I consider Episodes 4-6 to be about the redemption of the Scoundrel, Han Solo. Seriously, who wants to watch a movie about a whiny, little bitch like Luke Skywalker?
Wireless networking would let me tap into my MythTV box from anywhere in my house, which is nice. I am not certain at the maturity of the project, but plex86 deffinately ups the value of this device for me. I wonder how much tweakage would be necessary?
Yes, but has anyone expressed the patent specifically for the environment of P2P networks? I, personally, plan on patenting the wheel specifically for the SUV rear passenger side. By the time they get me on prior art, I will have enough licenses to retire.
The lesser of two evils, of course. I would specify exactly which one that is, but by identifying it discretely, I would cause its momentum to go towards infinity.
Now, whether this would cause the evil to spontaneously combust due to the rapid increase in energy, effectively rendering the evil no more, or give it enough energy to overwhelm all who stand in their way, I am unwilling to test. The horror of the previously stated second consequence would be to much to bear.
I was reading the filing (the link for which I found at groklaw, naturally) and was shocked at the sheer volume of code copyrighted to IBM in the kernel, 700,000+ lines. They have a great deal invested in the littel kernel that could. Its a no-brainer they are defending it. Still, how health is it for one entity, a private entity at that, to have that much code in the kernel?
On a lighter note, page 18 of the filing has the first wedding dress reference I have seen in this case.
"This public display of plaintiffs' bridal dresses and copyrighter lacee designs...."
Note: The aforementiones lace reference has been taken out of context for your amusement.
The NBC has a government supported monopoly over Olympic Broadcast in the US. They face no competition at this point because they won a bidding war, or someone got a little cashola. There are other venues that are providing superior online Olympic Coverage. As a US citizen (not saying only US citizens can do this), I am used to shopping for the best product in a free market enconomy (although patent law is slowly erroding the variety of that market.) I have no choice in this matter.
Why do I say government supported monopoly? I am sure there is some obscure law somewhere that makes it illegal, although it is a little incovenient and impratcical, to tap into the British only BBC streams. They will not be using government funds, just government muscle.
What can you do about this? Well, if you live in the US, just boycott the NBC broadcasts completely. If a product is bad, do not use it. Everybody in the US complains about problems and issues and erroding rights, but no one does anything about it. If NBCs ratings are bad, then they get a clear message that something is wrong.
Of course, if they see their online ratings are bad, they will just paint it as no one wanting to see online coverage, as opposed to no one wanting to watch their spotty, incomplete, pleebian coverage. Peel back the paint.
Ofcourse they are not undertaken solo. But then again, neither are they an anarchist undertaking. A project like this is a make/break opportunity. And while Hironobu may have already "made it" by this time in history in some peoples eyes, if Spirits had succeeded, the project would have brought him to an entirely different level. I think Hironobu and Miyamoto would be heard in the same breath throughout the industry...if Sprits had succeeded. Great rewards come from great risk.
Reward is separted from punishment a line of varying width called failure. They key to success is finding where the line is thickest (the obnoxious number of sequels we see on the market today) for low risk/low return success or finding the genius to skirt the line at the thinnest point you can find an still succeed, high risk/high return. The higher the risk, the higher the ramifications. Do not forget, Square spent some 140 million dollars on this project. They pulled in about 30 million in the US theatres. The company almost ended. This was a high risk/high return opportunity, but the risk was too high.
Now while Hironobu did not go solo on the project, he was most certainly the lead on the project. He called the shots. The more authority one has in a company, atleast where I work, the more autonomy on has. I am certain the reins were thrown off years before. I am also certain some doubt was expressed by Square executives that a video game company was trying to produce a movie. I am also certain those fears were assuaged by Hironobu himself, placing his reputation on it. While it was approved activity, I am certain everyone involved understood the ramifications if Spirits failed.
Yes, Hironobu did not go about this process solo. However, he lead the charge from the only place to lead a charge, the battlefield. He was a casualty. Check that, he was the famous casualty. How about the general staff, the renderers and artists. They were not to blame, they were just doing their jobs on a failed project. It is hard to fault them, the movie was visually spectacular. What about the composers? I thought the score was on par with anything Sqare has ever released. Are they casualties? How about the writers? Is it ultimately their fault for creating an unappealing story, or were they just writing to Hironobu's vision? What about the lieutenants on the project, the people whos careers would have been built, made, on Spirits? Are they casualties? Did they retain their jobs? We will never know, because no one talks about them. They are not famous.
A monumental failure occured and the lead on the project was held responsible. What a shock. The bigger they are, the harder they fall unless they trip over their own feet. No one is immune to responsibility if their botch job is bad enough. This one was huge.
I personally do most of my gaming on my Dreamcast, my Gamcube or my X Box. Since I do not play a great deal of games on the computer, I wondered if I was missing out, but all the games I have on console kept me busy enough to quell any stong curiousity.
This would be a really good way to experience some of those games. It would also be a great way for independent developers to place a game before a crowd and possibly drum up some support. That is a whole lot cheaper than Phantom as well.
How about being utterly absorbed by a MORPG, forsaking your family, job and any outdoor activity to completely immerse yourself in the gaming experience. What do you get after spending 96 straight hours battling in the realms of Norath?
A copy of.hack//infection,.hack//mutation,.hack//outbreak or.hac//quarantin, of course.
My roommate and I actually built one of these. Its a great project that provided much anit-Wintel fun. It also provided a great reason to add wirless to the condo.
Gentoo Linux and an Athlon XP 2400 mate up very nicely. Only thing missing is that WinTV-PVR-350, deffinately the most expensive piece of hardware but well worth the $165+ price tag. We started with FreeVo, but decided on MythTV. It was much more mature a year ago.
First/Second party support has never been a problem for Nintendo. Third party has always been an issue, due to software houses not appreciating the "draconian" nature employed by Nintendo to prevent shoddy games from making it onto their system. (If more people took this stance, we might avoid travesties such as Enter the Matrix.)
I would hope this may signal an effort from Nintendo to garner better relationships with third party companies.
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I like camera phones and phones with web access. But when I go to work, those phones have to stay in my glove box. Not because of the distraction, but because of the nature of the features themselves. Consider this: how many firms would allow a worker to walk around with a cellular, web connected camera? Any camera phone does that. And a PDA phone with blue tooth or IR? You are dreaming. Its the information...its all about the information!
Hire the artist. If there is any game out there screaming for cell shading, Samurai Jack is the one. I have been expecting/dreading a games since the cartoon came out, and dread may be the truth. I hope the jaggies are because of the picture, I hope his face does not look like granite in the final product, I hope all his bits fit together better than how they seem in the images, I hope the fix the frame rate problem cited in article and I hope they give the music of Samurai Jack its due. Samurai Jack has one of the best sound tracks of any show on television today. It is obvious the makers put work into the music so that it adds to the feel and integrates into the story. They better add the trademark Jack sound affects as well.
Why not cell shaded? Are you afraid it will look cartoony? Seriously, ladies and gentlemen, it is a cartoon.
Oh yeah, what's up with the reed hat and the bamboo armour? The hat looks like someone sliced of the top of his head and screwed the hat on and the armour looks like someone tied together a bunch of PVC pipe and duct taped it to his sides. Where is the dog armour with the banner, replete with dog tracks?
I for one am presently dissapointed. I hope someone competent wooks on the game before release.
YES, YES, YES, YES, YES! Mod me down if you must, but I cannot contain the joy I felt when reading this. It pained me to see people sacrificing freedoms for security but it thrills me to see people who are truly brave fighting to protect what is truly precious about the United States. I may be frightened at the possibility of dying, but I will die first before I relinquish my freedoms for the sake of "security." The Patriot Act was a step towards victory...their victory. All they wish is to destroy our way of life. How sinister a plan is it to frighten us into destroying it ourselves? Not today. Not while I still breathe. Not while people are willing to fight.
How long until someones acknowledgement is denied and work is stolen by a large company who can hide behind the DMCA? An Open Source project could be "appropriated" by Sony or Microsoft who then releases it as their own project. If the source is unavailable, could you determine the origin deffinatively without reverse engineering?
Could this be true, or am I missinterrupting the DMCA (shudder, I hate that thing)?
I read your post, and I find your ideas interesting. I also read the article, however.
Apparently the Shredder interface contained a bug which allowed it to repeat postitions in a totally winning position.
I was commmenting on the article, and my article seemed most at home under this thread. I put this bug akin to someone melting down towards the end of a match, either from fatigue or stress, and not being able to close the deal. That is the bug to which I was refering.
Creatively laying blame at the feet of others does not solve the problem. Your interpretation of the events may place everything squarely on the shoulder of the handler, but the Jonny handler did not follow the rules, the Shredder handler allowed this and the TD was not observant of his duties. Everybody "f'd" up here. Saying Jonny was not specific enough is just a big, stinking, dirty bandaid.
If a program has a bug, and that bug causes that program to fail, then that program has failed. A bug caused Shredder to go through a threefold repetition, which Jonny properly identified. Why else would it identify this than to claim the draw?
Jonny did not want to be sporting, Jonny wanted to win. Jonny saw the other program screw up and wanted to capitalize upon it. If there is to be no human interaction, then that means no human interaction. Jonny's handler did not abide by the rules. Sure, it was a bug. But that bug let Shredder be outplayed. Jonny should have taken the draw and Fritz should have had the win. A playoff should not have been necessary.
You know what happens when you dismiss buggy software in exchange for percieved ellegance? Blue screens of death, that's what.
Is there any reason for the next generation of game consoles to also be DVD movie players? If you bought a PS2 or Xbox, you have a DVD player. DVD players can be purchased for very little nowadays. Most everyone who wants one, has one.
When this generation of hardware was released, a built in DVD movie player was a big advantage for a console...when nobody had a DVD player. I envision TiVo-like functionality to be the next "It also plays DVDs!", but would Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft build this type of functionality into a game system? And would such a system stay around the $300 price point that seems to be the new standard?
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I consider Episodes 4-6 to be about the redemption of the Scoundrel, Han Solo. Seriously, who wants to watch a movie about a whiny, little bitch like Luke Skywalker?
Sounds like a void in the market waiting to be filled to me. Some enterprising fellow could become the Larry Flynt of online monetary transfer.
Wireless networking would let me tap into my MythTV box from anywhere in my house, which is nice. I am not certain at the maturity of the project, but plex86 deffinately ups the value of this device for me. I wonder how much tweakage would be necessary?
Yes, but has anyone expressed the patent specifically for the environment of P2P networks? I, personally, plan on patenting the wheel specifically for the SUV rear passenger side. By the time they get me on prior art, I will have enough licenses to retire.
The lesser of two evils, of course. I would specify exactly which one that is, but by identifying it discretely, I would cause its momentum to go towards infinity.
Now, whether this would cause the evil to spontaneously combust due to the rapid increase in energy, effectively rendering the evil no more, or give it enough energy to overwhelm all who stand in their way, I am unwilling to test. The horror of the previously stated second consequence would be to much to bear.
Lucas Arts personelle are just signing NDA's...that say they specifically cannot discuss Star Wars 7, 8 and 9.
I can neither confirm, nor deny that statement.
Although this begs the question, should we ponder if it will happen or if we want it to happen?
I agree with everyone equally.
I was reading the filing (the link for which I found at groklaw, naturally) and was shocked at the sheer volume of code copyrighted to IBM in the kernel, 700,000+ lines. They have a great deal invested in the littel kernel that could. Its a no-brainer they are defending it. Still, how health is it for one entity, a private entity at that, to have that much code in the kernel?
On a lighter note, page 18 of the filing has the first wedding dress reference I have seen in this case.
"This public display of plaintiffs' bridal dresses and copyrighter lacee designs...."
Note: The aforementiones lace reference has been taken out of context for your amusement.
The NBC has a government supported monopoly over Olympic Broadcast in the US. They face no competition at this point because they won a bidding war, or someone got a little cashola. There are other venues that are providing superior online Olympic Coverage. As a US citizen (not saying only US citizens can do this), I am used to shopping for the best product in a free market enconomy (although patent law is slowly erroding the variety of that market.) I have no choice in this matter.
Why do I say government supported monopoly? I am sure there is some obscure law somewhere that makes it illegal, although it is a little incovenient and impratcical, to tap into the British only BBC streams. They will not be using government funds, just government muscle.
What can you do about this? Well, if you live in the US, just boycott the NBC broadcasts completely. If a product is bad, do not use it. Everybody in the US complains about problems and issues and erroding rights, but no one does anything about it. If NBCs ratings are bad, then they get a clear message that something is wrong.
Of course, if they see their online ratings are bad, they will just paint it as no one wanting to see online coverage, as opposed to no one wanting to watch their spotty, incomplete, pleebian coverage. Peel back the paint.
I for one, welcome our new Dalek overlords.
C'mon, with this user name, you knew I was going to comment sometime.
It's the death rattle.
Ofcourse they are not undertaken solo. But then again, neither are they an anarchist undertaking. A project like this is a make/break opportunity. And while Hironobu may have already "made it" by this time in history in some peoples eyes, if Spirits had succeeded, the project would have brought him to an entirely different level. I think Hironobu and Miyamoto would be heard in the same breath throughout the industry...if Sprits had succeeded. Great rewards come from great risk.
Reward is separted from punishment a line of varying width called failure. They key to success is finding where the line is thickest (the obnoxious number of sequels we see on the market today) for low risk/low return success or finding the genius to skirt the line at the thinnest point you can find an still succeed, high risk/high return. The higher the risk, the higher the ramifications. Do not forget, Square spent some 140 million dollars on this project. They pulled in about 30 million in the US theatres. The company almost ended. This was a high risk/high return opportunity, but the risk was too high.
Now while Hironobu did not go solo on the project, he was most certainly the lead on the project. He called the shots. The more authority one has in a company, atleast where I work, the more autonomy on has. I am certain the reins were thrown off years before. I am also certain some doubt was expressed by Square executives that a video game company was trying to produce a movie. I am also certain those fears were assuaged by Hironobu himself, placing his reputation on it. While it was approved activity, I am certain everyone involved understood the ramifications if Spirits failed.
Yes, Hironobu did not go about this process solo. However, he lead the charge from the only place to lead a charge, the battlefield. He was a casualty. Check that, he was the famous casualty. How about the general staff, the renderers and artists. They were not to blame, they were just doing their jobs on a failed project. It is hard to fault them, the movie was visually spectacular. What about the composers? I thought the score was on par with anything Sqare has ever released. Are they casualties? How about the writers? Is it ultimately their fault for creating an unappealing story, or were they just writing to Hironobu's vision? What about the lieutenants on the project, the people whos careers would have been built, made, on Spirits? Are they casualties? Did they retain their jobs? We will never know, because no one talks about them. They are not famous.
A monumental failure occured and the lead on the project was held responsible. What a shock. The bigger they are, the harder they fall unless they trip over their own feet. No one is immune to responsibility if their botch job is bad enough. This one was huge.
I personally do most of my gaming on my Dreamcast, my Gamcube or my X Box. Since I do not play a great deal of games on the computer, I wondered if I was missing out, but all the games I have on console kept me busy enough to quell any stong curiousity.
This would be a really good way to experience some of those games. It would also be a great way for independent developers to place a game before a crowd and possibly drum up some support. That is a whole lot cheaper than Phantom as well.
How about being utterly absorbed by a MORPG, forsaking your family, job and any outdoor activity to completely immerse yourself in the gaming experience. What do you get after spending 96 straight hours battling in the realms of Norath?
.hack//infection, .hack//mutation, .hack//outbreak or .hac//quarantin, of course.
A copy of
If it is French warmongering, then North Korea should be really concerned. Goodness knows everytime France starts sabre rattling, I piss my pants.
Forget Ninja Gaiden, forget Fable, forget Star Wars: Kinghts of the Old Republic, forget Halo. THIS is the killer app for the X-box.
Couple this with the new Playboy game coming out and people really will never leave their houses ever again.
My roommate and I actually built one of these. Its a great project that provided much anit-Wintel fun. It also provided a great reason to add wirless to the condo.
Gentoo Linux and an Athlon XP 2400 mate up very nicely. Only thing missing is that WinTV-PVR-350, deffinately the most expensive piece of hardware but well worth the $165+ price tag. We started with FreeVo, but decided on MythTV. It was much more mature a year ago.
First/Second party support has never been a problem for Nintendo. Third party has always been an issue, due to software houses not appreciating the "draconian" nature employed by Nintendo to prevent shoddy games from making it onto their system. (If more people took this stance, we might avoid travesties such as Enter the Matrix.)
I would hope this may signal an effort from Nintendo to garner better relationships with third party companies.
I like camera phones and phones with web access. But when I go to work, those phones have to stay in my glove box. Not because of the distraction, but because of the nature of the features themselves. Consider this: how many firms would allow a worker to walk around with a cellular, web connected camera? Any camera phone does that. And a PDA phone with blue tooth or IR? You are dreaming. Its the information...its all about the information!
Sounds like Blizzard just provided a great new way for people to grief. Get enough together and you can have Blizzard make the game not fun for you.
Hire the artist. If there is any game out there screaming for cell shading, Samurai Jack is the one. I have been expecting/dreading a games since the cartoon came out, and dread may be the truth. I hope the jaggies are because of the picture, I hope his face does not look like granite in the final product, I hope all his bits fit together better than how they seem in the images, I hope the fix the frame rate problem cited in article and I hope they give the music of Samurai Jack its due. Samurai Jack has one of the best sound tracks of any show on television today. It is obvious the makers put work into the music so that it adds to the feel and integrates into the story. They better add the trademark Jack sound affects as well.
Why not cell shaded? Are you afraid it will look cartoony? Seriously, ladies and gentlemen, it is a cartoon.
Oh yeah, what's up with the reed hat and the bamboo armour? The hat looks like someone sliced of the top of his head and screwed the hat on and the armour looks like someone tied together a bunch of PVC pipe and duct taped it to his sides. Where is the dog armour with the banner, replete with dog tracks?
I for one am presently dissapointed. I hope someone competent wooks on the game before release.
YES, YES, YES, YES, YES! Mod me down if you must, but I cannot contain the joy I felt when reading this. It pained me to see people sacrificing freedoms for security but it thrills me to see people who are truly brave fighting to protect what is truly precious about the United States. I may be frightened at the possibility of dying, but I will die first before I relinquish my freedoms for the sake of "security." The Patriot Act was a step towards victory...their victory. All they wish is to destroy our way of life. How sinister a plan is it to frighten us into destroying it ourselves? Not today. Not while I still breathe. Not while people are willing to fight.
How long until someones acknowledgement is denied and work is stolen by a large company who can hide behind the DMCA? An Open Source project could be "appropriated" by Sony or Microsoft who then releases it as their own project. If the source is unavailable, could you determine the origin deffinatively without reverse engineering?
Could this be true, or am I missinterrupting the DMCA (shudder, I hate that thing)?
I read your post, and I find your ideas interesting. I also read the article, however.
Apparently the Shredder interface contained a bug which allowed it to repeat postitions in a totally winning position.
I was commmenting on the article, and my article seemed most at home under this thread. I put this bug akin to someone melting down towards the end of a match, either from fatigue or stress, and not being able to close the deal. That is the bug to which I was refering.
Creatively laying blame at the feet of others does not solve the problem. Your interpretation of the events may place everything squarely on the shoulder of the handler, but the Jonny handler did not follow the rules, the Shredder handler allowed this and the TD was not observant of his duties. Everybody "f'd" up here. Saying Jonny was not specific enough is just a big, stinking, dirty bandaid.
If a program has a bug, and that bug causes that program to fail, then that program has failed. A bug caused Shredder to go through a threefold repetition, which Jonny properly identified. Why else would it identify this than to claim the draw?
Jonny did not want to be sporting, Jonny wanted to win. Jonny saw the other program screw up and wanted to capitalize upon it. If there is to be no human interaction, then that means no human interaction. Jonny's handler did not abide by the rules. Sure, it was a bug. But that bug let Shredder be outplayed. Jonny should have taken the draw and Fritz should have had the win. A playoff should not have been necessary.
You know what happens when you dismiss buggy software in exchange for percieved ellegance? Blue screens of death, that's what.
//end rant
Is there any reason for the next generation of game consoles to also be DVD movie players? If you bought a PS2 or Xbox, you have a DVD player. DVD players can be purchased for very little nowadays. Most everyone who wants one, has one.
When this generation of hardware was released, a built in DVD movie player was a big advantage for a console...when nobody had a DVD player. I envision TiVo-like functionality to be the next "It also plays DVDs!", but would Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft build this type of functionality into a game system? And would such a system stay around the $300 price point that seems to be the new standard?
What does everybody else think?