This is more like Books being scanned and then made available on the net. Some books may not be available in certain countries or still in copyright in certain others.
I mean are we talking guitar tab and stuff like that or proper orcheatra scores? The former is a few quid but the latter cost hundreds/thousands to rent for a performance dpending on the size/length.
I only have a dozen labels (work,travel,shopping,blog,etc) but i much prefer that to using folders. You can have two labels on a mail both of which are meaningful, and you can't do that with folders. Admittedly it probably doesn't work if you are tooo anal about your e-mail. Then you would probably end up with 500 labels and still no idea where anything is.
Trouble is that there is no physical difference between your "back up" and a copied version of the game. One may come on a dodgily photoshopped CD but they are essentially the same (as the original). You probably even have the serial written on the front as well.
The software industry is slowly realising that the concept of selling physical CDs and of those being of some worth is a joke. It is what is on the CDs that matters and that can be copied with ease. Eventually everything will be downloaded via Steam/Xbox Live and you will have to log on to run it. At that point you can make as many back ups as you like.
can now come with a little animation on the front. I guess that "in the wild" the paper will come with a little battery/PCB that tells it what to show and powers it. Be a while before its useful i would guess.
I have heard stories like this in the past where they are designed to be used by wine makers or perfumiers. Chances are though, they will only come to market when every baggage conveyor belt in every airport needs one.
Space Invaders, Pong and Galaga were fun but only in a limited way. The old arcade machines existed purely to suck the coins out of your pockets. Make it fast and furious and get you all hypd up so when you died you popped more money in. There was only so many waves of space Invaders you could shoot without it getting repetative. Games these days have the luxury of a slower pace knowing that it's the story, graphics, online that will get you coming back for more. They get their money up front and they know that if this years game is good then you wil likely get next years version.
Pay per play -> Arcade machines Pay up front -> PC/Console Pay per month -> MMORPG
Surely it's only modded as "flamebait" if you are using the phrase in question to upset some one. Possibly people with fluffy appendages. Surely it should just be modded as "offtopic".
I haven't read the FA, the summary or even the title of the story but I am outraged. Outraged that something like this could happen somewhere and someone may or may not do something about it.
That is the thing. I think on-line play has taken off as computer AI is still in its infancy. I am not really a fan of online games but multi player Worms on xbox live is more fun than single player as the oposition is more fun.
I know... slippery slope... yadda... yadda, but if a game is set in the london underground then there has to be ads. It is just part of the scenery down there. Depending on the ad, wouldn't it add to the realism if the ads were real? I mean all those car racing games come with realistic reproductions of flash cars. You would complain if they didn't. Unless you are going for the comedy angle and sending up adverts, which would be best? A real ad or an ad for something you had no connection with?
As for the IP address gathering. Anyone complaining about that probably has cookies turned off by default and doesn't use Google for precisely these reasons. What are they gathering that isn't given away by a browser anyway?
the various separate bands will have remerged back into something we know and think of as a record label. The thing is, no band is going to get as good a deal on anything as a couple of bands working together. In the UK every now and again they privatise some government run service or industry as they think they will give it more freedom and control if it looks after itself (and of course, the government make some money off the back of it). Ten years later though and the companies have brought each other up and are back where they started.
With tech these days things are more likely to be replaced as they are a couple of gens old rather than because they have stopped working. I would love a nice LCD tv but as my old 28inch CRT is still going i feel loathed to replace it. Same with my iPod. 160Gb would be good but I only just got my 80Gb one.
Hardly seems worth the effort when you consider the number of e-mail he must have sent. I thought these spammers were billionaires. When you consider the value of all the wasted bandwidth and disk space, I am sure it would amount to much more than that. Any idea how much botnets cost to rent? Do you pay by time or # of e-mails?
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This is more like Books being scanned and then made available on the net. Some books may not be available in certain countries or still in copyright in certain others.
I mean are we talking guitar tab and stuff like that or proper orcheatra scores? The former is a few quid but the latter cost hundreds/thousands to rent for a performance dpending on the size/length.
Sh!t. First post and i fluffed my lines.
And don't you know it.
I only have a dozen labels (work,travel,shopping,blog,etc) but i much prefer that to using folders. You can have two labels on a mail both of which are meaningful, and you can't do that with folders. Admittedly it probably doesn't work if you are tooo anal about your e-mail. Then you would probably end up with 500 labels and still no idea where anything is.
And mine now!!!
One for the pirates and one for legitimate users. That would work. ;)
Amazon.Com patents selling things on-line.
Trouble is that there is no physical difference between your "back up" and a copied version of the game. One may come on a dodgily photoshopped CD but they are essentially the same (as the original). You probably even have the serial written on the front as well.
The software industry is slowly realising that the concept of selling physical CDs and of those being of some worth is a joke. It is what is on the CDs that matters and that can be copied with ease. Eventually everything will be downloaded via Steam/Xbox Live and you will have to log on to run it. At that point you can make as many back ups as you like.
can now come with a little animation on the front. I guess that "in the wild" the paper will come with a little battery/PCB that tells it what to show and powers it. Be a while before its useful i would guess.
I have heard stories like this in the past where they are designed to be used by wine makers or perfumiers. Chances are though, they will only come to market when every baggage conveyor belt in every airport needs one.
Boom, Boom.
Space Invaders, Pong and Galaga were fun but only in a limited way. The old arcade machines existed purely to suck the coins out of your pockets. Make it fast and furious and get you all hypd up so when you died you popped more money in. There was only so many waves of space Invaders you could shoot without it getting repetative. Games these days have the luxury of a slower pace knowing that it's the story, graphics, online that will get you coming back for more. They get their money up front and they know that if this years game is good then you wil likely get next years version.
Pay per play -> Arcade machines
Pay up front -> PC/Console
Pay per month -> MMORPG
Surely it's only modded as "flamebait" if you are using the phrase in question to upset some one. Possibly people with fluffy appendages. Surely it should just be modded as "offtopic".
I haven't read the FA, the summary or even the title of the story but I am outraged. Outraged that something like this could happen somewhere and someone may or may not do something about it.
Is there any reason wht /. doesn't filter out any post with goat.cx in the url?
That is the thing. I think on-line play has taken off as computer AI is still in its infancy. I am not really a fan of online games but multi player Worms on xbox live is more fun than single player as the oposition is more fun.
I know ... slippery slope ... yadda ... yadda, but if a game is set in the london underground then there has to be ads. It is just part of the scenery down there. Depending on the ad, wouldn't it add to the realism if the ads were real? I mean all those car racing games come with realistic reproductions of flash cars. You would complain if they didn't. Unless you are going for the comedy angle and sending up adverts, which would be best? A real ad or an ad for something you had no connection with?
As for the IP address gathering. Anyone complaining about that probably has cookies turned off by default and doesn't use Google for precisely these reasons. What are they gathering that isn't given away by a browser anyway?
the various separate bands will have remerged back into something we know and think of as a record label. The thing is, no band is going to get as good a deal on anything as a couple of bands working together. In the UK every now and again they privatise some government run service or industry as they think they will give it more freedom and control if it looks after itself (and of course, the government make some money off the back of it). Ten years later though and the companies have brought each other up and are back where they started.
Does that mean hat if you paid 35p for the album then Radiohead were 10 out of pocket. Cool, where is my credit card?
More like 3 stories makes a conspiracy. How many of those companies were EXCLUSIVELY with M$? One maybe? Sounds like PS3 scaremongering.
+4 Funny. You guys are so predictable.
With tech these days things are more likely to be replaced as they are a couple of gens old rather than because they have stopped working. I would love a nice LCD tv but as my old 28inch CRT is still going i feel loathed to replace it. Same with my iPod. 160Gb would be good but I only just got my 80Gb one.
What's in this folder of yours "Cowboy Kneel"? Hmmmm ...
Yeah, who knows, ten years time we might start seeing them on the news. Then we can think, hey, that ws that cool idea i saw on /..
Hardly seems worth the effort when you consider the number of e-mail he must have sent. I thought these spammers were billionaires. When you consider the value of all the wasted bandwidth and disk space, I am sure it would amount to much more than that. Any idea how much botnets cost to rent? Do you pay by time or # of e-mails?