"Because if you sell at a lower price you take a bigger loss on the console which means you need to sell more games (of which there aren't many of) to recoup the loss and actually make a profit."
Actually, Sony also gets money from the Blu-Ray sales. Which are moving about as fast as.. something that doesn't move fast at all.
"Heavenly Sword is, as you will soon discover, the very definition of a rental title. Clocking in at somewhere between five and six hours (depending on your appetite for overwrought cinemas) it's a decent game saddled by impossible expectations. It has silly ideas and grandeur in close proximity to one another." - http://www.penny-arcade.com/2007/09/12
It's been argued that the Wii is dominating the current generation of gaming consoles simply because Nintendo advertises the Wii as a gaming console while Sony and Microsoft advertise their consoles as media centers.
I just switched from Verizon when I got my iPhone and I have to say that AT&T is much better. I don't understand all the complaints I hear, I've gotten service in areas where Verizon never even considered working before.
Depends on who you ask. Ask an Australian and they say it's the folks from New Zealand. Ask the folks from New Zealand and they say it's the Australians.
I think that murdering a human being is evil. I don't think that an easily blockable flash ad is evil. If you do, you must be living a pretty nice life.
"Eventually, there will be a new search engine with no Flash ads, and everyone will use that. Eventually, people will say, "Google? What's that?"" Do you think Google is a SEARCH ENGINE company?
"The new profit-making Mozilla will probably try to get the U.S. government to ban NoScript and AdBlock Plus and FlashBlock." You're simply insane.
"Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but we don't have any formal plans for making that happen. All we can really tell you is that if you're outside the U.S. and you have news, submit it, and if it looks interesting, we'll post it."
So once again someone cracked a thesaurus instead of making an argument.
Provide. Examples.
In what type of situation might the things you say actually occur?
I can say the sky's made out of bubble yum because it's blue, but that doesn't make it so. You saying "LOL URRONG" no matter how many $3 words you use doesn't mean they're wrong.
I want specific examples in which "The actors are not rational" and in which "The actors do not possess complete and accurate information." (that second point is kinda bullshit, but still give me an good example.)
"You don't get to walk out scot-free because you suddenly decide that if the police start acting according to your wishes, you will suddenly become an upstanding citizen."
l2readingz. That's not what he was implying. He was going to walk out with the police and be arrested and booked if they STOPPED ASSAULTING HIM. And right after that, while he was being held down when they could have simply handcuffed him and dragged him out.. because he was being loud because he didn't enjoy his beating that's when they TORTURED him to "ensure compliance."
"Also, he NEVER "admitted that he lost and was willing to be escorted out to a waiting cruiser to go to the station and be handled." that's just fiction, plain and simple."
If you had watched the video, you'd know that you're tehwrongz. He said "Stop holding me down and I will walk out peacefully." (or something to that nature) right before they tazered him. He wasn't expecting to be let go, but he was willing to be escorted out to a police car and dealt with outside... if the police would only STOP HITTING HIM.
"was not aware that a taser was used until after I left the building."
Kerry must have left the building as he was talking, because I could hear Kerry talking as the kid said "Don't tazer me, bro." and also during HIS SCREAMS OF PAIN FROM BEING TORTURED.
If you go back and watch the video again with the audio, the asshat asking the question was saying "If you stop holding me down I will walk out of here peacefully."
As four police were holding him down. He admitted that he lost and was willing to be escorted out to a waiting cruiser to go to the station and be handled. But that's when the cop pulled out his tazer and, after Our question asking buddy said "please don't taser me" they TAZERED HIM AS OTHER POLICE OFFICERS HELD HIM DOWN.
So you see, he was offering to go peacefully. And they tazered him.
Except they didn't. Once he was on the ground being held down by 4 cops, they should have handcuffed him and dragged him out. Instead of doing that, once he was held down and saying he would PEACEFULLY WALK OUT if they stopped holding him down they tazered him. At which point many members of the crowd started yelling at the police to stop. At that point the police were torturing him to try to get him to STFU.
"when one guy tries to do something that's right for the kids then he gets picked on. "
Because he was hired to keep that store making profit, and if the customer is turned away because (s)he is failing, word of that gets around and people stop shopping there. It's pretty simple. If I worked at a store and turned away people who had red hair I might not be turning away many customers, but I am turning away people who came to the store to give us money.
They have a 0% success rate on the two (three if you count suprnova) biggest torrent sites out there. I'd go so far as to say that 80% or more of the public tracker torrent traffic is from those two (three) sites.
I downloaded the newest Foo Fighters album when it leaked (and I still have it pre-ordered, so there goes their lost sales claim) and it downloaded in about 20 minutes and is a higher quality than iTMS provides.
"After I booked the ticket, I noticed something strange: there were no travel details on how I would get from San Jose to San Francisco. I called Orbitz and they told me that I would have to provide my own transportation from San Jose to San Francisco. What?"
Orbitz didn't point out that it was anything like it ended up being. You see two airports and you assume you're flying between them. Or that there's transportation provided. The simple fact in Mr. Maddox's case is that the company sold him something that was impossible. He didn't make it. They generated it for him.
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"Because if you sell at a lower price you take a bigger loss on the console which means you need to sell more games (of which there aren't many of) to recoup the loss and actually make a profit."
Actually, Sony also gets money from the Blu-Ray sales. Which are moving about as fast as.. something that doesn't move fast at all.
"Heavenly Sword is, as you will soon discover, the very definition of a rental title. Clocking in at somewhere between five and six hours (depending on your appetite for overwrought cinemas) it's a decent game saddled by impossible expectations. It has silly ideas and grandeur in close proximity to one another." - http://www.penny-arcade.com/2007/09/12
It's been argued that the Wii is dominating the current generation of gaming consoles simply because Nintendo advertises the Wii as a gaming console while Sony and Microsoft advertise their consoles as media centers.
"You are joking aren't you"
Yes. He was.
I just switched from Verizon when I got my iPhone and I have to say that AT&T is much better. I don't understand all the complaints I hear, I've gotten service in areas where Verizon never even considered working before.
Depends on who you ask. Ask an Australian and they say it's the folks from New Zealand. Ask the folks from New Zealand and they say it's the Australians.
I think that murdering a human being is evil. I don't think that an easily blockable flash ad is evil. If you do, you must be living a pretty nice life.
"Eventually, there will be a new search engine with no Flash ads, and everyone will use that. Eventually, people will say, "Google? What's that?""
Do you think Google is a SEARCH ENGINE company?
"The new profit-making Mozilla will probably try to get the U.S. government to ban NoScript and AdBlock Plus and FlashBlock."
You're simply insane.
"Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but we don't have any formal plans for making that happen. All we can really tell you is that if you're outside the U.S. and you have news, submit it, and if it looks interesting, we'll post it."
From http://slashdot.org/faq/editorial.shtml#ed850
Well, judging by how many people I see with goatees, what makes you think we're NOT in that universe?
So once again someone cracked a thesaurus instead of making an argument.
Provide. Examples.
In what type of situation might the things you say actually occur?
I can say the sky's made out of bubble yum because it's blue, but that doesn't make it so. You saying "LOL URRONG" no matter how many $3 words you use doesn't mean they're wrong.
I want specific examples in which "The actors are not rational" and in which "The actors do not possess complete and accurate information." (that second point is kinda bullshit, but still give me an good example.)
"(Read my comment history to find out how old I really am -- you might have to be a subscriber, though)"
PROTIP: Nobody cares.
"You don't get to walk out scot-free because you suddenly decide that if the police start acting according to your wishes, you will suddenly become an upstanding citizen."
l2readingz. That's not what he was implying. He was going to walk out with the police and be arrested and booked if they STOPPED ASSAULTING HIM. And right after that, while he was being held down when they could have simply handcuffed him and dragged him out.. because he was being loud because he didn't enjoy his beating that's when they TORTURED him to "ensure compliance."
"Also, he NEVER "admitted that he lost and was willing to be escorted out to a waiting cruiser to go to the station and be handled." that's just fiction, plain and simple."
If you had watched the video, you'd know that you're tehwrongz. He said "Stop holding me down and I will walk out peacefully." (or something to that nature) right before they tazered him. He wasn't expecting to be let go, but he was willing to be escorted out to a police car and dealt with outside... if the police would only STOP HITTING HIM.
You could almost afford a sweet Mac Pro with that rebate, I guess.
You sure managed to use a lot of words there, many of them are not in Joe Sixpack's vocabulary, so bonus points to you.
Now, I also noticed that you didn't provide any examples of a 'situation that contradicts it'.
You can't use your store credit for iTunes Music Store gift cards.
"was not aware that a taser was used until after I left the building."
Kerry must have left the building as he was talking, because I could hear Kerry talking as the kid said "Don't tazer me, bro." and also during HIS SCREAMS OF PAIN FROM BEING TORTURED.
so, yeah. That's 99% bullshit.
If you go back and watch the video again with the audio, the asshat asking the question was saying "If you stop holding me down I will walk out of here peacefully."
As four police were holding him down. He admitted that he lost and was willing to be escorted out to a waiting cruiser to go to the station and be handled. But that's when the cop pulled out his tazer and, after Our question asking buddy said "please don't taser me" they TAZERED HIM AS OTHER POLICE OFFICERS HELD HIM DOWN.
So you see, he was offering to go peacefully. And they tazered him.
In Kerry's defense, that's how he ALWAYS speaks.
"Don't touch that it's hot!" sounds the same as "I might get my eggs scrambled for breakfast."
"The police did what they should have..."
Except they didn't. Once he was on the ground being held down by 4 cops, they should have handcuffed him and dragged him out. Instead of doing that, once he was held down and saying he would PEACEFULLY WALK OUT if they stopped holding him down they tazered him. At which point many members of the crowd started yelling at the police to stop. At that point the police were torturing him to try to get him to STFU.
He said "Stop holding me down and I will walk out peacefully." That was about 15-25 seconds before they tazered him.
And once they DID tazer him I heard a LOT of people yelling "STOP" at the cops.
I live in western MA and we're nothing like Boston. I'd go so far as to say nobody west of Worcester is anything like the people from Boston.
"when one guy tries to do something that's right for the kids then he gets picked on. "
Because he was hired to keep that store making profit, and if the customer is turned away because (s)he is failing, word of that gets around and people stop shopping there. It's pretty simple. If I worked at a store and turned away people who had red hair I might not be turning away many customers, but I am turning away people who came to the store to give us money.
They have a 0% success rate on the two (three if you count suprnova) biggest torrent sites out there. I'd go so far as to say that 80% or more of the public tracker torrent traffic is from those two (three) sites.
I downloaded the newest Foo Fighters album when it leaked (and I still have it pre-ordered, so there goes their lost sales claim) and it downloaded in about 20 minutes and is a higher quality than iTMS provides.
From the Maddox post:
"After I booked the ticket, I noticed something strange: there were no travel details on how I would get from San Jose to San Francisco. I called Orbitz and they told me that I would have to provide my own transportation from San Jose to San Francisco. What?"
Orbitz didn't point out that it was anything like it ended up being. You see two airports and you assume you're flying between them. Or that there's transportation provided. The simple fact in Mr. Maddox's case is that the company sold him something that was impossible. He didn't make it. They generated it for him.