Nail on the freaking head. I'm fairly confident that games like Pikmin 3 and the Wind Waker HD remake will sell some consoles, and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate next month will as well, especially in Japan where Monster Hunter is huge. While I still like some shooters (Halo in particular, although Microsoft and 343 seem determined to turn it into Call of Duty In Space), I get turned off by games that use violence and mature themes for simply the sake of being graphically violent or "mature." Nintendo has the art of boiling a game down to simple and unoffensive fun down to a science. Nintendo games are also still the best games to play with some friends or family in the living room, which in my opinion beats online play any time.
Nintendo needs to publish a few games on their own to encourage gamers to buy the system so third party developers will make games for it
It blows my mind that Nintendo didn't have a better lineup planned for the release.
N64 release: Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and (I think) Starfox 64
Gamecube release: Luigi's Mansion, Rogue Leader, and a month later Super Smash Bros Melee
Wii release: LoZ Twilight Princess, Super Smash Bros Brawl a few months later
Wii U relase: an update to the same Mario game you've been playing for years (New Super Mario Bros U) with Pikmin 3 eventually and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate 5 months down the road
Name me the Nintendo Wii U games that won't bore a seasoned gamer to death
Nothing that's out yet, but Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate might be the game that makes me buy a Wii U, and Pikmin 3 also looks very good. There's also supposed to be an HD remake of Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker in the fall, which will make me glad I have one (once I do).
In case you are not aware, the post is a satire of a fellow known as APK. The grammar used is modeled after APK's as you can see here. Or, you can just look around a bit and see some of his posts on here about the wonders of host files.
Well, generally you shouldn't be getting much more for the payout than the value of the stolen goods (at least with my experience, just because you have say $10k worth of insurance doesn't mean you're getting a check for $10k, you report the items that were stolen and the insurance company determines the value). If you buy identical items to what was stolen, even if they're newer, it's unlikely that you're making much of a gain considering all of the negative things associated with a break-in.
The stress isn't worth it. I had my house burgled once and the police tried to bring my wife down to the station to interrogate her for insurance fraud and take a lie detector test (I told them no thanks, of course). Also, it took nearly two months before the insurance money even arrived.
I have a Nexus 7 and found a couple free graphing calculator apps that completely eliminate any need I might have otherwise had for a full graphing calculator. I actually first started looking at apps because I wanted my old TI-83 for something but couldn't find it. Granted, students wouldn't be able to bring a fully functional Android device with them to a test, so I guess that's why TI can continue to charge the ridiculous prices they do for these things.
Grow up. The reality is that software is expected to do more than ever these days, which means programmers need to be able to spend more time on solving business problems rather than on moving bits and packets around.
Yes, there are definitely some security vulnerabilities unique to Javascript because of the strange environment that Javascript operates in, which is sending/receiving data to/from multiple sources simultaneously in what looks like a single page or application to the user.
This is about rendering 3D graphics with hardware acceleration, you know, the stuff that your video card does. Until recently, to get 3D rendering in a web browser you had to either use a proprietary plugin like Flash or Unity, or rely on slow software rendering. WebGL is a developing standard for giving web browsers an implementation of OpenGL ES 2.0. It can be used for 3D browser games, charts, etc.
This. The percentage of web users who are running non-JS browsers or have JS disabled is small enough not to matter for the people funding web development. As a developer, the best you can do, particularly in a project involving AJAX, is to have RESTful web services that allow a clever enough user to get the information they need without Javascript running, even if the site is as ugly as hell. They may have to parse some JSON or XML on their own, but that's their problem if they don't feel comfortable with their browsing executing JS.
Javascript is a language; it cannot violate your privacy. Security and privacy issues related to Javascript can only be application-specific issues which are introduced by the developers of said application. Javascript as a language is in no more violation of your privacy than C.
Developers have become way too fucking dependant on JS and frameworks like jQuery, Mootools and YUI
There is no better way for making interactive web applications than using Javascript. The only real alternatives are using proprietary platforms like Flash or Silverlight. The level of interactivity on the web that people demand these days has gone past the level you can get from reloading an HTML document every time the user clicks something or enters some text. Add in the development of WebGL for hardware accelerated 3D graphics in web browsers and some of the other fancy features of HTML5 and it's easy to see that Javascript isn't going anywhere for a while. jQuery, on the other hand, is pretty slow and should be used sparingly.
Pretty much the same thing. They implied that the car could break down inside its range and showed the staff pushing a functional car back to the garage.
Hackers who don't cooperate with them seem to end up charged with rape, child porn, or just a bunch of bullshit charges that prosecutors can find to leverage on them to try to break them
I'm going to have to ask for some citation, please. The exact story you're posting on is discussing how the penalties for hacking-related charges are too high. If the government can throw you in prison for several years for hacking, why would they need to frame you for something unrelated?
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Rather than planning for the shit hitting the fan, let's get together, clean up the shit and turn off the fan.
But where am I supposed to direct my pent-up frustrations and aggression?
Nail on the freaking head. I'm fairly confident that games like Pikmin 3 and the Wind Waker HD remake will sell some consoles, and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate next month will as well, especially in Japan where Monster Hunter is huge. While I still like some shooters (Halo in particular, although Microsoft and 343 seem determined to turn it into Call of Duty In Space), I get turned off by games that use violence and mature themes for simply the sake of being graphically violent or "mature." Nintendo has the art of boiling a game down to simple and unoffensive fun down to a science. Nintendo games are also still the best games to play with some friends or family in the living room, which in my opinion beats online play any time.
Nintendo needs to publish a few games on their own to encourage gamers to buy the system so third party developers will make games for it
It blows my mind that Nintendo didn't have a better lineup planned for the release.
N64 release: Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and (I think) Starfox 64
Gamecube release: Luigi's Mansion, Rogue Leader, and a month later Super Smash Bros Melee
Wii release: LoZ Twilight Princess, Super Smash Bros Brawl a few months later
Wii U relase: an update to the same Mario game you've been playing for years (New Super Mario Bros U) with Pikmin 3 eventually and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate 5 months down the road
Name me the Nintendo Wii U games that won't bore a seasoned gamer to death
Nothing that's out yet, but Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate might be the game that makes me buy a Wii U, and Pikmin 3 also looks very good. There's also supposed to be an HD remake of Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker in the fall, which will make me glad I have one (once I do).
In case you are not aware, the post is a satire of a fellow known as APK. The grammar used is modeled after APK's as you can see here. Or, you can just look around a bit and see some of his posts on here about the wonders of host files.
Doesn't that make it pretty much impossible to file a copyright infringement claim against someone for downloading a file?
Oh gosh, we can only hope.
Well, generally you shouldn't be getting much more for the payout than the value of the stolen goods (at least with my experience, just because you have say $10k worth of insurance doesn't mean you're getting a check for $10k, you report the items that were stolen and the insurance company determines the value). If you buy identical items to what was stolen, even if they're newer, it's unlikely that you're making much of a gain considering all of the negative things associated with a break-in.
The stress isn't worth it. I had my house burgled once and the police tried to bring my wife down to the station to interrogate her for insurance fraud and take a lie detector test (I told them no thanks, of course). Also, it took nearly two months before the insurance money even arrived.
I have a Nexus 7 and found a couple free graphing calculator apps that completely eliminate any need I might have otherwise had for a full graphing calculator. I actually first started looking at apps because I wanted my old TI-83 for something but couldn't find it. Granted, students wouldn't be able to bring a fully functional Android device with them to a test, so I guess that's why TI can continue to charge the ridiculous prices they do for these things.
I guess you (and I) will need prescription Glass...
Why has this not been modded through the roof?!
Grow up. The reality is that software is expected to do more than ever these days, which means programmers need to be able to spend more time on solving business problems rather than on moving bits and packets around.
Yes, there are definitely some security vulnerabilities unique to Javascript because of the strange environment that Javascript operates in, which is sending/receiving data to/from multiple sources simultaneously in what looks like a single page or application to the user.
This is about rendering 3D graphics with hardware acceleration, you know, the stuff that your video card does. Until recently, to get 3D rendering in a web browser you had to either use a proprietary plugin like Flash or Unity, or rely on slow software rendering. WebGL is a developing standard for giving web browsers an implementation of OpenGL ES 2.0. It can be used for 3D browser games, charts, etc.
This. The percentage of web users who are running non-JS browsers or have JS disabled is small enough not to matter for the people funding web development. As a developer, the best you can do, particularly in a project involving AJAX, is to have RESTful web services that allow a clever enough user to get the information they need without Javascript running, even if the site is as ugly as hell. They may have to parse some JSON or XML on their own, but that's their problem if they don't feel comfortable with their browsing executing JS.
JavaScript is insecure and violates privacy
Javascript is a language; it cannot violate your privacy. Security and privacy issues related to Javascript can only be application-specific issues which are introduced by the developers of said application. Javascript as a language is in no more violation of your privacy than C.
Developers have become way too fucking dependant on JS and frameworks like jQuery, Mootools and YUI
There is no better way for making interactive web applications than using Javascript. The only real alternatives are using proprietary platforms like Flash or Silverlight. The level of interactivity on the web that people demand these days has gone past the level you can get from reloading an HTML document every time the user clicks something or enters some text. Add in the development of WebGL for hardware accelerated 3D graphics in web browsers and some of the other fancy features of HTML5 and it's easy to see that Javascript isn't going anywhere for a while. jQuery, on the other hand, is pretty slow and should be used sparingly.
Less so for Tesla. Their site doesn't have any external ads, so they're not making anything from ad revenue, and most people can't afford their cars.
Yes, it's so much better to expect users to learn a proprietary language they would otherwise never have any use for.
Why can't we have dishonest television in the States?
Apparently because our newspapers have a monopoly on that.
When you're citing a Gawker Media site as a reference, please forgive me if my opinion is not swayed.
Pretty much the same thing. They implied that the car could break down inside its range and showed the staff pushing a functional car back to the garage.
Hackers who don't cooperate with them seem to end up charged with rape, child porn, or just a bunch of bullshit charges that prosecutors can find to leverage on them to try to break them
I'm going to have to ask for some citation, please. The exact story you're posting on is discussing how the penalties for hacking-related charges are too high. If the government can throw you in prison for several years for hacking, why would they need to frame you for something unrelated?
Do you perhaps work in the Deep South during the early 1800's?
Probably by Kim Jong Un's definition.