So if you want to make it easy, just paste any hardware made by ATI and anything with "made for Windows" after it.
My last webcam said "Made for Windows" on it, even though it had an OV511 chipset, and thus worked on Linux pretty much perfectly. A lot better than my ATI graphics card works, anyway.:-)
I want Salling Clicker on Linux, but something tells me that an emulation/simulation wrapper won't help very much when nothing on Linux has AppleScript interfaces. Oh well... maybe someone on the KDE project will pick up the idea some day.
If the PPC emulator were good enough, you wouldn't need the OSX APIs, you could just buy a copy of OSX and run it on the emulator. Actually this seems to be possible on PearPC already, except that it runs as slow as dog shit.
That's a different use case than the flakiness I was talking about. I've noticed that if a device is always trusted, then when you're on the Trusted Devices list, it shows up, whether or not the Palm can actually see it. But when you actually start communicating with the desktop, it seems quite solid. Mostly.
Using it to get Internet access via a Linux machine works about 20% of the time, but 100% of the time if you pull the bluetooth dongle out of the PC, and turn Bluetooth off and on again on the T3. This could easily be a Linux issue just as well as a palm issue, but I should note that shutting down just one or the other doesn't seem to fix it, only shutting down _both_.
Also quite often, probably 60-80% of the time, I can't see my desktop PC in the Current Discovery without refreshing at least once. Same with phones in the general vicinity. Sometimes a phone shows up first go, sometimes it doesn't. And I'm talking about devices only max 5m away in clear view.
Instant messaging does. Nobody would want to keep a GPRS connection online 24 hours a day because the costs are stupidly prohibitive, but with free wireless access in so many places, you won't be paying a cent. I could finally keep my Jabber connection up 24/7. But actually, the power drain would be crippling unless I had a charger at work as well as home.:-)
SyncML is incredible. Supposedly OpenGroupware are going to support SyncML fairly "soon", which would make an awesome replacement for my desktop. I might even be able to live life without using Kontact! Or, I might just end up using Kontact to interact with OpenGroupware...
As for not having to boot the PC, Tungsten T3 owners can and do already use IP over Bluetooth to sync to their desktops... the wireless will only give us a few more metres range on the thing and probably a little less of that patented Bluetooth flakiness.
I can't see the advantage of using a 12" powerbook over using a powerful desktop (dual G5 for example). A compacted and hard to read screen compared to a full 20" monitor. Surely the space it takes up is made up for in usability nowdays.
Better, but still "just as bad." Maybe if I didn't have to pay for the third game at all, I would consider it acceptable. But I still have to pay $100 for that game.
My Xbox plays CD-Rs and DVD-Rs fine (and CD-RW, and DVD-RW, and DVD+RW.) In fact, my recovery disk is a CD-R.:-)
I've heard that it depends which version of the Xbox you get, though, and that it's impossible to tell which you ended up buying until you open it up.
But I agree with you completely about the games. The only Xbox game I have the tolerance for anymore is Monopoly Party, and only because other players can make the game worthwhile. Most Xbox stuff seems to assume that multiplayer means Xbox Live, which is nuts when all the really good games on systems like GameCube involve four people at a single console.
I can see a lot of downloads for ATITD, but since this post is about ATITD II, it would be nice to know where to get that from. After all, the web site is either very unhelpful, or simply the wrong web site.
Many people still don't care for Xbox Live, though. I take it just like paying for MMORPGs... I figure if I've bought the game once, they can be fucked if they think I'll pay for it twice. It would be much better if the online fees were somehow subsidised, either from the game sales, or from the broadband fees (charge everyone on a whole ISP, even if they don't use it... LOL!) Nevertheless the real strength of the Xbox is the ability to customise it to do things which are actually useful.
Wait wait wait... did you say some people don't have a broadband connection? Shit. Jesus, people, upgrade already! They have broadband by wireless now!
I do have high hopes for the DS, though. 802.11b is neat... I would have preferred Bluetooth if they were going to limit it to 10m anyway, but I'll take what I can get. At least 802.11b is a little easier to integrate into a network (but only because most consumer routers don't have bluetooth receivers.)
But giving someone a device with a touch screen, stylus, and no organiser, would just be cruel. Not saying they won't do it... in fact I'm saying they probably will. It will take a third party to really take advantage of the thing, and I'm hoping the PIM carts start showing up quickly.:-)
I think the big thing about online gaming is, the GameCube did have a title which did it, and the interest mustn't have been very great, so they stopped. So I assume that people just don't want online gaming on the GameCube, which is probably right, since I have the PC for that, after all.
And actually, didn't Nintendo give hints to the DS being an organiser? I personally hope it isn't, but only because I just bought a Palm and would be kicking myself if the DS turned out to have PIM features.
I bought my Xbox to watch DVDs and DIVX/XVID movies and anime. I bought it to watch videos, not to play games! If only they would remove the gaming feature, the Xbox would be the perfect console.:-)
Personally, I like to play games online. Can't really do that on a Gamecube.
No shit. If some fucking game developers would just make some more goddamned online games, this wouldn't be so much of a problem.
But they consistently deny us this privilege. It's not like my GameCube can't connect to the Internet... it's more that every gaming company around seems to be ignorant of this fact.
As for football games (and pretty much any sport games)... fuck that. That's exactly the shit we don't need soiling our market full of otherwise good titles.
I dunno. Right now, Tales of Symphonia is currently selling exceptionally well, despite it being a GameCube game, and GameCube supposedly being unpopular.
And Xbox is a more "ideal" system than the PS2, yet the PS2 constantly outsells it. Microsoft aren't really doing anything "wrong", but you can't deny that the mindset of all three consoles is different.
Nintendo tends to sell to the more discriminating gamer, who will tend to prefer good games with good design and gameplay, so the fact that it can't play DVDs is largely irrelevant. And if you cared about DVD so much and wanted a convergent system, you would have bought the Panasonic version instead, which can play DVDs.
The Xbox excels in replacing a DVD player, but IMO isn't particularly good for gaming. Somehow the graphics capabilities claim to be "so much better" than the GameCube, yet the GameCube graphics consistently look better, and play smoother (and the Xbox games suck to boot.) Smooth marketing, Microsoft!
[Obligatory Sony bashing] And Sony sells to idiots... but since there are so many idiots in the world, it's naturally going to sell better.:-)
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what's that modem with binary Linux drivers, can't remember.
I think that modem was called the MadeByCapitalistPigs 3000.
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So if you want to make it easy, just paste any hardware made by ATI and anything with "made for Windows" after it.
My last webcam said "Made for Windows" on it, even though it had an OV511 chipset, and thus worked on Linux pretty much perfectly. A lot better than my ATI graphics card works, anyway. :-)
I want Salling Clicker on Linux, but something tells me that an emulation/simulation wrapper won't help very much when nothing on Linux has AppleScript interfaces. Oh well... maybe someone on the KDE project will pick up the idea some day.
If the PPC emulator were good enough, you wouldn't need the OSX APIs, you could just buy a copy of OSX and run it on the emulator. Actually this seems to be possible on PearPC already, except that it runs as slow as dog shit.
That's a different use case than the flakiness I was talking about. I've noticed that if a device is always trusted, then when you're on the Trusted Devices list, it shows up, whether or not the Palm can actually see it. But when you actually start communicating with the desktop, it seems quite solid. Mostly.
Using it to get Internet access via a Linux machine works about 20% of the time, but 100% of the time if you pull the bluetooth dongle out of the PC, and turn Bluetooth off and on again on the T3. This could easily be a Linux issue just as well as a palm issue, but I should note that shutting down just one or the other doesn't seem to fix it, only shutting down _both_.
Also quite often, probably 60-80% of the time, I can't see my desktop PC in the Current Discovery without refreshing at least once. Same with phones in the general vicinity. Sometimes a phone shows up first go, sometimes it doesn't. And I'm talking about devices only max 5m away in clear view.
That's what I mean by flaky, anyway.
I already use Bluetooth for this...oh wait. You said E. My bad. :-)
Instant messaging does. Nobody would want to keep a GPRS connection online 24 hours a day because the costs are stupidly prohibitive, but with free wireless access in so many places, you won't be paying a cent. I could finally keep my Jabber connection up 24/7. But actually, the power drain would be crippling unless I had a charger at work as well as home. :-)
SyncML is incredible. Supposedly OpenGroupware are going to support SyncML fairly "soon", which would make an awesome replacement for my desktop. I might even be able to live life without using Kontact! Or, I might just end up using Kontact to interact with OpenGroupware...
As for not having to boot the PC, Tungsten T3 owners can and do already use IP over Bluetooth to sync to their desktops... the wireless will only give us a few more metres range on the thing and probably a little less of that patented Bluetooth flakiness.
Some of them can run Linux! ;-)
I can't see the advantage of using a 12" powerbook over using a powerful desktop (dual G5 for example). A compacted and hard to read screen compared to a full 20" monitor. Surely the space it takes up is made up for in usability nowdays.
Better, but still "just as bad." Maybe if I didn't have to pay for the third game at all, I would consider it acceptable. But I still have to pay $100 for that game.
Talk to the hand. I was just correcting the parent.
Aha. That's what got me tricked. It's a neat engine by the looks of it, the number of open source licenses they use is staggering. :-)
My Xbox plays CD-Rs and DVD-Rs fine (and CD-RW, and DVD-RW, and DVD+RW.) In fact, my recovery disk is a CD-R. :-)
I've heard that it depends which version of the Xbox you get, though, and that it's impossible to tell which you ended up buying until you open it up.
But I agree with you completely about the games. The only Xbox game I have the tolerance for anymore is Monopoly Party, and only because other players can make the game worthwhile. Most Xbox stuff seems to assume that multiplayer means Xbox Live, which is nuts when all the really good games on systems like GameCube involve four people at a single console.
Halo was good too, but it's so damn old now...
I can see a lot of downloads for ATITD, but since this post is about ATITD II, it would be nice to know where to get that from. After all, the web site is either very unhelpful, or simply the wrong web site.
Many people still don't care for Xbox Live, though. I take it just like paying for MMORPGs... I figure if I've bought the game once, they can be fucked if they think I'll pay for it twice. It would be much better if the online fees were somehow subsidised, either from the game sales, or from the broadband fees (charge everyone on a whole ISP, even if they don't use it... LOL!) Nevertheless the real strength of the Xbox is the ability to customise it to do things which are actually useful.
Wait wait wait... did you say some people don't have a broadband connection? Shit. Jesus, people, upgrade already! They have broadband by wireless now!
I do have high hopes for the DS, though. 802.11b is neat... I would have preferred Bluetooth if they were going to limit it to 10m anyway, but I'll take what I can get. At least 802.11b is a little easier to integrate into a network (but only because most consumer routers don't have bluetooth receivers.)
But giving someone a device with a touch screen, stylus, and no organiser, would just be cruel. Not saying they won't do it... in fact I'm saying they probably will. It will take a third party to really take advantage of the thing, and I'm hoping the PIM carts start showing up quickly. :-)
In America, you play games on computer. In Soviet Russia, your computer play game with YOU!
I think the big thing about online gaming is, the GameCube did have a title which did it, and the interest mustn't have been very great, so they stopped. So I assume that people just don't want online gaming on the GameCube, which is probably right, since I have the PC for that, after all.
And actually, didn't Nintendo give hints to the DS being an organiser? I personally hope it isn't, but only because I just bought a Palm and would be kicking myself if the DS turned out to have PIM features.
So basically what you are saying is, whereas PS2 is bought solely by idiots, PSX is intended to be bought solely by rich idiots.
What, like sex dice?
I bought my Xbox to watch DVDs and DIVX/XVID movies and anime. I bought it to watch videos, not to play games! If only they would remove the gaming feature, the Xbox would be the perfect console. :-)
Personally, I like to play games online. Can't really do that on a Gamecube.
No shit. If some fucking game developers would just make some more goddamned online games, this wouldn't be so much of a problem.
But they consistently deny us this privilege. It's not like my GameCube can't connect to the Internet... it's more that every gaming company around seems to be ignorant of this fact.
As for football games (and pretty much any sport games)... fuck that. That's exactly the shit we don't need soiling our market full of otherwise good titles.
I dunno. Right now, Tales of Symphonia is currently selling exceptionally well, despite it being a GameCube game, and GameCube supposedly being unpopular.
And Xbox is a more "ideal" system than the PS2, yet the PS2 constantly outsells it. Microsoft aren't really doing anything "wrong", but you can't deny that the mindset of all three consoles is different.
Nintendo tends to sell to the more discriminating gamer, who will tend to prefer good games with good design and gameplay, so the fact that it can't play DVDs is largely irrelevant. And if you cared about DVD so much and wanted a convergent system, you would have bought the Panasonic version instead, which can play DVDs.
The Xbox excels in replacing a DVD player, but IMO isn't particularly good for gaming. Somehow the graphics capabilities claim to be "so much better" than the GameCube, yet the GameCube graphics consistently look better, and play smoother (and the Xbox games suck to boot.) Smooth marketing, Microsoft!
[Obligatory Sony bashing] And Sony sells to idiots... but since there are so many idiots in the world, it's naturally going to sell better. :-)