You pay $50 for a game, it shoulndt have advertisments so people are going to go for games with this. Well... look at cable TV People pay $50-100 per month for channels that have more commercials. But there is content on cable that you cant get anywhere else. Making a game compelling enough for people to purchase, well, and they maybe wont notice the ads.
But then, games themselves have been made strickly for marketing. Look at any game based on a movie licence. Ok, they are not selling other unrelated products, but they are selling a movie.
But there is a good thing in all this, not all game worlds are really compatible with advertised products. Your probably not going to be finding a +1 magic pepsi anytime soon. If you dont like advertising, dont play the games that use it. Just like you dont have to watch movies with product placement(with is about every major hollywood movie).
I could go on about creating art for profit as opposed to creating art for art, but i need sleep.
MMO's have a disadvantage, they require a subscribtion. Thus limiting the potential audience of that type of game. MMO's are also the most expensive type of game to develop.
Where getting to a point, where we have many mmo games about to be released. These types of games need a certain amount of people subscribing to stay profitable. They are all try to grab at the same small audience. There are going to be alot more that will get canceled or not last long after release.
Im actully planning to go see it based on who is directing this one, Alfonso Curan (sp?)(Y Tu Mama Tambien, Great Expecations, The Little Princess). If it was the hack they had before, i would never have cared to see the movie. So really, if hollywood doesnt want to loose my money, they should put good directors in charge. I think bad movies are more of a threat than piracy is, well to me anyway.
If you take a look at the projects on RentaCoder, you will find that a good amount of them are homework assignements from students in the US and the UK. I find this ironic due to the fact that they are making themselves less prepared for a job that will probably get outsourced anyway. And they wont be in a position to try to find a better job.
Whats even better is how some poeple make it easy to track down thier professor. They post a pdf or word document given to them by thier professor, some people forget that it automatically stores the name of the person or orginization where it was created. A simple email to the professor of the course, and that cheater is history.
Other than the fact that there is not much point to the game, singles. Its nudity is very modest. really its basically the sims with an option for sex and they dont fuzz the people out when they are in bed.
Yet we give that an AO rating while games like Manhunt and GTA only get a M rating.
Its kind of a double standard, but movies are more likely to get an NC-17 rating if they have alot of sex rather than alot of violence.
Where i used to work, we digtized 4-5 million documents per month. But these were mostly printed copies.
We had a set of high-speed sheet fed scanners, it would be then checked, and linked to a database. The documents in most cases where shipped to a vault.
Actually Dreamweaver MX 2004 does generate complient code if you watch what your doing. If you dont check your code after you finish, then you might have some issues.
I would be more worried about hose who use word as an html editor. Frontpage tends to have a lot of proretary extensions that people like to use. A Page counter? Cool i got to have one of those.
You got a point there. Writable discs have not always worked with all readers. Though they have been getting better about that. I think dual layer writable discs might have some problems.
If this was near the launch of the consoles it might mean something, but microsoft is going to keep playing a catchup game. There are still alot more PS2's on the market than there are xboxs.
Just compare the files using a hash. It would be hard to create a file that would produce the same hash, unless you hacked the client.
Bad files would be less likly to be shared than good ones. If a files has fewer sources, its more likely to be fake.
Only in sweden (and maybe a couple others)
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Can you actually attempt to demand abolishment of IP rights. Im not sure wether to be horrified or to commend them. Well how about I commned them for there attempt but would be horrified if they succeed.
If you try this in the US, you would have RI/MP AA hitman after you. Im sorry i mean FBI agents working under a hidden clasue of the DMCA that prevents any attempt to undermine copyright.
Satire aside, if they do succeed, they will probably manage to create an IP anarchy. Content providers outside of Sweden would do what they could to prevent content from going into sweden. THose content providers in sweden that dont support this anarchist dream, would probably leave. So what you get in the end, is a place where content is free to all, but there is no content being created. Well except for a few anarchists.
That said, i dont support a place with no ip laws. But i also dont support the path the US has been taking recetnly. IP holders posses alot more power than IP consumers. We need to find a point of balance. IP holders need to allow market forces to shape the the market. Not make thier consumers criminals.
We really need to do a 180 as far as ip law is concerned. Copyright law needs to be reaxamed and balanced in favor of both interests. I suppose this is not going to happen when most people dont know the diffrence. We can vote with our dollars, but most of the dollars are still going the wrong way out of ignorance.
It could work, but we are not yet at the point were it will work exclusivly. A dialup user wont wait days to download a game. Some people dont have internet at home and couldnt download a game anyway.
There is another problem, the consumer midset is that if i pay $50 for a game, i should get something tagible and not just a license. So if publishers want to charge full price for a digitally distrubuted game, its not going to fly. I myself would rather pay $50 for a box and cd rather than a digital file.
The only market that could go exculivly online distrubution is MMO's, but there again, you better be charging less than you would for a boxed product.
Its not complete though. my estimation to allow for 4" figures would put the scale at about 1:25, in its entirety, it would be about 64 meters long. Maybe a bit smaller. Try building that:)
The 60% number remaining unchanged for 2 years means nothing. How did the population of dialup users change? did it increase? decrease? or stay the same?
Considering that in several countries you can vist a shop to purchase a cd with windows longhorn even for less than $5. How many of these countries will actually care that you get a legal copy of windows with the referbished computer?
I guess its Microsoft's futile attempt to stop linux from taking over the world.
I think publishers have an opertunity to bypass the chain and offer thier titles for a lower price. I have purchased software directly from ubi before, but it wasnt near wholesale price, it was at msrp.
Publishers have an opertunity to offer it at a lower price and still make as much money as they do from wholesale. A lower price also means a likelyhood to sell more copies. A publisher selling software direct to the consumer at near or slightly aboce wholesale is a win win situation for publisers.
Im in the middle on this debate, But i have a preference for open office if it can be used. Which is not true in all cases.
If a buiness is already using MS Office, the is reason to switch is if the buiness grows and they would need more MS office licences while the cost for migrating is cheap.
Alot of people dont upgrade office. A place i used to work at was still using office 97. There is simply no reason to upgrade to office 2k or XP.
For my personal use, i see enough value in office to make it worth purchasing, but for the time being im only using windows. (Could change in the future)
But remember, parents are not responsible for what thier kids do. Its society in general.
But seriously, parents should be a part of thier kids life, if they cant, they shouldnt have kids. It always seems to be the womans responsibility for birth control, but a box of condoms is much cheaper than 18 years of child support.
I dont really care about the idea of censoring children from culture, but instead i much prefer using that as a learning opertunity. Then let them decide whats best for themselves. This applies to video games, violent movies, porn, etc.
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I find it funny that your mother in law is advocating piracy.
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But its not going to go away.
You pay $50 for a game, it shoulndt have advertisments so people are going to go for games with this. Well... look at cable TV People pay $50-100 per month for channels that have more commercials. But there is content on cable that you cant get anywhere else. Making a game compelling enough for people to purchase, well, and they maybe wont notice the ads.
But then, games themselves have been made strickly for marketing. Look at any game based on a movie licence. Ok, they are not selling other unrelated products, but they are selling a movie.
But there is a good thing in all this, not all game worlds are really compatible with advertised products. Your probably not going to be finding a +1 magic pepsi anytime soon. If you dont like advertising, dont play the games that use it. Just like you dont have to watch movies with product placement(with is about every major hollywood movie).
I could go on about creating art for profit as opposed to creating art for art, but i need sleep.
later
MMO's have a disadvantage, they require a subscribtion. Thus limiting the potential audience of that type of game. MMO's are also the most expensive type of game to develop.
Where getting to a point, where we have many mmo games about to be released. These types of games need a certain amount of people subscribing to stay profitable. They are all try to grab at the same small audience. There are going to be alot more that will get canceled or not last long after release.
They are challenged to come up with a mmorpg game. Playstation is the only one that already has a mmorpg game while xbox's was just canceled.
Im actully planning to go see it based on who is directing this one, Alfonso Curan (sp?)(Y Tu Mama Tambien, Great Expecations, The Little Princess). If it was the hack they had before, i would never have cared to see the movie. So really, if hollywood doesnt want to loose my money, they should put good directors in charge. I think bad movies are more of a threat than piracy is, well to me anyway.
If you take a look at the projects on RentaCoder, you will find that a good amount of them are homework assignements from students in the US and the UK. I find this ironic due to the fact that they are making themselves less prepared for a job that will probably get outsourced anyway. And they wont be in a position to try to find a better job.
Whats even better is how some poeple make it easy to track down thier professor. They post a pdf or word document given to them by thier professor, some people forget that it automatically stores the name of the person or orginization where it was created. A simple email to the professor of the course, and that cheater is history.
Other than the fact that there is not much point to the game, singles. Its nudity is very modest. really its basically the sims with an option for sex and they dont fuzz the people out when they are in bed.
Yet we give that an AO rating while games like Manhunt and GTA only get a M rating.
Its kind of a double standard, but movies are more likely to get an NC-17 rating if they have alot of sex rather than alot of violence.
Where i used to work, we digtized 4-5 million documents per month. But these were mostly printed copies.
We had a set of high-speed sheet fed scanners, it would be then checked, and linked to a database. The documents in most cases where shipped to a vault.
Maybe his tagline would help.
the amazing adventures of one guy in a small room writing software, namely Style Master
Actually Dreamweaver MX 2004 does generate complient code if you watch what your doing. If you dont check your code after you finish, then you might have some issues.
I would be more worried about hose who use word as an html editor. Frontpage tends to have a lot of proretary extensions that people like to use. A Page counter? Cool i got to have one of those.
You got a point there. Writable discs have not always worked with all readers. Though they have been getting better about that. I think dual layer writable discs might have some problems.
They also tend to count every single pirated copy as a loss. Even though, if forced to buy, most of it would not be purchased.
Games, and will the be games that people want to play?
Sure the Xbox is faster than the PS2 but i would take a PS2 anyday since it has better games.
If this was near the launch of the consoles it might mean something, but microsoft is going to keep playing a catchup game. There are still alot more PS2's on the market than there are xboxs.
Just compare the files using a hash. It would be hard to create a file that would produce the same hash, unless you hacked the client.
Bad files would be less likly to be shared than good ones. If a files has fewer sources, its more likely to be fake.
Can you actually attempt to demand abolishment of IP rights. Im not sure wether to be horrified or to commend them. Well how about I commned them for there attempt but would be horrified if they succeed.
If you try this in the US, you would have RI/MP AA hitman after you. Im sorry i mean FBI agents working under a hidden clasue of the DMCA that prevents any attempt to undermine copyright.
Satire aside, if they do succeed, they will probably manage to create an IP anarchy. Content providers outside of Sweden would do what they could to prevent content from going into sweden. THose content providers in sweden that dont support this anarchist dream, would probably leave. So what you get in the end, is a place where content is free to all, but there is no content being created. Well except for a few anarchists.
That said, i dont support a place with no ip laws. But i also dont support the path the US has been taking recetnly. IP holders posses alot more power than IP consumers. We need to find a point of balance. IP holders need to allow market forces to shape the the market. Not make thier consumers criminals.
We really need to do a 180 as far as ip law is concerned. Copyright law needs to be reaxamed and balanced in favor of both interests. I suppose this is not going to happen when most people dont know the diffrence. We can vote with our dollars, but most of the dollars are still going the wrong way out of ignorance.
Done ranting... or whatever...
It could work, but we are not yet at the point were it will work exclusivly. A dialup user wont wait days to download a game. Some people dont have internet at home and couldnt download a game anyway.
There is another problem, the consumer midset is that if i pay $50 for a game, i should get something tagible and not just a license. So if publishers want to charge full price for a digitally distrubuted game, its not going to fly. I myself would rather pay $50 for a box and cd rather than a digital file.
The only market that could go exculivly online distrubution is MMO's, but there again, you better be charging less than you would for a boxed product.
I dont think he was getting what he wanted for it... it appears it was ended just before the auction would have normally ended.
Its not complete though. my estimation to allow for 4" figures would put the scale at about 1:25, in its entirety, it would be about 64 meters long. Maybe a bit smaller. Try building that :)
The 60% number remaining unchanged for 2 years means nothing. How did the population of dialup users change? did it increase? decrease? or stay the same?
I did a quick calculation... assuming no margins you would be able to fit just under one MB per page.
dots per sq in 300x300=90000
total area 8x11.5=92 sq inches
Total dots per page 8280000
in bytes = 1035000
in kbytes =1010.74
Considering that in several countries you can vist a shop to purchase a cd with windows longhorn even for less than $5. How many of these countries will actually care that you get a legal copy of windows with the referbished computer?
I guess its Microsoft's futile attempt to stop linux from taking over the world.
I think publishers have an opertunity to bypass the chain and offer thier titles for a lower price. I have purchased software directly from ubi before, but it wasnt near wholesale price, it was at msrp.
Publishers have an opertunity to offer it at a lower price and still make as much money as they do from wholesale. A lower price also means a likelyhood to sell more copies. A publisher selling software direct to the consumer at near or slightly aboce wholesale is a win win situation for publisers.
Im in the middle on this debate, But i have a preference for open office if it can be used. Which is not true in all cases.
If a buiness is already using MS Office, the is reason to switch is if the buiness grows and they would need more MS office licences while the cost for migrating is cheap.
Alot of people dont upgrade office. A place i used to work at was still using office 97. There is simply no reason to upgrade to office 2k or XP.
For my personal use, i see enough value in office to make it worth purchasing, but for the time being im only using windows. (Could change in the future)
But remember, parents are not responsible for what thier kids do. Its society in general.
But seriously, parents should be a part of thier kids life, if they cant, they shouldnt have kids. It always seems to be the womans responsibility for birth control, but a box of condoms is much cheaper than 18 years of child support.
I dont really care about the idea of censoring children from culture, but instead i much prefer using that as a learning opertunity. Then let them decide whats best for themselves. This applies to video games, violent movies, porn, etc.
I find it funny that your mother in law is advocating piracy.