The simplest way to figure something like this out is to draw a graph. Since I'm always complaining about a general lack of economic understanding, I decided to take a minute and actually teach you something (I hope). this is a little paint graph I sketched. Line D1 is the demand line for a video game. A manufacturer could affect demand and move the point the game is at on that line by adjusting the price. If they reduced the price, they'd sell more units.
But what's happening here is that demand is increasing independently of price changes, so the demand line is actually shifting to the right--the company will sell more units than before at the same price.
You might be referring to economies of scale, in which production is made more efficient on a per-unit basis by producing a larger number of something (and savings may be passed along to consumers), but in this case they're just CDs, so it's really no cheaper for each additional unit, whether they produce a thousand or a million.
Funny--I've spent LOADS of time on the consumer side of Brigham & Women's/Dana Farber in Boston getting various operations, chemotherapies, catscans, etc, and seeing many different doctors and nurses (don't worry I'm fine now ^_^). I'm consistently impressed with both the ubiquity and the reliability of their information systems. They're extremely universal and always seem to display quite simply exactly what Medical Care Personnel X needs to access. Perhaps a model to suggest to your clinic.
I dispute the "so your bonus is bigger" part. Yes, naturally every outsourcing manager is in it for themselves. But their bonus will be bigger because their interests are aligned with those of shareholders. In most cases, every time a CEO gets a million dollars a year it's because there's some basis to believe that they've increased shareholder value by $100 million. The shareholders set those mandates, not the managers. They're the ones who say "We want you to do anything you can to increase short-medium-long-term value for us, so here's ten thousand options so you have an incentive to do so." They both come out better. The manager is filling his fiduciary duty to shareholders.
I disagree--games like Planescape Torment or the Fallout series had plot, it was just a more general plot outline and let you make a lot of choices along the way. "Post-nuclear villager seeks GECK to save his village, along the way encountering organized crime, disorganized crime, mutants, aliens, and civilizations, and eventually taking down the remnants of the Unites States Government itself!" That sort of general plot outline leaves a player with loads of choice but still guides the plot in its eventualities.
they each report to one general, then the generals update each other via visual software.
If I were playing (and cared more about winning than playing fair) I'd just call and say "yeah, I'm on, uh, mcdougal and waverly now" while hiding in a doorway somewhere.
Don't worry, he's completely wrong. Police in any remotely civilized town wouldn't care. I bet there are a few places where they would, but not the village, certainly.
well if it weren't for the obvious southern orientation it could almost be maine, but not quite. "Fedo'a Co'e" would definitely be maine, though. Oh, also, I know a woman from kentucky who lives in maine now who says 'tarnation.'
No, they can't sue just anyone merely for using their name. They can sue others for attempting to gain off of it or to hurt their image based on it. You're allowed to say it, to report on actual information, etc.
No, I think the problem is not that a search for 'insurance' yields competition, but that a search for "AXA" yields competition. No, AXA can't sue anyone for using their name, but they may be able to sue google for harboring malicious attempts to subvert the copyright.
Somebody else brought up a neat example: Amazon's "people who bought this book also bought..." But that doesn't forcibly redirect attention to the other products. No, I think probably the most comparable example would be like if you burger king set up molecular transportation devices at every mcdonalds, so that if you tried to walk into mcdonalds, you'd be transported into burger king instead, and you might never know the difference. That's an extreme example, but if you search for AXA, you probably shouldn't be fooled into clicking on something else.
Do I think that this SHOULD be a litigatable issue? No. But I can definitely see that it's a touchy legal issue, and courts may want google to screen for copyrights in adwords.
That's a really dumb article. Even if the nvidia does "turn advanced hardware over to game designers," it's still the game designers who set the intensity of the required tech specs, so blame them if anyone.
I think it's probably taken so long because they know that cooperation with microsoft means microsoft puts other consoles right out of the running and gains leverage they will use against developers in the future (just like nintendo did back in the NES days).
I've beaten the game extremely quickly using emulation by cheating and saving state to gain rupees quickly at the gambling house, then getting the blue ring and other important artifacts right off the bat. Speeds things up like crazy.
Can somebody explain to me why it's so difficult to make a machine that takes and counts votes reliably? I've never used one, and I live on the other side of the country from cali, so I really have no conception of why this is so difficult. I would think that simple physical limitations, things like having just a screen and three buttons (yes/no/abstain, maybe?) would work just fine. I really don't get it.
Er, he didn't say in the US. One could go south, or to iceland, or to certain parts of canada. Or, you could take a perspective that doesn't focus on the US (as he didn't say that AT ALL), and realize that the world is bigger than you imagine.
I completely agree--babies point at things they want, not type notes out for their parents to read. The most intuitive designs are simple point-and-click.
Wow. What they don't mention AT ALL in this article is that squenix has a major online venture in china which is making up a big chunk of their revenues and winning fans and security in a market with four times as many people as the US.
in response to your sig, that's probably because only on slashdot is there a moderation system with point denominations like "+5 insightful." Don't you agree that, on the whole, the mod system here is comparatively excellent?
why do you need new numbers? assume that the numbers for the week before were roughly the same as they've been on a weekly basis throughout. Microsoft isn't going to give up competitive information that they don't have to. Why doesn't every company post specific unit numbers on a weekly basis?
It's not that bad, but bring plenty of water and don't push too hard too fast. I did it when I was pretty young (10 maybe?) and reasonably, but not extremely, active. I think the other guy's post was a decent summary.
I'd say you shouldn't be biking for exercise where you're likely to get doored. Here in Boston people get doored all the time and at least a few die every year (learned this from nurses in the hospital when I got cut off and run over by a truck downtown). If you're going to bike urban (or downtown suburban), ALWAYS be on the watch. Get out of the city if you're going to push hard and run above 15 mph.
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The simplest way to figure something like this out is to draw a graph. Since I'm always complaining about a general lack of economic understanding, I decided to take a minute and actually teach you something (I hope). this is a little paint graph I sketched. Line D1 is the demand line for a video game. A manufacturer could affect demand and move the point the game is at on that line by adjusting the price. If they reduced the price, they'd sell more units.
But what's happening here is that demand is increasing independently of price changes, so the demand line is actually shifting to the right--the company will sell more units than before at the same price.
You might be referring to economies of scale, in which production is made more efficient on a per-unit basis by producing a larger number of something (and savings may be passed along to consumers), but in this case they're just CDs, so it's really no cheaper for each additional unit, whether they produce a thousand or a million.
Interesting. Too much coffee man is a comic, though, while the other one could just be anything.
Funny--I've spent LOADS of time on the consumer side of Brigham & Women's/Dana Farber in Boston getting various operations, chemotherapies, catscans, etc, and seeing many different doctors and nurses (don't worry I'm fine now ^_^). I'm consistently impressed with both the ubiquity and the reliability of their information systems. They're extremely universal and always seem to display quite simply exactly what Medical Care Personnel X needs to access. Perhaps a model to suggest to your clinic.
I dispute the "so your bonus is bigger" part. Yes, naturally every outsourcing manager is in it for themselves. But their bonus will be bigger because their interests are aligned with those of shareholders. In most cases, every time a CEO gets a million dollars a year it's because there's some basis to believe that they've increased shareholder value by $100 million. The shareholders set those mandates, not the managers. They're the ones who say "We want you to do anything you can to increase short-medium-long-term value for us, so here's ten thousand options so you have an incentive to do so." They both come out better. The manager is filling his fiduciary duty to shareholders.
I disagree--games like Planescape Torment or the Fallout series had plot, it was just a more general plot outline and let you make a lot of choices along the way. "Post-nuclear villager seeks GECK to save his village, along the way encountering organized crime, disorganized crime, mutants, aliens, and civilizations, and eventually taking down the remnants of the Unites States Government itself!" That sort of general plot outline leaves a player with loads of choice but still guides the plot in its eventualities.
they each report to one general, then the generals update each other via visual software.
If I were playing (and cared more about winning than playing fair) I'd just call and say "yeah, I'm on, uh, mcdougal and waverly now" while hiding in a doorway somewhere.
Don't worry, he's completely wrong. Police in any remotely civilized town wouldn't care. I bet there are a few places where they would, but not the village, certainly.
Dude, you can do it yourself-- just get cellphones and some friends...
oh wait, it's slashdot. sorry, enjoy paying.
well if it weren't for the obvious southern orientation it could almost be maine, but not quite. "Fedo'a Co'e" would definitely be maine, though. Oh, also, I know a woman from kentucky who lives in maine now who says 'tarnation.'
No, they can't sue just anyone merely for using their name. They can sue others for attempting to gain off of it or to hurt their image based on it. You're allowed to say it, to report on actual information, etc.
No, I think the problem is not that a search for 'insurance' yields competition, but that a search for "AXA" yields competition. No, AXA can't sue anyone for using their name, but they may be able to sue google for harboring malicious attempts to subvert the copyright.
Somebody else brought up a neat example: Amazon's "people who bought this book also bought..." But that doesn't forcibly redirect attention to the other products. No, I think probably the most comparable example would be like if you burger king set up molecular transportation devices at every mcdonalds, so that if you tried to walk into mcdonalds, you'd be transported into burger king instead, and you might never know the difference. That's an extreme example, but if you search for AXA, you probably shouldn't be fooled into clicking on something else.
Do I think that this SHOULD be a litigatable issue? No. But I can definitely see that it's a touchy legal issue, and courts may want google to screen for copyrights in adwords.
That's a really dumb article. Even if the nvidia does "turn advanced hardware over to game designers," it's still the game designers who set the intensity of the required tech specs, so blame them if anyone.
I think it's probably taken so long because they know that cooperation with microsoft means microsoft puts other consoles right out of the running and gains leverage they will use against developers in the future (just like nintendo did back in the NES days).
I've beaten the game extremely quickly using emulation by cheating and saving state to gain rupees quickly at the gambling house, then getting the blue ring and other important artifacts right off the bat. Speeds things up like crazy.
Can somebody explain to me why it's so difficult to make a machine that takes and counts votes reliably? I've never used one, and I live on the other side of the country from cali, so I really have no conception of why this is so difficult. I would think that simple physical limitations, things like having just a screen and three buttons (yes/no/abstain, maybe?) would work just fine. I really don't get it.
Pfff, yeah, if they have the coolest fucking armor ever invented.
(KIDDING! PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!)
Look, just so you know, it's not all of us.
Er, he didn't say in the US. One could go south, or to iceland, or to certain parts of canada. Or, you could take a perspective that doesn't focus on the US (as he didn't say that AT ALL), and realize that the world is bigger than you imagine.
I completely agree--babies point at things they want, not type notes out for their parents to read. The most intuitive designs are simple point-and-click.
Wow. What they don't mention AT ALL in this article is that squenix has a major online venture in china which is making up a big chunk of their revenues and winning fans and security in a market with four times as many people as the US.
in response to your sig, that's probably because only on slashdot is there a moderation system with point denominations like "+5 insightful." Don't you agree that, on the whole, the mod system here is comparatively excellent?
why do you need new numbers? assume that the numbers for the week before were roughly the same as they've been on a weekly basis throughout. Microsoft isn't going to give up competitive information that they don't have to. Why doesn't every company post specific unit numbers on a weekly basis?
It's not that bad, but bring plenty of water and don't push too hard too fast. I did it when I was pretty young (10 maybe?) and reasonably, but not extremely, active. I think the other guy's post was a decent summary.
I'd say you shouldn't be biking for exercise where you're likely to get doored. Here in Boston people get doored all the time and at least a few die every year (learned this from nurses in the hospital when I got cut off and run over by a truck downtown). If you're going to bike urban (or downtown suburban), ALWAYS be on the watch. Get out of the city if you're going to push hard and run above 15 mph.
I don't. All I said was that bayesian filtering doesn't stop it.