The problem with the PS3 is twofold, first off it is aimed at the HD market when a lot of people simply A) don't have an HD TV and don't care or B) don't care that the game looks better than on the 360. Secondly, there aren't many exclusive titles for it, Final Fantasy XIII looked like it could be a killer title... But it is coming to the 360 too. The Wii has Mario, Zelda, Super Smash Bros, etc. The 360 has Halo, the PS3 has...?
Because a really great game can get you recognized forever. Think about Square, most of the games they made flopped. It only took one good game (Final Fantasy) to become a hit for Square to be the legendary game publisher it is known as today. If Square just did some more really crappy games that sold decently but no one really liked, I doubt they would have the fanbase that they do today.
Ummm... then why is it that every decent game out there (and the Wii menu!) can tell you where your Wii remote is pointed and it is only the cheaply made third-party games that cannot?
So the 2600/NES/SNES/Mega Drive/Dremcast/Saturn/PS1/PS2/Xbox/N64/Game Boy/GameCube all sucked? Sure, the Wii doesn't give you great graphics compared to the PS3, but guess what graphics aren't everything and more and more people are coming to that conclusion. Make a fun game and it will sell, tech-demos and games made to only show good graphics (sports games anyone?) will rot on store shelves, but good, fun and enjoyable games will be played.
Third party games can be great on the Wii, but most (read as 95%) seem to think that in order to make a good game on the Wii they have to make everything motion controlled. Look at one of Nintendo's best games for the Wii, Super Smash Bros Brawl, it didn't use the motion sensor hardly at all, yet I think it is much more enjoyable than mindlessly waving the Wii remote around like most third party games make you do.
Yes but what I found interesting was the forgotten room contained PS3 games! So how forgotten is a forgotten room when it has games from ~2006 or more recent.
So let me get this right, there was an unmarked door in Sega's office that everyone had forgotten about but really contained every game ever made by Sega?
It wouldn't be much of a deterrent if the fine for catching a train without a ticket was only the ticket price + 10%.
No, but that simply means that they need a guy to take the tickets, rip off the stub and hand it back to you. Even movie theaters do that. Copyright infringement can be easily framed.
It's perfectly acceptable to think that you should be able to control what your kids watch on tv, to some extent.
I was talking about government-imposed censorship like what the FCC does.
If you oppose this because you're afraid of what it could become, then you've lost touch with reality. There has to be a boundary line, a threshold that can't be crossed, and you have to be willing to accept that these copyright holders can't have people selling their property for profit
Yes, but is a tenfold increase necessary? Nope. It makes sense for if I am selling pirated books knowing that they were pirated I might have to pay a $500 fine to the copyright holders and give them all of my income from those books. Not I have to pay a $100,000 fine.
No, you get "Bush is evil" because that is what the media keeps saying. Ask them how Bush could have done better and they will (after a long rant about how we need to stop the Iraq war) have nothing to say.
I don't get why MS really even *cares* about OOXML passing or failing. The.doc "standard" (and I use that term loosely) was still used even with it being very closed. If MS wants to use an open format then there is nothing wrong with using the more open (and vastly superior) Open Document Format. But I don't really see the motivation in trying to get OOXML to pass...
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness
I honestly don't think that our government gets the powers they have from the consent of the governed anymore.
Here is the thing though, all the presidential candidates admire the UK for this, Obama sees that it is great with all the government provided health care, McCain sees it as great because of how the police can watch you 24/7. But you do it halfway and in 4-8 years we will have the other half of it. The US has become as tyrannical if not more than the government we overthrew 200 years ago.
Ok, have you ever been hurt/beat up by a terrorist? Harassed by a terrorist? Framed by a terrorist? Most of us haven't but for most people at least one of the above has happened with them and a cop.
But KDE is simply a metapackage much like ubuntu-desktop, for example, if you want to install KDE you simply do sudo apt-get install kde, removing the package KDE only removes the KDE metapackage.
The only point of the KDE metapackage is to provide a 1-click install for KDE.
No, you have to realize, this is like KDE 4, just because it is nearing completion doesn't mean that it will be released this year. That and Duke Nukem Forever.
But which is easier to test for someone who isn't a kernel hacker, A) a default Ubuntu or B) the latest kernel. But what about compile-time flags, who's kernel tree, etc. By basing it on a standard Ubuntu install, the average person can still report kernel bugs without messing around with kernel hacking.
But Ubuntu is the most used distros and it can be easily said that it is a Ubuntu bug rather than testing default installs of Gentoo/Slackware/SuSE/Fedora/Arch/etc.
Wait... So everyone in China is a communist? Does that mean that back when we had a republican president and a mostly republican congress that the US was republican?
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The problem with the PS3 is twofold, first off it is aimed at the HD market when a lot of people simply A) don't have an HD TV and don't care or B) don't care that the game looks better than on the 360. Secondly, there aren't many exclusive titles for it, Final Fantasy XIII looked like it could be a killer title... But it is coming to the 360 too. The Wii has Mario, Zelda, Super Smash Bros, etc. The 360 has Halo, the PS3 has...?
Because a really great game can get you recognized forever. Think about Square, most of the games they made flopped. It only took one good game (Final Fantasy) to become a hit for Square to be the legendary game publisher it is known as today. If Square just did some more really crappy games that sold decently but no one really liked, I doubt they would have the fanbase that they do today.
Ummm... then why is it that every decent game out there (and the Wii menu!) can tell you where your Wii remote is pointed and it is only the cheaply made third-party games that cannot?
So the 2600/NES/SNES/Mega Drive/Dremcast/Saturn/PS1/PS2/Xbox/N64/Game Boy/GameCube all sucked? Sure, the Wii doesn't give you great graphics compared to the PS3, but guess what graphics aren't everything and more and more people are coming to that conclusion. Make a fun game and it will sell, tech-demos and games made to only show good graphics (sports games anyone?) will rot on store shelves, but good, fun and enjoyable games will be played.
Third party games can be great on the Wii, but most (read as 95%) seem to think that in order to make a good game on the Wii they have to make everything motion controlled. Look at one of Nintendo's best games for the Wii, Super Smash Bros Brawl, it didn't use the motion sensor hardly at all, yet I think it is much more enjoyable than mindlessly waving the Wii remote around like most third party games make you do.
Yes but what I found interesting was the forgotten room contained PS3 games! So how forgotten is a forgotten room when it has games from ~2006 or more recent.
So let me get this right, there was an unmarked door in Sega's office that everyone had forgotten about but really contained every game ever made by Sega?
...My question is why there are SNES games in there. Because the Mega Drive came out before the SNES... Perhaps a merger?
It wouldn't be much of a deterrent if the fine for catching a train without a ticket was only the ticket price + 10%.
No, but that simply means that they need a guy to take the tickets, rip off the stub and hand it back to you. Even movie theaters do that. Copyright infringement can be easily framed.
It's perfectly acceptable to think that you should be able to control what your kids watch on tv, to some extent.
I was talking about government-imposed censorship like what the FCC does.
If you oppose this because you're afraid of what it could become, then you've lost touch with reality. There has to be a boundary line, a threshold that can't be crossed, and you have to be willing to accept that these copyright holders can't have people selling their property for profit
Yes, but is a tenfold increase necessary? Nope. It makes sense for if I am selling pirated books knowing that they were pirated I might have to pay a $500 fine to the copyright holders and give them all of my income from those books. Not I have to pay a $100,000 fine.
No, you get "Bush is evil" because that is what the media keeps saying. Ask them how Bush could have done better and they will (after a long rant about how we need to stop the Iraq war) have nothing to say.
I don't get why MS really even *cares* about OOXML passing or failing. The .doc "standard" (and I use that term loosely) was still used even with it being very closed. If MS wants to use an open format then there is nothing wrong with using the more open (and vastly superior) Open Document Format. But I don't really see the motivation in trying to get OOXML to pass...
But it only takes one step to go from making money on copyrighted works to downloading copyrighted works.
Take a look at censorship:
Harmful for children becomes harmful for good citizens becomes harmful for you becomes harmful for the state.
Just because it starts out with something small doesn't mean that it won't keep growing.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness
I honestly don't think that our government gets the powers they have from the consent of the governed anymore.
Here is the thing though, all the presidential candidates admire the UK for this, Obama sees that it is great with all the government provided health care, McCain sees it as great because of how the police can watch you 24/7. But you do it halfway and in 4-8 years we will have the other half of it. The US has become as tyrannical if not more than the government we overthrew 200 years ago.
Ok, have you ever been hurt/beat up by a terrorist? Harassed by a terrorist? Framed by a terrorist? Most of us haven't but for most people at least one of the above has happened with them and a cop.
We have nothing to fear but the state itself
Ummm... The "bomb" is small. If you look at the moon you can see craters from very big things that crashed into it previously.
But KDE is simply a metapackage much like ubuntu-desktop, for example, if you want to install KDE you simply do sudo apt-get install kde, removing the package KDE only removes the KDE metapackage.
The only point of the KDE metapackage is to provide a 1-click install for KDE.
No, you have to realize, this is like KDE 4, just because it is nearing completion doesn't mean that it will be released this year. That and Duke Nukem Forever.
But which is easier to test for someone who isn't a kernel hacker, A) a default Ubuntu or B) the latest kernel. But what about compile-time flags, who's kernel tree, etc. By basing it on a standard Ubuntu install, the average person can still report kernel bugs without messing around with kernel hacking.
But Ubuntu is the most used distros and it can be easily said that it is a Ubuntu bug rather than testing default installs of Gentoo/Slackware/SuSE/Fedora/Arch/etc.
Well I guess your grandma isn't using XP....
Wait... So everyone in China is a communist? Does that mean that back when we had a republican president and a mostly republican congress that the US was republican?
And not to mention that the government thinks that you are a terrorist or communist if you say something that isn't what America is today.