It's kind of difficult to apt-get some packages to get your network card working when your network card isn't working. For something like a video card this would be excusable, but network devices really have to work out of the box, because otherwise it's difficult to download the stuff to make them work.
And they did, and the N64 took, what, 40% of the market? Not too shabby, really. It wasn't until the Gamecube that Nintendo saw their prior good name didn't mean much anymore.
Personally, I'm predicting that they're going to be on the upsurge again, but then, back in the day, I thought the Dreamcast would save Sega, so who really knows anymore?
Actually, after factoring in inflation, the only consoles that come anywhere close to the PS3 are the Neo Geo, the 3D0, and the Sega Saturn, none of which were all that sucessful.
What the GP is saying, though, is that even if the gov't buys its PCs from Dell, HP, Apple, or whatever, they're still being manufactured in China from parts manufactured in Taiwan, Malaysia, China, or what have you. Buying from Dell instead of Levono isn't creating any more jobs in the US, so you might as well go for whatever company gives you the best computer.
(also, while you're on an economic tangent here, look up "comparative advantage", while you're at it. Also, "globalization".)
Actually, I'm curious about this. Other than CMYK support (which I know is a big deal for print stuff, although it doesn't affect Web graphics much if at all), what is the GIMP lacking?
Except they won't do that, because people won't pay $50-$70 for a single disc, even if it contains everything that used to take up ten discs. It's psychological. People will think they're getting ripped off.
(and no, studios aren't going to lower the prices of TV season boxed sets)
Whoever decided that you can't have motion sensors and rumble at the same time apparently didn't tell this to the Wii developers, as the controller there has both.
The n64 failed? I don't really consider taking 40% of the market a failure. Maybe your definintion is different than mine. It didn't do as well as the PS1, but it certainly didn't "fail".
Nintendo tends to be ludicrously meticulous about load times. I mean, the N64 used cartriges for a reason. The Gamecube had 1T-SRAM instead of the DRAM everyone else was using. The DS uses flash cards instead of mini optical discs like the PSP. Apparently Nintendo deliberately slows down the hard drives in their devkits so that developers see the same load times as the gamers will. I wouldn't be surprised if they had something up their sleeves for the Wii.
If you think anybody is going to ship a system with no controllers, you're as Goddamn retarded as any company that would ship a gaming system that didn't include a controller. (And I seriously doubt that a new controller will cost more than, say, a Wavebird does today).
Of course it was modified. After all, it was using Wii peripherals (and was a devkit, nothing standard out of the box here). What he's saying is it didn't have the final chipset from IBM and ATI yet.
The Saturn, when programmed properly, was at least as powerful as the PSX and N64. The problem was that it was hellish to code for, so there were really very few games that took full advantage of its hardware.
An important thing not shown on that chart: The NES and the SNES both came with a game, included in the launch price. (Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario World, respectively). So knock $50 or so from the adjusted prices for them.
Whatever happend to that old practice of throwing in a game for free, anyway?
Um, we're seeing this misconception a [i]lot[/i] here. The Wii is not running on Gamecube hardware in a fancy white case. They didn't have IBM and ATI both design new custom chips for no goddamn reason, after all. The hardware is a good step up over the Gamecube, it's just that Nintendo is staying out of the dick-measuiring contest that Microsoft and Sony are getting themselves into.
How do they expect the PS2, the weakest console of this generation, to compete with next-gen consoles from Microsoft and Nintendo? They're dropping the PS2. Maybe not immediately, but within a year of the PS3's release. Just like the PS1 when the PS2 was released.
Actually, I tend to see a lot of that sort of thing from the 13-19 year old age group. Past that, anyone still playing games is just there to play a decent game and doesn't have an irrational fear of playing something that looks kinda like a cartoon.
Because you don't have any experience. You can't get experienced unless you've been hired, and you can't get hired unless you have experience. Normally, there'd be a way into this system, namely, college, but mainframe stuff isn't tought in CS courses anymore, because the mainframe is largely dead.
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Dunno what country you lived in at the time. The N64 was $200 USD here at launch, with no games. Was EBX forcing bundles back then, too?
It's getting a few decent games (Daxter, etc), but the library is still pretty anemic compared to the DS.
It's kind of difficult to apt-get some packages to get your network card working when your network card isn't working. For something like a video card this would be excusable, but network devices really have to work out of the box, because otherwise it's difficult to download the stuff to make them work.
And they did, and the N64 took, what, 40% of the market? Not too shabby, really. It wasn't until the Gamecube that Nintendo saw their prior good name didn't mean much anymore.
Personally, I'm predicting that they're going to be on the upsurge again, but then, back in the day, I thought the Dreamcast would save Sega, so who really knows anymore?
Actually, after factoring in inflation, the only consoles that come anywhere close to the PS3 are the Neo Geo, the 3D0, and the Sega Saturn, none of which were all that sucessful.
What the GP is saying, though, is that even if the gov't buys its PCs from Dell, HP, Apple, or whatever, they're still being manufactured in China from parts manufactured in Taiwan, Malaysia, China, or what have you. Buying from Dell instead of Levono isn't creating any more jobs in the US, so you might as well go for whatever company gives you the best computer. (also, while you're on an economic tangent here, look up "comparative advantage", while you're at it. Also, "globalization".)
Actually, I'm curious about this. Other than CMYK support (which I know is a big deal for print stuff, although it doesn't affect Web graphics much if at all), what is the GIMP lacking?
Except they won't do that, because people won't pay $50-$70 for a single disc, even if it contains everything that used to take up ten discs. It's psychological. People will think they're getting ripped off.
(and no, studios aren't going to lower the prices of TV season boxed sets)
It'd be nice if we could get a version without the Blu-Ray plyaer for $300 then. Unfortunately, that's not the case.
Whoever decided that you can't have motion sensors and rumble at the same time apparently didn't tell this to the Wii developers, as the controller there has both.
Well, it was on the Gamecube, I don't see why not here. (Go look up 1T-SRAM and compare it to DDR DRAM that everyone else used).
The n64 failed? I don't really consider taking 40% of the market a failure. Maybe your definintion is different than mine. It didn't do as well as the PS1, but it certainly didn't "fail".
Nintendo tends to be ludicrously meticulous about load times. I mean, the N64 used cartriges for a reason. The Gamecube had 1T-SRAM instead of the DRAM everyone else was using. The DS uses flash cards instead of mini optical discs like the PSP. Apparently Nintendo deliberately slows down the hard drives in their devkits so that developers see the same load times as the gamers will. I wouldn't be surprised if they had something up their sleeves for the Wii.
From what I've heard, 12x DVD is slightly faster than 2x BD, although I could be remembering things wrong.
How many controllers does that come with? None?
If you think anybody is going to ship a system with no controllers, you're as Goddamn retarded as any company that would ship a gaming system that didn't include a controller. (And I seriously doubt that a new controller will cost more than, say, a Wavebird does today).
Of course it was modified. After all, it was using Wii peripherals (and was a devkit, nothing standard out of the box here). What he's saying is it didn't have the final chipset from IBM and ATI yet.
The Saturn, when programmed properly, was at least as powerful as the PSX and N64. The problem was that it was hellish to code for, so there were really very few games that took full advantage of its hardware.
An important thing not shown on that chart: The NES and the SNES both came with a game, included in the launch price. (Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario World, respectively). So knock $50 or so from the adjusted prices for them.
Whatever happend to that old practice of throwing in a game for free, anyway?
Um, we're seeing this misconception a [i]lot[/i] here. The Wii is not running on Gamecube hardware in a fancy white case. They didn't have IBM and ATI both design new custom chips for no goddamn reason, after all. The hardware is a good step up over the Gamecube, it's just that Nintendo is staying out of the dick-measuiring contest that Microsoft and Sony are getting themselves into.
How do they expect the PS2, the weakest console of this generation, to compete with next-gen consoles from Microsoft and Nintendo? They're dropping the PS2. Maybe not immediately, but within a year of the PS3's release. Just like the PS1 when the PS2 was released.
XP Home doesn't support multiple processors, but a "processor" is defined as a socket, not a core. It supports hyperthreading and multiple cores.
The only thing that will take up a significant amount more space than a DVD are FMV sequences in hi-def.
So yeah, Blu-Ray is just for movies. And I like my games to have more game and less movie in them, though that's just me.
Actually, I tend to see a lot of that sort of thing from the 13-19 year old age group. Past that, anyone still playing games is just there to play a decent game and doesn't have an irrational fear of playing something that looks kinda like a cartoon.
Because you don't have any experience. You can't get experienced unless you've been hired, and you can't get hired unless you have experience. Normally, there'd be a way into this system, namely, college, but mainframe stuff isn't tought in CS courses anymore, because the mainframe is largely dead.
The thing is, it's pretty clear that the future of pr0n is Internet distribution, not a new kind of disc.
(Incidentally, I also think that this is the direction that movie distribution will take.)