It was definitely about the price. If Blurays were the same price as DVDs they would have taken off. To get Blurays from Netflix adds an extra charge - no thanks.
And if a media exec is reading this, make your media go directly to the main menu, and have a menu option to watch the trailers, because in 6 months time no one's going to care. Oh and quit disabling the skip and FF buttons.
Except for canola oil. Canola is treated as "organic", but it's really another GMO. The name itself comes from CANadian OiL. There's no such thing as a canola seed, it's a modified version of a rapeseed, which is a poisonous plant.
The best thing you can do is look at the ingredient list.
There's a certain amount of content that you lose by dropping cable/satellite TV, and going Netflix/Hulu. However, the savings of maybe $80+/month sure makes this choice a no-brainer. You could even buy those few series that you lose out on, on DVD so there's really not much of a loss.
I finally persuaded my spouse to drop TV early this year, and we don't miss it one bit.
As far as I know, Ms Thomas did not "distribute" any song files to anyone. If anything, MediaSentry knowingly committed copyright infringement by downloading files from a shared folder.
If you are on crunch, you have absolutely ZERO time to innovate!
All you have time for is implement, quick test, check in. Then later on someobody else has to fix your crappy rush job because you created a dozen other bugs.
Crunch times cause more problems than just trying to get a product out on time, plain and simple.
What likely happened is he was one of the unlucky ~30%. Then he gets shipped somebody else's badly refurbished RROD. This process then continues until he is lucky enough to get shipped a brand new console. Good luck.
For my anecdotal story. I have all 3 current gen consoles. My 360 gives me read errors. When a game comes out that is for both 360 and PS3, I always buy the PS3 version as I get a flawless play experience. Shame on MS for producing such a shoddy console.
I found out that Americans think that Vivian is a girl's name.
My first *cough* WoW avatar had a mohican, and I named HIM Vivian after the punk character from Young Ones. So many people kept referring to him as a female.
I have a 360, PS3 and a Wii. I play all of them, not equally, but according to which game I want to play at the time.
Between my 360 and PS3, I play on the PS3 almost exclusively. Why? Because the 360 quite often gives me a DRE (Disc Read Error) that stops the game dead with no retry. The only thing you can do is go back to the dashboard and start the game again. I still buy the occasional 360 game, but when presented with a choice of PS3 or 360 if the game is for both, I have to buy the PS3 version.
I have had no troubles with the PS3. And it's a really really good DVD upscaler. Blue Ray movies look very nice, but damned if I ever pay the extra cost for them.
They offer their games WITHOUT DRM, and offer a value service to anyone who buys their games in the form of automated patches/updates. You are even encouraged to make backups.
They also happen to have done quite well. Sins of a Solar Empire has been in the top 10 list for quite a while.
We just decided to take on an intern full time. He has a CS degree and is absolutely superb... at C. Taking him on was a no-brainer, really.
Except he really couldn't handle that "assembler stuff".
As for me I'm an EE graduate from England who came to the USA on an H1B visa. I've never done any electronics since leaving University. I'm entirely self taught as far as computing goes, and I'm a senior engineer in a small game development studio (not EA thankfully).
As part of my EE degree (graduated in the late 80's) I had to do some Pascal, Modula-2, and 68000 assembler.
Yes they are:(
All games to run on the new PSP, must also run on the old PSP. In fact you aren't even allowed to determine which kind of PSP you will be running on.
There's just so much other more important stuff they should have fixed but didn't. Namely, hardware clipping for the guardband (developers have to do this in software), an alpha channel, and a real data cache (there's no hit under miss).
For games, the new PSP will be just as handicapped IMO. The extra 32Mb UMD cache is of debatable benefit, as the UMD is typically used for background loading of the next area, streamed music, and loading throwaway sound effects. The developer has no option on which files to cache, which would have been really useful, instead it's a system setting, so the UMD is cached, or it isn't.
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It was definitely about the price. If Blurays were the same price as DVDs they would have taken off. To get Blurays from Netflix adds an extra charge - no thanks.
And if a media exec is reading this, make your media go directly to the main menu, and have a menu option to watch the trailers, because in 6 months time no one's going to care. Oh and quit disabling the skip and FF buttons.
The vita is not doing well because the Vita sucks, and for no other reason.
Seriously, no cartridge based games? This was one reason, among many, of why the PSP failed too.
Except for canola oil. Canola is treated as "organic", but it's really another GMO. The name itself comes from CANadian OiL. There's no such thing as a canola seed, it's a modified version of a rapeseed, which is a poisonous plant.
The best thing you can do is look at the ingredient list.
There's a certain amount of content that you lose by dropping cable/satellite TV, and going Netflix/Hulu. However, the savings of maybe $80+/month sure makes this choice a no-brainer. You could even buy those few series that you lose out on, on DVD so there's really not much of a loss.
I finally persuaded my spouse to drop TV early this year, and we don't miss it one bit.
Actually it's pretty rare for a game development studio to NOT require ridiculous hours.
"pledge of elegance" - Rofl!
Besides, I pledge my allegiance to my country, not some fucking imaginary friend invented by someone else's power trip.
Does that mean you can give her a Perl necklace?
Why the heck would I want to pay an extra $50 for online play on XBL, when I have the same thing for free on PSN?
Just ask one to spell Britain!
But that doesn't screw over the gamer!
There's no way they'd actually do this.
As far as I know, Ms Thomas did not "distribute" any song files to anyone. If anything, MediaSentry knowingly committed copyright infringement by downloading files from a shared folder.
The #1 reason for American doctors PUSHING circumcision is that they get YOU to pay extra.
#2 is that Americans generally don't even question it.
What the ?
If you are on crunch, you have absolutely ZERO time to innovate!
All you have time for is implement, quick test, check in. Then later on someobody else has to fix your crappy rush job because you created a dozen other bugs.
Crunch times cause more problems than just trying to get a product out on time, plain and simple.
What likely happened is he was one of the unlucky ~30%. Then he gets shipped somebody else's badly refurbished RROD. This process then continues until he is lucky enough to get shipped a brand new console. Good luck.
For my anecdotal story. I have all 3 current gen consoles. My 360 gives me read errors. When a game comes out that is for both 360 and PS3, I always buy the PS3 version as I get a flawless play experience. Shame on MS for producing such a shoddy console.
What part of the 360 scratching disks WHEN IT HAS NOT BEEN MOVED did you not understand?
I found out that Americans think that Vivian is a girl's name.
My first *cough* WoW avatar had a mohican, and I named HIM Vivian after the punk character from Young Ones. So many people kept referring to him as a female.
I have a 360, PS3 and a Wii. I play all of them, not equally, but according to which game I want to play at the time.
Between my 360 and PS3, I play on the PS3 almost exclusively. Why? Because the 360 quite often gives me a DRE (Disc Read Error) that stops the game dead with no retry. The only thing you can do is go back to the dashboard and start the game again. I still buy the occasional 360 game, but when presented with a choice of PS3 or 360 if the game is for both, I have to buy the PS3 version.
I have had no troubles with the PS3. And it's a really really good DVD upscaler. Blue Ray movies look very nice, but damned if I ever pay the extra cost for them.
I guess you've never heard of Stardock.
They offer their games WITHOUT DRM, and offer a value service to anyone who buys their games in the form of automated patches/updates. You are even encouraged to make backups.
They also happen to have done quite well. Sins of a Solar Empire has been in the top 10 list for quite a while.
The onus is on YOU to change your wireless ID to something other than the default.
We just decided to take on an intern full time. He has a CS degree and is absolutely superb... at C. Taking him on was a no-brainer, really. Except he really couldn't handle that "assembler stuff". As for me I'm an EE graduate from England who came to the USA on an H1B visa. I've never done any electronics since leaving University. I'm entirely self taught as far as computing goes, and I'm a senior engineer in a small game development studio (not EA thankfully). As part of my EE degree (graduated in the late 80's) I had to do some Pascal, Modula-2, and 68000 assembler.
Yes they are :(
All games to run on the new PSP, must also run on the old PSP. In fact you aren't even allowed to determine which kind of PSP you will be running on.
There's just so much other more important stuff they should have fixed but didn't. Namely, hardware clipping for the guardband (developers have to do this in software), an alpha channel, and a real data cache (there's no hit under miss).
For games, the new PSP will be just as handicapped IMO. The extra 32Mb UMD cache is of debatable benefit, as the UMD is typically used for background loading of the next area, streamed music, and loading throwaway sound effects. The developer has no option on which files to cache, which would have been really useful, instead it's a system setting, so the UMD is cached, or it isn't.