And was it released late due to real problems or because it was an afterthought? In any way the delay hurt the sales and this Ubusoft saw as fact that there where no demand for their games on the Wii U and they stopped all ports.
So that is why the same companies could port their games to Xbox360 and PS3 which isn't x86 based. Or why for example both Ubisoft and Capcom ported their engines to the Wii U but then only released one or two games?
All those insanely expensive things that you talk about are in the design phase of the game, the code which is the engine is mostly standard stuff these days (of course they improve it slightly from time to time) which is evident in the low costs that where involved when Assassins Creed 3 and 4, Watch Dogs or Resident Evil Revelations where ported.
Which is funny considering that back in the day the same game could be released for both the Amiga and the Sinclair Spectrum. And in those days the gaming market where much much smaller than it's today. So no I don't think that the slightly less powerful hardware in the Wii U has anything to do with the missing 3d party games, it's all political, i.e they decided to not support Nintendo for whatever reason.
For example Watch Dogs where ported but never the DLC even though it didn't contain code. Also we had Resident Evil Revelations (so Capcom did port their game engine) but never got Revelations 2 or any of the other RE games that utilized the exact same engine that where already ported.
For some strange reason I actually like the gamepad screen a lot better than my large TV when playing virtual console games. Could be that they where designed for a small screen to begin with (or it's just me that's crazy).
Because the WiiU is not an abomination at all. It bombed due to political reasons, i.e something went amiss between Nintendo and the 3rd party publishing houses that meant that they didn't release their games on the system.
I hope that you are right but fear that you are wrong. And unfortunately we also see that the game devs complain about it but do they release their games for Steam OS? Do they use cross platform things like OpenGL and Vulkan? No they use locked in shit like DirectX12.
Been there and done that. We used Netware back in the NT4 days on my first workplace and with great mystery the Netware stuff got slower and slower with each NT4 Service Pack. And they will get away with this again if they begin to target Steam because as you say they are to big to fail, if something does not work well in Linux it's a Linuxproblem but if your application does not work well in Windows then it's your problem. The sad thing is that it's the Microsoft customers that have brought this on themselves.
The bank does not care yes but they have to report every transaction to your national version of the SEC and they are fined quite heavily (they can also loose their banking license) if it's found out that they did not fully report and trace the transaction. So what the bank cares are does not care about is quite irrelevant.
How does your anecdote invalidate his claims? You told the bank where the money came from (even when you claimed that no one cared), they registered it and some one in the back checked that the money actually where sent from the accounts mentioned (i.e from your parents to you) and that this was money that your parents had access to legally.
If you could have just appeared in the bank and threw 100k GBP on the table, refused to disclose where the money came from and they still would be ok with that then you would have had a point, but that is not what happened.
Where? There used to be that all operators offered this but at the moment only Net1 (in Sweden that is) offers unlimited data. Myself I happened to sign an unlimited deal with Telenor when they had it so even though they don't sell it anymore they apparently cannot terminate my contract, which is fortunate since I'm around 300GB per month without doing anything special (no torrents, no servers and so on).
Agreed, I have wife plus two teenagers and with Netflix+Youtube (and no torrents or stuff like that) we are way above the 100GB limit (copy pasted from my Dovado Tiny usage report:
Uploaded last month: 6 695 MB
Downloaded last month: 293 731 MB
_________
Total last month: 300 426 MB
It could have been named "two sticks up your ass" and the three accidents that have happened so far would probably still have happened. The problem is not in the name.
Immediately deactivating when the user takes their hands off the steering wheel would be way more dangerous. Take of your hands on a normal car and a crash is imminent, not so much with an Tesla with Autopilot.
The difference on the Netflix content might be big between their 720p and 1080p streams but in general if you have a good upscaler in your display it's very hard to notice a difference. On my 65" it's really hard to see if I feed it a 720p stream from my BluRay copy of i.e BladeRunner (and that disc have great picture) or if I feed it the full 1080p stream. Now not all displays have that good of an upscaler of course.
Perhaps there is some latency due to the Bluetooth communication between the gamepad and the Wii U? I.e first the keypress have to be sent over BT to the Wii U and then the Wii U have to send the picture over BT to the gamepad. And this latency (albeit small) might not be noticeable with games such as Mario Kart due to the game design (the cars don't react as quickly as say Ninja Gaiden).
Exactly which is also why we cannot yet claim that it have caused more accidents. I have a hard time however to see how it would cause more crashes if you use it properly, i.e as a driver assist. If you do that then the number of accidents should be vastly reduced since the machine is able to see and react to things that we as humans do not.
We don't know if they where ever spent. It's not like the FBI screen them all, there are probably billions of bills in circulation and US dollars can be used as payable currency in many countries.
The car industry have put dangerous products in the hands of idiots for close to 100 years now. Only time will tell if the Teslas are better or worse, at the moment they do look better considering their current track record, one fatality and three crashes is not much when compare with the fully human drivers.
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And was it released late due to real problems or because it was an afterthought? In any way the delay hurt the sales and this Ubusoft saw as fact that there where no demand for their games on the Wii U and they stopped all ports.
So that is why the same companies could port their games to Xbox360 and PS3 which isn't x86 based. Or why for example both Ubisoft and Capcom ported their engines to the Wii U but then only released one or two games?
All those insanely expensive things that you talk about are in the design phase of the game, the code which is the engine is mostly standard stuff these days (of course they improve it slightly from time to time) which is evident in the low costs that where involved when Assassins Creed 3 and 4, Watch Dogs or Resident Evil Revelations where ported.
Lasers, obviously!
And when that happens there will be no end of slashdot posts crying over how "Tesla wants to dictate the speed" that they can drive
Which is funny considering that back in the day the same game could be released for both the Amiga and the Sinclair Spectrum. And in those days the gaming market where much much smaller than it's today. So no I don't think that the slightly less powerful hardware in the Wii U has anything to do with the missing 3d party games, it's all political, i.e they decided to not support Nintendo for whatever reason.
For example Watch Dogs where ported but never the DLC even though it didn't contain code. Also we had Resident Evil Revelations (so Capcom did port their game engine) but never got Revelations 2 or any of the other RE games that utilized the exact same engine that where already ported.
For some strange reason I actually like the gamepad screen a lot better than my large TV when playing virtual console games. Could be that they where designed for a small screen to begin with (or it's just me that's crazy).
Because the WiiU is not an abomination at all. It bombed due to political reasons, i.e something went amiss between Nintendo and the 3rd party publishing houses that meant that they didn't release their games on the system.
I hope that you are right but fear that you are wrong. And unfortunately we also see that the game devs complain about it but do they release their games for Steam OS? Do they use cross platform things like OpenGL and Vulkan? No they use locked in shit like DirectX12.
Been there and done that. We used Netware back in the NT4 days on my first workplace and with great mystery the Netware stuff got slower and slower with each NT4 Service Pack. And they will get away with this again if they begin to target Steam because as you say they are to big to fail, if something does not work well in Linux it's a Linuxproblem but if your application does not work well in Windows then it's your problem. The sad thing is that it's the Microsoft customers that have brought this on themselves.
The bank does not care yes but they have to report every transaction to your national version of the SEC and they are fined quite heavily (they can also loose their banking license) if it's found out that they did not fully report and trace the transaction. So what the bank cares are does not care about is quite irrelevant.
How does your anecdote invalidate his claims? You told the bank where the money came from (even when you claimed that no one cared), they registered it and some one in the back checked that the money actually where sent from the accounts mentioned (i.e from your parents to you) and that this was money that your parents had access to legally.
If you could have just appeared in the bank and threw 100k GBP on the table, refused to disclose where the money came from and they still would be ok with that then you would have had a point, but that is not what happened.
Ah ok, Yes Sonera seams to still have that option. Telia however no longer have it (at least they don't offer it in Sweden anymore).
Where? There used to be that all operators offered this but at the moment only Net1 (in Sweden that is) offers unlimited data. Myself I happened to sign an unlimited deal with Telenor when they had it so even though they don't sell it anymore they apparently cannot terminate my contract, which is fortunate since I'm around 300GB per month without doing anything special (no torrents, no servers and so on).
Agreed, I have wife plus two teenagers and with Netflix+Youtube (and no torrents or stuff like that) we are way above the 100GB limit (copy pasted from my Dovado Tiny usage report:
Uploaded last month: 6 695 MB
Downloaded last month: 293 731 MB
_________
Total last month: 300 426 MB
There's a world difference between being critical and posting direct lies.
But it sure would be patentable! Run to the USPTO!!!
"to give you more confidence behind the wheel" does not give me the impression to take my hands of the wheel.
It could have been named "two sticks up your ass" and the three accidents that have happened so far would probably still have happened. The problem is not in the name.
Immediately deactivating when the user takes their hands off the steering wheel would be way more dangerous. Take of your hands on a normal car and a crash is imminent, not so much with an Tesla with Autopilot.
The difference on the Netflix content might be big between their 720p and 1080p streams but in general if you have a good upscaler in your display it's very hard to notice a difference. On my 65" it's really hard to see if I feed it a 720p stream from my BluRay copy of i.e BladeRunner (and that disc have great picture) or if I feed it the full 1080p stream. Now not all displays have that good of an upscaler of course.
Perhaps there is some latency due to the Bluetooth communication between the gamepad and the Wii U? I.e first the keypress have to be sent over BT to the Wii U and then the Wii U have to send the picture over BT to the gamepad. And this latency (albeit small) might not be noticeable with games such as Mario Kart due to the game design (the cars don't react as quickly as say Ninja Gaiden).
Exactly which is also why we cannot yet claim that it have caused more accidents. I have a hard time however to see how it would cause more crashes if you use it properly, i.e as a driver assist. If you do that then the number of accidents should be vastly reduced since the machine is able to see and react to things that we as humans do not.
If they are too worn they do yes, I don't think that they register the serials on them though since we are talking about huge volumes here.
We don't know if they where ever spent. It's not like the FBI screen them all, there are probably billions of bills in circulation and US dollars can be used as payable currency in many countries.
The car industry have put dangerous products in the hands of idiots for close to 100 years now. Only time will tell if the Teslas are better or worse, at the moment they do look better considering their current track record, one fatality and three crashes is not much when compare with the fully human drivers.