before you become excitedly aware of the stupidity in arizona realize first that arizona is the home of...
open carry gun laws, for any of the numerous allowable gun types including assault rifles
recently, no more permits to conceal a weapon (careful when you google this, you will probably find outdated info)
legalized fully-automatic assault rifles for weapons made before 1986 (at least you have to register these!)
driver licenses that don't expire for 36 years, after which a mail-in renewal (read: no new testing) will have you looking 16 again at 52 yrs young
renegade sheriff Arpaio who feels like he is immune to federal investigation
average summer heat waves of 110 F (think what this does to your brain and your car, and both at the same time)
highest rate of methamphetamine use in the country
... and of cultural significance, no ports of entry via sea
hopefully, knowing what is par for the arizona course helps put the article's issue into perspective.
didn't you hear? ebooks and ereaders are not venues where people can go to get free wi-fi, read books and magazines without paying for them, hang out in a bookish atmosphere and feel trendy while they get trendy coffee as their favorite author signs their ereader screens during a beatnik poetry performance.
no, i equate price increases, coupled with a stagnant wage, as inflation. the logic leap i was making above is that it doesn't matter whether you spend bitcoin currency the way you spend federal currency. that's the difference i don't see. the market will not be different, just separate. i don't believe the deflation in bitcoins is going to be there forever. rereading my post, i see how i could be more clear on that. i did word it in a way that i expect some to be psychic. apologies.
but the rate would be absurd and I doubt there would be enough people seeking loans
sure, i respect your opinion on that but it can't be proved. i can't prove this either but i doubt that time will continue to move forward without the unfortunate souls who have no means to produce (enough of?) their own bitcoins seeking ridiculous loans for bitcoins because the [insert illegal goods here] they want to buy is out of their reach. probably a rationale of, "if i get a bitcoin loan i can buy a larger quantity of [cocaine, heroin, meth, MDMA, etc] at a lower price, which i can then flip quickly and (hopefully) repay the bitcoin loan." again, i'm going off the belief that bitcoins != endless deflation. you are convinced that a spiral is bound to happen, and so am i, but i've seen spirals come and go. haven't you?
Tell that to all the people who built successful businesses that started with a loan.
gladly. i don't necessarily believe that ends justify means. i also happen to think our whole world is in a huge mess of shit precisely because business loans (plus the stupid notion of interest (coins don't reproduce like cattle does!) and the way loans actually work) allowed technology to move too fast (as well as allowed huge corporations to merge way too fast). i believe that if we grew our technology at the rate that we could afford it, we wouldn't be dealing with deforestation, pollution, global warming and ultimately the massive violations of human rights (the ones we all know we deserve, not the ones you write down on paper and ask everyone to agree). we wouldn't be taking out loans from mother nature on her future, which we have no intentions of paying back. the whole concept of debt should be appalling to anyone with clarity and a sliver of selflessness. the same people who like debt also think the point of gambling is to win. that leaves banks and casinos (and the mafia that runs both).
why can't we move forward at a responsible pace? is there a deadline? are we in a race to invent X technology by the end of some arbitrary epoch? (like time travel on Dec. 21st, 2012). are we not speeding up the end of our existence by producing technology far in advance of our ability to comprehend it? what good is the technology to improve life when it takes out a loan against nature that effectively depletes her ability to maintain life? you think we solved problems by inventing air conditioning and ambulances but we increased the need for both by virtue of their existence. CFCs from A/C put holes in the ozone layer making it hotter so you need to crank up the A/C some more, while the deaths and injuries attributed to motor vehicles increase the need for motor vehicles to transport the injured to hospitals. we invent vaccines for diseases, which then in turn mutate and become unstoppable. we invent ways to prolong our lifespan and end up overpopulating.
so yeah, business loans can go fuck themselves. in the mid-20th century we had numerous independent media corporations that owned broadcast stations, newspapers, and radio stations. because of business loans they all managed to consolidate to less than 10 before Y2K. don't tell me life sucks without business loans because life sucks no matter what. we might still be driving chariots and killing each other with swords right now but at least you'd know you could keep doing it fo
a little tip: both the and tags have been deprecated in favor of and tags. that was a long time ago too. yeah, they still work but so does dialing a 1 first on your cell phone. don't be noobz, people.
sounds like we've read some chomsky along the way down this tangent. except that no one has mentioned the united states' terrorist acts on central america via the funding of death squads with money from weapons sold to iran to stir up shit with iraq, whom we also gave weapons. thanks ollie and ronnie!!
Probably because you never saw the definitions of inflation and deflation.
is that a jab? what is your point and why should i care? i know the definitions, maybe if you come down off your high pony you can see that.
Nobody would issue a Bitcoin loan
oh please, you know that's not true. same sentence...
and only a complete idiot would take out a Bitcoin loan
duuuuhhh yeah. are you high? who are we talking about here? if bitcoins become more broadly accepted you betcha bitcoin loan sharks will come out of the woodwork. where have you been?
You think that it is problem that banks can manipulate markets with loans? Try a world without loans
yes, i do think it's a problem. i think it's absolutely criminal that a bank can loan 90% of a deposit 6x over, as if the bank actually possessed it. it's a lie. the fucking cake is a goddamned lie. try a world without loans? try living within your means. it's called responsibility. spending against a future that hasn't been granted to you is irresponsible.
every single "obligatory xkcd" that i've clicked has been a comic that relates in some way to the topic. it's the same thing as dropping a funny movie reference during a conversation. it contributes relevant humor to the discussion. i've never thought the comic was smug or pretentious, but maybe you are just not the artist's audience, who are intellectuals after all. see, the problem with being better than everyone else is that people tend to think that you're pretentious. in reality, it's exactly like the parent said, you're just an asshole.
just because you get whooshed every time you read xkcd doesn't mean it's smug nor pretentious. the fact that you think it's the same comics over and over again adds weight to my theory that you don't understand them. you're like the anti-music guy that thinks all heavy metal or rap sounds the same when you don't even get it to begin with. also, people tend to fear what they don't understand, and hate what they fear.
my hatred for morons like you is borne of the fear that somehow someone somewhere who doesn't deserve it is going to have their life negatively impacted in a huge way due to your stupidity, and that eventually that negative impact is going to spread like a hurricane started by butterfly wings to MY life.
1. genius is not complementary. it is a sarcastic term bestowed on the morons apple hires precisely because they are too dumb to catch the irony. the rest of us get to laugh at the inside joke.
2. anyone who still considers geek or nerd to be insulting is also so stupid that they think they are actually amazingly smart despite not having a clue how to reproduce (i.e. talk to women), or contribute to a casual conversation without it turning into some arcane debate. the only cure is, like the anonymous coward says, to get over it.
3. you are participating on a site that claims to be news for nerds.
4. most of us know this already, and have no pity for the rest who have sore sphincters over the word geek or nerd. thus, you must be picking a pointless fight with somebody dumber than you, if that is possible. luckily you caught a troll!
first of all, bitcoins have only been around since "overnight." US dollar has been around a while longer.
but take almost any currency you can find and watch the foreign exchange trends over the last 6 months http://www.x-rates.com/
i tried out a dozen different currencies and they all showed a steady decline of value in exchange for the USD, which is becoming more and more worthless every day.
i see your point completely, and i'm not necessarily disagreeing, but i do wonder then what the difference is between this and real life currency?
when we talk about "rich" we talk about "old money" and "new money." "old money" are those family dynasties that have amassed wealth over a long period of time, the oldest being way back at the beginning when currency was converted from cattle to coin. "new money" in a bitcoin world would be these late adopters who you say are losers but who've imagined some novel way of attracting bitcoins to themselves.
seems to me, either bitcoin is a pyramid scam and therefore so is our real life currency (class warfare, anyone? trickle-down economics?) or our real life currency is legit and so are bitcoins. while bitcoins might be designed to see an extreme rate of deflation, i see absolutely no difference in a capitalist market that raises the prices of goods but doesn't raise the laborer's wage to keep up. i see absolutely no difference in a capitalist market where a central bank dictates the interest rate of debt based on indicators that show when the lower class is gaining too much spending power, adjusting to keep that spending power below costs of living. except that in the bitcoin world, nobody has the power to adjust the value of the bitcoin via interest rate. or am i wrong?
hold on a second, i don't think you can hear yourself.
first of all, MW2 does not *require* you to have additional maps to play multiplayer. if you don't have the extra maps, you simply won't be put into lobbies where they show up. same goes for CoD4, WaW, and Black Ops. same goes for Bad Company 2, and many others, since this is a standard practice. game developers are not as stupid as you are assuming here.
some (mostly newer) games require you to buy an online pass to play multiplayer. that's not a map, though. these online passes came about in part because of the rental market. in my experience, these passes are included with the game for the first purchaser, or at the very least free for pre-ordering customers. maintaining a multiplayer environment requires holding users accountable for their actions on the game servers. try mitigating the onslaught of bad behavior from players that are renting, and therefore have no accountability to the community in which they participate. online passes make sense (ffs they're only $5 too).
game addons are just addons, not full games. redbox doesn't need to ship out the addons for you, and there's no reason to expect they should. if you can't commit to buying the game, why are you entitled to the extras? those are for paying customers, duh.
other games have released their extra content in disc form, like Red Dead Redemption's zombie campaign, or the Gears of War 2: All Fronts collection. nothing would prevent redbox from offering those versions, except licensing deals with the game publishers.
redbox is indeed fortunate that you do not make decisions about which games they offer. since the Call of Duty titles are some of the best-selling and most played titles, you would be an idiot not to take that money from renters. besides, you can still download the extras through the console itself if you want them. then, when you've returned the $2 game, you still have the extras on your console storage. that means the next time you play that same game for another $2 (still far less than paying to own) you already have the extras.
capiche, paisan?
for the record, if i were redbox, i'd offer a service to game publishers to "sneak preview" those smaller titles (that may/may not sell) through the rental market to measure and predict gamer response. if it's a stinker, no need to waste time and money on production and distribution. this opens up the possibility of offering enormous games one level at a time like these modern serial novels they put on SMS. as a game developer, i could release the same game, a level at a time, for $2 a pop and ultimately make far more than $60 per user in the long run. i can't see that working for games like CoD, but Alan Wake? Heavy Rain? hell yeah.
actually, i would agree that the previous story about palin's emails was a troll, since it stated that you would have to travel to alaska to purchase a 24k pg. hard copy. but my story is not trolling anything. i think it would be awesome if you saw the other tools available by the group that's putting out her emails. Poligraft attempts to parse any news story, recognize famous names and companies, and then offer background information on their connection. kinda neat, i think.
i thought these were interesting tools based on my enjoyment of this crazy site that shows a filtered list of companies and who is on their boards (of directors, not bbs), allowing you to spider out to other boards they serve on: theyrule.net
i didn't link it because it's dead. i did think it would be funny to waste your time, but the laffs were short and it was too much effort in the end. you're welcome! =)
seriously? dude it won't just go away automagically. let me guess, you hate the study of mathemagics as well. oh, and to seem like i'm staying on topic i also agree with the post.
Dishwashers are still useful everyday appliances.... You software types are arrogant because none of what you do has any consequence because you can always rely that the actual people who do understand computers will deliver ever more powerful computers....
Wait...what?? Have you developed a computer that works the same or better than modern computers -- without an operating system? Have you managed to replace the entire user experience of computing with machine code? If so, I'd really like to order your black box for internet searching. I'm so sick of browsers. Oh, that black box also has to have functions for creating spreadsheets, writing documents, sending and receiving email, playing popular games, and photo manipulation. also i'd like to easily create animations using your black box. what?? your "black box" is just a collection of transistors baked into silicon? it doesn't do "a single goddamned thing" until someone writes a program for it? wow, for a second i was convinced all we needed was hardware. i was all set to buy new arcade cabinets for each new game that's released too.
but now we have DNA-based processors, artificial neural nets, cyborg eyes, organic lasers...
so yeah, clever asshole, maybe one day we will run our millions of lines of code through a cat. if it weren't for software, what would your physical devices do? one thing at a time? what is the point of your physical devices if they can't be programmed? a bunch of lulzsec crackers much smarter than you are can answer that for you.
take your chicken-and-the-egg bullshit to your next AA meeting, you sound drunk.
kudos to timmy. i've pulled some clever trolling in the past but this is admirable. from one black hat commenter to another, i salute you.
to the rest of you mouthbreathers, listen up. you don't have to fly to alaska or pay $24,000 to get the emails. as the bait, i mean article, clearly says, it's for news organizations to worry about. by tomorrow you should have your precious palin emails back online and ready to entertain.
whose heart is bleeding that the new york times has to waste their time and money sending a drone out to get it? cry me a river.
anyone else notice that the average gamer age goes up a little, every few years? here's some fun pseudo-science...
without looking at any data, i formulate a hypothesis that the gamer demographic is made up of the same gamers from earlier surveys, and that the average gamer age goes up approximately one year for every year the current average gamer gets older.
first, i'll ask what the reported average gamer age was earlier this decade:
[http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-05-12-gamer-demographics_x.htm]
2004: Average gamer age is 29. Average game buyer age is 36.
and now something a little more recent:
[http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2008/03/38-percent-of-g/]
2008: Average gamer age is 33. Average game buyer age is 38.
and now we have the current article:
2011: Average gamer age is 37. Average game buyer age is 41.
so the same gamers who were 29 in 2004 are the same gamers who were 33 in 2008 are the same gamers who are 37 in 2011. does anyone think this suggests that when the current gamer demographic dies off so does gaming?
i work with a programmer who is roughly 10 years younger than me, and we joke all the time about cultural references he doesn't get. it makes me feel old to see how his life has been completely molded by the internet, whereas mine was molded by the tv. talking to him i feel like in my youth i saw many more movies from before my time -- and was aware of national pop culture from before my time -- much more so than my younger counterpart. my introduction to gaming (arcade machines and antique consoles) sparked in me a passion for the medium that is the same for the gamer population we have today.
anecdotally, my experience with xbox and pc gaming has shown me that far more people i play online with (a variety of types from adventure RPG to classic platformers to FPSes, MMOs, RTSes) are roughly my age, and not so much the age of my coworker. i'm 33, and i believe (from asking or hearing in passing) that the people i meet online are on average 26-40. it makes me wonder if the rest of the younger gamers are just not being found because they are 1) smarter than social media, 2) more likely to pirate games, or 3) have more amibitious projects going on like increasing alcohol tolerance or playing russian roulette with pregnancy.
more likely i think is that the younger generation wasn't sparked into gaming like the 30-40 crowd because it was already old news when they were introduced to it. some other technological pastime will replace the purpose that gaming serves to people my age. games have been shown to be to some degree mentally stimulating and positively enforce some mental skills. it seems natural to me that in our dumbed-down society, with money for schools going to privatized prisons, reality tv shows and the new "geek anti-intellectualism" that to fill the void left by an idle mind we seek to somehow exercise our brains. and gaming fits that need. what will fill that need if gaming dies out?
hint: it ain't slashdot. love the achievements tho. =P
i disagree. i think the "semantics" argument here is just a refuge for those who can't see the very real difference between the two. a duck is a bird, but a bird is not necessarily a duck. that works in every direction when you're talking about intellectuals vs the college educated.
Slashdot Mirror
before you become excitedly aware of the stupidity in arizona realize first that arizona is the home of...
... and of cultural significance, no ports of entry via sea
open carry gun laws, for any of the numerous allowable gun types including assault rifles
recently, no more permits to conceal a weapon (careful when you google this, you will probably find outdated info)
legalized fully-automatic assault rifles for weapons made before 1986 (at least you have to register these!)
driver licenses that don't expire for 36 years, after which a mail-in renewal (read: no new testing) will have you looking 16 again at 52 yrs young
renegade sheriff Arpaio who feels like he is immune to federal investigation
average summer heat waves of 110 F (think what this does to your brain and your car, and both at the same time)
highest rate of methamphetamine use in the country
hopefully, knowing what is par for the arizona course helps put the article's issue into perspective.
'ello! wot's this 'ere? the anonymous coward is a jeenyous!! 'ow di' tha' 'appen 'eh?
didn't you hear? ebooks and ereaders are not venues where people can go to get free wi-fi, read books and magazines without paying for them, hang out in a bookish atmosphere and feel trendy while they get trendy coffee as their favorite author signs their ereader screens during a beatnik poetry performance.
ok this is funny. apparently my comment chars didn't work and i double clicked submit. seriously, don't be noobz like me people.
You equated price increases with deflation.
no, i equate price increases, coupled with a stagnant wage, as inflation. the logic leap i was making above is that it doesn't matter whether you spend bitcoin currency the way you spend federal currency. that's the difference i don't see. the market will not be different, just separate. i don't believe the deflation in bitcoins is going to be there forever. rereading my post, i see how i could be more clear on that. i did word it in a way that i expect some to be psychic. apologies.
but the rate would be absurd and I doubt there would be enough people seeking loans
sure, i respect your opinion on that but it can't be proved. i can't prove this either but i doubt that time will continue to move forward without the unfortunate souls who have no means to produce (enough of?) their own bitcoins seeking ridiculous loans for bitcoins because the [insert illegal goods here] they want to buy is out of their reach. probably a rationale of, "if i get a bitcoin loan i can buy a larger quantity of [cocaine, heroin, meth, MDMA, etc] at a lower price, which i can then flip quickly and (hopefully) repay the bitcoin loan." again, i'm going off the belief that bitcoins != endless deflation. you are convinced that a spiral is bound to happen, and so am i, but i've seen spirals come and go. haven't you?
Tell that to all the people who built successful businesses that started with a loan.
gladly. i don't necessarily believe that ends justify means. i also happen to think our whole world is in a huge mess of shit precisely because business loans (plus the stupid notion of interest (coins don't reproduce like cattle does!) and the way loans actually work) allowed technology to move too fast (as well as allowed huge corporations to merge way too fast). i believe that if we grew our technology at the rate that we could afford it, we wouldn't be dealing with deforestation, pollution, global warming and ultimately the massive violations of human rights (the ones we all know we deserve, not the ones you write down on paper and ask everyone to agree). we wouldn't be taking out loans from mother nature on her future, which we have no intentions of paying back. the whole concept of debt should be appalling to anyone with clarity and a sliver of selflessness. the same people who like debt also think the point of gambling is to win. that leaves banks and casinos (and the mafia that runs both).
why can't we move forward at a responsible pace? is there a deadline? are we in a race to invent X technology by the end of some arbitrary epoch? (like time travel on Dec. 21st, 2012). are we not speeding up the end of our existence by producing technology far in advance of our ability to comprehend it? what good is the technology to improve life when it takes out a loan against nature that effectively depletes her ability to maintain life? you think we solved problems by inventing air conditioning and ambulances but we increased the need for both by virtue of their existence. CFCs from A/C put holes in the ozone layer making it hotter so you need to crank up the A/C some more, while the deaths and injuries attributed to motor vehicles increase the need for motor vehicles to transport the injured to hospitals. we invent vaccines for diseases, which then in turn mutate and become unstoppable. we invent ways to prolong our lifespan and end up overpopulating.
so yeah, business loans can go fuck themselves. in the mid-20th century we had numerous independent media corporations that owned broadcast stations, newspapers, and radio stations. because of business loans they all managed to consolidate to less than 10 before Y2K. don't tell me life sucks without business loans because life sucks no matter what. we might still be driving chariots and killing each other with swords right now but at least you'd know you could keep doing it fo
a little tip: both the and tags have been deprecated in favor of and tags. that was a long time ago too. yeah, they still work but so does dialing a 1 first on your cell phone. don't be noobz, people.
sounds like we've read some chomsky along the way down this tangent. except that no one has mentioned the united states' terrorist acts on central america via the funding of death squads with money from weapons sold to iran to stir up shit with iraq, whom we also gave weapons. thanks ollie and ronnie!!
Probably because you never saw the definitions of inflation and deflation.
is that a jab? what is your point and why should i care? i know the definitions, maybe if you come down off your high pony you can see that.
Nobody would issue a Bitcoin loan
oh please, you know that's not true. same sentence...
and only a complete idiot would take out a Bitcoin loan
duuuuhhh yeah. are you high? who are we talking about here? if bitcoins become more broadly accepted you betcha bitcoin loan sharks will come out of the woodwork. where have you been?
You think that it is problem that banks can manipulate markets with loans? Try a world without loans
yes, i do think it's a problem. i think it's absolutely criminal that a bank can loan 90% of a deposit 6x over, as if the bank actually possessed it. it's a lie. the fucking cake is a goddamned lie. try a world without loans? try living within your means. it's called responsibility. spending against a future that hasn't been granted to you is irresponsible.
every single "obligatory xkcd" that i've clicked has been a comic that relates in some way to the topic. it's the same thing as dropping a funny movie reference during a conversation. it contributes relevant humor to the discussion. i've never thought the comic was smug or pretentious, but maybe you are just not the artist's audience, who are intellectuals after all. see, the problem with being better than everyone else is that people tend to think that you're pretentious. in reality, it's exactly like the parent said, you're just an asshole.
just because you get whooshed every time you read xkcd doesn't mean it's smug nor pretentious. the fact that you think it's the same comics over and over again adds weight to my theory that you don't understand them. you're like the anti-music guy that thinks all heavy metal or rap sounds the same when you don't even get it to begin with. also, people tend to fear what they don't understand, and hate what they fear.
my hatred for morons like you is borne of the fear that somehow someone somewhere who doesn't deserve it is going to have their life negatively impacted in a huge way due to your stupidity, and that eventually that negative impact is going to spread like a hurricane started by butterfly wings to MY life.
oh, there's an obligatory xkcd for that.
points that you missed:
1. genius is not complementary. it is a sarcastic term bestowed on the morons apple hires precisely because they are too dumb to catch the irony. the rest of us get to laugh at the inside joke.
2. anyone who still considers geek or nerd to be insulting is also so stupid that they think they are actually amazingly smart despite not having a clue how to reproduce (i.e. talk to women), or contribute to a casual conversation without it turning into some arcane debate. the only cure is, like the anonymous coward says, to get over it.
3. you are participating on a site that claims to be news for nerds.
4. most of us know this already, and have no pity for the rest who have sore sphincters over the word geek or nerd. thus, you must be picking a pointless fight with somebody dumber than you, if that is possible. luckily you caught a troll!
that plot is just bad enough to be the movie script for swordfish 2.
first of all, bitcoins have only been around since "overnight." US dollar has been around a while longer.
but take almost any currency you can find and watch the foreign exchange trends over the last 6 months http://www.x-rates.com/
i tried out a dozen different currencies and they all showed a steady decline of value in exchange for the USD, which is becoming more and more worthless every day.
i see your point completely, and i'm not necessarily disagreeing, but i do wonder then what the difference is between this and real life currency?
when we talk about "rich" we talk about "old money" and "new money." "old money" are those family dynasties that have amassed wealth over a long period of time, the oldest being way back at the beginning when currency was converted from cattle to coin. "new money" in a bitcoin world would be these late adopters who you say are losers but who've imagined some novel way of attracting bitcoins to themselves.
seems to me, either bitcoin is a pyramid scam and therefore so is our real life currency (class warfare, anyone? trickle-down economics?) or our real life currency is legit and so are bitcoins. while bitcoins might be designed to see an extreme rate of deflation, i see absolutely no difference in a capitalist market that raises the prices of goods but doesn't raise the laborer's wage to keep up. i see absolutely no difference in a capitalist market where a central bank dictates the interest rate of debt based on indicators that show when the lower class is gaining too much spending power, adjusting to keep that spending power below costs of living. except that in the bitcoin world, nobody has the power to adjust the value of the bitcoin via interest rate. or am i wrong?
hold on a second, i don't think you can hear yourself.
first of all, MW2 does not *require* you to have additional maps to play multiplayer. if you don't have the extra maps, you simply won't be put into lobbies where they show up. same goes for CoD4, WaW, and Black Ops. same goes for Bad Company 2, and many others, since this is a standard practice. game developers are not as stupid as you are assuming here.
some (mostly newer) games require you to buy an online pass to play multiplayer. that's not a map, though. these online passes came about in part because of the rental market. in my experience, these passes are included with the game for the first purchaser, or at the very least free for pre-ordering customers. maintaining a multiplayer environment requires holding users accountable for their actions on the game servers. try mitigating the onslaught of bad behavior from players that are renting, and therefore have no accountability to the community in which they participate. online passes make sense (ffs they're only $5 too). game addons are just addons, not full games. redbox doesn't need to ship out the addons for you, and there's no reason to expect they should. if you can't commit to buying the game, why are you entitled to the extras? those are for paying customers, duh.
other games have released their extra content in disc form, like Red Dead Redemption's zombie campaign, or the Gears of War 2: All Fronts collection. nothing would prevent redbox from offering those versions, except licensing deals with the game publishers.
redbox is indeed fortunate that you do not make decisions about which games they offer. since the Call of Duty titles are some of the best-selling and most played titles, you would be an idiot not to take that money from renters. besides, you can still download the extras through the console itself if you want them. then, when you've returned the $2 game, you still have the extras on your console storage. that means the next time you play that same game for another $2 (still far less than paying to own) you already have the extras.
capiche, paisan?
for the record, if i were redbox, i'd offer a service to game publishers to "sneak preview" those smaller titles (that may/may not sell) through the rental market to measure and predict gamer response. if it's a stinker, no need to waste time and money on production and distribution. this opens up the possibility of offering enormous games one level at a time like these modern serial novels they put on SMS. as a game developer, i could release the same game, a level at a time, for $2 a pop and ultimately make far more than $60 per user in the long run. i can't see that working for games like CoD, but Alan Wake? Heavy Rain? hell yeah.
actually, i would agree that the previous story about palin's emails was a troll, since it stated that you would have to travel to alaska to purchase a 24k pg. hard copy. but my story is not trolling anything. i think it would be awesome if you saw the other tools available by the group that's putting out her emails. Poligraft attempts to parse any news story, recognize famous names and companies, and then offer background information on their connection. kinda neat, i think.
i thought these were interesting tools based on my enjoyment of this crazy site that shows a filtered list of companies and who is on their boards (of directors, not bbs), allowing you to spider out to other boards they serve on: theyrule.net
i didn't link it because it's dead. i did think it would be funny to waste your time, but the laffs were short and it was too much effort in the end. you're welcome! =)
first clue that it's so fucked up: he won't even touch laminated charts talking about shit burgers with his own bare flesh.
seriously? dude it won't just go away automagically. let me guess, you hate the study of mathemagics as well. oh, and to seem like i'm staying on topic i also agree with the post.
Dishwashers are still useful everyday appliances.... You software types are arrogant because none of what you do has any consequence because you can always rely that the actual people who do understand computers will deliver ever more powerful computers....
Wait...what?? Have you developed a computer that works the same or better than modern computers -- without an operating system? Have you managed to replace the entire user experience of computing with machine code? If so, I'd really like to order your black box for internet searching. I'm so sick of browsers. Oh, that black box also has to have functions for creating spreadsheets, writing documents, sending and receiving email, playing popular games, and photo manipulation. also i'd like to easily create animations using your black box. what?? your "black box" is just a collection of transistors baked into silicon? it doesn't do "a single goddamned thing" until someone writes a program for it? wow, for a second i was convinced all we needed was hardware. i was all set to buy new arcade cabinets for each new game that's released too.
but now we have DNA-based processors, artificial neural nets, cyborg eyes, organic lasers...
so yeah, clever asshole, maybe one day we will run our millions of lines of code through a cat. if it weren't for software, what would your physical devices do? one thing at a time? what is the point of your physical devices if they can't be programmed? a bunch of lulzsec crackers much smarter than you are can answer that for you.
take your chicken-and-the-egg bullshit to your next AA meeting, you sound drunk.
Give me all the energy I need, in a package the size of a roll of quarters, and there isn't much that can't be done.
that's what "she" said.
kudos to timmy. i've pulled some clever trolling in the past but this is admirable. from one black hat commenter to another, i salute you.
to the rest of you mouthbreathers, listen up. you don't have to fly to alaska or pay $24,000 to get the emails. as the bait, i mean article, clearly says, it's for news organizations to worry about. by tomorrow you should have your precious palin emails back online and ready to entertain.
whose heart is bleeding that the new york times has to waste their time and money sending a drone out to get it? cry me a river.
AMBER ALERT! AMBER ALERT! this sicko has been checking out japanese toddler penises!!!!
anyone else notice that the average gamer age goes up a little, every few years? here's some fun pseudo-science...
without looking at any data, i formulate a hypothesis that the gamer demographic is made up of the same gamers from earlier surveys, and that the average gamer age goes up approximately one year for every year the current average gamer gets older.
first, i'll ask what the reported average gamer age was earlier this decade:
[http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-05-12-gamer-demographics_x.htm]
2004: Average gamer age is 29. Average game buyer age is 36.
and now something a little more recent:
[http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2008/03/38-percent-of-g/]
2008: Average gamer age is 33. Average game buyer age is 38.
and now we have the current article: 2011: Average gamer age is 37. Average game buyer age is 41.
so the same gamers who were 29 in 2004 are the same gamers who were 33 in 2008 are the same gamers who are 37 in 2011. does anyone think this suggests that when the current gamer demographic dies off so does gaming?
i work with a programmer who is roughly 10 years younger than me, and we joke all the time about cultural references he doesn't get. it makes me feel old to see how his life has been completely molded by the internet, whereas mine was molded by the tv. talking to him i feel like in my youth i saw many more movies from before my time -- and was aware of national pop culture from before my time -- much more so than my younger counterpart. my introduction to gaming (arcade machines and antique consoles) sparked in me a passion for the medium that is the same for the gamer population we have today.
anecdotally, my experience with xbox and pc gaming has shown me that far more people i play online with (a variety of types from adventure RPG to classic platformers to FPSes, MMOs, RTSes) are roughly my age, and not so much the age of my coworker. i'm 33, and i believe (from asking or hearing in passing) that the people i meet online are on average 26-40. it makes me wonder if the rest of the younger gamers are just not being found because they are 1) smarter than social media, 2) more likely to pirate games, or 3) have more amibitious projects going on like increasing alcohol tolerance or playing russian roulette with pregnancy.
more likely i think is that the younger generation wasn't sparked into gaming like the 30-40 crowd because it was already old news when they were introduced to it. some other technological pastime will replace the purpose that gaming serves to people my age. games have been shown to be to some degree mentally stimulating and positively enforce some mental skills. it seems natural to me that in our dumbed-down society, with money for schools going to privatized prisons, reality tv shows and the new "geek anti-intellectualism" that to fill the void left by an idle mind we seek to somehow exercise our brains. and gaming fits that need. what will fill that need if gaming dies out?
hint: it ain't slashdot. love the achievements tho. =P
It's clearly a cunning move to discourage competing second comings of other Jesi Christs.
FTFY
i disagree. i think the "semantics" argument here is just a refuge for those who can't see the very real difference between the two. a duck is a bird, but a bird is not necessarily a duck. that works in every direction when you're talking about intellectuals vs the college educated.