How do you define the wages you "deserve?" To me, what I "deserve" is what I can go out and get for my services. If I can get a certain wage, then I deserve it. If I cannot, then I need to find out what skills I need to get more money.
I have no problems with labor unions. An individual doesn't have what it takes to strongarm their employer individually so they need to go out and strongarm the employer as a group. If you want to form a group and try to force a bargain with your employer then that's fine, but I made an agreement with my employer when I signed up for the job for what I would make and what my working conditions would be. If that changes, then I will either try to renegotiate with my employer or I will leave.
As far as not getting fired for stupid things, I know my bosses follow their bottom line. If they hate you but you pull your weight, they're happy to keep you in their company.
I don't think the game would be unplayable as long as there is some sort of moderator mechanism. Maybe not even a single moderator, but a group that has moderator access to the particular game server and can boot users he/she/they deem to be cheating.
I don't think it would be a death blow for Sega to not have player likenesses. I love the NCAA college football games and there everyone is referred to by number. I know that David Greene is 14, I know that Fred Gibson is 82, and I know that big badass David Pollack is 47.
Also in Madden's own games, the historic teams have numbers instead of names. I know that if I pick the 1979 Cowboys, I'm handing tha ball off to 33 (Tony) whenever possible and I like to blitz with 56 (Hollywood Henderson). I would like to see that guy in the hat every now and then on the sidelines, but I guess you can't get everything you want. At least 70's Cowboys are wearing their powder blues as of 2001.
Even if it is a death blow to Sega's NFL line, if Sega keeps concentrating on the college game they can still make a competitive NFL game in 2008 based off of their college engine. EA won't be able to afford that exclusive contract forever.
The only other NFL line I'm aware of who isn't halting production (Microsoft and 989 are halting) is Midway and I wouldn't go so far as to call Blitz an NFL game. It's an Arena Football game with NFL rosters. Midway could embrace what their game really is and use Arena players. I'd love to fill the shoes of Danny White or get to sack Tony Grazziani when I'm playing defense.
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Hogwash.
Your definition of fair would only apply if the excess money were spent on combating these environmental concerns. I don't know about you, but my tax money from gasoline purchases goes to our state's general fund. Far less money than we take in from gasoline taxes goes towards environmental concerns. It's not a "fair" market value if artificial high you pay above the "free" market value is not spent on the total cost others bear from petrol.
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No, I believe that Europe has been paying ridiculously HIGH prices for gas for years. The biggest reason gas is so expensive in other coutries is that those countries tax gas to death.
The "low" prices in the US have not resulted in EXCESSIVE petrol consumption since the consumption is based on roughly the fair market value instead of a vastly tax-inflated value. The US is consuming a NORMAL amount of petrol given its market value. It is Europe that is consuming a LOW amount due to taxation.
Energy does come at a cost, but most European governments want to make that cost much higher than really is. They have the US equivalent of a sin tax on gasoline.
Do you have a source on this? I am genuinely curious in how many acres of farmland it would take to produce X amount of ethanol.
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I don't know why nobody is hyping alcohol as a fuel replacement. Liquor is only expensive because it has to taste reasonable and it is loaded with taxes. If we can get distilled water for $1.00 per gallon, I don't see why we can't get a gallon of white lightning for $2.00 per gallon.
Also, it would take very little to no modification to get a petrol car to run on grain alcohol.
...and she has never run into a problem that SpyBot can't fix (aside from the occasional reboot when game software goes haywire).
I run Linux and have been hacked once about three years ago (back when I had a cable modem connection). The only reason I knew they hacked me was when I noticed an extra user with several p0rn media files in their home directory. It has gotten me into the habit of patching Linux regularly and being much more strict on my firewall rules.
I think the only real difference between Linux and Windows from a security standpoint is that in Linux you can usually turn off the offending service much more easily until a patch is available.
Many American breweries make beer that tastes best at around freezing, but you'll also notice that Americans drink most of their drinks (both alcoholic and non) at around freezing. That's the temperature most Americans like their drinks and the big American breweries cater to this.
It's not a matter of making swill and then oops they have to serve it cold. It's a matter of Americans like 32 degree beer. What can we do to make our beer taste good at this temp?
I will concede that some of the larger breweries put a shelf life on their beer that is a little generous. A two month old Coors is far superior to a four month old Coors, but neither has expired yet.
The last innovative game I played from a software point of view was Goldeneye. FPS games were nothing new when Goldeneye came out, but Goldeneye provided a playable 4-person FPS that could be played from a single TV and Nintendo. Goldeneye is a work of software genius and truly an innovation among its peers.
Another good example of software innovation would be Street Fighter 2. There were 1-on-1 fighting games before SF2 but SF2 did something truly remarkable. They made a fighting engine that was truly usable and not too terribly frustrating. SF2 used the same joysticks and buttons that every other arcade game of the time used and breathed about 5 or 6 extra years into the life of most arcades.
The thing that SF2 and Goldeneye have in common is that they didn't need some congo drum gimmick just to get people to play the game. The software stood on its own.
So you're telling me that a Donkey Kong sequel with a new type of controller is software innovation? That's not software innovation. It's hardware innovation. It's Donkey Kong Country 12 with a special bongo conroller. The only innovation in your example is the bongo controller HARDWARE. It does look interesting, but it's not a new TYPE of game. It's a 2D side scrolling action game.
So Troy is coming to theaters in 2004 and all of a sudden this trojan comes out disguised as Word 2004. I think a see what's going on here. Movie company makes trojan to hype new movie.
It's not often that you see a game editor come out before the actual game. Granted all you can edit here is people, but I think it's a good way to drum up enthusiasm over the Sims 2. My wife is an avid Sims gamer and I'm sure if I told her about this (which I won't;)), she'd download it in a heartbeat.
That's what's really missing from E3. I'd like to see some of this innovation everyone is throwing at their hardware rechanneled into software development. What's the use of having a rockin new Nintendo or Sony portable if all I have to play on it are rehashes of rehashes of games? Not that I don't like sequels, but I'd like something fresh from time to time.
Leisure Suit Larry is coming back. That's awesome! I miss the old guard Sierra Adventure games (well, except for Kings Quest). I do hope Sierra doesn't make it so explicit that it gets too high a rating to be widely distributed. The best part of the Leisure Suit Larry games was that there was a lot of innuendo but not much naughty happening onscreen.
It would be cool if Sierra could score some cameos like Quagmire from Family Guy or Larry from Three's Company.
The BMW provides a MPG average on its onboard computer. I've spot checked it a couple of times by checking my trip odometer at fillup and the computer always was within.5 MPG of correct. I'm not sure where the MPG gauge is connected to the engine to check MPG, but the gauge was always at the bottom of the tachometer. I always assumed it had to do with RPM and gear ratios since it shares space with the tach but I never looked that up. I don't think the MPG gauge is accurate down to the unit, but it gives you a good enoug idea of how to adjust your driving.
I used to own two BMWs (an 85 528e and a 86 325e) and I can tell you that the MPG gauge will completely change how you drive. I could squeeze 32 MPG out of the 2.8L I6 engine just by following the MPG gauge recommendations and I still wasn't sacrificing that much acceleration or top speed.
Yeah, now I'm DRIVING on long car rides. If I'm lucky enough to be a passenger, I play games on the laptop if I play games at all. I get my laptop from work (which a kid usually can't do). Usually, I spend my passanger time reading. I find that as I get older I am quite a bit more content to just read a book.
A successful adult portable gaming platform will probably have to be part of a system that a business would buy for its employees. It would probably have to be a PDA/Cellphone that happens to have gaming capabilities.
It's not the car engine that's important in towing, it's the wheelbase and gear ratios. If you're towing a boat and you have a short wheelbase, the boat can pull a Soviet Russia and end up driving you.
Just look at the towing capacity of the Jeep Wrangler VS. the Jeep Cherokee (not Grand Cherokee). The exact same I6 engine that can tow 5000lbs in the Cherokee can only tow 2000lbs in the Wrangler and the Wrangler is even geared lower which should make towing easier.
My Explorer has a 4.0L V6 in it. It will tow up to 6000lbs. That's more than the Cherokee or the Wrangler but the engine is not very different. If I had the next higher gearing package my towing would be cut to 5000lbs.
If you give me a lawnmower engine and let me gear it low enough I'll bet I can tow a 20' boat with it. But when I have to stop or switch lanes that boat is going to push my mower right off the road.
I'd imagine that many small European cars CAN tow quite a bit, but if I have to make any sudden turns or stops, I'd rather do it in the Explorer.
Ok, so let's suppose that all the Linux gamers go out and buy Doom 3. It looks to me like the Win32 client and Linux client will be packaged together. How is ID going to know that we are buying Doom 3 for the Linux version and not just buying it to play on Windows? Do you really think that if game sales are high Id is going to be thinking, "Wow, it's a good thing we released the Linux client in with this. It's really boosted our sales." Even if strong Linux user sales do somehow make Doom 3 a bigger seller, I doubt it'll be perceived that way.
Hp is "able to use our purchasing power as the world's largest consumer PC company" and they still can't put together a decent gaming system for under $1599? I can go out and make a SWEET gaming system for $1599.
A pretty darn fantastic gaming machine can be built for aroung $800. Why can't HP use a little bit of that leverage of theirs and assemble a machine for us at this price?
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How do you define the wages you "deserve?" To me, what I "deserve" is what I can go out and get for my services. If I can get a certain wage, then I deserve it. If I cannot, then I need to find out what skills I need to get more money.
I have no problems with labor unions. An individual doesn't have what it takes to strongarm their employer individually so they need to go out and strongarm the employer as a group. If you want to form a group and try to force a bargain with your employer then that's fine, but I made an agreement with my employer when I signed up for the job for what I would make and what my working conditions would be. If that changes, then I will either try to renegotiate with my employer or I will leave.
As far as not getting fired for stupid things, I know my bosses follow their bottom line. If they hate you but you pull your weight, they're happy to keep you in their company.
I don't think the game would be unplayable as long as there is some sort of moderator mechanism. Maybe not even a single moderator, but a group that has moderator access to the particular game server and can boot users he/she/they deem to be cheating.
I don't think it would be a death blow for Sega to not have player likenesses. I love the NCAA college football games and there everyone is referred to by number. I know that David Greene is 14, I know that Fred Gibson is 82, and I know that big badass David Pollack is 47.
Also in Madden's own games, the historic teams have numbers instead of names. I know that if I pick the 1979 Cowboys, I'm handing tha ball off to 33 (Tony) whenever possible and I like to blitz with 56 (Hollywood Henderson). I would like to see that guy in the hat every now and then on the sidelines, but I guess you can't get everything you want. At least 70's Cowboys are wearing their powder blues as of 2001.
Even if it is a death blow to Sega's NFL line, if Sega keeps concentrating on the college game they can still make a competitive NFL game in 2008 based off of their college engine. EA won't be able to afford that exclusive contract forever.
The only other NFL line I'm aware of who isn't halting production (Microsoft and 989 are halting) is Midway and I wouldn't go so far as to call Blitz an NFL game. It's an Arena Football game with NFL rosters. Midway could embrace what their game really is and use Arena players. I'd love to fill the shoes of Danny White or get to sack Tony Grazziani when I'm playing defense.
Hogwash.
Your definition of fair would only apply if the excess money were spent on combating these environmental concerns. I don't know about you, but my tax money from gasoline purchases goes to our state's general fund. Far less money than we take in from gasoline taxes goes towards environmental concerns. It's not a "fair" market value if artificial high you pay above the "free" market value is not spent on the total cost others bear from petrol.
No, I believe that Europe has been paying ridiculously HIGH prices for gas for years. The biggest reason gas is so expensive in other coutries is that those countries tax gas to death.
The "low" prices in the US have not resulted in EXCESSIVE petrol consumption since the consumption is based on roughly the fair market value instead of a vastly tax-inflated value. The US is consuming a NORMAL amount of petrol given its market value. It is Europe that is consuming a LOW amount due to taxation.
Energy does come at a cost, but most European governments want to make that cost much higher than really is. They have the US equivalent of a sin tax on gasoline.
Do you have a source on this? I am genuinely curious in how many acres of farmland it would take to produce X amount of ethanol.
I don't know why nobody is hyping alcohol as a fuel replacement. Liquor is only expensive because it has to taste reasonable and it is loaded with taxes. If we can get distilled water for $1.00 per gallon, I don't see why we can't get a gallon of white lightning for $2.00 per gallon.
Also, it would take very little to no modification to get a petrol car to run on grain alcohol.
...and she has never run into a problem that SpyBot can't fix (aside from the occasional reboot when game software goes haywire).
I run Linux and have been hacked once about three years ago (back when I had a cable modem connection). The only reason I knew they hacked me was when I noticed an extra user with several p0rn media files in their home directory. It has gotten me into the habit of patching Linux regularly and being much more strict on my firewall rules.
I think the only real difference between Linux and Windows from a security standpoint is that in Linux you can usually turn off the offending service much more easily until a patch is available.
Many American breweries make beer that tastes best at around freezing, but you'll also notice that Americans drink most of their drinks (both alcoholic and non) at around freezing. That's the temperature most Americans like their drinks and the big American breweries cater to this.
It's not a matter of making swill and then oops they have to serve it cold. It's a matter of Americans like 32 degree beer. What can we do to make our beer taste good at this temp?
I will concede that some of the larger breweries put a shelf life on their beer that is a little generous. A two month old Coors is far superior to a four month old Coors, but neither has expired yet.
But only for the comedic effect of Master being thrown into the pig pen.
The last innovative game I played from a software point of view was Goldeneye. FPS games were nothing new when Goldeneye came out, but Goldeneye provided a playable 4-person FPS that could be played from a single TV and Nintendo. Goldeneye is a work of software genius and truly an innovation among its peers.
Another good example of software innovation would be Street Fighter 2. There were 1-on-1 fighting games before SF2 but SF2 did something truly remarkable. They made a fighting engine that was truly usable and not too terribly frustrating. SF2 used the same joysticks and buttons that every other arcade game of the time used and breathed about 5 or 6 extra years into the life of most arcades.
The thing that SF2 and Goldeneye have in common is that they didn't need some congo drum gimmick just to get people to play the game. The software stood on its own.
Unless Namco is there producing the updates they promised me 20 years ago for Professor Pac-Man, I'm not interested.
So you're telling me that a Donkey Kong sequel with a new type of controller is software innovation? That's not software innovation. It's hardware innovation. It's Donkey Kong Country 12 with a special bongo conroller. The only innovation in your example is the bongo controller HARDWARE. It does look interesting, but it's not a new TYPE of game. It's a 2D side scrolling action game.
Graphics algorithms are some of the easiest on earth to distribute and run in parallel. I'm surprised that this hasn't been more popular already.
So Troy is coming to theaters in 2004 and all of a sudden this trojan comes out disguised as Word 2004. I think a see what's going on here. Movie company makes trojan to hype new movie.
Rings?! I could implant some RFID tags in rings and start a drunken Green Lantern Corps. That would rock.
It's not often that you see a game editor come out before the actual game. Granted all you can edit here is people, but I think it's a good way to drum up enthusiasm over the Sims 2. My wife is an avid Sims gamer and I'm sure if I told her about this (which I won't ;)), she'd download it in a heartbeat.
That's what's really missing from E3. I'd like to see some of this innovation everyone is throwing at their hardware rechanneled into software development. What's the use of having a rockin new Nintendo or Sony portable if all I have to play on it are rehashes of rehashes of games? Not that I don't like sequels, but I'd like something fresh from time to time.
Leisure Suit Larry is coming back. That's awesome! I miss the old guard Sierra Adventure games (well, except for Kings Quest). I do hope Sierra doesn't make it so explicit that it gets too high a rating to be widely distributed. The best part of the Leisure Suit Larry games was that there was a lot of innuendo but not much naughty happening onscreen.
It would be cool if Sierra could score some cameos like Quagmire from Family Guy or Larry from Three's Company.
The BMW provides a MPG average on its onboard computer. I've spot checked it a couple of times by checking my trip odometer at fillup and the computer always was within .5 MPG of correct. I'm not sure where the MPG gauge is connected to the engine to check MPG, but the gauge was always at the bottom of the tachometer. I always assumed it had to do with RPM and gear ratios since it shares space with the tach but I never looked that up. I don't think the MPG gauge is accurate down to the unit, but it gives you a good enoug idea of how to adjust your driving.
I used to own two BMWs (an 85 528e and a 86 325e) and I can tell you that the MPG gauge will completely change how you drive. I could squeeze 32 MPG out of the 2.8L I6 engine just by following the MPG gauge recommendations and I still wasn't sacrificing that much acceleration or top speed.
Yeah, now I'm DRIVING on long car rides. If I'm lucky enough to be a passenger, I play games on the laptop if I play games at all. I get my laptop from work (which a kid usually can't do). Usually, I spend my passanger time reading. I find that as I get older I am quite a bit more content to just read a book.
A successful adult portable gaming platform will probably have to be part of a system that a business would buy for its employees. It would probably have to be a PDA/Cellphone that happens to have gaming capabilities.
It's not the car engine that's important in towing, it's the wheelbase and gear ratios. If you're towing a boat and you have a short wheelbase, the boat can pull a Soviet Russia and end up driving you.
Just look at the towing capacity of the Jeep Wrangler VS. the Jeep Cherokee (not Grand Cherokee). The exact same I6 engine that can tow 5000lbs in the Cherokee can only tow 2000lbs in the Wrangler and the Wrangler is even geared lower which should make towing easier.
My Explorer has a 4.0L V6 in it. It will tow up to 6000lbs. That's more than the Cherokee or the Wrangler but the engine is not very different. If I had the next higher gearing package my towing would be cut to 5000lbs.
If you give me a lawnmower engine and let me gear it low enough I'll bet I can tow a 20' boat with it. But when I have to stop or switch lanes that boat is going to push my mower right off the road.
I'd imagine that many small European cars CAN tow quite a bit, but if I have to make any sudden turns or stops, I'd rather do it in the Explorer.
Ok, so let's suppose that all the Linux gamers go out and buy Doom 3. It looks to me like the Win32 client and Linux client will be packaged together. How is ID going to know that we are buying Doom 3 for the Linux version and not just buying it to play on Windows? Do you really think that if game sales are high Id is going to be thinking, "Wow, it's a good thing we released the Linux client in with this. It's really boosted our sales." Even if strong Linux user sales do somehow make Doom 3 a bigger seller, I doubt it'll be perceived that way.
Hp is "able to use our purchasing power as the world's largest consumer PC company" and they still can't put together a decent gaming system for under $1599? I can go out and make a SWEET gaming system for $1599.
A pretty darn fantastic gaming machine can be built for aroung $800. Why can't HP use a little bit of that leverage of theirs and assemble a machine for us at this price?