Keep in mind that the fastest consumer cable speed is pretty weak compared to the fastest ADSL. 45mbit down (3mbit up) ADSL is something like 4000 yen/month here in Japan (and 100mbps fibre cable can be had for around the same price if you live in the same place). I'm from Canada originally, but I have to say Canadian broadband sucks harsh compared to the internet connections available in Japan (and I hear South Korea is about the same).
I hate it when people pull this "music used to be so much better" trick.. truth is, go back 10, 20, 30 years and the vast majority of music sucked then too. People tend to remember the hits and forget about how there was just as much horrible music as well. If you put an effort into listening to something beyond Clear Channer radio, you'd find musicians that are producing excellent stuff today.
Thanks for answering the rhetorical question, eh? Point is, people who will hook a Dreamcast up to their TV are a lot more common than people with hardware like yours.
A much better system for emulation purposes? Well, yeah... as long as you don't include anything as powerful as a SNES or Genesis. The SNES emulator for DC is awesome, but the Dreamcast just doesn't have enough horsepower to make it bearable (except for the odd puzzle or turn-based game). Still, it makes an awesome NES system.
Sounds awesome, now if only they'll support Mac users like Lucasarts used to. There's nothing mentioned in the article, does anyone know if any ports other than the Xbox one are planned?
Can I use ScummVM to make new games?
While it is theoretically possible to write a new game that uses ScummVM it is not advisable. ScummVM has many hacks to support older games and no tools geared towards creating content usable by ScummVM. Potential game authors are encouraged to look at open source technologies such as libSDL for a cross platform DirectX like library, and the Lua and Python scripting languages for game logic.
Yeah, but Mac users are gouged on the prices, for just a different firmware (hence the many guides to flashing "PC" video cards for use in Macs). It makes no sense to charge so much more for simply having some different data on the card.
Argh. No, it's not. There's 2 (two) dual-link DVI ports, each of which can drive 1 (one) 30 inch monitor. Take a look at the pictures from WWDC where they had a G5 driving two of those monitors.
Thank you, Slashdot.. I've been seeing commercials for this the last few months and I had no idea what it was. Looked neat, but compared to the rest of stuff on Japanese TV it's practically normal.
Maybe it got a score of zero because it was posted by an anonymous coward? There isn't really any reason to mod a "One image doesn't work for me" post up.
God, you hit it right on the nail. If I didn't crave a G5, I would have bought a Powerbook a couple months ago (I blame Apple for hyping all the features of Tiger that take advantage of the G5).
Personally, I agree with you on the timeline unfortunately. I can't see Apple releasing a G5 'Book anytime before December, but hopefully they'll surprise us.
Simple, lack of interest. I'm a geek (hence posting on Slashdot), so I actually care about what I use for my day to day work/play.
But do most people really give a damn? All most people want is email, an internet browser, Kazaa, and maybe some games. These are the people who go buy the cheapest PC they can find at the nearest store... and can you guess what comes preinstalled on those machines?
It's come to the point where most people wouldn't even buy a machine with Linux pre-installed because it wouldn't be what their friends use (and hence, they probably can't drag some poor relative/friend into fixing it for them when they screw up the system).
Of course, you say this and yet give us no explanation as to what these critical apps are. The only thing I can think of that will break some apps is the BSD subsystem (and if a user deselects that without knowing what it is, you really can't fault Apple for that).
Except without the index on both machines, Mac searches have always beaten the crap out of Windows machines for speed. I've never understood it... picture this entirely true situation:
I have an old 450mhz iMac running OSX, with thousands of files scattered over the internal drive and external drive. Searching for something takes 10-15 seconds most of the time. Now, my friend has a brand-spanking new 1.8 P4 system (this was a while ago) running WinXP. He's had it for a couple weeks, and there's almost nothing on the box... installed some games, has a couple hundred mp3s, that's about it. I needed to search for a file on there, it took 2-3 minutes.
I know this is a pretty specific example, but this has been repeated most of the times I've needed to search in Windows. Why it's (occasionally?) so slow, I have no idea.
Ah, okay. Yeah, I didn't understand, I thought you meant that you were doing this from another app, and now switching to OO because it could do it. Apologies.
I'm not sure I completely understand (I might be totally off on this), but if you're printing that postscript file from the same Mac, couldn't you just save it as a PDF from the print menu, and bypass the middleman?
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Well, they aren't cheap to buy. If you get them included with your computer, I think it's safe to say that Apple isn't charging the huge premium for the mouse that they do when it's bought seperately.
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Nah, he's just pointing out that the Dell machine is hideously expensive for what you get. Nobody else seems to have understood this so far.
Keep in mind that the fastest consumer cable speed is pretty weak compared to the fastest ADSL. 45mbit down (3mbit up) ADSL is something like 4000 yen/month here in Japan (and 100mbps fibre cable can be had for around the same price if you live in the same place). I'm from Canada originally, but I have to say Canadian broadband sucks harsh compared to the internet connections available in Japan (and I hear South Korea is about the same).
I hate it when people pull this "music used to be so much better" trick.. truth is, go back 10, 20, 30 years and the vast majority of music sucked then too. People tend to remember the hits and forget about how there was just as much horrible music as well. If you put an effort into listening to something beyond Clear Channer radio, you'd find musicians that are producing excellent stuff today.
You are not the only Linux user in the world. Some of them might even have these "iPods" you mention.
Er, the blue and white G3s that have a maximum of 1 gig of RAM? Check your facts before you post something like that.
Er, what the hell? Microsoft put a standard PC in a box. Regardless of whether it's a good system or not, this does not qualify as innovation.
Thanks for answering the rhetorical question, eh? Point is, people who will hook a Dreamcast up to their TV are a lot more common than people with hardware like yours.
A much better system for emulation purposes? Well, yeah... as long as you don't include anything as powerful as a SNES or Genesis. The SNES emulator for DC is awesome, but the Dreamcast just doesn't have enough horsepower to make it bearable (except for the odd puzzle or turn-based game). Still, it makes an awesome NES system.
I'd mod you up if I could. God, it hurts my eyes...
Sounds awesome, now if only they'll support Mac users like Lucasarts used to. There's nothing mentioned in the article, does anyone know if any ports other than the Xbox one are planned?
Taken from the ScummVM FAQ:
Can I use ScummVM to make new games?
While it is theoretically possible to write a new game that uses ScummVM it is not advisable. ScummVM has many hacks to support older games and no tools geared towards creating content usable by ScummVM. Potential game authors are encouraged to look at open source technologies such as libSDL for a cross platform DirectX like library, and the Lua and Python scripting languages for game logic.
Yeah, but Mac users are gouged on the prices, for just a different firmware (hence the many guides to flashing "PC" video cards for use in Macs). It makes no sense to charge so much more for simply having some different data on the card.
Argh. No, it's not. There's 2 (two) dual-link DVI ports, each of which can drive 1 (one) 30 inch monitor. Take a look at the pictures from WWDC where they had a G5 driving two of those monitors.
Or you could stick some speakers next to your plants, crank up the bass (so that they shake slightly), and have an even better effect!
Excuse me while I go patent this.
Thank you, Slashdot.. I've been seeing commercials for this the last few months and I had no idea what it was. Looked neat, but compared to the rest of stuff on Japanese TV it's practically normal.
Maybe it got a score of zero because it was posted by an anonymous coward? There isn't really any reason to mod a "One image doesn't work for me" post up.
Her buffer runneth over?
"Who support mac"? Is that like people who "support window" or "support linuck"?
God, you hit it right on the nail. If I didn't crave a G5, I would have bought a Powerbook a couple months ago (I blame Apple for hyping all the features of Tiger that take advantage of the G5).
Personally, I agree with you on the timeline unfortunately. I can't see Apple releasing a G5 'Book anytime before December, but hopefully they'll surprise us.
Simple, lack of interest. I'm a geek (hence posting on Slashdot), so I actually care about what I use for my day to day work/play.
But do most people really give a damn? All most people want is email, an internet browser, Kazaa, and maybe some games. These are the people who go buy the cheapest PC they can find at the nearest store... and can you guess what comes preinstalled on those machines?
It's come to the point where most people wouldn't even buy a machine with Linux pre-installed because it wouldn't be what their friends use (and hence, they probably can't drag some poor relative/friend into fixing it for them when they screw up the system).
Of course, you say this and yet give us no explanation as to what these critical apps are. The only thing I can think of that will break some apps is the BSD subsystem (and if a user deselects that without knowing what it is, you really can't fault Apple for that).
Except without the index on both machines, Mac searches have always beaten the crap out of Windows machines for speed. I've never understood it... picture this entirely true situation:
I have an old 450mhz iMac running OSX, with thousands of files scattered over the internal drive and external drive. Searching for something takes 10-15 seconds most of the time. Now, my friend has a brand-spanking new 1.8 P4 system (this was a while ago) running WinXP. He's had it for a couple weeks, and there's almost nothing on the box... installed some games, has a couple hundred mp3s, that's about it. I needed to search for a file on there, it took 2-3 minutes.
I know this is a pretty specific example, but this has been repeated most of the times I've needed to search in Windows. Why it's (occasionally?) so slow, I have no idea.
Ah, okay. Yeah, I didn't understand, I thought you meant that you were doing this from another app, and now switching to OO because it could do it. Apologies.
I'm not sure I completely understand (I might be totally off on this), but if you're printing that postscript file from the same Mac, couldn't you just save it as a PDF from the print menu, and bypass the middleman?
Well, they aren't cheap to buy. If you get them included with your computer, I think it's safe to say that Apple isn't charging the huge premium for the mouse that they do when it's bought seperately.