"At the risk of being deemed a heretic, I'd argue that World of Warcraft is not a good example of nickel and diming, as they seem to have struck the right balance between nickels and dimes."
My gut reaction says no, what they want is for you to pay a subscription service to use your ears. Somebody has to have a copyright on the "song" that car horn just played, right?
On the other hand and I'm guessing this is the real fear. You could easily take the best part of the song, put it out as a preview clip and in reality you are just giving away ring tones for free.
The problem is that we've know the health benefits of quinine since long before "alternative medicine" become fashionable. We've proven it's effects time and time again. Centrum, on the other hand has never been proven as an effective treatment for HIV.
A proper keyboard and mouse are enough to make me agree. Dammit, 10 years and no one else has bothered to get that right since. I want to play my UT3 Black, BioShock and Rage like a civilized human being, not like I'm an 8 year old with Nintendo thumb.
I partially disagree. Yeah, the stuff my coworkers talk about is pretty awful. With all of the talent/singing/dance competitions, reality TV, house flippers, entertainment news and cookie-cutter, police procedurals, it can be pretty depresing, but HBO, Showtime, SyFy (ugh, I hate to saying that name) and yes, AS have done a really good job of picking up the ball and going out of the bounds of the 15-steps.
As far as Adult Swim being doomed, I really don't see it happening too soon. They have a very loyal audience on a network whose major viewership sharply drops at 10PM.
That means AAPL does things like heading further down it's proprietary path (yeah when Microsoft does it people scream about it) and Google does things that they have to to make a profit (like cooperating with Chinese authorities which turns "Do No Evil" into a guideline and not a rule.)
Easy, because people are greedy and they'd love to have MS's share. Sure MS has done some horrible, horrible things, but do you think every bit of criticism levied against them is purely altruistic? They have a huge share and people want that share.
When it comes to Apple, they have read their Cathedral and the Bazaar and they realized that people will work under asinine conditions for margins of the profit made on their product as long as they can point over and say, "Look at my iPhone app.". This all happens while Apple laughs all the way to the bank. Under the PC and Mac platforms this would have been totally unacceptable. But with the iPhone, we'll all dance the dance.
No offense, but you could be hiding Osama bin Laden in your house, we should check there. He could have an atom bomb and the Lindbergh baby. I demand to know who kannibal_klown is to justify my belief.
Whats scary are those scientists with their universe destroying super colliders and off predictions of asteroid impacts. Why the hell would they want to collect super germs unless they planned on making bigger and better killers, they made AIDS for the CIA you know. Then they tell us that those things moving in the sky are swamp gas, swamp gas! How dumb do they think we are? For what, so they can go out into the woods scrape owl shit off of trees. I can do that and for a whole lot less!!!!1
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I wish I had a URL, but a few years ago Lego had a school robotics program where they would send your school a free kit.
I was thinking 11-15 year olds living their revenge fantasies.
"At the risk of being deemed a heretic, I'd argue that World of Warcraft is not a good example of nickel and diming, as they seem to have struck the right balance between nickels and dimes."
Fixed.
At $2.50 I'll draw my own, thank you very much.
My gut reaction says no, what they want is for you to pay a subscription service to use your ears. Somebody has to have a copyright on the "song" that car horn just played, right?
On the other hand and I'm guessing this is the real fear. You could easily take the best part of the song, put it out as a preview clip and in reality you are just giving away ring tones for free.
The problem is that we've know the health benefits of quinine since long before "alternative medicine" become fashionable. We've proven it's effects time and time again. Centrum, on the other hand has never been proven as an effective treatment for HIV.
And freeDOS and OpenGEM will lead them.
And ruin wars in foreign countries for Gallium? Now way.
A proper keyboard and mouse are enough to make me agree. Dammit, 10 years and no one else has bothered to get that right since. I want to play my UT3 Black, BioShock and Rage like a civilized human being, not like I'm an 8 year old with Nintendo thumb.
It murders desert tortoises.
Heretic! Everyone knows that sin was abolished after the paneling wars.
smallfries hits the nail on the head. Why take a flying car when you can telecommute.
Don't forget Uncle Scrooge. I can use the words integrity and Disney in the same sentence without mentioning Carl Barks.
Oh if the evidence was over 18 they have a great reason. What do you think they are a bunch of pedos?
I partially disagree. Yeah, the stuff my coworkers talk about is pretty awful. With all of the talent/singing/dance competitions, reality TV, house flippers, entertainment news and cookie-cutter, police procedurals, it can be pretty depresing, but HBO, Showtime, SyFy (ugh, I hate to saying that name) and yes, AS have done a really good job of picking up the ball and going out of the bounds of the 15-steps.
As far as Adult Swim being doomed, I really don't see it happening too soon. They have a very loyal audience on a network whose major viewership sharply drops at 10PM.
Get out of here you filthy Lo Tek!
That means AAPL does things like heading further down it's proprietary path (yeah when Microsoft does it people scream about it) and Google does things that they have to to make a profit (like cooperating with Chinese authorities which turns "Do No Evil" into a guideline and not a rule.)
Easy, because people are greedy and they'd love to have MS's share. Sure MS has done some horrible, horrible things, but do you think every bit of criticism levied against them is purely altruistic? They have a huge share and people want that share.
When it comes to Apple, they have read their Cathedral and the Bazaar and they realized that people will work under asinine conditions for margins of the profit made on their product as long as they can point over and say, "Look at my iPhone app.". This all happens while Apple laughs all the way to the bank. Under the PC and Mac platforms this would have been totally unacceptable. But with the iPhone, we'll all dance the dance.
Hard yes, impossible no.
And you AC have inspired to me have a one-on-one fist fight with the sea.
No offense, but you could be hiding Osama bin Laden in your house, we should check there. He could have an atom bomb and the Lindbergh baby. I demand to know who kannibal_klown is to justify my belief.
So I should go ahead and be disappointed with the rest of his pretentious, over-baked career?
Standard SOP for solid waste burning is SERGEANT MAJOR IS A COCK SUCKER!
Whats scary are those scientists with their universe destroying super colliders and off predictions of asteroid impacts. Why the hell would they want to collect super germs unless they planned on making bigger and better killers, they made AIDS for the CIA you know. Then they tell us that those things moving in the sky are swamp gas, swamp gas! How dumb do they think we are? For what, so they can go out into the woods scrape owl shit off of trees. I can do that and for a whole lot less!!!!1
Given most of the notes I've come across, this practice must be pretty common.
That's because when Burning Man started it was just goofs in a desert that no one cared about. Today it's a recognizable brand.
Not to weird I guess. I hear Charles Manson owns his own typeface.