Remember, if they change data rates (and you know they'll try to hike it as soon as the phone becomes popular), you can always break terminate your plan for no fee. I suspect verizon will do that quite fast.
nobody's going read rupert murdoch style crap put behind a subscription barrier.
Can someone get a better link to this magic per-byte billing that people think is actually new to verizon, although it's not?
Meanwhile, Verizon's timing here is horrible. FCC is off reviewing mobile carrier tie in and they are reneging on their own promises to lower the termination fees from years ago. That's about as asinine as it gets. Safe to say, sounds like they are remotely hoping the droid succeeds and mostly hoping it won't.
this has nothing to do with anything, really. what is your point? "Piracy" (and the gross misnomer of the term) exists because the companies seek to restrict any and all control of their products to allow them to be established into new markets. Piracy and content are phrases made to dilute the argument and attempt to put it on a physical level.
How many attempts to legally offer solutions to what the MPAA/RIAA have refused haven't been sued out of existence or taken control of and made useless? I can't point to a single one that is still around like that.
The short answer is, everyone can make "content", and so everyone is a "content producer", thus there is no reason the MPAA is an exclusive "content producer" anymore than I am myself.
You really think this kind of thing has an impact towards cheating? I suspect it has a bigger impact on MS's bottom line, as these are people who are paying a monthly fee to play online. Way to go MS, demonstrating part of the RIAA strategy: let's prevent our customers from being able to spend money on us! Way to go!
What this probably kicked off was people who had modchips to play overseas games, and absolutely 0 of the "cheaters".
Oh, and welcome to console DRM at it's finest. You bought into it, now when they kick you out you're pissed that everything they sold you was on a "license" basis and you technically own 0 of it. enjoy!
What I'm saying is that it's not at all practical. Blind people can't see the page number without the reader, and the idea is to be able to OCR the book. OCR'ing has it's uses and that in itself can assist the visually impaired, but the device itself is not visually impaired friendly. Also, my uncle is blind, so I actually am quite familiar with how OCR helps him out.
Your comment is part of the issue going through the case with psystar vs apple, although a bit more difficult to understand the case due to how it works. The end result is that if psystar wins and apple can't restrict installation, gPL will be actually be invalidated due to software copyright.
Your failure of reading comprehension shows that you don't understand. Gaming consoles are absolutely not hardware only. Do you think they just run magic all day, or magically run only the game that's included? Ever tried turning on a console without a game, dumbass? that thing it's running is known as an operating system. Consoles and apple are the only that link it to specific hardware. Even windows, for what it's worth, is made to support a wide variety of interfaces that don't matter if MS supports them or not.
well, you can either blame a: the users who made the decision to support/purchase/use OSX, or b: blame apple who locks down the OS more than a videogame console.
Hmm, well, most of the time people don't like to acknowledge their own mistakes so I'd suspect they go with B more times than not.
Oh, I agree. Not only that, but you don't end up spending an arm and a leg on software.
For actual online games, if you start late, you may miss a community. Otherwise, buying games late really doesn't signify anything really, except that maybe the bugs are fixed by the time you buy it for $10.
In the past 4 years I've maybe bought 8 games or so total, so I wouldn't consider myself a power buyer either.
LIDAR is about as reliable as your imagination. Go research how it works and you'll see, moving objects are not what lidar is for at all. It's just a poor attempt at shoehorning a measurement device that has a monopoly in chicago basically.
Borderlands 4 pack split or Left 4 dead 4 pack split. All you have to do is pick the gaming forum of your choice (or discussion forum) and find 3 other people to get in on it. Took me ~20 minutes with goons.
Neither game is amazing, but both are fun multiplayer games that don't have crazy recurring subscriptions or something.
who said it was shitty? I never even tried it, as I said. I'm just saying the money excuse people pull all the time is because lots of released games nowadays *are* shitty and half assed releases with payable side-content or a payable beta or just straight up stupid cash stores. There are seriously few exceptions to that.
Dragon age seems to get good reviews, but there are enough other games on the way that this will likely just pass under my radar. Really, we've seen like 6 or 8 actual good games lately be released for all systems. Even I, who said I would avoid paying for games in perpetuity, have ended up paying for a few lately.
Is it me, or does this expression make almost no sense? Regardless of the intent I don't get why it follows with "that open source and innovation are incompatible, for all time."
Can someone translate this expression about canard?
if you make a, oh you know, not a shitty game in the first place, that money part is not an issue.
Indie devs happen to make serious money that way too, as an easy aside world of goo and gratuitous space battles are two games that have been successful and done by indie developers.
I'll pass, pass, not buying this for this exact reason. Oh and slashdot's sellout here is disappointing. The more people try to milk a game beyond it's cost the longer before they actually develop something new and interesting.
on one side, verizon is doing everything it can to make people not desire to actually use their data plans.
On the other side: Very soon if this phone takes off you'll have an iphone-ish "OMFG THE DATA IS SLOW/PACKETLOSS/WTF VERIZON" etc. They don't want to have to upgrade their towers. By taking such a phone on which has the *chance* to be extremely popular, that may be the end risk here. That and acknowledging their lack of competition vs Tmobile.
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Remember, if they change data rates (and you know they'll try to hike it as soon as the phone becomes popular), you can always break terminate your plan for no fee. I suspect verizon will do that quite fast.
nobody's going read rupert murdoch style crap put behind a subscription barrier.
Can someone get a better link to this magic per-byte billing that people think is actually new to verizon, although it's not?
Meanwhile, Verizon's timing here is horrible. FCC is off reviewing mobile carrier tie in and they are reneging on their own promises to lower the termination fees from years ago. That's about as asinine as it gets. Safe to say, sounds like they are remotely hoping the droid succeeds and mostly hoping it won't.
no, but Blizzard does want to be lazy and outsource AI development.
this has nothing to do with anything, really. what is your point?
"Piracy" (and the gross misnomer of the term) exists because the companies seek to restrict any and all control of their products to allow them to be established into new markets. Piracy and content are phrases made to dilute the argument and attempt to put it on a physical level.
How many attempts to legally offer solutions to what the MPAA/RIAA have refused haven't been sued out of existence or taken control of and made useless? I can't point to a single one that is still around like that.
The short answer is, everyone can make "content", and so everyone is a "content producer", thus there is no reason the MPAA is an exclusive "content producer" anymore than I am myself.
my thoughts exactly. I'm sure there is more to it than that from what I read of the business practice requirements.
Also, I suspect this won't stop the antitrust investigation in the US, either.
You really think this kind of thing has an impact towards cheating? I suspect it has a bigger impact on MS's bottom line, as these are people who are paying a monthly fee to play online. Way to go MS, demonstrating part of the RIAA strategy: let's prevent our customers from being able to spend money on us! Way to go!
What this probably kicked off was people who had modchips to play overseas games, and absolutely 0 of the "cheaters".
Oh, and welcome to console DRM at it's finest. You bought into it, now when they kick you out you're pissed that everything they sold you was on a "license" basis and you technically own 0 of it. enjoy!
What I'm saying is that it's not at all practical. Blind people can't see the page number without the reader, and the idea is to be able to OCR the book. OCR'ing has it's uses and that in itself can assist the visually impaired, but the device itself is not visually impaired friendly. Also, my uncle is blind, so I actually am quite familiar with how OCR helps him out.
Your comment is part of the issue going through the case with psystar vs apple, although a bit more difficult to understand the case due to how it works. The end result is that if psystar wins and apple can't restrict installation, gPL will be actually be invalidated due to software copyright.
Your failure of reading comprehension shows that you don't understand. Gaming consoles are absolutely not hardware only. Do you think they just run magic all day, or magically run only the game that's included? Ever tried turning on a console without a game, dumbass? that thing it's running is known as an operating system. Consoles and apple are the only that link it to specific hardware. Even windows, for what it's worth, is made to support a wide variety of interfaces that don't matter if MS supports them or not.
well, you can either blame a: the users who made the decision to support/purchase/use OSX, or b: blame apple who locks down the OS more than a videogame console.
Hmm, well, most of the time people don't like to acknowledge their own mistakes so I'd suspect they go with B more times than not.
I still laugh at the for the blind part. Are the blind expected to know what page they're on with which to have read?
"I really wonder what page 47 says".
Oh, I agree. Not only that, but you don't end up spending an arm and a leg on software.
For actual online games, if you start late, you may miss a community. Otherwise, buying games late really doesn't signify anything really, except that maybe the bugs are fixed by the time you buy it for $10.
In the past 4 years I've maybe bought 8 games or so total, so I wouldn't consider myself a power buyer either.
LIDAR is about as reliable as your imagination. Go research how it works and you'll see, moving objects are not what lidar is for at all. It's just a poor attempt at shoehorning a measurement device that has a monopoly in chicago basically.
well, causation is something that can be easily predicted up to a margin, but the rest of this, not so much.
Many new games are $33, if that's cheap enough.
Borderlands 4 pack split or Left 4 dead 4 pack split. All you have to do is pick the gaming forum of your choice (or discussion forum) and find 3 other people to get in on it. Took me ~20 minutes with goons.
Neither game is amazing, but both are fun multiplayer games that don't have crazy recurring subscriptions or something.
It was an expression I had not heard of before. Still interesting and nice to see slashdot provide the education of the term which I was lacking :)
You missed a step.
It's more like this:
True innovation takes inspiration. Inspiration/innovation takes effort. Effort costs time. Time can cost money, or it can cost effort.
see my reply above, I'm not saying DAO is bad, just that lots of games do use the money excuse and are shitty games.
who said it was shitty? I never even tried it, as I said. I'm just saying the money excuse people pull all the time is because lots of released games nowadays *are* shitty and half assed releases with payable side-content or a payable beta or just straight up stupid cash stores. There are seriously few exceptions to that.
Dragon age seems to get good reviews, but there are enough other games on the way that this will likely just pass under my radar. Really, we've seen like 6 or 8 actual good games lately be released for all systems. Even I, who said I would avoid paying for games in perpetuity, have ended up paying for a few lately.
Is it me, or does this expression make almost no sense? Regardless of the intent I don't get why it follows with "that open source and innovation are incompatible, for all time."
Can someone translate this expression about canard?
from what I heard, they actually offer the DLC content as a quest in game that you'll get a "you must buy this to do it" type thing.
that's about as hard a sell short of in game/loading screen advertising that you can get.
if you make a, oh you know, not a shitty game in the first place, that money part is not an issue.
Indie devs happen to make serious money that way too, as an easy aside world of goo and gratuitous space battles are two games that have been successful and done by indie developers.
how about "maybe they'll actually release a complete game and not ask people to buy an addon with the original release".
I'll pass, pass, not buying this for this exact reason. Oh and slashdot's sellout here is disappointing. The more people try to milk a game beyond it's cost the longer before they actually develop something new and interesting.
I still don't understand how this is considered to be a slam dunk when people will essentially be polluting in a closed space upon themselves.
Not to mention that issues of runoff + rain will affect other areas.
I don't get why people think they can live in a vacuum.
there's a separate conflict here.
on one side, verizon is doing everything it can to make people not desire to actually use their data plans.
On the other side: Very soon if this phone takes off you'll have an iphone-ish "OMFG THE DATA IS SLOW/PACKETLOSS/WTF VERIZON" etc. They don't want to have to upgrade their towers. By taking such a phone on which has the *chance* to be extremely popular, that may be the end risk here. That and acknowledging their lack of competition vs Tmobile.