Mod this up, I too have already seen this footage on Triumph of the Nerds, which I have the VHS tapes of. Which I think anyone can order from the PBS website. That program came out in I think late ninetys.
Forget about Blockbuster, this wouldn't really be profitable for them at least not like regular DVD rentals. If these things took off, and are as cheap or cheaper than a blockbuster rental it will drive Blockbuster and all video rental places out of business or at least force them to change their business' to the point where it wouldn't be a rental shop.
The only reason video rental places exist is because they take the effort to setup a system to ensure that people return the movies and that purchasing movies outright costs more than people are willing to pay in most cases (people want to see lots of movies but buying every movie your interested in seeing is too expensive, especially considering you've never seen it and may never want to watch it again.)
If you don't need to return the movie than why not just buy them at any retail store. So any retail store could carry these and compete with Blockbuster without going through the hassle and expense of making the customers members.
For me personally 8 hours is too short but 48 hours is doable. Think about it your standing in line at Best Buy, or the Gocery Store (or even a Gas station) and you see a movie that you were sort of interested in but never got around to seeing in the theater. Its only good for 48 hours but only costs $4, so what the hell.
"the strange results of the FX 5800 ultra beating the 5900 ultra in Aquamark (by a considerable amount)"
Actually I think thats possible. Wasn't the 5800 clocked at 500mhz and the 5900 clocked at lower speeds. Though I don't think the 5800 should really be counted as it never was really distibuted in large numbers.
Instead of them making a LOTR rts which will probably be just like every other RTS. They should make a LOTR strategy game like the Total War series. You know Shogun/Mediaval war. Turn based Strategy with real time battles with thousands of units.
Maybe Iomega is the large blank media company that plans to partnership with them.
To quote the article "The company is talking with media producers, and a partnership announcement with a widely recognized producer of blank media is expected in the next month, Heil says."
Of course it could be any number of large blank media companies.
Yea, someone else on slashdot that understands basic economics.
More people need to understand that in a free market a monopoly is no problem. It still can only set its prices to what the market will bear. If its prices are too high, the customers will stop buying and competition will appear.
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Mod this up, I too have already seen this footage on Triumph of the Nerds, which I have the VHS tapes of. Which I think anyone can order from the PBS website. That program came out in I think late ninetys.
Robots duh
Forget about Blockbuster, this wouldn't really be profitable for them at least not like regular DVD rentals. If these things took off, and are as cheap or cheaper than a blockbuster rental it will drive Blockbuster and all video rental places out of business or at least force them to change their business' to the point where it wouldn't be a rental shop.
The only reason video rental places exist is because they take the effort to setup a system to ensure that people return the movies and that purchasing movies outright costs more than people are willing to pay in most cases (people want to see lots of movies but buying every movie your interested in seeing is too expensive, especially considering you've never seen it and may never want to watch it again.)
If you don't need to return the movie than why not just buy them at any retail store. So any retail store could carry these and compete with Blockbuster without going through the hassle and expense of making the customers members.
For me personally 8 hours is too short but 48 hours is doable. Think about it your standing in line at Best Buy, or the Gocery Store (or even a Gas station) and you see a movie that you were sort of interested in but never got around to seeing in the theater. Its only good for 48 hours but only costs $4, so what the hell.
This could be big if the price is right.
The JSF project hasn't been canceled.
I just watched that episode and I believe its
"Comets, the icebergs of the sky".
Worst quote ever.
Yeah but how much did that cost when it was new?
Just STOP not getting laid. Problem solved.
You care enough to post.
"the strange results of the FX 5800 ultra beating the 5900 ultra in Aquamark (by a considerable amount)"
Actually I think thats possible. Wasn't the 5800 clocked at 500mhz and the 5900 clocked at lower speeds. Though I don't think the 5800 should really be counted as it never was really distibuted in large numbers.
Wasn't Hannibal from Carthage?
I assume you've read "Intuitor's Pick - Worst Physics Movie Ever" review of The Core. Its very entertaining.
Intuitor's Pick - Worst Physics Movie Ever
http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/
Right so you want Waterworld MMORPG.
Hurray we all get to be Kevin Costner.
"[hmm: make a harddrive system where you only carry the platters around and the motor/controller stay in the computer? Damn patent that idea!]."
Wouldn't that be called a floppy disk.
Yeah I saw him on that show, he instantly made me think he was the villian mastermind in a James Bond movie.
"why not do the only thing that makes humans happy?)"
Correct, pay them to waste time.
Did you read THGs side of the story. The amdmb.com story is not true by the way.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/20030701_1
lol
You could even have some jumping puzzles just to piss everyone off.
You get to jump from this crate to that crate and then onto the crate that moves back and forth for no apparent reason.
No need to just check out Rome Total War. That trailer is of actual game graphics.
w ar .zip.html
http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/rome/rometotal
Instead of them making a LOTR rts which will probably be just like every other RTS. They should make a LOTR strategy game like the Total War series. You know Shogun/Mediaval war. Turn based Strategy with real time battles with thousands of units.
Yeah this kind of stuff just reinforces my view that most enviromentalists are just anti-technology.
Maybe Iomega is the large blank media company that plans to partnership with them.
To quote the article
"The company is talking with media producers, and a partnership announcement with a widely recognized producer of blank media is expected in the next month, Heil says."
Of course it could be any number of large blank media companies.
They already have??
http://www.garagegames.com/
Yea, someone else on slashdot that understands basic economics.
More people need to understand that in a free market a monopoly is no problem. It still can only set its prices to what the market will bear. If its prices are too high, the customers will stop buying and competition will appear.
Of course they could have possibly released two decent Duke 3d games by now. They could be hyping up the expansion pack to Duke 5 about now.
Infogrames got the rights to Hasbro's video game thing/division/subsidiary/whatever.