Because of fear of being sued, no one ever gives references these days beyond "yeah, he worked here" and honestly because of this, most employers don't even check references any more. The proper response to these sorts of threats is "if I hear another word of that, I quit effective in ten minutes."
It depends on how you define "newspaper". Yes, the physical news sheet with printed text that arrives every morning may die. However, in fifty years, the "New York Times" will still exist as a news organization.
The thing about demand curves is that to optimize profit, there probably is no single price you want to charge. To make the most profit, you want to first get all the people willing to buy for $60 to buy before dropping the price to $50 to people only willing to part with $50 to buy, then waiting for them to buy before dropping to $20, etc....
If Valve had charged 50% less from the get go for Left for Dead, they'd have lost millions from all those people who would have paid $60 paying $30.
It's worse than this. The Earth has existed for 4.5 billion years and contained a civilization that could reasonable detect radio waves for a little over a 100 years. Thus, the chance of a given Earth-like world having a civilization with roughly 20th century technology is about 45 million to 1.
Even if the average civilization lasts a million years, the odds are still 45,000 to 1 that any particular Earth-like world will contain one. The chance of us finding a civilization that inhabits a single nearby Earth-like world is extremely low.
If civilizations can expand beyond their home planet, then all bets are off, but that brings up the whole "where are they?" question. One presumes that if some sort of empire had spread out among nearby Earth-like words, it'd have gotten to this one as well. Therefore, I think it extremely unlikely that there are any advanced civilizations on a nearby Earth-like world.
If Valve is smart, they sold the rights to the plot and characters, not the setting. That would allow something like this, set in City 17 and featuring known of the main Half-life characters, to be done without effecting those rights.
I wish other companies would realize that this attitude has made Valve money. Rather than attempting shut down Counterstrike for touching their precious IP, they looked at it, bought it and thereby made lots and lots of money.
You need to realize that the improvement of working conditions in the West in the 19th and early 20th centuries wasn't some sort of natural outgrowth of industrialism. It came about because the people in those societies became appalled at the conditions and government stepped in and forced companies to improve these conditions. The 40 hour work week wasn't created by some natural economic change of events...it came about because the government forced it on companies.
Imagine a game that had all the violence of GTA but none of the story/gameplay. That is, you load the game, and a dialog says "press X to kill prostitute" and over and over and displays the results in 1080p glory.
Now imagine a sandbox/exploratory game with no violence.
Which would you play?
The thing about a game like MSG4 or Halflife is that while violent, most people are playing for the gameplay and/or the plot. The plot requires violence to seem "real". But most people aren't playing for the violence but for plot.
There is no room for any error at all in a financial transaction. Financial calculations must always be exactly precise. You can't just reduce the error unless you are reducing it all the way to zero. And not a statistical zero, but an exact "NO ERROR" precision.
Paramount owns Star Trek and thus the copyrights, not CBS. Paramount has a distribution deal with CBS which almost certainly does not include broadcast rights outside the US.
Because Democratic countries vote. It's easy to create laws like that if it just takes a couple guys saying "you must do it". Not so easy when you have to get a majority 535 people to agree to do it publicly.
Uh...my iPod Nano charges just fine connected to my Playstation 3...it doesn't sync to it obviously, but in terms of drawing power, it works just fine.
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Because of fear of being sued, no one ever gives references these days beyond "yeah, he worked here" and honestly because of this, most employers don't even check references any more. The proper response to these sorts of threats is "if I hear another word of that, I quit effective in ten minutes."
I dunno...when I read nytimes.com on Sunday morning, I tell my wife "I'm reading the paper".
Sometimes I then say "I'm going to listen to an album", and then I use the remote with my squeezebox to play a set of related mp3s off my NAS.
It depends on how you define "newspaper". Yes, the physical news sheet with printed text that arrives every morning may die. However, in fifty years, the "New York Times" will still exist as a news organization.
The thing about demand curves is that to optimize profit, there probably is no single price you want to charge. To make the most profit, you want to first get all the people willing to buy for $60 to buy before dropping the price to $50 to people only willing to part with $50 to buy, then waiting for them to buy before dropping to $20, etc....
If Valve had charged 50% less from the get go for Left for Dead, they'd have lost millions from all those people who would have paid $60 paying $30.
Hard drives also have a history of dying, yet few demand those be made removable.
You seem to be confusing "making a product I don't want" with "a wrong".
It's worse than this. The Earth has existed for 4.5 billion years and contained a civilization that could reasonable detect radio waves for a little over a 100 years. Thus, the chance of a given Earth-like world having a civilization with roughly 20th century technology is about 45 million to 1.
Even if the average civilization lasts a million years, the odds are still 45,000 to 1 that any particular Earth-like world will contain one. The chance of us finding a civilization that inhabits a single nearby Earth-like world is extremely low.
If civilizations can expand beyond their home planet, then all bets are off, but that brings up the whole "where are they?" question. One presumes that if some sort of empire had spread out among nearby Earth-like words, it'd have gotten to this one as well. Therefore, I think it extremely unlikely that there are any advanced civilizations on a nearby Earth-like world.
If Valve is smart, they sold the rights to the plot and characters, not the setting. That would allow something like this, set in City 17 and featuring known of the main Half-life characters, to be done without effecting those rights.
I wish other companies would realize that this attitude has made Valve money. Rather than attempting shut down Counterstrike for touching their precious IP, they looked at it, bought it and thereby made lots and lots of money.
You need to realize that the improvement of working conditions in the West in the 19th and early 20th centuries wasn't some sort of natural outgrowth of industrialism. It came about because the people in those societies became appalled at the conditions and government stepped in and forced companies to improve these conditions. The 40 hour work week wasn't created by some natural economic change of events...it came about because the government forced it on companies.
Yes, and it almost always involved working condition regulations imposed by the government.
You are confusing gore with violence.
A surgery simulator would be extremely gory, but not at all violent.
Imagine a game that had all the violence of GTA but none of the story/gameplay. That is, you load the game, and a dialog says "press X to kill prostitute" and over and over and displays the results in 1080p glory.
Now imagine a sandbox/exploratory game with no violence.
Which would you play?
The thing about a game like MSG4 or Halflife is that while violent, most people are playing for the gameplay and/or the plot. The plot requires violence to seem "real". But most people aren't playing for the violence but for plot.
Is she hot?
This is much more analogous to what Nintendo and Sony do with regards to DS and PSP homebrew.
We just gave our kid an old Mac. Problem solved.
That'll work until you discover that "Dora's Colombian Adventure" or some such bullshit requires Administrator access to run.
Yeah, I quit playing when I realized I'd developed the non-conscious reaction of spinning and shooting every time the lights went out.
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Otherwise, you are completely correct.
There is no room for any error at all in a financial transaction. Financial calculations must always be exactly precise. You can't just reduce the error unless you are reducing it all the way to zero. And not a statistical zero, but an exact "NO ERROR" precision.
If you use actual adblocking software, you can create a local exception just for those ads.
The percentage of people doing ad blocking from the host file is likely far, far too minuscule for them to care about.
Paramount owns Star Trek and thus the copyrights, not CBS. Paramount has a distribution deal with CBS which almost certainly does not include broadcast rights outside the US.
Because Democratic countries vote. It's easy to create laws like that if it just takes a couple guys saying "you must do it". Not so easy when you have to get a majority 535 people to agree to do it publicly.
Uh...my iPod Nano charges just fine connected to my Playstation 3...it doesn't sync to it obviously, but in terms of drawing power, it works just fine.
What!? The airport installed malware on my DS!?!?