One-Star reviews on Amazon worked to do what exactly? Demonstrate that people didn't buy the game because of DRM? Hardly the case. There's no way to demonstrate that, without the DRM, any of those reviewers would have bought the game.
All the screenshots for DIII have been fucking gorgeous. The lush outdoor settings look almost like paintings. The dungeons are dark and brooding. I think the game's atmosphere will have something for everyone.
Hey, I took orgo, and I was a physics major. At this point, not entirely sure, but I think its because there were girls in the class. I had real trouble with material because NOTHING is quantitative. I remember taking the final exam, and staring at the molecules. I just drew electrons moving about until they "looked right" and I ended up with a B. Lab portion was a whiz. I "corrected" two of the labs for the professors, although one of the corrections they didn't like because it raised the materials cost about 5x for the lab.
Except for slower processor, half the RAM, one eight the storage, non-integrated WiFi requiring an extra dongle, no bluetooth, lack of GPS, no cellphone hardware, inability to make calls, no built-in iTunes music and app stores, doesn't fit in your pocket, weighs 5x as much, and it could be vaporware. Yeah, besides all that, its a much better thing to type on than a cellphone...
The only reason they don't is that they feel if they don't make their release date, then they will miss out of customers.
That, and the copious amounts of sales data over the years that confirms this directly.
The financial wizzes and people with "Chief" in their title at game publishers all know what significant delays can do to the sales numbers of their titles.
Now, if you are not a market analyst for a game company, or have never spent any time talking with game executives, then I would expect you not to know these things, but it is still ignorant to loads of empirical data.
The entire MMO market is not saturated right now. It is growing steadily, and incorporating more demographics. That is what continues to drive the spiraling number of MMO projects currently in development.
This is NOT why Blizzard is so successful. When game companies delay products, even for just a month or two, the usual result is catastrophic losses, like losing 1/5 of projected sales.
In the industry, games get delayed all the time, and the rule of thumb is that it has a high probability of gutting your sales.
Blizzard succeeds DESPITE having no hard development deadlines, and working on a game "until its done". Their success is despite this practice, not due to it. Other game companies cannot make this model work.
As for Warhammer online cutting 4/6 cities and multiple character classes to launch, I don't know how much this really matters, or how this will be perceived. It is already understood within MMOs that content additions follow a steady schedule for years, so the amount that is "done" at launch is significantly less important in that respect.
If they can deliver a polished, engaging, cohesive experience with the content they have, then roll out the additional content in the next two months, then this could have no substantive effect for customers, besides the bad PR this will naturally generate.
If avid MMO fans get this game, and run out of things to do in the first month, and the delayed content takes 3 months to get done, it could be devastating for this game's success.
The worst is if the addition of the delayed content requires massive retrofitting and rebalancing to integrate. Having large game changes just months after a game releases is deadly to your fan-base. That, and adding what is essentially a core character class later in the game seems like it could precipitate this result.
This is dumb. My friend recently installed a kwikset contact-biometric lock, which does a pressure-scan of your finger surface. It's keyless, relatively fast, and "secure enough" (as secure as a deadbolt generally is. I'm a hobbyist locksmith, so my perceptions of security are somewhat skewed). And, it can't be circumvented with the packing-tape on highball glass a la Alias biometric hack.
Well, what you really mean is a population willing to sacrifice a few for the survival of many more.
Lets say the terrorists grab a small girl and hold the box cutter to their neck. Obviously with a 20 to 1 adult passengers to terrorists ratio, the good guys can defeat the terrorists, but they can't do it before the terrorist can deliver a fatal injury, and maybe put a few deep gashes in some other people.
Would you tackle that terrorist with a boxcutter to a 9-year old's throat, knowing that she would die? Would you do it if that girl was your sister?
There are two niches where this turd might really be popular. I agree that its a turd, and I'll use that nomenclature below, but it does have some uses:
- Cheap gaming rigs. You can build a great gaming machine around a turd for under $1k, but the only decent Mac for Gaming is an upgraded Mac Pro, which is like almost $3k.
- Mac-based file server. Maybe you're a noob like me, and you want to run a box on your network that has 4x 1TB HDDs with some RAID configuration. Mac OS X can handle this with built-in niceties like bonjour sharing and noob-friendly VNC. Again, the only mac that can do this a Mac Pro because the others don't hold additional internal drives. With a turd, you can get up and running for ~$400 plus the cost of drives.
Bull shit. You must have some self-maintaining garden, or otherwise your figures are WAY off. There are a lot of private farms that handle their own distribution on a subscription model, grow small quantities so storage is not an issue, and charge a hefty premium for all-organic, locally grown produce. Their economy of scale is much better than yours, and their margins do not resemble what you are describing at all.
Well Mad Cow (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) has already been shown to make the species jump from cow to man.
But in general your argument does hold. In terms of passing on pathogens, and bioamplification of accumulated toxins, eating your own species is a pretty bad idea, and eating something different is preferable.
Console graphics really aren't that impressive compared to current PC games. The number of polys they can push, and the kinds of lighting effects they kick out is severely limited compared to modern GPUS. Couple that with a (for the most part) max resolution of 720p, along with framerates that tend to hover and dip around the mid 20's, PC GPUS really are kicking out much greater graphical performance. Running 1600x1200, ~40 fps with some FSAA and AF, with much higher poly count is doing multiple times the work of a console GPU. I think this is more a case of diminishing returns. Adding 10x the computational power only adds 10% more visual 'quality', and its harder for people to discern.
Yep. I was going to build to TONIGHT. I have to the tools, and I'm good with DIY projects and tinkering, but I don't know much about antennas. I don't know what metal to use for this, or how this connects to a piece of coax to plug into a tuner. It looks extremely simple, but some critical pieces are missing.
A lot of those PCBaang deaths are with games like counterstrike, BF, Lineage, WoW, and Starcraft, which we already have, so I think it just boils down to the fact that Koreans are crazy folk.
Also keep in mind that like EA's FIFA for asia, which was a free game with all micropay, was like the most popular game in korea for some time. I mean, c'mon, EA?!? WTH??
Plus the frikkin 200 dpi screen means you need to have LAZOR EYES to read the text from most normal apps' UI's. I'm sure a *n*x ninja can redo all their apps to have larger, or resolution independent UI somehow, but for me, it was just too much squinting.
How is Stallman going to type on an XO with his big bear claw man-hands? I have these freakishly slender, "dainty" fingers, and my XO is downright torturous to type on. I can't imagine someone with normal grown-up hands typing on it. A big guy like Richard? It'd be like smacking a regular keyboard with 10 potatoes on sticks, trying to work it in your CLI.
I'm pretty much a linux noob, but I managed to install an Ubuntu/Xfce image onto my XO's SD card, and apt-get OpenOffice and Opera. I had to muck some Open firmware files to properly specify boot location stuff, which was nearly impossible because of the typing.
requisite 5-6 hours? Only if its a review of heavenly sword. In almost all cases, reviewers are required to finish a game before writing their review, the exceptions being puzzle games with no real ending, or MMOs where there may be 100s of hours of content. To this end, they'll play the game like a full time job, since it is their job. Most reviewers have spent 20-30 hours on a game when they write their review, or will make it explicitly clear if they did not finish the game.
Back in 3 weeks? At the electronics company that I used to work at (a major, major company with 100's of millions of units in the field), we would replace any component that took that long to repair due to unacceptable turn-around time. Here's hoping my X360 doesn't need service any time soon.
Being a non-coder working in game development, I had to use IDEs every day, mainly Visual Studio and ProDG. VS was pretty easy to get to a 'reasonably productive' state with a few clicks, but ProDG (for PS3) was this labyrinthine mess, spawning split windows everytime you tried to click anywhere.
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One-Star reviews on Amazon worked to do what exactly? Demonstrate that people didn't buy the game because of DRM? Hardly the case. There's no way to demonstrate that, without the DRM, any of those reviewers would have bought the game.
All the screenshots for DIII have been fucking gorgeous. The lush outdoor settings look almost like paintings. The dungeons are dark and brooding. I think the game's atmosphere will have something for everyone.
Hey, I took orgo, and I was a physics major. At this point, not entirely sure, but I think its because there were girls in the class. I had real trouble with material because NOTHING is quantitative. I remember taking the final exam, and staring at the molecules. I just drew electrons moving about until they "looked right" and I ended up with a B. Lab portion was a whiz. I "corrected" two of the labs for the professors, although one of the corrections they didn't like because it raised the materials cost about 5x for the lab.
It's $6. How much does a 2016 go for?
What's local for you? I'm in SF, and the nearest Barnes and Nobles to my office seemed to have plenty.
Except for slower processor, half the RAM, one eight the storage, non-integrated WiFi requiring an extra dongle, no bluetooth, lack of GPS, no cellphone hardware, inability to make calls, no built-in iTunes music and app stores, doesn't fit in your pocket, weighs 5x as much, and it could be vaporware. Yeah, besides all that, its a much better thing to type on than a cellphone...
The only reason they don't is that they feel if they don't make their release date, then they will miss out of customers.
That, and the copious amounts of sales data over the years that confirms this directly.
The financial wizzes and people with "Chief" in their title at game publishers all know what significant delays can do to the sales numbers of their titles.
Now, if you are not a market analyst for a game company, or have never spent any time talking with game executives, then I would expect you not to know these things, but it is still ignorant to loads of empirical data.
The entire MMO market is not saturated right now. It is growing steadily, and incorporating more demographics. That is what continues to drive the spiraling number of MMO projects currently in development.
This is NOT why Blizzard is so successful. When game companies delay products, even for just a month or two, the usual result is catastrophic losses, like losing 1/5 of projected sales.
In the industry, games get delayed all the time, and the rule of thumb is that it has a high probability of gutting your sales.
Blizzard succeeds DESPITE having no hard development deadlines, and working on a game "until its done". Their success is despite this practice, not due to it. Other game companies cannot make this model work.
As for Warhammer online cutting 4/6 cities and multiple character classes to launch, I don't know how much this really matters, or how this will be perceived. It is already understood within MMOs that content additions follow a steady schedule for years, so the amount that is "done" at launch is significantly less important in that respect.
If they can deliver a polished, engaging, cohesive experience with the content they have, then roll out the additional content in the next two months, then this could have no substantive effect for customers, besides the bad PR this will naturally generate.
If avid MMO fans get this game, and run out of things to do in the first month, and the delayed content takes 3 months to get done, it could be devastating for this game's success.
The worst is if the addition of the delayed content requires massive retrofitting and rebalancing to integrate. Having large game changes just months after a game releases is deadly to your fan-base. That, and adding what is essentially a core character class later in the game seems like it could precipitate this result.
This is dumb. My friend recently installed a kwikset contact-biometric lock, which does a pressure-scan of your finger surface. It's keyless, relatively fast, and "secure enough" (as secure as a deadbolt generally is. I'm a hobbyist locksmith, so my perceptions of security are somewhat skewed). And, it can't be circumvented with the packing-tape on highball glass a la Alias biometric hack.
balk at the notion...
Well, what you really mean is a population willing to sacrifice a few for the survival of many more.
Lets say the terrorists grab a small girl and hold the box cutter to their neck. Obviously with a 20 to 1 adult passengers to terrorists ratio, the good guys can defeat the terrorists, but they can't do it before the terrorist can deliver a fatal injury, and maybe put a few deep gashes in some other people.
Would you tackle that terrorist with a boxcutter to a 9-year old's throat, knowing that she would die? Would you do it if that girl was your sister?
There are two niches where this turd might really be popular. I agree that its a turd, and I'll use that nomenclature below, but it does have some uses:
- Cheap gaming rigs. You can build a great gaming machine around a turd for under $1k, but the only decent Mac for Gaming is an upgraded Mac Pro, which is like almost $3k.
- Mac-based file server. Maybe you're a noob like me, and you want to run a box on your network that has 4x 1TB HDDs with some RAID configuration. Mac OS X can handle this with built-in niceties like bonjour sharing and noob-friendly VNC. Again, the only mac that can do this a Mac Pro because the others don't hold additional internal drives. With a turd, you can get up and running for ~$400 plus the cost of drives.
For pro editing, Apple isn't all caught up in Aqua's looks either. As you probably know, the UI in Final Cut is basically a carbon copy of Avid.
Bull shit. You must have some self-maintaining garden, or otherwise your figures are WAY off. There are a lot of private farms that handle their own distribution on a subscription model, grow small quantities so storage is not an issue, and charge a hefty premium for all-organic, locally grown produce. Their economy of scale is much better than yours, and their margins do not resemble what you are describing at all.
Well Mad Cow (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) has already been shown to make the species jump from cow to man.
But in general your argument does hold. In terms of passing on pathogens, and bioamplification of accumulated toxins, eating your own species is a pretty bad idea, and eating something different is preferable.
Console graphics really aren't that impressive compared to current PC games. The number of polys they can push, and the kinds of lighting effects they kick out is severely limited compared to modern GPUS. Couple that with a (for the most part) max resolution of 720p, along with framerates that tend to hover and dip around the mid 20's, PC GPUS really are kicking out much greater graphical performance. Running 1600x1200, ~40 fps with some FSAA and AF, with much higher poly count is doing multiple times the work of a console GPU. I think this is more a case of diminishing returns. Adding 10x the computational power only adds 10% more visual 'quality', and its harder for people to discern.
Yep. I was going to build to TONIGHT. I have to the tools, and I'm good with DIY projects and tinkering, but I don't know much about antennas. I don't know what metal to use for this, or how this connects to a piece of coax to plug into a tuner. It looks extremely simple, but some critical pieces are missing.
Yes, because that shit is literally untraceable. We're talking parts per billion, or
1:1,000,000,000
Whereas Homeopathic dilutions are often 10-100 serial dilutions at 1:100,
or
1:100,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1:(googol)^2
A lot of those PCBaang deaths are with games like counterstrike, BF, Lineage, WoW, and Starcraft, which we already have, so I think it just boils down to the fact that Koreans are crazy folk.
Also keep in mind that like EA's FIFA for asia, which was a free game with all micropay, was like the most popular game in korea for some time. I mean, c'mon, EA?!? WTH??
Plus the frikkin 200 dpi screen means you need to have LAZOR EYES to read the text from most normal apps' UI's. I'm sure a *n*x ninja can redo all their apps to have larger, or resolution independent UI somehow, but for me, it was just too much squinting.
How is Stallman going to type on an XO with his big bear claw man-hands? I have these freakishly slender, "dainty" fingers, and my XO is downright torturous to type on. I can't imagine someone with normal grown-up hands typing on it. A big guy like Richard? It'd be like smacking a regular keyboard with 10 potatoes on sticks, trying to work it in your CLI.
I'm pretty much a linux noob, but I managed to install an Ubuntu/Xfce image onto my XO's SD card, and apt-get OpenOffice and Opera. I had to muck some Open firmware files to properly specify boot location stuff, which was nearly impossible because of the typing.
requisite 5-6 hours? Only if its a review of heavenly sword. In almost all cases, reviewers are required to finish a game before writing their review, the exceptions being puzzle games with no real ending, or MMOs where there may be 100s of hours of content. To this end, they'll play the game like a full time job, since it is their job. Most reviewers have spent 20-30 hours on a game when they write their review, or will make it explicitly clear if they did not finish the game.
Back in 3 weeks? At the electronics company that I used to work at (a major, major company with 100's of millions of units in the field), we would replace any component that took that long to repair due to unacceptable turn-around time. Here's hoping my X360 doesn't need service any time soon.
Dell makes a 20" portable, it even has a big beefy integrated handle. At 18.3 lbs, you could use it for some curls on the go, as well.
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m2010
Being a non-coder working in game development, I had to use IDEs every day, mainly Visual Studio and ProDG. VS was pretty easy to get to a 'reasonably productive' state with a few clicks, but ProDG (for PS3) was this labyrinthine mess, spawning split windows everytime you tried to click anywhere.
Weren't the Apostles his homeboys, wandering about merrily with him and recording his good deeds? Like Robin Hood, but without the stealing?