Actually from what I heard the GC had better graphics performance than the PS2. I could be wrong but the GC, PS2, and the Dreamcast all look close to me in graphics performance. I think that the GC suffered more from that fact that the N64 ended up loosing to the PS1 then anything having to do with performance. That and the infatuation with "adult" content games. When you think of Games for the PS2 people in the US tend to think of things like GTA. When people think of Games for the GC people think of Mario.
Where the Wii stepped up was offering true innovation with a new controller. Graphics are nice but we are really at the point of diminishing returns. The game play on the PS3 isn't four times better than on the PS2. The added graphics just don't add that much value for the player. The Wii is more than twice the fun than the GC because the controller does add that much to the game play.
Considering that the only Nobel prize in medicine that was awarded in the field of psychology was for the frontal lobotomy... I don't think that Scientologists are right but the science of psychology has a very shoddy past. It is an easy target. I don't think they are like Nazi's since they actually where trying the help people but if you look at history of mental institutions, and some of the the treatments from the past 100 years it makes an easy mark. Simple truth is that Psychology in the early to mid 20th century was about as advanced as surgery in the early to mid 19th century.
Gee people are dieing from lack of food, medical care, shelter, and clean water. I am glad that this "ethical" dilemma if now over. I am all for AMD/ATI open sourcing their drivers. If they do and they are stable I will even replace my Nvidia board with and ATI card. I need to one soon so I can run FSX. Yes I boot Windows and Linux on my PC. Ethical? Good freaking grief.
Plastics tend can be very inert. As to getting rid of it. Well like most stuff that gets put into your blood I would guess that you will excrete it in your urine. I am sure that they have figured that all out.
A great reply from someone that sees only what they want to. I never said that there wouldn't be any improvements if the driver was open sourced. I even pointed out that I would expect security fixes. Is a more secure driver a bad thing? Not at all. So yes I do doubt that you would see any improvement is speed with a FOSS driver. Not impossible but highly unlikely. I would expect to see security improvements. The reasons are simple. Speed sells graphics cards. So the companies that make them have spent a lot of time, money, and talent to make them fast. Security doesn't sell graphics cards, so a lot less time, money, and talent has been spent on security. There are probably a lot more gains in security than performance.
I never said that it didn't matter. I said that I wouldn't expect it to preform any better. I could be more secure and may even be more feature rich but I doubt that it would be any faster.
I am not a FOSS purist so the firmware blob of frankly even Nvidia's closed drivers bother me all that much. I do agree about the firmware blob not being a huge issue. But how I got flamed for saying it by the FOSS or die faithful. I hope that ATI does open up it's drivers or at the very least makes them work as well as the drivers from Nvidia. My next box may be an Intel system if there GPU will run FSX and is open sourced. If not I hope that ATI steps up. I will take what good support for Linux I can get and keep encouraging better support.
He is a CEO he gets the big bucks so mistakes are not tolerated. Besides he made more than one mistake. 1. To suggest slanting reviews to favor advertisers. 2. Not listening to his editors when they said that was a mistake. 3. To not back down when an editor said he was going to resign if the policy was not changed. 4. Not seeing the backlash if the reason for the editor resigning was made public. 5. Not understanding about this thing called the Internet and blogs. If he had then he would know that it would be made public. 6. Not finding a way to cover it all up and make nice with the editor.
Well Microsoft is doing well with the 360 and frankly it seems like a good gaming system. I just got my Wii and I so far find the games very good. The gaming market seems to be split into two camps. Those that want super graphics and complex games. Everybody else.
The 360 is doing well with the first group and the Wii is selling to everybody. Sony right now is only beating Microsoft in Japan. Part of that simply the Japanese taste in games is different from the US and a lot of Japanese game publishers have not developed for the 360. A bigger part is that you would have a very hard time getting a Japanese gamer to buy a US game machine. The big question is will the Japanese publishers try and fit their games onto the Wii, keep supporting the PS3, or start developing for the 360? Of course I keep wondering if Nintedo will have an HD Super Wii ready in a about two years. They have found with the DS light, and GBA SP is that people will buy a new and improved system if it plays the old games. A new Wii with a better graphics card, HD support, and maybe a hard drive could be a big seller in two years. Heck they might even put in an HD-DVD/Blueray drive.
Wine doesn't run every Windows program. If it was installed it would have to be supported and that would be a nightmare and cost a big pile of money. If Wine was perfect you bet your bottom dollar that it would in installed by default. Sorry but this is nothing but a good business decision based on support costs and customer headaches and nothing more.
I don't see the problem. If you don't like it don't buy it. I don't like the cost of the PS3 so I am not going to buy it. I don't like the price of Vista and I am not going to buy that. Nintendo has always made a profit on consoles. I don't expect any company to do anything nice for me that doesn't make the a profit. The goal of every company is to make as much money as they can while obeying the laws. How "nice" they are is totally dependent on how nice the customer makes them be.
Last time I checked they included a firmware blob. It isn't just the cost of the hardware it is the waste. I hate to think of all the old but perfectly fine PCs being dumped.
I wonder if some kind of servo motor driving in independent exhaust and intake cams would would. You could control the timing and over lap that way. Still it just seems like some kind of super VVT and EGR.
VAX's where pretty good at FFT back then plus they had high available clustering and a very secure OS called VMS. They tended to have uptimes measured in years.
Except I have a lovely Gigabyte Nvidia motherboard with an AMD 4200 X2 that does everything I need it to do. A lot of people have better things to spend their money on than a new CPU and Motherboard. Now if I was building a new system I might be tempted but X2s are so cheap now and still bloody fast enough. Yes Intel has some good stuff out but I have to mention that they didn't disclose all the specs of their GPUs and have not OSS their wifi drivers. They still have blobs. I don't have a lot of problems with that since I am not a FOSS purist but Intel isn't as FOSS pure as many believe.
"I'm sure that they could even get a performance boost if they let millions of hackers with tons of free time optimize things for them." I am not. 1. Millions of hackers? There isn't a single FOSS project that millions of hackers have contributed too. 2. There are very few people with the experience to write a good much less great 3d driver. 3. Even with the specs I am guessing that the majority of contributions will be security or code clean up and not performance optimizations.
Well sort of. Intel didn't release all the specs of the chip because of DRM restrictions. They work well enough but Intel didn't provide full documentation.
"Since Nvidia has better open source drivers their card becomes more compelling." Before the RMS/GPL police show up Nvidia has better Linux drivers for their cards. Nvidia doesn't have any open source drivers. I understood what you meant and I to buy Nvidia boards because they have better Linux support.
Only problem is that I have never seen an Intel video board. They all seem to be integrated on the motherboard. So if you have an AMD system you are stuck.
I am and it really doesn't bother me. I actually find thinks like Nazis and KKK more disturbing. For some reason I get more upset with the persecution of other than silly protests against my own church. You asked so I will tell you.
The third party developers got caught with their pants down. I am afraid that most of them thought that after Sony's two runaway smashes the PSONE and PS/2 that they could do no wrong. That and they knew that Microsoft would keep trowing money at the XBox until the cows come home so the 360 was a good bet. Also truth be told the 360 is actually a pretty nice system and has great development tools. Nintendo didn't look like a good place to put your development dollars. I am sure that a lot of third party developers are rushing to produce games for the Wii now.
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Actually from what I heard the GC had better graphics performance than the PS2. I could be wrong but the GC, PS2, and the Dreamcast all look close to me in graphics performance.
I think that the GC suffered more from that fact that the N64 ended up loosing to the PS1 then anything having to do with performance. That and the infatuation with "adult" content games. When you think of Games for the PS2 people in the US tend to think of things like GTA. When people think of Games for the GC people think of Mario.
Where the Wii stepped up was offering true innovation with a new controller. Graphics are nice but we are really at the point of diminishing returns. The game play on the PS3 isn't four times better than on the PS2. The added graphics just don't add that much value for the player. The Wii is more than twice the fun than the GC because the controller does add that much to the game play.
Considering that the only Nobel prize in medicine that was awarded in the field of psychology was for the frontal lobotomy...
I don't think that Scientologists are right but the science of psychology has a very shoddy past. It is an easy target. I don't think they are like Nazi's since they actually where trying the help people but if you look at history of mental institutions, and some of the the treatments from the past 100 years it makes an easy mark.
Simple truth is that Psychology in the early to mid 20th century was about as advanced as surgery in the early to mid 19th century.
Gee people are dieing from lack of food, medical care, shelter, and clean water. I am glad that this "ethical" dilemma if now over.
I am all for AMD/ATI open sourcing their drivers. If they do and they are stable I will even replace my Nvidia board with and ATI card. I need to one soon so I can run FSX. Yes I boot Windows and Linux on my PC.
Ethical?
Good freaking grief.
Plastics tend can be very inert. As to getting rid of it. Well like most stuff that gets put into your blood I would guess that you will excrete it in your urine. I am sure that they have figured that all out.
A great reply from someone that sees only what they want to.
I never said that there wouldn't be any improvements if the driver was open sourced. I even pointed out that I would expect security fixes. Is a more secure driver a bad thing? Not at all.
So yes I do doubt that you would see any improvement is speed with a FOSS driver. Not impossible but highly unlikely. I would expect to see security improvements.
The reasons are simple.
Speed sells graphics cards. So the companies that make them have spent a lot of time, money, and talent to make them fast.
Security doesn't sell graphics cards, so a lot less time, money, and talent has been spent on security.
There are probably a lot more gains in security than performance.
I never said that it didn't matter. I said that I wouldn't expect it to preform any better. I could be more secure and may even be more feature rich but I doubt that it would be any faster.
I am not a FOSS purist so the firmware blob of frankly even Nvidia's closed drivers bother me all that much. I do agree about the firmware blob not being a huge issue. But how I got flamed for saying it by the FOSS or die faithful. I hope that ATI does open up it's drivers or at the very least makes them work as well as the drivers from Nvidia. My next box may be an Intel system if there GPU will run FSX and is open sourced. If not I hope that ATI steps up.
I will take what good support for Linux I can get and keep encouraging better support.
He is a CEO he gets the big bucks so mistakes are not tolerated.
Besides he made more than one mistake.
1. To suggest slanting reviews to favor advertisers.
2. Not listening to his editors when they said that was a mistake.
3. To not back down when an editor said he was going to resign if the policy was not changed.
4. Not seeing the backlash if the reason for the editor resigning was made public.
5. Not understanding about this thing called the Internet and blogs. If he had then he would know that it would be made public.
6. Not finding a way to cover it all up and make nice with the editor.
Well Microsoft is doing well with the 360 and frankly it seems like a good gaming system. I just got my Wii and I so far find the games very good. The gaming market seems to be split into two camps.
Those that want super graphics and complex games.
Everybody else.
The 360 is doing well with the first group and the Wii is selling to everybody.
Sony right now is only beating Microsoft in Japan. Part of that simply the Japanese taste in games is different from the US and a lot of Japanese game publishers have not developed for the 360. A bigger part is that you would have a very hard time getting a Japanese gamer to buy a US game machine. The big question is will the Japanese publishers try and fit their games onto the Wii, keep supporting the PS3, or start developing for the 360? Of course I keep wondering if Nintedo will have an HD Super Wii ready in a about two years. They have found with the DS light, and GBA SP is that people will buy a new and improved system if it plays the old games. A new Wii with a better graphics card, HD support, and maybe a hard drive could be a big seller in two years. Heck they might even put in an HD-DVD/Blueray drive.
Wine doesn't run every Windows program. If it was installed it would have to be supported and that would be a nightmare and cost a big pile of money.
If Wine was perfect you bet your bottom dollar that it would in installed by default.
Sorry but this is nothing but a good business decision based on support costs and customer headaches and nothing more.
I don't see the problem. If you don't like it don't buy it. I don't like the cost of the PS3 so I am not going to buy it. I don't like the price of Vista and I am not going to buy that.
Nintendo has always made a profit on consoles. I don't expect any company to do anything nice for me that doesn't make the a profit. The goal of every company is to make as much money as they can while obeying the laws. How "nice" they are is totally dependent on how nice the customer makes them be.
Last time I checked they included a firmware blob. It isn't just the cost of the hardware it is the waste. I hate to think of all the old but perfectly fine PCs being dumped.
I wonder if some kind of servo motor driving in independent exhaust and intake cams would would. You could control the timing and over lap that way. Still it just seems like some kind of super VVT and EGR.
None. Why would GM or Ford kill anything that would give them an advantage over Honda or Toyota?
Your Tinfoil hat is on too tight again.
VAX's where pretty good at FFT back then plus they had high available clustering and a very secure OS called VMS. They tended to have uptimes measured in years.
Except I have a lovely Gigabyte Nvidia motherboard with an AMD 4200 X2 that does everything I need it to do.
A lot of people have better things to spend their money on than a new CPU and Motherboard. Now if I was building a new system I might be tempted but X2s are so cheap now and still bloody fast enough.
Yes Intel has some good stuff out but I have to mention that they didn't disclose all the specs of their GPUs and have not OSS their wifi drivers. They still have blobs. I don't have a lot of problems with that since I am not a FOSS purist but Intel isn't as FOSS pure as many believe.
"I'm sure that they could even get a performance boost if they let millions of hackers with tons of free time optimize things for them."
I am not.
1. Millions of hackers? There isn't a single FOSS project that millions of hackers have contributed too.
2. There are very few people with the experience to write a good much less great 3d driver.
3. Even with the specs I am guessing that the majority of contributions will be security or code clean up and not performance optimizations.
Well sort of. Intel didn't release all the specs of the chip because of DRM restrictions. They work well enough but Intel didn't provide full documentation.
"Since Nvidia has better open source drivers their card becomes more compelling."
Before the RMS/GPL police show up Nvidia has better Linux drivers for their cards. Nvidia doesn't have any open source drivers.
I understood what you meant and I to buy Nvidia boards because they have better Linux support.
Only problem is that I have never seen an Intel video board. They all seem to be integrated on the motherboard. So if you have an AMD system you are stuck.
I like the term pre consensual sex.
Or if we are lucky maybe some new innovative games from some smaller studios.
I am and it really doesn't bother me. I actually find thinks like Nazis and KKK more disturbing. For some reason I get more upset with the persecution of other than silly protests against my own church. You asked so I will tell you.
I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what happened. Where you.
My praise for the scientologists was much like my praise for Hitlers public speaking. Both good tactics for what is in my opion a not so good purpose.
It is also called giving the Devil his due.
The third party developers got caught with their pants down. I am afraid that most of them thought that after Sony's two runaway smashes the PSONE and PS/2 that they could do no wrong. That and they knew that Microsoft would keep trowing money at the XBox until the cows come home so the 360 was a good bet. Also truth be told the 360 is actually a pretty nice system and has great development tools. Nintendo didn't look like a good place to put your development dollars. I am sure that a lot of third party developers are rushing to produce games for the Wii now.