All the fun of Settlers is shouting "It's the wood that makes it good!" at your friends whenever you score some on a roll. It's just not the same in a chat box.
I was watching an interview with the Commish, Bettman. He said that the big problem with the salaries was arbitration. Under the last CBA there was apparantly a clause where a player could take his existing contract to arbitration if he felt he was undervalued.
So if you have a team with deep pockets like the Red Wings pay $5 mil a year for a 20 goal/year scorer (just an example), a 20 goal scorer on the Penguins or Sabers making only 1.5 mil/year can go to arbitration. The overpayment of the Red Wings will give the player leverage with the arbiter and can force the small-market team to accept an inflated contract based on the new market value the Red Wings created.
If there is no cap there will always be owners in big markets that decide they can overspend. If it were limited to that, there would be no problem, but paying one player more affects the entire league. The point of the cap is to force the well-off teams to stick to a realistic budget.
The NFL was not crushed by EA's awesome might. EA decided to pay the NFL an ungodly amount of money for exclusive use of properties that they own. The only thing the NFL cares about is money. It doesn't matter to them what the ESPN game will do. It doesn't matter to them how powerful EA is.
You don't need an NFL licence to make a good football game. I think they should make a "Historical World Leaders Football 2K6," because I want to hear the phrase "Zone Blitzkrieg."
Regardless of how many "levels" a story has, you should be able to understand each individual sentence. Depth is not brought about by confusion.
I've read Tolstoy (an "amazing writer"), Douglas Adams (ditto), as well as college physics textbooks (NOT amazing for the most part). The great writers convey their thoughts nearly effortlessly. Physics textbooks, more often than not, force you to read sentences and paragraphs over and over to gain any meaning at all.
Tycho isn't the worst I've seen, but the particular sentence quoted is a horrible, twisted mess.
Yes, I agree. That sentence is horrible. There are many big words and not much content.
Tycho's sentence: There are conversations to be had about the morality of file sharing, but until those stern words are able to project a "morality field" that causes those in their radius to behave honorably such dialogues fall into the "adorable but irrelevant" category.
This reads to me as follows: "Untill people listen to them, discussions about the morality of file sharing are pointless."
He tries to say more, but there are phrases like "behave honorably" that don't connect to anything, as you said.
Yeah, but out of the examples you have stated, only Google does not have multi-million dollar television ad campagins telling people what it does. However Google has made deals with a good many people to offer search on other sites to increase name recognition and capture the type of user that would never type google.com in their address bar.
You can make something well recognised without a self explanatory name, but you invariably need money or the backing of people with money to reach the people not immersed in the industry.
The point the poster was making is that IE has every advantage over Firefox. It comes installed with your computer, so you already have it. It has a name that instantly conveys the function, and on top of all that apparantly tells you that downloading Firefox will kill your children (looking at the article). The poster also made the point that Firefox has managed to raise the money for only one major advertisment, and probably most people didn't see it.
It's not that Firefox couldn't be recognised easily if a lot of money was poured into that goal, it's that it hasn't happened.
People who don't know the difference between Linux and Windows won't know any better. They will see an application they like at Wal-Mart and buy it, whether or not they have it in the OS. We've all fallen for the "shiny box syndrome" at some point in our lives. People who don't know the difference will just pick up a box and expect it to work, and it's not likely that a Wal-Mart employee would know any more than they do about the compatibility.
You can say, they already have that, but it won't matter. It seems to me that most software targeted at the common user is an impulse buy. Again, I've fallen for it too, but I know the difference between OSes.
Just remember that not everyone is healthy, and sometimes the price is small compared to the benefit. Mental illness can be more horrible to the one who's sick than a physical illness. Most of these drugs that try to make you "smarter" or "happier" are designed for those who have imbalances that are making life needlessly hard. I support all research toward mental illness medications.
To be honest, it is only monopolistic when you have a monopoly. There are a lot of very good business practices that are not allowed when you have a monopoly.
Besides, these videos have been getting hammered by the entire nation of Japan since this past Sunday. games.slashdot.org can do nothing to take down these files.
The point I was trying to make is not that it phases you too much, but Square, one of the companies that built this PlayStation empire for Sony, should be fucking LIVID.
Read my post. It is about Square, Sony, and the fact one kicked the other in the nuts. Since you obviously didn't read my post, I won't spoil the surprise by telling you who kicked who.
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Yes, but you are missing something important in your example. Nowhere in the article does it say that the light actually hit anyone's eyes.
If there were no intent AND no damage, anything more than a small fine and a warning never to do it again would be tyranny.
I suggest a new name: NASA Budget Builder 2004.
It is catchier than 2004 MN4 and tells you why we ever heard about it in the first place.
All the fun of Settlers is shouting "It's the wood that makes it good!" at your friends whenever you score some on a roll. It's just not the same in a chat box.
No, they just bring in Terry Tate: Office Linebacker.
"The pain train's comin'! WOO-WOO!"
I was watching an interview with the Commish, Bettman. He said that the big problem with the salaries was arbitration. Under the last CBA there was apparantly a clause where a player could take his existing contract to arbitration if he felt he was undervalued.
So if you have a team with deep pockets like the Red Wings pay $5 mil a year for a 20 goal/year scorer (just an example), a 20 goal scorer on the Penguins or Sabers making only 1.5 mil/year can go to arbitration. The overpayment of the Red Wings will give the player leverage with the arbiter and can force the small-market team to accept an inflated contract based on the new market value the Red Wings created.
If there is no cap there will always be owners in big markets that decide they can overspend. If it were limited to that, there would be no problem, but paying one player more affects the entire league. The point of the cap is to force the well-off teams to stick to a realistic budget.
It will probably just be players crying about how unfair a 6.5 million dollar per year salary is.
The NFL was not crushed by EA's awesome might. EA decided to pay the NFL an ungodly amount of money for exclusive use of properties that they own. The only thing the NFL cares about is money. It doesn't matter to them what the ESPN game will do. It doesn't matter to them how powerful EA is.
You don't need an NFL licence to make a good football game. I think they should make a "Historical World Leaders Football 2K6," because I want to hear the phrase "Zone Blitzkrieg."
How much money is the "online" XBOX making? If you said negative one billion dollars, you would be right!
Regardless of how many "levels" a story has, you should be able to understand each individual sentence. Depth is not brought about by confusion.
I've read Tolstoy (an "amazing writer"), Douglas Adams (ditto), as well as college physics textbooks (NOT amazing for the most part). The great writers convey their thoughts nearly effortlessly. Physics textbooks, more often than not, force you to read sentences and paragraphs over and over to gain any meaning at all.
Tycho isn't the worst I've seen, but the particular sentence quoted is a horrible, twisted mess.
That is bullshit. Read Douglas Adams. He is never that confusing. Parsing is NOT a joy, ever.
Yes, I agree. That sentence is horrible. There are many big words and not much content.
Tycho's sentence:
There are conversations to be had about the morality of file sharing, but until those stern words are able to project a "morality field" that causes those in their radius to behave honorably such dialogues fall into the "adorable but irrelevant" category.
This reads to me as follows: "Untill people listen to them, discussions about the morality of file sharing are pointless."
He tries to say more, but there are phrases like "behave honorably" that don't connect to anything, as you said.
However, quite often the sentence will require multiple readings to grasp the full meaning. He is an amazing writer.
Not to blast Tycho, but good writing is easy to understand. An "amazing writer" does not hand you a scrambled Rubik's Cube and ask you to solve it.
Yeah, but out of the examples you have stated, only Google does not have multi-million dollar television ad campagins telling people what it does. However Google has made deals with a good many people to offer search on other sites to increase name recognition and capture the type of user that would never type google.com in their address bar.
You can make something well recognised without a self explanatory name, but you invariably need money or the backing of people with money to reach the people not immersed in the industry.
The point the poster was making is that IE has every advantage over Firefox. It comes installed with your computer, so you already have it. It has a name that instantly conveys the function, and on top of all that apparantly tells you that downloading Firefox will kill your children (looking at the article). The poster also made the point that Firefox has managed to raise the money for only one major advertisment, and probably most people didn't see it.
It's not that Firefox couldn't be recognised easily if a lot of money was poured into that goal, it's that it hasn't happened.
People who don't know the difference between Linux and Windows won't know any better. They will see an application they like at Wal-Mart and buy it, whether or not they have it in the OS. We've all fallen for the "shiny box syndrome" at some point in our lives. People who don't know the difference will just pick up a box and expect it to work, and it's not likely that a Wal-Mart employee would know any more than they do about the compatibility.
You can say, they already have that, but it won't matter. It seems to me that most software targeted at the common user is an impulse buy. Again, I've fallen for it too, but I know the difference between OSes.
no, but they do for Hoyle Solitare, and Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 75.
Just remember that not everyone is healthy, and sometimes the price is small compared to the benefit. Mental illness can be more horrible to the one who's sick than a physical illness. Most of these drugs that try to make you "smarter" or "happier" are designed for those who have imbalances that are making life needlessly hard. I support all research toward mental illness medications.
yes, but they wont have the same learning curve when it comes to getting software for your OS.
They will buy software from the same "expert" that sold them the computer and wonder why it won't work.
Didn't we learn anything from 4 years of George W. Bush?
To be honest, it is only monopolistic when you have a monopoly. There are a lot of very good business practices that are not allowed when you have a monopoly.
I was beginning to think that all the insane power-hungry morons came from the US or at least moved here (I'm looking at you, Rupert Murdoch).
It's refreshing to think that my country isn't the source of ALL evil in the world.
Besides, these videos have been getting hammered by the entire nation of Japan since this past Sunday. games.slashdot.org can do nothing to take down these files.
Hmmm...
That sounds like A CHALLENGE!
You could have a special Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles edition that would come with UMDs that look like pizzas!
The point I was trying to make is not that it phases you too much, but Square, one of the companies that built this PlayStation empire for Sony, should be fucking LIVID.
and probably are.
Good luck stopping political email. It will be a cold day in hell when that is stopped. Same goes for all non-profit organizations.
In all honesty these are not the beasts we are worried about. They are only the small fraction of bulk emailers we could find.
Read my post. It is about Square, Sony, and the fact one kicked the other in the nuts. Since you obviously didn't read my post, I won't spoil the surprise by telling you who kicked who.