Back when I paid for my subscription to The Economist, that included the delivery medium. Now I already pay $45 per month for the new delivery medium (my cable internet connection), so I feel justified to expect some free content to come with that. That is, in a nutshell, the reason why I (and most people) will rush to pay Murdoch or anyone else for news. I wish them good luck with their plans. Over and out.
That'd make more sense if the content providers and the "medium providers" (for lack of a better term) were the same people.
Believe it or not, eventually people are going to have to start paying for some of the same things on the web that they were paying for before the web. The web doesn't make good reporting and news publishing "free".
Besides, you do get stuff for free, even under this plan. You just don't get everything you want, all the time, for free. Your parents probably should have taught you something about "not getting everything you want."
Yeah, the real difficulty is in presenting, "This is what your business would be like without the current IT setup."
It's kinda like "tax cuts solve everything" folks. It's a lot easier to say you want to spend less money, until you realize what services suddenly become much less available.
Service with normal staff levels: "I need an extra jack activated in my cube." "Sure, all the jack are pre-wired so I just have to turn on the port at the switch and you'll be good to go."
Service after staff levels are reduced to save money: "I need an extra jack activated in my cube." "Okay, I'll need to come by and figure out what your jack number is, then go to the closet and wire it, and then activate the switch. I think I can get to it tomorrow morning when I do a few of those in the same area, but I can't promise anything because I'm busy putting out fires."
Seems like a small thing, but small things add up quickly, and suddenly it takes a week to get a new jack lit up.
And then people want to know why, as if their shoulder shrugging at the cut in staff and resources wasn't the cause in the first place.
You've got part of the idea. The main problem in IT is that since we don't actually make a profit off anything directly (unlike the pizza analogy), what accounting/management sees is a department that's better at making pizzas for less than last year. As such, they figure that it would be *even better* if you could, perhaps, make a substantially similar pizza with less people and less money.
Keep that going for a few years, and you end up with people wondering why it takes so long for their pizza to arrive, and why, when it does, that its missing some of the requested toppings and the cheese is partially dehydrated Velveeta.
The perennial problem of IT: It's benefits are several degrees removed from its efforts, from the POV of an accountant. No direct revenue generation means "less spent is better", with no solid way to quantify the benefits of having a well funded, well populated IT group (as opposed to not having one or both).
Out of interest, the withdrawal method (or "pulling out") is as effective as condoms when used correctly.
Yeah "used correctly", however, is much more difficult for the average person to consistently pull that off than just putting on a condom, or taking a pill once a day in the morning, or a shot every few months.
The rhythm method is pointless to consider in the first world unless you've got some irrational dislike of "artificial" birth control.
It's far too late for Google to pull out of China. It should have known that the pulling-out method is not a reliable form of birth control, and now it needs to take responsibility for it and China's love child, Baidu.
Yeah, you were watching a particular subset of mainstream porn.
The facial has been standard for decades. It is, in no way, "new". The whole original point of the facial was to make it very apparent that the sex was "real" and not just simulated humping. The facial works best for that, because the jizz contrasts well with dark colored makeup and (if the aim is "poor") it shows up readily in hair.
You've just become more of a White Knight, is all.
I think you mean "been standard since the beginning of the modern age of porn." It's so standard that internal cum shots ("cream pies") are a fetish area in adult videos
And while you may find it gross and degrading, not a small number of people, men and women, think its hot.
Marrying first cousins, at least, was commonplace throughout history. Turns out that the rate of birth defects due to having offspring with your first cousin is very low.
Sisters, not so common. I can see it happening in extreme situations, though.
Well, yeah but macs are still sitting at From the standpoint of "money spent on development", resources devoted to 0-day clients that are (combined) less than 10% of the market are questionably justifiable.
MMOs don't push a ton of polygons. The 8600 will probably look better due to its better feature set and is more than enough to play the game.
The 8600's seem to, overall, benchmark about 15% faster than the 7950, but YMMV depending on all the normal things that such benchmarky items depend on.
It's no surprise. Windows has, at most, 3 different flavors to develop for, and 90%+ of the install base. From a business decision, "we'll think about other clients later" makes a lot of sense.
I'm trying to figure out why people are continually surprised when non-Windows MMO clients are not available. You want to have a high percentage chance of being able to play a non-console, non-browser based game, get a Windows machine. End of story.
Reboot does not mean "make more episodes of a series" or "adapt a series for TV/film"
Reboot means, "restart a series in a way that likely will have very little similarity with the original."
Strangely, american comics are better at doing this than tv/film writers are. The only example of something I recall that I *like* how the reboot is going is the recent Batman movies, but that is, ironically, a reboot that resulted from the ridiculous things that the previous run had become.
More new ideas, please. Stop just using the shells of classic shows for their name recognition and nostalgia value.
One or two remakes is one thing. Turning "using the name and characters of a franchise to make a new series than only superficially resembles the original" has turned into an excuse to not develop new IP, however.
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Back when I paid for my subscription to The Economist, that included the delivery medium. Now I already pay $45 per month for the new delivery medium (my cable internet connection), so I feel justified to expect some free content to come with that. That is, in a nutshell, the reason why I (and most people) will rush to pay Murdoch or anyone else for news. I wish them good luck with their plans. Over and out.
That'd make more sense if the content providers and the "medium providers" (for lack of a better term) were the same people.
Believe it or not, eventually people are going to have to start paying for some of the same things on the web that they were paying for before the web. The web doesn't make good reporting and news publishing "free".
Besides, you do get stuff for free, even under this plan. You just don't get everything you want, all the time, for free. Your parents probably should have taught you something about "not getting everything you want."
Yeah, the real difficulty is in presenting, "This is what your business would be like without the current IT setup."
It's kinda like "tax cuts solve everything" folks. It's a lot easier to say you want to spend less money, until you realize what services suddenly become much less available.
Service with normal staff levels: "I need an extra jack activated in my cube." "Sure, all the jack are pre-wired so I just have to turn on the port at the switch and you'll be good to go."
Service after staff levels are reduced to save money: "I need an extra jack activated in my cube." "Okay, I'll need to come by and figure out what your jack number is, then go to the closet and wire it, and then activate the switch. I think I can get to it tomorrow morning when I do a few of those in the same area, but I can't promise anything because I'm busy putting out fires."
Seems like a small thing, but small things add up quickly, and suddenly it takes a week to get a new jack lit up.
And then people want to know why, as if their shoulder shrugging at the cut in staff and resources wasn't the cause in the first place.
Rinse, repeat.
You've got part of the idea. The main problem in IT is that since we don't actually make a profit off anything directly (unlike the pizza analogy), what accounting/management sees is a department that's better at making pizzas for less than last year. As such, they figure that it would be *even better* if you could, perhaps, make a substantially similar pizza with less people and less money.
Keep that going for a few years, and you end up with people wondering why it takes so long for their pizza to arrive, and why, when it does, that its missing some of the requested toppings and the cheese is partially dehydrated Velveeta.
The perennial problem of IT: It's benefits are several degrees removed from its efforts, from the POV of an accountant. No direct revenue generation means "less spent is better", with no solid way to quantify the benefits of having a well funded, well populated IT group (as opposed to not having one or both).
Over in one. Good show.
Out of interest, the withdrawal method (or "pulling out") is as effective as condoms when used correctly.
Yeah "used correctly", however, is much more difficult for the average person to consistently pull that off than just putting on a condom, or taking a pill once a day in the morning, or a shot every few months. The rhythm method is pointless to consider in the first world unless you've got some irrational dislike of "artificial" birth control.
Google can stay in China, or pull out,
It's far too late for Google to pull out of China. It should have known that the pulling-out method is not a reliable form of birth control, and now it needs to take responsibility for it and China's love child, Baidu.
Were you similarly disappointed when you learned that movies (and, indeed, scenes) are frequently not filmed in one continuous take?
Yeah, you were watching a particular subset of mainstream porn.
The facial has been standard for decades. It is, in no way, "new". The whole original point of the facial was to make it very apparent that the sex was "real" and not just simulated humping. The facial works best for that, because the jizz contrasts well with dark colored makeup and (if the aim is "poor") it shows up readily in hair.
You've just become more of a White Knight, is all.
"Researched", heh.
Mainstream porn can be very expensive, especially the feature films, because it actually makes money.
Who is still buying porn? Apparently tons of people.
"currently in vogue"?
I think you mean "been standard since the beginning of the modern age of porn." It's so standard that internal cum shots ("cream pies") are a fetish area in adult videos
And while you may find it gross and degrading, not a small number of people, men and women, think its hot.
So, um... enjoy your softcore porn, I guess.
Yes. The open beta in MMOs is there precisely to work on large-scale load balancing issues.
I'm not sure why you're surprised at this.
Marrying first cousins, at least, was commonplace throughout history. Turns out that the rate of birth defects due to having offspring with your first cousin is very low.
Sisters, not so common. I can see it happening in extreme situations, though.
Allow me to remind you of what a "beta" is...
The actual game doesn't release for another few weeks.
You're arguing that "Berman Trek" was superior to TOS and the majority of TNG? Now I know you're mad.
If you recall, SWG also launched with no space ships, so that apparently isn't a deal-breaker for Star Wars MMO players.
Once SOE got ahold of it and screwed it up, that was a problem. Apparently people got mad that it was hard to become a Jedi.
You must be huge in order to enjoy fucking cannons.
Well, yeah but macs are still sitting at From the standpoint of "money spent on development", resources devoted to 0-day clients that are (combined) less than 10% of the market are questionably justifiable.
MMOs don't push a ton of polygons. The 8600 will probably look better due to its better feature set and is more than enough to play the game.
The 8600's seem to, overall, benchmark about 15% faster than the 7950, but YMMV depending on all the normal things that such benchmarky items depend on.
As I said in my other reply, Windows installs make up 90%+ of the desktop and laptop user space.
As for 30M people who refuse to get a windows machine, [citation need].
It's no surprise. Windows has, at most, 3 different flavors to develop for, and 90%+ of the install base. From a business decision, "we'll think about other clients later" makes a lot of sense.
CPU != Video card
And the 7950's came out in 2006
So yes, generally, to play new PC games you will need a video card that is less than 4 years old.
Your 8600 qualifies (released a year after the 7950's).
What are you complaining about, again?
I'm trying to figure out why people are continually surprised when non-Windows MMO clients are not available. You want to have a high percentage chance of being able to play a non-console, non-browser based game, get a Windows machine. End of story.
A reboot of Alien Nation would just be an episodic version of District 9. No thanks.
Reboot does not mean "make more episodes of a series" or "adapt a series for TV/film"
Reboot means, "restart a series in a way that likely will have very little similarity with the original."
Strangely, american comics are better at doing this than tv/film writers are. The only example of something I recall that I *like* how the reboot is going is the recent Batman movies, but that is, ironically, a reboot that resulted from the ridiculous things that the previous run had become.
More new ideas, please. Stop just using the shells of classic shows for their name recognition and nostalgia value.
One or two remakes is one thing. Turning "using the name and characters of a franchise to make a new series than only superficially resembles the original" has turned into an excuse to not develop new IP, however.
Put me down for "no more reboots, ever".