How much poor gameplay will players suffer through in exchange for utterly amazing graphics?
People will sit through literally metric shit tonnes of bad game play with poor to mediocre graphics.
I would list examples, but I feel like getting a [citation needed] response instead of listing my overly subjective choices.
me: this is scary: http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/02/28/1615207/intercontinental-mind-meld-unites-two-rats
Sent at 1:14 PM on Thursday
Poet: scarey
i think it is brilliant
me: its good research, but the implications are scary
Poet: thinking of healing applications for people with brain injury
or spinal cord injury
oh yeah
me: being able to map/read sections of the brain for brain injury and to control prosthetices is great
Poet: let the army use it create sleeper assasins all over the workd
yet the army could
me: but could you imagine the popup adverts coming through your nural implant telling you to go buy Tide detergent.. you dont know why you bought it, you just did
Poet: shit
that is scary
me: actually you do know why you bought it.. you wanted it.. but why did you want it, and why did it feel so good to buy it.. like a hit of opium?
jeez I am cynical
Yeah, but for $35, I can get a local business license, get internet in that comapny's name with no strikes. Better yet, get a business account, open up my wifi and be exempt.
Go to a store and you'll generally see competing products next to each other and that's okay. But try to do something similar on-line? Horror! Unfair! Must file lawsuit! It's become our culture but the practice of suing for anything and everything has become utterly ridiculous in the last decade or so.
This... products are SUPPOSED to compete in a capitalist system. If you cannot survive competition then you should either improve or get out of the way. When I go to Walmart, competing products are within view at all times. When I go to a grocery store, pepsi is beside coke, Coors is near the Bud. I -like- seeing what my options are.
Spending someone else's money on something they can't afford themselves, and don't really need anyway, in the name of fixing the economy . . . ?
Only in part. It is also to repair, replace, and create new ifrastructure, thereby allowing businesses to do more. That 'more' dtill requires the businesses to spend on expansion that uses said infrastructure. Right now the only thing businesses spend on this government to buy laws.
For HTML5 stuff this should be a cakewalk. But for plugin content, they are separate processes that route audio directly to the OS/driver system, not the browser. Therefore the browser has little to no control over them.
My point was they may slow down innovation, but not the markets. It is the markets that drive companies so without market or government pressure the status quo remains.
We've watched patents slow down the smartphone and tablet markets.
Wrong. part of the problem is that we haven't. We have seen an endless stream of stupid patents, huge lawsuits (apple v samsung), and still we buy and the market continues apace.
There is no government pressure to stop, and no market pressure from consumers to stop. I recently bought a smartphone -and- a tablet. A Samsung and a Kindle. Both companies own hoards of stupid patents. But so would anyone else I chose to purchase from, and I needed or strongly desired the devices. Even if there were a high percentage of consumers educated in this (there are not enough to sway any market), I doubt there was a single vendor in the chain of sale for either that does not have what we here would consider BS IP. For the phone it was Sprint and Samsung, for the tablet Walmart and Amazon. This isn't even considering the software vendors included with both purchases or added later.
So, all you anti regulation libertarians? Who steps in to fix that? Not the gov, its either paid off as it is now, asleep at the switch, or castrated and powerless (as libertarians would have it).
How does owning a brick and mortar casino in the states make an illegal service feasible? Online poker for real money is still against federal law. If it wasn't all the casinos would be doing it. It is kind of like buying a pharmacy and saying that makes it legal for you to sell weed.
Name another industry that prevents resale of sold goods (other than for safety reasons).
If they want to make money from any copy of the game, new or used, then offer in game content for sale. Sell hats like TF2 for crying out loud. There are people in my TF2 clan that probably spent $200+ on hats, tags, paint, and other customization. And better yet, not one of those purchases can affect game balance.
In the intro, there are NPCs wandering. At one point the into flew over a bridge. NPCs on the ground were blocked by the water. Two NPC's on the bridge walked right off and walked on the water.
It may not be a bug though. The game may have two Jesuses!
The playable link goes to opengameart, where you have to go to github, then find the right link on the bottom. Come on mods, actually EDIT the submissions for correctness. That at least is not censorship and does not go against any libertarian leanings.
While your theory makes sense, I would hope the experts also took into consideration things such as speed and direction of travel. Even more could be told if/when fragments are found. The type of meteorite can be determined and see if it is a close match for what DA14 is expected to be, and certain geological signs can tell its history, and possibly even the speed of entry (frictional heating can cause various chemical reactions, all leaving their mark).
While it is a strange coincidence that this happened so close to the approach, it may well be just that, coincidence. Do not mistake correlation for causation.
Ah, another "government is this monolithic entity that is sooooooo scary" post. Massive upmods incoming.
Reality is, most of these bills in the West are drafted by interested parties. Most of which are no governmental but private in nature. And while many laws look (and are) quite terrible as they are drafted by people with massive vested interests in them, modern Western democracies have numerous checks and balances to thwart such legislation from becoming actual law. Which is what happened in this case.
The fact that you chose Egypt, a country that essentially survived beginning of a civil war and still hasn't worked itself through it and has never been a democracy befiore as an example of average Western government shows that you're quite pants on the head kind of special poster.
However, those checks and balances are skewed. The interested parties (military industrial complex anyone? what the US spends most of its budget on), want these things to pass. They are their bread and butter. These laws do get passed (DMCA, Patriot Act, et al), and many that don't will rise again, and again with new names attached, until either enough money has changed hands to make it feasible, or wrapped into some save us from drug/terrorists/pedos monstrosity named some stupid shit (PLBAFOWO - Protect Little Boys Anuses from Osama Wannabes Online), then they will pass and one more right will be gone. One more piece of your privacy eroded.
Meanwhile you will blithly watch your superbowl and say oh the checks and balances will get it. I can still afford my mortgage and comcast bill. Who gives a fuck?
There are are two types of people in the the western world for the most part. Those who drink the koolaid that the gov works as is and ignore it, and those who by the gov line of saving you from yourselves and the evils around you. The fact is both are false, and those who see it are in theminority, and slowly becoming more and more shut out of anything.
We can find lost hikers, boy scouts, love struck teenage couples lost in the wilderness with this! Just look the other way when we use it to imprison or kill enemies of the state.
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How much poor gameplay will players suffer through in exchange for utterly amazing graphics?
People will sit through literally metric shit tonnes of bad game play with poor to mediocre graphics.
I would list examples, but I feel like getting a [citation needed] response instead of listing my overly subjective choices.
me: this is scary: http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/02/28/1615207/intercontinental-mind-meld-unites-two-rats Sent at 1:14 PM on Thursday
Poet: scarey
i think it is brilliant
me: its good research, but the implications are scary
Poet: thinking of healing applications for people with brain injury
or spinal cord injury
oh yeah
me: being able to map/read sections of the brain for brain injury and to control prosthetices is great
Poet: let the army use it create sleeper assasins all over the workd
yet the army could
me: but could you imagine the popup adverts coming through your nural implant telling you to go buy Tide detergent.. you dont know why you bought it, you just
did Poet: shit
that is scary
me: actually you do know why you bought it.. you wanted it.. but why did you want it, and why did it feel so good to buy it.. like a hit of opium?
jeez I am cynical
Yeah, but for $35, I can get a local business license, get internet in that comapny's name with no strikes. Better yet, get a business account, open up my wifi and be exempt.
Go to a store and you'll generally see competing products next to each other and that's okay. But try to do something similar on-line? Horror! Unfair! Must file lawsuit! It's become our culture but the practice of suing for anything and everything has become utterly ridiculous in the last decade or so.
This... products are SUPPOSED to compete in a capitalist system. If you cannot survive competition then you should either improve or get out of the way. When I go to Walmart, competing products are within view at all times. When I go to a grocery store, pepsi is beside coke, Coors is near the Bud. I -like- seeing what my options are.
Spending someone else's money on something they can't afford themselves, and don't really need anyway, in the name of fixing the economy . . . ?
Only in part. It is also to repair, replace, and create new ifrastructure, thereby allowing businesses to do more. That 'more' dtill requires the businesses to spend on expansion that uses said infrastructure. Right now the only thing businesses spend on this government to buy laws.
For HTML5 stuff this should be a cakewalk. But for plugin content, they are separate processes that route audio directly to the OS/driver system, not the browser. Therefore the browser has little to no control over them.
ATM is correct in this context, as it also stands for "Automatically Takes Money".
An out of reach place where you give other people your stuff and hope they will hand it to you when you ask.
I don't want my head in the clouds.
My point was they may slow down innovation, but not the markets. It is the markets that drive companies so without market or government pressure the status quo remains.
We've watched patents slow down the smartphone and tablet markets.
Wrong. part of the problem is that we haven't. We have seen an endless stream of stupid patents, huge lawsuits (apple v samsung), and still we buy and the market continues apace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_Wide_Smartphone_Sales_Share.png
http://www.lessonspace.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Untitled.jpg
http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/pc-sales-cannibalized-by-tablets-chart-bill-shopes-goldman-sachs-2010.jpg
There is no government pressure to stop, and no market pressure from consumers to stop. I recently bought a smartphone -and- a tablet. A Samsung and a Kindle. Both companies own hoards of stupid patents. But so would anyone else I chose to purchase from, and I needed or strongly desired the devices. Even if there were a high percentage of consumers educated in this (there are not enough to sway any market), I doubt there was a single vendor in the chain of sale for either that does not have what we here would consider BS IP. For the phone it was Sprint and Samsung, for the tablet Walmart and Amazon. This isn't even considering the software vendors included with both purchases or added later.
So, all you anti regulation libertarians? Who steps in to fix that? Not the gov, its either paid off as it is now, asleep at the switch, or castrated and powerless (as libertarians would have it).
How does owning a brick and mortar casino in the states make an illegal service feasible? Online poker for real money is still against federal law. If it wasn't all the casinos would be doing it.
It is kind of like buying a pharmacy and saying that makes it legal for you to sell weed.
Name another industry that prevents resale of sold goods (other than for safety reasons).
If they want to make money from any copy of the game, new or used, then offer in game content for sale. Sell hats like TF2 for crying out loud. There are people in my TF2 clan that probably spent $200+ on hats, tags, paint, and other customization. And better yet, not one of those purchases can affect game balance.
I watched Iron Chef and -lost- a kidney. Never played Master Chef.
In the intro, there are NPCs wandering. At one point the into flew over a bridge. NPCs on the ground were blocked by the water. Two NPC's on the bridge walked right off and walked on the water.
It may not be a bug though. The game may have two Jesuses!
The playable link goes to opengameart, where you have to go to github, then find the right link on the bottom.
Come on mods, actually EDIT the submissions for correctness. That at least is not censorship and does not go against any libertarian leanings.
"Facebook admitted last weekend that it was hacked but assured everyone that no data was compromised"
Can a hacker really compromise user data any more than the user that freely gave it away?
By hacked, facebook means, freely given user data was stolen without our tithe.
While it is a strange coincidence that this happened so close to the approach, it may well be just that, coincidence. Do not mistake correlation for causation.
Or, do you aspire to write tight code that makes precise use of the hardware available without a bajillion API and abstraction layers on top?
If its either, de-install Visual Studio please.
nuff said
Ah, another "government is this monolithic entity that is sooooooo scary" post. Massive upmods incoming.
Reality is, most of these bills in the West are drafted by interested parties. Most of which are no governmental but private in nature. And while many laws look (and are) quite terrible as they are drafted by people with massive vested interests in them, modern Western democracies have numerous checks and balances to thwart such legislation from becoming actual law. Which is what happened in this case.
The fact that you chose Egypt, a country that essentially survived beginning of a civil war and still hasn't worked itself through it and has never been a democracy befiore as an example of average Western government shows that you're quite pants on the head kind of special poster.
However, those checks and balances are skewed. The interested parties (military industrial complex anyone? what the US spends most of its budget on), want these things to pass. They are their bread and butter. These laws do get passed (DMCA, Patriot Act, et al), and many that don't will rise again, and again with new names attached, until either enough money has changed hands to make it feasible, or wrapped into some save us from drug/terrorists/pedos monstrosity named some stupid shit (PLBAFOWO - Protect Little Boys Anuses from Osama Wannabes Online), then they will pass and one more right will be gone. One more piece of your privacy eroded.
Meanwhile you will blithly watch your superbowl and say oh the checks and balances will get it. I can still afford my mortgage and comcast bill. Who gives a fuck?
There are are two types of people in the the western world for the most part. Those who drink the koolaid that the gov works as is and ignore it, and those who by the gov line of saving you from yourselves and the evils around you. The fact is both are false, and those who see it are in theminority, and slowly becoming more and more shut out of anything.
We can find lost hikers, boy scouts, love struck teenage couples lost in the wilderness with this! Just look the other way when we use it to imprison or kill enemies of the state.
It should read "Apple working on likable device that watches you (better). "
After the HT show, Beyone went to her dressing room, switched on her super-vibe 6000, and popped a breaker, right?
tl;dr: monocultures suck.
because: http://i.imgur.com/x7oce.jpg