Any decent LCDs I've seen were more in the 300€ range but I'm not sure those were really all that good, would probably have to go higher toget one that's suitable for gaming and has good color reproduction.
Doesn't displaying static images on a plasma TV cause serious burn-in?
Besides, once you start actually importing them illegally, then you might as well stop bringing in pissant semi-autos and go for real weapons, full-autos, SMGs and the like.
If smuggling is that easy why aren't the smugglers already going for those? Why aren't criminals using SMGs?
Do you really want to do your text editing in front of a TV? I don't know about yours but I'd go nuts if I had to work on a 50-60Hz screen, especially one that can only do 640x480 because anything reasonable costs way too much. For comparison, my PC CRT does 72Hz at 1280x960 (it can do more but that's what I'm using it at) and it cost me 150€.
Getting an illegal gun isn't particularly hard in any major city
Isn't that mostly because anyone can get them from a store? If you had to import these things from other countries (unless you want a hunting rifle) that wouldn't be nearly as easy.
So your argument is "Everyone knows that reviews are nonsense and only paid-for people will disagree"? If reviews are that bad, why can't you point out a game that got reviewed highly despite being (objectively!) total crap?
Careful with points for purely friendly interaction, World in Conflict gave points for repairing friendlies, the result was players running huge swarms of repair tanks everywhere that mostly repaired each other. Might sound nice except those players also had the duty of anti-air and artillery support which they neglected to score higher.
Every single game is rated 'game of the year' even when its a total piece of crap that barely runs.
Care to mention some examples? Because despite this "common wisdom" being repeated so often I haven't seen that happen. The only way you could even think that's happening is if you think "gaming has been downhill ever since 3d was invented" and think all modern games are just bad games with pretty graphics that don't stack up to Pong. That's a delusion, modern games are not worse than old ones and in many cases they are even better because we made progress in interface design and figuring out how to make a game not frustrating to the user (making the player start over from the start of the game when he dies? Forcing the player to pay a lot of money or find secret items just to save his progress? Making secrets mandatory to progress to the next level?). Sure, games are no longer so difficult that you need ten attempts to get past the tutorial but shouldn't that kind of difficulty be relegated to the late game anyway?
Yes but ultimately noone will fault you for being positive on a preview for a bad game but they will fault you for a review that doesn't reflect the quality of the game. Previews are done with early builds anyway so a low quality preview doesn't necessarily mean much. If a review is written about an incomplete version and makes assumptions about what will get fixed that's problematic though, should have waited for the retail release and test then.
Greenpeace specifically pointed out that they didn't check for the energy consumption of the products and were considering to add it for the next survey.
In practice it seems that many people love Socrate's assumption that there are only two possible answers for a question. Especially shows during political debate where people tend to project any idea they don't favor on the party they don't vote for, e.g. liberals and conservatives accusing the respective other party of favouring big govt just because they themselves like small govts and therefore their opposition must have the opposite stance.
Wouldn't ID also have to explain how the creator works and what created it in order to be acceptable as science? After all, it's postulating all those new concepts so it should have the job of defining them, too instead of just saying "we'll leave that to someone else to find out".
To believe that macro evolution is possible or not you must first believe that the concept of macro evolution exists. What evidence is there that speciation is somehow different from minor mutations if you pile enough of them up? Hell, what IS speciation? There is no defined border for a species, any lines are drawn arbitrarily and it's often much debated where one species ends and another begins. So why is there a separate process necessary to cross a boundary we cannot even describe?
I think it's more of a graphical thing, 2d games generally get rated lower because sprites tend to look cartoony and violence doesn't look very detailled when the knife has 5 pixels to it.
Slashdot Mirror
Brian?
Any decent LCDs I've seen were more in the 300€ range but I'm not sure those were really all that good, would probably have to go higher toget one that's suitable for gaming and has good color reproduction.
Doesn't displaying static images on a plasma TV cause serious burn-in?
Besides, once you start actually importing them illegally, then you might as well stop bringing in pissant semi-autos and go for real weapons, full-autos, SMGs and the like.
If smuggling is that easy why aren't the smugglers already going for those? Why aren't criminals using SMGs?
Sure but do you know how loud those drives get when the disc inside has some form of copyrestriction? Mine sounds like a chainsaw.
Do you really want to do your text editing in front of a TV? I don't know about yours but I'd go nuts if I had to work on a 50-60Hz screen, especially one that can only do 640x480 because anything reasonable costs way too much. For comparison, my PC CRT does 72Hz at 1280x960 (it can do more but that's what I'm using it at) and it cost me 150€.
The 400$ one is 350$ now AFAIK.
Failures tend to group together.
Which explains most internet forum userbases.
Getting an illegal gun isn't particularly hard in any major city
Isn't that mostly because anyone can get them from a store? If you had to import these things from other countries (unless you want a hunting rifle) that wouldn't be nearly as easy.
So your argument is "Everyone knows that reviews are nonsense and only paid-for people will disagree"? If reviews are that bad, why can't you point out a game that got reviewed highly despite being (objectively!) total crap?
Careful with points for purely friendly interaction, World in Conflict gave points for repairing friendlies, the result was players running huge swarms of repair tanks everywhere that mostly repaired each other. Might sound nice except those players also had the duty of anti-air and artillery support which they neglected to score higher.
Supposedly The Witcher (PC, RPG) has choices that aren't as blatant.
I'd be less worried about RPGs and more about gunship-launched ATGMs.
Every single game is rated 'game of the year' even when its a total piece of crap that barely runs.
Care to mention some examples? Because despite this "common wisdom" being repeated so often I haven't seen that happen. The only way you could even think that's happening is if you think "gaming has been downhill ever since 3d was invented" and think all modern games are just bad games with pretty graphics that don't stack up to Pong. That's a delusion, modern games are not worse than old ones and in many cases they are even better because we made progress in interface design and figuring out how to make a game not frustrating to the user (making the player start over from the start of the game when he dies? Forcing the player to pay a lot of money or find secret items just to save his progress? Making secrets mandatory to progress to the next level?). Sure, games are no longer so difficult that you need ten attempts to get past the tutorial but shouldn't that kind of difficulty be relegated to the late game anyway?
Yes but ultimately noone will fault you for being positive on a preview for a bad game but they will fault you for a review that doesn't reflect the quality of the game. Previews are done with early builds anyway so a low quality preview doesn't necessarily mean much. If a review is written about an incomplete version and makes assumptions about what will get fixed that's problematic though, should have waited for the retail release and test then.
I don't think the Zune would be more in favour with grannies than any of the other dozens of MP3 players.
Greenpeace specifically pointed out that they didn't check for the energy consumption of the products and were considering to add it for the next survey.
I'd assume NASA's scientific staff uses kg which is a measure of mass.
Yep, violating gravity or thermodynamics is punishable by up to 5 years in federal jail.
In practice it seems that many people love Socrate's assumption that there are only two possible answers for a question. Especially shows during political debate where people tend to project any idea they don't favor on the party they don't vote for, e.g. liberals and conservatives accusing the respective other party of favouring big govt just because they themselves like small govts and therefore their opposition must have the opposite stance.
Wouldn't ID also have to explain how the creator works and what created it in order to be acceptable as science? After all, it's postulating all those new concepts so it should have the job of defining them, too instead of just saying "we'll leave that to someone else to find out".
Which is why the amount of leverage those ID nuts have is even more astounding.
To believe that macro evolution is possible or not you must first believe that the concept of macro evolution exists. What evidence is there that speciation is somehow different from minor mutations if you pile enough of them up? Hell, what IS speciation? There is no defined border for a species, any lines are drawn arbitrarily and it's often much debated where one species ends and another begins. So why is there a separate process necessary to cross a boundary we cannot even describe?
Previews are different from reviews though.
Bioshock? The Half-Life series?
I think it's more of a graphical thing, 2d games generally get rated lower because sprites tend to look cartoony and violence doesn't look very detailled when the knife has 5 pixels to it.