God Bless the blue and green dancing girls in the Jabba the Hut scene. What we need is for episode III to take place on the planet where THEY come from.
Exactly. I would watch maybe one show a week without Tivo. Commercials drive me nuts and I'm not going to arrange my daily schedule around being in front of the TV at a certain time.
But with Tivo I watch a fair amount. Skipping commercials, 30-minute shows are 20 and hour-long shows are 40 minutes, meaning I can cram them into my schedule better. Tivo brings TV back into my world.
And dont forget the possible legislation to "a la catre" cable channels. That could make access to lots of those shows more affordable to people.
One thing to beware of- if the kid is really insecure or socially maladjusted, you certainly dont want to make a weapon out of him. I once knew this guy with very few social skills but he was really into martial arts. He wanted to become some sort of weird vigilante and walk the woods in a mask looking for criminals to beat up. *shudders*
What I think is best is just to encourage as much social interaction as possible. Sports (you can be smart AND athletic), clubs, youth groups, and even working.
Music groups are *especially* good for the geeky-they bring the emotional and social into the technical.
After our web company mostly dried up, my wife and I both started looking for jobs. We posted on Monster, Hotjobs, CareerBuilder, and more, and though we customized our resume and applied to maybe 60 jobs each, we never got a single non-automated response. Not even a "Hey, got your resume. Sorry, but the position has been filled."
The only useful thing that came of it is recruiters who saw the resumes posted there and started looking for jobs for us. That got me some interviews, but no jobs.
I finally got a job through a friend of mine.
Next time I need to find a job, I'm going to post a resume on the boards, but I wont use them to go after any jobs. Recruiters work much better and friends, the best.
It's impossible to avoid. Copyright law automatically copyrights everything you write. No formal procedure is necessary. So any email requesting a response that you respond to has violated the DMCA, because you are sending them copyrighted materials which they requested.
Every form you fill out, too.
If you get a subpoena to appear in court for file-swapping, and you respond to that, you've got an automatic counter-suit.
Bottom line: arcade games are too expensive. Like you, I'd happily spend $20 playing 25 cents per game on some of the old greats like Gauntlet, Golden Axe, Black Sword, Altered Beast, and the like. But $1 a game is too much, especially when they last such a short time. I see these empty arcades and wonder what the owners are thinking. Pack em in at lower rates and build a following!
I can buy a game like Ratchet and Clank for $50 and get 80 hours of game play that builds on itself. In an arcade, that $50 will get me an 1.5 hours of play where I have to start over at the same place again and again. How in the world do arcades hope to succeed with these numbers?
Plus I dont like racing, shooting, and fighting games. That seems to be all there is these days.
Here's what to do: drop the price to 25 cents per play and allow people to save their progress on little all-purpose memory cards (boom- a new market for trading saved games). OR offer all the games you can play for a set fee (maybe $10 dollars) for an hour. Use memory cards here, too.
Real is terrible. I'll never ever in a million years use any product they make. It's obvious that their primary concern is to advertise to you in any way possible, with the audio/video being almost an afterthought.
"How can we totally advertise to everyone, even if they dont want it? Oh, I know, let's make a media player!"
And then you get this crap-quality tiny video window with ads that are bigger than the video plastered all over it, and it leaves all those junk files all over your desktop that you have to clean up manually.
I just had to laugh when I saw the new iPods. What was Apple thinking? Who would possibly consider getting a 4 GB model for $250 when you could get a 15 GB model for only $50 more?
And those awful colors! These things are just UGLY. I got a 20GB beautiful white iPod for xMas and I wouldnt trade it for 10 minis. The mini's size is only very slightly smaller, too. What a terrible idea.
Rumors had the price at $100, which would have been a great idea. Flood the market with cheaper iPods for the casual listener, and cash in on music sales.
If HDTV is going to have built-in copy-protection, then the simple result is that I'm not going to buy a HDTV. If this law passes, they're going to crush the market for HDTV before it ever takes off.
Not to mention, the only reason I watch ANY TV is because I have a TiVo which lets me watch the shows I want when I want to. TV isnt important enough to me to schedule my life around.
These anti-copy technologies more often hurt the people honestly using them. Like the ACC MP3s you buy from iTunes- it's supposed to only prevent you from making tons of duplicates of the same CD, but instead it's a constant hassle- it wont record at all onto CDs.
The same goes for the recent case where TurboTax pissed off millions of customers with its copy protection.
And finally, as someone so rightly said, if it can be seen or heard, it can be and will be recorded.
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God Bless the blue and green dancing girls in the Jabba the Hut scene. What we need is for episode III to take place on the planet where THEY come from.
"Star Wars III: Blue Girls Are Easy"
Exactly. I would watch maybe one show a week without Tivo. Commercials drive me nuts and I'm not going to arrange my daily schedule around being in front of the TV at a certain time.
But with Tivo I watch a fair amount. Skipping commercials, 30-minute shows are 20 and hour-long shows are 40 minutes, meaning I can cram them into my schedule better. Tivo brings TV back into my world.
And dont forget the possible legislation to "a la catre" cable channels. That could make access to lots of those shows more affordable to people.
One thing to beware of- if the kid is really insecure or socially maladjusted, you certainly dont want to make a weapon out of him. I once knew this guy with very few social skills but he was really into martial arts. He wanted to become some sort of weird vigilante and walk the woods in a mask looking for criminals to beat up. *shudders*
What I think is best is just to encourage as much social interaction as possible. Sports (you can be smart AND athletic), clubs, youth groups, and even working.
Music groups are *especially* good for the geeky-they bring the emotional and social into the technical.
Caffeine is a physically addictive stimulant drug. There's no question about that.
I can stop playing Final Fantasy after making a habit of it for a month and I dont find it hard to function without it, or become snippy and moody.
It's a physically addictive drug. After a while you need it to get to where you were without it before you started.
After our web company mostly dried up, my wife and I both started looking for jobs. We posted on Monster, Hotjobs, CareerBuilder, and more, and though we customized our resume and applied to maybe 60 jobs each, we never got a single non-automated response. Not even a "Hey, got your resume. Sorry, but the position has been filled."
The only useful thing that came of it is recruiters who saw the resumes posted there and started looking for jobs for us. That got me some interviews, but no jobs.
I finally got a job through a friend of mine.
Next time I need to find a job, I'm going to post a resume on the boards, but I wont use them to go after any jobs. Recruiters work much better and friends, the best.
It's impossible to avoid. Copyright law automatically copyrights everything you write. No formal procedure is necessary. So any email requesting a response that you respond to has violated the DMCA, because you are sending them copyrighted materials which they requested. Every form you fill out, too. If you get a subpoena to appear in court for file-swapping, and you respond to that, you've got an automatic counter-suit.
Bottom line: arcade games are too expensive. Like you, I'd happily spend $20 playing 25 cents per game on some of the old greats like Gauntlet, Golden Axe, Black Sword, Altered Beast, and the like. But $1 a game is too much, especially when they last such a short time. I see these empty arcades and wonder what the owners are thinking. Pack em in at lower rates and build a following!
I can buy a game like Ratchet and Clank for $50 and get 80 hours of game play that builds on itself. In an arcade, that $50 will get me an 1.5 hours of play where I have to start over at the same place again and again. How in the world do arcades hope to succeed with these numbers?
Plus I dont like racing, shooting, and fighting games. That seems to be all there is these days.
Here's what to do: drop the price to 25 cents per play and allow people to save their progress on little all-purpose memory cards (boom- a new market for trading saved games). OR offer all the games you can play for a set fee (maybe $10 dollars) for an hour. Use memory cards here, too.
BOOM. The return of arcades.
Real is terrible. I'll never ever in a million years use any product they make. It's obvious that their primary concern is to advertise to you in any way possible, with the audio/video being almost an afterthought.
"How can we totally advertise to everyone, even if they dont want it? Oh, I know, let's make a media player!"
And then you get this crap-quality tiny video window with ads that are bigger than the video plastered all over it, and it leaves all those junk files all over your desktop that you have to clean up manually.
Another chance? Not bloody likely, Real.
They should create a gyroscopic hard drive so that when the iPod accesses the drive, it becomes weightless and starts to move in funny ways.
I just had to laugh when I saw the new iPods. What was Apple thinking? Who would possibly consider getting a 4 GB model for $250 when you could get a 15 GB model for only $50 more? And those awful colors! These things are just UGLY. I got a 20GB beautiful white iPod for xMas and I wouldnt trade it for 10 minis. The mini's size is only very slightly smaller, too. What a terrible idea. Rumors had the price at $100, which would have been a great idea. Flood the market with cheaper iPods for the casual listener, and cash in on music sales.
The Apple site says the mini has 8 hours of battery life. http://www.apple.com/ipodmini/
If HDTV is going to have built-in copy-protection, then the simple result is that I'm not going to buy a HDTV. If this law passes, they're going to crush the market for HDTV before it ever takes off. Not to mention, the only reason I watch ANY TV is because I have a TiVo which lets me watch the shows I want when I want to. TV isnt important enough to me to schedule my life around. These anti-copy technologies more often hurt the people honestly using them. Like the ACC MP3s you buy from iTunes- it's supposed to only prevent you from making tons of duplicates of the same CD, but instead it's a constant hassle- it wont record at all onto CDs. The same goes for the recent case where TurboTax pissed off millions of customers with its copy protection. And finally, as someone so rightly said, if it can be seen or heard, it can be and will be recorded.