1) Yes, Nintendo releases a lot of sequals. It kinda sucks, but then again, I'm a sucker for anything concerning the adventures of a guy named Link. They do release new games, but the gamer populace EXPECTS them to dump a new slew of sequals on every console they make. Would you buy a revolution if it was never going to get a Zelda game? Remember that the killer games of the PS2 are also sequals: MGS2, GT3, GTA3, FFX, and more.
2) PC games are increasingly becoming a niche market, as each studio tries to one-up each other with snazzy graphics that pushing mainstream consumer possibilities aside. These machines typically run at MUCH higher resolutions than the average TV a console is hooked up to, which partially drives the nessecary 500 dollar graphics card.
3) Wi-Fi is becoming fairly popular. The DS features wifi connectivity; it wouldn't be surpising to hear how you can upload games to it via the revoluton. The virus problem on cell phones presents itself mainly because cell phones are designed to be on 24/7. When you cut the window down to an hour a day, population growth seriously dwindles. Wi-Fi also solves that other problem with networking: you either have to have a PC handy (see #2) or you have to have a really long ethernet cable. It solves the problem of interconnective consolehandheld games requiring a special Nintendo cable.
4) Mr. Iwata's speech on innovation in games really revolves around the DS. What he means is that there's like four genres of games: menu based RPGs, First Person Shooters, Arena Fighter games, and Street Car Racing games. Most of these are deeply entrenched genres with a huge set of staples and design assumptions. Practically every RPG has Magic Points; fighter games revolve around memorizing a set of Special Moves. These games are built with very specific assumptions about the user interface, which has been a problem since the n64, and made even more apparent with the DS.
Its not that you can't make interesting new games, its that publishers aren't interested in making new games. Nintendo trys to alleviate this by loaning the Mario characters for games like Mario Tennis, and that DDR Mario game. Practically guarenteed sales on their platform, in exchange for bringing it there. I suspect he's frustrated with companies throwing straight ports to the PSP, especially EA and their large list of sports games.
You know, I used Debian for two years. Long enough to get pretty deep into it, but not long enough to decide to become a DD. I do follow the Debian planet regularly, and I frequently observe Developers who are frustrated with users submitting bugs. Complaints include duplicate filings, useless reports, bugs filed in improper places, and bugs filed with the wrong severity. Fortunately these complaints don't regularly go out the users themselves.
Combined with your suggestion to file a bug report (often repeated by many people), you would think that there would be a Debian initiative to streamline the process, and introduce users to the steps of a bug report. There's a text based tool, but nothing capable of doing GUI based work complete with first time user guidelines. Such a tool would provide an appropriate level of support for a first contact with a DD, increase the transparancy of the sytem, and ultimately encourage new DD's to step forward.
Well, the PR crap seems to point in that direction (how can you be lost in a forest, and still know where you are or whatever), at least. The fact is, there aren't that many games out on the DS yet. Given their status as a middleware group, commercial product availablity is ultimately out of their hands. Nintendo's advertising strategy starts off at 90 days away from release, so around July we should see if my theory is true.
Most of them have been canned, saying its too hard. XLink Kai laughed in the face of those who were claiming they'd have tunnelling working within a week, as it then turned into month, into months. But their own efforts were equally abandoned around new year. I don't know if they really did just give up, or if they found out that warp pipe was going to be taking over anyways. (Expect Animal Forest DS to feature warp pipe tech)
In short, not yet, and not on the visible horizon.
Think of it as a fairly cheap recruiting campaign. Maybe the bounty isn't all that great, nor the bug more than trivial, but you've likely found two or three guys who are knowledgable enough to install, run, compile, debug, fix, and submit patches for your software. Exactly the kind of employee you're looking for. And even if Novell isn't taking it like that, somebody probably should be.
It was never full of great scientific and technical articles. Seven years ago, it was full of libertarian advocacy, praising various dotcoms and anti-DIVX commentary. Basically, slashdot pionereed blogging six years before the concept had a name.
That said, I do miss the inflammitory remarks to the editor by folks like shoeboy.
This is already been a partial issue with them in the past. Both the n64 and cube controllers really appeared to be designed around a super mario game, to the detriment of other established genres. For example, Street Fighter games had a working setup on the SNES controller, which made the transition to the PSX and PS2 controllers straightforward compared to the n64. While the n64 remained a distant second in fighters, owners were treated with a wholly new, innovative and fun design for the genre, now known as the multiplayer powerhouse Smash Brothers.
Revolution is great, but in the land where sequals are king, the moneymen are naturally skittish. Jaded gamers should look forward to the Revolution, I think. But different doesn't mean better. Nintendo has a tough fight on its hands reguarding the PSP. If the DS is truly a third platform, then there must be a new gameboy revision coming shortly (apparently, there is). I suspect a number of people don't think of the DS as a third tier, especially with its GBA compatability. This places them in a tough spot to promote the new GBA; the media drum roll that predicates these releases would cut a detrimental swath in the PSP vs DS controversy.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I release code under the GPL because I'm greedy. Not for cash, but for more code.
You can also make a solid argument that RMS is a fascist, as head of the GNU foundation. Apparently all copyright of submitted code is to be handed over to them, and they only accept patches from those select people (basically people who've submitted some legal documents reguarding the copyright, I would assume). The Cathedral vs. The Bazaar by that other wacknut, ESR, decribes in more detail the GNU approach.
The fact is, most people out there own prebuilt computers. And as far as I know, Dell isn't making any SLI boards. Hell, you're lucky you can get a geforce 6600 from them. Since two PCIe slots cost more than one, don't expect anything from Dell.
And since none of the OEMs support it, very few game makers will bother with it. Which means those "hardcore" gamers will be paying through the nose for very little performance gains in several applications. And don't expect your open source Linux games to get a decent SLI support. Finally, what sort of hardcore gamer spends the cash on an "upgrade" that can occasionally perform worse than the setup without SLI? One with more money than sense!
Standardized testing of students originated in the states. The IQ test and the collegiate entrance exam are american creations. You can think of the states as a test market, from which the rest of the world learned the pros and cons of, and adapted them to fit better. Of course you can argue about Chinese buerocracy tests, as some have done. But I don't think those test were measured against a mean performance of other candidates.
And the best part of this mindset is that they'll think, "Tech-school / vocational studies? Sounds like he means DeVry. I think I'll pass." However wise the decision may be, they often fail to find any reasoning behind the stigma. I hope they find their job as a soldiering and IC layout expert pays well enough to carry them through outsourcing, minor global economic depression and replacement by robots.
Unfortunately, there isn't more than a handful of games worth playing on Windows, either. PC gaming is on a serious decline, fueled by shitty production and a serious hardware barrier. Unreal Tournaments now run with Linux, as does Doom 3,Neverwinter Nights, and America's Army. This does a good job of fighting the Catch-22. The only serious game that's missing is Half-Life and its sequal. Open Source games are becoming more plentiful, slowly. Wesnoth is a decent turn based strategy game, and Kento Cho is doing some stellar work with OpenGL abstract shooters. And of course, there's plenty of games like solitaire,mindsweeper, and hearts, which really dominate the games most people "play" on computers. I suppose you might miss those MMORPGs, but really, what a waste of time and money.
I think a much bigger barrier to Linux popularity is the ease of piracy; so many guys in my dorms bought and built their own computer, and then just stuck a pirated version of windows 2k or XP on there. I tried to convince my brother to try a Linux partition, but he's dead set against learning anything new related to computers. He did pirated winXP as well. We hear so much about Microsoft offering large discounts to dissatisfied large clients (rumored to be 100%), that its amazing that Novell/SuSe or somebody hasn't sued for price discrimination / price dumping. Or maybe they have and I haven't read the news very carefully.
All-too-often, some blogger will post an entry regarding a very interesting and thought-provoking idea, but mostly it's a few sentences and a hyperlink.
Then shall we boycott Slashdot? The last one went so well, after all;)
you must be too familiar with XFS and ReiserFS. Try a filesystem with full journalling, rather than just metadata logging. Ext3 is a far cry from the X "if it hurts, don't do that" FS.
Speakeasy also offers a service to help you with billing and the like; all you have to do is set yourself up, find willing cohorts and offer a deal. They credit your bill, and the legal footwork is theirs. The disadvantage is that they do take a significant cut, and you can't exactly make a profit at it.
If RH10 was simply a name change, why bother? Why throw away branding in favor of some sort of "community supported edition" which very much implies that coporate support would be waning, if existant?
The owner of gizmodo has his head up his ass, and I feel sorry for the guy who gets paid 14 thousand a year to live in NYC and write all that however many days a week he does it.
Five links deep, I found the original paper. The procedure goes as follows:
1. Scan the hard drive while running the potentially infected kernel. 2. Scan the drive while running from a write protected media running windows PE with a diff tool installed. 3. diff the two results, and the difference is what is being hid!
Pretty obvious, really. But there's a slight problem with it: you might as well do the whole spyware/ virus scan from the CD and be done with it. I mean, its pretty much just as easy to detect the malware with known signatures as it is with a diff of the file listings. I'd wager that you could accomplish the same thing they're doing with almost any linux based live cd.
How much and in what ways can a switch improve employee productivity? The author makes a valid point that the 100k saved is minimal in transitioning the OS, but anyone seriously looking to promote Linux from within must be prepared with a host of reasons that translate into a more productive employee. Saving money on IT operations is one thing, but one can be quick to lose sight of the function of computers in the workplace-- make smarter decisions faster.
I get the suspicion that part IV will be the article that discusses this.
So what is your point exactly? That you don't want no technology, no way no how? Wimax is supposed to cover like a thousand square miles per cell or whatever its called. Or just that you want it to be asthetically pleasing? But you attempt to make a distinction between yourself and those who fight against munincipal water / electromagnetic communications.
Clearly somebody thinks there's demand for the services, or else they wouldn't be pushing for it. I feel sorry for the poor kids who live there; they're suffering under what amounts to a politically connected retirement community resolute to maintain the status quo against inevitable population growth.
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1) Yes, Nintendo releases a lot of sequals. It kinda sucks, but then again, I'm a sucker for anything concerning the adventures of a guy named Link. They do release new games, but the gamer populace EXPECTS them to dump a new slew of sequals on every console they make. Would you buy a revolution if it was never going to get a Zelda game? Remember that the killer games of the PS2 are also sequals: MGS2, GT3, GTA3, FFX, and more.
2) PC games are increasingly becoming a niche market, as each studio tries to one-up each other with snazzy graphics that pushing mainstream consumer possibilities aside. These machines typically run at MUCH higher resolutions than the average TV a console is hooked up to, which partially drives the nessecary 500 dollar graphics card.
3) Wi-Fi is becoming fairly popular. The DS features wifi connectivity; it wouldn't be surpising to hear how you can upload games to it via the revoluton. The virus problem on cell phones presents itself mainly because cell phones are designed to be on 24/7. When you cut the window down to an hour a day, population growth seriously dwindles. Wi-Fi also solves that other problem with networking: you either have to have a PC handy (see #2) or you have to have a really long ethernet cable. It solves the problem of interconnective consolehandheld games requiring a special Nintendo cable.
4) Mr. Iwata's speech on innovation in games really revolves around the DS. What he means is that there's like four genres of games: menu based RPGs, First Person Shooters, Arena Fighter games, and Street Car Racing games. Most of these are deeply entrenched genres with a huge set of staples and design assumptions. Practically every RPG has Magic Points; fighter games revolve around memorizing a set of Special Moves. These games are built with very specific assumptions about the user interface, which has been a problem since the n64, and made even more apparent with the DS.
Its not that you can't make interesting new games, its that publishers aren't interested in making new games. Nintendo trys to alleviate this by loaning the Mario characters for games like Mario Tennis, and that DDR Mario game. Practically guarenteed sales on their platform, in exchange for bringing it there. I suspect he's frustrated with companies throwing straight ports to the PSP, especially EA and their large list of sports games.
You know, I used Debian for two years. Long enough to get pretty deep into it, but not long enough to decide to become a DD. I do follow the Debian planet regularly, and I frequently observe Developers who are frustrated with users submitting bugs. Complaints include duplicate filings, useless reports, bugs filed in improper places, and bugs filed with the wrong severity. Fortunately these complaints don't regularly go out the users themselves.
Combined with your suggestion to file a bug report (often repeated by many people), you would think that there would be a Debian initiative to streamline the process, and introduce users to the steps of a bug report. There's a text based tool, but nothing capable of doing GUI based work complete with first time user guidelines. Such a tool would provide an appropriate level of support for a first contact with a DD, increase the transparancy of the sytem, and ultimately encourage new DD's to step forward.
Well, the PR crap seems to point in that direction (how can you be lost in a forest, and still know where you are or whatever), at least. The fact is, there aren't that many games out on the DS yet. Given their status as a middleware group, commercial product availablity is ultimately out of their hands. Nintendo's advertising strategy starts off at 90 days away from release, so around July we should see if my theory is true.
Or maybe its just that Onslaught levels have about four times as much geometry, so that the vechiles have a transportation speed difference. Naw...
Most of them have been canned, saying its too hard. XLink Kai laughed in the face of those who were claiming they'd have tunnelling working within a week, as it then turned into month, into months. But their own efforts were equally abandoned around new year. I don't know if they really did just give up, or if they found out that warp pipe was going to be taking over anyways. (Expect Animal Forest DS to feature warp pipe tech)
In short, not yet, and not on the visible horizon.
Think of it as a fairly cheap recruiting campaign. Maybe the bounty isn't all that great, nor the bug more than trivial, but you've likely found two or three guys who are knowledgable enough to install, run, compile, debug, fix, and submit patches for your software. Exactly the kind of employee you're looking for. And even if Novell isn't taking it like that, somebody probably should be.
Sure, there are guys who wander the wild west of California. They're called independent contractors.
It was never full of great scientific and technical articles. Seven years ago, it was full of libertarian advocacy, praising various dotcoms and anti-DIVX commentary. Basically, slashdot pionereed blogging six years before the concept had a name.
That said, I do miss the inflammitory remarks to the editor by folks like shoeboy.
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"Posting anonymously to preserve my karma."
This is already been a partial issue with them in the past. Both the n64 and cube controllers really appeared to be designed around a super mario game, to the detriment of other established genres. For example, Street Fighter games had a working setup on the SNES controller, which made the transition to the PSX and PS2 controllers straightforward compared to the n64. While the n64 remained a distant second in fighters, owners were treated with a wholly new, innovative and fun design for the genre, now known as the multiplayer powerhouse Smash Brothers.
Revolution is great, but in the land where sequals are king, the moneymen are naturally skittish. Jaded gamers should look forward to the Revolution, I think. But different doesn't mean better. Nintendo has a tough fight on its hands reguarding the PSP. If the DS is truly a third platform, then there must be a new gameboy revision coming shortly (apparently, there is). I suspect a number of people don't think of the DS as a third tier, especially with its GBA compatability. This places them in a tough spot to promote the new GBA; the media drum roll that predicates these releases would cut a detrimental swath in the PSP vs DS controversy.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I release code under the GPL because I'm greedy. Not for cash, but for more code.
You can also make a solid argument that RMS is a fascist, as head of the GNU foundation. Apparently all copyright of submitted code is to be handed over to them, and they only accept patches from those select people (basically people who've submitted some legal documents reguarding the copyright, I would assume). The Cathedral vs. The Bazaar by that other wacknut, ESR, decribes in more detail the GNU approach.
The fact is, most people out there own prebuilt computers. And as far as I know, Dell isn't making any SLI boards. Hell, you're lucky you can get a geforce 6600 from them. Since two PCIe slots cost more than one, don't expect anything from Dell.
And since none of the OEMs support it, very few game makers will bother with it. Which means those "hardcore" gamers will be paying through the nose for very little performance gains in several applications. And don't expect your open source Linux games to get a decent SLI support. Finally, what sort of hardcore gamer spends the cash on an "upgrade" that can occasionally perform worse than the setup without SLI? One with more money than sense!
Standardized testing of students originated in the states. The IQ test and the collegiate entrance exam are american creations. You can think of the states as a test market, from which the rest of the world learned the pros and cons of, and adapted them to fit better. Of course you can argue about Chinese buerocracy tests, as some have done. But I don't think those test were measured against a mean performance of other candidates.
And the best part of this mindset is that they'll think, "Tech-school / vocational studies? Sounds like he means DeVry. I think I'll pass." However wise the decision may be, they often fail to find any reasoning behind the stigma. I hope they find their job as a soldiering and IC layout expert pays well enough to carry them through outsourcing, minor global economic depression and replacement by robots.
Now there's a useful device; one you can't simulate. I bet that's awesome for developers and designers ;)
Unfortunately, there isn't more than a handful of games worth playing on Windows, either. PC gaming is on a serious decline, fueled by shitty production and a serious hardware barrier. Unreal Tournaments now run with Linux, as does Doom 3,Neverwinter Nights, and America's Army. This does a good job of fighting the Catch-22. The only serious game that's missing is Half-Life and its sequal. Open Source games are becoming more plentiful, slowly. Wesnoth is a decent turn based strategy game, and Kento Cho is doing some stellar work with OpenGL abstract shooters. And of course, there's plenty of games like solitaire,mindsweeper, and hearts, which really dominate the games most people "play" on computers. I suppose you might miss those MMORPGs, but really, what a waste of time and money.
I think a much bigger barrier to Linux popularity is the ease of piracy; so many guys in my dorms bought and built their own computer, and then just stuck a pirated version of windows 2k or XP on there. I tried to convince my brother to try a Linux partition, but he's dead set against learning anything new related to computers. He did pirated winXP as well. We hear so much about Microsoft offering large discounts to dissatisfied large clients (rumored to be 100%), that its amazing that Novell/SuSe or somebody hasn't sued for price discrimination / price dumping. Or maybe they have and I haven't read the news very carefully.
All-too-often, some blogger will post an entry regarding a very interesting and thought-provoking idea, but mostly it's a few sentences and a hyperlink.
;)
Then shall we boycott Slashdot? The last one went so well, after all
you must be too familiar with XFS and ReiserFS. Try a filesystem with full journalling, rather than just metadata logging. Ext3 is a far cry from the X "if it hurts, don't do that" FS.
Speakeasy also offers a service to help you with billing and the like; all you have to do is set yourself up, find willing cohorts and offer a deal. They credit your bill, and the legal footwork is theirs. The disadvantage is that they do take a significant cut, and you can't exactly make a profit at it.
If RH10 was simply a name change, why bother? Why throw away branding in favor of some sort of "community supported edition" which very much implies that coporate support would be waning, if existant?
I've been happier then hell with it
;-)
Well, gee. Can't come up with a better desciption than "Hey, its better than living in a lake of fire with sharp sticks shoved up ones anus.!"
The owner of gizmodo has his head up his ass, and I feel sorry for the guy who gets paid 14 thousand a year to live in NYC and write all that however many days a week he does it.
Five links deep, I found the original paper. The procedure goes as follows:
1. Scan the hard drive while running the potentially infected kernel.
2. Scan the drive while running from a write protected media running windows PE with a diff tool installed.
3. diff the two results, and the difference is what is being hid!
Pretty obvious, really. But there's a slight problem with it: you might as well do the whole spyware/ virus scan from the CD and be done with it. I mean, its pretty much just as easy to detect the malware with known signatures as it is with a diff of the file listings. I'd wager that you could accomplish the same thing they're doing with almost any linux based live cd.
Do they have faraday cages now for WiFi?
How much and in what ways can a switch improve employee productivity? The author makes a valid point that the 100k saved is minimal in transitioning the OS, but anyone seriously looking to promote Linux from within must be prepared with a host of reasons that translate into a more productive employee. Saving money on IT operations is one thing, but one can be quick to lose sight of the function of computers in the workplace-- make smarter decisions faster.
I get the suspicion that part IV will be the article that discusses this.
So what is your point exactly? That you don't want no technology, no way no how? Wimax is supposed to cover like a thousand square miles per cell or whatever its called. Or just that you want it to be asthetically pleasing? But you attempt to make a distinction between yourself and those who fight against munincipal water / electromagnetic communications.
Clearly somebody thinks there's demand for the services, or else they wouldn't be pushing for it. I feel sorry for the poor kids who live there; they're suffering under what amounts to a politically connected retirement community resolute to maintain the status quo against inevitable population growth.