Bad example, as movie theatres make most of their cash off of the concessions and not the ticket prices. Don't believe me? A 600mL bottle of Coke costs about eight cents to make (not including bottle). Translate that into the prices at the theatre.
Of the five last movies I downloaded, I purchased all five of them. DVD prices are so ridiculously low right now that it doesn't make any sense to *not* buy anything that you're interested in. Napoleon Dynamite is worth its weight in gold, for example. It's so sweet. It's totally... awesome. It's incredible.
" I would rate the adult cow higher on the sentience scale than a mouse with an uneducated human brain."
Spoken like a true city folk. Ever been on a farm? Ever heard of the phrase "cow tipping?" Ever actually *seen* a cow? Of all the farm animals you could have chosen, you picked the slowest, dumbest, most sedentary creature of them all. And I'm including hen's eggs. Mice *sperm* are farther up the sentience scale than cows, my friend.
Ever since NWN went this route, it seems to me that more and more companies are doing this - heck, id has been doing it for years now with Doom and Quake! Anyway, I'm not quite as cynical as you, but I still can't find a decent game that replicates the Civ2 w/Mars scenario feeling - maybe this will be it?
Bullshit. I had a Thinkpad 350X manufactured sometime in the early 90's that finally, *finally* died in 2002. IBM PCs are scrap as soon as they leave the factory? Yeah, I don't think so.
Huh? I thought I did... hafta check up on that. But come on... Saskatchewan has less than a million people in the entire province, and we're pretty much stuck with only one ISP. Why would I need to drum up competition for them? I do know a few people who work for them who say it's a pretty good employer, but I don't happen to work for them, no.
Slashdot - the only place where a positive comment towards a corporation automatically makes you an employee.
"The solution is getting messaging providers to take responsibility for their lame email systems that they set up without much thought and continue to not care much about when they become overrun by spammers."
My ISP, Sasktel in Saskatchewan, Canada has recently implemented a spam filtering service that has so far resulted in 2 false positives and no delivered spam. It completely blocks all virused emails as well. Finally, it sends out an email every once in a while to remind me to check the status of spam at the online message centre, where you can look at all email sent to me that is "suspicious."
They also have a fairly comprehensive policy against hosting spammers, which is nice to hear. I know that many of my friends who use other ISPs have been recently flooded with spam, but I've not had any problems thus far. It's nice to have an ISP that cares about its customers!
No idea if this is a joke, but for those of you who *really* don't know who Grendel is, it's the monster in _Beowulf_. There's also a fairly recent book entitled _Grendel_ that looks at the entire story from the monster's point of view; as far as I can remember Grendel is much less "monstrous" and Beowulf is much more "shiny warrior going to kill, kill, kill!"
I mean the software that I've already paid for, i.e. Outlook. Why would anybody pay $120 for two years of Outlook live when they can get a current version for $70-80 now and can use it for as long as they want? My parents are still using Outlook 98, for example.
So this is only for people who used web-based email programs? Why would I want to pay $60 for Outlook *per year* if I can use my current version of outlook now, for free, and import web-based email?
And you call yourself a geek? WG co-wrote two episodes of X-Files, for starters* (First Person Shooter and Kill Switch) and a possible Aliens 3 script (which wasn't used). No, this doesn't completely negate your point, but yes, some of these authors have been writing scripts without you knowing about it, apparently.
*As in, TV only - Orson Scott Card has written a script for the film version of Ender's Game, at any rate.
...what the heck Evolution is, you can find more info on it here, but it's basically an email/address book/calendar program, a la Outlook, for Gnome. A link in the article itself might have helped, especially since Novell seems to be targetting Windows users like me, who also (coincidentally?) haven't heard of the program.
Uh, what? If I seed a copy of "two_grandmothers_playing_chess.avi" and nobody downloads it, then that's not exactly distribution, is it? It's intent to distribute, which seems to be legal in Canada as long as nobody downloads*.
*Heck, this took place in HK, so as long as people were talking about USian legislation I thought I'd throw in some Canajin legislation too.
Nice in theory, but even Joe Sixpack can figure out that the excuse "those random 0's and 1's I put together turned into a Sandra Bullock movie!" is only so much BS.
Disturbing as in "I'm reading Slashdot and I'm being surrounded by hordes of bugs, where the hell is that gauss shotgun?", not as in "I've only got two shotgun rounds and there's about fifty zombies surrounding me, not including the one that is currently sucking out my brains or the one that's directing the creepy orchestral score!"
I can't believe nobody's mentioned Crimsonland yet. A terrific game, the entire purpose is to kill bugs creeping in from the edges of the screen with various weapons. Since they come from all around you, you need to watch out for the bugs with your peripherial vision. For *weeks* after going through a couple Crimsonland marathons, I couldn't even use a computer because it looked like various bugs were "creeping" in on me, even when I was browsing the net or whatnot. I sat there once, watching a "bug" crawl around in my peripherial vision, and *knew* that I needed to stop playing it. Most disturbing game ever made (psychologically, not in terms of actual game mechanics).
That's not what I'm saying. He buys the game. It looks legit. What reason would he have to assume that it's a fake game if he had no way to compare the cart to the real cartridge?
Metroid Prime 1 & 2 proved that console shooters *work* (this coming from a PC gamer since Wolfenstein and Blake Stone 3D;) ), but Deus Ex 2 is an atrocity. If he let Retro handle Deus Ex 3, I'm sure it would be *much* better.
"BTW - If you're learning law from a TV show, you should be extra sure to have a lawyer for just about anything. TV is notorious for being rather inacurrate and incomplete. Have fun watching, but no reflection of real life."
This is/. - my nick should be IANAL;) I meant my post to be somewhat satirical, but with a hint of truth - it really is a matter of a cop reading "52" when it should be "50." If you're innocent, they wouldn't pull you over, right? Not sure why this warranted me an overrated...
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No kidding. I've never before read a book in which every paragraph started with either "And" or "But." I think I'm including the opening paragraph here. If you're not laughing or shaking your head, you haven't read it.
Like how much Microsoft sells per year, or how much Windows-based software is sold in terms of both the software and support over a given year? Without a comparison, it's kinda worthless, isn't it?
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Bad example, as movie theatres make most of their cash off of the concessions and not the ticket prices. Don't believe me? A 600mL bottle of Coke costs about eight cents to make (not including bottle). Translate that into the prices at the theatre.
Of the five last movies I downloaded, I purchased all five of them. DVD prices are so ridiculously low right now that it doesn't make any sense to *not* buy anything that you're interested in. Napoleon Dynamite is worth its weight in gold, for example. It's so sweet. It's totally... awesome. It's incredible.
Sorry, we haven't used apocryphal gospel of Saint Yukimori the Samurai Doctor for *years*.
Spoken like a true city folk. Ever been on a farm? Ever heard of the phrase "cow tipping?" Ever actually *seen* a cow? Of all the farm animals you could have chosen, you picked the slowest, dumbest, most sedentary creature of them all. And I'm including hen's eggs. Mice *sperm* are farther up the sentience scale than cows, my friend.
Ever since NWN went this route, it seems to me that more and more companies are doing this - heck, id has been doing it for years now with Doom and Quake! Anyway, I'm not quite as cynical as you, but I still can't find a decent game that replicates the Civ2 w/Mars scenario feeling - maybe this will be it?
Alpha Centauri. You get to make your own military units, for crying out loud ;)
Bullshit. I had a Thinkpad 350X manufactured sometime in the early 90's that finally, *finally* died in 2002. IBM PCs are scrap as soon as they leave the factory? Yeah, I don't think so.
Slashdot - the only place where a positive comment towards a corporation automatically makes you an employee.
My ISP, Sasktel in Saskatchewan, Canada has recently implemented a spam filtering service that has so far resulted in 2 false positives and no delivered spam. It completely blocks all virused emails as well. Finally, it sends out an email every once in a while to remind me to check the status of spam at the online message centre, where you can look at all email sent to me that is "suspicious."
They also have a fairly comprehensive policy against hosting spammers, which is nice to hear. I know that many of my friends who use other ISPs have been recently flooded with spam, but I've not had any problems thus far. It's nice to have an ISP that cares about its customers!
No idea if this is a joke, but for those of you who *really* don't know who Grendel is, it's the monster in _Beowulf_. There's also a fairly recent book entitled _Grendel_ that looks at the entire story from the monster's point of view; as far as I can remember Grendel is much less "monstrous" and Beowulf is much more "shiny warrior going to kill, kill, kill!"
I mean the software that I've already paid for, i.e. Outlook. Why would anybody pay $120 for two years of Outlook live when they can get a current version for $70-80 now and can use it for as long as they want? My parents are still using Outlook 98, for example.
So this is only for people who used web-based email programs? Why would I want to pay $60 for Outlook *per year* if I can use my current version of outlook now, for free, and import web-based email?
And you call yourself a geek? WG co-wrote two episodes of X-Files, for starters* (First Person Shooter and Kill Switch) and a possible Aliens 3 script (which wasn't used). No, this doesn't completely negate your point, but yes, some of these authors have been writing scripts without you knowing about it, apparently.
*As in, TV only - Orson Scott Card has written a script for the film version of Ender's Game, at any rate.
...what the heck Evolution is, you can find more info on it here, but it's basically an email/address book/calendar program, a la Outlook, for Gnome. A link in the article itself might have helped, especially since Novell seems to be targetting Windows users like me, who also (coincidentally?) haven't heard of the program.
Moderators, please give this guy a -1 funny for making me spray Coke across my brand new LCD.
*Heck, this took place in HK, so as long as people were talking about USian legislation I thought I'd throw in some Canajin legislation too.
Nice in theory, but even Joe Sixpack can figure out that the excuse "those random 0's and 1's I put together turned into a Sandra Bullock movie!" is only so much BS.
Disturbing as in "I'm reading Slashdot and I'm being surrounded by hordes of bugs, where the hell is that gauss shotgun?", not as in "I've only got two shotgun rounds and there's about fifty zombies surrounding me, not including the one that is currently sucking out my brains or the one that's directing the creepy orchestral score!"
I can't believe nobody's mentioned Crimsonland yet. A terrific game, the entire purpose is to kill bugs creeping in from the edges of the screen with various weapons. Since they come from all around you, you need to watch out for the bugs with your peripherial vision. For *weeks* after going through a couple Crimsonland marathons, I couldn't even use a computer because it looked like various bugs were "creeping" in on me, even when I was browsing the net or whatnot. I sat there once, watching a "bug" crawl around in my peripherial vision, and *knew* that I needed to stop playing it. Most disturbing game ever made (psychologically, not in terms of actual game mechanics).
That's not what I'm saying. He buys the game. It looks legit. What reason would he have to assume that it's a fake game if he had no way to compare the cart to the real cartridge?
How would the father know it's a fake if he only purchased one of them?
Metroid Prime 1 & 2 proved that console shooters *work* (this coming from a PC gamer since Wolfenstein and Blake Stone 3D ;) ), but Deus Ex 2 is an atrocity. If he let Retro handle Deus Ex 3, I'm sure it would be *much* better.
This is /. - my nick should be IANAL ;) I meant my post to be somewhat satirical, but with a hint of truth - it really is a matter of a cop reading "52" when it should be "50." If you're innocent, they wouldn't pull you over, right? Not sure why this warranted me an overrated...
No kidding. I've never before read a book in which every paragraph started with either "And" or "But." I think I'm including the opening paragraph here. If you're not laughing or shaking your head, you haven't read it.
Like how much Microsoft sells per year, or how much Windows-based software is sold in terms of both the software and support over a given year? Without a comparison, it's kinda worthless, isn't it?