If I remember correctly, drip coffee brews best when the water is around 195F when it passes through the grounds; IIRC the coffee "pots" that McDonalds used were pressurized tureens where the coffee was kept at a temperature around 220F - above the temperature water normally boils at. It was the same physics phenomenon that makes supervolcanoes, poured into a squishy styrofoam cup with a flimsy lid.
I used to work at an arcade where we had a nacho cheese dispenser; the nacho cheese is stored refrigerated, and looks like thick, orange crisco - until you put it into a chamber of near-boiling water, which heats the cheese to a pretty constant temperature. I'm not sure if 165F is just Disney's temp or what, because I remember my boss joking that the water was hot enough to make coffee if I ever got sleepy - I suppose that could've just been hyperbole.
Of course, television news "reporters" have never supposed to be good reporters, and shows like The Today Show aren't about news, but relaying the news to big advertisers' favorite demographics the way those demos can relate to.
True, I'd hate to see overzealous privacy-advocates paint an *inaccurate* portrait of the newest in Senator Lieberman's long line of anti-populist anti-democracy nonsense. I wonder, tho', if there hadn't been a big public outcry, would Lieberman have hired out-of-work Egyptian policemen to dress as rioters and loot the bill? I mean, what's good for the gooose....
Clarification: it wasn't $1.99/mo. It was $1.99 per phantom data access. I'm still looking through all my old VW bills, but I found six charges in a single month - for a non-smartphone, on an account where I spent the time calling into Verizon customer service to have texting and everything else turned off.
You might want to read their comic and post. If you're buying a used game from GameStop, you're not a THQ customer, you're a GameStop customer. I normally agree with almost everything you post on this site, but not really this time.
There are online services where people sign up, post the games they have, the games they want, and price-points to buy or sell each. I like that. I don't like "brick and mortar money-traps" building their entire business model out of basically cheating both their customers and their suppliers. You like to talk about untenable business models: look at some of the actual video-game-fan-press on this, no one really feels well-served by GameStop-style companies. Video game retailers are basically going the way of Blockbuster, and GameStop in particular has been *taking retail games off the shelves to make room for used games* for years - they deliberately cut down the store frontage available to their suppliers in order to increase the square footage devoted to the higher-margin used games.
GameStop and companies like them are literally cannibalizing their own market by reducing game publisher's financial rewards for working with them, they're alienating their own customers with pushy used-game sales, etc. I don't buy used games from GS anymore, and I probably spend upwards of $2k a year on games, gaming, consoles, PC hardware upgrades, etc.
I strongly suggest you read through some of the emails on Penny Arcade's news-feed for the used-game comic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/8/25/ or look at things like the article on Kotaku about "Why GameStop's Store of the Future is anything but": http://kotaku.com/5621248/
"Pillsbury" always seems to appear next to "Dough Boy" because it *has to.* The phrase "Dough Boy" is not something Pillsbury invented - it was a derogatory terms used by Europeans to describe American troops, starting in the mid-19th century; there are several different explanations of the origin, one being the the dough-like pipe clay that infantrymen used to clean their white uniform belts, another being that the bulky coats worn by the infantry during the marches of the Mexican-American War collected the chalky dust of the road with such thoroughness that, at the end of the day, the average soldier looked as though he'd been rolled in dough.
So the real question isn't "why is Pillsbury suing this wmoan," the question is "why does Pillsbury hate American soldiers?"
I once contacted Stephen Notley, the man who makes the webcomic Bob the Angry Flower (http://angryflower.com) for permission to use cropped-down or edited versions of a couple of his strips as icons for message boards etc. His response was to simply say "go ahead! Just tell people where it comes from if they ask =)"
I don't think the industry could put together a database, since that would mean possession of child porn. I'm surprised the FBI would let a state agency compile such a list.
Last I knew, even the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children doesn't have their own database of images, they work with the FBI.
I'm actually concerned that pushing LoTRO free-to-play might be too greedy. DDO is a series of "social hubs" with self-contained, strictly delineated dungeons linked off of those hubs; the game breaks very well into a free "core" and separate, paid-for, "adventure packs."
My experiences with LoTRO indicate that's not as easily translated into the same FTP model, which is pretty readily apparent when you look at the proposed, "beta" plan for the VIP (current subscriber)/Premium (former sub, or cash-purchaser)/Free tiers. LoTRO leaves a lot more limited, even at Premium, than DDO does. One of the big draws for DDO is that once you buy enough content, you're almost indistinguishable from a subscriber.
LoTRO, not so much: gold? limited; chat? limited; auction? limited; mail? limited; crafting guild? limited; destiny points? limited.
Let me be clear. I think this is going to be a success. However, I don't think WB/Turbine's going to come anywhere close to repeating their 500% miracle. The MMO market is pretty saturated when it comes to fantasy games, so hopefully "500% or more" is not the benchmark for success.
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I used to work at an arcade where we had a nacho cheese dispenser; the nacho cheese is stored refrigerated, and looks like thick, orange crisco - until you put it into a chamber of near-boiling water, which heats the cheese to a pretty constant temperature. I'm not sure if 165F is just Disney's temp or what, because I remember my boss joking that the water was hot enough to make coffee if I ever got sleepy - I suppose that could've just been hyperbole.
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I'm not saying you're wrong, but ... come on. If you're only going to ipse dixit, stay home.
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There are online services where people sign up, post the games they have, the games they want, and price-points to buy or sell each. I like that. I don't like "brick and mortar money-traps" building their entire business model out of basically cheating both their customers and their suppliers. You like to talk about untenable business models: look at some of the actual video-game-fan-press on this, no one really feels well-served by GameStop-style companies. Video game retailers are basically going the way of Blockbuster, and GameStop in particular has been *taking retail games off the shelves to make room for used games* for years - they deliberately cut down the store frontage available to their suppliers in order to increase the square footage devoted to the higher-margin used games.
GameStop and companies like them are literally cannibalizing their own market by reducing game publisher's financial rewards for working with them, they're alienating their own customers with pushy used-game sales, etc. I don't buy used games from GS anymore, and I probably spend upwards of $2k a year on games, gaming, consoles, PC hardware upgrades, etc.
I strongly suggest you read through some of the emails on Penny Arcade's news-feed for the used-game comic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/8/25/ or look at things like the article on Kotaku about "Why GameStop's Store of the Future is anything but": http://kotaku.com/5621248/
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So the real question isn't "why is Pillsbury suing this wmoan," the question is "why does Pillsbury hate American soldiers?"
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Which seems pretty reasonable.
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Last I knew, even the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children doesn't have their own database of images, they work with the FBI.
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Re: DDO and free to play
My experiences with LoTRO indicate that's not as easily translated into the same FTP model, which is pretty readily apparent when you look at the proposed, "beta" plan for the VIP (current subscriber)/Premium (former sub, or cash-purchaser)/Free tiers. LoTRO leaves a lot more limited, even at Premium, than DDO does. One of the big draws for DDO is that once you buy enough content, you're almost indistinguishable from a subscriber.
LoTRO, not so much: gold? limited; chat? limited; auction? limited; mail? limited; crafting guild? limited; destiny points? limited.
Let me be clear. I think this is going to be a success. However, I don't think WB/Turbine's going to come anywhere close to repeating their 500% miracle. The MMO market is pretty saturated when it comes to fantasy games, so hopefully "500% or more" is not the benchmark for success.
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