I wouldn't expect a non immediate family memebr to bring his/her skillset to my beck and call (electrician/carpenter/etc...) with recompense. Therefore, my skill is available for an hourly cost as well.
As a GM in some of these games. I completely agree. On several instances I (as the GM) accused a player that was contantly writing notes of too much knowledge. How did he know he was in a game and that I could control it. TOO MUCH KNOWLEDGE. Please report etc, etc......
Have an electronic voting system that you use. When you are finished, you receive a printed paper copy of your votes that you confirm and place in a locked box. Theoretically, the totals for each should match. IF not, an audit should find the descrepancies.
Not perfect, but it would be a good intermediate to fullscale e-voting.
Note: Not ALL the ships were accounted for...some were just assumed lost [i.e. Pegasus!]
Actually, this is the heart of my question. Sorry, if I wasn't clear. I was just wondering if this would be a MAJOR plot point or something that just hangs out there....
Since the battlestar is a class of ship, is the "Galactica" the only one? In the original it was the last one to survive (excepting the one they "found" in one of the episodes, only to "lose" it again).
Just curious if anyone knows if that will part of the plot or not.
You have a valid point. The Wal-Mart PR giant certainly does have an edge. And yes, I'm sure there will a lot of people who "try it out".
But seriously, I don't think signing up and ordering AT Wal-Mart would ever fly.
I'd love to see a spin that says "Instead of driving to Blockbuster to get your movie NOW, drive here, order it, and you'll get in a week!"
I think the base busniess assumption has to be that customers of this service have computers and are fairly comfortable with them. There will be spike a in "newbies", but just for the experience.
To be honest, I think Netflix has already saturated the market for this. As has been identified by others, the true geeks, rent and rip the DVD, or find the torrent, or KaZaa or iMesh it.
The market to watch is when someone (like a Wal-Mart) puts thier money into the technology to develop a streaming technology or a download and play type of busniess model. Of course what that model is, I can't say (or I'd be rich!)
I think the weak link in the chain is the hardware. If I could watch movies without having to actually get a DVD or pry my kids away from the DVD player to watch a movie, it would be more appealing.
Also, there is nothing (in movie rental land) worse than getting your NetFlix rental disc after waiting 2 months and seeing that it appears to have been run over in a gravel pit. (Just return it, we'll put you back on the list).
Lastly, our stupid television media (techno-morons) had this story last night and said Wal-Mart was going to now compete directly with Blockbuster for the video rental market. No mention of NetFlix whatsoever. Shows an interesting perspective on what the true perception of the "masses" are about what technology exists.
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I wouldn't expect a non immediate family memebr to bring his/her skillset to my beck and call (electrician/carpenter/etc...) with recompense. Therefore, my skill is available for an hourly cost as well.
$40/hr is a nice figure here in the midwest, USA.
Dave
As a GM in some of these games. I completely agree. On several instances I (as the GM) accused a player that was contantly writing notes of too much knowledge. How did he know he was in a game and that I could control it. TOO MUCH KNOWLEDGE. Please report etc, etc......
Have an electronic voting system that you use. When you are finished, you receive a printed paper copy of your votes that you confirm and place in a locked box. Theoretically, the totals for each should match. IF not, an audit should find the descrepancies.
Not perfect, but it would be a good intermediate to fullscale e-voting.
Since the battlestar is a class of ship, is the "Galactica" the only one? In the original it was the last one to survive (excepting the one they "found" in one of the episodes, only to "lose" it again).
Just curious if anyone knows if that will part of the plot or not.
What happens when you want to put on mood music? you have to go over and turn off the TV.
Mood music???? Am I still on Slashdot???
You have a valid point. The Wal-Mart PR giant certainly does have an edge. And yes, I'm sure there will a lot of people who "try it out".
But seriously, I don't think signing up and ordering AT Wal-Mart would ever fly.
I'd love to see a spin that says "Instead of driving to Blockbuster to get your movie NOW, drive here, order it, and you'll get in a week!"
I think the base busniess assumption has to be that customers of this service have computers and are fairly comfortable with them. There will be spike a in "newbies", but just for the experience.
Dave
To be honest, I think Netflix has already saturated the market for this. As has been identified by others, the true geeks, rent and rip the DVD, or find the torrent, or KaZaa or iMesh it.
The market to watch is when someone (like a Wal-Mart) puts thier money into the technology to develop a streaming technology or a download and play type of busniess model. Of course what that model is, I can't say (or I'd be rich!)
I think the weak link in the chain is the hardware. If I could watch movies without having to actually get a DVD or pry my kids away from the DVD player to watch a movie, it would be more appealing.
Also, there is nothing (in movie rental land) worse than getting your NetFlix rental disc after waiting 2 months and seeing that it appears to have been run over in a gravel pit. (Just return it, we'll put you back on the list).
Lastly, our stupid television media (techno-morons) had this story last night and said Wal-Mart was going to now compete directly with Blockbuster for the video rental market. No mention of NetFlix whatsoever. Shows an interesting perspective on what the true perception of the "masses" are about what technology exists.
Dave
pfffft. I've got 2 clusters of those. Dave
Ummm, wouldn't that be redundant? We already have /.
Dave
but it's widely known and anyone with the CLIT (Convert LIT) tool
:)
Which MS uber-genius came us with that acronym? MS wouldn't use it, you can't achive world-domination with only 50% market share
Dave