Difficulty Levels.
In the case of puzzlers, or shooters, it allows people to make the game as easy or hard as they feel they can and want to handle.
For RPGs (or even FPSes), add a few hidden features and other "cool" things to make it worthwhile to play at a reasonably hard level (options and features you can't get at the easy level, or without completing a difficult side-quest). Maybe more than a few.... but this allows newer gamers to "enjoy" the fundamentals of the game without becoming frustrated that they can't get anywhere while still making it cool to be "good" at the game.
As far as complexity in control goes, it's going to continue to be more difficult to learn commands as games become more.... "real" - you have literally a million things you can do with your body - simulating those in 6-20 buttons and a stick (I fully expect to get the obligitory pervert jokes from this one.... ) can't help but be complex... but it can be made easier with good instructions and the OPTION for a tutorial (I -hate- forced tutorials).
....where a fairly uncontested "proof of concept" would show that P2Ping -can- increase show viewership....
I'll bet that if you surveyed the fans that
download it, they'd be interested in some form of merchandise and/or getting it via TV - certainly more than would have if the show had remained obscure.
Hmm... let's not be -too- paranoid. The practical uses for this are probably more along the lines of people who are sending out Oscar filmclips to be rated, or governmental video files that they don't -want- to be distributed.
Anyone with 1/2 a brain or a marketing degree can see that consumers would -not- put up with a product they can't give as gifts, and more importantly the impact it would have on sales.
Wait... 192 kbps... that you don't get to really keep.... Why, exactly, would anyone pay for that?
For once I'm amazed - Apple has "gotten" it more so than either of their competitors... now if you could just freely move the music about.
How, exactly, do you propose that ANYONE knows how I view my television shows?
Furthermore, are you trying to say that you think that Neilson familes are teh 1337 h4xX0r5 that watch TV via bittorrent? It's not like they have gnomes in every home that MONITOR your watching of TV/Videos. Do you, per chance, wear a tinfoil hat?
You know, that's great... until you've been behind some jerk of an old guy driving 20mph UNDER the speed limit in the passing lane.
Oh - and he's going up a hill.
A steep hill
Next to a large, SLOWER moving truck.
Make the grade 1 and 1/2 miles long on a 2 lane highway during rush hour....and tailgatery ensues - it's damn near inevitable due to impatient people.... yes it's stupid, but then again so is going 20mph under the speed limit in the passing lane.
Luckily, in Colorado at least, they've now made doing -that- more points/fine $$ against your license than speeding 5 miles over the limit.
Traffic is more like a good "fluid dynamics" problem - as long as particles travel in roughly the same speed zone (thus speed limits, or prudent speed driving) there is very little inter-particle friction. But, if you add one ja%##&% who is either going significantly slower OR significantly faster than the speed of traffic, they're at orders of magnitude higher risk of getting hit.
.....anything about terror orgs using the 'net? .....anything about how something called "broadband" would be "all the rage" in a few years? .....anything about what this new-fangled thing called "SPAM" is?
Seriously, you would think that even the GOVERNMENT would be able to react more quickly than that in a tech market that changes by the month. If they planned this thing back in 1998 to take this long the planning committee and folks who approved the money should be brought up on criminal neglegance charges!
I agree with you 100% - but you didn't address the point - Even IF you do like Macs (I've been a convert to the "macs for dummies, good computers for the rest of us" camp for a long time, and I think that they're pretty damn good machines. But catagorically saying "MACs are secure and will never be breached like windows boxes" just has to come from someone who's never seen a rootkit.
Since -when- is it totally bogus to say that 1. Windows machines are bigger targets (there are vastly more of them, and more of them run by people who are less than technically inclined) and that 2. Macs are NOT inherently more secure?
Yes, Sym & co are definitly slanted... but your post is even more so.
Slashdot Mirror
Now now.... I happen to know of several polar bears who LIKE ice cream. For example,
Yum
This one's even real!
Difficulty Levels. In the case of puzzlers, or shooters, it allows people to make the game as easy or hard as they feel they can and want to handle. For RPGs (or even FPSes), add a few hidden features and other "cool" things to make it worthwhile to play at a reasonably hard level (options and features you can't get at the easy level, or without completing a difficult side-quest). Maybe more than a few.... but this allows newer gamers to "enjoy" the fundamentals of the game without becoming frustrated that they can't get anywhere while still making it cool to be "good" at the game. As far as complexity in control goes, it's going to continue to be more difficult to learn commands as games become more.... "real" - you have literally a million things you can do with your body - simulating those in 6-20 buttons and a stick (I fully expect to get the obligitory pervert jokes from this one.... ) can't help but be complex... but it can be made easier with good instructions and the OPTION for a tutorial (I -hate- forced tutorials).
No kidding - we could post THIS STORY IS A TOTAL DUPE as the headline and NOONE would get it. Sheeyeah.
Yes, because we all want to go into space by first traveling via OCEAN LINER.
Nevermind the problems and cost ineffiencies in getting space station parts / shuttle/spaceship parts onto a floating platform.
Let's also forget underwater warfare... sonar is -good- but it's not perfect.
Fort Knox? C'mon now.
Indeed I'm not. Guilty as charged :)
....where a fairly uncontested "proof of concept" would show that P2Ping -can- increase show viewership.... I'll bet that if you surveyed the fans that download it, they'd be interested in some form of merchandise and/or getting it via TV - certainly more than would have if the show had remained obscure.
100% not a troll - but exactly -how- specifically is LSD less harmful to the body than Alchohol?
Hmm... let's not be -too- paranoid. The practical uses for this are probably more along the lines of people who are sending out Oscar filmclips to be rated, or governmental video files that they don't -want- to be distributed.
Anyone with 1/2 a brain or a marketing degree can see that consumers would -not- put up with a product they can't give as gifts, and more importantly the impact it would have on sales.
Wait... 192 kbps... that you don't get to really keep.... Why, exactly, would anyone pay for that?
For once I'm amazed - Apple has "gotten" it more so than either of their competitors... now if you could just freely move the music about.
How about some helpful suggustions for an alternate? Aside from google news :)
*cough*
How, exactly, do you propose that ANYONE knows how I view my television shows?
Furthermore, are you trying to say that you think that Neilson familes are teh 1337 h4xX0r5 that watch TV via bittorrent? It's not like they have gnomes in every home that MONITOR your watching of TV/Videos. Do you, per chance, wear a tinfoil hat?
Well no kidd.... Oh... PHONOgraphic industry... I guess pr0n -does- make you blind....
You know, that's great... until you've been behind some jerk of an old guy driving 20mph UNDER the speed limit in the passing lane.
Oh - and he's going up a hill.
A steep hill
Next to a large, SLOWER moving truck.
Make the grade 1 and 1/2 miles long on a 2 lane highway during rush hour....and tailgatery ensues - it's damn near inevitable due to impatient people.... yes it's stupid, but then again so is going 20mph under the speed limit in the passing lane.
Luckily, in Colorado at least, they've now made doing -that- more points/fine $$ against your license than speeding 5 miles over the limit.
Traffic is more like a good "fluid dynamics" problem - as long as particles travel in roughly the same speed zone (thus speed limits, or prudent speed driving) there is very little inter-particle friction. But, if you add one ja%##&% who is either going significantly slower OR significantly faster than the speed of traffic, they're at orders of magnitude higher risk of getting hit.
True, but.... Who flies them? Who maintains them?
And, so, when the government goes too far, a group of wild-eyed geeks will defend us all with their gigbit routers and spools of cable?
I think not.
You think there's real news on Slashdot?! Silly silly nerd :)
heh Then it could be goatse.xxx - a new generation of horror :)
...oh no.... this sounds suspiciously like my bout with bathtub gin.
.....anything about terror orgs using the 'net?
.....anything about how something called "broadband" would be "all the rage" in a few years?
.....anything about what this new-fangled thing called "SPAM" is?
Seriously, you would think that even the GOVERNMENT would be able to react more quickly than that in a tech market that changes by the month. If they planned this thing back in 1998 to take this long the planning committee and folks who approved the money should be brought up on criminal neglegance charges!
Perpare to destroy all data....wait...Windows is already installed!
Sweet holy cupcakes, what did you DO to your linux box that it has less uptime than your windows box?
The remake of Lesiure Suit Larry???? Just wouldn't be the same without the vibrating controllers!
Israel... spell it with me... I-s-r-a-e-l. :)
I agree with you 100% - but you didn't address the point - Even IF you do like Macs (I've been a convert to the "macs for dummies, good computers for the rest of us" camp for a long time, and I think that they're pretty damn good machines. But catagorically saying "MACs are secure and will never be breached like windows boxes" just has to come from someone who's never seen a rootkit.
Since -when- is it totally bogus to say that 1. Windows machines are bigger targets (there are vastly more of them, and more of them run by people who are less than technically inclined) and that 2. Macs are NOT inherently more secure?
Yes, Sym & co are definitly slanted... but your post is even more so.