... there is really so much competition for peoples time these days it's little wonder companies like to blame lack of sales on piracy.
I'd really like someone to add up all the hours it would take to experience x's book or y's product and they'd soon begin to realize it would take someone an ENTIRE LIFETIME not even to get through a fraction of what is out there.
I usually only buy books that I think are worth something over the long term. People have way too many options today to fill their time. Also with the advent of the net discussing and sharing insights, any book that is published quickly becomes out-dated.
One thing I hope electronic books allow is real-time updates to books so that they can stay fresh, with a wikipedia like revision system that tracks version and revision history (for those that need it).
Personally electronic books when done right (when the software gets there) will allow copying and pasting a whole bunch of different things that you can't do with a real book. Both will have their place I think.
Truth be told Chrono cross sales probaly disappointed, Chrono Cross (spiritual successor to chrono trigger) was not a real sequel and did not feature anyone from the original cast really. Truth be told Chrono Trigger is a classic game how anyone could fuck up a sequel is anyone's guess but square managed to make it too different in many ways, even though it was an alright game.
"A corporation, no matter how evil, cannot lawfully detain you, lock you in a cage or kill you."
Actually the can and they do, we just don't hear about it. Corporations BUY the laws and commit many crimes, did you not know that corporations were killing their workers up into th 1930's? How about third world sweatshops? Corporations pay others to do their dirty work for them, while their PR machines give the impression that "private" corporations are better then government... my ass. History shows that private men who have much commercial power are just violent as any government not to mention they fund armies and rebellions, they are intertwined (corps and government).
This idea that the world "government" is somehow different from "private corporation" is a bunch of bullshit, most corporations LOVE government in fact many couldn't exist and get away with the shit they do if not FOR buying off people in government.
Private men of commerce have been amongst the most evil since they fund governments of the world let's not forget, buy and lobby laws in their favor.
They are JUST as bad as government, because you see the word "government" and "corporation" hide the TRUE meaning most elites would not want you to see: They own both, and their is a revolving door from one to the other, while the average public man rails against "government" nad supports "pro privitization" little does he know people in power know the score, is that their is no difference in people that run these insitutions and their influence is peddles via both means, it's the people themselves that cause stuff we should be after.
"Government" is a ghost that ignorant people rail against, when it is PEOPLE that cause things to happen.
There can never be a free market in the purest sense, the price mechanism and property itself itself is subject abuse and flaws. For instance corporate personhood is a farce that should be doone away with, as well as owners and businesses being liable to society. There's a severe problem that money can buys laws, so the more powerful you are in the market you can simply buy people to lobby for laws that protect you and your buddies.
For instance in large population sizes, those who strategically position themselves via influence and politics (office, government, people, etc) will get a disproportionate share of the wealth not because they are better then everyone else but simply because there is so many people and out of physical efficiency institutions tend to centralize commercial power.
Also the system we usegives the illusion of competition, tell me how it is that CEO's can have million dollar salaries. I don't buy it that there aren't millions of people vying for such a job, the problem is that many business's by their nature are dictatorships or whether communal / distributed dictatorships or not.
We lie and convince ourselves that CEO's are the best and brightest but it's nothing but politics, workers have no legal power to throw out their bosses from badly run businesses.
Truth be told the whole capitalist worker relationship of modern society is quite messed up to begin with. Since most wage workers are non-owners, they are at the beck and call of those who control the most.
The first quake was a disaster from a single player perspective. All of the Quake single player games Duke nuken and earlier games by iD like Doom and Doom 2
Truth be told I couldn't stand quake 1 and 2 single player. The whole "strogg" bit was just horrible for an adversary. Give me doom's crazy demon army anytime. I can't be the only one felt let down by quake 1 and 2 in comparison to the earlier doom, which was much more fun and creative.
Quake multiplayer I admit was fun, but single player was a dog.
How math is taught IS important. I've been doing research into how to teach math and I've learned over the years that the math most schools teach is ONE GROUP OF MEN's way of how to frame mathematics and numbers.
When it comes down to it math is a language to systematize form and structure.
There are numerous angles to teach concepts that are much better then traditional methods. One of the reasons kids find math hard is that they are not taught to DERIVE concepts from things everyone understands: Size, difference, distinction, ratio, motion. i.e. before you even open a textbook and start crunching numbers, you need to be taught how to observe and think conceptually, otherwise the symbols will just seem like jargon disconnected from why mathematical systems were 'invented' in the first place.
What math heads who are good with symbolic computation and manipulation don't understand is that mathematics for most people is difficult without a conceptual framework that they can relate to. Just seeing a bunch of symbols and equations doesn't tell you HOW to think about a general framework and interpretation of concepts that come before "math".
There's also a real cult around mathematics that turns a lot of people off math, since many people around mathematics tend to be rigid. One only has to look at how contemporaries of George Cantor in mathematics treated him when he came up with different ways of viewing numbers and mathematical concepts.
... I think it's a really good idea personally as the average user does not know about these kinds of things. Also chrome is very high speed and less prone to freezing and crashing. IE tends to be one ofthe worst for that, although with IE8 they tried to make it so it doesn't take down the whole browser.
I think mass advertising of little known things to the average person is great, it's unfortunate that it's so expensive to do any many great things never get the exposure they deserve.
Personally I think including a basket of competing APPS with an operating system is the only really way to go and then have the apps load a homepage from their respective sites, etc. I've often wondered about forcing a company like Microsoft to include alternative browsers. It would also help having an installed base which would lead to better standardization.
... this is not a big deal. It's a move game, why would anyone really care if it's multi platform or not? Unless it is the best game in the universe (doubtful).
Seriously from a developer standpoint unless Sony ponied up enough money for the dev team to never have to work again after completing the game, WHY would you ever go exclusive?
"This has nothing to do with technological immaturity or firmware bugs. It's simply a matter of SSDs using an optimization that hard drives can't due to their non-trivial seek times, and people are starting to realize that that optimization doesn't always work."
Actually it does, you should check out ANAND's article here:
There definitely IS some immaturity (broadly speaking) if you go through the entire article about how other SSD's were designed and their particular problems.
... these things aren't going to be a big deal in the long run, I mean who wasn't expecting some amount of technological immaturity? We shouldn't forget though that even with it's immaturity it's still much faster then hard disk drives but the SATA interface controller was not designed to handle such high speeds, not to mention much software is not geared, nor optimized for SSD usage.
Still price has come down considerably on many SSD's over the last 6 months, I was thinking about picking up an X-25 M for a mere $350 bucks, would be worth it (to me) just to reduce load times in games like Empire total war IMHO.
... if the pay worked similar but not exactly like cable TV -- Flat fee, all you can view. But I'm not sure if the culture is ready for it IMHO. I mean even ad support online video I just can't see being profitable until bandwidth caps go away and bandwidth speeds and gigabytes become much cheaper (From the users standpoint).
Also you get highest quality vids that you can bookark/dl for offline viewing.
Not everyone has the time to sit there and find torrents of their favorite shows. I mean if they could categorize the content, I wouldn't mind reminiscing in a lot of old shows that are now no longer shown on TV.
Also the "you watch it when you want to factor" is probably the best thing about it. Also paying users should not be subject to ads.
... depending on how recent the IP is. The thing with tolkien and the lord of the rings is, the books have been around forever. But any game would most likely be targetting the lukewarm middle that doesn't read very much, any game appealing to tolkien's world doesn't necessarily have to be 'perfect' and I think most sane people realize that. I really think it's a minority thing to get crazy about adaptations of movies or established stories to games.
"There are other reasons, of course - dead tree format can't keep up with our favorite series of tubes, nor with the highly partisan and more entertainment-driven cable news channels."
The truth is we really don't care about the truth and we aren't willing to pay the money, that and too many people are too ignorant and uninformed to be even opening their mouth let alone giving such people 'equal time' or a voice that spreads misinformation, propaganda, and all other sort of socially toxic BS via the media.
"I've already gone through the posts and see people typing "ID" referring to the company as if they're initials or something. The damn word is id!"
id as in lid, yes I know. But for most people who played doom it was eye-dee, I mean you can't name your company something like id (as in lid) and then expect people to know the proper pronunciations.
More importantly eye-dee software sounds way better then "id" software. I've always referred to them as eye-dee and not 'id'.
Quite frankly it shouldn't matter since once something becomes culturally critical mass the most popular one becomes acceptable because it is now interchangable and that's how most people refer to the company.
"The point of browser-based games is that the end user doesn't need to install anything,"
We could have said the same thing about Adobe Flash which is now ubiquitous on the web or active x plugins, or any number of web plugins.
I understand your point but really the issue is making the plugin installation easy and transparent. Ideally everything would be automated without user intervention but the political issues and general user and corporate, and malicious malware idiots of the world would find some way to fuck it up.
The web interface for Q3 is pretty good and it sure beats the pants off of old clunky server browsers like gamespy for the average person who doesn't know, nor want to know much about computers and just get into the game and play.
"I'd rather think that more often than not the people that pirates games do so because it's free, convenient, and consequent-free."
No we do it because you cannot rent games on a PC or often times there are no demo's before the game is released, not to mention we like to play with our friends and having to pay the full fee per person, is ridiculous.
The original Diablo had a multiplayer "spawn" option as well as earlier games that allowed people to play together off a single copy of the game, as gaming companies got more greedy they attempted to put a stop to this by CD keys and other things. Let's not also forget to mention the horrible abortive states many PC games are released in full of bugs or lacking content. Also the horribly abusive "DLC" for console games.
Piracy is NOT NEW to the internet generation, I find it very odd that newbies here think piracy has never been so "easy" with the internet, before the internet there were BBS's and easily coped floppy disks. This has been rampant since the beginning of the PC. Games have ALWAYS been pirated. How many people here played Civ 1 as a pirate copy they got from someone else? Or eye of the beholder 1 or 2? What about doom and doom 2, or duke nukem 3d?
Ironically enough Demigod is one of those games that quite deserves to be pirated. It lacks an enormous amount in content department for $50 game and was panned quite widely for it in the gaming press.
It is also a direct rip off of DOTA for Warcraft 3. The game designers took DOTA / WC3 hero's arena type mods, dressed them up in new art and stuck it in a box and charged $50 bucks for it. If any game deserves to be pirated to the max it's Demigod. Anyone here who thinks demigod is "deserving" of their money needs to load up their old copy of warcraft 3 download Defense of the ancients and hero arena to see that all Stardock and GPG have done is take something that players invented, copy the gameplay and stick a new coat of paint on it.
Let's not also forget that DOTA has way more in terms of depth, content and heroes and above all it's FREE and has been available for years.
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"While I am not against the use of such drugs because of safety reasons per se, to me, it feels like we're cheating evolution. Perhaps evolution could come up with many of these modifications (intelligence/less drowsiness) naturally."
Sigh... why do people keep thinking that things are "unnatural" technically everything we do is NATURAL by definition, value judgements that x is good and y is bad because it is not 'natural' is cultural thing not ab objective truth.
If we were really so concerned about "cheating evolution" we would not save the sick, we would not have hospitals that keep people who are "wasting resources" on life support for x many years, we would let diseases run their course and not have anti-biotics or drugs, only our natural immune systems to deal with sickness.
The whole idea that we are "cheating evolution" or doming something "unnatural" is bogus, psychologically generated bullshit that we inherit from the culture and our proclivities.
IS playing video games natural?? or inventing computers? What about programming? What about making machines that do work for you so you no longer have to work at hard labour which kept your muscles in shape?
This whole obsession with an unreal version of nature that never was in our cultural mythos is the culprit.
... your passion? Are you the kind of person that gets bored even about things you are passionat about? You can study something if you believe it will bring you more money in the future.
What people don't understand is you can LEARN to love doing something by looking at it from another perspective - i.e. take joy in solving problems and strategizing in general and then it shouldn't matter what 'speciality' you go into specifically.
Personally I don't nkow why they just don't use pictures of things and randomly circle some item in the picture that has a tagged string to it the picture and then type in.
Right now they are using distorted letters and numbers, it seems to me that using pictures and asking questions about the nature of the objects ('randoly') circled would be a lot better..
because algorithms would have a tough time desciphering what object might be circled or pointed out in the picture,
Or you could use pictures to "suggest" something like have a Dog pic with a plus sign and a dog "running" pic with a plus sign, and then have a house
Then ask the question, what does this picture suggest in terms of what it is trying to say?
"The dog ran home", then sample it and tune it on thousands of real people.
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... there is really so much competition for peoples time these days it's little wonder companies like to blame lack of sales on piracy.
I'd really like someone to add up all the hours it would take to experience x's book or y's product and they'd soon begin to realize it would take someone an ENTIRE LIFETIME not even to get through a fraction of what is out there.
I usually only buy books that I think are worth something over the long term. People have way too many options today to fill their time. Also with the advent of the net discussing and sharing insights, any book that is published quickly becomes out-dated.
One thing I hope electronic books allow is real-time updates to books so that they can stay fresh, with a wikipedia like revision system that tracks version and revision history (for those that need it).
Personally electronic books when done right (when the software gets there) will allow copying and pasting a whole bunch of different things that you can't do with a real book. Both will have their place I think.
Truth be told Chrono cross sales probaly disappointed, Chrono Cross (spiritual successor to chrono trigger) was not a real sequel and did not feature anyone from the original cast really. Truth be told Chrono Trigger is a classic game how anyone could fuck up a sequel is anyone's guess but square managed to make it too different in many ways, even though it was an alright game.
"A corporation, no matter how evil, cannot lawfully detain you, lock you in a cage or kill you."
Actually the can and they do, we just don't hear about it. Corporations BUY the laws and commit many crimes, did you not know that corporations were killing their workers up into th 1930's? How about third world sweatshops? Corporations pay others to do their dirty work for them, while their PR machines give the impression that "private" corporations are better then government... my ass. History shows that private men who have much commercial power are just violent as any government not to mention they fund armies and rebellions, they are intertwined (corps and government).
This idea that the world "government" is somehow different from "private corporation" is a bunch of bullshit, most corporations LOVE government in fact many couldn't exist and get away with the shit they do if not FOR buying off people in government.
Private men of commerce have been amongst the most evil since they fund governments of the world let's not forget, buy and lobby laws in their favor.
They are JUST as bad as government, because you see the word "government" and "corporation" hide the TRUE meaning most elites would not want you to see: They own both, and their is a revolving door from one to the other, while the average public man rails against "government" nad supports "pro privitization" little does he know people in power know the score, is that their is no difference in people that run these insitutions and their influence is peddles via both means, it's the people themselves that cause stuff we should be after.
"Government" is a ghost that ignorant people rail against, when it is PEOPLE that cause things to happen.
There can never be a free market in the purest sense, the price mechanism and property itself itself is subject abuse and flaws. For instance corporate personhood is a farce that should be doone away with, as well as owners and businesses being liable to society. There's a severe problem that money can buys laws, so the more powerful you are in the market you can simply buy people to lobby for laws that protect you and your buddies.
For instance in large population sizes, those who strategically position themselves via influence and politics (office, government, people, etc) will get a disproportionate share of the wealth not because they are better then everyone else but simply because there is so many people and out of physical efficiency institutions tend to centralize commercial power.
Also the system we usegives the illusion of competition, tell me how it is that CEO's can have million dollar salaries. I don't buy it that there aren't millions of people vying for such a job, the problem is that many business's by their nature are dictatorships or whether communal / distributed dictatorships or not.
We lie and convince ourselves that CEO's are the best and brightest but it's nothing but politics, workers have no legal power to throw out their bosses from badly run businesses.
Truth be told the whole capitalist worker relationship of modern society is quite messed up to begin with. Since most wage workers are non-owners, they are at the beck and call of those who control the most.
shit duke nukem and doom, I am so clueless this morning rofl
OOPS lol
I meant to say Quake single player was generally stale, while Duke nukem and quake were good :)
"The first Quake was pretty creepy."
The first quake was a disaster from a single player perspective. All of the Quake single player games Duke nuken and earlier games by iD like Doom and Doom 2
Truth be told I couldn't stand quake 1 and 2 single player. The whole "strogg" bit was just horrible for an adversary. Give me doom's crazy demon army anytime. I can't be the only one felt let down by quake 1 and 2 in comparison to the earlier doom, which was much more fun and creative.
Quake multiplayer I admit was fun, but single player was a dog.
How math is taught IS important. I've been doing research into how to teach math and I've learned over the years that the math most schools teach is ONE GROUP OF MEN's way of how to frame mathematics and numbers.
When it comes down to it math is a language to systematize form and structure.
There are numerous angles to teach concepts that are much better then traditional methods. One of the reasons kids find math hard is that they are not taught to DERIVE concepts from things everyone understands: Size, difference, distinction, ratio, motion. i.e. before you even open a textbook and start crunching numbers, you need to be taught how to observe and think conceptually, otherwise the symbols will just seem like jargon disconnected from why mathematical systems were 'invented' in the first place.
What math heads who are good with symbolic computation and manipulation don't understand is that mathematics for most people is difficult without a conceptual framework that they can relate to. Just seeing a bunch of symbols and equations doesn't tell you HOW to think about a general framework and interpretation of concepts that come before "math".
There's also a real cult around mathematics that turns a lot of people off math, since many people around mathematics tend to be rigid. One only has to look at how contemporaries of George Cantor in mathematics treated him when he came up with different ways of viewing numbers and mathematical concepts.
... I think it's a really good idea personally as the average user does not know about these kinds of things. Also chrome is very high speed and less prone to freezing and crashing. IE tends to be one ofthe worst for that, although with IE8 they tried to make it so it doesn't take down the whole browser.
I think mass advertising of little known things to the average person is great, it's unfortunate that it's so expensive to do any many great things never get the exposure they deserve.
Personally I think including a basket of competing APPS with an operating system is the only really way to go and then have the apps load a homepage from their respective sites, etc. I've often wondered about forcing a company like Microsoft to include alternative browsers. It would also help having an installed base which would lead to better standardization.
Thanks for that! :)
... this is not a big deal. It's a move game, why would anyone really care if it's multi platform or not? Unless it is the best game in the universe (doubtful).
Seriously from a developer standpoint unless Sony ponied up enough money for the dev team to never have to work again after completing the game, WHY would you ever go exclusive?
"This has nothing to do with technological immaturity or firmware bugs. It's simply a matter of SSDs using an optimization that hard drives can't due to their non-trivial seek times, and people are starting to realize that that optimization doesn't always work."
Actually it does, you should check out ANAND's article here:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=8
There definitely IS some immaturity (broadly speaking) if you go through the entire article about how other SSD's were designed and their particular problems.
... these things aren't going to be a big deal in the long run, I mean who wasn't expecting some amount of technological immaturity? We shouldn't forget though that even with it's immaturity it's still much faster then hard disk drives but the SATA interface controller was not designed to handle such high speeds, not to mention much software is not geared, nor optimized for SSD usage.
Still price has come down considerably on many SSD's over the last 6 months, I was thinking about picking up an X-25 M for a mere $350 bucks, would be worth it (to me) just to reduce load times in games like Empire total war IMHO.
... if the pay worked similar but not exactly like cable TV -- Flat fee, all you can view. But I'm not sure if the culture is ready for it IMHO. I mean even ad support online video I just can't see being profitable until bandwidth caps go away and bandwidth speeds and gigabytes become much cheaper (From the users standpoint).
Also you get highest quality vids that you can bookark/dl for offline viewing.
Not everyone has the time to sit there and find torrents of their favorite shows. I mean if they could categorize the content, I wouldn't mind reminiscing in a lot of old shows that are now no longer shown on TV.
Also the "you watch it when you want to factor" is probably the best thing about it. Also paying users should not be subject to ads.
... depending on how recent the IP is. The thing with tolkien and the lord of the rings is, the books have been around forever. But any game would most likely be targetting the lukewarm middle that doesn't read very much, any game appealing to tolkien's world doesn't necessarily have to be 'perfect' and I think most sane people realize that. I really think it's a minority thing to get crazy about adaptations of movies or established stories to games.
"There are other reasons, of course - dead tree format can't keep up with our favorite series of tubes, nor with the highly partisan and more entertainment-driven cable news channels."
The truth is we really don't care about the truth and we aren't willing to pay the money, that and too many people are too ignorant and uninformed to be even opening their mouth let alone giving such people 'equal time' or a voice that spreads misinformation, propaganda, and all other sort of socially toxic BS via the media.
"I've already gone through the posts and see people typing "ID" referring to the company as if they're initials or something. The damn word is id!"
id as in lid, yes I know. But for most people who played doom it was eye-dee, I mean you can't name your company something like id (as in lid) and then expect people to know the proper pronunciations.
More importantly eye-dee software sounds way better then "id" software. I've always referred to them as eye-dee and not 'id'.
Quite frankly it shouldn't matter since once something becomes culturally critical mass the most popular one becomes acceptable because it is now interchangable and that's how most people refer to the company.
"The point of browser-based games is that the end user doesn't need to install anything,"
We could have said the same thing about Adobe Flash which is now ubiquitous on the web or active x plugins, or any number of web plugins.
I understand your point but really the issue is making the plugin installation easy and transparent. Ideally everything would be automated without user intervention but the political issues and general user and corporate, and malicious malware idiots of the world would find some way to fuck it up.
The web interface for Q3 is pretty good and it sure beats the pants off of old clunky server browsers like gamespy for the average person who doesn't know, nor want to know much about computers and just get into the game and play.
You can't believe everything that is in the history books either. History is written by those who have the power and the money to distort history.
"I'd rather think that more often than not the people that pirates games do so because it's free, convenient, and consequent-free."
No we do it because you cannot rent games on a PC or often times there are no demo's before the game is released, not to mention we like to play with our friends and having to pay the full fee per person, is ridiculous.
The original Diablo had a multiplayer "spawn" option as well as earlier games that allowed people to play together off a single copy of the game, as gaming companies got more greedy they attempted to put a stop to this by CD keys and other things. Let's not also forget to mention the horrible abortive states many PC games are released in full of bugs or lacking content. Also the horribly abusive "DLC" for console games.
Piracy is NOT NEW to the internet generation, I find it very odd that newbies here think piracy has never been so "easy" with the internet, before the internet there were BBS's and easily coped floppy disks. This has been rampant since the beginning of the PC. Games have ALWAYS been pirated. How many people here played Civ 1 as a pirate copy they got from someone else? Or eye of the beholder 1 or 2? What about doom and doom 2, or duke nukem 3d?
Ironically enough Demigod is one of those games that quite deserves to be pirated. It lacks an enormous amount in content department for $50 game and was panned quite widely for it in the gaming press.
It is also a direct rip off of DOTA for Warcraft 3. The game designers took DOTA / WC3 hero's arena type mods, dressed them up in new art and stuck it in a box and charged $50 bucks for it. If any game deserves to be pirated to the max it's Demigod. Anyone here who thinks demigod is "deserving" of their money needs to load up their old copy of warcraft 3 download Defense of the ancients and hero arena to see that all Stardock and GPG have done is take something that players invented, copy the gameplay and stick a new coat of paint on it.
Let's not also forget that DOTA has way more in terms of depth, content and heroes and above all it's FREE and has been available for years.
"While I am not against the use of such drugs because of safety reasons per se, to me, it feels like we're cheating evolution. Perhaps evolution could come up with many of these modifications (intelligence/less drowsiness) naturally."
Sigh... why do people keep thinking that things are "unnatural" technically everything we do is NATURAL by definition, value judgements that x is good and y is bad because it is not 'natural' is cultural thing not ab objective truth.
If we were really so concerned about "cheating evolution" we would not save the sick, we would not have hospitals that keep people who are "wasting resources" on life support for x many years, we would let diseases run their course and not have anti-biotics or drugs, only our natural immune systems to deal with sickness.
The whole idea that we are "cheating evolution" or doming something "unnatural" is bogus, psychologically generated bullshit that we inherit from the culture and our proclivities.
IS playing video games natural?? or inventing computers? What about programming? What about making machines that do work for you so you no longer have to work at hard labour which kept your muscles in shape?
This whole obsession with an unreal version of nature that never was in our cultural mythos is the culprit.
... your passion? Are you the kind of person that gets bored even about things you are passionat about? You can study something if you believe it will bring you more money in the future.
What people don't understand is you can LEARN to love doing something by looking at it from another perspective - i.e. take joy in solving problems and strategizing in general and then it shouldn't matter what 'speciality' you go into specifically.
Personally I don't nkow why they just don't use pictures of things and randomly circle some item in the picture that has a tagged string to it the picture and then type in.
Right now they are using distorted letters and numbers, it seems to me that using pictures and asking questions about the nature of the objects ('randoly') circled would be a lot better..
because algorithms would have a tough time desciphering what object might be circled or pointed out in the picture,
Or you could use pictures to "suggest" something like have a Dog pic with a plus sign and a dog "running" pic with a plus sign, and then have a house
Then ask the question, what does this picture suggest in terms of what it is trying to say?
"The dog ran home", then sample it and tune it on thousands of real people.
That might be a better approach.
Big. Giant. Torrents.
"Why would you spend a pile of money to build a system that's obsolete as soon as you turn it up?"
Sounds a lot like the private sector (at least when it comes to the internet), the private sector is milking old technology for all it is worth.