"such and such isn't a bad idea" isn't patentable. "such and such" is patentable, but "such and such isn't a bad idea" is just a business decision.
"Method for entertaining a cat" is patentable. "Whether or not to entertain a cat with this method" is not.
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Install the fucking update. The patch fixing this flaw was released a week after the game, wasn't it? Or you could remember that Black & White is dumb.
Wikipedia's format is ill-suited to often interrelated and small bits of information. Facts get repeated in multiple places because they belong in both places. But they are still the same fact. Wikipedia currently has no way of linking two bits of data to say they are talking about the same thing. Only entire articles may be linked in this way.
Because of this serious limitation, no information which takes less than 700 words to describe should ever be placed on wikipedia.
There are plenty of things that get deleted which shouldn't be. I'm absolutely never one to say "if you don't like it, leave!", but I am willing to say that if four-wheel-drive is your top priority, you probably don't want to use a motorcycle.
The phrase "flip-flops" officially died the first time one pundit quoted another by using it without attributing the source. Same with quagmire. These are now gone from the English language. Please do not use them.
Why force it once? Do you like sitting through cutscenes just because the game isn't psychic, doesn't realize you've already seen it on another computer or previous install?
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I don't care how important you think it is to the storyline. I love the storyline. I think it's grand and epic and really the best thing about your game.
But I memorized it 30 plays ago. You've turned a fun game into a tedious experience because You didn't think anyone would like your game enough to re-install it on a new system. Or maybe you don't even bother memorizing that I've watched it before. Or maybe you think my "new character" is played by a new person, so he needs to see it too. Or maybe you just never thought your game could possibly crash right after a 40-minute character creation process and 20 minute introduction, when the game finally does its actual loading, or saving for that matter.
Your game looks good. My friends tell me it's good. I haven't played it, though. I tried to, but I am not going to sit through that crap again. Maybe your cutscenes are secretly skippable, but if they don't skip by pressing Escape, Spacebar, or Enter, your UI is probably so bad in-game that I would hate it anyway, right?
Nice trap. If I say "I'm going to pirate it", you claim I would do it anyway, and so no amount of money would be low enough. If I say "I'm not going to pirate it", you claim I wouldn't want to play the game anyway, and so no amount of money would be low enough.
However, I'm not going to pirate it, and will probably buy the game once (as others have mentioned) the price drops to something reasonable. I guess you can stay in anonymous-land, where only pirates don't want to pay $30 for half a game, only spammers hate huge upstream blacklists, only drug-users care about drug laws, only people who want to have abortions think it should be legal, only pedophiles think drawings of any sort are protected expression, and only crackers use cryptography.
Agreed. If Sellers are getting hurt by this, it's because the sellers are charging too much or expecting too much. If I'm on eBay and see an ad for something at the same price or lower than what I'd expect to pay on eBay, I will go to the non-eBay site. 100% of the time.
The difference is: We obviously/don't/ think it's worth more than they're charging for it. And Valve obviously doesn't either. This "Episodic" thing has obviously failed. I realize the $10-$15/ep dream is lost, but $30? $30 is, to me, the price of a new game. Not the second half of a half-game. Price creep raised the cost of new games to $65 for this next generation of consoles, and maybe part of the market said $65 was an okay price for a new game, but part of the market didn't. I'm in that part. I don't think the market has decided yet, but I assume "$30 for a piece of a piece of a game" isn't it. I'd pay $20 for Ep3, $30 for Ep3+Portal. And wasn't TF2 supposed to be bundled with the original HL2 900 years ago? I'm not paying for it.
But I only have five months to live! The make a wish foundation at first thought I was talking about dying when I asked for half-life, now they tell me to stop calling.
You have given us $70-$120 in the past. To show our appreciation: Here is a $5 discount on our already great one-and-a-half games for the price of three offer!
There are at least three reasons your counterpoint is irrelevant. Do you really want me to list them, or can you guess at ONE and decide that yes, you should come up with one of the numerous other and relevant arguments for ignoring the law?
And not allowing kids in the HOV lane is intended to make it more attractive for carpooling commuters, where it is assumed they are driving fewer vehicles, and less attractive for selfish douchebags who think their convenience is the most important thing in the world.
If they wanted to make a non-HOV lane, they would have. It's actually less work to do so.
Some if I only use the highway every now and then, I'm allowed to use the HOV lane all by myself! Because that's what it's for! Thanks, this will really free up my weekends!
Well, it's an HOV 3 lane.. so.. YES. That is in fact the intent. What if you had two licensed drivers and no third passenger? By what you say, they should still be allowed in an HOV 3 lane, because you Really Want To Be There.
Of course I use Skype-to-Skype pretty much constantly when I'm home (at least 5 hours a weeknight, at least 16 hours a weekend). I depend on skype. And what do I do if the other party's computer isn't working? I'll just call their regular phone with Skype. The Skype-to-Skype calls are the core of the business. They build loyalty. When I started using Skype, I was very weary of paying for any part of the service. After using it once, though, I found myself buying more credit by the end of the week. The point is: I would have never bothered with the pay-for service if I wasn't already using it for free calls. I'm now looking for a job overseas and am considering getting a Skype-in number to forward to my cell phone and list on my resume. I certainly wouldn't have thought of that if I wasn't already using it every day "for free".
Re: "Cost of learning the tool is more than it's worth" See, most programs, the "cost of learning the tool" doesn't mean "get absolutely nothing done until you've learned it", it means "not only can you get all sorts of things done, you can get progressively more productive!"
thing is, the blender team decided that "Core Concepts" doesn't extend to the UI. Wierd how so many other 3d modellers somehow managed to come up with intuitive and similar UIs for many of those "Core Concepts". Blender really was visionary in realizing that the "Core Concepts" in 3d UI were just arbitrarily decided apon by throwing dice at keyboards until code fell out, not evolved over time and agreed apon across an industry as the defacto standard of something that just works.
Trying to use Blender reminds me very much of that Monkeys->Shakespeare problem
You know what's great about every decent application and isn't true about blender? You can become very productive with it if you learn how to use it well, memorize all the shortcuts and keystrokes, basically "learn to use it right" And if you haven't done that yet, you can still do something. (pick anything. Anything you actually want to do. No, something you learned on a tutorial and are only doing because the tutorial showed you how, but you otherwise wouldn't have independently come up wanting to do, Does Not Count.)
The apartment I just moved into REQUIRES all residents to have basic cable. (You can't have just Cable Internet, and because you don't have cable on your own account (it's built into the rent), you can't get a "package discount" by having Internet + Cable. Oh right, they also charge about $10/mo more for basic cable than the cable company directly would sell you, even without any discounts.
Has anyone ever heard of this? This sounds like more of an abuse than a cable company setting prices however/they/ want. (after all, you can always just choose not the have cable, you whiny handout-wanting bastards). This "cable is required" thing was sprung on me after I'd given notice at my previous apartment.
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"such and such isn't a bad idea" isn't patentable. "such and such" is patentable, but "such and such isn't a bad idea" is just a business decision.
"Method for entertaining a cat" is patentable. "Whether or not to entertain a cat with this method" is not.
Install the fucking update. The patch fixing this flaw was released a week after the game, wasn't it?
Or you could remember that Black & White is dumb.
Wikipedia's format is ill-suited to often interrelated and small bits of information. Facts get repeated in multiple places because they belong in both places. But they are still the same fact. Wikipedia currently has no way of linking two bits of data to say they are talking about the same thing. Only entire articles may be linked in this way.
Because of this serious limitation, no information which takes less than 700 words to describe should ever be placed on wikipedia.
There are plenty of things that get deleted which shouldn't be. I'm absolutely never one to say "if you don't like it, leave!", but I am willing to say that if four-wheel-drive is your top priority, you probably don't want to use a motorcycle.
The phrase "flip-flops" officially died the first time one pundit quoted another by using it without attributing the source. Same with quagmire. These are now gone from the English language. Please do not use them.
If your ideal is everything, use everything.
Why force it once? Do you like sitting through cutscenes just because the game isn't psychic, doesn't realize you've already seen it on another computer or previous install?
I don't care how important you think it is to the storyline. I love the storyline. I think it's grand and epic and really the best thing about your game.
But I memorized it 30 plays ago. You've turned a fun game into a tedious experience because You didn't think anyone would like your game enough to re-install it on a new system. Or maybe you don't even bother memorizing that I've watched it before. Or maybe you think my "new character" is played by a new person, so he needs to see it too. Or maybe you just never thought your game could possibly crash right after a 40-minute character creation process and 20 minute introduction, when the game finally does its actual loading, or saving for that matter.
Your game looks good. My friends tell me it's good. I haven't played it, though. I tried to, but I am not going to sit through that crap again. Maybe your cutscenes are secretly skippable, but if they don't skip by pressing Escape, Spacebar, or Enter, your UI is probably so bad in-game that I would hate it anyway, right?
Nice trap. If I say "I'm going to pirate it", you claim I would do it anyway, and so no amount of money would be low enough.
If I say "I'm not going to pirate it", you claim I wouldn't want to play the game anyway, and so no amount of money would be low enough.
However, I'm not going to pirate it, and will probably buy the game once (as others have mentioned) the price drops to something reasonable.
I guess you can stay in anonymous-land, where only pirates don't want to pay $30 for half a game, only spammers hate huge upstream blacklists, only drug-users care about drug laws, only people who want to have abortions think it should be legal, only pedophiles think drawings of any sort are protected expression, and only crackers use cryptography.
Agreed. If Sellers are getting hurt by this, it's because the sellers are charging too much or expecting too much.
If I'm on eBay and see an ad for something at the same price or lower than what I'd expect to pay on eBay, I will go to the non-eBay site. 100% of the time.
The difference is: We obviously /don't/ think it's worth more than they're charging for it.
And Valve obviously doesn't either.
This "Episodic" thing has obviously failed. I realize the $10-$15/ep dream is lost, but $30? $30 is, to me, the price of a new game. Not the second half of a half-game. Price creep raised the cost of new games to $65 for this next generation of consoles, and maybe part of the market said $65 was an okay price for a new game, but part of the market didn't. I'm in that part. I don't think the market has decided yet, but I assume "$30 for a piece of a piece of a game" isn't it.
I'd pay $20 for Ep3, $30 for Ep3+Portal.
And wasn't TF2 supposed to be bundled with the original HL2 900 years ago? I'm not paying for it.
But I only have five months to live!
The make a wish foundation at first thought I was talking about dying when I asked for half-life, now they tell me to stop calling.
You have given us $70-$120 in the past. To show our appreciation: Here is a $5 discount on our already great one-and-a-half games for the price of three offer!
There are at least three reasons your counterpoint is irrelevant. Do you really want me to list them, or can you guess at ONE and decide that yes, you should come up with one of the numerous other and relevant arguments for ignoring the law?
And not allowing kids in the HOV lane is intended to make it more attractive for carpooling commuters, where it is assumed they are driving fewer vehicles, and less attractive for selfish douchebags who think their convenience is the most important thing in the world.
If they wanted to make a non-HOV lane, they would have. It's actually less work to do so.
Some if I only use the highway every now and then, I'm allowed to use the HOV lane all by myself! Because that's what it's for! Thanks, this will really free up my weekends!
so, yes.
Well, it's an HOV 3 lane.. so.. YES. That is in fact the intent.
What if you had two licensed drivers and no third passenger? By what you say, they should still be allowed in an HOV 3 lane, because you Really Want To Be There.
What about Muslim women and skeletons!?
Of course I use Skype-to-Skype pretty much constantly when I'm home (at least 5 hours a weeknight, at least 16 hours a weekend). I depend on skype. And what do I do if the other party's computer isn't working? I'll just call their regular phone with Skype. The Skype-to-Skype calls are the core of the business. They build loyalty. When I started using Skype, I was very weary of paying for any part of the service. After using it once, though, I found myself buying more credit by the end of the week.
The point is: I would have never bothered with the pay-for service if I wasn't already using it for free calls. I'm now looking for a job overseas and am considering getting a Skype-in number to forward to my cell phone and list on my resume. I certainly wouldn't have thought of that if I wasn't already using it every day "for free".
Re: "Cost of learning the tool is more than it's worth"
See, most programs, the "cost of learning the tool" doesn't mean "get absolutely nothing done until you've learned it", it means "not only can you get all sorts of things done, you can get progressively more productive!"
thing is, the blender team decided that "Core Concepts" doesn't extend to the UI. Wierd how so many other 3d modellers somehow managed to come up with intuitive and similar UIs for many of those "Core Concepts". Blender really was visionary in realizing that the "Core Concepts" in 3d UI were just arbitrarily decided apon by throwing dice at keyboards until code fell out, not evolved over time and agreed apon across an industry as the defacto standard of something that just works.
Trying to use Blender reminds me very much of that Monkeys->Shakespeare problem
You know what's great about every decent application and isn't true about blender?
You can become very productive with it if you learn how to use it well, memorize all the shortcuts and keystrokes, basically "learn to use it right"
And if you haven't done that yet, you can still do something. (pick anything. Anything you actually want to do. No, something you learned on a tutorial and are only doing because the tutorial showed you how, but you otherwise wouldn't have independently come up wanting to do, Does Not Count.)
The apartment I just moved into REQUIRES all residents to have basic cable. (You can't have just Cable Internet, and because you don't have cable on your own account (it's built into the rent), you can't get a "package discount" by having Internet + Cable. Oh right, they also charge about $10/mo more for basic cable than the cable company directly would sell you, even without any discounts.
/they/ want. (after all, you can always just choose not the have cable, you whiny handout-wanting bastards). This "cable is required" thing was sprung on me after I'd given notice at my previous apartment.
Has anyone ever heard of this? This sounds like more of an abuse than a cable company setting prices however
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