Member of DMusic by any chance? If not, it's a great resource for non-RIAA music. And, there's a heated debate on the front page about this very rootkit.
"big hands"
Bullshit. I have (rather) big hands and the Controller S feels very uncomfortable in my hands. The dreamcast controller has always felt great, for hours on end. As has the N64 controller. The playstation style of controller has always felt disgusting. I liked the original XBox ginormipad. Big hands has nothing to do with it.
That's completly true, until you remember the fact that very, very few Dreamcast games ran on the Windows CE base. I'm not even sure the official webbrowser did!
Here's one that really gets me.
"Sorry Dreamcast fans, but the system's controller really wasn't that great."
Puh-lease. Look at the pictures! The controllers look nearly identical, save for
a) an extra stick
b) no VMU
c) placement of start buttons
Or, problem #5. "Wasn't backwards compatible."
Why would Sega have spent money on being backwards compatable with a failed system?
"Had tons of amazing games...but no Halo 3."
Right. Anybody ever played "Soul Calibur"? This article is biased crap.
They only mention in passing that one of the biggest reasons the Dreamcast failed was its lack of DVD support (and RAMPANT piracy). Remember back then? DVD players were still expensive. It was much more cost effective to buy a PS2 and get both a kicking game system and a DVD player in one box. Also, they failed to mention that the Dreamcast's launch in America was VERY different from the launch in Japan. But, if they mentioned that, part of their article would be obvious crap.
Oh! Forgot to add that it has one major flaw in the GUI: The icons in the taskbar have no popup text, so all you have to go off of is an icon. Frankly, this doesn't cut it at all. That one simple thing introduces a much larger learning curve than it would otherwise require.
It's very cool. However, it has some problems. I was going to make this post inside it, but it got terribly unstable and crashed. Also, it was somewhat slow, but I blame that on the ATI drivers. Overall though, the interface is much more intuitive and actually workable than other 3d interfaces I've tried out.
Ever used professional music production software and VSTi instruments? It's worse - they seem to think that if an interface works in hardware, it'll obviously work great in software. With a mouse. This paradigm needs to stop.
And the guys at google (those who don't read slashdot) are all wondering why "Fr33dom" and "dem0cr@cy" searches just spiked.
Pr0n, however, didn't change.
On my Pocket PC, slashdot looks orders of magnitude better (I never use the/palm one, I like my images!). However, in PIE it needs to be set to 1 column mode. But, I feel very glad that I can get a decent looking news aggregator on the go without having to scroll nastily.
Completly understandable. Try comparing a smartphone to a pocket pc. You know what the difference is? Cellular capabilities. A standard WiFi version should be simple to release, no?
I used a simplistic model of the government because I was replying to an AC who misinterprited my post.
That 19% is the most vicioiusly fought over money in all of Congress. Why? Becuase it's all they really have to play with.
If you cut Social Security, the old people would practically revolt and march on Washington. Read: rumblings of this during the government shutdown under Clinton.
I understand full well about Entitlements. My point was, under current laws, Congress can't choose to spend less on Medicare this year without passing a specific law to limit medicare handouts. It's simply not part of the yearly budget for them to say "We're only going to spend 140 billion on entitlements this year."
I never said entitlements are right, I just said they exist.
Besides, Social Security was part of the radical economic plan during the depression. It had more to do (so we're told) with helping people get by day to day then it did about getting reelected.
Good, you're a classic conservative. I can at least respect that.
Although, remember, the constitution didn't give the courts the power of Judicial Review. The original constitution was a bit imperfect (although, it's pretty good, as constitutions go.)
If you believe that the federal government's job hasn't changed in 200 years, then yes, you're 100% correct.
Of course the Government's here for national defence. But it's INTERNATIONAL to have military bases across the globe.
You want *our* country to be put first? Bring all our boys and girls back from those hundreds of bases, and then you can defend this country all you want.
Slashdot: the place with trolls who haven't taken US Government 101.
I specifically said Discretionary spending. That's the stuff they have direct control over, and is what the majority of the budget process is over.
Medicare and Social Security are what are known as Entitlements because people are entitled to them by law. The Government (namely, Congess) does NOT have direct control over entitlements, but they have control to the last penny of discretionary spending.
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Member of DMusic by any chance? If not, it's a great resource for non-RIAA music. And, there's a heated debate on the front page about this very rootkit.
Whoever modded me redundant didn't get the joke...
That had to push the envelopes because they didn't have them.
*rimshot*
"big hands"
Bullshit. I have (rather) big hands and the Controller S feels very uncomfortable in my hands. The dreamcast controller has always felt great, for hours on end. As has the N64 controller. The playstation style of controller has always felt disgusting. I liked the original XBox ginormipad. Big hands has nothing to do with it.
This article is, well, pretty much utter crap.
Similarity #5: ran on a Windows based OS.
That's completly true, until you remember the fact that very, very few Dreamcast games ran on the Windows CE base. I'm not even sure the official webbrowser did!
Here's one that really gets me.
"Sorry Dreamcast fans, but the system's controller really wasn't that great."
Puh-lease. Look at the pictures! The controllers look nearly identical, save for
a) an extra stick
b) no VMU
c) placement of start buttons
Or, problem #5. "Wasn't backwards compatible."
Why would Sega have spent money on being backwards compatable with a failed system?
"Had tons of amazing games...but no Halo 3."
Right. Anybody ever played "Soul Calibur"? This article is biased crap.
They only mention in passing that one of the biggest reasons the Dreamcast failed was its lack of DVD support (and RAMPANT piracy). Remember back then? DVD players were still expensive. It was much more cost effective to buy a PS2 and get both a kicking game system and a DVD player in one box. Also, they failed to mention that the Dreamcast's launch in America was VERY different from the launch in Japan. But, if they mentioned that, part of their article would be obvious crap.
I think I'm done.
Oh! Forgot to add that it has one major flaw in the GUI:
The icons in the taskbar have no popup text, so all you have to go off of is an icon. Frankly, this doesn't cut it at all. That one simple thing introduces a much larger learning curve than it would otherwise require.
It's very cool. However, it has some problems. I was going to make this post inside it, but it got terribly unstable and crashed. Also, it was somewhat slow, but I blame that on the ATI drivers. Overall though, the interface is much more intuitive and actually workable than other 3d interfaces I've tried out.
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Ever used professional music production software and VSTi instruments? It's worse - they seem to think that if an interface works in hardware, it'll obviously work great in software. With a mouse. This paradigm needs to stop.
Microsoft gets bad press coverage for something other than bad coding and evil buisness practices! Film at 11!
"My Ass has finally decided, to Eat, my Hand!
It hungers, For More!"
I'm sure you are. I was making a point. Actually, I believe I misread your post. My apologies.
And the guys at google (those who don't read slashdot) are all wondering why "Fr33dom" and "dem0cr@cy" searches just spiked. Pr0n, however, didn't change.
And today, those same Spineless Politicians are out there pouring billions and billions of tax dollars into a war we can't win.
You don't know what "Organic" means. A diamond is considered organic because it has carbon. Tool.
And you're posting on Slashdot.
On my Pocket PC, slashdot looks orders of magnitude better (I never use the /palm one, I like my images!). However, in PIE it needs to be set to 1 column mode. But, I feel very glad that I can get a decent looking news aggregator on the go without having to scroll nastily.
Completly understandable. Try comparing a smartphone to a pocket pc. You know what the difference is? Cellular capabilities. A standard WiFi version should be simple to release, no?
Until they release a non-smartphone Pocket PC version, they're losing ground.
Just learn Dvorak. Done.
You are the first person I've ever heard say any of that properly and eloquently.
And yes, ISC really needs to be reworked. It seems that they can pass absolutely any law that's needed... through interstate commerce.
Ahem.
I used a simplistic model of the government because I was replying to an AC who misinterprited my post.
That 19% is the most vicioiusly fought over money in all of Congress. Why? Becuase it's all they really have to play with.
If you cut Social Security, the old people would practically revolt and march on Washington. Read: rumblings of this during the government shutdown under Clinton.
I understand full well about Entitlements. My point was, under current laws, Congress can't choose to spend less on Medicare this year without passing a specific law to limit medicare handouts. It's simply not part of the yearly budget for them to say "We're only going to spend 140 billion on entitlements this year."
I never said entitlements are right, I just said they exist.
Besides, Social Security was part of the radical economic plan during the depression. It had more to do (so we're told) with helping people get by day to day then it did about getting reelected.
Good, you're a classic conservative. I can at least respect that.
Although, remember, the constitution didn't give the courts the power of Judicial Review. The original constitution was a bit imperfect (although, it's pretty good, as constitutions go.)
If you believe that the federal government's job hasn't changed in 200 years, then yes, you're 100% correct.
Of course the Government's here for national defence. But it's INTERNATIONAL to have military bases across the globe.
You want *our* country to be put first? Bring all our boys and girls back from those hundreds of bases, and then you can defend this country all you want.
Slashdot: the place with trolls who haven't taken US Government 101.
I specifically said Discretionary spending. That's the stuff they have direct control over, and is what the majority of the budget process is over.
Medicare and Social Security are what are known as Entitlements because people are entitled to them by law. The Government (namely, Congess) does NOT have direct control over entitlements, but they have control to the last penny of discretionary spending.