Fixed point, of course. How many decimals do you need for money values? All values of existing money (account balance and such) have two decimals, exchange rates can have like 6 or so. If the maximum number of digits is known you can use fixed point and be guaranteed that you won't encounter float errors.
Bacteria are capable of surviving cosmic desasters and under the right circumstances would be able to spread life to other planets as well (as some could survive travelling through space). And then there's the chance for another intelligent species to emerge should humans disappear.
The passwords are generated according to an algorithm, that it reads Justin Bailey is a pure coincidence. There are passwords for starting from zero without the suit.
People buy an Alienware to play games. You aren't going to play many games on a Mac Mini. Never mind that you can get a PC that CAN play games (even pretty recent ones) for the same amount of money.
A year after launch I wouldn't even expect any major savings from replacing the bluray drive with a DVD drive. Those things are going to get cheaper pretty quickly.
A monthly fee is only paid for something that lasts you months. Some FPS that takes 10 hours to play through and won't be looked at ever again wouldn't be able to commend monthly fees.
The rising price hurts impulse buyers more and more, if you buy a game that turns out to just be bad or simply not to your liking (in the latter case the game can have stellar reviews so you wouldn't have known beforehand) you are already out 50$. Now Sony is set to increase that by 40%. And publishers wonder why you can't sell anything without brand recognition these days. Of course, who's going to waste 50$ on something they have never even heard of?
Also rising prices mean less sales to kids who usually control the flow of a lot of money (by asking parents to buy them stuff) and are easily influenced by marketing. Kids can buy a game in two ways, get a parent to buy them (most parents already balk at 50$ prices, 70$ is way too much for them) or save up allowance to afford one (at 10-20$ a month that's going to take a while). Kids mostly buy bargain-bin games but what's going to count as bargain for a 70$ game?
Well, of course kids aren't going to get a PS3 anyway as the 500$ is about 300$ too much for most parents.
I meant bad for them, not others. I don't think they'd hesistate to hurt others for profit but I think that hurting themselves isn't exactly good business.
Yes but there's no image display in either controller so that infringement claim would be nonsense. After all it says the display is in the same housing.
Software algorithms are just mathematics, I don't think those were ever patentable. After all maths were around when the patent system was set up so it would have a provision for maths already if that was intended to be patentable.
Nintendo has been using digital protocols since the NES (whereas the Atari VCS simply had a few wires connecting each part of the controller with the base system), Microsoft uses USB. Perhaps analog peripherials used by Atari would fall under this umbrella.
XBLA is limited to 50 MB per game as decreed by Microsoft (because the memory card is only 64MB). If it can fit into 50MB it can fit on an SD card or the 512MB of internal non-volatile memory the Wii has.
That's only movies and if Bluray still exists when the ICT is reintroduced you can probably buy a standalone player for 50 bucks. Never mind that I wouldn't use a PS3 for movies considering Sony's stellar track record with drive quality...
Perhaps they saw how few people bothered with a modchip on the Gamecube because its region restrictions could easily be cracked with an easily available disc.
While I have no actual idea what that means I have a feeling the interpretation in the summary is a bit sensationalistic. If it really was that bad, would Apple really do it? Or are we really facing an Appleron?
One interpretation of this is that once a month, the beautiful, lively, and wonderful goddess (=a woman) turns into a raging witch-queen (=a bitch). (I'm telling you, this is so god-damn sexist, I want to vomit!)
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Fixed point, of course. How many decimals do you need for money values? All values of existing money (account balance and such) have two decimals, exchange rates can have like 6 or so. If the maximum number of digits is known you can use fixed point and be guaranteed that you won't encounter float errors.
Yes and Trillion = Billion * Billion is none of them.
Bacteria are capable of surviving cosmic desasters and under the right circumstances would be able to spread life to other planets as well (as some could survive travelling through space). And then there's the chance for another intelligent species to emerge should humans disappear.
Those aren't going to solve in the ground water now are they?
Earal sex does rank pretty highly on the number of things I never want to experience so I guess I'll have virgin ears forever.
The passwords are generated according to an algorithm, that it reads Justin Bailey is a pure coincidence. There are passwords for starting from zero without the suit.
Devil May Cry is no longer exclusive, by the way. It's being made for the 360 and Wii as well.
People buy an Alienware to play games. You aren't going to play many games on a Mac Mini. Never mind that you can get a PC that CAN play games (even pretty recent ones) for the same amount of money.
A year after launch I wouldn't even expect any major savings from replacing the bluray drive with a DVD drive. Those things are going to get cheaper pretty quickly.
Actually he said we will see a gradual increase, he doesn't expect games to suddently jump to 100$. Nothing else.
A monthly fee is only paid for something that lasts you months. Some FPS that takes 10 hours to play through and won't be looked at ever again wouldn't be able to commend monthly fees.
The rising price hurts impulse buyers more and more, if you buy a game that turns out to just be bad or simply not to your liking (in the latter case the game can have stellar reviews so you wouldn't have known beforehand) you are already out 50$. Now Sony is set to increase that by 40%. And publishers wonder why you can't sell anything without brand recognition these days. Of course, who's going to waste 50$ on something they have never even heard of?
Also rising prices mean less sales to kids who usually control the flow of a lot of money (by asking parents to buy them stuff) and are easily influenced by marketing. Kids can buy a game in two ways, get a parent to buy them (most parents already balk at 50$ prices, 70$ is way too much for them) or save up allowance to afford one (at 10-20$ a month that's going to take a while). Kids mostly buy bargain-bin games but what's going to count as bargain for a 70$ game?
Well, of course kids aren't going to get a PS3 anyway as the 500$ is about 300$ too much for most parents.
Almost thought that read GCW. I was already worried where I could get my noCD patches then.
I meant bad for them, not others. I don't think they'd hesistate to hurt others for profit but I think that hurting themselves isn't exactly good business.
I can't even think of an instance where Nintendo or Microsoft combined analog input with a display in one device.
Yes but there's no image display in either controller so that infringement claim would be nonsense. After all it says the display is in the same housing.
Software algorithms are just mathematics, I don't think those were ever patentable. After all maths were around when the patent system was set up so it would have a provision for maths already if that was intended to be patentable.
Nintendo has been using digital protocols since the NES (whereas the Atari VCS simply had a few wires connecting each part of the controller with the base system), Microsoft uses USB. Perhaps analog peripherials used by Atari would fall under this umbrella.
I think what's REALLY needed for dealing with patent trolls is an AT4 or five.
Interesting, I always thought SJGames' primary sources of income were the Illuminati and Munchkin games.
XBLA is limited to 50 MB per game as decreed by Microsoft (because the memory card is only 64MB). If it can fit into 50MB it can fit on an SD card or the 512MB of internal non-volatile memory the Wii has.
That would be so nice, we could get a games editor who doesn't aspire to be a tabloid writer.
That's only movies and if Bluray still exists when the ICT is reintroduced you can probably buy a standalone player for 50 bucks. Never mind that I wouldn't use a PS3 for movies considering Sony's stellar track record with drive quality...
Perhaps they saw how few people bothered with a modchip on the Gamecube because its region restrictions could easily be cracked with an easily available disc.
While I have no actual idea what that means I have a feeling the interpretation in the summary is a bit sensationalistic. If it really was that bad, would Apple really do it? Or are we really facing an Appleron?
One interpretation of this is that once a month, the beautiful, lively, and wonderful goddess (=a woman) turns into a raging witch-queen (=a bitch). (I'm telling you, this is so god-damn sexist, I want to vomit!)
You mean PMS is sexist?