Maybe they hope that the systems will be resold enough to bring down the loss_per_unit_sold ratio.
Could that be the mysterious "???" in their profit equation?
I bought mine at Zellers (Canadian version of Target). They carry electronics and gaming systems, but I have never ever bought a single electronic device there. Two things of note, they still had pre-orders available (have been selling them for several weeks), and did not have a PS3 pre-sale or advertisement. So yeah, I think Nintendo is trying to push sales through broader channels in the hopes of attracting larger audiences.
As one professor told me, Religion deals with the "why" questions and Science deals with the "how" questions. When you start to use religion to answer "how" you are going to go wrong. Likewise, when to try to answer the "why" with science, you will go wrong.
As for oil reserves. Most of it comes from little actual research on my behalf. Plast, I think, was the first I read about it. He was pointing out the first statements of oil shortages from the Oil industry. How these "revelations" came at a time of record low prices and record high reserve discoveries. The majority of the world's oil is still untapped and oil is still being discovered at a phenomenal rate -- yet we are told we have 20 years left, even when the world's supply is increasing year after year. Obviously there is a finite amount of oil. But I think it is highly probably that the oil producing nations and oil companies thought that waiting until the natural end of oil supplies (for the ultra-high profits) required too much patience. Either way, I think we should stop using oil until we can do so without pollution -- like clean coal technology, which is very interesting stuff.
The trouble isn't analog, the trouble is the medium. I think you are getting the two mixed up. Yes Vinyl is very limited in the amount of information it can hold, I noted that in my post. BUT, it is analog, and analog is better than digital. I would agree that a CD sounds better than Vinyl, but I am merely stating the arguement for Vinyl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_sound_vs._digi tal_soundWiki breaks it down somewhat. But the basic arguement is this, analog will always have better sound quality at the highest quality recordings. It is just the nature of digital, a mere sample of the original, which means it is an inferior reprodution. That being said, you would have to be an audiophile with some cash in your components to notice the difference -- I used to sell stereos and have developed a taste for expensive audio equipment (my car is definately worth less than my stereo), so to me these details count.
I am Christian (and not the holiday kind), so hopefully that gives me at least a little cred when I say, "you are totally correct". The shear ignorance I see around me of people who demand "proof" from science (obviously completely ignorant that the purpose of science has never been and will never be "proof") and go about their merry way. That being said, science has come to about as close to statically proof as possible on the issue of global warming. Now that democracy is starting to catch wind of this (democracies are probably the worst form of government for changing the status-quo) there is growing pressure on the big polluters to stop polluting. So now those company have decided it is cheaper the sow the seeds of doubt than to stop killing the planet. On a related note, I think they believe this rouse is possible after they already sold us on the "world is running out of oil" thing -- another case of suspect science funded by suspect organizations which resulted in massive profits.
Vinyl is analog. Although the medium doesn't allow for the total range and does include noise, it is analog. Digital recordings are never true, hence why they are rated at as "sampling" rate. The recording samples the original sound at a certain frequency, hopefully fast enough that your stereo/ear will never notice the missing sounds. CD's do a decent job of this, however, you will always notice the missing sounds: hence the "warmer" sound of analog. That "tinny" sound of a poorly sampled sound is present in even the highest sampled recording. An infinitely sampled digital recording (requiring an infinite file size) would be identical to an analog sound. Often the stereo is already mashing up the sound so badly that it doesn't matter -- but for the audiophile with the decent sound system the digital/analog difference is noticeable. Again, CD's (stamped HDCD's or DVD's recorded in HD sound) are probably the best trade off between the analog noise and the missing sounds of digital. MP3's and compressed sounds, however, are complete rubbish. They often completely delete/compress sounds outside the 20-20000 range: which dramatically changes the feel of music, the placement of sounds in stereo, and creates horrible distortion in the upper end (which I notice because my ears are very sensitive to high frequency sounds). So while I agree that Vinyl comes with crippled lower end and an ambient noise level, I would say there is still significant argument for Vinyl's sound quality. The moment a sound is converted to digital, it loses an infinite amount of information -- dropping from the true wave pattern of sound to the stepped (IO) pattern of digital. As for compressed digital... forget it.
Think that gaming is coming into its own as a "respectable" entertainment medium. No longer the toy of children and teenage boys, gaming is an entertainment source for an ever widening demographic. TV and Movie production companies are taking notice -- even trying to bait the gamer audience with motion pictures based on games. Advertisers are trying to figure out ways to market products in a media without commercial breaks. This means more money for games, larger development teams, and more avenues to publish games... this also means that the new investors are looking for a safe/profitable (you think they never when to business school) investment. So while more games will be hitting the market, look for more of the same. Hollywood's formual is to churn out mindless drizzle in hopes of repeating past successes. Lets all pray (or whatever you do) that gaming doesn't mimic film and TV -- where all the most polished and professional productions are, for the most part, crap; and where the indie-market becomes the driving force of innovation and quality products.
Isn't that when (among other things) you sell a product for less that it cost of production/shipping? We (meaning Western nations) seem to lay the smack down on anyone who undercuts our production costs. But if one of our own does it, it is called "lost leader" etc... I guess that is one of the perks of rolling with the rich kids. If I was Nintendo though, I might be a little pissed at Sony and MS cutting market share through predatory prices while Nintendo keeps prices above costs. Can you imagine the sales figures for Nintendo this time around if the PS3 and Xbox were priced AT cost?
Meh, Nintendo will get my cash anyway. First console to ever share my home with my PC.
I would like to know where you get the quality NES and SNES (more my flavour) titles for $1 each. $10 for a classic title on my system is probably the upper end of what I would pay for most classics, some I would easily pick up for twice that price. I guess that Nintendo plugged the price at the right spot, because at $10 a pop I will still buy the games. Also, I would look at the stated release rate of VC games -- not the lauch VC games. I think it is 10 new VCs a month, but I could be wrong.
Lets see... starting in 1989 with Prince of Persia and Mech Warrior. Add the "Quest" years of Serria with Kings Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest and Quest for Glory. Put in some Aces of the Pacific. Then bow down to Wolfenstein 3D. And then... good god, if this wasn't enough, along came Sid with Civilization (91). Finally, in 1992, the RTS comes into its own with Dune 2. It was a good thing I had a summer job.
Yeah, I am totally amazed sometimes at the level of bullshit that comes from the mainstream media -- and even more amazed when the government claims the media has a leftist bias or are anti-government. Steven Colbert's speech at the press gallery's dinner was a very accurate criticism and a demonstration of the kind of guts that media should have. Descent, even against the right choice, is a requirement of a healthy democracy. Bush's "decider" comments was succinct description of what the media does now. The government decides and the media reports -- there is no room for questioning, the media is to act like it is state controlled. In return the government helps with stuff like the COPE bill.
The Internet is the next target because the planners realise its potential for growth and its ability to broadcast dissent. No longer can they silence the opposition through the cost of running a nation media network -- anyone can start a webpage and broadcast it to the world. That level of information freedom is very undesirable to anyone who wants to shape and mould public opinion. Will the Internet become as controlled as the other media of the world? Yes. Why? Because those who control the media now realise the damage that the Internet poses to their current oligopoly and they have the monetary resources and political resources to do as they wish. And don't forget their best weapon, they also control public opinion.
We can only hope competition remains in search engines. The TV controlled public opinion for the last generation. Media giants worked to own and control all the TV outlets and build vast networks to send out the desired message. The same happened to the newspaper industry and the radio industry. Public opinion for the next generation will be heavily influenced by the internet and due to the nature of the internet the only way to control the information is through the search engines or ending net neutrality. My guess is it won't be long until a similar oligopoly takes control of the internet as has occurred in the other media -- infact, it will be the same oligopoly. In democracies mass media is the most powerful resource, a subversive form of control that works far better than standing armies and police states of the non-democratic systems. The game plan, if you haven't noticed already, is to leverage the current level of media control to convince the public to hand over control of the internet before the internet becomes the dominate media source. So we can whine and complain about it all we want here, but most people are still getting their media from Time/Warner and Co.
The article talks about procedurally generated worlds and even references Speed Tree used in Oblivion as a pseudo example. When Oblivion came out I was impressed with the graphics but quickly I realised that this game had been dumbed down for the Xbox. First, I kept reading reports of Xbox users having fps problems when riding the fastest horses. Second the whole world was rendering far below my PC's abilities. So I tweak the game out, maxed out draw distance, increased the tree count, and retextured the landscape and the sky. When I finally added dynamic indoor lighting and night lighting in the towns my system took a noticeable dive in fps -- an my system isn't that great (with the exception of my 7800 (agp) card and 512 stick, everything was purchased years before the 360 release). Maybe Oblivion's code wasn't optimised for the Xbox's gpu but based on that limited experience I think Oblivion has already tested the limits of the Xbox's GPU.
In America you can put a rock in a box, give it a name, and make millions. Why would you not want to start a company in a nation with that level of purchase discretion?
"Now with more sodium -- Sweet Jesus!!!"
Maybe Google just wants to get a feel for a regulated and censored internet before it comes to the West. [sarcasm]How can they "do no evil" when they allow people to search and find terrorist hate speech? [/sarcasm]
Unfortunately the prevailing ideas of Globalism in Western politics are completely inline with non-neutrality. One author (John Ralston Saul) quite succinctly and accurately defines Globalism as the viewing of all things through the prism of economics. Therefore, the Net must be owned, controlled, and bandwidth sold to foster "economic growth". So whether we like it or not, unless there is a major shift away from the Globalist ideas, eventually a law like this will pass and the internet will be privately owned.
On the plus side, we will all get the joy of working with the underground, "black market", internet that would no-doubt arise. Because surely once the pipes are privatised they will begin to restrict the flow of unwanted information.
Damn those socialists and their attempts to put competitive markets over monopolies/oligopolies!!! And licensing DRM? Why would we even want DRM if we have to license it? This is totally against the rules of Supply and Command.
I find this issue complicated by the right to self rule. The Chinese government might restrict freedom of the press and run a dictatorship but every nation has the right to self rule and if you want to go into China you must play by the Chinese rules. We would expect that of any person or company which comes into our country. What about Coke, Boeing, and the other major US/Western firms which have setup in China? Are they following Western labour laws? Western marketing laws? Western censorship laws? Google has become a lightning rod to this kind of criticism but they are not breaking any laws and other companies are abiding by the same rules without the criticism. So either you should complain about all the Western companies operating in China or none of them -- targeting Google as the lone bad guy seems a little unjust. And personally, I find those exploiting the lax labour laws to be far greater offenders of human rights and morality than Google. If your shirt says "made in China" maybe you should shutup now.
First off, I must say that I am not totally against the direction this service is headed. The idea of selecting the songs I want to hear to demo tracks I wouldn't normally get a chance to hear on the radio is always a plus -- and I use other websites which already do this kind of thing. What I hate is the format these files come in... compressed audio. Gah! What a horrible thing to do to music. For my portable player I don't care because my headphones are not of sufficient quality to hear the distortion. But my home stereo, which isn't that great (JBL ND310's, HK Stereo Amp[75w & 42amps]), most definitely picks out compressed audio distortion. So as much as I enjoy sampling music for free, I would never ever pay for compressed audio -- I'll compress it myself, thank you very much.
Now what I see here is the recording industry positioning itself to prevent the inevitable end of standard music marketing. No longer is a recording company required to produce and push an album to make a lot of sales. Sam Roberts recorded and produced his first hit album on a Mac in his house. On the net, word of mouth and user picked playlists drive interest in new music -- not music videos and airtime on the radio. No longer is a recording company required to record, produce and market the music. No longer are quality recording devices the exclusive property of the studios, no longer does music require airtime on radios to be heard, and no longer does marketing require the weight of a recording giant to push songs onto the airwaves and make flashy videos to generate interest. Surely EMI and others realise this and are pre-emptively positioning themselves into the new way music is distributed and heard. Heaven forbid music distribution sites start allowing artists the chance to get their music to the masses without the aid of a recording contract.
I fully welcome the ability to download and listen to music for free, I just have a few requests. 1) Offer uncompressed file formats (and no, high sampling rates won't fix the problem), 2) Cut out the record companies, their day is past and now they are just leeching on a system which doesn't need them anymore. 3) Buy the damn music! If you listen to it and you like it pay the guy or gal who made it!
Will this facility offer thumb and finger replacement for my worn out digits? If so I want and index finger with +6 to Girls and a thumb +9 to Luck... that would be sweet. Any idea who would drop those?
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Maybe they hope that the systems will be resold enough to bring down the loss_per_unit_sold ratio. Could that be the mysterious "???" in their profit equation?
I bought mine at Zellers (Canadian version of Target). They carry electronics and gaming systems, but I have never ever bought a single electronic device there. Two things of note, they still had pre-orders available (have been selling them for several weeks), and did not have a PS3 pre-sale or advertisement. So yeah, I think Nintendo is trying to push sales through broader channels in the hopes of attracting larger audiences.
As one professor told me, Religion deals with the "why" questions and Science deals with the "how" questions. When you start to use religion to answer "how" you are going to go wrong. Likewise, when to try to answer the "why" with science, you will go wrong.
As for oil reserves. Most of it comes from little actual research on my behalf. Plast, I think, was the first I read about it. He was pointing out the first statements of oil shortages from the Oil industry. How these "revelations" came at a time of record low prices and record high reserve discoveries. The majority of the world's oil is still untapped and oil is still being discovered at a phenomenal rate -- yet we are told we have 20 years left, even when the world's supply is increasing year after year. Obviously there is a finite amount of oil. But I think it is highly probably that the oil producing nations and oil companies thought that waiting until the natural end of oil supplies (for the ultra-high profits) required too much patience. Either way, I think we should stop using oil until we can do so without pollution -- like clean coal technology, which is very interesting stuff.
The trouble isn't analog, the trouble is the medium. I think you are getting the two mixed up. Yes Vinyl is very limited in the amount of information it can hold, I noted that in my post. BUT, it is analog, and analog is better than digital. I would agree that a CD sounds better than Vinyl, but I am merely stating the arguement for Vinyl.i tal_soundWiki breaks it down somewhat. But the basic arguement is this, analog will always have better sound quality at the highest quality recordings. It is just the nature of digital, a mere sample of the original, which means it is an inferior reprodution. That being said, you would have to be an audiophile with some cash in your components to notice the difference -- I used to sell stereos and have developed a taste for expensive audio equipment (my car is definately worth less than my stereo), so to me these details count.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_sound_vs._dig
I am Christian (and not the holiday kind), so hopefully that gives me at least a little cred when I say, "you are totally correct". The shear ignorance I see around me of people who demand "proof" from science (obviously completely ignorant that the purpose of science has never been and will never be "proof") and go about their merry way. That being said, science has come to about as close to statically proof as possible on the issue of global warming. Now that democracy is starting to catch wind of this (democracies are probably the worst form of government for changing the status-quo) there is growing pressure on the big polluters to stop polluting. So now those company have decided it is cheaper the sow the seeds of doubt than to stop killing the planet. On a related note, I think they believe this rouse is possible after they already sold us on the "world is running out of oil" thing -- another case of suspect science funded by suspect organizations which resulted in massive profits.
Vinyl is analog. Although the medium doesn't allow for the total range and does include noise, it is analog. Digital recordings are never true, hence why they are rated at as "sampling" rate. The recording samples the original sound at a certain frequency, hopefully fast enough that your stereo/ear will never notice the missing sounds. CD's do a decent job of this, however, you will always notice the missing sounds: hence the "warmer" sound of analog. That "tinny" sound of a poorly sampled sound is present in even the highest sampled recording. An infinitely sampled digital recording (requiring an infinite file size) would be identical to an analog sound. Often the stereo is already mashing up the sound so badly that it doesn't matter -- but for the audiophile with the decent sound system the digital/analog difference is noticeable. Again, CD's (stamped HDCD's or DVD's recorded in HD sound) are probably the best trade off between the analog noise and the missing sounds of digital. MP3's and compressed sounds, however, are complete rubbish. They often completely delete/compress sounds outside the 20-20000 range: which dramatically changes the feel of music, the placement of sounds in stereo, and creates horrible distortion in the upper end (which I notice because my ears are very sensitive to high frequency sounds). So while I agree that Vinyl comes with crippled lower end and an ambient noise level, I would say there is still significant argument for Vinyl's sound quality. The moment a sound is converted to digital, it loses an infinite amount of information -- dropping from the true wave pattern of sound to the stepped (IO) pattern of digital. As for compressed digital... forget it.
Think that gaming is coming into its own as a "respectable" entertainment medium. No longer the toy of children and teenage boys, gaming is an entertainment source for an ever widening demographic. TV and Movie production companies are taking notice -- even trying to bait the gamer audience with motion pictures based on games. Advertisers are trying to figure out ways to market products in a media without commercial breaks. This means more money for games, larger development teams, and more avenues to publish games... this also means that the new investors are looking for a safe/profitable (you think they never when to business school) investment. So while more games will be hitting the market, look for more of the same. Hollywood's formual is to churn out mindless drizzle in hopes of repeating past successes. Lets all pray (or whatever you do) that gaming doesn't mimic film and TV -- where all the most polished and professional productions are, for the most part, crap; and where the indie-market becomes the driving force of innovation and quality products.
Isn't that when (among other things) you sell a product for less that it cost of production/shipping? We (meaning Western nations) seem to lay the smack down on anyone who undercuts our production costs. But if one of our own does it, it is called "lost leader" etc... I guess that is one of the perks of rolling with the rich kids. If I was Nintendo though, I might be a little pissed at Sony and MS cutting market share through predatory prices while Nintendo keeps prices above costs. Can you imagine the sales figures for Nintendo this time around if the PS3 and Xbox were priced AT cost? Meh, Nintendo will get my cash anyway. First console to ever share my home with my PC.
I would like to know where you get the quality NES and SNES (more my flavour) titles for $1 each. $10 for a classic title on my system is probably the upper end of what I would pay for most classics, some I would easily pick up for twice that price. I guess that Nintendo plugged the price at the right spot, because at $10 a pop I will still buy the games. Also, I would look at the stated release rate of VC games -- not the lauch VC games. I think it is 10 new VCs a month, but I could be wrong.
Probably the most reliable source so far.
Dig Dug and Spy Hunter where my favourites back on the old commie. I can never get that damn music from dig dug out of my head to this day.
Lets see... starting in 1989 with Prince of Persia and Mech Warrior. Add the "Quest" years of Serria with Kings Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest and Quest for Glory. Put in some Aces of the Pacific. Then bow down to Wolfenstein 3D. And then... good god, if this wasn't enough, along came Sid with Civilization (91). Finally, in 1992, the RTS comes into its own with Dune 2. It was a good thing I had a summer job.
Yeah, I am totally amazed sometimes at the level of bullshit that comes from the mainstream media -- and even more amazed when the government claims the media has a leftist bias or are anti-government. Steven Colbert's speech at the press gallery's dinner was a very accurate criticism and a demonstration of the kind of guts that media should have. Descent, even against the right choice, is a requirement of a healthy democracy. Bush's "decider" comments was succinct description of what the media does now. The government decides and the media reports -- there is no room for questioning, the media is to act like it is state controlled. In return the government helps with stuff like the COPE bill.
The Internet is the next target because the planners realise its potential for growth and its ability to broadcast dissent. No longer can they silence the opposition through the cost of running a nation media network -- anyone can start a webpage and broadcast it to the world. That level of information freedom is very undesirable to anyone who wants to shape and mould public opinion. Will the Internet become as controlled as the other media of the world? Yes. Why? Because those who control the media now realise the damage that the Internet poses to their current oligopoly and they have the monetary resources and political resources to do as they wish. And don't forget their best weapon, they also control public opinion.
We can only hope competition remains in search engines. The TV controlled public opinion for the last generation. Media giants worked to own and control all the TV outlets and build vast networks to send out the desired message. The same happened to the newspaper industry and the radio industry. Public opinion for the next generation will be heavily influenced by the internet and due to the nature of the internet the only way to control the information is through the search engines or ending net neutrality. My guess is it won't be long until a similar oligopoly takes control of the internet as has occurred in the other media -- infact, it will be the same oligopoly. In democracies mass media is the most powerful resource, a subversive form of control that works far better than standing armies and police states of the non-democratic systems. The game plan, if you haven't noticed already, is to leverage the current level of media control to convince the public to hand over control of the internet before the internet becomes the dominate media source. So we can whine and complain about it all we want here, but most people are still getting their media from Time/Warner and Co.
The article talks about procedurally generated worlds and even references Speed Tree used in Oblivion as a pseudo example. When Oblivion came out I was impressed with the graphics but quickly I realised that this game had been dumbed down for the Xbox. First, I kept reading reports of Xbox users having fps problems when riding the fastest horses. Second the whole world was rendering far below my PC's abilities. So I tweak the game out, maxed out draw distance, increased the tree count, and retextured the landscape and the sky. When I finally added dynamic indoor lighting and night lighting in the towns my system took a noticeable dive in fps -- an my system isn't that great (with the exception of my 7800 (agp) card and 512 stick, everything was purchased years before the 360 release). Maybe Oblivion's code wasn't optimised for the Xbox's gpu but based on that limited experience I think Oblivion has already tested the limits of the Xbox's GPU.
That indeed was the rhetorical reference.
In America you can put a rock in a box, give it a name, and make millions. Why would you not want to start a company in a nation with that level of purchase discretion? "Now with more sodium -- Sweet Jesus!!!"
Today's broadcast has a good interview on this subject. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/0 9/1427218
Maybe Google just wants to get a feel for a regulated and censored internet before it comes to the West. [sarcasm]How can they "do no evil" when they allow people to search and find terrorist hate speech? [/sarcasm]
Unfortunately the prevailing ideas of Globalism in Western politics are completely inline with non-neutrality. One author (John Ralston Saul) quite succinctly and accurately defines Globalism as the viewing of all things through the prism of economics. Therefore, the Net must be owned, controlled, and bandwidth sold to foster "economic growth". So whether we like it or not, unless there is a major shift away from the Globalist ideas, eventually a law like this will pass and the internet will be privately owned.
On the plus side, we will all get the joy of working with the underground, "black market", internet that would no-doubt arise. Because surely once the pipes are privatised they will begin to restrict the flow of unwanted information.
Damn those socialists and their attempts to put competitive markets over monopolies/oligopolies!!! And licensing DRM? Why would we even want DRM if we have to license it? This is totally against the rules of Supply and Command.
I can definatly think of a few games worth $10 to me.... This is going to be sooo sweet!
I find this issue complicated by the right to self rule. The Chinese government might restrict freedom of the press and run a dictatorship but every nation has the right to self rule and if you want to go into China you must play by the Chinese rules. We would expect that of any person or company which comes into our country. What about Coke, Boeing, and the other major US/Western firms which have setup in China? Are they following Western labour laws? Western marketing laws? Western censorship laws? Google has become a lightning rod to this kind of criticism but they are not breaking any laws and other companies are abiding by the same rules without the criticism. So either you should complain about all the Western companies operating in China or none of them -- targeting Google as the lone bad guy seems a little unjust. And personally, I find those exploiting the lax labour laws to be far greater offenders of human rights and morality than Google. If your shirt says "made in China" maybe you should shutup now.
First off, I must say that I am not totally against the direction this service is headed. The idea of selecting the songs I want to hear to demo tracks I wouldn't normally get a chance to hear on the radio is always a plus -- and I use other websites which already do this kind of thing. What I hate is the format these files come in... compressed audio. Gah! What a horrible thing to do to music. For my portable player I don't care because my headphones are not of sufficient quality to hear the distortion. But my home stereo, which isn't that great (JBL ND310's, HK Stereo Amp[75w & 42amps]), most definitely picks out compressed audio distortion. So as much as I enjoy sampling music for free, I would never ever pay for compressed audio -- I'll compress it myself, thank you very much.
Now what I see here is the recording industry positioning itself to prevent the inevitable end of standard music marketing. No longer is a recording company required to produce and push an album to make a lot of sales. Sam Roberts recorded and produced his first hit album on a Mac in his house. On the net, word of mouth and user picked playlists drive interest in new music -- not music videos and airtime on the radio. No longer is a recording company required to record, produce and market the music. No longer are quality recording devices the exclusive property of the studios, no longer does music require airtime on radios to be heard, and no longer does marketing require the weight of a recording giant to push songs onto the airwaves and make flashy videos to generate interest. Surely EMI and others realise this and are pre-emptively positioning themselves into the new way music is distributed and heard. Heaven forbid music distribution sites start allowing artists the chance to get their music to the masses without the aid of a recording contract.
I fully welcome the ability to download and listen to music for free, I just have a few requests. 1) Offer uncompressed file formats (and no, high sampling rates won't fix the problem), 2) Cut out the record companies, their day is past and now they are just leeching on a system which doesn't need them anymore. 3) Buy the damn music! If you listen to it and you like it pay the guy or gal who made it!
Will this facility offer thumb and finger replacement for my worn out digits? If so I want and index finger with +6 to Girls and a thumb +9 to Luck... that would be sweet. Any idea who would drop those?