Because by it's nature, games are about rulesets and figuring out the best way to handle them. Essentially: thinking.
And women overwhelmingly avoid 'thinking' like Kevin Federline avoids class.
What you could do is create a game with a microphone, and the woman talks into the microphone, and a sympathetic AI face appears on the TV screen and just nods quietly at everything the woman says and at no time attempts to offer any solution to problems - it just quietly nods and says "Umm -hmmm".
Granted, there are some women who do enjoy these endeavors, and games made for 'men' appeal to them on the same basis they appeal to men.
Essentially, the Xbox said to PC game developers: "If you can slightly tweak your product and make it work with our controller, we will give you a much bigger market of gamers to sell your product to."
Games that might not have been made otherwise, or PC games that would never make it to the Xbox but had financing because of a developer's/studio's profit from another game that was on the Xbox, are the benefit.
Are there really PC gamers who stopped paying PC games and went solely to the Xbox? Maybe a few. But are there people who never would have bought a PC game (or owned a machine capable of running said game) that _did_ buy that PC game for play on their Xbox? Yes, definitly a lot.
That really ain't so bad a ratio for a new business like that - approx 10% loss is really easy to turn into a profit by building the brand slightly and cutting costs and a few good games. I recall the division turned a profit when Halo2 broke.
Just look at how many years and years went by with Amazon losing money. But now it is paying off.
Don't be such a retard. Who, exactly, wouldn't sell an Xbox 360 for 10k if they had the chance? There are very few people for whom the difference between having a 360 and 10k is negligible.
I recall my office having a tectronic lazer color printer that we could run transparencies through. Except Tectronic built the printer so that any transparencies other than their special proporietary sheets would melt in the printer.
If the firm does not require you explicitly to write maintainable code - than the tips they give in this are quiet good.
Or if they want code that others can maintain, to be well commented, you should - ceteris paribus - ask for more mo-nah!
I actually did buy a very, very, very small amount on pot odds for two reasons:
1) Whatever technology they were developing could be picked up by a major service provider who wanted to get into the game market. So I was thinking someone might just buy them out. I think that's the only hope the thiefs behind the company had.
2) To just develop/sell/liscence their keyboard/mouse combo. It looked really good and they apparently own the IP on it.
Look, if you prefer the Itunes method, Yahoo still comes out ahead because rather than being $0.99 the songs are just $0.79 or about $8 for a whole album.
A year from now, I will pay ~10 for unlimited music. I'm cool with that. I listen a lot while working out and am always building new playlists and exploring new musics.
Yes, I coined that term myself. It seems like nothing special - just a conjunction of chill and relax. But it's really a new concept and I'm glad I could try to do something productive in the advertising section of Slashwhore.
Did someone say something about getting tail? Dude, hook me up. Long tail or short tail, but especially black tail.
Actually, no, it's still just $5 a month. It was when I signed up and will continue to be through the end of November per your own article that you didn't seem to read.
Also, I actually said it 'superior if you don't have a 'burning' desire. Get a radio kit for your car and you have no need to burn, anyway.
And you are right - everything is $0.79 - much less than ITMS.
Finally, you are rigt about switching between services being somewhat of a pain (I switched from Napster to Y! due to price). But still, it's not like the music I want to listen to _right now_ isn't always available.
And now when a musician gets uppity, all the recording industry has to do is threaten to release their next single straight into the $0.99 category, which will kill it dead no matter how good it is.
Whatever. It's just a crackpot theory. Just because someone has a website and posts something - it gets to have it's own thread here on/.. But if someone had posted something as assinine as this in a comment on/., it would either be moded to off-topic or flame bait.
As a side-note, Yahoo is superior to ITMS in every way other than not working with IPods. $5 a month gets you everything. If you buy more than 5 songs a month from ITMS and you don't have a 'burning' desire, Y! Unlimited comes out WAY ahead. I just love exploring music and building unlimited playlists on my DJ.
2) England continued to be the United States greatest trading partner in the post-colonial era.
3) England did not have a capitalist system - it had an authoritarian mercantilist system mandating that the US could only export to them - and only export certain materials. Again this illustrates your ignorance.
4) Governments getting payoffs from a corporation is not capitalism. At the heart of capitalism is anti-coercian. AGain, you are ignorant about what capitalism is.
5) You say you support human rights over profits, which is a contradiction because the most important human right is the right to profit from your talent, abilities, and hard work.
6) I'm not interested in serving humanity. I am interested in being happy. But I assure you I will do far more for my brother men in a given year than you will as evidenced by income that I earned from satisfying their economic needs along with being a right cheerful person to be around. I also value the happiness of others and am able to devote my resources to assisting those who have potential but have been borne into bad circumstances. But this is only possible because I am able to earn these resources in a capitalist system.
7) Not only do you not know what capitalism is, you don't know what a pyramid scheme is. The free psp thing is in itself a pyramid scheme, but what I have done is removed the pyramid. You sign up, you get $10, and you don't have to get anyone else 'under' you.
It is through a capitalism system that children's parents can better provide for their family and not have to send their children to the workplace.
I also believe this 'children working sweatshops' thing is far over-stated and I'd like you to name these alleged 'capitalist' countries that have them. Go ahead - name a few. Vietnam? Red China? Indonesia? These are not capitalist contries by a long shot.
Even the free-er countries on that list are only recently free and are emerging from a socialist environment.
Your entire ideology seems to be based on contradictory, false, and shallow left wing sound bites you haven't taken the time to analyze. It's no way to go through life.
Second, it's a giclee (or print) cover of The Fountainhead. It is a limited edition and is #2 out of 250 and signed by the original artist.
You may also spot an 'Ayndriod' by seeing us wearing my red 'Enjoy Capitalism' hoodie, stylized like the coca-cola logo.
As a side note, I have never been able to find a 'poster' of any Rand book covers anywhere. I have tried. If you know a source please let me know.
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Your completely wrong in every possible way.
Capitalism is the savior of the third world. It works every time it's tried. Just look at the Asian tigers.
You should really sit down with some Ayn Rand. I'd even offer to buy a book or two for you if you'd read it. I'd recommend Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.
Fine. Go give your laptops to the poor folks of Vietnam on day one and on day two go to the local pawn shop and buy them all back (and crash the local PC business in the process).
The people have *other priorities* for the value that is the laptop other than using it.
A better program would one that perhaps finances the purchase of laptops at a discount. That way you would get more laptops into hands that actually need them to create value (which may include a parent knowing that a child is particularly gifted and would benefit by it so they would purchase it for them).
I understand your sentiment, but there is an underlying binary system to both economics and politics and all matters: life and death.
Policies in each either lead to life or they lead to death. That is the measure of the merit of the policy. Capitalism - in it's true form that dada is trying to distinguish - is one that leads to life.
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And women overwhelmingly avoid 'thinking' like Kevin Federline avoids class.
What you could do is create a game with a microphone, and the woman talks into the microphone, and a sympathetic AI face appears on the TV screen and just nods quietly at everything the woman says and at no time attempts to offer any solution to problems - it just quietly nods and says "Umm -hmmm".
Granted, there are some women who do enjoy these endeavors, and games made for 'men' appeal to them on the same basis they appeal to men.
Games that might not have been made otherwise, or PC games that would never make it to the Xbox but had financing because of a developer's/studio's profit from another game that was on the Xbox, are the benefit.
Are there really PC gamers who stopped paying PC games and went solely to the Xbox? Maybe a few. But are there people who never would have bought a PC game (or owned a machine capable of running said game) that _did_ buy that PC game for play on their Xbox? Yes, definitly a lot.
Ah - and therein lies your solution. The editors do not use words that can be hacked by a dictionary attack!
Then shave off your neighbor's pubes....
Or you can shave off and name each of your pubes and just use your imagination to make that space themed.
Just look at how many years and years went by with Amazon losing money. But now it is paying off.
Don't be such a retard. Who, exactly, wouldn't sell an Xbox 360 for 10k if they had the chance? There are very few people for whom the difference between having a 360 and 10k is negligible.
I recall my office having a tectronic lazer color printer that we could run transparencies through. Except Tectronic built the printer so that any transparencies other than their special proporietary sheets would melt in the printer.
If the firm does not require you explicitly to write maintainable code - than the tips they give in this are quiet good.
Or if they want code that others can maintain, to be well commented, you should - ceteris paribus - ask for more mo-nah!
1) Whatever technology they were developing could be picked up by a major service provider who wanted to get into the game market. So I was thinking someone might just buy them out. I think that's the only hope the thiefs behind the company had.
2) To just develop/sell/liscence their keyboard/mouse combo. It looked really good and they apparently own the IP on it.
A year from now, I will pay ~10 for unlimited music. I'm cool with that. I listen a lot while working out and am always building new playlists and exploring new musics.
Yes, I coined that term myself. It seems like nothing special - just a conjunction of chill and relax. But it's really a new concept and I'm glad I could try to do something productive in the advertising section of Slashwhore.
Did someone say something about getting tail? Dude, hook me up. Long tail or short tail, but especially black tail.
Well why don't you just friggin go there.
Actually, no, it's still just $5 a month. It was when I signed up and will continue to be through the end of November per your own article that you didn't seem to read.
Also, I actually said it 'superior if you don't have a 'burning' desire. Get a radio kit for your car and you have no need to burn, anyway.
And you are right - everything is $0.79 - much less than ITMS.
Finally, you are rigt about switching between services being somewhat of a pain (I switched from Napster to Y! due to price). But still, it's not like the music I want to listen to _right now_ isn't always available.
Actually, I agree with you 100%. but I just happen to have a hydrogen car.
About a year ago.
Whatever. It's just a crackpot theory. Just because someone has a website and posts something - it gets to have it's own thread here on /.. But if someone had posted something as assinine as this in a comment on /., it would either be moded to off-topic or flame bait.
As a side-note, Yahoo is superior to ITMS in every way other than not working with IPods. $5 a month gets you everything. If you buy more than 5 songs a month from ITMS and you don't have a 'burning' desire, Y! Unlimited comes out WAY ahead. I just love exploring music and building unlimited playlists on my DJ.
Yes, I apparently can't spell lizenzed so I will at least clearly mispell it rather than try to spell it right.
Really? I see 5 liscenced properties (3 NFL, 1 NBA, 1 Pokemon).
The truth is more that there are a lot of true hits - mostly sports titles - that are liscenced and that skews the stats.
If they took sports titles out of the mix, I think the numbers would be more comparable.
2) England continued to be the United States greatest trading partner in the post-colonial era.
3) England did not have a capitalist system - it had an authoritarian mercantilist system mandating that the US could only export to them - and only export certain materials. Again this illustrates your ignorance.
4) Governments getting payoffs from a corporation is not capitalism. At the heart of capitalism is anti-coercian. AGain, you are ignorant about what capitalism is.
5) You say you support human rights over profits, which is a contradiction because the most important human right is the right to profit from your talent, abilities, and hard work.
6) I'm not interested in serving humanity. I am interested in being happy. But I assure you I will do far more for my brother men in a given year than you will as evidenced by income that I earned from satisfying their economic needs along with being a right cheerful person to be around. I also value the happiness of others and am able to devote my resources to assisting those who have potential but have been borne into bad circumstances. But this is only possible because I am able to earn these resources in a capitalist system.
7) Not only do you not know what capitalism is, you don't know what a pyramid scheme is. The free psp thing is in itself a pyramid scheme, but what I have done is removed the pyramid. You sign up, you get $10, and you don't have to get anyone else 'under' you.
Ya savvy?
It is through a capitalism system that children's parents can better provide for their family and not have to send their children to the workplace.
I also believe this 'children working sweatshops' thing is far over-stated and I'd like you to name these alleged 'capitalist' countries that have them. Go ahead - name a few. Vietnam? Red China? Indonesia? These are not capitalist contries by a long shot.
The free-est economies are almost entirely also the wealthiest. See here: Heritage Foundation's annual study.
Even the free-er countries on that list are only recently free and are emerging from a socialist environment.
Your entire ideology seems to be based on contradictory, false, and shallow left wing sound bites you haven't taken the time to analyze. It's no way to go through life.
Second, it's a giclee (or print) cover of The Fountainhead. It is a limited edition and is #2 out of 250 and signed by the original artist.
You may also spot an 'Ayndriod' by seeing us wearing my red 'Enjoy Capitalism' hoodie, stylized like the coca-cola logo.
As a side note, I have never been able to find a 'poster' of any Rand book covers anywhere. I have tried. If you know a source please let me know.
Capitalism is the savior of the third world. It works every time it's tried. Just look at the Asian tigers.
You should really sit down with some Ayn Rand. I'd even offer to buy a book or two for you if you'd read it. I'd recommend Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.
The people have *other priorities* for the value that is the laptop other than using it.
A better program would one that perhaps finances the purchase of laptops at a discount. That way you would get more laptops into hands that actually need them to create value (which may include a parent knowing that a child is particularly gifted and would benefit by it so they would purchase it for them).
Policies in each either lead to life or they lead to death. That is the measure of the merit of the policy. Capitalism - in it's true form that dada is trying to distinguish - is one that leads to life.