These descriptors (when appropriate) are included in the ratings box ON EVERY GAME, all you have to do is flip it over and LOOK. I'm not sure why yet another rating system for games is needed.
I would say you have already convinced yourself. This game is definitely a throw-back to old-school RPGs. Anyone who is even thinking about picking up DQVIII for this reason should just go get it.
The BOM cost is the cost of the parts to build a gizmo - in this case the cost to have a couple of extra ports is going to be pretty small - on the close order of US$10. While for a device that is targeting US$500 or less that is not trivial, it is not a huge value either.
Not a huge value? Say you are correct and droping these part(s) is close to US$10, now multiply this by how many consoles get sold, the PS2 sold 60+ million worldwide, and we come to a "non-huge" value of US$600 million.
[sarcasm] Nah, sony doesn't need this $600 mil, they should just keep this feature in [/sarcasm]
By changing the color temp of the monitor you change all colors on the screen. I just want white behind "reading text" to be subbued while keeping the white in a a picture nice and bright.
I agree, white is not the best color for reading on a computer, but black is not the solution.
Try this out: 255 255 240 or #FFFFF0
It's close enough to white that it looks "normal" but doesn't cause as much strain. Also, with the way our eye work, when it's the closest color to white on the screen our eyes fool us into thinking it's acctually white.
Try it sometime. Works best to make your document editor paper this color and then place a white picture farther into the doc. On a blank page let your eyes get used to the color then scroll down to the white pic. You'll be amazed at how the colors seem to shift though you know they didn't change.
I read though the article, but it was never mentioned why it blew up. Don't they usually just burn up in the sky and arrive intact but smaller? What makes this one special enough to shatter?
you probably couldn't scramble a CDROM, but you can mess up the hardware that read the CDROM. If the information is still good but you can't read it then what good is the information?
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And damn, there is another actor I am thinking of who would be just as good, but I cannot remember the name at the moment.
Could the name you be thinking of be: Christopher Walken http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000686/
It's funny that you say that, since the ESRB has had descriptors all along:
http://www.esrb.com/esrbratings_guide.asp#symbols
These descriptors (when appropriate) are included in the ratings box ON EVERY GAME, all you have to do is flip it over and LOOK. I'm not sure why yet another rating system for games is needed.
I would say you have already convinced yourself. This game is definitely a throw-back to old-school RPGs. Anyone who is even thinking about picking up DQVIII for this reason should just go get it.
But they are forcing you to buy a Blu-Ray player.
my personal favorite "nasty trick" was when the game spontaniously reset and I thought I lost all my progress. That one got me on edge quickly.
Eternal Darkness is definatly a unpresidented game.
The BOM cost is the cost of the parts to build a gizmo - in this case the cost to have a couple of extra ports is going to be pretty small - on the close order of US$10. While for a device that is targeting US$500 or less that is not trivial, it is not a huge value either.
Not a huge value? Say you are correct and droping these part(s) is close to US$10, now multiply this by how many consoles get sold, the PS2 sold 60+ million worldwide, and we come to a "non-huge" value of US$600 million.
[sarcasm] Nah, sony doesn't need this $600 mil, they should just keep this feature in [/sarcasm]
Quote: "But I can't remember a time when there were so many titles coming up that couldn't comfortably be slotted into established categories."
How about when when those "established categories" were being established?
By changing the color temp of the monitor you change all colors on the screen. I just want white behind "reading text" to be subbued while keeping the white in a a picture nice and bright.
I agree, white is not the best color for reading on a computer, but black is not the solution.
Try this out: 255 255 240 or #FFFFF0
It's close enough to white that it looks "normal" but doesn't cause as much strain. Also, with the way our eye work, when it's the closest color to white on the screen our eyes fool us into thinking it's acctually white.
Try it sometime. Works best to make your document editor paper this color and then place a white picture farther into the doc. On a blank page let your eyes get used to the color then scroll down to the white pic. You'll be amazed at how the colors seem to shift though you know they didn't change.
where does it say it's a port?
It might just be hopefullness but while reading I asssumed they are talking about an un-named sequel.
I read though the article, but it was never mentioned why it blew up. Don't they usually just burn up in the sky and arrive intact but smaller? What makes this one special enough to shatter?
In the case of Staroffice/OpenOffice, it seems to me that real reason behind the split is to 'force' people to use Solaris instead of Linux.
couldn't this be construed as a monopolistic action like the ones microsoft is taking?
you probably couldn't scramble a CDROM, but you can mess up the hardware that read the CDROM. If the information is still good but you can't read it then what good is the information?
In the end I really don't care what OS becomes popular, just as long as it's UNIX based.