If you want to have fun you can spend the tiny $5 for a virtual console copy of the old game
Clearly Nintendo cares enough about fans of their old games to make them available for almost nothing. I doubt if they bring in a lot of revenue for the effort of producing, selling, and supporting the old games. They know it's important for their customer base so they provide it.
Running pirated copies of their games is not 'embracing' them. Buy a Wii or a 3DS and buy a virtual console version of Contra and Super Mario Bros. Pirating their stuff is distancing yourself.
The existence of Virtual Console versions of these games cancels out the claim of the usual abandonware apologists that 'there is no way to give Nintendo money' so they are entitled to pirate roms of the game.
Just as was the case when the games were sold in their original versions, you can presently buy a Nintendo 3DS handheld, then go onto the Nintendo online shop and buy the 'virtual console' versions of these games.
Nintendo does all the work for you: your purchase gets you a nicely set up game to play on your 3DS. It is NOT the case that they've abandoned their IP and you're entitled to do what you want with it.
The virtual console versions of these old games aren't even expensive. They price them at about $5 each.
Turning off notifications and background functions on apps also helps a lot. If you have four or five 'news' apps all waiting to pop up a headline and a few games making sounds when the cows need feeding, there are a lot of background tasks running, many of which can be disabled in the App Settings.
The Google Play store has a record of every app you have installed. You synch your personal data to the cloud or an SD card, you factory reset the phone, and you log onto your Google account and go into the 'my apps' tab of the Play Store and bring back the apps you really use. Its an easy house-cleaning.
The culty-nichey shtick can only play to certain markets. Apple has little chance in the enterprise. Hence the premise of this article. iPad 'Pro' won't make it in the settings where Surface will.
You're conflating a lot of things. A company can 'soar to the top' on Wall Street and at the same time become exceedingly uncool to users, and especially to nerds.
Retorting with 'but.. but.. look at all their money...' very very uncool. Apple's success has led them in a totally different direction than 'cool'. When companies have great success a whole different sort of people scurry on board.
Some of us noticed it very early. I remember when the iTunes craze was in full fruition. There were promotions all over the place, even on bottle caps and pop cans. Pepsi. I thought back to Jobs' comment to Scully about 'spending the rest of your life selling sugar water to kids' and enjoyed the irony. In the time since it hasn't changed.
Why did I have to read so far down the threads of comments to reach somebody who has figured out what Apple is up to? They want their customers to only see the ads that they get a return on. Apple is fine with the open-web content providers shutting down because of a lack of revenue. Apple wants consumers to view curated content using their apps.
This isn't a generic 'adblocking' discussion. This is Apple curating content, something they love to do.
Don't show your ignorance. I was at my local Sprint/Radio Shack store on Tuesday. They have done the remodel and the stuff that is no longer going to be sold is on clearance. The big drawer cabinet of parts remains. The Arduino stuff and the pegboards with tools and soldering supplies and bare circuit boards and connectors are still there and not on clearance. There's a divide in the carpeting with two colors, an area with the Sprint and an area with the Radio Shack stuff.
Stick to your hipster Apple Store, if you feel safer, but here in the Midwest there are still Radio Shacks.
It sounds like the layoffs are mostly HP Enterprise people though. You know, IT drones. Not Science and Engineering people.
HP will never recover from the Cold War era when the government would spend infinite amounts of money for the absolute best quality. That doesn't happen anymore. Even Agilent needs to be cost-concious now. The boomers who climbed aboard the company in the 80's thinking they had jobs forever in the back labs have for the most part figured it out, but they're still inclined to blame 'Carly' or whomever was in charge when the endless Fed dollars stopped flowing at the end of the Cold War.
We think so far outside the box that the parts for the project that were supposed to be in the box end up in somebody else's house on their workbench and then are incorporated into their projects instead.
Apple will try to succeed in Television the same way they are trying with Apple Music. They'll go to the producers and try to make the case that free streaming video should be a thing of the past, and try to get Hollywood to shut down Youtube.
It's far from a certainty that they will succeed, with a hardware dongle that is 3 times the price of the existing set-top players currently on the market. Hardware dongles only work where you control the content, i.e. with classic MacOS.
I'm looking forward to Apple TV being a colossal flop. Even though the hardware is doubtless so locked down it's landfill fodder after Apple gives up. It's be nicer if the abandoned hardware was useful to nerds after Apple TV fails, but this is Apple we're talking about.
It's something other than an educational university, it appears.
The way it is now, the 'best' academics hang out as far away as they can from the unwashed undergrads. And yet the undergrads pay a high tuition that funds said academics.
Perhaps there's more to work at a University than hanging out in the labs and research spaces that the undergrads aren't even allowed to enter.
Much of what people communicated in the 19th century wasn't preserved. All those telegrams that should have been filed away neatly! And very little of Oral History was ever recorded.
There's this conceited notion that we can sum up and figure out the world by studying the past. The notion some people have of 'history' presumes that what we have here and now has a permanence. The concept that history has ended and we're just supposed to document everything.
Maybe everything we 'figure out' by digging through the historical record will be forgotten or discarded.
An anecdote: when the Egyptian kings were entombed, they were buried with a lot of mummified cats. In the late 19th century when the British colonialists were excavating the tombs, the remains of the cats were sold as fertilizer.
What you think is important to preserve might not be at all important to anybody in the future.
They could play a game from 2004 but not Minecraft. Go figure.
Please do make a better game. Nobody wants to stand in your way.
The installer for Minecraft for the PC now is an.msi file and it bundles in an embedded JVM. When I noticed, I uninstalled the stand-alone JVM on my machine immediately. I'm pretty sure that has fixed a lot of issues for many people. But I doubt if the long term plans now that Microsoft owns Mojang involve java forever. There's a Visual Studio plugin for Minecraft mods now, and I'm pretty sure the port for XBox isn't java. It's at rev 1.8 and 2.0 probably isn't far off.
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If you want to have fun you can spend the tiny $5 for a virtual console copy of the old game
Clearly Nintendo cares enough about fans of their old games to make them available for almost nothing. I doubt if they bring in a lot of revenue for the effort of producing, selling, and supporting the old games. They know it's important for their customer base so they provide it.
Running pirated copies of their games is not 'embracing' them. Buy a Wii or a 3DS and buy a virtual console version of Contra and Super Mario Bros. Pirating their stuff is distancing yourself.
The existence of Virtual Console versions of these games cancels out the claim of the usual abandonware apologists that 'there is no way to give Nintendo money' so they are entitled to pirate roms of the game.
Just as was the case when the games were sold in their original versions, you can presently buy a Nintendo 3DS handheld, then go onto the Nintendo online shop and buy the 'virtual console' versions of these games.
Nintendo does all the work for you: your purchase gets you a nicely set up game to play on your 3DS. It is NOT the case that they've abandoned their IP and you're entitled to do what you want with it.
The virtual console versions of these old games aren't even expensive. They price them at about $5 each.
Turning off notifications and background functions on apps also helps a lot. If you have four or five 'news' apps all waiting to pop up a headline and a few games making sounds when the cows need feeding, there are a lot of background tasks running, many of which can be disabled in the App Settings.
The Google Play store has a record of every app you have installed. You synch your personal data to the cloud or an SD card, you factory reset the phone, and you log onto your Google account and go into the 'my apps' tab of the Play Store and bring back the apps you really use. Its an easy house-cleaning.
The culty-nichey shtick can only play to certain markets. Apple has little chance in the enterprise. Hence the premise of this article. iPad 'Pro' won't make it in the settings where Surface will.
You're conflating a lot of things. A company can 'soar to the top' on Wall Street and at the same time become exceedingly uncool to users, and especially to nerds.
Retorting with 'but.. but.. look at all their money...' very very uncool. Apple's success has led them in a totally different direction than 'cool'. When companies have great success a whole different sort of people scurry on board.
Some of us noticed it very early. I remember when the iTunes craze was in full fruition. There were promotions all over the place, even on bottle caps and pop cans. Pepsi. I thought back to Jobs' comment to Scully about 'spending the rest of your life selling sugar water to kids' and enjoyed the irony. In the time since it hasn't changed.
I am entering this comment on my Acer Transformer Book, a tablet that runs Windows 8.1.
Have you ever used a Windows tablet? You seem to know little about them, and how they work.
Oh, come off it. There is billions in online advertising, and Apple wants in. haven't you heard of this little company called Google?
Your coy way of dismissing the issue is kind of petty.
Why did I have to read so far down the threads of comments to reach somebody who has figured out what Apple is up to? They want their customers to only see the ads that they get a return on. Apple is fine with the open-web content providers shutting down because of a lack of revenue. Apple wants consumers to view curated content using their apps.
This isn't a generic 'adblocking' discussion. This is Apple curating content, something they love to do.
Don't show your ignorance. I was at my local Sprint/Radio Shack store on Tuesday. They have done the remodel and the stuff that is no longer going to be sold is on clearance. The big drawer cabinet of parts remains. The Arduino stuff and the pegboards with tools and soldering supplies and bare circuit boards and connectors are still there and not on clearance. There's a divide in the carpeting with two colors, an area with the Sprint and an area with the Radio Shack stuff.
Stick to your hipster Apple Store, if you feel safer, but here in the Midwest there are still Radio Shacks.
It sounds like the layoffs are mostly HP Enterprise people though. You know, IT drones. Not Science and Engineering people.
HP will never recover from the Cold War era when the government would spend infinite amounts of money for the absolute best quality. That doesn't happen anymore. Even Agilent needs to be cost-concious now. The boomers who climbed aboard the company in the 80's thinking they had jobs forever in the back labs have for the most part figured it out, but they're still inclined to blame 'Carly' or whomever was in charge when the endless Fed dollars stopped flowing at the end of the Cold War.
But you were explicitly identified and your name checked off a list before receiving the ballot, to assure you only receive one ballot.
We think so far outside the box that the parts for the project that were supposed to be in the box end up in somebody else's house on their workbench and then are incorporated into their projects instead.
No matter what??
Apple will try to succeed in Television the same way they are trying with Apple Music. They'll go to the producers and try to make the case that free streaming video should be a thing of the past, and try to get Hollywood to shut down Youtube.
It's far from a certainty that they will succeed, with a hardware dongle that is 3 times the price of the existing set-top players currently on the market. Hardware dongles only work where you control the content, i.e. with classic MacOS.
I'm looking forward to Apple TV being a colossal flop. Even though the hardware is doubtless so locked down it's landfill fodder after Apple gives up. It's be nicer if the abandoned hardware was useful to nerds after Apple TV fails, but this is Apple we're talking about.
Unprovoked? If Canada was lobbing missiles carrying conventional warheads at Wisconsin an attack on Canada wouldn't be an unprovoked attack.
You say they forced you to take a bible?
Your wife/girlfriend was forced to wear a veil? She wasn't allowed to pick you up at the airport?
They probably mean Apple versus each and every company that makes an Android piece of hardware. That's the tricky kind of logic needed.
Are you just a pedant?
I guess you consider yourself somewhat of an expert on mule shit. Great.
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You're not getting your money back. Maybe you should have said something when they were taxing you.
Put into concrete terms that a slashdotter could understand:
If the Islamists succeed and take over the world, who's going to stop them from burning your porn collection?
It's something other than an educational university, it appears.
The way it is now, the 'best' academics hang out as far away as they can from the unwashed undergrads. And yet the undergrads pay a high tuition that funds said academics.
Perhaps there's more to work at a University than hanging out in the labs and research spaces that the undergrads aren't even allowed to enter.
Much of what people communicated in the 19th century wasn't preserved. All those telegrams that should have been filed away neatly! And very little of Oral History was ever recorded.
There's this conceited notion that we can sum up and figure out the world by studying the past. The notion some people have of 'history' presumes that what we have here and now has a permanence. The concept that history has ended and we're just supposed to document everything.
Maybe everything we 'figure out' by digging through the historical record will be forgotten or discarded.
An anecdote: when the Egyptian kings were entombed, they were buried with a lot of mummified cats. In the late 19th century when the British colonialists were excavating the tombs, the remains of the cats were sold as fertilizer.
What you think is important to preserve might not be at all important to anybody in the future.
They could play a game from 2004 but not Minecraft. Go figure.
Please do make a better game. Nobody wants to stand in your way.
The installer for Minecraft for the PC now is an .msi file and it bundles in an embedded JVM. When I noticed, I uninstalled the stand-alone JVM on my machine immediately. I'm pretty sure that has fixed a lot of issues for many people. But I doubt if the long term plans now that Microsoft owns Mojang involve java forever. There's a Visual Studio plugin for Minecraft mods now, and I'm pretty sure the port for XBox isn't java. It's at rev 1.8 and 2.0 probably isn't far off.
There's a Visual Studio plugin to create Minecraft mods now.
Microsoft is out with a 'beta' version of Minecraft for Windows 10. I suspect it isn't written in java.
Minecraft hasn't hit 2.0 yet, but I predict there will be many surprises for part of the fanbase. Particularly for mod developers.
You have such a strong sense of the inevitable.
You're as smug as the average Italian in 1938. Everything will be okay, and now the trains even run on time!