I disagree; there's money to be made in home theater equipment, too, but I don't see Nintendo selling receivers any time soon. Sony specifically decided to spite Nintendo. The fact that they made all the right choices, and caught Nintendo at a perilous time, was pure serendipity.
Go read 'Revolutionaries at Sony' for an inside view of this process.
One of these Blaster type worms will come along. AV software won't catch it while it migrates through web servers (and then clients using IE), also via Outlook, and of course the direct connections. Login... reformat. When entire chunks of companies are looking at nothing but the BIOS info they'll SERIOUSLY re-think the whole matter.
Except that these worms are the result of not being patched properly, and possibly having poor/no firewall in place. Not a Windows issue.
OO or WordPerfect (for Linux) sure don't seem cryptic to any of my users. Click File, Open,... Sure, the need for better GUI based configuration routines are being worked on and coming. I will say there is nothing like coding for Linux sitting in front of OS X.:)
When OO's word processor can flawlessly open, edit, and save any Word document, maybe. Until then, you need to be able to exchange docs with other offices, and they're likely using Word.
Have you deployed large scale software roll outs for Linux? Or patched hundreds of systems that needed it due to, oh my gosh, a flaw that was found (and typically fixed if it is serious within 24 hours)? I've done it for Windows, Linux, and OS X. OS X wins hands down (GUI or command line is trivial to deal with), Linux can easily be made to work "magic"... while Windows will sometimes work, sometimes won't. Some Windows applications won't work right, or at all. Heck, some Windows patches require you to run around manually rebooting problem systems -- I've seen 1/10th the headaches dealing with NBM systems.
Well, on Windows, using either SMS, Win2k's Intellimirror, or the other Windows patch server, who's name I forget, let alone Novell's Zen stuff, Tivoli, Openview, or another enterprise management system, it's easy as pie.
However, Sony was an analog company who was quite happy to supply Nintendo with CD players and stay out of the market. Never underestimate the fury of a Japanese corporation scorned.
Ninja Gaiden has it all. Graphics, animation, sound, and, well, attitude. There's just something...neat about watching this huge, giant, evil demon beastie, all fangs and tenticles and dripping venom show up and start screaming at Ryu, and all he does is slowly reach back, draw his sword, and settle into his stance.....
There's censorship, and there's localization. Don't confuse the two.
For example, where an American would say 'can you throw this in, to sweeten the deal,' the equivalent Japanese phrase would be 'can you throw this in, to add a little sexy blush to the deal.'
The first phrase would be a perfectly good translation of the second phrase, but not a transliteration. So which is the more appropriate? Depends on what you're going for.
Well, Christian symbology means more to the average North American than it does to the average Japanese, even the Christian ones. Actually, they tend to be pretty pragmatic; you see your Christian priest for this, your Shinto priest for that, and your local Budhist monk for the other.
In my experience, paging swap in and out on a workstation sucks. Back when I had a p100 with less than 128megs of ram, I would come into work every morning and unlock the screensaver and wait for all of the apps to come out of swap and into memory. It took a while, and was kinda amusing. It was as if the computer was waking up in the morning, taking a stretch, and getting ready for the day.
Sounds like we need a predictive swap manager. If it notices that every monday-friday at 8:30 the user comes in and it needs to bring the email program, IDE, and so on out of swap, it goes ahead and brings it out of swap. If it notices that you've always got several browser instances running, it makes sure to keep the browser resident, no matter what. And so on.
First, a funny little bit of information regarding Team Ninja's development of the game. According to the magazine, Team Ninja received their Xbox development kits and wanted to test them out. So what would you do in this situation? Right - port your latest game to the new system as quickly as possible. And that's what Team Ninja did. Two members of the team got to work on a port of Dead or Alive 2: Hardcore from the PS2 to the Xbox. It took just two months to port everything but the sound, and when all was said and done, the game was running at 130 frames per second! On the PS2 and Dreamcast, the game runs at 60 frames per second (your eye tends to not notice the additional frames beyond this).
Sony entered for pretty much the same reasons as MS - to gain entry into a profitable market and to control the profitable market.
Actually, one of Sony's prime motivations was to kick Nintendo in the jimmy after Nintendo fucked Sony over by going with somebody else for the Super Nintendo CD system. Oh, and they let Sony know by announcing it at E3, or a similar technology expo.
"Revolutionaries at Sony" is an excellent companion book to Game Over. You can tell, however, that it was written by a Japanese person. His English is quite good, but his turns of phrase and points of interest are definately Japanese.:-)
Tecmo/Team Ninja has been Xbox exclusive, but I think it's obvious that someone has a lot of extra money in their pockets for that deal
Actually, so the story goes, Team Ninja took the source code to DoA 2, which on the PS2 looked worse than the Dreamcast version, ported it enough to get it to compile on the Xbox, and were astounded to see it going at over one hundred frames per second.
On the Xbox, they can create somebody's clothes as clothes, not as textures, with bump-mapping so that silk looks like silk, rough-weave cotton looks like rough-weave cotton, embroidery looks like embroidery, and so on.
The PS2 might have the potential to outstrip the Xbox, visually speaking, but in reality, nobody can actually get the damn thing to do it.
In the second, I'm using my ownership of the copyright to control the circumstances under which you copy the source code.
No, the GPL doesn't state you can't copy the code. It states that if you make changes (which I will argue is 'using the source code,' as one of the main points behind OSS is that you 'have the source' and aren't screwed when a vendor goes under, or decides not to fix a bug) you must distribute them.
Therefore, what you're saying is 'I can use my ownership of something to determine how you use it, but you CANNOT use your ownership of something to determine how *I* use it.'
After all, copy a DVD bit for bit, and you still need a licensed player to play it....
Brady's 'Signature Series' tries to make the strat guide as much an artbook as anything else; also put some info onto big posters and what not.
I picked up the strat guides for FFX/FFX-2 because they're beautiful books (good paperstock and everything) which, for example, even my wife likes to just pick up and flip through.
Or the strat guides for Master of Magic or MOO 1 or Civ 1; works of genius. The guide for Civ3 or Moo3, however; useless. As with Internet guides, it's hit and miss.
Do that, and use Component if AT ALL possible. Better yet, VGA. But S-video is noticable over composite, easily.
Hell, do this as a test; plug in to your television both the composite and the S-video, put on a video, and flip between the two.
Bear in mind also that going through the receiver is going to degrade your signal further; you won't notice on a 20 inch CRT, but you will on something like that.
I wonder how long until car stereos start coming with a USB port which will, when a standard 'mass storage device' usb key is plugged into it, will treat it like a CD-R full of MP3s; play by directory, or play by playlist....
Actually, it looks like sound decision to have their 'systems management' app actually able to manage other systems. SMS 1, as I recall, had Mac and possibly OS/2 plugins.
My own stance mirrors yours; copyright should exist, but should include fair use, VERY limited terms, and automatic release, with the burden on the copyright holder *when they release* their work; i.e. DVDs must be viewable in 100 years or whatever as of NOW. Weather this includes giving a copy of the CSS encryption to a Federal agency to hold onto, and make public when the time comes, or what, I leave to other people to figure out.
That having been said, these modifications to copyright haven't been made yet. Therefore, we fall back to the copyright laws we currently have, which state that the MPAA can release their DVDs encrypted, and require you to use a licensed player to decrypt them.
The idea of ephemeral, digital creations is too new, and too novel, for society to have a firm idea of what to do with them. Property is easy; this land is my land, that land is your land, so stay on your own side of the fence. Easily copied art is easy; a Picasso is special because it's a Picasso; not because of the way it looks. Copies are intrinsically lesser than the original.
Because they specifically have encrypted it with the express desire of selling you the decryption.
I can download GPL'd material, and look at it, erase it, print it out and fold it into paper airplanes, and nobody will care. But if I modify it, and distribute the mods, people will yell and scream that I'm violating the GPL, and I'm evil. So why is it that you can buy a DVD, break it, microwave it, use it as a frisbee, but as soon as you use it in a way expressly forbidden, you're a hero?
If the MPAA isn't allowed to sell DVDs with the privisio that you use their licensed players to watch them, then you're not allowed to give away your source code with the added provisio that I give you my modifications. There's no difference.
Nice distraction with the "stolen from Xing" sleight-of-hand there. What if I wrote the decryption myself ? I didn't steal anything from anyone, and I'm still just watching a movie... Seriously, Sister, you better smarten up your Act, cause this sort of tactic just makes you look foolish
Can you point me at an OSS Linux DVD decoder that was not designed using the Xing key? I haven't really looked into it, I'll admit, but my understanding is that DeCSS was designed around said key, and most of the OSS offerings are decendants of that.
But if you're running linux, you cannot use it for it's designated purpose because that's wrong ?
It's got nothing to do with Linux. It's designated purpose is to be played in a licensed player. Want a licensed player for Linux? Go buy PowerDVD for Linux. Go buy a Creative Labs DXR2 card, and get it working under Linux and you're golden.
Using a decryption key stolen from Xing, however, is illegal. And wrong.
No. You can't, for example, use your homebrew dialysis (spelling?) machine to try to keep Granny alive after her kidneys fail. You can't drive your car on the sidewalk, EVEN THOUGH you own that car. You can't beat your dog, even though you 'own' it.
I don't have a DVD in front of me, being at work, but when I get home, I'll look on one, and see if I can't find the relevant bit of text. Most likely, you'll find it on the back of the case, towards the bottom, under the specification information.
No, the point is you know up front that you need certain equipment to make use of your rental, and it's up to you to make sure you have legal access to that equipment.
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I disagree; there's money to be made in home theater equipment, too, but I don't see Nintendo selling receivers any time soon. Sony specifically decided to spite Nintendo. The fact that they made all the right choices, and caught Nintendo at a perilous time, was pure serendipity.
Go read 'Revolutionaries at Sony' for an inside view of this process.
Except that these worms are the result of not being patched properly, and possibly having poor/no firewall in place. Not a Windows issue.
When OO's word processor can flawlessly open, edit, and save any Word document, maybe. Until then, you need to be able to exchange docs with other offices, and they're likely using Word.
Well, on Windows, using either SMS, Win2k's Intellimirror, or the other Windows patch server, who's name I forget, let alone Novell's Zen stuff, Tivoli, Openview, or another enterprise management system, it's easy as pie.
Actually, I found the best way to get monitor information was to download the Windows driver, crack it open in notepad, and crib them....
Well of course money had something to do with it.
However, Sony was an analog company who was quite happy to supply Nintendo with CD players and stay out of the market. Never underestimate the fury of a Japanese corporation scorned.
Ninja Gaiden has it all. Graphics, animation, sound, and, well, attitude. There's just something...neat about watching this huge, giant, evil demon beastie, all fangs and tenticles and dripping venom show up and start screaming at Ryu, and all he does is slowly reach back, draw his sword, and settle into his stance.....
There's censorship, and there's localization. Don't confuse the two.
For example, where an American would say 'can you throw this in, to sweeten the deal,' the equivalent Japanese phrase would be 'can you throw this in, to add a little sexy blush to the deal.'
The first phrase would be a perfectly good translation of the second phrase, but not a transliteration. So which is the more appropriate? Depends on what you're going for.
Well, Christian symbology means more to the average North American than it does to the average Japanese, even the Christian ones. Actually, they tend to be pretty pragmatic; you see your Christian priest for this, your Shinto priest for that, and your local Budhist monk for the other.
Sounds like we need a predictive swap manager. If it notices that every monday-friday at 8:30 the user comes in and it needs to bring the email program, IDE, and so on out of swap, it goes ahead and brings it out of swap. If it notices that you've always got several browser instances running, it makes sure to keep the browser resident, no matter what. And so on.
Exactly!
Have you played Ninja Gaiden? Damn. DAMN.
Of course, what Tecmo realizes is that it's not just the graphics, it's the animations.
Asides:
DoA3 vs DoA2: Hardcore. Note especially Lei Fang's dress.
Here's the story I referenced above, actually:
Original article.Actually, one of Sony's prime motivations was to kick Nintendo in the jimmy after Nintendo fucked Sony over by going with somebody else for the Super Nintendo CD system. Oh, and they let Sony know by announcing it at E3, or a similar technology expo.
"Revolutionaries at Sony" is an excellent companion book to Game Over. You can tell, however, that it was written by a Japanese person. His English is quite good, but his turns of phrase and points of interest are definately Japanese. :-)
Actually, so the story goes, Team Ninja took the source code to DoA 2, which on the PS2 looked worse than the Dreamcast version, ported it enough to get it to compile on the Xbox, and were astounded to see it going at over one hundred frames per second.
On the Xbox, they can create somebody's clothes as clothes, not as textures, with bump-mapping so that silk looks like silk, rough-weave cotton looks like rough-weave cotton, embroidery looks like embroidery, and so on.
The PS2 might have the potential to outstrip the Xbox, visually speaking, but in reality, nobody can actually get the damn thing to do it.
No, the GPL doesn't state you can't copy the code. It states that if you make changes (which I will argue is 'using the source code,' as one of the main points behind OSS is that you 'have the source' and aren't screwed when a vendor goes under, or decides not to fix a bug) you must distribute them.
Therefore, what you're saying is 'I can use my ownership of something to determine how you use it, but you CANNOT use your ownership of something to determine how *I* use it.'
After all, copy a DVD bit for bit, and you still need a licensed player to play it....
Actually, they're starting to figure it out.
Brady's 'Signature Series' tries to make the strat guide as much an artbook as anything else; also put some info onto big posters and what not.
I picked up the strat guides for FFX/FFX-2 because they're beautiful books (good paperstock and everything) which, for example, even my wife likes to just pick up and flip through.
Or the strat guides for Master of Magic or MOO 1 or Civ 1; works of genius. The guide for Civ3 or Moo3, however; useless. As with Internet guides, it's hit and miss.
Do that, and use Component if AT ALL possible. Better yet, VGA. But S-video is noticable over composite, easily.
Hell, do this as a test; plug in to your television both the composite and the S-video, put on a video, and flip between the two.
Bear in mind also that going through the receiver is going to degrade your signal further; you won't notice on a 20 inch CRT, but you will on something like that.
I do have to admit, Metallica did pony up the goods to go along with Lars' anti-Napster rants.
I wonder how long until car stereos start coming with a USB port which will, when a standard 'mass storage device' usb key is plugged into it, will treat it like a CD-R full of MP3s; play by directory, or play by playlist....
Actually, it looks like sound decision to have their 'systems management' app actually able to manage other systems. SMS 1, as I recall, had Mac and possibly OS/2 plugins.
Aye, it's a big muddle, isn't it?
My own stance mirrors yours; copyright should exist, but should include fair use, VERY limited terms, and automatic release, with the burden on the copyright holder *when they release* their work; i.e. DVDs must be viewable in 100 years or whatever as of NOW. Weather this includes giving a copy of the CSS encryption to a Federal agency to hold onto, and make public when the time comes, or what, I leave to other people to figure out.
That having been said, these modifications to copyright haven't been made yet. Therefore, we fall back to the copyright laws we currently have, which state that the MPAA can release their DVDs encrypted, and require you to use a licensed player to decrypt them.
The idea of ephemeral, digital creations is too new, and too novel, for society to have a firm idea of what to do with them. Property is easy; this land is my land, that land is your land, so stay on your own side of the fence. Easily copied art is easy; a Picasso is special because it's a Picasso; not because of the way it looks. Copies are intrinsically lesser than the original.
Because they specifically have encrypted it with the express desire of selling you the decryption.
I can download GPL'd material, and look at it, erase it, print it out and fold it into paper airplanes, and nobody will care. But if I modify it, and distribute the mods, people will yell and scream that I'm violating the GPL, and I'm evil. So why is it that you can buy a DVD, break it, microwave it, use it as a frisbee, but as soon as you use it in a way expressly forbidden, you're a hero?
You can't have it both ways.
If the MPAA isn't allowed to sell DVDs with the privisio that you use their licensed players to watch them, then you're not allowed to give away your source code with the added provisio that I give you my modifications. There's no difference.
Can you point me at an OSS Linux DVD decoder that was not designed using the Xing key? I haven't really looked into it, I'll admit, but my understanding is that DeCSS was designed around said key, and most of the OSS offerings are decendants of that.
Actually, it depends, I think.
I seem to recall that there's a difference between not CSS encrypting a DVD, and coding it for Region 0.
It's got nothing to do with Linux. It's designated purpose is to be played in a licensed player. Want a licensed player for Linux? Go buy PowerDVD for Linux. Go buy a Creative Labs DXR2 card, and get it working under Linux and you're golden.
Using a decryption key stolen from Xing, however, is illegal. And wrong.
No. You can't, for example, use your homebrew dialysis (spelling?) machine to try to keep Granny alive after her kidneys fail. You can't drive your car on the sidewalk, EVEN THOUGH you own that car. You can't beat your dog, even though you 'own' it.
I don't have a DVD in front of me, being at work, but when I get home, I'll look on one, and see if I can't find the relevant bit of text. Most likely, you'll find it on the back of the case, towards the bottom, under the specification information.
No, the point is you know up front that you need certain equipment to make use of your rental, and it's up to you to make sure you have legal access to that equipment.