Nintendo can't go after distributors of third party games anyway so those don't matter. For Nintendo to be able to take action the sites have to distribute Nintendo games and those are fairly likely to get a VC release.
Besides, I have a copy of the original Zelda in cartridge form whose battery has long been dead. Why should I pay another $5 to play the game when I already have a license to run it?
License? Did your cart come with an EULA or something? Last I checked you buy the copy and that's it, no license or anything involved. You own the physical copy, nothing more, nothing less.
Nintendo puts all VC games through the rating systems of the countries involved. Since those systems release lists of what they rated how that's often used as an early indicator for what's coming out soon.
There is always visible benefit, if in doubt just make cutscenes have closeups or let the player move the camera very close to the stuff you want him to see. The difference between what's visible at HD and SD resolutions is fairly small.
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XBox 360, PS3 (more or less) and Wii are PPC based.
Nothing is ever proven but there are lots of indicators that suggest evolution is what happened while the "evidence" pointing towards the veracity of most religions is ambiguous at best, especially since most religious evidence stems from books written by people that may very well have lied while evolution evidence is based mostly on the fossil record, i.e. something that was produced without human interaction (thus with less complex processes involved to produce the result).
If religion is someone's primary worldview then evolution is not a religion simply because it doesn't have that much importance for anyone, it's simply another fact of life like stars being far away suns or quantum physics.
Also the theory of evolution is based on the principle of what's useful to us. Figuring the natural laws out is useful for technological advancement. Like any other theory it's a means, not an end. It's kept as simple as possible to make sure it's easy to apply. The goal is not to find absolute truth, it's to find a ruleset that works to predict an effect based on its cause. Superior prediction means superior ability to utilize nature. Knowing how organisms evolve helps us deal with rapidly evolving specieses like diseases. Science wouldn't consider creationism unless a creator steps up and says hello (mostly because we have enough trouble figuring out how humans work, if we had to figure out how some creator entity functioned we'd have a huge headache) and even then we have to consider the much more likely possibility that he's just lying. But hey, I'm not saying that it's a bad thing if we'd meet the creator, we'd probably learn a lot by dissecting him.
I'd rather argue that that's one of the reasons a jury isn't a good idea since they're more likely to be biased and swayed easily by irrelevant points than a professional with lots of experience. A judge who makes a biased decision can get in trouble, a jury member didn't want to be there anyway. But this is going pretty much off-topic.
If the emulator is supposed to do both the encoding and the decoding it could just ignore that part of the code. After all, a per-machine key won't be verified separately by the software without allowing to feed it a fake key.
The issue many people have with that claim is that the 40GB PS3 would be only marginally cheaper (10$ or less) to make than the 80GB one. There's probably more cost from having to deal with two different bundles than there is money saved from making the HD 40GB. If Sony can sell a 40GB PS3 at 400$ they can sell an 80GB PS3 at 400$.
Expenses for developing a Wii game are lower so you don't need as many sales to reach break-even.
Also a developer starting a game now will look at the hardware growth to see what the userbases will probably be like by the time the game is done so the Wii's higher per-month sales make it look much more attractive.
If the parent buys the transaction is between the store and the parent, if the parent only gives his CC number the transaction is between the store and minor. Selling porn to minors is a crime AFAIK.
Considering that Home "game" will have microtransactions there are many legitimate uses for a credit card so it's not inconceivable that a kid could get a parent to use their credit card.
Though it's really hypocritical to forbid the release of AO games on the platform and then offer an online portal with actual porn.
The rates are also tied to the payouts. Just like a casino, an insurance want s payouts to be less than the income but unlike a casino they have no control over the odds. While they could raise the rates like mad they'd have trouble with competition that decides not to do so (same as it works with any product that has competition). However, more payouts means the break even rates are higher and competition or not, noone will go below payout rates (ignoring short-term sacrifices to kill a competitor).
More damage in an accident means more payout, more payout means higher minimum rates. Whether the insurance decides to raise the actual rates as much is their thing but if they don't they end up making less profit (shareholders don't like that idea).
There's a reason insurances refuse to pay if their client was taking unnecessary risks, it gives people a reason not to take those risks and potentially decreases the number of risky situations every client is exposed to, reducing the odds for a payout.
Keep in mind that if you get involved in an accident that's not your fault the other insurance won't get the option to say "the victim didn't wear a helmet, we're not paying for him" (unless they want to leave their client to pay the victim's bill and that's an even worse deal).
Of course such a rule would cause an even more complicated process for dealing with accidents since it would have to be proven/disproven that all safety measures were taken.
Remember that the voter can be coerced into cooperation. So it becomes "prove us that you voted Bush or you'll be fired!", doesn't change a damn thing for the outcome. You could make it so that the voter can give a false "secret" that shows a vote he didn't make but how is he going to prove to a regulator that he gave a correct secret? Will the verification interface contain false records a voter can peruse to give a false secret? Then how can he be sure it's his real secret that got counted instead of the machine tagging his false secret as his vote?
The problem for any permanent record in the hands of the voter is that it must be voter-falsifiable without being apparent as a fake to anyone with the same access as the voter.
TherE's a lot of resistance to any idea that would allow a voter to prove who he voted for since that could be used to blackmail people into voting a certain way (e.g. "anyone who didn't vote for Bush gets fired!").
Texture size and polygon numbers have been and will always be constrained by the rendering pipeline, lower resolution is no reason not to utilize the pipeline to its limit (though lower resolution is less demanding on the renderer and could allow for better graphics before your framerate dips).
The point of HD is higher clarity, especially of smaller objects. On the PC even really old games can be run at HD resolutions and it's always better than just leaving them at 320x240 simply because you don't need binoculars to identify somethng more than 10 meters away from you.
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Nintendo can't go after distributors of third party games anyway so those don't matter. For Nintendo to be able to take action the sites have to distribute Nintendo games and those are fairly likely to get a VC release.
Besides, I have a copy of the original Zelda in cartridge form whose battery has long been dead. Why should I pay another $5 to play the game when I already have a license to run it?
License? Did your cart come with an EULA or something? Last I checked you buy the copy and that's it, no license or anything involved. You own the physical copy, nothing more, nothing less.
Nintendo puts all VC games through the rating systems of the countries involved. Since those systems release lists of what they rated how that's often used as an early indicator for what's coming out soon.
I thought we call those teachers?
There is always visible benefit, if in doubt just make cutscenes have closeups or let the player move the camera very close to the stuff you want him to see. The difference between what's visible at HD and SD resolutions is fairly small.
XBox 360, PS3 (more or less) and Wii are PPC based.
Looking at what Intel did in the past they're more likely to modify Havok in a way that "accidentally" gives abysmal performance on AMD CPUs.
Nothing is ever proven but there are lots of indicators that suggest evolution is what happened while the "evidence" pointing towards the veracity of most religions is ambiguous at best, especially since most religious evidence stems from books written by people that may very well have lied while evolution evidence is based mostly on the fossil record, i.e. something that was produced without human interaction (thus with less complex processes involved to produce the result).
If religion is someone's primary worldview then evolution is not a religion simply because it doesn't have that much importance for anyone, it's simply another fact of life like stars being far away suns or quantum physics.
Also the theory of evolution is based on the principle of what's useful to us. Figuring the natural laws out is useful for technological advancement. Like any other theory it's a means, not an end. It's kept as simple as possible to make sure it's easy to apply. The goal is not to find absolute truth, it's to find a ruleset that works to predict an effect based on its cause. Superior prediction means superior ability to utilize nature. Knowing how organisms evolve helps us deal with rapidly evolving specieses like diseases. Science wouldn't consider creationism unless a creator steps up and says hello (mostly because we have enough trouble figuring out how humans work, if we had to figure out how some creator entity functioned we'd have a huge headache) and even then we have to consider the much more likely possibility that he's just lying. But hey, I'm not saying that it's a bad thing if we'd meet the creator, we'd probably learn a lot by dissecting him.
I'd rather argue that that's one of the reasons a jury isn't a good idea since they're more likely to be biased and swayed easily by irrelevant points than a professional with lots of experience. A judge who makes a biased decision can get in trouble, a jury member didn't want to be there anyway. But this is going pretty much off-topic.
Problem is the people trading it aren't the people receiving the consequences.
If the emulator is supposed to do both the encoding and the decoding it could just ignore that part of the code. After all, a per-machine key won't be verified separately by the software without allowing to feed it a fake key.
The government needs my information to provide services I want. Google doesn't need my information just to display search results.
Do you know why I don't shop at either Lidl or Aldi? The employees look unhappy there and are unfriendly and that says a lot.
I guess that's why Wal-Mart had the "smile or get fired" policy.
The issue many people have with that claim is that the 40GB PS3 would be only marginally cheaper (10$ or less) to make than the 80GB one. There's probably more cost from having to deal with two different bundles than there is money saved from making the HD 40GB. If Sony can sell a 40GB PS3 at 400$ they can sell an 80GB PS3 at 400$.
Expenses for developing a Wii game are lower so you don't need as many sales to reach break-even.
Also a developer starting a game now will look at the hardware growth to see what the userbases will probably be like by the time the game is done so the Wii's higher per-month sales make it look much more attractive.
If the parent buys the transaction is between the store and the parent, if the parent only gives his CC number the transaction is between the store and minor. Selling porn to minors is a crime AFAIK.
Considering that Home "game" will have microtransactions there are many legitimate uses for a credit card so it's not inconceivable that a kid could get a parent to use their credit card.
Though it's really hypocritical to forbid the release of AO games on the platform and then offer an online portal with actual porn.
Part of that is the rapid inflation of the US dollar. It's price is reasonable to most other markets
Nonsense, 600€ is not reasonable. Japan's prices may be but AFAIK they're lower than the US and EU prices.
Nonono, once they have a colony up there they'll drop it on the US.
Don't worry, there's only the Toast King.
The rates are also tied to the payouts. Just like a casino, an insurance want s payouts to be less than the income but unlike a casino they have no control over the odds. While they could raise the rates like mad they'd have trouble with competition that decides not to do so (same as it works with any product that has competition). However, more payouts means the break even rates are higher and competition or not, noone will go below payout rates (ignoring short-term sacrifices to kill a competitor).
More damage in an accident means more payout, more payout means higher minimum rates. Whether the insurance decides to raise the actual rates as much is their thing but if they don't they end up making less profit (shareholders don't like that idea).
There's a reason insurances refuse to pay if their client was taking unnecessary risks, it gives people a reason not to take those risks and potentially decreases the number of risky situations every client is exposed to, reducing the odds for a payout.
Keep in mind that if you get involved in an accident that's not your fault the other insurance won't get the option to say "the victim didn't wear a helmet, we're not paying for him" (unless they want to leave their client to pay the victim's bill and that's an even worse deal).
Of course such a rule would cause an even more complicated process for dealing with accidents since it would have to be proven/disproven that all safety measures were taken.
Perhaps he's working for forensics...
Remember that the voter can be coerced into cooperation. So it becomes "prove us that you voted Bush or you'll be fired!", doesn't change a damn thing for the outcome. You could make it so that the voter can give a false "secret" that shows a vote he didn't make but how is he going to prove to a regulator that he gave a correct secret? Will the verification interface contain false records a voter can peruse to give a false secret? Then how can he be sure it's his real secret that got counted instead of the machine tagging his false secret as his vote?
The problem for any permanent record in the hands of the voter is that it must be voter-falsifiable without being apparent as a fake to anyone with the same access as the voter.
TherE's a lot of resistance to any idea that would allow a voter to prove who he voted for since that could be used to blackmail people into voting a certain way (e.g. "anyone who didn't vote for Bush gets fired!").
Texture size and polygon numbers have been and will always be constrained by the rendering pipeline, lower resolution is no reason not to utilize the pipeline to its limit (though lower resolution is less demanding on the renderer and could allow for better graphics before your framerate dips).
The point of HD is higher clarity, especially of smaller objects. On the PC even really old games can be run at HD resolutions and it's always better than just leaving them at 320x240 simply because you don't need binoculars to identify somethng more than 10 meters away from you.
Several regions have reached "saturation" already (Germany, the country I'm in, among them*) but the US hasn't.
*=The Wii is the market leader here despite (or possibly because of) the availability.