And yet I played CtC and was bored within minutes but I still pick up AB and play from time to time and it is just as enjoyable as the first time I played. Your post kinda reminds me of Joe Rogan's rants about how Carlos Mencia steals his materiel. As if that doesn't happen in stand up ALL the time. I saw a video of a performance of a joke Mencia allegedly stole. The comedian was monotonic and I could barely understand what he was saying. Then I watched Mencia's rendition of the same joke and I laughed my ass off. Delivery matters and to me AB delivers better than CtC and millions of people seem to agree.
Actually they're both ripoffs. There have been games like this for ages. The physics are pretty much the same but the story or premiss is what makes it interesting to different demographics. Throwing rocks at castle walls with knights inside appeals to a certain niche. Flinging colorful ANGRY birds headlong into evil egg stealing pigs to save their offspring draws a wider audience because they now know WHY they are trying to defeat the bad guys and that gives them a sense of accomplishment when they succeed.
At least...that's what I heard...
Funny, I got out of programming because of the PHB always coming in and telling us we needed to implement functionality xyz by next week because our competitor just released an upgrade with xyz function.
Temper, Temper...If that actually did happen the Fed would hunt those people down and "disappear" them. Only the federal government is allowed to do that.
Joe consumer walks into Generi-Mart and sees a DVD of a movie for ~$15 and the same movie on Blu-Ray for ~$25...picks DVD. He knows Blu-Ray is supposed to be better but for ten bucks less DVD is good enough. He doesn't even consider DLC or digital copy in the equation. He'll just get his "techie" buddy to RIP it for him.
I suspect the mass brain drain of former Sun employees has a lot to do with it as well. It's hard to support your customers if everybody who knows how to support it has left the building. This just might be an olive branch to keep some of the talent from flying the coop long enough to get new blood up to speed.
But it definitely shows how increasing hardware definitely increases productivity.
And there is the fallacy hard working class individuals cling to. The PHB doesn't care how efficient or productive things are. The PHB wants to know how PROFITABLE things are. If you appeal to your PHB that adding hardware widget xyz will increase the bottom line by xxx% and only add xx% in cost then his eyes will light up and he will listen intently. Tell him how much more productive you will be and he will suddenly have a meeting to go to.
But you're right; the evolution debate would be greatly helped by more people - on both sides - actually understanding what evolution is. Perhaps they should teach it in schools or something?
Perhaps they should teach it accurately in schools. I have always called it Darwin's theory of adaptation since that seems more accurate to his work. Our bodies are wondrous and have the ability to adapt to countless adverse conditions. People with no arms can adapt to use their feet like hands. The blind develop an acute sense of hearing. In Darwin's observations of the Galapagos Finches the birds had developed in such a way as to cope with the harsher environment Galapagos presented them. They were still Finches just "hard core biker" Finches.
Why they would tell you that you must have FAITH and believe in what you are praying for to happen. Since you don't you could never reproduce their results.
DDoS accomplishes nothing and makes those who support hacking consoles look like criminals
Just like sitting at the front of the bus and eating at a white's only counter did nothing to advance the cause for equality for black Americans. You might try to argue that they aren't of the same importance as one is simply a console but this isn't about modifying a console it is about freedom to do what we want with property we own. Printer companies have slapped encryption devices on their ink cartridges to prevent third party ink companies from being able to make compatible cartridges because they can invoke the DMCA FOR AN INK CARTRIDGE!
We need to get a ruling that hacking your own hardware is legal
The courts are mostly siding with the large corporations and the politicians created the DMCA FOR the large corporations so what other option do we have? These actions may seem counterproductive but they are getting the news media to start following theses stories. The reason the companies can get away with it is because mainstream Americans (or just about any country) know nothing about what is happening and even those that do don't care until it directly affects them. A bank's web site or Sony's being unavailable affects enough people as to be newsworthy. Once enough people know what is happening it is easier to get the laws changed if they need to be. Sony's actions are reprehensible and unnecessary. I bet had they chosen to meet with George he would have had valuable ideas on how to implement the otherOS function back without giving crackers any more advantage than they already had. Now we'll never know.
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And yet I played CtC and was bored within minutes but I still pick up AB and play from time to time and it is just as enjoyable as the first time I played. Your post kinda reminds me of Joe Rogan's rants about how Carlos Mencia steals his materiel. As if that doesn't happen in stand up ALL the time. I saw a video of a performance of a joke Mencia allegedly stole. The comedian was monotonic and I could barely understand what he was saying. Then I watched Mencia's rendition of the same joke and I laughed my ass off. Delivery matters and to me AB delivers better than CtC and millions of people seem to agree.
Actually they're both ripoffs. There have been games like this for ages. The physics are pretty much the same but the story or premiss is what makes it interesting to different demographics. Throwing rocks at castle walls with knights inside appeals to a certain niche. Flinging colorful ANGRY birds headlong into evil egg stealing pigs to save their offspring draws a wider audience because they now know WHY they are trying to defeat the bad guys and that gives them a sense of accomplishment when they succeed. At least...that's what I heard...
Funny, I got out of programming because of the PHB always coming in and telling us we needed to implement functionality xyz by next week because our competitor just released an upgrade with xyz function.
It's time for all coders to go over and give the guys at REACTOS a hand getting it out of Alpha.
Putting lousy actors in poorly written screenplays devalues creating movies. Downloading movies is an indicator that the movie HAS value.
Temper, Temper...If that actually did happen the Fed would hunt those people down and "disappear" them. Only the federal government is allowed to do that.
Creating legal tender devalues current legal tender as well. If only the Fed understood that.
So if I go look at a Monet and then I set about painting and make a copy of the Monet it is stealing?
The barrier is getting everybody to sign up
The answer was 4 to the power of 42 backwards.
While humorous you are absolutely correct.
SCEA has it.
Either that or Those bastards over at hp outbid us for Palm so we are going to just kill the tablet market by not playing. Hrmph.
Joe consumer walks into Generi-Mart and sees a DVD of a movie for ~$15 and the same movie on Blu-Ray for ~$25...picks DVD. He knows Blu-Ray is supposed to be better but for ten bucks less DVD is good enough. He doesn't even consider DLC or digital copy in the equation. He'll just get his "techie" buddy to RIP it for him.
I suspect the mass brain drain of former Sun employees has a lot to do with it as well. It's hard to support your customers if everybody who knows how to support it has left the building. This just might be an olive branch to keep some of the talent from flying the coop long enough to get new blood up to speed.
Houses with Stucco have this issue as well. Builders use a steel mesh to adhere the Stucco to the house which acts like a Faraday Cage.
But it definitely shows how increasing hardware definitely increases productivity.
And there is the fallacy hard working class individuals cling to. The PHB doesn't care how efficient or productive things are. The PHB wants to know how PROFITABLE things are. If you appeal to your PHB that adding hardware widget xyz will increase the bottom line by xxx% and only add xx% in cost then his eyes will light up and he will listen intently. Tell him how much more productive you will be and he will suddenly have a meeting to go to.
I'm still amazed AD can't match the features Netware had 20 years ago.
I think I covered that in the "They suck at being EVIL" part. Perhaps you failed to read my entire post?
This is Google's version of Embrace, Extend, ?, Profit. It's just that Google really sucks at being EVIL
If I am understanding you correctly...English is not your native language.
But you're right; the evolution debate would be greatly helped by more people - on both sides - actually understanding what evolution is. Perhaps they should teach it in schools or something?
Perhaps they should teach it accurately in schools. I have always called it Darwin's theory of adaptation since that seems more accurate to his work. Our bodies are wondrous and have the ability to adapt to countless adverse conditions. People with no arms can adapt to use their feet like hands. The blind develop an acute sense of hearing. In Darwin's observations of the Galapagos Finches the birds had developed in such a way as to cope with the harsher environment Galapagos presented them. They were still Finches just "hard core biker" Finches.
Why they would tell you that you must have FAITH and believe in what you are praying for to happen. Since you don't you could never reproduce their results.
DDoS accomplishes nothing and makes those who support hacking consoles look like criminals
Just like sitting at the front of the bus and eating at a white's only counter did nothing to advance the cause for equality for black Americans. You might try to argue that they aren't of the same importance as one is simply a console but this isn't about modifying a console it is about freedom to do what we want with property we own. Printer companies have slapped encryption devices on their ink cartridges to prevent third party ink companies from being able to make compatible cartridges because they can invoke the DMCA FOR AN INK CARTRIDGE!
We need to get a ruling that hacking your own hardware is legal
The courts are mostly siding with the large corporations and the politicians created the DMCA FOR the large corporations so what other option do we have? These actions may seem counterproductive but they are getting the news media to start following theses stories. The reason the companies can get away with it is because mainstream Americans (or just about any country) know nothing about what is happening and even those that do don't care until it directly affects them. A bank's web site or Sony's being unavailable affects enough people as to be newsworthy. Once enough people know what is happening it is easier to get the laws changed if they need to be. Sony's actions are reprehensible and unnecessary. I bet had they chosen to meet with George he would have had valuable ideas on how to implement the otherOS function back without giving crackers any more advantage than they already had. Now we'll never know.
I love how 20 years later Microsoft's Active Directory still doesn't have the granular functionality that Novell Netware had way back in 1990.