Kids relatives, grandmothers, etc, continue to buy these games because of exposure. So saying mainstream games have no need whatsoever is a bit to closed minded
If those mainstream products went away, they'd buy something else. In all probability, something higher quality.
The Supreme Court has never shied away from absurd results. Look at their interpretation of the interstate commerce clause. Reading Wickard vs. Filburn, and Gonzalez vs. Raich, the Supreme Court holds that any activity whatsoever, even private, intrastate, non-commercial, personal activities could theoretically impinge on interstate commerce. Therefore, any activity at all can be regulated by the Federal government.
Reading what was intended to be a grant of limited powers in a way that gives the Federal government carte blanche to regulate anything and everything is obviously an absurd result. We must infer that that was not the intention of the authors of the Constitution. But that is how the Supreme Court reads it.
Global warming will effectively take care of itself when it begins to become costly.
The problem there is that it may only become costly after we've reached a tipping point. The earth is a complex non-linear dynamic system, if we go too far down this road we may never find our way back.
I still agree with you though. Apathy is really the only way to deal with the problem. There's nothing really we can do except sit and wait. Leave it to future generations to fight the inevitable wars over the last remaining scraps of arable land.
But we don't put terrible paintings in museums (modern art notwithstanding) to "gives context to the goodness".
Yes, we do. Look at all the early pottery we have with crudely drawn 2d figures on them. Looking at that art gives context to present day art, and shows us how far it's come. Early video games are an exact analogy. In 1000 years, there will be Atari 2600s in museums serving the same purpose.
But then you find old games that you never played back in the day. Personally, I never had an Atari 2600. There's no nostalgia attached to it for me. I still think that Yar's Revenge is one of the finest games ever created.
Zsnes is great, but not a model of accuracy. The audio accuracy is especially poor. It's also written partly in 32-bit x86 assembly, so it's only going to be with us for as long as x86 is.
bsnes on the other hand is written to be cycle accurate. Everything the hardware does is emulated, with no shortcuts. That is what we really need from emulators. Plus it's written in portable C++, so it will be around forever. The downside is that you need a fairly hefty machine to run it.
Yes, this is still one of the best sports games of all time. Controlling an entire field of players with the numeric keypad is an experience unmatched by any game since. Each player has his own button, there's never any ambiguity about who you're selecting.
Hell, I'm even worried about computer games. I collect old Macs and games to play on them
I hope you've changed the capacitors on them. After 20 years or so, they can leak and ruin your board. Also, remove the batteries from any computer or console that's not being regularly used. They can also leak and ruin the board.
I don't even want to think about what has happened to hardware and games for the old Apple ][s.
It's not that bad actually. There were labs full of Apple IIes in just about every high school in the country. With software like ADTPro, it's easy to dump disk images from your computer to a floppy. Amazing really.
I've seen hacks where people have hooked vector arcade games up to oscilloscopes. So at least some sort of vector display should be around for a while.
There are too many 2600s in existence for the console itself to be worth anything in our lifetimes. And new hardware is still being produced. Although, if you have any funny looking T-shaped cartridges, you might be in luck.
If I were you, I'd take it out and play it. Now is a great time to enjoy 2600 gaming, as there's a flash cart that will play every 2600 game (even supercharger!) for the price of 1 or 2 carts back in the day.
It is impossible to emulate perfectly, but not entirely possible to emulate at all. The mednafen WIP has virtual boy emulation that works with anaglyph glasses.
You can emulate it, but poorly. Emulated overlays look like any other color graphics. It really doesn't strike you just how far we've come until you stand in front of a Space Invaders machine and see the overlays, or when you plug in a Channel F and hear the audio coming from the console instead of the TV. That's when history touches you. That's when you recognize the reality of a world before colored sprites and digital audio.
Even worse, it's always the big companies that could actually afford a to pay for whatever rights necessary that dont, in my experience. Very sloppy business practices...
Obviously. You don't get to be the biggest company around by playing fair.
All we need is to get Superman to fly around the earth in reverse, sending him back in time, when he can cockpunch Tony Hayward before any of this happens.
The ADA doesn't force record shops to offer only products that can be enjoyed by the deaf. So I don't see any reason why it would require web cartoonists to offer only products that can be enjoyed by the blind. Just put some fucking alt-text in there and make it navigable by screen reader. Yes, that should be taken care of by good design, but precious few people care about good design.
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Kids relatives, grandmothers, etc, continue to buy these games because of exposure. So saying mainstream games have no need whatsoever is a bit to closed minded
If those mainstream products went away, they'd buy something else. In all probability, something higher quality.
this would be an absurd result, we must infer
The Supreme Court has never shied away from absurd results. Look at their interpretation of the interstate commerce clause. Reading Wickard vs. Filburn, and Gonzalez vs. Raich, the Supreme Court holds that any activity whatsoever, even private, intrastate, non-commercial, personal activities could theoretically impinge on interstate commerce. Therefore, any activity at all can be regulated by the Federal government.
Reading what was intended to be a grant of limited powers in a way that gives the Federal government carte blanche to regulate anything and everything is obviously an absurd result. We must infer that that was not the intention of the authors of the Constitution. But that is how the Supreme Court reads it.
If being an "idiot stock trader" who makes millions is so easy, why aren't you doing it?
Ethics.
Global warming will effectively take care of itself when it begins to become costly.
The problem there is that it may only become costly after we've reached a tipping point. The earth is a complex non-linear dynamic system, if we go too far down this road we may never find our way back.
I still agree with you though. Apathy is really the only way to deal with the problem. There's nothing really we can do except sit and wait. Leave it to future generations to fight the inevitable wars over the last remaining scraps of arable land.
Life is pretty grim. Carlin just told it like it was.
Would Valve have admitted their mistake if it erroneously banned 12 people instead of 12,000?
You must be thinking of the O2. There were no representational graphics on the Odyssey. Just white dots and plastic screen overlays.
But we don't put terrible paintings in museums (modern art notwithstanding) to "gives context to the goodness".
Yes, we do. Look at all the early pottery we have with crudely drawn 2d figures on them. Looking at that art gives context to present day art, and shows us how far it's come. Early video games are an exact analogy. In 1000 years, there will be Atari 2600s in museums serving the same purpose.
Next they'll come after pointed sticks.
By the way, I wonder what medium we should use if we want to store data for a really, really long time
Vellum.
But then you find old games that you never played back in the day. Personally, I never had an Atari 2600. There's no nostalgia attached to it for me. I still think that Yar's Revenge is one of the finest games ever created.
Zsnes is great, but not a model of accuracy. The audio accuracy is especially poor. It's also written partly in 32-bit x86 assembly, so it's only going to be with us for as long as x86 is.
bsnes on the other hand is written to be cycle accurate. Everything the hardware does is emulated, with no shortcuts. That is what we really need from emulators. Plus it's written in portable C++, so it will be around forever. The downside is that you need a fairly hefty machine to run it.
Yes, this is still one of the best sports games of all time. Controlling an entire field of players with the numeric keypad is an experience unmatched by any game since. Each player has his own button, there's never any ambiguity about who you're selecting.
Hell, I'm even worried about computer games. I collect old Macs and games to play on them
I hope you've changed the capacitors on them. After 20 years or so, they can leak and ruin your board.
Also, remove the batteries from any computer or console that's not being regularly used. They can
also leak and ruin the board.
I don't even want to think about what has happened to hardware and games for the old Apple ][s.
It's not that bad actually. There were labs full of Apple IIes in just about every high school in
the country. With software like ADTPro, it's easy to dump disk images from your computer to a floppy.
Amazing really.
I've seen hacks where people have hooked vector arcade games up to oscilloscopes. So at least some sort of vector display should be around for a while.
There are too many 2600s in existence for the console itself to be worth anything in our lifetimes. And new hardware is still being produced. Although, if you have any funny looking T-shaped cartridges, you might be in luck.
If I were you, I'd take it out and play it. Now is a great time to enjoy 2600 gaming, as there's a flash cart that will play every 2600 game (even supercharger!) for the price of 1 or 2 carts back in the day.
It is impossible to emulate perfectly, but not entirely possible to emulate at all. The mednafen WIP has virtual boy emulation that works with anaglyph glasses.
You can emulate it, but poorly. Emulated overlays look like any other color graphics. It really doesn't strike you just how far we've come until you stand in front of a Space Invaders machine and see the overlays, or when you plug in a Channel F and hear the audio coming from the console instead of the TV. That's when history touches you. That's when you recognize the reality of a world before colored sprites and digital audio.
Even worse, it's always the big companies that could actually afford a to pay for whatever rights necessary that dont, in my experience. Very sloppy business practices...
Obviously. You don't get to be the biggest company around by playing fair.
All we need is to get Superman to fly around the earth in reverse, sending him back in time, when he can cockpunch Tony Hayward before any of this happens.
The ADA doesn't force record shops to offer only products that can be enjoyed by the deaf. So I don't see any reason why it would require web cartoonists to offer only products that can be enjoyed by the blind. Just put some fucking alt-text in there and make it navigable by screen reader. Yes, that should be taken care of by good design, but precious few people care about good design.
Roz Ho is the weakest link. And yet, she's still there, apparently un-firable.
Of course she is. No exec is going to be caught uttering the phrase "Fire that Ho."
They should bring the same technical expertise they used in the Xbox to cell phones. That would give a new meaning to "Red Ring of Death".
How did you post this comment without using the keyboard?
So, how do you move backward in the browser window history?
Context menu.
How do you rotate or scale a picture?
Why would I rotate or scale a picture in a web browser?