The classic controller is even worse than the DS2 for analog controls since it lacks handles that would allow your palms to catch the force you use to move the sticks. However it makes sense that the analogs are in a secondary position for the thing, it's the classic controller and meant mostly for controling emulated games, most of which use the dpad. Sure, the N64 games use an analog stick but I play those with a Gamecube controller instead because of the handle issue.
The Wii controller is even fairly capable of acting as a joystick as seen in the Super Mario Galaxy ball stages. Since it already comes with a smaller part for your left hand that can act as a throttle there may not be a need to get a full flightstick.
Though I guess one would have to change the layout if one wanted to do something like point & click controls for the less frequently used buttons in the cockpit.
Depends on whether the game takes analog or digital input. Analog inputs mostly suck for games that use only digital controls and I found that the keyboard works best for digital controls because each direction is a different key instead of a big thing you slide your thumb around on.
For that matter a Sega Master System could fit those C64 and Amiga (I think, whatever computer used the two-button-mode on these things) joysticks. They look like they'd fit into the COM1 port on a PC too but I'm not sure PCs can use joysticks plugged into those.
The key point is to make them believe those people are evil. Once they recognize them as an enemy they'll open fire. "Citizen" sounds friendly, "terrorist" or "enemy combatant" doesn't sound as friendly and you have to make sure they think of them as the latter, not the former.
Or maybe he was just afraid of the answer, maybe he just wanted to make sure everyone just sees them as pure Hollywood-esque evildoers rather than people with their own reasons.
"declining quality of games"? I don't see that, the quality seems to be pretty stable or slighly rising (compare today's crappy games to the crappy games of two decades ago, today's just have a few weaknesses, 20 years ago you'd be lucky if you could play it). It's easier than ever to create an expressive world without having to push the hardware to the absolute limits. If you take the increase of graphical quality as an indicator of declining quality you're weird, good graphics do not prevent a good game and in fact usually the games that manage to have good graphics (and outside of trailers too) also have good gameplay because the level of attention has a tendency to be consistent across all disciplines of game development.
Do you really think it would never have been invented without letting Big Pharma withold it from poor nations? A lot of research is done by universities and then handed to the corps to patent.
Um... 1. V1 ring a bell? Essentially an unmanned plane for long-range "kamikaze" attacks. It didn't strike New York but London got a lot of hits. 2. Sure but nukes weren't exactly common back then (firebombs were), they did have chem weapons though and they were the first with ballistic missiles. 3. Panzerfaust? Panzerschreck? Those penetrate 200mm tank armor, the strongest out there at the time. 4. Yeah, they had remote operated vehicles filled with explosives and of course planes loaded with bombs for that job.
That's why they're investigating. They're checking if Media Markt really acted on its own or it was offered some incentive to do that. Nothing wrong with deciding you don't want to sell a product but a lot's wrong with paying stores to not carry a competing product.
You're paying only for the product, he's also paying for the effect that product has on the market, i.e. promote research by preventing either company from resting on its laurels. Just depends on what you want to buy.
Not only that, we're talking about a market that takes several billions to enter, if you storm in and find out you can't win you're seriously fucked. Even without the startup costs it wouldn't be easy to fight a monopoly and wrest enough marketshare away to make decent money, with the startup costs failure is not an option and the risk is huge.
Are you seriously comparing Nazi Germany to a bunch of civilians with homemade explosives? Terrorists don't have high-tech weaponry that could fight on even standing with a superpower!
The thing about that IP enforcement is that it amounts to those countries getting no AIDS treatment. I bet you those countries couldn't care less if USAns get their AIDS treatment, it's worth nothing to them when they can't get any of it. Protecting profits and stuff is nice but we're talking about leaving millions to die.
Punishing the Telcos would send the message "Just because we say we'll look the other way doesn't mean we'll do!" and make other corps more wary of cooperating with the govt when it's against the law.
Great idea to have a law (i.e. something that dictates rules for the public) and not show it to the public. This is not just closed source, this is encrypted binaries with remotely-triggered execution.
I'd say if this isn't the case already the consitution needs an amendment that any law must be publicly known before it can take effect.
Imagine the nicest steakhouse in your city. Do they have a problem with people coming, getting a small side salad, and taking up a table for 2 hours?
Depends on how many customers they get. I regularly go to a pretty good and popular restaurant (fairly cheap too) and during peak times you'll have a hard time getting a free seat (not just table, during peak times all seats are taken and families will regularly split themselves across several tables), if someone took a table for two hours during those times that'd make all the people waiting for a seat pretty angry and would probably cause a few lost sales. Of course if that was during the off-times noone would care.
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Noise may not leave visible scars but it can cause a lot of pain or at least serious discomfort.
The classic controller is even worse than the DS2 for analog controls since it lacks handles that would allow your palms to catch the force you use to move the sticks. However it makes sense that the analogs are in a secondary position for the thing, it's the classic controller and meant mostly for controling emulated games, most of which use the dpad. Sure, the N64 games use an analog stick but I play those with a Gamecube controller instead because of the handle issue.
The Wii controller is even fairly capable of acting as a joystick as seen in the Super Mario Galaxy ball stages. Since it already comes with a smaller part for your left hand that can act as a throttle there may not be a need to get a full flightstick.
Though I guess one would have to change the layout if one wanted to do something like point & click controls for the less frequently used buttons in the cockpit.
Depends on whether the game takes analog or digital input. Analog inputs mostly suck for games that use only digital controls and I found that the keyboard works best for digital controls because each direction is a different key instead of a big thing you slide your thumb around on.
For that matter a Sega Master System could fit those C64 and Amiga (I think, whatever computer used the two-button-mode on these things) joysticks. They look like they'd fit into the COM1 port on a PC too but I'm not sure PCs can use joysticks plugged into those.
The key point is to make them believe those people are evil. Once they recognize them as an enemy they'll open fire. "Citizen" sounds friendly, "terrorist" or "enemy combatant" doesn't sound as friendly and you have to make sure they think of them as the latter, not the former.
That must've been some powerful beans...
Or maybe he was just afraid of the answer, maybe he just wanted to make sure everyone just sees them as pure Hollywood-esque evildoers rather than people with their own reasons.
The point was to demonstrate the shock value. This whole discussion is about the shock value of the word "terrorist".
Obligatory Sinfest.
"declining quality of games"? I don't see that, the quality seems to be pretty stable or slighly rising (compare today's crappy games to the crappy games of two decades ago, today's just have a few weaknesses, 20 years ago you'd be lucky if you could play it). It's easier than ever to create an expressive world without having to push the hardware to the absolute limits. If you take the increase of graphical quality as an indicator of declining quality you're weird, good graphics do not prevent a good game and in fact usually the games that manage to have good graphics (and outside of trailers too) also have good gameplay because the level of attention has a tendency to be consistent across all disciplines of game development.
Do you really think it would never have been invented without letting Big Pharma withold it from poor nations? A lot of research is done by universities and then handed to the corps to patent.
Um...
1. V1 ring a bell? Essentially an unmanned plane for long-range "kamikaze" attacks. It didn't strike New York but London got a lot of hits.
2. Sure but nukes weren't exactly common back then (firebombs were), they did have chem weapons though and they were the first with ballistic missiles.
3. Panzerfaust? Panzerschreck? Those penetrate 200mm tank armor, the strongest out there at the time.
4. Yeah, they had remote operated vehicles filled with explosives and of course planes loaded with bombs for that job.
I hope that was sarcasm I wasn't catching.
That's why they're investigating. They're checking if Media Markt really acted on its own or it was offered some incentive to do that. Nothing wrong with deciding you don't want to sell a product but a lot's wrong with paying stores to not carry a competing product.
You're paying only for the product, he's also paying for the effect that product has on the market, i.e. promote research by preventing either company from resting on its laurels. Just depends on what you want to buy.
Not only that, we're talking about a market that takes several billions to enter, if you storm in and find out you can't win you're seriously fucked. Even without the startup costs it wouldn't be easy to fight a monopoly and wrest enough marketshare away to make decent money, with the startup costs failure is not an option and the risk is huge.
Are you seriously comparing Nazi Germany to a bunch of civilians with homemade explosives? Terrorists don't have high-tech weaponry that could fight on even standing with a superpower!
The thing about that IP enforcement is that it amounts to those countries getting no AIDS treatment. I bet you those countries couldn't care less if USAns get their AIDS treatment, it's worth nothing to them when they can't get any of it. Protecting profits and stuff is nice but we're talking about leaving millions to die.
Yeah and just wait until the Jews start burning our cities!
Punishing the Telcos would send the message "Just because we say we'll look the other way doesn't mean we'll do!" and make other corps more wary of cooperating with the govt when it's against the law.
but you don't even HAVE a sig!
Great idea to have a law (i.e. something that dictates rules for the public) and not show it to the public. This is not just closed source, this is encrypted binaries with remotely-triggered execution.
I'd say if this isn't the case already the consitution needs an amendment that any law must be publicly known before it can take effect.
Imagine the nicest steakhouse in your city. Do they have a problem with people coming, getting a small side salad, and taking up a table for 2 hours?
Depends on how many customers they get. I regularly go to a pretty good and popular restaurant (fairly cheap too) and during peak times you'll have a hard time getting a free seat (not just table, during peak times all seats are taken and families will regularly split themselves across several tables), if someone took a table for two hours during those times that'd make all the people waiting for a seat pretty angry and would probably cause a few lost sales. Of course if that was during the off-times noone would care.
At least in the past MS would ship you a disc full of patches for the cost of the postage (or even completely free, not sure) if you asked for it.
In fact, there have been some people who push science as a religion. You wouldn't say science is absurd would you?
No but most of the attempts to equal it to a religion do so to make it seem absurd. Science does not require faith, it requires evidence.