Then there's always the issue that playing games when younger might have caused some of these impairments. There'd be nothing worse than being the grand champion at Gradius (space shooter) or something like that, and then finally losing the coordination or eyesight to play that game as well. I'd hope there was a way to make a Gradius-like game more accessible... but heck if I know what it is. Maybe just bigger entities on-screen would help.
Sure, only 56% of business students admitted to it... the other 44% just print out fake degrees online and don't ever consider themselves students, they just go straight to "graduates".
My dad has a great story about trying to get a software patent from the stone age of computers. The US PTO came back and said to him, "there will NEVER be software patents."
If you've ever heard a high-end turntable setup, you know that analog can sound at least as good as CD's, plus because you can't play them in a car, melt in sunlight, and they look fragile, you tend to take better care of them and so they last longer.
I'm pretty sure that if you spend enough time to earn in-game rewards, you're not gaining "socially"... but if you are, online gaming sure has come a long way since I last played!
only 90 bazillion more to go! That picture from TFA is wild, though (mountain of CDs being crushed by steamrollers). That looks like some kinda explosion at a CD store.
Let me see, this key opens voting machines, mini-bars, jukeboxes, etc? Sounds pretty shiny, where do I get one! I need to add it to my lil' bastard music-copying, alcohol-drinking, electrion-throwing kit.
Athletes often use the same excuse, that since there will be "other" players on drugs, they need to use the same drugs to stay competitive. However, this should only be the case if the drugs are allowed, because any given cheater could be exposed and stripped of their titles, video game or otherwise. That's the ultimate slap-down, because anyone after that will assume you're cheating even if you're not.
Gas is a big deal because for a long time, the prices didn't change that much day-to-day. Now we are getting swings weekly of 25 to 50 cents or more, which is like a 20% swing. If milk or bread suddenly went up 20% in a week, people would completely freak out!
Why are there street vendors in LA then? Shouldn't they all be in jail? I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Of course you have to have certain permits (which are easy to get) so that the state can track you down because otherwise, you could make people sick with your cooking, so obviously there's a public interest in making a transient vendor license.
"Olvera Street, the historic Latino/Hispanic community is a worthwhile stop however. It is a bustling community of colorful shops, restaurants and street vendors..."
True, but to create the perception of reality, the tv tube would have to be able to reproduce what reality is doing, meaning control over each photon. Our eyes have evolved to capture only the necessary info from reality, but that doesn't mean you still couldn't percieve a difference in a simulation, even if the "resolution" matched. If you could control the actual photons being sent out, then you could conceivably trick the eye into perceiving the simulation as an actual object.
Don't worry, we're still a long ways from human-eye resolution. The eye can detect a single photon, which means until the display has the control to know exactly how many photons it's emitting (not coming soon), it still won't be *quite* realistic. Well, that and the fact that it's a flat screen and we have binocular vision.
Sony and microsoft are not game companies. They both make money from other things. Nintendo is a game company. They make money (i.e. NEED to make money) from the game system and games. OF COURSE they will sell them at a profit!
Microsoft placates to populous to try to pressure EU to stop suing them for monopolistic practices. Could this read any more like a spin piece to deflect from the EU lawsuit stuff?
The biggest let-down is that people are still pre-animating the gameplay for commercials, or otherwise using a TON of CGI that the game just could not duplicate during play. If you look back historically, games that have done well were advertised kinda like: "here's the graphics, why hide it, if you think it sucks, then screw you, the game's still good". I just want to see what it is I'm gonna be doing in the game, not a split-second clip of that and then some other random CGI B-reel from Star Wars Episode 3 or something.
The only way to defend against the RIAA once and for all would be to get a list of people they're intending to sue, and pick one that is definitely defensible assuming they had the money. Then, we all donate as much as we can to make 100% certain that person has the money to win a summary judgement based on the joke claims the RIAA makes. If we all pull together and put our chickens in one basket, we could achieve victory. Each individual case spreads the defendants' money out too thin, but one solid victory, a "victory of principle"(tm), would yield countless others at a far reduced cost.
It's not "no spec required"... it's "no spec". You still have to build what they "want". WAAH HA HA HA! The answer, obviously, is F. don't be there in the first place.
Just use a fake name, especially the name of someone you don't like. That's sure to conceal your tracks... anonymous site data looks weird in a log, but Joe Jerkoff looks like legit traffic, plus you get to peg him/her with the goatse bookmarks, or whatever sick thing you wanted anon surfing for.
1. Sales has agreed to build a system, and the client's already signed off on a fixed price payment. You have 1 month to build it until the budget runs out. There is no spec, no design document, and no way to confirm any given feature. What do you do?
A. Build as fast as possible and hope for the best. B. Cry and whimper like a baby, because you're completely screwed. C. Pitch a fit to management/slashdot/etc about what sales did. D. Burn the place down. E. All of the above.
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Then there's always the issue that playing games when younger might have caused some of these impairments. There'd be nothing worse than being the grand champion at Gradius (space shooter) or something like that, and then finally losing the coordination or eyesight to play that game as well. I'd hope there was a way to make a Gradius-like game more accessible... but heck if I know what it is. Maybe just bigger entities on-screen would help.
Sure, only 56% of business students admitted to it... the other 44% just print out fake degrees online and don't ever consider themselves students, they just go straight to "graduates".
aka the "super CD stealer 9000" version!
My dad has a great story about trying to get a software patent from the stone age of computers. The US PTO came back and said to him, "there will NEVER be software patents."
If you've ever heard a high-end turntable setup, you know that analog can sound at least as good as CD's, plus because you can't play them in a car, melt in sunlight, and they look fragile, you tend to take better care of them and so they last longer.
I'm pretty sure that if you spend enough time to earn in-game rewards, you're not gaining "socially"... but if you are, online gaming sure has come a long way since I last played!
only 90 bazillion more to go! That picture from TFA is wild, though (mountain of CDs being crushed by steamrollers). That looks like some kinda explosion at a CD store.
Let me see, this key opens voting machines, mini-bars, jukeboxes, etc? Sounds pretty shiny, where do I get one! I need to add it to my lil' bastard music-copying, alcohol-drinking, electrion-throwing kit.
Athletes often use the same excuse, that since there will be "other" players on drugs, they need to use the same drugs to stay competitive. However, this should only be the case if the drugs are allowed, because any given cheater could be exposed and stripped of their titles, video game or otherwise. That's the ultimate slap-down, because anyone after that will assume you're cheating even if you're not.
maybe cars should run on money, since the price of money is usually a constant ($1=$1) (inflation, i know but still)
Gas is a big deal because for a long time, the prices didn't change that much day-to-day. Now we are getting swings weekly of 25 to 50 cents or more, which is like a 20% swing. If milk or bread suddenly went up 20% in a week, people would completely freak out!
Why are there street vendors in LA then? Shouldn't they all be in jail? I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Of course you have to have certain permits (which are easy to get) so that the state can track you down because otherwise, you could make people sick with your cooking, so obviously there's a public interest in making a transient vendor license.
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"Olvera Street, the historic Latino/Hispanic community is a worthwhile stop however. It is a bustling community of colorful shops, restaurants and street vendors..."
http://www.world66.com/northamerica/unitedstates/
eh, its ok, its friday. I mean, just look at all the stuff about optics i forgot about! I am just operating at a fraction of my normal IQ today.
True, but to create the perception of reality, the tv tube would have to be able to reproduce what reality is doing, meaning control over each photon. Our eyes have evolved to capture only the necessary info from reality, but that doesn't mean you still couldn't percieve a difference in a simulation, even if the "resolution" matched. If you could control the actual photons being sent out, then you could conceivably trick the eye into perceiving the simulation as an actual object.
Don't worry, we're still a long ways from human-eye resolution. The eye can detect a single photon, which means until the display has the control to know exactly how many photons it's emitting (not coming soon), it still won't be *quite* realistic. Well, that and the fact that it's a flat screen and we have binocular vision.
I guess you could relate this to making picking bank vault locks illegal, when in fact it's the 'stealing money' part that's illegal.
Sony and microsoft are not game companies. They both make money from other things. Nintendo is a game company. They make money (i.e. NEED to make money) from the game system and games. OF COURSE they will sell them at a profit!
Microsoft placates to populous to try to pressure EU to stop suing them for monopolistic practices. Could this read any more like a spin piece to deflect from the EU lawsuit stuff?
"We swear we're not teh evil anymore! Please come work here! ... Everyone floats down here woo ha ha ha!"
The biggest let-down is that people are still pre-animating the gameplay for commercials, or otherwise using a TON of CGI that the game just could not duplicate during play. If you look back historically, games that have done well were advertised kinda like: "here's the graphics, why hide it, if you think it sucks, then screw you, the game's still good". I just want to see what it is I'm gonna be doing in the game, not a split-second clip of that and then some other random CGI B-reel from Star Wars Episode 3 or something.
The only way to defend against the RIAA once and for all would be to get a list of people they're intending to sue, and pick one that is definitely defensible assuming they had the money. Then, we all donate as much as we can to make 100% certain that person has the money to win a summary judgement based on the joke claims the RIAA makes. If we all pull together and put our chickens in one basket, we could achieve victory. Each individual case spreads the defendants' money out too thin, but one solid victory, a "victory of principle"(tm), would yield countless others at a far reduced cost.
See, i'm supposing that JJ has phsyical access to your machine, but I see the point.
It's not "no spec required"... it's "no spec". You still have to build what they "want". WAAH HA HA HA! The answer, obviously, is F. don't be there in the first place.
Just use a fake name, especially the name of someone you don't like. That's sure to conceal your tracks... anonymous site data looks weird in a log, but Joe Jerkoff looks like legit traffic, plus you get to peg him/her with the goatse bookmarks, or whatever sick thing you wanted anon surfing for.
1. Sales has agreed to build a system, and the client's already signed off on a fixed price payment. You have 1 month to build it until the budget runs out. There is no spec, no design document, and no way to confirm any given feature. What do you do?
A. Build as fast as possible and hope for the best.
B. Cry and whimper like a baby, because you're completely screwed.
C. Pitch a fit to management/slashdot/etc about what sales did.
D. Burn the place down.
E. All of the above.