Depends on what you want the health care to be efficient at, do you want it to be efficient at making a profit for itself or effective at providing medical coverage?
It is pretty much the only one with an unrestricted free speech clause, for example. Other countries restrict hate speech and can legally regulate the sale of violent media to children while the US constitution doesn't allow that.
Yes but his situation is more like the PC screen that doesn't have a tuner at all. Since PC screens aren't considered TVs even though you could add a receiver (they only are once you add that recceiver), his PC shouldn't count as a broadcast receiving PC if he'd have to add another (expensive) component to make it actually do that.
The TV is ad free during the programs, in between two shows you'll see some ads. I think the ad load on the radio differs between stations, some use a lot of ads while others (NDR Info, for example, which is all talking and occassionally a piece of classical music) don't do much.
Yes, provided you permanently wreck the servers that provide those TV and radio programs since client-side restrictions aren't accepted. Of course I think most people would appreciate the destruction of those servers over having to pay the fee. I mean, who watches German public TV or radio (which is what's subsidized by this, the private stations dont see a penny) over the internet?
Then you start gaining size by making games you CAN do. You aren't complaining that you lack the capital to make a game rivalling Final Fantasy, do you?
Except they're charging 50% more (60€ for a current gen game, 40€ for GBA and DS games) while companies publishing PC games charge 40-50€ for a game with no indication of a price hike for "next-gen" games.
I still don't think expecting one platform to match another's features 100% is a fair comparison, after all there's no 100% match in the other direction, either. If you want single screen MP you get a console, if you want games where you can handle more than one character at one without going turn-based and games that can be modified you pick the PC.
I think we'd see more stores do special offers (x% off or take two get one for free) if that was true but I've never seen stores drop prices on (console) games by more than 10% when it wasn't a pricedrop set by the manufacturer or the store really wanted to get rid of that shelf space waster. But then again it may be different in the US, I hear they do get price drops there.
The difference between a car and a console is that a car does not require large amounts of software to be made specifically for it. If the PS3 fails to sell enough units for whatever reason (and a preorder sellout doesn't mean much since we're talking about 400k units at most, probably less because the preorder numbers were just estimates, not enough by far to host a million seller game) that software won't get made or will be cross platform. The PS3 is going up against competitors for this software and those competitors lack many of the issues that plague the PS3 so even if they are less "future proof" they might have already eliminated the PS3 from the race by the time that matters.
To go back to the car analogy: If you have a company making car radios, those radios must be specific to a car manufacturer and you can only sell them for a certain price because they won't sell otherwise (and that price is very similar for all makers)*, would you make radios for Ferrari or for GM?
*= In real life a Ferrari owner would be more willing to buy a radio at a higher price but a PS3 owner sure as hell isn't going to accept much higher game prices.
I think we should wait until it's released before we say the PS3 can run Oblivion at full detail and 1920x1080p. Resistance: Fall of Man alledgedly renders at 1280x720 and upscales if the user wants a higher resolution to free up texture memory, I wouldn't be surprised if Oblivion had some performance savings implemented to run properly on the PS3.
We're talking about games, if you want 1080p HD videos you'll obviously buy a HD player and the vast majority will wait with that until those players can be had for less than 100$ and the movie selection is as big as it is for DVDs. For games there's little difference between 1600x1200 and 1080p and there is no scaling because the game is rendered at the desired resolution in first place (note that this does not necessarily apply to console games, I've heard that Resistance, the big PS3 launch title, will render in 720p at max and upscale to save video memory and deliver more textures instead).
And AFAIK native 1080p sets are a bit hard to find, I've seen 1080 compatible ones but most ran at resolutions like 1024x768 so few people are going to see 1080p wirhout scaling. 720p is more likely and any decently sized PC monitor can display that without complaining (and I can play even modern games at that resolution with my slightly outdated PC).
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Wouldn't the guards start just ignoring that data and let anyone in that has a piece of paper looking roughly like a valid ID?
I find it even worse when they burninate.
Depends on what you want the health care to be efficient at, do you want it to be efficient at making a profit for itself or effective at providing medical coverage?
Perhaps a better solution would be to replace cigarettes with injections or pills, those don't emit smoke.
I don't know about you but except for fast-food hains I have never sen a nonsmoker restaurant.
So thought the german jews before the Nazis came for them.
It is pretty much the only one with an unrestricted free speech clause, for example. Other countries restrict hate speech and can legally regulate the sale of violent media to children while the US constitution doesn't allow that.
Wait, I thought you guys had an entire prison CONTINENT?
What are you doing with my 2776 MB?
Can't you declare all your devices as owned by the same entity, i.e. you or your business?
Yes but his situation is more like the PC screen that doesn't have a tuner at all. Since PC screens aren't considered TVs even though you could add a receiver (they only are once you add that recceiver), his PC shouldn't count as a broadcast receiving PC if he'd have to add another (expensive) component to make it actually do that.
The TV is ad free during the programs, in between two shows you'll see some ads. I think the ad load on the radio differs between stations, some use a lot of ads while others (NDR Info, for example, which is all talking and occassionally a piece of classical music) don't do much.
Yes, provided you permanently wreck the servers that provide those TV and radio programs since client-side restrictions aren't accepted. Of course I think most people would appreciate the destruction of those servers over having to pay the fee. I mean, who watches German public TV or radio (which is what's subsidized by this, the private stations dont see a penny) over the internet?
I think they're currently charging the 17€ a TV costs for a computer (though that started only recently), now they're down to the radio fees.
Then you start gaining size by making games you CAN do. You aren't complaining that you lack the capital to make a game rivalling Final Fantasy, do you?
Of course many of those delays affect Nintendo's own titles which have a guaranteed publisher in Europe, namely Nintendo of Europe.
Except they're charging 50% more (60€ for a current gen game, 40€ for GBA and DS games) while companies publishing PC games charge 40-50€ for a game with no indication of a price hike for "next-gen" games.
Makes me wonder... If the retailer is located in Hong-Kong, doesn't the sale happen there and is subject to their laws?
I still don't think expecting one platform to match another's features 100% is a fair comparison, after all there's no 100% match in the other direction, either. If you want single screen MP you get a console, if you want games where you can handle more than one character at one without going turn-based and games that can be modified you pick the PC.
I think we'd see more stores do special offers (x% off or take two get one for free) if that was true but I've never seen stores drop prices on (console) games by more than 10% when it wasn't a pricedrop set by the manufacturer or the store really wanted to get rid of that shelf space waster. But then again it may be different in the US, I hear they do get price drops there.
Of course that still doesn't make sense considering it was Sony that printed that trademark on there in first place.
The difference between a car and a console is that a car does not require large amounts of software to be made specifically for it. If the PS3 fails to sell enough units for whatever reason (and a preorder sellout doesn't mean much since we're talking about 400k units at most, probably less because the preorder numbers were just estimates, not enough by far to host a million seller game) that software won't get made or will be cross platform. The PS3 is going up against competitors for this software and those competitors lack many of the issues that plague the PS3 so even if they are less "future proof" they might have already eliminated the PS3 from the race by the time that matters.
To go back to the car analogy: If you have a company making car radios, those radios must be specific to a car manufacturer and you can only sell them for a certain price because they won't sell otherwise (and that price is very similar for all makers)*, would you make radios for Ferrari or for GM?
*= In real life a Ferrari owner would be more willing to buy a radio at a higher price but a PS3 owner sure as hell isn't going to accept much higher game prices.
I think we should wait until it's released before we say the PS3 can run Oblivion at full detail and 1920x1080p. Resistance: Fall of Man alledgedly renders at 1280x720 and upscales if the user wants a higher resolution to free up texture memory, I wouldn't be surprised if Oblivion had some performance savings implemented to run properly on the PS3.
I've got a PC version of Bomberman that allows up to ten players, does that count?
And I think you should tell your theories about what console games can do to the people who made Prey for the XBox 360.
We're talking about games, if you want 1080p HD videos you'll obviously buy a HD player and the vast majority will wait with that until those players can be had for less than 100$ and the movie selection is as big as it is for DVDs. For games there's little difference between 1600x1200 and 1080p and there is no scaling because the game is rendered at the desired resolution in first place (note that this does not necessarily apply to console games, I've heard that Resistance, the big PS3 launch title, will render in 720p at max and upscale to save video memory and deliver more textures instead).
And AFAIK native 1080p sets are a bit hard to find, I've seen 1080 compatible ones but most ran at resolutions like 1024x768 so few people are going to see 1080p wirhout scaling. 720p is more likely and any decently sized PC monitor can display that without complaining (and I can play even modern games at that resolution with my slightly outdated PC).