It's funny how, later in the same episode, Maher does a segment about "people living in bubbles."
I'd like to tell Maher how his movie was one of very few that I went out and paid to see. If I hadn't seen his show online, I never would have known he exists. HBO? Please.
Negative attention toward the king is not one-dimensional. The people he most fears in his country are more likely to be reading Chai's blog than the blog of Mike Masnick.
Maybe there is an advantage in suppressing local dissent, to a certain degree.
I was sick of all the headlines that started or ended with "shocked the tech world." Who was shocked at Jobs' exit? Did they really think it would never happen? How can the tech industry be shocked before they even know it's happened?
When you choose not to rush into the bleeding edge of developments, you also give up that early advantage in defining what has happened.
When game creators only offer the game in a kind of one-off premium priced window, they give up all their opportunities for future discounted sales.
Because the game medium is usually a convenient disc or physical package, it's also very simple for customers to create this secondary market independent of the process that created the game in the first place.
The problem with your analogy is that movie theatres provide a service in the viewing of the films that Gamestop doesn't provide. I think it'd fit an arcade more than Gamestop.
There never even has to be any such thing as a "used" game in the first place. It's software. The more tech-savvy game companies already realize this. This is why there is no "used" market for Steam-exclusive titles. Steam gets that lower-price market themselves when they do periodic sales.
Yes, Gamestop's activity drives up demand enough to support the $60 prices on newer games, but if game publishers could all harness that "used" economy like Steam, they wouldn't need the game to cost $60 in the first place.
I think it's a stretch to say it's a deliberate warning shot at other ratings agencies. You assume so much forethought on part of the Justice Department when S&P is all over the news and peoples' minds already.
There's no real reason to think entertainment is responsible for this effect. Even narrowing consideration to the recently widespread, there's also better nutrition, computer use, interest in international events.
The complaint is somewhat validated in that MS et al are trying to compete outside of a free market.
Grandstanding through public complains like this are a form of PR and marketing. Microsoft does the same thing. You should think twice that these complaints genuinely reflect the entire depth of Drummond's understanding.
I don't take everything a politician says at face value, nor your convoluted attack on Google's management ability.
Yeah, they learned that the best way to continue a contract is by not making their techniques verifiable or subject to scrutiny. This is less solid than their work with bittorrent.
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I'd like to tell Maher how his movie was one of very few that I went out and paid to see. If I hadn't seen his show online, I never would have known he exists. HBO? Please.
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Waste of time
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Maybe there is an advantage in suppressing local dissent, to a certain degree.
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When you choose not to rush into the bleeding edge of developments, you also give up that early advantage in defining what has happened.
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Because the game medium is usually a convenient disc or physical package, it's also very simple for customers to create this secondary market independent of the process that created the game in the first place.
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There never even has to be any such thing as a "used" game in the first place. It's software. The more tech-savvy game companies already realize this. This is why there is no "used" market for Steam-exclusive titles. Steam gets that lower-price market themselves when they do periodic sales.
Yes, Gamestop's activity drives up demand enough to support the $60 prices on newer games, but if game publishers could all harness that "used" economy like Steam, they wouldn't need the game to cost $60 in the first place.
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I'd bet on use of computers over Lost.
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Re: well, DUH, Drummond
Grandstanding through public complains like this are a form of PR and marketing. Microsoft does the same thing. You should think twice that these complaints genuinely reflect the entire depth of Drummond's understanding.
I don't take everything a politician says at face value, nor your convoluted attack on Google's management ability.
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