When are the slashdot editors going to replace the Gameboy picture up there in the article with a GBA or GBA SP picture? The Gameboy was a child's toy and was never really fun when I owned one back a few years ago. Even the GBA has only really been worth owning since it came with a blacklight.
You said it... I am regularly astonished and amazed that I can buy the same item from a decent online store for less than it's going for on ebay. And often with better shipping.
I've tried to rationalize why this might be the case but just can't fathom why someone would do this other than abject stupidity.
Until there is a high quality, well maintained, open source clustered file system along the professional level of reiserfs, I'd say nothing out there is worth using. They are all either 1) closed source and by definition poorly maintained and near non-usable with open source operating systems, 2) aren't *real* clustering file systems or 3) so ungodly expensive only fortune 500 companies can justify the expense.
True, especially for row editing or large amounts of data entry and updates. I'll take a console over phpmyadmin any day of the week. It's just faster not to muck around with a clunky web interface.
Ruining the game CD? Maybe in an asthetic sense, but not physically. Who cares if you have the serial number on your CD? I have it written on my old half-life cd and I will swear to you it's never caused an install error.
Being able to prove ownership is an interesting point, but I've yet to ever need to prove I own a game. Besides, what better proof of ownership is there than a manufactured CD? Hell, anyone can print a nice professional copy of a CD insert now-a-days. I doubt the same person could stamp a professional CD.
The simple reason for me is that going to my local store is infinitely more reliable, quicker and easier than actually attempting to purchase and download an online game.
There would have to be a significant cost savings for me to justify buying a game online. During the time it would take me to download the normal 1 to 2 CD game, I could go get lunch, run some errands and drop by my game store on the way home and still have it before it was finished downloading.
Not only that, but as other people here have said, you lose your hard drive, you just lost the game, unless online purchases were packaged in a way for easy CD backup. But I doubt that... too easy for pirating in their simple minds, I would think.
This article read pretty well up until he makes the claim that "During the next millennium there is a significant chance that civilization on Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid..."
WTF? I don't even have a response to such an asinine statement.
A trolling you did go, eh? Just because Sony is putting out a god-awful expensive portable gaming device does not mean Nintendo, et. al. is dead. Take your doom and gloom elsewhere.
Wait, are you the same troll who claims on a montly basis that Apple is going down the toilet.
Yes, yes, we all know that Nintendo can't publish a game they don't own. But, my point was that Nintendo can work with the companies to get these games released for the GBA.
You would think that all Nintendo would have to do is to point to the sales figures of the already released SNES games and it would be a no-brainer. Especially with the release of the SP opening up the market to include the 30ish crowd who wouldn't be seen dead with one of the original GBA devices.
As far as Street Fighter II being released, you are correct and I found info about it and Alpha 3 over at gamespot.com.
e-Reader... ugh... can't they make it smaller? I don't care to lug around a adapter device that's almost he size of my SP.
I personally just wish Nintendo would put together a serious release schedule of porting the clasic SNES titles to the GBA. It's obvious that it can be done and it's being done towards critical and financial success but only in short order. We needz more!
Where are my copies of Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy stuff, Secret of Mana, Super Mario Kart, Star Fox, Metal Gear (NES acutally), Street Fighter II.
Can someone mod this parent down? Does anyone have to actually solicit rumors here at slashdot? The very nature of this article means that rumor-mongering is required.
I've heard rumours that it could be an new old-school deck that will play original NES and SNES games or something along those lines.
For $50 or less I'd buy. Personally, I'd prefer a GB Player style device that connects to the bottom of my GameCube so that I don't have yet another gaming system connected to my TV.
No one is really talking about the real issue here with online music today.
What brand of whore-house crack is Jobs smoking to dream up the iPod mini in all it's 4GB glory for only $50 less than a 15GB iPod. Does he think any of us could give a log of dried dog poop whether it's the size of a business card or if it comes in those ghey colors? What ass-clown is going to choose to buy the mini and get screwed on the storage for a mere $50 bucks? If you are already spending $250, what's $50 more for some real storage? Are we supposed to think it's worth it because they actually include two types of cables with it?
I wanted to punch Jobs in the face when he announced that price, and with a straight face too. Nothing but legions of goose-steppers in that auditorium, clapping for that sort of ram-it-up-your-arse announcement.
Don't even get me started about $39 white ear buds.
Is that a joke? I don't know where you hail from, but as a Southerner who lived for quite a while in the North, bigotry happens everywhere. The Northerners were just careful to keep it to themselves and their family and friends. Yeah, old grampa might sound pretty damn crude when he makes his comments, but nothing is more shocking in the world than hearing your friend make a crude comment about someone of another race in the elite halls of Northern racial toleration, eh?
Nothing worse than an uneducated fool like yourself, looking to drudge up American hate where there is little to be found.
Why don't you sit down and figure up just how *little* money it would actually cost to put xboxes in R&R rooms on bases and then subtract that from the billions of dollars it could cost to re-work a utility infrastructure. Drop in the bucket? Hardly.. more like the oxygen atom of a water molecule in the bucket.
FWIW: Alan Dead Foster has created a deep, involving, enjoyable universe where the Thranx, an insectiod race, live in harmony with humans and tend to make up the pacifistic side of the Humanx civilization. Check out any of his "Commonwealth" related novels for a damn good read.
I was very dissapointed myself. I really can't fathom why so many people would slather and fall all over this game. The single player sucked holy ass, to put it scientifically, and the mulitplayer left a lot to be desired before it was patched and patched. And what kind of game developer-grade crack do you smoke to think putting random barrels full of lewtz along the street for any urchin to come take for their own is a legitimate game design?
It's just not the revolution that everyone hyped it would be. And for God's sake, why the hell does it take two expansions to fix the camera angle? About 95% of the community ranted and bitched and moaned and begged and offered human sacrifices just to get the bastards still left at the sinking ship that was Bioware at the time to fix the camera angle. I know because I was one of those sheep being led around by the crack dev team at Bioware.
Thank god for KOTR, Bioware was shaping up to be one hell of a crap game company. Black Isle has even degenerated into a group of nar-do-wells. Lionheart was an abysmal failure and they don't even care to continue doing what they at least can pull off well: D&D licensed games.
This is only useful if the clients are never doing anything important. Try this on a huge cluster of webserver nodes with nfs mounts and you have one hell of a dead website. Remember kids, if you are going to go to bed with your nfs, bring along a few intrs for a safe, enjoyable time.
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You can't compare this to ram, hard drives or any replaceable computer part. This *isn't* a PC or a Mac, it's a consumer electronics device. Opening the case of a consumer electornic device more often than not voids the warranty. Not only that, since it's not created to be opened at will by someone such as yourself, it's possible to break certain devices unless you know what you are doing.
Would you pop open the case of your VCR and replace the damaged or worn out heads? Would you buy yourself a new DVD tray and motor and replace it when it goes bad? Would you replace the screen of your Palm when it gets scratched? Would you replace the lense of your digital camera if it gets moisture inside? I could go on.
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Wow, nothing worse than writing a semi-flaming post and mispelling a crucial word in it.
Kudos to myself for being a llama.
When are the slashdot editors going to replace the Gameboy picture up there in the article with a GBA or GBA SP picture? The Gameboy was a child's toy and was never really fun when I owned one back a few years ago. Even the GBA has only really been worth owning since it came with a blacklight.
Jebus, would you stingy mods give the parent post a +1 funny or something. He marketing blurb rocked.
You said it... I am regularly astonished and amazed that I can buy the same item from a decent online store for less than it's going for on ebay. And often with better shipping.
I've tried to rationalize why this might be the case but just can't fathom why someone would do this other than abject stupidity.
Until there is a high quality, well maintained, open source clustered file system along the professional level of reiserfs, I'd say nothing out there is worth using. They are all either 1) closed source and by definition poorly maintained and near non-usable with open source operating systems, 2) aren't *real* clustering file systems or 3) so ungodly expensive only fortune 500 companies can justify the expense.
Someone please mod this -1 Troll. Somehow, these people find a way to work their Bush hatred into *any* story, no matter how irrelevant it is.
True, especially for row editing or large amounts of data entry and updates. I'll take a console over phpmyadmin any day of the week. It's just faster not to muck around with a clunky web interface.
Ruining the game CD? Maybe in an asthetic sense, but not physically. Who cares if you have the serial number on your CD? I have it written on my old half-life cd and I will swear to you it's never caused an install error.
Being able to prove ownership is an interesting point, but I've yet to ever need to prove I own a game. Besides, what better proof of ownership is there than a manufactured CD? Hell, anyone can print a nice professional copy of a CD insert now-a-days. I doubt the same person could stamp a professional CD.
The simple reason for me is that going to my local store is infinitely more reliable, quicker and easier than actually attempting to purchase and download an online game.
There would have to be a significant cost savings for me to justify buying a game online. During the time it would take me to download the normal 1 to 2 CD game, I could go get lunch, run some errands and drop by my game store on the way home and still have it before it was finished downloading.
Not only that, but as other people here have said, you lose your hard drive, you just lost the game, unless online purchases were packaged in a way for easy CD backup. But I doubt that... too easy for pirating in their simple minds, I would think.
This article read pretty well up until he makes the claim that "During the next millennium there is a significant chance that civilization on Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid ..."
WTF? I don't even have a response to such an asinine statement.
A trolling you did go, eh? Just because Sony is putting out a god-awful expensive portable gaming device does not mean Nintendo, et. al. is dead. Take your doom and gloom elsewhere.
Wait, are you the same troll who claims on a montly basis that Apple is going down the toilet.
Yes, yes, we all know that Nintendo can't publish a game they don't own. But, my point was that Nintendo can work with the companies to get these games released for the GBA.
You would think that all Nintendo would have to do is to point to the sales figures of the already released SNES games and it would be a no-brainer. Especially with the release of the SP opening up the market to include the 30ish crowd who wouldn't be seen dead with one of the original GBA devices.
As far as Street Fighter II being released, you are correct and I found info about it and Alpha 3 over at gamespot.com.
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That's one hell of a supposition. I like it though. Something to "hack" your cube.
e-Reader... ugh... can't they make it smaller? I don't care to lug around a adapter device that's almost he size of my SP.
I personally just wish Nintendo would put together a serious release schedule of porting the clasic SNES titles to the GBA. It's obvious that it can be done and it's being done towards critical and financial success but only in short order. We needz more!
Where are my copies of Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy stuff, Secret of Mana, Super Mario Kart, Star Fox, Metal Gear (NES acutally), Street Fighter II.
Can someone mod this parent down? Does anyone have to actually solicit rumors here at slashdot? The very nature of this article means that rumor-mongering is required.
I've heard rumours that it could be an new old-school deck that will play original NES and SNES games or something along those lines.
For $50 or less I'd buy. Personally, I'd prefer a GB Player style device that connects to the bottom of my GameCube so that I don't have yet another gaming system connected to my TV.
No one is really talking about the real issue here with online music today.
What brand of whore-house crack is Jobs smoking to dream up the iPod mini in all it's 4GB glory for only $50 less than a 15GB iPod. Does he think any of us could give a log of dried dog poop whether it's the size of a business card or if it comes in those ghey colors? What ass-clown is going to choose to buy the mini and get screwed on the storage for a mere $50 bucks? If you are already spending $250, what's $50 more for some real storage? Are we supposed to think it's worth it because they actually include two types of cables with it?
I wanted to punch Jobs in the face when he announced that price, and with a straight face too. Nothing but legions of goose-steppers in that auditorium, clapping for that sort of ram-it-up-your-arse announcement.
Don't even get me started about $39 white ear buds.
Is that a joke? I don't know where you hail from, but as a Southerner who lived for quite a while in the North, bigotry happens everywhere. The Northerners were just careful to keep it to themselves and their family and friends. Yeah, old grampa might sound pretty damn crude when he makes his comments, but nothing is more shocking in the world than hearing your friend make a crude comment about someone of another race in the elite halls of Northern racial toleration, eh?
Nothing worse than an uneducated fool like yourself, looking to drudge up American hate where there is little to be found.
Why don't you sit down and figure up just how *little* money it would actually cost to put xboxes in R&R rooms on bases and then subtract that from the billions of dollars it could cost to re-work a utility infrastructure. Drop in the bucket? Hardly.. more like the oxygen atom of a water molecule in the bucket.
FWIW: Alan Dead Foster has created a deep, involving, enjoyable universe where the Thranx, an insectiod race, live in harmony with humans and tend to make up the pacifistic side of the Humanx civilization. Check out any of his "Commonwealth" related novels for a damn good read.
I was very dissapointed myself. I really can't fathom why so many people would slather and fall all over this game. The single player sucked holy ass, to put it scientifically, and the mulitplayer left a lot to be desired before it was patched and patched. And what kind of game developer-grade crack do you smoke to think putting random barrels full of lewtz along the street for any urchin to come take for their own is a legitimate game design?
It's just not the revolution that everyone hyped it would be. And for God's sake, why the hell does it take two expansions to fix the camera angle? About 95% of the community ranted and bitched and moaned and begged and offered human sacrifices just to get the bastards still left at the sinking ship that was Bioware at the time to fix the camera angle. I know because I was one of those sheep being led around by the crack dev team at Bioware.
Thank god for KOTR, Bioware was shaping up to be one hell of a crap game company. Black Isle has even degenerated into a group of nar-do-wells. Lionheart was an abysmal failure and they don't even care to continue doing what they at least can pull off well: D&D licensed games.
I get frothy at the mouth just thinking about it.
This is only useful if the clients are never doing anything important. Try this on a huge cluster of webserver nodes with nfs mounts and you have one hell of a dead website. Remember kids, if you are going to go to bed with your nfs, bring along a few intrs for a safe, enjoyable time.
You can't compare this to ram, hard drives or any replaceable computer part. This *isn't* a PC or a Mac, it's a consumer electronics device. Opening the case of a consumer electornic device more often than not voids the warranty. Not only that, since it's not created to be opened at will by someone such as yourself, it's possible to break certain devices unless you know what you are doing.
Would you pop open the case of your VCR and replace the damaged or worn out heads? Would you buy yourself a new DVD tray and motor and replace it when it goes bad? Would you replace the screen of your Palm when it gets scratched? Would you replace the lense of your digital camera if it gets moisture inside? I could go on.
Your point is weak.
Laptop batteries don't cost $255, do they?