I know this isn't really your point, but I just hate seeing this fallacy repeated over and over again. The cost of creating the physical media IN NO WAY represents the full production cost of the product. That's like saying that the cost of software is just the cost of creating the installation CD.
At this point pretty hate machine and the downward spiral has already recouped all those costs several time over.
My pulled out my ass $0.10 tried to account for what you mentioned. The actual disk is $0.01 to produce in large volumes. Cases are similar in large volumes. The other $0.08 is what I figure the cost of production, distribution, and promotion are amortized over the number of disks made. I might be off. It might be $0.80 per disk when other costs are included, sold at 2.60 to the distributor, sold for 8.00 to the retail chain then sold as $24-$45 to the end customer. Still a bit much of a mark up all around.
And less power to the guy who designs Ferraris for a living. True. Although it's not in a linear way. If everyone with a $100 machine could duplicate Ferrari's, Ferrari does not lose sales 1:1. As well just like music, duplicating a Ferrari is not exactly like buying one if it were possible. Since it does not come with a warranty or support. Just as music doesn't come with cases, liner and a CD when you download them. So Ferrari would lose some % of sales which is not linearly related to the number of fakes out there.
Rather, he seems to be encouraging his fans to not buy his music, which deprives him of royalties, but also deprives the label of money. Exactly, already it's like 98:2 label:talent money split for new bands. For NIN I'd imagine it's 85:15. His label loses more if his music is stolen then he does. If you look for some of his older records they are premium priced. $24-$45 CAD for pretty hate machine or the downward spiral. Ludicrous for something that is individually less then $0.10 to produce.
I just wonder one thing: has he stopped accepting royalties from the CD sales, or canceled his distribution contracts? Without that step, this is a fairly empty gesture from a very rich man. He makes available high quality raw audio track for people to sample with. He vocally questioned the high prices in Australia. He encouraged his fans to steal his music. I don't think he needs to impoverish himself to have an opinion.
You do realize that barring a draft and assuming a continued population growth rate of anything greater than 1.0, the number of working young will always be larger than the number of retired old?
The replacement rate is less then 1.0 if you factor out immigration. There is a bump where the old out number the young since the baby boomer's had less then 1 child each on average. Depending on how our culture changes it may be a permanent situation. Depending on immigration can be dangerous as parts of Europe and Japan highlight. sometimes it works well and other times it doesn't.
It depend entirely on implementation and social mores. Canada and the US have a high degree of success assimilating immigrants while Europe and Japan have had significant issues. The difference seems to hinge on the greater acceptance of immigrants in Canada and the US. For instance it's been documented in France that citizens with a Muslim sounding last name had a far more difficult time getting hired then those with a French sounding last name. It tends to ghettoize the new comers creating a lot of resentment. Even in Canada and the Us the new comers tend to shift the culture.
The pool for drawing immigrants is shrinking as Nations like China and eastern Europe become a better place to live and thus diminish the desire to leave.
So no, there will not always be a pool of working young larger then retired old.
In my experience, Asian gamers take it a helluva lot more seriously. I used to play SC2 against my roommate. I just wanted to pick it up and play every once in a while, and learn a few tricks. I could beat almost anybody else on the floor. My roommate, though, his goal was to become a monster. And so we were pretty competitive for a few months, and then I lost interest in improving while he just kept at it. He became nigh-unbeatable. It was pretty much the same deal with respect to CounterStrike and two other Asian guys in the building or Starcraft and another set of people who liked that or whatever else we were playing back then.
As for whether this applies to general work ethic, or sports, or arts, I'm not so sure, but it seems very true of gaming.
Perhaps. But I was briefly top 20 in 2v2 in warcraft. I don't game 3 days straight. I couldn't even imagine that. My partner was top 10 for arranged 2v2 for a while and he's a very aggressive but well rounded individual.
I don't know, my cousin in guangzhou has a life similar to mine. Wake up, work 8-10 h at a tech shop. Go home spend a few hours with the GF. game. Sleep. Except I get 1 more day off a week, My overtime is optional and infrequent, and my GF is hotter although his is very cute too. Life isn't so bad in the parts of china I visited (shanghai, beijing, guangzhou, HK, Macau, Xin Hua).
I suppose I don't understand because all of my addictions are mild and state endorsed (women, video games, food, and tea).
Excuse me sir, but I regret to tell you that you're quite addicted to food. Withdrawal will include death and unpleasantness. Meh.. I can quit any time I want to.
I'm going out on a limb and predict this mans life.
single (never married or recently divorced). No job prospects (recently fired or newly graduated). Lives alone or with parents. Few if any friends. Pale, scrawny, bad hair cut.
I know I pretty much described the average slashdotter but it seems these guys tend to fit a certain mold. Time will tell if I'm right about this specific case.
I'm an Asian gamer with a mild addiction to warcraft 3. I don't understand how Asia can have a few of these incidents and the west has so none.Is there a distinct cultural difference to explain this? Or is it just statistic's? There i about 2.5 billion people in Asia proper vs 1 billion in all of the west. I don't understand how addiction is going to force you to sleep or drink or eat. I suppose I don't understand because all of my addictions are mild and state endorsed (women, video games, food, and tea).
"CEOs are increasingly aware of the risks posed to company information by insiders, but they aren't acting on this knowledge, according to the "2004 Ernst & Young Global Information Security Survey." More than 70 percent of the 1,233 organizations surveyed in 51 countries failed to list training and raising employee awareness of information security issues as a top initiative."
A case of 'ignorance is not bliss'. You do have to weigh company morale vs security. Requesting the whole organization use tinfoil hat Linux boxes; with 256bit end to end encryption; with all outgoing and incoming packets sniffed, duplicated and logged; 16 character mixed special char, numeric, and alphabetic passwords; Faraday cages around every office; may be excessive even for the NSA. You have to trust your employees at least a little or else it becomes a Us vs them situation.
"I'm sure most nations would prefer if the US just went back to their pre WWII isolationism"
OH RLY?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/06/world/main665329.shtml http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB117/index.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801640.html http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/55a/008.html and how exactly does that prove most nations would not prefer if the US Went back to isolationist? You provided links on small amounts of criticism about US aid. Although it's admirable the US would like to donate wealth you don't seem to notice how political their "donations" are. US aid comes with strings. Political and Economic. Egypt has aligned itself with the US partly out of desperate dependence on US food aid as it's pop is greater then it's agriculture could sustain comfortably. A large amount of the "famine" in Africa is causes bu food aid undermining the prices of local food making agriculture unprofitable or raises the local current carrying capacity beyond it's natural limit and thus when the food aid dries up you get a famine. Many despots are kept in power by simply controlling the flow of foreign aid. In general there is a lot of resentment against US interference, and most parties are aware that US gifts come with some dangerous strings.
Th US has to stop trying to be the world police. Why should Iran just expect the US to jump in? They should grow some balls and try standing up for themselves.
It sounds like you have the mistaken notion that the US is some benevolent "peace keeper". However the vast majority of the time (every single US involvement except for serbia) was unwanted intervention to support either US ideology or US economy. standing up for themselves... I'm sure most nations would prefer if the US just went back to their pre WWII isolationism. How about the US grows some brains and stop jumping in where they aren't needed (Iraq) and actually interfere where they could help (Durfur).
Nice trolling there. ATI drivers actually work, maybe not for legacy stuff, but all the new cards I have had since 9500 have worked with no problems under linux.
Anecdotally: I was mostly nVidia for my game machines since the tnt2. When the radeon 9600xt came out I heard so many rave reviews that I thought I'd try it a bit after release. For the 4 months I used that card I have never had as many blue screens of deaths, random restarts, and hang ups. I changed drivers, adding cooling,under clocked the card.. nothing worked. I might have blamed the system but I simply changed to a GeForce ti 4600 (a down grade) and everything was okay and haven't had that system hang since.
The gestapo is alive and well although less outright evil then before. Germany has some very restrictive laws especially related to speech. I wonder if it's an over reaction to the WWII and the Nazi's or if it's a remnant of that type of mindset. The belief that force is appropriate to fight ideas.
No wifi gc games, no GB player. Mostly because the hardware is very similar to the GC. Like the PS2 and early PS3 it essentially contains the same chip set and does BC through hardware. However unlike the PS2 and PS3 it's essentially using the same hardware layout but with more modern variants. Sort of like how x86 computable machines achieve Backwards computability, the chips are just built around the old chip set.
And lose customers. I know plenty of grown-ups who have a driver's license (or other state-issued ID) and debit card but have sworn off credit cards after having climbed out of debt. Or are there enough customers who are willing to apply for credit cards just to view mature, not-yet-rated, or individually published content?
Age verification and prevention of lawsuits trumps catering to a demographic which have financial troubles or refuse to use major credit cards. Their numbers are smaller then you think as Credit is easy. Bankruptcy is the only modern case that makes credit cards impossible. These days even having extremely poor credit you can still get a low limit credit card. My sister was accepted for one at 18 with no income and no credit history. At a point I made less then 30,000 a year but had a gold card for 15,000. You really have to screw up not to be able to get one and if you refuse to use one, it's a consequence of your choice that products will be less convenient to purchase.
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This says Otherwise. I can't imagine acupuncturers being wealthy or influential enough to buy off these two respected medical associations.
, and also ranks in the top 50,000 sites on alexa.com
Alexa.com is a website that aggregates data from their spy ware tool. So it heavily skews their information to the technically incompetent/ windows pc users. Thus slashdot is severely under represented as are many geek sites such as ars technica and so on. Are you aware of any more accurate tools? sometimes I'd like to know data for these sites.
But they can turn right around and blow a few million on a landing strip for their personal jets. Yeah Google is really short on cash.
You are aware that wasn't "Google" funded. It was the personal funds of the founders. The jets as well. Or should all CEO's limit themselves from spending their personal bank roll?
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Acupuncture is indeed far more accepted in the west today than it was a few decades ago, but it's effectiveness hasn't changed it has just been studied. I would propose that in many circumstances homeopathic remedies are as much as 75% as effective as prescription drugs. Mainly because of the placebo effect.
Didn't the NIH, AMA, and a bunch of medical academics do some studies on it. They found it's more successfully then placebo and despite having no idea how it works currently they recommended increase use as a secondary treatment option and further research? I'm not sure if it belong with the other quackery you mentioned.
You can differentiate the two, but it's not of particular importance to do so, if that's what you mean.
The reason being that you can get a Debit card (In America) from Bank of America at the age of 16, and I'm sure you could get one at an ealier age if it were in your parent's name.
Either way, what's to stop a 12 year-old from stealing his mom's credit card out of his purse? Or recieving permission to visit AO-related areas from his parent(s)?/i>
The difference is if you need a age validation allow only post paid credit cards. If a kid steals his mums, that absolves Sony of any direct responsibility as the parents Failed to teach their kids not to 1-steal 2-mis represent themselves as well as a failure in super vision. Also it would come out in the credit card statement. This would be adequate protection against minors being places they shouldn't (in a legal sense).
Areas requiring the user to be 18 will earn this game an AO rating. It will never happen.
The reason why AO games don't occur is because big box stores like Walmart/Best buy have taken it upon themselves to act as a moral agent of their customers and limit more controversial content. Doing so proactively to avoid hassles with their predominantly older and more conservative customer base. Sony's online store is currently and likely permanently populated by a younger more liberal crowd (all 6 of us). They may be able to get away with adult content with ID tied to credit card or some other verification method (you must be 18 for a credit card so user with a registered one is fine. )
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I know this isn't really your point, but I just hate seeing this fallacy repeated over and over again. The cost of creating the physical media IN NO WAY represents the full production cost of the product. That's like saying that the cost of software is just the cost of creating the installation CD.
At this point pretty hate machine and the downward spiral has already recouped all those costs several time over.
My pulled out my ass $0.10 tried to account for what you mentioned. The actual disk is $0.01 to produce in large volumes. Cases are similar in large volumes. The other $0.08 is what I figure the cost of production, distribution, and promotion are amortized over the number of disks made. I might be off. It might be $0.80 per disk when other costs are included, sold at 2.60 to the distributor, sold for 8.00 to the retail chain then sold as $24-$45 to the end customer. Still a bit much of a mark up all around.
You do realize that barring a draft and assuming a continued population growth rate of anything greater than 1.0, the number of working young will always be larger than the number of retired old?
The replacement rate is less then 1.0 if you factor out immigration. There is a bump where the old out number the young since the baby boomer's had less then 1 child each on average. Depending on how our culture changes it may be a permanent situation. Depending on immigration can be dangerous as parts of Europe and Japan highlight. sometimes it works well and other times it doesn't.
It depend entirely on implementation and social mores. Canada and the US have a high degree of success assimilating immigrants while Europe and Japan have had significant issues. The difference seems to hinge on the greater acceptance of immigrants in Canada and the US. For instance it's been documented in France that citizens with a Muslim sounding last name had a far more difficult time getting hired then those with a French sounding last name. It tends to ghettoize the new comers creating a lot of resentment. Even in Canada and the Us the new comers tend to shift the culture.
The pool for drawing immigrants is shrinking as Nations like China and eastern Europe become a better place to live and thus diminish the desire to leave.
So no, there will not always be a pool of working young larger then retired old.
So not being playable on the most common portable music player is touted as a feature?
In my experience, Asian gamers take it a helluva lot more seriously. I used to play SC2 against my roommate. I just wanted to pick it up and play every once in a while, and learn a few tricks. I could beat almost anybody else on the floor. My roommate, though, his goal was to become a monster. And so we were pretty competitive for a few months, and then I lost interest in improving while he just kept at it. He became nigh-unbeatable. It was pretty much the same deal with respect to CounterStrike and two other Asian guys in the building or Starcraft and another set of people who liked that or whatever else we were playing back then.
As for whether this applies to general work ethic, or sports, or arts, I'm not so sure, but it seems very true of gaming.
Perhaps. But I was briefly top 20 in 2v2 in warcraft. I don't game 3 days straight. I couldn't even imagine that. My partner was top 10 for arranged 2v2 for a while and he's a very aggressive but well rounded individual.
Perhaps we have a lot less to escape from.
I don't know, my cousin in guangzhou has a life similar to mine. Wake up, work 8-10 h at a tech shop. Go home spend a few hours with the GF. game. Sleep. Except I get 1 more day off a week, My overtime is optional and infrequent, and my GF is hotter although his is very cute too. Life isn't so bad in the parts of china I visited (shanghai, beijing, guangzhou, HK, Macau, Xin Hua).
Excuse me sir, but I regret to tell you that you're quite addicted to food. Withdrawal will include death and unpleasantness. Meh.. I can quit any time I want to.
I'm going out on a limb and predict this mans life.
single (never married or recently divorced).
No job prospects (recently fired or newly graduated).
Lives alone or with parents.
Few if any friends.
Pale, scrawny, bad hair cut.
I know I pretty much described the average slashdotter but it seems these guys tend to fit a certain mold. Time will tell if I'm right about this specific case.
I'm an Asian gamer with a mild addiction to warcraft 3. I don't understand how Asia can have a few of these incidents and the west has so none.Is there a distinct cultural difference to explain this? Or is it just statistic's? There i about 2.5 billion people in Asia proper vs 1 billion in all of the west. I don't understand how addiction is going to force you to sleep or drink or eat. I suppose I don't understand because all of my addictions are mild and state endorsed (women, video games, food, and tea).
A case of 'ignorance is not bliss'. You do have to weigh company morale vs security. Requesting the whole organization use tinfoil hat Linux boxes; with 256bit end to end encryption; with all outgoing and incoming packets sniffed, duplicated and logged; 16 character mixed special char, numeric, and alphabetic passwords; Faraday cages around every office; may be excessive even for the NSA. You have to trust your employees at least a little or else it becomes a Us vs them situation.
OH RLY?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/06/world/main665329.shtml
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB117/index.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801640.html
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/55a/008.html and how exactly does that prove most nations would not prefer if the US Went back to isolationist? You provided links on small amounts of criticism about US aid. Although it's admirable the US would like to donate wealth you don't seem to notice how political their "donations" are. US aid comes with strings. Political and Economic. Egypt has aligned itself with the US partly out of desperate dependence on US food aid as it's pop is greater then it's agriculture could sustain comfortably. A large amount of the "famine" in Africa is causes bu food aid undermining the prices of local food making agriculture unprofitable or raises the local current carrying capacity beyond it's natural limit and thus when the food aid dries up you get a famine. Many despots are kept in power by simply controlling the flow of foreign aid. In general there is a lot of resentment against US interference, and most parties are aware that US gifts come with some dangerous strings.
Th US has to stop trying to be the world police. Why should Iran just expect the US to jump in? They should grow some balls and try standing up for themselves.
It sounds like you have the mistaken notion that the US is some benevolent "peace keeper". However the vast majority of the time (every single US involvement except for serbia) was unwanted intervention to support either US ideology or US economy. standing up for themselves... I'm sure most nations would prefer if the US just went back to their pre WWII isolationism. How about the US grows some brains and stop jumping in where they aren't needed (Iraq) and actually interfere where they could help (Durfur).
Nice trolling there. ATI drivers actually work, maybe not for legacy stuff, but all the new cards I have had since 9500 have worked with no problems under linux.
,under clocked the card.. nothing worked. I might have blamed the system but I simply changed to a GeForce ti 4600 (a down grade) and everything was okay and haven't had that system hang since.
Anecdotally: I was mostly nVidia for my game machines since the tnt2. When the radeon 9600xt came out I heard so many rave reviews that I thought I'd try it a bit after release. For the 4 months I used that card I have never had as many blue screens of deaths, random restarts, and hang ups. I changed drivers, adding cooling
The gestapo is alive and well although less outright evil then before. Germany has some very restrictive laws especially related to speech. I wonder if it's an over reaction to the WWII and the Nazi's or if it's a remnant of that type of mindset. The belief that force is appropriate to fight ideas.
No wifi gc games, no GB player. Mostly because the hardware is very similar to the GC. Like the PS2 and early PS3 it essentially contains the same chip set and does BC through hardware. However unlike the PS2 and PS3 it's essentially using the same hardware layout but with more modern variants. Sort of like how x86 computable machines achieve Backwards computability, the chips are just built around the old chip set.
And lose customers. I know plenty of grown-ups who have a driver's license (or other state-issued ID) and debit card but have sworn off credit cards after having climbed out of debt. Or are there enough customers who are willing to apply for credit cards just to view mature, not-yet-rated, or individually published content?
Age verification and prevention of lawsuits trumps catering to a demographic which have financial troubles or refuse to use major credit cards. Their numbers are smaller then you think as Credit is easy. Bankruptcy is the only modern case that makes credit cards impossible. These days even having extremely poor credit you can still get a low limit credit card. My sister was accepted for one at 18 with no income and no credit history. At a point I made less then 30,000 a year but had a gold card for 15,000. You really have to screw up not to be able to get one and if you refuse to use one, it's a consequence of your choice that products will be less convenient to purchase.
This says Otherwise. I can't imagine acupuncturers being wealthy or influential enough to buy off these two respected medical associations.
, and also ranks in the top 50,000 sites on alexa.com
Alexa.com is a website that aggregates data from their spy ware tool. So it heavily skews their information to the technically incompetent/ windows pc users. Thus slashdot is severely under represented as are many geek sites such as ars technica and so on. Are you aware of any more accurate tools? sometimes I'd like to know data for these sites.
But they can turn right around and blow a few million on a landing strip for their personal jets. Yeah Google is really short on cash.
You are aware that wasn't "Google" funded. It was the personal funds of the founders. The jets as well. Or should all CEO's limit themselves from spending their personal bank roll?
Acupuncture is indeed far more accepted in the west today than it was a few decades ago, but it's effectiveness hasn't changed it has just been studied. I would propose that in many circumstances homeopathic remedies are as much as 75% as effective as prescription drugs. Mainly because of the placebo effect.
Didn't the NIH, AMA, and a bunch of medical academics do some studies on it. They found it's more successfully then placebo and despite having no idea how it works currently they recommended increase use as a secondary treatment option and further research? I'm not sure if it belong with the other quackery you mentioned.
You can differentiate the two, but it's not of particular importance to do so, if that's what you mean.
The reason being that you can get a Debit card (In America) from Bank of America at the age of 16, and I'm sure you could get one at an ealier age if it were in your parent's name.
Either way, what's to stop a 12 year-old from stealing his mom's credit card out of his purse? Or recieving permission to visit AO-related areas from his parent(s)?/i>
The difference is if you need a age validation allow only post paid credit cards. If a kid steals his mums, that absolves Sony of any direct responsibility as the parents Failed to teach their kids not to 1-steal 2-mis represent themselves as well as a failure in super vision. Also it would come out in the credit card statement. This would be adequate protection against minors being places they shouldn't (in a legal sense).
As far as I know you can differentiate a debit card from a credit card from a pre-paid credit card. They have different number spaces.
Areas requiring the user to be 18 will earn this game an AO rating. It will never happen.
The reason why AO games don't occur is because big box stores like Walmart/Best buy have taken it upon themselves to act as a moral agent of their customers and limit more controversial content. Doing so proactively to avoid hassles with their predominantly older and more conservative customer base. Sony's online store is currently and likely permanently populated by a younger more liberal crowd (all 6 of us). They may be able to get away with adult content with ID tied to credit card or some other verification method (you must be 18 for a credit card so user with a registered one is fine. )