DOA2: Hardcore (Good) Dynasty Warriors 2 (Excelent, so much so that there have been 3 more since) FantaVision (Excelent) Midnight Club (Would be excelent without the bugs... Good anyway) NHL 2001 (Was excelent for the time) Silent Scope (Just OK) SSX (Excelent) Summoner (Good) Swing Away Golf (Good) TimeSplitters (Good)
And it's easy to compare to the 360 when nothing's even out yet.
I'm not saying the 360 won't have great launch titles... But until they tell us what they are, how can they expect me to be excited about going out and buying one of these things ASAP?
I see this controller as a DIRECT snub to third-party developers, abandoning multiplatform releases almost entirely.
I don't see how... Did you see the pictures? It doesn't look like there's any missing functionality from what you'd find on a regular controller. Plus you can plug in Cube controllers, and you can insert this controller into shells...
The problem with Debian stable is that it went so long in between releases [...]
If you ask me, that's a feature. They keep up with security updates, so why change what works? If you want something that's more up to date, that's what unstable is for. Hell, that's what 'unstable' means. You want to run a server that just works and doesn't change and have to be updated and reconfigured all the time? Run stable. You want the latest desktop environment updates as the appear? Run unstable. Simple really.
if it was easier to pull specific packages out of testing/unstable while maintaining Apt at stable
Add both to your sources.list and use the '-t' flag to apt to tell it which release to pull a package from. You can set a default if you don't want to tell it which one every time. It will, of course, upgrade the dependant packages as well if you install a package from unstable. It's really easy. It just seems not many people know about it.
Now we just have to worry that this announcement forshadows their inevitable bankruptcy. If we're truely doomed to never have a new Sam & Max game, this license could be the death of Telltale.
I'm much more interested what I can do with it as a developer
What difference does it make? You're either going to have to keep doing it the old way, or Microsoft is going to have to make the new way work on Windows 2000 anyway otherwise you'll cut yourself off from 60% of your market.
It seems like nobody wants to build packages for RHEL.
That's because developers don't want to pay for RHEL in order to build packages against it. Really, can you blame them?
But you paid RedHat all that money. Tell them to get off their asses and package the software you want to use for that distribution you paid too much for.
Eeew. After using the Firefox find bar, how could you ever want to go back to a dialog box? I wish I could go back in time and introduce the find bar feature to spare myself the years of frustration with the old way.
That's actually also what Debian stable is for. The 'stable' means that it doesn't change much, and is not describing whether it crashes or not. Even 'unstable' is stable in that regard. This point gets missed quite frequently due to the poor namimg choice and the "VersionTracker mentality."
If geeks are the new gold standard for "coolness" then there is still hope that someday reliability and functionality will be "cool" rather than keeping your machine on the bleeding edge.
Apt isn't what makes debian great. The package repositoiry is what makes Debian great. Without it, apt is just a simple tool that works no magic whatsoever. For a perfect example of this, try running some of the apt-rpm ports out there. If there isn't a consistant, well maintained package archive to point apt at, you're still in dependancy hell. Too many Debian copycats don't understand this.
Those were hardly controlelrs in the same sense. We're talking about something well integrated that you hold in your hand here. The controllers on the old machines that I'm talking about actually resemble a gaming controller, with the exception of a really thick "wire".
With your arms pointing in such that your hands are the same distance apart that a controller would hold them and your palms vertical, your thumb is parallel to your wrist in the neutral position.
That's the beauty of the DS2. Your hands are almost held vertically without twisting your wrist, and your thumbs are between the D-pad and the analog stick (but more towards the stick) when you're in the neutral position. Abominations of controller design like the original Xbox controller and the Dreamcast controller require you to turn your hands to the faces of your fingers and top of your palm face up in order to force your tumb to be up in that higher position. Holding your hands twisted like that for extended periods is asking for a RSI.
You don't. I'm just saying that the modern game controller and joysticks have roots that pre-date gaming. Surely a "history of game controllers" should talk about the roots and influences of the device. It's not like controllers and joysticks were invented for gaming...
Well, in particular, the features that caused them to add this copy protection crap in the first place: The "Home Media Option" and "Tivo To Go."
When you ask them about those features (say, because you want to watch your Tivo shows in the bedroom sometimes, but you don't want to have both Tivos record the same thing and then have to be careful to delete manually on the one you didn't use in any particular viewing session), they tell you that they're going to be replacing Tivo with something way worse DRM wise in the near future, and that will (sort of) have the features you're looking for if you shell out the cash for the new box.
I don't know about you (you may be a mutant) but the range of movement on my thumb is much greater when my thumb is in the lower position. With the analog stick up top, your thumb is already half way to the end of it's vertical range of motion when you're in the center position. This is fine for buttons that require little fine motor control, but it's not good for analog sticks.
Keep my analog sticks in the lower position please.
There are some bad-ass controllers on some pneumatic spinning lathes and milling machines made in the 1950s and even earlier... I'm not just talking a joystick and a couple buttons either. These things had knobs, switches, slides, etc... All things that could make for interesting input on modern controllers, or have been experimented with on game controllers in the past.
in order to get a.org you have to be a 503(c) or whatever
Why? That's not even the spirit of the TLD. It's not some unenforced rule..org was for organizations that didn't fit in some other category, not for "non-profits" or some such mythical flamewar initiated nonsense.
From RFC 1591: ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. Some non-government organizations may fit here.
I don't know off the top of my head what the criteria for.net and such would be.
Perhaps you should read the RFC. After learining the original intentions for the TLDs, you may change your mind to something more sensible than shaking up well-established names to meet your whim.
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Generally the people who bitch about PayPal are the sellers. People spending money through PayPal (typically) don't get screwed.
You're right, the warranty implications of this are pretty far-reaching. People would be using the monthly check in place of all the $300 "30,000 mile service" packages dealers sell, which would suck for all those service departments.
How much do you want to bet that notification comes in the form of "We've noticed a serious problem with your vehicle. Please drive to your nearest GM dealership and pay 3x what you should to have the problem fixed." rather than telling you what's wrong and letting you decide where to have the repair done (or to do it yourself).
If this weren't a double-ended revenue generator for GM, they wouldn't bother. Why do you think they put OnStar in cars instead of navigation systems in the first place?
And either way, could it be more expensive than something like Hyundai's "We know they're unreliable but we cover for that" 10 year/100,000 mile warranties?
Do you think this because you just like to bash cheap cars? Hyundai has gotten better reliability ratings on their cars than Toyota on more than one occation.
They'll give you a static if you give them cash... It'll still be blacklisted by every RBL in existance as part of the comcast IP block though.
They don't enforce the TOS unless you're costing them money... Plus if you pay for the static IP, the TOS becomes much friendlier.
As for your customer service experience there... The proper response to "Click Start, then..." is "Ok." After you get through all that you say "That still didn't work," and then they fix your problem. You better be triple certain the problem isn't on your end before you do that though.
That first XFS beta was actually usable. The others, well, weren't. ext3 performed like crap, and crashed. ReiserFS crashed, and changed the on-disk format several times (which is beyond annoying), and couldn't be used on drives you wanted to NFS export.
It doesn't matter who was first though. It's not like journaling filesystems were new technology. This is almost as silly as claiming to be the first to run Windows for Workgroups v3.11 on an Opteron. Imagine how much sooner we would have had a modern filesystem on Linux if all these guys had stopped fighting for credit and worked with each other.
And finally, what is the performance penalty? Just because you are servicing interrupts at lightning quick speed, it doesn't mean you get a boost in speed. It may mean you have to lower the priority of many system services.
The big limitation here is that interrupts that aren't handled naitively by RTLinux take a 30% latency hit. The CPU is, of course, held in interrupt context that whole time. Chances are there won't be RT drivers for most of the devices in your system, so overall your performance will suck unless all that's running is your real time app.
Disclaimer: All the testing I did was on the currently released version on a 32 bit Xeon. I don't know if they fixed it in this new version, but without a re-write I'd say they didn't.
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Umm, which ones?
DOA2: Hardcore (Good)
Dynasty Warriors 2 (Excelent, so much so that there have been 3 more since)
FantaVision (Excelent)
Midnight Club (Would be excelent without the bugs... Good anyway)
NHL 2001 (Was excelent for the time)
Silent Scope (Just OK)
SSX (Excelent)
Summoner (Good)
Swing Away Golf (Good)
TimeSplitters (Good)
And it's easy to compare to the 360 when nothing's even out yet.
I'm not saying the 360 won't have great launch titles... But until they tell us what they are, how can they expect me to be excited about going out and buying one of these things ASAP?
I see this controller as a DIRECT snub to third-party developers, abandoning multiplatform releases almost entirely.
I don't see how... Did you see the pictures? It doesn't look like there's any missing functionality from what you'd find on a regular controller. Plus you can plug in Cube controllers, and you can insert this controller into shells...
The problem with Debian stable is that it went so long in between releases [...]
If you ask me, that's a feature. They keep up with security updates, so why change what works? If you want something that's more up to date, that's what unstable is for. Hell, that's what 'unstable' means. You want to run a server that just works and doesn't change and have to be updated and reconfigured all the time? Run stable. You want the latest desktop environment updates as the appear? Run unstable. Simple really.
if it was easier to pull specific packages out of testing/unstable while maintaining Apt at stable
Add both to your sources.list and use the '-t' flag to apt to tell it which release to pull a package from. You can set a default if you don't want to tell it which one every time. It will, of course, upgrade the dependant packages as well if you install a package from unstable. It's really easy. It just seems not many people know about it.
I currently own 10 games that were PS2 launch titles, and they all range from good to excelent.
Compared to the zero titles that have been confirmed for the Xbox 360 launch, I'd say the PS2 did pretty well.
viruses: fault of a sys/net-admin. It's no big deal installing a good antivirus, even network-wide.
So let me get this straight... In order to use some expensive tool you bought, you need to buy another expensive tool to fix the problems with it?
Let's not even get into the fact that anti-virus programs just plain don't solve to problem.... Even neglecting that, that's still rediculous.
Anyways, we have upgrades all the time. The only persons who complain (if you can call it that) are the sysadmins
What about the guy with the checkbook?
But the reality is, that (most) MS products are well supported
Oh, I get it. Your whole post was one huge sarcastic joke. I get it now! Very funny.
All this hype, with no list of launch titles? This thing isn't nearly pretty enough to drop $300/400 on to just look at on my shelf.
Now we just have to worry that this announcement forshadows their inevitable bankruptcy. If we're truely doomed to never have a new Sam & Max game, this license could be the death of Telltale.
I'm much more interested what I can do with it as a developer
What difference does it make? You're either going to have to keep doing it the old way, or Microsoft is going to have to make the new way work on Windows 2000 anyway otherwise you'll cut yourself off from 60% of your market.
It seems like nobody wants to build packages for RHEL.
That's because developers don't want to pay for RHEL in order to build packages against it. Really, can you blame them?
But you paid RedHat all that money. Tell them to get off their asses and package the software you want to use for that distribution you paid too much for.
Eeew. After using the Firefox find bar, how could you ever want to go back to a dialog box? I wish I could go back in time and introduce the find bar feature to spare myself the years of frustration with the old way.
That's actually also what Debian stable is for. The 'stable' means that it doesn't change much, and is not describing whether it crashes or not. Even 'unstable' is stable in that regard. This point gets missed quite frequently due to the poor namimg choice and the "VersionTracker mentality."
If geeks are the new gold standard for "coolness" then there is still hope that someday reliability and functionality will be "cool" rather than keeping your machine on the bleeding edge.
take what's good (APT-GET!)
Apt isn't what makes debian great. The package repositoiry is what makes Debian great. Without it, apt is just a simple tool that works no magic whatsoever. For a perfect example of this, try running some of the apt-rpm ports out there. If there isn't a consistant, well maintained package archive to point apt at, you're still in dependancy hell. Too many Debian copycats don't understand this.
Those were hardly controlelrs in the same sense. We're talking about something well integrated that you hold in your hand here. The controllers on the old machines that I'm talking about actually resemble a gaming controller, with the exception of a really thick "wire".
With your arms pointing in such that your hands are the same distance apart that a controller would hold them and your palms vertical, your thumb is parallel to your wrist in the neutral position.
That's the beauty of the DS2. Your hands are almost held vertically without twisting your wrist, and your thumbs are between the D-pad and the analog stick (but more towards the stick) when you're in the neutral position. Abominations of controller design like the original Xbox controller and the Dreamcast controller require you to turn your hands to the faces of your fingers and top of your palm face up in order to force your tumb to be up in that higher position. Holding your hands twisted like that for extended periods is asking for a RSI.
You don't. I'm just saying that the modern game controller and joysticks have roots that pre-date gaming. Surely a "history of game controllers" should talk about the roots and influences of the device. It's not like controllers and joysticks were invented for gaming...
Well, in particular, the features that caused them to add this copy protection crap in the first place: The "Home Media Option" and "Tivo To Go."
When you ask them about those features (say, because you want to watch your Tivo shows in the bedroom sometimes, but you don't want to have both Tivos record the same thing and then have to be careful to delete manually on the one you didn't use in any particular viewing session), they tell you that they're going to be replacing Tivo with something way worse DRM wise in the near future, and that will (sort of) have the features you're looking for if you shell out the cash for the new box.
I don't know about you (you may be a mutant) but the range of movement on my thumb is much greater when my thumb is in the lower position. With the analog stick up top, your thumb is already half way to the end of it's vertical range of motion when you're in the center position. This is fine for buttons that require little fine motor control, but it's not good for analog sticks.
Keep my analog sticks in the lower position please.
There are some bad-ass controllers on some pneumatic spinning lathes and milling machines made in the 1950s and even earlier... I'm not just talking a joystick and a couple buttons either. These things had knobs, switches, slides, etc... All things that could make for interesting input on modern controllers, or have been experimented with on game controllers in the past.
in order to get a .org you have to be a 503(c) or whatever
.org was for organizations that didn't fit in some other category, not for "non-profits" or some such mythical flamewar initiated nonsense.
.net and such would be.
Why? That's not even the spirit of the TLD. It's not some unenforced rule.
From RFC 1591: ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. Some non-government organizations may fit here.
I don't know off the top of my head what the criteria for
Perhaps you should read the RFC. After learining the original intentions for the TLDs, you may change your mind to something more sensible than shaking up well-established names to meet your whim.
Generally the people who bitch about PayPal are the sellers. People spending money through PayPal (typically) don't get screwed.
Nope. Those of use with DirecTV TiVos are already so functionality limited that there was no point.
You're right, the warranty implications of this are pretty far-reaching. People would be using the monthly check in place of all the $300 "30,000 mile service" packages dealers sell, which would suck for all those service departments.
How much do you want to bet that notification comes in the form of "We've noticed a serious problem with your vehicle. Please drive to your nearest GM dealership and pay 3x what you should to have the problem fixed." rather than telling you what's wrong and letting you decide where to have the repair done (or to do it yourself).
If this weren't a double-ended revenue generator for GM, they wouldn't bother. Why do you think they put OnStar in cars instead of navigation systems in the first place?
And either way, could it be more expensive than something like Hyundai's "We know they're unreliable but we cover for that" 10 year/100,000 mile warranties?
Do you think this because you just like to bash cheap cars? Hyundai has gotten better reliability ratings on their cars than Toyota on more than one occation.
They'll give you a static if you give them cash... It'll still be blacklisted by every RBL in existance as part of the comcast IP block though.
They don't enforce the TOS unless you're costing them money... Plus if you pay for the static IP, the TOS becomes much friendlier.
As for your customer service experience there... The proper response to "Click Start, then..." is "Ok." After you get through all that you say "That still didn't work," and then they fix your problem. You better be triple certain the problem isn't on your end before you do that though.
That first XFS beta was actually usable. The others, well, weren't. ext3 performed like crap, and crashed. ReiserFS crashed, and changed the on-disk format several times (which is beyond annoying), and couldn't be used on drives you wanted to NFS export.
It doesn't matter who was first though. It's not like journaling filesystems were new technology. This is almost as silly as claiming to be the first to run Windows for Workgroups v3.11 on an Opteron. Imagine how much sooner we would have had a modern filesystem on Linux if all these guys had stopped fighting for credit and worked with each other.
And finally, what is the performance penalty? Just because you are servicing interrupts at lightning quick speed, it doesn't mean you get a boost in speed. It may mean you have to lower the priority of many system services.
The big limitation here is that interrupts that aren't handled naitively by RTLinux take a 30% latency hit. The CPU is, of course, held in interrupt context that whole time. Chances are there won't be RT drivers for most of the devices in your system, so overall your performance will suck unless all that's running is your real time app.
Disclaimer: All the testing I did was on the currently released version on a 32 bit Xeon. I don't know if they fixed it in this new version, but without a re-write I'd say they didn't.