As I understand the GPL, you cannot give binaries to customers, without releasing the source of your changes to the public.
You can only keep modifications, if you keep them to yourself (ie, your company, but NOT its customers, unless they don't get binaries, just access to your machines that have them).
And what good was that? Did those guys switched over to PC gaming? Or the moral of the story is that you kicked some ass at quake 2?
The control pad is more comfortable, anyway.
Also, Quake 2 and GoldenEye are very different games. In goldeneye you cannot jump, for god sake! This is just as stupid as being good at soccer, challenge the basketball team to a match, and then boasting about how the stupid basketball team was not good at soccer, because they are so used to use hands to pass the ball, and cheats like having no goalie.
"Dead pixels are part of the experience we wanted to deliver with the PSP. You don't criticize an architect if some windows are broken. The PSP is a beautiful machine, and you fail to understand its screen fully".
Bottom line: dead pixels are a feature, not a bug.
Since the power shifted at Sony, and Kutaragi isn't the CEO, I guess the high honchos told him to STFU and replace the defective units.
Yeah, but the Z button is fataly ill-placed in the gamecube controller. it should be UNDER the triggers, so your index can rest on it, and the middle finger can press it.
And why Japan can buy a basic kit for only US$200?
No wonder it isn't selling well.
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WTF? If MS had done to the PC what Nintendo did to the hand held gaming market, it would make the current and past antitrust cases look like a walk in the park.
remember the Sega game gear or the Atari Lynx? Those other hand helds that are also dam close to a decade and a half old.. remember colour screens and the ability to watch TV on them(well i only remember the GG having a TV adapter but i never liked the lynx)
Imagine MS having held us back at Dos 5 for 10 long years as the default desktop OS, and Linux and Mac having systems of today to compete with Dos 5 and 386's, but still losing?
Unfair comparison. This would also mean that Apple would release the ed editor as a word processor, and that your mac would need his own nuclear plant to generate its electricity.
Remember. Gameboy not only did have better battery life. It also had better games.
AND, Nintendo saved the video game market after Atari destroyed it. You should thank Nintendo for every great game you play today, because they made it posible.
That's why Bungie had to develop new maps. So Bungie is distributing new content, not just patches. They can't be accussed of being partial to themselves (Bungie is now property of MS).
The Bible as a whole is not a good story. Some parts are, but the whole not. This has nothing to do with the bible religious importance, just as the bible as a book.
Back to Illiad, the gods tell what is going to happen. They say "yay, let's make Patroclus kick ass for a while, then let him die", and, they do exactly that. And, when finally they do not help him anymore, does Hector kills him by his own hand? HELL NO, that might make Hector look like he is a good warrior! Apollo blinds Patroclus and only then Hector kills him.
I think that the best part of Illiad is the whole fight for Patroclus body, in which gods basically do not mess (IIRC), and humans actually act heroically.
Mmmm. Yeah, the term may refer something that happens in greek tragedies. But since the term is LATIN, you cannot assure that it is not present in the Illiad.
Yes, I did read the Illiad. It's a good book, but the gods ruin everything.
People do make choices in Illiad, but they mainly do not matter. Paris kidnapped Helen because a goddess hated him for a previous contest between goddesses in which he was the judge. Achilles, the big hero is a mamma boy who goes crying after Agamenon takes his slave. etc.
Have you read the Illiad? If you haven't, then shut up.
It's boring because gods decide everything. One thing is to talk about predetermination and destiny, and represent those things as gods, and another very different is to have Hector kick ass ONLY IF he is helped by a god, and to be killed the very second the gods stop smiling on him. That's just pathetic.
That's why the movie is called "Troy", and not "Illiad", doh.
Seriously, while Homer had great ability to narrate, and a great skill as a poet, his story sucks. Every time a hero is going to do something decisive, a god gets in the way, helping him or not. There are almost no human achievements in the Illiad, because gods do all the hard work, while humans do all the dying.
Have you heard about "Deux Ex Machina"? A magic plot device that solves any problem in the story? Illiad is plagued with them, so you cannot enjoy the story, because you know that, whenever thigns are getting interesting, a god will interfere.
Troy, on the other hand, manages to tell a decent story about people. It's not a master piece of cinema, but at least is interesting.
You talk about Splinter Cell's limitations, yet ignore the even more limiting constraints of Metal Gear Solid. Not being able to move in first-person comes to mind.
Just nitpicking, but Splinter Cell is a much more limited game than Metal Gear Solid (the first!).
Yeah, you cannot move in first person, but WHAT KIND OF STUPID LIMITATION THIS IS! This is like saying "MGS is not a First Person Shooter, so it's not a good game!".
Splinter Cell lacks in several areas in which MGS excels. Better storytelling, a single big mission instead of small chapters, the presence of bosses, which add rythm and emotion to the game, etc.
Splinter Cell, instead, only adds better ways to sneak around. But a game in which you are hidden the whole time isn't very good. You just go from a to b, to c, until the mission ends, and, if you are discovered, chances are you are going down. There is no catarsis, no build up, no nothing. Just a eternal hiding.
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I think that you are confusing cause and effect. FF is released on the system that won the system wars.
Playstations 1 and 2 won by being the first-to-market (relative to nintendo systems), and using that time frame to win market share.
As I understand the GPL, you cannot give binaries to customers, without releasing the source of your changes to the public.
You can only keep modifications, if you keep them to yourself (ie, your company, but NOT its customers, unless they don't get binaries, just access to your machines that have them).
Are trackballs more precise than analog sticks?
I have tried them, and they mostly suck.
And what good was that? Did those guys switched over to PC gaming? Or the moral of the story is that you kicked some ass at quake 2?
The control pad is more comfortable, anyway.
Also, Quake 2 and GoldenEye are very different games. In goldeneye you cannot jump, for god sake! This is just as stupid as being good at soccer, challenge the basketball team to a match, and then boasting about how the stupid basketball team was not good at soccer, because they are so used to use hands to pass the ball, and cheats like having no goalie.
They may want to, if the Revoluiton is cheaper than an PC of similar power.
"Dead pixels are part of the experience we wanted to deliver with the PSP. You don't criticize an architect if some windows are broken. The PSP is a beautiful machine, and you fail to understand its screen fully".
Bottom line: dead pixels are a feature, not a bug.
Since the power shifted at Sony, and Kutaragi isn't the CEO, I guess the high honchos told him to STFU and replace the defective units.
Because they have spare units to replace the ones with dead pixels.
...New York has the right to tax 100% of a nonresident employee's income derived from New York sources...
100% TAX!!!
Thats what I call a hefty tax!
Yeah, but people do prefer simpler urls.
.com
www. + +
So, if they want to search in google, they will put
www.google.com
And get a simple, uncluttered (still) interface.
But, tell them to use yahoo:
www.yahoo.com
And they get the old portal that everybody hates.
Yeah, but the Z button is fataly ill-placed in the gamecube controller. it should be UNDER the triggers, so your index can rest on it, and the middle finger can press it.
also having the 2 joys in an asimmetryc manner is a baad-baad idea, however you can get used to it ..
Wrong. T used parts of the control should be in the most accesible positions.
Most games today use analog control mainly. So the left analog stick should be in the main position.
The second stick is used less (except in FPS), so it should be in the secondary position.
PERIOD.
Patents can be filled way after you actually invented the device. And are awarded a while later too.
I don't know if this is the case, though. So it may be valid even though the patent is posterior to the Dual Shock.
US$250!!! for a handheld?!
And why Japan can buy a basic kit for only US$200?
No wonder it isn't selling well.
WTF? If MS had done to the PC what Nintendo did to the hand held gaming market, it would make the current and past antitrust cases look like a walk in the park.
remember the Sega game gear or the Atari Lynx?
Those other hand helds that are also dam close to a decade and a half old.. remember colour screens and the ability to watch TV on them(well i only remember the GG having a TV adapter but i never liked the lynx)
Imagine MS having held us back at Dos 5 for 10 long years as the default desktop OS, and Linux and Mac having systems of today to compete with Dos 5 and 386's, but still losing?
Unfair comparison. This would also mean that Apple would release the ed editor as a word processor, and that your mac would need his own nuclear plant to generate its electricity.
Remember. Gameboy not only did have better battery life. It also had better games.
AND, Nintendo saved the video game market after Atari destroyed it. You should thank Nintendo for every great game you play today, because they made it posible.
That's why Bungie had to develop new maps. So Bungie is distributing new content, not just patches. They can't be accussed of being partial to themselves (Bungie is now property of MS).
Then just make the tools for genetically engineer offspring, available for everyone.
The Bible as a whole is not a good story. Some parts are, but the whole not. This has nothing to do with the bible religious importance, just as the bible as a book.
Back to Illiad, the gods tell what is going to happen. They say "yay, let's make Patroclus kick ass for a while, then let him die", and, they do exactly that. And, when finally they do not help him anymore, does Hector kills him by his own hand? HELL NO, that might make Hector look like he is a good warrior! Apollo blinds Patroclus and only then Hector kills him.
I think that the best part of Illiad is the whole fight for Patroclus body, in which gods basically do not mess (IIRC), and humans actually act heroically.
Mmmm. Yeah, the term may refer something that happens in greek tragedies. But since the term is LATIN, you cannot assure that it is not present in the Illiad.
Yes, I did read the Illiad. It's a good book, but the gods ruin everything.
People do make choices in Illiad, but they mainly do not matter. Paris kidnapped Helen because a goddess hated him for a previous contest between goddesses in which he was the judge. Achilles, the big hero is a mamma boy who goes crying after Agamenon takes his slave. etc.
The real question is:
Why do you want to embed videos in your Word documents!!! stop the bloating already!
When Nintendo showed WindWaker for the first time, there were idiots who were saying "hey, it's not realistic, ergo, it sucks!".
Now, when Nintendo shows a realistic zelda, idiots complain that "it's too realistic!".
Windwaker was great, by the way. It had three problems:
-It was too easy.
-It was too short.
-It had too many maps search in the main quest.
Other than that, it was a great and beautiful game.
Have you read the Illiad? If you haven't, then shut up.
It's boring because gods decide everything. One thing is to talk about predetermination and destiny, and represent those things as gods, and another very different is to have Hector kick ass ONLY IF he is helped by a god, and to be killed the very second the gods stop smiling on him. That's just pathetic.
That's why the movie is called "Troy", and not "Illiad", doh.
Seriously, while Homer had great ability to narrate, and a great skill as a poet, his story sucks. Every time a hero is going to do something decisive, a god gets in the way, helping him or not. There are almost no human achievements in the Illiad, because gods do all the hard work, while humans do all the dying.
Have you heard about "Deux Ex Machina"? A magic plot device that solves any problem in the story? Illiad is plagued with them, so you cannot enjoy the story, because you know that, whenever thigns are getting interesting, a god will interfere.
Troy, on the other hand, manages to tell a decent story about people. It's not a master piece of cinema, but at least is interesting.
With my old trusty rocketlauncher.
I never leave home without it.
I don't think they are going to use polygonal models of things on the DS. Just sprites.
So it will be a big ball of sprites making up the 3d ball, in an almost 3d world (3d landscape, but sprite objects).
You talk about Splinter Cell's limitations, yet ignore the even more limiting constraints of Metal Gear Solid. Not being able to move in first-person comes to mind.
Just nitpicking, but Splinter Cell is a much more limited game than Metal Gear Solid (the first!).
Yeah, you cannot move in first person, but WHAT KIND OF STUPID LIMITATION THIS IS! This is like saying "MGS is not a First Person Shooter, so it's not a good game!".
Splinter Cell lacks in several areas in which MGS excels. Better storytelling, a single big mission instead of small chapters, the presence of bosses, which add rythm and emotion to the game, etc.
Splinter Cell, instead, only adds better ways to sneak around. But a game in which you are hidden the whole time isn't very good. You just go from a to b, to c, until the mission ends, and, if you are discovered, chances are you are going down. There is no catarsis, no build up, no nothing. Just a eternal hiding.