I'm curious about this one as well; I've never completely understood what the technical limitation is that would keep someone from creating some sort of Xbox emulator for modern PC's that would let you just stick in an xbox game and play it.
That's right; weren't there only like a handful of games for the Dreamcast that actually used Windows CE (and if I recall, didn't most of those games suck)? Is there any truth to the idea that Microsoft's main concern was getting the PERCEPTION out there that Microsoft had something to do with it, maybe to clear the way for users to be more open to the idea of a Microsoft console a little while later?
I'm sure they will try and twist it that way, but it's worth keeping in mind that we know about this precisely because scientists take things like making up data seriously, and try very hard to uncover those who would do it. The Intelligent Design side isn't quite so gung-ho in terms of caring about falsifying data (heck, or even providing data).
One thing to note, I'm not sure how much the success or lack of success of "Heroes of the Pacific" could have to do with it being an indie game or not; it seems like the much bigger hurdle the game is facing is that it is a flight sim. From what I can tell, the flight sim genre seems to practically be on life support...... it seems like even the really notable and excellent flight sims that have come out in the past few years haven't really done well (I'm thinking that IL-2 was probably the most successful, and even then I don't know how well it sold).
Well, yes. The effects would probably be reflected on both planets. But certainly the conditions of the atmospheres of both planets should have an effect to. The Earth and Mars have very different atmospheres. Perhaps it's a bad sign that the atmosphere of the Earth seems to be allowing for something to happen that we see duplicated on Mars. Perhaps the effects of global warming are having an effect.
Again, of course, even if global warming DOESN'T have anything to do with it, I still think there is a larger point here. There are other reasons to try and control what we are putting into our own atmosphere beyond global warming. It seems insane to basically argue that we should avoid any attempts to do what we can to improve our own environment even if there is nothing that can be seen about global warming.
Hey, hold on. I don't think I ever said that the history of the US was peachy-keen; quite the opposite of course. I agree with pretty much everything you said. But I would think that the US has slowly at least moved towards doing some thing in its history precisely because they were the right things to do. Certainly most things have multiple reasons (i.e. a lot of the accomplishments of the Civil Rights movement). And I'd certainly hope that just because the US has a crummy history on a lot of issues wouldn't be reason enough to not try and strive for doing things because they are right in the future. Just because we've been bad in the past shouldn't be a reason to not try and be good in the future.
So is the standard of US behavior now essentially "If China and India won't do it, then neither will we"? When did our standards become so low as to play by these kinds of childish rules? What happened to doing things solely because they're the right thing to do, and also to lead by example?
Right, because of course, everything that happens on Mars must be directly parallel to what happens on Earth. So if the ice caps on Mars are shrinking, then it MUST mean that the ice caps on the Earth are shrinking for the same reason.
And aside from that, if what humans are doing to the environment isn't responsible for the shrinking ice caps of Earth, then that means we should be free to spew out whatever crap we want into the environment without any concern for more basic things like air quality, etc.
Stupid leftisft thinking indeed, because of course, concern about the environment is purely a "leftist" issue.
Give me a break..... as an iPod owner, I don't feel "stuck" with the iTunes Music Store. It makes it sound like the iTMS is a piece of junk that we're "stuck" with. Personally I love the user experience of the iTMS and love all of the little nice touches.
This sort of reminded me of a line from the Simpsons episode where Homer and Bart take Mr. Burns yacht out to International waters, and Homer points out how you can do anything there:
"See that ship over there? They're rebroadcasting Major League Baseball with implied oral consent, not express written consent - or so the legend goes.".
Maybe they aren't counting it since it's Japanese? A shame if so; there is some amazing sci-fi anime out there.......... aside from GitS: SAC, there's a ton of other stuff. I was going to write out a list, but damn if there's a whole bunch of stuff I'd want to mention, and I'd hate to leave something out.
You do realize that the American comic industry is larger than just Marvel and DC, right? Certainly they are the lion's share, but there are a ton of independents doing all sorts of interesting things. And frankly, you can find some pretty interesting and different things even from DC and Marvel, or imprints like Vertigo and Wildstorm.
So, just to ask, do you do whatever work you do for free? I mean, I'm assuming you've never made money then from any work you've done......... how do you survive?
Yeah, excellent points. My favorite games for the DS right now are Meteos and Kirby's Canvas Curse, and I just can't imagine playing any of them in emulation (certainly not on a PSP, but not on a PC either with the mouse being used to emulate the stylus). It just wouldn't be the same.
The footage in this movie is incredible, no doubt. However, I think one valid concern that has been raised about it is its tendency for anthropomorphization of the penguins. The narration often ascribes various human emotions and motivations to the footage that is shown, and realistically, this probably isn't accurate and probably leaves a lot of audiences with the wrong impression. It's certainly understandable why this was done (if nothing else, penguins especially are prone to anthropomorphization anyway), but when this does come out on DVD, I think it might be nice to be able to just watch the footage and turn off the narration.
I think people are jumping on him because he specifically said that the link didn't say "touch sensitive", and in fact he seemed to be jumping on other people and admonishing them to RTFA. Just a lesson that it is not a good idea to bring out "RTFA" if you haven't, in fact, done so.
I'm not sure that the debate was what implementation of touch sensitive functionality was in there anyway. He seemed to be going out of his way to pull out a "nothing too revolutionary here" comment and make a snarky comment about how now he can get a mouse in white (i.e. Apple didn't do anything interesting here).
Huh? No, it isn't. If they wanted to just make it a trackball, they would have done that. The trackball is used for moving the mouse. This, on the other hand, is for scrolling - with more freedom of movement then just vertical or horizontal scrolling.
When you tell people to RTFA, maybe you might want to do so yourself? Hell, it's in the opening bolded paragraph:
"And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the seamless top shell, you get the programability of a four-button mouse in a single-button design. "
I'm sorry, I'm missing the "logical" part of the next logical step you proposed. What does putting in some controls to prevent their own OS from running on someone else's hardware have to do with them putting in controls to prevent other OS's from being installed on their own hardware? The whole point is generally to ensure that people keep buying their hardware (so they don't become a software-only company). If someone wants to buy a Mac and install another OS on it (even wiping out OS X completely), they wouldn't care. In Apple's entire history, I don't think they've ever released any sort of technology like what you propose (it's always been possible to install and use other OS's on Macs). They have, however, historically done a variety of things in hardware and software to prevent their OS from being installed and non-Apple hardware.
Sorry, have to correct myself. It does offer some other choices (pencil, crayon, etc.). The natural media effects seem to be pretty impressive. Not saying that anyone's going to ditch Painter for this (i.e. no layers, none of the advanced stuff, the shear variety of control over tons of different natural media), but it definitely seems pretty nice, especially for free.
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Surprised to not see that on the list, or mentioned here too much.
Perfect Dark Zero fits into the FPS category.
I'm curious about this one as well; I've never completely understood what the technical limitation is that would keep someone from creating some sort of Xbox emulator for modern PC's that would let you just stick in an xbox game and play it.
That's right; weren't there only like a handful of games for the Dreamcast that actually used Windows CE (and if I recall, didn't most of those games suck)? Is there any truth to the idea that Microsoft's main concern was getting the PERCEPTION out there that Microsoft had something to do with it, maybe to clear the way for users to be more open to the idea of a Microsoft console a little while later?
I'm sure they will try and twist it that way, but it's worth keeping in mind that we know about this precisely because scientists take things like making up data seriously, and try very hard to uncover those who would do it. The Intelligent Design side isn't quite so gung-ho in terms of caring about falsifying data (heck, or even providing data).
One thing to note, I'm not sure how much the success or lack of success of "Heroes of the Pacific" could have to do with it being an indie game or not; it seems like the much bigger hurdle the game is facing is that it is a flight sim. From what I can tell, the flight sim genre seems to practically be on life support...... it seems like even the really notable and excellent flight sims that have come out in the past few years haven't really done well (I'm thinking that IL-2 was probably the most successful, and even then I don't know how well it sold).
Again, of course, even if global warming DOESN'T have anything to do with it, I still think there is a larger point here. There are other reasons to try and control what we are putting into our own atmosphere beyond global warming. It seems insane to basically argue that we should avoid any attempts to do what we can to improve our own environment even if there is nothing that can be seen about global warming.
Hey, hold on. I don't think I ever said that the history of the US was peachy-keen; quite the opposite of course. I agree with pretty much everything you said. But I would think that the US has slowly at least moved towards doing some thing in its history precisely because they were the right things to do. Certainly most things have multiple reasons (i.e. a lot of the accomplishments of the Civil Rights movement). And I'd certainly hope that just because the US has a crummy history on a lot of issues wouldn't be reason enough to not try and strive for doing things because they are right in the future. Just because we've been bad in the past shouldn't be a reason to not try and be good in the future.
So is the standard of US behavior now essentially "If China and India won't do it, then neither will we"? When did our standards become so low as to play by these kinds of childish rules? What happened to doing things solely because they're the right thing to do, and also to lead by example?
And aside from that, if what humans are doing to the environment isn't responsible for the shrinking ice caps of Earth, then that means we should be free to spew out whatever crap we want into the environment without any concern for more basic things like air quality, etc.
Stupid leftisft thinking indeed, because of course, concern about the environment is purely a "leftist" issue.
Give me a break..... as an iPod owner, I don't feel "stuck" with the iTunes Music Store. It makes it sound like the iTMS is a piece of junk that we're "stuck" with. Personally I love the user experience of the iTMS and love all of the little nice touches.
"See that ship over there? They're rebroadcasting Major League Baseball with implied oral consent, not express written consent - or so the legend goes.".
Maybe they aren't counting it since it's Japanese? A shame if so; there is some amazing sci-fi anime out there.......... aside from GitS: SAC, there's a ton of other stuff. I was going to write out a list, but damn if there's a whole bunch of stuff I'd want to mention, and I'd hate to leave something out.
Vertigo at least has had a tremendous amount of success in the mainstream book market (led by the Sandman trade paperbacks).
You do realize that the American comic industry is larger than just Marvel and DC, right? Certainly they are the lion's share, but there are a ton of independents doing all sorts of interesting things. And frankly, you can find some pretty interesting and different things even from DC and Marvel, or imprints like Vertigo and Wildstorm.
Dreamfall has actually been pushed back to 2006. I'm looking forward to it too.
So, just to ask, do you do whatever work you do for free? I mean, I'm assuming you've never made money then from any work you've done......... how do you survive?
Do you mean mistakes like "chanbged" and "plage"?
Yeah, excellent points. My favorite games for the DS right now are Meteos and Kirby's Canvas Curse, and I just can't imagine playing any of them in emulation (certainly not on a PSP, but not on a PC either with the mouse being used to emulate the stylus). It just wouldn't be the same.
The footage in this movie is incredible, no doubt. However, I think one valid concern that has been raised about it is its tendency for anthropomorphization of the penguins. The narration often ascribes various human emotions and motivations to the footage that is shown, and realistically, this probably isn't accurate and probably leaves a lot of audiences with the wrong impression. It's certainly understandable why this was done (if nothing else, penguins especially are prone to anthropomorphization anyway), but when this does come out on DVD, I think it might be nice to be able to just watch the footage and turn off the narration.
I'm not sure that the debate was what implementation of touch sensitive functionality was in there anyway. He seemed to be going out of his way to pull out a "nothing too revolutionary here" comment and make a snarky comment about how now he can get a mouse in white (i.e. Apple didn't do anything interesting here).
Huh? No, it isn't. If they wanted to just make it a trackball, they would have done that. The trackball is used for moving the mouse. This, on the other hand, is for scrolling - with more freedom of movement then just vertical or horizontal scrolling.
"And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the seamless top shell, you get the programability of a four-button mouse in a single-button design. "
I'm sorry, I'm missing the "logical" part of the next logical step you proposed. What does putting in some controls to prevent their own OS from running on someone else's hardware have to do with them putting in controls to prevent other OS's from being installed on their own hardware? The whole point is generally to ensure that people keep buying their hardware (so they don't become a software-only company). If someone wants to buy a Mac and install another OS on it (even wiping out OS X completely), they wouldn't care. In Apple's entire history, I don't think they've ever released any sort of technology like what you propose (it's always been possible to install and use other OS's on Macs). They have, however, historically done a variety of things in hardware and software to prevent their OS from being installed and non-Apple hardware.
Sorry, have to correct myself. It does offer some other choices (pencil, crayon, etc.). The natural media effects seem to be pretty impressive. Not saying that anyone's going to ditch Painter for this (i.e. no layers, none of the advanced stuff, the shear variety of control over tons of different natural media), but it definitely seems pretty nice, especially for free.