Or is it a question of "Global Warming/Climate Change" being blamed for every "odd" thing that happens in the world's weather?
No, it's not. At least, not in this comment thread it isn't. The question was why the shift from the trend of calling it global warming to calling it climate change.
Please, adjust your knickers and find another place to Diggify.
Because, to the general public, global warming is confusing. "They're saying we're making the world warmer, so how come I just saw on TV that we're having the coldest winter on record?"
Climate Change more accurately reflects that it's going out of whack in both directions.
Well, this ice is already floating, according to the article. Just because it's floating by itself doesn't mean the sea level's going to rise around it.
What I've always liked about games that run out of actions that fast is that they give a set time limit. I can play the game daily and get hooked in bits and pieces, with a clear endpoint for my play session.
I used to play Kingdom of Loathing, I loved it for much the same reason.
Considering how quickly the retraction was made, isn't it more likely that they're simply waiting for their lawyers to excise the right pieces without screwing up the rest of the ToS?
This isn't just a quick sweep of the mouse followed by Backspace, here.
I share the sentiment of your first paragraph. I've never been one to be too upset about government surveillance, because I realize it helps keep me safe, and such.
I wouldn't jump so far as to say "This is a dictator-esque move", though. This is a move that shows what happens when you take a phone call from someone hysterically complaining about something and don't wait for them to calm down before you do whatever they told you to.
That ease of use is probably what helped make them unprofitable, sadly. When you're the easiest place to download from, people will use you more often. FilePlanet succeeds because of its annoying queues keeping more impatient users away, while getting all the perks of being an IGN subsidiary by having all those exclusive beta keys that you can ONLY GET IF YOU'RE A PLATINUM SUPER SUBSCRIBER!
As long as no one imitates MegaUpload's current captchas. Oh lordy are those awful.
But if you're looking for the weeks before, shouldn't we also be waiting for the weeks *after*? It's like when inspection stickers on cars roll over to the next month. You're bound to see people avoid driving their illegal cars to work until the weekend, when they can get it fixed. You'll see a drop in traffic for a day or two but that doesn't mean the change in speed limit affected anything.
That weak analogy reminded me that my sticker just rolled over a couple days ago...
I know I avoided pretty much the entire Internet like the plague April 1. It really is quite the annoying day to be online, what with Youtube going upside down or whatever.
Does it explain all of the 30%? Probably not. Does it explain some of it? Probably.
I could be ignorant about whether Sweden celebrates April Fool's, but...
I'm pretty happy as well with the fact that unlike the SP, you really don't feel like you're missing out on too much with the DS Lite. The best thing about this is that if your DS happens to break, you know you have this sleeker version of it waiting in the wings for you, but you know that you don't have to go out and buy this RIGHT AWAY like with the GBA SP, which really added features that the GBA should've had in the first place.
Yes, products get bugfixes all the time, but the ones that are rushed to market have bugs in them that are so blatant and so damaging to the final product that it's obvious no one bothered to fix it. Everyone IS going to find bugs in anything. There's no way around that, there's no real way to guarantee 100% bug-free in anything. However, if a game ships with blatant errors that ruin the game (DRIV3R comes to mind), there's no excuse for that. What Epic is doing is thinking with the consumer in mind. They're being considerate and making sure that there's as few bugs as possible, which is what EVERY game company should do.
I don't know if that's the case. To my knowledge, publishers and developers only get money from retailers when they send the game out new. The retailer buys the game at, say, $45, and sells it for $50. When EB or GameStop take your used game, you are, in effect, the supplier, and they pay you for it. They just mark it up a lot higher.
The game itself isn't appealing, the fact that it has almost no chance of coming out and is still backed by 3DRealms is. People wonder why Miller still has a job, and enjoy listening to him babble on while having no real remaining credibility.
To beat the game that fast, it generally takes intimate knowledge of the game... so yes, people are running past the hard work at 100 MPH, but only on their 20th or 30th playthrough.
If I've already bought a PDA, why would I need to go out and buy a new one repeatedly? My dad has a 4-year-old Palm that still works great, he hasn't needed a new one and doesn't want one. The same way console sales eventually fall off, there will eventually be so many people in the market that have the PDAs that finding a "new customer" is harder and harder. While some can rely on return sales, PDAs tend to be made a bit more sturdier than that and can be expected to last the user a long time.
I wouldn't worry about this decline, you'll just have to wait for a fresh new batch of kiddies to graduate college.
Xbox is #2 in America #4 or #5 in many other places.
Considering there are only 3 major consoles that are generally considered to be in the console war, being in #4 or #5 isn't all that great of a position, as it puts it behind either a portable or an older system that it's not even directly competing with.
If you got the first one for $19.99, why would you want to get the second one for $30 more? It wouldn't look like a rebate on the first game, it would look like a price hike on the second one, and that would hurt sales on it. They'd most likely have to keep it down low if they started down low.
The FogScreen (previously mentioned on/., if I recall correctly) might be an idea for large arcades or ehibitions (like anime cons)... can you imagine someone playing DDR right under the arrows, essentially replacing the ingame dancers?
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Or is it a question of "Global Warming/Climate Change" being blamed for every "odd" thing that happens in the world's weather?
No, it's not. At least, not in this comment thread it isn't. The question was why the shift from the trend of calling it global warming to calling it climate change.
Please, adjust your knickers and find another place to Diggify.
Because, to the general public, global warming is confusing. "They're saying we're making the world warmer, so how come I just saw on TV that we're having the coldest winter on record?"
Climate Change more accurately reflects that it's going out of whack in both directions.
Well, this ice is already floating, according to the article. Just because it's floating by itself doesn't mean the sea level's going to rise around it.
What I've always liked about games that run out of actions that fast is that they give a set time limit. I can play the game daily and get hooked in bits and pieces, with a clear endpoint for my play session.
I used to play Kingdom of Loathing, I loved it for much the same reason.
Considering how quickly the retraction was made, isn't it more likely that they're simply waiting for their lawyers to excise the right pieces without screwing up the rest of the ToS?
This isn't just a quick sweep of the mouse followed by Backspace, here.
My being okay with government paying attention to what's going on inside its borders is... harming me?
Say what, now? Your tinfoil hat's on too tight.
I share the sentiment of your first paragraph. I've never been one to be too upset about government surveillance, because I realize it helps keep me safe, and such.
I wouldn't jump so far as to say "This is a dictator-esque move", though. This is a move that shows what happens when you take a phone call from someone hysterically complaining about something and don't wait for them to calm down before you do whatever they told you to.
It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
> USE TORCH
You have no more action points.
*log on the next day*
You have been eaten by the grue.
> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH.
What?
That ease of use is probably what helped make them unprofitable, sadly. When you're the easiest place to download from, people will use you more often. FilePlanet succeeds because of its annoying queues keeping more impatient users away, while getting all the perks of being an IGN subsidiary by having all those exclusive beta keys that you can ONLY GET IF YOU'RE A PLATINUM SUPER SUBSCRIBER! As long as no one imitates MegaUpload's current captchas. Oh lordy are those awful.
But if you're looking for the weeks before, shouldn't we also be waiting for the weeks *after*? It's like when inspection stickers on cars roll over to the next month. You're bound to see people avoid driving their illegal cars to work until the weekend, when they can get it fixed. You'll see a drop in traffic for a day or two but that doesn't mean the change in speed limit affected anything. That weak analogy reminded me that my sticker just rolled over a couple days ago...
I know I avoided pretty much the entire Internet like the plague April 1. It really is quite the annoying day to be online, what with Youtube going upside down or whatever. Does it explain all of the 30%? Probably not. Does it explain some of it? Probably. I could be ignorant about whether Sweden celebrates April Fool's, but...
I'm pretty happy as well with the fact that unlike the SP, you really don't feel like you're missing out on too much with the DS Lite. The best thing about this is that if your DS happens to break, you know you have this sleeker version of it waiting in the wings for you, but you know that you don't have to go out and buy this RIGHT AWAY like with the GBA SP, which really added features that the GBA should've had in the first place.
Yes, products get bugfixes all the time, but the ones that are rushed to market have bugs in them that are so blatant and so damaging to the final product that it's obvious no one bothered to fix it. Everyone IS going to find bugs in anything. There's no way around that, there's no real way to guarantee 100% bug-free in anything. However, if a game ships with blatant errors that ruin the game (DRIV3R comes to mind), there's no excuse for that. What Epic is doing is thinking with the consumer in mind. They're being considerate and making sure that there's as few bugs as possible, which is what EVERY game company should do.
I don't know if that's the case. To my knowledge, publishers and developers only get money from retailers when they send the game out new. The retailer buys the game at, say, $45, and sells it for $50. When EB or GameStop take your used game, you are, in effect, the supplier, and they pay you for it. They just mark it up a lot higher.
The game itself isn't appealing, the fact that it has almost no chance of coming out and is still backed by 3DRealms is. People wonder why Miller still has a job, and enjoy listening to him babble on while having no real remaining credibility.
He's not referring to the movie coming out before the game when he says Max Payne beat Matrix.
He's referring to the fact that Max Payne stuck it in a GAMING FORM before Enter The Matrix came out.
To beat the game that fast, it generally takes intimate knowledge of the game... so yes, people are running past the hard work at 100 MPH, but only on their 20th or 30th playthrough.
Well, if you're a consultant and need to remember 400+ clients, phone numbers, and emails, it can be rather helpful.
If I've already bought a PDA, why would I need to go out and buy a new one repeatedly? My dad has a 4-year-old Palm that still works great, he hasn't needed a new one and doesn't want one. The same way console sales eventually fall off, there will eventually be so many people in the market that have the PDAs that finding a "new customer" is harder and harder. While some can rely on return sales, PDAs tend to be made a bit more sturdier than that and can be expected to last the user a long time.
I wouldn't worry about this decline, you'll just have to wait for a fresh new batch of kiddies to graduate college.
Xbox is #2 in America #4 or #5 in many other places.
Considering there are only 3 major consoles that are generally considered to be in the console war, being in #4 or #5 isn't all that great of a position, as it puts it behind either a portable or an older system that it's not even directly competing with.
If you got the first one for $19.99, why would you want to get the second one for $30 more? It wouldn't look like a rebate on the first game, it would look like a price hike on the second one, and that would hurt sales on it. They'd most likely have to keep it down low if they started down low.
That was the first thing I thought of when I saw his name... didn't know he worked with ciphers or the like.
Wouldn't seeing that make your family suspicious? If they saw that before you died, they might try to snoop on your computer.
Or you could always GeoCache it.
The FogScreen (previously mentioned on /., if I recall correctly) might be an idea for large arcades or ehibitions (like anime cons)... can you imagine someone playing DDR right under the arrows, essentially replacing the ingame dancers?