You say administrator like it's a dirty word. Webb made Apollo happen, up to and including throwing himself to the wolves after Apollo 1. He wasn't the bean counting ass covering naysaying Milquetoast that you'd expect in that position today.
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2. Lose half the staff who keep it running.
3. Profit!
No, wait, not profit, the other thing: keep bailing and set sail for the next iceberg.
Good luck with flogging that high horse with your buggy whip.
If you want to buy a tangible object, read it, sell it, rub it all over your nekkid body while singing Yankee Doodle, you're still free do so.
Meanwhile, the rest of us will shed our hair shirts and enjoy living in the future.
OK, the science. What we buy is a copy. We can't sell that copy without selling the physical device that it's on. Really, we can't. To get it on someone else's device, we'd have to make another copy.
Get that? It's not semantics, we can't actually sell the eBook that we bought, we can only duplicate it.
What does your most high and holy doctrine of first sale have to say about that? Given it was conjured up in the stone age by slave owning wizards (to hear tell), I'm guessing not a lot.
Nice think-of-the-kids scare piece, it'll play well with Tammy Teaparty. But couldn't he at least have worked in some sinister Ender's Game reference and asked how America's cyber-soldiery will fare on the battlefield against these little yellow freak-children? (Note: All Korea is North Korea to Tammy Teaparty).
If people would rather pay $50 for Final Ghost Warfare Ball 2011 than $60 for Final Ghost Warfare Ball 2012, then maybe you should write some original games once in a while instead of serving up re-heated leftovers as haute cuisine.
Let's stick to analogies that we can all understand.
Last week, I changed a suspension link on my wife's car, and GM's Revenue Actualization Department served me a notice for depriving them of the profit I'd stolen from them by not simply buying a new car.
Your argument is that it's more ethical to sell a used Ford than a used Honda, because the Ford will fall apart first and then you have to buy another one?
Analogy fails because each car after the first one costs the manufacturer a significant proportion of its sticker price to make. A game costs about $1, depending on how fancy the packaging is.
Curiously, that doesn't invalidate your point, it strengthens it.
selling [used games] for only slightly less than the new price, while pushing used games sales instead of new ones
If Joe Gamer is choosing to spend $50 on Final Ghost Warfare Ball 2011 than $60 on Final Ghost Warfare Ball 2012, maybe the industry should consider writing an original game once in a while.
Gamestop's behavior here is contemptible, leveraging its monopoly
I agree, it was way harsh when they successfully put eBay, Amazon Marketplace, Craigslist and yard sales out of business.
look at how much cash Avatar brought in, but then contrast that with John Carter
But one of those had a script so insultingly trite, cliched, superficial and full of plot holes that it practically induced aneurysms in anyone with half a brain, and the other was John Carter.
Finally we're on the road to being huddled around the very last solar panel in a freezing cave, wailing "If we could only figure out how to get enough energy out of it to make another one, this would be the best technology ever invented. Ethics shall triumph over physics, just have faith."
And I mean at 2:45am. 5 skulls on all levels on Nightmare, all 'cheevos 'cheeved. It's frighteningly addicting due to the great play balance, unrelenting pace, and that "Just one more level / attempt" factor.
In fact, the only thing that could make it better would be more content... wait, what's that you say? Oh, great, there goes my sleep for the next few weeks.
Heh, actually the first game used whatever keys were placed at the the locations of WASD on a QWERTY keyboard - the controls screen didn't even label them, just showed you which ones to use and let you figure it out from there.
mathematical sleight of hand and the unphysicality
Yup, I expect to be reading about this at the cold fusion fanblogs any second now, accompanied by the usual sciento-mystic beard stroking and exclamations of "Ah hah, see? See?"
Factor in the cost of the gas turbines that you have to have sitting warm, and how much does wind cost? Remember that you'll be switching them on and off constantly, thermal stressing the hell out of them and costing you more in maintenance and needing backups for the backups.
Spend as much (money, effort and fossil energy) as you want on "renewables", you'll still have to pay to build and maintain the same number of fossil plants either way.
Well, you don't have do, if you stock up on candles and canned goods.
Samsung's design could have been created independently, but it could have also been based on information leaked by hardware suppliers in Asia. Who knows.
Well, not the jury, that's for sure, with Judge Affirmative Action telling Samsung to sit down and shut up. Literally.
This has Microsoft and Judge Jackson written all over it. Samsung know that they're going to be stitched up, and are just looking to the appeal at this point.
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You say administrator like it's a dirty word. Webb made Apollo happen, up to and including throwing himself to the wolves after Apollo 1. He wasn't the bean counting ass covering naysaying Milquetoast that you'd expect in that position today.
2. Lose half the staff who keep it running.
3. Profit!
No, wait, not profit, the other thing: keep bailing and set sail for the next iceberg.
I do like the irony that you took the content of an article that says copying is good for innovation, and just copied it.
Spherical chickens in a vacuum. Take the nerd card out of your wallet and hand it in at the front desk.
Even in Soviet UKistan, where we still have an actual sovereign, we can sue "the crown".
For all that you Yanks were so keen to get rid of a king, you certainly seem to like the trappings.
Games and stuff.
Really, that's all that I still use Windows for. I hope the ReactOS guys realise that.
Good luck with flogging that high horse with your buggy whip.
If you want to buy a tangible object, read it, sell it, rub it all over your nekkid body while singing Yankee Doodle, you're still free do so.
Meanwhile, the rest of us will shed our hair shirts and enjoy living in the future.
OK, the science. What we buy is a copy. We can't sell that copy without selling the physical device that it's on. Really, we can't. To get it on someone else's device, we'd have to make another copy.
Get that? It's not semantics, we can't actually sell the eBook that we bought, we can only duplicate it.
What does your most high and holy doctrine of first sale have to say about that? Given it was conjured up in the stone age by slave owning wizards (to hear tell), I'm guessing not a lot.
Nice think-of-the-kids scare piece, it'll play well with Tammy Teaparty. But couldn't he at least have worked in some sinister Ender's Game reference and asked how America's cyber-soldiery will fare on the battlefield against these little yellow freak-children? (Note: All Korea is North Korea to Tammy Teaparty).
If people would rather pay $50 for Final Ghost Warfare Ball 2011 than $60 for Final Ghost Warfare Ball 2012, then maybe you should write some original games once in a while instead of serving up re-heated leftovers as haute cuisine.
Let's stick to analogies that we can all understand.
Last week, I changed a suspension link on my wife's car, and GM's Revenue Actualization Department served me a notice for depriving them of the profit I'd stolen from them by not simply buying a new car.
Your argument is that it's more ethical to sell a used Ford than a used Honda, because the Ford will fall apart first and then you have to buy another one?
Or did you perhaps not think that one through?
Analogy fails because each car after the first one costs the manufacturer a significant proportion of its sticker price to make. A game costs about $1, depending on how fancy the packaging is.
Curiously, that doesn't invalidate your point, it strengthens it.
I say! This is an outrage! These bits have been... used! The 1s have gone flaccid.
If you don't like seeing GameStop's nasty habit "countless times", perhaps you should stop shopping there?
If Joe Gamer is choosing to spend $50 on Final Ghost Warfare Ball 2011 than $60 on Final Ghost Warfare Ball 2012, maybe the industry should consider writing an original game once in a while.
I agree, it was way harsh when they successfully put eBay, Amazon Marketplace, Craigslist and yard sales out of business.
But one of those had a script so insultingly trite, cliched, superficial and full of plot holes that it practically induced aneurysms in anyone with half a brain, and the other was John Carter.
Again, until it sinks in: Brain damaged? Just go into ISO certification.
Finally we're on the road to being huddled around the very last solar panel in a freezing cave, wailing "If we could only figure out how to get enough energy out of it to make another one, this would be the best technology ever invented. Ethics shall triumph over physics, just have faith."
And I mean at 2:45am. 5 skulls on all levels on Nightmare, all 'cheevos 'cheeved. It's frighteningly addicting due to the great play balance, unrelenting pace, and that "Just one more level / attempt" factor.
In fact, the only thing that could make it better would be more content... wait, what's that you say? Oh, great, there goes my sleep for the next few weeks.
Heh, actually the first game used whatever keys were placed at the the locations of WASD on a QWERTY keyboard - the controls screen didn't even label them, just showed you which ones to use and let you figure it out from there.
Yup, I expect to be reading about this at the cold fusion fanblogs any second now, accompanied by the usual sciento-mystic beard stroking and exclamations of "Ah hah, see? See?"
Factor in the cost of the gas turbines that you have to have sitting warm, and how much does wind cost? Remember that you'll be switching them on and off constantly, thermal stressing the hell out of them and costing you more in maintenance and needing backups for the backups.
Spend as much (money, effort and fossil energy) as you want on "renewables", you'll still have to pay to build and maintain the same number of fossil plants either way.
Well, you don't have do, if you stock up on candles and canned goods.
Well, not the jury, that's for sure, with Judge Affirmative Action telling Samsung to sit down and shut up. Literally.
This has Microsoft and Judge Jackson written all over it. Samsung know that they're going to be stitched up, and are just looking to the appeal at this point.
Crichton was trying to make money with his Jurassic Park novels.