No, actually, it means that any idea or design owned by a manufacturer in one country is a patent that can't be enforced in another. It's not THAT hard to reverse engineer stuff. Actually, it is, when, as you suggested in another post, nobody travels outside the US and the internet is blocked off at the borders, AND you don't import anything. In fact, in your model you wouldn't even KNOW of the new idea or design. The US could just as well be in another galaxy. In some cases this shouldn't matter much, in other cases it could literally mean life or death.
Yeah, OK, Sony may have lied in the past. But I really do think that they mean it when they say that UMD is here to stay. Only thing is : "Here" is their warehouse.
That's unmitigated crap. The DRM on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is NO WORSE than CSS on DVDs.
So (and I really don't know this, please inform me) it's not true that they can disable hacked licence keys (or whatever it was)? It would be crap if you just bought a new disk, and when you put it in your player, your player turns into a paperweight, just because some hackers found out the key that the manufacturer of your player used.
Nobody has seen "tracking problems" in the past 15 years, and normal "tape degradation" barely affects resolution at all...
No, you haven't seen it. You probably haven't been in a small video-rental in the past 15 years (and rented a VHS tape - to be fair, I haven't rented one either in the last 15 months, but those last videos had some serious issues). And I probably wasn't clear about this, but I wasn't talking about how tape degradation affected resolution but how it affected image quality.
Well then, you must be extremely excited about Blu-ray, since you can go from your "corrupt image" scratched DVD, to a "6x resolution [great] image".
Yes. I'm pissing my pants from excitement as I write this. There ought to be a law against this much excitement.
Yes, well that puts you in a tiny minority, who's purchasing habits are utterly irrelevant. When EVERYONE ELSE buys into highdef, you'll eventually get dragged along (just like those people who find DVDs don't warrant an upgrade from VHS tapes).
Yeah. Thing is, there are still people using VHS and not having a DVD player. I know a few. And I myself still occasionally record stuff on VHS. In long-play. I just bought a new TV last year. I'll try to contact you when I buy a new one in ten, fifteen years (a TV is not just for xmas, it's for life). If I buy a new TV, that is.
I presume that the release of the PS3 will lessen the sales of other consoles. So, the big question is : Will the PS3 be the number one selling console in Japan this week? Or will Nintendos winning streak remain unbroken? That's putting things in perspective. Sony has a chance to be number one for one week, but only if their "totally sold-out PS3 on release day" causes people to buy less DS lites than usual.
Right... They want us to give up our unencrypted, unprotected VHS tapes, in favor of DVDs.
Did you read the GPs first sentence? I'll repeat it for you:"The industry has transitioned from "Just look at all the great things you can do with technology!!!!" to "Oh, crap. People can do way too many things with technology.""
VHS to DVD was still "Just look at all the great things you can do with technology!!!!", while the new formats are "Oh, crap. People can do way too many things with technology."
And VHS to DVD offered far more advantages than DVD to HD-DVD/Blu-ray. Let's look at image quality. Technically DVD resolution is only 2x VHS. But when you look at how much image corruption VHS can have (tracking problems, tape degradation...), the difference is vast. The difference from "corrupt image to good image" always outweighs the difference from "good image to 6x resolution good image".
The next improvement DVD gave us is instant access. Instantly go to any chapter you want. You don't have to rewind DVDs. That's HUGE.
Then there's the physical size of the medium. I can easily take 10 DVDs, put them in my jacket (without the DVD case of course) and go to a friend with them. Try that with VHS.
So the jump (or should I say step) from DVD to HD-DVD/Blu-ray will never compare to the HUGE jump from VHS to DVD.
Also, for the new formats you need HDTV for it to make any difference at all (nobody's going to buy the players for "scratch-proof disks","advanced codecs" and "advanced menu system" alone). Well, to me, what they're broadcasting doesn't warrant the upgrade from normal TV to HDTV. Crap in HD is still crap. So buying a HDTV only for the movies I buy isn't worth it. Besides, the movies I've got on DVD would stay on DVD. I wouldn't buy the upgraded versions. So buying a HDTV only for the new movies I buy is definitely not worth it. And for me, there hasn't been anything new worth viewing for a while now, so there's even less reason for me to upgrade to HDTV. So there's no reason for me to ever upgrade to HD-DVD/Blu-ray.
Not anyone. You have to jump through some hoops before Nintendo accepts your money. More information can be found at http://warioworld.com/ (no, it's not a gamesite; it's the Nintendo Software Development Support Group Home Page)
A quick copy&paste from their "Become a Licensee" page : If, after a review of the appropriate summary, you remain interested in becoming a Nintendo licensee, please forward the following non-proprietary information to Nintendo:
1) A detailed description of your company, including a summary of your software development experience, financial resources and stability and your industry leadership. This information should be in the form of a prospectus, business plan or summary statement;
2) A detailed introduction to your key personnel and developers setting forth any technical, managerial or sales experience that may be relevant;
3) A marketing plan for your proposed products, including targeted distribution channels, advertising commitments, consumer service resources, merchandising, etc.;
4) Any market study information on consumer demand for your proposed product which you may be relying on;
5) A written description of your proposed software product;
6) A complete summary and at least three samples of software programs you have previously developed and upon which you rely for establishing your technical know-how.
Nintendo will then undertake to make a determination if your qualifications would support your selection as an authorized licensee. Because Nintendo licensees are provided with highly proprietary information and because our licensees must be able to successfully market and support high quality product to a broad base of Nintendo product users throughout the United States, Canada and South America, Nintendo exercises a high level of care in its appointment of its licensees. If we elect to proceed, we will prepare a formal license agreement which will be forwarded to you for your review. After the mutual execution of an Agreement, Nintendo will provide you with software development specifications, and support.
If you just check which players are supported by the rockbox firmware, and then choose a player according to your budget, you won't be disappointed. I own an iriver H320, which supported OGG out of the box (which was the reason I bought it). It was nice enough as it was, but now that I installed rockbox, I never want to go back to the original firmware. But if you don't want to risk bricking your mp3 player (although the risk was almost non-existant with my H320), Cowon is also a good brand for sanely priced OGG players.
A fact about French copyright law (as Verne was French) : as that Jules Verne novel was written in 1863 and first published in 1994, you'd think that the first time it was published it was already in the public domain, but it isn't. In the case of posthumous works, copyright lasts always until 70 years after the death of the author. But if those works are revealed only after this lapse of time, the time of protection falls at 25 years from January 1 of the year it was published.
This hasn't been said in this article, but there are some rules about adding third party characters : 1. The character must have appeared on a Nintendo console in the past. 2. Characters from manga/anime/cartoons that where made into a game are excluded (so no dragonball, xmen or spongebob characters for example, but sonic, which was a game character before he got his cartoon may be included).
Just slap MAME on the machine and play Jail Break:D
Re:I read it - sounds interesting - but come on...
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Does this mean that my "planet", which I spent 2 months building after I spent 3 months evolving my race, can be wiped out by an evil player who simply wants to nuke everything in site? I hope I have time to spend 2 months on defense systems...
From what I've heard about the game, the content you make gets shared with every player, but you're still in your own, isolated universe. There's no interaction with other players other than the creatures and stuff you create. And your whole universe is always on the same level (and/or lower?) of evolution as you are. So when you're still a single-celled organism, you won't have to worry about UFO-attacks.
Here, read this : "On a global basis, by the end of 2010 the number of HD ready households will reach 174m or 22% of TV households. The figure will be 59% in the US, 66% in Japan and 30% in Western Europe."
If these figures come true, I think Nintendo can afford to hold off HD until their next console.
I just have to correct a mistake here : Dune 2 was NOT a sequel. Westwood never made a Dune game before that game. The original Dune game was made by Cryo Interactive. And it's a totally different game. No-one in their right mind would (after seeing both games) call Dune 2 a sequel. I think that the only reason that it was called Dune 2 was that both games where published by Virgin, and they wanted to make sure people didn't think those two games were the same.
So they might have been named sequentially, but it's not a sequel.
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He's the only one sober enough to submit stories.
Except there was the Humble Origin Bundle : http://blog.humblebundle.com/p... (there was even a second Origin bundle)
And the Humble THQ Bundle : http://blog.humblebundle.com/p...
... on a par with "The N word" ...
NetBSD?
Well, that's Sony for you : "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."
So that's why he didn't croak !
So closed source is so much better? Go back to playing Duke Nukem Forever then.
Yeah, OK, Sony may have lied in the past.
But I really do think that they mean it when they say that UMD is here to stay.
Only thing is : "Here" is their warehouse.
... Theo De Raadt says that the Chinese are INHUMAN.
*ducks*
So (and I really don't know this, please inform me) it's not true that they can disable hacked licence keys (or whatever it was)? It would be crap if you just bought a new disk, and when you put it in your player, your player turns into a paperweight, just because some hackers found out the key that the manufacturer of your player used.
No, you haven't seen it. You probably haven't been in a small video-rental in the past 15 years (and rented a VHS tape - to be fair, I haven't rented one either in the last 15 months, but those last videos had some serious issues). And I probably wasn't clear about this, but I wasn't talking about how tape degradation affected resolution but how it affected image quality.
Yes. I'm pissing my pants from excitement as I write this. There ought to be a law against this much excitement.
Yeah. Thing is, there are still people using VHS and not having a DVD player. I know a few. And I myself still occasionally record stuff on VHS. In long-play.
I just bought a new TV last year. I'll try to contact you when I buy a new one in ten, fifteen years (a TV is not just for xmas, it's for life). If I buy a new TV, that is.
I presume that the release of the PS3 will lessen the sales of other consoles. So, the big question is : Will the PS3 be the number one selling console in Japan this week? Or will Nintendos winning streak remain unbroken?
That's putting things in perspective. Sony has a chance to be number one for one week, but only if their "totally sold-out PS3 on release day" causes people to buy less DS lites than usual.
Did you read the GPs first sentence? I'll repeat it for you
VHS to DVD was still "Just look at all the great things you can do with technology!!!!", while the new formats are "Oh, crap. People can do way too many things with technology."
And VHS to DVD offered far more advantages than DVD to HD-DVD/Blu-ray. Let's look at image quality. Technically DVD resolution is only 2x VHS. But when you look at how much image corruption VHS can have (tracking problems, tape degradation
The next improvement DVD gave us is instant access. Instantly go to any chapter you want. You don't have to rewind DVDs. That's HUGE.
Then there's the physical size of the medium. I can easily take 10 DVDs, put them in my jacket (without the DVD case of course) and go to a friend with them. Try that with VHS.
So the jump (or should I say step) from DVD to HD-DVD/Blu-ray will never compare to the HUGE jump from VHS to DVD.
Also, for the new formats you need HDTV for it to make any difference at all (nobody's going to buy the players for "scratch-proof disks","advanced codecs" and "advanced menu system" alone). Well, to me, what they're broadcasting doesn't warrant the upgrade from normal TV to HDTV. Crap in HD is still crap. So buying a HDTV only for the movies I buy isn't worth it. Besides, the movies I've got on DVD would stay on DVD. I wouldn't buy the upgraded versions. So buying a HDTV only for the new movies I buy is definitely not worth it. And for me, there hasn't been anything new worth viewing for a while now, so there's even less reason for me to upgrade to HDTV.
So there's no reason for me to ever upgrade to HD-DVD/Blu-ray.
Then what about this screen?
It's from this video
I'd guess that botox would count as an illegal substance at your place?
Not anyone. You have to jump through some hoops before Nintendo accepts your money.
More information can be found at http://warioworld.com/
(no, it's not a gamesite; it's the Nintendo Software Development Support Group Home Page)
A quick copy&paste from their "Become a Licensee" page :
If, after a review of the appropriate summary, you remain interested in becoming a Nintendo licensee, please forward the following non-proprietary information to Nintendo:
1) A detailed description of your company, including a summary of your software development experience, financial resources and stability and your industry leadership. This information should be in the form of a prospectus, business plan or summary statement;
2) A detailed introduction to your key personnel and developers setting forth any technical, managerial or sales experience that may be relevant;
3) A marketing plan for your proposed products, including targeted distribution channels, advertising commitments, consumer service resources, merchandising, etc.;
4) Any market study information on consumer demand for your proposed product which you may be relying on;
5) A written description of your proposed software product;
6) A complete summary and at least three samples of software programs you have previously developed and upon which you rely for establishing your technical know-how.
Nintendo will then undertake to make a determination if your qualifications would support your selection as an authorized licensee. Because Nintendo licensees are provided with highly proprietary information and because our licensees must be able to successfully market and support high quality product to a broad base of Nintendo product users throughout the United States, Canada and South America, Nintendo exercises a high level of care in its appointment of its licensees. If we elect to proceed, we will prepare a formal license agreement which will be forwarded to you for your review. After the mutual execution of an Agreement, Nintendo will provide you with software development specifications, and support.
If you just check which players are supported by the rockbox firmware, and then choose a player according to your budget, you won't be disappointed.
I own an iriver H320, which supported OGG out of the box (which was the reason I bought it). It was nice enough as it was, but now that I installed rockbox, I never want to go back to the original firmware.
But if you don't want to risk bricking your mp3 player (although the risk was almost non-existant with my H320), Cowon is also a good brand for sanely priced OGG players.
A fact about French copyright law (as Verne was French) : as that Jules Verne novel was written in 1863 and first published in 1994, you'd think that the first time it was published it was already in the public domain, but it isn't.
In the case of posthumous works, copyright lasts always until 70 years after the death of the author. But if those works are revealed only after this lapse of time, the time of protection falls at 25 years from January 1 of the year it was published.
This hasn't been said in this article, but there are some rules about adding third party characters :
1. The character must have appeared on a Nintendo console in the past.
2. Characters from manga/anime/cartoons that where made into a game are excluded (so no dragonball, xmen or spongebob characters for example, but sonic, which was a game character before he got his cartoon may be included).
All your moonbase alpha are belongs to space:1999.
It's even apropriate : the premise of the series was that the moon was no longer in orbit around earth.
Just slap MAME on the machine and play Jail Break :D
From what I've heard about the game, the content you make gets shared with every player, but you're still in your own, isolated universe. There's no interaction with other players other than the creatures and stuff you create. And your whole universe is always on the same level (and/or lower?) of evolution as you are. So when you're still a single-celled organism, you won't have to worry about UFO-attacks.
And together with Franz he will pump YOU up !!!
Here, read this : "On a global basis, by the end of 2010 the number of HD ready households will reach 174m or 22% of TV households. The figure will be 59% in the US, 66% in Japan and 30% in Western Europe."
If these figures come true, I think Nintendo can afford to hold off HD until their next console.
If you can believe The Inquirer and Variety, the PS3 is delayed until the end of the year because of "a hold-up with chips crucial to the success of the console's Blu-ray functions".o ryid=18&cs=1&s=h&p=0
See http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30108
or http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117939258?categ
Grand Theft Auto 3 was a sequel, as was Dune 2.
I just have to correct a mistake here :
Dune 2 was NOT a sequel. Westwood never made a Dune game before that game. The original Dune game was made by Cryo Interactive. And it's a totally different game. No-one in their right mind would (after seeing both games) call Dune 2 a sequel.
I think that the only reason that it was called Dune 2 was that both games where published by Virgin, and they wanted to make sure people didn't think those two games were the same.
So they might have been named sequentially, but it's not a sequel.