"Compare that to the original Doom where all the enemies of the same type had exactly the same model. That just doesn't fly as easily anymore."
Ha ha ha. All the Doom 3 enemy types have identical models. It's still the norm. In fact I doubt you could find a single-player-style FPS where every character is unique.
Just nitpicking, not arguing with your overall point.
I take it you've never actually played a "NES Classics" series GBA game. They don't add new features* or update the graphics - in fact I heard that they still have the same slowdowns as the original, the emulator is a little too good. And they're £12-£15 in the UK. So deduct 33% for distribution and retailer's cut, maybe £2 for the box and the cartridge, and the game itself is still £6-£8. OK, so perhaps they're charging for portability and revolution downloads will cost less. And the less popular games might well cost less than the big names like Mario. But $1 for a NES game is so far off what they're charging on the GBA that it seems like a pipe dream.
I hope I'm wrong, and they decide to go for volume instead of pricing comparatively against modern budget games. And I really hope it works out well for them, to the point that other companies get in the act - I'd love the Sega back catalog on the Revolution too...
*I think they added the ability to save high scores thing to my copy of Xevious. But no significant features.
"It will still take the same intelligence and smarts to get decent grades."
I thought that the students were essentially graded on a curve, i.e. a fixed number of people per grade. So if everyone but you goofs off entirely, you can still get top honours despite being mediocre.
Besides, having internet is class is reasonable - most people now have it at work, and learning how to pay attention despite all the potential distraction can't hurt. I'm still not very good at it...
Moore's law (as approximately applied to home computing) is that performance-per-price doubles every 18 months. So for three years it should be 4 times more powerful - more if it costs more.
Mind you, Xbox was launched in late 2001, Xbox 2 in late 2005, so there's a 4 year gap, which should equate to about 6 times more power.
I saw this explanation once, on slashdot so it was probably untrue. But lets propagate it anyway, I prefer it to the alternative.
The word rediculous was originally a combination of Redmond and ridiculous, meaning something so crazy that only Microsoft would do it. People who can't spell seem to like it, and have adopted it.
The alternative I referred to above is that people are learning to read and write on slashdot, and the errors perpetuate themselves by being read and learnt without any outside corrective influence. Like slashdot is some isolated population, the spelling is the DNA, and rediculous is a mutation. It seems crazy, but then the slashdot population is also the only one that finds the "in Soviet Russia" joke funny...
Game makers are not automatically screwed, you forgot one option:
.........Late....On time.... Bugs.....Damned..Damned..... No bugs..Damned..Not damned.
All they have to do is learn to set realistic schedules, then add an extra 10% so they can test it twice. Or not announce release dates until they go gold.
Yes, but how many of those times are you focused on the music? I'm generally doing something else like reading or playing a game when I'm listening to music, it's rare that I'll turn the lights off and give an album my full attention. I'd say that I'll watch a DVD and listen to a CD twice when I buy them, after that neither will get much attention although the CD will provide background music now and again (and as such is entirely replaceable). They provide similar amounts of entertainment to me, so they should cost about the same.
"I don't see anything wrong with feeding dead chickens to cows."
They're vegetarians. Put a dead chicken in a field and the cows will eat the grass around it.
Also consider this: Good bits of chicken get sold as recognisable cuts of meat, bad bits of chicken get made into processed meat... how bad does it have to be before it becomes animal feed?
IIRC all the protesters have done is a couple of go-slows on major motorways and block refinery gates.
I get the impression there are about 100 people being jerks about fuel prices (after all, you only need 4 cars to block a motorway), probably a lot more people who don't drive and would be happy to see £20 a litre so long as buses got it tax free, and everyone else doesn't care and pays without thinking. There are probably some people who don't have high incomes who are really hit by the tax, and I'd happily see anyone who can demonstrate a good economic reason to consume X amount of petrol in commuting get a tax rebate if their salary is too low to pay.
The point of the tax is to discourage driving. Roads can get really jammed at peak times. There's an environmental aspect and it helps to conserve finite petrol stocks too, although as I said I really don't see many people caring.
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"That includes the stories, which sure as hell are owned by those that write them"
I think he was referring to stuff like fairy tales, biblical movies, Shakespeare adaptations, and traditional storylines like "boy meets girl, loses girl, meets girl again". The stories are often owned by the culture, the specific scripts are owned by whoever the writer sells them to.
Hardware-support is a no-brainer. It's really simple: *do your research before you buy*
Research != no brainer
Plus, even when you are paying attention and putting in the work, you can still get bitten. I chose a PCMCIA wifi card that people had said worked under linux, and then found out when I bought it that there are three different revisions using the same product code.
Anyway, excess heat could be volcanic (either from a hot core or tidal forces), and probably lots of other things (Chemical reactions? Weather processes?). I know Jupiter gives off heat because it's slowly contracting.
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56k modem is 56 kilobit is 7 kilobyte/second, not 5.6
22 hours was right.
Hey, I guess you could solve both problems by putting a different advert on each enemy. :)
"Compare that to the original Doom where all the enemies of the same type had exactly the same model. That just doesn't fly as easily anymore."
Ha ha ha. All the Doom 3 enemy types have identical models. It's still the norm. In fact I doubt you could find a single-player-style FPS where every character is unique.
Just nitpicking, not arguing with your overall point.
I take it you've never actually played a "NES Classics" series GBA game. They don't add new features* or update the graphics - in fact I heard that they still have the same slowdowns as the original, the emulator is a little too good. And they're £12-£15 in the UK. So deduct 33% for distribution and retailer's cut, maybe £2 for the box and the cartridge, and the game itself is still £6-£8. OK, so perhaps they're charging for portability and revolution downloads will cost less. And the less popular games might well cost less than the big names like Mario. But $1 for a NES game is so far off what they're charging on the GBA that it seems like a pipe dream.
I hope I'm wrong, and they decide to go for volume instead of pricing comparatively against modern budget games. And I really hope it works out well for them, to the point that other companies get in the act - I'd love the Sega back catalog on the Revolution too...
*I think they added the ability to save high scores thing to my copy of Xevious. But no significant features.
"It will still take the same intelligence and smarts to get decent grades."
I thought that the students were essentially graded on a curve, i.e. a fixed number of people per grade. So if everyone but you goofs off entirely, you can still get top honours despite being mediocre.
Besides, having internet is class is reasonable - most people now have it at work, and learning how to pay attention despite all the potential distraction can't hurt. I'm still not very good at it...
Say no to film and TV tie-ins:
Tie Fighter, Chronicles of Riddick
Avoid gangster adventures:
GTA (OK, maybe they meant to exclude that themselves)
The second world war is over:
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - maybe not an incredible game but it's great value.
Try an original title:
Many of these suck too...
Download an independent game:
Most people seem to think Darwinia isn't much fun to play. Certainly there are plenty of awful flash games.
terrible games based on cartoons:
Astro Boy (GBA). It's by Treasure!
Iie! Nihon-go wa muzukashii desu! Nihon-go no sensei wa kowai desu!
The shit I go through just to import tentacle porn...
Surely that happened about twenty five years ago, with the first movie tie-in game.
Anyone know what it was, btw?
Moore's law (as approximately applied to home computing) is that performance-per-price doubles every 18 months. So for three years it should be 4 times more powerful - more if it costs more.
Mind you, Xbox was launched in late 2001, Xbox 2 in late 2005, so there's a 4 year gap, which should equate to about 6 times more power.
"You can't take a chunk of someone's liver by force to save someone else"
:)
Oh, yeah? I like a challenge
This guy is the most impressive troll I've seen on Slashdot. If I hadn't just read this, I'd have believed him.
Actually, made that second most impressive: NSFW.
I saw this explanation once, on slashdot so it was probably untrue. But lets propagate it anyway, I prefer it to the alternative.
The word rediculous was originally a combination of Redmond and ridiculous, meaning something so crazy that only Microsoft would do it.
People who can't spell seem to like it, and have adopted it.
The alternative I referred to above is that people are learning to read and write on slashdot, and the errors perpetuate themselves by being read and learnt without any outside corrective influence. Like slashdot is some isolated population, the spelling is the DNA, and rediculous is a mutation. It seems crazy, but then the slashdot population is also the only one that finds the "in Soviet Russia" joke funny...
Game makers are not automatically screwed, you forgot one option:
.........Late....On time....
Bugs.....Damned..Damned.....
No bugs..Damned..Not damned.
All they have to do is learn to set realistic schedules, then add an extra 10% so they can test it twice. Or not announce release dates until they go gold.
Yes, but how many of those times are you focused on the music? I'm generally doing something else like reading or playing a game when I'm listening to music, it's rare that I'll turn the lights off and give an album my full attention. I'd say that I'll watch a DVD and listen to a CD twice when I buy them, after that neither will get much attention although the CD will provide background music now and again (and as such is entirely replaceable). They provide similar amounts of entertainment to me, so they should cost about the same.
Depends where you live. 9 months of the year my desktop is busy keeping my room warm, and I don't run it much in summer because of the heat.
See this.
"...or I'm going to give you wacky games that you don't really understand..."
He just said his customers are stupid, and those journalists don't call him on it?
"I don't see anything wrong with feeding dead chickens to cows."
They're vegetarians. Put a dead chicken in a field and the cows will eat the grass around it.
Also consider this: Good bits of chicken get sold as recognisable cuts of meat, bad bits of chicken get made into processed meat... how bad does it have to be before it becomes animal feed?
"Your $6+ a gallon in the UK has lead to major protests and road blockages costing the UK taxpayer billions of pounds."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4243950.stm
IIRC all the protesters have done is a couple of go-slows on major motorways and block refinery gates.
I get the impression there are about 100 people being jerks about fuel prices (after all, you only need 4 cars to block a motorway), probably a lot more people who don't drive and would be happy to see £20 a litre so long as buses got it tax free, and everyone else doesn't care and pays without thinking.
There are probably some people who don't have high incomes who are really hit by the tax, and I'd happily see anyone who can demonstrate a good economic reason to consume X amount of petrol in commuting get a tax rebate if their salary is too low to pay.
The point of the tax is to discourage driving. Roads can get really jammed at peak times. There's an environmental aspect and it helps to conserve finite petrol stocks too, although as I said I really don't see many people caring.
Goatse-man DOES have a slashdot account!
"That includes the stories, which sure as hell are owned by those that write them"
I think he was referring to stuff like fairy tales, biblical movies, Shakespeare adaptations, and traditional storylines like "boy meets girl, loses girl, meets girl again". The stories are often owned by the culture, the specific scripts are owned by whoever the writer sells them to.
The Royal Society* is an organisation that promotes UK science, The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce is different.
*Yes, they should call themselves The Royal Society of Britain or something else a bit more specific to prevent confusion like this.
Belligerent, insightful and funny. I like it!
Hardware-support is a no-brainer. It's really simple: *do your research before you buy*
Research != no brainer
Plus, even when you are paying attention and putting in the work, you can still get bitten. I chose a PCMCIA wifi card that people had said worked under linux, and then found out when I bought it that there are three different revisions using the same product code.
Shudder?
Anyway, excess heat could be volcanic (either from a hot core or tidal forces), and probably lots of other things (Chemical reactions? Weather processes?). I know Jupiter gives off heat because it's slowly contracting.