And Im being very truthful about it. One of my biggest problems with the Windows line of OSs has been how bloated it is. True Palms might not be as capable BUT honestly, its a PDA... do you REALLY need it to be a full blown computer when most of the time your going to be using it to take contacts and stuff. Whats worse is how even Windows Mobile emulates a full size Windows OS when on a 2x4 screen its uncalled for, even our barcode scanners piss me off because of that. And the sheer library of programs out there for Palm OS means you can tailor it for anything.
nope it was configured and running, and the only other systems behind it where 3 macs and a PS2. Simply put, by using Microsofts own software update site, it was hit with a virus. And its not unheard of, even our work firewall which doesnt let through anything remotely related to.exe,.zip or outside searches, still has managed to let through viruses disguised as things that are ok. Some can be traced to outside sources (people who have access abusing it, CDs and other media from home) but at least 1-2 times a month we get something that sneaks right through a configured firewall. Its always contained and disinfected before it does any amount of damage, but we can show through logs that it was infected from outside the network, despite it not supposed to be.
even with a firewall they are. Case in point I hooked up my father in laws brand new out of the box HP to get updates. Within 3 minutes it was hit and infected before i could even get everything configured. Thankfully I had AV running on it by that time but it blew me away how fast it got infected.
Actually the reason a Wii one wasnt made might be because the Wii already has a Dragon Quest game coming out that SE is hoping to spin into its own series using the Wiimote.
Not true at all. Same chipset yes... but the PIII and PIV where basically the same chipset too. Whats different is speed, the Wii's CPU and GPU are 75% faster than the GC. Thats a marked improvement, maybe not as much as the 360, but still much better than the GC. What makes this better though is because its the same chipset, they can get the most out of it soon than the 360 will, since your relearning how to code for it (since it went from a x86 platform to a PowerPC one) though not nearly as hard as it will be for the PS3 with its big old look at me Cell chip that the dev houses didnt even have coding kits for till July.
A lot of sales are not tracked by the NPD (like online sales), making this report all but useless.
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I don't buy that myth about PS2s failing regularly ON THEIR OWN,
You dont have to buy it, Sony themselves have admitted they have issues, but to get them to do anything about it is a beast in it's self. For one thing very rarely do they actually cover things after a year, although with the 1st gen they had (and if I had known I would have sent them mine) But its well documented that they suffer two major issues, laser aim errors, and hard drive connector failures on all generations of the PS2. The new ones (the PSTwo) so far work great... but they have ANOTHER major issue that cant be fixed, and thats with some PS1 titles, they fail (including my Final Fantasy Anthology collection, which worked on a original PS2.)
You dont have to take my word for it, there are large numbers of people with the same issues. And they all bought new PS2's or Twos... not because it was their fault, but because if they didnt they now had large collections of games and nothing to play it on.
Stop being a paid Sony shrill or a fanboi and think for a second before you type. If your PS2 failed and you now had 20 something games that where worthless... would you even question buying a new one even if you knew they had a bad failure rate?
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most of what you have listed as launch titles actually didnt come out till 3 weeks later. and your missing some actual launch titles like The Bouncer (which Im sure SE is doing their best to forget)
lots of gamers that have gamecube say new Wii games are actually not better graphically than latest Gamecube games.
Same could be said about early 360 games which also where not much better than original games. The only reason PS3 games look so good is because the PS2 is the oldest and slowest of the bunch. That being said, its also going to be a long time before anything looks better than the less powerful 360, as developers loath working on the Cell.
As it was many feel that people didnt get enough out of the GC yet, so its not surprising that its taking longer for third partys who shunned the GC to pick up the pace and develop nice looking Wii games. Pretty soon though as more third partys realize that they are going to have to get on the Wii bandwagon if they ever expect to sell a decent amount of games, those graphics are going to improve.
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for the first three years of my PS2 (bought at launch) I had no issues with it aside from a dirty laser. But then it failed to read my hard drive, then the next 2 replacements failed. finally I got one working out of combining the two PS2s together) then bought myself a PStwo so as to not use my old style one for anything but FFXI. But in the end thats 4 PS2s I bought over the last however many years the system was out.
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how many of those 110 million where replacements though?
I know me and my girlfriend both owned about 4 thanks to hardware failure.
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I was kinda shocked by this comment. By all accounts the launch lineup is the best of any of the three systems. Not even counting Zelda or Sports, the games that came out all have something to offer and are all from fan favorite series (like Call of Duty, or Trama Center.)
You have to be on crack to think that the PS3 or the 360 had better launch titles.
What few people realize is most states require so many hours mandatory training every year, and your schoolsystem doesnt have to pay for it.
Some provide a bit (mine does, 2-3 in-service every year) but most of your credit hours comes from summer training. So in the end your 9 weeks, ends up coming close to 6-5 which is about what most jobs get as paid vacation in the business world. Some of us like the support staff, custodians, and Administrators dont get any summer vacation, as well as teachers required to teach during the summer (usually your first to third years since they have no way to fight back out of fear of not getting tenured which often happens anyway, cheaper to hire new teachers who start back at 35k than to tenure one) This is also not counting teachers who get moved, which is common in larger districts.
Technically, the Air Force has the right to the frequency, which it began using nearly three years ago at some bases.
what about all those people who have probably owned garage door openers for much longer than 3 years ago. Oh thats right they are just citizens and have as much right as dogs in the eyes of the government.
So was AgeIII and they rewrote it from the ground up to run OpenGL which is what is being planned for NW2 finally
And I doubt you being a Mechanical Engineer but if you really are and havent used VectorWorks, then your really far behind everyone else. http://www.nemetschek.net/
I'd learn it, its your future if you go to any real firm. Only idiots and 60 year olds use AutoCAD.
What titles, if any, from this list can be played in OSX?
For your information the last three with the first one possibly being ported soon and leaving just titans quest which i have never even heard about and battlefield2142 better known as battlefield - rootkit!
Even if they are available for MAC they are simply not out there.
No you just dont know where to look for torrents which if you where a Apple user, you would. That being said who would even WANT to pirate AutoCAD... Get with 2000 and Vectorworks a much better designed program that a lot of the industry and now schools are finally beginning to pick up over that tacked on POS AutoCAD.
Now all they have to work on is getting more than 1% of that number to even want to play games.
I mean lets be honest here, PC gaming has pretty much gone to the farm beyond RTS, MMOs, and decent FPS where even those are starting to be taken over by the systems. Do analysts really think with the recent trend downward for gaming sale on the PC for anything other than casual gamers that they will ever open up a bigger market?
People who want to game will buy the system for it. The fact is, most people use computers for what their main purpose in life is, work, email, internet, and porn.
Thats why I said good machine. A good machine IS expensive, a grand maybe 2, but thats not what Dell and HP and all these companies are selling by the truckfull. Its POS machines, the one that for 400 dollars gets you a printer a monitor and a ton of other crap thats usually either the stuff the companies trying to offload or the stuff they got for a cheap price because its just that, cheaply made. I dont trust any computer that didnt cost at least 600 or more without monitor. I work with machines that cost less, thats all my schoolsystem buys from Dell and the build quality SUCKS. They break within the first year while we have 8 year old iMac tray-loads still working in some buildings.
Of all our purchased Apples, we have had 2 hardware failures in 3 years of new products. We have had 75 Dells in the same timeframe.
1) Most major (ie GOOD) games come out with a version for OSX or have one coming out of the gate. Thats not even counting the tons of shareware and freeware titles out there that are good. Then again who cares when all evidence is pointing to PC gaming barely breaking 100,000 copies sold while the systems break millions.
2) I have never had a issue with using P2P on a OS X machine... EVER. Maybe back in the glory days of Napster but thats like 6-7 years ago and hardly points to today.
3) Trust me, there isNOT a limit of pirated software on the Apple side. Infact one of the nice benifits is most often you can easily find what you need without having to worry if that file you downloaded is actually a trojan when you run it through your check. That being said, you still also have the huge plethora of freeware software provided by its UNIX underpinnings.
The only statement you got correct here is MAYBE number 1, that its expensive to get a good machine, so kids have no problem dropping 200-400 on a piece of shit that breaks in 2 years (hence why Gateway would ever be considered a good machine). But I dont even think this is true either, I think its more a case of computer illiterate kids asking their friends who use computers whats the best system out there, and them getting told FUD because generally most kids who think they know computers dont know the first thing about them except how to run STEAM or how to hook up their iPod. I say this from experience having worked with them and finding out that the supposed "internet kids" are just as stupid when it comes to the machines they use as the people from generations before, they simply know how to get online.
um yes they are... I DID read the link and all of the vulnerabilites... I was making a point. 5 require user interaction, and all but 2 of the rest just kernal panic you and thats pretty much it, you have to be really lucky to get them to run code.
2) Even before these patches you would be hard pressed to exploit any of these bugs just as your hard press to do anything with any of the bugs exposed in the month of fud.... er kernal bugs or whatever that guy called it.
Apple requires a lot of user interaction to exploit anything... on the other side of the coin, a xp box could just surf to a bad site and be completely hijaked if not properly protected from adware.
31 vulnerabilities are 31 less vulnerabilitys OSX has vs XP. Finding more vulnerabilities doesnt mean your less secure or that your software is buggy, the flip side of the coin is very easily there could be 31 or more vulnerabilites in XP that have NOT been found.
In which case you have to execute them (and thus give your username and password or do some other action) to even run them and let them do their bad things?
I mean give me a fucking break I could write a trojan in 5 minutes that makes you delete your entire user folder... that doesnt make it a flaw unless your talking about the jackass who executed it instead of following the simple rule of the internet..... DONT RUN ANYTHING YOU HAVE NO CLUE IS SAFE... that means shutting off open up safe files after download too!
And likewise wasnt a bunch of the "flaws" proven to be so reliant on certain things to happen at certain times that it would be next to impossible to actually get them to do anything but kernal panic?
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And Im being very truthful about it. One of my biggest problems with the Windows line of OSs has been how bloated it is. True Palms might not be as capable BUT honestly, its a PDA... do you REALLY need it to be a full blown computer when most of the time your going to be using it to take contacts and stuff. Whats worse is how even Windows Mobile emulates a full size Windows OS when on a 2x4 screen its uncalled for, even our barcode scanners piss me off because of that. And the sheer library of programs out there for Palm OS means you can tailor it for anything.
Still use Autocad anymore? The sheer lockin was one of the reasons our school and a few others moved away from it to Vectorworks.
nope it was configured and running, and the only other systems behind it where 3 macs and a PS2. Simply put, by using Microsofts own software update site, it was hit with a virus. And its not unheard of, even our work firewall which doesnt let through anything remotely related to .exe, .zip or outside searches, still has managed to let through viruses disguised as things that are ok. Some can be traced to outside sources (people who have access abusing it, CDs and other media from home) but at least 1-2 times a month we get something that sneaks right through a configured firewall. Its always contained and disinfected before it does any amount of damage, but we can show through logs that it was infected from outside the network, despite it not supposed to be.
even with a firewall they are. Case in point I hooked up my father in laws brand new out of the box HP to get updates. Within 3 minutes it was hit and infected before i could even get everything configured. Thankfully I had AV running on it by that time but it blew me away how fast it got infected.
But no this is IX proper, not a spinoff. They would never have announced a spinoff before their actual game.
Actually the reason a Wii one wasnt made might be because the Wii already has a Dragon Quest game coming out that SE is hoping to spin into its own series using the Wiimote.
A lot of sales are not tracked by the NPD (like online sales), making this report all but useless.
You dont have to take my word for it, there are large numbers of people with the same issues. And they all bought new PS2's or Twos... not because it was their fault, but because if they didnt they now had large collections of games and nothing to play it on.
Stop being a paid Sony shrill or a fanboi and think for a second before you type. If your PS2 failed and you now had 20 something games that where worthless... would you even question buying a new one even if you knew they had a bad failure rate?
most of what you have listed as launch titles actually didnt come out till 3 weeks later. and your missing some actual launch titles like The Bouncer (which Im sure SE is doing their best to forget)
As it was many feel that people didnt get enough out of the GC yet, so its not surprising that its taking longer for third partys who shunned the GC to pick up the pace and develop nice looking Wii games. Pretty soon though as more third partys realize that they are going to have to get on the Wii bandwagon if they ever expect to sell a decent amount of games, those graphics are going to improve.
for the first three years of my PS2 (bought at launch) I had no issues with it aside from a dirty laser. But then it failed to read my hard drive, then the next 2 replacements failed. finally I got one working out of combining the two PS2s together) then bought myself a PStwo so as to not use my old style one for anything but FFXI. But in the end thats 4 PS2s I bought over the last however many years the system was out.
I know me and my girlfriend both owned about 4 thanks to hardware failure.
You have to be on crack to think that the PS3 or the 360 had better launch titles.
Some provide a bit (mine does, 2-3 in-service every year) but most of your credit hours comes from summer training. So in the end your 9 weeks, ends up coming close to 6-5 which is about what most jobs get as paid vacation in the business world. Some of us like the support staff, custodians, and Administrators dont get any summer vacation, as well as teachers required to teach during the summer (usually your first to third years since they have no way to fight back out of fear of not getting tenured which often happens anyway, cheaper to hire new teachers who start back at 35k than to tenure one) This is also not counting teachers who get moved, which is common in larger districts.
And I doubt you being a Mechanical Engineer but if you really are and havent used VectorWorks, then your really far behind everyone else. http://www.nemetschek.net/ I'd learn it, its your future if you go to any real firm. Only idiots and 60 year olds use AutoCAD.
I mean lets be honest here, PC gaming has pretty much gone to the farm beyond RTS, MMOs, and decent FPS where even those are starting to be taken over by the systems. Do analysts really think with the recent trend downward for gaming sale on the PC for anything other than casual gamers that they will ever open up a bigger market?
People who want to game will buy the system for it. The fact is, most people use computers for what their main purpose in life is, work, email, internet, and porn.
Of all our purchased Apples, we have had 2 hardware failures in 3 years of new products. We have had 75 Dells in the same timeframe.
1) Most major (ie GOOD) games come out with a version for OSX or have one coming out of the gate. Thats not even counting the tons of shareware and freeware titles out there that are good. Then again who cares when all evidence is pointing to PC gaming barely breaking 100,000 copies sold while the systems break millions.
2) I have never had a issue with using P2P on a OS X machine... EVER. Maybe back in the glory days of Napster but thats like 6-7 years ago and hardly points to today.
3) Trust me, there isNOT a limit of pirated software on the Apple side. Infact one of the nice benifits is most often you can easily find what you need without having to worry if that file you downloaded is actually a trojan when you run it through your check. That being said, you still also have the huge plethora of freeware software provided by its UNIX underpinnings.
The only statement you got correct here is MAYBE number 1, that its expensive to get a good machine, so kids have no problem dropping 200-400 on a piece of shit that breaks in 2 years (hence why Gateway would ever be considered a good machine). But I dont even think this is true either, I think its more a case of computer illiterate kids asking their friends who use computers whats the best system out there, and them getting told FUD because generally most kids who think they know computers dont know the first thing about them except how to run STEAM or how to hook up their iPod. I say this from experience having worked with them and finding out that the supposed "internet kids" are just as stupid when it comes to the machines they use as the people from generations before, they simply know how to get online.
um yes they are... I DID read the link and all of the vulnerabilites... I was making a point. 5 require user interaction, and all but 2 of the rest just kernal panic you and thats pretty much it, you have to be really lucky to get them to run code.
2) Even before these patches you would be hard pressed to exploit any of these bugs just as your hard press to do anything with any of the bugs exposed in the month of fud.... er kernal bugs or whatever that guy called it.
Apple requires a lot of user interaction to exploit anything... on the other side of the coin, a xp box could just surf to a bad site and be completely hijaked if not properly protected from adware.
31 vulnerabilities are 31 less vulnerabilitys OSX has vs XP. Finding more vulnerabilities doesnt mean your less secure or that your software is buggy, the flip side of the coin is very easily there could be 31 or more vulnerabilites in XP that have NOT been found.
I mean give me a fucking break I could write a trojan in 5 minutes that makes you delete your entire user folder... that doesnt make it a flaw unless your talking about the jackass who executed it instead of following the simple rule of the internet..... DONT RUN ANYTHING YOU HAVE NO CLUE IS SAFE... that means shutting off open up safe files after download too!
And likewise wasnt a bunch of the "flaws" proven to be so reliant on certain things to happen at certain times that it would be next to impossible to actually get them to do anything but kernal panic?
this is stuff that never made it past R&D... the Pippen actually was made and sold for a VERY limited time.