The reason developers are still working on PS2 games is that there's a metric shitload of PS2 consoles sitting in front of TVs all around the world.
Why abandon a perfectly viable installed base in the tens of millions to focus solely on a console that's not going to have nearly that much of an installed base for a few years?
Speak for yourself. I found the rumble to be great.
For racing, when you bumped into something. For fighting, when you took a hit. All kinds of stuff benefitted from having that little bit of tacitile feedback.
On the other hand, if I'm building a site in my spare time, and it's targetted at Slashdot audience, I would be very careful with all the standards because (1) I can approve my own time and (2) I am more concerned about peers' feedback than ROI.
If you're looking to Slashdot for peer approval, you're just asking for a nightmare.
I'm not certain, but I think the basic rule is that glossy displays are good for watching movies and games, while matte displays are good for actual work related activity.
Yes, because I remember all the countless times I've seen my window reflected on my TV and thought "Gee, the picture sure looks so much better with all kinds of shit reflected on it."
I wanted a MacBook... but now I'm gonna have to wait till they de-gloss the screen.
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Most DVD burners I see on the market nowadays have DL support. I even got mine two years ago for $150.
NOW, DL media on the other hand... that stuff is still ridiculously expensive. ($5/disc? No thanks.)
It's got its holy symbol: a Penguin. It's got its messiah: Linus Torvalds. It's got its anti-christ: Bill Gates. It's got a very strong ideological base. It's got its preachers: RMS, et al. It's got LOADS of rabid fundamentalists. It's also got plenty of subdivisions. (What religion would be complete without sectarian conflict?)
From a bussiness point of view, there isn't such a beast as "Linux".
But from a technological standpoint, they're all "Linux". The comparison you made makes no sense, since those were all competing architectures. These companies and groups are all based on the same architecture.
In a war, if there's one gigantic enemy (Microsoft), opposing forces have a much better chance of survival banding together and strategically cooperating in their efforts, even if they are traditional rivals, than each going their own way.
"United we stand, divided we fall" is a very true sentiment.
Bill Gates is sitting there thinking "Let them all fight each other. It saves us the effort."
Not at all. This is not even fragmentation. You forgot that this is FOSS here. All these distros are compatible.
It's fragmentation in a mindshare sense.
Also in the sense that they could be working TOGETHER to improve the whole, instead of everyone spending effort redesigning the wheel in their own way. But nobody wants to collaborate.
Nobody does that. Mandriva will present you Mandriva commercial offerings and nothing else. Go check their website if you don't believe me.
I'm talking about the Linux community as a whole. The "mindshare" thing I was getting at. Not 50 distros from a single group, but 50 distros from 50 different groups. The average user isn't gonna know what the hell to pick.
The major players could band together and release a special "n00b Linux" and promote the hell out of it in the mainstream as THE distro to get for beginners. It's easier to get people into something with simplicity. Once you get them in, and they're comfortable, THEN you present them with the myriad of distro choices.
Yes, what you are saying is stupid, you just have to realise it....and right there is PROBLEMO NUMERO UNO, everyone!
The "fucking asshole superior linux nerd" that people detest so much. Linux in the big picture suffers because NO ONE WANTS TO RISK DEALING WITH YOU.
Would you buy a car from a dealer who talked down to you? No, they pucker-up and kiss your ass through the entire process. (Yes, they also try to rip you off, but they do their best to cover it with smiles and sunshine. And it works.)
Fortunately, most people don't really know Windows. That's why those that don't have a geek at hand or did not get a new PC still have Windows 98 (if they manage to keep it until today, meaning not connected to the Internet at least).
Exactly. If they're not willing to jump to somewhat familliar territory in Windows XP, why in the world would they want to jump to the totally foreign world of Linux? (Money isn't the issue here: Getting a pirate copy of Windows is trivial.)
That's true. But Linux distros have that fantastic feature : it's very easy to dissociate the user files from the OS, which means easiness to change distro.
People don't generally want to change. They want to stick with something familliar. That's why they're all still using Windows.
Plus, define "easy". How many steps does it take to change distros, while maintaining all your user files? (With no command lines involved, of course.)
Instead of doing that, he should have invested some time to checking out some others more suited to new users. The distros that come to mind are SimplyMEPIS, PCLinuxOS, and Kanotix.
I'm a daily Slashdot reader, and even I'VE never heard of those.
This, again, is one of Linux's biggest problems: Too much fragmentation. If distro developers could put their egos aside and combine forces to create distros with some semblance of popular recognition, Linux's fortunes may change.
You're not gonna win-over an already confused user by presenting him or her with 50 more obscure and semi-obscure choices. That person is just gonna say "fuck it" and stick with what he or she knows: Windows.
Also, people want to install something with staying power. Half the distros out there are gonna be gone in a couple of years, replaced by a whole new set. How can you have faith installing something you've never heard of?
I imagine this controller was slapped together in about 3 months, seeing as there were no actual games that supported it, aside from a demo that they openly admitted they modified in the three weeks since they got the new controller.
Well, the Live "rip-off" isn't really much of a rip-off anymore, since Xbox has had it for four years already. At this point if you DON'T have a Live-like service with your console, you're not gonna sell. (Even Nintendo's going that route with the -nameless system-.)
$500 ($550 CDN for me) IS a harsh sting... but compared to the $400 (non-crippled model) Xbox 360, it DOES have a Blu-ray drive, which is a nice bonus. (I may not have an HD set right now, but I will get one eventually.)
But still, I wanna see what Nintendo's gonna offer-up tomorrow.
Also, what's with the $100 price difference between the 20GB and 40GB model? (Guess that's how they're recouping what they're eating to sell the systems...)/not a fanboy of any specific system
The name makes sense... as long as you don't overanalyse it.
It's a second-gen "Core"-brand chip, with two cores. (2 being the generation, "Duo" or "Solo" being the number of cores in it.)
What were they supposed to do? Come up with a whole new brand instead of adding a "2"? (Though, since the Core brand just debuted this year, I think it may have been wiser to name it the "Core Duo Plus" or something.)
Personally, I think "Core" is a good name for a chip. It strongly implies the role of the product. Better than some stupid made-up gibberish name.
Last year my company missed a whole bunch of e-mails from clients because our webhost had installed an overzealous e-mail blacklist that blocked out ALL of the Sympatico ISP. (Canada's 2nd biggest ISP.)
So ya... it sucked. We didn't notice for about 2 weeks. But we got it fixed after a few phone calls.
You can get the whole series ("Platinum Edition" - remastered, with none of the stupid "digital paint" text translations) in a boxset for about $80 CDN (~US$72 or something) now.
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The reason developers are still working on PS2 games is that there's a metric shitload of PS2 consoles sitting in front of TVs all around the world.
Why abandon a perfectly viable installed base in the tens of millions to focus solely on a console that's not going to have nearly that much of an installed base for a few years?
I mean, duh?
Even if they had settled, Creative likely would have started making noise again in another six months over something faintly related.
I imagine Steve Jobs is thinking along the lines of "If the dog won't stop barking at you, give it a swift kick."
(Not that I condone kicking dogs.)
((But I would like to kick little yappy dogs.))
Speak for yourself. I found the rumble to be great.
For racing, when you bumped into something. For fighting, when you took a hit. All kinds of stuff benefitted from having that little bit of tacitile feedback.
On the other hand, if I'm building a site in my spare time, and it's targetted at Slashdot audience, I would be very careful with all the standards because (1) I can approve my own time and (2) I am more concerned about peers' feedback than ROI.
If you're looking to Slashdot for peer approval, you're just asking for a nightmare.
I'm hoping that Nintendo, as a repsonse to the PS3's price, sees the massive price breathing room and tacks a bit more RAM onto the Wii chipset.
Of course, I don't know how difficult that would be to do...
I'm not certain, but I think the basic rule is that glossy displays are good for watching movies and games, while matte displays are good for actual work related activity.
Yes, because I remember all the countless times I've seen my window reflected on my TV and thought "Gee, the picture sure looks so much better with all kinds of shit reflected on it."
I wanted a MacBook... but now I'm gonna have to wait till they de-gloss the screen.
Most DVD burners I see on the market nowadays have DL support. I even got mine two years ago for $150.
NOW, DL media on the other hand... that stuff is still ridiculously expensive. ($5/disc? No thanks.)
Seems like one to me.
It's got its holy symbol: a Penguin.
It's got its messiah: Linus Torvalds.
It's got its anti-christ: Bill Gates.
It's got a very strong ideological base.
It's got its preachers: RMS, et al.
It's got LOADS of rabid fundamentalists.
It's also got plenty of subdivisions. (What religion would be complete without sectarian conflict?)
From a bussiness point of view, there isn't such a beast as "Linux".
But from a technological standpoint, they're all "Linux". The comparison you made makes no sense, since those were all competing architectures. These companies and groups are all based on the same architecture.
In a war, if there's one gigantic enemy (Microsoft), opposing forces have a much better chance of survival banding together and strategically cooperating in their efforts, even if they are traditional rivals, than each going their own way.
"United we stand, divided we fall" is a very true sentiment.
Bill Gates is sitting there thinking "Let them all fight each other. It saves us the effort."
Not at all. This is not even fragmentation. You forgot that this is FOSS here. All these distros are compatible.
...and right there is PROBLEMO NUMERO UNO, everyone!
It's fragmentation in a mindshare sense.
Also in the sense that they could be working TOGETHER to improve the whole, instead of everyone spending effort redesigning the wheel in their own way. But nobody wants to collaborate.
Nobody does that. Mandriva will present you Mandriva commercial offerings and nothing else. Go check their website if you don't believe me.
I'm talking about the Linux community as a whole. The "mindshare" thing I was getting at. Not 50 distros from a single group, but 50 distros from 50 different groups. The average user isn't gonna know what the hell to pick.
The major players could band together and release a special "n00b Linux" and promote the hell out of it in the mainstream as THE distro to get for beginners. It's easier to get people into something with simplicity. Once you get them in, and they're comfortable, THEN you present them with the myriad of distro choices.
Yes, what you are saying is stupid, you just have to realise it.
The "fucking asshole superior linux nerd" that people detest so much. Linux in the big picture suffers because NO ONE WANTS TO RISK DEALING WITH YOU.
Would you buy a car from a dealer who talked down to you? No, they pucker-up and kiss your ass through the entire process. (Yes, they also try to rip you off, but they do their best to cover it with smiles and sunshine. And it works.)
Fortunately, most people don't really know Windows. That's why those that don't have a geek at hand or did not get a new PC still have Windows 98 (if they manage to keep it until today, meaning not connected to the Internet at least).
Exactly. If they're not willing to jump to somewhat familliar territory in Windows XP, why in the world would they want to jump to the totally foreign world of Linux? (Money isn't the issue here: Getting a pirate copy of Windows is trivial.)
That's true. But Linux distros have that fantastic feature : it's very easy to dissociate the user files from the OS, which means easiness to change distro.
People don't generally want to change. They want to stick with something familliar. That's why they're all still using Windows.
Plus, define "easy". How many steps does it take to change distros, while maintaining all your user files? (With no command lines involved, of course.)
Instead of doing that, he should have invested some time to checking out some others more suited to new users. The distros that come to mind are SimplyMEPIS, PCLinuxOS, and Kanotix.
I'm a daily Slashdot reader, and even I'VE never heard of those.
This, again, is one of Linux's biggest problems: Too much fragmentation. If distro developers could put their egos aside and combine forces to create distros with some semblance of popular recognition, Linux's fortunes may change.
You're not gonna win-over an already confused user by presenting him or her with 50 more obscure and semi-obscure choices. That person is just gonna say "fuck it" and stick with what he or she knows: Windows.
Also, people want to install something with staying power. Half the distros out there are gonna be gone in a couple of years, replaced by a whole new set. How can you have faith installing something you've never heard of?
"from the no-one-tell-stephen-colbert dept."
Well, it looks like someone missed an episode last week...
I just found something they didn't bring up in the keynote:
9 ae.pdf
The cheaper version will NOT have WiFi, flash card slots, or HDMI output.
http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/06050
They already showed the Canadian price, on-screen during the keynote, right next to the US price.
$499 USD / $549 CND
$599 USD / $659 CND
The exchange rate has gotten much higher lately.
"Revolution" being the keyword.
I imagine this controller was slapped together in about 3 months, seeing as there were no actual games that supported it, aside from a demo that they openly admitted they modified in the three weeks since they got the new controller.
Not unexpected at all, but still quite shameless.
Well, the Live "rip-off" isn't really much of a rip-off anymore, since Xbox has had it for four years already. At this point if you DON'T have a Live-like service with your console, you're not gonna sell. (Even Nintendo's going that route with the -nameless system-.)
$500 ($550 CDN for me) IS a harsh sting... but compared to the $400 (non-crippled model) Xbox 360, it DOES have a Blu-ray drive, which is a nice bonus. (I may not have an HD set right now, but I will get one eventually.)
But still, I wanna see what Nintendo's gonna offer-up tomorrow.
Yup, sorry... but the price difference is still ridiculous. Especially considering 40GB is the ONLY difference.
Motion-Sensitive Controller...
/not a fanboy of any specific system
BIG FUCKING SURPRISE.
Also, what's with the $100 price difference between the 20GB and 40GB model? (Guess that's how they're recouping what they're eating to sell the systems...)
Smells like a troll?
I dunno, maybe that's appropriate, since Vim is what I use to clean my toilet...
The name makes sense... as long as you don't overanalyse it.
It's a second-gen "Core"-brand chip, with two cores. (2 being the generation, "Duo" or "Solo" being the number of cores in it.)
What were they supposed to do? Come up with a whole new brand instead of adding a "2"? (Though, since the Core brand just debuted this year, I think it may have been wiser to name it the "Core Duo Plus" or something.)
Personally, I think "Core" is a good name for a chip. It strongly implies the role of the product. Better than some stupid made-up gibberish name.
Apple Computer was founded in the '70s. Stupid gibberish names weren't en-vogue yet. (I can't wait for the eventual gibberish name backlash...)
BAD argument.
UMDs can ONLY be played on the tiny PSP screen.
Blu-Ray discs on the PS3 can be played on ANY TV. (Low-res on non-HDCP models... just like with a standalone Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player.)
Speak for yourself.
Last year my company missed a whole bunch of e-mails from clients because our webhost had installed an overzealous e-mail blacklist that blocked out ALL of the Sympatico ISP. (Canada's 2nd biggest ISP.)
So ya... it sucked. We didn't notice for about 2 weeks. But we got it fixed after a few phone calls.
You left out:
His Dad: You suck.
You can get the whole series ("Platinum Edition" - remastered, with none of the stupid "digital paint" text translations) in a boxset for about $80 CDN (~US$72 or something) now.