I agree that the new optical mouse suck. The pivot for the clicker is also too far back, and it makes clicking unfomfortable. Though I don't like their OSs, Microsoft makes one hell of a mouse. I have the five button+ wheel optical mouse, and I cannot imagine anything better. It is great for FPS games, I can assign almost every important command to the mouse, and just use the arrow keys on the keyboard.
I am currently using one of the newer dual processor G4s, with all the trimmings, clear optical mouse, keyboard, etc. I have never liked Apples, but I do have to use them at work. I have always seen them as candy colored pieces of crap that are targeted at first time computer buyers. Up until recently, the only innovation coming out of this company has been external eye-candy.
I have toyed with OSX Beta, and my impression was that it was, well, slow. The machine it was on, another dual processor G4, was more than capable of handling the GUI, but everything took a painfully long time. Sure the screen looked purdy, but I would rather not spend so much time staring at it.
However, I do appreciate their use of dual processors, and Firewire. I believe that their use of these technologies brought them to PCs. And we have one of those gigantic flatscreens in our office, it is powered by one cord, and contains a USB hub. That is cool too.
I am afraid that Apple is focusing too much on making their machines pretty, when they should be focusing on speed and reliability. it is just like the hockey puck mouse inflicted on Mac-heads: its focus was on aesthetics, not ergnomics, and though it was nice to look at, it was hell to use.
It doesn't seem to me that the author has a very good hold on the possibilities that AI holds. I doubt that a device that did nothing but roll can have much intelligence. I have many friends who do nothing but roll (drug world term for using MDMA), and they sure as hell don't exhibit much intelligence. On the other hand, this was funny as hell:
"One trembles at the image of a world plagued by constipated mechanical berserkers."
Also, why the hell would anyone need 8 Gb to store game info? I can see benefits to it if some of the HD was used as cache for the FMVs, etc, but damn, that is a lotta space for an application like this. On a more personal note, I dont trust RAM management in the first place, I have 256 Mb on my box, and in an hour, I have 200Mb of swap space taken up. I have no such problems on linux, naturally. Flames aside, I am sure that they could have reduced the cost of the machine by making that magnetic bucket a bit smaller. Also, I predict that with 4 128-bit consoles out, there wont be a lot of competition. I say this because we are already seeing a lot of games released for the DC, and later the PS2. Tony Hawk 2, a game that I believe is available for the aforementioned systems, is being made for the XBox. I am betting that games will be made for each console, and that the selling points of the different consoles will be the optimizations they make to the games, and of course, their price. Finally, I would like to say that I believe that the new Nintendo system will not follow this pattern, as Nintendo has in the past relied more on second and first party developers, ones that would be less likely to make cross-platform games. Whether this will be a good or a bad thig remains to be seen.
I am glad to see that they decided to put in 4 controller ports. It is amazing to me that the Sony decided to put only 2 ports on a 128-bit console, they should understand by now that the multiplayer aspect of gaming is usually the most fun. I am also glad to see that the box is in a more conventional console design, and not a free-standing "X" like some of the earlier photos seemed to suggest. As I understand it, the Xbox is designed to be like a console version of a PC, and I see no reason to play PC games on an ultra-low-res television screen. Why would I need a console that outputs at 200x 320 (or whatever television resoloution is), when I can play on my 19" monitor at 1600x1200 courtesy of my GeForce 2?
Actually, the DC was recently (appx 5 months ago) cracked. If you search for DC, and warez on a IRC network's list of channels, you will find a list that will rival that of PS ISO channels. I do not condone this, but poeple can burn the ISOs of the games on normal CDs, and play them without modification to the dreamcast itself. I imagine that if they can do that with the origional games, they could easlily do it with their own programs.
Oh yes, and he might want to include the purdy looking speakers that are designed for the cube, you know the octopus-tentacle ones? I am sure that those will be about as useful as the cube will be, and they will give the astronauts in the ISS something to jam to!
Note: I know that vacuum does not conduct sound.
There is a reason that most of the computers sent into space are not normal boxes. The radiation and magnetism present in space nessecitates that a good portion of the bits in the commands be dedicated to error correction and parity. A cube, even with that strong, yet usually flawed casing, will not be able to function in space without excessive shielding, which will defeat the main purpose of the cube: it will not be pretty. Remember that ham sateliete that went up, and the PC on it crashed? Well, a Macintosh, in my experience, will not even run at normal terran altitudes, I doubt it will work in vacuum.
My father is a member of the media, and I got to, on several occasions, go to the DotCompound, as they called it.
It was a fairly interesting gimmick at first, but eventually it got really damned boring. It became like a lame version of the Truman Show, and the main character was not terrible interesting. DotComGuy got the royal treatment from various online retailers trying to go for cheap advertising, but bored internet surfers can only watch the infomercials that were produced for so long. I can see why his "ratings" went down.
I must say, however, that they did have one sweet setup in the house next door, where they did the editing of the footage that they got. At that point in my life, that was the most electronic equipment I had seen in one room, and their A/V equipment looked like it belonged in a television station.
Can someone find a price on the 2 Gig HD from Platypus? The website provided is nonnavigable, and I cannot find a reseller that displays a price. It seems like a cool idea to have a big-ass RAM HDD, but I know it will be expensive.
I a posting this from the Bush/Cheney rally in Austin. The people here are pretty optimistic, and... whoah, Bo Derek just came onstage.... I really can't wait to see how it turns out.
I was wondering how many of my fellow nerds are still boycotting Intel after the PSN fiasco? I will refuse to buy their chips unless AMD does something dumber than that.
You know how big an ad would have to be for it to be visible from space? The station will appear only as a star-like object, like a point. There is no way something on the ISS could be visible.
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I dont want the unwashed masses using IRC, it got flooded when they though Napster was almost going down. IRC will also be the best way for me to get MP3s in college, but the fewer people that use it, the better. IRC does rock, but it is not for the morons that use AOL
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I agree that the new optical mouse suck. The pivot for the clicker is also too far back, and it makes clicking unfomfortable. Though I don't like their OSs, Microsoft makes one hell of a mouse. I have the five button+ wheel optical mouse, and I cannot imagine anything better. It is great for FPS games, I can assign almost every important command to the mouse, and just use the arrow keys on the keyboard.
Furthermore, even if this G4 is a supercomputer as the ads say, it crashes a helluva lot more than my old Cray.
I am currently using one of the newer dual processor G4s, with all the trimmings, clear optical mouse, keyboard, etc. I have never liked Apples, but I do have to use them at work. I have always seen them as candy colored pieces of crap that are targeted at first time computer buyers. Up until recently, the only innovation coming out of this company has been external eye-candy.
I have toyed with OSX Beta, and my impression was that it was, well, slow. The machine it was on, another dual processor G4, was more than capable of handling the GUI, but everything took a painfully long time. Sure the screen looked purdy, but I would rather not spend so much time staring at it.
However, I do appreciate their use of dual processors, and Firewire. I believe that their use of these technologies brought them to PCs. And we have one of those gigantic flatscreens in our office, it is powered by one cord, and contains a USB hub. That is cool too.
I am afraid that Apple is focusing too much on making their machines pretty, when they should be focusing on speed and reliability. it is just like the hockey puck mouse inflicted on Mac-heads: its focus was on aesthetics, not ergnomics, and though it was nice to look at, it was hell to use.
It doesn't seem to me that the author has a very good hold on the possibilities that AI holds. I doubt that a device that did nothing but roll can have much intelligence. I have many friends who do nothing but roll (drug world term for using MDMA), and they sure as hell don't exhibit much intelligence. On the other hand, this was funny as hell: "One trembles at the image of a world plagued by constipated mechanical berserkers."
Quoting Bill Hicks? Very good, very appropriate.
So you are saying that my PC is already an XBox emulator? Gates is NOT gonna be happy.
Also, why the hell would anyone need 8 Gb to store game info? I can see benefits to it if some of the HD was used as cache for the FMVs, etc, but damn, that is a lotta space for an application like this. On a more personal note, I dont trust RAM management in the first place, I have 256 Mb on my box, and in an hour, I have 200Mb of swap space taken up. I have no such problems on linux, naturally. Flames aside, I am sure that they could have reduced the cost of the machine by making that magnetic bucket a bit smaller. Also, I predict that with 4 128-bit consoles out, there wont be a lot of competition. I say this because we are already seeing a lot of games released for the DC, and later the PS2. Tony Hawk 2, a game that I believe is available for the aforementioned systems, is being made for the XBox. I am betting that games will be made for each console, and that the selling points of the different consoles will be the optimizations they make to the games, and of course, their price. Finally, I would like to say that I believe that the new Nintendo system will not follow this pattern, as Nintendo has in the past relied more on second and first party developers, ones that would be less likely to make cross-platform games. Whether this will be a good or a bad thig remains to be seen.
I am glad to see that they decided to put in 4 controller ports. It is amazing to me that the Sony decided to put only 2 ports on a 128-bit console, they should understand by now that the multiplayer aspect of gaming is usually the most fun. I am also glad to see that the box is in a more conventional console design, and not a free-standing "X" like some of the earlier photos seemed to suggest. As I understand it, the Xbox is designed to be like a console version of a PC, and I see no reason to play PC games on an ultra-low-res television screen. Why would I need a console that outputs at 200x 320 (or whatever television resoloution is), when I can play on my 19" monitor at 1600x1200 courtesy of my GeForce 2?
Actually, the DC was recently (appx 5 months ago) cracked. If you search for DC, and warez on a IRC network's list of channels, you will find a list that will rival that of PS ISO channels. I do not condone this, but poeple can burn the ISOs of the games on normal CDs, and play them without modification to the dreamcast itself. I imagine that if they can do that with the origional games, they could easlily do it with their own programs.
Oh yes, and he might want to include the purdy looking speakers that are designed for the cube, you know the octopus-tentacle ones? I am sure that those will be about as useful as the cube will be, and they will give the astronauts in the ISS something to jam to! Note: I know that vacuum does not conduct sound.
There is a reason that most of the computers sent into space are not normal boxes. The radiation and magnetism present in space nessecitates that a good portion of the bits in the commands be dedicated to error correction and parity. A cube, even with that strong, yet usually flawed casing, will not be able to function in space without excessive shielding, which will defeat the main purpose of the cube: it will not be pretty. Remember that ham sateliete that went up, and the PC on it crashed? Well, a Macintosh, in my experience, will not even run at normal terran altitudes, I doubt it will work in vacuum.
I publish my material on basically a nightly basis. But that is just because I got a broadband connection recently. Lotsa porn.
You're forgetting something, Bible-boy, there is no god! You should be thanking evoloution.
Yes, but all of these factors are not microsoft's, or any emplyer's fault.
Look at the title of this article, "Making Linux Booting Pretty". Did the editors skip elementary school?
My father is a member of the media, and I got to, on several occasions, go to the DotCompound, as they called it. It was a fairly interesting gimmick at first, but eventually it got really damned boring. It became like a lame version of the Truman Show, and the main character was not terrible interesting. DotComGuy got the royal treatment from various online retailers trying to go for cheap advertising, but bored internet surfers can only watch the infomercials that were produced for so long. I can see why his "ratings" went down. I must say, however, that they did have one sweet setup in the house next door, where they did the editing of the footage that they got. At that point in my life, that was the most electronic equipment I had seen in one room, and their A/V equipment looked like it belonged in a television station.
Can someone find a price on the 2 Gig HD from Platypus? The website provided is nonnavigable, and I cannot find a reseller that displays a price. It seems like a cool idea to have a big-ass RAM HDD, but I know it will be expensive.
I a posting this from the Bush/Cheney rally in Austin. The people here are pretty optimistic, and... whoah, Bo Derek just came onstage.... I really can't wait to see how it turns out.
actually, I don't remember a part of the constitution that even mentioned helping the downtrodden. You might try looking at it once or twice
Yeah, I know. It sucks pretty bad, but I only went over 3.5 Gb once, before the limit was instituted.
I was wondering how many of my fellow nerds are still boycotting Intel after the PSN fiasco? I will refuse to buy their chips unless AMD does something dumber than that.
You know how big an ad would have to be for it to be visible from space? The station will appear only as a star-like object, like a point. There is no way something on the ISS could be visible.
If you want horror, go to Excite chat. It is filled with the lamers that I am afraid will discover IRC. They have automated bots that flood the channels with kiddie rap, and theirt conversations, admidst the flood are like: "A/S/L?", "I love everyone", "kewl I am in Kali too, wanna cyber?"
I dont want the unwashed masses using IRC, it got flooded when they though Napster was almost going down. IRC will also be the best way for me to get MP3s in college, but the fewer people that use it, the better. IRC does rock, but it is not for the morons that use AOL
The entire movie was a marketing gimmick. Come on dude.