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It was not the WAP that got him jailed, but the fact that he had a CD full of child porn in his room. The Open WAP was just deemed not an acceptable reason to invalidate the search warrant and make the CD in admissible as evidence.
arwyn@painaich:~$ javac tmp/t1.java Note: tmp/t1.java uses unchecked or unsafe operations. Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details. arwyn@painaich:~$ javac tmp/t1.java -Xlint:unchecked tmp/t1.java:6: warning: [unchecked] unchecked call to add(E) as a member of the raw type java.util.List lst.add("Hello, world!"); ^ 1 warning
In theory this could happen, in reality it isn't as bad as you make out. If there is a license change that the community doesn't like, the code can simply be forked before the re-licensed version. This means that even though a company might have the right to change the license, they can not do so without losing a large portion, if not all of its user base. For a nice example of this look at what happened to the XFree86 project.
A bit amusing in the context, but let's be fair here, when you post someone elses work, please give them credit!
This is RMS's 'Right to Read'. It is copyrighted under a very free license. All you have to do is give credit to the writer. That is something most people do without thinking, because it is the Right Thing to Do.
Anyway, in case the AC gets modded into copyright infringement hell, the orignal text, aswell as some updated comments are available here. It's an interesting read.
It's not just the programmer that's involved though.
From the programming perspective the hardest part is the multi-player code after that networking and/or split screen is pretty easy. I suspect the system libraries take care of the hard stuff anyway.
The main difference with split screen and network is not with the programming it's with the art direction and QA. With a network version the screen is the same as the single player version, so everything can be re-used. With a split screen, the screen real-estate is halved, so some things will have to be re-worked, re-designed and more heavily tested. Basicly it comes to a lot of work for a feature that only a few people want, so they just don't bother and save money.
It's not a dumb way of doing things, not even nowadays. For a PC yes, but not for a console.
One main reason for shared libraries is their abstraction, allowing access to different hardware though a single API (EG DirectX/OpenGL provide a API that can be used independantly of the GFX card). Since a consoles hardware is predetermined, that point void.
Another reason for shared libraries is saving space, as you pointed out. This is mostly true when a vast number of programs that share the same space use them. In the case of consoles and games, each game is on it's own disc, so the space saved from sharing libraries is pretty small. Probably only a few megabytes at most on modern games. Considering the size of the media and the relative size of textures, sound and FMV it's simply not worth the cost of adding extra memory to the console to house them.
Another reason for not adding them previously was that on the console they couldn't be updated. That now isn't completely true, however it still holds for a few places that can't connect their console to the net. Another reason for not putting libraries on the console is that the games might break with a library update. Nintendo doesn't want to check each game for defects before rolling out a library update.
No, the way it's currently done is better for console games. The channels on the other hand are another matter, they will have an updatable libraries and so will the VC I suspect.
As for a standard library, there is one. It's included in the Nintendo dev tools. It gets updated every now and then with optimisations and extra features, hence the difference between 1st/2nd/3rd generation games. Everything just gets staticly compiled.
Oh I wouldn't go as far as to say the US is ruled by Religious Fanatics. The Right maybe. With the support of the far Right and the fanatics, but the Goverment itself is not fanatical.
True, US is the only country to use Nukes. It was also the 1st country to develop them and the effects on humans at the time wasn't really known, which is one of the reasons they dropped them. To test them on human targets. That in itself was not very nice (a bit of an understatement there), but it wasn't evil as such. I suspect they did not realise themselves the full effects of the weapon. Killing 300,000(number made up) people in one shot is what I think they expected, not killing 200,000 with another 150,000's skin melting off their bones.
I have no fear at the moment of the US being the first to start using Nukes in a war. In retaliation, maybe. The governing party seems to be in enough trouble at the moment, using Nukes is one problem they can do without.
North Korea's leaders are rational. They are power-hungry dictators with little respect for others, but they're rational. I very much doubt they have any intention to use those weapons against either south korea, japan or china because they know they will die (The US and China have Nukes too) if they do and power-hungry dictators tend to fear death.
No, what you really should be fearing is Religious Fanatics (Iran anyone?) getting hold of Nukes. They are the ones prone to suicide attacks. Mind you the leaders of religious fanatical groups tend to be power-hungry dictators with little respect for others or God, so um... while it is more likely for Iran to use Nukes than it is for North Korea to use them, it's still pretty unlikely.
Oh he's a fake alright. The most obvious reason is that if he did have any connections with Nintendo he'd of been fired or sued for NDA breach by now. Another obvious reason is that some of his previous statements have already been proven false.
As for a Linux OS on the Wii, I doubt it. It's memory footprint is too large for one thing, but mainly because it's not suited to job at hand. Console OSs are not like Desktop OSs. They don't stay persistant in memory while a game is playing, in fact you could call them glorified boot-loaders. All they allowed you to do was change a few system setting, like the clock, and load a game. Once the game was loaded, it took full control of the system and the 'OS' is completely removed from memory. This allows games to utilise all the memory and reduces the overhead, boosting speed.
From what I'm understand this is changing for the 360 and the PS3, so that you can access the menu and 'Live' within a game, but whether that will be the same for the Wii is another matter. But the Wii-mote does have a 'home' button, so you never know...
Just checked. Fiscal year seems to be the correct term and every company can choose it's own with tax being paid the following march. October is the start/end of the US goverment's fiscal year.
Just to elaborate the above post. Nintendo has never stated that it will ship 6 million consoles by the end of the year. What it has stateded is that it plans to sell 4 million by the end of 2006 and 6 million by the end if its fiscal year, which ends in March 2007.
Because of these inaccuracies I'm not sure if the analysis meens 9 million by the end of 2006 or 9 million by March 2007. Either way it's good news. If it sells as well as expected it'll be well on the way to that glorified number 1 spot. After all the 360 only has a 5-7 million unit lead...
Because lots of slashdot readers like to hear about technology that's being developed? Sure, the predictions are usually marketing speach, but the fact that the tech is being developed isn't.
Dunno about you, but hearing that someone is trying to coat viruses in silicon to make faster memory gives me a kind of warm, fuzzy feeling deep inside.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: The XBox 360 is doomed in Japan and 2 JRPGs are not going to save it. Maybe if they'd come out a few months ago, or better yet, at launch, they might of had a chance. But the PS3 is launching soon and all the Japanese gamers who would be interested in those new RPGs are looking at the PS3 with big watery eyes.
Will Sony have a trouble-free conquest of Japan? I doubt it. But the competition will not be MS, it'll be Nintendo. With the Wii coming out in the same time frame as the PS3, it too will have launch momentum. Also from what I gather it will be in greater supply and so will probably have a larger install base at the end of it's launch period. Both the PS3 and Wii will propably exceed the 360's install base here in Japan by the end of the year.
Nintendo also have at least one more ace up their slieve, the DS connection. Remember, the DS intall base here is huge! I still can't easily obtain a DS Lite from my local store! If they can come up with some feature or game that make even 10% of DS owners to think "I'd like to have that!", they've got a Sony killer. Don't expect this feature till mid-next year at the earliest though. Until then, I suspect the price will be enough to keep people buying it instead of a PS3.
Globaly? I suspect Wii will be the overall winner with most of the casual gamer market and the 'HD is a must!' market being split 50:50 between the PS3 and the 360. Except in Japan, where the PS3 will rule the HD market and the Wii will be the platform of choice for the avarage consumer.
Actually it's pretty much like any other modern PC FPS (doom3/hl2). Prettier than previous console FPS, but pretty much on par with modern PC ones. IE nothing special really...
Ok. Maybe that was overdoing it a little, but you got to hand it to Nintendo, their choice of name is pure genius. PS3? Xbox 360? Revolution? Just names! But wii can have so much fun wiith the Wii now can't wii. ^_^
Some games definitly won't be the same without the Rumble feature. Project Zero for example. Most games don't really need it though. Mind you, most PS3 games don't need the tilt feature either. None of the games I played at TGS used it and some (Resistance) could have done with rumble.
It's not a big bother really. If the Rumble feature is needed to enhance the experience, then the game should just be made for the other 2 consoles.
You're probably right about the porting, but I wouldn't bet on the 360 winning the race. Maybe if those games had been released 6 months ago it might of had a chance, but as things stand now, both Sony and Nintendo have highly anticipated launches coming up. That's a lot of momentum and with the 360's sales dead in the water here, I doubt It'll beat the PS3 in Japan. NA and Europe on the other hand are another matter.
I'm more interested in how the wildcard, Nintendo's Wii, will fare here myself. It's small, cute and looks fun. Also remember that most people will get thier info from the ads on TV, which for the most part will be in SD, so no cool HD graphics there. Only smiling kids making obsene gestures with the wii-mote.
You never know, if things work as Nintendo hopes, all those RPGs might be finding thier way to the Wii in the near future.
That's notfud, not nofud. Also how about adding the notnotfud and the notnotnotfud that were on one of the articles a few days ago? Seeing them was more amusing than reading the article itself.:)
Tough isn't it? We in Japan got to play the system 1st as well. I've just gotten back from the Tokyo Game Show. Played a few PS3 demo's there. Nice graphics, reminds me of PC games. But to be honest, the thing I noticed most about the PS3 was that it felt and played almost exactly like a PS2. That isn't really a bad thing, the PS2 was a nice system, but the PS3 doesn't really offer that much more than the PS2 does as far as game experience goes.
Overall impression? I'll probably end up buying a PS3, it's a nice gaming machine, but not at launch. Even with the price drop, it's still more expensive than Wii with 4 games and a few extra controllers. I'll wait for the 1st or 2nd price drop before buying or until a killer game comes out. There were quite a few there that I'd like to play, but none that sold the system.
Back on topic, market share is everything at this stage of the game. Japanese have a tendency to follow trends. The console that gets the largest market share at the start will set the trend. This means Sony have thier work cut out for them because not only does thier closest competitor have a cheaper console, it's also smaller, cuter and it's controller has a larger 'wow' effect than the PS3's graphics do. This doesn't even take into account that Nintendo will probably out produce Sony. So every little helps I guess.
As for why Japan is important, well it's Sony's home market. It's also the home to the development teams for a fair number of core PS franchises. If it loses Japan the effect on the other markets will be significant.
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It was not the WAP that got him jailed, but the fact that he had a CD full of child porn in his room. The Open WAP was just deemed not an acceptable reason to invalidate the search warrant and make the CD in admissible as evidence.
You were saying?
In theory this could happen, in reality it isn't as bad as you make out. If there is a license change that the community doesn't like, the code can simply be forked before the re-licensed version. This means that even though a company might have the right to change the license, they can not do so without losing a large portion, if not all of its user base. For a nice example of this look at what happened to the XFree86 project.
They were right. Most home users don't have technological to maintain or secure a home computer.
Don't forget 'the ability to count to ten.'.
*Doh*
I wonder how many other /.ers tried it, like I did and couldn't get it to work because they forgot to turn off NoScript...
Copyright Infringement Alarm!!!
A bit amusing in the context, but let's be fair here, when you post someone elses work, please give them credit!
This is RMS's 'Right to Read'. It is copyrighted under a very free license. All you have to do is give credit to the writer. That is something most people do without thinking, because it is the Right Thing to Do.
Anyway, in case the AC gets modded into copyright infringement hell, the orignal text, aswell as some updated comments are available here. It's an interesting read.
What SD Porn?! With artifacts?! True Pron addicts will only settle for 1080p HQ porn!
Mind you, even that won't take up 1024 PB... maybe if you used raw video with no compression...
It's not just the programmer that's involved though.
From the programming perspective the hardest part is the multi-player code after that networking and/or split screen is pretty easy. I suspect the system libraries take care of the hard stuff anyway.
The main difference with split screen and network is not with the programming it's with the art direction and QA. With a network version the screen is the same as the single player version, so everything can be re-used. With a split screen, the screen real-estate is halved, so some things will have to be re-worked, re-designed and more heavily tested. Basicly it comes to a lot of work for a feature that only a few people want, so they just don't bother and save money.
Um...No, it isn't.
It's not a dumb way of doing things, not even nowadays. For a PC yes, but not for a console.
One main reason for shared libraries is their abstraction, allowing access to different hardware though a single API (EG DirectX/OpenGL provide a API that can be used independantly of the GFX card). Since a consoles hardware is predetermined, that point void.
Another reason for shared libraries is saving space, as you pointed out. This is mostly true when a vast number of programs that share the same space use them. In the case of consoles and games, each game is on it's own disc, so the space saved from sharing libraries is pretty small. Probably only a few megabytes at most on modern games. Considering the size of the media and the relative size of textures, sound and FMV it's simply not worth the cost of adding extra memory to the console to house them.
Another reason for not adding them previously was that on the console they couldn't be updated. That now isn't completely true, however it still holds for a few places that can't connect their console to the net. Another reason for not putting libraries on the console is that the games might break with a library update. Nintendo doesn't want to check each game for defects before rolling out a library update.
No, the way it's currently done is better for console games. The channels on the other hand are another matter, they will have an updatable libraries and so will the VC I suspect.
As for a standard library, there is one. It's included in the Nintendo dev tools. It gets updated every now and then with optimisations and extra features, hence the difference between 1st/2nd/3rd generation games. Everything just gets staticly compiled.
Oh I wouldn't go as far as to say the US is ruled by Religious Fanatics. The Right maybe. With the support of the far Right and the fanatics, but the Goverment itself is not fanatical.
True, US is the only country to use Nukes. It was also the 1st country to develop them and the effects on humans at the time wasn't really known, which is one of the reasons they dropped them. To test them on human targets. That in itself was not very nice (a bit of an understatement there), but it wasn't evil as such. I suspect they did not realise themselves the full effects of the weapon. Killing 300,000(number made up) people in one shot is what I think they expected, not killing 200,000 with another 150,000's skin melting off their bones.
I have no fear at the moment of the US being the first to start using Nukes in a war. In retaliation, maybe. The governing party seems to be in enough trouble at the moment, using Nukes is one problem they can do without.
North Korea's leaders are rational. They are power-hungry dictators with little respect for others, but they're rational. I very much doubt they have any intention to use those weapons against either south korea, japan or china because they know they will die (The US and China have Nukes too) if they do and power-hungry dictators tend to fear death.
No, what you really should be fearing is Religious Fanatics (Iran anyone?) getting hold of Nukes. They are the ones prone to suicide attacks. Mind you the leaders of religious fanatical groups tend to be power-hungry dictators with little respect for others or God, so um... while it is more likely for Iran to use Nukes than it is for North Korea to use them, it's still pretty unlikely.
Oh he's a fake alright. The most obvious reason is that if he did have any connections with Nintendo he'd of been fired or sued for NDA breach by now. Another obvious reason is that some of his previous statements have already been proven false.
As for a Linux OS on the Wii, I doubt it. It's memory footprint is too large for one thing, but mainly because it's not suited to job at hand. Console OSs are not like Desktop OSs. They don't stay persistant in memory while a game is playing, in fact you could call them glorified boot-loaders. All they allowed you to do was change a few system setting, like the clock, and load a game. Once the game was loaded, it took full control of the system and the 'OS' is completely removed from memory. This allows games to utilise all the memory and reduces the overhead, boosting speed.
From what I'm understand this is changing for the 360 and the PS3, so that you can access the menu and 'Live' within a game, but whether that will be the same for the Wii is another matter. But the Wii-mote does have a 'home' button, so you never know...
Just checked. Fiscal year seems to be the correct term and every company can choose it's own with tax being paid the following march. October is the start/end of the US goverment's fiscal year.
Just to elaborate the above post. Nintendo has never stated that it will ship 6 million consoles by the end of the year. What it has stateded is that it plans to sell 4 million by the end of 2006 and 6 million by the end if its fiscal year, which ends in March 2007.
Because of these inaccuracies I'm not sure if the analysis meens 9 million by the end of 2006 or 9 million by March 2007. Either way it's good news. If it sells as well as expected it'll be well on the way to that glorified number 1 spot. After all the 360 only has a 5-7 million unit lead...
It seems a one of your sibling ACs beat me to it, but the N64 was code-named 'Project Reality' and it was the GameCube that was codenamed 'Dolphin'.
Because lots of slashdot readers like to hear about technology that's being developed? Sure, the predictions are usually marketing speach, but the fact that the tech is being developed isn't.
Dunno about you, but hearing that someone is trying to coat viruses in silicon to make faster memory gives me a kind of warm, fuzzy feeling deep inside.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: The XBox 360 is doomed in Japan and 2 JRPGs are not going to save it. Maybe if they'd come out a few months ago, or better yet, at launch, they might of had a chance. But the PS3 is launching soon and all the Japanese gamers who would be interested in those new RPGs are looking at the PS3 with big watery eyes.
Will Sony have a trouble-free conquest of Japan? I doubt it. But the competition will not be MS, it'll be Nintendo. With the Wii coming out in the same time frame as the PS3, it too will have launch momentum. Also from what I gather it will be in greater supply and so will probably have a larger install base at the end of it's launch period. Both the PS3 and Wii will propably exceed the 360's install base here in Japan by the end of the year.
Nintendo also have at least one more ace up their slieve, the DS connection. Remember, the DS intall base here is huge! I still can't easily obtain a DS Lite from my local store! If they can come up with some feature or game that make even 10% of DS owners to think "I'd like to have that!", they've got a Sony killer. Don't expect this feature till mid-next year at the earliest though. Until then, I suspect the price will be enough to keep people buying it instead of a PS3.
Globaly? I suspect Wii will be the overall winner with most of the casual gamer market and the 'HD is a must!' market being split 50:50 between the PS3 and the 360. Except in Japan, where the PS3 will rule the HD market and the Wii will be the platform of choice for the avarage consumer.
Actually it's pretty much like any other modern PC FPS (doom3/hl2). Prettier than previous console FPS, but pretty much on par with modern PC ones. IE nothing special really...
Wiill you cut it wiith the Wii jokes alwiidy!
Ok. Maybe that was overdoing it a little, but you got to hand it to Nintendo, their choice of name is pure genius. PS3? Xbox 360? Revolution? Just names! But wii can have so much fun wiith the Wii now can't wii. ^_^
Some games definitly won't be the same without the Rumble feature. Project Zero for example. Most games don't really need it though. Mind you, most PS3 games don't need the tilt feature either. None of the games I played at TGS used it and some (Resistance) could have done with rumble.
It's not a big bother really. If the Rumble feature is needed to enhance the experience, then the game should just be made for the other 2 consoles.
You're probably right about the porting, but I wouldn't bet on the 360 winning the race. Maybe if those games had been released 6 months ago it might of had a chance, but as things stand now, both Sony and Nintendo have highly anticipated launches coming up. That's a lot of momentum and with the 360's sales dead in the water here, I doubt It'll beat the PS3 in Japan. NA and Europe on the other hand are another matter.
I'm more interested in how the wildcard, Nintendo's Wii, will fare here myself. It's small, cute and looks fun. Also remember that most people will get thier info from the ads on TV, which for the most part will be in SD, so no cool HD graphics there. Only smiling kids making obsene gestures with the wii-mote.
You never know, if things work as Nintendo hopes, all those RPGs might be finding thier way to the Wii in the near future.
That's notfud, not nofud. Also how about adding the notnotfud and the notnotnotfud that were on one of the articles a few days ago? Seeing them was more amusing than reading the article itself. :)
Tough isn't it? We in Japan got to play the system 1st as well. I've just gotten back from the Tokyo Game Show. Played a few PS3 demo's there. Nice graphics, reminds me of PC games. But to be honest, the thing I noticed most about the PS3 was that it felt and played almost exactly like a PS2. That isn't really a bad thing, the PS2 was a nice system, but the PS3 doesn't really offer that much more than the PS2 does as far as game experience goes.
Overall impression? I'll probably end up buying a PS3, it's a nice gaming machine, but not at launch. Even with the price drop, it's still more expensive than Wii with 4 games and a few extra controllers. I'll wait for the 1st or 2nd price drop before buying or until a killer game comes out. There were quite a few there that I'd like to play, but none that sold the system.
Back on topic, market share is everything at this stage of the game. Japanese have a tendency to follow trends. The console that gets the largest market share at the start will set the trend. This means Sony have thier work cut out for them because not only does thier closest competitor have a cheaper console, it's also smaller, cuter and it's controller has a larger 'wow' effect than the PS3's graphics do. This doesn't even take into account that Nintendo will probably out produce Sony. So every little helps I guess.
As for why Japan is important, well it's Sony's home market. It's also the home to the development teams for a fair number of core PS franchises. If it loses Japan the effect on the other markets will be significant.