Most console developers have waged a war to disassociate the fact that a console is basically a glorified, locked down personal computer. The current generation support keyboards (for text input), but go out of their way to ensure that they serve no other function in games.
More likely because the games that would benefit are FPS and RTS, both of which have strong online aspect. A person using a keyboard/mouse would have an immediate and incredible advantage over other players without, so the target is the lowest common denominator.
The convenience problem is not subject to the same arbitrary inflation that fiat is. There is a reason Nixon had to "close the gold window". Sure you can get away with it for a little bit... but not decades like we've been doing now. Now the inflation problem is much worse and will cause many more repercussions.
This also isn't 300 BC. We aren't finding massive new strikes of gold and invading neighbors and carting away slaves and jewelry. The amount of gold is relatively fixed and new deposits are rare. Given that we've just faced a crisis which almost destroyed the economy, I don't know how anyone can claim gold could be any worse. It would have prevented the runup.
It's useful past the basic system. Once you get to a modern economy you can still use cash or credit cards backed with the promise of a fixed exchange rate, rather than on the promise of more promises.
Perhaps they should start demonstrating that they value tigers more than monkeys.
Perhaps you should. Do you do anything besides bare necessities and supporting the tiger population? Do you do anything at all to support the tiger population?
First they tend to enrich themselves, next they enrich their friends and associates, and if they EVER get done serving their own interests, the rest of what's left over goes to the people.
Well, at least we've exported American Democracy to one place in the world!
Not perfect stewards, no. But they're still better stewards than mining companies and gold-consuming industries. The alternative is for the value of our currency be affected by what sort of rocks were uncovered recently or how many edge connectors and necklaces are being manufactured; do you really think that would be an improvement?
Barring monopolistic practices, the mining companies would no more be in charge of our economy than the banks are now. That we have handed control to a private monopoly (The Federal Reserve) notwithstanding.
Surely you aren't trying to imply causality there, are you? Because recessions have gotten shorter and less frequent since 1900.
Exactly, the duration may have gotten shorter, but the effect when reality finally hits is worse. For example, if I have a hangover, I can drink more, having the good times last longer with infrequent downturns. When I finally hit bottom the effect is much worse. This is why we had the Great Depression, and why we are heading into another major downturn now. We can put things off for decades and then we lose ten to twenty years.
Except the ones that haven't, you mean?
Right. 2000 years of history vs 30. It's gotta be the 30 that mean something.
Matching the growth (or shrinkage!) of the money supply based solely on the discovery, loss, or recovery of a particular natural resource hardly seems like a good plan for managing the economy.
Matching the growth or shrinkage of the money supply based on the whims of banks and legislators seems like a much worse plan. They've done such a wonderful job recently, haven't they?
The difference is that the supply of gold fluctuates unpredictably based on natural deposits, industrial use, and the activity of mining companies, while the supply of dollars fluctuates deliberately according to the monetary policy imposed by the central bank. Generally we're better off when the supply is controlled by people who know what they're doing rather than random fluctuations -- if you think business cycles are bad now, take a look at how they worked before the Federal Reserve -- although the outcome can be catastrophic when it's controlled by people who have no clue (i.e. Zimbabwe).
So you're saying the people who didn't see the current crisis coming, assured us it was contained, and then told us we barely avoided catastrophe know what they're doing and are the perfect stewards for our monetary system?
The Federal Reserve was founded in 1913. The Great Depression started 16 years later.
The intrinsic value of gold is that it is rare enough to hold large quantities of wealth and cannot be manufactured arbitrarily. The second reason is why every fiat currency has historically failed, despite the fact that people were told by the bankers that they knew what they were doing this time.
"...of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper-money." -- Daniel Webster
Gold is small, convenient, historical, and rare, so it makes a pretty good medium of exchange.
This is what people don't get. When you are transferring large amounts of wealth around there are very few other options. I've heard of using oil as a medium... but transferring the equivalent amount of wealth in oil would require fleets of tankers. There is nothing special about gold except that it is common enough to be common but rare enough to be rare. We could use platinum but that is too rare, or copper, which isn't quite rare enough. Silver is actually a decent alternative and what many economies used prior to settling on gold.
No, when you're starving, gold isn't worth much. But when you're just past the starving point and trying to create a base economy, crating around a wheelbarrow full of canned goods is inconvenient and makes you a target.
By shortening it's QA process Sony clearly is hoping that it will attract many of the indie developers that are publishing in so much abundance on the iPhone.
This occurred to me as well. Traditionally, platform manufacturers have had to be very careful about quality since the Atari 2600 crashed the nascent gaming industry by being overloaded with shovelware at the end. A bad title still has to go into your manufacturing pipeline, take up shelf space, and be sold for $50 to a customer who goes out of their way to purchase it and is ultimately disappointed and ascribes that to the platform as much as the title. So for 25 years since the NES, manufacturers have attempted to maintain quality over quantity. They aren't always successful (Wii) but it's a battle they've always fought.
Enter the iPhone. I can go online and look at apps, including their ratings. If it is well rated I can download and try it and if I like it I can rate it well too. If I don't like it, well, I can rate it poorly, but more importantly for most Apps I have still spent less in time and even gas money than driving to the mall to pick up a physical copy! As a consumer I am not disappointed with the platform experience if I don't like an App I purchase. That is an amazing breakthrough! This allows a flood of applications, all quality controlled by the users themselves, without worrying about the crap clogging up shelf space or manufacturing pipelines. This is, after all, the paradigm of the web where anyone can setup an app as crappy or great as they like and it is word of mouth that will spread it. I never saw a commercial for facebook or twitter (though I still don't have a use for twitter) or even slashdot. Both the web and the iPhone have crapware all over it. People still demand both.
This changes the game (pun partially intended) completely and Sony appears to be taking note with their rev of the current PSP. I don't think that will carry the current platform much longer, even though I also like my PSP, the basic design is just outdated at this point and you can't just hack in another stick and a touchscreen. I feel weird when I can't touch a device's screen to interact nowadays. In the future for the PSP2, however, and actually every manufacturer who wishes to engage developers must deal with this new paradigm.
Not one of the cars that I regularly ride in has a 3.5mm stereo audio input; they're all either older or low-end.
I had the same problem on a 2003 Mazda 6 and yeah, the FM transmitters are a pain in the butt. Not to mention you can't simply plug in a different stereo without buying a new dash panel!
After far too much searching I found this for about a hundred bucks on ebay. Sorry to sound like an ad but I'm pretty happy with it for the price. It mimics the CD player so it uses the existing CD changer controls while playing back off a USB stick or an SD card. It also has an auxiliary input 3.5mm jack. It's far from perfect (it doesn't remember where in the song you are when you leave which is fine for short songs, but I have some long continuous mixes). But, compared to an FM transmitter it is an absolute joy.
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The pope won't be.
Hey, they said "don't spill it on the ground". There's nothing about spilling it into little floating pearls.
I can charge ten things with one plate. Epic win.
I agree to set my price above market level. You agree to set your price above market level.
This - surprisingly enough - turns out to be mutually beneficial. And illegal.
What prevents me from spoofing another manufacturer's id?
That's ok. I'm reading your post as Leela.
Can he assess my investment portfolio as well?
Thanks.
Peter Molyneux has been designing this game (supposedly) for the past 10 years, and it looks pretty darn impressive!
So did Duke Nukem Forever.
Radar signals can lead to small but rapid spikes of heat in the head that generate sound waves, which in turn stimulate the ear.
No wonder the doctors always say they can never find the microchip putting voices in my head.
Most console developers have waged a war to disassociate the fact that a console is basically a glorified, locked down personal computer. The current generation support keyboards (for text input), but go out of their way to ensure that they serve no other function in games.
More likely because the games that would benefit are FPS and RTS, both of which have strong online aspect. A person using a keyboard/mouse would have an immediate and incredible advantage over other players without, so the target is the lowest common denominator.
The convenience problem is not subject to the same arbitrary inflation that fiat is. There is a reason Nixon had to "close the gold window". Sure you can get away with it for a little bit... but not decades like we've been doing now. Now the inflation problem is much worse and will cause many more repercussions.
This also isn't 300 BC. We aren't finding massive new strikes of gold and invading neighbors and carting away slaves and jewelry. The amount of gold is relatively fixed and new deposits are rare. Given that we've just faced a crisis which almost destroyed the economy, I don't know how anyone can claim gold could be any worse. It would have prevented the runup.
It's useful past the basic system. Once you get to a modern economy you can still use cash or credit cards backed with the promise of a fixed exchange rate, rather than on the promise of more promises.
Perhaps they should start demonstrating that they value tigers more than monkeys.
Perhaps you should. Do you do anything besides bare necessities and supporting the tiger population? Do you do anything at all to support the tiger population?
First they tend to enrich themselves, next they enrich their friends and associates, and if they EVER get done serving their own interests, the rest of what's left over goes to the people.
Well, at least we've exported American Democracy to one place in the world!
Not perfect stewards, no. But they're still better stewards than mining companies and gold-consuming industries. The alternative is for the value of our currency be affected by what sort of rocks were uncovered recently or how many edge connectors and necklaces are being manufactured; do you really think that would be an improvement?
Barring monopolistic practices, the mining companies would no more be in charge of our economy than the banks are now. That we have handed control to a private monopoly (The Federal Reserve) notwithstanding.
Surely you aren't trying to imply causality there, are you? Because recessions have gotten shorter and less frequent since 1900.
Exactly, the duration may have gotten shorter, but the effect when reality finally hits is worse. For example, if I have a hangover, I can drink more, having the good times last longer with infrequent downturns. When I finally hit bottom the effect is much worse. This is why we had the Great Depression, and why we are heading into another major downturn now. We can put things off for decades and then we lose ten to twenty years.
Except the ones that haven't, you mean?
Right. 2000 years of history vs 30. It's gotta be the 30 that mean something.
Matching the growth (or shrinkage!) of the money supply based solely on the discovery, loss, or recovery of a particular natural resource hardly seems like a good plan for managing the economy.
Matching the growth or shrinkage of the money supply based on the whims of banks and legislators seems like a much worse plan. They've done such a wonderful job recently, haven't they?
The difference is that the supply of gold fluctuates unpredictably based on natural deposits, industrial use, and the activity of mining companies, while the supply of dollars fluctuates deliberately according to the monetary policy imposed by the central bank. Generally we're better off when the supply is controlled by people who know what they're doing rather than random fluctuations -- if you think business cycles are bad now, take a look at how they worked before the Federal Reserve -- although the outcome can be catastrophic when it's controlled by people who have no clue (i.e. Zimbabwe).
So you're saying the people who didn't see the current crisis coming, assured us it was contained, and then told us we barely avoided catastrophe know what they're doing and are the perfect stewards for our monetary system?
Ben Bernanke: There is no housing bubble to go bust.
Ben Bernanke: Subprime Mortgage Problems Contained
Ben Bernanke: We barely avoided catastrophe
The Federal Reserve was founded in 1913. The Great Depression started 16 years later.
The intrinsic value of gold is that it is rare enough to hold large quantities of wealth and cannot be manufactured arbitrarily. The second reason is why every fiat currency has historically failed, despite the fact that people were told by the bankers that they knew what they were doing this time.
"...of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper-money." -- Daniel Webster
Gold is small, convenient, historical, and rare, so it makes a pretty good medium of exchange.
This is what people don't get. When you are transferring large amounts of wealth around there are very few other options. I've heard of using oil as a medium... but transferring the equivalent amount of wealth in oil would require fleets of tankers. There is nothing special about gold except that it is common enough to be common but rare enough to be rare. We could use platinum but that is too rare, or copper, which isn't quite rare enough. Silver is actually a decent alternative and what many economies used prior to settling on gold.
No, when you're starving, gold isn't worth much. But when you're just past the starving point and trying to create a base economy, crating around a wheelbarrow full of canned goods is inconvenient and makes you a target.
They are useful. Here were my answers: butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly.
It's The Monarch!
Give Dr. Girlfriend my love.
Well, not quite, it has "SONY" written on it, THAT'S the deal breaker.
Well, that makes your opinion entirely reasonable and unbiased, doesn't it?
By shortening it's QA process Sony clearly is hoping that it will attract many of the indie developers that are publishing in so much abundance on the iPhone.
This occurred to me as well. Traditionally, platform manufacturers have had to be very careful about quality since the Atari 2600 crashed the nascent gaming industry by being overloaded with shovelware at the end. A bad title still has to go into your manufacturing pipeline, take up shelf space, and be sold for $50 to a customer who goes out of their way to purchase it and is ultimately disappointed and ascribes that to the platform as much as the title. So for 25 years since the NES, manufacturers have attempted to maintain quality over quantity. They aren't always successful (Wii) but it's a battle they've always fought.
Enter the iPhone. I can go online and look at apps, including their ratings. If it is well rated I can download and try it and if I like it I can rate it well too. If I don't like it, well, I can rate it poorly, but more importantly for most Apps I have still spent less in time and even gas money than driving to the mall to pick up a physical copy! As a consumer I am not disappointed with the platform experience if I don't like an App I purchase. That is an amazing breakthrough! This allows a flood of applications, all quality controlled by the users themselves, without worrying about the crap clogging up shelf space or manufacturing pipelines. This is, after all, the paradigm of the web where anyone can setup an app as crappy or great as they like and it is word of mouth that will spread it. I never saw a commercial for facebook or twitter (though I still don't have a use for twitter) or even slashdot. Both the web and the iPhone have crapware all over it. People still demand both.
This changes the game (pun partially intended) completely and Sony appears to be taking note with their rev of the current PSP. I don't think that will carry the current platform much longer, even though I also like my PSP, the basic design is just outdated at this point and you can't just hack in another stick and a touchscreen. I feel weird when I can't touch a device's screen to interact nowadays. In the future for the PSP2, however, and actually every manufacturer who wishes to engage developers must deal with this new paradigm.
Not one of the cars that I regularly ride in has a 3.5mm stereo audio input; they're all either older or low-end.
I had the same problem on a 2003 Mazda 6 and yeah, the FM transmitters are a pain in the butt. Not to mention you can't simply plug in a different stereo without buying a new dash panel!
After far too much searching I found this for about a hundred bucks on ebay. Sorry to sound like an ad but I'm pretty happy with it for the price. It mimics the CD player so it uses the existing CD changer controls while playing back off a USB stick or an SD card. It also has an auxiliary input 3.5mm jack. It's far from perfect (it doesn't remember where in the song you are when you leave which is fine for short songs, but I have some long continuous mixes). But, compared to an FM transmitter it is an absolute joy.
If only these same people who secured my passport were in charge of my healthcare as well, then everything would be great!
I disagree with none of what you said. My point is simply that starving oneself is not an effective long term dieting solution.
, 'Consider what a dedicated team or government agency have already accomplished with more expensive equipment and effort.'"
FTFY.
Because video games by nature are repetitive, and when you've heard the same joke for the thirteenth time,
In soviet Russia, joke gets tired of you!