It makes me wonder if the "ex-Microsoft" employees didn't sign one of those "If you leave, you can't work for a competitor for x years" agreements.
Microsoft might have brought it up, and let them stay in business if they kept their games to DirectX or Windows only.
Sega has some of the greatest game franchises in the industry. Some times I think Sega lost the console wars because of stupid consumers. The Dreamcast is quite an amazing piece of hardware which unfortunately like that of the great artists, didn't get the credit it was due until it died.
But what really makes Sega what Sega is, is it's arcade machine business. If you go to a real arcade, not like what you find in a mall. But a real arcade like Gameworks, you will be blown away by the sheer number of great and innovative games, nearly all of which will have the Sega logo. If Sega was to just be eaten up and digested by a rival company, the world would have lost one of the most creative companies in the business.
I do not understand why any./er would buy a PSX2, or PSX anything, and still be capable of living with themselves. If you ask me, Sony is a much larger monopoly and more consumer damaging company than M$ could ever hope to be. They make money off of alot of the movies we watch, the movie houses we go to, the tv shows we watch, and the tv shows we watch them on. Every monitor that was attached to the macs we used in highschool were Trinitrons. Nearly every one's VCR, home stereo, personal CD player, personal cassette player, headphones, DVD player, and Surround Sound decoder sports the Sony logo. How can people who do everything they can to keep Microsoft out of their computers, and are disgusted when they see MSNBC logos be so willing to accept with open arms and embrace products and content from Sony?
I'm not sure what the exact number is, but one of the requiorments in becoming a State in the Union, is that you need an X ammount of people per sq. mile. I am sure that at the time, the land mass that latter became Washington and Idaho didn't meet the requiorment, and Oregon couldn't become a state if that land mass was included.
Exactly. All these Real Time Strategy games really are are a glorified and more involving version of chess. The only real differnce is that instead of being turn based its *Real-Time.*
I really think this is obscene. Any one know if Battlechess or the above Win3.1 Starwars Chess game is on Germany's hit list?
Microsoft probably wouldn't be in trouble for selling the system at a loss, since that is the norm for the industry. However, wouldn't they be in trouble for using their current monopoly of PC operating systems and office software to purchase established video game developer houses of competing video game systems to create a monopoly in the console market.
In other words, can't they get in trouble for buying companies like Rare and all the other guys with the intent of creating a monopoly in the console business. It seems to me they are trying to buy all the companies they can so they can make X-Box only games while thining out the number of developers creating games for competing systems.
Doesn't Mr. Rosen describe exactly this with his answer to HaeMaker's question Copyright != Antitrust:
"A company can't, for example, use its monopoly in one business area to gain a monopoly in another business area. It can't use a monopoly in water softening systems to force its customers to buy the company's own salt."
It seems to me MSFT's attempt at entering the console market is a classic case of monopoly abuse.
I almost think this already is the case. For some reason every DVD we rent is just full of bad sectors at the end of the disc. There aren't any visible scratches on the disc, it just refuses to play the end of the DVD. We don't have any problems with the discs we buy, just the rented ones.
Here is a list of downloadable online-only games Mythic created. They also created the game Silent Death, seen here.
Of course, none of these were/are really sucessful, but I believe they have more games under their belt than your humble Verant. By the way, since you are "unofficially affiliated" with Verant Interactive, when is Sovereign due out?
Corporations already make their own laws!
Can you say DMCA?
You think all that money AOL-Time-Warner, Disney,
Microsoft, RIAA, MPAA puts into lawmakers'
(and judges') pockets through "lobbying" and
paid vacations will allow the DMCA to die? Napster live? Microsoft broken up? Disney propaganda driven into the hearts of every citizen of the world? Ha!
Just look at how this works, Napster has to pay the each individual record company to let citizens share songs they already paid for. While the record companies pay each individual radio company so their songs ( should be the artists' songs, but thats another story ).
America is already run by mega corporations. Mark my words, if Teddy Rosevelt or any other "Trust Buster" rolled over in their graves when the AOL-Time-Warner merger was approved, and will again if the Microsoft ruling in over turned.
Hell, my v3 agpcard would crash like crazy in X.
The funnie thing is, in windows it would run
just fine. Text boxes displayed in X would cause
stray pixels to appear until the the whole screen
became cluttered with them.
One day I was switching my V3 for a GeForce 256,
and noticed the v3 was so hot, I could not handle
it. I bought a fan as large as my chasis, took
the hood off, and stuck the fan next to it, and
since then I haven't had a problem with the V3.
Now the Geforce crashes 30 secs into a 3D accelerated environment no fail. My TNT crashes within in 10. Crazy!
When I was in Japan a year ago, I must say Sega was the absolute King and Queen of the arcades. They have their own Arcade chain called Sega World, and they are more common than McDonalds here in the States. In their version of a mall, they sometimes have three or four different arcades in different parts of the mall, and they are always packed. Games like Crazy Taxi had massive lines formed behind them. (I loved the game so much, I purchased a Dreamcast when I got home just so I could play it.)
If you have been to any major arcades in the States, like Gameworks, Sega is still the obvious victor. Sega is almost exclusively multiplayer gaming, and those games are what kicks arse. Those are the games you see lines forming to play, not watch. Konami's Dance Dance Revolution games' crowds are formed by viewers, not players. The crowd is their to see someone, usually Asian, bust a move, not to embarass themselves.
Like the Sega employee's post above mentioned, Nintendo's in house games are the best. Look at their 1 million+ copies sold list. Very few people can say they didn't love Mario 64 and spent hours trying to find the nonexistant Luigi, or smiled when they found Yoshi at the top of the Castle. Who didn't rush to the store to buy The Ocarina of Time? Or what about getting all nostalgic while racing on the LONG Rainbow Road course in Mario Kart 64 from viewing the neon character signs in the distance, or from hearing the stock "Good Luck" voice sample in StarFox 64?
Though these companies were rivals in the eighties, both have *evolved* in very different areas, to the point where a merger would be excellent for the consumer. My God, the games these two companies could produce together as a team, along with the musical talent of Tetsuya Komuro, would be worthy of drool that would otherwise go towards Natalie Portman.
Now, a little off topic, I do not understand why any./er would buy a PSX2, or PSX anything, and still be capable of living with themselves. If you ask me, Sony is a much larger monopoly and more consumer damaging company than M$ could ever hope to be. They make money off of alot of the movies we watch, the movie houses we go to, the tv shows we watch, and the tv shows we watch them on. Every monitor that was attached to the macs we used in highschool were Trinitrons. Nearly every one's VCR, home stereo, personal CD player, personal cassette player, headphones, DVD player, and Surround Sound decoder sports the Sony logo. How can people who do everything they can to keep Microsoft out of their computers, and are disgusted when they see MSNBC logos be so willing to accept with open arms and embrace products and content from Sony?
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It makes me wonder if the "ex-Microsoft" employees didn't sign one of those "If you leave, you can't work for a competitor for x years" agreements. Microsoft might have brought it up, and let them stay in business if they kept their games to DirectX or Windows only.
But what really makes Sega what Sega is, is it's arcade machine business. If you go to a real arcade, not like what you find in a mall. But a real arcade like Gameworks, you will be blown away by the sheer number of great and innovative games, nearly all of which will have the Sega logo. If Sega was to just be eaten up and digested by a rival company, the world would have lost one of the most creative companies in the business.
I do not understand why any ./er would buy a PSX2, or PSX anything, and still be capable of living with themselves. If you ask me, Sony is a much larger monopoly and more consumer damaging company than M$ could ever hope to be. They make money off of alot of the movies we watch, the movie houses we go to, the tv shows we watch, and the tv shows we watch them on. Every monitor that was attached to the macs we used in highschool were Trinitrons. Nearly every one's VCR, home stereo, personal CD player, personal cassette player, headphones, DVD player, and Surround Sound decoder sports the Sony logo. How can people who do everything they can to keep Microsoft out of their computers, and are disgusted when they see MSNBC logos be so willing to accept with open arms and embrace products and content from Sony?
I'm more worried about the FS being built around SQL Server. Does that mean my hard drive could be DoS-ed by the script kiddies?
I dunno how accurate that is. Beating its competitors to the punch didn't help Sega sell hardware.
Some one posted a link to this above, but I think it better in this context. If you can't do it on card board, do it on wood!
I don't think its possible for urls to be written using Japanese characters. The fact its in the .jp domain is enough proof its Japaneese.
Heh, I will have to remember that when my MMORPG habit forces me out on the streets. If they make em big enough, it could double as a home.
No, you created Old English. Then the French ruled your crummie island and we got your English. Then we Americans fixed it.
I'm not sure what the exact number is, but one of the requiorments in becoming a State in the Union, is that you need an X ammount of people per sq. mile. I am sure that at the time, the land mass that latter became Washington and Idaho didn't meet the requiorment, and Oregon couldn't become a state if that land mass was included.
I really think this is obscene. Any one know if Battlechess or the above Win3.1 Starwars Chess game is on Germany's hit list?
Microsoft probably wouldn't be in trouble for selling the system at a loss, since that is the norm for the industry. However, wouldn't they be in trouble for using their current monopoly of PC operating systems and office software to purchase established video game developer houses of competing video game systems to create a monopoly in the console market.
In other words, can't they get in trouble for buying companies like Rare and all the other guys with the intent of creating a monopoly in the console business. It seems to me they are trying to buy all the companies they can so they can make X-Box only games while thining out the number of developers creating games for competing systems.
Doesn't Mr. Rosen describe exactly this with his answer to HaeMaker's question Copyright != Antitrust:
It seems to me MSFT's attempt at entering the console market is a classic case of monopoly abuse.I almost think this already is the case. For some reason every DVD we rent is just full of bad sectors at the end of the disc. There aren't any visible scratches on the disc, it just refuses to play the end of the DVD. We don't have any problems with the discs we buy, just the rented ones.
Of course, none of these were/are really sucessful, but I believe they have more games under their belt than your humble Verant. By the way, since you are "unofficially affiliated" with Verant Interactive, when is Sovereign due out?
Apple? Since when did any flavor of MS-Windows come with Quick Time? Or even an Apple-Talk protocol?
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You fool! (tm)
Corporations already make their own laws! Can you say DMCA?
You think all that money AOL-Time-Warner, Disney, Microsoft, RIAA, MPAA puts into lawmakers' (and judges') pockets through "lobbying" and paid vacations will allow the DMCA to die? Napster live? Microsoft broken up? Disney propaganda driven into the hearts of every citizen of the world? Ha!
Just look at how this works, Napster has to pay the each individual record company to let citizens share songs they already paid for. While the record companies pay each individual radio company so their songs ( should be the artists' songs, but thats another story ). America is already run by mega corporations. Mark my words, if Teddy Rosevelt or any other "Trust Buster" rolled over in their graves when the AOL-Time-Warner merger was approved, and will again if the Microsoft ruling in over turned.
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One day I was switching my V3 for a GeForce 256, and noticed the v3 was so hot, I could not handle it. I bought a fan as large as my chasis, took the hood off, and stuck the fan next to it, and since then I haven't had a problem with the V3. Now the Geforce crashes 30 secs into a 3D accelerated environment no fail. My TNT crashes within in 10. Crazy!
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When I was in Japan a year ago, I must say Sega was the absolute King and Queen of the arcades. They have their own Arcade chain called Sega World, and they are more common than McDonalds here in the States. In their version of a mall, they sometimes have three or four different arcades in different parts of the mall, and they are always packed. Games like Crazy Taxi had massive lines formed behind them. (I loved the game so much, I purchased a Dreamcast when I got home just so I could play it.) If you have been to any major arcades in the States, like Gameworks, Sega is still the obvious victor. Sega is almost exclusively multiplayer gaming, and those games are what kicks arse. Those are the games you see lines forming to play, not watch. Konami's Dance Dance Revolution games' crowds are formed by viewers, not players. The crowd is their to see someone, usually Asian, bust a move, not to embarass themselves. Like the Sega employee's post above mentioned, Nintendo's in house games are the best. Look at their 1 million+ copies sold list. Very few people can say they didn't love Mario 64 and spent hours trying to find the nonexistant Luigi, or smiled when they found Yoshi at the top of the Castle. Who didn't rush to the store to buy The Ocarina of Time? Or what about getting all nostalgic while racing on the LONG Rainbow Road course in Mario Kart 64 from viewing the neon character signs in the distance, or from hearing the stock "Good Luck" voice sample in StarFox 64? Though these companies were rivals in the eighties, both have *evolved* in very different areas, to the point where a merger would be excellent for the consumer. My God, the games these two companies could produce together as a team, along with the musical talent of Tetsuya Komuro, would be worthy of drool that would otherwise go towards Natalie Portman. Now, a little off topic, I do not understand why any ./er would buy a PSX2, or PSX anything, and still be capable of living with themselves. If you ask me, Sony is a much larger monopoly and more consumer damaging company than M$ could ever hope to be. They make money off of alot of the movies we watch, the movie houses we go to, the tv shows we watch, and the tv shows we watch them on. Every monitor that was attached to the macs we used in highschool were Trinitrons. Nearly every one's VCR, home stereo, personal CD player, personal cassette player, headphones, DVD player, and Surround Sound decoder sports the Sony logo. How can people who do everything they can to keep Microsoft out of their computers, and are disgusted when they see MSNBC logos be so willing to accept with open arms and embrace products and content from Sony?
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