Devil's Advocate: If someone is statistically more likely to do something than not (e.g. he's green and green people have a 60% probability of infringing on patents) is he automatically guilty?
I got that experience when I bought the Street Fighter compilation on the PS2, even on easiest the CPU would beat me badly. I still have no idea how to play SF properly.
The cheapest XBox 360 is currently 200 Euros and came with a free copy of GTA4 for a few weeks, at that price the couple of hundreds required to get a matching TV is not peanuts. Even if you paid 460 Euros for a console and game that's a big chunk of the entertainment budget for most people and a new TV won't fit into that (even if they have a good TV already consoles tend to end up on secondary TVs).
I was looking into a 360 because of the GTA deal but couldn't think of other games to buy for it, the top 50 seems to consist mostly of PC ports, Tom Clancy and sports games (including racing). PC ports are massively cheaper to get on the PC (fast price drops and lower prices to begin with), Tom Clancy and sports are just genres I don't care about.
On the rare occasion when you do actually do this, you better be darned sure that your game is good enough to warrant people buying that upgrade specifically for your game
Doesn't that only really apply if the extra is something that has little use outside of your game? The Wii classic controller is supported by loads of games and even required for some VC games.
Meh, just make 1 punch and 2 kick with the Wiimote tilt determining the strength of the attack, I think the Gamecube version of Capcom vs SNK (or some other Capcom vs game) had a similarly stupid control scheme as an option. If it's just to get approval you can make a pretty crappy control scheme without much trouble. Sure, it won't look nice in reviews but even if you were to put effort into it noone would want to use it anyway so you can just as well half-ass it.
I'd rather look into Okami, BG&E wasn't much like Zelda (especially due to the large amount of stealth, way too much for my liking and sometimes it wasn't even possible to snipe the guards).
BMI is the easiest to measure by far though it is obviously limited. Giving the Wii a blood sample and attaching electrodes to your body just wouldn't sell. If you suspect that Wii Fit falsely accuses you you should ask a professional for a more accurate assessment. What else should Wii Fit do? Completely ignore everything? I read a review that suggested it pretty much ignores the BMI already and bases your score on your exercise results, not your BMI changes though it will complain if your BMI goes up.
I'm not sure if they programmed it to handle children well, after all their height changes a lot too. My guess would be that Wii Fit is intended for adults, not children.
Asylum is not meant to attract workers or anything, it's meant to provide shelter to people coming from desaster areas or warzones (or countries with gross human rights violations). Poor farmers manage to escape from a fascist country but would risk execution if sent back? Probably not employable but sending them back is inhuman. Asylum is for when it's important to get away from your own country, it shouldn't be a full residency and it shouldn't allow you to live a luxurious life, it's a bad situation that you should only take when the alternative is worse.
A problem with that is that you sample for a few key facts and if those are missing declare the whole field of knowledge to be missing. A test with 10 or 30 questions can easily have a statistical error large enough to hide the cold war in. This particular test tries to cover all kinds of subjects in at most 30 questions so the ones left to each area are even fewer. So what if a kid can name all works of Johann Sebastian Bach if you ask him for Beethoven and conclude he knows nothing about music?
Properly designed tests don't leave much room for interpretation but the internet is full of random people who think "hey, I can make a quiz and give a score that I'll call the IQ!".
Testing your social intelligence is fine but not in a test that also measures your logical intelligence, then all you get is a useless mishmash of various values that won't get you anywhere.
I got the same question, in school we only talked about that thing in the French lessons so of course I had no idea what the English call it.
The Mensa test still has some language-dependent stuff, I got 26 out of 30 with three failed ones being language questions (my native language is German, not English).
A speed trap triggers based on speed (which, if measured right, proves you guilty), just searching for MP3s triggers on the presence of MP3s (which still doesn't prove you guilty). Considering the format evidence for the legality of its source would be akin to a speed trap photographing all sports cars passing by because those are very good at speeding. The presence of an MP3 or ownership of a sports car alone is not enough to prove you guilty of copyright infringement or speeding, respectively.
I thought counterfeiting also requires the attempt to pass the copy off as the real thing? I think it's another "OMG LOOK HOW EVIL THEY ARE" redefinition, in terms of copyright infringement counterfeiting would be people selling bootlweg GBA carts or fake CDs, not just downloading material on their cellphone.
And hell, if you only have the device how do you show that the copies were not allowed? Will they just assume that it's always copied if it doesn't sound like total garbage and that it couldn't possibly have been created by e.g. ripping your own CDs?
Ash and regular dirt blend in, cigarette buts are bright yellow (or orange or what you call it). Dirt is cleaned up by wiping the floor, cigarettes need to be picked up. I noticed that the train stations here got much cleaner since the smoking ban (well, in the parts where it's being obeyed, in some stations the smokers just don't care). Also I once (for a few weeks) worked as a trash picker for public green areas, we wouldn't pick cigarette butts up because they're too small (i.e. hard to grasp with those grabber things we used) and numerous to get the daily routine done in time so they would pretty much pile up until they decompose. On train stations there seems to be a separate cleaning employee for cleaning those butts up.
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AFAIK WW is widely considered the worst of the new series. Though it did spawn a funny Penny Arcade comic ("I am smoldering with generic rage!").
The circular filing bin.
Devil's Advocate: If someone is statistically more likely to do something than not (e.g. he's green and green people have a 60% probability of infringing on patents) is he automatically guilty?
Those cost a bit more than 20 dollars though.
Then again you can probably include a twenty dollar controller with your game anyway.
2D games are being made by small developers, the big ones aren't making much like that where they can avoid it.
I got that experience when I bought the Street Fighter compilation on the PS2, even on easiest the CPU would beat me badly. I still have no idea how to play SF properly.
The 360 is cheaper than the Wii now BTW (except for the games which are still freakishly expensive).
The cheapest XBox 360 is currently 200 Euros and came with a free copy of GTA4 for a few weeks, at that price the couple of hundreds required to get a matching TV is not peanuts. Even if you paid 460 Euros for a console and game that's a big chunk of the entertainment budget for most people and a new TV won't fit into that (even if they have a good TV already consoles tend to end up on secondary TVs).
I was looking into a 360 because of the GTA deal but couldn't think of other games to buy for it, the top 50 seems to consist mostly of PC ports, Tom Clancy and sports games (including racing). PC ports are massively cheaper to get on the PC (fast price drops and lower prices to begin with), Tom Clancy and sports are just genres I don't care about.
Then let's bring Gundam into this. Nova belly flop vs Big Zam roundhouse kick?
On the rare occasion when you do actually do this, you better be darned sure that your game is good enough to warrant people buying that upgrade specifically for your game
Doesn't that only really apply if the extra is something that has little use outside of your game? The Wii classic controller is supported by loads of games and even required for some VC games.
Meh, just make 1 punch and 2 kick with the Wiimote tilt determining the strength of the attack, I think the Gamecube version of Capcom vs SNK (or some other Capcom vs game) had a similarly stupid control scheme as an option. If it's just to get approval you can make a pretty crappy control scheme without much trouble. Sure, it won't look nice in reviews but even if you were to put effort into it noone would want to use it anyway so you can just as well half-ass it.
I'd rather look into Okami, BG&E wasn't much like Zelda (especially due to the large amount of stealth, way too much for my liking and sometimes it wasn't even possible to snipe the guards).
How about using standard deviations per area to determine the rich and poor? No need for a national average.
Do they review movies?
I think he meant to say he welcomes our new CR overlords as exactly that source of unbiased reviews.
BMI is the easiest to measure by far though it is obviously limited. Giving the Wii a blood sample and attaching electrodes to your body just wouldn't sell. If you suspect that Wii Fit falsely accuses you you should ask a professional for a more accurate assessment. What else should Wii Fit do? Completely ignore everything? I read a review that suggested it pretty much ignores the BMI already and bases your score on your exercise results, not your BMI changes though it will complain if your BMI goes up.
I'm not sure if they programmed it to handle children well, after all their height changes a lot too. My guess would be that Wii Fit is intended for adults, not children.
Asylum is not meant to attract workers or anything, it's meant to provide shelter to people coming from desaster areas or warzones (or countries with gross human rights violations). Poor farmers manage to escape from a fascist country but would risk execution if sent back? Probably not employable but sending them back is inhuman. Asylum is for when it's important to get away from your own country, it shouldn't be a full residency and it shouldn't allow you to live a luxurious life, it's a bad situation that you should only take when the alternative is worse.
A problem with that is that you sample for a few key facts and if those are missing declare the whole field of knowledge to be missing. A test with 10 or 30 questions can easily have a statistical error large enough to hide the cold war in. This particular test tries to cover all kinds of subjects in at most 30 questions so the ones left to each area are even fewer. So what if a kid can name all works of Johann Sebastian Bach if you ask him for Beethoven and conclude he knows nothing about music?
Properly designed tests don't leave much room for interpretation but the internet is full of random people who think "hey, I can make a quiz and give a score that I'll call the IQ!".
Testing your social intelligence is fine but not in a test that also measures your logical intelligence, then all you get is a useless mishmash of various values that won't get you anywhere.
I got the same question, in school we only talked about that thing in the French lessons so of course I had no idea what the English call it.
The Mensa test still has some language-dependent stuff, I got 26 out of 30 with three failed ones being language questions (my native language is German, not English).
Doesn't Opera also have better memory handling? I recall Firefox users complaining about memory leaks or just general memory bloat.
A speed trap triggers based on speed (which, if measured right, proves you guilty), just searching for MP3s triggers on the presence of MP3s (which still doesn't prove you guilty). Considering the format evidence for the legality of its source would be akin to a speed trap photographing all sports cars passing by because those are very good at speeding. The presence of an MP3 or ownership of a sports car alone is not enough to prove you guilty of copyright infringement or speeding, respectively.
I thought counterfeiting also requires the attempt to pass the copy off as the real thing? I think it's another "OMG LOOK HOW EVIL THEY ARE" redefinition, in terms of copyright infringement counterfeiting would be people selling bootlweg GBA carts or fake CDs, not just downloading material on their cellphone.
And hell, if you only have the device how do you show that the copies were not allowed? Will they just assume that it's always copied if it doesn't sound like total garbage and that it couldn't possibly have been created by e.g. ripping your own CDs?
Ash and regular dirt blend in, cigarette buts are bright yellow (or orange or what you call it). Dirt is cleaned up by wiping the floor, cigarettes need to be picked up. I noticed that the train stations here got much cleaner since the smoking ban (well, in the parts where it's being obeyed, in some stations the smokers just don't care). Also I once (for a few weeks) worked as a trash picker for public green areas, we wouldn't pick cigarette butts up because they're too small (i.e. hard to grasp with those grabber things we used) and numerous to get the daily routine done in time so they would pretty much pile up until they decompose. On train stations there seems to be a separate cleaning employee for cleaning those butts up.