No big problem here. They're trying to target their audience and create an experience that will bring people back. If this audience differs from the US audience, then changes in the gameplay are appropriate.
It's no secret that Japanese gamers are not US gamers.
My company has grown via acquisition (over 100 in 10 years) and is publicly traded. I've seen numerous purchase agreements, and there are a multitude of restrictions placed on us and what we can do with the companies we bought.
(and my spelling of principal was correct, there was no need for you to attempt a correction)
this is a pretty clueless comment. businesses acquire other businesses quite often, and contracts with the acquired principals are an integral part of those transactions. for all we know there could be a clause that says if Dell tries to put a Dell logo on an Alienware box then controlling interest in Dell will pass to the Alienware guy.
pretty soon you won't be able to get insurance at all without the audit.
as for the guy and his actuary comment - look, I hate insurance salesmen, too. I know too many of them. but for a business person looking for a rate quote they are a necessary evil. you can't have people calling actuaries for information, actuaries can only communicate with other actuaries.
"The material most likely to be read, referenced, and valued in this book, is the chapters devoted to explaining how to use ImageMagick for resizing, compressing, transforming, and drawing digital images."
OK, I don't get the drawing part - but the rest seem amenable to batch processing.
"it's not being a leech to buy something that you think is undervalued by the seller"
that's not what goes on here. this is one more chump taken in by the "make your fortune in real estate" infomercials. his only problem was he bought TOO cheap, and couldn't get the appraisal he needed to mortgage the property, take out a bunch of cash, and resell it to the next chump.
I read this article yesterday - the guy bought a house for THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS! Come on, you can't buy a good used car for that. All this article really tells us is that a leech who was trying to flip houses for a quick profit got burned by a bigger leech.
limiting access to information had nothing to do with security and everything to do with protecting politicians and their contributors. here in NJ a bill has been introduced to restrict the public's access to property tax info, while making it easier for realtors to get it. introduced by, you guessed it, a realtor masquerading as a legislator.
I got this copy of The Hobbit when I was 16. I bought this copy of Dune at Haslams in St. Pete. I stole Thomas Covenant from my roommate in college. That history does mean something to me. Provides a continuity.
Ok, I didn't really read much on the subject, but it sounds like all Origami is is a spec for this small form factor ultra-tablet PC. That lets Microsoft talk like they've invented something cool, but require the hardware vendors to make the investment in product development. When it fails they can just blame the hardware guys, and roll the features into the next generation of Windows.
You note an interesting problem we have. Our currency has no value beyond what people will pay for it. Not the best position for a currency to be in. The value of a US dollar has nothing to do with what our economic output is. Its value is simply how it looks relative to everyone else's currency.
And, No, consumption is NOT the goal of an economy. Especially when what is being consumed is being produced by someone else.
per capita GDP is $3100. per capita GDP in US is $41,800. not much of a trade.
Bush's globalization focus is disturbing to me. It is reducing the US economy to one of consumption, while production is leaving the country. Couple that with increasing federal spending, and debt, and increasing personal spending, and debt, and the US will be an economic hostage to those who buy US debt securities.
Gas stations on the Garden State Parkway are now run by Lukoil, a Russian oil company. More and more of America's cash is leaving the country - our affluence is being purchased at the expense of our future.
Article III, Section 2; In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
I know we don't see this used much, if ever, but I believe it is an important item. Congress can tell the SCOTUS to "butt out" when necessary.
you left out an important option: remove the SC's jurisdiction from the matter at hand.
The only reason the SC is treated as the last word is because they claimed that right in Marbury v Madison. There is nothing in the constitution about it.
"If the supreme court struck down a law, and the government is using its resources to try and bring it back, isn't that illegal?"
No. That's how things are supposed to work here. The SC is NOT the last word, they are one of three coequal branches. Their decisions can be challenged, overridden, ignored or followed, as the other branches see fit. Lately we have deferred to the Court on just about everything, but that assuredly is not what anyone intended 200 years ago.
charging $49 a year for Windows. If the security suite takes off, and I imagine it will, it will provide the infrastructure for Microsoft to start selling their OS like they sell their apps to business. Annual subscription, only now with online activation and authorization. Jan 1 will roll around and your Amex gets charged another $49 to keep running Windows.
I used to think that a generational change in US politics would be significant. I even voted for Clinton in 1992 for that very reason. I was wrong. Regardless of a person's birthdate, politics overrides ideals, experience and education, and corrupts their very souls.
Don't think that because someone has played videogames, or smoked dope, or written open source code, he/she will bring a new view to politics if elected to office. The system will eat them up, digest them, and turn them into shit, just like every other politician.
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No big problem here. They're trying to target their audience and create an experience that will bring people back. If this audience differs from the US audience, then changes in the gameplay are appropriate.
It's no secret that Japanese gamers are not US gamers.
actually, there IS a save feature, it's just that no one in the US knows how to use it.....
My company has grown via acquisition (over 100 in 10 years) and is publicly traded. I've seen numerous purchase agreements, and there are a multitude of restrictions placed on us and what we can do with the companies we bought.
(and my spelling of principal was correct, there was no need for you to attempt a correction)
this is a pretty clueless comment. businesses acquire other businesses quite often, and contracts with the acquired principals are an integral part of those transactions. for all we know there could be a clause that says if Dell tries to put a Dell logo on an Alienware box then controlling interest in Dell will pass to the Alienware guy.
pretty soon you won't be able to get insurance at all without the audit.
as for the guy and his actuary comment - look, I hate insurance salesmen, too. I know too many of them. but for a business person looking for a rate quote they are a necessary evil. you can't have people calling actuaries for information, actuaries can only communicate with other actuaries.
until I read the FA.
"The material most likely to be read, referenced, and valued in this book, is the chapters devoted to explaining how to use ImageMagick for resizing, compressing, transforming, and drawing digital images."
OK, I don't get the drawing part - but the rest seem amenable to batch processing.
"it's not being a leech to buy something that you think is undervalued by the seller"
that's not what goes on here. this is one more chump taken in by the "make your fortune in real estate" infomercials. his only problem was he bought TOO cheap, and couldn't get the appraisal he needed to mortgage the property, take out a bunch of cash, and resell it to the next chump.
I read this article yesterday - the guy bought a house for THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS! Come on, you can't buy a good used car for that. All this article really tells us is that a leech who was trying to flip houses for a quick profit got burned by a bigger leech.
limiting access to information had nothing to do with security and everything to do with protecting politicians and their contributors. here in NJ a bill has been introduced to restrict the public's access to property tax info, while making it easier for realtors to get it. introduced by, you guessed it, a realtor masquerading as a legislator.
I got this copy of The Hobbit when I was 16. I bought this copy of Dune at Haslams in St. Pete. I stole Thomas Covenant from my roommate in college. That history does mean something to me. Provides a continuity.
Easier, much, on the eyes, also.
Ok, I didn't really read much on the subject, but it sounds like all Origami is is a spec for this small form factor ultra-tablet PC. That lets Microsoft talk like they've invented something cool, but require the hardware vendors to make the investment in product development. When it fails they can just blame the hardware guys, and roll the features into the next generation of Windows.
The FBI is part of Homeland Security now. The IRS will be soon.
run for something, I'll vote for you. (because I have no mod points)
what have we come to that Slashdot has to source breaking news from the Hollywood trade rag?
ok, I checked: "Meanwhile, on or about Feb. 14, the parkway's gas stations will be changed from Mobil stations to Lukoil stations."
You note an interesting problem we have. Our currency has no value beyond what people will pay for it. Not the best position for a currency to be in. The value of a US dollar has nothing to do with what our economic output is. Its value is simply how it looks relative to everyone else's currency.
And, No, consumption is NOT the goal of an economy. Especially when what is being consumed is being produced by someone else.
actually they had been run by Exxon-Mobil. US last time I checked.
I'm not opposed to foreign trade. But we're not trading, we're buying. Trade deficit grows, national debt grows, foreign ownership of said debt grows.
I don't see a happy ending there.
per capita GDP is $3100. per capita GDP in US is $41,800. not much of a trade.
Bush's globalization focus is disturbing to me. It is reducing the US economy to one of consumption, while production is leaving the country. Couple that with increasing federal spending, and debt, and increasing personal spending, and debt, and the US will be an economic hostage to those who buy US debt securities.
Gas stations on the Garden State Parkway are now run by Lukoil, a Russian oil company. More and more of America's cash is leaving the country - our affluence is being purchased at the expense of our future.
say no more. I'm getting one.
people went out, doctors went out, parents went out, and we did ok.
last Sunday in church (spare me the religion debate) a cell phone rang while the priest was consecrating the host. Jesus was pissed.
if people could be trusted to turn them to vibrate this sort of thing wouldn't even be on the drawing board. but people suck.
I know we don't see this used much, if ever, but I believe it is an important item. Congress can tell the SCOTUS to "butt out" when necessary.
you left out an important option: remove the SC's jurisdiction from the matter at hand.
The only reason the SC is treated as the last word is because they claimed that right in Marbury v Madison. There is nothing in the constitution about it.
"If the supreme court struck down a law, and the government is using its resources to try and bring it back, isn't that illegal?"
No. That's how things are supposed to work here. The SC is NOT the last word, they are one of three coequal branches. Their decisions can be challenged, overridden, ignored or followed, as the other branches see fit. Lately we have deferred to the Court on just about everything, but that assuredly is not what anyone intended 200 years ago.
charging $49 a year for Windows. If the security suite takes off, and I imagine it will, it will provide the infrastructure for Microsoft to start selling their OS like they sell their apps to business. Annual subscription, only now with online activation and authorization. Jan 1 will roll around and your Amex gets charged another $49 to keep running Windows.
I used to think that a generational change in US politics would be significant. I even voted for Clinton in 1992 for that very reason. I was wrong. Regardless of a person's birthdate, politics overrides ideals, experience and education, and corrupts their very souls.
Don't think that because someone has played videogames, or smoked dope, or written open source code, he/she will bring a new view to politics if elected to office. The system will eat them up, digest them, and turn them into shit, just like every other politician.