I think this is one of those moments where you have to draw the distinction between video-based and text-based games. To borrow from what DarkKnightRadick said, the difference is in how the cues are given. A text-based game's output can easily be converted to audio but to my knowledge, the same can't be done for a video-based game.
Zork can be played purely with a screen reader or text-to-speech software, the video component isn't necessary to know what the game is telling you, MUDs and MUSHes are also very popular with the vision-impaired for the same reason, but those same people wouldn't be able to play a game where seeing what's happening is an integral component (i.e. an FPS).
No, they're not required to sell at the suggested price - but they are required to sell at a price that covers their costs and allows them to make a reasonable profit.
No they're not. It would certainly be a stupid idea to sell books at a loss on a continuing basis but doing it to some degree is actually a good thing. I suggest you read up on loss leaders.
I have this running joke that the only toy my kids will ever have is a block of wood. People always laugh when they hear me say it but I'm half serious. I want my kids to develop an imagination and be able to rely on it when the power goes out, when we're taking a trip in the car or when everything on TV sucks.
Anyway, I want to commend you on raising your kids to value books so much and I hope to do the same for mine.
I do know that "irregardless" is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing and I was using it as such! I happen to like the word irregardless even though it hasn't been blessed by the word gods yet! Language is a living, breathing entity and it is continuously changing!
Ohhh... I thought your point was that you were expecting Formula 1 performance from a station wagon. In that case, just put Rockbox on it or get better headphones and an amp.
But what's the use if their DSPs noticeably distrort sound when playing at 80% volume or more (which is how I sometimes listen to classical:)
Well, it sounds like the only option available in that circumstance is not to listen to it on an ipod.
I'm not enough of an audiophile to suggest spending a fortune on a stereo but regardless of the formats they support, MP3 players have a tendency to sacrifice audio quality in their quest for portability. Get a good stereo, get a good set of headphones and blow out your eardrums.
I appreciate anyone who does work I can't or don't want to do. A day of appreciation is nice but a few moments on a regular basis are better. I know it's the janitor's job to empty my garbage can but I still thank him for doing it.
Why did I use the janitor in my example? Because he deals with a lot of garbage and doesn't get much credit for it either.
However, bells and whistles are necessary to represent those core mechanics in an appealing manner. Many older games have awful interfaces, and most sprite-based ones run into the problem of low resolution making it hard to figure out what's happening since everything becomes a pixelated mess.
One word: Nethack.
60 dollars for a single game is too much. At this point, even if BitTorrent were to disappear entirely, sales would not go up. People simply don't have that kind of money to spend on entertainment. So please don't pretend that you are paying for the pirates; you aren't, you are paying for the development costs.
People don't have $60 to spend on entertainment? Having seen so many people drop $500 on a console or video card I find that hard to believe. Besides, no one is forcing you to pay $60 for these titles, they just slap a high price tag on it and people buy it because they must have it now. If you can learn delayed gratification you can wait about six months and the price will drop.
You're not just paying development costs, you're paying the highest amount they think they can make from you; that number drops over time. If you can't find the money for a game you want there are probably two scenarios: 1) you're spending too much in another area or 2) you can't afford the system (computer or console) anyway.
Game development costs have gotten completely out of hand while quality tends towards mediocre, and the result will be the same it has been before: a market crash.
They're giving people what they want. Do you really think EA is churning out Madden 20xx for the fun of it? As long as people are buying shit games for high prices you'll find some developers working that niche market making shit games and selling them for high prices.
I'd say, by definition, this guy is offering to give away his heart and lungs while he's still living. That's the whole point of the story!
If we was just saying "Hey, you know, when I die and shit, why not harvest my organs and stuff, and, you know, like give it to other people" then it wouldn't really be much of a story!
Man carries donor card! Film at Eleven!
The man already believes himself to be dead, I think that's exactly what he's saying.
I'd be more inclined to say the opposite is true: suicidal always means wanting to die but wanting to die isn't necessarily suicidal. I was in a car accident and was in so much agony that I wanted to die but at no point did I have the intention of taking my life, I'd simply lost the will to live through the pain. There are going to be people who say wanting to die and not following through is stupid, I've met several, but until you've been to the brink of death it's very difficult to appreciate the difference between not wanting to live and taking active steps to eliminate ones self.
No, saying "information wants to be free" is like saying "what goes up must come down", or "water flows downhill". It's not an imperative, nor a moral judgement, or how things ought to be. It's just describing the natural tendency of it.
If you don't do anything to stop information from spreading, it tends to spread around "on its own" if it's useful.
Just like things naturally fall or flow to a lower position if there isn't anything in the way.
Not really, your last two examples are facts that can easily be proven. "Information wants to be free" anthropomorphises information; it doesn't want anything or have any tendencies, it simply exists. People want information to be free, information doesn't care. Saying information wants to be free implies that information has made a "moral judgement".
The amount of cash I have in my wallet won't simply spread without human involvement. I either have to tell someone or they have to find out themselves by looking; that information would then have to be spread through people. As for your gravity-based examples, they'll happen with or without any human involvement.
The way I see it the iPad/Phone/Apple in general is like a very large, beautiful prison cell. Sure, WE might walk far enough to reach the walls and be unhappy about it, but to the average consumer (who doesn't walk far and never reaches the walls), it feels like beautiful freedom. It's like the restrictions don't exists.
Sorry, but that's kind of a depressing analogy. It seems to me that most of the people with iPads are getting exactly the features they want or enough of the features they want that the ones they don't have don't matter. If I only wanted or needed a car on weekends and someone rented me a car Saturday and Sunday for a good rate I'd be happy with that, even if it wasn't ideal on long weekends.
I don't own any Apple products and I don't intend to any time soon (my wife breathes fire at the mere mention of an iPod) but they seem to make people happy.
Time to come up with marks for Humor, and mood and patent them. Wait...perhaps Chinese already has it!
So does the Internet: emoticons. For example, "=)" means happy, "=(" means unhappy, ">=(" means angry, "=p" is sticking out his tongue, mocking you, laughing at you, haunting your dreams! "=^_^=" is a soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur. I could go on, but I think I've made my point.
Good point, I hadn't considered that scenario. I think "forget" tripped me up a bit. In the case of the Internet it would probably be better to say "remove from the record" than "forget".
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I think this is one of those moments where you have to draw the distinction between video-based and text-based games. To borrow from what DarkKnightRadick said, the difference is in how the cues are given. A text-based game's output can easily be converted to audio but to my knowledge, the same can't be done for a video-based game.
Zork can be played purely with a screen reader or text-to-speech software, the video component isn't necessary to know what the game is telling you, MUDs and MUSHes are also very popular with the vision-impaired for the same reason, but those same people wouldn't be able to play a game where seeing what's happening is an integral component (i.e. an FPS).
I like my coffee how I like my women, full of alcohol.
Chuck Norris doesn't need to use Microsoft Word, when he wants to write a letter he roundhouse kicks the keyboard.
Yeah... the movie wasn't that bad.
No, they're not required to sell at the suggested price - but they are required to sell at a price that covers their costs and allows them to make a reasonable profit.
No they're not. It would certainly be a stupid idea to sell books at a loss on a continuing basis but doing it to some degree is actually a good thing. I suggest you read up on loss leaders.
I have this running joke that the only toy my kids will ever have is a block of wood. People always laugh when they hear me say it but I'm half serious. I want my kids to develop an imagination and be able to rely on it when the power goes out, when we're taking a trip in the car or when everything on TV sucks.
Anyway, I want to commend you on raising your kids to value books so much and I hope to do the same for mine.
I do know that "irregardless" is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing and I was using it as such! I happen to like the word irregardless even though it hasn't been blessed by the word gods yet! Language is a living, breathing entity and it is continuously changing!
tl;dr version: it's a perfectly cromulent word.
Makes sense... Exactly my point.
Ohhh... I thought your point was that you were expecting Formula 1 performance from a station wagon. In that case, just put Rockbox on it or get better headphones and an amp.
since when is 1962 in the 50s? rounding error?
Drugs. Everything from 1959 to to 1970 was lost in a purple haze.
But what's the use if their DSPs noticeably distrort sound when playing at 80% volume or more (which is how I sometimes listen to classical :)
Well, it sounds like the only option available in that circumstance is not to listen to it on an ipod.
I'm not enough of an audiophile to suggest spending a fortune on a stereo but regardless of the formats they support, MP3 players have a tendency to sacrifice audio quality in their quest for portability. Get a good stereo, get a good set of headphones and blow out your eardrums.
I guess his Slashdot password is "12345".
No, it was hunter2.
I appreciate anyone who does work I can't or don't want to do. A day of appreciation is nice but a few moments on a regular basis are better. I know it's the janitor's job to empty my garbage can but I still thank him for doing it.
Why did I use the janitor in my example? Because he deals with a lot of garbage and doesn't get much credit for it either.
I've been a sysadmin for a while time now, and I've never had one person wish me a happy admin day.
Happy admin day! ;)
It did have a rather amusing side effect of me hearing it in William Shatner's voice.
However, bells and whistles are necessary to represent those core mechanics in an appealing manner. Many older games have awful interfaces, and most sprite-based ones run into the problem of low resolution making it hard to figure out what's happening since everything becomes a pixelated mess.
One word: Nethack.
60 dollars for a single game is too much. At this point, even if BitTorrent were to disappear entirely, sales would not go up. People simply don't have that kind of money to spend on entertainment. So please don't pretend that you are paying for the pirates; you aren't, you are paying for the development costs.
People don't have $60 to spend on entertainment? Having seen so many people drop $500 on a console or video card I find that hard to believe. Besides, no one is forcing you to pay $60 for these titles, they just slap a high price tag on it and people buy it because they must have it now. If you can learn delayed gratification you can wait about six months and the price will drop.
You're not just paying development costs, you're paying the highest amount they think they can make from you; that number drops over time. If you can't find the money for a game you want there are probably two scenarios: 1) you're spending too much in another area or 2) you can't afford the system (computer or console) anyway.
Game development costs have gotten completely out of hand while quality tends towards mediocre, and the result will be the same it has been before: a market crash.
They're giving people what they want. Do you really think EA is churning out Madden 20xx for the fun of it? As long as people are buying shit games for high prices you'll find some developers working that niche market making shit games and selling them for high prices.
> By unifying video and audio into a single cable manufacturers have been able to make their products easier to set up than ever before.
Seriously how hard was it to hook up the $2 three color coded RCA jacks?
It's not hard to hook up three cables but wouldn't you agree it's easier to hook up a single cable instead?
I can imagine. Living with a husband who makes comments like that must be stressful.
I'd say, by definition, this guy is offering to give away his heart and lungs while he's still living. That's the whole point of the story! If we was just saying "Hey, you know, when I die and shit, why not harvest my organs and stuff, and, you know, like give it to other people" then it wouldn't really be much of a story!
Man carries donor card! Film at Eleven!
The man already believes himself to be dead, I think that's exactly what he's saying.
Wanting to die is usually always suicidal, no?
I'd be more inclined to say the opposite is true: suicidal always means wanting to die but wanting to die isn't necessarily suicidal. I was in a car accident and was in so much agony that I wanted to die but at no point did I have the intention of taking my life, I'd simply lost the will to live through the pain. There are going to be people who say wanting to die and not following through is stupid, I've met several, but until you've been to the brink of death it's very difficult to appreciate the difference between not wanting to live and taking active steps to eliminate ones self.
No, saying "information wants to be free" is like saying "what goes up must come down", or "water flows downhill". It's not an imperative, nor a moral judgement, or how things ought to be. It's just describing the natural tendency of it.
If you don't do anything to stop information from spreading, it tends to spread around "on its own" if it's useful.
Just like things naturally fall or flow to a lower position if there isn't anything in the way.
Not really, your last two examples are facts that can easily be proven. "Information wants to be free" anthropomorphises information; it doesn't want anything or have any tendencies, it simply exists. People want information to be free, information doesn't care. Saying information wants to be free implies that information has made a "moral judgement".
The amount of cash I have in my wallet won't simply spread without human involvement. I either have to tell someone or they have to find out themselves by looking; that information would then have to be spread through people. As for your gravity-based examples, they'll happen with or without any human involvement.
Would someone create a list that only contains public profiles with NSFW images?
Thanx
Sure, but they're all goatse.
The way I see it the iPad/Phone/Apple in general is like a very large, beautiful prison cell. Sure, WE might walk far enough to reach the walls and be unhappy about it, but to the average consumer (who doesn't walk far and never reaches the walls), it feels like beautiful freedom. It's like the restrictions don't exists.
Sorry, but that's kind of a depressing analogy. It seems to me that most of the people with iPads are getting exactly the features they want or enough of the features they want that the ones they don't have don't matter. If I only wanted or needed a car on weekends and someone rented me a car Saturday and Sunday for a good rate I'd be happy with that, even if it wasn't ideal on long weekends.
I don't own any Apple products and I don't intend to any time soon (my wife breathes fire at the mere mention of an iPod) but they seem to make people happy.
Time to come up with marks for Humor, and mood and patent them. Wait...perhaps Chinese already has it!
So does the Internet: emoticons. For example, "=)" means happy, "=(" means unhappy, ">=(" means angry, "=p" is sticking out his tongue, mocking you, laughing at you, haunting your dreams! "=^_^=" is a soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur. I could go on, but I think I've made my point.
Good point, I hadn't considered that scenario. I think "forget" tripped me up a bit. In the case of the Internet it would probably be better to say "remove from the record" than "forget".
It's too late. We all know you have sex now.