It's coming out in a few months, and every review I've read for it has called it "revolutionary". Famitsu (a venerable Japanese gaming mag that's notorious for giving out harsh reviews) gave it a total score of 37 out of 40. Apparently anything above 35 is incredible.
Carmack said they actually rewrote a custom stack for Quake III Arena for Dreamcast. Apparently the one that shipped with the machine wasn't up to his standards.
Not me. The cost-value ratio of selling stuff on eBay still continues to be the best I've ever seen. I've reached dozens of buyers for used computer equipment easily and cheaply.
You have to the weigh the sheer convenience of getting good money for your stuff (without going through a middleman) vs. a single irritating email. If their service is strong enough, which it is, I can let this one go.
How is my original post a troll? God you people. When are you going to stand up and take notice not only to big corporations but THE MINDSET of SLASHDOT ITSELF?
So they don't want to lose critical information about their customers. So what? If they weren't doing this, with international coverage, how would they know whether a US user (who is more profitable) wants an item or an Iraq user with customs restrictions?
I'm all for privacy as much as the next guy, but enough is enough. Yahoo is a company with profits to worry about, not a government, not a religious organization. If they want to collect demographic data they have every right to do so.
(We, as consumers, don't go around saying "Give me a portal to search with in my browser. But, uh, don't tell me who it is. And make sure I have no idea if I visit it again. I want to "respect" their "privacy"".)
A few years ago in high school, I had to do a similar Panasonic robot competition at Liberty Science Center (an awesome place on the east coast of New Jersey, if you're ever out here).
The goal was to design a robot that would grab onto a 50 foot piece of string hanging from the Liberty Science Center's upper ceiling, carry a payload of an egg to the top, and be first to get the egg safely to the bottom without cracking it (while still being the first team to do it).
Most teams had set up advanced ways of carrying the egg both up the string and down, so they simply had to roll the egg out when they made it down. This was safe but incredibly slow.
My team's solution was to use tiny egg parachutes, and carry our 3 egg payload (we were supposed to do 3 all together) all at once. What a revolutionary concept!
Except, when we launched the device, it proceeded to go up the string, and launch the eggs out several feet from the landing area, be carried by the air coming out of the air conditioning ducts, and land on several exhibits on multiple floors of the building. The curators of the museum were not pleased.
Needless to say, we didn't win. But we had the biggest laughs when other people were awarded prizes and trophies.
With everyone hacking their Dreamcasts to run BSD, and noone buying games, and Sega losing money on each piece of hardware sold, won't this drive Sega into further money problems? They already lost something like $300 million this past year (and this was a good year for them).
The only thing RISC makes more sense in is writing assembly. Everything up from that (including most code jobs) makes complex instruction sets practically invisible to the programmer.
Read The Hardware Software Interface for a more thorough investigation.
Is anyone else more than a little disturbed by the "four foot door" on the "golf ball building" described in the article? You've got this large, relatively futuristic building with gyrating triangles, and a door not big enough to fit most humans.
Uh, timed or random searches wouldn't be permissible bro. Searches would only be allowed for "just cause", i.e., an employee is suspected of having child pornography on their hard drive.
I've been reading Chuck D's autobiography (He is smart as hell) and he talks a lot about racism in the sports and music industries...
Uh, you must mean reverse discrimination right? Clearly there are no absence of blacks in most of the major sports (except for ice hockey). I'm not trying to be a bigot, but in sports I think it's almost detrimental to be white nowadays.
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It's coming out in a few months, and every review I've read for it has called it "revolutionary". Famitsu (a venerable Japanese gaming mag that's notorious for giving out harsh reviews) gave it a total score of 37 out of 40. Apparently anything above 35 is incredible.
Carmack said they actually rewrote a custom stack for Quake III Arena for Dreamcast. Apparently the one that shipped with the machine wasn't up to his standards.
Anyone for a highspeed NFL2K1 game? :) Hacking is a lot easier when you put it off with playing games.
Reading the first few comments for this story, is it really a good idea to fight Microsoft FUD with our Linux FUD?
It's only in beta and it's likely to get axed, especially after corporations show the difficulties it will cause in rolling systems out. Chill out.
To defend against people throwing things at you during office meetings. Since, considering you are carrying a Mac, will probably happen. :)
Not me. The cost-value ratio of selling stuff on eBay still continues to be the best I've ever seen. I've reached dozens of buyers for used computer equipment easily and cheaply.
You have to the weigh the sheer convenience of getting good money for your stuff (without going through a middleman) vs. a single irritating email. If their service is strong enough, which it is, I can let this one go.
How is my original post a troll? God you people. When are you going to stand up and take notice not only to big corporations but THE MINDSET of SLASHDOT ITSELF?
For that matter, are there any PDAs that work with the current 802.11b standard for PC base stations?
I'm all for privacy as much as the next guy, but enough is enough. Yahoo is a company with profits to worry about, not a government, not a religious organization. If they want to collect demographic data they have every right to do so.
(We, as consumers, don't go around saying "Give me a portal to search with in my browser. But, uh, don't tell me who it is. And make sure I have no idea if I visit it again. I want to "respect" their "privacy"".)
I don't think time_t even supports the year I'm thinking of.
4C is the official ice tea of the Davis family, last time I checked.
The goal was to design a robot that would grab onto a 50 foot piece of string hanging from the Liberty Science Center's upper ceiling, carry a payload of an egg to the top, and be first to get the egg safely to the bottom without cracking it (while still being the first team to do it).
Most teams had set up advanced ways of carrying the egg both up the string and down, so they simply had to roll the egg out when they made it down. This was safe but incredibly slow.
My team's solution was to use tiny egg parachutes, and carry our 3 egg payload (we were supposed to do 3 all together) all at once. What a revolutionary concept!
Except, when we launched the device, it proceeded to go up the string, and launch the eggs out several feet from the landing area, be carried by the air coming out of the air conditioning ducts, and land on several exhibits on multiple floors of the building. The curators of the museum were not pleased.
Needless to say, we didn't win. But we had the biggest laughs when other people were awarded prizes and trophies.
That's a lot closer to the Rock than the first post.
That was my first thought. When he unveiled the box during the webcast I was thinking: "That's it?" I was hoping it was a prototype or something.
What about developing them?
...Linux box, I'll move.
- 200 mhz processor: $35
- Custom PowerVR card: $25
- Custom Motherboard: $25
- Memory: $20
- Custom Yamaha sound chip: $20
- Controller: $20
- Modem: $15
- Two games (coming with most bundles now): $40
That's well over the $150 you can spend on the sports bundle, which includes all these things. How is Sega making money on the hardware again?
So that's our solution? We run them into the ground?
It's a good thing I don't want to buy two of these "low-cost machines", considering they won't be in business anymore.
With everyone hacking their Dreamcasts to run BSD, and noone buying games, and Sega losing money on each piece of hardware sold, won't this drive Sega into further money problems? They already lost something like $300 million this past year (and this was a good year for them).
Read The Hardware Software Interface for a more thorough investigation.
Perfect Dark grey theory, anyone?
Uh, timed or random searches wouldn't be permissible bro. Searches would only be allowed for "just cause", i.e., an employee is suspected of having child pornography on their hard drive.
I think if you were the artists involved you would think differently.
Uh, you must mean reverse discrimination right? Clearly there are no absence of blacks in most of the major sports (except for ice hockey). I'm not trying to be a bigot, but in sports I think it's almost detrimental to be white nowadays.