Assuming an average mp3 size of 5mb, that's 12000 songs to fill up just one of those ipods. He'll only have to win about another dozen $10k cards to complete the task!
Another 5% goes to exits that are wide enough but too close to a stoplight once you've gotten off. I drive past one of these every evening on my way home from work, and traffic backs up from the stoplight, onto the freeway, and up past the previous entrance preventing people from getting on the freeway.
Ah, I see you're also familiar with the Gowanus Expressway in lovely NYC.
Thanks for the reply. Plus infinity billion informative.
That's a really interesting analogy. It's taken us (the U.S.) fifty years to figure out that if you build more, and higher-capacity, roads, it alleviates congestion temporarily but ultimately results in...more traffic and more congestion.
I'm genuine interested in that idea. It sounds plausible, like some of the reasons why one guy riding his breaks can cause a standstill three miles back, but maybe you can elaborate?
But isn't in "common practice" to include shots of regular gameplay in as well, for comparison? Most obvious example I can think of is the Resident Evil series.
Why not look at it as the flip side of a coin? Up until recently, the only really popular multiplayer games were fighters and first person shooters. Now you can choose to build up skill over time (or have it innately), or plod the way of monotony in an RPG. More options is always gooder.
How come when the property of regular citizens is siezed for investigation of a piracy or drug-related crime, you always hear the term "raid."
I mean, surely when the Justice Department needs to take a look at Microsoft's paperwork, they send in in an elite squad of ATF agents to rappel down from above, crash through the roof, and storm the building with machineguns drawn.
The five nominated films collectively have accounted for little more than $200 million so far, barely a ripple next to Hollywood's 2005 domestic revenues of $8.95 billion
You are wrong because: Amazingly Bad Analogy
Yes, a mere five films in any year will make less than a reasonable yearly revenue.
Honestly, I can't wait for Star Trek replicators to get invented. How crazy would the world get if I could download mercedes.torrent, big_mac_combo.zip, and refreshing columbianblow.rar?
We're talking about massive amounts of potential customers taking your product without paying for it.
You are wrong because: arguement by bizzare definition
Take (n): To get into one's possession by force, skill, or artifice, especially: To capture physically; seize
Even in the most egregious case, where I sneak into the RIAA president's house, boot his computer and pirate his entire collection of music, the property has not actually been taken. It's still there. Except I have my own copy now.
Extortion is when a person obtains goods/services from another by wrongfully threatening or inflicting harm to his person, reputation, or property.
Wikipedia with the assist!
Incidentally, it also lists "coercion by threat" as a definition. The mere pretension of being a Figure of Authority might be enough to swing that, if the judge was on crack, maybe. It's kinda like the grey area where a police officer saying "sir, please let me take a look inside the vehicle" is technically an innoculous request and not a command.
Probably, I also goofed on the thread about Wolf3d's aarfwolf code:)
Still, it's fun rehashing all this stuff, since I'm not playing right now, anyway. Can't wait for Flash to advance enough to support full-size emulation images. My work bans teh.exes, so no playtime:(
Oh, the Federation is commu-fascist, no doubt about it. I was just using the quote because it was popular.
-how many civilians in the UFP own their own military starship?
-can you seceed? Maquis had a hard time doing that, because they were all dead after starfleet black ops
-freedom of speech? Tell that to mccoy/spock, re: genesis
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I could use the banana I am going to eat for dinner to choke you
Ah, the cornerstone of any nutritious dinner!
Assuming an average mp3 size of 5mb, that's 12000 songs to fill up just one of those ipods. He'll only have to win about another dozen $10k cards to complete the task!
Woz is a good man
The "wakka wakka wakka!" guy, right? He always cracks me up.
Another 5% goes to exits that are wide enough but too close to a stoplight once you've gotten off. I drive past one of these every evening on my way home from work, and traffic backs up from the stoplight, onto the freeway, and up past the previous entrance preventing people from getting on the freeway.
Ah, I see you're also familiar with the Gowanus Expressway in lovely NYC.
Thanks for the reply. Plus infinity billion informative.
That's a really interesting analogy. It's taken us (the U.S.) fifty years to figure out that if you build more, and higher-capacity, roads, it alleviates congestion temporarily but ultimately results in...more traffic and more congestion.
I'm genuine interested in that idea. It sounds plausible, like some of the reasons why one guy riding his breaks can cause a standstill three miles back, but maybe you can elaborate?
Any non-solid in food advertising (hamburger ketchup, cereal milk) is actually glue.
But isn't in "common practice" to include shots of regular gameplay in as well, for comparison? Most obvious example I can think of is the Resident Evil series.
Why not look at it as the flip side of a coin? Up until recently, the only really popular multiplayer games were fighters and first person shooters. Now you can choose to build up skill over time (or have it innately), or plod the way of monotony in an RPG. More options is always gooder.
How come when the property of regular citizens is siezed for investigation of a piracy or drug-related crime, you always hear the term "raid."
I mean, surely when the Justice Department needs to take a look at Microsoft's paperwork, they send in in an elite squad of ATF agents to rappel down from above, crash through the roof, and storm the building with machineguns drawn.
Picard: "Data, their species is aware of the existence of copyright law..."
Data: "No, sir."
Picard: *long pause* "Oops..."
My church sends SASEs to your house for tithing. The collections during mass are "special collections" -- IE 9/11, Katrina, the poor, etc.
That's right, they're not stealing money from the company. Because the company never had that money in the first place.
There's a huge difference between profit and potential profit, which an above poster already argued.
Maybe not required, but wikipedia says "Lawyers are recommended under ethical rules to contribute at least fifty hours of pro bono service per year."
I wonder how "recommended" it really is. I mean, you're recommended to give to the collections in church, but people give you dirty looks if you don't
which were down sharply
which I doubted, but Courier Press says that apparently "Theaters in 2004 grossed a record $9.43 billion, according to Exhibitor Relations"
slap my face and call me silly!
Your definition seems to think "take" is a noun
:)
Meh, that part got cut off on the copy/paste, so I typed in it by hand quick. Nice catch
The point of my post was to compare $8.95 billion to $5.4 billion. How could you have missed that?
Easy, you didn't use the figure of $5.4 billion at all in your post. In addition, you claim:
Overall profits were down last year:
Hollywood's 2005 domestic revenues of $8.95 billion
This is a non-sequitor. You cannot draw a conclusion on profits with only the data for revenue.
The five nominated films collectively have accounted for little more than $200 million so far, barely a ripple next to Hollywood's 2005 domestic revenues of $8.95 billion
You are wrong because: Amazingly Bad Analogy
Yes, a mere five films in any year will make less than a reasonable yearly revenue.
Honestly, I can't wait for Star Trek replicators to get invented. How crazy would the world get if I could download mercedes.torrent, big_mac_combo.zip, and refreshing columbianblow.rar?
We're talking about massive amounts of potential customers taking your product without paying for it.
You are wrong because: arguement by bizzare definition
Take (n): To get into one's possession by force, skill, or artifice, especially: To capture physically; seize
Even in the most egregious case, where I sneak into the RIAA president's house, boot his computer and pirate his entire collection of music, the property has not actually been taken. It's still there. Except I have my own copy now.
Star Trek calls this technology a "replicator"
Extortion is when a person obtains goods/services from another by wrongfully threatening or inflicting harm to his person, reputation, or property.
Wikipedia with the assist!
Incidentally, it also lists "coercion by threat" as a definition. The mere pretension of being a Figure of Authority might be enough to swing that, if the judge was on crack, maybe. It's kinda like the grey area where a police officer saying "sir, please let me take a look inside the vehicle" is technically an innoculous request and not a command.
Aren't all lawyers required to do x/y cases pro bono as part of their liscence?
Not that this guy maybe didn't do it purely out of the goodness of his heart anyway, I just think the idea is sweetly nostalgic.
Probably, I also goofed on the thread about Wolf3d's aarfwolf code :)
.exes, so no playtime :(
Still, it's fun rehashing all this stuff, since I'm not playing right now, anyway. Can't wait for Flash to advance enough to support full-size emulation images. My work bans teh
Oh, the Federation is commu-fascist, no doubt about it. I was just using the quote because it was popular.
-how many civilians in the UFP own their own military starship?
-can you seceed? Maquis had a hard time doing that, because they were all dead after starfleet black ops
-freedom of speech? Tell that to mccoy/spock, re: genesis
No, Atticus Finch the gay S&M porn star. Of course it's To Kill A Mockingbird :)
Apparently, been so lackluster in the wife department that her husband Miles became a workaholic and founded Skynet.