At the end of the day, you decide if a game's entertainment value is worth the price. Whether you physically have it or not.
If you pay for cable TV, or going to a movie at the theater, you pay for the experience. Then you are done. You can't sell that experience as "used". What's so different about a game?
So, the only quibble about not being able to resell a game is whether it was overpriced to begin with. If so, don't buy it, just as you wouldn't buy a movie ticket to a movie that you heard sucks...
If a game is fairly priced, you get your entertainment out of it, then you are done.
Most of the images and videos people take now, of what they think is important are exceedingly dull to watch.
Recording everything would be several orders of magnitude worse.
As far as never forgetting, would one record oneself reviewing his own recording, to "remember" something? I can see it now...
"There was that time I was reviewing MyLife(tm), trying to find my car keys, and I found them in the septic tank... funny story that." But it was really hilarious, when I was watching my watch the found-my-keys episode, with friends - oh man, the reaction they had when they saw where I found my keys! Priceless". So, I was showing the part where I was showing my friends the bit where I was watching the spot where I was reviewing the part for where I lost my keys, and...
What I meant was that in 120 years I assume I will be well dead. I also assume that, most likely, you will have shuffled off as well. Either way, we will probably not be caring what time it is...
Of course if the dead DO care about what time it is, there are far bigger issues to worry about. I submit to you, that a self-winding analog watch will last longer and serve you better in the afterlife as well. Unless, of course, you can still get batteries for your digital watch there, wherever there is.
I'd hate to get lost delivering one of those big turbines while navigating those back roads, you could get lost for days driving on...
Some winding little windy roads
Some little windy winding roads
Some windy little winding roads
Some winding windy little roads
Some little rocky windy roads
Some little windy rocky roads
Some rocky little windy roads
Some windy winding little roads
Some windy rocky little roads
Some windy little rocky roads
Some rocky windy little roads
picture this scene; an auditorium full of crazed Apple fanatics, all hailing the speaker - Steve Jobs, up at a podium, and simu-cast on a huge screen.
Suddenly, a pudgy guy in a a rumpled business suit comes running thru the back door, swinging an ugly beige 1980's era PC chassis by its powercord. He runs up the center aisle, and flings it into the big screen, shattering it.
I hadn't really thought about it, but now that I think about it, I can't remember every buying a spark plug for any car I have owned, that was made after 1987...
Maybe I don't keep cars as long as I used to, or do they just last longer now?
I assume the robots that make cars now are more consistent than the dudes who made them before.
If you are smart enough to know when you have "weird thoughts", you can shrug your shoulders and go on with life, perhaps even putting those "creative notions" to some practical or artistic use.
If you are not too bright, you might believe all manner of crazy shit your mind comes up with and act on it. The worst cases might start a religion or live with the pigeons.
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Is there any app that leaves the cookies but just randomly changes a few bits in them? Seems like good clean fun to me.
At the end of the day, you decide if a game's entertainment value is worth the price. Whether you physically have it or not.
If you pay for cable TV, or going to a movie at the theater, you pay for the experience. Then you are done. You can't sell that experience as "used". What's so different about a game?
So, the only quibble about not being able to resell a game is whether it was overpriced to begin with. If so, don't buy it, just as you wouldn't buy a movie ticket to a movie that you heard sucks...
If a game is fairly priced, you get your entertainment out of it, then you are done.
Most of the images and videos people take now, of what they think is important are exceedingly dull to watch.
Recording everything would be several orders of magnitude worse.
As far as never forgetting, would one record oneself reviewing his own recording, to "remember" something? I can see it now...
"There was that time I was reviewing MyLife(tm), trying to find my car keys, and I found them in the septic tank... funny story that." But it was really hilarious, when I was watching my watch the found-my-keys episode, with friends - oh man, the reaction they had when they saw where I found my keys! Priceless". So, I was showing the part where I was showing my friends the bit where I was watching the spot where I was reviewing the part for where I lost my keys, and...
If he is a DJ and has to take music requests from the general public, well, that could make anyone sick, judging from the charts of what's popular.
What I meant was that in 120 years I assume I will be well dead. I also assume that, most likely, you will have shuffled off as well. Either way, we will probably not be caring what time it is...
Of course if the dead DO care about what time it is, there are far bigger issues to worry about. I submit to you, that a self-winding analog watch will last longer and serve you better in the afterlife as well. Unless, of course, you can still get batteries for your digital watch there, wherever there is.
digital watches are so 1980's
My watch is analog... it is so much easier to visualize the passage of time that way.
Trust me. 120 years from now you won't care if you have an analog or digital watch. Time will pass.
It is easy to cut-n-paste, snip, spell check... not the same email at all.
And I mean that in a very real, and legally binding sense.
I'd hate to get lost delivering one of those big turbines while navigating those back roads, you could get lost for days driving on...
Some winding little windy roads
Some little windy winding roads
Some windy little winding roads
Some winding windy little roads
Some little rocky windy roads
Some little windy rocky roads
Some rocky little windy roads
Some windy winding little roads
Some windy rocky little roads
Some windy little rocky roads
Some rocky windy little roads
picture this scene; an auditorium full of crazed Apple fanatics, all hailing the speaker - Steve Jobs, up at a podium, and simu-cast on a huge screen.
Suddenly, a pudgy guy in a a rumpled business suit comes running thru the back door, swinging an ugly beige 1980's era PC chassis by its powercord. He runs up the center aisle, and flings it into the big screen, shattering it.
The tag line; I'm free, and I'm a PC.
I agree, messing them up does nobody any good.
Now, if you could dig them up and bring them back, along with some other artifacts, now that would be worth something!
Do regular international salvage laws apply to abandoned moon gear?
... or has anyone bought a spark plug lately?
I hadn't really thought about it, but now that I think about it, I can't remember every buying a spark plug for any car I have owned, that was made after 1987...
Maybe I don't keep cars as long as I used to, or do they just last longer now?
I assume the robots that make cars now are more consistent than the dudes who made them before.
Hey, cuz, who you callin an inbred?
Just because I have a few attention issues... oooh, shiny!
Anyhow, where was I? Say, yer mouth sure is purty!
All of my ancestors are dead.
you would really have to be a fool to buy one
One could say that about almost anything. As long as no one is making you buy one, or prohibiting someone else from buying one, it all works out.
how they control the heat disippation
Pierce the skin with a fork a few times before you apply the heat.
heh - the Print Screen button is a terrorist tool!
The moon doesn't have a dark side
Yes it does. It is the side that is not light (at the moment).
I find that comments like yours really add to the discussion
I'd likely have to decode the holes by hand if I wanted to recover the data
It wouldn't be too hard to make an application that could read them for you, by using a flatbed scanner.
All the good stuff that is being smuggled is under the yucky stuff.
It makes perfect sense.
If you are smart enough to know when you have "weird thoughts", you can shrug your shoulders and go on with life, perhaps even putting those "creative notions" to some practical or artistic use.
If you are not too bright, you might believe all manner of crazy shit your mind comes up with and act on it. The worst cases might start a religion or live with the pigeons.
I'm sure the libertarians will chime in that they could do that much cheaper if the (subsidized) USPS weren't in the way...
I am happy with the USPS, and, coincidentally, it happens to be mandated by the US Constitution.
Now if the Federal government would stop doing things that it is NOT constitutionally authorized to do, maybe those things would run smoother.
The phrase "a drop in the ocean" comes to mind.
First you need step 0 - wherein you apply for (public) grant money to do the study.
Oh yeah, and label #7 (private) profit
Like most things, if you have to ask "who needs this?", the answer is not you.
Personally, there are a great number of wildly popular products for which I am not in the market.