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Guavanaut posted:You can buy Madagascan hissing cockroaches and other large roaches in breeding colonies. They're popular as a food source for people who keep reptiles and amphibians as pets, and some people even keep the roaches as pets themselves. I get the feeling that the deal with the roboroach thing is its going to turn out that the kits they send out don't work, but nobody is willing to actually implant the stuff on an actual cockroach to test it. So that essentially the project owners' bluff never gets called.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Grim Fandango killed the adventure game genre because it was a bloated and expensive project running on a custom engine and the numbers for adventure games just weren't there to make up for that kind of expenditure. It seems to be a bit stupid to throw "running on a custom engine" in there. Most games do still, and it was even more common to do so back in the 90s.
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You don't get rich by spending your own money when you can avoid it. It's also way to garner a real check of interest. A lot of people might say "I'd watch that" or "I'd buy that" but if you actually get a whole bunch of people fronting the money straight up you know what kind of success you have at hand. Nintendo Kid has a new favorite as of 03:10 on Jul 24, 2013 |
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QwertyAsher posted:Fanboy poo poo is always on dicey grounds because IP holders have a duty to enforce their claim on their properties, or they could lose the copyright. It can be kind of up in the air as to whether or not they'll go after a zero-budget labor of love but a 'professional' quality production that wants half a million dollars is either going to sign some papers with SE or end up on the losing end of a court battle. Stuff like eight bit theatre made money, but it is probably protected under fair use as parody. It's really really hard to lose copyright from unauthorized use. It's trademark that can be lost from allowing people to use your property. This is a major thing, because losing copyright while retaining trademark would mean that anyone could resell a copy of the work without paying you, but couldn't use things like the characters freely in other productions. For retaining copyright but losing trademark, people still couldn't freely resell and create direct derivative works of the original media, but they could advertise things with the characters or something like that. I mean, the strict wording of the laws aren't exactly right that, but it's the gist of it.
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Jul 24, 2013 19:05
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Fatkraken posted:Is it some quirk of thermal receipt rolls that they go bad in just a few years, or is he just covering his arse? Thermal paper, being heat sensitive, will fade out if you don't keep it away from heat sources or indeed high temperatures in general. Like even just being in temperatures over 80 degrees for a few months are enough to start putting major fade on. The wikipedia image actually represents it pretty well:  That flame didn't even touch the paper, but the heat caused places on the paper a bit away to turn dark, and places even closer to the heat to first turn dark then go blank. Long term heat exposure does a similar thing.
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Jul 24, 2013 23:22
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NESguerilla posted:He's expecting to mass produce printers for a total of $1000? Is he expecting to pay for the rest in bitcoins? Dude's buying cheap receipt printers you can get anywhere for like $50 these days (iirc), $35 Raspberry Pi computers, and putting them in a case with software on them. He's not manufacturing the printers themselves.
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Jul 24, 2013 23:54
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JDM3 posted:But isn't the idea of printing bitcoins oxymoronic? You can drop the oxy.
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Jul 25, 2013 00:30
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TheJoker138 posted:As if reading is some inherently noble, educational purpose. I've known house wives who read a ton...of lovely, harlequin romance novels. I wouldn't read a book on science and theology by any of them, either. Wasn't there some goon who bragged that he read 1000 pages of books a day or something and he literally just grabbed random books at used book stores to keep up his "pages per day"?
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Jul 27, 2013 23:01
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Crain posted:It really does. The fast and loose approach that kickstarter takes has really damaged the idea of crowd-funding. Very few projects seem to come to fruition. Even major projects backed by industry giants like double-fine are stalling, going over budget, or (in the case of the "Doom that came..." board game) complete mismanagement of the whole project leaving thousands of backers out in the cold. Well no poo poo, sherlock. If funding things was a guaranteed thing, then sites like kickstarter wouldn't need to exist in the first place - it'd all be no risk, investors would have no problem fronting the money.
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Jul 29, 2013 19:49
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Crain posted:Not my point jackass. There is a difference between the standard risk in investing in a product and throwing out any random idea someone has without any review. There will always be risk when it comes to start ups or unique projects, good job recognizing that, you're clearly smarter than the average kickstarter, but that's not to say that kickstarter is doing crowdfunding well. Most business projects fail. Period. It's just how things work. If Kickstarter was able to figure out which ones would actually work in the first place, then they'd be investing the money themselves for the guarenteed return, instead of just taking a cut off of everything.
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Jul 29, 2013 20:23
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OrganizedInsanity posted:The issue with that is that Kickstarter gives the impression in its TUA that you aren't investors but rather customers. A normal VC firm understands the risks that its taking when it funds a project but the payoff is usually debt + stock + maybe revenues. As a backer on kickstarter, you see no such return, in fact its insane that the best ending is you get the product you backed, that's a completely one-sided risk situation if I've ever seen one. Well yeah that's kind of the whole point of it, you are a customer making very small payments (comparably) to what a full on investor who's going to get a piece of the action would have gotten. Although there's not exactly anything stopping a Kickstarter project from willingly deciding to give everyone backing a share in the result. Not to forget, tons of people make pledges to kickstarter at levels too low to even get anything back at all.
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Mass production of color film stock for printing movies on to project is being halted early January 2014. This has been set in stone since about 2011 and was planned as early as 2009 (though at that time there was still 12 months leeway either side of it, so basically 2015 at the latest). All theaters have had plenty of time to understand that relatively cheap and available movies on film would be going away. Theaters that chose to hold out on getting the funds to upgrade to digital until now, but still were palnning on making a business of showing new movies, can really only blame themselves. It's a bit different for theaters that are all about showing old movies, they'll be fine with film projectors for a long time. But absolutely any theater that was relying on showing new movies is hosed if they didn't get their poo poo in line for digital.
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Aug 19, 2013 22:38
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Side By Side is a pretty accessible and entertaining explanation of the differences between digital and film. There's also just the fact that digital projectors are on a whole a lot more reliable and need less babysitting by projection staff. Bad news for you if your job was to be an assistant projectionist, good news for the audience, and good for the theater's bottom line.
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FIlming permits aren't needed most places. They tend to only be required in places that are popular to film, or when you need to do something like halt normal traffic in public streets for a scene.
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BiggerJ posted:What about getting permission to film of private property? You generally don't need that! Especially when we're talking movies that get seen by 400 people total and were produced on a budget of $500.
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Dogdoo 8 posted:I'd think that paper bills are way easier to fake if anything. Were these polymer or is US currency not worth enough to merit metal counterfeits? It's actually rather difficult to get the cloth you need to make real feeling US "paper" money, and there's no point in investing in that cloth paper and a proper printing machine for bills under $20 or $50. Since the largest value coin most people use is a quarter, I can't imagine that stamping out and mass distributing counterfeit coins is a viable long term thing. It used to be more popular when vending machines and other automated coin acceptors just triggered on weight and size, you could easily make metal slugs that would register properly. But now most of them also detect magnetic/electric signal passthrough in them which makes it much harder to just plop out working slugs.
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Kaizoku posted:True, but what people have been doing for at least six years now is washing 5s and 10s and printing much larger bills onto them. It's not common, but it isn't uncommon. Mix it with minimal social engineering, you just got a $100 meal for $25. (And of course you tip well so they don't suspect anything next time) Of course, but that's why you're washing your $5s to make $20s and your $10s to make $50s, instead of washing $1s to make $5s. 
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SupSuper posted:His point isn't that the art is bad, but that they seem to intentionally make it worse than it has to be. Instead of drawing in MSPaint and importing to Flash, they could just draw it directly in Flash, or make the tiny effort to stop Flash from applying terrible JPEG compression all over it (if it's not already JPG'd in MSPaint). Examples of what happens when you don't:  
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EvilMuppet posted:Are there any wallets on KS that aren't ridiculous bullshit? Not a theoretical question , need a new one. If you need a new wallet, you should probably just buy one at a store instead of waiting like 5 months minimum for a pre-ordered one to go into production.
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It's just a drat restaurant man, chill.
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Athanatos posted:So it's 35 dollars because the guy uses a wired mic and cant talk to his friends when he walks away. Or you know, even spend $10 on one of those southeast China knockoff wireless mics on ebay that are made from the same molds and electronics but had too many scratches or dents to be sold as genuine Microsoft.
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SoundMonkey posted:Also, "for a device that is designed to be worn on your back while doing activities, I have, after much thought, decided to use the absolute heaviest battery technology known to civilized man. Maybe I'll look into that 'lithium ion' bullshit later if I have time." Well, it's also because getting a car battery to start off with is dirt loving cheap while not being liable to explode or quickly lose battery life. Makes sense to start off with a simpler circuit and that. It seems like he just has the one prototype right now with the used battery out of someone's car to work with, and he'll get lithium arrays and appropriate circuitry with the money from a successful kickstarter.
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Also the South Korean Won to USD exchange rate is really really stable.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I love how they went to all the trouble of registering their company as CENTURION USA LLC Las Vegas, NV but then put their location as Ljubljana, Slovenia. They had to register a company in the US, UK, Canada or Australia in order to make a kickstarter, by having a company account in a country Kickstarter pays to. And there was likely already a Centurion, LLC or too so the business registrar had them add something to the company name.
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DStecks posted:Wouldn't a cat cafe be a gigantic health code violation? The cats are going to be climbing and shedding and hacking up furballs everywhere. The Japanese ones are more on the order of a bookstore type place with a small cafe also inside, and with the cats not allowed to go in the food prep/serving area.
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Drunk Tomato posted:It's an incredibly dumb stunt, because they're asking Christians to choose between a) being hypocritical by rejecting a vague notion of separation of church and state, and b) accepting a statue and worship of the ultimate evil force in the universe. It's not "Christians" it's the state government. The only way what the Oklahoma did (give free hosting on public land to an explicitly Christian item) can be justified as not a violation of the 1st amendment is to give equal hosting to any other religion or group's stuff.
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Drunk Tomato posted:It's Christians because it's Satan. They wouldn't use Satan unless they were trying to specifically offend Christians. The problem is that the government in the area, a prominently Christian area, is made up of mostly Christians, like their constituents. The stupid stunt was Oklahoma thinking they could get away with state support of a religion in direct contradiction of the drat bill of rights you clown. Similar things have been struck down by the courts when other states and governments tried it. Oklahoma set themselves up to have this specific kind of thing happen when they tried to play it off as "open to any group".
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Zereth posted:How in the hell are they planning to make an MMO on $100k? In ten months? A lot of MMOs started out with that. The issue is not "can you make and run it" it's "can what you make and run with that actually hook people now". Especially as relying on subscriptions is super dodgy and relying on F2P and ads isn't going to get you much running money with a small playerbase.
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Hello Meow posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/326872855/ios-and-android-classic-mmorpg?ref=category This dude is literally trying to get web hosting for his own pirated copy of the RSC server.
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The or they're not really the books and it's another stunt again.
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DoctorPresident posted:On one hand, it is always sad and worrying to see someone have the mother of all nervous breakdowns; on the other, this is why Kickstarter should have stricter regulations: Campbell is loving his customers and blaming them for it. 3/4 of the people who ordered the books got them. That's actually substantially more than a lot of Kickstarters end up turning out.
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Croccers posted:Why do all American malls/shopping centers look the same? How should they look different? You got to have the storefronts and the roofed over walking areas between them there's not much room to do anything unusual.
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Young Freud posted:I don't know. The bulk of the donations, more than half in fact, where supposedly for the $300 level where you get a developer kit, with prototype headset and software. Now that Facebook owns them, are they still liable to honor those promises? Uh, yes? Contracts and obligations responsibility moving along with the purchase of a company are an explicit feature of business law.
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OldMemes posted:It's like Google Glass, but even sillier. Why would you need an accelerometer or gyroscope on your wrist anyway? Both of those things are built into the cheapest cell phone chipsets, which is what that thing uses.
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You also have stuff like Super Audio CD's 2.822 megahertz sampling, which is done at a 1 bit depth.
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CommissarMega posted:Isn't diet a big part of weight loss/control as well? I mean, exercise is important, but I recall reading somewhere that the vast majority of what developed nations eat is very high in fat and the like. America's been on a low fat kick for decades now, it just gets replaced by other basic nutrients in high amounts.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:other basic nutrients = corn syrup Don't act like it's different than other sugars, thanks.
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neongrey posted:Yeah, just not appreciably moreso than any other sugar, it's just that hfcs is in everything so you get more of it. The secret is that in every other developed country, they just use table sugar instead. Because America made regular table sugar really expensive in the 70s, which is the only reason corn syrup is competitive at all. Table sugar, for wholesale purchases like for a food company, costs up to 3x less than in America in Canada, the UK, and so on. Incidentally they're all getting megafat just ever so slightly slower than America.
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theflyingorc posted:As I recall, he's had the vent hood for some time, but the cost to install it was sinking him. Pretty sure it's down to him getting a drink provider contract signed, those tend to have bonuses for getting your food place set up so they can start charging you for sodas and poo poo.
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