The American Bible Belt is hardly Sony's major focus market. The rest of the world doesn't have as much a problem with porn as the prudes in fly-over country generally seem to (or at least the loudest citizens of which want you to believe).
I just don't understand people's problem with porn. It's the recorded chronicle of human sexuality, and if there's one thing the major demographic of PS3 users, ie teenage boys, love, it's porn.
The GP is right. Parents, as bad as most of them are, need to take responsibility for filtering the media their children experience. I'm rarely supportive of Sony, but if this is their policy, then I commend them.
Other lacking features I've noticed are, firstly related to page breaks, there's no way to add page numbers. There's also no way to add captions to images. I'll pass my final judgement once it leaves beta. If that ever happens, as is the trend of Google products.
I do too. Given enough time, they could spell out letters and words in those wires, giving us original and genuinely funny jokes to use on Slashdot. They could, perhaps, give a reasonable solution to these endless and pointless, clichéd "jokes".
Here's your explanation: It's fine and dandy for free, but most movies aren't worth the money they're asking. It's like the:CueCat - no one in their right mind would actually buy one, but many millions were picked up for free, even though they were of poor quailty and worthless.
People will grab things for free that they'd never pay for. It's the hunter-gather mentality.
And for your enlightment, the whole *p l a n e t* has become a violent place. Including the US.
Has become violent? Sorry for the questioning, but when was the planet not violent?
For your enlightenment, the planet has always been violent in one way or another. There were never "good old days" when everything was right and everyone was happy - the planet has been violent for it's ~4,567,200,000 years of existence - be it through planetoid impacts, explosive volcanism and other destructive geological, the arms race of evolution or the constant, retarded wars of political, racial or religious origin.
Or to put it in Simpsons form; "within 1 year, consoles will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them."
Ever done any field geology or geophysics? Or science at all? You can only use what you can see or measure in order to end up with a theory to explain a process or it's effects. Paleoseimisity and a whole host of other methods would have been taken into account when coming up with this figure, and it would have been dumbed down for the common masses to be put into press. The common man doesn't want to read about quartz grain deformation or stratigraphic offsets.
If you'd like to propose a more tangible and accurate estimate to determine when the East Africa rift valley will become an "ocean", please do so. The scientific community is waiting.
I believe you maybe confusing the magnetic and rotational poles.
The geographical (rotation) poles go through two periodical variations, which are part of what's called Milankovitch cycles;
Orientational variation (the tilt of the earth) - this varies between ~21 and 24 degrees every 25,000 years. This varies the intensity of the summer and winter in the upper latitudes, especially in the southern hemisphere.
Orbital inclination - this is from the rotation of the earth being out of sync with it's orbit around the sun. Basically, every 100,000 years, the summer and winter months will switch and then switch back from northern and southern hemisphere.
Ice ages and the like are caused by different environmental mechanisms.
The Earth's magnetic feild is generated by (or so it's theroised) the rotation of the liquid section of the iron core around the solid section. Tsunamis, storms and you jumping up and down coming up with wild, unresearched theories has no affect on the magnetosphere.
No mass extinction has ever coincided with a polar inversion.
Geomagnetic reversals happen within time frames of tens of thousands to tens of millions of years. There are also quick switches that occur over a 5 thousand year or so, called "tiny wiggles".
In short, it's not something you should worry about.
"As good as Wind Waker was, and it WAS good, it was essentially the same game as Majora's Mask and Ocarina of Time."... "You can also argue Mario Sunshine was the same as Mario 64, which many have"
True as this may be, I enjoyed all the aforementioned games. But this brings up the wider issue of the place of sequels in the gaming industry. By the same reasoning, GTA3, GTA:VC and GTA:SA are all the same game, and it could be argued that there's vastly less variation between them compared with the 3D itterations of the Zelda franchise.
I have confidence that where ever Nintendo takes the Zelda series will result in games I'll enjoy, but I doubt Twilight Princess will be the final Zelda game we see with these game mechanics, despite what Miyamoto says. Want a glaring example? The new Mario Bros. on the DS, a game in the same vein as the previous game of it's type, Super Mario World, released in 1991.
"Provide an environment that provides the service, but do perks, make it a good place to hang out"
Exactly. As odd as this sounds, your focus shouldn't be selling games, it should be building a community and a regular, dedicated shopping-base. If you have the space, I suggest putting a couch in with a TV, or a couple of TVs, instead of the regular IDUs. It'll make your stores feel welcoming and people will want to stay.
My parents used to run a toyshop, and being the gamer I am, I set up a gaming section there. Problem is games have such a small mark up on them, that it wasn't worth the investment (except for crazes like Pokemon), so I have an insight into your woes.
My suggestion is to make your stores work like some book stores. Their major profits come from selling coffee, not from selling books, even though the people running the place are book geeks. If you understand gaming, use it as a strength to sell things to gamers, not just games and systems.
Think of this; put those couches in, people will stay and play games for a while. If people are in a place for a while, they get to know everyone else in that place (common interests and all), which will make them stay longer. If they stay longer, they'll get hungry and thirsty, so sell drinks and some food. As the community grows, so do your sales. If people like you, they think "I could buy this game from website X and wait a day or 2 for it to arrive, or I could spend a couple of hours playing it at that mum and dad's store, where I can talk to people I know and like, about the game. After that, I can come home and play the rest of it after I bought it". To put it in another context, it'd be like running an open member's arcade with lower overheads.
I'll tell you one thing, if a store like that existed near me, I'd buy my games and spend a good amount of time and money there.
Even worse, think about load times. First it has to be downloaded, then it has have the bit you want to use copied to part of the memory where it can used from.
Seriously, even with a fast connection and a fast machine, this is going to make the simple act of sitting down and playing impossible. You'll sit down, select which game to play, stare at a "downloading, please wait" screen for a few minutes at very best, then sit watching a "loading, please wait" screen for a little while longer.
We'll take him back on one condition; Australia makes an official, world-wide announcement that New Zealand was the country that invented the Pavlova, thus giving us the recognition we Kiwis deserve:)
Having almost finished a geology degree (3 exams to go), I've run through the exercise of calculating exactly how high the ocean would go if the ice caps melted many a time.
Here's the thing, if there's more water, there's more weight on the crust, which will subside a bit. Cutting a long story short and without explaining the ins and outs of crustal isostasy, if your house, water source and farmland is above 75m in elevation, you'll be alright.
Otherwise, to quote Tool's very appropriate song Aenima, learn to swim.
A New Zealander posing as an Aussie? Nah. Never happen. And Australians do a fine job making themselves look stupid, why would we put down our shaggin' sheep when there's no need?
It's not so much playing games that I've gone off, but playing PC games. I play my fair share of console games because there's no setup or minimum requirements. I just put the disc in and it works.
Before I risk the wrath of crazy-go-nuts PC gamers, I DO play WC3, Starcraft and Civ III, but with minimum effort through wine on my Linux box. I've lost interest in FPSs, so having that latest PC hardware is a waste of money for me. I may upgrade when Starcraft 3 comes out:)
And now thanks to lithostatic isostasy, the North Sea is claiming it back. Same thing is happening is eastern England. It's due to the glaciers retreating after the last ice age, and the land returning to an equalibrium as Scandinavia bounces back after being compressed due to the load of the glacial ice.
And to avoid being marked offtopic, wouldn't microwaving people leave permanent damage?
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The American Bible Belt is hardly Sony's major focus market. The rest of the world doesn't have as much a problem with porn as the prudes in fly-over country generally seem to (or at least the loudest citizens of which want you to believe). I just don't understand people's problem with porn. It's the recorded chronicle of human sexuality, and if there's one thing the major demographic of PS3 users, ie teenage boys, love, it's porn. The GP is right. Parents, as bad as most of them are, need to take responsibility for filtering the media their children experience. I'm rarely supportive of Sony, but if this is their policy, then I commend them.
The examples you give are not a massive genetic shifts, they're an expressive of recessive genes present in the population already.
Other lacking features I've noticed are, firstly related to page breaks, there's no way to add page numbers. There's also no way to add captions to images. I'll pass my final judgement once it leaves beta. If that ever happens, as is the trend of Google products.
Here's a YouTube vid with a few facts about atheists and featuring a few people who are atheists.
I do too. Given enough time, they could spell out letters and words in those wires, giving us original and genuinely funny jokes to use on Slashdot. They could, perhaps, give a reasonable solution to these endless and pointless, clichéd "jokes".
The copies are pirated, since you sold on the original "license", at it were.
People will grab things for free that they'd never pay for. It's the hunter-gather mentality.
Has become violent? Sorry for the questioning, but when was the planet not violent?
For your enlightenment, the planet has always been violent in one way or another. There were never "good old days" when everything was right and everyone was happy - the planet has been violent for it's ~4,567,200,000 years of existence - be it through planetoid impacts, explosive volcanism and other destructive geological, the arms race of evolution or the constant, retarded wars of political, racial or religious origin.
Or to put it in Simpsons form; "within 1 year, consoles will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them."
If you'd like to propose a more tangible and accurate estimate to determine when the East Africa rift valley will become an "ocean", please do so. The scientific community is waiting.
I believe you maybe confusing the magnetic and rotational poles.
The geographical (rotation) poles go through two periodical variations, which are part of what's called Milankovitch cycles;
Orientational variation (the tilt of the earth) - this varies between ~21 and 24 degrees every 25,000 years. This varies the intensity of the summer and winter in the upper latitudes, especially in the southern hemisphere. Orbital inclination - this is from the rotation of the earth being out of sync with it's orbit around the sun. Basically, every 100,000 years, the summer and winter months will switch and then switch back from northern and southern hemisphere.
Ice ages and the like are caused by different environmental mechanisms.
Read the Wikipedia entry, or ask you local geophysicist.
Geomagnetic reversals happen within time frames of tens of thousands to tens of millions of years. There are also quick switches that occur over a 5 thousand year or so, called "tiny wiggles".
In short, it's not something you should worry about.
True as this may be, I enjoyed all the aforementioned games. But this brings up the wider issue of the place of sequels in the gaming industry. By the same reasoning, GTA3, GTA:VC and GTA:SA are all the same game, and it could be argued that there's vastly less variation between them compared with the 3D itterations of the Zelda franchise.
I have confidence that where ever Nintendo takes the Zelda series will result in games I'll enjoy, but I doubt Twilight Princess will be the final Zelda game we see with these game mechanics, despite what Miyamoto says. Want a glaring example? The new Mario Bros. on the DS, a game in the same vein as the previous game of it's type, Super Mario World, released in 1991.
Exactly. As odd as this sounds, your focus shouldn't be selling games, it should be building a community and a regular, dedicated shopping-base. If you have the space, I suggest putting a couch in with a TV, or a couple of TVs, instead of the regular IDUs. It'll make your stores feel welcoming and people will want to stay.
My parents used to run a toyshop, and being the gamer I am, I set up a gaming section there. Problem is games have such a small mark up on them, that it wasn't worth the investment (except for crazes like Pokemon), so I have an insight into your woes.
My suggestion is to make your stores work like some book stores. Their major profits come from selling coffee, not from selling books, even though the people running the place are book geeks. If you understand gaming, use it as a strength to sell things to gamers, not just games and systems.
Think of this; put those couches in, people will stay and play games for a while. If people are in a place for a while, they get to know everyone else in that place (common interests and all), which will make them stay longer. If they stay longer, they'll get hungry and thirsty, so sell drinks and some food. As the community grows, so do your sales. If people like you, they think "I could buy this game from website X and wait a day or 2 for it to arrive, or I could spend a couple of hours playing it at that mum and dad's store, where I can talk to people I know and like, about the game. After that, I can come home and play the rest of it after I bought it". To put it in another context, it'd be like running an open member's arcade with lower overheads.
I'll tell you one thing, if a store like that existed near me, I'd buy my games and spend a good amount of time and money there.
Seriously, even with a fast connection and a fast machine, this is going to make the simple act of sitting down and playing impossible. You'll sit down, select which game to play, stare at a "downloading, please wait" screen for a few minutes at very best, then sit watching a "loading, please wait" screen for a little while longer.
Frankly, fuck that.
We'll take him back on one condition; Australia makes an official, world-wide announcement that New Zealand was the country that invented the Pavlova, thus giving us the recognition we Kiwis deserve :)
Because his real name is John Thompson. Jack is a nickname for anyone called John.
Actually, in finding more and more pages to add to the list, I found the Wikipedia entry on Jack was pretty damn good.
In fact, I'll do it right now;
http://www.hardcoregamers.com/jack-thompson/
Here's the thing, if there's more water, there's more weight on the crust, which will subside a bit. Cutting a long story short and without explaining the ins and outs of crustal isostasy, if your house, water source and farmland is above 75m in elevation, you'll be alright.
Otherwise, to quote Tool's very appropriate song Aenima, learn to swim.
If that's so, then why are they using FONT tags AND CSS? That's not smart.
A New Zealander posing as an Aussie? Nah. Never happen. And Australians do a fine job making themselves look stupid, why would we put down our shaggin' sheep when there's no need?
Before I risk the wrath of crazy-go-nuts PC gamers, I DO play WC3, Starcraft and Civ III, but with minimum effort through wine on my Linux box. I've lost interest in FPSs, so having that latest PC hardware is a waste of money for me. I may upgrade when Starcraft 3 comes out :)
And to avoid being marked offtopic, wouldn't microwaving people leave permanent damage?