I'm not really sure why the parent was modded funny, it should be interesting.
I was never much into the GTA games, but last year I was given GTA:San Andreas as a gift. I have to admit that the game can be fun without indulging in gratuitious violence. As the parent mentioned, there are taxi, police, fire, and EMT missions to take on, there are delivery missions, collectibles, mini-games, races, stunts, etc. It's a very large game world with a lot of stuff to do, and gratuitious violence is only one part of it. A friend of mine had the game and had completed all the main missions without doing much of the sidequests, and I copied his game save onto my memory card and now have the entire game unlocked and I find that just driving around exploring the city and doing a lot of the non-violent sidequests and stuff is a lot of fun. Am I missing out on a lot of the game? maybe, but the game is friggen huge and as it was a gift, and didn't cost me anything I'm not going to complain.
I like Soul Calibur, but I think that it can be a little unbalanced at times. I have to admit that I haven't played Virtua Fighter recently, but the last few versions that I did play seemed to have a really poor physics engine to me. I felt like I was playing on the moon or something.
As for Tekken, it is easy for a new player to start playing but button-mashing, but there is strategy to it once you get skilled players involved. The game is relatively well balanced.
Of course, I also like Mortal Kombat: Deadly Aliance, but I admit that part of that may be the nostalgia of playing a MK game again.
Some other great fighting games I enjoy:
I don't think that old games are necessarily better than newer ones, rather I think that a lot of it is that nobody really remembers old games that were bad, except for the ones that were particularly horrible. That said, I do notice that there tend to be a few games that I always come back to that hold my interest more than others. If you haven't played any of these, they are games that eat up most of my play time.
Tony Hawk games. (Generally, whatever the most recent tony hawk game is gets a lot of play time from me. And I pretty much hage sports games.)
Tetris. Seems to be a variant of tetris on everything now, great for quick games here and there.
Tron. Not the new FPS but the classic like KTron or Armegatron or GLTron.
Super Mario series. Sunshine excluded. I can pretty much beat any of them in my sleep now, but I still come back to the m again and again. 3, World and 64 are my favorites.
Tekken. Fighthing games are good for long term play.
You've had better experience with comcast than I have. I'd give them a 5.
Their speeds tend to be pretty crappy overall 'round here. I tend to be on the computer mostly during off-peak hours, and I still only get about 200K down. Their upload speed is horrible as well, which really kills me since I usually have to upload several 30 to 100 meg files a week. Last time I check on getting a static ip, the only plan they had to offer a static ip required you to buy 5 static ip's and a "business class" connection, which I would pay for if it came with a faster upload, but it doesn't.
Their reliability is also very spotty in my experience. I went through 4 months of very intermittent service, 3 replacement cable modems, and way too many service calls before they figgured out that there were some problems with the lines in my neighborhood. They also seem to go out between 11pm and 3am every night for a week about once every other month.
One of the many times the tech came out to my house, he went to check the connection, saw that the computer was running Linux, and left right there, Comcast refused to do any more work on my connection (even though, as I mentioned before it was the lines, and the only reason they even wanted to use the computer was to run traceroute) until I installed a supported Windows operating system. I never did, instead I just installed a theme that cloaned Windows XP onto KDE, and aliased traceroute to tracert, the tech never noticed the difference.
I would have switched away long ago, except I can't get DSL and there are no other companies offering broadband in my area.
yeah, because we should be sure to teach our kids that it's normal and perfectly okay to crush people with giant gravity balls and then shoot them into space and INSCINERATE them.
Not to mention giving kids the idea that it's good to be in a helpless co-dependent relationship with an abusive, suporatic, and possibly alcoholic father
And I don't even want to THINK about what ideas kids would get from watching whatever those pandas are doing at the beginning of the game.
This is somewhat offtopic, but I ran across it a few months ago and it's really interesting. QCL allows you to write and run quantum algorithms. Runs on Linux and OS X with some tweaking.
The documentation that comes with it is really interesting, and gives some good insights into how quantum computing works and how to write programs for a quantum computer.
AOL has always provided two rather valuable services. The first is that it got a lot of people using the internet who otherwise wouldn't have. This has lead to a lot of good things overall.
The second thing AOL has done, with perhaps mixed success, is to act as a sandbox and aggregate all of the worst, most clueless (l)users and sort of partition them off from the rest of the net. They have their own "web" of aol sites, their own chatrooms, etc. I shudder to think of the state of IRC if the AOL users all used it instead of their own rooms.
Some of the users spend the rest of their lives never knowing there is anything outside the sandbox, and others become a little less clueless before switching to a "real" ISP.
The problem is that AOL is expensive, and it's software is buggy and bloated. Because of this, a lot of people who still need to be in the sandbox are pushed, pulled, or dragged out of it onto the "real" net.
But now out of the sandbox, they begin to pollute the rest of the net, which is where I see this new direction of AOL comming in handy. If they can offer this as a sort of second sandbox, then maybe it will keep the (l)users out of our hair for a bit longer until they are ready to play with everyone else.
if your CRT only refreshes at 60Hz you might think about increasing the refresh rate or buying a new monitor.
You'd be amazed at how much less eye-strain you have with a higher refresh rate. I used to use a CRT at 60hz, and I couldn't tell the difference when looking at a higher refresh screen, but when I got a new monitor with a decent >70Hz refresh rate, now I can't stand to use anything lower, I notice the flicker and notice the strain on my eyes.
Although the article mentioned YaST and the overall refinement of Suse, it failed to mention what I think is perhaps the biggest incentive to buying suse for someone new to Linux. The Documentation.
The Manuals that come with Suse are some of the best I've ever seen. Granted by the time I switched to Suse I'd been using Linux for several years and didn't find the user manual all that useful, but the administration manual is still a great reference. In fact I probably refer to it more than my Linux: Complete Reference book.
The author makes quite a point of mentioning that Suse Professional runs about $100, but fails to mention the quality of the manuals you get with it, or that you can buy an "upgrade" version, which is the full version without the printed manuals, for around $40 from Suse's website.
only 5 years, strange, it seems like so much longer....and I don't mean that in a good way.
the original AYB game was funny (especially for the 4 people who actually played Zero Wing), but it has started to get old.
I think the biggest problem is that there are still, believe it or not, people who have never seen it. They see it for the first time and then insist on showing all of us again.
I think what you say is true in general, but I think this is one of the problems with google leaving so many things in beta for so long.
An example from the top of my head is gmail. Gmail is stable, relatively widley used (I think I currently have more invites than I have real life friends + real life aquaintences + friends from IRC, of course maybe I just have a really lacking social life). Google is adding features all the time, so I guess one could argue that it's not feature-complete if they haven't implemented all planned features (like infinity + 1 gigs of storage, but they are getting there), but they certainly have all the features they need to compete with the other major webmail offerings, like hotmail and yahoo.
All of this, yet gmail is still in beta.
The same argument could be made for a lot of googles services. Most of what google offers is well designed, feature-rich, useful, and in Beta. I think that because of this, people expect (right or not) more out of Google's betas.
not every java programmer is clueless. I program primarily in Java as of late, and I built all of my (non-mac) computers. (Well, OK, I got a mobo with the CPU and RAM installed and tested on my last machine, but only because it was only an extra $9 and it included testing, which saved the hassle of getting bad RAM and having to send it back, which seems to happen to me a lot, always had bad luck with RAM for some reason).
I feel for you, I had the exact opposite problem. I wanted to go into Computer Science proper, but ended up having to settle for a DeVry CIS program.
Of course, through independent study (using a lot of MIT Open Course Ware, etc) I'm giving myself a solid background in CS, and DeVry, if nothing else, does at least teach you how to get along in the business world (We actually have, for required courses, just as many business/management/accounting courses as programming courses).
If your currently using SGI, then I would assume that your not looking for a gaming card. If your doing 3D design work, then you might look into The Wildcat Multiview Card. It only works in conjunction with the Wildcat Realizm cards. Not cheap, at $825 for a midrange card, and nearly $3,000 for the top-of-the-line card and another $420 for the multiview card, but then they are professional cards, not intended for hobbiest or gaming machines.
I've actually been considering the same thing. I've been saving up for a new Dual G5 Powermac, as I do a lot of heavy photo and video editing and 3D rendering. Right now i'm stuck on an old 900mz G3, so as you can imagine, it's quite painful at times. I also need a new machine, and I've also been thinking if it would be better to make due with what I have until the Intel transition.
Unfortunately, as other people have pointed out, it's possible that Intel will be the platform with limited support around the time of the switch, or maybe everyone will abandon PPC. The Universal Binary thing sounds like a good idea, but who knows if it will catch on with the companies that make the apps I need.
Apple announcing that they are going to Intel I think has significantly lowered the value of the current line of iMacs and PowerMacs.
I'm currently running an older (900mz) G3, and I've been saving up for a new Dual G5 PowerMac. One of the things that I've always liked about the Macs was that they had a great value. Although people say that Apple hardware is expensive, if you price a PC of comperable specs to a PowerMac, the PowerMac isn't much more expensive, and they keep their value for a long time.
The problem is, regardless of whatever promises Apple has made about both x86 and PPC being supported, I don't have faith that, if I buy a new PowerMac now that it will retain the value for as long, because I'm not sure how long it will be until the platform is no longer supported. Sure, XCode may generate binary that runs on both processors, but will Adobe and Quark and Alias support that, if the commercial vendors for software that I use are going to jump ship and support x86 macs exclusively, then the value for a PPC PowerMac now drops significantly.
I've seen a lot of posts talking about how growing your own diamond is not really reasonable, so I would like to suggest an alternative.
What about, instead of creating the diamon, create the ring itself. I've seen companies on the net (can't remember any names off hand but you should be able to google) that will create jewelry based off 3D models. Then you could create the ring, and get her input on it. If you don't want to pay for the diamond because of cost, or because of ethical reasons, then look at alternative gems.
Personally, I've always preferred Rubies.
LFS is a nice way to learn more about Linux, I built LFS on a box a few years ago, and probably learned more about Linux doing so than I ever could have just from using it, or just from reading books targed at a specific distribution.
That said though, I don't think it's very practicle for a system that you actually want to use for day to day use. Building a Linux system from scratch takes a lot of time, and then you have to keep track of all of the security patches for all of the packages you used, and if you want to upgrade one of the core libraries for some reason you end up having to rebuild most of the system.
Building a distro for scratch is a fun way to learn, and I encourage hobbiests who are interested in learning how a linux system works to do so, but unless you have a critical mass of people contributing patches, helping with stuff, etc, then you end up spending all your time keeping the distro up to date, and no time actually using the system.
Which, if your just in it for the hobbiest aspect isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I still think it's generally impracticle if you want to have an actually usuable distribution.
I think that the problem with Sex in videogames is that the storylines and character development are, in general, not mature enough or explored in enough depth to allow for sex in games. Off the top of my head, I can only think of a handful of games with storylines, character development, and interaction that would be really deep enough to be able to include sex (off the top of my head: Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII could have gone there if they would have put a bit more into the dynamics between cloud and tifa/aries, Star Ocean 3 could have integrated it well I think with a bit more development).
The problem, I think, is that developers don't see much of a market for storylines that involve such deep running, mature themes. Before sex could be well included in a game, you need to have characters the player cares about, who have history, and who develop a relationship in the game.
I've always been a pretty big fan of Knoppix, I like to keep the latest version on hand for helping people back up files and such when they have to re-install Windows. I also generally boot up Knoppix to check for rootkits etc everytime a new version is released.
Before I got my laptop I used to use it quite a bit at school, where all of the lab computers run Windows XP. Never really been able to find a development environment in Windows that I like as well as vim under Linux (even as nice as XCode is on OS X, I still find myself going back to vim most of the time, especially when I'm doing a lot of editing, since I find it to be a big pain to take my hands off the keyboard to move the mouse to highlight code, etc. Too bad none of the IDEs support vi-like editing of code).
I always thought it would be an interesting idea to build a live cd specifically aimed at non-technical windows users to recover from crashes. Something that would boot up and give them a series of simple steps they could follow to recover/backup a borked windows install, and maybe show a nice slideshow like a lot of the Linux installers have now telling them the benefits of Linux.
I think that there is another aspect to this.
Most of my game-playing time is spend playing roms. I rarely have the time to get into most of the newer games, and there aren't that many new games that really interest me, in general I prefer something I can just sit down and play for a little bit (Katamari Damacy is great for this). I still own all my old consoles and games, but the largest problem with this is that between my nes, snes, genesis, saturn, n64, dreamcast, ps1, ps2, gamecube, and DVD player there is simply no room in the entertainment center. I don't want a large mess of controllers and cords going every-which-way. So, I have my PS2 and Gamecube hooked up in one room, and the DVD player and Dreamcast in another room. All of the other consoles are easily emulated. This saves a lot of space, a lot of tangle on cords, keeping track of a huge stack of games, and spending 45 mintes trying to get the NES to work if I want to play Metroid.
Nintendo offering the ability to play games from any nintendo console on the Revolution solves the same problem. I can have 1 console hooked up to my TV, and with that console I can watch DVDs, and play games from 5 generations of consoles.
It would be nice, though highly unlikely, if they offered many common emulator features like video filters, and especially game-state saves and built-in game genie/Pro-action replay support. The built in cheat support is nice for replaying old RPGs so that you can bump up your experience and gold a little bit to save time instead of spending hours leveling up.
The game looks interesting, though the artwork looks like it could use some work (maybe after the summer of code is over with I'll contribute some artwork), too bad I'm not really a big fan of first-person shooters.
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I'm not really sure why the parent was modded funny, it should be interesting.
I was never much into the GTA games, but last year I was given GTA:San Andreas as a gift. I have to admit that the game can be fun without indulging in gratuitious violence. As the parent mentioned, there are taxi, police, fire, and EMT missions to take on, there are delivery missions, collectibles, mini-games, races, stunts, etc. It's a very large game world with a lot of stuff to do, and gratuitious violence is only one part of it. A friend of mine had the game and had completed all the main missions without doing much of the sidequests, and I copied his game save onto my memory card and now have the entire game unlocked and I find that just driving around exploring the city and doing a lot of the non-violent sidequests and stuff is a lot of fun. Am I missing out on a lot of the game? maybe, but the game is friggen huge and as it was a gift, and didn't cost me anything I'm not going to complain.
As for Tekken, it is easy for a new player to start playing but button-mashing, but there is strategy to it once you get skilled players involved. The game is relatively well balanced.
Of course, I also like Mortal Kombat: Deadly Aliance, but I admit that part of that may be the nostalgia of playing a MK game again.
Some other great fighting games I enjoy:
You've had better experience with comcast than I have. I'd give them a 5.
Their speeds tend to be pretty crappy overall 'round here. I tend to be on the computer mostly during off-peak hours, and I still only get about 200K down. Their upload speed is horrible as well, which really kills me since I usually have to upload several 30 to 100 meg files a week. Last time I check on getting a static ip, the only plan they had to offer a static ip required you to buy 5 static ip's and a "business class" connection, which I would pay for if it came with a faster upload, but it doesn't.
Their reliability is also very spotty in my experience. I went through 4 months of very intermittent service, 3 replacement cable modems, and way too many service calls before they figgured out that there were some problems with the lines in my neighborhood. They also seem to go out between 11pm and 3am every night for a week about once every other month.
One of the many times the tech came out to my house, he went to check the connection, saw that the computer was running Linux, and left right there, Comcast refused to do any more work on my connection (even though, as I mentioned before it was the lines, and the only reason they even wanted to use the computer was to run traceroute) until I installed a supported Windows operating system. I never did, instead I just installed a theme that cloaned Windows XP onto KDE, and aliased traceroute to tracert, the tech never noticed the difference.
I would have switched away long ago, except I can't get DSL and there are no other companies offering broadband in my area.
yeah, because we should be sure to teach our kids that it's normal and perfectly okay to crush people with giant gravity balls and then shoot them into space and INSCINERATE them.
Not to mention giving kids the idea that it's good to be in a helpless co-dependent relationship with an abusive, suporatic, and possibly alcoholic father
And I don't even want to THINK about what ideas kids would get from watching whatever those pandas are doing at the beginning of the game.
This is somewhat offtopic, but I ran across it a few months ago and it's really interesting. QCL allows you to write and run quantum algorithms. Runs on Linux and OS X with some tweaking.
The documentation that comes with it is really interesting, and gives some good insights into how quantum computing works and how to write programs for a quantum computer.
AOL has always provided two rather valuable services. The first is that it got a lot of people using the internet who otherwise wouldn't have. This has lead to a lot of good things overall.
The second thing AOL has done, with perhaps mixed success, is to act as a sandbox and aggregate all of the worst, most clueless (l)users and sort of partition them off from the rest of the net. They have their own "web" of aol sites, their own chatrooms, etc. I shudder to think of the state of IRC if the AOL users all used it instead of their own rooms.
Some of the users spend the rest of their lives never knowing there is anything outside the sandbox, and others become a little less clueless before switching to a "real" ISP.
The problem is that AOL is expensive, and it's software is buggy and bloated. Because of this, a lot of people who still need to be in the sandbox are pushed, pulled, or dragged out of it onto the "real" net.
But now out of the sandbox, they begin to pollute the rest of the net, which is where I see this new direction of AOL comming in handy. If they can offer this as a sort of second sandbox, then maybe it will keep the (l)users out of our hair for a bit longer until they are ready to play with everyone else.
if your CRT only refreshes at 60Hz you might think about increasing the refresh rate or buying a new monitor.
You'd be amazed at how much less eye-strain you have with a higher refresh rate. I used to use a CRT at 60hz, and I couldn't tell the difference when looking at a higher refresh screen, but when I got a new monitor with a decent >70Hz refresh rate, now I can't stand to use anything lower, I notice the flicker and notice the strain on my eyes.
Although the article mentioned YaST and the overall refinement of Suse, it failed to mention what I think is perhaps the biggest incentive to buying suse for someone new to Linux. The Documentation.
The Manuals that come with Suse are some of the best I've ever seen. Granted by the time I switched to Suse I'd been using Linux for several years and didn't find the user manual all that useful, but the administration manual is still a great reference. In fact I probably refer to it more than my Linux: Complete Reference book.
The author makes quite a point of mentioning that Suse Professional runs about $100, but fails to mention the quality of the manuals you get with it, or that you can buy an "upgrade" version, which is the full version without the printed manuals, for around $40 from Suse's website.
only 5 years, strange, it seems like so much longer....and I don't mean that in a good way.
the original AYB game was funny (especially for the 4 people who actually played Zero Wing), but it has started to get old.
I think the biggest problem is that there are still, believe it or not, people who have never seen it. They see it for the first time and then insist on showing all of us again.
I think what you say is true in general, but I think this is one of the problems with google leaving so many things in beta for so long.
An example from the top of my head is gmail. Gmail is stable, relatively widley used (I think I currently have more invites than I have real life friends + real life aquaintences + friends from IRC, of course maybe I just have a really lacking social life). Google is adding features all the time, so I guess one could argue that it's not feature-complete if they haven't implemented all planned features (like infinity + 1 gigs of storage, but they are getting there), but they certainly have all the features they need to compete with the other major webmail offerings, like hotmail and yahoo.
All of this, yet gmail is still in beta.
The same argument could be made for a lot of googles services. Most of what google offers is well designed, feature-rich, useful, and in Beta. I think that because of this, people expect (right or not) more out of Google's betas.
not every java programmer is clueless. I program primarily in Java as of late, and I built all of my (non-mac) computers. (Well, OK, I got a mobo with the CPU and RAM installed and tested on my last machine, but only because it was only an extra $9 and it included testing, which saved the hassle of getting bad RAM and having to send it back, which seems to happen to me a lot, always had bad luck with RAM for some reason).
I feel for you, I had the exact opposite problem. I wanted to go into Computer Science proper, but ended up having to settle for a DeVry CIS program.
Of course, through independent study (using a lot of MIT Open Course Ware, etc) I'm giving myself a solid background in CS, and DeVry, if nothing else, does at least teach you how to get along in the business world (We actually have, for required courses, just as many business/management/accounting courses as programming courses).
If your currently using SGI, then I would assume that your not looking for a gaming card. If your doing 3D design work, then you might look into The Wildcat Multiview Card. It only works in conjunction with the Wildcat Realizm cards. Not cheap, at $825 for a midrange card, and nearly $3,000 for the top-of-the-line card and another $420 for the multiview card, but then they are professional cards, not intended for hobbiest or gaming machines.
For basic use, Scribus is a pretty decent Linux application.
I've actually been considering the same thing. I've been saving up for a new Dual G5 Powermac, as I do a lot of heavy photo and video editing and 3D rendering. Right now i'm stuck on an old 900mz G3, so as you can imagine, it's quite painful at times. I also need a new machine, and I've also been thinking if it would be better to make due with what I have until the Intel transition.
Unfortunately, as other people have pointed out, it's possible that Intel will be the platform with limited support around the time of the switch, or maybe everyone will abandon PPC. The Universal Binary thing sounds like a good idea, but who knows if it will catch on with the companies that make the apps I need.
Apple announcing that they are going to Intel I think has significantly lowered the value of the current line of iMacs and PowerMacs.
I'm currently running an older (900mz) G3, and I've been saving up for a new Dual G5 PowerMac. One of the things that I've always liked about the Macs was that they had a great value. Although people say that Apple hardware is expensive, if you price a PC of comperable specs to a PowerMac, the PowerMac isn't much more expensive, and they keep their value for a long time.
The problem is, regardless of whatever promises Apple has made about both x86 and PPC being supported, I don't have faith that, if I buy a new PowerMac now that it will retain the value for as long, because I'm not sure how long it will be until the platform is no longer supported. Sure, XCode may generate binary that runs on both processors, but will Adobe and Quark and Alias support that, if the commercial vendors for software that I use are going to jump ship and support x86 macs exclusively, then the value for a PPC PowerMac now drops significantly.
you forgot about all the people who just use P2P for porn.
I've seen a lot of posts talking about how growing your own diamond is not really reasonable, so I would like to suggest an alternative.
What about, instead of creating the diamon, create the ring itself. I've seen companies on the net (can't remember any names off hand but you should be able to google) that will create jewelry based off 3D models. Then you could create the ring, and get her input on it. If you don't want to pay for the diamond because of cost, or because of ethical reasons, then look at alternative gems.
Personally, I've always preferred Rubies.
LFS is a nice way to learn more about Linux, I built LFS on a box a few years ago, and probably learned more about Linux doing so than I ever could have just from using it, or just from reading books targed at a specific distribution.
That said though, I don't think it's very practicle for a system that you actually want to use for day to day use. Building a Linux system from scratch takes a lot of time, and then you have to keep track of all of the security patches for all of the packages you used, and if you want to upgrade one of the core libraries for some reason you end up having to rebuild most of the system.
Building a distro for scratch is a fun way to learn, and I encourage hobbiests who are interested in learning how a linux system works to do so, but unless you have a critical mass of people contributing patches, helping with stuff, etc, then you end up spending all your time keeping the distro up to date, and no time actually using the system.
Which, if your just in it for the hobbiest aspect isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I still think it's generally impracticle if you want to have an actually usuable distribution.
I think that the problem with Sex in videogames is that the storylines and character development are, in general, not mature enough or explored in enough depth to allow for sex in games. Off the top of my head, I can only think of a handful of games with storylines, character development, and interaction that would be really deep enough to be able to include sex (off the top of my head: Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII could have gone there if they would have put a bit more into the dynamics between cloud and tifa/aries, Star Ocean 3 could have integrated it well I think with a bit more development).
The problem, I think, is that developers don't see much of a market for storylines that involve such deep running, mature themes. Before sex could be well included in a game, you need to have characters the player cares about, who have history, and who develop a relationship in the game.
I've always been a pretty big fan of Knoppix, I like to keep the latest version on hand for helping people back up files and such when they have to re-install Windows. I also generally boot up Knoppix to check for rootkits etc everytime a new version is released.
Before I got my laptop I used to use it quite a bit at school, where all of the lab computers run Windows XP. Never really been able to find a development environment in Windows that I like as well as vim under Linux (even as nice as XCode is on OS X, I still find myself going back to vim most of the time, especially when I'm doing a lot of editing, since I find it to be a big pain to take my hands off the keyboard to move the mouse to highlight code, etc. Too bad none of the IDEs support vi-like editing of code).
I always thought it would be an interesting idea to build a live cd specifically aimed at non-technical windows users to recover from crashes. Something that would boot up and give them a series of simple steps they could follow to recover/backup a borked windows install, and maybe show a nice slideshow like a lot of the Linux installers have now telling them the benefits of Linux.
I think that there is another aspect to this.
Most of my game-playing time is spend playing roms. I rarely have the time to get into most of the newer games, and there aren't that many new games that really interest me, in general I prefer something I can just sit down and play for a little bit (Katamari Damacy is great for this). I still own all my old consoles and games, but the largest problem with this is that between my nes, snes, genesis, saturn, n64, dreamcast, ps1, ps2, gamecube, and DVD player there is simply no room in the entertainment center. I don't want a large mess of controllers and cords going every-which-way. So, I have my PS2 and Gamecube hooked up in one room, and the DVD player and Dreamcast in another room. All of the other consoles are easily emulated. This saves a lot of space, a lot of tangle on cords, keeping track of a huge stack of games, and spending 45 mintes trying to get the NES to work if I want to play Metroid.
Nintendo offering the ability to play games from any nintendo console on the Revolution solves the same problem. I can have 1 console hooked up to my TV, and with that console I can watch DVDs, and play games from 5 generations of consoles.
It would be nice, though highly unlikely, if they offered many common emulator features like video filters, and especially game-state saves and built-in game genie/Pro-action replay support. The built in cheat support is nice for replaying old RPGs so that you can bump up your experience and gold a little bit to save time instead of spending hours leveling up.
That's true, but I have also found that in general it's easier to get even non-supported Apps working under Crossover than under regular ol' wine.
The game looks interesting, though the artwork looks like it could use some work (maybe after the summer of code is over with I'll contribute some artwork), too bad I'm not really a big fan of first-person shooters.