These days you have to be prepared in case you show up and the venue has either vinyl turntables, or a digital setup. They could say that they have turntables, and they turn out to not have needles or better yet - they haven't been used in years and end up not working. Of course, with this you would have to buy your music twice, and 12" electronica vinyl records have 1-3 songs for $12-25 EACH. How much can one pay for one song they will actually play?!
Although it would have saved them bandwidth costs, I bet it was to give a couple hours window for people to actually go check out the website and maybe buy the whole set. Sure, somebody has to buy one copy and spend 30 seconds to set up a torrent, but he would not have to officially seed it, either.
I saw a comment for an unrelated idea about why game DVDs still have anti-piracy mechanisms when they are easily circumvented. I think the person had a good suggestion that its just to keep 0-day piracy delayed as long as it takes so people who would want it right away will actually have to buy it.
I bought the $300 limited edition because I knew I wouldn't have another chance. Rare NIN goes on Ebay for more than its original cost... if you can find what you are looking for even.
I thoroughly enjoyed the brightness when working with full color images. I bought my first LCD monitor and was horrified to find out how dull and red shifted it was - so I went back to what worked great... and bought two 19" Trinitrons and a huge desk to put them together !
"So it looks like everyone is going to upgrade all of their software again, will software vendors be able to keep up with the support calls"
I will be optimistic that despite the development into a new direction, and the occasional headaches, things will be better in the future. That said, why are people so negative about change? So Microsoft's SP2 broke some programs, at least they finally released it. So we have more than 640K of memory and you had to use a memory manager, at least we got past conventional memory.
So at least in theory, there will be less buffer under runs in patched/upgraded systems. Would you prefer they didn't try?
Oh, the horror of shopping at frys. I worked there a week and witnessed what the children in back do to your precious hardware. Play football and shove it around. They shoved me back there, preferring salesmen over technically savy people.
I hear story and story again of replacing a motherboard 6 times at frys and never achieving success. One motherboard somewhere else, like TPI or PCCLUB works out of the box though...
is that everyone expects it to be something its not before it even comes out.
taking into consideration what I have before me, and the entertainment its brought to me, and that my nerves are shot because of this game. I really dig it.
i remember when i first tried to make a perpetual motion machine... then somehow it caught fire in my living room...
i dont remember how i tried to build it though...
if i had been doing my own life instead of playing these: simant - passed the 7th grade with As simcity - learned C at a early age simearth - never figured out what the hell i was doing simtower - simelevator gave me vertigo! simcity2000 - first played this on mac.. it had a monster of a cheat code but i never memorised it... i miss the placement of signs simcity3 unlimeted - i could have passed last year of college... simcopter - i could have gotten a real life
actually the 15 dollars a hour is usually cutco through vector marketing corp... though i sometimes made about 90 dollars a hour... the job required me to actually do work... so i quit
From my limeted experience on the Windows Platform, I would prefer to have a integrated media experience, than trying to mess with even installing realplayer. Until I can install realplayer without every setting in my machine changed to only use the Real line of products, I will stick with what I already have installed.
Granted I would love if other methods were used, mp3, mpeg, ogg! even. But the reality is they are not. Yahoo gives me only the choices of real and windows, and I simply go with windows.
And if there is a cry from the masses that my cddb list is being stored on my computer locally, or that my unique identifier will be used against me. Turn them off. Simple.
-rayray
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These days you have to be prepared in case you show up and the venue has either vinyl turntables, or a digital setup. They could say that they have turntables, and they turn out to not have needles or better yet - they haven't been used in years and end up not working. Of course, with this you would have to buy your music twice, and 12" electronica vinyl records have 1-3 songs for $12-25 EACH. How much can one pay for one song they will actually play?!
You've got to be kidding.
Although it would have saved them bandwidth costs, I bet it was to give a couple hours window for people to actually go check out the website and maybe buy the whole set. Sure, somebody has to buy one copy and spend 30 seconds to set up a torrent, but he would not have to officially seed it, either. I saw a comment for an unrelated idea about why game DVDs still have anti-piracy mechanisms when they are easily circumvented. I think the person had a good suggestion that its just to keep 0-day piracy delayed as long as it takes so people who would want it right away will actually have to buy it. I bought the $300 limited edition because I knew I wouldn't have another chance. Rare NIN goes on Ebay for more than its original cost... if you can find what you are looking for even.
I thoroughly enjoyed the brightness when working with full color images. I bought my first LCD monitor and was horrified to find out how dull and red shifted it was - so I went back to what worked great... and bought two 19" Trinitrons and a huge desk to put them together !
The side effect of this is beneficial to the web audience.
"So it looks like everyone is going to upgrade all of their software again, will software vendors be able to keep up with the support calls" I will be optimistic that despite the development into a new direction, and the occasional headaches, things will be better in the future. That said, why are people so negative about change? So Microsoft's SP2 broke some programs, at least they finally released it. So we have more than 640K of memory and you had to use a memory manager, at least we got past conventional memory. So at least in theory, there will be less buffer under runs in patched/upgraded systems. Would you prefer they didn't try?
If you're on windows, Real Alternative and MPC Media Player Classic will do the job without having to install evil realplayer.
Oh, the horror of shopping at frys. I worked there a week and witnessed what the children in back do to your precious hardware. Play football and shove it around. They shoved me back there, preferring salesmen over technically savy people.
I hear story and story again of replacing a motherboard 6 times at frys and never achieving success. One motherboard somewhere else, like TPI or PCCLUB works out of the box though...
is that everyone expects it to be something its not before it even comes out. taking into consideration what I have before me, and the entertainment its brought to me, and that my nerves are shot because of this game. I really dig it.
and then you lose it kids scratch it and still years away from legal backup copies..
i remember when i first tried to make a perpetual motion machine... then somehow it caught fire in my living room... i dont remember how i tried to build it though...
i sure got it first time through..
if i had been doing my own life instead of playing these:
simant - passed the 7th grade with As
simcity - learned C at a early age
simearth - never figured out what the hell i was doing
simtower - simelevator gave me vertigo!
simcity2000 - first played this on mac.. it had a monster of a cheat code but i never memorised it... i miss the placement of signs
simcity3 unlimeted - i could have passed last year of college...
simcopter - i could have gotten a real life
actually the 15 dollars a hour is usually cutco through vector marketing corp... though i sometimes made about 90 dollars a hour... the job required me to actually do work... so i quit
From my limeted experience on the Windows Platform, I would prefer to have a integrated media experience, than trying to mess with even installing realplayer. Until I can install realplayer without every setting in my machine changed to only use the Real line of products, I will stick with what I already have installed. Granted I would love if other methods were used, mp3, mpeg, ogg! even. But the reality is they are not. Yahoo gives me only the choices of real and windows, and I simply go with windows. And if there is a cry from the masses that my cddb list is being stored on my computer locally, or that my unique identifier will be used against me. Turn them off. Simple. -rayray