That slashdot.org is the only site in the world in which the message topics can range from philosophy to female orgasms to religion to evolution to homosexuality (in that order). The content of the actual article seems to matter very little.:p
In fact, the current state of broadband in the US is also bad. I think that it's sickening how slow the internet is for us here. We are just now seeing some major telcoms announcing their big fiber rollout. It will likely be about 7 years (SEVEN!) until those of us in existing suburbs will ever be able to see decent internet speeds. This fiber rollout should have happened in this country about 5 years ago, with the hope that better switches would have come about since then (which they have). We really need to complain to our ISPs. They see no reason to give us more than 384 kbps upload, because most home users don't know how to utilize it. The future needs to get here faster, where we'll all host our own web pages and webcams, and my dream of being able to project another user's living room onto my living room wall in realtime (@ 60 frames per second) will become a reality.
Erm, actually no. Their unstable screenshot of 6009.8 MHz is actually around 5.87 GHz, NOT over 6 GHz. However, it's quite possible that clock frequency isn't the 'binary' mega and giga that describes HD and RAM capacity, in which case you can ignore this post:p I just assumed that since clock ticks values are binary, perhaps the ticks/second should also be.
Then again, everyone is entitled to their PoS opinions:)
The problems with this article:
The guy seems to think real gamers toss their old systems out the moment they get the latest and greatest. This is incorrect, many of us still play our NES's and Genesis's regularly. Why do I continue to buy new systems? It's for the games that aren't possible on the older machines. Super Monkey Ball is a great title that comes to mind. The premise is simple, but mastery is difficult.
Next, the guy is assuming that all games are Adventure style games with cutscenes. He neglected to mention that most titles still have 100% interactivity. How about shmups like Ikaruga, or great multiplayer fighters like Super Smash Bros.?
Finally, I'll close with the comment that there's absolutely no economic basis for why the gaming market would go down the tubes after 2k5. Gaming is a billions upon billions of dollars industry, and its future cannot be predicted by some ass that relies on the poor initial sales of a couple of consoles due to the bad national economy to make his point. He is correct that there will be changes, some of them radical, but I can guarantee that gaming will always exist while I'm alive, because I plan on playing my NES for my enjoyment until I'm at least 80:D
Yeah, I know. I just always suggest this tactic, because no matter what types of 'anti-ripping' protection they come up with, the simple fact remains: If you can listen to the music, then you can duplicate the music.;-)
Hmm, so I suppose running the speaker out back through to the line-in of the sound card and pressing 'record' in any sound recording program would be... too... tough... >_> *looks around in a frenzy* _
It's interesting to see a lot of people casting their doubts here about this program, but how many of you have actually tried it? I just did, and it's fantastic. Someone on the Kazaa team really knows what they're doing. Encrypted conversations, better-than-phone quality, and they still manage to get the conversation going with a latency that's at least 3 times better than that of AIM Chat.
I just played on online game with a friend with Skype running, and it was like he was sitting next to me:-) We both think that this program will set new standards for VoIP, and perhaps be the beginning of it's widespread adoption (and you can consider us both Skype fanboys;-)
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That slashdot.org is the only site in the world in which the message topics can range from philosophy to female orgasms to religion to evolution to homosexuality (in that order). The content of the actual article seems to matter very little. :p
I agree about dialup being very bad.
In fact, the current state of broadband in the US is also bad. I think that it's sickening how slow the internet is for us here. We are just now seeing some major telcoms announcing their big fiber rollout. It will likely be about 7 years (SEVEN!) until those of us in existing suburbs will ever be able to see decent internet speeds. This fiber rollout should have happened in this country about 5 years ago, with the hope that better switches would have come about since then (which they have). We really need to complain to our ISPs. They see no reason to give us more than 384 kbps upload, because most home users don't know how to utilize it. The future needs to get here faster, where we'll all host our own web pages and webcams, and my dream of being able to project another user's living room onto my living room wall in realtime (@ 60 frames per second) will become a reality.
Erm, actually no. Their unstable screenshot of 6009.8 MHz is actually around 5.87 GHz, NOT over 6 GHz. However, it's quite possible that clock frequency isn't the 'binary' mega and giga that describes HD and RAM capacity, in which case you can ignore this post :p I just assumed that since clock ticks values are binary, perhaps the ticks/second should also be.
Then again, everyone is entitled to their PoS opinions :)
:D
The problems with this article:
The guy seems to think real gamers toss their old systems out the moment they get the latest and greatest. This is incorrect, many of us still play our NES's and Genesis's regularly. Why do I continue to buy new systems? It's for the games that aren't possible on the older machines. Super Monkey Ball is a great title that comes to mind. The premise is simple, but mastery is difficult.
Next, the guy is assuming that all games are Adventure style games with cutscenes. He neglected to mention that most titles still have 100% interactivity. How about shmups like Ikaruga, or great multiplayer fighters like Super Smash Bros.?
Finally, I'll close with the comment that there's absolutely no economic basis for why the gaming market would go down the tubes after 2k5. Gaming is a billions upon billions of dollars industry, and its future cannot be predicted by some ass that relies on the poor initial sales of a couple of consoles due to the bad national economy to make his point. He is correct that there will be changes, some of them radical, but I can guarantee that gaming will always exist while I'm alive, because I plan on playing my NES for my enjoyment until I'm at least 80
Thanks.
Yeah, I know. I just always suggest this tactic, because no matter what types of 'anti-ripping' protection they come up with, the simple fact remains: If you can listen to the music, then you can duplicate the music. ;-)
Hmm, so I suppose running the speaker out back through to the line-in of the sound card and pressing 'record' in any sound recording program would be... too... tough... >_>
*looks around in a frenzy* _
It's interesting to see a lot of people casting their doubts here about this program, but how many of you have actually tried it? I just did, and it's fantastic. Someone on the Kazaa team really knows what they're doing. Encrypted conversations, better-than-phone quality, and they still manage to get the conversation going with a latency that's at least 3 times better than that of AIM Chat.
:-) We both think that this program will set new standards for VoIP, and perhaps be the beginning of it's widespread adoption (and you can consider us both Skype fanboys ;-)
I just played on online game with a friend with Skype running, and it was like he was sitting next to me