Re:Depends on the person.
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You're right on target. If not for the computer, I'd play videogames all day, read more, or do other solitary things. I wouldn't be any more social active. The computer has just changed what I do alone, not how much time I spend with friends.
This is not a flame or some stupid AC, but a valid warning. Anyone who follows Nintendo news will relieze that Nintendo Next is the "tabloids" of videogame reporting. They've mislead SOOOO many people with their bogus stories. I HIGHLY doubt anything they said in the article is true, or if it is, they sure as hell just heard it from rumors or unconfirmed reports. I'd take this article with a HUGE grain of salt. Story after story they "broke" has proven to be just based off of rumors or have been very misleading. I can't believe Slashdot would even post anything from somewhere as unreliable as NN.
So to sum it up, I wouldn't trust anything you read in the article, especially since none of the major gaming sites have had anything new on the X-Box at all.
While the PSX was $300 when it was released, so was the other gaming systems. However when the PS2 is released, the DC will probally be $150 or maybe even less, and Nintendo has repeatedly said that the Dolphin will be "priced to compete". Take that as you will. But odds are the PS2 will be the most expensive.
Totally offtopic, but isnt it weird sometimes when similar topic posts are all made in a row? For instance, in this story, it's the basic first post crap, with some other stuff thrown in, and then boom, 3 straight posts commenting on the exact same thing (misleading headline). It happens in a lot of other articles too, where something might be factually wrong with the article, but no one makes any comments until about post 50, and then you get about 3 straight posts on it. It's sorta freaky.
Truly I have not seen any NUMBERS on ANYTHING that can compare.
Maybe because there are no definite Dolphin numbers out yet?????? The only semi-concrete one is the MHz speed, with the PS2 being at 300, and the Dolphin at 400. That's it.
The launch price of the N64 was $200. I couldn't tell you what most people payed for it though since I'm not sure of the distribution of N64's sold throught the years. I've also seen PS2 presale prices from $299 to $350, so it could be anythign in between.
Um, Nintendo has lots of quality games for it. Zelda is not even close to beign a mario clone unless you count a game being 3D is equal to Mario. And how can the PS2 be in millions of homes when it's not even released yet? The Dolphin is still being released this year (in fact, the full specs are supposed to be released after midnight tonight) so it only only gain a lead in Japan. But if you wanted to use that analogy, then the PS2 is doomed to play catchup because teh DC is already in millions of homes.
And how many did Sega sell of it's Genisis? And how many did it sell of it's Saturn? Same with the NES. Nintendo had a virtual monopoly in 8 bit, but Sega gained half the market place in the 16 bit era. Past perfermance does not guarentee future results.
The arguement I bring against DVD play-back in the PS2 replacing DVD players, is that, do you still buy and or own a CD player in your house, and do you also have a Playstation? Using your logic, people would be crazy to only get a CD player. Why not get a $99 playstation and play CD's on that instead? But you don't see that happening because CD players have advantages that the PSX doesn't offer. Hence, I believe the same thing will happen to the PS2. Sure, DVD is a nice addition, but I don't see it wiping out everyone else, or becoming the sole selling point.
#1. What the hell do you want MS to do then (in regards to releasign a player)? You act like them releasing it is the worst thing in the world. What ever happened to the complaint that WMP was Windows and Macintosh only? What about the complaint that WMP was evil because you could only get it on Windows or Macs? Now MS is expanding it and your bitching at them? I don't know about you, but this is the best news I've heard all week. WMP may be a MS product, but a hell of a lot of the sites I visit use it, and it's a pain in the ass not to be able to play it in Linux. I'm over-joyed they're bringing it to Linux. Now if only I could get IE on here......
#2. If Linux grows like its' "supposed" to, how can MS regain the market again? I mean, with WMP and maybe Quicktime coming to Linux, there is even less reason to run Windows. And by the time MS gets a monopoly of streaming audio (assuming it ever gets it), I'd hope that linux users would at least make up 25% of the desktop market. That'd be suicide to drop support then. And how can it crush all the other formats anyway? Windows is still the dominating OS by a huge margin, and if everyone wanted to, they could have already totally switched to WMP. But they haven't, and I don't see how bringing it to Linux will change that.
Some of the conspiracy theory's you guys come up with amaze me. Can you not just believe that MS sees that to expand it's format, it's going to have to support other OS's? Netscape and Real saw that, and they don't get bitched at like MS. Don't you want a big OS orgy, where you can get just about everything for just about every OS? A thought like that sure sounds good to me.
adcritic.com Yes, it uses Quicktime, so you'll have to use Windows. But from the signature list at the Quicktime for Linux petition site, it might be coming out for Linux pretty soon hopefully : )
Oh, and for the email address it's going to ask you, use fake@emailaddress.com
I thought it was pretty funny, but ineffective. What does herding cats have to do with business solutions? Not to mention that the real important part (with compnay name and what they do) had maybe only 1/5 of the commercial. So great looking commercial, but really quite ineffective.
The constitution does not give you unlimited freedom of choice. I can't choose to kill someone and then claim it's protected by the constitution.
On the Coke sidenote, my old school district had some kind of deal with Coca-Cola, and so there was several Coke machines scattered throughout the campus. And yes, this was public school. I prefer Pepsi, but Coke wasnt' too bad. They even told us the money they made from it (and I hope they made some considering it was a dollar for a 20 ounce bottle) would go to technology. Well, when I was there I sure didn't see any new technology. We still had crappy computers. Anyways, at my new school they have banned schools in the county from selling caffinated products like Coke/Pepsi/Jolt (hehe). And at both schools, they've had deals with pizza companies (little ceasers at the first one, now it's Dominoes) to provide pizza for lunch. So you can rest easy knowing that commercialism is alive and rampent in today's public schools. : )
I have no qualms about paying for software. I'll gladly pay for software that I really like and use a lot; be it on Linux or Windows. It's just that you can get a lot of quality software on Linux for free, whereas most good software for Windows costs money. But of course, there are the people who use Linux only because it is free, and those are the kind of people who wouldn't use Quicktime no matter what, unless it was open-source. But most people are not like that.
Re:Umm, im thinking it's best to wait on 'classics
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Sci Fi Literature 101?
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I think it depends on the kid. Some people can and do enjoy some Shakespeare when they're teen-agers, or can read stuff like 1984. I read 1984 when I was 15, and absolutly loved it. It's one of my favorite books. But there are some kids in my class (even in honors) who find books boring, and would find 1984 to be pointless and stupid. It really boils down to the kid. Hopefully the daughters father will know enough about her to decide what kind of books she'd be interested in and what level she would enjoy.
I just finished reading Catch 22, and thought it was one of the funniest novel's I've ever read. Plus, it makes you think of some the idiocracy that people have. I wouldn't call it Sci-Fi, but I would recommend it to people.
Actually, most Slashdot readers use Windows. It's just that the Linux users seem to post the most, and are the most vocal. I for one used Windows and read Slashdot for quite a while before I tried Linux. Now I use Linux more than Windows, but I don't hate MS or anything. And just from the hits to my page from Slashdot articles, I'd say between 50 and 75% are Windows machines. I also remember reading somewhere with Rob saying that most of Slashdot's hits come from Windows boxes. It would almost have to though, Linux is still a hugly minority system.
What you discribed is probally my favorite part of Linux. If not for that, I seriously doubt I would use it as much, since I can basically do everything I want in Windows, and use IE in Windows. But boy do I ever LOVE the virtual desktops. I'm a power user, and usually have tons of apps running, and with the different desktops, it's a lot less of a mess. I have 6 set up: 1) Netscape 2)XMMS 3)Xchat 4)KMail 5)Gimp or Star Office 6)several terminals, usally coding. If I do all of that in Windows (which I basically do) my taskbar is really really cluttered and it's more of a hassle. Definitly increased my ease of use.
BTW, I think LiteStep can do the same thing for Windows, but my parents would freak out if they saw something totally different in Windows, so I can't try it out.
All it would take to make me think Netscape is better than IE would to do just that; Make Netscape better than IE. Netscape is just plain pitiful. I know at least on Linux it crashes at least a couple of times a day, and is quite buggy. And the bookmark system in Netscape is much more complicated than in IE (as in making a bookmark in IE lets you decide what to call it and where to put when you make it. In Netscape you have to bookmark it, then go and edit it in a badly designed bookmark management system dialogue. Not even Mozilla fixes that which really disappoints me). And IE supports more HTML, even if it is "IE-only" tags and options, it still looks better and performs better than Netcape. IE also just looks cleaner and less clunky. Finally IE is faster in Windows than Netscape. So if Netscape can pull of a better browser, maybe they can get back their market share. Mozilla is in the right direction, but since it's in pre-release, I can't say which is better.
Because a lot of cookies are very usefull to me. For example, thanks to cookies, I only have to log in once to Slashdot. Or it saves my preferences at places like zdnet.com and other personalization sites. It also saves some of my login's and passwords to certain sites, which, while I guess would be a security risk to yall, I trust my family. Of course, I could selectivly get cookies, but I tried that once, and spent about half my time clicking "no" to 5 at each website I visted, totally wasting my time. I don't really mind cookies when they're useful, it's just that sometimes they're not.
About the DVD thing. First off, the PS2 will be $300 at launch, and even in a few years, I dont' see it selling for $100, unless it has to to sell some more units. Secondly, the PSX plays CD's, but do you use it as your sole CD player? You can buy a CD player for about $50 now, and why, for only $50 more you can buy one that plays games too! But for some reason, the CD player industry isn't ruined. The PS2 is nice and all, but I think the DVD playback and how it'll kill everything else because it can play DVD's is way over rated.
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You're right on target. If not for the computer, I'd play videogames all day, read more, or do other solitary things. I wouldn't be any more social active. The computer has just changed what I do alone, not how much time I spend with friends.
This is not a flame or some stupid AC, but a valid warning. Anyone who follows Nintendo news will relieze that Nintendo Next is the "tabloids" of videogame reporting. They've mislead SOOOO many people with their bogus stories. I HIGHLY doubt anything they said in the article is true, or if it is, they sure as hell just heard it from rumors or unconfirmed reports. I'd take this article with a HUGE grain of salt. Story after story they "broke" has proven to be just based off of rumors or have been very misleading. I can't believe Slashdot would even post anything from somewhere as unreliable as NN.
So to sum it up, I wouldn't trust anything you read in the article, especially since none of the major gaming sites have had anything new on the X-Box at all.
While the PSX was $300 when it was released, so was the other gaming systems. However when the PS2 is released, the DC will probally be $150 or maybe even less, and Nintendo has repeatedly said that the Dolphin will be "priced to compete". Take that as you will. But odds are the PS2 will be the most expensive.
The Graphics are good. For proof, check out this pictures of ShenMue. And yes, that is in real time with you controlling the camera.
I don't think it's an IE only problem. Netscape in Linux does the same thing sometimes when I get moderator access.
Totally offtopic, but isnt it weird sometimes when similar topic posts are all made in a row? For instance, in this story, it's the basic first post crap, with some other stuff thrown in, and then boom, 3 straight posts commenting on the exact same thing (misleading headline). It happens in a lot of other articles too, where something might be factually wrong with the article, but no one makes any comments until about post 50, and then you get about 3 straight posts on it. It's sorta freaky.
Truly I have not seen any NUMBERS on ANYTHING that can compare.
Maybe because there are no definite Dolphin numbers out yet?????? The only semi-concrete one is the MHz speed, with the PS2 being at 300, and the Dolphin at 400. That's it.
How many people play Starcraft on their console?...none!
Not yet anyway. It's being released for the N64 on June 12th. You can even read a preview of it here
The launch price of the N64 was $200. I couldn't tell you what most people payed for it though since I'm not sure of the distribution of N64's sold throught the years. I've also seen PS2 presale prices from $299 to $350, so it could be anythign in between.
Um, Nintendo has lots of quality games for it. Zelda is not even close to beign a mario clone unless you count a game being 3D is equal to Mario. And how can the PS2 be in millions of homes when it's not even released yet? The Dolphin is still being released this year (in fact, the full specs are supposed to be released after midnight tonight) so it only only gain a lead in Japan. But if you wanted to use that analogy, then the PS2 is doomed to play catchup because teh DC is already in millions of homes.
And how many did Sega sell of it's Genisis? And how many did it sell of it's Saturn? Same with the NES. Nintendo had a virtual monopoly in 8 bit, but Sega gained half the market place in the 16 bit era. Past perfermance does not guarentee future results.
The arguement I bring against DVD play-back in the PS2 replacing DVD players, is that, do you still buy and or own a CD player in your house, and do you also have a Playstation? Using your logic, people would be crazy to only get a CD player. Why not get a $99 playstation and play CD's on that instead? But you don't see that happening because CD players have advantages that the PSX doesn't offer. Hence, I believe the same thing will happen to the PS2. Sure, DVD is a nice addition, but I don't see it wiping out everyone else, or becoming the sole selling point.
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#1. What the hell do you want MS to do then (in regards to releasign a player)? You act like them releasing it is the worst thing in the world. What ever happened to the complaint that WMP was Windows and Macintosh only? What about the complaint that WMP was evil because you could only get it on Windows or Macs? Now MS is expanding it and your bitching at them? I don't know about you, but this is the best news I've heard all week. WMP may be a MS product, but a hell of a lot of the sites I visit use it, and it's a pain in the ass not to be able to play it in Linux. I'm over-joyed they're bringing it to Linux. Now if only I could get IE on here......
#2. If Linux grows like its' "supposed" to, how can MS regain the market again? I mean, with WMP and maybe Quicktime coming to Linux, there is even less reason to run Windows. And by the time MS gets a monopoly of streaming audio (assuming it ever gets it), I'd hope that linux users would at least make up 25% of the desktop market. That'd be suicide to drop support then. And how can it crush all the other formats anyway? Windows is still the dominating OS by a huge margin, and if everyone wanted to, they could have already totally switched to WMP. But they haven't, and I don't see how bringing it to Linux will change that.
Some of the conspiracy theory's you guys come up with amaze me. Can you not just believe that MS sees that to expand it's format, it's going to have to support other OS's? Netscape and Real saw that, and they don't get bitched at like MS. Don't you want a big OS orgy, where you can get just about everything for just about every OS? A thought like that sure sounds good to me.
adcritic.com Yes, it uses Quicktime, so you'll have to use Windows. But from the signature list at the Quicktime for Linux petition site, it might be coming out for Linux pretty soon hopefully : )
Oh, and for the email address it's going to ask you, use fake@emailaddress.com
I thought it was pretty funny, but ineffective. What does herding cats have to do with business solutions? Not to mention that the real important part (with compnay name and what they do) had maybe only 1/5 of the commercial. So great looking commercial, but really quite ineffective.
The constitution does not give you unlimited freedom of choice. I can't choose to kill someone and then claim it's protected by the constitution.
On the Coke sidenote, my old school district had some kind of deal with Coca-Cola, and so there was several Coke machines scattered throughout the campus. And yes, this was public school. I prefer Pepsi, but Coke wasnt' too bad. They even told us the money they made from it (and I hope they made some considering it was a dollar for a 20 ounce bottle) would go to technology. Well, when I was there I sure didn't see any new technology. We still had crappy computers. Anyways, at my new school they have banned schools in the county from selling caffinated products like Coke/Pepsi/Jolt (hehe). And at both schools, they've had deals with pizza companies (little ceasers at the first one, now it's Dominoes) to provide pizza for lunch. So you can rest easy knowing that commercialism is alive and rampent in today's public schools. : )
I have no qualms about paying for software. I'll gladly pay for software that I really like and use a lot; be it on Linux or Windows. It's just that you can get a lot of quality software on Linux for free, whereas most good software for Windows costs money. But of course, there are the people who use Linux only because it is free, and those are the kind of people who wouldn't use Quicktime no matter what, unless it was open-source. But most people are not like that.
I think it depends on the kid. Some people can and do enjoy some Shakespeare when they're teen-agers, or can read stuff like 1984. I read 1984 when I was 15, and absolutly loved it. It's one of my favorite books. But there are some kids in my class (even in honors) who find books boring, and would find 1984 to be pointless and stupid. It really boils down to the kid. Hopefully the daughters father will know enough about her to decide what kind of books she'd be interested in and what level she would enjoy.
I just finished reading Catch 22, and thought it was one of the funniest novel's I've ever read. Plus, it makes you think of some the idiocracy that people have. I wouldn't call it Sci-Fi, but I would recommend it to people.
Actually, most Slashdot readers use Windows. It's just that the Linux users seem to post the most, and are the most vocal. I for one used Windows and read Slashdot for quite a while before I tried Linux. Now I use Linux more than Windows, but I don't hate MS or anything. And just from the hits to my page from Slashdot articles, I'd say between 50 and 75% are Windows machines. I also remember reading somewhere with Rob saying that most of Slashdot's hits come from Windows boxes. It would almost have to though, Linux is still a hugly minority system.
What you discribed is probally my favorite part of Linux. If not for that, I seriously doubt I would use it as much, since I can basically do everything I want in Windows, and use IE in Windows. But boy do I ever LOVE the virtual desktops. I'm a power user, and usually have tons of apps running, and with the different desktops, it's a lot less of a mess. I have 6 set up: 1) Netscape 2)XMMS 3)Xchat 4)KMail 5)Gimp or Star Office 6)several terminals, usally coding. If I do all of that in Windows (which I basically do) my taskbar is really really cluttered and it's more of a hassle. Definitly increased my ease of use.
BTW, I think LiteStep can do the same thing for Windows, but my parents would freak out if they saw something totally different in Windows, so I can't try it out.
All it would take to make me think Netscape is better than IE would to do just that; Make Netscape better than IE. Netscape is just plain pitiful. I know at least on Linux it crashes at least a couple of times a day, and is quite buggy. And the bookmark system in Netscape is much more complicated than in IE (as in making a bookmark in IE lets you decide what to call it and where to put when you make it. In Netscape you have to bookmark it, then go and edit it in a badly designed bookmark management system dialogue. Not even Mozilla fixes that which really disappoints me). And IE supports more HTML, even if it is "IE-only" tags and options, it still looks better and performs better than Netcape. IE also just looks cleaner and less clunky. Finally IE is faster in Windows than Netscape. So if Netscape can pull of a better browser, maybe they can get back their market share. Mozilla is in the right direction, but since it's in pre-release, I can't say which is better.
Because a lot of cookies are very usefull to me. For example, thanks to cookies, I only have to log in once to Slashdot. Or it saves my preferences at places like zdnet.com and other personalization sites. It also saves some of my login's and passwords to certain sites, which, while I guess would be a security risk to yall, I trust my family. Of course, I could selectivly get cookies, but I tried that once, and spent about half my time clicking "no" to 5 at each website I visted, totally wasting my time. I don't really mind cookies when they're useful, it's just that sometimes they're not.
Alias their site to 127.0.0.1. If you're running Windows, edit the 'hosts' file.
/etc/hosts file. It's very nice to surf with a lot less ads.
And for all you Linux guys, do the same thing, except to the
About the DVD thing. First off, the PS2 will be $300 at launch, and even in a few years, I dont' see it selling for $100, unless it has to to sell some more units. Secondly, the PSX plays CD's, but do you use it as your sole CD player? You can buy a CD player for about $50 now, and why, for only $50 more you can buy one that plays games too! But for some reason, the CD player industry isn't ruined. The PS2 is nice and all, but I think the DVD playback and how it'll kill everything else because it can play DVD's is way over rated.