...and hope that the next console will still support the games you just bought.
You mean like subsequent versions of DirectX on Windows, or libc on Linux? I've given up trying to get Masters of Orion 2 running on my XP box. And it's a good thing id released the Quake source code, or I'd have to maintain a libc5 machine somewhere.
Heck, even subsequent versions of the operating system can be a problem. NT-based architectures have had a history of problems running games designed for DOS/Windows 9x. Even Linux has the potential for problems; support for A.OUT binaries isn't always enabled, since the format went out of style in the mid 90s.
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Sorry...but it already came out. And Apogee made damn good game of it. (I remember beating it on my 386. That, and Jill of the Jungle, which still has one of my favorite music soundtracks of all time.)
I'd have to double-check, but I could swear that the -regparm=3 option is available for any x86 CPU when you're compiling your linux kernel. I know it's available on my Duron, which is most definitely not AMD-64.
Modern CPUs frequently execute instructions out of order, where possible. Why not replace clock-based pipelines with clockless functional units, and allow the reorder buffer to put instructions back in the proper order.
What would you say if someone "absolutely needed" the featureset of the PPC970 architecture, but merely "strongly desired" the featureset and application base of Windows XP? That they have a lack of moral character for being able to do without something as frivilous as Windows XP?
My argument is about the economics of choice, not the morality of it.
There's no reason Free Software would have to shut Microsoft down. All they have to do is adapt, like every other business in any industry that's been threatened (or even closed down) by new technology.
The problem's that Microsoft has garnered so much faith in its "proven" strategy, that it would rather spend money on the PR and legal departments than on developing a plan to smoothly become a powerhouse in the area where their market is going.
Consumers frequently have specific things they want in what they buy. In this context, specific games come to mind. HDTV support. The ability to run Linux with a minimal amount of effort.
If there were generic clones of consoles, then, yes, a consumer would have a choice. You can choose from multiple brands of coffee makers that all do pretty much the same thing. But as long as manufacturers have monopolies on specific perks, a consumer set on one of those perks doesn't really have a choice.
You mean the same company that made/makes the groundbreaking IntelliEye mice and the Microsoft Natural keyboard? Force-feedback joysticks?
I'm not saying Microsoft is the only option for those products now, or even that they were the first to make them. They were, at one point, the primary consumer source brand for each of those products, when they first became popular. I wouldn't be surprised if stores chose to stock newly released Microsoft hardware, just because previous Microsoft hardware brought in a lot of customers.
And if there's enough demand for a product, a store won't have much economical choice but to stock it, anyway. For example, when Jordache first started selling jeans, few of the stores would stock them; They already had enough popular brands. So Jordache marketed directly to the consumer, through television ads. Consumers flocked to the stores, who then discovered they weren't stocking a product that had tremendous demand.
When lots of people walk into your store wanting to buy a product, you're sure as heck going to start stocking it.
So long as you don't spend much time in that environment, you should be fine; Air doesn't conduct heat well. Just make sure any part of you that touches a solid or (ak!) liquid) surface is insulated.
They recovered the data, later, during a data replay. (Think of rewinding a recording and transmitting it from the probe.) If there was a massive pit, they probably would have mentioned it.
Well, hopefully they'll be able to collect enough data to determine what their bottlenecks are. If they were smart, they set up logging scripts to watch such things as database connections, bandwidth used, CPU usage, etc.
Agreed completely, if you replace "mature" with "logical. For you and I, maturity implies logic, at least in the context of this discussion. However, if you think about it, children tend to be much more logical about things than "mature" people. After a few inquiries, they can frequently cut through the red tape of politics, prejudices and social-interaction nuances that tie the actions of their parents.
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Except that it doesn't have its own memory. Thats the killer. It has to share memory with the main system.
Mmm. Doom III on video hardware with access to 32GB of RAM. "Killer," indeed.
...and hope that the next console will still support the games you just bought.
You mean like subsequent versions of DirectX on Windows, or libc on Linux? I've given up trying to get Masters of Orion 2 running on my XP box. And it's a good thing id released the Quake source code, or I'd have to maintain a libc5 machine somewhere.
Heck, even subsequent versions of the operating system can be a problem. NT-based architectures have had a history of problems running games designed for DOS/Windows 9x. Even Linux has the potential for problems; support for A.OUT binaries isn't always enabled, since the format went out of style in the mid 90s.
We've seen cards with multiple GPUs before. The Voodoo 5 comes to mind.
I'll have to send you my personal log of Slashdot accesses sometime...
Thanks, I needed a new sig. (Had to paraphrase a little for space, sorry.)
Sorry, they'd pass right through it.
Duke Nukem? Forever delayed?
Sorry...but it already came out. And Apogee made damn good game of it. (I remember beating it on my 386. That, and Jill of the Jungle, which still has one of my favorite music soundtracks of all time.)
I'd have to double-check, but I could swear that the -regparm=3 option is available for any x86 CPU when you're compiling your linux kernel. I know it's available on my Duron, which is most definitely not AMD-64.
Modern CPUs frequently execute instructions out of order, where possible. Why not replace clock-based pipelines with clockless functional units, and allow the reorder buffer to put instructions back in the proper order.
Can Gecko be embeded in a compatible mshtml.dll replacement?
Note that it'll break things like Windows Update.
Arguments about the usefulness and modern cost of floppies aside, they'd still be cheaper if you didn't need the caddy.
To be fair, two of those three are advantages of AMD's 64-bit x86 spec, not of the CPU having 64-bit addressing.
I think they also have signed distributors up to exclusive agreements (don't carry any of our competitor's products, if you want to carry Microsoft).
They used to do this with Windows. But they were told not do do it anymore, and had their hand slapped.
What would you say if someone "absolutely needed" the featureset of the PPC970 architecture, but merely "strongly desired" the featureset and application base of Windows XP? That they have a lack of moral character for being able to do without something as frivilous as Windows XP?
My argument is about the economics of choice, not the morality of it.
There's no reason Free Software would have to shut Microsoft down. All they have to do is adapt, like every other business in any industry that's been threatened (or even closed down) by new technology.
The problem's that Microsoft has garnered so much faith in its "proven" strategy, that it would rather spend money on the PR and legal departments than on developing a plan to smoothly become a powerhouse in the area where their market is going.
Consumers frequently have specific things they want in what they buy. In this context, specific games come to mind. HDTV support. The ability to run Linux with a minimal amount of effort.
If there were generic clones of consoles, then, yes, a consumer would have a choice. You can choose from multiple brands of coffee makers that all do pretty much the same thing. But as long as manufacturers have monopolies on specific perks, a consumer set on one of those perks doesn't really have a choice.
You mean the same company that made/makes the groundbreaking IntelliEye mice and the Microsoft Natural keyboard? Force-feedback joysticks?
I'm not saying Microsoft is the only option for those products now, or even that they were the first to make them. They were, at one point, the primary consumer source brand for each of those products, when they first became popular. I wouldn't be surprised if stores chose to stock newly released Microsoft hardware, just because previous Microsoft hardware brought in a lot of customers.
And if there's enough demand for a product, a store won't have much economical choice but to stock it, anyway. For example, when Jordache first started selling jeans, few of the stores would stock them; They already had enough popular brands. So Jordache marketed directly to the consumer, through television ads. Consumers flocked to the stores, who then discovered they weren't stocking a product that had tremendous demand.
When lots of people walk into your store wanting to buy a product, you're sure as heck going to start stocking it.
So long as you don't spend much time in that environment, you should be fine; Air doesn't conduct heat well. Just make sure any part of you that touches a solid or (ak!) liquid) surface is insulated.
They recovered the data, later, during a data replay. (Think of rewinding a recording and transmitting it from the probe.) If there was a massive pit, they probably would have mentioned it.
Well, hopefully they'll be able to collect enough data to determine what their bottlenecks are. If they were smart, they set up logging scripts to watch such things as database connections, bandwidth used, CPU usage, etc.
They've stopped calling them "Halloween" documents? But October 31st is so close!
But the mental picture of an iPod sitting in a fish tank conducting an orchestra with a bone is just...odd.
Branding it "Java" does invoke the hype-based goodwill of management-types.
In a way, it's MORE mature...
Agreed completely, if you replace "mature" with "logical. For you and I, maturity implies logic, at least in the context of this discussion. However, if you think about it, children tend to be much more logical about things than "mature" people. After a few inquiries, they can frequently cut through the red tape of politics, prejudices and social-interaction nuances that tie the actions of their parents.