We both that nintendo isn't involved in this suit for the modchips, but rather for the gba flash carts (and gbc). Just how much does developer hardware cost that developers prefer the piracy hardware to your own custom tools? Apparently the pirate hardware is more efficient for them to run as its A) cheaper and B) faster. I've heard stories of testing multiplayer games on illegal flashcarts because they "burn" faster. Hell, on an interview on TechTV or ZDTV or whatever with Iguana soft, there's a clip of Turok 2 running on n64 copier.
Is this really a problem nintendo wants to solve by litigation?
And 90% of those companies either don't use computers with MS software or only use MS windows to run a special client they built to emulate a terminal to interface with their servers and databases. I hate to break it to you, but most people out there don't get paid to type up word documents, or generate excel spreadsheets. For every 1 you do find working for a small company doing something like that you find fifty in the middle of Kansas (nice low wages) working at a call center with a custom designed application.
If students are using computers at home, why do we need goddamn classes in it? I mean, its not like we have classes in "Defeating Mother Brain and finding all the missile upgrades." Using windows because its popular at home is self-defeating at best, and insane at worst.
Call me crazy but I seem to recall the audio labels getting busted for paying "promotional fees" with the stipend that stores not sell product below a certain price. The promotional fees were to defray the cost of printing up the advertising. I think it stands to reason that the rest of the ad not related to music faced similar fees (without the price fixing scheme).
Out of money spent on the Xbox, the division lost 177 dollars. The article cites revenues of 505. (177)/(505+177) is only about a 25% loss. And most of this is in initial outlay; MS has a lot of mindshare to purchase first before they're taken seriously on the whole XBox deal. In fact, thanks to Microsoft's desires to conquer this lucrative market, they're excepting a loss for the first year--they're losing money (or at least they were at one point) on every sale.
Its concievable that if MS has learned its lessons well that the Xbox or whatever successor could actually turn a profit. Especially if MS decided to find a way to leverage Blizzard out of Vivendi. Blizzard does have some ties with the console gaming, they made The Lost Vikings under an older name, and if they had enough time and cooperation from the hardware manufacturers, I think they could proabably take the best of their PC games and mix it with the console's ease of use.
The article's a bit biased though, for whatever reason. Its hard to find someone venomous towards nintendo who isn't a sega fan, and I suspect that some of the facts are painted in a somewhat unfair manner. Profit optimization and complex economics can make any corporation target of a talented journalist or essayist. The article mostly slams on nintendo for refusing to produce as many games as possible, and charge a higher price for it. Its not exactly something I like to see, but its hardly immoral. Apparently Nintendo decided the optimal profits came from that mix of sales and prices. So that demon is out of the way. I can't comment on the specifics of the intimidation case, its been a while since I read Game Over, but its not uncommon for settlements to specify "no admission of guilt." I suspect Nintendo wanted to end the case, rather than fight an extended case in court that might wind up more costly if they lost. As for the current case, this was about 5 years ago. Nintendo of EU has changed drastically since then; IIRC there is no Nintendo of EU, rather one for each country, to better handle the laws of the individual countries. I suspect the people involved have been fired. They had been planning on losing this one and have cash on hand for it, although I suspect that they didn't anticipate such a huge penalty, given their responses in the news articles. Nowadays, their draconian policies that served them well throughout the 80s are starting to hurt them in the face of extended development complexity, of which they've been making strides to address. Or you might be able to argue that platform supremecy relies on Square support. But now that Sony owns a good deal of Square, you'd be hard pressed to break that monopoly. With Sony's current hardware lead, a platform change in Square doesn't seem likely even if they realize that any platform they choose is doomed to success.
What he means is that pushback is a form of muting a computer. Pushback just sends the filters upstream to stop the saturation of the line. If this mechanism is vulnerable in some form that is universal or at least common then you could subjugate the filtering mechanism to mute a target upstream. Don't like GRC? Hack a pushback capable router and tell it to drop all send packets from GRC.
What if the results were weighted against the number of elements in the meta tag. Putting the english dictionary into your meta tags will just put you on the bottom, right? The rewards for being verbose only exist in your English teacher's class.
Kurt, when do the good course materials come out? So far I've seen a few Lab course's materials, and they aren't terribly enlightening on what is learned at MIT. I realize you may no longer work at MIT, but when are we going to see what your average EECS undegrad's first related class material online? I mean, you can see pretty much everything but the professor's lectures online where I'm at, and you don't need to pay tuition for that either. I'd find how MIT chooses to present their introductory courses far more enlighening as a teacher than how MIT does their capstone engineering design courses.
On a sidenote, hope joystick101.org gets put back up, I've got a few ideas burning that are being wasted on kuro5hin.
Video games have been made mostly to satisfy gamers of a certain demographic, middle class teenaged boys. We agree that the Sims is a great game. It seems to me that the continued success of Sims games and expansions is that there is a significant number of people out there that just don't care for the incremental innovations in gameplay we call 'FPS' or 'RTS.' Probably the last game before sims to see an even gender balance was Tetris, and that was 10 years ago. The sims was a game style long overdue. Not that EA should focus all its efforts on beating all the money out of the game.
I'd also argue that good game design appeals to a larger audience than the boys who like seeing gibbed corpses. It should scale nicely in difficulty so that casual players can pick it up and have fun, but not bore the obsessed. If by "more thought provoking games" you mean Sim City, Sim City has said all its going to say. Just like every successful game out there, the sequals are incrementally working their way towards a different game. Evolutionary, not revoltionary. If you're gonna bitch, bitch that they're diverting too much money to a single source rather than branching into gameplay concepts I haven't thougt of before, not the same damn game with an extra layer of civil architeture to worry about, please.
I suppose its not so much a joke as a condemnation. Bickering about Ghost, etc usually involves one calling the other "kiddie" without any real foundation other than an inborn antipathy. If you can make this point in a better form, I'd love to see you do it. I have no particular bias except for quality work. PA has been pretty good, though not always funny nor as insightful as other "webcomics" out there. If you think PA sucks, why not make a PA killer?
Heh, yes, Final Fantasy was a great game when it first came out. The plotline and writing were SUPERB, eh? About the only thing that stands out in my mind is the insulting fountains. "How dirty! You wash your face in the sparkling water." And great graphics? The introduction screen is a simple text printout! At best, a good story and plotline is orthogonal to a great game; that is, its irrelevant. What makes games fun is the combination of three things a) challenge b) rewards and c) punishment if any of the three are missing then the game fails to operate on its most basic appeal. A plot can work to tie these together but often it merely subverts itself to a single master, rewards.
As far as original games go, the real problem is that consumers can be picky. Ico was a pretty good game but it wasn't a sales demon. If I took a standard game genre and turned the plot into a tree structure, you stand a good chance of alienating players. Even if its only a binary split, the number of events per play through is going to be hurt. Even a 4 level path takes up 15 levels worth of data. 15 levels/missions is a lot to make, but 4 isn't many to play. So while there's many possibilities, knowing which ones the unwashed masses will enjoy is difficult. Shiney brought many fresh ideas to the market but they lack the stability now they once had.
If I were you'd I'd avoid making proclamations about things in the nerd domain, even if you're technically right the karma won't come back.
I believe that both cowboy bebop and outlaw star aired around the same time, but Outlaw Star had been a manga previous to that. Of course, I'm sure I'll have my turn under the flame now of the Comic Book Guy. Perhaps he'll point out when and where Cowboy Bebop was serialized, or mention that Trigun predates the both, even though its only marginally related to FireFly.
Try explaining that one to the cops. "I swear to God, officer she was moving around just a bit ago." Maybe "Just give her a few minutes to thaw out, officer!"
Of course if you'd read his easily found page he outright declares invention of the smiley. But just because I tell the world I wrote the first smiley doesn't make it true...
Id imagine that 8M is for many things like emulating the NES, and a lot of ROM mappers nessecary to get around the limited address space of the default cartridge ROM.
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Believe it or not, Jefferson was not a traditional Christian, not in his era, nor in any. He was personally against organized religion, so you might call him a Deist. If the Declaration uses terms like God, it is because one must speak in the people's terms when talking to the people. For nearly 200 years, the Union existed without perturbation on the seperation of Church and State. Then after WW2, a group you might know of, the Knights of Columbus organized quite the political assault on our federal government. Hitching on the growing totalitarianism of the time, they amended the Pledge of Allegiance and even our money. That is where "In God We Trust" comes from. To say that the Founders were like the Knights is quite a lie.
You totally missed the points. The article's point is that typical user applications haven't gotten more complex as processers have gotten faster. The poster's point was that even for the class of software that has gotten more complex (games), much of the complexity is being offloaded to the video card. Newer cards are doing things like transformation and lighting in the hardware, rather than having the CPU bust it out for you. So it might be that just upgrading to a gf4 or a radeon 9700 is all that will really help fps on games that are designed with this offloading in mind.
If Intel really wants to push sales of their chips, the best thing they can do right now would be to encourage developers of applications do default to using encryption, a CPU intensive process that hasn't yet been offloaded to dedicated hardware. Games are intensive but newer video cards dedicated in design to rendering outpace even a CPU with SIMD. Increasing CPU speed might be able to get you a faster load time, but you'd have to switch to something like generating textures on the fly
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We both that nintendo isn't involved in this suit for the modchips, but rather for the gba flash carts (and gbc). Just how much does developer hardware cost that developers prefer the piracy hardware to your own custom tools? Apparently the pirate hardware is more efficient for them to run as its A) cheaper and B) faster. I've heard stories of testing multiplayer games on illegal flashcarts because they "burn" faster. Hell, on an interview on TechTV or ZDTV or whatever with Iguana soft, there's a clip of Turok 2 running on n64 copier.
Is this really a problem nintendo wants to solve by litigation?
And 90% of those companies either don't use computers with MS software or only use MS windows to run a special client they built to emulate a terminal to interface with their servers and databases. I hate to break it to you, but most people out there don't get paid to type up word documents, or generate excel spreadsheets. For every 1 you do find working for a small company doing something like that you find fifty in the middle of Kansas (nice low wages) working at a call center with a custom designed application.
If students are using computers at home, why do we need goddamn classes in it? I mean, its not like we have classes in "Defeating Mother Brain and finding all the missile upgrades." Using windows because its popular at home is self-defeating at best, and insane at worst.
Then where is the Safe Harbor clause that allows ISPs to shirk responibility for contended content?
Call me crazy but I seem to recall the audio labels getting busted for paying "promotional fees" with the stipend that stores not sell product below a certain price. The promotional fees were to defray the cost of printing up the advertising. I think it stands to reason that the rest of the ad not related to music faced similar fees (without the price fixing scheme).
The lecture. "The missile knows where it is, because it knows where it isn't"
Its a lot easier now with the mouse menu bars. I have yet to figure out their use in an ssh session, other than to mock your lack of an x server.
Out of money spent on the Xbox, the division lost 177 dollars. The article cites revenues of 505. (177)/(505+177) is only about a 25% loss. And most of this is in initial outlay; MS has a lot of mindshare to purchase first before they're taken seriously on the whole XBox deal. In fact, thanks to Microsoft's desires to conquer this lucrative market, they're excepting a loss for the first year--they're losing money (or at least they were at one point) on every sale.
Its concievable that if MS has learned its lessons well that the Xbox or whatever successor could actually turn a profit. Especially if MS decided to find a way to leverage Blizzard out of Vivendi. Blizzard does have some ties with the console gaming, they made The Lost Vikings under an older name, and if they had enough time and cooperation from the hardware manufacturers, I think they could proabably take the best of their PC games and mix it with the console's ease of use.
I guess what they say is true, "software expands to the capacity of the hardware."
When she's not looking though? Time for a new law against stealth rape.
The article's a bit biased though, for whatever reason. Its hard to find someone venomous towards nintendo who isn't a sega fan, and I suspect that some of the facts are painted in a somewhat unfair manner. Profit optimization and complex economics can make any corporation target of a talented journalist or essayist. The article mostly slams on nintendo for refusing to produce as many games as possible, and charge a higher price for it. Its not exactly something I like to see, but its hardly immoral. Apparently Nintendo decided the optimal profits came from that mix of sales and prices. So that demon is out of the way.
I can't comment on the specifics of the intimidation case, its been a while since I read Game Over, but its not uncommon for settlements to specify "no admission of guilt." I suspect Nintendo wanted to end the case, rather than fight an extended case in court that might wind up more costly if they lost.
As for the current case, this was about 5 years ago. Nintendo of EU has changed drastically since then; IIRC there is no Nintendo of EU, rather one for each country, to better handle the laws of the individual countries. I suspect the people involved have been fired. They had been planning on losing this one and have cash on hand for it, although I suspect that they didn't anticipate such a huge penalty, given their responses in the news articles.
Nowadays, their draconian policies that served them well throughout the 80s are starting to hurt them in the face of extended development complexity, of which they've been making strides to address. Or you might be able to argue that platform supremecy relies on Square support. But now that Sony owns a good deal of Square, you'd be hard pressed to break that monopoly. With Sony's current hardware lead, a platform change in Square doesn't seem likely even if they realize that any platform they choose is doomed to success.
What he means is that pushback is a form of muting a computer. Pushback just sends the filters upstream to stop the saturation of the line. If this mechanism is vulnerable in some form that is universal or at least common then you could subjugate the filtering mechanism to mute a target upstream. Don't like GRC? Hack a pushback capable router and tell it to drop all send packets from GRC.
What if the results were weighted against the number of elements in the meta tag. Putting the english dictionary into your meta tags will just put you on the bottom, right? The rewards for being verbose only exist in your English teacher's class.
On a sidenote, hope joystick101.org gets put back up, I've got a few ideas burning that are being wasted on kuro5hin.
Video games have been made mostly to satisfy gamers of a certain demographic, middle class teenaged boys. We agree that the Sims is a great game. It seems to me that the continued success of Sims games and expansions is that there is a significant number of people out there that just don't care for the incremental innovations in gameplay we call 'FPS' or 'RTS.' Probably the last game before sims to see an even gender balance was Tetris, and that was 10 years ago. The sims was a game style long overdue. Not that EA should focus all its efforts on beating all the money out of the game.
I'd also argue that good game design appeals to a larger audience than the boys who like seeing gibbed corpses. It should scale nicely in difficulty so that casual players can pick it up and have fun, but not bore the obsessed. If by "more thought provoking games" you mean Sim City, Sim City has said all its going to say. Just like every successful game out there, the sequals are incrementally working their way towards a different game. Evolutionary, not revoltionary. If you're gonna bitch, bitch that they're diverting too much money to a single source rather than branching into gameplay concepts I haven't thougt of before, not the same damn game with an extra layer of civil architeture to worry about, please.
I suppose its not so much a joke as a condemnation. Bickering about Ghost, etc usually involves one calling the other "kiddie" without any real foundation other than an inborn antipathy. If you can make this point in a better form, I'd love to see you do it. I have no particular bias except for quality work. PA has been pretty good, though not always funny nor as insightful as other "webcomics" out there. If you think PA sucks, why not make a PA killer?
Heh, yes, Final Fantasy was a great game when it first came out. The plotline and writing were SUPERB, eh? About the only thing that stands out in my mind is the insulting fountains. "How dirty! You wash your face in the sparkling water." And great graphics? The introduction screen is a simple text printout! At best, a good story and plotline is orthogonal to a great game; that is, its irrelevant. What makes games fun is the combination of three things a) challenge b) rewards and c) punishment if any of the three are missing then the game fails to operate on its most basic appeal. A plot can work to tie these together but often it merely subverts itself to a single master, rewards.
As far as original games go, the real problem is that consumers can be picky. Ico was a pretty good game but it wasn't a sales demon. If I took a standard game genre and turned the plot into a tree structure, you stand a good chance of alienating players. Even if its only a binary split, the number of events per play through is going to be hurt. Even a 4 level path takes up 15 levels worth of data. 15 levels/missions is a lot to make, but 4 isn't many to play. So while there's many possibilities, knowing which ones the unwashed masses will enjoy is difficult. Shiney brought many fresh ideas to the market but they lack the stability now they once had.
There's nearly 1 channel for every user on Quakenet!
If I were you'd I'd avoid making proclamations about things in the nerd domain, even if you're technically right the karma won't come back.
I believe that both cowboy bebop and outlaw star aired around the same time, but Outlaw Star had been a manga previous to that. Of course, I'm sure I'll have my turn under the flame now of the Comic Book Guy. Perhaps he'll point out when and where Cowboy Bebop was serialized, or mention that Trigun predates the both, even though its only marginally related to FireFly.
Try explaining that one to the cops. "I swear to God, officer she was moving around just a bit ago."
Maybe "Just give her a few minutes to thaw out, officer!"
What about Outlaw Star? There's even a naked chick in a suitcase!
Of course if you'd read his easily found page he outright declares invention of the smiley. But just because I tell the world I wrote the first smiley doesn't make it true...
Id imagine that 8M is for many things like emulating the NES, and a lot of ROM mappers nessecary to get around the limited address space of the default cartridge ROM.
Believe it or not, Jefferson was not a traditional Christian, not in his era, nor in any. He was personally against organized religion, so you might call him a Deist. If the Declaration uses terms like God, it is because one must speak in the people's terms when talking to the people. For nearly 200 years, the Union existed without perturbation on the seperation of Church and State. Then after WW2, a group you might know of, the Knights of Columbus organized quite the political assault on our federal government. Hitching on the growing totalitarianism of the time, they amended the Pledge of Allegiance and even our money. That is where "In God We Trust" comes from. To say that the Founders were like the Knights is quite a lie.
If Intel really wants to push sales of their chips, the best thing they can do right now would be to encourage developers of applications do default to using encryption, a CPU intensive process that hasn't yet been offloaded to dedicated hardware. Games are intensive but newer video cards dedicated in design to rendering outpace even a CPU with SIMD. Increasing CPU speed might be able to get you a faster load time, but you'd have to switch to something like generating textures on the fly