dream cast is dead - piracy may have something to do with that.
maybe not though
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just saw the original recently. funny, great action, great characters a perfect combination of banged up cheese with slick perfection.
no, I think the quality has gone down quite a bit.
actually you proved your lack of knowledge too, Star Office is open source, see openoffice.org.
Otherwise, yeah, duplication is as bad as it seems. What is annoying is that in areas where duplication, or better put competition could really help, like a cleaner underlying window system, there aren't any choices except one.
slackware with blackbox:)
I would try debian, but slackware is just so freakin' easy and straight forward, everything seems to be in the right place.
of course, I do wipe everything but my home partition on an upgrade, so maybe debian has the advantage there:)
I like blackbox - most of the configuration can be done from a menu and it is very small and simple - and in my opinion, very pretty and elegant looking.
I can't believe they'll be able to do this - they are already losing at least $100 per box. The parts that are in the xbox, while they might be old in a year or two will still cost money.
Example - ever need just a 2 gig harddrive? Was it 1/5 the cost of a ten giger?
Or ever try to buy a pentium?
Of course ms will have access that we don't but I don't see the parts and supplies for this thing coming down to $200.
hey, how bout a link? I've heard these 'comparisons' in article after article. they say the same thing, 'we don't know jack about gecko, but this other CPU which is _close_ isn't as powerful'. come on, does that really seem fair?
good point!
if other slashdot posters are like me, its been so long since we had to deal with a windows box that we don't know how to diss it anymore:)
I think in general, Linux is more efficient and faster. X however is a different story, and it has nothing to do with the fact that it runs over a network.
X windows sends a refresh event every freaking time a damaged window is revealed. this doesn't make sense, and it means that switching windows and creating menus looks sluggish and cumbersome no matter how fast the hardware.
other window systems like plan9 simply store the overlapping layers and let the server (read the display) do the work rather than sending a refresh event.
now, there is work being done to resolve some of this. Keith Packard is implementing this in X as we speak, but it takes time, X is filled with a lot of cruft from years of being pulled in many directions.
unfortunately, for now - X is just not the best example of Linux's effeciency. so anything that runs on top of it is going to be slow and big, at least compared to windows. then again, the killer feature that windows simply , can't do, and it shops should drool over is the fact that you can run it over a network! so all in all, I think it is a fair trade off, though there could be a better solution, granted.
most college grads cs or not are getting some linux exposure these days, those that arent are getting it in the work place.
the fact is, linux isn't that hard to administer and someone with basic experience can do a decent job; especially for an in house lan which doesn't get too much traffic or exposure.
your comment about unix admins not wanting to reset passwords for morons, represents a very windows centric view in my opinion. i've been around windows enough to know that it is so frustrating when things continually don't work that you just end up venting a lot of that on the users because your time is so limited and the repeated duties (rebooting, patching, etc.) are so high.
frankly, with linux/unix, while everything is far from perfect, most things are designed better to begin with. reset passwords? write a quick shell script, or just set them to expire. it's really not that big a deal, and neither is anything else you will think of.
saying there is lack of experienced workers is just an excuse, and a poor one at that. people are realizing that linux is quite friendly to admin, more so than unix, and allows the organization to save on upfront licencse and hardware costs as well as ongoing maintance and headache costs.
the warm water is a waste product - not a big deal if it is going into the pacific, but when it goes into a river it can change things enough to alter the ecosystem
dude, your not getting it - haven't you ever worked in a company that is behind a firewall? you can't modify things that you don't have permission too!
of course. at home you can do port forwarding or whatever, but a nice p2p app shouldn't require the user to do all that.
that requires changing the firewall, not an option for many who want to quickly connect and disconnect - I'm talking about a pure behind the firewall, solution.
currently it looks like proxies are the only way, like I said, with the help of a third party.
yes, but I believe the solution rests with a layer on top of the internet - namely something like peer to peer systems of today where nodes can shift more easily, appear and disapear without hurting the overall network.
the real problem is with NAT (network address translation). How to two peers behind such a NAT firewall anounce their presence to each other and then communicate without the assistance of a 3rd peer with a proper IP address and place on the internet. if anyone knows the answer to this quiestion, I'd love to hear it!
really, how do you announce a service behind a firewall? that seems to be the question of the day.
I agree totally - that was a really lame and uncalled for slam by Taco.
I too thought that Rogue Leader was going to be lame when I first played it. The first board is so slow and easy it seems like a joke, but wait a little longer and you are in for the ride of your life!
This game is genuinly great - a few examples:
1. totally smooth framerate - its a monster 60 fps at all times regardless, period. makes for incredible play.
2. great graphics and really good scenery, pretty much the screenshots & previews are what you get, simply astounding.
3. it's Star Wars! it's not some secret parallel star wars universe, it's actually the movies, you blow up the death star, you bring down AT's in hoth, you blow up the second Death Star, just great! Everything is just like the movie, which is a first and a welcome one.
4. AI - there are actually different levels of AI in the game all coming together at once! this is actually something I've never seen in a game. The groups of plans actually behave differently and swirl around you in a reallys stunning way. Bombers, tie's advanced tie's all doing there own thing all at once. They are clever too in the later boards, very slippery and hard to shoot down.
This is absolutely a real treat and I hope slashdot readers don't miss out by taking Taco's smug comments at face value - give it a chance, I think you'll enjoy it!
> Too bad IGN, Nintendo, and your "relative" have
> no facts to back that up. In our area, the XBOXES
> are outselling the GCN at LEAST 3:1, with EB going
> through entire shipments of 10+ in a day, while
> GCN shipments of the same size take about two
> days, if not a little more.
And where are your facts? eh?
everything I've seen and heard says that the gamecube is selling excellently and the xbox is selling well but notvery well. the gamecube sold out in about 3 days, and nintendo had to increase shipments of another 200,000 boxes to the us, with an estimate of 1.3 million by Christmas.
http://www.cube-europe.com/news/221101a.html
Oh, and by the way, GameCube had the BIGGEST LAUNCH EVER! that's right, bigger than the xbux
http://www.planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?action=it em &id=2408
so, uh, neener neener neener!
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actually, the decision still isn't that hard, just use the $100 you saved to buy a dvd player.
dream cast is dead - piracy may have something to do with that.
maybe not though
just saw the original recently. funny, great action, great characters a perfect combination of banged up cheese with slick perfection.
no, I think the quality has gone down quite a bit.
actually you proved your lack of knowledge too, Star Office is open source, see openoffice.org.
Otherwise, yeah, duplication is as bad as it seems. What is annoying is that in areas where duplication, or better put competition could really help, like a cleaner underlying window system, there aren't any choices except one.
slackware with blackbox :)
:)
I would try debian, but slackware is just so freakin' easy and straight forward, everything seems to be in the right place.
of course, I do wipe everything but my home partition on an upgrade, so maybe debian has the advantage there
black box is great! very small and fast, pretty too.
it has a very neat and tidy look and feel to it.
I like blackbox - most of the configuration can be done from a menu and it is very small and simple - and in my opinion, very pretty and elegant looking.
nedit is nice too, but of course I use vim.
gee, I don't think I'll be downloading that ROM anytime soon.
I must be imagining posting this from mozilla with flash, java & ssl fully enabled. my bad.
actually what soured me on debian was the whole KDE2 bullsh*t - I defiantly use slackware to this day because of it.
I don't think MS would be dumb enough to take a performance hit on encryption/decryption, not in a high perf game box.
I can't believe they'll be able to do this - they are already losing at least $100 per box. The parts that are in the xbox, while they might be old in a year or two will still cost money.
Example - ever need just a 2 gig harddrive? Was it 1/5 the cost of a ten giger?
Or ever try to buy a pentium?
Of course ms will have access that we don't but I don't see the parts and supplies for this thing coming down to $200.
then never mind, thanks for help!
while your at it, would you mind pointing me to the full win32 api? those wine developers seem to be too stupid to do a search.
oh, and how about SMB? those idiots at samba sure are having a hard time getting it right, it's right there on MSDN right?
oh, and darn it those Tom fools who can't figure out Exchange - could you help them out too?
thanks a lot, we're pretty naive not being professional programers you know
hey, how bout a link? I've heard these 'comparisons' in article after article. they say the same thing, 'we don't know jack about gecko, but this other CPU which is _close_ isn't as powerful'. come on, does that really seem fair?
heh, I'd like to see them do this for an xbox.
the product has an adapter for a car - I can only imagine what such a setup would do to the battery!
good point! :)
if other slashdot posters are like me, its been so long since we had to deal with a windows box that we don't know how to diss it anymore
I think in general, Linux is more efficient and faster. X however is a different story, and it has nothing to do with the fact that it runs over a network.
X windows sends a refresh event every freaking time a damaged window is revealed. this doesn't make sense, and it means that switching windows and creating menus looks sluggish and cumbersome no matter how fast the hardware.
other window systems like plan9 simply store the overlapping layers and let the server (read the display) do the work rather than sending a refresh event.
now, there is work being done to resolve some of this. Keith Packard is implementing this in X as we speak, but it takes time, X is filled with a lot of cruft from years of being pulled in many directions.
unfortunately, for now - X is just not the best example of Linux's effeciency. so anything that runs on top of it is going to be slow and big, at least compared to windows. then again, the killer feature that windows simply , can't do, and it shops should drool over is the fact that you can run it over a network! so all in all, I think it is a fair trade off, though there could be a better solution, granted.
most college grads cs or not are getting some linux exposure these days, those that arent are getting it in the work place.
the fact is, linux isn't that hard to administer and someone with basic experience can do a decent job; especially for an in house lan which doesn't get too much traffic or exposure.
your comment about unix admins not wanting to reset passwords for morons, represents a very windows centric view in my opinion. i've been around windows enough to know that it is so frustrating when things continually don't work that you just end up venting a lot of that on the users because your time is so limited and the repeated duties (rebooting, patching, etc.) are so high.
frankly, with linux/unix, while everything is far from perfect, most things are designed better to begin with. reset passwords? write a quick shell script, or just set them to expire. it's really not that big a deal, and neither is anything else you will think of.
saying there is lack of experienced workers is just an excuse, and a poor one at that. people are realizing that linux is quite friendly to admin, more so than unix, and allows the organization to save on upfront licencse and hardware costs as well as ongoing maintance and headache costs.
linux is a win win, period
the warm water is a waste product - not a big deal if it is going into the pacific, but when it goes into a river it can change things enough to alter the ecosystem
or so I've heard.
where do I say that it is possible to modify the firewall?
dude, your not getting it - haven't you ever worked in a company that is behind a firewall? you can't modify things that you don't have permission too!
of course. at home you can do port forwarding or whatever, but a nice p2p app shouldn't require the user to do all that.
that requires changing the firewall, not an option for many who want to quickly connect and disconnect - I'm talking about a pure behind the firewall, solution.
currently it looks like proxies are the only way, like I said, with the help of a third party.
yes, but I believe the solution rests with a layer on top of the internet - namely something like peer to peer systems of today where nodes can shift more easily, appear and disapear without hurting the overall network.
the real problem is with NAT (network address translation). How to two peers behind such a NAT firewall anounce their presence to each other and then communicate without the assistance of a 3rd peer with a proper IP address and place on the internet. if anyone knows the answer to this quiestion, I'd love to hear it!
really, how do you announce a service behind a firewall? that seems to be the question of the day.
I agree totally - that was a really lame and uncalled for slam by Taco.
I too thought that Rogue Leader was going to be lame when I first played it. The first board is so slow and easy it seems like a joke, but wait a little longer and you are in for the ride of your life!
This game is genuinly great - a few examples:
1. totally smooth framerate - its a monster 60 fps at all times regardless, period. makes for incredible play.
2. great graphics and really good scenery, pretty much the screenshots & previews are what you get, simply astounding.
3. it's Star Wars! it's not some secret parallel star wars universe, it's actually the movies, you blow up the death star, you bring down AT's in hoth, you blow up the second Death Star, just great! Everything is just like the movie, which is a first and a welcome one.
4. AI - there are actually different levels of AI in the game all coming together at once! this is actually something I've never seen in a game. The groups of plans actually behave differently and swirl around you in a reallys stunning way. Bombers, tie's advanced tie's all doing there own thing all at once. They are clever too in the later boards, very slippery and hard to shoot down.
This is absolutely a real treat and I hope slashdot readers don't miss out by taking Taco's smug comments at face value - give it a chance, I think you'll enjoy it!
> Too bad IGN, Nintendo, and your "relative" have
t em &id=2408
> no facts to back that up. In our area, the XBOXES
> are outselling the GCN at LEAST 3:1, with EB going
> through entire shipments of 10+ in a day, while
> GCN shipments of the same size take about two
> days, if not a little more.
And where are your facts? eh?
everything I've seen and heard says that the gamecube is selling excellently and the xbox is selling well but notvery well. the gamecube sold out in about 3 days, and nintendo had to increase shipments of another 200,000 boxes to the us, with an estimate of 1.3 million by Christmas.
http://www.cube-europe.com/news/221101a.html
Oh, and by the way, GameCube had the BIGGEST LAUNCH EVER! that's right, bigger than the xbux
http://www.planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?action=i
so, uh, neener neener neener!