Maybe we should see Chernobyl as a reason to at least prevent new countries from jumping on nuclear power. Then again if Iran irradiates the entire middle east that's not our problem...
Minor nitpick, thermonuclear refers to hydrogen fusion bombs, not the fission bombs used in WW2. Fusion bombs use fission warheads to ignite the fusion reaction but the main blast is the deuterium/tritium fusion.
Germany's current constitution was created in 1949, I'm not sure about the other laws but I think they already got a total rewrite after WW2. This is more comparable to a bug than a design failure.
Do they have the freedom to decide that they don't LIKE a law? Something may be constitutional and valid under all the rules and still a terrible idea.
Patents are supposed to cover implementations, not concepts so it wouldn't cover ALL automatic generation of structured documents, just a specific kind.
They can but as pointed out, patents have limited duration while trade secrets go forever. I suppose some of the more difficult additives are patented though.
You have got to be kidding. Aion would have to be one of the least grindy MMOs out there.
And? Maybe he wasn't talking about grind in MMO scales but in what he can stomach? I know I can't be arsed to bash mobs over and over again to gain a level or the 50 thingamajigs needed for some joke of a quest. Monster Hunter 3 is about the limit for me.
That's the rate online game stores (Steam, XBLA, etc) tend to charge. It's their cut as the retailer of the game, for providing the infrastructure, advertising, etc that their service offers and many people accept that trade-off. For comparison, I believe the indie license for the Unreal Engine is something like 50% of your revenue.
Farmville cannot separate from Facebook, it requires the social propagation system it has on Facebook where Farmville players effectively spam their friends with advertising for the game.
The whole business model of the game is to make money via selling stuff for real money. The game itself is free to play but it's designed to encourage players to draw friends into it and to spend real money on it. Or do you think they're running Farmville out of the goodness of their hearts?
The courts don't MAKE law, they interpret it and maybe remove it if it's against higher priority laws. When a court finds that a law enables something that's not ex-post-facto, that's saying the laws that are already on the books allow this. Since the law was in place when the crime was committed even though it may have been unclear whether the law applies there it's not an after-the-fact law.
Yeah, it's a pretty fun beat 'em up, not flawless but very enjoyable anyway. It'll likely see a price drop in a few months, you can pick it up without doubts then.
Three out of four Slashdotters will claim to suffer from Asperger's/ADHD, it's heavily overdiagnosed.
I don't know about pesticides but I know as a kid I didn't try to eat the lawn. Hell, since when do you need pesticides on a lawn anyway? Maybe herbicides (and even that's unnecessary if you just mow it regularly) but I don't think I've ever heard of people complaining about insects damaging their lawn (only the fruit on other plants). Either way, if you lick that stuff you'll taste it (bitter/burning taste) and spit it out. If your kids chug a bottle of pesticide maybe you should have taught them about poisons.
Overall the energy use of Wii Fit is lower than that of playing outside, it works as a first motivator, not as an all-in-one solution.
Trying to sell more games is almost uncommon these days with the standard answer to lacking revenue seeming to be "get more revenue per copy" and resulting in 60$/70€ game prices (Nintendo's games are 40€ here, no wonder they wipe the floor with the competition), tons of DLC, "collector's" editions that cost a hundred bucks or more and all kinds of anti-used-sale measures.
The religious man believes he is doing others a favour by forcing his religion on them, after all it saves them from eternal damnation and considering that's a more severe punishment than anything that can happen on Earth any means are preferable to damnation.
Respawn is IW, the fuckwits who foisted that IWNet mess upon us. Wouldn't surprise me if they actually kept their attitude now that they're working with EA.
Roughly every third game I've been in was lagged (most players getting yellow or red pings), the worst was when the game picked me as a host (my connection is not suitable for hosting) and didn't give me the option to pass that buck, I had to quit those matches to get rid of the hosting position. Matchmaking would usually fail 3-4 times until it would actually start a game, gets much worse when you're in a group with other people (about every second time that it connected for one of us it didn't work for the other). Then you've got the fun of cheaters that can't be thrown out and won't get an anti-cheat ban until LOOOOONG after the match is over and those stupid lengthy wait times between matches.
They can do that with match making too, possibly even with less effort. Match making cannot work without a central server grouping people into matches. Turn that off and the game is dead.
That doesn't work, dedicated servers and P2P matchmaking are very different approaches. With servers you get a list of servers and pick one (or the game automatically does), with P2P players are grouped into playlists and then into actual matches with a host chosen at random among the pool of selected players.
More likely that Treyarch gives more of a fuck about people outside the PS3/360 consoles. They're also making a Wii version that releases simultaneously with the others. Infinity Ward dumped the dedicated servers and ignored the Wii, that seems to be a matter of developer personalities.
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Tax those goods, see if the inefficient Chinese factories are still cheaper then.
Maybe we should see Chernobyl as a reason to at least prevent new countries from jumping on nuclear power. Then again if Iran irradiates the entire middle east that's not our problem...
Where can you get a construction permit for a nuke plant that fast outside of France?
Minor nitpick, thermonuclear refers to hydrogen fusion bombs, not the fission bombs used in WW2. Fusion bombs use fission warheads to ignite the fusion reaction but the main blast is the deuterium/tritium fusion.
Germany's current constitution was created in 1949, I'm not sure about the other laws but I think they already got a total rewrite after WW2. This is more comparable to a bug than a design failure.
Do they have the freedom to decide that they don't LIKE a law? Something may be constitutional and valid under all the rules and still a terrible idea.
Patents are supposed to cover implementations, not concepts so it wouldn't cover ALL automatic generation of structured documents, just a specific kind.
They can but as pointed out, patents have limited duration while trade secrets go forever. I suppose some of the more difficult additives are patented though.
You have got to be kidding. Aion would have to be one of the least grindy MMOs out there.
And? Maybe he wasn't talking about grind in MMO scales but in what he can stomach? I know I can't be arsed to bash mobs over and over again to gain a level or the 50 thingamajigs needed for some joke of a quest. Monster Hunter 3 is about the limit for me.
I think he's talking about the cut per transaction, not the interest on loans.
That's the rate online game stores (Steam, XBLA, etc) tend to charge. It's their cut as the retailer of the game, for providing the infrastructure, advertising, etc that their service offers and many people accept that trade-off. For comparison, I believe the indie license for the Unreal Engine is something like 50% of your revenue.
Farmville cannot separate from Facebook, it requires the social propagation system it has on Facebook where Farmville players effectively spam their friends with advertising for the game.
The whole business model of the game is to make money via selling stuff for real money. The game itself is free to play but it's designed to encourage players to draw friends into it and to spend real money on it. Or do you think they're running Farmville out of the goodness of their hearts?
The courts don't MAKE law, they interpret it and maybe remove it if it's against higher priority laws. When a court finds that a law enables something that's not ex-post-facto, that's saying the laws that are already on the books allow this. Since the law was in place when the crime was committed even though it may have been unclear whether the law applies there it's not an after-the-fact law.
Yeah, it's a pretty fun beat 'em up, not flawless but very enjoyable anyway. It'll likely see a price drop in a few months, you can pick it up without doubts then.
Also apparently his school grew fruit (obviously vegetables are no threat, kids don't eat those) on the soccer field.
Three out of four Slashdotters will claim to suffer from Asperger's/ADHD, it's heavily overdiagnosed.
I don't know about pesticides but I know as a kid I didn't try to eat the lawn. Hell, since when do you need pesticides on a lawn anyway? Maybe herbicides (and even that's unnecessary if you just mow it regularly) but I don't think I've ever heard of people complaining about insects damaging their lawn (only the fruit on other plants). Either way, if you lick that stuff you'll taste it (bitter/burning taste) and spit it out. If your kids chug a bottle of pesticide maybe you should have taught them about poisons.
Overall the energy use of Wii Fit is lower than that of playing outside, it works as a first motivator, not as an all-in-one solution.
Trying to sell more games is almost uncommon these days with the standard answer to lacking revenue seeming to be "get more revenue per copy" and resulting in 60$/70€ game prices (Nintendo's games are 40€ here, no wonder they wipe the floor with the competition), tons of DLC, "collector's" editions that cost a hundred bucks or more and all kinds of anti-used-sale measures.
The religious man believes he is doing others a favour by forcing his religion on them, after all it saves them from eternal damnation and considering that's a more severe punishment than anything that can happen on Earth any means are preferable to damnation.
Respawn is IW, the fuckwits who foisted that IWNet mess upon us. Wouldn't surprise me if they actually kept their attitude now that they're working with EA.
Roughly every third game I've been in was lagged (most players getting yellow or red pings), the worst was when the game picked me as a host (my connection is not suitable for hosting) and didn't give me the option to pass that buck, I had to quit those matches to get rid of the hosting position. Matchmaking would usually fail 3-4 times until it would actually start a game, gets much worse when you're in a group with other people (about every second time that it connected for one of us it didn't work for the other). Then you've got the fun of cheaters that can't be thrown out and won't get an anti-cheat ban until LOOOOONG after the match is over and those stupid lengthy wait times between matches.
They can do that with match making too, possibly even with less effort. Match making cannot work without a central server grouping people into matches. Turn that off and the game is dead.
That doesn't work, dedicated servers and P2P matchmaking are very different approaches. With servers you get a list of servers and pick one (or the game automatically does), with P2P players are grouped into playlists and then into actual matches with a host chosen at random among the pool of selected players.
More likely that Treyarch gives more of a fuck about people outside the PS3/360 consoles. They're also making a Wii version that releases simultaneously with the others. Infinity Ward dumped the dedicated servers and ignored the Wii, that seems to be a matter of developer personalities.
IOW it's an engine for character-driven 3D games.
When you're scammed you sue the scammer, you don't throw tariffs at his country. That makes no fucking sense.