...Responses to this will be coloured by the geographical distribution of Slashdot user, e.g. most are USians. I think those who would lose out most would probably be other English speaking countries, like the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. I live in the UK, and I would say that 75% of the sites I visit are US based, 20% UK and 5% other.
So it unrolls thus: publisher makes mediocre game; press previews depict mediocre game as being good or at least worth a look; excited gamers read previews, foolishly believe them, start making pre-sale orders of mediocre game; driven by preview press and pre-sale numbers based on that press, retailers stock up on mediocre game; publisher makes money from mediocre game."
Seriously though, you can say all you like "Apple are helping to encourage the budgeoning iPod accessory market," but it doesn't make basic economics of Supply and Demand obselete; Apple are increasing the supply into the market and have a very capable commercial position from which to hawk their products, along with the brand recognition.
I think you'd be hard pressed to find any evidence that the Western Allies did actually defeat Nazi Germany, as opposed to Russia. The German forces were extremely strong, and if you think that becuase a reasonably large army landed in Nortern France and fought a couple of battles which were in fact relatively small compared to the sizes of the confrontations seen on the Eastern Front, you'd be pretty misguided.
Becuase without a DRM scheme to lock out people who might want to access our information in the future, everything we store might actually be of some value to people once the current standard becomes defunct!
Actually, you're wrong about the price. The songs cost more than 99c...
You are right about the selection. Navigating to the "punk" section will show you 2 albums: since the main page is designed to show 4 albums it repeats the same 2 albums twice.
Then, when you click on an album, you get: http://mindawn.com/albums/1336 $1.24 per track. So no, this is another music service with no selection, even by indy standards (2 albums per genre anyone?), but at least it's way more expensive.
...considering Yahoo's music service uses a propretary media player (Yahoo's) with a propretary DRM implementation (Microsoft's) on the subscription model where your music is all deleted when you cancel your subscription... by DRM.
Good man. Those Centrino adverts were the worst... ever. A lot of clueless people seem to think that "Centrino" (a Pentium M processor with a badge and some form of WiFi implementation) has some magic connection to the internet becuase of those ads.
The CPL (Cyberathlete Professional League) http://www.thecpl.com/ is by far the most respected league out there. The launching of a new league is hardly a news... new ones are made or broken every,month.
And when people compete in CPL games they tend to play better games than HALO... I'd say professional gamers by and large consider HALO a complete joke, as they will this league.
That's interesting, one might expect them to be shown on the venerable BBC first? I wonder how PBS managed to secure a deal. I'd guess the Pythons have no contract with the BBC running, but still, I would expect it to be the first place they would go.
Japanese Culture is far removed from American Culture... there are a lot less people with too much time on their hands, yet not enough time to raise their kids themselves.
You're missing the point of the argument; I don't think Homosexuals would be parading up and down the streets asking for the same rights as everyone else if they wheren't having their rights infringed upon for no apparent reason.
There is a difference between "making something an issue" and "defending your rights."
That's the problem. Gay people play the game to escape reality as well... Gay Rights shouldn't be politics, there is no issue, unless you question people's personal freedoms to make their own choices which have no effect on other people.
The Religious Right has made this a political issue, when in fact it is not even an issue.
At the higher education school where I currently am in the UK, we have a split 50:50 Mac:Windows ratio. It's very hard to get a PC, but there are always Macs available. The general consensus around the campus is that "Macs suck" and while the Windows PCs aren't exactly amazing, the Macs are the bottom of the pile. It's not like they're using legacy OS9 Macs either; these are flat screen 17" all in one iMac G5s.
If anything, putting their computers in an environment like a school to show young people that Macs *do indeed actually crash quite a bit, even under OS X* is a bad idea.
I think you'll find that it was 65nm which AMD were readying for production, which Intel have been using since last year. Yet AMD Desktop cores at 90nm with SOI still manage to outperform, underconsume power, and underemmit heat compared to their counterparts.
It just goes to show that design does play a part in making a chip, and not trying to cram as many transistors as one can onto a die.
I think it's a good thing. One of the great strengths of Opensource is doing cool things which products which aren't really initially commercially viable, becuase it opens up the code to an audience where there is a lack of profit motive.
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I would say that is an impressive use of a Potemkin village to make their own indecisiveness look like a healthy intellectual debate.
...Responses to this will be coloured by the geographical distribution of Slashdot user, e.g. most are USians. I think those who would lose out most would probably be other English speaking countries, like the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. I live in the UK, and I would say that 75% of the sites I visit are US based, 20% UK and 5% other.
He missed out "???" before "Profit."
You misspelled "speculation."
Seriously though, you can say all you like "Apple are helping to encourage the budgeoning iPod accessory market," but it doesn't make basic economics of Supply and Demand obselete; Apple are increasing the supply into the market and have a very capable commercial position from which to hawk their products, along with the brand recognition.
That's right... You guys are misunderstanding this. Apple are saints. They're only trying to help other companies by releasing competing products!
I think you'd be hard pressed to find any evidence that the Western Allies did actually defeat Nazi Germany, as opposed to Russia. The German forces were extremely strong, and if you think that becuase a reasonably large army landed in Nortern France and fought a couple of battles which were in fact relatively small compared to the sizes of the confrontations seen on the Eastern Front, you'd be pretty misguided.
Becuase without a DRM scheme to lock out people who might want to access our information in the future, everything we store might actually be of some value to people once the current standard becomes defunct!
Looks like SOMEONE forgot to wear their tin foil hat when they walked past a record store this morning!
You are right about the selection. Navigating to the "punk" section will show you 2 albums: since the main page is designed to show 4 albums it repeats the same 2 albums twice.
Then, when you click on an album, you get: http://mindawn.com/albums/1336 $1.24 per track. So no, this is another music service with no selection, even by indy standards (2 albums per genre anyone?), but at least it's way more expensive.
...considering Yahoo's music service uses a propretary media player (Yahoo's) with a propretary DRM implementation (Microsoft's) on the subscription model where your music is all deleted when you cancel your subscription... by DRM.
Good man. Those Centrino adverts were the worst... ever. A lot of clueless people seem to think that "Centrino" (a Pentium M processor with a badge and some form of WiFi implementation) has some magic connection to the internet becuase of those ads.
And when people compete in CPL games they tend to play better games than HALO... I'd say professional gamers by and large consider HALO a complete joke, as they will this league.
Maybe PBS approached them?
Japanese Culture is far removed from American Culture... there are a lot less people with too much time on their hands, yet not enough time to raise their kids themselves.
Oh, they did that a while back: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/12/amd_athlon_64.h tml
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Nope, Cell isn't increasingly popular, but the summary referred to them being put "inside its increasingly popular low-power blade servers."
There is a difference between "making something an issue" and "defending your rights."
The Religious Right has made this a political issue, when in fact it is not even an issue.
If anything, putting their computers in an environment like a school to show young people that Macs *do indeed actually crash quite a bit, even under OS X* is a bad idea.
It just goes to show that design does play a part in making a chip, and not trying to cram as many transistors as one can onto a die.
Does it really take $5M in startup capital to produce a keyboard and mouse? Especially one which is bound to have such... "ethereal" properties?
I think it's a good thing. One of the great strengths of Opensource is doing cool things which products which aren't really initially commercially viable, becuase it opens up the code to an audience where there is a lack of profit motive.
Actually, It's becuase we have better Supply Side policies.