The graphics are 70's dumb terminal, but you can destroy the world with lava and create water powered turing machines from trap doors, pumps, and pressure plates.
Do watch out if one of your dwarves light a fire on an iceberg, you might melt down to the ocean.
I wondered if anyone would get that. A winner is you!
I'm apparently excellent at buying games that have a good concept but suck in implementation. And yet the reviews beforehand were all so positive, barring Yahtzee, but he reviewed well afterwards since nobody in their right mind would give him a prerelease copy.
Do you need a free lunch to evaluate if a restaurant is worth your money ? How do you evaluate if a movie is worth the ticket without seeing it ? Seriously..
If I eat at a restaurant and the food is only halfway cooked, the water glass has a hole in the side, and my chair has an exposed nail in the seat, I generally get my money back.
If I go see a movie and it is horribly spliced and random scenes are replaced with photos of cardboard cutouts, I generally get my money back.
If I buy a game and it crashes constantly, seems to be missing several scenes, and the ending consists of shooting at a bat-thing in the middle of an otherwise empty skybox like it was just tacked on when the money ran out, I would expect my money back. But it isn't likely to happen.
Assassins Creed II still remains uncracked and people have went and bought the game because they don't want to wait for a crack any longer.
On the other hand, some people will buy it, get sufficiently annoyed at getting kicked out whenever the internet sneezes, reshrinkwrap the game at work so they can return it, then wait for the crack and buy it used to salve their conscience.
Teaching kids that searching for things with multiple meanings might bring up inappropriate material and how to add words to your search to prevent getting those results.
Relying solely on technical means gets things like legitimate words "richard" or "stardock" or "scunthorpe" blocked, either because filter companies hire people that can't write decent regexps or because humans dislike censorship and slang around it.
I do my best, but I also know of many elementary (K-6) teachers that are truly math-phobic, and the kids pick up on that. Those that have had elementary teachers with less than strong math skills are quite often the ones that are most turned off from math, especially once they start hitting higher-level concepts.
I just read a study about that, although it was more focused on male teachers vs female teachers and the relative impediment poor teaching gave to students of similar or opposite genders.
It seems that teachers should be given more math skills so they don't infect children with the idea that "math is hard". I realize early childhood education requires a generalist, but basic math is nearly as important as literacy.
The part that says(slightly paraphrased for clarity) "this disclaimer may not be valid in some states and does not prevent you from exercising your rights, but hopefully confuses you enough that you don't realize you have any"
Again, I didn't look into the details too deeply, but I saw a handful of reviews that say while the precision is great but it needs constant recalibration to work effectively.
It adds rotational sensors which are much better than detecting the change in "down", but after 30-60 minutes the sensor drift becomes noticeable. It doesn't take much to recalibrate, but it throws you out of the moment.
And if you are really into a game, you might not notice until something goes wrong(ie, you try to block but eviscerate yourself instead).
When you're unconscious after a car wreck, there's no way to know if you want to live or die. So, as a society that values life - at least American life - you are resuscitated at all costs.
Perhaps we could give anyone who objects to universal healthcare a free Do Not Resuscitate tattoo?
Considering Marvell already produces devices with similar specs at that price point, but no battery and no screen, it's unlikely they are going to be able to meet that price point.
Now if they said that was the bill of materials, I'd almost believe it. But still not with a Pixel Qi screen, which the article speculates but is not mentioned by Marvell at all.
But ultimately, I wonder why there are different standards for different mediums. Why is payola (sometimes) illegal on the radio, but it's perfectly legal for companies to pay for product placement on TV shows, without disclosure to the viewer? As I said earlier, there is materially no difference between the two actions.
Compensated product placements are disclosed for TV, they just bury them in the credits. Usually the part that gets shrunk and sped up until it is unreadable. Ditto for movies, it is usually after the music credits and before the "any smoking was necessary and not paid by Big Tobacco" disclaimer.
Might as well go to Hell and ask the Devil if sinning is bad.
Do you know how crowded it is down there? If you saw the labor requirements for just the inprocessing facility, you'd know the Devil would prefer more virtuous behavior from the world.
What if I am selling a $1,000 piece of lab equipment, but sell it to you for $500 with $2 chip removed to disable the high-end features. That way I don't have to retool to produce a second version, and I can upgrade you with 5 minutes of soldering.
Given the choice of that, or a second model that costs $800 and can't be upgraded, which would make you feel more ripped-off?
I agree that on-disc DLC is a ripoff, but the comparison doesn't scale quite the same.
And add in the lab tech seeing "101000" and "010100" and deciding the test medium just wasn't aligned properly and declaring it a match anyway. Or testing a sample against itself, by accident.
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Dwarf Fortress?
The graphics are 70's dumb terminal, but you can destroy the world with lava and create water powered turing machines from trap doors, pumps, and pressure plates.
Do watch out if one of your dwarves light a fire on an iceberg, you might melt down to the ocean.
I wondered if anyone would get that. A winner is you!
I'm apparently excellent at buying games that have a good concept but suck in implementation. And yet the reviews beforehand were all so positive, barring Yahtzee, but he reviewed well afterwards since nobody in their right mind would give him a prerelease copy.
What happened to voice recognition?
It worked really well until an intern ran through the lab shouting "bash, Ar Em dash Ar Ef asterisk, SHUTDOWN NOW!"
That's when they switched to EEG-based typing.
If I eat at a restaurant and the food is only halfway cooked, the water glass has a hole in the side, and my chair has an exposed nail in the seat, I generally get my money back.
If I go see a movie and it is horribly spliced and random scenes are replaced with photos of cardboard cutouts, I generally get my money back.
If I buy a game and it crashes constantly, seems to be missing several scenes, and the ending consists of shooting at a bat-thing in the middle of an otherwise empty skybox like it was just tacked on when the money ran out, I would expect my money back. But it isn't likely to happen.
On the other hand, some people will buy it, get sufficiently annoyed at getting kicked out whenever the internet sneezes, reshrinkwrap the game at work so they can return it, then wait for the crack and buy it used to salve their conscience.
Teaching kids that searching for things with multiple meanings might bring up inappropriate material and how to add words to your search to prevent getting those results.
Relying solely on technical means gets things like legitimate words "richard" or "stardock" or "scunthorpe" blocked, either because filter companies hire people that can't write decent regexps or because humans dislike censorship and slang around it.
Sure, but I think I'd rather have my kid deal with a crappy math teacher and catch up later, instead of being scared of math forever after.
Same as I'd rather have a lousy reading/writing teacher than one who leaves kids actually illiterate and hating books.
I just read a study about that, although it was more focused on male teachers vs female teachers and the relative impediment poor teaching gave to students of similar or opposite genders.
It seems that teachers should be given more math skills so they don't infect children with the idea that "math is hard". I realize early childhood education requires a generalist, but basic math is nearly as important as literacy.
The part that says(slightly paraphrased for clarity) "this disclaimer may not be valid in some states and does not prevent you from exercising your rights, but hopefully confuses you enough that you don't realize you have any"
It adds rotational sensors which are much better than detecting the change in "down", but after 30-60 minutes the sensor drift becomes noticeable. It doesn't take much to recalibrate, but it throws you out of the moment.
And if you are really into a game, you might not notice until something goes wrong(ie, you try to block but eviscerate yourself instead).
Those are all nice quotes, but unfortunately about as likely to affect current opinion as:
"Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere!" -- George Washington in a note to his gardener
Twain?
Waiter, there is Core Dump in my soup!
Please modulate your tone, Sir, or everyone will want one.
Perhaps we could give anyone who objects to universal healthcare a free Do Not Resuscitate tattoo?
Perhaps they run them in batches of 3000 and the skid before and the skid after were clean?
Considering Marvell already produces devices with similar specs at that price point, but no battery and no screen, it's unlikely they are going to be able to meet that price point.
Now if they said that was the bill of materials, I'd almost believe it. But still not with a Pixel Qi screen, which the article speculates but is not mentioned by Marvell at all.
FSM, just reading that made my blood pressure spike and worry if I had a paper due Monday.
Compensated product placements are disclosed for TV, they just bury them in the credits. Usually the part that gets shrunk and sped up until it is unreadable. Ditto for movies, it is usually after the music credits and before the "any smoking was necessary and not paid by Big Tobacco" disclaimer.
See http://www.aaf.org/default.asp?id=349
The writers guild has been lobbying for "while it happens" disclosure, but the FTC is working on eliminating any disclosure.
Do you know how crowded it is down there? If you saw the labor requirements for just the inprocessing facility, you'd know the Devil would prefer more virtuous behavior from the world.
What other kind of place that charges you to work comes to mind? Strip clubs.
Any others?
Your mail comes in an envelope(trivial encryption).
Doesn't stop me and some hard cider from trying.
What if I am selling a $1,000 piece of lab equipment, but sell it to you for $500 with $2 chip removed to disable the high-end features. That way I don't have to retool to produce a second version, and I can upgrade you with 5 minutes of soldering.
Given the choice of that, or a second model that costs $800 and can't be upgraded, which would make you feel more ripped-off?
I agree that on-disc DLC is a ripoff, but the comparison doesn't scale quite the same.
And add in the lab tech seeing "101000" and "010100" and deciding the test medium just wasn't aligned properly and declaring it a match anyway. Or testing a sample against itself, by accident.