What I found interesting was that the system memory was bested by the video card memory (16 MB system, 24 MB video card). This is the first console- nay, the first system, I've seen do this.
Following the comments here, why in the heck would you want to remove IE? Particularly since this new KMeleon browser requires IE libraries for it's front end. Have you seen the screensh ots yet?
All this talk about Nintendo borrowing from Apple is bull. The Dolphin machine has been planned for years and probably already had an external design spec hammered out before Apple even boxed the G4.
I've tried it and there should be one more tagline to add to the article: "and it displays pages like crap." It's nowhere near as good looking as Netscape (or my favorite, IE).
Note to moderators, just because he mentions IE DOES NOT mean the post is flamebait. Thank you.
I say let it happen. It's going to happen anyway. Since the earliest days of TV, man has been trying to alter broadcasts to filter content. Whether it be for entertainment (superimposing a painted picture of western scenary behind some cowboys) or for information (superimposing a weather map on a bluescreen behind some meterologist). Are we supposed to stand there and say "That weather map isn't real! I don't want to be mislead. Show me the wall behind that guy."
There have also been struggles between corporations for brand marketing. Since networks started embedding watermarks on their screens, rival networks have tried everything to remove them (from whiting them out to blowing the screen up a few inches). Even early TV networks would sometimes try to hide huge corporate logos of other networks (CBS's attempt to hide the NBC logo on one of the video cameras in Vietnam footage is a good example).
I say let it go. We've already accepted computer generated foolary in movies and in video games. Why not TV?
What I found frightening with some of the docs was the stolid rigidity in designing the games. The design for Tempest, for example, seemed more like putting together a washing machine than designing a game.
Where is the concept artwork, world ideas and sketches like artists do for today's games? It seems like games of yesteryear were created only by comp sci people, with little creativity.:(
What about first-person role playing (like Deus Ex) and more importantly, massively-multiplayer like Ultima Online and Everquest (my favorite addiction right now)? No new genres since first-person was created (with DOOM years ago?)
Mr. Lightning, it's (suspected) NRA members like yourself that make me sick. You guys will go to any means to justify carrying a lethal tool in your hands with impossibly illogical arguments, then wonder why the world is against you.
The person pulled out a small black object? Isn't it quite possible that it wouldn't have been a gun? And in any case, what means did the murderer take to justify shooting when he didn't even know if the object was a weapon? Not even NYC cops shoot before asking (and the ones who do so here, like in the Diallo trial, get bashed in the media extensively).
The NRA has always argued that "Guns don't kill people. People kill people." I say: "Guns make it a hell of a lot easier to kill people, and only stupid people carry guns."
I love the Simpsons, but isn't this a little past due? I mean, they're celebrating their 10th anniversary for god's sake. They're way past their prime.
Now, if they can get Conan O'Brien at the helm...:)
Your chances of getting on as a director for a Star Wars game - or any PC game for that matter - is slim. I've tried everyone from Sierra to Blizzard to id, and each had enormous commitments (not only moving, but 14-hour programming shifts, the ability to fire you at a moment's notice, etc.) for their titles.
These companies put out great games, but you have to wonder about the sacrifice some of these programmers and artists have to make. They always show programmers firing nerf guns around on Fridays in gaming mags, having fun, but they never show them sitting and staring at the same DirectX screen for 14 hours on end.
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Mentions a site that rapes Google's content, doesn't profile, then complains about privacy. A little neurotic?
Yahoo (their front page at least) is pretty toned down as well. They've elevated front-page GIF management to an artform.
Now that's a geek.
If you think Zelda didn't sell 10 times better than Mario Kart, you're clueless.
That was funny, not offtopic. Moderate it up.
A window on the future perhaps?
"And here we have the prototype X-G3... *crash* Oh shit. Well, we had the X-G3."
Following the comments here, why in the heck would you want to remove IE? Particularly since this new KMeleon browser requires IE libraries for it's front end. Have you seen the screensh ots yet?
Note to moderators, just because he mentions IE DOES NOT mean the post is flamebait. Thank you.
Does this guy check Slashdot all day long just to post this stuff?
What if a stat was yelled out in the middle of a forest... and nobody cared?
There have also been struggles between corporations for brand marketing. Since networks started embedding watermarks on their screens, rival networks have tried everything to remove them (from whiting them out to blowing the screen up a few inches). Even early TV networks would sometimes try to hide huge corporate logos of other networks (CBS's attempt to hide the NBC logo on one of the video cameras in Vietnam footage is a good example).
I say let it go. We've already accepted computer generated foolary in movies and in video games. Why not TV?
Where is the concept artwork, world ideas and sketches like artists do for today's games? It seems like games of yesteryear were created only by comp sci people, with little creativity. :(
What about first-person role playing (like Deus Ex) and more importantly, massively-multiplayer like Ultima Online and Everquest (my favorite addiction right now)? No new genres since first-person was created (with DOOM years ago?)
The person pulled out a small black object? Isn't it quite possible that it wouldn't have been a gun? And in any case, what means did the murderer take to justify shooting when he didn't even know if the object was a weapon? Not even NYC cops shoot before asking (and the ones who do so here, like in the Diallo trial, get bashed in the media extensively).
The NRA has always argued that "Guns don't kill people. People kill people." I say: "Guns make it a hell of a lot easier to kill people, and only stupid people carry guns."
Now, if they can get Conan O'Brien at the helm... :)
Hmm... seems a lot like Slashdot.
These companies put out great games, but you have to wonder about the sacrifice some of these programmers and artists have to make. They always show programmers firing nerf guns around on Fridays in gaming mags, having fun, but they never show them sitting and staring at the same DirectX screen for 14 hours on end.
Please, Microsoft, license some parts of IE in GPl so that I can hack a decent, non-crashing browser!
Dude, there is something SERIOUSLY wrong with our program if it's pumping out 100K files. Mine never top 10K.
Nerd.
Here here. I've always said that IE is the one that's been innovating. Netscape has been in code limbo since 4.5.
Pass me that crack pipe you've been smoking.
Pass me that crack pipe you've been smoking.