It was fun to play when I got it, and I really WANT there to be more fun games to play. But ever since getting my Wii in October last year, I'm yet to play another fun, unique game like Wii Tennis.
It makes me think - if MOST of the games on the Wii are just like those on other consoles but with motion controls swapped in, why not go for the prettier graphics on Xbox 360?
It's not so much that the linked ARTICLE is news, but Apple's WWDC 06 Keynote certainly is, as a TOPIC. I've always thought of Slashdot articles kinda like a Debate - present a topic, provide a bit of background (the article) - now go debate!
Lets face it - Slashdot has always been about the discussion, not the article itself. That's what Digg is now for.
Sure innovation is great but...lets hope they don't innovate too much.
As everyone knows, innovate too much and everything thinks your product is "weird" and it only gets bought by the few who can see that the game is truly trying something new and deserves their money for it!
Ah, the fickle nature of computer gamers. Always bloody whining:)
I thought SCO Owned it...then I thought Novell owned it...now you're telling "No, I was just kidding. It was the Open Group all along! Haha! Jokes on you!"
And when was the last release of Linux that had the kind of huge, mammoth step that you are talking about?
Sure, Windows looks the same for the most part and many technologies underlying it have been around for some time, but it IS undergoing change and will probably continue to do so.
That must be an American thing. In Australia, it seems to me that there's a much greater acceptance of Computers.
Hell, our High School offered "Computers" as a sport! What did we do - browsed the 'net on our broadband line (pretty good for '97) and played Doom deathmatch!
For all this talk about the accuracy of benchmarking, there's no mention of what's really important with 3DMark, and for me, has always been the only reason I hit the "download" button.
It looks pretty. It makes me drool over the games I might be playing next year. And it makes me realise just how crappy my computer system really is:)
I wonder if google could do some sort of archive using it's cache system? That is, a snapshot of a page's cache is permanantly recorded at regular intervals.
It seems every time a "big time" Open Source story like this appears on Slashdot, all the posters turn into blind zealots.
Sure, this is great news - but that's no reason to discount what Microsoft is saying.
Microsoft may be guilty of a lot of things, but sofar I agree with the "paying the bills" statement. There's scarce few major success story from any developers coding Open Source software alone - but yet there are many successful proprietary developers.
It seems to me that Open Source software works best when the collaborators are working on behalf of different companies on the one piece of software. That is, the businesses themselves are not reliant on the software, but the collaborative development benefits all those involved.
It was something to do with a translation or spelling error going from the Japanese Market to the European / American markets. The game was originally called "Monkey Kong" - make more sense now?
I don't know what audience they are aiming at here...but surely if they are going to go to so much trouble to create a new Operating System, they'd throw a nice looking interface on top of it?
I haven't read ANYTHING about this OS, I just went straight to the screenie section - I'm a sucker for eye candy. Having said that - I'm yet to be impressed by this. What's the drawcard for AmigaOS? What's so good about it? There must be SOMETHING to warrant all the development in the first place?
I think some posters have kind of missed the point. E3 is all about showing off what's in development - with the primary focus being so that the dev houses can cut deals with publishers. The secondary focus, of course, is to generate hype for a game, which will turn into sales when the game is eventually released.
So, with this in mind, "Best of Show" is just an "impression" award - and that's all it's ever intended to be. Quite simply, this award can't be given on gameplay, because for the most part, what's being shown is in the early development stages, so gameplay hasn't been finalised.
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I'm fairly new to the SysAdmin game (hey, you have to start somewhere) managing a network of 35 PC's and supporting one Linux and one Netware 5 server. While I have good knowledge of our desktop OS's and the server OS's - the practical know-how in this book is invaluable.
Essentially, this book offers excellent guidance and advice on how to perform your job as well as possible, maximising efficiency, the satisfaction of your users, and your own contentment with your position.
I think this book should be essential reading for any new sysadmin, and seasoned sysadmins can glean something from this as well.
I work for the Department of Education, in Australia, and my primary role is to give schools technology advice. Whenever a school is in need of a solution that provides email/proxy/DHCP/Fileserving/Web hosting, but don't have the technical skills to maintain the server, I never hesitate to recommend E-Smith. It's the perfect set-and-forget server for schools without a techie on hand.
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It was fun to play when I got it, and I really WANT there to be more fun games to play. But ever since getting my Wii in October last year, I'm yet to play another fun, unique game like Wii Tennis.
It makes me think - if MOST of the games on the Wii are just like those on other consoles but with motion controls swapped in, why not go for the prettier graphics on Xbox 360?
It's not so much that the linked ARTICLE is news, but Apple's WWDC 06 Keynote certainly is, as a TOPIC. I've always thought of Slashdot articles kinda like a Debate - present a topic, provide a bit of background (the article) - now go debate!
Lets face it - Slashdot has always been about the discussion, not the article itself. That's what Digg is now for.
Is it just me, or is it possible to see the "subscriber only" stories by accessing them with RSS feeds?
Why don't you try Quicksilver? It indexes everything on your local drive, and it's open source.
http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/
And NOVELL has had this feature in their Netware line for about six years now. Netware 4.11 has it, and they're up to 6.5 now!
Woot!
Sure innovation is great but...lets hope they don't innovate too much.
:)
As everyone knows, innovate too much and everything thinks your product is "weird" and it only gets bought by the few who can see that the game is truly trying something new and deserves their money for it!
Ah, the fickle nature of computer gamers. Always bloody whining
I can solve your question with one response: Get over it!
Just ignore the stories you've already read. It isn't that hard, there's plenty of others on the page.
The Open Group own the Unix Trademark?
I thought SCO Owned it...then I thought Novell owned it...now you're telling "No, I was just kidding. It was the Open Group all along! Haha! Jokes on you!"
I'm confused.
So...as soon as Microsoft starts competing at the "no-cost" software level, all the zealots cry fowl.
:)
Typical
Is it just me, or did almost everyone only look at this picture to see if they could find aliens or an alien planet somewhere?
And when was the last release of Linux that had the kind of huge, mammoth step that you are talking about?
Sure, Windows looks the same for the most part and many technologies underlying it have been around for some time, but it IS undergoing change and will probably continue to do so.
That must be an American thing. In Australia, it seems to me that there's a much greater acceptance of Computers.
Hell, our High School offered "Computers" as a sport! What did we do - browsed the 'net on our broadband line (pretty good for '97) and played Doom deathmatch!
For all this talk about the accuracy of benchmarking, there's no mention of what's really important with 3DMark, and for me, has always been the only reason I hit the "download" button.
:)
It looks pretty. It makes me drool over the games I might be playing next year. And it makes me realise just how crappy my computer system really is
I wonder if google could do some sort of archive using it's cache system? That is, a snapshot of a page's cache is permanantly recorded at regular intervals.
It seems every time a "big time" Open Source story like this appears on Slashdot, all the posters turn into blind zealots.
Sure, this is great news - but that's no reason to discount what Microsoft is saying.
Microsoft may be guilty of a lot of things, but sofar I agree with the "paying the bills" statement. There's scarce few major success story from any developers coding Open Source software alone - but yet there are many successful proprietary developers.
It seems to me that Open Source software works best when the collaborators are working on behalf of different companies on the one piece of software. That is, the businesses themselves are not reliant on the software, but the collaborative development benefits all those involved.
There isn't one!
It was something to do with a translation or spelling error going from the Japanese Market to the European / American markets. The game was originally called "Monkey Kong" - make more sense now?
I completely agree.
I don't know what audience they are aiming at here...but surely if they are going to go to so much trouble to create a new Operating System, they'd throw a nice looking interface on top of it?
I haven't read ANYTHING about this OS, I just went straight to the screenie section - I'm a sucker for eye candy. Having said that - I'm yet to be impressed by this. What's the drawcard for AmigaOS? What's so good about it? There must be SOMETHING to warrant all the development in the first place?
As Opposed to a Linux kernel that is constantly under development?
I first thought the news topic read:
"Alien's favourite distribition"
Now there's a story I'd like to read!
I think some posters have kind of missed the point. E3 is all about showing off what's in development - with the primary focus being so that the dev houses can cut deals with publishers. The secondary focus, of course, is to generate hype for a game, which will turn into sales when the game is eventually released.
So, with this in mind, "Best of Show" is just an "impression" award - and that's all it's ever intended to be. Quite simply, this award can't be given on gameplay, because for the most part, what's being shown is in the early development stages, so gameplay hasn't been finalised.
I wholeheartedly agree!
I'm fairly new to the SysAdmin game (hey, you have to start somewhere) managing a network of 35 PC's and supporting one Linux and one Netware 5 server. While I have good knowledge of our desktop OS's and the server OS's - the practical know-how in this book is invaluable.
Essentially, this book offers excellent guidance and advice on how to perform your job as well as possible, maximising efficiency, the satisfaction of your users, and your own contentment with your position.
I think this book should be essential reading for any new sysadmin, and seasoned sysadmins can glean something from this as well.
I work for the Department of Education, in Australia, and my primary role is to give schools technology advice. Whenever a school is in need of a solution that provides email/proxy/DHCP/Fileserving/Web hosting, but don't have the technical skills to maintain the server, I never hesitate to recommend E-Smith. It's the perfect set-and-forget server for schools without a techie on hand.