Here's why: After they spend $100 billion building it they'll be broke. It will be easily visible by satallite imagery. One bombs will likely be enough to take it out. Although not nuclear, 1000 tons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen is enough to leave a dent in the earth and take out anyone working on the project as well as whatever warhead was near by.
...this is really a grey area. Given that everyone involved was a consenting adult. Much like hentai, where many of the styles have "young" looks, even though the characters aren't. Or it can even be argued with "adult babies", or girls in schoolgirl outfits.
This isn't something where you can really break out the pitchforks for, but you can't exactly say for the win.
It's not elitism. It is simply the nature of the game. As other replies have said, they were in an arcade where you'd be plunking down quarters when you died rather than sitting at home. There were very few games I ever beat in an arcade. I think MvC2 and Roadwarriors were the only two.
Pick up an old game, and you'll realize two major facts:
#1 The game is hard. VERY hard. #2 The control sucks.
Yup, #2 is sad but true. The old school games do have a completely different feel to them, and adding in the physics that came around during the 8 bit era lead to "slippery" feeling games. But #1 was because games weren't MEANT to be beaten by most people. When you beat a game, that was because you were a hard core badass gamer. They were meant to be played over and over and enjoyed. By comparison, most games today are play though once, move on to the next.
Does that make them better? You can argue both ways. Pick up Ikaruga and you'll be able to appreciate how getting level three is an accomplishment all over again.
The answer is simple: If you want a safe, don't start with a greenhouse. Start with a metal box. Adding a layer of security ontop of something insecure doesn't work well, as people can peel back layers. If you want something to REALLY be secure, start with something inherantly secure. If you constantly need to patch something for security holes your method was flawed from the start.
If the flash chip can be removed on it's own, it can be put in something insecure. If you must use this scheme, make sure the information on the chip is secure on it's own. The BEST way that I can think of for a "self destruct" in this case would be a fragile flash chip casing and PCB and encasing the PCA into the enclosure. If you make it so the act of opening the device destroys the device, then you just reduced a large method for retrieving the data. The epoxy should hold it well enough for daily use.
Without looking around much, I see CF cards at 1GB for $12.50, 2GB ones for $16, 4GB for $34 and 8GB for $75. Making a bit less than linear progression. But you can guess about $8/GB for wholesale. 64x8=about $500.
Think of SL as an IRC server that is being run by The Sims. Most people I know in SL go there for the community. The 3D representation gives them a better sense of the person they're talking to, and a different level of interaction.
You CAN do alot for free. There's alot of good free stuff out there. You can also make stuff if you want to. Nobody says you have to buy it. Natural resources? LIMITLESS! Want another box? Just drop one. With SL, the ability to sell goods isn't limited by any sort of ability to produce quantities. It's about design.
Current numbers: Total Residents: 2,434,170 Logged In Last 60 Days: 883,536 Online Now: 13,150
That is right now, right this second as I post this. The highest I've seen the online now number is about 23-24k, and once it gets over 20k shit really does hit the fan.
As far as 15% contribute scripted objects. Perhaps that's 15% of the real active user count, but it sure as hell isn't 15% of the 2.4M. Scripting in SL has a steep learning curve and many people who do building in SL avoid scripting because it is such a pain.
My cousin came over to visit for the holidays and we ended up camping out at a Target at 4AM, we were 27-28 in line at a Target that got 60. Around 7:30 or so lucky #60 showed up. Not too bad, things went quickly. We were home at about 8:30 and unpacking. Target did a great job on this one....now, my cousin also needed one for his work (yes, he is a lucky SOB), so we went over to Costco about 5 minutes before opening. They had about 48 and we were number 40 on line. Things took a bit longer, and they had a much stronger focus on making sure everything stays in order vs. setting up a nice streamlined method to getting everyone thier stuff quickly.
Playing the Wii feels like this is the future of gaming, it doesn't have a wow factor graphics wise, but it DOES have a "Wow, this feels like the way games should be played" feel. IMO, it's the freshest idea to come to gaming since 3D. Playing Excite Truck is more like driving than just mashing down buttons and tapping the stick. Playing golf feels actually satisfying. Playing tennis with four people was a blast.
Online capabilities were effectively MIA for the GC. The Wii however... we got IMs going back and forth between them, they have an easy to use store, pleanty of room for more capabilities. I give Nintendo many props for getting thier online stance setup and off and running extremely well.
In conclusion: Launch: great titles, good supply, well organized Play: fun and fresh Capabilities: a refreshing feature set that has pleanty of room for expansion
A large part of the growth of the US population is from the large amount of immigration the US has, both legal and not legal. Also, the OP stated that they compared the per capita usage to developing countries, not industrialized countries. It sounds like someone's cherry picking stats to make it sound bigger than it is.
Your analogy doesn't work quite well. Because you don't have to spend an hour every time you got a new shirt:)
Compare a crate engine with a carburator vs. one with fuel injection. A gear head will go for a carburated engine because they can tweak with it all day long and make it higher performance. But it will require regular tune ups to keep it in tune. (with a PC, that would be system maintenance) The average car user however, wants the damned thing just to fire up every day like it did the day before so they can drive it.
Personally, I perfer sitting on my couch and relaxing when I play a game to being hunched over my keyboard like I am now.
I have a family member that writes for a major gaming website, the single largest reason why he perfers console gaming:
The games just work.
You open a game, pop it in, and in a few minutes you're into the game (depends on how long the cut scenes are). There's no installation, configuration, tweaking. Nothing. It just works. Now, he plays ALOT of games, but even when he gets home to enjoy them, he still picks up a pad. The only games I've seen on his PC are the ones that came with Win2k. It's not that he CAN'T play a PC game, he just doesn't enjoy messing around with drivers and that sort of thing when he could be shooting zombies in the head instead.
As geeks we're addicted to tweaking stuff, but you can't forget the joy when you open up something, plug it in, and it just works.
Back in 2002 I flew upto Seattle from Sacramento. There was a stop over in Salt Lake City. I flew standby, only carry on. I got "randomly" checked 4 times out of four, and I never left the terminal in Salt Lake City.
After this trip I learned of the five things that set off a "random" check.
#1: Traveling alone. #2: No checked bags #3: Traveling on short notice. #4: Being male. #5: Being arab.
I did 4 of the 5 things.
So the next time I flew, just recently to Charlotte through Atlanta. I flew with family, lots of notice, and very little carry on (MP3 player, DS, headphones). Guess what? Not a single random check. Even with an "increased state of security"
Even though I've only seen the products that I work with used on two or three patients in the entire time that I've been here. There is a great satisfaction, and an incredible relief, when the product is first successfully used on a patient. You don't know anything about them, they don't know anything about you, but you put a bit of yourself emotionally into the product. If it causes harm, you'll feel it.
I work at a company in the medical field, and we have to go through various tests and the like to make sure things are safe. But I consider the shirking of responsibility on that company as "Seriously Fucked Up". They should step upto the plate and do everything that they are capable of. If I were one of the people working on that project, I can't describe the feeling I would have knowing that happened.
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Here's why:
After they spend $100 billion building it they'll be broke.
It will be easily visible by satallite imagery.
One bombs will likely be enough to take it out.
Although not nuclear, 1000 tons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen is enough to leave a dent in the earth and take out anyone working on the project as well as whatever warhead was near by.
North Korea has it's own virtual economy. Actually, it's the only economy they have.
*uses super power* *waves and ignores*
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-715315209 8207965240
w arcraft.html
And:
http://www.break.com/index/mom-tells-kid-no-more-
Where would the internet be without gems such as those?
...this is really a grey area. Given that everyone involved was a consenting adult. Much like hentai, where many of the styles have "young" looks, even though the characters aren't. Or it can even be argued with "adult babies", or girls in schoolgirl outfits.
This isn't something where you can really break out the pitchforks for, but you can't exactly say for the win.
http://xkcd.com/c195.html
Fun and educational.
It's not elitism. It is simply the nature of the game. As other replies have said, they were in an arcade where you'd be plunking down quarters when you died rather than sitting at home. There were very few games I ever beat in an arcade. I think MvC2 and Roadwarriors were the only two.
Pick up an old game, and you'll realize two major facts:
#1 The game is hard. VERY hard.
#2 The control sucks.
Yup, #2 is sad but true. The old school games do have a completely different feel to them, and adding in the physics that came around during the 8 bit era lead to "slippery" feeling games. But #1 was because games weren't MEANT to be beaten by most people. When you beat a game, that was because you were a hard core badass gamer. They were meant to be played over and over and enjoyed. By comparison, most games today are play though once, move on to the next.
Does that make them better? You can argue both ways. Pick up Ikaruga and you'll be able to appreciate how getting level three is an accomplishment all over again.
The answer is simple:
If you want a safe, don't start with a greenhouse. Start with a metal box. Adding a layer of security ontop of something insecure doesn't work well, as people can peel back layers. If you want something to REALLY be secure, start with something inherantly secure. If you constantly need to patch something for security holes your method was flawed from the start.
If the flash chip can be removed on it's own, it can be put in something insecure. If you must use this scheme, make sure the information on the chip is secure on it's own. The BEST way that I can think of for a "self destruct" in this case would be a fragile flash chip casing and PCB and encasing the PCA into the enclosure. If you make it so the act of opening the device destroys the device, then you just reduced a large method for retrieving the data. The epoxy should hold it well enough for daily use.
Note to self:
Do not attempt to post unless under the effects of caffine.
"reduce memory loss to nothing more than a computer glitch"
9:32AM? 5 mintues ago? While loading this page...
I'd had to lose my mind as often as the average PC loses it's.
Without looking around much, I see CF cards at 1GB for $12.50, 2GB ones for $16, 4GB for $34 and 8GB for $75. Making a bit less than linear progression. But you can guess about $8/GB for wholesale. 64x8=about $500.
Think of SL as an IRC server that is being run by The Sims. Most people I know in SL go there for the community. The 3D representation gives them a better sense of the person they're talking to, and a different level of interaction.
You CAN do alot for free. There's alot of good free stuff out there. You can also make stuff if you want to. Nobody says you have to buy it. Natural resources? LIMITLESS! Want another box? Just drop one. With SL, the ability to sell goods isn't limited by any sort of ability to produce quantities. It's about design.
Current numbers:
Total Residents: 2,434,170
Logged In Last 60 Days: 883,536
Online Now: 13,150
That is right now, right this second as I post this. The highest I've seen the online now number is about 23-24k, and once it gets over 20k shit really does hit the fan.
As far as 15% contribute scripted objects. Perhaps that's 15% of the real active user count, but it sure as hell isn't 15% of the 2.4M. Scripting in SL has a steep learning curve and many people who do building in SL avoid scripting because it is such a pain.
My cousin came over to visit for the holidays and we ended up camping out at a Target at 4AM, we were 27-28 in line at a Target that got 60. Around 7:30 or so lucky #60 showed up. Not too bad, things went quickly. We were home at about 8:30 and unpacking. Target did a great job on this one. ...now, my cousin also needed one for his work (yes, he is a lucky SOB), so we went over to Costco about 5 minutes before opening. They had about 48 and we were number 40 on line. Things took a bit longer, and they had a much stronger focus on making sure everything stays in order vs. setting up a nice streamlined method to getting everyone thier stuff quickly.
Playing the Wii feels like this is the future of gaming, it doesn't have a wow factor graphics wise, but it DOES have a "Wow, this feels like the way games should be played" feel. IMO, it's the freshest idea to come to gaming since 3D. Playing Excite Truck is more like driving than just mashing down buttons and tapping the stick. Playing golf feels actually satisfying. Playing tennis with four people was a blast.
Online capabilities were effectively MIA for the GC. The Wii however... we got IMs going back and forth between them, they have an easy to use store, pleanty of room for more capabilities. I give Nintendo many props for getting thier online stance setup and off and running extremely well.
In conclusion:
Launch: great titles, good supply, well organized
Play: fun and fresh
Capabilities: a refreshing feature set that has pleanty of room for expansion
This is f'ing BS. They're making a merit badge for doing PR work for an industry that is completely incompetant at doing thier own PR work.
It's bad enough that MS hijacked the acronym "BSA".
A classic Spaceballs quote cannot go de-modded.
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger, comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die."
--Mel Brooks.
A large part of the growth of the US population is from the large amount of immigration the US has, both legal and not legal. Also, the OP stated that they compared the per capita usage to developing countries, not industrialized countries. It sounds like someone's cherry picking stats to make it sound bigger than it is.
Making crappy movies.
Sueing your audience.
Making your customers go through crap that people who don't pay don't have to go through.
...does that mean I can sue anyone who opens it in a text editor for stealing copyrighted source code?
Your analogy doesn't work quite well. Because you don't have to spend an hour every time you got a new shirt :)
Compare a crate engine with a carburator vs. one with fuel injection. A gear head will go for a carburated engine because they can tweak with it all day long and make it higher performance. But it will require regular tune ups to keep it in tune. (with a PC, that would be system maintenance) The average car user however, wants the damned thing just to fire up every day like it did the day before so they can drive it.
Personally, I perfer sitting on my couch and relaxing when I play a game to being hunched over my keyboard like I am now.
I have a family member that writes for a major gaming website, the single largest reason why he perfers console gaming:
The games just work.
You open a game, pop it in, and in a few minutes you're into the game (depends on how long the cut scenes are). There's no installation, configuration, tweaking. Nothing. It just works. Now, he plays ALOT of games, but even when he gets home to enjoy them, he still picks up a pad. The only games I've seen on his PC are the ones that came with Win2k. It's not that he CAN'T play a PC game, he just doesn't enjoy messing around with drivers and that sort of thing when he could be shooting zombies in the head instead.
As geeks we're addicted to tweaking stuff, but you can't forget the joy when you open up something, plug it in, and it just works.
Back in 2002 I flew upto Seattle from Sacramento. There was a stop over in Salt Lake City. I flew standby, only carry on. I got "randomly" checked 4 times out of four, and I never left the terminal in Salt Lake City.
After this trip I learned of the five things that set off a "random" check.
#1: Traveling alone.
#2: No checked bags
#3: Traveling on short notice.
#4: Being male.
#5: Being arab.
I did 4 of the 5 things.
So the next time I flew, just recently to Charlotte through Atlanta. I flew with family, lots of notice, and very little carry on (MP3 player, DS, headphones). Guess what? Not a single random check. Even with an "increased state of security"
This is either a very slow news day, or the OP is way too bored.
Even though I've only seen the products that I work with used on two or three patients in the entire time that I've been here. There is a great satisfaction, and an incredible relief, when the product is first successfully used on a patient. You don't know anything about them, they don't know anything about you, but you put a bit of yourself emotionally into the product. If it causes harm, you'll feel it.
I work at a company in the medical field, and we have to go through various tests and the like to make sure things are safe. But I consider the shirking of responsibility on that company as "Seriously Fucked Up". They should step upto the plate and do everything that they are capable of. If I were one of the people working on that project, I can't describe the feeling I would have knowing that happened.