" One little headphone jack would add next to no cost, take up next to no space, and provide a great feature."
That's not the complete picture. The digital signal going from the frame buffer to the LCD screen is *not* NTSC. It would have to be coverted. It'd need a chip plus some form of RF modulator, and those aren't exactly small. Plus they'd have to figure out how to work it in to the existing design.
Sorry, but I don't see you getting a compact enough system that'll pull this off.
"Are you suggesting the proper thing to do is to wait until something bad happens?"
The government is damned if they do, and damned if they don't. Makes you wonder what would have happened if the gov't had managed to shoot down all 4 planes. Lotsa ppl would have been against it.
"Maybe I'm just being naive, but it makes me believe that Nintendo, as a company, just might have a better philosophy and culture in regards to gaming. "
I was on board with that thought the moment Sony announced that the PS2 could push 66 million polygons a second. They were all single point polygons being drawn to a buffer that wasn't going to the screen. Nintendo showed us 3 cars rotating in real time, they like... oh correct me if I'm wrong, 150,000 polygons a piece? Maybe it was 100,000. Not sure. Anyway, that number sounds a hell of a lot lower, but at least it was a more or less a realistic gaming number vs. a "here's a high number a programer hacked out".
"I'm sorry you pet console didn't make it, but that's not Sony's fault. Sega has a terrible history with marketting anything."
So... Sega's at fault for not marketing it right, but that had nothing to do with competition? Wrong. The DC was successful, but Sega didn't have the money to keep building the units. Their marketing was fine, the capital was the hard part.
"The dreamcast died because of shitty programming interfaces and a weird dual-co-processor design."
Wrong. Dreamcast died because Sega couldn't afford to keep producing systems to sell. One of the last things the CEO of Sega did before he died was give all his stock back so they could stay afloat.
"RCA Video and Audio out jacks. You can find the real estate for it."
Hint to Sony: DO NOT waste your time on this. Don't raise the cost. Don't make it bigger. Don't make it more complex. Few people will do this. Instead, follow Nintendo's lead and make an adapter for the PS2 to do this.
"Nintendo has a stranglehold on handhelds, it will be tough for sony to break in, especially if their handheld is expensive. "
Not a very strong rationale. Remember, Sony burst into the lead in only one generation. The only magical force maintaining Nintendo's monopoly on this share is the incompetence of the companies competing with them. I mean seriously, a game machine that only lasts 3 hours on six AA's? Won't fit in your pocket? Doesn't have decent graphics? Sony might be the company that pulls this off. They at least have the R&D means.
I do agree, though, that they have an uphill battle ahead of them. Will people really care about the 3d graphics? Will they care about the optical medium, or will it just turn them away? Will the opening cost be too high? It's easier to solve these with a console, but man, portability is such a finnicky topic.
"The reason? Nintendo had a bunch of their chicks walking around with GBAs strapped to their hips, and both me and my friend had happened to run into them at the same time. "
Seeing as how the story's about E3, why's this off-topic? Seriously, how many of us are actually going to witness it? It's nice to hear about what goes on at these shows.
"It'll be complete with a hard drive, cpu, cpu fan, and disk drive. It'll be the size of a briefcase and weigh about 10 pounds. It'll also come in handy as a bludgeon. "
It'll also be inexplicably popular as a vapourware Linux box.
"This is nothing... I read it first as ?What Sex is [Best With] Your Robot??"
Man, imagine all the free time the ladies would have out there to chase jocks if that question were answered. Actually, if we got a good designer working on that robot, the balance of power could swing our way! "Flowers? Pff. Dinner? Ha!"
"One "feature" in Outlook e-mail that causes the worst problems with worms is being able to view an e-mail as a web page. I don't use it, it adds nothing to my e-mails, "
People like to customize the look of their emails. They wanna use the pretty font and the flowery background. Useful? No. But then again, niether is wallpaper.
"The most offending "feature" in IE is its active-x controls."
Sorry, but people hate installing plugins. They want auto install plugins. If you were ever a web developer during the dot com bubble, you instantly know what I'm talking about.
"In short, as a Windows user, these features don't do anything for me."
That's fine, but I wasn't confusing you as an individual with millions of people. You in particular want better security, but the ENTIRE point of what I was saying was that the security problem isn't visible enough for anybody to really care. Seriously. The only real way that the post I was replying to would be true is if he had said "What MS really needs to focus on (for their more advanced users who read Slashdot) is security. Nobody else really cares enough today." We are a destructive worm or two away from the masses caring enough that MS would make cuts in features. But, as I said before, destroying the host means you don't have a very strong propogation capability.
It's a no go. Security has to become the next big buzzword like e-commerce or 'push technology'.
"MHO that's because Windows users have given up on getting security. B-)"
I don't think this is true. The problem is that for a virus or a worm to really work, it has to keep the computer alive to reproduce. To do that, it can't draw obvious signs for the user to know it's even there. Once they know that, they're gonna wanna fix it. There was a recent one... eh was it Blaster? It kept rebooting the machine. Think about how much more damage it would have done if it didn't cause that "60 seconds to reboot" message to appear.
No, I don't think they're all that aware of it. They buy their anti-virus stuff, the worms that get in don't really cause mischief that they see, so problem solved (in their eyes).
"1. Dump lots of features. While beta testing and what not irons out the performance bugs.. catching security bugs is another problem all together. The more code you have the intractable secuirty becomes"
Problem is, people (particularly Windows users) buy features before they buy security. Sad, but true. I've made a nice little freelance business out of it. Funny thing is, though, I haven't had to do a whole lotta worm fixing for them. If they're keeping up with their machine, then the value of being 'worm proof' goes down even further, thus making Microsoft sting from the lack of features driving their sales.
"If I said something embarrassing I would want to deny it too. "
Perhaps, but what if you said something that was taken out of context? I bet a lot of movie reviewers are fumin over this type of behaviour. "Matrix Reloaded was awesome..."... compared to Battlefield Earth.
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" One little headphone jack would add next to no cost, take up next to no space, and provide a great feature."
That's not the complete picture. The digital signal going from the frame buffer to the LCD screen is *not* NTSC. It would have to be coverted. It'd need a chip plus some form of RF modulator, and those aren't exactly small. Plus they'd have to figure out how to work it in to the existing design.
Sorry, but I don't see you getting a compact enough system that'll pull this off.
"Are you suggesting the proper thing to do is to wait until something bad happens?"
The government is damned if they do, and damned if they don't. Makes you wonder what would have happened if the gov't had managed to shoot down all 4 planes. Lotsa ppl would have been against it.
"Maybe I'm just being naive, but it makes me believe that Nintendo, as a company, just might have a better philosophy and culture in regards to gaming. "
I was on board with that thought the moment Sony announced that the PS2 could push 66 million polygons a second. They were all single point polygons being drawn to a buffer that wasn't going to the screen. Nintendo showed us 3 cars rotating in real time, they like... oh correct me if I'm wrong, 150,000 polygons a piece? Maybe it was 100,000. Not sure. Anyway, that number sounds a hell of a lot lower, but at least it was a more or less a realistic gaming number vs. a "here's a high number a programer hacked out".
Frankly, I'd never trust Sony with specification.
"I'm sorry you pet console didn't make it, but that's not Sony's fault. Sega has a terrible history with marketting anything."
So... Sega's at fault for not marketing it right, but that had nothing to do with competition? Wrong. The DC was successful, but Sega didn't have the money to keep building the units. Their marketing was fine, the capital was the hard part.
"The dreamcast died because of shitty programming interfaces and a weird dual-co-processor design."
Wrong. Dreamcast died because Sega couldn't afford to keep producing systems to sell. One of the last things the CEO of Sega did before he died was give all his stock back so they could stay afloat.
"RCA Video and Audio out jacks. You can find the real estate for it."
Hint to Sony: DO NOT waste your time on this. Don't raise the cost. Don't make it bigger. Don't make it more complex. Few people will do this. Instead, follow Nintendo's lead and make an adapter for the PS2 to do this.
"Nintendo has a stranglehold on handhelds, it will be tough for sony to break in, especially if their handheld is expensive. "
Not a very strong rationale. Remember, Sony burst into the lead in only one generation. The only magical force maintaining Nintendo's monopoly on this share is the incompetence of the companies competing with them. I mean seriously, a game machine that only lasts 3 hours on six AA's? Won't fit in your pocket? Doesn't have decent graphics? Sony might be the company that pulls this off. They at least have the R&D means.
I do agree, though, that they have an uphill battle ahead of them. Will people really care about the 3d graphics? Will they care about the optical medium, or will it just turn them away? Will the opening cost be too high? It's easier to solve these with a console, but man, portability is such a finnicky topic.
"The reason? Nintendo had a bunch of their chicks walking around with GBAs strapped to their hips, and both me and my friend had happened to run into them at the same time. "
Seeing as how the story's about E3, why's this off-topic? Seriously, how many of us are actually going to witness it? It's nice to hear about what goes on at these shows.
"It'll be complete with a hard drive, cpu, cpu fan, and disk drive. It'll be the size of a briefcase and weigh about 10 pounds. It'll also come in handy as a bludgeon. "
It'll also be inexplicably popular as a vapourware Linux box.
"Calling it Nintendo's "next generation handheld" implies that it's a replacement for the GBA"
No it doesn't. Next Generation implies "newer technology". System replacement depends on other factors.
"Final Fantasy I Final Fantasy is the reason I picked Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and then Playstation and Playstation 2 :) -A "
... love the Final ....
... Fantasy Franchise, there....
... are problems with them that causes people to seek other genres.
A lot of people...
* Pauses to fight off an ogre *
* Pauses to fight off 2 Dragons *
* Pauses to fight off a flying whale *
* Spinning in the air punching the sky *
"The system with the best games will win. "
Actually it's the system with the most games that works. See Playstation 2.
"This is nothing... I read it first as ?What Sex is [Best With] Your Robot??"
Man, imagine all the free time the ladies would have out there to chase jocks if that question were answered. Actually, if we got a good designer working on that robot, the balance of power could swing our way! "Flowers? Pff. Dinner? Ha!"
"Linux has a UI development team? Giggle giggle, snort snort. Anyway, move on. "
What pisses me off is the original mod that saw this as 'interesting' is the only one that got my point. He who lives in a glass house etc.
"One "feature" in Outlook e-mail that causes the worst problems with worms is being able to view an e-mail as a web page. I don't use it, it adds nothing to my e-mails, "
People like to customize the look of their emails. They wanna use the pretty font and the flowery background. Useful? No. But then again, niether is wallpaper.
"The most offending "feature" in IE is its active-x controls."
Sorry, but people hate installing plugins. They want auto install plugins. If you were ever a web developer during the dot com bubble, you instantly know what I'm talking about.
"In short, as a Windows user, these features don't do anything for me."
That's fine, but I wasn't confusing you as an individual with millions of people. You in particular want better security, but the ENTIRE point of what I was saying was that the security problem isn't visible enough for anybody to really care. Seriously. The only real way that the post I was replying to would be true is if he had said "What MS really needs to focus on (for their more advanced users who read Slashdot) is security. Nobody else really cares enough today." We are a destructive worm or two away from the masses caring enough that MS would make cuts in features. But, as I said before, destroying the host means you don't have a very strong propogation capability.
It's a no go. Security has to become the next big buzzword like e-commerce or 'push technology'.
"MHO that's because Windows users have given up on getting security. B-)"
I don't think this is true. The problem is that for a virus or a worm to really work, it has to keep the computer alive to reproduce. To do that, it can't draw obvious signs for the user to know it's even there. Once they know that, they're gonna wanna fix it. There was a recent one... eh was it Blaster? It kept rebooting the machine. Think about how much more damage it would have done if it didn't cause that "60 seconds to reboot" message to appear.
No, I don't think they're all that aware of it. They buy their anti-virus stuff, the worms that get in don't really cause mischief that they see, so problem solved (in their eyes).
"Trusted computing, therefore, facilitates reduction of competition. "
Informative? Funny maybe, but informative? Is it informative if I paste one definition of open as in open source?
"Not yet decided; subject to further thought: an open question."
There's a few people out there that'd see that as an accurate / informative definition.
"Microsoft has security projects? "
Linux has a UI development team? Giggle giggle, snort snort. Anyway, move on.
"1. Dump lots of features. While beta testing and what not irons out the performance bugs.. catching security bugs is another problem all together. The more code you have the intractable secuirty becomes"
Problem is, people (particularly Windows users) buy features before they buy security. Sad, but true. I've made a nice little freelance business out of it. Funny thing is, though, I haven't had to do a whole lotta worm fixing for them. If they're keeping up with their machine, then the value of being 'worm proof' goes down even further, thus making Microsoft sting from the lack of features driving their sales.
Does it suck? Sure. Real life is funny like that.
"If I said something embarrassing I would want to deny it too. "
... compared to Battlefield Earth.
Perhaps, but what if you said something that was taken out of context? I bet a lot of movie reviewers are fumin over this type of behaviour. "Matrix Reloaded was awesome..."
Oh that reminds me, today's Friday isn't it?
"How does having a good memory give the genre a bad name? Please elaborate. "
Find a chick, tell her about the documentary, then explain to her that a Klingon never said that. When that's done, tell me about her reaction.
"Because Klingons are unlikely to think that since they are probably also made out of mostly water."
We don't know that. We do know they have lotsa bone, however. We also know they think we're ugly.
" It isn't a good name for the documentary. "
Nobody's provided a good reason for that. Frankly, it's a stupid dorky thing to nitpick.
"I'm sorry but it's people like this that give science fiction a bad name."
Worse is when the people say "It wasn't a Klingon that called people ugly bags of mostly water!"
"You don't think a phrase spoken by a Klingon would be more suitable to a film about people speaking Klingon? "
In this case, no. If the phrase had been "Oops, I did it again!" then yeah, there would be a question of suitability.