To my knowledge Imagine Media also operates PC Gamer and many other numerous video game magazines. If Nintendo wins, what is to stop other corporations that are looking to protect their IP from video game reviewers. If Nintendo wins it may be that you have to get required consent to publish reviews w/screenshots in which case I see a corporation not allowing any if the review is not favorable. Heck, Nintendo is saying you cannot even mention their trademarked name. I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I tend to read reviews with screenshots and TITLES of games than those that don't.
What about HyperSnap? Is this an illegal program to obtain since it captures the IP of another company? It only takes one domino to fall for the rest to follow.
But the important thing is, when is it advertising and when does it infringe on their IP. Also, what if Dailyradar wanted to badmouth Pokemon Gold? I guess they couldn't since Nintendo wouldn't want that either. You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. Either way, I hope this case isn't settled and we may finally see the end to such restrictive licensing.
As a Hispanic male I can only account for the experiences I have endured myself. I live in an area where the population of Hispanics nearly equals that of the white population and the same can be accounted for the University I attend. Yet, when I look in my Computer Sciences courses the proportion of whites to hispanics was nearly 4:1.
The reason why a lot women aren't in high tech is not because they can't do it, but it stems from societal pressure saying they can't. If you're a racial minority you face a similiar problem that is not so evident to the majority. There have been many instances where I've been told I'm "white" for pursuing a science, and specifically a Computer Science degree, by some in the Hispanic commmunity. I've been labeled a "white-boy" for pursuing a degree which has historically been white-male oriented.
If you look at it on an economic basis, instead of a societal one as I have above, you can draw the same conclusions. I was reared in a lower-middle class family and the prospect of entering, essentially, a new economic class is a bit frightening. Then there are the people out there within the same economic class that you are in that do not want you to get ahead.
The "Digital Divide" is another factor for the lack of minorities in the tech sector. How many of us started to program at a rather young age? Remember how expensive computers were 5+ years ago? My family paid $2k for a 486DX2 desktop in '93 (I think). Prior to that computers were $3k+. Prior to the fairly recent price drops, suburbia was the only area where new computers were available and to an extent we still see that. Now that computers are readily available at school, I think that the next crop of tech workers will be in areas that have not been touched. This is why you see companies investing large amounts of money into these areas. Not only is it good PR, but come 10-15 years they are hoping they will have a plethora of new young and skilled workers.
Most of the people that I have met in CS at the University I attend are more financially stable than the average person. I hope I am not misunderstood in saying that minorities are poor, ghetto-ridden persons, but in America, white families, on average, earn more than minorities. Is that because of racism? I don't know, but I think I see a correlation between the economic well-being of people and CS majors.
I took AP Computer Science in High School the first year C++ was the standard and from my experience it wasn't a good thing. The teacher was primarily a pascal programmer and could hardly teach C++. The College Board needs to realize that most High School Computer Science teachers were not taught Object-Oreinted Design when they were in college. My teacher was primarily a pascal programmer and when the standard changed, he too had to grasp the information. Since I had read a couple of books on C++ and OOP, I helped him out when he can but I am not a qualified instructor, I hardly (and still do) knew the information. As a result many of the people in the class who thought about majoring in Computer Science were turned off since they couldn't understand OO design. At my former H.S. all they had were two programming courses: Introduction to Programming (QBasic) and AP Computer Science (C++). So someone who did well in the former usually took the latter only to not have an understanding of the material. Going from BASIC to C++ is a huge step. Looking back on the experience, I wish they taught functional languages and not OO ones.
Hell, we wrote classes in C++ while noone really had an understanding of why. Ughh....but at least I lived through it.
5) Cognitive: to know, to understand, and explore;
6) Aesthetic: symmetry, order, and beauty;
7) Self-actualization: to find self-fulfillment and realize one's potential; and
8) Transcendence: to help others find self-fulfillment and realize their potential.
Now looka at number 8 and tell me socialization is not important
For all those that say socialization is not important should look at Maslow's heirarchy of needs:
1) Physiological: hunger, thirst, bodily comforts, etc.;
2) Safety/security: out of danger;
3) Belonginess and Love: affiliate with others, be accepted; and
4) Esteem: to achieve, be competent, gain approval and recognition
If the child feels alienated, his potential will never be reached and that would be a shame.
I'm not sure about 3dfx's assets, but if it is below 112M they were running the risk of being liquidated. At least this way, we'll see their technology incorporated into future products.
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To my knowledge Imagine Media also operates PC Gamer and many other numerous video game magazines. If Nintendo wins, what is to stop other corporations that are looking to protect their IP from video game reviewers. If Nintendo wins it may be that you have to get required consent to publish reviews w/screenshots in which case I see a corporation not allowing any if the review is not favorable. Heck, Nintendo is saying you cannot even mention their trademarked name. I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I tend to read reviews with screenshots and TITLES of games than those that don't.
What about HyperSnap? Is this an illegal program to obtain since it captures the IP of another company? It only takes one domino to fall for the rest to follow.
But the important thing is, when is it advertising and when does it infringe on their IP. Also, what if Dailyradar wanted to badmouth Pokemon Gold? I guess they couldn't since Nintendo wouldn't want that either. You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. Either way, I hope this case isn't settled and we may finally see the end to such restrictive licensing.
As a Hispanic male I can only account for the experiences I have endured myself. I live in an area where the population of Hispanics nearly equals that of the white population and the same can be accounted for the University I attend. Yet, when I look in my Computer Sciences courses the proportion of whites to hispanics was nearly 4:1.
The reason why a lot women aren't in high tech is not because they can't do it, but it stems from societal pressure saying they can't. If you're a racial minority you face a similiar problem that is not so evident to the majority. There have been many instances where I've been told I'm "white" for pursuing a science, and specifically a Computer Science degree, by some in the Hispanic commmunity. I've been labeled a "white-boy" for pursuing a degree which has historically been white-male oriented.
If you look at it on an economic basis, instead of a societal one as I have above, you can draw the same conclusions. I was reared in a lower-middle class family and the prospect of entering, essentially, a new economic class is a bit frightening. Then there are the people out there within the same economic class that you are in that do not want you to get ahead.
The "Digital Divide" is another factor for the lack of minorities in the tech sector. How many of us started to program at a rather young age? Remember how expensive computers were 5+ years ago? My family paid $2k for a 486DX2 desktop in '93 (I think). Prior to that computers were $3k+. Prior to the fairly recent price drops, suburbia was the only area where new computers were available and to an extent we still see that. Now that computers are readily available at school, I think that the next crop of tech workers will be in areas that have not been touched. This is why you see companies investing large amounts of money into these areas. Not only is it good PR, but come 10-15 years they are hoping they will have a plethora of new young and skilled workers.
Most of the people that I have met in CS at the University I attend are more financially stable than the average person. I hope I am not misunderstood in saying that minorities are poor, ghetto-ridden persons, but in America, white families, on average, earn more than minorities. Is that because of racism? I don't know, but I think I see a correlation between the economic well-being of people and CS majors.
I took AP Computer Science in High School the first year C++ was the standard and from my experience it wasn't a good thing. The teacher was primarily a pascal programmer and could hardly teach C++. The College Board needs to realize that most High School Computer Science teachers were not taught Object-Oreinted Design when they were in college. My teacher was primarily a pascal programmer and when the standard changed, he too had to grasp the information. Since I had read a couple of books on C++ and OOP, I helped him out when he can but I am not a qualified instructor, I hardly (and still do) knew the information. As a result many of the people in the class who thought about majoring in Computer Science were turned off since they couldn't understand OO design. At my former H.S. all they had were two programming courses: Introduction to Programming (QBasic) and AP Computer Science (C++). So someone who did well in the former usually took the latter only to not have an understanding of the material. Going from BASIC to C++ is a huge step. Looking back on the experience, I wish they taught functional languages and not OO ones.
Hell, we wrote classes in C++ while noone really had an understanding of why. Ughh....but at least I lived through it.
Sorry, I forgot the others.
5) Cognitive: to know, to understand, and explore;
6) Aesthetic: symmetry, order, and beauty;
7) Self-actualization: to find self-fulfillment and realize one's potential; and
8) Transcendence: to help others find self-fulfillment and realize their potential.
Now looka at number 8 and tell me socialization is not important
For all those that say socialization is not important should look at Maslow's heirarchy of needs:
1) Physiological: hunger, thirst, bodily comforts, etc.;
2) Safety/security: out of danger;
3) Belonginess and Love: affiliate with others, be accepted; and
4) Esteem: to achieve, be competent, gain approval and recognition
If the child feels alienated, his potential will never be reached and that would be a shame.
Firingsquad has an interview with Brian Burke of nVidia's PR department regarding the buy out at http://firingsquad.gamers.com/features/nvidia1215/ .
They talk about driver support, 3dfx's current and future hardware.
I'm not sure about 3dfx's assets, but if it is below 112M they were running the risk of being liquidated. At least this way, we'll see their technology incorporated into future products.