Nintendo has been beating the "games design the hardware" drum a lot lately. If that's not just PR, it's safe to say Miyamoto-san had a lot to do with the design of this baby.
I don't want a PSP. Nothing about the PSP entices me. Video? Yawn. Music? Meh, there's better. And we'll get a raft of PS2 ports. All for the low, low price of $250 (!), possibly higher.
I do want a DS. Desperately. It has 100 developers very excited for what might be the first time in a long time./p.
P.S. So many console games drop to $20 if you're just willing to wait a year... If you don't want to buy games at $50, just wait a bit.
It's more my experience that they don't drop to $20 so much as drop off the face of the earth entirely. The $10-$20 racks are full of crap I'd never consider buying at any price.
You use what works for you. I'll just say that right out of the gate, so you don't get confused as to my intentions.
But I've never seen the point in modern gaming on a PC. Oh sure, I used to play games back in the floppy era, but now it's all consoles. I don't see the joy in installing, troubleshooting video, finding out I have to drop a couple hundred on the latest hardware, etc. I go to the shelf, see a game that is written for my console, buy it, go home, stick it in, turn it on.
Watching friends get a game set up on a PC, by comparison, seems like half the challenge in itself...:-)
I'll second that, d-i absolutely rocks. The only catch here is going to be that people with devices that require firmware are going to be left out in the cold.
That said, I'd really be quite surprised if all other distributions felt they could distribute the firmware when their time comes. This discussion is happening all over Linux land, it's just that in Debian's case, we see it out in the open.
Bull. There's tons of stuff one can do on Linux one cannot do (or cannot do effectively) on Windows. That's why I've been watching coLinux for the time I can use it at work.
Whether or not it's worth it is your call, of course. But many software authors and packagers who can use optimizations to increase their performance by an appreciable factor have already taken steps like that (i.e. some video apps in Debian, I know, will detect your processor etc. and run with optimized code; of course there's also the kernels you can select, preoptimized for several architectures.)
I went Gentoo from OpenBSD some time back; OpenBSD wasn't keeping up with the times to let me use the apps I wanted. It was not worth the very minimal improvement to recompile, recompile, recompile all the packages, all the time, nor was it worth the system horkage that resulted from letting packages detect what was on the system at the time that may or may not have been there later. I went Debian a few months afterward, and haven't looked back. At the end of the day, I want to use my computer, after all.
Right, and I'm sure you've spent the same amount of time these "nameless packagers" have with each one of these pieces of software, so that you understand the intracacies of how they interdepend with other packages just as much.
I'm also very confident you know so much about each package that you can be sure the optimizing of your compile flags will never affect the operation of any one of those packages.
Finally, I know that the time you spend discovering all this is worth every minute of it because your machine will be so blazingly fast that it will blow the compile times, the time you spend troubleshooting and discovering all this (and you would never, ever duplicate effort, because nobody else's computer is at all like yours!) right out of consideration!
Which breaks horribly when your software doesn't support DESTDIR.
I maintain a small collection of build-from-source recipes for Solaris, and many of them don't until I either patch them or fool them via configure options.
While there's certainly some truth to the target demographic angle, it must also be considered that a lot the ads you're going to see on cable, especially smaller cable stations, are after the cheap rates more than the target demographic. Target demographics are for much more for million-dollar Super Bowl ads than they are for buying cheap spots in bulk (ever notice the same ad gets run on almost every break on some channels?)
Also: cable providers also sell ad spots on some channels to local advertisers. I suspect these are done with no concern for targeting at all, given I've seen the same spot everywhere, and again, several times an hour...
I'm 27, and I'd rather have people in the room playing games with me than seek opponents amongst the truant 13-year-olds who know every secret and strategy that clog the online gaming world today.
Online play is seriously overrated. You can say it's because I hate getting beat by those little brats, and you'd be right -- but it's really because I'd rather have actual fun. And that's why I'm a Cube owner with a stack of GBAs.
Yeah, there are several XML options, including those that can be XSL'd to HTML or PDF; I think the problem is that it's just not easy to create good XML. I'm holding my breath that someday Conglomerate will change that for Linux/etc. but for Windows your best option is still XMetaL for XML text, and it ain't cheap (or at least, it wasn't.)
Gentoo's installer did have a pretty good record for me too. I know because I had to run the damned thing a dozen times because routine emerges would FUBAR my system.
(Before you Gentoo zealots jump, this was several versions ago -- though contrary to your claims, the stories I hear don't sound like the situations are all that better these days...)
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That's the PSP you're talking about...
With a horizontal resolution of 192 pixels, a 640x480 screen will be able to comfortably hold both DS screens. No problem.
Nintendo has been beating the "games design the hardware" drum a lot lately. If that's not just PR, it's safe to say Miyamoto-san had a lot to do with the design of this baby.
I don't want a PSP. Nothing about the PSP entices me. Video? Yawn. Music? Meh, there's better. And we'll get a raft of PS2 ports. All for the low, low price of $250 (!), possibly higher.
I do want a DS. Desperately. It has 100 developers very excited for what might be the first time in a long time./p.
You're wrong. Right off the top of my head, American Movie Classics had actually been ad-free for quite some time.
It's more my experience that they don't drop to $20 so much as drop off the face of the earth entirely. The $10-$20 racks are full of crap I'd never consider buying at any price.
Okay, yes, hentai games exist. But we're talking about mainstream gaming here.
You use what works for you. I'll just say that right out of the gate, so you don't get confused as to my intentions.
But I've never seen the point in modern gaming on a PC. Oh sure, I used to play games back in the floppy era, but now it's all consoles. I don't see the joy in installing, troubleshooting video, finding out I have to drop a couple hundred on the latest hardware, etc. I go to the shelf, see a game that is written for my console, buy it, go home, stick it in, turn it on.
Watching friends get a game set up on a PC, by comparison, seems like half the challenge in itself... :-)
Okay, I'll call this one.
What game (games?) are you talking about? Because in my largely-Japan-oriented game library, none feature such a thing.
By contrast, everyone's largely-US-oriented game library that I know of features the senseless violence etc. quite prominently.
Just remember, kids:
I'll second that, d-i absolutely rocks. The only catch here is going to be that people with devices that require firmware are going to be left out in the cold.
That said, I'd really be quite surprised if all other distributions felt they could distribute the firmware when their time comes. This discussion is happening all over Linux land, it's just that in Debian's case, we see it out in the open.
Ironic, isn't it, that the organization that reportedly stands for freedom would be involved in trying to restrict the flow of information, eh?
Or maybe not, considering the GPL is a coercive license itself.
Bull. There's tons of stuff one can do on Linux one cannot do (or cannot do effectively) on Windows. That's why I've been watching coLinux for the time I can use it at work.
Never used Money, but GnuCash is clearly superior to Quicken (which I used for a few years) for my personal accounting.
And it's never interrupted me to try to sell me a credit card or a home equity loan.
Most coLinux users do use Cygwin X11 or VNC. VNC seems to be preferred because it ends up a bit faster.
This was especially important in the beginning because the console app was horrid.
The author of the Techworld article, Maxwell Cooter, is a friend of Simon Travaglia -- see the BOFH FAQ.
Hope this puts it in perspective for the easily fooled...
Whether or not it's worth it is your call, of course. But many software authors and packagers who can use optimizations to increase their performance by an appreciable factor have already taken steps like that (i.e. some video apps in Debian, I know, will detect your processor etc. and run with optimized code; of course there's also the kernels you can select, preoptimized for several architectures.)
I went Gentoo from OpenBSD some time back; OpenBSD wasn't keeping up with the times to let me use the apps I wanted. It was not worth the very minimal improvement to recompile, recompile, recompile all the packages, all the time, nor was it worth the system horkage that resulted from letting packages detect what was on the system at the time that may or may not have been there later. I went Debian a few months afterward, and haven't looked back. At the end of the day, I want to use my computer, after all.
Until he gets his electric bill, that is.
Right, and I'm sure you've spent the same amount of time these "nameless packagers" have with each one of these pieces of software, so that you understand the intracacies of how they interdepend with other packages just as much.
I'm also very confident you know so much about each package that you can be sure the optimizing of your compile flags will never affect the operation of any one of those packages.
Finally, I know that the time you spend discovering all this is worth every minute of it because your machine will be so blazingly fast that it will blow the compile times, the time you spend troubleshooting and discovering all this (and you would never, ever duplicate effort, because nobody else's computer is at all like yours!) right out of consideration!
Which breaks horribly when your software doesn't support DESTDIR.
I maintain a small collection of build-from-source recipes for Solaris, and many of them don't until I either patch them or fool them via configure options.
While there's certainly some truth to the target demographic angle, it must also be considered that a lot the ads you're going to see on cable, especially smaller cable stations, are after the cheap rates more than the target demographic. Target demographics are for much more for million-dollar Super Bowl ads than they are for buying cheap spots in bulk (ever notice the same ad gets run on almost every break on some channels?)
Also: cable providers also sell ad spots on some channels to local advertisers. I suspect these are done with no concern for targeting at all, given I've seen the same spot everywhere, and again, several times an hour...
I'm 27, and I'd rather have people in the room playing games with me than seek opponents amongst the truant 13-year-olds who know every secret and strategy that clog the online gaming world today.
Online play is seriously overrated. You can say it's because I hate getting beat by those little brats, and you'd be right -- but it's really because I'd rather have actual fun. And that's why I'm a Cube owner with a stack of GBAs.
I bought a Virtual Boy because it was cheap (in this case, Target was liquidating inventory.)
That said, Mario Tennis is quite fun.
Yeah, there are several XML options, including those that can be XSL'd to HTML or PDF; I think the problem is that it's just not easy to create good XML. I'm holding my breath that someday Conglomerate will change that for Linux/etc. but for Windows your best option is still XMetaL for XML text, and it ain't cheap (or at least, it wasn't.)
Gentoo's installer did have a pretty good record for me too. I know because I had to run the damned thing a dozen times because routine emerges would FUBAR my system.
(Before you Gentoo zealots jump, this was several versions ago -- though contrary to your claims, the stories I hear don't sound like the situations are all that better these days...)