It's possible to unintentionally encourage something when performing actions that contradict your statements, which is what he's doing by setting an unreasonably high price for his game.
What's reasonable is in the eye of the consumer. After playing the demo, what might be worth $28 to one person may not be to another. Games, like most entertainment media, have substitution value only before you consume it. "I want a D&B CD" demonstrates substitution value. "I want a Pendulum CD" does not.
You mentioned before you can get King's Bounty for $10. Obviously if you're just looking for a game to play on the cheap and they had similar game genres it would work out. But if you take price out of it, played honest demos* of both, you'll prefer one or the other and then when price comes back in it may either be a deal or a question of just how MUCH you preference is worth.
* Some demos are disingenuous with cherry-picked gameplay and unrealistic situations. I've purchased a few XBox Live Arcade games that, past the demo play levels, were garbage.
On pricing too high, well, piracy is going to happen and eliminating it isn't going to make people pay that weren't already prepared to do so. Since the cost of making a game is the same no matter how many people actually play it (legally or otherwise), I'd say if the game is in the black despite rampant piracy then the price was set appropriately.
The question is was it lazy programming that required full root/admin access in order to work or something else?
/. post of the future:
Microsoft breaks ActiveX on new IE/OS Soandso reports that many people are using the alpha/beta/RTM of IE/OS and finding their ActiveX applications not working. "Clearly something changed to the host where the ActiveX control lives with this release. Microsoft in one fell swoop has disabled alarmist percentage of web pages."
ActiveX isn't really secure... by interface contract. If they change things around behind the API layers to make it secure they, by contract, could break functionality.
And the dramedy with lazy programmer outcry with the transition from Windows 4 to 5 through even 6 (Cancel or Allow?) trying to make Windows secure only shows why Microsoft really painted themselves into a corner by insisting on maintaining full backwards compatibility.
Things were simply different back then... "When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me." ActiveX should have been depreciated long ago.
Eh, that makes sense for an online poll with write-in. It discourages 4chan et all coming along and flooding the poll suggesting the node should be named something along the lines of "NIGGER COCKS OLOLOL".
The actual *chan hive-mind selection for this contest is "Battletoad"
So let me get this right: because there's currently a plan associated with gathering a resource, it is wrong to economize the use of that resource? And that companies deserve protection from becoming obsolete?
No, he's saying that because there's currently a plan associated with gathering a resource that's directly proportional to it's replacement that economizing use will not "save trees". If demand goes down fewer trees will be cut and hence fewer will be planted. The trees saved are those that would never have been planted. Trust me that those that find vast percentages of their land not profitable due to increased supply will still chop down the trees and perhaps do something more economically viable with the land.
Buggy-whips and Whale-bone are simply not in demand. Leather for the whips diverted to other things and whale bones are as well.
Why should announcing your sexual orientation start a fight? The bad behavior is on the part of people who feel that it is ok to persecute someone for talking about their sexual orientation.
It shouldn't. But announcing sexual orientation, much like announcing opinion on/., can be done in various troll/flamebait ways. Compare and contrast:
"Hi! My name is soandso and I'm a lesbian here in whereever, USA. My favorite games right now are Gears of War and Catan." "Hi! My name is soandso and I'm an oppressed lesbian here in Redneck City (wherever), USA. Fuck Christians! I'm gay and fuck God if he hates fags. Christians are all closet fags anyway with priests molesting lol"
This story simply isn't complete without the full text of her profile.
If I came and swiped your Ipod or computer filled with pirated crap, you'd be pissed.
Difference: you'd actually be taking away something. By someone downloading material from a peer, nobody loses the enjoyment of the materials they paid for.
I mean, look, in today's age of free and plentiful piracy, the income of the RIAA member companies isn't zero. Think about it: how does that happen? There are some that find value in holding the genuine article. For them: great! I mean, I'm not real into music but I can see being real into a band or performer and outfitting my shelf with albums and paraphernalia. Except, oh, wait, those who actually PRODUCED the thing of value (the artist) gets only pennies compared to the lions share which goes straight into the recording industry's pockets. Now who's the leech upon others' work?
How many pirates would buy if they couldn't pirate? The RIAA would like to think 100%, so that's what their basing their losses on. Except that's just fiction. They're used to having a stranglehold over the industry... pricing things as high as they can get away with, telling artists that didn't agree to their terms to take a hike... just like a cartel.
I'm not saying artists shouldn't get paid, but look at the popular ones that make hundreds of millions of dollars. Are you telling me they having the musical ear and talent contributes more to society than, say, a $72K a year aeronautics engineer with a Ph.D.? And these guys aren't making the lions share of money with each album or song or rights thereof sold.
Of course the RIAA is fighting tooth-and-nail. If left open they COULD make money but it would be much more modest and down to earth.
Go produce something before you bitch you can't download the efforts of someone else's labor for free.
If you really have a 40K UID here you'd know how prevalent open source contributors are on this site... people who do produce and provide for free.
Does this mean the game will ship with only Leonardo being playable, and the other turtles being unlocked after meeting certain requirements such as "time spent playing" or "number of times system turned on"?
I have eaten at places that get mobile credit card readers and swipe it at your table. This way, the card never leaves your sight.
Sure... they'll just swipe over at the server those mobile readers upload to instead.:)
I've wondered if people with photographic memories get involved with crimes like these since all they'd have to do is glance at a card in passing and they'll catch it.
Last month, the agency admitted it failed to detect Madoff's alleged fraud, even though it had received "credible and specific" complaints about the 70-year-old New York money manager for at least a decade.
The SEC is part of the Executive Branch. The Executive Branch has been controlled by the Republican party; hence, the Republican tag.
At least a decade - 8 years >= 2 years. Besides, securities scandal is certainly not unique to Republicans.
I would say that because the SEC was sleeping on the job on Madoff they are under additional scrutiny to follow up much more aggressively on everything now, even something as silly as this.
Let's not make it partisan conspiracy when it's clearly a simple case of incompetence.
Because those people generally don't run for high political offices.
I'd take issue with that. The mainstream media covered three people throughout the election season: McCain, Obama, Clinton. Anyone else was a footnote and a comment en passant.
There were many people who have tried and failed, past and present, not because of the merits of their ideas but because they were painted as fringe and irrelevant in a two-party system. Among them this time around: Ralph Nader, Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin, Cynthia McKinney, and others. Their only faults were not being part of the established political machine and not spending millions upon millions in advertising. Should the leadership of this country be decided by an advertising campaign? Really?
The majority of voters don't even know who they are, or what they stand for, or if what they stand for aligns with their vision for what the US should be. I mean, hell, most of these alternatives were stonewalled out of even getting ballot access via the states.
Remember, that episode was about how the vote is between a douche and a turd sandwich only because PETA didn't let the school use the South Park Cow as their mascot. If we're going to pretend people who can REALLY change things for the better don't exist, of course we're going to have dirty candidates, empty promises, and morning-after regrets.
According to the Steam Hardware Survey last updated October this year, about a quarter of it's user base have a primary resolution of 1024 x 768. Surely there are some that set certain games to higher resolutions, but I would expect the percentage of those people in the 1024 x 768 bracket to be similar to the percentages in the other brackets. Except those at 1920 x 1200, naturally.
The graphic style of story telling is entertaining but limits the space for more text.
Well that's silly. If the author wanted more text on subjects they would have written it. Replacing a page of text for a page of graphics makes about as much sense as, well, replacing a page of graphics for a page of text: no replacements are needed.
At the Grandmaster level, Chess is basically memorization with knowing how to rook-and-pawn your opponent into checkmate.
Fortunately for the rest of us mere mortals, Chess still contains both tactics (properly exploiting the current position) and strategy (manipulating material to develop a position from which you maintain the tactical upper hand).
Then they re-wrote all the rules, including tournaments so you didn't have any choice but to update to the latest and greatest deck sets. What a shame.
The changes to the rules were pretty good, IMHO. Every revision is always shouted down as "this is going to kill Magic" but it doesn't. Switching from the Batch resolution system to GUTS was real scary, but looking back it's as intutive as it should be and I wish they had done it sooner. I appreciate all the card wording becoming consistant.
Legacy and Vintage are still valid formats where you don't have to get the latest and greatest... although a lot of old cards certainly could benefit in combos with modern spells. And you can still play like my friends and I do: unsanctioned, play it if you got it. It's still fun that way.
My biggest complaints with Magic actually have nothing to do with the game. I don't like that the art is no longer a clusterfuck of different artists and styles. It's all very homogeneous and planned out with stylesheets: very "corporate". That blur of art makes it tough for me to tell what things are from across a table. Also, the whole foil card thing makes me nervous since the card is worth a few times more what it's normally worth and I'm much more afraid than normal to play with it: card protector or not.
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It's possible to unintentionally encourage something when performing actions that contradict your statements, which is what he's doing by setting an unreasonably high price for his game.
What's reasonable is in the eye of the consumer. After playing the demo, what might be worth $28 to one person may not be to another. Games, like most entertainment media, have substitution value only before you consume it. "I want a D&B CD" demonstrates substitution value. "I want a Pendulum CD" does not.
You mentioned before you can get King's Bounty for $10. Obviously if you're just looking for a game to play on the cheap and they had similar game genres it would work out. But if you take price out of it, played honest demos* of both, you'll prefer one or the other and then when price comes back in it may either be a deal or a question of just how MUCH you preference is worth.
* Some demos are disingenuous with cherry-picked gameplay and unrealistic situations. I've purchased a few XBox Live Arcade games that, past the demo play levels, were garbage.
On pricing too high, well, piracy is going to happen and eliminating it isn't going to make people pay that weren't already prepared to do so. Since the cost of making a game is the same no matter how many people actually play it (legally or otherwise), I'd say if the game is in the black despite rampant piracy then the price was set appropriately.
I should switch to Chris# solely for the TG instruction: play "Eye of the Tiger".
I agree in that it's the "best ... opcode ... ever."
ActiveX applications have no more "connections" than any other Win32 app.
But I was looking at ActiveX's facebook page and it had like a million friends in common with Windows - isn't that a deep connection?
You're probably thinking of eHarmony.
The question is was it lazy programming that required full root/admin access in order to work or something else?
/. post of the future:
Microsoft breaks ActiveX on new IE/OS
Soandso reports that many people are using the alpha/beta/RTM of IE/OS and finding their ActiveX applications not working.
"Clearly something changed to the host where the ActiveX control lives with this release. Microsoft in one fell swoop has disabled alarmist percentage of web pages."
ActiveX isn't really secure... by interface contract. If they change things around behind the API layers to make it secure they, by contract, could break functionality.
And the dramedy with lazy programmer outcry with the transition from Windows 4 to 5 through even 6 (Cancel or Allow?) trying to make Windows secure only shows why Microsoft really painted themselves into a corner by insisting on maintaining full backwards compatibility.
Things were simply different back then... "When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me." ActiveX should have been depreciated long ago.
Eh, that makes sense for an online poll with write-in. It discourages 4chan et all coming along and flooding the poll suggesting the node should be named something along the lines of "NIGGER COCKS OLOLOL".
The actual *chan hive-mind selection for this contest is "Battletoad"
So let me get this right: because there's currently a plan associated with gathering a resource, it is wrong to economize the use of that resource? And that companies deserve protection from becoming obsolete?
No, he's saying that because there's currently a plan associated with gathering a resource that's directly proportional to it's replacement that economizing use will not "save trees". If demand goes down fewer trees will be cut and hence fewer will be planted. The trees saved are those that would never have been planted. Trust me that those that find vast percentages of their land not profitable due to increased supply will still chop down the trees and perhaps do something more economically viable with the land.
Buggy-whips and Whale-bone are simply not in demand. Leather for the whips diverted to other things and whale bones are as well.
Why should announcing your sexual orientation start a fight? The bad behavior is on the part of people who feel that it is ok to persecute someone for talking about their sexual orientation.
It shouldn't. But announcing sexual orientation, much like announcing opinion on /., can be done in various troll/flamebait ways. Compare and contrast:
"Hi! My name is soandso and I'm a lesbian here in whereever, USA. My favorite games right now are Gears of War and Catan."
"Hi! My name is soandso and I'm an oppressed lesbian here in Redneck City (wherever), USA. Fuck Christians! I'm gay and fuck God if he hates fags. Christians are all closet fags anyway with priests molesting lol"
This story simply isn't complete without the full text of her profile.
Show up with a nice "XXX Women's Shelter" On call display so that the women can be hunted down?
Why bother running a women's shelter if you're not going to bother hiring security for them?
Checking the social networking sites for pictures and video you've posted showing yourself street racing and smoking crystal meth? Fair game.
It came in quite handy when I applied to be a crystal meth smuggler.
Kids indeed.
Back in my day I built a Valentine's Day card with Nixie tubes, a Van de Graaff generator, and a bicycle.
It was 900 pounds and required a wheelbarrow to deliver to my special lady.
9/11 happened because 4 guys with box-cutters could commandeer an airplane.
Not quite. 9/11 happened because the clock advanced one minute past 11:59pm on 9/10. Don't let the eeeeevil Republicans try to tell you different.
I propose we make 9/11 the new leap year day.
While Ron Jeremy incidentally does have a penis, I believe Tyler Durden is the one inserting it everywhere.
Who here that has a penis ISN'T interested in inserting it everywhere?
If I came and swiped your Ipod or computer filled with pirated crap, you'd be pissed.
Difference: you'd actually be taking away something. By someone downloading material from a peer, nobody loses the enjoyment of the materials they paid for.
I mean, look, in today's age of free and plentiful piracy, the income of the RIAA member companies isn't zero. Think about it: how does that happen? There are some that find value in holding the genuine article. For them: great! I mean, I'm not real into music but I can see being real into a band or performer and outfitting my shelf with albums and paraphernalia. Except, oh, wait, those who actually PRODUCED the thing of value (the artist) gets only pennies compared to the lions share which goes straight into the recording industry's pockets. Now who's the leech upon others' work?
How many pirates would buy if they couldn't pirate? The RIAA would like to think 100%, so that's what their basing their losses on. Except that's just fiction. They're used to having a stranglehold over the industry... pricing things as high as they can get away with, telling artists that didn't agree to their terms to take a hike... just like a cartel.
I'm not saying artists shouldn't get paid, but look at the popular ones that make hundreds of millions of dollars. Are you telling me they having the musical ear and talent contributes more to society than, say, a $72K a year aeronautics engineer with a Ph.D.? And these guys aren't making the lions share of money with each album or song or rights thereof sold.
Of course the RIAA is fighting tooth-and-nail. If left open they COULD make money but it would be much more modest and down to earth.
Go produce something before you bitch you can't download the efforts of someone else's labor for free.
If you really have a 40K UID here you'd know how prevalent open source contributors are on this site... people who do produce and provide for free.
Does this mean the game will ship with only Leonardo being playable, and the other turtles being unlocked after meeting certain requirements such as "time spent playing" or "number of times system turned on"?
I have eaten at places that get mobile credit card readers and swipe it at your table. This way, the card never leaves your sight.
Sure... they'll just swipe over at the server those mobile readers upload to instead. :)
I've wondered if people with photographic memories get involved with crimes like these since all they'd have to do is glance at a card in passing and they'll catch it.
Last month, the agency admitted it failed to detect Madoff's alleged fraud, even though it had received "credible and specific" complaints about the 70-year-old New York money manager for at least a decade.
The SEC is part of the Executive Branch. The Executive Branch has been controlled by the Republican party; hence, the Republican tag.
At least a decade - 8 years >= 2 years. Besides, securities scandal is certainly not unique to Republicans.
I would say that because the SEC was sleeping on the job on Madoff they are under additional scrutiny to follow up much more aggressively on everything now, even something as silly as this.
Let's not make it partisan conspiracy when it's clearly a simple case of incompetence.
Genius. Because who is more likely to be ready to buy a new car than someone that just bought a brand new one.
If the television ads are any indication, it might be an add to remind you to buy one for the misses, too. You know, His and Hers.
If they both have similar specs, but one is rated for 1000W and the other at 500W, would you not choose the latter?
A key part of my media room design is that the TV should automatically dim the lights in the room.
Because those people generally don't run for high political offices.
I'd take issue with that. The mainstream media covered three people throughout the election season: McCain, Obama, Clinton. Anyone else was a footnote and a comment en passant.
There were many people who have tried and failed, past and present, not because of the merits of their ideas but because they were painted as fringe and irrelevant in a two-party system. Among them this time around: Ralph Nader, Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin, Cynthia McKinney, and others. Their only faults were not being part of the established political machine and not spending millions upon millions in advertising. Should the leadership of this country be decided by an advertising campaign? Really?
The majority of voters don't even know who they are, or what they stand for, or if what they stand for aligns with their vision for what the US should be. I mean, hell, most of these alternatives were stonewalled out of even getting ballot access via the states.
Remember, that episode was about how the vote is between a douche and a turd sandwich only because PETA didn't let the school use the South Park Cow as their mascot. If we're going to pretend people who can REALLY change things for the better don't exist, of course we're going to have dirty candidates, empty promises, and morning-after regrets.
Intelligence shows they have some papercraft weapons of mass distruction pointed at cities all over Western Europe.
According to the Steam Hardware Survey last updated October this year, about a quarter of it's user base have a primary resolution of 1024 x 768. Surely there are some that set certain games to higher resolutions, but I would expect the percentage of those people in the 1024 x 768 bracket to be similar to the percentages in the other brackets. Except those at 1920 x 1200, naturally.
The graphic style of story telling is entertaining but limits the space for more text.
Well that's silly. If the author wanted more text on subjects they would have written it. Replacing a page of text for a page of graphics makes about as much sense as, well, replacing a page of graphics for a page of text: no replacements are needed.
At the Grandmaster level, Chess is basically memorization with knowing how to rook-and-pawn your opponent into checkmate.
Fortunately for the rest of us mere mortals, Chess still contains both tactics (properly exploiting the current position) and strategy (manipulating material to develop a position from which you maintain the tactical upper hand).
Then they re-wrote all the rules, including tournaments so you didn't have any choice but to update to the latest and greatest deck sets. What a shame.
The changes to the rules were pretty good, IMHO. Every revision is always shouted down as "this is going to kill Magic" but it doesn't. Switching from the Batch resolution system to GUTS was real scary, but looking back it's as intutive as it should be and I wish they had done it sooner. I appreciate all the card wording becoming consistant.
Legacy and Vintage are still valid formats where you don't have to get the latest and greatest... although a lot of old cards certainly could benefit in combos with modern spells. And you can still play like my friends and I do: unsanctioned, play it if you got it. It's still fun that way.
My biggest complaints with Magic actually have nothing to do with the game. I don't like that the art is no longer a clusterfuck of different artists and styles. It's all very homogeneous and planned out with stylesheets: very "corporate". That blur of art makes it tough for me to tell what things are from across a table. Also, the whole foil card thing makes me nervous since the card is worth a few times more what it's normally worth and I'm much more afraid than normal to play with it: card protector or not.
They can be generated, but they won't check against the database of legitimately generated keys.
Well, statistically speaking, they might... and wind up causing a problem for someone else down the line.