Well, ex post facto laws are prohibited by the US Constitution, so that could be a bit of a problem.
Wouldn't that make the copyright extensions illegal then, since they're being applied ex post facto after the works were created? Or are they pretending it doesn't count because the works haven't left copyright yet?
Heh, true, i'd entirely forgotten about that one, although i'm not sure if that's exactly a good sign:) From what little they had availble for play at E3 it seemed a lot like the Seiken Densetsu/Secret of Mana series. If they'd announced a Secret of Mana game and given me that, i would have thought it was great, but illogically, i didn't enjoy it very much because i was hoping for a Final Fantasy game.
Hopefully either there's more to the game that was apparent at E3, or most people won't have their emotional reaction be as affected by their expectations.
Theoretically if a statistically large enough number of the 1000 kids don't play video games much they can be used as a control group to account for the effect of everday culture and society.
Of course if they were feeling evil they could get another 1000 families to sign up and agree to not allow their kids to play video games at all, and compare the kids who were forced not to play games, the kids who choose not to play games, and the kids who played lots of games.
I'd also like to hope that along with recording how _much_ tv they watch and video games they play, they also record _which_ tv they watch and video games they play.
Last time I checked I was using the WORLD Wide Web, and there seems little point wasting bandwidth to post your website to the world when only those living in the USA can buy and/or use the product.
So they should only put their website up on the USA Wide Web? I'd like to know how to access that.
If i find site that won't ship to me, i'll be unhappy, and maybe try to convince them otherwise, but i'm not going to demand that they leave and go make their own damn web.
that have a chance of pulling Nintendo out of the hole in the console market? Off the top of my head the only one i can thinks of is the upcoming Namco Tales RPG, although i don't keep up on the Japanese side of things as much i would like. Maybe some RPGs combined with leverage from the GameBoy Player will help them out.
This is the highest known G force voluntarily encountered by a human.
Okay, i gotta know, what's the highest known G force _involuntarily_ encountered by a human, and how exactly did it happen? College prank gone horribly awry or what? Or maybe along the lines of "What's this button do?"
I sent a letter to igncube about this very question. Their responce was that 1. Square wants to test the waters first with FF Tactics and Sword of Mana. and 2. They might have an agreement with Sony that they can not release those games on the GBA until a specified date. Probably so it doesnt cut into the sales of FF Origins on the PSX.
Okay, i know companies can be irrational, but they usually like to pretend that they're making sense, so let's pretend with them for a little bit.
We're talking about two different games for two different consoles that are months, at the _least_ apart. Even if Square Enix officially announced the game today, it would be several more months before they finished manufacturing and got it to the store. (And if they'd already started manufacturing we would be hearing more and larger leaks than this.)
Last i heard Square Enix was still planning on releasing FFX-2 and FFCC on the same day or within a few days of each other, and those are both brand new $50+ games. A lot more potential for cutting into each other's market in that case.
I will admit a certain initial suspicion regarding Sony's 8% share in Square Enix and the fact that Sony is coming out with the PSP. However the PSP is so far in the future that i doubt Sony would try to convince Square Enix to save FFIII for it and i doubt SE would listen to them even if they did. Besides, SE currently has FF Tactics Advance and Sword of Mana lines up as you pointed out, and FFCC as well for the GameCube. If Sony had the influence to get FFIII as a PSP exclusive i doubt we'd be seeing those other games for Nintendo systems.
I've been stuck at work for the past fourteen hours, and I'm about ready to kill someone right now. Maybe we should look into getting work outlawed as well?
Oh, wait a second, i missed a little bit, the page you showed us is titled "Mass In Special Relativity."
That's great news! I hadn't heard that they'd put new Space Shuttles in service that traveled a significant fraction of c! When did that heppen?
Oh wait, it didn't.
I doubt that there's a single physics professor on the planet that would claim that special relativity needs to be applied to a Space Shuttle and a one pound chunk of foam traveling only 1000 or 2000 mph over the space of a few seconds, especially given what we're trying to calculate. The only conceivable case in which relativity might be usefully applied involving the space shuttle is if you were trying to calculate the fraction of a thousandth (or millionth?) of a second that is "lost" after a week or so of orbiting the earth. Guess what, that's not what we're trying to do.
And not only is that the only source on the web that i can find that claims "mass is not a measure of inertia," it itself specifies, "From the point of view of relativity[...]" which as previously shown, we're not using in this discussion and have no reason to use.
And if you think the best way for your kids to be taught in school is to skip clasical physics and go straight to special relativity, your kids are going to be in a world of pain, and probably not very well educated to boot.
I was just saying this the other day when looking for FF:Anthologies. When I saw FF3, I was praying they meant 'American' FF3, which is really 6. Maybe someday...
Um, Final Fantasy Anthology contains two games, FF5, and FF6, also known as "'American' FF3." Perhaps you should look into getting a copy?
Just as a warning though, i know that some of the games they ported to PSX have some slowdown issues, i don't know exactly which games or how much however.
I'd rather see FF3, because it's never been stateside before. I'd also like to get my hands on Seiken Densetsu 3 and Bahamut Lagoon. We've already got a remake of FF6 for the PSX in Final Fantasy Anthology, why do you want another version so soon?
Yeah, a new Dragon Warrior or some of the later games ported to the GBA would be great too.
I've always known that i wasn't going to amount to much because i wasn't taking college level courses in elementary school or planing the conquest of the known world at age eight or whatever it is that those destined for greater things are doing nowdays.
But after reading this article, i have new hope! I just need to be weird and whacky! I can do that! I can do weird and whacky! I always have been somewhat, but now i know that i just need to try harder! To be weirder and whackier than i ever have been before!
Oh, and design world famous video games. Um. Well, i'll worry about that bridge when i come to it, i'll just go get started on the weird and whacky bit now.
6: Abbr. m Physics. A property of matter equal to the measure of an object's resistance to changes in either the speed or direction of its motion. The mass of an object is not dependent on gravity and therefore is different from but proportional to its weight.
inertia n.
1. Physics. The tendency of a body to resist acceleration; the tendency of a body at rest to remain at rest or of a body in straight line motion to stay in motion in a straight line unless acted on by an outside force.
Or if that isn't an exact enough correlation for you, from Webster.com:
Main Entry: 2mass
1 c : the property of a body that is a measure of its inertia and that is commonly taken as a measure of the amount of material it contains and causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
Where did you go to school? I'll be sure not to send my kids there.
Yeah, i know, the truth hurts. I at least would like to think my kids can handle it though.
Actually, it would LOSE kinetic energy relative to the Shuttle. The foam slowed quickly, while the Shuttle still accelerated. Its kinda like hitting a hitting a rock that falls off the back of a truck on the high way. If you were to drop the rock on the wind shield at rest, it may not do any damage, but when it whacks it in motion, you get a nasty crack!
No, it was losing kinetic energy with respect to the earth (at least until it had slowed down to terminal velocity) but it was gaining kinetic energy with respect to the shuttle. From the reference frame of the shuttle the foam was accelerating towards it. It's just like a relativity problem except a lot slower:)
How old can something be and still be called the "newly revealed synergy"?
The extra details are inteteresting, but the general idea of the arcade-console hookup has been known since before E3.
That aside, i may try this out if i can find an arcade with one nearby, but mainly for the unlocking things that can be transfered to the console aspect. I normally don't make it out to arcades anymore except for DDR, and i don't have much interest in spending a great deal of time upgrading and customizing a car for use in the arcade machine.
Why do you think Bush declared the war over? If we were still at war, those would be combat losses - sad, but that's what happens in wars. But since it's not a war, those are terrorist attacks. People get far more upset at terrorist attacks than combat losses.
Oh, wait, did anyone remember to tell _them_ that the war is over? Huh? What do you mean they have to _agree_ with us about it?
I guess that's why the joke is "declare victory and go home," not, "declare victory and stick around with all the people who hate your guts and have guns and bombs and who weren't party to the whole declaring you victorious thing."
I don't see where it says he wants to continue academic research. It looks to me like he wants to get a job (hence the "get hired" quote).
I'm just going to jump in here because it's so obvious i can't believe you missed it.
Along the way he talked about his dilemma: not wanting to hurt national security; not wanting to ruin his
career as an academic.
"Is this going to completely squash me?" he said, biting his fingernail. GMU has determined that he will publish only the most general aspects of his work. "Academics make their name as an expert in something. . . . If I can't talk about it, it's hard to get hired. It's hard to put 'classified' on your list of publications on your résumé."
You know, people who do academic research have this thing called a "job," and they have to interview and "get hired" for this "job" just like the rest of us. They don't finish their PhD and are suddenly magically doing research for some university without getting hired and without getting paid.
The fact is that most games _don't_ use it, not that they can't.
However most players _can't_ use it, unless they're interested in PSO. They certainly _can't_ use it for 99% of the games. Nintendo isn't advertising the ethernet add-on, they're not encouraging companies to make games that use it, they're openly doubting whether online play is important at all.
Microsoft is screaming "We've got online capability! Look at us! We're cool!" Nintendo meanwhile is saying "We don't think the online experience really matters to msot gamers." Anyone who even notices that you can get an ethernet adapter for the GameCube knows that there are no games for it )other than the aforementioned PSO) and that Nintendo doesn't really plan to support it.
That is not a selling point, and that is not a real ability to use the GameCube online. You don't drive the car if you choose not to buy gas for it. You can't drive the car if the tank is empty and no one is selling gas. Doesn't matter that the car would theoretically go if you had some of the non-existant gas.
In case you dont realize, SNES did win the console wars of that generation.
Why yes, i did realize that, in fact, "dear god man open your eyes," that was the _point_. The SNES did great, and Nintendo was all set to dominate the next generation, but when you compare how well the SNES did vs. the Genesis with how well the N64 did vs.s the PSX (one can debate whether it did "badly" or not, but it certainly didn't do great) that's not what happened at all.
Why? Well, the decision to stick with cartridges combined with their treatment of third parties was probably a big part of that, though i don't know for sure.
Sure, they made a profit, the goal is to make as much profit as possible. Coming off of the sucess of the SNES the N64 was a big disapointment in comparison, and if Nintendo knew a sure-fire way to regain that dominance they'd take it in a heartbeat. Likewise, if they knew a certain move would repeat the same loss of marketshare as they experienced moving from the SNES to the N64 they'd avoid it like the plague, even if they knew they'd still be making a profit afterwards.
As for Miyamoto, dear god man open your eyes. He does what he wants, and almost 100% of the time it turns out fun as hell.
Yeah, Miyamoto is great, he doesn't need to be influenced by anyone, but that doesn't mean that Nintendo should make marketing decisions just based off of what Miyamoto does or doesn't like. I think Nintendo would have been far better off letting Miyamoto learn to deal with CDs rather than catering to his preferences as they did. If he's as good as you say (which i happen to agree with) the games would have still been just as good.
That's nice in theory, however Nintendo needs to be less in tune with what Miyamoto thinks is a good or bad thing, and more in tune with what the consumer wants to buy.
I don't care what Nintendo's beef with CDs was, looking at the sales numbers of SNES vs Genesis and N64 vs PSX, my conclusion is that they were just plain wrong from the perspective that matters most, sales and popularity.
In the previous thread about Nintendo's lack of online capabilities, regardless of what the actual numbers of people who use it are, it's good for PR purposes alone.
Not hard at all. But that would require me actually buying a GC which I refuse to do. Console games are great, but I'll never buy a console. Computers are so much more useful. So until Nintendo starts selling their games for computers, I'm going to continue to use emulators and play my bought/rented games that way.
Well your opinion doesn't really matter to Nintedo then, does it? If you're not buying their console or the games they make they won't see any point in trying to make the game you're not going to buy more attractive to you. As someone who has bought the console and the games, i don't want to have to screw around with a PC server. Half the time i don't even have a working PC at home because i do all my PC gaming after hours at work.
I think if XBox can get 400,000 people online with all the problems going against online gameing that you mentioned, even if that figure is worldwide, it indicates that there's enough potential there to be worth being concerned about for the next generation consoles. 400,000 now could easily turn into 4 million in five years.
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Wouldn't that make the copyright extensions illegal then, since they're being applied ex post facto after the works were created? Or are they pretending it doesn't count because the works haven't left copyright yet?
Hopefully either there's more to the game that was apparent at E3, or most people won't have their emotional reaction be as affected by their expectations.
Of course if they were feeling evil they could get another 1000 families to sign up and agree to not allow their kids to play video games at all, and compare the kids who were forced not to play games, the kids who choose not to play games, and the kids who played lots of games.
I'd also like to hope that along with recording how _much_ tv they watch and video games they play, they also record _which_ tv they watch and video games they play.
So they should only put their website up on the USA Wide Web? I'd like to know how to access that.
If i find site that won't ship to me, i'll be unhappy, and maybe try to convince them otherwise, but i'm not going to demand that they leave and go make their own damn web.
that have a chance of pulling Nintendo out of the hole in the console market? Off the top of my head the only one i can thinks of is the upcoming Namco Tales RPG, although i don't keep up on the Japanese side of things as much i would like. Maybe some RPGs combined with leverage from the GameBoy Player will help them out.
Okay, i gotta know, what's the highest known G force _involuntarily_ encountered by a human, and how exactly did it happen? College prank gone horribly awry or what? Or maybe along the lines of "What's this button do?"
Stop making fun of the icon you bastard, or i'll cast Meteo on you!
Speaking of a => b does not imply b => a. What basis were they making that assumption on? They wore black and had trench coats?
Okay, i know companies can be irrational, but they usually like to pretend that they're making sense, so let's pretend with them for a little bit.
We're talking about two different games for two different consoles that are months, at the _least_ apart. Even if Square Enix officially announced the game today, it would be several more months before they finished manufacturing and got it to the store. (And if they'd already started manufacturing we would be hearing more and larger leaks than this.)
Last i heard Square Enix was still planning on releasing FFX-2 and FFCC on the same day or within a few days of each other, and those are both brand new $50+ games. A lot more potential for cutting into each other's market in that case.
I will admit a certain initial suspicion regarding Sony's 8% share in Square Enix and the fact that Sony is coming out with the PSP. However the PSP is so far in the future that i doubt Sony would try to convince Square Enix to save FFIII for it and i doubt SE would listen to them even if they did. Besides, SE currently has FF Tactics Advance and Sword of Mana lines up as you pointed out, and FFCC as well for the GameCube. If Sony had the influence to get FFIII as a PSP exclusive i doubt we'd be seeing those other games for Nintendo systems.
I've been stuck at work for the past fourteen hours, and I'm about ready to kill someone right now. Maybe we should look into getting work outlawed as well?
"The term mass was introduced by Newton in Principia, 1687."
Okay, let's take a look at Principia. Oh look! He was talking about Inertial mass, which is exactly what the rest of us are talking about!
Oh, wait a second, i missed a little bit, the page you showed us is titled "Mass In Special Relativity."
That's great news! I hadn't heard that they'd put new Space Shuttles in service that traveled a significant fraction of c! When did that heppen?
Oh wait, it didn't.
I doubt that there's a single physics professor on the planet that would claim that special relativity needs to be applied to a Space Shuttle and a one pound chunk of foam traveling only 1000 or 2000 mph over the space of a few seconds, especially given what we're trying to calculate. The only conceivable case in which relativity might be usefully applied involving the space shuttle is if you were trying to calculate the fraction of a thousandth (or millionth?) of a second that is "lost" after a week or so of orbiting the earth. Guess what, that's not what we're trying to do.
And not only is that the only source on the web that i can find that claims "mass is not a measure of inertia," it itself specifies, "From the point of view of relativity[...]" which as previously shown, we're not using in this discussion and have no reason to use.
And if you think the best way for your kids to be taught in school is to skip clasical physics and go straight to special relativity, your kids are going to be in a world of pain, and probably not very well educated to boot.
Um, Final Fantasy Anthology contains two games, FF5, and FF6, also known as "'American' FF3." Perhaps you should look into getting a copy?
Just as a warning though, i know that some of the games they ported to PSX have some slowdown issues, i don't know exactly which games or how much however.
Yeah, a new Dragon Warrior or some of the later games ported to the GBA would be great too.
But after reading this article, i have new hope! I just need to be weird and whacky! I can do that! I can do weird and whacky! I always have been somewhat, but now i know that i just need to try harder! To be weirder and whackier than i ever have been before!
Oh, and design world famous video games. Um. Well, i'll worry about that bridge when i come to it, i'll just go get started on the weird and whacky bit now.
Or if that isn't an exact enough correlation for you, from Webster.com:
Where did you go to school? I'll be sure not to send my kids there.
Yeah, i know, the truth hurts. I at least would like to think my kids can handle it though.
No, it was losing kinetic energy with respect to the earth (at least until it had slowed down to terminal velocity) but it was gaining kinetic energy with respect to the shuttle. From the reference frame of the shuttle the foam was accelerating towards it. It's just like a relativity problem except a lot slower :)
The extra details are inteteresting, but the general idea of the arcade-console hookup has been known since before E3.
That aside, i may try this out if i can find an arcade with one nearby, but mainly for the unlocking things that can be transfered to the console aspect. I normally don't make it out to arcades anymore except for DDR, and i don't have much interest in spending a great deal of time upgrading and customizing a car for use in the arcade machine.
Oh, wait, did anyone remember to tell _them_ that the war is over? Huh? What do you mean they have to _agree_ with us about it?
I guess that's why the joke is "declare victory and go home," not, "declare victory and stick around with all the people who hate your guts and have guns and bombs and who weren't party to the whole declaring you victorious thing."
I'm just going to jump in here because it's so obvious i can't believe you missed it.
You know, people who do academic research have this thing called a "job," and they have to interview and "get hired" for this "job" just like the rest of us. They don't finish their PhD and are suddenly magically doing research for some university without getting hired and without getting paid.
However most players _can't_ use it, unless they're interested in PSO. They certainly _can't_ use it for 99% of the games. Nintendo isn't advertising the ethernet add-on, they're not encouraging companies to make games that use it, they're openly doubting whether online play is important at all.
Microsoft is screaming "We've got online capability! Look at us! We're cool!" Nintendo meanwhile is saying "We don't think the online experience really matters to msot gamers." Anyone who even notices that you can get an ethernet adapter for the GameCube knows that there are no games for it )other than the aforementioned PSO) and that Nintendo doesn't really plan to support it.
That is not a selling point, and that is not a real ability to use the GameCube online. You don't drive the car if you choose not to buy gas for it. You can't drive the car if the tank is empty and no one is selling gas. Doesn't matter that the car would theoretically go if you had some of the non-existant gas.
Why yes, i did realize that, in fact, "dear god man open your eyes," that was the _point_. The SNES did great, and Nintendo was all set to dominate the next generation, but when you compare how well the SNES did vs. the Genesis with how well the N64 did vs.s the PSX (one can debate whether it did "badly" or not, but it certainly didn't do great) that's not what happened at all.
Why? Well, the decision to stick with cartridges combined with their treatment of third parties was probably a big part of that, though i don't know for sure.
Sure, they made a profit, the goal is to make as much profit as possible. Coming off of the sucess of the SNES the N64 was a big disapointment in comparison, and if Nintendo knew a sure-fire way to regain that dominance they'd take it in a heartbeat. Likewise, if they knew a certain move would repeat the same loss of marketshare as they experienced moving from the SNES to the N64 they'd avoid it like the plague, even if they knew they'd still be making a profit afterwards.
As for Miyamoto, dear god man open your eyes. He does what he wants, and almost 100% of the time it turns out fun as hell.
Yeah, Miyamoto is great, he doesn't need to be influenced by anyone, but that doesn't mean that Nintendo should make marketing decisions just based off of what Miyamoto does or doesn't like. I think Nintendo would have been far better off letting Miyamoto learn to deal with CDs rather than catering to his preferences as they did. If he's as good as you say (which i happen to agree with) the games would have still been just as good.
I don't care what Nintendo's beef with CDs was, looking at the sales numbers of SNES vs Genesis and N64 vs PSX, my conclusion is that they were just plain wrong from the perspective that matters most, sales and popularity.
In the previous thread about Nintendo's lack of online capabilities, regardless of what the actual numbers of people who use it are, it's good for PR purposes alone.
Well your opinion doesn't really matter to Nintedo then, does it? If you're not buying their console or the games they make they won't see any point in trying to make the game you're not going to buy more attractive to you. As someone who has bought the console and the games, i don't want to have to screw around with a PC server. Half the time i don't even have a working PC at home because i do all my PC gaming after hours at work.
I think if XBox can get 400,000 people online with all the problems going against online gameing that you mentioned, even if that figure is worldwide, it indicates that there's enough potential there to be worth being concerned about for the next generation consoles. 400,000 now could easily turn into 4 million in five years.