I know for a fact that's not true. I work for a self made man, and he's still an under-30 punk kid. And it's not hard to see how someone can follow his model.
What the fuck, they just came out with the Wii--a console significantly underpowered compared to their competitors, and proceeded to kick their asses in a number of interesting ways.
I don't think it's Nintendo who needs to prove their capacity for innovation, buddy.
No. The problem is you are listening to people who call themselves Libertarians, but are really just douchebags.
I do you hope you'll read Atlas Shrugged one day and realize how it is misinterpreted on a regular basis by so called "conservatives". After all the bad guys in that book have lots of money, too. The question was how they got it.
Rand's ideas of voluntary association jibe with your world view, I think. Not so much the people who like to wave that book around as an excuse for greed, which it is *not*.
The only reason the Kindle couldn't go "international" in the first place was because they want to have "international" pricing, which of course means DRM. Without DRM, Amazon's product could have been global more or less instantly.
Even regular folks think that ten bucks for an e-book is nonsense, and they are also starting to see how DRM reduces the value of an electronic purchase to essentially nil.
In the end, some Chinese company will come out with something technically similar with no strings attached, and they'll wipe the floor with Amazon if they don't improve on this silly strategy. I'd pay maybe a buck for an e-book, just for convenience sake--but not if you can yank it away from me at will.
Just out of curiousity, how do you know combofix isn't installing some crap software itself? Perhaps not right away, but configured to start up at a later date?
I'm not saying it does...I'm wondering how all the combofix fans know that it's really legit?
It may have been built for useability, but it fails and is a stupid idea when you don't have a very large and complex application. It makes simple applications *more* complicated, which is asinine.
To have as much money and resources as MS does, and to still be actually patenting such technology, shows that they don't understand, like, computers and stuff.
I mean...nobody wants to buy that DRM'd stuff. Ordinary folks are finally starting to figure out themselves that DRM sucks. It's taken a decade or so, but they're coming around.
Thank you for the tips, my friend. Unfortunately even though my game is downloadable and playable today, I have a forum, etc. if nobody knows about it, they can't give me feedback:-) I do have a great small group of people who stop by regularly, but it's slow going. Please try it out--it's free!
No shit. It's hard to convince a lot of people of that, though. I've been working on a game for the last few years with that philosophy in mind, but a lot of the kids just tune out when the graphics aren't like they expect.
Ironically, I've actually got some pretty far out graphics in some ways, but it's just not cool in the way they expect.
Thanks to whoever logged into my site and contributed the great idea to pay 20-30 people to play it for a while. Brilliant! Thought I'd pay it forward in case any other indie game dev stumbles across this again.
Tell me about it. I've been working solo on an FPS for the last couple years (see my sig), and I firmly believe it could make money with just a little marketing budget (which I don't have). I'm not talking Halo money but I'm not talking Halo marketing budget either.
It's maddening. Word of mouth is incredibly slow because as you said, most people can't see the potential. If I could just get 20-30 people playing the game *at the same time*, then I think it would be easier for most people to fork over say $15 for my game. Considering a total production cost of around $60k, becoming profitable is not madness, I should think.
I 100% agree, except that there is a principled reason to do so at least in the case of spam. And a lot of malware runs little httpd servers, and lets face it, most people at this time are not running legitimate (intentional) httpd servers.
However, since it's not possible to do on most residential internet connections, this is a definite impediment to some cool new app that does let you do this, a la Opera's recent deal and similar.
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That's a clever point, but leaves out one important detail--"He who hath the gold makes the rules". And in this case, that's the consumer.
So they can suck it.
I know for a fact that's not true. I work for a self made man, and he's still an under-30 punk kid. And it's not hard to see how someone can follow his model.
So, whatever.
What the fuck, they just came out with the Wii--a console significantly underpowered compared to their competitors, and proceeded to kick their asses in a number of interesting ways.
I don't think it's Nintendo who needs to prove their capacity for innovation, buddy.
That is pretty cool, and I'll check it out!
Sure, I'll check Proudhon out.
I'm not Randroid, but I do think she makes some valid points that are very often used as an excuse for nastiness.
No. The problem is you are listening to people who call themselves Libertarians, but are really just douchebags.
I do you hope you'll read Atlas Shrugged one day and realize how it is misinterpreted on a regular basis by so called "conservatives". After all the bad guys in that book have lots of money, too. The question was how they got it.
Rand's ideas of voluntary association jibe with your world view, I think. Not so much the people who like to wave that book around as an excuse for greed, which it is *not*.
The only reason the Kindle couldn't go "international" in the first place was because they want to have "international" pricing, which of course means DRM. Without DRM, Amazon's product could have been global more or less instantly.
Even regular folks think that ten bucks for an e-book is nonsense, and they are also starting to see how DRM reduces the value of an electronic purchase to essentially nil.
In the end, some Chinese company will come out with something technically similar with no strings attached, and they'll wipe the floor with Amazon if they don't improve on this silly strategy. I'd pay maybe a buck for an e-book, just for convenience sake--but not if you can yank it away from me at will.
I believe you, but on the other hand, I don't know you from Adam.
Really, my comment was meant to extoll the virtues of open source.
Just out of curiousity, how do you know combofix isn't installing some crap software itself? Perhaps not right away, but configured to start up at a later date?
I'm not saying it does...I'm wondering how all the combofix fans know that it's really legit?
You and your "reasonable behavior".
Pfah.
Love your sig tho.
Why do they deserve praise for geting sometning right...for once.
With their resources, their success rate should be much higher. $6 billion for Vista? I could've sent you to Mars for that.
What contract with the NCAA? It's supposed to be an amateur league, right?
It may have been built for useability, but it fails and is a stupid idea when you don't have a very large and complex application. It makes simple applications *more* complicated, which is asinine.
No--there were still all those smaller conflicts before--you just aren't aware of them because you don't know your history.
We just have the subtraction of the giant conflicts, in return for the possible destruction of the species.
To have as much money and resources as MS does, and to still be actually patenting such technology, shows that they don't understand, like, computers and stuff.
I mean...nobody wants to buy that DRM'd stuff. Ordinary folks are finally starting to figure out themselves that DRM sucks. It's taken a decade or so, but they're coming around.
You don't reckon the Acorn busting duo are raking in some bucks about now?
Thank you for the tips, my friend. Unfortunately even though my game is downloadable and playable today, I have a forum, etc. if nobody knows about it, they can't give me feedback :-)
I do have a great small group of people who stop by regularly, but it's slow going.
Please try it out--it's free!
No shit. It's hard to convince a lot of people of that, though. I've been working on a game for the last few years with that philosophy in mind, but a lot of the kids just tune out when the graphics aren't like they expect.
Ironically, I've actually got some pretty far out graphics in some ways, but it's just not cool in the way they expect.
Thanks to whoever logged into my site and contributed the great idea to pay 20-30 people to play it for a while. Brilliant! Thought I'd pay it forward in case any other indie game dev stumbles across this again.
Actually, "they" do make original games (see my sig). You've just got to go to the indies.
Graphics aren't too hot, but it's the game I wanted to play.
>but I don't see leaps in our ability to live peacefully or get along keeping up with it all.
Nonsense. The United Nations comes to mind, as well as the internet.
Not perfect, but improving all the time.
Tell me about it. I've been working solo on an FPS for the last couple years (see my sig), and I firmly believe it could make money with just a little marketing budget (which I don't have). I'm not talking Halo money but I'm not talking Halo marketing budget either.
It's maddening. Word of mouth is incredibly slow because as you said, most people can't see the potential. If I could just get 20-30 people playing the game *at the same time*, then I think it would be easier for most people to fork over say $15 for my game. Considering a total production cost of around $60k, becoming profitable is not madness, I should think.
I have legal access to cable, but somehow haven't bothered to get around to installing a tuner into my mythtv box.
I find bittorrent much more convenient for everything except live tv.
I 100% agree, except that there is a principled reason to do so at least in the case of spam. And a lot of malware runs little httpd servers, and lets face it, most people at this time are not running legitimate (intentional) httpd servers.
However, since it's not possible to do on most residential internet connections, this is a definite impediment to some cool new app that does let you do this, a la Opera's recent deal and similar.
You don't consider throttling certain sites censorship?