The problem being, of course, that sometimes they do release games that the console is under-specced for, resulting in unexpected slowdowns etc
This is especially true when multi-console releases are attempted and the hardware specs don't quite line up. At that point, you've got a game that runs just as poorly on the console as it would on an under-specced PC
The post a few up suggested they might be streaming OpenGL commands. My suggestion was that it could possibly be done if the textures or similar large data-blobs had a local cache.
And... having no winter accidents, I'd say I do drive appropriate for the conditions. In this case, it was a major highway, and IIRC we were doing fairly well under the limit to begin with, but that particular section was round a bend with a very unpleasant section of black ice.
Unless you recommend that everyone drive 40km/h on the freeway in winter, sometimes the "conditions" aren't all that predictable. Certainly the car ahead of me didn't see be driving in any hazardous way, and look like he would have stopped with plenty of room if not for a *very* slick sheet of black ice.
Accidents cause a lot of damage too, probably a lot more than studs. I've passed through areas that disallowed studs (but I had them since I was from elsewhere), and actually avoided being part of multi-vehicle pileups because of them. The guy in front of me... no studs... well he joined the pileup.
For carrier-lock, some things can be done to remove the lock (or work around it). These generally require root, and along with that a modified or third-party ROM. Samsung phones (and likely other Android but I cannot confirm ATM), also have some generally hidden settings for the radio-region, etc. You can get into this by dialling *#*#4636#*#* (auto allows you to set GDM/CDMA/WCMA/auto etc).
In some carrier-specific phones, this is set to the home region rather than "auto", and this number is locked out on the stock ROM. So even if you have a multi-region capable phone, you'll need to break the carrier-lock, and also allow multi-region settings on the radio.
In the case of my buddy from Korea, it took a lot of work to get his phone in a state where it worked in North America.
So no, they don't have f-all to do with one another. Getting a locked-down phone may often need a custom ROM. I don't know about your experience with this, but I have had *plenty*.
Those same users do care about those features, they just often don't care to take time to figure it out for themselves. When they want to use their phone on another network, or in another country, then they either bug a friend like *me* (who does take a general interest in such things) or take it to a shop that can make it work.
If phones become more locked down, then even the shop won't be able to do it. People will be even more pissed off with their devices. They'll also see a lack of features as many phones have incorporated stuff that was first only available on 3rd-party hacks/tweaks. No third-party, less innovation.
Maybe the general public doesn't need the latest uber-tweaked ROM, but the offshoots that come from such things are still quite popular.
despite trying every trick they can think of (day-one DLC, online passes, season passes etc).
Well, I don't know about the rest of the world, but among those I know a lot of the so-call "tricks" you've mentioned are the REASON that we don't buy games these days, or at the very least not day-one releases at full price.
Maybe it's a surprise, but... people like to own stuff they pay for. Notice that the "so-called" American dream isn't to "rent a nice place", but to own one's house and property (this applies beyond USA of course, but is used as example). Beyond that, the money-chasing behaviour actually drives away customers. Always-on DRM is a turn-off for many, many gamers. Even the less hardcore crowd are starting to get pissed off that the newest $70 of "sports game X" really doesn't offer much improvement, but their older copy has suddenly lost the ability to play online with buddies.
It used to be you could pull up a chair and play with a group of buddies on equal footing (mechanics wise). Now you're stuck with shared-servers full of potty-mouthed teams, having to play for hours to gain "experience" in order to even be competitive. Oh, but wait, you could get "big gun X" without having to play for a few days straight, all you have to do is... pay more money.
People are tired of it. Yes, some people will still buy the console, but overall this sort of shit, these "tricks" are what drive away customers. Game prices aren't really that different from the old days, however anyone who cared with an old console can still pop in an old Mario cart and play with a bunch of friends, or you can load up an old PC game so long it runs on whatever OS you're running.
How about if you bought a windows PC that was automatically cut off the internet after 3 years? What if you had to drive your car around a track for 30 hours in order to unlock the stereo (optionally available for $150 extra)?
Game makers will try everything, but actual innovation or listening to fans seems to be the *LAST* thing they try. That's why kickstarter campaigns are getting some fairly surprising capital, and even a graphically simple game like Minecraft is a sneak-hit.
There's no reason every single product in the consumer electronics category has to appeal to every single consumer.
No, but there's no reason for them to create a product that's not profitable either. I don't know about Nabokov, but most of the other items you've mentioned (such as Ostrich-skin boots or a harmonica) would come with a fairly hefty price-tag compared to standard fare.
This isn't a bad thing, but many people seem to value "cheap" as one of the big factors in purchasing decisions. I got the impression that this was somewhat a list of "I want all of these things, and I want them at roughly the same price as current offerings."
Well, as a man I know that I do find the recession of my hairline somewhat disturbing, moreso than a few wrinkles etc. The extra bulges in various parts is also somewhat of a concern.
I doubt I'm the only man with such concerns. Hair-loss is an especially-sensitive topic for many men.
Because then it's no different from many of the other "universal chargers" out there? Add to that that people pledged for a product/w a lightning connector, and well... would you pledge for a universal charger when so many already exist?
I don't know so much about religion itself, but religious "values" aren't such a bad thing. The problem is that many seem to think that they can pick-and-choose to whom they apply values such as "life is sacred", "love thy neighbour", etc
Of course you have to love your neighbour if he's a good [insert religion X], but that damned heretic a few doors down, well we should burn him/her. Even worse is when you start posing non-religious traditions as religious values.
So... while removing religion might not be part of the problem, removing some of the lessons around respecting your fellow man (/women) may very likely be.
A few questions: Is that an overall fine, or per-incident. Also, if FB pays the fine, but continues with "business as usual", then I could see a fairly quick escalation. Fines should generally be
"you didn't stop doing X on time, so now you pay a penalty and need to stop NOW" Not
"you didn't stop X, so here's a fine. Now keep on going"
Unfortunately it seems that in many cases it really amounts to the latter.
The only concern I would have around this would be if he wasn't alone. Sometimes nutballs band together. While it's hard enough to imagine one sick person who would take a gun to a school full of kids, it's not impossible (though highly unlikely) to be part of something larger.
Certainly it wouldn't hurt to know more about the events that led up to the shooting.
I haven't heard yet that there were any very visible signs of his instability (not arguing that he was). From what I've heard, he was quiet, smart, didn't get into much trouble, etc. I'd imagine that if the guy was a raging nutball with a history of violence/threats/instability it would be fairly front-page. Maybe I'm just not reading the right articles, but I haven't seen such.
I remember just after Columbine, people at school were suddenly "unusually nice" to me. I hadn't read the news so didn't know why. Apparently they were scared I was going to do something similar (because they were dicks to me). However, I really didn't have the mentality for such things, and don't really believe in violence except in self-defence.
So here we have a guy who was quiet, apparently smart, and possible a bit of a loner. No indication of provocation or history. I'm hoping that in the next while we'll see some (real, not just "hey he played video games a lot") signs that led to his impending mental instability.
How do we know what colours the painters had available? Further to that, did all the paint supplies in different colours last as long. Perhaps the blues and greens have long faded.
Or perhaps our ancestors were mostly colour-blind.
Perhaps the next great human contribution will be... imagination.
I doubt it's going to be something machines can emulate for a long time, and if they ever do then what will be the difference between machines and people?
I believe in Asia (or at least Korea), it's 119, so even those two aren't consistent internationally.
One argument for 112 is that it's easier to quickly dial if you're having an emergency moment and your finger-mobility is limited. An argument against would be that it's easier to dial by accident. I believe that 911/119 were chosen partially because those were the farthest spaced digits, to prevent accidental dialling.
I once had a co-worker who had a very simple phone number. Something like 555-545-4544 (or had only 2-3 unique digits). He amused us once by playing back a message that some random young child had left on his voicemail over the weekend, presumably after mashing keys on the phone. The interesting part was that it wasn't the first such voicemail he had, but it was generally from different random children.
So 112 may be easier to dial in an emergency, but it's also likely to have a higher number of mis-dials or 3-year-olds that just picked up a phone and mashed part of the number-pad.
I can't comment on the intents of the SK government, but peaceful re-unification seems to be considered a good thing for many of the citizens in the south.
Sure the GDP will rise but that won't make the slightest difference for the unemployed.
I'd imagine that a U.S. robotic factory would employ less persons than an external factory with manual laborers, but I doubt it would be entirely devoid of human workers. You're still going to need: - Transportation - Supervision (to some extent) - Cleaning - Somebody to fix the robots
Maybe not a whole lot of jobs, but possibly a bit more local job-creation than farming the whole thing out to another country.
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The problem being, of course, that sometimes they do release games that the console is under-specced for, resulting in unexpected slowdowns etc
This is especially true when multi-console releases are attempted and the hardware specs don't quite line up. At that point, you've got a game that runs just as poorly on the console as it would on an under-specced PC
The post a few up suggested they might be streaming OpenGL commands. My suggestion was that it could possibly be done if the textures or similar large data-blobs had a local cache.
Wouldn't it make sense then to have some data (textures etc) locally cached, and just send the scene/model info?
And... having no winter accidents, I'd say I do drive appropriate for the conditions.
In this case, it was a major highway, and IIRC we were doing fairly well under the limit to begin with, but that particular section was round a bend with a very unpleasant section of black ice.
Unless you recommend that everyone drive 40km/h on the freeway in winter, sometimes the "conditions" aren't all that predictable. Certainly the car ahead of me didn't see be driving in any hazardous way, and look like he would have stopped with plenty of room if not for a *very* slick sheet of black ice.
Accidents cause a lot of damage too, probably a lot more than studs.
I've passed through areas that disallowed studs (but I had them since I was from elsewhere), and actually avoided being part of multi-vehicle pileups because of them. The guy in front of me... no studs... well he joined the pileup.
For carrier-lock, some things can be done to remove the lock (or work around it). These generally require root, and along with that a modified or third-party ROM.
Samsung phones (and likely other Android but I cannot confirm ATM), also have some generally hidden settings for the radio-region, etc. You can get into this by dialling *#*#4636#*#* (auto allows you to set GDM/CDMA/WCMA/auto etc).
In some carrier-specific phones, this is set to the home region rather than "auto", and this number is locked out on the stock ROM.
So even if you have a multi-region capable phone, you'll need to break the carrier-lock, and also allow multi-region settings on the radio.
In the case of my buddy from Korea, it took a lot of work to get his phone in a state where it worked in North America.
So no, they don't have f-all to do with one another. Getting a locked-down phone may often need a custom ROM. I don't know about your experience with this, but I have had *plenty*.
Those same users do care about those features, they just often don't care to take time to figure it out for themselves.
When they want to use their phone on another network, or in another country, then they either bug a friend like *me* (who does take a general interest in such things) or take it to a shop that can make it work.
If phones become more locked down, then even the shop won't be able to do it. People will be even more pissed off with their devices. They'll also see a lack of features as many phones have incorporated stuff that was first only available on 3rd-party hacks/tweaks. No third-party, less innovation.
Maybe the general public doesn't need the latest uber-tweaked ROM, but the offshoots that come from such things are still quite popular.
despite trying every trick they can think of (day-one DLC, online passes, season passes etc).
Well, I don't know about the rest of the world, but among those I know a lot of the so-call "tricks" you've mentioned are the REASON that we don't buy games these days, or at the very least not day-one releases at full price.
Maybe it's a surprise, but... people like to own stuff they pay for. Notice that the "so-called" American dream isn't to "rent a nice place", but to own one's house and property (this applies beyond USA of course, but is used as example).
Beyond that, the money-chasing behaviour actually drives away customers. Always-on DRM is a turn-off for many, many gamers. Even the less hardcore crowd are starting to get pissed off that the newest $70 of "sports game X" really doesn't offer much improvement, but their older copy has suddenly lost the ability to play online with buddies.
It used to be you could pull up a chair and play with a group of buddies on equal footing (mechanics wise). Now you're stuck with shared-servers full of potty-mouthed teams, having to play for hours to gain "experience" in order to even be competitive. Oh, but wait, you could get "big gun X" without having to play for a few days straight, all you have to do is... pay more money.
People are tired of it. Yes, some people will still buy the console, but overall this sort of shit, these "tricks" are what drive away customers. Game prices aren't really that different from the old days, however anyone who cared with an old console can still pop in an old Mario cart and play with a bunch of friends, or you can load up an old PC game so long it runs on whatever OS you're running.
How about if you bought a windows PC that was automatically cut off the internet after 3 years? What if you had to drive your car around a track for 30 hours in order to unlock the stereo (optionally available for $150 extra)?
Game makers will try everything, but actual innovation or listening to fans seems to be the *LAST* thing they try. That's why kickstarter campaigns are getting some fairly surprising capital, and even a graphically simple game like Minecraft is a sneak-hit.
There's no reason every single product in the consumer electronics category has to appeal to every single consumer.
No, but there's no reason for them to create a product that's not profitable either. I don't know about Nabokov, but most of the other items you've mentioned (such as Ostrich-skin boots or a harmonica) would come with a fairly hefty price-tag compared to standard fare.
This isn't a bad thing, but many people seem to value "cheap" as one of the big factors in purchasing decisions. I got the impression that this was somewhat a list of "I want all of these things, and I want them at roughly the same price as current offerings."
I can't imagine why they might have trouble getting panda to procreate (at least between Canada and China).
Well, as a man I know that I do find the recession of my hairline somewhat disturbing, moreso than a few wrinkles etc.
The extra bulges in various parts is also somewhat of a concern.
I doubt I'm the only man with such concerns. Hair-loss is an especially-sensitive topic for many men.
Proprietary interface, preventing the build of compatible eco-systems? Wait, this reminds me of something...
Because then it's no different from many of the other "universal chargers" out there? /w a lightning connector, and well... would you pledge for a universal charger when so many already exist?
Add to that that people pledged for a product
For good or bad, everyone else seems to use KickStarter.
Already the IGG website seems to be lagging, and would require yet another signup etc etc.
Also, 32-bit only? Really? 64-bit is really a shining star for Linux in general
Understand how little they know, how much there is to know, and how much more there is to discover!
I don't know so much about religion itself, but religious "values" aren't such a bad thing. The problem is that many seem to think that they can pick-and-choose to whom they apply values such as "life is sacred", "love thy neighbour", etc
Of course you have to love your neighbour if he's a good [insert religion X], but that damned heretic a few doors down, well we should burn him/her.
Even worse is when you start posing non-religious traditions as religious values.
So... while removing religion might not be part of the problem, removing some of the lessons around respecting your fellow man (/women) may very likely be.
A few questions:
Is that an overall fine, or per-incident.
Also, if FB pays the fine, but continues with "business as usual", then I could see a fairly quick escalation.
Fines should generally be
"you didn't stop doing X on time, so now you pay a penalty and need to stop NOW"
Not
"you didn't stop X, so here's a fine. Now keep on going"
Unfortunately it seems that in many cases it really amounts to the latter.
The only concern I would have around this would be if he wasn't alone. Sometimes nutballs band together. While it's hard enough to imagine one sick person who would take a gun to a school full of kids, it's not impossible (though highly unlikely) to be part of something larger.
Certainly it wouldn't hurt to know more about the events that led up to the shooting.
I haven't heard yet that there were any very visible signs of his instability (not arguing that he was). From what I've heard, he was quiet, smart, didn't get into much trouble, etc.
I'd imagine that if the guy was a raging nutball with a history of violence/threats/instability it would be fairly front-page. Maybe I'm just not reading the right articles, but I haven't seen such.
I remember just after Columbine, people at school were suddenly "unusually nice" to me. I hadn't read the news so didn't know why. Apparently they were scared I was going to do something similar (because they were dicks to me). However, I really didn't have the mentality for such things, and don't really believe in violence except in self-defence.
So here we have a guy who was quiet, apparently smart, and possible a bit of a loner. No indication of provocation or history. I'm hoping that in the next while we'll see some (real, not just "hey he played video games a lot") signs that led to his impending mental instability.
Or maybe they recognise that money has influence, and banks have lots of money, and possibly they're an easier target than some others.
why do black and red dominate
How do we know what colours the painters had available? Further to that, did all the paint supplies in different colours last as long. Perhaps the blues and greens have long faded.
Or perhaps our ancestors were mostly colour-blind.
Muscles...
Intelligence...
Perhaps the next great human contribution will be... imagination.
I doubt it's going to be something machines can emulate for a long time, and if they ever do then what will be the difference between machines and people?
I believe in Asia (or at least Korea), it's 119, so even those two aren't consistent internationally.
One argument for 112 is that it's easier to quickly dial if you're having an emergency moment and your finger-mobility is limited.
An argument against would be that it's easier to dial by accident.
I believe that 911/119 were chosen partially because those were the farthest spaced digits, to prevent accidental dialling.
I once had a co-worker who had a very simple phone number. Something like 555-545-4544 (or had only 2-3 unique digits).
He amused us once by playing back a message that some random young child had left on his voicemail over the weekend, presumably after mashing keys on the phone. The interesting part was that it wasn't the first such voicemail he had, but it was generally from different random children.
So 112 may be easier to dial in an emergency, but it's also likely to have a higher number of mis-dials or 3-year-olds that just picked up a phone and mashed part of the number-pad.
I can't comment on the intents of the SK government, but peaceful re-unification seems to be considered a good thing for many of the citizens in the south.
Sure the GDP will rise but that won't make the slightest difference for the unemployed.
I'd imagine that a U.S. robotic factory would employ less persons than an external factory with manual laborers, but I doubt it would be entirely devoid of human workers. You're still going to need:
- Transportation
- Supervision (to some extent)
- Cleaning
- Somebody to fix the robots
Maybe not a whole lot of jobs, but possibly a bit more local job-creation than farming the whole thing out to another country.