Yeah now try explaining that to all the developers who had PS3 games lined up for that time and give them a good reason not to simply port to the 360 instead.
Pfft. Even my sister, a total computer illiterate person, managed to break several security questions. Many people will just answer you if you ask them the question they used for that. Others simply use Q:Wazzup? A:Nothing.
I find those drop-down box qeuestions to be way too insecure. We are repeatedly told not to use any words or data that can be found through social engineering (you know, like your birthday) yet those drop-down boxes contain only questions of such an insecure nature.
I think the hardcore gamers are the ones that care the least about the PS3 because the hardcore gamers are well informed and have been complaining about graphics taking precedence over new ideas in gameplay for quite some time now. In fact I'd wager the PS3 aims more at the high-end hardware lover market, the kind that really wants HD. I wouldn't say those are hardcore gamers, a hardcore gamer is perfectly content playing a 10 year old 2d game over a modern 3d game if it offers superior gameplay. Of course noone cares about those hardcore gamers as they are too few and too hard to please.
Another market that cares about the PS3 is the large number of average and casual gamers that liked the PS2 and expect the PS3 to perform similarily, sometimes while harboring misconceptions like believing that the exclusive titles for the PS2 are somehow bound to Sony in a way that prevents their sequels from being on other consoles.
The Wii is hoping to sway that sector of the market (as is the XBox 360, of course) in addition to gaining the "non-gamer", i.e. the people that don't like the games currently made by the big players in the industry and would like a game that's controlled with a mouse and one button instead.
I think that in the end all three consoles try to compete for the same markets, when one covers a market the others don't the others quickly try to adapt and cover it as well. Maybe with the exception of Nintendo as they are always quite slow to react to their competitors' actions.
How are those companies going to pass the cost on to the guy they're monitoring? Their customers are the people grabbing that data and I don't think those would like a price hike either.
Yes but as a result they lose customers. Unless they are selling basic needs without competition they can't raise prices without consequences. As such they'll think twice before passing such costs on to the customer and may opt to take a dent in their profits statistic instead.
Currently not many since Igarashi thinks the same as you and isn't going to make a Wii Castlevania, although lately it seems like he's been reconsidering.
And I'd hope we'd finally see Julius in the main role. Although he wouldn't be as cool since he'd be a 20-something run-off-the-mill Cv main character instead of the 50 year old man he is in the Sorrow games.
What the hell are you talking about? The past few months it's always been people fawning over the Wii, bringing it up in every gaming-related discussion and people making fun of the PS3. The XB3 is on roughly even ground, some like it, others hate it and everyone's complaining about Zonk putting a pro-XBox-anti-PS3 spin on almost every news story.
The Wii controller already contains all the necessary electronics. Maybe they'll throw some sensors to determine your finger movement to a certain degree (e.g. "fingers 1, 2, 4 and 5 bent, communication finger extended") on it but that's pretty unlikely.
It is wasted. Someone should have gotten a clue and built a Porn Processing Unit so the CPU won't have to bother with it anymore AND you can download and watch 10x as much porn at the same time.
wouldn't it be more reasonable to get a more powerful CPU or turn the detail level down? IIRC the manufacturer claimed this thing will give you better ping times (which is why it got branded as snake oil by Slashdotters in first place, you can't reduce the network latency that easily unless it's not really the network that's lagging) but does the ping time really matter when your game is chugging along at 5 FPS?
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Yeah now try explaining that to all the developers who had PS3 games lined up for that time and give them a good reason not to simply port to the 360 instead.
I just wish they would come out with another Starsiege game
What do you think they're doing?
That's what salt is for, add a short string to the password before hashing and the hash is completely different and all hash lists are useless.
Pfft. Even my sister, a total computer illiterate person, managed to break several security questions. Many people will just answer you if you ask them the question they used for that. Others simply use Q:Wazzup? A:Nothing.
I find those drop-down box qeuestions to be way too insecure. We are repeatedly told not to use any words or data that can be found through social engineering (you know, like your birthday) yet those drop-down boxes contain only questions of such an insecure nature.
That works for MS but not for Big Oil or the telcos.
Yes but the post I was replying to claimed that imposing fines upon them just makes them pass the cost on to the customer.
Only if they're made by Koei.
I think the hardcore gamers are the ones that care the least about the PS3 because the hardcore gamers are well informed and have been complaining about graphics taking precedence over new ideas in gameplay for quite some time now. In fact I'd wager the PS3 aims more at the high-end hardware lover market, the kind that really wants HD. I wouldn't say those are hardcore gamers, a hardcore gamer is perfectly content playing a 10 year old 2d game over a modern 3d game if it offers superior gameplay. Of course noone cares about those hardcore gamers as they are too few and too hard to please.
Another market that cares about the PS3 is the large number of average and casual gamers that liked the PS2 and expect the PS3 to perform similarily, sometimes while harboring misconceptions like believing that the exclusive titles for the PS2 are somehow bound to Sony in a way that prevents their sequels from being on other consoles.
The Wii is hoping to sway that sector of the market (as is the XBox 360, of course) in addition to gaining the "non-gamer", i.e. the people that don't like the games currently made by the big players in the industry and would like a game that's controlled with a mouse and one button instead.
I think that in the end all three consoles try to compete for the same markets, when one covers a market the others don't the others quickly try to adapt and cover it as well. Maybe with the exception of Nintendo as they are always quite slow to react to their competitors' actions.
That depends on whether it's a digital TV card.
How are those companies going to pass the cost on to the guy they're monitoring? Their customers are the people grabbing that data and I don't think those would like a price hike either.
and why exactly whould the government (willingly) create laws against that when they can make such handy use of the corperate data collection?
Well, maybe because it pleases the voters, the very people the politicians base their power on?
Yes but as a result they lose customers. Unless they are selling basic needs without competition they can't raise prices without consequences. As such they'll think twice before passing such costs on to the customer and may opt to take a dent in their profits statistic instead.
Hm, you just gave me an idea. A law mandating that all monopolies become property of the government?
Doesn't "faster than c" violate a basic law of physics?
That's a third-party product. Their purpose is to generate profit for the store and allow the clerk to make uninformed parents buy them.
Currently not many since Igarashi thinks the same as you and isn't going to make a Wii Castlevania, although lately it seems like he's been reconsidering.
And I'd hope we'd finally see Julius in the main role. Although he wouldn't be as cool since he'd be a 20-something run-off-the-mill Cv main character instead of the 50 year old man he is in the Sorrow games.
What the hell are you talking about? The past few months it's always been people fawning over the Wii, bringing it up in every gaming-related discussion and people making fun of the PS3. The XB3 is on roughly even ground, some like it, others hate it and everyone's complaining about Zonk putting a pro-XBox-anti-PS3 spin on almost every news story.
The Wii controller already contains all the necessary electronics. Maybe they'll throw some sensors to determine your finger movement to a certain degree (e.g. "fingers 1, 2, 4 and 5 bent, communication finger extended") on it but that's pretty unlikely.
It is wasted. Someone should have gotten a clue and built a Porn Processing Unit so the CPU won't have to bother with it anymore AND you can download and watch 10x as much porn at the same time.
wouldn't it be more reasonable to get a more powerful CPU or turn the detail level down? IIRC the manufacturer claimed this thing will give you better ping times (which is why it got branded as snake oil by Slashdotters in first place, you can't reduce the network latency that easily unless it's not really the network that's lagging) but does the ping time really matter when your game is chugging along at 5 FPS?
From what I understand it's the least bad of the MMORPGs which automatically makes it the most popular one.
Or we could randomly deal out capchas that aren't captchas but instead job offers for people solving captchas for 60 cents an hour.
I don't see you using any Stirling numbers.
Depends on where you live.