If Halo is only an average FPS like so many on/. proclaim why are there so many articles on it?
Isn't it the only game available for the Xbox?:)
More seriously, it was the only decent looking launch title so a lot of people bought it. Personally, I assume from the large numbers of people that feel moved to defend it is an indicator that it's very average and a poor justification to have purchased an Xbox in the first place. I find that I defend, at lenth, products that A) I paid a lot for, and 2) suck in slightly more ways than they rock. Or at least I used to. Now I don't care what other people think.
More seriously, social networks break down for a number of reasons. I like to think that my efforts creating a company BBS for all off our scattered regional offices will bring more people closer together than tear them apart.
"Wintel" is catchy, but inaccurate. Microsoft has a monopoly more because of Office than Windows and Intel, well, of all the computers I have at home only one has an Intel CPU and that's an old 266MMX.
Now, there *are* people making PCI cards that can be loaded up with RAM and treated as a disk by the OS, but they are not common, and last I checked they certainly weren't cheap. But that's probably just because there's not much demand and little competition.
One of the major disadvantages with this is that there isn't a huge glut of cheap old RAM, at least not for a few generations of computer back and the sizes are so small that it's not worth considering. As PCs get old the main way to boost the speed is to add more RAM. I've been keeping some PIII 700MHz PCs in active service by increasing the RAM and installing XP. I've maxxed-out three PCs at 384MBytes, the rest are now typically somwhere between 640MBytes and 1Gig. As each one of these PCs die the RAM goes into the others. I suppose that in a couple of years I might have 512MBytes of PC100 RAM with no home, but after spare PCs for our sessional staff the next project is a batch of kiosks for students to use during orientation (particularly useful for the new ones that can't get into the labs).
The article praises the site's design, when the site's design looks like it was done by a five year old.
As does what content I could find.
I actually like teletext, visually and as a concept. This is not "just like" teletext, it's just a crap template with a non-proportional font. Bring back Gif News.
Local swapmeets are also an okay source of 2600s. I've been collecting for a couple of years and I've probably got half a dozen spares that I had to get because the seller wouldn't sell just the games. If anyone in the Perth metro area is after a 2600, my homepage has my email address as an image (damn spam spiders), feel free to contact me.
If you buy "Take 5" or any given compo magazine and subsequently work on the entries during company time, then you're wasting company time but the company probably doesn't own any prizes you win. If you rip a coupon out of the newspaper that the company purchases then arguably any prizes you win belong to the company.
Do you think that you'd be entitled to the mail-in rebate for a product purchased by the company just because you filled in the coupon?
Most, if not all, of the adults I know who own a PDA also play computer games. Most, if not all, of the adults I know who don't play computer games think that PDAs are pointless toy for rich kids. There's niche market and then there's no market. I contend that the market targeted by this company, namely:
Has or wants a PDA
Plays computer/video games
Wouldn't buy a GBA because it's a toy for kids
is non-existant.
I would back up this assertion by saying that as a person who bought the Liberty GB emulator for the Palm and a Palm Game Pad, I would be very close to their target market. However, I have bought two GBAs (original modded with TV-out and a GBAsp) since my last PDA purchase, which was in fact my second PDA purchase, having bought an Apple Messagepad 150 back in the day. Two friends who would be similarly placed near the target market have bought a GBA first (mostly waiting for the GBAsp) and have recently purchased the Sharp Zaurus that Linux people are raving about. A single, arguably over-priced, unit that isn't Linux but plays games probably wouldn't interest them, despite having installed/compiled Moria on the device already.
Summing up; The product is too niche for the mainstream and too mainstream for a niche. (And two expensive for both.) I call it "the edge of the fringe" -- I know it well and it isn't profitable.
I have friends who work in IT where Linux boxes are popping up "unauthorised". Mostly they're compromised within hours of being installed and provide real headaches for support. I think anyone that pulls this stunt gets sent the bandwidth bill and has their IP addresses blocked at the gateway to the organisation, but don't quote me.
If the company paid for the subscription, then the employees were doing company work when they filled out the coupons (or whatever) and therefore the company owns the devices. Were I in charge of company resources I would then lend the devices to the people who showed the initiative to fill out whatever needed filling out, with specific instructions that they could do whatever constructive thing they wanted to do with the device, but they couldn't take it with them if they left.
Craptacular as the SCO stuff is, it's actually very important stuff. SCO may not produce anything of note anymore, but they do appear to know how to abuse the legal system in a way that should concern anyone with a heavy investment in the IT industry.
Can I read my own CD-R discs using Linux (for PlayStation 2) ?
No. The PlayStation 2 is designed not to read CD-R "gold" discs. Only PlayStation CD-ROM and PlayStation 2 CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs are compatible.
However, I got my Asus DVD-ROM/CDr/CDRW USB 2.0 drive working pretty easily.
But if you're particuarly after remakes of old games, there's probably an emulator you can compile on the PS2 to play the original ROM. I haven't gotten around to Stella yet mostly because I own a Cuttle Cart and a working 2600. MAME is available.
Cool, so if I get the Linux kit I can stock up on American PS2 games! Fantastic.
Hmm, my browser isn't showing a sarcasm tag, so I'm not sure if you're having a go at me. No, the Linux kit won't let you play out-of-region PS2 games. However, I did download and compile Moria which I was quite happy with:). I haven't gotten around to installing Stella yet. My MP3 collection is on the hard drive and xmms is installed. I was remote controlling it with an Xterm varient (VNC) the other weekend.
Sorry, but you're still demonstrating typical short-sightedness. There will be no one storage format that's capable of both lasting forever and being properly understood forever. Heck, My last three computers didn't have a floppy drive. DVD drives won't be produced forever. (Lookup "forever".) Only an ongoing process, an idea, is capable of lasting forever.
So anyway, if I was to buy a console now (I currently don't have one, but I could be a potential customer within 12 months) then the Sony PS2 would definitely be OFF my list.
Might I then point you to my first comment about a GameCube, specifically Datel's Freeloader product. Apart from a bit of a glitch with some localisation code in the lastest F-Zero game I hear it's regionfree-alicious.
Buy a GameCube and Freeloader -- region free, no hardware modification
Sony make available a Linux Kit for the PS2, which allows you to do almost anything with your PS2. It's hard to argue that they're specifically restricting anything execpt illegal copying
Perhaps I'd be more upset with the decision if I wasn't so fed up with the only PSX and PS2 games I find at swapmeets being pirated. It's hard to feel that Sony are just price gouging when one guy at one swapmeet is selling 300+ games at A$10 each each weekend.
Both the Lynx and the GameGear... failed to gain market share because of their expensive price
Uh, the Lynx and GG failed predominantly because they were big, heavy and had poor battery life. Six AAs that don't last more than a few hours is a big problem. From memory, my Lynx could use up batteries about twice as fast as I could charge them...
They are most definitely targetting the 25+ group who see the Gameboy as a toy.
I don't know anyone who dismisses the GBA as a toy who doesn't also dismiss PDAs as toys. Any gamer worth their salt knows that the GBA(sp) is a very capable portable gaming device and if they haven't bought one it's not because it won't double as their diary.
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More seriously, it was the only decent looking launch title so a lot of people bought it. Personally, I assume from the large numbers of people that feel moved to defend it is an indicator that it's very average and a poor justification to have purchased an Xbox in the first place. I find that I defend, at lenth, products that A) I paid a lot for, and 2) suck in slightly more ways than they rock. Or at least I used to. Now I don't care what other people think.
What region discs and what region PS2? I'm fairly sure my PAL PS2 played a Region 4 Final Fantasy from beginning to end no problems.
More seriously, social networks break down for a number of reasons. I like to think that my efforts creating a company BBS for all off our scattered regional offices will bring more people closer together than tear them apart.
Just let the Army Men property die, for crying out loud.
"Wintel" is catchy, but inaccurate. Microsoft has a monopoly more because of Office than Windows and Intel, well, of all the computers I have at home only one has an Intel CPU and that's an old 266MMX.
Slashdot, where the editors celebrate the opening of an envelope.
I actually like teletext, visually and as a concept. This is not "just like" teletext, it's just a crap template with a non-proportional font. Bring back Gif News.
Local swapmeets are also an okay source of 2600s. I've been collecting for a couple of years and I've probably got half a dozen spares that I had to get because the seller wouldn't sell just the games. If anyone in the Perth metro area is after a 2600, my homepage has my email address as an image (damn spam spiders), feel free to contact me.
Do you think that you'd be entitled to the mail-in rebate for a product purchased by the company just because you filled in the coupon?
- Has or wants a PDA
- Plays computer/video games
- Wouldn't buy a GBA because it's a toy for kids
is non-existant.I would back up this assertion by saying that as a person who bought the Liberty GB emulator for the Palm and a Palm Game Pad, I would be very close to their target market. However, I have bought two GBAs (original modded with TV-out and a GBAsp) since my last PDA purchase, which was in fact my second PDA purchase, having bought an Apple Messagepad 150 back in the day. Two friends who would be similarly placed near the target market have bought a GBA first (mostly waiting for the GBAsp) and have recently purchased the Sharp Zaurus that Linux people are raving about. A single, arguably over-priced, unit that isn't Linux but plays games probably wouldn't interest them, despite having installed/compiled Moria on the device already.
Summing up; The product is too niche for the mainstream and too mainstream for a niche. (And two expensive for both.) I call it "the edge of the fringe" -- I know it well and it isn't profitable.
I have friends who work in IT where Linux boxes are popping up "unauthorised". Mostly they're compromised within hours of being installed and provide real headaches for support. I think anyone that pulls this stunt gets sent the bandwidth bill and has their IP addresses blocked at the gateway to the organisation, but don't quote me.
If the company paid for the subscription, then the employees were doing company work when they filled out the coupons (or whatever) and therefore the company owns the devices. Were I in charge of company resources I would then lend the devices to the people who showed the initiative to fill out whatever needed filling out, with specific instructions that they could do whatever constructive thing they wanted to do with the device, but they couldn't take it with them if they left.
Craptacular as the SCO stuff is, it's actually very important stuff. SCO may not produce anything of note anymore, but they do appear to know how to abuse the legal system in a way that should concern anyone with a heavy investment in the IT industry.
But if you're particuarly after remakes of old games, there's probably an emulator you can compile on the PS2 to play the original ROM. I haven't gotten around to Stella yet mostly because I own a Cuttle Cart and a working 2600. MAME is available.
Sorry, but you're still demonstrating typical short-sightedness. There will be no one storage format that's capable of both lasting forever and being properly understood forever. Heck, My last three computers didn't have a floppy drive. DVD drives won't be produced forever. (Lookup "forever".) Only an ongoing process, an idea, is capable of lasting forever.
What I'm saying is that many people who would not be interested in a GBA because it's "for kids" would also describe PDAs as toys.
- Buy a GameCube and Freeloader -- region free, no hardware modification
- Sony make available a Linux Kit for the PS2, which allows you to do almost anything with your PS2. It's hard to argue that they're specifically restricting anything execpt illegal copying
Perhaps I'd be more upset with the decision if I wasn't so fed up with the only PSX and PS2 games I find at swapmeets being pirated. It's hard to feel that Sony are just price gouging when one guy at one swapmeet is selling 300+ games at A$10 each each weekend.Doesn't look like I have, or want, a single track in that list. But I already knew that P2P doesn't typically have songs I'm actually interested in.