As others have pointed out, Tucows is headquartered in Canada and they do have physical offices in the US. IANAL but that leads me to believe they might fall under Federal court jurisdiction. Anyone care to confirm or deny?
If you're running a Wii then the developers of Wii games will have a dev environment designed by Nintendo to run on their specific platform.
There are too many variables for designing Linux based games for PC's. Do you design for FC, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Slackware (yes please:), Mandriva,... you get the idea.
No commercial developer that exists today wants to deal with that headache.
Second, hardware support. If you develop for Wii, you know all the *hardware* features that you can and cannot support. The poor support of 3D accelerators for Linux is well known. So again, in a market that wants to squeeze every ounce of processing power into the prettiest graphics, no one is going to deal with the hit or miss chance that someones hardware will even work with the game.
The government could be spending ~2 billion a *WEEK* on a neverending war on the otherside of the world while ignoring a natural disaster zone stretching for hundreds of miles affecting hundreds of thousands if not millions still, on its southern borders.
Why opensource software isn't taking the world by storm? This may not be the most aggregious case of this sort of thing I've seen in OS history, but FFS this is just like politics in the real world, but worse. It's all about personal preferences since money isn't really involved like business.
Zune will probably never reach the heights of MySpace which is essentially free for all the minors that have made it so big. Mom and dad pay for the Internet. How many kids are going to afford a 300 dollar MySpace device? How many parents are going to buy their kids one when they probably already have a iPod?
Eye implants, ala Minority Report. Only instead of just targeting you with advertising when you go somewhere, they also dictate what digital media, books, magazines and lazer light shows you can view. If you paid your fee you can see for the day.
Sorry dude, but it's the same thing as "Guns don't kill, people kill." Video games don't cause any harm to unfortunate victims of a nut case who was f'd up in the first place. It's not Rockstar's fault this idiot was probably raised by crappy parents. It's like this all the time. Look at the kids who did the Columbine shooting. Their parents just thought they were quiet kids not getting into trouble. I bet dollars to donuts the parents didn't even CHECK to see what they were doing.
When some moron goes and kills people, unless there is a verifiable, born with it genetic defect like schizophrenia or half their frontal lobe missing, I can almost guarantee these people had bad parents. How do I know this? I come from a long history of hanging out with people like this. I use to know a lot of people that I would not be surprised to hear about on the news who went nuts. Their parents were hands off, let them do what they wanted and rarely kept an eye on them as kids. They get into weird crap and have no one telling them no or explaining to them the difference between fake and real (like mine did, don't get me wrong tho my 'rents had their faults too.)
We live in a country where parent's would rather have elected representatives pass laws telling the rest of us what we can and cannot do, see or hear so they don't have to worry about their kids getting into bad stuff and can let them run around like a bull in a China shop (or the grocery store, restaurant, bank, post office, shopping mall, i even knew someone who brought their kid to work on occassion and let them run around the office getting into people's cube's).
The Average Joe is a lazy, irresponsible shmuck who is indoctrinated with "Get married, have kids..." but aren't properly able to maintain either.
Hey Wal*Mart, why don't you ship back everything you put in your stores to boycott someone stealing your sales! Because a shit load of empty stores will certainly help you sell more product!
I know Wal*Mart probably sells 9 of 10 DVDs and CDs sold in the US, but whenever the entertainment industry realizes that in reality THEY'RE the ones that can make demands of Wal*Mart once they embrace digital downloads, I don't think Disney will be getting case loads of anything back.
At some point I'm sure most entertainment will be all digital, music, movies, even books and magazines will probably end up being nothing but 1's and 0's. Then Wal*Mart will be back to shoveling crappy trinkets and C-List celebrity clothing lines.
If they weren't busy being stupid, they'd launch Wal*Mart Online Store and sell downloads. But no using time and money to pitch a fit is way more profitable.
At first I was a bit dismayed with the 250 price. I don't have a buncha spendable cash like some, but after thinking about it, 250 still seems like a deal for a system that wants to try something this ambitious.
It's the kind of device that I think was designed the way products SHOULD be designed. Someone with an imagination said "What if...?" rather than a marketroid saying "We want to try and appeal to such and such a market so we're going to release products based on this data."
i hope they mean it's still too early to talk gameplay because marketing doesn't want to let anything slip yet. it's been 2 years since they announced the game. if it's still too early because they don't have anything designwise firmly in place, this game won't see the light of day anytime soon.
that's great. 3 big companies are required to turn over any records they have pertaining to me once every 12 months, but only at my request.
the law should require ANY company that keeps customers private information for any period to at least proactively make the customer aware, then divulge it at no expense to the customer.
its my data, they're retaining it for some purpose, usually financial gain. i should be informed, given a cut or the option to have them expunge it.
is it me or does anyone find it crazy that a corporation that was convicted of anti-competitive behavior in this country and abroad is allowed to be involved in projects that "shape" future generations.
come on like this wasn't the same situation when DVD was originally launched. would your PCI video card, 32MB SIMM P200MMX with a CD drive play DVDs back in the late 90s? no, it required an upgrade didn't it?
yeah i think HDCP is sh!t, but all that aside, it's not like new formats havent required upgrades before.
the saddest part is this apparently shows that MS doesn't consider security to be a threat to their bottom line, product offerings or their OTHER corporate connections (re: enterprise users)
t'would be a new world if some rich VC's threw money into a pot that was used to build the "OS of the future" with an office suite that matched Office 2k3. if people migrated in hordes, MS would have to rethink where their priorities lie when it comes to patch releases.
Am I the only one that noticed that a company rep said they instituted this policy when they caught flack for possibly misrepresenting products to customers? Obviously the people doing the selling need a little more training (or perhaps this particular salesperson was utterly inept), but this sounds like a damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I've worked in sales for a cell company and you know honestly, it was difficult getting some (not ALL) of the elderly customers to understand what exactly they were wanting to sign up for. The most difficult ones had that "In my day...!" attitude and just didn't seem to have adapted to modern society.
And don't get me started on the ones that were being duped into signing up by vicious grandkids. I found out after the fact a couple of times when the grandchild would come in later asking why the phone was off when they'd rung up a huge bill.
I've been reading this forum on and off all day, when I realized... Bush is screwing the fucking pooch, but billions of citizens here, myself including, are letting him get away with it. Which of those two is the bigger fuck up?
My guess is, if you go back far enough, before they even got to the violent porn they were probably raised by shitty parents or they have a real mental defect. This ends up being merely and outlet for their fucked up behavior.
I however am not a head doctor. This has just been my experience in the world at large with people I've met. YMMV
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i get sick of programmers that think everyone should know how to program. we should also all grow our own produce and raise animals instead of having grocery stores too I suppose? and learn to maintain our cars on our own. hell, by that rationale, we should be building our own cars.
yeah. ok. if you don't like the fact that people expect programmers to be the people programming, maybe you should be in a different field.
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As others have pointed out, Tucows is headquartered in Canada and they do have physical offices in the US. IANAL but that leads me to believe they might fall under Federal court jurisdiction. Anyone care to confirm or deny?
D00dz! th4t$ s0 t3h SuXx0rz. t3h s0ny is just ripping off Nintendo now... (sorry got too lazy to keep w/ the 1337 speak)
Ok first off, my guess is no.
... you get the idea.
Why?
If you're running a Wii then the developers of Wii games will have a dev environment designed by Nintendo to run on their specific platform.
There are too many variables for designing Linux based games for PC's. Do you design for FC, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Slackware (yes please:), Mandriva,
No commercial developer that exists today wants to deal with that headache.
Second, hardware support. If you develop for Wii, you know all the *hardware* features that you can and cannot support. The poor support of 3D accelerators for Linux is well known. So again, in a market that wants to squeeze every ounce of processing power into the prettiest graphics, no one is going to deal with the hit or miss chance that someones hardware will even work with the game.
He did mention transparent backlighting, thus making it seem like the entire windshield is see through.
Have you seen some OLED demo videos? The substrate is clear with the used portions emitting light. Similar effect to the standard mirrored HUD.
I doubt the OP is suggesting we just mount a 24 inch standard LCD monitor to the dash to obstruct our view.
The government could be spending ~2 billion a *WEEK* on a neverending war on the otherside of the world while ignoring a natural disaster zone stretching for hundreds of miles affecting hundreds of thousands if not millions still, on its southern borders.
Oh wait...
Must... resist... "Uranus is a gas giant..." jokes
Anywhere people might congregate attracks liars, thieves and cheats...
The online world is no different than the real world. Look at security for huge sporting or other public events. Look at the joke our airports are.
If a lot of people are going to be spending time somewhere, online or real world, shader fucks will show up and try to screw shit up at some point.
Doesn't matter anyway, most shit "Made in the USA" is probably merely assembled here, with parts made in Taiwan, China and Korea.
Why opensource software isn't taking the world by storm? This may not be the most aggregious case of this sort of thing I've seen in OS history, but FFS this is just like politics in the real world, but worse. It's all about personal preferences since money isn't really involved like business.
Zune will probably never reach the heights of MySpace which is essentially free for all the minors that have made it so big. Mom and dad pay for the Internet. How many kids are going to afford a 300 dollar MySpace device? How many parents are going to buy their kids one when they probably already have a iPod?
Eye implants, ala Minority Report. Only instead of just targeting you with advertising when you go somewhere, they also dictate what digital media, books, magazines and lazer light shows you can view. If you paid your fee you can see for the day.
Sorry dude, but it's the same thing as "Guns don't kill, people kill." Video games don't cause any harm to unfortunate victims of a nut case who was f'd up in the first place. It's not Rockstar's fault this idiot was probably raised by crappy parents. It's like this all the time. Look at the kids who did the Columbine shooting. Their parents just thought they were quiet kids not getting into trouble. I bet dollars to donuts the parents didn't even CHECK to see what they were doing.
When some moron goes and kills people, unless there is a verifiable, born with it genetic defect like schizophrenia or half their frontal lobe missing, I can almost guarantee these people had bad parents. How do I know this? I come from a long history of hanging out with people like this. I use to know a lot of people that I would not be surprised to hear about on the news who went nuts. Their parents were hands off, let them do what they wanted and rarely kept an eye on them as kids. They get into weird crap and have no one telling them no or explaining to them the difference between fake and real (like mine did, don't get me wrong tho my 'rents had their faults too.)
We live in a country where parent's would rather have elected representatives pass laws telling the rest of us what we can and cannot do, see or hear so they don't have to worry about their kids getting into bad stuff and can let them run around like a bull in a China shop (or the grocery store, restaurant, bank, post office, shopping mall, i even knew someone who brought their kid to work on occassion and let them run around the office getting into people's cube's).
The Average Joe is a lazy, irresponsible shmuck who is indoctrinated with "Get married, have kids..." but aren't properly able to maintain either.
Hey Wal*Mart, why don't you ship back everything you put in your stores to boycott someone stealing your sales! Because a shit load of empty stores will certainly help you sell more product!
I know Wal*Mart probably sells 9 of 10 DVDs and CDs sold in the US, but whenever the entertainment industry realizes that in reality THEY'RE the ones that can make demands of Wal*Mart once they embrace digital downloads, I don't think Disney will be getting case loads of anything back.
At some point I'm sure most entertainment will be all digital, music, movies, even books and magazines will probably end up being nothing but 1's and 0's. Then Wal*Mart will be back to shoveling crappy trinkets and C-List celebrity clothing lines.
If they weren't busy being stupid, they'd launch Wal*Mart Online Store and sell downloads. But no using time and money to pitch a fit is way more profitable.
At first I was a bit dismayed with the 250 price. I don't have a buncha spendable cash like some, but after thinking about it, 250 still seems like a deal for a system that wants to try something this ambitious.
It's the kind of device that I think was designed the way products SHOULD be designed. Someone with an imagination said "What if...?" rather than a marketroid saying "We want to try and appeal to such and such a market so we're going to release products based on this data."
i hope they mean it's still too early to talk gameplay because marketing doesn't want to let anything slip yet. it's been 2 years since they announced the game. if it's still too early because they don't have anything designwise firmly in place, this game won't see the light of day anytime soon.
Except the art assets in Counter-Strike weren't just pulled from Half-Life. They were designed/made by the modder
This is still lame, but technically within MS's legal rights.
that's great. 3 big companies are required to turn over any records they have pertaining to me once every 12 months, but only at my request.
the law should require ANY company that keeps customers private information for any period to at least proactively make the customer aware, then divulge it at no expense to the customer.
its my data, they're retaining it for some purpose, usually financial gain. i should be informed, given a cut or the option to have them expunge it.
Great. Just what we need. A new generation that blames others and whines about unfair punishment I was hoping that mindset would die out, but i see they are just training the next reich
is it me or does anyone find it crazy that a corporation that was convicted of anti-competitive behavior in this country and abroad is allowed to be involved in projects that "shape" future generations.
come on like this wasn't the same situation when DVD was originally launched. would your PCI video card, 32MB SIMM P200MMX with a CD drive play DVDs back in the late 90s? no, it required an upgrade didn't it?
yeah i think HDCP is sh!t, but all that aside, it's not like new formats havent required upgrades before.
if you tow it behind your car and reach 88MPH it will time warp you back to the days of BETAMAX
the saddest part is this apparently shows that MS doesn't consider security to be a threat to their bottom line, product offerings or their OTHER corporate connections (re: enterprise users)
t'would be a new world if some rich VC's threw money into a pot that was used to build the "OS of the future" with an office suite that matched Office 2k3. if people migrated in hordes, MS would have to rethink where their priorities lie when it comes to patch releases.
of course it will never happen. *sigh*
Am I the only one that noticed that a company rep said they instituted this policy when they caught flack for possibly misrepresenting products to customers? Obviously the people doing the selling need a little more training (or perhaps this particular salesperson was utterly inept), but this sounds like a damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I've worked in sales for a cell company and you know honestly, it was difficult getting some (not ALL) of the elderly customers to understand what exactly they were wanting to sign up for. The most difficult ones had that "In my day...!" attitude and just didn't seem to have adapted to modern society.
And don't get me started on the ones that were being duped into signing up by vicious grandkids. I found out after the fact a couple of times when the grandchild would come in later asking why the phone was off when they'd rung up a huge bill.
I've been reading this forum on and off all day, when I realized... Bush is screwing the fucking pooch, but billions of citizens here, myself including, are letting him get away with it. Which of those two is the bigger fuck up?
My guess is, if you go back far enough, before they even got to the violent porn they were probably raised by shitty parents or they have a real mental defect. This ends up being merely and outlet for their fucked up behavior.
I however am not a head doctor. This has just been my experience in the world at large with people I've met. YMMV
i get sick of programmers that think everyone should know how to program. we should also all grow our own produce and raise animals instead of having grocery stores too I suppose? and learn to maintain our cars on our own. hell, by that rationale, we should be building our own cars.
yeah. ok. if you don't like the fact that people expect programmers to be the people programming, maybe you should be in a different field.