I'm confused, uncomplicated good and bad? A dark evil lord who was once a good Jedi and a hero who's a smuggler to start... but I see where you're coming from. Personally, I see what you said and read "rip off of better movies and better stories that could've been incredibly good if someone else had written it."
Same reason I'm more willing to buy into Babylon 5 than that famous bus jumping movie, Speed.
One is science fiction that's got internal consistencies (not to mention good secondary characters), and the other is a supposedly real scenario that's entirely impossible.
The original trilogy is very entertaining unrealistic tripe with a horrible plot. We get no secondary character development, no explanations for plot developments and most of the people who disagree will do so because they've spent too much time in the secondary media (fan fiction, books, etc.) and can't isolate the movies in their minds.
Also, there's a reason we have Peoples' Choice Awards -- the Oscars aren't. Its like going to a steakhouse and complaining they don't serve your favourite quiche.
Actually its simpler than that -- if you want to do homebrew, look up the Mini licensing -- you can make yourself a PSN Mini game that plays on both the PSP and PS3.
Any company who wants to can go create a PSP-wannabe device that plays your licensed PSP games, they just have to do so without stealing any Sony property in the process. IE emulation is legal.
Right, because including an unnecessary drive that costs real money and adds size to the device is a good decision just for backward compatibility?
I would be impressed if they'd included a USB-attached version of the drive for people who care, but honestly, use your old PSP to play those games if you do.
Christianity is the following of the teachings of Christ. However, being a Christian simply means a belief or faith in those teachings, not one's ability to follow them.
As the old story goes, our church may be full of hypocrites, but there's always room for one more.
Putting layers of disconnect between people has strange consequences to rational and moral behaviour. For example, people tend to be more crass and 'jerkish' on the Internet to perfect strangers than they might be in public to the same person due to the disconnect caused by technology. Using a drone to spy on someone doesn't feel the same as sneaking into their yard to do it, and results in a totally different resulting behaviour.
Letting the person doing their 'job' get more and more distant from their target makes it more and more likely they'll misbehave in the process.
You mean few games are multithreaded. The very use of a PC is a multi-core experience, your anti-virus running at the same time as your OS at the same time as your video chat encodes video at the same time as your chat decodes video at the same time as you play some facebook game...
You don't need to write multi-threaded software to take advantage of the latency reduction from a multi-core CPU on a modern OS.
That *is* a window, obviously someone's not up on their nomenclature.
That aside, I currently have 7 different terminal sessions open of various sizes, overlapping each other on multiple desktops some of which have up to 10 tabs open within them.
While yakuake looks fun, I see no functionality that helps a power-user who keeps sessions open to multiple remote sites at nearly all times.
Administering dozens of VPNs and network devices with F12? Yeah, no.
Agreed. Ditto for every other game they've made though. Bethesda makes huge worlds with great role-playing features and fun stories and good characters... but seems horrible at QA when it comes to code stability.
The 360 got a whole new interface as i recall. The PS3 gained in-game XMB, a new chat feature and trophy stuff. The PSP gained lots of new features, and I can't speak for the Wii.
As for the updates designed to prevent piracy, a great many of those are actually security fixes (which is how hacks usually work after all) and not liking a company for releasing security updates is a little odd even if it is self-serving.
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I'm confused, uncomplicated good and bad? A dark evil lord who was once a good Jedi and a hero who's a smuggler to start ... but I see where you're coming from. Personally, I see what you said and read "rip off of better movies and better stories that could've been incredibly good if someone else had written it."
... but didn't read the recent article on this very site about identifying anonymous users by writing style.
Necessary but funny: in regards to spoilification...
Same reason I'm more willing to buy into Babylon 5 than that famous bus jumping movie, Speed.
One is science fiction that's got internal consistencies (not to mention good secondary characters), and the other is a supposedly real scenario that's entirely impossible.
The original trilogy is very entertaining unrealistic tripe with a horrible plot. We get no secondary character development, no explanations for plot developments and most of the people who disagree will do so because they've spent too much time in the secondary media (fan fiction, books, etc.) and can't isolate the movies in their minds.
Also, there's a reason we have Peoples' Choice Awards -- the Oscars aren't. Its like going to a steakhouse and complaining they don't serve your favourite quiche.
Actually its simpler than that -- if you want to do homebrew, look up the Mini licensing -- you can make yourself a PSN Mini game that plays on both the PSP and PS3.
Any company who wants to can go create a PSP-wannabe device that plays your licensed PSP games, they just have to do so without stealing any Sony property in the process. IE emulation is legal.
Right, because including an unnecessary drive that costs real money and adds size to the device is a good decision just for backward compatibility?
I would be impressed if they'd included a USB-attached version of the drive for people who care, but honestly, use your old PSP to play those games if you do.
Christianity is the following of the teachings of Christ. However, being a Christian simply means a belief or faith in those teachings, not one's ability to follow them.
As the old story goes, our church may be full of hypocrites, but there's always room for one more.
Suggest it to snorgtees or any of the other custom shirt companies.
I for one welcome our blah blah overlords.
Putting layers of disconnect between people has strange consequences to rational and moral behaviour. For example, people tend to be more crass and 'jerkish' on the Internet to perfect strangers than they might be in public to the same person due to the disconnect caused by technology. Using a drone to spy on someone doesn't feel the same as sneaking into their yard to do it, and results in a totally different resulting behaviour.
Letting the person doing their 'job' get more and more distant from their target makes it more and more likely they'll misbehave in the process.
I figure hacking their wireless frequency and redirecting them would be a lot more fun personally.
I'm going to ignore most of your comment because you skipped the obvious bit ... the Senate.
That's like saying three-legged pants aren't a bad design, its just a shame people don't have three legs (low-brow jokes aside).
If you make a product nobody wanted to buy, that makes it a bad product.
You mean few games are multithreaded. The very use of a PC is a multi-core experience, your anti-virus running at the same time as your OS at the same time as your video chat encodes video at the same time as your chat decodes video at the same time as you play some facebook game ...
You don't need to write multi-threaded software to take advantage of the latency reduction from a multi-core CPU on a modern OS.
You're assuming there's more than three big computer vendors suitable for mass ordering. And there aren't.
Hmm, and totally unrelated, nobody's using Hash127 either ...
Being an asocial geek is about half way to passing an Aspberger's test already. Have you actually looked up the criteria lately?
That *is* a window, obviously someone's not up on their nomenclature.
That aside, I currently have 7 different terminal sessions open of various sizes, overlapping each other on multiple desktops some of which have up to 10 tabs open within them.
While yakuake looks fun, I see no functionality that helps a power-user who keeps sessions open to multiple remote sites at nearly all times.
Administering dozens of VPNs and network devices with F12? Yeah, no.
Epic sarcasm.
Quick thought -- how much does Sony charge for updates considering its free PSN policy?
Agreed. Ditto for every other game they've made though. Bethesda makes huge worlds with great role-playing features and fun stories and good characters ... but seems horrible at QA when it comes to code stability.
The 360 got a whole new interface as i recall. The PS3 gained in-game XMB, a new chat feature and trophy stuff. The PSP gained lots of new features, and I can't speak for the Wii.
As for the updates designed to prevent piracy, a great many of those are actually security fixes (which is how hacks usually work after all) and not liking a company for releasing security updates is a little odd even if it is self-serving.
I can't speak for the 360, but on the PS3 there's a nice permission option to prevent inter-user chat for children's accounts.
Note however that several games simply fail to load if you have that option disabled, instead of making it optional (sadly).