Those systems used clearly incompatible cartridges. All games are now on CD/DVD/Bluray which are formats that are largely compatible. My bluray player will play any of them. The backwards compatibility is why I got a PS2. The only reason that ended is to resell you the same games again and again. I have several game systems in my living room, if I buy a PS4 the PS3 will have to go or the cube, or the n64 or the PS2, I have no room left.
I would have bought a PS4 at launch if it included backwards compatibility and sold my PS3. Now I will not likely be buying one.
The point is EA are scumbags. I guess speaking truth to power now really is a revolutionary act.
Just this week they release an android racing game that if you want to fix your car you either wait X hours or pay some fee. That is how a scumbag acts. They are charging for something that is part of the damn core game. Sure they give the game away for free, but they make it impossible to play that way. Just sell it for a fixed price like an honest person, not some hidden ever rising cost to play.
Since when are valve games built on the practice of charging to play instead of sold like an honest person? I bought one copy of Portal 2, since it was the PS3 one I also got the PC game via steam. I don't have to wait X hours to make the blue portal or pay a $1 to do it now. I don't have to pay $1 to replace GladOs's potato.
Sounds better than the current malarky of putting the data on the disk and charging me an unlock code for material that should have been in the damn game to begin with. Even worse is doing this shit with one time codes to prevent reselling games. This means one day I will lose that content even if I am the original owner. Personally they should have to label this stuff on the game in such a way that I can avoid it.
It looks like one option I will likely take is to not buy a PS4 or 720.
What people don't like is when the end of the game is DLC or that launch day stuff on the disk is locked out unless you buy the DLC. The game companies are moving what would be game content normally into DLC packs to drive up the price of the game without letting buyers know about it ahead of time.
Have you looked into kickstarter? I know there is risk there, but I am waiting on 3 games and so far getting good updates on all of them save for the DFA. Wasteland and the new carmageddon seem to be coming along nicely.
They shutdown the game servers but every game everywhere will have its last day online.
Incorrect. I have hosted and still have the files for many game servers. If the time comes that there are no more running I will gladly run one. Now who wants to play Doom2?
It is true, if you operated only in bitcoin. Instead you are just using bitcoin as a barter good for real currency.
If you lived in bitcoinia you would be experiencing deflation and would have to either make more bitcoins or watch your economy tank.
Tech related items have utility now. Bitcoins like dollars have utility when they are spent. So while you might need a computer now that you could buy later for less, you will want to hold bitcoins as long as possible. TADA deflation and an economy that would be totally locked up.
Bitcoin does not function as a currency. It functions as a tool of barter. This is in the same way that gold is not a currency.
Speculation has nothing to do with my objection to bitcoin. The objection is that it is designed to deflate. That is a recipe for disaster. It concentrates wealth in very few hands that have no incentive to spend that wealth. If this were a real currency for a real nation they economy would come to a near total halt.
And there is a fundamental problem with the currency that you just pointed out. Sorry I did not make it so crystal clear for you. I guess I over estimate the intelligence of the average slashdot poster.
If 1 handjob costs 10 bitcoins today, then tomorrow it only costs 9 and so on. See where this is going? That is called deflation.
Money has value because it can be spent. Since I have to spend some USD on taxes, they have value to me. I must have $X/year no matter what to pay my taxes. I can also spend them at the grocery store and everywhere else.
Because that is the most expensive way to heat anything. Pretty much all other methods are cheaper and a normal heating system can heat where you want thus using less energy to keep you warm.
Have you considered selling those old machines and buying a ground source heat pump?
1. Lots of legal ways to do that 2. No, I would rather keep my country from being corrupt. 3. No, nor can I spend it on drugs, hookers or the blood of innocent children
How much money do you have that you cannot store it? Ever held $10k? I have, it is just one little bundle of $100s about the same thickness as a deck of cards.
You don't have a semi-viable alternative you have a currency that is going into a deflationary spiral.
Better do it soon if you don't everyone else in the same position will. Since you can't mine new bitcoins profitably anymore without ASICs anyway, the value will shoot up until enough folks cash out and it crashes.
A profitable company can issue more stock. I can use that stock to change the company or own it if I wish. I can resell it on any number of exchanges and lots of it changes hands daily.
Bitcoin is literally a ponzi scheme. It takes in dollars either in cash or in electricity to generate tokens that increase in value as more suckers enter into the scam. The folks who bought in early can make money by selling to suckers down the line, until they run out of suckers and the whole thing crashes.
The value of the Euro and USD are that you have to pay taxes in them, and can use them to buy stuff locally or internationally.
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Who is dumb enough to think that a server they don't run will continue to be available?
Halo online servers especially. They want you to buy the next version so they kill off the old one. Not expecting that to happen is plain stupid.
Then explain me buying all these indie games?
Or the fact that the game that excites me the most this year is wasteland 2.
Game play is more important that graphics, has alway been.
Those systems used clearly incompatible cartridges. All games are now on CD/DVD/Bluray which are formats that are largely compatible. My bluray player will play any of them. The backwards compatibility is why I got a PS2. The only reason that ended is to resell you the same games again and again. I have several game systems in my living room, if I buy a PS4 the PS3 will have to go or the cube, or the n64 or the PS2, I have no room left.
I would have bought a PS4 at launch if it included backwards compatibility and sold my PS3. Now I will not likely be buying one.
The point is EA are scumbags. I guess speaking truth to power now really is a revolutionary act.
Just this week they release an android racing game that if you want to fix your car you either wait X hours or pay some fee. That is how a scumbag acts. They are charging for something that is part of the damn core game. Sure they give the game away for free, but they make it impossible to play that way. Just sell it for a fixed price like an honest person, not some hidden ever rising cost to play.
Since when are valve games built on the practice of charging to play instead of sold like an honest person? I bought one copy of Portal 2, since it was the PS3 one I also got the PC game via steam. I don't have to wait X hours to make the blue portal or pay a $1 to do it now. I don't have to pay $1 to replace GladOs's potato.
Sounds better than the current malarky of putting the data on the disk and charging me an unlock code for material that should have been in the damn game to begin with. Even worse is doing this shit with one time codes to prevent reselling games. This means one day I will lose that content even if I am the original owner. Personally they should have to label this stuff on the game in such a way that I can avoid it.
It looks like one option I will likely take is to not buy a PS4 or 720.
What people don't like is when the end of the game is DLC or that launch day stuff on the disk is locked out unless you buy the DLC. The game companies are moving what would be game content normally into DLC packs to drive up the price of the game without letting buyers know about it ahead of time.
Have you looked into kickstarter?
I know there is risk there, but I am waiting on 3 games and so far getting good updates on all of them save for the DFA. Wasteland and the new carmageddon seem to be coming along nicely.
They shutdown the game servers but every game everywhere will have its last day online.
Incorrect. I have hosted and still have the files for many game servers. If the time comes that there are no more running I will gladly run one. Now who wants to play Doom2?
Then we need to make the open source one most prestigious journal.
There is no need for an open source journal to be fly by night.
It is true, if you operated only in bitcoin. Instead you are just using bitcoin as a barter good for real currency.
If you lived in bitcoinia you would be experiencing deflation and would have to either make more bitcoins or watch your economy tank.
Tech related items have utility now. Bitcoins like dollars have utility when they are spent. So while you might need a computer now that you could buy later for less, you will want to hold bitcoins as long as possible. TADA deflation and an economy that would be totally locked up.
You have no reasonable expectation of privacy from above your position. You own the land not the air and space above it.
Google Earth has pictures of my pool, if I want to stop that I can put up some sort of covering.
I also bitched about how much flash kills my phone battery :)
Is that a production issue or a lack of sales issue?
My understanding was sales were limited until they could prove the product.
Bitcoin does not function as a currency. It functions as a tool of barter. This is in the same way that gold is not a currency.
Speculation has nothing to do with my objection to bitcoin. The objection is that it is designed to deflate. That is a recipe for disaster. It concentrates wealth in very few hands that have no incentive to spend that wealth. If this were a real currency for a real nation they economy would come to a near total halt.
And there is a fundamental problem with the currency that you just pointed out. Sorry I did not make it so crystal clear for you. I guess I over estimate the intelligence of the average slashdot poster.
If 1 handjob costs 10 bitcoins today, then tomorrow it only costs 9 and so on. See where this is going? That is called deflation.
The cost difference is such that you should probably invest in that equipment, assuming you are not a renter.
I think you are mistaken.
Money has value because it can be spent. Since I have to spend some USD on taxes, they have value to me. I must have $X/year no matter what to pay my taxes. I can also spend them at the grocery store and everywhere else.
Because that is the most expensive way to heat anything. Pretty much all other methods are cheaper and a normal heating system can heat where you want thus using less energy to keep you warm.
Have you considered selling those old machines and buying a ground source heat pump?
1. Lots of legal ways to do that
2. No, I would rather keep my country from being corrupt.
3. No, nor can I spend it on drugs, hookers or the blood of innocent children
How much money do you have that you cannot store it? Ever held $10k? I have, it is just one little bundle of $100s about the same thickness as a deck of cards.
You don't have a semi-viable alternative you have a currency that is going into a deflationary spiral.
Better do it soon if you don't everyone else in the same position will. Since you can't mine new bitcoins profitably anymore without ASICs anyway, the value will shoot up until enough folks cash out and it crashes.
Their value is that everyone accepts them and you can pay your taxes with them.
Bitcoins like the currency of some backwater nation can be traded in for currency of immediate use, but is of limited utility itself.
A profitable company can issue more stock. I can use that stock to change the company or own it if I wish. I can resell it on any number of exchanges and lots of it changes hands daily.
Bitcoin is literally a ponzi scheme. It takes in dollars either in cash or in electricity to generate tokens that increase in value as more suckers enter into the scam. The folks who bought in early can make money by selling to suckers down the line, until they run out of suckers and the whole thing crashes.
The value of the Euro and USD are that you have to pay taxes in them, and can use them to buy stuff locally or internationally.
Too bad that as the currency gets more valuable your services get more expensive compared to your competitors.
That is a huge problem with this currency. It is a pyramid scheme and now with its rising value it is going to have a nice deflationary spiral.
Why would anyone consider this a good thing?
It means these coins are being hoarded. If it was real money this would be damaging the economy.