While I can't refure all of these points, I can refute some.
2. No mouse control.
With the PS2's USB ports, any time a developer decides not to include Mouse/Keyboard options this is a developer choice. As well as with any system that has a mouse/keyboard availiable, it is the developer that chooses not to implement it. Should I hate Quake 3 if it doesn support my gamepad? (I haven't tried this, so it's just an example)
4. Investment in console is not an investment in PC hardware upgrade or other PC games.
You'll have to clarify this, as I really don't understand what you're trying to say.
5. Consoles depreciate faster than PCs.
I've always found the opposite to be true. Computer software/hardware rarely hold their value as long as console equipment. I just picked up Neverwinter nights for $5 NEW, you'll never see recent console games sell that low. Unless you're using depreciate in some odd way?
6. Inability to store several games at once?
As far as game playing goes, This is a moot point, every single game on PC I own wants me to insert the CD before I play, so unless you're referring to applying no-CD cracks to every game you have installed, this doesn't count (and usually causes more problems that it's worth.
7. Internet gameplay almost impossible without service, even if free, is monitored.
This IIRC, only applies to X-Box live, PS2 uses your personal ISP for the connection, as is also the case with the Gmecube.
8. Inability to easily run servers.
"Dedicated" servers yes, but the other kind is usually as easy as selecting "Host game".
9. Requires development license for developers.
Well, there is a development solution availiable for the PS2 (Linux Kit). But this is mostly to protect their copyrights. If anyone could create an unliscened game for their systems, how would the subsudized consles make any money?
11. Developers are "trapped" by the console's limited OS infrastructure.
Any developer is "trapped" by the constraints of whatever particular system they choose to develop for. If you code for windows, you have to use directX or OpenGL for your games. Nobody wants to code from scratch and write a new API.
12. Consoles are "toaster" technology that doesn't impart any requirement for the user to "learn" anything new. A "cattle for slaughter" mentality from the huge Microsoft and Sony corps.
These are video game systems! The point is to make everyting as simple as possible so that they can appeal to as large a market as possible!
It's quite nice, though dual monotors are pretty useless for mist gaming applications, because that would put the average FPS crosshair right between the seams, but it is nice to have a fullscreen game on one screen and your IM client and email, etc on the other. If only most 3d games made it simple to switch between the 2 monitors (i.e. without having to minimize the 3d app) this would be great.
There are a few disadvantages to multiple monitors however. Apparently, Windows only supports ONE video overlay at a time, so if you play a movie on one screen, and try to drag it to the other screen, the movie goes black, and some movie codecs refuse to work on a second monitor at all.
There's been a company selling CDs with Emulator ROMS on it for some time. http://www.pike.uaivip.com.br/en_mame.html Personally, now that there's a company that is selling the ROMS legally, I hope they get shut down.
I'd imagine that the majority of Trillan users use the free version. But then again, both AIM and Yahoo have non-free versions of their clients availiable.
As far as the difference between Trillian free and pro. You're paying for the extra useability and plugins that it offers, there is nothing communication wise that the free edition can't do, you're paying for the convience of extra features (spellcheck, email checking, etc).
I'm crying on the inside really. Let me ask you were the pro features even worth the effort? As someone who actually paid for trillian pro, the only useful featues added for me is the stockticker, spellchecking and jabber connectivity. You probbably wouldn't use any of those features, so as far as I'm concerned, you deserved every bit of what you got for you stupidity. I'd be willing to be the virus scanner you have is from kazaa too? Eh?
You're forgetting the network adaptor, it's relativley simple to get the PS2 to access shares on another computer. You also have the internet availiable. Granted it would be nice to be able to use the PS2's drive, I've never really found that to be anything more than a minor annoyance.
Re:Linux on PS2 has been done many times :)
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How exactly is it crippled? The only resrictions it the fact that you don't have documentation on the IOP (presumably to prevent you from producing software that will boot on any PS2 without a sony liscence) and you have to use the provided runtime enviroment. Other than that you have pretty much full access to the unit, except where the antiquated version of linux restricts you.
Currently you can't boot Linux on the PS2 without the Linux kit, as you need the DVDs that come with the kit to boot from. So even if you added those parts you still couldn't boot linux.
Horray for ResNET with all the stupid bandwidth planning. At UWW some moron decided to split the school's total bandwith 50/50 between the dorms and the school labs, with roughly 300 computers getting one half (the labs) and 8,000 computers getting the other half, so the Labs run at blazing speed, and the dorm's connection is almost unuseable.
They just updated our systems too, and nobody can apply for financial aid, for whatever reason.
Isn't it legal to reverse engineer for the purpose of interoperability? So if gaim has reverse engineered MSN's protocol, isn't it legal for them to use it?
It's not like he's completely ignoring his user base, the article makes it sounds like he bends over backwards to put features for people into the program. I'd imagine that If I spent 12 years working on a program I wouldn't want people passing it around for free, even if it was in the name of open source. Besides, saying that a program would be much better once it's made open source is somewhere along the lines of "we would have made more money of this movie if it wasn't for pirates!"
While that is a very cool idea, and one I've never heard of, one look at the price says why. It seems logical to me that any 4 color, CYMK printer would cost pretty much the same to convert, but obviously this is not the case.
Epson C60 sells regulary for about $65, and the converted one sells for $499
Wheras the C80 sells for about $85 and the converted unit runs $749. Why the extra cost I have no idea. And that website is very porrly designed and aparenty unfinished.
While a cool idea, and a 6 color large formant printer like the ones they sell would give great results cheaply.
This site offers the kits to do it yourself, so you can save yourself from cartridges and save yourself $200 by doing it yourself in true slashdot fashion.
"Right now, there's very little demand for DVI support."
Exactly. I have yet to see a single tube or projection based television/monitor offering DVI input. In fact, component inputs (Y/Pb/Pr)are just now showing up on midrange televisions. Only Plasma and LCD screens seem to have them, and very few people own these newer displays.
Every Television that I've never heard of offers some sort of RF Coaxial input, so all VCRs offer this output.
Most Televisions offer RCA inputs, most VCRs and all DVD players offer this.
There is a Good chance that any newer TV has S-video inputs, a few VCRs and 99% of all DVD players offer this.
Few Midrange Televisions offer Component Video, Only Upper Price range DVD players offer this.
Plasma Screen conversion boards usually offer raw DVI input, we have one DVD player that offers this.
Projection TV's, supposedly there are some that offer DVI as well, probably only HDTV units otherwise it would be a waste.
So finally we have that DVD player for the person looking to squeeze out whatever quality gain there could be over component, to compliment his $8000 Plasma screen. I can't see their being much demand for this until we all get plasma screens, or DVI shows up on TVs that regular people can afford. But then again, I don't think you'd be able to notice any improvement unless you're at least HDTV resolution anyway.
You can double the geek factor by adding some retro. If I'm going to wear a watch with a screen on it, I'd much rather wear one of Nintendo's game watches. I bet you could put some decent games on that palm, but the article says the watch doesn't have the palm hardware buttons.
Quoted from the NTFSDOS page on Sysinternals:
"Significant understanding of the NTFS file system layout was derived by studying the Linux-based NTFS driver code maintained by Martin von Loewis. We acknowledge his indirect contribution to this endeavor."
"The advantage NTFSDOS Professional has over NTFSDOS is that it relies on Microsoft's implementation of NTFS rather than our own information on the NTFS file-system layout. "
So on their pro version they are using MS code, but on their standard version, they are using a reverse engineered driver.
NTFS is proprietary, but Linux can still read and write it, it will only be a matter of time before someone gets it working on linux.
Re:NOOO BACKLIGHT.. BAD BAD IDEA! BAD!!!!
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Gee, I sure don't have any problems with the backlight on my Sony Clie, recardless of the lighting conditions. And you can turn off the backlight when you're outside. Frontlighting has a bad habit of washing out the colors (noticible on the GBA SP, and GBA with Afterburner).
Intresting is the fact that many retail stores tell you specifically not to bother checking the bills in that way. We for example use those markers that test the validity of the paper, the marker doesn't write on real dollars or something like that.
Apparently to some retail chains (which shall remain nameless) it's not that important. To be honest, counterfit detection isn't even part of the cashier's training where I work, they learn what that marker is for by asking someone else.
Sony put everything they themselves created on the first disc. Their bootloader, PS2 technical documentation (covered by a NDA), and thier software development libraries.
Basically the Linux packages are on the second disc.
The linux kit CAN output to a TV, both NTSC and PAL, right out of the box. I know this because that's how I use it, I don't have any SOG monitors. The 640x480 resolution is a little restricting, but it does the job.
I don't know what programs offhand already exist to emulate the Qcast's capability, but I'm sure there's something, and you have quite a bit of hard disk space to work with, even the maximum install leaves over 38 gigs freen on the drive, so you can always have the movies stored locally.
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Pretty much every Sony PDA has a built-in keyboard. I'd imagine that this will become more common now that Palm lost the rights to use grafitti.
While I can't refure all of these points, I can refute some. 2. No mouse control. With the PS2's USB ports, any time a developer decides not to include Mouse/Keyboard options this is a developer choice. As well as with any system that has a mouse/keyboard availiable, it is the developer that chooses not to implement it. Should I hate Quake 3 if it doesn support my gamepad? (I haven't tried this, so it's just an example) 4. Investment in console is not an investment in PC hardware upgrade or other PC games. You'll have to clarify this, as I really don't understand what you're trying to say. 5. Consoles depreciate faster than PCs. I've always found the opposite to be true. Computer software/hardware rarely hold their value as long as console equipment. I just picked up Neverwinter nights for $5 NEW, you'll never see recent console games sell that low. Unless you're using depreciate in some odd way? 6. Inability to store several games at once? As far as game playing goes, This is a moot point, every single game on PC I own wants me to insert the CD before I play, so unless you're referring to applying no-CD cracks to every game you have installed, this doesn't count (and usually causes more problems that it's worth. 7. Internet gameplay almost impossible without service, even if free, is monitored. This IIRC, only applies to X-Box live, PS2 uses your personal ISP for the connection, as is also the case with the Gmecube. 8. Inability to easily run servers. "Dedicated" servers yes, but the other kind is usually as easy as selecting "Host game". 9. Requires development license for developers. Well, there is a development solution availiable for the PS2 (Linux Kit). But this is mostly to protect their copyrights. If anyone could create an unliscened game for their systems, how would the subsudized consles make any money? 11. Developers are "trapped" by the console's limited OS infrastructure. Any developer is "trapped" by the constraints of whatever particular system they choose to develop for. If you code for windows, you have to use directX or OpenGL for your games. Nobody wants to code from scratch and write a new API. 12. Consoles are "toaster" technology that doesn't impart any requirement for the user to "learn" anything new. A "cattle for slaughter" mentality from the huge Microsoft and Sony corps. These are video game systems! The point is to make everyting as simple as possible so that they can appeal to as large a market as possible!
It's quite nice, though dual monotors are pretty useless for mist gaming applications, because that would put the average FPS crosshair right between the seams, but it is nice to have a fullscreen game on one screen and your IM client and email, etc on the other. If only most 3d games made it simple to switch between the 2 monitors (i.e. without having to minimize the 3d app) this would be great. There are a few disadvantages to multiple monitors however. Apparently, Windows only supports ONE video overlay at a time, so if you play a movie on one screen, and try to drag it to the other screen, the movie goes black, and some movie codecs refuse to work on a second monitor at all.
There's been a company selling CDs with Emulator ROMS on it for some time. http://www.pike.uaivip.com.br/en_mame.html Personally, now that there's a company that is selling the ROMS legally, I hope they get shut down.
I'd imagine that the majority of Trillan users use the free version. But then again, both AIM and Yahoo have non-free versions of their clients availiable. As far as the difference between Trillian free and pro. You're paying for the extra useability and plugins that it offers, there is nothing communication wise that the free edition can't do, you're paying for the convience of extra features (spellcheck, email checking, etc).
I'm crying on the inside really. Let me ask you were the pro features even worth the effort? As someone who actually paid for trillian pro, the only useful featues added for me is the stockticker, spellchecking and jabber connectivity. You probbably wouldn't use any of those features, so as far as I'm concerned, you deserved every bit of what you got for you stupidity. I'd be willing to be the virus scanner you have is from kazaa too? Eh?
I'm pretty sure that's a pair of pliers tugging on a nipple.
You're forgetting the network adaptor, it's relativley simple to get the PS2 to access shares on another computer. You also have the internet availiable. Granted it would be nice to be able to use the PS2's drive, I've never really found that to be anything more than a minor annoyance.
How exactly is it crippled? The only resrictions it the fact that you don't have documentation on the IOP (presumably to prevent you from producing software that will boot on any PS2 without a sony liscence) and you have to use the provided runtime enviroment. Other than that you have pretty much full access to the unit, except where the antiquated version of linux restricts you.
Currently you can't boot Linux on the PS2 without the Linux kit, as you need the DVDs that come with the kit to boot from. So even if you added those parts you still couldn't boot linux.
Horray for ResNET with all the stupid bandwidth planning. At UWW some moron decided to split the school's total bandwith 50/50 between the dorms and the school labs, with roughly 300 computers getting one half (the labs) and 8,000 computers getting the other half, so the Labs run at blazing speed, and the dorm's connection is almost unuseable.
They just updated our systems too, and nobody can apply for financial aid, for whatever reason.
Isn't it legal to reverse engineer for the purpose of interoperability? So if gaim has reverse engineered MSN's protocol, isn't it legal for them to use it?
Mame.dk is still running. You just need to register.
It's not like he's completely ignoring his user base, the article makes it sounds like he bends over backwards to put features for people into the program. I'd imagine that If I spent 12 years working on a program I wouldn't want people passing it around for free, even if it was in the name of open source. Besides, saying that a program would be much better once it's made open source is somewhere along the lines of "we would have made more money of this movie if it wasn't for pirates!"
While that is a very cool idea, and one I've never heard of, one look at the price says why. It seems logical to me that any 4 color, CYMK printer would cost pretty much the same to convert, but obviously this is not the case. Epson C60 sells regulary for about $65, and the converted one sells for $499 Wheras the C80 sells for about $85 and the converted unit runs $749. Why the extra cost I have no idea. And that website is very porrly designed and aparenty unfinished. While a cool idea, and a 6 color large formant printer like the ones they sell would give great results cheaply. This site offers the kits to do it yourself, so you can save yourself from cartridges and save yourself $200 by doing it yourself in true slashdot fashion.
"Right now, there's very little demand for DVI support." Exactly. I have yet to see a single tube or projection based television/monitor offering DVI input. In fact, component inputs (Y/Pb/Pr)are just now showing up on midrange televisions. Only Plasma and LCD screens seem to have them, and very few people own these newer displays. Every Television that I've never heard of offers some sort of RF Coaxial input, so all VCRs offer this output. Most Televisions offer RCA inputs, most VCRs and all DVD players offer this. There is a Good chance that any newer TV has S-video inputs, a few VCRs and 99% of all DVD players offer this. Few Midrange Televisions offer Component Video, Only Upper Price range DVD players offer this. Plasma Screen conversion boards usually offer raw DVI input, we have one DVD player that offers this. Projection TV's, supposedly there are some that offer DVI as well, probably only HDTV units otherwise it would be a waste. So finally we have that DVD player for the person looking to squeeze out whatever quality gain there could be over component, to compliment his $8000 Plasma screen. I can't see their being much demand for this until we all get plasma screens, or DVI shows up on TVs that regular people can afford. But then again, I don't think you'd be able to notice any improvement unless you're at least HDTV resolution anyway.
You can double the geek factor by adding some retro. If I'm going to wear a watch with a screen on it, I'd much rather wear one of Nintendo's game watches. I bet you could put some decent games on that palm, but the article says the watch doesn't have the palm hardware buttons.
Quoted from the NTFSDOS page on Sysinternals: "Significant understanding of the NTFS file system layout was derived by studying the Linux-based NTFS driver code maintained by Martin von Loewis. We acknowledge his indirect contribution to this endeavor." "The advantage NTFSDOS Professional has over NTFSDOS is that it relies on Microsoft's implementation of NTFS rather than our own information on the NTFS file-system layout. " So on their pro version they are using MS code, but on their standard version, they are using a reverse engineered driver.
NTFS is proprietary, but Linux can still read and write it, it will only be a matter of time before someone gets it working on linux.
Gee, I sure don't have any problems with the backlight on my Sony Clie, recardless of the lighting conditions. And you can turn off the backlight when you're outside. Frontlighting has a bad habit of washing out the colors (noticible on the GBA SP, and GBA with Afterburner).
Intresting is the fact that many retail stores tell you specifically not to bother checking the bills in that way. We for example use those markers that test the validity of the paper, the marker doesn't write on real dollars or something like that. Apparently to some retail chains (which shall remain nameless) it's not that important. To be honest, counterfit detection isn't even part of the cashier's training where I work, they learn what that marker is for by asking someone else.
IIRC (I own the kit, btw)
Sony put everything they themselves created on the first disc. Their bootloader, PS2 technical documentation (covered by a NDA), and thier software development libraries.
Basically the Linux packages are on the second disc.
The linux kit CAN output to a TV, both NTSC and PAL, right out of the box. I know this because that's how I use it, I don't have any SOG monitors. The 640x480 resolution is a little restricting, but it does the job. I don't know what programs offhand already exist to emulate the Qcast's capability, but I'm sure there's something, and you have quite a bit of hard disk space to work with, even the maximum install leaves over 38 gigs freen on the drive, so you can always have the movies stored locally.
I don't yet have a DVD player with progressive scan, so it is a viable option.
It would be a good excuse for Sony to release a new vestion, the stock kit is horribly outdated.