Have you ever heard of foot in the door? It's how they gradually introduce things before hitting you with the full blown deal. I'm sure it wont be long before you see ads for Axe body gel and thinkgeek. But you'll like those too because they're relevant to your interests, right?
A lot of people are commenting about how asinine it is to spend money on other things besides NASA, which I generally agree on, and the general mindset in the US is that everything should be done by private sectors, which I don't agree with.
Has anyone thought about what would happen if we seeded an extremely profitable business to outer space for private companies to suck the life out of? The government is paying for the groundwork and they're paying to get people interested, why are they even doing that in the first place? We'll just end up having some giant conglomerate in a 100 or so year that's milking the government and milking the citizens. It's not like the corporation is just going to prance around with their new product and/or service and then give it back for free, they'll milk us for every dime we have. That's how businesses work, especially very big ones with a death grip on a certain market.
I mean this is pretty much what the internet has turned into and is a stunning example of just such a creation. Everyone is all about making businesses in america, but no one stops to think about what happens when giant mega corp is taking their lunch money. Somethings you don't want companies to run or if they do they have to be heavily regulated or they will just have their way with you, your spouse, your kids, and your doggie too. I for one don't want giant megacorp being the one delivering a significant portion of a market back to us after building off our lunch money, just to take more of it. At least we have some control over the government, the same can't be said for the motivators behind companies, even if in the end they try to control the government.
Most people view this as a good thing, yet they some how don't think China will shape what people watch based around how they want to condition them. No sir, China is just out to cancel all forms of reality TV and badddd programing. They're going to show their kids Sesame street from now on too!
This is a play on the 'just get your worst enemy to be your friend'. You will never be able to get all the 'crackers' on your side, there will always be people to replace them. What you need is a system that takes away all their air; their reasons for pirating and their logic behind doing it. You don't do that by trying to bulldog your way through things. That's what companies have been already trying to do with DRM.
Arguably one of the most 'hyped' and crappy games of the year too. I wonder if there is a correlation between high levels of marketing and friends saying the game is terrible.
Worlds fastest cruise missile, that is also made and sold by Russia.
If you read up a bit on close in weapon systems, such as the ones you linked, they've only been used and work a handful of times and that's against older weaponry. The CIWS doesn't work because it's accurate, it attempts to work by spamming the general vicinity of the missile with bullets.
See part of the problem with all of this is all our scenarios are built on fluff. A lot of the systems and gadgets we have as the US haven't actually been tested in real combat. I'm not talking about tests, I'm talking about real fire scenarios. The navy is more prone to this then any other branch since they haven't actually fought against real boats since WW2. The navy isn't all that wieldy... we cruise around in yachts for the most part and could easily suffer against small boats that aren't designed to survive. If they automate those boats... well then that makes things a lot harder for us. We're just so stupidly huge and powerful that we can win by default.
All they have to do is hit a carrier and that's a win for them
I think Ebert is more of a connoisseur of entertainment then just movies. The ideals he brings up match perfectly to what is currently happening in the video game industry. Where lack of innovation and change, matched with equally aggressive 'MY MONEY' tactics has lead to an equally disturbing evacuation of the industry. About the only games that are really changing are indie games, but those are mostly small puzzle games with only a very small percentage being anything that would go mainstream due to the lack of funding.
You can pretty much tell where the passion drops out of video games for the most part. Where the developers finally decide to join a big company and become a corporate cog, having all their hopes and dreams crushed in the process.
Movies and TV is very much alive, just not where you would find it. Anime for instance (Avatar fits under this umbrella) is still developing and prospering over in Japan. Unfortunately, most of the older generations over here not only don't like it, but they tend to ostracize anyone who watches it, usually labeling it as for children... Yet the younger generations that grew up around it and were properly introduced to it, or not, tend to love the stuff. Pokemon, Sailor Moon, and DBZ were about the worst thing they could've done to seed anime over here.
I don't believe this is true, that's why on bills they list it as 'legal tender for all debts'.
If your specific example was true, then companies you have loans, debts, or bills with could simply deny your payment to rack up interest. Pennies may seem asinine, but that MAY be all someone has and it is real currency. They are within their right to deny checks or credit cards though as that isn't directly tied to the federal reserve. This is different when you're talking about goods and services though.
I believe this is due to Wikipedia becomnig more diverse. As more people learn about Wikipedia, the more people contribute to it. It's overall becoming more accessible to everyone and therefore everyone is putting their two cents. Where as in the beginning you could argue that the population was more centered around a niche crowd who are more pedantic then those that just wish to contribute in some form.
I really think the older generation doesn't understand that the virtual world isn't just 'virtual', that actions that take place in it really do affect the real world. Actually, I don't think even newer generations understand this either. They simply believe that anything that happens in the virtual world will stay there. When their laptop is broken they can simply by a new one. A simple brute force solution for a very elegant problem.
Cyberwarfare is going to turn into a very messy can of worms. Someone mentioned the Geneva convention a bit up... When do cyber attacks become an act of war? When does it reach a point where you can legitimize morally going to war? When wars used to take place, they were over physical things that happened in real life. If China steals a bunch of secrets from us, how much does that actually mean? When the blueprints for nukes were given to Russia there was a physical piece of evidence to back that up. People were scared crapless of nuclear devices after what they did in WW2, rightfully so. When China steals secrets for the F-35, how are people going to react to that?
Information has very little physical presence until it's actually used and then when it's finally used, it's too late. This really is a very scary sort of this cold war. Not only is there not a physical presence, there is no clear set boundary where you can claim someone has 'crossed the line'. There are no lines!
Honestly the government should play this defensively as possible. I don't mean offensive defensive, I mean separate networks completely out so there is no way for the outside 'internet' to interact with them. I'm sure something like this has already been done, but apparently it's not being done well enough. It could also be social engineering that is leading to such mistakes, where some commander who isn't so technically savy takes his laptop home with super secret clearance and puts edonkey on it. These mistakes should start to clear up as newer tech savvy generations start to take places of power. I hope it happens before the older generations botch things up too badly though, they're doing a pretty good job at their current rate.
So, he's written one FB game and we get to ask him questions to make him feel important?
I've talked to, worked with, and met mod developers with more experience in the video game industry. Not to poopoo, but this really feels lackluster. I understand it takes a lot to get experience in the video game industry and it must be really hard finding developers that actually want to teach after being through the gauntlet, but this makes me weep a bit. It's like talking to a professor that hasn't really spent any time working on a dissertation or who has no real in depth work. It really makes me question how meaningful any of his responses will actually be outside of personal opinion anyone can have simply by watching the video game industry from the outside and reading about it.
I wouldn't ask unless it is something I'm actually sensitive to. I've used wireless peripherals and they do have a drifting feeling to them. While increasing the length of a wire itself may not add latency, a hub, which is essentially a repeater adds it's own latency. Just the same way bad switches can mess up a network or make lag. Not everything is equal even if there are standards they adhere to.
Buy a G500 and do a side by side comparison with your MX518. It's not snake oil.
I was overall just curious if you ran into compatibility issues with your USB hub setup in general...
I don't think there will be a generation quite like the boomers. I don't know if it's the fault of their parents who went through a WW and raised them or their own fault for pretending to live in the glory years well past it.
Unlike the parent, I don't have a lot of hate for millenials even if they're whiny pissants sometimes... boomers are the ones who are in pretty much complete control of the country at the moment and doing a damn good job of fucking it up for everyone else.
Does this result in noticeable input latency that you can feel through gaming, similar to the sort of input drifting feeling you get with wireless peripherals?
Also, do you use hubs on the end for the keyboard/mouse or do you run a separate cable for each one? If you use hubs, have you run into issues with using them? Do you have gaming quality peripherals on the end as well (high dpi and polling mice and high poll rate keyboards)?
I ask as gaming peripherals tend to put more strain on USB connections then normal peripherals and can crap them out when they're operating on the edge (like the 32' repeater you mentioned). They draw more power and operate close to limitations of the spec in terms of latency.
I'm curious as to what sort of latency he gets by extending USB through repeaters and if he uses hubs on his keyboard/mice at the other end? I know HDMI can be run quite a long distance (relatively speaking), but USB isn't made to be run long distances at all. If I remember correctly, there is a maximum distance USB can run before you need to add a hub/repeater. Adding to that, hubs in my experience interfere with peripherals, especially gaming peripherals (fast and high dpi mice). He doesn't really go into much detail besides saying he runs USB and HDMI to his remote stations.
There are way too many MMOs on the market. I really don't think the problem is just a financial one. At first free MMOs were a big thing because they were, well, free... now the issue is completely different. I think most people are willing to pay for a game they like and enjoy and I think it doesn't matter if it's free to play or not (baring the whole gated f2p issue that makes the account relatively worthless).
What I think is happening is it's coming down to time constraints. People can't spend a gajillion hours playing five different mmos. They have to pick and choose between one or two (at most) MMOs. Almost all MMOs have the same time grind system in place so it's impossible to just play them on a semi-casual basis and play other games along side of them. That isn't to say you can't, but you wont go anywhere fast and people generally lose interest if the entire game stagnates on them.
It's not the payment model that is working against them, it's their game play models. This completely puts aside if the game is even good or their friends play it. Their very core is what is holding them back. It doesn't help that WoW has ground in very deeply to the MMO community the idea that the only good MMO is one with a painful leveling experience and the entire game happens at the end. Sadly I've only seen two MMOs that have sought to change this. One I played and it went under, Tabula Rasa, and the other is still in development so I can't comment on it, Guild Wars 2. MMOs can be so much more then just the grind and level system that holds onto players by dangling a carrot in front of their face. Developers really need to stop looking to linear answers to largely fundamental and abstract problems.
You know, I've been wondering the samething. The best answer I have for this is politics has become the new trendy reality TV thing, it's basically the next step. The middle class in the US is pretty well educated and when they get out in the world they want to change things. So now they're attempting to get involved in politics, but really have no idea how any of the changes will impact a future america... What they do know, however, is that the current system is falling apart and it's in part due to lobbying by giant corporations and over spending. So they go with the most logical answer... simply cut down on both.
What better way to do that then go with a old school approach like the Tea Party, right? It worked back then, it'll work again today. Something like that appeals to younger generations as it seems like a 'retro' get'em done approach that will yield all the things they want to see. That isn't the case at all though. Today is nothing like what the US or the world was 200 years ago. We live in a day and age where companies wield more power then the governments themselves. Not entirely in terms of money, but in terms of hierarchy and the ability to divert all of their resources towards one common goal. The government is one of the few things that protects us from going back to a day and age where lower class will be spitting out 20+ offspring to send to the shoe factory where 3/4 of them will get caught in the auto-loom and die and middle class where they successfully did that and someone can sit at home drinking beer till they die. Maybe even open up a company shop and be able to support themselves.
I think part of what is empowering this delusion the 'work hard and you'll become wealthy' ideology the older generation is shoving down the younger generations throat. Part of what america was founded on... the land of opportunity and freedom. Where anyone can rise from being a peddler to running a couple factories and sit with the wealthy. That day and age has come and gone. If you're unlucky enough to not have a education then you're pretty much screwed; one of the few ways to actually rise up through the system is to get a government job. Putting that aside, the only other feasible way to set yourself apart from your peers is the education system. Where you can become a doctor or a lawyer or anything else, which isn't directly tied to your income through loans.
Even then, even if you are highly educated, that doesn't mean you'll break the upper crust of society. That in itself is a pipe dream
I honestly can't relate to this new trend of 'getting rid of the government'. The government has a lot of problems, yes, but getting rid of it isn't the answer.
Guess I'm not the only one that sees a lot of issues with poor security and remote controlled killing robots? If we can't even detect when people infiltrate our networks, what's to say we could figure out who uses our own weapons remotely against us?
I don't think poor cyber security and giant killing robots goes hand in hand.
The start menu has a very specific use. When you want to find a program and you don't use it all the time it's neatly organized and relatively easy to find. If you can't find it easily, you use the search bar. It has a very logical and concise layout designed to give you what you need, when you need it. It's relatively easy to walk someone through finding items on it because it has a very easy to use hierarchy.
Of course people put all their most accessed stuff on their desktop, it's like a drawing board them. They throw whatever they want on it. Turning their desktop into a start menu WILL NOT be conducive to either helping them find stuff on their desktop faster or if they need to resort to the start menu.
This is similar to the abomination that is the ribbon. It's nice if you've NEVER used word, but after you've used it a few times and you need specific things and you can find your way around it's really quite terrible.
They could even look at this in a different way. WHY when they first made a GUI OS, didn't they just slap all the programs across the screen? Is there a reason why options are under menus and sub-categorized? What is the reason why there is a hierarchy in the first place? It's like they didn't even take the time to assess why the current structure is in place in just about every operating system in existence except for devices with relatively little in terms of input devices (touch screen).
Hah... the more I learn about stuff in Japan the more envious I become. I think they're starting to turn into what America used to be as far as culture mixing goes. There are so many people packed into such a small area and they are usually quite open minded that allows them to do stuff like this. Not just stuff that doesn't seem culturally acceptable, but niche products too that need constant interest. Older american generations are still struggling with anime being seen as a 'cartoony kid's show', yet it's on prime time over there all the time.
Oh, god why!??! Newegg was so amazing and everything that can be done on a PC has been completely replaced on a tablet. We're in the future where we have computers hardwired into our brains and we're all part of a skynet like structure that does all the processing for us! There is no other reason to have that clunky heap of metal on our desks.
I'm so worried. Newegg and all the other hardware retailers online will have to resort to prostituting themselves on the corner with smartphones and monster cables, just like Radioshack!
Seriously, some fucking people. One complete tard in the industry says computers are dead and everyone hops on the hype bandwagon and runs around like ninnies. There are so many reasons why Newegg, nor the PC, will not disappear I don't know where to start. All of it I'm sure has been talked about ad-nausem right here.
The tablet and netbook thing is a FAD. They can only do a fraction of what computers can do and have no real role. Smartphones, tablets, and desktops will remain a cornerstone of the electronic era for years to come. Each one has their own merits and each one has their own reason for existing, everything else in between has no real point except for bling and to show your friends how awesome you are too.
Anyone can say they aren't going to do it when a option is offered for it to be done for free... on top of it the website doesn't take into account sales that will be made because people who speak a different language will actually buy the product, what this is after in the first place.
I found the article to be acceptable in terms of 'standards' considering what is actually available. It's adequate back of the envelope math. The article doesn't need citations for what it's offering besides the steam translation page and the premise it uses. Now, If you're poopooing on it merely because it's wordpress, then I don't think there is a lot I can do to help you.
This seems to be another popular fad for predicting the future, similar to PC gaming is dying and cloud computing. Apparently because there seems to be one path and some companies are going so far as to offering cloud computing solutions to video games (so you can play them on ultra slow computers), does not mean it's going to catch on like wildfire and take over the world.
This will happen for small games that already exist solely in flash, of course, but this isn't going to work for bread and butter AAA titles. A lot of people want a more fulfilling experience and after playing games in a web browser... it just... feels lackluster for lack of a better word. It never feels like you start playing a game and you're immersed in a world. There are already somewhat major games like this too, like Quake Live and Legions which has already failed.
I think developers are pulling at straws. Because they don't know how to make good games anymore they look for a different technological breakthrough to differentiate themselves from everyone else... this isn't what gamers care about in the slightest though. When it all comes down to it, it's about a good game.
Despite game makers thinking f2p is the next bastion of making easy money, they'll eventually realize, even if they make it free, when everyone else is free, they're back at square one... with a game encrusted in micro-transactions. Going f2p won't make a game good. If it sucks it will continue to suck regardless.
I also seem to be part of a growing crowd of gamers who also would rather pay for a good game, rather the having to play it after it's f2p. f2p models, even ones like TF2, tend to ruin games. Even know the content Valve is continually adding to TF2 to make it desirable is starting to pass a quality threshold where it doesn't even seem like the properly balance stuff before kicking it out the door.
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Have you ever heard of foot in the door? It's how they gradually introduce things before hitting you with the full blown deal. I'm sure it wont be long before you see ads for Axe body gel and thinkgeek. But you'll like those too because they're relevant to your interests, right?
A lot of people are commenting about how asinine it is to spend money on other things besides NASA, which I generally agree on, and the general mindset in the US is that everything should be done by private sectors, which I don't agree with.
Has anyone thought about what would happen if we seeded an extremely profitable business to outer space for private companies to suck the life out of? The government is paying for the groundwork and they're paying to get people interested, why are they even doing that in the first place? We'll just end up having some giant conglomerate in a 100 or so year that's milking the government and milking the citizens. It's not like the corporation is just going to prance around with their new product and/or service and then give it back for free, they'll milk us for every dime we have. That's how businesses work, especially very big ones with a death grip on a certain market.
I mean this is pretty much what the internet has turned into and is a stunning example of just such a creation. Everyone is all about making businesses in america, but no one stops to think about what happens when giant mega corp is taking their lunch money. Somethings you don't want companies to run or if they do they have to be heavily regulated or they will just have their way with you, your spouse, your kids, and your doggie too. I for one don't want giant megacorp being the one delivering a significant portion of a market back to us after building off our lunch money, just to take more of it. At least we have some control over the government, the same can't be said for the motivators behind companies, even if in the end they try to control the government.
Most people view this as a good thing, yet they some how don't think China will shape what people watch based around how they want to condition them. No sir, China is just out to cancel all forms of reality TV and badddd programing. They're going to show their kids Sesame street from now on too!
This is a play on the 'just get your worst enemy to be your friend'. You will never be able to get all the 'crackers' on your side, there will always be people to replace them. What you need is a system that takes away all their air; their reasons for pirating and their logic behind doing it. You don't do that by trying to bulldog your way through things. That's what companies have been already trying to do with DRM.
Arguably one of the most 'hyped' and crappy games of the year too. I wonder if there is a correlation between high levels of marketing and friends saying the game is terrible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJ-10_BrahMos
Worlds fastest cruise missile, that is also made and sold by Russia.
If you read up a bit on close in weapon systems, such as the ones you linked, they've only been used and work a handful of times and that's against older weaponry. The CIWS doesn't work because it's accurate, it attempts to work by spamming the general vicinity of the missile with bullets.
See part of the problem with all of this is all our scenarios are built on fluff. A lot of the systems and gadgets we have as the US haven't actually been tested in real combat. I'm not talking about tests, I'm talking about real fire scenarios. The navy is more prone to this then any other branch since they haven't actually fought against real boats since WW2. The navy isn't all that wieldy... we cruise around in yachts for the most part and could easily suffer against small boats that aren't designed to survive. If they automate those boats... well then that makes things a lot harder for us. We're just so stupidly huge and powerful that we can win by default.
All they have to do is hit a carrier and that's a win for them
I think Ebert is more of a connoisseur of entertainment then just movies. The ideals he brings up match perfectly to what is currently happening in the video game industry. Where lack of innovation and change, matched with equally aggressive 'MY MONEY' tactics has lead to an equally disturbing evacuation of the industry. About the only games that are really changing are indie games, but those are mostly small puzzle games with only a very small percentage being anything that would go mainstream due to the lack of funding.
You can pretty much tell where the passion drops out of video games for the most part. Where the developers finally decide to join a big company and become a corporate cog, having all their hopes and dreams crushed in the process.
Movies and TV is very much alive, just not where you would find it. Anime for instance (Avatar fits under this umbrella) is still developing and prospering over in Japan. Unfortunately, most of the older generations over here not only don't like it, but they tend to ostracize anyone who watches it, usually labeling it as for children... Yet the younger generations that grew up around it and were properly introduced to it, or not, tend to love the stuff. Pokemon, Sailor Moon, and DBZ were about the worst thing they could've done to seed anime over here.
I don't believe this is true, that's why on bills they list it as 'legal tender for all debts'.
If your specific example was true, then companies you have loans, debts, or bills with could simply deny your payment to rack up interest. Pennies may seem asinine, but that MAY be all someone has and it is real currency. They are within their right to deny checks or credit cards though as that isn't directly tied to the federal reserve. This is different when you're talking about goods and services though.
Quick googling: http://www.snopes.com/business/money/pennies.asp
I believe this is due to Wikipedia becomnig more diverse. As more people learn about Wikipedia, the more people contribute to it. It's overall becoming more accessible to everyone and therefore everyone is putting their two cents. Where as in the beginning you could argue that the population was more centered around a niche crowd who are more pedantic then those that just wish to contribute in some form.
I really think the older generation doesn't understand that the virtual world isn't just 'virtual', that actions that take place in it really do affect the real world. Actually, I don't think even newer generations understand this either. They simply believe that anything that happens in the virtual world will stay there. When their laptop is broken they can simply by a new one. A simple brute force solution for a very elegant problem.
Cyberwarfare is going to turn into a very messy can of worms. Someone mentioned the Geneva convention a bit up... When do cyber attacks become an act of war? When does it reach a point where you can legitimize morally going to war? When wars used to take place, they were over physical things that happened in real life. If China steals a bunch of secrets from us, how much does that actually mean? When the blueprints for nukes were given to Russia there was a physical piece of evidence to back that up. People were scared crapless of nuclear devices after what they did in WW2, rightfully so. When China steals secrets for the F-35, how are people going to react to that?
Information has very little physical presence until it's actually used and then when it's finally used, it's too late. This really is a very scary sort of this cold war. Not only is there not a physical presence, there is no clear set boundary where you can claim someone has 'crossed the line'. There are no lines!
Honestly the government should play this defensively as possible. I don't mean offensive defensive, I mean separate networks completely out so there is no way for the outside 'internet' to interact with them. I'm sure something like this has already been done, but apparently it's not being done well enough. It could also be social engineering that is leading to such mistakes, where some commander who isn't so technically savy takes his laptop home with super secret clearance and puts edonkey on it. These mistakes should start to clear up as newer tech savvy generations start to take places of power. I hope it happens before the older generations botch things up too badly though, they're doing a pretty good job at their current rate.
So, he's written one FB game and we get to ask him questions to make him feel important?
I've talked to, worked with, and met mod developers with more experience in the video game industry. Not to poopoo, but this really feels lackluster. I understand it takes a lot to get experience in the video game industry and it must be really hard finding developers that actually want to teach after being through the gauntlet, but this makes me weep a bit. It's like talking to a professor that hasn't really spent any time working on a dissertation or who has no real in depth work. It really makes me question how meaningful any of his responses will actually be outside of personal opinion anyone can have simply by watching the video game industry from the outside and reading about it.
I wouldn't ask unless it is something I'm actually sensitive to. I've used wireless peripherals and they do have a drifting feeling to them. While increasing the length of a wire itself may not add latency, a hub, which is essentially a repeater adds it's own latency. Just the same way bad switches can mess up a network or make lag. Not everything is equal even if there are standards they adhere to.
Buy a G500 and do a side by side comparison with your MX518. It's not snake oil.
I was overall just curious if you ran into compatibility issues with your USB hub setup in general...
I don't think there will be a generation quite like the boomers. I don't know if it's the fault of their parents who went through a WW and raised them or their own fault for pretending to live in the glory years well past it.
Unlike the parent, I don't have a lot of hate for millenials even if they're whiny pissants sometimes... boomers are the ones who are in pretty much complete control of the country at the moment and doing a damn good job of fucking it up for everyone else.
Does this result in noticeable input latency that you can feel through gaming, similar to the sort of input drifting feeling you get with wireless peripherals?
Also, do you use hubs on the end for the keyboard/mouse or do you run a separate cable for each one? If you use hubs, have you run into issues with using them? Do you have gaming quality peripherals on the end as well (high dpi and polling mice and high poll rate keyboards)?
I ask as gaming peripherals tend to put more strain on USB connections then normal peripherals and can crap them out when they're operating on the edge (like the 32' repeater you mentioned). They draw more power and operate close to limitations of the spec in terms of latency.
I'm curious as to what sort of latency he gets by extending USB through repeaters and if he uses hubs on his keyboard/mice at the other end? I know HDMI can be run quite a long distance (relatively speaking), but USB isn't made to be run long distances at all. If I remember correctly, there is a maximum distance USB can run before you need to add a hub/repeater. Adding to that, hubs in my experience interfere with peripherals, especially gaming peripherals (fast and high dpi mice). He doesn't really go into much detail besides saying he runs USB and HDMI to his remote stations.
There are way too many MMOs on the market. I really don't think the problem is just a financial one. At first free MMOs were a big thing because they were, well, free... now the issue is completely different. I think most people are willing to pay for a game they like and enjoy and I think it doesn't matter if it's free to play or not (baring the whole gated f2p issue that makes the account relatively worthless).
What I think is happening is it's coming down to time constraints. People can't spend a gajillion hours playing five different mmos. They have to pick and choose between one or two (at most) MMOs. Almost all MMOs have the same time grind system in place so it's impossible to just play them on a semi-casual basis and play other games along side of them. That isn't to say you can't, but you wont go anywhere fast and people generally lose interest if the entire game stagnates on them.
It's not the payment model that is working against them, it's their game play models. This completely puts aside if the game is even good or their friends play it. Their very core is what is holding them back. It doesn't help that WoW has ground in very deeply to the MMO community the idea that the only good MMO is one with a painful leveling experience and the entire game happens at the end. Sadly I've only seen two MMOs that have sought to change this. One I played and it went under, Tabula Rasa, and the other is still in development so I can't comment on it, Guild Wars 2. MMOs can be so much more then just the grind and level system that holds onto players by dangling a carrot in front of their face. Developers really need to stop looking to linear answers to largely fundamental and abstract problems.
Get Microsoft Security Essentials, which is free with your choice version of Windows.
You know, I've been wondering the samething. The best answer I have for this is politics has become the new trendy reality TV thing, it's basically the next step. The middle class in the US is pretty well educated and when they get out in the world they want to change things. So now they're attempting to get involved in politics, but really have no idea how any of the changes will impact a future america... What they do know, however, is that the current system is falling apart and it's in part due to lobbying by giant corporations and over spending. So they go with the most logical answer... simply cut down on both.
What better way to do that then go with a old school approach like the Tea Party, right? It worked back then, it'll work again today. Something like that appeals to younger generations as it seems like a 'retro' get'em done approach that will yield all the things they want to see. That isn't the case at all though. Today is nothing like what the US or the world was 200 years ago. We live in a day and age where companies wield more power then the governments themselves. Not entirely in terms of money, but in terms of hierarchy and the ability to divert all of their resources towards one common goal. The government is one of the few things that protects us from going back to a day and age where lower class will be spitting out 20+ offspring to send to the shoe factory where 3/4 of them will get caught in the auto-loom and die and middle class where they successfully did that and someone can sit at home drinking beer till they die. Maybe even open up a company shop and be able to support themselves.
I think part of what is empowering this delusion the 'work hard and you'll become wealthy' ideology the older generation is shoving down the younger generations throat. Part of what america was founded on... the land of opportunity and freedom. Where anyone can rise from being a peddler to running a couple factories and sit with the wealthy. That day and age has come and gone. If you're unlucky enough to not have a education then you're pretty much screwed; one of the few ways to actually rise up through the system is to get a government job. Putting that aside, the only other feasible way to set yourself apart from your peers is the education system. Where you can become a doctor or a lawyer or anything else, which isn't directly tied to your income through loans.
Even then, even if you are highly educated, that doesn't mean you'll break the upper crust of society. That in itself is a pipe dream
I honestly can't relate to this new trend of 'getting rid of the government'. The government has a lot of problems, yes, but getting rid of it isn't the answer.
Guess I'm not the only one that sees a lot of issues with poor security and remote controlled killing robots? If we can't even detect when people infiltrate our networks, what's to say we could figure out who uses our own weapons remotely against us?
I don't think poor cyber security and giant killing robots goes hand in hand.
The start menu has a very specific use. When you want to find a program and you don't use it all the time it's neatly organized and relatively easy to find. If you can't find it easily, you use the search bar. It has a very logical and concise layout designed to give you what you need, when you need it. It's relatively easy to walk someone through finding items on it because it has a very easy to use hierarchy.
Of course people put all their most accessed stuff on their desktop, it's like a drawing board them. They throw whatever they want on it. Turning their desktop into a start menu WILL NOT be conducive to either helping them find stuff on their desktop faster or if they need to resort to the start menu.
This is similar to the abomination that is the ribbon. It's nice if you've NEVER used word, but after you've used it a few times and you need specific things and you can find your way around it's really quite terrible.
They could even look at this in a different way. WHY when they first made a GUI OS, didn't they just slap all the programs across the screen? Is there a reason why options are under menus and sub-categorized? What is the reason why there is a hierarchy in the first place? It's like they didn't even take the time to assess why the current structure is in place in just about every operating system in existence except for devices with relatively little in terms of input devices (touch screen).
IMHO this is extremely shortsighted.
Hah... the more I learn about stuff in Japan the more envious I become. I think they're starting to turn into what America used to be as far as culture mixing goes. There are so many people packed into such a small area and they are usually quite open minded that allows them to do stuff like this. Not just stuff that doesn't seem culturally acceptable, but niche products too that need constant interest. Older american generations are still struggling with anime being seen as a 'cartoony kid's show', yet it's on prime time over there all the time.
Oh, god why!??! Newegg was so amazing and everything that can be done on a PC has been completely replaced on a tablet. We're in the future where we have computers hardwired into our brains and we're all part of a skynet like structure that does all the processing for us! There is no other reason to have that clunky heap of metal on our desks.
I'm so worried. Newegg and all the other hardware retailers online will have to resort to prostituting themselves on the corner with smartphones and monster cables, just like Radioshack!
Seriously, some fucking people. One complete tard in the industry says computers are dead and everyone hops on the hype bandwagon and runs around like ninnies. There are so many reasons why Newegg, nor the PC, will not disappear I don't know where to start. All of it I'm sure has been talked about ad-nausem right here.
The tablet and netbook thing is a FAD. They can only do a fraction of what computers can do and have no real role. Smartphones, tablets, and desktops will remain a cornerstone of the electronic era for years to come. Each one has their own merits and each one has their own reason for existing, everything else in between has no real point except for bling and to show your friends how awesome you are too.
Anyone can say they aren't going to do it when a option is offered for it to be done for free... on top of it the website doesn't take into account sales that will be made because people who speak a different language will actually buy the product, what this is after in the first place.
I found the article to be acceptable in terms of 'standards' considering what is actually available. It's adequate back of the envelope math. The article doesn't need citations for what it's offering besides the steam translation page and the premise it uses. Now, If you're poopooing on it merely because it's wordpress, then I don't think there is a lot I can do to help you.
This seems to be another popular fad for predicting the future, similar to PC gaming is dying and cloud computing. Apparently because there seems to be one path and some companies are going so far as to offering cloud computing solutions to video games (so you can play them on ultra slow computers), does not mean it's going to catch on like wildfire and take over the world.
This will happen for small games that already exist solely in flash, of course, but this isn't going to work for bread and butter AAA titles. A lot of people want a more fulfilling experience and after playing games in a web browser... it just... feels lackluster for lack of a better word. It never feels like you start playing a game and you're immersed in a world. There are already somewhat major games like this too, like Quake Live and Legions which has already failed.
I think developers are pulling at straws. Because they don't know how to make good games anymore they look for a different technological breakthrough to differentiate themselves from everyone else... this isn't what gamers care about in the slightest though. When it all comes down to it, it's about a good game.
Despite game makers thinking f2p is the next bastion of making easy money, they'll eventually realize, even if they make it free, when everyone else is free, they're back at square one... with a game encrusted in micro-transactions. Going f2p won't make a game good. If it sucks it will continue to suck regardless.
I also seem to be part of a growing crowd of gamers who also would rather pay for a good game, rather the having to play it after it's f2p. f2p models, even ones like TF2, tend to ruin games. Even know the content Valve is continually adding to TF2 to make it desirable is starting to pass a quality threshold where it doesn't even seem like the properly balance stuff before kicking it out the door.