I know you're trying to be funny, but it seems true, there's a lot of stuff that included with Linux that makes me wonder what Microsoft is spending all their time on. How about include multiple desktops as a default feature, and not some powertoys thing that doesn't work too well. How about include a good command line, I can't believe they took out Monad. How about not crippling the FAT32 file system by only allowing partitions of 32 GB. How about adding support for other file systems. NTFS is good, but not the best solution for everyone. They get everybody mad by adding features like web browsers, media players, and virus scanners that shouldn't even be part of the "operating system", when they have a lot to add that they could add to the operating system that would make people's lives a lot easier.
It's Ottawa (Specifically the new Walmart on terminal Ave.). Ottawa has about 1 million people, and 3 or 4 Walmarts. That's not a lot to go around. I don't know if the US is getting more or less than Canada. If you add up all the stores that are getting Wiis, and assume they are all getting the same number, then there's probably going to be less than 200 in the entire city. That's going to create some major demand.
Just for anecdotal evidence, I asked the guy at the Walmart electronics counter how many Wiis they were getting in. He said 7. Then I asked about PS3. He said they were getting 3. Either way, it's pretty low numbers to expect to get either one at launch, although it's interesting to know that they are getting more than twice as many Wiis.
I'm pretty sure that in Canada that 1 point will be 1 cent then. According to XE.com, 1 Yen = 0.00856575 $US. 1 Canadian penny is worth 0.00885100 $US. Those numbers are both pretty much the same. About.8 cents. I don't think they want to have people dealing with fractions of a penny, just as they won't want people dealing with fractions of a Yen. Also, as i've mentioned, iTunes sell for 99 cents in canada, same price as they are in the states. It's not a question of cost at this point, but rather what people think is a good price. So a 2000 point card would cost $20 + Tax. I live in Ontario, so that comes to $22.80
I'm not sure that they'd have to relicense anything for those games. They already have a license to sell that game, and since they are selling the exact same game, I don't think there would be anything to worry about. Also I think a lot of these studios would love to have their old games put out the games again if they received a little something in return. There's a new TMNT movie coming out, they could create a lot of hype by telling people to go download the old games for their Wii. Although I hated the Original TMNT game for NES. Despite owning it, I never could beat it.
I live in Canada, So I have to assume it will be the same. They couldn't have 2 cents per point, because that would be too expensive. They wouldn't do 1.2 cents or something like that, because it would be too confusing to the people. iTunes cost 99 cents in Canada, so i imagine that Nintendo would do the same thing to avoid confusion.
I'm not sure if people will not buy the new titles because they're buying old stuff. It really depends on the price. I'm not sure how much 500 points cost, but I'd probably rather play a new Zelda game than play the original Zelda again. Although the original Zelda is fun, I've played it too much, and it's too easy to beat (even the second quest). I wonder if they will ever put out another Zelda game with a second quest...
Mario Bros. despite it's classic appeal isn't much fun as far as I'm concerned. There's a lot of games that would draw a lot more sales. It definitely isn't worth the same price as The Legend Of Zelda. I think they need to rethink their pricing on the virtual console. It seems to me like all games from the same console will be the same price. This is the iTunes approach that I don't like. There's many games on Nintendo that aren't worth the same as the must have titles, but that I'd still buy if I could get them at a cheaper price. With iTunes, There's a ton of songs I won't buy because I don't think they're worth a dollar, but I would definitely buy them for 25 cents.
Of course those of us with a GameCube have already been able to play the original Sonic games for quite some time. I got it out of the $18 bin at walmart (came with 6? sonic games). I Want to know how much these games will actually cost in dollars? how many points do I get for $1?
Well, since we're talking about people who run their computer all day usually downloading torrents, or folding proteins, i'd guess that in both cases, they wouldn't have their monitors turned on, or they would at least be in powersave mode. Do your 10-20% numbers include the monitor, or just the case?
I started using Virtuawin about a week ago thanks to a similar post on another slashdot story. I have to say it's a lot better than the powertoys thing that MS offers. It is very feature rich, and even offers a few things that I wish were available under KDE, such as gather, sticky, and bringing a window to your current desktop with 2 clicks. It's very stable, and the only problem I've had is that sometimes when you switch desktops you end up with a different window on top.
I usually keep about 10 windows (+8 tabs in firefox) open, with 2-3 windows on each desktop,and using two monitors. I find it much faster to switch to the right desktop than to alt-tab through the 10 windows to get to the one your want to, or to reach for the mouse and click on the window.
Does that $15 a month apply when you're running the CPU at 100%, or 3%? It makes a difference becuse if I'm downloading torrents, my CPU usage stays around 3%, but If i'm running folding at home my CPU is at 100%. It really depends what your computer is doing when you leave it on. If you're doing very little, then it won't be using much power.
It depends on what hours they are tracking you. They shouldn't be tracking you at 12 AM on a saturday night, they have no business knowing where you are. I could see employers tracking down where you are, when you tell them you're stuck in traffic and you'll be late for work, and then they find out you're lieing in bed. Then again, if you have the kind of employer who you feel you have to lie to when you want to sleep in once in a while, then maybe you should be looking for a new employer.
I'm looking for something with good code completion and debugging. Do you know how well those features are compared to the equivalent features in Visual Studio?
I personally have to say that I love VB.Net and C#. They are great languages. Now, IIS I have some issues with, but I find it a joy to work in Visual Studio with C# and VB.Net. Certainly better than working in PHP, with any IDE i've tried. I haven't tried Zen yet though. I've been searching for a good IDE. Does anybody have suggestions for a good PHP IDE? I'm currently using Quanta.
Does anybody still use EXT2/3 on Linux? I thought everyone had moved over to JFS,ReiserFS, or something else. Maybe slashdot should have a Poll about which file system people prefer the most.
I used to play music in the background by burning an audio CD and playing it my computer's CDROM drive. It would come through the speakers or headphones same as the game. And I could skip tracks with the button on the front of the CD drive. It provided much better music than the game usually did.
Why can't they support keyboards and mice on consoles? it would be trivial to make a device that allowed you to plug in PS/2 or USB keyboards and mice into a console. With so many people asking for this, especially for FPS games, why haven't they gotten around to supporting this?
If people weren't concerned about speed, we'd all be on 9600bps modems.
My point wasn't that speed wasn't important, but rather that you shouldn't compare IE7 and Firefox when IE7 doesn't render the page correctly. We would still all be using 9600 baud modems if anything faster resulted in errors in the transmitted information, and there was no error correction. I'd rather use a browser that supported CSS and rendered pages fast enough, than use a browser that didn't support CSS, and rendered them only a little faster.
What memory leak. I have been using firefox for years, and have never seen it go above 100 MB, and I often have more than 10 tabs open, with lots of images. Yet I've heard stories of it going up to 700 MB. I don't even see how this could happen. Is it just a question of using some weird extensions/plugins? Or is there a real problem that I'm just not encountering. What are the specific repeatable test cases on a base install of firefox with no extensions and plugins that get it to eat up 700 MB of RAM?
Who cares how fast it's rendering something when it's not rendering the correct thing. When IE gets better CSS support, then you can talk about and compare rendering speeds. If all we wanted was rendering speed, we'd all be using lynx.
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I know you're trying to be funny, but it seems true, there's a lot of stuff that included with Linux that makes me wonder what Microsoft is spending all their time on. How about include multiple desktops as a default feature, and not some powertoys thing that doesn't work too well. How about include a good command line, I can't believe they took out Monad. How about not crippling the FAT32 file system by only allowing partitions of 32 GB. How about adding support for other file systems. NTFS is good, but not the best solution for everyone. They get everybody mad by adding features like web browsers, media players, and virus scanners that shouldn't even be part of the "operating system", when they have a lot to add that they could add to the operating system that would make people's lives a lot easier.
The problem comes when every one of the 1000 computers in the office tries to ping the license server at exactly the same time.
It's Ottawa (Specifically the new Walmart on terminal Ave.). Ottawa has about 1 million people, and 3 or 4 Walmarts. That's not a lot to go around. I don't know if the US is getting more or less than Canada. If you add up all the stores that are getting Wiis, and assume they are all getting the same number, then there's probably going to be less than 200 in the entire city. That's going to create some major demand.
Just for anecdotal evidence, I asked the guy at the Walmart electronics counter how many Wiis they were getting in. He said 7. Then I asked about PS3. He said they were getting 3. Either way, it's pretty low numbers to expect to get either one at launch, although it's interesting to know that they are getting more than twice as many Wiis.
I'm pretty sure that in Canada that 1 point will be 1 cent then. According to XE.com, 1 Yen = 0.00856575 $US. 1 Canadian penny is worth 0.00885100 $US. Those numbers are both pretty much the same. About .8 cents. I don't think they want to have people dealing with fractions of a penny, just as they won't want people dealing with fractions of a Yen. Also, as i've mentioned, iTunes sell for 99 cents in canada, same price as they are in the states. It's not a question of cost at this point, but rather what people think is a good price. So a 2000 point card would cost $20 + Tax. I live in Ontario, so that comes to $22.80
I'm not sure that they'd have to relicense anything for those games. They already have a license to sell that game, and since they are selling the exact same game, I don't think there would be anything to worry about. Also I think a lot of these studios would love to have their old games put out the games again if they received a little something in return. There's a new TMNT movie coming out, they could create a lot of hype by telling people to go download the old games for their Wii. Although I hated the Original TMNT game for NES. Despite owning it, I never could beat it.
I live in Canada, So I have to assume it will be the same. They couldn't have 2 cents per point, because that would be too expensive. They wouldn't do 1.2 cents or something like that, because it would be too confusing to the people. iTunes cost 99 cents in Canada, so i imagine that Nintendo would do the same thing to avoid confusion.
I'm not sure if people will not buy the new titles because they're buying old stuff. It really depends on the price. I'm not sure how much 500 points cost, but I'd probably rather play a new Zelda game than play the original Zelda again. Although the original Zelda is fun, I've played it too much, and it's too easy to beat (even the second quest). I wonder if they will ever put out another Zelda game with a second quest...
Mario Bros. despite it's classic appeal isn't much fun as far as I'm concerned. There's a lot of games that would draw a lot more sales. It definitely isn't worth the same price as The Legend Of Zelda. I think they need to rethink their pricing on the virtual console. It seems to me like all games from the same console will be the same price. This is the iTunes approach that I don't like. There's many games on Nintendo that aren't worth the same as the must have titles, but that I'd still buy if I could get them at a cheaper price. With iTunes, There's a ton of songs I won't buy because I don't think they're worth a dollar, but I would definitely buy them for 25 cents.
Of course those of us with a GameCube have already been able to play the original Sonic games for quite some time. I got it out of the $18 bin at walmart (came with 6? sonic games). I Want to know how much these games will actually cost in dollars? how many points do I get for $1?
Well, I do have a Gig of RAM, and most stuff I download is less than a Gig, so I guess they could all fit in RAM.
I thought gas prices were going down?
Well, since we're talking about people who run their computer all day usually downloading torrents, or folding proteins, i'd guess that in both cases, they wouldn't have their monitors turned on, or they would at least be in powersave mode. Do your 10-20% numbers include the monitor, or just the case?
I started using Virtuawin about a week ago thanks to a similar post on another slashdot story. I have to say it's a lot better than the powertoys thing that MS offers. It is very feature rich, and even offers a few things that I wish were available under KDE, such as gather, sticky, and bringing a window to your current desktop with 2 clicks. It's very stable, and the only problem I've had is that sometimes when you switch desktops you end up with a different window on top.
I usually keep about 10 windows (+8 tabs in firefox) open, with 2-3 windows on each desktop,and using two monitors. I find it much faster to switch to the right desktop than to alt-tab through the 10 windows to get to the one your want to, or to reach for the mouse and click on the window.
Does that $15 a month apply when you're running the CPU at 100%, or 3%? It makes a difference becuse if I'm downloading torrents, my CPU usage stays around 3%, but If i'm running folding at home my CPU is at 100%. It really depends what your computer is doing when you leave it on. If you're doing very little, then it won't be using much power.
It depends on what hours they are tracking you. They shouldn't be tracking you at 12 AM on a saturday night, they have no business knowing where you are. I could see employers tracking down where you are, when you tell them you're stuck in traffic and you'll be late for work, and then they find out you're lieing in bed. Then again, if you have the kind of employer who you feel you have to lie to when you want to sleep in once in a while, then maybe you should be looking for a new employer.
I'm looking for something with good code completion and debugging. Do you know how well those features are compared to the equivalent features in Visual Studio?
I personally have to say that I love VB.Net and C#. They are great languages. Now, IIS I have some issues with, but I find it a joy to work in Visual Studio with C# and VB.Net. Certainly better than working in PHP, with any IDE i've tried. I haven't tried Zen yet though. I've been searching for a good IDE. Does anybody have suggestions for a good PHP IDE? I'm currently using Quanta.
Does anybody still use EXT2/3 on Linux? I thought everyone had moved over to JFS,ReiserFS, or something else. Maybe slashdot should have a Poll about which file system people prefer the most.
I used to play music in the background by burning an audio CD and playing it my computer's CDROM drive. It would come through the speakers or headphones same as the game. And I could skip tracks with the button on the front of the CD drive. It provided much better music than the game usually did.
Why can't they support keyboards and mice on consoles? it would be trivial to make a device that allowed you to plug in PS/2 or USB keyboards and mice into a console. With so many people asking for this, especially for FPS games, why haven't they gotten around to supporting this?
What memory leak. I have been using firefox for years, and have never seen it go above 100 MB, and I often have more than 10 tabs open, with lots of images. Yet I've heard stories of it going up to 700 MB. I don't even see how this could happen. Is it just a question of using some weird extensions/plugins? Or is there a real problem that I'm just not encountering. What are the specific repeatable test cases on a base install of firefox with no extensions and plugins that get it to eat up 700 MB of RAM?
Why not ask about the weaknesses of IE7?
Who cares how fast it's rendering something when it's not rendering the correct thing. When IE gets better CSS support, then you can talk about and compare rendering speeds. If all we wanted was rendering speed, we'd all be using lynx.