Bethesda has a next-gen game that's been out for a while that they want to sell more copies of and they add a little bonus to the game as an incentive to buy a copy for the new system.
Or they added that because Sony is well known for demanding that late ports come with additional features on their system.
He is right, humans aren't the dominant species because they just lay down and die when their survival is threatened, they do whatever it takes to stay alive. That usually means begging or crime these days. Never mind that dead bodies on the street aren't conductive to the public health.
Making a country a 'Democracy' implies that people vote on all sorts of issues about everything. In particular, they vote on issues that some of us feel goverment should not intrude.
No, it does not. Democracy is available in several flavours, one of which is the representative democracy where people vote together a govenment and that's it.
However I have a hypothetical question that came to mind. What if it became clear that the ideals of Western society were counterproductive to its survival? As in, what happens when you start to see your way of live being subsumed by a more aggressive culture, because of strongly-held beliefs that prevent the response that would prevent the takeover?
That depends on the measures taken. Do you believe that legalizing torture is a necessary step to deal with a criminal group like these? They are less dangerous than car accidents at the moment and I don't think that all this new anti-terror legislation captures enough criminals to justify the damage it causes to our rights. Any measure taken has to be weighted for its expected usefulness vs. the impact on the rights of the populace. A Holocaust would be the fastest way to remove any muslim terrorists from the country but it hurts so many innocents it should not even be considered.
Gambling is not limited to completely random games. While random games are more profitable for casinos since it's easier to control the win-loss ratios any game that can result in a monetary win is gambling. Second Life is a game that allows players to invest money and possibly come away with a profit, that alone makes it gambling, not the mechanics involved in the game. Their only hope is to dodge the definition of a game and instead get counted as a form of network that offers various services. In that case they could limit the gambling definition to any "service" (if I understand it right that would be a region operated by a user) that resembles a game and allows the player (not to be confused with the operator) to leave with more money than he entered with.
I think LL would need to apply for common carrier status if they don't want to be liable whenever a user sets up a gambling den, though.
Line item veto is too dangerous, those lines could be security precautions against misuse or statements limiting the scope of the bill, etc. Line 1: The POTUS can have any person detained indefinitely, Line 2: Doing so requires approval by a judge and the following conditions: [items a-e]. Congress passes the bill since it only applies to terrorists, the POTUS vetoes all but Line 1 and everything goes down the shitter. Granted, that's an extreme example but still.
The Playstation is what I'm talking about. I don't know why Sony thought that would be a good idea, in Japan all Playstation games use O for confirm and X for cancel, for some reason SCEA changed that around and now X confirms and O or/\ cancels, depending on the game. Really WHY? Why change a sensible default into something else and not even manage to set up a convention for which button cancels???
It certainly can sell more consoles than games. Not directly but indirectly. People look at the list of great games, see how many there are for the PS2 and buy that console. Even if they never buy 90% of those games they still padded the list enough to make the PS2 look like the best deal.
You're forgetting that this time it's Sony that's pushing devs around. Except they don't reject games for criteria like too much violence, instead they try to shape their game catalog in a different way like requiring late ports to have additional features, having a very hostile stance towards 2d games and such.
The reason is a patent dispute. Sony infringed Immersion's patent, MS copied them, Immersion notices and sues both, MS settles and buys a license while Sony decides to look tough and fight it out in court (not sure if they lost already or if the judgement is still pending). Since it wouldn't help their case they stopped infringing upon the patent with the PS3, adding tilt detection to have an excuse to claim that their new controller isn't worse. Nintendo is exempt from all this since they developed rumble independently from Immersion and have their own patents for their implementation.
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Well, how does your arm feel after playing a game with a mouse?
Bethesda has a next-gen game that's been out for a while that they want to sell more copies of and they add a little bonus to the game as an incentive to buy a copy for the new system.
Or they added that because Sony is well known for demanding that late ports come with additional features on their system.
He is right, humans aren't the dominant species because they just lay down and die when their survival is threatened, they do whatever it takes to stay alive. That usually means begging or crime these days. Never mind that dead bodies on the street aren't conductive to the public health.
Making a country a 'Democracy' implies that people vote on all sorts of issues about everything. In particular, they vote on issues that some of us feel goverment should not intrude.
No, it does not. Democracy is available in several flavours, one of which is the representative democracy where people vote together a govenment and that's it.
However I have a hypothetical question that came to mind. What if it became clear that the ideals of Western society were counterproductive to its survival? As in, what happens when you start to see your way of live being subsumed by a more aggressive culture, because of strongly-held beliefs that prevent the response that would prevent the takeover?
That depends on the measures taken. Do you believe that legalizing torture is a necessary step to deal with a criminal group like these? They are less dangerous than car accidents at the moment and I don't think that all this new anti-terror legislation captures enough criminals to justify the damage it causes to our rights. Any measure taken has to be weighted for its expected usefulness vs. the impact on the rights of the populace. A Holocaust would be the fastest way to remove any muslim terrorists from the country but it hurts so many innocents it should not even be considered.
Gambling is not limited to completely random games. While random games are more profitable for casinos since it's easier to control the win-loss ratios any game that can result in a monetary win is gambling. Second Life is a game that allows players to invest money and possibly come away with a profit, that alone makes it gambling, not the mechanics involved in the game. Their only hope is to dodge the definition of a game and instead get counted as a form of network that offers various services. In that case they could limit the gambling definition to any "service" (if I understand it right that would be a region operated by a user) that resembles a game and allows the player (not to be confused with the operator) to leave with more money than he entered with.
I think LL would need to apply for common carrier status if they don't want to be liable whenever a user sets up a gambling den, though.
The POTUS could easily say he'll veto any bill that goes off-topic, no matter what it's about.
Line item veto is too dangerous, those lines could be security precautions against misuse or statements limiting the scope of the bill, etc. Line 1: The POTUS can have any person detained indefinitely, Line 2: Doing so requires approval by a judge and the following conditions: [items a-e]. Congress passes the bill since it only applies to terrorists, the POTUS vetoes all but Line 1 and everything goes down the shitter. Granted, that's an extreme example but still.
Maybe where you live. Here "gift" only exempts shipments under a certain value.
The only thing they have in common whatsoever is that an ancient race build ringworlds in both works.
Yeah, well, they could still have replaced that with, say, a discworld.
And? Why change it?
Are you sure Sega didn't sell any console at a loss?
I recall RE5 being announced for the 360 and PS3 right on day 1.
The Playstation is what I'm talking about. I don't know why Sony thought that would be a good idea, in Japan all Playstation games use O for confirm and X for cancel, for some reason SCEA changed that around and now X confirms and O or /\ cancels, depending on the game. Really WHY? Why change a sensible default into something else and not even manage to set up a convention for which button cancels???
Or label the cancel button on your controller O and the confirm button X...
It's on probation?
Magnets? MAGNETS? We used a dull fork because we couldn't afford a proper keypuncher!
Of course, since we get the ass end of just about every game launch on the planet...
You get it one day before Europe does.
A true geek doesn't need to move the sofa to put it in front of the PC.
It certainly can sell more consoles than games. Not directly but indirectly. People look at the list of great games, see how many there are for the PS2 and buy that console. Even if they never buy 90% of those games they still padded the list enough to make the PS2 look like the best deal.
You're forgetting that this time it's Sony that's pushing devs around. Except they don't reject games for criteria like too much violence, instead they try to shape their game catalog in a different way like requiring late ports to have additional features, having a very hostile stance towards 2d games and such.
Had Squaresoft backed Nintendo, they might still be Squaresoft, and they might still be producing fun games instead of barely interactive movies.
No, they'd still have Sakaguchi who's the reason for this interactive movie trend.
The reason is a patent dispute. Sony infringed Immersion's patent, MS copied them, Immersion notices and sues both, MS settles and buys a license while Sony decides to look tough and fight it out in court (not sure if they lost already or if the judgement is still pending). Since it wouldn't help their case they stopped infringing upon the patent with the PS3, adding tilt detection to have an excuse to claim that their new controller isn't worse. Nintendo is exempt from all this since they developed rumble independently from Immersion and have their own patents for their implementation.
The controller identifies the "sensor" bar by its IR signature. If there's too much IR noise it may not be able to track the bar.
Bribing a judge is a serious offense and I don't think any company is insane enough to try that.