For 150 bucks what do you expect chief? Its a SOHO network device and the best one for the price. (Outpost apparently raised the price to 150 or sold out of the 104.00 non switched linksys).
Performace? You can't beat the Switched 100mbit connction for local traffic. Sure it is 10mbit to the net but uhm, again this is soho and not rocket science or a T3, they don't advertise this to solve all your problems.
Again, i don't know what you mean by low performance.
On my ADSL i have an 8 person UT server, 5 pcs, web server and file server all connected. Got the ut on the DMZ zone, the fileserver, my box on the switch and the other port going to another hub for the rest of the network. No problems whatsoever. I'd never consider replacing it with a clunky pc or linux or ics or wingate or anything.
Hey some people like a simple affordable solution that plugs and plays.
Not everyone buys a PC to run linux on everything. Some people buy a PC to run linux and applications and they don't want to waiste time worry about who's pinging them, they just like to know that being behind this little devices helps secure them, speeds up there network and makes life easier then maintaining a pc.
More points being this thing will stay up forever on UPS power, doesn't have a drive to fail, boots up in a snap should power burp, is easy to configure and only costs $104.00 to buy from outpost.com and have on your frontdoor.
Why would anyone want to maintain a linux box instead of a plugin simple solution is beyond me. And why anyone would call this a POS is wayyy beyond me.
It nats to 4 boxes on my network through its 100mbit switch which is very nice, the unreal tournament server plays away while i copy db files back and forth between two machines and the best part of all is i just don't have to worry.
Its the best 100 bucks i've spent. and damnit, Outpost.com is the best place to buy it from:)
(104 bucks)
The linksys is $104.00 at Outpost.com and that is cheaper then the amount of electricity a single linux box will use over a year.
Plus with the linksys you get a 4 port 100mbit SWITCH with Nat and routing and only 4 minutes to install. If there is a poweroutage no fs to rebuild and no parts to replace on a dead peecee should something happen.
Plus if your concerned about uptime and connectivity the Linksys uses alot less UPS power and will hide easily on a shelf and does make a hell of alot less noise then an old pc box.
Actually with ICS you don't need DHCP. Just change it to static ip. I had my network with static 10.x.x.x ip's and i used ICS to send web/ftp/telnet ports to specific machines behind the network.
That box has since become a dedicated Unreal Tournament server and runs great behind my new $104.00 Linksys Switch/Router.
btw, it only takes 4 minutes to switch from ICS to Linksys and make my exisiting network work and add firewall features to protect services.
It is true. Kids these days think typing is too much hassle.
Oh my god, you had to click 3 times and it didn't show a picture of your mom and sing lullabys to you while it installed.
It is a browser idiot. It is an "Internet Client". There is no such thing as a "browser" because the internet isn't simply pointing and clicking now. If all you wanted was a browser then go back to netscape 2.0. You will browse and pretty damn fast.
I don't understand all you people bickering about this and that because its bloated, to small, to plain to flashy, whatever the problem you have choices.
So choose wisely.
In the press release they announced some new Apple Displays that had a special Apple feature connector. Going back to the old Rage cards, they don't support this. this has to be a joke. More free PR i guess
Do you ever have anything good to say? Hehe, i've been following your posts throughout some of these past discussions.
Sure MFC stinks, but it looks like everything else in your book does to.
hehe, oh well.. i think it would be intresting to build some statistical/analytical spyder to traverse slashdot and get a general history/idea of the content and the feelings behind it.
Well, you usually do. Your right, its not hidden, but for any programmer to come from Windows to Unix it is simply not documentated as much.
Sure you can find those rare Unix books that surfaced a few years back that really dug into the internals/libraries and posix standards but they're so damn expensive!
I'd say give it another year, and the choise will be a no brainer. You will either have A) Windows B) Linux.
With the likes of kdevelope, and the new Gnome and KDE hitting the streets, any gui developer will feel at home and in control of linux
OTH, i would love to see java take off more. OH well. It would be nice to follow IBM's Goal of Platform independance. Nothing like using an operating system which is designed for a specific task rather then vice versa.
Yes. it is the SH4 processor. Either way, you can cross compile for it. And the DC has just about everything out or coming out to make it easier for the ultimate hackstation.
Keyboard
Mouse
Zipdisk
Ethernet
Large Capacity VMUs
The list seems endless. DVD has been shown, but get a real DVD player with Dolby Digital DTS outs and AC3 decoding and other bells and whistles..
Well, here is the Chance. A 200mhz CPU, plenty of memory, plenty of horsepower to throw out roughly 5,000,000 polygons.
Linux already cross compiles and boots on MIPS. With the CE Linux varients i'm sure you can dump that on CD fairly quickly and use nice big VMU cards to store data/variables or whatever.
Hell, go to japan, buy the 64 meg VMU, the 10/100 megabit ethernet adaptor and a 64meg vmu and you have a cheap/compact webserver. Throw linux on there or write a java webserver once the JDK is finally released
The ZIP disk option is even coming out. The beginings are being laid, and the backend work is already done.
So hack away.. I would love to see the days of the likes of Future Crew and such. Nothing like having a finite piece of hardware with infinate uses:)
Oh yeah. You can go out and get a DC at buy.com for 179.00 signup for 1 month of sega.net trial (free) and get a $50.00 rebate so you get a nice system for 120 bucks. Get on ebay and get a DC with games for 200 bucks. They're affordable, plenty of games and with stuff like this, another powerfull machine to hack away on.
Meanwhile, while everyone else is saving up to waiste there money on the PS2 or the XBOX (i don't think the dolphin will be a waiste since after all Nintendo is a gaming company at heart) I am loving my DreamCast
The PS2 has more raw power
Proove it:) My DC plays modern games at 60fps and can do everything your "super console" can do.
The DreamCast is old
Nope. Just maturing. Don't compare apples to oranges. I'm not buying a PS2 because of i already have DVD player and i can play every title for the PS2 that i want with my DC. The potential of the DC is only coming of age through experience and knowledge. OTH, the PS2 is coming of age by bashing its own overly hyped ego.
What does this have to do with the X-box
Nothing. The X-BOX is an X-BOX. It is a PC in disguise. It will be fast, it will be modern, it will have all the bells and whistles of a "PC" but it can't compete with my DreamCast. The XBOX nor PS2 is not a Console boys and girls.
The DreamCast isn't selling
What crackpipe have you been smoking out of? 6,000,000 units is selling.
For anyone who can make up there own mind
That is something to cherish. If you can make up your own mind, your own opinions and are a true gamer then i bet you will own an N64, a DC and a PSX and will probably upgrade as you go. You like the consoles because of the gaming experience. Its too bad that 75% of the people visiting this website have forgot what it was like to play games. They're to stuckup the ass with uptimes and polygons a second when they forget what the real experience is.
So my point being. Its good to see the console market thriving, good to see all these "badboys" coming it. But people. Gaming is the console, and Sega is the leader. You go to an arcade and chances are people are lined up at Sega releases, and chances are that will land on your DC. Now what the hell do you see at the arcade running under a PS2? X-BOX? PSX?
IMHO the GPL could never hold up. Terms of licenses are not simply transfered and sustainable for the action of obtaining an item UNLESS explicity stated.
So if i go to ftp.cdrom.com and download a buttload of GNU software, without actually being told that i'm licensing the software through the download of this program i don't have to abide by your license. If the license was issued when you issue tar -xzvf linux-2.3.99.tar.bz2 and i agree to the terms, that is sustainable.
Its like shrink wrap, you approve of the license by opening the package. But if you receive the software without the package then you have therefore broke the restrictions placed by the license.
I personally hope the GPL dissapears with the next fad to hit the market. While free software is nice, i thought the revolution was for free as in beer knowledge, interpretation and expression. How can you evolve when you use GPL? They can only evolve as a whole, and that goes back to the marxist and such remarks about the whole license. The choices and freedoms you give up with the GPL are only held up by a single entity, while other licenses give you and anyone else the freedoms to do as they wish with the software and as a whole the community excels and as an individual you have in your hands full creative rights.
With the GPL, the creative rights are definatly not in the eyes of the beholder.
Add to the bugs that the cursor dissapears, has a tremendous slowdown after only visiting a few pages, pops up annoying save password/login messages even after disabling the featrue.
This is a fresh install on a machine no other mozilla or pr1 has been installed on.
I would *NOT* recommend installing M16 as of today. M15 was better, and the Netscape PR1 is many times more stable.
After downloading the sucker, i am impressed with the amount of work done, but totally un-impressed with the lack of fixing features before adding all of this skin support.
Still can't change most Preferences. Try and change something and click OK and nothing.
Proxy code still wacky. Sometimes it proxy's using my settings, sometimes it doesn't.
The document loading spiral thing is annoying as hell.. just do the ie progress bar or something. The spining thing often keeps spinning after a page load and can cause someone to go insane if they use mozilla to run an application under.
Window redraws are still slow, but scrolling is faster then hell (P3 500, 256 meg ram, WinNT SP6a)
The rendering/layout has been nice for while. But over all application stability is not impressive.
Good work.. still alpha, i'll stop downloading until it atleast gets slapped Beta. The Netscape Beta 1 while bloated with addons is still much cleaner then the Mozilla biulds as far as being able to set options, use the proxy addresses, and general stability.
Also new and announced and currently shipping peripherals are:
Zip Disk
64 Meg VMU w/mp3 playback
JDK
Web Browser - Updated and revised regularly
Network Card - Got DSL/Cable - replace modem with NIC Card
Dolby Digital Music - Certified
Keyboard
Mouse
GAMES
Oh yeah, its also shipping and can be bough for $0.00 if you know how to shop.
Don't forget with a DC you can play 4 other friends, and online gaming is around the corner.
The PS2 is overly glorified DVD player and a SHITTY one at that. Why would i give up a great Sony DVD 550D Player? I don't think the PS2 offers a 10th the amount of features any real av tech would want. DTS, AC3? Pan n Scan, Frame by frame?
And the PS2 is just an overly hyped DVD player in a new case. Whats the difference? The PS2 video chip doesn't handle all of the real graphics features that the market demans. Sure you get polygons up the ass but with anti aliasing the figure gets works. And the Suzuki Yokimoto or whatever developers are pumping 5 million frams a second out for F355 and Shenmue.
Plus the GDROM gurantees game sales. You can't copy them unless you spend a few grand on a developer station and if you do that you may as well buy the dc library and still save a buck.
The DreamCast *IS* the first full fledged out of the box performance gaming console. It has been out for two years by the time the PS2 hits the US market and it has yet to reach its full potential.
So tell me why i should plop down 300 bucks for a console that plays dvds (which i already own a DVD player with full digital outputs, ac3 and dts support..) and only has 2 controller ports and a bunch of games i already play on my dc?
The DC is certified for Dolby Digital Playback, has Mp3 Supports, Web Browser, Network/Modem support, FOUR PLAYER support, Excellent Graphics, Excellent and AFFORDABLE games and most of all UNIQUE games.
Dude, get your head out of your ass. The DC has more memory, easier programmability (which makes or breaks ship dates on games and quality). Smaller footprint, cooler CPU, and more software. The DC has high speed game ports along with VMU's that PS2 outright stole.
Along with a few hundred titles, a network card, 64 meg vmu with MP3 playback, a full web browser, a full JDK kit and 4 gaming ports (who was on crack and only stuck 2 ports on a console???).
Its also funny how even the hardline PS2'ers at IGN wrote the following article.
http://ps2.ign.com/news/20660.html
So if you had graduated school and learned how to think for yourself you would understand how DC is far superior competition then your ineferior mind can contemplate.
Actually the Ethernet card for the DC was released in Japan and coming stateside shortly and the new Browser 3.0 will have a full JDK included as well so you can use the DC to run Java Applications.
So if you get huge ass belt clip, your already there!
Actually the PSX and the DC are none whatsoever similar other then the word "game console" used between them.
I never considered Sony a console system for several reasons, the major one being sony can't write a game for squat, so i guess being a monopoly makes up for that:)
And no, it is not catchup. The DC is a fast 128bit gaming console with internet and gameplay in mind. The PS2 is yet to be released, so in my mind it is sony playing catchup to try and curtail the DC wave.
I can confess, i own a Sony DVD player, but never will i touch a PSX with a 10 foot pull. I got bleemcast for that haha:)
Still doesn't matter. Because there are plenty of other companies out there that still believe in proprietary code, closed source, restrictive licenses and all the rest. Microsoft was merely the most successful and aggressive player of that game. And lots of people have learned from them.
What the HELL does that mean? Proprietary/Closed Source and restrictive licenses? Are you on CRACK. Those are NOT the reasons Microsoft are under the gun. Infact if you play by those reasons then cable companies and power companies should have been abolished years ago.
There is nothing wrong, physically, fundamentally nor socially with having a closed business model. Look at the crusoe processor. Sure it runs an Open Source OS, but you won't find out the specs for that processor, you won't find out how it works and you will be limited by the API and SDK's that the manufacture releases. That goes for Intel and AMD. The X86 architecture as it is today with hybrid cisc and risc is much worse then the software market. You can't optimized your software without paying intel or expecting the sdk/ddk companies to do so.
This case does no more than give Microsoft a black eye. We can destroy Microsoft, and all the rest of the closed-source world, and their paradigm. Just by continuing to make free software.
Another pathetic nuance of open source biggots. So tell me when we can sue cisco because i want to run Linux on the routers i own. Let me know when i can screw over Sony because i want to have access to the code on the dvd player because it doesn't work the way i want it. Also i may want to sue Oracle because they're closed source and the licensing schemes they come up with can put someone out of business. (ORACLE is a MUCH MUCH worse giant then Microsoft - Microsoft touches the consumers.. Oracle runs the world. Which one dominating the market really harms the consumer. An OS that is easy to learn or an overly complicatged, restrictive, buggy, expensive and impossible to maintain database system that controls so much of your day to day transactions???)
Please. get off your anti microsoft bandwagons and use what god gave you. YOUR FUCKEN RIGHT TO CHOOSE.
Did you understand that? errm NO. lemme spell it out. It is your god given right to choose free software because for some reason you do not want to buy it. It is my right to buy something at the store and plug it in and have it work. Hey, it gives me time to be with my girlfriend, hit the trains with my mountain bike, play my dreamcast, listen to my music, surf the web. I don't have to sit and watch/var/adm/syslog or keep up to date on freshmeat or recompile kernels.
Yes.. meanwhile at my job i get paid to run linux and hpux servers (ofcourse running Oracle Applications), but that is something i do for work, and i have a toy linux box at home to keep up to date. However, at home i am a consumer. I choose what i want to run and that is a *CHOICE*. There have *ALWAYS* been choices and my soapbox don't you forget that.
Who would have ever thought linux would boot on yet another CPU. I mean its only been ported to everything else under the sun.
Without performance indicators, what the hell does this log show us?
Sure it shows IBM supporting linux, but isn't that the fad for everything else? I mean i find it more intriguing to see linux running on webpads, palm pcs and miniature servers more so then another 'look what linux can run under'
OTH, go blue go.. i want a Power4 running MacOS X at 2 ghz.
hehe.. oops, i said i wanted MacOS X running under one of these.. oh well, linux would still be cool
swwwwwweeet revalation
sweeeeeeet surrenduring
Thinking of you.. thinking of you
oops.. didn't mean to trail off like that, guess there isn't much else to speak about on this subject:)
Slashdot Mirror
Performace? You can't beat the Switched 100mbit connction for local traffic. Sure it is 10mbit to the net but uhm, again this is soho and not rocket science or a T3, they don't advertise this to solve all your problems.
Again, i don't know what you mean by low performance.
On my ADSL i have an 8 person UT server, 5 pcs, web server and file server all connected. Got the ut on the DMZ zone, the fileserver, my box on the switch and the other port going to another hub for the rest of the network. No problems whatsoever. I'd never consider replacing it with a clunky pc or linux or ics or wingate or anything.
Don't buy what you read on slashdot either
You asked for it.
Not everyone buys a PC to run linux on everything. Some people buy a PC to run linux and applications and they don't want to waiste time worry about who's pinging them, they just like to know that being behind this little devices helps secure them, speeds up there network and makes life easier then maintaining a pc.
More points being this thing will stay up forever on UPS power, doesn't have a drive to fail, boots up in a snap should power burp, is easy to configure and only costs $104.00 to buy from outpost.com and have on your frontdoor.
Why would anyone want to maintain a linux box instead of a plugin simple solution is beyond me. And why anyone would call this a POS is wayyy beyond me.
It nats to 4 boxes on my network through its 100mbit switch which is very nice, the unreal tournament server plays away while i copy db files back and forth between two machines and the best part of all is i just don't have to worry.
Its the best 100 bucks i've spent. and damnit, Outpost.com is the best place to buy it from :)
(104 bucks)
Plus with the linksys you get a 4 port 100mbit SWITCH with Nat and routing and only 4 minutes to install. If there is a poweroutage no fs to rebuild and no parts to replace on a dead peecee should something happen.
Plus if your concerned about uptime and connectivity the Linksys uses alot less UPS power and will hide easily on a shelf and does make a hell of alot less noise then an old pc box.
Don't underestimate the power of theses devices.
That box has since become a dedicated Unreal Tournament server and runs great behind my new $104.00 Linksys Switch/Router.
btw, it only takes 4 minutes to switch from ICS to Linksys and make my exisiting network work and add firewall features to protect services.
It is true. Kids these days think typing is too much hassle. Oh my god, you had to click 3 times and it didn't show a picture of your mom and sing lullabys to you while it installed. It is a browser idiot. It is an "Internet Client". There is no such thing as a "browser" because the internet isn't simply pointing and clicking now. If all you wanted was a browser then go back to netscape 2.0. You will browse and pretty damn fast. I don't understand all you people bickering about this and that because its bloated, to small, to plain to flashy, whatever the problem you have choices. So choose wisely.
In the press release they announced some new Apple Displays that had a special Apple feature connector. Going back to the old Rage cards, they don't support this. this has to be a joke. More free PR i guess
Sure MFC stinks, but it looks like everything else in your book does to.
hehe, oh well.. i think it would be intresting to build some statistical/analytical spyder to traverse slashdot and get a general history/idea of the content and the feelings behind it.
Sure you can find those rare Unix books that surfaced a few years back that really dug into the internals/libraries and posix standards but they're so damn expensive!
I'd say give it another year, and the choise will be a no brainer. You will either have A) Windows B) Linux.
With the likes of kdevelope, and the new Gnome and KDE hitting the streets, any gui developer will feel at home and in control of linux
OTH, i would love to see java take off more. OH well. It would be nice to follow IBM's Goal of Platform independance. Nothing like using an operating system which is designed for a specific task rather then vice versa.
Now that would be interesting hack :) hmmm hehe
Keyboard
Mouse
Zipdisk
Ethernet
Large Capacity VMUs
The list seems endless. DVD has been shown, but get a real DVD player with Dolby Digital DTS outs and AC3 decoding and other bells and whistles..
Linux already cross compiles and boots on MIPS. With the CE Linux varients i'm sure you can dump that on CD fairly quickly and use nice big VMU cards to store data/variables or whatever.
Hell, go to japan, buy the 64 meg VMU, the 10/100 megabit ethernet adaptor and a 64meg vmu and you have a cheap/compact webserver. Throw linux on there or write a java webserver once the JDK is finally released
The ZIP disk option is even coming out. The beginings are being laid, and the backend work is already done.
So hack away.. I would love to see the days of the likes of Future Crew and such. Nothing like having a finite piece of hardware with infinate uses :)
Oh yeah. You can go out and get a DC at buy.com for 179.00 signup for 1 month of sega.net trial (free) and get a $50.00 rebate so you get a nice system for 120 bucks. Get on ebay and get a DC with games for 200 bucks. They're affordable, plenty of games and with stuff like this, another powerfull machine to hack away on.
And now that people have figured out how to get CDR's to boot, i'm sure it won't be long before linux is running on them.
Thats the beauty of open hardware. And nothing is being assimilated.
Unreal and many other beautiful games use DX7, but doesn't mean they have been assimilated :)
The PS2 has more raw power
Proove it :) My DC plays modern games at 60fps and can do everything your "super console" can do.
The DreamCast is old
Nope. Just maturing. Don't compare apples to oranges. I'm not buying a PS2 because of i already have DVD player and i can play every title for the PS2 that i want with my DC. The potential of the DC is only coming of age through experience and knowledge. OTH, the PS2 is coming of age by bashing its own overly hyped ego.
What does this have to do with the X-box
Nothing. The X-BOX is an X-BOX. It is a PC in disguise. It will be fast, it will be modern, it will have all the bells and whistles of a "PC" but it can't compete with my DreamCast. The XBOX nor PS2 is not a Console boys and girls.
The DreamCast isn't selling
What crackpipe have you been smoking out of? 6,000,000 units is selling.
For anyone who can make up there own mind
That is something to cherish. If you can make up your own mind, your own opinions and are a true gamer then i bet you will own an N64, a DC and a PSX and will probably upgrade as you go. You like the consoles because of the gaming experience. Its too bad that 75% of the people visiting this website have forgot what it was like to play games. They're to stuckup the ass with uptimes and polygons a second when they forget what the real experience is.
So my point being. Its good to see the console market thriving, good to see all these "badboys" coming it. But people. Gaming is the console, and Sega is the leader. You go to an arcade and chances are people are lined up at Sega releases, and chances are that will land on your DC. Now what the hell do you see at the arcade running under a PS2? X-BOX? PSX?
So if i go to ftp.cdrom.com and download a buttload of GNU software, without actually being told that i'm licensing the software through the download of this program i don't have to abide by your license. If the license was issued when you issue tar -xzvf linux-2.3.99.tar.bz2 and i agree to the terms, that is sustainable.
Its like shrink wrap, you approve of the license by opening the package. But if you receive the software without the package then you have therefore broke the restrictions placed by the license.
I personally hope the GPL dissapears with the next fad to hit the market. While free software is nice, i thought the revolution was for free as in beer knowledge, interpretation and expression. How can you evolve when you use GPL? They can only evolve as a whole, and that goes back to the marxist and such remarks about the whole license. The choices and freedoms you give up with the GPL are only held up by a single entity, while other licenses give you and anyone else the freedoms to do as they wish with the software and as a whole the community excels and as an individual you have in your hands full creative rights.
With the GPL, the creative rights are definatly not in the eyes of the beholder.
This is a fresh install on a machine no other mozilla or pr1 has been installed on.
I would *NOT* recommend installing M16 as of today. M15 was better, and the Netscape PR1 is many times more stable.
Still can't change most Preferences. Try and change something and click OK and nothing.
Proxy code still wacky. Sometimes it proxy's using my settings, sometimes it doesn't.
The document loading spiral thing is annoying as hell.. just do the ie progress bar or something. The spining thing often keeps spinning after a page load and can cause someone to go insane if they use mozilla to run an application under.
Window redraws are still slow, but scrolling is faster then hell (P3 500, 256 meg ram, WinNT SP6a)
The rendering/layout has been nice for while. But over all application stability is not impressive.
Good work.. still alpha, i'll stop downloading until it atleast gets slapped Beta. The Netscape Beta 1 while bloated with addons is still much cleaner then the Mozilla biulds as far as being able to set options, use the proxy addresses, and general stability.
How distinct are the two builds these days?
http://ps2.ign.com/news/20660.html
Here is a refresher on the DC Hardware.
http://ningendo.emulationzone.org/consolewars/dc.h tml
Also new and announced and currently shipping peripherals are:
Zip Disk
64 Meg VMU w/mp3 playback
JDK
Web Browser - Updated and revised regularly
Network Card - Got DSL/Cable - replace modem with NIC Card
Dolby Digital Music - Certified
Keyboard
Mouse
GAMES
Oh yeah, its also shipping and can be bough for $0.00 if you know how to shop.
Don't forget with a DC you can play 4 other friends, and online gaming is around the corner.
The PS2 is overly glorified DVD player and a SHITTY one at that. Why would i give up a great Sony DVD 550D Player? I don't think the PS2 offers a 10th the amount of features any real av tech would want. DTS, AC3? Pan n Scan, Frame by frame?
Plus the GDROM gurantees game sales. You can't copy them unless you spend a few grand on a developer station and if you do that you may as well buy the dc library and still save a buck.
The DreamCast *IS* the first full fledged out of the box performance gaming console. It has been out for two years by the time the PS2 hits the US market and it has yet to reach its full potential.
So tell me why i should plop down 300 bucks for a console that plays dvds (which i already own a DVD player with full digital outputs, ac3 and dts support..) and only has 2 controller ports and a bunch of games i already play on my dc?
The DC is certified for Dolby Digital Playback, has Mp3 Supports, Web Browser, Network/Modem support, FOUR PLAYER support, Excellent Graphics, Excellent and AFFORDABLE games and most of all UNIQUE games.
Along with a few hundred titles, a network card, 64 meg vmu with MP3 playback, a full web browser, a full JDK kit and 4 gaming ports (who was on crack and only stuck 2 ports on a console???).
Its also funny how even the hardline PS2'ers at IGN wrote the following article.
http://ps2.ign.com/news/20660.html
So if you had graduated school and learned how to think for yourself you would understand how DC is far superior competition then your ineferior mind can contemplate.
So if you get huge ass belt clip, your already there!
I never considered Sony a console system for several reasons, the major one being sony can't write a game for squat, so i guess being a monopoly makes up for that :)
And no, it is not catchup. The DC is a fast 128bit gaming console with internet and gameplay in mind. The PS2 is yet to be released, so in my mind it is sony playing catchup to try and curtail the DC wave.
I can confess, i own a Sony DVD player, but never will i touch a PSX with a 10 foot pull. I got bleemcast for that haha :)
What the HELL does that mean? Proprietary/Closed Source and restrictive licenses? Are you on CRACK. Those are NOT the reasons Microsoft are under the gun. Infact if you play by those reasons then cable companies and power companies should have been abolished years ago.
There is nothing wrong, physically, fundamentally nor socially with having a closed business model. Look at the crusoe processor. Sure it runs an Open Source OS, but you won't find out the specs for that processor, you won't find out how it works and you will be limited by the API and SDK's that the manufacture releases. That goes for Intel and AMD. The X86 architecture as it is today with hybrid cisc and risc is much worse then the software market. You can't optimized your software without paying intel or expecting the sdk/ddk companies to do so.
Another pathetic nuance of open source biggots. So tell me when we can sue cisco because i want to run Linux on the routers i own. Let me know when i can screw over Sony because i want to have access to the code on the dvd player because it doesn't work the way i want it. Also i may want to sue Oracle because they're closed source and the licensing schemes they come up with can put someone out of business. (ORACLE is a MUCH MUCH worse giant then Microsoft - Microsoft touches the consumers.. Oracle runs the world. Which one dominating the market really harms the consumer. An OS that is easy to learn or an overly complicatged, restrictive, buggy, expensive and impossible to maintain database system that controls so much of your day to day transactions???)
Please. get off your anti microsoft bandwagons and use what god gave you. YOUR FUCKEN RIGHT TO CHOOSE.
Did you understand that? errm NO. lemme spell it out. It is your god given right to choose free software because for some reason you do not want to buy it. It is my right to buy something at the store and plug it in and have it work. Hey, it gives me time to be with my girlfriend, hit the trains with my mountain bike, play my dreamcast, listen to my music, surf the web. I don't have to sit and watch /var/adm/syslog or keep up to date on freshmeat or recompile kernels.
Yes.. meanwhile at my job i get paid to run linux and hpux servers (ofcourse running Oracle Applications), but that is something i do for work, and i have a toy linux box at home to keep up to date. However, at home i am a consumer. I choose what i want to run and that is a *CHOICE*. There have *ALWAYS* been choices and my soapbox don't you forget that.
lessse.. post your opinions, your flamebate. Follow the masses your cool.
lahooosers
My bootlong Starting Windows 98.... :)
Without performance indicators, what the hell does this log show us?
Sure it shows IBM supporting linux, but isn't that the fad for everything else? I mean i find it more intriguing to see linux running on webpads, palm pcs and miniature servers more so then another 'look what linux can run under'
OTH, go blue go.. i want a Power4 running MacOS X at 2 ghz.
hehe.. oops, i said i wanted MacOS X running under one of these.. oh well, linux would still be cool
swwwwwweeet revalation
sweeeeeeet surrenduring
Thinking of you.. thinking of you
oops.. didn't mean to trail off like that, guess there isn't much else to speak about on this subject :)