You make the baseless assumption that Wind Waker hurt Gamecube sales. What makes you think this? And what makes you think that Ocarina of Time-style Zelda is more "realistic" and less likely to garner the same complaints of "kiddy" that idiots and fanboys spew about Gamecube games of all description?
Because, in the early days people were looking for a "killer app" of sorts that would get them to buy the system. Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin, Super Monkey Ball, all great games, but not blockbusters(in terms of sales) compared to a lot of (lesser quality) ps2 games. Before the announcement of the cel-shading, there was a lot of buzz about how awesome the Zelda game looked. It caught the eyes of some people who were doubting Nintendo.
Nintendo (and Microsoft) needed to play catch-up with Sony, since their systems were released at a later date. To do this they needed something that would show the world how much the gamecube was capable of, and an eye catching Ocrinara of time-esque Zelda would have done the trick.
But instead in the average gamers eye it just re-inforced the baseless stereotype that the gamecube is for children. Nintendo has made some great games, and they are really good at producing innovative technologies(NES, game boy, gba, dsp), but they are not so great at playing catch-up(N64 and Gamecube).
You are right, the gameplay is all that matters, but does great gameplay always translate into a huge hit? Not always, neither do good graphics. Nintendo is a company first, and a game creator second. All I am saying is that maybe if they had acted as such they may have more of a market share right now.
This is EXACTLY what I was saying, please actually *READ* the comment before bitching about it. A lot of people do like the cels, but a lot of people were also turned off by the idea just because it was *different*
Please actually make an attempt to understand the post before bitching next time.
I'm just saying that you should figure out from past incidents where the danger spots are. You can't predict everything, but handling the most active hotspots would give you an advantage.
A lot like police work in the real world, they cannot be everywhere at once, but (provided they are honest) they tend to congregate around areas were they have had lots of trouble in the past. This obviously doesn't stop all crime, and it might not even deter all crime in the areas they are patroling. However, given the impossibility of patroling(scanning) everywhere, you concentrate most of your effort on ensuring that the most dangerous areas are protected, while not neglecting everyone else.
Before Wind Waker. Perhaps the gamecube could have done even better than it is currently. I'm not saying Wind Waker is a bad game, but Nintendo should have realized that the average gamer wants his franchises like they remember them and may not be willing to try something different right away. If they would have realeased a realistic zelda game first(remember at the time of gamecubes release there were a few teaser trailers for a realistic zelda game, then they announced the cel shading) it probaly could have bolstered game cube sales. After the cube was on a more solid footing, then they should have tried to branch out and try different things like the cel shading etc.
Miyamoto is a genious, but sometimes you just have to take care of business first!
Identify nodes that are more likely to have security holes(ie phb's desktop), identify the nodes whose performance is most critical, etc.
That should give you a clue of who to scan and how often to scan them. Probably more intelligent than scanning your whole network all the time.
How about making the sensors voluntary?
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If possible, create a system with highly visible sensors. If the hiker wants the info to be taken(knowing what it will be used for), they can hit a button and the sensor will register(what are you using for power btw?) If the hiker doesn't want anyone to know where they are, they just don't trigger the sensor.
Plus, make sure to have a good privacy policy, dictating what the info will be used for!
Well, just like iTunes now offers a free song everyweek(of their choosing not yours), I would imagine the television programs would be the same. When a new series comes out the networks would try to promote it by offering the first few eps for free, if it becomes popular, it will make money, if not, time to pull the plug.
Maybe if we had a system like this Family Guy would have never been pulled off the air. It had a loyal fanbase but Fox kept on jerking it around the schedule, changing nights, giving us long periods of time with no new eps, then releasing them 2 a week.
Though thanks to a type of "on-demand" viewing(DVDs) Family Guy will be back on the air. See, you can teach an old dog new tricks.
Yeah, it is a lot of work to change the equalizer on an iPod, but iTunes lets you set an equalizer preference for every song(as well as adjust the volume), so you can experiment in iTunes with what equalizer you want, and then send it over to your iPod so you rarely ever have to mess with the equalizer on the device itself. Don't know if sony lets you do this.
Whatever. I figured, at about $300 for my Tivo, if it lasted two years, that's.50 cents a day for the privilige of never needing to sit through another commercial again. It was, and is WELL, WELL worth the price, and I just can't concieve having to deal with those inane, insulting, idiotic commercials again.
Which is why pay-per-view tv(I mean being able to watch anything pay per view, not just porn) will be the real future. Advertisers are not going to pay for tv programming if nobody watches the commercials, so the smart tv execs should just skip the middleman and go right to the source, consumers. Imagine being able to watch only what you want to watch. The only reason I have cable is for The Daily Show, and instead of having to pay the cable company, I would gladly pay.50 a show for it, but it's not an option right now.
Apple has to be making large margins on their prodcuts, $245!
Apple is one of the few it seems that can share a modem connection, a definite plus in places that have yet to get broadband. Plus, the asthetics are so much better, esp. for something that may be visible to guests in your house/business. Who wants a clunky piece of blue plastic when you can have a nice little white dome with a shiny apple on it? (I'm not trolling here, I am serious)
Probably one of the reasons that Apple will find a niche market to make a profit from, even as others duel it out in a race to the bottom.
You can purchase the Belkin media reader accessory. It takes the pictures and transferes them to your iPod. You can get iPods up to 40gigs if need be. It reads all types of digital camera cards, isn't too bulky, and doesn't eat up too much power.
Wouldn't it just be easier to use money/women/men/donkeys to bribe the person to cough up a password?
I guess you could always "bug" a place, but if you were significantly paranoid about security(to the point where someone would try to listen your key away from you) wouldn't you have a copper cage around your building?
I am not an MSCE, I don't use any Microsoft OS's, and I love Java. What I was pointing out was that Sun is having major financial problems(read the parent) and if it were not for that suit and a good cash injection from Microsoft they would be having more...
Yeah, but even if you leave your house unlocked it is still a crime. If it weren't, any criminal could grab your wallet saying that since it wasn't pad-locked down to your chest, it's his. Or could kill someone and claim it was his fault for not carrying a loaded weapon and constantly surveying all around.
People lock their doors because they realize there is a threat, if they don't realize there is a threat, they lose stuff, but it is still criminal. Hopefully after the 5th time someone gets their house broken into they will realize that they need a lock, same goes with computers.
I'm no microsoft fanboy(I don't even use windows), but blaming them is like blaming a car manufacturer because your car got totaled when some jackass rear-ended you. You should have done your homework before you bought the car, and that still does not absolve the jackass.
In other countries? He did damage in more than one country, but with the tangled web of extradition treaties etc, how will other countries deal with his arrest? Will they demand justice?
I guess the fact that he was in Germany, a country with a modern justice system and extradition treaties, will help. They have had a hell of a time in the past getting police in places like Russia and the Phillipines to co-operate.
Just another interesting adventure in the globalized, internet-driven world I guess.
Trully secure communication cannot be obtained because RFID is passive(it has to be, otherwise you couldn't power it!) Meaning that whenever something scans the RFID tag, it has to cough up the results, the same results every time. You could encrypt the result with a known public key for the card, but this doesn't do you any good, since the criminal can decrypt it easily or capture the signal and repeat it at will.
A possible solution could be to encrypt the card number with the vendor's public key(and add a time stamp to stop repetition attacks), but at that point it no longer becomes a passive device, and thus would require power, thus more bulk, thus it would no longer be the size of a credit card.
The main "security" in RFID is that scanners have to be relatively close to the tag to get the info, whether this will work or not is still a subject of debate.
Software patents are not all bad. Now I know there is a LOT of abuse in the US right now, and the patent system needs to be reformed. However, I think that without patents, there would be much less of an incentive for commercial R&D.
Example: I am a coder for a steel mill that has figured out an algorithm that reduces the amount of energy used in the reduction of steel(which takes more energy than melting the steel). Now, after the steel company spends money on R&D to implement this, I defect to a rival steel company and implement the algorithm for them. Now the first steel company not only has lost it's competitive advantage, but they are actually further behind because they spent the money on R&D that the other mill did not.
Software patents can prevent this from happening. But like I stated at the start of the post, the current system in the US is broken, patents are too vague and there is not enough emphasis on prior art. It would be a shame if this were to happen in Europe. Hopefully, the EU and the US can learn from past mistakes and create a system that rewards innovation while not stifiling competetion.
Andy Sony Connect to sell PSPs. Though actually this time I think it will work in reverse, PSPs will sell Sony Connect since I would imagine the primary motiviation of most people who will plunk down the few hundred dollars for one of these bad boys is not to listen to music:P Maybe Sony is hoping that it will generate revenue for the Sony Connect(since Sony has it's own music label, they stand to make a lot more money if the Sony store becomes successful, since they will be collecting the 70 cent royalties, provided people buy Sony's music)
I wasn't suggesting that they export their way out of trouble, that is not the only way to economic advantages from software. An investment in infrastructure could lead to a FOSS movement that would address local problems. A good infrastructure can inspire economic benefits in other ways than selling code. African factories are not exactly the beacon of quality of efficiency. With a good boost of knowledge transfer from outside, once again along with infrastructure(that involves OSS), they could make their factories produce higher quality goods with local materials for local consumption. FOSS and a good infrastructure can also be used to help educate children, to help out with the water supply, etc.
Selling software is not the *only* way to get economic benefits from software.
By investing heavily in things like broadband infrastructure etc. Large parts of Africa doesn't even have electricity or running water, much like India used to. Now India has a thriving, if not overly large IT sector(and they actually do produce stuff to help out the poor etc, though most of the/.ers focus on outsourcing).
It's not exactly an identical situation though. The problems facing Africa are different from those facing India. Decades of civil wars, the devastation of AIDS, and inability to gather wealth from their vast raw materials, and a poor education system in large parts of the continent(people cannot even read their own language, let alone English) have left Africa the poorest area on earth.
Hopefully with a bit of investment in broadband, electr and some donations of usable hardware, the Africans can use FOSS to help mitigate some of the problems facing their continent.
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You make the baseless assumption that Wind Waker hurt Gamecube sales. What makes you think this? And what makes you think that Ocarina of Time-style Zelda is more "realistic" and less likely to garner the same complaints of "kiddy" that idiots and fanboys spew about Gamecube games of all description?
Because, in the early days people were looking for a "killer app" of sorts that would get them to buy the system. Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin, Super Monkey Ball, all great games, but not blockbusters(in terms of sales) compared to a lot of (lesser quality) ps2 games. Before the announcement of the cel-shading, there was a lot of buzz about how awesome the Zelda game looked. It caught the eyes of some people who were doubting Nintendo.
Nintendo (and Microsoft) needed to play catch-up with Sony, since their systems were released at a later date. To do this they needed something that would show the world how much the gamecube was capable of, and an eye catching Ocrinara of time-esque Zelda would have done the trick.
But instead in the average gamers eye it just re-inforced the baseless stereotype that the gamecube is for children. Nintendo has made some great games, and they are really good at producing innovative technologies(NES, game boy, gba, dsp), but they are not so great at playing catch-up(N64 and Gamecube).
You are right, the gameplay is all that matters, but does great gameplay always translate into a huge hit? Not always, neither do good graphics. Nintendo is a company first, and a game creator second. All I am saying is that maybe if they had acted as such they may have more of a market share right now.
This is EXACTLY what I was saying, please actually *READ* the comment before bitching about it. A lot of people do like the cels, but a lot of people were also turned off by the idea just because it was *different*
Please actually make an attempt to understand the post before bitching next time.
I'm just saying that you should figure out from past incidents where the danger spots are. You can't predict everything, but handling the most active hotspots would give you an advantage.
A lot like police work in the real world, they cannot be everywhere at once, but (provided they are honest) they tend to congregate around areas were they have had lots of trouble in the past. This obviously doesn't stop all crime, and it might not even deter all crime in the areas they are patroling. However, given the impossibility of patroling(scanning) everywhere, you concentrate most of your effort on ensuring that the most dangerous areas are protected, while not neglecting everyone else.
Before Wind Waker. Perhaps the gamecube could have done even better than it is currently. I'm not saying Wind Waker is a bad game, but Nintendo should have realized that the average gamer wants his franchises like they remember them and may not be willing to try something different right away. If they would have realeased a realistic zelda game first(remember at the time of gamecubes release there were a few teaser trailers for a realistic zelda game, then they announced the cel shading) it probaly could have bolstered game cube sales. After the cube was on a more solid footing, then they should have tried to branch out and try different things like the cel shading etc.
Miyamoto is a genious, but sometimes you just have to take care of business first!
Identify nodes that are more likely to have security holes(ie phb's desktop), identify the nodes whose performance is most critical, etc.
That should give you a clue of who to scan and how often to scan them. Probably more intelligent than scanning your whole network all the time.
If possible, create a system with highly visible sensors. If the hiker wants the info to be taken(knowing what it will be used for), they can hit a button and the sensor will register(what are you using for power btw?) If the hiker doesn't want anyone to know where they are, they just don't trigger the sensor.
Plus, make sure to have a good privacy policy, dictating what the info will be used for!
Well, just like iTunes now offers a free song everyweek(of their choosing not yours), I would imagine the television programs would be the same. When a new series comes out the networks would try to promote it by offering the first few eps for free, if it becomes popular, it will make money, if not, time to pull the plug.
Maybe if we had a system like this Family Guy would have never been pulled off the air. It had a loyal fanbase but Fox kept on jerking it around the schedule, changing nights, giving us long periods of time with no new eps, then releasing them 2 a week.
Though thanks to a type of "on-demand" viewing(DVDs) Family Guy will be back on the air. See, you can teach an old dog new tricks.
Yeah, it is a lot of work to change the equalizer on an iPod, but iTunes lets you set an equalizer preference for every song(as well as adjust the volume), so you can experiment in iTunes with what equalizer you want, and then send it over to your iPod so you rarely ever have to mess with the equalizer on the device itself. Don't know if sony lets you do this.
Whatever. I figured, at about $300 for my Tivo, if it lasted two years, that's .50 cents a day for the privilige of never needing to sit through another commercial again. It was, and is WELL, WELL worth the price, and I just can't concieve having to deal with those inane, insulting, idiotic commercials again. .50 a show for it, but it's not an option right now.
Which is why pay-per-view tv(I mean being able to watch anything pay per view, not just porn) will be the real future. Advertisers are not going to pay for tv programming if nobody watches the commercials, so the smart tv execs should just skip the middleman and go right to the source, consumers. Imagine being able to watch only what you want to watch. The only reason I have cable is for The Daily Show, and instead of having to pay the cable company, I would gladly pay
Apple has to be making large margins on their prodcuts, $245!
Apple is one of the few it seems that can share a modem connection, a definite plus in places that have yet to get broadband. Plus, the asthetics are so much better, esp. for something that may be visible to guests in your house/business. Who wants a clunky piece of blue plastic when you can have a nice little white dome with a shiny apple on it? (I'm not trolling here, I am serious)
Probably one of the reasons that Apple will find a niche market to make a profit from, even as others duel it out in a race to the bottom.
You can purchase the Belkin media reader accessory. It takes the pictures and transferes them to your iPod. You can get iPods up to 40gigs if need be. It reads all types of digital camera cards, isn't too bulky, and doesn't eat up too much power.
Could the world's most elaborate April fools be amiss?
All it needs now are some "speed holes"
I promise to help Ohio deliver it's electoral votes to Linus!
Wouldn't it just be easier to use money/women/men/donkeys to bribe the person to cough up a password?
I guess you could always "bug" a place, but if you were significantly paranoid about security(to the point where someone would try to listen your key away from you) wouldn't you have a copper cage around your building?
I am not an MSCE, I don't use any Microsoft OS's, and I love Java. What I was pointing out was that Sun is having major financial problems(read the parent) and if it were not for that suit and a good cash injection from Microsoft they would be having more...
Litigation seems to be a viable strategy for Sun too. What goes around comes around in the crazy patent game I guess.
Yeah, but even if you leave your house unlocked it is still a crime. If it weren't, any criminal could grab your wallet saying that since it wasn't pad-locked down to your chest, it's his. Or could kill someone and claim it was his fault for not carrying a loaded weapon and constantly surveying all around.
People lock their doors because they realize there is a threat, if they don't realize there is a threat, they lose stuff, but it is still criminal. Hopefully after the 5th time someone gets their house broken into they will realize that they need a lock, same goes with computers.
I'm no microsoft fanboy(I don't even use windows), but blaming them is like blaming a car manufacturer because your car got totaled when some jackass rear-ended you. You should have done your homework before you bought the car, and that still does not absolve the jackass.
In other countries? He did damage in more than one country, but with the tangled web of extradition treaties etc, how will other countries deal with his arrest? Will they demand justice?
I guess the fact that he was in Germany, a country with a modern justice system and extradition treaties, will help. They have had a hell of a time in the past getting police in places like Russia and the Phillipines to co-operate.
Just another interesting adventure in the globalized, internet-driven world I guess.
Trully secure communication cannot be obtained because RFID is passive(it has to be, otherwise you couldn't power it!) Meaning that whenever something scans the RFID tag, it has to cough up the results, the same results every time. You could encrypt the result with a known public key for the card, but this doesn't do you any good, since the criminal can decrypt it easily or capture the signal and repeat it at will.
A possible solution could be to encrypt the card number with the vendor's public key(and add a time stamp to stop repetition attacks), but at that point it no longer becomes a passive device, and thus would require power, thus more bulk, thus it would no longer be the size of a credit card.
The main "security" in RFID is that scanners have to be relatively close to the tag to get the info, whether this will work or not is still a subject of debate.
Software patents are not all bad. Now I know there is a LOT of abuse in the US right now, and the patent system needs to be reformed. However, I think that without patents, there would be much less of an incentive for commercial R&D.
Example: I am a coder for a steel mill that has figured out an algorithm that reduces the amount of energy used in the reduction of steel(which takes more energy than melting the steel). Now, after the steel company spends money on R&D to implement this, I defect to a rival steel company and implement the algorithm for them. Now the first steel company not only has lost it's competitive advantage, but they are actually further behind because they spent the money on R&D that the other mill did not.
Software patents can prevent this from happening. But like I stated at the start of the post, the current system in the US is broken, patents are too vague and there is not enough emphasis on prior art. It would be a shame if this were to happen in Europe. Hopefully, the EU and the US can learn from past mistakes and create a system that rewards innovation while not stifiling competetion.
It will use sony's proprietary memory stick to hold music, game data, goat.cx pics, whatever you want.
Andy Sony Connect to sell PSPs. Though actually this time I think it will work in reverse, PSPs will sell Sony Connect since I would imagine the primary motiviation of most people who will plunk down the few hundred dollars for one of these bad boys is not to listen to music :P Maybe Sony is hoping that it will generate revenue for the Sony Connect(since Sony has it's own music label, they stand to make a lot more money if the Sony store becomes successful, since they will be collecting the 70 cent royalties, provided people buy Sony's music)
I wasn't suggesting that they export their way out of trouble, that is not the only way to economic advantages from software. An investment in infrastructure could lead to a FOSS movement that would address local problems. A good infrastructure can inspire economic benefits in other ways than selling code. African factories are not exactly the beacon of quality of efficiency. With a good boost of knowledge transfer from outside, once again along with infrastructure(that involves OSS), they could make their factories produce higher quality goods with local materials for local consumption. FOSS and a good infrastructure can also be used to help educate children, to help out with the water supply, etc.
Selling software is not the *only* way to get economic benefits from software.
By investing heavily in things like broadband infrastructure etc. Large parts of Africa doesn't even have electricity or running water, much like India used to. Now India has a thriving, if not overly large IT sector(and they actually do produce stuff to help out the poor etc, though most of the /.ers focus on outsourcing).
It's not exactly an identical situation though. The problems facing Africa are different from those facing India. Decades of civil wars, the devastation of AIDS, and inability to gather wealth from their vast raw materials, and a poor education system in large parts of the continent(people cannot even read their own language, let alone English) have left Africa the poorest area on earth.
Hopefully with a bit of investment in broadband, electr and some donations of usable hardware, the Africans can use FOSS to help mitigate some of the problems facing their continent.