No, that's not exactly what I'm saying. What you 'need' depends on what you bought a laptop for. When you start trimming popular things that lots of people do, like listen to music, and don't back that up with the benefits you'd get from doing that, you're not making the point that the solid state drives will take over.
If that's not enough, consider what a difference numbers make. One suggestion that they could easily outgrow the storage on their laptop and the purchase is toast. When the numbers go up, the masses are having more fun.
Could this new 3DS be a flop? Maybe, but with Iwata at the helm and Miyamoto still cranking out great stuff, I doubt it--
Even if it turned out to be a huge huge failure, why raise the pitchforks? Nintendo's introducing new gaming technology. Sony is... catching up to what Nintendo released several years ago and Microsoft is sitting in the corner being quiet and inoffensive.
Music you say? We're talking about "needing"... You don't "need" music on your laptop, unless that's your profession, but that doesn't make you a typcial user.
Wow! You're replying anonymously to discredit a fact I brought to the conversation by drawing an imaginary line between my literal quote from the article to my bank account. I think your reputation may depend on how well you can distract the viewing public from the dumb-ass posts you made that have turned out to be wrong.
But... okay, I'll give you what you want. I'll admit to it. EA paid me over a billion dollars to copy and paste what was already said in the article that Slashdot is linking to. They expect to make over two billion beacuse of allLLLLLLLllll the people on Slashdot that normally just love EA to pieces and were just waiting for something like this to come to light to help them make a game purchasing decision. Now that this is known, the barrier that was preventing you from defeating with my point with facts and sound reasoning has been lowered. I await my defeat at your hands, friend.
It is like one of those time travel conundrums - did we name it Enterprise because we saw the future, or was the future influenced by what we named it here in the present?
Does it really matter? I mean, they could make a movie that everybody has seen and loved that explains how the time line was altered and how the ship came to be known as Enterprise, but everybody will still bitch about how some guy made the whole thing up.
[UPDATE: EA VP of corporate communications Jeff Brown told Gamasutra in an email that the publisher will continue to offer an array of pricing strategies to consumers. He wrote in full:...
- None of the proposals call for charging consumers for traditionally free game demos."]
Not exactly, but the summary is misleading. It sounds more like they want to make shorter games, then charge less for it.
Which... isn't so bad. I suppose. But if the idea is that you pay $15 for a shorter version of the game, they had better take what you paid off of the full version.
Some of the reasons I don't use paper much anymore: 1. Ctrl + F, Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V - A slip of a digit can mean hours of lost work. 2. Readability - Not many have good handwriting. 3. Tracking - It takes me just as little time to find a 6 month old document as it does a 1 day old document. 4. Copying - When new people are brought on the project it's easy to get them what they need. 5. Accessibility - My desktop, my laptop, my home computers, and my cell phone can all access these docs. 6. Physical storage - I think any of you that have worked with somebody that requires paper everything understands this one intuitively.
Previously I worked at places where I'd end up after a year or two being the proud owner of huge stacks of papers and my own Radar-esque filing systems. Where I work now, we have reliable internet connections and have taken advantage of several of the services available to us. The people in charge are diligent about sending us clear emails of our goals and we have appropriate documents delivered to us in digital formats. Even when on-paper stuff is delivered to us, the first thing it happens is it's thrown on the scanner. We mainly use paper for doodling. There is a lot of untapped flexibility in the digital world and it doesn't take much to adapt to it.
Oh, and here's an interesting tidbit of info: The amount of "that's not was asked for!" blow-ups is waaaaaaaaay down. Personally, I think the paper-less is a main contributor to that.
I think Slashdot has noticed more people comment when they inject editorials into stories. If the past is any indication, it'll be a year or two before this settles down.
They used to have 4 users, now that have 10. That's one dramatic rise.
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Photoshop currently sells at a "lightweight" $700. How many photos would I have to edit to make that cost effective?
One. That's why I have a legit copy of Photoshop.
Stop with the ads! That's like the 4th one today.
News Flash: Most of the 'news for nerds' we care about involves products we can go buy. You're going to have to try another meme to earn a mod point.
No, that's not exactly what I'm saying. What you 'need' depends on what you bought a laptop for. When you start trimming popular things that lots of people do, like listen to music, and don't back that up with the benefits you'd get from doing that, you're not making the point that the solid state drives will take over.
If that's not enough, consider what a difference numbers make. One suggestion that they could easily outgrow the storage on their laptop and the purchase is toast. When the numbers go up, the masses are having more fun.
Most businesses can't just tell someone else entering their market "nope, that would compete with us, you can't do that."
Yeah, that's why Gateway stores sold Dell Computers. Oh wait...
Who mods these comments up?
Somebody whoosh me because I have no idea why this was modded +5 insightful.
"You don't really need a car, a telephone, or a refrigerator." (Score: 3, Insightful)
Do you get the point now?
Could this new 3DS be a flop? Maybe, but with Iwata at the helm and Miyamoto still cranking out great stuff, I doubt it--
Even if it turned out to be a huge huge failure, why raise the pitchforks? Nintendo's introducing new gaming technology. Sony is... catching up to what Nintendo released several years ago and Microsoft is sitting in the corner being quiet and inoffensive.
Amusingly your list is not only much shorter than the other, but both items on it are well over 10 years old. Is that why you posted anonymously?
Music you say? We're talking about "needing"... You don't "need" music on your laptop, unless that's your profession, but that doesn't make you a typcial user.
Fail.
I just hope this thing never bluescreens
Why? Does the article say he's going to put Windows ME on it?
So what you're saying is that you're an FPS player instead of a gamer?
Didn't say he originally posted anonymously.
Wow! You're replying anonymously to discredit a fact I brought to the conversation by drawing an imaginary line between my literal quote from the article to my bank account. I think your reputation may depend on how well you can distract the viewing public from the dumb-ass posts you made that have turned out to be wrong.
But... okay, I'll give you what you want. I'll admit to it. EA paid me over a billion dollars to copy and paste what was already said in the article that Slashdot is linking to. They expect to make over two billion beacuse of allLLLLLLLllll the people on Slashdot that normally just love EA to pieces and were just waiting for something like this to come to light to help them make a game purchasing decision. Now that this is known, the barrier that was preventing you from defeating with my point with facts and sound reasoning has been lowered. I await my defeat at your hands, friend.
It is like one of those time travel conundrums - did we name it Enterprise because we saw the future, or was the future influenced by what we named it here in the present?
Does it really matter? I mean, they could make a movie that everybody has seen and loved that explains how the time line was altered and how the ship came to be known as Enterprise, but everybody will still bitch about how some guy made the whole thing up.
The people who need 10MBit are the warez hounds and ISO downloaders.
Are you really that ignorant or do you have an agenda?
What the headline says:
"EA To Charge For Game Demos"
What the article says:
- None of the proposals call for charging consumers for traditionally free game demos.
Existence of evil is assumed, not proven.
This what causes fanbois to come out of the woodwork and be noisy, by the way.
Isn't that how Quake was originally sold?
Couldn't one lead to the other? Would averaging 4 noisy pixels give you a better light sensitivity than just having the one?
They aren't trying to sell you anything yet. You're just falling for a sensationalist headline about a company we all hate.
Again, it says they're not getting rid of free demos.
No, you didn't RTFA.
[UPDATE: EA VP of corporate communications Jeff Brown told Gamasutra in an email that the publisher will continue to offer an array of pricing strategies to consumers. He wrote in full: ...
- None of the proposals call for charging consumers for traditionally free game demos."]
Not exactly, but the summary is misleading. It sounds more like they want to make shorter games, then charge less for it.
Which... isn't so bad. I suppose. But if the idea is that you pay $15 for a shorter version of the game, they had better take what you paid off of the full version.
Some of the reasons I don't use paper much anymore:
1. Ctrl + F, Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V - A slip of a digit can mean hours of lost work.
2. Readability - Not many have good handwriting.
3. Tracking - It takes me just as little time to find a 6 month old document as it does a 1 day old document.
4. Copying - When new people are brought on the project it's easy to get them what they need.
5. Accessibility - My desktop, my laptop, my home computers, and my cell phone can all access these docs.
6. Physical storage - I think any of you that have worked with somebody that requires paper everything understands this one intuitively.
Previously I worked at places where I'd end up after a year or two being the proud owner of huge stacks of papers and my own Radar-esque filing systems. Where I work now, we have reliable internet connections and have taken advantage of several of the services available to us. The people in charge are diligent about sending us clear emails of our goals and we have appropriate documents delivered to us in digital formats. Even when on-paper stuff is delivered to us, the first thing it happens is it's thrown on the scanner. We mainly use paper for doodling. There is a lot of untapped flexibility in the digital world and it doesn't take much to adapt to it.
Oh, and here's an interesting tidbit of info: The amount of "that's not was asked for!" blow-ups is waaaaaaaaay down. Personally, I think the paper-less is a main contributor to that.
I think Slashdot has noticed more people comment when they inject editorials into stories. If the past is any indication, it'll be a year or two before this settles down.
They used to have 4 users, now that have 10. That's one dramatic rise.
Most of the features you're using in your current browser are carbon copies of what Opera brought to the market. Opera affects you no matter what you think of its userbase.