Your model is flawed (besides the obvious math error). It doesn't take into account overlap between libraries. Example: I have 30gb of music. One of my good friends has 40gb music. When we link up, does that give us 70gb music each? Of course not. About 50% of the albums we have are the same, and it ends up we only pull about 3gb maximum from each other, simply because it's all that interests you that you don't already have.
Lost revenue isn't an album you download. It's an album you download instead of purchasing. Thanks to the internet, we can listen to music we would never think about purchasing. I wouldn't be heartbroken if I lost half my mp3s in a drive failure. The only music I like enough to buy, I already have bought, and will just rip again.
I see your point, but I don't think it applies. You really oughta play Full Spectrum Warrior and see what it's really about.
The goal is to keep your peeps alive first and foremost, and ultimately to shoot the bad guys. Most of the game's tactics and mechanics revolve around surviving and evading fire. Most of the tactics used in the game are rendered entirely useless when your targets are unarmed and not trying to kill you, like in a mass murder situation you described.
It's really really tough to break into the console market unless you are the corporate equivalent of an 800lb gorilla.
With Sega waning off, Nintendo was destined to be king of console. However, the monstrous Sony had significant capital to bust in to offer serious competition to the N64 (which due to a few great titles [goldeneye, ocarina of time, mariokart, perfect dark] endured quite nicely.)
Microsoft jumped into the market with a green box and a few large advantages. Microsoft already had significant experience in the hardware they would use, (PC parts) a good base OS, (Windows 2000, which is still a good gaming platform) and deep deep pockets that can afford to sell their product below cost. They got some great 3rd party ports going for their superior hardware, and a very good launch title, Halo (which I wasn't terribly impressed with, but it's really the best in the first person arena for the consoles.)
Microsoft was destined to give good competition, just because they can afford to lose/spend a lot of money in hopes of a brighter future. But Infinium Labs? No thanks. Nintendo has been making gaming hardware for over 20 years, Sony has made some quality electronics for some time, and Microsoft has been behind the OS most used for games since (true) 3D PC gaming began 10 years ago.
Go home Infinium Labs. But take some money from some suckers first.
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Why don't they fix that awful formatting in MS Word?
You know, push enter twice and it returns to the default font/size. That really bothers me.
Your model is flawed (besides the obvious math error). It doesn't take into account overlap between libraries.
Example: I have 30gb of music. One of my good friends has 40gb music. When we link up, does that give us 70gb music each? Of course not. About 50% of the albums we have are the same, and it ends up we only pull about 3gb maximum from each other, simply because it's all that interests you that you don't already have.
Lost revenue isn't an album you download. It's an album you download instead of purchasing. Thanks to the internet, we can listen to music we would never think about purchasing. I wouldn't be heartbroken if I lost half my mp3s in a drive failure. The only music I like enough to buy, I already have bought, and will just rip again.
Upon me actually RTFA, this isn't home use software. The old "unplug the cable" trick doesn't scale well in the environment you described.
Well, maybe only one machine on your LAN has been infected yet and you don't want them all to be.
That's where you pull the plug on the other machines and then kill your infection before you plug the others in.
Ach, Mein Thirsten!
If that's the case, I'm setting up a swinging paint can trap on my firewall now.
/sarcasm
I still have 300lbs of duct tape and saran wrap laying around from the last REAL threat.
slash-had - A holy war in a painful dark khaki color scheme.
This being the 24th day, he drops about 21 ish bombs a day.
That sir, is not constipation. That is uncontrollable demon bowels.
The other day I was the 87298734th visiter to a website. I won a trip to Hawaii.
The fireworks told me. I put in my email, but I haven't gotten any tickets yet. Mostly just offers to make my penis bigger...
How did they ever know??
Competitors can't run around the hotel simply asking everyone, "Are you the Running Man?"
Yeah, they first have to translate it to Klingon in order for the nerds to compete with each other.
They should have created 10 rules related to HAL-3 and his descendants, particularly including "Be nice to Dave."
I see your point, but I don't think it applies. You really oughta play Full Spectrum Warrior and see what it's really about.
The goal is to keep your peeps alive first and foremost, and ultimately to shoot the bad guys. Most of the game's tactics and mechanics revolve around surviving and evading fire. Most of the tactics used in the game are rendered entirely useless when your targets are unarmed and not trying to kill you, like in a mass murder situation you described.
That's the ticket. Thanks for the info friendly northernly neighbor.
It's really really tough to break into the console market unless you are the corporate equivalent of an 800lb gorilla.
With Sega waning off, Nintendo was destined to be king of console. However, the monstrous Sony had significant capital to bust in to offer serious competition to the N64 (which due to a few great titles [goldeneye, ocarina of time, mariokart, perfect dark] endured quite nicely.)
Microsoft jumped into the market with a green box and a few large advantages. Microsoft already had significant experience in the hardware they would use, (PC parts) a good base OS, (Windows 2000, which is still a good gaming platform) and deep deep pockets that can afford to sell their product below cost. They got some great 3rd party ports going for their superior hardware, and a very good launch title, Halo (which I wasn't terribly impressed with, but it's really the best in the first person arena for the consoles.)
Microsoft was destined to give good competition, just because they can afford to lose/spend a lot of money in hopes of a brighter future. But Infinium Labs? No thanks. Nintendo has been making gaming hardware for over 20 years, Sony has made some quality electronics for some time, and Microsoft has been behind the OS most used for games since (true) 3D PC gaming began 10 years ago.
Go home Infinium Labs. But take some money from some suckers first.
Maybe he meant actual download speeds of 1MB/s, which I have seen on my home connection as well.
Still no Daikatana jokes?
Y'all are dropping the ball.
Grandparents set up us the bomb!
You know what you doing!
Didn't an oldschool French ammunition ship explode on some coast in Canada quite a while ago, creating the largest non-nuclear explosion?
The name escapes me, was it in Newfoundland?
So that's why I couldn't see it when I looked up in the sky from thousands of miles away.
You oughta work for Fox as disinformation minister. Hell, even Fox News this close to the election.
Some already hate it. You can see shadows approaching around certain corners that give away positions.
But I don't like 1.x CS anyway, soo....
I hear the hitboxes are fixed a bit. I stopped playing post 1.0 when the great screw-up-the-hitboxes storm hit.
This one was repeated all through high school.
You will make a zillion dollars and be the boss.
If I could find a job, I could test that myth.
They chose hotmail.com because hotmale.com was already taken.
Duh.
They were trying to install Debian?
That wasn't offtopic. That was a joke. Silly modman.