The UK has shortages. Germany has ample supply but was the first region that reported the Wii outselling the 360 in total sales.
As for point 2, don't fool yourself. The PS2 still being so strong has little to do with Sony's wishes, it's mostly because the PS2 just sold so damn many consoles. You could see the same effect with the GBA when the DS was released (and supposedly the NES and SNES were similar but I didn't watch that much), it takes a while for a really popular platform to fade out while the less popular GC and Xbox died quickly. It's not Sony's to decide if the PS3 will have similar strength in the end.
Also AFAIK the Wii is now outselling the PS2. I don't have figures at hand but the PS2 was weakening slowly. You don't need to believe this since I don't have reliable figures (can only point at vgchartz.com right now which says the Wii outsold the PS2 pretty much the whole year) but I don't think the PS2 is really still the dominant platform, its games support is winding down so I really doubt it keeps outselling the newer consoles.
I recall previews talking about the virus affecting your drivers and stuff like that but the actual game didn't have that AFAIK, the subset of your directory structure that gets used is predefined by the mission/map and it seems to look alphabetically, for me that meant most of the game happened in my Anno1602 folder. You'll rarely see worthwile data in there.
Reserve is one of the dumbest ideas I've seen. Have people bid for an item but not get it if the price is lower than an invisible threshold? How's that an auction? If you want a higher minimum price you should be forced to say so openly.
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How's that profit? Nintendo isn't selling them at the dynamic market price, they're selling them at MSRP plus they make a hefty chunk of change on game sales which rely heavily on the hardware sales (also other developers will scale their support according to the hardware sales which means more or fewer games and more or fewer hardware sales in the future). It doesn't make sense for them to short the supply, they're making less money with constrained supply.
Don't bother, the Wii can play all Gamecube games (but won't do LAN or online multiplayer on them, hardly a loss considering maybe 5-6 games total supported those). Finding Gamecube games now is going to be hard, you should've bought one a few years earlier (they were dirt cheap even when they were still being made). GC stuff is getting dropped pretty quickly, good luck finding the games you want.
That jury should have been kicked out then, possibly convicted for conspiracy to murder. Serial killers are serial killers, the fundamental rule of law is that all punishment must be validated by courts, if anyone skips the courts that's undermining the basic principle of law. If the jury is sympathetic to a person proven guilty and lets him off for that reason they are not fit to be a jury.
I've got a game called Virus that does this (action RTS with Descent-style FPS mode) but I don't think it was made by David Braben. Braben's Virus was about aliens attacking Earth and probably didn't have any computer references.
These are statutory damages, they ARE supposed to be more or less fines. I don't think they were designed for cases like this though, we'd need some form of sanity check to prevent small-scale distribution from gathering damages like that, maybe some legislated standard amount of copies assumed to be made by an average P2P user. My Bittorrent share ratio is slightly above 1, assuming 5-10 copies per downloader would probably be a realistic figure and be fair for both parties.
Try abolishing punishment and see what happens. More punishment might not deter more criminals but you have to keep a baseline.
When someone is a danger to society, locking them up protects society. Spammers, no matter how annoying are not dangerous to society.
The traffic and mental workload they cause decreases the productivity of society by requiring much bigger mailservers and time invested into dealing with the crap, never mind the whole botnet deal. They might not beat people up directly but they are definitely a menace to society.
You can call spam many things but victimless is probably the least applicable. How is it victimless to DDoS mailservers and inboxes while attempting to get data for identity theft? If that was done by a govt it would be considered an act of war.
Let's not forget the way they abuse public infrastructure making it almost unusable. While I think capital punishment is too much, 25 years in jail does sound reasonable considering how much damage they do.
We have limited radio spectrum, allowing anyone to broadcast will cause collisions, either accidentally or on purpose. Jamming a station that disagrees with you? Broadcasting in a spectrum that another station uses and jam that for some areas? Sorry but as long as there's limited spectrum to go around there's no way we can let just anyone broadcast.
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The UK has shortages. Germany has ample supply but was the first region that reported the Wii outselling the 360 in total sales.
As for point 2, don't fool yourself. The PS2 still being so strong has little to do with Sony's wishes, it's mostly because the PS2 just sold so damn many consoles. You could see the same effect with the GBA when the DS was released (and supposedly the NES and SNES were similar but I didn't watch that much), it takes a while for a really popular platform to fade out while the less popular GC and Xbox died quickly. It's not Sony's to decide if the PS3 will have similar strength in the end.
Also AFAIK the Wii is now outselling the PS2. I don't have figures at hand but the PS2 was weakening slowly. You don't need to believe this since I don't have reliable figures (can only point at vgchartz.com right now which says the Wii outsold the PS2 pretty much the whole year) but I don't think the PS2 is really still the dominant platform, its games support is winding down so I really doubt it keeps outselling the newer consoles.
You're warm and well fed in jail too yet I don't see many people going in there voluntarily.
I recall previews talking about the virus affecting your drivers and stuff like that but the actual game didn't have that AFAIK, the subset of your directory structure that gets used is predefined by the mission/map and it seems to look alphabetically, for me that meant most of the game happened in my Anno1602 folder. You'll rarely see worthwile data in there.
Reserve is one of the dumbest ideas I've seen. Have people bid for an item but not get it if the price is lower than an invisible threshold? How's that an auction? If you want a higher minimum price you should be forced to say so openly.
How's that profit? Nintendo isn't selling them at the dynamic market price, they're selling them at MSRP plus they make a hefty chunk of change on game sales which rely heavily on the hardware sales (also other developers will scale their support according to the hardware sales which means more or fewer games and more or fewer hardware sales in the future). It doesn't make sense for them to short the supply, they're making less money with constrained supply.
Don't bother, the Wii can play all Gamecube games (but won't do LAN or online multiplayer on them, hardly a loss considering maybe 5-6 games total supported those). Finding Gamecube games now is going to be hard, you should've bought one a few years earlier (they were dirt cheap even when they were still being made). GC stuff is getting dropped pretty quickly, good luck finding the games you want.
You can have a democracy but it gets hard to have a good economy if everyone's a middleman.
That jury should have been kicked out then, possibly convicted for conspiracy to murder. Serial killers are serial killers, the fundamental rule of law is that all punishment must be validated by courts, if anyone skips the courts that's undermining the basic principle of law. If the jury is sympathetic to a person proven guilty and lets him off for that reason they are not fit to be a jury.
You can just attach electrodes to your muscles.
Why the $^%$# doesn't somebody release an updated X-Com?
I've seen several games that attempted to be the new XCom but AFAIK they all failed.
"No officer, I'm not wardriving, I'm just playing a videogame!"
Sorry, the second link should have been this one, accidentally linked to the 1997 game again.
I've got a game called Virus that does this (action RTS with Descent-style FPS mode) but I don't think it was made by David Braben. Braben's Virus was about aliens attacking Earth and probably didn't have any computer references.
Virus 1997 action RTS
Virus 1988 arcade game by David Braben also known as Zarch
V2000, more or less a sequel to Braben's Virus
Pah, in my day we said "let there be computers!".
I thought the punishment for high treason was death?
These are statutory damages, they ARE supposed to be more or less fines. I don't think they were designed for cases like this though, we'd need some form of sanity check to prevent small-scale distribution from gathering damages like that, maybe some legislated standard amount of copies assumed to be made by an average P2P user. My Bittorrent share ratio is slightly above 1, assuming 5-10 copies per downloader would probably be a realistic figure and be fair for both parties.
If the RIAA lawsuit damages were based on the profit the sharers made noone would complain either.
Try abolishing punishment and see what happens. More punishment might not deter more criminals but you have to keep a baseline.
When someone is a danger to society, locking them up protects society. Spammers, no matter how annoying are not dangerous to society.
The traffic and mental workload they cause decreases the productivity of society by requiring much bigger mailservers and time invested into dealing with the crap, never mind the whole botnet deal. They might not beat people up directly but they are definitely a menace to society.
Because freedom of speech is not the freedom to force others to listen.
You can call spam many things but victimless is probably the least applicable. How is it victimless to DDoS mailservers and inboxes while attempting to get data for identity theft? If that was done by a govt it would be considered an act of war.
Let's not forget the way they abuse public infrastructure making it almost unusable. While I think capital punishment is too much, 25 years in jail does sound reasonable considering how much damage they do.
Or maybe a steel bar limiting the height of vehicles entering the town?
I think that's why the court ruled the way it did, the competition is strong and viable enough that exclusivity on the iPhone is not important.
At least, unlike SM64 and SMS, Galaxy had mid-level checkpoints so you didn't have to start the entire level over when you died.
We have limited radio spectrum, allowing anyone to broadcast will cause collisions, either accidentally or on purpose. Jamming a station that disagrees with you? Broadcasting in a spectrum that another station uses and jam that for some areas? Sorry but as long as there's limited spectrum to go around there's no way we can let just anyone broadcast.