I was also happy with the fact that they didn't try to show the whole damn movie in 2 minutes, which seems to be the standard for most trailers these days.
That's because this is only a teaser. They'll have the two-minute "ruin the whole movie" version out later this year
No "And." it was literally: Service Games. Funny how many people think Sega was started in Japan.
And am I the only one who didn't understand what the Daily Radar piece had to do with the earlier Slashdot article? The first article had to do with a rumor Sega was creating a PC add-on that would play DC games, this article was about a new bundle containing a DC and a disk with a bunch of Genesis games on it...
Back when I programmed Macs for a living (ok, I didn't make enough to live off of...) one of the projects I was assigned to involved connecting up a voicemail modem/software piece to a database (4th Dimension). I remember distinctly that the thing could play the silly MacInTalk voices out over it and you could record stuff in it's propietary format.
the kicker: this was 1992! The thing ran on an SE/30! Surely this has hit the mainstream by now...:-)
While I agree the final name is a bit wordy, it's much more descriptive than the publisher's suggested title: Securing Your Applications -- no reference to VB or Cryptography.
Yeah, with the dreamcast having a year head-start. Sega's seen this before- The genesis was out far ahead of SNES, with a huge library. yet i'm willing to bet that there are more SNES units in homes than genesis units today.
I'm not sure that's true. I always thought Sega was generally seen as the victor of the 16-bit platform wars. Which made their rapid descent in the 32-bit wars so much more painful to them.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I don't believe any company has carried the lead from one generation of game console to the next. Generally the progression seen has been:
Atari 2600 (besting Colecovision and Intellivision)
Nintendo NES (Besting the Sega 8-bit system)
Sega Genesis (Besting the Nintendo SNES. Again, I'm going with popular opinion here... I had both consoles)
Sony Playstation (Besting the N64 and the Saturn)
For your post to be REALLY relevant, you'd be comparing the DC vs. PS2 RELEASE titles
I definitely disagree with this. Going into the holiday buying season, people should be more worried about the bang their buck can get them NOW than in some nebulous six to twelve month timeframe.
It will be interesting to see how Microsoft handles this with the XBox, who will have more influence on the developers? Microsoft or Sony?
Well, if early reports are to be believed (and that's all that exists for the xBox...) Microsoft will not be charging licensing fees for development on the xBox. While that doesn't prevent Sony from including PS2 only clauses in their contracts with developers, it does mean that developers won't have to sign aggreements with MS at all (disclaimer: I'm not an xbox developer, so I may have the licensing situation wrong:-)
Unfortunately, it degrades into a battle of who can hit forward and B the fastest when playing multiplayer (at least against my lamo friends who do nothing but use the same move over and over and over and overa again).
I had this problem as well, until I learned to sidestep them and combo their ass:-)
Seriously - Mr. Gore doesn't need a shred of help from Republicans to appear any more flawed and untrustworthy than he already appears.
And you come to this conclusion because you were present everytime Gore said one of the things the article is talking about, right? You didn't get a shred of your opinion because of, say, the newspapers or television, right?
The story is about the media, and how it has blindly swallowed and regurgitated soundbites from the RNC without bothering to check the facts even slightly. Whether this was about Gore or Bush it should be equally disturbing to anyone reading it. Major sources of news for the country are shown printing falsehoods repeatedly.
And you don't really think anyone with a right-wing bias is going to try to find this stuff out, do you?
The things you say are only true if you believe that Napster-like products are hurting sales.
Personally, I believe that napster-like products will increase the revenue stream that actually makes it to the artist. It reduces the power of the record companies.
you said:
You can obfuscate stuff all you want, but it will not stop someone that really wants to copy something from doing it. All you can do is make it a little harder for them to do.
he said:
When concerned about design cracking, keep in mind that the objective is not necessarily to incorporate state-of-the-art security that would protect Fort Knox. Your job is to come up with an approach that, at minimum, takes slightly longer to circumvent than the time beyond which the media's worth becomes negligible
you said:
As for legality it all depends on what they do exactly and where. If they grab your copyrighted 'code' and just clone it, then that is a copyright violation in many countries.
he said:
Having a bad day? Maybe you've just received word that a competitor (perhaps in a country whose copyright- and patent-protection laws and corresponding enforcement are less stringent than those in your abode)
From the article:
The baby, Adam Nash, was born in Englewood, Colo., on Aug. 29. Adam was conceived in a laboratory dish along with several other embryos, and genetic tests conducted a short time later showed that only his tissues matched those of his 6-year-old sister, Molly, who has a deadly blood disease.
The Nashes had been hoping to have more children but had decided against it because there was a one-in- four chance that the infant would have the same illness as Molly. Although the disease can be detected before birth and an affected fetus aborted, Mrs. Nash said, "I could not have done that." The preimplantation genetic diagnosis allowed the Nashes to select an embryo that did not have Fanconi anemia but shared Molly's tissue type.
What is the difference between conceiving an embryo the old fashioned way and aborting it after testing if it shown to carry a disease and conceiving several in a lab environment and discarding the ones not needed?
Lest you think this is flame-bait: I'm firmly pro-choice and I vote that way. I personally don't have a problem with either of the two scenarios I've presented above.
Yes, boys and girls, this is spam - unsolicited because neither the user or the people in his Outlook address book explicitly asked for it - the user just sent a change of address request, and it is commercial it nature.
I disagree. The program offers the ability to send the email and (if I read the article correctly) shows you what the content will be before you send it. True, you cannot change the content.
But compare this to the adverts at the bottom of every juno.com or hotmail or yahoo email message. They advertise a service, do not allow you to change the nature of that advertisement, and don't even offer you the ability to not send them.
By your definition, every piece of mail I recieve from a user of one of these services is spam.
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I suspect it is because "better is the enemy of good enough", as Jerry Pournelle says
I'm not really sure what Jerry Pournelle says, but I'm pretty sure the correct saying is "Best is the enemy of better." It's basically saying that because you tried to get something perfect, you ended up with nothing at all. Either way, doesn't really apply here - I think chording keyboards don't catch on because there is too much memorization required.
One of the reasons Microsoft is in the position it is in? It takes even the smallest threat seriously and tries to kill it. Sounds like this is no different.
No, it's not copyright infringement, because they are not trying to pass someone else's work off as their own. They are just choosing an amusing naming scheme for files.
Heh, tell that to Negativland (the group that named one of their albums "U2" and got sued out the wazoo over it)
These charges were brought by the FTC over a year ago, and most companies believe that nothing will come of the investigation.
To the large number of posters wondering why it took the FTC so long to get involved: it didn't. They just take their own sweet time deciding what to do about it.
You can find more info about these charges in the various prospectus and financial records of the publicly traded companies under investigation, one of which is mentioned in the blurb above: ValueAmerica, whom I used to work for.
I'm probably too late in posting this to get it read by enough people to make a difference, though:-)
All of those ramps, balls and bumpers are going to break or get stuck from time to time. Now think about this: You are an arcade operator. Your goal is to maximize your earnings.
I also remember reading somewhere that Williams/Midway recently said that they would be ceasing pinball production entirely. They tried to simplify the operators experience with their Pinball 2000 cabinet (one generic cabinet with easily swappable playfields and ROMS) but they only produced two of those (Attack from Mars and Episode 1).
Pinball 2000 was a MAJOR effort to simplify the design and increase the reliability of the pinball machine. It also had the controversial aspect of the video integration. As an owner of BOTH Pin2K machines I can say they were a complete success technically. The reports from operators were also very good, these machines were making money. The reason Williams shut down the pinball division had more to do with slot machines than pinball. It was hard to justify reviving a given market segment when they had a much stronger market segment they could simply expand.
One of the cooler aspects of Pin2K is that the playfields are swappable. Got a problem you can't fix? Remove the whole table from the machine and send it out for repair. Operators could also rotate their machine by simply swapping playfields and ROMS, much easier than moving the whole machine...
And I hear the third Pin2K was going to be stellar (design lead was Pat Lawlor, the guy resposible for Twilight Zone and Addam's Family)
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I was also happy with the fact that they didn't try to show the whole damn movie in 2 minutes, which seems to be the standard for most trailers these days.
:-)
That's because this is only a teaser. They'll have the two-minute "ruin the whole movie" version out later this year
like we don't know the story already anyway
Hey Eric,
:-)
Is it possible to get the stats on the current game difficulty settings? I'm thinking about ways of verifying the validity of high scores.
Yes, yes. I realize I could just pull the glass off my machine and rack up 1B, but where's the fun in that?
and how similar was the SW:E1 to the RFM? I've got one cabinet but both tables.
It's amazing because there's a CRT underneath the playfield so you can squirt new backgrounds into it whenever you want, among other things
ummm... the CRT is actually in the backbox. it just reflects onto the specially treated playfield glass.
heck, anyone who wants to know more about TMBG should probably take a gander at http://snafu.fooworld.org/people/kate/
no affiliation, I just found it looking for online videos of "Don't Let's Start"
No "And." it was literally: Service Games. Funny how many people think Sega was started in Japan.
And am I the only one who didn't understand what the Daily Radar piece had to do with the earlier Slashdot article? The first article had to do with a rumor Sega was creating a PC add-on that would play DC games, this article was about a new bundle containing a DC and a disk with a bunch of Genesis games on it...
Back when I programmed Macs for a living (ok, I didn't make enough to live off of...) one of the projects I was assigned to involved connecting up a voicemail modem/software piece to a database (4th Dimension). I remember distinctly that the thing could play the silly MacInTalk voices out over it and you could record stuff in it's propietary format.
:-)
the kicker: this was 1992! The thing ran on an SE/30! Surely this has hit the mainstream by now...
A friend of mine wrote the following book Crytography for Visual Basic: A Programmer's Guide to the Microsoft CryptoAPI and got into a fight with his publisher over the name of the book.
While I agree the final name is a bit wordy, it's much more descriptive than the publisher's suggested title: Securing Your Applications -- no reference to VB or Cryptography.
Has anyone else noticed the pop-up window contest advertisement when they load this discussion?
That's bad, isn't it?
Yeah, with the dreamcast having a year head-start. Sega's seen this before- The genesis was out far ahead of SNES, with a huge library. yet i'm willing to bet that there are more SNES units in homes than genesis units today.
I'm not sure that's true. I always thought Sega was generally seen as the victor of the 16-bit platform wars. Which made their rapid descent in the 32-bit wars so much more painful to them.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I don't believe any company has carried the lead from one generation of game console to the next. Generally the progression seen has been:
Atari 2600 (besting Colecovision and Intellivision)
Nintendo NES (Besting the Sega 8-bit system)
Sega Genesis (Besting the Nintendo SNES. Again, I'm going with popular opinion here... I had both consoles)
Sony Playstation (Besting the N64 and the Saturn)
For your post to be REALLY relevant, you'd be comparing the DC vs. PS2 RELEASE titles
I definitely disagree with this. Going into the holiday buying season, people should be more worried about the bang their buck can get them NOW than in some nebulous six to twelve month timeframe.
It will be interesting to see how Microsoft handles this with the XBox, who will have more influence on the developers? Microsoft or Sony?
:-)
Well, if early reports are to be believed (and that's all that exists for the xBox...) Microsoft will not be charging licensing fees for development on the xBox. While that doesn't prevent Sony from including PS2 only clauses in their contracts with developers, it does mean that developers won't have to sign aggreements with MS at all (disclaimer: I'm not an xbox developer, so I may have the licensing situation wrong
Unfortunately, it degrades into a battle of who can hit forward and B the fastest when playing multiplayer (at least against my lamo friends who do nothing but use the same move over and over and over and overa again).
:-)
I had this problem as well, until I learned to sidestep them and combo their ass
Seriously - Mr. Gore doesn't need a shred of help from Republicans to appear any more flawed and untrustworthy than he already appears.
And you come to this conclusion because you were present everytime Gore said one of the things the article is talking about, right? You didn't get a shred of your opinion because of, say, the newspapers or television, right?
The story is about the media, and how it has blindly swallowed and regurgitated soundbites from the RNC without bothering to check the facts even slightly. Whether this was about Gore or Bush it should be equally disturbing to anyone reading it. Major sources of news for the country are shown printing falsehoods repeatedly.
And you don't really think anyone with a right-wing bias is going to try to find this stuff out, do you?
To paraphrase Bill Mahr:
"And by that, I mean no disrepect to actual whores."
The things you say are only true if you believe that Napster-like products are hurting sales.
Personally, I believe that napster-like products will increase the revenue stream that actually makes it to the artist. It reduces the power of the record companies.
you said:
You can obfuscate stuff all you want, but it will not stop someone that really wants to copy something from doing it. All you can do is make it a little harder for them to do.
he said:
When concerned about design cracking, keep in mind that the objective is not necessarily to incorporate state-of-the-art security that would protect Fort Knox. Your job is to come up with an approach that, at minimum, takes slightly longer to circumvent than the time beyond which the media's worth becomes negligible
you said:
As for legality it all depends on what they do exactly and where.
If they grab your copyrighted 'code' and just clone it, then that is a copyright violation in many countries.
he said:
Having a bad day? Maybe you've just received word that a competitor (perhaps in a country whose copyright- and patent-protection laws and corresponding enforcement are less stringent than those in your abode)
sheesh.
What the hell are you talking about?
Your comment is akin to complaining that an article dealing with 3D game programming techniques should consider the value of 2D isometric games.
He describes techniques to use if you want to do these things, you don't have to use these ideas to protect your intellectual property.
I think this is another article that is so filled with slashdot "hotwords" that the forum might as well not exist.
http://slate.msn.com/diary/00-09-2 5/d iary.asp
From the article:
The baby, Adam Nash, was born in Englewood, Colo., on Aug. 29. Adam was conceived in a laboratory dish along with several other embryos, and genetic tests conducted a short time later showed that only his tissues matched those of his 6-year-old sister, Molly, who has a deadly blood disease.
The Nashes had been hoping to have more children but had decided against it because there was a one-in- four chance that the infant would have the same illness as Molly. Although the disease can be detected before birth and an affected fetus aborted, Mrs. Nash said, "I could not have done that." The preimplantation genetic diagnosis allowed the Nashes to select an embryo that did not have Fanconi anemia but shared Molly's tissue type.
What is the difference between conceiving an embryo the old fashioned way and aborting it after testing if it shown to carry a disease and conceiving several in a lab environment and discarding the ones not needed?
Lest you think this is flame-bait: I'm firmly pro-choice and I vote that way. I personally don't have a problem with either of the two scenarios I've presented above.
Yes, boys and girls, this is spam - unsolicited because neither the user or the people in his Outlook address book explicitly asked for it - the user just sent a change of address request, and it is commercial it nature.
I disagree. The program offers the ability to send the email and (if I read the article correctly) shows you what the content will be before you send it. True, you cannot change the content.
But compare this to the adverts at the bottom of every juno.com or hotmail or yahoo email message. They advertise a service, do not allow you to change the nature of that advertisement, and don't even offer you the ability to not send them.
By your definition, every piece of mail I recieve from a user of one of these services is spam.
I suspect it is because "better is the enemy of good enough", as Jerry Pournelle says
I'm not really sure what Jerry Pournelle says, but I'm pretty sure the correct saying is "Best is the enemy of better." It's basically saying that because you tried to get something perfect, you ended up with nothing at all. Either way, doesn't really apply here - I think chording keyboards don't catch on because there is too much memorization required.
One of the reasons Microsoft is in the position it is in? It takes even the smallest threat seriously and tries to kill it. Sounds like this is no different.
No, it's not copyright infringement, because they are not trying to pass someone else's work off as their own. They are just choosing an amusing naming scheme for files.
Heh, tell that to Negativland (the group that named one of their albums "U2" and got sued out the wazoo over it)
These charges were brought by the FTC over a year ago, and most companies believe that nothing will come of the investigation.
:-)
To the large number of posters wondering why it took the FTC so long to get involved: it didn't. They just take their own sweet time deciding what to do about it.
You can find more info about these charges in the various prospectus and financial records of the publicly traded companies under investigation, one of which is mentioned in the blurb above: ValueAmerica, whom I used to work for.
I'm probably too late in posting this to get it read by enough people to make a difference, though
All of those ramps, balls and bumpers are going to break or get stuck from time to time. Now think about this: You are an arcade operator. Your goal is to maximize your earnings.
I also remember reading somewhere that Williams/Midway recently said that they would be ceasing pinball production entirely. They tried to simplify the operators experience with their Pinball 2000 cabinet (one generic cabinet with easily swappable playfields and ROMS) but they only produced two of those (Attack from Mars and Episode 1).
Pinball 2000 was a MAJOR effort to simplify the design and increase the reliability of the pinball machine. It also had the controversial aspect of the video integration. As an owner of BOTH Pin2K machines I can say they were a complete success technically. The reports from operators were also very good, these machines were making money. The reason Williams shut down the pinball division had more to do with slot machines than pinball. It was hard to justify reviving a given market segment when they had a much stronger market segment they could simply expand.
One of the cooler aspects of Pin2K is that the playfields are swappable. Got a problem you can't fix? Remove the whole table from the machine and send it out for repair. Operators could also rotate their machine by simply swapping playfields and ROMS, much easier than moving the whole machine...
And I hear the third Pin2K was going to be stellar (design lead was Pat Lawlor, the guy resposible for Twilight Zone and Addam's Family)
Sucks to hear about Williams, cool to hear Sega's still doin' 'em. Howsabout Bally?
Williams acquired the pinball division of Bally sometime in the late eighties (iirc).
The difference between a Bally pin and a Williams pin after 1991 was described thusly by a former Williams employee:
"First they make a Williams, then they make a Bally, then they repeat."