If this were something to play NES or SNES on the GC (and not through a memory card slot!), that might be different. But the travel argument doesn't work for me, and the lack of hardware (this does look like emulation) really creates issues in my view.
If I were going to a friend's to play FFTA or Four Swords this still wouldn't work because of the lack of a link port. Plus, how would you use the e-Reader on this?
This is a VERY niche product that probably will see a few thousand sold and be a curiousity in five years' time...
Well, I have an opinion contrary to all of the items you list, but the Win 98 one is the most important (I run a help desk, so this one is big for me): MS drops support, other than web-based, for Win 98 in mid-January. Why should Apple even bother to support it for three months? I understand that you heavily use the machine, but you can't ignore the fact that 98 is over five years old.
I have an iBook and a Dell Dimension at work. I use the Dimension 3-4 times a week (for Visio, Project or CC-MIS (a piece of proprietary software our ACD uses)), usually through Remote Desktop on my iBook.
My staff and most of my co-workers use Dells. I'm the only one who consistently uses the Mac in a mostly-Wintel office, and I've been doing so since October 2001.
I've had absolutely no problems coexisting with those Wintel machines. I would be even happier if Nortel came out with a CC-MIS for OS X or Java and if OmniGroup could get OmniGraffle to handle all Visio files. Then I would just need to worry about Project...
Having to burn a CD to listen to a downloaded, digital music file on your Windows computer is inconvienient and most certainly is Apple's fault.
Hmmm...It's Apple's fault for making a product available for the users of their OS and application? It's Apple's fault for not making it immediately available to a competitor's OS?
You sound like you need a good ride on the clue train, my boy. You might have had a point if you had stuck with the non-Apple player point, but you completely lost it when you are blaming Apple for making these things available to their customers first.
Possibly the same as iTunes. The iTunes songs sound like crap when you burn to CD and then re-encode as mp3 or AAC, etc...which is supposed to be part of the DRM package Apple sold to the RIAA (though it may just be a side-effect they decided to hype).
I think you're right - I've heard nothing about the full cartridge being ported, only Four Swords. The GC version is designed to have four players playing with four GBAs connected to the GC. The party is seen on the TV screen, but if you wander off from the rest of the party, you're on the GBA.
That's not a bad idea for the GC/GBA connectivity, IMHO.
I was going to moderate this discussion, but you made me reply (thankfully I haven't wasted any points).
You really should think about what you're saying before you write. Think about these points:
1) The G5 is the first 64-bit consumer desktop. It isn't a workstation. People don't go out and buy workstations for typical home use. Hell, the Sun boxes I see at work aren't used as surfing/word processing/e-mail machines - the other computer(s) on the desktop are.
2)The iPod is the only strong mp3 player on the market - that's why the thing is the top selling player and has been for some time. It is a compelling, well-designed, small form factor nicely portable product. Mine goes everywhere - mowing the lawn, walking the dog, in the car, at work. The only thing that comes close are the Archos players - and they're big and heavy compared to the iPod.
3) Why are you whining about a Umax scanner? Apple was seeding OS X to developers five years ago. I even got to play with a developer's version four years ago. Add to that that the Public Beta is three years old and 10.0 is 2.5 years old and I'm going to tell you that you should be fighting with Umax, not Apple. Umax wants you to buy a new scanner and they're claiming it's a conflict with the os.
Wake up, man. Apple isn't perfect, but please try to use solid points instead of ones people like me will shoot holes in. And learn to write properly..."your" going to embarass yourself eventually (your boss? maybe his or her boss?) if you keep writing like that...
Really? Every geek, you say? Having a beagle and three cats, I wouldn't want any heaters on the floor in my house. That doubles once my wife and I start having kids.
It's bullshit. It's typical Libertarian, head-up-his-ass bullshit. His argument is that we pay nothing for e-mail, thus should be fine with spam as "advertising." Don't rely on the government to stop spam, he says. "What are you doing to stop spam personally?" he asks. What bullshit.
Personally, I report every piece I get through spamcop.net - it's gone down in volume, but I still get more than the average bear. I also have my e-mail address obscured in various ways on my website, so it's not that, either.
Now, I know I pay for my e-mail. Any one with common sense knows it. Where is my ISP getting the money to run those servers and hire the support and admins for them? I pay for it at work because I know pay raises this year are lower, or even non-existant, because we need to keep the infrastructure up and running.
So, because of this fellow's delusional state, he is basically proving the case that we pay twice: once through our ISP bills, and numerous times through having to deal with spam.
If spam was something coming from the ISP and other providers we may deal with, and our bills came down accordingly, I could see his argument. But this is such a misguided, uninformed attempt to handle spam that I'm surprised it made it to the front of/.
Spammers are abusing. Spam is not legit advertising - that revenue (the vast majority of it, at least) is not making my access to the Internet free the way network television or broadcast radio is free. If the author of this article would like to come down from the mountains and live in the real world for a while, then he might get a clue. If not, please keep this waste of skin off/.
An oil heater? Last time I saw an oil heater was...well... I must have been in middle school and still in the Boy Scouts.
You're making some pretty broad and grandiose assumptions about these things, son. Perhaps you should step back and survey the situation before you make statements like this.
A fireplace? Now, not to egg you on, but how many homes across the US, much less the world, have fireplaces any longer (I suspect that the US is much lower than the world)? The block my house is on an exception for my neighborhood (mostly brick bungalows from 1950 or so), and many modern homes are not including fireplaces. Also try to realize that apartments and condos tend not to have them, either.
So, realistically, you're automatically claiming that those without fireplaces are going to lose out when it comes to survival of the fittest. Being a little elitist, aren't you?
I was hoping the Xbox would fall to $150 or so before the 10/8 start of KB Toys' 30%-off-everything sale. One of my employees is taking the morning off to go and buy a GameCube on 10/8 (a GC for $66+tax? What's not to love?). So, damn it, why can't M$ give me a break?!?
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It's not really a troll...he's using sarcasm to make a strong point. Be imaginative...
If I were going to a friend's to play FFTA or Four Swords this still wouldn't work because of the lack of a link port. Plus, how would you use the e-Reader on this?
This is a VERY niche product that probably will see a few thousand sold and be a curiousity in five years' time...
Well, I have an opinion contrary to all of the items you list, but the Win 98 one is the most important (I run a help desk, so this one is big for me): MS drops support, other than web-based, for Win 98 in mid-January. Why should Apple even bother to support it for three months? I understand that you heavily use the machine, but you can't ignore the fact that 98 is over five years old.
My staff and most of my co-workers use Dells. I'm the only one who consistently uses the Mac in a mostly-Wintel office, and I've been doing so since October 2001.
I've had absolutely no problems coexisting with those Wintel machines. I would be even happier if Nortel came out with a CC-MIS for OS X or Java and if OmniGroup could get OmniGraffle to handle all Visio files. Then I would just need to worry about Project...
But if Groo were caught alone in the dark in or around the Great Underground Empire, the grue might eat him...
Do the Open Source thing and volunteer to write iTunes for Linux? You could use WINE, I suppose...or MOL if it's a Mac running Linux...
Hmmm...It's Apple's fault for making a product available for the users of their OS and application? It's Apple's fault for not making it immediately available to a competitor's OS?
You sound like you need a good ride on the clue train, my boy. You might have had a point if you had stuck with the non-Apple player point, but you completely lost it when you are blaming Apple for making these things available to their customers first.
Possibly the same as iTunes. The iTunes songs sound like crap when you burn to CD and then re-encode as mp3 or AAC, etc...which is supposed to be part of the DRM package Apple sold to the RIAA (though it may just be a side-effect they decided to hype).
Can't you share the login?
or
Can't you have a calendar you add to, she subscribes to and then she publishes those calendars on one web page?
That's not a bad idea for the GC/GBA connectivity, IMHO.
Need I go on? I could...
As was the recent Rebel Strike pre-order disc, so hopefully that means good things for those of us who aren't buying a second GameCube. :)
You really should think about what you're saying before you write. Think about these points:
1) The G5 is the first 64-bit consumer desktop. It isn't a workstation. People don't go out and buy workstations for typical home use. Hell, the Sun boxes I see at work aren't used as surfing/word processing/e-mail machines - the other computer(s) on the desktop are.
2)The iPod is the only strong mp3 player on the market - that's why the thing is the top selling player and has been for some time. It is a compelling, well-designed, small form factor nicely portable product. Mine goes everywhere - mowing the lawn, walking the dog, in the car, at work. The only thing that comes close are the Archos players - and they're big and heavy compared to the iPod.
3) Why are you whining about a Umax scanner? Apple was seeding OS X to developers five years ago. I even got to play with a developer's version four years ago. Add to that that the Public Beta is three years old and 10.0 is 2.5 years old and I'm going to tell you that you should be fighting with Umax, not Apple. Umax wants you to buy a new scanner and they're claiming it's a conflict with the os.
Wake up, man. Apple isn't perfect, but please try to use solid points instead of ones people like me will shoot holes in. And learn to write properly..."your" going to embarass yourself eventually (your boss? maybe his or her boss?) if you keep writing like that...
Son.
Personally, I report every piece I get through spamcop.net - it's gone down in volume, but I still get more than the average bear. I also have my e-mail address obscured in various ways on my website, so it's not that, either.
Now, I know I pay for my e-mail. Any one with common sense knows it. Where is my ISP getting the money to run those servers and hire the support and admins for them? I pay for it at work because I know pay raises this year are lower, or even non-existant, because we need to keep the infrastructure up and running.
So, because of this fellow's delusional state, he is basically proving the case that we pay twice: once through our ISP bills, and numerous times through having to deal with spam.
If spam was something coming from the ISP and other providers we may deal with, and our bills came down accordingly, I could see his argument. But this is such a misguided, uninformed attempt to handle spam that I'm surprised it made it to the front of /.
Spammers are abusing. Spam is not legit advertising - that revenue (the vast majority of it, at least) is not making my access to the Internet free the way network television or broadcast radio is free. If the author of this article would like to come down from the mountains and live in the real world for a while, then he might get a clue. If not, please keep this waste of skin off /.
You're making some pretty broad and grandiose assumptions about these things, son. Perhaps you should step back and survey the situation before you make statements like this.
So, realistically, you're automatically claiming that those without fireplaces are going to lose out when it comes to survival of the fittest. Being a little elitist, aren't you?
And 16 is just the time to teach him that spelling counts, IMHO.
No problem. It was the result of a class action lawsuit (the legal notice, with details of the settlement - the sale I mentioned - is here).
Bastards.
Go link up with that port and knock yourself out.
I can't find anything on this console except for the foggy details we see here. Anyone?
My suggestion is that people actually go to the feedback link and tell Apple what they would like...
Get over here!
(For those who don't know...or love it: It's Scorpion from Mortal Kombat...)
Hopefully we get to hear what the answer is. :)