If they do this, they'll have a lot of competition from the used games market. It's not just mega-collectors like me with 2000+ games for a couple dozen systems who won't pay high prices (I wait until new games go down in price anyhow), but the average punter who heads down to the used games shop and has lots of low-priced used games to choose from. Not that everybody will go for it, but a lot will.
After all, what do you think Steam is all about? It's about killing the used games market, though too little and too late.
What happened was that people got fed up with big ugly boxes that used a lot of power to make a lot of noise and heat. Especially since few people apart from gamers need the processing power of new machines. Being small, unobtrusive, less energy hungry, cool and quiet are also features you know, stuff that a lot of people are obviously willing to pay for. Hardly marketing spin.
Don't forget that the margins are higher on the bleeding-edge CPUs that need a heat sink the size of a small truck.
They just know that most Mac users already have a drawer full of Firewire cables. And most PCs don't come with Firewire ports, though they might have a crappy no-power iLink port (thanks, Sony), and half the point of using Firewire is to charge the iPod.
Hell, I can't even get Windows to boot after I move the C: drive to another computer. It boots halfway and then gripes about an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.
Now you expect them to give you some useful information about partitioning?
/now keeps nothing but the OS and apps on an 8 gig C: and everything else on D:
This was posted almost three weeks ago. Not only is it a duplicate, but the link is still in the "already visited" color in my browser. Furrfu. At least Fark bothers to do a database check of links before letting you submit.
/and who is this Zonk guy, anyhow? another newbie editor?
Now here's another thought for you: ATX is a standard. Abandoning ATX would be stupid to say the least. There's no reason you can't just leave some space around the edge of the board and make a slide-in ATX motherboard. This makes a lot more sense than redesigning standards.
Not to mention that Dell, Compaq, and Packard H^HBell did quite well selling systems with non-standard motherboard form factors back in the AT form factor days.
I'm hoping that the two-player mode of the sequel doesn't suck as much. That's the only weak part of KD, in that you're competing in a freaking bowl, with nothing but random objects and the chance to pick up your opponent if you were already winning anyhow. A longer time limit for 2-player mode would be nice, too.
Total coolness could be achieved by having a multi-player LAN mode. (But a KD MMORPG would be going a bit too far.)
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They're already about the size of a piano key, so just paint a couple dozen of them black and presto! An iShuffle synth!
The coolest RAID ever was the five USB floppy RAID. Using a Devo MP3 as a test file increased the coolness factor.
Oh, and you can't boot OS X from a USB RAID. I'm pretty sure you can boot from an IDE RAID (I mean an OS X software RAID, not a hardware RAID where the computer never sees the individual drives), and maybe even from a Firewire RAID, but USB is right out.
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Um, you don't have DMA on flash media because you address it just like RAM.
Um, actually you don't. Linear flash went out of style years ago, as any Newton owner can tell you. With the exception of flash cards for older Cisco gear, all flash cards these days use an ATA interface. Anything that uses a non-PCMCIA slot (CF, MMC, SD, XD, SonyStick) is 100% ATA.
You weren't supposed to switch back to real mode, which was obsolete.
Except the problem was that Intel insisted on sticking with 16-bit offsets to segment registers, which was also obsolete.
Linear addressing was the way to go, and limiting any given object in memory to 64K bytes size was one of the main problems with the 8086 through 80286 architecture. The main workaround to that was segment arithmetic, which only worked in real mode. Nobody wanted the 64K straightjacket of coding for 286 protected mode.
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After all, what do you think Steam is all about? It's about killing the used games market, though too little and too late.
In which case, the BBC is already sending 'round the telly-download detector van to his neighborhood.
There's already a name for this. It's called tape.
(Tape storage started with metal-wire recorders, but esentially they're the same idea, only it's harder to strangle someone with magtape.)
Some of us are on OS X. Is that close enough?
Don't forget the small Apple desktop in a fancy case.
- I've been sitting here for over 20 minutes now while my Apple I attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder.
Don't forget that the margins are higher on the bleeding-edge CPUs that need a heat sink the size of a small truck.
I remember something dome shaped with USB and Firewire ports. And it even had a monitor attached. Oh wait, that was the G4 iMac.
How come Apple can spring these designs on the world, ready to sell, but nobody else can go farther than an empty plastic shell?
/but a Mac Mini can't replace a PC under the desk for footrest capability!
They just know that most Mac users already have a drawer full of Firewire cables. And most PCs don't come with Firewire ports, though they might have a crappy no-power iLink port (thanks, Sony), and half the point of using Firewire is to charge the iPod.
The makers of web collaboration software are warning Webzen about possible trademark infringement.
Actually, yes
Nothing like a tasty, l33t breakfast... and it's nutrutious, too! (well, more nutritious than the usual l33t f00ds, anyhow)
Now you expect them to give you some useful information about partitioning?
/now keeps nothing but the OS and apps on an 8 gig C: and everything else on D:
1. Buy new PC
2. DO NOT PLUG IN NETWORK CABLE
3. PROFIT!
/and who is this Zonk guy, anyhow? another newbie editor?
Then why was this posted to the front page of apple.slashdot.org?
I take it you haven't heard about BTX yet?
Not to mention that Dell, Compaq, and Packard H^HBell did quite well selling systems with non-standard motherboard form factors back in the AT form factor days.
1) run company into ground
2) resign and watch stock price bounce up
3) PROFIT!
Total coolness could be achieved by having a multi-player LAN mode. (But a KD MMORPG would be going a bit too far.)
They're already about the size of a piano key, so just paint a couple dozen of them black and presto! An iShuffle synth!
Oh, and you can't boot OS X from a USB RAID. I'm pretty sure you can boot from an IDE RAID (I mean an OS X software RAID, not a hardware RAID where the computer never sees the individual drives), and maybe even from a Firewire RAID, but USB is right out.
Um, actually you don't. Linear flash went out of style years ago, as any Newton owner can tell you. With the exception of flash cards for older Cisco gear, all flash cards these days use an ATA interface. Anything that uses a non-PCMCIA slot (CF, MMC, SD, XD, SonyStick) is 100% ATA.
$499, but that's for a one-time fix. No more spyware, no more viruses.
Except the problem was that Intel insisted on sticking with 16-bit offsets to segment registers, which was also obsolete.
Linear addressing was the way to go, and limiting any given object in memory to 64K bytes size was one of the main problems with the 8086 through 80286 architecture. The main workaround to that was segment arithmetic, which only worked in real mode. Nobody wanted the 64K straightjacket of coding for 286 protected mode.
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