Some of them have. Namely Valve.

They have a pitch-perfect strategy:
- Sell games at full price for a while. Massive profit from day-one customers.
- Sell at a drastically reduced price. Massive profit from thrifty customers.
- Hold seasonal sales with huge publicity, attracting even more customers, making even more money.
- Repeat forever.

That's misleading. You can download games to multiple machines without restriction, there's no bullshit like managing activations. One of Steam's selling points is the ability to log in from any machine and play your games.

In the scenario above he wouldn't even have to download them again. You can simply copy and paste games between machines, or even between accounts if they both have the relevant game attached to them.

Demand the ridiculous, then 'compromise' down to your real demands. They look a lot better that way.

Usually the other way around. Foreshortening is a bitch.

The Xenos is a modified Radeon X1?00. The RSX is also known as the Geforce 7800GS.

It would be ridiculously expensive to actually design whole new architectures for these things.

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No.

You can only manage that kind of effort temporarily. Soon your work goes into the shitter, despite feeling that you're getting more done. And you need an equivalently long recovery period just to get back on track afterward.

Being asked to do it for an indeterminate amount of time isn't a good sign.

How can you fit that many fallacies into a single paragraph? With strenuous effort I might be able to approach your level of trolling, but I fear I could never reach it.

Bravo, sir.

"The PSX wasn't the fastest of its generation."

There's nothing to dispute. The dig on its textures was because the N64 had perspective-correct texture mapping with trilinear filtering, and the PS1 was stuck with affine nearest-neighbour.

Power doesn't mean graphics. Computational power and available storage limit everything in a game.

No. The PSX wasn't the fastest of its generation. Hell, it couldn't even do perspective-correct texture mapping. But it had a lot of storage and it was easy to program for.

Tee hee. Corporations can ruin your life on a whim at a negligable cost, with no consequences, and it doesn't even matter if they're in the right morally, legally, or factually.

Actually now that I think about it, it's not very funny...

They only have as much control as you give them. A cracked executable works with Steam just as well as a retail game.

Transporters would be even more useful than they seem.

Mining would be revolutionised. Teleporting minerals out of the ground would be incredibly handy.

Construction would be revolutionised, microscopic and macroscopic alike. Computers, buildings, nanomachines, all so much easier.

Medicine would be revolutionised. Arteries clogged? Bone marrow transplant? Heart replacement? Stand still for five seconds please.

Travel to the Moon would become trivial. The Moon would become like another country in practical terms.

Put some relays in space and travel anywhere in the solar system becomes a day-trip.

Giant asteroids body-slamming the Earth wouldn't be a problem anymore. Just teleport small chunks onto Earth until the blighter ceases to exist. Hell, we probably need the resources now since it's so easy to build things!

Transport food into your stomach, the ultimate act of laziness!

Then there's all the bad stuff, which someone else will already have listed in miserable detail.

Only if you classify a person as matter. We're made of matter but I think it's more accurate to describe a person as a state or configuration; mutable; destructable; transferrable.

By the way - it's already happened. How many cells in your body remain from birth, from a decade ago? Most of your body has been destroyed and recreated many times.

It's fun to think about. Our instincts about identity completely fall apart beyond a certain point. Like the way we think of the world, the way we think of ourselves is merely a model with finite accuracy and relevance.