hy doesn't Capcom release these games for the PC? The PC clearly has the processing and graphics horsepower needed. Look at the Pentium III, the AMD Athlon, and the various 3D cards.
Possibly because PC gamer's traditionally don't buy such games? Do you or anyone you know have either of "Rise of the Robots", "War Gods", "Mortal Kombat 3" or "Primal Rage" (those I remember right now)? I've seen them end up in bargain bins faster than you can say "Kage wins".
Now considerig that the starting retail price for the playsation in 1995 when it came out was about $300 USD we must conclude that if could very well retail for that.
Competition drives prices: Remember how the price of PSX dropped like a rock when N64 was introduced? Same thing will most likely happen to DC when P2X hits stores, and to P2X when Nintendo's Dolphin arrives a little later.
(The system that will win will be the one with the most Pokémon games for it - naturally N64.:-P Although IGN have reported that several N64-oriented projects have been cancelled as developers flee the platform for DC and P2X.)
But pre-pressed CDs yoy buy are protected - sort of. What is scratched is usually the covering layer of plastic, which can be cleaned in various ways to remove the scratch.
(Of course, if the scratch is deep enough, the metal will also be scratched, in which case you may need a replacement.)
Still doesn't beat those 5 1/4" Apple floppies people could fold double to take in their wallet, unfold, insert and they would still work.:-) Unless that was an urban.legend.
1. If the source comes with it, I can embed my own malicious code in the source and pass it on like that. People have to check what I've done - and people might not spot it. I can't do my own source rev for a closed-source OS, so this form of attack won't work. The closest analagous attack that will work is a trojan or virus attack.
Try again: Windows is generally "upgraded" by application vendors installing updated versions of various DLLs, including system DLLs. When a Windows box asks "Windows needs to be restarted to complete the install. Restart now?", how many are likely to check things like RunOnce and friends to check what DLLs get replaced?
I guarantee you that if the lawmakers have their way, you won't be using a computer for anything but the applications approved by either the government or a bunch of large dorporations, or maybe both.
What utter, utter bullshit. You're just spreading some fundie dogma where you have replaced "sex outside of Holy Matrimony" with "proprietary/commercial software", and essentially say that the Devil will come and rule if such hedonistic practices continue. Please get a grip. Proprietary and free software can co-exist - in spite of claims from religious zealots like you. They did before the FSF, and will continue to do so, totally independent on your "church".
...a CSV (colon-separated-value;-) file is as good a technology as XML.
Um, no. How do you e.g. assign context to a CSV "element"? In such a way that should the "element" be moved in the file, the context remains? Is a CSV document readable to both a machine and a human reader? XML gives you that and more.
1. Due to design misfeatures, all objects must carry tags (to be checked for run-time type errors in many cases) and frequently be checked against 'null'. This situation can't be helped without sacrificing the safety of the language.
So, you don't like pointers. Go and write in Visual Basic, then.
2. Java is not a "free" language.
In what sense? It's well specified (except for the threading, which will vary from implementation to implementation anyway), and the specs are free for everyone to download (unlike "pay us big bucks" ISO-specs for C++). Remember, AT&T made C++ - does that mean C++ isn't "free" either?
3. Java is based on historic (obsolescent) programming principals. (ie C++)
Java has learned from C++'s mistakes. Do you insist people write languages from scratch?
4. Java implementations still frequently are unsafe (allow malicious code to run).
Ah, the oldest FUD about Java. Well, I notice you don't document this.
I think you are a fan of some obscure academic language nobody uses, and think that you can drum up support for it by attacking other languages. Sorry, things don't work that way.
Java is not interpreted, it's (usually) compiled (to bytecode - just like Perl and Python). The target platform just happens to be a virtual machine sitting on top of another system instead of being hardware. But why should one spend extra time writing in "C in wolf's clothing" when a more suitable language is there, just because you want a millisecond faster response time for a mouse click? Also: The JIT mechanism makes it possible to have efficient runtime compilation, where the "second-step" compiler can make adjustments based on actual runtime behaviour, which is impossible in C++ because it's compiled one place and run somewhere else.
And C++ is such a mess of syntax that "efficient" and "C++" should not occur in the same sentence.
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I substitute "proprietary" for "commercial" because I want to maintain a distinction between companies that make money from code directly (like MS) and companies that make money by adding value to free code (like Redhat).
I read "heathen" in your use of proprietary, and "believer" in your use of commercial. Non-religious, like me, may differ in their interpretations.
The coders at Redhat + Cygnus, and the scads of other free software programmers who were let in on the IPOs would certainly differ with you.
I am quite interested in how those companies make money, but getting rich from the artificial value attributed to "balloon" stock in newly floated companies is not commendable. Heck, it's gone so far that job ads use "pre-IPO company" as lure. So you get a job and options, or "preorder" stock, then a bunch of investors are tricked into paying your "salary" while you do practically nothing in return, because when you sell your stock you can just go on to the next IPO company.
Nonetheless, MS had successfully marginalized both companies and the Unix platform as a whole.
Have you been reading Ziff-Davis too much lately? Few of the computers Windows' various flovours replace run Unix. But there is a plethora of companies telling companies to choose NT so that they can get lucrative support contracts.
To the contrary, the GPL affords them the opportunity at any time to work with the community, to cooperate, and make the software we use better.
This is religious clap-trap. I don't deny people the right to believe that programming should be a hobby you practice when you come back from your shift at McDonald's, but please, cut down on the preaching.
A pure free market just brings about Darwinean competition - survival of the strongest and most brutal.
That's not darwinism. Darwin wrote about the survival of the most adaptive species. Dinosaurs were strong and brutal, but died when Yucatan got puched and both oxygen and temperature levels dropped, while smaller creatures (including some dino relatives like the crocodile, turtle and rhinocheros).
Apart from that: IIRC, the definition of a free market in the theory is that an infinite number of sources supply an infinite number of products, where the infinite number of customers choose freely. None of which even touches the real world.:-)
It is time that we realized that a corporation is a fiction
No, it's an abstract concept, like e.g. "family", "nation", etc.
What if I BUY a bunch of CDs, and only like 3 songs on each one?
You should instead have used one of the "custom CD" services to pich three tracks from each CD onto the custom one.
The point is: Free market teaches that if you find that something is too expensive, you should either find a cheaper alternative, or set up buisness to provide one yourself: Obviously, if you're right that it's too expensive compared to costs, you should be able to.
(Of course, this fails because there is no free market, just differing forms of regulations and agreements between the "players".)
Would it have? I thought the Newton died because it cost an arm and a leg, spent the battery in no time flat and got bad press because of the bug-ridden initial release. Innovative, yes. But practical compared to the competition (with miniscule keyboards)? Hardly.
People who have that little knowledge about either of Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman or Terry Gilliam usually keep their ognorance to themselves instead of posting it for all to see.
But I don't approve of porn, because I think it's just a method of exploiting all involved and reinforcing negative gender/sex stereotypes which are responsible for *lots* of the problems in our society.
You mean unlike e.g. action movies? Comedies? Or are the actors there, too, "exploited"? Are expressions of violence, crimes and other forms of exploitation more acceptable than expressions of sex? Porn shows women with an active sexual life, as opposed to "traditional" and "accepable" media where women are there for the purpose of the men to rescue, then to swoon and end up underneath the man in bed. Are you aware that there is much porn that is made by women, for women?
If you really wanted to fight gender stereotypes, there are several areas where it would do more food than attack an "outside-ish" industry - try looking at general wages where women often are paid remerkably less than men for the same job. Look at the people in company administrations - not many women there. The list goes on - and is more important that someone having sex for others to watch.
What if there are plenty of unoccupied seats? Or what if the subway is cramped, and lots of people are standing? There is no difference in price between those standing and those sitting. And to the subway car, there is no difference between those paying and those who don't.
Adobe doesn't _expect_ a home user to buy photoshop, so it doesn't factor into the equations.
Um, the law expects people to pay for the services they receive when that service has a cost attached by the service's provider. What Adobe expects doesn't enter into it.
The storekeep paid for the food. You are stealing MONEY from the storekeep.
As I said: Food which is to be destroyed anyway is a loss for the storekeep, whether someone steals it or it ends up in the trash.
If you don't agree with me, then why would you even suggest a GPL product (gimp)?
Because the provider of Gimp does not charge for it, whereas the provider of Photoshop does. Which is their decision, not yours. If wou want to spend $0, you get something that costs $0.
Read RMS comments on "piracy" and what it isn't before you talk about GPL software agian.
I strongly disagree with RMS on a lot of points. If he wants to sit in his ivory tower it's his choice, I choose not to.
The leeches on the software industry are getting way desperate in their arguments - again.
i pay for stuff, when its worth it. i can justify software pirating. i wouldnt pay for photoshop, so adobe loses no cash.
You don't pay for it, but you still use it? That's being a leech. Do you also not pay the fare on buses and subways, since they're going where you want anyway? Do you shop-lift food on the expiry day on the grounds they would be thrown away soon?
If you don't want to pay for the benefit, you don't get the benefit. Use Gimp instead of Photoshop, since that's free.
Well, in addition to the pagan festivals for the winter solistice (the ever-green tree) (and the Roman Saturnalia (presents)) and spring (the bunny), they "replaced" the old Jewish holidays Hanukkah and Pesach.
Christianity is/was like Microsoft - it adopts and alters instead of inventing, then seeks to become dominant through any means necessary...:-)
There are THREE Legend of Zelda games coming out for Game Boy Color this year. Dragon Warriors Monsters, Azure Dreams, and Lufia: Ruin Chasers are three more RPGs due this year for the GBC.
Isn't Dragon Warriors Monsters a Pokémon "clone"? Anyway, the GBC has all the markings of a proper retro-gaming architecture: Sufficiently low specs to match the old home computers like the Beeb or Speccy. Already, you can get Bubble Bobble, Spy vs. Spy and Ghosts 'n Goblins for it, for instance.
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Possibly because PC gamer's traditionally don't buy such games? Do you or anyone you know have either of "Rise of the Robots", "War Gods", "Mortal Kombat 3" or "Primal Rage" (those I remember right now)? I've seen them end up in bargain bins faster than you can say "Kage wins".
Competition drives prices: Remember how the price of PSX dropped like a rock when N64 was introduced? Same thing will most likely happen to DC when P2X hits stores, and to P2X when Nintendo's Dolphin arrives a little later.
(The system that will win will be the one with the most Pokémon games for it - naturally N64. :-P Although IGN have reported that several N64-oriented projects have been cancelled as developers flee the platform for DC and P2X.)
But pre-pressed CDs yoy buy are protected - sort of. What is scratched is usually the covering layer of plastic, which can be cleaned in various ways to remove the scratch.
(Of course, if the scratch is deep enough, the metal will also be scratched, in which case you may need a replacement.)
Still doesn't beat those 5 1/4" Apple floppies people could fold double to take in their wallet, unfold, insert and they would still work. :-) Unless that was an urban.legend.
Try again: Windows is generally "upgraded" by application vendors installing updated versions of various DLLs, including system DLLs. When a Windows box asks "Windows needs to be restarted to complete the install. Restart now?", how many are likely to check things like RunOnce and friends to check what DLLs get replaced?
No, "Cut Mah Durn Threote Taco", 'cause you can't be called Dibbler in the Confederacy.
What utter, utter bullshit. You're just spreading some fundie dogma where you have replaced "sex outside of Holy Matrimony" with "proprietary/commercial software", and essentially say that the Devil will come and rule if such hedonistic practices continue. Please get a grip. Proprietary and free software can co-exist - in spite of claims from religious zealots like you. They did before the FSF, and will continue to do so, totally independent on your "church".
I thought that meant "QuickFix 251170, part of Win2k English SP 1 for the x86 platform". Not the entire service pack...
Um, no. How do you e.g. assign context to a CSV "element"? In such a way that should the "element" be moved in the file, the context remains? Is a CSV document readable to both a machine and a human reader? XML gives you that and more.
Well, in Norwegian, the word for "mouse" is commonly used to refer to the female sexual organs - what is your hand resting on right now? :-)
I sniff a troll, but here goes anyway:
1. Due to design misfeatures, all objects must carry tags (to be checked for run-time type errors in many cases) and frequently be checked against 'null'. This situation can't be helped without sacrificing the safety of the language.
So, you don't like pointers. Go and write in Visual Basic, then.
2. Java is not a "free" language.
In what sense? It's well specified (except for the threading, which will vary from implementation to implementation anyway), and the specs are free for everyone to download (unlike "pay us big bucks" ISO-specs for C++). Remember, AT&T made C++ - does that mean C++ isn't "free" either?
3. Java is based on historic (obsolescent) programming principals. (ie C++)
Java has learned from C++'s mistakes. Do you insist people write languages from scratch?
4. Java implementations still frequently are unsafe (allow malicious code to run).
Ah, the oldest FUD about Java. Well, I notice you don't document this.
I think you are a fan of some obscure academic language nobody uses, and think that you can drum up support for it by attacking other languages. Sorry, things don't work that way.
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Java is not interpreted, it's (usually) compiled (to bytecode - just like Perl and Python). The target platform just happens to be a virtual machine sitting on top of another system instead of being hardware. But why should one spend extra time writing in "C in wolf's clothing" when a more suitable language is there, just because you want a millisecond faster response time for a mouse click? Also: The JIT mechanism makes it possible to have efficient runtime compilation, where the "second-step" compiler can make adjustments based on actual runtime behaviour, which is impossible in C++ because it's compiled one place and run somewhere else.
And C++ is such a mess of syntax that "efficient" and "C++" should not occur in the same sentence.
I read "heathen" in your use of proprietary, and "believer" in your use of commercial. Non-religious, like me, may differ in their interpretations.
The coders at Redhat + Cygnus, and the scads of other free software programmers who were let in on the IPOs would certainly differ with you.
I am quite interested in how those companies make money, but getting rich from the artificial value attributed to "balloon" stock in newly floated companies is not commendable. Heck, it's gone so far that job ads use "pre-IPO company" as lure. So you get a job and options, or "preorder" stock, then a bunch of investors are tricked into paying your "salary" while you do practically nothing in return, because when you sell your stock you can just go on to the next IPO company.
Nonetheless, MS had successfully marginalized both companies and the Unix platform as a whole.
Have you been reading Ziff-Davis too much lately? Few of the computers Windows' various flovours replace run Unix. But there is a plethora of companies telling companies to choose NT so that they can get lucrative support contracts.
To the contrary, the GPL affords them the opportunity at any time to work with the community, to cooperate, and make the software we use better.
This is religious clap-trap. I don't deny people the right to believe that programming should be a hobby you practice when you come back from your shift at McDonald's, but please, cut down on the preaching.
That's not darwinism. Darwin wrote about the survival of the most adaptive species. Dinosaurs were strong and brutal, but died when Yucatan got puched and both oxygen and temperature levels dropped, while smaller creatures (including some dino relatives like the crocodile, turtle and rhinocheros).
Apart from that: IIRC, the definition of a free market in the theory is that an infinite number of sources supply an infinite number of products, where the infinite number of customers choose freely. None of which even touches the real world. :-)
It is time that we realized that a corporation is a fiction
No, it's an abstract concept, like e.g. "family", "nation", etc.
If so, how will software companies make money? Support? Donations? Highway robbery? :-)
You should instead have used one of the "custom CD" services to pich three tracks from each CD onto the custom one.
The point is: Free market teaches that if you find that something is too expensive, you should either find a cheaper alternative, or set up buisness to provide one yourself: Obviously, if you're right that it's too expensive compared to costs, you should be able to.
(Of course, this fails because there is no free market, just differing forms of regulations and agreements between the "players".)
Would it have? I thought the Newton died because it cost an arm and a leg, spent the battery in no time flat and got bad press because of the bug-ridden initial release. Innovative, yes. But practical compared to the competition (with miniscule keyboards)? Hardly.
As the post you replied to said a sentence later: "In fact, it was Palm Comupting's first product, IIRC."
Tasmanians. The distinction is apparently important to people living on Tasmania.
And Yahoo Serious makes some cool movies, though I haven't seen Mr. Accident yet.
People who have that little knowledge about either of Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman or Terry Gilliam usually keep their ognorance to themselves instead of posting it for all to see.
You mean unlike e.g. action movies? Comedies? Or are the actors there, too, "exploited"? Are expressions of violence, crimes and other forms of exploitation more acceptable than expressions of sex? Porn shows women with an active sexual life, as opposed to "traditional" and "accepable" media where women are there for the purpose of the men to rescue, then to swoon and end up underneath the man in bed. Are you aware that there is much porn that is made by women, for women?
If you really wanted to fight gender stereotypes, there are several areas where it would do more food than attack an "outside-ish" industry - try looking at general wages where women often are paid remerkably less than men for the same job. Look at the people in company administrations - not many women there. The list goes on - and is more important that someone having sex for others to watch.
What if there are plenty of unoccupied seats? Or what if the subway is cramped, and lots of people are standing? There is no difference in price between those standing and those sitting. And to the subway car, there is no difference between those paying and those who don't.
Adobe doesn't _expect_ a home user to buy photoshop, so it doesn't factor into the equations.
Um, the law expects people to pay for the services they receive when that service has a cost attached by the service's provider. What Adobe expects doesn't enter into it.
The storekeep paid for the food. You are stealing MONEY from the storekeep.
As I said: Food which is to be destroyed anyway is a loss for the storekeep, whether someone steals it or it ends up in the trash.
If you don't agree with me, then why would you even suggest a GPL product (gimp)?
Because the provider of Gimp does not charge for it, whereas the provider of Photoshop does. Which is their decision, not yours. If wou want to spend $0, you get something that costs $0.
Read RMS comments on "piracy" and what it isn't before you talk about GPL software agian.
I strongly disagree with RMS on a lot of points. If he wants to sit in his ivory tower it's his choice, I choose not to.
The leeches on the software industry are getting way desperate in their arguments - again.
You don't pay for it, but you still use it? That's being a leech. Do you also not pay the fare on buses and subways, since they're going where you want anyway? Do you shop-lift food on the expiry day on the grounds they would be thrown away soon?
If you don't want to pay for the benefit, you don't get the benefit. Use Gimp instead of Photoshop, since that's free.
Well, in addition to the pagan festivals for the winter solistice (the ever-green tree) (and the Roman Saturnalia (presents)) and spring (the bunny), they "replaced" the old Jewish holidays Hanukkah and Pesach.
Christianity is/was like Microsoft - it adopts and alters instead of inventing, then seeks to become dominant through any means necessary... :-)
Well, learning the difference between the concepts of "spelling" and "grammar" can also come in handy. :-P
Isn't Dragon Warriors Monsters a Pokémon "clone"? Anyway, the GBC has all the markings of a proper retro-gaming architecture: Sufficiently low specs to match the old home computers like the Beeb or Speccy. Already, you can get Bubble Bobble, Spy vs. Spy and Ghosts 'n Goblins for it, for instance.