The Dreamcast has, unfourtunatley, been doomed from the get go.
Sega's churned out a whole bunch of great games for the system. However, with thier previous few attempts (Sega CD, 32x, Saturn), they've quite thoroughly botched things up. As a result, they've got a negative vibe going for them. Many will avoid the Dreamcast because of previous bad Sega experiences.
Also, the PS2 will play your old PSX games, but makes them look nicer. Always a plus.
The CNN article is a bit off. According to NPR news, the 'organic material' mentioned was supposed to be carbon and water. The concept was that a large asteroid collision several billions of years ago vaporized all the water and ignited most of the carbon in the newborn Earth, and these materials were gradually restocked over time by small carbon based asteroids which contained water, such as the one mentioned. There is no mention of bacteria or any of that rot, but carbon and water are still a key part of the 'building blocks of life'.
It was just on this morning, so the audio stream won't pop up for another few days, but you can check Th e Morning Edition site in a day or two to listen to the story.
Just about every musician I've ever played with hasn't been concerned so much with how much money they have as with the act of playing music. The whole point of playing music is to create something for others to hear, something which file swapping services like Napster accomplish very well. The only ones who care about the money they're losing are the record labels.
Maybe it's just me, but I never really saw the excitement factor in the release of a new OS. Most of the software out will work with what you currently have, and as the article says, it takes some time for all the new features of an OS to actually be utilized. I had always thought it was better to wait a bit to purchase a new OS, rather than being one of the uberfans lined up outside some computer store to grab the latest whatever off the shelves on the first day.
Then again, that could be because I'm too poor to buy shiny new software, or even lunch.
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Sega's churned out a whole bunch of great games for the system. However, with thier previous few attempts (Sega CD, 32x, Saturn), they've quite thoroughly botched things up. As a result, they've got a negative vibe going for them. Many will avoid the Dreamcast because of previous bad Sega experiences.
Also, the PS2 will play your old PSX games, but makes them look nicer. Always a plus.
So, in six months, will we be hearing about how the latest 3D card will greatly improve the performance of those low end 1.1gHz machines?
It was just on this morning, so the audio stream won't pop up for another few days, but you can check Th e Morning Edition site in a day or two to listen to the story.
A process by which any two objects are struck together and cause a spark, especially flint.
Then again, that could be because I'm too poor to buy shiny new software, or even lunch.
They're obviously still working out the bugs in the Cool Ranch flavoring.