I like how they're creating a system to make it easier for users to engage in conduct that the publishers don't want to happen, but still want the publishers' support to help guard against buyer/seller fraud.
I like how they say how bad bots and exploits are, but they have no in game method to watch it.
A startup company shouldn't start with the double-talk until the actually start being successful.
How does this errata compare to previous generations or even AMDs? I wonder if any increase could be from rushing Core 2 to market to kick AMD's flagship CPU off the top of the heap.
Please mod parent +1 informative. That link unambiguously answered all official Wii development questions I had... and simultaneously crushed my dreams.:(
Perhaps more context was needed. The latest Adobe Flash is $700 on their web site. Flash sucks? Visual Studio Express edition is free, and so are a lot of other IDEs (or go naked like we used to in the old and painful days). XNA Direct X SDK is free. Plus there are a lot more Windows machines than Wiis out there and the dev house can control the distribution method. They could even sign up and be part of Steam or something if they want it to be a money making venture.
I'd like to see something like a Wii SDK, a server application that you can set up on your PC that the Wii can connect to, and an official Wii-mote adapter and supplimentary sensor bar you can plug into your PC for input sampling for a few hundred bucks. Tops.
If you and a bunch of buddies have that killer idea that can get yourself off the ground but don't have the upfront capital, you're just going to wind up skipping this round and moving to PC.
Really? I'll believe it when I see small garage-style shop priced Wii dev kits. Moreover, even from TFA, Nintendo only does a QA check on the games and leaves important things, like ESRB ratings, to the developer.
I'd personally like to see ESRB-free hobbyist-targeted Wii development, maybe like Microsoft's XNA initiative.
Furthermore, it'd be nice to make them available for download for minimal price (as there is minimal COST of pushing bits over a network). But now I'm just being overly wishful.
I don't quite agree with the premise of class divisions through web sites. The difference between signing up for either is whose registration forms one uses. Socio-economic class divisions are most certainly harder to jump across than just using a web site. And, on the internet, what's to stop someone from being a member of both Myspace and Facebook?
IANAS (I Am Not A Sociologist), but I think the might mean cultural divisions. Posts to, say,/. differ from Something Awful which differ from Newgrounds which differ from Myspace and so on and so on.
Is it because the community that forms around the site, which was ultimately created targeted at a demographic?
The difference is that broadcast TV signal is useable by any TV regardless of the brand. Requiring a Microsoft player on a standard run-of-the-mill PC as opposed to a player-agnostic format isn't the same as requiring new equipment for new functionality.
Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I'm not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
I'd agree with parent if this wasn't the 3rd front-page iPhone article on/. this week! This thing's got more buzz than a beekeeper opening a beehive. And it's a whole cult of Apple fandom.
Right now I'm just embarassed. My embarassment to like Apple hardware at this point is what I imagine my embarassment to like Star Trek if Patrick Stewart was found picking up a $25 hooker in a towncar.
We've got comments in this very topic claiming that if Apple made the N-Gage it'd be perfect, as if Apple never made anything that failed (preemptive follow-up: if an Apple product fails it's OBVIOUSLY because the public is too stupid to know genius when they see it </sarcasm>), one marked insightful claiming Apple made portable music cool for the masses ignoring a good 20 years of prior art, and... geez, I can't even keep reading else I'd lose my lunch.
Are we really that lacking in religion that we have to manufacture one out of a company? Seems to me like a bunch of people need to take a cold shower already.
While no longer linked from the front page, this link still works.
Basically, the content was provided free provided it remained for non-commercial use. After all, commercial ventures have to pay for those listings and if they could get it for free, nobody would pay.
I hope they at least tried to weed out the abusers before just cutting the cable.
Because the movie industry already learned what the gaming industry has yet to.
Lobbyists and campaign contributions. Lots of them.
Plus the MPAA is less of a self-regulating body for content anymore than just a congregation of massive corporations. By selling an unrated version for home viewing 6 - 24 months after a theatrical release, there's not just the potential customers that didn't see the movie, but also the potential customers that already paid $8 a head to see it.
That worked up until Intel Core... I was a AMD only buyer until then too, but now, Core uses less power, Core is faster at lower clock speeds, Core is just an all round nice guy in the CPU world, it does what it should do much better than AMD.
Or, rather, it worked easily up until Core. Now that AMD is no longer top performance dog it's harder to justify a purchase beyond supporting a company flag.
Now you have to decide whether the increase in benefits of an Intel processor is worth, well, supporting Intel.
The point of voting with you wallet is that you purchase according to your own convictions. If your convictions place a price:performance ratio above corporate behavior, then so be it: don't look back.
There is no federal mandate. A publicly funded school is at the state level (but can accept federal money in form of grants and scholarships), which means it's probably up to the state to determine.
In a culture where employment for life within the same company is the ideal, for someone to step down for something that's not a problem is pretty rare.
That said, he's not being outed like Nintendo outed Gunpei Yokoi. He's still going to be an "advisor" outside the board... whatever that means. Yokoi was basically showed the door after the Virtual Boy: a failure far worse than the PS3.
A good game has a well defined difficulty curve. What I found really interesting about this one is that the final stage is a hypothetical environment where redistricting reform is implemented and you're forced to define zones of near-equal population without any information provided for race or party affiliation.
That "final environment" is impossible to complete while keeping all the incumbents in their seats.
Which is the whole point, AFAIK, one I wholeheartedly agree with.
It's too bad there's no way to download the game and mirror it elsewhere or just hold onto a copy. Little gems like this are likely to disappear after a few months.
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I like how they're creating a system to make it easier for users to engage in conduct that the publishers don't want to happen, but still want the publishers' support to help guard against buyer/seller fraud.
I like how they say how bad bots and exploits are, but they have no in game method to watch it.
A startup company shouldn't start with the double-talk until the actually start being successful.
How does this errata compare to previous generations or even AMDs? I wonder if any increase could be from rushing Core 2 to market to kick AMD's flagship CPU off the top of the heap.
If for no other reason than you have to learn all kinds of interesting things from breaking things, no?
I, for one, would up learning the precise meaning of this poem:
Pretty to look at
Nice to hold
If you break it
Consider it sold.
Please mod parent +1 informative. That link unambiguously answered all official Wii development questions I had... and simultaneously crushed my dreams. :(
Perhaps more context was needed. The latest Adobe Flash is $700 on their web site. Flash sucks? Visual Studio Express edition is free, and so are a lot of other IDEs (or go naked like we used to in the old and painful days). XNA Direct X SDK is free. Plus there are a lot more Windows machines than Wiis out there and the dev house can control the distribution method. They could even sign up and be part of Steam or something if they want it to be a money making venture.
I'd like to see something like a Wii SDK, a server application that you can set up on your PC that the Wii can connect to, and an official Wii-mote adapter and supplimentary sensor bar you can plug into your PC for input sampling for a few hundred bucks. Tops.
If you and a bunch of buddies have that killer idea that can get yourself off the ground but don't have the upfront capital, you're just going to wind up skipping this round and moving to PC.
... but small garage-style shops as well.
Really? I'll believe it when I see small garage-style shop priced Wii dev kits. Moreover, even from TFA, Nintendo only does a QA check on the games and leaves important things, like ESRB ratings, to the developer.
I'd personally like to see ESRB-free hobbyist-targeted Wii development, maybe like Microsoft's XNA initiative.
Furthermore, it'd be nice to make them available for download for minimal price (as there is minimal COST of pushing bits over a network). But now I'm just being overly wishful.
I logged many many hours simulating a Lunar Lander. Hopefully they kept the controls the same.
I don't quite agree with the premise of class divisions through web sites. The difference between signing up for either is whose registration forms one uses. Socio-economic class divisions are most certainly harder to jump across than just using a web site. And, on the internet, what's to stop someone from being a member of both Myspace and Facebook?
/. differ from Something Awful which differ from Newgrounds which differ from Myspace and so on and so on.
IANAS (I Am Not A Sociologist), but I think the might mean cultural divisions. Posts to, say,
Is it because the community that forms around the site, which was ultimately created targeted at a demographic?
The difference is that broadcast TV signal is useable by any TV regardless of the brand. Requiring a Microsoft player on a standard run-of-the-mill PC as opposed to a player-agnostic format isn't the same as requiring new equipment for new functionality.
Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I'm not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
...much as I love to blame anything I can on Bush.
Really? I find shooting fish in a barrel to get dull after a while.
>> the Tomb Raider: Anniversary title will be released to the Xbox 360 in two chunks of content.
>I can imagine what those two chunks look like.
If you back up against a wall, the camera rotates around so no imagination is required. ^^-b
I'd agree with parent if this wasn't the 3rd front-page iPhone article on /. this week! This thing's got more buzz than a beekeeper opening a beehive. And it's a whole cult of Apple fandom.
... geez, I can't even keep reading else I'd lose my lunch.
Right now I'm just embarassed. My embarassment to like Apple hardware at this point is what I imagine my embarassment to like Star Trek if Patrick Stewart was found picking up a $25 hooker in a towncar.
We've got comments in this very topic claiming that if Apple made the N-Gage it'd be perfect, as if Apple never made anything that failed (preemptive follow-up: if an Apple product fails it's OBVIOUSLY because the public is too stupid to know genius when they see it </sarcasm>), one marked insightful claiming Apple made portable music cool for the masses ignoring a good 20 years of prior art, and
Are we really that lacking in religion that we have to manufacture one out of a company? Seems to me like a bunch of people need to take a cold shower already.
As someone who got married a year and half ago, I can definitely relate.
;)
Come now, if x is NaN, then how do you exaluate d x?
While no longer linked from the front page, this link still works.
Basically, the content was provided free provided it remained for non-commercial use. After all, commercial ventures have to pay for those listings and if they could get it for free, nobody would pay.
I hope they at least tried to weed out the abusers before just cutting the cable.
Because the movie industry already learned what the gaming industry has yet to.
Lobbyists and campaign contributions. Lots of them.
Plus the MPAA is less of a self-regulating body for content anymore than just a congregation of massive corporations. By selling an unrated version for home viewing 6 - 24 months after a theatrical release, there's not just the potential customers that didn't see the movie, but also the potential customers that already paid $8 a head to see it.
"They're not a group of IT guys or white hats."
Would you support another breaucracy to take care of electronic threats? If not, who better to carry that flag?
Perhaps what IT should be asking is if they're hiring because there clearly is a need there for qualified individuals.
That worked up until Intel Core... I was a AMD only buyer until then too, but now, Core uses less power, Core is faster at lower clock speeds, Core is just an all round nice guy in the CPU world, it does what it should do much better than AMD.
Or, rather, it worked easily up until Core. Now that AMD is no longer top performance dog it's harder to justify a purchase beyond supporting a company flag.
Now you have to decide whether the increase in benefits of an Intel processor is worth, well, supporting Intel.
The point of voting with you wallet is that you purchase according to your own convictions. If your convictions place a price:performance ratio above corporate behavior, then so be it: don't look back.
There is no federal mandate. A publicly funded school is at the state level (but can accept federal money in form of grants and scholarships), which means it's probably up to the state to determine.
Never gotten less than 2 reps upset at me. Maybe I just suck? :)
Seems to me like it's aiming to be BSD-based competition for Ubuntu.
My question is whether this would pull Windows users into it that might be put off by GPL or if it would snipe users of Ubuntu.
Clearly, an honorable suicide is the only way to remedy this situation.
I snickered when I read parent and the bottom of the slashdot page had the following quote:
Practice yourself what you preach. -- Titus Maccius Plautus
In a culture where employment for life within the same company is the ideal, for someone to step down for something that's not a problem is pretty rare.
That said, he's not being outed like Nintendo outed Gunpei Yokoi. He's still going to be an "advisor" outside the board... whatever that means. Yokoi was basically showed the door after the Virtual Boy: a failure far worse than the PS3.
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.
A good game has a well defined difficulty curve. What I found really interesting about this one is that the final stage is a hypothetical environment where redistricting reform is implemented and you're forced to define zones of near-equal population without any information provided for race or party affiliation.
That "final environment" is impossible to complete while keeping all the incumbents in their seats.
Which is the whole point, AFAIK, one I wholeheartedly agree with.
It's too bad there's no way to download the game and mirror it elsewhere or just hold onto a copy. Little gems like this are likely to disappear after a few months.