Age of Conan did this, except the problem is that it's only slightly useful in PvP. In PvE, raiders have resorted to using keyboard macros (using the G15 keyboard for example), because the key combonations are always exactly the same..
Blizzard support is already pretty low on the customer response time. i would hate to see how bad it gets when you have people with Down Syndrome download the open source client and then calling blizzard saying "I download the source but i can't get wow to run, what? what do you mean i have to compile it. whats that? why doesnt this work right now, blizzard help plz!!"
Any type of sensitive / precision replacement parts for test instruments are extreamly well packed.
I used to ship things like a strain gauge, which is a 6" long thin strip of metal with an epoxy coated sensor on one side in a 12x12x12 box because it can be damaged very quickly by dropping the item on the ground.
You can download WoW For free from many websites (such as fileplanet, blizzard.com / worldofwarcraft.com) without it being pirated software, but you cannot play the game without first purchasing a LICENSE to play WoW.
When you buy the box at the store, you are buying the license key to play wow and they also give you a copy of wow to install.
WoW is the purchase of the license to create an account and a monthly service fee. You are not charged for the media.
Blizzard uses Torrent to distribute patches and they had a download available for TBC.
With the new Blizzard Store also having the Account Key storage section, you can purchase & download most blizzard games already.
However, I will be lining up at midnight at our local gamestop to pickup my copy (several at that) of WotLK so that i can begine playing it at 12:15 , which is the time it takes me to get home from gamestop.
I would imagine that they announce a release date based on when manufacturing of the CD's is suitable to meet the demand they are expecting. With TBC it was roughly 4-5m people and I would imagine that they estimated a 90% buy rate. But currently pushing 10m subscribers(!) and having a +90% buy rate, I bet the release date announcement will a few months after the game actually goes Gold.
Of course, i couldn't imagine -any- cd manufacturing company & print shop NOT giving blizzard awesome pricing deals.
If anyone had actually read the article, you'll find out that currently Movies are NOT released to TV (pay per view or other) before they're released to DVD. the MPAA wants to change that so that they are shown on TV (PPV or other) AS or BEFORE the DVD release. But before it changes that time schedule, it wants to know if the FCC will create a ruling that would prevent DVR to able to record the movie BEFORE its released to DVD.
So in other words
Theater -> DVD -> TV , won't have the non-record flag set Theater -> TV -> DVD WILL have the non-record flag set until AFTER it's released on DVD.
Well, usually what happens is a professor writes a book to be published or is asked to contribute / write a book to be published. The publishing company signs a deal with the author(s) and before it's even written / edited or printed, it's given to marketing and sales to be sold. The sales staff creates contracts with universities for the book(s) and the U's agree and sign. It's up to the university to say "hey wait a minute, this author teaches a class here and hey that book is for his class, we should get that book for a substrantial discount or free" , but no. What probably happens is while that is said, a good salesman will come back with a counter-offer saying that they'll give xx books for y% off if they sell all these books at their list values. UV says "hey we get more money" and signs the dotted line.
I know that when i was going to devry, we had several teachers who wrote/contributed to various text books and we got them for free.
However, none of that has anything with paper cost:p
ok, so lets take out the cost associated printed material and replace it with an eBook. We will also assume that the book is DRM protected because you know that textbook publishers will not give these out for free.
Do you think that the cost of these books will go down? There will still be all of the costs including money made off of the final resale of the product. The manufacturing cost of a book is such a minor expense in the overall production of printed material that it most certaintly wont effect end resale price.
Marketing of school textbooks still exists and and is much different than you would see with a NYT best seller list. University and school bookstores sign contracts and agreements with textbook publishers that locks them into their distribution and brand. If they moved to an eBook, the PDFs wont be available anywhere but your university bookstore and will still cost the 100$ or 75$ or whatever they cost now and you'll have the added cost of a school approved eBook device. Not to mention if that the DRM is non-transferable, the cost of the eBook PDF is actually more than a printed book because most of the time you can sell back the printed book to the bookstore for resale next year.
Also, your engineering professor isn't that intellegent if he doesn't convince the univiserity to demand that a book he co-authored be available for reduced cost or even free to students of his class. Not to mention that by having students photocopy his book he is creating the excess paper waste that many have commented about in this article.
You do understand that there is more cost associated with a printing book than just the printing process right? My cost was simply the cost of putting Ink on Paper.
There are the writers and contributors to the book, there are the editors and the production staff for a book. There is prepress / digital publishing aspect to creating any printed material and there are associated marketing and other costs.
Then there is markup on the book when it gets to the distributor and there is a markup on the book when it gets to the seller.
your 20$ textbook might have 10$ of markup on it from the people you purchase the book from. the $10/book that the store paid could have 2-5$ of markup from the distributor that the store bought the books from. your 20$ book could have cost the distributor a grand total of $5, which is the cost of the book from conception to production and a little extra for the publisher.
Go work in a manufacturing environment before you pretend to understand why things cost the consumer as much as they do.
Also, the grandparent totally neglected to realize that the industries founded on paper support millions of employees in the US alone, not to mention the entire world.
Hundreds of billions of dollars of income per year is soley due to paper and industries created from paper products (and i'm not talking about toilet paper or paper packaging products).
If printed material were to all of a sudden disappear, it isn't like film where only a handful or less companies produced the material which resulted in the loss of maybe 1,000 jobs across the entire US, losing the printing industry would result in the loss of tens of thousands of printing companies instantly.
How in the hell can this guy be givin insightful? nothing about his post is remotely correct.
Producing paper is extreamly efficient when it comes to the amount of polution generated (nearly none). And then you go off and say that producing a product made of plastic, silicon and other such materials is more environmental friendly? You think that there will be only 1 of these things made? there will be hundreds of millions of tons of products created to create the kindle or whatever the hell your talking about. Producing plastic is very inefficient because plastic is produced from Oil and creates more of a problem than it's trying to solve. I would imagine that all of the other processes involved in creating the individual parts for the e-book device also use tons of non-recycable materials and produces and equal amount of waste.
With a book, you can recycle it and it becomes useable paper again without any hazardous waste created from the process.
When your ebook fails, only the plastic casing is recycable.
Printing is very inexpensive and realitivly efficent if your publisher is smart enough to choose a realtivly newer and high tech print shop. Even without the latest technology there are hundreds or even thousands of small print shops that operate soley for small run products.
Runs of 5,000 or less can be acheived with very little waste (read less than 100 impressions) and maintain the very high quality that the publisher demands, especially if you run large format (40" or wider width) and most books (not magazines) are black only, which makes the waste even less per form.
On average, in the printing plant where I work, a single impression on a 50k long run costs roughly 20c and you can get usually 8 pages (standard 8 x 10.75 page size) per sheet or 2.5c per page. This includes all of the work done by the pre-press department, pressroom and bindery. Lithographic plates are extreamly cheap also, costing ~6-7$ to purchase and image. The longer the print run, the cheaper each piece become.
We've recently printed a digest book (half size, something like, 6 x 4 or the like), which gets 24 pages per sheet, making the per-page cost less than 1c.
Your forgeting that the developers of America's army actually did a good job creating the FPS and it is enjoyable to those of the non-sport FPS players.
with $3m , what hope did nasa have to create any type of mmo to begin with ?
The 200$ PC is a via C7 processor. I have one, it can barely run a desktop in linux. the C7 processor is best suited for very thin client applications or non-display terminal type services such as a firewall or a slow file server.
here in the U.S. the court system doesnt put people to death every 2 or 3 days. It must suck for your country to do that but we don't do that here. If im not mistaken many of the states in the US do not have capital punishment.
however, I am all for capital punishment when justice is served. Commit an act of treason? you should die for betraying your country. you go off on a killing spree and kill 3-4 people? yep your justice includes death.
Stop making up non-sensical situations in an attempt to justify murder. if your pretend husband was a wife beater and then killed someone, he would not be given the death sentance and it makes the wife killing him no less wrong for killing him and she would be put in prison for killing her husband
All throughout history government executions are for crimes that are -very- severe and no other reason. Mass murderers, treason, etc are all acceptable by punishment of death because of the nature of the crime.
A person who slaps his wife for cheating on him is not punishable by death nor does the wife have ANY claim to use killing her husband as a justifiable response.
stop being a hippy, leave your fantasy world and join the real world and you will be able to understand what right v.s. wrong means.
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Age of Conan did this, except the problem is that it's only slightly useful in PvP. In PvE, raiders have resorted to using keyboard macros (using the G15 keyboard for example), because the key combonations are always exactly the same..
so.. you didnt fix anything
well i had a post written for you, basicly calling you a tool for posting comments about a game you dont play like some kind of retard..
but, slashdot's comment system is so fucked that i naturally lost my post.
Why in gods name do they bother updating everything else on the site, but the comment posting form is still such a huge peice of shit ?
ya mod me down, you all know i'm 100% correct.
Ya, not going to happen...
Blizzard support is already pretty low on the customer response time. i would hate to see how bad it gets when you have people with Down Syndrome download the open source client and then calling blizzard saying "I download the source but i can't get wow to run, what? what do you mean i have to compile it. whats that? why doesnt this work right now, blizzard help plz!!"
Pure genius...
Funny?
Any type of sensitive / precision replacement parts for test instruments are extreamly well packed.
I used to ship things like a strain gauge, which is a 6" long thin strip of metal with an epoxy coated sensor on one side in a 12x12x12 box because it can be damaged very quickly by dropping the item on the ground.
You can download WoW For free from many websites (such as fileplanet, blizzard.com / worldofwarcraft.com) without it being pirated software, but you cannot play the game without first purchasing a LICENSE to play WoW.
When you buy the box at the store, you are buying the license key to play wow and they also give you a copy of wow to install.
WoW is the purchase of the license to create an account and a monthly service fee. You are not charged for the media.
Blizzard uses their own torrent client to distribute content downloads.
You're not going to be able to download / install the game before midnight. blizzard doesnt do stuff like that.
Blizzard uses Torrent to distribute patches and they had a download available for TBC.
With the new Blizzard Store also having the Account Key storage section, you can purchase & download most blizzard games already.
However, I will be lining up at midnight at our local gamestop to pickup my copy (several at that) of WotLK so that i can begine playing it at 12:15 , which is the time it takes me to get home from gamestop.
I encourage anyone who wishes to do the same, to buy one of my shirts to wear :)
http://www.cafepress.com/bsodergren
I would imagine that they announce a release date based on when manufacturing of the CD's is suitable to meet the demand they are expecting. With TBC it was roughly 4-5m people and I would imagine that they estimated a 90% buy rate. But currently pushing 10m subscribers(!) and having a +90% buy rate, I bet the release date announcement will a few months after the game actually goes Gold.
Of course, i couldn't imagine -any- cd manufacturing company & print shop NOT giving blizzard awesome pricing deals.
you also forget that the class action suit in that movie had actual merit!!
If anyone had actually read the article, you'll find out that currently Movies are NOT released to TV (pay per view or other) before they're released to DVD. the MPAA wants to change that so that they are shown on TV (PPV or other) AS or BEFORE the DVD release. But before it changes that time schedule, it wants to know if the FCC will create a ruling that would prevent DVR to able to record the movie BEFORE its released to DVD.
So in other words
Theater -> DVD -> TV , won't have the non-record flag set
Theater -> TV -> DVD WILL have the non-record flag set until AFTER it's released on DVD.
Well, usually what happens is a professor writes a book to be published or is asked to contribute / write a book to be published. The publishing company signs a deal with the author(s) and before it's even written / edited or printed, it's given to marketing and sales to be sold. The sales staff creates contracts with universities for the book(s) and the U's agree and sign. It's up to the university to say "hey wait a minute, this author teaches a class here and hey that book is for his class, we should get that book for a substrantial discount or free" , but no. What probably happens is while that is said, a good salesman will come back with a counter-offer saying that they'll give xx books for y% off if they sell all these books at their list values. UV says "hey we get more money" and signs the dotted line.
:p
I know that when i was going to devry, we had several teachers who wrote/contributed to various text books and we got them for free.
However, none of that has anything with paper cost
umm.. printing companies do not sell the printed material to the bookstore.
There are many people between the people that print the book and you that make money off of the book.
You also have to realize that the end seller of the book is easily adding anywhere from 30 to 50% or more to the price of the book
ok, so lets take out the cost associated printed material and replace it with an eBook. We will also assume that the book is DRM protected because you know that textbook publishers will not give these out for free.
Do you think that the cost of these books will go down? There will still be all of the costs including money made off of the final resale of the product. The manufacturing cost of a book is such a minor expense in the overall production of printed material that it most certaintly wont effect end resale price.
Marketing of school textbooks still exists and and is much different than you would see with a NYT best seller list. University and school bookstores sign contracts and agreements with textbook publishers that locks them into their distribution and brand. If they moved to an eBook, the PDFs wont be available anywhere but your university bookstore and will still cost the 100$ or 75$ or whatever they cost now and you'll have the added cost of a school approved eBook device. Not to mention if that the DRM is non-transferable, the cost of the eBook PDF is actually more than a printed book because most of the time you can sell back the printed book to the bookstore for resale next year.
Also, your engineering professor isn't that intellegent if he doesn't convince the univiserity to demand that a book he co-authored be available for reduced cost or even free to students of his class. Not to mention that by having students photocopy his book he is creating the excess paper waste that many have commented about in this article.
You do understand that there is more cost associated with a printing book than just the printing process right? My cost was simply the cost of putting Ink on Paper.
There are the writers and contributors to the book, there are the editors and the production staff for a book. There is prepress / digital publishing aspect to creating any printed material and there are associated marketing and other costs.
Then there is markup on the book when it gets to the distributor and there is a markup on the book when it gets to the seller.
your 20$ textbook might have 10$ of markup on it from the people you purchase the book from. the $10/book that the store paid could have 2-5$ of markup from the distributor that the store bought the books from. your 20$ book could have cost the distributor a grand total of $5, which is the cost of the book from conception to production and a little extra for the publisher.
Go work in a manufacturing environment before you pretend to understand why things cost the consumer as much as they do.
oops i meant interesting.
Also, the grandparent totally neglected to realize that the industries founded on paper support millions of employees in the US alone, not to mention the entire world.
Hundreds of billions of dollars of income per year is soley due to paper and industries created from paper products (and i'm not talking about toilet paper or paper packaging products).
If printed material were to all of a sudden disappear, it isn't like film where only a handful or less companies produced the material which resulted in the loss of maybe 1,000 jobs across the entire US, losing the printing industry would result in the loss of tens of thousands of printing companies instantly.
How in the hell can this guy be givin insightful? nothing about his post is remotely correct.
Producing paper is extreamly efficient when it comes to the amount of polution generated (nearly none). And then you go off and say that producing a product made of plastic, silicon and other such materials is more environmental friendly? You think that there will be only 1 of these things made? there will be hundreds of millions of tons of products created to create the kindle or whatever the hell your talking about. Producing plastic is very inefficient because plastic is produced from Oil and creates more of a problem than it's trying to solve. I would imagine that all of the other processes involved in creating the individual parts for the e-book device also use tons of non-recycable materials and produces and equal amount of waste.
With a book, you can recycle it and it becomes useable paper again without any hazardous waste created from the process.
When your ebook fails, only the plastic casing is recycable.
100% incorrect.
Printing is very inexpensive and realitivly efficent if your publisher is smart enough to choose a realtivly newer and high tech print shop. Even without the latest technology there are hundreds or even thousands of small print shops that operate soley for small run products.
Runs of 5,000 or less can be acheived with very little waste (read less than 100 impressions) and maintain the very high quality that the publisher demands, especially if you run large format (40" or wider width) and most books (not magazines) are black only, which makes the waste even less per form.
On average, in the printing plant where I work, a single impression on a 50k long run costs roughly 20c and you can get usually 8 pages (standard 8 x 10.75 page size) per sheet or 2.5c per page. This includes all of the work done by the pre-press department, pressroom and bindery. Lithographic plates are extreamly cheap also, costing ~6-7$ to purchase and image. The longer the print run, the cheaper each piece become.
We've recently printed a digest book (half size, something like, 6 x 4 or the like), which gets 24 pages per sheet, making the per-page cost less than 1c.
Your forgeting that the developers of America's army actually did a good job creating the FPS and it is enjoyable to those of the non-sport FPS players.
with $3m , what hope did nasa have to create any type of mmo to begin with ?
Thats pretty impressive, what C7 do you have ? to be fair mines pretty old, maybe 3-4 years? 500 or 550mhz or something with 256megs of ram.
The 200$ PC is a via C7 processor. I have one, it can barely run a desktop in linux. the C7 processor is best suited for very thin client applications or non-display terminal type services such as a firewall or a slow file server.
Thats why real raiders have dual monitors.
here in the U.S. the court system doesnt put people to death every 2 or 3 days. It must suck for your country to do that but we don't do that here. If im not mistaken many of the states in the US do not have capital punishment.
however, I am all for capital punishment when justice is served. Commit an act of treason? you should die for betraying your country. you go off on a killing spree and kill 3-4 people? yep your justice includes death.
Stop making up non-sensical situations in an attempt to justify murder. if your pretend husband was a wife beater and then killed someone, he would not be given the death sentance and it makes the wife killing him no less wrong for killing him and she would be put in prison for killing her husband
All throughout history government executions are for crimes that are -very- severe and no other reason. Mass murderers, treason, etc are all acceptable by punishment of death because of the nature of the crime.
A person who slaps his wife for cheating on him is not punishable by death nor does the wife have ANY claim to use killing her husband as a justifiable response.
stop being a hippy, leave your fantasy world and join the real world and you will be able to understand what right v.s. wrong means.
Depends if she was held in a state prison or a federal prison. I don't think escaping a state prison would be charged as felony.
However, as it was said above, she did use a fake Social Security number, which is a felony.