Well I could buy the 2 maps for $5.99 a piece and then later buy the other maps for $11.99 totaling $23.97, or I could wait two months and get a cd with everything on it (therefore if my box went down or i mess something up i still have the cd) for $19.99, or just buy the map pack and download the rest for $11.99... I don't think they have thought this one through. Sure they are going to squeeze some money out of some people with that kind of talk, but I'm sure most people can wait. I mean $6 for a map that will be free in under two months, you can't even buy halo 1 for less then $10 of its origional price! Anyways this map pack is way overdue, i think most people will believe that they can wait, especially for something that probably should have been in the origional game.
Looking at his data it seems that he might be a bit bias toward a certain game. There are only 19 data points for Lineage while there are double that for games that have released later on. He doesn't tell what time of year these statistics were taken and he doesn't provide a set time interval between his recordings. It is good data, but nothing that could show any grand results. The only thing this is good for is telling who is on top at the moment, which might not always be accurate by his scale either. I would like to see accurate readings and maybe some prediction likes, something more like a stock market plot would give a lot better data, especially where there are only a couple hundred users separating the competitors. Since he is the only person I have seen doing this I guess I cannot complain.
Not to flame or anything, but the post says salty brine, the definition of brine already implies that it's salty, just trying to spread knowledge. Brine or salty water would have been acceptable.
On a separate note very interesting article, you do learn something new every day, or several things on/.
Not trying to flame, but did you ever learn about techtonic plates in elementry school. The world didn't always look like this and the arctic wasn't always the arctic, things move over millions of years and hey it did take millions of years to make the fossil fuels right?
Okay there is a big difference here. The RIAA distributes music while the MPAA distributes movies. I'm glad I just stated the obvious but I did it for a good point. The extended time it takes to watch a movie then to listen to a CD changes the effect of the product. You don't go around watching Chapter 3 & 5 of Kill Bill Vol. 1 and then watch a little Chapter 6 out of Cube. When this is easy to do with music, because one song is not directly connected to the other. With movies your going to watch the whole thing.
I find downloading movies is more like renting them, if I like the movie, I will most likely buy it. Mainly for the subtitles, great sound, dvd extras, and overall quality. Music isn't getting any better weather you get the CD or the mp3s of it. You can always download the cover and anything else that comes with the CD. You can do this with DVD's too but most don't. Most likely you will find a divx rip of the movie, with no subtitles (or enlish if the movie is in another language) with no dvd extras, no DD 7.1 surround sound option, a set quality and view port. The Divx copies are extremely limited.
People that download these movies for the sake of watching the movie wouldn't buy the movie anyways, they would probably rent it. Which as we know doesn't take away money from the MPAA, it takes away money from the rental business. Also there is a slim chance that people wouldn't even rent the movie. Generally the only thing I will do with a downloaded movie is watch it once to find out if i will be purchasing a good product that i will enjoy having. Sure, you could say that I am still doing this illegally, but this is helping the movie business because I have bought dvd's now that I wouldn't have imagined wanting to buy before.
I do disagree with what people are doing when it comes to pirating movies before they have came out in theaters, this can take away from theater sales because there are quite a few people that don't care if they see it in the theater or not, how ever this seems to be happening in every data business these days, weather it is music, movies, games, or software, on any platform and through any medium, it is a bit of a madness, but shame of the MPAA and the RIAA for trying to make a point by sueing random people that may be benifiting their company. You do not slap the hand that feeds you, eventually your going to end up starving!
If you have an xbox why buy a ps2, because the game only comes on ps2, duh! I hate saying this, but its called a business because you DO business. Its not the game manufactures fault that the games don't come out on Mac, its Mac's fault, they don't provide enough leverage. Of couse they may or maynot have the budget to provide leverage. Games are released to sell, people that have a PC play games, games are released to PC. Just like the more people have Linux the more games are going to be released for Linux. Mac and Mac users have not convinced game makers that the games are worth making on the Mac, its as simple as that. So don't whine about having to buy new hardware to play games, council people don't (well most of them, they may be disappointed but they don't whine)
I'm sorry, this is going too far... If you didn't get the acronym then you shouldn't even be on the internet especially not/. (not to kill./'s hit count, but sometimes no company is better then some company). I just wanted to shoot myself after I saw your post.
But anyways on topic now. I don't know what AOL is complaining about spim for, they have an even worse problems in their chat rooms, bots run constant p0rn ads, I have only gotten a couple spims in the past year, but I have seen some of aol's chat rooms, they are just bombed by chat spam, its ugly.
Agreed completely. I think its hillarious when they said that they created the portable x-box because they couldn't play x-box while they were on the road. They only said that because they want an excuse for why they suck at playing the game when MS invites them to play. Sorry guys no excuses now!
(please don't lable this as funny because its supposed to be serious)
MS: Hey guys we have a bunch of money and free stuff that we think is cool and don't want anyone else have, what should we do with it. ::A group of celebrities walk down the street:: MS: Hey Look! Rich people! Lets give them money and free stuff! Because everyone knows they are elite gamers! Rich people: WOW! money and free stuff, no way! This never happens to us! And look a portable X-box! Thats so cool, now I can play X-box in my luxury RV. ::tosses out old X-box:: Rich people: AWESOME! I am never moving this thing!
If Australia wants to do things like knock out violence in their country by banning video games and blaming others for their own problems then they don't deserve to have it. I think many Americans had this point after columbine, yet nothing happened. As I stated before, video games are not violent, the people that play them are. Also, any video game can teach a person to have better aim, catch blocks, still teaches aiming techniques, so is it just as violent?
Finally they might come out with one of those joysticks that have like 50 games on it and all you have to do is plug in the RCA cables into the TV and play.... and all it will have it mario games... sounds like heaven to me..
so the games i like to play will still have the spring mouse effect, does this mean i have to wip my head from side to side to get person to turn, or will he just sit there turning left and right. How could you turn around, the camera would lose track of your nose and you would never be able to turn your charactor around. From now on video games would have to be a hallway, or it would be extreamly painful to get to any objective to the left and right or even behind you. This also means that i just spend 80$ on a paper weight named MX1000, damn it!
... They forgot to put the ending quote marks after that quote oh the post. We are all going to die by someone that likes to hack accounts and forgets ending quote marks so that the beginning of the next quote actually signifies the ending of the previous quote thus making the first quote extremely long and putting the second quote into personal writing... that's plagiarism!
Maybe you would get more PC sales if you: 1.) Released the game on PC. 2.) Release it on PC when you release it on [insert council name]. 3.) Release them with the same features as the council game (Yeah I'm talking to you Microsoft, dbing it with no halo pc co-op, True we did get online, but Xbox got it with gamespy tunnel, ok so we got some new maps and we got the halo CE, I get your point, but I was looking forward to playing with some of my high school buddies that live on the other side of the country).
I mean common the prices are cheap enough, most people have enough on their system to play the game well enough, and there are all those cool features that people find out about. I guess a reason why they have dropped is because of pirating, but common these things don't help any, if I find a game I like I buy the game and I think there are a lot of people out there that do the same. Oh wait... 4.) Make the game good. (some of these games are just horrible!)
Thats like saying: you can talk to people but first they must have the same blood type, then they have to have a penny in their right pocket from 2000-2004, and who knows their penny's music might not be the music that you want to listen to. Yeah ok, maybe there might be a few people in dorms that think this is cool, but humm how many people do you think are going to have all of this available to them and how many people are going to keep it on long enough and be in the correct distance to keep a good strong connection going. They might as well make a ipod trading software online thats peer to peer, they would get so much more traffic.
Well according to convertit.com, 1 meter = 39.3700787401575 inches That would make the shuttle at 328,491 feet be about 100,124.0567 meters or 100.1240567 km so I guess you could round to 100 km, but don't let your highschool science teacher know that
Well Mr. Marks businesses do bad, you can't always have profit. Usually this brings about a change in strategy, some people might say that the strategy of sueing everyone that buys your product wouldn't be a sucessful strategy.
They just want it so we will go back to buying cd's. They said before there is no profit in single song sales, well.... I think they were wrong. I didn't buy them before and I'm not going to buy them now. If they are so mad why don't they just open their own online music store, makes sense to me.
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Well I could buy the 2 maps for $5.99 a piece and then later buy the other maps for $11.99 totaling $23.97, or I could wait two months and get a cd with everything on it (therefore if my box went down or i mess something up i still have the cd) for $19.99, or just buy the map pack and download the rest for $11.99... I don't think they have thought this one through. Sure they are going to squeeze some money out of some people with that kind of talk, but I'm sure most people can wait. I mean $6 for a map that will be free in under two months, you can't even buy halo 1 for less then $10 of its origional price! Anyways this map pack is way overdue, i think most people will believe that they can wait, especially for something that probably should have been in the origional game.
a black hole... you say tomato(long a), I say tomato(short a)
wait a second... /.ers have children?!?!
someone had to say it
30-40% of Internet use at work is not work-related
./ at work...
You mean getting to your site from
humm, it might be interesting to have a list...
is it really a peaceful protest if your causing someone hundreds of thousands of dollars, I mean I'm on your side, but lets get our facts strait.
Looking at his data it seems that he might be a bit bias toward a certain game. There are only 19 data points for Lineage while there are double that for games that have released later on. He doesn't tell what time of year these statistics were taken and he doesn't provide a set time interval between his recordings. It is good data, but nothing that could show any grand results. The only thing this is good for is telling who is on top at the moment, which might not always be accurate by his scale either. I would like to see accurate readings and maybe some prediction likes, something more like a stock market plot would give a lot better data, especially where there are only a couple hundred users separating the competitors. Since he is the only person I have seen doing this I guess I cannot complain.
Not to flame or anything, but the post says salty brine, the definition of brine already implies that it's salty, just trying to spread knowledge. Brine or salty water would have been acceptable.
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On a separate note very interesting article, you do learn something new every day, or several things on
Not trying to flame, but did you ever learn about techtonic plates in elementry school. The world didn't always look like this and the arctic wasn't always the arctic, things move over millions of years and hey it did take millions of years to make the fossil fuels right?
Okay there is a big difference here. The RIAA distributes music while the MPAA distributes movies.
I'm glad I just stated the obvious but I did it for a good point. The extended time it takes to watch a movie then to listen to a CD changes the effect of the product. You don't go around watching Chapter 3 & 5 of Kill Bill Vol. 1 and then watch a little Chapter 6 out of Cube. When this is easy to do with music, because one song is not directly connected to the other. With movies your going to watch the whole thing.
I find downloading movies is more like renting them, if I like the movie, I will most likely buy it. Mainly for the subtitles, great sound, dvd extras, and overall quality. Music isn't getting any better weather you get the CD or the mp3s of it. You can always download the cover and anything else that comes with the CD. You can do this with DVD's too but most don't. Most likely you will find a divx rip of the movie, with no subtitles (or enlish if the movie is in another language) with no dvd extras, no DD 7.1 surround sound option, a set quality and view port. The Divx copies are extremely limited.
People that download these movies for the sake of watching the movie wouldn't buy the movie anyways, they would probably rent it. Which as we know doesn't take away money from the MPAA, it takes away money from the rental business. Also there is a slim chance that people wouldn't even rent the movie. Generally the only thing I will do with a downloaded movie is watch it once to find out if i will be purchasing a good product that i will enjoy having. Sure, you could say that I am still doing this illegally, but this is helping the movie business because I have bought dvd's now that I wouldn't have imagined wanting to buy before.
I do disagree with what people are doing when it comes to pirating movies before they have came out in theaters, this can take away from theater sales because there are quite a few people that don't care if they see it in the theater or not, how ever this seems to be happening in every data business these days, weather it is music, movies, games, or software, on any platform and through any medium, it is a bit of a madness, but shame of the MPAA and the RIAA for trying to make a point by sueing random people that may be benifiting their company. You do not slap the hand that feeds you, eventually your going to end up starving!
Thanks for the idea on what movie to download next!
If you have an xbox why buy a ps2, because the game only comes on ps2, duh! I hate saying this, but its called a business because you DO business. Its not the game manufactures fault that the games don't come out on Mac, its Mac's fault, they don't provide enough leverage. Of couse they may or maynot have the budget to provide leverage. Games are released to sell, people that have a PC play games, games are released to PC. Just like the more people have Linux the more games are going to be released for Linux. Mac and Mac users have not convinced game makers that the games are worth making on the Mac, its as simple as that. So don't whine about having to buy new hardware to play games, council people don't (well most of them, they may be disappointed but they don't whine)
I'm sorry, this is going too far... If you didn't get the acronym then you shouldn't even be on the internet especially not /. (not to kill ./'s hit count, but sometimes no company is better then some company). I just wanted to shoot myself after I saw your post.
But anyways on topic now. I don't know what AOL is complaining about spim for, they have an even worse problems in their chat rooms, bots run constant p0rn ads, I have only gotten a couple spims in the past year, but I have seen some of aol's chat rooms, they are just bombed by chat spam, its ugly.
Agreed completely. I think its hillarious when they said that they created the portable x-box because they couldn't play x-box while they were on the road. They only said that because they want an excuse for why they suck at playing the game when MS invites them to play. Sorry guys no excuses now!
(please don't lable this as funny because its supposed to be serious)
::A group of celebrities walk down the street::
::tosses out old X-box::
MS: Hey guys we have a bunch of money and free stuff that we think is cool and don't want anyone else have, what should we do with it.
MS: Hey Look! Rich people! Lets give them money and free stuff! Because everyone knows they are elite gamers!
Rich people: WOW! money and free stuff, no way! This never happens to us! And look a portable X-box! Thats so cool, now I can play X-box in my luxury RV.
Rich people: AWESOME! I am never moving this thing!
END
If Australia wants to do things like knock out violence in their country by banning video games and blaming others for their own problems then they don't deserve to have it. I think many Americans had this point after columbine, yet nothing happened. As I stated before, video games are not violent, the people that play them are. Also, any video game can teach a person to have better aim, catch blocks, still teaches aiming techniques, so is it just as violent?
Finally they might come out with one of those joysticks that have like 50 games on it and all you have to do is plug in the RCA cables into the TV and play.... and all it will have it mario games... sounds like heaven to me..
so the games i like to play will still have the spring mouse effect, does this mean i have to wip my head from side to side to get person to turn, or will he just sit there turning left and right. How could you turn around, the camera would lose track of your nose and you would never be able to turn your charactor around. From now on video games would have to be a hallway, or it would be extreamly painful to get to any objective to the left and right or even behind you. This also means that i just spend 80$ on a paper weight named MX1000, damn it!
... They forgot to put the ending quote marks after that quote oh the post. We are all going to die by someone that likes to hack accounts and forgets ending quote marks so that the beginning of the next quote actually signifies the ending of the previous quote thus making the first quote extremely long and putting the second quote into personal writing... that's plagiarism!
Maybe you would get more PC sales if you:
1.) Released the game on PC.
2.) Release it on PC when you release it on [insert council name].
3.) Release them with the same features as the council game (Yeah I'm talking to you Microsoft, dbing it with no halo pc co-op, True we did get online, but Xbox got it with gamespy tunnel, ok so we got some new maps and we got the halo CE, I get your point, but I was looking forward to playing with some of my high school buddies that live on the other side of the country).
I mean common the prices are cheap enough, most people have enough on their system to play the game well enough, and there are all those cool features that people find out about. I guess a reason why they have dropped is because of pirating, but common these things don't help any, if I find a game I like I buy the game and I think there are a lot of people out there that do the same. Oh wait...
4.) Make the game good. (some of these games are just horrible!)
Thats like saying: you can talk to people but first they must have the same blood type, then they have to have a penny in their right pocket from 2000-2004, and who knows their penny's music might not be the music that you want to listen to. Yeah ok, maybe there might be a few people in dorms that think this is cool, but humm how many people do you think are going to have all of this available to them and how many people are going to keep it on long enough and be in the correct distance to keep a good strong connection going. They might as well make a ipod trading software online thats peer to peer, they would get so much more traffic.
Well according to convertit.com, 1 meter = 39.3700787401575 inches
That would make the shuttle at 328,491 feet be about 100,124.0567 meters or 100.1240567 km so I guess you could round to 100 km, but don't let your highschool science teacher know that
Well Mr. Marks businesses do bad, you can't always have profit. Usually this brings about a change in strategy, some people might say that the strategy of sueing everyone that buys your product wouldn't be a sucessful strategy.
They just want it so we will go back to buying cd's. They said before there is no profit in single song sales, well.... I think they were wrong. I didn't buy them before and I'm not going to buy them now. If they are so mad why don't they just open their own online music store, makes sense to me.
Ohhh shot down! Always google it first man! What do you think this is..... not ./??