It is actually annoying though to know that you can get 21" 1920x1080 and 22" 1920x1200 displays, but for any more, it means going to 30", 2560x1600, and from there, there is nowhere else on a single screen.
I'd love to see that newly-popular 26 and 27" size showing up in 2560x1600.
I tended to destroy $20 keyboards because I type hard and bottom out to get a sound from them.
Model Ms don't need to be beaten to hear the keystroke.
I've used an array of Ms-- from 1987 to a 2009 Unicomp with two weeks on the odometer-- and found I was unable to kill any of them except via outright abuse like ripping out springs.
It combined sufficient technical strenght with sufficient market strength.
At that time: The Atari 2600 had market penetration, but you get the distinct impression that people's full visions weren't being realised by the quality of the graphics and sound. I don't see Dragon Warrior (for example) as a success if ported to the 2600.
Doubtless someone was experimenting with a 68000 console which would have supplied plenty of horsepower, but nobody bought it.
The NES managed to bridge the two; it sold enough that people would bother developing for it, yet was powerful enough that people could develop attractive, complex games.
Why is it "nudity" to see five seconds of female boob, but if Commander Testosterone runs the whole game in nothing but a loincloth and an ammo sash, it isn't. Is it "criminal themes" if you show someone breaking a political prisioner out of jail?
Problem: The original Xbox had 8 or maybe 10G of disc space. An hour recording at top quality (with the PVR software of my TV card) is probably close to 2G (I tend to record 40-minute blocks, at 1.4-1.6). Nobody wants a Tivo with less capacity than a T-120 VHS.
I'd rather see Nintendo retire its franchises rather than run them into the dirt.
I tend to believe SMB3 and Super Mario World were the last decent Mario games. I recently played through Mario 64 and found the technology didn't help; in fact it degraded the quality (adding Mario's voice is no fun when it's the same four sound bites 9.5 million times). The Cube games of the franchise are just weird-- they depart far, far too much from the original formula.
I'd even suggest the same for Metroid Prime. A 3D game tends to inherently have worse control than a sidescroller (you usually have to spend far more time playing the camera than the actors), so don't take a game based on an excellent sidescroll series and try to add a third dimension
As for two screens, a single double-wide or double-tall screen would be better. When two windows are needed, draw a line across the screen.
If you have an actual seperate part, you can't fully combine the screens, say, if you just wanted a single wider screen. This limits its appeal for mainstream titles (appearing on 14 other consoles)
Most if not all the online options currently require broadband, which isn't anywhere near the penetration level of videogames as a whole in the first world, and less elsewhere.
I'd rather you make the console $20 cheaper by leaving the network kit out and seeing if anyone wants networking today. Perhaps its time will have come by the time GameCube II comes out
If you know the battery pinout, I could see connecting your preferred style of voltimeter across it. Ideally with a switch, so you don't drain it when you aren't resding the gauge.
I note that some batteries (like the ones in my old Toshiba 486) had + and - clearly marked on the unit
An even simpler project could be done if parallel ports are available.
Driver that converts the load to one of 8 value ranges, raises one pin on the port for the value range in play, lowers the rest. The port value is latched and used to drive an LED.
Gideontech.com has a project for a hard-disc VU meter; with an analogue CPU-use signal, it could be adapted
A severe problem is that people finish the games in various lengths of time.
User A may have to wait three months after completing part 1 for part 2 to come out, User B may hit the time right on, and User Z might take so long on part 1 that part 2 is already off the shelves when he's ready to play it.
I hate to offer the point, but it's true. The boot sound is the feature that I like best about Macs. I wish that x86 makers would allow you to embed a short sound file into the BIOS image and flash it with a preferred sound.
I had a laptop that had a close startup sound (DFI Mediabook, I believe a Kapok 9200 rebadge), but in these days of decent integrated audio, it should be on every mobo.
I may be interested in a Compaq Deskpro, but I doubt that Arkal Dorath, the 24th level mage, really wants to compare prices on one
On TV, the ads are either integrated effectively into the plot (so someone drinks a Pepsi instead of a Safeway Cola), or divorced completely (commercial break.
I can't see it working that way in a virtual world, and there are few virtual worlds set in eras where products they want you to buy out-of-game are relevant
If you remove fans for noise-abatement, you also lose a key maintenence item. If one in five $2 fans fails within the warranty period, that justifies 40 cents worth of aluminium heatsink. Possibly more.
Dells are quiet in part because they use a fan with a shroud and a passive heatsink only slightly larger than Canada on their processor.
Ideally, you'd have a single 120mm fan and a fancy maze of shrouds that drew over the AGP slot and CPU. What remains can be swallowed by the power supply.
I wonder if it's possible to take one of those old 3.5->5.25 mount kits (remember those? To mount the second floppy drive in your old AT desktop!) and fit it with some baffles to reduce noise emissions without drive movement.
I wonder why nobody makes a hard disc that adjusts speed based on performance needs
Run up to 10000 rpm at boot the system, spin to 3600 when processing, then back to 10000 when you're turfing 40Mb a minute of data onto the disc.
De-fan components. Heatsinks can be made sufficient for many video cards, chimpsets, and possibly CPUs (I'd bet in an otherwhise well-ventilated case, you could run a Duron at 1500 or so fanless)
Mount hard discs in frames with sound dampening.
Larger fans where fans are required.
Cover holes with filter
BTX won't solve the noise of a CD reader spin up, and it can't keep my fans oiled.
I really resent when I close it, it says "Some file types are not associated with Realplayer. DO YOU WANT TO FIX THIS PROBLEM?"
Maybe it's not a problem for a reason. I want to listen to music in Foobar2000. I want to watch video with WMP (well, I don't, but it seems to play pretty gracefully and hassle-free). I want to listen to RealAudio only with RealPlayer.
Why is it that every programme feels the urge to take over every file type, even the ones it's not good at.
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No matter what your salary is, there is much less flexibility on the *required* amount of money to have a reasonable standard of life. It may be somewhat higher due to family size, area, or incidentals, but not by much more than 2 or 3 times.
If you're making $30,000 a year, you're probably just over family expenses. If you're making $300,000 and have less than 20 kids, you're can probably afford to lose a few thousand dollars and still not worry about food, shelter, and health care.
That's why it's fair to soak the rich. They can tolerate it.
People misanalyze the "failure" the past ad formats gave.
If we held TV commercials like popup ads were to be rated, Pepsi would be wasting $2 mil on a Superbowl spot if people didn't get up-- before the end of the game-- and buy Pepsi.
If you expect that, then ANY advertisement technique short of "click here to remove the window" will fail. The ads are incidental to the desired info in the eyes of the consumer.
The only exception is ads that tie in well to the content. I have bought from such ads. When I look at a review site, there's a reasonable chance I want the item reviewed, so show me a shop.
The good news: In all likelihood, the first few sites to try it will face a DDoS from users who click "refresh" every few seconds in the attempt to get the page to show... "Why is the next page downloading xxxxkb? Must be broken."
What about Packard Bell, from their first trip around before they had to flee the US market with their tail pulled?
I had a P100 tower. It had a 2.1G hard disc. Sorta. It had a 1.2G unit chained to an 850M unit with some firmware taping it together. All I knew is that not only was the whole unit bad when I replaced it, and the units seperately were bad.
I tried a little video benchmark.
No L2 cache.
You had to invert the box to remove the sides and access cards.
The board weirded out-- BIOS was always bad but it ran fine. Fortunately, by that time, a K6/225 and proper mobo were entering the upgrade-spares queue.
I think you need to see the trees for the forest. The key point was that the US was too different from Cuba to rule it in a manner that represented Cuban needs. They'd be better served with a local administration, assuming equal quality of rule.
Cuba does the best they can for a nation that has relatively limited economic resources. There are many more oppressive regimes out there embraced with open arms.
Self-administration may make sense because it beats the alternative.
Consider a comparable situation. For example, let the US invade Cuba. Different history, economics, people. The US leadership would likely not accomodate the Cuban needs.
It may be wasteful to have a special government for 1200 people, but quality rule is worth waste.
I don't have a problem if they're sorting parts by tolerances. I don't even mind the OC options. I just wish they'd be a little clearer what is what!
They have two or three variants of about four basic model numbers. But which is faster? (especially if tthe fastest isn't an option).
Why can't they label them like CPUs (well, CPUs prior to the current "Athlon 64 128 DL-740 Edition"-- NV31 core, 235 core, 400 memory, instead of "5300 Super Zap Wowee edition"
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It is actually annoying though to know that you can get 21" 1920x1080 and 22" 1920x1200 displays, but for any more, it means going to 30", 2560x1600, and from there, there is nowhere else on a single screen.
I'd love to see that newly-popular 26 and 27" size showing up in 2560x1600.
It depends on the failure mode.
I tended to destroy $20 keyboards because I type hard and bottom out to get a sound from them.
Model Ms don't need to be beaten to hear the keystroke.
I've used an array of Ms-- from 1987 to a 2009 Unicomp with two weeks on the odometer-- and found I was unable to kill any of them except via outright abuse like ripping out springs.
It combined sufficient technical strenght with sufficient market strength.
At that time:
The Atari 2600 had market penetration, but you get the distinct impression that people's full visions weren't being realised by the quality of the graphics and sound. I don't see Dragon Warrior (for example) as a success if ported to the 2600.
Doubtless someone was experimenting with a 68000 console which would have supplied plenty of horsepower, but nobody bought it.
The NES managed to bridge the two; it sold enough that people would bother developing for it, yet was powerful enough that people could develop attractive, complex games.
There's still a lot of interpretation issues.
Why is it "nudity" to see five seconds of female boob, but if Commander Testosterone runs the whole game in nothing but a loincloth and an ammo sash, it isn't.
Is it "criminal themes" if you show someone breaking a political prisioner out of jail?
Problem: The original Xbox had 8 or maybe 10G of disc space. An hour recording at top quality (with the PVR software of my TV card) is probably close to 2G (I tend to record 40-minute blocks, at 1.4-1.6). Nobody wants a Tivo with less capacity than a T-120 VHS.
I hired it.
In a first person perspective, there's a camera. It's just located at the head.
In a 3D game, you tend to spend much more time moving around trying to see your surroundings and looking for the enemy or item
I'd rather see Nintendo retire its franchises rather than run them into the dirt.
I tend to believe SMB3 and Super Mario World were the last decent Mario games. I recently played through Mario 64 and found the technology didn't help; in fact it degraded the quality (adding Mario's voice is no fun when it's the same four sound bites 9.5 million times). The Cube games of the franchise are just weird-- they depart far, far too much from the original formula.
I'd even suggest the same for Metroid Prime. A 3D game tends to inherently have worse control than a sidescroller (you usually have to spend far more time playing the camera than the actors), so don't take a game based on an excellent sidescroll series and try to add a third dimension
As for two screens, a single double-wide or double-tall screen would be better. When two windows are needed, draw a line across the screen.
If you have an actual seperate part, you can't fully combine the screens, say, if you just wanted a single wider screen. This limits its appeal for mainstream titles (appearing on 14 other consoles)
Definitely.
Most if not all the online options currently require broadband, which isn't anywhere near the penetration level of videogames as a whole in the first world, and less elsewhere.
I'd rather you make the console $20 cheaper by leaving the network kit out and seeing if anyone wants networking today. Perhaps its time will have come by the time GameCube II comes out
If you know the battery pinout, I could see connecting your preferred style of voltimeter across it. Ideally with a switch, so you don't drain it when you aren't resding the gauge.
I note that some batteries (like the ones in my old Toshiba 486) had + and - clearly marked on the unit
An even simpler project could be done if parallel ports are available.
Driver that converts the load to one of 8 value ranges, raises one pin on the port for the value range in play, lowers the rest. The port value is latched and used to drive an LED.
Gideontech.com has a project for a hard-disc VU meter; with an analogue CPU-use signal, it could be adapted
A severe problem is that people finish the games in various lengths of time.
User A may have to wait three months after completing part 1 for part 2 to come out, User B may hit the time right on, and User Z might take so long on part 1 that part 2 is already off the shelves when he's ready to play it.
It's possible a custom speed grade was made (for example, a 133MHz bus version of a processor normally made as a 166, or vice versa.
I believe the K6-III at 333MHz was a intended to be a custom order.
I hate to offer the point, but it's true. The boot sound is the feature that I like best about Macs. I wish that x86 makers would allow you to embed a short sound file into the BIOS image and flash it with a preferred sound.
I had a laptop that had a close startup sound (DFI Mediabook, I believe a Kapok 9200 rebadge), but in these days of decent integrated audio, it should be on every mobo.
Why do ads fail in a virtual world?
I may be interested in a Compaq Deskpro, but I doubt that Arkal Dorath, the 24th level mage, really wants to compare prices on one
On TV, the ads are either integrated effectively into the plot (so someone drinks a Pepsi instead of a Safeway Cola), or divorced completely (commercial break.
I can't see it working that way in a virtual world, and there are few virtual worlds set in eras where products they want you to buy out-of-game are relevant
How about an obfuscated valentine?
Write a little programme to print a love message, then work it with preprocessor into a dear-john letter. Let him run it.
Well, that's not necessarily true.
If you remove fans for noise-abatement, you also lose a key maintenence item. If one in five $2 fans fails within the warranty period, that justifies 40 cents worth of aluminium heatsink. Possibly more.
Dells are quiet in part because they use a fan with a shroud and a passive heatsink only slightly larger than Canada on their processor.
Ideally, you'd have a single 120mm fan and a fancy maze of shrouds that drew over the AGP slot and CPU. What remains can be swallowed by the power supply.
I wonder if it's possible to take one of those old 3.5->5.25 mount kits (remember those? To mount the second floppy drive in your old AT desktop!) and fit it with some baffles to reduce noise emissions without drive movement.
I wonder why nobody makes a hard disc that adjusts speed based on performance needs
Run up to 10000 rpm at boot the system, spin to 3600 when processing, then back to 10000 when you're turfing 40Mb a minute of data onto the disc.
There are plenty of ways to get ATX silent.
De-fan components. Heatsinks can be made sufficient for many video cards, chimpsets, and possibly CPUs (I'd bet in an otherwhise well-ventilated case, you could run a Duron at 1500 or so fanless)
Mount hard discs in frames with sound dampening.
Larger fans where fans are required.
Cover holes with filter
BTX won't solve the noise of a CD reader spin up, and it can't keep my fans oiled.
I really resent when I close it, it says "Some file types are not associated with Realplayer. DO YOU WANT TO FIX THIS PROBLEM?"
Maybe it's not a problem for a reason. I want to listen to music in Foobar2000. I want to watch video with WMP (well, I don't, but it seems to play pretty gracefully and hassle-free). I want to listen to RealAudio only with RealPlayer.
Why is it that every programme feels the urge to take over every file type, even the ones it's not good at.
No matter what your salary is, there is much less flexibility on the *required* amount of money to have a reasonable standard of life. It may be somewhat higher due to family size, area, or incidentals, but not by much more than 2 or 3 times.
If you're making $30,000 a year, you're probably just over family expenses. If you're making $300,000 and have less than 20 kids, you're can probably afford to lose a few thousand dollars and still not worry about food, shelter, and health care.
That's why it's fair to soak the rich. They can tolerate it.
People misanalyze the "failure" the past ad formats gave.
If we held TV commercials like popup ads were to be rated, Pepsi would be wasting $2 mil on a Superbowl spot if people didn't get up-- before the end of the game-- and buy Pepsi.
If you expect that, then ANY advertisement technique short of "click here to remove the window" will fail. The ads are incidental to the desired info in the eyes of the consumer.
The only exception is ads that tie in well to the content. I have bought from such ads. When I look at a review site, there's a reasonable chance I want the item reviewed, so show me a shop.
The good news: In all likelihood, the first few sites to try it will face a DDoS from users who click "refresh" every few seconds in the attempt to get the page to show... "Why is the next page downloading xxxxkb? Must be broken."
What about Packard Bell, from their first trip around before they had to flee the US market with their tail pulled?
I had a P100 tower. It had a 2.1G hard disc. Sorta. It had a 1.2G unit chained to an 850M unit with some firmware taping it together. All I knew is that not only was the whole unit bad when I replaced it, and the units seperately were bad.
I tried a little video benchmark.
No L2 cache.
You had to invert the box to remove the sides and access cards.
The board weirded out-- BIOS was always bad but it ran fine. Fortunately, by that time, a K6/225 and proper mobo were entering the upgrade-spares queue.
It's like car warranties. "3 years or 50,000km whichever comes first". Only here it's "3 years or 24 hours, whichever comes first."
I think you need to see the trees for the forest. The key point was that the US was too different from Cuba to rule it in a manner that represented Cuban needs. They'd be better served with a local administration, assuming equal quality of rule.
Cuba does the best they can for a nation that has relatively limited economic resources. There are many more oppressive regimes out there embraced with open arms.
Self-administration may make sense because it beats the alternative.
Consider a comparable situation. For example, let the US invade Cuba. Different history, economics, people. The US leadership would likely not accomodate the Cuban needs.
It may be wasteful to have a special government for 1200 people, but quality rule is worth waste.
I don't have a problem if they're sorting parts by tolerances. I don't even mind the OC options. I just wish they'd be a little clearer what is what!
They have two or three variants of about four basic model numbers. But which is faster? (especially if tthe fastest isn't an option).
Why can't they label them like CPUs (well, CPUs prior to the current "Athlon 64 128 DL-740 Edition"-- NV31 core, 235 core, 400 memory, instead of "5300 Super Zap Wowee edition"