Sega DreamCast is sold at a loss right now (and always has been). The market was supposed to be dominated by their higher quality games.
I'm sorry, Sega, but you didn't get anything out there that made me want a DreamCast! However, if Sega could get out that 'killer app' for DreamCast soon, they could hold the market from the PS2, at least until the X-Box comes out.
The PlayStation 2 has _no_ good games out for it (a few fighting games, but... blah), so Sony has dropped the ball on this as well.
If the strategy hadn't been "get something new out there, quickly" they would have had better success. Look at the Nintendo 64. It's a ridiculously stupid console and it uses a _cartridge_ system.
But Nintendo had Mario 64 out with their console, and it was playable and enjoyable (if a little dumb). It is my opinion that the N64 system is doing better than Sega (with games like Zelda 64, 1 & 2).
In other words, the hardware vendor needs to team up with its software vendors to get their products out when the time is good, even if that isn't ASAP.
I don't care if your gaming system will make me breakfast. It's a gaming system. Get me some goddamn games.
The problem with this is that we're still looking for signals that are FAR TOO SLOW to be useful. If there are sentient lifeforms out there traveling the universe, they _MUST_ be able to both travel _and_ communicate faster than the speed of light. This is not to say I can think of an alternative.
Too bad we don't have anything to work with in the faster-than-light-travel department. I wonder if that MIT experiment where they slowed and stopped light had any luck accelerating it...
Ok, so we might be overlooking what could be the biggest part of the deal--if TV were distributed in this format in the future, working in conjunction with DSL equipment, is it going to be more likely or less likely to be induplicable?
I want to be able to tape/record/save my shows. Does this "set-top box" lend itself to "creative design" like the Tivo did? If so...happiness!
I just read your paper, and my grade 12 professor would have murdered you for such poor work.
The lack of cohesion and support for any of your points proves it to be SOLELY random theorizing.
Some of your points may be interesting, but only when left to the reader to fill in ALL the spaces on their own. Your real point is "I don't have a point, but you can make one."
Bad, bad paper.
Now, the paper I wrote on cows being the most superior of all Earth's species, that was terrific. I even got it published!
I think you missed my point, and also turned my post into flamebait, which was not the intention.
While what he did is an accomplishment in its form, I'm pointing out that the larger, group projects are what sets the Linux and OpenSource community apart. Think of how the Linux kernel is developed.
If you took the effort on some of these smaller[1] projects, and took the group and devoted that time to making the bigger products that will finally replace M$ as the front market, well, then...M$ would be replaced by the effort.
1 - Although, upon reading some other posts (I.E. the architectural thread on the subject), the 3D engine aspect of it is great.
Usefulness deserves consideration, as well. Games are good, and the geek factor is high, but this shouldn't be the crowning achievement you'd like to say it is.
...of why? Why on earth do we want to play Quake on our PDAs?
Yes, it proves it can be done, but unless the technology is applied to real technical uses, we're just embarassing ourselves.
We need to throw ourselves at more important technical issues before wasting efforts on projects like these. If our community would focus on the larger problems instead of each individual's toys, Microsoft would be long-dead from the Linux and Open Source community having obsoleted anything it can put out far ahead of time.
...is for it to not restrict me just because I have two hands.
_Mice_ really need to be revamped. What I want from a mouse is for it to not require me to take my hands from the keyboard, and I don't mean a touchpad.
Perhaps a mouse not used by the hands would be good. What kind of alternatives can be thought up? I've read about a setup that follows eye-blinks and eye-movement, but it was used for somebody that is permanently bedridden (but they could type with it too, and wrote a book or two).
Maybe some kind of under-desk light sensor, with a knee-pad, so that you wobble your knee around to move the cursor would be usable...actually, wouldn't that be annoying?!
I don't know. I want something better than a mouse, what can you come up with?
Yes, it's odd, but this is really not that newsworthy a story.
As someone with carpal tunnel, I'd say it's great that it might someday exist in a usable form, but nobody is going to take this on.
Carpal tunnel damage occurs as the tendons scrape the walls of the carpal tunnel from repeated motion (i.e., typing). The vertical keyboard would, theoretically, have your hands resting in a way that your wrists would not need to flex, thereby avoiding the damage.
However, I'd bet that if there's _ANY_ flexing on the vertical axis, lifting your hand sideways will be _MORE_ stressful, just from the extra bit of resistance provided by gravity.
Anyway, this story is still not worthy of/. And I'm a part of the group that this would supposedly be "great news" to.
It seems to me that since everybody is crapping themselves over the idea of anti-aliased fonts, Raster just went and said "you know all that good stuff that you want? I'll give it to you (someday)."
If you look at the facts, Enlightenment, while arguable the most visually attractive (not necessarily clean and/or easy to use) of the available window managers, is huge and clunky. Optimization and efficiency is often left by the wayside in order to just put out a hack that works.
Come on, this is the Linux community! <stereotype>We're fascist when it comes to processor and memory usage! We put away all things shiny for the power our OS allows us!</stereotype>
There are other, cleaner WMs out there, and without the eye candy are by far a nicer product. Even Blackbox has its appeal (and would be my personal preference). Simplicity in design and ease of use can override the power of eye candy, in my eyes, any day.
I'm sorry, I think we were fed a bunch of buzzwords, will get to grope at vapourware for a long time, and we're expected to just smile and nod at the prospect of something new.
Oh yes, we want those things. But first make Enlightenment work like a Linux app is supposed to--cleanly, and efficiently.
(expected rating: -1, Troll)
That being said, this is absolutely not a troll. People fear the government far too much. Technically, it exists for you, or in spite of you. If you want to have the benefits of its protections, then you have to submit to the lack of freedoms in some areas.
Otherwise, you get martial law, or anarchy. Anarchy is extremely lame, because it denies every advancement we've made in 6000 years.
If you can't trust your government, overthrow it. Otherwise, be happy at the protections you get.
-k.
Salem's only chance of prosecuting this guy is that obscenity law, anyway. With the sites being parodies, they can't try using copyright laws to prosecute the kid.
In my high school, one student had a "Fan Club" site for one of the teachers, that wasn't anything like a fan club. In the end, the school pressured him to take it down, but nothing _legally_ was ever done about it.
They must be getting bored in Salem, with all those witches extinct now....
Alright, given that whatever 'humor' may have been found in the messages that either included something about a blue screen (I did it too, sorry), Bilbo of the Gatepeople being president, or some other fatal exception has been beaten into the ground, I'll try something serious.:)
Realistically, no voting system would fly that's hooked up to the Internet. I would think that it would have some kind of safe, internal storage that would be physically removed for processing.
Instead of bitching that Microsoft is going to fsck it up, let's think up the best way to do it, and in a few years, we'll know if we were right...
...that in four years, at election time, we'll all be voting for the Blue Screen of Death?
Oh, and while they're at it, why don't they make a Beowulf cluster of these.
-k.
I'm sorry that this is going to sound like a total flame, but it is.
You, my friend, are a moron.
Points of fact:
a. You're providing information about 'potentially' cracked databases, and rambling into details that you shouldn't give a shite about unless:
b. You're a disgruntled ex-employee.
My credit card # was in there (uggh, I'm _NOT_ using an online retailer who stores CC#'s ever again), so I'm slightly peeved that this could happen.
Anyway, don't make yourself look extra guilty, your moronic insights into the corporate strata simply make you a good target for law enforcement.
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Yes, exactly. Sega should have gotten more of the market by now, especially with Sony dropping the ball with production.
I personally want a system with good games. Right now, that really isn't either.
Now is Sega's chance. Otherwise, in 3 months, it's all Sony.
-k (who wonders who the hell decided my post was flamebait!).
Sega DreamCast is sold at a loss right now (and always has been). The market was supposed to be dominated by their higher quality games.
I'm sorry, Sega, but you didn't get anything out there that made me want a DreamCast! However, if Sega could get out that 'killer app' for DreamCast soon, they could hold the market from the PS2, at least until the X-Box comes out.
The PlayStation 2 has _no_ good games out for it (a few fighting games, but... blah), so Sony has dropped the ball on this as well.
If the strategy hadn't been "get something new out there, quickly" they would have had better success. Look at the Nintendo 64. It's a ridiculously stupid console and it uses a _cartridge_ system.
But Nintendo had Mario 64 out with their console, and it was playable and enjoyable (if a little dumb). It is my opinion that the N64 system is doing better than Sega (with games like Zelda 64, 1 & 2).
In other words, the hardware vendor needs to team up with its software vendors to get their products out when the time is good, even if that isn't ASAP.
I don't care if your gaming system will make me breakfast. It's a gaming system. Get me some goddamn games.
-k.
The problem with this is that we're still looking for signals that are FAR TOO SLOW to be useful. If there are sentient lifeforms out there traveling the universe, they _MUST_ be able to both travel _and_ communicate faster than the speed of light. This is not to say I can think of an alternative.
Too bad we don't have anything to work with in the faster-than-light-travel department. I wonder if that MIT experiment where they slowed and stopped light had any luck accelerating it...
-k.
Ok, so we might be overlooking what could be the biggest part of the deal--if TV were distributed in this format in the future, working in conjunction with DSL equipment, is it going to be more likely or less likely to be induplicable?
I want to be able to tape/record/save my shows. Does this "set-top box" lend itself to "creative design" like the Tivo did? If so...happiness!
-k.
They could just realize that it's a dysfunctional deity, and calling him names will just piss him off...
I just read your paper, and my grade 12 professor would have murdered you for such poor work.
The lack of cohesion and support for any of your points proves it to be SOLELY random theorizing.
Some of your points may be interesting, but only when left to the reader to fill in ALL the spaces on their own. Your real point is "I don't have a point, but you can make one."
Bad, bad paper.
Now, the paper I wrote on cows being the most superior of all Earth's species, that was terrific. I even got it published!
-k.
I think you missed my point, and also turned my post into flamebait, which was not the intention.
...M$ would be replaced by the effort.
While what he did is an accomplishment in its form, I'm pointing out that the larger, group projects are what sets the Linux and OpenSource community apart. Think of how the Linux kernel is developed.
If you took the effort on some of these smaller[1] projects, and took the group and devoted that time to making the bigger products that will finally replace M$ as the front market, well, then
1 - Although, upon reading some other posts (I.E. the architectural thread on the subject), the 3D engine aspect of it is great.
Usefulness deserves consideration, as well. Games are good, and the geek factor is high, but this shouldn't be the crowning achievement you'd like to say it is.
And next time, log in, AC.
-k.
...of why? Why on earth do we want to play Quake on our PDAs?
.02 dollars, though.
Yes, it proves it can be done, but unless the technology is applied to real technical uses, we're just embarassing ourselves.
We need to throw ourselves at more important technical issues before wasting efforts on projects like these. If our community would focus on the larger problems instead of each individual's toys, Microsoft would be long-dead from the Linux and Open Source community having obsoleted anything it can put out far ahead of time.
That's just my
-k.
...is for it to not restrict me just because I have two hands.
_Mice_ really need to be revamped. What I want from a mouse is for it to not require me to take my hands from the keyboard, and I don't mean a touchpad.
Perhaps a mouse not used by the hands would be good. What kind of alternatives can be thought up? I've read about a setup that follows eye-blinks and eye-movement, but it was used for somebody that is permanently bedridden (but they could type with it too, and wrote a book or two).
Maybe some kind of under-desk light sensor, with a knee-pad, so that you wobble your knee around to move the cursor would be usable...actually, wouldn't that be annoying?!
I don't know. I want something better than a mouse, what can you come up with?
-k.
Yes, it's odd, but this is really not that newsworthy a story.
/. And I'm a part of the group that this would supposedly be "great news" to.
As someone with carpal tunnel, I'd say it's great that it might someday exist in a usable form, but nobody is going to take this on.
Carpal tunnel damage occurs as the tendons scrape the walls of the carpal tunnel from repeated motion (i.e., typing). The vertical keyboard would, theoretically, have your hands resting in a way that your wrists would not need to flex, thereby avoiding the damage.
However, I'd bet that if there's _ANY_ flexing on the vertical axis, lifting your hand sideways will be _MORE_ stressful, just from the extra bit of resistance provided by gravity.
Anyway, this story is still not worthy of
-k.
It seems to me that since everybody is crapping themselves over the idea of anti-aliased fonts, Raster just went and said "you know all that good stuff that you want? I'll give it to you (someday)."
If you look at the facts, Enlightenment, while arguable the most visually attractive (not necessarily clean and/or easy to use) of the available window managers, is huge and clunky. Optimization and efficiency is often left by the wayside in order to just put out a hack that works.
Come on, this is the Linux community! <stereotype>We're fascist when it comes to processor and memory usage! We put away all things shiny for the power our OS allows us!</stereotype>
There are other, cleaner WMs out there, and without the eye candy are by far a nicer product. Even Blackbox has its appeal (and would be my personal preference). Simplicity in design and ease of use can override the power of eye candy, in my eyes, any day.
I'm sorry, I think we were fed a bunch of buzzwords, will get to grope at vapourware for a long time, and we're expected to just smile and nod at the prospect of something new.
Oh yes, we want those things. But first make Enlightenment work like a Linux app is supposed to--cleanly, and efficiently.
(expected rating: -1, Troll) That being said, this is absolutely not a troll. People fear the government far too much. Technically, it exists for you, or in spite of you. If you want to have the benefits of its protections, then you have to submit to the lack of freedoms in some areas. Otherwise, you get martial law, or anarchy. Anarchy is extremely lame, because it denies every advancement we've made in 6000 years. If you can't trust your government, overthrow it. Otherwise, be happy at the protections you get. -k.
Salem's only chance of prosecuting this guy is that obscenity law, anyway. With the sites being parodies, they can't try using copyright laws to prosecute the kid.
In my high school, one student had a "Fan Club" site for one of the teachers, that wasn't anything like a fan club. In the end, the school pressured him to take it down, but nothing _legally_ was ever done about it.
They must be getting bored in Salem, with all those witches extinct now....
Alright, given that whatever 'humor' may have been found in the messages that either included something about a blue screen (I did it too, sorry), Bilbo of the Gatepeople being president, or some other fatal exception has been beaten into the ground, I'll try something serious. :)
Realistically, no voting system would fly that's hooked up to the Internet. I would think that it would have some kind of safe, internal storage that would be physically removed for processing.
Instead of bitching that Microsoft is going to fsck it up, let's think up the best way to do it, and in a few years, we'll know if we were right...
-k.
...that in four years, at election time, we'll all be voting for the Blue Screen of Death? Oh, and while they're at it, why don't they make a Beowulf cluster of these. -k.
I'm sorry that this is going to sound like a total flame, but it is.
You, my friend, are a moron.
Points of fact:
a. You're providing information about 'potentially' cracked databases, and rambling into details that you shouldn't give a shite about unless:
b. You're a disgruntled ex-employee.
My credit card # was in there (uggh, I'm _NOT_ using an online retailer who stores CC#'s ever again), so I'm slightly peeved that this could happen.
Anyway, don't make yourself look extra guilty, your moronic insights into the corporate strata simply make you a good target for law enforcement.
-k.