everyone wants varying difficulty. To me it depends on/why/ it's difficult.
If they made Doom with only the top tow difficulty levels I wouldn't complain, yeah it's a challange but it's still fun.
If the difficulty is due to poorly designed interface (such as the camera and control in Mario 64 DS), then yeah, I'd complain. It seems here he's not saying the interface is poorly designed, he's just saying it's too challanging.
If you don't want a challanging game, go play something else or ask the game manufacturers to come up with an independant challange rating.
Ex: if it takes a year to sell all the inventory they bought, they may make only 1/4 of an order next time - they are still better off than if they didn't sell any. If it takes a month to sell all the inventory, the next order may be 3x of the previous. I guess it just depends on rate of sale as to how much it hurts the store.
Sony already got all the money they'll get directly for those consoles, that just hurts the stores who's shelves their sitting on. By buying them, Sony will make more, and sell more, taking a loss on each.
They get there money from games.
A PS3 is a cheap computer for the processing power. Not a bad system for Linux/BSD, and Sony doesn't make money off of those, if that's all you use. And that's all I'll use on a PS3 if I get one.
Anyway, I think, regardless of what I make, if you make money off of it, I should gain to, somehow. However, if you don't make money off of it, then you should be able to use it however the ---- you want.
While that is true, the BSD license does allow people to take software other wrote, and profit off of it without providing anything back, GPL prevents, or at least, inhibits that kind of activity. I'm more fond of a "not-for-compensation = BSD, otherwise = GPL + small/no fee, otherwise = other + large fee"
having learned both recently, I found VI more cryptic than emacs myself, with many of the characters for given commands to be counter-intuitive. Emacs usually requires more keystrokes for a command (though for simple editing you don't need them much), but it is (I found quicker to learn).
Recently a friend and I had a Vi vs. Emacs argument (actually we've had it for a while), and a friend of ours decided to use a Unix like OS that we helped him with... We both tried to show him our editors.
He likes Emacs, even though he learned VI a bit more first.
In the end - neither is better than the other, it's all about the way your mind works, and what is natural to you.
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ok, this guy definetly needs to be upmodded more than I did. Mine was barely funny, this guy was hillarious (IMO)
everyone wants varying difficulty. To me it depends on /why/ it's difficult.
If they made Doom with only the top tow difficulty levels I wouldn't complain, yeah it's a challange but it's still fun.
If the difficulty is due to poorly designed interface (such as the camera and control in Mario 64 DS), then yeah, I'd complain. It seems here he's not saying the interface is poorly designed, he's just saying it's too challanging.
If you don't want a challanging game, go play something else or ask the game manufacturers to come up with an independant challange rating.
and he complains?
Someone call the waaambulance.
It's a rerun!
Interesting, I take it the store still gets the liability for 5 fingered discounts?
Stores typically restock based on sell rate.
Ex: if it takes a year to sell all the inventory they bought, they may make only 1/4 of an order next time - they are still better off than if they didn't sell any. If it takes a month to sell all the inventory, the next order may be 3x of the previous. I guess it just depends on rate of sale as to how much it hurts the store.
I guess that is a good point to make.
Sony already got all the money they'll get directly for those consoles, that just hurts the stores who's shelves their sitting on. By buying them, Sony will make more, and sell more, taking a loss on each.
They get there money from games.
A PS3 is a cheap computer for the processing power. Not a bad system for Linux/BSD, and Sony doesn't make money off of those, if that's all you use. And that's all I'll use on a PS3 if I get one.
true, but Sony won't make money on PS3s running Linux or BSD
Ahh, I try to limit my crap output to my colon.
Anyway, I think, regardless of what I make, if you make money off of it, I should gain to, somehow. However, if you don't make money off of it, then you should be able to use it however the ---- you want.
While that is true, the BSD license does allow people to take software other wrote, and profit off of it without providing anything back, GPL prevents, or at least, inhibits that kind of activity. I'm more fond of a "not-for-compensation = BSD, otherwise = GPL + small/no fee, otherwise = other + large fee"
actually, for the price, the hardware is still powerful, and I want to do some serious number crunching.
From what I gather, it'll be cheaper than a similarly priced Core2 setup...
And anyway, to get some of the money Sony has taken from me, I'll happily get one of those systems and have that computing power subsidized.
We managed to get photographs of Aspasia's base... Oh no! They are gonna kill us all!
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I plan on getting a couple of those PS3s when a variant of BSD runs on them.
Don't actually plan on getting any games, I just want a cheap and powerful computer, subsidized by a company known for being anti-consumer.
I plan on getting a Wii too, and some games.
That means they "care" about "us"!
finally, a joke on the right lines...
It seems to me a lot of people recognize the Toshiba name for laptops, but I'm around tech groups a lot, and that may be why.
I do like their notebooks and support though, I hope this name recognition helps them.
a link to (apparantly) all specific model/part numbers affect is here: http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/Tos hibaCSG/generic_content.jsp?service=EU&ID=TOSHIBA_ BATTERY_EU,br>
I tried posting the list, but the lame filter was to lame to realize it was ueful, and I am to lame to spend an the time needed to format it in an obvious enough way that the filter won't throw a hissy-fit.
having learned both recently, I found VI more cryptic than emacs myself, with many of the characters for given commands to be counter-intuitive. Emacs usually requires more keystrokes for a command (though for simple editing you don't need them much), but it is (I found quicker to learn).
Recently a friend and I had a Vi vs. Emacs argument (actually we've had it for a while), and a friend of ours decided to use a Unix like OS that we helped him with... We both tried to show him our editors.
He likes Emacs, even though he learned VI a bit more first.
In the end - neither is better than the other, it's all about the way your mind works, and what is natural to you.
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