I found a PS3 in a dumpster, put an SSD in it, bought a PS3 controller, got the firmware installed, and bam! a console everyone enjoys because you can get some of the best PS1 games from the PS shopping online thing and install them.
So why not just buy a ps1? or even 2? Isn't back compat on a subscription model from sony these days?
At the end of the day do you really think the ps3 is a "better" machine that an xbox one or do you just like that you can play older games on it? Are you actually expecting an xbox one to be able to play psx games though?
I also hate "ALWAYS ON" connections for anything but mobile games (and those are "free" anyway for the most part).
Why does mobile get a free pass? They're mostly free? Well, unless you actually wanna play them they mostly are. You do know mobile games are the absolute worst for hosing consumers and ripping them off? You don't seem to be standing against them even though there is absolutely no sharing, resell, refund or anything on them and they are orders of magnitude worse than console games.
the team made a few key decisions regarding connectivity requirements
Not having bought an XBone (or any system since the original Wii), I was stunned one day a year or two ago when someone was trying to set up an apparently brand new out of the box XBone for the video gaming room at a convention. It actually required an internet connection and a large download before it would do anything at all! Unfortunately, the wiffy was very crappy in that room and it never did get set up.
Bullshit, they work offline out of the box. How is it supposed to know there's an update if it cant get online to check version numbers? Even today when a game or system gets updated you have the choice to update of stay offline.
Oh and the obvious third reason of having a data cap on your connection (or no connection at all) and you cant be going around downloading gigs at a time but that's not really too feasible in todays patch happy environment where basically everything has a day one and if you stay offline you'll likely be playing something broken or glitchy in a bunch of ways.
Speak for yourself mate, always online was secondary concern for myself and I think most other games. It was all about disk ownership.
Let us not forget the standing ovation sony got in 2013 for simply announcing they weren't changing anything
https://youtu.be/NOoJ6ucEY8g?t...
I thought I was in the same boat but digital is better, easier and more convenient. As it stands I can only think of two real reasons to stick to physical. 1) You like having the product, something to display and look at, continue a collection. That's fine and there's nothing wrong with that (apart from physical games needing digi to match their price making digi more expensive than the should be) or 2) You like getting fucked in ass and taken for a mug when you trade them in to save a couple bucks off your next game which would be way cheaper digi if again, physical wasn't keeping their prices up.
Valve has done more damage to first-sale doctrine than everyone else combined (with regards to games). The EU has taken notice of that and has been taking action. What Valve has done with Steam will probably bring down legislation upon everyone, including Microsoft to make the point moot.
Thing is about steam/valve. The prices are considerably lower to compensate for the lack of first sale. With xbox and consoles in general digital gets priced the same as physical to keep the brick and mortar stores on side. Physical sales would drop like a rock if digi was cheaper. Sure physical would still be a thing but it would probably arrive at cd then vinyl levels within a fairly short order and the cost of physical would go up again because they're not producing nearly as many. IMHO they should go embrace digi and leave physical to the the niche market. Devs can make and sell them if they want without them artificially increasing the price of the rest of the market.
If you're in the US illegally, Trump isn't playing around. You will be deported. Living in Chicago or San Francisco is no protection. ICE is coming for you and you will be deported.
You're really doing well turning America into such a shit hole that no one would ever want to go there for a visit let alone to try and make a living. It's one way to deal with immigration that's for sure.
Actually Singapore, like many developed country, has a birth shortage, and the government is paying people to have kids (but most still don't to have it).
Where does this dumb "nothing can go wrong" sort of sarcasm come from?
Of course things could go wrong. Nobody is suggesting that they won't! But there is the potential for some big gains by trying out these ideas in practice.
That's how we make progress: we think of an idea, try it out, and deal with the consequences, regardless of whether they are good or bad.
This smug liberal "things could go wrong" snark is truly idiotic. Yes, we know that there may be undesired outcomes. That's the price of innovation, and it's taken into account when engineering this kind of technology.
Way to miss the point with your faux outrage. Here's an idea. Let's get the flying car to a point where it's not a death trap pipe dream, then we'll think about making them into taxis, yeah? We can't even rely on self driving cars on the ground now you want to send them skyward willy nilly, with people in them no less. Show me where I said let's not do it, go on I'll wait. If anything I'm saying they've missed a few steps.
That's true enough but then the solution is to not charge companies tax they way they do now. Which is fair enough if it was applied across the board and may well be worth trying. It just pisses me off when some, usually the richest, pull these tricks so they don't have to pay in and just make their huge money piles even more hugerer and us plebs at the bottom are left to pick up the slack. It pisses me off even more so seeing a big bunch of the people being taken advantage of willingly going to contribute to the system and enable that behaviour. But what can you do? They gotta have their latest new igadgets and if it wasn't apple it'd be someone else.
Companies rely on government investment in infrastructure like roads, power, shipping, airports, rail, military, police and fire services as well as a 1000 other more services without which they could not exist in those countries.
How much "road use" does Apple need to haul iPhones from the airport to the retail outlet?
What about the road use of people going to their shops, their employees etc etc. It's not just about per mile usage per company vehicle or some shit. They use and benefit from the whole infrastructure yet refuse to contribute. Maybe they should set up their own plumbing, power, post, roads and all kinds of other services that let them operate as easily as they can do, maybe they should educate their own workers from scratch instead of expecting a basic level. I bet they expect the police to take action if one of their shops is robbed. Why should they expect the police to say anything other than go fuck yourselves? If one of their shops is on fire 999 should tell them to put it out themselves.
Who pays it makes all the difference. I get paid, that pay gets taxed, I spend that pay and get taxed again on what is spent. Why should I get double dipped with very little money where a vastly wealthy company gets to pay no tax because what? I've already paid it for them? Fuck that. Did you ever notice, the richer the company the less tax they seem to pay?
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I found a PS3 in a dumpster, put an SSD in it, bought a PS3 controller, got the firmware installed, and bam! a console everyone enjoys because you can get some of the best PS1 games from the PS shopping online thing and install them.
So why not just buy a ps1? or even 2? Isn't back compat on a subscription model from sony these days?
At the end of the day do you really think the ps3 is a "better" machine that an xbox one or do you just like that you can play older games on it? Are you actually expecting an xbox one to be able to play psx games though?
I also hate "ALWAYS ON" connections for anything but mobile games (and those are "free" anyway for the most part).
Why does mobile get a free pass? They're mostly free? Well, unless you actually wanna play them they mostly are. You do know mobile games are the absolute worst for hosing consumers and ripping them off? You don't seem to be standing against them even though there is absolutely no sharing, resell, refund or anything on them and they are orders of magnitude worse than console games.
From TFS:
the team made a few key decisions regarding connectivity requirements
Not having bought an XBone (or any system since the original Wii), I was stunned one day a year or two ago when someone was trying to set up an apparently brand new out of the box XBone for the video gaming room at a convention. It actually required an internet connection and a large download before it would do anything at all! Unfortunately, the wiffy was very crappy in that room and it never did get set up.
Bullshit, they work offline out of the box. How is it supposed to know there's an update if it cant get online to check version numbers? Even today when a game or system gets updated you have the choice to update of stay offline.
Oh and the obvious third reason of having a data cap on your connection (or no connection at all) and you cant be going around downloading gigs at a time but that's not really too feasible in todays patch happy environment where basically everything has a day one and if you stay offline you'll likely be playing something broken or glitchy in a bunch of ways.
Speak for yourself mate, always online was secondary concern for myself and I think most other games. It was all about disk ownership.
Let us not forget the standing ovation sony got in 2013 for simply announcing they weren't changing anything https://youtu.be/NOoJ6ucEY8g?t...
I thought I was in the same boat but digital is better, easier and more convenient. As it stands I can only think of two real reasons to stick to physical. 1) You like having the product, something to display and look at, continue a collection. That's fine and there's nothing wrong with that (apart from physical games needing digi to match their price making digi more expensive than the should be) or 2) You like getting fucked in ass and taken for a mug when you trade them in to save a couple bucks off your next game which would be way cheaper digi if again, physical wasn't keeping their prices up.
Valve has done more damage to first-sale doctrine than everyone else combined (with regards to games). The EU has taken notice of that and has been taking action. What Valve has done with Steam will probably bring down legislation upon everyone, including Microsoft to make the point moot.
Thing is about steam/valve. The prices are considerably lower to compensate for the lack of first sale. With xbox and consoles in general digital gets priced the same as physical to keep the brick and mortar stores on side. Physical sales would drop like a rock if digi was cheaper. Sure physical would still be a thing but it would probably arrive at cd then vinyl levels within a fairly short order and the cost of physical would go up again because they're not producing nearly as many. IMHO they should go embrace digi and leave physical to the the niche market. Devs can make and sell them if they want without them artificially increasing the price of the rest of the market.
If you're in the US illegally, Trump isn't playing around. You will be deported. Living in Chicago or San Francisco is no protection. ICE is coming for you and you will be deported.
You're really doing well turning America into such a shit hole that no one would ever want to go there for a visit let alone to try and make a living. It's one way to deal with immigration that's for sure.
Actually Singapore, like many developed country, has a birth shortage, and the government is paying people to have kids (but most still don't to have it).
They can buy mine if they want. Who do I call?
Where does this dumb "nothing can go wrong" sort of sarcasm come from?
Of course things could go wrong. Nobody is suggesting that they won't! But there is the potential for some big gains by trying out these ideas in practice.
That's how we make progress: we think of an idea, try it out, and deal with the consequences, regardless of whether they are good or bad.
This smug liberal "things could go wrong" snark is truly idiotic. Yes, we know that there may be undesired outcomes. That's the price of innovation, and it's taken into account when engineering this kind of technology.
Way to miss the point with your faux outrage. Here's an idea. Let's get the flying car to a point where it's not a death trap pipe dream, then we'll think about making them into taxis, yeah? We can't even rely on self driving cars on the ground now you want to send them skyward willy nilly, with people in them no less. Show me where I said let's not do it, go on I'll wait. If anything I'm saying they've missed a few steps.
I'm sure nothing can possible go wrong.
So your yellow phase is about 3-4 seconds long? Because anything shorter isn't going to allow it.
Dunno where that guy lives but in the UK you get enough time to cross on yellow if you can't reasonably stop.
A lot of people seem to see as green means go, amber means go quicker, red means stop.
Are the pitchforks sharp? They need to be sharp enough to disembowel all the billionaires. It's hunting season!
No, but all the better, right?
You'd have to get brietbart and fox shut down
But then where would Trump get his intelligence from?
Am I supposed to pay the neighborhood kid a living wage, offer a 401K and health benefits for just mowing my fucking lawn...?
Depends, do you want him to do it full time?
hacking their John Deere tractors using firmware that's cracked in Easter Europe
Let's hope there are no Easter Eggs in there.
Aren't they on Easter Island being laid by them heads?
The problem with a company like John Deere is they loose touch with their customers.
Seems to me they have their customers in a fairly tight grip, by the balls, one could even say.
Goodenough's work is not good enough.
Where does the energy comes from? Well, from the battery of course. What a silly question.
Not good enough.
Because of all the fjords
Oh, how I pine for them.
300 meters is 984 feet.
or 1.49 Furlongs
Windows is pissing me off, mac is too expensive and I don't know anything about linux nor have the time to devote to it. What else have you got?
That's true enough but then the solution is to not charge companies tax they way they do now. Which is fair enough if it was applied across the board and may well be worth trying. It just pisses me off when some, usually the richest, pull these tricks so they don't have to pay in and just make their huge money piles even more hugerer and us plebs at the bottom are left to pick up the slack. It pisses me off even more so seeing a big bunch of the people being taken advantage of willingly going to contribute to the system and enable that behaviour. But what can you do? They gotta have their latest new igadgets and if it wasn't apple it'd be someone else.
Companies rely on government investment in infrastructure like roads, power, shipping, airports, rail, military, police and fire services as well as a 1000 other more services without which they could not exist in those countries.
How much "road use" does Apple need to haul iPhones from the airport to the retail outlet?
What about the road use of people going to their shops, their employees etc etc. It's not just about per mile usage per company vehicle or some shit. They use and benefit from the whole infrastructure yet refuse to contribute. Maybe they should set up their own plumbing, power, post, roads and all kinds of other services that let them operate as easily as they can do, maybe they should educate their own workers from scratch instead of expecting a basic level. I bet they expect the police to take action if one of their shops is robbed. Why should they expect the police to say anything other than go fuck yourselves? If one of their shops is on fire 999 should tell them to put it out themselves.
Who pays it makes all the difference. I get paid, that pay gets taxed, I spend that pay and get taxed again on what is spent. Why should I get double dipped with very little money where a vastly wealthy company gets to pay no tax because what? I've already paid it for them? Fuck that. Did you ever notice, the richer the company the less tax they seem to pay?