Yeah I realize it's pretty unreasonable to expect Apple to just open source OSX and even to port it to x86. But I think it IS reasonable for them to sell their hardware non-assembled. A lot of Mac users really would like to build their own. One reason I could never personally get a mac is because I hate packaged deals. Buying a G5 to me would be like buying a Dell or a Gateway except with a non-sucky OS on it.
You'd already be running OSX if they open sourced it or at least ported it to x86. Or perhaps weren't such nazis about their hardware and let us build our own mac without having to search ebay for power supplies.
Yep. Knoppix has created tons and tons of fresh Linux users, myself included. I never touched Linux with a ten foot pole until Knoppix came out, which impressed the crap out of me. Not long after I started using Knoppix every day at work, I put Gentoo on my home system and now I don't think I could ever go back to pure Windows. I only have Win2k running on a computer for games and nothing else.
LINUS COULD CLAIM TO BE JESUS CHRIST... and all the Linux geeks in the world would follow and worship him like deciples.
Precisely why I wish he would start setting standards for the Linux community. He needs to pick which one should be the standard, KDE or GNOME? Which distro? Apt-get, RPM, or portage? If Linus told us which ones to use, the Linux community would unite under him "like deciples." For reasons I cannot possibly fathom, he doesn't want to do that. He wants to let us all fight among ourselves concerning standards and now Linux is the most fragmented OS in existence.
Why would any computer-savvy person want to move to Australia? They've got some of the toughest Internet censorship laws in the free world, IIRC...
Maybe because he happens to like Australia and what he does for a living and for a hobby isn't illegal and he has nothing to worry about because SCO's case against him is bogus?
Yeah cause like 70gb is nothing! It's not like that space is actually useful or anything, as if you could store anything worthwhile with 70 gigabytes! They should sell hard drives with their ACTUAL capacity on the 1024 scale.
And how to properly configure apt-get. And how to properly configure your network card. And know what packages to apt-get install. And probably more but I can't remember cause its 2am and I haven't installed Debian in a few months.
Not only is it not a single 1 tb disk (four 250gb drives) but you also have to consider that the way they calculate disk space (1000 bits per byte and not 1024), it actually only amounts to roughly 930gb on the real scale, so it's nowhere close to being a "terrabyte disk" imho.
There's some truth to that statement. Debian's installer is horrible. You practically have to be a Linux expert to understand half of the crap it asks you to do or choose. In that respect, Gentoo's manual installation process is preferable over Debian's half-assed attempt at automation.
Disclaimer, I speak from experience. I used Debian and I used Gentoo for months and I currently prefer Gentoo over Deb. But I also use Knoppix, which is Deb-based, and I intend to give UserLinux a shot when it comes out which is also Deb-based.
Perhaps you're not taking the time to actually read what I write, which I suppose makes this reply I'm composing entirely pointless if you're not reading it, but here goes.
First off, in my very first post I talked about how porting games to all platforms generates a larger fanbase which is easily inferred as more profit. An economic point. Further explained in subsequent replies.
Secondly, I brought up the monopoly comparison to show that developing for only one platform is just as limiting ot the consumer as cornering the market, and I have further clarified that already, read the whole damn thread.
Finally, the fact that you accuse me of talking out of my ass is ironic seeing as how you can't even read and comprehend before you make your inflamatory comments with inaccurate accusations and assumptions.
Use whatever controller you want, if you could play Metroid Prime on the PC one would assume you could map your own controls any way you wanted. But for those who like the real GC controller, give it to them in USB form.
Uh, because I already have a computer? Computers can do more than consoles, so I opt to use the better item of hardware. As much as I bitch and moan that I can't play GC games on my comp, I've still got NES, SNES, N64, Playstation1, and computer games. That's a whole lot better than GC in my personal opinion. But as I said, that's my personal choice. That doesn't mean my choice is better than your's or your choice better than mine. My choice is not to buy GC because it's proprietary hardware and IMO proprietary hardware with a single function sucks.
I have arcade sticks hooked up to my PC to play MAME
LOL, nice:)
Hardware rarity wouldn't really be a problem if the game makers officially supported the porting of their games to other platforms along with their controllers.
My "possibly irrational" aversion to consoles is based on my not wanting to buy a new console every time a good game comes out. Plenty of people are ok with that, I'm not. I'm not saying everyone should stop buying consoles, I'm saying game makers should give me the freedom to choose my own platform.
By porting their games to other platforms, they gain more business. Nintendo's bottom line is very much at issue. You're reaching for stars trying to tell me that I don't know what I'm talking about here and you're not succeeding. You may disagree with me all you want, but that's as far as it goes. A difference of opinion.
Can you not see the forest through the trees? There's no reason they couldn't start manufacturing USB Gamecube controllers along with ports of their games to the PC.
Just because something is not done does not mean it is impossible.
Ok First off, it's called a USB splitter. You only need one USB port and one USB splitter and whammo, you've got plenty of ports for game controllers.
Second, I happen to have 4 controllers and I happen to play smash brothers (the original) on a nintendo 64 emulator w/4 friends regularly. If that's not enough to blow your point right out of the water, then take this with it: If Nintendo started porting their games to other platforms, it stands to reason that they would start porting their controllers as well. Imagine the kind of money they could make off of USB GameCube controllers.:)
They have lost significant business with this decision.
I doubt it.
They've lost my business and the business of everyone who, like me, refuses to buy consoles. That is significant business. Fact, not opinion.
Why, God, Why? This hurts so bad...If you were a paying GAMECUBE customer, you would play it on your GAMECUBE.
Yes, this is painful, it's painful that you completely misread my statement and I'll try to refrain from the petty flaming you resort to by saying that these games are currently ported to the Gamecube only so it makes sence to call them Gamecube games. With that being said, as I said before, if they had PC ports, I'd pay for them. But they don't. Therefore I don't buy them.
Nintendo's business model relies on not porting their games to anything other than their platforms. Why can't you understand this?
Why can't you read my post? Of course I understand their business model. My whole argument is that it's inferior to a business model in which they focus more on making games for all platforms and less on controlling their hardware. You may disagree, but I believe the number of customers they'd gain would outweigh the loss in hardware sales.
I'm not calling Nintendo a monopoly, I used that example to explain that by making their own hardware and not porting their games to anything else, they are restricting and frustrating their customers. Nintendo should port their games to AT LEAST the PC. The XBOX and PS2 wouldn't hurt as well.
Instead they remain a niche. If they ported their games they'd have a much more huge fanbase. I myself, a rabid nintendo fan, boycott their products on the sole basis that there are no pc ports and there are no successful emulators. I would be a paying gamecube customer if I could play it on my pc. They have lost significant business with this decision.
Companies which are both in the hardware AND software business are inherently frustrating to the consumer. A person who runs x86 hardware and wants to buy MacOSX cannot unless he buys an entirely new computer. A person running a PS2 who wants to buy Metroid Prime cannot unless he buys a Gamecube.
By being the sole manufacturer of your game AND your platform to which no ports exist, you are essentially eliminating all competition, and that sounds very similar to a monopoly. Platform freedom should be mandatory.
Most of the ones I've seen in stores don't. If he finds one, his problem is solved. But WMA is sitll a file format that is in the minority compared to MP3 AND is restricted by the DRM and should not be promoted.
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Superiority is relative. Keyword (key acronym?) here is DRM. That alone makes it inferior to even midi and not worth using. Period.
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Yeah I realize it's pretty unreasonable to expect Apple to just open source OSX and even to port it to x86. But I think it IS reasonable for them to sell their hardware non-assembled. A lot of Mac users really would like to build their own. One reason I could never personally get a mac is because I hate packaged deals. Buying a G5 to me would be like buying a Dell or a Gateway except with a non-sucky OS on it.
You'd already be running OSX if they open sourced it or at least ported it to x86. Or perhaps weren't such nazis about their hardware and let us build our own mac without having to search ebay for power supplies.
Yep. Knoppix has created tons and tons of fresh Linux users, myself included. I never touched Linux with a ten foot pole until Knoppix came out, which impressed the crap out of me. Not long after I started using Knoppix every day at work, I put Gentoo on my home system and now I don't think I could ever go back to pure Windows. I only have Win2k running on a computer for games and nothing else.
Yeah cause like 70gb is nothing! It's not like that space is actually useful or anything, as if you could store anything worthwhile with 70 gigabytes! They should sell hard drives with their ACTUAL capacity on the 1024 scale.
And how to properly configure apt-get. And how to properly configure your network card. And know what packages to apt-get install. And probably more but I can't remember cause its 2am and I haven't installed Debian in a few months.
Not only is it not a single 1 tb disk (four 250gb drives) but you also have to consider that the way they calculate disk space (1000 bits per byte and not 1024), it actually only amounts to roughly 930gb on the real scale, so it's nowhere close to being a "terrabyte disk" imho.
Is having 2.6 children anything like having a 2.6 kernel? o.O
*rimshot*
There's some truth to that statement. Debian's installer is horrible. You practically have to be a Linux expert to understand half of the crap it asks you to do or choose. In that respect, Gentoo's manual installation process is preferable over Debian's half-assed attempt at automation.
Disclaimer, I speak from experience. I used Debian and I used Gentoo for months and I currently prefer Gentoo over Deb. But I also use Knoppix, which is Deb-based, and I intend to give UserLinux a shot when it comes out which is also Deb-based.
How petty. When you can't support your point you get frustrated and resort to insults.
Perhaps you're not taking the time to actually read what I write, which I suppose makes this reply I'm composing entirely pointless if you're not reading it, but here goes.
First off, in my very first post I talked about how porting games to all platforms generates a larger fanbase which is easily inferred as more profit. An economic point. Further explained in subsequent replies.
Secondly, I brought up the monopoly comparison to show that developing for only one platform is just as limiting ot the consumer as cornering the market, and I have further clarified that already, read the whole damn thread.
Finally, the fact that you accuse me of talking out of my ass is ironic seeing as how you can't even read and comprehend before you make your inflamatory comments with inaccurate accusations and assumptions.
Use whatever controller you want, if you could play Metroid Prime on the PC one would assume you could map your own controls any way you wanted. But for those who like the real GC controller, give it to them in USB form.
Uh, because I already have a computer? Computers can do more than consoles, so I opt to use the better item of hardware. As much as I bitch and moan that I can't play GC games on my comp, I've still got NES, SNES, N64, Playstation1, and computer games. That's a whole lot better than GC in my personal opinion. But as I said, that's my personal choice. That doesn't mean my choice is better than your's or your choice better than mine. My choice is not to buy GC because it's proprietary hardware and IMO proprietary hardware with a single function sucks.
Hardware rarity wouldn't really be a problem if the game makers officially supported the porting of their games to other platforms along with their controllers.
My "possibly irrational" aversion to consoles is based on my not wanting to buy a new console every time a good game comes out. Plenty of people are ok with that, I'm not. I'm not saying everyone should stop buying consoles, I'm saying game makers should give me the freedom to choose my own platform.
By porting their games to other platforms, they gain more business. Nintendo's bottom line is very much at issue. You're reaching for stars trying to tell me that I don't know what I'm talking about here and you're not succeeding. You may disagree with me all you want, but that's as far as it goes. A difference of opinion.
Can you not see the forest through the trees? There's no reason they couldn't start manufacturing USB Gamecube controllers along with ports of their games to the PC.
Just because something is not done does not mean it is impossible.
Ok
:)
First off, it's called a USB splitter. You only need one USB port and one USB splitter and whammo, you've got plenty of ports for game controllers.
Second, I happen to have 4 controllers and I happen to play smash brothers (the original) on a nintendo 64 emulator w/4 friends regularly. If that's not enough to blow your point right out of the water, then take this with it: If Nintendo started porting their games to other platforms, it stands to reason that they would start porting their controllers as well. Imagine the kind of money they could make off of USB GameCube controllers.
I'm not calling Nintendo a monopoly, I used that example to explain that by making their own hardware and not porting their games to anything else, they are restricting and frustrating their customers. Nintendo should port their games to AT LEAST the PC. The XBOX and PS2 wouldn't hurt as well.
Instead they remain a niche. If they ported their games they'd have a much more huge fanbase. I myself, a rabid nintendo fan, boycott their products on the sole basis that there are no pc ports and there are no successful emulators. I would be a paying gamecube customer if I could play it on my pc. They have lost significant business with this decision.
Companies which are both in the hardware AND software business are inherently frustrating to the consumer. A person who runs x86 hardware and wants to buy MacOSX cannot unless he buys an entirely new computer. A person running a PS2 who wants to buy Metroid Prime cannot unless he buys a Gamecube.
By being the sole manufacturer of your game AND your platform to which no ports exist, you are essentially eliminating all competition, and that sounds very similar to a monopoly. Platform freedom should be mandatory.
Most of the ones I've seen in stores don't. If he finds one, his problem is solved. But WMA is sitll a file format that is in the minority compared to MP3 AND is restricted by the DRM and should not be promoted.
Superiority is relative. Keyword (key acronym?) here is DRM. That alone makes it inferior to even midi and not worth using. Period.