MGS Twin Snakes goals were basically 1.) the remake of the game with all the high res graphics and higher-poly count models, 2.) the MGS 2 game play and 3.) a complete and honest reproduction of the Metal Gear Solid (PSX) story line.
So yeah, it does look a bit sterile in the sense that things did look perfect. After the first Ninja fight, the room gets messed up bad. It looks fine when you walk in and during your fight, though some glass panes can be shattered. Snake now looks more alive than he did in the original, a Miyamoto signature which was also something found in Eternal Darkness.
All critics of the MGS series say the same things about level design, textures, etc... MGS 2 did a good job making environmental elements apparent, like getting your feet wet, and leaving tracks (there was really no water in Twin Snakes for this to be noticeable). Tracks in the snow was around since the original MGS. But these MGS games take place in bunkers and bases, which don't really allow for much dirt or very creative scenery. Alaska people, come on.
Something introduced into Twin Snakes is the available to shoot at panes of glass, and only pieces of the pane get shot out. You can continue to damage the glass in different spots, and sometimes if its already damaged, a critical shot will break it all up. Diving into a damaged glass pane will also shatter it too.
There's more too, but I can't recall everything. For instance, Snakes face sometimes looked dirty.
Twin Snakes was certainly more gory than MGS 2, and any other game I have on PS2 (I have both GTA's) or GameCube.
We'll definitely see more of what the original author of this thread is asking for, more realism. Look at the upcoming MGS 3 game, since this thread began talking about MGS: TTS. I think that this is pretty much an easy problem solve, but Nintendo and Konami are working on new models for gaming, and working out the kinks on those first and leaving the graphic fine tuning at the end.
It can be argued that this is the wrong approach. Many people have already said that Nintendo is wasting their time trying to continually innovate, and that they use what works, Mario64, Zelda64, GoldenEye, etc... I think this is the Japanese mindset in general when it comes to videogames, and Nintendo found an ally in regards to Konami, one of the biggest entertainment software companies out there.
In any case, MGS Twin Snakes is badass, and I played the original on PSX, its worth the 40 bucks, I've already played through it once, and I'm working on playing through it again this weekend.
Why? Because it has to do with the gaea, i.e. lifestream. The guy who wrote the story to FF VII also wrote the story to TSW. You have the same mind behind both.
Most creative people find a niche, like Spielberg. He does WW2 movies mostly, because thats his thing, thats what he's into. No one ever says, "Great, one more WW2 movie from Spielberg." Instead it usually gets an applause. So whats the difference between the cat using his gaea ideas in several different creative pieces and Spielberg?
If anyone actually, took the time to read the "Rebuilding America's Defenses" document posted by the parent, you would see that the authors of the document included a requirement for future defense of America to also include a SPACE and CYBERSPACE force. The former already being named the U.S. Space Forces.
So the militarization of space is a part of the PNAC's plan. Whethers its good or bad is up to the reader; for now.
Considering how intertwined our lives have become with the Internet, and networks in general, this new cyberspace addition to the U.S. Armed Forces really concerns me. There is no debate over this issue either, and we know its coming sooner or later. I think this is a bad thing, even if you don't have anything to hide.
People spam, to garner enough cash so they don't have to use spam as a way of generating money? They're trying to make a simple buck in this world? Wow, you're one deluded guy, with an annoyingly arrogant sig too. This woman, just like any spammer, is in it for the fucking money. Everything is about fucking money kid. Did the almighty God, or the almighty Ben Franklin, give her the idea to spend money (which she was supposedly tight on), to purchase computer hardware and lease a $1000 Internet connection?
This woman deserves no sympathy, neither does any other spammer or illegitimate business, large or small. I suggest everyone drink a gallon of coffee, shit in a box and send it to this woman now.
I had to take a bite on this, however, ffakr, covered most of what I wanted to troll on.
There is one more thing though...
The Mach+BSD server design is a kludge creating unneccessary bloat, complexity and performance overhead without exploiting any of the potential advantages of a microkernel design like better portability or Hurd-style hack value like filesystems running as daemons in userspace etc.
MacOSX's kernel is more of a hybrid kernel, than a pure microkernel. There's only a single layer that messages get passed through to communicate with the kernel, and vice-versa. No one has been able to produce a microkernel that has a.) portability and b.) performance. L4 is by the far the best implementation of a microkernel that is somewhat comparable to the speed of a monolithic kernel and retains all the design goals of a true microkernel.
I believe microkernels ultimate goal was to create a portable operating system with a BSD operating system interface. It achieved that slowly, but performance was terrible. Linux has solved this problem, and people don't pay as much lip service to microkernels as they use to.
Microkernels also aren't as small and streamline as you believe. Mach was just as big a monolithic kernel, and to streamline any of its processes, you had to run kernel extensions in kernel space, not user space, nullifying the user-level kernel extensions goal.
Microkernels also inherently will have more overhead than monolithic kernels. They have to buffer and analyze messages that get passed through each layer in the operating system, just like a network architecture does.
Object-oriented frameworks like Java, Cocoa and Carbon, would crawl on a microkernel because of the number of interrupts generated in such systems.
But MacOS X has great Java support. Cocoa is heavilty object oriented, but is a fast API.
This fast/portable/small microkernel-stuff about MacOS X is a myth. It's a hybrid like NT.
I think its great that the GCN is on the up and up (for now at least). But I think its a combination of the new software coming out for the GCN, the price drops for some of Nintendo's best games (Animal Crossing, Metriod Prime and others), and of course the price drop in the system.
The latest editions to the GCN's library that are available or coming soon include: Freedom Fighers (very cool, currently sucking up every bit of free time I have), True Crime L.A., TMNT (yes!!), Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes, Rogue Ops (Metal Gear Solid with breasts), Starcraft Ghost (more MGS-style gameplay, more breasts), StarFox 2, Mario Kart, Soul Calibur 2, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles and of course XIII which comes out very soon.
This line-up for the next ~6 months can't be considered completely childish, if childish at all. The GCN is breaking out, and its great to see that finally, but it was never really a problem either in my mind. People no longer have anything to complain about when it comes to the GCN, so we can see its true potential as a *gaming* system.
It might be premature to say, but I think the GCN is going to continue doing very well in the US. I own both a PS2 (bought it first), and a GCN, and everytime I see a game like the ones above (which are available on both GCN/PS2 except StarFox & Metal Gear Solid), I always buy the GCN software. Why? Because the GCN looks better, has a more comfortable controller (great wireless controls if you really need it), and of course progessive scan (too mad not many GCN games use it though).
This is more of a rant than a reply to the article, but its great news to anyone who loves their GCN and Nintendo. So my final thoughts to this good news are, does anyone think Nintendo will be selling more software then Sony now? Or at least selling ridiculously more?.
Red XIII is not human. Holy will determine what threatens the planet and eradicates this threat. It was humans that had abused the planet and the lifestream. Even though Cloud and company proved that good exists in humanity, it's up to the gamer to decide if the humans survive or not.
I personally have yet to decide what happened to Cloud and company. I think it doesn't matter too much, because even in death, you exist on a spiritual level in the lifestream with everyone else.
I read the article (I know, against the rules), and I have to agree with
many other posters that the author was slanted toward MS. Here's why:
XBox:
MS has been dumping money into XBox. Whether is succeeds or not is not up
to the market. MS is betting on XBox, and considering how much money
they're willing to spend it will be around for a while. XBox will die
when MS decides its a loss they don't want to continue, or when people stop
purchasing software or boxen. I feel that MS will give up before that
happens since XBox is enjoying some popularity here in America.
Either way, Nintendo and Sony both benefit from MS's success or failure,
as XBox is an experiment in my mind. Sony has SOE (Sony Online Entertainment),
but as far as I can tell its populated mostly by Everquest variations and
some PC games, its obvious Sony is playing it safe in this terrority with
established subscription titles while MS is taking severe hits.
Sony:
Even though Sony has a hold on the market. Look at their hardware. The
speed or graphics doesn't bother me, its the reliability. How many of you
have had to purchase a new PS2 because it crapped out. Disc read errors
anyone? I have a bit of a bad taste in my mouth since I'm on PS2 number 2.
Sony's goal is similar goal to MS's, make the console the "everything box."
Let's take a closer look at this approach. DVD Player, DVD-RW, PVR, Console,
CD Player, and MP3 Player. How cheap is this going to be? Its not that
different from the PS2's capabilities, but Sony needed to use the cheapest
parts possible to keep the PS2 under $300 when it came out. How cheap are
the parts going to be for the PS3? This worries me. I haven't heard of any
problems regarding XBox, and my GameCube hasn't given me any problems yet
(I've had my GC and PS2 for the same amount of time almost).
Nintendo:
Nintendo isn't in severe trouble. GBA is holding them up and the GameCube
isn't doing that bad either. Profits are being made. But that doesn't change
the fact that the need some help in their library of games. It doesn't need
GTA to be successfull. Nintendo's destiny is really uncertain in my
mind since the GBA has no competitors and won't for another 2 years.
Upcoming games make the GC's future look bright. FF: Crystal Chronoicles,
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, Castlevania and True Crime: LA. Your
major RPG, Adventure and Action titles are on the horizon. Even a GTA-like game (True Crime, check gamespot). So it will be
interesting if people will invest in Nintendo to get their hands on these
games.
Nintendo's concern will always be gaming, which is why they've always
released great software to complement their great gaming hardware. In either case,
Nintendo's software will always be around, so that makes me happy even
if its on Sony hardware 10 years from now.
Miyamoto commented once that making Mario Sunshine was a real pain in the ass, because games like Mario Bros. are suppose to be very simply games with very simply gameplay.
Nintendo would pop out a half-assed 3D platformer
He said himself that Mario Sunshine was too complicated a game to be a *real* Mario game, and was a bit dissappointed too. In the same interview he also commented that making 3d games is a completely different world compared to 2d (seems obvious), and that 3d games actually make designing more frustrating because you spend more concentration on environments instead of making it a "fun game", as he likes to put it.
WE WANT ANOTHER 2D MARIO!
I wouldn't be surpised to see Miyamoto go in this direction. I think thats a reason why Nintendo released the GameBoy Player for the GameCube. I think with the popularity of the GameBoy Advanced (especially the SP model), a lot of GameCube/GameBoy owners will probably purchase one, and maybe a few people out of the 1+ million GameBoy SP owners might buy a GameCube+GameBoy Player just to play GameBoy games on their TV's.
This type of adoption could very well bring to light you what wish! I sincerely hope it does.
Instead of being another blind believer in Nintendo, I decided to search Google and see what I can find as far as MS's losses in regards to their push with the Xbox. This is what I found. MS is losing billions on the Xbox.
But we all knew this, because obviously their undercutting the costs of producing each Xbox console, but their Live! service isn't helping them either.
Subscription isn't going work, at least not now. Nintendo is not just taking this stance this stubbornly, but simply because they cannot afford to. Only Sony and MS can afford such a venture (loss).
Windows had an alpha channel since windows 2000. It's just not hardware accelerated like Jaguar (and soon Panther).
From what I've seen of Longhorn, it has abilities similar to Quartz Extreme. For example, they have a rippling window demo they showed at MS's last conference.
But how useful is rippling windows? I think in general, when it comes to technology, it's not a matter of who has the best tech, but who uses their tech in the most useful way, which Apple seems to do.
Actually, Hideo Kojima commented several times in different interviews that he's a big fan of Escape From New York and Escape From L.A..
And guess who the main characters name is? Snake.
If you seen movies, you'll notice that the voice acting in MGS for Snake is pretty damn close to identical to that of Kurt Russel's.
I heard (or read) that Kojima is no longer producing and directing MG titles, but he did say that he was planning on helping with the script for MGS 3.
Changing around certain little bits of programs is really what makes open source great, however, you can hack up programs indirectly built for MacOS X. With all Cocoa GUI programs, each Interface Document is saved as a NIB. You can actually edit this document with Interface Builder.
i.e. I got rid of that buffer seperator in Jaguar's terminal.
Also, because the development model used in creating Cocoa apps (MVC, model-view-controller), you also know what objects are getting messages from an Interface. So I'm assuming it would be farily simple to direct a message to a module you wrote that would do something extra the original model didn't (the parameters, and data types are specified as well in Interface Builder, this always helps too). Creating a connection between a object and Interface component is a simple click-and-drag operation, then you just use Project Builder to write the code.
It might be guess work, but I think its possible. As for Interface changes, those are trivial. I'm sorta suprised no one has really talked about this yet on/.
First off, if more people purchased YDL in stores, they'd have more resources to allow for better support. With mandrake, its also necessary for you purchase it to get support as well. Same with RedHat.
Second, LinuxPPC was also the most broken distro ever. Their installer used rpm -i --force to install all the packages. Ximian had the an incredibly hard time trying to support the LinuxPPC distro with their RedCarpet service.
YDL has a very active community on irc (#ppclinux on openprojects.net), where support is top notch, and help with any issued is can be resolved if you ask in the channel.
Debian is a great distribution, but it doesn't have the wizards and configuration utilities that come tailored for ppc machines. YDL does, and YDL 2.2 has a slew of these wizards to help any new user setup any modern (and older) apple machines.
Finally, I'd like to say that the community that uses YellowDogLinux all try very hard to contribute to this distribution, and to help its users with any problems as best as it can. In the true spirit of linux, you can't ask for much more.
US citizens feel infringed, they immediately attack foreigners. Maybe this is why so many countries around the world utterly HATE america?
Osama?
American workers are typically not as dedicated or as well educated as their off-shore counterparts (especially in ANY aspect of engineering).
If you Indians (or any foreigner) think that you're more educated then Americans, why is it that your country sends its young adults to get schooled in America? Be taught by American professors. Your type of arrogance is rampant among foreigners and especially with H1-B visa workers. If you're so intelligent, why doesn't your country attempt to build itself to the type of super power America is? Because most other countries citizens don't have the grit to go through what earlier Americans did. Instead you want the American government to give you annual handouts to feed your people.
You're mostly here because companies lobbied for you come to here. Most H1-B visa workers are here as cheap labor with white collars.
So now Tilly is partners with RMS. Any problems he can goto RMS. Problems with the employer, IP rights issues, beefs with other coders, he can goto RMS.
But now he has to come up with RMS's money every week no matter what.
"Ain't writing any code, fuck you pay me"
"Your hard disk failed huh?, fuck you pay me"
"Oh, your company fired you huh?, FUCK YOU PAY ME!"
So when you can't get another PayPal donation. When you can't bum another dollar from your parents. You bust your computer out. You whip a windows 98 cd, and format the box.
I always seem to find myself going back to linux. I love Apple's suite of developer tools that come with each mac they sell. However I find Project Builder to be sluggish. Reponsiveness of Aqua is also sluggish.
Alot of individuals claim that X11 is slow as molasses, i don't think they've ever used OSX (this is not a flame). When I'm debugging some code, i'm usually cycling through various windows and desktops and things happen quick. When I try to cycle through windows in OSX, Aqua takes can't compete with the performance I get with Linux (and X11).
I've also observed that applications in OSX use more cpu cycles then similiar applications (and even ports) on different platforms. Apple seriously needs to work on Darwin And Aqua, especially since Linux 2.6 looks like it will shape up to the pre-emptive king of all kernels.
Beginning programmers need to learn how to program...
Management majors don't though. Tech really needs to create a seperate class for the non-cs folks.
It is true that in the real world no man is an island but on the flip side, how many people have worked with co-workers who completely clueless about how to perform their jobs
the purpose for this transistor is primarily for embedded devices and cellular phones, not for desktops. So don't get your panties into a bunch over this announcement
How can the linux community begin to judge microsoft when in fact we want to create the same domination without the fee. America is built on commerce folks, its time to wake up. Buying car audio equipment and beer isn't going move our economy forward.
Katz comments how arrogant Gates is, hasn't he deserved the right to be arrogant? Where are all of the arrogant Linux users/developers who enjoy bashing windows users of their incompetence? They're all waiting to creep from the woodworks when a new version of nautilus comes out I'm sure.
Sometimes I can understand how the Linux community is disturbed by Microsofts actions, but the Linux movement is doing its best to compete with MS, and when (and if) we finally catch up what will we do. Do you think the CEO's of those future Linux corps will be happy with marginal profits when they can charge their customers more, create their own license, services, subscription fee's, etc...
As the Linux community keeps screaming 'bring down the beast' while we're building one of our own. Has anyone not noticed Redhat distro's selling for $100 at compusa. What will you people say when iso's for install discs stop showing up on ftp sites, and all you have left are shrink wrapped Redhat boxes waiting to be purchased. Upgrading your software will eventually cost you too.
Its so easy for Linux community to judge because we're the underdog, we're just as twisted as Microsoft except the market hasn't given us the chance lash out on consumers.
if you have a mac with a rage128 (and its variations), then running quakeforge shouldn't be a problem since the rage128 driver supports accelerated 3d rendering in XFree 4.0.x. The 3d driver is still considered somewhat new/unstable, but I've heard of people getting the driver to work nicely.
Checkout the linuxppc-dev list at linuxppc.org for more info.
Imagine consuming a hit of acid and then playing virtual quake3. You'd problaby get arrested for murder 10 minutes after you take off your VR goggles. I'm sure the military could problaby use this as a way of conditioning their soldiers though.
you christians aren't going to do shit. We pagans are going to visit each and every christian home in america and abort all possible future christians to help purge this backward idealism called christianity.
and then whatever christians are left over will be forced to build pyramids glorifying the wonders of abortion;)
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MGS Twin Snakes goals were basically 1.) the remake of the game with all the high res graphics and higher-poly count models, 2.) the MGS 2 game play and 3.) a complete and honest reproduction of the Metal Gear Solid (PSX) story line.
So yeah, it does look a bit sterile in the sense that things did look perfect. After the first Ninja fight, the room gets messed up bad. It looks fine when you walk in and during your fight, though some glass panes can be shattered. Snake now looks more alive than he did in the original, a Miyamoto signature which was also something found in Eternal Darkness.
All critics of the MGS series say the same things about level design, textures, etc... MGS 2 did a good job making environmental elements apparent, like getting your feet wet, and leaving tracks (there was really no water in Twin Snakes for this to be noticeable). Tracks in the snow was around since the original MGS. But these MGS games take place in bunkers and bases, which don't really allow for much dirt or very creative scenery. Alaska people, come on.
Something introduced into Twin Snakes is the available to shoot at panes of glass, and only pieces of the pane get shot out. You can continue to damage the glass in different spots, and sometimes if its already damaged, a critical shot will break it all up. Diving into a damaged glass pane will also shatter it too.
There's more too, but I can't recall everything. For instance, Snakes face sometimes looked dirty.
Twin Snakes was certainly more gory than MGS 2, and any other game I have on PS2 (I have both GTA's) or GameCube.
We'll definitely see more of what the original author of this thread is asking for, more realism. Look at the upcoming MGS 3 game, since this thread began talking about MGS: TTS. I think that this is pretty much an easy problem solve, but Nintendo and Konami are working on new models for gaming, and working out the kinks on those first and leaving the graphic fine tuning at the end.
It can be argued that this is the wrong approach. Many people have already said that Nintendo is wasting their time trying to continually innovate, and that they use what works, Mario64, Zelda64, GoldenEye, etc... I think this is the Japanese mindset in general when it comes to videogames, and Nintendo found an ally in regards to Konami, one of the biggest entertainment software companies out there.
In any case, MGS Twin Snakes is badass, and I played the original on PSX, its worth the 40 bucks, I've already played through it once, and I'm working on playing through it again this weekend.
Why? Because it has to do with the gaea, i.e. lifestream. The guy who wrote the story to FF VII also wrote the story to TSW. You have the same mind behind both.
Most creative people find a niche, like Spielberg. He does WW2 movies mostly, because thats his thing, thats what he's into. No one ever says, "Great, one more WW2 movie from Spielberg." Instead it usually gets an applause. So whats the difference between the cat using his gaea ideas in several different creative pieces and Spielberg?
If anyone actually, took the time to read the "Rebuilding America's Defenses" document posted by the parent, you would see that the authors of the document included a requirement for future defense of America to also include a SPACE and CYBERSPACE force. The former already being named the U.S. Space Forces.
So the militarization of space is a part of the PNAC's plan. Whethers its good or bad is up to the reader; for now.
Considering how intertwined our lives have become with the Internet, and networks in general, this new cyberspace addition to the U.S. Armed Forces really concerns me. There is no debate over this issue either, and we know its coming sooner or later. I think this is a bad thing, even if you don't have anything to hide.
Who the fuck wasted mod points on this post?
People spam, to garner enough cash so they don't have to use spam as a way of generating money? They're trying to make a simple buck in this world? Wow, you're one deluded guy, with an annoyingly arrogant sig too. This woman, just like any spammer, is in it for the fucking money. Everything is about fucking money kid. Did the almighty God, or the almighty Ben Franklin, give her the idea to spend money (which she was supposedly tight on), to purchase computer hardware and lease a $1000 Internet connection?
This woman deserves no sympathy, neither does any other spammer or illegitimate business, large or small. I suggest everyone drink a gallon of coffee, shit in a box and send it to this woman now.
I had to take a bite on this, however, ffakr, covered most of what I wanted to troll on.
There is one more thing though...
MacOSX's kernel is more of a hybrid kernel, than a pure microkernel. There's only a single layer that messages get passed through to communicate with the kernel, and vice-versa. No one has been able to produce a microkernel that has a.) portability and b.) performance. L4 is by the far the best implementation of a microkernel that is somewhat comparable to the speed of a monolithic kernel and retains all the design goals of a true microkernel.
I believe microkernels ultimate goal was to create a portable operating system with a BSD operating system interface. It achieved that slowly, but performance was terrible. Linux has solved this problem, and people don't pay as much lip service to microkernels as they use to.
Microkernels also aren't as small and streamline as you believe. Mach was just as big a monolithic kernel, and to streamline any of its processes, you had to run kernel extensions in kernel space, not user space, nullifying the user-level kernel extensions goal.
Microkernels also inherently will have more overhead than monolithic kernels. They have to buffer and analyze messages that get passed through each layer in the operating system, just like a network architecture does.
Object-oriented frameworks like Java, Cocoa and Carbon, would crawl on a microkernel because of the number of interrupts generated in such systems.
But MacOS X has great Java support. Cocoa is heavilty object oriented, but is a fast API.
This fast/portable/small microkernel-stuff about MacOS X is a myth. It's a hybrid like NT.
I think its great that the GCN is on the up and up (for now at least). But I think its a combination of the new software coming out for the GCN, the price drops for some of Nintendo's best games (Animal Crossing, Metriod Prime and others), and of course the price drop in the system.
The latest editions to the GCN's library that are available or coming soon include: Freedom Fighers (very cool, currently sucking up every bit of free time I have), True Crime L.A., TMNT (yes!!), Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes, Rogue Ops (Metal Gear Solid with breasts), Starcraft Ghost (more MGS-style gameplay, more breasts), StarFox 2, Mario Kart, Soul Calibur 2, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles and of course XIII which comes out very soon.
This line-up for the next ~6 months can't be considered completely childish, if childish at all. The GCN is breaking out, and its great to see that finally, but it was never really a problem either in my mind. People no longer have anything to complain about when it comes to the GCN, so we can see its true potential as a *gaming* system.
It might be premature to say, but I think the GCN is going to continue doing very well in the US. I own both a PS2 (bought it first), and a GCN, and everytime I see a game like the ones above (which are available on both GCN/PS2 except StarFox & Metal Gear Solid), I always buy the GCN software. Why? Because the GCN looks better, has a more comfortable controller (great wireless controls if you really need it), and of course progessive scan (too mad not many GCN games use it though).
This is more of a rant than a reply to the article, but its great news to anyone who loves their GCN and Nintendo. So my final thoughts to this good news are, does anyone think Nintendo will be selling more software then Sony now? Or at least selling ridiculously more?.
Red XIII is not human. Holy will determine what threatens the planet and eradicates this threat. It was humans that had abused the planet and the lifestream. Even though Cloud and company proved that good exists in humanity, it's up to the gamer to decide if the humans survive or not.
I personally have yet to decide what happened to Cloud and company. I think it doesn't matter too much, because even in death, you exist on a spiritual level in the lifestream with everyone else.
I read the article (I know, against the rules), and I have to agree with many other posters that the author was slanted toward MS. Here's why:
XBox:
MS has been dumping money into XBox. Whether is succeeds or not is not up to the market. MS is betting on XBox, and considering how much money they're willing to spend it will be around for a while. XBox will die when MS decides its a loss they don't want to continue, or when people stop purchasing software or boxen. I feel that MS will give up before that happens since XBox is enjoying some popularity here in America.
Either way, Nintendo and Sony both benefit from MS's success or failure, as XBox is an experiment in my mind. Sony has SOE (Sony Online Entertainment), but as far as I can tell its populated mostly by Everquest variations and some PC games, its obvious Sony is playing it safe in this terrority with established subscription titles while MS is taking severe hits.
Sony:
Even though Sony has a hold on the market. Look at their hardware. The speed or graphics doesn't bother me, its the reliability. How many of you have had to purchase a new PS2 because it crapped out. Disc read errors anyone? I have a bit of a bad taste in my mouth since I'm on PS2 number 2. Sony's goal is similar goal to MS's, make the console the "everything box."
Let's take a closer look at this approach. DVD Player, DVD-RW, PVR, Console, CD Player, and MP3 Player. How cheap is this going to be? Its not that different from the PS2's capabilities, but Sony needed to use the cheapest parts possible to keep the PS2 under $300 when it came out. How cheap are the parts going to be for the PS3? This worries me. I haven't heard of any problems regarding XBox, and my GameCube hasn't given me any problems yet (I've had my GC and PS2 for the same amount of time almost).
Nintendo:
Nintendo isn't in severe trouble. GBA is holding them up and the GameCube isn't doing that bad either. Profits are being made. But that doesn't change the fact that the need some help in their library of games. It doesn't need GTA to be successfull. Nintendo's destiny is really uncertain in my mind since the GBA has no competitors and won't for another 2 years.
Upcoming games make the GC's future look bright. FF: Crystal Chronoicles, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, Castlevania and True Crime: LA. Your major RPG, Adventure and Action titles are on the horizon. Even a GTA-like game (True Crime, check gamespot). So it will be interesting if people will invest in Nintendo to get their hands on these games.
Nintendo's concern will always be gaming, which is why they've always released great software to complement their great gaming hardware. In either case, Nintendo's software will always be around, so that makes me happy even if its on Sony hardware 10 years from now.
Exactly. Remember good fella's. It doesn't matter what you do with them, it's all pure profit.
Miyamoto commented once that making Mario Sunshine was a real pain in the ass, because games like Mario Bros. are suppose to be very simply games with very simply gameplay.
Nintendo would pop out a half-assed 3D platformer
He said himself that Mario Sunshine was too complicated a game to be a *real* Mario game, and was a bit dissappointed too. In the same interview he also commented that making 3d games is a completely different world compared to 2d (seems obvious), and that 3d games actually make designing more frustrating because you spend more concentration on environments instead of making it a "fun game", as he likes to put it.
WE WANT ANOTHER 2D MARIO!
I wouldn't be surpised to see Miyamoto go in this direction. I think thats a reason why Nintendo released the GameBoy Player for the GameCube. I think with the popularity of the GameBoy Advanced (especially the SP model), a lot of GameCube/GameBoy owners will probably purchase one, and maybe a few people out of the 1+ million GameBoy SP owners might buy a GameCube+GameBoy Player just to play GameBoy games on their TV's.
This type of adoption could very well bring to light you what wish! I sincerely hope it does.
Instead of being another blind believer in Nintendo, I decided to search Google and see what I can find as far as MS's losses in regards to their push with the Xbox. This is what I found. MS is losing billions on the Xbox.
But we all knew this, because obviously their undercutting the costs of producing each Xbox console, but their Live! service isn't helping them either.
Subscription isn't going work, at least not now. Nintendo is not just taking this stance this stubbornly, but simply because they cannot afford to. Only Sony and MS can afford such a venture (loss).
Windows had an alpha channel since windows 2000. It's just not hardware accelerated like Jaguar (and soon Panther).
From what I've seen of Longhorn, it has abilities similar to Quartz Extreme. For example, they have a rippling window demo they showed at MS's last conference.
But how useful is rippling windows? I think in general, when it comes to technology, it's not a matter of who has the best tech, but who uses their tech in the most useful way, which Apple seems to do.
Actually, Hideo Kojima commented several times in different interviews that he's a big fan of Escape From New York and Escape From L.A..
And guess who the main characters name is? Snake.
If you seen movies, you'll notice that the voice acting in MGS for Snake is pretty damn close to identical to that of Kurt Russel's.
I heard (or read) that Kojima is no longer producing and directing MG titles, but he did say that he was planning on helping with the script for MGS 3.
Changing around certain little bits of programs is really what makes open source great, however, you can hack up programs indirectly built for MacOS X. With all Cocoa GUI programs, each Interface Document is saved as a NIB. You can actually edit this document with Interface Builder.
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i.e. I got rid of that buffer seperator in Jaguar's terminal.
Also, because the development model used in creating Cocoa apps (MVC, model-view-controller), you also know what objects are getting messages from an Interface. So I'm assuming it would be farily simple to direct a message to a module you wrote that would do something extra the original model didn't (the parameters, and data types are specified as well in Interface Builder, this always helps too). Creating a connection between a object and Interface component is a simple click-and-drag operation, then you just use Project Builder to write the code.
It might be guess work, but I think its possible. As for Interface changes, those are trivial. I'm sorta suprised no one has really talked about this yet on
First off, if more people purchased YDL in stores, they'd have more resources to allow for better support. With mandrake, its also necessary for you purchase it to get support as well. Same with RedHat.
Second, LinuxPPC was also the most broken distro ever. Their installer used rpm -i --force to install all the packages. Ximian had the an incredibly hard time trying to support the LinuxPPC distro with their RedCarpet service.
YDL has a very active community on irc (#ppclinux on openprojects.net), where support is top notch, and help with any issued is can be resolved if you ask in the channel.
Debian is a great distribution, but it doesn't have the wizards and configuration utilities that come tailored for ppc machines. YDL does, and YDL 2.2 has a slew of these wizards to help any new user setup any modern (and older) apple machines.
Finally, I'd like to say that the community that uses YellowDogLinux all try very hard to contribute to this distribution, and to help its users with any problems as best as it can. In the true spirit of linux, you can't ask for much more.
US citizens feel infringed, they immediately attack foreigners. Maybe this is why so many countries around the world utterly HATE america?
Osama?
American workers are typically not as dedicated or as well educated as their off-shore counterparts (especially in ANY aspect of engineering).
If you Indians (or any foreigner) think that you're more educated then Americans, why is it that your country sends its young adults to get schooled in America? Be taught by American professors. Your type of arrogance is rampant among foreigners and especially with H1-B visa workers. If you're so intelligent, why doesn't your country attempt to build itself to the type of super power America is? Because most other countries citizens don't have the grit to go through what earlier Americans did. Instead you want the American government to give you annual handouts to feed your people.
You're mostly here because companies lobbied for you come to here. Most H1-B visa workers are here as cheap labor with white collars.
So now Tilly is partners with RMS. Any problems he can goto RMS. Problems with the employer, IP rights issues, beefs with other coders, he can goto RMS.
But now he has to come up with RMS's money every week no matter what.
"Ain't writing any code, fuck you pay me"
"Your hard disk failed huh?, fuck you pay me"
"Oh, your company fired you huh?, FUCK YOU PAY ME!"
So when you can't get another PayPal donation. When you can't bum another dollar from your parents. You bust your computer out. You whip a windows 98 cd, and format the box.
I always seem to find myself going back to linux. I love Apple's suite of developer tools that come with each mac they sell. However I find Project Builder to be sluggish. Reponsiveness of Aqua is also sluggish.
Alot of individuals claim that X11 is slow as molasses, i don't think they've ever used OSX (this is not a flame). When I'm debugging some code, i'm usually cycling through various windows and desktops and things happen quick. When I try to cycle through windows in OSX, Aqua takes can't compete with the performance I get with Linux (and X11).
I've also observed that applications in OSX use more cpu cycles then similiar applications (and even ports) on different platforms. Apple seriously needs to work on Darwin And Aqua, especially since Linux 2.6 looks like it will shape up to the pre-emptive king of all kernels.
Beginning programmers need to learn how to program...
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Management majors don't though. Tech really needs to create a seperate class for the non-cs folks.
It is true that in the real world no man is an island but on the flip side, how many people have worked with co-workers who completely clueless about how to perform their jobs
Didn't you work at Microsoft once?
perhaps you should just stop reading slashdot?
the purpose for this transistor is primarily for embedded devices and cellular phones, not for desktops. So don't get your panties into a bunch over this announcement
How can the linux community begin to judge microsoft when in fact we want to create the same domination without the fee. America is built on commerce folks, its time to wake up. Buying car audio equipment and beer isn't going move our economy forward.
Katz comments how arrogant Gates is, hasn't he deserved the right to be arrogant? Where are all of the arrogant Linux users/developers who enjoy bashing windows users of their incompetence? They're all waiting to creep from the woodworks when a new version of nautilus comes out I'm sure.
Sometimes I can understand how the Linux community is disturbed by Microsofts actions, but the Linux movement is doing its best to compete with MS, and when (and if) we finally catch up what will we do. Do you think the CEO's of those future Linux corps will be happy with marginal profits when they can charge their customers more, create their own license, services, subscription fee's, etc...
As the Linux community keeps screaming 'bring down the beast' while we're building one of our own. Has anyone not noticed Redhat distro's selling for $100 at compusa. What will you people say when iso's for install discs stop showing up on ftp sites, and all you have left are shrink wrapped Redhat boxes waiting to be purchased. Upgrading your software will eventually cost you too.
Its so easy for Linux community to judge because we're the underdog, we're just as twisted as Microsoft except the market hasn't given us the chance lash out on consumers.
if you have a mac with a rage128 (and its variations), then running quakeforge shouldn't be a problem since the rage128 driver supports accelerated 3d rendering in XFree 4.0.x. The 3d driver is still considered somewhat new/unstable, but I've heard of people getting the driver to work nicely.
Checkout the linuxppc-dev list at linuxppc.org for more info.
Imagine consuming a hit of acid and then playing virtual quake3. You'd problaby get arrested for murder 10 minutes after you take off your VR goggles. I'm sure the military could problaby use this as a way of conditioning their soldiers though.
you christians aren't going to do shit. We pagans are going to visit each and every christian home in america and abort all possible future christians to help purge this backward idealism called christianity.
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and then whatever christians are left over will be forced to build pyramids glorifying the wonders of abortion