If PC gaming is that healthy, why can people only think of World of Warcraft as a successful PC game? Is the PC market that small that it only has one game?
World of Warcraft is just one game. That's why PC gaming is a niche, it has a few big titles, and the rest isn't even on the radar. There is no depth to the market at all.
All these articles gushing about how innovative and awesome and world-changing World of Warcraft is, are exactly the same as all the gushing about Everquest a few years back.
I think this is more a problem with the American health care system than credit checks for employees. Bankrupcies and repossessions due to medical problems are rarely an issue in countries with fully socialised health care, however much Americans hate it.
As a disabled person, I don't find this ruling foolish at all.
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But that's my point. Someone who lives in a major metro area, proximate to the sort of high-end school that can actually pay a professor $95k, is going to have very high cost of living, and presumably doesn't live like a total hermit. Hence it's all spoken for.
So how do the lesser-paid professors, cleaners etc. at that same school manage to live?
TV channels have schedules. Shuttle launches don't. You can't expect them to dedicate a day's programming to an event that they don't know when is going to happen, or whether it's going to happen at all. If it does happen, you can't expect them to disrupt their normal programming because it's not that important an event.
The only times programming should be interrupted is acts of terrorism or large natural disasters, not expensive scientific experiments. There are things happening all over the world that have just as much scientific value as the shuttle launch, should they also get blanket coverage?
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It's ALL spoken for, dude.
If 95k a year is all spoken for, how do people manage who make less than 95k? Surely then someone on 45k would be going 50k into debt every single year just through the costs of living.
Or maybe these economics professors are just being uneconomic with their money...
Only a benefit if you're cheap or poor, or a programmer.
- Software and hardware decoding support
That just sounds like buzzwords.
- Runs on Linux and MacOS, feeds to Windows (Windows MCE runs on -- guess what -- Windows only!)
If you use Windows (where your hardware actually works), this isn't a benefit, it's a drawback. Linux is all well and good until it comes time to get your TV card and remote control to work.
- Ultra-low system requirements
You instead have the requirement of picking your hardware with a fine-toothed comb. Have fun switching in and out dozens of 'Linux compatible' TV cards and remote controls until you find one that actually works.
- Scalable network architecture (master/slaves)
I don't know what that means. Is it relevent to anyone other than hardcore nerds?
How difficult would the average Windows user have in installing WinCME from scratch.
Compared to MythTV it would be a walk in the park. At least 70% of the problems with these things in getting the hardware to work. Most hardware installs easily with Windows, with Linux (which MythTV runs on), it's an absolute nightmare.
You could get by with one tenth the number of cars on the road today.
You need to do your sums. There would be just as many people going to exactly the same destinations as before, so there would be no reduction in traffic.
Your system would mean there would be a massive shortage during rush hour (and no reduction of congestion), and a massive surplus during quiet times.
In fact you would be ADDING to the traffic: as well as the usual journeys, you now have empty taxis going back and forth to pick people up.
You could eliminate most parking at offices and factories and in residential areas.
Suppose I have things such as shopping, gym gear, fishing gear etc? A parked car doubles as a storage space.
You could reduce te number of cars sold every year by a factor of ten.
That is not a benefit.
They could mostly be electric, thus quieter and centralizing the smog makers at power plants.
Any car could be electric, automatic taxi or privately owned. This is not relevant.
Getting more people to attend college is a good goal
Why? Not everyone has the finances or the intellect to go to college, and the world only needs so many people with degrees. It would be a waste for millions to go to college only to find out that all the college-necessary jobs are taken and only shelf stacking in left. Good luck paying off your loan debts at minimum wage.
What Blizzard do is take a game, then dumb it down to cater to the ADD generation. As that is 99% of the population, the game is incredibly successful.
I know technically y'all like saying 'cancelled' but on the basis that SG-1 ran for 10 seasons, I'd hardly call that 'cancelled'. It's more accurate to state that 'it ended it's run' or 'completed' or simply just 'finished'.
There seems to be a paradigm in America that if a show is any good, it has to run for years and years each, season having dozens of episodes. The thought of a show merely 'running its course' after a few years, or just having half a dozen or so episodes a season is looked up with horror.
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What is the natural position for your hands and arms:
a) Arms stuck out in front of you, palms facing down.
b) Arms hung low, palms facing together.
You can configure your keyboard all you want, you'll never get past the fact that keyboards involve unnatural, unrelaxed positioning.
If PC gaming is that healthy, why can people only think of World of Warcraft as a successful PC game? Is the PC market that small that it only has one game?
World of Warcraft is just one game. That's why PC gaming is a niche, it has a few big titles, and the rest isn't even on the radar. There is no depth to the market at all.
I think you vastly underestimate the number of people downloading their games. Remember most people are still on dialup or heavily-capped broadband.
PC shelves are shrinking because the PC game marking consists of Wow, the Sims, and a couple of FPSes.
Actually when you consider all the Orientals playing in internet cafes, the number of subscriptions is probably a lot higher than copies sold.
Read the above post in a comic book guy voice and you'll see why PC gaming is a niche.
All these articles gushing about how innovative and awesome and world-changing World of Warcraft is, are exactly the same as all the gushing about Everquest a few years back.
Some people have very short memories.
Formula 1 is based on real life physics which are constant, not arbitrary physics which can be changed with a single slider.
I think this is more a problem with the American health care system than credit checks for employees. Bankrupcies and repossessions due to medical problems are rarely an issue in countries with fully socialised health care, however much Americans hate it.
There is no reason why a website should not be accessible to people with disabilities, other than poor coding and webdesign.
As a disabled person, I don't find this ruling foolish at all.
So how do the lesser-paid professors, cleaners etc. at that same school manage to live?
They probably have the same reaction to watching cartoons, and they're probably cheaper to make.
I can't think of any legitimate reasoning for docking people's hard-earned wages in order to entertain your children with giant fireworks.
TV channels have schedules. Shuttle launches don't. You can't expect them to dedicate a day's programming to an event that they don't know when is going to happen, or whether it's going to happen at all. If it does happen, you can't expect them to disrupt their normal programming because it's not that important an event.
The only times programming should be interrupted is acts of terrorism or large natural disasters, not expensive scientific experiments. There are things happening all over the world that have just as much scientific value as the shuttle launch, should they also get blanket coverage?
If 95k a year is all spoken for, how do people manage who make less than 95k? Surely then someone on 45k would be going 50k into debt every single year just through the costs of living.
Or maybe these economics professors are just being uneconomic with their money...
Only a benefit if you're cheap or poor, or a programmer.
That just sounds like buzzwords.
If you use Windows (where your hardware actually works), this isn't a benefit, it's a drawback. Linux is all well and good until it comes time to get your TV card and remote control to work.
You instead have the requirement of picking your hardware with a fine-toothed comb. Have fun switching in and out dozens of 'Linux compatible' TV cards and remote controls until you find one that actually works.
I don't know what that means. Is it relevent to anyone other than hardcore nerds?
Compared to MythTV it would be a walk in the park. At least 70% of the problems with these things in getting the hardware to work. Most hardware installs easily with Windows, with Linux (which MythTV runs on), it's an absolute nightmare.
You need to do your sums. There would be just as many people going to exactly the same destinations as before, so there would be no reduction in traffic.
Your system would mean there would be a massive shortage during rush hour (and no reduction of congestion), and a massive surplus during quiet times.
In fact you would be ADDING to the traffic: as well as the usual journeys, you now have empty taxis going back and forth to pick people up.
Suppose I have things such as shopping, gym gear, fishing gear etc? A parked car doubles as a storage space.
That is not a benefit.
Any car could be electric, automatic taxi or privately owned. This is not relevant.
You haven't been on a bus lately...
Why? Not everyone has the finances or the intellect to go to college, and the world only needs so many people with degrees. It would be a waste for millions to go to college only to find out that all the college-necessary jobs are taken and only shelf stacking in left. Good luck paying off your loan debts at minimum wage.
What Blizzard do is take a game, then dumb it down to cater to the ADD generation. As that is 99% of the population, the game is incredibly successful.
I don't watch baseball.
I consider myself sports savvy but have never heard of the 'Green Monster'.
Actually everything in orbit has weight, as it's constantly falling towards earth. If the ISS was weightless it would fly off into space.
There seems to be a paradigm in America that if a show is any good, it has to run for years and years each, season having dozens of episodes. The thought of a show merely 'running its course' after a few years, or just having half a dozen or so episodes a season is looked up with horror.