And the PS2.5 has a smaller hard drive than the PS2.
What are you talking about? The PS2 didn't come with a hard drive at all. Do you perhaps mean the 40GB drive that came with the PS2 Linux development kit? I don't think that really counts.
I would hardly call something a mere 0.5 increment if the full 1.0 increment has a couple of features that nobody would use.
That's all Nintendo can be criticized for since they don't seem to have released a price yet.
That and the "Look I'm just like an iPod, I'm innovative too!" case design.
How about all those extra features that aren't in the entry level PS3:
Card reader Does anyone actually care that the barebones PS3 isn't going to have a card reader? Last time I checked the XBox 2 (or "360" if you must) doesn't have a card reader and the Wii only has SD. How many people will use card readers on a console? Doesn't everyone use USB flash drives these days?
WiFi Well, the XBox 2 has that, but you have to pay an extra $100 for the privilege. The Wii does have Wi-Fi (Wii-Fi:), but you need to pay extra if you want wired ethernet.
Lack of vibration No consoles seem to have this now. I suspect that the vibration had to be taken out due to a patent troll.
Big hard drive: Sony offers a 20GB HDD or a 60GB one with the premium version. Well, the XBox 2 has no hard drive unless you 'upgrade' to the premium system and then you get 20GB. Wii has nothing.
So what's the problem with the low-end PS3 again?
No I'm not a Sony Compuer Entertainment fanboy having never purchased a game console. I'm a PC gamer (flame on).
If anyone knows of a way to record AND EDIT macros I'd dearly love to know about it.
The regular 'qv' '@v' method of recording and playing back results in something like this in.vininfo: "v CHAR 0 ~@>i^M# Site variation^M^[yypi~@ku# ~@kd~@>^[
The ^M and ~@ characters above are control-characters that can't be just copied and pasted btw.
You can do (more or less) the same thing by putting the following in/etc/vim/vimrc:
map,v <HOME>i<CR># Site variation<CR><ESC>yyp<UP>i# <DOWN><DOWN><HOME><CR><UP><UP><ESC>
but then of course you lose the benefits of the record feature in the first place.
So how does one translate one to the other without a whole heap of sed?
I see that these classic versions are only available as a set with the 2004 DVD editions.
I'm wondering, with the extra time they have had this time if they will take a bit of effort to fix the stuff-ups that occured the first time around. Mr "Three days and 600 Macs" Lowry Digital made some rather embarrasing cock-ups in the 2004 release.
To name the top ones:
1. Terrible lightsabre reproduction due to improperly calibrated colour correction. See First shot inside Millennium Falcon with Luke practising his sabre skills. His "fathers lightsabre" is green. Check out the ROTJ Luke/Vader battle. Vaders sabre changes from light pink to deep red continuously. I don't think Lowry grasped that irrespective of the ambient lighting a lightsabre always saturates the frame.
2. Music in ANH has rear channels reversed. Note that doesn't mean the voices or FX are reversed, just the music. If your sound system is good enough to pick up where instruments are placed in the 'room' this channel reversal ruins the whole effect.
3. Sound levels have been altered, with a bias towards FX. In the Battle of Yavin at some points the music is almost inaudiable.
4. Not a Lowry issue, but please put back "You're lucky you don't taste too good" and "Bring my shuttle" in ESB. Lucas has said they had just grabbed the wrong archive tape at some point and gotten a different take so this one shouldn't be too hard if the archives are still intact.
(I've posted this response to other posts in this thread).
I was put on to this extension by another reply here. It certainly is a useful extension.
However the Undo Closed Tab/Closed Tabs List features are not as good as it could be. They do not actually save/restore the tabs, they just cache URLs.
This means if you had any data on that page (a form, for example) it's gone forever.
The problem is you come on nearly every game post - games that are windows only - and then whine about it not playing on your nerd box.
No I don't. I am a linux gamer (not an oxymoron despite reports to the contrary) and rarely post on windows-only game articles. I do of course read said articles.
Recall that my original post was a reply to someone who claimed that HL2 worked fine on his Linux box. My 'whine' was not that the game did not work 100%, it was that people were claiming the game worked 100% when it does not.
That just sets up people for disappointment when they discover the experience isn't what they expected and makes out us FOSS advocates as liars or at the least gross exaggerators.
Thanks I was put onto this extension by another reply here. It certainly is a useful extension.
However the Undo Closed Tab/Closed Tabs List features are not as good as it could be. They do not actually save/restore the tabs, they just cache URLs.
This means if you had any data on that page (a form, for example) it's gone forever.
That means if you have a 1400x1050 screen and a maximised firefox window with only 10 tabs (about 135px each with chrome) you are likely to accidentaly close one every 50 clicks. That's not good enough.
At the moment I have three windows open each about 75% screen size, with about 25 tabs each. Each tab is about (launches kruler) 40px. What do you think the error rate will be there once a 10px close button is introduced?
I've just been told that the term "Fundamentally Bad UI Paradigm" has now cropped up on the gnome mailing list (with regards to this bug creeping into gnome-terminal).
Thank you for putting me onto Tab Mix Plus. It certainly is a useful extension.
However the Undo Closed Tab/Closed Tabs List features are not as good as it could be. They do not actually save/restore the tabs, they just cache URLs.
This means if you had any data on that page (a form, for example) it's gone forever.
I don't know what a CollecoVision is, but the point I was trying to make is that the game cannot be experienced under Linux to the full extent that it can be under Windows.
Some features (in this case utilizing what's known in the windows world as DirectX9 features) are missing from the port. This won't necessarily make the game any less playable and some people may find it just as enjoyable but it's still not running to its full potential.
These are the standards we should not lower. If a game works 95% as well as it's supposed to (ie has missing bits) then say it works 95%, don't say it "works fine".
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And the PS2.5 has a smaller hard drive than the PS2.
What are you talking about? The PS2 didn't come with a hard drive at all. Do you perhaps mean the 40GB drive that came with the PS2 Linux development kit? I don't think that really counts.
I would hardly call something a mere 0.5 increment if the full 1.0 increment has a couple of features that nobody would use.
That's all Nintendo can be criticized for since they don't seem to have released a price yet.
:), but you need to pay extra if you want wired ethernet.
That and the "Look I'm just like an iPod, I'm innovative too!" case design.
How about all those extra features that aren't in the entry level PS3:
Card reader
Does anyone actually care that the barebones PS3 isn't going to have a card reader? Last time I checked the XBox 2 (or "360" if you must) doesn't have a card reader and the Wii only has SD. How many people will use card readers on a console? Doesn't everyone use USB flash drives these days?
WiFi
Well, the XBox 2 has that, but you have to pay an extra $100 for the privilege. The Wii does have Wi-Fi (Wii-Fi
Lack of vibration
No consoles seem to have this now.
I suspect that the vibration had to be taken out due to a patent troll.
Big hard drive:
Sony offers a 20GB HDD or a 60GB one with the premium version. Well, the XBox 2 has no hard drive unless you 'upgrade' to the premium system and then you get 20GB. Wii has nothing.
So what's the problem with the low-end PS3 again?
No I'm not a Sony Compuer Entertainment fanboy having never purchased a game console. I'm a PC gamer (flame on).
Wait, wait.
You're saying that the PS3 is junky and that irrational Sony fanboyism is more prevalent than irrational MS or Nintendo fanboyism?
Hahahahahaaaa
snort
(wipes tear from eye)
Thanks, I needed that.
Gran Turismo? Who said anything about car racing games?
Look, if you think Sony needs to die before Microsoft does then you have major reality issues.
I hope Nintendo and Microsoft have enough patents to bury Sony, because they really, freakin' deserve it.
Are you sure you've really thought that one through?
And why the subsequent reviews for that POS were more scathing than those for any movie in history.
I hope this version has better macro handling.
.vininfo:
/etc/vim/vimrc:
,v <HOME>i<CR># Site variation<CR><ESC>yyp<UP>i# <DOWN><DOWN><HOME><CR><UP><UP><ESC>
If anyone knows of a way to record AND EDIT macros I'd dearly love to know about it.
The regular 'qv' '@v' method of recording and playing back results in something like this in
"v CHAR 0
~@>i^M# Site variation^M^[yypi~@ku# ~@kd~@>^[
The ^M and ~@ characters above are control-characters that can't be just copied and pasted btw.
You can do (more or less) the same thing by putting the following in
map
but then of course you lose the benefits of the record feature in the first place.
So how does one translate one to the other without a whole heap of sed?
Coryoth said: ...
That Emacs is a huge memory hog
Agreed 100%
I know, I know I'm quoting you out of context but you must've smiled a bit...
There's .... too many of them!
I see that these classic versions are only available as a set with the 2004 DVD editions.
I'm wondering, with the extra time they have had this time if they will take a bit of effort to fix the stuff-ups that occured the first time around. Mr "Three days and 600 Macs" Lowry Digital made some rather embarrasing cock-ups in the 2004 release.
To name the top ones:
1. Terrible lightsabre reproduction due to improperly calibrated colour correction. See First shot inside Millennium Falcon with Luke practising his sabre skills. His "fathers lightsabre" is green. Check out the ROTJ Luke/Vader battle. Vaders sabre changes from light pink to deep red continuously. I don't think Lowry grasped that irrespective of the ambient lighting a lightsabre always saturates the frame.
2. Music in ANH has rear channels reversed. Note that doesn't mean the voices or FX are reversed, just the music. If your sound system is good enough to pick up where instruments are placed in the 'room' this channel reversal ruins the whole effect.
3. Sound levels have been altered, with a bias towards FX. In the Battle of Yavin at some points the music is almost inaudiable.
4. Not a Lowry issue, but please put back "You're lucky you don't taste too good" and "Bring my shuttle" in ESB. Lucas has said they had just grabbed the wrong archive tape at some point and gotten a different take so this one shouldn't be too hard if the archives are still intact.
Have you considered that perhaps you might have a problem with children in general?
However true we wish they might be.
You're right, the guy does make outlandish and often wrong predictions, but this time he may actually be on to something.
Can you imagine an IT world without Microsoft? I can, and it's a great deal better than the status quo.
I just finished watching American Pie and came to the same conclusion.
A good post, but go have a look in a panda's mouth. Lots of sharp canines, but you won't see many of them eating meat.
One or two of them have gone ape and killed a sheep every now and then but generally they eat bamboo.
I hear the scottish version of this console is shipping with a Wii DRM.
You're making it sound like people are clambering to scoop up these hot items as soon as they hit the shelves.
:)
The stockpiles of XBox360s gathering dust in my local deparment stores would beg to differ.
The PS2s are still moving well though
(I've posted this response to other posts in this thread).
I was put on to this extension by another reply here. It certainly is a useful extension.
However the Undo Closed Tab/Closed Tabs List features are not as good as it could be. They do not actually save/restore the tabs, they just cache URLs.
This means if you had any data on that page (a form, for example) it's gone forever.
The problem is you come on nearly every game post - games that are windows only - and then whine about it not playing on your nerd box.
No I don't. I am a linux gamer (not an oxymoron despite reports to the contrary) and rarely post on windows-only game articles. I do of course read said articles.
Recall that my original post was a reply to someone who claimed that HL2 worked fine on his Linux box. My 'whine' was not that the game did not work 100%, it was that people were claiming the game worked 100% when it does not.
That just sets up people for disappointment when they discover the experience isn't what they expected and makes out us FOSS advocates as liars or at the least gross exaggerators.
Thanks I was put onto this extension by another reply here. It certainly is a useful extension.
However the Undo Closed Tab/Closed Tabs List features are not as good as it could be. They do not actually save/restore the tabs, they just cache URLs.
This means if you had any data on that page (a form, for example) it's gone forever.
2% accidental close rate at 135Px?
That means if you have a 1400x1050 screen and a maximised firefox window with only 10 tabs (about 135px each with chrome) you are likely to accidentaly close one every 50 clicks. That's not good enough.
At the moment I have three windows open each about 75% screen size, with about 25 tabs each. Each tab is about (launches kruler) 40px. What do you think the error rate will be there once a 10px close button is introduced?
I've just been told that the term "Fundamentally Bad UI Paradigm" has now cropped up on the gnome mailing list (with regards to this bug creeping into gnome-terminal).
Thank you for putting me onto Tab Mix Plus. It certainly is a useful extension.
However the Undo Closed Tab/Closed Tabs List features are not as good as it could be. They do not actually save/restore the tabs, they just cache URLs.
This means if you had any data on that page (a form, for example) it's gone forever.
Putting close buttons in individual tabs is nothing but evil, wrong and stupid.
One mis-click on a tab (which is very common when managing a dozen or so tabs) and you've just closed an important page with no confirmation dialog.
See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335453 for the current gnome-terminal fiasco.
Just don't do it.
I don't know what a CollecoVision is, but the point I was trying to make is that the game cannot be experienced under Linux to the full extent that it can be under Windows.
Some features (in this case utilizing what's known in the windows world as DirectX9 features) are missing from the port. This won't necessarily make the game any less playable and some people may find it just as enjoyable but it's still not running to its full potential.
These are the standards we should not lower. If a game works 95% as well as it's supposed to (ie has missing bits) then say it works 95%, don't say it "works fine".
...it only supports the DX8 renderpath, so you miss out on some of the eyecandy.
Unfortunately that means it doesn't work just fine. It only partially works.
I don't believe that just because we're linux gamers we need to lower our standards.