Honest question here. Why is gallons/100 miles preferable? It's always seemed backwards and clumsy to me.
With gal/100mi, it's more complicated to figure out how much gas you need to go X miles (with miles/gallon, it's simply X/mileage), and it also provides a more useful number when comparing cars. Sure, Car A might need 2.5 gallons/100mi and Car B needs 3 gallons/100mi, but that tells you less about the actual mileage (40 vs. 33.33).
$50 fine? That's amazing. In my town (of about 60,000), it's a $370 fine. That's higher than in other nearby towns (which are larger, to boot), but only by $30. And that's the minimum fine, mind. Good ol' California.
The worst part is that some signals don't show yellow for the same length of time as others, so it's really hard to judge, sometimes.
Well, I know this post isn't exactly helpful, but I didn't experience any issues on 64-bit Win7, in three playthroughs. Maybe I got lucky, or maybe you got unlucky. Have you tried using the dev console and enabling the Redcliffe debug mode? You can skip to the end of it--which sucks, I know--and maybe then you could continue.
You don't read several hundred pages in one sitting on an Ipad or similar devices, its just painful. And a book shouldn't need to be recharged every couple of days. E-ink readers and their month-long battery life (if you have a kindle, remember to turn off wifi =P) is the way to go.
More anecdotal evidence, but anyways... After having the iPad for nearly two months, and reading about 8,000 pages worth on it (I'm going off of the print length of the books I've read), I can say that I have experienced no eye strain whatsoever. Or headaches. In fact, it's actually more comfortable than a real book or a Kindle (which I also have), thanks to the fact it's always perfectly lit. I sometimes get headaches reading real books, actually, due to lighting and other factors (though this is rare).
I used to be against ebooks, but the iPad converted me in a way the Kindle couldn't (even though I thought its display was neat). Of course, I'm cheating a bit; I buy the paper books, then find the.epubs via Bittorrent.
I'll agree that battery life can be annoying, but my routine is usually to read for two days (on weekdays), then recharge while I'm sleeping. Or read for one day and recharge at night on the weekends. If I know I won't be able to charge it, I'll bring a paper book.
Possibly true, but possibly also might not matter, if it's still quick enough. After all, playing on the internet isn't as quick as a "LAN frag fest", and yet the vast majority of gamers, even of twitch-heavy games, are playing on the internet, not on LANs.
Heh. We're talking about gamers here. These are the same people who say that wireless controllers are too slow, that 5ms monitors are too slow, and that a 1-frame lag in Street Fighter 2 totally kills their game--even though all these things are all demonstrably quicker than their reflexes or visible acuity. Imagine how they'll react to something like OnLive?
I think the service would get less bad press if it didn't have games that required fast-twitch reactions, such as FPSs. Sure, you might get less subscribers because those games aren't available, but there'd be less angry people, I'll wager.
Chrome StumbleUpon isn't quite as good as the Firefox extension. It has less features, and for some reason keeps telling me there's nothing left to stumble after only a couple tries. The Firefox one doesn't do that.
My experience was different. I was born in 1988, and everyone I knew played DN3D. And since the game came with the first two games on the disc, many people had played the originals, too.
Who the f*k used cells 30 years ago?! Also, there is no constant mass to measure as the amount of cell owners 10 years ago is far from the one now, so this is pure faked corporatism support,
Seems to me it's important to find out how many people got glioma before cell phones were popular, if your goal is to establish whether or not that number has increased with cell phone usage. *shrug*
the only thing I do mind is when I can blow through the demo in less than an hour.
I honestly can't remember any demo on a modern system that was >= 1 hour in length. Most are only around 20 minutes--and many are even shorter (Heavenly Sword was 5 minutes, IIRC).
single piece aluminum frame construction for less stress on the motherboard (the most common point of failure of a laptop, in my experience) - frakking annoying. number of screws to remove to swap hard drives/ram on my IBM laptop: 1 each. Number of screws to remove to change hard drives on a mac laptop: at least 30, and five major components of the machine have to come out first (iBook G4; I assume subsequent ones are just as bad).
Actual number of screws to take out to access the hard drive on a modern Macbook: 0. Actual number for RAM is annoying, though (8 on the earlier MBs, but not sure about the new ones). Number of major components to take out for either RAM or HDD: 0.
I noticed that, too, but on a different point. If playing games decreases the ability to plan sequences of action, doesn't that mean people who play video games a lot are less likely to go out on a killing spree? Isn't that the sort of thing that requires some planning?
No way. Theaters usually get to keep between 25% and ZERO percent of ticket proceeds. Yes, sometimes it's zero; for really big films that people are sure will pack the theater, often the theaters have to agree to turn all ticket proceeds over to the studio, and make whatever profit they can off the overpriced popcorn etc.
I'm sure the theaters have some kind of agreement with the studios to prevent the exact thing I'm about to suggest--but if the theaters have to give basically all the ticket sales to the studios, it'd be interesting to see what would happen if a theater decided to start selling tickets dirt cheap. Keep the concessions at their outrageous prices, but sell tickets for $4 or so.
I know if ticket prices weren't so high, I would be more likely to buy a drink or something.
Alright, guess I misunderstood you, then. I still don't think he was trolling. The 360 does have an atrocious failure rate. Fun console, but that doesn't excuse it.
I've had a 360 console since launch, and it runs perfectly to this day - never repaired.
Somehow, your anecdotal evidence is better than his? How about mine? Of the people I know, I'm the only one who hasn't had to send in their 360--and mine doesn't work perfectly, either, as the eject button is really flaky (I have a remote that I use to eject).
I bet that your friends neglect or abuse their consoles. If you look in the manual, it says that you aren't supposed to use the console for extended periods of time (which is something like 3 or 4 hours), set them on carpet, enclose them inside cabinets etc etc. Everyone knows these units heat up...mitigate it.
You call him troll, then accuse all his friends of being console abusers. And, I'm sorry, if playing a console for more than 4 hours at a time is overuse, then the 360 is a really embarrassing console. Especially when you consider the PS3 survived a sauna.
However, you talk about the 'media' praising change and innovation. I disagree. The 'media' is as obnoxious as the fans. I think its actually more obnoxious. They love utter shit, they shit on true genius. Gaming media for the most part doesn't have an objective bone in their body, their just balancing the fans with the advertisers and they say whatever generates the most revenue. Whether its pooing on a triple-A title to generate a shitstorm (and boost ad impressions) or passing off poo as pure gold to appease their advertisers.
I agree the media is obnoxious as hell (so are, well, most gamers), but they seem more forgiving of change, even if it's crap change, than fans of a series will. Then again, maybe I'm reading the wrong sites, or the wrong reviews, or maybe I just live in some magical candyland where everybody's happy.
Every time a sequel for a popular game comes out, fans (and detractors) will cry out if it uses the same gameplay as the previous game. "There's nothing new!" But if the developers change it up, then the fans will cry foul, saying they're "ruining the experience" or "fixing what isn't broken".
But, it seems like the video game media likes (and praises) innovation quite a bit, which could be why the developers do it. The fans will be upset no matter what, but at least they can try to get the media on their side, regardless of whether the innovations in question are any good.
@DECS:
1. I said iTunes, as in iTMS, not the App Store. It was not until recently that you could use iTMS over anything but WiFi (see one of the posts below).
2. I've used MMS on non-3G phones in the past. MMS is, AFAIK, simply a standard, a means of encoding the multimedia into a MIME format, sending that to a server, then slapping a URL onto an SMS message, which tells the phone to open a browser to view/play the multimedia.
Except every phone sold on AT&T other than the iPhone supports it, and most of the country doesn't have 3G. And why wouldn't they want you using it on EDGE? They're already charging you, what, $0.25 for a glorified 600kb e-mail.
Oh, I agree with you completely: It's stupid. But since I can't imagine MMS requiring specific hardware above and beyond SMS, that was the only reason I could come up with. Remember, this is the same company that won't let you use iTunes over 3G--you have to go over WiFi.
Or, maybe the guy misspoke, and MMS will be on both models. One can only hope.
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Only because you are used to thinking in terms of distance / fuel volume.
Fair enough, but it doesn't answer the fact that the math with GPM is easier.
Honest question here. Why is gallons/100 miles preferable? It's always seemed backwards and clumsy to me.
With gal/100mi, it's more complicated to figure out how much gas you need to go X miles (with miles/gallon, it's simply X/mileage), and it also provides a more useful number when comparing cars. Sure, Car A might need 2.5 gallons/100mi and Car B needs 3 gallons/100mi, but that tells you less about the actual mileage (40 vs. 33.33).
The people who like the game are too busy enjoying it to even read the hater comments.
$50 fine? That's amazing. In my town (of about 60,000), it's a $370 fine. That's higher than in other nearby towns (which are larger, to boot), but only by $30. And that's the minimum fine, mind. Good ol' California.
The worst part is that some signals don't show yellow for the same length of time as others, so it's really hard to judge, sometimes.
Well, I know this post isn't exactly helpful, but I didn't experience any issues on 64-bit Win7, in three playthroughs. Maybe I got lucky, or maybe you got unlucky. Have you tried using the dev console and enabling the Redcliffe debug mode? You can skip to the end of it--which sucks, I know--and maybe then you could continue.
You don't read several hundred pages in one sitting on an Ipad or similar devices, its just painful. And a book shouldn't need to be recharged every couple of days. E-ink readers and their month-long battery life (if you have a kindle, remember to turn off wifi =P) is the way to go.
More anecdotal evidence, but anyways... After having the iPad for nearly two months, and reading about 8,000 pages worth on it (I'm going off of the print length of the books I've read), I can say that I have experienced no eye strain whatsoever. Or headaches. In fact, it's actually more comfortable than a real book or a Kindle (which I also have), thanks to the fact it's always perfectly lit. I sometimes get headaches reading real books, actually, due to lighting and other factors (though this is rare).
.epubs via Bittorrent.
I used to be against ebooks, but the iPad converted me in a way the Kindle couldn't (even though I thought its display was neat). Of course, I'm cheating a bit; I buy the paper books, then find the
I'll agree that battery life can be annoying, but my routine is usually to read for two days (on weekdays), then recharge while I'm sleeping. Or read for one day and recharge at night on the weekends. If I know I won't be able to charge it, I'll bring a paper book.
And this, folks, is why we can't have nice things.
Possibly true, but possibly also might not matter, if it's still quick enough. After all, playing on the internet isn't as quick as a "LAN frag fest", and yet the vast majority of gamers, even of twitch-heavy games, are playing on the internet, not on LANs.
Heh. We're talking about gamers here. These are the same people who say that wireless controllers are too slow, that 5ms monitors are too slow, and that a 1-frame lag in Street Fighter 2 totally kills their game--even though all these things are all demonstrably quicker than their reflexes or visible acuity. Imagine how they'll react to something like OnLive?
I think the service would get less bad press if it didn't have games that required fast-twitch reactions, such as FPSs. Sure, you might get less subscribers because those games aren't available, but there'd be less angry people, I'll wager.
Chrome StumbleUpon isn't quite as good as the Firefox extension. It has less features, and for some reason keeps telling me there's nothing left to stumble after only a couple tries. The Firefox one doesn't do that.
My experience was different. I was born in 1988, and everyone I knew played DN3D. And since the game came with the first two games on the disc, many people had played the originals, too.
Who the f*k used cells 30 years ago?! Also, there is no constant mass to measure as the amount of cell owners 10 years ago is far from the one now, so this is pure faked corporatism support,
Seems to me it's important to find out how many people got glioma before cell phones were popular, if your goal is to establish whether or not that number has increased with cell phone usage. *shrug*
the only thing I do mind is when I can blow through the demo in less than an hour.
I honestly can't remember any demo on a modern system that was >= 1 hour in length. Most are only around 20 minutes--and many are even shorter (Heavenly Sword was 5 minutes, IIRC).
At The National Gallery in London the names of paintings are provided in braille and the audio guides have braille too
The audio guides are in braille?
Actual number of screws to take out to access the hard drive on a modern Macbook: 0. Actual number for RAM is annoying, though (8 on the earlier MBs, but not sure about the new ones). Number of major components to take out for either RAM or HDD: 0.
I noticed that, too, but on a different point. If playing games decreases the ability to plan sequences of action, doesn't that mean people who play video games a lot are less likely to go out on a killing spree? Isn't that the sort of thing that requires some planning?
That's because in 10 years you had the time to associate the word "google" with "search".
Yeah, I know it's a misspelling for "goggle" but I never made the connection myself.
You make a good point, but I'd just like to point out that it's a misspelling of "googol" (10^100), not "google" :)
No way. Theaters usually get to keep between 25% and ZERO percent of ticket proceeds. Yes, sometimes it's zero; for really big films that people are sure will pack the theater, often the theaters have to agree to turn all ticket proceeds over to the studio, and make whatever profit they can off the overpriced popcorn etc.
I'm sure the theaters have some kind of agreement with the studios to prevent the exact thing I'm about to suggest--but if the theaters have to give basically all the ticket sales to the studios, it'd be interesting to see what would happen if a theater decided to start selling tickets dirt cheap. Keep the concessions at their outrageous prices, but sell tickets for $4 or so.
I know if ticket prices weren't so high, I would be more likely to buy a drink or something.
Alright, guess I misunderstood you, then. I still don't think he was trolling. The 360 does have an atrocious failure rate. Fun console, but that doesn't excuse it.
I call troll.
I've had a 360 console since launch, and it runs perfectly to this day - never repaired.
Somehow, your anecdotal evidence is better than his? How about mine? Of the people I know, I'm the only one who hasn't had to send in their 360--and mine doesn't work perfectly, either, as the eject button is really flaky (I have a remote that I use to eject).
I bet that your friends neglect or abuse their consoles. If you look in the manual, it says that you aren't supposed to use the console for extended periods of time (which is something like 3 or 4 hours), set them on carpet, enclose them inside cabinets etc etc. Everyone knows these units heat up...mitigate it.
You call him troll, then accuse all his friends of being console abusers. And, I'm sorry, if playing a console for more than 4 hours at a time is overuse, then the 360 is a really embarrassing console. Especially when you consider the PS3 survived a sauna.
However, you talk about the 'media' praising change and innovation. I disagree. The 'media' is as obnoxious as the fans. I think its actually more obnoxious. They love utter shit, they shit on true genius. Gaming media for the most part doesn't have an objective bone in their body, their just balancing the fans with the advertisers and they say whatever generates the most revenue. Whether its pooing on a triple-A title to generate a shitstorm (and boost ad impressions) or passing off poo as pure gold to appease their advertisers.
I agree the media is obnoxious as hell (so are, well, most gamers), but they seem more forgiving of change, even if it's crap change, than fans of a series will. Then again, maybe I'm reading the wrong sites, or the wrong reviews, or maybe I just live in some magical candyland where everybody's happy.
The fans whine and whine--and then buy it anyways. But they do get a lot of whining done first.
Every time a sequel for a popular game comes out, fans (and detractors) will cry out if it uses the same gameplay as the previous game. "There's nothing new!" But if the developers change it up, then the fans will cry foul, saying they're "ruining the experience" or "fixing what isn't broken".
But, it seems like the video game media likes (and praises) innovation quite a bit, which could be why the developers do it. The fans will be upset no matter what, but at least they can try to get the media on their side, regardless of whether the innovations in question are any good.
@DECS:
1. I said iTunes, as in iTMS, not the App Store. It was not until recently that you could use iTMS over anything but WiFi (see one of the posts below).
2. I've used MMS on non-3G phones in the past. MMS is, AFAIK, simply a standard, a means of encoding the multimedia into a MIME format, sending that to a server, then slapping a URL onto an SMS message, which tells the phone to open a browser to view/play the multimedia.
Ah, so it can. Cool. Probably some thing with AT&T not wanting them to do it.
Oh, I agree with you completely: It's stupid. But since I can't imagine MMS requiring specific hardware above and beyond SMS, that was the only reason I could come up with. Remember, this is the same company that won't let you use iTunes over 3G--you have to go over WiFi.
Or, maybe the guy misspoke, and MMS will be on both models. One can only hope.