The one I had as a kid didn't work for long. It required taking back two defective ones before getting one that kept working, for a while. Then it started blowing fuses and that was the end of that experiment as my parents got tired of returning defective hardware. For the short time it did work we tried buying a cassette drive for it and had the same result, they were defective as hell. Ended up borrowing a neighbors that worked for a while so I could save my Basic programs.
Being a non-Impulse user I have never heard of Fences. To me it brings to mind a rancher simulation game where the main gameplay element is building and repairing fences in order to keep your livestock fenced in, in turn maximizing your profits. Am I close?;)
Having a rock bottom price is not going to help if people don't think its worth paying your app. I have no idea what your app is, what its perceived value/quality level is, or what % of an average apps users are pirates, but from my vantage point you need better marketing, or a better app.
I agree pirates are always going to pirate, but having an app that appears to give users a lot of value for their $ would certainly decrease the % of pirates vs. legit customers.
The Japanese are focused on making more elegant, precise, nimble & human-like robots, where as the US is more focused on more bulky, industrial, people-killing robots, that can take a beating and still work. At least that is the arbitrary opinion I've formed from mass media consumption.
Indeed. I heard about some silly 'Wii' thing Nintendo is coming out with, that thing will never catch on. Who would buy something where you wave a remote around to play and is called 'Wii'.
...unless he wrote the notes while being murdered.
Murderer: "Whatever are writing, Ricky?"
Ricky: "Your descrip.... I mean a screenplay I'm finishing up. Almost done, just a few more minutes. How much do you weigh, out of curiosity."
Murderer: "200lbs, I work out, at that gym down the street. OK, hurry up then, I'm late for dinner."
They are using it as nice way of asking "We can't crack this encryption, but are very curious about it, so help us please. Oh yeah and some guy was murdered..."
Copyright is far too long. The idea of a limited time copyright is to keep people creating new works. You make a work, you get to make money off of it, but only for a little while. After that it belongs to the public and you need to make new works if you wish to keep making money.
Seems fair to me as that is how most professions work. If I fix a computer, I do not continue to receive pay for that computer so long as it is in use or functional. I am paid for doing the job. If I want more pay I need to keep working.
Personally I'd do copyright something like this:
*Disclaimer - I'm not a content creator, only a consumer.*
Comparing fixing someones computer to writing a novel, creating music, spending tens of millions of dollars creating a video game or movie isn't a valid comparison. How long does it take to write a novel, or a movie script? What if I spend years of my time writing something that people find value in, only to have the copyright shortened because people don't want to pay for my work? Too many people want things for free these days, especially those who are purely consumers, not creators. What if you were the one creating something?
Pretty neat how you can drill down in each territory to see how many downloads came from each town, city, etc. Even tiny towns in Saskatchewan show up. Makes it easier for the IE police to find you in a small town though.
It has a great cast, but the initial trailers looked so-so. Glad to hear it turned out to be better than what the marketing people thought was a "good trailer".
According to DICE the PC is the lead platform for Battlefield 3, the first game to utilize Frostbite 2.0. Frostbite 2 was rewritten from the ground up for PC/PS3/360 so I can't see how it could considered a console engine, especially since it supports only DX10/11 and both 32/64 bit processors.
Check out "DirectX 11 Rendering in Battlefield 3" on DICE's publication page for some interesting info about their use of DX11 in FB2.0. http://publications.dice.se/
Hundreds of pounds every year? My 3.5 year old PC still plays games well enough and the only things I've done to it are add more fans and hard drives. If you are forced to upgrade every year you either bought a very cheap PC to begin with or are upgrading without reason. My PC is finally starting to strain under new games like Dragon Age 2, but my 8800GT and 6850 still get by well enough for most games.
The need to upgrade ever year is a fallacy.
How will two most likely mediocre-to-terrible movies based on a good movie tarnish the good one? The second and third Matrix movies didn't tarnish the original for me, if anything they made me appreciate it all the more. Spiderman 3 was terrible compared to the previous movies but I still enjoy them.
The last few Call of Duty games have made over a billion dollars over a very short period of time. There is no way Activision could ever make this much money by giving their product away for free and charging for the online portion of the game. Many games are also offline experiences, especially games from Nintendo, so how would they make any money?
Given the plethora of proven connectivity options out there, I can't envision a scenario where I would chose this implementation over others. From TFA they talk about saving energy with the LED lighting system, but couldn't you by a cheaper LED lighting control system without their "value added" data transmission tech added to the cost?
I was looking forward to UT3 after playing alot of UT and 2K4. Then I installed the UT3 demo when it came out and I couldn't even start it as it crashed constantly. That was enough for me to forget about it for a long time.
Fast forward to the "Black" edition coming out on Steam for $10 and I thought with all the patches they pumped out and new content it would be stable, which it was. By then the community was long dead and there were very few servers. One thing I immediately noticed how terrible the menu UI was. It was clearly a console-based interface copy/pasted with a few tweaks and is very cumbersome to navigate. The server browser and settings menus are terrible.
I hope Epic learned their lesson with UT3 and aren't let their summer students make the PC version of Bulletstorm.
I had issues with my ATI 1650 (yes, a true powerhouse) in Fedora 9 and 10 attempting to use my 24" display or two smaller displays at once. I recently updated to Fedora 14 and decided to try again and much to my surprise I can now use my 24" and 22" display with the old 1650. I'm not using ATI drivers though since they stopped supporting my card a few years ago.
A Microsoft Kinect type approach would be the most fair in my estimation, giving "Watson" auditory and visual capability. Since clues are displayed on screen before Trebek is finished reading them aloud "Watson" could use both input types to attack the problem.
Compared to a touch screen, a D-pad is certainly more accurate for controlling games and the lack of a D-pad is why I would never consider "Smart Phones" a true alternative to my DS. The lack of buttons is yet another issue.
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Commodore 64, no thanks. I want a new VIC-20 please! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20
The one I had as a kid didn't work for long. It required taking back two defective ones before getting one that kept working, for a while. Then it started blowing fuses and that was the end of that experiment as my parents got tired of returning defective hardware. For the short time it did work we tried buying a cassette drive for it and had the same result, they were defective as hell. Ended up borrowing a neighbors that worked for a while so I could save my Basic programs.
Being a non-Impulse user I have never heard of Fences. To me it brings to mind a rancher simulation game where the main gameplay element is building and repairing fences in order to keep your livestock fenced in, in turn maximizing your profits. Am I close? ;)
I found the summary so "amusing" I failed to read the entire "article".
Having a rock bottom price is not going to help if people don't think its worth paying your app. I have no idea what your app is, what its perceived value/quality level is, or what % of an average apps users are pirates, but from my vantage point you need better marketing, or a better app.
I agree pirates are always going to pirate, but having an app that appears to give users a lot of value for their $ would certainly decrease the % of pirates vs. legit customers.
Don't blame the Epsilons, even Alphas can have their blood-surrogate tainted before decanting.
The Japanese are focused on making more elegant, precise, nimble & human-like robots, where as the US is more focused on more bulky, industrial, people-killing robots, that can take a beating and still work. At least that is the arbitrary opinion I've formed from mass media consumption.
Indeed. I heard about some silly 'Wii' thing Nintendo is coming out with, that thing will never catch on. Who would buy something where you wave a remote around to play and is called 'Wii'.
...unless he wrote the notes while being murdered.
Murderer: "Whatever are writing, Ricky?"
Ricky: "Your descrip.... I mean a screenplay I'm finishing up. Almost done, just a few more minutes. How much do you weigh, out of curiosity."
Murderer: "200lbs, I work out, at that gym down the street. OK, hurry up then, I'm late for dinner."
They are using it as nice way of asking "We can't crack this encryption, but are very curious about it, so help us please. Oh yeah and some guy was murdered..."
Given how their website was so full of holes I'm sure they could have told NASA where to look.
Why did you close your account? ;)
Copyright is far too long. The idea of a limited time copyright is to keep people creating new works. You make a work, you get to make money off of it, but only for a little while. After that it belongs to the public and you need to make new works if you wish to keep making money.
Seems fair to me as that is how most professions work. If I fix a computer, I do not continue to receive pay for that computer so long as it is in use or functional. I am paid for doing the job. If I want more pay I need to keep working.
Personally I'd do copyright something like this:
*Disclaimer - I'm not a content creator, only a consumer.*
Comparing fixing someones computer to writing a novel, creating music, spending tens of millions of dollars creating a video game or movie isn't a valid comparison. How long does it take to write a novel, or a movie script? What if I spend years of my time writing something that people find value in, only to have the copyright shortened because people don't want to pay for my work? Too many people want things for free these days, especially those who are purely consumers, not creators. What if you were the one creating something?
Pretty neat how you can drill down in each territory to see how many downloads came from each town, city, etc. Even tiny towns in Saskatchewan show up. Makes it easier for the IE police to find you in a small town though.
It has a great cast, but the initial trailers looked so-so. Glad to hear it turned out to be better than what the marketing people thought was a "good trailer".
Canceled? They've never announced ME2. DICE recently stated it is focusing on Battlefield 3, but never said that Mirror's Edge is dead as an IP.
According to DICE the PC is the lead platform for Battlefield 3, the first game to utilize Frostbite 2.0. Frostbite 2 was rewritten from the ground up for PC/PS3/360 so I can't see how it could considered a console engine, especially since it supports only DX10/11 and both 32/64 bit processors.
Check out "DirectX 11 Rendering in Battlefield 3" on DICE's publication page for some interesting info about their use of DX11 in FB2.0. http://publications.dice.se/
Hundreds of pounds every year? My 3.5 year old PC still plays games well enough and the only things I've done to it are add more fans and hard drives. If you are forced to upgrade every year you either bought a very cheap PC to begin with or are upgrading without reason. My PC is finally starting to strain under new games like Dragon Age 2, but my 8800GT and 6850 still get by well enough for most games. The need to upgrade ever year is a fallacy.
How will two most likely mediocre-to-terrible movies based on a good movie tarnish the good one? The second and third Matrix movies didn't tarnish the original for me, if anything they made me appreciate it all the more. Spiderman 3 was terrible compared to the previous movies but I still enjoy them.
You had me at fried potatoes...
The last few Call of Duty games have made over a billion dollars over a very short period of time. There is no way Activision could ever make this much money by giving their product away for free and charging for the online portion of the game. Many games are also offline experiences, especially games from Nintendo, so how would they make any money?
Given the plethora of proven connectivity options out there, I can't envision a scenario where I would chose this implementation over others. From TFA they talk about saving energy with the LED lighting system, but couldn't you by a cheaper LED lighting control system without their "value added" data transmission tech added to the cost?
I was looking forward to UT3 after playing alot of UT and 2K4. Then I installed the UT3 demo when it came out and I couldn't even start it as it crashed constantly. That was enough for me to forget about it for a long time. Fast forward to the "Black" edition coming out on Steam for $10 and I thought with all the patches they pumped out and new content it would be stable, which it was. By then the community was long dead and there were very few servers. One thing I immediately noticed how terrible the menu UI was. It was clearly a console-based interface copy/pasted with a few tweaks and is very cumbersome to navigate. The server browser and settings menus are terrible. I hope Epic learned their lesson with UT3 and aren't let their summer students make the PC version of Bulletstorm.
I had issues with my ATI 1650 (yes, a true powerhouse) in Fedora 9 and 10 attempting to use my 24" display or two smaller displays at once. I recently updated to Fedora 14 and decided to try again and much to my surprise I can now use my 24" and 22" display with the old 1650. I'm not using ATI drivers though since they stopped supporting my card a few years ago.
A Microsoft Kinect type approach would be the most fair in my estimation, giving "Watson" auditory and visual capability. Since clues are displayed on screen before Trebek is finished reading them aloud "Watson" could use both input types to attack the problem.
precise control of a d-pad
wtf?
Compared to a touch screen, a D-pad is certainly more accurate for controlling games and the lack of a D-pad is why I would never consider "Smart Phones" a true alternative to my DS. The lack of buttons is yet another issue.
They remade Haunted House so Adventure could be not far behind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKo1QLf3Tsc&feature=fvw