Are you kidding me? The Gamecube's controller is the best, and the Xbox's and the Dreamcast's controllers are fine too. Because they put the left analog stick in the right place, unlike the Playstation's godawful piece of shit of a controller.
Back when IBM was planning their original personal computer (note that "PC" used to mean any personal computer, but the IBM-PC's success hijacked the name), one design they considered was based on the 801, an early RISC processor about 45 times more powerful than the 8088 they ended up using, and their own modern operating system instead of Microsoft's junk... yeah, that's no typo, FOURTY FIVE TIMES more powerful: the 8088 @ 5 MHz did a paltry 0.33 MIPS, while the 801 did 15 MIPS.
Think about it, the PC started with the wrong foot. A broken, twisted, crippled, atrophied foot. How much technological progress did we lose because we had to waste time overcoming the limitations of this super shitty beginning?
The PlayStation's success took a lot of resources, sure, but it was not just "throwing money at it until it works". Sony really got things right while others fucked up: a machine that was easy to code for, versus the super complicated Sega Saturn; and lower costs for third-parties, while Nintendo gouged them to produce N64 carts.
This is unclear now: is it just a GNU/Linux distro (like Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, etc.), or a vastly different OS that happens to use the Linux kernel (like Android and Sailfish)?
What are you talking about? People were buying Nokia phones! Other than the US, Nokia was the top seller of dumbphones, featurephones, and smartphones pretty much everywhere. Yes, they had some serious internal problems, but their market position was very strong. Even if they had introduced nothing new, if they had kept just selling Symbian phones with gradual improvements, they wouldn't have sunk like they did with Winblows Phoney!
Dunno about the chips, but the government has been pushing for free software for over a decade now. Personal anecdote: I worked a temp job in a public organization, and all the machines there ran Ubuntu, except for one with Windows XP (no idea why), and a support guy brought his own Macbook.
Replicant is a fork of Android that replaces the proprietary parts with free ones, so that's by design; Sailfish is a different operating system, so it has to use a translation layer.
Indeed, Android was not the ideal choice for Nokia. If only they had their own next-gen mobile operating system, ready to go, and consistently praised by reviewers... oh, wait.
Competition is good, sure, that's a good reason to hate Elop: he killed Symbian while it still had some coal to burn, and he killed MeeGo before it had its chance -- and even though I haven't used it, by the reviews I've read, MeeGo was a zillion times better than Winblows Phoney. So, FUCK Microsuck, they're a goddamn cancer, I wish they would just die already!
You know what's sad? Nokia's smartphone division, back in the Symbian days, was consistently profitable. They used to sell more phones than Apple and Samsung put together. Since the move to Windows Phone, they were never profitable. Not a single semester out of the red... except that one time when they sold a building and did some scuzzy math with that.
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Are you kidding me? The Gamecube's controller is the best, and the Xbox's and the Dreamcast's controllers are fine too. Because they put the left analog stick in the right place, unlike the Playstation's godawful piece of shit of a controller.
That bit's been hard to get right, but some Finnish guy cobbled up something you can use while they finish this.
Not the XT, but some food for thought:
Back when IBM was planning their original personal computer (note that "PC" used to mean any personal computer, but the IBM-PC's success hijacked the name), one design they considered was based on the 801, an early RISC processor about 45 times more powerful than the 8088 they ended up using, and their own modern operating system instead of Microsoft's junk... yeah, that's no typo, FOURTY FIVE TIMES more powerful: the 8088 @ 5 MHz did a paltry 0.33 MIPS, while the 801 did 15 MIPS.
Think about it, the PC started with the wrong foot. A broken, twisted, crippled, atrophied foot. How much technological progress did we lose because we had to waste time overcoming the limitations of this super shitty beginning?
The massive hype and inertia from the massively successful PS1 made the PS2 such a success that third-parties had little choice but support it.
The PlayStation's success took a lot of resources, sure, but it was not just "throwing money at it until it works". Sony really got things right while others fucked up: a machine that was easy to code for, versus the super complicated Sega Saturn; and lower costs for third-parties, while Nintendo gouged them to produce N64 carts.
This is unclear now: is it just a GNU/Linux distro (like Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, etc.), or a vastly different OS that happens to use the Linux kernel (like Android and Sailfish)?
What are you talking about? People were buying Nokia phones! Other than the US, Nokia was the top seller of dumbphones, featurephones, and smartphones pretty much everywhere. Yes, they had some serious internal problems, but their market position was very strong. Even if they had introduced nothing new, if they had kept just selling Symbian phones with gradual improvements, they wouldn't have sunk like they did with Winblows Phoney!
That'd be like giving captain Schettino a bonus when the Costa Concordia is salvaged, even though he's the dolt who sank it.
Dunno about the chips, but the government has been pushing for free software for over a decade now. Personal anecdote: I worked a temp job in a public organization, and all the machines there ran Ubuntu, except for one with Windows XP (no idea why), and a support guy brought his own Macbook.
Replicant is a fork of Android that replaces the proprietary parts with free ones, so that's by design; Sailfish is a different operating system, so it has to use a translation layer.
Indeed, Android was not the ideal choice for Nokia. If only they had their own next-gen mobile operating system, ready to go, and consistently praised by reviewers... oh, wait.
The point is that tablets can come out with full Windows 8, which would be a game changer.
I sure as hell do not want a tablet, a notebook, a desktop, anything running Windows 8.
TN LCDs can be kind of yellowish too, IPS LCDs are better but more expensive.
Took me a bit to get the pun, because you're pronouncing it wrong. It's "vee-tah".
Competition is good, sure, that's a good reason to hate Elop: he killed Symbian while it still had some coal to burn, and he killed MeeGo before it had its chance -- and even though I haven't used it, by the reviews I've read, MeeGo was a zillion times better than Winblows Phoney. So, FUCK Microsuck, they're a goddamn cancer, I wish they would just die already!
Magazines tend to be a bit lighter, though.
At the time they used "froyo", they weren't really using those codenames in their marketing, I guess.
Ali Baba was the hero of the tale, and the thieves were his enemies. Why do people get this wrong?
Yes, I'm familiar with The Legend of Spectacular N9 Sales.
Spectacular reviews, and terrible sales because Elop sabotaged it.
I think licensees were just paying lip service to Microsoft anyway. They're probably happy to have a good excuse to kill their WP products now!
If they had pushed for MeeGo, they could be on par with iOS now, maybe rivaling Android even. Instead, they're left with the crumbs.
If it was ever going to happen, it should have happened years ago.
You know what's sad? Nokia's smartphone division, back in the Symbian days, was consistently profitable. They used to sell more phones than Apple and Samsung put together. Since the move to Windows Phone, they were never profitable. Not a single semester out of the red... except that one time when they sold a building and did some scuzzy math with that.
If you want "more choice", Nokia had that before. It was called MeeGo, and Elop killed it.
the original 3 generations of pokemon
What the fuck are you talking about? 151 and full stop.