Zak and Wiki was an excellent game but it got overshadowed by 1st party games.
Blame the retailers. 1st party games remain king but they won't keep cool looking games like Zak and Wiki because they want to try out shovelwares (possibly to prove they're shovelware).
(please stop using IP in that sense, when you do you ruin the point of being alive some days. "intellectual property" should be illegal. It's not an acronym we should all know by heart. =/)
Because everybody has tried doing this and it has failed for everybody.
I for one am waiting for a Detroit-Quebec City-New York city maglev with stops at big cities in between, or more realistically, a SF/LA one. But it's not likely to happen, for all the reasons the other posters have said.
We find difficulty in seeing that the shuttle was definately worth it. How are people going to react to a "hundred-billion-dollar-train"?...
Not to mention, how are you going to power this, and make sure it stays powered?
Plenty of them have MPEG4, and should be able to do 720p/1080i easily. A fair amount can do DivX and WM9, but the newer ones do h.264 as well.
We need the specs for this, though. Everyime VIA has tried XvMC or other video accel, it's opened up security issues and could only run as root. Not cool.
It rocked. I had was leeching a 24mbps connection via Wifi, everything was blazing fast (I hear in some places like Japan service isn't always at max, or the servers are too slow/far away to max out) and I kept seeing ads for 24mbps/99SEK.
That's intense. Especially since we were in a small town, "bedroom city" (Marsta).
We can't fit an IT staff member, let alone an entire IT department. There's a fellow doing "IT" but he works with our office and a few others that we work closely with.
Although shit never hits the fan (but I'm waiting for it any moment because of bad decision making by PHBs) and I'm able to resolve a lot of minor problems (they're a windows shop so sadly my experience is just helpful in trying to find a solution by exploring) I do believe a paid support contract would be worth it.
But then again, shit never hit the fan. So why should I pay for nothing?
Maybe not the C3 or C7 but definately the Nano is more than capable. The C3 has the advantage of being extremely low power, like 5W for its biggest consumption IIRC, and the C7 was a bit lackluster but has Padlock that the nano inherited so you can encrypt the filesystem without slowdown.
Of course I've been eyeing the Geode NX. From what I hear it's an ultra-low-voltage tiny version of the Athlon XPs. Too bad nobody will sell it with an ATI chipset like the mobile 690V/690G. Or even a 780G. Or better yet forget the geode give me a 780G/AM2 on mATX with PCIE x16. Hell yes.
There's a reason why you don't run old distros, you don't want to get behind for other packages, and then get wacked by vulnerabilities in your browser.
Some of us can't add in new cards when the old one goes unsupported. What about those of us with those slimline PCs OEMs love? nVidia/ATI is going to make me a PCI HD3450?
Please.
Free software drivers are the most important aspect of a free software kernel. Linux without radeon/intel/nv/radeonhd is not worth using. So fucking what if it means I only get 2D accel properly. I don't game much under linux right now, and if I did, I'd just have to enable with "one checkbox and it 'just works'". That's what the ATI drivers aren't. And what the nvidia drivers aren't, either.
You're never going to get "just works" with proprietary drivers. ATI drivers still have xv tearing and wine issues (wine fixable xv kind of not). nVidia's drivers have been having some serious issues, too. Not to mention their latest GPUs are in serious trouble from every end of the table.
Some people find writing drivers interesting (believe it or not...), like writing emulators. Getting open specs or at least open drivers (and best if it's both!!) gives them a chance to tinker with it. It becomes in their hands to maintain it and add features.
So now VIA no longer has to write drivers. They mail a copy of the specification (a minimum of 2D) to whoever is on their list, and these people can hack the drivers and keep it together for them. And why not? This is a big help for groups like OpenChrome who were doing this anyway, so VIA figures, why duplicate the effort, make a sign of goodwill, get more sales because of it, and pass the buck on somebody else.
But I've had a lot of channels cut from the analog plan due to a shitty cable co, so I'm pretty much stuck with their digital plan.
OTA transmissions in Ottawa are no good. If you live in Toronto/Buffalo you're one lucky SOB, because you've got all the channels you could want in 720p/1080i for free and unencrypted. For me, not so much.
Agreed, everyone except for nVidia and maybe Matrox (side note: what a shitty company) is opening their specs.
The intel 945G chipset for Atom is fully documented and has quite good open source 3d drivers.
It sucks up 22W+ by itself though, and is very old. It's nothing compared to the VX800 or CN896.
Atom kills VIA in Price/Performance/Power ratio across the board.
-Price: Maybe. If you just want entry-level options (ie bare to the bone) and don't care about power usage, it's definately cheaper. Normal VIA parts are sold like boutique items. Except, strangely, their mATX boards go for 50$. -Performance: Definately not, now that Nano has been released (but damnit sell 'em at retail!). -Power ration: What? Nano desktop parts are what people have been measuring. Typical ULV C7s are like 4W-7W. Considering you get a chipset that ranges in that wattage too, and this is honest counting unlike Intel, VIA certainely has the upper hand.
Not to mention they don't need a P4 connector...
Once Intel fixes the problem of their north bridge requiring 6x the power Atom does then via is in really big trouble
Unlikely. Intel does not want to lose Celeron sales for the Atom. So their miniITX boards remain crap so they can sell whatever 945G boards they have left over that failed their low-voltage tests.
It's interesting to see via go from ruling the mini-ITX market to now desparately having to play catchup in such a short time.
I wouldn't call it catch up, but it's nice to see Intel and VIA compete. The only thing is I hope it drives down the price of VIA parts, at least within the 90$-150$ range, otherwise it's been a waste of time.
NTSC ending doesn't mean we'll all be watching 720/1080. It means everything is digital, MPEG2 streams. We're all a looong way off from HDTV-to-the-door.
Their chipsets can certainly do 1080p. Look at the CN400.
No, the real problem with the shuttle is it's too expensive for what we need it for, 24/7. For the small tasks.
You don't need an 18-wheeler with a rocket engine to get some food at a local grocery store. You can ride a bike or drive a hybrid there and save some cash that way.
The shuttle was and still is the only reliable and good method of launching massive stuff into space. It's not that great for just bringing up astronauts, though.
From what it looks like, McCain is using Palin as VP to convince radical people "oh yeah we believe you! right on brother!" when in reality he doesn't really care. I don't think any VP other than Dick Cheney was really assertive over their respective presidents.
Or alternatively, following the golden rule of "you break you buy it", and if you're not going to stick with her don't do it.
Or better yet if you can't take care of a kid if and when (likely not you but somebody, someday, every day) the condom breaks, well, don't fucking do it.
In games like Paper Mario and Legend of Zelda, all the scenes were based on dialogue; only in some small cases (ie a ship needs to sail for the next guy to talk) would it get slowed down at all. Otherwise you just cut right through smoothly. Saves are also frequent in zelda games. Not so much paper mario but every "level" had at least 2-3 blocks.
For 3 I can't remember what game I was playing but there was a fortune teller who'd tell you where to go next. Some games like Tales of Symphonia have a synopsis thing that let you see where to go next and what should be up ahead (ie the party heads for balacruf mausoleum to summon the next summon spirit)
Ah, I guess so, especially since the mitsubishi one was only public in 2000-2004, and that it didn't look like he was working for a Japanese company (I hear Japanese companies are more... friendly in a family sense.).
I couldn't remember the exact details. But I do remember the pinto, lovely little thing, except when you got rear-ended the car would blow to bits.
Is Gnome really that bloated? And has ubuntu been gaining serious weight?
Xubuntu 6.06 tuned to be as nice as it can be with the "typical" apps (no movie editing though) used about 4-5GB. Using Debian and being careful with your packages you can make it fit squarely in 4GB.
The Bell monopoly worked because it made no sense for other companies to enter.
That's when a monopoly is "a good thing". It keeps a big company that can be responsible for developpments in that field. Most of them can't be too greedy or their tiny niches will be destroyed, or a competitor might arise, or they might suffer at the hands of "the people".
I miss ma bell. Reminds me of the austria-hungary empire. Ever since then telecoms/east europe have been going downhill.
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Zak and Wiki was an excellent game but it got overshadowed by 1st party games.
Blame the retailers. 1st party games remain king but they won't keep cool looking games like Zak and Wiki because they want to try out shovelwares (possibly to prove they're shovelware).
(please stop using IP in that sense, when you do you ruin the point of being alive some days. "intellectual property" should be illegal. It's not an acronym we should all know by heart. =/)
Because everybody has tried doing this and it has failed for everybody.
I for one am waiting for a Detroit-Quebec City-New York city maglev with stops at big cities in between, or more realistically, a SF/LA one. But it's not likely to happen, for all the reasons the other posters have said.
We find difficulty in seeing that the shuttle was definately worth it. How are people going to react to a "hundred-billion-dollar-train"?...
Not to mention, how are you going to power this, and make sure it stays powered?
There's CellWriter. (it depends on gnome though, and I have no idea how up-to-date it is...)
How does the HD4870x2 work under OSX?
What about R100/R200/R300 cards?
Good for you that freedom takes a second spot in your life.
I for one want the freedom to solve my problems when things break.
Every VIA chipset has at least MPEG2 support.
Plenty of them have MPEG4, and should be able to do 720p/1080i easily. A fair amount can do DivX and WM9, but the newer ones do h.264 as well.
We need the specs for this, though. Everyime VIA has tried XvMC or other video accel, it's opened up security issues and could only run as root. Not cool.
Man I hate sweden now. I was there for a month.
It rocked. I had was leeching a 24mbps connection via Wifi, everything was blazing fast (I hear in some places like Japan service isn't always at max, or the servers are too slow/far away to max out) and I kept seeing ads for 24mbps/99SEK.
That's intense. Especially since we were in a small town, "bedroom city" (Marsta).
I work in small office.
We can't fit an IT staff member, let alone an entire IT department. There's a fellow doing "IT" but he works with our office and a few others that we work closely with.
Although shit never hits the fan (but I'm waiting for it any moment because of bad decision making by PHBs) and I'm able to resolve a lot of minor problems (they're a windows shop so sadly my experience is just helpful in trying to find a solution by exploring) I do believe a paid support contract would be worth it.
But then again, shit never hit the fan. So why should I pay for nothing?
You've never used Opera have you?
Default look is tabs (well, more like mini windows unlike binder tabs) over the adress bar. =/
Maybe not the C3 or C7 but definately the Nano is more than capable. The C3 has the advantage of being extremely low power, like 5W for its biggest consumption IIRC, and the C7 was a bit lackluster but has Padlock that the nano inherited so you can encrypt the filesystem without slowdown.
Of course I've been eyeing the Geode NX. From what I hear it's an ultra-low-voltage tiny version of the Athlon XPs. Too bad nobody will sell it with an ATI chipset like the mobile 690V/690G. Or even a 780G. Or better yet forget the geode give me a 780G/AM2 on mATX with PCIE x16. Hell yes.
There's a reason why you don't run old distros, you don't want to get behind for other packages, and then get wacked by vulnerabilities in your browser.
Some of us can't add in new cards when the old one goes unsupported. What about those of us with those slimline PCs OEMs love? nVidia/ATI is going to make me a PCI HD3450?
Please.
Free software drivers are the most important aspect of a free software kernel. Linux without radeon/intel/nv/radeonhd is not worth using. So fucking what if it means I only get 2D accel properly. I don't game much under linux right now, and if I did, I'd just have to enable with "one checkbox and it 'just works'". That's what the ATI drivers aren't. And what the nvidia drivers aren't, either.
You're never going to get "just works" with proprietary drivers. ATI drivers still have xv tearing and wine issues (wine fixable xv kind of not). nVidia's drivers have been having some serious issues, too. Not to mention their latest GPUs are in serious trouble from every end of the table.
Some people find writing drivers interesting (believe it or not...), like writing emulators. Getting open specs or at least open drivers (and best if it's both!!) gives them a chance to tinker with it. It becomes in their hands to maintain it and add features.
So now VIA no longer has to write drivers. They mail a copy of the specification (a minimum of 2D) to whoever is on their list, and these people can hack the drivers and keep it together for them. And why not? This is a big help for groups like OpenChrome who were doing this anyway, so VIA figures, why duplicate the effort, make a sign of goodwill, get more sales because of it, and pass the buck on somebody else.
Never played it. Can't find the gamecube version anywhere. :(((
Yeah, pretty much.
But I've had a lot of channels cut from the analog plan due to a shitty cable co, so I'm pretty much stuck with their digital plan.
OTA transmissions in Ottawa are no good. If you live in Toronto/Buffalo you're one lucky SOB, because you've got all the channels you could want in 720p/1080i for free and unencrypted. For me, not so much.
Via really has no choice.
Agreed, everyone except for nVidia and maybe Matrox (side note: what a shitty company) is opening their specs.
The intel 945G chipset for Atom is fully documented and has quite good open source 3d drivers.
It sucks up 22W+ by itself though, and is very old. It's nothing compared to the VX800 or CN896.
Atom kills VIA in Price/Performance/Power ratio across the board.
-Price: Maybe. If you just want entry-level options (ie bare to the bone) and don't care about power usage, it's definately cheaper. Normal VIA parts are sold like boutique items. Except, strangely, their mATX boards go for 50$.
-Performance: Definately not, now that Nano has been released (but damnit sell 'em at retail!).
-Power ration: What? Nano desktop parts are what people have been measuring. Typical ULV C7s are like 4W-7W. Considering you get a chipset that ranges in that wattage too, and this is honest counting unlike Intel, VIA certainely has the upper hand.
Not to mention they don't need a P4 connector...
Once Intel fixes the problem of their north bridge requiring 6x the power Atom does then via is in really big trouble
Unlikely. Intel does not want to lose Celeron sales for the Atom. So their miniITX boards remain crap so they can sell whatever 945G boards they have left over that failed their low-voltage tests.
It's interesting to see via go from ruling the mini-ITX market to now desparately having to play catchup in such a short time.
I wouldn't call it catch up, but it's nice to see Intel and VIA compete. The only thing is I hope it drives down the price of VIA parts, at least within the 90$-150$ range, otherwise it's been a waste of time.
But the question is, what?
Wait, what?
NTSC ending doesn't mean we'll all be watching 720/1080. It means everything is digital, MPEG2 streams. We're all a looong way off from HDTV-to-the-door.
Their chipsets can certainly do 1080p. Look at the CN400.
No, the real problem with the shuttle is it's too expensive for what we need it for, 24/7. For the small tasks.
You don't need an 18-wheeler with a rocket engine to get some food at a local grocery store. You can ride a bike or drive a hybrid there and save some cash that way.
The shuttle was and still is the only reliable and good method of launching massive stuff into space. It's not that great for just bringing up astronauts, though.
VP isn't the one making laws, though.
From what it looks like, McCain is using Palin as VP to convince radical people "oh yeah we believe you! right on brother!" when in reality he doesn't really care. I don't think any VP other than Dick Cheney was really assertive over their respective presidents.
Or alternatively, following the golden rule of "you break you buy it", and if you're not going to stick with her don't do it.
Or better yet if you can't take care of a kid if and when (likely not you but somebody, someday, every day) the condom breaks, well, don't fucking do it.
For 2, just cut voice acting.
In games like Paper Mario and Legend of Zelda, all the scenes were based on dialogue; only in some small cases (ie a ship needs to sail for the next guy to talk) would it get slowed down at all. Otherwise you just cut right through smoothly. Saves are also frequent in zelda games. Not so much paper mario but every "level" had at least 2-3 blocks.
For 3 I can't remember what game I was playing but there was a fortune teller who'd tell you where to go next. Some games like Tales of Symphonia have a synopsis thing that let you see where to go next and what should be up ahead (ie the party heads for balacruf mausoleum to summon the next summon spirit)
4, ugh, tell me about it.
5. Cutscenes suck =/
Ah, I guess so, especially since the mitsubishi one was only public in 2000-2004, and that it didn't look like he was working for a Japanese company (I hear Japanese companies are more... friendly in a family sense.).
I couldn't remember the exact details. But I do remember the pinto, lovely little thing, except when you got rear-ended the car would blow to bits.
Inspiration for the novel Fight Club?
8GB for ubuntu?
Is Gnome really that bloated? And has ubuntu been gaining serious weight?
Xubuntu 6.06 tuned to be as nice as it can be with the "typical" apps (no movie editing though) used about 4-5GB. Using Debian and being careful with your packages you can make it fit squarely in 4GB.
The Bell monopoly worked because it made no sense for other companies to enter.
That's when a monopoly is "a good thing". It keeps a big company that can be responsible for developpments in that field. Most of them can't be too greedy or their tiny niches will be destroyed, or a competitor might arise, or they might suffer at the hands of "the people".
I miss ma bell. Reminds me of the austria-hungary empire. Ever since then telecoms/east europe have been going downhill.