People like me who like to play games in current genres, who want to play first person shooters, complex stealth adventures, fighting games, basketball games, etc. Nintendo doesn't lock those games out from their consoles either. I'm not sure where you got that idea. Resident Evil 4 came out first for the Gamecube (it's a rather violent FPS). Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes also came out for Gamecube (it's a re-hash of the first Metal Gear Solid with nicer graphics). Eternal Darkness is a highly acclaimed horror/thriller game.
Finally, the Revolution will be backwards compatible with the Gamecube, which means that one can plug in Gamecube controllers into the thing, and their use do not have to be limited to just Gamecube games. The more traditional console game is more than possible.
X-Box has replayability simply due to the fact that you can play the same game over and over online and get a new experience everytime. Sony is just standing still.
The current generation XBox already has XBox Live. Sony may be behind, but Microsoft isn't moving anywhere with their new system. They're holding to the status quo, just like Sony.
We get shinier graphics for this new generation. Ooo, aah, whatever.
The generation before this (the N64 and Playstation) definitely needed obselescence. The Playstation had pitiful graphics and hardware, while the N64 had no space for anything useful.
Yes, this next generation will allow for shinier graphics, but the clarity of the graphics of the current generation already allow for pretty much the same games this new generation can have.
So what now? Will all games at least look like Doom 3? So now we can have four players playing Doom 3 on XBox 360? More people are still going to play Halo than Doom 3--I play Halo more often than Doom 3. Most, myself included, won't care that much that Halo will now look like Doom 3 (except brighter) once we're playing.
At least the Revolution is attempting something--you know--revolutionary (pun intended).
The current generation should just stick around for a little longer to give developers more time to work on more games (especially considering the enlengthening game development time), and just demand higher quality. This goes especially for the XBox, which is the most powerful of the three systems.
Check out EROS for an implementation that exists now. Granted, EROS itself is no longer being developed, it was definitely around before this OS, and EROS has spawned some new projects (look on the link for links).
The thing about the GPL and its viralness is not you building your car from scratch and including your air conditioning, it's about the car company letting you build an air conditioner only if you give it for free, which hardly makes any sesnse for a business since you spent money to build the air conditioner in the first place. Make the car company pay you for a proprietary license.
Let's stop calling these things blogs (a word which was probably invented by a corporate whore with too much time on his hands), and start calling them what they have always been called. It's a f*cking journal that's readable by the public.
This seems more for PR than for getting a response from Microsoft.
I understand your worries, but fortunately I am able to put your mind to rest: KOffice is in fact not related to StarOffice or OpenOffice. It is a completely separate product, and a very fine one at that. One of our team members, David Faure, was an active party in the creation of the OASIS OpenDocument standard, and KOffice was the first office suite that publicly announced support for it.
Translated: Don't listen to Yates. We can assure you that KOffice is its own entity that is in no way shape or form a derivative of OOo.
It's not a bad thing, though. There are certainly people stupid enough to believe a letter sent by Microsoft would have no agenda. This, at least, sets the record straight for all the world to see.
That's probably because most scientific papers are put out to be peer reviewed. Most of them most likely do not pass that test, or at the least, are redundant.
What do you do when you make a mess? Hopefully, you clean it up.
This should be no different. If we want to use more energy, then we should do so responsibly. Any byproduct of any energy producing process would need to be monitored, and controlled.
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People like me who like to play games in current genres, who want to play first person shooters, complex stealth adventures, fighting games, basketball games, etc.
Nintendo doesn't lock those games out from their consoles either. I'm not sure where you got that idea. Resident Evil 4 came out first for the Gamecube (it's a rather violent FPS). Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes also came out for Gamecube (it's a re-hash of the first Metal Gear Solid with nicer graphics). Eternal Darkness is a highly acclaimed horror/thriller game.
Finally, the Revolution will be backwards compatible with the Gamecube, which means that one can plug in Gamecube controllers into the thing, and their use do not have to be limited to just Gamecube games. The more traditional console game is more than possible.
X-Box has replayability simply due to the fact that you can play the same game over and over online and get a new experience everytime. Sony is just standing still.
The current generation XBox already has XBox Live. Sony may be behind, but Microsoft isn't moving anywhere with their new system. They're holding to the status quo, just like Sony.
We get shinier graphics for this new generation. Ooo, aah, whatever.
The generation before this (the N64 and Playstation) definitely needed obselescence. The Playstation had pitiful graphics and hardware, while the N64 had no space for anything useful.
Yes, this next generation will allow for shinier graphics, but the clarity of the graphics of the current generation already allow for pretty much the same games this new generation can have.
So what now? Will all games at least look like Doom 3? So now we can have four players playing Doom 3 on XBox 360? More people are still going to play Halo than Doom 3--I play Halo more often than Doom 3. Most, myself included, won't care that much that Halo will now look like Doom 3 (except brighter) once we're playing.
At least the Revolution is attempting something--you know--revolutionary (pun intended).
The current generation should just stick around for a little longer to give developers more time to work on more games (especially considering the enlengthening game development time), and just demand higher quality. This goes especially for the XBox, which is the most powerful of the three systems.
I didn't realize that soccer players were so shiny.
Check out EROS for an implementation that exists now. Granted, EROS itself is no longer being developed, it was definitely around before this OS, and EROS has spawned some new projects (look on the link for links).
PETA has a vegetarian zombie comic book character:
Zombie Kid and Jim Mahfood
Is there anything stranger out there?
That was disturbing on a number of levels...
Grammar checkers are nice for catching the stupid mistakes like "We can
can do this..."
ICANN already controls the Internet. They're the reason the EU/UN are complaining. In spite of their name, they're a private US organization.
The thing about the GPL and its viralness is not you building your car from scratch and including your air conditioning, it's about the car company letting you build an air conditioner only if you give it for free, which hardly makes any sesnse for a business since you spent money to build the air conditioner in the first place.
Make the car company pay you for a proprietary license.
If data integrity is that important, one should consider getting a silver or gold archive disc.
Bear in mind that most $2k computers go to ten-year-olds...
Sure, if they're spoiled little brats. I'm not sure if you've noticed, but decent computers can be found for about $700 these days.
FreeBSD is going to kill Linux
Yes, but only as a zombie because, as Netcraft has confirmed, FreeBSD is dead.
I hate euphemisms.
Let's stop calling these things blogs (a word which was probably invented by a corporate whore with too much time on his hands), and start calling them what they have always been called. It's a f*cking journal that's readable by the public.
Translated: Don't listen to Yates. We can assure you that KOffice is its own entity that is in no way shape or form a derivative of OOo.
It's not a bad thing, though. There are certainly people stupid enough to believe a letter sent by Microsoft would have no agenda. This, at least, sets the record straight for all the world to see.
Fry: Don't you worry about Planet Express. Let me worry about blank.
It's about freaking time virus writers started supporting Linux and Mozilla...
Err, wait...
Time to start dropping huge ice cubes into the ocean. That will solve global warming once and for all.
Little Girl: But...
I SAID ONCE AND FOR ALL!
It's one thing to censor news media in accord with national policy, and quite another to expedite the arrest and imprisonment of political dissidents.
If she thinks porn addiction is bad, she should check out /. addiction.
It's a schooner!
That's probably because most scientific papers are put out to be peer reviewed. Most of them most likely do not pass that test, or at the least, are redundant.
What do you do when you make a mess? Hopefully, you clean it up.
This should be no different. If we want to use more energy, then we should do so responsibly. Any byproduct of any energy producing process would need to be monitored, and controlled.
Let's say that this is true.
For far too long, women have been denied education, and now that they do, should we be surprised that such suppression had an evolutionary effect?
If this is true, then it would take at least three or four more generations to change things.
And yet, it's boys that are struggling through school.