They wouldn't need to, only the xbox user would.
I think that the balancing difference between a keyboard and mouse Vs controller is too great for most games.
This difference would be less so in most MMOs.
From what I've read, the Playstaion OS is a distibution of linux made for the playsation interface including the software for the functions of the console. Don't think of it as a Desktop distribution of linux. You won't be able to tell it's linux.
It's just like the xbox and xbox 360 os is a modified version of windows 2000.
Microsoft has said it is possible to play over xbox live with a PC, but no developer has yet chosen to use it. They said it was a necessary feature for the japanese market, especially for MMOs, but with the lack of MMOs, the feature has yet to the see the light of day.
This may be some company's mentality, Sony being one of them, but really successful companies are those that balance quality with profit.
In a competitive market, you can sell the bare minimum and pull a profit. But say, add 200 man hours extra, add a few new creative feature, make it look appealing, and you will reap the benefits.
This is the reason Sony is barley pulling a profit based on their size, they are minimalists.
I'll give you a great example of paying for something makes it better. Free to air TV isn't as good as Cable, and you pay for cable.
Another way to look at paying for a service as a positive is the income source. Without the income from subscription, another income stream would be required. Imagine a game lobby with ads, the loading screen selling a produce: "This match brought to you by M&Ms..." and a ticker along the bottom of the screen with ads. Think it is extreme, remember, it is Sony we are talking about.
The released information on the PlayStation Network Platform, states that a portion of the online service will be free, but not what portion. It may well be that it is just like xbox live, where you get everything but online play for free. Or, they might even charge for the voice chat (voip) and video chat. At this time, we don't know if you will be able to play for free. So the article is false at this time.
On another note, what the hell is with the name. Talk about crappy branding. Playstation Network Platform. Talk about inaccessible. Even if it is a temporary 'code name' you would expect to have a more memorable name to generate more hype throughout the net and beyond.
I guess not being able to use the word 'live' hit Sony hard, but they managed to fit that in as a major buz word for the console, where's the originality? Currently all Sony has is the Playstation brand, that is their strength, it's what they do best. They are dropping the ball...
Don't people's health and lives belong to tax payer's.
If our government believes that games effect people's behavior, surely that would value the censorship of violence over gaffiti.
Many outside of Australian would know of a major political issue surrounding an abortion drug. Our health minister overided our medication authority to ban the drug and a conscious vote (non party binding) was held over a minister's ability to override certain decisions.
And now (although on an issue of lesser scale) another minister is overriding the decision of an authority, our ratings board. It seems utterly stupid that a single man or women's opinion can affect an entire nation's ability to choose.
Games that involve murder have drug themes and other anti-social behaviour is allowed, yet a game involves an art, no matter how controversial, is disallowed.
The very reason we live in a democracy is so we can choose, and a single person's opinion/belief/religion isn't forced onto us. By minister having the power to override authority's decisions, we lose our choice.
You cannot say for sure whether they lied or not. It could very well be a single coder/designer who lied. They could have coded the minigame and hidden it. And as the rest of the rockstar development knew, it was just some left over animations. Code in a game is not like code for apps. It is very messy, laced with old, unused code. The ability to track and remove this unused code is very difficult, especially with a game as large as GTA. It could also be that they really did believe that the game was removed.
Do you really think that rockstar would lie when the proof would be in the code. When such clear proof exist, would any person lie to the public, especially with the game's history with some politicians.
"My toaster is broken, it can't cook pizza!". GNU/Linux isn't designed to run Windows programs.
That is a weak analogy. GNU/Linux is an alternative to Windows. It's more like a Breville toaster Vs. a Sunbeam toaster. Linux has the same role as an OS from a PC side of things as does Windows. It is used for accessing the net, word processing, business applications, multimedia design etc. These are the mian functions of both a Linux and Windows PC. You can't compare Windows and Linux, saying that Linux is better, then come out and say that it is like comparing apples and oranges.
The fact that one particular program running on it can passably do so using emulation is an interesting novelty that benefits some people while transitioning away from the programs in question. It is a stopgap, not a good long-term solution.
The fact that one particular program running on it can passably do so using emulation is an interesting novelty that benefits some people while transitioning away from the programs in question. It is a stopgap, not a good long-term solution.
No doubt, but in many respects, the ICT industry is about the now and not the future. A system is useless if you have to convert all of your files every time a new OS version is released.
No server programmer in their right mind would trust the client to do validation and use the data it supplies blindly. The server should be validating submitted forms and rejecting those that don't add up; then it doesn't matter what client people use. (For that matter, it's just a *form*; why not use plain HTML forms and work on every browser?) If the security of their tax system depends on their client-side validation, rest assured that there will be modified versions of the software floating around which conveniently omit a few things here and there, whether or not the source is available.
The government doesn't need to write a client for every possible OS, particularly ones that are (for the moment) used by a minority of users. They just need to provide all the information for anyone else to be able to. Releasing the source to their client is one way to do that; another would be a full specification of the protocol. If Australia has a FOIA equivalent, use it to demand the protocol specification.
Validation on the server if the source code was tampered with giving false numbers also requires code, which most probably would require it to be written differently for the different versions for different, also requiring it to be released as open source.
Also, I'm not talking about validation on the client side though, I'm talking about fooling the validation system, where ever it exists.
And there are plenty of methods for tax to be completed, it is no restricted to online. Many different hand written booklets of different complexities are distributed. You tax can also be files in person and via the phone. If it was restricted to IT, then I would agree with you.
But surely you could see many programmers hiding little bugs within the program to make themselves tax free. Not everything must or can be open source. Government's might use open source to develop software for their use (which has been done extensivly across Australia) but no government in their right mind would release their software as open source. There are so many security risks involved.
Also, the tax department of Australia does not have a resposibility to provide for every situation. It has made it possible for 90% of computer owners to do their taxes online. It is progression. I would expect macs to be catered for next year and maybe linux soon as well. They could have raised taxes to have a linux/mac version this year, but then you might not be able to afford a computer to do your taxes online, or afford to pay for an internet connection.
Its is the open source community's resposibility to make it's OS compatible with these processes, not the company/government to make a version for your OS. I support open source as use it frequently, but if your program/OS isn't usable, then is it really any good? Window's as it is now due to it's 20 year legacy. It has to cater for previous versions within it's next generation product.
True OSX dumped it's legacy and from it came a better OS, but there are many issues around compatibility. This is why, even though it is a better OS, OSX has had a slow uptake. Now that some time has gone by, many of these issues are nolong apparent at this time, so OSX is now growing in popularity.
With such a large user base, if this was done with windows, there would be major issues for MS finacially. If you are a smaller business, it is your resposibility to the user to make the OS/program you want them to use compatible. Otherwise, why the hell will they choose you product?
It is the common belief throughout the halo community that the disk will be distrubuted through OXM (official xbox magazine) for free, or for a $5 - 10 disk from retailers.
Remember that all the content on the disk will be avaliable free on xbox live. And people could just use the free 2 month xbox live trials to download the content. The above solution is the doing of bungie, as they want to get the content to all halo 2 owners. Although they are owned by Microsoft, the are still a very community oriented game developer.
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This isn't true, if you watch the Limited Edition DVD and another interview that was released shortly after E3 2002, they started work on halo 2 almost straight after the release of halo 1, which took a little time to work out it was a money train. They said they wanted to tell more of the story.
They didn't leave off the end, they couldn't fit it in. They wanted to tell the story as well as possible and to do this, the needed more content than could be created by the release date and could fit on the disk.
The expansion isn't really an expansion, it is a way of distributing the downloadable content and game fixes to those who don't have xbox live.
AA was originally desgined as a recruiting tool, the fact that it has this side effect was irrelivant in the development process. It mainly targeted the gamer which was a group that had a low recruit percentage (obviously you can't measure this but its just common sense). The US Army ads all across the web also have this objective.
This is shown with the new game. It shows a recruits life in the army from bootcamp to the field to leadership. If it was just to show international people the US troops then this aspect would be pointless. The fact that there are more international players than Us players makes sense. There are more non US peple in the world than US people, these people don't give a rats ass about joining the american armed forces, just playing online.
Also, with this game being a console game, there will be less online players with PS2's crappy online system that has very few players. Xbox live might have a decent contingent of online player but no where near the ammount if it was a PC online game.
You the tax payer of the US, the rest of the world gets it free. That's if it is free as its not.
Think of it this way, not every person in the US will play this game, lets say 1 in 350 will play it.
So 350 people will pay for your game, 50/350 = $0.12 you pay for the game. Thats if its free.
When I submitted this I had another sentence after the question saying probably not, but maybe a budget release.
A free release would have issues with international releases. Production and distribution internationally would not create any more US army recruits, and hence be a waste of money.
The only possibility is that it is distributed over xbox live for the xbox release, and bundled with another ubisoft game for the PS2 release. And this is not likely.
I'm sorry if there is an obvious answer to this but doesn't the moon orbit around the earth. If this lift was even in the relm of possibilities then it would be connected to the earth. Wouldn't the cable wind around the earth. This would probably break the cable or (pull the moon closer lol). The only solution i could see to this is the was an rail running around the earth and the cable was connected to that. This is ludicrious anyway.
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They wouldn't need to, only the xbox user would. I think that the balancing difference between a keyboard and mouse Vs controller is too great for most games. This difference would be less so in most MMOs.
From what I've read, the Playstaion OS is a distibution of linux made for the playsation interface including the software for the functions of the console. Don't think of it as a Desktop distribution of linux. You won't be able to tell it's linux. It's just like the xbox and xbox 360 os is a modified version of windows 2000.
Microsoft has said it is possible to play over xbox live with a PC, but no developer has yet chosen to use it. They said it was a necessary feature for the japanese market, especially for MMOs, but with the lack of MMOs, the feature has yet to the see the light of day.
This may be some company's mentality, Sony being one of them, but really successful companies are those that balance quality with profit.
In a competitive market, you can sell the bare minimum and pull a profit. But say, add 200 man hours extra, add a few new creative feature, make it look appealing, and you will reap the benefits.
This is the reason Sony is barley pulling a profit based on their size, they are minimalists.
I'll give you a great example of paying for something makes it better. Free to air TV isn't as good as Cable, and you pay for cable.
Another way to look at paying for a service as a positive is the income source. Without the income from subscription, another income stream would be required. Imagine a game lobby with ads, the loading screen selling a produce: "This match brought to you by M&Ms..." and a ticker along the bottom of the screen with ads. Think it is extreme, remember, it is Sony we are talking about.
The released information on the PlayStation Network Platform, states that a portion of the online service will be free, but not what portion. It may well be that it is just like xbox live, where you get everything but online play for free. Or, they might even charge for the voice chat (voip) and video chat. At this time, we don't know if you will be able to play for free. So the article is false at this time. On another note, what the hell is with the name. Talk about crappy branding. Playstation Network Platform. Talk about inaccessible. Even if it is a temporary 'code name' you would expect to have a more memorable name to generate more hype throughout the net and beyond. I guess not being able to use the word 'live' hit Sony hard, but they managed to fit that in as a major buz word for the console, where's the originality? Currently all Sony has is the Playstation brand, that is their strength, it's what they do best. They are dropping the ball...
Don't people's health and lives belong to tax payer's. If our government believes that games effect people's behavior, surely that would value the censorship of violence over gaffiti.
Many outside of Australian would know of a major political issue surrounding an abortion drug. Our health minister overided our medication authority to ban the drug and a conscious vote (non party binding) was held over a minister's ability to override certain decisions. And now (although on an issue of lesser scale) another minister is overriding the decision of an authority, our ratings board. It seems utterly stupid that a single man or women's opinion can affect an entire nation's ability to choose. Games that involve murder have drug themes and other anti-social behaviour is allowed, yet a game involves an art, no matter how controversial, is disallowed. The very reason we live in a democracy is so we can choose, and a single person's opinion/belief/religion isn't forced onto us. By minister having the power to override authority's decisions, we lose our choice.
You cannot say for sure whether they lied or not. It could very well be a single coder/designer who lied. They could have coded the minigame and hidden it. And as the rest of the rockstar development knew, it was just some left over animations. Code in a game is not like code for apps. It is very messy, laced with old, unused code. The ability to track and remove this unused code is very difficult, especially with a game as large as GTA. It could also be that they really did believe that the game was removed. Do you really think that rockstar would lie when the proof would be in the code. When such clear proof exist, would any person lie to the public, especially with the game's history with some politicians.
"My toaster is broken, it can't cook pizza!". GNU/Linux isn't designed to run Windows programs. That is a weak analogy. GNU/Linux is an alternative to Windows. It's more like a Breville toaster Vs. a Sunbeam toaster. Linux has the same role as an OS from a PC side of things as does Windows. It is used for accessing the net, word processing, business applications, multimedia design etc. These are the mian functions of both a Linux and Windows PC. You can't compare Windows and Linux, saying that Linux is better, then come out and say that it is like comparing apples and oranges. The fact that one particular program running on it can passably do so using emulation is an interesting novelty that benefits some people while transitioning away from the programs in question. It is a stopgap, not a good long-term solution. The fact that one particular program running on it can passably do so using emulation is an interesting novelty that benefits some people while transitioning away from the programs in question. It is a stopgap, not a good long-term solution. No doubt, but in many respects, the ICT industry is about the now and not the future. A system is useless if you have to convert all of your files every time a new OS version is released. No server programmer in their right mind would trust the client to do validation and use the data it supplies blindly. The server should be validating submitted forms and rejecting those that don't add up; then it doesn't matter what client people use. (For that matter, it's just a *form*; why not use plain HTML forms and work on every browser?) If the security of their tax system depends on their client-side validation, rest assured that there will be modified versions of the software floating around which conveniently omit a few things here and there, whether or not the source is available. The government doesn't need to write a client for every possible OS, particularly ones that are (for the moment) used by a minority of users. They just need to provide all the information for anyone else to be able to. Releasing the source to their client is one way to do that; another would be a full specification of the protocol. If Australia has a FOIA equivalent, use it to demand the protocol specification. Validation on the server if the source code was tampered with giving false numbers also requires code, which most probably would require it to be written differently for the different versions for different, also requiring it to be released as open source. Also, I'm not talking about validation on the client side though, I'm talking about fooling the validation system, where ever it exists. And there are plenty of methods for tax to be completed, it is no restricted to online. Many different hand written booklets of different complexities are distributed. You tax can also be files in person and via the phone. If it was restricted to IT, then I would agree with you.
But surely you could see many programmers hiding little bugs within the program to make themselves tax free. Not everything must or can be open source. Government's might use open source to develop software for their use (which has been done extensivly across Australia) but no government in their right mind would release their software as open source. There are so many security risks involved. Also, the tax department of Australia does not have a resposibility to provide for every situation. It has made it possible for 90% of computer owners to do their taxes online. It is progression. I would expect macs to be catered for next year and maybe linux soon as well. They could have raised taxes to have a linux/mac version this year, but then you might not be able to afford a computer to do your taxes online, or afford to pay for an internet connection. Its is the open source community's resposibility to make it's OS compatible with these processes, not the company/government to make a version for your OS. I support open source as use it frequently, but if your program/OS isn't usable, then is it really any good? Window's as it is now due to it's 20 year legacy. It has to cater for previous versions within it's next generation product. True OSX dumped it's legacy and from it came a better OS, but there are many issues around compatibility. This is why, even though it is a better OS, OSX has had a slow uptake. Now that some time has gone by, many of these issues are nolong apparent at this time, so OSX is now growing in popularity. With such a large user base, if this was done with windows, there would be major issues for MS finacially. If you are a smaller business, it is your resposibility to the user to make the OS/program you want them to use compatible. Otherwise, why the hell will they choose you product?
It is the common belief throughout the halo community that the disk will be distrubuted through OXM (official xbox magazine) for free, or for a $5 - 10 disk from retailers. Remember that all the content on the disk will be avaliable free on xbox live. And people could just use the free 2 month xbox live trials to download the content. The above solution is the doing of bungie, as they want to get the content to all halo 2 owners. Although they are owned by Microsoft, the are still a very community oriented game developer.
This isn't true, if you watch the Limited Edition DVD and another interview that was released shortly after E3 2002, they started work on halo 2 almost straight after the release of halo 1, which took a little time to work out it was a money train. They said they wanted to tell more of the story. They didn't leave off the end, they couldn't fit it in. They wanted to tell the story as well as possible and to do this, the needed more content than could be created by the release date and could fit on the disk. The expansion isn't really an expansion, it is a way of distributing the downloadable content and game fixes to those who don't have xbox live.
AA was originally desgined as a recruiting tool, the fact that it has this side effect was irrelivant in the development process. It mainly targeted the gamer which was a group that had a low recruit percentage (obviously you can't measure this but its just common sense). The US Army ads all across the web also have this objective. This is shown with the new game. It shows a recruits life in the army from bootcamp to the field to leadership. If it was just to show international people the US troops then this aspect would be pointless. The fact that there are more international players than Us players makes sense. There are more non US peple in the world than US people, these people don't give a rats ass about joining the american armed forces, just playing online. Also, with this game being a console game, there will be less online players with PS2's crappy online system that has very few players. Xbox live might have a decent contingent of online player but no where near the ammount if it was a PC online game.
You the tax payer of the US, the rest of the world gets it free. That's if it is free as its not. Think of it this way, not every person in the US will play this game, lets say 1 in 350 will play it. So 350 people will pay for your game, 50/350 = $0.12 you pay for the game. Thats if its free.
When I submitted this I had another sentence after the question saying probably not, but maybe a budget release. A free release would have issues with international releases. Production and distribution internationally would not create any more US army recruits, and hence be a waste of money. The only possibility is that it is distributed over xbox live for the xbox release, and bundled with another ubisoft game for the PS2 release. And this is not likely.
I'm sorry if there is an obvious answer to this but doesn't the moon orbit around the earth. If this lift was even in the relm of possibilities then it would be connected to the earth. Wouldn't the cable wind around the earth. This would probably break the cable or (pull the moon closer lol). The only solution i could see to this is the was an rail running around the earth and the cable was connected to that. This is ludicrious anyway.