What you're saying is that all forms of Sales should be illegal without having to go through a huge-ass pile of governmental red-tape? (Government red-tape comes in two sizes: Huge-Ass and Really Huge-Ass)
BTW, how is discounting a popular product to cultivate store-brand loyalty anti-competitive? You're automatically assuming that every person who walks into the store loses the capability of controlling himself once he sees a lawnmower. It's not anti-competitive to bring people in with an outrageously low price to entice them to preview the other regularly low prices your store may or may not have. If anything, it FUELS competition by urging consumers to "shop around" for prices different from the store they typically go to.
Nintendo reps often hint that Nintendo makes a nice profit on GCs. They're really simple to make. The board's simpler than most portable CD-players, and apart from that it's just the drive and the fan, so QA costs are really low.
Of course, you ignore the fact that the job of a company rep is to project the image of a company that will be around for a long time; they need people to believe "Oh, yeah...this hardware will be here for as long as I want it to be here, and the company will stand by it".
Those of us who snatched up DC's when they first came out really bit the bullet on that one. So many promises, so few delivered by a company that abandoned us (much like those of us who got the Saturn got abandoned by Sega and tons of software developers...looking at you, Working Designs).
Noone wants to buy a game console, if they know that it'll be obsolete or will have no new games coming out a year after they drop a $150-$200 investment.
I myself have no online links for it, but I know when I worked at CompUSA, we took either 0% margin (no profit!) or a serious loss. For example, our store bought 50 X-Boxes and when the initial price drop hit ($300 to $250), we took a hit ourselves.
And I'm sure that CompUSA wouldn't be selling it at or below cost unless it really had to (for example, if Microsoft could not take it any lower at that time, because they were already getting raped).
I'm sure Nintendo is taking a hit on GCs, and MS takes hits on XB; the hardware in PS2 may be so old now that it's entirely possible that it's not as expensive anymore and the hit isn't bad, or is nonexistent now.
...like everyone else, I'll agree that this is almost pointless, considering the fact that these books are outdated after 2 years, obsolete after 5 years, and completely useless after 7 years.
http://www.omlclassics.com USED to be the greatest site for SNES and Genesis ROMs. A few popups, but it has a huge selection and USED to have good transfer speeds. But you're liable to get on nowadays and find all of the server mirrors down, or only the slow ones up.
I play more NES titles. That's more of my childhood. I didn't get SNES until 3 years after it came out. By the time I got 4 good games, N64 came out. B'sides, Original Castlevania is hardcore.
My opinion is that when it comes down to oldschool, the emulation is where it's at. GC Zelda and Metroid releases have added little to the series. However, if anything is really helping GC, it's the GBA's stellar success.
Of course, we all know that Konami has weaseled out of exclusivity. My friend has a copy of MGS2:Substance that says "Only on X-Box", and I have a copy of the PS2 Substance.
Ah, I remember my first WTO protest in Seattle. They didn't gas the violent undercover cops tearing up Starbucks and trying to create a panic...they gassed old men and pregnant women. They gassed people who were simply sitting around in the place they were told that they could. And the thing is that tear gas don't immobilize you, it just really pisses people off and then they get violent. The police are generally the cause of violence in many protests.
They'll probably releast a "Substance" version for PS2 and XBox, when they realize that not everyone has enough money to buy 3 game consoles and GC has a relatively small market share, compared to the XBox/PS2 combo.
At least they better, or I'm just SOL. I'm not buying a GC.
...LEDs are more fun to play with. I remember messing with them when I was younger and had one of those "300-in-1" kits from Radio Shack. I read the little book for ideas and then tossed it aside and had my own version of mayhem. At that point, my dad's own experiment was finished, and the results were startling...his son was a nerd.
Take for example a work of fiction. Authors generally have a copyright on the fictional characters in their book. But say someone wrote a book using the same fictional characters and this new book could be created by rearranging paragraphs in the original work, adding a few extra chapters, and expunging a few more. If the book is only sold (note the for-profit nature of the enterprise) to owners of the "original work", arguing that they could have reassembled your story themselves, has a copyright violation occurred?
I'd say it's more like if you took a book series like the Star Wars novels, and wrote a fanfiction story where someone ended up differently and sold a disc that happened to have the copy of the book on it, but it was sorta useless because the new book made so many references to the original work (sure, without citation, but still) that you'd have to own a copy to understand the "new" book.
Okay, I'm rambling.
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Thoughtcrime?! More newspeak. Your duckspeak betrays total blackwhite to the prolefeed-quality conspiracy theories. There is no cabal. Crimestop immediately for masshappy.
It's bigger than that! It's like a really bad fanfiction. Aliens are planning to cross-breed humans. Tentacle pr0n was Phase One. They planned to get the nerdiest (and thus smartest) members of humanity attuned to tentacle based sexual stimuli. Now, Phase 2, h4x0r their computArz. Phase 3 is the murder of jocks, preps, and other genetic failures, followed by tons of alien sex with nerds.
Indeed. The common misconception is that Apple "stole" the concept from the PARC, when it was more along the lines of a random friend of a PARC researcher (who happened to be a Mac team member) was invited, checked it out, told Jobs, and then Jobs gave Xerox millions in stock for a technology that Xerox thought was useless at best and a piece of shit at worst.
It's like if you had a shitty G.I. Joe missing an arm, a guy buys it from you for $10,000 and then fixes it up to near-mint and eBays it for $100,000. Hardly stealing.
The thing someone has to learn is that when government does anything that is a bit unusual or secretive, no matter how small, it's usually a test. Parents with kids understand it. Kids test you to see how much shit you're willing to take. Similarly, government likes to see how much shit you're willing to take. Once they see most people are cool with keeping something secret as long as they attach child porn to it, they'll start doing other things.
Yeah, sure, you'll say again, no slippery slope. And of course, to make that position, you'll ignore all of U.S. History from the late 1700's to today.
...and it's not a good one. It's the same reason most school systems who do their own in-house filtering through stuff like BorderAlert and such. Given the percentage of the internet that is pornography, a large percentage of blocked sites are blocked for political reasons. At my old high school, they blocked socialistworker.org and other "seditious" websites.
It took some checking to see what sites were blocked, and much question asking and nosing around before they were unblocked. Apparently, some people in the school system decided on their own to block sites.
I think there could be something similar here. They may be wanting to prohibit access to non-porn political sites that don't support the war, or are Anti-Penn (I myself think that state sucks ass for a variety of reasons).
While I myself do not like sites like socialistworker.org (see my journal for explanation), I'd like to see the rights of others protected, and this is yet another excuse to hide government activity against freedom of speech.
...they could find a way to get this to apply to humans. Like a nightly pill. If it's naturally made by plants, it could be cheaper than sythetic and it could make the alarm clock obsolete.
...this is yet more proof of the support that Apple gives for the products that bear its logo. I can still call up 1-800-SOS-APPL and get support for all my Legacy Macs, like my 8100/80, 8100/110, Quadra 610 and my various 604 PPC Macs.
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What you're saying is that all forms of Sales should be illegal without having to go through a huge-ass pile of governmental red-tape? (Government red-tape comes in two sizes: Huge-Ass and Really Huge-Ass)
BTW, how is discounting a popular product to cultivate store-brand loyalty anti-competitive? You're automatically assuming that every person who walks into the store loses the capability of controlling himself once he sees a lawnmower. It's not anti-competitive to bring people in with an outrageously low price to entice them to preview the other regularly low prices your store may or may not have. If anything, it FUELS competition by urging consumers to "shop around" for prices different from the store they typically go to.
Nintendo reps often hint that Nintendo makes a nice profit on GCs. They're really simple to make. The board's simpler than most portable CD-players, and apart from that it's just the drive and the fan, so QA costs are really low.
Of course, you ignore the fact that the job of a company rep is to project the image of a company that will be around for a long time; they need people to believe "Oh, yeah...this hardware will be here for as long as I want it to be here, and the company will stand by it".
Those of us who snatched up DC's when they first came out really bit the bullet on that one. So many promises, so few delivered by a company that abandoned us (much like those of us who got the Saturn got abandoned by Sega and tons of software developers...looking at you, Working Designs).
Noone wants to buy a game console, if they know that it'll be obsolete or will have no new games coming out a year after they drop a $150-$200 investment.
I myself have no online links for it, but I know when I worked at CompUSA, we took either 0% margin (no profit!) or a serious loss. For example, our store bought 50 X-Boxes and when the initial price drop hit ($300 to $250), we took a hit ourselves.
And I'm sure that CompUSA wouldn't be selling it at or below cost unless it really had to (for example, if Microsoft could not take it any lower at that time, because they were already getting raped).
I'm sure Nintendo is taking a hit on GCs, and MS takes hits on XB; the hardware in PS2 may be so old now that it's entirely possible that it's not as expensive anymore and the hit isn't bad, or is nonexistent now.
Not really. Once most guys learn that their girlfriends were right, and indeed their urination aim sucks, they will give up and this'll die out.
Free as in Speech, or Free as in Beer?
...like everyone else, I'll agree that this is almost pointless, considering the fact that these books are outdated after 2 years, obsolete after 5 years, and completely useless after 7 years.
As well, yeah. It's a duplicate.
http://www.omlclassics.com USED to be the greatest site for SNES and Genesis ROMs. A few popups, but it has a huge selection and USED to have good transfer speeds. But you're liable to get on nowadays and find all of the server mirrors down, or only the slow ones up.
I play more NES titles. That's more of my childhood. I didn't get SNES until 3 years after it came out. By the time I got 4 good games, N64 came out. B'sides, Original Castlevania is hardcore.
...they won't piss on those of us who didn't buy the thinking child's console (GameCube) and are releasing on a platform that most people have.
[cough] MGS [cough]
My opinion is that when it comes down to oldschool, the emulation is where it's at. GC Zelda and Metroid releases have added little to the series. However, if anything is really helping GC, it's the GBA's stellar success.
Of course, we all know that Konami has weaseled out of exclusivity. My friend has a copy of MGS2:Substance that says "Only on X-Box", and I have a copy of the PS2 Substance.
Ah, I remember my first WTO protest in Seattle. They didn't gas the violent undercover cops tearing up Starbucks and trying to create a panic...they gassed old men and pregnant women. They gassed people who were simply sitting around in the place they were told that they could. And the thing is that tear gas don't immobilize you, it just really pisses people off and then they get violent. The police are generally the cause of violence in many protests.
You keep fighting the power, brother.
They'll probably releast a "Substance" version for PS2 and XBox, when they realize that not everyone has enough money to buy 3 game consoles and GC has a relatively small market share, compared to the XBox/PS2 combo.
At least they better, or I'm just SOL. I'm not buying a GC.
...never change. They can't do anything intellegently, so they randomly attack citizens with info.
...LEDs are more fun to play with. I remember messing with them when I was younger and had one of those "300-in-1" kits from Radio Shack. I read the little book for ideas and then tossed it aside and had my own version of mayhem. At that point, my dad's own experiment was finished, and the results were startling...his son was a nerd.
Take for example a work of fiction. Authors generally have a copyright on the fictional characters in their book. But say someone wrote a book using the same fictional characters and this new book could be created by rearranging paragraphs in the original work, adding a few extra chapters, and expunging a few more. If the book is only sold (note the for-profit nature of the enterprise) to owners of the "original work", arguing that they could have reassembled your story themselves, has a copyright violation occurred?
I'd say it's more like if you took a book series like the Star Wars novels, and wrote a fanfiction story where someone ended up differently and sold a disc that happened to have the copy of the book on it, but it was sorta useless because the new book made so many references to the original work (sure, without citation, but still) that you'd have to own a copy to understand the "new" book.
Okay, I'm rambling.
PowerPC G4 Chip.
Thoughtcrime?! More newspeak. Your duckspeak betrays total blackwhite to the prolefeed-quality conspiracy theories. There is no cabal. Crimestop immediately for masshappy.
It's bigger than that! It's like a really bad fanfiction. Aliens are planning to cross-breed humans. Tentacle pr0n was Phase One. They planned to get the nerdiest (and thus smartest) members of humanity attuned to tentacle based sexual stimuli. Now, Phase 2, h4x0r their computArz. Phase 3 is the murder of jocks, preps, and other genetic failures, followed by tons of alien sex with nerds.
Un-CDs?! Absopositively Counterlogical, I say. Newspeak is doubleplusungood for masshappy. Jump your cuejuncts for masshappy.
Indeed. The common misconception is that Apple "stole" the concept from the PARC, when it was more along the lines of a random friend of a PARC researcher (who happened to be a Mac team member) was invited, checked it out, told Jobs, and then Jobs gave Xerox millions in stock for a technology that Xerox thought was useless at best and a piece of shit at worst.
It's like if you had a shitty G.I. Joe missing an arm, a guy buys it from you for $10,000 and then fixes it up to near-mint and eBays it for $100,000. Hardly stealing.
The thing someone has to learn is that when government does anything that is a bit unusual or secretive, no matter how small, it's usually a test. Parents with kids understand it. Kids test you to see how much shit you're willing to take. Similarly, government likes to see how much shit you're willing to take. Once they see most people are cool with keeping something secret as long as they attach child porn to it, they'll start doing other things.
Yeah, sure, you'll say again, no slippery slope. And of course, to make that position, you'll ignore all of U.S. History from the late 1700's to today.
...and it's not a good one. It's the same reason most school systems who do their own in-house filtering through stuff like BorderAlert and such. Given the percentage of the internet that is pornography, a large percentage of blocked sites are blocked for political reasons. At my old high school, they blocked socialistworker.org and other "seditious" websites.
It took some checking to see what sites were blocked, and much question asking and nosing around before they were unblocked. Apparently, some people in the school system decided on their own to block sites.
I think there could be something similar here. They may be wanting to prohibit access to non-porn political sites that don't support the war, or are Anti-Penn (I myself think that state sucks ass for a variety of reasons).
While I myself do not like sites like socialistworker.org (see my journal for explanation), I'd like to see the rights of others protected, and this is yet another excuse to hide government activity against freedom of speech.
...they could find a way to get this to apply to humans. Like a nightly pill. If it's naturally made by plants, it could be cheaper than sythetic and it could make the alarm clock obsolete.
...this is yet more proof of the support that Apple gives for the products that bear its logo. I can still call up 1-800-SOS-APPL and get support for all my Legacy Macs, like my 8100/80, 8100/110, Quadra 610 and my various 604 PPC Macs.
...for that much money, I'll dance the macarena in a monkey suit and install BBEdit on every computer in the state of Idaho while doing so.