You are just wrong. Ever wonder why the Gamecube version of a multi-platform game usually comes out last? That's how long it takes for the developer to squeeze the game down to the Gamecube. You might lose polys, colors, AI, movies, something, but you always lose with Gamecube.
You are so far off its not even funny. The casual gamer doesn't get told anything about games. The casual gamer knows Grand Theft Auto, Madden, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. The casual gamer doesn't get told anything about any console because they don't read the mags or research the stuff online. That is what defines casual.
The only hype a casual gamer gets is from TV and what they see in the store. On TV is GTA, and thats about it during prime time television, so they know that and they know what platforms they need to play it. When they go to the store sometimes and SEE the Gamecube, they see that it comes in silly colors, has displays with cartoony animals, and is priced less than the other consoles so to them it is obviously inferior. No PS2 or XBOX hype created this second situation, Nintendo did.
Nintendo is talking out of both sides of its mouth here. You say the GC is not just for kids, but all your commercials and displays feature Mario and friends acting silly? The only current Nintendo commercial I see running right now is Mario Golf, and KOTOR makes that look pretty stupid, not to mention the Vice City ads which are STILL running almost 11 months after release. This is what the casual gamer knows.
Can we end the perception arguement now? There is no perception problem. Nintendo IS for kids. Look at their actions, not their words. They DID do it deliberatly. That's what they want, and that's fine, but lets acknowledge that Nintendo's target niche and the "casual" gamer no longer overlap *in the US*, and all will be clear.
The AC is right. I can't believe the elitest crap slashdot is spewing right now about this college and that.
The worst thing is that the advice is contradicting itself. "Don't go to a CC, you can't transfer to an elite school. You should just go straight out of high school." It sounds to me like the original asker is already OUT of high school. Is slashdot's advice then to do nothing since its useless?
Cmon folks. I back AC here. And as far as the mechanics and nurses comments...its only a matter of time until they ship ALL the jobs oversees, so I hope you know a service trade as well my friend.
Again your post is empty. Say something new if you intend to respond again. You sound like a parrot. Please, at least ADDRESS what I wrote. You are making yourself sound more and more ignorant.
Yeah, choosing a ROLE to PLAY in a GAME sucks. Who wants to PLAY a ROLE in a GAME when the developer can choose for you. I'd rather watch a movie about myself too.
KOTOR for sci-fi, one needs no other. GG fanboy.
Regardless of theme and setting, all JRPGs are the same. Can I have at least one choice in my path please? Please?
Nintendo owns Sega? That's a new one on me. Have Nintendo fanboys stooped to outright lying to justify their devotion?
Last I heard Sega was a little unhappy with the NGC. They were dropping their sports line-up from the platform. The best Sega game I played lately...Toe Jam and Earl III, exclusive to XBOX. Whoops.
This guy hit the nail on the bullseye, (or some other funny mixed metaphor) mod him up. And he didn't even have to say IANAL since he mostly quotes the law.
Whoa, did you have the copyright holder's permission to copy such a substantial part of the law into your post?
Irrelevent to my post. Did you read the early adopters part at all or skip it because it hurt your point?
And you dodged the whole part on why the RIAA is responsible for or how they would educate every human about copyright law. This isn't about licenses and contract law.
GG
So you are trying to sell to all of us that the most tech savvy people (early adopters of p2p and file-sharing software) are also the most ignorant (don't know that this is stealing and that stealing is wrong)?
Interesting proposition bucko, but I ain't buyin'. The FBI warning is less of a education and more of a threat. Should there be an audio FBI warning on your CD? That's just pretty dumb. Should this be a class in school? What is and is not stealing 105 (5 credits).
Your post sounds a little like someone concerned about an imminent knock on the door from the Feds. LOL
Ah, so you are clarifying on behalf of the original poster since people that only own a Gamecube are incapable of telling the difference between could, indicating a power, ability or skill, and would, used in the main clause of a conditional statement to express a possibility.
Take these sentences for example: I would like brag that I have played KOTOR since I have all three consoles. I bought them all because I have a job and could afford it.
Or: I think I would like some people more if they could stop the whining and the stupid console bickering and buy the necessary hardware so they could play all the games they want.
The original should have read: I wish I could play this game. This user can vouch that the game IS incredible.
I don't know your companites policy on gifts, but it may dictate they have to be thrown out altogether. Many companies don't allow business related gifts, hook-ups, or kick-downs of any kind since it creates potential (no matter how abstract) conflict-of-interest.
Depending on the standing policy they may be able to force you to throw them in the trash, destroy them, or return them. Maybe they could fire you on the spot for actively seeking and accepting the gift!
I vote that you can keep your job and use of the PDA, but expect to be asked for it when your employment with the company ends.
While a funny story, this may illustrate a small reason not to allow non-Windows installs. The linux folk are the rebellious type.
I gotta say I read more stories on/. about what so-and-so would ever do if that person were ever fired. With linux you don't have to worry about malicious code being executed as much as malicious users inside the organization. LOL
There is only one problem here. Who says they have to give away the copyrighted work based on the original media? I could site examples from other forms of copyrightable material where the form that exists when the copyright expires is totally different than the original.
Consider the possibility that at the time the copyright expires they could make the whole thing available to everyone on whatever form of internet or network is available at that time.
You are right that the disk will be unusuable at that point, but you are backwards in what that means. It means that the people alive at that time will have to make sure the work enters the public domain on schedule, not that you have some fantasy rights now, or that these companies are doing anything against current copyright law.
I'm sure this interpretation is unpopular, but this case against copyright law based on potential future expiration issues is just incorrect.
Not going to happen. I could go into a big rant here about how EVERYTHING we are talking about here, console lockouts, region encoding, console hardware propriety in general, all ties into the big Atari crash of 1983-1984. The end result of the rant is if the console makers don't do what they do the market will collapse. Not a theory, it happened in 1983-1984. Software saturation, crappy software, bottom drops out of prices, etc.
Suffice to say for the purpose of this post that all systems back then were called computers. This is why Atari lost to Activision in the 1979 ruling that meant third party developers were here to stay in the first place. Now all companies are pretty careful to not say their device is a PC. I even think the word "entertainment" eventually washed out the PS2's computer label problem.
Just to point out, the "people who circumvent copy protection" are equally at fault for that "taxpayer expense". True the companies don't have to sue them, but if they were doing it in the first place there would be noone to sue.
Sometimes you have to blame the playa AND the game.
You will have to do better than that. In fact they are a monopoly created by the inventor. If they didn't file a patent, they could just keep a invention a secret forever. Good-bye new medicines.
As for competition, the patent IS competition. It forces companies to spend money on R&D to create new things. For a time those things invented will be exclusive to that creator, but at least they will exist in the first place.
But hey, get rid of patents. I just hope you don't ever get HIV cause they are still working on the cure for that. That'll stop REAL quick, lol.
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You are just wrong. Ever wonder why the Gamecube version of a multi-platform game usually comes out last? That's how long it takes for the developer to squeeze the game down to the Gamecube. You might lose polys, colors, AI, movies, something, but you always lose with Gamecube.
You are so far off its not even funny. The casual gamer doesn't get told anything about games. The casual gamer knows Grand Theft Auto, Madden, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. The casual gamer doesn't get told anything about any console because they don't read the mags or research the stuff online. That is what defines casual.
The only hype a casual gamer gets is from TV and what they see in the store. On TV is GTA, and thats about it during prime time television, so they know that and they know what platforms they need to play it. When they go to the store sometimes and SEE the Gamecube, they see that it comes in silly colors, has displays with cartoony animals, and is priced less than the other consoles so to them it is obviously inferior. No PS2 or XBOX hype created this second situation, Nintendo did.
Nintendo is talking out of both sides of its mouth here. You say the GC is not just for kids, but all your commercials and displays feature Mario and friends acting silly? The only current Nintendo commercial I see running right now is Mario Golf, and KOTOR makes that look pretty stupid, not to mention the Vice City ads which are STILL running almost 11 months after release. This is what the casual gamer knows.
Can we end the perception arguement now? There is no perception problem. Nintendo IS for kids. Look at their actions, not their words. They DID do it deliberatly. That's what they want, and that's fine, but lets acknowledge that Nintendo's target niche and the "casual" gamer no longer overlap *in the US*, and all will be clear.
Do you have the copyright holder's permission to do that?
I think I may submit a FAQ to Gamefaqs just so I could sue your pants off.
I thought the same thing. Someone has some 'splaining to do.
The AC is right. I can't believe the elitest crap slashdot is spewing right now about this college and that. The worst thing is that the advice is contradicting itself. "Don't go to a CC, you can't transfer to an elite school. You should just go straight out of high school." It sounds to me like the original asker is already OUT of high school. Is slashdot's advice then to do nothing since its useless? Cmon folks. I back AC here. And as far as the mechanics and nurses comments...its only a matter of time until they ship ALL the jobs oversees, so I hope you know a service trade as well my friend.
For the record, I have one. It functions. I even have an ET cart. There was gaming before the NES, child.
Again your post is empty. Say something new if you intend to respond again. You sound like a parrot. Please, at least ADDRESS what I wrote. You are making yourself sound more and more ignorant.
Yeah, choosing a ROLE to PLAY in a GAME sucks. Who wants to PLAY a ROLE in a GAME when the developer can choose for you. I'd rather watch a movie about myself too.
KOTOR for sci-fi, one needs no other. GG fanboy. Regardless of theme and setting, all JRPGs are the same. Can I have at least one choice in my path please? Please?
Nintendo owns Sega? That's a new one on me. Have Nintendo fanboys stooped to outright lying to justify their devotion?
Last I heard Sega was a little unhappy with the NGC. They were dropping their sports line-up from the platform. The best Sega game I played lately...Toe Jam and Earl III, exclusive to XBOX. Whoops.
This guy hit the nail on the bullseye, (or some other funny mixed metaphor) mod him up. And he didn't even have to say IANAL since he mostly quotes the law. Whoa, did you have the copyright holder's permission to copy such a substantial part of the law into your post?
Irrelevent to my post. Did you read the early adopters part at all or skip it because it hurt your point?
And you dodged the whole part on why the RIAA is responsible for or how they would educate every human about copyright law. This isn't about licenses and contract law.
GG
So you are trying to sell to all of us that the most tech savvy people (early adopters of p2p and file-sharing software) are also the most ignorant (don't know that this is stealing and that stealing is wrong)?
Interesting proposition bucko, but I ain't buyin'. The FBI warning is less of a education and more of a threat. Should there be an audio FBI warning on your CD? That's just pretty dumb. Should this be a class in school? What is and is not stealing 105 (5 credits).
Your post sounds a little like someone concerned about an imminent knock on the door from the Feds. LOL
Ah, so you are clarifying on behalf of the original poster since people that only own a Gamecube are incapable of telling the difference between could, indicating a power, ability or skill, and would, used in the main clause of a conditional statement to express a possibility.
Take these sentences for example: I would like brag that I have played KOTOR since I have all three consoles. I bought them all because I have a job and could afford it.
Or: I think I would like some people more if they could stop the whining and the stupid console bickering and buy the necessary hardware so they could play all the games they want.
The original should have read: I wish I could play this game. This user can vouch that the game IS incredible.
Ignorance is bliss I guess. Just to be clear, this game has nothing to do with any of the movies.
To be more exact, its not Half-life beating all the others, its just Counter-strike. Noone plays HL multiplayer.
I don't know your companites policy on gifts, but it may dictate they have to be thrown out altogether. Many companies don't allow business related gifts, hook-ups, or kick-downs of any kind since it creates potential (no matter how abstract) conflict-of-interest.
Depending on the standing policy they may be able to force you to throw them in the trash, destroy them, or return them. Maybe they could fire you on the spot for actively seeking and accepting the gift! I vote that you can keep your job and use of the PDA, but expect to be asked for it when your employment with the company ends.
If you could pick the most charismatic of your group and tactfully get the deciding manager...
Charismatic? IT? LOL, nice.
While a funny story, this may illustrate a small reason not to allow non-Windows installs. The linux folk are the rebellious type.
/. about what so-and-so would ever do if that person were ever fired. With linux you don't have to worry about malicious code being executed as much as malicious users inside the organization. LOL
I gotta say I read more stories on
There is only one problem here. Who says they have to give away the copyrighted work based on the original media? I could site examples from other forms of copyrightable material where the form that exists when the copyright expires is totally different than the original. Consider the possibility that at the time the copyright expires they could make the whole thing available to everyone on whatever form of internet or network is available at that time. You are right that the disk will be unusuable at that point, but you are backwards in what that means. It means that the people alive at that time will have to make sure the work enters the public domain on schedule, not that you have some fantasy rights now, or that these companies are doing anything against current copyright law.
I'm sure this interpretation is unpopular, but this case against copyright law based on potential future expiration issues is just incorrect.
Actually you probably can't just "trow" it out the window. There is a good chance that would be littering.
OMG when will the restrictions end!
I'd like to add here that under fair use you can use tiny bits of a copyrighted material. Would this qualify as unsubstantial?
That would seem to easily cover any copyright portion of the question.
Not going to happen. I could go into a big rant here about how EVERYTHING we are talking about here, console lockouts, region encoding, console hardware propriety in general, all ties into the big Atari crash of 1983-1984. The end result of the rant is if the console makers don't do what they do the market will collapse. Not a theory, it happened in 1983-1984. Software saturation, crappy software, bottom drops out of prices, etc. Suffice to say for the purpose of this post that all systems back then were called computers. This is why Atari lost to Activision in the 1979 ruling that meant third party developers were here to stay in the first place. Now all companies are pretty careful to not say their device is a PC. I even think the word "entertainment" eventually washed out the PS2's computer label problem.
Just to point out, the "people who circumvent copy protection" are equally at fault for that "taxpayer expense". True the companies don't have to sue them, but if they were doing it in the first place there would be noone to sue.
Sometimes you have to blame the playa AND the game.
You will have to do better than that. In fact they are a monopoly created by the inventor. If they didn't file a patent, they could just keep a invention a secret forever. Good-bye new medicines. As for competition, the patent IS competition. It forces companies to spend money on R&D to create new things. For a time those things invented will be exclusive to that creator, but at least they will exist in the first place. But hey, get rid of patents. I just hope you don't ever get HIV cause they are still working on the cure for that. That'll stop REAL quick, lol.