I'd always been a bit confused by the button layout "patent" thing as well. Maybe my search powers suck, but all I could find was that Nintendo has a patent on the cross-shaped D-pad.Prometheus said:Can either of you guys link to the relevant patent documents, please? I must admit that I find the notion of an arrangement of lettered buttons being patented to be rather odd.
-Tj- said:I'd always been a bit confused by the button layout "patent" thing as well. Maybe my search powers suck, but all I could find was that Nintendo has a patent on the cross-shaped D-pad.Prometheus said:Can either of you guys link to the relevant patent documents, please? I must admit that I find the notion of an arrangement of lettered buttons being patented to be rather odd.
Man, I know how confusing that can be. When I first played the SNES at a friend's house, he kept saying "press L"... and having never heard of an "L button" before this, I kept pressing "left".conso said:hehe, I just remembered how confusing the button-layout of the n64 was. like a game says "press <-" and you have 3 ways to interpret that sign ^^
MDave said:LeChuck87 said:new photo on mwestons account...
http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa99/MWeston_2007/?action=view¤t=DSC01620.jpg
Holy shit that looks like the final case at last! Wooohooooo, our first glimpse of it!
Not at all - I merely wanted confirmation about the oft-claimed patents that are allegedly preventing the team from using particular button layouts.MDave said:I guess the fact that we're looking at the final case has flown over most people's heads if the only thing they can talk about is the button arrangements
Consequence9 said:I think if it really was the final case we would have a lot more pix/official word by now
Prometheus said:Not at all - I merely wanted confirmation about the oft-claimed patents that are allegedly preventing the team from using particular button layouts.MDave said:I guess the fact that we're looking at the final case has flown over most people's heads if the only thing they can talk about is the button arrangements
Regarding the case, I must say, I'm afraid I can't tell from the picture whether that is the final case or not - on my two machines, it appears too dark for me to tell. The slight graininess in the picture is throwing my eyes off considerably. I can't speak for anyone else, but that's why I didn't pass comment on that, personally.
I do like the single nub, there, though. :lol:
MDave said:Prometheus said:Not at all - I merely wanted confirmation about the oft-claimed patents that are allegedly preventing the team from using particular button layouts.MDave said:I guess the fact that we're looking at the final case has flown over most people's heads if the only thing they can talk about is the button arrangements
Regarding the case, I must say, I'm afraid I can't tell from the picture whether that is the final case or not - on my two machines, it appears too dark for me to tell. The slight graininess in the picture is throwing my eyes off considerably. I can't speak for anyone else, but that's why I didn't pass comment on that, personally.
I do like the single nub, there, though. :lol:
Hint: It's not the black FDM case because the edges of the case are far to clean cut, and the hinge looks perfectly flush too. Not to mention the light pipes are fit correctly. The only other smooth textured, clean cut Pandora's are the transparent ones we seen halfway through the year The only thing missing is silk screening, and of course the missing analog
This is the text supplied with the picture;ThaDSman said:TBH that light tube not looking too pretty....I hope its incomplete tubes...
Light pipe test
Red is a bit bright, but the rest are a nice glow. I still would like the plastics company to consider adding a haze to the top surface to diffuse the light a bit and that was always the plan. Test parts get no surface treatment at all. They are raw parts ejected from the molds and shipped to me
ThaDSman said:TBH that light tube not looking too pretty....I hope its incomplete tubes...
MWeston said:Light pipe test
Red is a bit bright, but the rest are a nice glow. I still would like the plastics company to consider adding a haze to the top surface to diffuse the light a bit and that was always the plan. Test parts get no surface treatment at all. They are raw parts ejected from the molds and shipped to me