I would say they sell access to you for advertising. As an advertiser, you designate how many people you would like to targeted for your adverstising, based on your requested triggers/demographics. Google takes your order, and presents the ads to their users. It's not like they take the order, and then present the infomation to the advertiser to be used. They (Google) take the request and serve the ads provided by the advertiser to the people that they decide should see it based on the information that they (again Google) have.
I'm pretty sure it has less to do with 'sin regulation' and more to do with tax evasion and money laundering. Governments have proven time and again that 'sin taxes' are a viable source of income.
I'm more than a little ignorant on certain aspects of EULA's and whatnot. If I bought the Q3 (windows version) does that allow me, legally, to obtain the Linux binaries for the same program and install it on the same machine? Or is the software license unique to each OS instance on each PC?
Similarly, if I have a Win9x and Win2K dual booted system, do I need to have 2 MS Office licenses, or am I allowed to install Office on as many partitions as I like on the single PC?
This could bring up the definition of what a PC is, is it limited to physical specifications, or if I have a distributed system (read: obligatory BeoWulf Cluster reference) is that considered one PC?
What was the last first person shoot to actually keep score? Not kills/frags, but actual points (for picking up treasures, finding secret areas, etc...as well as just geting kills?)
Of the two most popular genres, FPS, and RTS, neither seem to base any real importance on points, just survival and time.
I wonder if there's a reason for the slow disappearence of 'points'?
So, you're going to pay to get access to a site just to see who score 345,000 points on Bad Dudes in 1990? And don't even start about the ad revenue earned by websites. Like, say, the other 97% of the online business world. Where's all the dot-com trillionaires now?
Items like this are much better served as coffee table books, with updates provided online. Given some nice pictures of the games, and game cabinets if arcade/pinball, it could be nice to have to remind us of the good ol'days.
Why should a credit card company be responsible, if they're not the group that made the transaction? That's like saying that Ford should be responsible for stolen cars.
What if Egghead.com became responsible for the $50 or so that every person is responsible for with false/stolen credit card charges.
I know with my bank, that I'm not responsible for ANY charges fraudulently placed on my card. If it's proven that I didn't authorize the transaction, the merchant who sold the goods to the fraudulent person has to incur the costs, and write it off, unless they're able to track the item to a person and prove they committed the fraud.
As far as egghead.com being responsible for any fraudulent charges caused by their database being broken into, it'd be near impossible to prove (without confession) that the fraud was directly a result of their dbase being compromised, and not by another merchant (brick & morter or otherwise) Fraud is committed and cards are compromised everyday, and ya know..I'd be willing to bet that more times than not it's because of card holder laziness/error/inattention, rather than a big bad corporation getting compromised.
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I would say they sell access to you for advertising. As an advertiser, you designate how many people you would like to targeted for your adverstising, based on your requested triggers/demographics. Google takes your order, and presents the ads to their users. It's not like they take the order, and then present the infomation to the advertiser to be used. They (Google) take the request and serve the ads provided by the advertiser to the people that they decide should see it based on the information that they (again Google) have.
I'm pretty sure it has less to do with 'sin regulation' and more to do with tax evasion and money laundering. Governments have proven time and again that 'sin taxes' are a viable source of income.
Every day is another "Google planning launch it's own...."
They'll decline, and state that the new protocol is for internal use only, much like their OS
I'm more than a little ignorant on certain aspects of EULA's and whatnot. If I bought the Q3 (windows version) does that allow me, legally, to obtain the Linux binaries for the same program and install it on the same machine? Or is the software license unique to each OS instance on each PC?
Similarly, if I have a Win9x and Win2K dual booted system, do I need to have 2 MS Office licenses, or am I allowed to install Office on as many partitions as I like on the single PC?
This could bring up the definition of what a PC is, is it limited to physical specifications, or if I have a distributed system (read: obligatory BeoWulf Cluster reference) is that considered one PC?
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Just being argumentative
Do you think the world was saying "Oh..well there go paintings..with photographs, nobody will bother with having paintings done."
Just because there is an "alternative" to paper based books doesn't mean it's a "replacement"
What was the last first person shoot to actually keep score? Not kills/frags, but actual points (for picking up treasures, finding secret areas, etc...as well as just geting kills?)
Of the two most popular genres, FPS, and RTS, neither seem to base any real importance on points, just survival and time.
I wonder if there's a reason for the slow disappearence of 'points'?
So, you're going to pay to get access to a site just to see who score 345,000 points on Bad Dudes in 1990? And don't even start about the ad revenue earned by websites. Like, say, the other 97% of the online business world. Where's all the dot-com trillionaires now? Items like this are much better served as coffee table books, with updates provided online. Given some nice pictures of the games, and game cabinets if arcade/pinball, it could be nice to have to remind us of the good ol'days.
Why should a credit card company be responsible, if they're not the group that made the transaction? That's like saying that Ford should be responsible for stolen cars.
What if Egghead.com became responsible for the $50 or so that every person is responsible for with false/stolen credit card charges.
I know with my bank, that I'm not responsible for ANY charges fraudulently placed on my card. If it's proven that I didn't authorize the transaction, the merchant who sold the goods to the fraudulent person has to incur the costs, and write it off, unless they're able to track the item to a person and prove they committed the fraud.
As far as egghead.com being responsible for any fraudulent charges caused by their database being broken into, it'd be near impossible to prove (without confession) that the fraud was directly a result of their dbase being compromised, and not by another merchant (brick & morter or otherwise) Fraud is committed and cards are compromised everyday, and ya know..I'd be willing to bet that more times than not it's because of card holder laziness/error/inattention, rather than a big bad corporation getting compromised.