There really are both sides to this issue. From the press release linked it sounds as it they want to offer video on demand and other services over the DSL line. This is almost identical to what comcast does with its video on demand. It run through a special channel that doesn't tie up your internet, and arrived much faster than regular internet video on demand. I see nothing wrong with DSL providers doing the exact same thing. ON THE OTHER HAND. If like google fears the DSL providers want to be able to charge random websites for faster access to their customers.. There is a definate conflict of interest, though I can't see anything obviously illigal about this idea.
You really really should try TiVo, it matched with your viewing habits perfectly. Personally I have the classic DirecTV Tivo and its a thing of wonder at only 5.99 a month. Unfortunatly they have recently replaced it with a Tivo knockoff, and you can't get TiVo through them anymore.:(
And of course I still havn't figure out. Is the upgrade from regular 2003 free or is this going to cost you a new base license or new base and cals? Whats the story I can't find any info.
Nothing wrong with using PR for such purposes. If the automakers went to congress to outlaw used car sales, there would be a serious revolt. Unfortunatly game players can't get off their chairs..:)
People are still making games for midrange computers and cellphones. As long as there is a market games will be made. There is a drastic demographic difference between these systems so no don't expect many of the high end games to be cross ported. But do expect many developers to make some very interesting games aimed at the Nintendo demographics made especially for the revolution controller.
Personally from the xbox 360 being played. It appears as though many games developers really stretched to come up with hidef content. Realistically it will be a rare game that actually needs the hidef resolution and can't simply be displayed in a lower resolution. I do worry though if Revolution will have enough power to handle high end AI and physics simulations.
In a system without a save functions files would be deeply hidden and retrieved by the application based on search criteria. For many people a recent documents list is enough for their daily work. Even if you wanted file access you could store the main file in the documents folder and the changes history in a hidden folder. Tarring them as other poster said is silly as it would make sending to others more difficult unless there was a special interface for it.
On that note do why many applications include change histories in the main file. Autosaves to a symolic file location as well as histories in another file (you should be able to pre as to how far back you want to go in time) would be perfect. Then you can send the file to anyone and no have to worry about such issues. Obviously in a collaprative environment you might want to share histories but thats not so hard.
But this is the essence of phyics. Observation of things that don't make sense, and figuring out how it happends to create new physics models.
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Yea, but what if the parent is Satanic or a Scientologist even, do we really want them teaching morality!:)
Yea its flame bait, though for a bit of fact I know someone who used to be in Scientology who states that a big part of their teaching is that morality is whatever gets the best result for you and you should strive to bend the rules as much as possible to succeed.
As a parent I agree with you entirly. Though I do tend to have frequent problems with my childs friends exposing them to unappropriate content (I'm sorry but I don't think a 7 year old should be watching South Park.. call me ultraconservative if you wish.. though he first season should be watched by all!:)
Anyways, as a realist I understand that this isn't the governments job, though it is kinda depressing when I have to explain to my kid that she can't play at so in sos house because their parents don't understand the idea of limits.
Hey you stole my post.. Thats alright I'll forgive you!
Also it would be cool if free games could be left at your friends house when you visit (they did hint at free games being available) Even better allow someone to purchase and keep a copy of a non free game. Definatly marketing potential there, they man check out this game I bought.. Wow I want a copy.. Well its only 5 bucks and you don't even have to waste the time to download it.
On that same vein even if the controller has a small amount of flash it could store your DRM info so that if you bought a game you can play it anywhere just redownload it.
Controller can carry games, like those 5-in-1 game kits that plug directly into the TV.
This is the one I'm betting on, with all personal info included as well. Remember you can download old games into the revolution. What if you can put them and your saved game status and other stuff with you. So you just take your controller with you to your friends house and you can share the game (obviously with some DRM on the non-free games so that game won't stay at your friends house). People will take these controller around with them instead of just leaving them at home, the controller itself will be a status symbol.
Just felt the desire to comment on the theoretics. Regarding Themed World, you simply wouldn't connect them, obviously one would only want to connect world that have similar rules. Sure I guess you could setup portals to other worlds more as a universal login/registration system. But gamestates would definatly need to be completly seperate per conceptual world. Think of it this way, say I travel to another country, I can probably bring with me something of value to trade with, but say I slip into a parrellel dimention not only would my gold be worthless but I could cheat and take thousands of pink tulips (their trade standard) with me.
Same with Security if you decided to allow untrusted servers, to connect you could theoretially send all their data with them when they leave, it would then be up to that server to decide if that data was worth something. Then when you returned said data can be accepted or dumped by you in which you would return them to their previous state.
You could even then setup an escrow service in which items of value can be traded into a central value store then reused in another service, any value at the new world would soly depend upon its creators and what it felt this central value system was worth.
Theft has to remain a crime for society to function in any reasonable sense. If I murder you I have stolen you from your family as they will be out your income. Sure insurance will help, but life insurance companies would disapear if murder was legal. How bought a murder responsibility act, you can murder or maim someone if they tick you off, but you become responsible for the upkeep of their family untill you can find a suitable replacement! Ahh the good ol days.
I can slap a brand new $500 GPU into my 1Ghz athlon, and you know what, it still won't play most new games very well. The CPU and memory do tell you something about the graphical abilities as you have a theoretical cap at what graphics can be done with a certain CPU/memory. Unless of course they are going with some very new undisclosed graphics processor that works in a vastly different manor than previous generations.
As article and other poster suggested you can get rid of the turrent and use electro magnets on the ground that shift position, but then again I can use electromagnets that shirt position to pull the dang thing around anyways:)
I think the really hard part on a microscopic scale would be linking the wheels together.
Most likly MS will require publishers make HD-DVD and regular DVD versions, some PC game manufactures do this even now. But yes.. your right, it is stupid.
Hu? Its known that MS plans to include HD-DVD in the future, an it WON'T be incompatible with existing DVDs. Heck my DVD player now can play CDs DVD DVD-DL etc. As long as the disc sizes are the same all future CD sized disk will be backcompatible, at worst you have to add a second laser at best simply different software.
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Yes, but they generally use electricity to accomplish their goals. This means they can use batteries or nuclear generators or solar or whatever.
Its called the uncanny valley I believe. Meaning as things look more and more realistic it starts to turn one off untill complete realism is found.
There really are both sides to this issue. From the press release linked it sounds as it they want to offer video on demand and other services over the DSL line. This is almost identical to what comcast does with its video on demand. It run through a special channel that doesn't tie up your internet, and arrived much faster than regular internet video on demand. I see nothing wrong with DSL providers doing the exact same thing. ON THE OTHER HAND. If like google fears the DSL providers want to be able to charge random websites for faster access to their customers.. There is a definate conflict of interest, though I can't see anything obviously illigal about this idea.
You really really should try TiVo, it matched with your viewing habits perfectly. Personally I have the classic DirecTV Tivo and its a thing of wonder at only 5.99 a month. Unfortunatly they have recently replaced it with a Tivo knockoff, and you can't get TiVo through them anymore. :(
It seems like this upgrade will cost you a new license. Hopefully the Cals upgrade for free.. Anyone with any information?
And of course I still havn't figure out. Is the upgrade from regular 2003 free or is this going to cost you a new base license or new base and cals? Whats the story I can't find any info.
Nothing wrong with using PR for such purposes. If the automakers went to congress to outlaw used car sales, there would be a serious revolt. Unfortunatly game players can't get off their chairs.. :)
People are still making games for midrange computers and cellphones. As long as there is a market games will be made. There is a drastic demographic difference between these systems so no don't expect many of the high end games to be cross ported. But do expect many developers to make some very interesting games aimed at the Nintendo demographics made especially for the revolution controller.
Personally from the xbox 360 being played. It appears as though many games developers really stretched to come up with hidef content. Realistically it will be a rare game that actually needs the hidef resolution and can't simply be displayed in a lower resolution. I do worry though if Revolution will have enough power to handle high end AI and physics simulations.
In a system without a save functions files would be deeply hidden and retrieved by the application based on search criteria. For many people a recent documents list is enough for their daily work. Even if you wanted file access you could store the main file in the documents folder and the changes history in a hidden folder. Tarring them as other poster said is silly as it would make sending to others more difficult unless there was a special interface for it.
On that note do why many applications include change histories in the main file. Autosaves to a symolic file location as well as histories in another file (you should be able to pre as to how far back you want to go in time) would be perfect. Then you can send the file to anyone and no have to worry about such issues. Obviously in a collaprative environment you might want to share histories but thats not so hard.
But this is the essence of phyics. Observation of things that don't make sense, and figuring out how it happends to create new physics models.
Yea, but what if the parent is Satanic or a Scientologist even, do we really want them teaching morality! :)
Yea its flame bait, though for a bit of fact I know someone who used to be in Scientology who states that a big part of their teaching is that morality is whatever gets the best result for you and you should strive to bend the rules as much as possible to succeed.
As a parent I agree with you entirly. Though I do tend to have frequent problems with my childs friends exposing them to unappropriate content (I'm sorry but I don't think a 7 year old should be watching South Park.. call me ultraconservative if you wish.. though he first season should be watched by all! :)
Anyways, as a realist I understand that this isn't the governments job, though it is kinda depressing when I have to explain to my kid that she can't play at so in sos house because their parents don't understand the idea of limits.
Hey you stole my post.. Thats alright I'll forgive you!
Also it would be cool if free games could be left at your friends house when you visit (they did hint at free games being available) Even better allow someone to purchase and keep a copy of a non free game. Definatly marketing potential there, they man check out this game I bought.. Wow I want a copy.. Well its only 5 bucks and you don't even have to waste the time to download it.
On that same vein even if the controller has a small amount of flash it could store your DRM info so that if you bought a game you can play it anywhere just redownload it.
Controller can carry games, like those 5-in-1 game kits that plug directly into the TV.
This is the one I'm betting on, with all personal info included as well.
Remember you can download old games into the revolution. What if you can put them and your saved game status and other stuff with you. So you just take your controller with you to your friends house and you can share the game (obviously with some DRM on the non-free games so that game won't stay at your friends house). People will take these controller around with them instead of just leaving them at home, the controller itself will be a status symbol.
Thats it! DDR mat included in the controller, it just folds out... Umm oh nevermind.
Just felt the desire to comment on the theoretics. Regarding Themed World, you simply wouldn't connect them, obviously one would only want to connect world that have similar rules. Sure I guess you could setup portals to other worlds more as a universal login/registration system. But gamestates would definatly need to be completly seperate per conceptual world. Think of it this way, say I travel to another country, I can probably bring with me something of value to trade with, but say I slip into a parrellel dimention not only would my gold be worthless but I could cheat and take thousands of pink tulips (their trade standard) with me.
Same with Security if you decided to allow untrusted servers, to connect you could theoretially send all their data with them when they leave, it would then be up to that server to decide if that data was worth something. Then when you returned said data can be accepted or dumped by you in which you would return them to their previous state.
You could even then setup an escrow service in which items of value can be traded into a central value store then reused in another service, any value at the new world would soly depend upon its creators and what it felt this central value system was worth.
http://ptth.net/squish/ WTF is that? Sorry but I'm not going to run any unsigned java code. Can anyone vounch for this?
Theft has to remain a crime for society to function in any reasonable sense. If I murder you I have stolen you from your family as they will be out your income. Sure insurance will help, but life insurance companies would disapear if murder was legal.
How bought a murder responsibility act, you can murder or maim someone if they tick you off, but you become responsible for the upkeep of their family untill you can find a suitable replacement! Ahh the good ol days.
I can slap a brand new $500 GPU into my 1Ghz athlon, and you know what, it still won't play most new games very well. The CPU and memory do tell you something about the graphical abilities as you have a theoretical cap at what graphics can be done with a certain CPU/memory. Unless of course they are going with some very new undisclosed graphics processor that works in a vastly different manor than previous generations.
As article and other poster suggested you can get rid of the turrent and use electro magnets on the ground that shift position, but then again I can use electromagnets that shirt position to pull the dang thing around anyways :)
I think the really hard part on a microscopic scale would be linking the wheels together.
Most likly MS will require publishers make HD-DVD and regular DVD versions, some PC game manufactures do this even now. But yes.. your right, it is stupid.
I think the developers are being pushed to include HDTV quality cut scenes, an hour of HDTV will eat through an entire DVD even well compressed.
Hu? Its known that MS plans to include HD-DVD in the future, an it WON'T be incompatible with existing DVDs. Heck my DVD player now can play CDs DVD DVD-DL etc. As long as the disc sizes are the same all future CD sized disk will be backcompatible, at worst you have to add a second laser at best simply different software.