ALso in Japan O means yes, X means no so games on the Playstations use O as the accept button there while they use X for some reason here (and the cancel button seems to be picked randomly from game to game...).
Doesn't the PS3 still have that retarded split d-pad? Playing fighters on the PS2 just led to pain because of that design.
I just got a fairly cheap arcade stick (discounted, came with Tekken 6) and I think those are the way to go for all 2D games that are big on action. With the stick you don't end up chafing your thumbs and it's much easier to press any combination of buttons you want, you aren't restricted by thumb mobility. It's more relaxed than using the keyboard and the buttons are much easier to press due to lower resistance.
I believe statements about the profitability of the 360 and the PS3 are based on the quarterly earnings reports of their respective companies so all costs and revenues are included. Summing up the quarterly results of the Playstation division since the PS2 launched gives a net loss because of the PS3.
There's a pinball game on DSiWare by the makers of Metroid Prime Pinball, supposedly a very good one as well. Pinball Pulse.
Maybe choosing the right variables is hard to get just the right amount of friction, bounce and gravity into the game. Maybe other developers don't pay enough attention to how real machines behave.
I guess the fear was that it'd be used as a tripping stone for amateurs that don't pay much attention to new laws and could easily be attacked on some technicality.
I've seen cases where a review was surrounded by ads for its game and completely tore that apart. Especially smaller sites tend to grab advertising packs where they just get money per X views and the agency they're getting the pack from decides what goes in there (also leads to cases where ads distribute malware without the knowledge of the site owner), the site and the maker of the advertised product never meet on advertising. Review copies also seem to be given out like candy even for games that will obviously be reviewed terribly.
Privately run TV stations are worthless for news, the only thing they get done is show some decent movies and even then they stuff them so full of advertising that watching them is no fun.
I was going to cite Mafia 2 but it looks like only a few publications actually criticised that badly (which happen to include the ones I actually read): See the list.
Eh, I didn't find either very remarkable. Plants vs Zombies is leagues beyond Defense Grid in terms of fun, Braid may have its twists but it's not phenomenal. I'm more a fan of games like AI War, unRevolutionary, Uplink,... They aren't big on production values but they get the job done while being fun.
The indie "scene" is gigantic. What you see is the most marketable and standard/artsy material. If you have an Xbox 360 just take a look through the indie section and tell me that you've heard of most of those games. If you're buying games for your iPhone there's a very high chance they're indie games, the big publishers don't seem to do very well on the App Store.
That's because Libertarianism is usually advocated by those who are well off and have the most to gain from it (or at least believe they do). Access to education must be granted to everybody in order to ensure they have a roughly equal chance to gain the skills necessary to join the job market. Make it too money dependent and you end up with too many people unable to get the education they need to work even if they'd be great workers once educated (good motivation, high intelligence, whatnot). And if anyone with a decent income decides to pay for a private school instead of paying taxes for a public one that'd mean the public schools would receive funding that's way below what they currently get, resulting in even worse education and tons of children that will never become suitable for the labor market, leading to a shortage of labor and more demand to import foreign specialists while producing an ever growing number of unemployed people who are nothing but a drain on resources because they simply don't get the opportunity to be productive (how many jobs don't need education these days? Almost everything that an uneducated person can do can be done by a machine, maintaining the machine needs skilled workers). If you want people from poor families to work their way up the social ladder you must give them the opportunity to gain the basic requirements for that.
Better education ultimately benefits everyone because it produces a larger pool of skilled workers that the economy needs and reduces the number of unemployable people that are indeed just money-sinks.
Depends on how the evaluation was done, Freakonomics found a lot of cheating by teachers when they got performance bonuses based on the test scores of their pupils so the evaluation metrics might favor the wrong kind of teacher which would of course result in the genuinely good teachers being regarded as bad.
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Stone him! Stone him!
Had. It expired.
They don't have to, that patent has expired years ago.
ALso in Japan O means yes, X means no so games on the Playstations use O as the accept button there while they use X for some reason here (and the cancel button seems to be picked randomly from game to game...).
Doesn't the PS3 still have that retarded split d-pad? Playing fighters on the PS2 just led to pain because of that design.
I just got a fairly cheap arcade stick (discounted, came with Tekken 6) and I think those are the way to go for all 2D games that are big on action. With the stick you don't end up chafing your thumbs and it's much easier to press any combination of buttons you want, you aren't restricted by thumb mobility. It's more relaxed than using the keyboard and the buttons are much easier to press due to lower resistance.
I believe statements about the profitability of the 360 and the PS3 are based on the quarterly earnings reports of their respective companies so all costs and revenues are included. Summing up the quarterly results of the Playstation division since the PS2 launched gives a net loss because of the PS3.
Sony didn't bring CD-ROM to consoles
Preach on, Johnny Turbo!
There's a reason why every pinball videogame includes buttons to nudge the table. Hitting it without triggering the tilt is part of the game.
There's a pinball game on DSiWare by the makers of Metroid Prime Pinball, supposedly a very good one as well. Pinball Pulse.
Maybe choosing the right variables is hard to get just the right amount of friction, bounce and gravity into the game. Maybe other developers don't pay enough attention to how real machines behave.
Besides, do explosives really look that different from other objects on a backscatter scan?
They might find a whole lot more once these scanners are deployed and people look for ways to stop them...
If you want games then do it the other way around, Windows as the main OS, Linux in the VM.
If they throw up - they have to clean it themselves.
I guess the fear was that it'd be used as a tripping stone for amateurs that don't pay much attention to new laws and could easily be attacked on some technicality.
I've seen cases where a review was surrounded by ads for its game and completely tore that apart. Especially smaller sites tend to grab advertising packs where they just get money per X views and the agency they're getting the pack from decides what goes in there (also leads to cases where ads distribute malware without the knowledge of the site owner), the site and the maker of the advertised product never meet on advertising. Review copies also seem to be given out like candy even for games that will obviously be reviewed terribly.
Privately run TV stations are worthless for news, the only thing they get done is show some decent movies and even then they stuff them so full of advertising that watching them is no fun.
I was going to cite Mafia 2 but it looks like only a few publications actually criticised that badly (which happen to include the ones I actually read): See the list.
I know the story but you could at least have pointed at the recently released sequel.
Just stick a label on the outside of the exposed end that the nurse can look at to see what this tube is for?
Eh, I didn't find either very remarkable. Plants vs Zombies is leagues beyond Defense Grid in terms of fun, Braid may have its twists but it's not phenomenal. I'm more a fan of games like AI War, unRevolutionary, Uplink, ... They aren't big on production values but they get the job done while being fun.
The indie "scene" is gigantic. What you see is the most marketable and standard/artsy material. If you have an Xbox 360 just take a look through the indie section and tell me that you've heard of most of those games. If you're buying games for your iPhone there's a very high chance they're indie games, the big publishers don't seem to do very well on the App Store.
No, then the solar wind would strip your atmosphere away.
/.ers include chemists, biologists and doctors?
That's because Libertarianism is usually advocated by those who are well off and have the most to gain from it (or at least believe they do). Access to education must be granted to everybody in order to ensure they have a roughly equal chance to gain the skills necessary to join the job market. Make it too money dependent and you end up with too many people unable to get the education they need to work even if they'd be great workers once educated (good motivation, high intelligence, whatnot). And if anyone with a decent income decides to pay for a private school instead of paying taxes for a public one that'd mean the public schools would receive funding that's way below what they currently get, resulting in even worse education and tons of children that will never become suitable for the labor market, leading to a shortage of labor and more demand to import foreign specialists while producing an ever growing number of unemployed people who are nothing but a drain on resources because they simply don't get the opportunity to be productive (how many jobs don't need education these days? Almost everything that an uneducated person can do can be done by a machine, maintaining the machine needs skilled workers). If you want people from poor families to work their way up the social ladder you must give them the opportunity to gain the basic requirements for that.
Better education ultimately benefits everyone because it produces a larger pool of skilled workers that the economy needs and reduces the number of unemployable people that are indeed just money-sinks.
Depends on how the evaluation was done, Freakonomics found a lot of cheating by teachers when they got performance bonuses based on the test scores of their pupils so the evaluation metrics might favor the wrong kind of teacher which would of course result in the genuinely good teachers being regarded as bad.