Comment Re:Government is not a business. (Score 1) 287
I'd settle for someone who simply makes decisions based on logic and reason.
Solar Cells, and Lightning Rods seem to be the only methods I can think of that produce electricity without the use a turbine/generator combo but neither are viable for wide spread use. It seems to me that we'd do well to invest in methods of converting heat directly into electricity (giant Peltiers?) without the use of a turbine/generator. I would think doing so would theoretically make a number of our existing methods that much more efficient and perhaps open the door for other methods of power production.
I think the sooner the "Game" Industry realizes that there are really 3 distinct types of games, each catering to different types of gamers who have different wants and needs, the better off they'll be.
The problem is they're assuming the market for someone buying Angry Birds is the same as the market for someone buying Heavy Rain... That's like saying Movies should be shorter because a lot of people play blackjack and a game of black jack takes less time and cards are cheap.
Maybe if they separated out these ideas we'd no longer get stupid puzzles and mini-games in the middle of our iterative narratives. Don't get me wrong, sometimes it's appropriate, other times it's just bizarre that I'm required to play a round of pipe-dream while I'm in the middle of trying to figure out the societal implications of my antihero's actions.
Another Problem is that they assume because Call of Duty's Multiplayer is so successful that all games should have multiplayer components so they start shoe-horning that into titles where it doesn't belong (Like Grand Theft Auto and Assassin's Creed). Honestly it's puzzling why each Call of Duty release isn't two completely separate games. The Single Player Narrative should be one game and the Multiplayer should be another. Granted the online portion of most FPSs was born from the fact that they already had the assets and game engine developed so they could add replay value by simply throwing a bunch of players together in the same room and letting them have fun with it. But the multiplayer component has become so dominant in the market that they actually have completely separate development teams for the campaign and multiplayer portions, and for some games they don't even use the same engine... Really that's just bundling two separate games together that just happen to have the same name and visual style.
Yes because it is much better to send somebody a URL that looks like this:
Instead of using the shortener.
I think we need a period where products sold in the USA have to be 100% made in the USA, from the first stroke of the pen to the last decal on the front panel.
I don't think that's realistic. There are a lot of companies that aren't based in the USA that should be allowed to manufacture their products in their home country. I wouldn't expect a French Wine company to start manufacturing in the US, it would lose the whole point of the product. Similarly, while companies like Samsung and Sony could technically make their products here I wouldn't expect them to manufacture here.
A more reasonable method would be to throw a nice big tax on imported goods. Something that would offset the cost of manufacturing outside of the US. and make it more desirable to manufacturing here in the US. Alternatively they could impose a federal sales tax on all goods, and wave it for products manufactured in the US. That would put the issue in the face of US consumers and if they still continue to buy foreign products over domestic then at least we could put that money to good use repairing roads, or reviving the space and other science programs to create more jobs.
The use of money is all the advantage there is to having money. -- B. Franklin
