I have not seen an ISP ad say "unlimited" for quite some time. I know roadrunner never did, at least to me. And I looked in their TOS to see if they 'reserve the right to limit bandwidth' and there indeed is a clause. Not that I've ever seen them do it to me, despite my addiction to data.
Not necessarily. Often industry people send letters to ISPs saying 69.123.12.96 downloaded this. Yell at them or we sue you. It does not mean a request for information was made or that a suit was filed. I have a friend who got 5 of these. He's fine.
Yeah, you beat me to it. Shows that the NYT doesn't know jack about computers or copyright law. There have, in fact, been multiple court cases trying to get an injunction on an emulator and they were all thrown out. Emulators have been proven 100% legal.
While I wouldn't disagree with the inclusion of King's Quest it is no more the first adventure game than Doom is the first FPS. It isn't even the first one by Sierra. If you go back further you get stuff like Wizard and the Princess which was a graphic text-adventure. You typed commands. The game did not animate. You did not move a little guy around. KQ may have been the first graphic-adventure if by that you mean Sierra-style and Lucasarts-style games, but it was not the first graphic adventure if you mean an adventure game with graphics.
And Sensible World of Soccer? Your guess is as good as mine. I've played some of the Sensible Soccer games. They're soccer. They're competent soccer. That's all I got.:)
Well, if this device is going to be sold in US stores it has some sort of anti-backup protection. You say this isn't a problem for you and that's fine. But how can this cart stop you from playing backups without hindering your ability to write your own code? What's the difference between your game and a pirated version of Mario Kart? Code is code. I admit I don't know anything about the protection used on this thing, but why take the chance when a Supercard(or something like it) is completely unencumbered? And if you check out some of the sites listed earlier(I can vouch for www.realhotstuff.com) you can possibly find something you like that is cheaper than this one.
I bet Datel didn't make those 25 games themselves. I bet the video converter is just BatchDPG. Why would I buy this when I can get a Supercard?
Is tis guy really that unlucky?
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Or was I just lucky? I loaded the free beta on a new hard drive for a while to see what was what. Internet access just worked upon first bootup. My Audigy worked, though I may have had to install drivers, I don't remember. The only serious problem was that the NVidia drivers on my 7900GT were lacking. Switching resolutions had about a 1 in 3 chance of corrupting the screen, forcing a cold reboot. But that's certainly fixable. It's probably even fixed now.
But did I like Vista? No, not really. It was very pretty. And Aero was kinda neat. But once you dive in a few screens you start to notice that most screens and control panel applets look exactly the same and do the exact same thing. There were nice things: The Recycle Bin works across network shares now. It correctly alphabetizes roman numerals. But as fas as any huge "OMG!" feature, no.
That said, though, this article really seemed like FUD unless, as I said, I got lucky.
...not nearly as bad as what Verisign did. The reason Sitefinder was dangerous is because it has the potential to break things. If an internet-based program relies on a valid server not found error it will break if it gets a ad page redirect. Granted, that would be unusual, but that's not the point. It's been that way since day one. If it's not broken...
Good luck playing that DVD overseas. Good luck playing that DVD in Linux. Good luck with your new fancy disks if your player gets revoked. And all of this while the people who really ARE doing things they shouldn't are just double-clicking their unrestricted.avi file.
MULE. Must not forget MULE. Back in those days that funky EOA logo almost guaranteed you a good game. Now it almost guarantees you a competent yet dull game. I mean, does anyone really care about Madden anymore or is buying it just a ritual some gamers go through every year?
Actually, I was referring to the poster's mention of a 'gigantic pile' of 360s. Just because items are on the shelf doesn't necessarily mean they aren't selling them. It might mean that, but it might also mean that product is moving and the stores have enough inventory to keep replacing them. That is the position you as a manufacturer want to be in, and that is clearly not the position Nintendo is in.
I don't know about a gigantic pile, but keep in mind that as a manufacturer of something you WANT there to be product sitting on a shelf. People can't buy it if it's not sitting on a shelf. What's happening with the Wii is bad and shows a big mistake on Nintendo's part. People want to give Nintendo money but Nintendo can't give them product, and many of them are no doubt buying 360s or PSPs instead. This is costing Nintendo possibly millions of dollars.
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Oh, sorry, man. My bad. I'll be more careful next time.
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As a RR user I have to ask: What does Quarantined mean? What happened?
You would have to be one rich SOB to legally utilize as much bandwidth as I do.
I mean...I don't do that sort of thing. Why are you looking at me like that?
I have not seen an ISP ad say "unlimited" for quite some time. I know roadrunner never did, at least to me. And I looked in their TOS to see if they 'reserve the right to limit bandwidth' and there indeed is a clause. Not that I've ever seen them do it to me, despite my addiction to data.
Not necessarily. Often industry people send letters to ISPs saying 69.123.12.96 downloaded this. Yell at them or we sue you. It does not mean a request for information was made or that a suit was filed. I have a friend who got 5 of these. He's fine.
Yeah, you beat me to it. Shows that the NYT doesn't know jack about computers or copyright law. There have, in fact, been multiple court cases trying to get an injunction on an emulator and they were all thrown out. Emulators have been proven 100% legal.
While I wouldn't disagree with the inclusion of King's Quest it is no more the first adventure game than Doom is the first FPS. It isn't even the first one by Sierra. If you go back further you get stuff like Wizard and the Princess which was a graphic text-adventure. You typed commands. The game did not animate. You did not move a little guy around. KQ may have been the first graphic-adventure if by that you mean Sierra-style and Lucasarts-style games, but it was not the first graphic adventure if you mean an adventure game with graphics.
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And Sensible World of Soccer? Your guess is as good as mine. I've played some of the Sensible Soccer games. They're soccer. They're competent soccer. That's all I got.
I find myself saying this a lot, but: Java is not JavaScript.
...what does this new P2P technology mean for me? I guess the RIAA is really in for it now.
Well, if this device is going to be sold in US stores it has some sort of anti-backup protection. You say this isn't a problem for you and that's fine. But how can this cart stop you from playing backups without hindering your ability to write your own code? What's the difference between your game and a pirated version of Mario Kart? Code is code. I admit I don't know anything about the protection used on this thing, but why take the chance when a Supercard(or something like it) is completely unencumbered? And if you check out some of the sites listed earlier(I can vouch for www.realhotstuff.com) you can possibly find something you like that is cheaper than this one.
I bet Datel didn't make those 25 games themselves. I bet the video converter is just BatchDPG. Why would I buy this when I can get a Supercard?
Or was I just lucky? I loaded the free beta on a new hard drive for a while to see what was what. Internet access just worked upon first bootup. My Audigy worked, though I may have had to install drivers, I don't remember. The only serious problem was that the NVidia drivers on my 7900GT were lacking. Switching resolutions had about a 1 in 3 chance of corrupting the screen, forcing a cold reboot. But that's certainly fixable. It's probably even fixed now.
But did I like Vista? No, not really. It was very pretty. And Aero was kinda neat. But once you dive in a few screens you start to notice that most screens and control panel applets look exactly the same and do the exact same thing. There were nice things: The Recycle Bin works across network shares now. It correctly alphabetizes roman numerals. But as fas as any huge "OMG!" feature, no.
That said, though, this article really seemed like FUD unless, as I said, I got lucky.
This story is really depressing. I think I'll go cap some noobs.
Damn, I missed.
...not nearly as bad as what Verisign did. The reason Sitefinder was dangerous is because it has the potential to break things. If an internet-based program relies on a valid server not found error it will break if it gets a ad page redirect. Granted, that would be unusual, but that's not the point. It's been that way since day one. If it's not broken...
...where are you when we need you?
Good luck playing that DVD overseas. Good luck playing that DVD in Linux. Good luck with your new fancy disks if your player gets revoked. And all of this while the people who really ARE doing things they shouldn't are just double-clicking their unrestricted .avi file.
"Hooey, it's hot in here. Hey, bob, what's that popping sound outside?"
"Oh, my God! My car!"
I don't have any scientific reason for saying this, but that sounds...dangerous to me. A gaseous car fuel seems like asking for trouble.
MULE. Must not forget MULE. Back in those days that funky EOA logo almost guaranteed you a good game. Now it almost guarantees you a competent yet dull game. I mean, does anyone really care about Madden anymore or is buying it just a ritual some gamers go through every year?
Actually, I was referring to the poster's mention of a 'gigantic pile' of 360s. Just because items are on the shelf doesn't necessarily mean they aren't selling them. It might mean that, but it might also mean that product is moving and the stores have enough inventory to keep replacing them. That is the position you as a manufacturer want to be in, and that is clearly not the position Nintendo is in.
I don't know about a gigantic pile, but keep in mind that as a manufacturer of something you WANT there to be product sitting on a shelf. People can't buy it if it's not sitting on a shelf. What's happening with the Wii is bad and shows a big mistake on Nintendo's part. People want to give Nintendo money but Nintendo can't give them product, and many of them are no doubt buying 360s or PSPs instead. This is costing Nintendo possibly millions of dollars.
Dude. This is totally gonna reinvent Sonic Team. Get this, now: Big the Cat's Big Adventures
I own all 3 of those games, so I agree with you. Thing is I don't know anyone else who owns even one of those games, so I also disagree with you.
Actually, I liked the character songs from Sonic Adventure. But then again I seem to have hated that game far less than everyone else.
By that definition no nation now has or has ever had freedom of speech.