Not to mention bandwidth. If you can get the result in the first 10... why waste your bandwidth when you're pumping out billions of pages a day? The resulting cut in bandwidth would probably be quite delicious. The bottom line is money:) Less bandwidth, more adverts.
I sometimes run WoW on my ibook G4 with 512 mb of ram... I did some photoshop work on it once... ugh. Sure 512mb is fine for some applications... but it isn't for others. This is like bill gates and his 640k memory spectacular. Different people require different amounts of resources for their various tasks. Just because 512 is fine for what you do does in no way shape or form mean that's going to be true for person X.
Unless the main char in the game has huge brea... er... personality. Some pixels translate to the cinematic screen better then others... or should I say pyramid polygons?
What really gets under my skin, is as an australian... I can't even buy the real episodes online if I wanted to. This is due to the way itunes is setup and the fact australian TV stations suck and we're always behind the seasons anyway. None the less we can't even buy season 1 FFS. God knows I'm WILLING to pay for episodes as they are released... but it feels like I'm forced to pirate them each week or wait for the DVD's. Which I might add I buy regardless - still it really annoys me that I don't have the option of supporting them via purchases on itunes or any other service for that matter.
I haven't bought a music cd in roughly a year due to the way things are going. I don't let CD's auto load content and generally if I stick them in a computer at all it will be my mac. I'd rather not have to wonder if I'm about to get stabbed in the face from some anti-piracy treatment from something I just purchased > Looks like I'll stop buying DVD's... might be time to read more books. I've yet to encounter a book that has any form of DRM and frankly most movie conversions of books are crapo in comparison anyway. Hell I don't even go to the cinemas very often anymore due to the ever increasing cost,. Having to sit through countless adverts of crap and all for the slim price of aus$45 (yes I crave popcorn and frozen coke) when I take my g/f.
Someone should just accuse a high ranking politician... That would make an interesting test of this shoddy so and so. Ok, that wouldn't exactly be the right thing to do but...
I recall bare foot africans winning long distance running... food for thought before blaming your swimmers when being beaten in a race. The fractions of time that could potetially be saved here... aren't exactly going to hold the number 1 person in the world back imho. What do you want everyone to swim naked? ME TOO!!!!:D Except the mens of course... However having said that, some people will have advantages... and disadvantages (larger then normal feet, big breasts, whatever)... what you really want is an army of clones competeing naked for ultimate balance. Even then you'll have problems with lane and wash dynamics and differences in the clones as they all grew up slightly different. You want something we cannot have outside of a robotic olympics.
I listen to MP3's to get away from radio... I don't want adverts. I watch divx to get away from movie adverts when i see them at the cinema. I rip my dvds to a format that's convenient for my use. I do the same with my music CD's... only I don't now. I avoid DRM. I buy online media. I want to do with music what I want, not some exec looking at his bottom line. It's all about convenience and minimising unwanted content/advertising/restrictions. As such AM/FM would never be used and simply make a music player bigger for no real benefit for me. Size doesn't matter? Size sells baby.
So what they built is a mine feild that's easy to clear? What I mean is... If I have the ability to explode one mine in a feild and the little blighters hop to where I just blew one up... I could do it again, wait for more to hop up... rinse... repeat... clear a wide path through a land mine feild without getting off my deck chair? The fact that the little blighters start hopping might just give away some of their positions also. Just curious... I've no idea what it would take to set "these" land mines off... heavy rock do the trick? If so will the latest fad in army accessories be a large stock pile of rocks????
You can't really compare one event to another event that never really took place with any accuracy. How are you going to measure the success of something when you have nothing to measure against?
Have fun with that one.
Mayaps we (aus) would have lost 3-0 without it, perhaps the sky would have opened up and rained chocolate. At the end of the day, neither you nor I are any wiser to the success, or the lack there of from the software in question. I'm sure the guys at the AIS/whatever are musing over it tho.
At the end of the day, it's just an extra aid, I hardly think that the coach is going to base his entire strategy off sch software and throw away his years of experience. He'd look at the info, take it into consideration, weigh it against his own thoughts and act accordingly. Ultimately it's what the coach decides and the players act out, rather then what the software spat out of a printer.
You are right of course... except for the bit where a lot of us are starting to get CD's that refuse to play in our cars/stereos/whatever. DRM was the straw that broke my back. I don't think I want to purchase another cd again. I'll still purchase music but not of the retarded physical variety that might turn around and bite me in the arse because I wasn't able to read the 2pt font on the back.
I cry bullshit, I'd have shot him in the nuts with a remington. Tis what I do in games when someone really shits me off. Nothing satisfies me more then the physics engine in full flight with a groin shot to someone who pissed me off.
To avoid wide-spread panic and the possible "I don't want to leave my family" syndrome, perhaps they'd just treat it like a "training drill"... Everyone willingly toddles on off to the bunker for a fun diversion to their dull everyday lives. Only to discover it wasn't a drill, it was the real thing and they just left their families to suffer fall out whilst they were flicking paper clips around in their underground office. *shrug* Would also stop the few who'd undoubtedly try to sneak in relatives too.
Heaven forbid the value called "fun"... the soul reason I play games. Children aren't allowed to have fun anymore? They have to learn something? It's absurd to the core.
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If the guy could read, maybe it would never have happened.
Not to mention bandwidth. If you can get the result in the first 10... why waste your bandwidth when you're pumping out billions of pages a day? The resulting cut in bandwidth would probably be quite delicious. The bottom line is money :) Less bandwidth, more adverts.
Worry not, some fearless chump is no doubt lobbying against them ever expiring!
I was allmost worried for a moment.
I sometimes run WoW on my ibook G4 with 512 mb of ram... I did some photoshop work on it once... ugh. Sure 512mb is fine for some applications... but it isn't for others. This is like bill gates and his 640k memory spectacular. Different people require different amounts of resources for their various tasks. Just because 512 is fine for what you do does in no way shape or form mean that's going to be true for person X.
Perhaps they should have said "porn streaming to all your apliances"?
Unless the main char in the game has huge brea... er... personality. Some pixels translate to the cinematic screen better then others... or should I say pyramid polygons?
What really gets under my skin, is as an australian... I can't even buy the real episodes online if I wanted to. This is due to the way itunes is setup and the fact australian TV stations suck and we're always behind the seasons anyway. None the less we can't even buy season 1 FFS. God knows I'm WILLING to pay for episodes as they are released... but it feels like I'm forced to pirate them each week or wait for the DVD's. Which I might add I buy regardless - still it really annoys me that I don't have the option of supporting them via purchases on itunes or any other service for that matter.
It was like a million CSS pages all cried out ... ugh, who am I fooling, you know where this is going...
I haven't bought a music cd in roughly a year due to the way things are going. I don't let CD's auto load content and generally if I stick them in a computer at all it will be my mac. I'd rather not have to wonder if I'm about to get stabbed in the face from some anti-piracy treatment from something I just purchased > Looks like I'll stop buying DVD's... might be time to read more books. I've yet to encounter a book that has any form of DRM and frankly most movie conversions of books are crapo in comparison anyway. Hell I don't even go to the cinemas very often anymore due to the ever increasing cost,. Having to sit through countless adverts of crap and all for the slim price of aus$45 (yes I crave popcorn and frozen coke) when I take my g/f.
Someone should just accuse a high ranking politician... That would make an interesting test of this shoddy so and so. Ok, that wouldn't exactly be the right thing to do but...
I was waiting for a reference to a hearth stone. Never really thought of hammers as lasers tho. Maybe that's xpack time. Freaking paladins.
I recall bare foot africans winning long distance running... food for thought before blaming your swimmers when being beaten in a race. The fractions of time that could potetially be saved here... aren't exactly going to hold the number 1 person in the world back imho. What do you want everyone to swim naked? ME TOO!!!! :D Except the mens of course... However having said that, some people will have advantages... and disadvantages (larger then normal feet, big breasts, whatever)... what you really want is an army of clones competeing naked for ultimate balance. Even then you'll have problems with lane and wash dynamics and differences in the clones as they all grew up slightly different. You want something we cannot have outside of a robotic olympics.
I listen to MP3's to get away from radio... I don't want adverts. I watch divx to get away from movie adverts when i see them at the cinema. I rip my dvds to a format that's convenient for my use. I do the same with my music CD's... only I don't now. I avoid DRM. I buy online media. I want to do with music what I want, not some exec looking at his bottom line. It's all about convenience and minimising unwanted content/advertising/restrictions. As such AM/FM would never be used and simply make a music player bigger for no real benefit for me. Size doesn't matter? Size sells baby.
So what they built is a mine feild that's easy to clear? What I mean is... If I have the ability to explode one mine in a feild and the little blighters hop to where I just blew one up... I could do it again, wait for more to hop up... rinse... repeat... clear a wide path through a land mine feild without getting off my deck chair? The fact that the little blighters start hopping might just give away some of their positions also. Just curious... I've no idea what it would take to set "these" land mines off... heavy rock do the trick? If so will the latest fad in army accessories be a large stock pile of rocks????
Wow. You guys sure know a lot about eating dog food. I tried cat food once. Never again.
They use it to search google.com for ideas.
They should just make 811 or any such number redirect to the nearest local police station. I mean if Pizza Hut can do it...
Have fun with that one.
Mayaps we (aus) would have lost 3-0 without it, perhaps the sky would have opened up and rained chocolate. At the end of the day, neither you nor I are any wiser to the success, or the lack there of from the software in question. I'm sure the guys at the AIS/whatever are musing over it tho.
At the end of the day, it's just an extra aid, I hardly think that the coach is going to base his entire strategy off sch software and throw away his years of experience. He'd look at the info, take it into consideration, weigh it against his own thoughts and act accordingly. Ultimately it's what the coach decides and the players act out, rather then what the software spat out of a printer.
I guess the question that begs to be asked is: how big is the ant?
You are right of course... except for the bit where a lot of us are starting to get CD's that refuse to play in our cars/stereos/whatever. DRM was the straw that broke my back. I don't think I want to purchase another cd again. I'll still purchase music but not of the retarded physical variety that might turn around and bite me in the arse because I wasn't able to read the 2pt font on the back.
Personaly for me... it was the spawn CD's... only requiring one guy to purchase the game for some lan action was awesome. :)
I cry bullshit, I'd have shot him in the nuts with a remington. Tis what I do in games when someone really shits me off. Nothing satisfies me more then the physics engine in full flight with a groin shot to someone who pissed me off.
To avoid wide-spread panic and the possible "I don't want to leave my family" syndrome, perhaps they'd just treat it like a "training drill"... Everyone willingly toddles on off to the bunker for a fun diversion to their dull everyday lives. Only to discover it wasn't a drill, it was the real thing and they just left their families to suffer fall out whilst they were flicking paper clips around in their underground office. *shrug* Would also stop the few who'd undoubtedly try to sneak in relatives too.
Underlords not overlords. If you are going to take the time to comment, please get it right. ;)
Heaven forbid the value called "fun"... the soul reason I play games. Children aren't allowed to have fun anymore? They have to learn something? It's absurd to the core.