The obvious answer is that they'll take a leaf out of BitTorrent's book and have people that are downloading/viewing the movie share with each other (maybe they could even give you a little discount if you provide enough bandwidth). Only, of course, it would be a closed, DRM-encumbered system...
Trust me, it was - the characters literally behaved as if they were made of paper. When Mario takes a snooze, he flutters through the air and between the sheets; when he turns around, he spins like a coin. Some of the bosses looked like elaborate origami creations...
I sat through all of the crap that's been posted today due to AF, but this is just plain not in good taste. Invasion of privacy by RFID is safe to poach on - maybe one along the lines of Dilbert (PHBs using RFID to track workers) - but the subject of homelessness just plain isn't funny. Reminds me a bit of the TV show that paid homless folks to fight each other...
Not really - Google searches are based primarily off of PageRank, which works (in very rough terms) through the number of links to a given page. Emails don't link to each other, and it's even relatively rare that they link to anything at all (except for spam). Google may slap its brand on the email-searching technology, but it's not going to be anything like their web-searching technology, whatever it is. That's not to say that it will be bad - maybe it will revolutionize email as much as Google revolutionized web searches.
There are some companies out there that still want to use glass bottles, for the nostalgic look if nothing else - of the top of my head, I can think of Snapple, Nantucket Nectars, and Coca-Cola products in some parts of the world (I remember get a glass-bottle Sprite in Austria). Their business isn't actually a bad little niche at all...
It's by a guy called Yasunori Mitsuda... he also did the music for much of Chrono Trigger (along with Nobuo Uematsu, who's already been mentioned), Xenogears, and Xenosaga. Awesome stuff - my favorites are "On the Banks of a Dream" from the Chrono Cross soundtrack, "Melkaba" from Xenogears, and pretty much any of the overworld themes from Chrono Trigger ("Memories of Green," "Enhasa").
Nintendo did this with the Super Nintendo and the N64 - for an example, take Donkey Kong Country 3, a major game that came out *after* the N64's launch but was still on the SNES. In fact, one of the characters in the game - Wrinkly Kong - could sometimes be found playing on an N64.
Nobody has to tell me what I like. I'm quite capable of browsing around and listening to many different types of music, or asking various friends what they like. And if you think we *need* MTV or ClearChannel radio stations for *anything*... strange set of priorities you have there.
That's a bit like saying "north is the direction in which cold is increasing" - generally true, but it can be false for a specific region. The entropy of the universe is increasing with time, yes; it might be possible to reverse that process on a local scale, however (think the end of 'Contact' - the aliens describe attempting to bunch a lot of mass together in one spot to combat entropy).
"Mr. DO! Vs. Unicorns" - I think this one speaks for itself.
On a slightly more serious note, the game from Konami - is that something from the Castlevania series? None of the screenshots show the trademark whip, but they've certainly got the right atmosphere for it.
Having spent a bit of time in the amateur game dev arena myself, I have to agree; a large corporation can easily absorb the losses from piracy, but a small bedroom coder affair needs every single sale it can get. It's extremely frustrating to see cracked shareware games... it seems like a much more personal thing, precisely because fewer people would typically be interested - in me, it would lead to thoughts of "whoever cracked this must have it in for me."
He said he could do it for $20... the cheapest headphones that I saw when I ran a search on Froogle were about $26, and the *good* ones (Bose QuietComfort) were $300. DIY if you want, but it's probably even cheaper to do it with off-the-shelf parts rather than with headphones.
How about do what Metroid Prime did on the 'Cube? It avoided load times by loading rooms as you passed through the doors (actually, as you shot the doors to open them). From the user's perspective, zero load time.
I'm guessing that you're not really trying to troll, but be aware that "Jap" is considered a derogatory phrase... just spell out "Japanese," it's much less insulting.
Informative... the mods are on crack again. The Hobbit isn't even off the ground yet - Jackson only just confirmed that it would be done in the future.
This robot reminds me an awful lot of the design of the ORGA 'bots in the anime Gilgamesh (still running and unlicensed, grab a fansub at your favorite torrent site). I can't find a picture of them (behind a filter, so I can't use Google Image Search), but they're more or less the same as the robot, but with a No-mask like face. Also, they're actually genetically engineered humans underneath the robot-like shell, a la Evangelion, so anyone who buys these "dragons" should be aware of the potential human rights abuses:) .
Well, I have a year-old laptop with a sucky (8MB) video card, though it has a 1.4GHz processor and 512MB of RAM - it doesn't do alpha blending very well (slows to a crawl), meaning that it practically dies whenever I dunk underwater. Because of that, I tend to keep it in software mode when playing.
That said, I'm no big FPS gamer, and I don't play on Steam, so I'm not a part of that number.
Flash isn't blazing fast by any definition of the word fast, and it's a lot more expensive than CDs - for a 1GB flash drive you could go out and buy a copy of Windows or several copies of any Linux distro. Also remember that Flash has that whole re-writing problem - if the Flash inadvertently gets used for swap space or something, it'd die in no time. Lastly, not a lot of computers boot from USB without some CD to help them along (mine certainly wouldn't), so you'd probably need a CD anyway...
Presumably Infinium knows that they've already been ridiculed in front of PA's huge gamer fanbase; they don't particularly want to be reviled, too.
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...Actually, I'm not sure how it works elsewhere, but here in Maine we can choose who to buy power from on an open market... of course, the same company, Central Maine Power, still "delivers" the power via its powerlines.
stories are becoming less important for commercial games
Not necessarily true. There are at least a few commercial games out there with good stories - for example, Beyond Good and Evil is quite good. And almost all of Jeff Vogel's games over at Spiderweb Software have excellent stories (yes, they're shareware, but he makes a living off of them - that makes them commercial). I see less problem with the stories than with the length of a lot of games coming out today - a lot of them are only 10-15 hours long, when 40 used to be the minimum...
The only collision that anyone I know has ever been in had nothing to do with inattention - it was my dad, and he was driving along a slick road when he came to the results of a former crash that had sent another one car skidding across the road (the other was an 18 wheeler, it just shrugged and kept going). There was no way that he could have avoided the crash - the best he could do was aim for the empty passenger side and pray. Sometimes, no matter what you do, attention (electronic-aided or otherwise) just can't do anything.
I would point out that they actually license their CD-burning stuff from another company (Roxio, I believe). That just transfers the monopoly in that area to another company, though...
About those extra billion people... to give a generic answer to a generic argument, Antarctica is more hospitable, so we'll probably expand to fill down there before we start packing people off to Mars. That said, Mars has a certain romance (not in the love sense) to it that Antarctica can't claim (though back in the 1800s, it was Antarctica that had that same sort of allure).
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The obvious answer is that they'll take a leaf out of BitTorrent's book and have people that are downloading/viewing the movie share with each other (maybe they could even give you a little discount if you provide enough bandwidth). Only, of course, it would be a closed, DRM-encumbered system...
Trust me, it was - the characters literally behaved as if they were made of paper. When Mario takes a snooze, he flutters through the air and between the sheets; when he turns around, he spins like a coin. Some of the bosses looked like elaborate origami creations...
I sat through all of the crap that's been posted today due to AF, but this is just plain not in good taste. Invasion of privacy by RFID is safe to poach on - maybe one along the lines of Dilbert (PHBs using RFID to track workers) - but the subject of homelessness just plain isn't funny. Reminds me a bit of the TV show that paid homless folks to fight each other...
Not really - Google searches are based primarily off of PageRank, which works (in very rough terms) through the number of links to a given page. Emails don't link to each other, and it's even relatively rare that they link to anything at all (except for spam). Google may slap its brand on the email-searching technology, but it's not going to be anything like their web-searching technology, whatever it is. That's not to say that it will be bad - maybe it will revolutionize email as much as Google revolutionized web searches.
There are some companies out there that still want to use glass bottles, for the nostalgic look if nothing else - of the top of my head, I can think of Snapple, Nantucket Nectars, and Coca-Cola products in some parts of the world (I remember get a glass-bottle Sprite in Austria). Their business isn't actually a bad little niche at all...
It's by a guy called Yasunori Mitsuda... he also did the music for much of Chrono Trigger (along with Nobuo Uematsu, who's already been mentioned), Xenogears, and Xenosaga. Awesome stuff - my favorites are "On the Banks of a Dream" from the Chrono Cross soundtrack, "Melkaba" from Xenogears, and pretty much any of the overworld themes from Chrono Trigger ("Memories of Green," "Enhasa").
Nintendo did this with the Super Nintendo and the N64 - for an example, take Donkey Kong Country 3, a major game that came out *after* the N64's launch but was still on the SNES. In fact, one of the characters in the game - Wrinkly Kong - could sometimes be found playing on an N64.
Nobody has to tell me what I like. I'm quite capable of browsing around and listening to many different types of music, or asking various friends what they like. And if you think we *need* MTV or ClearChannel radio stations for *anything*... strange set of priorities you have there.
That's a bit like saying "north is the direction in which cold is increasing" - generally true, but it can be false for a specific region. The entropy of the universe is increasing with time, yes; it might be possible to reverse that process on a local scale, however (think the end of 'Contact' - the aliens describe attempting to bunch a lot of mass together in one spot to combat entropy).
On a slightly more serious note, the game from Konami - is that something from the Castlevania series? None of the screenshots show the trademark whip, but they've certainly got the right atmosphere for it.
Yes. Because it sets a precedent, so Microsoft can be sued for the same behavior again and again, until the behavior ceases.
Having spent a bit of time in the amateur game dev arena myself, I have to agree; a large corporation can easily absorb the losses from piracy, but a small bedroom coder affair needs every single sale it can get. It's extremely frustrating to see cracked shareware games... it seems like a much more personal thing, precisely because fewer people would typically be interested - in me, it would lead to thoughts of "whoever cracked this must have it in for me."
He said he could do it for $20... the cheapest headphones that I saw when I ran a search on Froogle were about $26, and the *good* ones (Bose QuietComfort) were $300. DIY if you want, but it's probably even cheaper to do it with off-the-shelf parts rather than with headphones.
How about do what Metroid Prime did on the 'Cube? It avoided load times by loading rooms as you passed through the doors (actually, as you shot the doors to open them). From the user's perspective, zero load time.
I'm guessing that you're not really trying to troll, but be aware that "Jap" is considered a derogatory phrase... just spell out "Japanese," it's much less insulting.
Informative... the mods are on crack again. The Hobbit isn't even off the ground yet - Jackson only just confirmed that it would be done in the future.
This robot reminds me an awful lot of the design of the ORGA 'bots in the anime Gilgamesh (still running and unlicensed, grab a fansub at your favorite torrent site). I can't find a picture of them (behind a filter, so I can't use Google Image Search), but they're more or less the same as the robot, but with a No-mask like face. Also, they're actually genetically engineered humans underneath the robot-like shell, a la Evangelion, so anyone who buys these "dragons" should be aware of the potential human rights abuses :) .
That said, I'm no big FPS gamer, and I don't play on Steam, so I'm not a part of that number.
Flash isn't blazing fast by any definition of the word fast, and it's a lot more expensive than CDs - for a 1GB flash drive you could go out and buy a copy of Windows or several copies of any Linux distro. Also remember that Flash has that whole re-writing problem - if the Flash inadvertently gets used for swap space or something, it'd die in no time. Lastly, not a lot of computers boot from USB without some CD to help them along (mine certainly wouldn't), so you'd probably need a CD anyway...
Presumably Infinium knows that they've already been ridiculed in front of PA's huge gamer fanbase; they don't particularly want to be reviled, too.
...Actually, I'm not sure how it works elsewhere, but here in Maine we can choose who to buy power from on an open market... of course, the same company, Central Maine Power, still "delivers" the power via its powerlines.
Not necessarily true. There are at least a few commercial games out there with good stories - for example, Beyond Good and Evil is quite good. And almost all of Jeff Vogel's games over at Spiderweb Software have excellent stories (yes, they're shareware, but he makes a living off of them - that makes them commercial). I see less problem with the stories than with the length of a lot of games coming out today - a lot of them are only 10-15 hours long, when 40 used to be the minimum...
The only collision that anyone I know has ever been in had nothing to do with inattention - it was my dad, and he was driving along a slick road when he came to the results of a former crash that had sent another one car skidding across the road (the other was an 18 wheeler, it just shrugged and kept going). There was no way that he could have avoided the crash - the best he could do was aim for the empty passenger side and pray. Sometimes, no matter what you do, attention (electronic-aided or otherwise) just can't do anything.
I would point out that they actually license their CD-burning stuff from another company (Roxio, I believe). That just transfers the monopoly in that area to another company, though...
About those extra billion people... to give a generic answer to a generic argument, Antarctica is more hospitable, so we'll probably expand to fill down there before we start packing people off to Mars. That said, Mars has a certain romance (not in the love sense) to it that Antarctica can't claim (though back in the 1800s, it was Antarctica that had that same sort of allure).