Um, because most keyboards, PDAs, or handhelds such as the Gameboy Advance don't have a Z-trigger and joystick for the N64 nor do they have 8 buttons (10 if you count start/select, 12 if you count R3/L3) nor dual analog sticks for the PS1/PSX.
After the 16-bit era, controllers went insane. PS1/PSX added 2 extra buttons at first, but dual analog sticks!? Whoa! What next? Built in vibration AND wireless?! Nintendo moving the d-pad to the sidelines with the N64? Yeah, RIGHT. What next? Microsoft enter the video game industry with their own system?
To get back on topic, this would definately work in college towns. But we all know this would almost never hold anywhere else. Try doing this in New York or San Francisco and we all know what'd happen. Controllers get smashed, the occasional fight, the 'games cause violence' protesting, the insane amounts of damage, the fire regulations being broken (can't have people falling asleep in the pathways of others), and of course, the little kids who you KNOW will throw stuff at the screen magnified by billions because its a video game on the screen.
If the great-grandparent poster wanted to play the game, then he could lend it out, but he can't play it while it's not in his posession.
By that logic I shouldn't be allowed to use my computer because my only copy of Windows got destroyed when my 9 year old cousin decided to play frisbee with it (Left it out on the desk after reinstalling it). I shouldn't be allowed to play Doom 1 because I lost the original disks years ago yet I still have it installed on my old computer (Lost the copy... 5 years ago? Still runs in DOS). Just because something is not in your immediate possession does not mean you are breaking copyright laws for using it. If you obeyed the law that way we'd have to arrest every person who listens to the radio but doesn't have a copy of the song, we'd have to arrest pretty much every SNES/NES/Genesis/Atari ROM owner because they don't own the cartrages anymore, etc etc. I seriously doubt every single Slashdot reader who uses Windows could suddenly whip out their copy/ies of Windows if the government was to come knocking at their doors.
Hm, yes a direct feed of a beta build of a console game, on the high resolution of a computer monitor, in a 20 minute video. Thats a great observation. I'm sure you're one of those people who thought Doom 3 was going to suck because you played the leaked beta a few years ago.
But does that REALLY make it 'free'? Technically when you bought Half-Life the X dollars you spent are going towards Steam.
No, Steam is not free. For those who do not have a Half-Life CD key or simply lost it, Steam is not free. (Lent original copy of Half-Life to friend about 3 years back, never got it back. Playing game with a downloaded copy, a CD key generator, and no-CD crack.)
I think what a lot of military historians don't want to admitt is that no one really knows why one side or the other won or lost.
Depending on the era, the size, and the scale of the battle. In a case like the Battle for Marathon yes, things were unclear if the Greeks had truely 'won' since they had to race back to meet the enemy's flanking attempts. However, that only lasted, what? Less than two weeks? And their entire army could be observed from on top of a hilltop. Compare that with, say, a WW2 battle like The Battle of Midway when it lasted for a few days. Did the Americans know if they had basicly 'won' the Pacific war when they destroyed the Japanese carriers? No. Did the Japanese give up or acknowledge the fact they were basicly screwed at that point? Hell no.
Military history is never easy. A lost message or report here or there could rewrite history one way or another (did a Japanese spy find out about the trap and simply failed to send a message? Maybe an American recon plane saw the Japanese fleet eariler and mistook it for the American fleet?) Unlike domestic history, theres rarely a very clear paper trail to follow.
True in GTA you got 'punished' for doing bad things, but lets face it; the 'punishment' in the game was a joke. Assuming you weren't totally inept at driving or stood out in the middle of the street with no cover or escape, the police were a joke (star 1/2, let them come at you, get in car, run over, get out, repeat), the FBI/SWAT (depending on which GTA) were nothing outstanding (basicly police with bigger guns and faster cars) since some of the missions you would do later in the game were MUCH harder, and the Army was wimpy as hell (if you were good enough to even reach 6 stars.)
What would be much more 'punishing' would be the police had faster cars than you that could never be stolen (which I'm sure we've all done at least once in GTA), the mid-level police would be more intelligent (I'm pretty sure ramming your target's parked car and then getting out with no backup isn't very realistic), and the Army wouldn't have one guy controlling a tank, with no sidearm to defend himself, can be 'defeated' simply by throwing him out, and wouldn't try to use M-16s against a speeding car in a downtown civilian area.
Oh and getting arrested? Considering you end up with over a 100 million dollars at the end of all the missions, losing a couple thousand for going to jail is pennies.
Did you play the game modded or unmodded? I'm sure the moment the game gets released publicly (not limited to LAN center), chances are people will find a way to basicly nullify all the changes. After all, in CS we have people who can snipe people while in mid-air, a good pistol shooter can take down someone with an AK, the graphics for the flashbang are often turned down or outright disabled client-side making them ineffective, smoke grenades are a joke even against newbies due to narrow hallways and chokepoint, and insane amounts of ammo you can hold removes the need to watch your fire (120 rounds in reserve in a game where matches are often less than 3 minutes long?).
Weren't these things supposed to be what the original CS was supposed to bring, only to have them modded out/'figured out' and made common knowledge in months after its release?
I think the parent has some truth to his post, even if it is nothing more than a troll comment. Isn't the whole point of an open source project supposed to be about the allowing the masses to openly and freely input new ideas and thoughts into one large system without having to put up with the BS they get with closed source programs (Windows)? By creating this add-on program to Mozilla, hes basicly bringing the reason as to why (at least) some of us stopped using IE, pop-ups.
the first mobile phone virus that causes damage is out and about
If its the first of its kind, I'd say its pretty damn newsworthy. The first nuclear bomb was pretty damned crappy by today's standards but anyone who thinks they're a WWII buff knows its name, the bomber that carried it, and the name of the bomber.
It'll be like this as long as the media is around. 'The first man to orbit the Earth from outer space.' 'The first man on the moon.' 'The first time a U.S. President choked on a pretzel.' 'The first time man lands on Mars.' '... Pluto' '... Alpha Centauri' etc etc etc.
if I were designing equipment that held human lives in its anthropomorphic hands, I'd build it as an entirely atomic OS built from Linux or a BSD variant. And communications would be data-only, over a serial port. No network.
Look at it this way, if you were some 90-something year old in a hospital which would you rather trust : Some no name techno-fangled "operating system" like Linux, or would you go for the big name "everyone uses it" Windows?
Actually, yes it does in that case. In a two choice question, theorically the numbers should float around 50% simply due to lack of alternative answers. Its the same things with politics. Theorically, in the US two-party system, the electorial votes should float around 50/50 like we saw in the election of 2000 when Florida became the make-or-break decision. (And we all know how that turned out.)
They tried similar things with light pens in the 1980s and instead of opening up new vistas of UI possibilty everyone totally hated them. Why don't they just stick a trackball on it and be done with it?
Because in the 1980's having a computer that ran above 320*240 was considered to be a high-tech, high-end you'll never see outside a college campus or government facility machine. These days there are machines that default at 1600*1200 and considered to be 'mid-range' PCs. Much easier to use a stylus when the pen tip doesn't fill in half the screen everytime you touch it.
UI? Tell that to the millions of people who STILL use the 'Start menu' in Windows, then you can come back and lecture to the closed system console/handheld companies.
Oh and for some odd reason I've never seenen a trackball outside of a computer store before. How strange.
This is an UNOFFICIAL project, you're comparing a multimillion dollar company's laptop with a fan made cheap "done just for kicks" handheld.
If nothing else you can call this project Sony's PSP version 0.1 . The PSP is supposed to have the hardware to match the PS2, if a PS1 hardware config gets 1 1/2 hours of battery life, wouldn't you get concerned about the PSP's battery life?
Another 'problem' stems from the videogames themselves. Game companies don't like to change their formulas by much, so you end up with remakes of previous games over and over. Do this enough and anything less than radical seems like boring news in a market where everyone copies one another.
It's awful. I wouldn't recommend the game to anyone
Well, whats your point? Yes I've played the game myself and yes I think the game is just plain awful, but that doesn't mean Rockstar should get sued because someone killed another person. Could you imagine the implications following after that? We'd have to sue car companies because someone drove their car while drunk. We'd have to sue steak knife companies because some kid ran around with it and stabbed his little brother. Etc etc.
If the game went around saying 'kill people, kill people, its all just a game' I could see why people would start pointing fingers at Rockstar, but when you consider the context "con gets pulled off deathrow without permission to play a game of cat and mouse" why not? When you think of it that way, you could say the main character is acting out in self-defense.
Indeed, the first three Metroid games were originally all about having a non-linear feel when you knew the game was linear. The only problem with this system, and the main reason as to why its not used anymore, is the fact that its insanely time consuming to track down every door/power-up/secret. Don't forget, this was a time when the only map you had was a map you drew on a piece of graph paper using a pencil and estimating the length of a room.
Call me lame but I as much as I like pretty videogame box art, I always thought having a smoother more crisp box art was always better (at least for the front). Case in point : the box art for Final Fantasy 2/4 and 3/6. Take a look.
Call me a marketing moron but I think this sort of smooth, simple box art is the best way to gather attention against rows and rows (or stacks and stacks) of other video game box art.
I'll bet your auto mechanic just loves it when you refuse to tell him what's wrong, but tell him how to fix it
Exactly, only this case goes even further. Its more like bringing a burning car to an auto mechanic and then stating the obvious, but then not telling him where it started, by who, when, how, or why.
Other than making the military go into a paranoid level of security (yeah right, like the public would ever let that happen) theres no way they could ever close all the holes and tie up all the loose ends. Bottom line leaks : Some guy with a photographic memory posts on the web, after he leaves the service, how we he 'thinks' he saw an alien UFO land in a military airbase.
Red Vs Blue was like many fan made movies/comedies/comics, 99% parody on the actual game 1% original content. Case in point : one of the characters asks if his buddy every wonders why are they fighting in a canyon. Response : 'No, semper fi bitch.'
So comparing the internet to the real world we see that copyrights are just a legal entity, they are not real things, they do not exist outside of a goverment's promise to enforce them. So you can tables, CDs, and even bandwidth, but you can't steal information.
Are you so sure about that? I'd say there'd be some serious hell to pay if someone was to steal the schedule of times and dates as to when President Bush was to make his next suprise visit to Iraq. Even in the post-Cold War era, information is pretty damned valuable and simple reports, passwords, or source codes could be constituted as information.
But what if the company they hack into ignores the 'friendly' hacker? Or the e-mail the 'friendly' hacker gets lost in the endless stream of customer support spam? The hacker usually has two choices at this point (remember this is the 'friendly' one here). He can:
A. Launch a 'small' virus into their system to get their attention. May not 100% get the company's attention and is bad all around anyway you look at it. But small. B. He can launch a big virus and show the company he wants some attention for his work. Guaranteed to get the job done, but causes serious trouble all around. C. or a continuation of A and B : The hacker gets ignored or does nothing. Instead he posts the exploit on the web to let someone else deliever the message. However, the company either freaks out from the posting or some jackass hacker takes the exploit and takes down the company servers.
Our hope, however, is that as more authentication tools are developed it will become increasingly more difficult to create convincing digital forgeries
Whos to say if a certain method is the right method to use? Just like there are numerous viruses, anti-viruses, and anti-anti-viruses; I think its safe to say there will photo manipulation software, counter-photo manipulation software, and counter-counter-photo manipulation software. Course this leads to programs being compromised and the necessity of making new programs all too often.
Step 1 : Set a high, you-damned-well-know-its-unreachable "potential" sales estimate Step 2 : Minus costs Step 3 : ??? Step 4 : Sue pirates and drain more money from developers Step 5 : Profit!
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Um, because most keyboards, PDAs, or handhelds such as the Gameboy Advance don't have a Z-trigger and joystick for the N64 nor do they have 8 buttons (10 if you count start/select, 12 if you count R3/L3) nor dual analog sticks for the PS1/PSX.
After the 16-bit era, controllers went insane. PS1/PSX added 2 extra buttons at first, but dual analog sticks!? Whoa! What next? Built in vibration AND wireless?! Nintendo moving the d-pad to the sidelines with the N64? Yeah, RIGHT. What next? Microsoft enter the video game industry with their own system?
To get back on topic, this would definately work in college towns. But we all know this would almost never hold anywhere else. Try doing this in New York or San Francisco and we all know what'd happen. Controllers get smashed, the occasional fight, the 'games cause violence' protesting, the insane amounts of damage, the fire regulations being broken (can't have people falling asleep in the pathways of others), and of course, the little kids who you KNOW will throw stuff at the screen magnified by billions because its a video game on the screen.
By that logic I shouldn't be allowed to use my computer because my only copy of Windows got destroyed when my 9 year old cousin decided to play frisbee with it (Left it out on the desk after reinstalling it). I shouldn't be allowed to play Doom 1 because I lost the original disks years ago yet I still have it installed on my old computer (Lost the copy... 5 years ago? Still runs in DOS). Just because something is not in your immediate possession does not mean you are breaking copyright laws for using it. If you obeyed the law that way we'd have to arrest every person who listens to the radio but doesn't have a copy of the song, we'd have to arrest pretty much every SNES/NES/Genesis/Atari ROM owner because they don't own the cartrages anymore, etc etc. I seriously doubt every single Slashdot reader who uses Windows could suddenly whip out their copy/ies of Windows if the government was to come knocking at their doors.
Hm, yes a direct feed of a beta build of a console game, on the high resolution of a computer monitor, in a 20 minute video. Thats a great observation. I'm sure you're one of those people who thought Doom 3 was going to suck because you played the leaked beta a few years ago.
No, Steam is not free. For those who do not have a Half-Life CD key or simply lost it, Steam is not free. (Lent original copy of Half-Life to friend about 3 years back, never got it back. Playing game with a downloaded copy, a CD key generator, and no-CD crack.)
Depending on the era, the size, and the scale of the battle. In a case like the Battle for Marathon yes, things were unclear if the Greeks had truely 'won' since they had to race back to meet the enemy's flanking attempts. However, that only lasted, what? Less than two weeks? And their entire army could be observed from on top of a hilltop. Compare that with, say, a WW2 battle like The Battle of Midway when it lasted for a few days. Did the Americans know if they had basicly 'won' the Pacific war when they destroyed the Japanese carriers? No. Did the Japanese give up or acknowledge the fact they were basicly screwed at that point? Hell no.
Military history is never easy. A lost message or report here or there could rewrite history one way or another (did a Japanese spy find out about the trap and simply failed to send a message? Maybe an American recon plane saw the Japanese fleet eariler and mistook it for the American fleet?) Unlike domestic history, theres rarely a very clear paper trail to follow.
What would be much more 'punishing' would be the police had faster cars than you that could never be stolen (which I'm sure we've all done at least once in GTA), the mid-level police would be more intelligent (I'm pretty sure ramming your target's parked car and then getting out with no backup isn't very realistic), and the Army wouldn't have one guy controlling a tank, with no sidearm to defend himself, can be 'defeated' simply by throwing him out, and wouldn't try to use M-16s against a speeding car in a downtown civilian area.
Oh and getting arrested? Considering you end up with over a 100 million dollars at the end of all the missions, losing a couple thousand for going to jail is pennies.
Weren't these things supposed to be what the original CS was supposed to bring, only to have them modded out/'figured out' and made common knowledge in months after its release?
So you don't pay for your internet connection? One way or another, you pay extra for online games.
I think the parent has some truth to his post, even if it is nothing more than a troll comment. Isn't the whole point of an open source project supposed to be about the allowing the masses to openly and freely input new ideas and thoughts into one large system without having to put up with the BS they get with closed source programs (Windows)? By creating this add-on program to Mozilla, hes basicly bringing the reason as to why (at least) some of us stopped using IE, pop-ups.
If its the first of its kind, I'd say its pretty damn newsworthy. The first nuclear bomb was pretty damned crappy by today's standards but anyone who thinks they're a WWII buff knows its name, the bomber that carried it, and the name of the bomber.
It'll be like this as long as the media is around. 'The first man to orbit the Earth from outer space.' 'The first man on the moon.' 'The first time a U.S. President choked on a pretzel.' 'The first time man lands on Mars.' '... Pluto' '... Alpha Centauri' etc etc etc.
Look at it this way, if you were some 90-something year old in a hospital which would you rather trust : Some no name techno-fangled "operating system" like Linux, or would you go for the big name "everyone uses it" Windows?
Actually, yes it does in that case. In a two choice question, theorically the numbers should float around 50% simply due to lack of alternative answers. Its the same things with politics. Theorically, in the US two-party system, the electorial votes should float around 50/50 like we saw in the election of 2000 when Florida became the make-or-break decision. (And we all know how that turned out.)
Because in the 1980's having a computer that ran above 320*240 was considered to be a high-tech, high-end you'll never see outside a college campus or government facility machine. These days there are machines that default at 1600*1200 and considered to be 'mid-range' PCs. Much easier to use a stylus when the pen tip doesn't fill in half the screen everytime you touch it.
UI? Tell that to the millions of people who STILL use the 'Start menu' in Windows, then you can come back and lecture to the closed system console/handheld companies.
Oh and for some odd reason I've never seenen a trackball outside of a computer store before. How strange.
If nothing else you can call this project Sony's PSP version 0.1 . The PSP is supposed to have the hardware to match the PS2, if a PS1 hardware config gets 1 1/2 hours of battery life, wouldn't you get concerned about the PSP's battery life?
Another 'problem' stems from the videogames themselves. Game companies don't like to change their formulas by much, so you end up with remakes of previous games over and over. Do this enough and anything less than radical seems like boring news in a market where everyone copies one another.
Well, whats your point? Yes I've played the game myself and yes I think the game is just plain awful, but that doesn't mean Rockstar should get sued because someone killed another person. Could you imagine the implications following after that? We'd have to sue car companies because someone drove their car while drunk. We'd have to sue steak knife companies because some kid ran around with it and stabbed his little brother. Etc etc.
If the game went around saying 'kill people, kill people, its all just a game' I could see why people would start pointing fingers at Rockstar, but when you consider the context "con gets pulled off deathrow without permission to play a game of cat and mouse" why not? When you think of it that way, you could say the main character is acting out in self-defense.
Indeed, the first three Metroid games were originally all about having a non-linear feel when you knew the game was linear. The only problem with this system, and the main reason as to why its not used anymore, is the fact that its insanely time consuming to track down every door/power-up/secret. Don't forget, this was a time when the only map you had was a map you drew on a piece of graph paper using a pencil and estimating the length of a room.
http://www.vgmuseum.com/scans/snes/ff2.jpg/
http://www.vgmuseum.com/scans/snes/ff3.jpg/
Call me a marketing moron but I think this sort of smooth, simple box art is the best way to gather attention against rows and rows (or stacks and stacks) of other video game box art.
Exactly, only this case goes even further. Its more like bringing a burning car to an auto mechanic and then stating the obvious, but then not telling him where it started, by who, when, how, or why.
Other than making the military go into a paranoid level of security (yeah right, like the public would ever let that happen) theres no way they could ever close all the holes and tie up all the loose ends. Bottom line leaks : Some guy with a photographic memory posts on the web, after he leaves the service, how we he 'thinks' he saw an alien UFO land in a military airbase.
Red Vs Blue was like many fan made movies/comedies/comics, 99% parody on the actual game 1% original content. Case in point : one of the characters asks if his buddy every wonders why are they fighting in a canyon. Response : 'No, semper fi bitch.'
Are you so sure about that? I'd say there'd be some serious hell to pay if someone was to steal the schedule of times and dates as to when President Bush was to make his next suprise visit to Iraq. Even in the post-Cold War era, information is pretty damned valuable and simple reports, passwords, or source codes could be constituted as information.
A. Launch a 'small' virus into their system to get their attention. May not 100% get the company's attention and is bad all around anyway you look at it. But small.
B. He can launch a big virus and show the company he wants some attention for his work. Guaranteed to get the job done, but causes serious trouble all around.
C. or a continuation of A and B : The hacker gets ignored or does nothing. Instead he posts the exploit on the web to let someone else deliever the message. However, the company either freaks out from the posting or some jackass hacker takes the exploit and takes down the company servers.
Our hope, however, is that as more authentication tools are developed it will become increasingly more difficult to create convincing digital forgeries
Whos to say if a certain method is the right method to use? Just like there are numerous viruses, anti-viruses, and anti-anti-viruses; I think its safe to say there will photo manipulation software, counter-photo manipulation software, and counter-counter-photo manipulation software. Course this leads to programs being compromised and the necessity of making new programs all too often.
Step 1 : Set a high, you-damned-well-know-its-unreachable "potential" sales estimate
Step 2 : Minus costs
Step 3 : ???
Step 4 : Sue pirates and drain more money from developers
Step 5 : Profit!