Great news for me as I never play online so Sony will be charging me $10 less for every game I buy.
Wait, what do you mean I still have to pay full price even if I don't game online, that would be like paying $50 per month for 100 cable channels I never watch.
Oh yeah, the consumer gets screwed again. We have to pay for stuff we don't use, and then the compaines get to charge for whatever they want.
Does anybody see any fairness in this?
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Like when ISPs chagre you for going over a limit, but nobody ever refunds you when you use 7mb of your 5gig plan. But OH NO, ISPs can't have tiered service, but they can charge you more for 5 or 10 or 20gig more. It's freaking ridiculous.
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Rule of thumb should be rule of law - if a company can charge you more for getting more, then they should charge you less for getting less. Cable tv, broadband, videogames - I shouldn't have to pay for what I don't use if you are charging people more for what is normal usage.
I think you mean culpability. Nobody gets fired anymore. Colin Powell's huge WMD speech before the UN is still my favorite example. Oh sure, Clinton got impeached for getting a bj from a fat chick, but "Brownie" destroying New Orleans? Heckuva job there. Mission Accomplished in Iraq. On the bright side, cover-ups will soon be a thing of the past, all the evils of the world exposed and the perpetrators will simply say - "there ya go, do something about it", but nobody can, or will.
I was hopeing there was some steak on these bones, but the articles are incomprehensible and all nonsense. The guy hung up a poster with the word kill on it, the school has an anti-kill word poster rule, so they took it down. Bor-ring.
I was hopeing the guy was at least making a stand against Obama's killing of Al Awlaki with a predator drone and missiles, but the story is from 3 weeks ago.
If they were doing a school "Firefly" play that would have been better yet.
I'm guessing this is also one of those schools that has strict rules against PDA's and you have to get a girls written permission to ask her out on a date.
Thank you,
And just to add to your point. Way back when - I'm thinking 1980's - this guy would have been killed in a car bombing and the news would have reported it as a "random car bombing of unknown origin" but we all would have known it was the CIA. Now, as Obama promised, we have transparency. Unfortunately we all thought - I voted for him - transparency meant he had nothing bad to hide. Turns out, he should be hiding plenty. Bush at least had Colin Powel in front of the UN lieing about WMDs before we killed Saddam. Now it's just - "yeah I defied international law and the Geneva convention and assassinated somebody, what of it?" The truth is out there, for all to see, we don't need Mulder and Fox anymore, the powers that be do as they will, they don't even have the common courtesy to cover it up. We have seen the enemy and the enemy is us.
You know the world has truly gone to hell when Ron Paul is the only voice of reason.
So they're up to FF 7.0 now? Mine is 5.0 (according to the About box) and when I click on "Check for Updates" it says Firefox is up to date. Am I really expected to update to 7.0 by going to mozilla.org and downloading a new install? That's never going to happen. I might as well go to Chrome.com. Oh wait, that's been updating automatically in the background. I'ld rather it didn't, but I don't mind a little prodding every now and then like Thunderbird does. Why have a "check for Update" box if they are never going to update but just keep coming out w/ new numbers?
Why does this 7" screen $199 device get SO MUCH comparison to Apple's 10" $499 device, but not 1 iota to it's $229 4" device? Seriously. I mean, if you can compare a Fire to an iPad which is nearly twice as big why not compare it to a Touch which is half as small, but at roughly the same price? Yes, I know the Touch is the bastard forgotten step child of the iPhone, but there is almost nothing it can't do at less than half the price of the iPad. I even make phone calls with it all the time over WiFi. And it has a camera, which also does video, and a mic. I never use it with the headphones b/c I never listen to music with it, just email, browsing and games. But I see no reason to upgrade from a Touch to Fire. And I'm not an Apple fanboi, this is my only Apple device, but it works, and it's relatively inexpensive compared to an iPad. And it fits in all my pockets. I'm not bragging, but I haven't seen anybody mention the $229 iTouch all day, and I think it's a better comparison to a 7" $199 device.
I don't know about the shoddy journalism, but yeah that statistic just jumped out at me as stupid. You can't have an age bracket without a bracket. You at least added it but then jumped to an average conclusion which didn't seem any better, lumping 4,5,6,7,8,9 year olds together. I would think 9=85%, 8=75%, 6=65%, 5=55%, 4=15%. Those are just thrown out there numbers, I'm not doing the math.
On a personal note, my 5 year old nephew doesn't have a phone, but he has an iPodTouch, which I'm sure he's using the same way others are using their phones. Kids don't have phones b/c they are phones, kids have phones b/c their parents upgrade to new phones and give their kids the old ones to play with. This tidbit of info might have been relevant to the story. So I guess your right after all, shoddy journalism.
Don't confuse "streaming" with "subscription". NF made it big over BB b/c they had an unlimited subscription plan on DVDs by mail. If they spin that off they have a subscription for streaming, but there are lots of other places now to get streaming - Hulu, Hulu +, Amazon Prime, VOD, Crackle, VuDu, game consoles, etc. Without having the combination for streaming and DVD unlimited subscription plans rolled into one they are left with subscription streaming, which requires more than just "web monkeys", it's requires broadband. The USPS may be a mess, but more people can subscribe to that than broadband.
So does this include "all" internet access, b/c honestly I thought smartphones were used more by now. And the 3DS and PSP. And the Wii and PS3. And Google tv.
Guess this means for all the Apple vs. Android stuff Microsoft still controls the internet? Can't believe I was starting to buy into the hype.
People have been selling their kids since, well, people have been having kids. I'll admit this is the first time I've heard of it strictly for gaming purposes, but they didn't trade in their kids for games - they sold them for money - only what they did with the money is different.
In a world were cable and phone companies are constantly offering discounts for bundling, Netflix decided to "unbundle" it's streaming and DVD service, and then charge FULL PRICE for both. How f@cking stupid is that? They present it as $7.99 for streaming OR $7.99 for DVDs and if you want both you pay full price for both? How did that get out of a board room or marketing? Freaking idiots. All they had to say was (in best Steve Jobs voice) - "some of our customers only want streaming and some only want DVD's, so we're making it easy for either of them, pay for only what you want. It's only $7.99 for unlimited streaming or $7.99 for unlimited DVDs. For those who want both we're offering it at a discount, it's only $14.99 for unlimited DVDs and streaming." Yes, people would still be upset about the 50% price increase, but at least a few would spread the good word of choice and the bundling discount. Their presentation of this blew and they lost all good will. dumb@sses.
I had Verizon landline and Verizon DSL. I canceled the DSL service but the billing dept. - which was with the phone company part of Verizon - kept billing me. Everybody I spoke to on the phone told me I didn't owe them the money, but 2 different collection agencies contacted me a year apart looking for the money. This is why I stick w/ Cablevision despite the numerous and much cheaper offers I get for Verizon FIOS. Well that and the $69 offer in the mail was $97 when I called. Note to stupid Verizon - just advertise it as $97, maybe more people will sign up, nobody is going to pay 30% more than advertised.
I think you all missed the "s" at the end of configurations - "typical home entertainment configurations". My guess is (no, I didn't bother to read any articles) that typical home entertainment configurations involves more than 1 cable box. As many homes have 3 or 4 boxes on all the time they would probably use IN TOTAL more than the typical 1 refrigerator in a typical home. I actually turn my cable boxes on and off with the tv. Most people probably don't do this as it leads to stupid HDMI handshake errors. I get these occasionally - especially ESPN and it's 720p programming - but changing the channel seems to fix most errors. In short - many DVR and cable boxes which are typical in a home use more power than the typical 1 refrigerator. Attach the 3 or 4 tvs, a PS3, always on Wii, Xbox360 and a VCR or DVD or blu-ray player and you got a LOT of power in a household with a couple of teenagers.
So, the companies that run a website are going to sell the website (but of course keep all their own shows) so Hulu will only be a "portal", full of links and ads for CBS, SyFy etc.? Just shut it down. As far as people worrying about having to go to "random" websites to watch all these shows, I think you mean random "apps". Content providers are suing Time Warner and Cablevision to stop letting customers watch their shows on the iPad via apps. I'm pretty sure the content owners want their own apps to stream their shows.
WTF is your problem? The guy states an opinion that he feels is fat - second hand sales cost his compnay more than piracy - and you go off on some self-righteous rant that has almost nothing to do with the article? I've RTFA and nowhere is it insulting to gamers or anyone else. It's very straight forward and matter of fact. It never states second hand sales should be band or are illegal or are the work of the devil, it simply states the company loses more sales to customers of used games than it loses to pirates, which is probably true, as pirates wouldn't buy the game anyway, so no lost sale, but used gamers would have bought the game new without the used option, hence costing the company money. I have no idea why any sane person wold react the way you did. .
Despite the Wiki link nobody here has mentioned that YAOI is known as "Boy Love". I don't think anybody need discuss further why Amazon pulled it, they don't want to be known as the NAMBL library of choice.
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Great news for me as I never play online so Sony will be charging me $10 less for every game I buy. Wait, what do you mean I still have to pay full price even if I don't game online, that would be like paying $50 per month for 100 cable channels I never watch. Oh yeah, the consumer gets screwed again. We have to pay for stuff we don't use, and then the compaines get to charge for whatever they want. Does anybody see any fairness in this? -------------------- Like when ISPs chagre you for going over a limit, but nobody ever refunds you when you use 7mb of your 5gig plan. But OH NO, ISPs can't have tiered service, but they can charge you more for 5 or 10 or 20gig more. It's freaking ridiculous. --------- Rule of thumb should be rule of law - if a company can charge you more for getting more, then they should charge you less for getting less. Cable tv, broadband, videogames - I shouldn't have to pay for what I don't use if you are charging people more for what is normal usage.
I think you mean culpability. Nobody gets fired anymore. Colin Powell's huge WMD speech before the UN is still my favorite example. Oh sure, Clinton got impeached for getting a bj from a fat chick, but "Brownie" destroying New Orleans? Heckuva job there. Mission Accomplished in Iraq. On the bright side, cover-ups will soon be a thing of the past, all the evils of the world exposed and the perpetrators will simply say - "there ya go, do something about it", but nobody can, or will.
I was hopeing there was some steak on these bones, but the articles are incomprehensible and all nonsense. The guy hung up a poster with the word kill on it, the school has an anti-kill word poster rule, so they took it down. Bor-ring. I was hopeing the guy was at least making a stand against Obama's killing of Al Awlaki with a predator drone and missiles, but the story is from 3 weeks ago. If they were doing a school "Firefly" play that would have been better yet. I'm guessing this is also one of those schools that has strict rules against PDA's and you have to get a girls written permission to ask her out on a date.
Thank you, And just to add to your point. Way back when - I'm thinking 1980's - this guy would have been killed in a car bombing and the news would have reported it as a "random car bombing of unknown origin" but we all would have known it was the CIA. Now, as Obama promised, we have transparency. Unfortunately we all thought - I voted for him - transparency meant he had nothing bad to hide. Turns out, he should be hiding plenty. Bush at least had Colin Powel in front of the UN lieing about WMDs before we killed Saddam. Now it's just - "yeah I defied international law and the Geneva convention and assassinated somebody, what of it?" The truth is out there, for all to see, we don't need Mulder and Fox anymore, the powers that be do as they will, they don't even have the common courtesy to cover it up. We have seen the enemy and the enemy is us. You know the world has truly gone to hell when Ron Paul is the only voice of reason.
So they're up to FF 7.0 now? Mine is 5.0 (according to the About box) and when I click on "Check for Updates" it says Firefox is up to date. Am I really expected to update to 7.0 by going to mozilla.org and downloading a new install? That's never going to happen. I might as well go to Chrome.com. Oh wait, that's been updating automatically in the background. I'ld rather it didn't, but I don't mind a little prodding every now and then like Thunderbird does. Why have a "check for Update" box if they are never going to update but just keep coming out w/ new numbers?
Why does this 7" screen $199 device get SO MUCH comparison to Apple's 10" $499 device, but not 1 iota to it's $229 4" device? Seriously. I mean, if you can compare a Fire to an iPad which is nearly twice as big why not compare it to a Touch which is half as small, but at roughly the same price? Yes, I know the Touch is the bastard forgotten step child of the iPhone, but there is almost nothing it can't do at less than half the price of the iPad. I even make phone calls with it all the time over WiFi. And it has a camera, which also does video, and a mic. I never use it with the headphones b/c I never listen to music with it, just email, browsing and games. But I see no reason to upgrade from a Touch to Fire. And I'm not an Apple fanboi, this is my only Apple device, but it works, and it's relatively inexpensive compared to an iPad. And it fits in all my pockets. I'm not bragging, but I haven't seen anybody mention the $229 iTouch all day, and I think it's a better comparison to a 7" $199 device.
I don't know about the shoddy journalism, but yeah that statistic just jumped out at me as stupid. You can't have an age bracket without a bracket. You at least added it but then jumped to an average conclusion which didn't seem any better, lumping 4,5,6,7,8,9 year olds together. I would think 9=85%, 8=75%, 6=65%, 5=55%, 4=15%. Those are just thrown out there numbers, I'm not doing the math. On a personal note, my 5 year old nephew doesn't have a phone, but he has an iPodTouch, which I'm sure he's using the same way others are using their phones. Kids don't have phones b/c they are phones, kids have phones b/c their parents upgrade to new phones and give their kids the old ones to play with. This tidbit of info might have been relevant to the story. So I guess your right after all, shoddy journalism.
Don't confuse "streaming" with "subscription". NF made it big over BB b/c they had an unlimited subscription plan on DVDs by mail. If they spin that off they have a subscription for streaming, but there are lots of other places now to get streaming - Hulu, Hulu +, Amazon Prime, VOD, Crackle, VuDu, game consoles, etc. Without having the combination for streaming and DVD unlimited subscription plans rolled into one they are left with subscription streaming, which requires more than just "web monkeys", it's requires broadband. The USPS may be a mess, but more people can subscribe to that than broadband.
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.felon doesn't fit the .### convention as well as .666. I wonder if the Aleister Crowley crowd would complain?
So does this include "all" internet access, b/c honestly I thought smartphones were used more by now. And the 3DS and PSP. And the Wii and PS3. And Google tv. Guess this means for all the Apple vs. Android stuff Microsoft still controls the internet? Can't believe I was starting to buy into the hype.
5% is a statistical error in most polls, so there goes that number.
People have been selling their kids since, well, people have been having kids. I'll admit this is the first time I've heard of it strictly for gaming purposes, but they didn't trade in their kids for games - they sold them for money - only what they did with the money is different.
In a world were cable and phone companies are constantly offering discounts for bundling, Netflix decided to "unbundle" it's streaming and DVD service, and then charge FULL PRICE for both. How f@cking stupid is that? They present it as $7.99 for streaming OR $7.99 for DVDs and if you want both you pay full price for both? How did that get out of a board room or marketing? Freaking idiots. All they had to say was (in best Steve Jobs voice) - "some of our customers only want streaming and some only want DVD's, so we're making it easy for either of them, pay for only what you want. It's only $7.99 for unlimited streaming or $7.99 for unlimited DVDs. For those who want both we're offering it at a discount, it's only $14.99 for unlimited DVDs and streaming." Yes, people would still be upset about the 50% price increase, but at least a few would spread the good word of choice and the bundling discount. Their presentation of this blew and they lost all good will. dumb@sses.
I had Verizon landline and Verizon DSL. I canceled the DSL service but the billing dept. - which was with the phone company part of Verizon - kept billing me. Everybody I spoke to on the phone told me I didn't owe them the money, but 2 different collection agencies contacted me a year apart looking for the money. This is why I stick w/ Cablevision despite the numerous and much cheaper offers I get for Verizon FIOS. Well that and the $69 offer in the mail was $97 when I called. Note to stupid Verizon - just advertise it as $97, maybe more people will sign up, nobody is going to pay 30% more than advertised.
I loved Peggle, and then PvZ even more. There is no hope now.
As a big Silent Running fan I'm happy to know Huey, Dewey and Louie are a reality.
I think you all missed the "s" at the end of configurations - "typical home entertainment configurations". My guess is (no, I didn't bother to read any articles) that typical home entertainment configurations involves more than 1 cable box. As many homes have 3 or 4 boxes on all the time they would probably use IN TOTAL more than the typical 1 refrigerator in a typical home. I actually turn my cable boxes on and off with the tv. Most people probably don't do this as it leads to stupid HDMI handshake errors. I get these occasionally - especially ESPN and it's 720p programming - but changing the channel seems to fix most errors. In short - many DVR and cable boxes which are typical in a home use more power than the typical 1 refrigerator. Attach the 3 or 4 tvs, a PS3, always on Wii, Xbox360 and a VCR or DVD or blu-ray player and you got a LOT of power in a household with a couple of teenagers.
So, the companies that run a website are going to sell the website (but of course keep all their own shows) so Hulu will only be a "portal", full of links and ads for CBS, SyFy etc.? Just shut it down. As far as people worrying about having to go to "random" websites to watch all these shows, I think you mean random "apps". Content providers are suing Time Warner and Cablevision to stop letting customers watch their shows on the iPad via apps. I'm pretty sure the content owners want their own apps to stream their shows.
That reminds me - time to buy stock in tissues and toilet paper.
WTF is your problem? The guy states an opinion that he feels is fat - second hand sales cost his compnay more than piracy - and you go off on some self-righteous rant that has almost nothing to do with the article? I've RTFA and nowhere is it insulting to gamers or anyone else. It's very straight forward and matter of fact. It never states second hand sales should be band or are illegal or are the work of the devil, it simply states the company loses more sales to customers of used games than it loses to pirates, which is probably true, as pirates wouldn't buy the game anyway, so no lost sale, but used gamers would have bought the game new without the used option, hence costing the company money. I have no idea why any sane person wold react the way you did. .
They watch this in Korea the way the rest of the world watches porn.
When I saw US was near the top of the list for the PSN getting back on was all I could think of was Xbox 360 sales, US vs. Japan.
Despite the Wiki link nobody here has mentioned that YAOI is known as "Boy Love". I don't think anybody need discuss further why Amazon pulled it, they don't want to be known as the NAMBL library of choice.
Slowly I turn, step by step, inch by inch. How many people are going to change their password to SONYSUCKS?