I hate to break it to you, but Nintendo is changing; they have to. They lost this generation in part because of the public's perception that they're a "kiddie" company. Hence they're trying to change that image slightly. They're still making regular good family games like Mario and Zelda, but they're also allowing some more "adult-oriented" games too. They recenting announced Sin and Punishment for Japan, and they're allowing several risque games to come out from Rare (second party) like Conkers Bad Fur Day, which might be one the raunchiest videogame ever released, and Perfect Dark. The days when they ban blood in the games for their system are long gone.
But you forgot Nintendo's killer app: Pokemon. The craze is still going strong and that alone will sell millions of GBA's. Plus the real reason the GB has done so well is because it has some awesome software and longer battery life than it's competitors. Tetris might have sold a couple of million GB's, but it's not the reason it's survived 10+ years.
The specs for the GBA have been known for some time now, and a couple of sites even have some mock-ups of what it might look like. IGN Pocket's FAQ on the GBA should answer most of your questions. Also it's heavily rumored that the Dolphin/Star Cube will intereact heavily with the GBA and there will be built in ports so that you can plug your GBA into your Dolphin.
Full details and a real mock-up will be announced during Space World which is from August 24-26 (I think). It's a Japanese Nintendo trade show when Nintendo will tell all about the Dolphin/Star Cube and the GBA: Including having several GBA playable games. And expect a Slashdot article on the Dolphin specs on August 23rd when Nintendo holds a press conference at 3 PM Japanese time to unveil the Dolphin/Star Cube.
You might want to try Funcoland, or any other used-game reseller in your area. I went to one about a month ago and they were selling old Nintendo games for $2-$5 a piece.
I think you're confused about what gnapster does. Gnapster works just like Napster, and connects to official Napster servers. So it doesn't matter one little bit that an official Napster client isn't avaliable for Linux users.
Secondly, some of those OpenNap servers (try 207.195.111.2 ) have a TON of songs and users. I've had no problems with not finding a song just because I was on an OpenNap server.
Go search on Napster for "Barenaked Ladies Pinch Me" and up will come a song by them that they've added ads for their new album in. I thought it was actually pretty cool that they'd decided to use Napster like they did.
I've been using it over Netscape 4.7x since M14. It was then that it finally got stable enough and bugless enough to use for day to day browsing. Unfortunatly, M16 is quite unstable for me, so I'm sticking back with M15 for the time being.
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Whoever posted this article was on crack.
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On the Mandrake Newbie mailing list this was discussed. Here's what one of the Mandrake people said about it:
Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION: My first Suggestion (Installer Problem)Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 23:00:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Denis HAVLIK To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Reply to: newbie@linux-mandrake.com
:~>Here is my first input: :~> :~>The install program is very slick. However at one point in the install, :~>after you have partitioned the drive you are shown a slider bar and asked :~>to pick how much software you want to install. (you choose the amount of :~>megabytes to install). I find this very confusing. If i pick 800mb what :~>is being installed? Am I getting all the packages I need??
Here is what happens: We have a list of packages with their "value". Very valuable packages have number asociated with them which is close to 100, while "junk" packages have a number close to 0 (well, junk packages do not make it into the distro, but you get the picture)
When you move the slider to left, you efectively "raise the bar", so that packages with lower "priority" drop out of the selection.
Personally, I think this is a great way to make a compromyse between having some controle over instalation and not having to browse trough 1000+ packages at install (horror!)
What we miss at the moment is a tool which would use a symilar logic to help you install|uninstall packages on already installed system, but Pixel is working on it right now.
cu Denis -- ------------------------------------------------ ----- Dr. Denis Havlik Mandrakesoft ||| e-mail: denis@mandrakesoft.com Quality Assurance (@ @) (private: denis@havlik.org) -------------------oOO--(_)--OOo---------------- -----
I must say this is just entirely too funny. And a sad commentary on how little most people understand law.
I will say that anyone who thinks we are trying to control reviews and such are jumping on a bandwagon without really giving it proper consideration. Legally, that's entirely impossible -- but then, most people know less about law than they do making ice.;-)
This policy/agreement simply allows fan sites to use our trademarks and copyright character art, etc. Most developers/publishers do not allow this at all. End of story. We are providing a way for them to do so, though. Lay people, of course, read this policy and become panic mongers. This policy is only for owners of web sites who wish to use our trademarks and copyrights, like www.3dportal.com. Somehow, someone found a link to it and of course jumps to the wrong conclusion, because...hey...it then can become a hot topic. Yippee. Don't we live in a fun society?
We might need to make it more clear that reviews are--of course!--not what concern us (nor could we legally prevent negative reviews--that's patently absurd). It's a web site using our logos next to overly foul, abusive, racist, etc. language or art. For example, we would not allow our logos to be used on a porn site.
God damnit, I hate it when people include the PS1 library with the PS2, and then claim the PS2 libary is so big at launch. It's the damn PS1 libary! Why would anyone buy a PS2 to play PS1 games, when you can just buy a PS1 for a hell of a lot less? Granted, if you don't own a PS1, then it might as well get a PS2, but that doesn't mean the PS2 libary includes PS1 games.
The price will be $299. Sony announced it themselves. And it will also NOT be coming with a modem. That's what the orignal poster meant by no internet connectviity. You will have to buy the modem as an add-on. The question is how many people will be willing to do that?
When the N64 came out, all of IT'S games were the same thing. some lameass running around in a 3d world.
Yea, that must be why the first 8 games for that first Christmas were a 3D platformer (and one hell of a one at that), a flying game, two racers (WaveRace 64 being the awesome one), 2 fighters, a multiple-type one (Shadows of the Empire), and a hockey game. All of them being "some lameass running around in a 3d world". Yeah........ Sounds like someone is just disgruntled.
Could this maybe mean that IE could be ported over to the various Unixes, specifically Linux? It seems the only reason IE is a Windows/Mac only browser is because MS is trying to protect it's market. But if IE is it's own seperate company, they they'd want to expand to new markets, like Netscape has, and release a Unix Internet Explorer. I for one would absolutly love it if I could get IE on Linux. Mozilla is nice, but IE is just plain better. That's what encourages me about splitting up MS, the possiblity of getting Office and IE on non-MS owned platforms.
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I hate to break it to you, but Nintendo is changing; they have to. They lost this generation in part because of the public's perception that they're a "kiddie" company. Hence they're trying to change that image slightly. They're still making regular good family games like Mario and Zelda, but they're also allowing some more "adult-oriented" games too. They recenting announced Sin and Punishment for Japan, and they're allowing several risque games to come out from Rare (second party) like Conkers Bad Fur Day, which might be one the raunchiest videogame ever released, and Perfect Dark. The days when they ban blood in the games for their system are long gone.
But you forgot Nintendo's killer app: Pokemon. The craze is still going strong and that alone will sell millions of GBA's. Plus the real reason the GB has done so well is because it has some awesome software and longer battery life than it's competitors. Tetris might have sold a couple of million GB's, but it's not the reason it's survived 10+ years.
will this thing play the huge library of (Colour)GameBoy games?
Yes. It's 100% compatible with all GBC and GB games.
The specs for the GBA have been known for some time now, and a couple of sites even have some mock-ups of what it might look like. IGN Pocket's FAQ on the GBA should answer most of your questions. Also it's heavily rumored that the Dolphin/Star Cube will intereact heavily with the GBA and there will be built in ports so that you can plug your GBA into your Dolphin.
Full details and a real mock-up will be announced during Space World which is from August 24-26 (I think). It's a Japanese Nintendo trade show when Nintendo will tell all about the Dolphin/Star Cube and the GBA: Including having several GBA playable games. And expect a Slashdot article on the Dolphin specs on August 23rd when Nintendo holds a press conference at 3 PM Japanese time to unveil the Dolphin/Star Cube.
You might want to try Funcoland, or any other used-game reseller in your area. I went to one about a month ago and they were selling old Nintendo games for $2-$5 a piece.
I think you're confused about what gnapster does. Gnapster works just like Napster, and connects to official Napster servers. So it doesn't matter one little bit that an official Napster client isn't avaliable for Linux users.
Secondly, some of those OpenNap servers (try 207.195.111.2 ) have a TON of songs and users. I've had no problems with not finding a song just because I was on an OpenNap server.
when did showing someone smoke on TV become unacceptable?
Once the public found out how bad smoking is for you. Back in the Looney Toones days the dangerous of smoking weren't as well known.
But millions of "one votes" do make a very big difference.
Go search on Napster for "Barenaked Ladies Pinch Me" and up will come a song by them that they've added ads for their new album in. I thought it was actually pretty cool that they'd decided to use Napster like they did.
I've been using it over Netscape 4.7x since M14. It was then that it finally got stable enough and bugless enough to use for day to day browsing. Unfortunatly, M16 is quite unstable for me, so I'm sticking back with M15 for the time being.
It was "announced" June 5th on Slashdot, but it eligable for download the 6th.
Or maybe DrakConf, DiskDrak, and tons of other little improvements don't count as "innovation". Do you even use Mandrake?
So what is Nautilus?
Go to Mandrakes FTP page and in big bold letters they have:
Linux-Mandrake 7.1 is not yet available. Please wait
Whoever posted this article was on crack.
On the Mandrake Newbie mailing list this was discussed. Here's what one of the Mandrake people said about it:
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Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION: My first Suggestion (Installer Problem)Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 23:00:23 +0200 (CEST)
From: Denis HAVLIK
To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com
Reply to: newbie@linux-mandrake.com
:~>Here is my first input:
:~>
:~>The install program is very slick. However at one point in the install,
:~>after you have partitioned the drive you are shown a slider bar and asked
:~>to pick how much software you want to install. (you choose the amount of
:~>megabytes to install). I find this very confusing. If i pick 800mb what
:~>is being installed? Am I getting all the packages I need??
Here is what happens: We have a list of packages with their "value". Very
valuable packages have number asociated with them which is close to 100,
while "junk" packages have a number close to 0 (well, junk packages do not
make it into the distro, but you get the picture)
When you move the slider to left, you efectively "raise the bar", so that
packages with lower "priority" drop out of the selection.
Personally, I think this is a great way to make a compromyse between
having some controle over instalation and not having to browse trough
1000+ packages at install (horror!)
What we miss at the moment is a tool which would use a symilar logic to
help you install|uninstall packages on already installed system, but Pixel
is working on it right now.
cu
Denis
--
-----------------------------------------------
Dr. Denis Havlik
Mandrakesoft ||| e-mail: denis@mandrakesoft.com
Quality Assurance (@ @) (private: denis@havlik.org)
-------------------oOO--(_)--OOo---------------
I feel your pain. I just finished installing 7.0 today, after I upgraded from 6.1. All well, with a cable modem, it won't be too bad.
My only question is what happens in the cases of a virus like the famed "Melissa" who automatically passes it's self around? "
Read the article you sent. The first paragraph starts off with "People who intentionally spread a computer virus.........
A standard response to the madness!
I must say this is just entirely too funny. And a sad commentary on how little most people understand law.
I will say that anyone who thinks we are trying to control reviews and such are jumping on a bandwagon without really giving it proper consideration. Legally, that's entirely impossible -- but then, most people know less about law than they do making ice.
This policy/agreement simply allows fan sites to use our trademarks and copyright character art, etc. Most developers/publishers do not allow this at all. End of story. We are providing a way for them to do so, though. Lay people, of course, read this policy and become panic mongers. This policy is only for owners of web sites who wish to use our trademarks and copyrights, like www.3dportal.com. Somehow, someone found a link to it and of course jumps to the wrong conclusion, because...hey...it then can become a hot topic. Yippee. Don't we live in a fun society?
We might need to make it more clear that reviews are--of course!--not what concern us (nor could we legally prevent negative reviews--that's patently absurd). It's a web site using our logos next to overly foul, abusive, racist, etc. language or art. For example, we would not allow our logos to be used on a porn site.
Back to important work...
I recently saw a Linux job offer for Estonia.
Here's a whole big list of cost of living comparators.
God damnit, I hate it when people include the PS1 library with the PS2, and then claim the PS2 libary is so big at launch. It's the damn PS1 libary! Why would anyone buy a PS2 to play PS1 games, when you can just buy a PS1 for a hell of a lot less? Granted, if you don't own a PS1, then it might as well get a PS2, but that doesn't mean the PS2 libary includes PS1 games.
The price will be $299. Sony announced it themselves. And it will also NOT be coming with a modem. That's what the orignal poster meant by no internet connectviity. You will have to buy the modem as an add-on. The question is how many people will be willing to do that?
When the N64 came out, all of IT'S games were the same thing. some lameass running around in a 3d world.
Yea, that must be why the first 8 games for that first Christmas were a 3D platformer (and one hell of a one at that), a flying game, two racers (WaveRace 64 being the awesome one), 2 fighters, a multiple-type one (Shadows of the Empire), and a hockey game. All of them being "some lameass running around in a 3d world". Yeah........ Sounds like someone is just disgruntled.
I had forgotten about the HP-UX and Solaris versions. But the reason MS has IE on the macs is because they own part of Apple or something like that.
Could this maybe mean that IE could be ported over to the various Unixes, specifically Linux? It seems the only reason IE is a Windows/Mac only browser is because MS is trying to protect it's market. But if IE is it's own seperate company, they they'd want to expand to new markets, like Netscape has, and release a Unix Internet Explorer. I for one would absolutly love it if I could get IE on Linux. Mozilla is nice, but IE is just plain better. That's what encourages me about splitting up MS, the possiblity of getting Office and IE on non-MS owned platforms.