I don't think the vast majority of Sony's current userbase would give two shits about whether a system is made by Sony. The PS2 has the largest game library and it's the standard console for games. No more than maybe two million are real fans that would take the Sony system without having seen the alternatives. The rest will just decide what console they want when they buy it.
a console is too complicated to just connect and disconnect all the time, and no matter how aesthetically pleasing it is; most non-gamers will cringe at the thought of explaining to nongaming visitors that the lil box and the strip under their tv belongs to a "children's" video game called a "wii". theres a reason why the ps2 and ps3 look similar to stereo components.
It's not a porn mag, you can keep it in plain view without being embarrased and in fact I'd think most first-time (or first time afer a long time of abstinence) gamers will want to show their friends how cool that console is and what games can do these days. Tech-illiterates are easily amazed.
I think he's talking about durability but I think the Wii rod has much fewer parts that break easily than the average controller. What usually breaks? The analog stick and the touchscreen (on the DS). The rod has neither.
I have never heard of CDs with multimillion dollar budgets. Most of the people involved in the making of a CD aren't taken up by that one CD for the entire duration of the production whereas the majority of devs can only work on one game at a time and they are needed for almost the entire production.
Nintendogs comes close but it just recognizes the voice pattern, if you could repeat words with the same tone and style all the time it wouldn't have a clue what you are actually saying.
But then again dogs don't understand what you're saying either.
No, that won't work. In order to seriously hurt EA you need to outmarket them. (Most of) EA's games don't sell for game quality, they sell because people recognize the people on the box from movies or TV.
I don't think demand for Windows is going to increase if MS pulls out, who'd want a doomed system? Besides, application vendors will be forced to port their software to alternative OSes in order to sell to Europe which would mean MS's software monopoly would break apart. Pulling out of Europe is going to hurt MS a lot more than the EU.
What I'm wondering is how do they make them pay. MS is a US-based company so it's difficult for the UK to shut them down if they don't comply.
MS has assets in the EU, those can be seized. Their revenue streams can be intercepted, imports embargoed, etc. A government can just kick in the door and take anything of value. MS would have to retreat into the US completely to avoid the EU and they might not even be able to ship any of their products to Europe. Of course it could even go as far as extradition.
A monopoly exists if a company has the power to use monopolistic practices, it does not matter how many competitors there are. If the law required every single competitor to have gone out of business before declaring a company a monopoly there wouldn't be any monopolies.
That's impossible due to the different data structures used and since MAX uses a proprietary scripting language. Hell, they can't even get MAX to be compatible with MAX pluugins for other versions, how could an opensource project without any access to the specifications compete there? Your best bet is to look at any file specifications released and build your own exporter.
Modeling knowledge is transferable between applications and most companies will hire you even if you don't know their app as long as you're good enough. I've seen plenty of artists being hired and having to learn a new application afterwards (usually a switch between Max and Maya).
In Blender rotation is a single-button affair. MMB rotates, shift and ctrl work as modifiers. I don't think having to press alt to rotate the view is a good idea.
I think it just assumes the aspect ratio matches the aspect ratio you've chosen for the game (4:3 or 16:9) and the distance between the marker bars (or "sensor bars" as the media likes to call them even though they are IR emitters, not sensors) and the picture are to be calibrated (or just ignored, who knows).
If we forget the length of a meter we can use that clock to measure the speed of light accurately enough to know how large a 299792458th of the distance it travels per second is?
Google can deindex pages at will but they claim their Pagerank is computed automatically and if they were to modify it that could be construed as faking survey data in order to defame an opponent. You can skew your surveys in any way you like but you cannot alter the numbers directly and still claim it is a survey.
Yes but it'll reduce the number of fundamental errors a noob could make. OTOH many people will probably just skip the advanced strategies tutorial because they just KNOW that spending the first 15 minutes teching without building a single defense is the right way...
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I don't think the vast majority of Sony's current userbase would give two shits about whether a system is made by Sony. The PS2 has the largest game library and it's the standard console for games. No more than maybe two million are real fans that would take the Sony system without having seen the alternatives. The rest will just decide what console they want when they buy it.
a console is too complicated to just connect and disconnect all the time, and no matter how aesthetically pleasing it is; most non-gamers will cringe at the thought of explaining to nongaming visitors that the lil box and the strip under their tv belongs to a "children's" video game called a "wii". theres a reason why the ps2 and ps3 look similar to stereo components.
It's not a porn mag, you can keep it in plain view without being embarrased and in fact I'd think most first-time (or first time afer a long time of abstinence) gamers will want to show their friends how cool that console is and what games can do these days. Tech-illiterates are easily amazed.
The kids can be familiar with anything they want, what kid can afford a 600$ console? And what parent would agree to buy one for the kids?
I think he's talking about durability but I think the Wii rod has much fewer parts that break easily than the average controller. What usually breaks? The analog stick and the touchscreen (on the DS). The rod has neither.
Looks to me like they saw Prey do it and wanted to do it too...
I think with userbase he means only the people willing to play a pay-per-month online game.
I have never heard of CDs with multimillion dollar budgets. Most of the people involved in the making of a CD aren't taken up by that one CD for the entire duration of the production whereas the majority of devs can only work on one game at a time and they are needed for almost the entire production.
That's why I said most. For every good EA game there's at least three bad to mediocre movie tie-ins.
Nintendogs comes close but it just recognizes the voice pattern, if you could repeat words with the same tone and style all the time it wouldn't have a clue what you are actually saying.
But then again dogs don't understand what you're saying either.
No, that won't work. In order to seriously hurt EA you need to outmarket them. (Most of) EA's games don't sell for game quality, they sell because people recognize the people on the box from movies or TV.
I don't think demand for Windows is going to increase if MS pulls out, who'd want a doomed system? Besides, application vendors will be forced to port their software to alternative OSes in order to sell to Europe which would mean MS's software monopoly would break apart. Pulling out of Europe is going to hurt MS a lot more than the EU.
What I'm wondering is how do they make them pay. MS is a US-based company so it's difficult for the UK to shut them down if they don't comply.
MS has assets in the EU, those can be seized. Their revenue streams can be intercepted, imports embargoed, etc. A government can just kick in the door and take anything of value. MS would have to retreat into the US completely to avoid the EU and they might not even be able to ship any of their products to Europe. Of course it could even go as far as extradition.
The EU loves putting huge taxes on imported goods, MS could easily see their profit margin slashed by a good bit if they tried that.
Actually money is seized before physical assets.
A monopoly exists if a company has the power to use monopolistic practices, it does not matter how many competitors there are. If the law required every single competitor to have gone out of business before declaring a company a monopoly there wouldn't be any monopolies.
That's impossible due to the different data structures used and since MAX uses a proprietary scripting language. Hell, they can't even get MAX to be compatible with MAX pluugins for other versions, how could an opensource project without any access to the specifications compete there? Your best bet is to look at any file specifications released and build your own exporter.
Modeling knowledge is transferable between applications and most companies will hire you even if you don't know their app as long as you're good enough. I've seen plenty of artists being hired and having to learn a new application afterwards (usually a switch between Max and Maya).
In Blender rotation is a single-button affair. MMB rotates, shift and ctrl work as modifiers. I don't think having to press alt to rotate the view is a good idea.
Great, when do you start?
I think it just assumes the aspect ratio matches the aspect ratio you've chosen for the game (4:3 or 16:9) and the distance between the marker bars (or "sensor bars" as the media likes to call them even though they are IR emitters, not sensors) and the picture are to be calibrated (or just ignored, who knows).
Oh that's easy, get an executive position within Diebold.
If we forget the length of a meter we can use that clock to measure the speed of light accurately enough to know how large a 299792458th of the distance it travels per second is?
Of course the question remains, how much is the 360 selling?
Nothing. They didn't touch the database directly.
Google can deindex pages at will but they claim their Pagerank is computed automatically and if they were to modify it that could be construed as faking survey data in order to defame an opponent. You can skew your surveys in any way you like but you cannot alter the numbers directly and still claim it is a survey.
Yes but it'll reduce the number of fundamental errors a noob could make. OTOH many people will probably just skip the advanced strategies tutorial because they just KNOW that spending the first 15 minutes teching without building a single defense is the right way...