...on the new XBOX since it will be using a totally NEW architecure (READ: Not PC-Based). And it's one very similar to what Sony (and presumably) Nintendo will be moving to.
Sheesh. Who would've thought that IBM would be the glue that binds console companies together (at least in a loose, hardware fashion)?
Wireless gaming. Not just because it's wireless either. It's because only one ONE PERSON has to actually have the game that FOUR PEOPLE can play simultaneously.
The Atari Lynx was to have this feature but at the last minute, Atari canned it. Had they included it, it might have done far better than it did.
The way I see it, why the hell not include this feature? Who really loses? The odds of four kids having the same game at the same time are not good (unless it's a top 3 title). BUT, imagine playing with a buddy or two - one of which actually has the cart. Then you go home. There's no doubt in my mind that this ends up being totally free advertising for the software - it sells itself. That gameless kid is going to be wanting to play it at home.
This isn't something you're likely to see on the Sony (due to sheer software size), or any other platform but I believe it to be the DS's greatest strength.
...As long as there's a Pennsylvania, they'll be a Novell. (tm)
Novell got a bad rep because of it's poor integration with newer Windows environments (namely, when Windows 95 came out). Many of you remember having to use the buggy 16 bit client for those Windows 95 installations until the buggier 32-bit was fixed.
Password integration, stableness of the client, and a host of other factors frustrated admins everywhere. A LOT of places (not so many in PA), went Windows-only just to escape the complexity of running parallel NOS's.
That never should have happened and yes, I do blame Novell for it. They had a full two years to plan, design, and implement the 32-bit client and when Windows 95 came out, adoption was more immediate and widespread than Novell expected. Of course a LOT of companies (Canon, HP, etc.) were 'blindsided' by 95 as well.
Meanwhile MS offered migration tools in Windows NT, and an inferior but completely stable Novell client that offered base network compatibility (although there was no support for NLM-based apps).
This is certainly not to say that Novell's NOS implementation was inferior! Hell no! As integration has gotten better, so has Novell's overall product. And as Linux sneaks it's way in through the back door, Novell makes it possible to more closely integrate these clients with their Windows brethren.
I think as long as Microsoft continues to act like 'Rainman' (as in the scene where he won't board the plane), whenever Linux is mentioned; Novell is going to eat their lunch for them. And rightfully so.
The funny thing is, and I'm still not quite sure why, many Pennsylvanian networks won't have to do anything but upgrade to a new version.
If they had went with the Athlon 64, this wouldn't be an issue now. First they get screwed by Motorola - big shocker there. EVERYONE who has dealt with them on processors has gotten screwed at one point in time (Atari, Commodore, Apple, etc.).
Then, they take turns bending over for IBM who is having definate supply issues. They knew this could happen - even IBM told them that it was a possiblilty. Apple simply isn't the top vendor on IBM's like.
But supply is the oft used excuse to explain why Apple never went with X86-64/AMD. And yet, AMD doesn't seem to have an issue supplying the masses, even in current high demand.
I think they totally screwed up here. By the time Apple gets their share of G5's, the traditional buying market will be missed (August/September). The students at my school will have already purchased a computer and unfortunately, it won't be a new iMac.
While I do look forward to playing with a G5 iMac, I have to say that I think they missed an opportunity here.
Yep. Come September I'm going to be deep in the throes of Dorm Storm. I can guarantee that I will spend no less than two weeks getting all the girls connected to the network.
That includes cleaning out their spyware-ridden machines, getting the latest Windows Updates (GOD! Why do they take so long to install?!), and installing the Sophos client - our anti-virus solution.
All of these IE exploits have finally allowed me to make some changes here. We were using ISA with Authentication enabled for our filtering system.
The advantage to using Auth is that you can control individual users or group rights. But what I've been finding is that students just give their logins to anyone that wants them and since MS networks (unlike Novell), cannot control multiple logins with the same account, it's just pointless.
This is important because Mozilla doesn't like Auth. Proxies very much. It'll work, but everytime you open up a browser fresh you have to click 'ok' to authenticate.
Well, Auth. is OUT! Mozilla, here we come. It's also solving other issues we had here like the students using XP Home or older Macs in the dorm rooms. Hell, I'm even looking to move a few Linux internet terminals in the main rec room. Dare to dream!
MS has only themselves to blame. With these delays, the administration here and I have no choice now but to go with other options....
Not that I'm weeping uncontrolably, you understand...;)
For those still using NT 4.0, don't forget that MAC's OS 10.4 will include a neato NT 4 Migration Tool. Sort of like that wonderful Novell Migration tool MS used to include.
I just sent the folowing link to my assistant in the labs...
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17169
I was really hoping that WUS (even a beta) would be ready by August. Once again we'll be 'dorm storming' and mega-patching the student computers, cleaning out the spyware, installing our anti-virus, Firefox, etc.
Last year, it took an average of 15-20 minutes per machine to prepare them. I wonder how bad it will be this year.
The worst part of it was the international computers. Not being fluent in Korean or Japanese can make things REALLY HARD when you're trying to clean up those computers and get them on a network.
I suspect that if MS attempts to stop letting users in with invalid keys, our hacker friends will target non-patched machines with z0mbie w0rms that flood the MS update sites.
I suppose that it all depends on what you think 'mere mortals' are capable of. If you run a Windows machine nowadays, you simply must keep it updated with the most recent patches, be sure your anti-virus is up to snuff, and run Adaware/Spybot regularly (don't forget to keep those updated also).
Depending on OS version and anti-virus type, 2/3 of this may happen on it's own. Still, when someone keeps getting popups that Google Toolbar won't take care of - they blame the Google Toolbar for not 'fixing' them.
They're not flawed because they don't take it a step further than that. Why should they? To repeat analogies:
- When you get a cold, chances are it wasn't given to you by a bioterrorist. Why overreact? HINT: It's not a cold after all...
- When your car says that it's overheating it might be natural to think it's out of water. It could be a blown gasket though. Whose to blame the owner for puting yet more water in the radiator?
- When a huge crack appears in your wall after sticking a nail in it, you might think that it's just the plaster when, in fact, the whole wall's about to come down (this actually happened here).
Wrong assumptions and flawed reasoning are not necessarily personal shortcomings or defects.
"I know how people intentionally don't learn how to use computers effectively becuase they can always just bug someone like me when I come over for dinner about those annoying popups...."
To Quote Darl: "Yeah, so..."
- When you are sick, you're LAZY because you seek the help of a professional doctor.
- When your car breaks down, you're LAZY because you hire a mechanic to fix it.
- When that tornado rips your house down, you're lazy because you don't rebuild your house yourself - you call the contractors.
The simple truth is: Most people know what they know - but most people don't understand and don't WANT to understand how computers work. They are a TOOL for them, not a plaything or something to experiment with.
Did you ever stop to consider that the resaon why they call on you is because the TRUST you? Trust with personal data is a difficult thing.
Yes, I've done my share of helping others with their computer problems and yes, I fully expect that when I visit the relatives, I'll be cleaning up their computers, installing Moz, updating them, etc. But I CREATED that situation when I got them interested in the Internet in the first place.
Besides, if you're nice about it, chances are they can do something for you. Even if they can't, it still doesn't make them lazy for not being the experts you and I are.
What I hate is when a company gets in on some sort of standards committee and doesn't bother to tell anyone that they have a patent on a primary piece of the new standard. (See: JEDEC and RAMBUS)
To me, that's plain deception and it shouldn't be tolerated. On the other hand, standards organizations need to cover themselves better and require good faith bargaining. You would think that patents surrounding RFID would have been made known before this, yes?
Tell me why, again, this was modded down? You mods really need to be more careful here. True, the original poster could've been more specific, but a few of us out there knew what he was talking about.
"Free Hat" is where Lucas and Spielberg start redoing their movies (this episode happened during the 'guns to walkie-talkies' conversion in E.T.
Simply HORRIBLE modding lately - summer getting you down?
What - are you people normally this grouchy in the morning? Why the hell ISN'T this on topic? Because it's Windows?
Give this guy a break. I thought his link was fairly helpful as I was looking for this very solution the other day (thanks GoRK).
I can see a real application for this in our labs at the school. I don't think the major point of this article is that it's Linux - although that is a bonus. And it's not completely about thin clients either. After all, this is not a new idea (thin clients have been around forever); but the concept here is interesting both in ThinSoft's link and HP's 441 system because the individual client monitors are being served directly from host video cards.
So tell me again - why is this OT? Pardon me, but your bias is showing. GROW UP!
Air Conditioning seems to GREATLY effect the mileage in my Mazda 626. Perhaps it's because it's a four cylinder, but I can tell you that not only is power range noticably effected, I lose 1/3 my mileage.
Are they? Dunno. I know they got rid of GCC and a few other useful things...
{Checks feature list}
Yeah, you are right. Unbelievable. They might as well go all the way and eliminate all OSS stuff - it probably won't affect sales of the product either way.
Companies tend to avoid doing business with those who sue their customers. I don't know, seems silly somehow...:P
...to these macho golf-loving, ex-frat boys. QUOTE: "But we think the crowd is going to get very quiet when we put some points on the board..." Boy you'd love that wouldn't you? Kind of gives you a thrill to the crotch you didn't get losing at football.
First of all Darl, you have to PLAY to win. Constantly appealing to the judges for a decision doesn't score you 'points' in anyone's book. Why not simply produce a better product and instead of bitching about OSS - STOP USING IT in your company's software. Oh that's right, you did - brilliant move on making your software even LESS attractive...
Secondly, if you think that the OSS community will get LESS vocal with some sort of win on your side, you're in for a rude awakening.
No Darl, what we see is YOU and your lawyers trying to make away with what a community as a whole has contributed to for years. My only hope is that when SCO is folded into a legitimate organization and your legal barratry is ended, you will personally be held for proscecution.
C'mon Darl, shoot off your mouth like you used to - Groklaw needs some more dumb-ass quotes...
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...on the new XBOX since it will be using a totally NEW architecure (READ: Not PC-Based). And it's one very similar to what Sony (and presumably) Nintendo will be moving to.
Sheesh. Who would've thought that IBM would be the glue that binds console companies together (at least in a loose, hardware fashion)?
I would NEVER have thought to put the words 'success' and 'Word 95' so close together in the same sentence....
Wireless gaming. Not just because it's wireless either. It's because only one ONE PERSON has to actually have the game that FOUR PEOPLE can play simultaneously.
The Atari Lynx was to have this feature but at the last minute, Atari canned it. Had they included it, it might have done far better than it did.
The way I see it, why the hell not include this feature? Who really loses? The odds of four kids having the same game at the same time are not good (unless it's a top 3 title). BUT, imagine playing with a buddy or two - one of which actually has the cart. Then you go home. There's no doubt in my mind that this ends up being totally free advertising for the software - it sells itself. That gameless kid is going to be wanting to play it at home.
This isn't something you're likely to see on the Sony (due to sheer software size), or any other platform but I believe it to be the DS's greatest strength.
...As long as there's a Pennsylvania, they'll be a Novell. (tm)
Novell got a bad rep because of it's poor integration with newer Windows environments (namely, when Windows 95 came out). Many of you remember having to use the buggy 16 bit client for those Windows 95 installations until the buggier 32-bit was fixed.
Password integration, stableness of the client, and a host of other factors frustrated admins everywhere. A LOT of places (not so many in PA), went Windows-only just to escape the complexity of running parallel NOS's.
That never should have happened and yes, I do blame Novell for it. They had a full two years to plan, design, and implement the 32-bit client and when Windows 95 came out, adoption was more immediate and widespread than Novell expected. Of course a LOT of companies (Canon, HP, etc.) were 'blindsided' by 95 as well.
Meanwhile MS offered migration tools in Windows NT, and an inferior but completely stable Novell client that offered base network compatibility (although there was no support for NLM-based apps).
This is certainly not to say that Novell's NOS implementation was inferior! Hell no! As integration has gotten better, so has Novell's overall product. And as Linux sneaks it's way in through the back door, Novell makes it possible to more closely integrate these clients with their Windows brethren.
I think as long as Microsoft continues to act like 'Rainman' (as in the scene where he won't board the plane), whenever Linux is mentioned; Novell is going to eat their lunch for them. And rightfully so.
The funny thing is, and I'm still not quite sure why, many Pennsylvanian networks won't have to do anything but upgrade to a new version.
SuSE Linux. Simply awesome distro for the desktop, and great tools for Windows network connectivity. Smart move on Novell's part to buy this distro.
If they had went with the Athlon 64, this wouldn't be an issue now. First they get screwed by Motorola - big shocker there. EVERYONE who has dealt with them on processors has gotten screwed at one point in time (Atari, Commodore, Apple, etc.).
Then, they take turns bending over for IBM who is having definate supply issues. They knew this could happen - even IBM told them that it was a possiblilty. Apple simply isn't the top vendor on IBM's like.
But supply is the oft used excuse to explain why Apple never went with X86-64/AMD. And yet, AMD doesn't seem to have an issue supplying the masses, even in current high demand.
I think they totally screwed up here. By the time Apple gets their share of G5's, the traditional buying market will be missed (August/September). The students at my school will have already purchased a computer and unfortunately, it won't be a new iMac.
While I do look forward to playing with a G5 iMac, I have to say that I think they missed an opportunity here.
Yep. Come September I'm going to be deep in the throes of Dorm Storm. I can guarantee that I will spend no less than two weeks getting all the girls connected to the network.
That includes cleaning out their spyware-ridden machines, getting the latest Windows Updates (GOD! Why do they take so long to install?!), and installing the Sophos client - our anti-virus solution.
All of these IE exploits have finally allowed me to make some changes here. We were using ISA with Authentication enabled for our filtering system.
;)
The advantage to using Auth is that you can control individual users or group rights. But what I've been finding is that students just give their logins to anyone that wants them and since MS networks (unlike Novell), cannot control multiple logins with the same account, it's just pointless.
This is important because Mozilla doesn't like Auth. Proxies very much. It'll work, but everytime you open up a browser fresh you have to click 'ok' to authenticate.
Well, Auth. is OUT! Mozilla, here we come. It's also solving other issues we had here like the students using XP Home or older Macs in the dorm rooms. Hell, I'm even looking to move a few Linux internet terminals in the main rec room. Dare to dream!
MS has only themselves to blame. With these delays, the administration here and I have no choice now but to go with other options....
Not that I'm weeping uncontrolably, you understand...
...it should be DAMN SKIPPY for us!
In other news:
For those still using NT 4.0, don't forget that MAC's OS 10.4 will include a neato NT 4 Migration Tool. Sort of like that wonderful Novell Migration tool MS used to include.
"Sometimes irony can be pretty ironic."
I just sent the folowing link to my assistant in the labs...
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17169
I was really hoping that WUS (even a beta) would be ready by August. Once again we'll be 'dorm storming' and mega-patching the student computers, cleaning out the spyware, installing our anti-virus, Firefox, etc.
Last year, it took an average of 15-20 minutes per machine to prepare them. I wonder how bad it will be this year.
The worst part of it was the international computers. Not being fluent in Korean or Japanese can make things REALLY HARD when you're trying to clean up those computers and get them on a network.
I suspect that if MS attempts to stop letting users in with invalid keys, our hacker friends will target non-patched machines with z0mbie w0rms that flood the MS update sites.
:)
Now, wouldn't THAT be interesting?
Just like people who want to be unreasonable at all costs will be.
Perhaps, but I can think of MANY things that should never be said publicly.
...you can say a thing, doesn't mean you should.
I thought it sounded a lot like what Kerry was saying the other day... ...Which of course was the exact OPPOSITE of what he said the day before.
Liars... PuulEEASE! If so, there's enough to go around!
I suppose that it all depends on what you think 'mere mortals' are capable of. If you run a Windows machine nowadays, you simply must keep it updated with the most recent patches, be sure your anti-virus is up to snuff, and run Adaware/Spybot regularly (don't forget to keep those updated also).
Depending on OS version and anti-virus type, 2/3 of this may happen on it's own. Still, when someone keeps getting popups that Google Toolbar won't take care of - they blame the Google Toolbar for not 'fixing' them.
They're not flawed because they don't take it a step further than that. Why should they? To repeat analogies:
- When you get a cold, chances are it wasn't given to you by a bioterrorist. Why overreact? HINT: It's not a cold after all...
- When your car says that it's overheating it might be natural to think it's out of water. It could be a blown gasket though. Whose to blame the owner for puting yet more water in the radiator?
- When a huge crack appears in your wall after sticking a nail in it, you might think that it's just the plaster when, in fact, the whole wall's about to come down (this actually happened here).
Wrong assumptions and flawed reasoning are not necessarily personal shortcomings or defects.
"I know how people intentionally don't learn how to use computers effectively becuase they can always just bug someone like me when I come over for dinner about those annoying popups...."
To Quote Darl: "Yeah, so..."
- When you are sick, you're LAZY because you seek the help of a professional doctor.
- When your car breaks down, you're LAZY because you hire a mechanic to fix it.
- When that tornado rips your house down, you're lazy because you don't rebuild your house yourself - you call the contractors.
The simple truth is: Most people know what they know - but most people don't understand and don't WANT to understand how computers work. They are a TOOL for them, not a plaything or something to experiment with.
Did you ever stop to consider that the resaon why they call on you is because the TRUST you? Trust with personal data is a difficult thing.
Yes, I've done my share of helping others with their computer problems and yes, I fully expect that when I visit the relatives, I'll be cleaning up their computers, installing Moz, updating them, etc. But I CREATED that situation when I got them interested in the Internet in the first place.
Besides, if you're nice about it, chances are they can do something for you. Even if they can't, it still doesn't make them lazy for not being the experts you and I are.
What I hate is when a company gets in on some sort of standards committee and doesn't bother to tell anyone that they have a patent on a primary piece of the new standard. (See: JEDEC and RAMBUS)
To me, that's plain deception and it shouldn't be tolerated. On the other hand, standards organizations need to cover themselves better and require good faith bargaining. You would think that patents surrounding RFID would have been made known before this, yes?
Tell me why, again, this was modded down? You mods really need to be more careful here. True, the original poster could've been more specific, but a few of us out there knew what he was talking about.
"Free Hat" is where Lucas and Spielberg start redoing their movies (this episode happened during the 'guns to walkie-talkies' conversion in E.T.
Simply HORRIBLE modding lately - summer getting you down?
What - are you people normally this grouchy in the morning? Why the hell ISN'T this on topic? Because it's Windows?
Give this guy a break. I thought his link was fairly helpful as I was looking for this very solution the other day (thanks GoRK).
I can see a real application for this in our labs at the school. I don't think the major point of this article is that it's Linux - although that is a bonus. And it's not completely about thin clients either. After all, this is not a new idea (thin clients have been around forever); but the concept here is interesting both in ThinSoft's link and HP's 441 system because the individual client monitors are being served directly from host video cards.
So tell me again - why is this OT? Pardon me, but your bias is showing. GROW UP!
If this were being sold to Nigeria I'd call it the 'HP 419'...
Air Conditioning seems to GREATLY effect the mileage in my Mazda 626. Perhaps it's because it's a four cylinder, but I can tell you that not only is power range noticably effected, I lose 1/3 my mileage.
Are they? Dunno. I know they got rid of GCC and a few other useful things...
:P
{Checks feature list}
Yeah, you are right. Unbelievable. They might as well go all the way and eliminate all OSS stuff - it probably won't affect sales of the product either way.
Companies tend to avoid doing business with those who sue their customers. I don't know, seems silly somehow...
...reality. It may be time to give the American people a bigger dose of it.
No matter how you feel about this film or politically, charred bodies are sure to provoke a reaction - I would hope against those who did it.
...to these macho golf-loving, ex-frat boys. QUOTE: "But we think the crowd is going to get very quiet when we put some points on the board..." Boy you'd love that wouldn't you? Kind of gives you a thrill to the crotch you didn't get losing at football.
First of all Darl, you have to PLAY to win. Constantly appealing to the judges for a decision doesn't score you 'points' in anyone's book. Why not simply produce a better product and instead of bitching about OSS - STOP USING IT in your company's software. Oh that's right, you did - brilliant move on making your software even LESS attractive...
Secondly, if you think that the OSS community will get LESS vocal with some sort of win on your side, you're in for a rude awakening.
No Darl, what we see is YOU and your lawyers trying to make away with what a community as a whole has contributed to for years. My only hope is that when SCO is folded into a legitimate organization and your legal barratry is ended, you will personally be held for proscecution.
C'mon Darl, shoot off your mouth like you used to - Groklaw needs some more dumb-ass quotes...