This likely because a online store have basically infinite shelf space vs a physical store. As such the physical store have to get the boxes off the shelf faster to make room for new games.
That may come, i suspect early humans where not much different in its language ability. Hell, kids are very direct early on before they start picking up that there can be both overt and covert meanings. Hell, some adults still have trouble with that...
The story itself is as old as humanity i guess. A highly groomed soldier finding that the people he fights for is nothing like the claims of nobility he have been raised to believe in.
And here i thought shit like that got standardized because they got sick and tired of every last screw factory had a proprietary design back in the industrial revolution.
The concept is founded on the public being informed and rational, these days said public is anything but. The politicians run focus groups before a election, rather then attempt to engage the public at large in some kind of informed discussion, and then tailor their campaign on what that focus group claims the public "wants".
The problem for me is more that things right now are disconnected from rationality. If the focus groups says X, the politicians fall over themselves to promise the same during campaigns. This irrespective of any logic, or lack of such, in X being enacted.
And i suspect one find that if enough of those focus groups are run, one end up with a world view that is economically impossible. A world with a cop on every street corner, a doctor in every home, and no taxes to pay at all.
That in combo with populist "direction" of politics, resulting in those that shout the highest get to set policy even if it means collectively diving off a cliff.
My impression is that tradition and respect for the opinion of elders holds a much higher standing outside of Europe and North America (tho some parts of USA makes me wonder).
Point is that "freedoms" can be had without going full rebellion. Consider how in Iran teens get around limits of gender interaction via short range data transmissions using their bluetooth enabled mobile phones. Or how TV is supposedly outlawed in Saudi-Arabia, tho any family with means have a sat dish somewhere on the property.
The protests turned rebellions are apparently triggered by something more basic, the price of food. It echoes the french revolution eerily in that sense.
Depends on the game. Lots of MMOs these days can play on surprisingly modest hardware. This to attempt to attracts as many players as possible. Sure, you loose out on some of the eyecandy. But the game will be playable. Also "helps" that more and more games are multi-platform. This means that the engine will be scaled to work on games consoles that have not been updated for a surprisingly long time (partially because both xbox360 and PS3 have become something more then a games console, and so software and services have become perhaps more important then hardware).
I think they stick with it not because of its capabilities, but the ecosystem that has built up around it.
One can get all kinds of "shields" that plug into the IO ports and do various stuff, including getting the thing online via ethernet.
So it becomes faster to just grab one and a shield or two that provide the basics for what you want to do, and then hammer out some spaghetti code, then go with a truly custom design.
And now that Google have announced a accessory development kit for Android based on Arduino, this will just keep on growing.
i read something similar a few months back, tho there it showed that people would stick to what they where told first even when presented with evidence of the contrary.
As for liking or disliking him, meh. To me pron is nothing special, and the find shows to me that it was humans involved rather then say "demons".
Social engineering, the oldest trick in the book. It plays on us defaulting to trust unless otherwise proved (us being anyone not deep in military/corporate secrecy or it security).
hell, i tripped up once myself. I got a IM from a friend asking about a url, and thinking nothing of it i clicked on it. Thankfully it was aimed at Windows users, or i would be in deep trouble.
Basically the url used was laid out so that at a casual glance it directed one to a.com site. But actually what it did was download a.com binary...
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And this do not take into account all the other goods and services that money can be spent on.
This likely because a online store have basically infinite shelf space vs a physical store. As such the physical store have to get the boxes off the shelf faster to make room for new games.
It is basic long tail.
Most games i have bought was games i dug out of the shelf clearing bargain bin.
And i suspect that those that copy the most are those that have the least spending ability, like kids or people on welfare.
Copyright, patents, and a whole lot of "not made by us"-ism, that's why.
Also, if MS try to really be effective they may get a antitrust lawsuit from Symantec and the rest.
flash changes should have no effect on the driver side of things.
It was the company that basically invented evangelical marketing after all.
That may come, i suspect early humans where not much different in its language ability. Hell, kids are very direct early on before they start picking up that there can be both overt and covert meanings. Hell, some adults still have trouble with that...
I wonder if it would be anything like the Mr. Studd implant from Cyberpunk 2020.
"All night, every night. And she will never know" as the description goes.
The story itself is as old as humanity i guess. A highly groomed soldier finding that the people he fights for is nothing like the claims of nobility he have been raised to believe in.
And here i thought shit like that got standardized because they got sick and tired of every last screw factory had a proprietary design back in the industrial revolution.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/History_of_corporations#United_States
note how only 8 out of 300 was not providing a public service of some kind.
The concept is founded on the public being informed and rational, these days said public is anything but. The politicians run focus groups before a election, rather then attempt to engage the public at large in some kind of informed discussion, and then tailor their campaign on what that focus group claims the public "wants".
The problem for me is more that things right now are disconnected from rationality. If the focus groups says X, the politicians fall over themselves to promise the same during campaigns. This irrespective of any logic, or lack of such, in X being enacted.
And i suspect one find that if enough of those focus groups are run, one end up with a world view that is economically impossible. A world with a cop on every street corner, a doctor in every home, and no taxes to pay at all.
That in combo with populist "direction" of politics, resulting in those that shout the highest get to set policy even if it means collectively diving off a cliff.
My impression is that tradition and respect for the opinion of elders holds a much higher standing outside of Europe and North America (tho some parts of USA makes me wonder).
Point is that "freedoms" can be had without going full rebellion. Consider how in Iran teens get around limits of gender interaction via short range data transmissions using their bluetooth enabled mobile phones. Or how TV is supposedly outlawed in Saudi-Arabia, tho any family with means have a sat dish somewhere on the property.
The protests turned rebellions are apparently triggered by something more basic, the price of food. It echoes the french revolution eerily in that sense.
Depends on the game. Lots of MMOs these days can play on surprisingly modest hardware. This to attempt to attracts as many players as possible. Sure, you loose out on some of the eyecandy. But the game will be playable. Also "helps" that more and more games are multi-platform. This means that the engine will be scaled to work on games consoles that have not been updated for a surprisingly long time (partially because both xbox360 and PS3 have become something more then a games console, and so software and services have become perhaps more important then hardware).
Yaoi, kink? err...
I think they stick with it not because of its capabilities, but the ecosystem that has built up around it.
One can get all kinds of "shields" that plug into the IO ports and do various stuff, including getting the thing online via ethernet.
So it becomes faster to just grab one and a shield or two that provide the basics for what you want to do, and then hammer out some spaghetti code, then go with a truly custom design.
And now that Google have announced a accessory development kit for Android based on Arduino, this will just keep on growing.
i read something similar a few months back, tho there it showed that people would stick to what they where told first even when presented with evidence of the contrary.
As for liking or disliking him, meh. To me pron is nothing special, and the find shows to me that it was humans involved rather then say "demons".
Iirc, Disney owns The Muppets now...
Also, i think that falls under the concept of parody.
Social engineering, the oldest trick in the book. It plays on us defaulting to trust unless otherwise proved (us being anyone not deep in military/corporate secrecy or it security).
hell, i tripped up once myself. I got a IM from a friend asking about a url, and thinking nothing of it i clicked on it. Thankfully it was aimed at Windows users, or i would be in deep trouble.
Basically the url used was laid out so that at a casual glance it directed one to a .com site. But actually what it did was download a .com binary...
Hell, one of the tops (some say the real ideological brains) of the organization have a US engineering degree.
http://futurist.se/gldt/2011/04/05/gnulinux-distribution-timeline-11-4/
Used to be that corporations only existed for a limited time to provide a service to the public.