The cost would be negligible if it worked like that, but what Pepsi did, and what McDonalds is preported to do, is pay for the songs just as everyone else with no discounts.
Both Pepsi and McDonald's are paying Apple's retail price of 99 cents per song, sources say.
This would be $1 billion dollars. You aren't paying for the mp3, you are paying for the liscence to have it. Although to a conglomerate like McD's maybe a billion dollars is negligible.
Billion-dollar deals don't just poof out of thin air, there probably is something behind this. All they said is that there is no agreement right now, if they had no plans, they would probably say more than that. It does strike me as a bit odd, however, that they would buy these songs at-cost, and give them away as a marketing campaign. But Pepsi did it so maybe its not so far-fetched.
One more thing...McDonalds "continues to aggressively pursue bold new initiatives in the areas of music, sports, fashion and entertainment..."
Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but shouldn't McDonalds concentrate on making decent food before they get carried away with music and fashion? Maybe if they scrapped the wafer-thin burgers more people would go there.
Iraq gets $86 Billion dollars, we get a video game. This administration is a riot! i love it
"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the-the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." -G.W. Bush
"There will be no additional costs to students for this service," Spanier said, adding the program will be funded under a $160 information technology fee paid by students each semester that Penn State already had in place.
The fee was $160 before they added napster, and its still $160.
I've heard about this on CNN all day...Other schools are supposed to follow suit, which is a VERY good move IMO. Rather than closing even more ports, which colleges love to do, they buy a liscence for their students to get music legally. Even though you still have to pay normal price (99 cents) to burn these songs, its still awesome, and done without raisings tech fees.
"...seems that they have TWO Star Wars television ideas floating around the ranch...one would be animation and the other - LIVE ACTION."
A live action Star Wars series...I wonder where in the timeline it will be based? Well, if it's made with half the quality of the movies, it should really be something to look forward to.
Finally consoles are starting to catch up to PC games in terms of online play. PC's have been doing it for years, while the dedicated game machines had nothing. It's really filling a big gap in console gaming.
With the easy of use that XBL has, I suspect that when broadband gets really popular some people will be using XBL for free long-distance phone calls more than games, or a replacement for IM.
Maybe that's why it hasn't been released here, Americans would rather play killing games than play dance/music games I guess. But it's good to see Halo up there with Japanese titles.
If iPod had stayed proprietary to macs, MS might have something, but now it's just another mp3 player thrown into the fray. Especially since ipods are starting at $300 right now. By the time MS's comes out ipods will be $200-$250, and it will be way too overpriced.
Likening people being scared out of their wits of alien attack to a singer who doesn't really sing? I think the writer could have come up with a better example. To me, Milli Vanilli lip-syncing just isn't up there on the catastrophe scale with a martian attack. They just didn't have the same effect.
It's refreshing to see someone as 'important' as a VP admitting thier shortcomings. Usually the higher-ups try to dismiss the thought that their company might not be doing so well, and try to make you believe it is, when you know its just a ploy. This kind of honesty will earn people's trust, and more companies should do this.
both genres can't be played very well with consoles, due to the nature of console gamers and the console controls.
Have you ever heard of a little game called Halo? One of the best FPS ever and on a console. Plus, Halo online rocks even though it was never meant to be played online and has no hit prediction or anything.
Actually this has been done, except with a standard wired connection!
Check out the High Speed Highway Halo video, it's pretty kewl, I'd like to try it sometime.
The true crisis will be that with 100 IP's for each person, assigned to everything from your toilet to your coffee machine, not only will your computer be hacked but now any electronic appliance in your home has the potential to be controlled by a hacker. I think this would be great fun however, just think of it -- hacking into your buddy's electronics making them all erratically switch on and off, change channels, flush, whathaveyou.
Since the launch of Xbox in 2001, Microsoft has sold over 9.4 million Xbox consoles worldwide
9.4 million XBOXen have been sold and only 3 million copies of Halo? This means that only 1/3 of XBOX owners know of Halo's greatness, or that 2/3 own pirated copies from Taiwan! Either way, we have an epidemic in our hands, people!
It is a neat concept, one that's been around since before Quake 1. Every FPS or graphics-heavy game has settings for model complexity, texture detail, resolution, anti-aliasing, etc. Do you play computer games?
Exactly, so if you emulate the PS2's hardware fully on the PS3 (through software most likely, don't see them including the cpu/graphics emotion engine chip in the PS3 for anything other than emulation) then PS1 emulation would naturally come with it, since the PS1 emulation is part of the PS2's architecture and would need to be included to work properly. All this is granted they emulate the PS2's hardware, and don't just use a wrapper to interperet commands. Anyways, the point is that because it is not software emulation, is the reason this would work.
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..i can see it now...
a warewolf scratches YOU for 16 points of damage
a warewolf stops to enjoy a refreshing Vanilla Coke
The cost would be negligible if it worked like that, but what Pepsi did, and what McDonalds is preported to do, is pay for the songs just as everyone else with no discounts.
Both Pepsi and McDonald's are paying Apple's retail price of 99 cents per song, sources say.
This would be $1 billion dollars. You aren't paying for the mp3, you are paying for the liscence to have it. Although to a conglomerate like McD's maybe a billion dollars is negligible.
Billion-dollar deals don't just poof out of thin air, there probably is something behind this. All they said is that there is no agreement right now, if they had no plans, they would probably say more than that. It does strike me as a bit odd, however, that they would buy these songs at-cost, and give them away as a marketing campaign. But Pepsi did it so maybe its not so far-fetched.
One more thing...McDonalds "continues to aggressively pursue bold new initiatives in the areas of music, sports, fashion and entertainment..."
Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but shouldn't McDonalds concentrate on making decent food before they get carried away with music and fashion? Maybe if they scrapped the wafer-thin burgers more people would go there.
This new version is coming out right when they announce plans to rotate troops in Iraq, when they would need more soldiers and recruits.
Iraq gets $86 Billion dollars, we get a video game. This administration is a riot! i love it
"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the-the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." -G.W. Bush
"There will be no additional costs to students for this service," Spanier said, adding the program will be funded under a $160 information technology fee paid by students each semester that Penn State already had in place.
The fee was $160 before they added napster, and its still $160.
I've heard about this on CNN all day...Other schools are supposed to follow suit, which is a VERY good move IMO. Rather than closing even more ports, which colleges love to do, they buy a liscence for their students to get music legally. Even though you still have to pay normal price (99 cents) to burn these songs, its still awesome, and done without raisings tech fees.
"...seems that they have TWO Star Wars television ideas floating around the ranch...one would be animation and the other - LIVE ACTION."
A live action Star Wars series...I wonder where in the timeline it will be based? Well, if it's made with half the quality of the movies, it should really be something to look forward to.
A jump from 3ghZ to 500+ghZ isn't really spot on with Moore's Law is it? This is far from mere doubling.
Finally consoles are starting to catch up to PC games in terms of online play. PC's have been doing it for years, while the dedicated game machines had nothing. It's really filling a big gap in console gaming.
With the easy of use that XBL has, I suspect that when broadband gets really popular some people will be using XBL for free long-distance phone calls more than games, or a replacement for IM.
Maybe that's why it hasn't been released here, Americans would rather play killing games than play dance/music games I guess. But it's good to see Halo up there with Japanese titles.
If iPod had stayed proprietary to macs, MS might have something, but now it's just another mp3 player thrown into the fray. Especially since ipods are starting at $300 right now. By the time MS's comes out ipods will be $200-$250, and it will be way too overpriced.
Likening people being scared out of their wits of alien attack to a singer who doesn't really sing? I think the writer could have come up with a better example. To me, Milli Vanilli lip-syncing just isn't up there on the catastrophe scale with a martian attack. They just didn't have the same effect.
It's refreshing to see someone as 'important' as a VP admitting thier shortcomings. Usually the higher-ups try to dismiss the thought that their company might not be doing so well, and try to make you believe it is, when you know its just a ploy. This kind of honesty will earn people's trust, and more companies should do this.
It seems to be on a timer, not random. All the pages have that quote on right now.
One good thing about music, Well, it helps you feel no pain. So hit me with music; Hit me with music now. -- Bob Marley, "Trenchtown Rock"
This quote is bugging me. It's really "When it hits you, you feel no pain."
One good thing about music, Well, it helps you feel no pain. So hit me with music; Hit me with music now. -- Bob Marley, "Trenchtown Rock"
This quote is bugging me. It's really "When it hits you, you feel no pain."
both genres can't be played very well with consoles, due to the nature of console gamers and the console controls.
Have you ever heard of a little game called Halo? One of the best FPS ever and on a console. Plus, Halo online rocks even though it was never meant to be played online and has no hit prediction or anything.
Actually this has been done, except with a standard wired connection!
Check out the High Speed Highway Halo video, it's pretty kewl, I'd like to try it sometime.
The true crisis will be that with 100 IP's for each person, assigned to everything from your toilet to your coffee machine, not only will your computer be hacked but now any electronic appliance in your home has the potential to be controlled by a hacker. I think this would be great fun however, just think of it -- hacking into your buddy's electronics making them all erratically switch on and off, change channels, flush, whathaveyou.
Since the launch of Xbox in 2001, Microsoft has sold over 9.4 million Xbox consoles worldwide
9.4 million XBOXen have been sold and only 3 million copies of Halo? This means that only 1/3 of XBOX owners know of Halo's greatness, or that 2/3 own pirated copies from Taiwan! Either way, we have an epidemic in our hands, people!
It is a neat concept, one that's been around since before Quake 1. Every FPS or graphics-heavy game has settings for model complexity, texture detail, resolution, anti-aliasing, etc. Do you play computer games?
The topic is: Quotes from annoying commercials!
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Exactly, so if you emulate the PS2's hardware fully on the PS3 (through software most likely, don't see them including the cpu/graphics emotion engine chip in the PS3 for anything other than emulation) then PS1 emulation would naturally come with it, since the PS1 emulation is part of the PS2's architecture and would need to be included to work properly. All this is granted they emulate the PS2's hardware, and don't just use a wrapper to interperet commands. Anyways, the point is that because it is not software emulation, is the reason this would work.
Not if it's modded.