Actually, the promise of a LEGO MMO sounds intriguing. Most MMO worlds (not counting the sandbox-y types such as SecondLife) are limited to one genre. LEGO has such a rich collection of models that you can dedicate whole areas (in other words quests and activities) to each one with enough content to go for quite a while.
Even if you only start with one or two worlds think about this: LEGO Sports (soccer, basketball, etc.) LEGO Town (airport, mall, cops, etc.) LEGO Space LEGO Western Town LEGO Castle LEGO Star Wars LEGO Circus LEGO Comics (DC and Marvel) LEGO Aqua LEGO Harry Potter
It sounds like it could be a multi-city management simulator with leanings towards things like Sim Theme Park (or even, for that matter, Civilization) where you have to keep the townspeople happy. Instead of doing the "micro"-management, you do it on a more macro scale. You provide the town the proper resources and the right zonings to build the town.......
If it's not, I bet a game like that would appeal to the same crowd.
4. Illegal file-sharers don't care whether the copyright-infringing work they distribute is from a major or independent label. 10. P2P networks are not hotbeds for discovering new music. It is popular music that is illegally file-shared most frequently.
If you put these things in the cubes of the sales force, you'd get a lot of hot air *AND* sound.......you could power the whole world. And then there's always the fertilizer/bio-fuel that is coming out of their mouths.
Why not take some of these "heat to sound to electricity" tubes and put the solar concentrators on that instead of on the solar cells? Or better yet, use the cells to get their 5%, then use the remaining "95%" heat to drive the tubes......
I watch more TV with my laptop open than without. Go to those URLs. Look up what else an actor might have been in. Check out Slashdot. Play "brain dead" games like Poker or non-twitch, non-timed games. That's my idea of interactive TV.
I agree.....watch the show but skip most ads, watch the ones that are different or interesting. The only problem I have is that by watching some of the same shows (especially those that are new and syndicated at the same time), they don't hit the right demographic. I watch a lot of Law & Order....and there's a marathon on USA like every two or three days it seems. There is almost never an ad that appeals to me....and usually it's the same ones for each episode. Those, I skip. The new ads during first run show....I tend to watch those....They appeal to me more.
I still have an MS-BOB CD (turned it into a clock face). In about 25....err...75...err...1,000 years when the copyright expires, I'll send you an ISO image.
Or maybe you can start an off-site back-up service similar to Iron Mountain. Then, I can make a personal back-up that I store at your "facility" in case my CD ever becomes unusable (and by unusable, I'm not referring to the actual lack of use of the software, but the inability to read the disk).
I don't see them "selling out". It's basically the same machine they sell for Windows but with a set of options limited to those that work well with Linux. And different software, but they have "infinite" copies of that.
Dell has pretty tight controls over their supply chain. I don't think they would put these models up for sale until they were sure that they could keep the parts flowing in.
Anyone want a high definition movie player right now? Sure. But the majority will wait until prices drop (and the "war" is settled).
This is just more of the same. The first people are paying for the research in which parts work well in Linux, setting up the support deal, training the techs, setting up the new website, etc. After the early adopters "pay" for these things, the price can drop.
The coffee shop could always line their walls with metal so that the Wi-Fi signal can only be received from within the shop......free, open gateway that is secure from those who shouldn't be using it.
That's still 60K a year for "incidentals".....and you can eat fairly well for that much.
But really, I think you are wrong. You can easily get a starting job in Austin for between $50 to 60K in the computer fields. Housing will run you about $12K a year renting a 1-bedroom (and that's a decent neighborhood, not the slums). That's plenty left over for food, car, gas, etc.
The reason that subscriptions are so low is that they've concentrated on the business districts.....
1) Most businesses have their own network (which, BTW, is faster than the service provided) 2) Most CBD's are "vacant" during the evening when individuals would be using it. 3) It doesn't make it to the 'burbs where I live.
[some good info] talk radio [some more good stuff]
Maybe then I could get some decent talk radio on an FM station instead of having to listen to it on AM. Every time I go through a car wash, under a power line, get passed by a large truck, etc. I lose my signal.
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Actually, the promise of a LEGO MMO sounds intriguing. Most MMO worlds (not counting the sandbox-y types such as SecondLife) are limited to one genre. LEGO has such a rich collection of models that you can dedicate whole areas (in other words quests and activities) to each one with enough content to go for quite a while.
Even if you only start with one or two worlds think about this:
LEGO Sports (soccer, basketball, etc.)
LEGO Town (airport, mall, cops, etc.)
LEGO Space
LEGO Western Town
LEGO Castle
LEGO Star Wars
LEGO Circus
LEGO Comics (DC and Marvel)
LEGO Aqua
LEGO Harry Potter
The list goes on.....and on.
Layne
With 200 canned phrases, you can easily assign one to each ASCII character. Then "type" your code for anyone to hear.....
Publish the "alphabet" online for all to share. Publicize it.
Done.
Now, you can share your secret code with anyone -- in game, even.
Layne
It sounds like it could be a multi-city management simulator with leanings towards things like Sim Theme Park (or even, for that matter, Civilization) where you have to keep the townspeople happy. Instead of doing the "micro"-management, you do it on a more macro scale. You provide the town the proper resources and the right zonings to build the town.......
If it's not, I bet a game like that would appeal to the same crowd.
Layne
How appropriate, this http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/uc/20070606/lba070 607.gif was in today's paper.
Layne
Never tell me the odds.
Layne
4. Illegal file-sharers don't care whether the copyright-infringing work they distribute is from a major or independent label.
10. P2P networks are not hotbeds for discovering new music. It is popular music that is illegally file-shared most frequently.
Aren't these counter to each other?
Layne
http://www.riaa.com/about/leadership/default.asp
Mitch Bainwol
Chairman And CEO
Cary Sherman
President
Board of Directors
http://www.riaa.com/about/leadership/board.asp
Member labels (you can look up their leadership individually)
http://www.riaa.com/about/members/default.asp
Layne
Mousetrap. You constructed the trap. The strategy was to not get caught. Prior art?
Layne
If you put these things in the cubes of the sales force, you'd get a lot of hot air *AND* sound.......you could power the whole world. And then there's always the fertilizer/bio-fuel that is coming out of their mouths.
Layne
Why not take some of these "heat to sound to electricity" tubes and put the solar concentrators on that instead of on the solar cells? Or better yet, use the cells to get their 5%, then use the remaining "95%" heat to drive the tubes......
Layne
I watch more TV with my laptop open than without. Go to those URLs. Look up what else an actor might have been in. Check out Slashdot. Play "brain dead" games like Poker or non-twitch, non-timed games. That's my idea of interactive TV.
Layne
I agree.....watch the show but skip most ads, watch the ones that are different or interesting. The only problem I have is that by watching some of the same shows (especially those that are new and syndicated at the same time), they don't hit the right demographic. I watch a lot of Law & Order....and there's a marathon on USA like every two or three days it seems. There is almost never an ad that appeals to me....and usually it's the same ones for each episode. Those, I skip. The new ads during first run show....I tend to watch those....They appeal to me more.
Layne
I still have an MS-BOB CD (turned it into a clock face). In about 25....err...75...err...1,000 years when the copyright expires, I'll send you an ISO image.
Or maybe you can start an off-site back-up service similar to Iron Mountain. Then, I can make a personal back-up that I store at your "facility" in case my CD ever becomes unusable (and by unusable, I'm not referring to the actual lack of use of the software, but the inability to read the disk).
Layne
sell out too quickly
I don't see them "selling out". It's basically the same machine they sell for Windows but with a set of options limited to those that work well with Linux. And different software, but they have "infinite" copies of that.
Dell has pretty tight controls over their supply chain. I don't think they would put these models up for sale until they were sure that they could keep the parts flowing in.
Layne
Early adopters always pay the higher price.....
Anyone want a high definition movie player right now? Sure. But the majority will wait until prices drop (and the "war" is settled).
This is just more of the same. The first people are paying for the research in which parts work well in Linux, setting up the support deal, training the techs, setting up the new website, etc. After the early adopters "pay" for these things, the price can drop.
Layne
Firefox is an airplane.....in Soviet Russia, no less.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083943/
Layne
I've played some of those!!!!
http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/egm.htm
Layne
The coffee shop could always line their walls with metal so that the Wi-Fi signal can only be received from within the shop......free, open gateway that is secure from those who shouldn't be using it.
Layne
But, if he didn't access any computers he wasn't supposed to....just a network....that statement doesn't really mean anything.
Layne
That's still 60K a year for "incidentals".....and you can eat fairly well for that much.
But really, I think you are wrong. You can easily get a starting job in Austin for between $50 to 60K in the computer fields. Housing will run you about $12K a year renting a 1-bedroom (and that's a decent neighborhood, not the slums). That's plenty left over for food, car, gas, etc.
Layne
The reason that subscriptions are so low is that they've concentrated on the business districts.....
1) Most businesses have their own network (which, BTW, is faster than the service provided)
2) Most CBD's are "vacant" during the evening when individuals would be using it.
3) It doesn't make it to the 'burbs where I live.
Layne
My local Target has both....side by side....with a little cardboard divider between them. The red side is HD-DVD, the blue side is (shock!) Blue-Ray.
Layne
I think they were
09F911029D74E35B
and
D84156C5635688C0
Layne
(P.S. I was going for funny.....I know that they aren't prime.)
But, then maybe my telemarking and mail-box spam will decrease. :)
(Yeah, I know, opt-out / no-call and all......this was meant to be funny)
Layne
Maybe then I could get some decent talk radio on an FM station instead of having to listen to it on AM. Every time I go through a car wash, under a power line, get passed by a large truck, etc. I lose my signal.
Layne