Markets are not so precise. You make a product, you only get one number as market feedback - total units sold (oversimplification, I know).
Almost. There will USA Sales Vs. Japanese Sales, if a market like Japan outsells the US 10 to 1 shareholders and executives will start demanding to know why.
Magma, however, results when rock is pushed up into the crust from the mantle - the decrease in pressure lowers the melting temperature. It can also be generated when water seeps into hot rocks - wet rock has a lower melting temperature. It is NOT evidence that the mantle itself is liquid.
I was with you right up to this point. The presence of water reducing the melting point makes no sense to me. Wouldn't water absorb heat and boil away? So what I'm getting at is this, unless the presence of water reduces the melting point of rock to less than 212F it wouldn't make a difference. If the melting point of the rock in question is above 212F, then all of the water would boil away, leaving dry rock behind.
I realize that we're not talking about a ladel full of hot rock in a furnace somewhere, we're takling about miles below the surface of the earth where the pressures involved are more than most people can comprehend, but if there is a path for liquid water to get in, there would be a path for hot water vapor to exit. Right?
How is it inferior? Just because there's no bouncing boobs and blood doesn't mean that the gameplay suffers because of the lack thereof. So far, that's the primary gripe I've heard you express, is the lack of breasts, and no blood being shed.
Perhaps I'm not being clear enough about the distinction between symptom and problem. The lack of bouncing breasts and blood are the symptoms. The problem is the game publisher's unwillingness to port the game in its entirity to english for the US market.
Remember Final Fight for the SNES? It was missing Guy. One of the three playable characters was missing. I refused to buy that game too. There were enough likeminded people and the publisher released "Final Fight:Guy". That's what should happen here.
In short, yes I want big bouncing titties and I want blood or I won't buy the game. It's that simple.
Maybe these company CEOs should signal the Taiwan government that it's not good for business if you intentionally provoke a neighbour with nuclear weapons and the world's largest standing military.
It is now considered provoking to tell an agressive outsider who has been eyeing you up for about a century that you will not be governed by a murderous Communist regime?
Maybe we should be telling the Chi-Comms that they need to keep it in their pants. Unlike Tiananmen Square, an attack on Taiwan would effect the economic interests of just about every other country on the planet. Many of us have more nukes than they do. And one of us has a treaty with Taiwan that will function as a defense treaty.
Frankly, I think a big deal is being made over nothing.
You're free to think that, but I disagree with you.
The decision to clean it up is being made in Japan. The real concerns we should be having is not "OMG, Mai's boobies aren't bouncing, and there's no blood!!!!!!111!! Fuck you SNK, Fuck you up your stupid asses!"
I don't think it's about just not having blood and big bouncing titties. It's about an inferior version of the game being released in the US.
If no one buys the game, because of their dis-satisfaction with the censorship of the game, instead of putting Mai's bouncing boobies back in, and putting the blood back in, and all that, instead they may simply not put out any more games, because they didn't make enought money to put out another one.
Good. Call it financian Darwinism. If other companies see their downfall, they'll learn not to make the same mistakes.
Think about it this way. If the game sells well enough, then they'll probably release the uncensored version as an "Uncut edition", or a "Director's Cut" or something like that.
You're starting to sound like one of the Apple zealots who rationalizes why it's a good thing for a company to fuck their customers over. "Buy this piece of shit version of the game, and maybe we'll put out one with all of the features that the Japanese version already has."
No thank you. My money will go to another product.
well...since only the hardest of hardcore gamers still play snk 2d fighters. unfortinatly it wont sell well anyways:(
SNK got its ass kicked in the arcades by everyone from Capcom to Nintendo/Rareware. The subsequent death of arcade gaming has made a comback impossible. Home console players are the only market for their fighers.
I don't know why Japanese game companies fuck over US gamers. Maybe it's their revenge for Hiroshima. In all seriousness, I think that it can't be accidental that time after time after time, a really sweet game gets watered down and turned to shit just before the US release.
I still play the Killer Instinct Arcade Emulator because it's the only version of the game that I can get for home use that does not make my anus pucker. The SNES and N64 versions were so terrible that if I said that they were the poop that gets pooped out by the poop that poop poops, I would in fact be unfairly maligning the poop that does get pooped out by the poop that poop poops.
Let the game companies know that we don't want a watered down version of the Japanese version.
If the sales for the game are shit compared to the Japanese version, they'll get the message.
Companies are driven by profit; if they know that they will make less profit, they will be more willing to take the criticism from people who don't buy their games to begin with.
While I'm pro-abortion, conservatives need to realize that two "wrongs" don't make a right. If abortion is so evil, we should at least gain as much good from it as we possibly can. To do otherwise is downright criminal to the medical community and everyone who could benefit from this research.
Want to know a secret?
The reason we oppose the use of aborted fetuses for stem cell research is two fold. Not only do we believe that it would be like taking fruit from a poisoned tree, it would undermine our efforts against abortion on demand. Not only would we be accused of wanting to enslave woman to childbearing, by opposing abortion we would also be accused of wanting someone's little old grandmother to die from parkinsons because she couldn't get the stem cells she needed for her treatment.
Seriously though, wouldn't a HUD distract a motorcyclist? I know it probably would distract me if one were put in my truck...
Fighter pilots don't seem to mind.
As long as it isn't laden with ads picked up through a wardriven WiFi internet connection, I don't think it would be any more distracting than guages and mirrors.
Speed, heading. distance to next object and possibly temp would be great.
Don't get me wrong, moron cagers are a danger, but this whole 'down a few beers and ride into the sunset' thing my fellow bikers have such a fixation with has to stop.
If enough of them keep on doing it, don't worry; it will stop, soon enough.
Is there any reason to use Solaris on z86 other than to become familiar with it so that you can more effectively admin a Sparc machine?
Seriously. Linux and *BSD seem to have a much wider hardware compatibility base. Development for them seems to be going at a much more rapid pace. If you're not tied to a Sparc machine, is there any real reason to use Solaris?
They have no problem using their cell phones, have blogs, PDA's, WiFi, and all sorts of other goodies. As if all those are real private and not giving off anything.
There is a bit of a difference. Who I talk to, what I think, what websites I visit and what games I play on my Visor don't make much evidence that can be used to falsely implicate me in a crime.
Where I am, can be! Before you start talking about how far fetched it is, I'll tell you that I was threatened by a cop once with precisely that. Sgt. CJ Hartman, formerly of the North Versailles PA police department threatened to do just that.
I will do everything I can to prevent men like him from having access to data that can prove that I was within 10 miles of a place where some crime was committed.
OK, so we're being taxed the hell out of, apparently to cover the cost of roads. I just thought it was funny that your punitive rate actually sounds like quite a bargain here in Britain:-)
That $10/gallon figure was meant as an added cost on top of the actual cost(including delivery and the chemicals required for long term storage) of the fuel. I'm just making an educated guess here, but with the cost of transporting it and the stabilizers required for long term petrol based fuel storage I'd estimate the actual cost per gallon to be in the neighborhood of $30 US/Gallon. So in my estimation, $30 (cost) + $10 (stupidity tax)/gallon times 104 gallons comes to over $4100 US.
I guess I could have gone into more detail with my first post on the subject, but I assumed that others would know what I meant.
BTW, I'm in Pennsylvania, the state with what are arguably the worst roads in the US. Paying for front end alignments as regularly as I do, I'd still prefer that to $5.00 per gallon for gasoline.
Number one rule. Never violate any law except those you explicitly set out to violate. It's daft to get nailed for an otherwise successful robbery because you sped away from the scene with a taillight out and an expired vehicle registration.
Or if you get caught speeding away from the building you just blew up in a car with no license plate, insurance, registration or drivers license.
a V1 (generally considered the first cruise missile) had nothing like what you're talking about.
Most military scholars consider the V2 to be the first crusie missile.
The V1 was a rocket. The V2 was pretty much an unmanned airplane with an impressive explosive payload. At the time, its gyroscopic guidance system was revolutionary.
Actually, protection is their job. "To protect and serve"? Yes, they do tend to spend most of their time writing traffic tickets, but that doesn't change the fact that the reason there are cops is to protect the public.
They are not legally obligated to provide protection to you or anyone else, on the few occasions when people tried to sue the police for not protecting them, the courts have said so.
I used to work for a law firm. I've been to every major courthouse in my city (Cleveland) and many in the suburbs too. Maybe it's just a Cleveland thing, but there are no dark stairwells (not many elevators either, but that's a different story) and you can't walk from one end of a hallway to the other without spotting a cop. So I think, that because you have so many police officers in a courthouse, that one doesn't really need a gun and perhaps that went into the law. Maybe not. I didn't write the law.
You've obviously never been to the county courthouse in Pittsburgh. (Where I live) I have been in several dark stairwells. I have seen entire floors in the courthouse that have no police at all.
If we prevented everyone from doing things because they might do something illegal, we'ld have very few freedoms left.
We're not talking about putting computer controlled fuel restrictions on cars because people *might* speed. We're talking about making it illegal to take a video camera into a movie theater. There is a huge difference.
Imagine "no talking on cell phone while driving" going to "no cell phones in cars." Really think about that for a second.
BS. Automobiles are a necessity in most cities, and though I think the "no talking on cell phone while driving" laws are, I have noticed that a large number of careless drivers that I encounter are yacking away on a cell phone when they change lanes in front of me without signalling. It would be better to have the police cite them for careless driving than to restrict the rest of us.
Even so, Apples are not Oranges. There is no compelling reason why you need to have a video camera in a movie theater. I'd prefer to see this take place through a change in theater policy, you can still be arrested for tresspassing if you bring a camera against the owner's permission.
Uh, self-defense would be the ONLY reason a normal civilian would be allowed to kill another person. And in a courthouse, there tends to be enough police around that I don't really think there's a need for that level of self-defense,
Non issue. The police are not obligated to provide anyone with protection. Do you think that there are officers posted in every elevator and dark stairwell?
Also, you're missing the point, and that would be that the worst case senerio with a gun (random innocent people dead) is a whole lot worse than the worst case senerio with a camera (a crappy copy of a movie).
No, I get the point. It's just not an issue. The potential for illegal conduct outweighing the legitimate uses is why both items are prohibited in the places in question.
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Markets are not so precise. You make a product, you only get one number as market feedback - total units sold (oversimplification, I know).
Almost. There will USA Sales Vs. Japanese Sales, if a market like Japan outsells the US 10 to 1 shareholders and executives will start demanding to know why.
Magma, however, results when rock is pushed up into the crust from the mantle - the decrease in pressure lowers the melting temperature. It can also be generated when water seeps into hot rocks - wet rock has a lower melting temperature. It is NOT evidence that the mantle itself is liquid.
I was with you right up to this point. The presence of water reducing the melting point makes no sense to me. Wouldn't water absorb heat and boil away? So what I'm getting at is this, unless the presence of water reduces the melting point of rock to less than 212F it wouldn't make a difference. If the melting point of the rock in question is above 212F, then all of the water would boil away, leaving dry rock behind.
I realize that we're not talking about a ladel full of hot rock in a furnace somewhere, we're takling about miles below the surface of the earth where the pressures involved are more than most people can comprehend, but if there is a path for liquid water to get in, there would be a path for hot water vapor to exit. Right?
How is it inferior? Just because there's no bouncing boobs and blood doesn't mean that the gameplay suffers because of the lack thereof. So far, that's the primary gripe I've heard you express, is the lack of breasts, and no blood being shed.
Perhaps I'm not being clear enough about the distinction between symptom and problem. The lack of bouncing breasts and blood are the symptoms. The problem is the game publisher's unwillingness to port the game in its entirity to english for the US market.
Remember Final Fight for the SNES? It was missing Guy. One of the three playable characters was missing. I refused to buy that game too. There were enough likeminded people and the publisher released "Final Fight:Guy". That's what should happen here.
In short, yes I want big bouncing titties and I want blood or I won't buy the game. It's that simple.
LK
Maybe these company CEOs should signal the Taiwan government that it's not good for business if you intentionally provoke a neighbour with nuclear weapons and the world's largest standing military.
It is now considered provoking to tell an agressive outsider who has been eyeing you up for about a century that you will not be governed by a murderous Communist regime?
Maybe we should be telling the Chi-Comms that they need to keep it in their pants. Unlike Tiananmen Square, an attack on Taiwan would effect the economic interests of just about every other country on the planet. Many of us have more nukes than they do. And one of us has a treaty with Taiwan that will function as a defense treaty.
Don't fuck with Taiwan.
Frankly, I think a big deal is being made over nothing.
You're free to think that, but I disagree with you.
The decision to clean it up is being made in Japan. The real concerns we should be having is not "OMG, Mai's boobies aren't bouncing, and there's no blood!!!!!!111!! Fuck you SNK, Fuck you up your stupid asses!"
I don't think it's about just not having blood and big bouncing titties. It's about an inferior version of the game being released in the US.
If no one buys the game, because of their dis-satisfaction with the censorship of the game, instead of putting Mai's bouncing boobies back in, and putting the blood back in, and all that, instead they may simply not put out any more games, because they didn't make enought money to put out another one.
Good. Call it financian Darwinism. If other companies see their downfall, they'll learn not to make the same mistakes.
Think about it this way. If the game sells well enough, then they'll probably release the uncensored version as an "Uncut edition", or a "Director's Cut" or something like that.
You're starting to sound like one of the Apple zealots who rationalizes why it's a good thing for a company to fuck their customers over. "Buy this piece of shit version of the game, and maybe we'll put out one with all of the features that the Japanese version already has."
No thank you. My money will go to another product.
LK
They include "The Tornado in a Can" ("A contained cyclone, it turns out, is very useful for pulverizing things")
In other news, I have just concluded a study that has found that a glass of water, it turns out, is very useful for quenching thirst.
Come one now, if they can clear trailer parks in 30 seconds, isn't this just a progression of logic?
LK
well...since only the hardest of hardcore gamers still play snk 2d fighters. unfortinatly it wont sell well anyways :(
SNK got its ass kicked in the arcades by everyone from Capcom to Nintendo/Rareware. The subsequent death of arcade gaming has made a comback impossible. Home console players are the only market for their fighers.
I don't know why Japanese game companies fuck over US gamers. Maybe it's their revenge for Hiroshima. In all seriousness, I think that it can't be accidental that time after time after time, a really sweet game gets watered down and turned to shit just before the US release.
I still play the Killer Instinct Arcade Emulator because it's the only version of the game that I can get for home use that does not make my anus pucker. The SNES and N64 versions were so terrible that if I said that they were the poop that gets pooped out by the poop that poop poops, I would in fact be unfairly maligning the poop that does get pooped out by the poop that poop poops.
LK
Let the game companies know that we don't want a watered down version of the Japanese version.
If the sales for the game are shit compared to the Japanese version, they'll get the message.
Companies are driven by profit; if they know that they will make less profit, they will be more willing to take the criticism from people who don't buy their games to begin with.
LK
Oh, and if they get an abortion---and manage not to get blown up in a clinic bombing or murdered by the enraged ex-father
We can only hope.
Mmm. Can you smell the Christian love and fellowship up in here?
I'm a pagan. Try again.
LK
While I'm pro-abortion, conservatives need to realize that two "wrongs" don't make a right. If abortion is so evil, we should at least gain as much good from it as we possibly can. To do otherwise is downright criminal to the medical community and everyone who could benefit from this research.
Want to know a secret?
The reason we oppose the use of aborted fetuses for stem cell research is two fold. Not only do we believe that it would be like taking fruit from a poisoned tree, it would undermine our efforts against abortion on demand. Not only would we be accused of wanting to enslave woman to childbearing, by opposing abortion we would also be accused of wanting someone's little old grandmother to die from parkinsons because she couldn't get the stem cells she needed for her treatment.
LK
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Seriously though, wouldn't a HUD distract a motorcyclist? I know it probably would distract me if one were put in my truck...
Fighter pilots don't seem to mind.
As long as it isn't laden with ads picked up through a wardriven WiFi internet connection, I don't think it would be any more distracting than guages and mirrors.
Speed, heading. distance to next object and possibly temp would be great.
LK
Don't get me wrong, moron cagers are a danger, but this whole 'down a few beers and ride into the sunset' thing my fellow bikers have such a fixation with has to stop.
If enough of them keep on doing it, don't worry; it will stop, soon enough.
LK
Is there any reason to use Solaris on z86 other than to become familiar with it so that you can more effectively admin a Sparc machine?
Seriously. Linux and *BSD seem to have a much wider hardware compatibility base. Development for them seems to be going at a much more rapid pace. If you're not tied to a Sparc machine, is there any real reason to use Solaris?
LK
They have no problem using their cell phones, have blogs, PDA's, WiFi, and all sorts of other goodies. As if all those are real private and not giving off anything.
There is a bit of a difference. Who I talk to, what I think, what websites I visit and what games I play on my Visor don't make much evidence that can be used to falsely implicate me in a crime.
Where I am, can be! Before you start talking about how far fetched it is, I'll tell you that I was threatened by a cop once with precisely that. Sgt. CJ Hartman, formerly of the North Versailles PA police department threatened to do just that.
I will do everything I can to prevent men like him from having access to data that can prove that I was within 10 miles of a place where some crime was committed.
LK
OK, so we're being taxed the hell out of, apparently to cover the cost of roads. I just thought it was funny that your punitive rate actually sounds like quite a bargain here in Britain :-)
That $10/gallon figure was meant as an added cost on top of the actual cost(including delivery and the chemicals required for long term storage) of the fuel. I'm just making an educated guess here, but with the cost of transporting it and the stabilizers required for long term petrol based fuel storage I'd estimate the actual cost per gallon to be in the neighborhood of $30 US/Gallon. So in my estimation, $30 (cost) + $10 (stupidity tax)/gallon times 104 gallons comes to over $4100 US.
I guess I could have gone into more detail with my first post on the subject, but I assumed that others would know what I meant.
BTW, I'm in Pennsylvania, the state with what are arguably the worst roads in the US. Paying for front end alignments as regularly as I do, I'd still prefer that to $5.00 per gallon for gasoline.
LK
Sell him the fuel at a VASTLY overinflated price, that would be more than enough to discourage tourism. And it would get him out of there ASAP.
I think $10 US/Gallon would be a fair stupidity tax.
Child. I apologize for my previous post. I was mistaken. You are 100% correct.
Number one rule. Never violate any law except those you explicitly set out to violate. It's daft to get nailed for an otherwise successful robbery because you sped away from the scene with a taillight out and an expired vehicle registration.
Or if you get caught speeding away from the building you just blew up in a car with no license plate, insurance, registration or drivers license.
a V1 (generally considered the first cruise missile) had nothing like what you're talking about.
Most military scholars consider the V2 to be the first crusie missile.
The V1 was a rocket. The V2 was pretty much an unmanned airplane with an impressive explosive payload. At the time, its gyroscopic guidance system was revolutionary.
LK
Koresh had three outstanding warrants for statutory rape involving several 14 and 15 year old girls.
Why then didn't the local or state authorities pick him up on one of his routing jogs through Waco?
You are lying. The child molesting was not exposed until after the failed raid.
It was more than that. They had a quarter million $ in unpaid bills outstanding.
So, in your worldview it's acceptable to burn people alive if they don't keep their bills current? Boy, the financial lobby needs people like you.
Even the real estate they were sitting on was no longer theirs.
Bullshit, the branch davidians owned that land for half a century.
Actually, protection is their job. "To protect and serve"? Yes, they do tend to spend most of their time writing traffic tickets, but that doesn't change the fact that the reason there are cops is to protect the public.
They are not legally obligated to provide protection to you or anyone else, on the few occasions when people tried to sue the police for not protecting them, the courts have said so.
I used to work for a law firm. I've been to every major courthouse in my city (Cleveland) and many in the suburbs too. Maybe it's just a Cleveland thing, but there are no dark stairwells (not many elevators either, but that's a different story) and you can't walk from one end of a hallway to the other without spotting a cop. So I think, that because you have so many police officers in a courthouse, that one doesn't really need a gun and perhaps that went into the law. Maybe not. I didn't write the law.
You've obviously never been to the county courthouse in Pittsburgh. (Where I live) I have been in several dark stairwells. I have seen entire floors in the courthouse that have no police at all.
If we prevented everyone from doing things because they might do something illegal, we'ld have very few freedoms left.
We're not talking about putting computer controlled fuel restrictions on cars because people *might* speed. We're talking about making it illegal to take a video camera into a movie theater. There is a huge difference.
Imagine "no talking on cell phone while driving" going to "no cell phones in cars." Really think about that for a second.
BS. Automobiles are a necessity in most cities, and though I think the "no talking on cell phone while driving" laws are, I have noticed that a large number of careless drivers that I encounter are yacking away on a cell phone when they change lanes in front of me without signalling. It would be better to have the police cite them for careless driving than to restrict the rest of us.
Even so, Apples are not Oranges. There is no compelling reason why you need to have a video camera in a movie theater. I'd prefer to see this take place through a change in theater policy, you can still be arrested for tresspassing if you bring a camera against the owner's permission.
LK
Uh, self-defense would be the ONLY reason a normal civilian would be allowed to kill another person. And in a courthouse, there tends to be enough police around that I don't really think there's a need for that level of self-defense,
Non issue. The police are not obligated to provide anyone with protection. Do you think that there are officers posted in every elevator and dark stairwell?
Also, you're missing the point, and that would be that the worst case senerio with a gun (random innocent people dead) is a whole lot worse than the worst case senerio with a camera (a crappy copy of a movie).
No, I get the point. It's just not an issue. The potential for illegal conduct outweighing the legitimate uses is why both items are prohibited in the places in question.