It's pretty clear they are referring to a sequence of purchase of game, tie game key to user account, sync user account and game key with your copy of game and the steam servers, play that copy of that game on that computer offline for a temporary period of time. That sounds like a pretty clear requirement of internet connection in order to play the game.
The advent of "reality television" as an identified genre is different from the advent of it as a style of production. You are using a tautology here, of course before we identified a style of production as the "reality television" style we did not label things as belonging to it. Think about it.
Which has nothing to do with preventing piracy, therefore this is all supporting argument for why Nintendo just may care about this beyond the piracy factor.
They will just say that your action, being proscribed by the terms of service, constitutes a termination on your part, not theirs. You were the one to commit an action invoking a termination clause.
He should provide supporting arguments because, clearly and obviously, I could as easily say that everybody knows Nintendo doesn't care about piracy they just hate homebrew. If you disagree with that you are being obtuse.
What is clear and obvious to me is that the horribly written question posed in the summary was intended to be inflammatory and spark discussion, but despite that already recognizes that the primary motivator for Nintendo is likely to be piracy. The question was whether or not homebrew projects are intentionally being targeted, or just an unfortunate casualty in the war on piracy. I just wanted them to not be a boor who tosses out ad-hoc's, and actually participate in a discussion. This is done as simply as deleting the second sentance of the post, and instead putting "I don't believe homebrew is on a significant enough scale to even be on the Nintendo radar" at which point somebody actually has something of substance to respond to.
Honest? I honestly don't know whether or not Nintendo cares about homebrew, I just believe that they should. I don't want them to care about it because they see it as a threat, I want them to care about it the way that Valve cared about Day of Defeat, recognizing that somebody not the original producer of a product has created added value that consumers appreciate. If it were not possible to dump a commercial rom to it, it would still be useful for homebrew applications like pocket dictionaries and media players.
Homebrew products are competing directly with Nintendo products. The question was clearly biased and poorly written, but it was phrased as this or also this, not this or that. There is an argument to be made that Nintendo would also be motivated by the chilling effect this could have on people developing and using software they do not recieve a licensing fee for. Nintendo even recently announced the official Nintendo MP3 Player will be launching this fall. It is a cartridge that accepts SD cards. Now where have we heard about devices like that....
I want to carry around all of them. There is no reason the amount of games I have available on my DS should be restricted by something beyond the amount of games I can both afford to purchase, and afford a large enough flash to pack them all into.
Then you did not understand it. I'm sure you're doing all kinds of wonderful things with your R4, but that doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of people use them for piracy, and neither does it change the fact that neither you nor anybody else in the homebrew scene is any kind of threat to the established developers.
There wasn't much to understand, you made a statement with no supporting argument and said anybody that didn't already agree with you was severely delusional. Beyond that, is there some sort of document explaining how vast a majority must be to qualify something as "piracy paraphenelia" and make legitimate use unworthy of protecting? The makers of the R4 itself can be considered part of the homebrew scene, and clearly they are some kind of threat since they are being battled?
If it is so clear and obvious as to make one "severely delusional" to consider alternative motivations, it would be nice if you provided some form of supporting content for the statement.
Any amount of cartridge swapping creates new oppurtunity for misplacing of said cartridge. How many games does somebody need to own before it is considered an acceptably large amount of games that space saving is allowed?
Many settlements specifically contain the wording "with no admission of guilt" so there is no basis for stating whether or not a party who settles was guilty. Just because lawyers want to cash in on a class action lawsuit does not mean these same parties that decided the least burdensome way to resolve the situation was a settlement now want to put up with getting a new lawsuit started.
For the most part the idea is that educational games, being games specifically designed to educate, are actually a good tool for educating. They are not mainstream, and mainstream games are not being created with the intent of being educational. However, one mainstream strategy game that has great potential as an educational tool would be the Civilization series, where you actually have to maintain a budget, plan an infrastructure, create a foreign policy and so on. It has all kinds of potential tie ins as well, every new technology and wonder that is based on something historic is a chance to teach about that.
To me, the best part about the leeching concept is that torrents tend to operate like a pyramid scheme. With the initial seeder always having an infinite ratio, it's not actually possible for everybody to have a 1:1 ratio. Your torrent would require infinite growth in order to be assured that everyone can get to 1:1. Once new downloaders stop joining the tracker, you have a set number of copies transferred that is going to be distributed amongst participants in the torrent. Torrents are already built around the concept of clients with more seeding ability being prioritized to receive new chunks they require before less able to seed clients.
It's not that it would have trouble with the input, it's just that the delay from converting the data from the old format to a format your new TV can see takes processor time meaning what is taking place on your screen is what the 2600 told it to show two seconds ago. There is a delay for the 360 and PS3 as well, it just happens to be small enough to not notice.
Or even, so you can watch some public broadcasting for shows that will improve your conversational english and math skills to help qualify yourself for a better job to increase your income.
The number presented at the congressional hearings about the DTV switchover was "19 percent, roughly 21 million U.S. households rely exclusively on free over-the-air television." This being the hearing where the General Accounting Office said that the subsidy for set-top-boxes could exceed $10 billion.
Maybe kind of, but not really. We're not talking about something like a scientist from NASA, after pressure from the White House, publishing a report with dubious or even anti-factual science. We're talking about a policy of an agency that was not created under the current administration and corresponds with the policy for the use of vaccines in children in many countries.
To adapt a well known phrase "Your right to get your child sick ends at drooling your mumps infected saliva all over my school." Of course you don't actually have the right to get your child sick, that would be endangerment. Not getting vaccinated it not the same as actively seeking out the disease, so it becomes a question of which is of greater risk. If the idea behind vaccination is the pursuit of herd immunity, we want to minimize the number of people that don't receive vaccinations and immunizations to those that have a legitimate medical reason not to.
Actually 95% is a pretty damn good target for vaccination against most diseases in order to achieve herd immunity. As long as the 5% don't all live in the same place you will have enough of a buffer to hinder spreads from patient zero.
Where are we going with this exactly? There are grandmas who do both of those things, yes. mtv.com even has old grandma hardcore reviewing games for them. You can check out the blog http://oghc.blogspot.com/ run by her grandson, you might be interested in the "Comics Grandma Reads" section on the right hand side. So what insight am I supposed to be gaining here?
Of course the pitfall here being that if you go down the route of using the "lurid or sensationalist" definition of pornographic, Fox News is far more pornographic then any individual game they are calling pornographic. Well made RPGs are a set of diverging and converging plots, the best ones creating a series of ethical and moral decisions for the player within the scope of the game. What if you are trying to create a situation where the choice made by the player has not just game world consequences but an emotional impact on the player? More details of the results are necessary. Let's say I don't approve of inter species sexual contact, but if I let Mohan-Hoar grope me a little he will give me access to the munitions locker. I have to decide whether the no mixing policy is more important then my bigger guns are better guns policy. If the entire interaction is just a binary text choice "Do you let yourself get groped? 1.Yes 2.NO!" and then the door just opens or not, it's easier to ignore the fact that you made any choice. If you have to watch a well animated thirty second interaction between the characters, it will make a significant, indeed a necessary, difference.
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It's pretty clear they are referring to a sequence of purchase of game, tie game key to user account, sync user account and game key with your copy of game and the steam servers, play that copy of that game on that computer offline for a temporary period of time. That sounds like a pretty clear requirement of internet connection in order to play the game.
Does the right not to support extend into a right to prevent others from supporting you?
The advent of "reality television" as an identified genre is different from the advent of it as a style of production. You are using a tautology here, of course before we identified a style of production as the "reality television" style we did not label things as belonging to it. Think about it.
Which has nothing to do with preventing piracy, therefore this is all supporting argument for why Nintendo just may care about this beyond the piracy factor.
They will just say that your action, being proscribed by the terms of service, constitutes a termination on your part, not theirs. You were the one to commit an action invoking a termination clause.
He should provide supporting arguments because, clearly and obviously, I could as easily say that everybody knows Nintendo doesn't care about piracy they just hate homebrew. If you disagree with that you are being obtuse. What is clear and obvious to me is that the horribly written question posed in the summary was intended to be inflammatory and spark discussion, but despite that already recognizes that the primary motivator for Nintendo is likely to be piracy. The question was whether or not homebrew projects are intentionally being targeted, or just an unfortunate casualty in the war on piracy. I just wanted them to not be a boor who tosses out ad-hoc's, and actually participate in a discussion. This is done as simply as deleting the second sentance of the post, and instead putting "I don't believe homebrew is on a significant enough scale to even be on the Nintendo radar" at which point somebody actually has something of substance to respond to.
I should care about whether somethign hurts the company over it hurting the consumer why?
Of course this is where it gets really fun, what if you could pay to download the ROM dump from the Nintendo website?
Honest? I honestly don't know whether or not Nintendo cares about homebrew, I just believe that they should. I don't want them to care about it because they see it as a threat, I want them to care about it the way that Valve cared about Day of Defeat, recognizing that somebody not the original producer of a product has created added value that consumers appreciate. If it were not possible to dump a commercial rom to it, it would still be useful for homebrew applications like pocket dictionaries and media players.
Homebrew products are competing directly with Nintendo products. The question was clearly biased and poorly written, but it was phrased as this or also this, not this or that. There is an argument to be made that Nintendo would also be motivated by the chilling effect this could have on people developing and using software they do not recieve a licensing fee for. Nintendo even recently announced the official Nintendo MP3 Player will be launching this fall. It is a cartridge that accepts SD cards. Now where have we heard about devices like that....
I want to carry around all of them. There is no reason the amount of games I have available on my DS should be restricted by something beyond the amount of games I can both afford to purchase, and afford a large enough flash to pack them all into.
Wow, I feel personally offended by such comment.
Then you did not understand it. I'm sure you're doing all kinds of wonderful things with your R4, but that doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of people use them for piracy, and neither does it change the fact that neither you nor anybody else in the homebrew scene is any kind of threat to the established developers.
There wasn't much to understand, you made a statement with no supporting argument and said anybody that didn't already agree with you was severely delusional. Beyond that, is there some sort of document explaining how vast a majority must be to qualify something as "piracy paraphenelia" and make legitimate use unworthy of protecting? The makers of the R4 itself can be considered part of the homebrew scene, and clearly they are some kind of threat since they are being battled?
If it is so clear and obvious as to make one "severely delusional" to consider alternative motivations, it would be nice if you provided some form of supporting content for the statement.
Any amount of cartridge swapping creates new oppurtunity for misplacing of said cartridge. How many games does somebody need to own before it is considered an acceptably large amount of games that space saving is allowed?
Many settlements specifically contain the wording "with no admission of guilt" so there is no basis for stating whether or not a party who settles was guilty. Just because lawyers want to cash in on a class action lawsuit does not mean these same parties that decided the least burdensome way to resolve the situation was a settlement now want to put up with getting a new lawsuit started.
For the most part the idea is that educational games, being games specifically designed to educate, are actually a good tool for educating. They are not mainstream, and mainstream games are not being created with the intent of being educational. However, one mainstream strategy game that has great potential as an educational tool would be the Civilization series, where you actually have to maintain a budget, plan an infrastructure, create a foreign policy and so on. It has all kinds of potential tie ins as well, every new technology and wonder that is based on something historic is a chance to teach about that.
To me, the best part about the leeching concept is that torrents tend to operate like a pyramid scheme. With the initial seeder always having an infinite ratio, it's not actually possible for everybody to have a 1:1 ratio. Your torrent would require infinite growth in order to be assured that everyone can get to 1:1. Once new downloaders stop joining the tracker, you have a set number of copies transferred that is going to be distributed amongst participants in the torrent. Torrents are already built around the concept of clients with more seeding ability being prioritized to receive new chunks they require before less able to seed clients.
It's not that it would have trouble with the input, it's just that the delay from converting the data from the old format to a format your new TV can see takes processor time meaning what is taking place on your screen is what the 2600 told it to show two seconds ago. There is a delay for the 360 and PS3 as well, it just happens to be small enough to not notice.
Or even, so you can watch some public broadcasting for shows that will improve your conversational english and math skills to help qualify yourself for a better job to increase your income.
The number presented at the congressional hearings about the DTV switchover was "19 percent, roughly 21 million U.S. households rely exclusively on free over-the-air television." This being the hearing where the General Accounting Office said that the subsidy for set-top-boxes could exceed $10 billion.
Maybe kind of, but not really. We're not talking about something like a scientist from NASA, after pressure from the White House, publishing a report with dubious or even anti-factual science. We're talking about a policy of an agency that was not created under the current administration and corresponds with the policy for the use of vaccines in children in many countries.
To adapt a well known phrase "Your right to get your child sick ends at drooling your mumps infected saliva all over my school." Of course you don't actually have the right to get your child sick, that would be endangerment. Not getting vaccinated it not the same as actively seeking out the disease, so it becomes a question of which is of greater risk. If the idea behind vaccination is the pursuit of herd immunity, we want to minimize the number of people that don't receive vaccinations and immunizations to those that have a legitimate medical reason not to.
Actually 95% is a pretty damn good target for vaccination against most diseases in order to achieve herd immunity. As long as the 5% don't all live in the same place you will have enough of a buffer to hinder spreads from patient zero.
Where are we going with this exactly? There are grandmas who do both of those things, yes. mtv.com even has old grandma hardcore reviewing games for them. You can check out the blog http://oghc.blogspot.com/ run by her grandson, you might be interested in the "Comics Grandma Reads" section on the right hand side. So what insight am I supposed to be gaining here?
Of course the pitfall here being that if you go down the route of using the "lurid or sensationalist" definition of pornographic, Fox News is far more pornographic then any individual game they are calling pornographic. Well made RPGs are a set of diverging and converging plots, the best ones creating a series of ethical and moral decisions for the player within the scope of the game. What if you are trying to create a situation where the choice made by the player has not just game world consequences but an emotional impact on the player? More details of the results are necessary. Let's say I don't approve of inter species sexual contact, but if I let Mohan-Hoar grope me a little he will give me access to the munitions locker. I have to decide whether the no mixing policy is more important then my bigger guns are better guns policy. If the entire interaction is just a binary text choice "Do you let yourself get groped? 1.Yes 2.NO!" and then the door just opens or not, it's easier to ignore the fact that you made any choice. If you have to watch a well animated thirty second interaction between the characters, it will make a significant, indeed a necessary, difference.