Google sponsored links do not appear in the main body of the search results. The results are always ranked properly, and no amount of cash is going to change that. Sponsored links appear either highlighted above the results, or to one side.
The difference is that I know which results are more relavent on Google, they aren't ordered by the amount of money the sponsor paid.
In the free market things that are cheaper to manufacture and more popular are supposed to go down in price
No. Not even. If the supply were infinite then perhaps this would be the case, but it isn't. The simple point is that media of any sort is limited in supply. Due to this the 'equilibrium' price is pushed up. Basic economics 101. A limited supply has the same effect on the price as a surplus in demand.
This, however, is a device which someone could use to produce exact copies of nintendo games and then resell them, and that's just plain illegal, and justifiably so
In the same way that a VCR makes duplicates of TV hows? Or a CD writer makes duplicates of CDs? The fact that a tool can be used for something illegal does not make it bad and wrong. Just because something can be used for illegal uses doesn't immediately mean it will be. These linkers have a legal and valid purpose, backing up your games. What if I use it for that purpose? Whatever happened to being innocent until proven guilty?
It seemed that corporate America -- Yahoo, MSN and AOL -- was devouring the Web whole. That's why sites like Disinformation are so important. They are the real heart of the Web
Lets see now, you like this site because it gives an opinionated, stinted, and rebellious view of the world, and in the same breath you'll raise a fist to the corporate shambling of AOL and the like who happen to provide content that massive numbers of people enjoy reading.
Do you actually believe this rubbish? Do you honestly think your opinion matters in the slightest? Theres 6 billion of us out here. We can think for ourselves. Give us content, ditch the pretenious retorhic.
Yes. Absolutely. Changing from an MS solution, retraining the old staff and/or firing them and hiring new people (who, at current levels will cost much more.. an MCSE is about 2/3 the price per annum of a *nix admin), maybe changing hardware too, not to mention rewriting the legacy apps away from NT, if you can show that that will actually *save* tax dollars in the short term you'll be there, then sure, you'll win votes. Mind you, you'll also win a prize for fiction..
..the BSA hires the Federal Marshals as mercenaries to help ensure compliance with their extortion..
Well, thanks for that nicely impartial journalist attitude there. Its amazing what a simple line can do to affect the inflection of a story.
Instead, how about..
'the BSA hires Federal Marshals to ensure the hard work and effort by its members is not stolen by parasitic scum who steal like common thieves.'
I develop software for a small company. I'm quite lucky to be where I am now, doing what I want to. I also work on OSS as a hobby.. (Such as a perl port of PG+ that runs Uberworld.) Trust me, if ever I meet someone offering me a 'warez' copy of something I wrote I certianly won't be giving them a big cheery grin..
When will these companies realise that until they start making money out of what consumers what to do they're always going to be in a pitched battle against so-called 'hackers'?
So people use the internet to trade music. And they might invent something to trade video without the adverts. And years done the line they'll be trading whatever comes next. Why do companies insist on trying to stop what is obviously going to happen, and start embrassing it. Instead of trying to stop people doing this why not work on creating a business model that consumers are happy with and would be willing to pay for. I'd certainly pay a bit for television sans adverts (a bit of in-show product placement would keep the advertisers happy, I just hate the breaks), and if I could get these shows over the net as and when and whereever I want them I'd pay even more.
Companies that are wholely antagonistic toward their customers are really annoying.
In a racing game, it's a lot more important to spend time making sure the cars handle correctly than how realistically the trees sway in the background
In my new game the exact opposite is true.. I really hope Ultra Mega Pine Sim is a success..
However, as developers get used to the XBox hardware and begin to write their own native libraries (which they will, you can be sure)
Umm.. no they won't. The X-box is a specific setup PC in a box from a development point of view. Developers could just go and write new libraries, but they haven't done so for nVidia based PC games.. so its unlikely they will for the X-Box.
Its $1500 dollars now. In 3 months they'll drop that to around $799. And the Slashdot headline will read 'ZapStation now affordable'. This sort of market just begs for this kind of ploy. Sell way high to start with and recoup development costs from the early adopters with pots of cash (plus its Christmas), and then drop down to a sensible (?!) price.
The fact the media gives loads of free advertising to it when the initial production run is finished and the machine is market tested is the icing on the cake.
Examples where this has happened before? The Sony Clie, PSX, Dreamcast, PS2, lots of hifis.. if its desirable home entertainment, then this is the obvious sales plan.
What about security? Should anyone modify Code Red or such like to attack NT 3.51 then most of these old systems will collapse like a flan in a cupboard. Even with the last service pack installed properly there are exploits that we (and thus, them) know about.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes..
BUT
Google sponsored links do not appear in the main body of the search results. The results are always ranked properly, and no amount of cash is going to change that. Sponsored links appear either highlighted above the results, or to one side.
The difference is that I know which results are more relavent on Google, they aren't ordered by the amount of money the sponsor paid.
In the free market things that are cheaper to manufacture and more popular are supposed to go down in price
No. Not even. If the supply were infinite then perhaps this would be the case, but it isn't. The simple point is that media of any sort is limited in supply. Due to this the 'equilibrium' price is pushed up. Basic economics 101. A limited supply has the same effect on the price as a surplus in demand.
Yeah, and so long as they don't have the ability to fly.. no wait.. umm..
This, however, is a device which someone could use to produce exact copies of nintendo games and then resell them, and that's just plain illegal, and justifiably so
In the same way that a VCR makes duplicates of TV hows? Or a CD writer makes duplicates of CDs? The fact that a tool can be used for something illegal does not make it bad and wrong. Just because something can be used for illegal uses doesn't immediately mean it will be. These linkers have a legal and valid purpose, backing up your games. What if I use it for that purpose? Whatever happened to being innocent until proven guilty?
It seemed that corporate America -- Yahoo, MSN and AOL -- was devouring the Web whole. That's why sites like Disinformation are so important. They are the real heart of the Web
Lets see now, you like this site because it gives an opinionated, stinted, and rebellious view of the world, and in the same breath you'll raise a fist to the corporate shambling of AOL and the like who happen to provide content that massive numbers of people enjoy reading.
Do you actually believe this rubbish? Do you honestly think your opinion matters in the slightest? Theres 6 billion of us out here. We can think for ourselves. Give us content, ditch the pretenious retorhic.
I watched Snatch 5 times on Monday... wonder how they'd interpret that
They'd think you've got took much spare time.
imagine never having to take insulin shots
Not being a diabetic, thats actually pretty easy..
Ok, I'm no physist.. but surely the 3 states of matter (solid, liquid, gas) would mean a 'liquid gas' is, well, a liquid?
Yes. Absolutely. Changing from an MS solution, retraining the old staff and/or firing them and hiring new people (who, at current levels will cost much more.. an MCSE is about 2/3 the price per annum of a *nix admin), maybe changing hardware too, not to mention rewriting the legacy apps away from NT, if you can show that that will actually *save* tax dollars in the short term you'll be there, then sure, you'll win votes. Mind you, you'll also win a prize for fiction..
..the BSA hires the Federal Marshals as mercenaries to help ensure compliance with their extortion..
Well, thanks for that nicely impartial journalist attitude there. Its amazing what a simple line can do to affect the inflection of a story.
Instead, how about..
'the BSA hires Federal Marshals to ensure the hard work and effort by its members is not stolen by parasitic scum who steal like common thieves.'
I develop software for a small company. I'm quite lucky to be where I am now, doing what I want to. I also work on OSS as a hobby.. (Such as a perl port of PG+ that runs Uberworld.) Trust me, if ever I meet someone offering me a 'warez' copy of something I wrote I certianly won't be giving them a big cheery grin..
Airport security could employ advanced X-ray screening that looks through clothes
*sound of 50000 nerds filling in application forms for 'airport security manager'*
When will these companies realise that until they start making money out of what consumers what to do they're always going to be in a pitched battle against so-called 'hackers'?
So people use the internet to trade music. And they might invent something to trade video without the adverts. And years done the line they'll be trading whatever comes next. Why do companies insist on trying to stop what is obviously going to happen, and start embrassing it. Instead of trying to stop people doing this why not work on creating a business model that consumers are happy with and would be willing to pay for. I'd certainly pay a bit for television sans adverts (a bit of in-show product placement would keep the advertisers happy, I just hate the breaks), and if I could get these shows over the net as and when and whereever I want them I'd pay even more.
Companies that are wholely antagonistic toward their customers are really annoying.
Of course MS is bloatware. Now, what did I do with my 7 cds of Debian..
In a racing game, it's a lot more important to spend time making sure the cars handle correctly than how realistically the trees sway in the background
In my new game the exact opposite is true.. I really hope Ultra Mega Pine Sim is a success..
However, as developers get used to the XBox hardware and begin to write their own native libraries (which they will, you can be sure)
Umm.. no they won't. The X-box is a specific setup PC in a box from a development point of view. Developers could just go and write new libraries, but they haven't done so for nVidia based PC games.. so its unlikely they will for the X-Box.
Female.. Perl.. coder.. must.. res..ist..
I suppose that'll teach me for getting my rpms' from fbi.gov..
We have MacDonalds and Starbucks. But we also have enough taste not to frequent them.
I quite regurlarly download multi-gigabyte quantaties of data for academic research
Recent into skin tone reproduction in MPEG video is it? Hehe..
Its $1500 dollars now. In 3 months they'll drop that to around $799. And the Slashdot headline will read 'ZapStation now affordable'. This sort of market just begs for this kind of ploy. Sell way high to start with and recoup development costs from the early adopters with pots of cash (plus its Christmas), and then drop down to a sensible (?!) price.
The fact the media gives loads of free advertising to it when the initial production run is finished and the machine is market tested is the icing on the cake.
Examples where this has happened before? The Sony Clie, PSX, Dreamcast, PS2, lots of hifis.. if its desirable home entertainment, then this is the obvious sales plan.
Moral of the story? Wait and save.
..tougher emission controls on the next Martian rover..
They have dogs there? So, emission controls like 'Don't crap of the Martian face' are needed?
0110101101110000101110101, 01101101301EST
Now, I don't want to be picky or anything.. but.. well.. you do know about binary don't you?
What about security? Should anyone modify Code Red or such like to attack NT 3.51 then most of these old systems will collapse like a flan in a cupboard. Even with the last service pack installed properly there are exploits that we (and thus, them) know about.
Hmm.. Master System, SNES, MegaDrive, N64, PSX, DC, PS2, and 5 PCs.. Its not that I have an addiction.. just that I'm paid too much.
People who used OS2 were as fanatical about it as the Mac users are
Why would a Mac user be fanatical about OS/2?