More than that Nintendo just make 100 classic books for the DS series, and why not make more eBook stuff for the other video game consoles? Playstation 3 Sony claims it does everything? Make it read eBooks and synch up with a PSP Go to put the eBooks on it to make it another eBook reader.
If anything sony would have it sync with their prs ereader devices. I guess the psp could also work, but if they wanted to promote ebooks they would do it with their existing hardware built for ebooks.
But is there anyplace that amalgamate book numbers together? I don't know of any. I think we are stuck with partial number sets.
Well I do know that fictionwise says at the top that they are a barnes and noble company. So they should be able to do similar comparisons between the physical b&n stores and their website sales. I think amazon just has been trying to do more trumpeting of the numbers than anyone as of yet.
Also, borderlands on steam was the only version you could get the non-securom version of base game and the last dlc. I skipped the other two dlc just because of the crappy double drm that would have been required.
I am betting that at least part of the lack of sales has to do with the economy. I myself wanted one but didn't get it because of that. It is hard to assume that direct phone sales are dead when you only have one example of it in the US....
RPG erroneously seems to be defined as "upgradeable stats" whether it is by leveling up or equipping better items. I'm also curious how modelling this game after the space era of Spore with precreated uneditable creatures is inspired from the creature creator...
Yeah, no kidding! I thought the actual creature phase with the running around and combat was really neat. I was hoping for something bigger with similar ideas. A 3d Evo was really what I had hoped for, and this new one doesn't seem to do that either...
I think that if the ebook stores were more like book stores as far as selection and competition things would be a lot better. It is still very frustrating to have to hunt around several stores before finding one that actually even has a book I'm looking for. In some cases this means it is locked away in a drm store so I can't even give my money over for buying said book. That fact alone hinders in the sale of the devices since you don't exactly know which store the next book you want might go to. The model that the indie ebook stores have, where they try to have as many of the different formats for every book, is really nice. I also like the way the electronic library model is: you get a timed drm book to do with what you please, just check it out again to get more time. The problem with the library version is the same as the ebook stores, horrible selection. These are the real problems, and they come about because of exclusive rights caused by drm schemes.
So if you are feeling nostalgic, you can drop $60 or just buy an old used copy for probably $5. I'll probably still buy it just to play occasionally online with friends though...
You know, the fact that they upped the price to $60 as apposed to most all other pc title prices of $50 really got on my nerves. When it gets back to normal prices for a pc game I might pick it up. Though I would much rather get a copy through steam but I know that isn't possible...
As of today, I can't think of a single DLC for any game that is actually worth it. They are almost all just quick cash ins.
Beyond the sword for Civ 4 had as much content as the game itself. It fixed some problems with the tech tree, added new civs, added unique buildings for every race, several very unique scenarios that were almost like playing new games themselves. And that isn't even everything, the game is just that much better for having the expansion.
Don't you usually pay $60 for an unfinished game anyways? What's the last game you purchased that didn't require at least 1 or 2 updates to fix things that were broken from the start?
No. If I do get a new game at full retail I'll get the pc version for $50. Usually I can get it through a discount for pre-order and that drops to $45 or less. It isn't much but that does make a difference. Otherwise every game I've gotten for a nintendo console has been complete without the need for updates or dlc to make it more complete.
However, I wish the interface itself was better. The times I'd die for a purely continuous analogue middle wheel, instead of the 'step-by-step' wheel that's forced upon us.
They have this. The logitech g500 mouse has a small button below the scroll wheel that changes between the two you refer to. It really is nice to have. I didn't even think I wanted it but now I absolutely love the feature.
Well, having done some work with legos to make them more sound structurally, it can work. Essentially if you use pvc pipe glue to melt the plastic of the pieces as you are building it you get a very strong plastic structure. I'm not saying it is anything to rely on like actual building materials, but it can easily hold a lot of weight.
This would be a much better article if there were any sort of pictures of said robot. I'm more interested in what kind of construction / form it is in.
It's called an abstraction layer, and nothing's stopping the games developers from funding a cross-platform layer which does that. The difficulty is in adding a layer of abstraction, making that layer reasonably platform-independent and still seeing half-decent performance.
The other difficulty is the different ways each of the platforms (other than ps3/xbox) control a game. Designing a game that easily lets a player use a mouse/keyboard or wiimote/knunchuck or gamepad without one of the three seeming like a horrible port is no easy task.
True enough but not all ebook stores are drm ridden. Fictionwise, for instance, has many format options and most of the time you can get drm free books. That way you can actually let people "borrow" them. Otherwise there is time limited borrowing for drm pdf along with other ways to let people borrow the books. This way you can currently get e-books from libraries. You get the book for a short period and then it isn't usable anymore.
Otherwise I agree that if it does have drm it vastly devalues the ebook and as such your prices ($10 new, $4 > year old) are about how much I'm willing to pay too.
Well then you may want to check out fictionwise
It is a fiction ebook store that has electronic versions of books that will work in almost any of the ebooks out there. Though admittedly the easiest for this might be the sony ones since they strangely have the most open stance on book formats of the big 3 ebooks. They have a whole section on what versions work for the various ebook devices.
Your suggestions tells poor people who happen to have a handicap or chronic condition to get stuffed.
That's a baseless assertion. If you can't explain your reasoning then it is meaningless.
I'm pretty confident that you are wrong, but until you say how you got from point A of catastrophic insurance to point B of chronic conditions not being treated there is nothing to say in response.
I think where this really comes into play is how much it costs for drugs and medical supplies for some chronic conditions. I myself have insulin dependent diabetes and the costs of the supplies / drugs is far more than is reasonable. I would say that without good insurance it is near impossible for someone with this condition to live a normal life without making at least 40k a year. These are the kinds of cases where one can easily pay more per month than one might pay for rent. When you consider that these people need to also be considered with any health plan it is hard to just do the cash + extreme emergency health insurance option. That is why poor people who are handicapped or have a chronic condition get "stuffed".
It is times like this when I wish they would simply mention that they mean video gamers in the title. Because I know that between the various types of 'games' (card/board/video) I probably spend more than 40 hours a week doing it. Though it really depends on the particular week.
The reason that the kindle / sony reader / nook are better than these $99 readers is because they use e-ink. Which really is a different feel for reading and viewing. If you haven't seen it then you don't realize how much of a difference it brings over the other display types. It is also why they are better at just plain reading then the iPad ever can be just because of eye strain levels.
There is a handy app they made for civ 4 called pitboss. It makes it so you can create a server game without having to have the full game running. With this going you can have it set up so you can get emails for whenever it is your turn and you log on and take your turn. It also, at the same time, allows multiple people to be on for playing.
When I played it a lot with friends a few years ago we would have a weekly 2 hour or so of playing on one night of the week and then after that just log in for the 1-5 turns each day via email. What makes it worth it is the much more interesting deals and partnerships you can get going with other human players.
Otherwise there were easy ways to make much quicker games. You could do a advance start where you have x amount of money / to get cities / techs based on the start age. That way you can customize and still start in the middle ages or modern day or whatever. There were a few other ways to make it still interesting but quicker but those are the only ones I actually tried.
I had some very similar things happen to some of my mail / netflix. I solved it by going to the post office and talking to the management about it. After it happened again I went again and that finally got the message through. Everything has been fine for the past 5+ months now since I did that.
Is actually just like some meetings.
We are just complaining about meetings and wasting time.
After reading enough of this it feels in some ways like being in a meeting.
For right now, cost and (extreme) battery life are really the only two things kindle has going for it.
No, the major diference is the screen technology. Any e-ink reader is different in this way. It makes reading for long stretches on a device much easier on your eyes. Even though the iPad can do ebook I would much rather read a physical book or an e-ink device. Otherwise it just gets uncomfortable after a while.
What does the average American pay for health insurance per month? For comparison, I think I pay about £50 per month, for which I get free health care no matter what the circumstances; and I earn a pretty hefty salary, so I don't think it is bad.
Well since I have always had insurance through group plans at work it has varied. If the company you work for chips in then it is usually any where from $70-$150 a month depending on how good of a plan it is. I currently am paying the full price for a plan that was previously subsidized by my employer for $375 a month. It has a deductible of $1100 a year so that after I have paid that much in healthcare everything is free. This is actually one of the best plans I have had before, mainly because my average healthcare per month cost is $500 or so (prescriptions, dr visits, etc).
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More than that Nintendo just make 100 classic books for the DS series, and why not make more eBook stuff for the other video game consoles? Playstation 3 Sony claims it does everything? Make it read eBooks and synch up with a PSP Go to put the eBooks on it to make it another eBook reader.
If anything sony would have it sync with their prs ereader devices. I guess the psp could also work, but if they wanted to promote ebooks they would do it with their existing hardware built for ebooks.
But is there anyplace that amalgamate book numbers together? I don't know of any. I think we are stuck with partial number sets.
Well I do know that fictionwise says at the top that they are a barnes and noble company. So they should be able to do similar comparisons between the physical b&n stores and their website sales. I think amazon just has been trying to do more trumpeting of the numbers than anyone as of yet.
Also, borderlands on steam was the only version you could get the non-securom version of base game and the last dlc. I skipped the other two dlc just because of the crappy double drm that would have been required.
I am betting that at least part of the lack of sales has to do with the economy. I myself wanted one but didn't get it because of that. It is hard to assume that direct phone sales are dead when you only have one example of it in the US....
RPG erroneously seems to be defined as "upgradeable stats" whether it is by leveling up or equipping better items. I'm also curious how modelling this game after the space era of Spore with precreated uneditable creatures is inspired from the creature creator...
Yeah, no kidding! I thought the actual creature phase with the running around and combat was really neat. I was hoping for something bigger with similar ideas. A 3d Evo was really what I had hoped for, and this new one doesn't seem to do that either...
I think that if the ebook stores were more like book stores as far as selection and competition things would be a lot better. It is still very frustrating to have to hunt around several stores before finding one that actually even has a book I'm looking for. In some cases this means it is locked away in a drm store so I can't even give my money over for buying said book. That fact alone hinders in the sale of the devices since you don't exactly know which store the next book you want might go to. The model that the indie ebook stores have, where they try to have as many of the different formats for every book, is really nice. I also like the way the electronic library model is: you get a timed drm book to do with what you please, just check it out again to get more time. The problem with the library version is the same as the ebook stores, horrible selection. These are the real problems, and they come about because of exclusive rights caused by drm schemes.
So if you are feeling nostalgic, you can drop $60 or just buy an old used copy for probably $5. I'll probably still buy it just to play occasionally online with friends though...
You know, the fact that they upped the price to $60 as apposed to most all other pc title prices of $50 really got on my nerves. When it gets back to normal prices for a pc game I might pick it up. Though I would much rather get a copy through steam but I know that isn't possible...
As of today, I can't think of a single DLC for any game that is actually worth it. They are almost all just quick cash ins.
Beyond the sword for Civ 4 had as much content as the game itself. It fixed some problems with the tech tree, added new civs, added unique buildings for every race, several very unique scenarios that were almost like playing new games themselves. And that isn't even everything, the game is just that much better for having the expansion.
Don't you usually pay $60 for an unfinished game anyways? What's the last game you purchased that didn't require at least 1 or 2 updates to fix things that were broken from the start?
No. If I do get a new game at full retail I'll get the pc version for $50. Usually I can get it through a discount for pre-order and that drops to $45 or less. It isn't much but that does make a difference. Otherwise every game I've gotten for a nintendo console has been complete without the need for updates or dlc to make it more complete.
However, I wish the interface itself was better. The times I'd die for a purely continuous analogue middle wheel, instead of the 'step-by-step' wheel that's forced upon us.
They have this. The logitech g500 mouse has a small button below the scroll wheel that changes between the two you refer to. It really is nice to have. I didn't even think I wanted it but now I absolutely love the feature.
Well, having done some work with legos to make them more sound structurally, it can work. Essentially if you use pvc pipe glue to melt the plastic of the pieces as you are building it you get a very strong plastic structure. I'm not saying it is anything to rely on like actual building materials, but it can easily hold a lot of weight.
This would be a much better article if there were any sort of pictures of said robot. I'm more interested in what kind of construction / form it is in.
It's called an abstraction layer, and nothing's stopping the games developers from funding a cross-platform layer which does that. The difficulty is in adding a layer of abstraction, making that layer reasonably platform-independent and still seeing half-decent performance.
The other difficulty is the different ways each of the platforms (other than ps3/xbox) control a game. Designing a game that easily lets a player use a mouse/keyboard or wiimote/knunchuck or gamepad without one of the three seeming like a horrible port is no easy task.
True enough but not all ebook stores are drm ridden. Fictionwise, for instance, has many format options and most of the time you can get drm free books. That way you can actually let people "borrow" them. Otherwise there is time limited borrowing for drm pdf along with other ways to let people borrow the books. This way you can currently get e-books from libraries. You get the book for a short period and then it isn't usable anymore.
Otherwise I agree that if it does have drm it vastly devalues the ebook and as such your prices ($10 new, $4 > year old) are about how much I'm willing to pay too.
Well then you may want to check out fictionwise
It is a fiction ebook store that has electronic versions of books that will work in almost any of the ebooks out there. Though admittedly the easiest for this might be the sony ones since they strangely have the most open stance on book formats of the big 3 ebooks. They have a whole section on what versions work for the various ebook devices.
"The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma"
Not quite as catchy a tune as the first one, but still a good song.
Your suggestions tells poor people who happen to have a handicap or chronic condition to get stuffed.
That's a baseless assertion. If you can't explain your reasoning then it is meaningless.
I'm pretty confident that you are wrong, but until you say how you got from point A of catastrophic insurance to point B of chronic conditions not being treated there is nothing to say in response.
I think where this really comes into play is how much it costs for drugs and medical supplies for some chronic conditions. I myself have insulin dependent diabetes and the costs of the supplies / drugs is far more than is reasonable. I would say that without good insurance it is near impossible for someone with this condition to live a normal life without making at least 40k a year. These are the kinds of cases where one can easily pay more per month than one might pay for rent. When you consider that these people need to also be considered with any health plan it is hard to just do the cash + extreme emergency health insurance option. That is why poor people who are handicapped or have a chronic condition get "stuffed".
It is times like this when I wish they would simply mention that they mean video gamers in the title. Because I know that between the various types of 'games' (card/board/video) I probably spend more than 40 hours a week doing it. Though it really depends on the particular week.
I am surprised anybody buys it. You can buy an iPad for about the same price, and the iPad does far more.
Arguably the kindle is better for just reading - still.
Sears has the "Aluratek LIBRE eBook Reader PRO" for $99, and buy.com has the "Ectaco jetBOOK LITE e-Book Reader" also for $99.
http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00309013000P?vName=Computers%20&%20Electronics&cName=PortableElectronics&sName=MP3%20Players&psid=FROOGLE01&sid=IDx20070921x00003a
http://www.buy.com/prod/ectaco-jetbook-lite-e-book-reader/q/listingid/84607877/loc/111/213401968.html
The reason that the kindle / sony reader / nook are better than these $99 readers is because they use e-ink. Which really is a different feel for reading and viewing. If you haven't seen it then you don't realize how much of a difference it brings over the other display types. It is also why they are better at just plain reading then the iPad ever can be just because of eye strain levels.
There is a handy app they made for civ 4 called pitboss. It makes it so you can create a server game without having to have the full game running. With this going you can have it set up so you can get emails for whenever it is your turn and you log on and take your turn. It also, at the same time, allows multiple people to be on for playing.
When I played it a lot with friends a few years ago we would have a weekly 2 hour or so of playing on one night of the week and then after that just log in for the 1-5 turns each day via email. What makes it worth it is the much more interesting deals and partnerships you can get going with other human players.
Otherwise there were easy ways to make much quicker games. You could do a advance start where you have x amount of money / to get cities / techs based on the start age. That way you can customize and still start in the middle ages or modern day or whatever. There were a few other ways to make it still interesting but quicker but those are the only ones I actually tried.
I had some very similar things happen to some of my mail / netflix. I solved it by going to the post office and talking to the management about it. After it happened again I went again and that finally got the message through. Everything has been fine for the past 5+ months now since I did that.
Is actually just like some meetings.
We are just complaining about meetings and wasting time.
After reading enough of this it feels in some ways like being in a meeting.
(Don't (use so many) parentheses)
It is like reading Lisp
so we use(so, many) with the result going to Don't along with parentheses. Not sure what that would output... Don't(somany, parentheses)...
For right now, cost and (extreme) battery life are really the only two things kindle has going for it.
No, the major diference is the screen technology. Any e-ink reader is different in this way. It makes reading for long stretches on a device much easier on your eyes. Even though the iPad can do ebook I would much rather read a physical book or an e-ink device. Otherwise it just gets uncomfortable after a while.
What does the average American pay for health insurance per month? For comparison, I think I pay about £50 per month, for which I get free health care no matter what the circumstances; and I earn a pretty hefty salary, so I don't think it is bad.
Well since I have always had insurance through group plans at work it has varied. If the company you work for chips in then it is usually any where from $70-$150 a month depending on how good of a plan it is. I currently am paying the full price for a plan that was previously subsidized by my employer for $375 a month. It has a deductible of $1100 a year so that after I have paid that much in healthcare everything is free. This is actually one of the best plans I have had before, mainly because my average healthcare per month cost is $500 or so (prescriptions, dr visits, etc).