I find the "sequel driven" claim a bit strange. I mean it's not exactly like the western market is sequel-free. How many Halo sequels have we had recently? I'm not event talking about Need for Speed or all the EA sport games (I remember playing FIFA'94, we are in 2010, and I don't think they skipped a single year). Oh well I have to go play Fable 3 (while waiting for Mass Effect 3) so I can't really elaborate on such a list.
A football player who's caught on doping gets banned, true, but nobody breaks his legs to prevent him from playing football for fun outside of competition. Well basically everyone agrees here that people caught cheating should be banned from online games, but that doesn't mean they should be unable to play the single-player campaign...
This is assuming that the 9% risk is constant over time. It is reasonable to assume that it first increases: an old phone will break more easily than a new one, maybe due to repeated small accidents. Then it will be reset: you usually don't keep a phone 11 years.
Then again, those are statistics on a bunch of new phones over a year, so it is unclear whether projecting them on 1 phone over several years really makes sense.
"While some sneer and scoff at this, pointing to LA or Seattle as gaming giants and rightful heirs to the title"
This reminds me of all these USA-centered Hollywood movies, where aliens always choose some place in the USA to contact the Earth, etc. The thing is, if such a place should be somewhere, then it should definitely be somewhere in Japan, where pac-man, space invaders, mario, sonic, final fantasy and many more come from. Of course a lot of great games were later developed in the USA (and in Europe), but well one should be fair to history.
The fact that in the last 10-15 years video games became such a large-scale industry with production processes and budgets similar to movies changed a bit this landscape. There are of course a few already cited pioneers (S. Meier, J. Carmack, J. Mechner) but they are more like exceptions, and they still came much later than the Japanese pioneers. But mostly and originally, video games come from Japan! The whole thing sounds a bit like making a sushi hall of fame in LA - of course there exists such a thing as a California maki...
It also sounds a bit like having a gangsta rap hall of fame in Osaka, and I do not doubt that there are Japanese gangsta rappers... Wait, this would actually be awesome, in a kitschy way.
As a mac laptop user, I am satisfied with this mouse (Logitech VX Revolution). The driver, however, is a total disaster, as always with Logitech. Your choices are the following:
- Use the official Logitech driver+software (which takes in this case ~50mB I think), and waste some precious CPU and RAM with them. Also, it randomly resets your scrolling speed, with "randomly" being usually equal to "after a few minutes". - Do not install any driver, just use the mac os mouse driver, which does not handle those fancy extra mouse buttons that you just paid 50$ or more (it just handles 3 buttons + 2 scrolling directions) - Use a 3rd party driver. That's what I do with steermouse (easily found on google). It's lightweight and does exactly what the logitech driver should do. Only problem: it's not free (20$).
It's still incredible that Logitech is so great at producing hardware and so awful at writing appropriate drivers, we're not in 1996 anymore ffs.
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I find the "sequel driven" claim a bit strange. I mean it's not exactly like the western market is sequel-free. How many Halo sequels have we had recently? I'm not event talking about Need for Speed or all the EA sport games (I remember playing FIFA'94, we are in 2010, and I don't think they skipped a single year). Oh well I have to go play Fable 3 (while waiting for Mass Effect 3) so I can't really elaborate on such a list.
A football player who's caught on doping gets banned, true, but nobody breaks his legs to prevent him from playing football for fun outside of competition.
Well basically everyone agrees here that people caught cheating should be banned from online games, but that doesn't mean they should be unable to play the single-player campaign...
Well at least one point on which both vi and emacs users will agree :)
This is assuming that the 9% risk is constant over time. It is reasonable to assume that it first increases: an old phone will break more easily than a new one, maybe due to repeated small accidents. Then it will be reset: you usually don't keep a phone 11 years.
Then again, those are statistics on a bunch of new phones over a year, so it is unclear whether projecting them on 1 phone over several years really makes sense.
Well only half of them signed up for this filthy regime, that's the problem with democracy...
Agreed, the 53% who voted for it get what they deserve - the problem is, the remaining 47% also get what the first 53% deserve.
"While some sneer and scoff at this, pointing to LA or Seattle as gaming giants and rightful heirs to the title"
This reminds me of all these USA-centered Hollywood movies, where aliens always choose some place in the USA to contact the Earth, etc.
The thing is, if such a place should be somewhere, then it should definitely be somewhere in Japan, where pac-man, space invaders, mario, sonic, final fantasy and many more come from.
Of course a lot of great games were later developed in the USA (and in Europe), but well one should be fair to history.
The fact that in the last 10-15 years video games became such a large-scale industry with production processes and budgets similar to movies changed a bit this landscape. There are of course a few already cited pioneers (S. Meier, J. Carmack, J. Mechner) but they are more like exceptions, and they still came much later than the Japanese pioneers.
But mostly and originally, video games come from Japan!
The whole thing sounds a bit like making a sushi hall of fame in LA - of course there exists such a thing as a California maki...
It also sounds a bit like having a gangsta rap hall of fame in Osaka, and I do not doubt that there are Japanese gangsta rappers... Wait, this would actually be awesome, in a kitschy way.
As a mac laptop user, I am satisfied with this mouse (Logitech VX Revolution). The driver, however, is a total disaster, as always with Logitech. Your choices are the following:
- Use the official Logitech driver+software (which takes in this case ~50mB I think), and waste some precious CPU and RAM with them. Also, it randomly resets your scrolling speed, with "randomly" being usually equal to "after a few minutes".
- Do not install any driver, just use the mac os mouse driver, which does not handle those fancy extra mouse buttons that you just paid 50$ or more (it just handles 3 buttons + 2 scrolling directions)
- Use a 3rd party driver. That's what I do with steermouse (easily found on google). It's lightweight and does exactly what the logitech driver should do. Only problem: it's not free (20$).
It's still incredible that Logitech is so great at producing hardware and so awful at writing appropriate drivers, we're not in 1996 anymore ffs.