Re:I think this STAR WARS stuff should made illega
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Star Wars Extras Needed
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It's science fiction, not science fact. And it's a fscking movie what do you expect? Ever watch any movie about hacking? Not a single one ever deals with real hacking, it's always some thing like "Ok I've got to get past this firewall by using a joystick to control a worm I uploaded to eat away at the firewall and we're in." Or like in Swordfish, the building of the Hydra, that was great I wish programming was as easy as making a cube that the computer doesn't reject, it'd make my job easier.
Besides it doesn't do kids any harm to think that Star Wars is completely possible, it's good to have an imagination that isn't limited by the laws of physics. And when they get older they will learn that it's just a movie. Lastly, if everything had to be factual, there'd be no Barney, Blue's Clues, Sesame Street, well pretty much all children's programming would be taken off the air.
Some people say it is an advantage that Linux gets built in all of these little pieces. The fact is that if you want to do some kind of integrated innovation that touches the kernel, that touches the user interface--there is no way. Maybe Linus (Torvalds) can control the innovation in the piece called the kernel, but there are many pieces.
Yeah I totally agree, what good is a bunch of little pieces. What happens when I want X to crash and take down my entire computer? It's harder to do that when the GUI isn't tied into the kernel, it's so annoying all this stability. And what if I wanted Mozilla to run nasty scripts that would clear out my hard drive? How am I supposed to do this when mozilla isn't tied into my operating system?
But really, it'd be nice if he gave some kind of example where integrating the kernel and the UI is a good thing. Also, there may be many pieces, but there are also many people, linus torvalds isn't the only person working on linux and linux software.
How would that work? The robot is controlled by software on a computer, wirelessly. If you attached the robot to the computer then you'd need a keyboard monitor and mouse to use the software but it'd all be attached to the cye, which is kind of pointless.
You're forgetting the point, this thing is VERY SMALL and uses a 60W PSU. It's not that it has linux, it's that it is tiny and uses little power.
Almost great for lan parties
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Mini-Box M-100
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If they only made one with a good video card it'd be perfect for lan parties. Not the best computer you can buy, but my and 2 other friends are going to Quakecon in Texas, our main issue is size. The trunk in a '69 chevelle is large but we need a months worth of clothes, 3 computers and 3 monitors. It looks like you can easily fit 3 of these on your lap or in the glove compartment or anywhere besides the trunk while leaving tons of space in the seating area of the car so you don't need to sacrifice comfort to get space.
Also, imagine not having to carry a huge case onto an airplane hoping it'll fit under the seat, you could easily put this into a bag with other stuff you want to carry on. And if the 60W of power doesn't seem like enough -
Tested configurations. The PW-60 has been tested on a EPIA -800Mhz, 512Mb RAM, two IBM 120Gb hard drives while decoding a MPEG movie. Recommended configs: C3 processor, 1 regular size hard drive, any amount of RAM.
Seems like it can handle the power consumption required to be a gaming PC. And you'd only need one 40GB hard drive (won't have MP3s or movies or anything, just games.)
Can't you use Gnutella? I haven't used it in a while but there's bunches of open source gnutella clients last I checked. I was able to find alot of music I wanted with gnutella. Or you can try searching channels on IRC related to the kind of music you listen to (my entire playlist is from an FTP site I found on IRC with 100+ albums from hardcore, punk and metal bands.)
You're like my sister's boyfriend, who told a homeless person "Hey I'm sorry I'd give you some change but I'm poor" the guy yelled at him "You're poor! I live on the fucking street with one pair of clothes with no money to eat and YOU'RE POOR!" Kind of makes you look at the word "poor" in a whole new light.
Well I got mine with my new IBM PS/2 486DX2 (66 MHz! almost 4 full megs of RAM! 256MB HDD! Only $3,000 at The Wiz) the keyboard was really annoying when I was trying to stay on AOL late into the night (hey I was like 13 and VERY new to computers) paying like $1 an hour or whatever the rate was. My mother would hear the keyboard and wake up to yell at me so I had to type really slow (which didn't help much, although if I typed at the speed I type now, the noise would have driven my mother insane.
All these geeks on slashdot drool over stories of people encasing their computers in some kind of goo that hardened just for the hell of it, or overclocks with liquid nitrogen just cause they can. Pretty much anything that makes a slow old computer faster or as fast as a fast new computer (with little or no cost) gets a spot on slashdot. And now there's a story about someone who took a riced out car and RIPPED OFF THE RICE, they didn't add more, got it to perform like a $40,000 sports car (Nissan Sentras start at $12,000), and everyone on slashdot says "Why did they do this? There's no point? Why is this on slashdot?" A nissan sentra running 14s with nothing added is like a Celeron running like a Xeon (this car is now running faster than a Subaru Impreza STi which is more than three times the price).
These people ripped apart this car taking out all the unecesary stuff to make it lighter and faster and no one cares? If I had a dual 3GHz xeon computer running in a shoe box that story would be on slashdot and geeks would be all over it saying how great it is and how funny it is. But they can only say bad things about similar things being done to a car?
It's like you look down on car people, like they're inferior and anyone who races has to be a redneck. Can any of you do an engine swap or rebuild a transmission? I want mechanics to be my hobby, I love taking things apart and seeing how they work. When I get my first car I will do alot of performance tuning and all on my own (I've never worked on a car before.) I'm going to read all I can, online or in books (mostly books.) I don't understand why it isn't a common geek hobby (well besides the involvement of going outside).
Actually if you want to put it in computer terms, they took a completely modded e-machine, ripped off all the mods and made it super ventilated and over clocked it alot so it can compete with a dual 2.5 ghz pentoontium. In modding the mods would have to make the case hotter for this analagy to work, in the car mods they made the car heavier so it couldn't go as fast.
Cogent is fast but the latency is terrible. My friend does game hosting and is always looking for colo places that are cheap, the cheapest ones use cogent but the servers on those connections have the worst packet loss and ping times. Cogent is also going out of buisiness very soon (or so I hear from my friend) their price sounds tempting ($1000 a month for 100 mbps is amazing) but all the cons outweigh the one pro (cheap high speed access.)
An electric eye I think, but it's weird cause how does it know when the soda's to the top of the cup if the cups size can change. I want to figure out how it works one day.
Real men don't edit movies, they film exactly what they want exactly the way they want it by drawing really fast on paper using paints made from crushed fruits and berries. All other things like a camera, crew, cast, special effects are all just fancy gimmicks.
I work at a Taco Bell and in the back they have a soda machine for the really lazy. You just put the cup down and it automatically fills to the top, waits a few seconds till the foam goes down and then gives a last little squirt. It doesn't matter what size cup you use or how much soda is already in it, it will always fill to the top and there's never any mess (the cups are titled and any excess foam goes over the top of the cup into a drain and not down the side of the cup). I've wanted one ever since I started working there, I'd get the CO2 and the syrup from my grandmother (she owns a bar so she's getting syrup and CO2 all the time)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these. No really, picture it in your head. Now someone just has to write a perl script to make the robots dance the macarena. Picture 100 humanoid robots doing the macarena in perfect unison... actually don't. It's quite creepy and just imagine the horrors if the script ran into an infinite loop.
Sad thing is, they laugh because BSOD's happen all the time. If they never happened they would look at the BSOD thinking "What's that? Never saw that before." but instead they laugh thinking "Hah I get like 3 of those a day it's so funny." Why do people think it's normal for a computer to crash every day? Then they go out and spend like $1,000 at best buy upgrading 2 things because their 1.5 ghz computer is too slow (which explains the crashing, of course...) and they needed a 3 GHz P4. And when that fails to fix any problems I get a phone call at around 9AM asking me to fix the computer:-/
I just loaded the xml page in mozilla, isn't it great, mozilla sucks up 17% of my linux PC's ram (Redhat 8.0, 380 something megs of ram, PIII 600) and 40% of my windows PC (Windows XP, 256MB, Athlon XP 1800+) so naturally to make it a more efficient web browser it needed an animation of a kitchen sink, which uses up 60% of my CPU in linux (just loaded the site in mozilla and checked top) and 50% of my CPU in windows (loaded the site in mozilla again and checked the task manager.) Anyone else think that they should add this stuff AFTER they make the browser suck up less memory and CPU. At idle mozilla uses hardly any CPU (but sucks up tons of ram), but I think it's kind of weird that it requires 50% of a 1.5 ghz computer just to show an animation of a kitchen sink that is all text.
Oh, those memory stats are mozilla with about 13 tabs open, if I have 20 copies of IE open and minimize all but one it uses around 12 megs of ram (although I never use IE and the bloatedness of mozilla doesn't bother me, it still seems like an issue that needs to be worked out.) Also, the xml page doesn't seem to work in IE, is it specific for mozilla? It's kind of hypocritical to talk about sites that just don't work in Mozilla and other browsers, and that you shouldn't support companies that make sites like that but when a site like this works only in Mozilla it's just fine (although it's only an animation of a sink so who cares if it doesn't load in IE, it's just the fact that it will not work that matters.)
I don't really get your post. It's about $1,000 to setup a good PCs for gaming.
You can get a 1.73 GHz Athlon XP 2100+ (all you need for a gamehouse) with a 30 gig hard drive (you're not storing MP3s or movies, just saving games to disk, you can save 28 full 1 gig games with that much space), GeForce 4 Ti4600 (not top of the line but this is buying in bulk you're not
Athlon XP 2100+ with motherboard, $118
30 Gig hard drive, $49
GeForce 4 Ti4600 $209
Cheap 52X CD-ROM Drive $17
10/100 Ethernet card $5
Some Creative Labs card (just gonna have headphones anyway) $10
19" (18 viewable) monitor, max res 1600x1200 @75Hz $160
Case with 400W PSU $20
Logitech Mouseman Dual Optical $30
Generic Keyboard $10
These prices are from pricewatch.com so they're not random numbers I made up.
No floppy needed (you buy just one for the gamehouse and if you ever need it just put it in a computer)
Total: $628
If you set a $1,000 limit you have $372 left over to do whatever upgrades you want (larger monitor, better video card, faster processor, none of these are needed though and the computer will be able to play all games very nicely in a decent resolution for a year before you should upgrade again, and the upgrade will be just that, you would only need a better video card and faster processor.
$18,840 for 30 computers, less since you're buying in bulk, then the rental of the building, not much a couple hundred a month, some pretty fast SDSL connection like $200 a month. Another $5,000 for a great server from dell ($2,500 if you build it yourself, my friend does game hosting these are actual prices he spends on computers that can host 10 games at one time lag free even when they're full.) You don't need any 3 GHz P4s straight from dell anyway, I know this because I'm really getting a gamehouse and I did alot of research into it (including pricing, my original PC price was about $20,000 for 25. You make alot of money selling computers, hardware, software and stuff like that. If it was really insanely expensive to get computers do you think any of these places would still be in buisiness? If they're buying dells and not building their own and selling them too then they deserve to lose money, not EA's fault that you've got stupid management.
And what are you talking about with retail games? These places are fully able to sell retail games, who says you can't have a store that sells video games and doubles as a gamehouse? Your "idea" to "let" these places sell video games is kind of umm stupid. It's already happening, but here's an even better idea, we should make stores in the Mall, maybe call them like Game Stop or Electronics Botique or something trendy like that, and these places can sell video games and stuff. It'd be so cool since most people do their shopping in the mall, these places would make tons of money! Man I hope those game developers are reading this my idea is revolutionary!
What the hell's wrong with you... Were you holding the Playstation controller in your ass or something? One thumb controlls movement, another thumb can press the 4 buttons on the right, your pointer can help with that and press extra buttons that might be needed (which is unlikely.) Your pointer and middle fingers press the L and R buttons. I dunno, the Playstation controller is the best controller I've ever used. What small buttons are you talking about that are hard to press? Are you trying to press them with all of your fingers or something? You seriously need help learning how to hold a controller. Or maybe you have HUGE hands, are you the guy that designed the Xbox controller? Or maybe you have really, REALLY, small hands, did you design the game cube controller?
Umm if any of you noticed, very recently PCs have become very popular. The problem is that people wanted bargain PCs, so they rush out and buy some $500 E-Machine and expect it to run everything they throw at it, never run out of space, never break, and run insanely fast. Well, that never happens, the comptuer runs 40% of the stuff you install, crashes every day, runs out of space in a week on morpheus (and broadband) and runs slower than dirt, and dirt's pretty slow! In comes the console, each console has standard hardware, whenever you buy a PS2 it's going to be like every other PS2 ever created (well there's extra stuff you can buy but the games run the same), any game you buy for that console will work and you ALWAYS get a decent framerate.
It also doesn't help that games have become way more advanced recently. I remember when I had a 50MHz 486 with 16 megs of ram (which was alot at the time), it wasn't fast, but it ran every game I installed on it (C&C Red Alert, Quake 2, Dark Forces, Journeyman Project, more that I can't remember). Now there are games like Doom 3 (which doesn't seem to work nicely on any hardware but it's just beta), B&W, UT 2003, all of them require a decent 3D card. Unfortunately the average computer today doesn't come with a decent 3D card, or in some cases enough RAM. So anyway, while alot of computers may have been bought recently, and alot of pretty good games have come out, people don't have the computers needed to run these games (or the money to buy one) so they get angry and go out to buy an xbox or a PS2 or whatever and 10 games for $700 (which is still cheaper than the PC required for most games to run smoothly.)
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It's science fiction, not science fact. And it's a fscking movie what do you expect? Ever watch any movie about hacking? Not a single one ever deals with real hacking, it's always some thing like "Ok I've got to get past this firewall by using a joystick to control a worm I uploaded to eat away at the firewall and we're in." Or like in Swordfish, the building of the Hydra, that was great I wish programming was as easy as making a cube that the computer doesn't reject, it'd make my job easier.
Besides it doesn't do kids any harm to think that Star Wars is completely possible, it's good to have an imagination that isn't limited by the laws of physics. And when they get older they will learn that it's just a movie. Lastly, if everything had to be factual, there'd be no Barney, Blue's Clues, Sesame Street, well pretty much all children's programming would be taken off the air.
Some people say it is an advantage that Linux gets built in all of these little pieces. The fact is that if you want to do some kind of integrated innovation that touches the kernel, that touches the user interface--there is no way. Maybe Linus (Torvalds) can control the innovation in the piece called the kernel, but there are many pieces.
Yeah I totally agree, what good is a bunch of little pieces. What happens when I want X to crash and take down my entire computer? It's harder to do that when the GUI isn't tied into the kernel, it's so annoying all this stability. And what if I wanted Mozilla to run nasty scripts that would clear out my hard drive? How am I supposed to do this when mozilla isn't tied into my operating system?
But really, it'd be nice if he gave some kind of example where integrating the kernel and the UI is a good thing. Also, there may be many pieces, but there are also many people, linus torvalds isn't the only person working on linux and linux software.
How would that work? The robot is controlled by software on a computer, wirelessly. If you attached the robot to the computer then you'd need a keyboard monitor and mouse to use the software but it'd all be attached to the cye, which is kind of pointless.
You're forgetting the point, this thing is VERY SMALL and uses a 60W PSU. It's not that it has linux, it's that it is tiny and uses little power.
If they only made one with a good video card it'd be perfect for lan parties. Not the best computer you can buy, but my and 2 other friends are going to Quakecon in Texas, our main issue is size. The trunk in a '69 chevelle is large but we need a months worth of clothes, 3 computers and 3 monitors. It looks like you can easily fit 3 of these on your lap or in the glove compartment or anywhere besides the trunk while leaving tons of space in the seating area of the car so you don't need to sacrifice comfort to get space.
Also, imagine not having to carry a huge case onto an airplane hoping it'll fit under the seat, you could easily put this into a bag with other stuff you want to carry on. And if the 60W of power doesn't seem like enough -
Tested configurations. The PW-60 has been tested on a EPIA -800Mhz, 512Mb RAM, two IBM 120Gb hard drives while decoding a MPEG movie. Recommended configs: C3 processor, 1 regular size hard drive, any amount of RAM.
Seems like it can handle the power consumption required to be a gaming PC. And you'd only need one 40GB hard drive (won't have MP3s or movies or anything, just games.)
Can't you use Gnutella? I haven't used it in a while but there's bunches of open source gnutella clients last I checked. I was able to find alot of music I wanted with gnutella. Or you can try searching channels on IRC related to the kind of music you listen to (my entire playlist is from an FTP site I found on IRC with 100+ albums from hardcore, punk and metal bands.)
You're like my sister's boyfriend, who told a homeless person "Hey I'm sorry I'd give you some change but I'm poor" the guy yelled at him "You're poor! I live on the fucking street with one pair of clothes with no money to eat and YOU'RE POOR!" Kind of makes you look at the word "poor" in a whole new light.
Anyone know how to get the .mov file? I never got streaming QuickTime working in linux (is it possible?) so I can't watch the trailer right now :- /
Well I got mine with my new IBM PS/2 486DX2 (66 MHz! almost 4 full megs of RAM! 256MB HDD! Only $3,000 at The Wiz) the keyboard was really annoying when I was trying to stay on AOL late into the night (hey I was like 13 and VERY new to computers) paying like $1 an hour or whatever the rate was. My mother would hear the keyboard and wake up to yell at me so I had to type really slow (which didn't help much, although if I typed at the speed I type now, the noise would have driven my mother insane.
But the Ogg Vorbis support that was ported to Linux won't work on AMD processors due to a legal battle with Microsoft involving Mozilla.
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All these geeks on slashdot drool over stories of people encasing their computers in some kind of goo that hardened just for the hell of it, or overclocks with liquid nitrogen just cause they can. Pretty much anything that makes a slow old computer faster or as fast as a fast new computer (with little or no cost) gets a spot on slashdot. And now there's a story about someone who took a riced out car and RIPPED OFF THE RICE, they didn't add more, got it to perform like a $40,000 sports car (Nissan Sentras start at $12,000), and everyone on slashdot says "Why did they do this? There's no point? Why is this on slashdot?" A nissan sentra running 14s with nothing added is like a Celeron running like a Xeon (this car is now running faster than a Subaru Impreza STi which is more than three times the price).
These people ripped apart this car taking out all the unecesary stuff to make it lighter and faster and no one cares? If I had a dual 3GHz xeon computer running in a shoe box that story would be on slashdot and geeks would be all over it saying how great it is and how funny it is. But they can only say bad things about similar things being done to a car?
It's like you look down on car people, like they're inferior and anyone who races has to be a redneck. Can any of you do an engine swap or rebuild a transmission? I want mechanics to be my hobby, I love taking things apart and seeing how they work. When I get my first car I will do alot of performance tuning and all on my own (I've never worked on a car before.) I'm going to read all I can, online or in books (mostly books.) I don't understand why it isn't a common geek hobby (well besides the involvement of going outside).
Actually if you want to put it in computer terms, they took a completely modded e-machine, ripped off all the mods and made it super ventilated and over clocked it alot so it can compete with a dual 2.5 ghz pentoontium. In modding the mods would have to make the case hotter for this analagy to work, in the car mods they made the car heavier so it couldn't go as fast.
Cogent is fast but the latency is terrible. My friend does game hosting and is always looking for colo places that are cheap, the cheapest ones use cogent but the servers on those connections have the worst packet loss and ping times. Cogent is also going out of buisiness very soon (or so I hear from my friend) their price sounds tempting ($1000 a month for 100 mbps is amazing) but all the cons outweigh the one pro (cheap high speed access.)
Stolen codes are often traded with the Microsoft software, typically on Web sites, newsgroups or Internet Chat Relay (IRC).
That's from the news.com article, it's good to know that sites other than slashdot have lazy editors.
An electric eye I think, but it's weird cause how does it know when the soda's to the top of the cup if the cups size can change. I want to figure out how it works one day.
Real men don't edit movies, they film exactly what they want exactly the way they want it by drawing really fast on paper using paints made from crushed fruits and berries. All other things like a camera, crew, cast, special effects are all just fancy gimmicks.
I work at a Taco Bell and in the back they have a soda machine for the really lazy. You just put the cup down and it automatically fills to the top, waits a few seconds till the foam goes down and then gives a last little squirt. It doesn't matter what size cup you use or how much soda is already in it, it will always fill to the top and there's never any mess (the cups are titled and any excess foam goes over the top of the cup into a drain and not down the side of the cup). I've wanted one ever since I started working there, I'd get the CO2 and the syrup from my grandmother (she owns a bar so she's getting syrup and CO2 all the time)
Hmm .. Sony, Samsung, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Nokia, Siemens, Motorola, LG, uh ... ??
.. Intel, AMD, IBM, Xerox, Hewlett Packard, Apple, Texas Instruments, 3com, Sun Microsystems, GE, uh ... ??
Hmm
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these. No really, picture it in your head. Now someone just has to write a perl script to make the robots dance the macarena. Picture 100 humanoid robots doing the macarena in perfect unison... actually don't. It's quite creepy and just imagine the horrors if the script ran into an infinite loop.
Sad thing is, they laugh because BSOD's happen all the time. If they never happened they would look at the BSOD thinking "What's that? Never saw that before." but instead they laugh thinking "Hah I get like 3 of those a day it's so funny." Why do people think it's normal for a computer to crash every day? Then they go out and spend like $1,000 at best buy upgrading 2 things because their 1.5 ghz computer is too slow (which explains the crashing, of course...) and they needed a 3 GHz P4. And when that fails to fix any problems I get a phone call at around 9AM asking me to fix the computer :-/
I just loaded the xml page in mozilla, isn't it great, mozilla sucks up 17% of my linux PC's ram (Redhat 8.0, 380 something megs of ram, PIII 600) and 40% of my windows PC (Windows XP, 256MB, Athlon XP 1800+) so naturally to make it a more efficient web browser it needed an animation of a kitchen sink, which uses up 60% of my CPU in linux (just loaded the site in mozilla and checked top) and 50% of my CPU in windows (loaded the site in mozilla again and checked the task manager.) Anyone else think that they should add this stuff AFTER they make the browser suck up less memory and CPU. At idle mozilla uses hardly any CPU (but sucks up tons of ram), but I think it's kind of weird that it requires 50% of a 1.5 ghz computer just to show an animation of a kitchen sink that is all text.
Oh, those memory stats are mozilla with about 13 tabs open, if I have 20 copies of IE open and minimize all but one it uses around 12 megs of ram (although I never use IE and the bloatedness of mozilla doesn't bother me, it still seems like an issue that needs to be worked out.) Also, the xml page doesn't seem to work in IE, is it specific for mozilla? It's kind of hypocritical to talk about sites that just don't work in Mozilla and other browsers, and that you shouldn't support companies that make sites like that but when a site like this works only in Mozilla it's just fine (although it's only an animation of a sink so who cares if it doesn't load in IE, it's just the fact that it will not work that matters.)
I don't really get your post. It's about $1,000 to setup a good PCs for gaming.
You can get a 1.73 GHz Athlon XP 2100+ (all you need for a gamehouse) with a 30 gig hard drive (you're not storing MP3s or movies, just saving games to disk, you can save 28 full 1 gig games with that much space), GeForce 4 Ti4600 (not top of the line but this is buying in bulk you're not
Athlon XP 2100+ with motherboard, $118
30 Gig hard drive, $49
GeForce 4 Ti4600 $209
Cheap 52X CD-ROM Drive $17
10/100 Ethernet card $5
Some Creative Labs card (just gonna have headphones anyway) $10
19" (18 viewable) monitor, max res 1600x1200 @75Hz $160
Case with 400W PSU $20
Logitech Mouseman Dual Optical $30
Generic Keyboard $10
These prices are from pricewatch.com so they're not random numbers I made up.
No floppy needed (you buy just one for the gamehouse and if you ever need it just put it in a computer)
Total: $628
If you set a $1,000 limit you have $372 left over to do whatever upgrades you want (larger monitor, better video card, faster processor, none of these are needed though and the computer will be able to play all games very nicely in a decent resolution for a year before you should upgrade again, and the upgrade will be just that, you would only need a better video card and faster processor.
$18,840 for 30 computers, less since you're buying in bulk, then the rental of the building, not much a couple hundred a month, some pretty fast SDSL connection like $200 a month. Another $5,000 for a great server from dell ($2,500 if you build it yourself, my friend does game hosting these are actual prices he spends on computers that can host 10 games at one time lag free even when they're full.) You don't need any 3 GHz P4s straight from dell anyway, I know this because I'm really getting a gamehouse and I did alot of research into it (including pricing, my original PC price was about $20,000 for 25. You make alot of money selling computers, hardware, software and stuff like that. If it was really insanely expensive to get computers do you think any of these places would still be in buisiness? If they're buying dells and not building their own and selling them too then they deserve to lose money, not EA's fault that you've got stupid management.
And what are you talking about with retail games? These places are fully able to sell retail games, who says you can't have a store that sells video games and doubles as a gamehouse? Your "idea" to "let" these places sell video games is kind of umm stupid. It's already happening, but here's an even better idea, we should make stores in the Mall, maybe call them like Game Stop or Electronics Botique or something trendy like that, and these places can sell video games and stuff. It'd be so cool since most people do their shopping in the mall, these places would make tons of money! Man I hope those game developers are reading this my idea is revolutionary!
What the hell's wrong with you... Were you holding the Playstation controller in your ass or something? One thumb controlls movement, another thumb can press the 4 buttons on the right, your pointer can help with that and press extra buttons that might be needed (which is unlikely.) Your pointer and middle fingers press the L and R buttons. I dunno, the Playstation controller is the best controller I've ever used. What small buttons are you talking about that are hard to press? Are you trying to press them with all of your fingers or something? You seriously need help learning how to hold a controller. Or maybe you have HUGE hands, are you the guy that designed the Xbox controller? Or maybe you have really, REALLY, small hands, did you design the game cube controller?
Umm if any of you noticed, very recently PCs have become very popular. The problem is that people wanted bargain PCs, so they rush out and buy some $500 E-Machine and expect it to run everything they throw at it, never run out of space, never break, and run insanely fast. Well, that never happens, the comptuer runs 40% of the stuff you install, crashes every day, runs out of space in a week on morpheus (and broadband) and runs slower than dirt, and dirt's pretty slow! In comes the console, each console has standard hardware, whenever you buy a PS2 it's going to be like every other PS2 ever created (well there's extra stuff you can buy but the games run the same), any game you buy for that console will work and you ALWAYS get a decent framerate.
It also doesn't help that games have become way more advanced recently. I remember when I had a 50MHz 486 with 16 megs of ram (which was alot at the time), it wasn't fast, but it ran every game I installed on it (C&C Red Alert, Quake 2, Dark Forces, Journeyman Project, more that I can't remember). Now there are games like Doom 3 (which doesn't seem to work nicely on any hardware but it's just beta), B&W, UT 2003, all of them require a decent 3D card. Unfortunately the average computer today doesn't come with a decent 3D card, or in some cases enough RAM. So anyway, while alot of computers may have been bought recently, and alot of pretty good games have come out, people don't have the computers needed to run these games (or the money to buy one) so they get angry and go out to buy an xbox or a PS2 or whatever and 10 games for $700 (which is still cheaper than the PC required for most games to run smoothly.)