To be an accurate analogy, you'd have to compare a modern movie theater (analogous to Quark's) with some fictional theater at which they created new movies continuously.Tyyr wrote:Perhapse because that's what people want. If you built a movie theater to get people to come but then all you had to show them was Youtube clips unless they brought their own how well would that do against someone who let you bring your own but also had the latest block busters on tap? Hell, we know he had programs available but that's it.
Then what's the question? I say "pay" to denote any transfer of money or commodities.Tyyr wrote:Again, it's not all about paying. Some things will charge, but many will not.
Holop[rograms seem to be more personal than film or theater. Someone else's stuff will naturally be tailored to... someone else.Tyyr wrote:That said it's all about how you want to spend your time. Do you want to spend your time on the holodeck mucking around with the program and getting it just right or would you rather use someone else's stuff?
Tyyr wrote:..Now imagine you don't just flip through the choices the computer offers but insist on getting something exactly right. I don't have a problem seeing that taking a good bit of time and in this set up you're paying for that holodeck time.
Now, though, you're paying for someone else's vision, so you still don't have everything jsut the way you'd want.
So, the time is available to fine-tune your own programs..Tyyr wrote:Barclay could have spent all his non-holodeck free time making his programs. Frankly I wouldn't find that hard to believe. Worf might have decided to spend a few hours getting his program just right, as a Klingon he probably had to as his idea of a workout is not what I'd expect the Federation standard to be. Neither of them was occupied 24/7 with their job, and we have no real idea how they spent their down time, which on a Starfleet vessel I'm guessing your options are more limited than in other places.