"Mario 2 wasn't really a mario game to begin with. In Japan it was called Doki Doki Panic. The original Japanese Mario 2 was released in the US on Mario All Stars as Super Mario Brothers: The Lost Levels."
What you are saying is true, but nevertheless after the American Mario 2 was released in Japan (under the name "Mario USA"), it did become "canon" in the Mario universe. Think of all the American Mario 2 monsters that featured in future Mario games. The extensive use of Shy Guys in Yoshi's Island (among many other AM2 enemies) comes to mind.
"Name one PC vendor that will still knowingly warranty your computer after you open it up and overclock it."
It may come as a shock to you, but in the PC world you can build a box entirely from individual components (gasp!) without having to deal with a "PC vendor".
Please mod this little fucker as Troll. Mac piracy is rampant, just as in the Windows world. OTOH, people running Linux care much more about respecting software licensing. Not that I'm saying that no Linux users ever pirate software, just that it's completely unjustified to claim that Mac users are better in that area.
BTW I have bought a CrossOver Office license from Codeweavers. If I was a pirate, I probably wouldn't run Linux.
If they actually did that, the archive would be worthless.
Besides, the IA only archives HTML pages, and small images in them, nothing else. If you consider your HTML content to be unproductible copyrighted material, might I ask why the hell is it publically accessible on the Web in the first place?
Actually, the extra registers are available in 32-bit mode too (and the resulting 32-bit machine code won't run on non-AMD64/EM64T CPUs, of course). There's a command-line flag for this in GCC.
This really is nothing new. Even prior to the Intel announcement, there has always been a/. headline every single fucking time Apple changed something on their online store.
Last I heard those new M-based archs do have EM64T support.
Bit still, from what I can gather OSX x86 will run in mixed 32-bit/64-bit mode, so chances are their initial lineup probably won't be all 64-bit. Pretty sad, really.
Wait, you're telling me Sony has turned its head from the rest of the industry, and is preparing its own (superior) format to counteract everyone else's? Wow, I wonder how it will turn out...
Yes, lower price, better performance and lower power consumption will sure hurt the brand. No wait, it won't. Especially since most people don't give a flying shit about what kind of CPU is inside their computer. Yes, the x86 has a yucky ABI, but so fucking what? The real-world performance you can get out of it is what's important, and from what they've shown us they do have it. Hey, IBM not keeping up with x86 was the driving factor for the switch.
As for the legacy stuff, what legacy stuff? I trust Apple will hide it well, so nobody will notice it unless they REALLY want to. Besides they will most likely go with EM64T right from the start, so a good chunk of legacy can be kept away. They can also use recent stuff like ACPI and SSE2 without worrying about systems not having it, because they all will. That's a major advantage over Windows or Linux or whatever x86-centric OS.
I for one am more interested than ever in getting a Mac as my next computer.
Wow! They've done a nice list of all Mario fan games, so Nintendo can more easily track down who to send its cease & desist letters to! How nice of them!
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Oh, and how could I forget the most obvious: Mario Advance 1.
"Mario 2 wasn't really a mario game to begin with. In Japan it was called Doki Doki Panic. The original Japanese Mario 2 was released in the US on Mario All Stars as Super Mario Brothers: The Lost Levels."
What you are saying is true, but nevertheless after the American Mario 2 was released in Japan (under the name "Mario USA"), it did become "canon" in the Mario universe. Think of all the American Mario 2 monsters that featured in future Mario games. The extensive use of Shy Guys in Yoshi's Island (among many other AM2 enemies) comes to mind.
There are notebooks with 6800GT you fucking retard. Just because Apple puts crap GPUs in their powerbooks doesn't mean anyone has to.
"Name one PC vendor that will still knowingly warranty your computer after you open it up and overclock it."
It may come as a shock to you, but in the PC world you can build a box entirely from individual components (gasp!) without having to deal with a "PC vendor".
THIS is why the PC arch is "open".
That's because nobody cares enough about Solaris for Intel to write drivers for it. OS X for Intel, OTOH, is bound to get some attention.
Please mod this little fucker as Troll. Mac piracy is rampant, just as in the Windows world. OTOH, people running Linux care much more about respecting software licensing. Not that I'm saying that no Linux users ever pirate software, just that it's completely unjustified to claim that Mac users are better in that area.
BTW I have bought a CrossOver Office license from Codeweavers. If I was a pirate, I probably wouldn't run Linux.
Yes, they do. Check the "First Look at Apple's Intel Developer Macs" story.
Do you honestly believe flash-based drives can compete with the insignificant cost of CD and DVD media?
This is because the hard disk is the one "mechanical" component remaining on today's computers
What about the CD/DVD drives??
Someone didn't get my joke...
If they actually did that, the archive would be worthless.
Besides, the IA only archives HTML pages, and small images in them, nothing else. If you consider your HTML content to be unproductible copyrighted material, might I ask why the hell is it publically accessible on the Web in the first place?
Please tell me where those kids that "grow up in a linux-filled world" are. Sounds like an interesting world.
Actually, the extra registers are available in 32-bit mode too (and the resulting 32-bit machine code won't run on non-AMD64/EM64T CPUs, of course). There's a command-line flag for this in GCC.
Make it a Kleenex box. No processing power, but plenty of tissues.
This really is nothing new. Even prior to the Intel announcement, there has always been a /. headline every single fucking time Apple changed something on their online store.
Last I heard those new M-based archs do have EM64T support.
Bit still, from what I can gather OSX x86 will run in mixed 32-bit/64-bit mode, so chances are their initial lineup probably won't be all 64-bit. Pretty sad, really.
Wait, you're telling me Sony has turned its head from the rest of the industry, and is preparing its own (superior) format to counteract everyone else's? Wow, I wonder how it will turn out...
Oh wait...
"i'd write my senators, but i can't find my checkbook."
Gotta love how this was modded 'insightful'...
His point was that keeping an obsolete plant running is probably not profitable.
Yes, lower price, better performance and lower power consumption will sure hurt the brand. No wait, it won't. Especially since most people don't give a flying shit about what kind of CPU is inside their computer. Yes, the x86 has a yucky ABI, but so fucking what? The real-world performance you can get out of it is what's important, and from what they've shown us they do have it. Hey, IBM not keeping up with x86 was the driving factor for the switch.
As for the legacy stuff, what legacy stuff? I trust Apple will hide it well, so nobody will notice it unless they REALLY want to. Besides they will most likely go with EM64T right from the start, so a good chunk of legacy can be kept away. They can also use recent stuff like ACPI and SSE2 without worrying about systems not having it, because they all will. That's a major advantage over Windows or Linux or whatever x86-centric OS.
I for one am more interested than ever in getting a Mac as my next computer.
Torvalds has never considered Windows a "rival". He just likes doing Linux. That's what's most different between him and Theo.
I have a question on the Zodiac: are the dev tools free? And are they Windows-only?
Which one? The opening theme, the A theme or the B theme? (I'm going to pretend the C theme never existed)
Hell no, he actually voices the parody of himself in Family Guy.
Wow! They've done a nice list of all Mario fan games, so Nintendo can more easily track down who to send its cease & desist letters to! How nice of them!