Solar having problems because of clouds? produce hydrogen whenever you can and burn it during peak energy loads, or heck all the time, just have an excess of solar plants to carry you through long cloudy peroids.
I'd assume that since there's special locations for refilling the tanks there are special locations to empty the tank. I.e. next to the hydrogen dispenser there's another machine that's plugged into a separate tank where the depleted balls are stored and empties it.
Of course I'd prefer a solid block solution like a powercell... Open the cover, take out the old chunk and trade it for a new chunk at the gas station.
There is no difference between building the device and patenting it and writing up the core functionality and patenting it. The patent always covers the implementation and covers it in the same way whether you've built the prototype yet or not. The only difference is that someone else could see your idea and run to the patent office before your prototype is complete.
It is not just about CPU, it is the only one to lack a HD (People who buy the lesser version of a console like the 360 core are like people who buy Celerons, not worth talking about) and that means it can't do games that require data storage.
Developers are not allowed (by Microsoft) to make a game for the 360 that requires the harddrive to function so the Wii and 360 are in the same boat (if we ignore the Flash ROM in the Wii).
What I'd like to see would be a games sold per person by age group chart. Because I don't think that that large number of gamers over 40 is buying nearly as many games as the 13-17 and 18-25 brackets.
If you piece it together from various sources with attribution that's research. If you forget to attribute one that's plagiarism. Even facts taken from a work have to be attributed (partially to allow checking your facts and maybe finding that you read the wrong book). You don't have to attribute what you found out yourself (well, duh) but the stuff you learned from another source has to be attributed (exception may be quoting people who'd prefer to stay anonymous).
A derivative work can still be plagiarism. In fact most plagiarism isn't straight copying but simply taking an idea and presenting it as your own. Even if you wrote your own text, if the findings are someone else's that's plagiarism because you're representing other people's research as your own. Plagiarism is independent of copyright law.
(perhaps a better system is needed, where I can write an overlay-webpage and you can let your browser show it overlayed on an existing article?)
Isn't standard practice to print it out and make annotations on paper?
But, with quoting, it shows two sentences from the source side-by-side, and then replies to both of them put together.
Two sentences should still fall under "short quotes". If you refer to a sentence you should cite directly, if it's a larger block of text you can refer to it by the page number or other running enumeration.
Another factor is that many people can't tell HD and SD apart, they wouldn't even notice that their BRD isn't played back at the proper resolution if there isn't some sort of "HDCP chain could not be secured, using reduced resolution" message.
Your post sounds a bit like you consider Madden one of the multiplatform games that will skip the Wii. You did read that there's a special version of Madden for the Wii that makes use of the controller?
I'm sure there will be many XC+PS3 games that aren't going to come out on the Wii but it also seems like most publishers have a few games for the Wii in the works. I think that people new to gaming might also be more likely to buy movie tie-ins, the primary means of income for many publishers and the majority of cross-platform games.
Maybe if Nintendo actually bothered with translating the voicework as well. The average PC game has EVERYTHING translated and they don't charge anything extra. I don't see how they can say it costs more to translate Mario than freaking Civilization. Also the DS ships with all languages included even in Japan.
How does a typical startup company afford a console SDK?
They shell out the money. You'll pay much more just for the room, the employees or the publishing. Then there's all the applications you need to create your game like the compiler, the middleware (or the cost to write the corresponding code from the ground up which isn't going to be much cheaper) and all the art tools (Photoshop and Maya, for example). I don't know your definition of startup but the average startup company that survives has a few million $ in the bank before starting.
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Literacy is fine and all but I want to see the statistics for "capable of recognizing sarcasm".
Um, Donkey Kong? For the Super Gameboy?
Of course it isn't like Nazi Germany. It's closing in on Soviet Germany, though.
Solar having problems because of clouds? produce hydrogen whenever you can and burn it during peak energy loads, or heck all the time, just have an excess of solar plants to carry you through long cloudy peroids.
Is hydrogen more efficient than pumped storage?
Cold fusion is only cold compared to the core of a thermonuclear reaction.
Now THAT's animal cruelty.
I don't want anti-nuke protesters to jump in front of my car.
I'd assume that since there's special locations for refilling the tanks there are special locations to empty the tank. I.e. next to the hydrogen dispenser there's another machine that's plugged into a separate tank where the depleted balls are stored and empties it.
Of course I'd prefer a solid block solution like a powercell... Open the cover, take out the old chunk and trade it for a new chunk at the gas station.
There is no difference between building the device and patenting it and writing up the core functionality and patenting it. The patent always covers the implementation and covers it in the same way whether you've built the prototype yet or not. The only difference is that someone else could see your idea and run to the patent office before your prototype is complete.
So you were the one who replaced the PS3 article with just the text "It's 600$, that's all you need to know."?
It is not just about CPU, it is the only one to lack a HD (People who buy the lesser version of a console like the 360 core are like people who buy Celerons, not worth talking about) and that means it can't do games that require data storage.
Developers are not allowed (by Microsoft) to make a game for the 360 that requires the harddrive to function so the Wii and 360 are in the same boat (if we ignore the Flash ROM in the Wii).
Um, didn't Australia outlaw region locking?
What I'd like to see would be a games sold per person by age group chart. Because I don't think that that large number of gamers over 40 is buying nearly as many games as the 13-17 and 18-25 brackets.
Mature titles are more popular than ever.
I wouldn't attribute that to older gamers.
What are "Human Rights"?
The law defines intellectual property rights. If you don't like it talk to your representative.
Then again that's what "Underrated" is good for. Modding up without labelling it.
If you piece it together from various sources with attribution that's research. If you forget to attribute one that's plagiarism. Even facts taken from a work have to be attributed (partially to allow checking your facts and maybe finding that you read the wrong book). You don't have to attribute what you found out yourself (well, duh) but the stuff you learned from another source has to be attributed (exception may be quoting people who'd prefer to stay anonymous).
A derivative work can still be plagiarism. In fact most plagiarism isn't straight copying but simply taking an idea and presenting it as your own. Even if you wrote your own text, if the findings are someone else's that's plagiarism because you're representing other people's research as your own. Plagiarism is independent of copyright law.
(perhaps a better system is needed, where I can write an overlay-webpage and you can let your browser show it overlayed on an existing article?)
Isn't standard practice to print it out and make annotations on paper?
But, with quoting, it shows two sentences from the source side-by-side, and then replies to both of them put together.
Two sentences should still fall under "short quotes". If you refer to a sentence you should cite directly, if it's a larger block of text you can refer to it by the page number or other running enumeration.
Another factor is that many people can't tell HD and SD apart, they wouldn't even notice that their BRD isn't played back at the proper resolution if there isn't some sort of "HDCP chain could not be secured, using reduced resolution" message.
Your post sounds a bit like you consider Madden one of the multiplatform games that will skip the Wii. You did read that there's a special version of Madden for the Wii that makes use of the controller?
I'm sure there will be many XC+PS3 games that aren't going to come out on the Wii but it also seems like most publishers have a few games for the Wii in the works. I think that people new to gaming might also be more likely to buy movie tie-ins, the primary means of income for many publishers and the majority of cross-platform games.
King of Fighters: Maximum Impact.
Considering what Konami did to Contra I'm glad Metal Slug stays in 2d.
Maybe if Nintendo actually bothered with translating the voicework as well. The average PC game has EVERYTHING translated and they don't charge anything extra. I don't see how they can say it costs more to translate Mario than freaking Civilization. Also the DS ships with all languages included even in Japan.
I prefer my very own "What do I need a soda for? I've just had dinner!" strategy.
How does a typical startup company afford a console SDK?
They shell out the money. You'll pay much more just for the room, the employees or the publishing. Then there's all the applications you need to create your game like the compiler, the middleware (or the cost to write the corresponding code from the ground up which isn't going to be much cheaper) and all the art tools (Photoshop and Maya, for example). I don't know your definition of startup but the average startup company that survives has a few million $ in the bank before starting.