They got a million dollars from people who they fooled into thinking they have something however. It's not he who asks, but he who pays after being asked that's at fault here.
They presented their project fairly well, and anyone with understanding of how things work in this world understood that it has no chance of succeeding. About the only complaint I have about this project is that if someone has extra income and they want to feel good about themselves, they would have done better putting money in countless other projects that actually have a chance of succeeding.
I've looked at their costs, and right now there's not enough money on the entire planet to replace even a portion of US road network with what they have.
Looking at their business plan, they are headed straight for failure. Reason is actually very simple. Roads are a key part of basic infrastructure. As a result, we need many of them, and they need to be cheap to construct and cheap to maintain.
Their idea of a road is extremely expensive to build regardless of mass production or technology advancement in comparison to modern roads for very obvious reasons, and maintenance is unknown but likely also astronomically higher.
Essentially this is a choice of having the road network we have today, or having nothing but major intercity roads if even than and no other roads (because cost of these will swallow all the budget and then some).
Your problem likely lies in the fact that overwhelming majority of people "has problem with their eyes" by your definition. You effectively assume that norm is perfect eyesight with perfect and well trained observation ability on top of it.
Number of people who meet these criteria is a very small fraction of population. As a result, they are by definition abnormal and normal people cannot see the difference.
It also has real, indisputable downsides, including the fact that it's not suitable for children with developing eyesight, it causes significant fatigue and headaches to many people and so on. You'll find all these warnings and more on the very user manuals of the said products.
We are not talking about MISUSE which is what you are talking about. We are talking about intended users attempting to use the car in the intended way and failing.
If you must have a car analogy, it would be a car that would not have enough power to climb hills in the region it's sold in.
You seem to think piracy is a major hurdle to PC games. Most people in the industry nowadays strongly disagree. By far the biggest problem is massive influx of games on the platform in last couple of years, meaning competition to be discovered by gamers is absolutely fierce. Steam's "new releases" page usually cycles through about ten games every work day.
If anything, ending up on top of piratebay's "most downloaded game torrents" is great for sales as people will actually find and buy your game. Tropico 5 is already off the front page for example.
Dumbest idea ever. Bitcoin miner needs online connectivity. Essentially every decent cracker team will tell you "block game in your firewall" right under the "copy crack files to game directory" in the.nfo.
Sounds like another one of those "omg, your get viruses from torrents" FUD bullshit. If you have common sense and download from large torrents posted by people recognised in that community, chances of getting something nasty are far lower than from having a browser open a page you haven't been to before.
That said, this game is known to have utterly terrible performance in relation to graphics quality. Totalbiscuit couldn't get it to run at 60fps at 1080p on a dual SLI titan rig with a high end i7, a boatload of RAM and SSDs on maximum details, while laptops with high end mobile cards had to run game on medium and low to be playable. So I can see how someone would think "hey, this game doesn't look all that good and performs terribly compared to graphics quality, maybe it has one of those bitcoin miners I heard about on the internetz sucking cycles out of my GPU".
Unless, of course, Ubisoft included a bitcoin miner in the game themselves which is why performance is that bad. Which is something I wouldn't believe - for all the daft anti-consumer decisions they ever made, that would have been an order of magnitude worse.
The "it's not the tool, it's the people" argument has one major flaw.
Tools are built so that people can perform tasks they can't otherwise do. As a result, if tool fails because it's not good enough for the task, at least part of the blame lies with tool and its creator.
They may pervert it heavily, but you can still do things like stand with pictures of pieces of aborted children in front of schools because it's classified under freedom of speech.
Pretty much anywhere else in the world such argument would obviously not fly.
Example #1: taking a picture of someone having sex in public. Clear and obvious privacy violation unless it's "in your face" kind of in public that is illegal. Example #2: video of someone acting like a jerk: Define the following: a. Someone. b. Circumstances. c. "acting like a jerk". All of these impact the decision.
I'm guessing you're come from an anglo country and possess an anarchist/libertrarian bent. This article is about Germany. A good point of reference for you would be the following:
1. How you treat freedom of speech, they treat privacy. 2. How you treat privacy, they treat freedom of speech.
As a result, it would be pretty surprising if this was overturned.
He can work on whatever he wants in his free time. However it looks like he signed a standard "all your work in your field is owned by your employer" contract.
That means that work he did while on Zenimax's payroll for Oculus is in fact owned by Zenimax. Courts have always upheld such contracts. Facebook has no legal leg to stand on here, nor does Oculus. They are completely boned.
About the only reasonable argument is going to be on how much of the work was done by Carmack, and as a result how much of the 2 billion is going to go to Zenimax.
And Carmack himself openly admitted he worked on Oculus Rift while working for Zenimax. That was one of the big arguments Oculus guys used to advertise themselves early on.
They are boned. The only thing they can do is try to get a decent deal, but Zenimax has them by the balls and they know it.
Twitch.tv however has a lot of profitable users. People actually subscribe and pay money on monthly basis, PER CHANNEL and portion of that goes to twitch.tv.
Youtube on the other hand has a lot of users, but they are nowhere near as lucrative. It comes with twitch's role as a very specialized service.
That is also why governmental control is a good thing. When governing body that stands over bureaus sees progress being hamstrung by competition, it can order the cooperation, as was the case in USSR.
It often comes as shocking to many people in the West, but Soviet aerospace industry was pure cutthroat capitalism to the extreme. Competition between respective bureaus was brutal, far more so than current climate in Military Industrial complex in US for example. That is how they ran away several decades ahead of the West in many aspects of that industry. As a result, comparison to current situation with same industry in the West and assuming that what is suggested here is going to Western style "government lead" model is just nonsense.
Going back to that from the current situation seems like a good plan for the industry in fact. Right now it's massively inbred and corrupt, very similar to industry in the West in the same sectors. This is better than space-x model, this is what it should be - government lead industry that is driven to fierce competition within itself, without the massive overspending that results from need to corrupt government to get contracts and produce profits.
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They got a million dollars from people who they fooled into thinking they have something however. It's not he who asks, but he who pays after being asked that's at fault here.
They presented their project fairly well, and anyone with understanding of how things work in this world understood that it has no chance of succeeding. About the only complaint I have about this project is that if someone has extra income and they want to feel good about themselves, they would have done better putting money in countless other projects that actually have a chance of succeeding.
I've looked at their costs, and right now there's not enough money on the entire planet to replace even a portion of US road network with what they have.
Looking at their business plan, they are headed straight for failure. Reason is actually very simple. Roads are a key part of basic infrastructure. As a result, we need many of them, and they need to be cheap to construct and cheap to maintain.
Their idea of a road is extremely expensive to build regardless of mass production or technology advancement in comparison to modern roads for very obvious reasons, and maintenance is unknown but likely also astronomically higher.
Essentially this is a choice of having the road network we have today, or having nothing but major intercity roads if even than and no other roads (because cost of these will swallow all the budget and then some).
Remind me, why did we give up CRTs again? :(
Your problem likely lies in the fact that overwhelming majority of people "has problem with their eyes" by your definition. You effectively assume that norm is perfect eyesight with perfect and well trained observation ability on top of it.
Number of people who meet these criteria is a very small fraction of population. As a result, they are by definition abnormal and normal people cannot see the difference.
It also has real, indisputable downsides, including the fact that it's not suitable for children with developing eyesight, it causes significant fatigue and headaches to many people and so on. You'll find all these warnings and more on the very user manuals of the said products.
Don't forget the "has better color palette than any modern flat panel screen and is viewable from any angle with correct colors!"
Standard definition of AAA game title is that it's:
1. Published by a major publisher.
2. Has a sizeable budget.
3. Is a good game.
Tropico series meets all three criteria.
We are not talking about MISUSE which is what you are talking about. We are talking about intended users attempting to use the car in the intended way and failing.
If you must have a car analogy, it would be a car that would not have enough power to climb hills in the region it's sold in.
You seem to think piracy is a major hurdle to PC games. Most people in the industry nowadays strongly disagree. By far the biggest problem is massive influx of games on the platform in last couple of years, meaning competition to be discovered by gamers is absolutely fierce. Steam's "new releases" page usually cycles through about ten games every work day.
If anything, ending up on top of piratebay's "most downloaded game torrents" is great for sales as people will actually find and buy your game. Tropico 5 is already off the front page for example.
Of the recent ones, Tropico 5 comes to mind.
Dumbest idea ever. Bitcoin miner needs online connectivity. Essentially every decent cracker team will tell you "block game in your firewall" right under the "copy crack files to game directory" in the .nfo.
Sounds like another one of those "omg, your get viruses from torrents" FUD bullshit. If you have common sense and download from large torrents posted by people recognised in that community, chances of getting something nasty are far lower than from having a browser open a page you haven't been to before.
That said, this game is known to have utterly terrible performance in relation to graphics quality. Totalbiscuit couldn't get it to run at 60fps at 1080p on a dual SLI titan rig with a high end i7, a boatload of RAM and SSDs on maximum details, while laptops with high end mobile cards had to run game on medium and low to be playable. So I can see how someone would think "hey, this game doesn't look all that good and performs terribly compared to graphics quality, maybe it has one of those bitcoin miners I heard about on the internetz sucking cycles out of my GPU".
Unless, of course, Ubisoft included a bitcoin miner in the game themselves which is why performance is that bad. Which is something I wouldn't believe - for all the daft anti-consumer decisions they ever made, that would have been an order of magnitude worse.
The "it's not the tool, it's the people" argument has one major flaw.
Tools are built so that people can perform tasks they can't otherwise do. As a result, if tool fails because it's not good enough for the task, at least part of the blame lies with tool and its creator.
That's his point. Prenda lost because someone actually could afford to defend.
This is a problem that must be fixed ASAP. Putting other issues in front of holy making of the profit is communism.
All the tricks you mention would only improve the number by a fairly small percentarge, likely low double digits.
You are claiming that your normal usage doubles your fuel consumption. That suggests that most of the problem is in your driving style.
They may pervert it heavily, but you can still do things like stand with pictures of pieces of aborted children in front of schools because it's classified under freedom of speech.
Pretty much anywhere else in the world such argument would obviously not fly.
Example #1: taking a picture of someone having sex in public. Clear and obvious privacy violation unless it's "in your face" kind of in public that is illegal.
Example #2: video of someone acting like a jerk: Define the following: a. Someone. b. Circumstances. c. "acting like a jerk". All of these impact the decision.
I'm guessing you're come from an anglo country and possess an anarchist/libertrarian bent. This article is about Germany. A good point of reference for you would be the following:
1. How you treat freedom of speech, they treat privacy.
2. How you treat privacy, they treat freedom of speech.
As a result, it would be pretty surprising if this was overturned.
He can work on whatever he wants in his free time. However it looks like he signed a standard "all your work in your field is owned by your employer" contract.
That means that work he did while on Zenimax's payroll for Oculus is in fact owned by Zenimax. Courts have always upheld such contracts. Facebook has no legal leg to stand on here, nor does Oculus. They are completely boned.
About the only reasonable argument is going to be on how much of the work was done by Carmack, and as a result how much of the 2 billion is going to go to Zenimax.
And Carmack himself openly admitted he worked on Oculus Rift while working for Zenimax. That was one of the big arguments Oculus guys used to advertise themselves early on.
They are boned. The only thing they can do is try to get a decent deal, but Zenimax has them by the balls and they know it.
The caveat is pretty hilarious though. "When subscriber base is high".
How many people can claim a high subscriber base? The entire point of Twitch is that it lets you monetize niche content that won't attract millions.
You got that backwards. They will be eff'n you.
Twitch.tv however has a lot of profitable users. People actually subscribe and pay money on monthly basis, PER CHANNEL and portion of that goes to twitch.tv.
Youtube on the other hand has a lot of users, but they are nowhere near as lucrative. It comes with twitch's role as a very specialized service.
That is also why governmental control is a good thing. When governing body that stands over bureaus sees progress being hamstrung by competition, it can order the cooperation, as was the case in USSR.
It often comes as shocking to many people in the West, but Soviet aerospace industry was pure cutthroat capitalism to the extreme. Competition between respective bureaus was brutal, far more so than current climate in Military Industrial complex in US for example. That is how they ran away several decades ahead of the West in many aspects of that industry. As a result, comparison to current situation with same industry in the West and assuming that what is suggested here is going to Western style "government lead" model is just nonsense.
Going back to that from the current situation seems like a good plan for the industry in fact. Right now it's massively inbred and corrupt, very similar to industry in the West in the same sectors. This is better than space-x model, this is what it should be - government lead industry that is driven to fierce competition within itself, without the massive overspending that results from need to corrupt government to get contracts and produce profits.
That makes one of you. Probably in the whole world.