I'd love to vote with my dollars, but EA keeps interpreting my "no" votes as piracy
Games where I can't possible spend more than the equivalent of two full games on items that materially affect gameplay and are permantent(ships, weapons, etc) or where the stuff is purely cosmetic, I don't mind.
What gets annoying are games where the microtransactions hide that you will end up spending hundreds of dollars on temporary boosts, disabling annoying features, and buying "action points" or "resources" that are clearly designed to limit how long you can play per session.
16 years is unreasonable. The battery in the Tesla only has an eight year lifetime and costs around 20-32 grand by itself.
$2500-$4000 a year is more than the average american spends on gas per year. Even worse for the "only drives 30 miles a day" consumer that are targeted by hybrid/electric vehicles.
If they can get the battery cost under 14k, then it'll be the obvious choice. Or when gas prices hit $7/gallon.
Passphrases are uncommon because many sites think that "at least" means "exactly" when setting up the user database.
I've dropped one bank because of it. And those secret question/answer fields that are also 8 characters long because they might waste entire megabytes of storage if everyone had room for a complete response.
That's kind of the point. Unless you think you will make enough money in the next 10 years to justify paying 10% of everything you've made, you aren't going to renew.
Alternatively, creators that think they will be selling forever can just roll the cost in ahead of time, which will allow other creators(e.g. DJs, fan-works) that don't care about the long term can discount their works and sell more on the short term.
Mary Gates was on the board of United Way with John Opel, chairman of IBM. Microsoft had been trying to sell a port of Unix called Xenix(because they couldn't use Unix as the name). That same year, IBM then hired Microsoft to develop a CP/M clone, which Microsoft bought 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products and rebranded MS-DOS/PC-DOS.
Oddly enough, IBM didn't own it, only licensed it, allowing Microsoft to become huge.
If the projected screen size is greater than 45", it should be noticeable at 6-8'. If it is greater than 75", it should be obvious. You're right for 4k screens at "normal" sizes, though.
I have some scifi books from the 50s that have cardboard inserts with cigarette ads. I wonder why books stopped having advertisements for other products in them.
And, of course, most books still have advertisements for other books on the inside and back cover.
Since publishers switched to the agency model, whenever I found an ebook priced higher than the print price, I added it to a "stupid publisher" wishlist. Some have dropped off when prices changed or I decided to buy them anyway, but last I checked, buying ebook version of all 342 of them, it would be about $1400 more.
Some of the prices were clearly higher because the publisher was too lazy to lower the ebook from hardback pricing when the paperback came out.
Most, though, were 9.99 and, more recently, 12.99, which is just a blatant "we're screwing you and we want you to know it". I look forward to authors getting the higher ebook royalty rate when those books drop down to paperback price and I subsequently purchase them.
Am I sane and in command of my senses? Then I'll live at least 1030 years(want to see the next millenium) and enjoy my painful hackjob robot body with jump jets and autocannons.
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I'd love to vote with my dollars, but EA keeps interpreting my "no" votes as piracy
Games where I can't possible spend more than the equivalent of two full games on items that materially affect gameplay and are permantent(ships, weapons, etc) or where the stuff is purely cosmetic, I don't mind.
What gets annoying are games where the microtransactions hide that you will end up spending hundreds of dollars on temporary boosts, disabling annoying features, and buying "action points" or "resources" that are clearly designed to limit how long you can play per session.
5 hours of Ingress?
Well I know what phone I'm buying next.
You have no idea how wrong you are.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/220260/
Nope, you're just bipartisan.
16 years is unreasonable. The battery in the Tesla only has an eight year lifetime and costs around 20-32 grand by itself.
$2500-$4000 a year is more than the average american spends on gas per year. Even worse for the "only drives 30 miles a day" consumer that are targeted by hybrid/electric vehicles.
If they can get the battery cost under 14k, then it'll be the obvious choice. Or when gas prices hit $7/gallon.
202 miles driving with a detour through the city at 5 mph is not just 2 miles longer than 200 miles of highway driving.
But the heater, the lights, and the stereo system are running, plus regenerative braking isn't magic.
Stop and go traffic for an hour or two in the winter with the heater at full blast could easily drop tens of miles from the total range.
Passphrases are uncommon because many sites think that "at least" means "exactly" when setting up the user database.
I've dropped one bank because of it. And those secret question/answer fields that are also 8 characters long because they might waste entire megabytes of storage if everyone had room for a complete response.
Google doesn't sell Android. It gives away Android so it can sell the eyeballs of Android users to its real customers.
So instead of convincing them not to ban large magazines, they'll just ban guns that don't have fixed magazines.
Is that really what they wanted?
If it has custom profiles suitable for doing solder reflow, I could see getting one.
Limited property interests(such as 'use of a building') aren't tax deductible.
You are so confused about how hard it is to make a gun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Pass_Copy
I would hardly call 10^43 FPS "infinite"
That's kind of the point. Unless you think you will make enough money in the next 10 years to justify paying 10% of everything you've made, you aren't going to renew.
Alternatively, creators that think they will be selling forever can just roll the cost in ahead of time, which will allow other creators(e.g. DJs, fan-works) that don't care about the long term can discount their works and sell more on the short term.
So get one of these and enjoy your shoulder and back pain.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/8928/
Mary Gates was on the board of United Way with John Opel, chairman of IBM. Microsoft had been trying to sell a port of Unix called Xenix(because they couldn't use Unix as the name). That same year, IBM then hired Microsoft to develop a CP/M clone, which Microsoft bought 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products and rebranded MS-DOS/PC-DOS.
Oddly enough, IBM didn't own it, only licensed it, allowing Microsoft to become huge.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/11/obituaries/mary-gates-64-helped-her-son-start-microsoft.html
Sounds like your boss needs to give you a door that locks and a broken phone.
So it is a crappy version of CAVE except with a TV display in it to show better quality images?
If the projected screen size is greater than 45", it should be noticeable at 6-8'. If it is greater than 75", it should be obvious. You're right for 4k screens at "normal" sizes, though.
http://s3.carltonbale.com/resolution_chart.html
I have some scifi books from the 50s that have cardboard inserts with cigarette ads. I wonder why books stopped having advertisements for other products in them.
And, of course, most books still have advertisements for other books on the inside and back cover.
Since publishers switched to the agency model, whenever I found an ebook priced higher than the print price, I added it to a "stupid publisher" wishlist. Some have dropped off when prices changed or I decided to buy them anyway, but last I checked, buying ebook version of all 342 of them, it would be about $1400 more.
Some of the prices were clearly higher because the publisher was too lazy to lower the ebook from hardback pricing when the paperback came out.
Most, though, were 9.99 and, more recently, 12.99, which is just a blatant "we're screwing you and we want you to know it". I look forward to authors getting the higher ebook royalty rate when those books drop down to paperback price and I subsequently purchase them.
Funny, the second bullet point here says that sometimes more than one person can be assigned the same SSN.
So instead of rust it will be "oh, looks like you've got termites in the bodywork. Might as well chop it up for firewood."
Am I sane and in command of my senses? Then I'll live at least 1030 years(want to see the next millenium) and enjoy my painful hackjob robot body with jump jets and autocannons.
Direct quote on the front page, March 3, 2012:
"On our original model, weâ(TM)d assumed that only hacker-types were going to be interested. It seems we made a mistake there" -- Liz Upton
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/723