Hasn't anyone heard of a microphone? Sega made a Dreamcast game where you could speak to other players with the microphone, Alien Front Online. If you play that, you'll know that speaking with a mike is 10 times cooler than typing. It's so much simpler, so much more effective, and so much more fun! I mean, what's more fun, IM or talking on the telephone? Really, online gaming needs to ditch keyboards and get with the voice.
It's good that the EU is fighting an oligopoly, but might this lead to music regions (segregation), as we already have with movies and video games? I hope that the internet can eliminate borders and let content flow everywhere, as it did with Napster.
I swear to God that the next housewife I see simultaneously waving her little flag around while proclaiming that she'd "certainly give up some freedoms to be safe".... god, it's so frustrating living in a world like this.
That's not a complete sentence. What do you mean? That you're going to attack that housewife? Or just complain to yourself?
I think what one does in university depends a lot on what one did before in high, middle and elementary schools. For example, when I lived in Massachusetts, the elementary schools and camps there encouraged kids to do supervised experiments with chemicals, including slightly danergous ones, with proper safety procedures. In high school in Florida, my chemistry teachers were forbidden to bring any sort of chemicals into the classroom, making the class just a bunch of abstract paperwork that we totally forgot at the end of the year. Also, one private school I went to had a fantastic English teacher, very involving, comprehensive and demanding, but at the public schools in the area the English teachers were just decent.
So depending on where I've gone, I've learned nothing, a little, or a lot. I think the people who want to focus in on majors in college are those who've had good foundations in high and middle school. Those who want a broader education still need to get those foundations. Like myself.
How darest thou besmirch the holiness that is photorealist animation and its Japanese conceptors! The greatness of that form is infinitely beyond all others, and any likes thineself who should denounce it can repent for that infinite sin by enduring and embracing infinite suffering in life and after! They thou mayest praise the holy Squaresoft and its Master Sakaguchi, who art the true Lord and Saviour in this age, and every age. Amen.
Southerners didn't free slaves until Union troops started invading and killing.
Many people thought prohibition was a good idea until they tried it.
Nobody started fixing the US economy until it collased in 1929.
Germany didn't respect its Jews until it killed 6 million of them.
The US Govt didn't get out of Vietnam until the people threatened a revolution.
And the US people didn't give the FBI, CIA and airport security the people and resources they needed until the WTC came down.
You can yell at the public all you want, but until they suffer for their folly, they won't listen. We may just have to suffer the absence of encryption until some terrorist wipes out a few million bank records, or until a few million PC users ignore the law.
I conject that most of the people surveyed would not want envelopes outlawed, or snail mails opened at random. This is the same idea.
Since envelopes are still legal, terrorists could use mail. In fact, they could encrypt the letters they send in the mail with PGP. Key escrow isn't going to do much good.
And build in a microphone and make itts screen touch sensitive. That way you can get rid of the keyboard, trackpad and hinge and make it a single, consolidated unit.
Staggered releases and segregated regions are a harmful tradition. Culture, software and hardware would be much better if they could travel freely across borders.
That's why piracy is so important. The established businesses won't sell their customers what they want, so we have to take what we want.
The SSSCA will always be lenient about crises like this. (There'd be too many conspiracy theories if they didn't.)
It's the stuff that LEADS UP to the crises that they'll forbid mirroring.
So when the SSSCA becomes law, the declining intelligence of the masses will make the U.S. a very tempting target for terrorists. And the SSSCA-approved media will always give us leeway to copy their most sensationalistic stories.
Especially the ones involving ignorami who want to hunt those "damn Arabs".
Chu Chu Rocket, Puyo Pyuo, Sega Swirl and Dr. Mario are great ones.
CCR is a high speed, simplified version of Lemmings. Your goal is to save mice from cats by laying some arrow tiles on the floor in the mice's path. It's made by Sonic Team for Dreamcast, and it supports up to 4 players at once. You can get the whole setup for under $150 now.
Puyo Puyo and Dr. Mario are similar to Tetris; you have to guide falling colored pieces to keep the screen from filling. The US version of Puyo Puyo are called "Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine" on Sega Genesis and Sega Game Gear and "Kirby's Avalanche" on Super NES. You can get those whole setups for under $60, though they might be hard to find.
Sega Swirl is another game sort of like Tetris. It's free, since it comes on the web browser disk with every Dreamcast. If you don't have it, Sega will send you a free web browser disk in the mail by calling 1-800-USA-SEGA.
If they have some patience, try teaching them BASIC. Two recent versions are especially made for making games, and thus have lots of graphic and sound commands. Learn to Program BASIC from Interplay, made for 2D graphics, costs $30 and Dark Basic, made for 3D graphics, costs $70. Both run in Windows, and LTPB also runs in MacOS.
I've been following 3ivX, which its creators say is more compact, stable, multiplatform and legal (created from scratch, compared to DivX which was ripped off from Microsoft) than DivX;). But it's less popular. How come? If 3ivX is so much better, people should use it the most. I've heard that it will become a standard part of Quicktime soon.
But as for the technical side, how does it actually compare? I haven't done tests.
MS can't profit from broadband content-on-demand as long as end users have hard drives, because hard drives allow for piracy. To stop piracy, MS has to stop HDs.
The ideal entertainment center (from MS's point of view) is broadband plus a smart card reader, game controller, DV camera, microphone, speakers and monitor. With that set up, not only do consumers get content on demand by payment on request, but they also get videophones that double as a spying device! Otherwise, customers have privacy and piracy, which they don't want us to have.
So, as long as MS is using broadband and hard drive in the same sentence, they're not that serious about becoming entertainment leaders.
I think nuclear bombs are more powerful than all the world's people jumping. And a meteor is far more powerful than that.
Also, the world would have to move tens of billions of miles for appreciable climate change. The earth already moves over a billion towards and away from the sun in its yearly irregular orbit. In fact, the northern hemisphere's winter takes place when the earth is one billion miles closer.
http://www.segatech.com/gamecube/gamecube_mother bo ard.jpg
Gamecube has 24 MB of on-motherboard Mosys RAM. See those Mosys chips at the top of the pic? If they're the only Mosys chips besides the ATI/NEC chip (which has 3 MB), then they're 12 MB apiece, not 1 MB apiece.
Video game companies, like all media companies, want complete control over what we see, hear, say, think, and spend our money on. Media makers fear being thought of as "un-American" by allowing un-Americanized culture United States. And of course they do the same thing in every other country.
The irony is that letting content flow freely over borders would make them more money and goodwill, not less. It's movies like Life is Beautiful, C.T.H.D., anime, and others that wake us up and get us spending and gossiping. But the copyright holders feel that we, whether we are children or adults, can't handle anything but Mainstream USA. Or that if we can handle foreign culture, they demand that we pretend that we can't handle anything else.
When the MPAA, RIAA and ISDA treat me, a fairly open minded 20 year old, like a closed minded 8 year old, I'll act like one: I'll steal everything they make!
In Gamecube, 1T-SRAM is used inside the MPU as texture cache and frame buffer, and it's main memory on the motherboard. Could this also work for PCs, servers and Macs? Imagine having 1T-SRAM on the motherboard, and then your GPU has 32 or 64 MB of 1T-SRAM built in! Even if it was just chips on the video card, it would still be good.
"I am the last person that would ever condone anything that smelled even remotely like censorship, but from a customer perspective I think this move makes sense."
If you think this move makes sense, then you're condoning something that smells remotely like censorship.
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I was actually hoping that they'd run the movie from an off-the-shelf game engine, but you're hoping for the reverse?
I know how Square handles bad weather; too bad they're not around anymore.
No, it means that you'll see pledge drives during LotR, and vice versa.
"You don't go ahead and save every image you take to your harddrive, as you then have to buy a new harddrive all the time."
Right. What I do is save every image I take to a CD-R. That's 40 cents for one thousand, very high quality 700K JPEGs. Digital archival is dirt cheap.
DVD-ROM doesn't do regions all by itself. DVD-video files on a DVD-ROM disk are regioned. All other file types on DVD-ROM are region free.
Hasn't anyone heard of a microphone? Sega made a Dreamcast game where you could speak to other players with the microphone, Alien Front Online. If you play that, you'll know that speaking with a mike is 10 times cooler than typing. It's so much simpler, so much more effective, and so much more fun! I mean, what's more fun, IM or talking on the telephone? Really, online gaming needs to ditch keyboards and get with the voice.
It's good that the EU is fighting an oligopoly, but might this lead to music regions (segregation), as we already have with movies and video games? I hope that the internet can eliminate borders and let content flow everywhere, as it did with Napster.
I swear to God that the next housewife I see simultaneously waving her little flag around while proclaiming that she'd "certainly give up some freedoms to be safe".... god, it's so frustrating living in a world like this.
That's not a complete sentence. What do you mean? That you're going to attack that housewife? Or just complain to yourself?
Canadians should also leave nationality out of this. It was Canada who invited Microsoft into Vancouver to practice their monopoly with impunity.
I think what one does in university depends a lot on what one did before in high, middle and elementary schools. For example, when I lived in Massachusetts, the elementary schools and camps there encouraged kids to do supervised experiments with chemicals, including slightly danergous ones, with proper safety procedures. In high school in Florida, my chemistry teachers were forbidden to bring any sort of chemicals into the classroom, making the class just a bunch of abstract paperwork that we totally forgot at the end of the year. Also, one private school I went to had a fantastic English teacher, very involving, comprehensive and demanding, but at the public schools in the area the English teachers were just decent.
So depending on where I've gone, I've learned nothing, a little, or a lot. I think the people who want to focus in on majors in college are those who've had good foundations in high and middle school. Those who want a broader education still need to get those foundations. Like myself.
How darest thou besmirch the holiness that is photorealist animation and its Japanese conceptors! The greatness of that form is infinitely beyond all others, and any likes thineself who should denounce it can repent for that infinite sin by enduring and embracing infinite suffering in life and after! They thou mayest praise the holy Squaresoft and its Master Sakaguchi, who art the true Lord and Saviour in this age, and every age. Amen.
Southerners didn't free slaves until Union troops started invading and killing.
Many people thought prohibition was a good idea until they tried it.
Nobody started fixing the US economy until it collased in 1929.
Germany didn't respect its Jews until it killed 6 million of them.
The US Govt didn't get out of Vietnam until the people threatened a revolution.
And the US people didn't give the FBI, CIA and airport security the people and resources they needed until the WTC came down.
You can yell at the public all you want, but until they suffer for their folly, they won't listen. We may just have to suffer the absence of encryption until some terrorist wipes out a few million bank records, or until a few million PC users ignore the law.
I conject that most of the people surveyed would not want envelopes outlawed, or snail mails opened at random. This is the same idea.
Since envelopes are still legal, terrorists could use mail. In fact, they could encrypt the letters they send in the mail with PGP. Key escrow isn't going to do much good.
And build in a microphone and make itts screen touch sensitive. That way you can get rid of the keyboard, trackpad and hinge and make it a single, consolidated unit.
Staggered releases and segregated regions are a harmful tradition. Culture, software and hardware would be much better if they could travel freely across borders.
That's why piracy is so important. The established businesses won't sell their customers what they want, so we have to take what we want.
The SSSCA will always be lenient about crises like this. (There'd be too many conspiracy theories if they didn't.)
It's the stuff that LEADS UP to the crises that they'll forbid mirroring.
So when the SSSCA becomes law, the declining intelligence of the masses will make the U.S. a very tempting target for terrorists. And the SSSCA-approved media will always give us leeway to copy their most sensationalistic stories.
Especially the ones involving ignorami who want to hunt those "damn Arabs".
Chu Chu Rocket, Puyo Pyuo, Sega Swirl and Dr. Mario are great ones.
CCR is a high speed, simplified version of Lemmings. Your goal is to save mice from cats by laying some arrow tiles on the floor in the mice's path. It's made by Sonic Team for Dreamcast, and it supports up to 4 players at once. You can get the whole setup for under $150 now.
Puyo Puyo and Dr. Mario are similar to Tetris; you have to guide falling colored pieces to keep the screen from filling. The US version of Puyo Puyo are called "Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine" on Sega Genesis and Sega Game Gear and "Kirby's Avalanche" on Super NES. You can get those whole setups for under $60, though they might be hard to find.
Sega Swirl is another game sort of like Tetris. It's free, since it comes on the web browser disk with every Dreamcast. If you don't have it, Sega will send you a free web browser disk in the mail by calling 1-800-USA-SEGA.
If they have some patience, try teaching them BASIC. Two recent versions are especially made for making games, and thus have lots of graphic and sound commands. Learn to Program BASIC from Interplay, made for 2D graphics, costs $30 and Dark Basic, made for 3D graphics, costs $70. Both run in Windows, and LTPB also runs in MacOS.
I've been following 3ivX, which its creators say is more compact, stable, multiplatform and legal (created from scratch, compared to DivX which was ripped off from Microsoft) than DivX;). But it's less popular. How come? If 3ivX is so much better, people should use it the most. I've heard that it will become a standard part of Quicktime soon.
But as for the technical side, how does it actually compare? I haven't done tests.
MS can't profit from broadband content-on-demand as long as end users have hard drives, because hard drives allow for piracy. To stop piracy, MS has to stop HDs.
The ideal entertainment center (from MS's point of view) is broadband plus a smart card reader, game controller, DV camera, microphone, speakers and monitor. With that set up, not only do consumers get content on demand by payment on request, but they also get videophones that double as a spying device! Otherwise, customers have privacy and piracy, which they don't want us to have.
So, as long as MS is using broadband and hard drive in the same sentence, they're not that serious about becoming entertainment leaders.
I think nuclear bombs are more powerful than all the world's people jumping. And a meteor is far more powerful than that.
Also, the world would have to move tens of billions of miles for appreciable climate change. The earth already moves over a billion towards and away from the sun in its yearly irregular orbit. In fact, the northern hemisphere's winter takes place when the earth is one billion miles closer.
Untrue, see this:
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http://www.segatech.com/gamecube/gamecube_mothe
Gamecube has 24 MB of on-motherboard Mosys RAM. See those Mosys chips at the top of the pic? If they're the only Mosys chips besides the ATI/NEC chip (which has 3 MB), then they're 12 MB apiece, not 1 MB apiece.
Video game companies, like all media companies, want complete control over what we see, hear, say, think, and spend our money on. Media makers fear being thought of as "un-American" by allowing un-Americanized culture United States. And of course they do the same thing in every other country.
The irony is that letting content flow freely over borders would make them more money and goodwill, not less. It's movies like Life is Beautiful, C.T.H.D., anime, and others that wake us up and get us spending and gossiping. But the copyright holders feel that we, whether we are children or adults, can't handle anything but Mainstream USA. Or that if we can handle foreign culture, they demand that we pretend that we can't handle anything else.
When the MPAA, RIAA and ISDA treat me, a fairly open minded 20 year old, like a closed minded 8 year old, I'll act like one: I'll steal everything they make!
She's a smoker and a mom. She's not that hot.
In Gamecube, 1T-SRAM is used inside the MPU as texture cache and frame buffer, and it's main memory on the motherboard. Could this also work for PCs, servers and Macs? Imagine having 1T-SRAM on the motherboard, and then your GPU has 32 or 64 MB of 1T-SRAM built in! Even if it was just chips on the video card, it would still be good.
But again, this is all speculation. Any tests?
"I am the last person that would ever condone anything that smelled even remotely like censorship, but from a customer perspective I think this move makes sense."
If you think this move makes sense, then you're condoning something that smells remotely like censorship.