How about giving me the option to play the game without having to pay for a useless box and manual that I don't have the shelf space for? All I need is the CD. For a simple CD in a Jewel case they could charge the price of the first month's service and include a month of service. If they did that, I'd have played several MMORPGs by now. Instead, I've never even tried one.
I've bought all 3 WarCraft games and StarCraft, and they're my favourite games since the Sierra adventure games. WoW looks like it will be the best one yet, but I refuse to buy into that model on principle, and I am definately their target audience, I still spend about 10 hours/week playing WC3.
Just like fair use protected my rights to use DeCSS to rip some DVDs to my notebook HD so I can play them on a trip? Oh, you must have meant the way fair use protects my rights to use p2p software to distribute music I record or even download mp3s of songs on CDs I have.
Then I meant the Genesis campaign and not the master campaign.
I didn't even remember the phrase "Genesis does was Nintendo don't", but it makes me cringe in the a way the words alone shouldn't, so some part of me must remember it. As I said the Soul Edge series were my favourite arcade games. I would have bought the DC at launch if it weren't for those genesis commercials setting up a subconscious sega=evil link in my mind. Consciously I liked sega and thought the DC sounded great.
On a related note, 90% of commercials make me less likely to buy the product, 5% don't affect my opinion, and 5% make me more likley. With the "bam" campaign, it will be a lot of years before I buy pop-tarts again, if ever. I can't be the only person who feels this way.
When they launched their first console, Sega had some horrible commercials with people singing a horrible song about their hedgehog. I could never think about sega without those commercials bringing up bad associations so I never bought any of their systems. Since Soul Edge was one of my favourite arcade games, I would have bought a DC just for Soul Calibur if it weren't for that.
If you're a large company (10,000+) machines it is a lot cheaper to hire that consultant to keep your open source code up to date than it will be to keep your MS licenses up to date. Added bonuses are that you don't have to worry about an MS audit, and all the slashdotter's will rally around your company and buy your products even if they aren't as good.
MS has stopped releasing security updates for NT4, so companies using it are forced to decide between having security holes or paying MS for a newer version that locks them into a more draconian license agreement. How long until your company faces the same problem with whatever version of windows they use?
With open source, you can patch whatever version you're running, or just upgrade whatever is necessary without the draconian eulas.
You only ship the amount you don't use there (that you might want to export elsewhere). What do you mean you buy it back from higher prices? from who? We don't want or get any of you wheat anyway, Ontario produces plenty for our own use and to export to other provinces.
You're on shaky ground to begin with with agriculture as an example. Most farming in Canada is subsidized by the federal goverment, and most of that money comes from Ontario.
What is this hatred you Westerners have against being a part of Canada? My comment was that you give cheap oil to a foreign country instead of your fellow countrymen, and your response is that you are forced to sell your surplus wheat within your own country instead of outside as if that were a bad thing.
This is exactly why the US is lagging in technical innovation. The Japanese engineer instantly knows there are a million milimeters in a kilometer and a million grams in a tonne.
When the American engineer wants to know how many 16ths of an inch in a mile or ounces in a ton, he has to pull out his Japanese made calculator.
We have vast oil resources in Western Canada. It is exported to the US very cheaply, and here in Eastern Canada, we import oil from the Middle East at much higher prices.
The question though is why should I work around it? As the consumer, I want to buy a music player that works the way I want, not one that's designed to actively work against me so I have to look for work-arounds.
I didn't know about the lack of high speed uploading to PC. Does that mean if you do use it to record your lectures and you want to load them onto your PC, it's very slow?
I still run Quicken 5. It's a lot faster and more intuitive than the newer versions, and I don't have to deal with Intuit's new DRM and spyware. I back up the whole program and all 6 years of data on a single floppy.
iPod's can't record, but if you really want something that does, then get a Sony Mini-disk player/recorder
They way Sony is going, you'll probably have to pay a royalty to play back the lecture; there's always the chance of it being used to acoustically copy CDs.
Go with the old fashioned analog microcassette recorder. The only problem I had with that is getting the mic to actually pick up the lecture, but you'll have the same problem with a digital solution.
Just write a program that interprets the 'next' button on the remote as microphone data.
Yep, I'm sure iPod is capable of picking up pushbutton presses fast enough. Coming from the mic, you'll have PCM data, the lowest that's acceptable for speech will still need 1 megabyte/minute. That's over 100,000 keypresses per second.
With over 500 hours of content, the Trek universe is very rich and deep. There is a lot of potential to have a good sci-fi show and set it in the Star Trek.
There's a lot of suggestions here about how to set up the network, but nobody seems to be covering the more difficult aspects.
How will you get the condo board to go for any such proposal. Chances are most people in your building don't know anything about networking and will be happy with their dial-ups...if they have internet access at all.
I'm finding it hard enough to get my condo to start a DVD library.
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How about giving me the option to play the game without having to pay for a useless box and manual that I don't have the shelf space for? All I need is the CD. For a simple CD in a Jewel case they could charge the price of the first month's service and include a month of service. If they did that, I'd have played several MMORPGs by now. Instead, I've never even tried one.
I've bought all 3 WarCraft games and StarCraft, and they're my favourite games since the Sierra adventure games. WoW looks like it will be the best one yet, but I refuse to buy into that model on principle, and I am definately their target audience, I still spend about 10 hours/week playing WC3.
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My objection to MMORPGs is that you have to buy the software and pay a monthly fee. I will pay one or the other, but not both.
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You're not factoring in the 4 hours waiting in line. That brings it down to 25 cents/minute.
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Whirring is the key word. Hard disks have gotten bigger. But they haven't gotten faster. They haven't gotten quieter.
But they have gotten warmer. My computer is starting to take over the job of my heater in the winter.
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Just like fair use protected my rights to use DeCSS to rip some DVDs to my notebook HD so I can play them on a trip? Oh, you must have meant the way fair use protects my rights to use p2p software to distribute music I record or even download mp3s of songs on CDs I have.
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Then I meant the Genesis campaign and not the master campaign.
I didn't even remember the phrase "Genesis does was Nintendo don't", but it makes me cringe in the a way the words alone shouldn't, so some part of me must remember it. As I said the Soul Edge series were my favourite arcade games. I would have bought the DC at launch if it weren't for those genesis commercials setting up a subconscious sega=evil link in my mind. Consciously I liked sega and thought the DC sounded great.
On a related note, 90% of commercials make me less likely to buy the product, 5% don't affect my opinion, and 5% make me more likley. With the "bam" campaign, it will be a lot of years before I buy pop-tarts again, if ever. I can't be the only person who feels this way.
Jason
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When they launched their first console, Sega had some horrible commercials with people singing a horrible song about their hedgehog. I could never think about sega without those commercials bringing up bad associations so I never bought any of their systems. Since Soul Edge was one of my favourite arcade games, I would have bought a DC just for Soul Calibur if it weren't for that.
Jason
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If you're a large company (10,000+) machines it is a lot cheaper to hire that consultant to keep your open source code up to date than it will be to keep your MS licenses up to date. Added bonuses are that you don't have to worry about an MS audit, and all the slashdotter's will rally around your company and buy your products even if they aren't as good.
Jason
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MS has stopped releasing security updates for NT4, so companies using it are forced to decide between having security holes or paying MS for a newer version that locks them into a more draconian license agreement. How long until your company faces the same problem with whatever version of windows they use?
With open source, you can patch whatever version you're running, or just upgrade whatever is necessary without the draconian eulas.
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It's just revenge for all the other sites we've slashdotted.
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the rest of Canada is frontier land that is there to be exploited.
How is transfering billions of dollars a year from Ontario to Alberta exploiting you? Forcing you to spend our money must be such a hardship.
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You only ship the amount you don't use there (that you might want to export elsewhere). What do you mean you buy it back from higher prices? from who? We don't want or get any of you wheat anyway, Ontario produces plenty for our own use and to export to other provinces.
You're on shaky ground to begin with with agriculture as an example. Most farming in Canada is subsidized by the federal goverment, and most of that money comes from Ontario.
What is this hatred you Westerners have against being a part of Canada? My comment was that you give cheap oil to a foreign country instead of your fellow countrymen, and your response is that you are forced to sell your surplus wheat within your own country instead of outside as if that were a bad thing.
Jason
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This is exactly why the US is lagging in technical innovation. The Japanese engineer instantly knows there are a million milimeters in a kilometer and a million grams in a tonne.
When the American engineer wants to know how many 16ths of an inch in a mile or ounces in a ton, he has to pull out his Japanese made calculator.
Jason
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We have vast oil resources in Western Canada. It is exported to the US very cheaply, and here in Eastern Canada, we import oil from the Middle East at much higher prices.
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Have we narrowed the possible range for the Hubble Constant any more? It seems like it's been converging on 42 for the past few decades.
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The question though is why should I work around it? As the consumer, I want to buy a music player that works the way I want, not one that's designed to actively work against me so I have to look for work-arounds.
I didn't know about the lack of high speed uploading to PC. Does that mean if you do use it to record your lectures and you want to load them onto your PC, it's very slow?
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At least until they fall off their motorcycle.
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I still run Quicken 5. It's a lot faster and more intuitive than the newer versions, and I don't have to deal with Intuit's new DRM and spyware. I back up the whole program and all 6 years of data on a single floppy.
Jason
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iPod's can't record, but if you really want something that does, then get a Sony Mini-disk player/recorder
They way Sony is going, you'll probably have to pay a royalty to play back the lecture; there's always the chance of it being used to acoustically copy CDs.
Go with the old fashioned analog microcassette recorder. The only problem I had with that is getting the mic to actually pick up the lecture, but you'll have the same problem with a digital solution.
Just write a program that interprets the 'next' button on the remote as microphone data.
Yep, I'm sure iPod is capable of picking up pushbutton presses fast enough. Coming from the mic, you'll have PCM data, the lowest that's acceptable for speech will still need 1 megabyte/minute. That's over 100,000 keypresses per second.
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But now you can have your house pre-sort your snail mail to remove spam.
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With over 500 hours of content, the Trek universe is very rich and deep. There is a lot of potential to have a good sci-fi show and set it in the Star Trek.
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What Trek needs is to dump Berman and his lackeys.
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There's a lot of suggestions here about how to set up the network, but nobody seems to be covering the more difficult aspects.
How will you get the condo board to go for any such proposal. Chances are most people in your building don't know anything about networking and will be happy with their dial-ups...if they have internet access at all.
I'm finding it hard enough to get my condo to start a DVD library.
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They didn't shorten it to SML because everyone will pronounce it smell. Then half their FAQ will have to explain that smell sensors don't exist yet.
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Hormel sure got their $100 worth out of the term.
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