Disclaimer: I am GNOME user for eight years, but I recommend KDE for powerusers. Thanks God that we have choice.
I don't know who your God is so I may be mistaken, but I'd really doubt that *any* of Them ever did any programming work for the OSS or the mentioned DEs. What about giving a little credit to the real hard working people behind the Gnome and KDE, who actually are the ones that gave us this choice?
You are right, in case you want to play only few of those "new" games, with environments and gameplay suited for stylus and/or touch screens (and by the way, Nintendo DS does have buttons. Plenty of them). But what about hundereds and thousands of games ALREADY out there, that are known to be great for years and decades and perfectly capable to run on any modern cell phone hardware under emulation? What about even more native games that can be ported or made for this thing? Can you imagine playing Mortal Kombat with a stylus? I don't think so. And why I'm still forced during my daily commute to the work to cary with me:
- cell phone
- handheld (those common cell phone screens are useless for any reading)
- music player (in case I don't want to play in a loop the same three mp3 tunes that occupy my cell phone's whole memory)
- gaming console (in case I'm tired of reading, just want to fire up a good beat-em-up and ignore the crowd around me for a while)
All the necessary hardware is already there, only thing missing are buttons and you have one less bulky device to carry with you all the time.
With a few REAL buttons here and there, it could be an amazing platform to run every imaginable Gameboy/Gamegear/Lynx/InsertYourFavourite handheld console emulator that already exist for Linux. AND a cell phone as a bonus, of course.
I'd buy THAT in a heartbeat.
Without a bunch of buttons, well... It's just yet another cellphone and ebook reader. You can forget games (except mine sweeper!), you can forget any application that needs more control than "drag up, drag down, clicky, next page, clicky, yawn". Hardly every others geek's dream. But hey, I can wait a few more years, even if it's like waiting for a miracle.
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No mod points today, and how I wish I just had one. +1, Insightful
Youtube?! Lucky guy, never been to Digg in his life..
Disclaimer: I am GNOME user for eight years, but I recommend KDE for powerusers. Thanks God that we have choice.
I don't know who your God is so I may be mistaken, but I'd really doubt that *any* of Them ever did any programming work for the OSS or the mentioned DEs. What about giving a little credit to the real hard working people behind the Gnome and KDE, who actually are the ones that gave us this choice?
You are right, in case you want to play only few of those "new" games, with environments and gameplay suited for stylus and/or touch screens (and by the way, Nintendo DS does have buttons. Plenty of them). But what about hundereds and thousands of games ALREADY out there, that are known to be great for years and decades and perfectly capable to run on any modern cell phone hardware under emulation? What about even more native games that can be ported or made for this thing? Can you imagine playing Mortal Kombat with a stylus? I don't think so. And why I'm still forced during my daily commute to the work to cary with me:
- cell phone
- handheld (those common cell phone screens are useless for any reading)
- music player (in case I don't want to play in a loop the same three mp3 tunes that occupy my cell phone's whole memory)
- gaming console (in case I'm tired of reading, just want to fire up a good beat-em-up and ignore the crowd around me for a while) All the necessary hardware is already there, only thing missing are buttons and you have one less bulky device to carry with you all the time.
With a few REAL buttons here and there, it could be an amazing platform to run every imaginable Gameboy/Gamegear/Lynx/InsertYourFavourite handheld console emulator that already exist for Linux. AND a cell phone as a bonus, of course.
I'd buy THAT in a heartbeat.
Without a bunch of buttons, well... It's just yet another cellphone and ebook reader. You can forget games (except mine sweeper!), you can forget any application that needs more control than "drag up, drag down, clicky, next page, clicky, yawn". Hardly every others geek's dream. But hey, I can wait a few more years, even if it's like waiting for a miracle.
"Maybe we should rethink the design of our computer systems so they they are somehow verifiable," she said."
Yay, DRM in every piece of hardware to the rescue!