Also you can get a GPS but you may be right, it is japan-only. Yeah, shame the potential of the system wasn't used properly. I'd have bought up all this stuff in a second a few years back.
I love to be able to run homebrew as much as the next guy, probably more, but if you think for a second that it would distort the market in Sony's favour you're deluded.
As for doing poorly compared to the competition - 38 million units isn't too bad in anyone's book, and isn't all that far beind MS's 47. The wii is far and away the leader but you're going to have to try very hard to persuade me that the availability of WiiQuake, OpenTyrianWii and a couple of SNES emulators for the homebrew channel has made anything more than a minor difference to the sales of a console that opened up a whole new sphere of casual gaming.
No, if they're doing badly (OMG! Only 38 million sold!) it's down to something else.
I like a bit of sex and violence in my escapism from time to time. That somehow makes me a child in your eyes? denying that sort of content completely does limit what's available and will continue to limit (in my eyes) Nintendo to the cuddly, fluffy, family-friendly image.
Which is great, and hell, they'll get a lot of sales because of it. But not all of us are family-friendly people.
Well if they haven't noticed, I doubt the rest of the world has or will. Your iDevices are good, I'm sure, but they don't have any physical buttons. Also they've sold about a half of the number of devices (including iPod touch) as there are Nintendo DS systems out there.
I think there are also a lot of folks who wouldn't want a toddler anywhere near their shiny, expensive toys. I sure as hell wouldn't...
FOSS advocates are all ripping off photoshop so they can be safely ignored?
Bullshit. I know a lot of people who have ripped off photoshop, they were all windows users (surprisingly!) a lot of them hadn't paid for windows either.
FOSS advocates and mass, casual software piracy do not go hand in hand. In fact it's one of the reasons that FOSS programs don't get mindshare - they're competing against another form of free.
There would be a few nuts holding out but you know as well as I do that the population would just roll over, especially if the words safety, pedophile or terrorist were used.
Yeah but come one, the Wii graphics look like something out of last century. Even the casual gamers know that.
Nothing fancy is needed for their cartoon-style games, sure, but being able to output a High Def signal and have a bit anti-aliasing would work wonders.
The package types vary by platform, it's true, but you don't need to support all that many to target 90% or enterprise linux use. Redhat and SuSE are the most popular. They both use rpm.
And rpm is a joy to work with compared to msi.
"Linux is not friendly to commercial software unless it is open source or command line based."
I take it you know this for a fact after more than a decade of experience with commercial programming across multiple Unix, Windows and Linux platforms? Because that's where I am and if I'm wrong then I would expect to be told so by someone with significantly more experience than I have, not some kid with an agenda and no real world experience.
"Give me a break, the only people who use Linux desktops have businesses selling Linux."
Yes, the German and Brazilian governments, well known linux vendors!
*facepalm*
You'll find a lot of software companies where people have a linux machine and a windows machine, but no Mac.
"You guys need some perspective from outside your basement"
And you need to stop trolling linux users. The stereotype of the basement dweller is over. When Oracle, Google and IBM are all heavily involved in linux, as they are, your stereotype of linux as something for spotty, basement-dwelling hobbyists is long dead.
"I mean, the only reason that unionization wasn't more effective earlier on is because the corp's used the government to bully strikers."
And without laws protecting workers any given company can just fire union members. Enough companies doing it and people won't join a union because they need to eat.#
"If more consumers were well informed they'd buy smarter."
And with less regulation companies would just lie more. The well informed consumer is a myth now and would be even more so in a world with less regulation.
Firefox overtook IE in Germany at least. It has a huge market share the world over, and this despite IE shipping with windows.
But I'm sure you'll just say that that's only one example and your point holds. Whatever. For me, I see better quality and in the FOSS world and it allows me (as a highly skilled technical user) to do more of the stuff I want to do.
As long as a critical mass of interest holds (and we're way, way above that right now) then I really don't care if you feel it's ready for grandma or not.
It's not even the geek perspective, it;s the apple geek perspective.
As a FOSS geek I'm not interested in apple and have identified a bunch of really nice looking alternatives to the iPad. It's just a shame none of them seem to quite make it to market!
The ubergeek wouldn't have bought an iPad and then bitched about things he knew would happen, or would be reverse engineering it to run linux.
Had a similar thing when I was at a motorway service station in the UK. I had one of those old tape to minijack converters hanging out of the stereo, not plugged into anything, but the stereo was on and playing nothing.
There's a huge comms mast at Membury services, and suddenly a lot of what sounded like emergency services stuff started coming through. Pretty weird!
And it was a primitive device, when the tape was in the radio receiver was off, so it was getting in via the tape adapter.
Well then you've missed a legit reason. The reason O bought HDAdvance for the PS2 and put the hacked firmware on my PSP - it's far more convenient to just run from a hard drive than it is to screw around with discs.
On the PS2 the load times were a lot faster and I didn't end up with a stack of discs and cases by the tv. On the PSP the load times are faster, the battery lasts (about 25%) longer and I don't have to take a stack of UMDs on the plane. On the PS3 all my music is available from the XMB because I run mediatomb on a home server. Movies are there too.
Why not games?
I'd love to get this just so I could put the games on the drive then put the discs and their boxes away in a cupboard somewhere. Much tidier, much more convenient.
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Also you can get a GPS but you may be right, it is japan-only. Yeah, shame the potential of the system wasn't used properly. I'd have bought up all this stuff in a second a few years back.
Bullshit.
I love to be able to run homebrew as much as the next guy, probably more, but if you think for a second that it would distort the market in Sony's favour you're deluded.
As for doing poorly compared to the competition - 38 million units isn't too bad in anyone's book, and isn't all that far beind MS's 47. The wii is far and away the leader but you're going to have to try very hard to persuade me that the availability of WiiQuake, OpenTyrianWii and a couple of SNES emulators for the homebrew channel has made anything more than a minor difference to the sales of a console that opened up a whole new sphere of casual gaming.
No, if they're doing badly (OMG! Only 38 million sold!) it's down to something else.
I like a bit of sex and violence in my escapism from time to time. That somehow makes me a child in your eyes? denying that sort of content completely does limit what's available and will continue to limit (in my eyes) Nintendo to the cuddly, fluffy, family-friendly image.
Which is great, and hell, they'll get a lot of sales because of it. But not all of us are family-friendly people.
Well if they haven't noticed, I doubt the rest of the world has or will. Your iDevices are good, I'm sure, but they don't have any physical buttons. Also they've sold about a half of the number of devices (including iPod touch) as there are Nintendo DS systems out there.
I think there are also a lot of folks who wouldn't want a toddler anywhere near their shiny, expensive toys. I sure as hell wouldn't...
I have had bluescreens in Win 7.
Not sure why, usually seems to have happened when running Google Chrome. Either way there are some areas in which Win 7 is still lacking I think.
That said, I get the occasional kernel panic in linux too!
I'm sorry, what?
FOSS advocates are all ripping off photoshop so they can be safely ignored?
Bullshit. I know a lot of people who have ripped off photoshop, they were all windows users (surprisingly!) a lot of them hadn't paid for windows either.
FOSS advocates and mass, casual software piracy do not go hand in hand. In fact it's one of the reasons that FOSS programs don't get mindshare - they're competing against another form of free.
You're the one with the disconnect buddy.
You mean BSD?
Because GPL would be a share-alike type of license.
In the UK we would consider your behaviour vulgar.
Skipping your place in the ordered queue of customers by slipping money to the barman?
Poor show old chap, poor show.
It's not a bad thing to buy a drink for the bar folk, but expecting particular favours as a result just seems wrong. Very American.
Yeah, carry on dreaming.
There would be a few nuts holding out but you know as well as I do that the population would just roll over, especially if the words safety, pedophile or terrorist were used.
Yeah but come one, the Wii graphics look like something out of last century. Even the casual gamers know that.
Nothing fancy is needed for their cartoon-style games, sure, but being able to output a High Def signal and have a bit anti-aliasing would work wonders.
The package types vary by platform, it's true, but you don't need to support all that many to target 90% or enterprise linux use. Redhat and SuSE are the most popular. They both use rpm.
And rpm is a joy to work with compared to msi.
"Linux is not friendly to commercial software unless it is open source or command line based."
I take it you know this for a fact after more than a decade of experience with commercial programming across multiple Unix, Windows and Linux platforms? Because that's where I am and if I'm wrong then I would expect to be told so by someone with significantly more experience than I have, not some kid with an agenda and no real world experience.
Oh wow, a one month growth surge from insignificant to slightly less insignificant.
"Give me a break, the only people who use Linux desktops have businesses selling Linux."
Yes, the German and Brazilian governments, well known linux vendors!
*facepalm*
You'll find a lot of software companies where people have a linux machine and a windows machine, but no Mac.
"You guys need some perspective from outside your basement"
And you need to stop trolling linux users. The stereotype of the basement dweller is over. When Oracle, Google and IBM are all heavily involved in linux, as they are, your stereotype of linux as something for spotty, basement-dwelling hobbyists is long dead.
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Though I think that they were snapped up by a major when the record labels realised that they were getting huge on their own.
"I mean, the only reason that unionization wasn't more effective earlier on is because the corp's used the government to bully strikers."
And without laws protecting workers any given company can just fire union members. Enough companies doing it and people won't join a union because they need to eat.#
"If more consumers were well informed they'd buy smarter."
And with less regulation companies would just lie more. The well informed consumer is a myth now and would be even more so in a world with less regulation.
Your IP reforms I agree with though.
Firefox overtook IE in Germany at least. It has a huge market share the world over, and this despite IE shipping with windows.
But I'm sure you'll just say that that's only one example and your point holds. Whatever. For me, I see better quality and in the FOSS world and it allows me (as a highly skilled technical user) to do more of the stuff I want to do.
As long as a critical mass of interest holds (and we're way, way above that right now) then I really don't care if you feel it's ready for grandma or not.
Umm, yes, because so many enterprises have adopted Mac OS...
Insightful my arse. Linux is much bigger than Mac in the enterprise.
Oh nonsense, it's perfectly friendly to commercial software, linux is our biggest platform in the enterprise sector I deal with.
It hasn't got a huge desktop install base, and whilst it would have won valve some kudos I'm not sure that it would have paid for its dev costs.
Me, I run it under wine and some of the games work as well as windows. Not all by a long stretch, but some.
Really?
I wouldn't count the nokia N series, they're great devices (I'm posting this from my N900) but the size rules them ou of the same class as the iPad.
The Archos I knew about, but it still seems small.
As for others - where? Enquiring minds want to know, and enquiring credit cards want to purchase!
Actually that touchbook does look rather good. Hmm....
It's not even the geek perspective, it;s the apple geek perspective.
As a FOSS geek I'm not interested in apple and have identified a bunch of really nice looking alternatives to the iPad. It's just a shame none of them seem to quite make it to market!
The ubergeek wouldn't have bought an iPad and then bitched about things he knew would happen, or would be reverse engineering it to run linux.
He says the sound is going over CAT5 too. His NAS is being a NAS.
Had a similar thing when I was at a motorway service station in the UK. I had one of those old tape to minijack converters hanging out of the stereo, not plugged into anything, but the stereo was on and playing nothing.
There's a huge comms mast at Membury services, and suddenly a lot of what sounded like emergency services stuff started coming through. Pretty weird!
And it was a primitive device, when the tape was in the radio receiver was off, so it was getting in via the tape adapter.
Yeah, but this guy replaced the SATA cable in his NAS.
Not even in the computer!
Yeah, but you still can't actually play it off the hard drive without the disc in there, can you?
I'd like that!
Well then you've missed a legit reason. The reason O bought HDAdvance for the PS2 and put the hacked firmware on my PSP - it's far more convenient to just run from a hard drive than it is to screw around with discs.
On the PS2 the load times were a lot faster and I didn't end up with a stack of discs and cases by the tv.
On the PSP the load times are faster, the battery lasts (about 25%) longer and I don't have to take a stack of UMDs on the plane.
On the PS3 all my music is available from the XMB because I run mediatomb on a home server. Movies are there too.
Why not games?
I'd love to get this just so I could put the games on the drive then put the discs and their boxes away in a cupboard somewhere. Much tidier, much more convenient.