Well, at the risk of having my karma beaten like a red-headed stepchild, here goes.
According to both the CNN and BBC articles, the EU is having an issue with M$ 'using its market postion in an abusive manner to crush competitors to its Windows Media Player.' According to the articles, those competitors happen to be Quicktime and RealPlayer. Now it might just be me, but i am pretty sure that neither one of those players has ever been a real competitor to Media Player. Realplayer has certainly tried to beat them in the realm of streaming content, but due to such little things as shit for quality and lack of content, they didn't do so well. Quicktime has really always been a Mac format, and was brought over to windows for some reason or other, and while it has done fairly well, never really got quite big, despite the fact that it used compression tech that was way ahead of its time back in the day, but with divx, xvid and 3vix out, just cant really compete anymore. So to sum up, the EU is accusing M$ of abusing its market power to include a product that is evolving with technology to 'put down' legacy media players?? That's like accusing an accounting firm of using something other than COBOL to write the latest version of accounting software because its not fair to COBOL, despite the fact that it's a dead horse being held up by poles.
They were giving them away with essentially the same restrictions as they are now.. as I recall they were even more restrictive about it back then, and they were pretty much going to the major developers.
So what you're saying is that Nintendo, which actually gives away dev kits, fails to support their 3rd party developers the way Sony does, when they actually charge an arm and a leg? The only factual statement in their is that M$ not only gave away devkits, but paid for a huge chunk of development costs.
The whole reason Nintendo is having such a hard time garnering 3rd party support is because all of it is either going to Xbox or PS2, because they feel that a vast majority of the games they are developing won't have a place on GC, which is a 'kiddy console'. IMO, that is a bunch of crap, because im certainly no kid, im 23, and own a GC. As far as whether or not some of the more risque games could do well on the GC, there's no way they could without being there, and its quite apparent that they can seeing as how well the ResEvil franchise has done, as well as Eternal Darkness.
I'm not sure if you read the rest of the article, however the Agents who were involved in that case have since been indited by Russia in that case
also, I'd like to point out that if you had RTFA you referenced, the cases are quite dissimilar, seeing how the that case was in violation of anti hacking laws, not the DMCA and in addition to that, the FBI did use illegal methods to obtain the information on the remote pc's. Also, Sklyarov was not asked to come over here under false pretense of a job interview, he was here for a security cracking conference in Las Vegas, where he was giving a seminar on how he circumvented the Adobe copyprotection.
While it is true that the crimes committed in Russia by Sklyarov are legal in Russia, due to the nature of the Internet and that the software he wrote was distributed here in the US by him, he violated US law as well. So, according to the Laws he violated in the US, he was arrested here in the US.
Lots of good info, all true, however you're missing one thing. While its true that Nintendo has not made a lot of progress in the arenas of screen res or processor speed, they have made one major improvement. While they have gone from greenscale to color to near SNES graphics, Battery life and usage has improved tenfold. Also, the GBA SP has sidelighting, not backlighting.
I didn't say anything about the game being banned, but from reading your post, it would seem that you live in Australia. Here in the US, if a company doesn't submit to the will of the ESRB, then they usually don't get a lot of shelf space in stores, which is pretty much a death knell for the game. Most Large chain stores, like wal-mart, toys-r-us, etc. won't carry a game that doesn't have an ESRB rating at all, and most smaller stores will stuff them in a dark corner if they carry them at all. But banning games? I didn't say anything about that.
Antarctica is only the driest place on Earth if you go by annual rainfall. The Atacam desert is the driest place on earth counting humidity. Besides, Last time i checked, Antarctica was covered in snow, which if I'm not mistaken is ice, which I'm quite sure is nothing more than frozen water.
The ESRB can pay attention to the game all that they want to, however that does not change the fact that the ESRB is still a voluntary rating system and no publisher/developer has to submit a game to them. On the other hand its pretty much become fact that not submitting a game to them sounds your death anyway.
That's not true. Every single nintendo game that I have ever bought, at least the ones developed by Nintendo, had a pixelated photo of whatever character it was, from Samus Aran of Metroid, all the way to Link from Legend of Zelda.
If you don't mind waiting a month or paying alot extra for express/Internation Airmail, The Barnes & Noble online store will ship the book overseas to Europe.
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So in other words, if i go into a WalMart, pick up a PC game, and take it to a register, say after a half-hour to 45 mins browsing the store, that the initial activity of me removing the game from the shelf is not normal?
They are referring to Drizzt Do'Urden, formerly of House Do'Urden, the 8th House of Menzoberranzan, now a Ranger of Mieliekki. Ask anyone who plays DnD, and they will tell you who Drizzt Do'Urden, the greatest Drow ever is.
I was reading an article that was given a link by another poster - http://www.samsungsdi.co.kr/sdi_en/news/news_view. jsp?page=3&no=775&type=null&searchtext=nul l - and it would seem that this is intended to be more along the lines of an e-book reader, as opposed to a new pda or a new style of laptop. Personally, I see this as a great leap forward for e-books, which i have had a fair amount of interest in from their inception a few years ago. I think it would be really great if i could go back with serial numbers from all of the hard copies of books that i have and get e-book versions of them, which would allow me to take more than a half-dozen paper backs with me whenever i travel or go TDY. Can't wait to see where this tech goes from here.
TSR may have been doing Chainmail long before that, but Games Workshop has been doing strategy miniature gaming long before TSR. They are coming up on 30 years of gaming.. TSR just hit 25.
Here's how I look at it, without most of the sarcasm seen in my previous comment. These days, nearly every new computer that comes out is more than enought to run any title out on the market. When buying a new computer, what software you buy, what OS you buy, it all comes down to a matter of preference. Most benchmarks can be manipulated, as we have seen with Nvidia, ATI and most recently, Apple. As far as usability goes, Every OS out there has software that is equally suited for various applications. Even for gamers, choosing an OS can fall to preference, rather than selection due to the fact that more and more companies are releasing PC games on all systems, including Linux, of late. The bottom line is that it really doesn't matter what you buy, as long as you are happy with it in the end. If not, then sell it and buy something else. As far as a way to compare options and make an informed decision goes, hardware wise, everyone is equally overpowered. But for information on that sort of thing, read reviews done by your peers, CNET.com has a lot of those.
Well, as far as a staion over haul goes, i don't see there as being a whole lot to do. For the most part, all you would really have to do is replace the fuel tanks with something along the lines of an oversized SCUBA tank, and install high pressure air hoses in place of the fuel hoses. the pumps themselves could remain the same, as they could measure the amount of volume transferred the same. As far as cost on that sort of thing could work, excavation and removal of the old tanks would be the most costly project, with disposal being the major cost. I'd expect their would probably be a joint subsidization on part of fuel manufacturers and the DoE on that.
Well, it certainly isn't the first time that a company has used a benchmark to make a product look better than it is, and it certainly won't be the last time. I think what we should all learn from this is as follows. Don't worry about Statistics, Benchmarks, or any Media Hype. Just go to the store, buy whatever kind of computer you want that floats ur boat, Be it a Mac, Linux Box, Windoze Box, or god forbid, a compaq. Set it up, get broadband internet, and read lots of Slashdot and play Starcraft.
well, im not a dem.. im republican, insofar as a nail in social security goes, they've been saying that'll run out since my parents were my age(22). increase taxes? not likely. Besides, if anyone really wants to make this a reality, then the government is gonna have to step in and give incentive.. not so much as a handout, but more a grant in the form of a tax break for early adoption, or something along those lines. sorry for not clarifying.
well, from what I gather, this is not so much a way of surfing the net with video as it is a way to find related audio/video content. It kinda strikes me as a relational database, but all the objects are audio and video.
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According to both the CNN and BBC articles, the EU is having an issue with M$ 'using its market postion in an abusive manner to crush competitors to its Windows Media Player.' According to the articles, those competitors happen to be Quicktime and RealPlayer. Now it might just be me, but i am pretty sure that neither one of those players has ever been a real competitor to Media Player. Realplayer has certainly tried to beat them in the realm of streaming content, but due to such little things as shit for quality and lack of content, they didn't do so well. Quicktime has really always been a Mac format, and was brought over to windows for some reason or other, and while it has done fairly well, never really got quite big, despite the fact that it used compression tech that was way ahead of its time back in the day, but with divx, xvid and 3vix out, just cant really compete anymore. So to sum up, the EU is accusing M$ of abusing its market power to include a product that is evolving with technology to 'put down' legacy media players?? That's like accusing an accounting firm of using something other than COBOL to write the latest version of accounting software because its not fair to COBOL, despite the fact that it's a dead horse being held up by poles.
They were giving them away with essentially the same restrictions as they are now.. as I recall they were even more restrictive about it back then, and they were pretty much going to the major developers.
Times, they are a changin.. I haven't looked into it since launch, and they were giving them away back then.
The whole reason Nintendo is having such a hard time garnering 3rd party support is because all of it is either going to Xbox or PS2, because they feel that a vast majority of the games they are developing won't have a place on GC, which is a 'kiddy console'. IMO, that is a bunch of crap, because im certainly no kid, im 23, and own a GC. As far as whether or not some of the more risque games could do well on the GC, there's no way they could without being there, and its quite apparent that they can seeing as how well the ResEvil franchise has done, as well as Eternal Darkness.
..to the Limit, yea the Cheat is to the Limit so come on now, fhloqgads!!
also, I'd like to point out that if you had RTFA you referenced, the cases are quite dissimilar, seeing how the that case was in violation of anti hacking laws, not the DMCA and in addition to that, the FBI did use illegal methods to obtain the information on the remote pc's. Also, Sklyarov was not asked to come over here under false pretense of a job interview, he was here for a security cracking conference in Las Vegas, where he was giving a seminar on how he circumvented the Adobe copyprotection.
While it is true that the crimes committed in Russia by Sklyarov are legal in Russia, due to the nature of the Internet and that the software he wrote was distributed here in the US by him, he violated US law as well. So, according to the Laws he violated in the US, he was arrested here in the US.
Lots of good info, all true, however you're missing one thing. While its true that Nintendo has not made a lot of progress in the arenas of screen res or processor speed, they have made one major improvement. While they have gone from greenscale to color to near SNES graphics, Battery life and usage has improved tenfold. Also, the GBA SP has sidelighting, not backlighting.
I didn't say anything about the game being banned, but from reading your post, it would seem that you live in Australia. Here in the US, if a company doesn't submit to the will of the ESRB, then they usually don't get a lot of shelf space in stores, which is pretty much a death knell for the game. Most Large chain stores, like wal-mart, toys-r-us, etc. won't carry a game that doesn't have an ESRB rating at all, and most smaller stores will stuff them in a dark corner if they carry them at all. But banning games? I didn't say anything about that.
Antarctica is only the driest place on Earth if you go by annual rainfall. The Atacam desert is the driest place on earth counting humidity. Besides, Last time i checked, Antarctica was covered in snow, which if I'm not mistaken is ice, which I'm quite sure is nothing more than frozen water.
When I was reading about it, it reminded me a lot more of Escape from New York or No Escape.. with dash of Running Man game show to make it different.
The ESRB can pay attention to the game all that they want to, however that does not change the fact that the ESRB is still a voluntary rating system and no publisher/developer has to submit a game to them. On the other hand its pretty much become fact that not submitting a game to them sounds your death anyway.
Actuallay, IANAD, but I'd imagine that it would involve replacing the chemicals themselves with a saline solution or IV fluids.
That's not true. Every single nintendo game that I have ever bought, at least the ones developed by Nintendo, had a pixelated photo of whatever character it was, from Samus Aran of Metroid, all the way to Link from Legend of Zelda.
If you don't mind waiting a month or paying alot extra for express/Internation Airmail, The Barnes & Noble online store will ship the book overseas to Europe.
So in other words, if i go into a WalMart, pick up a PC game, and take it to a register, say after a half-hour to 45 mins browsing the store, that the initial activity of me removing the game from the shelf is not normal?
They are referring to Drizzt Do'Urden, formerly of House Do'Urden, the 8th House of Menzoberranzan, now a Ranger of Mieliekki. Ask anyone who plays DnD, and they will tell you who Drizzt Do'Urden, the greatest Drow ever is.
Now, if he could come up with a triangular lcd, he could market this as a new form factor for the imac. That could almost make the imac cool.
I was reading an article that was given a link by another poster - http://www.samsungsdi.co.kr/sdi_en/news/news_view. jsp?page=3&no=775&type=null&searchtext=nul l - and it would seem that this is intended to be more along the lines of an e-book reader, as opposed to a new pda or a new style of laptop. Personally, I see this as a great leap forward for e-books, which i have had a fair amount of interest in from their inception a few years ago. I think it would be really great if i could go back with serial numbers from all of the hard copies of books that i have and get e-book versions of them, which would allow me to take more than a half-dozen paper backs with me whenever i travel or go TDY. Can't wait to see where this tech goes from here.
TSR may have been doing Chainmail long before that, but Games Workshop has been doing strategy miniature gaming long before TSR. They are coming up on 30 years of gaming.. TSR just hit 25.
Here's how I look at it, without most of the sarcasm seen in my previous comment. These days, nearly every new computer that comes out is more than enought to run any title out on the market. When buying a new computer, what software you buy, what OS you buy, it all comes down to a matter of preference. Most benchmarks can be manipulated, as we have seen with Nvidia, ATI and most recently, Apple. As far as usability goes, Every OS out there has software that is equally suited for various applications. Even for gamers, choosing an OS can fall to preference, rather than selection due to the fact that more and more companies are releasing PC games on all systems, including Linux, of late. The bottom line is that it really doesn't matter what you buy, as long as you are happy with it in the end. If not, then sell it and buy something else. As far as a way to compare options and make an informed decision goes, hardware wise, everyone is equally overpowered. But for information on that sort of thing, read reviews done by your peers, CNET.com has a lot of those.
Well, as far as a staion over haul goes, i don't see there as being a whole lot to do. For the most part, all you would really have to do is replace the fuel tanks with something along the lines of an oversized SCUBA tank, and install high pressure air hoses in place of the fuel hoses. the pumps themselves could remain the same, as they could measure the amount of volume transferred the same. As far as cost on that sort of thing could work, excavation and removal of the old tanks would be the most costly project, with disposal being the major cost. I'd expect their would probably be a joint subsidization on part of fuel manufacturers and the DoE on that.
Well, it certainly isn't the first time that a company has used a benchmark to make a product look better than it is, and it certainly won't be the last time. I think what we should all learn from this is as follows. Don't worry about Statistics, Benchmarks, or any Media Hype. Just go to the store, buy whatever kind of computer you want that floats ur boat, Be it a Mac, Linux Box, Windoze Box, or god forbid, a compaq. Set it up, get broadband internet, and read lots of Slashdot and play Starcraft.
well, im not a dem.. im republican, insofar as a nail in social security goes, they've been saying that'll run out since my parents were my age(22). increase taxes? not likely. Besides, if anyone really wants to make this a reality, then the government is gonna have to step in and give incentive.. not so much as a handout, but more a grant in the form of a tax break for early adoption, or something along those lines. sorry for not clarifying.
well, from what I gather, this is not so much a way of surfing the net with video as it is a way to find related audio/video content. It kinda strikes me as a relational database, but all the objects are audio and video.