Well, if it makes you feel better, I read it. Just wanted to throw in my support. I mean, it's not like we're listening to an orchestra here, a loss in quality is perfectly acceptable.
Yes, the registration process sucks, but as I learned this morning, not every member of Microsoft is an asshole (at least the guy I spoke to). I didn't have to "pay" for an extra license (to test their beta, I know, but it's a pretty good OS. Hasn't crashed on my yet)
Gee, it hasn't crashed since this morning? Wow, I'm impressed, that really is the sign of a "pretty good OS". Sign me up for two copies of MoreTroubleThanIt'sWorthXP!
COBOL...It's a tool for a specific kind of task, plain and simple. Unfortunately, too many people advocate a one-size-fits-all approach to software (when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail).
Oh come on, we're not idiots. It's just that when you've got a brand new ACME gold-plated electric hammer with the variable-angle striking surface so that the nail is always hit straight on...well, COBOL looks like the handle of a cheesy screwdriver that you're trying to use as a hammer.
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Well, the point hasn't really said anything, so it's also mute...
Maybe his problem is that it's more of a cheesy fantasy than sci-fi, which is a lot of people's problem with Trek. I mean, don't you ever get the idea that Star Trek is written by a bunch of people who hate rational thought? Oh well, in the end, it is Rob's site, so he can post news about whatever he wants and he can poke fun at whatever he wants. It's like that whole free speech thing, or something.
First, this is a well-informed perspective on why Yamauchi would say this, and it's most likely dead on.
Second, the Gamecube is going to be impressive, big time, so it's not evan an issue. For those of you who think that Nintendo is for kids and that the games aren't going to be there, wait until E3 before you pass that judgement. Nintendo is not where they are now because they are stupid, expect them to learn from their mistakes. Yeah, Pokemon and Mario will be there, but so will Metroid, Perfect Dark, Too Human, Biohazard 0, Eternal Darkness, and a number of other games that will impress even us "old people" in our twenties.
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Why do people forget that as failed as the Nintendo 64 was Nintendo still sold double the gaming software of it's closest competitor, EA? Sure, this is due in large part to Pokemon and the Game Boy, but don't forget that while the PSX outsold the N64 in units, the N64 sold more games for the past few years. Nintendo and Rare have made a good number of the best console games in the last generation and I can't wait to see what they do with the GC.
My point is this: Nintendo doesn't have to 'learn' anything. Some people just need to figure out that they really are in their own league. Sony and Microsoft are making computers to play video games, Nintendo is making games that just happen to run on a computer. I'm not saying Nintendo is going to "win" any kind of "console war", but they'll do just fine because they know how to make games that are fun, unlike a large number of the PS2's mature titles, which tend to seem like a chore you undertake just to get to the next cutscene.
The other thing that bothers me is the assumption that Nintendo's games are for kids. I'm 23, I've been playing video games since I was four, I play Q3A, UT, Metal Gear, Total Annihilation, and a whole bunch of other "mature" games, and I still think that Mario Tennis is one of the most fun games I've ever played. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the best example of level design in any game, period. Video games are supposed to be fun, if they happen to have blood and guts or "mature" themes, fine, but that isn't necessary. However, if it makes you feel any better, there do appear to be a good number of rated M games headed to the Cube at or just after launch, although Nintendo will probably only publish one of those (Perfect Dark 2, maybe, although it's my candidate for 'most likely to be delayed').
As for the non-standard media, this is seen by many as a great move on Nintendo's part. Because you can't pick up black GameCube disks a Best Buy, it's harder to pirate the games (probably not impossible, but much harder). This is a nice selling point to developers trying to decide which console to publish for. Also, they are much cheaper to manufacture than the cartridges, and the licensing fees for the GC are said to be as good as, or better than the PS2 (source: IGN GC FAQ).
I know, I wasn't contradicting the original statement, I was just pointing out the irony that in the end, EA still makes a few buckets of money from it.
So what you're telling me is that with one of these puppies and a parachute I could commute to a job in Silicon Valley from my home in Pennsylvania faster than most of the people who live there? NASA rules.
gee, if you're going to try to strictly parse semantic labels of mathematical terms, they're not really complex, either, they're pretty straightforward. They're all numbers.
I am, and no they're not. They're complex because they have two parts.
Besides, imaginary numbers are just the nonreal part of complex numbers; "complex" implies you're going to see both real and imaginary values
You are, zero is the real number. And before you point out that any real number can just as easily be considered complex because i has a coefficient of zero, you're right, but that doesn't change the fact that imaginary number is a poor label.
I love how "Linux promised to bring *nix to the common user's desktop." What the hell does that mean? Why do people keep treating linux like it's a corporation? If you were going to define this mythical Linux, I guess the most obvious answer would be that it is the community of developers and other contributors. And when has this community as a whole promised anything? A large part of it doesn't even care about desktop environments. Apple is a coordinated company that can force developers to work on what they want done. I don't even know why I'm writing this, everyone here knows it. I'm going back to ign to read about the gameboy advance...
See, most of the people on this page in my opinion are above average intelligent people
Damn, there are just so many good replies to this that my brain fried and now I can't even pick one...
By the way, is it just Konqueror or is the title of this thread "As if we didn't the atmosphere enough"? What the heck does that mean? The only thing I could get from it was that "the atmosphere" is some kind of new verb which I would guess means doing an imitation of that commercial for the Discovery channel with the meteors going "ahhh, the atmosphere." Come to think of it, I haven't the atmosphered in a while...
So, for those of us who are too lazy to look for ourselves, is there some code so that, when you look at the polls on/. the last response just says "Me"?
Use your imagination here, nobody said you have to use it for dictation. I'd like to set up my own HAL-style computer with a few microphones throughout the house and program it to open xmms and play a song or control lights and possibly other appliances. Even better, allow it to take remote voice commands, so I could call my computer from my cell phone and tell it to start making coffee or run apt-get update.
In any case, there are a million and one cool things you can do with voice recognition (well, until your HAL-9001 tries to kill you and you end up dead or on another plane of evolution, whichever comes first), and I'm sure the ideas I have right now are just the tip of the iceberg.
For example, Mills and Huber argue that after factoring in all the networking and telecommunications equipment required on the back end, like routers and servers, a PC and its peripherals connected to the Net use 1,000 watts of power,
which is as much the electricity used by 10 100-watt light bulbs.
Maybe I'm just being a little sensitive today, but did anyone else read this and feel a little bit insulted? Am I reading Salon or Hilites? Maybe they should just change their name to Salon: You're an Idiot.
Of course, Linus has promised a shortening release cycle, so bet accordingly.
Oh really? Is this like the time he said that in 1999 about 2.4? Not bashing or anything, I think Linus should release when he thinks it's ready, I'm just saying that you might want to bet on it (ha ha).
Probably because this took a bit of work and they had to modify Mozilla code, so they started working on it a month or two ago. No reason to redo all of it because a new version of Mozilla was released, they just wanted to show what was possible, and they did.<BR>
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Well, if it makes you feel better, I read it. Just wanted to throw in my support. I mean, it's not like we're listening to an orchestra here, a loss in quality is perfectly acceptable.
Hey, Geeks, get on it.
Yes, the registration process sucks, but as I learned this morning, not every member of Microsoft is an asshole (at least the guy I spoke to). I didn't have to "pay" for an extra license (to test their beta, I know, but it's a pretty good OS. Hasn't crashed on my yet)
Gee, it hasn't crashed since this morning? Wow, I'm impressed, that really is the sign of a "pretty good OS". Sign me up for two copies of MoreTroubleThanIt'sWorthXP!
Sequel Server?
Think of it as economy of syllables. Actually saying the letters S-Q-L just takes way too long...
COBOL...It's a tool for a specific kind of task, plain and simple. Unfortunately, too many people advocate a one-size-fits-all approach to software (when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail).
Oh come on, we're not idiots. It's just that when you've got a brand new ACME gold-plated electric hammer with the variable-angle striking surface so that the nail is always hit straight on...well, COBOL looks like the handle of a cheesy screwdriver that you're trying to use as a hammer.
Well, the point hasn't really said anything, so it's also mute...
What about Rocky Fi...oh, wait...
Maybe his problem is that it's more of a cheesy fantasy than sci-fi, which is a lot of people's problem with Trek. I mean, don't you ever get the idea that Star Trek is written by a bunch of people who hate rational thought? Oh well, in the end, it is Rob's site, so he can post news about whatever he wants and he can poke fun at whatever he wants. It's like that whole free speech thing, or something.
Why do people forget that as failed as the Nintendo 64 was Nintendo still sold double the gaming software of it's closest competitor, EA? Sure, this is due in large part to Pokemon and the Game Boy, but don't forget that while the PSX outsold the N64 in units, the N64 sold more games for the past few years. Nintendo and Rare have made a good number of the best console games in the last generation and I can't wait to see what they do with the GC.
My point is this: Nintendo doesn't have to 'learn' anything. Some people just need to figure out that they really are in their own league. Sony and Microsoft are making computers to play video games, Nintendo is making games that just happen to run on a computer. I'm not saying Nintendo is going to "win" any kind of "console war", but they'll do just fine because they know how to make games that are fun, unlike a large number of the PS2's mature titles, which tend to seem like a chore you undertake just to get to the next cutscene.
The other thing that bothers me is the assumption that Nintendo's games are for kids. I'm 23, I've been playing video games since I was four, I play Q3A, UT, Metal Gear, Total Annihilation, and a whole bunch of other "mature" games, and I still think that Mario Tennis is one of the most fun games I've ever played. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the best example of level design in any game, period. Video games are supposed to be fun, if they happen to have blood and guts or "mature" themes, fine, but that isn't necessary. However, if it makes you feel any better, there do appear to be a good number of rated M games headed to the Cube at or just after launch, although Nintendo will probably only publish one of those (Perfect Dark 2, maybe, although it's my candidate for 'most likely to be delayed').
As for the non-standard media, this is seen by many as a great move on Nintendo's part. Because you can't pick up black GameCube disks a Best Buy, it's harder to pirate the games (probably not impossible, but much harder). This is a nice selling point to developers trying to decide which console to publish for. Also, they are much cheaper to manufacture than the cartridges, and the licensing fees for the GC are said to be as good as, or better than the PS2 (source: IGN GC FAQ).
I know, I wasn't contradicting the original statement, I was just pointing out the irony that in the end, EA still makes a few buckets of money from it.
So what you're telling me is that with one of these puppies and a parachute I could commute to a job in Silicon Valley from my home in Pennsylvania faster than most of the people who live there? NASA rules.
They've just released their first game, Black & White, which is...
...published by EA.
What I've been wondering is which current hardware would most be best to integrate with unknown alien technology?
I don't know, but I hope that it would be sensible enough to electrocute anyone who tried to type the phrase 'would most be best'.
gee, if you're going to try to strictly parse semantic labels of mathematical terms, they're not really complex, either, they're pretty straightforward. They're all numbers.
I am, and no they're not. They're complex because they have two parts.
Besides, imaginary numbers are just the nonreal part of complex numbers; "complex" implies you're going to see both real and imaginary values
You are, zero is the real number. And before you point out that any real number can just as easily be considered complex because i has a coefficient of zero, you're right, but that doesn't change the fact that imaginary number is a poor label.
They're not imaginary numbers, they're complex numbers. If you want to call them imaginary, you might as well call negative numbers imaginary.
I love how "Linux promised to bring *nix to the common user's desktop." What the hell does that mean? Why do people keep treating linux like it's a corporation? If you were going to define this mythical Linux, I guess the most obvious answer would be that it is the community of developers and other contributors. And when has this community as a whole promised anything? A large part of it doesn't even care about desktop environments. Apple is a coordinated company that can force developers to work on what they want done. I don't even know why I'm writing this, everyone here knows it. I'm going back to ign to read about the gameboy advance...
Yo, get off the crack:
Top 10 Publishers of 2000 (software only)
Rank / Publisher / Units / Dollars
Source: http://www.dailyradar.com/news/game_news_6632.htm
EA isn't even close, and this doesn't count their hardware sales, which must be ridiculous since the GBC still sells thousands of units per week.
See, most of the people on this page in my opinion are above average intelligent people
Damn, there are just so many good replies to this that my brain fried and now I can't even pick one...
By the way, is it just Konqueror or is the title of this thread "As if we didn't the atmosphere enough"? What the heck does that mean? The only thing I could get from it was that "the atmosphere" is some kind of new verb which I would guess means doing an imitation of that commercial for the Discovery channel with the meteors going "ahhh, the atmosphere." Come to think of it, I haven't the atmosphered in a while...
So, for those of us who are too lazy to look for ourselves, is there some code so that, when you look at the polls on /. the last response just says "Me"?
Use your imagination here, nobody said you have to use it for dictation. I'd like to set up my own HAL-style computer with a few microphones throughout the house and program it to open xmms and play a song or control lights and possibly other appliances. Even better, allow it to take remote voice commands, so I could call my computer from my cell phone and tell it to start making coffee or run apt-get update.
In any case, there are a million and one cool things you can do with voice recognition (well, until your HAL-9001 tries to kill you and you end up dead or on another plane of evolution, whichever comes first), and I'm sure the ideas I have right now are just the tip of the iceberg.
Probably because it's also an MP3 player/WAP device/personal TV recorder.
Of course, Linus has promised a shortening release cycle, so bet accordingly.
Oh really? Is this like the time he said that in 1999 about 2.4? Not bashing or anything, I think Linus should release when he thinks it's ready, I'm just saying that you might want to bet on it (ha ha).
Probably because this took a bit of work and they had to modify Mozilla code, so they started working on it a month or two ago. No reason to redo all of it because a new version of Mozilla was released, they just wanted to show what was possible, and they did.<BR>
Let's just put it this way, at least with KDE it's optional waste.