Comment Re:Revenue Collection (Score 0, Flamebait) 297
Or you could stop running red lights.
Or you could stop running red lights.
Sony may like its systems closed, but Nintendo has as long a history of locked-down, anti-piracy measures and closed systems. The Wii does not play DVDs. Homebrew (slash piracy...) cartridges for DS are banned. Online is a joke. As far back as the NES and as recently as the DSi (no transferring downloadable games between systems), Nintendo is all about proprietary.
A lot of the people who buy from them do so out of a feeling they are protesting against DRM and big corporations, that they are helping out a `little guy'.
A very corporation-esque stunt like this MIGHT serve to turn off some of their fanbase.
Do graduate students use the system? At my university, roughly 20-30 percent of 'staff' are actually postgrads and a hig percentage of those use Apple stuff and smartphones. The dusty old crones in the permanent staff do not.
This is better than driving the SUV and not recycling the beer cans. Morally bankrupt is a bit of a stretch - I suppose you've never been even slightly hypocritical? I forgot that despite dying 13 years ago, Mother Theresa can still post on
I'm not trying to say there aren't times when realistic health works great; only that in plenty of cases (I'd argue in the overwhelming majority) it isn't ideal.
This is the problem with a HUD. Health bars look dumb, and remind you that you're not playing a person but some abstraction of a person. Magic bars, too. It's unfortunate that the real-world mechanics of death are no fun to play, and so we have to create an unreal world, but hiding this is an important aspect of design in *SOME* games.
On the other hand, the current crop of games trying to 'go no HUD' are often worse. Putting the health bar on the player's back doesn't make it less of a health bar, and serves only to remind me that they're trying to fool me. HUD is at worst a necessary evil, and at best a useful tool.
Not if It's my name.
If inscribed on a sphere, it's still 2-dimensional. You're looking for Euclidean.
mod this insightful not funny
Like it or not, the political process as it stands right now is structured in such a way that we, the people, did in fact vote for Kevin Rudd.
You can kick and scream and say 'you voted for a party', but you're being ridiculous. I could take your reduction one step further and say that you voted for a representative in your own electorate, and not a party. It just *happens* they're a member of a party.
You know as well as I do that the Labor campaign was about Rudd. Was their slogan "Labor 07"? No, it was Kevin Rudd versus John Howard, no matter how reductive you want to be, there's a presumption that Rudd will remain in office for 3 years. That's why succession was such a big issue when it was Howard-Costello.
Knowing a technical detail doesn't change the fact, and the fact is that this succession has proved Labor's claims at the 2007 election disingenuous. It's the ultimate broken election promise.
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian