Because the Wii comes from the same design philosophy as the DS. Nintendo's proven it is a successful strategy for portables, and I can't think of any reason it should be any less successful for a console.
Apparently, Nintendo won't replace the unit unless there are three or more.
Where did you get that information? At the original DS' launch, any stuck pixel was enough to merit a replacement under Nintendo's 1 year warranty. Give them a call on their 1-800 number and see if they'll get you a replacement unit.
Buy 2+ and raid-1 them? You'll be basically immune to data loss barring destruction of your computer.
...or accidentally deleting/overwriting something - which the RAID will happily propagate to all the drives instantly.
Get 2 drives, put one in an external enclosure and leave it off when not backing up/restoring. It's not a perfect substitute for tapes, but should be good enough for home use.
Yes, but PNG files are only of use for flat color images with a VERY limited range of colors (as with GIF). They are totally useless for pretty much everything else - eg photographs, game screen shots, etc.
You can get PNG-24 which allows 24 bit color, but it's basically an uncompressed bitmap and therefore useless for the web or any large images as the files are all way too big.
PNG supports up to 16 bits per channel RGBA color, losslessly compressed, complete with chromacity and gamma values in seperate chunks.
PNGs made from high-resolution image data might still be too large for web use, but they're still much smaller than an equivilent TIFF, contain checksumming and are streamable (unlike TIFF).
It sounds like seperate movies on each disc. Realistically, there isn't any other way to do it. The Special Editions are color-corrected differently than the Originals and have far too many changes (both small and large, including music cues) to make a branching version feasible.
I'm not sure a DS9 movie would work though - didn't they all leave the station at the last episode?
Not all of them, as I recall. But with Captain Sisko out of the picture it just wouldn't be the same. And besides, I'd rather they not mess up a good series with a sub-par followup.
Theoretically it wouldn't have been hunting ANYTHING, it would have been all alone on the land. Right?
Insects were on land before fish-like things, as were plants. But given the size of bugs in such a drastically different atmosphere, there's a good chance the fish-like things would've been hunted by them.
If old games are to become available on newer consoles, it would mean that emulator users can no longer use the "the game is old, nobody sells it any more, so why shouldn't I play it in an emulator?" argument. Companies will go after emulator users, since they effectively pirate games that are on circulation (even if they are decades old).
Many emulator users do, in fact, own the games they are emulating and have a legal right to play them on devices other than the console they were originally made for. In the not-too-distant future, TVs are likely to reach a point where I won't be able to hook my NES up to them anymore. When that happens, noncommercial emulation will be essential for keeping my entire NES library alive - and not just the games that are brought to the Revolution.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Sega Genesis/Master Drive play Sega Master System games? Didn't the Saturn have a cartridge slot too? I never owned one, but I could have sworn there was one.
The Genesis/Megadrive could play Master System games with a small cartridge module (sold seperately) because the latter's CPU became the former's audio chip. The Saturn had a cartridge slot for save game memory, extra system RAM and so on, but it wasn't backwards compatible with anything.
As for backwards compatibility itself, Atari had it back when the 7800 could play 2600 titles so it's hardly Sony's idea. But people have demanded it only recently as CD-sized, laser-read media became standard.
Attributing Bush's failure to manage the economy to Clinton's policies is the sort of apologist attitude one would expect from an administration where the buck stops anywhere but at the top.
... if their pirated movie "only" has a resolution of 900x500-something ?
Due to either AACS being quickly cracked or the broken-by-design HDCP, I expect the pirates will have full resolution movies up for downloading in no time. Thus, those who go the copyright infringement route will have a considerably easier time getting movies to play than those who pay for them.
OSx86 is all over the net now. Apple can now forget about selling hardware anymore.
Does anyone actually believe this? Besides a negligible number of hackers, who's going to trade Apple's integrated "Just Works" system for a hacked, unsupported MacOS that might work on whatever beige box they've got lying around given enough work?
That's funny, because no price has ever been announced by Sony. I love how industry, market, and armchair analysts continue to go on about how expensive it will be, when it might not necessarily be so.
Industry analysts have gone on about how expensive the components will be. Sony might pass those costs on to customers, but will likely eat most of them instead. If that happens, Sony will need the PS3 to be a massive success - both in terms of console sales and game sales - in order for it to be profitable.
...but what about future DS versions such as the DS Lite? Do they plan to integrate it with the built in UI? Also since the cartridges are read/write, will it be possible to upgrade the browser through the net if they discover any potentially harmful security risks (buffer overflows) or new features?
The DS Lite's firmware is going to be very similar to the regular DS's, and it isn't upgradable at all short of physically replacing chips. Opera's browser might use the cart's NVRAM space to somehow update itself, but I wouldn't count on it. With little on the system to compromise, about the worst a hostile web page can do is screwup your current session and force you to power cycle the DS.
When VHS was still hot, a new release might cost as much as $80.
VHS movies had a rental window when they'd be sold to Blockbuster-style outfits for $80+ for a few months before dropping to $20-30 for everyone else to buy. DVDs never had rental pricing; they started at around $20-30 and went down from there as they got old and/or new "special editions" arrived on the shelves. I don't recall either format having an obscene initial cost for general consumption.
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Darn.
Because the Wii comes from the same design philosophy as the DS. Nintendo's proven it is a successful strategy for portables, and I can't think of any reason it should be any less successful for a console.
Where did you get that information? At the original DS' launch, any stuck pixel was enough to merit a replacement under Nintendo's 1 year warranty. Give them a call on their 1-800 number and see if they'll get you a replacement unit.
Get 2 drives, put one in an external enclosure and leave it off when not backing up/restoring. It's not a perfect substitute for tapes, but should be good enough for home use.
16-bit per channel PNG is part of the official W3C recommendation. I'm sure most user agents don't support it, but that's another matter.
PNG supports up to 16 bits per channel RGBA color, losslessly compressed, complete with chromacity and gamma values in seperate chunks.
PNGs made from high-resolution image data might still be too large for web use, but they're still much smaller than an equivilent TIFF, contain checksumming and are streamable (unlike TIFF).
Considering how small the Wii is, bringing over the entire console would be cheaper and almost as practical.
It sounds like seperate movies on each disc. Realistically, there isn't any other way to do it. The Special Editions are color-corrected differently than the Originals and have far too many changes (both small and large, including music cues) to make a branching version feasible.
The great thing about Nintendo naming their console "Wii" is the endless variety of jokes, each more witty and original than the last.
Not all of them, as I recall. But with Captain Sisko out of the picture it just wouldn't be the same. And besides, I'd rather they not mess up a good series with a sub-par followup.
Insects were on land before fish-like things, as were plants. But given the size of bugs in such a drastically different atmosphere, there's a good chance the fish-like things would've been hunted by them.
It's a problem in Japan where the original DS and DS Lite are in very short supply.
Many emulator users do, in fact, own the games they are emulating and have a legal right to play them on devices other than the console they were originally made for. In the not-too-distant future, TVs are likely to reach a point where I won't be able to hook my NES up to them anymore. When that happens, noncommercial emulation will be essential for keeping my entire NES library alive - and not just the games that are brought to the Revolution.
As I recall, Nintendo implements their rumble feature in a way that isn't covered by the patent. Thus, no lawsuit.
The Genesis/Megadrive could play Master System games with a small cartridge module (sold seperately) because the latter's CPU became the former's audio chip. The Saturn had a cartridge slot for save game memory, extra system RAM and so on, but it wasn't backwards compatible with anything.
As for backwards compatibility itself, Atari had it back when the 7800 could play 2600 titles so it's hardly Sony's idea. But people have demanded it only recently as CD-sized, laser-read media became standard.
Attributing Bush's failure to manage the economy to Clinton's policies is the sort of apologist attitude one would expect from an administration where the buck stops anywhere but at the top.
Due to either AACS being quickly cracked or the broken-by-design HDCP, I expect the pirates will have full resolution movies up for downloading in no time. Thus, those who go the copyright infringement route will have a considerably easier time getting movies to play than those who pay for them.
Does anyone actually believe this? Besides a negligible number of hackers, who's going to trade Apple's integrated "Just Works" system for a hacked, unsupported MacOS that might work on whatever beige box they've got lying around given enough work?
Not the general public, I'm sure
Industry analysts have gone on about how expensive the components will be. Sony might pass those costs on to customers, but will likely eat most of them instead. If that happens, Sony will need the PS3 to be a massive success - both in terms of console sales and game sales - in order for it to be profitable.
What part of "This is code that was done entirely upstream in concert with the rest of the X community." do you not understand?
Lode Runner predates the Macintosh. I recall playing it on the Apple ][ years before.
The DS Lite's firmware is going to be very similar to the regular DS's, and it isn't upgradable at all short of physically replacing chips. Opera's browser might use the cart's NVRAM space to somehow update itself, but I wouldn't count on it. With little on the system to compromise, about the worst a hostile web page can do is screwup your current session and force you to power cycle the DS.
VHS movies had a rental window when they'd be sold to Blockbuster-style outfits for $80+ for a few months before dropping to $20-30 for everyone else to buy. DVDs never had rental pricing; they started at around $20-30 and went down from there as they got old and/or new "special editions" arrived on the shelves. I don't recall either format having an obscene initial cost for general consumption.
Nobody's paying to see Uwe Boll movies in theaters.
Yes, it will. The cart slot is still present and the ARM-7 processor used for GBA support can't be removed without breaking every single DS game.