If it was, Sega would still be making consoles. Sega made so many consoles that failed in the industry that when the Dreamcast came out no one was interested because several of their previous machines had failed. Microsoft can't allow Xbox to fail and then produce Xbox2 and then Xbox3 and then Xbox4 until one of them works because people just won't buy something that has repeatedly failed.
In the Cinema, not off the net. She said it was OK, on par with the first film. Daniel Radcliffe still can't act very well but the adult performances were fantastic as before. Also, this film is less suitable for very young children as she claims it has some very scary scenes for its rating (the Serpent in particular). The special effects were fantastic with the flying car sequence being performed very acceptably. I just wish JK Rowling would hurry up with the fifth book, but I suppose I'd rather wait another 6 months for a good book than 1 more week for a crap one.
Sure the GUI is ugly, but it is customisable. The default Windows XP GUI is the ugliest piece of crap in the world but it can be customised. Obviously the person who submitted the GUI shots just has no taste.
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A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org">SDL has hundreds of free and excellent games which are written in C. They compile for any platform that has the library available for it. Why not try Project Starfighter, a good example of fun games written with SDL.
I don't think anyone will topple Google's crown until they implement a decent spell checker. With Google I've always been able to find what I'm looking for, even if I don't know how to spell it.
I've heard people say that, "not many people have broadband." However, the people buying these systems most often do. I suspect that the percentage of Xbox owners with broadband is much higher than average.
Broadband in the UK is still too expensive for Joe Average. Quite a few people still don't even have an internet connection at home.
You might not think that this matters but now the X-box has dropped in price in Europe and more people can afford one I think some people are in for a shock when they find out that playing online games with their X-box is going to cost them between £30-40 per month. And that's after they've forked out an additional £70+ one off connection fee. I can't see little Timmy's parents paying for that.
I think that something Microsoft didn't realise is that in the games console market quantity is better than quality. Look at the N64 for instance.
Most of its games were very high quality, but there really weren't very many games.PlayStation on the other hand had some very high quality games and hundreds (if not thousands) of middling to poor games. Just walking into a games store and seeing rows upon rows of PSOne games versus a couple of shelves worth of N64 games was enough for most people to decide which console they wanted.
I live in Europe and now it's £199 it becomes quite attractive but what I have noticed is that in the States there's an add on disc for DOA3 coming out in June. I know that it's only enhancements but how long will it be before a developer decides to release a game to make their deadline with the intention of releasing an patch for it poorly diguised as an add on?
I got bored of using Windows years ago. It has nothing to offer me anymore, except maybe Word so that I can write my CV/Resume. Games? Endless supply of FPS where you run around an Arena with a rocket launcher don't do anything for me. What do most of you use your Windows machines for? Sorry, most of you probably use Linux now, with Wine installed so that you can run all your favourite Windows Apps. Linux has solved nothing.
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If it was, Sega would still be making consoles. Sega made so many consoles that failed in the industry that when the Dreamcast came out no one was interested because several of their previous machines had failed. Microsoft can't allow Xbox to fail and then produce Xbox2 and then Xbox3 and then Xbox4 until one of them works because people just won't buy something that has repeatedly failed.
Grow upfaggits! will be watchign sci-fi in your parnets basement for the reast of yourlives!
At least we can spell. You should be nice to nerds, in a few years time they'll be the ones with all the money.
In the Cinema, not off the net. She said it was OK, on par with the first film. Daniel Radcliffe still can't act very well but the adult performances were fantastic as before. Also, this film is less suitable for very young children as she claims it has some very scary scenes for its rating (the Serpent in particular). The special effects were fantastic with the flying car sequence being performed very acceptably. I just wish JK Rowling would hurry up with the fifth book, but I suppose I'd rather wait another 6 months for a good book than 1 more week for a crap one.
Sure the GUI is ugly, but it is customisable. The default Windows XP GUI is the ugliest piece of crap in the world but it can be customised. Obviously the person who submitted the GUI shots just has no taste.
They did, in The Dark Knight Returns
Batman won, but then had a heart attack.
How do you do that? If you patent a product then no one is allowed to copy it. But since my body might produce this gene what happens?
"Well I'm afraid that you've got the gene, but what's worse is that a US company is suing you for infringement."
Will you vote for bush again? *sigh*
I didn't think anyone did.
Yes, it's used to describe something that's more sleek. However, if something is even more sleek, then it would be sleekierer
Maybe DC will get their act together, and then CowboyNeal can fufil his wildest dreams as the Green Lantern.
Or maybe Capcom will get around to producing the much wanted Marvel Vs DC game.
Obviously you've never written a song or a commercial computer program. Your opinion of what is theft would be very different if you did.
given Xbox's current situation, will there be anyone left to play it next May?
A HREF="http://www.libsdl.org">SDL has hundreds of free and excellent games which are written in C. They compile for any platform that has the library available for it. Why not try Project Starfighter, a good example of fun games written with SDL.
I'm sure the slashdot-crowd will be more interested in bplan's [bplan-gmbh.de] more open PPC-board.
Fuck me, it's a MorphOS troll who's jealous that no one outside the Amiga community even knows that it exists...
that MAME will be eradicated too? That's my only other reason for owning a computer.
I don't think anyone will topple Google's crown until they implement a decent spell checker. With Google I've always been able to find what I'm looking for, even if I don't know how to spell it.
Jesus, that's one hell of a comment. It never gets closed, I'm suprised your post appeared.
Broadband in the UK is still too expensive for Joe Average. Quite a few people still don't even have an internet connection at home.
You might not think that this matters but now the X-box has dropped in price in Europe and more people can afford one I think some people are in for a shock when they find out that playing online games with their X-box is going to cost them between £30-40 per month. And that's after they've forked out an additional £70+ one off connection fee. I can't see little Timmy's parents paying for that.
Most of its games were very high quality, but there really weren't very many games.PlayStation on the other hand had some very high quality games and hundreds (if not thousands) of middling to poor games. Just walking into a games store and seeing rows upon rows of PSOne games versus a couple of shelves worth of N64 games was enough for most people to decide which console they wanted.
I live in Europe and now it's £199 it becomes quite attractive but what I have noticed is that in the States there's an add on disc for DOA3 coming out in June. I know that it's only enhancements but how long will it be before a developer decides to release a game to make their deadline with the intention of releasing an patch for it poorly diguised as an add on?
He's a 10 year old boy for Christ's sake
Isn't the whole point that he gets lured over to the Dark Side? If he was evil to begin with it would be kind of crap wouldn't it?
What do you think Slashdot is for? I'll tell you what it's for:
It's so that people like me don't have spent hours trawling through every single damn website for new information.
What do you think the Times is for? It's for people who don't have time to travel the world every day to find out what's going on.
And besides, if you view these pages as often as you say this should be old news to you now.
then they wouldn't need to do this would they?
I got bored of using Windows years ago. It has nothing to offer me anymore, except maybe Word so that I can write my CV/Resume. Games? Endless supply of FPS where you run around an Arena with a rocket launcher don't do anything for me. What do most of you use your Windows machines for? Sorry, most of you probably use Linux now, with Wine installed so that you can run all your favourite Windows Apps. Linux has solved nothing.