I'm always amazed when looking through peoples' DC shares. I'd guess that about a quarter of those I look through contain peoples' 'My Documents' folder, including things like school projects and documents with titles like 'eBay', 'PayPal', or 'Amazon'. I can only assume the latter contain records of purchases, and perhaps CC #s.
IMO, several distros have passed Knoppix. In my experience, SLAX, Gnoppix, and Mandrake Move have better hardware support, though each has lackings in packages. I would like to see the SuSe Live CD, it being my 'permanent' distro of choice.... I should get on that.
Your OS dependancy theory seems about right to me. I am posting this using Opera on Suse 9. While I love the features (yes, I know most of them are available in Moz, I have that installed but don't get much use out of it), but I do get all too frequent crashes. I find that they are often tied to certain web pages, but go away after another try or two at the site. Thankfully, restarting Opera only takes a few seconds, and restores all opened web pages to their previous forms (scroll positions, entered text, etc.).
I recently 'converted' a Windows user to Opera, from IE. This person is a good friend of mine, and I've gotten the chance to use Opera on XP quite a bit over the past month or so. I've yet to experience a crash in the Windows version, and neither has he. I'm not sure if this is a product of our different browsing habits, a coincidence, or what.
"But of course, being a concerned, overzealous, ready-to-sue videogames-babysit-my-kid parent - you read all this... didn't you?"
What bothers me about that statement, and another poster has already commented on the ass-hole-ness of it, is the babysitting part. That's a poor stereotype to enforce in this situation. Read the/. article, the parent said he bought the game to play -with- his son. Parents can enjoy a good game just as much as us yung-ins, remember. He also never suggested taking legal action, and seemed prety calm about the whole incident, considering his child was hospitalized.
The Rochester Institute of TECHNOLOGY uses more bandwith than a, mainly, medical and engineering school? You don't say... I don't know how accurate the original figures were, but it wouldn't surprise me that RIT uses allot more bandwith than the U of R.
Is Opera's find dialogue broken, because I didn't see anyone say 'Sim City'. I suppose that it might qualify better as a simulation, but it's an RTS as far as I'm concerned. All the SCs have been great, but the excellent balance of simplicity and complexity of SC3K makes it a true classic. The original may be easier to pick up and play, and SC4 is certainly a more powerful city builder, but SC4 is amazingly addictive for it's mix of both qualities. Not having the free time I used to, I've practically buried the disc. I know that if I were to run it just once, I'd be hopelessly hooked for months. Any game with that ability, like Poke'mon or Tetris, is deserved of a 'Top 10' list.
If it counts for anything, most of my area is powered by a nuclear plant... It hasn't really been abandoned, judging by the electric bill I'm continually served with.
The mainstream probably doesn't even notice that the enemies have fancy AI, and use real tactics. A, dare I use the term, hardcore gamer will enjoy that aspect of the game, but the appeal to most of those who bought it probably has more to do with its advanced lighting techniques, bump mapping, and all the other graphical effects in the game. The vehicles are cool, too...
This whole incident reminds me of the kids Nintendo had to give special gloves too because they messed up their hands playing some N64 game. What was it, Mario Party? Perhaps SSB?
That worked for Sony back when Sega provided them an oppurtunity to pry into the console market. Nintendo wasn't overly dominant (still dominant), and Sony had room to squeze in and expand. Remember that at first, the N64 was killing the PS.
This is a different market. 'Gameboy' is a household name, more so than 'Nintendo' ever was. It's been in countless TV shows, movies, and the like. Every parent knows what it is. The Playstation isn't quite as well known as it, I would argue. Not only that, but there is no ailing company for Sony to steal the business of (Sega's Game Gear won't help them).
Forgetting the obvious design problems of making a handheld console do what they say it will (they will surely scale it back, PSX style), they need to make it at a reasonable price. I've yet to see an estimate pricing it at under $200, most hover across the $300 line (USD). That's more than any home console sells for, right now.
So the Gameboy has the advantage of an absurdly large user base and library of games, brand name recognition, and most likely price. Sony will have to compete with Nokia...
I've had some real problems getting to Knoppix to work, as compared to some other Live CD distros. Maybe it's because it's made for German hardware (especially in the monitor area), or because I have had bad discs. I was testing it on my PC (which has run Linux beatifully before), and could not get it up. Some quick research on its cheat codes did no good. Still, I find Gnoppix and the Slackware Live CDs infinitely easier to pop in and run than the several others I've tried.
In theory, that's an excellent idea. I tried to do just that to a computer-retarded friend who had bloated XP with spyware from certain... sites he commonly goes to. I put on Opera, an IE skin, imported his favorites, and did everything else I could think of to make it as friendly as possible. After two days he called be to give him his precious IE back. Would you believe it was because he couldn't figure out how to use Opera's bookmarks? Some people are truly beyond help.
The series has more games than that, too. Mystic Quest isn't usually considered an FF game, since its so much of a departure from the series, but it does share the name. There were three (?) GB FF 'Adventure' games, as well. They were, as I remember, much like Zelda 2. An adventure game with RPG elements like experience building. Pretty much an action-RPG.
A company called Zinio releases allot of major magazines in digital format. The format isn't as good as a PDF, but it follows the same idea (from what I can tell). Since it's laready used to distribute literature (of sorts) over the internet, it seems like it would work well for eBooks.
I believe it's more of an iTunes for games type thing than an all-in-one console. They intend to set up a server, and sell games off of it for download. There are supposed to be rental schemes, downloadable patches, etc. They want to let indie developers put their games up there for cheap, to get some exposure and profit. It supposedly will run Windows games, but you must download them from their server.
It would seem that cutting out the middle man (store), and shipping/production, the cost of distrbuting a game would be very low. With so many gigs of games needing to be transfered, though, I can't imagine it turning a profit. How easy would it be to set up a hacked mirror of the server, or something, and give every user acess to every game free?
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I'm always amazed when looking through peoples' DC shares. I'd guess that about a quarter of those I look through contain peoples' 'My Documents' folder, including things like school projects and documents with titles like 'eBay', 'PayPal', or 'Amazon'. I can only assume the latter contain records of purchases, and perhaps CC #s.
IMO, several distros have passed Knoppix. In my experience, SLAX, Gnoppix, and Mandrake Move have better hardware support, though each has lackings in packages. I would like to see the SuSe Live CD, it being my 'permanent' distro of choice.... I should get on that.
Your OS dependancy theory seems about right to me. I am posting this using Opera on Suse 9. While I love the features (yes, I know most of them are available in Moz, I have that installed but don't get much use out of it), but I do get all too frequent crashes. I find that they are often tied to certain web pages, but go away after another try or two at the site. Thankfully, restarting Opera only takes a few seconds, and restores all opened web pages to their previous forms (scroll positions, entered text, etc.).
I recently 'converted' a Windows user to Opera, from IE. This person is a good friend of mine, and I've gotten the chance to use Opera on XP quite a bit over the past month or so. I've yet to experience a crash in the Windows version, and neither has he. I'm not sure if this is a product of our different browsing habits, a coincidence, or what.
"But of course, being a concerned, overzealous, ready-to-sue videogames-babysit-my-kid parent - you read all this... didn't you?"
/. article, the parent said he bought the game to play -with- his son. Parents can enjoy a good game just as much as us yung-ins, remember. He also never suggested taking legal action, and seemed prety calm about the whole incident, considering his child was hospitalized.
What bothers me about that statement, and another poster has already commented on the ass-hole-ness of it, is the babysitting part. That's a poor stereotype to enforce in this situation. Read the
The Rochester Institute of TECHNOLOGY uses more bandwith than a, mainly, medical and engineering school? You don't say... I don't know how accurate the original figures were, but it wouldn't surprise me that RIT uses allot more bandwith than the U of R.
Is Opera's find dialogue broken, because I didn't see anyone say 'Sim City'. I suppose that it might qualify better as a simulation, but it's an RTS as far as I'm concerned. All the SCs have been great, but the excellent balance of simplicity and complexity of SC3K makes it a true classic. The original may be easier to pick up and play, and SC4 is certainly a more powerful city builder, but SC4 is amazingly addictive for it's mix of both qualities. Not having the free time I used to, I've practically buried the disc. I know that if I were to run it just once, I'd be hopelessly hooked for months. Any game with that ability, like Poke'mon or Tetris, is deserved of a 'Top 10' list.
Seaman punkd me a few times during arguments... He had some pretty good comebacks, for a digital fish. He could take Big Mouth Billy Bass out to farm.
If it counts for anything, most of my area is powered by a nuclear plant... It hasn't really been abandoned, judging by the electric bill I'm continually served with.
The mainstream probably doesn't even notice that the enemies have fancy AI, and use real tactics. A, dare I use the term, hardcore gamer will enjoy that aspect of the game, but the appeal to most of those who bought it probably has more to do with its advanced lighting techniques, bump mapping, and all the other graphical effects in the game. The vehicles are cool, too...
This whole incident reminds me of the kids Nintendo had to give special gloves too because they messed up their hands playing some N64 game. What was it, Mario Party? Perhaps SSB?
"Netscape had a physical piece of software."
Isn't that an oxymoron?
A used XBOX will be _much_ cheaper than it is now when a new one is just $100.
Won't things like Win for Lin or a virtual machine fulfil that Wine thing you're looking for?
He posted it at /., he shouldn't be expecting that much flaming from Microsoft lovers. Perhaps is was biased and unfounded, but probably not flamebait.
Yes, because a cell-phone that plays games is horribly unusual... The NGage is a flop, not a novelty.
That worked for Sony back when Sega provided them an oppurtunity to pry into the console market. Nintendo wasn't overly dominant (still dominant), and Sony had room to squeze in and expand. Remember that at first, the N64 was killing the PS.
This is a different market. 'Gameboy' is a household name, more so than 'Nintendo' ever was. It's been in countless TV shows, movies, and the like. Every parent knows what it is. The Playstation isn't quite as well known as it, I would argue. Not only that, but there is no ailing company for Sony to steal the business of (Sega's Game Gear won't help them).
Forgetting the obvious design problems of making a handheld console do what they say it will (they will surely scale it back, PSX style), they need to make it at a reasonable price. I've yet to see an estimate pricing it at under $200, most hover across the $300 line (USD). That's more than any home console sells for, right now.
So the Gameboy has the advantage of an absurdly large user base and library of games, brand name recognition, and most likely price. Sony will have to compete with Nokia...
Silicon Knights is the studio, btw.
I've had some real problems getting to Knoppix to work, as compared to some other Live CD distros. Maybe it's because it's made for German hardware (especially in the monitor area), or because I have had bad discs. I was testing it on my PC (which has run Linux beatifully before), and could not get it up. Some quick research on its cheat codes did no good. Still, I find Gnoppix and the Slackware Live CDs infinitely easier to pop in and run than the several others I've tried.
In theory, that's an excellent idea. I tried to do just that to a computer-retarded friend who had bloated XP with spyware from certain... sites he commonly goes to. I put on Opera, an IE skin, imported his favorites, and did everything else I could think of to make it as friendly as possible. After two days he called be to give him his precious IE back. Would you believe it was because he couldn't figure out how to use Opera's bookmarks? Some people are truly beyond help.
Multiplayer doesn't have to be online.
I don't know if you noticed the following link from the article... It gave two, the bottom is the more exhaustive.
http://www.lssu.edu/banished/archive/2004.php
Well, it certainly ain't beef...
Sorry
The series has more games than that, too. Mystic Quest isn't usually considered an FF game, since its so much of a departure from the series, but it does share the name. There were three (?) GB FF 'Adventure' games, as well. They were, as I remember, much like Zelda 2. An adventure game with RPG elements like experience building. Pretty much an action-RPG.
A company called Zinio releases allot of major magazines in digital format. The format isn't as good as a PDF, but it follows the same idea (from what I can tell). Since it's laready used to distribute literature (of sorts) over the internet, it seems like it would work well for eBooks.
I believe it's more of an iTunes for games type thing than an all-in-one console. They intend to set up a server, and sell games off of it for download. There are supposed to be rental schemes, downloadable patches, etc. They want to let indie developers put their games up there for cheap, to get some exposure and profit. It supposedly will run Windows games, but you must download them from their server.
It would seem that cutting out the middle man (store), and shipping/production, the cost of distrbuting a game would be very low. With so many gigs of games needing to be transfered, though, I can't imagine it turning a profit. How easy would it be to set up a hacked mirror of the server, or something, and give every user acess to every game free?