I disagree. I think this will hurt sales more than anything.
I don't own an ipad for this very reason and I won't be the owner of a surface pro either, apparently.
I'd say that's a bit far-fetched. But then again, this practice has been employed throughout the ages.
If you're losing at a game, change the rules. (The rules being the definition of 'social network').
While it says that it will come free from advertising, it DOESN'T say that you won't be monitored while connected.
I'm certain they will recoup costs this way. Nothing is ever free.
A lack of network access is a sure fire way to ensure you pick a game that's not reasonably completable without a faq. So many games during the NES and SNES era just didn't give you enough information, so you'd have to buy the guide or subscribe to Nintendo Power. These days it's GameFaqs.
Yes, it's cheating. But I play games to have fun, and looking around for hours and hours without making progress is no fun at all. I do always give myself a couple hours to really make sure I'm stuck.
I would agree with that for most of the NES games that required thought, but most SNES games could be completed without them. Sure, you may not have gotten all of the special easter eggs and whatnot (and yes - there ARE some outliers that are baffling without some sort of guide -- the latter Lufia 2 puzzles used to piss me off).
My entire point was that BECAUSE this access exists, people find shit that they "HAVE" to do.
Your world will not end if you are cut off from the Internet for a few hours. If you can't get that stuff done before you get on a plane, then you probably have more issues with time management than anything else.
Any kind of cross-country (or rather anywhere) flight and I break out my cheap ass laptop and open up ZSNES.
I highly doubt that any of these planes utilize QoS properly anyway. So the second anyone uploads a file or attempts to sync their e-mail, the entire connection comes to a screeching halt.
Sometimes people should just take the x hour ride as a chance to relax and catch up on your sleep/reading/video game time. Lord knows that the workaholic middle class could use it.
This NEEDS to happen. I'm certain this idea was thought up by some marketing drone.
Marketing Ass 1: "I got a great idea! Let's force google to take down links to our movies! That will TOTALLY make people want to see and buy our movies!"
Marketing Ass 2: "But how will they know about it...?"
Marketing Ass 1: "Fuck you, we're doing it anyway."
The less I hear/see about these asinine movies, the better. (Even though it's a rarity these days that the movie studios actually release a NEW movie, instead of some shitty ass 3d version of an older one).
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You don't need a college degree if you have these two things:
1) Technical Skills - The skills actually needed to do your job. Essential.
2) People Skills - The skills to actually talk to people and convince them that you're not an idiot. Convincing people that you're worth the time and the money is the 2nd most important skill you can have.
I'm making more money than all of my 4-year degree friends because I decided long ago to educate myself in a field that's likely to GROW (and not things like art history, where you go to school just to teach other kids, so they can teach other kids, and so on) and because I can talk to people and have them see me as an asset and not a potential liability.
Mesh networking requires spending money.
Therefore, they require government grants.
Once they receive those, they just won't do the work.
Government shrugs and carries on.
Tax payers fucked.
Rinse.
Repeat.
I don't know, I think Republicans, reknowned for their respect for nerds, are capable of producing useful, eye catching, state of the art, web sites when they try: http://unskewedpolls.com/
Haha. A favorite site listed at the bottom of that website is a link to Rush Limbaugh's site. I guess the thinking is if they make a site look as shitty as drudge report, that it must be that much more credible.
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Study shows that people with jobs on the line tend to care more about said job. Stop the presses.
I wonder if it's anything like Tomacco.
I don't give a fuck what THEY believe.
MY RECORDS == MY PROPERTY
The slashvertisments are getting less and less subtle these days.
I know it isn't traditional to do so, but you did read the articles and look at the pictures, right?
You mean did I read the article with TWO pictures (neither of them are good) and the body of text that just had a bunch of "we want it to do x" in it?
Yeah, I read it. Didn't find it terribly informative.
Why is the one wheel at the front? What's going to happen when this thing goes around a turn? All I can see is a very expensive reliant robin.
I disagree. I think this will hurt sales more than anything. I don't own an ipad for this very reason and I won't be the owner of a surface pro either, apparently.
I'd say that's a bit far-fetched. But then again, this practice has been employed throughout the ages. If you're losing at a game, change the rules. (The rules being the definition of 'social network').
No more multi-function consoles, please. Please refocus all energies into Half Life 3 / 2 - Episode: 3.
That is all. Thank you.
While it says that it will come free from advertising, it DOESN'T say that you won't be monitored while connected. I'm certain they will recoup costs this way. Nothing is ever free.
A lack of network access is a sure fire way to ensure you pick a game that's not reasonably completable without a faq. So many games during the NES and SNES era just didn't give you enough information, so you'd have to buy the guide or subscribe to Nintendo Power. These days it's GameFaqs.
Yes, it's cheating. But I play games to have fun, and looking around for hours and hours without making progress is no fun at all. I do always give myself a couple hours to really make sure I'm stuck.
I would agree with that for most of the NES games that required thought, but most SNES games could be completed without them. Sure, you may not have gotten all of the special easter eggs and whatnot (and yes - there ARE some outliers that are baffling without some sort of guide -- the latter Lufia 2 puzzles used to piss me off).
My entire point was that BECAUSE this access exists, people find shit that they "HAVE" to do.
Your world will not end if you are cut off from the Internet for a few hours.
If you can't get that stuff done before you get on a plane, then you probably have more issues with time management than anything else.
When you have emulators?
Any kind of cross-country (or rather anywhere) flight and I break out my cheap ass laptop and open up ZSNES.
I highly doubt that any of these planes utilize QoS properly anyway. So the second anyone uploads a file or attempts to sync their e-mail, the entire connection comes to a screeching halt.
Sometimes people should just take the x hour ride as a chance to relax and catch up on your sleep/reading/video game time. Lord knows that the workaholic middle class could use it.
That's called a run-on sentence.
This NEEDS to happen. I'm certain this idea was thought up by some marketing drone.
Marketing Ass 1: "I got a great idea! Let's force google to take down links to our movies! That will TOTALLY make people want to see and buy our movies!"
Marketing Ass 2: "But how will they know about it...?"
Marketing Ass 1: "Fuck you, we're doing it anyway."
The less I hear/see about these asinine movies, the better. (Even though it's a rarity these days that the movie studios actually release a NEW movie, instead of some shitty ass 3d version of an older one).
You don't need a college degree if you have these two things:
1) Technical Skills - The skills actually needed to do your job. Essential.
2) People Skills - The skills to actually talk to people and convince them that you're not an idiot. Convincing people that you're worth the time and the money is the 2nd most important skill you can have.
I'm making more money than all of my 4-year degree friends because I decided long ago to educate myself in a field that's likely to GROW (and not things like art history, where you go to school just to teach other kids, so they can teach other kids, and so on) and because I can talk to people and have them see me as an asset and not a potential liability.
Didn't this topic have a few hundred comments just minutes ago? Or am I going crazy?
Qualified individuals are too intelligent to run for office.
Politicians become politicians BECAUSE they're inept in every other field. Therefore politicians will never be qualified to represent .
"The Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii are nearing their end. As powerful as they have been in the living room, gamers want more."
Quoted from TFA. Am I the only one who wants LESS? I don't really want my game system to do 9 million things. I just want it to play games.
Then again, when was the last time we were actually listened to? Draconian DRM, the removal of OtherOS, etc...
Mesh networking requires spending money.
Therefore, they require government grants.
Once they receive those, they just won't do the work.
Government shrugs and carries on.
Tax payers fucked.
Rinse.
Repeat.
I don't know, I think Republicans, reknowned for their respect for nerds, are capable of producing useful, eye catching, state of the art, web sites when they try: http://unskewedpolls.com/
Haha. A favorite site listed at the bottom of that website is a link to Rush Limbaugh's site. I guess the thinking is if they make a site look as shitty as drudge report, that it must be that much more credible.
And moved to Linux Mint a long time ago. I really do see it as the better debian-based distro.
BRB, moving to texas.
Maybe they can forget all this crap that no one REALLY wants and just finish Half Life 3.