Are you homeless? I have never heard such crazy raving from a person who didn't have a 40 of malt liquor in his hand. Maybe you should count to 10 and relax before posting angry responses to people who aren't familiar with the market penetration of the.aac file format. Crikey.
Finally, Star Trek has always been extremely progressive. We are talking about a show where of the original bridge staff of regular characters, Kirk was the only one that was an American.
The leader, you mean? I'm reminded of the joke about one white guy surrounged by ten black guys.
Kind of a misreading...Germany was essentially a collection of city-states and small fiefdoms, as was common throghout the world until the 19th century. This wasn't limited to 19th century Germany, Germany existed in more or less such a state since the beginning of its history, additionally Italy existed in more or less such a state until the early 20th century, and cities were of more relative political independence throughout the world than they are now.
And while I'm at it, China can't be considered a "classic" example of the lack of net neutrality, because it bears little relation to what this discussion is about.
Who the fuck would honk at a bum? I guess you could always have one odd duck, but the idea that every passing car would honk at a bum is straight crazy. And who even says bum any more, this isn't the 1950s. I don't deny the underlying message of what you're saying, but there's some obvious misinterpretation on this point.
How about the part where you suggested where a politician "taking advantage of the system" equated him with being Hitler. That opinion is completely ridiculous, especially coming from the xenophobic Netherlands. You can be opposed to Bush, without being ridiculous about it.
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I bet it will be super awesome just like Black and White was!
Wil Wright is not Peter Molyneux. A more appropriate sentence would have been, "I bet it will be super awesome just like The Sims was!".
Sim Life was complete shit, and would seem to have a lot more in common with Spore than either Peter Molyneux or The Sims.
Also, what's with this notion that video games are supposed to be "relaxing"? If you want to "veg out", why not just watch TV? Is this the idea that's responsible for unplayable semi-interactive fiction like FFX?
Brainwave patterns for video gamers are about the same as those for watching TV, or other "veg out" activities.
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Wouldn't it be cool to have a 1st person movie (similar to a 1st person shooter)? Meaning, for like Resident Evil, Doom, etc. all we see is the gun in hand, the shots fired, and the blood splattering? That would make a great movie!
There was the well-reviewed Suzhou River. No blood (it was kind of like the movie "Vertigo"), but there was some first person preventing suicides, going on dates with Xun Zhou, coming across dead bodies...all in all a good watch.
Strange Days was unfocused and too silly for its own good, but the 1st person virtual reality scenes were awesome!
Don't let facts get in the way of your xenophobic rants. US inflation has been between 2 and 3%. 120% inflation is crazy.
Honestly your post makes no sense, only on Slashdot would it be considered insightful. The world economy is primarily based around the dollar - for instance, China's currency is essentially pegged to the dollar. If the dollar had undergone 120% inflation in two years, the world economy would collapse, there would be riots in the streets, etc.
The simple fact is, home prices have gone up quite a bit, and people who are in the position to sell a home have generally made very large sums of money, that they really can buy a lot of things with. While the rate of return may point to an irrational exuberance, it's not unique to the United States, and wasn't what your post was about.
It's hilarious that you have to use the example of Volvo to bolster your national pride, but whatever works...although in the last 25 years, the currency has lost almost half its value to the Dollar.
If you really have a compelling product, you'd be able to sell it over the Internet. You could sell it over Amazon next week if you really wanted to, I know bands that have set up their own music labels and done just that. Or you could set up a deal with iTunes, they take indie artists, as does emusic. And plenty of major record stores are willing to take locally-produced music, it raises the hipness level of a Rasputin's or Amoeba's. Or you could sell it at shows and the like. It's that nobody wants to hear your basement-produced drek. Major record labels do not have a monopoly on selling things, and every year the idea gets more and more ridiculous.
Everyday millions of Manga Comics are sold. On 20 people, 15 are reading and at least 5 of those are reading Mangas. Thats an everyday thing. And those Mangas reach from... to... (put in your own ideas). So it can happen that the guy next to you reads a nice tentakel manga. Quite funny actually (from a western point of view).
Bullshit...out of 20 people, at least half of them are playing with their cell phones. You rarely see adults reading manga in public, and when you do it's always obvious creeps or weirdos.
China is a 1992 signatory to the Berne Convention (establishing that they legally recognize the copyrights of other signatories). Copyright is theoretically protected, and there are occasional busts of piracy rings and large-scale pirates.
The vast majority of piracy isn't prosecuted, but that's true in the United States as well.
1. She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid.
2. Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!
3. Look at the size of that thing!
4. Sorry about the mess...
5. You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought.
6. Aren't you a little short for a storm trooper?
7. You've got something jammed in here real good.
8. Put that thing away before you get us all killed!
9. Luke, at that speed do you think you'll be able to pull out in time?
10. Get in there you big furry oaf, I don't care WHAT you smell!
11. You're all clear, kid. Now let's blow this thing and go home!
12. Get on top of it!
In the Movie The Empire Strikes Back:
1. And I thought they smelled bad on the outside!
2. Possible he came in through the south entrance.
3. I must've hit it pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh kid?
4. Hurry up, golden rod...
5. That's OK, I like to keep it on manual control for a while.
6. But now we must eat. Come, good food, come...
7. Control, control...You must learn control!
8. There's an awful lot of moisture in here.
9. Size matters not...judge me by my size do you?
10. I thought that hairy beast would be the end of me!
11. Would it help if I got out and pushed?
I ask myself the same question, it's so obvious that dramaticaly reducing the price of media content would stop rampant piracy all together, that i can't understand why content providers don't do it....
Here in China, high-quality bootleg DVDs go for maybe $.60 cents, but everybody I talk still uses bittorrent to download their movies. $.60 doesn't compete with free.
Besides, how much profit would there be in selling $1 DVDs in the US? Maybe a couple of cents?
You have to realize that many smart people work in the movie industry. Maximizing the profit line is their full-time job. If there was an easy solution to the problem, they would have done it already.
Wow, macworld.com says that Macs and PCs are fairly comparable in price. I'm glad you could find a non-biased source like that, because the rest of the world would say that's hogwash.
I suggest you consider the merits of Australian beer (and for reference Fosters is not an Australian beer, they just pretend that it is).
What's hilarious about this comment (which you often hear from Australians, when beer ever comes up in coversation) is that the most popular beer in Australia is Crown Lager, which is literally the exact same beer, made by the same brewery in the same factory, with different packaging.
So if an Australian ever tells you that Foster's is the worst shit, that only Americans drink, you can mentally note that the person doesn't know anything about the taste of the beer, and is a little too easily swayed by advertising campaigns.
I love your logic. People thought one unrelated thing could never happen. Therefore, everything impossible is going to happen.
Overpopulation of the Earth is a serious issue that is already being adressed, and will become a major world issue in the near future. Hundreds of millions of people leaving the Earth for life on Mars will not be happening in the near future. Obviously so many serious if perhaps impossible scientific and engineering advances would have to happen, any mass migration will be centuries or milleniums in the future.
The very idea obviously has a lot more to do with science-fiction aimed at children and young adults, than with reality.
The main issue, is that the idea of hundreds of millions of people leaving Earth in spaceships is so pie-in-the-sky, it's ridiculous. If there's space colonies, it's going to be a select few people - a drop in the bucket compared to the 6 billion+ on Earth. The de-settlement of Earth makes for excellent science fiction but that's it, it's not at all realistic.
China has population control, and people love babies and children like motherfuckers. When there's only one child to the family, these children are often overly doted upon, and too much family responsibility is places on them. Talking about the cheapness and commoditization of human life, what about families with 13 children? Supposedly, families will have extra, with the expectation that several will die.
The idea that expanding to other planets will ever act as a significant drain to the population of Earth is too silly to take seriously.
I imagine it's both ways. The publicity will both encourage some people to buy it, and also encourage some people to pirate the game. Personally I very very rarely will buy a software, movie, or album, because it's free to download them - also I live in a country where the legitimate item is rarely available. I'm sure I'm not the only person on Slashdot who doesn't prefer to buy something when it's easily available free, and getting it free is more convenient as well.
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Are you homeless? I have never heard such crazy raving from a person who didn't have a 40 of malt liquor in his hand. Maybe you should count to 10 and relax before posting angry responses to people who aren't familiar with the market penetration of the .aac file format. Crikey.
PS3: 120-150 million
Wii: 20-35 million
360: 12-18 million
Ha Ha HA...oh wait are you serious?
The leader, you mean? I'm reminded of the joke about one white guy surrounged by ten black guys.
And while I'm at it, China can't be considered a "classic" example of the lack of net neutrality, because it bears little relation to what this discussion is about.
What an incredible redneck, talking about the Olive Garden as a fancy restaurant. Prices to high at Sizzler's??? HAHAHAHAHH
Thank you. I am particularly supportive of people who log on to American websites and start talking like Jolly Old England.
What the fuck is a butty? What the fuck are crisps? And "plumbed" is just not a verb.
Who the fuck would honk at a bum? I guess you could always have one odd duck, but the idea that every passing car would honk at a bum is straight crazy. And who even says bum any more, this isn't the 1950s. I don't deny the underlying message of what you're saying, but there's some obvious misinterpretation on this point.
How about the part where you suggested where a politician "taking advantage of the system" equated him with being Hitler. That opinion is completely ridiculous, especially coming from the xenophobic Netherlands. You can be opposed to Bush, without being ridiculous about it.
Wil Wright is not Peter Molyneux. A more appropriate sentence would have been, "I bet it will be super awesome just like The Sims was!".
Sim Life was complete shit, and would seem to have a lot more in common with Spore than either Peter Molyneux or The Sims.
Brainwave patterns for video gamers are about the same as those for watching TV, or other "veg out" activities.
There was the well-reviewed Suzhou River. No blood (it was kind of like the movie "Vertigo"), but there was some first person preventing suicides, going on dates with Xun Zhou, coming across dead bodies...all in all a good watch.
Strange Days was unfocused and too silly for its own good, but the 1st person virtual reality scenes were awesome!
Honestly your post makes no sense, only on Slashdot would it be considered insightful. The world economy is primarily based around the dollar - for instance, China's currency is essentially pegged to the dollar. If the dollar had undergone 120% inflation in two years, the world economy would collapse, there would be riots in the streets, etc.
The simple fact is, home prices have gone up quite a bit, and people who are in the position to sell a home have generally made very large sums of money, that they really can buy a lot of things with. While the rate of return may point to an irrational exuberance, it's not unique to the United States, and wasn't what your post was about.
It's hilarious that you have to use the example of Volvo to bolster your national pride, but whatever works...although in the last 25 years, the currency has lost almost half its value to the Dollar.
If you really have a compelling product, you'd be able to sell it over the Internet. You could sell it over Amazon next week if you really wanted to, I know bands that have set up their own music labels and done just that. Or you could set up a deal with iTunes, they take indie artists, as does emusic. And plenty of major record stores are willing to take locally-produced music, it raises the hipness level of a Rasputin's or Amoeba's. Or you could sell it at shows and the like. It's that nobody wants to hear your basement-produced drek. Major record labels do not have a monopoly on selling things, and every year the idea gets more and more ridiculous.
Bullshit...out of 20 people, at least half of them are playing with their cell phones. You rarely see adults reading manga in public, and when you do it's always obvious creeps or weirdos.
The vast majority of piracy isn't prosecuted, but that's true in the United States as well.
1. She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid.
2. Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!
3. Look at the size of that thing!
4. Sorry about the mess...
5. You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought.
6. Aren't you a little short for a storm trooper?
7. You've got something jammed in here real good.
8. Put that thing away before you get us all killed!
9. Luke, at that speed do you think you'll be able to pull out in time?
10. Get in there you big furry oaf, I don't care WHAT you smell!
11. You're all clear, kid. Now let's blow this thing and go home!
12. Get on top of it!
In the Movie The Empire Strikes Back:
1. And I thought they smelled bad on the outside!
2. Possible he came in through the south entrance.
3. I must've hit it pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh kid?
4. Hurry up, golden rod...
5. That's OK, I like to keep it on manual control for a while.
6. But now we must eat. Come, good food, come...
7. Control, control...You must learn control!
8. There's an awful lot of moisture in here.
9. Size matters not...judge me by my size do you?
10. I thought that hairy beast would be the end of me!
11. Would it help if I got out and pushed?
And judging from the meta-tagging, these kittens are gay homosexual kittens.
Here in China, high-quality bootleg DVDs go for maybe $.60 cents, but everybody I talk still uses bittorrent to download their movies. $.60 doesn't compete with free.
Besides, how much profit would there be in selling $1 DVDs in the US? Maybe a couple of cents?
You have to realize that many smart people work in the movie industry. Maximizing the profit line is their full-time job. If there was an easy solution to the problem, they would have done it already.
Wow, macworld.com says that Macs and PCs are fairly comparable in price. I'm glad you could find a non-biased source like that, because the rest of the world would say that's hogwash.
What's hilarious about this comment (which you often hear from Australians, when beer ever comes up in coversation) is that the most popular beer in Australia is Crown Lager, which is literally the exact same beer, made by the same brewery in the same factory, with different packaging.
So if an Australian ever tells you that Foster's is the worst shit, that only Americans drink, you can mentally note that the person doesn't know anything about the taste of the beer, and is a little too easily swayed by advertising campaigns.
Overpopulation of the Earth is a serious issue that is already being adressed, and will become a major world issue in the near future. Hundreds of millions of people leaving the Earth for life on Mars will not be happening in the near future. Obviously so many serious if perhaps impossible scientific and engineering advances would have to happen, any mass migration will be centuries or milleniums in the future.
The very idea obviously has a lot more to do with science-fiction aimed at children and young adults, than with reality.
The main issue, is that the idea of hundreds of millions of people leaving Earth in spaceships is so pie-in-the-sky, it's ridiculous. If there's space colonies, it's going to be a select few people - a drop in the bucket compared to the 6 billion+ on Earth. The de-settlement of Earth makes for excellent science fiction but that's it, it's not at all realistic.
The idea that expanding to other planets will ever act as a significant drain to the population of Earth is too silly to take seriously.
I imagine it's both ways. The publicity will both encourage some people to buy it, and also encourage some people to pirate the game. Personally I very very rarely will buy a software, movie, or album, because it's free to download them - also I live in a country where the legitimate item is rarely available. I'm sure I'm not the only person on Slashdot who doesn't prefer to buy something when it's easily available free, and getting it free is more convenient as well.