Saying hypothetically that some people played enough (and I'm sure a lot that would are out there), would it be possible to earn an actual *living* from playing games?
There are the pro-gamers out there that are already earning small fortunes, but this would be a kind of trading if I understood the article correctly...
In the UK there is a rate called "economy seven", which if I remember rightly is low rate at 0000 to 0700. And has been for the last ten+ years, and will be for the forseeable future. While the prices may change, the times don't.
In ALL cases you have the power of a monetary vote. Now, if you choose to NOT exercise it, and just persist in whining on slashdot about "market powers". You will get what you deserve, and no one should feel sympathetic towards your plight.
I might vote with my currency, but that doesn't stop two other 'monetary voters' placing their vote based on advertising and other uninformed or poorly evaluated decision cancelling, thus my vote out.
Hence, the market power is with the producer - they who advertise and generally sell their product better wins! Regardless of other factors. Money matters, like you said.
I wonder if my children will play something like San Andreas just for the antique novelty value. I can even imagine digging out my old N64 for some Goldeneye to play with my children.
That will be fun. But what will pacman mean to my children / grandchildren?
60mph isn't a bad speed for an electric car, but what kind of horse power would it have? Like, would I be able to pull a small trailer or even carry a heavy load in the car?
I really like the look of the Thermaltake Sonic Tower.
I downgraded my CPU fan a while ago, it was just to noisy to (now) have in my bedroom.
Plus, if my old XP2800+ kicks the bucket then it's the perfect excuse to upgrade.
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I don't get where all the ad revenue comes from. These sites target the student demographic generally. Are students richer today than when I was in college or something?
I barely had enough money for a beer - let alone for spending on some product that I saw advertised on Facebook.
A call to my parents may be in order about the backdated pocket money I must be owed.
Maybe if 'the economy' didn't have to spend thousands upon thousands on Microsoft licences, there would be more money to spend in areas other than Microsoft.
I use NTL in the UK, I pay £25 a month for a (supposedly) 2MB connection.
They don't bother me at all. I've uploaded an awful lot of gigabytes and downloaded several too, but they don't seem to care. My service is not degraded in any way.
Some of my friends use different providers though, which pull stunts like "classifying" you - ie, if you download much at certain times, you will be bunched into a group that downloads at the same kind of frequency as yourself. Thus slowing you down.
My opinion is that while it seems harsh to cut / slow people down, it's not unfair. Is excessive downloading and use of bandwidth fair to ISPs?
Perhaps paying for bandwidth used is the way to go. As much as the idea sucks, compare it to road tax. A lightweight low-spec car will be taxed far less than a big 40t truck is. There's a reason for that.
There's all this talk about internet traffic, perhaps they should start regulating and taxing it in the same way as road traffic.
Don't get me wrong, I hate the idea of paying more money because I download more. But is my excessive downloading fair on 'regular' users of the internet who I'm slowing down? No.
I guess I should make things (what I say) much more clear so not to be labelled off-topic....(by moderators)
If I were to go and try to run a few miles this weekend, I would not be able to easily do so. [...] However, if you take one of the these college basketball athletes, any of them would be able to run miles without even breathing heavy.
So, to summarise- I made a joke, stating that I did not need to run miles because I order my groceries online. Which is something
If I were to leave any of my 'online property' to anybody, it would most likely be one of my friends. Mum & Dad wouldn't know what to do with my stuff. My friends might like to poke through my various php, and other, projects I've done over the years.
I own a couple of domains, one is celardore based, and the other is my IRL name. It would be cool to leave some money behind - say enough for domain registration of my IRL name for 100 years, and then have the URL on my tombstone. After it runs out? I won't care.
We had a roll-out of thin clients at work last year. It was a real pain at first, but now at least it is bearable.
We had HP terminals at first, running XP Embedded (I think) which was a complete disaster. A worm got in, and rendered everything unusable. Then they tried a few things to no avail - use of the computers was sparse at best for a couple of weeks. Computers are very important in accounting!
After that episode, we had new terminals installed which I believe run a version of linux. No worms or anything like that since then! Regretably we still connect with Citrix to Windows 2000, but at least it's fairly stable.
Thin client has its drawbacks though. Like if the network goes down, and ours does at least every fortnight, you can't use the terminal at all. Not even to type a letter. And I hate filing....
I guess the fact they're releasing 'Brokeback Mountain' as a download is a good thing, for all those too embarrased to see it at the cinema or go out and buy it.
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Saying hypothetically that some people played enough (and I'm sure a lot that would are out there), would it be possible to earn an actual *living* from playing games?
There are the pro-gamers out there that are already earning small fortunes, but this would be a kind of trading if I understood the article correctly...
It's good to see that the judge is spending his valuable time wisely...
I don't see how him doing this was relevant to anything.
...or at least have an inanimate carbon rod laying around somewhere.
In the UK there is a rate called "economy seven", which if I remember rightly is low rate at 0000 to 0700. And has been for the last ten+ years, and will be for the forseeable future. While the prices may change, the times don't.
Í líké úsíng thé ÁltGr búttón, ók?
If someone can exploit a niché, they will. It is how it always has been and how it will always be.
It is remarkable though that the big players have invested serious money into this.
In ALL cases you have the power of a monetary vote. Now, if you choose to NOT exercise it, and just persist in whining on slashdot about "market powers". You will get what you deserve, and no one should feel sympathetic towards your plight.
I might vote with my currency, but that doesn't stop two other 'monetary voters' placing their vote based on advertising and other uninformed or poorly evaluated decision cancelling, thus my vote out.
Hence, the market power is with the producer - they who advertise and generally sell their product better wins! Regardless of other factors. Money matters, like you said.
It's right that the 'market' will decide the 'winner'.
It's just unfortunate that the market powers are the producers rather than the consumers. History repeating itself again. And again.
I wonder if my children will play something like San Andreas just for the antique novelty value. I can even imagine digging out my old N64 for some Goldeneye to play with my children.
That will be fun. But what will pacman mean to my children / grandchildren?
I was when I chose the moniker. It's stuck, and I still like the name. Sounds purrdy.
More backbone capacity is needed for all the spam and porn.
60mph isn't a bad speed for an electric car, but what kind of horse power would it have? Like, would I be able to pull a small trailer or even carry a heavy load in the car?
I really like the look of the Thermaltake Sonic Tower.
I downgraded my CPU fan a while ago, it was just to noisy to (now) have in my bedroom.
Plus, if my old XP2800+ kicks the bucket then it's the perfect excuse to upgrade.
Doesn't SLASH have a similar policy?
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I don't get where all the ad revenue comes from. These sites target the student demographic generally. Are students richer today than when I was in college or something?
I barely had enough money for a beer - let alone for spending on some product that I saw advertised on Facebook.
A call to my parents may be in order about the backdated pocket money I must be owed.
Maybe if 'the economy' didn't have to spend thousands upon thousands on Microsoft licences, there would be more money to spend in areas other than Microsoft.
I use NTL in the UK, I pay £25 a month for a (supposedly) 2MB connection.
They don't bother me at all. I've uploaded an awful lot of gigabytes and downloaded several too, but they don't seem to care. My service is not degraded in any way.
Some of my friends use different providers though, which pull stunts like "classifying" you - ie, if you download much at certain times, you will be bunched into a group that downloads at the same kind of frequency as yourself. Thus slowing you down.
My opinion is that while it seems harsh to cut / slow people down, it's not unfair. Is excessive downloading and use of bandwidth fair to ISPs?
Perhaps paying for bandwidth used is the way to go. As much as the idea sucks, compare it to road tax. A lightweight low-spec car will be taxed far less than a big 40t truck is. There's a reason for that.
There's all this talk about internet traffic, perhaps they should start regulating and taxing it in the same way as road traffic.
Don't get me wrong, I hate the idea of paying more money because I download more. But is my excessive downloading fair on 'regular' users of the internet who I'm slowing down? No.
I guess I should make things (what I say) much more clear so not to be labelled off-topic....(by moderators)
If I were to go and try to run a few miles this weekend, I would not be able to easily do so. [...] However, if you take one of the these college basketball athletes, any of them would be able to run miles without even breathing heavy.
So, to summarise- I made a joke, stating that I did not need to run miles because I order my groceries online. Which is something
ah fuck it nevermind.
Why on Earth would I need to run miles?
I buy my groceries online.
I'll have paid for it. So at least someone better be caring on my behalf!
Just DROP it already...
If I were to leave any of my 'online property' to anybody, it would most likely be one of my friends. Mum & Dad wouldn't know what to do with my stuff. My friends might like to poke through my various php, and other, projects I've done over the years.
I own a couple of domains, one is celardore based, and the other is my IRL name. It would be cool to leave some money behind - say enough for domain registration of my IRL name for 100 years, and then have the URL on my tombstone. After it runs out? I won't care.
We had a roll-out of thin clients at work last year. It was a real pain at first, but now at least it is bearable.
We had HP terminals at first, running XP Embedded (I think) which was a complete disaster. A worm got in, and rendered everything unusable. Then they tried a few things to no avail - use of the computers was sparse at best for a couple of weeks. Computers are very important in accounting!
After that episode, we had new terminals installed which I believe run a version of linux. No worms or anything like that since then! Regretably we still connect with Citrix to Windows 2000, but at least it's fairly stable.
Thin client has its drawbacks though. Like if the network goes down, and ours does at least every fortnight, you can't use the terminal at all. Not even to type a letter. And I hate filing....
There's a famous Swedish pirate site. I wonder if there's a link....
I guess the fact they're releasing 'Brokeback Mountain' as a download is a good thing, for all those too embarrased to see it at the cinema or go out and buy it.