Maybe they were referring to this line that follows the teaser and is also referenced in the last sentence of the teaser: "At the same time, manufacturers of video game systems (such as Sony with its MLB franchise) will have the opportunity to develop and publish baseball simulation games for their own platforms."
I still don't see how that will promote competition, but maybe they're hoping that Take Two's games will suck and the first- and second-party developers will kick it up a notch to compete with each other to actually have a good baseball game on their platform?
At least it seems *slightly* better than the EA deal with the NFL, because at least there's always the sell out to first-party or become second-party developer option for those with good games.
And I think you've got that new economy thing a little twisted, I believe it's "Limiting choices IS innovation in the new economy." Subtle difference, but important.
No, they hand out the 20-year patents for the lawyers and corporations.
The original intent of patents (the non-20-year kind) was to protect private inventors from things like corporations and allow them to gain financially from an invention that is beneficial to others. While promoting disclosure might be a side effect of this, it is hardly the reason.
But make no mistake, the current state of patent law is designed with the sole benefit of corporations, and thus their lawyers, in mind. But what IP law these days isn't?
So you're saying "I'm a mac fanboi so obviously apple would have done everything the same if Xerox had patented but micros~1 wouldn't!!"
I'm calling bullshit. I don't care if Steve Jobs himself personally created every colour in the rainbow, apple was never in a position to patent the windowing system and if there were a blanket patent on it like they allow for current software things would have turned out a lot worse for apple, even worse than going from market leader to ~3% market share.
You guys give credit where it isn't due because you are mac fanbois and then feel so proud of yourselves for being mac fanbois.
If Xerox had patented their inventions and then licensed the IP what is there to have kept micros~1 from also licensing it? And that's the point I was making in reply to the great-grandparent. But obviously you mac zealots think everything apple is great and no one else stands a realistic chance unless they cheat. But mac and windows zealotry is par for the course on/.
Feel free to mod me down, that's to be expected if you say anything against micros~1 or don't offer to bow down and suckle the big blue apples of Steve Jobs.
Not to agree with someone being pro-microsoft, but wordperfect at least is still around and being shipped on new PCs, even if it is the super low end ones.
If microsoft didn't have such a history of releasing "final" software that didn't work entirely well this might be a valid point.
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Flash MX runs well in WINE and MOHO runs natively. As for 3D animation, the best package in the industry is available natively for Linux. As is SoftImage XSI. Of course those are both pay-to-play (and worth the money if you're making any using them, particularly Maya), but there is always the free learning edition of XSI which is available natively.
As far as animation is concerned on Linux, I think the lack of an affordable and high quality video editing and compositing solution is a MUCH bigger problem. Sure there's Shake (now from Apple) but you can get 2 Macs and a copy of Shake for Mac with free render nodes for the 10 grand they charge for the Linux or Irix versions.
The necessary move is for the **AAs to realise that DRM will NEVER work and they are just wasting a lot of their time and a lot of the time and money of their customers.
Sega should just put in some sort of option to download player names and stats as well as team names, cities, and logos from the internet. I'm sure someone with too much time on their hands will fix the licensing problem within days. Especially if Sega puts out tools to make this easily done rather than requiring some sort of in-game editor that makes you using a gamepad to type and draw.
That's right, it's time for another ride on the Sony hype machine! Watch out if you live in China, though. The US government is going to make this one illegal to export there due to its status as a "supercomputer".
What's the algorithm for the shape of a hammer head?
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That's really funny, because I use some variant of microsoft all the time on irc and I wouldn't take their software if Bill Gates signed it and handed it to me personally.
Common sense is to do a clean install from -current so that you don't have to patch anything before using it. And if you did, it wouldn't be because of a critical security threat.
Maybe I'm missing something but how is converting desktop applications into web services good for anyone but companies that want to charge subscription fees that they can raise at any time since they have locked their users into their solution?
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I still don't see how that will promote competition, but maybe they're hoping that Take Two's games will suck and the first- and second-party developers will kick it up a notch to compete with each other to actually have a good baseball game on their platform?
At least it seems *slightly* better than the EA deal with the NFL, because at least there's always the sell out to first-party or become second-party developer option for those with good games.
And I think you've got that new economy thing a little twisted, I believe it's "Limiting choices IS innovation in the new economy." Subtle difference, but important.
The original intent of patents (the non-20-year kind) was to protect private inventors from things like corporations and allow them to gain financially from an invention that is beneficial to others. While promoting disclosure might be a side effect of this, it is hardly the reason.
But make no mistake, the current state of patent law is designed with the sole benefit of corporations, and thus their lawyers, in mind. But what IP law these days isn't?
I'm calling bullshit. I don't care if Steve Jobs himself personally created every colour in the rainbow, apple was never in a position to patent the windowing system and if there were a blanket patent on it like they allow for current software things would have turned out a lot worse for apple, even worse than going from market leader to ~3% market share.
You guys give credit where it isn't due because you are mac fanbois and then feel so proud of yourselves for being mac fanbois.
If Xerox had patented their inventions and then licensed the IP what is there to have kept micros~1 from also licensing it? And that's the point I was making in reply to the great-grandparent. But obviously you mac zealots think everything apple is great and no one else stands a realistic chance unless they cheat. But mac and windows zealotry is par for the course on /.
Feel free to mod me down, that's to be expected if you say anything against micros~1 or don't offer to bow down and suckle the big blue apples of Steve Jobs.
Wouldn't the same be true for MacOS if Xerox had patented the windowing system?
I don't think this counts as MS bashing. Ballmer is just really funny. But maybe you're just a windows fanboi and can't tell the difference.
It's just more bad moderation on slashdot. Should have been modded Insightful.
Not to agree with someone being pro-microsoft, but wordperfect at least is still around and being shipped on new PCs, even if it is the super low end ones.
Not doing their job? Isn't making sure that duplicate postings get through an official part of a /. editor's job?
If microsoft didn't have such a history of releasing "final" software that didn't work entirely well this might be a valid point.
As far as animation is concerned on Linux, I think the lack of an affordable and high quality video editing and compositing solution is a MUCH bigger problem. Sure there's Shake (now from Apple) but you can get 2 Macs and a copy of Shake for Mac with free render nodes for the 10 grand they charge for the Linux or Irix versions.
Oh, I understand full well. But that is completely different than what is necessary.
That is all.
The necessary move is for the **AAs to realise that DRM will NEVER work and they are just wasting a lot of their time and a lot of the time and money of their customers.
Sega should just put in some sort of option to download player names and stats as well as team names, cities, and logos from the internet. I'm sure someone with too much time on their hands will fix the licensing problem within days. Especially if Sega puts out tools to make this easily done rather than requiring some sort of in-game editor that makes you using a gamepad to type and draw.
That's right, it's time for another ride on the Sony hype machine! Watch out if you live in China, though. The US government is going to make this one illegal to export there due to its status as a "supercomputer".
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What's the algorithm for the shape of a hammer head?
That's really funny, because I use some variant of microsoft all the time on irc and I wouldn't take their software if Bill Gates signed it and handed it to me personally.
Common sense is to do a clean install from -current so that you don't have to patch anything before using it. And if you did, it wouldn't be because of a critical security threat.
Maybe I'm missing something but how is converting desktop applications into web services good for anyone but companies that want to charge subscription fees that they can raise at any time since they have locked their users into their solution?
I'm not sure you can legally make Bill Gates's ass freeware. Perhaps a free gift with purchase, though.
If they make the movie with that plot, only as a musical, I'll be first in line to see it!