Online console gamers mostly play on x360. There is no "no longer in service, buy the next installment" bullshit. You pay for your service, but you GET your service.
Exactly. Because some great games become really scarce very fast and are not, and will not be, reedited. The first one that comes to my mind is We Love Katamari on PS2. Only 50 000 ones were produced for France. It was also the same for Rez. Both are great games but were not intended to be best sellers. Of course, for a Call of Duty, or whatever big budgeted game where the online multiplayer part is not important, it's not an urgent buy. Yes, online multiplayer games are an issue, because after the launch, you cannot easily get people to play with you in most of these.
Northern France too. A friend of mine who was born in a small town (45000 inhabitants), used to live with his parents who never lock any door. In 30 years, they had only one burglary, and the people only took useless and valueless shit.
By the way, there is also this neighbor borrowing thing. I am always amazed to see how northern France people are similar to Scottish ones.
Because that when the device is not identified by the OS, the power output is capped to 100mA. When identified, it can go up to 500mA. The evident solution would be to use a standard passive driver.
The average Joe does not care because he cannot care. Is he going to check every mobile phone connectors and force the seller to unwrap every box when he choose which free one he is going to take with his subscription? No. He is just going to complain because he has another adapter.
We are talking about mobile phones. If these have non standard connectors, it's mostly because it brings more money to do so. Do not bullshit us with a "it was the cheapest design". The cheapest design would be to use of the shelf components and to assemble these, not to create ultra specific stuff. If you let companies do, these do not choose the cheapest options, only those which maximize profit. The consumer does not get many choices in the end. Should we not reduce car emissions because the consumer does not systematically buy the cleanest car? Furthermore, standardizing connectors can also standardize recycling of these and reduce useless production.
Regulation can be good, especially EU ones. The last good that comes to my mind is the one about phone roaming costs. Mobile phone companies used to screw europe-wide traveling people with incredibly high roaming costs. Now there is a law fixing the maximal price per minute.
About competition, it also seems that European Commission goes more often after monopolies than its US equivalent. Some (*cough* W Bush *cough*) US governments just did not want to trouble their beloved lobbies.
My N95 had an USB charger which worked perfectly fine, with no detection. So yes, it already happens.
And if one USB plug is not enough, how about using two? I have already seen USB hubs plugged in two ports on the computer. It's not really a problem.
When not used, the bandwidth is definitely not wasted. This *wasted* bandwidth is what allows ISPs to oversell their available bandwidth. As they do not want to have to pay to be able to serve exactly what they sold, they fight to make traffic shaping legal.
People wanted the same visual sudo as in Ubuntu, they delivered a half-baked one, only designed to be annoying. I am still trying to figure out why I should have to clic two times on "yes" when I am trying to move a file to Program Files. "Are you sure?" and "Are you really sure?" are two stupid question when put together in line. The result is that people still ignore what is written because it is garbage.
So to come back to the subject : I you copy something people like, make a good copy. Google created Google Videos when YouTube was popular only to realize that people did not move on from YouTube. They made an online copy of Office, and then it somehow works.
So yeah, they try, often fail but when they succeed, they make great stuff such as gmail or their search engine.
I definitely second that. Monoculture is bad, importing already educated and experimented people, who so far bear no cost on the destination country is definitely good. Even more, these people will pay to get there, and buy the local stuff they need to live. And if they are not good enough, they can be sent back in less than a week, when they use an H1-B.
Worse already exists. They have these clothes that cover everything and there is an integrated veil in front of the eyes but you cannot see the eyes from outside. I saw shots of behind this shit and it looks like you are looking through a grid of small bars, just like a wearable prison.
Because there are many communities you cannot join if you come late and all noobs already went away or grew up. Think Quake 3, Forza 2, Mario Kart DS and probably many more. It's absolutely not the same as tennis and chess because in either, you can find bad playersquite everywhere. Just try to find bad players on an oldish online...
Unless you play a just released game, your theory does not apply.
I bought a licence of Opera s60v3 less than a year ago. Though most versions are free, paid ones still exist. The difference between Opera s60 and mini is that you get a better browsing engine, faster, more responsive and not java based, but really crashier, so much more crash prone. Still, it beats everything under the sun on my N95.
It already exists in France. Every casual home appliance, electronic mostly but also kitchen stuff, is labeled with a consumption rating. It does not apply to non standard hardware such as consoles.
This stuff reminds me of the track copy flag on audio CDs. It's enabled on many discs but it always is ignored. Why should this stupid flag be different?
Yeah, skilled sound engineers who must in the end overcompress the music so that it's loud enough and who rectify bad singers' tones. So let's forget about the "good sounding" and "fidelity" parts.
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True. This is also why PS2 still sells so well.
Online console gamers mostly play on x360. There is no "no longer in service, buy the next installment" bullshit. You pay for your service, but you GET your service.
Exactly. Because some great games become really scarce very fast and are not, and will not be, reedited. The first one that comes to my mind is We Love Katamari on PS2. Only 50 000 ones were produced for France. It was also the same for Rez. Both are great games but were not intended to be best sellers.
Of course, for a Call of Duty, or whatever big budgeted game where the online multiplayer part is not important, it's not an urgent buy. Yes, online multiplayer games are an issue, because after the launch, you cannot easily get people to play with you in most of these.
Northern France too. A friend of mine who was born in a small town (45000 inhabitants), used to live with his parents who never lock any door. In 30 years, they had only one burglary, and the people only took useless and valueless shit.
By the way, there is also this neighbor borrowing thing. I am always amazed to see how northern France people are similar to Scottish ones.
It's not about not charging, it's about charging slowly.
Because that when the device is not identified by the OS, the power output is capped to 100mA. When identified, it can go up to 500mA.
The evident solution would be to use a standard passive driver.
The average Joe does not care because he cannot care. Is he going to check every mobile phone connectors and force the seller to unwrap every box when he choose which free one he is going to take with his subscription? No. He is just going to complain because he has another adapter.
We are talking about mobile phones. If these have non standard connectors, it's mostly because it brings more money to do so. Do not bullshit us with a "it was the cheapest design". The cheapest design would be to use of the shelf components and to assemble these, not to create ultra specific stuff.
If you let companies do, these do not choose the cheapest options, only those which maximize profit. The consumer does not get many choices in the end. Should we not reduce car emissions because the consumer does not systematically buy the cleanest car?
Furthermore, standardizing connectors can also standardize recycling of these and reduce useless production.
Regulation can be good, especially EU ones. The last good that comes to my mind is the one about phone roaming costs. Mobile phone companies used to screw europe-wide traveling people with incredibly high roaming costs. Now there is a law fixing the maximal price per minute. About competition, it also seems that European Commission goes more often after monopolies than its US equivalent. Some (*cough* W Bush *cough*) US governments just did not want to trouble their beloved lobbies.
Wake up, the average Joe doesn't care. If he loses the dedicated charger, he will buy another one.
My N95 had an USB charger which worked perfectly fine, with no detection. So yes, it already happens.
And if one USB plug is not enough, how about using two? I have already seen USB hubs plugged in two ports on the computer. It's not really a problem.
Yeah, and nokia sells USB charging cords for N95. These are around $25.
When not used, the bandwidth is definitely not wasted. This *wasted* bandwidth is what allows ISPs to oversell their available bandwidth. As they do not want to have to pay to be able to serve exactly what they sold, they fight to make traffic shaping legal.
Any moron can drive around a track, as long as I make the car go fast and handle well enough.
Quite true. In F1 races, they keep on changing rules every year only to prevent Ferrari from winning one more time. So, let's settle on
Any good enough moron can drive around a track, as long as I make the car go fast and handle well enough.
People wanted the same visual sudo as in Ubuntu, they delivered a half-baked one, only designed to be annoying. I am still trying to figure out why I should have to clic two times on "yes" when I am trying to move a file to Program Files. "Are you sure?" and "Are you really sure?" are two stupid question when put together in line. The result is that people still ignore what is written because it is garbage.
So to come back to the subject : I you copy something people like, make a good copy. Google created Google Videos when YouTube was popular only to realize that people did not move on from YouTube. They made an online copy of Office, and then it somehow works. So yeah, they try, often fail but when they succeed, they make great stuff such as gmail or their search engine.
How many bad copies for a success?
It's more like Mame and MESS together.
Some marketing leads to sales. The remainder leads to bigger prices because it is expensive to market a product.
I definitely second that. Monoculture is bad, importing already educated and experimented people, who so far bear no cost on the destination country is definitely good. Even more, these people will pay to get there, and buy the local stuff they need to live. And if they are not good enough, they can be sent back in less than a week, when they use an H1-B.
Worse already exists. They have these clothes that cover everything and there is an integrated veil in front of the eyes but you cannot see the eyes from outside. I saw shots of behind this shit and it looks like you are looking through a grid of small bars, just like a wearable prison.
Because there are many communities you cannot join if you come late and all noobs already went away or grew up. Think Quake 3, Forza 2, Mario Kart DS and probably many more. It's absolutely not the same as tennis and chess because in either, you can find bad playersquite everywhere. Just try to find bad players on an oldish online...
Unless you play a just released game, your theory does not apply.
I bought a licence of Opera s60v3 less than a year ago. Though most versions are free, paid ones still exist. The difference between Opera s60 and mini is that you get a better browsing engine, faster, more responsive and not java based, but really crashier, so much more crash prone. Still, it beats everything under the sun on my N95.
It already exists in France. Every casual home appliance, electronic mostly but also kitchen stuff, is labeled with a consumption rating. It does not apply to non standard hardware such as consoles.
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I have never had the hang on this online stuff. I'm too touchy.
This stuff reminds me of the track copy flag on audio CDs. It's enabled on many discs but it always is ignored. Why should this stupid flag be different?
Yeah, skilled sound engineers who must in the end overcompress the music so that it's loud enough and who rectify bad singers' tones. So let's forget about the "good sounding" and "fidelity" parts.