Sony's DualShock for the PSX and DualShock3 for PS3 are two accessories that have done very well for the main platform and eventually replaced the original controllers. They've been able to put enough marketing force behind the accessories to make them mainstream, so the Move at least has a good shot at becoming popular.
Personally, I can't wait to play RE5 with the Move, the way it was meant to be played. Before I heard it would be supported, I was wishing the game came out on Wii instead.
Yup. And with all the cross-licensing deals companies end up entering into with MS, who ends up holding all the cards? MS cross-licenses with everyone else, who don't end up cross-licensing with each other. There's an imbalance in the force... Yet another barrier of entry for companies to have to surpass to compete with the gorillas...
So, MS doesn't actually plan to overtake Linux, it just plans to make money off of other peoples' work. How long before they turn around and sue the developers of Linux?
2) Created expressly to "Stop Google", rather than to fill some otherwise useful purpose. If it had been created to fill some role that google failed to deliver at, then I would consider it useful.
A blade that cuts both ways... if it succeeds in 'stopping google' they will no longer have a reason to improve it.
This is actually a reason to support "piracy" (or more accurately, cracking games, because not all crackers of games are pirates). They give your games longevity and save you from annoyances.
I don't pirate as well, but at this point it's just easier to do all my gaming on a console. Screw drivers, $200+ dollar video cards, inconsistant control methods, and of course screw DRM. I'd also say screw patches, but unfortunately consoles have caught up to their PC cousins here.
You don't really need some special code for save games when you can easily write a program that will save the state of any game and let you resume right at that spot. It's been done with emulated games, it will be done with these games, and will avoid the whole mess of picking apart the mechanism used by the game's DRM. If you update the game, however, it will cause problems, but it's certainly doable.
Metal Gear Solid, ported by Microsoft, was also horribly done. On their own platform! Glitchy, horrid graphics that were inconsistant compared to even the Bleem! + Dreamcast version. Silicon Knights did it right with Twin Snakes for the GameCube. Luckily Konami did their own work with Metal Gear Solid 2 on the PC.
Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden II, Street Fighter II, Castlevania, were very bad PC ports that utterly failed to capture the charm and gameplay of their console counterparts. Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Sonic CD, and Mega Man X were very well done, on the other hand. Emulated games such as those in the SEGA Smash Pack were great.
Let parents worry about what their children are exposed to. If they're not already doing that, it's neglect, and perhaps something else should be done about the parents' carelessness. If the government don't want to be attacked, let them filter their internet connections however they want. Censorship of the general populace's internet connection isn't necessary for either of these cases, and should not even enter into the equation.
Mario is timeless. He doesn't have an attitude that is considered lame a decade later. His clothes are designed for function & not fashion. He looks different than any other video game character and is instantly recognizable. The games themselves have a vibrant, cute, unique, and whimsical style that is easy to fall in love with.
The iPad is pretty much Apple's version of the netbook. There has been a huge demand for netbooks, and Apple had no product to suit that need for around the same price point.
Does anyone know if there is a conflict of interest here with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and how their money gets spent?
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is supporting game related programs... do they just end up buying MS SDKs and 360 dev kits? They support libraries by helping them get internet access... do they just end up buying MS PCs that feature Internet Explorer? The money that helps out schools, does it go to Windows PCs and licenses for MS products?
Bill Gates may not work at MS anymore, but he still gets a lot of support from MS itself. It seems like a very incestuous relationship. He has put a lot of himself into MS and helped shaped its direction, and probably doesn't want MS to fail. It's clear from his letter to hobbyists that he has a certain agenda to push, and he'd probably like to help his buddy Steve achieve that.
Is there any problem with what's going on here or is it just coincidence?
1. It's not the ISP's responsibility to worry about what someone else is doing to their web site. If authorities have a problem, they should contact the site. Nevermind that it would be impossible to account for every deviance.
2. The ISP is just a conduit, they should not manipulate the traffic in any way, as this would compromise their function, which is to act as the last mile in an internet connection. They do not provide the content. Should I sue the city because their streets can lead me to illegal activities?
3. The users and the hosts of the content (not the ISP) should be charged based on their involvement.
graphene seems like a viable replacement until quantum computing gets to desktop
With everyone quitting smoking, we've run out of dead people's lungs to scrape carbon out of, so we've reached the limits of carbon-based CPUs and had to switch to graphene.
But the extra pencils from companies going paperless will only last so long. When we run out, we will have to switch to making quantum CPUs. Hopefully by then, making quantums will be a lot cheaper.
To many, piracy is a sport. To others, hoarding pirated wares is a sport. Don't even play them, it's just a bigger e-penis. The rest of us just buy/play games normally.
Maybe it's not the best computer to learn on, as you don't seem to learn very much when everything is supposed to be so intuitive and so task focused, but as a tool to get certain types of work done, it's great, because you don't have to worry about anything but the job you want accomplished.
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O'Gara: Reinforcing the 'con' in Sys-Con
Now we have a pretty reliable bullshit barometer.
Sony's DualShock for the PSX and DualShock3 for PS3 are two accessories that have done very well for the main platform and eventually replaced the original controllers. They've been able to put enough marketing force behind the accessories to make them mainstream, so the Move at least has a good shot at becoming popular.
Personally, I can't wait to play RE5 with the Move, the way it was meant to be played. Before I heard it would be supported, I was wishing the game came out on Wii instead.
"it wants to control everything"
...which is one way of preventing malware, it's working pretty well so far for that platform.
Finally, we can get those kids off jenkem!
Lesbian and gay are not genders. They might imply one, but they aren't genders themselves.
So the "Save Page As..." command in the File menu is illegal in Britain?
Yup. And with all the cross-licensing deals companies end up entering into with MS, who ends up holding all the cards? MS cross-licenses with everyone else, who don't end up cross-licensing with each other. There's an imbalance in the force... Yet another barrier of entry for companies to have to surpass to compete with the gorillas...
So, MS doesn't actually plan to overtake Linux, it just plans to make money off of other peoples' work. How long before they turn around and sue the developers of Linux?
Which EC2 do you mean?
2) Created expressly to "Stop Google", rather than to fill some otherwise useful purpose. If it had been created to fill some role that google failed to deliver at, then I would consider it useful.
A blade that cuts both ways... if it succeeds in 'stopping google' they will no longer have a reason to improve it.
It'll probably piss of Microsoft when their OS can't leverage games as an advantage anymore... It'll be interesting to see what happens.
This is actually a reason to support "piracy" (or more accurately, cracking games, because not all crackers of games are pirates). They give your games longevity and save you from annoyances.
I don't pirate as well, but at this point it's just easier to do all my gaming on a console. Screw drivers, $200+ dollar video cards, inconsistant control methods, and of course screw DRM. I'd also say screw patches, but unfortunately consoles have caught up to their PC cousins here.
You don't really need some special code for save games when you can easily write a program that will save the state of any game and let you resume right at that spot. It's been done with emulated games, it will be done with these games, and will avoid the whole mess of picking apart the mechanism used by the game's DRM. If you update the game, however, it will cause problems, but it's certainly doable.
Metal Gear Solid, ported by Microsoft, was also horribly done. On their own platform! Glitchy, horrid graphics that were inconsistant compared to even the Bleem! + Dreamcast version. Silicon Knights did it right with Twin Snakes for the GameCube. Luckily Konami did their own work with Metal Gear Solid 2 on the PC.
Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden II, Street Fighter II, Castlevania, were very bad PC ports that utterly failed to capture the charm and gameplay of their console counterparts. Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Sonic CD, and Mega Man X were very well done, on the other hand. Emulated games such as those in the SEGA Smash Pack were great.
Let parents worry about what their children are exposed to. If they're not already doing that, it's neglect, and perhaps something else should be done about the parents' carelessness. If the government don't want to be attacked, let them filter their internet connections however they want. Censorship of the general populace's internet connection isn't necessary for either of these cases, and should not even enter into the equation.
Mario is timeless. He doesn't have an attitude that is considered lame a decade later. His clothes are designed for function & not fashion. He looks different than any other video game character and is instantly recognizable. The games themselves have a vibrant, cute, unique, and whimsical style that is easy to fall in love with.
The iPad is pretty much Apple's version of the netbook. There has been a huge demand for netbooks, and Apple had no product to suit that need for around the same price point.
Does anyone know if there is a conflict of interest here with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and how their money gets spent?
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is supporting game related programs... do they just end up buying MS SDKs and 360 dev kits? They support libraries by helping them get internet access... do they just end up buying MS PCs that feature Internet Explorer? The money that helps out schools, does it go to Windows PCs and licenses for MS products?
Bill Gates may not work at MS anymore, but he still gets a lot of support from MS itself. It seems like a very incestuous relationship. He has put a lot of himself into MS and helped shaped its direction, and probably doesn't want MS to fail. It's clear from his letter to hobbyists that he has a certain agenda to push, and he'd probably like to help his buddy Steve achieve that.
Is there any problem with what's going on here or is it just coincidence?
1. It's not the ISP's responsibility to worry about what someone else is doing to their web site. If authorities have a problem, they should contact the site. Nevermind that it would be impossible to account for every deviance.
2. The ISP is just a conduit, they should not manipulate the traffic in any way, as this would compromise their function, which is to act as the last mile in an internet connection. They do not provide the content. Should I sue the city because their streets can lead me to illegal activities?
3. The users and the hosts of the content (not the ISP) should be charged based on their involvement.
graphene seems like a viable replacement until quantum computing gets to desktop
With everyone quitting smoking, we've run out of dead people's lungs to scrape carbon out of, so we've reached the limits of carbon-based CPUs and had to switch to graphene.
But the extra pencils from companies going paperless will only last so long. When we run out, we will have to switch to making quantum CPUs. Hopefully by then, making quantums will be a lot cheaper.
To many, piracy is a sport. To others, hoarding pirated wares is a sport. Don't even play them, it's just a bigger e-penis. The rest of us just buy/play games normally.
Maybe it's not the best computer to learn on, as you don't seem to learn very much when everything is supposed to be so intuitive and so task focused, but as a tool to get certain types of work done, it's great, because you don't have to worry about anything but the job you want accomplished.