These guys collected 12 years worth of data, to finally determine that an asteroid 16 million kilometers from the earth was 15 kilometers further away than calculated by the influence of gravity alone.
No wonder noone else was able to measure this till now..
OK so from reading previous posts this is what Sega patented:
1) an algorithm to get pedestrians to leap out of the way of the player's car
2) a directional arrow pointing to the player's destination.
1) The original Driver game for playstation had pedestrians leap out of the way of cars: it was impossible to hit them (believe me I tried:P). This game came out the same year as Crazy Taxi (but I'm not sure which was first. Anybody?).
2) The original GTA (which came out a year before Crazy Taxi) for playstation had an arrow pointing to the player's destination.
What I want is bluetooth in my ipod & home stereo, so when I walk in the door my stereo will instantly start playing whatever I was listening to on the ipod.
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Now we have the tablet PC from microsoft with handwriting software.
And by all accounts it is useless.
Handwriting recognition is HARD, and while Palm's stuff works, it's kind of cheating, since you have to conform to their writing style.
Notice how rude it is to start a post by telling the parent is missing the point?
No, YOU'RE missing the point. (Yeah OK I probably should have left that part out.)
All I'm saying is, maybe instead of releasing half-assed linux ports a year after the game comes out (I'm looking at you Neverwinter Nights), maybe it'd be easier to throw a couple bucks to transgaming. Sure it's not always as good as a native port, but it'd be out faster, and it'd be cheaper. But you don't seem to get it. (Notice how rude it is to end a post by telling the parent he just doesn't get it?:P)
A developer can make the greatest game of the decade, but they're not going to pay a $250,000 in time and resources porting the game into Linux in return for a $100,000.
You're missing the point. It costs transgaming much, much less than $250,000 to get a game working well under winex, because they're not starting from scratch every time.
Most new games already "sort of" work under winex, even if they're not on the supported list, so all transgaming has to do is fix whatever bugs exist. Much cheaper than a full port from scratch, and takes no resources from the developers.
So why can't the developer fund transgaming instead of the consumer?? This could be an excellent compromise for companies that don't have enough faith in the linux market to do a full port.
"TransGaming's unique ability to enable Max Payne 2 to run on Linux without any access to the source code is quite impressive. We're extremely pleased that TransGaming is broadening our reach to new audiences and that the Linux community continues to enjoy our products thanks to TransGaming's outstanding work."
Translation:
"Holy shit they ported our game for free!"
Seriously though, why are gamers stuck funding these ports?
Instead of gamers paying transgaming, and then deciding which games are ported, why arent the developers/publishers paying transgaming to get their game onto the "supported" list? This could be a lot cheaper than a full-fledged port.
The iRiver hard drive player is the same price as the iPod but it also includes more features including an FM tuner.
Why the heck would I want to listen to crappy radio stations when I have thousands of commercial free songs at my disposal?!
The bantam player is flash based is it not?
Nope, its definitely a hard drive player.
Anyways, the ipod is still cheaper than half of the players in that review, which is not bad (especially for apple.)
99% of these features on new players are useless anyway. Yay, ethernet! Slower than firewire and usb2.0! Yay, support for a bunch of codecs I'll never use! Yay, fancy displays and visualizations to kill the battery faster! Yes, I'm sure there are probably markets for some of this stuff, but the ipod does exactly what I need it to and nothing more.
The creative nomad player is actually considerably cheaper than the ipod.($300 for 30gb compared to $300 for 10gb w/ an ipod)
The Rio player is the same as the equivalent ipod ($400 for 20gb)
There is no ipod equivalent to the 2gb bantam player, but for $70 more you can get an extra 8gb with the ipod.
And the philips player is $400 for 15gb, while the $400 ipod has an extra 5gb of storage.
So... like I said originally, the ipod does very well.
As for your comment about extra features with other players, I use my ipod to listen to music. It does this very, very well. As far as I'm concerned, any other features just get in the way.
So some judge is going to rule on every file that shows up on a P2P network? Yeah right.
This is like a judge ruling on the definition of art, or love. Anything he comes up with would be completely meaningless.
I suggest you listen to the music of Oval. This guy started out by playing scratched & mangled CDs by other artists and recording the results, and plenty of people think it's music. It could easily be argued that this is not far at all from encoding software as music. Point is, any creative sound can be music, and no one's arbitrary judgment can change that.
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Pfft your language is just a ripoff of Brainfuck
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It runs on an AMD-65? I'm impressed!
you mean like the encryption in my DOCSIS modem that the cable company doesnt use?
switching between virtual desktops with the mouse wheel, from anywhere in the background
fluxbox does this too, actually.
roshambo is in the episode where barbara streisand turns into a giant mech monster, and fights the guy from the cure.
it's the game where you take turns kicking each other in the nuts, and whoever falls down first loses.
These guys collected 12 years worth of data, to finally determine that an asteroid 16 million kilometers from the earth was 15 kilometers further away than calculated by the influence of gravity alone.
No wonder noone else was able to measure this till now..
OK so from reading previous posts this is what Sega patented:
:P). This game came out the same year as Crazy Taxi (but I'm not sure which was first. Anybody?).
1) an algorithm to get pedestrians to leap out of the way of the player's car
2) a directional arrow pointing to the player's destination.
1) The original Driver game for playstation had pedestrians leap out of the way of cars: it was impossible to hit them (believe me I tried
2) The original GTA (which came out a year before Crazy Taxi) for playstation had an arrow pointing to the player's destination.
offender registry.
For one, only the names, ages, and hometowns of the convicts are being published.
This kind of information is public record anyway, I don't see what the big deal is.
Yeah, that'd be neat.
What I want is bluetooth in my ipod & home stereo, so when I walk in the door my stereo will instantly start playing whatever I was listening to on the ipod.
Now we have the tablet PC from microsoft with handwriting software.
And by all accounts it is useless.
Handwriting recognition is HARD, and while Palm's stuff works, it's kind of cheating, since you have to conform to their writing style.
For others, it's a great learn to take a look at serious and less-serious screw-ups by major technological companies.
Didn't have to look very far, did we?
Notice how rude it is to start a post by telling the parent is missing the point?
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No, YOU'RE missing the point. (Yeah OK I probably should have left that part out.)
All I'm saying is, maybe instead of releasing half-assed linux ports a year after the game comes out (I'm looking at you Neverwinter Nights), maybe it'd be easier to throw a couple bucks to transgaming. Sure it's not always as good as a native port, but it'd be out faster, and it'd be cheaper. But you don't seem to get it. (Notice how rude it is to end a post by telling the parent he just doesn't get it?
A developer can make the greatest game of the decade, but they're not going to pay a $250,000 in time and resources porting the game into Linux in return for a $100,000.
You're missing the point. It costs transgaming much, much less than $250,000 to get a game working well under winex, because they're not starting from scratch every time.
Most new games already "sort of" work under winex, even if they're not on the supported list, so all transgaming has to do is fix whatever bugs exist. Much cheaper than a full port from scratch, and takes no resources from the developers.
So why can't the developer fund transgaming instead of the consumer?? This could be an excellent compromise for companies that don't have enough faith in the linux market to do a full port.
"TransGaming's unique ability to enable Max Payne 2 to run on Linux without any access to the source code is quite impressive. We're extremely pleased that TransGaming is broadening our reach to new audiences and that the Linux community continues to enjoy our products thanks to TransGaming's outstanding work."
Translation:
"Holy shit they ported our game for free!"
Seriously though, why are gamers stuck funding these ports?
Instead of gamers paying transgaming, and then deciding which games are ported, why arent the developers/publishers paying transgaming to get their game onto the "supported" list? This could be a lot cheaper than a full-fledged port.
"I had a stroke and all I got was this bloody accent"
The iRiver hard drive player is the same price as the iPod but it also includes more features including an FM tuner.
Why the heck would I want to listen to crappy radio stations when I have thousands of commercial free songs at my disposal?!
The bantam player is flash based is it not?
Nope, its definitely a hard drive player.
Anyways, the ipod is still cheaper than half of the players in that review, which is not bad (especially for apple.)
99% of these features on new players are useless anyway. Yay, ethernet! Slower than firewire and usb2.0! Yay, support for a bunch of codecs I'll never use! Yay, fancy displays and visualizations to kill the battery faster! Yes, I'm sure there are probably markets for some of this stuff, but the ipod does exactly what I need it to and nothing more.
OK, apples to apples then.
The creative nomad player is actually considerably cheaper than the ipod.($300 for 30gb compared to $300 for 10gb w/ an ipod)
The Rio player is the same as the equivalent ipod ($400 for 20gb)
There is no ipod equivalent to the 2gb bantam player, but for $70 more you can get an extra 8gb with the ipod.
And the philips player is $400 for 15gb, while the $400 ipod has an extra 5gb of storage.
So... like I said originally, the ipod does very well.
As for your comment about extra features with other players, I use my ipod to listen to music. It does this very, very well. As far as I'm concerned, any other features just get in the way.
I have yet to see a MMORPG that lived up to its pre-release hype.
So maybe we should hold off with the "gold rush" crap until these games are actually out.
The ipod is NOT THAT EXPENSIVE.
If you actually compare the price per megabyte with other hard-drive based players, the ipod does very well.
RTFA!
the games ARE subdivided into categories by genre.
this was modded insightful instead of interesting :P
Software != Firmware.
The mandrake problem doesn't have anything to do with firmware as far as I can tell, you just send a flush command to the drive, and it fails.
A simple software command should never, EVER be able to fry hardware. Screwing with the firmware is another problem entirely.
So some judge is going to rule on every file that shows up on a P2P network? Yeah right.
This is like a judge ruling on the definition of art, or love. Anything he comes up with would be completely meaningless. I suggest you listen to the music of Oval. This guy started out by playing scratched & mangled CDs by other artists and recording the results, and plenty of people think it's music. It could easily be argued that this is not far at all from encoding software as music. Point is, any creative sound can be music, and no one's arbitrary judgment can change that.
Please explain what law protects music which doesn't protect software.
The proposed compulsory licensing laws would create a guaranteed distribution model for music.
If other data was encoded as "music" this would give the owners of the data a new, protected, distribution method.
The difference is the RIAA is an organization whose sole purpose is to represent the major record labels.
If their amnesty program doesn't include their own members, how is that not deceptive?