Looking over their past, the only current well selling game I can think of is the Sims (admittedly, I'm not to sure about this and am too lazy to check up on this). Also, I've heard that their sports games, while being quite good in the past, now suck.
And an even bigger reason why I doubt EA will be the next disney is because of mismanagement. Check out places like fatbabies.com for information from the inside...doesn't look good, does it?
But the biggest reason is this...the next disney for the games industry is aalready shaping up to be Microsoft; they bought Rare, Bungie and a whole host of other companies. That, plus their expansive inhouse dev section put them at the top of the heap, I'd think.
Actually, you wouldn't believe how much it hurt Shell when people boycotted them for the Brent Sparr (Greenpeace's 'miscalculation' is a whole other ball of stinking socks though).
You have to be talking about Xenon...and probably Xenon 2, at that. It scrolled vertically, and had a shop where you could buy upgrades. A truly great shmup:)
Bitmap brothers, I beleive. They also did the great Speedball 2 (they seem to be good at sequals) and are working on Speedball Arena...which I'm really looking forward to, but there hasn't been any news on it for a year or so.
And they both started life on the old pc:) God, great games those; excelent graphics, mocap better than Prince of Persia, and (still somewhat a rarity for games) a great, compelling story...for both games.
Actually, more than likely the price will contnue to rise. Remember this well: there were many more nes' made than that cartridge. The number of carts in a series of 115 will decline, but more than likely there will still be NES' to play on a hundred years from now. And considering that rare will always be rare, that cart is only going to go up in price. Especially as there are more and more gamers, of who a percentage will always be 'Collecters'.
As for games like Super Mario World and Contra III...same thing, to a much lesser degree. But considering gameplay is god to any gamer (and if it's not, you're not a gamer), there will always be a market for these things. I can already notice it for my original gameboy carts.
And not to forget the classics like "The twelve tasks of Hercules" (first rpg I played, I think...and it beat the shit out of most rpg's nowadays for addiction factor...or that's just because I was young then:) ) or "Conan the barbarian (one fiendish platformer where I could never get past the 6th (or was that 8th?) stage, with the shandelier...those were the days:)
Damn, now I need a good enough emulator for my Palm to play these things on the go:(
Can't agree: the EU has as many inhabitants as the US, with at least as much ethnic diversity, yet I'd still say the EU has better overal schooling than the US.
Don't underestimate the power of memorisation. While of course you need to be able to operate on the facts to do things, you do operate on facts. Knowing them instead of having to look them up is quite a timesaver, leading to increased efficiency. Not only that, but knowing a lot also leads to being able to put seemingly unrelated bits of data together, which is one basis for invention.
A good mix of thinking and knowing is crucial to get a good education.
Why are you even going down that trail? Talking about Von Brauns weapon reasearch in this context is dumb, especially as the entire "space race" was begun solely with the intention of getting ICBM's! You actually think getting to the moon was the goal here?
Plus, by going that route, you invite people to come up with the fact that Braun and Einsten where heftily harrassed by the FBI...be proud of that one (especially Einstein, a pacifist if I ever saw one). And lets not forget how impossible the US is making it to immigrate. It used to be harsh, but post 911 it's draconian. So don't be too proud.
Truthfully, this whole topic is rather distastefull to me: the one thing all those poeple have in common is that they're human! Who cares where they come from...for that matter, who cares if the US is losing it's technological edge (and judging by the number of people getting a degree, it is), as long as humanity itself keeps advancing.
Speaking of innovation, Private (a pron company in germany, denmark or somewhere in that geographic region) has announced the launch of their new magazine...on a flash card! Some words, some video...dunno how much it costs, but talk about innovation on you Palm:) (well, clie, more likely, but I couldn't resist:) )
Thanks for the link; an intelligent one at that! (who would have expected that here at/.;) )
Anyway, commenting as I go, the 'pornographers' seem to think it's a good idea, while the "National Law Center for Children and Families in Fairfax, Virginia" doesn't...odd, that.
"...raises privacy and free speech concerns"
I still don't entirely get this one. So libraries are bad because they put stuff like The baron de Sade into their erotica catalogue? This is bad how? And as long as it';s still available, how does this repress free speech?
"In 2002, the US Congress mandated the creation of a kids.us domain for "child safe" material. This was after being convinced that, for reasons some of which are described in the following section, trying to legislate standards for the whole world with a.kids domain was inappropriate."
Uhm...so they mandate something they think won't work? But if.kids can work, so wil.xxx (which actually has industry backing!).
Then comes a bit about how sexuality differs in the world. This is actually a good point, but easily accounted for with correct national subdomains (.xxx.us,.xxx.nl or.us.xxx,.cs.xxx, whatever).
the comes this: "The American Civil Liberties Union -- and other members of the international Global Internet Liberty Campaign -- caution that publishers speaking frankly about birth control, AIDS prevention, gay and lesbian sex, the social problem of prison rape, etc., could be coerced into moving to an adult domain. Once there, they would be stigmatized and easily blocked by schools, libraries, companies, and other groups using filtering software. Publishers of such information who do not view themselves as pornographers and retain their existing addresses could be targeted for prosecution."
Which is as it should be: the discussion should always be held on a case by case basis, as I can contend that the Venus de Milo is art and that the movie of a gangbang isn't. I can contend that as the maker of that movie, I consider it art, but it's the mayority's opinion that matter here...that's what forms morals and values of a group; the mayority's opinion. And the vetting on a case by case basis is especially important because a societies values change over time.
As for opening the door to more of this kind of thing...that's actually a good thing. What if you should go to simpsons.tv to find your Simpsons website? Or what about discussion.republic.vs.constitutionalmonarchy.poli tics? Oh, that's right, newsgroups already do this, to good effect!
Then the language barrier...wow, did you know that in some countries with a car license plate of the sort aa-bb-11, you see the word co-ck-34 come up? Oh, the horror! Grow up, is my advice.
OK, now for the tech part: first off the ridiculous assumtpion of the operator being able to reroute traffic from www.purity.com to www.obnscene.example.xxx...wow, a DNS operator can do that already! This is FUD, pure and simple.
Then they talk about spam...uh, different problem, maybe? One that hasn't been handled with the current setup, maybe? One which can be reduced by filtering aal mail from someone@something.XXX, maybe?
Actually, IRC, nesservers et al are beyond the scope here! We're talking about the web, nothing more! You know, the web, where our kiddies surf for porn? The one where we talk about pages, instead of channels, www. instead of ftp or irc?Tackle each problem on a separate basis, please.
Then the 'problem' with IP numbers...with IP6 (or IP8, IP128 for all I care), that is a non-issue. He says it is, but he's wrong. A honcho at Motorola should know better, period. Especially considering that IP and DNS (! and DNS is where.xxx would reside!) are two different things! His entire argument in this area is misguided and just doesn't apply!
The main problem is of course that those who don't deal responsibly with weapons form a huge menace. Such a great menace in fact that it is better to ban all use than to allow the minority to fuck it up. Same with biological weapons...they're just too dangerous (and yes, I have a problem with the US still having them...there just is no justification for having them anymore).
Also, by using arguments like above (not yours, elmegil) you're just confusing your kid, no matter the intelligence. Leave it at 'guns are bad' (becuase there is no way of saying they are good without really confusing your kid) and expound later, when they can understand them and maybe even argue back (if they are so inclined). It's like scientific theories. You give 'em Newton first, Einstein later, when they can grasp what's going on.
Oh, and to those of you going on about urban warfare...trained units will always win against an unorganised rabble toting guns, unless faced with organised guerilla warfare. That's what history teaches us, and to save time, I'll refute some of the more common arguments that's going to bring on: -the native vietnames where well trained through decades of war. That, and further soviet supplies and training, helped them kick US buttock. -american militia sucked during the revolution against britain...they got massacred. The only reason the US pulled succession off was because of the french troops.
You know, I've seen a number of discussions here on.xxx or whetever, and I haven't come across a reason why it wouldn't work. I mean it's not forcing people to go there any more than the word 'Pornography' is forced to be under the P in a dictionary. Oh, the horror, the censorship!
Also, why wouldn't the x-rated want to be under a.xxx TLD? It only makes 'em more easy to find, and anyone who's looking for porn will find it anyway. And anyone who doesn't want to find it will click away anyway. The ones who would want to stay under.com or whaterever (then infamous whitehouse.org comes to mind) are of such questionable character anyway that one would think they should be forced to disclose their intentions anyway. Plus of course, economically speaking, clustering of similar services has allways been a good thing.
As for enforcement...if there's enough to go into a discussion if something is porn or not, the site in question should probably be under.xxx in the first place (otherwise there wouldn't be a discussion!). Yes, some fundamentalist could make the wrong call....but that's the case anywhere, whether in movie ratings, ideological things or anywhere where there is a judgement call to be made. And I should think it's just as easy to shoot off an email over whether that site under.kids is 'dirty' or that site under.net/.org/.com/.whatever is carying x-rated material.
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Couldn't they be gotten for conspiracy? The company and the spammer are conspiring to commit the crime of spamming (stealing network resources)?
The difference is that spam is always bad, and circumventing copyright protection has many ambiguous and good uses.
Comparing DMCA and anti-spam laws can't be done, as they aren't equal.
Looking over their past, the only current well selling game I can think of is the Sims (admittedly, I'm not to sure about this and am too lazy to check up on this). Also, I've heard that their sports games, while being quite good in the past, now suck.
And an even bigger reason why I doubt EA will be the next disney is because of mismanagement. Check out places like fatbabies.com for information from the inside...doesn't look good, does it?
But the biggest reason is this...the next disney for the games industry is aalready shaping up to be Microsoft; they bought Rare, Bungie and a whole host of other companies. That, plus their expansive inhouse dev section put them at the top of the heap, I'd think.
Actually, you wouldn't believe how much it hurt Shell when people boycotted them for the Brent Sparr (Greenpeace's 'miscalculation' is a whole other ball of stinking socks though).
And of course there's /.-ing, google-ing and of course verbing :)
You have to be talking about Xenon...and probably Xenon 2, at that. It scrolled vertically, and had a shop where you could buy upgrades. A truly great shmup :)
Bitmap brothers, I beleive. They also did the great Speedball 2 (they seem to be good at sequals) and are working on Speedball Arena...which I'm really looking forward to, but there hasn't been any news on it for a year or so.
And they both started life on the old pc :) God, great games those; excelent graphics, mocap better than Prince of Persia, and (still somewhat a rarity for games) a great, compelling story...for both games.
:)
Damn, I'm getting misty eyed now
Actually, more than likely the price will contnue to rise. Remember this well: there were many more nes' made than that cartridge. The number of carts in a series of 115 will decline, but more than likely there will still be NES' to play on a hundred years from now. And considering that rare will always be rare, that cart is only going to go up in price. Especially as there are more and more gamers, of who a percentage will always be 'Collecters'.
As for games like Super Mario World and Contra III...same thing, to a much lesser degree. But considering gameplay is god to any gamer (and if it's not, you're not a gamer), there will always be a market for these things. I can already notice it for my original gameboy carts.
And not to forget the classics like "The twelve tasks of Hercules" (first rpg I played, I think...and it beat the shit out of most rpg's nowadays for addiction factor...or that's just because I was young then :) ) or "Conan the barbarian (one fiendish platformer where I could never get past the 6th (or was that 8th?) stage, with the shandelier...those were the days :)
:(
Damn, now I need a good enough emulator for my Palm to play these things on the go
So which one was Escape from Castle Wolfenstein, for the apple? I can still hear the digitised speech, crackling away :)
Scientists? What are they doing with something like FilmGimp? Touching up their experiment videos to make the facts fit the theory?
Altho this is meant to be funny, I still am curious...
About funding: what about reallocating some of that defence budget which is gobbling about 50% of the total budget?
Can't agree: the EU has as many inhabitants as the US, with at least as much ethnic diversity, yet I'd still say the EU has better overal schooling than the US.
Don't underestimate the power of memorisation. While of course you need to be able to operate on the facts to do things, you do operate on facts. Knowing them instead of having to look them up is quite a timesaver, leading to increased efficiency. Not only that, but knowing a lot also leads to being able to put seemingly unrelated bits of data together, which is one basis for invention.
A good mix of thinking and knowing is crucial to get a good education.
Why are you even going down that trail? Talking about Von Brauns weapon reasearch in this context is dumb, especially as the entire "space race" was begun solely with the intention of getting ICBM's! You actually think getting to the moon was the goal here?
Plus, by going that route, you invite people to come up with the fact that Braun and Einsten where heftily harrassed by the FBI...be proud of that one (especially Einstein, a pacifist if I ever saw one). And lets not forget how impossible the US is making it to immigrate. It used to be harsh, but post 911 it's draconian. So don't be too proud.
Truthfully, this whole topic is rather distastefull to me: the one thing all those poeple have in common is that they're human! Who cares where they come from...for that matter, who cares if the US is losing it's technological edge (and judging by the number of people getting a degree, it is), as long as humanity itself keeps advancing.
I always love that statement, for it shows how little you know of the development of the system you're using.
Uh...afaik, anything over 100.000 units is considered a well-selling game.
Except for backwards compatibility, a huge installation base and the fact that there are some very cool ps(2) games out there, of course.
"OTOH, parents (hopefully) want a game console where most of the game titles would be "safe" for their children to play - Nintendo delivers."
Screw that. Let parents take some interest in what their kids play. ESPECIALLY if they buy it for them.
Speaking of innovation, Private (a pron company in germany, denmark or somewhere in that geographic region) has announced the launch of their new magazine...on a flash card! Some words, some video...dunno how much it costs, but talk about innovation on you Palm :) (well, clie, more likely, but I couldn't resist :) )
Thanks for the link; an intelligent one at that! (who would have expected that here at /. ;) )
.kids domain was inappropriate."
.kids can work, so wil .xxx (which actually has industry backing!).
.xxx.nl or .us.xxx, .cs.xxx, whatever).
i tics? Oh, that's right, newsgroups already do this, to good effect!
.xxx would reside!) are two different things! His entire argument in this area is misguided and just doesn't apply!
:)
Anyway, commenting as I go, the 'pornographers' seem to think it's a good idea, while the "National Law Center for Children and Families in Fairfax, Virginia" doesn't...odd, that.
"...raises privacy and free speech concerns"
I still don't entirely get this one. So libraries are bad because they put stuff like The baron de Sade into their erotica catalogue? This is bad how? And as long as it';s still available, how does this repress free speech?
"In 2002, the US Congress mandated the creation of a kids.us domain for "child safe" material. This was after being convinced that, for reasons some of which are described in the following section, trying to legislate standards for the whole world with a
Uhm...so they mandate something they think won't work? But if
Then comes a bit about how sexuality differs in the world. This is actually a good point, but easily accounted for with correct national subdomains (.xxx.us,
the comes this: "The American Civil Liberties Union -- and other members of the international Global Internet Liberty Campaign -- caution that publishers speaking frankly about birth control, AIDS prevention, gay and lesbian sex, the social problem of prison rape, etc., could be coerced into moving to an adult domain. Once there, they would be stigmatized and easily blocked by schools, libraries, companies, and other groups using filtering software. Publishers of such information who do not view themselves as pornographers and retain their existing addresses could be targeted for prosecution."
Which is as it should be: the discussion should always be held on a case by case basis, as I can contend that the Venus de Milo is art and that the movie of a gangbang isn't. I can contend that as the maker of that movie, I consider it art, but it's the mayority's opinion that matter here...that's what forms morals and values of a group; the mayority's opinion. And the vetting on a case by case basis is especially important because a societies values change over time.
As for opening the door to more of this kind of thing...that's actually a good thing. What if you should go to simpsons.tv to find your Simpsons website? Or what about discussion.republic.vs.constitutionalmonarchy.pol
Then the language barrier...wow, did you know that in some countries with a car license plate of the sort aa-bb-11, you see the word co-ck-34 come up? Oh, the horror! Grow up, is my advice.
OK, now for the tech part: first off the ridiculous assumtpion of the operator being able to reroute traffic from www.purity.com to www.obnscene.example.xxx...wow, a DNS operator can do that already! This is FUD, pure and simple.
Then they talk about spam...uh, different problem, maybe? One that hasn't been handled with the current setup, maybe? One which can be reduced by filtering aal mail from someone@something.XXX, maybe?
Actually, IRC, nesservers et al are beyond the scope here! We're talking about the web, nothing more! You know, the web, where our kiddies surf for porn? The one where we talk about pages, instead of channels, www. instead of ftp or irc?Tackle each problem on a separate basis, please.
Then the 'problem' with IP numbers...with IP6 (or IP8, IP128 for all I care), that is a non-issue. He says it is, but he's wrong. A honcho at Motorola should know better, period. Especially considering that IP and DNS (! and DNS is where
Well, 'nuff said, I'd say
The main problem is of course that those who don't deal responsibly with weapons form a huge menace. Such a great menace in fact that it is better to ban all use than to allow the minority to fuck it up. Same with biological weapons...they're just too dangerous (and yes, I have a problem with the US still having them...there just is no justification for having them anymore).
Also, by using arguments like above (not yours, elmegil) you're just confusing your kid, no matter the intelligence. Leave it at 'guns are bad' (becuase there is no way of saying they are good without really confusing your kid) and expound later, when they can understand them and maybe even argue back (if they are so inclined). It's like scientific theories. You give 'em Newton first, Einstein later, when they can grasp what's going on.
Oh, and to those of you going on about urban warfare...trained units will always win against an unorganised rabble toting guns, unless faced with organised guerilla warfare. That's what history teaches us, and to save time, I'll refute some of the more common arguments that's going to bring on:
-the native vietnames where well trained through decades of war. That, and further soviet supplies and training, helped them kick US buttock.
-american militia sucked during the revolution against britain...they got massacred. The only reason the US pulled succession off was because of the french troops.
He has...did that during the Iran-Contra scandal (remember?), but was acquited because of a technicality.
Pointdexter is a crook, and now has this job in your governement...how are you enjoying the corruption over there?
Or should that be "ICANN'nt stop stealing money from people daily!
You know, I've seen a number of discussions here on .xxx or whetever, and I haven't come across a reason why it wouldn't work. I mean it's not forcing people to go there any more than the word 'Pornography' is forced to be under the P in a dictionary. Oh, the horror, the censorship!
.xxx TLD? It only makes 'em more easy to find, and anyone who's looking for porn will find it anyway. And anyone who doesn't want to find it will click away anyway. The ones who would want to stay under .com or whaterever (then infamous whitehouse.org comes to mind) are of such questionable character anyway that one would think they should be forced to disclose their intentions anyway.
.xxx in the first place (otherwise there wouldn't be a discussion!). Yes, some fundamentalist could make the wrong call....but that's the case anywhere, whether in movie ratings, ideological things or anywhere where there is a judgement call to be made. .kids is 'dirty' or that site under .net/.org/.com/.whatever is carying x-rated material.
Also, why wouldn't the x-rated want to be under a
Plus of course, economically speaking, clustering of similar services has allways been a good thing.
As for enforcement...if there's enough to go into a discussion if something is porn or not, the site in question should probably be under
And I should think it's just as easy to shoot off an email over whether that site under