Because if you don't, people won't buy your hardware. IBM vs. Apple, Clones vs. IBM PS/2, PlayStation 2 vs. Dreamcast, US Robotics vs. Hayes, SVHS vs. 8mm, etc.
Yeah, but would being able to play Saturn (and possibly Sega CD) games on the Dreamcast have kept it around today?:D
A couple do, I think they call the process a "click-through"
They don't make you wait 15 seconds though.
How can they expect this to work? I don't know about you guys but if a page is taking more than 15 minutes to load I start thinking about finding another page to look at...
As a modem user, I'd be thinking along the lines of, "I waited how long to download what?
It's much easier for our government to protect our freedoms if you're willing to give up all but a few, so that they need only concentrate on protecting those few.
Completely unrelated (or is it?) but did anybody else play Missile Command like this?
You know, where you let all but one of the cities die as soon as the game becomes difficult, so that it's easy to keep playing?
I'll let you derive your own thoughts about how this may be happening to us...
They pick a small technical school (no offense to MTU). If they want some publicity, they should go after a large law school.
Perhaps they are only testing the waters here, and will carry on with larger fish should this go well for them. After all, this could blow up in their faces, why risk that with a high profile target?
I for one am more than happy to see that Spirited Away will be in theaters again, but will the fact that it's coming out on DVD in the states in April hurt ticket sales?
I'd say that though gun games aren't dead, they're certainly dying. You mentioned Time Crisis 3 and World Combat. I'd probably add Police 911 to that (The one where it tracks your real movements). That makes a total of 3 games over the past few years, which isn't exactly booming.
Nope.
Not all of these made it to the states, but in the last couple of years on PS2 there was Gun Survivor 3 and 4, Ninja Assault, GunBarl Collection (the first Time Crisis game and Point Blank 1, 2 & 3) Virtua Cop Rebirth, Time Crisis 2, Vampire Night and Endgame.
Sure there's no Sony lightgun, but the GunCon is fairly 'official' at this point (and damn hard to improve on!)
At the time I was living in the dorms, I had an ATI 3DXpression+ board with the ATI-TV addon card.
In one corner of my room I had my computer with a SEGA Genesis and cable hooked up to it, which worked great.
I really miss that card's ability to scan closed captioning for keywords (and alerting me) as well as the nifty 'video desktop' (which put TV as my background pic when I minimized the TV viewer. Could be very distracting at times...)
The average American does not think "Wow, I'm so glad that this money that I worked so hard for is going to help protect me now." while he or she is filling out their tax forms. Instead they are most likely thinking things that I should not even mention over the internet.
Actually, my thoughts are more along the lines of, "Would they not have to take quite so much if people weren't wasting time & energy on dumb things like Freedom Fries?"
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...I think you meant to say non-fucking geek steroetypes.
Either that or you're thinking of a different one than I am.
Sorry to say, but I highly doubt that such a law would result in making anything more than a microscopic-size dent in a $5 billion deficit.
...and could possibly add to it!
Now the state could potentially end up hiring a consultant/expert to help make this decision which in the long run might end up to just use Microsoft anyway...
I think they are going too far out of their way by watching account usage and trying to charge for excessive use.
What may work better is to just set caps for usage (by IP/userid/dorm floor) which just cut you off when you've reached the limit for the week.
They started doing this at Oregon State University for the modem pool when it was getting too busy.
Invariably students would say, "But I need net access for school work!" to which they would get the reply: "The computer lab in the library is open has network access and is open 24 hours..."
Every ISP should base charges only on how much traffic you send.
What?
Maybe you're just oversyplifying, but wouldn't this charge me only for outbound data (like HTTP GET requests) and not for the gigabytes of pr0n I download every day?
In most of the engineering courses I took at Oregon State University, professors did not want students to score high on tests (in fact I recall a term of Digital Logic Design where the class average was 26%!)
The logic behind this was that the tests were there for the professor to gague what the class had actually learned, and that seeing mixed scores gives them more feedback than a bunch of 100% (or near 100%)
What sucked was when they then did not apply a curve to the grades people got. (i.e. in a class of 70+ handing out less than 10 A-C grades, efectively failing most of the class.
(In the OSU College of Engineering, a D is a failing grade for core courses.)
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Because if you don't, people won't buy your hardware. IBM vs. Apple, Clones vs. IBM PS/2, PlayStation 2 vs. Dreamcast, US Robotics vs. Hayes, SVHS vs. 8mm, etc.
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Yeah, but would being able to play Saturn (and possibly Sega CD) games on the Dreamcast have kept it around today?
Guess we know where Microsoft wants to go today.
Isn't the phrase "Where do you want to go today?"
I guess in this case it would be "Where do you want to go while you go today?"
A couple do, I think they call the process a "click-through"
They don't make you wait 15 seconds though.
How can they expect this to work? I don't know about you guys but if a page is taking more than 15 minutes to load I start thinking about finding another page to look at...
As a modem user, I'd be thinking along the lines of, "I waited how long to download what?
Sheesh.
Polymer City Chronicles is doing it too...
How will game companies lure us after graphics become photorealistic?
They'll have to start making them fun again.
There's a reason why Namco and others make so much money reprinting and repackaging old game, and it's not because of new graphics engines...
It's much easier for our government to protect our freedoms if you're willing to give up all but a few, so that they need only concentrate on protecting those few.
Completely unrelated (or is it?) but did anybody else play Missile Command like this?
You know, where you let all but one of the cities die as soon as the game becomes difficult, so that it's easy to keep playing?
I'll let you derive your own thoughts about how this may be happening to us...
They pick a small technical school (no offense to MTU). If they want some publicity, they should go after a large law school.
Perhaps they are only testing the waters here, and will carry on with larger fish should this go well for them. After all, this could blow up in their faces, why risk that with a high profile target?
I for one am more than happy to see that Spirited Away will be in theaters again, but will the fact that it's coming out on DVD in the states in April hurt ticket sales?
...on Gamecube!
I'd say that though gun games aren't dead, they're certainly dying. You mentioned Time Crisis 3 and World Combat. I'd probably add Police 911 to that (The one where it tracks your real movements). That makes a total of 3 games over the past few years, which isn't exactly booming.
Nope.
Not all of these made it to the states, but in the last couple of years on PS2 there was Gun Survivor 3 and 4, Ninja Assault, GunBarl Collection (the first Time Crisis game and Point Blank 1, 2 & 3) Virtua Cop Rebirth, Time Crisis 2, Vampire Night and Endgame.
Sure there's no Sony lightgun, but the GunCon is fairly 'official' at this point (and damn hard to improve on!)
At the time I was living in the dorms, I had an ATI 3DXpression+ board with the ATI-TV addon card.
In one corner of my room I had my computer with a SEGA Genesis and cable hooked up to it, which worked great.
I really miss that card's ability to scan closed captioning for keywords (and alerting me) as well as the nifty 'video desktop' (which put TV as my background pic when I minimized the TV viewer. Could be very distracting at times...)
The average American does not think "Wow, I'm so glad that this money that I worked so hard for is going to help protect me now." while he or she is filling out their tax forms. Instead they are most likely thinking things that I should not even mention over the internet.
Actually, my thoughts are more along the lines of, "Would they not have to take quite so much if people weren't wasting time & energy on dumb things like Freedom Fries?"
...I think you meant to say non-fucking geek steroetypes.
Either that or you're thinking of a different one than I am.
after renaming "french fries" Congress has just decided to rename "spam" as "french email" !
Don't you mean "post electronique?"
Don't forget that the Atari 7800 was backwards compatible with the Atari 2600.
A couple of years back my uncle found a locomotive in a wall in a house they were remodeling.
The loco was manufactured in 1917.
We dusted it off, put it on the track, powered it up and it ran just fine. Only thing that didn't work was the little light on the front.
As much fun as their new trains are, I have a feeling that their old engines will probably outlast trains made today...
Sorry to say, but I highly doubt that such a law would result in making anything more than a microscopic-size dent in a $5 billion deficit.
...and could possibly add to it!
Now the state could potentially end up hiring a consultant/expert to help make this decision which in the long run might end up to just use Microsoft anyway...
I think they are going too far out of their way by watching account usage and trying to charge for excessive use.
What may work better is to just set caps for usage (by IP/userid/dorm floor) which just cut you off when you've reached the limit for the week.
They started doing this at Oregon State University for the modem pool when it was getting too busy.
Invariably students would say, "But I need net access for school work!" to which they would get the reply: "The computer lab in the library is open has network access and is open 24 hours..."
Every ISP should base charges only on how much traffic you send.
:)
What?
Maybe you're just oversyplifying, but wouldn't this charge me only for outbound data (like HTTP GET requests) and not for the gigabytes of pr0n I download every day?
Hypothetical situation, I Assure you!
Many arcade to console conversion were very successful. I can't think of one where a console game made it into the arcades.
I can think of one
Aha!
So that sheds new light on what the M stands for...
Plea to game makers - please make the baddies aliens and dragons or robots.
That's it, you are banished to play Dark Reign 2 for the rest of eternity!
(OTOH, I did enjoy RoboRumble...)
Don't forget Kool Aid Man and Chase the Chuck Wagon
The Welcome Kit that came with my 2001New Beetle came with a copy of Midtown Madness.
(Was like an expanded version of the demo with the Beetle drivable...)
In most of the engineering courses I took at Oregon State University, professors did not want students to score high on tests (in fact I recall a term of Digital Logic Design where the class average was 26%!)
The logic behind this was that the tests were there for the professor to gague what the class had actually learned, and that seeing mixed scores gives them more feedback than a bunch of 100% (or near 100%)
What sucked was when they then did not apply a curve to the grades people got. (i.e. in a class of 70+ handing out less than 10 A-C grades, efectively failing most of the class.
(In the OSU College of Engineering, a D is a failing grade for core courses.)