Come on, the destruction of the ring is NOT the ending of the story! Look at what happened after the ring was destroyed: Hobbits go home, and find the Shire enslaved! Just because Sauron is gone doesn't mean that there is nothing else to do. New enemies come and go. Really, the destruction of the ring is merely the end of the Third Age. Fourth age begins. Once you get there, you have a HUGE world to add all sorts of fun stories to.
I'd say Sega slaughtered itself more than Sony did. The Dreamcast's lack of copy protection, while great for homebrew, made it a very easy target for software piracy. It's incredibly difficult to get a good balance. While I would prefer consoles to be incredibly simple to run custom software on, game developers do need to be able to sell their games, instead of users just downloading and burning them.
Also, the controller wasn't all that comfortable to use, and having the cord coming out on the side facing the player was a rather poor design decision. The VMU was cool, though.
In New York, it is illegal for movie theaters to admit children under 17 to R-rated films without a parent present (I know, I grew up there, and every time I'm there, I still get ID'd for R-rated films). Spitzer simply wants to extend this regulation to the retail sale of BOTH video games and movies. Also, the article mentions that it is according to the RATINGS of the media.
I know it's too much to expect those here on/. to RTFA, but all of the above is mentioned in TFA, though in far fewer words.
Get friendly with the people at wal-mart. Learn when they normally get their shipments, how often they come, how many they get, and what time the sale of new shipments starts.
For example, I learned that my local wal-mart ALWAYS gets them in on Sundays, and they start selling at 8 am. Also, they do not put 'em out in electronics, but hide them over in Customer Service. As soon as I learned this, I was there the next Sunday morning at 9:30. They had 4 Wiis sitting there in the counter in CS (out of 5 received that day). I walked out with one, then went over to electronics to pick up some games, and directed a few people over to CS. They came back and thanked me after.
It's all about asking the right questions of the people who know the answers.
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Disable hardware acceleration of video, and you'll get your printed screens just fine.
Well, just go take a look at the ScummVM downloads page, where you can see all the ports of ScummVM available. I'll leave it up to you to guess which one they ported it from, but PS3 isn't even on that list.
Perhaps this is Capcom's way of practicing with new control schemes enabled by the Wii without having to invest a large amount of money into developing an all-new game? Sure, they'll make a bit of extra money off of an older game in the process, but if it means better games in the future, does it really matter?
If anything, the Wii's graphics will be a step up from PS2/GC. Also, it does not make sense to re-release the game on PS3, as that would require massive investments into getting it running on Cell, as well as re-doing every art asset in the game to bring it to a higher quality. Just sticking an old game onto a brand-new console does not magically upgrade the graphics. Lower-resolution textures usually look pretty bad when viewed at the higher resolutions. Sure, you can do tricks like upsampling, but why bother when the PS3's market share is nothing compared to the Wii's? It just doesn't make sense to have to do more work on the game for fewer customers.
Yet the attention in these cases is still split. Good guitarists listen to the rest of the band to stay together, engage the audience as they play, sing along, and dance or perform some other sort of movement. With practice, doing all of these activities simultaneously becomes easier.
The trick is presenting the information in a way that does not require much attention. After a person has been using such a device for an extended time, wouldn't the attention required to use it be reduced, similar to being able to process other sensory data simultaneously? Sure, talking on a hands-free phone while driving consumes some attention, but the more I do it, the more natural and less attention-consuming it becomes.
YouTube is meant to be a video site of user-generated content. The problem is when the users upload copyrighted materials to the service. Google/YouTube itself isn't actually uploading these clips, they're just not "automatically" removing the copyrighted works. Until we have an AI capable of watching movies to tell if they are copyrighted (and one that knows enough about parody and other fair use cases), there will be no reliable way of doing this automatically.
Also, don't rely on the HDD before it surpasses its manufacturer warranty. All the warranty means is you get a replacement if it breaks - it doesn't provide any extra guarantees of the disk not failing.
I sure hope mine doesn't close. It's the only place within a 5 hour drive that I can buy Bawls! My only alternative is to pay twice the price from thinkgeek...
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Come on, the destruction of the ring is NOT the ending of the story! Look at what happened after the ring was destroyed: Hobbits go home, and find the Shire enslaved! Just because Sauron is gone doesn't mean that there is nothing else to do. New enemies come and go. Really, the destruction of the ring is merely the end of the Third Age. Fourth age begins. Once you get there, you have a HUGE world to add all sorts of fun stories to.
I'd say Sega slaughtered itself more than Sony did. The Dreamcast's lack of copy protection, while great for homebrew, made it a very easy target for software piracy. It's incredibly difficult to get a good balance. While I would prefer consoles to be incredibly simple to run custom software on, game developers do need to be able to sell their games, instead of users just downloading and burning them.
Also, the controller wasn't all that comfortable to use, and having the cord coming out on the side facing the player was a rather poor design decision. The VMU was cool, though.
For one, there's the potential to run the game on Linux - see Unreal Tournament 2004.
Why not just develop for OpenGL?
In New York, it is illegal for movie theaters to admit children under 17 to R-rated films without a parent present (I know, I grew up there, and every time I'm there, I still get ID'd for R-rated films). Spitzer simply wants to extend this regulation to the retail sale of BOTH video games and movies. Also, the article mentions that it is according to the RATINGS of the media.
/. to RTFA, but all of the above is mentioned in TFA, though in far fewer words.
I know it's too much to expect those here on
One word: Taurens.
Get friendly with the people at wal-mart. Learn when they normally get their shipments, how often they come, how many they get, and what time the sale of new shipments starts.
For example, I learned that my local wal-mart ALWAYS gets them in on Sundays, and they start selling at 8 am. Also, they do not put 'em out in electronics, but hide them over in Customer Service. As soon as I learned this, I was there the next Sunday morning at 9:30. They had 4 Wiis sitting there in the counter in CS (out of 5 received that day). I walked out with one, then went over to electronics to pick up some games, and directed a few people over to CS. They came back and thanked me after.
It's all about asking the right questions of the people who know the answers.
Disable hardware acceleration of video, and you'll get your printed screens just fine.
Well, just go take a look at the ScummVM downloads page, where you can see all the ports of ScummVM available. I'll leave it up to you to guess which one they ported it from, but PS3 isn't even on that list.
This is even in Guild Wars: Factions! (Alliance Battles)
Perhaps this is Capcom's way of practicing with new control schemes enabled by the Wii without having to invest a large amount of money into developing an all-new game? Sure, they'll make a bit of extra money off of an older game in the process, but if it means better games in the future, does it really matter?
And by "upsampling," I mean "upscaling."
If anything, the Wii's graphics will be a step up from PS2/GC. Also, it does not make sense to re-release the game on PS3, as that would require massive investments into getting it running on Cell, as well as re-doing every art asset in the game to bring it to a higher quality. Just sticking an old game onto a brand-new console does not magically upgrade the graphics. Lower-resolution textures usually look pretty bad when viewed at the higher resolutions. Sure, you can do tricks like upsampling, but why bother when the PS3's market share is nothing compared to the Wii's? It just doesn't make sense to have to do more work on the game for fewer customers.
Yet the attention in these cases is still split. Good guitarists listen to the rest of the band to stay together, engage the audience as they play, sing along, and dance or perform some other sort of movement. With practice, doing all of these activities simultaneously becomes easier.
The trick is presenting the information in a way that does not require much attention. After a person has been using such a device for an extended time, wouldn't the attention required to use it be reduced, similar to being able to process other sensory data simultaneously? Sure, talking on a hands-free phone while driving consumes some attention, but the more I do it, the more natural and less attention-consuming it becomes.
I don't know, but to follow up, will "tasting" a hyperintelligent shade of blue make one more intelligent?
YouTube is meant to be a video site of user-generated content. The problem is when the users upload copyrighted materials to the service. Google/YouTube itself isn't actually uploading these clips, they're just not "automatically" removing the copyrighted works. Until we have an AI capable of watching movies to tell if they are copyrighted (and one that knows enough about parody and other fair use cases), there will be no reliable way of doing this automatically.
Also, don't rely on the HDD before it surpasses its manufacturer warranty. All the warranty means is you get a replacement if it breaks - it doesn't provide any extra guarantees of the disk not failing.
Not sure how that link got messed up. Here's a proper one: http://www.chillingeffects.org/question.cgi?Questi onID=132 (DMCA Counter-notice)
but why not send off one of these? ahref=http://www.chillingeffects.org/question.cgi? QuestionID=132rel=url2html-24118http://www.chillin geffects.org/question.cgi?QuestionID=132 >
I sure hope mine doesn't close. It's the only place within a 5 hour drive that I can buy Bawls! My only alternative is to pay twice the price from thinkgeek...
Maybe a better term would be "Counter-hacker?" I don't know, really... from the article, it sounds like he hacked their hackers.
Yeah, ads in games... http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/19