Players are balking at a $10 investment on something that may suck, particularly when people are telling us it sucks.
Nobody wants pay as you go, that is bullshit.
It's not a pay as you go game though. It's a one time fee for the complete game. I know it's hard to fathom. I've become so jaded by the modern microtransaction model of games that i didn't understand what Nintendo was selling me when the buy screen first showed up. I thought their proposition was i would pay $10 for each boss level or something.
After a while, i realized that this was actually just an old fashioned free demo. Since i've actually bemoaned the death of the free demo (all modern games are either micropayment dependent or prepurchase), i suddenly felt obliged to purchase it. Also, i spent way more on Rogue One. Since i found myself entertained by replaying the levels for all the special coins, and felt that in doing so i was actually experiencing solid mario gameplay, i bought it. I quite like the game.
addendum to the anarchists cookbook: when sending a seizure inducing gif, always caption it with innocuous text like, "have a nice day" or "lol kittens!". This ensures plausible deniability that it was a deliberate attack.
My head says... that's a violation of privacy expectations.
The question i grapple with is was a crime committed? generally a tweet can at best be really insulting. This seems like a deliberate physical attack intended to inflict harm. in the case of insulting someone from the safety of anonymity, that's not grounds for unmasking someone. if it's actually a physical attack, people commit all kinds of crimes with ski masks on. society up to this point has felt ok with violating their privacy expectations.
yeah. It almost sounds like overengineering if we are trying to make the cars view the world exactly as we do. why waste computational resources trying to decide if a line on the road means something in this context when it can simply be really good at identifying things to not hit?
that said, i'm not convinced that's uber's logic in this. I kinda think they are thinking more along the lines of build an autonomous car on the cheap.
Yeah, but that's also due in part to human nature. Human drivers don't always like yielding. Many take it as losing out in some battle of wills or being dominated by someone else. Assuming it's physically possible, a robot car will simply stop if you step out in front of it.
While this doesn't instill a lot of confidence in uber's system, i wonder if this is really the standard to hold self driving cars to. Our traffic rules are built with the faults of human drivers in mind. Humans have more blind area than vision so we make rules like, Don't cross into this lane ever, or Don't go when the light is this color. Do these rules ultimately need to apply to autonomous cars? A part of me has more faith that a robot with 360 degree vision and lidar can make a better judgement call [than a human] on when a red light can be ran or a bike lane can be traversed.
They certainly need to be predictable as long as there are human drivers alongside them, but is knowing where all the bike lanes are required if we can show that the car would detect and avoid cyclists and people100% of the time anyway?
This is just a job for the unemployed uber drivers. The automobile provider has a big facility full of human drivers waiting to operate the vehicle remotely. It solves 2 problems. People can have their fully autonomous cars. Non rich humans can be locked away in a warehouse out of sight.
i have made stuff. i've made useful stuff. i've made stuff i designed myself for my own purposes. I've never needed my own printer though. Everything i've printed, i've sent out to places like shapeways. The difference in quality between a home printer and a kick ass professional printer is huge. if anyone cares about making stuff, they wouldn't waste the money on a toy that just makes chunky blobs of melted plastic.
Oh geez that seems like a horrible idea. Seems better to get rid of daylight savings and deal with the fact that light is different at different times of the year.
People deal with it in the arctic circle. I suppose if polar bears are coming into town, the fact that it's darker at 3pm than it was 3 months ago is the least of your concerns.
did you ever consider this? in the scenarios you mention, perhaps the magsafe connector breaks away where a different connector would just subject various parts to undue stress. Sure, it's plugged in, but it's slowly dying in agony as you move around in bed.
I have always liked the B to D grade stuff netflix streams. Even terrible sci-fi and horror films will often have at least one interesting idea. I like to just put them on in the background while i code or game or something. If they get interesting, i'm like, "yeah! score! hidden gem!", if they suck, it's no big deal. It feels like i'm getting this content for almost free.
If a movie comes along that's so great it's going down as one of the best movies ever, I'll gladly buy a ticket for it. Then i've seen it. I don't need my netflix price to go up because they are licensing this stuff i've already seen.
I was in kindergarten in the mid '70s and i remember it was a big deal that i could read. It was just me and a couple other kids in this reading group. A couple times a week, we had to skip recess and do our advanced reading class instead. I don't think it affected me in any way, but i was bummed out about it.
When i entered first grade, the teacher gave us reading tests to separate us into different skill levels. I saw this as my chance to start over, threw the test, and told the teacher i couldn't read.
Ah. I got one blissful week of just being a normal kid. Then my mom found out and was furious. Back into the advanced reading group i went.
i figure it will take a long time for any probe to get anywhere. We'll probably be able to easily intercept it with our warp drives by the time we figure out if it's a good idea or not. in the meantime, we will feel like a cool space faring species.
You should have called me before buying those earbuds. This rumor's been floating around for months. I would have advised you to hold off on any major earbud purchases if you were planning on buying an iphone 7 for netflixing.
Yay, you can no longer listen to headphones at your desk and have your phone charging. Listen all day at the office, phone is dead for the walk home. GREAT Idea.
This is pretty much the best critique i've seen of this architecture.
It doesn't affect me though. I am already using bluetooth headphones at my desk. Still, you do point out a valid shortcoming.
Thermal expansion. Hard reset means that the components stop receiving a current for a brief period, allowing them to cool, and therefore, shrink. You might get the same, or similar results from just putting it down and leaving it alone for a few minutes.
So blowing on it might actually work in this case!?
i'm trying to get a gyarados before my brother-in-law. There is some entertainment in that.
My commute to and from work along the embarcadero in san francisco is loaded with the requisite magikarp. I go into the office a couple times a week, and had determined that I can collect enough over the course of a few weeks. That will beat my brother-in-law, but it is pretty disheartening to overhear groups of people discussing how they are evolving a gyarados a day over there.
it's pretty clear that there's no way to compete with the "masters".
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We need something like the smokey the bear fire danger signs we see in the parks.
this app works, but it won't stop asking for reviews. 1 star.
Players are balking at a $10 investment on something that may suck, particularly when people are telling us it sucks.
Nobody wants pay as you go, that is bullshit.
It's not a pay as you go game though. It's a one time fee for the complete game. I know it's hard to fathom. I've become so jaded by the modern microtransaction model of games that i didn't understand what Nintendo was selling me when the buy screen first showed up. I thought their proposition was i would pay $10 for each boss level or something.
After a while, i realized that this was actually just an old fashioned free demo. Since i've actually bemoaned the death of the free demo (all modern games are either micropayment dependent or prepurchase), i suddenly felt obliged to purchase it. Also, i spent way more on Rogue One. Since i found myself entertained by replaying the levels for all the special coins, and felt that in doing so i was actually experiencing solid mario gameplay, i bought it. I quite like the game.
addendum to the anarchists cookbook: when sending a seizure inducing gif, always caption it with innocuous text like, "have a nice day" or "lol kittens!". This ensures plausible deniability that it was a deliberate attack.
My head says... that's a violation of privacy expectations.
The question i grapple with is was a crime committed? generally a tweet can at best be really insulting. This seems like a deliberate physical attack intended to inflict harm. in the case of insulting someone from the safety of anonymity, that's not grounds for unmasking someone. if it's actually a physical attack, people commit all kinds of crimes with ski masks on. society up to this point has felt ok with violating their privacy expectations.
yeah. It almost sounds like overengineering if we are trying to make the cars view the world exactly as we do. why waste computational resources trying to decide if a line on the road means something in this context when it can simply be really good at identifying things to not hit?
that said, i'm not convinced that's uber's logic in this. I kinda think they are thinking more along the lines of build an autonomous car on the cheap.
Yeah, but that's also due in part to human nature. Human drivers don't always like yielding. Many take it as losing out in some battle of wills or being dominated by someone else. Assuming it's physically possible, a robot car will simply stop if you step out in front of it.
While this doesn't instill a lot of confidence in uber's system, i wonder if this is really the standard to hold self driving cars to. Our traffic rules are built with the faults of human drivers in mind. Humans have more blind area than vision so we make rules like, Don't cross into this lane ever, or Don't go when the light is this color. Do these rules ultimately need to apply to autonomous cars? A part of me has more faith that a robot with 360 degree vision and lidar can make a better judgement call [than a human] on when a red light can be ran or a bike lane can be traversed.
They certainly need to be predictable as long as there are human drivers alongside them, but is knowing where all the bike lanes are required if we can show that the car would detect and avoid cyclists and people100% of the time anyway?
This is just a job for the unemployed uber drivers. The automobile provider has a big facility full of human drivers waiting to operate the vehicle remotely. It solves 2 problems. People can have their fully autonomous cars. Non rich humans can be locked away in a warehouse out of sight.
i have made stuff. i've made useful stuff. i've made stuff i designed myself for my own purposes. I've never needed my own printer though. Everything i've printed, i've sent out to places like shapeways. The difference in quality between a home printer and a kick ass professional printer is huge. if anyone cares about making stuff, they wouldn't waste the money on a toy that just makes chunky blobs of melted plastic.
Being contractors, they should just charge uber more for their services.
Oh geez that seems like a horrible idea. Seems better to get rid of daylight savings and deal with the fact that light is different at different times of the year.
People deal with it in the arctic circle. I suppose if polar bears are coming into town, the fact that it's darker at 3pm than it was 3 months ago is the least of your concerns.
it could have been all lightning ports.
did you ever consider this? in the scenarios you mention, perhaps the magsafe connector breaks away where a different connector would just subject various parts to undue stress. Sure, it's plugged in, but it's slowly dying in agony as you move around in bed.
I have always liked the B to D grade stuff netflix streams. Even terrible sci-fi and horror films will often have at least one interesting idea. I like to just put them on in the background while i code or game or something. If they get interesting, i'm like, "yeah! score! hidden gem!", if they suck, it's no big deal. It feels like i'm getting this content for almost free.
If a movie comes along that's so great it's going down as one of the best movies ever, I'll gladly buy a ticket for it. Then i've seen it. I don't need my netflix price to go up because they are licensing this stuff i've already seen.
Also, Luke Cage is good.
Losing weight is only helpful for jockeys and astronauts.
not according to BMI.
I was in kindergarten in the mid '70s and i remember it was a big deal that i could read. It was just me and a couple other kids in this reading group. A couple times a week, we had to skip recess and do our advanced reading class instead. I don't think it affected me in any way, but i was bummed out about it.
When i entered first grade, the teacher gave us reading tests to separate us into different skill levels. I saw this as my chance to start over, threw the test, and told the teacher i couldn't read.
Ah. I got one blissful week of just being a normal kid. Then my mom found out and was furious. Back into the advanced reading group i went.
i figure it will take a long time for any probe to get anywhere. We'll probably be able to easily intercept it with our warp drives by the time we figure out if it's a good idea or not. in the meantime, we will feel like a cool space faring species.
Peanuts taste like vomit. I demand flavour equity.
have you only been eating regurgitated peanuts? are you a baby bird perhaps?
You should have called me before buying those earbuds. This rumor's been floating around for months. I would have advised you to hold off on any major earbud purchases if you were planning on buying an iphone 7 for netflixing.
Yay, you can no longer listen to headphones at your desk and have your phone charging. Listen all day at the office, phone is dead for the walk home. GREAT Idea.
This is pretty much the best critique i've seen of this architecture.
It doesn't affect me though. I am already using bluetooth headphones at my desk. Still, you do point out a valid shortcoming.
Why even bother when someone will just buy the books on kindle and read them all? I can't compete with that.
Thermal expansion. Hard reset means that the components stop receiving a current for a brief period, allowing them to cool, and therefore, shrink. You might get the same, or similar results from just putting it down and leaving it alone for a few minutes.
So blowing on it might actually work in this case!?
i'm trying to get a gyarados before my brother-in-law. There is some entertainment in that.
My commute to and from work along the embarcadero in san francisco is loaded with the requisite magikarp. I go into the office a couple times a week, and had determined that I can collect enough over the course of a few weeks. That will beat my brother-in-law, but it is pretty disheartening to overhear groups of people discussing how they are evolving a gyarados a day over there.
it's pretty clear that there's no way to compete with the "masters".
idiot drivers can just hit "I am a passenger" and merrily proceed to kill themselves and others around them.
indeed, but niantic's legal department is satisfied that they had to intentionally bypass that screen to do so.