My girlfriends iBook G4 (about two weeks old!) kernel panic'd in the Optimization stage of the update..... had to power button it, and now the spinning boot logo displays forever.... archive reinstall time?
Not true, the money I save on firewall and antivirus products pays for a console easily, which gives me many more decent games than ever comes out on PC anymore.
What about games like Metroid Prime on the Gamecube which have *no* loading times whatsoever?
The Gamecube trades storage space for loading speed, but you won't see very many cut scenes. The PS2 has abysmal loading times, for reasons I can't fathom.
I haven't noticed any speed issues with saving since the Playstation.
I've noticed plenty, especially on the PS2. GTAIII+VC are slow, as is Pro Evo, TH:UG and GT3. Also bear in mind that game saves are kept deliberately small in order to allow a reasonable amount to fit on the small memory cards, for example Halo can and will save enough data so that barely fits on the Xbox memory card, which is the same size as the other two consoles'.
Ok, so I can have a billion saves. Thats nice, but what if I want to use my save at a friends house?
You purchase a memory card just like on the other two consoles. The memory slots are in the controller, like the Dreamcast; this means you could have 8 memory units plugged in too if you wanted to.
* amount of user-defined information
Not exactly sure what you're talking about here.
I think he means that you can save lots more personalised stats because you have no space issues.
* downloaded content
Ok that is kinda nice, but it's more of a perk than a "killer feature."
It's under-utilised. PC games use this a lot though remember, all it would take would be for Bungie to release a level editor for Halo 2 and this would explode.
* knowing that everyone has room for the save
See number of saves above.
I don't think you understand the point; it's not beyond the realms of imagination that Sony and Nintendo encourage their developers to be sparing with memory. No-one wants a reputation of a memory-card hog, a hidden tax that simply shouts 'should have offered/fitted a hard drive', on the other hand, Xbox developers are probably encouraged to allow players to personalize the game as much as possible and can use the space to provide some really high detailed saves that store much more information to make the gameworld more contiguous between sessions.
* custom soundtracks
Pretty much only good for FPS, racing, or Tony Hawk-style games. Otherwise I want to hear that great music on my Final Fantasy, Zelda, Mario, or Metroid games. Also whats stopping you from turning the BGM to 0 and using a cd player?
Well, you've just dismissed the two most popular genres there, but ignoring that for a second, do you listen to that music away from the game? I'd prefer to listen to a thumping rock track in Metroid Prime personally, and the music in Mario Sunshine is bloody annoying. I'm not sure about your stereo but mine doesn't do mixing, so the CD player option requires me using the TV for sound effects. It's a lot nicer if I can just play tracks from the hard drive, especially given the surround options in modern games. I don't particularly like turn based fighting games so I can't comment on the music quality of Final Fantasy in particular, and I admit Zelda's music is quite nice, but quality original music in games is generally the exception rather than the norm these days, which is why so many games use tracks from recognised artists.
The two things that my Gamecube and PS2 owning friends drool over when they finally get to experience them...the hard-drive, and of course Live.
Internet gaming is an over-hyped feature. The majority of games available are single player only. Also I think most people would agree that they enjoy playing with their friends *in the same room* more than playing against someone you don't know on the other side of the country/world/galaxy. Don't get me started about cheater/griefers/fuckheads on the internet.
Don't knock it til you've tried it. Notice all the hype i
In Tony Hawk's games your scoring exponentially decreases for repeats of the same move, this could easily be applied to beat 'em ups to reduce the amount of damage taken by repeats of the same attack.
Any cheating like this could easily be captured and worked around in playtesting, it's not like it's difficult to fix. It just smacks of lazy programming.
I'm knocking netgear because mine, an ME102, went slowly tits up with every key change (it would take longer to restart and sometimes didn't acknowledge the change), and was never going to receive anything useful like an update for WPA security from Netgear. Now it just comes up with a boggled IP address and refuses to work. It was only configurable from a bespoke Windows app which is very hard to find on netgear's website (which is fairly typical from some of the middle tier hardware manufacturers).
My next purchase was a Buffalo 11g unit which didn't seem to work properly at all but luckily I managed to take it back. I bought my AEBS originally simply because I knew it would work correctly with my Macs, and had backup dialup, MAC security and USB printer access, and had been burned twice trying to get a cheaper option. Now I'm glad I did anyway, as it's been flawlessly reliable and has received constant useful updates. I don't think there's any reason to get one if you don't need a print server or any of the associated stuff, but when I was buying mine 11g was quite new and the prices weren't radically different. Maybe if I was buying without experience now I'd probably settle for a cheaper one but I've never been anything except impressed with Apple kit and service and I'm quite happy to do it again even at a premium simply because I feel I get real value for money.
Apple put a lot of effort into adding new features with every release. Last time it was WPA security, this time it's signal work and syslog stuff. Along with the management tools which may or may not be officially available depending on where you look it's all good. I'm much happier with Mac stuff than dead in the water PC kit (looks at netgear crap on shelf).
Consoles are taking over gaming in a massive way. This is what let me finally switch to OS X, the complete lack of titles coming out on the PC (I can think of three this year that I might buy, two of which are coming out on consoles anyway, versus about 15-20 console games that I want). A couple of consoles will set you back the cost of a high end graphics card and open up a world of games that put gameplay on the same level of graphics (Quake 3 anyone? Didn't think so!).
If I want a config file from someone in a project discussion room I'd only ever use DCC, unless they could post an URL to somewhere I could download it; nothing is more anonymous. Too many people log channels for it to be safe to wantonly pass e-mail addresses about on IRC.
I was having some real trouble getting decent reception last night and was trying various things with the rather useful client monitor open. The noise graph was exceeding the signal so I tried adding interference robustness (first on the AEBS and then the Extreme cards), which made little difference, so I took it off again and suddenly the noise level was driven right down. Something up with the default setting of this not being set/working correctly?
That's 750,000 more than Nintendo.... and they've paid for the privilege. In the UK it's 39/year for Live, assuming that we're getting ripped off (as usual), and that the average internationally is $30/year, that's still $22 million. It certainly doesn't cost anywhere near that much to provide the service, and given that a fair proportion of games already have LAN capability, it's not that much of a stretch to extend the service on the programming side either.
No, I just don't respond to trolls. Pure capitalism, which you're advocating here, doesn't work in respect to services that people don't want to pay for in the belief/hope/gamble that they might never need them. Any sane economist knows this, and taxes is the virtually ubiquitous method of solving it, unless you fancy socialism, where you'd never even be promised the money in the first place.
If you're that upset about the perceived value you get from your tax expenditure then you should probably take it up with your local government official, or perhaps run yourself? You sound like you think you know how to get everything done at much lesser expense, so you shouldn't have any problem getting elected to office. Personally, I can see plenty of value for my tax 's and this is under a (marginally) more left wing government than we've had in the past in the UK.
Either way I'd recommend reading up a bit about the mechanics of society, and the costs involved in providing services that you don't even see. I noticed you got marked as flamebait so perhaps people agree with me more than you?
Not really, if you're richer then you'll definitely benefit more from policing as you're more likely to get burgled/mugged in the first place. You're more likely to drive yourself than use public transport, and you're more likely to do it in a gas guzzler, so why shouldn't you be taxed more? Your house will probably be bigger, and you're more likely to live in the suburbs, so providing fire coverage, refuse collection, etc. is costlier. I'd go on but this thread is dead now.
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But by the same token Microsoft hasn't done anything revolutionary since Windows 2000, and before that Windows 95.
So Apple just invented the optical keyboard! Amazing innovaters. We are not worthy.
Yep, just finished doing that. Not a nice time to get a kernel panic on the whole.
Why would you *ever* need to run Quicktime client on a server?
My girlfriends iBook G4 (about two weeks old!) kernel panic'd in the Optimization stage of the update..... had to power button it, and now the spinning boot logo displays forever.... archive reinstall time?
The Gamecube trades storage space for loading speed, but you won't see very many cut scenes. The PS2 has abysmal loading times, for reasons I can't fathom.
I've noticed plenty, especially on the PS2. GTAIII+VC are slow, as is Pro Evo, TH:UG and GT3. Also bear in mind that game saves are kept deliberately small in order to allow a reasonable amount to fit on the small memory cards, for example Halo can and will save enough data so that barely fits on the Xbox memory card, which is the same size as the other two consoles'.
You purchase a memory card just like on the other two consoles. The memory slots are in the controller, like the Dreamcast; this means you could have 8 memory units plugged in too if you wanted to.
I think he means that you can save lots more personalised stats because you have no space issues.
It's under-utilised. PC games use this a lot though remember, all it would take would be for Bungie to release a level editor for Halo 2 and this would explode.
I don't think you understand the point; it's not beyond the realms of imagination that Sony and Nintendo encourage their developers to be sparing with memory. No-one wants a reputation of a memory-card hog, a hidden tax that simply shouts 'should have offered/fitted a hard drive', on the other hand, Xbox developers are probably encouraged to allow players to personalize the game as much as possible and can use the space to provide some really high detailed saves that store much more information to make the gameworld more contiguous between sessions.
Well, you've just dismissed the two most popular genres there, but ignoring that for a second, do you listen to that music away from the game? I'd prefer to listen to a thumping rock track in Metroid Prime personally, and the music in Mario Sunshine is bloody annoying. I'm not sure about your stereo but mine doesn't do mixing, so the CD player option requires me using the TV for sound effects. It's a lot nicer if I can just play tracks from the hard drive, especially given the surround options in modern games. I don't particularly like turn based fighting games so I can't comment on the music quality of Final Fantasy in particular, and I admit Zelda's music is quite nice, but quality original music in games is generally the exception rather than the norm these days, which is why so many games use tracks from recognised artists.
Don't knock it til you've tried it. Notice all the hype i
Any cheating like this could easily be captured and worked around in playtesting, it's not like it's difficult to fix. It just smacks of lazy programming.
My next purchase was a Buffalo 11g unit which didn't seem to work properly at all but luckily I managed to take it back. I bought my AEBS originally simply because I knew it would work correctly with my Macs, and had backup dialup, MAC security and USB printer access, and had been burned twice trying to get a cheaper option. Now I'm glad I did anyway, as it's been flawlessly reliable and has received constant useful updates. I don't think there's any reason to get one if you don't need a print server or any of the associated stuff, but when I was buying mine 11g was quite new and the prices weren't radically different. Maybe if I was buying without experience now I'd probably settle for a cheaper one but I've never been anything except impressed with Apple kit and service and I'm quite happy to do it again even at a premium simply because I feel I get real value for money.
And the grandparent is an anti-Apple troll, probably penis envy as he's stuck with windows 98!
Apple put a lot of effort into adding new features with every release. Last time it was WPA security, this time it's signal work and syslog stuff. Along with the management tools which may or may not be officially available depending on where you look it's all good. I'm much happier with Mac stuff than dead in the water PC kit (looks at netgear crap on shelf).
You know, sunspots.
I think the grandparent was probably referring to Konqueror rather than Firefox. And Firefox rather than konq.
Consoles are taking over gaming in a massive way. This is what let me finally switch to OS X, the complete lack of titles coming out on the PC (I can think of three this year that I might buy, two of which are coming out on consoles anyway, versus about 15-20 console games that I want). A couple of consoles will set you back the cost of a high end graphics card and open up a world of games that put gameplay on the same level of graphics (Quake 3 anyone? Didn't think so!).
It's times like this I wish I'd ticked the box 'Willing to Moderate'.
If I want a config file from someone in a project discussion room I'd only ever use DCC, unless they could post an URL to somewhere I could download it; nothing is more anonymous. Too many people log channels for it to be safe to wantonly pass e-mail addresses about on IRC.
I was having some real trouble getting decent reception last night and was trying various things with the rather useful client monitor open. The noise graph was exceeding the signal so I tried adding interference robustness (first on the AEBS and then the Extreme cards), which made little difference, so I took it off again and suddenly the noise level was driven right down. Something up with the default setting of this not being set/working correctly?
That's 28. So we're only paying 28% more, not too bad for blighty. :(
That's 750,000 more than Nintendo.... and they've paid for the privilege. In the UK it's 39/year for Live, assuming that we're getting ripped off (as usual), and that the average internationally is $30/year, that's still $22 million. It certainly doesn't cost anywhere near that much to provide the service, and given that a fair proportion of games already have LAN capability, it's not that much of a stretch to extend the service on the programming side either.
The evil triple necked trouser snake beast!
This list reminds me very strongly of my old Atari Lynx. Now I just need to power my PS2 with a small inadequate battery to get the full experience.
From what? The cache that is writing and verifying the writeout will have reached the limit too.
If you're that upset about the perceived value you get from your tax expenditure then you should probably take it up with your local government official, or perhaps run yourself? You sound like you think you know how to get everything done at much lesser expense, so you shouldn't have any problem getting elected to office. Personally, I can see plenty of value for my tax 's and this is under a (marginally) more left wing government than we've had in the past in the UK.
Either way I'd recommend reading up a bit about the mechanics of society, and the costs involved in providing services that you don't even see. I noticed you got marked as flamebait so perhaps people agree with me more than you?
Not really, if you're richer then you'll definitely benefit more from policing as you're more likely to get burgled/mugged in the first place. You're more likely to drive yourself than use public transport, and you're more likely to do it in a gas guzzler, so why shouldn't you be taxed more? Your house will probably be bigger, and you're more likely to live in the suburbs, so providing fire coverage, refuse collection, etc. is costlier. I'd go on but this thread is dead now.