I didn't realize that the PS2 was just THAT BIG for EA. Considdering that they publish the best selling game of all time (and all 9 (or whatever) of it's expansion packs), you'd think that The Sims would make the PC a bigger share of their revenue. For the PC revenue to stay smaller than PS2, you can tell just how big the PS2 really is.
That said, I would have liked to see the graphs in millions or something like that, instead of percent. That way you could tell that while the PS2 make look like it's market is shrinking for a company in a specific timeframe, it's actually growing, but some smash hit game on the PC just dwarfed the revenue. I also would have liked to see "dots" on the graphs representing some of the bigger games being published so we could see the results.
Yes. Go to any decent store (GameStop, FuncoLand, Babbages, maybe even TRU) and you can buy either a broadband or modem for the GCN. It fits in one of the spots on the bottom of the console. That said, next to no games support the thing. In fact, AFAIK, Phantasy Star Online (by Sega) is the only game that even supports the things. There are probably more by now. Here are some links for you to check out:
Well, it's a full wireless bridge. It may seem expensive, but remember a few things. First if you have multiple consoles (a DC, a PS2, a XBox, and a GCN all with broadband adaptors) you could use the one adaptor along with a hub to give them ALL 'net access. Also, if your PC is on one side/floor of your house and your games are on another, it's usually cheaper and better looking to get something like this and a wireless lan card for the PC than to run ethernet through the walls or even worse taped to the outside of the walls. This isn't for everyone (especially if you have ethernet near your consoles) but for many it would be a great thing.
Interesting, I've never thought of that. That said, it seems to fit. Just look up "socialism" on Dictionary.com and you'll find this (somewhere down on the page):
socialism
n 1: a political theory advocating state ownership of industry 2: an economic system based on state ownership of capital [syn: socialist economy] [ant: capitalism]
Sounds like you have a socialist medical system to me. Maybe they don't call it that in Canada because they don't want you to realize it's Communism? I know Canada isn't communist, but it's just the other side of the coin. Interesting, eh?
"...Of course, anyone who has been to a doctor in Canada understands that we need medicine that can do the diagnosis for them."
Would someone please explain this comment to me? I thought Canada was supposed to have a very good health care system. It's socialized, isn't it? I would think that not having to deal with all the HMO crap would lead to more time with paitents and hence better care?
PS: as bad as some people say things are, I'd still rather have our current system than socialist medicine here in the US. Just my 2 cents so people don't think I'm trying to be political. Just wondered what the comment meant.
I'm with you. Ram is very cheap right now too. You can get a half gig of PC133 for $36, according to pricewatch. But dragons are priceless. Do you know how much that means they cost???
Well, the fact is that the left-wing tends to say that the media is all right-wingers ("Look! Fox News! See! It's BIASED. I TOLD YOU."). The right-wing (including me, FWIW) looks at the media and says it's all left-biased ("Look! It's ABC, and CBS, and NBC! WE TOLD YOU THERE WAS BIAS").
The fact is the media is NOT giving us the straight story. Some outlets are biased one way and some the other. Whichever side is talking tends to ignore bias in their favor, and point out the bias against them.
The problem is, that ALL of the media has an agenda these days. Very few outlets have very little bias. The book you recommended may point out that the liberal-media doesn't exist (I haven't read it) but if you read the first chapter of chapter of Off With Their Heads, the book does a fantastic job showing how the New York Times has gone from "The Paper of Record" and a fantastic news source to a liberal cheerleader since Howard Raines (I think that's how it's spelled) took over just before Sep 11th in 2001.
As for your analisys, I believe you're right. The liberals are voting to stop conservative media takeovers, and the conservatives are voting to stop liberal media takeovers. For once it's the same thing, AND it's in the public interest.
As for the president, I don't think he'll veto it. If the house votes 400 to 27, I think it's pretty obvious what the people want to happen, and he's no idiot (despite what many people like to say).
Maybe this is just insurace agaist the SEC. Games tend to get delayed, so they give a conservative estimate, and if it gets done "early", they release it then. This way they can't be accused of letting the game slip but using it to boost profits/stock price/whatever.
"...existing apps written in everybody's favourite language..."
That can be taken two ways. It either means everyone's favorite language in that it's a very popular language to write programs for, or it's prefered over other languages as it's "the best" or people "like it better."
I sure hope it's the first because I do not like VB at all...
Unfortunatly, this is why privacy at universities is going to become worrysome. With many schools desperate for funding, how long until the universities sell out all student data they can (names, addresses, etc) unless you submit to their extortion ("We will maintain your privacy for a small $500 processing fee").
Unfortunatly, I think this is something we're going to be comming to. Also, athought the parrent is moderated "+1 Funny", the fact is it's also quite insitefull.
No future price hikes because Linux is free. Price for each version won't change.
No planned obscelescence, you're in control. Run kernel 2.2 and use KDE 2.2 untill the end of time if you want.
No forced bundles. What happens if SCO decides you can only buy their OS if you also but program X and a 1000 seat license for it (at $500 a pop)?
Speaking of which, no per seat licenses. If SCO doesn't charge them now, how do you know they won't in the future?
Upgrades are free. Security patches are free. It's ALL free.
It's TRUELY open. You have a problem? Your techs can look at the code to see what's going on. You don't need to call in an expert from SCO.
Need a feature? Add it! You can add it directly to the software, you don't need to do it as some hack script that you run things though.
Not tied to a company. What happens if/when SCO goes out of business? You have to find a new company for support (costs more $$$), you'll have to switch to a different OS (costs more $$$).
Linux has Tux, the cute/cool little mascot. What does SCO have?
You get companies like IBM working to improve things like the core system (the kernel) and other programs (samba), and you get those improvements for FREE. That's NO $$$.
Not tied to any specific architecture. What happens if SCO say "From now on if you want to run our OS, you must run it on our new SCOlding 7 processor." So you switch platforms (massive $$$), or you switch OS ($$$). You can buy x86s, IA-64s, x86-64s, PPCs, m68ks, Sparcs, ANYTHING.
SCO's situation. Right now they are FUDing all over the place. If they lose the lawsuit, they could be out of business. Even if they survive, do you want to pay their legal bills? Why is it that since their stock price has gone up after this FUD thing, their seinor execs have been selling sizeable chunks of their stock offerings. Does that give YOU confidence in them?
If they are affraid of the who SCO vs Linux thing, why not go with FreeBSD or OpenBSD?
How long is the SCO EULA? Have your lawyers read everything in there? With Linux, all you have to fear is the GPL, and that's nothing to fear as it's harmless.
SCO's OS is only now getting support for the Pentium 4 and such. Linux has supported the x86-64 line since before it was released. I think it was the same with IA64, and PPC-64, and others.
How long will it take for SCO to add PCI-X and PCI Express when you get new servers that include them? Linux will have them soon, and you won't have to pay for it.
Scalability. Linux can install and run on 386s with 8mb of ram and 100mb of hard drive. SCO want's a Pentium with 64mb and 400mb of hard drive.
SCO's OS can only support 537gb per volume (so you couldn't have a 2tb raid). Linux supports terabyte sized disks, doesn't it?
Linux supports just about any piece of hardware you're likely to be using. Are you using Adaptec RAID cards or chips? Adaptec maintains highly optomised drivers that they put in the kernel so you can get maximum performance out of your hardware. Do they do that with SCO?
You said that Linux can to more transactions faster on your current systems than SCO. That means running Linux you can go longer between hardware upgrades. And when you upgrade that hardware, you can go longer before you need to upgrade again, and so on. Saves you $$$.
You can train your interns in Linux, and since Linux is an "In Thing," you might get more qualified interns (or at least more eagre ones) applying which means that you get better people working for "expirance" (read: near free) than you might have now!
Linux is being improved not only by hardware people like IBM, but all the numerous distos are trying to make things better. They also mean more choice so you can find something that fits you better that the somthing like SCO's product, where only one company is offering it. Even if you don't use RedHat, you still have
If you want to know all about how the New York Times went from being an unbiast paper, the "paper of record", to a liberal cheerleader, I suggest you read the first chapter of a new book called "Off With Their Heads." A facinating read.
I've found that many women seem to do this. Not on purpose, but just simply because when they think of "someone" doing something, they think of another women, and so use the word "she".
That said, you're correct and this is one gramatic error that really annoys me. You're one hundred percent correct; "he" is the correct work.
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You should know that I just got a DirecTiVo 5 days ago and I LOVE the thing. I'm ready to start saying that "...out of my cold dead hands" line. That said, I've expiranced NONE of these issues and I haven't heard of anyone with the box I have having any of these issues. I have a Phillips DVR-7000. From what I've heard, other than the faceplate having a different layout, it's IDENTICLE to the HDVR2. That said, I haven't had a single problem and I love it. My only compliant is that when editing the Season Pass list it can take quite a few seconds to refigure things out after rearranging them, but seeing as I have over 50 seasons passes, I don't blame it (considdering the processor isn't very fast). I love the unit. I bought it specifically because I had heard of the problems you have, and if you're worried just get the Phillips unit, because I haven't seen any reports of problem on the TiVo Community Forum.
PS: As for sorting the "now playing" list, my brother has a stand alone TiVo that let's you do that, but he has software version 4.0, so I'm guessing us DirecTiVo users will get it in the next software version update.
Linux is innovative, as we see people finding all sorts of uses for it, new way of doing things on it, and other such innovative stuff.
What's SAD about this is that Linux, which is developed largly for free, is MORE innovative than one of the largest companies in the free world, with a budget large enough to probably BUY NUMEROUS ENTIRE COUNTRIES in many areas of the world. I agree that there is a good chance that BeOS would be WAY ahead of Linux if it was still around (as in being activly developed the whole time), but the fact that a pieces of software written by a bunch of people all over the world who don't get paid and often don't agree over even semi-basic things is out innovating a company the size of MS with the resources of MS just shows how sad MS is.
Since when is making buttons bigger and titlebars blue "innovative"???
That's the real reason for your cheerleading; it's called denial.
I'm not in denial. I thought the X-Box was junk for months. I didn't buy one untill I had some spare cash about a year ago (that's about a year after launch) and decided that I wanted to try Halo and I wanted to play JSRF (because the origional was so great). I haven't regretted that purchase to this day. It was worth it. I've played many great games. And even if I had doubted the purchase later, a new reason came along: X-Box live. There is nothing like being able to play Mech Assault against a bunch of other people and being able to talk to them too. Mech Assault was a great game all around.
As for the GC being called a failure, that's by people who don't like the GC. The only reason people aren't calling the PS2 a failure is because it's so far ahead of the others the people crying "failure" would instantly be branded idiots. I can tell you that if the GC and X-Box had the same numbers, people would still be calling them failures and there would be people calling the PS2 a failure. You can't go by what "people" say. Is the GC stilling getting new games? Are there great new games in development? Is the company still promoting it and now winding down? Yes to all of the above. It's no failure. It might not be the run away hit that the PS2 was, but it's not a failure. Same thing for the X-Box. It's not a failure for the same reason.
And this brings up the PS2. Let's not forget that the PS2 was a MASSIVE, UNPREDICTED (in that even Sony didn't expect it to be so big), RUNAWAY SMASH of a console. It was also out for a year or two before the GC and X-Box came out. Saying that the GC or X-Box numbers don't match up to PS2 numbers is like saying that the NGage (assusming it's a hit, which it won't be) is a failure because there are so many GBAs out there. Well yeah, it's been out for years. A BIG reason the PS2 sells more units per month is because of the MASSIVE library of GREAT titles that it has, thanks to it's long headstart and backward compatability. PS2 numbers vs GC/X-Box numbers is like Apples vs Apple-Like-Oranges.
You can tell a platform is a failure when it stop selling and people stop making new good games for it at the rate of the other platforms. Both the GC and X-Box are NOT failures, they're just not the runaway smash the PS2 was.
I know alot of MS bashing goes on here, but come on. For the numbers arguement, look at my post above. Yes, Halo would have been huge if it was released for PC (and that will now happen), but FAILED CONSOLE?
Why has it failed? Because it's still in the market place? Because it's outselling the GC (IIRC)? It's got some great games (Halo, JSRF, Oddworld: Munch's Odessy, Mech Assault, etc) and has some great things going for it too (only console with a hard drive in every unit, XBox Live). The system is also the most powerful of the big 3 out there, which means that it can keep having great looking and running games for years. The fact is, the X-Box is a fantastic console, and I'm VERY happy I own one. I know it's fun to bash MS for all they do, but they really did their homework when they decided to enter the video game market (unlike many other consoles (indream, phantom, that terrible thing that was integrated into DVD players.. the Nuon). Let's not forget that the X-Box is the ONLY console that could get a port of Doom 3 without a massive graphics rewrite (due to the graphics abilities).
You want a failed console? There are plenty. NeoGeo, Virtual Boy (which had fantastic games, system was just named wrong), TurboGraphics 16, Jaguar, Jaguar CD, Sega CD, Saturn, 32X, Lynx, 3DO, Nuon, indreama, GP32, and more (these are in the US, I know some of these succeded over seas).
Repeat after me: the X-Box HASN'T FAILED and it WON'T.
Time to just face up to the fact that MS hasn't fallen on their face like many people wanted them to.
Super Mario Brothers has been out for nearly 20 years, Mario 64 has been out for 7, and Enter the Matrix was based on a MASSIVE movie license and had tons of promotion. Halo has only been out for 2 years. Let's do some math, shall we?
SMB: 40/18 = 2.22 million copies per year.
Mario64: 11/7 = 1.56 million copies per year.
Halo: 3/2 = 1.5 million per year.
That puts Halo right up there with Mario 64 and not TOO far from SMB if you take into account the MASSIVE amount of time it's been out. Plus let's not forget that SMB was BUNDLED with the NES/Famicon while Mario 64 and Halo didn't become bundles for until later, and even then you had a choice of non-bundled usually.
As for Enter the Matrix selling faster, that's true. But how good is each game? If you look at the list of reviews on GameFAQs, most are 9 or 10 our of 10. There are only 4 below 7 out of about 45. Enter the Matrix on the XBox is mostly 6s and 8s, with a 2. Not a single 10/10. That's not a fair comparison. A massivly promoted game that's not very good tied to a major movie vs a good game that's promoted but not nearly as heavily as the movie game. In the US, quality is no match for marketing tied to a big movie (unfortunatly).
I would think most cellphones are (or at least will be) this way. GPS is something that is already there (due to the E911 thing), so why not make it available to the cellphone users so they can use it and you can claim it as a feature and say "our phone is better because theirs doesn't let you see where you are with our IntelliGPS HyperLocater technology." If it's not common now, I think it will be. I for one would prefer to buy a phone that would let me see the GPS data over one that wouldn't, all else being equal. Wouldn't you?
This will be market drivin, I think. There are some, probably a great many people who wouldn't mind this a bit if it caused their insurance rates to plummet. Everything is a tradeoff, and this is one that many people will be willing to take.
There are many people who, like you, would be too worried about the big-brother aspect and would want different insurance. These people would flock to insurance companies that work like those today and would be covered.
The only real problem would be if the government were to regulate that all insurace MUST function this was, but seeing as how this is the US (if you're not in the US, I don't know what will happen), you'll be fine. Here in the US just find other people like you (it shouldn't be to hard to find others who don't want to be locked into the system, or believe that people shouldn't have to be locked into it whether they personally like it or not) to be able to elect new people to abolish the rule.
I really don't think you have too much to worry about.
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That said, I would have liked to see the graphs in millions or something like that, instead of percent. That way you could tell that while the PS2 make look like it's market is shrinking for a company in a specific timeframe, it's actually growing, but some smash hit game on the PC just dwarfed the revenue. I also would have liked to see "dots" on the graphs representing some of the bigger games being published so we could see the results.
There isn't one. I think it's just smaller or is designed to fit in better (asthetically) with the consoles.
Nintendo's page on the GCN's connectivity
IGN's page on the modem
IGN's page on the ethernet adaptor
Well, it's a full wireless bridge. It may seem expensive, but remember a few things. First if you have multiple consoles (a DC, a PS2, a XBox, and a GCN all with broadband adaptors) you could use the one adaptor along with a hub to give them ALL 'net access. Also, if your PC is on one side/floor of your house and your games are on another, it's usually cheaper and better looking to get something like this and a wireless lan card for the PC than to run ethernet through the walls or even worse taped to the outside of the walls. This isn't for everyone (especially if you have ethernet near your consoles) but for many it would be a great thing.
socialism
n 1: a political theory advocating state ownership of industry 2: an economic system based on state ownership of capital [syn: socialist economy] [ant: capitalism]
Sounds like you have a socialist medical system to me. Maybe they don't call it that in Canada because they don't want you to realize it's Communism? I know Canada isn't communist, but it's just the other side of the coin. Interesting, eh?
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Would someone please explain this comment to me? I thought Canada was supposed to have a very good health care system. It's socialized, isn't it? I would think that not having to deal with all the HMO crap would lead to more time with paitents and hence better care?
PS: as bad as some people say things are, I'd still rather have our current system than socialist medicine here in the US. Just my 2 cents so people don't think I'm trying to be political. Just wondered what the comment meant.
I'm with you. Ram is very cheap right now too. You can get a half gig of PC133 for $36, according to pricewatch. But dragons are priceless. Do you know how much that means they cost???
The fact is the media is NOT giving us the straight story. Some outlets are biased one way and some the other. Whichever side is talking tends to ignore bias in their favor, and point out the bias against them.
The problem is, that ALL of the media has an agenda these days. Very few outlets have very little bias. The book you recommended may point out that the liberal-media doesn't exist (I haven't read it) but if you read the first chapter of chapter of Off With Their Heads, the book does a fantastic job showing how the New York Times has gone from "The Paper of Record" and a fantastic news source to a liberal cheerleader since Howard Raines (I think that's how it's spelled) took over just before Sep 11th in 2001.
As for your analisys, I believe you're right. The liberals are voting to stop conservative media takeovers, and the conservatives are voting to stop liberal media takeovers. For once it's the same thing, AND it's in the public interest.
As for the president, I don't think he'll veto it. If the house votes 400 to 27, I think it's pretty obvious what the people want to happen, and he's no idiot (despite what many people like to say).
Maybe this is just insurace agaist the SEC. Games tend to get delayed, so they give a conservative estimate, and if it gets done "early", they release it then. This way they can't be accused of letting the game slip but using it to boost profits/stock price/whatever.
That can be taken two ways. It either means everyone's favorite language in that it's a very popular language to write programs for, or it's prefered over other languages as it's "the best" or people "like it better."
I sure hope it's the first because I do not like VB at all...
Unfortunatly, I think this is something we're going to be comming to. Also, athought the parrent is moderated "+1 Funny", the fact is it's also quite insitefull.
For all those reading this, The NYT went liberal in mid 2001 when Mr. Raines (I think his first name is Howard) took over the paper.
If you want to know all about how the New York Times went from being an unbiast paper, the "paper of record", to a liberal cheerleader, I suggest you read the first chapter of a new book called "Off With Their Heads." A facinating read.
Why? That's what the "legit" media does.
Often, it's the easiest way to get HDTV, which the FCC is TRYING to get people to adopt, IIRC.
That said, you're correct and this is one gramatic error that really annoys me. You're one hundred percent correct; "he" is the correct work.
PS: As for sorting the "now playing" list, my brother has a stand alone TiVo that let's you do that, but he has software version 4.0, so I'm guessing us DirecTiVo users will get it in the next software version update.
Linux is innovative, as we see people finding all sorts of uses for it, new way of doing things on it, and other such innovative stuff.
What's SAD about this is that Linux, which is developed largly for free, is MORE innovative than one of the largest companies in the free world, with a budget large enough to probably BUY NUMEROUS ENTIRE COUNTRIES in many areas of the world. I agree that there is a good chance that BeOS would be WAY ahead of Linux if it was still around (as in being activly developed the whole time), but the fact that a pieces of software written by a bunch of people all over the world who don't get paid and often don't agree over even semi-basic things is out innovating a company the size of MS with the resources of MS just shows how sad MS is.
Since when is making buttons bigger and titlebars blue "innovative"???
I'm not in denial. I thought the X-Box was junk for months. I didn't buy one untill I had some spare cash about a year ago (that's about a year after launch) and decided that I wanted to try Halo and I wanted to play JSRF (because the origional was so great). I haven't regretted that purchase to this day. It was worth it. I've played many great games. And even if I had doubted the purchase later, a new reason came along: X-Box live. There is nothing like being able to play Mech Assault against a bunch of other people and being able to talk to them too. Mech Assault was a great game all around.
As for the GC being called a failure, that's by people who don't like the GC. The only reason people aren't calling the PS2 a failure is because it's so far ahead of the others the people crying "failure" would instantly be branded idiots. I can tell you that if the GC and X-Box had the same numbers, people would still be calling them failures and there would be people calling the PS2 a failure. You can't go by what "people" say. Is the GC stilling getting new games? Are there great new games in development? Is the company still promoting it and now winding down? Yes to all of the above. It's no failure. It might not be the run away hit that the PS2 was, but it's not a failure. Same thing for the X-Box. It's not a failure for the same reason.
And this brings up the PS2. Let's not forget that the PS2 was a MASSIVE, UNPREDICTED (in that even Sony didn't expect it to be so big), RUNAWAY SMASH of a console. It was also out for a year or two before the GC and X-Box came out. Saying that the GC or X-Box numbers don't match up to PS2 numbers is like saying that the NGage (assusming it's a hit, which it won't be) is a failure because there are so many GBAs out there. Well yeah, it's been out for years. A BIG reason the PS2 sells more units per month is because of the MASSIVE library of GREAT titles that it has, thanks to it's long headstart and backward compatability. PS2 numbers vs GC/X-Box numbers is like Apples vs Apple-Like-Oranges.
You can tell a platform is a failure when it stop selling and people stop making new good games for it at the rate of the other platforms. Both the GC and X-Box are NOT failures, they're just not the runaway smash the PS2 was.
Why has it failed? Because it's still in the market place? Because it's outselling the GC (IIRC)? It's got some great games (Halo, JSRF, Oddworld: Munch's Odessy, Mech Assault, etc) and has some great things going for it too (only console with a hard drive in every unit, XBox Live). The system is also the most powerful of the big 3 out there, which means that it can keep having great looking and running games for years. The fact is, the X-Box is a fantastic console, and I'm VERY happy I own one. I know it's fun to bash MS for all they do, but they really did their homework when they decided to enter the video game market (unlike many other consoles (indream, phantom, that terrible thing that was integrated into DVD players.. the Nuon). Let's not forget that the X-Box is the ONLY console that could get a port of Doom 3 without a massive graphics rewrite (due to the graphics abilities).
You want a failed console? There are plenty. NeoGeo, Virtual Boy (which had fantastic games, system was just named wrong), TurboGraphics 16, Jaguar, Jaguar CD, Sega CD, Saturn, 32X, Lynx, 3DO, Nuon, indreama, GP32, and more (these are in the US, I know some of these succeded over seas).
Repeat after me: the X-Box HASN'T FAILED and it WON'T.
Time to just face up to the fact that MS hasn't fallen on their face like many people wanted them to.
Super Mario Brothers has been out for nearly 20 years, Mario 64 has been out for 7, and Enter the Matrix was based on a MASSIVE movie license and had tons of promotion. Halo has only been out for 2 years. Let's do some math, shall we?
SMB: 40/18 = 2.22 million copies per year.
Mario64: 11/7 = 1.56 million copies per year.
Halo: 3/2 = 1.5 million per year.
That puts Halo right up there with Mario 64 and not TOO far from SMB if you take into account the MASSIVE amount of time it's been out. Plus let's not forget that SMB was BUNDLED with the NES/Famicon while Mario 64 and Halo didn't become bundles for until later, and even then you had a choice of non-bundled usually.
As for Enter the Matrix selling faster, that's true. But how good is each game? If you look at the list of reviews on GameFAQs, most are 9 or 10 our of 10. There are only 4 below 7 out of about 45. Enter the Matrix on the XBox is mostly 6s and 8s, with a 2. Not a single 10/10. That's not a fair comparison. A massivly promoted game that's not very good tied to a major movie vs a good game that's promoted but not nearly as heavily as the movie game. In the US, quality is no match for marketing tied to a big movie (unfortunatly).
I would think most cellphones are (or at least will be) this way. GPS is something that is already there (due to the E911 thing), so why not make it available to the cellphone users so they can use it and you can claim it as a feature and say "our phone is better because theirs doesn't let you see where you are with our IntelliGPS HyperLocater technology." If it's not common now, I think it will be. I for one would prefer to buy a phone that would let me see the GPS data over one that wouldn't, all else being equal. Wouldn't you?
There are many people who, like you, would be too worried about the big-brother aspect and would want different insurance. These people would flock to insurance companies that work like those today and would be covered.
The only real problem would be if the government were to regulate that all insurace MUST function this was, but seeing as how this is the US (if you're not in the US, I don't know what will happen), you'll be fine. Here in the US just find other people like you (it shouldn't be to hard to find others who don't want to be locked into the system, or believe that people shouldn't have to be locked into it whether they personally like it or not) to be able to elect new people to abolish the rule.
I really don't think you have too much to worry about.