Well I think the real message for time travel in the film was that paradoxes matter more to the people involved than it does to reality. For a straight line time theory that's pretty insightful. The idea that reality could magically change around you because you've violated causality is just obsurd. To be fair though, it is hard to maintain any sense of realism when you're talking about time travel.
By your own admission they must release that many or they have to magically attract more players than subscription based MMORPGs that actually buy the expansions.
Like this movie. I've watched it 5 times. One of the most enjoyable independant films I've ever seen. It cost $7000 to make. And, of course, it's geeky to the max.
Sigh. Let's just wait and see.. but if you want to be honourable, how about you make a gentleman's bet? At some point in time the game will move from loss leader to expansion pack forced upgrades and you'll say "gee, QuantumG was right". When that happens send me a few $k.
Yep, which means that players who wish to purchase only one expansion pack a year will have 3 opportunities per year to lose their some of their friends who want to purchase more expansion packs. That means every expansion pack will be met with hostility. Getting people to fork out for a subscription is hard enough without telling them there is no subscription and then hitting them with a quarterly ultimatium, buy the expansion pack or be left behind. That's why offering a free download of an MMORPG client is the worst thing you can possibly do. Players who get a "free trial" will do anything and everything to justify why the game "sux" and not pay the subscription fee. So instead of having customers decide once if they like the game and subscribe to it, you now are asking them every quarter to decide if the game is worth another purchase.
Wait until the paid expansion packs start, then decide if it's better not paying a subscription. Ultima Online has this model (and to a lesser extent, Everquest) and the result is that you're forced to buy the expansion pack otherwise you can't hang out with the friends you've made because they've already bought the expansion pack. It also means the people who refuse to buy the expansion packs quickly become disenfranchised and that makes them really pissed off, so they run around the non-expanded game griefing people.. so you end up buying the expansion pack to get away from them. But rather than learn from history and choose a game with your eyes open, people would rather read the payola reviews and interviews of Guild Wars and think the perfect, no-one pays, world can continue forever.
That's the difference between you and me. You say "you could be bettering yourself" whereas I say "you're not bettering yourself". He knows he can be more than a factory worker (if he really is a factory worker) but he also knows it will take a lot of hard work to get there.
God damn it. You are fucking wrong. Such a bullshit american attitude. That's why your country is full of a poor underclass. You talk about class mobility more than you actually do it.
How did you get in debt? How did you become a single parent? More importantly, Why? The answer is simple: you're a freakin' bonehead. As such, I have no sympathy for you. Getting to where I am wasn't "easy". I had to work. I had to go to college and get a degree even though I didn't learn anything there because only dodgy companies who don't check references would hire me if I didn't. All these excuses that people make for not improving their lot in life are just that, excuses. Don't have money to go to college? Go to community college, it's free. Don't have time? Stop watching reality tv.
Wrong. They're a slave worker when they fail to recognise that an entry level position is something they should move on from. Everyone needs to start somewhere and there's an ever increasing number of everyones. It's the people who take an entry level job and then complain about how much they get paid without ever trying to better themselves who end up as wage slaves. The people who take the job, do it well and then move on are the ones I want making my consumables, not wage slaves.
Sorry, no. If you're earning minimum wage you're not being productive. You're a drain on the economy. Why? Minimum wage is supposed to be an entry level position. You're supposed to move on from it so more people can enter the market and grow the economy. If you're living your life on minimum wage you're doing nothing but slowing the growth of the economy by taking up positions.
You're a whiner. Getting an education doesn't require you to be a genius. In fact, it's just the opposite. Go learn a skill. Out of all the plumbers, builders and boilermakers you've met, were any of them geniuses? No, then how did they learn a skill? Hard work. If you wanna be more than an unskilled worker it's really easy, learn a skill. If you have dependants that can be hard, but you have freely said you don't, so you have no excuse.
Huh? WTF is flamebait about this? If you drop out of school when you're 16 and turn up at McDonalds with the goal of starting a career you're a blot on society. Go get an education and become productive.
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First, why don't you change jobs? Second, why don't you get an education so you can change jobs. Third, if you have kids, why did you have them if you couldn't support them? How irresponsible are you?
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My job has long (LONG) periods where I have very little workload.. then we have weeks where there's no time to go get lunch or stop at the end of the day. If I worked in the fast food industry they'd put me on "casual" rates and send me home when there was no work to do. Thankfully I work for a megacorp on a salary and they pay me the same no matter how little or how much work there is to do. What pisses me off is the people who do nothing all day long for weeks and then refuse to work late when crunch time hits. They get used to the down periods and think that's all they should be required to do to get paid. I like to think of these guys as consolation prize employees. "I showed up, now give me my trophy!" To which I say, here's your casual rates.
Blah, if a single company started dumping platnium on the market in 10 tonne lots it would completely destroy the platnium producers of today. It would redefine that market. Every car would be required to have a 10x more efficient catalitic convertor (contains platnium) as the cost would no longer be an issue. Fuel cell cars would now be affordable.. meaning nuclear power could be used in everything (including trucks and planes) completely breaking the world's dependancy on oil. That would have knock-on effects in every market. If one company was responsible for this, it would unquestionably become the most valuable company in the world.
One day some company will announce they are going to conquer the moon, mine it and sell the materials on earth. 6 months later the world economy will change and that company will be worth more than the GDP of every country on earth.
"Threat" of bankruptcy? What threat? Unless you're the director of a company or intend to be in the future there is no downside to bankruptcy. Many people would like to declare bankruptcy who can't, the RIAA would be doing them a favour.
We just don't expect you to come to Slashdot to get your answers about the space elevator. There's literally gigabytes of literature available on the subject, most of it online, and yet people seem to think that asking "what if it breaks" or "won't it fall down" is acceptable. Go educate yourself already and then come back and contribute something to the conversation.
Who knows.. this is Australia where we pay the highest taxes in the world and we have the highest budget surplus of any other government. So that means we're paying more money than our government can figure out how to spend. We're truly a unique country.
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Well I think the real message for time travel in the film was that paradoxes matter more to the people involved than it does to reality. For a straight line time theory that's pretty insightful. The idea that reality could magically change around you because you've violated causality is just obsurd. To be fair though, it is hard to maintain any sense of realism when you're talking about time travel.
By your own admission they must release that many or they have to magically attract more players than subscription based MMORPGs that actually buy the expansions.
You could start hiring people with talent.
Like this movie. I've watched it 5 times. One of the most enjoyable independant films I've ever seen. It cost $7000 to make. And, of course, it's geeky to the max.
Sigh. Let's just wait and see.. but if you want to be honourable, how about you make a gentleman's bet? At some point in time the game will move from loss leader to expansion pack forced upgrades and you'll say "gee, QuantumG was right". When that happens send me a few $k.
Yep, which means that players who wish to purchase only one expansion pack a year will have 3 opportunities per year to lose their some of their friends who want to purchase more expansion packs. That means every expansion pack will be met with hostility. Getting people to fork out for a subscription is hard enough without telling them there is no subscription and then hitting them with a quarterly ultimatium, buy the expansion pack or be left behind. That's why offering a free download of an MMORPG client is the worst thing you can possibly do. Players who get a "free trial" will do anything and everything to justify why the game "sux" and not pay the subscription fee. So instead of having customers decide once if they like the game and subscribe to it, you now are asking them every quarter to decide if the game is worth another purchase.
Wait until the paid expansion packs start, then decide if it's better not paying a subscription. Ultima Online has this model (and to a lesser extent, Everquest) and the result is that you're forced to buy the expansion pack otherwise you can't hang out with the friends you've made because they've already bought the expansion pack. It also means the people who refuse to buy the expansion packs quickly become disenfranchised and that makes them really pissed off, so they run around the non-expanded game griefing people.. so you end up buying the expansion pack to get away from them. But rather than learn from history and choose a game with your eyes open, people would rather read the payola reviews and interviews of Guild Wars and think the perfect, no-one pays, world can continue forever.
It's the stated plan to make the game profitable. No speculation required.
1. Attract cheapskates with boring PvP gameplay.
2. Offer substandard content as for-pay expansion packs.
3. ???
4. Profit!
That's the difference between you and me. You say "you could be bettering yourself" whereas I say "you're not bettering yourself". He knows he can be more than a factory worker (if he really is a factory worker) but he also knows it will take a lot of hard work to get there.
God damn it. You are fucking wrong. Such a bullshit american attitude. That's why your country is full of a poor underclass. You talk about class mobility more than you actually do it.
How did you get in debt? How did you become a single parent? More importantly, Why? The answer is simple: you're a freakin' bonehead. As such, I have no sympathy for you. Getting to where I am wasn't "easy". I had to work. I had to go to college and get a degree even though I didn't learn anything there because only dodgy companies who don't check references would hire me if I didn't. All these excuses that people make for not improving their lot in life are just that, excuses. Don't have money to go to college? Go to community college, it's free. Don't have time? Stop watching reality tv.
Wrong. They're a slave worker when they fail to recognise that an entry level position is something they should move on from. Everyone needs to start somewhere and there's an ever increasing number of everyones. It's the people who take an entry level job and then complain about how much they get paid without ever trying to better themselves who end up as wage slaves. The people who take the job, do it well and then move on are the ones I want making my consumables, not wage slaves.
I don't think anyone believes wage slaves are doing anything good for the economy.
Sorry, no. If you're earning minimum wage you're not being productive. You're a drain on the economy. Why? Minimum wage is supposed to be an entry level position. You're supposed to move on from it so more people can enter the market and grow the economy. If you're living your life on minimum wage you're doing nothing but slowing the growth of the economy by taking up positions.
You're a whiner. Getting an education doesn't require you to be a genius. In fact, it's just the opposite. Go learn a skill. Out of all the plumbers, builders and boilermakers you've met, were any of them geniuses? No, then how did they learn a skill? Hard work. If you wanna be more than an unskilled worker it's really easy, learn a skill. If you have dependants that can be hard, but you have freely said you don't, so you have no excuse.
Huh? WTF is flamebait about this? If you drop out of school when you're 16 and turn up at McDonalds with the goal of starting a career you're a blot on society. Go get an education and become productive.
First, why don't you change jobs? Second, why don't you get an education so you can change jobs. Third, if you have kids, why did you have them if you couldn't support them? How irresponsible are you?
My job has long (LONG) periods where I have very little workload.. then we have weeks where there's no time to go get lunch or stop at the end of the day. If I worked in the fast food industry they'd put me on "casual" rates and send me home when there was no work to do. Thankfully I work for a megacorp on a salary and they pay me the same no matter how little or how much work there is to do. What pisses me off is the people who do nothing all day long for weeks and then refuse to work late when crunch time hits. They get used to the down periods and think that's all they should be required to do to get paid. I like to think of these guys as consolation prize employees. "I showed up, now give me my trophy!" To which I say, here's your casual rates.
Blah, if a single company started dumping platnium on the market in 10 tonne lots it would completely destroy the platnium producers of today. It would redefine that market. Every car would be required to have a 10x more efficient catalitic convertor (contains platnium) as the cost would no longer be an issue. Fuel cell cars would now be affordable.. meaning nuclear power could be used in everything (including trucks and planes) completely breaking the world's dependancy on oil. That would have knock-on effects in every market. If one company was responsible for this, it would unquestionably become the most valuable company in the world.
One day some company will announce they are going to conquer the moon, mine it and sell the materials on earth. 6 months later the world economy will change and that company will be worth more than the GDP of every country on earth.
"Threat" of bankruptcy? What threat? Unless you're the director of a company or intend to be in the future there is no downside to bankruptcy. Many people would like to declare bankruptcy who can't, the RIAA would be doing them a favour.
I believe the correct term is "failure of imagination".
We just don't expect you to come to Slashdot to get your answers about the space elevator. There's literally gigabytes of literature available on the subject, most of it online, and yet people seem to think that asking "what if it breaks" or "won't it fall down" is acceptable. Go educate yourself already and then come back and contribute something to the conversation.
Who knows.. this is Australia where we pay the highest taxes in the world and we have the highest budget surplus of any other government. So that means we're paying more money than our government can figure out how to spend. We're truly a unique country.
Stop asking stupid questions.