, and then sue all these big Linux companies. It's a win-win situation. What could go wrong?
Why? Because you aren't in the market for an MMO? If anything, this shows you can't be just a "me too" wanting to cash-in on the current fads. Games came and went during the Doom-clone era, MMOs will come and go if they don't do anything fun for the players.
This could be sort of a culmination of everything they have learned from previous projects. Take a little Buzz, a bit of Wave, toss in some Profiles, Blogger, etc, add some games to keep people busy.
Funny how we can be so strict with visitors (or in this case, potential future visitor), but make a statement about people entering this country illegally, and you're racist, xenophobic, etc.
The trouble with this model is that the money is put up front. I'd pay X price up front for some added content to recognize the effort that went into it. Then, after playing, I'd be willing to pay a "tip" if that content made me say, "Wow, that was hella fun."
That would tell an indie developer more about what their player-base like/dislike.
Why not just buy, scan, and toss them all at once? Skip scratching altogether. That's $20 in tickets, you win $5, goodbye.
I signed up for Facebook to see what all the hype was about these Facebook Games. I had a relative that loved Mafia Wars. Ok, I enjoy me some mafia-style video games, let's see. I get there and it's all these "come back in X hours to collect your loot" buttons. Fighting someone sounds neat, then you click and get a randomly generated "you did X points damage, you win" message. Whoopee. Not even a simple cartoon shootout video or something. This is what people spend hours and hours every day doing?? I can't understand it.
It's simple, just set it up like bittorents. Set up several thousand accounts, putting just a bit into each. Then when the time comes to make the deal, do a mass transfer of all them to GoDaddy's account, and voila.