Correction, trains do it already in many metro systems. It does currently require separate detection systems for intruders on tracks though, as the trains can't detect them autonomously.
Why should a restaurant have a parking lot, when everything is basically automated valet? Tie car ordering into paying the tab, and every customer has a car ready just in time, requiring at most a short line outside the restaurant to handle concurrency.
The problem with DoubleFine Adventure in particular is that "the core game as it was intended" is not defined - all they really pitched was an unspecified old school adventure game. Design and even story outlining only started after the Kickstarter, and apparently that process completely failed at matching the content to the project constraints.
More recent projects, e.g. Wasteland 2 and Project Eternity, have had better project management and outlining up front, and are in much better shape.
In many cases though, the automated credit card processing doesn't actually check the address. I'm not sure if its my bank that doesn't offer the service to payment processors or what, but I can generally provide arbitrary billing addresses and have them accepted with no ill effects.
I suspect it will turn out to be moved more than gone - one of the obvious uses of all the MS cloud power and CDN is a streaming game service. I would not even be all that surprised if they introduced a Netflix-style "all you can eat" model, perhaps with different tiers.
Unfortunately this is never going to happen until the EU becomes a true federation and implements it universally - and at a universal level, independent of country GDP. Otherwise the first state to do it will see a giant influx of citizens from EU countries with lower guarantees.
Yes, at least in the EU countries I can think of, traffic fines are for the operator of a vehicle. If e.g. a speed camera photo is unclear, you can get out of that speeding ticket.
One exception is parking enforcement, which in many countries is not technically a traffic fine and can be the responsibility of the owner.
The problem isn't the arrival time, the problem is that a) even if you try to maintain a safe following distance, half the time you can't actually maintain it, and b) there is a very high risk that the person behind you is not maintaining a safe distance. The net outcome is that no matter how safely you try to drive, reducing yellow time increases your risk of a wreck.
I would argue that with the way politics are going in most Western countries, deadlock is actually a better than average outcome in politics these days.
It's either that or never have what might be an awesome game get made. But it's a calculated risk that it could suck, or the lead designer could get run over by a truck. However, DRM specifically is rarely a concern - almost every game project on Kickstarter considers DRM-free a feature.
Also just the timing. Most large enterprises try to avoid adopting anything new until SP1 anyway, unless they absolutely need the new functionality. Waiting for Windows 8 SP1 would make the upgrade project deadlines much too tight, at least for geographically diverse enterprises.
The problem with talent trees is that, counter perhaps to intuition, more talents mean less real choice. The more talents there are, the closer to impossible it becomes to balance them, especially when inter-talent synergies come into play. That leads directly to cookie cutter builds, where most of the choice is illusory, and you're only really distributing 2-3 points between situational/flavor talents.
With a sharp reduction in talents, Blizzard has a chance to make each tier an actual meaningful choice. Worst case, they won't be able to balance it out, and we'll be back to cookie cutter builds. But at least then there'll be fewer points to copy off Elitist Jerks.
You're forgetting one scenario where it also makes sense, and which applies especially to travel insurance: insurance can be subsidized by e.g. credit card companies.
The announcement has nothing on the details which determine if the service will be useful: DRM, resolution, regional accessibility and so on. Wake me when they publish the specs.
Even Animal Planet has more reality shows than actual nature shows. Animal Police, various stupid pet shows... it's rare that I zap by and see a show with actual wildlife.
And what's with that Battlegrounds crap? I don't watch an animal channel for CGI, fast-paced editing and bad rock soundtracks.
It looks like they've done focus groups from the general population, instead of the part of the population who're actually interested in their subjects (if that; maybe they've just copied MTV blindly). The net result is they're alienating their core audience, and leaving the thinking minority with no shows to watch.
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Correction, trains do it already in many metro systems. It does currently require separate detection systems for intruders on tracks though, as the trains can't detect them autonomously.
Why should a restaurant have a parking lot, when everything is basically automated valet? Tie car ordering into paying the tab, and every customer has a car ready just in time, requiring at most a short line outside the restaurant to handle concurrency.
The problem with DoubleFine Adventure in particular is that "the core game as it was intended" is not defined - all they really pitched was an unspecified old school adventure game. Design and even story outlining only started after the Kickstarter, and apparently that process completely failed at matching the content to the project constraints. More recent projects, e.g. Wasteland 2 and Project Eternity, have had better project management and outlining up front, and are in much better shape.
In many cases though, the automated credit card processing doesn't actually check the address. I'm not sure if its my bank that doesn't offer the service to payment processors or what, but I can generally provide arbitrary billing addresses and have them accepted with no ill effects.
Count your blessings - Denmark: 26.8 EUR/month.
I suspect it will turn out to be moved more than gone - one of the obvious uses of all the MS cloud power and CDN is a streaming game service. I would not even be all that surprised if they introduced a Netflix-style "all you can eat" model, perhaps with different tiers.
Unfortunately this is never going to happen until the EU becomes a true federation and implements it universally - and at a universal level, independent of country GDP. Otherwise the first state to do it will see a giant influx of citizens from EU countries with lower guarantees.
One exception is parking enforcement, which in many countries is not technically a traffic fine and can be the responsibility of the owner.
The problem isn't the arrival time, the problem is that a) even if you try to maintain a safe following distance, half the time you can't actually maintain it, and b) there is a very high risk that the person behind you is not maintaining a safe distance. The net outcome is that no matter how safely you try to drive, reducing yellow time increases your risk of a wreck.
I would argue that with the way politics are going in most Western countries, deadlock is actually a better than average outcome in politics these days.
It's either that or never have what might be an awesome game get made. But it's a calculated risk that it could suck, or the lead designer could get run over by a truck. However, DRM specifically is rarely a concern - almost every game project on Kickstarter considers DRM-free a feature.
Also just the timing. Most large enterprises try to avoid adopting anything new until SP1 anyway, unless they absolutely need the new functionality. Waiting for Windows 8 SP1 would make the upgrade project deadlines much too tight, at least for geographically diverse enterprises.
The last point in particular is why you don't see HDD robots: all that handling would skyrocket the hard drives' failure rate.
The thing is though, physical fraud requires more resources and conspirators, and is thus more likely to be discovered than electronic fraud.
At least politicians in the US are actually elected, unlike the European Commission.
I dunno, I think Hanlon's may be the more applicable razor here.
Apatheism can be a useful neologism to describe this state.
The problem with talent trees is that, counter perhaps to intuition, more talents mean less real choice. The more talents there are, the closer to impossible it becomes to balance them, especially when inter-talent synergies come into play. That leads directly to cookie cutter builds, where most of the choice is illusory, and you're only really distributing 2-3 points between situational/flavor talents. With a sharp reduction in talents, Blizzard has a chance to make each tier an actual meaningful choice. Worst case, they won't be able to balance it out, and we'll be back to cookie cutter builds. But at least then there'll be fewer points to copy off Elitist Jerks.
You're forgetting one scenario where it also makes sense, and which applies especially to travel insurance: insurance can be subsidized by e.g. credit card companies.
Or for those on the righteous path, "set -o emacs" lets you use your favorite keys (^p, ^n, ^b, ^f, ^a, ^e etc.), and also Esc Esc for completion.
CERN is not under Swiss jurisdiction (or French), it's an international facility.
I hope they don't, or that if they do, they add buttons. I'll never buy a music player I can't control without looking at it.
The announcement has nothing on the details which determine if the service will be useful: DRM, resolution, regional accessibility and so on. Wake me when they publish the specs.
Even Animal Planet has more reality shows than actual nature shows. Animal Police, various stupid pet shows... it's rare that I zap by and see a show with actual wildlife. And what's with that Battlegrounds crap? I don't watch an animal channel for CGI, fast-paced editing and bad rock soundtracks. It looks like they've done focus groups from the general population, instead of the part of the population who're actually interested in their subjects (if that; maybe they've just copied MTV blindly). The net result is they're alienating their core audience, and leaving the thinking minority with no shows to watch.