"because you can't "buy" all episodes of all tv shows, that is the main thing my wife looks for on torrent sites, you can buy some really popular shows, but most you can't buy.... so how else are you supposed to get the content?"
Wouldn't it be interesting if all this demand had proper supply?
"--On the one hand, as the designers point out, that is merely an early screenshot. The real avatar may look like that, or may look entirely different."
On the other hand, maybe they should release screenshots that don't look like they belong to Wind Waker. Then they wouldn't be infringing on trademarks or confusing people into thinking it's Wind Waker instead of Wiki.
"Yeah, it's a screenshot that looks similar. Deal with it."
They are. They sent a letter instead of a lawsuit.
" I think this is an instance of an overzealous lawyer"
I think this is an isntance of an overzealous attempt to assume lawyers only represent evil intentions.
"Those kind of decisions do not sit well with me."
Well, to be fair, Farscape had a huge budget but its audience wasn't growing. It's not that they just decided "welp, that's gone it's course", rather it turned into "we can't spend this much money". Yeah, it sucks and all, but TV is a business.
As for decisions that don't set well with me, how about Fox pre-empting Futurama and then cancelling it for ratings. Asses.
"Wanna say that word one more time? What's the deal? I mean you are aware this show is a remake right? I still can't believe they made Starbucks a chick."
It may be a remake, but it's so dissimilar to the original series I'm not sure it's even worth bitching about Starbuck being a chick. Believe it or not, this is one of those times they did a remake right. Watch it, you're likely to agree.
"One of our developers buried some easter eggs in a web-based game, and nobody has claimed them yet after several months."
Heh. I buried something like that in an essay I wrote in English Class. I had a teacher that just piled and piled and piled work on us. I was CERTAIN she didn't read through everything. "If you read this far, I owe ya a soda." I don't know which was worse: Being wrong about my teacher not reading my work, or being out 50 cents.
"If my email tells me anything, size DOES matterI find most of the realism comes from the physics engine. The texture just makes it look a bit prettier, but by no means makes the game any better."
I didn't say it makes the game better. And yes, I should have defined 'realism' a little more clearly. I meant the rendered visuals of it, not the motion of it. You can do a lot more to make an image 'photo-real' with greater texture resolution than you can do with faster processing etc. Ask anybody who's played Doom 3. The normal mapping in that game, love it loathe it, did a great deal more to the visual detail of the game than adding a few more polygons to the scene.
"Incidentally, the NeoGeo pocket is notable for having the best handheld controller ever, a reflective color screen that you could actually see, and battery life that rivals the GBA, all in a similar form factor."
Not really an argument, but something to point out: The Neo Geo Pocket had inferior processing capaibilities to the GBA. SIGNIFICANTLY inferior. (Both audio and graphics.)
"You're just plain wrong to assert that they push their technology to the limits without the pressure of competition though."
I didn't say they did. Here's what I did say, though:
" I don't think there's any doubt that Sony kicked Nintendo in the rear to innovate"
What I 'asserted' was tha destroying Nintendo's monopoly is not necessarily a good move. Competition's fine, but when the market says "we like this", then taking it down just because of the big M word is not always the right approach. Nintendo's monopoly isn't due to lack of competition. It's due to making the best handheld. Bad bad bad?
Why? It's there because the market decided it should be there, not because Nintendo has a gun put to everybody's head. Frankly, if Sony isn't getting things right, like YOU said, then why on Earth would you want THEM to be in a monopoly?
"It's funny that Nintendo released gameboy boy black and white lasting a decade, with zero motivation to improve."
0 motivation? I suppose you forgot Nintendo's innovation attempt called Virtual Boy. Tee hee giggle snort. Anyway, the main reason why Nintendo hasn't had a serious competitor is because the 'innovators' destroyed a key factor that made their units worth having. Usually it was battery life, although sometimes it was size. The Game Boy had the right balance to pleae a lot of customers, and the technology didn't allow much wiggle room here. It wasn't that Nintendo didn't have motivation to innovate, it was that Nintendo wasn't stupid enough to destroy the successful formula.
"Then GB advanced, color and DS all launched in the span of 3 years under competition from Sony."
The GB Advance (no d.) was out long before Sony was 'competition' in the handheld market. Additionally, it was in development long before Sony released the PS1. I don't think there's any doubt that Sony kicked Nintendo in the rear to innovate, and I agree that competition's good, but your impressions about Nintendo are a little skewed.
"Perhaps instead of focusing on free anti-spyware utilities and integrated firewalls, they should fix the holes in their operating system?
Security needs to happen at both ends. Even if all the holes in Windows were blocked, ppl could still run executables on their machine that can cause michief. At least with a built in firewall, theoretically, data shouldn't get out.
"What use is linux for handhelds, considering there are currently no good open source mini browsers (eventually, there will be minimoz) or handwriting recognition programs."
I'm more interested in being able to synch up with Outlook or an equivalent app. Honestly, I don't care what OS it runs.
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"because you can't "buy" all episodes of all tv shows, that is the main thing my wife looks for on torrent sites, you can buy some really popular shows, but most you can't buy.... so how else are you supposed to get the content?"
Wouldn't it be interesting if all this demand had proper supply?
"Hmmm.... let me see.... A lady friend? This is /. afterall. :-)"
Why? With money, you can always rent love.
(woohoo! Married with Children reference!! Top that!!)
"I think you missed the joke."
Meet me halfway: Make the joke funny!
"--On the one hand, as the designers point out, that is merely an early screenshot. The real avatar may look like that, or may look entirely different."
On the other hand, maybe they should release screenshots that don't look like they belong to Wind Waker. Then they wouldn't be infringing on trademarks or confusing people into thinking it's Wind Waker instead of Wiki.
"Yeah, it's a screenshot that looks similar. Deal with it."
They are. They sent a letter instead of a lawsuit.
" I think this is an instance of an overzealous lawyer"
I think this is an isntance of an overzealous attempt to assume lawyers only represent evil intentions.
"But here's the real question: Can any user edit the game?"
Doesn't matter. They can't advertise the game looking like WW. For the purposes of marketing/advertising, they cannot infringe.
"Those kind of decisions do not sit well with me."
Well, to be fair, Farscape had a huge budget but its audience wasn't growing. It's not that they just decided "welp, that's gone it's course", rather it turned into "we can't spend this much money". Yeah, it sucks and all, but TV is a business.
As for decisions that don't set well with me, how about Fox pre-empting Futurama and then cancelling it for ratings. Asses.
"Wanna say that word one more time? What's the deal? I mean you are aware this show is a remake right? I still can't believe they made Starbucks a chick."
It may be a remake, but it's so dissimilar to the original series I'm not sure it's even worth bitching about Starbuck being a chick. Believe it or not, this is one of those times they did a remake right. Watch it, you're likely to agree.
"Yeah, maybe, but older versions of Opera are faster than newer ones. Think about that!"
Define faster. I'm getting more done with 7.x than I ever did with 6.x. Why? They 'bloated' the UI to make it more useful.
Yeesh. If some people had their ways, keyboards would only have a 1 and a 0.
"so what happened?"
He miraculously found time to be an open source developer.
"And once you're done, you still have some $400 that you can spend on a photo-centric handheld!"
Okay, that's it, hand over your nerd license.
"One of our developers buried some easter eggs in a web-based game, and nobody has claimed them yet after several months."
Heh. I buried something like that in an essay I wrote in English Class. I had a teacher that just piled and piled and piled work on us. I was CERTAIN she didn't read through everything. "If you read this far, I owe ya a soda." I don't know which was worse: Being wrong about my teacher not reading my work, or being out 50 cents.
"If my email tells me anything, size DOES matterI find most of the realism comes from the physics engine. The texture just makes it look a bit prettier, but by no means makes the game any better."
I didn't say it makes the game better. And yes, I should have defined 'realism' a little more clearly. I meant the rendered visuals of it, not the motion of it. You can do a lot more to make an image 'photo-real' with greater texture resolution than you can do with faster processing etc. Ask anybody who's played Doom 3. The normal mapping in that game, love it loathe it, did a great deal more to the visual detail of the game than adding a few more polygons to the scene.
"If my email tells me anything, size DOES matter."
Seeing as how most of the 'realism' of a 3D game comes from detailed textures, yes, size of texture ram does matter.
"You take the same risk posting them as you do torrenting them."
That's why Slashdot doesn't do either.
"If a news story is screenshots... especially if it's 10+ high res... tar + gzip them all and make a torrent somewhere."
Copyright...
"Missed the latest issue of Iwata's Funniest Comments I take it?"
You mean the one where people took out of context blurbs and won't let go of it?
"They are against voice acting, how is that hard to understand?"
Depends on how little context you attach to your complaint, really. In other words, you'd be better understood if you were a better communicator.
" The anti-online stance."
Never mind that the DS has built in 802.11, Nintendo's not anti-online. They are anti-negative profit, however.
"The, gamers dont want graphics or plot stance."
Huh?
"The lack of voice acting. "
Huh?
Is this a real rebuttal or a "I hate Nintendo today" rant? I mean, if we were talking about GameCube too, I wouldn't accuse you of that. But, still...
Not really an argument, but something to point out: The Neo Geo Pocket had inferior processing capaibilities to the GBA. SIGNIFICANTLY inferior. (Both audio and graphics.)
"You're just plain wrong to assert that they push their technology to the limits without the pressure of competition though."
I didn't say they did. Here's what I did say, though:
What I 'asserted' was tha destroying Nintendo's monopoly is not necessarily a good move. Competition's fine, but when the market says "we like this", then taking it down just because of the big M word is not always the right approach. Nintendo's monopoly isn't due to lack of competition. It's due to making the best handheld. Bad bad bad?
"The Nintendo handheld monopoly has got to go."
Why? It's there because the market decided it should be there, not because Nintendo has a gun put to everybody's head. Frankly, if Sony isn't getting things right, like YOU said, then why on Earth would you want THEM to be in a monopoly?
"It's funny that Nintendo released gameboy boy black and white lasting a decade, with zero motivation to improve."
0 motivation? I suppose you forgot Nintendo's innovation attempt called Virtual Boy. Tee hee giggle snort. Anyway, the main reason why Nintendo hasn't had a serious competitor is because the 'innovators' destroyed a key factor that made their units worth having. Usually it was battery life, although sometimes it was size. The Game Boy had the right balance to pleae a lot of customers, and the technology didn't allow much wiggle room here. It wasn't that Nintendo didn't have motivation to innovate, it was that Nintendo wasn't stupid enough to destroy the successful formula.
"Then GB advanced, color and DS all launched in the span of 3 years under competition from Sony."
The GB Advance (no d.) was out long before Sony was 'competition' in the handheld market. Additionally, it was in development long before Sony released the PS1. I don't think there's any doubt that Sony kicked Nintendo in the rear to innovate, and I agree that competition's good, but your impressions about Nintendo are a little skewed.
Odd, I recently found a porn site with the exact same requirements.
"Perhaps instead of focusing on free anti-spyware utilities and integrated firewalls, they should fix the holes in their operating system?
Security needs to happen at both ends. Even if all the holes in Windows were blocked, ppl could still run executables on their machine that can cause michief. At least with a built in firewall, theoretically, data shouldn't get out.
"According to TFA the depth is 45 METERS deep, not 45 KILOMETERS. ;)"
Just one more reeason to use the english system...
"Does anyone else remember the simpler days, when phones where just phones?"
Yep, and now I have a ton of extra pocket space!
"What use is linux for handhelds, considering there are currently no good open source mini browsers (eventually, there will be minimoz) or handwriting recognition programs."
I'm more interested in being able to synch up with Outlook or an equivalent app. Honestly, I don't care what OS it runs.
Bwahhaha!
My kingdom for a mod point!