the reallife aplication of our value system. The kind of laws and officials you support or reject are based off of your belief structure.
Games, like art, like TV, like clothing, like almost anything created by man, can't help but in some way reflect the mindset of the person who designed them.
A game that takes place in space probably won't be designed by someone that hates the space program. Is that pushing a political agenda? No, it's simply inviting the public into your world, where a piece of your values will invariably surface.
Civilization often requires you to raise taxes to improve your economy. Is that pushing a political agenda? No. It simply reflects the reality of the person who designed the system.
forgive me for mispelling the sacred pocketheaven name:P
As for pocketnes.net. Oops, I goofed. You're right. I remembered wrong.
As I said, I was just trying to be helpful. Much like the original poster actuall.
I didn't see your post. It was modded zero for annonymous coward.
Actually the rippoff site was ORIGINALLY www.pocketsnes.com. It was taken because Loopy released the emulater on his WIP page and later at pocketsnes.pockethaven before getting the domainname pocketsnes.com - so they got it first.
As for getting it shut down. I don't know whats currently happening right now, but I recall when it originally happened there was quite a stink in the forums. I do recall Loopy saying to just ignore the assholes though. But I do infact recall a move to get the site shut down in the pockethaven forums, even going so far as people emailing the sites host and telling them that its a ripoff site.
In short, I was trying to be helpfull. You don't have to flame my ass because you posted it first as Anon. Thank you.
Seriously, look at the guy the site credits. Loopy.
This site the result of Loopy not getting the domain before releasing pocketsnes. So someone else did, and built a site using his pocketsnes release and barely claming cred it so people like you, naturally, assume that its a different emulator and its an official site.
Shortly after, Loopy renaimed the emulator to snesadvance. From what I understand, tehy're STILl trying to get the pocketsnes.com people to redit them better or shut down. All pocketsnes is is an old version of snesadvance.
This 0.1 emulator can actually handle quite a few games*perfectly* with speed hacks (only lacking in sound emulation. It may be an alpha, but its the most compatable 0.1 release I've seen. Also, the super DAT file on the site is updated multiple times a day, meaning that even without a new release, more games are becoming compatable on a dalie basis.
Besides, the overclocking has nothing to do with the software itself anyway. It's a hardware process. So, if its certain that it wont harm your machine, why wait until this specific piece of software works better? I'm sure theres plenty of other homegrown uses for an overclocked GBA.
It is normal, and to be hoped for. Retaining historical knowledge doesn't cause us to stagnate. It gives us a base to build off. Can you imagine if every school year you had to start over because you didn't retain the information from the previous year? An extreme example, but I think it gets the point across. You stagnate when theres no growth, and there cant be growth if theres no history to grow from. Whether its printed media, or digital, the concepts the same.
Uh.. how is this insightfull? Using an internet service based in israel, a democratic country and the US's major (some would say only) ally in the middle east, is somehow going to get us labled as terrorists. I can't even understand the thinking that went into this post.
Apple has a good product, its that simple. Its not a product I personally use, but it has its good points, and people are noticing it. And OSX really adds to the whole appeal.
I can not think of a single CD released in the past year that I would personally buy. The music from the past year has basically been formula stuff. If you like formula, this was your year.. but really, I think the lack of variety is what killed sales.
A good example is the 80s. Finding music then was like buying NES games. Theres a hell of alot of crap, but within it there was actually a decent selection of good stuff for a variety of tastes.
The corporate mentality is to hone into what sells best, cut back on everything else, and mass produce it. Take more chances. Give us something like Enya, far from the norm but strangely compelling. Symphony X, Weird Al. Stray from the norm, take risks, and you'll find that the market is there, waiting to be filled with something other than Britney.
Alright, remove sexy from this movie. There should be no sexy. Show Samus kicking butt. Give us creapy alien ambiance. But through out the entire movie, don't even mention that she's a she.
Maybe somewhere on teh DVD release, or during the ending credits, we can see her with her helmet off or something.. but we really don't want them to latch on to 'sexy' when the entire game was devoid of sexy until you descovered Samus was a girl.
All the sexy is implied through the post game knowledge that she's female. None of it is overtly displayed. If they're starting off with the idea of sexy, rest assured we'll just be watching situations where samus's running around out of suite for contrived reasons just to demonstrate the sexyness of it all.
The important thing here isnt that a group of gamers can get laptops that'll run their games. But the fact that theres a proven market for this means that companies can spend more money on developing higherend portable computers with the knowledge that they'll make a profit. Anything that results in more market driven technology research is a good thing.
Personally I love it. I'm constantly on the computer, whether its writing music, writing stories, lurking on Slashdot, or playing games. While a laptop would be extraordinarily useful to take with me for writing purposes, I just can't bring myself to buy a machine that won't run my games well.
The day I can take a laptop to the park and play games beutifully rendered on the new counterstrike engine will be shear bliss.
That bright yellow thing outside that keeps us warm. I've yet to find a sutable replacement online...of course, I live in Seattle, so I've yet to find the real thing either.
Its simply another change in the market. All new technology elliminates jobs. However, they create otehr jobs, because things that were impossible before become possible now.
A company that suddenly doesnt spend thousands apon thousands simply on licensing agreements can put more budget into projects elseware.
Yes, I want them to choose the most efficient routes to proffits. The easier it is for businesses to make money, the more competition tehy get. The more competition they get, the more incentive they have to give the costomer EXACTLY what the customer wants.
If we exact huge limitations on businesses, it wont somehow help our economy. It'll simply drive those in business out of business, killing off jobs, and making it so that only the extraordinarily wealthy can afford the cost of owning a business. In short, we'll be destroying the competition our marketplace is based off of.
As it stands right now, much outsourcing isn't done out of greed. It's done because we ALREADY have to many high taxes on businesses here because of some kind of twisted Robin Hood morality. Stealing from teh rich to give to the poor is all fine and good, but dont start complaining when the rich get sick of bandits and go somewhere else to do their business.
We're already forcing them to move some operations overseas. Forcing them to stay completely behind wont increase jobs. It'll drive them out of business altogether.
When someone modifies your software, and claims its theirs.
If by some miracle MS Windows became opensource, i'd support it.
And if they wouldnt let any of the unofficial builds use the microsoft logo, I'd support that to.
That logo represents their official product, and they dont want that showing up on something they've never even seen before and reflecting badly on them.
Its not free advertising. It's false advertising.
Why did people stop buying SNES? Becaue Nintendo stopped making them, and developers stopped making games for them. The proof that good gameplay doesnt go out of style is in how much money Nintendo makes simply be rereleasing old games for the GBA.
Also, many series have sucesfullybrought new games to the gba market. The castlevania series for instance. Certainly, the graphics are beutifly done... they're also something the snes would have been doing given another year I imagine. In fact, whats the big difference between castlevania on SNES, vs castlevania on GBA? Its not the graphics really. Its the style of play. Developers are constantly finding ways to make old ideas interesting again, despite limitations of technology.
This idea that a plateu would cause us to stop buying games is just reduculous. He's looking at eyecandy as opposed to play value. If anything, a plateu in graphics would force developers to stop making games flashy and focus more on the gameplay.. and it might stop this recent trend of looking for the prettiest games instead of the ones with great gameplay.
Really, how many of you bought Legend of Zelda because Link looked just like a real elf? How many people still play games based off of the ancient halflife engine? Good games aren't going anywhere.
Oh I perfectly agree that businesses need to be held accountable, in teh same way that one person with more powerful must not abuse taht power overs omeone else with lesser power (after all, a business is simply an artificial personage for the purpose of record keeping).
My issue is just with the idea that businesses must be penalized simply because they ARE businesses.. something that seems to be a more and more common theme in politics.
To bring this back to the topic though, I think any tools and information that (non law-enforcement)businesses are allowed access to should be equally available to the public.
If it isnt something you'd allow a stranger on the street should know, why should a coorperation have access to it anyway?
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the reallife aplication of our value system. The kind of laws and officials you support or reject are based off of your belief structure. Games, like art, like TV, like clothing, like almost anything created by man, can't help but in some way reflect the mindset of the person who designed them. A game that takes place in space probably won't be designed by someone that hates the space program. Is that pushing a political agenda? No, it's simply inviting the public into your world, where a piece of your values will invariably surface. Civilization often requires you to raise taxes to improve your economy. Is that pushing a political agenda? No. It simply reflects the reality of the person who designed the system.
forgive me for mispelling the sacred pocketheaven name :P
As for pocketnes.net. Oops, I goofed. You're right. I remembered wrong.
As I said, I was just trying to be helpful. Much like the original poster actuall.
I didn't see your post. It was modded zero for annonymous coward.
Actually the rippoff site was ORIGINALLY www.pocketsnes.com. It was taken because Loopy released the emulater on his WIP page and later at pocketsnes.pockethaven before getting the domainname pocketsnes.com - so they got it first.
As for getting it shut down. I don't know whats currently happening right now, but I recall when it originally happened there was quite a stink in the forums. I do recall Loopy saying to just ignore the assholes though. But I do infact recall a move to get the site shut down in the pockethaven forums, even going so far as people emailing the sites host and telling them that its a ripoff site.
In short, I was trying to be helpfull. You don't have to flame my ass because you posted it first as Anon. Thank you.
Seriously, look at the guy the site credits. Loopy.
This site the result of Loopy not getting the domain before releasing pocketsnes. So someone else did, and built a site using his pocketsnes release and barely claming cred it so people like you, naturally, assume that its a different emulator and its an official site.
Shortly after, Loopy renaimed the emulator to snesadvance. From what I understand, tehy're STILl trying to get the pocketsnes.com people to redit them better or shut down. All pocketsnes is is an old version of snesadvance.
This 0.1 emulator can actually handle quite a few games*perfectly* with speed hacks (only lacking in sound emulation. It may be an alpha, but its the most compatable 0.1 release I've seen. Also, the super DAT file on the site is updated multiple times a day, meaning that even without a new release, more games are becoming compatable on a dalie basis.
Besides, the overclocking has nothing to do with the software itself anyway. It's a hardware process. So, if its certain that it wont harm your machine, why wait until this specific piece of software works better? I'm sure theres plenty of other homegrown uses for an overclocked GBA.
It is normal, and to be hoped for. Retaining historical knowledge doesn't cause us to stagnate. It gives us a base to build off. Can you imagine if every school year you had to start over because you didn't retain the information from the previous year? An extreme example, but I think it gets the point across. You stagnate when theres no growth, and there cant be growth if theres no history to grow from. Whether its printed media, or digital, the concepts the same.
They're given some slack because they ahve yet to ever abuse our trust, or rip us off. In my opinion, Microsoft has done both.
Uh.. how is this insightfull? Using an internet service based in israel, a democratic country and the US's major (some would say only) ally in the middle east, is somehow going to get us labled as terrorists. I can't even understand the thinking that went into this post.
Apple has a good product, its that simple. Its not a product I personally use, but it has its good points, and people are noticing it. And OSX really adds to the whole appeal.
I can not think of a single CD released in the past year that I would personally buy. The music from the past year has basically been formula stuff. If you like formula, this was your year.. but really, I think the lack of variety is what killed sales.
A good example is the 80s. Finding music then was like buying NES games. Theres a hell of alot of crap, but within it there was actually a decent selection of good stuff for a variety of tastes.
The corporate mentality is to hone into what sells best, cut back on everything else, and mass produce it. Take more chances. Give us something like Enya, far from the norm but strangely compelling. Symphony X, Weird Al. Stray from the norm, take risks, and you'll find that the market is there, waiting to be filled with something other than Britney.
More and more people are sick of CD price gouging, yet the decline of sails is blamed on on rampant piracy and the economy. Look in the mirror.
Alright, remove sexy from this movie. There should be no sexy. Show Samus kicking butt. Give us creapy alien ambiance. But through out the entire movie, don't even mention that she's a she.
Maybe somewhere on teh DVD release, or during the ending credits, we can see her with her helmet off or something.. but we really don't want them to latch on to 'sexy' when the entire game was devoid of sexy until you descovered Samus was a girl.
All the sexy is implied through the post game knowledge that she's female. None of it is overtly displayed. If they're starting off with the idea of sexy, rest assured we'll just be watching situations where samus's running around out of suite for contrived reasons just to demonstrate the sexyness of it all.
The NEW one. Not the current one. Theres a new halflife engine, and I know there's gonna be a counterstrike mod for it.
The important thing here isnt that a group of gamers can get laptops that'll run their games. But the fact that theres a proven market for this means that companies can spend more money on developing higherend portable computers with the knowledge that they'll make a profit. Anything that results in more market driven technology research is a good thing.
Personally I love it. I'm constantly on the computer, whether its writing music, writing stories, lurking on Slashdot, or playing games. While a laptop would be extraordinarily useful to take with me for writing purposes, I just can't bring myself to buy a machine that won't run my games well. The day I can take a laptop to the park and play games beutifully rendered on the new counterstrike engine will be shear bliss.
That bright yellow thing outside that keeps us warm. I've yet to find a sutable replacement online. ..of course, I live in Seattle, so I've yet to find the real thing either.
Maybe they'll remove all the breakable parts...
Its simply another change in the market. All new technology elliminates jobs. However, they create otehr jobs, because things that were impossible before become possible now. A company that suddenly doesnt spend thousands apon thousands simply on licensing agreements can put more budget into projects elseware.
Yes, I want them to choose the most efficient routes to proffits. The easier it is for businesses to make money, the more competition tehy get. The more competition they get, the more incentive they have to give the costomer EXACTLY what the customer wants. If we exact huge limitations on businesses, it wont somehow help our economy. It'll simply drive those in business out of business, killing off jobs, and making it so that only the extraordinarily wealthy can afford the cost of owning a business. In short, we'll be destroying the competition our marketplace is based off of. As it stands right now, much outsourcing isn't done out of greed. It's done because we ALREADY have to many high taxes on businesses here because of some kind of twisted Robin Hood morality. Stealing from teh rich to give to the poor is all fine and good, but dont start complaining when the rich get sick of bandits and go somewhere else to do their business. We're already forcing them to move some operations overseas. Forcing them to stay completely behind wont increase jobs. It'll drive them out of business altogether.
When someone modifies your software, and claims its theirs. If by some miracle MS Windows became opensource, i'd support it. And if they wouldnt let any of the unofficial builds use the microsoft logo, I'd support that to. That logo represents their official product, and they dont want that showing up on something they've never even seen before and reflecting badly on them. Its not free advertising. It's false advertising.
Why did people stop buying SNES? Becaue Nintendo stopped making them, and developers stopped making games for them. The proof that good gameplay doesnt go out of style is in how much money Nintendo makes simply be rereleasing old games for the GBA. Also, many series have sucesfullybrought new games to the gba market. The castlevania series for instance. Certainly, the graphics are beutifly done... they're also something the snes would have been doing given another year I imagine. In fact, whats the big difference between castlevania on SNES, vs castlevania on GBA? Its not the graphics really. Its the style of play. Developers are constantly finding ways to make old ideas interesting again, despite limitations of technology. This idea that a plateu would cause us to stop buying games is just reduculous. He's looking at eyecandy as opposed to play value. If anything, a plateu in graphics would force developers to stop making games flashy and focus more on the gameplay.. and it might stop this recent trend of looking for the prettiest games instead of the ones with great gameplay. Really, how many of you bought Legend of Zelda because Link looked just like a real elf? How many people still play games based off of the ancient halflife engine? Good games aren't going anywhere.
That was actuallya reply to Boomer Sooners comment. My mistake
Oh I perfectly agree that businesses need to be held accountable, in teh same way that one person with more powerful must not abuse taht power overs omeone else with lesser power (after all, a business is simply an artificial personage for the purpose of record keeping). My issue is just with the idea that businesses must be penalized simply because they ARE businesses.. something that seems to be a more and more common theme in politics. To bring this back to the topic though, I think any tools and information that (non law-enforcement)businesses are allowed access to should be equally available to the public. If it isnt something you'd allow a stranger on the street should know, why should a coorperation have access to it anyway?
Just don't forget who it is that runs businesses. You guessed it. People. Funny how that works.