You have to admit though, that at least it is a brutally honest way of finding out how well a game is going to sell. You have to not only make the demo memorable, you also have to live up to that memory some pee may get from the demo. You only tend to remember the things you truly want that way.
Th following is hot air: I downloaded the demo for The Wonderful 101, and was surprised to find this message pop up telling me that I would only be allowed to run the demo 20 times. Now, of course I don't plan on playing a demo more than once or twice, as I'm sure most people don't. Which is why I find it so odd that Nintendo would put this restriction in place. If any game is good enough that I would play the demo more than 20 times, then I'll be buying it to play the full experience before ever getting to that point.
The bolded part tips it off.
Limited play demos are nothing new to anyone who grew up in the hay day of shareware distribution. If Steve Marinconz had really any clue, he'd realize that Nintendo doing this is nothing new. The Japanese versions of Super Smash Brothers Brawl allowed for the same amount of demo play time for any trophies unlocked if they were Virtual Console titles. I see no reason to complain about Nintendo informing you that you have a limited number of plays.
At least it's safe to say it had nothing to do with Snowden. Often with child porn cases they have to shut down the entire service in case the person using that service for nefarious purposes (child pornography) catches wind and deletes their account and content before some thymine can be done.
"2. The doctrine that there is no God or gods.
[French athéisme, from athée, atheist, from Greek atheos, godless : a-, without; see a-1 + theos, god; see dhs- in Indo-European roots.]"
It's a doctrine...which means any claims coming from it whether proving or disproving any existence of some deity or icon will always be bias in the absolute thought of trying to find every reason to debunk conjectures coming from the other side. The doctrine tells you to always look for things to disprove.
The other thing the doctrine teaches you in its extremity is to take every thing you see in front of you in the literal sense right?
Best example is Rational Wiki's idea that the Bible indicates that Jesus was a homosexual right? I sort of object to that based on the fact that it cites Jesus receding to one of his disciples as hi beloved...in the Bible he really does....but they failed to notice that it's in the context of "best friend". Jesus loved everyone no matter what and never shunned those in need.
You do realize it is a theory (a proven repeatable scientific fact....astronomy) that a man named Jesus did in fact exist around the time of Pontus Pilate as he was Governor of Judea right?
It's not the that things may or may not exist that internally drives my belief system. It's the fact that I feel strength and comfort at my week moments when I can't talk to anyone about my troubles.
Hinduism embraces and encompasses a lot of beliefs...because it is likely older than both Christianity and Buddhism. Those two might have evolved from it actually. When I say beliefs...it's not the mythos I speak about...it's about the core humanitarian altruistic practices of the three that parallel.
There are a few problems with cutting summer vacations on a national level.
1. Most teachers, after they've had their vacation...typically take summer off to tweak and create next year's curriculum. This includes writing up their own tests differently from last year.
2. Summer is typically a very hot time of year. The operations cost for running the air conditioning (that is if the school building actually has one) far outweigh the cost of running a heater.
3. There is no correlation between GPA performance and economic situations concerning students. Students from poorer families are often more motivated to escape their conditions thus it drives them to do well...a homeless girl in my graduating class got Magnum Cum Laude....on a 4.0 GPA...in every single year... and we are talking straight A's and nothing less... of her K-12 career.
4. Mount Vernon, Ohio has the top 8 Elementary Grade schools (k-5) in the US....this includes government expectancies for Physical Education, and Academics. That city school district hasn't cut recess time in 30 years...and still hasn't jumped the bandwagon to cut recess time...why? It us because children do a lot better and stay focused having 30 minute breaks every 45 minutes.
5. Most of the studies that suggest that summer time might have an affect on the GPA of a poor student come from charter schools who would stand to get a huge profit from year round schooling for children in the US k-12 system.
Hold up TechDirt.... The IT department may be correct in this case. I don't think the British Public Library System is to blame here for the censorship. I'm a fan of TopGear UK and Jeremy Clarkson made a rather startling point that the new national filtering system blocks pretty much any picture that contains the color orange, or any type of skin tones. Given libraries are generally public places, I think it's safe to assume they'd be the first to get the new filter system.
Read the damn article....one of the users of Lavabit was using it as a child pornography ring...if this were a "Pre-Crime Division" this event would not have taken place and we wouldn't have heard about it.
Thank you for a very eye opening article. Again, for the second time this week, I am reminded of of Edward R. Murrow by how you wrote this. I wonder if you would be willing to take a small risk to also bring these issues to light in mainstream media such as MSNBC, CNN, and FoxNews. Possibly even Rush Limbaugh. I think this should be spread broadly and made sure to get out.
Given that...I am beginning to wonder what sort of damage the Smith-Amash Amendment would have done considering part of it was shaving the NSA's budget.
The company my mother works for (the one that audits hospital Medicare and Medicaid insurance forms and bills) recently cut all the nursing staff under her that manually do the systematic reviews of the audits...this was done in favor of saving money and automation. In her line of work, the states that contract the company and this contract require human eyes to do the review work sent over to the auditor's database by law for a specific reason...in an automated systems environment for auditing, there is no way to tell if someone accessed the information to alter what to look for. The main issue is that humans are not as calculated and are better suited towards handing statistical anomalies.. We don't crash.
RationalWiki is a bit too literal and is biased to a degree. It's written in a way that puts people in a box rather than scoping out multiple sources for its articles like Wikipedia.
The Sea of Reads, at low tide, could have crossed there.
Can somebody please explain to me how the Hell a PPD affects laws? I don't recall a PPD ever doing anything but stating a business model for the Administration. Wow this is disturbing :-/
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Hot air...
I downloaded the demo for The Wonderful 101, and was surprised to find this message pop up telling me that I would only be allowed to run the demo 20 times. Now, of course I don't plan on playing a demo more than once or twice, as I'm sure most people don't. Which is why I find it so odd that Nintendo would put this restriction in place. If any game is good enough that I would play the demo more than 20 times, then I'll be buying it to play the full experience before ever getting to that point.
The bolded part tips it off.
Limited play demos are nothing new to anyone who grew up in the hay day of shareware distribution. If Steve Marinconz had really any clue, he'd realize that Nintendo doing this is nothing new. The Japanese versions of Super Smash Brothers Brawl allowed for the same amount of demo play time for any trophies unlocked if they were Virtual Console titles. I see no reason to complain about Nintendo informing you that you have a limited number of plays.
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[French athéisme, from athée, atheist, from Greek atheos, godless : a-, without; see a-1 + theos, god; see dhs- in Indo-European roots.]"
It's a doctrine...which means any claims coming from it whether proving or disproving any existence of some deity or icon will always be bias in the absolute thought of trying to find every reason to debunk conjectures coming from the other side. The doctrine tells you to always look for things to disprove.
The other thing the doctrine teaches you in its extremity is to take every thing you see in front of you in the literal sense right?
Best example is Rational Wiki's idea that the Bible indicates that Jesus was a homosexual right? I sort of object to that based on the fact that it cites Jesus receding to one of his disciples as hi beloved...in the Bible he really does....but they failed to notice that it's in the context of "best friend". Jesus loved everyone no matter what and never shunned those in need.
You do realize it is a theory (a proven repeatable scientific fact....astronomy) that a man named Jesus did in fact exist around the time of Pontus Pilate as he was Governor of Judea right?
It's not the that things may or may not exist that internally drives my belief system. It's the fact that I feel strength and comfort at my week moments when I can't talk to anyone about my troubles.
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1. Most teachers, after they've had their vacation...typically take summer off to tweak and create next year's curriculum. This includes writing up their own tests differently from last year.
2. Summer is typically a very hot time of year. The operations cost for running the air conditioning (that is if the school building actually has one) far outweigh the cost of running a heater.
3. There is no correlation between GPA performance and economic situations concerning students. Students from poorer families are often more motivated to escape their conditions thus it drives them to do well...a homeless girl in my graduating class got Magnum Cum Laude....on a 4.0 GPA...in every single year... and we are talking straight A's and nothing less... of her K-12 career.
4. Mount Vernon, Ohio has the top 8 Elementary Grade schools (k-5) in the US....this includes government expectancies for Physical Education, and Academics. That city school district hasn't cut recess time in 30 years...and still hasn't jumped the bandwagon to cut recess time...why? It us because children do a lot better and stay focused having 30 minute breaks every 45 minutes.
5. Most of the studies that suggest that summer time might have an affect on the GPA of a poor student come from charter schools who would stand to get a huge profit from year round schooling for children in the US k-12 system.
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Thank you for a very eye opening article. Again, for the second time this week, I am reminded of of Edward R. Murrow by how you wrote this. I wonder if you would be willing to take a small risk to also bring these issues to light in mainstream media such as MSNBC, CNN, and FoxNews. Possibly even Rush Limbaugh. I think this should be spread broadly and made sure to get out.
Sincerely,
Wally
TechDirt Reader.
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The company my mother works for (the one that audits hospital Medicare and Medicaid insurance forms and bills) recently cut all the nursing staff under her that manually do the systematic reviews of the audits...this was done in favor of saving money and automation. In her line of work, the states that contract the company and this contract require human eyes to do the review work sent over to the auditor's database by law for a specific reason...in an automated systems environment for auditing, there is no way to tell if someone accessed the information to alter what to look for. The main issue is that humans are not as calculated and are better suited towards handing statistical anomalies.. We don't crash.
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The Sea of Reads, at low tide, could have crossed there.
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