Criminals care if they're breaking unnecessarily many laws. An area with a ban on concealed carrying makes it not a good idea to carry concealed unless you're planning to do something big because otherwise you risk being stopped on the street and arrested. In some areas criminals rob banks with toy guns because the punishment for being caught with live weapons would be MUCH greater than being caught with toy guns and they don't want to risk that. An area with a total ban on firearms would make it a bad idea to mug people with a handgun because that'll immediately make you interesting to the police who might otherwise say "who cares about a random mugger?".
AFAIK ads no longer expect users to click beacuse they are mostly there to burn the brand name into your brain. Billboards and TV ads don't require the viewer to look into more detailled information either.
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The competition doesn't use the original SMB game so the detailed physics may differ.
TASing does occasionally involve the use of bots but AFAIK they only brute force it. I think the entire autoscrolling part of Pulseman was done with a bot.
The huge expansion in higher education, along with widespread dumbing down of course material and grade inflation
Sounded to me like that was the issue she was complaining about, maybe higher education should be reigned in to the point where pass = employable so people know when they are inadequate and can improve rather than being handed a degree that's not actually worth having.
It has been developed to destroy whole underground infrastructure: Water pipes. Large electrical cables. Fiber networks. Metro tunnels. Bunkers - military and civilian. Etc.
It's only needed for hardened targets, i.e. bunkers. Regular bombs have enough power to damage cables and pipes that run maybe 2 meters underground and usually it's harder to avoid wrecking the infrastructure than to break it. Plus if the US really had the goal of annihilating a city they'd just use nukes or carpet bombing, no need for special bunker buster bombs.
The MOAB is not capable of being driven into a bunker I think (Air Burst!). This one's another attempt at developing a bunker buster. A proper nuke would cause a lot of political issues and (ahem!) fallout plus AFAIK there are technical problems with packaging a nuke inside a penetrator case as the warhead is too fragile (very easy to break a warhead and prevent it from properly reaching critical mass) to survive the impact.
They aren't allowed to really do much since they lost in WW2. I doubt the US will sit by idly once the NKs threaten to launch nukes, especially if they have the range to reach the US by then.
If the PS2 were port-incompatible with the other two systems devs would just go for PS2 exclusives and ignore the other platforms completely. With the Wii the opposite seems to be happening.
I've become so desensitized that numbers under a million register only as "small change" in a business context (in a govt context add another three zeroes)... A million is a lot for an individual but nothing for a multinational megacorp.
Actually Sony took higher losses. It might not be only from losses on PS3 sales but operating losses went from 4.6 billion yen to 39.7 billion yen for the PlayStation division year-on-year. Software sales were down from 22.8 million to 14.8 million so it's not just hardware that's declining.
Different people have different standards of "good enough". Most people don't really demand HD graphics, they'll take them if they come bundled for free/cheap but won't reject a product over the lack of them. You're a high-end customer who demands a lot of tech to be satisfied but few people are as demanding. I stop noticing the resolution once I'm actually playing the game unless I'm sniping (where resolution makes the difference between recognizing an enemy and not) and few games really demand pixel sniping. I once turned Quake 3 down to 320x240 just for the heck of it and noticed that the resolution mattered less once the game got going than I thought it would. I won't reject something for being HD but I won't reject it for not being HD either.
There's overlap between the 360 and PS3 owners by the way.
I think there's a bit of a contradiction in here, first you say the Wii is in its own market, then you point at all the core games as lacking innovation. Core games ARE aimed at the old audience. Noone but long term gamers would care about Smash Bros because it's one massive fan service and that won't service non-fans. The games that do sidestep the core market entirely are the Wii _____ games. The Wii tries to serve both the old market and the new market simultaneously with different degrees of success but it's not completely non-competing with the other systems.
You're looking in the wrong direction. The Wii looks like a step forward to the customer despite doing little to push the processing hardware or storage (it's not devoid of hardware upgrades compared to the GC but they're all in different areas of the system such as all the wireless stuff and of course the controller). If you try to push processing into "next gen" you will indeed run into problems if you're trying to make the leap large enough for the customer to notice, the current gen was already overstraining its budget there with initial retail prices of 400 and 600 for the processing consoles. Processing has already overshot the customer, he barely cares about the improvements anymore, to make him care you'd need a gigantic leap and you can't afford that.
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I think he meant that it's unlikely this will make customers less willing to pay so the optimum price won't change.
Criminals care if they're breaking unnecessarily many laws. An area with a ban on concealed carrying makes it not a good idea to carry concealed unless you're planning to do something big because otherwise you risk being stopped on the street and arrested. In some areas criminals rob banks with toy guns because the punishment for being caught with live weapons would be MUCH greater than being caught with toy guns and they don't want to risk that. An area with a total ban on firearms would make it a bad idea to mug people with a handgun because that'll immediately make you interesting to the police who might otherwise say "who cares about a random mugger?".
AFAIK ads no longer expect users to click beacuse they are mostly there to burn the brand name into your brain. Billboards and TV ads don't require the viewer to look into more detailled information either.
The competition doesn't use the original SMB game so the detailed physics may differ.
TASing does occasionally involve the use of bots but AFAIK they only brute force it. I think the entire autoscrolling part of Pulseman was done with a bot.
This makes me wonder what happens with SMG rounds, after all there are quite a few SMGs that use 9mm rounds just like handguns.
Reminds me of the Ministry for State Security.
The huge expansion in higher education, along with widespread dumbing down of course material and grade inflation
Sounded to me like that was the issue she was complaining about, maybe higher education should be reigned in to the point where pass = employable so people know when they are inadequate and can improve rather than being handed a degree that's not actually worth having.
Rule of international politics: If you don't have nukes those who do will do their best to prevent you from getting any.
It has been developed to destroy whole underground infrastructure: Water pipes. Large electrical cables. Fiber networks. Metro tunnels. Bunkers - military and civilian. Etc.
It's only needed for hardened targets, i.e. bunkers. Regular bombs have enough power to damage cables and pipes that run maybe 2 meters underground and usually it's harder to avoid wrecking the infrastructure than to break it. Plus if the US really had the goal of annihilating a city they'd just use nukes or carpet bombing, no need for special bunker buster bombs.
The MOAB is not capable of being driven into a bunker I think (Air Burst!). This one's another attempt at developing a bunker buster. A proper nuke would cause a lot of political issues and (ahem!) fallout plus AFAIK there are technical problems with packaging a nuke inside a penetrator case as the warhead is too fragile (very easy to break a warhead and prevent it from properly reaching critical mass) to survive the impact.
Apple is going for the middle eastern fundamentalist market then?
I prefer the ASIMO R-Type with the charge beam and optional force pod.
That would provide some hilarious involuntary acrobatics but little else.
In Japan GM stands for Gundam Mass-production.
They aren't allowed to really do much since they lost in WW2. I doubt the US will sit by idly once the NKs threaten to launch nukes, especially if they have the range to reach the US by then.
Aren't they banned from having a proper army anyway (WW2 surrender conditions) and paying the US for that defense?
If the PS2 were port-incompatible with the other two systems devs would just go for PS2 exclusives and ignore the other platforms completely. With the Wii the opposite seems to be happening.
I've become so desensitized that numbers under a million register only as "small change" in a business context (in a govt context add another three zeroes)... A million is a lot for an individual but nothing for a multinational megacorp.
Actually Sony took higher losses. It might not be only from losses on PS3 sales but operating losses went from 4.6 billion yen to 39.7 billion yen for the PlayStation division year-on-year. Software sales were down from 22.8 million to 14.8 million so it's not just hardware that's declining.
[The Wii] just don't have the horsepower needed for top games[..]
Which strangely wasn't an issue when everybody was making games for the PS2 which is weaker than the Wii...
I'm not so sure about better graphics = better sales, look at Wii Fit or something like that.
In the business perspective, it just makes sense to come up with better hardware to end up with better looking games.
Not when the necessary investment far outstrips the gain in sales.
Different people have different standards of "good enough". Most people don't really demand HD graphics, they'll take them if they come bundled for free/cheap but won't reject a product over the lack of them. You're a high-end customer who demands a lot of tech to be satisfied but few people are as demanding. I stop noticing the resolution once I'm actually playing the game unless I'm sniping (where resolution makes the difference between recognizing an enemy and not) and few games really demand pixel sniping. I once turned Quake 3 down to 320x240 just for the heck of it and noticed that the resolution mattered less once the game got going than I thought it would. I won't reject something for being HD but I won't reject it for not being HD either.
There's overlap between the 360 and PS3 owners by the way.
I think there's a bit of a contradiction in here, first you say the Wii is in its own market, then you point at all the core games as lacking innovation. Core games ARE aimed at the old audience. Noone but long term gamers would care about Smash Bros because it's one massive fan service and that won't service non-fans. The games that do sidestep the core market entirely are the Wii _____ games. The Wii tries to serve both the old market and the new market simultaneously with different degrees of success but it's not completely non-competing with the other systems.
You're looking in the wrong direction. The Wii looks like a step forward to the customer despite doing little to push the processing hardware or storage (it's not devoid of hardware upgrades compared to the GC but they're all in different areas of the system such as all the wireless stuff and of course the controller). If you try to push processing into "next gen" you will indeed run into problems if you're trying to make the leap large enough for the customer to notice, the current gen was already overstraining its budget there with initial retail prices of 400 and 600 for the processing consoles. Processing has already overshot the customer, he barely cares about the improvements anymore, to make him care you'd need a gigantic leap and you can't afford that.
"Usually"? They made only one console that was EOLed so far!