While the DDR joke is fighting hard for its place amongst Soviet Russia and Welcoming Overlords...
You'd be hard pressed to find one player of that genre game to confess they actually consider it dancing any more than whack-a-mole is a simulator of pest-control.
I don't think it's so much that nobody knows counter notices exist, it's that most people infringing are truly infringing. That small percent that aren't and are bona-fide content creators? They'd sure as hell know. Or at least better know if they're going to put stuff online on sites like YouTube.
That said, it'd be amusing if joeuser@aol.com submits a counter notice about his upload (some awesome video he "found") and then gets sued to high hell since it's "under penalty of perjury" that he asserts there's been a mistake.
Only because of GP mentioning that 1% isn't that big of a lead. It isn't, right now. But that's beceause it's JUST turned over. Give it past the holiday season, that lead isn't going to disappear anytime soon.
Especially considering the MOAB marketing and appeal of Halo 3 for 360 when Wii doesn't have any single behemoth game.
Wii is in a very healthy position and, frankly, 360's healthy position is there only because of some very strong crutches. It can't afford any more mistakes which is probably why the warranties are longer and never model 360's have bigger heat sinks.
It's an important milestone regardless of what the difference is right now.
In the most simply explained manner. Given two lines, if f1(x1) > f2(x1) and f1(x2) f2(x2), then at some point x3 between x1 and x2, f1(x3) = f2(x3).
At some point x3 + dx, abs(f1(x3+dx) - f2(x3+dx)) is infinitely small.
In other words, 1% today, 5% some point in the future? Granted they aren't lines but curves of sales (yeah, so I cheated a little bit, so what?) all it really means is that the sales difference between Wii and 360 is going to continually grow unless some shift in both supply and demand shift for 360 and/or Wii.
And the best part will be that, during your trial (if you even get one), when you try to defend against an algorithm basically being a witness testifying against you, you will not be allowed to know it since that would involve divulging "national security secrets."
I wonder how they'd implement the witness protection program for code?
Anyway, its cracked. There was no doubt it would be cracked. Maybe we never saw mention of the copy protection because all the reviewers were playing pirated copies? Now that would be a laugh. Which once again just proves that draconian copy protection just leads to pirates and scoundrels having a functionally superior version compared to what honest people paid to obtain.
They might as well not put any copy protection on it and save themselves the extra expense. It still would have sold just as well.
They need a lesson in Econ 101 about how supply and demand only works with things that are in DEMAND. Considering the profit margins on physical sales is what's keeping the RIAA machine going, they've got to do something. This is just another sign that their ship is sinking.
Ringle sounds like it'd be a delicious snack, though. Like a Pringle, only flatter.
It's worth mentioning that great games can and do come out by hobbyists and amateurs all the time, many of which may not have graduated from any dedicated game school. Game development "school" is just a cherry-picking of relevant topics that might wind up as part of a general math-heavy CS degree... granted the skills you need for writing games are learned relatively early in that academic path while the skills you need for designing/balancing games are also learned relatively easy along higher mathematics study. Or, you know, just study what already works and try to figure out the keys yourself.
Games that take big bushels of money, what the bloggers now call AAA titles, are simply out of the scope of the little guy trying to break in. You got to bust your chops in smaller endeavors before any executive (with bushels of money to invest) will entrust their resources to your command. You gotta just do it and try and make a name for yourself. The cream of the crop has a way of bubbling up. And if you DON'T hit it big? Well, you're doing it because you love it, right? That IS the point, isn't it? Having passion for what you want to do?
Today's environment has never been better for amateur development. You don't have to know a whole lot of raster wizardry to make 3d graphics any longer. You don't have to be real elegant with data structures to get decent framerates for the models you'll be able to produce on your own. Low-cost and no-cost utilities like Milkshape and Blender are out there and learnable. FMOD plays audio you can author with freeware tracker applications and doesn't require much more than a few library calls. Hell, it used to be that unless you were a coding guru you couldn't get anything done. The hard things have been put to bed with either libraries, compilers, or just because tons of hardware has been thrown at the problem.
Besides, CS and programming people do get hired by game companies even without a special game certificate. If you're going to take studies seriously, you might as well go for a real degree that you can at least take with you (physically and intellecutally) to any modern development task at hand. While yes, specializing is generally better than being balanced, you're not really going to learn anything more out of a gaming school than you would out of a conventional degree plus some passion-driven research.
Perhaps this highlights the toll the ESRB has taken on the gaming universe.
I recently played through Tomb Raider Anniversary with the commentary on. I had forgotten that, in the original Tomb Raider, if Lara would fall atop spikes she would be impaled upon them. It wasn't until the commentary mentioned that they weren't allowed to do it in the remake and keep the rating they needed for the target audience.
Developers of M games don't have their hands tied like those targeting younger audiences. Then again, the lack of games after 2000 making it above #19 is perhaps developers using the M as an excuse to add shock-value violence and sex in substitution for, not in addition to, great game play.
Exploitation is nothing new to any entertainment industry, I suppose.
This is beyond assinine, paying for a feature that, by common sense, one would assume is a simple built-in function of the iphone. And, to think, if they were just plain-jane non-DRM tracks you could just make your 30-second clips yourself. I mean, sheesh, just open the song and seek to the 30 second block and GO GO GO. I wonder if anyone will really ever buy ringtones?
Given that the "temporary" code produced exactly the same results as the revised code, why is it important to this case? The thing is that the analysis really doesn't state where the temporary code is found. It's one thing to be "temporary" because it's a naive implementation, it's another thing to be "temporary" because it's not working accurately but "this code 'should' work until we can get around to analyzing it."
Is a drink-driver going to be let off because the manufacturer intended to release a later revision of the device which had a better battery life by running more efficient algorithms? More like the sober driver is going to get the book thrown at him due to a machine whose "temporary" code ignores errors until they happen more than a certain amount of the time. People's livlihoods are at stake. Marked with the scarlet letters DUI pretty much ruins your life, especially when you're above it and have a lot more to lose than some drunken redneck joyrider.
The federal government often offloads things from the state's control to their own. For example, the EPA mandated minimum mpg could have been raised so high that every vehicle would qualify to be a PZEV (although not defined by mpg but volume of pollutants, there's an equivalence somewhere on the graph).
Whether one should call it Bush's fault if his inaction prevents environmental progress from happening is another story altogether.:)
Considering the Nano was marketed as something you can finally put into the coins pocket of your jeans, and is how I can carry it and not get it thrown into the cauldron of my pockets with cellphone and keys and wallet and coins, I'd be disappointed if it was discontinued.
I wonder how many people jumped ship from iPod when the Mini was cancelled in favor of the Nano?
No, but really, it does default to AAC. Since iTunes 5 as of two years ago.
It's easy enough to set to mp3, though. Certainly no harder than setting a preference in any other application. My complaint is that the mp3 encoder is just par compared to BeSweet's great encoder.
I really really REALLY hope Haze does stay as a PS3 exclusive... Would you mind elaborating further? I don't know whether I'm missing insight into it or something, but, if each platform gets a nicely optimized coversion of a game, what's the harm? It can come out nice and shiny and new on the PS3 and there could be a 360 version with less sparkle released at the same time and it wouldn't diminish from your gaming experience in the slightest.
Of course, there's always the problem with bad and lazy ports, but Free Radical, AFAIK, is usually pretty tight when it comes to code.
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I remember the same discussion when DDR2 was hitting stores.
While the DDR joke is fighting hard for its place amongst Soviet Russia and Welcoming Overlords...
You'd be hard pressed to find one player of that genre game to confess they actually consider it dancing any more than whack-a-mole is a simulator of pest-control.
'Almost no one ever files a counter notice...'
I don't think it's so much that nobody knows counter notices exist, it's that most people infringing are truly infringing. That small percent that aren't and are bona-fide content creators? They'd sure as hell know. Or at least better know if they're going to put stuff online on sites like YouTube.
That said, it'd be amusing if joeuser@aol.com submits a counter notice about his upload (some awesome video he "found") and then gets sued to high hell since it's "under penalty of perjury" that he asserts there's been a mistake.
Only because of GP mentioning that 1% isn't that big of a lead. It isn't, right now. But that's beceause it's JUST turned over. Give it past the holiday season, that lead isn't going to disappear anytime soon.
Especially considering the MOAB marketing and appeal of Halo 3 for 360 when Wii doesn't have any single behemoth game.
Wii is in a very healthy position and, frankly, 360's healthy position is there only because of some very strong crutches. It can't afford any more mistakes which is probably why the warranties are longer and never model 360's have bigger heat sinks.
It's an important milestone regardless of what the difference is right now.
In the most simply explained manner. Given two lines, if f1(x1) > f2(x1) and f1(x2) f2(x2), then at some point x3 between x1 and x2, f1(x3) = f2(x3).
At some point x3 + dx, abs(f1(x3+dx) - f2(x3+dx)) is infinitely small.
In other words, 1% today, 5% some point in the future? Granted they aren't lines but curves of sales (yeah, so I cheated a little bit, so what?) all it really means is that the sales difference between Wii and 360 is going to continually grow unless some shift in both supply and demand shift for 360 and/or Wii.
We have a right (and I'd say responsibility) to protect ourselves from threats.
So grandparent first post is redundant and parent post is a troll? Yipes.
Can I meta-moderate again today, please?
And the best part will be that, during your trial (if you even get one), when you try to defend against an algorithm basically being a witness testifying against you, you will not be allowed to know it since that would involve divulging "national security secrets."
I wonder how they'd implement the witness protection program for code?
They might as well not put any copy protection on it and save themselves the extra expense. It still would have sold just as well.
Surely those on the Zune marketing team aren't holdovers from the DOS 5 days, right?
Can't watch it at work, but is it any more hallucinogenic than this Windows/386 promo video?
Ringle sounds like it'd be a delicious snack, though. Like a Pringle, only flatter.
Indeed. No disagreement whatsoever. Ultimately, financial investment doesn't cover up for a lack of craft investment.
:)
I mean, imagine if all those unworthy Tetris and Pac Man clones found their way onto the retail shelf? *shudder*
It's worth mentioning that great games can and do come out by hobbyists and amateurs all the time, many of which may not have graduated from any dedicated game school. Game development "school" is just a cherry-picking of relevant topics that might wind up as part of a general math-heavy CS degree... granted the skills you need for writing games are learned relatively early in that academic path while the skills you need for designing/balancing games are also learned relatively easy along higher mathematics study. Or, you know, just study what already works and try to figure out the keys yourself.
Games that take big bushels of money, what the bloggers now call AAA titles, are simply out of the scope of the little guy trying to break in. You got to bust your chops in smaller endeavors before any executive (with bushels of money to invest) will entrust their resources to your command. You gotta just do it and try and make a name for yourself. The cream of the crop has a way of bubbling up. And if you DON'T hit it big? Well, you're doing it because you love it, right? That IS the point, isn't it? Having passion for what you want to do?
Today's environment has never been better for amateur development. You don't have to know a whole lot of raster wizardry to make 3d graphics any longer. You don't have to be real elegant with data structures to get decent framerates for the models you'll be able to produce on your own. Low-cost and no-cost utilities like Milkshape and Blender are out there and learnable. FMOD plays audio you can author with freeware tracker applications and doesn't require much more than a few library calls. Hell, it used to be that unless you were a coding guru you couldn't get anything done. The hard things have been put to bed with either libraries, compilers, or just because tons of hardware has been thrown at the problem.
Besides, CS and programming people do get hired by game companies even without a special game certificate. If you're going to take studies seriously, you might as well go for a real degree that you can at least take with you (physically and intellecutally) to any modern development task at hand. While yes, specializing is generally better than being balanced, you're not really going to learn anything more out of a gaming school than you would out of a conventional degree plus some passion-driven research.
Perhaps this highlights the toll the ESRB has taken on the gaming universe.
I recently played through Tomb Raider Anniversary with the commentary on. I had forgotten that, in the original Tomb Raider, if Lara would fall atop spikes she would be impaled upon them. It wasn't until the commentary mentioned that they weren't allowed to do it in the remake and keep the rating they needed for the target audience.
Developers of M games don't have their hands tied like those targeting younger audiences. Then again, the lack of games after 2000 making it above #19 is perhaps developers using the M as an excuse to add shock-value violence and sex in substitution for, not in addition to, great game play.
Exploitation is nothing new to any entertainment industry, I suppose.
It won't fit in my coin pocket, though. :(
Hopefully there'll be a shakeout of clearance 8GB Nano slims soon and I can nab one before it's gone.
The federal government often offloads things from the state's control to their own. For example, the EPA mandated minimum mpg could have been raised so high that every vehicle would qualify to be a PZEV (although not defined by mpg but volume of pollutants, there's an equivalence somewhere on the graph).
:)
Whether one should call it Bush's fault if his inaction prevents environmental progress from happening is another story altogether.
Considering the Nano was marketed as something you can finally put into the coins pocket of your jeans, and is how I can carry it and not get it thrown into the cauldron of my pockets with cellphone and keys and wallet and coins, I'd be disappointed if it was discontinued.
I wonder how many people jumped ship from iPod when the Mini was cancelled in favor of the Nano?
Seems to me that we're behaving ourselves, actually. The weeks approaching the launch of the iPhone had about 4 - 5 "news" articles per week.
No, but really, it does default to AAC. Since iTunes 5 as of two years ago.
It's easy enough to set to mp3, though. Certainly no harder than setting a preference in any other application. My complaint is that the mp3 encoder is just par compared to BeSweet's great encoder.
Depends on the rest of the specs. If you have a muscle car with more power for less fuel, certainly it's worth noting.
Of course, there's always the problem with bad and lazy ports, but Free Radical, AFAIK, is usually pretty tight when it comes to code.