Would you sneak into a movie theater to watch half of a movie just because they wouldn't sell you a ticket to watch half of it at half price? Would you break into a museum to look at one piece because the museum wouldn't give you a discount to only look at one piece?
First of all, let me go on record as saying that these scenarios are ludicrous at best. But seeing as how you brought them up, let us discus how your logic is faulty in simple terms.
Now, for the movie reference, First fault is that you are comparing half a movie with one song, and unless we are talking about the Styx album Kilroy Was Here or any Pink Floyd album where the music is actually telling a story, that analogy is shot to hell. But to humor you, in the sense of video watching, if I think that only half the movie is worth seeing, then none of it is.
Now along the same analogy, only tweaked to make sense, it is like the local six screen theater charging you $46 admittance with the ability to watch all the movies in that one day, and it is the only way to watch the movies. Now, if all the movies are good block busters it might sound like one hell of a deal, but four of the screens are showing Pee-wee's Big Adventure, would you cough up the $46 to watch that one movie you wanted to watch, or would you just wait for it to come out on video, by itself, with none of the fluff or crap. But then the theater feels like it is losing money because people don't want to have to wade through their BS, so they start shutting down the video stores and the only way to see the movies is by paying for five screens of crap that no one wants to see... That scenario, stupid as it might sound, is the business model that the "album" represents.
And now to the whole "breaking into the museum for one piece of art" argument... ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?? *ahem*, sorry 'bout that. But seriously, you're joking, right? You aren't actually comparing the cesspit that is the music industry with a museum? But once again, let us dissect this logically. A museum charges a flat fee for you to make your own experience, or "playlist" if you will. You can go in and look at any pieces anywhere in the museum. If it were more like the music industry, you would have to pay ten bucks to get in to see the cubism exhibit, another fifteen to get in to see the Renaissance paintings, and don't even ask to see the sculptures....
But they can adapt. Now, I am "guilty" of downloading music, but that is only because I usually only want one song off the whole damn album. First stop is always the Artist's website, if they don't have a "Buy this song" type set-up, then I check I-Tunes, if they don't have it for sale then I resort to piracy...
If they switched to a per-piece downloadable content distribution method, they would see more of my money. I'm not paying fifteen dollars for one bloody song...
I have a question for you,
With your Tivo argument, did they document the changes to the GPL code and make it readily available to the end user??
This is a valid question, I really don't know. But if they didn't then it violated the GPL license and your argument is now moot.
I must agree with you there...
I am one that doesn't let the graphics get in the way of me enjoying a game. Some of the hardest, most enjoyable games I have played are Nintendo's "kiddy-games". While on the other hand, those "mature" games everyone raves about... I've seen apes that can play them, and play them well...
Though my view may be a little biassed because of all the systems I own, my SNES sees the most gameplay even today...
Wow, after trying to make sence of that, I swear my IQ dropped 30 points.... Now I have the urge to go buy Microsoft products and watch Dragonball Z.... Thanks alot...
...Not Playstation. The Dreamcast was of this generation, last generation's Sega console was the Saturn (which was buggy and prone to death). The flaws that were the Saturn was the reason the dreamcast shipped early, hence making it look like it was of the N64/Playstation gen...
One thing you fail to notice is the fact that their even talking about adding a HD-DVD feture means that there is a market for it. Plus, if I remember correctly, the reason the Dreamcast didn't have DVD playback was because, Survey says.... the DVD comunity was a nitch market 'til 1999...
Okay, I feel you have a valid point there, but let us consider the Dreamcast... Okay, okay, I can hear the hisses, but hear me through. The Dreamcast was a fairly powerful machine, but one reason people chose the PS2 over it is because Sega didn't include a DVD drive (if you do some research, you will find that Sega was going to release a form of DVD-playback). I was of the same mindset as you, thinking "Oh, DVD playback won't be that important." But since Sony had it and Sega didn't, well, we see what happened...
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Would you sneak into a movie theater to watch half of a movie just because they wouldn't sell you a ticket to watch half of it at half price? Would you break into a museum to look at one piece because the museum wouldn't give you a discount to only look at one piece?
First of all, let me go on record as saying that these scenarios are ludicrous at best. But seeing as how you brought them up, let us discus how your logic is faulty in simple terms.
Now, for the movie reference, First fault is that you are comparing half a movie with one song, and unless we are talking about the Styx album Kilroy Was Here or any Pink Floyd album where the music is actually telling a story, that analogy is shot to hell. But to humor you, in the sense of video watching, if I think that only half the movie is worth seeing, then none of it is.
Now along the same analogy, only tweaked to make sense, it is like the local six screen theater charging you $46 admittance with the ability to watch all the movies in that one day, and it is the only way to watch the movies. Now, if all the movies are good block busters it might sound like one hell of a deal, but four of the screens are showing Pee-wee's Big Adventure, would you cough up the $46 to watch that one movie you wanted to watch, or would you just wait for it to come out on video, by itself, with none of the fluff or crap. But then the theater feels like it is losing money because people don't want to have to wade through their BS, so they start shutting down the video stores and the only way to see the movies is by paying for five screens of crap that no one wants to see... That scenario, stupid as it might sound, is the business model that the "album" represents.
And now to the whole "breaking into the museum for one piece of art" argument... ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?? *ahem*, sorry 'bout that. But seriously, you're joking, right? You aren't actually comparing the cesspit that is the music industry with a museum? But once again, let us dissect this logically. A museum charges a flat fee for you to make your own experience, or "playlist" if you will. You can go in and look at any pieces anywhere in the museum. If it were more like the music industry, you would have to pay ten bucks to get in to see the cubism exhibit, another fifteen to get in to see the Renaissance paintings, and don't even ask to see the sculptures....
But they can adapt. Now, I am "guilty" of downloading music, but that is only because I usually only want one song off the whole damn album. First stop is always the Artist's website, if they don't have a "Buy this song" type set-up, then I check I-Tunes, if they don't have it for sale then I resort to piracy... If they switched to a per-piece downloadable content distribution method, they would see more of my money. I'm not paying fifteen dollars for one bloody song...
I have a question for you, With your Tivo argument, did they document the changes to the GPL code and make it readily available to the end user?? This is a valid question, I really don't know. But if they didn't then it violated the GPL license and your argument is now moot.
You're just upset about the fact that we have a backup plan for when we don't get laid and you failed to plan ahead...
But where will that leave us liberal, atheistic comunists??
I must agree with you there... I am one that doesn't let the graphics get in the way of me enjoying a game. Some of the hardest, most enjoyable games I have played are Nintendo's "kiddy-games". While on the other hand, those "mature" games everyone raves about... I've seen apes that can play them, and play them well... Though my view may be a little biassed because of all the systems I own, my SNES sees the most gameplay even today...
Wow, after trying to make sence of that, I swear my IQ dropped 30 points.... Now I have the urge to go buy Microsoft products and watch Dragonball Z.... Thanks alot...
Maybe it was just all the Saturns that I touched then, I've had the laser die in three Saturns now. Am I the Grim Reaper of the Saturn world??
If Apple dumped IBM earlier, perhaps Sony would have gotten a clue. Heh, heh...
One problem with that statement.... the 360 is the console running off of the powerPC cores...
what I want to know is how the games will support HD without a HD-dvd drive...
...Not Playstation. The Dreamcast was of this generation, last generation's Sega console was the Saturn (which was buggy and prone to death). The flaws that were the Saturn was the reason the dreamcast shipped early, hence making it look like it was of the N64/Playstation gen...
Sega fanboy for life...
One thing you fail to notice is the fact that their even talking about adding a HD-DVD feture means that there is a market for it. Plus, if I remember correctly, the reason the Dreamcast didn't have DVD playback was because, Survey says.... the DVD comunity was a nitch market 'til 1999...
Okay, I feel you have a valid point there, but let us consider the Dreamcast... Okay, okay, I can hear the hisses, but hear me through. The Dreamcast was a fairly powerful machine, but one reason people chose the PS2 over it is because Sega didn't include a DVD drive (if you do some research, you will find that Sega was going to release a form of DVD-playback). I was of the same mindset as you, thinking "Oh, DVD playback won't be that important." But since Sony had it and Sega didn't, well, we see what happened...