After starting to play a MMOG as a casual gamer, and finding that I had to play more and more to keep up with both my real friends and online friends, the Grinding of playing became a time-sucker and I stopped being just a "casual" gamer. That is the real catch of these games though, where they are designed so that you can progress slowly at first, and then moving up becomes not necesarilly harder, but more time consuming. I don't think that any MMOGs that design their end-game to appeal to the casual gamer will succeed. There would just not be enough to keep their player base around.
Anyways, just my 2cp:)
Well, that makes sense, and is pretty much what the original topic says, but when I go to suncoast (a video purchasing store), there is a whole section for anime, not a small section either, indicating that anime does well selling. It seems like there are plenty of people out there that are willing to purchase instead of pirate when a good series is available to purchase. I just believe that if a good series is available to purchase, that the fansubs for that series will fade. Maybe not fade completely, but to a much lesser extent.
... but aren't the fansubs happening mostly because the anime isn't commercially available in the US? If so, then make it available, and the fansubs go away... Unless I am missing something?
Microsoft offers some programs and grants to help defray the cost of technology.
They can be found in the Partners in Learning section.
I'm not saying don't go through OO.Org, I'm just saying that MS has some programs:)
Bill Nye actually had some pretty great science experiments on Almost live, always using the main host of the show (John Keister) as his assistant. He even came back several times after making it big in Disney's Bill Nye the Science Guy television show to do some more science experiments, including one time when he made a Alka-Seltzer rocket using a 5 or 10 gallon bucket... the thing flew up three stories!!
Not knowing exactly how itunes worked concerning it's downloads and DRM, I found this program to be somewhat of an eye opener to me. I imagine it will be the same for quite a few others, and we will see programs soon that do such things as lock the file right before DRM gets applied, or copies the stream but not the post download processing, etc... I imagine such would not be illegal, for you would merely be capturing data being sent to your computer.
Well, believe it or not, instructions for downloading the entire database is located here
Which makes me wonder how many of the 500,000 articles are "Wikipedia" articles, or are those not counted?
... about wikipedia is not necessarily the number of articles or the quality (and it can be disputed that the quality is both good and bad), is that on top of the fact that to search and read the articles is free, they will also allow you to download the entire database, which i think is impressive in our information driven economy.
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Dupe: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/27/183246
can we go for 3 dupes in a row?
There is a big difference between "not throwing a fit", and encouraging the hacking of an application despite the possibility of less revenue.
That all anyone has to do is post a "proof of concept" exploit, and instead of fixing it like most other corporations would, they will just remove it?
Where is the DRM "proof of concept" exploit?
After starting to play a MMOG as a casual gamer, and finding that I had to play more and more to keep up with both my real friends and online friends, the Grinding of playing became a time-sucker and I stopped being just a "casual" gamer. That is the real catch of these games though, where they are designed so that you can progress slowly at first, and then moving up becomes not necesarilly harder, but more time consuming. I don't think that any MMOGs that design their end-game to appeal to the casual gamer will succeed. There would just not be enough to keep their player base around. Anyways, just my 2cp :)
Well, that makes sense, and is pretty much what the original topic says, but when I go to suncoast (a video purchasing store), there is a whole section for anime, not a small section either, indicating that anime does well selling. It seems like there are plenty of people out there that are willing to purchase instead of pirate when a good series is available to purchase. I just believe that if a good series is available to purchase, that the fansubs for that series will fade. Maybe not fade completely, but to a much lesser extent.
... but aren't the fansubs happening mostly because the anime isn't commercially available in the US? If so, then make it available, and the fansubs go away... Unless I am missing something?
However, you also can't expect to continually achieve better results without some problems by just throwing another engine into the car either.
I don't expect my car to be able to go two different ways, but I sure do expect my processor to.
Microsoft offers some programs and grants to help defray the cost of technology. They can be found in the Partners in Learning section. I'm not saying don't go through OO.Org, I'm just saying that MS has some programs :)
... what 3 states were not involved, and why?
Bill Nye actually had some pretty great science experiments on Almost live, always using the main host of the show (John Keister) as his assistant. He even came back several times after making it big in Disney's Bill Nye the Science Guy television show to do some more science experiments, including one time when he made a Alka-Seltzer rocket using a 5 or 10 gallon bucket... the thing flew up three stories!!
Not knowing exactly how itunes worked concerning it's downloads and DRM, I found this program to be somewhat of an eye opener to me. I imagine it will be the same for quite a few others, and we will see programs soon that do such things as lock the file right before DRM gets applied, or copies the stream but not the post download processing, etc... I imagine such would not be illegal, for you would merely be capturing data being sent to your computer.
Well, believe it or not, instructions for downloading the entire database is located here Which makes me wonder how many of the 500,000 articles are "Wikipedia" articles, or are those not counted?
... about wikipedia is not necessarily the number of articles or the quality (and it can be disputed that the quality is both good and bad), is that on top of the fact that to search and read the articles is free, they will also allow you to download the entire database, which i think is impressive in our information driven economy.