I never regretted buying Beyond Good & Evil. It saddens me it bombed so much sales wise. I dare anyone to find a bad review on it.
However, Katamari Damacy has met with a good deal of sales. It's become sortuva intl. cult hit.
Animal Crossing probably didn't gross as much as [insert horrible franchise-based game here], but it sold enough, so much so it merited Nintendo to make one for the DS
I have a PSP, I have firmware 1.5 and no plans to upgrade until an exploit is found for 2.X
However, I see why sony is doing this: if you can develope homebrew, you can create ISO loaders.
What I can't see is their current heavy handed lawsuit approach towards game importers. They remove regions as a "feature" yet they sue and attempt to shut down the very stores that are providing the services this feature takes advantage of.
Sony has always been dick-ish, however. Keep in mind they are both a member of the RIAA and MPAA.
All browsers support enough of the same stuff to make a site fully compliant across the board. For other things(such as ping transparency or div opacity), you can generate browser-specific code that fixes it. But then again, all that stuff is for is to make it "pretty".
Case in point: Wikipedia and HTML Area. Both very sophisticated pieces of web software that support different browsers regardless of differences.
Actually, you didn't write in this thread other then to say you won't be writing much in it.
And if you think showing sources is a thesis, you're as lazy as you are sarcastic.
Why participate in a discussion of ideas if all you wanna say is "right on!", "MS is lame" or "I was here". Wouldn't your time best be spent doing something either more productive or, at the least, less derogatory?
Okay, then let's hear you give an example of a patent being held such as this one where it -did- benefit the technology in question. Make sure to include sources as well as evidence showing that R&D on the creation would have been a mute point had such long legal monopolistic protection not been a factor.
You like bashing people, fine. I'm sure it gives you quite an erection. Just prove your point better then he whom you claim is not. Otherwise you're just flaming.
What's more interesting to me these days is that Nintendo's hand-held console dominance now stands a real chance of being usurped (by the PSP) for the first time since they entered the market with the original Game Boy. Others such as Sega and Atari tried but failed due to the fact that Nintendo was king of home (TV) consoles at the time, but now Nintendo is limiting itself to its more niche audience with the (comparatively gimmicky) DS and could be seriously threatened by the PSP's more broad appeal.
Ummmm...the DS is far from being challenged by the PSP. Read some of the stats. The DS is selling more then the PSP and PS2 combined.
Big reasons? Price, game availability and titles. Also, having a PSP is nerve racking as you constantly fear you're gonna break the 400$ machine(I know, I have one). The DS on the other hand, could probably be thrown down some stairs with no damage(I dropped mine down some actually).
They are an afront to Jesus and the holy book and thy sinning, cloning, ants that dare copulate in an unnatural way must be cast down to the lair of Satan.
But this does not address the original problem of how Joe Sixpack would know that. MS is trying to blame user's ignorance of LU security when the OS itself is built around you being an admin.
applies most places(even here in Canada), but not in the States. The ominous DMCA prohibits the circumvention of any copy-protection mechanism, and I imagine(as it's so loosely written), that it also extends to bypassing it by downloading content from someone else who has himself bypassed it.
Hardly...this "little" guy did a dick-ish thing. I hate M$ as much as the next slashdotter, but it doesn't mean I agree with what has happened. This kind of crap is wrong no matter who uses it on who.
My AIW 9600 Pro card catalyst drivers installed easy enough, although there was a slight glitch in install. However, my Remote wonder constantly failes to be recognized, the multimedia center files and drivers need to be installed seperately in a certain order hopefully only once. Even there, I often still get glitches with the dual screen mode and "Theatre" overlay mode.
As well, the new.NET cat. drivers take far too long to load the control center.
On top of that, I remember a while back there was a card(maybe someone remembers this and can remind me which one), where a BSOD was part of the normal installation procedure.
CBC is publicly funded. Sort of like your PBS only members of our governing party cannot apoint someone to intentionally spin content.
In other words, they cannot start charging for content for CBC radio content. They don't even have any ads on the radio version.
The only exception is some shows like "Go" where there is far too much licensed content aired for the CIAA and RIAA to allow to be downloaded overthe internet.
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I never regretted buying Beyond Good & Evil. It saddens me it bombed so much sales wise. I dare anyone to find a bad review on it.
However, Katamari Damacy has met with a good deal of sales. It's become sortuva intl. cult hit.
Animal Crossing probably didn't gross as much as [insert horrible franchise-based game here], but it sold enough, so much so it merited Nintendo to make one for the DS
I have a PSP, I have firmware 1.5 and no plans to upgrade until an exploit is found for 2.X
However, I see why sony is doing this: if you can develope homebrew, you can create ISO loaders.
What I can't see is their current heavy handed lawsuit approach towards game importers. They remove regions as a "feature" yet they sue and attempt to shut down the very stores that are providing the services this feature takes advantage of.
Sony has always been dick-ish, however. Keep in mind they are both a member of the RIAA and MPAA.
keep in mind sony did use the "Dragonball" processor on Cliés for a while;)
To allow faster space travel, scientisis increased the speed of light in 2208. Duh;)
"We're being attacked by a rabbit virus!"
"Feed it a carrot!"
C-A-R-R-O-T
All browsers support enough of the same stuff to make a site fully compliant across the board. For other things(such as ping transparency or div opacity), you can generate browser-specific code that fixes it. But then again, all that stuff is for is to make it "pretty".
Case in point: Wikipedia and HTML Area. Both very sophisticated pieces of web software that support different browsers regardless of differences.
I hope you are not a web designer...
I know that wasn't meant to be serious, but, my god, could you imagine the framerate?
.02 FPS :P
lol, I'm playing FFVII at
Damn, good point.
Didn't Win98 do that too? Oh yeah, and weren't win98 and winME big cash cows for MS until XP came out?
Oh yeah, this'll cause it to flop...
Looks like open standards will be left butt-naked on Baltic Avenue.
I doubt Amazon's major money maker is a few slashdot geeks. Awareness must go over a simple boycott by a negligeable group.
Actually, you didn't write in this thread other then to say you won't be writing much in it.
And if you think showing sources is a thesis, you're as lazy as you are sarcastic.
Why participate in a discussion of ideas if all you wanna say is "right on!", "MS is lame" or "I was here". Wouldn't your time best be spent doing something either more productive or, at the least, less derogatory?
Okay, then let's hear you give an example of a patent being held such as this one where it -did- benefit the technology in question. Make sure to include sources as well as evidence showing that R&D on the creation would have been a mute point had such long legal monopolistic protection not been a factor.
You like bashing people, fine. I'm sure it gives you quite an erection. Just prove your point better then he whom you claim is not. Otherwise you're just flaming.
What's more interesting to me these days is that Nintendo's hand-held console dominance now stands a real chance of being usurped (by the PSP) for the first time since they entered the market with the original Game Boy. Others such as Sega and Atari tried but failed due to the fact that Nintendo was king of home (TV) consoles at the time, but now Nintendo is limiting itself to its more niche audience with the (comparatively gimmicky) DS and could be seriously threatened by the PSP's more broad appeal.
Ummmm...the DS is far from being challenged by the PSP. Read some of the stats. The DS is selling more then the PSP and PS2 combined.
Big reasons? Price, game availability and titles. Also, having a PSP is nerve racking as you constantly fear you're gonna break the 400$ machine(I know, I have one). The DS on the other hand, could probably be thrown down some stairs with no damage(I dropped mine down some actually).
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figures, people cracking religious jokes all over the place, but I submit one first and get modded offtopic:/
They are an afront to Jesus and the holy book and thy sinning, cloning, ants that dare copulate in an unnatural way must be cast down to the lair of Satan.
But this does not address the original problem of how Joe Sixpack would know that. MS is trying to blame user's ignorance of LU security when the OS itself is built around you being an admin.
applies most places(even here in Canada), but not in the States. The ominous DMCA prohibits the circumvention of any copy-protection mechanism, and I imagine(as it's so loosely written), that it also extends to bypassing it by downloading content from someone else who has himself bypassed it.
But IANAL
Hardly...this "little" guy did a dick-ish thing. I hate M$ as much as the next slashdotter, but it doesn't mean I agree with what has happened. This kind of crap is wrong no matter who uses it on who.
how is this intrusive?
I would just rip the battery out if I didn't want anyone spying on me, and put it back in if I'm gone hiking.
But then again, I ain't part of the tinfoil crowd.
My AIW 9600 Pro card catalyst drivers installed easy enough, although there was a slight glitch in install. However, my Remote wonder constantly failes to be recognized, the multimedia center files and drivers need to be installed seperately in a certain order hopefully only once. Even there, I often still get glitches with the dual screen mode and "Theatre" overlay mode.
.NET cat. drivers take far too long to load the control center.
As well, the new
On top of that, I remember a while back there was a card(maybe someone remembers this and can remind me which one), where a BSOD was part of the normal installation procedure.
Well, ATI's drivers have always been nasty. Now I can call them "viral"? :)
CBC is publicly funded. Sort of like your PBS only members of our governing party cannot apoint someone to intentionally spin content.
In other words, they cannot start charging for content for CBC radio content. They don't even have any ads on the radio version.
The only exception is some shows like "Go" where there is far too much licensed content aired for the CIAA and RIAA to allow to be downloaded overthe internet.
Nortel is Canadian. The common US definition of America doesn't apply(as in America=US)
If the movie came out pre-release, shouldn't the MPAA kick themselves in the balls for distributing their own content?
Oh right...I forgot. That would make sense. And they can't have that.