I'm sorry, but your calculation seems to be way off. Not every musician has to be a wide fan-base, mainstream "everybody's attraction" like Britney Spears: To have just 100,000 listeners is still very much, especially when you talk of indy/subgenre groups or foreign artists: For example, an Israely artist who to begin with has only 4,000,000 people as the maximum number of fans (that's the size of Israel minus the Palestenians and the religious folk). If one out of 400 sends a dollar, and the artist has 100,000 listeners, he would make 2,500$. If he sold just 10,000 CDs (out of 100,000!), each CD costing 17$ as it does in Israel, and counting 95% (!) to the record company, he would still make more than THRICE the number you gave (8,500$).
4 years ago, at the height of my addiction, I played it with real cards, every day, making decks at school and testing them in the local club afterwards.
It took too much money, when I revealed apprentice and e-league. I've been playing on and off since then. It's such a programmer's game- I really love it.
>> Perl6 for IMmortals. Highlander edition. I mean, I think it would take me a few hundred years to really understand Perl, which wouldn't be so bad if I was gonna live forever.:)
Yes, and you'd have to live a few hundred years just to see Perl6 out.
I beg to differ. The case in Israel is much worse. "I'll buy it after I've tried it and liked it" would not make M$ lose money here.
The israelies notion is
"I'll buy it after I've tried and liked it, *and I don't yet have it*". Sometime this evolutes to "I'll buy it after I've tried, liked it, and I have no way to get it besides buying it."
To say the truth, the only games I ever bought were those which needed authorization keys to play on the net, the kind that cannot be generated with cracks (Half life, Diablo, etc.). You would expect some children to act like that - It's not easy to milk your parents for money, etc. But when it's the big companies, enterprises and corporations in Israel which pirate software, there's no one to take good example from.
-Nimster
Israely piracy is one of the true plagues of Israel. U.S reports show that there is a 70% of pirated software in the buisness market, and almost 85% in the private sector.
People feel that they'll only buy games they:
A. Really like and
B. Haven't got warez'ed beforehand.
Thus, even those who do buy games, have a mixed collection of pirated software and non-pirated one.
Me? I just learned to live without being able to type or read hebrew in 99% of the applications. And since I only need it for E-mail and Web, and I use Kmail and Konqueror respectively, It's really not that of a big deal.
CTP2 *is* out, and is pretty amazing. I got it, and I have to go to windows everytime to play it, which is pretty annoying since I have to shutdown all of the services and tasks just to restart them on linux to play CTP2.
It's a great game, although VERY easy. -Nimster
Not with what's happening in jerusalem now... And in the last 50 years, hell even when the romans were here it was burned down twice. If the net's a place for terrorists to work, rivals to fight over and spill blood, and fanatical religious beliefs to take place, thanks, I'll pass. May it be something totally new, totally peaceful and totally self contained (if that's the term for something that does not need politics choosing it's method of protection, censoring and control), and that allows everyone to express himself a-la the US constitution. That's my resolution for the new year (and the REAL new millennium, not the 2000 hoax). Also, that people will stop using 300$ software from Microsoft, it's a complete waste of money and trees (Yes, they need to MAKE that dollar bill) -Nimster
Well, I understand all this vision is very cool, but what's all the hype about? I mean what would *you* do wo with an eye capable of pieR (180^) viewport and, say, x3 zoom? See the TV and the kitchen in the same time? Be able to discern if someone is home while coming towards it, yet still 600 meters (~1900 ft.) away? All those do not seem like practical uses to installing a $1,000 (presuming that's all it costs), and risk damaging your eye for. Now, I hate to be the party-pooper, but this has no uses, besides being a base for 1,000,000 other researches in the field, and promoting science, even for pilots\FBI agents\whatever you'd like to imagine, until eye surgery techniques imporved. AFAIK, there's a 10%, or 5% of failure in laser surgery. No army is going to train pilots, (Which is an extremely demanding task not anyone is capable of, and takes 2 years of nonstop training, at least in Israel), then lose 5%-10% of them because of failed eye surgeries, for means that can be achieved through another kind equipment, like a digital zoom viewport on the cockpit, or, for the cockpit-disabled, binoculars (sp?). Not to mention not all people are like you, willing to sacrifice their life for the greater good of human kind;), and would be willing to have their 'viewports' adjusted. But the claw, well, that's a whole different story =]. -Nimster
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I'm sorry, but your calculation seems to be way off. Not every musician has to be a wide fan-base, mainstream "everybody's attraction" like Britney Spears: To have just 100,000 listeners is still very much, especially when you talk of indy/subgenre groups or foreign artists: For example, an Israely artist who to begin with has only 4,000,000 people as the maximum number of fans (that's the size of Israel minus the Palestenians and the religious folk). If one out of 400 sends a dollar, and the artist has 100,000 listeners, he would make 2,500$. If he sold just 10,000 CDs (out of 100,000!), each CD costing 17$ as it does in Israel, and counting 95% (!) to the record company, he would still make more than THRICE the number you gave (8,500$).
4 years ago, at the height of my addiction, I played it with real cards, every day, making decks at school and testing them in the local club afterwards. It took too much money, when I revealed apprentice and e-league. I've been playing on and off since then. It's such a programmer's game- I really love it.
>> Perl6 for IMmortals. Highlander edition. I mean, I think it would take me a few hundred years to really understand Perl, which wouldn't be so bad if I was gonna live forever. :)
Yes, and you'd have to live a few hundred years just to see Perl6 out.
I beg to differ. The case in Israel is much worse. "I'll buy it after I've tried it and liked it" would not make M$ lose money here. The israelies notion is "I'll buy it after I've tried and liked it, *and I don't yet have it*". Sometime this evolutes to "I'll buy it after I've tried, liked it, and I have no way to get it besides buying it." To say the truth, the only games I ever bought were those which needed authorization keys to play on the net, the kind that cannot be generated with cracks (Half life, Diablo, etc.). You would expect some children to act like that - It's not easy to milk your parents for money, etc. But when it's the big companies, enterprises and corporations in Israel which pirate software, there's no one to take good example from.
-Nimster
Israely piracy is one of the true plagues of Israel. U.S reports show that there is a 70% of pirated software in the buisness market, and almost 85% in the private sector.
People feel that they'll only buy games they:
A. Really like and
B. Haven't got warez'ed beforehand.
Thus, even those who do buy games, have a mixed collection of pirated software and non-pirated one.
Me? I just learned to live without being able to type or read hebrew in 99% of the applications. And since I only need it for E-mail and Web, and I use Kmail and Konqueror respectively, It's really not that of a big deal.
-Nimster
-Nimster
CTP2 *is* out, and is pretty amazing. I got it, and I have to go to windows everytime to play it, which is pretty annoying since I have to shutdown all of the services and tasks just to restart them on linux to play CTP2. It's a great game, although VERY easy.
-Nimster
Not with what's happening in jerusalem now... And in the last 50 years, hell even when the romans were here it was burned down twice. If the net's a place for terrorists to work, rivals to fight over and spill blood, and fanatical religious beliefs to take place, thanks, I'll pass. May it be something totally new, totally peaceful and totally self contained (if that's the term for something that does not need politics choosing it's method of protection, censoring and control), and that allows everyone to express himself a-la the US constitution. That's my resolution for the new year (and the REAL new millennium, not the 2000 hoax). Also, that people will stop using 300$ software from Microsoft, it's a complete waste of money and trees (Yes, they need to MAKE that dollar bill)
-Nimster
Well, I understand all this vision is very cool, but what's all the hype about? I mean what would *you* do wo with an eye capable of pieR (180^) viewport and, say, x3 zoom? See the TV and the kitchen in the same time? Be able to discern if someone is home while coming towards it, yet still 600 meters (~1900 ft.) away? All those do not seem like practical uses to installing a $1,000 (presuming that's all it costs), and risk damaging your eye for. ;), and would be willing to have their 'viewports' adjusted. .
Now, I hate to be the party-pooper, but this has no uses, besides being a base for 1,000,000 other researches in the field, and promoting science, even for pilots\FBI agents\whatever you'd like to imagine, until eye surgery techniques imporved. AFAIK, there's a 10%, or 5% of failure in laser surgery. No army is going to train pilots, (Which is an extremely demanding task not anyone is capable of, and takes 2 years of nonstop training, at least in Israel), then lose 5%-10% of them because of failed eye surgeries, for means that can be achieved through another kind equipment, like a digital zoom viewport on the cockpit, or, for the cockpit-disabled, binoculars (sp?). Not to mention not all people are like you, willing to sacrifice their life for the greater good of human kind
But the claw, well, that's a whole different story =]
-Nimster