Sarcasm. Their previous model only supported their own special format, and required things like PDFs or even TXTs to be converted with special software.
It's always (and I mean always) the most successful system that gets the RPG's, as seams to be the case with most japanese games.
The only reason the 360 has anything is because they are projects paid for by Microsoft. The 360 is dead in Japan, nothing can save it. So unless Microsoft insists on pushing a dead horse, there probably won't be much interest.
Depends. There's a difference between the official pre-orders and unofficial one's. Most major retailers will do them. Then, the Unit is guaranteed by Nintendo to be delivered, and yous should be secured.
BTW, the official preorders haven't started yet, so anything you put down now is gambling on the retailers ability to secure the units.
1. You write a paper for a course 2. 5 years later you try to publish it 3. You are told you're not supposed to publish, because you copied the work from someone else 4. And then you find out that another student, one year before, had copied your work -- and that's why you couldn't publish it
Also known as copyright dispute. Faily common. All you need is evidence that you created the work first, and that would be pretty easy if the school has records of when what paper was marked. What could complicate the matter is letting a third party have access to the work and permanently stored on their database.
Bullshit! IP rights exists to protect your "property rights", the same as any other property. If you don't want your IP to be used in a certain way, that's your choice (excluding fair use). If I create a work, and decide to hand it in for grading, that's my choice. And it' my choice if I do not want my work to be uploaded onto a database of a profit generating company, for the purpous of profit. Period.
No. Copyright is owned by you, and only you, no matter where you create it. It can be licensed, but that means that you have to have signed a contract stating that you agree to licensing the work.
Minors do have ownership rights, but parents do have certain powers to manage their pesessions. It isn't a case of "everything belongs to me until you're 18", if that's what you're thinking of.
For example, if a parant takes something from a 17 year old that he worked and payed for himself, it's plain theft.
For patent rights you have to file for a patant. Copyright is automatically granted. So, if a teacher realises one of his students has something, he could patant it, and he would own the rights.
Ofcourse, if the system weren't broken, the student can claim prior art, but we all know how screwed the world is.
Because these are public schools, they have to be careful what conditions they want if you want your work to be graded. Uploading somebody's work on a database is a blatant infringement of their copyright, no matter what anybody says. Private schools could do something like have someone sign a contract about licensing their work to be uploaded, if they want to be graded, as long as every use is specifically outlined. I don't know how far public schools can go, but to me they seem to be taking a step too far.
How did MS try to over take Apple with the X-Box?:)
He was referring to Microsoft selling at a loss. Microsoft designed their original XBOX very hastily, and didn't worry about the cost of things too much. To compete with Playstation 2 and GameCube, they had to sell their consoles way below their production costs.
I've been fiddeling around with Orbiter lately. Sadly, I haven't managed to get a shuttle to orbit yet. Really good to get an impression of the scale and principles of spaceflight.
You kind of think of it differently when you see the pictures taken in orbit. But when you see something actually taken from the ground, and think that it's up there floating around it makes you think completely differently.
Shortly and simply, no. Tobacoo is basically a biofuel. To create the burnable organic material, the tobacco plant had to absorb equal amounts of CO2 from the atmousphere. So the net result is zero.
Never heard of Lego Logo, what is it? As far as compatability with other Lego products, you can basically use anything. All Mindstorms is is basically parts from the Technic line with a programmable controller. I think the new NXT set avoids a studded design (no traditional studded bricks, just pins and beams), but they should be compatable with the older bricks.
I'm not too familiar with the different Mindstorms programming projects myself. For beginners it would probably be best to use Legos own software. Don't know if that runs under Wine.
Alot of alternative compilers can run under Linux, but many of them are text based. The Wikipedia article has links to many different Mindstorms sites.
You'd be surprised at the amount of lego used by scientists in quick setups.
There's a surprising amount of things that can be done with Mindstorms. You can even use a wide variety of alternative programming languages such as robotC or leJos a form of Java. These are just two of many different projects.
Just have a look around and you'll find lots of different pages about modding, and making custom bricks.
It's much more potent than any of the "build your own robot-arm" type of kits. (which you can also do with Mindstorms)
With their current regulations, it's only required within europe. So a regional division within the EU (like Nintendo done in the NES days would you believe)would be illegal, but not if it's concerning goods from say japan.
Pah, in the last couple of years there have been games released for the Cube in Europe that only support a kind of NTSC signal (called PAL60, but basically the same thing). A prominent example is Metroid Prime 2.
Well I guess you're out of luck if you want to run iTunes (last time I checked it wasn't possible to run it on Wine). I haven't used Amarok too much though (although your argument does sound a little rich considering it is one of the most plain iTunes clones out there). What I'm saying though is that iTunes is basically on of the best media players ther is, and many people like the way it interacts seamlessly with their iPod. If you're counting the UI of an Audio Player, you do need to consider the software used to put music on the thing. It's part of the experience.
Your argument about other players being cheaper isn't always true either. There might be some with a few extra features, like swappable SD cards. But if you want something comparable to say, a nano, with 2 GB of flash, a color screen, easy selection of titles etc, you're probably getting very close to $150 anway, if not paying even more. And I haven't checked prices recently, but I think iPods do pretty well on the GB/$ comparison. If they were an invariably stupid purchase people wouldn't buy them.
As it is with most things in Europe, prices in Dollars are usually changed to the same number in Europe. So a $249 iPod costs 249, or about $310, which is kinda a pain in the butt, but you get used to it. (it's more that Americans are getting them cheaper than normal because of the low value of the Dollar in recent years) At least that includes sales tax though (19% soon, grrrrr). That Cowon want so much is just an obscene ripoff though.
Do you know how fairplay works? It registers each piece of hardware authorised to play fairplay tracks, and gives out individual keys to decrypt each song. Basically, unless Apple's online key bank says you are allowed to play a track, you are unable to get the keys needed for the file, and you can't play original, unaltered Fairplay tracks. Any solution sofar has been to recode tracks in non-DRM form.
DMCA-style laws are in place in many countries, but if it were possible to make a compatable player (see above why it isn't) there would be one, an Apple probably wouldn't have a good chance in stopping them. At my local electronics retailer you can buy software to strip the DRM off iTunes (I presume it's just an implementation of QTfair or a PCM encoder in a fancy shell), but Apple wouldn't really be able to do much even if they wanted to.
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Sarcasm. Their previous model only supported their own special format, and required things like PDFs or even TXTs to be converted with special software.
It's always (and I mean always) the most successful system that gets the RPG's, as seams to be the case with most japanese games. The only reason the 360 has anything is because they are projects paid for by Microsoft. The 360 is dead in Japan, nothing can save it. So unless Microsoft insists on pushing a dead horse, there probably won't be much interest.
Depends. There's a difference between the official pre-orders and unofficial one's. Most major retailers will do them. Then, the Unit is guaranteed by Nintendo to be delivered, and yous should be secured.
BTW, the official preorders haven't started yet, so anything you put down now is gambling on the retailers ability to secure the units.
Also known as copyright dispute. Faily common. All you need is evidence that you created the work first, and that would be pretty easy if the school has records of when what paper was marked. What could complicate the matter is letting a third party have access to the work and permanently stored on their database.
Bullshit! IP rights exists to protect your "property rights", the same as any other property. If you don't want your IP to be used in a certain way, that's your choice (excluding fair use). If I create a work, and decide to hand it in for grading, that's my choice.
And it' my choice if I do not want my work to be uploaded onto a database of a profit generating company, for the purpous of profit. Period.
No. Copyright is owned by you, and only you, no matter where you create it. It can be licensed, but that means that you have to have signed a contract stating that you agree to licensing the work.
Minors do have ownership rights, but parents do have certain powers to manage their pesessions. It isn't a case of "everything belongs to me until you're 18", if that's what you're thinking of.
For example, if a parant takes something from a 17 year old that he worked and payed for himself, it's plain theft.
For patent rights you have to file for a patant. Copyright is automatically granted.
So, if a teacher realises one of his students has something, he could patant it, and he would own the rights.
Ofcourse, if the system weren't broken, the student can claim prior art, but we all know how screwed the world is.
Because these are public schools, they have to be careful what conditions they want if you want your work to be graded. Uploading somebody's work on a database is a blatant infringement of their copyright, no matter what anybody says.
Private schools could do something like have someone sign a contract about licensing their work to be uploaded, if they want to be graded, as long as every use is specifically outlined. I don't know how far public schools can go, but to me they seem to be taking a step too far.
That's alot of bases. Imagine the paperwork.
That's assuming there is dialog in the game. No Zelda game has ever had spoken dialog, and it is still unclear whether this one will.
too bad the USB connection is too big for an AAA battery.
If your camara, cell phone and mp3 player all have seperate chargers, why do you need AA battaries anyway?
He was referring to Microsoft selling at a loss. Microsoft designed their original XBOX very hastily, and didn't worry about the cost of things too much.
To compete with Playstation 2 and GameCube, they had to sell their consoles way below their production costs.
Neither is their "iTV".
I've been fiddeling around with Orbiter lately. Sadly, I haven't managed to get a shuttle to orbit yet. Really good to get an impression of the scale and principles of spaceflight.
Wow. That's just awesome.
You kind of think of it differently when you see the pictures taken in orbit. But when you see something actually taken from the ground, and think that it's up there floating around it makes you think completely differently.
Shortly and simply, no. Tobacoo is basically a biofuel. To create the burnable organic material, the tobacco plant had to absorb equal amounts of CO2 from the atmousphere. So the net result is zero.
Never heard of Lego Logo, what is it? As far as compatability with other Lego products, you can basically use anything. All Mindstorms is is basically parts from the Technic line with a programmable controller. I think the new NXT set avoids a studded design (no traditional studded bricks, just pins and beams), but they should be compatable with the older bricks.
I'm not too familiar with the different Mindstorms programming projects myself. For beginners it would probably be best to use Legos own software. Don't know if that runs under Wine. Alot of alternative compilers can run under Linux, but many of them are text based. The Wikipedia article has links to many different Mindstorms sites.
You'd be surprised at the amount of lego used by scientists in quick setups.
There's a surprising amount of things that can be done with Mindstorms. You can even use a wide variety of alternative programming languages such as robotC or leJos a form of Java. These are just two of many different projects.
Just have a look around and you'll find lots of different pages about modding, and making custom bricks. It's much more potent than any of the "build your own robot-arm" type of kits. (which you can also do with Mindstorms)
With their current regulations, it's only required within europe. So a regional division within the EU (like Nintendo done in the NES days would you believe)would be illegal, but not if it's concerning goods from say japan.
Pah, in the last couple of years there have been games released for the Cube in Europe that only support a kind of NTSC signal (called PAL60, but basically the same thing). A prominent example is Metroid Prime 2.
Well I guess you're out of luck if you want to run iTunes (last time I checked it wasn't possible to run it on Wine). I haven't used Amarok too much though (although your argument does sound a little rich considering it is one of the most plain iTunes clones out there). What I'm saying though is that iTunes is basically on of the best media players ther is, and many people like the way it interacts seamlessly with their iPod. If you're counting the UI of an Audio Player, you do need to consider the software used to put music on the thing. It's part of the experience.
Your argument about other players being cheaper isn't always true either. There might be some with a few extra features, like swappable SD cards. But if you want something comparable to say, a nano, with 2 GB of flash, a color screen, easy selection of titles etc, you're probably getting very close to $150 anway, if not paying even more.
And I haven't checked prices recently, but I think iPods do pretty well on the GB/$ comparison.
If they were an invariably stupid purchase people wouldn't buy them.
As it is with most things in Europe, prices in Dollars are usually changed to the same number in Europe. So a $249 iPod costs 249, or about $310, which is kinda a pain in the butt, but you get used to it. (it's more that Americans are getting them cheaper than normal because of the low value of the Dollar in recent years) At least that includes sales tax though (19% soon, grrrrr). That Cowon want so much is just an obscene ripoff though.
Reminds me of this old joke I heard
Do you know how fairplay works? It registers each piece of hardware authorised to play fairplay tracks, and gives out individual keys to decrypt each song. Basically, unless Apple's online key bank says you are allowed to play a track, you are unable to get the keys needed for the file, and you can't play original, unaltered Fairplay tracks.
Any solution sofar has been to recode tracks in non-DRM form.
DMCA-style laws are in place in many countries, but if it were possible to make a compatable player (see above why it isn't) there would be one, an Apple probably wouldn't have a good chance in stopping them.
At my local electronics retailer you can buy software to strip the DRM off iTunes (I presume it's just an implementation of QTfair or a PCM encoder in a fancy shell), but Apple wouldn't really be able to do much even if they wanted to.