Did you know that users of Netflix who continually use their limit of what they pay for for access get the speed at which they receive movies limited?
Several friends of mine, as well as myself, have noticed that you can get movies rather quickly for the first two months or so, but after that the pace slows down. When the time between you shipping a movie out and getting more back starts at 2-3 days, but then gets extended to a full week, the difference is noteable.
The point is, this "paradox of abundance" only exists for the few people who don't use what they pay for, people who honestly want abundance get screwed over by design.
Since when is mustard gas a WMD?
Oh no, theres chemical weapons on the black market. You know the number of deadly chemical weapons that can be made out of stuff you find in walmart?
Everyone has missles, and using sarin is only a bit more deadly than using explosives.
IE: They were old as crap and probly sold to them by Russia.
You know that Iraq had the least number of terrorist groups in the whole region, and no funding related ties to terrorism groups. Then we went in there and shot and raped a bunch of women and children (yeah we did, look it up), then invented a leader of their insergency (aw-zawakiri wasn't really as important a leader as we made him out to be).
The average luser will just click the ok screen every time. This is because macs make you hit so many ok buttons that most people don't bother to look. "Do you want to download this?" yes. "Do you want to open this window?" yes. and so on and so on because it can't tell a real possible threat from normal activity.
They do try to at least "pretend" to be actually a communist nation, where people are entitled to the same service. Its not true of course, but they at least give a feeble effort to look like they do.
Difference being: Now we can get high quality scans, and just have someone with a DRM ripper distribute it for us, instead of having to scan them ourselves. Thanks WoTC!
Hey buddy, I like data dumps as much as the next guy, but make it readable, please.
You are absolutely right, this is great publicity for piracy and piracy organizations. And we can make sure that even more persons hear about this, and make people understand just how many persons there are that care about this question and want the pirate bay to stay up. Here are some e-mail and postal addresses to the Swedish police, the anti piracy bureau (a swedish lobby organization like the riaa), and some important swedish politic organizations. If you're Swedish please pick a few of these and email/post a message and tell them what you think about this. Or even if you're not, do it anyway. It can't hurt. You can make a difference!
If you're worried about åäö in the postal adresses, just use aao, it will get trought.
The Goverment (postal): Sveriges riksdag 100 12 Stockholm Sweden
Important Politicians: Göran Persson Fredrik Reinfeldt Lars Leijonborg Göran HÃgglund Lars Ohly Maud Olofsson Peter Eriksson Maria Wetterstrand
Political Organizations (postal): Socialdemokratiska partistyrelsen 105 60 Stockholm Sweden Moderaterna Box 2080 103 12 Stockholm Sweden Folkpartiet Box 6508 Drottninggatan 97 1tr 113 83 Stockholm Sweden Kristdemokraterna Box 2373 103 18 Stockholm Sweden Centerpartiet Box 2200 103 15 Stockholm Sweden Miljöpartiet de Gröna Prästgatan 18 A Box 2136 103 14 Stockholm Sweden
The Anti Piracy Bureau: Postal Adress: Antipiratbyrån S:t Eriksgatan 117A Box 23021 104 35 Stockholm Sweden Swedish police (different adresses are for different districts):
(the first one is the national one, so if you send do several of them, always send to this): Rikspolisstyrelsen Box 12256 102 26 Stockholm Sweden SKL - Statens Kriminaltekniska Laboratorium 581 94 Linköping Sweden Polismyndigheten i Blekinge lÃn Box 315 371 25 Karlskrona Sweden Polismyndigheten Dalarna Box 739 791 29 Falun Sweden Polismyndigheten Gotland Box 1153 621 22 Visby Sweden Polismyndigheten i Gävleborgs län Box 625 801 26 Gävle Sweden Polismyndigheten i Hallands län Box 1031 301 10 Halmstad Sweden Polismyndigheten i Jämtlands län Box 707 831 28 Östersund Sweden Polismyndigheten i Jönköpings län Box 618 551 18 Jönköping Sweden Polismyndigheten i Kalmar län Box 91 391 21 Kalmar Sweden Polismyndigheten i Kronobergs län Box 1211 351 12 Växjö Sweden Polismyndigheten i Norrbotten Box 50135 973 24 Luleå Sweden Polismyndigheten i Skåne 205 90 Malmö Sweden Polismyndigheten i Stockholms län 106 75 Stockholm Sweden Polismyndigheten i Södermanlands län Box 348 631 05 Eskilstuna Sweden Polismyndigheten i Uppsala län Box 3007 750 03 Uppsala Sweden Polismyndigheten Värmland Box 157 651 05 Karlstad Sweden Polismyndigheten i Västerbottens län Box 463 901 09 Umeå Sweden Polismyndigheten i Västernorrlands län Box 720 851 21 Sundsvall Sweden Polismyndigheten i
Magic price numbers? 5 million for a PS3 game? Unlikely.
Maybe it costs that much if you don't count the graphics engine (reused 5-10 times, at least), the story sequils that cut character design costs, and only take averages of their 3-5 most profitable games. Bargain bin games are cheap to produce, very cheap, maybe 100,000$ if they use an old graphics engine.
Granted, they have rehashed some parts, but they innovate with each new generation. As someone else posted here, Zelda on NES is different from SNES and is vastly different from Zelda 64. And each new generation of console has had a huge number of new innovative games.
but they're completely new and different experiences using the Wii Remote.
Small note: Even without the Wiimote, the games themselves are quite different too.
Motion sensing/pointing/whathave you type controllers have been around for a long, long time. I remember hardware guys having PS3 tilt and Rev type controllers all the way back in the early 80s - clunky and less refined, of course.
Yes, pointing technology... Duck hunt anyone?
There is nothing 'flattering' about the Sony tilt sensing controller - and complaining that Sony is copying you is like a little kid getting mad that another little kid picked the same colour for their player in some game.
You do know they added this tilt capability about 3 days before E3 right? Most of the developers didn't know it even existed in the controller.
The excitement developers felt about the Rev had little to do with the actual hardware making up the system, but a feeling that Nintendo was setting things up for developers to go crazy with smaller and less mainstream games.
OH NO! Someones going to innovate instead of making Burnout Revenge Takedown Annihilation 3, Stone them with rocks!
These instructions are relatively complex, hopefully there will be a simplified and streamlined step-by-step guide posted sometime soon so most technically-literate people can mod their boxes like this.
This is how they 'proved' that weed is damaging to the brain.
Problem is, that by over-exposing the subject to simulate prolonged exposure over time, they gave the subject (a monkey, in this case) brain damage through oxygen deprevation.
Massive exposure does not always cause the same effects as long-term exposure, is my point here. If you listen to soft music for a day or listen to 1000db of sound in a second, the effect is vastly different (and lethal, but thats not the point here).
The movie will also only be available for viewing at peak times, due to lack of people who see movies at 2am on a tuesday. Repeated viewings are discouraged, and moviegoers will only be able to see it once per week, any repeated viewings are a violation of the terms of service.
You know, I really do have to agree (though with less profanity). A lot of his stories lately have been things that are completely useless/offtopic/uninteresting/paid-for.
Theres a reason Digg is gaining interest and/. is falling behind.
One: Microsoft has purchased other ad companies in the past (Ad Gator, I believe) and then specifically allowed that ad program their their new ad-filtering program.
Two: Why? Just why? Do consumers need yet another reason to not purchase crap-tacular M$ games? (with the notable exceptions of games that they bought from other companies)
Ads in games: Bad Idea
Ads in utility software: Despised and hated by everyone, even more so than gaming ads.
Kids simply shouldn't have to deal with this kind of stuff. Let them be kids already!
You realize that some of these "kids" are 14-17, which is the prime age when they learn about their sexuality (90% or more of people lose their virginity before 18). They should have the same option to learn about this sort of thing as anyone 18 or over.
And to note, im over 18, just not so old that im completely out of touch with the reality of the situation.
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Several friends of mine, as well as myself, have noticed that you can get movies rather quickly for the first two months or so, but after that the pace slows down. When the time between you shipping a movie out and getting more back starts at 2-3 days, but then gets extended to a full week, the difference is noteable.
The point is, this "paradox of abundance" only exists for the few people who don't use what they pay for, people who honestly want abundance get screwed over by design.
Oh no, theres chemical weapons on the black market. You know the number of deadly chemical weapons that can be made out of stuff you find in walmart?
Everyone has missles, and using sarin is only a bit more deadly than using explosives.
IE: They were old as crap and probly sold to them by Russia.
You know that Iraq had the least number of terrorist groups in the whole region, and no funding related ties to terrorism groups. Then we went in there and shot and raped a bunch of women and children (yeah we did, look it up), then invented a leader of their insergency (aw-zawakiri wasn't really as important a leader as we made him out to be).
Once again, Chemical Weapons != WMD .
Better than saving up to buy all the PS3 games you want. Nobody wants a PS3 before 2009, right?
Rational argument? On /.?
Get ye out of here, you compiler's exception handler event for badly written code!
The average luser will just click the ok screen every time. This is because macs make you hit so many ok buttons that most people don't bother to look. "Do you want to download this?" yes. "Do you want to open this window?" yes. and so on and so on because it can't tell a real possible threat from normal activity.
They do try to at least "pretend" to be actually a communist nation, where people are entitled to the same service. Its not true of course, but they at least give a feeble effort to look like they do.
Difference being: Now we can get high quality scans, and just have someone with a DRM ripper distribute it for us, instead of having to scan them ourselves. Thanks WoTC!
Technically, we're a Republic. But its a common mistake.
Thats what I think of your fancy MCSE card.
Yup, happened to my burner. It won't even recognize blank CDs anymore.
You are absolutely right, this is great publicity for piracy and piracy organizations. And we can make sure that even more persons hear about this, and make people understand just how many persons there are that care about this question and want the pirate bay to stay up. Here are some e-mail and postal addresses to the Swedish police, the anti piracy bureau (a swedish lobby organization like the riaa), and some important swedish politic organizations. If you're Swedish please pick a few of these and email/post a message and tell them what you think about this. Or even if you're not, do it anyway. It can't hurt. You can make a difference!
If you're worried about åäö in the postal adresses, just use aao, it will get trought.
The Goverment (postal): Sveriges riksdag 100 12 Stockholm Sweden
Important Politicians: Göran Persson Fredrik Reinfeldt Lars Leijonborg Göran HÃgglund Lars Ohly Maud Olofsson Peter Eriksson Maria Wetterstrand
Political Organizations (postal): Socialdemokratiska partistyrelsen 105 60 Stockholm Sweden Moderaterna Box 2080 103 12 Stockholm Sweden Folkpartiet Box 6508 Drottninggatan 97 1tr 113 83 Stockholm Sweden Kristdemokraterna Box 2373 103 18 Stockholm Sweden Centerpartiet Box 2200 103 15 Stockholm Sweden Miljöpartiet de Gröna Prästgatan 18 A Box 2136 103 14 Stockholm Sweden
The Anti Piracy Bureau: Postal Adress: Antipiratbyrån S:t Eriksgatan 117A Box 23021 104 35 Stockholm Sweden Swedish police (different adresses are for different districts):
e-mail: polismyndigheten@blekinge.police.se
polismyndigheten@dalarna.police.se
polismyndigheten@gotland.police.se
polismyndigheten@gavleborg.polisen.se
polismyndigheten@halland.police.se
polismyndigheten@jamtland.police.se
polismyndigheten@jonkoping.police.se
polismyndigheten@kalmar.police.se
polismyndigheten@kronoberg.police.se
polismyndigheten@norrbotten.police.se
polismyndigheten.skane@polisen.se
polismyndigheten@stockholm.polisen.se
polismyndigheten.sodermanland@polisen.se
post@uppsala.polisen.se polisen@varmland.police.se
polismyndigheten@vasterbotten.police.se
polismyndigheten@vasternorrland.police.se
polismyndigheten@vastmanland.polisen.se
polismyndigheten@vastragotaland.polisen.se
polismyndigheten@orebro.police.se
polismyndigheten@ostergotland.police.se
rikspolisstyrelsen@polisen.se
skl@skl.police.se postals
(the first one is the national one, so if you send do several of them, always send to this): Rikspolisstyrelsen Box 12256 102 26 Stockholm Sweden
SKL - Statens Kriminaltekniska Laboratorium 581 94 Linköping Sweden
Polismyndigheten i Blekinge lÃn Box 315 371 25 Karlskrona Sweden
Polismyndigheten Dalarna Box 739 791 29 Falun Sweden
Polismyndigheten Gotland Box 1153 621 22 Visby Sweden
Polismyndigheten i Gävleborgs län Box 625 801 26 Gävle Sweden
Polismyndigheten i Hallands län Box 1031 301 10 Halmstad Sweden
Polismyndigheten i Jämtlands län Box 707 831 28 Östersund Sweden
Polismyndigheten i Jönköpings län Box 618 551 18 Jönköping Sweden
Polismyndigheten i Kalmar län Box 91 391 21 Kalmar Sweden
Polismyndigheten i Kronobergs län Box 1211 351 12 Växjö Sweden
Polismyndigheten i Norrbotten Box 50135 973 24 Luleå Sweden
Polismyndigheten i Skåne 205 90 Malmö Sweden
Polismyndigheten i Stockholms län 106 75 Stockholm Sweden
Polismyndigheten i Södermanlands län Box 348 631 05 Eskilstuna Sweden
Polismyndigheten i Uppsala län Box 3007 750 03 Uppsala Sweden
Polismyndigheten Värmland Box 157 651 05 Karlstad Sweden
Polismyndigheten i Västerbottens län Box 463 901 09 Umeå Sweden
Polismyndigheten i Västernorrlands län Box 720 851 21 Sundsvall Sweden
Polismyndigheten i
Yes, we hate idiots.
No, you really don't want to validate their existance by responding to them.
(Yes, this message is self defeating.)
Imaginary Numbers = Good.
Imaginary Words = Bad.
You may be good at math, but I think you need more time with those language edutainment games.
Err, reverse the wording in that. I meant Maybe it costs that much if you DO count the graphics engine.
Magic price numbers? 5 million for a PS3 game? Unlikely.
Maybe it costs that much if you don't count the graphics engine (reused 5-10 times, at least), the story sequils that cut character design costs, and only take averages of their 3-5 most profitable games. Bargain bin games are cheap to produce, very cheap, maybe 100,000$ if they use an old graphics engine.
Granted, they have rehashed some parts, but they innovate with each new generation. As someone else posted here, Zelda on NES is different from SNES and is vastly different from Zelda 64. And each new generation of console has had a huge number of new innovative games.
This is a News site, we don't generally like too much fiction in our stories.
but they're completely new and different experiences using the Wii Remote.
Small note: Even without the Wiimote, the games themselves are quite different too.
Yes, pointing technology... Duck hunt anyone?
There is nothing 'flattering' about the Sony tilt sensing controller - and complaining that Sony is copying you is like a little kid getting mad that another little kid picked the same colour for their player in some game.
You do know they added this tilt capability about 3 days before E3 right? Most of the developers didn't know it even existed in the controller.
The excitement developers felt about the Rev had little to do with the actual hardware making up the system, but a feeling that Nintendo was setting things up for developers to go crazy with smaller and less mainstream games.
OH NO! Someones going to innovate instead of making Burnout Revenge Takedown Annihilation 3, Stone them with rocks!
These instructions are relatively complex, hopefully there will be a simplified and streamlined step-by-step guide posted sometime soon so most technically-literate people can mod their boxes like this.
Problem is, that by over-exposing the subject to simulate prolonged exposure over time, they gave the subject (a monkey, in this case) brain damage through oxygen deprevation.
Massive exposure does not always cause the same effects as long-term exposure, is my point here. If you listen to soft music for a day or listen to 1000db of sound in a second, the effect is vastly different (and lethal, but thats not the point here).
The movie will also only be available for viewing at peak times, due to lack of people who see movies at 2am on a tuesday. Repeated viewings are discouraged, and moviegoers will only be able to see it once per week, any repeated viewings are a violation of the terms of service.
Theres a reason Digg is gaining interest and /. is falling behind.
Two: Why? Just why? Do consumers need yet another reason to not purchase crap-tacular M$ games? (with the notable exceptions of games that they bought from other companies)
Ads in games: Bad Idea
Ads in utility software: Despised and hated by everyone, even more so than gaming ads.
You realize that some of these "kids" are 14-17, which is the prime age when they learn about their sexuality (90% or more of people lose their virginity before 18). They should have the same option to learn about this sort of thing as anyone 18 or over.
And to note, im over 18, just not so old that im completely out of touch with the reality of the situation.