Otherwise, it is a very nice idea. Too bad they couldn't do the SNES. I've always felt that the NES and previous consoles were pretty damn crappy but that the SNES has the best 2D ones ever.
But for 12$, and it plays original NES games? Do want. I have some old NES games sitting around I've always wanted to play, and no NES.
This is only good if they follow through and release the source. If they fork the project after to create their own web server it's really just a case of taking the enemy's water to fuel your guns.
Smoking is a disgusting habit. Regardless of if it causes cancer or not, really, shit's plain nasty and you might as well stick a fork in an electrical outlet.
While drinking beer, when you're ready to know and handle your limits, is very good for you, it keeps your system running clean. There is nothing wrong with non-alcoholic bars, either; Majora's Mask featured a Milk Bar, and Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life has a non-alcoholic bar.
Smoking in bars was a horrible idea. If I go into a bar it's for a few drinks with friends. It's not to get tar and various forms of AIDS in my lungs. You want to smoke? Do it at home pal. In exchange I, as an arsenist, won't light you on fire. Not only is it disgusting it smells, especially in clubs; cigarette smoke makes the entire place smells like ass, and with people sweating it's a disaster waiting to happen.
PG-rated movies are intended for kids/early teens. You sure you want them smoking at that age? Smoking in movies only shows the "cool side". Yeah, looks pretty damn cool to smoke. 'til you see it in real life with people coughing up livers with yellow/blackening teeth.
Saying smoking should be allowed in public places and in the media is like saying people with AIDS/HIV should be allowed to masturbate freely in public and are legally encouraged to rape everything they see.
(but don't get me wrong. the less a government does past a few essential functions, the better.)
The thing is, had the DRM been dropped, and the price be dropped, the chances of piracy would be much lower.
But what do I know. Some people download games and such just because they can, they refuse to pay whatever price. Personally I've only done it twice, and both times for more obscure japanese GBA games. (and I might do it for the Tingle games on DS, if only because Nintendo won't sell them to me)
Spore is a game that deserves the 40$-50$ asking price. It's like the (original) Sims.
And of course, the proper course of action for any sort of "reaching out" is to bite the hands that reach for you.
If they're "high cultured, peaceful, and intelligent" whatever we throw at them can be deflected. If they were a threat all along we either fought them off or did our best at least.
I'm not european, and the last time I was there I didn't even notice any resonably-priced video games.
I'm not flying to europe or importing from there just to get a Tingle game, I'd much rather download it if they're never going to get it for me.
Of course american reviewers are morons. Starfox Assault was good (it needed more varied missions, like defending stuff and deliveries) but the american mags slammed it. Tingle was my favourite Zelda NPC, but he gets slammed because nobody sees the humour and sadness in such a character...
Seperate from the core OS, and you can install other DEs.
Granted it's far from X but this is just a quick observation. I'm sure there's other resemblences, but everyone has moved to creating a window system that can be removed from the OS. That was pretty much X's only really good idea.
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No, OSX is NOT going to "defeat" windows.
Apple is a hardware company, first and foremost. The software they sell is to increase their revenue. They tried being a software company. If it wasn't for Jobs there would be no Apple right now.
It's only Linux at this point. That's the reason why you've got to go and yell at the idiot developpers behind KDE4 who think they know UI design, and tell them to get their asses back on track. What they're doing is bassackwards, they're designing things all wrong (I don't know shit about "good UI" and I think it's bullcrap but I can see all the "wrong things" in KDE.) and it's time users gave them a piece of their mind more directly, or helped with better themes, instead of simply nagging on slashdot.
OSX is an ugly look. KDE4 needs to be KDE4.
I don't think anybody is looking hard enough for interface developpment tools, Qt has a million, and so does GTK...
They offloaded more or less everything onto the chipset. All those fancy video decoding features are in the chipset, for one, and and there's a whole slew of other functions there.
Not to mention the Nano and C7 have Padlock built in them. Atom doesn't.
And it's far from the end. As soon as the ULV mobile edition of Nano is out, it's goodnight Intel. From what I recall when VIA releases an ULV model the power requirements drop by about 15%-25%. And then there's the VX800 that should be out about the same time. Here's hoping the mininote gets it, and it plays solidly. (and if Dell's keyboard quality is any good, then you also have an atom counterpart... at least this way you have competition)
What's odd is that it seems to consume more than the C7. Anybody want to comment? Are we just all using ULV C7 parts right now? Or was it because of the Raptor?
(What I meant in my other post, is regardless of chipsets the Nano can do that much)
Personally I'd rather see Tegra in music/video devices, like an iPhone minus the phone but with a lot more features (movies, music, games, browsers, torrent clients, wireless N, etc.).
I mean, it would be nice to finally eliminate x86 from the mobile market, but at the same time that doesn't seem to play to Tegra's strenghts... And I wouldn't hold my breath to see Tegra in laptops. It would be sweet, yeah, but good luck. I just wish the laptop market would be as open as the desktop one.
I myself am waiting for Nano-based mininote, because it's the only reasonable chance for a nano-based "netbook". Sony has stated it will develop (at Computex?) an Openbook-based laptop, but it might be with the C7... And the thing is the C7 isn't necessarily a bad CPU. It's the Atom, but 32-bit and minus HT. It's just the Nano packs more of a punch.
Ultimately I hope we'll get a minimum of two types of subnotebooks: the ones based on low-performance chips (Tegra that focuses on video, Atom that focuses on god-only-knows-what) to get better batterylife for Asus eee 700 and 900-sized laptops (think 8hrs idle, 6hrs pushing it), and the ones based on high-performance chips (Nano that focuses on being a lower-watted Core Solo) to get performance and OK battery life (think 6hrs idle, 4hrs really pushing it on average). That way those who want what they want can get it.
And although there's not much of a difference between an Atom and an ARM Cortex (like the kind you'd see in tegra), Nano is a totally different beast. When the ULV and 45nm ones come out it should rock the boat quite well, because then you've got something that does 1.8GHz at 15W or less, or 1GHz at ~3W, idling at 50mW to 300mW. (guestimates all around!).
Well, look at it this way, if you were looking for a Nano-based system, the most wattage it'll ever usage would be about 70W. It's all downhill from there.
Especially since there's a rather massive difference between two of the points, something like 5W and 400mW idle for a few hundred megahertz.
(Oh, does anybody know if this will affect M3? Or is it just R4?)
I personally don't.
There's a lot of room for good homebrew there. Unless Nintendo wants to try selling us FTP, MP3, etc. software carts.
But of course Nintendo is doing it for piracy. It's not unreasonable to see why. Nintendo hasn't dropped the pricing on ANY of its games in two or so years. New Super Mario Bros. is still 35$/40$ here, same for all the other nintendo games. At least here in Canada.
IMHO Nintendo should release its own homebrew kit, but that still allows you to play commercial games. However, it'd be styled like Virtual Console. You buy your games as digital downloads, they get put onto the console, and they do some sort of digital signage technique; maybe something that locks it down to the DS? Like it's saved on microSD cards, but it's an encryped and/or obscure format... You can then buy games for ~5$ as digital downloads, 10$/15$ for new releases. Or they make the carts with built-in flash enough for a small downloader-type app, and then they sell a GBA cart that can have an SD card or microSD card or like 2GB of flash or whatever, in which the games are stored, and can be backed up, but it will sign them with a system like GPG so that you can't just get any random files and play them, just stuff from the DS store...
I know this isn't as good as the R4/M3 but what the fuck do you want?
There's a lot of good games for the DS, they don't all deserve 20$+. Drawn To Life looks like a great game but I don't want to waste 20$. I want Tingle games but they're only in Japan.
The US outproduced all of its competition (or at least the big fish of the year...) 2.5 to 1.
So what if all the cheap petroleum shit is made in Facist China? It's the same old useless shit the Japanese and Koreans used to make. Except in 50 years the Japanese and Koreans evolved and our getting us to build their stuff, while the chinese in mainland china are still making our crap...
But yes, there is still a widening gap between rich and poor; what do you want to do about it? You're just peddling communism when you reccomend stuff like that to the american people; it's the nation that tried to found modern capitalism... And because it hosts the largest amount of sucessful people, it hosts the largest amount of imprisonned people per capita, and the "poor" level is higher than most industrial nations... Of course "poor" in the glorious US and A is nothing like poor in central Africa...
Flash isn't even avaiable for non-x86, and Gnash can only do so much...
But the official flash for linux is really crap. Flash would run great on my Celeron 500MHz with 64MB of RAM; triple the RAM and add linux and it's faltering on flash. =/
Not only that VIA made a smart move with its Nano design.
Realising that its C7 design, and by extension the Atom design, are not what people want, they moved towards an ultra-low voltage Core Solo design for their ITX motherboards. The Nano is strong enough to run Crysis with an 8600GT, all on miniITX hardware.
Not to mention the VX800 can output at 1900x1200, and can do hardware-playback of MPEG2, MPEG4 h.264 & ASF, along with a few other formats. This is all going to be documented for linux. So, HTPC builders, get ready! If VIA or a VIA partner is going to release a miniITX box based on the Nano, you bet your ass that would be the best MythTV platform ever, especially since nVidia is promoting MiniITX with PCIE x16, so you could even have a monster video card to boot.
Sorry, I love Ekiga myself, especially since it has video, but I don't want to be eavesdropped on. Which is why until Ekiga incorporates Zfone's SDK, it's Zfone all the way. The software is "open source", like PGP is "open source", but the libs and the SDK are GPL. For the program, they won't accept your contributions, and I'm not too sure if they will for the libs, either; I guess it's mostly to keep it untampered, but they should be accepting contributions for the libs and SDK...
Their encryption is pretty cool. Even the "basic" encryption works great; and the "extra" stuff is mostly just reading out a passphrase.
One of the reasons why I changed my plans to buy anything nVidia actually.
Now it's AMD CPU (mostly because I don't have enough money for a good intel one:(), AMD chipset (690V or 780G), AMD GPU (HD3850 or HD4850)... I'm just waiting for the radeonhd and ati drivers to either merge or explain to me what each one is useful for. Oh, and for Wine to perform better with ATI hardware. =/
ATI has been improving leaps and bounds. And I'm very much impressed by AMD because of that. One AMD employee on Phoronix.com has been working with the linux community for a while, in terms of informing them on what can and can't be done. The good news is there's a high chance of UVD for flgrx.
I'm sure KDE3.0 and 3.1 were perfect, weren't they?
I'm sure they were so perfect everyone immediately dropped KDE2 and jumped right on, right?
It takes time. Help them out or stick with KDE3. Plasma is implemented. The next releases will hopefully bring in more customisability, if they can manage to boot Sergei out of an important position. (Now now, he's a master with code, but he's a moron in decision making; KDE should be less configurable?!?) It's going to take a while, just like all good things.
There's no comparing KDE4 to Vista. Everything in KDE4 is unique for a DE. Everything in Vista was a half-assed attempt at progress, that failed miserably when the higher-ups told everyone DRM was compulsory and that their dreams are going to hell. (and by that I mean no "winFS", even though it wasn't even a FS, no "powershell", no anything, just a glossy Server 2003 with bloat)
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Networking, really.
Otherwise, it is a very nice idea. Too bad they couldn't do the SNES. I've always felt that the NES and previous consoles were pretty damn crappy but that the SNES has the best 2D ones ever.
But for 12$, and it plays original NES games? Do want. I have some old NES games sitting around I've always wanted to play, and no NES.
This is only good if they follow through and release the source. If they fork the project after to create their own web server it's really just a case of taking the enemy's water to fuel your guns.
Last I checked ActiveX and IE-only-pages didn't form the majority of the Web.
Hey, now now.
Smoking is a disgusting habit. Regardless of if it causes cancer or not, really, shit's plain nasty and you might as well stick a fork in an electrical outlet.
While drinking beer, when you're ready to know and handle your limits, is very good for you, it keeps your system running clean. There is nothing wrong with non-alcoholic bars, either; Majora's Mask featured a Milk Bar, and Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life has a non-alcoholic bar.
Smoking in bars was a horrible idea. If I go into a bar it's for a few drinks with friends. It's not to get tar and various forms of AIDS in my lungs. You want to smoke? Do it at home pal. In exchange I, as an arsenist, won't light you on fire. Not only is it disgusting it smells, especially in clubs; cigarette smoke makes the entire place smells like ass, and with people sweating it's a disaster waiting to happen.
PG-rated movies are intended for kids/early teens. You sure you want them smoking at that age? Smoking in movies only shows the "cool side". Yeah, looks pretty damn cool to smoke. 'til you see it in real life with people coughing up livers with yellow/blackening teeth.
Saying smoking should be allowed in public places and in the media is like saying people with AIDS/HIV should be allowed to masturbate freely in public and are legally encouraged to rape everything they see.
(but don't get me wrong. the less a government does past a few essential functions, the better.)
The thing is, had the DRM been dropped, and the price be dropped, the chances of piracy would be much lower.
But what do I know. Some people download games and such just because they can, they refuse to pay whatever price. Personally I've only done it twice, and both times for more obscure japanese GBA games. (and I might do it for the Tingle games on DS, if only because Nintendo won't sell them to me)
Spore is a game that deserves the 40$-50$ asking price. It's like the (original) Sims.
Xvid is rape on hardware.
So?
If they thought it'd come easy they're dead wrong.
And of course, the proper course of action for any sort of "reaching out" is to bite the hands that reach for you.
If they're "high cultured, peaceful, and intelligent" whatever we throw at them can be deflected. If they were a threat all along we either fought them off or did our best at least.
Yes.
I'm not european, and the last time I was there I didn't even notice any resonably-priced video games.
I'm not flying to europe or importing from there just to get a Tingle game, I'd much rather download it if they're never going to get it for me.
Of course american reviewers are morons. Starfox Assault was good (it needed more varied missions, like defending stuff and deliveries) but the american mags slammed it. Tingle was my favourite Zelda NPC, but he gets slammed because nobody sees the humour and sadness in such a character...
Seperate from the core OS, and you can install other DEs.
Granted it's far from X but this is just a quick observation. I'm sure there's other resemblences, but everyone has moved to creating a window system that can be removed from the OS. That was pretty much X's only really good idea.
No, OSX is NOT going to "defeat" windows.
Apple is a hardware company, first and foremost. The software they sell is to increase their revenue. They tried being a software company. If it wasn't for Jobs there would be no Apple right now.
It's only Linux at this point. That's the reason why you've got to go and yell at the idiot developpers behind KDE4 who think they know UI design, and tell them to get their asses back on track. What they're doing is bassackwards, they're designing things all wrong (I don't know shit about "good UI" and I think it's bullcrap but I can see all the "wrong things" in KDE.) and it's time users gave them a piece of their mind more directly, or helped with better themes, instead of simply nagging on slashdot.
OSX is an ugly look. KDE4 needs to be KDE4.
I don't think anybody is looking hard enough for interface developpment tools, Qt has a million, and so does GTK...
They offloaded more or less everything onto the chipset. All those fancy video decoding features are in the chipset, for one, and and there's a whole slew of other functions there.
Not to mention the Nano and C7 have Padlock built in them. Atom doesn't.
And it's far from the end. As soon as the ULV mobile edition of Nano is out, it's goodnight Intel. From what I recall when VIA releases an ULV model the power requirements drop by about 15%-25%. And then there's the VX800 that should be out about the same time. Here's hoping the mininote gets it, and it plays solidly. (and if Dell's keyboard quality is any good, then you also have an atom counterpart... at least this way you have competition)
What's odd is that it seems to consume more than the C7. Anybody want to comment? Are we just all using ULV C7 parts right now? Or was it because of the Raptor?
(What I meant in my other post, is regardless of chipsets the Nano can do that much)
Personally I'd rather see Tegra in music/video devices, like an iPhone minus the phone but with a lot more features (movies, music, games, browsers, torrent clients, wireless N, etc.).
I mean, it would be nice to finally eliminate x86 from the mobile market, but at the same time that doesn't seem to play to Tegra's strenghts... And I wouldn't hold my breath to see Tegra in laptops. It would be sweet, yeah, but good luck. I just wish the laptop market would be as open as the desktop one.
I myself am waiting for Nano-based mininote, because it's the only reasonable chance for a nano-based "netbook". Sony has stated it will develop (at Computex?) an Openbook-based laptop, but it might be with the C7... And the thing is the C7 isn't necessarily a bad CPU. It's the Atom, but 32-bit and minus HT. It's just the Nano packs more of a punch.
Ultimately I hope we'll get a minimum of two types of subnotebooks: the ones based on low-performance chips (Tegra that focuses on video, Atom that focuses on god-only-knows-what) to get better batterylife for Asus eee 700 and 900-sized laptops (think 8hrs idle, 6hrs pushing it), and the ones based on high-performance chips (Nano that focuses on being a lower-watted Core Solo) to get performance and OK battery life (think 6hrs idle, 4hrs really pushing it on average). That way those who want what they want can get it.
And although there's not much of a difference between an Atom and an ARM Cortex (like the kind you'd see in tegra), Nano is a totally different beast. When the ULV and 45nm ones come out it should rock the boat quite well, because then you've got something that does 1.8GHz at 15W or less, or 1GHz at ~3W, idling at 50mW to 300mW. (guestimates all around!).
Well, look at it this way, if you were looking for a Nano-based system, the most wattage it'll ever usage would be about 70W. It's all downhill from there.
Especially since there's a rather massive difference between two of the points, something like 5W and 400mW idle for a few hundred megahertz.
You know why they did that don't you?
The atom has next to no features by itself. It really is a "dumb-terminal" amongst CPUs.
The Nano is capable of much more, even with its chipset. Namely, last I checked it's capable of playing h.264 at 1080p, and can play Crysis.
(Oh, does anybody know if this will affect M3? Or is it just R4?)
I personally don't.
There's a lot of room for good homebrew there. Unless Nintendo wants to try selling us FTP, MP3, etc. software carts.
But of course Nintendo is doing it for piracy. It's not unreasonable to see why. Nintendo hasn't dropped the pricing on ANY of its games in two or so years. New Super Mario Bros. is still 35$/40$ here, same for all the other nintendo games. At least here in Canada.
IMHO Nintendo should release its own homebrew kit, but that still allows you to play commercial games. However, it'd be styled like Virtual Console. You buy your games as digital downloads, they get put onto the console, and they do some sort of digital signage technique; maybe something that locks it down to the DS? Like it's saved on microSD cards, but it's an encryped and/or obscure format... You can then buy games for ~5$ as digital downloads, 10$/15$ for new releases. Or they make the carts with built-in flash enough for a small downloader-type app, and then they sell a GBA cart that can have an SD card or microSD card or like 2GB of flash or whatever, in which the games are stored, and can be backed up, but it will sign them with a system like GPG so that you can't just get any random files and play them, just stuff from the DS store...
I know this isn't as good as the R4/M3 but what the fuck do you want?
There's a lot of good games for the DS, they don't all deserve 20$+. Drawn To Life looks like a great game but I don't want to waste 20$. I want Tingle games but they're only in Japan.
Lost our manufacturing base?
The US outproduced all of its competition (or at least the big fish of the year...) 2.5 to 1.
So what if all the cheap petroleum shit is made in Facist China? It's the same old useless shit the Japanese and Koreans used to make. Except in 50 years the Japanese and Koreans evolved and our getting us to build their stuff, while the chinese in mainland china are still making our crap...
But yes, there is still a widening gap between rich and poor; what do you want to do about it? You're just peddling communism when you reccomend stuff like that to the american people; it's the nation that tried to found modern capitalism... And because it hosts the largest amount of sucessful people, it hosts the largest amount of imprisonned people per capita, and the "poor" level is higher than most industrial nations... Of course "poor" in the glorious US and A is nothing like poor in central Africa...
But for every poor there's a rich...
And they'd also ask for 50$ for each line of code...
Flash isn't even avaiable for non-x86, and Gnash can only do so much...
But the official flash for linux is really crap. Flash would run great on my Celeron 500MHz with 64MB of RAM; triple the RAM and add linux and it's faltering on flash. =/
Not only that VIA made a smart move with its Nano design.
Realising that its C7 design, and by extension the Atom design, are not what people want, they moved towards an ultra-low voltage Core Solo design for their ITX motherboards. The Nano is strong enough to run Crysis with an 8600GT, all on miniITX hardware.
Not to mention the VX800 can output at 1900x1200, and can do hardware-playback of MPEG2, MPEG4 h.264 & ASF, along with a few other formats. This is all going to be documented for linux. So, HTPC builders, get ready! If VIA or a VIA partner is going to release a miniITX box based on the Nano, you bet your ass that would be the best MythTV platform ever, especially since nVidia is promoting MiniITX with PCIE x16, so you could even have a monster video card to boot.
Zfone?
Encrypted calls > Ekiga.
Sorry, I love Ekiga myself, especially since it has video, but I don't want to be eavesdropped on. Which is why until Ekiga incorporates Zfone's SDK, it's Zfone all the way. The software is "open source", like PGP is "open source", but the libs and the SDK are GPL. For the program, they won't accept your contributions, and I'm not too sure if they will for the libs, either; I guess it's mostly to keep it untampered, but they should be accepting contributions for the libs and SDK...
Their encryption is pretty cool. Even the "basic" encryption works great; and the "extra" stuff is mostly just reading out a passphrase.
Here's my roadmap for politics.
First, there's the republicans, who stand up, and say, "I have a bad idea!"
And then there's democrats who stand up and say "Yeah? And I can make it worse!"
And the only thing worse than these two shits arguing are when they work together!
And ATI is moving to a mostly open driver.
One of the reasons why I changed my plans to buy anything nVidia actually.
Now it's AMD CPU (mostly because I don't have enough money for a good intel one :(), AMD chipset (690V or 780G), AMD GPU (HD3850 or HD4850)... I'm just waiting for the radeonhd and ati drivers to either merge or explain to me what each one is useful for. Oh, and for Wine to perform better with ATI hardware. =/
ATI has been improving leaps and bounds. And I'm very much impressed by AMD because of that. One AMD employee on Phoronix.com has been working with the linux community for a while, in terms of informing them on what can and can't be done. The good news is there's a high chance of UVD for flgrx.
I'm sure KDE3.0 and 3.1 were perfect, weren't they?
I'm sure they were so perfect everyone immediately dropped KDE2 and jumped right on, right?
It takes time. Help them out or stick with KDE3. Plasma is implemented. The next releases will hopefully bring in more customisability, if they can manage to boot Sergei out of an important position. (Now now, he's a master with code, but he's a moron in decision making; KDE should be less configurable?!?) It's going to take a while, just like all good things.
There's no comparing KDE4 to Vista. Everything in KDE4 is unique for a DE. Everything in Vista was a half-assed attempt at progress, that failed miserably when the higher-ups told everyone DRM was compulsory and that their dreams are going to hell. (and by that I mean no "winFS", even though it wasn't even a FS, no "powershell", no anything, just a glossy Server 2003 with bloat)