Different sales model. An iPod competes with MP3 players that are bought for a lot of money individually, cellphones are usually bought for 0-1€ together with a subscription. To capture that Apple would need to offer a low cost iPhone and they seem to generally avoid the low-cost sectors.
Also Apple restricting the iPhone to one carrier doesn't help matters either.
For a more typical example, "next gen" games that would cost $60 are 70€ (almost $110), "last gen" games ($50) go for 50-60€ ($79-94), DS games ($30 I think?) are 40€ ($63) and budget games ($20) are 30€ ($47). So it's dollar value plus ten in Euro.
Yep, Phoenix Wright followed that strategy IIRC. Of course some games don't get translated at all, e.g. the recent The World Ends With You.
Of course with some publishers like, oh, most of the western ones (EA, Ubisoft, Activision,...) you can buy a translated version (with everything translated, not just subtitles slapped on English voice acting) within a week of the US release.
I think complaints about hurting forests are mostly about the rain forests which don't see as much care. People tend to burn them down to get fertile land for crops, exhaust that land and then burn more down.
The people who claim the election was fake remind me of people at the bar who complain about the refs fixing the game. The 2000 election was so close it was within the error rate of the system.
The real issue IMO is that one of the guys got the seat despite the populace being almost evenly split between the two. Either both or none should've gotten the seat and yes I know that's not supported in the current system.
Slashdot is predominantly libertarian (or following the ideology while using a different term for it, e.g. "non-neocon conservative"), usually more are agaisnt restrictions than for. Nonetheless, there's always plenty who present libertarianism as if it were a fringe viewpoint here.
How about shifting the burden of proof for that claim? CG usually involves work files (3d data for rendered material, a PSD and the original image(s) for photoshopped images,...) that could be shown to prove the artificiality of the image.
Doesn't strike me as unfeasible, the prosecution puts the image up as evidence, it's up to the defense to defuse it then.
Encouraging a target demographic to consider violent illegal acts fine isn't much different from propaganda or hate speech. Taken in reverse, that means that if you ban material for "encouraging" paedophilia then you can/should equally ban material that encourages racism, hate and other anti-social behaviours (I don't think there's any sane way to say that raping children, as bad as it is, is worse than the fucking holocaust). Porn may encourage as a side effect but propaganda is aimed primarily at encouraging.
Me, I'm more scared by people who consume propaganda than people who consume pornographic or violent entertainment.
Or if the market is indifferent whether the porn is CG or not. If it's indifferent the CG is the "better" product if not outlawed as it's legal and thus easier and safer to get, possibly pushing real child porn off the market. Of course if the law doesn't distinguish between the two, why would its consumers?
That depends on whether you count hentai with underage characters (i.e. pretty much ALL hentai) as CG child porn. If yes I'd definitely say there's a separate market from the real CP market.
Chou Soujuu Mecha MG. The game just wouldn't be the same without the touchscreen. Most of the controls of your mech are on it and they often act as a regulator to how you can use a certain ability (e.g. manual loading for the cannon you have where you have to drag the ammo into the weapon, close it and then pull a trigger or shoveling coal into the combustion chamber of a steam-powered mech or a death ray that comes with a row of switches that you have to flip to activate it, just like in the movies) or provide analog control over your melee weapon or steering or what have you.
I played it with all graphics options set to low, it looked pretty mediocre that way but still was fun to play (well, until the frustration over the lacking teamplay set in).
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Did you notice we're talking about dominating the cellphone market which the US doesn't seem to be a big part of anyway?
Different sales model. An iPod competes with MP3 players that are bought for a lot of money individually, cellphones are usually bought for 0-1€ together with a subscription. To capture that Apple would need to offer a low cost iPhone and they seem to generally avoid the low-cost sectors.
Also Apple restricting the iPhone to one carrier doesn't help matters either.
For a more typical example, "next gen" games that would cost $60 are 70€ (almost $110), "last gen" games ($50) go for 50-60€ ($79-94), DS games ($30 I think?) are 40€ ($63) and budget games ($20) are 30€ ($47). So it's dollar value plus ten in Euro.
Yep, Phoenix Wright followed that strategy IIRC. Of course some games don't get translated at all, e.g. the recent The World Ends With You.
...) you can buy a translated version (with everything translated, not just subtitles slapped on English voice acting) within a week of the US release.
Of course with some publishers like, oh, most of the western ones (EA, Ubisoft, Activision,
Sure, they do that occassionally.
I think complaints about hurting forests are mostly about the rain forests which don't see as much care. People tend to burn them down to get fertile land for crops, exhaust that land and then burn more down.
Did Lawful Evil make you a lawyer?
Gaming store? Can't you get those at a bookstore?
The people who claim the election was fake remind me of people at the bar who complain about the refs fixing the game. The 2000 election was so close it was within the error rate of the system.
The real issue IMO is that one of the guys got the seat despite the populace being almost evenly split between the two. Either both or none should've gotten the seat and yes I know that's not supported in the current system.
people will just bend over and take it
Hm, that makes me wonder what would happen if Mr. Goatse went through that scanner...
Targetting practice.
What, you think they poach elephants with spears?
Slashdot is predominantly libertarian (or following the ideology while using a different term for it, e.g. "non-neocon conservative"), usually more are agaisnt restrictions than for. Nonetheless, there's always plenty who present libertarianism as if it were a fringe viewpoint here.
I think they'll go with Maus, the logical followup after Panther, Tiger and Leopard.
Meh, the same works for ZIG.
As in, TAKE OFF EVERY 'ZIG'!!
Great, I'll wait for VI.
How about shifting the burden of proof for that claim? CG usually involves work files (3d data for rendered material, a PSD and the original image(s) for photoshopped images, ...) that could be shown to prove the artificiality of the image.
Doesn't strike me as unfeasible, the prosecution puts the image up as evidence, it's up to the defense to defuse it then.
Encouraging a target demographic to consider violent illegal acts fine isn't much different from propaganda or hate speech. Taken in reverse, that means that if you ban material for "encouraging" paedophilia then you can/should equally ban material that encourages racism, hate and other anti-social behaviours (I don't think there's any sane way to say that raping children, as bad as it is, is worse than the fucking holocaust). Porn may encourage as a side effect but propaganda is aimed primarily at encouraging.
Me, I'm more scared by people who consume propaganda than people who consume pornographic or violent entertainment.
Or if the market is indifferent whether the porn is CG or not. If it's indifferent the CG is the "better" product if not outlawed as it's legal and thus easier and safer to get, possibly pushing real child porn off the market. Of course if the law doesn't distinguish between the two, why would its consumers?
That depends on whether you count hentai with underage characters (i.e. pretty much ALL hentai) as CG child porn. If yes I'd definitely say there's a separate market from the real CP market.
Yeah but black markets exist already and for many people the desire to possess such an item is not large enough to get involved with the black market.
That's why I like the repeat button some games have, it never forgets to make more stuff.
Is there something in the water of Lake Michigan that makes Illinois politicians ethically-challenged?
You mean "Is there something in the water of Lake Michigan that makes Illinois politicians bad at getting away with things?"
Do you think people were asked if they want this?
Chou Soujuu Mecha MG. The game just wouldn't be the same without the touchscreen. Most of the controls of your mech are on it and they often act as a regulator to how you can use a certain ability (e.g. manual loading for the cannon you have where you have to drag the ammo into the weapon, close it and then pull a trigger or shoveling coal into the combustion chamber of a steam-powered mech or a death ray that comes with a row of switches that you have to flip to activate it, just like in the movies) or provide analog control over your melee weapon or steering or what have you.
I played it with all graphics options set to low, it looked pretty mediocre that way but still was fun to play (well, until the frustration over the lacking teamplay set in).