No debug or other options on any of them. As for defragging, never have on any of them, but I thought most modern filesystems were more resilient to the problem.
Windows is to test out updates and patches on before they go on my machine for work. I've dedicated Fedora to seeing the state of "mainstream" distros so I can keep up with that, and Gentoo is for tweaking the hell out of stuff. The Gentoo installation should be pretty decent. It's a stage 1 install with the 2.6.9-cko3 kernel, Reiser file system, etc. Yet the Windows GUI has much more "snap" to it. I swear it responds INSTANTLY - I've never seen such responsiveness, and it all appears to be due to the I/O subsystem.
Oh, I don't deny that we created overly ambitious programs that have had their assumptions undone by the baby boom. However, things wouldn't be anywhere near as bad if we'd actually had sufficient funds coming in all these years instead of running up deficits.
Ultimately taxes will have to go up, and benefits will have to go down, and people won't be re-elected.
I can easily counter that on my dual-boot system with Windows XP, Fedora, and a tweaked Gentoo, both Linux distro's are far, far more "sluggish" than Windows is. Oddly enough, what gives Windows a real kick in responsiveness is the I/O subsystem. Running Windows 2000 on a 400Mhz PII laptop was dog slow. Running Windows XP on a 400Mhz PII with SCSI RAID underneath and it flies. Linux/X11 does not on the same hardware, regardless of optimizations, distros, windowing managers, etc. I use this largely as a plaything, and as such have played with a LOT of distros, tweaks, and window managers over time.
So are you right? Am I right? We don't know. Does anyone have *real* data or studies on this, or just a bunch of anecdotes?
As others have posted, there is nothing proprietary about that slot. The original Airport slot was a standard PCMCIA slot, with a connector for the antenna. Airport was just a rebadged Orinoco. Airport Extreme is just a MiniPCI slot using a rebadged card (maker unknown). Apple doesn't tell you it's MiniPCI for just this reason - they aren't supporting anything else in that slot.
...you're almost completely inept. My company has delayed rolling out SP2 for months now, even though all of the patches necessary for our software were available within a week of launch. And not just available from the manufacturer on some web site, but available on a central company-maintained site the details the "progress" of migrating to SP2. Why they haven't rolled this out, I have no idea (I've been running it since September with no ill-effects).
Any company that is "surprised" by this should be finding someone new to manage their software infrastructure.
No other OS today will run a program designed for an Operating System 10 years old while still having the features one would expect from a modern operating system.
Mac OS X still runs almost all programs written for System 7 and up via Classic (not too dissimilar to Microsoft's approach), and even many programs from the original 128K (if you can find them - Illustrator 0.8 runs, for example, as do many old black and white games). Meanwhile, we've undergone a complete shift in processor architecture and OS architecture, but all of our ancient 68K software keeps on working.
THAT is an amazing feat, far moreso than the pure evolution of x86 and Win16/Win32.
Yes, M&A worked out so very well for HP/Compaq and AOL/Time Warner. We've certainly seen increased value and efficiency there.
Given MCI's state, I'll agree this is probably a good thing, but please remember that unfettered capitalism is also the source of a lot of evil. Capitalism is ultimately powered by greed (of one form or another), which has led to labor abuses, environmental destruction, and wholesale fraud as we've seen in the last few years.
Capitalism works best because it seems to work with the inherent human drive to succeed and improve (whereas while Communism is a wonderful theory, it does not appear to match basic human impulses). Just like the human nature that drives it, capitalism can have a very dark side that should not be ignored just because of its successes.
I wish China would sort this mess out. They have already annexed Tibet, want to annex Taiwan, why the hell don't they sort out this festering sore on their northern border?
Because China is manipulating that "sore on its border" to do its dirty work in the region while it keeps its hands clean as a "modern, capitalist, open China".
Isn't this simply a "give the geeks what they want" list? The only good advice I saw there was "focus on enterprise systems", and "watch out in the printer division". What about this will fix their business strategy, or the very real internal problems resulting from the merger?
Nothing. You'll get lot's of Linux/FOSS goodness, some nice moddable cases, and the Alpha will be free, free at last... and HP will be bankrupt and dead.
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Well that's flat out wrong. Macs have always been able to boot from USB for as long as they've had the ports. Same goes for Firewire and (long ago) SCSI. Macs have had a history of being able to boot off of just about any storage device you could hook up. Things like USB, Firewire, SCSI, CD-ROM, and Ethernet drivers are all in the firmware to allow boot support.
As for booting off of software RAID, could someone explain how this is possible? Hardware RAID makes sense - the adapter (whether onboard or on a PCI card) abstracts all of that away from the BIOS, which only sees a single disk by default. However, your BIOS isn't going to know jack-squat about the RAID volumes that an OS set up. I'm really asking - how would a software RAID be capable of booting?
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It's sort of hard to do that from a SOFTware-managed RAID set. Had it been hardware RAID, no problem.
While the Copland project was an abysmal failure that left Apple rudderless for 5 crucial years, let's not forget that NeXTStep was a perfectly finished operating system and doing its work, as was System 7 up until 1992. So, yes, Apple knew for a damn long time this was needed, and yes, it took a long time to get there, but it wasn't all wasted effort. In the meantime, they did develop a lot of good technology for Copland that made it into classic Mac OS in 8 and 9. The NeXTStep acquisition and Blue Box/Classic idea made up for the horrible architecture mistakes in Copland.
As for OS X being usable, yeah, that took a while. I'd personally argue that 10.1 was usable - all of the major features were in place and speed was "acceptable", but by no means fast. I've been impressed how much extra speed Apple has managed to wring from OS X with a combination of aggressive caching and parallelism (think the boot process).
Finally, as someone who used the various developer releases as they came out, it's really amazing the amount of work that went into OS X as it morphed from NeXT to Rhapsody to OS X. While a lot of the API's stayed the same, things like major kernel/driver/IO systems were completely redone, the whole BSD layer was updated, Carbon was developed, the display model was tossed out and redone, etc. A HUGE amount of effort that really is impressive.
If I'm falling asleep at work or missing deadlines, they have every reason to try to find out what's going on in my personal life. If I come in hungover, they have every right to talk to me about alcohol and my personal life. If your personal life impacts your work life, then it is under their purview, as you clearly cannot control it.
Smoking is a known health risk. It confers no benefits. It is an addiction, damaging to health, and a possible (although unproven) risk to those around you. Health insurance has every right to change coverage based on risky health behaviors. You chose to smoke, your health insurance decided that would damage your health and cost them more, your employer decided not to pay that. It was YOUR decision - own up to it.
What about that post was flaming? Video games are NOT kids toys, as sales figures, news coverage, and a billion other things show (let alone coverage here). So why should something like a PSP be considered a kids toy? Look at the damn thing, the way it's designed and marketed. Look at the feature set with video, MP3 support, etc. That is targeted at adults with money to spare - not kids. It has media center written all over it, as the headphones, MP3 support, and MPEG4/SpiderMan thing all attest to.
So what in the hell in my earlier post is flamebait?
I want to find the damned asshat who modded this. Don't just mod that "Flamebait"; there was nothing flaming about it. Do you think someone writes something that long and involved as flamebait? If I'm wrong and full of it, then tell me - how about addressing some of the main points?
1) Both the DS and PSP are full of rehashes, just from different platforms. Why do people call Metal Gear Acid a rehash and Mario DS innovative? Both are rehashes. 2) Third-party developers will have a harder time writing games for both systems and using the unique features of the DS effectively. The unique features of the PSP (graphics power) are relatively easy to code for, whereas the unique features of the DS (different interface/screen layout) are not, requiring reworking of the game layout and design. Not going to happen on cross-platform titles. 3) The GBA-SP was so popular most people in the market for a handheld system have one. This leaves only people who have held out, people who want 3D in a system, and people who are willing to buy a new system. I would posit that the latter two groups are unlikely to choose a DS over a PSP as the PSP has far greater capabilities.
If you haven't noticed, video games are no longer relegated to "child's play". They have very much moved into the adult mainstream. The styling of the PSP is much more reminiscent of expensive adult toys (cell phones, PDA's, Sharper Image stuff;) than of the plastic associated with kids' stuff.
No, the PSP is very interesting. If they can just open it up and let us get our own content on it and improve battery life, it could be THE portable media center.
Product Positioning It's stuck between the GBA-SP and PSP. The GBA SP may be too popular for the DS's own good. I'm not talking games, I'm talking form factor and design. People almost universally agree it's an outstanding design - tiny with the perfect feature set. Meanwhile, the DS is very bulky in comparison - certainly isn't going into my top jacket pocket, and even may be bulky in my jeans pocket. Meanwhile, the PSP offers pure style and power. As Ridge Racer comparisons show, the DS simply does not compete graphically. It's really embarrassing for the DS, and it's only going to get worse. Why?
Third Party Developers I doubt major game developers will do anything neat with the second screen, as the vast majority of games are multi-platform. Just like in cross-platform computer applications, when this happens the unique features a system may offer are almost always underutilized - here, the DS's second screen and touchpad. However, developers WILL use the PSP's graphics - that might as well be free to them - they know how to do it from years of console experience, and it's much easier to design a good game for the PSP and tune down the graphics for the DS. Meanwhile, I highly doubt many will give more than lipservice to the DS's second screen and touchpad. Nintendo will doubtless do some great first-party games (it's why I have a Cube), but even from them, all we really have so far is maps on the second screen, and some occasional minigames. That is NOT the revolutionary platform Nintendo would like us to think this is, and is worrisome.
Usability I've played on a DS - I can't watch two screens at once. The stylus, while potentially very interesting, so far seems to be a crutch for the lack of analog control. Anyone who's played a racing game will tell you that nothing can replace analog control. Not to mention, how can you use all of the controls and stylus at once? It seems to make for games where most action occurs using the standard controls, and then different sections that use the stylus, whereas the analog controls can be used seamlessly. But the DS doesn't have it - the PSP does.
Rehashes? Why does the PSP get such a bad rap on rehashes? Because it looks so much like a PS2? That should be a compliment. Meanwhile, the DS is offering us N64 and GameCube rehashes, scaled down to the DS's capabilities with some minor changes. Mario DS (Mario 64 with added characters and some levels), Animal Crossing DS, Metroid Hunters (not terribly different other than a poor multiplayer mode - haven't tried the stylus versus analog control yet). Rehashes. So why does the PSP get such a knock and the DS does not?
The DS is an interesting concept but ultimately not very compelling, especially when stuck between the minute perfect-ness of the GBA-SP and the sleek power of the PSP. I really see little to no market for it.
While I don't disagree with your points, let's refrain from putting words in the Founding Fathers' mouths. It's bad enough when we ignore what they actually did say.
Slightly less? It would be more apt to say it doesn't apply in the slightest, for exactly that reason. Smoking is a health issue, plain and simple. Blogging is not. If I blog all night or play video games all night, that doesn't affect me at work. If I smoke all the time, that affects both health insurance and potentially coworkers.
And who else had a 3D system out to compare to? I know you're not going to try and say the N64's were any better, never mind THAT system's horrid design and controller. Speaking of which...
controller that was half-baked at the time (the non-lettered approach to button-naming confused almost anyone who had played any previous console)
So you really couldn't figure out shapes, but had no problem remembering where A, B, X, Y (and sometimes Z) were? I didn't realize shape recognition was so hard for you - infants tend to pick it up pretty quickly. Someone should also tell the designers of international signs.
That combined with his ignorance of Madden and SSX as A+ launch titles for the PS2 erode his credibility with me.
All bow down to sports games, for they are more important than all else... I suppose if we grant you that, you'll grant that Final Fantasy VII essentially defined 3D gaming when it arrived? No? Didn't think you would; it was just a Playstation 1 title...
Sony won that generation of gaming with games, and with CD technology.
So let me get this straight... They had the best technology. They had good developer relations and great games. The used CD's that could store *far* more game data than anything else, allowing for FMV, CD-Audio, and much longer games (and the dreaded "Now loading" screen). First to use 3D graphics and first to really prove disc-based games and memory cards (which allows for a much better swapping and renting of games - don't lose your save file with the game). And all of this from a "new" entrant into the video game arena.
And you're trying to tell me that the Playstation was anything LESS than revolutionary?
Oh yes, there's a lot of crap. Even of the licensed anime - which is a small subset - a lot is crap. Some of it is subjective (Eva tends to divide people, as do things like GITS and Akira, or even Cowboy Bebop), some of it is not (ever had the misfortune to see the "Street Fighter" anime?).
The "99%" was referred to character designs. Even in something like Ghost in the Shell, the characters are much more fleshed out than in a tranditional American cartoon, where they are almost always the personification of a single trait. Bart is a troublemaker, Lisa is smart, Homer is dumb, Bugs is a wiseass, etc.
Now, sometimes anime has similar characters. People might argue that in Evangelion, Shinji is whiny, Asuka is a bitch, and Rei is non-existant. However, in an anime they usually have backstory, development - it will go into why people are the way they are (the whole point of Eva was character development, not the "big robots"). In an anime, actions almost always have consequences and effects, and characters have to balance difficult decisions. It's not all funny entertainment, unlike the vast majority of "cartoons".
Nobody is saying you're wrong in a technical sense. What the poster was getting at is the word "cartoon" carries a very specific tone and set of boundaries in the US (which is where I'm from, at any rate). Here, the word "cartoon" means, something animated for the kids - high-frame-rate, low quality, simple platitudes, etc. Something you grow out of.
Anime, on the other hand, encompasses a much larger set of genres and audiences. Anime is designed for everyone from kids (and God, do we know that, thank you Pokemon) to teens and adults. Anime even has sub-genres - definite sci-fi series, comedy series, westerns, horror, etc. What was the last time you saw a horror "cartoon"?
Most of all, though, anime has much more interesting subject matter - stuff that makes you think. The characters are not one-dimensional, and are not all designed for gags as they are in 99% of "cartoons". The storylines are well written and continuous, and characters develop and change. Depending on the series, the nature of family, friendship, religion, or even reality itself is challenged. And when you're tired of all of that, yes, there's plenty of comedy and "low humor" as well.
This is why anime fans get upset when you call it a "cartoon". Yes, it is a cartoon. But calling it such implies it is much, much narrower and vapid than it deserves.
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Not that it matters much, but my system is:
Win XP: NTFS
Fedora Core 3: ext3
Gentoo: ReiserFS 3
No debug or other options on any of them. As for defragging, never have on any of them, but I thought most modern filesystems were more resilient to the problem.
Windows is to test out updates and patches on before they go on my machine for work. I've dedicated Fedora to seeing the state of "mainstream" distros so I can keep up with that, and Gentoo is for tweaking the hell out of stuff. The Gentoo installation should be pretty decent. It's a stage 1 install with the 2.6.9-cko3 kernel, Reiser file system, etc. Yet the Windows GUI has much more "snap" to it. I swear it responds INSTANTLY - I've never seen such responsiveness, and it all appears to be due to the I/O subsystem.
Oh, I don't deny that we created overly ambitious programs that have had their assumptions undone by the baby boom. However, things wouldn't be anywhere near as bad if we'd actually had sufficient funds coming in all these years instead of running up deficits.
Ultimately taxes will have to go up, and benefits will have to go down, and people won't be re-elected.
Anecdotes != Data
I can easily counter that on my dual-boot system with Windows XP, Fedora, and a tweaked Gentoo, both Linux distro's are far, far more "sluggish" than Windows is. Oddly enough, what gives Windows a real kick in responsiveness is the I/O subsystem. Running Windows 2000 on a 400Mhz PII laptop was dog slow. Running Windows XP on a 400Mhz PII with SCSI RAID underneath and it flies. Linux/X11 does not on the same hardware, regardless of optimizations, distros, windowing managers, etc. I use this largely as a plaything, and as such have played with a LOT of distros, tweaks, and window managers over time.
So are you right? Am I right? We don't know. Does anyone have *real* data or studies on this, or just a bunch of anecdotes?
I would simply respond with a look at budget surpluses and deficits from the 60's through today. Try out my untrustworthy biased liberal sources.
Stays pretty decent until *shock* 1983! Then it gets better in *shock* the mid 90's! It drops off a cliff again in *shock* 2002!
No, no pattern at all there. Nope. [AHEM...Tax Cuts, Iraq Wars, Arms Race...AHEM]
As others have posted, there is nothing proprietary about that slot. The original Airport slot was a standard PCMCIA slot, with a connector for the antenna. Airport was just a rebadged Orinoco. Airport Extreme is just a MiniPCI slot using a rebadged card (maker unknown). Apple doesn't tell you it's MiniPCI for just this reason - they aren't supporting anything else in that slot.
...you're almost completely inept. My company has delayed rolling out SP2 for months now, even though all of the patches necessary for our software were available within a week of launch. And not just available from the manufacturer on some web site, but available on a central company-maintained site the details the "progress" of migrating to SP2. Why they haven't rolled this out, I have no idea (I've been running it since September with no ill-effects).
Any company that is "surprised" by this should be finding someone new to manage their software infrastructure.
A "Linux fan" and "Microsoft enthusiast" trying to cut through the near-religious arguments?
I'll take a nice report by computer scientists and security experts about overall system design over crap papers like this any day.
No other OS today will run a program designed for an Operating System 10 years old while still having the features one would expect from a modern operating system.
Mac OS X still runs almost all programs written for System 7 and up via Classic (not too dissimilar to Microsoft's approach), and even many programs from the original 128K (if you can find them - Illustrator 0.8 runs, for example, as do many old black and white games). Meanwhile, we've undergone a complete shift in processor architecture and OS architecture, but all of our ancient 68K software keeps on working.
THAT is an amazing feat, far moreso than the pure evolution of x86 and Win16/Win32.
Yes, M&A worked out so very well for HP/Compaq and AOL/Time Warner. We've certainly seen increased value and efficiency there.
Given MCI's state, I'll agree this is probably a good thing, but please remember that unfettered capitalism is also the source of a lot of evil. Capitalism is ultimately powered by greed (of one form or another), which has led to labor abuses, environmental destruction, and wholesale fraud as we've seen in the last few years.
Capitalism works best because it seems to work with the inherent human drive to succeed and improve (whereas while Communism is a wonderful theory, it does not appear to match basic human impulses). Just like the human nature that drives it, capitalism can have a very dark side that should not be ignored just because of its successes.
I wish China would sort this mess out. They have already annexed Tibet, want to annex Taiwan, why the hell don't they sort out this festering sore on their northern border?
Because China is manipulating that "sore on its border" to do its dirty work in the region while it keeps its hands clean as a "modern, capitalist, open China".
Isn't this simply a "give the geeks what they want" list? The only good advice I saw there was "focus on enterprise systems", and "watch out in the printer division". What about this will fix their business strategy, or the very real internal problems resulting from the merger?
Nothing. You'll get lot's of Linux/FOSS goodness, some nice moddable cases, and the Alpha will be free, free at last... and HP will be bankrupt and dead.
Well that's flat out wrong. Macs have always been able to boot from USB for as long as they've had the ports. Same goes for Firewire and (long ago) SCSI. Macs have had a history of being able to boot off of just about any storage device you could hook up. Things like USB, Firewire, SCSI, CD-ROM, and Ethernet drivers are all in the firmware to allow boot support.
As for booting off of software RAID, could someone explain how this is possible? Hardware RAID makes sense - the adapter (whether onboard or on a PCI card) abstracts all of that away from the BIOS, which only sees a single disk by default. However, your BIOS isn't going to know jack-squat about the RAID volumes that an OS set up. I'm really asking - how would a software RAID be capable of booting?
It's sort of hard to do that from a SOFTware-managed RAID set. Had it been hardware RAID, no problem.
While the Copland project was an abysmal failure that left Apple rudderless for 5 crucial years, let's not forget that NeXTStep was a perfectly finished operating system and doing its work, as was System 7 up until 1992. So, yes, Apple knew for a damn long time this was needed, and yes, it took a long time to get there, but it wasn't all wasted effort. In the meantime, they did develop a lot of good technology for Copland that made it into classic Mac OS in 8 and 9. The NeXTStep acquisition and Blue Box/Classic idea made up for the horrible architecture mistakes in Copland.
As for OS X being usable, yeah, that took a while. I'd personally argue that 10.1 was usable - all of the major features were in place and speed was "acceptable", but by no means fast. I've been impressed how much extra speed Apple has managed to wring from OS X with a combination of aggressive caching and parallelism (think the boot process).
Finally, as someone who used the various developer releases as they came out, it's really amazing the amount of work that went into OS X as it morphed from NeXT to Rhapsody to OS X. While a lot of the API's stayed the same, things like major kernel/driver/IO systems were completely redone, the whole BSD layer was updated, Carbon was developed, the display model was tossed out and redone, etc. A HUGE amount of effort that really is impressive.
If I'm falling asleep at work or missing deadlines, they have every reason to try to find out what's going on in my personal life. If I come in hungover, they have every right to talk to me about alcohol and my personal life. If your personal life impacts your work life, then it is under their purview, as you clearly cannot control it.
Smoking is a known health risk. It confers no benefits. It is an addiction, damaging to health, and a possible (although unproven) risk to those around you. Health insurance has every right to change coverage based on risky health behaviors. You chose to smoke, your health insurance decided that would damage your health and cost them more, your employer decided not to pay that. It was YOUR decision - own up to it.
Again, I want to find the asshat mod out there.
What about that post was flaming? Video games are NOT kids toys, as sales figures, news coverage, and a billion other things show (let alone coverage here). So why should something like a PSP be considered a kids toy? Look at the damn thing, the way it's designed and marketed. Look at the feature set with video, MP3 support, etc. That is targeted at adults with money to spare - not kids. It has media center written all over it, as the headphones, MP3 support, and MPEG4/SpiderMan thing all attest to.
So what in the hell in my earlier post is flamebait?
I want to find the damned asshat who modded this. Don't just mod that "Flamebait"; there was nothing flaming about it. Do you think someone writes something that long and involved as flamebait? If I'm wrong and full of it, then tell me - how about addressing some of the main points?
1) Both the DS and PSP are full of rehashes, just from different platforms. Why do people call Metal Gear Acid a rehash and Mario DS innovative? Both are rehashes.
2) Third-party developers will have a harder time writing games for both systems and using the unique features of the DS effectively. The unique features of the PSP (graphics power) are relatively easy to code for, whereas the unique features of the DS (different interface/screen layout) are not, requiring reworking of the game layout and design. Not going to happen on cross-platform titles.
3) The GBA-SP was so popular most people in the market for a handheld system have one. This leaves only people who have held out, people who want 3D in a system, and people who are willing to buy a new system. I would posit that the latter two groups are unlikely to choose a DS over a PSP as the PSP has far greater capabilities.
If you haven't noticed, video games are no longer relegated to "child's play". They have very much moved into the adult mainstream. The styling of the PSP is much more reminiscent of expensive adult toys (cell phones, PDA's, Sharper Image stuff ;) than of the plastic associated with kids' stuff.
No, the PSP is very interesting. If they can just open it up and let us get our own content on it and improve battery life, it could be THE portable media center.
I see many problems with the DS suceeding.
Product Positioning
It's stuck between the GBA-SP and PSP. The GBA SP may be too popular for the DS's own good. I'm not talking games, I'm talking form factor and design. People almost universally agree it's an outstanding design - tiny with the perfect feature set. Meanwhile, the DS is very bulky in comparison - certainly isn't going into my top jacket pocket, and even may be bulky in my jeans pocket. Meanwhile, the PSP offers pure style and power. As Ridge Racer comparisons show, the DS simply does not compete graphically. It's really embarrassing for the DS, and it's only going to get worse. Why?
Third Party Developers
I doubt major game developers will do anything neat with the second screen, as the vast majority of games are multi-platform. Just like in cross-platform computer applications, when this happens the unique features a system may offer are almost always underutilized - here, the DS's second screen and touchpad. However, developers WILL use the PSP's graphics - that might as well be free to them - they know how to do it from years of console experience, and it's much easier to design a good game for the PSP and tune down the graphics for the DS. Meanwhile, I highly doubt many will give more than lipservice to the DS's second screen and touchpad. Nintendo will doubtless do some great first-party games (it's why I have a Cube), but even from them, all we really have so far is maps on the second screen, and some occasional minigames. That is NOT the revolutionary platform Nintendo would like us to think this is, and is worrisome.
Usability
I've played on a DS - I can't watch two screens at once. The stylus, while potentially very interesting, so far seems to be a crutch for the lack of analog control. Anyone who's played a racing game will tell you that nothing can replace analog control. Not to mention, how can you use all of the controls and stylus at once? It seems to make for games where most action occurs using the standard controls, and then different sections that use the stylus, whereas the analog controls can be used seamlessly. But the DS doesn't have it - the PSP does.
Rehashes?
Why does the PSP get such a bad rap on rehashes? Because it looks so much like a PS2? That should be a compliment. Meanwhile, the DS is offering us N64 and GameCube rehashes, scaled down to the DS's capabilities with some minor changes. Mario DS (Mario 64 with added characters and some levels), Animal Crossing DS, Metroid Hunters (not terribly different other than a poor multiplayer mode - haven't tried the stylus versus analog control yet). Rehashes. So why does the PSP get such a knock and the DS does not?
The DS is an interesting concept but ultimately not very compelling, especially when stuck between the minute perfect-ness of the GBA-SP and the sleek power of the PSP. I really see little to no market for it.
Time will tell, of course.
While I don't disagree with your points, let's refrain from putting words in the Founding Fathers' mouths. It's bad enough when we ignore what they actually did say.
Slightly less? It would be more apt to say it doesn't apply in the slightest, for exactly that reason. Smoking is a health issue, plain and simple. Blogging is not. If I blog all night or play video games all night, that doesn't affect me at work. If I smoke all the time, that affects both health insurance and potentially coworkers.
WTF?
It had plain-as-grits graphics
And who else had a 3D system out to compare to? I know you're not going to try and say the N64's were any better, never mind THAT system's horrid design and controller. Speaking of which...
controller that was half-baked at the time (the non-lettered approach to button-naming confused almost anyone who had played any previous console)
So you really couldn't figure out shapes, but had no problem remembering where A, B, X, Y (and sometimes Z) were? I didn't realize shape recognition was so hard for you - infants tend to pick it up pretty quickly. Someone should also tell the designers of international signs.
That combined with his ignorance of Madden and SSX as A+ launch titles for the PS2 erode his credibility with me.
All bow down to sports games, for they are more important than all else... I suppose if we grant you that, you'll grant that Final Fantasy VII essentially defined 3D gaming when it arrived? No? Didn't think you would; it was just a Playstation 1 title...
Sony won that generation of gaming with games, and with CD technology.
So let me get this straight... They had the best technology. They had good developer relations and great games. The used CD's that could store *far* more game data than anything else, allowing for FMV, CD-Audio, and much longer games (and the dreaded "Now loading" screen). First to use 3D graphics and first to really prove disc-based games and memory cards (which allows for a much better swapping and renting of games - don't lose your save file with the game). And all of this from a "new" entrant into the video game arena.
And you're trying to tell me that the Playstation was anything LESS than revolutionary?
Oh yes, there's a lot of crap. Even of the licensed anime - which is a small subset - a lot is crap. Some of it is subjective (Eva tends to divide people, as do things like GITS and Akira, or even Cowboy Bebop), some of it is not (ever had the misfortune to see the "Street Fighter" anime?).
The "99%" was referred to character designs. Even in something like Ghost in the Shell, the characters are much more fleshed out than in a tranditional American cartoon, where they are almost always the personification of a single trait. Bart is a troublemaker, Lisa is smart, Homer is dumb, Bugs is a wiseass, etc.
Now, sometimes anime has similar characters. People might argue that in Evangelion, Shinji is whiny, Asuka is a bitch, and Rei is non-existant. However, in an anime they usually have backstory, development - it will go into why people are the way they are (the whole point of Eva was character development, not the "big robots"). In an anime, actions almost always have consequences and effects, and characters have to balance difficult decisions. It's not all funny entertainment, unlike the vast majority of "cartoons".
Mind posting the name of the recommended program? I work for said navy company, and I haven't seen any mention of it.
Nobody is saying you're wrong in a technical sense. What the poster was getting at is the word "cartoon" carries a very specific tone and set of boundaries in the US (which is where I'm from, at any rate). Here, the word "cartoon" means, something animated for the kids - high-frame-rate, low quality, simple platitudes, etc. Something you grow out of.
Anime, on the other hand, encompasses a much larger set of genres and audiences. Anime is designed for everyone from kids (and God, do we know that, thank you Pokemon) to teens and adults. Anime even has sub-genres - definite sci-fi series, comedy series, westerns, horror, etc. What was the last time you saw a horror "cartoon"?
Most of all, though, anime has much more interesting subject matter - stuff that makes you think. The characters are not one-dimensional, and are not all designed for gags as they are in 99% of "cartoons". The storylines are well written and continuous, and characters develop and change. Depending on the series, the nature of family, friendship, religion, or even reality itself is challenged. And when you're tired of all of that, yes, there's plenty of comedy and "low humor" as well.
This is why anime fans get upset when you call it a "cartoon". Yes, it is a cartoon. But calling it such implies it is much, much narrower and vapid than it deserves.