This whole thing is rather off-topic for the thread but oh well =). Celeron was originally intended as a low-end chip, and it gets gobbled up by gamers and business users alike now. Any "low-end" chip isn't going to be pathetically slow compared to, say, a bottom-end Celeron, or nobody would buy it regardless of price. It needs to be able to run the latest apps, those apps that you can actually buy off the shelf.
Software is made to match existing or future hardware. Quake3/UT are a massive improvement, graphics-wise, over (say) Doom. But Doom was smoking fast on my 486/66. Quake3's install CD would physically emit a laughing noise as the drive door closed if I tried installing it on that box. And as fun as Doom was, Quake3 is MUCH easier on the eyes to play and just plain more INTERESTING. It's the rampant increase in hardware quality that gets you that, er, interestingness.
Same goes for Office-type apps. I remember in the days of the aforementioned 486/66, Word would take nearly a minute to load, took forever to spell/grammar check, and don't even THINK about running anything in the background! MIDI player maybe! =) Now on Windows/Linux on my spiffy new-age box, I can have several apps going at the same time, say (under Windows) Photoshop, VC++, Netscape, SQL Server clients... hell, SQL Server... all stuff that I'll regularly tab between during the day.
And there are still apps that bring this new box to its knees. Bryce comes immediately to mind as an app that makes my CPU and RAM cry in pain. Maybe a little 256M upgrade...
My point, and I do have one, is that while it sometimes seems that technology progresses for no reason other than to encourage consumption, the efficiency and kewlness factor of PCs now is far greater than that of PCs 5 years ago, 10, 15... I'm surprised those old XTs got bought by ANYONE for anything besides Lotus 123. They were all but unusable. Sure, products are made to make money, but by labelling the PC consumers as suckers you're really blindering yourself from the big picture.
This cancellation couldn't possibly have anything to do with the whack of people who were just shunted over to the P4 project to speed it up... allez allez!
I thought this was going to be the story of how Ash woke up earlier that fateful morning in Pallet Town, and picked Bulbasaur as his first Pokemon! What a disappointment.
Yeah, just cos everyone else is going to make a funny comment about AoD...
I'll be impressed when the robots submit their own stories to/. Or at least submit replies. Can they learn to troll? To flame other trolls? Will they get bored and surf to seanbaby.com or something?
I mean, humans went through millions of years of evolution to reach that point so it's only logical that the robots would =).
Maybe you have to have had Bad Things happen to Linux in production environments too often, but is "sash" a bad name for a Linux tool? The only time I use sash is when Deep Doodoo Has Occurred. =/
Firstly, the "N-cube" has a DVD drive like PSX2, but doesn't play DVDs...
Secondly, the new N box will have a similar price point to the PSX2, but without the extra selling point of the DVD player. I know this seems like the same point, but for ME at least, this has been a big seller to my wife. =) I'm sure I'm not the only geek who's getting away with a PSX2 on the grounds that "Well, we don't have a DVD player yet..."
Lastly, the marketing for the Dolphin/N-Cube has been pathetic up until now. Nintendo seems to be really focussing on the Gameboy Advance to the detriment of the console system.
I'm looking forward to the new Nintendo console because as a whole I've found that Nintendo games tend to be more family and friends oriented -- ie. they play to non-gamers. Mario Kart, Mario Party, and Mario Golf (see a trend) are all games that appeal to people who don't usually play video games. I just hope the thing doesn't falter because Nintendo is relying on its name to carry the box, er, cube, through a couple of rather big selling holes...
To supply geeks with insufficient deskspace. I've worked in open areas, in cubes, and now in an office. In each, I've had loads and loads of desk space to clutter in "just my" way. Having (carlin voice) your stuff (/carlin voice) just where you want it is an absolute necessity. Individual workspaces are much more important than the whole office design (though to be honest, my first week in an "open" environment drove me insane =).
...would be trying to get people to shell out upwards of $50 to buy *just the software* to play a game *on their own hardware*, in their own homes, again with no financial reward possible.
Wow, these guys really started a racket =).
The problem with the current phase of convergence mania -- namely, jamming as much stuff as possible onto a cell phone/PDA -- is that the tech is there to "make it go", but the tech ain't there to make it look good, or even usable. Heck, even the best "beta" cell-phone-web-browser hybrids have a display that's MUCH worse than a Palm 1000's! Unusable, except by the most status seeking or the most geeky =).
The issue is the same as always: moolah. It costs too much to pump out OK-resolution colour screens. Why does Palm have the vast share of the PDA market? The price is a MAJOR factor in this. Hell, CE may blow, but PalmOS crashes like a fiend and the CE PDAs I've used are much more functional than my Palm, and they look GREAT. Why do I still use my Palm (1000, BTW, with 2 meg upgrade =)? Because it was CHEAP and it still WORKS. Those companies working to converge these products need to look at quality and not just more miniturization.
--snip-- 'The Mozilla Project programmers repeatedly abandoned real-world progress and accomplishments for -- and this is the technical term -- cool shit.'" With the next MXX right around the corner, I have to disagree: besides that, I use Mozilla frequently and find that with a few minor exceptions, the latest builds are as good or better than Netscape under Linux (although secure transactions are problematic). --snip-- "I have to disagree! And here's evidence that the suck article is actually right!" suck... whahaha... I used to read that in UNIVERSITY, and that's just a rather addled smudge in my memory now... Next/. will be quoting Time magazine articles.
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Can't NASA just send up an enormous vial of One-Step Canasten?
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Good lord, someone with an AC/DC quote in their .sig is playing smarter-than-thou. /. *has* gone to hell.
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Software is made to match existing or future hardware. Quake3/UT are a massive improvement, graphics-wise, over (say) Doom. But Doom was smoking fast on my 486/66. Quake3's install CD would physically emit a laughing noise as the drive door closed if I tried installing it on that box. And as fun as Doom was, Quake3 is MUCH easier on the eyes to play and just plain more INTERESTING. It's the rampant increase in hardware quality that gets you that, er, interestingness.
Same goes for Office-type apps. I remember in the days of the aforementioned 486/66, Word would take nearly a minute to load, took forever to spell/grammar check, and don't even THINK about running anything in the background! MIDI player maybe! =) Now on Windows/Linux on my spiffy new-age box, I can have several apps going at the same time, say (under Windows) Photoshop, VC++, Netscape, SQL Server clients... hell, SQL Server... all stuff that I'll regularly tab between during the day.
And there are still apps that bring this new box to its knees. Bryce comes immediately to mind as an app that makes my CPU and RAM cry in pain. Maybe a little 256M upgrade...
My point, and I do have one, is that while it sometimes seems that technology progresses for no reason other than to encourage consumption, the efficiency and kewlness factor of PCs now is far greater than that of PCs 5 years ago, 10, 15... I'm surprised those old XTs got bought by ANYONE for anything besides Lotus 123. They were all but unusable. Sure, products are made to make money, but by labelling the PC consumers as suckers you're really blindering yourself from the big picture.
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This cancellation couldn't possibly have anything to do with the whack of people who were just shunted over to the P4 project to speed it up... allez allez!
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Yeah, just cos everyone else is going to make a funny comment about AoD...
No, it's "Simon".
I'll be impressed when the robots submit their own stories to /. Or at least submit replies. Can they learn to troll? To flame other trolls? Will they get bored and surf to seanbaby.com or something?
I mean, humans went through millions of years of evolution to reach that point so it's only logical that the robots would =).
Maybe you have to have had Bad Things happen to Linux in production environments too often, but is "sash" a bad name for a Linux tool? The only time I use sash is when Deep Doodoo Has Occurred. =/
Aside: Bastards! I had a previous boss who, if told a new buzzword by an article like this, REALLY WOULD start using it the next day.
Because, man, if you're not cube, you're just square.
Firstly, the "N-cube" has a DVD drive like PSX2, but doesn't play DVDs... Secondly, the new N box will have a similar price point to the PSX2, but without the extra selling point of the DVD player. I know this seems like the same point, but for ME at least, this has been a big seller to my wife. =) I'm sure I'm not the only geek who's getting away with a PSX2 on the grounds that "Well, we don't have a DVD player yet..." Lastly, the marketing for the Dolphin/N-Cube has been pathetic up until now. Nintendo seems to be really focussing on the Gameboy Advance to the detriment of the console system. I'm looking forward to the new Nintendo console because as a whole I've found that Nintendo games tend to be more family and friends oriented -- ie. they play to non-gamers. Mario Kart, Mario Party, and Mario Golf (see a trend) are all games that appeal to people who don't usually play video games. I just hope the thing doesn't falter because Nintendo is relying on its name to carry the box, er, cube, through a couple of rather big selling holes...
To supply geeks with insufficient deskspace. I've worked in open areas, in cubes, and now in an office. In each, I've had loads and loads of desk space to clutter in "just my" way. Having (carlin voice) your stuff (/carlin voice) just where you want it is an absolute necessity. Individual workspaces are much more important than the whole office design (though to be honest, my first week in an "open" environment drove me insane =).
...would be trying to get people to shell out upwards of $50 to buy *just the software* to play a game *on their own hardware*, in their own homes, again with no financial reward possible. Wow, these guys really started a racket =).
The problem with the current phase of convergence mania -- namely, jamming as much stuff as possible onto a cell phone/PDA -- is that the tech is there to "make it go", but the tech ain't there to make it look good, or even usable. Heck, even the best "beta" cell-phone-web-browser hybrids have a display that's MUCH worse than a Palm 1000's! Unusable, except by the most status seeking or the most geeky =). The issue is the same as always: moolah. It costs too much to pump out OK-resolution colour screens. Why does Palm have the vast share of the PDA market? The price is a MAJOR factor in this. Hell, CE may blow, but PalmOS crashes like a fiend and the CE PDAs I've used are much more functional than my Palm, and they look GREAT. Why do I still use my Palm (1000, BTW, with 2 meg upgrade =)? Because it was CHEAP and it still WORKS. Those companies working to converge these products need to look at quality and not just more miniturization.
Can I download a recording of someone actually good playing Quake, and then play it back and pass it off as me?
--snip-- 'The Mozilla Project programmers repeatedly abandoned real-world progress and accomplishments for -- and this is the technical term -- cool shit.'" With the next MXX right around the corner, I have to disagree: besides that, I use Mozilla frequently and find that with a few minor exceptions, the latest builds are as good or better than Netscape under Linux (although secure transactions are problematic). --snip-- "I have to disagree! And here's evidence that the suck article is actually right!" suck... whahaha... I used to read that in UNIVERSITY, and that's just a rather addled smudge in my memory now... Next /. will be quoting Time magazine articles.