I am wondering if they are comparing apples to apples on that one. If they took their fresh, clean, off the shell acer laptop and compared it to a fresh, clean, off the shell toshiba laptop, its not a fair comparison.
the toshiba will be filled with crapware that bogs down startup. if its a fresh windows install, this wouldnt be the case.
I have some friends that work for a company that are working on a game with the unreal 3 engine. All I have heard is how horrible the support is. Also when they need to do something that the engine doesnt support, they end up writing this hack code to get it to work. Then when they get an update (since the engine is still in development), it will break what they made and they have to go back in there and rewrite it. It just sounds like a massive cluster fuck.
I see a sharp decline in PC gaming and I feel it has nothing to do with Piracy. Back in the day, it was a given that PC games would always be better graphically than console games. But for the first time, people can get some great looking games on consoles. Then they can pop that into their 50+ inch HDTVs and things will look great.
But I think one of the main reasons is that people want to play games. There is no doubt about that. But what they do not want to do is drop $2000 on a PC only for it to be out dated in a 6 months. They buy one console and they never have to worry about things not working, or the frame rate going to shit, or anything like that. You turn it on and it just works.
There will always be that market(which im a part of) that would rather play games on the PC. But there is a growing market of people who dont want to bother with getting a $2000 pc to play games. Its easier for them to just get a ps3/360/wii and just turn it on.
I think you are getting confused. There are more reasons for companies not wanting to hire someone who isnt a citizen other than some hick screaming 'DAMN FOREEENERS TOOK OUR JOBBBSSS!!!'. Ive recently graduated and I definitely say that a good 50% of the companies around the campus simply CANNOT hiring foriegn people since the work they do is government(DOD) related. But there are lots of language barriers to get over as well. I knew someone in college who was extremely intelligent when it came to programming. However, no one could understand a word he said. Nothing against him, but if a boss cant understand him, what are you going to do?
All that being said, I have a sister that has moved out of the country to the EU. And it was HELL for her to get a job. Once she got married over there, it was fine. But in Ireland, she had to jump through hoops and hoops and hoops for a company to even consider hiring her. So please keep in mind that its alittle more than just 'DAMN RACISTS!'
There are many other portable video players out there that they could use. In fact, there are now players out there that in my opinion are better than the ipod (Dare I say the widescreen on the Zune?). But what is it that makes someone need an ipod when they are just using it for professional work rather than trying to make a fashion statement?
I am all for cutting costs where need be, but there should be a line drawn somewhere. Send the web app that tracks sales of a company offshore. Dont send software that the department of defense uses offshore. At the very least, you buy 'accountability'. I dont know how easy it would be to track down the person who worked on the program in a difference country.
What he did was common amongst magicians, which is to divert your attention away from the real trick, which was 'we cant get this motion sensing to work with the rumble feature'.
Its kind of like buying a new fancy lexus with all the bells and whistles and that they took out power stearing. Has all the other fancy things to show off to your friend, but just not power stearing.
While its been a few months that Ive played wow, but when you are in a good guild, you end up dropping 6 hours in 1 raid instance. And I definitely (shamefully admitting) spent too many saturdays running MC from 12-4, then BWL from 6 to whenever its done.
According to the article: "Alexa has no support for FireFox, Opera or Safari at all. "
According to Alexa's Wiki: "Users running any browser except Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox are not represented. Thus users of Opera, Safari, mobile phone (WAP) browsers are all ignored. Nevertheless, this is still the vast majority of the browser market."
They would be branded at evil dictators for telling their citizens what to do,say,see and read. Maybe someone should sprinkle the magic democracy fairy dust in their eyes.
-1 flamebait.:(
Is this a move to stop their citizens from being connected to the outside work? Or a move to stop westerns from doing digital attacks? If its the first one, I cant imagine that would make their citizens happy. It's basically a current day book burning. Only in the digital sense. Im also not sure what capping it at 128kbps will do, but whatever.
It reminds of me when there is a road that is far too busy, then they spend 5+ years expanding the road, only to have it not be wide enough for the new amount of traffic.
Nintendo is finally doing what everyone has been trying to do for a really long time now. And that is tap into the 'casual market'. Just last night, I saw a DS commercial of a mom hanging out in the minivan waiting for her kids to get out of class and she was play a DS. And it was a game that looked similar to Brain Age. Just a small little game that people will pick up and play with for alittle bit and then drop it until they are bored again.
The hardcore market is a static market for the most part. Of course it will grow, but when you tap into a new market, the growth is a lot more noticable.
I always felt there would come a time that if someone stole your 'virtual item', they could be arrested for stealing. This will be one more step towards reaching that goal. Because now this is something you would pay taxes on. But how does one decide how much to tax? Is it considered 'investing' if you decide to buy all the WoW gold you can and then raise the price of it when you resell it? Because in all reality, Blizzard can just change the amount of gold you have in their database and poof its gone. And how do you handle hacks and what not? Will that become illegal if you sold 'gold' that you achived through hacking?
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Time to remake Jurassic Park. And while he's at it, Speilberg can change all the guns to flashlights!
That doesnt sound very scary. Sounds more like... a six foot turkey!
I am wondering if they are comparing apples to apples on that one. If they took their fresh, clean, off the shell acer laptop and compared it to a fresh, clean, off the shell toshiba laptop, its not a fair comparison.
the toshiba will be filled with crapware that bogs down startup. if its a fresh windows install, this wouldnt be the case.
I have some friends that work for a company that are working on a game with the unreal 3 engine. All I have heard is how horrible the support is. Also when they need to do something that the engine doesnt support, they end up writing this hack code to get it to work. Then when they get an update (since the engine is still in development), it will break what they made and they have to go back in there and rewrite it. It just sounds like a massive cluster fuck.
I see a sharp decline in PC gaming and I feel it has nothing to do with Piracy. Back in the day, it was a given that PC games would always be better graphically than console games. But for the first time, people can get some great looking games on consoles. Then they can pop that into their 50+ inch HDTVs and things will look great.
But I think one of the main reasons is that people want to play games. There is no doubt about that. But what they do not want to do is drop $2000 on a PC only for it to be out dated in a 6 months. They buy one console and they never have to worry about things not working, or the frame rate going to shit, or anything like that. You turn it on and it just works.
There will always be that market(which im a part of) that would rather play games on the PC. But there is a growing market of people who dont want to bother with getting a $2000 pc to play games. Its easier for them to just get a ps3/360/wii and just turn it on.
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I think you are getting confused. There are more reasons for companies not wanting to hire someone who isnt a citizen other than some hick screaming 'DAMN FOREEENERS TOOK OUR JOBBBSSS!!!'. Ive recently graduated and I definitely say that a good 50% of the companies around the campus simply CANNOT hiring foriegn people since the work they do is government(DOD) related. But there are lots of language barriers to get over as well. I knew someone in college who was extremely intelligent when it came to programming. However, no one could understand a word he said. Nothing against him, but if a boss cant understand him, what are you going to do?
All that being said, I have a sister that has moved out of the country to the EU. And it was HELL for her to get a job. Once she got married over there, it was fine. But in Ireland, she had to jump through hoops and hoops and hoops for a company to even consider hiring her. So please keep in mind that its alittle more than just 'DAMN RACISTS!'
There are many other portable video players out there that they could use. In fact, there are now players out there that in my opinion are better than the ipod (Dare I say the widescreen on the Zune?). But what is it that makes someone need an ipod when they are just using it for professional work rather than trying to make a fashion statement?
Its a fancy way of saying 'we really dont know what we are talking about, but it gives us something to bitch about'
these robots just broke the first two rules of robot fight club
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0mDIGobdtQ
Guy 1: This is insane! This is madness!!
Guy 2: Madness? This is BUNGIE!!
[Guy 1 kicked into a well]
Hopefully I can get my dad to give me a stern talking to after I rob a bank.
I am all for cutting costs where need be, but there should be a line drawn somewhere. Send the web app that tracks sales of a company offshore. Dont send software that the department of defense uses offshore. At the very least, you buy 'accountability'. I dont know how easy it would be to track down the person who worked on the program in a difference country.
The same thing happened with City of Heroes when people started making The Hulk and Wolverine. I would imagine that the same would apply here.
Some political party will buy it and put their opponents all over it.
What he did was common amongst magicians, which is to divert your attention away from the real trick, which was 'we cant get this motion sensing to work with the rumble feature'.
Its kind of like buying a new fancy lexus with all the bells and whistles and that they took out power stearing. Has all the other fancy things to show off to your friend, but just not power stearing.
"Hey, you know that amazing technology that we want you guys to build for us? Do you think you could do that for free instead?"
While its been a few months that Ive played wow, but when you are in a good guild, you end up dropping 6 hours in 1 raid instance. And I definitely (shamefully admitting) spent too many saturdays running MC from 12-4, then BWL from 6 to whenever its done.
According to the article:
:P
"Alexa has no support for FireFox, Opera or Safari at all. "
According to Alexa's Wiki:
"Users running any browser except Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox are not represented. Thus users of Opera, Safari, mobile phone (WAP) browsers are all ignored. Nevertheless, this is still the vast majority of the browser market."
So its half right
"John Spartan, you are fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality statute."
They would be branded at evil dictators for telling their citizens what to do,say,see and read. Maybe someone should sprinkle the magic democracy fairy dust in their eyes. -1 flamebait. :(
So let me get this straight. I'm supposed to play this 'game' where i do shit i would normally do in the real world? bah.
Is this a move to stop their citizens from being connected to the outside work? Or a move to stop westerns from doing digital attacks? If its the first one, I cant imagine that would make their citizens happy. It's basically a current day book burning. Only in the digital sense. Im also not sure what capping it at 128kbps will do, but whatever.
It reminds of me when there is a road that is far too busy, then they spend 5+ years expanding the road, only to have it not be wide enough for the new amount of traffic.
Nintendo is finally doing what everyone has been trying to do for a really long time now. And that is tap into the 'casual market'. Just last night, I saw a DS commercial of a mom hanging out in the minivan waiting for her kids to get out of class and she was play a DS. And it was a game that looked similar to Brain Age. Just a small little game that people will pick up and play with for alittle bit and then drop it until they are bored again.
The hardcore market is a static market for the most part. Of course it will grow, but when you tap into a new market, the growth is a lot more noticable.
I always felt there would come a time that if someone stole your 'virtual item', they could be arrested for stealing. This will be one more step towards reaching that goal. Because now this is something you would pay taxes on. But how does one decide how much to tax? Is it considered 'investing' if you decide to buy all the WoW gold you can and then raise the price of it when you resell it? Because in all reality, Blizzard can just change the amount of gold you have in their database and poof its gone. And how do you handle hacks and what not? Will that become illegal if you sold 'gold' that you achived through hacking?