"They won't have to. The schools themselves will viciously decline. Why anyone thinks that schools are just begging for Linux is beyond my comprehension. Does it occur to anyone that if they wanted it, they can install it anytime they want?"
You honestly must be a fucking idiot. the public school system in my district(seattle) does not allow any other os besides windblows even if the staff want it on their machines.
Not only that but they will not allow any other other hardware besides dells.
Example:
The "sysadmin" (pointy clicky MS "admin") wanted to purchase a $1500 IBM server for the school site. However the district claimed that it could "run their software" and forced him to spend his entire buget purchasing a $5500 Dell poweredge that was only slighlty better.
The whole school district is completely FUBAR and has underpaid retarded staff buring money on useless crap. Money is not the problem retarded admistration is.
At this time the district perfectly capable of accopmlishing great things with their buget but they are stuck in a vicous cycle thanks to MSFT, Dell and partialy Cisco.
I fucking hate all this its for the children crap!
Actually the console market is much more profitable for small developers. It is in fact the PC market where only the big games make it. The PC market has never been very profitable for anyone other than the top few companies.
If there's any reason I want to go with PS2 over the PC it's the uninspired game design I see with PCs. If it's not a game that repeated and built behind the last 10 designs behind it then it's a rare find. Console Games (not all of them, but many) approach sophisticated game styles I have not really seen attempted on PCs.
What rock have you been sleeping under!?!
The PC Is the utimate platform for creative games desgin It offers unparlled flexibility and POWER, can make use of many diffrent platforms and accesorys, best internet machine. And anyone can publish any thing they want for it, as long as they have the tools and time, with console due to rolites only big games make it, the down side is theirs alot of crap for the PC, theirs also alot of really cool stuff from small time devlopers, and experimentle games pushing the limits of technology, look at Serous Sam. Aside from that, how can you have a really sopisticated game with a wimpy game pad??? A keybored and a mouse is by far the best controler ever aside from flight games!
You're wrong. The PS2 architecture is far superior for handling the specific needs of gaming applications compared to desktop machines. You have to throw a lot more ($$$$) hardware at the problem with a PC than with a PS2.
Plus the PS2 looks so kewl and plays DVD's and hooks up to my TV with S-Video so it looks even better!
The Pure ignorance of this statemant is amazing, maybe before you say something like that you should look at the PS2 specs?!?!
I won't argue that games look good on a PC for the most part but there's another thing to consider in this.
If company X creates game Y with systems specs Z in mind, anyone with specs below Z can't play the game. Or at least not the way it was intended to be. Not to mention driver problems, hardware compatibility or even OS issues...
A game console will never have this problem. When company X writes game Y for the PS2, it will look, and feel exactly as intended for every person that plays game X. Of course, the downfall to this is what do you do when your hardware ages a couple of years and the PC technology has surpased it? Create a new, backward compatible console I suppose. Props to Sony on that one.
And on another note, while PC games are good, I've never, ever seen a game look and play as beautifully as games such as Gran Turismo 3, Metal Gear Solid 2, or many of the other hot new titles out there.
My point: There's a place for everything, and certain games, and especially game styles, will always prevail on the console. In my opinion, PC's only seem well suited for two types of games, Shooters (quake,half-life) or strategy (starcraft...)
- Mike
I cannot imagine any one serously say that any console game can surpass a PC, graphics wise, conseidering a good gaming PC has about 6 times the ram running a twice the speed on a CPU 4 time faster than it with a larger Cache, a video card with 2 twice as much Vram as the entire console with AA and a 19" montiter a 4 times the res?
Give me a break
you dont understand do you??
this is a problem with democracy. put simply the admistrator/president/Whatever is supposed to be the "Will of the People" but if the "people" are ignorant dumbasses (i.e. all 4*.**% of americans that voted to for those goddam rightwing lunitic(s) occupying the white houes) than what is he/she to do? the right thing and get impeached/fired or wrong thing and get "relected".
the school admin is basicly an elected official because his/her actions are controled in many respects by opinion of the people. In this the "people" are parinoed about school shootings.... go figure
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"They won't have to. The schools themselves will viciously decline. Why anyone thinks that schools are just begging for Linux is beyond my comprehension. Does it occur to anyone that if they wanted it, they can install it anytime they want?"
You honestly must be a fucking idiot. the public school system in my district(seattle) does not allow any other os besides windblows even if the staff want it on their machines.
Not only that but they will not allow any other other hardware besides dells.
Example:
The "sysadmin" (pointy clicky MS "admin") wanted to purchase a $1500 IBM server for the school site. However the district claimed that it could "run their software" and forced him to spend his entire buget purchasing a $5500 Dell poweredge that was only slighlty better.
The whole school district is completely FUBAR and has underpaid retarded staff buring money on useless crap. Money is not the problem retarded admistration is.
At this time the district perfectly capable of accopmlishing great things with their buget but they are stuck in a vicous cycle thanks to MSFT, Dell and partialy Cisco.
I fucking hate all this its for the children crap!
Lets turn our attention to the altentives?!!?
That point could be debated endlessly
What rock have you been sleeping under!?!
The PC Is the utimate platform for creative games desgin It offers unparlled flexibility and POWER, can make use of many diffrent platforms and accesorys, best internet machine. And anyone can publish any thing they want for it, as long as they have the tools and time, with console due to rolites only big games make it, the down side is theirs alot of crap for the PC, theirs also alot of really cool stuff from small time devlopers, and experimentle games pushing the limits of technology, look at Serous Sam. Aside from that, how can you have a really sopisticated game with a wimpy game pad??? A keybored and a mouse is by far the best controler ever aside from flight games!
The Pure ignorance of this statemant is amazing, maybe before you say something like that you should look at the PS2 specs?!?!
I cannot imagine any one serously say that any console game can surpass a PC, graphics wise, conseidering a good gaming PC has about 6 times the ram running a twice the speed on a CPU 4 time faster than it with a larger Cache, a video card with 2 twice as much Vram as the entire console with AA and a 19" montiter a 4 times the res? Give me a break
$400 for a Gf2 GTS what are you smoking?!?!?!?
you dont understand do you?? this is a problem with democracy. put simply the admistrator/president/Whatever is supposed to be the "Will of the People" but if the "people" are ignorant dumbasses (i.e. all 4*.**% of americans that voted to for those goddam rightwing lunitic(s) occupying the white houes) than what is he/she to do? the right thing and get impeached/fired or wrong thing and get "relected". the school admin is basicly an elected official because his/her actions are controled in many respects by opinion of the people. In this the "people" are parinoed about school shootings.... go figure
Well Said LOL