The frequency of reposts that this article keeps getting around the net annoys me.
Go read the CNet article. It's a very large amount of speculation - so much that it makes me think the author just wrote it to help pad her quota of "stories." This isn't news, this is pure conjecture. Cisco - the networking company or the rapper - will not buy Nintendo.
I'm glad I don't subscribe to Slashdot. Posts like this would make me feel like I wasted my money.
This is primarily a console gaming site. There are computer gamers, and you will find some intelligent computer gaming discourse, but just be aware that the majority of games covered are console-based.
Although they might not report on gaming news as often, they usually hit the big stuff and their reviews are pretty good. Their biggest strength is the forum -- you will find lots of people that enjoy the newer games, yet take the time to remember the older games that paved the way. Drop on by and take a look.
There is a difference between "Built by ATI" and "Powered by ATI". The problem you're seeing with OEM and non-ATI manufactured cards (aka "Powered by ATI") is in the BIOS -- the driver expects an official ATI BIOS (which would be a on "Built by ATI" card) and doesn't see it, so it won't work. The "Powered by" cards use reference drivers which aren't tweaked to any particular iteration of the card. "Built by" drivers won't install on non-ATI cards.
Solutions: Flash the BIOS as some have been suggesting, or buy an official card. Or just yell at ATI enough until they release a reference driver.
slashdot is composed entirely of rabid linux monkeys.
Why don't you try using the OS first, instead of demanding that a barely functional replacement be put on it? I can't see people using linux on the desktop, let alone a palm form-factor device. Can't you just be glad that there is a new device with advanced features that ISN'T running MS bloatware?
michael is on crack. I submitted this right before the previous story was posted. That was almost evening, but the timestamp on this story is after 6pm. This isn't to say that I think mine should have been put up, however if someone is checking out/posting submissions around the time I threw in mine, why did it take that long to get the story up? Plus, the one put up is a bit inaccurate. FFXI's not been confirmed for GC release -- that's just a fantastical dribbly interpetation by someone reading what is a GENERALIZED announcement. Bleh on Slashdot.
As for the event itself, this is good news -- however certain things need to be kept in mind. The first and foremost thought is Square's not produced anything on the level of FF6 since the SNES days.* Getting back on a Nintendo system will not magically make Square games better.
Secondly, yes, FFXI is a possibility as mentioned before, but NOT CONFIRMED. Nintendo does however have online capability in the form of network and modem adapters. Just because they're not currently out does not mean it's not feasible. Sega's got a version of Phantasy Star Online ready to go for the GC, they're just waiting on Nintendo to get moving with the network. As soon as Nintendo figures out their online strategy, you'll see the network adapter/modem.
Third, there's no guarentee that Square won't go belly up soon. From what I understand, they're in trouble -- the movie flopped, and sales of FF haven't been as stellar as they would have liked.
I see this deal as being primarily for GBA games. Square does good business with its FF remakes for the Bandai Wonderswan in Japan, but they have no GBA presence. I believe we'll see re-releases of older Square RPGs on the GBA soon.
* Strictly my opinion. Feel free to debate, but take notice that opposing arguments will be ignored, shreded, burnt to ashes, etc.
What do you mean, real work? They're prevented from doing such by their own fluffin faculty! If it's not inane projects with no focus on real-world applications, it's teaching Java to beginners.. Our college system sucks.:P
The Linux "media" is overreacting, once again. The problem isn't that the Linux desktop applications are broken, it's that they haven't been finished and refined. However, when KDE2 takes more than a minute to load a config menu on a 700MHz Duron with a fresh Mandrake 8 install doing relatively nothing until the menu was loaded, you have a problem.
Here's what you do: get your Superman--er, Linus, to help assemble a company solely devoted to developing a good GUI and desktop applications -- and actually charge money for them so the company can post a profit and stay in business (no, not give it out over the net -- if that means changing the Linux license, fine). Screw free software, that approach has given you what you have now: unfinished applications. That's why MS stuff is used everwhere; it WORKS CORRECTLY (nevermind it being Evil Bloatware).
Anyway.. Use this company to dev a GUI based off of KDE2, but running 300% faster and more intuitively. Take Star Office or Word Perfect and impliment changes to make it more like MS Office (i.e. more interoperatable and easier to work with). In the meantime, hire some hardcore OS programmers to sort out all the kinks in the core OS and make them play nicer with each other -- you'll definately get a speed boost.
Operating systems are not about social or political philosophies, social movements, dogma, the latest spewings of RMS, etc. -- they're just ways of getting things done. It all comes down to optimizing speed and getting the OS to not blow chunks every time the user wants it to do something. For this to happen, the Linux "Community" needs to start taking some different approaches. -----------
I concur. While Slashdot readers are most willing to help clarify certain things in the comment boards, some of us have neither the time nor the inclination to spend half an hour researching something like this just so we can "ooo" and "aah" at some widget that not everyone can use. Yes, I'm a Windows user, you may flog me later. -----------
What you Linux-types need to do to solve this is simple: STANDARDIZE. Linux is going through what the Ye Olde Sages of MS-DOS had to put up with at the beginning of the PC era -- all computers were different. You always had to go through some level of configuration schema to tell the game or whatever type of program what sound hardware you had, what graphics hardware you had, et al. Now, however, Windows detects most things automaticly, and provides a compatability layer for the devices to interface with the programs through. The current situation with Linux is a bit more complex -- Linux has the aforementioned compatability layer, yet all the operating system variants are different in some way, requiring the software publisher to either cater to the most popular distributions or ignore Linux totally. These guys don't have tons of time just to get it running on a platform that represents less than 10% marketshare. If you wish Linux to become a primo gaming platform, you must standardize at least everything in the system that applies to gaming. -----------
This is old. Like from a month ago. Verify your stories, please?
Re: other posts
Apple won't sue Mario. Mario's got enough cash in his bank account to make Jobs wish he had never been born. The Gamecube is not translucent, elevated or grey, and does not have a dinky little apple logo on it. Heck, it even runs on a PPC chip. I think that's a litigation stopper right there (me thinks IBM might be a bit peeved if Apple would sue someone who actually wants to buy PPC chips...).
The Mario demo was running in real-time, using the actual Mario model from Mario 64. Yes, the one with lots of polygons. Note that the Gamecube never passed the half-way mark on the processor utilization meter.
The disc media is a 1.5GB mini-DVD. No, I won't say it can't be pirated, I'm sure there's a way. No anti-piracy protection is uncrackable.
Gameboy Advance bashers: Whatever. Let's see you try cramming something more powerful than the SNES plus a hi-rez-for-its-size LCD screen in a tiny package and sell it for $100-$150.. Oh wait! A group of geeks already tried this -- and failed miserably. SNK's Neo Geo Pocket Color is an awesome product, but it seems that by the time they got it to market in the US, they had a very tiny advertising budget.. whoops. So long SNK, thanks for all the groovy games... And may your parent company (I think it's Azure? not sure) die a very deadly and deadening death.
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Actually, the new dubbed episodes are closer to the original Japanese eps than the DiC dubs. Cartoon Net and some other company were able to license those by themselves -- so they just did an accurate translation and kept most of the original music. I don't know much about the SM characterizations, but since this new dub is closer to the original than the previous dubs, maybe Ami was a valley-girl-equivalent in the originals regardless. ^_^ -----------
RE: Cowboy Bebop.. You forgot Ein, the geneticly-enhanced Welsh corgy!;)
RE: Patlabor.. The second movie is already out on VHS. True, it's not DVD, so I guess it doesn't count. ^_^ But they are working on the disc.
RE: Lodoss.. It was actually based on a series of fantasy books written by a Japanese author. Excellent OAV series. Too bad the DVD is crappy.
RE: Lain.. Eh, they refer to Alice as both on the DVD. The sub keeps the Japanese pronounciation of her name ("Arisu"), while the dub changes it to its English equivalent ("Alice"). I actually like that way of doing things, even though it's odd.
RE: Tenchi OAV.. Yes, they are out, as The Tenchi Muyo Collection: Ryo-ohki. Or something like that. Look for a grey box set with Ryoko on the front and "Ryo-ohki" written somewhere on it. (Ryo-ohki is what the OAV series is offically called -- don't confuse this with the cute little fuzzball Ryo-chan;) ) -----------
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Another vote for OCS Inventory. It's saved us a lot of time by automatically catalogging all the different equipment at a client site.
The frequency of reposts that this article keeps getting around the net annoys me.
Go read the CNet article. It's a very large amount of speculation - so much that it makes me think the author just wrote it to help pad her quota of "stories." This isn't news, this is pure conjecture. Cisco - the networking company or the rapper - will not buy Nintendo.
I'm glad I don't subscribe to Slashdot. Posts like this would make me feel like I wasted my money.
The Next Level.
This is primarily a console gaming site. There are computer gamers, and you will find some intelligent computer gaming discourse, but just be aware that the majority of games covered are console-based.
Although they might not report on gaming news as often, they usually hit the big stuff and their reviews are pretty good. Their biggest strength is the forum -- you will find lots of people that enjoy the newer games, yet take the time to remember the older games that paved the way. Drop on by and take a look.
There is a difference between "Built by ATI" and "Powered by ATI". The problem you're seeing with OEM and non-ATI manufactured cards (aka "Powered by ATI") is in the BIOS -- the driver expects an official ATI BIOS (which would be a on "Built by ATI" card) and doesn't see it, so it won't work. The "Powered by" cards use reference drivers which aren't tweaked to any particular iteration of the card. "Built by" drivers won't install on non-ATI cards.
Solutions: Flash the BIOS as some have been suggesting, or buy an official card. Or just yell at ATI enough until they release a reference driver.
Misleading headline! It should be something like "PTO Stuffs" or quickies or whatever. But then again, this is /., bastion of the geek tabloids...
slashdot is composed entirely of rabid linux monkeys.
Why don't you try using the OS first, instead of demanding that a barely functional replacement be put on it? I can't see people using linux on the desktop, let alone a palm form-factor device. Can't you just be glad that there is a new device with advanced features that ISN'T running MS bloatware?
michael is on crack. I submitted this right before the previous story was posted. That was almost evening, but the timestamp on this story is after 6pm. This isn't to say that I think mine should have been put up, however if someone is checking out/posting submissions around the time I threw in mine, why did it take that long to get the story up? Plus, the one put up is a bit inaccurate. FFXI's not been confirmed for GC release -- that's just a fantastical dribbly interpetation by someone reading what is a GENERALIZED announcement. Bleh on Slashdot.
As for the event itself, this is good news -- however certain things need to be kept in mind. The first and foremost thought is Square's not produced anything on the level of FF6 since the SNES days.* Getting back on a Nintendo system will not magically make Square games better.
Secondly, yes, FFXI is a possibility as mentioned before, but NOT CONFIRMED. Nintendo does however have online capability in the form of network and modem adapters. Just because they're not currently out does not mean it's not feasible. Sega's got a version of Phantasy Star Online ready to go for the GC, they're just waiting on Nintendo to get moving with the network. As soon as Nintendo figures out their online strategy, you'll see the network adapter/modem.
Third, there's no guarentee that Square won't go belly up soon. From what I understand, they're in trouble -- the movie flopped, and sales of FF haven't been as stellar as they would have liked.
I see this deal as being primarily for GBA games. Square does good business with its FF remakes for the Bandai Wonderswan in Japan, but they have no GBA presence. I believe we'll see re-releases of older Square RPGs on the GBA soon.
* Strictly my opinion. Feel free to debate, but take notice that opposing arguments will be ignored, shreded, burnt to ashes, etc.
What do you mean, real work? They're prevented from doing such by their own fluffin faculty! If it's not inane projects with no focus on real-world applications, it's teaching Java to beginners.. Our college system sucks. :P
I think Media Blasters or Urban Vision have it. Expect to see it here by 2002.
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Oh, hrmm..
*ponders*
Everything.
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*THWACK*
Heretic! Thou shalt not spoil Evangelion for those who have not seen it!
:P
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The Linux "media" is overreacting, once again. The problem isn't that the Linux desktop applications are broken, it's that they haven't been finished and refined. However, when KDE2 takes more than a minute to load a config menu on a 700MHz Duron with a fresh Mandrake 8 install doing relatively nothing until the menu was loaded, you have a problem .
Here's what you do: get your Superman--er, Linus, to help assemble a company solely devoted to developing a good GUI and desktop applications -- and actually charge money for them so the company can post a profit and stay in business (no, not give it out over the net -- if that means changing the Linux license, fine). Screw free software, that approach has given you what you have now: unfinished applications. That's why MS stuff is used everwhere; it WORKS CORRECTLY (nevermind it being Evil Bloatware).
Anyway.. Use this company to dev a GUI based off of KDE2, but running 300% faster and more intuitively. Take Star Office or Word Perfect and impliment changes to make it more like MS Office (i.e. more interoperatable and easier to work with). In the meantime, hire some hardcore OS programmers to sort out all the kinks in the core OS and make them play nicer with each other -- you'll definately get a speed boost.
Operating systems are not about social or political philosophies, social movements, dogma, the latest spewings of RMS, etc. -- they're just ways of getting things done. It all comes down to optimizing speed and getting the OS to not blow chunks every time the user wants it to do something. For this to happen, the Linux "Community" needs to start taking some different approaches.
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I concur. While Slashdot readers are most willing to help clarify certain things in the comment boards, some of us have neither the time nor the inclination to spend half an hour researching something like this just so we can "ooo" and "aah" at some widget that not everyone can use. Yes, I'm a Windows user, you may flog me later.
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Who cares? You're being anal, just go play Phantasy Star Online. ^_^
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I'm sorry, but Gundam Wing is crap. Try Neon Genesis Evangelion or Giant Robo.
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Fansubs! Fansubs fansubs fansubs!
Go to The Anime Turnpike. Start your search there. I recommend using Kodocha Anime.
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What you Linux-types need to do to solve this is simple: STANDARDIZE. Linux is going through what the Ye Olde Sages of MS-DOS had to put up with at the beginning of the PC era -- all computers were different. You always had to go through some level of configuration schema to tell the game or whatever type of program what sound hardware you had, what graphics hardware you had, et al. Now, however, Windows detects most things automaticly, and provides a compatability layer for the devices to interface with the programs through. The current situation with Linux is a bit more complex -- Linux has the aforementioned compatability layer, yet all the operating system variants are different in some way, requiring the software publisher to either cater to the most popular distributions or ignore Linux totally. These guys don't have tons of time just to get it running on a platform that represents less than 10% marketshare. If you wish Linux to become a primo gaming platform, you must standardize at least everything in the system that applies to gaming.
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This is old. Like from a month ago. Verify your stories, please? Re: other posts Apple won't sue Mario. Mario's got enough cash in his bank account to make Jobs wish he had never been born. The Gamecube is not translucent, elevated or grey, and does not have a dinky little apple logo on it. Heck, it even runs on a PPC chip. I think that's a litigation stopper right there (me thinks IBM might be a bit peeved if Apple would sue someone who actually wants to buy PPC chips...). The Mario demo was running in real-time, using the actual Mario model from Mario 64. Yes, the one with lots of polygons. Note that the Gamecube never passed the half-way mark on the processor utilization meter. The disc media is a 1.5GB mini-DVD. No, I won't say it can't be pirated, I'm sure there's a way. No anti-piracy protection is uncrackable. Gameboy Advance bashers: Whatever. Let's see you try cramming something more powerful than the SNES plus a hi-rez-for-its-size LCD screen in a tiny package and sell it for $100-$150.. Oh wait! A group of geeks already tried this -- and failed miserably. SNK's Neo Geo Pocket Color is an awesome product, but it seems that by the time they got it to market in the US, they had a very tiny advertising budget.. whoops. So long SNK, thanks for all the groovy games... And may your parent company (I think it's Azure? not sure) die a very deadly and deadening death. Anyway, end rant. ^_^
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Me thinks you're thinking about this *way* too much. ^_^
Actually, I happen to find that story hilarious. But that's just me. :P
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Actually, the new dubbed episodes are closer to the original Japanese eps than the DiC dubs. Cartoon Net and some other company were able to license those by themselves -- so they just did an accurate translation and kept most of the original music. I don't know much about the SM characterizations, but since this new dub is closer to the original than the previous dubs, maybe Ami was a valley-girl-equivalent in the originals regardless. ^_^
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RE: Cowboy Bebop.. You forgot Ein, the geneticly-enhanced Welsh corgy! ;)
RE: Patlabor.. The second movie is already out on VHS. True, it's not DVD, so I guess it doesn't count. ^_^ But they are working on the disc.
RE: Lodoss.. It was actually based on a series of fantasy books written by a Japanese author. Excellent OAV series. Too bad the DVD is crappy.
RE: Lain.. Eh, they refer to Alice as both on the DVD. The sub keeps the Japanese pronounciation of her name ("Arisu"), while the dub changes it to its English equivalent ("Alice"). I actually like that way of doing things, even though it's odd.
RE: Tenchi OAV.. Yes, they are out, as The Tenchi Muyo Collection: Ryo-ohki. Or something like that. Look for a grey box set with Ryoko on the front and "Ryo-ohki" written somewhere on it. (Ryo-ohki is what the OAV series is offically called -- don't confuse this with the cute little fuzzball Ryo-chan ;) )
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