Yes, they will sell motion controllers to about 10% of p3 owners and two games will be written for them-- one of which comes with the motion control device.
I would say (based on the past) that they will release a killer full motion control for the 360 and/or PS2. It will be bought by 10% of the customer base, two games will be coded for it.
And that will be it.
I own a Wii and rarely use it...But I enjoyed it and it was affordable.
I do not own a PS2 or 360. Too expensive and the controllers would hurt my wrists since I already have carpal tunnel.
As others said, the Wii has a gross amount of hardware compared to very recent consoles.
The A/I issue is a red herring. The primary impact of the PS2 and 360 is higher quality graphics, not smarter AI opponents.
I don't care about higher quality graphics at those price points.
So now we have a really easy way to put people away.
Get computer for repairs
Set the clock back to various dates when they were in possession and copy illegal porn to the machine.
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There is no chain of custody for a machine put in for repairs. The only way the evidence should be allowed is if you seal it in a bag for repairs, and the entire process when the bag is opened is video taped. The bag is resealed and delivered to you. You get a chance to open it and inspect it and say if the contents were what you gave them.
Apparently this changed in 1958. A popular referendum approved the constitution of the French Fifth Republic in 1958, greatly strengthening the authority of the presidency and the executive with respect to Parliament.
The constitution does contain a bill of rights in itself, but its preamble mentions that France should follow the principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, as well as those of the preamble to the constitution of the Fourth Republic. This has been judged to imply that the principles laid forth in those texts have constitutional value, and that legislation infringing on those principles should be found unconstitutional if a recourse is filed before the Constitutional Council.[1] Also, a recent modification of the Constitution has added a reference in the preamble to an Environment charter that has full constitutional value.[2]
Among these foundational principles, one may cite: the equality of all citizens before law, and the rejection of special class privileges such as those that existed prior to the French Revolution; presumption of innocence; freedom of speech; freedom of opinion including freedom of religion; the guarantee of property against arbitrary seizure; the accountability of government agents to the citizenry.
the article repeats and enforces this later:
Trial by jury is virtually unknown in France, except for severe criminal cases which are the jurisdiction of the Courts of Assizes. A full Court is made up of a 3-judge panel and a petty jury of 9 jurors (vs. 12 jurors on appeal), who, together, render verdicts, and if a conviction is handed down, also determine a sentence. Jurors are selected at random from eligible voters. Pre-trial proceedings are inquisitorial by nature, but open court proceedings are adversarial. The burden of proof in criminal proceedings is on the prosecution, and the accused is constitutionally presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Reading here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_code It looks a little more complicated. Bonaparte himself was against presumed guilt and for presumed innocence. But, in practice, people could still be put into jail for long periods before the trial's preceeding serious crimes.
However, speaking from personal experience- in Texas, a person we found innocent (clearly innocent) had spent more than a year in jail for a medium crime (non-injury arson) because he couldn't afford jail. So effectively he was imprisoned for a year on a false accusation made by a convicted felon.
-- The summary is that presumption of innocence started under Bonaparte and grew in 1958. And people probably still sit in jail unable to make bail (just as they do elsewhere).
I'd always thought France had a presumption of guilt and *based* on Napoleon. I was completely wrong. Interesting.
There isn't quite a presumption of guilt either. As the wiki says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Code The possibility for justice to endorse lengthy remand periods was one reason why the Napoleonic Code was criticized for de facto presumption of guilt, particularly in common law countries. However, the legal proceedings certainly did not have de jure presumption of guilt; for instance, the juror's oath explicitly recommended that the jury did not betray the interests of the defendants, and took attention of the means of defense.
That's because college is supposed to make you into a well rounded human being capable of independent thought.
It's supposed to make you valuable to the corporations because you have good communication skills as well as good math skills.
You should have worked on projects with other people many times in a wide variety of disciplines and you should have shown you can work hard on a four year long project and finish it. The main reason my prior company hired college graduates was that grads finished things while non-grads were often a bit more random.
Also, as the other respondant says- if you want a trade school, then just go to a trade school. There are trade schools for programmers and many other fields. 2 years and you are work-ready.
The corporations are changing to this model. They don't want a well rounded human being- they just want someone with SQL-2008. Who they very well may dump for another trade school grad or off shore contractors when SQL-2011 comes out.
Clearly rebooting every four months won't resolve the problem.
The best resolution is to install Linux or buy a Mac.
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The parent poster described a user that was clearly an ass and was responded to by someone who chose to be one as well instead of sympathizing.
You know, reality is a shared insanity- we hang together and provide support or we hang separately.
As an IT person, I have experienced every complaint in this thread. Idiot users, unreasonable users, unreasonable deadlines, unreasonable budgets. So far, I haven't seen "treating outside contractors as gods and worshiping the same suggestions by the contractors which were ignored when internal IT made them."
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To the original parent of the entire article... Work your 8 to 9 hours a day- be glad you have a job in the current economy- find a way to laugh at the users foibles. An emergency one week a quarter is expected- beyond that, they are understaffed and the only way to let them know that is to fail gracefully. Learn to push off and avoid work-- it will often resolve itself if delayed a week or two. When there is a conflict in priorities between users and/or they make everything "1A", then the users must resolve those issues-- so toss it to them- set up a meeting and say, "Which one of you is going first-- let me know- I'll be working on project "C" while you hash it out". And when (not if) they still refuse to decide, that doesn't mean you deliver both by the deadline- that means you get to pick which one goes first.
If they set unreasonable deadlines without asking you first, do not complain. Enthusiastically work on them and then fail. You tried your best-- the schedule was unreasonable. OTH, if you had complained, then they would blame you for the failure. And who knows- it might turn out not to be unreasonable and you surprise yourself by finishing it on time.
They pay you for 8 to 9 hours a day regardless of which activity you are engaged in. Do a good day's work you can be proud of and then walk away each day and go do something else.
I've heard that arguement a lot. It shares a fallacy with the copyright arguements. Why were corporate laws created? Why were copyright laws created?
To benefit the public good. To benefit the nation.
So the logical next step by the government would be to threaten to disincorporate microsoft or to lay a prohibitive tax on them as well as fine the hell out of them like the EU has done.
And find out however much Ballmer makes and pass an extreme tax for people who make that level of income and then attempt to transfer those assets out of the U.S. (they already have similar laws for peons).
Make it very clear to the corporatations-- You operate at the U.S. good graces- we will absolutely slaughter you when you start to hurt the country.
I think they would need to prove that a) I didn't rip it from my CD (and then the CD was lost/broke/destroyed so I no longer own it). b) I didn't record it off of the radio. c) I didn't record it off of my cable music channels. d) I didn't record it off of an internet radio station. e) I wasn't given the song by someone else who owned it legally and gave me their only copy.
Still- it's a novel concept and it motivates the government to do RIAA's enforcement for them. Once again externalizing corporate costs. Given the hell that is coming in the economy, I wonder if it will be worth it.
e) Provides the most interesting possibilities for creating extremely long chains of custody between various people who each legally owned the song and gave it to each other. For example, you could give your only copy of a song (not retaining anything) and take another song from a library. You can do this now legally. We check out DVD's for tv series and movies and CD's for songs from our library. You listen to it for a while and then return it.
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Something that people always trip up on (in TV shows and in real life) is that lying or conspiring is often a separate crime. So they fail to get you on the original charge but can show that you lied or conspired to break the law and so you are tagged for that. Basically, so much is illegal now that if the government really wants to put you in prison it probably can.
Man.. this is like the DVD vs HD-DVD/Blu Ray thing.
I can barely tell a difference between Dx9 and Dx10. In some cases, the Dx9 seems easier to see vs the Dx10 is more realistic (but harder to see/much busier).
Of course, the only game I've played in the last year was Wii Sports so it doubly doesn't matter.
I guess it is hard for me to appreciate the differences since in my lifetime, graphics have gone from Apple IIe to Vectrex to the nearly unplayable BattleMech (due to clipping of really big triangles) to Rise of the Triad (woof.. woof!) to Doom to Quake I to Everquest to Everquest 2/Wow. Once it the EQ/Wow/Call of Duty level, the last 2% isn't near as important to me.
Interesting... one solution to the DRM problem is to make older codecs obsolete so no one can play the content that has gotten out into the wild.
Continuous obsolescence in hardware and software is the goal since then every time they release a new version, everyone has to buy it. So they can release new versions more often.
There are tools and appliances made -- out of steel, in the 1980's that are just now broken. Replacements for them break much faster (Hot water heaters, stoves, gas dryers are good examples-- google whirlpool appliances at home depot and lowes-- lots of angry people- even after market warranties didn't help them).
Likewise, there are software tools written in the 80's that still work today. Cobol, C utilities like Grep, Awk, etc. Meanwhile, our visual basic application is obsolete after 5 years. The business is risking complete failure by putting off replacing it since writing a new version in the language du jour is going to cost a lot.
Secret US List of Civil War Nuclear Sites Released
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Abraham Lincoln scowled and told his generals, "I don't care if it will give us a quick victory to nuke Atlanta. I will not condone the use of nuclear weapons on the continent!"
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Exactly! if I thought I had H1N1, I might wet myself.
WHAT was declared a Pandemic?
How cute.
You atcually toko the tiem to count my typos.
When I bought my Wii, that price difference was much steeper ($399 vs $249).
That's probably a ripped down model of the 360 that won't support some of the content being discussed.
And the wii control is better for me since I have wrist issues.
lol.
Good point. Could be right.
I play Wii Sports and have resident evil 2 and the star trek game. I'll probably get Wii Fit soon- it's only $79 at Costco now.
If they bring out an RTS, I'll buy it and play it.
But it is not my primary entertainment- which is why I didn't buy a more expensive console (I seriously considered a PS2 instead of the Wii).
I mainly play D&D (free), watch Miami: CSI (free), and play games on BSW (free) for entertainment.
Plus work has been crazy with this economy. We just finished a few brutal months with 50+ hour weeks. Not a lot of time to play games.
With all my friends who have lost jobs, I've also gone into a severe savings mode-- about 40% of my net income.
I meant p3, it was a typo that I put p2.
Yes, they will sell motion controllers to about 10% of p3 owners and two games will be written for them-- one of which comes with the motion control device.
I am waiting for ANY kind of real RTS on the WII.
I love Total Annihilation but my hands just can't handle it any more.
I would say (based on the past) that they will release a killer full motion control for the 360 and/or PS2.
It will be bought by 10% of the customer base, two games will be coded for it.
And that will be it.
I own a Wii and rarely use it...But I enjoyed it and it was affordable.
I do not own a PS2 or 360. Too expensive and the controllers would hurt my wrists since I already have carpal tunnel.
As others said, the Wii has a gross amount of hardware compared to very recent consoles.
The A/I issue is a red herring. The primary impact of the PS2 and 360 is higher quality graphics, not smarter AI opponents.
I don't care about higher quality graphics at those price points.
So now we have a really easy way to put people away.
Get computer for repairs
Set the clock back to various dates when they were in possession and copy illegal porn to the machine.
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There is no chain of custody for a machine put in for repairs. The only way the evidence should be allowed is if you seal it in a bag for repairs, and the entire process when the bag is opened is video taped. The bag is resealed and delivered to you. You get a chance to open it and inspect it and say if the contents were what you gave them.
Yes.. an evil typo... unfixable courtesy of /. 's lack of editing.
You are correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_France
Apparently this changed in 1958.
A popular referendum approved the constitution of the French Fifth Republic in 1958, greatly strengthening the authority of the presidency and the executive with respect to Parliament.
The constitution does contain a bill of rights in itself, but its preamble mentions that France should follow the principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, as well as those of the preamble to the constitution of the Fourth Republic. This has been judged to imply that the principles laid forth in those texts have constitutional value, and that legislation infringing on those principles should be found unconstitutional if a recourse is filed before the Constitutional Council.[1] Also, a recent modification of the Constitution has added a reference in the preamble to an Environment charter that has full constitutional value.[2]
Among these foundational principles, one may cite: the equality of all citizens before law, and the rejection of special class privileges such as those that existed prior to the French Revolution; presumption of innocence; freedom of speech; freedom of opinion including freedom of religion; the guarantee of property against arbitrary seizure; the accountability of government agents to the citizenry.
the article repeats and enforces this later:
Trial by jury is virtually unknown in France, except for severe criminal cases which are the jurisdiction of the Courts of Assizes. A full Court is made up of a 3-judge panel and a petty jury of 9 jurors (vs. 12 jurors on appeal), who, together, render verdicts, and if a conviction is handed down, also determine a sentence. Jurors are selected at random from eligible voters. Pre-trial proceedings are inquisitorial by nature, but open court proceedings are adversarial. The burden of proof in criminal proceedings is on the prosecution, and the accused is constitutionally presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Reading here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_code
It looks a little more complicated.
Bonaparte himself was against presumed guilt and for presumed innocence.
But, in practice, people could still be put into jail for long periods before the trial's preceeding serious crimes.
However, speaking from personal experience- in Texas, a person we found innocent (clearly innocent) had spent more than a year in jail for a medium crime (non-injury arson) because he couldn't afford jail. So effectively he was imprisoned for a year on a false accusation made by a convicted felon.
--
The summary is that presumption of innocence started under Bonaparte and grew in 1958. And people probably still sit in jail unable to make bail (just as they do elsewhere).
I'd always thought France had a presumption of guilt and *based* on Napoleon. I was completely wrong. Interesting.
There isn't a presumption of innocence.
There isn't quite a presumption of guilt either. As the wiki says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Code
The possibility for justice to endorse lengthy remand periods was one reason why the Napoleonic Code was criticized for de facto presumption of guilt, particularly in common law countries. However, the legal proceedings certainly did not have de jure presumption of guilt; for instance, the juror's oath explicitly recommended that the jury did not betray the interests of the defendants, and took attention of the means of defense.
That's because college is supposed to make you into a well rounded human being capable of independent thought.
It's supposed to make you valuable to the corporations because you have good communication skills as well as good math skills.
You should have worked on projects with other people many times in a wide variety of disciplines and you should have shown you can work hard on a four year long project and finish it. The main reason my prior company hired college graduates was that grads finished things while non-grads were often a bit more random.
Also, as the other respondant says- if you want a trade school, then just go to a trade school. There are trade schools for programmers and many other fields. 2 years and you are work-ready.
The corporations are changing to this model. They don't want a well rounded human being- they just want someone with SQL-2008. Who they very well may dump for another trade school grad or off shore contractors when SQL-2011 comes out.
Clearly rebooting every four months won't resolve the problem.
The best resolution is to install Linux or buy a Mac.
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The parent poster described a user that was clearly an ass and was responded to by someone who chose to be one as well instead of sympathizing.
You know, reality is a shared insanity- we hang together and provide support or we hang separately.
As an IT person, I have experienced every complaint in this thread. Idiot users, unreasonable users, unreasonable deadlines, unreasonable budgets. So far, I haven't seen "treating outside contractors as gods and worshiping the same suggestions by the contractors which were ignored when internal IT made them."
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To the original parent of the entire article...
Work your 8 to 9 hours a day- be glad you have a job in the current economy- find a way to laugh at the users foibles. An emergency one week a quarter is expected- beyond that, they are understaffed and the only way to let them know that is to fail gracefully. Learn to push off and avoid work-- it will often resolve itself if delayed a week or two. When there is a conflict in priorities between users and/or they make everything "1A", then the users must resolve those issues-- so toss it to them- set up a meeting and say, "Which one of you is going first-- let me know- I'll be working on project "C" while you hash it out". And when (not if) they still refuse to decide, that doesn't mean you deliver both by the deadline- that means you get to pick which one goes first.
If they set unreasonable deadlines without asking you first, do not complain. Enthusiastically work on them and then fail. You tried your best-- the schedule was unreasonable. OTH, if you had complained, then they would blame you for the failure. And who knows- it might turn out not to be unreasonable and you surprise yourself by finishing it on time.
They pay you for 8 to 9 hours a day regardless of which activity you are engaged in. Do a good day's work you can be proud of and then walk away each day and go do something else.
It's a trade off.
a) Happy and ignorant but alive.
b) Happy and educated if you make the cut, otherwise unhappy but dead. (a lot of indians and japanese commit suicide each year ).
I think the days of America getting away with Happy and Ignorant but Alive are coming to an end.
My experience was that they were extremely good in 2001-2002 and have declined steadily since then.
I think the good ones must have either left the big indian contracting houses or been promoted.
The new guys say they can do anything and then fail to deliver.
The code they do deliver usually works- but would be hard to maintain and doesn't follow existing standards.
They used to be a lot better- so I assume demand outstripped supply. Or perhaps the really good ones are being billed out elsewhere at a higher rate.
This was true at my college in the late 1980's to early 1990's.
We built a new spiffy apartment complex for students-- and then filled it with atheletes.
They cut library publication subscriptions-- and gave more money to the athletic program.
They were desperate to break into the national scene and failed.
we shouldn't allow portrayal of it in any form of entertainment.
No books
No movies
No comics
No video games
No television shows
It's much worse than murder.
Or perhaps we shouldn't have them either.
Or if we portray it, the bad guy must never get away with it, always suffer the consequences.
Seriously...
How hard is
If "A"
A = A + 1
elseif "B"
B = B + 1
elseif "C"
C = C + 1
endif
???
I've heard that arguement a lot. It shares a fallacy with the copyright arguements.
Why were corporate laws created?
Why were copyright laws created?
To benefit the public good.
To benefit the nation.
So the logical next step by the government would be to threaten to disincorporate microsoft or to lay a prohibitive tax on them as well as fine the hell out of them like the EU has done.
And find out however much Ballmer makes and pass an extreme tax for people who make that level of income and then attempt to transfer those assets out of the U.S. (they already have similar laws for peons).
Make it very clear to the corporatations-- You operate at the U.S. good graces- we will absolutely slaughter you when you start to hurt the country.
I think they would need to prove that
a) I didn't rip it from my CD (and then the CD was lost/broke/destroyed so I no longer own it).
b) I didn't record it off of the radio.
c) I didn't record it off of my cable music channels.
d) I didn't record it off of an internet radio station.
e) I wasn't given the song by someone else who owned it legally and gave me their only copy.
Still- it's a novel concept and it motivates the government to do RIAA's enforcement for them. Once again externalizing corporate costs.
Given the hell that is coming in the economy, I wonder if it will be worth it.
e) Provides the most interesting possibilities for creating extremely long chains of custody between various people who each legally owned the song and gave it to each other. For example, you could give your only copy of a song (not retaining anything) and take another song from a library. You can do this now legally. We check out DVD's for tv series and movies and CD's for songs from our library. You listen to it for a while and then return it.
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Something that people always trip up on (in TV shows and in real life) is that lying or conspiring is often a separate crime. So they fail to get you on the original charge but can show that you lied or conspired to break the law and so you are tagged for that. Basically, so much is illegal now that if the government really wants to put you in prison it probably can.
Man.. this is like the DVD vs HD-DVD/Blu Ray thing.
I can barely tell a difference between Dx9 and Dx10. In some cases, the Dx9 seems easier to see vs the Dx10 is more realistic (but harder to see/much busier).
Of course, the only game I've played in the last year was Wii Sports so it doubly doesn't matter.
I guess it is hard for me to appreciate the differences since in my lifetime, graphics have gone from Apple IIe to Vectrex to the nearly unplayable BattleMech (due to clipping of really big triangles) to Rise of the Triad (woof.. woof!) to Doom to Quake I to Everquest to Everquest 2/Wow. Once it the EQ/Wow/Call of Duty level, the last 2% isn't near as important to me.
Interesting... one solution to the DRM problem is to make older codecs obsolete so no one can play the content that has gotten out into the wild.
Continuous obsolescence in hardware and software is the goal since then every time they release a new version, everyone has to buy it. So they can release new versions more often.
There are tools and appliances made -- out of steel, in the 1980's that are just now broken. Replacements for them break much faster (Hot water heaters, stoves, gas dryers are good examples-- google whirlpool appliances at home depot and lowes-- lots of angry people- even after market warranties didn't help them).
Likewise, there are software tools written in the 80's that still work today. Cobol, C utilities like Grep, Awk, etc. Meanwhile, our visual basic application is obsolete after 5 years. The business is risking complete failure by putting off replacing it since writing a new version in the language du jour is going to cost a lot.
Secret US List of Civil War Nuclear Sites Released
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Abraham Lincoln scowled and told his generals, "I don't care if it will give us a quick victory to nuke Atlanta. I will not condone the use of nuclear weapons on the continent!"
Power corrupts.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
And it absolutely rocks to have absolute power.
(to paraphrase Despair.com which has a cool poster on the topic)