I'm sure Gabe loves to reiterate the 50% off, 3000% increase stats, but L4D is hardly an example of your typical AAA title.
With only four 40min campaigns, 4 player models, and 6 enemy types, the game only offers 160min of playtime and most of that is spent at a crawling pace blasting through regenerating hoards. The replay value is higher then other AAA titles, but maybe not so high to warrant a $50 price. Perhaps "making it up in volume" would work for publishers who spend tens of millions developing a game, maybe it won't. Using a game with such a small amount of content for this example does not make a valid argument to me.
So do Video Games Cost Too Much? Yes, L4D had cost too much.
Who are these researchers? How long have they been on the intertubes? Do they really think the lack of this relatively small stack of blades they call TPB will bring down a massive world-wide network like bT?
It seems to me this is FUD, but the purpose of publishing it is not immediately clear to me.
Obviously you can't stop it, so what's your point? I didn't see anyone cry for workers of paper mills, printing presses and typewriter factories when computers replaced paper. Nobody asked for subsidies or started rent seeking when their vacuum tube factory was obsoleted by transistors. They could have argued that transistors where simply making money off the ideas of vacuum tubes so they deserved their share. Everyone would have laughed at them because the progression was more obvious.
Either they can either retool their "factories" or they can sell them. The problem with most publishers is they don't even have any factories, they just move money around while taking more then their fair share. That's why they are resisting so much, they have nothing to fall back on.
Well if they didn't have the foresight to actually provide some sort of investment, then maybe they wouldn't be in this situation. Instead they leach talent from all over the world, use whatever media manufacturer is cheapest and higher a publicists when needed. They kept doing the same thing they've been doing since the Beatles while the rest of the world started embracing the internet. Now they can no longer monopolize the market so they want to make competition illegal.
Exactly, OS software has many more services then a router or firewall. But I'm glad to see that user end distros such as Ubuntu are stripping out useless services such as MySQL, which is only functioning as a potential vector of attack on most machines.
I'm going to have to disagree. These fancy GUIs may look like a great productivity booster, but I think everyone here can agree that dumping data into a plain text file would be more powerful, and as a result more productive. Instead of having to manually move around resources with your whole arm, you could grep out the data you need and pipe it to the necessary areas. Directing traffic would be as simple as starting your editor of choice such as Vi or Emacs and yGP."1pu.u.u.u.-ing your way into management heaven.
Ubuntu and other user-oriented distros should create a presentation, ran when a user first turns on the computer. It could introduce them to everything, and tell them where they can get more support and have their questions answered.
I work for a web retailer. I get over 1000 emails a day. It's insane. With filtering I can get it down to about fifty. But I still get that "Did you read my email" at least once a week. We have so many internal sites for centralizing information. So when ever I look for an established solution to a problem, I search the past tickets, our wiki and our message boards, oh and the "portal." There's also the archives from the previous centralized data source.
A lot of it would be better if we could manage to implement a decent search on any of these resources.
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Because courts have such a great track record of staying scientific. /s
You must work at Amazon to. You can thank the "nice guy" for that script.
I'll go you one better - I once had to maintain Perl code.
Oh yeah? I had to scale a Ruby on Rails application.
So what. I do both and I work weekends. They guy who wrote the Perl is my boss.
Well, once they copy what the competitors are doing they can use their monopoly position to force everyone to use it.
I'm sure Gabe loves to reiterate the 50% off, 3000% increase stats, but L4D is hardly an example of your typical AAA title.
With only four 40min campaigns, 4 player models, and 6 enemy types, the game only offers 160min of playtime and most of that is spent at a crawling pace blasting through regenerating hoards. The replay value is higher then other AAA titles, but maybe not so high to warrant a $50 price. Perhaps "making it up in volume" would work for publishers who spend tens of millions developing a game, maybe it won't. Using a game with such a small amount of content for this example does not make a valid argument to me.
So do Video Games Cost Too Much? Yes, L4D had cost too much.
The problem may not be gone, but I think it's going away. Really, what do you think a judge can do about it anyway? What's done is done.
>Or might you possibly think that he's a helpful guy and decide to put all his new free time to good use?
That's exactly what would happen. They would give you a promotion! hahaha, Just kidding. They would give you more responsibilities to fill your time.
A judge getting kick-backs? In my Amerika?
So computers replaced paper, and now they have replaced other media. The analogy is not as distant as you may think.
>No-one has stopped wanting music.
Are you seriously suggesting I'm saying that people have stopped wanting words to read?
What does that mean?
Who are these researchers? How long have they been on the intertubes? Do they really think the lack of this relatively small stack of blades they call TPB will bring down a massive world-wide network like bT?
It seems to me this is FUD, but the purpose of publishing it is not immediately clear to me.
>But are we really going to try to maximize speed over durability?
Depends, do you want to get their fast or safe?
Obviously you can't stop it, so what's your point? I didn't see anyone cry for workers of paper mills, printing presses and typewriter factories when computers replaced paper. Nobody asked for subsidies or started rent seeking when their vacuum tube factory was obsoleted by transistors. They could have argued that transistors where simply making money off the ideas of vacuum tubes so they deserved their share. Everyone would have laughed at them because the progression was more obvious. Either they can either retool their "factories" or they can sell them. The problem with most publishers is they don't even have any factories, they just move money around while taking more then their fair share. That's why they are resisting so much, they have nothing to fall back on. Well if they didn't have the foresight to actually provide some sort of investment, then maybe they wouldn't be in this situation. Instead they leach talent from all over the world, use whatever media manufacturer is cheapest and higher a publicists when needed. They kept doing the same thing they've been doing since the Beatles while the rest of the world started embracing the internet. Now they can no longer monopolize the market so they want to make competition illegal.
Exactly, OS software has many more services then a router or firewall. But I'm glad to see that user end distros such as Ubuntu are stripping out useless services such as MySQL, which is only functioning as a potential vector of attack on most machines.
spudtacular
I'm going to have to disagree. These fancy GUIs may look like a great productivity booster, but I think everyone here can agree that dumping data into a plain text file would be more powerful, and as a result more productive. Instead of having to manually move around resources with your whole arm, you could grep out the data you need and pipe it to the necessary areas. Directing traffic would be as simple as starting your editor of choice such as Vi or Emacs and yGP."1pu.u.u.u.-ing your way into management heaven.
I'm absolutely certain they want continued funding for this project.
Because it takes a mad computer scientist to implement it.
Ubuntu and other user-oriented distros should create a presentation, ran when a user first turns on the computer. It could introduce them to everything, and tell them where they can get more support and have their questions answered.
GM
Who is this No Picnic fellow? I don't believe there is a new major Linux contributer.
How about that, a coding error that makes lots of money. These are so rare so I think we can say this was a simple mistake.
It's nice to know though when the rest of us want to switch OS, Linux will be willing and able to accept us and our gaming nostalgia.
Some domains I found wouldn't autoregister like muhammedorgy, cheapchildsexslaves and vaginaterrorist but I got these to work, which are arguably much worse. http://www.prepubescentrape.com/ http://www.xboxwii60sex.com/ http://www.littleboyanussex.com/ http://www.fetusfuck.com/ http://www.preteencuntfuck.com/
A lot of it would be better if we could manage to implement a decent search on any of these resources.