But if you remake things game play, but have different graphics, music, etc, then you're set
The Tetris Company managed to win a lawsuit based mostly on having copied the piece set: all seven one-sided tetrominoes and no other shapes. See Tetris v. Xio from a year ago. Changing the piece set would affect the balance.
I enjoy myself a lot more when I grab my wii.
That can be so taken the wrong way.
All the extra graphics on the other consoles do is bloat the cost by 300%
By how many percent do the publisher's share and the console maker's share bloat the cost?
I think the gaming world would be better off if 3d had never been invented.
Other than with a first- or third-person 3D view, how should a game show both close-up objects and far-off objects?
People are remaking old Atari 2600 and NES games and making them free to play/advert/microtransactions. If the major players like NIntendo aren't going to give their player's old rom collections for free/cheap, there will be a short term market for indie devs to recode the past. Everything old is new again.
Not necessarily. Anyone remaking old school Tetris, the game you remember from back before the "infinite spin" rule was added in 2001, is begging for a lawsuit.
It's been definitively established that the right to first publication trumps the right of the public to the availability of a work.
First publication, yes. But the work I'm talking about was first published over half a century ago.
This is a recipe for World War III.
World War III was fought and decided. The commies lost the first match (Korea), won the second (Vietnam), but lost the rubber (DDR was absorbed into Germany and USSR broke up). We're in World War IV now.
However, when you're paying for a train fare, you've paid for the transit
No, you've paid for half the transit. Advertisers paid for the other half. It's little different from newspapers or pay television.
to paraphrase a gibbering offender led away in a straight jacket
As opposed to a gay jacket?
txs = 'this evidence suggests'
This obviously wouldn't work for 6502 assembly language programmers. They think txs means initialize stack pointer.
There's a much better case to be made for a glyph to represent and/or
A slashed ampersand (or just "&/") might serve well to represent an "and/or": Cake, Pie, &/ Cookies
English spelling leans diachronic, meaning that a 'c' represents an underlying 'c' in the language from which a word was borrowed. For example, 'c' is pronounced differently in "focus" and "foci", but the use of the same letter allows readers to associate the plural with the same word's singular.
Besides, you don't need to free up 's' when there's a perfectly good symbol for the sound in the middle of "fishin'" and "fission": the integral sign.
As such [Lisp] is readable by programmers and incidentally executed by a machine. In many ways it's almost like writing pseudo code, just in a strange syntax. [...] For a more mainstream language that might fill the same slot I can only think of python.
Yeah, Python is like writing pseudocode too, only without the strange syntax. "Is that the pseudocode?" "No, that's the main function." Yet there are plenty of people on Slashdot who are staunch haters of leading whitespace as block delimiters, despite it being clearer to (human) readers than the parenthesis counting of Lisp.
The editor takes care of the closing parentheses for you
Perhaps a LISP-specific editor does, but the editor that ships with a computer does not. Even basic features such as automatic copying of leading whitespace from the previous line aren't omnipresent among editors that ship with computers.
BTW, there are numerous alternative syntaxes [for Lisp-like languages] around, but none of them was ever successful
Not even JavaScript?
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