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Comment Re:Um ... excuse me ... (Score 1) 98

by dadioflex (#42428213) Attached to: Investing In Lego Bricks For Fun But Mostly Profit

Worse yet is the fact that Lego can reintroduce any of these collectible sets at any time. (Possibly owing a tied-in movie some additional revenue).

These sets are the ultimate in abandon-ware. Created for a short run, then the company moves on to some other fad, but always using the same parts.

The kids that find them under the Christmas tree could care less if its StarWars, or Dinosaurs, because they are only going to make little houses out of them, and become bored with them quickly.

Its easy to put inflated prices for particular sets on a web page, but who actually seeks these things out and spends good money on them?

I think you've managed to misunderstand how kids' brains work, the meaning of the term "abandonware" and the ultra-custom nature of modern Lego sets all in a single post.

My nephew likes Darth Maul and Lego. Hey, there's bound to be a Lego set with Maul in it, right? There is. Good luck finding it with a price tag less than five times the original RRP. Whether anyone buys them is, I agree, an entirely different manner. I got him Meccano instead.

Comment Re:A Mature Local Machine Product vs Immature Clou (Score 0, Offtopic) 346

by dadioflex (#42402239) Attached to: Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup?

It's quite trivial for this to happen. Suppose someone writes a Word document (with the latest version of Word), then sends it to another person who has Word 97, who maybe opens and edits it, then passes it along to someone with another version of Word again. Somewhere along the line the document will get corrupted, as the classic Word format is just a memory dump of the objects that happen to be alive during editing.

Microsoft has a solution for that. You're supposed to upgrade to the latest version every time they release one. Buying Microsoft is buying built-in obsolescence.

Comment It's about doing things your own way (Score 1) 425

by dadioflex (#42376135) Attached to: Has Lego Sold Out?
Firstly, the Lego/Legos thing has been decided. People call them Legos. Language changes, get over it.

In my day we started out with a heap of blocks, gradually adding this, taking that away until we had something. Nowadays it's so different. You can melt down the blocks and use them in your own 3D printer, after adding the correct emulsion to lower the boiling point. Now I can literally turn my Legos into anything I want.

Comment Re:Sensationalist much? (Score 1) 278

by dadioflex (#42363037) Attached to: UK Government To Spy On Computers of the Jobless
I'd go so far as to say that if it lets you die homeless and jobless your state has failed you. I'm not saying you shouldn't be encouraged into work, but some folk are just crazy. We shouldn't kill the crazy people, or let them die as you would have it. Most people like working. People who don't like working probably work twice as hard not working as they would working. It's not work they dislike, it's being told what to do. The don't dislike work, the dislike the idea of being made to work. Also, taxes.

Don't blame the work-shy for avoiding work, blame the media for making that look like an alternative. Every headline that screams about benefit cheats tells someone that cheating the benefit system is a thing that happens and apparently a lot of people can make six figures off it. The media drags this out, dusts it off, lauds it, decrys it, packs it away for a couple of weeks then goes through it all again.

Comment Re:Great (Score 4, Funny) 320

by dadioflex (#42200327) Attached to: Race To Mine Bitcoins Drives Enthusiasts Into the Chip Making Business

Remember boys and girls, in bitcoin rainbow and unicorn land, deflation is good.

Like literally, the looneys recently celebrated the algorithm halving the new coin supply lol.

I mean sure a recession is just another word for deflation (it really is) , but lets not sweat the details.

Are you one of those clever spambots that assembles a comment from random words that kinda form a sentence?

Comment Re:Come on, you knew this was an MMO (Score 1) 290

by dadioflex (#42200269) Attached to: <em>City of Heroes</em> Reaches Sunset, NCsoft Paying the Price
Asherons Call, Anarchy Online, Dark Age of Camelot - all still up and running. A lot more recent but rapidly failed as subscription MMOs, Warhammer Online, Dungeons and Dragons and Age of Conan are still going. Asherons Call 2 was the first big name failure I remember that was shuttered - somewhat interesting game that fell apart because they forgot that an RPG works better with NPCs, cities and such and not just a landscape.

Comment Re:Come on, you knew this was an MMO (Score 2) 290

by dadioflex (#42200207) Attached to: <em>City of Heroes</em> Reaches Sunset, NCsoft Paying the Price
Like most F2P games they had an item shop for buying character slots, buffs, customization choices, story arcs etc. I think that's where most of the income for these games comes from these days with even the subscribers having an incentive to speed over and above their subscription.

I suspect that City of Heroes was seeing diminishing returns from their story expansions. The user base had come to expect big new events a couple of times a year but they were likely making less of a return on each one.

(And I hear ya about GW2 and LOTRO both. LOTRO is still one of the best MMORPGs out there and a reasonable experience without paying a penny.)

Comment Re:misNamed (Score 1) 40

by dadioflex (#42200069) Attached to: Coderdojo Inspires Coding In Kids As Young As Seven
There are about a million websites, charities, government initiatives worldwide aiming to teach kids to program. It's the essence of what drove the production of the Raspberry Pi. Plug most of the obvious names into Google and you'll see they've already been taken - in fact several I looked for have been taken, lapsed, then acquired by spam or trojan operators. coderdojo isn't a bad name, though it doesn't really speak to teaching children, and is somewhat similar to codeacademy.

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