I consider open source to be akin to the insurance policy on my personal property: It's nice to know I have protection if I need it. If I'm using a database server, and the company goes out of business or decides to merge with another company, I'm not completely screwed by political or business decisions that could affect how I do business. If IBM decided tomorrow that DB2 was unprofitable and decided to sell it to Sybase, there are some business decisions that could come out of that merger that may be detrimental the continued support of the products I use. If MySQL decided to close up shop and send all of their employees pounding pavement, there may or may not be community development, but they'll have the option of doing such. If, in my example, Sybase decided to discontinue DB2 support, and stopped selling licenses, where would the DB2 community go? They'd have no recourse but to continue with that they have and figure out a migration plan. With MySQL, or any other open source database choice, the option arises to have a community support the product, or to support it yourself. It's all about choice, and allowing the options to make better choices.
Seconded. You'll be enjoying some of the best the industry has to offer by subscribing to this podcast, and you'll be deluged with so much interesting content. You'll probably feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume.
Well, this looks interesting, but I'm going to wait on checking it out until there's a way for me to purchase just the Linux version without having a useless Windows version laying around the house.
Not all corporations have rolled out Windows XP. There's still corporations out there that are running Windows 2000, and still others that have Windows 98 machines on their network. Being slow to deploy new operating systems isn't strictly the domain of the military.:)
Broadband may weaken the DVD rental market, but will not kill off the market for people wanting to "own" a movie or TV series in their own personal collection. I see broadband competing with the on-demand cable channels for movies that people would like to see. It'll have no effect on those who want to keep the movies they want to watch over and over again. I think it's the same argument that killed DiVX (the Circuit City rental program). I know I want to have the movies I really care about available to me whenever I want them, and I don't want ot have to ask for permission to watch them. No-one is predicting that on-demand cable will supplant DVDs, so why should broadband do the same?
Predictions like this tend to the absurd notions that technologies somehow have to dominate and destroy other technologies that are similar, when the reality of the marketplace allows for technologies with similar goals to coexist nicely.
Space hulk vengeance of the blood angles is a 3DO original,pc psx & saturn are ports. Snowjob is a QTVR like game. Killing Time had FMV in the intro and the ending.No FMV during the game. Didn't know SpaceHulk was a 3DO original. Killing Time had FMV spiced throughout the game as you completed levels and entered different rooms.
Actually I have a memory card and mpeg1 video adapter for the fz1 "two unused expansion ports"The modem,mpeg2 & M2 cards never materialized. Ah, you're right... I forgot about the mpeg card. Never saw the memory card, though.
Other great games were Foes of Ali, Starblade (Excellent arcade port), and Braindead 13 (Better than the ports out there).
I blame Trip Hawkins for not being honest with what the role of the video game system was. I blame him for not being honest when the system was clearly outclassed, and the M2 was nowhere near production (M2: Coming soon!) I blame him for a SRP of $700, since the hardware manufacturers couldn't offset the price with software sales. I understand it was a rough time for video games, and the competition when the 3DO was released wasn't even up to par with what the 3DO could do, but thee model Trip used for the 3DO was understandably flawed.
Maybe I'm being too hard on ol' Trip, but he's still got a lot of ground to cover before I'll trust his predictions. He may have been the father of EA and 3DO, but I think some of that can be attributed to right-place-right-time.
The Sega Saturn and PSX had it as well (I think it was before MAME was around, and certainly before PCs were fast enough to do proper emulation). It was marketed as the Street Fighter Collection and came on two discs. But you are right, the 3DO version was the first home version to really be worth a damn (and one of the reasons the 6 button controller on the 3DO was such a popular accessory.:) )
Also great games. No racing game has matched the sheer fun of Need for Speed, and Return Fire is also a great game.
Space Hulk
I think this was a PC port.
Starfighter
Good game.
Wing Commander 3
Port, but it played a hell of a lot better than the PC version. Lots of FMV.
Lucienne's Quest
Haven't played it, but it was a 3DO original.
Super Street Fighter 2 Samurai Shodown
Obviously arcade ports, although they were pretty damn good ports for the time.
Killing Time Twisted
Excellent originals, although they both dragged after a while. Killing time was pretty damn hard. Also they were FMV games, even though Killing Time threw in a first person shooter to try to balance it out.
SnowJob
Never played it, but wasn't it a FMV game?
Alone in the Dark PC port
All in all, the 3DO had some pretty good titles, but Trip Hawkins is on drugs when he thinks he can predict the future. There's two unused expansion ports on the FZ-1 3DO that speak otherwise, and just ask any 3DO fan about the M2. Trip speaks from his ass when it comes to prognostication. Thinking that the living room needed a multimedia device was 10+ years too early, and the 3DO was most definitely not the machine to take us there.
When one of my friends comes over to visit, I've given her a Netgear MA-401 to run on her Powerbook G4. No troubles there. The only issue I've had is with drivers not being available to run the card. I solved this with a third party driver package. Linux has also had issues running certain wireless cards properly without drivers.
Guys, I think judgement is premature in this case. Foley and Ultracade are trying to squash those who are using the MAME logo to help sell illegal machines. Ultracade is a legal, operable machine. I've seen it in action, and back at CGE2K I spoke directly with Foley about his product. He is an enthusiast of the old arcade experience, and his machines speak to that enthusiasm. I asked him if his intentions were to give the trademark back to the MAME authors, and he confirmed that he is willing to give the trademark back to the authors. He's not trying to squash MAME, just those who are using it against his company. While I'll admit that it's unorthodox for a company to come out of the blue to trademark a name they neither use, nor have any interest in, I'm not as quick to toss gasoline and matches on them for doing it.
Look what consuming mass quantities of alcohol did for Arthur Dent. Not only was he able to stave off dementia, but he was able to withstand the rigors of space travel on a Vogon ship. If that isn't an endorsement of alcohol, I'm not sure what is.
I think I'm not alone in saying this, but if Rick Berman were to show up on my porch selling Star Trek cookies, I think I'd still slam the door in his face.
I'm sick of having the next "Trek thing" shoved in front of me as though I'm supposed to care. Enough already.
I've gotta hand it to David Allen; Getting Things Done has transformed the way I think about work and my life. It's a great system, and I highly recommend it for people who want to get more out of life. It's not for everyone, and the results take a while to mature, but the payoff is fabulous. It's truly transformational, and I'm glad that Slashdot picked up the review. I was going to review this book, but I wasn't sure if the community would have accepted it yet. I think the computer culture and GTD go very much hand-in-hand.
The vendor should be subscribed to the same lists. We're all alone in this, together. It's their butts and their customers buts if a vendor doesn't keep up with the latest fixes in the kernel. I completely agree with Linus: there is no good reason for not disclosing everything as soon as possible. The system has worked in the past, and should be able to work in the future.
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3DO.
The 3DO originally debuted at a princely price, but quickly dropped to around $399. The Sega Saturn also debuted at $399, as did the Playstation. All of those consoles quickly dropped in price to the sweet-spot of $199.
It'll be a tough lesson, but I'm sure they'll figure it out soon enough.
The point was people would sooner jump ship to another operating system than move to a subscription based model where they have little control over their own data. Whether or not they'd still be paying for upgrades or other sybscriptions is a red herring.
Pikmin: Arguably one of the better concepts to come out of gaming.
Viewtiful Joe: Yeah, it's now out for the other consoles, but it's still a great game. Not sure of the other consoles can compare with this title on the GC.
Soul Calibur II: Each platform has their own special character. For the GC, it was Link. Link actually manages to make a good showing on this console.
Harvest Moon: Might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's the most fun farming you'll ever have.
Puyo Pop Fever: I think this is now on all of the platforms, though.
Rogue Squadron II: Star Wars done right.
F-Zero: Great racing game.
I'm no Nintendo apologist by any stretch of the imagination (the GC is the first Nontendo console I'll actually have in my house) but they've put out some great games for it. The PS2 and the XBox have some great exclusive titles, and the cross-platform titles are a bit better on those systems, but the GC does have a lot going for it. The GC has a lot in common with the Dreamcast when it's all said and done, and that's unfortunate, because both systems have excellent hardware, excellent software, and are so completely not to American gamer tastes.
I think the argument for a more service-based PC has some major issues to get around:
First, there needs to be some receiver machine at the home end. A reasonable computer can be had for around $500 nowadays. Unless this subscriber machine can be had for less than $200, there is no incentive to move to this model.
Second, nothing is free. This service will be a subscription-based service. I think it would have had some bearing had people not been burned by subscriptions from other companies. Witness the cable companies and TiVo and how they've handled their subscriptions. Witness the cellphone subscriptions. Paying outrageous rates for using a computer won't succeed if there is no conomic reason to do so. People will sooner purchase Macintoshes.
Thirdly, there is the issue of control. You're dealing with people's data, and their private information. I will never relinquish control of my checkbook, nor my family pictures, nor anything else like that. Some people may be amenable to this, but many will not. The computer is a multimedia device now, and people have scads of personal data on their computers. It'll take a very convincing argument, and a company with a reputation for integrity to wrestle away that desire for control.
The PC as we know it will change, but I see that change moving more to a home entertainment/personal network than a service based machine. Witness the supposed death of the mainframe when the PC was released. It hasn't happened yet, and it's unlikely that mainframes will vanish overnight. Saying the PC will drastically change to a model where people aren't in control of their programs and their data is a prognostication that is unlikely to materialize.
Reminds me of the Clik drive. You could offload your SM/CF cards onto 40MB cartridges back when 8MB flash cards were expensive. Unfortunately they never took off. Wonder if this product is doomed to repeat that success.:)
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I consider open source to be akin to the insurance policy on my personal property: It's nice to know I have protection if I need it. If I'm using a database server, and the company goes out of business or decides to merge with another company, I'm not completely screwed by political or business decisions that could affect how I do business. If IBM decided tomorrow that DB2 was unprofitable and decided to sell it to Sybase, there are some business decisions that could come out of that merger that may be detrimental the continued support of the products I use. If MySQL decided to close up shop and send all of their employees pounding pavement, there may or may not be community development, but they'll have the option of doing such. If, in my example, Sybase decided to discontinue DB2 support, and stopped selling licenses, where would the DB2 community go? They'd have no recourse but to continue with that they have and figure out a migration plan. With MySQL, or any other open source database choice, the option arises to have a community support the product, or to support it yourself. It's all about choice, and allowing the options to make better choices.
Seconded. You'll be enjoying some of the best the industry has to offer by subscribing to this podcast, and you'll be deluged with so much interesting content. You'll probably feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume.
Whoops... I forgot about resetting the line so I'm working from the beginning.
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Hope your solution wins!
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I'm thinking this may be the most efficient for really different sets of files.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought 'why not use sed?'. What's the point of this contest?
Well, this looks interesting, but I'm going to wait on checking it out until there's a way for me to purchase just the Linux version without having a useless Windows version laying around the house.
Not all corporations have rolled out Windows XP. There's still corporations out there that are running Windows 2000, and still others that have Windows 98 machines on their network. Being slow to deploy new operating systems isn't strictly the domain of the military. :)
Broadband may weaken the DVD rental market, but will not kill off the market for people wanting to "own" a movie or TV series in their own personal collection. I see broadband competing with the on-demand cable channels for movies that people would like to see. It'll have no effect on those who want to keep the movies they want to watch over and over again. I think it's the same argument that killed DiVX (the Circuit City rental program). I know I want to have the movies I really care about available to me whenever I want them, and I don't want ot have to ask for permission to watch them. No-one is predicting that on-demand cable will supplant DVDs, so why should broadband do the same?
Predictions like this tend to the absurd notions that technologies somehow have to dominate and destroy other technologies that are similar, when the reality of the marketplace allows for technologies with similar goals to coexist nicely.
Space hulk vengeance of the blood angles is a 3DO original,pc psx & saturn are ports.
Snowjob is a QTVR like game.
Killing Time had FMV in the intro and the ending.No FMV during the game.
Didn't know SpaceHulk was a 3DO original.
Killing Time had FMV spiced throughout the game as you completed levels and entered different rooms.
Actually I have a memory card and mpeg1 video adapter for the fz1 "two unused expansion ports"The modem,mpeg2 & M2 cards never materialized.
Ah, you're right... I forgot about the mpeg card. Never saw the memory card, though.
Other great games were Foes of Ali, Starblade (Excellent arcade port), and Braindead 13 (Better than the ports out there).
I blame Trip Hawkins for not being honest with what the role of the video game system was. I blame him for not being honest when the system was clearly outclassed, and the M2 was nowhere near production (M2: Coming soon!) I blame him for a SRP of $700, since the hardware manufacturers couldn't offset the price with software sales. I understand it was a rough time for video games, and the competition when the 3DO was released wasn't even up to par with what the 3DO could do, but thee model Trip used for the 3DO was understandably flawed.
Maybe I'm being too hard on ol' Trip, but he's still got a lot of ground to cover before I'll trust his predictions. He may have been the father of EA and 3DO, but I think some of that can be attributed to right-place-right-time.
The Sega Saturn and PSX had it as well (I think it was before MAME was around, and certainly before PCs were fast enough to do proper emulation). It was marketed as the Street Fighter Collection and came on two discs. But you are right, the 3DO version was the first home version to really be worth a damn (and one of the reasons the 6 button controller on the 3DO was such a popular accessory. :) )
Star Control II
Haven't played it myself, but I want to get it.
Need for Speed
Road Rash
Return Fire
Also great games. No racing game has matched the sheer fun of Need for Speed, and Return Fire is also a great game.
Space Hulk
I think this was a PC port.
Starfighter
Good game.
Wing Commander 3
Port, but it played a hell of a lot better than the PC version. Lots of FMV.
Lucienne's Quest
Haven't played it, but it was a 3DO original.
Super Street Fighter 2
Samurai Shodown
Obviously arcade ports, although they were pretty damn good ports for the time.
Killing Time
Twisted
Excellent originals, although they both dragged after a while. Killing time was pretty damn hard. Also they were FMV games, even though Killing Time threw in a first person shooter to try to balance it out.
SnowJob
Never played it, but wasn't it a FMV game?
Alone in the Dark
PC port
All in all, the 3DO had some pretty good titles, but Trip Hawkins is on drugs when he thinks he can predict the future. There's two unused expansion ports on the FZ-1 3DO that speak otherwise, and just ask any 3DO fan about the M2. Trip speaks from his ass when it comes to prognostication. Thinking that the living room needed a multimedia device was 10+ years too early, and the 3DO was most definitely not the machine to take us there.
When one of my friends comes over to visit, I've given her a Netgear MA-401 to run on her Powerbook G4. No troubles there. The only issue I've had is with drivers not being available to run the card. I solved this with a third party driver package. Linux has also had issues running certain wireless cards properly without drivers.
Guys, I think judgement is premature in this case. Foley and Ultracade are trying to squash those who are using the MAME logo to help sell illegal machines. Ultracade is a legal, operable machine. I've seen it in action, and back at CGE2K I spoke directly with Foley about his product. He is an enthusiast of the old arcade experience, and his machines speak to that enthusiasm. I asked him if his intentions were to give the trademark back to the MAME authors, and he confirmed that he is willing to give the trademark back to the authors. He's not trying to squash MAME, just those who are using it against his company. While I'll admit that it's unorthodox for a company to come out of the blue to trademark a name they neither use, nor have any interest in, I'm not as quick to toss gasoline and matches on them for doing it.
This has about as much charm and practicality as the home lobotomy kit: yeah, I could do it, but WHY?
Look what consuming mass quantities of alcohol did for Arthur Dent. Not only was he able to stave off dementia, but he was able to withstand the rigors of space travel on a Vogon ship. If that isn't an endorsement of alcohol, I'm not sure what is.
I think I'm not alone in saying this, but if Rick Berman were to show up on my porch selling Star Trek cookies, I think I'd still slam the door in his face.
I'm sick of having the next "Trek thing" shoved in front of me as though I'm supposed to care. Enough already.
I hope the contest finishes before the next "Gamecube is dead" story hits Slashdot... whoops, too late. :)
I've gotta hand it to David Allen; Getting Things Done has transformed the way I think about work and my life. It's a great system, and I highly recommend it for people who want to get more out of life. It's not for everyone, and the results take a while to mature, but the payoff is fabulous. It's truly transformational, and I'm glad that Slashdot picked up the review. I was going to review this book, but I wasn't sure if the community would have accepted it yet. I think the computer culture and GTD go very much hand-in-hand.
The vendor should be subscribed to the same lists. We're all alone in this, together. It's their butts and their customers buts if a vendor doesn't keep up with the latest fixes in the kernel. I completely agree with Linus: there is no good reason for not disclosing everything as soon as possible. The system has worked in the past, and should be able to work in the future.
3DO.
The 3DO originally debuted at a princely price, but quickly dropped to around $399. The Sega Saturn also debuted at $399, as did the Playstation. All of those consoles quickly dropped in price to the sweet-spot of $199.
It'll be a tough lesson, but I'm sure they'll figure it out soon enough.
The point was people would sooner jump ship to another operating system than move to a subscription based model where they have little control over their own data. Whether or not they'd still be paying for upgrades or other sybscriptions is a red herring.
See original post. Original poster stated there was no good third part support as well.
I'm no Nintendo apologist by any stretch of the imagination (the GC is the first Nontendo console I'll actually have in my house) but they've put out some great games for it. The PS2 and the XBox have some great exclusive titles, and the cross-platform titles are a bit better on those systems, but the GC does have a lot going for it. The GC has a lot in common with the Dreamcast when it's all said and done, and that's unfortunate, because both systems have excellent hardware, excellent software, and are so completely not to American gamer tastes.
First, there needs to be some receiver machine at the home end. A reasonable computer can be had for around $500 nowadays. Unless this subscriber machine can be had for less than $200, there is no incentive to move to this model.
Second, nothing is free. This service will be a subscription-based service. I think it would have had some bearing had people not been burned by subscriptions from other companies. Witness the cable companies and TiVo and how they've handled their subscriptions. Witness the cellphone subscriptions. Paying outrageous rates for using a computer won't succeed if there is no conomic reason to do so. People will sooner purchase Macintoshes.
Thirdly, there is the issue of control. You're dealing with people's data, and their private information. I will never relinquish control of my checkbook, nor my family pictures, nor anything else like that. Some people may be amenable to this, but many will not. The computer is a multimedia device now, and people have scads of personal data on their computers. It'll take a very convincing argument, and a company with a reputation for integrity to wrestle away that desire for control.
The PC as we know it will change, but I see that change moving more to a home entertainment/personal network than a service based machine. Witness the supposed death of the mainframe when the PC was released. It hasn't happened yet, and it's unlikely that mainframes will vanish overnight. Saying the PC will drastically change to a model where people aren't in control of their programs and their data is a prognostication that is unlikely to materialize.
Reminds me of the Clik drive. You could offload your SM/CF cards onto 40MB cartridges back when 8MB flash cards were expensive. Unfortunately they never took off. Wonder if this product is doomed to repeat that success. :)