I think the summary is asking about long trips, like inter-state, multi-hour driving. RPGs would be great for those.
I don't see how playing a portable RPG would be that much different from reading a novel. They both require context when reading/playing, and take many hours to complete.
These illegal and corrupt acts happen even in democracies with 3-4 parties. Look at Canada!
The current ruling party is fighting for its' life because of corruption, and I bet they'll be re-elected too. The 3rd most popular party (socialist) tells its' voters to vote for the Liberals (the ruling left-wing party) because they don't want the 'scary' Conservative party to win.
As long as there's two ends of the political spectrum, you'll have two leading parties, with the others fulfilling special interests that never get enough votes to matter much.
Just as much as I can't say that the bombing of Hiroshima wasn't necessary to avoid an invasion of Japan, you cannot say that using the bomb saved allied lives by making an invasion unnecessary.
MAYBE if the Americans decided to allow the Japanese to keep their emperor before they dropped the bomb, and not after they dropped the bomb, things would have been different.
Copying DVDs (assuming you mean store bought movie DVDs) is illegal in the Land of the Free thanks to the DMCA. You're breaking a copyright protection technology to make the backup.
The problem is that private trackers WANT to see where all the traffic is going, it's like a customs agent at the border.
If you can download a packet and don't tell the tracker, then you don't need to upload a packet for your 'ratio' (just like on FTP ratio sites).
The problem is that some of the best BT clients are open-source, so anyone can hack their favourite client to ignore trackers for certain operations. The BT was not designed for this. The whole private tracker idea is a hack, although a somehwat successful one.
Maybe you should've SAID the movie that you were using as an example? See what being unclear does? I doubt I was the only one that was mislead by your post!
I hope this isn't too redundant: In other words, would dcutting the price a product in half cause the said product to sell more than twice as much?
It sounds similar to this problem: One time an accountant was complaining that he had too many customers and couldn't do all their work in time. It was then suggested that he double his rates, so he did and lost half his clients, yet somehow not any money.
The moral is that pricing is dependant on the supply and demand. The accountant's supply is his time, and the game's supply is the number of discs and packaging that can be made at a given price.
If they sold games at a lower price, and sold more volume, the cost to manufacture each disc would go down. So they may not even need to double sales to maintain the same revenue.
I keep wondering why games that take 4 hours to finish cost just as much as epic games that people still play today. Looks a lot like price fixing. (Thank you 2K sports for selling cheap sports games on the xbox, and practically the same games on the 360 for double!)
That's also assuming that someone with a broadband internet connection at home is the type to pay to use an internet cafe. They already bought a nice computer and are paying for broadband at home. There may be a couple people that are in that situation, but how many are knowledgable to do VNC over SSH? Plus, the performance would suck ass.
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How about Indig Prophecy/Faranheit, Death to All Humans, or ...
Ya, sequential art should be a category instead.
Umm, disposable batteries last longer than rechargable batteries, even with the GP2x. That's why people by disposable batteries.
And your point is? What does one have to do with the other? (Except that IBM PCs built with Intel processors run MS OSes).
Ya, but the networks are seen by close to 100% of the population, but cable and pay channels by far fewer.
The idea is that the networks earn a lot more money than the cable channels, but still can't produce programming of the same quality.
I doubt the 360 will support as much functionality as xbmc at least until the PS3 comes out.
If the PS3 DOES have decent multimedia capability, maybe M$ will have to improve their offering.
Come on! No xvid support? Cause of piracy? But it supports mp3!
I think the summary is asking about long trips, like inter-state, multi-hour driving. RPGs would be great for those.
I don't see how playing a portable RPG would be that much different from reading a novel. They both require context when reading/playing, and take many hours to complete.
I'll play you, as long as you play blind too, or else might not be fair.
These illegal and corrupt acts happen even in democracies with 3-4 parties. Look at Canada!
The current ruling party is fighting for its' life because of corruption, and I bet they'll be re-elected too. The 3rd most popular party (socialist) tells its' voters to vote for the Liberals (the ruling left-wing party) because they don't want the 'scary' Conservative party to win.
As long as there's two ends of the political spectrum, you'll have two leading parties, with the others fulfilling special interests that never get enough votes to matter much.
Just as much as I can't say that the bombing of Hiroshima wasn't necessary to avoid an invasion of Japan, you cannot say that using the bomb saved allied lives by making an invasion unnecessary.
MAYBE if the Americans decided to allow the Japanese to keep their emperor before they dropped the bomb, and not after they dropped the bomb, things would have been different.
Notice the 'maybe', no one knows!
For a good read on the subject, look here: http://www.doug-long.com/hiroshim.htm
Nver underestimate Hollywood!
Forgetting the product placement in Blade Runner? Yup, Atari billboards.
I think the future isn't in product placements though, it's in direct purchase, either online or on DVD.
Well, then buy ATI, no wait, they're Canadian :(
:)
No wait, I'm Canadian too!
Copying DVDs (assuming you mean store bought movie DVDs) is illegal in the Land of the Free thanks to the DMCA. You're breaking a copyright protection technology to make the backup.
It's even harder to place ads in SHOWS THAT ARE CANCELLED!!
Newsflash, they don't make that "Firefly" TV show anymore.
The problem is that private trackers WANT to see where all the traffic is going, it's like a customs agent at the border.
If you can download a packet and don't tell the tracker, then you don't need to upload a packet for your 'ratio' (just like on FTP ratio sites).
The problem is that some of the best BT clients are open-source, so anyone can hack their favourite client to ignore trackers for certain operations. The BT was not designed for this. The whole private tracker idea is a hack, although a somehwat successful one.
I call shenanigans!!!
explain, with a name like Rose... I thought you'd be a chick, maybe an ugly chick, but a chick.
Maybe you should've SAID the movie that you were using as an example? See what being unclear does? I doubt I was the only one that was mislead by your post!
This is slashdot, not Jeopardy.
Just give the little munchkins a baggie of cheerios, that should shut them up.
But then you have to clean up, but at least you avoided an accident!
I hope this isn't too redundant:
In other words, would dcutting the price a product in half cause the said product to sell more than twice as much?
It sounds similar to this problem:
One time an accountant was complaining that he had too many customers and couldn't do all their work in time. It was then suggested that he double his rates, so he did and lost half his clients, yet somehow not any money.
The moral is that pricing is dependant on the supply and demand. The accountant's supply is his time, and the game's supply is the number of discs and packaging that can be made at a given price.
If they sold games at a lower price, and sold more volume, the cost to manufacture each disc would go down. So they may not even need to double sales to maintain the same revenue.
I keep wondering why games that take 4 hours to finish cost just as much as epic games that people still play today. Looks a lot like price fixing. (Thank you 2K sports for selling cheap sports games on the xbox, and practically the same games on the 360 for double!)
That's also assuming that someone with a broadband internet connection at home is the type to pay to use an internet cafe. They already bought a nice computer and are paying for broadband at home. There may be a couple people that are in that situation, but how many are knowledgable to do VNC over SSH? Plus, the performance would suck ass.
So what if Fararanheit (sp?) 9/11 was so popular?
King Kong (1933) was SUPER popular and didn't get any Oscar nomination either.
A 'HE', how did you surmise that? Because he/she wanted to watch baseball? I thought it was a girl, going to a salon to get nails done and all that.
You mean Bizarro Superman. I've never seen so many comments on an article with Seinfeld references!
Cartridges cost a lot more than DVDs to manufacture.
I'd like to see an easy way to install a different desktop environment in Windows. HA!