Yeah, the PS2 didn't start hitting it's stride till late 2001 early 2002. IIRC BGDA (Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance) was one of the first PS2 games not expected to be hit, that was a hit..
Actually the PS2 outperforms both the Gamecube and the Xbox in particle effects. The PS2 can do more of them. Which is why even if the PS2 version of a cross platform game looked worse texture wise than the GC/XBox versions it often had lighting and particle effects the other two versions didn't.
As for the Dreamcast, the PS2 has it all over the Dreamcast in every way. Oh sure the early games didn't have the anti-aliasing the DC games did, but soon devs got the hang of the hardware.
The PS2 has: More main RAM and it's faster too. a faster CPU higher resolution a hard drive an official Linux release USB (and Firewire on early models) DVD storage much higher capacity than the DC's GDROM's. and unlike the Deadcast, it is backwards compatible with it's predecessor. And it has more..and better, games including that Half-Life port that was never released for the DC (including full mouse/keyboard support)
Consoles have a horrible interface when compared to PCs,
Oh really? I remember the "joys" of trying to play action games with a keyboard. It sucked then, it sucks now.
and until recently, TVs had a horrible screen on which to display games.
Depends on what you consider recently, and besides some of us aren't as resolution obsessed as PC gamers are. Sometimes I think PC gamers care more about benchmark bragging rights in regards to frame-rates, resolutions and so forth than actually having fun playing games.
and only one TV
You do realize that many households are multi-TV households and don't have just one TV in the living room.
If your 24" LCD has component or HDMI in you can hook a console up to that.
I'm CronoCloud Creeggan in SL, and I've got one of those female avatars with a male voice. I've been playing with First Look and haven't really decided what I think about voice. I'm honest in the profile so it's not as much a big deal to me as it is to others who are more private. But I do use a female avatar for a reason (also in my profile)
It surprises people. IT doesn't upset people, so far, but they are surprised and sometimes say they don't understand why people play opposite sex avatars (they sometimes say similar things about non-human avatars)
I've also played with MorphVOX, but I don't think it's worth $40 ($20 yes). I suspect that it might become popular among those who are more private about their gender in SL than I am.
You probably won't see this, Mr Anonymous Coward with an honest, insightful comment, but have you tried Second Life. I've said that SL is like Barbie taken to 11. or as the http://www.lindenlifestyles.com/ ladies say in their masthead "Our Wardrobe is Better than Barbie's"
And you might my take on "virtual dolls" interesting:
And yes, the future addition of voice to SL has me doing some thinking. I've been playing with the voice enabled First Look build and it does surprise people when I talk, though I'm honest in my SL profile. (SL has more female players playing female avatars than other line games)
Hmm, have you ever thought that perhaps the PS3 sales numbers are low because the PS2 numbers are high? That perhaps Sony meant what they said a few years back about the PS2 lifespan? There's still good games coming out for it. YAPS2RPG (yet another PS2 RPG) just got game of the month award from EGM. The PS2 is still going strong.
I also must remind you that with all those RPG's still being released for the PS2, RPG fans have no reason to upgrade.....yet. A similar thing happened with the PSone, RPG fans didn't start buying PS2's till late in 2001
I belive that Sony probably intended to launch the PS3 this year, not last year but their hand was forced into an early launch.
Deus Ex: Invisible War is possibly the worst example you could cite. Compared to the original Deus Ex -- great game, BTW, and one that proves that an FPS/RPG hybrid doesn't have to be awful -- it was unquestionably dumbed-down and the console limitations ruined the entire game.
I wasn't referring to Invisible War, I was referring to the original, which had a PS2 port. (with mouse and keyboard support)
I think that was part of the problem with Invisible War, it was designed with the Xbox in mind and not the PS2 (whose owners are more likely to appreciate additional control options, especially in an FPS)
Frankly the PS3 makes a nice little home computer as it is. E-mail, IM, Web Browsing, Open Office. Plust the ability to run graphically intensive games with a quick reboot to GameOS. I don't know why Sony isn't promoting this ability
As for recompiling, the PS3 is in much better shape than the PS2 is with Linux, since the PS3 can run PPC Linux binaries.
Yes, one can code to the GS on the PS2 under Linux VU assembler and whatnot. (Though I'm not a coder, I bought the kit to "use" it and learn more about Linux), though X is not 3D accelerated and Mesa only has "limited hardware acceleration".
Sony doesn't care what you do on your PS2/PS3 as long as you do it under Linux (and under the restrictions Linux on the PS2/PS3 has). That's the sandbox you get to play in.
Trying to do stuff outside of that, they don't like. That's the sort of thing that enables the running of "backups".
Running Nethack under Linux: OK Running Nethack via a hack/exploit that also lets one run ISO/backups etc. Not OK.
Some of the early 2.foo beta gaim's were notoriously crash prone. I kept using 1.5 till late in the 2.foo beta series, beta5 I think. The earlier ones were unusable because of the crashing.
The recent pidgin releases seem fine though, so you might try it out again.
Enable/Disable is in the Linux client too, has been for a while now. But don't complain about the UI was more user friendly in the old versions or the developers will ask for a objective reason other than "it was more like other IM clients, or it made more sense, or it felt better" They seem to have a "what do the users know, besides we're open source developers and they aint paying us so we don't care anyway" sort of attitude One of the developers said to me that he really didn't care if anyone used it or not. My thoughts on that were that if he felt that way why release the thing in the wild.
They're among the most user-indifferent devs I've ever come across.
Claws Mail which is an "extra features" fork of Sylpheed (formerly named Sylpheed-Claws), does support viewing HTML mail with the included Dillo plugin. But you can simply turn it off/disable it. Composing in HTML is, of course, not supported.
PGP seems to be pretty well integrated and easy to use in it.
Outside of Apple, the biggest supporter seems to be Sony. Both the PS3 and PSP (and newer Sony phones and Walkmans) can play it, and it's the default codec for the CD ripping ability of the PS3. So the DRMless iTunes songs will benefit PS3/PSP owners quite a bit allowing them to buy songs from iTunes and use them on their machines.
AAC is also the standard audio format of MPEG4/H.264 video.
By all means let's not pay for what we don't use. I've never flown so why should I pay for government run aviatian services. I don't have any children in school so why should I pay taxes to support education.
The argument you're making is what leads to outsourcing.
You're not going to move to Wisconsin, do you know why? 12 million people.
Let me say that again, 12 million people
You're essentially doing the "business blackmail bit" playing states against each other. I personally consider that extremely unethical. If you want Illinois infrastructure, then pay up and smile.
infrastructure and demographics wise, Illinois has it all over the other states you mention. You may pay higher than you would there, but you're still paying lower percentage of total revenue than businesses did 50 years ago. Besides if you have gay employees do you think they would want to live in Kentucky or Missouri? Or even Iowa or Indiana?
I will say this, I don't think Blago would have proposed the GRT if more businesses had healthcare for their employees. You business folks can either pay for it yourselves or have the goverment do it for you (and make you pay anyway)
I'd be less hostile to the complaints of purported "small businesses" if the local small businessmen didn't live in big houses out by the golf course with big RV's, boats, big vacations, fancy cars while their employees did without healthcare and whose wages were below poverty level.
No. It's waste of money I could more effectively invest myself.
Maybe, but not everyone has the skills and knowledge to do that.
Your grasp of economics is about that of a two year old.
Perhaps, but high unemployment does depress wage levels. One way of reducing unemployment is taking people out of the workforce. Social Security was/is one way of doing that. (and was one of it's purposes)
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The Dreamcast, unlike the PS2, is dead and gone, it would be different if I had called it the Deadcast before Sega got out of the hardware business.
Yeah, the PS2 didn't start hitting it's stride till late 2001 early 2002. IIRC BGDA (Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance) was one of the first PS2 games not expected to be hit, that was a hit..
Actually the PS2 outperforms both the Gamecube and the Xbox in particle effects. The PS2 can do more of them. Which is why even if the PS2 version of a cross platform game looked worse texture wise than the GC/XBox versions it often had lighting and particle effects the other two versions didn't.
As for the Dreamcast, the PS2 has it all over the Dreamcast in every way. Oh sure the early games didn't have the anti-aliasing the DC games did, but soon devs got the hang of the hardware.
The PS2 has:
More main RAM and it's faster too.
a faster CPU
higher resolution
a hard drive
an official Linux release
USB (and Firewire on early models)
DVD storage much higher capacity than the DC's GDROM's.
and unlike the Deadcast, it is backwards compatible with it's predecessor.
And it has more..and better, games including that Half-Life port that was never released for the DC (including full mouse/keyboard support)
Oh really? I remember the "joys" of trying to play action games with a keyboard. It sucked then, it sucks now. Depends on what you consider recently, and besides some of us aren't as resolution obsessed as PC gamers are. Sometimes I think PC gamers care more about benchmark bragging rights in regards to frame-rates, resolutions and so forth than actually having fun playing games.
You do realize that many households are multi-TV households and don't have just one TV in the living room.
If your 24" LCD has component or HDMI in you can hook a console up to that.
I'm CronoCloud Creeggan in SL, and I've got one of those female avatars with a male voice. I've been playing with First Look and haven't really decided what I think about voice. I'm honest in the profile so it's not as much a big deal to me as it is to others who are more private. But I do use a female avatar for a reason (also in my profile)
It surprises people. IT doesn't upset people, so far, but they are surprised and sometimes say they don't understand why people play opposite sex avatars (they sometimes say similar things about non-human avatars)
I've also played with MorphVOX, but I don't think it's worth $40 ($20 yes). I suspect that it might become popular among those who are more private about their gender in SL than I am.
You probably won't see this, Mr Anonymous Coward with an honest, insightful comment, but have you tried Second Life. I've said that SL is like Barbie taken to 11. or as the http://www.lindenlifestyles.com/ ladies say in their masthead "Our Wardrobe is Better than Barbie's"
n g-with-dolls.html
And you might my take on "virtual dolls" interesting:
http://ccslfashionista.blogspot.com/2006/10/playi
And yes, the future addition of voice to SL has me doing some thinking. I've been playing with the voice enabled First Look build and it does surprise people when I talk, though I'm honest in my SL profile. (SL has more female players playing female avatars than other line games)
Hmm, have you ever thought that perhaps the PS3 sales numbers are low because the PS2 numbers are high? That perhaps Sony meant what they said a few years back about the PS2 lifespan? There's still good games coming out for it. YAPS2RPG (yet another PS2 RPG) just got game of the month award from EGM. The PS2 is still going strong.
I also must remind you that with all those RPG's still being released for the PS2, RPG fans have no reason to upgrade.....yet. A similar thing happened with the PSone, RPG fans didn't start buying PS2's till late in 2001
I belive that Sony probably intended to launch the PS3 this year, not last year but their hand was forced into an early launch.
whois 12.000.000.000@whois.arin.net
[whois.arin.net]
AT&T WorldNet Services ATT (NET-12-0-0-0-1)
12.0.0.0 - 12.255.255.255
Basically my cable company is just resselling AT&T services.
You're lucky your cable company doesn't get it's backbone from AT&T. I've got a 12.foo.foo.foo IP address and we know what that means.
I wasn't referring to Invisible War, I was referring to the original, which had a PS2 port. (with mouse and keyboard support)
I think that was part of the problem with Invisible War, it was designed with the Xbox in mind and not the PS2 (whose owners are more likely to appreciate additional control options, especially in an FPS)
They don't have to dumb down games anymore, and they usually don't. They do alter the controls though.
Diablo on the PS1 was the same Diablo as on the PC.
Deus Ex on the PS2 was the same game.
Frankly the PS3 makes a nice little home computer as it is. E-mail, IM, Web Browsing, Open Office. Plust the ability to run graphically intensive games with a quick reboot to GameOS. I don't know why Sony isn't promoting this ability
As for recompiling, the PS3 is in much better shape than the PS2 is with Linux, since the PS3 can run PPC Linux binaries.
Yes, one can code to the GS on the PS2 under Linux VU assembler and whatnot. (Though I'm not a coder, I bought the kit to "use" it and learn more about Linux), though X is not 3D accelerated and Mesa only has "limited hardware acceleration".
Sony doesn't care what you do on your PS2/PS3 as long as you do it under Linux (and under the restrictions Linux on the PS2/PS3 has). That's the sandbox you get to play in.
Trying to do stuff outside of that, they don't like. That's the sort of thing that enables the running of "backups".
Running Nethack under Linux: OK
Running Nethack via a hack/exploit that also lets one run ISO/backups etc. Not OK.
It can't be that bad....can it? I've got a PS2 Linux kit and it can even play youtube video with ffplay (after I grab the flv with youtube-dl.py.
It doesn't have too much trouble moving opaque windows under fluxbox, though it's a touch jerky. (I do normally have opaque window moving off.)
The PS3 has much more RAM and a processor 10X faster. It ought to be able to brute force most stuff even without hardware acceleration.
In REAL RUSSIA, they are probably annoyed at all the IN SOVIET RUSSIA, "foo" foos YOU jokes.
Some of the early 2.foo beta gaim's were notoriously crash prone. I kept using 1.5 till late in the 2.foo beta series, beta5 I think. The earlier ones were unusable because of the crashing.
The recent pidgin releases seem fine though, so you might try it out again.
Enable/Disable is in the Linux client too, has been for a while now. But don't complain about the UI was more user friendly in the old versions or the developers will ask for a objective reason other than "it was more like other IM clients, or it made more sense, or it felt better" They seem to have a "what do the users know, besides we're open source developers and they aint paying us so we don't care anyway" sort of attitude One of the developers said to me that he really didn't care if anyone used it or not. My thoughts on that were that if he felt that way why release the thing in the wild.
They're among the most user-indifferent devs I've ever come across.
Gtalk (Google Talk) is Jabber/XMPP based so it's actually text.
Not anymmore, they added that feature in 3.30.
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Claws Mail which is an "extra features" fork of Sylpheed (formerly named Sylpheed-Claws), does support viewing HTML mail with the included Dillo plugin. But you can simply turn it off/disable it. Composing in HTML is, of course, not supported.
PGP seems to be pretty well integrated and easy to use in it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding
Outside of Apple, the biggest supporter seems to be Sony. Both the PS3 and PSP (and newer Sony phones and Walkmans) can play it, and it's the default codec for the CD ripping ability of the PS3. So the DRMless iTunes songs will benefit PS3/PSP owners quite a bit allowing them to buy songs from iTunes and use them on their machines.
AAC is also the standard audio format of MPEG4/H.264 video.
By all means let's not pay for what we don't use. I've never flown so why should I pay for government run aviatian services. I don't have any children in school so why should I pay taxes to support education.
The argument you're making is what leads to outsourcing.
You're not going to move to Wisconsin, do you know why? 12 million people.
Let me say that again, 12 million people
You're essentially doing the "business blackmail bit" playing states against each other. I personally consider that extremely unethical. If you want Illinois infrastructure, then pay up and smile.
infrastructure and demographics wise, Illinois has it all over the other states you mention. You may pay higher than you would there, but you're still paying lower percentage of total revenue than businesses did 50 years ago. Besides if you have gay employees do you think they would want to live in Kentucky or Missouri? Or even Iowa or Indiana?
I will say this, I don't think Blago would have proposed the GRT if more businesses had healthcare for their employees. You business folks can either pay for it yourselves or have the goverment do it for you (and make you pay anyway)
I'd be less hostile to the complaints of purported "small businesses" if the local small businessmen didn't live in big houses out by the golf course with big RV's, boats, big vacations, fancy cars while their employees did without healthcare and whose wages were below poverty level.
Maybe, but not everyone has the skills and knowledge to do that.
Perhaps, but high unemployment does depress wage levels. One way of reducing unemployment is taking people out of the workforce. Social Security was/is one way of doing that. (and was one of it's purposes)