"There is no difference in the cost between valves pricing and a physical retail package"
This is sometimes true, sometimes not. Your best deals usually come in the bundles. Besides, one should look at the value a game provides them, not how much it costs in relation to publisher expenses. How does that really matter to the end gamer?
"When was the last time you tried to play Half Life 2 without being logged on to Steam"
"Offline mode". It works as advertised.
I don't like DRM and there are parts of Steam I don't like either. Overall, though, I am not offended by Steam. It's relatively unrestrictive about how you play your games and what systems you install it on and does add features of its own.
I think deep down in the bowels of Redmond Microsoft's tactic is still to deliberately render pages inaccurately so that web developers are forced to alter their pages to cater to it, thus breaking the browsers that do play by the rules.
Here's the problem with your theory. In order for ISPs to get all self-righteous like you appear to be doing they need to acknowledge not only the people on the high end who "should pay more" but the 1GB grannies as well. Are their bills going to go down? Of course they're not. So, yes, this is a pure money grab.
I didn't even know this Google Apps Premier existed. Why does it exist? Google Apps is neat. It's cool to be able to look at an Excel attachment without having to download it. That's as far as it goes, though. Google Apps is much lighter on the features, is slower for me even on broadband, is inaccessible if you lose Internet access, and so on. And $50/year per user isn't cheap.
Google Apps is an impressive demo of what AJAX can do. Nothing more.
That's one of the flaws in XP - chances are you can't get away with not being administrator. Some things won't install. A few things won't even run. Not being Admin will lead to an unpleasant experience.
I have quite a few external hard drives made by various manufacturers and they all have power saving modes. XP can deal with it. Vista can deal with it. Kubuntu can deal with it. So unless these drives have some sort of...different power saving mode I don't understand the dilemma.
Am I the only one who prefers sitting by myself with a controller playing a good single-player game? Am I the only one who still refuses to pay a monthly fee for a video game? Am I...getting old?:)
"By viewing this HTML source you agree to send $100 to me. If you do no consent, too bad, you're already viewing the source now. And don't think I can't tell - *I* know JavaScript."
...in my experience Vista is easier to transition to than most operating systems I've upgraded. Most hardware still works. Every program I've tried so far has worked. Can you say the same thing for 98 to XP? No. OS 9 to OS X? No. Linux to newer Linux? Well, yes.:)
Take a machine that runs 98 tolerably well and upgrade it to XP. Pain. Take a machine that runs XP tolerably well and upgrade it to Vista. Pain. Nothing is new here. You upgrade your OS and you'll probably need to upgrade your hardware too. And purchasers that doesn't realize this only have themselves to blame. Did I just agree with Steve Ballmer? Damn it, get me a razor blade...
It looks like they're trying to market this as the gimped down poor-man's PS3. That would be appropriate if we were talking about the $99 model, but we're talking about the $399 model. From my point of view as a consumer $400 is still a lot of money and certainly too much for me to accept major features being axed and I don't care how much it costs Sony to make. So what is it going to be once it gets down to that $99 price point? An Atari 2600 with HDMI?
A season of X-Files, presumably bootleg, is $56. I think I'm in the wrong line of work. Anyway, perhaps the reason they aren't being pursued is that they may not be in the US. If they are in, for example, Russia, allofmp3 has shown how much fun suing them can be. Single mothers with Kazaa, on the other hand, tend to be easy to pick off.
...according to vgchartz.com there are 23.79M PSPs out there. That's a lot of systems and most would say a sign of success. It's only once you look at Nintendo's numbers - 50.64M - that there's a sign of something amiss. That doesn't change the fact that there are 24M PSPs, though, and that's a lot.
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So my petition for a few days of Crysis is a...no then? Phooey.
No, I don't think that'll work. Where would the rocket find fuel to get back?
"There is no difference in the cost between valves pricing and a physical retail package"
This is sometimes true, sometimes not. Your best deals usually come in the bundles. Besides, one should look at the value a game provides them, not how much it costs in relation to publisher expenses. How does that really matter to the end gamer?
"When was the last time you tried to play Half Life 2 without being logged on to Steam"
"Offline mode". It works as advertised.
I don't like DRM and there are parts of Steam I don't like either. Overall, though, I am not offended by Steam. It's relatively unrestrictive about how you play your games and what systems you install it on and does add features of its own.
I think deep down in the bowels of Redmond Microsoft's tactic is still to deliberately render pages inaccurately so that web developers are forced to alter their pages to cater to it, thus breaking the browsers that do play by the rules.
Curse those Europeans and their use of the metrics system.
Yep. I wonder if we can get a 3-D image of their server room on fire.
Hmm. You've never...watched FOX News have you?
Here's the problem with your theory. In order for ISPs to get all self-righteous like you appear to be doing they need to acknowledge not only the people on the high end who "should pay more" but the 1GB grannies as well. Are their bills going to go down? Of course they're not. So, yes, this is a pure money grab.
I didn't even know this Google Apps Premier existed. Why does it exist? Google Apps is neat. It's cool to be able to look at an Excel attachment without having to download it. That's as far as it goes, though. Google Apps is much lighter on the features, is slower for me even on broadband, is inaccessible if you lose Internet access, and so on. And $50/year per user isn't cheap.
Google Apps is an impressive demo of what AJAX can do. Nothing more.
...the Chinese character for 'pwnt'?
That's one of the flaws in XP - chances are you can't get away with not being administrator. Some things won't install. A few things won't even run. Not being Admin will lead to an unpleasant experience.
I have quite a few external hard drives made by various manufacturers and they all have power saving modes. XP can deal with it. Vista can deal with it. Kubuntu can deal with it. So unless these drives have some sort of...different power saving mode I don't understand the dilemma.
...people on the news start talking about bubbles and stuff.
Citizens of Home are finding their town shrouded in a mysterious vapor, causing residents to question whether or not they will ever actually exist.
Details at 11.
Am I the only one who prefers sitting by myself with a controller playing a good single-player game? Am I the only one who still refuses to pay a monthly fee for a video game? Am I...getting old? :)
"By viewing this HTML source you agree to send $100 to me. If you do no consent, too bad, you're already viewing the source now. And don't think I can't tell - *I* know JavaScript."
...of all the targeted ads you'll get if you have erectile dysfunction...
...after looking at the slideshow on IMDB that guy's eyes just creep me out. It's like he's got zombie contact lenses on, but he apparently does not.
...in my experience Vista is easier to transition to than most operating systems I've upgraded. Most hardware still works. Every program I've tried so far has worked. Can you say the same thing for 98 to XP? No. OS 9 to OS X? No. Linux to newer Linux? Well, yes. :)
Take a machine that runs 98 tolerably well and upgrade it to XP. Pain. Take a machine that runs XP tolerably well and upgrade it to Vista. Pain. Nothing is new here. You upgrade your OS and you'll probably need to upgrade your hardware too. And purchasers that doesn't realize this only have themselves to blame. Did I just agree with Steve Ballmer? Damn it, get me a razor blade...
It looks like they're trying to market this as the gimped down poor-man's PS3. That would be appropriate if we were talking about the $99 model, but we're talking about the $399 model. From my point of view as a consumer $400 is still a lot of money and certainly too much for me to accept major features being axed and I don't care how much it costs Sony to make. So what is it going to be once it gets down to that $99 price point? An Atari 2600 with HDMI?
Every anti-virus program I've used in years defaults to auto-updating with zero configuration. How can that many people screw that up?
A season of X-Files, presumably bootleg, is $56. I think I'm in the wrong line of work. Anyway, perhaps the reason they aren't being pursued is that they may not be in the US. If they are in, for example, Russia, allofmp3 has shown how much fun suing them can be. Single mothers with Kazaa, on the other hand, tend to be easy to pick off.
Meh. I wouldn't want a Sony exec's brain cells. They're probably copy protected anyway
If those fuckers didn't make us suffer this we wouldn't have to STEAL their shit. You're right. It is always the assholes...
...according to vgchartz.com there are 23.79M PSPs out there. That's a lot of systems and most would say a sign of success. It's only once you look at Nintendo's numbers - 50.64M - that there's a sign of something amiss. That doesn't change the fact that there are 24M PSPs, though, and that's a lot.