That's bull- many people are willing to forgo the luxury of a game cube because we, uh- I mean they, can play all the 64 and snes games they want for free. If everybody had to pay for whatever quality video games they wanted to play, they might just go ahead and buy the things, thus upping nintendo's overall revenues.
is really, really valuable. Obviously, this means I don't have to buy another LOTR set, I can still use my old DVD one. But will the player cost significantly more due to its ability to play DVDs? With those crazy DVD guys jacking up prices already, do you think they'd lower them to make this device feasible? Probably not.
Re:A better story exploring these ideas..
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I think you're missing the point. Then again, I might be missingthe point, and I haven't read it, so I'm not sure.
But really; don't you think the plot to a lot of great, famous books and movies is a tad absurd? Take Lord of the Rings, for examplen (yeah, just saw TTT, on the brain). It's something with unexplained, unfathomable events that we would never believe to be true. However, because of the brilliant execution, we accept the story and are dazzled by what happens.
If you want something a little closer to reality, look at the Spiderman movie. This kid is bitten by a spider, gets super strong, and can shoot web from his WRISTS?? Why not from his ass, why not from is feet, or skull, or whatever? It doesn't make any sense! BUT, the execution is excellent, and it turns out to be a great story not because of the superpowers, but because of the characters and execution.
So it doesn't matter if the premise is generally stupid, as long as we enjoy the book as a whole.
That NASA thing can carry 50lbs. Better? The balloon can carry 400 times as much telecom equipment, and maybe more if they build bigger ones. What advantages does the drone have that make it better?
I'm curious: will people on the ground be able to see these, or are they too high and small to be noticeable? Obviously they won't eclipse out the sun, but will they make a noticable blotch on it?
I think the aggression against Microsoft here is a tad misplaced. First, they are but one example of the corporate power-bidding going on, and you seem to ignore the rest out of personal bias.
Second, the larger issue here is clearly the political side of things, where parties/candidates who's job it is to represent their constituents (NOT corporations) are prostituting themselves directly now to corporations (who have nothing in their legal "job description" about buying power and influence).
I worry about the loss in ad revenue that will affect sites that move some content to.kids. Even though it's less of a factor than it used to be, it's still important, and there will be little financial benefit to creating kids-only content for non-kiddy sites.
I really don't think so. It'll be pretty easy for any site to just create a few pages of relevant, non-linked material and put it on their.kids page. For example, CNN could pick articles that would be judged kid friendly and be a significant news source to a population that will grow with it. Even for a major company, it wouldn't take more than a few hours per whatever updating cycle they use (for a news site, daily) to get this done.
Dude, this way site's can have a version targeted towards kids, and they can ALSO have their adult version. Otherwise, they'd ONLY be able to have a kids version if they wanted to be seen by everyone.
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It's because they're afraid of people editing it and making it misrepresent the movie in some way.
But there's absolutely no market tolerance for price hikes. The problem is one of basic economics- they do garner some degree of revenue from their current customers, and they would be MUCH better off with five million non-paying customers than with five paying ones.
There's a point of maximum efficiency on their elasticity curve (once again: basic economics), and don't pretend you know where it is!
I think it's a mistake to say people will pay $5000 to avoid excercise; nobody is going to be paying $5000 except the very early adopters, and those literally ARE the people who'll be using them as toys. When it hits the consumer level in price, THEN it might be fair to say people are paying to avoid excercise, but it'll be at $800 or something, not $5000.
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Get a grip. This is exactly the same sort of joke you'd hear watching sitcom characters or the like. It's nothing new, and it's simply a bit funny. Make a man joke and we'd laugh too. Come off as a nasty, man-hating woman, however, and we just think less of your sense of humour.
No serious site? If this bill becomes serious, lots of parents will only let their kids navigate those sites, and every *serious site* will have one. I just hope they make the domains affordable so it doesn't become doubly expensive to maintain a kid-friendly website.
When I tried to sign up for a hotmail account several years ago, the company would not accept my last name (Phelps), because it says the word is restricted or explicit, and violated the terms of the EULA.
A serious question: Does Disney really have the rights to "all things Ghibli?" I had not heard this, and I recently did some investigation on their acquisition of the spirited away rights. They paid about 10% of the SA production costs to acquire those distribution rights, but I hadn't heard about any strings attached, and it was quite the bidding war between them and Dreamworks. Could you fill me in on the details of what you know?
Don't you see, broadcasters gain additional advertising revenues by concentrating your interests in one place. If they can convince everyone to watch ABC 24/7 rather than giving people the option to watch several different channels (from each of which they recieve very minimal ad revenues because there is no associated image, and if there is, people get tired of it quickly), isn't that worth their while?
Moreover, things are simple right now, and profits are pretty good. Why open up a can of worms you don't need to and commoditize the industry? Keep it simple and exclusive and your margins stay longer.
Can some of you in the EU make sure this gets brought to the attention of your politicians? I will certainly do the same in the US when the problem arises here, but our politicians don't listen to us anyway...:(
I just sent bertlesman a pretty nasty e-mail though!
I don't think the point here is really to be intelligent, just to simulate lots of people not all doing exactly the same thing. The Orcs aren't necessarily any smarter than, say, warcraft orcs are. But, they simulate fighting visually. I don't think it would change the way strategy games are played. It might actually make them dumber.
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That's bull- many people are willing to forgo the luxury of a game cube because we, uh- I mean they, can play all the 64 and snes games they want for free. If everybody had to pay for whatever quality video games they wanted to play, they might just go ahead and buy the things, thus upping nintendo's overall revenues.
Thank you.
is really, really valuable. Obviously, this means I don't have to buy another LOTR set, I can still use my old DVD one. But will the player cost significantly more due to its ability to play DVDs? With those crazy DVD guys jacking up prices already, do you think they'd lower them to make this device feasible? Probably not.
I think you're missing the point. Then again, I might be missingthe point, and I haven't read it, so I'm not sure.
But really; don't you think the plot to a lot of great, famous books and movies is a tad absurd? Take Lord of the Rings, for examplen (yeah, just saw TTT, on the brain). It's something with unexplained, unfathomable events that we would never believe to be true. However, because of the brilliant execution, we accept the story and are dazzled by what happens.
If you want something a little closer to reality, look at the Spiderman movie. This kid is bitten by a spider, gets super strong, and can shoot web from his WRISTS?? Why not from his ass, why not from is feet, or skull, or whatever? It doesn't make any sense! BUT, the execution is excellent, and it turns out to be a great story not because of the superpowers, but because of the characters and execution.
So it doesn't matter if the premise is generally stupid, as long as we enjoy the book as a whole.
And yes, Stephenson is the bomb.
That NASA thing can carry 50lbs. Better? The balloon can carry 400 times as much telecom equipment, and maybe more if they build bigger ones. What advantages does the drone have that make it better?
I'm curious: will people on the ground be able to see these, or are they too high and small to be noticeable? Obviously they won't eclipse out the sun, but will they make a noticable blotch on it?
Sorry, but I tried getting some decent quotes and couldn't find anything good. Nowhere near as good as Pricewatch
Hey Mr. Slashdot,
I think the aggression against Microsoft here is a tad misplaced. First, they are but one example of the corporate power-bidding going on, and you seem to ignore the rest out of personal bias.
Second, the larger issue here is clearly the political side of things, where parties/candidates who's job it is to represent their constituents (NOT corporations) are prostituting themselves directly now to corporations (who have nothing in their legal "job description" about buying power and influence).
Thanks for your time.
I worry about the loss in ad revenue that will affect sites that move some content to .kids. Even though it's less of a factor than it used to be, it's still important, and there will be little financial benefit to creating kids-only content for non-kiddy sites.
I really don't think so. .kids page. For example, CNN could pick articles that would be judged kid friendly and be a significant news source to a population that will grow with it. Even for a major company, it wouldn't take more than a few hours per whatever updating cycle they use (for a news site, daily) to get this done.
It'll be pretty easy for any site to just create a few pages of relevant, non-linked material and put it on their
Dude, this way site's can have a version targeted towards kids, and they can ALSO have their adult version. Otherwise, they'd ONLY be able to have a kids version if they wanted to be seen by everyone.
It's because they're afraid of people editing it and making it misrepresent the movie in some way.
But there's absolutely no market tolerance for price hikes. The problem is one of basic economics- they do garner some degree of revenue from their current customers, and they would be MUCH better off with five million non-paying customers than with five paying ones.
There's a point of maximum efficiency on their elasticity curve (once again: basic economics), and don't pretend you know where it is!
That page has unsubstantiated rumour written all over it. Mod parent down!
I think it's a mistake to say people will pay $5000 to avoid excercise; nobody is going to be paying $5000 except the very early adopters, and those literally ARE the people who'll be using them as toys. When it hits the consumer level in price, THEN it might be fair to say people are paying to avoid excercise, but it'll be at $800 or something, not $5000.
Get a grip. This is exactly the same sort of joke you'd hear watching sitcom characters or the like. It's nothing new, and it's simply a bit funny. Make a man joke and we'd laugh too. Come off as a nasty, man-hating woman, however, and we just think less of your sense of humour.
I just got mine, and I have to say, some of those guys in the orc suits are grossly undervalued in the movie industry! Don't mess with the orcs!
No serious site? If this bill becomes serious, lots of parents will only let their kids navigate those sites, and every *serious site* will have one. I just hope they make the domains affordable so it doesn't become doubly expensive to maintain a kid-friendly website.
When I tried to sign up for a hotmail account several years ago, the company would not accept my last name (Phelps), because it says the word is restricted or explicit, and violated the terms of the EULA.
Slashdot is moderated, and we can read it on +5 if we only want to hear the top stuff. One should be able to do the same with independant music.
A serious question: Does Disney really have the rights to "all things Ghibli?" I had not heard this, and I recently did some investigation on their acquisition of the spirited away rights. They paid about 10% of the SA production costs to acquire those distribution rights, but I hadn't heard about any strings attached, and it was quite the bidding war between them and Dreamworks. Could you fill me in on the details of what you know?
Thanks!
No!
Don't you see, broadcasters gain additional advertising revenues by concentrating your interests in one place. If they can convince everyone to watch ABC 24/7 rather than giving people the option to watch several different channels (from each of which they recieve very minimal ad revenues because there is no associated image, and if there is, people get tired of it quickly), isn't that worth their while?
Moreover, things are simple right now, and profits are pretty good. Why open up a can of worms you don't need to and commoditize the industry? Keep it simple and exclusive and your margins stay longer.
Can some of you in the EU make sure this gets brought to the attention of your politicians? I will certainly do the same in the US when the problem arises here, but our politicians don't listen to us anyway... :(
I just sent bertlesman a pretty nasty e-mail though!
fuck y'all
I don't think the point here is really to be intelligent, just to simulate lots of people not all doing exactly the same thing. The Orcs aren't necessarily any smarter than, say, warcraft orcs are. But, they simulate fighting visually. I don't think it would change the way strategy games are played. It might actually make them dumber.
It's used frequently in the simulation business (video, music, etc.). It's essentially a simulation of analog properties.
For example, my TB-303 has digital analog distortion knobs one can turn to apply an analog-esque effect, even though it's technically digital spacing.