Become a fan of Slashdot on Facebook

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:What makes him "unfit"? (Score 1) 858

Ok, I'll concede habitual lying and sexual assault charges, as those have troubled several presidential nominees. That still leaves...
  • - Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in foreign debt
  • - Attacks private citizens on Twitter, including teenage girls.
  • - Defrauded American students out of at least $25M

I would argue any one of these make him unfit.

Comment MS Actually Had Some Decent Ideas, But... (Score 1) 227

MS actually had some decent ideas, but totally dorked them up. If you want people to buy digital licenses, you have to make it more appealing than buying physical disks, not just force DRM on people. I thought roaming profiles (buy once, play anywhere) and game lending would have been two big selling points to get people excited about digital sales. They could have implemented these, but also allowed physical disks and offline play at the same time.

Comment Sony Still Hasn't Learned I Guess (Score 1) 291

Dear Sony,

On paper it might appear as though you are incentivising new game buyers. To me, however, you are calling buyers of used games (aka gamers) second class gamers that don't deserve the benefit of your full content. I'm sorry you lost $3.2 Billion this year, I know that's a LOT of money, but stop trying to milk every penny out of your fans and customers. That's why you've slowly been losing them for the past 10 years.

Do you know what people (and even many pirates) are willing to pay for? Convenience. Make your games easy to buy and play and ,yes, reinstall on a new machine and people just might return for more games.

Z

Comment Re:how will they do this? (Score 1) 226

Most ISPs already throttle customer bandwidth by offering service packages, e.g. basic, premium, etc. (whether they adhere to their advertised rates is another argument) I don't have a problem with this as long as there is competition. Consumers need the option of choosing thier ISP so that pricing shenanagens don't get out of hand. But yeah, this is definitely an ongoing scheme to get more money for service they are already providing. Which is why consumers need choice.

Slashdot Top Deals

The rate at which a disease spreads through a corn field is a precise measurement of the speed of blight.

Working...