"Ubisoft's goal is to find solutions for its customers if there are problems with Ubisoft products."
Clearly, they just admitted that they make problems in the first place on purpose. If their goal is resolving them, then without problems they are useless.
Seriously. Why is Real even around any more? I'm quite thankful to say that I haven't seen any real media being used at all probably in the last 3 years if not more. Everything is either WMV, QT or flash-based players (my personal favorite of the 3). I'm not saying RM is a bad thing (it's my preferred choice of format for epsiodes of South Park), just that I don't understand how the company's still in business.
That's a good point, I hadn't thought about that. And of course the moment I hit submit I remembered about the Revolution's simplized controller as well.
Coincidentally I was just thinking about something along these lines earlier today.
Most of the gamers today grew up playing some of the earliest consoles, a segment I'll end with the Genesis and SNES. Compare modern controllers with older ones, like the NES controller. An Xbox controller has 4 face buttons, 2 shoulder buttons, 2 shoulder triggers, 3 directional input devices, and the two thumbsticks click in acting as 2 additional button. An NES has 2 buttons and a dpad.
I'm wondering if younger children aren't being put off of games since they don't have anything equivelent to learn on. How easy is it for a 5 or 6 year old to pick up a Playstation or Xbox controller (juvenile jokes about size not withstanding) and start playing a game? The hand-eye coordination video games require isn't something innate, it's something that must be picked up.
Saying ".mp3 player" makes you sound totally clueless. It's an mp3 player. Noone would ever say "Hey, can you rip me a dot-emm-pee-three from that album?"
By far the worst part is that we'd lose the cosmopolitan nature of the internet. The great thing about it is being able to meet and be influenced by people from all over the world. At various times in my online life I've had friends from Canada, several different Western and Central European countries and New Zealand.
If all I wanted to do is interact with the dumb fucks surrounding me, I'd go outside and interact with them.
Interacting with real people, in person? Are you kidding? You think Blizzard or NCSoft or whoever are good at nerfing, check out some of the Bush administration's patch notes!
In the US, ostensibly the burden of proof is on the accuser. They need to prove it was you, you don't need to prove your innocence. For this reason, open access points are a good legal protection!
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How do you figure? This is sometimes true, but I'd wager dollars to cents that the wildly successful "yes-man" business execs vastly outnumber the successful people that play by their own rules.
I'd also wager dollars to cents that the destitute and not-very-well off people that play by their own rules vastly outnumber the poor people that fall in line.
Well, not Electroplankton, anyways. Someone above made a very good point, Electroplankton isn't a game; it's a toy. Think about it. He hit the nail on the head.
Animal Crossing, OTOH, is a game.
A game is something that you play for a reason. It has rules and it has some sort of progress or goal based on those rules.
FWIW, I agree with Google's stated reasoning. Whether that's their actual reasoning or not is up for you to decide.
The fact of the matter is, they're not downgrading their chinese service at all. The chinese-language google.com derivative is still up and totally unfiltered, at least by them. The whole reason they're deploying thier search engine in a native chinese site is because the Chinese gov't was blocking or limiting access to google.com and thus totally cutting people off from the searching.
The fact that they say when their search results are blocked is huge, I think, and may even do more to help freedom of expression their. People, I think, are more likely to wake up to the situation when they're getting smacked in the face by "Your government doesn't want you to see this" as opposed to just sitting their in blissful ignorance, or at least not having it being actively pointed out to you.
I think that so long as google keeps up their policy of not deploying gmail or blogger there, since they can't guarantee the privacy of their chinese users' information, I believe in them. If they ever do deploy that stuff (without the chinese government's loosening its grip, of course), then disregard everything I just said.
'I think to fit everything that Sony wants in there AND leave space for a 2.5 inch hard drive,' explains one senior developer working on a final kit, who will be our guide for much of this report, 'the machine would have to grow. The models they're showing off are way too small for what they want.'
In other news, Sony has recently laid off one of its senior developers on the PS3 project...
As a former QA tester for them who was laid off without warning 6 days before Xmas, 2003, I can't help but feel distinct schadenfreude whenever I read bad news about them.
Credible sources report that Google is currently constructing a prototype Chuck Norris/Vin Diesel hybrid. The hybrid would be almost as powerful as Google itself.
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First comment already did the joke. And better.
"Ubisoft's goal is to find solutions for its customers if there are problems with Ubisoft products."
Clearly, they just admitted that they make problems in the first place on purpose. If their goal is resolving them, then without problems they are useless.
It's a cunning business strategy, really.
So is it going to be standalone now, or will it still require HL2?
I'd buy it in a heartbeat for $10, but I'm not the least bit interested in HL2.
Seriously. Why is Real even around any more? I'm quite thankful to say that I haven't seen any real media being used at all probably in the last 3 years if not more. Everything is either WMV, QT or flash-based players (my personal favorite of the 3). I'm not saying RM is a bad thing (it's my preferred choice of format for epsiodes of South Park), just that I don't understand how the company's still in business.
That's a good point, I hadn't thought about that. And of course the moment I hit submit I remembered about the Revolution's simplized controller as well.
AFAIK, CPS2 has always been encrypted. I know that roms are unplayable without the XOR tables.
Coincidentally I was just thinking about something along these lines earlier today.
Most of the gamers today grew up playing some of the earliest consoles, a segment I'll end with the Genesis and SNES. Compare modern controllers with older ones, like the NES controller. An Xbox controller has 4 face buttons, 2 shoulder buttons, 2 shoulder triggers, 3 directional input devices, and the two thumbsticks click in acting as 2 additional button. An NES has 2 buttons and a dpad.
I'm wondering if younger children aren't being put off of games since they don't have anything equivelent to learn on. How easy is it for a 5 or 6 year old to pick up a Playstation or Xbox controller (juvenile jokes about size not withstanding) and start playing a game? The hand-eye coordination video games require isn't something innate, it's something that must be picked up.
MMOrgy is a blog specializing in the naughtier side of MMOs.
Lawsuits such as this are totally justified. It's intentional asshattery. There is nothing frivolous about this.
The only time a lawsuit is stupid is when someone sues over something that is, at worst, an accident. Malpractice, McDonald's hot coffee, etc.
Saying ".mp3 player" makes you sound totally clueless. It's an mp3 player. Noone would ever say "Hey, can you rip me a dot-emm-pee-three from that album?"
It was late and I was tired. :p
I'm totally stealing that for D20 Future if I ever run a game.
If your lawyers ask, my address, here's my email address:
Theresa Bombinthisletter (the name's Ukranian, I get asked all the time)
1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington, DC 20500
By far the worst part is that we'd lose the cosmopolitan nature of the internet. The great thing about it is being able to meet and be influenced by people from all over the world. At various times in my online life I've had friends from Canada, several different Western and Central European countries and New Zealand.
If all I wanted to do is interact with the dumb fucks surrounding me, I'd go outside and interact with them.
"Will this make anyone look at OpenOffice.org?"
Is that some kind of joke?
Anyone who seriously cares about the difference between Office 2007 and whatever the current suite is will fall into two camps:
1: People to whom the advanced features matter. OO.o can't touch MS Office when it comes to advanced features.
2: People who just have to have the latest and greatest.
Neither of them is going to give two shits about some obscure "open-source-whatever-the-hell-that-is" office suite.
I've got a friend in New Zealand who imported a 360, and I've played against him on Live.
Interacting with real people, in person? Are you kidding? You think Blizzard or NCSoft or whoever are good at nerfing, check out some of the Bush administration's patch notes!
In the US, ostensibly the burden of proof is on the accuser. They need to prove it was you, you don't need to prove your innocence. For this reason, open access points are a good legal protection!
He hit a golf ball a few lightyears.
I think above poster confuses HTML with HTTP. HTML of course is a language used in creating webpages, and HTTP is the protocol which the web uses.
How do you figure? This is sometimes true, but I'd wager dollars to cents that the wildly successful "yes-man" business execs vastly outnumber the successful people that play by their own rules.
I'd also wager dollars to cents that the destitute and not-very-well off people that play by their own rules vastly outnumber the poor people that fall in line.
Well, not Electroplankton, anyways. Someone above made a very good point, Electroplankton isn't a game; it's a toy. Think about it. He hit the nail on the head.
Animal Crossing, OTOH, is a game.
A game is something that you play for a reason. It has rules and it has some sort of progress or goal based on those rules.
FWIW, I agree with Google's stated reasoning. Whether that's their actual reasoning or not is up for you to decide.
The fact of the matter is, they're not downgrading their chinese service at all. The chinese-language google.com derivative is still up and totally unfiltered, at least by them. The whole reason they're deploying thier search engine in a native chinese site is because the Chinese gov't was blocking or limiting access to google.com and thus totally cutting people off from the searching.
The fact that they say when their search results are blocked is huge, I think, and may even do more to help freedom of expression their. People, I think, are more likely to wake up to the situation when they're getting smacked in the face by "Your government doesn't want you to see this" as opposed to just sitting their in blissful ignorance, or at least not having it being actively pointed out to you.
I think that so long as google keeps up their policy of not deploying gmail or blogger there, since they can't guarantee the privacy of their chinese users' information, I believe in them. If they ever do deploy that stuff (without the chinese government's loosening its grip, of course), then disregard everything I just said.
In other news, Sony has recently laid off one of its senior developers on the PS3 project...
As a former QA tester for them who was laid off without warning 6 days before Xmas, 2003, I can't help but feel distinct schadenfreude whenever I read bad news about them.
Credible sources report that Google is currently constructing a prototype Chuck Norris/Vin Diesel hybrid. The hybrid would be almost as powerful as Google itself.