The way I see it, the new Nintendo console is not even targetted at people "who spend a lot of money on consumer electronics". The Revolution will be the cheapest of the lot, targetted to the mass audience.
I agree that eventually we'll have HD, and it does make a difference GRAPHICALLY. But high res graphics aren't everything. It's about graphic aestethics. It's about gameplay.
Really. The war between Sony and MS actually plays in favor of nintendo. The two behemoths push all those technical details, and in the process exploding the prices.
I've enjoyed more playing some emulated GBA games than some of this age's beautiful games. Yes, some 2D games for a tiny screen console just feel like they look better than full shaded bla bla 3D games.
Nintendo knows all this and this works great with their plan to allow downloads of games for their old consoles to be played on the Rev. Graphics have become better, games haven't.
Disclaimer: I'm not a nintendo fanboy. I don't even like their main game series (Mario/Zelda). But really, graphics aren't all. (tho there are many beautiful games which are also great gameplay-wise such as MGS or SoulCalibur).
Maybe your ID card? You know, that card every citizen is supposed to get at age 16 or so with identification details? OH RIGHT, it's not a some developed country we're talking about, it's the USA!
Do you understand you're agruing about a different thing I was saying? I said it was practically, logically, infinite. I don't give a damn what the "supreme court said". They can also say 2+2=5 or that the sun is blue, it doesn't make it logically correct. My point had NOTHING, ZERO, ZILCH to do with those rulings. The function f(x) = x is BOUNDED for each specific x, which fits with that ruling, but in practice, f(x) = x is unbounded. In math, it is said that lim_{x->inf} f(x) = inf iff for each M exists x0 so that for all x>x0 f(x) > M. Indeed, for every time in the future M, exists a time x0 so that for every time after that, the extention is longer than the time M.
Yes, each time they make an extension they set a finite time. But for every time you check whether the work is under copyright or not, exists a "limited extension" not too long before that covers it.
i.e. for every time you check, the work is copyrighted. So in pratice, the copyright term is unlimited.
Repeated extention of the term is equivelant to unlimited.
Consider the variable x as time after publishing to check whether a work is still in copyright or not. Now consider the function f(x) = x+1 as the time after publishing when the work will enter public domain, as a function of the time of questioning.
Obviously, f(x) is "limited"/finite for every x. However, for every x, xf(x) so the work stays in copyright. As x goes to infinity so is f(x). Therefore it's not "limited" in the global sense.
I have a "l33t machine". I get good frame rates in Doom3 and such games. However, the games I enjoyed the most lately are almost all 2D. Specifically FreeDroid, Crystalis (NES), Soul Calibur (DC emu, KEYBOARD > GAMEPAD!!!), Castlevania: Aria Of Sorrow (GBA), Zelda: The Minish Cap (GBA).
Almost all these games are graphically inferior but the gameplay is just awesome. I don't really care if it is technically superior, but I do care if its aestethic and plays right. Hell, considering Doom3, I enjoyed more playing Doom1 and 2 with a friend in multiplayer on some OpenGL engine for it than Doom3.
I believe Nintendo will hit a trump card with the Revolution. There are so many old and good games and many of them are enjoyable at least like today's games.
Also it seems to be good for open source. Many of the best open source games are simply versions of old classics, and it works well!
Surely it doesn't mean all new games with realistic graphics suck... Metal Gear Solid 2/3 look great and are good games. Ninja Gaiden looks awesome and has as much gameplay as the old classics.
Accurate aiming model? I've only been to basic military training and I aim better than the soldier in the game. Specifically I refer to the fact that the soldier in the game can't breath correctly. For some reason he keeps wobbling around instead of going back to the same position, at least after exhaling all air. When I realized that, I said fuck this and never touched it again.
Homeland Security is a bigger threat to the American way of life than anything Osama bin Forgotten can come up w/.
Don't underestimate them. With today's political mind games, it is possible that this is EXACTLY what they planned. Think about it, they only needed one big actual terror act and they succeeded in getting the gov't stirred into limiting the citizens' rights. Now they can just lay on their backs and let the US destroy itself.
Putting the cash in the safe instead of under the bed will stop random small thieves. But if those behind the theft are a big, organized group, then they will break in whether it's under the bed or in the safe. They'll send a technician to plant a camera in your bedroom and record you entering the code (keylogger) or simply crack it professionally in 15-30 minutes.
An even more anecdotal example. In many countries, the army network is completely seperated from the outside internet, the "ultimate firewall". However, it already happend that some high ranked officer connected his infected laptop to the system and *crash*, the whole network went flat in less than 10 hours.
No matter how strong your "firewall" is, social engineering breaks through it, into top secret networks.
Note that the really top secret documents are indeed protected.
The best and strongest firewalls can't protect unsuspecting users from installing trojans by themselves. Hell, it doesn't even matter what operating system you use. If you run a trojan/keylogger, the data will leak. It doesn't matter if you're in user mode, all the information you can access can leak outside.
Surely an easily exploitable system will generally be more prone to this, without user interaction.
Obviously the "START" button comes from the world of consoles. In most console games, pressing the START button would open an ingame menu usually also including a quit game option.
You never see these bugs and glitches because web designers hack up their code away from the standards just so it'll render ok in IE. Most sites can't bear to lose the IE market share.
Graphics/Sound are important for immersion in the game world. But more important than "pushing pixels" is the game's aesthetics. When everything in the world fits... For example Metal Gear Solid 1 on the PS1. If you pay attention, you see the graphics are really crappy, pixelated and have a lot of Z-buffer errors. But you can't ignore the fact the game just feels good. The character animations are excellent, voice acting superb and the areas, while low detailed, feel "right". Surely this is not such an old game, but compared to today's standards, its graphic qualities are poor. Compare that to Doom3, which has a beast of an engine and each scene looks very good by itself. But in general, it's not aesthetic. The areas seem forced with a lot of detail that seems just out of place. All the walls are so high detailed, but it just becomes an eye-sore and doesn't feel like a mars station. And the animations aren't that smooth either.
Heh... another example is one game I play a lot lately, which is the open version of StarControl2, The Ur-Quan Masters. The graphics are pixelated, options are eventually rather limited, but the game looks good. The team did an extremely good job on the dialogs which really immerse you in the game. Each race is really different from the others and has certain interesting points to their character.
Oh and don't get me started on the amount of games I played on various console emulators!!!!
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The way I see it, the new Nintendo console is not even targetted at people "who spend a lot of money on consumer electronics". The Revolution will be the cheapest of the lot, targetted to the mass audience.
I agree that eventually we'll have HD, and it does make a difference GRAPHICALLY. But high res graphics aren't everything. It's about graphic aestethics. It's about gameplay.
Really. The war between Sony and MS actually plays in favor of nintendo. The two behemoths push all those technical details, and in the process exploding the prices.
I've enjoyed more playing some emulated GBA games than some of this age's beautiful games. Yes, some 2D games for a tiny screen console just feel like they look better than full shaded bla bla 3D games.
Nintendo knows all this and this works great with their plan to allow downloads of games for their old consoles to be played on the Rev. Graphics have become better, games haven't.
Disclaimer: I'm not a nintendo fanboy. I don't even like their main game series (Mario/Zelda). But really, graphics aren't all. (tho there are many beautiful games which are also great gameplay-wise such as MGS or SoulCalibur).
Maybe your ID card?
You know, that card every citizen is supposed to get at age 16 or so with identification details?
OH RIGHT, it's not a some developed country we're talking about, it's the USA!
Do you understand you're agruing about a different thing I was saying?
I said it was practically, logically, infinite. I don't give a damn what the "supreme court said". They can also say 2+2=5 or that the sun is blue, it doesn't make it logically correct.
My point had NOTHING, ZERO, ZILCH to do with those rulings.
The function f(x) = x is BOUNDED for each specific x, which fits with that ruling, but in practice, f(x) = x is unbounded.
In math, it is said that lim_{x->inf} f(x) = inf iff for each M exists x0 so that for all x>x0 f(x) > M.
Indeed, for every time in the future M, exists a time x0 so that for every time after that, the extention is longer than the time M.
Yes, each time they make an extension they set a finite time. But for every time you check whether the work is under copyright or not, exists a "limited extension" not too long before that covers it.
i.e. for every time you check, the work is copyrighted.
So in pratice, the copyright term is unlimited.
Why stick to this tiny format when the PS3 is planned to support 45gb BluRay discs?
Are you refering to the word "limited"?
Repeated extention of the term is equivelant to unlimited.
Consider the variable x as time after publishing to check whether a work is still in copyright or not.
Now consider the function f(x) = x+1 as the time after publishing when the work will enter public domain, as a function of the time of questioning.
Obviously, f(x) is "limited"/finite for every x. However, for every x, xf(x) so the work stays in copyright. As x goes to infinity so is f(x). Therefore it's not "limited" in the global sense.
*= oops, eighth deadly sin: Thou shalt not verb nouns.
:-P
You've just sinned again by verbing the noun "verb"
I have a "l33t machine". I get good frame rates in Doom3 and such games.
However, the games I enjoyed the most lately are almost all 2D. Specifically FreeDroid, Crystalis (NES), Soul Calibur (DC emu, KEYBOARD > GAMEPAD!!!), Castlevania: Aria Of Sorrow (GBA), Zelda: The Minish Cap (GBA).
Almost all these games are graphically inferior but the gameplay is just awesome. I don't really care if it is technically superior, but I do care if its aestethic and plays right.
Hell, considering Doom3, I enjoyed more playing Doom1 and 2 with a friend in multiplayer on some OpenGL engine for it than Doom3.
I believe Nintendo will hit a trump card with the Revolution. There are so many old and good games and many of them are enjoyable at least like today's games.
Also it seems to be good for open source. Many of the best open source games are simply versions of old classics, and it works well!
Surely it doesn't mean all new games with realistic graphics suck...
Metal Gear Solid 2/3 look great and are good games. Ninja Gaiden looks awesome and has as much gameplay as the old classics.
Accurate aiming model?
I've only been to basic military training and I aim better than the soldier in the game.
Specifically I refer to the fact that the soldier in the game can't breath correctly. For some reason he keeps wobbling around instead of going back to the same position, at least after exhaling all air.
When I realized that, I said fuck this and never touched it again.
> Something strange about the recursiveness of the article text
That's nothing - wait 'til you see what the dupe looks like!
Homeland Security is a bigger threat to the American way of life than anything Osama bin Forgotten can come up w/.
Don't underestimate them. With today's political mind games, it is possible that this is EXACTLY what they planned.
Think about it, they only needed one big actual terror act and they succeeded in getting the gov't stirred into limiting the citizens' rights.
Now they can just lay on their backs and let the US destroy itself.
That's actually a very good analogy.
Putting the cash in the safe instead of under the bed will stop random small thieves.
But if those behind the theft are a big, organized group, then they will break in whether it's under the bed or in the safe.
They'll send a technician to plant a camera in your bedroom and record you entering the code (keylogger) or simply crack it professionally in 15-30 minutes.
An even more anecdotal example.
In many countries, the army network is completely seperated from the outside internet, the "ultimate firewall". However, it already happend that some high ranked officer connected his infected laptop to the system and *crash*, the whole network went flat in less than 10 hours.
No matter how strong your "firewall" is, social engineering breaks through it, into top secret networks.
Note that the really top secret documents are indeed protected.
The best and strongest firewalls can't protect unsuspecting users from installing trojans by themselves.
Hell, it doesn't even matter what operating system you use. If you run a trojan/keylogger, the data will leak. It doesn't matter if you're in user mode, all the information you can access can leak outside.
Surely an easily exploitable system will generally be more prone to this, without user interaction.
Not for me.
My optical mouse works the best on a newspaper and works really bad on a standard one-colored mouse pad.
To me, symetrical mice feel better regardless of left/right-handness.
I've tried a couple of assymetric "ergonomic" mice, but they just felt wrong.
I say, to hell with all the "interface", I want more work realestate ^_^
My linux box runs openbox with nothing on it. It feels so "free"......
What ads? I don't see any ads.
:P
Oh right, some people don't use adblock yet
Well I was planning for a Funny, trying to pin MS for another "blatant copying"...
Obviously the "START" button comes from the world of consoles. In most console games, pressing the START button would open an ingame menu usually also including a quit game option.
Because it serves the noble cause of letting slashdotters bash MS more, especially when it's justified.
You never see these bugs and glitches because web designers hack up their code away from the standards just so it'll render ok in IE.
Most sites can't bear to lose the IE market share.
When will Fisher-Price start selling "My First A-Bomb Kit"? and later "My First H-Bomb Kit"?
Graphics/Sound are important for immersion in the game world. But more important than "pushing pixels" is the game's aesthetics. When everything in the world fits...
For example Metal Gear Solid 1 on the PS1. If you pay attention, you see the graphics are really crappy, pixelated and have a lot of Z-buffer errors. But you can't ignore the fact the game just feels good. The character animations are excellent, voice acting superb and the areas, while low detailed, feel "right".
Surely this is not such an old game, but compared to today's standards, its graphic qualities are poor.
Compare that to Doom3, which has a beast of an engine and each scene looks very good by itself. But in general, it's not aesthetic. The areas seem forced with a lot of detail that seems just out of place. All the walls are so high detailed, but it just becomes an eye-sore and doesn't feel like a mars station. And the animations aren't that smooth either.
Heh... another example is one game I play a lot lately, which is the open version of StarControl2, The Ur-Quan Masters. The graphics are pixelated, options are eventually rather limited, but the game looks good. The team did an extremely good job on the dialogs which really immerse you in the game. Each race is really different from the others and has certain interesting points to their character.
Oh and don't get me started on the amount of games I played on various console emulators!!!!
Why would it?
You're refering to Intel's Xeon.
The XBox 360 has IBM's Xenon CPU.
Hope this clears it up.