The Saturn is not the machine for you if you like RPGs (unless you can read Japanese).
The Saturn has the best selection of:
1)2D fighting games
2)racing (okay, not really, but it has Daytona)
3)Puzzle games
4)Shooters
Also, the only home conversion of the great Dungeons & Dragons arcade games made by Capcom is only available on Saturn. Of course, you could just download the ROMs and play in on CPSMAME in English, with 4 player support, and no load time, but what fun would that be ?
Yes, I'm a crazy Saturn owner...the car and the console!
Face it, Apple threw away their UI guidelines when they went to OS X. The asinine placement of the "close" and "resize" widgets next to each other, the confusing brushed metal interface (which window is focused? I can't tell!), the clunky open/save dialogs.
These are reasons why I still use Mac OS 9 most of the time. OS X is a big step up in technology, but a big step backwards in UI.
Huh? Baldur's Gate was a smash hit in the U.S., as was its sequel. The "boredom" complaint is highly subjective too -- I still consider Fallout 1 and 2 to be among the best games of all time.
Baldur's Gate a "smash hit"? Not really, even in the PC game market, which is about 1/10th the size of the console market. There are few if any of these "US RPG" style games in the console market (and no, the Playstation 2 Gauntlet-clone they call Baldur's Gate doesn't count).
Point-and-click adventures (which you call puzzle adventures) were never particularly popular ANYWHERE. They may have been a big fish in a very small pond (early 90's PC market)...but let's not forget, the height of their development coincides with the early days of CD-ROM technology. Their relatively static style of gameplay made it easy to slap together some grainy videos on a CD-ROM and call it a "game." Myst sold more copies on the "wow, look at those graphics" factor than the nature of the puzzles.
Love them or hate them, you have to admit that point-and-click adventures are more like interactive fiction and less like a game, which might help to explain their lack of popularity in the US and Japan.
All right then, what stops a company from using that publically funded IP in a closed-source project, and then sells that solution to the government, thus causing taxpayers to pay for that 'publically funded IP' twice?
Stuff built from scratch on government coin should be completely public domain. But when government programmers need open source to start with, they can't use the GPL, because code from the GPL cannot be released without violating the license. It's not as "free" as some would say.
If someone uses government code to build a business and sell software, more power to 'em! This is even better than the "Free Money from the Government" that gives you a high voice and a suit covered in question marks.
It's not the government's role to fight commercial interests (although the GPL was created specifically for that purpose). If a company develops software based on BSD code is worth paying for, and the government buys it, what's the problem? They have obviously contributed something that's made it more valuable than the previous unmodified code, or nobody would pay for it.
The GPL license COULD potential open a business up for a lawsuit, and anyone who reads Slashdot knows that GPL-lovers are very quick to cry for censure of any company suspected of violating the license.
The safest, and most appropriate license for government-funded and government-created software is the BSD license.
For a FPS, or open-ended RPG, or puzzle-adventure to gain popularity over in Japan would truly be as revolutionary as the U.S. market buying millions of copies of Ico.
The Japanese don't like open-ended RPGs or puzzle-adventures?
If you mean, the Japanese don't like the Dungeons-and-Dragons style PC RPGs (a la Baldur's Gate), you're right, because they are BORING. They are a fringe genre in the US as well.
And what type of puzzle adventures do the Japanese dislike? Super Mario Sunshine? Zelda? Seriously, you're fulla cack.
It's truly a shame that no one bothers to read past the first 20 posts, and that no one reads at -1. The few that do get to see gems like this. I salute you, sir.
Is it true that when you plug in a USB 1.1 device to a USB 2.0 bus, the whole bus drops to USB 1.1 speeds?
And is it possible that the USB 2.0 "Full speed," while not as fast as USB 2.0 "High speed," will not sabotage the bus in that way?
In other words, could I plug in a slower USB 2.0 "full speed" printer into my bus with a hard drive and DVD-R running at USB 2.0 "high speed" and not expect the whole bus to drop down to patheticly inadequate speeds?
I prefer the term "fucknuckle" to refer to those impotent, knuckle-dragging proto-CPU designers at Motorola.
A 2Ghz, DDR-compatible CPU appeared on one of their roadmaps about a week ago. Since it just appeared, that means it will be at least 2 years. 2005 for 2 Ghz! If Apple is still using Motorola CPUs by then, I'll personally drive up to Cupertino and put the last piles of earth on top of their grave.
He's made a career out of repackaging things that you can buy online elsewhere, and marking them up 100% and more. The Mactable fiasco is hardly unique.
While this might be legally okay, it's certainly a scam.
To top it off, the person who runs Macwhispers is completely morally bankrupt, and is most likely fabricating the entire story.
I'd like to see some real competition for high performance CPUs as much as the next guy, but let's not lose our heads to con artists like this guy...we will know for sure in about 2 weeks;)
Anandtech makes no mention of how many frames per second that the iPod scores in Quake III. They are running the risk of alienating their core audience!
I wanna lock Betty Crocker in the kitchen And knock her upper during supper Clutter up her butter gutter Hostess Ding Dong wrapped an eggroll around my wong While Dolly Madison proceded to ping my pong Your Milky Way is M'n'M in your britches And I'll tell you Baby Ruth it looks mighty delicious Keep blowing my gum, cuz here I come I'm gonna get you all sticky with my Bubble Yum
Knick knack paddywhack and give your dog a bone, baby
I was givin' some head to some french bread It was a four course orgy on the spread of my bed French kissin' french fries in my Fruit of the Looms I get deeper penetration with a fork and a spoon
I got yogurt meat loaf smeared all over my ass I stick my weiner in two buns and and then give it the gas Sour cream from my spleen into Levi jeans Gonna bust the seams with my refried beans
Ronald McDonald just loves to be fondled With Big Mac he'll fuck it like a Chicken McNugget Colonel Sanders wants to goose Granny's loose caboose He's gonna give her a boost with that Kentucky fried juice Sooper doop poop scoop, loop de loop, chicken coop Shoot some hoop, top sirloin from the groin Topped with dick cheese, sneeze, wheeze, From the skeez disease, wooi!
Take a dump, baby, squirt some gravy Pour some sugar on me, honey, make it brown & runny Give a little Flavor Flav, back from the grave Gonna burn some toast, pump some humpin' rump roast
Knick knack paddywhack, jump in the sack, in fact Jerk the smack and crack Jack from the back Bananarama or ramabanana Fuckin' Barry Manilow on the Copa Cabana
Squeeze me macaroni, slop your face with my bologna
You gotta syphon the spinach, you gotta cream the corn Sperm scrambles the eggs and a meal is born Cookin' like a beginner, but I'm goin' up in her I had Fritos for lunch I'm havin' bush for dinner Chef Boyardee and the Three Muskateers Shove Charleston Chews in their rears like queers "Holy moly, guacamole!" said my Chips Ahoy I'm gonna pinch a ravioli on the Pillsbury dough boy
Knick knack paddywhack and give your dog a boner, baby
We came to pottie...we came to pottie down your throat
I mean, he wasn't flying around in his personal broomcopter that folds into a suit jacket. When I burgle your rich yuppie house, I don't call it time traveling! Although maybe that would work as a legimitate defense in court...is anyone here a physics attorney?
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM (Microsoft)."
Businesses, especially big businesses, are extremely conservative by nature. They are generally unwilling to take risks that could lead to serious problems (how many banks are still running FORTRAN software on IBM mainframes?)
Inertia is Microsoft's greatest friend, especially if the economy remains weak. They are well-trusted name in the corporate world, and IT people know that MS is a safe bet, whether it works or not...
I think this chip is actually aimed at the embedded market, to compete with some of the newer MIPS-based CPUs. At any rate, if it's just appearing on a road map, it won't be in ANY machines for at least 2 years, and God help Apple if they are still using G4s by that time.
Slashdot Mirror
The Saturn is not the machine for you if you like RPGs (unless you can read Japanese).
The Saturn has the best selection of:
1)2D fighting games
2)racing (okay, not really, but it has Daytona)
3)Puzzle games
4)Shooters
Also, the only home conversion of the great Dungeons & Dragons arcade games made by Capcom is only available on Saturn. Of course, you could just download the ROMs and play in on CPSMAME in English, with 4 player support, and no load time, but what fun would that be ?
Yes, I'm a crazy Saturn owner...the car and the console!
You can get tittles on Mac OS X? Someone please post a link!
Mod me down in a hurry, the suspense is killing me!
Why is safari brushed metal then?
Face it, Apple threw away their UI guidelines when they went to OS X. The asinine placement of the "close" and "resize" widgets next to each other, the confusing brushed metal interface (which window is focused? I can't tell!), the clunky open/save dialogs.
These are reasons why I still use Mac OS 9 most of the time. OS X is a big step up in technology, but a big step backwards in UI.
True! That's why I prefer Bolivian Marching Powder!
Huh? Baldur's Gate was a smash hit in the U.S., as was its sequel. The "boredom" complaint is highly subjective too -- I still consider Fallout 1 and 2 to be among the best games of all time.
Baldur's Gate a "smash hit"? Not really, even in the PC game market, which is about 1/10th the size of the console market. There are few if any of these "US RPG" style games in the console market (and no, the Playstation 2 Gauntlet-clone they call Baldur's Gate doesn't count).
Point-and-click adventures (which you call puzzle adventures) were never particularly popular ANYWHERE. They may have been a big fish in a very small pond (early 90's PC market)...but let's not forget, the height of their development coincides with the early days of CD-ROM technology. Their relatively static style of gameplay made it easy to slap together some grainy videos on a CD-ROM and call it a "game." Myst sold more copies on the "wow, look at those graphics" factor than the nature of the puzzles.
Love them or hate them, you have to admit that point-and-click adventures are more like interactive fiction and less like a game, which might help to explain their lack of popularity in the US and Japan.
All right then, what stops a company from using that publically funded IP in a closed-source project, and then sells that solution to the government, thus causing taxpayers to pay for that 'publically funded IP' twice?
Stuff built from scratch on government coin should be completely public domain. But when government programmers need open source to start with, they can't use the GPL, because code from the GPL cannot be released without violating the license. It's not as "free" as some would say.
If someone uses government code to build a business and sell software, more power to 'em! This is even better than the "Free Money from the Government" that gives you a high voice and a suit covered in question marks.
It's not the government's role to fight commercial interests (although the GPL was created specifically for that purpose). If a company develops software based on BSD code is worth paying for, and the government buys it, what's the problem? They have obviously contributed something that's made it more valuable than the previous unmodified code, or nobody would pay for it.
The GPL license COULD potential open a business up for a lawsuit, and anyone who reads Slashdot knows that GPL-lovers are very quick to cry for censure of any company suspected of violating the license.
The safest, and most appropriate license for government-funded and government-created software is the BSD license.
For a FPS, or open-ended RPG, or puzzle-adventure to gain popularity over in Japan would truly be as revolutionary as the U.S. market buying millions of copies of Ico.
The Japanese don't like open-ended RPGs or puzzle-adventures?
If you mean, the Japanese don't like the Dungeons-and-Dragons style PC RPGs (a la Baldur's Gate), you're right, because they are BORING. They are a fringe genre in the US as well.
And what type of puzzle adventures do the Japanese dislike? Super Mario Sunshine? Zelda? Seriously, you're fulla cack.
It's truly a shame that no one bothers to read past the first 20 posts, and that no one reads at -1. The few that do get to see gems like this. I salute you, sir.
Is it true that when you plug in a USB 1.1 device to a USB 2.0 bus, the whole bus drops to USB 1.1 speeds?
And is it possible that the USB 2.0 "Full speed," while not as fast as USB 2.0 "High speed," will not sabotage the bus in that way?
In other words, could I plug in a slower USB 2.0 "full speed" printer into my bus with a hard drive and DVD-R running at USB 2.0 "high speed" and not expect the whole bus to drop down to patheticly inadequate speeds?
Is that when the Autobots rule your board?
You want to freak me? But I want to friend you! You should be flossing with my thong at this time on a friday afternoon!
I prefer the term "fucknuckle" to refer to those impotent, knuckle-dragging proto-CPU designers at Motorola.
A 2Ghz, DDR-compatible CPU appeared on one of their roadmaps about a week ago. Since it just appeared, that means it will be at least 2 years. 2005 for 2 Ghz! If Apple is still using Motorola CPUs by then, I'll personally drive up to Cupertino and put the last piles of earth on top of their grave.
He's made a career out of repackaging things that you can buy online elsewhere, and marking them up 100% and more. The Mactable fiasco is hardly unique.
While this might be legally okay, it's certainly a scam.
Slashdot is not a place for rumors.
;)
To top it off, the person who runs Macwhispers is completely morally bankrupt, and is most likely fabricating the entire story.
I'd like to see some real competition for high performance CPUs as much as the next guy, but let's not lose our heads to con artists like this guy...we will know for sure in about 2 weeks
I'm so hungry now, I'll eat your vomit!
Mmmm, did you have chicken fried steak for lunch? Or is this Chinese? Tangy.
Ringin' up the FP! Hellz yeah!
SGI stereo-capable displays are hellacheap on eBay. I got a 20-inch monitor for $189.
SGI is losing ground, but they still own the visualization market...for good reason.
Anandtech makes no mention of how many frames per second that the iPod scores in Quake III. They are running the risk of alienating their core audience!
"Squeeze Me Macaroni", by Mr. Bungle
I wanna lock Betty Crocker in the kitchen
And knock her upper during supper
Clutter up her butter gutter
Hostess Ding Dong wrapped an eggroll around my wong
While Dolly Madison proceded to ping my pong
Your Milky Way is M'n'M in your britches
And I'll tell you Baby Ruth it looks mighty delicious
Keep blowing my gum, cuz here I come
I'm gonna get you all sticky with my Bubble Yum
Knick knack paddywhack and give your dog a bone, baby
I was givin' some head to some french bread
It was a four course orgy on the spread of my bed
French kissin' french fries in my Fruit of the Looms
I get deeper penetration with a fork and a spoon
I got yogurt meat loaf smeared all over my ass
I stick my weiner in two buns and and then give it the gas
Sour cream from my spleen into Levi jeans
Gonna bust the seams with my refried beans
Ronald McDonald just loves to be fondled
With Big Mac he'll fuck it like a Chicken McNugget
Colonel Sanders wants to goose Granny's loose caboose
He's gonna give her a boost with that Kentucky fried juice
Sooper doop poop scoop, loop de loop, chicken coop
Shoot some hoop, top sirloin from the groin
Topped with dick cheese, sneeze, wheeze,
From the skeez disease, wooi!
Take a dump, baby, squirt some gravy
Pour some sugar on me, honey, make it brown & runny
Give a little Flavor Flav, back from the grave
Gonna burn some toast, pump some humpin' rump roast
Knick knack paddywhack, jump in the sack, in fact
Jerk the smack and crack Jack from the back
Bananarama or ramabanana
Fuckin' Barry Manilow on the Copa Cabana
Squeeze me macaroni, slop your face with my bologna
You gotta syphon the spinach, you gotta cream the corn
Sperm scrambles the eggs and a meal is born
Cookin' like a beginner, but I'm goin' up in her
I had Fritos for lunch I'm havin' bush for dinner
Chef Boyardee and the Three Muskateers
Shove Charleston Chews in their rears like queers
"Holy moly, guacamole!" said my Chips Ahoy
I'm gonna pinch a ravioli on the Pillsbury dough boy
Knick knack paddywhack and give your dog a boner, baby
We came to pottie...we came to pottie down your throat
Or is it just lots of luxury?
I mean, he wasn't flying around in his personal broomcopter that folds into a suit jacket. When I burgle your rich yuppie house, I don't call it time traveling! Although maybe that would work as a legimitate defense in court...is anyone here a physics attorney?
"Change with the times or fail?"
What about, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it?"
and
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM (Microsoft)."
Businesses, especially big businesses, are extremely conservative by nature. They are generally unwilling to take risks that could lead to serious problems (how many banks are still running FORTRAN software on IBM mainframes?)
Inertia is Microsoft's greatest friend, especially if the economy remains weak. They are well-trusted name in the corporate world, and IT people know that MS is a safe bet, whether it works or not...
I think this chip is actually aimed at the embedded market, to compete with some of the newer MIPS-based CPUs. At any rate, if it's just appearing on a road map, it won't be in ANY machines for at least 2 years, and God help Apple if they are still using G4s by that time.
Will North Korean hackers make my penis linger?