Hahaha. Its funny seeing a linux freak get pissed when Microsoft gets something good.
I doubt too many of those Japanese developers can code rings around him. Square? haha dont even make me laugh. perhaps they could make cgi better than him.
Namco? No... perhaps they could make a better game than him alone, but I doubt anyone working there knows more than him.
Capcom? No... they may make a better 2D fighting game, but I would like to see them try and make a FPS like Quake.
Konami? Maybe. But not one person there im sure knows more than him.
Remember, when you see an average game and you see an id game, look at the credits. An average games credits are minutes long watching. id's fits on ONE SCREEN.
Yeah but the only reason everyone things Windows sucks is because it crashes. What happens when they make a mainstream Windows that isn't based off of DOS and doesn't crash? Are you all going to come back to Windows?
Or will you all just bitch and moan and say "its not free" and "its not open source" and "we have stupid biases" and "its cool not to like windows"?
$100 Windows tax? I guess you aren't one of the thousands running Windows ME right now. hehehe:P
And I'm not against Linux or any other alternate OS. Its just that alot of people just like it because its Linux and bitch and moan that nothing gets ported to it, yet do nothing to contribute to solving the problem. Even worse are the ones that are TOTALLY anti-MS, which is a load of crap right there. Sure some of the stuff Microsoft says and does is stupid (laughable sometimes:P ), yet they make a working OS that is easilly accessible by anyone and highly supported. Don't agree? Well then just think what would happen if every copy of Windows just dissapeared and everyone was forced to switch to Linux, no matter what their computer experience is.
And believe it or not, the operating system IS something that you want a monopoly with. Without it developers wouldn't know what OS to port their software to, leaving tons of people being shafted because they dont have the correct OS. Just look at the PC/Mac situation right now.
Then fricken partition one of your other damn computers and put Windows on it. Or, here is a novel idea, buy another computer! A cheap computer that could run Diablo would cost less than $500, if that (without monitor).
You Linux devotees are worse than anything or one Microsoft produces. You just blindly use Linux and follow the community no matter what the consequences. Shitty software? Shitty drivers? Shitty support? Who cares, it's not Microsoft!
If you fail to see that Microsoft isn't the damn devil and acctually produces worthwhile products (win2k) then you deserve to be playing Diablo 2 on a shitty laptop. If at all.
You need to see numbers though. You know exactly how big 100 megs is. You don't know how big a sphere is thats 2" big is. Your not going to be seeing companies do their revenue accounting with circles and squares any time soon.
True, Outlook can't search like that. But thats it's fault, not the 2D OS that it uses.
Alot of these things acctually seem like things that are dumbing down the user. Your going to be showing people that lag is represented by how far away a webpage is, and then when someone mentions ping their going to have no idea what their talking about.
3D operating systems are neat, but I really don't see them becoming the norm. However don't give up (like you would anyway:P), you can always prove me wrong.
double click on IE click on the mail button, and choose read mail it automatically recieves mail hit reply button while selecting the mail you want to reply to type and hit send
Thats it. And about instantaneous travel between things, what is the point of making a 3D world when you just instantaneously travel through it? If it's going to be instantaneous, then there is no point in making it, because it offers nothing over what is avalible now. And making you walk through the 3D world is cumbersome because it takes to long to do simple tasks.
Most of the things you pointed out are just eye candy things that could easily be done now with GUI hacks. That sky stuff is really neat, but the same can be done with a few bar graphs.
I know this isn't exactly the topic, but it has something to do with it.
3D GUI's suck. Alot. There are a few of them being made now, and I've tried couple, and their stupid. Its alot easier to just hit START, PROGRAMS, WORD, then to walk a half a mile through your virtual house just to get to the Office menu.
Besides, we don't need anymore overhead than there already is.
Acctually, they arent using an emulator. They have an I/O processor in the Playstation 2 that acts as the Playstation 1's CPU. So their not using an emulator because the actual PSX hardware is in the PS2.
I guess its hardware emulation then, rather than software.
With distributed computing so big, why doesn't the government just make a huge ad campaign so the average computer users know about it, then have them all download it? If the ones going now could make so many calculations with what little membership they have, imagine if all those computers in buisnesses have it running, and every Compaq sold, every Gateway, every Dell, every Micron every... Now thats some computing power.
Cost? $0. (well maybe $5 because it would force Intel and AMD to put better fans/heatsinks on their chips)
I can't wait to see what kind of Internet richness with vibrant colors and 3D this will bring, and how fast it will be. I have a feeling that the Pentium 4 will revolutionize the internet like the Pentium III did. And, of course, can you imagine a Beo... oh wait that would make sense.
"For example, users can chat and transfer files at the same time from one application that employs a network connection." It's called Internet Explorer. You may have used it before.
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Hahaha. Its funny seeing a linux freak get pissed when Microsoft gets something good.
I doubt too many of those Japanese developers can code rings around him. Square? haha dont even make me laugh. perhaps they could make cgi better than him.
Namco? No... perhaps they could make a better game than him alone, but I doubt anyone working there knows more than him.
Capcom? No... they may make a better 2D fighting game, but I would like to see them try and make a FPS like Quake.
Konami? Maybe. But not one person there im sure knows more than him.
Remember, when you see an average game and you see an id game, look at the credits. An average games credits are minutes long watching. id's fits on ONE SCREEN.
The record companies are probably going to sue his ass off because of copyright infringement and defamation of character.
They would probably still do it even though he is trying to help them. Thats how stupid the record companies are.
Hmm... this sounds like a great song! Diablo 2 disc 1.mp3 - size 198000000 megs.
Whats stopping people? Or does it HAVE to be an MP3 file? Im sure those l33t hackers could encode a normal MP3 header in a zip file...
I agree about the moderator part.
Now if only if this happened in every other situation... imagine how better this world would be. (and don't gimme shit about Microsoft)
I can't agree with you more.
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These place is horrible when it comes to stuff like that.
Would you like to see the PC industry before Microsoft?
Then again, anything after ms touches it is better.
I bet I'll get flamed for this, and the flames will get +5's too... I love the double standards of Slashdot.
Your in for a surprise.
Yeah but the only reason everyone things Windows sucks is because it crashes. What happens when they make a mainstream Windows that isn't based off of DOS and doesn't crash? Are you all going to come back to Windows?
Or will you all just bitch and moan and say "its not free" and "its not open source" and "we have stupid biases" and "its cool not to like windows"?
Gotta love those bar graphs! :P
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Yes, I think we are the only ones reading this... and I also have nothing else to add.
Nice chatting/debating with you... hope to see the GUI in a magazine someday.
$100 Windows tax? I guess you aren't one of the thousands running Windows ME right now. hehehe :P
:P ), yet they make a working OS that is easilly accessible by anyone and highly supported. Don't agree? Well then just think what would happen if every copy of Windows just dissapeared and everyone was forced to switch to Linux, no matter what their computer experience is.
And I'm not against Linux or any other alternate OS. Its just that alot of people just like it because its Linux and bitch and moan that nothing gets ported to it, yet do nothing to contribute to solving the problem. Even worse are the ones that are TOTALLY anti-MS, which is a load of crap right there. Sure some of the stuff Microsoft says and does is stupid (laughable sometimes
And believe it or not, the operating system IS something that you want a monopoly with. Without it developers wouldn't know what OS to port their software to, leaving tons of people being shafted because they dont have the correct OS. Just look at the PC/Mac situation right now.
Then fricken partition one of your other damn computers and put Windows on it. Or, here is a novel idea, buy another computer! A cheap computer that could run Diablo would cost less than $500, if that (without monitor).
You Linux devotees are worse than anything or one Microsoft produces. You just blindly use Linux and follow the community no matter what the consequences. Shitty software? Shitty drivers? Shitty support? Who cares, it's not Microsoft!
If you fail to see that Microsoft isn't the damn devil and acctually produces worthwhile products (win2k) then you deserve to be playing Diablo 2 on a shitty laptop. If at all.
I'm going to drag this on and I don't know why :)
:P), you can always prove me wrong.
You need to see numbers though. You know exactly how big 100 megs is. You don't know how big a sphere is thats 2" big is. Your not going to be seeing companies do their revenue accounting with circles and squares any time soon.
True, Outlook can't search like that. But thats it's fault, not the 2D OS that it uses.
Alot of these things acctually seem like things that are dumbing down the user. Your going to be showing people that lag is represented by how far away a webpage is, and then when someone mentions ping their going to have no idea what their talking about.
3D operating systems are neat, but I really don't see them becoming the norm. However don't give up (like you would anyway
"Hey Mom, close the window its cold in here"
Well shit, there goes your school report you've been working on for the past week.
Voice activation and typing sounds cool, but in actual use its lame.
Or what it is now if you use IE
double click on IE
click on the mail button, and choose read mail
it automatically recieves mail
hit reply button while selecting the mail you want to reply to
type and hit send
Thats it. And about instantaneous travel between things, what is the point of making a 3D world when you just instantaneously travel through it? If it's going to be instantaneous, then there is no point in making it, because it offers nothing over what is avalible now. And making you walk through the 3D world is cumbersome because it takes to long to do simple tasks.
Most of the things you pointed out are just eye candy things that could easily be done now with GUI hacks. That sky stuff is really neat, but the same can be done with a few bar graphs.
I know this isn't exactly the topic, but it has something to do with it.
3D GUI's suck. Alot. There are a few of them being made now, and I've tried couple, and their stupid. Its alot easier to just hit START, PROGRAMS, WORD, then to walk a half a mile through your virtual house just to get to the Office menu.
Besides, we don't need anymore overhead than there already is.
Interesting, but wrong. So is the other observation.
Ok we will start with 2 bandwidth and 2 processing power. Measurements dont matter, its the numbers.
For ever double the processing power makes, the bandwidth makes 2 of them. Look:
Bandwidth --- Processing Power --- Time
2 --- 2 --- 0 months
4 --- 2 --- 9 months
8 --- 4 --- 18 months
16 --- 4 --- 27 months
32 --- 8 --- 36 months
64 --- 8 --- 45 months
128 --- 16 --- 54 months
So processing power goes down 50% each 18 months compared to bandwidth.
Yeah. I don't know how they get around the sound and GPU problem though. I guess they just have software routines for those... or something.
Acctually, they arent using an emulator. They have an I/O processor in the Playstation 2 that acts as the Playstation 1's CPU. So their not using an emulator because the actual PSX hardware is in the PS2.
I guess its hardware emulation then, rather than software.
With distributed computing so big, why doesn't the government just make a huge ad campaign so the average computer users know about it, then have them all download it? If the ones going now could make so many calculations with what little membership they have, imagine if all those computers in buisnesses have it running, and every Compaq sold, every Gateway, every Dell, every Micron every... Now thats some computing power.
Cost? $0. (well maybe $5 because it would force Intel and AMD to put better fans/heatsinks on their chips)
I can't wait to see what kind of Internet richness with vibrant colors and 3D this will bring, and how fast it will be. I have a feeling that the Pentium 4 will revolutionize the internet like the Pentium III did. And, of course, can you imagine a Beo... oh wait that would make sense.
"For example, users can chat and transfer files at the same time from one application that employs a network connection." It's called Internet Explorer. You may have used it before.
Ancient PII500/TNT2U setup? Try no worry about supporting that ancient P233MMX/Voodoo1 setup.
We also all know the damage that can be done by a 40 year old drunk-off-his-ass hick can do too, but their allowed to get away with hell.