this is what happens when you try to make the game fair for everybody. because fair for everybody means fair for the least skilled player.
what is it with asian countries (i'm asian in the US and have traveled through china, singapore, japan, etc) and creating these ninny nanny states that foster sissies and wierd fetishes?
i honestly don't see why they're releasing these episodes serially. ya, it may generate a buzz for the next release, but why not just release as they're completed?
heck, if there were 20 episodes out, i'm sure it'd keep quite a few people busy and antisocial for a very long time.
what's so good about the HL storyline is that it's so completely open. they can create episodes that add little bits and pieces and have the community do some detective work and piece everything together.
really, to me, and i'm just speaking for myself, the real interesting stuff is when you have to hunt down the clues and when they all come together to create a more rich and enticing story line.
and so then let's take it a step further, and instead of burying our nuclear waste in nevada, let's genetically engineer all people on this earth (or those who can afford it) to be resistant to radiation!
you know, we can also eradicate every person who has hiv or aids, all in the name of saving the billions of people who would needlessly have to suffer from the design in the future.
the ethics of it all are difficult. a better question would be if the easiest and quickest route is necessarily the best route.
i just set up an old p4-xeon system with an old quadro4 to emulate the nes, snes, and n64. i've been playing dr mario nonstop for the past week. who needs subscription based gaming when u have an unlimited source for great gaming?
and the bill says that all devices that come out after the bill is made into law cannot ignore the flag, and that the FCC will have the power to regulate, meaning anybody making software to ignore the flag will be breaking the law.
ya, and to make things equal, if we want to use the airplane model, then we'll all have to get in long lines and submit to background checks to make sure we're not looking to do anything illegal with the music before we download it. then, we'll need to sit in a long queue while the music sight doles out tracks on at a time, double checking to make sure we're who we say we are.
and also under the airplane model... for people who download a particular song just once, they'll pay $20, while those who want to download multiple copies of the same song will get big discounts, say $5 a copy in quantities of 4 or more.
No more cd media costs.
No more cd container costs.
No more printed liner costs.
No shipping costs.
Drastically reduced distribution costs. Profit on cd-r tax Profit on cd-burner tax
don't forget cd levies on every cdr and every burner sold, which we all pay irregardless of whether music or private person data is being burned onto them.
the average price of music won't go down with variable pricing. let's say that 90% of all music downloaded is popular and new music and that the other 10% are older tracks and less listened to stuff, while the total of all music offered sits at a 10% popular music to 90% are older tracks ratio.
and let's assume it's $0.50 for older tracks and $1.50 for popular and new tracks.
under a straight weighted average and your assumption where "it's not hard to see how the average price might actually fall in a year or two, thanks to the number of titles in the discounted niche/back catalog categories vastly outnumbering the more expensive hits", then the average price of a track would fall as more music is being added. That price would be, under the above assumptions, $0.60 a track. all and good right?
no, not right. what makes a difference is not how many tracks are available for download, but what the average price is when u weight it on -what's- being downloaded. So, if 90% of all music downloaded is popular music, at $1.50 a pop, and the other 10% is the not so popular stuff, at $0.50 a track, then the average price per track goes up... or, with the above assupmtions, $1.40 per track.
and do you honestly think that music that's popular, irregardless of age, will be relegated to the bargin bin at bargin bin prices? why would an -any- executive lower the price on -any- product that's selling a million units a year for the 10 years at the same price?
and then china can go and rewrite all the underlying low level code and technologies invented in the US too.
the internet's gotten to the point where it's now easy for anybody to mess with it.
just like file sharing... back when it was all IRC and nntp, it was easy to swap music and pr0n with impunity.
extremely high resolution images exist for everywhere on the planet. i think it's more a matter of what each country allows google to publish satellite images (and at what resolutions) than it has to do with google not including most of europe.
not to mention the DMCA violations you'd be committing by knowingly removing DRM. if anything else, itunes' lock in is preventing theft and keeping those nefarious pirates from stealing profits from the hard working music industry! (read with sarcasm)
i think the better question is... how are you going to download and burn SuSE on a DVD or CD-R when you don't have an OS on your gateway?
so if you're going to use your gateway, then u'll need an OS. and if you want to compare two machines as close as possible, then you have to compare them as they come out of the box. and if we do that, then you'll need to buy XP Pro.
even if you don't buy XP pro, then compare the time to set up a macbook (take it out of the box, plug in, push on button) with setting up a gateway with SuSE (take out of box, plug in, set up internet, look for distro of Linux u like, burn on DVD/CD's, reboot, install Linux, set up network again, crap, network driver didn't install properly, reinstall windows, set up network....)
ya... whoever said you need to install a *nix OS on the gateway cuz the mac os is *nix based, and then deducting the cost of an OS needs to be taken out and shot.
or maybe his owning stock in a company that he's suing, it might be seen as stock manipulation... but i don't see how that'd be beneficial for him... but then again, does having it be profitably necessarily mean it's not illegal?
"If anyone is a real thinking person then prove that you cant throw a pile of sticks and some glue up in the air and it will come down as a glued together, perfect box."
What you have just described (and by context of your statement are trying to use as evidence against evolution) very exactly describes creationism.
evolution would be that every person in the world throw up a pile of sticks and glue, and then take wut fell to the ground and throw it back up in the air (some with only what fell, some with a few pieces left on the ground, some with more glue, some with more sticks)... and eventually, one of the billion people on the planet would have a perfect, glued together box.
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this is what happens when you try to make the game fair for everybody. because fair for everybody means fair for the least skilled player. what is it with asian countries (i'm asian in the US and have traveled through china, singapore, japan, etc) and creating these ninny nanny states that foster sissies and wierd fetishes?
i honestly don't see why they're releasing these episodes serially. ya, it may generate a buzz for the next release, but why not just release as they're completed? heck, if there were 20 episodes out, i'm sure it'd keep quite a few people busy and antisocial for a very long time. what's so good about the HL storyline is that it's so completely open. they can create episodes that add little bits and pieces and have the community do some detective work and piece everything together. really, to me, and i'm just speaking for myself, the real interesting stuff is when you have to hunt down the clues and when they all come together to create a more rich and enticing story line.
we're talking sony online entertainment here.
when one stops expecting pigs to fart liquid gold, they consequently are also disappointed a lot less often.
i played this game for maybe 10 minutes before deleting it off my system. what a waste of time.
imagine a beowulf cluster of these guys...
and so then let's take it a step further, and instead of burying our nuclear waste in nevada, let's genetically engineer all people on this earth (or those who can afford it) to be resistant to radiation!
you know, we can also eradicate every person who has hiv or aids, all in the name of saving the billions of people who would needlessly have to suffer from the design in the future.
the ethics of it all are difficult. a better question would be if the easiest and quickest route is necessarily the best route.
if the mouse is arthritic, then i doubt it'd be running really fast
i just set up an old p4-xeon system with an old quadro4 to emulate the nes, snes, and n64. i've been playing dr mario nonstop for the past week. who needs subscription based gaming when u have an unlimited source for great gaming?
that's because they don't represent anything... "artists and musicians whom we indenture and whose music we hold hostage" would be more accurate.
and the bill says that all devices that come out after the bill is made into law cannot ignore the flag, and that the FCC will have the power to regulate, meaning anybody making software to ignore the flag will be breaking the law.
ya, and to make things equal, if we want to use the airplane model, then we'll all have to get in long lines and submit to background checks to make sure we're not looking to do anything illegal with the music before we download it. then, we'll need to sit in a long queue while the music sight doles out tracks on at a time, double checking to make sure we're who we say we are. and also under the airplane model... for people who download a particular song just once, they'll pay $20, while those who want to download multiple copies of the same song will get big discounts, say $5 a copy in quantities of 4 or more.
the world is bigger than the US
No more cd media costs.
No more cd container costs.
No more printed liner costs.
No shipping costs.
Drastically reduced distribution costs.
Profit on cd-r tax
Profit on cd-burner tax
don't forget cd levies on every cdr and every burner sold, which we all pay irregardless of whether music or private person data is being burned onto them.
the average price of music won't go down with variable pricing. let's say that 90% of all music downloaded is popular and new music and that the other 10% are older tracks and less listened to stuff, while the total of all music offered sits at a 10% popular music to 90% are older tracks ratio. and let's assume it's $0.50 for older tracks and $1.50 for popular and new tracks. under a straight weighted average and your assumption where "it's not hard to see how the average price might actually fall in a year or two, thanks to the number of titles in the discounted niche/back catalog categories vastly outnumbering the more expensive hits", then the average price of a track would fall as more music is being added. That price would be, under the above assumptions, $0.60 a track. all and good right? no, not right. what makes a difference is not how many tracks are available for download, but what the average price is when u weight it on -what's- being downloaded. So, if 90% of all music downloaded is popular music, at $1.50 a pop, and the other 10% is the not so popular stuff, at $0.50 a track, then the average price per track goes up... or, with the above assupmtions, $1.40 per track. and do you honestly think that music that's popular, irregardless of age, will be relegated to the bargin bin at bargin bin prices? why would an -any- executive lower the price on -any- product that's selling a million units a year for the 10 years at the same price?
and then china can go and rewrite all the underlying low level code and technologies invented in the US too. the internet's gotten to the point where it's now easy for anybody to mess with it. just like file sharing... back when it was all IRC and nntp, it was easy to swap music and pr0n with impunity.
extremely high resolution images exist for everywhere on the planet. i think it's more a matter of what each country allows google to publish satellite images (and at what resolutions) than it has to do with google not including most of europe.
i wasn't aware there was a competition
not to mention the DMCA violations you'd be committing by knowingly removing DRM. if anything else, itunes' lock in is preventing theft and keeping those nefarious pirates from stealing profits from the hard working music industry! (read with sarcasm)
i think the better question is... how are you going to download and burn SuSE on a DVD or CD-R when you don't have an OS on your gateway? so if you're going to use your gateway, then u'll need an OS. and if you want to compare two machines as close as possible, then you have to compare them as they come out of the box. and if we do that, then you'll need to buy XP Pro. even if you don't buy XP pro, then compare the time to set up a macbook (take it out of the box, plug in, push on button) with setting up a gateway with SuSE (take out of box, plug in, set up internet, look for distro of Linux u like, burn on DVD/CD's, reboot, install Linux, set up network again, crap, network driver didn't install properly, reinstall windows, set up network....) ya... whoever said you need to install a *nix OS on the gateway cuz the mac os is *nix based, and then deducting the cost of an OS needs to be taken out and shot.
or maybe his owning stock in a company that he's suing, it might be seen as stock manipulation... but i don't see how that'd be beneficial for him... but then again, does having it be profitably necessarily mean it's not illegal?
personally, i can't wait until they clone these bad boys so i can have myself some mammoth burgers
well if you read the f'ing comments, then u'll realize that the greater majority of people aren't saying "modded xboxes=bad"
"If anyone is a real thinking person then prove that you cant throw a pile of sticks and some glue up in the air and it will come down as a glued together, perfect box."
What you have just described (and by context of your statement are trying to use as evidence against evolution) very exactly describes creationism.
evolution would be that every person in the world throw up a pile of sticks and glue, and then take wut fell to the ground and throw it back up in the air (some with only what fell, some with a few pieces left on the ground, some with more glue, some with more sticks)... and eventually, one of the billion people on the planet would have a perfect, glued together box.
... or so you think... having a linux box on your desk isn't necessarily a badge of common sense and intelligence