No. Rather, if they think there's a reasonable chance that they will occasionally need to drive further, they will obviously decide that an electric car isn't for them.
Just like if most of the driving will be one person, but they will need to occasionally carry four, a two-seater is simply eliminated. People base their decision on reasonable maximums, not average use. It's not "hate against 'green tech'". It's just an absence of irrational infatuation with it.
Hm. I'd think that anything you designate as a currency basis will go UP in demand, making it HARDER to obtain. The current price of gold is not where it is purely because of the demands of industry and the jewelers. Its status as a pseudo-currency is inflating the price.
Maybe an ideal currency would be finite, but have no great value other than its value as such? That way, we aren't impeding lives by making a value item more difficult to obtain.
Scraps of paper with a certain logo on them would suffice, I suppose, if we could ENSURE the supply would remain finite.
This is true, and should be a definitive answer to the OP's question. Without piracy, the Dreamcast would have have a significantly longer and more successful lifespan, and there would be a good chance Sega would still be in the hardware business.
Piracy was a key and major factor in its early demise, deniers notwithstanding.
It feels VERY nice, is well suited for emulating a wide variety of past consoles, and the wiimote can connect via bluetooth to any PC, very easily. There are free drivers you can download.
So, stop caring about trivial graphics differences, and pay more attention to gamplay. I still play my PS2 more than my 360; I still play X-Com more than any PC game released in the last couple years. At this point, what do improvements in graphics matter?
Consoles and PCs have long ago reached the point where they can create a large, detailed, world. Yet, if you look at an RPG on the PS3 compared to one on the SNES, you'll find it's often smaller and shorter. Yes, the salt-shakers on the table in the inn are individually modeled in beautiful 3d; but the WORLD is small, because of the immense expense creating those graphics, and the perception that graphics are the most important aspect of modern gaming.
Finally, most gamers don't care. Moonbase Alpha is a video game. It is targeted, essentially, at gamers, and gamers generally have no problem with Steam. It has about 70% of the Digital Distribution market. So, while you may not like Steam, you probably aren't in the target audience.
Well, I'm not, since the target audience is apparently defined as "people with Steam". I'm a gamer, interested in the subject and genre, and it's irritating to be excluded from a publicly-funded project just because I want to keep my system clean of a private company's DRM and digital surveillance. It would be just as much of an annoyance if you had to have, for instance, iTunes installed to download and run it.
by default, minimize/maximize/close buttons are not present
Seriously? That's ludicrously bad design. I used to be a huge Firefox booster; now... well, at least it's still better than IE.
This is beating a dead horse, but the 'awesomebar' signaled to me that Mozilla was taking the browser in the entirely wrong direction. Flash over efficiency, bloat over speed, and a desire to manipulate rather than please the consumer. They've made plenty of decisions since then in the same vein.
The financial sector IS still highly regulated, one of the most regulated sectors of the economy. It was never deregulated; only the nature of the regulations changed, and that wasn't to promote freedom or capitalism, but to benefit certain people.
The deregulation of the net, of course, is the fundamental reason for it's rapid growth and incredible utility.
The original post is a very simplistic thinker, and is evidently unable to consider political debate on any more substantial level than a 'my team vs your team' high-school football style.
A person buried the report, not a corporation. Corporation do not act and do not decide. People do. Every bit of anger at a corporation is more properly directed at a person or persons in that corporation (or their shareholders). Same with praise.
You seem predisposed to accept claims against 3d with little substantiation, which is just as bad.
The VR headset that study was about functions with a completely different mechanism than most modern 3d systems. In 3d movies, or on the Nintendo 3ds, you are NOT focusing on two different objects. It's no different than looking at a mirror, as another poster pointed out. The study involved a headset with two screens, one for each eye.
You'll probably claim I'm a shill, rather than admit this study is irrelevant.
Here, in my part of the world (Wisconsin, USA, northern hemisphere) they will torture you for the information, deny you access to counsel, threaten your family and brand you an "enemy of the state" or a "terrorist" and send you to a prison where you voice will not be heard and your opinions will not matter.
No, They don't block homebrew because they're afraid of losing sales to homebrew applications. That's obvious to anybody who knows what homebrew apps there are. They are great and fun, but they aren't competition for anything Nintendo sells. They block homebrew because homebrew is the vector that carries piracy, which Nintendo DOES care about, and which DOES cost Nintendo money.
Right. Nintendo doesn't care about homebrew one bit; if they install features to prevent it, it's only a side effect of their fight against piracy. Homebrew is great, but it's the leading tip of a large juggernaut of illegal piracy.
That, and the fact that mercury is an extremely toxic and hazardous element that has to be carefully handled and disposed of.
No more than a hundred other compounds commonly found in a house. Less than many, in fact. There's been a bit of an overreaction against mercury.
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No. Rather, if they think there's a reasonable chance that they will occasionally need to drive further, they will obviously decide that an electric car isn't for them.
Just like if most of the driving will be one person, but they will need to occasionally carry four, a two-seater is simply eliminated. People base their decision on reasonable maximums, not average use. It's not "hate against 'green tech'". It's just an absence of irrational infatuation with it.
Hm. I'd think that anything you designate as a currency basis will go UP in demand, making it HARDER to obtain. The current price of gold is not where it is purely because of the demands of industry and the jewelers. Its status as a pseudo-currency is inflating the price.
Maybe an ideal currency would be finite, but have no great value other than its value as such? That way, we aren't impeding lives by making a value item more difficult to obtain.
Scraps of paper with a certain logo on them would suffice, I suppose, if we could ENSURE the supply would remain finite.
This is true, and should be a definitive answer to the OP's question. Without piracy, the Dreamcast would have have a significantly longer and more successful lifespan, and there would be a good chance Sega would still be in the hardware business.
Piracy was a key and major factor in its early demise, deniers notwithstanding.
And "Postal" was an... interesting experience.
One very simple replacement for the SNES is the modern Nintendo Classic Controller.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Controller
It feels VERY nice, is well suited for emulating a wide variety of past consoles, and the wiimote can connect via bluetooth to any PC, very easily. There are free drivers you can download.
So, stop caring about trivial graphics differences, and pay more attention to gamplay. I still play my PS2 more than my 360; I still play X-Com more than any PC game released in the last couple years. At this point, what do improvements in graphics matter?
Consoles and PCs have long ago reached the point where they can create a large, detailed, world. Yet, if you look at an RPG on the PS3 compared to one on the SNES, you'll find it's often smaller and shorter. Yes, the salt-shakers on the table in the inn are individually modeled in beautiful 3d; but the WORLD is small, because of the immense expense creating those graphics, and the perception that graphics are the most important aspect of modern gaming.
Finally, most gamers don't care. Moonbase Alpha is a video game. It is targeted, essentially, at gamers, and gamers generally have no problem with Steam. It has about 70% of the Digital Distribution market. So, while you may not like Steam, you probably aren't in the target audience.
Well, I'm not, since the target audience is apparently defined as "people with Steam". I'm a gamer, interested in the subject and genre, and it's irritating to be excluded from a publicly-funded project just because I want to keep my system clean of a private company's DRM and digital surveillance. It would be just as much of an annoyance if you had to have, for instance, iTunes installed to download and run it.
Can you get it from NASA directly? I don't allow steam on any of my machines.
You can have same game with midi music and cartoon characters at 640x480 for 10 megs or photorealistic 1920x1080 graphics with AC3 sound for 10 gigs.
Hmm...
I think I'd generally go with the 10 meg version.
I learned how to program outside of academia, and have read Knuth. Independent study should still involve some modicum of actual study.
by default, minimize/maximize/close buttons are not present
Seriously? That's ludicrously bad design. I used to be a huge Firefox booster; now... well, at least it's still better than IE.
This is beating a dead horse, but the 'awesomebar' signaled to me that Mozilla was taking the browser in the entirely wrong direction. Flash over efficiency, bloat over speed, and a desire to manipulate rather than please the consumer. They've made plenty of decisions since then in the same vein.
It does imply that. Not that chatting with an old girlfriend is immoral; but doing so and hiding it from your wife certainly is.
The financial sector IS still highly regulated, one of the most regulated sectors of the economy. It was never deregulated; only the nature of the regulations changed, and that wasn't to promote freedom or capitalism, but to benefit certain people.
The deregulation of the net, of course, is the fundamental reason for it's rapid growth and incredible utility.
The original post is a very simplistic thinker, and is evidently unable to consider political debate on any more substantial level than a 'my team vs your team' high-school football style.
A person buried the report, not a corporation. Corporation do not act and do not decide. People do. Every bit of anger at a corporation is more properly directed at a person or persons in that corporation (or their shareholders). Same with praise.
You seem predisposed to accept claims against 3d with little substantiation, which is just as bad.
The VR headset that study was about functions with a completely different mechanism than most modern 3d systems. In 3d movies, or on the Nintendo 3ds, you are NOT focusing on two different objects. It's no different than looking at a mirror, as another poster pointed out. The study involved a headset with two screens, one for each eye.
You'll probably claim I'm a shill, rather than admit this study is irrelevant.
Here, in my part of the world (Wisconsin, USA, northern hemisphere) they will torture you for the information, deny you access to counsel, threaten your family and brand you an "enemy of the state" or a "terrorist" and send you to a prison where you voice will not be heard and your opinions will not matter.
No, they won't. Really.
Fortunately, there is absolutely zero chance that twitter will be a relevant company or technology twenty years from now.
No, They don't block homebrew because they're afraid of losing sales to homebrew applications. That's obvious to anybody who knows what homebrew apps there are. They are great and fun, but they aren't competition for anything Nintendo sells. They block homebrew because homebrew is the vector that carries piracy, which Nintendo DOES care about, and which DOES cost Nintendo money.
Right. Nintendo doesn't care about homebrew one bit; if they install features to prevent it, it's only a side effect of their fight against piracy. Homebrew is great, but it's the leading tip of a large juggernaut of illegal piracy.
But is he anonymous? That's true cowardice.
An unmodified, unrestricted Android OS phone would be a selling point in and of itself.
They are both free citizens. Same rights apply to both.
That, and the fact that mercury is an extremely toxic and hazardous element that has to be carefully handled and disposed of.
No more than a hundred other compounds commonly found in a house. Less than many, in fact. There's been a bit of an overreaction against mercury.
a) vacuum. So? Put it in a box. b) gravity. So? Stick a magnet on the bottom. Lack of gravity allows that to work. c) all of the above.