"Dying" in an online game is nothing like dying.
ever get killed right off the bat in a game type that has no respawn? having to sit there for ten minutes while your team mates flail around trying to defuse the bomb is maddeningly close to eternal damnation.
Of course since they are distributing these files themselves, they can keep 100% of the profits. Say a typical deal has the artist getting 2% of a sale, the rest going to the record company. So for a 12.99 CD, that is approx 26 cents. So say per 1000 CDs sold using the old model, Radiohead would get $259.80. Say that w/ this new scheme, they average one dollar per album download. That would mean $1000 straight to them, 3.849 times more per 1000 units than under the old system. Not bad.
It just goes to show how poor the old system is. It takes such a low "market value" per album for them to come out ahead.
obviously you've never heard of paparazzi? this kind of thing happens to celebrities all the time. public space is public space and you have no right to privacy. this isn't new, people!
John Milton: Eddie Barzoon! Eddie Barzoon! Ha! I nursed him through two divorces, a cocaine rehab, and a pregnant receptionist. God's creature, right? God's special creature? Ha! And I've warned him, Kevin, I've warned him every step of the way. Watching him bounce around like a fucking game, like a wind-up toy! Like 250 pounds of self-serving greed on wheels! The next thousand years is right around the corner, Kevin, and Eddie Barzoon--take a good look. Because he's the poster child for the next millennium! These people, it's no mystery where they come from. You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it could split atoms with its desire, you build egos the size of cathedrals, fiberopticly connect the world to every-eager-impulse, grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green gold-played fantasies until every human becomes an aspiring emperor! Becomes his own God! Where can you go from there? And as for scrambling from one deal to the next, who's got his eye on the planet? As the air thickens, the water sours, even the bees honey takes on the metallic taste of radioactivity--and it just keeps coming! And it just keeps coming! Faster and faster! There's no chance to think, to prepare, it's `buy futures, sell futures' when there is no future!! We've got a runaway train, boy!! We've got a billion Eddie Barzoons all jogging into the future. Every one of them reading to fist-fuck God's ex-planet, lick their fingers clean as they reach out with their pristine cybernetic keyboards to total up their billable hours!! And then it hits home! It's a little late in the game to buy out now!! Your belly's too full, your dick is sore, your eyes are bloodshot, and you're screaming for someone to help!! But guess what? There's no one there!! You're all alone, Eddie!! [mocking] You're God's special little creature!!
Maybe it's true. Maybe God threw the dice once too often. Maybe He let us all down.
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"Dying" in an online game is nothing like dying. ever get killed right off the bat in a game type that has no respawn? having to sit there for ten minutes while your team mates flail around trying to defuse the bomb is maddeningly close to eternal damnation.
Of course since they are distributing these files themselves, they can keep 100% of the profits. Say a typical deal has the artist getting 2% of a sale, the rest going to the record company. So for a 12.99 CD, that is approx 26 cents. So say per 1000 CDs sold using the old model, Radiohead would get $259.80. Say that w/ this new scheme, they average one dollar per album download. That would mean $1000 straight to them, 3.849 times more per 1000 units than under the old system. Not bad. It just goes to show how poor the old system is. It takes such a low "market value" per album for them to come out ahead.
So when do the "they can't innovate so they just buy their way into new markets" comments start?
Those generic drivers are always unstable.
how is that modded off topic? it's free mp3 downloads of friggin numbers stations.
You can download the mp3's for free: http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/
yeah that van should totally have sat stationary in the middle of traffic for sixty seconds every two or three blocks. that's _totally_ trivial.
a9 had street-level maps until they pulled the plug in sept 06; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com
obviously you've never heard of paparazzi? this kind of thing happens to celebrities all the time. public space is public space and you have no right to privacy. this isn't new, people!
Godwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
you leave your machine on so you can term serve into it while you're at "work" during the day, silly
... hence the common language runtime (CLR) which makes your argument kind of fall flat in terms of the *future* of .net
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tune r/Step1.aspx
I thought you were going to tell us how to beat the game. What a diappointment!
Seriously, I thought the same thing. Situational ethics RULE.
...or... "Power Adapters Next Apple Killer?"
can you say "new life in small central american country"?
John Milton: Eddie Barzoon! Eddie Barzoon! Ha! I nursed him through two divorces, a cocaine rehab, and a pregnant receptionist. God's creature, right? God's special creature? Ha! And I've warned him, Kevin, I've warned him every step of the way. Watching him bounce around like a fucking game, like a wind-up toy! Like 250 pounds of self-serving greed on wheels! The next thousand years is right around the corner, Kevin, and Eddie Barzoon--take a good look. Because he's the poster child for the next millennium! These people, it's no mystery where they come from. You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it could split atoms with its desire, you build egos the size of cathedrals, fiberopticly connect the world to every-eager-impulse, grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green gold-played fantasies until every human becomes an aspiring emperor! Becomes his own God! Where can you go from there? And as for scrambling from one deal to the next, who's got his eye on the planet? As the air thickens, the water sours, even the bees honey takes on the metallic taste of radioactivity--and it just keeps coming! And it just keeps coming! Faster and faster! There's no chance to think, to prepare, it's `buy futures, sell futures' when there is no future!! We've got a runaway train, boy!! We've got a billion Eddie Barzoons all jogging into the future. Every one of them reading to fist-fuck God's ex-planet, lick their fingers clean as they reach out with their pristine cybernetic keyboards to total up their billable hours!! And then it hits home! It's a little late in the game to buy out now!! Your belly's too full, your dick is sore, your eyes are bloodshot, and you're screaming for someone to help!! But guess what? There's no one there!! You're all alone, Eddie!! [mocking] You're God's special little creature!!
Maybe it's true. Maybe God threw the dice once too often. Maybe He let us all down.
USD? ;)
> Gates gave almost nothing to charity until he married Melinda, and was publicly ridiculed for being selfish with his money. and now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_and_Melinda_Gate s_Foundation
that doesn't count, huh
they have a "classic" option for crybabies just like yourself ;)
Dave Chapelle: "Cuz f*ck 'em, thats why!"
selective quoting on slashdot? ZOMG!
Did you seriously just suggest that the XMLHTTPREQUEST object is going to be the downfall of MSFT?
Ever notice the &client=firefox qstring variable when you use Firefox's search box? You think they're tracking that for kicks? Or you could it have to do with AdSense revenue? 72 millions dollars worth of revenue to Mozilla in 05, last I read.