Gamers don't care about the business lingo, but those running a business should. Right now people prefer to pay $30 for a used game rather than $50 for a new. The question businesses must ask is at what price point will the consumer choose new over used? What percentage of the customers will pay $15 more, $10 more, $5 more for a new game than a used one? Lowering price and moving more units won't necessarily mean higher profits. Retailers will lower the price on used games too, so only a percentage of those who buy used games right now will switch to new games. Now you are talking about losing profit from every unit you make across the board to attract a percentage of a percentage of the game buying population... PLUS you have the additional costs associated with making more product. Economics teaches you, if you sell twice as much product at half the price, you are losing profit.
For me MTG suffers from too many combinations. They keep printing expansion after expansion, and its difficult to keep up mentally and financially. It gets to be a chore long term, since you have to constantly keep up with new cards, new rules, and most importantly new rulings. Because the game can be so complex, simple sounding things like what occurs during a turn, get ruled and re-ruled. Sometimes rulings are reversed 3 or 4 times. (ie for those who played awhile the: white knight->lighting bolt->holy strength ruling, or what happens during upkeep). I had fun for several years, and the biggest problem is unlike a $25 board game... in magic at the end you have spent thousands of dollars.
The way I understand it, Disney laid out terms and said "we'll ship any movie that meets these terms" and Fahrenheight 911 met those terms, and Disney decided not to distribute it.
Like you said, corporations sole existence is to make money. It is Disney's responsibility to weigh the reprecussions of being associated with a politically charged films. It was their judgment that it would hurt the company to be associated with the release of the movie
The reason there isn't anything wrong with corporate censorship, is that somebody else can report or distribute the information. Broadcast TV censored potentially disturbing video of mutilations in Iraq, but that doesn't stop internet, or other TV networks from broadcasting the information. If people want the information they can get it.
There is a huge difference between corporate and goverment censorship. Corporate censorship is "let people get the information elsewhere" goverment cesorship is "nobody can see this information ever" Never forget feudalism. Give corporations the power to censor and feudalism is where we're going, except I think under the circumstances it would be called fascism or something or other. Same thing. Some lord who owns everything working us really fucking hard, abusing us, and so forth.
I'm not sure how you got to your feudalism analogy. The structural requirements for a fuedal society are not there. People are not "tied to their land", and the values of free education and free enterprise (the workers can become owners through stock investment) work against fuedalism. If a "lord" works me too hard, I can work for another, or start my own business.
There is nothing wrong with corporate censorship. A corporation can decide what it wants to distribute or not, and what it wants to be associated with. Are you saying that corporations should distribute everything, including ant-minority films, or pro-neonazi films, no matter what the backlash? Disney didn't stop Farenheight 9/11 from being at Cannes, it can't stop the film from going to another distributor. All it is doing is saying it is not in their best interest to be associated with that kind of political movie
"You know, mathematicians theorize that there's an infinite number of prime twins, and... hey, where are you going?" You would have gotten farther if you had said that without staring the whole time at her "prime twins"
Soon you will be able to leave your nanohouse get in your nanopowered nanocar to drive down nanoroads to your nanojob and sit all day in your nanocube to make nanocash. Hmmm I think I have the last two covered already.
The consumer always has one right, the right to NOT buy the product. If you don't like what the RIAA is doing, then don't listen to their music. Most people don't care about song swappers being sued, or most implementations of DRM, because nothing they do is being taken away.
Once something important is taken away they will fight back by hitting companies in their pocketbook ala the Turbo Tax DRM fiasco. No need to clear out congress, the free market takes care of things like this.
The consumer will be the last to change. Companies are larger scale, a 10cent increase doesn't mean alot for 10 gallon a week joe consumer. Its huge hit on the bottom linefor thousand gallons a week for trucking inc.
The cost for alternative fuels is going down, the cost of oil is going up. At some point in the future they will intersect, and there will a surge in the economy when people change their equipment... ala the Y2K replacement surge.
umm so at age 18 you magically get common sense? It would be nice if there were a test that required you to demonstrate you had the basic sense to mark the right box... unfortunately like everything else it could be used for evil
I doubt it would work, all the lens does is concentrate the same amount of energy to a small spot. You could boil the water in the cm^2 spot, but it wouldn't be an efficient way to get power. Also, the steam would reduce the efficiency since it would absorb some of the light.
I agree with you. Professional athletes have to love the sport they play, to put in the amount of work required. Most people forget about the dehydrating 2-a-days (and even 3-a-days), endless amounts of time in a hot humid weight room. To be a truly professional gamer would suck. Playing the same maps hours on end to identify the best spots, researching the latest strategy and tactics, dealing with horrible headaches from eyestrain.
A mechanical grading system will show you know the mechanics of writing, but not that you can write well. Grammar, sentence structure, punctuation are tools for writing well, but mastering those tools doesn't mean you can combine them into a coherant and well structured essay. The biggest problem for many technical students isn't the mechanics of writing, its being able to write affectively. To draw in the reader, and to be able to write to your audience to clearly communicate ideas with a certain sense of flow. Higher level writing bends and breaks rules to be more effective. Writing is an art, like music. Its easy to play the piano if you just look at it as a series of key presses at specific times; but when an audience hears music, its just as important how to transition between one key press to the next, moving between loud and soft, fast and slow, creating imperfections so you are not mechanical.
Ugh, I always hated the "living up to your potential" teacher. Guess what there isn't a level playing field, students should learn that early on so they don't feel a sense of entitlement. If I play basketball should every basket I make count as 10 points because I'm under 6' tall? In the end if you grade on effort you only hurt the students. How do you think that stupid kid who got straight A's all through highschool will feel when he's flunked out of college in the first year. Did you really help him? The student who gets a "C" because he just didn't turn in a papers you thought were fitting for his intelligence level; when colleges see his transcript they don't see "wrote a wonderful essays in class, they just weren't as brilliant and polished as I expected" they just see a "C" = average student.
Generally comments were kept to a bare minimum on a good paper. "Good job!" or "Excellent research!" is about as lame as getting a 5/6 on a standardized essay exam from a computer grader. Your feedback was actual words!? In my day all we got was a scratch-n-sniff sticker and had to guess the meaning of getting a "watermelon" on our essay.
Do you ACTUALLY think that we will see Jedi "surfing?" That would be *too* stupid. Not going to happen.
Jar-Jar Binks proves there is NOTHING *too* stupid
Even if the energy burns out and the acceleration becomes 0, the universe could still expand forever.
Since gravity decreases as the square of the distance between objects, if velocity is sufficient, the deceleration due to gravity will not overcome the velocity. In space travel terms its called escape velocity.
"You know that toaster? Maybe if we discover something new in science it could stop working!" No, What occurs in the universe is not governed by science, science is goverened by what occurs in the universe. The toaster will not stop because we discover something new, we would just have to reassess the theory on how the toaster works to make it compatible with the discovery. You are right those who blindly say quantum computing is unbreakable are overconfident.
Laws of nature are opinions. Newton's second law F=ma is an opinion that fit the data set at the time. Later on we discovered that it was not entirely true because it did not take relativity into account.
Quantum cryptography is unbreakable according to the current theories based on current data. There is a chance it could be broken.
Thanks for the link, it actually worked! It calculated my base salary to within 1k. Similar stuff I found on the web tend to low-ball my salary by 10-15k.
You invent algorithms.
The actual writing of software is a creative process to try and take advantage of the invented algorithms. Many times people combine the two while working on a project, but they are seperate.
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Gamers don't care about the business lingo, but those running a business should.
Right now people prefer to pay $30 for a used game rather than $50 for a new. The question businesses must ask is at what price point will the consumer choose new over used? What percentage of the customers will pay $15 more, $10 more, $5 more for a new game than a used one?
Lowering price and moving more units won't necessarily mean higher profits. Retailers will lower the price on used games too, so only a percentage of those who buy used games right now will switch to new games.
Now you are talking about losing profit from every unit you make across the board to attract a percentage of a percentage of the game buying population... PLUS you have the additional costs associated with making more product.
Economics teaches you, if you sell twice as much product at half the price, you are losing profit.
For me MTG suffers from too many combinations. They keep printing expansion after expansion, and its difficult to keep up mentally and financially. It gets to be a chore long term, since you have to constantly keep up with new cards, new rules, and most importantly new rulings.
Because the game can be so complex, simple sounding things like what occurs during a turn, get ruled and re-ruled. Sometimes rulings are reversed 3 or 4 times. (ie for those who played awhile the: white knight->lighting bolt->holy strength ruling, or what happens during upkeep).
I had fun for several years, and the biggest problem is unlike a $25 board game... in magic at the end you have spent thousands of dollars.
The way I understand it, Disney laid out terms and said "we'll ship any movie that meets these terms" and Fahrenheight 911 met those terms, and Disney decided not to distribute it.
Like you said, corporations sole existence is to make money. It is Disney's responsibility to weigh the reprecussions of being associated with a politically charged films. It was their judgment that it would hurt the company to be associated with the release of the movie
The reason there isn't anything wrong with corporate censorship, is that somebody else can report or distribute the information. Broadcast TV censored potentially disturbing video of mutilations in Iraq, but that doesn't stop internet, or other TV networks from broadcasting the information. If people want the information they can get it.
There is a huge difference between corporate and goverment censorship. Corporate censorship is "let people get the information elsewhere" goverment cesorship is "nobody can see this information ever"
Never forget feudalism. Give corporations the power to censor and feudalism is where we're going, except I think under the circumstances it would be called fascism or something or other. Same thing. Some lord who owns everything working us really fucking hard, abusing us, and so forth.
I'm not sure how you got to your feudalism analogy. The structural requirements for a fuedal society are not there. People are not "tied to their land", and the values of free education and free enterprise (the workers can become owners through stock investment) work against fuedalism. If a "lord" works me too hard, I can work for another, or start my own business.
There is nothing wrong with corporate censorship. A corporation can decide what it wants to distribute or not, and what it wants to be associated with. Are you saying that corporations should distribute everything, including ant-minority films, or pro-neonazi films, no matter what the backlash?
Disney didn't stop Farenheight 9/11 from being at Cannes, it can't stop the film from going to another distributor. All it is doing is saying it is not in their best interest to be associated with that kind of political movie
"You know, mathematicians theorize that there's an infinite number of prime twins, and... hey, where are you going?"
You would have gotten farther if you had said that without staring the whole time at her "prime twins"
Soon you will be able to leave your nanohouse get in your nanopowered nanocar to drive down nanoroads to your nanojob and sit all day in your nanocube to make nanocash.
Hmmm I think I have the last two covered already.
The consumer always has one right, the right to NOT buy the product. If you don't like what the RIAA is doing, then don't listen to their music. Most people don't care about song swappers being sued, or most implementations of DRM, because nothing they do is being taken away.
Once something important is taken away they will fight back by hitting companies in their pocketbook ala the Turbo Tax DRM fiasco. No need to clear out congress, the free market takes care of things like this.
The consumer will be the last to change. Companies are larger scale, a 10cent increase doesn't mean alot for 10 gallon a week joe consumer. Its huge hit on the bottom linefor thousand gallons a week for trucking inc.
The cost for alternative fuels is going down, the cost of oil is going up. At some point in the future they will intersect, and there will a surge in the economy when people change their equipment... ala the Y2K replacement surge.
umm so at age 18 you magically get common sense? It would be nice if there were a test that required you to demonstrate you had the basic sense to mark the right box... unfortunately like everything else it could be used for evil
I doubt it would work, all the lens does is concentrate the same amount of energy to a small spot. You could boil the water in the cm^2 spot, but it wouldn't be an efficient way to get power. Also, the steam would reduce the efficiency since it would absorb some of the light.
I for one pity our ant overlords.
I agree with you. Professional athletes have to love the sport they play, to put in the amount of work required. Most people forget about the dehydrating 2-a-days (and even 3-a-days), endless amounts of time in a hot humid weight room.
To be a truly professional gamer would suck. Playing the same maps hours on end to identify the best spots, researching the latest strategy and tactics, dealing with horrible headaches from eyestrain.
A mechanical grading system will show you know the mechanics of writing, but not that you can write well. Grammar, sentence structure, punctuation are tools for writing well, but mastering those tools doesn't mean you can combine them into a coherant and well structured essay.
The biggest problem for many technical students isn't the mechanics of writing, its being able to write affectively. To draw in the reader, and to be able to write to your audience to clearly communicate ideas with a certain sense of flow. Higher level writing bends and breaks rules to be more effective.
Writing is an art, like music. Its easy to play the piano if you just look at it as a series of key presses at specific times; but when an audience hears music, its just as important how to transition between one key press to the next, moving between loud and soft, fast and slow, creating imperfections so you are not mechanical.
Ugh, I always hated the "living up to your potential" teacher. Guess what there isn't a level playing field, students should learn that early on so they don't feel a sense of entitlement. If I play basketball should every basket I make count as 10 points because I'm under 6' tall?
In the end if you grade on effort you only hurt the students. How do you think that stupid kid who got straight A's all through highschool will feel when he's flunked out of college in the first year. Did you really help him?
The student who gets a "C" because he just didn't turn in a papers you thought were fitting for his intelligence level; when colleges see his transcript they don't see "wrote a wonderful essays in class, they just weren't as brilliant and polished as I expected" they just see a "C" = average student.
Generally comments were kept to a bare minimum on a good paper. "Good job!" or "Excellent research!" is about as lame as getting a 5/6 on a standardized essay exam from a computer grader.
Your feedback was actual words!? In my day all we got was a scratch-n-sniff sticker and had to guess the meaning of getting a "watermelon" on our essay.
Do you ACTUALLY think that we will see Jedi "surfing?" That would be *too* stupid. Not going to happen.
Jar-Jar Binks proves there is NOTHING *too* stupid
Even if the energy burns out and the acceleration becomes 0, the universe could still expand forever.
Since gravity decreases as the square of the distance between objects, if velocity is sufficient, the deceleration due to gravity will not overcome the velocity. In space travel terms its called escape velocity.
sphere of 1m radius around a computer monitor... I think that describes most /.'ers
"You know that toaster? Maybe if we discover something new in science it could stop working!"
No, What occurs in the universe is not governed by science, science is goverened by what occurs in the universe. The toaster will not stop because we discover something new, we would just have to reassess the theory on how the toaster works to make it compatible with the discovery.
You are right those who blindly say quantum computing is unbreakable are overconfident.
Laws of nature are opinions. Newton's second law F=ma is an opinion that fit the data set at the time. Later on we discovered that it was not entirely true because it did not take relativity into account.
Quantum cryptography is unbreakable according to the current theories based on current data. There is a chance it could be broken.
Thanks for the link, it actually worked! It calculated my base salary to within 1k. Similar stuff I found on the web tend to low-ball my salary by 10-15k.
You invent algorithms. The actual writing of software is a creative process to try and take advantage of the invented algorithms. Many times people combine the two while working on a project, but they are seperate.
maybe its strictly designed for slingshot use. Probably take down a medieval castle with that thing.
The terrorists have time machines!!! I guess our only choice is to send in Timecop
actually it was changed changed in 1960 to the distance light travelled since the speed of light in a vacuum is fixed