In case of consoles it's easy - most of them up to now were only consoles, so there's no ambiguity that they are primarily for games. There is still no ambiguity in the case of DS/DSi, Wii, until recently there was little in the case of X360. People who bought them did so for games, that's a fact.
Really, get over the myth that a typical PC user plays games (well, other than flash ones or Peggle-like), it's simply not true. Intel GMA wouldn't have half of GPU market otherwise. Integrated GFX wouldn't account for 90% of new machines. You really managed to ask on a webpage what people can do on a PC apart from pron and games?!
Ah, so you don't realize that the cheapest Celeron nowadays is a dualcore 2.5 GHz, essentially a Core 2 Duo with 1 MiB of L2 (irrelevant, encoder will fit and the video is a stream of data) and 800 MHz FSB (irrelevant, mostly limited by the speed of computation, not by sustained transfer of the video stream). It would be done probably in around half of the time you were at work.
If you were at home with a Celeron you could also do day-to-day stuff (yes, it would take even longer - but is that really that important in the case of a rare batch job which in every scenario is too long to be a "smooth" workflow?)
So...you had to wait quite long anyway. Long enough that you decided to do something else in the meantime, because there's no way you would simply wait for the result. Long enough that the speedup offered by Core i7 in comparison to the cheapest Celeron didn't mean much, since in either case the task would be done after you returned.
Adding to what VShael said - you do realize that this might as well be a response from "radical right"? (or whatever the tag would be) It's just enough for them to be in the opposition to "Nazi" and hold views which could be described as far right, and you can certainly find many such people in this case.
Yes, 75% is so far for representative of 100%, I see...plus why is it that you people always use WoW, HL2, Civ...the biggest franchises, generally.
But I digress; there's one little detail which you forget - compare those numbers to the total number of PCs (either present on the market or shipping in a year). Yes, people usually simply don't play games on a PC.
And that's the ONLY game they ever play. Not because it takes them so much time, no (though it often runs in the background when they are doing other stuff in the room/etc.); they're just not much of a "gamer".
All the WoW players I know are student age, usually women, playing the game on their typical laptop and treating it more like a social networking world/service.
I'd go further - such move would be so unbelievably stupid that I can't help but suspect there's something else at play here.
Spreading such rumors and causing a bit of an "outrage"...which has a "side effect" of spreading the message that Sony network service is free, while MS one is not?
"Fit to width" function of Opera deals with the problem of webpages no fitting quite nicely, usually (plus this browser is generally very snappy, Opera Turbo proxy also helps a lot)
So I'd say netbooks don't even really have the problem of "not the best speed". For every sensible thing one wants to do on a netbook, there's still modern software that will be light enough.
Not only that; the submission seems to ignore the wonders that flashagmes, Peggle, Solitaire, etc. have done for the trend toward casual or "easy" games.
I'm not sure if mentioning WoW or The Sims was a good choice...those are games very much in "casual" realm (at least from my observations regarding who usually plays them) and which run on pretty much anything. EQ and UO also not a very good one. And don't forget there's a lot of overlap - yes, people play in games that are not coupled to Steam. But out of all my buddies who play "real" games, only one doesn't have Steam account.
...and I was talking about "participating subscribers" (in the Steam Survey), didn't expect them to be such a small portion of total subscriber base; which makes me wonder what Valve means by "active".
You greatly overestimate the prevalence of "gaming PCs"; the proportions you suggest are pretty much reversed, compared to reality.
Valve Steam is probably the most popular service of this kind. Now, current version of Steam Survey doesn't give absolute values anymore; but on the previous one (up to around year ago), it was clear from the numbers that there's not even 1.5 million participating subscribers. Out of those who do participate, hardly anyone has Intel GFX, which has biggest share of the general market. People usually simply don't play games on PCs; or at least not what you'd call "real" games, preferring Peggle, Solitaire or flashgames. Atom or fast ARM is fine for most of them.
To be fair, that theory is rather easy to accept. Hard to dismiss, actually...just a standard evolution of religious ideas, just as with any other religion. For example - never mind Isis, Cybele, myth of Er, etc. - virtualy all supposedly Christian holidays around us are pagan ones, just with some (by far not complete) mythology swap.
What is interesting in the case of those particular "nutbag Christian rightists" is how much they lack self-reflection capability; haven't heard about one going to such a degree in some time:)
BTW, I don't think the method would work - direct conflict with "unbelievers" appeals more to humans.
Unfortunatelly it's possible, I guess, that this cheapens the scene, the film. Yes, OTOH it's quite likely that Untergang remixes brought many viewers to the movie proper, giving it greater potential influence; it might more then make up for what I percieve as cheapening (plus, while using humor to cope with horrible things is understandable, I guess it's a bit scary to me that so many people might need to escape like that in this case)
Perhaps, to be more precise, it's more about how long such fad can go on. Sure, even native speakers can be amused about such remixes...few times (especially when talking about remixes of the same footage).
Yes, though to me the aspect of it that promotes long, monotonous forms which could be gotten rid of with one or few precise, but uncommon words or constructs can be adequatly descibed as oversimplication. Of the clarity-harming kind, too; for lack of better words to descrive it;p (luckily I have a good excuse, not being a native EN speaker)
rape victims have to live with the fallout as well...unless they died after the act. And anyways "blame the rape victim" mentality involves large amount of exclusion from community, so the latter is somewhat disconnected from what the rape victim goes through as well (not counting how they themselves add to the suffering of course)
Rape involves some level of premeditation
That's not strictly true, most rapes are a "thing of a moment", often involving alcohol, etc. Yes, all those circumstances can be also seen as premeditating factors; but so can be boneheaded city planning, lack of proper training, hostile attitude or...driving while drunk.
Or the recommendations of government just reflect position on the issue of large enough portion of society (you know that govs are ultimatelly a reflection of society, right?).
Alternative browsers (yes, not only FF; Opera is big for example here and there) gained large market share in Europe organically; some governments actively engaged in getting people to ditch IE only after there was considerable enough number of people for this idea to break through.
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In case of consoles it's easy - most of them up to now were only consoles, so there's no ambiguity that they are primarily for games. There is still no ambiguity in the case of DS/DSi, Wii, until recently there was little in the case of X360. People who bought them did so for games, that's a fact.
Really, get over the myth that a typical PC user plays games (well, other than flash ones or Peggle-like), it's simply not true. Intel GMA wouldn't have half of GPU market otherwise. Integrated GFX wouldn't account for 90% of new machines. You really managed to ask on a webpage what people can do on a PC apart from pron and games?!
Ah, so you don't realize that the cheapest Celeron nowadays is a dualcore 2.5 GHz, essentially a Core 2 Duo with 1 MiB of L2 (irrelevant, encoder will fit and the video is a stream of data) and 800 MHz FSB (irrelevant, mostly limited by the speed of computation, not by sustained transfer of the video stream). It would be done probably in around half of the time you were at work.
If you were at home with a Celeron you could also do day-to-day stuff (yes, it would take even longer - but is that really that important in the case of a rare batch job which in every scenario is too long to be a "smooth" workflow?)
So...you had to wait quite long anyway. Long enough that you decided to do something else in the meantime, because there's no way you would simply wait for the result. Long enough that the speedup offered by Core i7 in comparison to the cheapest Celeron didn't mean much, since in either case the task would be done after you returned.
Adding to what VShael said - you do realize that this might as well be a response from "radical right"? (or whatever the tag would be) It's just enough for them to be in the opposition to "Nazi" and hold views which could be described as far right, and you can certainly find many such people in this case.
I suppose you can't really make something dissapear; but you can make it so obscure that masses are unlikely to stumble upon it.
A bit Orwellian, you say? Quite fitting, since it's UK...
What makes articles slashdotted anyway?...
Or is that some mystery not approachable "even" by 6-digiters?
Traditional MMO model is just that; so generally don't hold you breath, that just might be where everyone is going.
And anyway, if I want multiplayer on a console, that's "all people in one room, drunk after pub" kind of multiplayer.
Yes, 75% is so far for representative of 100%, I see...plus why is it that you people always use WoW, HL2, Civ...the biggest franchises, generally.
But I digress; there's one little detail which you forget - compare those numbers to the total number of PCs (either present on the market or shipping in a year). Yes, people usually simply don't play games on a PC.
And that's the ONLY game they ever play. Not because it takes them so much time, no (though it often runs in the background when they are doing other stuff in the room/etc.); they're just not much of a "gamer".
You're far from typical. Get over it.
All the WoW players I know are student age, usually women, playing the game on their typical laptop and treating it more like a social networking world/service.
So there...
I'd go further - such move would be so unbelievably stupid that I can't help but suspect there's something else at play here.
Spreading such rumors and causing a bit of an "outrage"...which has a "side effect" of spreading the message that Sony network service is free, while MS one is not?
"Fit to width" function of Opera deals with the problem of webpages no fitting quite nicely, usually (plus this browser is generally very snappy, Opera Turbo proxy also helps a lot)
So I'd say netbooks don't even really have the problem of "not the best speed". For every sensible thing one wants to do on a netbook, there's still modern software that will be light enough.
Not only that; the submission seems to ignore the wonders that flashagmes, Peggle, Solitaire, etc. have done for the trend toward casual or "easy" games.
I'm not sure if mentioning WoW or The Sims was a good choice...those are games very much in "casual" realm (at least from my observations regarding who usually plays them) and which run on pretty much anything. EQ and UO also not a very good one. And don't forget there's a lot of overlap - yes, people play in games that are not coupled to Steam. But out of all my buddies who play "real" games, only one doesn't have Steam account.
...and I was talking about "participating subscribers" (in the Steam Survey), didn't expect them to be such a small portion of total subscriber base; which makes me wonder what Valve means by "active".
You greatly overestimate the prevalence of "gaming PCs"; the proportions you suggest are pretty much reversed, compared to reality.
Valve Steam is probably the most popular service of this kind. Now, current version of Steam Survey doesn't give absolute values anymore; but on the previous one (up to around year ago), it was clear from the numbers that there's not even 1.5 million participating subscribers. Out of those who do participate, hardly anyone has Intel GFX, which has biggest share of the general market. People usually simply don't play games on PCs; or at least not what you'd call "real" games, preferring Peggle, Solitaire or flashgames. Atom or fast ARM is fine for most of them.
To be fair, that theory is rather easy to accept. Hard to dismiss, actually...just a standard evolution of religious ideas, just as with any other religion. For example - never mind Isis, Cybele, myth of Er, etc. - virtualy all supposedly Christian holidays around us are pagan ones, just with some (by far not complete) mythology swap.
What is interesting in the case of those particular "nutbag Christian rightists" is how much they lack self-reflection capability; haven't heard about one going to such a degree in some time :)
BTW, I don't think the method would work - direct conflict with "unbelievers" appeals more to humans.
Unfortunatelly it's possible, I guess, that this cheapens the scene, the film. Yes, OTOH it's quite likely that Untergang remixes brought many viewers to the movie proper, giving it greater potential influence; it might more then make up for what I percieve as cheapening (plus, while using humor to cope with horrible things is understandable, I guess it's a bit scary to me that so many people might need to escape like that in this case)
Perhaps, to be more precise, it's more about how long such fad can go on. Sure, even native speakers can be amused about such remixes...few times (especially when talking about remixes of the same footage).
Just the other extreme...I guess you'd get it with "score is determined by how short the paper encompassing everything I want is" from the professors.
I would be really surprised if someone had starting pumping billion/millions into creating a 45nm CPU running @3.8GHZ in 1979
That's is preciselly what happened. Newer tech builds on the older one, you know...
Yes, though to me the aspect of it that promotes long, monotonous forms which could be gotten rid of with one or few precise, but uncommon words or constructs can be adequatly descibed as oversimplication. Of the clarity-harming kind, too; for lack of better words to descrive it ;p (luckily I have a good excuse, not being a native EN speaker)
rape victims have to live with the fallout as well ...unless they died after the act. And anyways "blame the rape victim" mentality involves large amount of exclusion from community, so the latter is somewhat disconnected from what the rape victim goes through as well (not counting how they themselves add to the suffering of course)
Rape involves some level of premeditation
That's not strictly true, most rapes are a "thing of a moment", often involving alcohol, etc. Yes, all those circumstances can be also seen as premeditating factors; but so can be boneheaded city planning, lack of proper training, hostile attitude or...driving while drunk.
Well, that certainly wouldn't fly in Germany, with their compound nouns. For example (yes, extreme one ;) )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderkennzeichnungs-_und_Rindfleischetikettierungsuberwachungsaufgabenubertragungsgesetz
BTW, do those word-counting universities have a stated goal of "simplifying" the language? Are they the same bitching about poor literacy of students?
Or the recommendations of government just reflect position on the issue of large enough portion of society (you know that govs are ultimatelly a reflection of society, right?).
Alternative browsers (yes, not only FF; Opera is big for example here and there) gained large market share in Europe organically; some governments actively engaged in getting people to ditch IE only after there was considerable enough number of people for this idea to break through.