Parents should just do their job. Well, I don't know in what financial situation you live, but parents usually do their jobs to feed their kids. How can parents watch what the kids play, if they have to go to work for so long, because the wages are so low?
And Freedom of Speech? Pah, fuck Freedom of Speech. There are certain situations in which I approve restricted speech. Here in Germany pro-nazi speaking is banned. Saying that Auschwitz never exsisted is a crime here. And if a game's content goes too far, it should be banned. However I'm not sure if GTA goes too far - I don't know the game very well.
this is a cynical anti-competitive law, designed to make it difficult for other countries to sell products into Quebec.
That's bullshit. Here in Europe video games are usually multi-lingual (usually English, German, Spanish, Italian, and French). Games in North America are AFAIK almost always English only. Where's the problem to sell multi-language games also in North America? If they can do it in Europe, they can do it in North America as well.
They moved almost completly to Nintendo (especially to the GBA - as you also said). There are also games like Viewtiful Joe (side scrller) or Ikaruga (vertical shooter) for GameCube. The world isn't lost.;)
I probably wouldn't mind the 3-D style that much if someone could perfect, or at least slightly improve the camera angles of most games.
IMO the best transition from 2D to 3D was made with Metroid Prime. The gameplay is classic and fresh at the same time.
I used to be a fan of first person shooters, but really, how many times can you remake Doom & Wolfenstein. There are five thousand FPSs out there, and they just aren't fun anymore. I was on a Counter-Strike kick for a bit, I did like that game, but it just seemed to get old after a while (although I'm sure I wouldn't mind playing it again).
I agree with you to some extend. There are just too many ego shooters these days. Almost no innovation. But luckily every few years one or two good ego shooter are released, like Half-Life 1, Metroid Prime (OK, it's not a "real" ego shooter, but an ego action-adventure), and hopefully soon HL2 and Doom3.
I'd just rather pick up my Nintendo controller (or even my Super Nintendo one) and play a good old Castlevania game.
While it's not the newest game anymore, there's also a 2D Castlevania game for PlayStation 1 (called Symphony of the Night, IIRC).
To all people: please stop to compare Nintendo to Apple.
Nintendo is no way like Apple.
Apple's hardware is overpriced.
Nintendo has the cheapest of the 3 consoles.
Apple has just a small market share (hardware).
If you compare the worldwide sales, XBox and GameCube sell about equally. The numbers vary depending who published them - according to GameSpy (I think it was GS, but I'm not sure) the GameCube is on #2, XBox is close on #3.
Apple has just a small market share (software).
Nintendo is a top publisher for console software. Nintendo is #1 publisher in Japan. Nintendo is #2 publisher in the USA (far behind EA, but still #2). I don't know the numbers of the sales in Europe, but I think it's similar.
Yeah, Netscape is good. I haven't read all the comments here, but there are (as always) comments like ''Why not use Mozilla instead?'' I tell you why: Netscape has more features and is easier for people without good computer knowledge.
I prefer Mozilla Firebird, but the plain MF is not for normal users. They have to ''unzip'' it, they have to copy Flash and other plugins into the plugins directory, they have to install Java manually and so on.
OTOH Netscape: It comes with good, licensed spell checking (sorry, but OSS spell checkers suck - at least non-english ones), there's AIM and ICQ support, all important plugins are bundled, and Netscape adds important settings to the Windows registry (the location where it's installed for 3rd party plugins - a small, but important setting).
Currently I create installer builds of Mozilla Firebird (bundled with Flash and Java) for my friends, but that's only an acceptable solution for a handful of people. It's easier to point to a simple URL than giving a CD with my custom MF to everyone. Yes I know, there are also installer builds of Mozilla Firebird available on the net, but that's sometimes even too complicated for a few of my friends. When I say ''Get Netscape. It's on Netscape dot com.'' It's easy. When I say ''Get Mozilla Firebird. It's on geocities dot com slash blablabla slash... umm... sorry, I forgot the adress. I tell you tomorrow.'' It's more coplicated. Also: what happens, if the person does not provide the installer any more? Who guaranties me and my friends that the webpage is still up in a month or two. AOL is behind Netscape. I can be sure that Netscape will last a while. Netscape is easy to find, easy to install, and easy to use. That's why Netscape is good.
OMG, hopefully not. GIMP's UI sucks. BeOS/Zeta has Refraction (closed
source), ArtPaint (open source)
and a few others. At least shipped with Zeta Deluxe - not sure about ''plain'' Zeta.
Like Linux (Linux is from Finnland and Finnland is in Europe, in case you don't know) and KDE? (OK, KDE is a desktop environment and no OS, but also a German non-profit organisation)
Mandrake is a French company. SuSE is a French company.
You're missing the point of OpenGL. nVIDIA may have some proprietary extensions to OpenGL [...] OpenGL proprietary extensions are a side effect of being an open standard
Oh, I see....
Now please explain to me the moral difference between nVidia's (or any other company's) proprietary OpenGL extensions and Microsoft's proprietary HTML extensions (both OpenGL and HTML "being an open standard").
Except that the HTML extensions are made by MS and nVidia's extensions are not made by MS.
why not submit DirectX to a standards board for use by all?
Have you seen how fast DirectX (or in this case Direct3D) developed compared to OpenGL? Compared to OpenGL, Direct3D is a new technology. How much has the OpenGL 1.x standard evolved, if you exclude the proprietary extensions? Be honest: Direct3D has overtaken OpenGL. OpenGL 2.0 was designed with Direct3D 9 in mind. The OpenGL comitee tried to catch up. DirectX 9 is established now. It's not yet widely used, but established. OpenGL 2.0 is AFAIK not even final yet (I could be wrong).
OpenGL develops too slowly. If DirextX became an open standard, I'm quite sure that the development speed will almost stop - just like OpenGL.
I'm not a fan of MS, but at least MS pushes the 3D development with an unified API on one platform. IMHO that's better that billions of incompatible proprietary OpenGL extensions.
OS/2 had all the features of Windows 95 back in 1992, and those features were for the most part better implemented. Look where OS/2 is now...
There are a few reasons why OS/2 hasn't taken the lead in OSes. One reason is that OS/2 used a lot RAM that was very expensive that time. The people chose what was cheaper.
Oh and just FYI: OS/2 was a combined effort from IBM and Microsoft (up to OS/2 1.3 I believe).
Right up to the point where they download their first XviD video file.
There are no XviD video files. Currently most video files are: AVI Container MPEG-4 Video Track MP3 Audio Track
The difference between DivX files and XviD files is the FourCC ("Four Character Code" or something). DivX and XviD are just differernt encoders, not different formats. Just like LAME and FhG MP3Enc are differend encoders, but produce the same format. If you change the FourCC from ''XVID'' to ''DIVX'' the normal DivX codec should be able to play it (I've never heard of any problems). That's why I think, the people who encoded the video file should change the FourCC to DIVX, try to decode the file using DivX, and (if it works without problems) release the file with the DIVX FourCC. This way you can reach a wider audiance.
This ''benchmark'' is really bullsh*t.
When you do serious benchmarks, you post details about the hardware and the used
OS.
Well, they gave a few details about the Mac they claim to have. But what about
the P4-PC?
What kind of RAM did they use? 100MHz? 800MHz?
Something in between?
Which Windows version did they use? Was Hyper Threading enabled?
The list could be a lot longer, but you get the point.
Also: Wasn't the PPC970 meant to be a competitor to Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron
CPUs rather that just the plain P4 (by price and aimed market)? (I'm not
sure about this one.)
Why didn't they benchmark these as well? (They could at least get a Xeon, an
Opteron is harder to get.)
The last sentence (''The fight is over and Apple will soon rule the world!'')
gives me an indication why they didn't do this: They seem not to be interested
in an objective comparison.
My wish is, that OpenOffice gets a re-design simmilar to Mozilla... split into single applications each using a different process. Yes, I know that there are ooowriter, ooocalc and so on, but those application only launch soffice.
The GUI toolkit does also not integrate very well into Windows. Some people use Skins (either WinXP's VisualStyles or WindowsBlinds), but it still looks like an Win95 application. AFAIK under Unix/Linux OpenOffice uses GTK+ themes (I only use OOo under Windows, under FreeBSD I use KOffice).
Well, it took Mozilla 5 years to plan a re-design. IIRC OpenOffice.org started in 2000. OK, I'll wait until 2005 then.;)
Windows 2000 = Windows NT 5.0
Windows XP = Windows NT 5.1
You're not paying for services packs (updates) but you sure are paying for
upgrades. Microsoft isn't any better at all, don't be lured by the fact they
changed product name!
You don't understand. Just because MS has released WinXP (NT5.1), doesn't
mean, they do no longer provide any updates for it.
MS still releases patches for Win2k (NT5.0). OTOH Apple does not even release
any security fixes for OSX 10.1 any longer.
THAT'S the difference.
Why is it that there is always a few vocal whiners ready to spout off every time Apple wants to sell an OS upgrade?
1.) Apple users often claim that Apple is just a hardware company. According to them, the software is just a way to sell the hardware and that's why the hardware is so expensive.
When people ask why an update costs money, they are refering to Apple software beeing a "bonus" to the hardware.
2.) Microsoft (yeah, flame me) does still provide free updates for Win2k. Microsoft provides free updates (at least fixes, not always added features) for every Windows version for five years. Apple's latest Security Update requires "Mac OS X 10.2.4 or later". MacOS X 10.1 useres do no longer get scurity updates. They are forced to pay for an update.
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Be Dope Linux is by far
the best Linux distro. Unlike all the other distros, Be Dope Linux has a killer
feature called AVN (Advanced Version Numbering).
Ha! Beat that, SuSE!
I've seen in the news how you US Americans are boycotting french products. Renaming French Fries to Freedom Fries. That's by far the most stupid thing I EVER heard. Why is the USA so powerfull? Well, we in Germany (old Europe, you know) have a saying that tranlates about like this: "The dubmest farmers harvest the biggest potatoes". Oh well.
Oh, and how you are bocotting french wine: You BUY the wine and then you dump the wine in the sewerage. These pictures looked EXACTLY like the pictures of arabs burning a US flag - except there's no flag involved. And you claim to live in the civillized world while arabs are uncivillized sandmonkeys.
And one last thing: Don't forget that the Statue of Liberty is a present from france. Burn it down.
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MS doesn't care a lot about Linux. The HDD makes it easy to play pirated games.
Parents should just do their job.
Well, I don't know in what financial situation you live, but parents usually do their jobs to feed their kids.
How can parents watch what the kids play, if they have to go to work for so long, because the wages are so low?
And Freedom of Speech? Pah, fuck Freedom of Speech. There are certain situations in which I approve restricted speech. Here in Germany pro-nazi speaking is banned. Saying that Auschwitz never exsisted is a crime here.
And if a game's content goes too far, it should be banned.
However I'm not sure if GTA goes too far - I don't know the game very well.
this is a cynical anti-competitive law, designed to make it difficult for other countries to sell products into Quebec.
That's bullshit.
Here in Europe video games are usually multi-lingual (usually English, German, Spanish, Italian, and French).
Games in North America are AFAIK almost always English only. Where's the problem to sell multi-language games also in North America? If they can do it in Europe, they can do it in North America as well.
There are also games like Viewtiful Joe (side scrller) or Ikaruga (vertical shooter) for GameCube. The world isn't lost.
IMO the best transition from 2D to 3D was made with Metroid Prime. The gameplay is classic and fresh at the same time.
I agree with you to some extend. There are just too many ego shooters these days. Almost no innovation. But luckily every few years one or two good ego shooter are released, like Half-Life 1, Metroid Prime (OK, it's not a "real" ego shooter, but an ego action-adventure), and hopefully soon HL2 and Doom3.
While it's not the newest game anymore, there's also a 2D Castlevania game for PlayStation 1 (called Symphony of the Night, IIRC).
To all people: please stop to compare Nintendo to Apple.
Nintendo is no way like Apple.
Nintendo has the cheapest of the 3 consoles.
If you compare the worldwide sales, XBox and GameCube sell about equally. The numbers vary depending who published them - according to GameSpy (I think it was GS, but I'm not sure) the GameCube is on #2, XBox is close on #3.
Nintendo is a top publisher for console software. Nintendo is #1 publisher in Japan. Nintendo is #2 publisher in the USA (far behind EA, but still #2). I don't know the numbers of the sales in Europe, but I think it's similar.
Yeah, Netscape is good. I haven't read all the comments here, but there are (as always) comments like ''Why not use Mozilla instead?''
... umm... sorry, I forgot the adress. I tell you tomorrow.'' It's more coplicated. Also: what happens, if the person does not provide the installer any more? Who guaranties me and my friends that the webpage is still up in a month or two.
I tell you why:
Netscape has more features and is easier for people without good computer knowledge.
I prefer Mozilla Firebird, but the plain MF is not for normal users.
They have to ''unzip'' it, they have to copy Flash and other plugins into the plugins directory, they have to install Java manually and so on.
OTOH Netscape:
It comes with good, licensed spell checking (sorry, but OSS spell checkers suck - at least non-english ones), there's AIM and ICQ support, all important plugins are bundled, and Netscape adds important settings to the Windows registry (the location where it's installed for 3rd party plugins - a small, but important setting).
Currently I create installer builds of Mozilla Firebird (bundled with Flash and Java) for my friends, but that's only an acceptable solution for a handful of people.
It's easier to point to a simple URL than giving a CD with my custom MF to everyone.
Yes I know, there are also installer builds of Mozilla Firebird available on the net, but that's sometimes even too complicated for a few of my friends.
When I say ''Get Netscape. It's on Netscape dot com.'' It's easy.
When I say ''Get Mozilla Firebird. It's on geocities dot com slash blablabla slash
AOL is behind Netscape. I can be sure that Netscape will last a while. Netscape is easy to find, easy to install, and easy to use. That's why Netscape is good.
Of course. It was a typing mistake from me. I know that SuSE is from Germany.
The lack of programs is the problem. What he needs is:
A office-like collection of programs (word, excell, etc)
Like Gobe Productive?
I'm not sure, but I think it's part of Zeta.
Mozilla :)
http://www.bezilla.org/ or http://www.bebits.com/app/2715. Shipped with Zeta.
A image-editor like Gimp
OMG, hopefully not. GIMP's UI sucks. BeOS/Zeta has Refraction (closed source), ArtPaint (open source) and a few others. At least shipped with Zeta Deluxe - not sure about ''plain'' Zeta.
Why do the old systems go to Europe to die?
Like Linux (Linux is from Finnland and Finnland is in Europe, in case you don't know)
and KDE? (OK, KDE is a desktop environment and no OS, but also a German non-profit organisation)
Mandrake is a French company. SuSE is a French company.
You should get informed.
Oh, I see....
Now please explain to me the moral difference between nVidia's (or any other company's) proprietary OpenGL extensions and Microsoft's proprietary HTML extensions (both OpenGL and HTML "being an open standard").
Except that the HTML extensions are made by MS and nVidia's extensions are not made by MS.
Have you seen how fast DirectX (or in this case Direct3D) developed compared to OpenGL? Compared to OpenGL, Direct3D is a new technology. How much has the OpenGL 1.x standard evolved, if you exclude the proprietary extensions? Be honest: Direct3D has overtaken OpenGL. OpenGL 2.0 was designed with Direct3D 9 in mind. The OpenGL comitee tried to catch up. DirectX 9 is established now. It's not yet widely used, but established. OpenGL 2.0 is AFAIK not even final yet (I could be wrong).
OpenGL develops too slowly. If DirextX became an open standard, I'm quite sure that the development speed will almost stop - just like OpenGL.
I'm not a fan of MS, but at least MS pushes the 3D development with an unified API on one platform. IMHO that's better that billions of incompatible proprietary OpenGL extensions.
OS/2 had all the features of Windows 95 back in 1992, and those features were for the most part better implemented. Look where OS/2 is now...
There are a few reasons why OS/2 hasn't taken the lead in OSes. One reason is that OS/2 used a lot RAM that was very expensive that time. The people chose what was cheaper.
Oh and just FYI: OS/2 was a combined effort from IBM and Microsoft (up to OS/2 1.3 I believe).
Right up to the point where they download their first XviD video file.
There are no XviD video files. Currently most video files are:
AVI Container
MPEG-4 Video Track
MP3 Audio Track
The difference between DivX files and XviD files is the FourCC ("Four Character Code" or something).
DivX and XviD are just differernt encoders, not different formats. Just like LAME and FhG MP3Enc are differend encoders, but produce the same format.
If you change the FourCC from ''XVID'' to ''DIVX'' the normal DivX codec should be able to play it (I've never heard of any problems).
That's why I think, the people who encoded the video file should change the FourCC to DIVX, try to decode the file using DivX, and (if it works without problems) release the file with the DIVX FourCC.
This way you can reach a wider audiance.
This ''benchmark'' is really bullsh*t.
When you do serious benchmarks, you post details about the hardware and the used OS.
Well, they gave a few details about the Mac they claim to have. But what about the P4-PC?
What kind of RAM did they use? 100MHz? 800MHz? Something in between?
Which Windows version did they use? Was Hyper Threading enabled?
The list could be a lot longer, but you get the point.
Also: Wasn't the PPC970 meant to be a competitor to Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron CPUs rather that just the plain P4 (by price and aimed market)? (I'm not sure about this one.)
Why didn't they benchmark these as well? (They could at least get a Xeon, an Opteron is harder to get.)
The last sentence (''The fight is over and Apple will soon rule the world!'') gives me an indication why they didn't do this: They seem not to be interested in an objective comparison.
Many people said (say) the same about Mozilla. Now Mozilla is getting divided into seperate applications.
IMHO this gives more benifits than disadvantages.
My wish is, that OpenOffice gets a re-design simmilar to Mozilla... split into single applications each using a different process.
;)
Yes, I know that there are ooowriter, ooocalc and so on, but those application only launch soffice.
The GUI toolkit does also not integrate very well into Windows. Some people use Skins (either WinXP's VisualStyles or WindowsBlinds), but it still looks like an Win95 application.
AFAIK under Unix/Linux OpenOffice uses GTK+ themes (I only use OOo under Windows, under FreeBSD I use KOffice).
Well, it took Mozilla 5 years to plan a re-design. IIRC OpenOffice.org started in 2000. OK, I'll wait until 2005 then.
Windows XP = Windows NT 5.1
You're not paying for services packs (updates) but you sure are paying for upgrades. Microsoft isn't any better at all, don't be lured by the fact they changed product name!
You don't understand. Just because MS has released WinXP (NT5.1), doesn't mean, they do no longer provide any updates for it.
MS still releases patches for Win2k (NT5.0). OTOH Apple does not even release any security fixes for OSX 10.1 any longer.
THAT'S the difference.
Why is it that there is always a few vocal whiners ready to spout off every time Apple wants to sell an OS upgrade?
1.) Apple users often claim that Apple is just a hardware company. According to them, the software is just a way to sell the hardware and that's why the hardware is so expensive.
When people ask why an update costs money, they are refering to Apple software beeing a "bonus" to the hardware.
2.) Microsoft (yeah, flame me) does still provide free updates for Win2k. Microsoft provides free updates (at least fixes, not always added features) for every Windows version for five years.
Apple's latest Security Update requires "Mac OS X 10.2.4 or later".
MacOS X 10.1 useres do no longer get scurity updates. They are forced to pay for an update.
Be Dope Linux is by far the best Linux distro. Unlike all the other distros, Be Dope Linux has a killer feature called AVN (Advanced Version Numbering).
Ha! Beat that, SuSE!
I've seen in the news how you US Americans are boycotting french products.
Renaming French Fries to Freedom Fries. That's by far the most stupid thing I EVER heard.
Why is the USA so powerfull? Well, we in Germany (old Europe, you know) have a saying that tranlates about like this: "The dubmest farmers harvest the biggest potatoes". Oh well.
Oh, and how you are bocotting french wine: You BUY the wine and then you dump the wine in the sewerage. These pictures looked EXACTLY like the pictures of arabs burning a US flag - except there's no flag involved.
And you claim to live in the civillized world while arabs are uncivillized sandmonkeys.
And one last thing: Don't forget that the Statue of Liberty is a present from france. Burn it down.