It sounds like they'll be releasing a Keyboard on day one, doesn't it? After all, an MMORPG would be pointless without one.
Do people think the keyboard will be wireless like all the other controllers? It would be really cool to see something like the GameCube keyboard (a stretched controller with keys in the middle...)
GameCube GameDisk (mini-DVD): a specialist drive which was only produced for the purpose of including in the GameCube; and
DVD: a drive which a dozen manufacturers already produce in huge quantities, to the point where OEM versions are already stupidly cheap, even for consumers.
I don't buy your claim that DVD drives would raise the cost of the unit. The ability to play DVD would come with a licence fee, sure, but would that licence fee outweigh the massive cost difference between the two drives?
The problem is, you're not taking into account the massive market shares that result from this piracy.
Can you really argue that Sony are being harmed by piracy, when it got them a huge market share over the competitors? I'm sure that people who pirate every single game they own would actually be harming them a bit, but that person would never have bought the games in the first place. And most people who pirate stuff eventually do buy titles, so they do end up making a profit off those people, just a slightly smaller one than they might want.
But doesn't that make the DVD player an asset? If you'll remember correctly, the PlayStation gained its massive popularity due to the ease of pirating games for the console. The Xbox came out, and it made it even easier (say hello to copying onto the hard disk), and then that became popular.
Meanwhile Nintendo's copy protection effectively never got cracked, and look where the GameCube ended up... nobody cared about it except the people who could see the games for what they were.
Every webapp doesn't need to... only the ones which aren't written in Perl, PHP, Ruby, or any of the other dozen languages where modules already exist and work without the webapp having to do anything at all.
Microsoft argue that Apache is slower because CGI is slower. They say that it needs to spawn a new process for each request, which is correct.
But how many years have mod_perl and mod_php been around now? Does anyone actually use CGI on Apache this decade?
Perhaps a more fair comparison would have compared CGI on IIS with CGI on Apache. And I'm pretty sure that for various reasons (spawning processes is slower on Win32 than on Linux) IIS would lose horribly.
Actually on a serious note, has anyone actually tried drawing a guy bent over and stretching his anus, and made sure it found the right image? I'm genuinely curious.
Same here, still on 0.0 after a whole hour of ordinary usage. Seems pretty pointless, doesn't it? I wonder how many years it takes to get up to 7.5 minutes, like their screenshot shows.
Yeah, you're probably right. I run my Azureus on Linux, of course, where Java 1.5 Swing just got incredibly fast (it's more responsive than Firefox now, which should shut up a few people.) But any SWT apps are less responsive than any other apps on my system. Unless I run the Motif version, which is my current workaround. Perhaps GTK is just slow.
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It sounds like they'll be releasing a Keyboard on day one, doesn't it? After all, an MMORPG would be pointless without one.
Do people think the keyboard will be wireless like all the other controllers? It would be really cool to see something like the GameCube keyboard (a stretched controller with keys in the middle...)
A Slashdot user with a real woman? Have you gone mad?
However, nothing really stopped them from having two piconets for 14 total controllers...
We're talking about comparing:
I don't buy your claim that DVD drives would raise the cost of the unit. The ability to play DVD would come with a licence fee, sure, but would that licence fee outweigh the massive cost difference between the two drives?
The problem is, you're not taking into account the massive market shares that result from this piracy.
Can you really argue that Sony are being harmed by piracy, when it got them a huge market share over the competitors? I'm sure that people who pirate every single game they own would actually be harming them a bit, but that person would never have bought the games in the first place. And most people who pirate stuff eventually do buy titles, so they do end up making a profit off those people, just a slightly smaller one than they might want.
Good for you, the latest news from Nintendo themselves said that their unit will use standard DVDs so that you can watch movies as well.
But doesn't that make the DVD player an asset? If you'll remember correctly, the PlayStation gained its massive popularity due to the ease of pirating games for the console. The Xbox came out, and it made it even easier (say hello to copying onto the hard disk), and then that became popular.
Meanwhile Nintendo's copy protection effectively never got cracked, and look where the GameCube ended up... nobody cared about it except the people who could see the games for what they were.
Because Linux users really need IE in order to dump Firefox.
Maybe if they let those of us who are overseas watch it earlier, we wouldn't need to download it.
Just a thought.
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Oh well, at least you can run Sun Java though, if not native Java.
I think it's what you get when the meat in your hamburger came from a donkey.
Every webapp doesn't need to... only the ones which aren't written in Perl, PHP, Ruby, or any of the other dozen languages where modules already exist and work without the webapp having to do anything at all.
Problem being that two users logged into VNC end up fighting over the mouse pointer.
It's a shame the cop doesn't get arrested for obstruction of privacy.
Well, I've never much been one for PHP itself, but mod_perl certainly derived huge benefits over CGI Perl.
Maybe a more interesting benchmark would pit Apache/Win32 against Apache/Linux... but even then, nobody would probably care. :-/
Microsoft argue that Apache is slower because CGI is slower. They say that it needs to spawn a new process for each request, which is correct.
But how many years have mod_perl and mod_php been around now? Does anyone actually use CGI on Apache this decade?
Perhaps a more fair comparison would have compared CGI on IIS with CGI on Apache. And I'm pretty sure that for various reasons (spawning processes is slower on Win32 than on Linux) IIS would lose horribly.
Nope, IIS is naturally slow and unable to be tweaked at all. :-)
Only it's on the DS, so it has to be called "Touch Racer" instead to comply with marketing requirements for DS games.
Actually on a serious note, has anyone actually tried drawing a guy bent over and stretching his anus, and made sure it found the right image? I'm genuinely curious.
Same here, still on 0.0 after a whole hour of ordinary usage. Seems pretty pointless, doesn't it? I wonder how many years it takes to get up to 7.5 minutes, like their screenshot shows.
Mine is still on 0.0 seconds after a whole hour of visiting the sites I normally visit. It seems like this thing isn't what it's cracked up to be.
Yeah, you're probably right. I run my Azureus on Linux, of course, where Java 1.5 Swing just got incredibly fast (it's more responsive than Firefox now, which should shut up a few people.) But any SWT apps are less responsive than any other apps on my system. Unless I run the Motif version, which is my current workaround. Perhaps GTK is just slow.
It's a shame for you. I used to run an Orion Application Server on a machine of that specification, and it ran perfectly fine. :-)
You can blame SWT for that. Especially now that Java 1.5 is around, SWT is a hell of a lot slower than Swing.