if you choose to believe in your government, no amount of evidence will sway you to the otherwise either.
case in point - you are forgetting that it was a goddamn passenger plane, and two huge engines and wings of a passenger plane CANT MAKE IT INTO A HOLE that is the size of its nose. these stuff are not built to fold. wings rip, and stay.
buy once, stream to anywhere, anytime without restriction.
i want music provider to be my backup vault. if anything happens, i should know i can get what i bought from there again, with a click.
if i go traveling anywhere, i shouldnt need to worry about taking my mp3 player with me, platform, framework and shit. i should just be easy to know that from anywhere, i can login to the 'music provider x' and get whatever i need from there, again. they can limit my download to 1 per day if they want or anything. or, even can charge me something like 0.1 cents for each additional download for all i care.
i just want NO hassles, and full reliability.
its amazing that it took them THAT long to realize that this is the real deal.
normal formulas, normal pricing, DO NOT APPLY TO DIGITAL GOODS. when all those formulas and concepts were conceived, they still hauled goods with clippers in the ocean.
excuse me, but a fuckin twin engined passenger liner debris cant fill that hole the pentagon had.
and there were no passenger liner pieces in those holes they videoed.
also, governments, interest groups, political factions have been mounting millions of unbelievable plots since the dawn of time. people of modern times are not stupid, they are equally capable of mounting unbelievable plots. its nothing new. disbelief of ordinary citizens in regard to what filthy schemes people may commit, isnt new either.
no. not troll or anything. just make a list of the adverse effects we have seen from chinese sources up to this date. not to mention repressing their own citizens.
and not surprisingly, another sh@t is in on this too, 'homeland security' -> the agency which defies u.s. constitution even by its own nature.
got back to house, installed it, spotted the securerom sh@t that has infested my computer aftewards.
went to web, searched securerom fixes, removed securerom filth, acquired a 'fix' for spore, and now im playing smooth.
oddly though, i dont see the point in practicing that much paranoia for a game like spore. i mean, the game is cute and all, and fun the first time, but the gameplay grows stale after some point, and i dont see myself playing it for more than 2-3 times. apparently they knew of this, and limited the installs to 3.
well. them morons. instead of investing in securerom sh@t, they should have spent that funds in developing the game further. 10 years, and this is what we get ?
go freelance. go elance, rentacoder, whatever. do stuff you like, this time. you can pick what you want to do while freelancing, since you already have a paying job.
normal formulas, normal pricing logic does not apply to games.
when those formulas and economic concepts were invented, the concept of something digital wasnt even imaginable. someone 'download'ing something from 30.000 km away someplace on the earth - it wasnt even science fiction.
dont try to be a smartass to advise someone who has his education on them economics classes, whilst having zit of an insight to the history of science of economics yourself.
remember how the state officials in the uncooperative admin case in san fran handed over LIVE usernames and passwords of 50-60 (?) users in the network to court as 'evidence' against the administrator ? TOTALLY proving his case ?
as long as executives, officials, non i.t. people are TOO stupid as to use security systems, breaches will continue to be easy.
It is not to be an alternative tech support channel for Microsoft as this has no financial return beyond improved customer satisfaction
because it brings no immediate financial returns, they are not only not doing it, but also openly saying that. basically "it just brings improved customer satisfaction, but we prefer fast hard cash to customer satisfaction, so we dont"
i dont know whether i should cry or laugh at the irony. microsoft, after all those years, STILL doesnt know the importance of customer satisfaction. not only that, but they are able to blatantly say that they dont care much for it.
so, in this state, do you think they can sell any vista to anyone ?
there is no competition in a price fixed market. if 4 companies monopolize distribution and make their prices almost the same as each other, there is no competition.
they dont sell the games from $99.99 because it is out of reach of the the budget of an average teenager/youth.
there IS a cartel. as there are in almost any field that is monopolized by 3-4 big corporations. they are just not named as a cartel yet.
It's not as though people who had zero interest in a game at USD$50 are going to have anymore interest in it at $10. They're not interested. A lowered price does not guarantee sufficient sales to counterbalance the price drop.
disagree.
i would try out many games that only have a small feature percentage that would interest me, only for a few hours. if they were cheap. and even buy some games only to see how they ran on my computer.
there was nothing about change in mccain's campaign for months. when they saw obama was successful, they suddenly adopted 'change'. what change, you ask them, you get no answers. at least barbara walters wasnt able to get any.
this kind of hypocrisy tells me that there is real dishonesty in a person. veterans are not exempt from being dishonest too.
entertainment is a requirement for human livelihood.
monopolizing that entertainment by forming big distribution networks, even if it seems mildly legitimate because there are no cartel agreements exist in between them (cartel situation forms spontaneously and unintentionally), is still damaging to human livelihood.
market doesnt like cartels, REGARDLESS of they come into being legitimately or not.
if games were sold from prices like $10-15, nobody would pirate them, apart from the really poor. but, they are trying to shove everything from $60-70. industry wide.
market is not wanting that. there is piracy, as a result.
and you CANT do anything against piracy apart from reducing the prices either. if you ever think you can, think of the drug trade. up to date they were never successful in ending it, not only it continued, but expanded.
a company can spend tons of cash to develop a game, and then sell it to make a huge profit.
but, they CANT force the price over which they should be sold.
they are all doing this now. ALL the big game companies are pushing games from prices around $50-70. not 20, not 15, no standard deviation.
that is basically an untold, non arranged cartel. they look at each other and fix the prices.
AND they are trying to use artificial means to force the price. like drm, like copyright laws that are bought.
free market doesnt accept getting prices dictated. REGARDLESS of whether it is happening LEGITIMATELY or not.
free market always wants to be free. if there are any number of cartels forming, even unintentionally, in a sector, it responds by either smuggling or pirating.
this is the way of life, because its in human nature. not even heavy handed monarchies that tried to practice mercantilism were able to force it to their subjects in between 16-18th centuries, despite the penalty of instant death upon discovery of smuggling.
you either play with market's rules, or you dont. thats it.
stop trying to sell games from the max price you think market can handle.
these prices are determined by BA graduates, and many of them are incapable of incorporating the fact that digital goods are not like physical goods, which are what current economics understanding has been built on in the last 300 years.
a game costs a few millions to create, but it takes no more than 0.0001 cents to reproduce, even if you use a cd. if you go for internet distribution, reproducing costs are much lower.
if companies started to sell their games from everyday prices like $10, $15, they would find that games has a much higher marginal returns allowance, and there are many people who would shell out $10 bucks for a download from internet to take a peek at a game they wont play for long, JUST to have it on their hard drives in case they may wanna play it later.
instead, they are trying to push the MAX that anyone can justify, $60-70. and voila - its NOT working.
if they went the proposed route, neither they would have to worry about piracy, nor they would have to deal with the costs of customer support.
we need a radiohead for gaming sector, thats certain now.
and for this, we have to do as much as possible to evade bad practice companies like EA.
if companies like EA didnt sow that much SHIT, they wouldnt get any piracy on their hands.
respected companies who treat their gamers like customers should be enjoy lowest piracy rates. whereas companies who are run by marketing people and lawyers instead of gaming industry people, like EA, get their butt pirated off.
you should think about why.
NOone can heavy-hand a free market. If you are not selling your product from the value it should be, market pirates it.
for historic case studies, check out the subject of 'mercantilism' and how even penalty of death didnt prevent everyone from smuggling against their nations' wishes.
once mercantilism ended around the world, smuggling stopped in a flash.
you WILL get shot, regardless. your choice is getting shot in a manner that hurts less. thats the point.
and, i have to say, all these stuff against democrat candidates are wildly exaggerated.
obama is a world class candidate. if you dont want it, give him to eu. we appreciate talent here. dont also have fuckin' inclination to portray everything as equally bad.
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if you choose to believe in your government, no amount of evidence will sway you to the otherwise either.
case in point - you are forgetting that it was a goddamn passenger plane, and two huge engines and wings of a passenger plane CANT MAKE IT INTO A HOLE that is the size of its nose. these stuff are not built to fold. wings rip, and stay.
buy once, stream to anywhere, anytime without restriction.
i want music provider to be my backup vault. if anything happens, i should know i can get what i bought from there again, with a click.
if i go traveling anywhere, i shouldnt need to worry about taking my mp3 player with me, platform, framework and shit. i should just be easy to know that from anywhere, i can login to the 'music provider x' and get whatever i need from there, again. they can limit my download to 1 per day if they want or anything. or, even can charge me something like 0.1 cents for each additional download for all i care.
i just want NO hassles, and full reliability.
its amazing that it took them THAT long to realize that this is the real deal.
well said. it really seems like that.
normal formulas, normal pricing, DO NOT APPLY TO DIGITAL GOODS. when all those formulas and concepts were conceived, they still hauled goods with clippers in the ocean.
excuse me, but a fuckin twin engined passenger liner debris cant fill that hole the pentagon had.
and there were no passenger liner pieces in those holes they videoed.
also, governments, interest groups, political factions have been mounting millions of unbelievable plots since the dawn of time. people of modern times are not stupid, they are equally capable of mounting unbelievable plots. its nothing new. disbelief of ordinary citizens in regard to what filthy schemes people may commit, isnt new either.
really. 3rd party developer = increased usability and reach.
no. not troll or anything. just make a list of the adverse effects we have seen from chinese sources up to this date. not to mention repressing their own citizens.
and not surprisingly, another sh@t is in on this too, 'homeland security' -> the agency which defies u.s. constitution even by its own nature.
it will fail.
got back to house, installed it, spotted the securerom sh@t that has infested my computer aftewards.
went to web, searched securerom fixes, removed securerom filth, acquired a 'fix' for spore, and now im playing smooth.
oddly though, i dont see the point in practicing that much paranoia for a game like spore. i mean, the game is cute and all, and fun the first time, but the gameplay grows stale after some point, and i dont see myself playing it for more than 2-3 times. apparently they knew of this, and limited the installs to 3.
well. them morons. instead of investing in securerom sh@t, they should have spent that funds in developing the game further. 10 years, and this is what we get ?
is this. in u.s., kooks who are saying world is 6000 years old run rampant, whereas anyone who dares such sh@t in europe gets the boot.
and that is coming from a turk. get a load of that irony.
also, mod this down. pliz. or, pls. or plz. or please. whichever suits you.
go freelance. go elance, rentacoder, whatever. do stuff you like, this time. you can pick what you want to do while freelancing, since you already have a paying job.
normal formulas, normal pricing logic does not apply to games.
when those formulas and economic concepts were invented, the concept of something digital wasnt even imaginable. someone 'download'ing something from 30.000 km away someplace on the earth - it wasnt even science fiction.
dont try to be a smartass to advise someone who has his education on them economics classes, whilst having zit of an insight to the history of science of economics yourself.
having such a story run on slashdot.
they will be better off if they just shut their cs, i.t. related departments now.
with the immense number of executive authority bestowing bills passed in the last 6 years, president's office now holds immense power.
putting a decent person in that office would be putting a key to locked door.
remember how the state officials in the uncooperative admin case in san fran handed over LIVE usernames and passwords of 50-60 (?) users in the network to court as 'evidence' against the administrator ? TOTALLY proving his case ?
as long as executives, officials, non i.t. people are TOO stupid as to use security systems, breaches will continue to be easy.
It is not to be an alternative tech support channel for Microsoft as this has no financial return beyond improved customer satisfaction
because it brings no immediate financial returns, they are not only not doing it, but also openly saying that. basically "it just brings improved customer satisfaction, but we prefer fast hard cash to customer satisfaction, so we dont"
i dont know whether i should cry or laugh at the irony. microsoft, after all those years, STILL doesnt know the importance of customer satisfaction. not only that, but they are able to blatantly say that they dont care much for it.
so, in this state, do you think they can sell any vista to anyone ?
there is no competition in a price fixed market. if 4 companies monopolize distribution and make their prices almost the same as each other, there is no competition.
they dont sell the games from $99.99 because it is out of reach of the the budget of an average teenager/youth.
there IS a cartel. as there are in almost any field that is monopolized by 3-4 big corporations. they are just not named as a cartel yet.
It's not as though people who had zero interest in a game at USD$50 are going to have anymore interest in it at $10. They're not interested. A lowered price does not guarantee sufficient sales to counterbalance the price drop.
disagree.
i would try out many games that only have a small feature percentage that would interest me, only for a few hours. if they were cheap. and even buy some games only to see how they ran on my computer.
all the horrible anti-internet moves came and approved during republican rule.
republicans care much less for protests, voter sentiment, approval from what i see. democrats on the other hand, are more sensitive.
even just remembering how dissent was treated dnc and how people's homes were raided during rnc, makes me shiver.
honesty is more important for me.
there was nothing about change in mccain's campaign for months. when they saw obama was successful, they suddenly adopted 'change'. what change, you ask them, you get no answers. at least barbara walters wasnt able to get any.
this kind of hypocrisy tells me that there is real dishonesty in a person. veterans are not exempt from being dishonest too.
entertainment is a requirement for human livelihood.
monopolizing that entertainment by forming big distribution networks, even if it seems mildly legitimate because there are no cartel agreements exist in between them (cartel situation forms spontaneously and unintentionally), is still damaging to human livelihood.
market doesnt like cartels, REGARDLESS of they come into being legitimately or not.
if games were sold from prices like $10-15, nobody would pirate them, apart from the really poor. but, they are trying to shove everything from $60-70. industry wide.
market is not wanting that. there is piracy, as a result.
and you CANT do anything against piracy apart from reducing the prices either. if you ever think you can, think of the drug trade. up to date they were never successful in ending it, not only it continued, but expanded.
a company can spend tons of cash to develop a game, and then sell it to make a huge profit.
but, they CANT force the price over which they should be sold.
they are all doing this now. ALL the big game companies are pushing games from prices around $50-70. not 20, not 15, no standard deviation.
that is basically an untold, non arranged cartel. they look at each other and fix the prices.
AND they are trying to use artificial means to force the price. like drm, like copyright laws that are bought.
free market doesnt accept getting prices dictated. REGARDLESS of whether it is happening LEGITIMATELY or not.
free market always wants to be free. if there are any number of cartels forming, even unintentionally, in a sector, it responds by either smuggling or pirating.
this is the way of life, because its in human nature. not even heavy handed monarchies that tried to practice mercantilism were able to force it to their subjects in between 16-18th centuries, despite the penalty of instant death upon discovery of smuggling.
you either play with market's rules, or you dont. thats it.
stop trying to sell games from the max price you think market can handle.
these prices are determined by BA graduates, and many of them are incapable of incorporating the fact that digital goods are not like physical goods, which are what current economics understanding has been built on in the last 300 years.
a game costs a few millions to create, but it takes no more than 0.0001 cents to reproduce, even if you use a cd. if you go for internet distribution, reproducing costs are much lower.
if companies started to sell their games from everyday prices like $10, $15, they would find that games has a much higher marginal returns allowance, and there are many people who would shell out $10 bucks for a download from internet to take a peek at a game they wont play for long, JUST to have it on their hard drives in case they may wanna play it later.
instead, they are trying to push the MAX that anyone can justify, $60-70. and voila - its NOT working.
if they went the proposed route, neither they would have to worry about piracy, nor they would have to deal with the costs of customer support.
we need a radiohead for gaming sector, thats certain now.
and for this, we have to do as much as possible to evade bad practice companies like EA.
you reap what you saw.
if companies like EA didnt sow that much SHIT, they wouldnt get any piracy on their hands.
respected companies who treat their gamers like customers should be enjoy lowest piracy rates. whereas companies who are run by marketing people and lawyers instead of gaming industry people, like EA, get their butt pirated off.
you should think about why.
NOone can heavy-hand a free market. If you are not selling your product from the value it should be, market pirates it.
for historic case studies, check out the subject of 'mercantilism' and how even penalty of death didnt prevent everyone from smuggling against their nations' wishes.
once mercantilism ended around the world, smuggling stopped in a flash.
you WILL get shot, regardless. your choice is getting shot in a manner that hurts less. thats the point.
and, i have to say, all these stuff against democrat candidates are wildly exaggerated.
obama is a world class candidate. if you dont want it, give him to eu. we appreciate talent here. dont also have fuckin' inclination to portray everything as equally bad.