Playing video games is fun. Prison shouldn't be fun. I'm not saying it must be inhumanly torturous, but smiling, happy prisoners don't convince me that they are learning the consequences of their actions.
There are many honest and hard working families that can't afford video games, but criminals are rewarded with such luxuries. That to me is unacceptable
Perhaps the criminals should be learning skills that will help keep them out of prison
How's that for prior art? Force feedback dates back to at least 1995, prior to the release of the N64
Additionally ANALOGUE STICK = JOYSTICK in my books, and that has been around longer than the N64. Or do I need to provide concrete evidence for that as well?
Read my post again you dumb f**k - I cited more than one innovation that has come from Nintendo since the NES era. Your arguments are flawed and pathetic.
And you need to calm down. Geeze, by the temperament of your replies, one would think that I were promoting hate-propaganda. I mean really, how about we keep this in perspective? We're simply discussing huge, multi-national corporations who don't care about your support for their products unless it takes the shape of money.
I know that Microsoft had force feedback peripherals for PC's well before N64. I would call that prior art. Additionally, tactile feedback mice were on the drawing board well before as well.
I don't think that force feedback was a new idea anyway. But whereas Sony integrated it into their controller, Nintendo required you to buy the Rumble Pack seperately.
Oh, don't forget the batteries. I don't know if it came with batteries, but I do know that you had to buy new ones yourself when those died
I don't recognize a simple "new product" as innovation
I don't think your reasoning is all that sound. Nintendo's making a killing in the portable market. If Nintendo was really all that frustrating to be around, seems like it would have been a hell of a lot easier to crack their monopoly. No luck on that front, yet.
I'll reserve comment on that until we see real numbers on the PSP in terms on sales. I'm not sure console dominace translates directly into handheld dominance
I personally feel that the PSP will be seriously hampered in terms of battery life since it will be disk based.
Additionally, of course a dedicated DVD player will outperform a console, but it would have been a nice addition, especially since the PS2 and XBOX already had that feature.
If the Gamecube would at least have added DVD capability like the PS2 and XBox, it would have been more on-par with them in terms of capability.
With the exception of their Gameboy line, Nintendo's products are always half-assed, missing a key "something" that would add a decent piece of functionality.
Ever since the NES/SNES they've relied more on their name to sell games, rather than their innovation. A key example of this is how most of their games squeeze the last bit of life from their franchises, instead of trying to develop additional ones.
Heck, I was in BestBuy last week, and I'll be damned if 90% of the games on sale for GBA were simply NES games re-released... with the same graphics!
Nintendo's been sitting on its laurels for too long in the console gaming market and they're clearly falling behind because of it.
I just love how these harde-core Linux users sit there and preach that easy to use, pre-packaged and pre-configured Linux distros are for lazy and stupid people, and that REAL users produce everything from scratch....
....just before they go to McDonald's to buy a pre-packaged, and pre-configured Big Mac combo #3, because they are to stupid and lazy to prepare their meals from scratch!
Now excuse me while I work away here on RedHat 7.2 and munch on my Big Extra combo #6
Its called "open source". Remember? The freedom to change whatever you want about the software they provide. God, does that mean Mandrake doesn't respect RedHat since their distro was initially based on RedHat's? Heaven forbid RedHat be allowed to try and do the same thing.
Perhaps the GPL should come witha disclaimer that states "taking advantage of the rights and freedoms granted by this license will be interpreted as disrespect to the source code's originator".
The only thing the desktop groups can do here is demand that RedHat stop calling their new creation Gnome or KDE.
the Berezovka mammoth, recovered in northeastern Siberia in 1901. This had an erect penis, thought to be because it died of asphyxiation.
Asphyxiation? I don't think so.
Obviously an attractive female mammoth was in the vicinity, causing the male mammoth to lose his concentration. Poor guy probably wasn't looking where he was going and walked right off a cliff. Either that or he was showing off to impress said female and got himself killed in the process (Darwin Award anyone?)
Sad to say, this is simply a typical male situation.
As far as I can tell, with the exception of the skin, the UI for Mozilla is nearly identical to that of Netscape Navigator 4.7. Does that mean this reviewer always had problems with Netscape's UI? This has basically been the UI for years, and to date I have not had any complaints about it.
On top of that, his criticism that designing for multi-platforms, instead of optimizing for one platform, reeks of Microsoft FUD! Almost as if multi-platform software is a bad thing. I hate reviewers who ruin their own review with stupid comments like this one.
Well, I would tend to agree with you, but Apple loves to send out their lawyers everytime they even THINK some one is copying their GUI design (remember the AQUA theme fiasco?).
I don't think any developers are willing to invest time and effort to incorporte "OS X-like" ideas into their work just to have Apple's lawyers tell them that they have to scrap the whole thing under threat of "look and feel" violations.
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Playing video games is fun. Prison shouldn't be fun. I'm not saying it must be inhumanly torturous, but smiling, happy prisoners don't convince me that they are learning the consequences of their actions.
There are many honest and hard working families that can't afford video games, but criminals are rewarded with such luxuries. That to me is unacceptable
Perhaps the criminals should be learning skills that will help keep them out of prison
BenyBut you still had to buy them at additional cost.
How's that for prior art? Force feedback dates back to at least 1995, prior to the release of the N64
Additionally ANALOGUE STICK = JOYSTICK in my books, and that has been around longer than the N64. Or do I need to provide concrete evidence for that as well?
Read my post again you dumb f**k - I cited more than one innovation that has come from Nintendo since the NES era. Your arguments are flawed and pathetic.
And you need to calm down. Geeze, by the temperament of your replies, one would think that I were promoting hate-propaganda. I mean really, how about we keep this in perspective? We're simply discussing huge, multi-national corporations who don't care about your support for their products unless it takes the shape of money.
I know that Microsoft had force feedback peripherals for PC's well before N64. I would call that prior art. Additionally, tactile feedback mice were on the drawing board well before as well.
I don't think that force feedback was a new idea anyway. But whereas Sony integrated it into their controller, Nintendo required you to buy the Rumble Pack seperately.
Oh, don't forget the batteries. I don't know if it came with batteries, but I do know that you had to buy new ones yourself when those died
I don't recognize a simple "new product" as innovation
I don't think your reasoning is all that sound. Nintendo's making a killing in the portable market. If Nintendo was really all that frustrating to be around, seems like it would have been a hell of a lot easier to crack their monopoly. No luck on that front, yet.
I'll reserve comment on that until we see real numbers on the PSP in terms on sales. I'm not sure console dominace translates directly into handheld dominance
I personally feel that the PSP will be seriously hampered in terms of battery life since it will be disk based.
Additionally, of course a dedicated DVD player will outperform a console, but it would have been a nice addition, especially since the PS2 and XBOX already had that feature.
BenyYou still need a console to play pirated games. The headline is simply talking about console sales
Besides, Sony and MS aren't exactly pulling out of the console gaming market because of piracy either
If the Gamecube would at least have added DVD capability like the PS2 and XBox, it would have been more on-par with them in terms of capability.
With the exception of their Gameboy line, Nintendo's products are always half-assed, missing a key "something" that would add a decent piece of functionality.
Ever since the NES/SNES they've relied more on their name to sell games, rather than their innovation. A key example of this is how most of their games squeeze the last bit of life from their franchises, instead of trying to develop additional ones.
Heck, I was in BestBuy last week, and I'll be damned if 90% of the games on sale for GBA were simply NES games re-released... with the same graphics!
Nintendo's been sitting on its laurels for too long in the console gaming market and they're clearly falling behind because of it.
BenyDoes this problem affect Windows '98 as well?
I dual boot with 98, and I don't want it to wipe out my info.
Thanks
Beny
The difference is (with respect to your post) that cocain and Kiddie Porn are still ILLEGAL throughout the US.
Gambling is still legal, however.Beny
Lets compare this to USB2 which is widely used to connect digital cameras, we can get alteast 50mb/ps transfer rates from this. Which is reasonable.
Wow, 50 megs per picosecond is reasonable?! I would have though that it is downright fantastic! What kind of transfer speeds are you used? 8^)
BenyThe entire near-instantaneous, gravity-free line is fluff.
I agree. That's pretty much like saying that sundial clocks are powered by nuclear fusion.
Techically correct, but really blown out of proportion.
BenyNow I'm not one to blame the victim, but remember, once a malicious person has accessed your system, no amount of jail time will bring back your data.
BenyYes, wasn't the last Release Candidate codenamed "OUTATIME"? This was the liscense plate of the time machine.
Beny
Didn't Apple release the source code to Darwin a few weeks ago?
Does this mean that we can finally expect to see HFS+ support in a future Linux kernel?
Or are the two licenses too different to that that from Darwin and drop it into Linux?
Thanks,
Beny
I just love how these harde-core Linux users sit there and preach that easy to use, pre-packaged and pre-configured Linux distros are for lazy and stupid people, and that REAL users produce everything from scratch....
Now excuse me while I work away here on RedHat 7.2 and munch on my Big Extra combo #6
BenyRespect has nothing to do with it.
Its called "open source". Remember? The freedom to change whatever you want about the software they provide. God, does that mean Mandrake doesn't respect RedHat since their distro was initially based on RedHat's? Heaven forbid RedHat be allowed to try and do the same thing.
Perhaps the GPL should come witha disclaimer that states "taking advantage of the rights and freedoms granted by this license will be interpreted as disrespect to the source code's originator".
The only thing the desktop groups can do here is demand that RedHat stop calling their new creation Gnome or KDE.
Benythe Berezovka mammoth, recovered in northeastern Siberia in 1901. This had an erect penis, thought to be because it died of asphyxiation.
Asphyxiation? I don't think so.
Obviously an attractive female mammoth was in the vicinity, causing the male mammoth to lose his concentration. Poor guy probably wasn't looking where he was going and walked right off a cliff. Either that or he was showing off to impress said female and got himself killed in the process (Darwin Award anyone?)
Sad to say, this is simply a typical male situation.
BenyAs far as I can tell, with the exception of the skin, the UI for Mozilla is nearly identical to that of Netscape Navigator 4.7. Does that mean this reviewer always had problems with Netscape's UI? This has basically been the UI for years, and to date I have not had any complaints about it.
On top of that, his criticism that designing for multi-platforms, instead of optimizing for one platform, reeks of Microsoft FUD! Almost as if multi-platform software is a bad thing. I hate reviewers who ruin their own review with stupid comments like this one.
Beny,
that quote from "Porky's"? "Right now he's just playing with you, but one of these times he's going to get tired of you©©© and he's going to hurt you©"
Well, I would tend to agree with you, but Apple loves to send out their lawyers everytime they even THINK some one is copying their GUI design (remember the AQUA theme fiasco?). I don't think any developers are willing to invest time and effort to incorporte "OS X-like" ideas into their work just to have Apple's lawyers tell them that they have to scrap the whole thing under threat of "look and feel" violations.
> Regardless of the default, they're going to have
> to pry enlightenment from my cold, dead fingers©
Here, here! I'm using e0©16©5 and still going strong© Unfortunately I have no plans to move to e©017© I don't mean to insult their hard work, but as far as I understand, e0©17 is going to be a desktop shell, not simply a window manager© Enlightenment is basically making us choose between it and Gnome or KDE©
Sorry guys, I choose Gnome ¥with select KDE apps as my default environment©
While we're on the subject, GMC is still my file manager© Much faster, and it does so much more ¥better integration with GNOME than Nautilus©
Beny
"Because most people are obviously using file sharing to find new music to purchase© A concept the RIAA can not comprehend©"
This is not really surprising© When you're decitful, greedy, and untrusting you think everyone is decitful, greedy, and untrusting©
In truth the RIAA is basically admitting that they would do the same thing in our position, since they don't seem to want to give us the benefit of the doubt that if we like the music we download, we will actually go out and buy it©
Beny