You can make a fabirc with the same tensile strength as steel. So given unlimited money you can makes a tent with the same protection as a metal tent of more mass. Imagine a kevlar inflatible tent filled with water. You get a place to store you water and a decent radiaction shield. Druability problably isn't too much of an issue. As for micro meterors, your defence against them would problably involde kevlar derivatives anyways.
[conspiracy theory on] Maybe leaking this is a desperate attempt to get first gen PS3s off the shelves so they don't embarrass Tretton any more. Suddenly they're much more desirable. [/conspiracy]
Doh! thats was my rational for dishing 850$ CND on a PS3, game and accesories yesterday.
All those people who thought stuff like rock n' roll was leading society into depravity were right -- or at least they weren't proven wrong.
By what metric? Violence, no it's gone down. Murder, nope also went down. Petty crime, about the same. White collar crime, about the same. Mores? maybe but they always shift. What was rightous and good circa 1600 is not the same as 1900.
Rare cases yes. I have a family friend. Her daughter is the epitome of asian ideals. Shy, demure, intelligent, honor student, well behaved, and mostly normal. Their other one has severe ADD and some mental disabilities. He's 12 mentally but 19 physically. Does a lot of boorish things because he doesn't understand it's wrong. He also a has a tendancy to violent behavior. Breaking things, throwing things at people ect...
I think you mean "betetr resource utilization" and not "more evolution". Since the adolescents cannot determine their own genetic code. The behavior might accelerate selection but "more evolution" isn't the right words.
Traditionally we beleive the teenage rebeliousness trait is a way for the most expendible portion of the pop (young males with no children) to put themselves out for selection and explore new food sorces. It's notable that this age group still has high mrotality rates. As a pop trait it allows quick intergration of new food sources, expansion of terrortory, and quick exposition of potentially useful new phenotypes.
I just got a PS3, and I have to agree it made some mistakes. The CF/SD/Duo slots are useless, a PS2/Ps1 memory card port would have served them better. Not having composite/HDMI cords out of the box is a bit annoying and the lack of good docs on wireless set up annoyed me. The eject button also feels odd. I really enjoy the current models abundant backwards compatability. Dropping it would be a huge mistake. The price is arguably a mistake as well but that one can be mended easily for the true battle (X-mas 2008). But over all I like the gloss on the system. Decent web browser, usb support for keyboards, intuitive gui, fiarly intuitive wireless set up, garenteed built in HD, intuitive contoller indicator. I feel blu-ray is a asset too, many feel it was a liability but it's an easy way to show off HD.
So far it's doing better then the 360 at similiar points in it's life cycle. Who knows if it will be enough with the wii rampaging through the market. The Wii will be my #2 system once I can find one. Although I'm debating that since casual play of most of those games have led me to be bored with the mini-game style. wario/Rayman/wii sports have all played themselves out for me. They lack the depth to keep a medium-core player interested. They're all geared for casual players.
Right, because Nintendo invented motion sensing in video games. Just because they announced it first doesn't mean that Sony wasn't planning on including it also.
I think they had the first mass market motion sensing controller, except it sucked. It was the power glove.
You only have your gear and attributes exposed in WOW. Warcraft3 replays had real complaints. People could totally steal your build order and the creep order you did. They could essentially copy your game play by watching a replay and be almost as formidable as you. This made all the effective builds known, and there was very little creativity in that RTS.
If build order was all you had then you're a fairly poor player. It's one thing to copy a build but another to copy all of your micro-skills. Even then a build is basically rock paper scissors with more depth. Rush/Harass/tech and ground / antiair / air / magic / antimagic / balanced. There are odd builds that replays give away but there is still a lot of conditional changes that a skilled player makes to it that make it useless without skill.
It's not so much that sharing their DRM causes hard to fix rbeaches as it is that spreading their DRM doesn't make much business sense because they'd be directly helping their compitition. For an anology, why doesn't Pfizer Toyota help GM with their fab techniques? Because doing so for any money is still stupid because it will hurt them in the logn run. So any licence fee that isn't considered extortion will hurt appls business. So they have no reason to do so.
Have we had a mass human die off due to enviromental tampering? Then we have done a passable job at avoiding equilibrii that causes our exstinction. There is a problem with short sightedness in our current economic systems. But the only thing that can wipe us out would to be to change the equilibrium much more severely then the combines efforts to shape nature in the last 2000 years combined. Even then our exstinction is not garenteed. We may make the world unpleasant but we're a plague on the earth that will nto be easily removed.
GM is not evil in itself. It has consquences we can't forsee but over time they will be mostly understood or at least kept controllable. Mother nature is nto so much in a delicate balance as it is in a equilibrium. We can knock it off and it will simple go back to that equilibrium or find another local maxima. Thats how biological systems work. The trick is to ensure the new equilibrium is compatable with human life. And that isn't a very hard problem.
This ruling is not unique. That is why it was so quick. It does not achieve a new precident. It is just a continuation of previous rulings. You cannot compel a business to accept your business if they want to so long as the grounds of refusal is not "arbitrary". So refusing because he's black or because he happens te be blonde is insufficient. Refusing because the companies do not want to wrangle with conseqences of what his ad might brign them is fine. Free speech is your right to say what you want, not a compulsion for MSNBC to give you 10 minutes to say it.
What they index and what they advertise is two seperate entities. If Google/yahoo index a child porn site, it is the algorithm that does it. They rarely intervene in their algorithms to hand select entries to delist. However their ads are sold and has a lot more human over sight. It tough to find an analogy because almost nothign in real lfie functions the same way. It's sort of like telecoms. The telecoms are a common carrier and they provide the lines but it's content providers (us) who provide the traffic. In a way google is a common carrier, they convey indexed informations linking to content. They aren't responsible for the content. But the ads are sold by people. So while they might index googlesucks.com, they may nto want to sell ads to them and thats perfectly legal and fine.
Don't kid yourself. If Nintendo "wins" they'll each make up the difference with higher licence fees. They did so in the past with the NES. . Each of the three are varyign degrees of evil. The wii is fun but shallow. I have one, it's good. I'm looking for some deeper games. 360/xbox library don't appeal to me so I'm seeking a PS3.
I like your quote. No matter what they say about the chinese and their endowment (it's not racist I'm chinese) It takes real balls to stand in front of a tank column in a country where they routinely make people who cause toruble disappear.
The PS3 distribution is uneven. Up here in Edmonton, Alberta Canada there is not a PS3 in sight. Shipments vanish as they come ditto with the wiis. 360s everywhere though. The places were you see them "languish" in shelves are likely places that had too many shipped int he area. I am not willing to deal with ebay or any oneline retailer when the amoutn is over $100, because that is a loss I can't write off if it goes south. So I am stuck waiting. I want to grab a PS3 for the Ps2 Backwards compat at the very least. But availibility si nil here. A
Graphics is a bruteforce problem. Throw more artists, programmers and hardware at it and eventually you get something pretty. The problem is fairly well understood and instances brilliance (HDR, Bloom, Pixel shading, etc..) can be replicated. Most of the time it links back to math. Giving some framework to think around.
Gameplay is much different. Throwing more designers won't nessacarily make the game more fun. No amount of hardware will make somethign instantly fun (sex toys are a notable exception). Many innovation seem out of place in other venues and every accuses you for ripping an idea off. And math doesn't determine is something is fun so you have a ironically more artistic thought proccess to come up with innovative gameplay.
Given these graphics will always advance steadily while gameplay waits for the occasional genius to spurt once in a while.
The cost of making a game in the major categories is staggering when you look at what you're up against. But invent something completely different that's just fun to play and you can open up a whole new market. You can't win by making a new FPS, increasingly accurate physics and polymesh technology.
Just a side note:
Okami : innovative and fun game Sales: meh Zelda - TP: Sequel with sort of tacted in controls Sales: Stellar
Puzzle Pirate : Innovative and fun game Sales: Meh EQ2 : Sequel, increbily teidus Sales: OK
Katamari Damacy: Innovative and fun Sales: MEh Halo 2 : Golden eye wiht better graphics Sales: Stellar.
It seem good innovative titles come out all the time. You just all ignore them. I buy then when ever I can. I am aware of the 80:20 rule. 80% of everythign is crap. The remaining 20 is good to incredible. You might think there were more innovative gems before but your just remembering the 20% and forgetting the 80. The Atari had 80%+ crap, as did the NES, SNES, Genesis, PS1, PS2, PC 1980-today ect.. But we just forgot about the crap and most of the derivative dreck too. We remember the 20% of innovative games that opened things up and completely forgotten all the innovation that sucked.
Option A: Push for a switch to Max OS and risk being blamed for every bump in the road in the migration Option B: Let upper management choose vista and blame MS for the inevitable bumps in the migration
Which one of these options will get you fired. There is yoru answer.
Slashdot Mirror
You can make a fabirc with the same tensile strength as steel. So given unlimited money you can makes a tent with the same protection as a metal tent of more mass. Imagine a kevlar inflatible tent filled with water. You get a place to store you water and a decent radiaction shield. Druability problably isn't too much of an issue. As for micro meterors, your defence against them would problably involde kevlar derivatives anyways.
[conspiracy theory on] Maybe leaking this is a desperate attempt to get first gen PS3s off the shelves so they don't embarrass Tretton any more. Suddenly they're much more desirable. [/conspiracy]
Doh! thats was my rational for dishing 850$ CND on a PS3, game and accesories yesterday.
The question is, why is Europe paying more instead?
Same reason why every other consumer product/commodity in the EU is more expensive. Because their willing to pay more. High tarrifs also contribute.
Except the problems been getting better not worse. Most of our concern is media generated fear over rare and isolated events.
All those people who thought stuff like rock n' roll was leading society into depravity were right -- or at least they weren't proven wrong.
By what metric? Violence, no it's gone down. Murder, nope also went down. Petty crime, about the same. White collar crime, about the same. Mores? maybe but they always shift. What was rightous and good circa 1600 is not the same as 1900.
Rare cases yes. I have a family friend. Her daughter is the epitome of asian ideals. Shy, demure, intelligent, honor student, well behaved, and mostly normal. Their other one has severe ADD and some mental disabilities. He's 12 mentally but 19 physically. Does a lot of boorish things because he doesn't understand it's wrong. He also a has a tendancy to violent behavior. Breaking things, throwing things at people ect...
Born moderately bad.
I think you mean "betetr resource utilization" and not "more evolution". Since the adolescents cannot determine their own genetic code. The behavior might accelerate selection but "more evolution" isn't the right words.
Traditionally we beleive the teenage rebeliousness trait is a way for the most expendible portion of the pop (young males with no children) to put themselves out for selection and explore new food sorces. It's notable that this age group still has high mrotality rates. As a pop trait it allows quick intergration of new food sources, expansion of terrortory, and quick exposition of potentially useful new phenotypes.
I just got a PS3, and I have to agree it made some mistakes. The CF/SD/Duo slots are useless, a PS2/Ps1 memory card port would have served them better. Not having composite/HDMI cords out of the box is a bit annoying and the lack of good docs on wireless set up annoyed me. The eject button also feels odd. I really enjoy the current models abundant backwards compatability. Dropping it would be a huge mistake. The price is arguably a mistake as well but that one can be mended easily for the true battle (X-mas 2008). But over all I like the gloss on the system. Decent web browser, usb support for keyboards, intuitive gui, fiarly intuitive wireless set up, garenteed built in HD, intuitive contoller indicator. I feel blu-ray is a asset too, many feel it was a liability but it's an easy way to show off HD.
So far it's doing better then the 360 at similiar points in it's life cycle. Who knows if it will be enough with the wii rampaging through the market. The Wii will be my #2 system once I can find one. Although I'm debating that since casual play of most of those games have led me to be bored with the mini-game style. wario/Rayman/wii sports have all played themselves out for me. They lack the depth to keep a medium-core player interested. They're all geared for casual players.
Right, because Nintendo invented motion sensing in video games. Just because they announced it first doesn't mean that Sony wasn't planning on including it also.
I think they had the first mass market motion sensing controller, except it sucked. It was the power glove.
You only have your gear and attributes exposed in WOW. Warcraft3 replays had real complaints. People could totally steal your build order and the creep order you did. They could essentially copy your game play by watching a replay and be almost as formidable as you. This made all the effective builds known, and there was very little creativity in that RTS.
If build order was all you had then you're a fairly poor player. It's one thing to copy a build but another to copy all of your micro-skills. Even then a build is basically rock paper scissors with more depth. Rush/Harass/tech and ground / antiair / air / magic / antimagic / balanced. There are odd builds that replays give away but there is still a lot of conditional changes that a skilled player makes to it that make it useless without skill.
It also made it easier to spot hackers.
It's not so much that sharing their DRM causes hard to fix rbeaches as it is that spreading their DRM doesn't make much business sense because they'd be directly helping their compitition. For an anology, why doesn't Pfizer Toyota help GM with their fab techniques? Because doing so for any money is still stupid because it will hurt them in the logn run. So any licence fee that isn't considered extortion will hurt appls business. So they have no reason to do so.
Have we had a mass human die off due to enviromental tampering? Then we have done a passable job at avoiding equilibrii that causes our exstinction. There is a problem with short sightedness in our current economic systems. But the only thing that can wipe us out would to be to change the equilibrium much more severely then the combines efforts to shape nature in the last 2000 years combined. Even then our exstinction is not garenteed. We may make the world unpleasant but we're a plague on the earth that will nto be easily removed.
GM is not evil in itself. It has consquences we can't forsee but over time they will be mostly understood or at least kept controllable. Mother nature is nto so much in a delicate balance as it is in a equilibrium. We can knock it off and it will simple go back to that equilibrium or find another local maxima. Thats how biological systems work. The trick is to ensure the new equilibrium is compatable with human life. And that isn't a very hard problem.
We're problably someones tape back up. When the main server goes down they'll be coming to vivisect us.
But as always, a virus can still eat your data.
This ruling is not unique. That is why it was so quick. It does not achieve a new precident. It is just a continuation of previous rulings. You cannot compel a business to accept your business if they want to so long as the grounds of refusal is not "arbitrary". So refusing because he's black or because he happens te be blonde is insufficient. Refusing because the companies do not want to wrangle with conseqences of what his ad might brign them is fine. Free speech is your right to say what you want, not a compulsion for MSNBC to give you 10 minutes to say it.
What they index and what they advertise is two seperate entities. If Google/yahoo index a child porn site, it is the algorithm that does it. They rarely intervene in their algorithms to hand select entries to delist. However their ads are sold and has a lot more human over sight. It tough to find an analogy because almost nothign in real lfie functions the same way. It's sort of like telecoms. The telecoms are a common carrier and they provide the lines but it's content providers (us) who provide the traffic. In a way google is a common carrier, they convey indexed informations linking to content. They aren't responsible for the content. But the ads are sold by people. So while they might index googlesucks.com, they may nto want to sell ads to them and thats perfectly legal and fine.
Unless it's on a fairly narrow basis (race, sex) any business has the right to deny service to you.
Don't kid yourself. If Nintendo "wins" they'll each make up the difference with higher licence fees. They did so in the past with the NES. . Each of the three are varyign degrees of evil. The wii is fun but shallow. I have one, it's good. I'm looking for some deeper games. 360/xbox library don't appeal to me so I'm seeking a PS3.
I like your quote. No matter what they say about the chinese and their endowment (it's not racist I'm chinese) It takes real balls to stand in front of a tank column in a country where they routinely make people who cause toruble disappear.
The PS3 distribution is uneven. Up here in Edmonton, Alberta Canada there is not a PS3 in sight. Shipments vanish as they come ditto with the wiis. 360s everywhere though. The places were you see them "languish" in shelves are likely places that had too many shipped int he area. I am not willing to deal with ebay or any oneline retailer when the amoutn is over $100, because that is a loss I can't write off if it goes south. So I am stuck waiting. I want to grab a PS3 for the Ps2 Backwards compat at the very least. But availibility si nil here. A
Graphics is a bruteforce problem. Throw more artists, programmers and hardware at it and eventually you get something pretty. The problem is fairly well understood and instances brilliance (HDR, Bloom, Pixel shading, etc..) can be replicated. Most of the time it links back to math. Giving some framework to think around.
Gameplay is much different. Throwing more designers won't nessacarily make the game more fun. No amount of hardware will make somethign instantly fun (sex toys are a notable exception). Many innovation seem out of place in other venues and every accuses you for ripping an idea off. And math doesn't determine is something is fun so you have a ironically more artistic thought proccess to come up with innovative gameplay.
Given these graphics will always advance steadily while gameplay waits for the occasional genius to spurt once in a while.
The cost of making a game in the major categories is staggering when you look at what you're up against. But invent something completely different that's just fun to play and you can open up a whole new market. You can't win by making a new FPS, increasingly accurate physics and polymesh technology.
Just a side note:
Okami : innovative and fun game Sales: meh
Zelda - TP: Sequel with sort of tacted in controls Sales: Stellar
Puzzle Pirate : Innovative and fun game Sales: Meh
EQ2 : Sequel, increbily teidus Sales: OK
Katamari Damacy: Innovative and fun Sales: MEh
Halo 2 : Golden eye wiht better graphics Sales: Stellar.
It seem good innovative titles come out all the time. You just all ignore them. I buy then when ever I can. I am aware of the 80:20 rule. 80% of everythign is crap. The remaining 20 is good to incredible. You might think there were more innovative gems before but your just remembering the 20% and forgetting the 80. The Atari had 80%+ crap, as did the NES, SNES, Genesis, PS1, PS2, PC 1980-today ect.. But we just forgot about the crap and most of the derivative dreck too. We remember the 20% of innovative games that opened things up and completely forgotten all the innovation that sucked.
Option A: Push for a switch to Max OS and risk being blamed for every bump in the road in the migration
Option B: Let upper management choose vista and blame MS for the inevitable bumps in the migration
Which one of these options will get you fired. There is yoru answer.
Try ricing the Viper and see what you get.
5,000 devaluation, 70 more db louder sound system, 0 extra horse power and messed up wheel alignment?