I don't think the Smart car is meant as a low cost option at all. For a low cost car you'd buy some eastern European or non-Japanese-Asian brand. The Smart is more of a way to get attention (and more parking gaps). The thing's a Mercedes after all.
Also all software updates cause additional downloads. So if you sell 10 million units and push five software updates with everybody downloading them you got 60 million downloads just from that.
To be fair SOME (probably a minority) SUV owners have a real need for that type of car because they're hauling heavy trailers. Too many simply underestimate the power of a regular car though, thinking that you need an SUV to have traction in the winter or to go up a 10% slope (or that it's somehow safer to drive an SUV when studies have shown the opposite).
To be fair just because something has been "known" in the 1930s that's not an indicator of how true it is. I don't doubt the result but I doubt the validity of this particular argument.
F2P is an attempt to sidestep the normal market dynamics. On the PC most F2P games are C-grade clones of popular AAA games that try to compete by not charging anything up front. On the mobile phones the F2P games exist to avoid the price pressure as most mobile gamers have learned that anything can be had for a dollar or free if you wait for a sale, F2P extracts more money from such people.
Me, I prefer paid equivalents since they don't give the dev any incentive to add needless "pay a buck to skip this" grinds that hurt the fun badly if you don't pay up. That usually means they strive to make the game more fun and cut grinds like that out.
The worst I've played was one of those F2P FPSes on Steam (War Inc I believe), weapons could only reasonably be earned as rentals (for a week on level up and a few days for ingame currency IIRC), to get things permanently you'd practically have to pay real money. Meanwhile games like a Call of Duty MW2 which I got for 30€ up front at launch (compared to some ingame item bundles that cost as much in War Inc) let me keep all the items I unlock once and are much better in every respect. Mind you, I'm not big on CoDMW2 but it was clearly much better than War Inc.
From my experience casual gamers are usually much more hardcore in the way they play individual games to perfection while hardcore gamers can only casually dip into individual games because the next release is already around the corner and they don't have enough time to go hardcore on everything.
F2P doesn't usually operate in the AAA space anyway, most widely played F2P games are very simplistic games that would take maybe 1-2 people to make in Flash. Often they are too simplistic, I get bored of most of 'em due to the lack of a challenge or variety and the one that I did stick with (Gun Bros) kept tossing ad notifications on my phone (on the iPod I could disable those) so it got erased.
Does that apply to the US too? In a first aid lesson I was taught not to help Americans because the US doesn't indemnify helpers in the same way Germany does (where anything short of gross negligence is protected in a first aid situation, as long as you try to help you can't be sued).
Slight difference between being asocial and a total recluse. Not that the mainstream media would ever admit it but they've got enough other problems that you can pretty much expect them to be harmful on about every subject.
Considering those large scale fraudsters rarely get a really major punishment I guess we could count that as petty crime. White collar crime pays well.
I'm guessing that most new designs of engines (and most other engineering products) are simply untested and thus lack the experience with all the things that can go wrong. The easiest to mess up is an inability to mass produce it for a reasonable cost but there are many other drawbacks that wouldn't be discovered until the things hit wide usage. Also the most data is usually released by proponents of the design which of course select the data that favours their design.
Germany didn't start WW1, it started pretty much by itself. One guy got murdered and a ton of automatic defense treaties triggered so suddenly Europe was at war.
A factor might be that ships and planes are MUCH larger and heavier than cars, the design might work better on large vehicles that require significantly more power than a car does.
The Greens only go with the conservatives when the situation gets bad, they prefer the social democrats (and NEVER the right wing which in Germany translates to Nazis and their fanclub).
I was hoping for Android Market gift cards like those Apple is selling in every store ever. Limiting the service to those who have credit cards was a terrible idea.
However let's not ignore that among all the games that get buried there are many that are actually good. It takes more than just quality to succeed on the App Store, you also need marketing.
They usually don't have the right to post pictures of you online but they'll do it anyway and there's nothing you can do about that once the image has been posted, no matter how damaging it could be (remember that perfectly normal activities in private life can still be damaging if shown e.g. to prospective employers).
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To me it sounds like a weakest-link type of deal and Dropbox is a very weak link when it comes to compliance.
I don't think the Smart car is meant as a low cost option at all. For a low cost car you'd buy some eastern European or non-Japanese-Asian brand. The Smart is more of a way to get attention (and more parking gaps). The thing's a Mercedes after all.
Also all software updates cause additional downloads. So if you sell 10 million units and push five software updates with everybody downloading them you got 60 million downloads just from that.
To be fair SOME (probably a minority) SUV owners have a real need for that type of car because they're hauling heavy trailers. Too many simply underestimate the power of a regular car though, thinking that you need an SUV to have traction in the winter or to go up a 10% slope (or that it's somehow safer to drive an SUV when studies have shown the opposite).
To be fair just because something has been "known" in the 1930s that's not an indicator of how true it is. I don't doubt the result but I doubt the validity of this particular argument.
Germans call X rays Röntgen rays.
Or if you're a geek of the board game variety you've seen the matching board game demoed at Essen.
F2P is an attempt to sidestep the normal market dynamics. On the PC most F2P games are C-grade clones of popular AAA games that try to compete by not charging anything up front. On the mobile phones the F2P games exist to avoid the price pressure as most mobile gamers have learned that anything can be had for a dollar or free if you wait for a sale, F2P extracts more money from such people.
Me, I prefer paid equivalents since they don't give the dev any incentive to add needless "pay a buck to skip this" grinds that hurt the fun badly if you don't pay up. That usually means they strive to make the game more fun and cut grinds like that out.
The worst I've played was one of those F2P FPSes on Steam (War Inc I believe), weapons could only reasonably be earned as rentals (for a week on level up and a few days for ingame currency IIRC), to get things permanently you'd practically have to pay real money. Meanwhile games like a Call of Duty MW2 which I got for 30€ up front at launch (compared to some ingame item bundles that cost as much in War Inc) let me keep all the items I unlock once and are much better in every respect. Mind you, I'm not big on CoDMW2 but it was clearly much better than War Inc.
From my experience casual gamers are usually much more hardcore in the way they play individual games to perfection while hardcore gamers can only casually dip into individual games because the next release is already around the corner and they don't have enough time to go hardcore on everything.
F2P doesn't usually operate in the AAA space anyway, most widely played F2P games are very simplistic games that would take maybe 1-2 people to make in Flash. Often they are too simplistic, I get bored of most of 'em due to the lack of a challenge or variety and the one that I did stick with (Gun Bros) kept tossing ad notifications on my phone (on the iPod I could disable those) so it got erased.
If that applies across languages then the worst psychopaths are German philosophers who could go for entire pages without ending a sentence.
Does that apply to the US too? In a first aid lesson I was taught not to help Americans because the US doesn't indemnify helpers in the same way Germany does (where anything short of gross negligence is protected in a first aid situation, as long as you try to help you can't be sued).
Slight difference between being asocial and a total recluse. Not that the mainstream media would ever admit it but they've got enough other problems that you can pretty much expect them to be harmful on about every subject.
To be fair Schäuble seems to be doing much better as a finance minister, being a real pain in the ass for the big spending plans of his superiors.
Considering those large scale fraudsters rarely get a really major punishment I guess we could count that as petty crime. White collar crime pays well.
I'm guessing that most new designs of engines (and most other engineering products) are simply untested and thus lack the experience with all the things that can go wrong. The easiest to mess up is an inability to mass produce it for a reasonable cost but there are many other drawbacks that wouldn't be discovered until the things hit wide usage. Also the most data is usually released by proponents of the design which of course select the data that favours their design.
Germany didn't start WW1, it started pretty much by itself. One guy got murdered and a ton of automatic defense treaties triggered so suddenly Europe was at war.
A factor might be that ships and planes are MUCH larger and heavier than cars, the design might work better on large vehicles that require significantly more power than a car does.
The Greens only go with the conservatives when the situation gets bad, they prefer the social democrats (and NEVER the right wing which in Germany translates to Nazis and their fanclub).
Now we just need to force their management to live in China too. Then they can harvest the fruits of their choices!
If you don't even have time on weekends then maybe you should look at your life and reconsider what you're doing with it.
It's a bad idea to unscrew a lightbulb and stick your finger in the socket. Are we going to punish such stupidity as well?
That act will punish itself hard enough. No need to beat a dead horse (or moron, for that matter).
I was hoping for Android Market gift cards like those Apple is selling in every store ever. Limiting the service to those who have credit cards was a terrible idea.
However let's not ignore that among all the games that get buried there are many that are actually good. It takes more than just quality to succeed on the App Store, you also need marketing.
They usually don't have the right to post pictures of you online but they'll do it anyway and there's nothing you can do about that once the image has been posted, no matter how damaging it could be (remember that perfectly normal activities in private life can still be damaging if shown e.g. to prospective employers).