The inherant differences are enough to explain this.
1) A film is technologically MUCH easier to make than a game.
2) Films have a consumer base of almost 100%, games are much lower, maybe 50% counting consols, and how many indie games are on consols?
3) Films are consumables, you watch a film 1-2 times in your life, some people can play the SAME game 1-10 years, everyday even, therefor they will be MUCH LESS likely to play other games.
4) A game is a MAJOR time investment usually, therefor consumers will take fewer chances playing a risky game.
5) Films have been around a lot longer than games, their market is bigger, more accepted, etc...
For a group to make a AAA quality film (without visual effects) is FAR easier than to make than a AAA game.
Come on now, a job interview? Don't they know the way a transaction like this goes down is on the docks at night (when its foggy of course). The guy drops the money off in a breifcase, then you zoom by on a motorcycle with a hot chick on the back who picks it up as you fly by at 80mph in black leather jumpsuits.......oh I see where the plan fell through, being old enough to reach the shifter on the motorcycle, and knowing a hot chick.
-- "The band's biggest fans ought to have the best seats, not the band's richest fans," said Tim Todd, 47
Haha, I guess this guy has lived under a rock his whole life. Hey buddy, in this world, money talks. Besides how the hell are you going to decide which fan is the biggest, by weight? I assume you mean by devotion, well it is a whole lot easier to use cash to decide these things than glam tats and face painting.
I totally agree, just wait when MS announces their break through pricing of their HD DVD addon player this xmas for $99. You can already get stand alone HD-DVD players for $200. The added cost for BluRay is nothing more than Sony trying to totally control yet another storage format.
I also think a HUGE part of the PS2s continued success is how easy it is to copy games for it, the PS3 is a whole new ballgame.
So what if the GOV records every single phone call and credit card transaction everyone makes in their life? How is this going to change what you do? Why the hell do you care? Unless you are conducting criminal activity I don't see why you are concernced. Who cares if they know Jennifer called Mary 45 times because her boyfriend broke up with her. The ONLY difference between now and then is now they are admitting to recording all this, when in fact they probably have been for 20 years secretely, besides, anyone with $50 can buy your whole life on a CD-ROM, its not like you have any real privacy to begin with. Take the blue pill.
Electric vehicles are incapable of replacing more than a small fraction (5 or maybe 10%) of the 700 million internal combustion engine powered cars on the road due to the limits of battery technology. Dr. Walter Youngquist explains:
. . . a gallon of gasoline weighing about 8 pounds has the same energy as one ton of conventional lead-acid storage batteries. Fifteen gallons of gasoline in a car's tank are the energy equal of 15 tons of storage batteries. Even if much improved storage batteries were devised, they cannot compete with gasoline or diesel fuel in energy density. Also, storage batteries become almost useless in very cold weather, storage capacity is limited, and batteries need to be replaced after a few years use at large cost. There is no battery pack which can effectively move heavy farm machinery over miles of farm fields, and no electric battery system seems even remotely able to propel a Boeing 747 14 hours nonstop at 600 miles an hour . . .
Some promising research into new battery technlogies using lithium is being performed, but even the scientists at the forefront of this research admit, "We've got a long way to go."
Assumming these problems away, the construction of an average car also consumes 120,000 gallons of fresh water. Unfortunately, the world is in the midst of a severe water crisis that is only going to get worse in the years to come. Scientists are already warning us to get ready for massive "water wars."
Thus, the only way for us to replace our current fleet of gas-guzzling SUVs with fuel-efficient hybrids or electric vehicles is to seize control of the world's reserves of both oil and fresh water and then divert those resources away from the billions of people who already rely on them.
Even if were willing to undertake such an endeavor, the problem will still not be solved due to a phenomenon known as "Jevon's Paradox," whereby increases in energy efficiency are obliterated by corresponding increases in energy consumption.
The US economy is a good example of Jevon's Paradox in action. Since 1970, we have managed to cut in half the amount of oil necessary to generate a dollar of GDP. At the same time, however, our total level of oil consumption has risen by about fifty percent while our level of natural gas and coal consumption have risen by even more. Thus, despite massive increases in the energy efficiency over the last 35 years, we are more dependent on oil than ever. This trend is unlikely to be abated in a market economy, where the whole point is to make as much money (consume as much energy) as possible." - http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/SecondPage.htm l
I haven't bought a single DVD since I started my subscription to Blockbuster Online. With Netflix and Blockbuster Online competing, prices are very reasonable, why would anyone buy a movie when they can have any DVD in existance sent directly to their door within 1 day? I'm sure piracy is to blame for some of the lost sales, but realistically 90% of the people who pirate aren't going to buy the movie.
"Google seems to have been oddly quiet on that front for the many years prior to IE7 that Firefox has made this feature available"
And exactly why would they not be quiet when it benefits them? Google is a companay like any other, and acts in the interests of Google and its revenue. Fortunately for them, most of the time this aligns well with consumer interest, making them 'appear' as a good wholesome company, give it another 5 years when they have 99% of the internet ad and search market and then they will suddenly become the 'DEBIL' (sp. waterboy reference).
that is funny because paid engineers have enough trouble getting all of these protocols and devices working, what makes you think a phisher/hacker has a chance of getting something working on all of these protocols and the 1000's of phone models out there?
BAHAHA Leading Edge! I actually had one of those:P Well actually I have a socket 478 which is completely worthless since intel moved all their p4s to some other new shitty socket for absolutely no reason, doesn't matter much anyways as conroe will be the next cpu i will want, and it wont even be compatible with it probably...
Ok, let me take this post as a chance to fume about the condition of the upgradability of computers. Please O Please Intel or AMD, realease a fucking system that isn't obsolete in 6 months, and by obsolete I don't mean slow as balls, but something that can actually be UPGRADED for a few years.
I have always built my own computers, and everytime I want to upgrade it seems I have to buy a whole new fucking motherboard, CPU, memory, and now its even gotten to the video card, with all the new vid slots. Its just fucking insane, and lets not even get into the whole fact that most of the faster memory and video card busses are fucking worthless and provide absolutely no REAL WORLD advantage. Quit coming out with a new fucking socket every month, 1 more pin of glory ain't going to do shit...
"Seems like it should be at least 60%, don't you think?"
No, saying they HOLD 60% of the wealth doesn't mean they MAKE 60% on a yearly basis, which is what income tax is based on.
"This statement gives you away as someone who grew up with money and has no idea what it's like to barely make it. Just like nearly all Americans have no concept of going to bed hungry, you cannot have any concept of living from paycheck to paycheck (although I guarantee that's not going to stop you from talking about it)."
I know many people who were poor and made it to a very good standard of living, why do you think so many people come to the US? If you work hard and are smart with your money you actually have a shot here.
Audio and visual quality are far inferior on downloaded ripped movies. Most ripped movies are only in 480x320 format or less, and their audio is only stereo, if you have any kind of good system this is total crap. On my projector I can even see the MPG artificts on original DVD content, and am eagerly waiting for HD-DVD to become more mainstream.
Concerts are the only thing they can control, its hard to pirate a concert (not the music, the experience of seeing the artist live). At any rate this is probably better for the industry as the artists typically get much more from concerts than media, ideally the industry should just transition to free media and charge for concerts.
I think the reason they are bitching so much is they are not doing it by choice, technology is pulling them by the ear.
I have VOIP on broadband at home and the quality is just pitiful, I can't even imagine using it over wifi. Even so the telcoms days are limited, if they didn't control the net they would out of biz in the next 10 years, they can only push their overpriced cell phone crap for so long.
Poor little nintendo just cannot compete. Growing up with my NES glory days in my mind, I feel kind of bad for them, but what can you expect, unlike Sony and MS, poor little Nintendo doesn't have a 90% share of the PC market, or a 50% share of the Entertainment market to fund its little consol. So they must attempt to be different by using a gimmicky controller. Instead of just using 1 stupid controller, they should bundle the consol with a bunch of unique controllers, a cool light gun, powerpad, DDR pad, some other crazy motion controllers like a baseball bat/golf club, that would be really unique and be a lot of fun for the family.
Attachments are your problem, automatically purge all attachments over 1-3 months old to a shared network storage device, problem solved. People should not be using the email system as their personal file store, which often happens.
"Please buy a (chinese) clue during your next shopping run at Wal-Mart."
I have no idea how this relates to the OP, but it is funny as hell:)
Unions are a relic of a era gone, now they hold the cushy jobs of millions of overpaid workers who won't give up anything, and in fact, think they deserve more! So until every company that uses unions slowly dies a miserable death (just look at the auto makers), we will have to put up with them and their crapulence.
SONY's power in the HT market was unmatched, yet they flopped trying to push BETAMAX. The consumer will decide who wins this one, just as all previous formats. Personally I think the most open format will win, and being on the PC will be a major plus, which HD-DVD should do first since they have such huge ties to MS.
Also I think most people will support HD-DVD just because they are tired of SONY releasing a totally new proprietary media type every month, what do they have now, like 5 different formats just for digital cameras that only work with their devices?
As for having multiple formats being a bad thing, perhaps in the long run, but for the short run it is great, at least we won't have $5000 entry level HDDVD players for years like with all past formats, 2 models are already on sale at crutchfield for like $500, thats awesome.
"but shouldn't they be barred from competition for this sort of thing?"
What relevance at all does spamming have to do with the Olympics? Why not just fire and ban spammers from all walks of life, jobs, restaurants, movies, etc, oh wait, it's a little something called freedom. As much as all us hate spam, child porno, junk mail, ads, laywers, etc, we must live them. It's something most people call "society".
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The inherant differences are enough to explain this.
1) A film is technologically MUCH easier to make than a game.
2) Films have a consumer base of almost 100%, games are much lower, maybe 50% counting consols, and how many indie games are on consols?
3) Films are consumables, you watch a film 1-2 times in your life, some people can play the SAME game 1-10 years, everyday even, therefor they will be MUCH LESS likely to play other games.
4) A game is a MAJOR time investment usually, therefor consumers will take fewer chances playing a risky game.
5) Films have been around a lot longer than games, their market is bigger, more accepted, etc...
For a group to make a AAA quality film (without visual effects) is FAR easier than to make than a AAA game.
Come on now, a job interview? Don't they know the way a transaction like this goes down is on the docks at night (when its foggy of course). The guy drops the money off in a breifcase, then you zoom by on a motorcycle with a hot chick on the back who picks it up as you fly by at 80mph in black leather jumpsuits.... ...oh I see where the plan fell through, being old enough to reach the shifter on the motorcycle, and knowing a hot chick.
-- "The band's biggest fans ought to have the best seats, not the band's richest fans," said Tim Todd, 47
Haha, I guess this guy has lived under a rock his whole life. Hey buddy, in this world, money talks. Besides how the hell are you going to decide which fan is the biggest, by weight? I assume you mean by devotion, well it is a whole lot easier to use cash to decide these things than glam tats and face painting.
I totally agree, just wait when MS announces their break through pricing of their HD DVD addon player this xmas for $99. You can already get stand alone HD-DVD players for $200. The added cost for BluRay is nothing more than Sony trying to totally control yet another storage format.
I also think a HUGE part of the PS2s continued success is how easy it is to copy games for it, the PS3 is a whole new ballgame.
So what if the GOV records every single phone call and credit card transaction everyone makes in their life? How is this going to change what you do? Why the hell do you care? Unless you are conducting criminal activity I don't see why you are concernced. Who cares if they know Jennifer called Mary 45 times because her boyfriend broke up with her. The ONLY difference between now and then is now they are admitting to recording all this, when in fact they probably have been for 20 years secretely, besides, anyone with $50 can buy your whole life on a CD-ROM, its not like you have any real privacy to begin with. Take the blue pill.
Skull and crossed bones.
"A car that could save the planet--fast"
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BAHAHAHAH...
"II. Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicles are incapable of replacing more than a small fraction (5 or maybe 10%) of the 700 million internal combustion engine powered cars on the road due to the limits of battery technology. Dr. Walter Youngquist explains:
. . . a gallon of gasoline weighing about 8 pounds has the same energy as one ton of conventional lead-acid storage batteries. Fifteen gallons of gasoline in a car's tank are the energy equal of 15 tons of storage batteries. Even if much improved storage batteries were devised, they cannot compete with gasoline or diesel fuel in energy density. Also, storage batteries become almost useless in very cold weather, storage capacity is limited, and batteries need to be replaced after a few years use at large cost. There is no battery pack which can effectively move heavy farm machinery over miles of farm fields, and no electric battery system seems even remotely able to propel a Boeing 747 14 hours nonstop at 600 miles an hour . . .
Some promising research into new battery technlogies using lithium is being performed, but even the scientists at the forefront of this research admit, "We've got a long way to go."
Assumming these problems away, the construction of an average car also consumes 120,000 gallons of fresh water. Unfortunately, the world is in the midst of a severe water crisis that is only going to get worse in the years to come. Scientists are already warning us to get ready for massive "water wars."
Thus, the only way for us to replace our current fleet of gas-guzzling SUVs with fuel-efficient hybrids or electric vehicles is to seize control of the world's reserves of both oil and fresh water and then divert those resources away from the billions of people who already rely on them.
Even if were willing to undertake such an endeavor, the problem will still not be solved due to a phenomenon known as "Jevon's Paradox," whereby increases in energy efficiency are obliterated by corresponding increases in energy consumption.
The US economy is a good example of Jevon's Paradox in action. Since 1970, we have managed to cut in half the amount of oil necessary to generate a dollar of GDP. At the same time, however, our total level of oil consumption has risen by about fifty percent while our level of natural gas and coal consumption have risen by even more. Thus, despite massive increases in the energy efficiency over the last 35 years, we are more dependent on oil than ever. This trend is unlikely to be abated in a market economy, where the whole point is to make as much money (consume as much energy) as possible." - http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/SecondPage.ht
I haven't bought a single DVD since I started my subscription to Blockbuster Online. With Netflix and Blockbuster Online competing, prices are very reasonable, why would anyone buy a movie when they can have any DVD in existance sent directly to their door within 1 day? I'm sure piracy is to blame for some of the lost sales, but realistically 90% of the people who pirate aren't going to buy the movie.
"Google seems to have been oddly quiet on that front for the many years prior to IE7 that Firefox has made this feature available"
And exactly why would they not be quiet when it benefits them? Google is a companay like any other, and acts in the interests of Google and its revenue. Fortunately for them, most of the time this aligns well with consumer interest, making them 'appear' as a good wholesome company, give it another 5 years when they have 99% of the internet ad and search market and then they will suddenly become the 'DEBIL' (sp. waterboy reference).
that is funny because paid engineers have enough trouble getting all of these protocols and devices working, what makes you think a phisher/hacker has a chance of getting something working on all of these protocols and the 1000's of phone models out there?
BAHAHA Leading Edge! I actually had one of those :P Well actually I have a socket 478 which is completely worthless since intel moved all their p4s to some other new shitty socket for absolutely no reason, doesn't matter much anyways as conroe will be the next cpu i will want, and it wont even be compatible with it probably...
Ok, let me take this post as a chance to fume about the condition of the upgradability of computers. Please O Please Intel or AMD, realease a fucking system that isn't obsolete in 6 months, and by obsolete I don't mean slow as balls, but something that can actually be UPGRADED for a few years.
I have always built my own computers, and everytime I want to upgrade it seems I have to buy a whole new fucking motherboard, CPU, memory, and now its even gotten to the video card, with all the new vid slots. Its just fucking insane, and lets not even get into the whole fact that most of the faster memory and video card busses are fucking worthless and provide absolutely no REAL WORLD advantage. Quit coming out with a new fucking socket every month, 1 more pin of glory ain't going to do shit...
"Seems like it should be at least 60%, don't you think?"
No, saying they HOLD 60% of the wealth doesn't mean they MAKE 60% on a yearly basis, which is what income tax is based on.
"This statement gives you away as someone who grew up with money and has no idea what it's like to barely make it. Just like nearly all Americans have no concept of going to bed hungry, you cannot have any concept of living from paycheck to paycheck (although I guarantee that's not going to stop you from talking about it)."
I know many people who were poor and made it to a very good standard of living, why do you think so many people come to the US? If you work hard and are smart with your money you actually have a shot here.
Audio and visual quality are far inferior on downloaded ripped movies. Most ripped movies are only in 480x320 format or less, and their audio is only stereo, if you have any kind of good system this is total crap. On my projector I can even see the MPG artificts on original DVD content, and am eagerly waiting for HD-DVD to become more mainstream.
Concerts are the only thing they can control, its hard to pirate a concert (not the music, the experience of seeing the artist live). At any rate this is probably better for the industry as the artists typically get much more from concerts than media, ideally the industry should just transition to free media and charge for concerts.
I think the reason they are bitching so much is they are not doing it by choice, technology is pulling them by the ear.
I have VOIP on broadband at home and the quality is just pitiful, I can't even imagine using it over wifi. Even so the telcoms days are limited, if they didn't control the net they would out of biz in the next 10 years, they can only push their overpriced cell phone crap for so long.
So Vista's anti-virus/malware stuff isn't even released yet and they are already seeding the excuses for why it won't work.
Poor little nintendo just cannot compete. Growing up with my NES glory days in my mind, I feel kind of bad for them, but what can you expect, unlike Sony and MS, poor little Nintendo doesn't have a 90% share of the PC market, or a 50% share of the Entertainment market to fund its little consol. So they must attempt to be different by using a gimmicky controller. Instead of just using 1 stupid controller, they should bundle the consol with a bunch of unique controllers, a cool light gun, powerpad, DDR pad, some other crazy motion controllers like a baseball bat/golf club, that would be really unique and be a lot of fun for the family.
This is the one of few answers on this topic actually worth reading, great response :)
Attachments are your problem, automatically purge all attachments over 1-3 months old to a shared network storage device, problem solved. People should not be using the email system as their personal file store, which often happens.
No one will buy it, hell a Li battery lasts that long, I thought these things were supposed to last like 20 hours or more. All the promises, broken ;)
"Please buy a (chinese) clue during your next shopping run at Wal-Mart."
:)
I have no idea how this relates to the OP, but it is funny as hell
Unions are a relic of a era gone, now they hold the cushy jobs of millions of overpaid workers who won't give up anything, and in fact, think they deserve more! So until every company that uses unions slowly dies a miserable death (just look at the auto makers), we will have to put up with them and their crapulence.
no kidding, i was about the post the same thing. only apple could sell a $1 piece of animal hide for $99 bucks. oh but wait, I MUST HAVE ONE!
SONY's power in the HT market was unmatched, yet they flopped trying to push BETAMAX. The consumer will decide who wins this one, just as all previous formats. Personally I think the most open format will win, and being on the PC will be a major plus, which HD-DVD should do first since they have such huge ties to MS.
Also I think most people will support HD-DVD just because they are tired of SONY releasing a totally new proprietary media type every month, what do they have now, like 5 different formats just for digital cameras that only work with their devices?
As for having multiple formats being a bad thing, perhaps in the long run, but for the short run it is great, at least we won't have $5000 entry level HDDVD players for years like with all past formats, 2 models are already on sale at crutchfield for like $500, thats awesome.
"but shouldn't they be barred from competition for this sort of thing?"
What relevance at all does spamming have to do with the Olympics? Why not just fire and ban spammers from all walks of life, jobs, restaurants, movies, etc, oh wait, it's a little something called freedom. As much as all us hate spam, child porno, junk mail, ads, laywers, etc, we must live them. It's something most people call "society".