Design for adoption. Eliminate as many adoption dependencies as possible; make it easy for target customers to become registered users; keep providing compelling reasons for registered users to increase their use of the service.
I tried signing up for paypal yesterday. It was anything but easy. For reasons undisclosed to me, I had to start over from a different registration page. Then after I go through that and it says I have registered, it won't let me use the credit card I registered because it "requires additional verification." No other internet business has required any additional verification for this card.
If paypal was always this sucky, I don't see how they got where they are.
The reason people pay attention to quake 3 benchmarks is that there are hardly any other games used to benchmark. (I mean, there's half-life, unreal tournament, and...quake 1 and 2)
A game people MIGHT play has more meaning than some generic benchmark, because people will think it is more likely to represent real-world performance. And GENERAL real-world performance, at that.
Optimizing for Quake 3 is okay. Not disclosing it isn't. If people really were buying cards for Q3, and not worrying about anything else, wouldn't it be a GOOD thing to let people know that the drivers are written specifically to boost performance on this one game?
A cure for AIDS would NOT be more worthy of a Nobel prize in *PHYSICS*, unless it involved the patient being used as a target in a particle accelerator or something.
And if it was so much less technically challenging, don't you think there would be one by now, considering how many more people have been working on it?
Postal doesn't require 3D accelleration. (I'm not even sure it can take advantage of it)
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That is pretty much the only way to get them before they scatter.
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You do not have a dark sense of humor. I laughed my balls off.
And I don't see how it's pretentious. Do Running With Scissors pretend this game is anything other than what it is? Do they slap some ridiculous story on it to try and make it seem more interesting? If you want pretentious, try Final Fantasy, or Serious Sam. Where is the pretense with Postal?
"Going postal" is a term that is in use, and will be no matter what the USPS tries to do to "improve it's image." It now exists completely independent of any postal service.
And what exactly does this game have to do with current events? Nothing. Just like every other movie or TV show or game or whatever that people are deeming "inappropriate," because they might frighten somebody...oooohhh... Please, give it a rest.
I'd like to know what you thought was bad about it, besides it's overly simplistic "kill everything" objective.
Don't say control. That's always bugged me when people bitch about Postal's control...it controls like an FPS, but is done in an overhead perspective. Why does it seem like I am the only person who can handle it?
That would NOT be neccesary for a blind person to use it. Well, maybe it gives them a speed boost, but the keypads are only three keys wide. It is not that easy to get lost on them.
This won't catch on, and it would not work one-handed. You would have to place it on a surface of some kind to be able to press the keys with your fingers (I don't know about you guys, but when I'm typing on a cell phone, I use my THUMB), or be held with the other hand.
It also does not work with hunting-and-pecking, so, like just about every ass-headed typing scheme that has come along and failed to even make a DENT in qwerty (except maybe Dvorak, and some other keyboard layouts), it doesn't really have a learning CURVE so much as a BRICK FUCKING WALL you would have to vertically climb before the thing becomes even remotely useful.
Why is it there are so many cases where the patent holder doesn't come forward to bitch about something until a long while after the infringing product has come out? Are they just waiting to see if it is successful before trying to grab their piece of the pie?
That would make some sense...if they want to see their idea succeed, it would be best not to impede it in any way as it is starting up. Still, it kind of smells to me.
No...if the machines were not using humans to do this, there would be no Matrix, thus while there might still be a Zion and a resistance and stuff, it would all take place in the REAL world...IOW, it would be like the future in the Terminator movies.
Ultimately, the entire plot for the Matrix is based upon the idiotic notion that humans make good generators. Even if animals were good for this, in general, mice would be better.
(Oh, and "Combined with a form of fusion..." I think the fusion would be more productive)
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How about a swap? We'll let australian marsupials decimate africa, while lions and hyenas chow down on koalas. Yeah.
Is the human unarmed and naked?
If not, I think it would be pretty short, and not all that entertaining.
Then you would really hate rogue leader. It seems not harder or easier than Rogue Squadron, but it is more tedious.
Design for adoption. Eliminate as many adoption dependencies as possible; make it easy for target customers to become registered users; keep providing compelling reasons for registered users to increase their use of the service.
I tried signing up for paypal yesterday. It was anything but easy. For reasons undisclosed to me, I had to start over from a different registration page. Then after I go through that and it says I have registered, it won't let me use the credit card I registered because it "requires additional verification." No other internet business has required any additional verification for this card.
If paypal was always this sucky, I don't see how they got where they are.
About 6 months from now...4 months after it gets cancelled.
Had to pick an industry where the US is overwhelmingly dominant, didn't you?
how do you propose to get it into the building? Ideally, you keep the computer functional, in case you get searched.
Space.
I think that fits the bill.
The reason people pay attention to quake 3 benchmarks is that there are hardly any other games used to benchmark. (I mean, there's half-life, unreal tournament, and...quake 1 and 2)
A game people MIGHT play has more meaning than some generic benchmark, because people will think it is more likely to represent real-world performance. And GENERAL real-world performance, at that.
Optimizing for Quake 3 is okay. Not disclosing it isn't. If people really were buying cards for Q3, and not worrying about anything else, wouldn't it be a GOOD thing to let people know that the drivers are written specifically to boost performance on this one game?
Clearly that is NOT the case.
Why not try some early WARNING? Give some chance to prepare, or if the site is small, mirror the damn thing.
AND remember that Microsoft will be getting a bigger slice on the games that they themselves publish.
A cure for AIDS would NOT be more worthy of a Nobel prize in *PHYSICS*, unless it involved the patient being used as a target in a particle accelerator or something.
And if it was so much less technically challenging, don't you think there would be one by now, considering how many more people have been working on it?
It is on topic if the topic includes linux and gaming.
But yeah, seriously...
Postal doesn't require 3D accelleration. (I'm not even sure it can take advantage of it)
That is pretty much the only way to get them before they scatter.
You do not have a dark sense of humor. I laughed my balls off.
And I don't see how it's pretentious. Do Running With Scissors pretend this game is anything other than what it is? Do they slap some ridiculous story on it to try and make it seem more interesting? If you want pretentious, try Final Fantasy, or Serious Sam. Where is the pretense with Postal?
"Going postal" is a term that is in use, and will be no matter what the USPS tries to do to "improve it's image." It now exists completely independent of any postal service.
And what exactly does this game have to do with current events? Nothing. Just like every other movie or TV show or game or whatever that people are deeming "inappropriate," because they might frighten somebody...oooohhh... Please, give it a rest.
I'd like to know what you thought was bad about it, besides it's overly simplistic "kill everything" objective.
Don't say control. That's always bugged me when people bitch about Postal's control...it controls like an FPS, but is done in an overhead perspective. Why does it seem like I am the only person who can handle it?
Anyhow, I like Postal.
If investors are that stupid, maybe they don't DESERVE to have a strong market.
That would NOT be neccesary for a blind person to use it. Well, maybe it gives them a speed boost, but the keypads are only three keys wide. It is not that easy to get lost on them.
This won't catch on, and it would not work one-handed. You would have to place it on a surface of some kind to be able to press the keys with your fingers (I don't know about you guys, but when I'm typing on a cell phone, I use my THUMB), or be held with the other hand.
It also does not work with hunting-and-pecking, so, like just about every ass-headed typing scheme that has come along and failed to even make a DENT in qwerty (except maybe Dvorak, and some other keyboard layouts), it doesn't really have a learning CURVE so much as a BRICK FUCKING WALL you would have to vertically climb before the thing becomes even remotely useful.
No hard drive is so good it alone would have me sporting any wood to touch.
Why is it there are so many cases where the patent holder doesn't come forward to bitch about something until a long while after the infringing product has come out? Are they just waiting to see if it is successful before trying to grab their piece of the pie?
That would make some sense...if they want to see their idea succeed, it would be best not to impede it in any way as it is starting up. Still, it kind of smells to me.
No...if the machines were not using humans to do this, there would be no Matrix, thus while there might still be a Zion and a resistance and stuff, it would all take place in the REAL world...IOW, it would be like the future in the Terminator movies.
Ultimately, the entire plot for the Matrix is based upon the idiotic notion that humans make good generators. Even if animals were good for this, in general, mice would be better.
(Oh, and "Combined with a form of fusion..." I think the fusion would be more productive)