IANAGH (I am not a Guitar Hero), but I am in a Rock Band . In that game at least, the covered songs are differentiated from the actual artist songs by some text saying "Made popular by". If Guitar Hero does something to the same effect, would that be enough to not "deliberately mislead the audience"? (At least according to the slashdot population's interpretation of the law).
I think I've heard this before, but it rhymed just a bit more
"Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power...."
Sierra remade some of their original successful adventure games to take advantage of what was then new technology (Space Quest I, King's Quest I, LS Larry 1). In my opinion they were okay, but I still preferred the original release. The ambiguity of the text commands left some mystery as to what could be done in the game, and the blockiness of the "old" graphics left some things to the imagination. It was a nice middle ground between text-based and a clear cartoonish picture.
I'm sure you're right about a motive other than altruism, but I was just guessing it was a negative publicity thing. I'm not a lawyer, but even if granted this obvious patent, couldn't they avoid court hassles by simply choosing not to pursue enforcement? It would be a useless patent sitting on the books, perhaps until business culture or society changed enough to make obvious patents profitable.
I salvaged a 15" flatscreen from the trash at work so I could dual-screen (along with my laptop screen). Not a ton of screen real-estate, but it gave me some flexibility.
Others in my group saw what I was doing and started pushing management for a second screen. Management put in orders for a second flat-screen for everyone else (19 freakin' inches). One was NOT ordered for me, however, because I already had a second screen.
I considered Madden when I bought the Wii, but I was guessing that EA just square-pegged it into the round hole of the Wii. (I don't care what innuendo is read into that). I try to NOT buy the same EA game (with new rosters) every year. So, I figured I had a version or two to let them acclamate to the Wii and figure out what they're doing. Now it seems like they're going to put forth a serious effort. If it reviews well enough, the next version of Madden may be a Wii purchase.
Last night I bypassed my small collection of games purchased new and instead picked up my copy of Sneak King. As a sad reminder to how cheap I can be, the "Used" sticker was still on the case of this one. After 4 hours of play, I only powered off because I had work today and someone has to be here to read slashdot. Even if I never put in that game again, I'm satisfied with the $2.99USD that I spent on the game.
I haven't had a lot of problems with mine, except that Forza 2 won't play. I've tried four different brand new copies of it and about 98% of the time, the XBOX 360 tries to play it as if it were a DVD and not a game. I literally have to reboot the XBOX about 40 times every time I want to play, before it finally works.
I actually had the same problem with Forza 2. It's a good game when it starts up, but it usually takes me a couple of reboots (if I have the patience to try). That's the only game it happens on for me too, so maybe that's more disc-related.
Though my 360 is relatively young, it has been problem free so far.
Since the human-built machine shapes that the robots take seem easily changeable in the movie... [Bumblebee from old camaro to new, Frenzy from boombox to cell phone]... perhaps some of these wrongs will be righted in the sequel.
Some of us flail around even with a DualShock,... you insensitive clod....
I've yanked the PS2 right off the shelf. It's not entirely my fault. I think the console cheats.
This wireless wiimote thingy gives me all sorts of new freedoms to hurt myself and others.
An enterprising group in our IT department could not find an English version of the product manual for a piece of software they were using. So they ran portions of it through some web-based language translator and made their own English version. They did later acquire an English version from the vendor, but I haven't heard how the two compared in quality.
I got the burn...
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Plasma or LCD?
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I bought a Panasonic Plasma around May of this year. I can already notice the burn from the vertical bars that show up on non-HD channels to compensate for the aspect ratio. I watch whatever I can justified/stretched to fill the screen, but it makes everyone look short and squat.
How about the replicator technology that was able to create food and materials (often seen used in personal quarters and 10-forward)? Was there some explanation given as to the limits of what it could reproduce?
This reminds me of an article that showed up sometime ago (for which I'm too lazy to search). Subjects who had went to Disney World as a child were asked to remember if they met a series of characters while there. The questioners mixed in a non-Disney character, like Bugs Bunny, and a significant number of people claimed to remember meeting the rascally rabbit.
At a mall this weekend they had a center concourse setup with 6 playable Wii's for the shoppers. There were a few different games on the screens I saw (Zelda, Wii Sports, Excite Truck) and two fellows in Nintendo shirts showing how to use it.
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IANAGH (I am not a Guitar Hero), but I am in a Rock Band . In that game at least, the covered songs are differentiated from the actual artist songs by some text saying "Made popular by". If Guitar Hero does something to the same effect, would that be enough to not "deliberately mislead the audience"? (At least according to the slashdot population's interpretation of the law).
The rules of cliche break down at the singularity.
Would the computer have expected the Spanish Inquisition?
I like the Orbit ad. "What the French, Toast?"
"Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power...."
Sierra remade some of their original successful adventure games to take advantage of what was then new technology (Space Quest I, King's Quest I, LS Larry 1). In my opinion they were okay, but I still preferred the original release. The ambiguity of the text commands left some mystery as to what could be done in the game, and the blockiness of the "old" graphics left some things to the imagination. It was a nice middle ground between text-based and a clear cartoonish picture.
Others in my group saw what I was doing and started pushing management for a second screen. Management put in orders for a second flat-screen for everyone else (19 freakin' inches). One was NOT ordered for me, however, because I already had a second screen.
Yes. I envy their 4 inches.
I actually had the same problem with Forza 2. It's a good game when it starts up, but it usually takes me a couple of reboots (if I have the patience to try). That's the only game it happens on for me too, so maybe that's more disc-related.
Though my 360 is relatively young, it has been problem free so far.
Since the human-built machine shapes that the robots take seem easily changeable in the movie ... [Bumblebee from old camaro to new, Frenzy from boombox to cell phone] ... perhaps some of these wrongs will be righted in the sequel.
I've yanked the PS2 right off the shelf. It's not entirely my fault. I think the console cheats.
This wireless wiimote thingy gives me all sorts of new freedoms to hurt myself and others.
In any case, this debate will probably drag-on forever
An enterprising group in our IT department could not find an English version of the product manual for a piece of software they were using. So they ran portions of it through some web-based language translator and made their own English version. They did later acquire an English version from the vendor, but I haven't heard how the two compared in quality.
I bought a Panasonic Plasma around May of this year. I can already notice the burn from the vertical bars that show up on non-HD channels to compensate for the aspect ratio. I watch whatever I can justified/stretched to fill the screen, but it makes everyone look short and squat.
Venkman: "Einsten did his best work when he was working as a patent clerk"
Ray: "Do you know how much a patent clerk earns?"
How about the replicator technology that was able to create food and materials (often seen used in personal quarters and 10-forward)? Was there some explanation given as to the limits of what it could reproduce?
This reminds me of an article that showed up sometime ago (for which I'm too lazy to search). Subjects who had went to Disney World as a child were asked to remember if they met a series of characters while there. The questioners mixed in a non-Disney character, like Bugs Bunny, and a significant number of people claimed to remember meeting the rascally rabbit.
Not one Wii for sale in the whole mall.
Wasn't it Armitage who made that threat?
Women have always told me that my brain is in my Jeans.
I'm hoping they'll integrate the Sims and Battlefield 2 so that I can take an Apache to those neighbors with the nicer house and appliances.