While correct and it wouldn't work well with a higher resolution I guess one COULD do 2D games using vector graphics or simple 3D-models kinda looking like if they was 2D (not fitting for the DS though.)
Regarding the hardware the DSi already got a bump on processor speed from 66 to 133 MHz and also have more RAM.
So technically possible but still retarded. Don't ask me how the grandparent thought.
Some people probably went nuts then the US didn't got the black one at the same time as Europe and then it was released they "had to" sell their old one and get a new one at a loss..
Here in Sweden more people seemed to buy the white one anyway, don't ask me why:D
Or well, I remember the "omg finger prints!"... kids.
Of course it is since it's just a new revision and not a new console. I doubt anyone would complain about having bigger screens rather than smaller even if the resolution is the same.
Good enough reason to upgrade? Most likely not.
Still an improved console for those who haven't bought one already? Yes.
I think the sound capabilities leaves a lot to wish for.
I think game songs do to (guess they use sampled music but don't have much space so it gets very repetive.)
Better speakers and higher quality sound output would be good to.
Resolution is decent but could be better.
3D capability leaves a lot to wish for.
Old ones (pre-DSi) didn't even do WPA.
The DS lite (which plenty of us have bought..) don't do diagonal upper-right movements very well.
Of course lots could be improved.
Personally I would from the beginning had preferred one screen with the total resolution of the current two there the developers themselves could had decided how they wanted to use it. And of course better 3D capabilities.
Also in the case of the DSi I guess one could argue that at least the loss of the GBA slot is something "wrong" with it. That and the very high price, the DS has been around for like 5 years but still kinda cost as much since each new version starts off at a slightly higher price the the current one.
In the case of this "news" item I don't see why we are supposed to give a shit about this bloggers opinion. It's not like they are forcing someone to buy it and not everyone buy each new iteration of the DS. I think it's rather good that they fix issues and improve it as much as they can. The DSi added more features which somewhat hurt the old DS but except that to just improve it is just fine. The old ones don't get worse because there exist better versions. Sure it's not much but that's kinda the thing, they don't WANT it to break compatibility so he should stop whining.
Sooner or later of course they will release a new system to, but if they made that every year there wouldn't be so many games and people would complain how they had to buy a new one all the time and how Nintendo abandoned their old system and users.
And there ARE competition. The PSP is succesful, the phones have gained the touchscreen capabilities of the DS and probably even come with more powerful hardware and of course if Nintendo slack off to much they will lose.
It's not competing with themselves, the DS was kinda weak hardware wise when it arrived, heck it was even considered a third line of consoles beside the Gameboy and the stationary consoles. Most likely more of "I wonder if this would work on the market, but well, better save the Gameboy brand just in case.." Sure it seem to have replaced the Gameboy line by now but anyway. Maybe it was so weak because it was more of a test rather than supposed to be the next Gameboy from the beginning?
The DS _IS_ limited, and would serve well being more powerful (yes I do have one..)
And I think Microsoft made money on the Xbox since some time to, don't remember when I read it.
At some time people WON'T keep buying it which is freaking obvious so that's why they should bother with it. Haven't they already sold to like 1/5 of the people in Japan? Maybe the rest don't care much for it? So how are they supposed to sell more? If they released a new one of course more people would start buying that one.
Guess that's why we never see the year of Linux on the desktop.
I know the solution! Let's make it function like Windows!
- Gnome and KDE teams.
(Yeah, lack of games, a reason, the extent Windows is used at schools, friends, works and such affects things to, and I know that. But the point isn't really "this is what they are doing wrong", the point is about copying an old concept.)
And no, I'm not trolling. Back in the days of KDE 2 and such I hated how it tried so hard to be Windows. I didn't wanted Windows. I came from the world of Amiga and would so much prefer something new and innovative there someone thinks up something better rather than try to copy whatever crap is the most succesful at the time. Never understood that concept, never will.
Same goes for AROS and to less extent Haiku. Sure AmigaOS and BeOS was nice, but what good do you get from copying the same (more so in the case of AmigaOS.) AmigaOS _WAS_ good, it don't cut it today. It's useless to copy it _NOW_. What I would see a purpose in and actually like would be something revolutionary new. Sure it may be harder to get users and apps to something such but it's what would be needed to actually get on top of everything else.
What if Apple iPods had been copies of 80ies walkmans? Would they had beaten Sony at their own game? No.
How the fuck did you get the keycode thing in there? I ran the utf-8 upside down converter on All your base are belong to us (http://www.sherv.net/flip.html) and well, posting that didn't worked so great: sn o uolq sq no ll
So after a long search I found a tool to convert text into html character codes (http://www.pinnacledisplays.com/unicode-converter.htm) But I can't say it works great:
Since the resulting text doesn't show... And switching to html setting or whatever don't help either.
It was slashfuck which did it automatically or what? And no, I can't understand why they don't suppose utf-8.
For whatever reason I may had developed "anal abscess" which is like a pimple in/outside your butt (mine was outside.)
Anyway before cutting it open they want to investigate that it haven't spread so they feel around with their finger.
But the thing is that at the first place the nurse was really hot, and well, it didn't hurt that much.
Anyway I had to go to the emergency ward to have it cut open and there was a male doctor over there instead and well, one would assume those would be somewhat experienced and know how to make it as gentle as possible but no, he more or less just told me to relax (without giving me enough time to think about how to do that...) and thrusted his finger in there.
And well, that wasn't so nice and hurt a little.
Later I was thinking about why they where so harsh and then I thought to myself that probably it was just because so many men are homophobes and don't want people poking around their anus aka "foreplay" because it makes them feel uncomfortable but wtf.
Retarded. Be gentle to my anus:(
I wouldn't ask him for a date even if he had been gentle, the nurse however... I was thinking about going back there with some flowers..
my youngest have no problems with Super Mario Sunshine - it is a much easier game for kids
Wtf, I'm 29 years old and I have a problem with the damn puzzles.
I got stuck at the level in the first world where you go up a tower and jump over the water to a small cave and then get into some puzzle with moving boxes. Hate that shit.
Some things can become much faster, such as user interfaces, parsing databases or whatever depending on implementation, some things can not.
If all your benchmark does is x number of multiplications how the fuck would the OS make that faster?
So "omg only 5% increase" don't say shit, one can't expect to get a new machine just by changing OS, the hardware components got the speed they have anyway.
Not that I know what the benchmark in question actually benchmarks but it's fucking stupid to draw conclusions from a benchmark (even worse a single one) anyway.
Also Vista and Windows 7 does more than XP do, some of these things may be worth it (such as security features) even though it makes things slower.
Last benchmarks I saw of the BSDs and two Linux versions wasn't in OpenBSDs favour either..
So, my post with daemon girls are 3, interesting but me pointing out closed nvidia binary drivers, why FreeBSD works as desktop, how closed binary drivers isn't a good thing and that the clueless moron above probably don't know shit about what he's talking about is 0, troll?
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While correct and it wouldn't work well with a higher resolution I guess one COULD do 2D games using vector graphics or simple 3D-models kinda looking like if they was 2D (not fitting for the DS though.)
Regarding the hardware the DSi already got a bump on processor speed from 66 to 133 MHz and also have more RAM.
So technically possible but still retarded. Don't ask me how the grandparent thought.
Relax it's slashvertisment for some guys blog and his ads.
Some people probably went nuts then the US didn't got the black one at the same time as Europe and then it was released they "had to" sell their old one and get a new one at a loss ..
Here in Sweden more people seemed to buy the white one anyway, don't ask me why :D
Or well, I remember the "omg finger prints!"... kids.
Of course it is since it's just a new revision and not a new console. I doubt anyone would complain about having bigger screens rather than smaller even if the resolution is the same.
Good enough reason to upgrade? Most likely not.
Still an improved console for those who haven't bought one already? Yes.
... oh, and the freaking "friend codes" system should had never been implemented. What fun is Internet enabled games if you have no-one to play with?
And since it has support for a microphone higher specs helping it handle the additional processing for VoIP while playing would had been nice to.
I think the sound capabilities leaves a lot to wish for.
I think game songs do to (guess they use sampled music but don't have much space so it gets very repetive.)
Better speakers and higher quality sound output would be good to.
Resolution is decent but could be better.
3D capability leaves a lot to wish for.
Old ones (pre-DSi) didn't even do WPA.
The DS lite (which plenty of us have bought ..) don't do diagonal upper-right movements very well.
Of course lots could be improved.
Personally I would from the beginning had preferred one screen with the total resolution of the current two there the developers themselves could had decided how they wanted to use it. And of course better 3D capabilities.
Also in the case of the DSi I guess one could argue that at least the loss of the GBA slot is something "wrong" with it. That and the very high price, the DS has been around for like 5 years but still kinda cost as much since each new version starts off at a slightly higher price the the current one.
There was a post earlier here on Slashdot about the rumored follow up using Tegra.
In the case of this "news" item I don't see why we are supposed to give a shit about this bloggers opinion. It's not like they are forcing someone to buy it and not everyone buy each new iteration of the DS. I think it's rather good that they fix issues and improve it as much as they can. The DSi added more features which somewhat hurt the old DS but except that to just improve it is just fine. The old ones don't get worse because there exist better versions. Sure it's not much but that's kinda the thing, they don't WANT it to break compatibility so he should stop whining.
Sooner or later of course they will release a new system to, but if they made that every year there wouldn't be so many games and people would complain how they had to buy a new one all the time and how Nintendo abandoned their old system and users.
And there ARE competition. The PSP is succesful, the phones have gained the touchscreen capabilities of the DS and probably even come with more powerful hardware and of course if Nintendo slack off to much they will lose.
It's not competing with themselves, the DS was kinda weak hardware wise when it arrived, heck it was even considered a third line of consoles beside the Gameboy and the stationary consoles. Most likely more of "I wonder if this would work on the market, but well, better save the Gameboy brand just in case .."
Sure it seem to have replaced the Gameboy line by now but anyway. Maybe it was so weak because it was more of a test rather than supposed to be the next Gameboy from the beginning?
The DS _IS_ limited, and would serve well being more powerful (yes I do have one ..)
And I think Microsoft made money on the Xbox since some time to, don't remember when I read it.
At some time people WON'T keep buying it which is freaking obvious so that's why they should bother with it. Haven't they already sold to like 1/5 of the people in Japan? Maybe the rest don't care much for it? So how are they supposed to sell more? If they released a new one of course more people would start buying that one.
So ... We need to blow up a nuclear reactor to test this hypothesis?
No, Einstein.
Just imagine the amounts of energy that would release! Though it would had been better to do it earlier when he weight more.
That would show him not to play with nuclear physics!
Something for the next-gen Prius?
While Crysis is a special case I guess you could google 5870 review.
Good post but you lost me at grandma swallows.
Guess that's why we never see the year of Linux on the desktop.
I know the solution! Let's make it function like Windows!
- Gnome and KDE teams.
(Yeah, lack of games, a reason, the extent Windows is used at schools, friends, works and such affects things to, and I know that. But the point isn't really "this is what they are doing wrong", the point is about copying an old concept.)
And no, I'm not trolling. Back in the days of KDE 2 and such I hated how it tried so hard to be Windows. I didn't wanted Windows. I came from the world of Amiga and would so much prefer something new and innovative there someone thinks up something better rather than try to copy whatever crap is the most succesful at the time. Never understood that concept, never will.
Same goes for AROS and to less extent Haiku. Sure AmigaOS and BeOS was nice, but what good do you get from copying the same (more so in the case of AmigaOS.)
AmigaOS _WAS_ good, it don't cut it today. It's useless to copy it _NOW_. What I would see a purpose in and actually like would be something revolutionary new. Sure it may be harder to get users and apps to something such but it's what would be needed to actually get on top of everything else.
What if Apple iPods had been copies of 80ies walkmans? Would they had beaten Sony at their own game? No.
Crap like this is truly more useful for people at large than the people who lives on the streets or would lose their homes.
Is that because of our obsession for things that go boom, or some other issue?
Seriously, as he said: "we'd love for you to come out and visit sometime!"
Really, consider it some time ..
But hey, atleast you've got Boeings with freaking lasers on their head!
I would be surprised if they lost that right in Finland ...
How the fuck did you get the keycode thing in there? I ran the utf-8 upside down converter on All your base are belong to us (http://www.sherv.net/flip.html) and well, posting that didn't worked so great:
sn o uolq sq no ll
So after a long search I found a tool to convert text into html character codes (http://www.pinnacledisplays.com/unicode-converter.htm)
But I can't say it works great:
Since the resulting text doesn't show ... And switching to html setting or whatever don't help either.
It was slashfuck which did it automatically or what? And no, I can't understand why they don't suppose utf-8.
Lots of time wasted on this crap ;D
Never has that tag been as fitting as now. C&C MMO? Uhm, no thanks.
What would it be? General war zone? From which one of the games? How?
Not to mention how useless MMOs are to begin with.
Seriously, I hate those suckers.
For whatever reason I may had developed "anal abscess" which is like a pimple in/outside your butt (mine was outside.)
Anyway before cutting it open they want to investigate that it haven't spread so they feel around with their finger.
But the thing is that at the first place the nurse was really hot, and well, it didn't hurt that much.
Anyway I had to go to the emergency ward to have it cut open and there was a male doctor over there instead and well, one would assume those would be somewhat experienced and know how to make it as gentle as possible but no, he more or less just told me to relax (without giving me enough time to think about how to do that ...) and thrusted his finger in there.
And well, that wasn't so nice and hurt a little.
Later I was thinking about why they where so harsh and then I thought to myself that probably it was just because so many men are homophobes and don't want people poking around their anus aka "foreplay" because it makes them feel uncomfortable but wtf.
Retarded. Be gentle to my anus :(
I wouldn't ask him for a date even if he had been gentle, the nurse however ... I was thinking about going back there with some flowers ..
Every position above janitor in Redmond
So where does that leave former Apple retail store managers?
But instead of holding 99.9% of valuable content and 0.1% of crap as the old version did we've got 0.1% valuable content and 99.9% crap.
(Or something such.)
Libraries is a series of anything.
my youngest have no problems with Super Mario Sunshine - it is a much easier game for kids
Wtf, I'm 29 years old and I have a problem with the damn puzzles.
I got stuck at the level in the first world where you go up a tower and jump over the water to a small cave and then get into some puzzle with moving boxes. Hate that shit.
Beaten by a 5 year old :(
The whole story is lame so I voted it down.
Some things can become much faster, such as user interfaces, parsing databases or whatever depending on implementation, some things can not.
If all your benchmark does is x number of multiplications how the fuck would the OS make that faster?
So "omg only 5% increase" don't say shit, one can't expect to get a new machine just by changing OS, the hardware components got the speed they have anyway.
Not that I know what the benchmark in question actually benchmarks but it's fucking stupid to draw conclusions from a benchmark (even worse a single one) anyway.
Also Vista and Windows 7 does more than XP do, some of these things may be worth it (such as security features) even though it makes things slower.
Last benchmarks I saw of the BSDs and two Linux versions wasn't in OpenBSDs favour either ..
So, my post with daemon girls are 3, interesting but me pointing out closed nvidia binary drivers, why FreeBSD works as desktop, how closed binary drivers isn't a good thing and that the clueless moron above probably don't know shit about what he's talking about is 0, troll?
How the fuck can that be trolling?
That "joke" is fucking dead since years.