I've had problems with many pieces of consumer equipment. Cable boxes and satellite receivers especially get very hot if you don't put them where they can get ventilation. Had the same problem with certain VCRs and DVD players and TiVO-type things. Also many component stereo systems, if you cross certain wires can give you literally shit sound, not just to audiophiles. And you have to let the amp and sometimes receiver in a stereo system have ventilation depending on the power usage.
Anything can be slightly finicky. Just because you have to be careful enough so you don't overheat the external power supply on a 360 doesn't mean anything. You have to do the same for a Gamecube, though the GC probably doesn't have as hot of a PS.
Also, I will probably never get a 360, since I don't like the types of games they offer. It's a nice system but not for me.
Do you honestly think that IBM charges MS, Sony, or Nintendo that much less per CPU than they do Apple? If they do I can only see it because of volume sales.
Just because a console is (arguably) sold at a loss doesn't mean the individual component manufacturers are selling the parts for a loss. Usually quite the opposite.
Isn't that the sort of thing that the Oxygen cards are made for? and the reason nVidia came out with the Quadro cards, and ATI came out with the FireGL cards?
If I'm an idiot, and they don't actually accelerate the calculation of NURBS B-splines, then please tell me, cause I'm confused now.
Same goes for most any place with a "little Mexico" type area. Like another poster said, not all carry the soda with regular sugar, but most that I've seen do. It always seems to be more expensive than the same soda using HFCS though...
Except you still can't get around the barriers they set up between the islands. If you go there you have every cop et al after you, even if you immediately go back to the main island where you're allowed to be. I can see making it so you can't buy anything, or meet anyone in the new area til you've earned it, but I don't see the problem with letting people explore.
I like the naked, plain browser. I love it, in fact. There are some things that sometimes I'd like to take out of Firefox. Why does it have an RSS reader built in? Or RSS feeds, whatever. I don't remember what it's called, but it's something I don't see myself using anytime soon that would have been better served as an official extension.
Oh well, I'm sure there's other things I'd take out, but I can't remember them at the moment.
If it was coming out in the US on the 14th (or 13th, whatever) I would wait and just buy it. But this is bullshit. They may have a real reason for it, but I'd like to hear it, since this "story" seems to say it's because of the leak.
To clarify: I was never saying that you were wrong to prefer SMB3. I still think it's a great game as well. I just want to make sure you didn't take offense.
I never played Yoshi's Island much, but what I did play I liked.
As far as not having a gaming system, I never had an N64. None of the games appealed to me at the time, and after SMW I didn't like Mario 64. Same goes for Ocarina of Time compared to A Link to the Past. So I did miss out on a lot of N64 games, and still have to this day. I've gotten used to the 3D Mario and Zelda games, but I still prefer the older 2D versions.
HL2 didn't cost $50, it cost $55 or $60 most places.
Now, I know that's sort of a stupid point to make, but games in themselves are silly. They aren't real life, even if you play them constantly. Oh well, Karma barbecue anyone?
Both HL2 and Doom 3 are very innovative games in the graphics/physics arenas. They go slightly different ways with them, though, which makes it good to experience both. I don't think I would call either "classic" in any sense of the word. The closest would be ground-breaking. Even that might be a stretch though.
SMB 3 was a very good game. I don't think of it the same way you do, though. I prefer Super Mario World because I thought that was both innovative and did things so well that it was a "classic" to me almost immediately.
As for the emulating problem, there may be a PCI-Express card you can plug into your machine that would be similar to the math co-processor from 486 days that would create "native" x86 code to run those older programs. Nothing like that has been created thus far (that I know about) so I may be totally off my rocker. I don't even know if it's feasible honestly.
The size thing is a real issue in Japan. Visit sometime and look at someone's apartment. They are jam-packed with tiny devices. I'm not saying it was a major factor in Xbox failing, but it was still a factor nonetheless.
Tell me how many people have made lots of money by being totally honest and hard working? How many of them would rather work than pay some poor schlub minimum wage to do it?
How many legitimate companies engage in borderline fraud and borderline theft? How many lobbyists have hard work and the good of the people in mind? This country is headed for the shitter and people don't seem to realize that greed drives 90% of this nation.....
The translation layer from nVidia to ATI is called Direct3D. They probably used more direct GPU programming than that though....
As for the emulation thing, wouldn't that be sort of similar to porting a game from PS2 to Xbox? I mean, they have the native Xbox code. Can't they just set up a translation layer a la DirectX to interpret and make it work?
Maybe they're just lazy. We can see how long it took them to get 64-bit support out when they started before the processors were available to consumers....
It depended on where you went and whe you are talking about. The luanch titles, and a lot for the first year were that price. But after that not many games were that price at retail. They may have been labeled that price, but I never saw anyone pay that much around here. Everyone had sales to bring the games down to ~$50
Then again, the original PS and the Saturn had a lot of games at $60-70 near launch as well. Genesis did too.
I don't even use Macs that often and I have to agree with you. Developers that put *any* selection *only* in the right-click menu are evil. Even though I always use 2-button mice, sometimes I don't remember it's there so I'm looking in all the menus up top, not really remembering the right-click menu because it's not exactly uniform for all apps.
Except that with Mac OS running on Mac hardware only, they can control about 90% of what everything does and there will be very few bugs with a specific motherboard/pci card combination.
If they release the OS itself they won't have that same control over the hardware, so they have no guarantees that the software will work as intended, in any capacity.
I honestly think Apple is very smart in this. It avoids a lot of support calls asking "where do I find this control panel?" because they put it one place. In the Windows world the control panel can be here, there, everywhere, depending on who built the software image for the computer that day.
Basically, if Apple sells Mac OS by itself, they will lose their well-known reputation of "it just works." And don't say that "it's unsupported" saves them from this. Customers will still complain and call the tech support number when they're trying to install OS 10.5 on their HP and it doesn't work because the OS doesn't like that particular motherboard.
If you say they won't, try working tech support or a technician's bench in Best Buy or CompUSA or something.
You mean the ones made for rifles that are used pretty much exclusively by military snipers?
And yes, the automatic handguns being allowed to be sold to just anyone I don't agree with either, but that's like saying you should sue the company that created the Patriot missile because it could be used by non-military people to kill civilians.
A hunch can be enough to take someone in on, but not always. And it's never enough to keep them in lockup for more than an hour or so that it takes to do all the filing of paperwork.
At least that's what they teach on cop shows. Which probably invalidates all this evidence, but oh well.
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I've had problems with many pieces of consumer equipment. Cable boxes and satellite receivers especially get very hot if you don't put them where they can get ventilation. Had the same problem with certain VCRs and DVD players and TiVO-type things. Also many component stereo systems, if you cross certain wires can give you literally shit sound, not just to audiophiles. And you have to let the amp and sometimes receiver in a stereo system have ventilation depending on the power usage.
Anything can be slightly finicky. Just because you have to be careful enough so you don't overheat the external power supply on a 360 doesn't mean anything. You have to do the same for a Gamecube, though the GC probably doesn't have as hot of a PS.
Also, I will probably never get a 360, since I don't like the types of games they offer. It's a nice system but not for me.
Do you honestly think that IBM charges MS, Sony, or Nintendo that much less per CPU than they do Apple? If they do I can only see it because of volume sales.
Just because a console is (arguably) sold at a loss doesn't mean the individual component manufacturers are selling the parts for a loss. Usually quite the opposite.
IIRC, isn't that a Chinese curse instead of a proverb?
I think it may be "May you live in interesting times" instead of "May you lead an interesting life" but that one I don't care to argue about.
Isn't that the sort of thing that the Oxygen cards are made for? and the reason nVidia came out with the Quadro cards, and ATI came out with the FireGL cards?
If I'm an idiot, and they don't actually accelerate the calculation of NURBS B-splines, then please tell me, cause I'm confused now.
Same goes for most any place with a "little Mexico" type area. Like another poster said, not all carry the soda with regular sugar, but most that I've seen do. It always seems to be more expensive than the same soda using HFCS though...
Except you still can't get around the barriers they set up between the islands. If you go there you have every cop et al after you, even if you immediately go back to the main island where you're allowed to be. I can see making it so you can't buy anything, or meet anyone in the new area til you've earned it, but I don't see the problem with letting people explore.
Assumes too much? that you might have a girlfriend?
Maybe some girl will go for the overweight, pasty white, socially oblivious guy!
Nah, you're right, you have no hope...
I like the naked, plain browser. I love it, in fact. There are some things that sometimes I'd like to take out of Firefox. Why does it have an RSS reader built in? Or RSS feeds, whatever. I don't remember what it's called, but it's something I don't see myself using anytime soon that would have been better served as an official extension.
Oh well, I'm sure there's other things I'd take out, but I can't remember them at the moment.
Well, I can't seem to find it....
If it was coming out in the US on the 14th (or 13th, whatever) I would wait and just buy it. But this is bullshit. They may have a real reason for it, but I'd like to hear it, since this "story" seems to say it's because of the leak.
To clarify: I was never saying that you were wrong to prefer SMB3. I still think it's a great game as well. I just want to make sure you didn't take offense.
I never played Yoshi's Island much, but what I did play I liked.
As far as not having a gaming system, I never had an N64. None of the games appealed to me at the time, and after SMW I didn't like Mario 64. Same goes for Ocarina of Time compared to A Link to the Past. So I did miss out on a lot of N64 games, and still have to this day. I've gotten used to the 3D Mario and Zelda games, but I still prefer the older 2D versions.
HL2 didn't cost $50, it cost $55 or $60 most places.
Now, I know that's sort of a stupid point to make, but games in themselves are silly. They aren't real life, even if you play them constantly. Oh well, Karma barbecue anyone?
Both HL2 and Doom 3 are very innovative games in the graphics/physics arenas. They go slightly different ways with them, though, which makes it good to experience both. I don't think I would call either "classic" in any sense of the word. The closest would be ground-breaking. Even that might be a stretch though.
SMB 3 was a very good game. I don't think of it the same way you do, though. I prefer Super Mario World because I thought that was both innovative and did things so well that it was a "classic" to me almost immediately.
As for the emulating problem, there may be a PCI-Express card you can plug into your machine that would be similar to the math co-processor from 486 days that would create "native" x86 code to run those older programs. Nothing like that has been created thus far (that I know about) so I may be totally off my rocker. I don't even know if it's feasible honestly.
yes, from HP, Samsung, Konica-Minolta, and Brother to name a few.
Replacement carts generally cost about as much as the printer, but have twice the toner in them of the original carts.
I hate bush too. I like it nice and smooth down there.
Oh, you're talkinga bout President Bush? I hate him too, but for different reasons....
The size thing is a real issue in Japan. Visit sometime and look at someone's apartment. They are jam-packed with tiny devices. I'm not saying it was a major factor in Xbox failing, but it was still a factor nonetheless.
Ok, the problem I have with your post is this:
Tell me how many people have made lots of money by being totally honest and hard working? How many of them would rather work than pay some poor schlub minimum wage to do it?
How many legitimate companies engage in borderline fraud and borderline theft? How many lobbyists have hard work and the good of the people in mind? This country is headed for the shitter and people don't seem to realize that greed drives 90% of this nation.....
The translation layer from nVidia to ATI is called Direct3D. They probably used more direct GPU programming than that though....
As for the emulation thing, wouldn't that be sort of similar to porting a game from PS2 to Xbox? I mean, they have the native Xbox code. Can't they just set up a translation layer a la DirectX to interpret and make it work?
Maybe they're just lazy. We can see how long it took them to get 64-bit support out when they started before the processors were available to consumers....
Thanks for the info. Everyhting I hear about this mouse makes me want to get it more and more and more.
It depended on where you went and whe you are talking about. The luanch titles, and a lot for the first year were that price. But after that not many games were that price at retail. They may have been labeled that price, but I never saw anyone pay that much around here. Everyone had sales to bring the games down to ~$50
Then again, the original PS and the Saturn had a lot of games at $60-70 near launch as well. Genesis did too.
I don't even use Macs that often and I have to agree with you. Developers that put *any* selection *only* in the right-click menu are evil. Even though I always use 2-button mice, sometimes I don't remember it's there so I'm looking in all the menus up top, not really remembering the right-click menu because it's not exactly uniform for all apps.
It also has a gigantic charger/receiver that you'd have to carry around as well, since as far as I know the MX1000 isn't bluetooth.
Don't get me wrong, I love the MX1000, just not for laptop travel use.
Except that with Mac OS running on Mac hardware only, they can control about 90% of what everything does and there will be very few bugs with a specific motherboard/pci card combination.
If they release the OS itself they won't have that same control over the hardware, so they have no guarantees that the software will work as intended, in any capacity.
I honestly think Apple is very smart in this. It avoids a lot of support calls asking "where do I find this control panel?" because they put it one place. In the Windows world the control panel can be here, there, everywhere, depending on who built the software image for the computer that day.
Basically, if Apple sells Mac OS by itself, they will lose their well-known reputation of "it just works." And don't say that "it's unsupported" saves them from this. Customers will still complain and call the tech support number when they're trying to install OS 10.5 on their HP and it doesn't work because the OS doesn't like that particular motherboard.
If you say they won't, try working tech support or a technician's bench in Best Buy or CompUSA or something.
You mean the ones made for rifles that are used pretty much exclusively by military snipers?
And yes, the automatic handguns being allowed to be sold to just anyone I don't agree with either, but that's like saying you should sue the company that created the Patriot missile because it could be used by non-military people to kill civilians.
If it was unfavorable, then only "God" could have made life happen and string it along until it could live in what environment was provided.
I put God in quotes because this is all theoretical, and I don't think God works in this way. I do still believe in God, though.
A hunch can be enough to take someone in on, but not always. And it's never enough to keep them in lockup for more than an hour or so that it takes to do all the filing of paperwork.
At least that's what they teach on cop shows. Which probably invalidates all this evidence, but oh well.