I've heard anecdotal horror stories about people taking a picture of their baby taking a bath in the sink, bringing in the picture to be developed and getting arrested for it.
Also, I beleive the law(in the US) is something terrible like "intended to illicit a sexual response", so even a 12 year old posing seductively in a swimsuit would be deemed child porn. Probably a 'lesser' child porn, but still...
I'm not 100% sure about that, and if ISPs are going to start filtering things, I'd prefer to be wrong. You know some nutjob is turned on by the sight of a kid's feet. Are we then going to have to filter pictures of underage feet? Or of feet that look as if they may be a child's?
I've posted this before. Looks like I need to again.
This is not "just fine". None of these anti-videogame laws are. There is no law against a 10 year old going to see an R rated movie. Or buying the R rated, even "unrated" version on DVD. Nothing stopping a 5 year old from buying the latest Eminem album. You'd think there would be, but there isn't. Go look.
This means that video games are being singled out among the entire entertainment industry as somehow being a less protected form of speech than all the rest. Why? Who knows? I expect the fact that the video game industry doesn't have nearly as many lobbyists on the hill as the RIAA and MPAA do might have something to do with it.
If games are seen as "less protected", what else will they be able to do? No, this is not just fine at all.
1) Dreamcast piracy: Sega said their systems were selling well enough, but the software wasn't. And since you could download and burn pretty much any game out there, that's probably not a surprise.
2) Shenmue: $20,000,000 on one video game. Still the record as far as I know. There was no way ANY game, especially for the Dreamcast, could ever have made that much money back then. This is seen by some as the biggest single reason for Sega's buyout by Sammy.
Silly question. The answer is and will always be: No.
Commodore 64 BASIC was interpreted. Computers now are obviously powerful enough to run 64 BASIC code very quickly. Does that mean native code should have been abandoned years ago because technology advanced enough to allow C-64 code to run quickly? JIT code will always be slower than native code and because the complexity of both JIT and Native code programs will get more complicated as the technology advances interpreted code can never catch up.
As of the last article I read, Microsoft Flight Simulator X is not going to be DirectX 10 and will indeed NOT require Vista. It will instead have optional enhancements that will make it better on the new OS.
This proves that supporting both OSes is possible and that Microsoft isn't doing it on Halo 2 because they simply don't want to.
As I understand Vista is going to be 64-bit, so all of it's executables will have to be 64-bit code. And Windows XP won't run 64-bit code. This is all pure guessing on my part, but that would explain that error. And it would also make any Vista programs hard to XP-patch.
The average blockbuster movie costs far more to make than the average blockbuster videogame, yet DVD movies are cheaper and resales seems to be far more tolerated.
If the video game industry can't support games with that high of a budget they shouldn't be making games with that high of a budget.
From the article: We try to act behind the scenes, and we follow our clients' desires, instructions and everything, so our policy is not to have a vision. In our company, we follow the customer's vision.
Programming for these guys must be loads of fun. Yikes.
No, it's not unreasonable. But this isn't a Buy American policy, it's a Don't Buy Chinese policy.
And there's no way China could place any sort of backdoors on computers in a government network without getting caught eventually. If that happened China's entire electronics sector would take it up the ass as nobody would trust their products anymore. Would that be worth the perceived and real value placed on any data they might get? Probably not. China isn't stupid.
Heh. Replying to myself. A Wikipedia scan shows I was right and wrong. Max Payne WAS published by 3-D Realms, which is part of the Gathering of Developers, which was purchased by Take-Two and renamed to 2K Games.
Max Payne was a PC game published by 3-D Realms. Remember them? Duke Nukem: Eventually? Anyway, Rockstar was only responsible for the console version(s).
Unfortunately, the parent is pretty much right. The DMCA basically says that breaking copy-protection mechanisms and tools that do it are illegal. Therefore, you are still legally able to make a copy or a rip of any CD you own but you can't break copy protection to do it. This means that it's very easy to break the DMCA without actually breaking amy copyright laws.
If this actually got taken to court it would probably come down to whose lawyers have the sharpest teeth, but these things usually do. And your lawyers usually don't.
If the system has what many consider to be a stupid name it will damage the product image. Names are important. Everyone knows that.
Yes, 'wee wee' is a childish pun, but since children are part of the target audience, this matters. If I buy one and the system ends up orphaned over a thing as stupid as it's name, it doesn't matter that the name is a delicious pun that has different meanings in different languages or whatever.
I'm not saying the system will fail. And if it does it may not be because of its name. But this name can't help. And that's just foolish on Nintendo's part.
Nintendo is not dying. Nintendo's circumstances are nothing like Sega's. The Gamecube's marketshare in the US may not be impressive, but it's presence in Japan is just fine. Nothing like Sony, but just fine. The GBA and the DS are doing just fine everywhere.
Nintendo as a company is doing quite well. Not as well as 15 years ago, but well.
Are YOU kidding? The name absolutely can destroy a product. Are you saying that naming a product partly aimed at kids after a part of their anatomy won't have an impact on sales?
The name doesn't matter to me personally. But then again it does. If I perceive that the name may have an impact on sales I may be less inclined to buy one for fear of buying an orphaned product.
Reading the article, it's supposed to be a play on We. A deep-sounding-but-not "Not me. Not you. But Wii." And it IS a Japanese thing. There was a Japanese pop group made of two of the most popular members of Morning Musume named W. Just the letter W. The idea is that it has those two popular girls. You and You. U and U. W. It sounds silly to you and me, but it apparently makes sense to the Japanese mind.
What doesn''t make sense is why they didn't clear it with the marketing department in America. The blank stares would have made it clear...
Bzzt. Wrong. There is no law against a 10 year old going to see an R-Rated movie. There is no law against a 10 year old buying said movie on DVD - unrated version even. There is no law against a 10 year old buying an Emimen album.
If this law is accepted, it will also be accepted that video games are for some reason a less protected form of speech than other media. I that OK with you? It's not OK with me.
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I've heard anecdotal horror stories about people taking a picture of their baby taking a bath in the sink, bringing in the picture to be developed and getting arrested for it.
Also, I beleive the law(in the US) is something terrible like "intended to illicit a sexual response", so even a 12 year old posing seductively in a swimsuit would be deemed child porn. Probably a 'lesser' child porn, but still...
I'm not 100% sure about that, and if ISPs are going to start filtering things, I'd prefer to be wrong. You know some nutjob is turned on by the sight of a kid's feet. Are we then going to have to filter pictures of underage feet? Or of feet that look as if they may be a child's?
I've posted this before. Looks like I need to again.
This is not "just fine". None of these anti-videogame laws are. There is no law against a 10 year old going to see an R rated movie. Or buying the R rated, even "unrated" version on DVD. Nothing stopping a 5 year old from buying the latest Eminem album. You'd think there would be, but there isn't. Go look.
This means that video games are being singled out among the entire entertainment industry as somehow being a less protected form of speech than all the rest. Why? Who knows? I expect the fact that the video game industry doesn't have nearly as many lobbyists on the hill as the RIAA and MPAA do might have something to do with it.
If games are seen as "less protected", what else will they be able to do? No, this is not just fine at all.
1) Dreamcast piracy: Sega said their systems were selling well enough, but the software wasn't. And since you could download and burn pretty much any game out there, that's probably not a surprise.
2) Shenmue: $20,000,000 on one video game. Still the record as far as I know. There was no way ANY game, especially for the Dreamcast, could ever have made that much money back then. This is seen by some as the biggest single reason for Sega's buyout by Sammy.
Silly question. The answer is and will always be: No.
Commodore 64 BASIC was interpreted. Computers now are obviously powerful enough to run 64 BASIC code very quickly. Does that mean native code should have been abandoned years ago because technology advanced enough to allow C-64 code to run quickly? JIT code will always be slower than native code and because the complexity of both JIT and Native code programs will get more complicated as the technology advances interpreted code can never catch up.
As of the last article I read, Microsoft Flight Simulator X is not going to be DirectX 10 and will indeed NOT require Vista. It will instead have optional enhancements that will make it better on the new OS.
This proves that supporting both OSes is possible and that Microsoft isn't doing it on Halo 2 because they simply don't want to.
As I understand Vista is going to be 64-bit, so all of it's executables will have to be 64-bit code. And Windows XP won't run 64-bit code. This is all pure guessing on my part, but that would explain that error. And it would also make any Vista programs hard to XP-patch.
Dammit.
The average blockbuster movie costs far more to make than the average blockbuster videogame, yet DVD movies are cheaper and resales seems to be far more tolerated.
If the video game industry can't support games with that high of a budget they shouldn't be making games with that high of a budget.
From the article:
We try to act behind the scenes, and we follow our clients' desires, instructions and everything, so our policy is not to have a vision. In our company, we follow the customer's vision.
Programming for these guys must be loads of fun. Yikes.
No, it's not unreasonable. But this isn't a Buy American policy, it's a Don't Buy Chinese policy.
And there's no way China could place any sort of backdoors on computers in a government network without getting caught eventually. If that happened China's entire electronics sector would take it up the ass as nobody would trust their products anymore. Would that be worth the perceived and real value placed on any data they might get? Probably not. China isn't stupid.
Heh. Replying to myself. A Wikipedia scan shows I was right and wrong. Max Payne WAS published by 3-D Realms, which is part of the Gathering of Developers, which was purchased by Take-Two and renamed to 2K Games.
Fun, eh?
Max Payne was a PC game published by 3-D Realms. Remember them? Duke Nukem: Eventually? Anyway, Rockstar was only responsible for the console version(s).
Rockstar IS Take-Two. It's just a name. Take-Two goes around buying game companies and renaming them to Rockstar North and Rockstar Leeds and whatnot.
Unfortunately, the parent is pretty much right. The DMCA basically says that breaking copy-protection mechanisms and tools that do it are illegal. Therefore, you are still legally able to make a copy or a rip of any CD you own but you can't break copy protection to do it. This means that it's very easy to break the DMCA without actually breaking amy copyright laws.
If this actually got taken to court it would probably come down to whose lawyers have the sharpest teeth, but these things usually do. And your lawyers usually don't.
If the system has what many consider to be a stupid name it will damage the product image. Names are important. Everyone knows that.
Yes, 'wee wee' is a childish pun, but since children are part of the target audience, this matters. If I buy one and the system ends up orphaned over a thing as stupid as it's name, it doesn't matter that the name is a delicious pun that has different meanings in different languages or whatever.
I'm not saying the system will fail. And if it does it may not be because of its name. But this name can't help. And that's just foolish on Nintendo's part.
They were going to use giant-squid-cam.com for their videos, but they found out the domain was already taken by a porn site...
Wee wee = penis which, if you're in grade school, is more than close enough.
Nintendo is not dying. Nintendo's circumstances are nothing like Sega's. The Gamecube's marketshare in the US may not be impressive, but it's presence in Japan is just fine. Nothing like Sony, but just fine. The GBA and the DS are doing just fine everywhere.
Nintendo as a company is doing quite well. Not as well as 15 years ago, but well.
Are YOU kidding? The name absolutely can destroy a product. Are you saying that naming a product partly aimed at kids after a part of their anatomy won't have an impact on sales?
The name doesn't matter to me personally. But then again it does. If I perceive that the name may have an impact on sales I may be less inclined to buy one for fear of buying an orphaned product.
Reading the article, it's supposed to be a play on We. A deep-sounding-but-not "Not me. Not you. But Wii." And it IS a Japanese thing. There was a Japanese pop group made of two of the most popular members of Morning Musume named W. Just the letter W. The idea is that it has those two popular girls. You and You. U and U. W. It sounds silly to you and me, but it apparently makes sense to the Japanese mind.
What doesn''t make sense is why they didn't clear it with the marketing department in America. The blank stares would have made it clear...
Bzzt. Wrong. There is no law against a 10 year old going to see an R-Rated movie. There is no law against a 10 year old buying said movie on DVD - unrated version even. There is no law against a 10 year old buying an Emimen album.
If this law is accepted, it will also be accepted that video games are for some reason a less protected form of speech than other media. I that OK with you? It's not OK with me.
Damn. And I was so looking forward to that Brokeback Mountain RPG.
Yes, but the thing is, Mr. AC, if I'm whoring for a +5 funny, I don't need to click the "damn link".
NOTACON? Sounds like an ISP funded by Nixon.
You mean to tell me that the shiny video-game box can be used for non-interactive media?
How strange.
...that it said Alex Jones. Now THAT would have been a news headline.