you know why the SP is so damn popular? because its the smallest GameBoy ever and it has a backlight. if you look at most gamebox mods, theyre done for size anyway. people try to fit mini itx consoles into NES consoles, 5 consoles into a big lian li case, playstation original onto a PSX controller. i love my SP especially because it easilly fits into my pocket, why would i ever want to stuff my pocket with something huge and clunky that just wouldn't fit? your suggestions about adoption arn't totally unfound, i've wanted to put my gamegear in my computer case and play it during boots but adopting an external controller has been really difficult
Your talking about a 3rd Party accessory called <a href="http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:Aayl_c<nobr>O<wbr></wbr></nobr> _plcJ:www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/game<nobr>s<wbr></wbr></nobr> potting/092902/1.html+x+band+online+game&hl=en&ie<nobr>=<wbr></wbr></nobr> UTF-8">X-Band</a> that was sold for SNES and Genesis systems. The accessory wasn't that popular and it was NOT a Nintendo product. To my knowledge this was the first advent of online console play but again, you and I barelly remember this because it failed. The concept has always been popular, play Madden XX with anyone in the world, most people prefer not paying lots of extra money to do something they can just do with their friends. So, I'd have to say the past favors Nintendo...
What about all the rumors of wifi implementation and wireless connectivity in in a GameBoy? Bluetooth adapters are getting cheaper all the time and how hot would it be if I could get my Pokemon battle just be seeing the WAN (a la Apple's fabulous Rendezvous) The progression of the screen has been a staple in the GameBoy evolution but thats more or less the only major change for the past 15 years or so. Sure color screens and backlit count for something but this is NINTENDO, why not give us something that'll change the way we play games on handhelds. Are you listening NINTENDO? Give us something more than just a shiney screen but something that compells us to play games in a totally new manner!
I'm excited by the big battery life and hot screens tho, bout time
This is going to sound like a flame but my girlfriend & sister both itch to play tetris on the bigscreen. EGM called it the #1 game in the world in their 100th issue and people still have their Marios and Animal Crossing but their love for Tetris never never dies. Even with the black and white version, Tetris on the bigscreen would still put hours and hours of play in a comfy lazyboy recliner instead of neck arched back bending gameplay. Try finding the play of Tetris on the GameCube and all you'll get are sorry remakes. This is what makes the GameBoy/GameCube adapter a killer app for enthusiasts, hours of gameplay on a comfy TV.
maybe it isn't newsworthy but think about this: why in the fuck does microsoft have to go out and dominate the market in EVERYTHING?
Microsoft went out and NEEDED to be the number 1 portal so they created MSN. They NEEDED to be number 1 in instant messaging so they created MSN Messenger, They NEEDED to be number 1 in browsers so we have IE, also for refrence: XBOX, Office, MS Money, MSN Internet Access, Media Player
All of those products are completelly unprofitable (except Office), but why is Microsoft out to dominate the entire world? Sure there are the evil jokes but can't Microsoft give us decent operating systems that don't choke until the 5th revision? Why are they devoting so many resources to tasks that are seeminglly insignigent? What kind of benefits can Microsoft actually gain by out doing google?
I'm not invested in MS but I have a hard time seeing how all of these directions at MS are going to help MS as generating revnue. So what if IE6 has won the world? Does winning the browser race actually matter?
So far it looks like Microsoft wants to be like the evil corperation in Alien.
And the best part of all this shows that Joe Consumer will have to pay fo relativelly higher prices of RAM since the DOC decided to cripple a competitor.
I really hope this doesn't turn out like the Sims online but here's for the best. I didnt follow the massive disapointment but does anyone know blow by blow why the Sims were such a disapointment?
Snatcher did make a release to Sega CD back in the day and your right, the article's author is complaining about the lack of Policenauts English translation. Sure there are fan sites devoted to the unofficial english translation but the hardcore fanbase truly wants (& deserves) a properly translated Policenauts.
For the younguns (I'm 19 but I was into this) Snatcher was a hyperviolent Blade Runner esque cyberpunk thriller set in the future and was one of the first gameplays that truly could appeal to adults through a thriller storyline and gameplay. If you thought MGS was appealing to adults Snatcher is one of the pioneering games.
Kojima's hyper success in the past few years is allowing a rerelease like this to happen and its damn cool because before MGS1 there was no chance in hell this was going to happen. Considering Policenauts was never released in the US and Snatcher is on Sega CD, itd be nice for US kiddies to get it on PSX or something cause its pretty damn hard to get a copy of either game in North America.
i'm surprised by jobs' comments but i shouldn't be. his hardlined stance and staunch trenching of ideas is exactlly why he was fired in the 80s but his reaction toward the segway screams what he's doing at apple. after reading the article, doesn't it suggest that he is more of a force at Apple in pushing the UI, business strategy, product/manufacturing strategy than anyone else? Its clear that Jobs respects designers ("They'll give you stuff that will make you shit in your pants...") and it seems like Jobs hands ideas off to designers to give him something he doesn't know he wants (iMac, iPod UI, translucent plastics).
considering everything that went wrong with the Segway launch (how many people have ACTUALLY seen a ginger in person?) its possible to say that Jobs was partially right. the article talks about the ginger but it screams the way Jobs thinks and approaches a problem. the launch of ginger is interesting but give me a book about Jobs rants from the past 8 years and I'll shell out for that. Not to mention the Pixar vs Disney negotiations... (Disney is going to get ownned)
just ranting... doesn't it make you wonder about WWDC being Apple's internal code for 'We Will Delight Crowds'?
The article merely eludes to the fact that there are multiple GT Concepts for PS2 around the world. The article talks about GTC 2002 Tokyo/Geneva, but there have been previous incarnations of GTC Tokyo 2001 and GTC Tokyo-Seoul 2002. Tokyo-Seoul was just Tokyo 01 with 6 Korean cars to help Korean PS2 sales.
I picked my copy up for $35 in Korea and I had to mod my PS2 just to play it. As a GT3 fanatic the game can be finished in a day or two, but its absolutelly worth it if you lust after the GTR35 Concept, RX8, 350z . If you get only one GTConcept you should ignore the other games and go for the article's 02 Geneva/Tokyo (VW12, Cien, ect). The dualnode is ridiculouslly fun btw.
just my 2 cents
Sammy is japan's largest pachinko operater, US articles say pinball but its really Pachinko, Japan's equivalent to the slot machine. There was a lot of annalysts questions the merger of Sammy-Sega because both companies don't have a lot in common except the arcade business, and the arcade business has been sliding for years. And yes, Sega is starting to get desperate.
A Sega-Namco would consolidate into Japan's largest arcade operater and hold 30% of the arcade market. Their consolidated software sales would command 10% of the market (Sega is 9th, Namco is 8th) but they would have some of the most coveted longterm licences on the planet like Soul Calibor, Virtua Fighter, Sonic & Tekken between them. An older news.com article points out. The real hope for gamers is Sega independence from Microsoft and EA so gamers could truly get more platform independent games. It would suck to see another Bungie/Halo exclusive to happen. Here's for Namco's success and gamers being lucky enough to see a Virtua Fighter-Tekken Crossover
the eWeek article is refering to this Chosun Ilbo article in a Korean daily newspaper. The lawsuit is part of the 3 way lawsuit against the South Korean Information Minister, ISPs, and the South Korean division of Microsoft. Again this is the SOUTH KOREAN division of Microsoft for failing to inform Korean ISPs of the patch and its signifigance. These are people and businesses who were knocked off the grid for days and had nothign to do with microsoft's licensing. Thus a class action lawsuit. The idiot poster makes it sound completelly different.
"I need to wait until the bars open so I can ask sailors a question" "Do you know where sailors might hang out" "Saliors?" are so classic Shenmue 1. You know, Shenmue II english translation was released in UK, you can import it if you've got the cash and no XBOX. I want to mod my dreamcast into my PC and have my seamen embedded in the case.
A signifigant note to this statistic is that its only household broadband penetration not general population broadband accessibility. The huge difference is that my cousin in Korea doesn't care if she has broadband in her apartment because she can go out to a PC room at any time in the day and do all her online shopping, email, diaries for a dollar a minute. In the US, getting that kind of broadband access is almost impossible outside of major metropolitan areas (less than 20 cities in the US total). The broadband penetration doesn't matter to a lot of people in Korea because PC rooms are so damn accessible and people have stopped writing signifigant amounts of email due to text messaging
A really interesting thing that should happen in the next 2 years is when everyone in Korea gets TIVO or video on demand, and how that could redefine television broadcasting. Something you didn't know, the Korean goverment banned commercials during programs so commercials are only blocked during the half hours and main hours instead of splicing between programs. The TiVo dream is next.
and the search for better porn continues! with higher bit encoding and even smaller file sizes we can all be happier with more porn per gigabyte. hopefully the prevailing codec (regardless of the best quality) will be license free & open source for more cross platform compatability. but seriouslly, ive been sitting around for 3 days compressing raw video and anyone who's done this knows what a pain in the ass it is. better codecs hopefully will mean more compatability in the future. ever wanted to show your kpop musicvideo to your friend on your cellphone?
im flamebait for pushing for size but its true about size not being everything.
and lots of portals tested this kind of advertising on their homesite 18 months ago. even major players like Yahoo Korea had the F12 feature of taking over your whole screen for a 15-30 second flash animation/advertisment. The unpopularity of these ads made the hosts pull the ADs but unscrupulous (read PORN) advertisers still use this technique. I hardlly think that this technique is new, the code has existed to enable this for quite some time, this is just/. publicity. Maybe the bandwith requirements of having a 640x480 ad is why this is hitting stateside but this is something that is already happening in parts of the world.
I think the best way to really avoid this kind of blitz AD is not to use IE.
@$700 its a bit steep, especially with the given difficulty or running OS X it would probablly be cheaper to buy a Power Mac for double that and let it depreciate over 3-5 years rather than invest in a (quite old) G3 Beige. Sonnet is really grabbing at tiny scraps with this upgrade, I'd like to see the benchmarks for this especially when the mobo architecture and faster ram on the new G4s benefit the speed of OS X over sheer processor speed.
its amazing that AOL is circumventing the FCC rules, I was pretty disapointed when AOL IM protocol wasn't forced open during the merger but this is ridiculous. To brashlly declare it doesnt hold a dominant control over IM, have they forgotten about AOL IM & ICQ???
News.com article "The petition argues that AOL's IM services, AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ, face more competition from Microsoft and Yahoo, both of which have launched video conferencing features on their respective IM clients. The petition also disputes the order's original argument that AOL's dominance would increase given the lack of interoperability, now that MSN and Yahoo have amassed millions of users as well.
"There is no longer any plausible reason to conclude either that AOL is dominant or that the market is in danger of 'tipping' to AOL," said Northwestern University professor William P. Rogerson, who provided an affidavit on behalf of AOL Time Warner. "
kare's portoflio shows to her credit: mac paint, macintosh icons macintosh fonts (like classic chicago!) windows 3.0 icons windows solitare os/2 warp icons 7 pixel fonts
her site is getting hammered already. the coolest part of susan kare is she had no template for the creation of her art. she gave form to predesigned functions. she's sorta like a Jonathan Ive way back when.
EGM, Electronic Gaming Monthly reported in its April issued (possiblly an April Fools joke though not likely) that the new Game Boy was supposed to have integreated bluetooth for wireless gameplay capability. the vision would be powering up Pokemon and reading people nearby and doing quests in tandem. The implications of Bluetooth Gameboy are ridiculouslly cool but the question really asks why it wasn't placed in the first place. The cost would have gone up by 20-30 dollars and would have trully diffrenetiated the new GameBoy from the previous Advanced models. A lot of people would say its a matter of time before Nintendo does this but its something really worth pondering when Nintendo is specing out their new game system. Nintendo was the first to offer an officially branded wireless controller for any of the 3 major consoles. Anyone have any other ideas?
It doesn't matter if Apple is a favorite company of mine. I love Apple like I love my iBook but thais patent business is ridiculouslly out of control. The worst case of how bad this patent business has gotten are the companies that search out for patents and sue people to add to their bottom line.
Pangea IP activelly seeks out ecommerce firms and sues them because PanIP has a vaguelly worded patent that is letting them settle with small ecommerce firms for thousands of dollars a year. Patents like PanIP means if you create a candy store online, you can potentially get sued. Check out the Anti PanIP Fight Back Crew to see how serious one patent can be.
What really needs to be stopped is the Patent Office from issuing another ridiculous patent. OS and interface patents are hurting human-machine interactions because people have to bend over backward now to avoid patents. As a webdesigner, I really hope I'm not liabel for some sort of design I implement sheerly because some idiot has a Patent application on my design. I hope congress can frigging pay attention to this problem and how serious it is.
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you know why the SP is so damn popular? because its the smallest GameBoy ever and it has a backlight. if you look at most gamebox mods, theyre done for size anyway. people try to fit mini itx consoles into NES consoles, 5 consoles into a big lian li case, playstation original onto a PSX controller. i love my SP especially because it easilly fits into my pocket, why would i ever want to stuff my pocket with something huge and clunky that just wouldn't fit? your suggestions about adoption arn't totally unfound, i've wanted to put my gamegear in my computer case and play it during boots but adopting an external controller has been really difficult
Your talking about a 3rd Party accessory called <a href="http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:Aayl_c<nobr>O<wbr></wbr></nobr> _plcJ:www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/game<nobr>s<wbr></wbr></nobr> potting/092902/1.html+x+band+online+game&hl=en&ie<nobr>=<wbr></wbr></nobr> UTF-8">X-Band</a> that was sold for SNES and Genesis systems. The accessory wasn't that popular and it was NOT a Nintendo product. To my knowledge this was the first advent of online console play but again, you and I barelly remember this because it failed. The concept has always been popular, play Madden XX with anyone in the world, most people prefer not paying lots of extra money to do something they can just do with their friends. So, I'd have to say the past favors Nintendo...
What about all the rumors of wifi implementation and wireless connectivity in in a GameBoy? Bluetooth adapters are getting cheaper all the time and how hot would it be if I could get my Pokemon battle just be seeing the WAN (a la Apple's fabulous Rendezvous) The progression of the screen has been a staple in the GameBoy evolution but thats more or less the only major change for the past 15 years or so. Sure color screens and backlit count for something but this is NINTENDO, why not give us something that'll change the way we play games on handhelds. Are you listening NINTENDO? Give us something more than just a shiney screen but something that compells us to play games in a totally new manner!
I'm excited by the big battery life and hot screens tho, bout time
This is going to sound like a flame but my girlfriend & sister both itch to play tetris on the bigscreen. EGM called it the #1 game in the world in their 100th issue and people still have their Marios and Animal Crossing but their love for Tetris never never dies. Even with the black and white version, Tetris on the bigscreen would still put hours and hours of play in a comfy lazyboy recliner instead of neck arched back bending gameplay. Try finding the play of Tetris on the GameCube and all you'll get are sorry remakes. This is what makes the GameBoy/GameCube adapter a killer app for enthusiasts, hours of gameplay on a comfy TV.
maybe it isn't newsworthy but think about this:
why in the fuck does microsoft have to go out and dominate the market in EVERYTHING?
Microsoft went out and NEEDED to be the number 1 portal so they created MSN. They NEEDED to be number 1 in instant messaging so they created MSN Messenger, They NEEDED to be number 1 in browsers so we have IE, also for refrence: XBOX, Office, MS Money, MSN Internet Access, Media Player
All of those products are completelly unprofitable (except Office), but why is Microsoft out to dominate the entire world? Sure there are the evil jokes but can't Microsoft give us decent operating systems that don't choke until the 5th revision? Why are they devoting so many resources to tasks that are seeminglly insignigent? What kind of benefits can Microsoft actually gain by out doing google?
I'm not invested in MS but I have a hard time seeing how all of these directions at MS are going to help MS as generating revnue. So what if IE6 has won the world? Does winning the browser race actually matter?
So far it looks like Microsoft wants to be like the evil corperation in Alien.
And the best part of all this shows that Joe Consumer will have to pay fo relativelly higher prices of RAM since the DOC decided to cripple a competitor.
I really hope this doesn't turn out like the Sims online but here's for the best. I didnt follow the massive disapointment but does anyone know blow by blow why the Sims were such a disapointment?
Snatcher did make a release to Sega CD back in the day and your right, the article's author is complaining about the lack of Policenauts English translation. Sure there are fan sites devoted to the unofficial english translation but the hardcore fanbase truly wants (& deserves) a properly translated Policenauts.
For the younguns (I'm 19 but I was into this) Snatcher was a hyperviolent Blade Runner esque cyberpunk thriller set in the future and was one of the first gameplays that truly could appeal to adults through a thriller storyline and gameplay. If you thought MGS was appealing to adults Snatcher is one of the pioneering games.
Kojima's hyper success in the past few years is allowing a rerelease like this to happen and its damn cool because before MGS1 there was no chance in hell this was going to happen. Considering Policenauts was never released in the US and Snatcher is on Sega CD, itd be nice for US kiddies to get it on PSX or something cause its pretty damn hard to get a copy of either game in North America.
i'm surprised by jobs' comments but i shouldn't be. his hardlined stance and staunch trenching of ideas is exactlly why he was fired in the 80s but his reaction toward the segway screams what he's doing at apple. after reading the article, doesn't it suggest that he is more of a force at Apple in pushing the UI, business strategy, product/manufacturing strategy than anyone else? Its clear that Jobs respects designers ("They'll give you stuff that will make you shit in your pants...") and it seems like Jobs hands ideas off to designers to give him something he doesn't know he wants (iMac, iPod UI, translucent plastics).
considering everything that went wrong with the Segway launch (how many people have ACTUALLY seen a ginger in person?) its possible to say that Jobs was partially right. the article talks about the ginger but it screams the way Jobs thinks and approaches a problem. the launch of ginger is interesting but give me a book about Jobs rants from the past 8 years and I'll shell out for that. Not to mention the Pixar vs Disney negotiations... (Disney is going to get ownned)
just ranting...
doesn't it make you wonder about WWDC being Apple's internal code for 'We Will Delight Crowds'?
The article merely eludes to the fact that there are multiple GT Concepts for PS2 around the world. The article talks about GTC 2002 Tokyo/Geneva, but there have been previous incarnations of GTC Tokyo 2001 and GTC Tokyo-Seoul 2002. Tokyo-Seoul was just Tokyo 01 with 6 Korean cars to help Korean PS2 sales.
I picked my copy up for $35 in Korea and I had to mod my PS2 just to play it. As a GT3 fanatic the game can be finished in a day or two, but its absolutelly worth it if you lust after the GTR35 Concept, RX8, 350z . If you get only one GTConcept you should ignore the other games and go for the article's 02 Geneva/Tokyo (VW12, Cien, ect). The dualnode is ridiculouslly fun btw.
just my 2 cents
Sammy is japan's largest pachinko operater, US articles say pinball but its really Pachinko, Japan's equivalent to the slot machine. There was a lot of annalysts questions the merger of Sammy-Sega because both companies don't have a lot in common except the arcade business, and the arcade business has been sliding for years. And yes, Sega is starting to get desperate.
A Sega-Namco would consolidate into Japan's largest arcade operater and hold 30% of the arcade market. Their consolidated software sales would command 10% of the market (Sega is 9th, Namco is 8th) but they would have some of the most coveted longterm licences on the planet like Soul Calibor, Virtua Fighter, Sonic & Tekken between them. An older news.com article points out. The real hope for gamers is Sega independence from Microsoft and EA so gamers could truly get more platform independent games. It would suck to see another Bungie/Halo exclusive to happen. Here's for Namco's success and gamers being lucky enough to see a Virtua Fighter-Tekken Crossover
the eWeek article is refering to this Chosun Ilbo article in a Korean daily newspaper. The lawsuit is part of the 3 way lawsuit against the South Korean Information Minister, ISPs, and the South Korean division of Microsoft. Again this is the SOUTH KOREAN division of Microsoft for failing to inform Korean ISPs of the patch and its signifigance. These are people and businesses who were knocked off the grid for days and had nothign to do with microsoft's licensing. Thus a class action lawsuit. The idiot poster makes it sound completelly different.
haha,
"I need to wait until the bars open so I can ask sailors a question" "Do you know where sailors might hang out" "Saliors?" are so classic Shenmue 1. You know, Shenmue II english translation was released in UK, you can import it if you've got the cash and no XBOX. I want to mod my dreamcast into my PC and have my seamen embedded in the case.
A signifigant note to this statistic is that its only household broadband penetration not general population broadband accessibility. The huge difference is that my cousin in Korea doesn't care if she has broadband in her apartment because she can go out to a PC room at any time in the day and do all her online shopping, email, diaries for a dollar a minute. In the US, getting that kind of broadband access is almost impossible outside of major metropolitan areas (less than 20 cities in the US total). The broadband penetration doesn't matter to a lot of people in Korea because PC rooms are so damn accessible and people have stopped writing signifigant amounts of email due to text messaging
A really interesting thing that should happen in the next 2 years is when everyone in Korea gets TIVO or video on demand, and how that could redefine television broadcasting. Something you didn't know, the Korean goverment banned commercials during programs so commercials are only blocked during the half hours and main hours instead of splicing between programs. The TiVo dream is next.
this is just ranting and some speculation
and the search for better porn continues! with higher bit encoding and even smaller file sizes we can all be happier with more porn per gigabyte. hopefully the prevailing codec (regardless of the best quality) will be license free & open source for more cross platform compatability. but seriouslly, ive been sitting around for 3 days compressing raw video and anyone who's done this knows what a pain in the ass it is. better codecs hopefully will mean more compatability in the future. ever wanted to show your kpop musicvideo to your friend on your cellphone?
im flamebait for pushing for size but its true about size not being everything.
I browse a lot of sites in korean,
/. publicity. Maybe the bandwith requirements of having a 640x480 ad is why this is hitting stateside but this is something that is already happening in parts of the world.
http://www.daum.com
http://www.dreamx.net
http://www.yahoo.co.kr
and lots of portals tested this kind of advertising on their homesite 18 months ago. even major players like Yahoo Korea had the F12 feature of taking over your whole screen for a 15-30 second flash animation/advertisment. The unpopularity of these ads made the hosts pull the ADs but unscrupulous (read PORN) advertisers still use this technique. I hardlly think that this technique is new, the code has existed to enable this for quite some time, this is just
I think the best way to really avoid this kind of blitz AD is not to use IE.
http://www.asciipr0n.com/pr0n/pinups.html
http://www.subterrane.com/asciiporn.shtml
its not that bad
http://www.asciipr0n.com/pr0n/pinups.html
http://www.subterrane.com/asciiporn.shtml
a lot of the time your staring at the screen and you say out loud, "oh thats an interesting character to use for the nipple"
maybe i shouldve posted anonymouslly
I guess Saddam can't cluster these and research Nukes...
But there's always Kim Jong Il of North Korea!
and Iran!
@$700 its a bit steep, especially with the given difficulty or running OS X it would probablly be cheaper to buy a Power Mac for double that and let it depreciate over 3-5 years rather than invest in a (quite old) G3 Beige. Sonnet is really grabbing at tiny scraps with this upgrade, I'd like to see the benchmarks for this especially when the mobo architecture and faster ram on the new G4s benefit the speed of OS X over sheer processor speed.
its amazing that AOL is circumventing the FCC rules, I was pretty disapointed when AOL IM protocol wasn't forced open during the merger but this is ridiculous. To brashlly declare it doesnt hold a dominant control over IM, have they forgotten about AOL IM & ICQ???
News.com article
"The petition argues that AOL's IM services, AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ, face more competition from Microsoft and Yahoo, both of which have launched video conferencing features on their respective IM clients. The petition also disputes the order's original argument that AOL's dominance would increase given the lack of interoperability, now that MSN and Yahoo have amassed millions of users as well.
"There is no longer any plausible reason to conclude either that AOL is dominant or that the market is in danger of 'tipping' to AOL," said Northwestern University professor William P. Rogerson, who provided an affidavit on behalf of AOL Time Warner. "
also alarming, William P. Rogerson is the Chief Economist of the FCC
kare's portoflio shows to her credit:
mac paint,
macintosh icons
macintosh fonts (like classic chicago!)
windows 3.0 icons
windows solitare
os/2 warp icons
7 pixel fonts
her site is getting hammered already. the coolest part of susan kare is she had no template for the creation of her art. she gave form to predesigned functions. she's sorta like a Jonathan Ive way back when.
EGM, Electronic Gaming Monthly reported in its April issued (possiblly an April Fools joke though not likely) that the new Game Boy was supposed to have integreated bluetooth for wireless gameplay capability. the vision would be powering up Pokemon and reading people nearby and doing quests in tandem. The implications of Bluetooth Gameboy are ridiculouslly cool but the question really asks why it wasn't placed in the first place. The cost would have gone up by 20-30 dollars and would have trully diffrenetiated the new GameBoy from the previous Advanced models. A lot of people would say its a matter of time before Nintendo does this but its something really worth pondering when Nintendo is specing out their new game system. Nintendo was the first to offer an officially branded wireless controller for any of the 3 major consoles. Anyone have any other ideas?
It doesn't matter if Apple is a favorite company of mine. I love Apple like I love my iBook but thais patent business is ridiculouslly out of control. The worst case of how bad this patent business has gotten are the companies that search out for patents and sue people to add to their bottom line.
Pangea IP activelly seeks out ecommerce firms and sues them because PanIP has a vaguelly worded patent that is letting them settle with small ecommerce firms for thousands of dollars a year. Patents like PanIP means if you create a candy store online, you can potentially get sued. Check out the Anti PanIP Fight Back Crew to see how serious one patent can be.
What really needs to be stopped is the Patent Office from issuing another ridiculous patent. OS and interface patents are hurting human-machine interactions because people have to bend over backward now to avoid patents. As a webdesigner, I really hope I'm not liabel for some sort of design I implement sheerly because some idiot has a Patent application on my design. I hope congress can frigging pay attention to this problem and how serious it is.