I agree there, its not "available". You can order it, but it has to be procued first, the people before you in line will have to get theirs, and so it won't be shipped in quite some time.
Maybe I'm the only one, but I don't long for the controllers of days gone. Modern controllers can do just as much more comfortably.
Well, I firmly disagree. But mostly because I want a actual PC gamepad. The issue is that whenever I go into the stores, its basically only possible to find Logitech gamepads. They have a grip issue, the analogs lacks resistance and has some of the Dual Shock problems, the buttons are too elevated, and the dpad is severely elevated along with that its still a chance that when pushing one direction it will also press up or down at the same time. Some of the models also feature a square "gate"(the form around the analogs is called gate when its shaped) which is a problem. Maybe I need to find a store where they have a lot of different gamepads, but the core issue seem to be that the gamepads that are released are poorly designed. The only well designed one for this generation seem to be the Wiis Classic Controller(basically SNES with analogs) and the Xbox 360 controller(a bit of random quality and a poor dpad).
Its actually a lot more simple that what the current issue is. The current vote is for "military intervention", which is basically raiding the place, drop a few bombs, ruin a bit of infastructure, replace the top of the power structure, pay a few warlords, and don't uphold the law. China don't want such a uncivilized action to be taken, and some of the Russian top likes the Syrian top. So there goes the veto. Now... what could have happened? Don't go for military intervention, just send in "Law Enforcement Tropers". Don't squash, just do what their local police is not doing, take over the courts, uphold the law, and do nothing more. Once the peace as settled for a bit, the only things left to deal with is corruption.
Or we should support "good behavior". If he is indeed a witness, why can't the Swedish goverment agree with using Skype for long distance communcation for him merely being a witness?
Reading comprehension 101: A emulator mau use a compitablity layer instead of emulating, but that does not turn a compitablity into a emulator. Ergo: No contradiction.
Thats not the core. The core is that it would require the manifacturers to provide drivers to multiple devices, most of them refuse to give out drivers for anything else than the first batch of devices, or demand stuff max compitablity is with whatever old backport CentOS is running.
I would say that changing the way that Android works would be better: Update system will by default upgrade everything, instead of just apps. OEMs using Android will be forced to assume that the device will upgrade itself, and that it has a system that will brick & replace menu systems if they don't work.
Carriers flossing won't do anything, it will still involve a lot of thinkering and rooting to get past their restrictions.
Step 1: Be a witness Step 2: Case dismissed Step 3: Asked if you can leave, and get agreement Step 4: Go to the UK to a friends house Step 5: Case gets reopened Step 6: Ask if they want your re witnessing over skype Step 7: They don't comply, and for some reason wants you back to the country Its still rather odd.
If the US goverment had just highjacked him in broad daylight, he has a entire dedicated leaking network to ensure that a organ like the UN would give China and Russia appropiate "ammo" to start massive sanctions.
But there is nothing wrong with keeping a good service up and running. The fact the article also attributes Minitel to be a working techology allowing a more free marked, means that its the kind of thing a goverment should subsidize. The second issue that there is no reason to lay down a service just because it got more modern competitors, because information fetching via one dedicated portal is effective now as back in 1990s. If it works, nothing is wrong with it. Also, why did AOL and the Internet make it obsolote? What if there was no satisfactionary good webpages to replace the service?
and to produce that captioning would be fairly expensive (much more than the cost of provided the movie in the first place)
What, now paying 4-8 people 20$ a hour for 5-6 hours is now expensive? Its not even money for a serious corporation! What sort of neocapitalist are you?
Why is Netflix so different from a TV station? It buys a show and redistributes it. It has its own content system, so nothing can be done to override lacking subtitles either. Its a professional movie watching service over the internet, and not some random site.
Now... lets say there is a chain providing a service. And a few competive chains. Lets say that they could in theory provide yet another service, but that would cost a fee to setup, and increase mantainance cost a little. So who will go first and lose money on the initial cost? That is basically what ADA is all about: Avoiding a chicken and the egg situation, especially one where the ones who makes a egg won't compete with equal terms to others.
Yes, its a way of imposing costs, but at the same time its a way of making sure there actually is competition instead of attempts to underpricing.
They are, but they are not required to run every show with subtitles. So long they provide a few movies with subtitles once in a while, their basically free to go.
Not only that, but it seems to be that ADA is a prefectly reasonable thing to enforce. Why? Because ADA only core requirement is a properly done subtitle with a minor addition of describing the important background events. Requirering a movie renting service to include subtitles is a minor standard, especially after the video cassete died, and we got a digital medium which allows for multiple subtitles to be stored and used. I see nothing wrong with forcing a digital redistributor to actually provide subtitles, especially when you can't use anything to override the lack of it.
How does that work in cases of retro games with more twitch play, which are the polar opposite of the more touch-friendly RPGs you mentioned? When you're directly controlling a character, such as in a platformer, you have to be able to hit the right on-screen button blind, and touch screens have historically been bad at that because they have no bumps.
You still always position your fingers roughly correctly to the gamepad you are using regardless, so its not a issue. The largest issues I have seen is combination of a dpad requirement with a tablet with a not soo good capacitive touch screen(required exessive amounts of touching), which also had this really large amount of input lag. If the game you are emulating has analog stick emulation, or supports octagonal movement: It will work just fine. Games like most N64 games will work like a dream, due the analog stick. Then again, the biggest problem is the input lag, which frankly overshades all issues the touch screen bring. You still feel that you hit the screen, if buts lagging behind enough so that you might move one extra tiler per movement attempt.
Smeared with vaseline? At the least get a composite video cable alreay. Interlacing should have been killed at the turn of the century, and not roughly next year.
Then again, based on Wikipedia, Nintendos handheld line started with one of their key inventors spotting a bored commuter trying to play with his calculator, because there was not much to do in the Japanese commuting train. That the handheld line is still a vital piece of equipment for a commuter is not strange, its rather to be expected.
I live far out on the countryside. Public transportation is not "viewed" as a second class solution, they are a third class solution. Nothing is done to enforce precision, there is a buss in one direction each 5-6 hours. And if that is not enough, during times such as summer vaction half of the setup buss rides is gone. On the top of that, my nations law require each country to have internal public transportion, but nothing is done to ensure that there will be transportation between counties, ironically making the train the best method of transportation. So train is per definition the 2nd class solution: Its on time, and can transport between counties.
Minor clarification: A nation is a state, a state coutains several counties, each county houses several hundred whole bunch of local areas with their local administration.
Which is a rather ungradiented view of reality. There exists crap implentations of resistive touch, and the same applies to capacitive one. Lets for instance take Apple: You don't actually need to touch the screen, but with other manifacturers you often need to physically touch it. The same is true for resistive touch, for instance Nintendo does a great job at it, but a lot of manifacturers don't, either to save cost or because they don't care. Secondly: You can have multitouch resistive display, nothing is actually stopping it. Its just that nobody implents it, because they ARE dickbags.
Because of several common tragedies: 1. Lock down computers 2. People don't know how a file system or file structure work, aka it gets dumped where it can't be found 3. Download IS really a hassle So basically if I can go to a webpage and just play, it will be a lot better.
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I agree there, its not "available". You can order it, but it has to be procued first, the people before you in line will have to get theirs, and so it won't be shipped in quite some time.
Well, I firmly disagree. But mostly because I want a actual PC gamepad. The issue is that whenever I go into the stores, its basically only possible to find Logitech gamepads. They have a grip issue, the analogs lacks resistance and has some of the Dual Shock problems, the buttons are too elevated, and the dpad is severely elevated along with that its still a chance that when pushing one direction it will also press up or down at the same time. Some of the models also feature a square "gate"(the form around the analogs is called gate when its shaped) which is a problem.
Maybe I need to find a store where they have a lot of different gamepads, but the core issue seem to be that the gamepads that are released are poorly designed. The only well designed one for this generation seem to be the Wiis Classic Controller(basically SNES with analogs) and the Xbox 360 controller(a bit of random quality and a poor dpad).
Its actually a lot more simple that what the current issue is. The current vote is for "military intervention", which is basically raiding the place, drop a few bombs, ruin a bit of infastructure, replace the top of the power structure, pay a few warlords, and don't uphold the law. China don't want such a uncivilized action to be taken, and some of the Russian top likes the Syrian top. So there goes the veto.
Now... what could have happened? Don't go for military intervention, just send in "Law Enforcement Tropers". Don't squash, just do what their local police is not doing, take over the courts, uphold the law, and do nothing more. Once the peace as settled for a bit, the only things left to deal with is corruption.
Or we should support "good behavior". If he is indeed a witness, why can't the Swedish goverment agree with using Skype for long distance communcation for him merely being a witness?
Reading comprehension 101: A emulator mau use a compitablity layer instead of emulating, but that does not turn a compitablity into a emulator. Ergo: No contradiction.
Thats not the core. The core is that it would require the manifacturers to provide drivers to multiple devices, most of them refuse to give out drivers for anything else than the first batch of devices, or demand stuff max compitablity is with whatever old backport CentOS is running.
I would say that changing the way that Android works would be better: Update system will by default upgrade everything, instead of just apps. OEMs using Android will be forced to assume that the device will upgrade itself, and that it has a system that will brick & replace menu systems if they don't work.
Carriers flossing won't do anything, it will still involve a lot of thinkering and rooting to get past their restrictions.
Step 1: Be a witness
Step 2: Case dismissed
Step 3: Asked if you can leave, and get agreement
Step 4: Go to the UK to a friends house
Step 5: Case gets reopened
Step 6: Ask if they want your re witnessing over skype
Step 7: They don't comply, and for some reason wants you back to the country
Its still rather odd.
If the US goverment had just highjacked him in broad daylight, he has a entire dedicated leaking network to ensure that a organ like the UN would give China and Russia appropiate "ammo" to start massive sanctions.
Just have all the printed out "counts" to have 3 forms of hases to find out what firmware they are running. MD5 perhaps, and a few others?
But there is nothing wrong with keeping a good service up and running. The fact the article also attributes Minitel to be a working techology allowing a more free marked, means that its the kind of thing a goverment should subsidize. The second issue that there is no reason to lay down a service just because it got more modern competitors, because information fetching via one dedicated portal is effective now as back in 1990s. If it works, nothing is wrong with it.
Also, why did AOL and the Internet make it obsolote? What if there was no satisfactionary good webpages to replace the service?
What, now paying 4-8 people 20$ a hour for 5-6 hours is now expensive? Its not even money for a serious corporation! What sort of neocapitalist are you?
Why is Netflix so different from a TV station? It buys a show and redistributes it. It has its own content system, so nothing can be done to override lacking subtitles either. Its a professional movie watching service over the internet, and not some random site.
If a corporation can't be serious enough to accept a minor cost, its not a serious corporation, and will die and wither, even in the free marked.
Now... lets say there is a chain providing a service. And a few competive chains. Lets say that they could in theory provide yet another service, but that would cost a fee to setup, and increase mantainance cost a little. So who will go first and lose money on the initial cost? That is basically what ADA is all about: Avoiding a chicken and the egg situation, especially one where the ones who makes a egg won't compete with equal terms to others.
Yes, its a way of imposing costs, but at the same time its a way of making sure there actually is competition instead of attempts to underpricing.
They are, but they are not required to run every show with subtitles. So long they provide a few movies with subtitles once in a while, their basically free to go.
Not only that, but it seems to be that ADA is a prefectly reasonable thing to enforce. Why? Because ADA only core requirement is a properly done subtitle with a minor addition of describing the important background events. Requirering a movie renting service to include subtitles is a minor standard, especially after the video cassete died, and we got a digital medium which allows for multiple subtitles to be stored and used.
I see nothing wrong with forcing a digital redistributor to actually provide subtitles, especially when you can't use anything to override the lack of it.
You still always position your fingers roughly correctly to the gamepad you are using regardless, so its not a issue. The largest issues I have seen is combination of a dpad requirement with a tablet with a not soo good capacitive touch screen(required exessive amounts of touching), which also had this really large amount of input lag. If the game you are emulating has analog stick emulation, or supports octagonal movement: It will work just fine.
Games like most N64 games will work like a dream, due the analog stick. Then again, the biggest problem is the input lag, which frankly overshades all issues the touch screen bring. You still feel that you hit the screen, if buts lagging behind enough so that you might move one extra tiler per movement attempt.
Smeared with vaseline? At the least get a composite video cable alreay. Interlacing should have been killed at the turn of the century, and not roughly next year.
Then again, based on Wikipedia, Nintendos handheld line started with one of their key inventors spotting a bored commuter trying to play with his calculator, because there was not much to do in the Japanese commuting train. That the handheld line is still a vital piece of equipment for a commuter is not strange, its rather to be expected.
I live far out on the countryside. Public transportation is not "viewed" as a second class solution, they are a third class solution. Nothing is done to enforce precision, there is a buss in one direction each 5-6 hours. And if that is not enough, during times such as summer vaction half of the setup buss rides is gone.
On the top of that, my nations law require each country to have internal public transportion, but nothing is done to ensure that there will be transportation between counties, ironically making the train the best method of transportation. So train is per definition the 2nd class solution: Its on time, and can transport between counties.
Minor clarification: A nation is a state, a state coutains several counties, each county houses several hundred whole bunch of local areas with their local administration.
What if at some time, he joined something like a game engine, a kernel, or a useful application in development? Still not a problem?
Which is a rather ungradiented view of reality. There exists crap implentations of resistive touch, and the same applies to capacitive one. Lets for instance take Apple: You don't actually need to touch the screen, but with other manifacturers you often need to physically touch it. The same is true for resistive touch, for instance Nintendo does a great job at it, but a lot of manifacturers don't, either to save cost or because they don't care.
Secondly: You can have multitouch resistive display, nothing is actually stopping it. Its just that nobody implents it, because they ARE dickbags.
Games already exist for the browser. Have a go at it.
Because of several common tragedies:
1. Lock down computers
2. People don't know how a file system or file structure work, aka it gets dumped where it can't be found
3. Download IS really a hassle
So basically if I can go to a webpage and just play, it will be a lot better.