Wait, what part of that doesn't Xbox Live Arcade already do?
I'm a Nintendo fan, and I'm more interested in VC than XBLA simply because of the Nintendo titles and (hopefully) potential of the service by way of the percieved audience, but I'm not going to deny XBLA its due for setting the precedent here.
Who the hell do you think you are to tell somebody that you want to buy their product, but not the way they want to sell it?
A customer.
I think you meant to say "Who the hell do you think you are to decide you want to buy their product, but not the way they want to sell it, so you'll just take it how you want it without renumeration?" This sentiment, I agree with. There's no communication going on with the infringers, just going for free stuff.
I know that's been their policy before, but I just called this morning for mine and advance replacement wasn't an option -- just depot repair (and they're damn fast at it, but a week is still a week).
So I guess I'll drop by the store tomorrow once I've collected my box etc., copied my WFC ID back to my old DS, and such...
The hell...? Look, man, I don't know what you're smoking, but Nintendo's not said either way about IGN's spec leak. I'm inclined to believe given IGN's stature and contacts with developers with Wii projects underway. Had the leak come from one of those myriad fly-by-night new sites, then perhaps I'd be more dubious.
Plus, it squares perfectly with Nintendo's chatting up Wii. It's not about rendering sweat drops. It's about getting everyone into the game, about making the whole thing accessible. It's about the control.
The controller was, in fact, being developed for GameCube, but GameCube's I/O performance wasn't good enough for it.
Other than that, your speculation is right in-line with my thoughts on the issue. Creating a system around it gives it an immediate boost and lets Nintendo emphasize the new controller as the standard controller for the new system, giving it a lease on life it wouldn't have as a (probably expensive) bundled accessory.
...has always been "we're in danger! Fund us, Congress!"
I also find it somewhat amusing that the typical response to a for-profit business facing the same conundrum around here is "adapt or die!", but for NPR... the poor things!
Worry not your pretty little heads. If Congress has shown anything, it's a willingness to spend, spend, spend. NPR isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Many of the dev kits also are literally modified GameCubes with gigantic hardware protrusions off the top. Grandparent: should we also assume that this whole sleek box thing is a myth, and Revolution hardware is going to be packed into double-height GameCube that doesn't even take discs?
[A mobile phone rings. It's that of FSF's GPL compliance officer, David Turner]
[Moglen:] Mr. Turner will now be resigning from the Free Software Foundation in the morning.
[laughter]
[Stallman:] If you have brought in a portable tracking and surveillance device, please switch it off and of course if you really want it to stop it reporting your movements you should take the batteries out.
The police have already tracked you here, and of course if they're interested in what we're saying, they are welcome to attend and I believe some of them are here.
I didn't see anything inappropriate about his analogy use. It's not like he was invoking to the old Microsoft gasoline canard. Perhaps you'd like to clarify just what you found troublesome?
I still have yet to see a solution that MySpace can reasonably enforce.
OK, serious question time. Why aren't these things protected from the public eye, perhaps with an invitation system? Janie wants to talk about servicing Jimmy in the dodgeball closet to her girlfriends, she can invite her girlfriends to view her account.
I'm not under any illusion that it's going to miraculously make the system 100% safe, but it seems an improvement to me. I mean, hell, when I was a kid, girls locked their diaries and screamed bloody hell if you happened upon the key. It seems like they might take to a system like this.
Nope, besides being lighter and better-engineered (the lid closes shut firmly rather than smacking up against the main unit like the classic DS), the screen also has four levels of brightness and has, as far as hands-on reports are saying, much better color. Try here for the brightness and here for the color.. And here for a hands-on in-store. Battery life is also rumored to be better.
I like my classic DS, but there's no denying it was a bit of a rush job from the development model seen at E3 2004 to what hit the shelves that November.
Heh. Definitely at least hold out for the Lite -- it sounds like it's worlds better than the original. Just perhaps more fragile... of course, for Nintendo, fragile means "like any other piece of hardware". My classic DS has parking lot marks on it and still works great.:)
May 7 is a Sunday. Nintendo doesn't release games on Sundays all that often. One of the more recent big titles they did release on a Sunday was Super Mario 64 DS — as a launch title for the original Nintendo DS.
Draw your own conclusions. I have, and hope to get a DS Lite on May 7.
it will allow for any idiot to change those crucial forecasting numbers for the 4th quarter
Riiiight... because "any idiot" is the policy Wikipedia has chosen, therefore anything with "wiki" in its name must also adopt the same policy!
See if you can try to separate the technology from the policy. It's fun!
(And if this hasn't beat some sense into you, then I'll spell it out plainly -- wiki technology is widely used in restricted environments, usernames and passwords, people with varying levels of access to the documents, etc., audit trails... nothing about this project suggests it's going to be a security nightmare.)
Good thing we hooked ours to a cheap piece of crap! Ah, memories...
I, too, had Parsec, but I had a lot of fun with the Speech Synthesizer in other ways. I faintly remember trying to teach it to say words it didn't know.
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Wait, what part of that doesn't Xbox Live Arcade already do?
I'm a Nintendo fan, and I'm more interested in VC than XBLA simply because of the Nintendo titles and (hopefully) potential of the service by way of the percieved audience, but I'm not going to deny XBLA its due for setting the precedent here.
A customer.
I think you meant to say "Who the hell do you think you are to decide you want to buy their product, but not the way they want to sell it, so you'll just take it how you want it without renumeration?" This sentiment, I agree with. There's no communication going on with the infringers, just going for free stuff.
I know that's been their policy before, but I just called this morning for mine and advance replacement wasn't an option -- just depot repair (and they're damn fast at it, but a week is still a week).
So I guess I'll drop by the store tomorrow once I've collected my box etc., copied my WFC ID back to my old DS, and such...
Actually, operating profits forecasted to be up -- the reason their profit forecast is down is because of foreign-exchange losses.
Nintendo holds a lot of investments in US dollars.
The hell...? Look, man, I don't know what you're smoking, but Nintendo's not said either way about IGN's spec leak. I'm inclined to believe given IGN's stature and contacts with developers with Wii projects underway. Had the leak come from one of those myriad fly-by-night new sites, then perhaps I'd be more dubious.
Plus, it squares perfectly with Nintendo's chatting up Wii. It's not about rendering sweat drops. It's about getting everyone into the game, about making the whole thing accessible. It's about the control.
The controller was, in fact, being developed for GameCube, but GameCube's I/O performance wasn't good enough for it.
Other than that, your speculation is right in-line with my thoughts on the issue. Creating a system around it gives it an immediate boost and lets Nintendo emphasize the new controller as the standard controller for the new system, giving it a lease on life it wouldn't have as a (probably expensive) bundled accessory.
Open the blinds or at least turn a light on, for God's sake!
Wi-Fi a a basic human right, says SF Mayor.
Nothing has been worse for fiscal responsibility than when the public discovered they could vote themselves pieces of the treasury.
I don't know whether I should be amused or saddened that you assume I support corporate welfare.
Hint: I don't.
Ah, so we should be telling government employees what they should talk about.
Wait...
...has always been "we're in danger! Fund us, Congress!"
I also find it somewhat amusing that the typical response to a for-profit business facing the same conundrum around here is "adapt or die!", but for NPR... the poor things!
Worry not your pretty little heads. If Congress has shown anything, it's a willingness to spend, spend, spend. NPR isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Surely you mean "if you like those kinds of games"?
Precisely right.
Many of the dev kits also are literally modified GameCubes with gigantic hardware protrusions off the top. Grandparent: should we also assume that this whole sleek box thing is a myth, and Revolution hardware is going to be packed into double-height GameCube that doesn't even take discs?
Nintendo doesn't take risks on things that don't fundamentally enhance gameplay.
DS and Revolution do this. HD does not.
Hah, I was wondering about that one. "Every PS2 owner bought 1,000 games?"
Or as entertaining. To wit:
I didn't see anything inappropriate about his analogy use. It's not like he was invoking to the old Microsoft gasoline canard. Perhaps you'd like to clarify just what you found troublesome?
OK, serious question time. Why aren't these things protected from the public eye, perhaps with an invitation system? Janie wants to talk about servicing Jimmy in the dodgeball closet to her girlfriends, she can invite her girlfriends to view her account.
I'm not under any illusion that it's going to miraculously make the system 100% safe, but it seems an improvement to me. I mean, hell, when I was a kid, girls locked their diaries and screamed bloody hell if you happened upon the key. It seems like they might take to a system like this.
Nope, besides being lighter and better-engineered (the lid closes shut firmly rather than smacking up against the main unit like the classic DS), the screen also has four levels of brightness and has, as far as hands-on reports are saying, much better color. Try here for the brightness and here for the color.. And here for a hands-on in-store. Battery life is also rumored to be better.
I like my classic DS, but there's no denying it was a bit of a rush job from the development model seen at E3 2004 to what hit the shelves that November.
Apologies. I didn't read TFA -- in fact, I came up with this when I first heard about NSMB's date several days ago.
Heh. Definitely at least hold out for the Lite -- it sounds like it's worlds better than the original. Just perhaps more fragile... of course, for Nintendo, fragile means "like any other piece of hardware". My classic DS has parking lot marks on it and still works great. :)
Might as well pitch this rumor here too.
May 7 is a Sunday. Nintendo doesn't release games on Sundays all that often. One of the more recent big titles they did release on a Sunday was Super Mario 64 DS — as a launch title for the original Nintendo DS.
Draw your own conclusions. I have, and hope to get a DS Lite on May 7.
Are you joking? That line of thinking ranks right up there with counting every infringing copy as a loss equal to the full retail price of a DVD.
It ain't all black or white. Some people would buy, others wouldn't.
Riiiight... because "any idiot" is the policy Wikipedia has chosen, therefore anything with "wiki" in its name must also adopt the same policy!
See if you can try to separate the technology from the policy. It's fun!
(And if this hasn't beat some sense into you, then I'll spell it out plainly -- wiki technology is widely used in restricted environments, usernames and passwords, people with varying levels of access to the documents, etc., audit trails... nothing about this project suggests it's going to be a security nightmare.)
Good thing we hooked ours to a cheap piece of crap! Ah, memories...
I, too, had Parsec, but I had a lot of fun with the Speech Synthesizer in other ways. I faintly remember trying to teach it to say words it didn't know.