Nintendo will release eight games for starters, all accurately emulating the NES games...
If they're actually using their own emulator to run the old ROM data for these old games, I wonder how hard it would be (if at all possible) to 'modify' one of the game cartridges to run other NES ROMs.
I dont own a GB, but I'd consider owning one if I could relive my addiction of the original Metroid.
Interesting isn't a word I'd choose to use for storms which are people killers.
Oh, but I think that's what makes them so interesting though... The more we know about these storms (their patterns, forces behind them, etc.), the more we can do to be better prepared for them -- potentially saving people's lives that would otherwise be lost.
Gopher would basically nullify any sort of annoying banner ads, flash pop-up ads, and (even worse) advertising internet apps that seem to have found a niche on some of the bigger websites -- leaving you with just straight content (woo).
However, gopher servers would still have the same cost issues that web servers have: server maintenance, bandwidth, etc. -- and without advertising it seems that it would be harder to keep up a gopher server. I understand that it takes less bandwidth and space to host gopher services, but even then if the server becomes excessively popular (ie. something along the lines of gopher://slashdot.org/) there still would be some costs incurred.
Granted, advertising on webpages doesn't bring in as much as it used to -- but every little bit helps in the end, right?
"Then again, since you advocate (seemingly without irony) Gimp as an alternative to Photoshop, it's fairly clear that you don't really know what Photoshop's for. I mean, Gimp is to Photoshop as a screwdriver is to the space shuttle, ya know?"
I use and teach both of those applications where I work and although 9 times out of 10 I can do something faster in Photoshop than I can in Gimp -- I STILL can do it in Gimp. It might not be as easy and/or the same process -- but the end result usually is the same.
Never really heard of anyone using FrameMaker, but most of these large production-grade applications out there have open-source equivalents that are as good if not better. Even if Adobe was to drop Mac upgrades/support for Photoshop (read, suicide) -- you can always run Gimp instead.
With the way things are moving towards more of these open standards, it's too bad that people are still relying so heavily on propriatary (sp?) formats like those found in MS Office and some of the Adobe products.
I work at the Center for Teaching, Learning Technology at the university I am enrolled at. I am currently putting together a web-based document management system that is built around XML, and after seeing how much more powerful these open standards can be (especially, when you start looking at all the wonderful concepts that augment XML -- XSL, XPATH, XSL:FO, and the like).
We used to put together all of our documentation for workshops and whatnot using MS Word, and then later switched to InDesign for the sake of having more control over the layout. The new web-based system means we lost some control over the layout of these documents, but the amount of time we've saved and the flexibility we've gained from using it is worth more than its weight in gold (all 2mb worth -- if that, even)
What's frightening, however, is to see these products like MS Word and others potentially offering the option to export to a more open format, like XML. Ever tried reading through MS Word generated HTML? It's almost a fun task, and I hate to think of the possibilty of having to read through MS Word generated XML... eep!
I think it's the KISS principle in action -- trying to make it simpler for those computer users that have a tough enough time doing simple tasks as is. Whenever I have to help out my parents or others that are not familiar with computers it really is easier for them to remember to just click rather than 'left-button click' or 'right-button click'.
Lame? Yeah, but makes sense I guess for trying to attract those users that are scared of computers.
It's always amusing to hear the multi-button mouse button argument being brought up. It's even more amusing that people can't fathom buying a two- (or more) button mouse for their computer.
The mouse that's connected to the Mac I'm using right now to submit this comment has two buttons -- there's no reason your Mac can't have a two button mouse, too.
It's really too bad that this is becoming more and more frequent. I'm surprised most college campuses haven't taken to blocking most peer-to-peer file sharing apps. The school where I'm at has blocked everything from Kazaa to BitTorrent. Even DCC file transfers over IRC are severely throttled to make file sharing with the outside world a bit tougher (and beyond that the default IRC port 6667 is blocked).
Initially, I was rather discouraged by the university's policies on this issue, but anymore I'm somewhat glad that they've blocked a good deal of the file sharing applications. I'm sure there are people who tunnel out of the university network to use file sharing, which is completely understandable.
I hate the concept of 'censoring' or 'restricting' the Internet, but when it's a matter of personal security -- I suppose I'll let it go for now.
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If they're actually using their own emulator to run the old ROM data for these old games, I wonder how hard it would be (if at all possible) to 'modify' one of the game cartridges to run other NES ROMs.
I dont own a GB, but I'd consider owning one if I could relive my addiction of the original Metroid.
Oh, but I think that's what makes them so interesting though... The more we know about these storms (their patterns, forces behind them, etc.), the more we can do to be better prepared for them -- potentially saving people's lives that would otherwise be lost.
However, gopher servers would still have the same cost issues that web servers have: server maintenance, bandwidth, etc. -- and without advertising it seems that it would be harder to keep up a gopher server. I understand that it takes less bandwidth and space to host gopher services, but even then if the server becomes excessively popular (ie. something along the lines of gopher://slashdot.org/) there still would be some costs incurred.
Granted, advertising on webpages doesn't bring in as much as it used to -- but every little bit helps in the end, right?
So... anyone else besides myself think that a live /. ticker would be more useful (and fun for that matter) than a somewhat silly cell-phone game?
Ah, the birthday of OS X. Here's to wishing that Windows had something similar to OS X Panther's Expose!
Yeah, but I think (or at least hope) that's assumed to be common-knowledge among Mac users... well the CTRL-Click bit anyhow.
I use and teach both of those applications where I work and although 9 times out of 10 I can do something faster in Photoshop than I can in Gimp -- I STILL can do it in Gimp. It might not be as easy and/or the same process -- but the end result usually is the same.
Never really heard of anyone using FrameMaker, but most of these large production-grade applications out there have open-source equivalents that are as good if not better. Even if Adobe was to drop Mac upgrades/support for Photoshop (read, suicide) -- you can always run Gimp instead.
I work at the Center for Teaching, Learning Technology at the university I am enrolled at. I am currently putting together a web-based document management system that is built around XML, and after seeing how much more powerful these open standards can be (especially, when you start looking at all the wonderful concepts that augment XML -- XSL, XPATH, XSL:FO, and the like).
We used to put together all of our documentation for workshops and whatnot using MS Word, and then later switched to InDesign for the sake of having more control over the layout. The new web-based system means we lost some control over the layout of these documents, but the amount of time we've saved and the flexibility we've gained from using it is worth more than its weight in gold (all 2mb worth -- if that, even)
What's frightening, however, is to see these products like MS Word and others potentially offering the option to export to a more open format, like XML. Ever tried reading through MS Word generated HTML? It's almost a fun task, and I hate to think of the possibilty of having to read through MS Word generated XML... eep!
Lame? Yeah, but makes sense I guess for trying to attract those users that are scared of computers.
It's always amusing to hear the multi-button mouse button argument being brought up. It's even more amusing that people can't fathom buying a two- (or more) button mouse for their computer. The mouse that's connected to the Mac I'm using right now to submit this comment has two buttons -- there's no reason your Mac can't have a two button mouse, too.
Initially, I was rather discouraged by the university's policies on this issue, but anymore I'm somewhat glad that they've blocked a good deal of the file sharing applications. I'm sure there are people who tunnel out of the university network to use file sharing, which is completely understandable.
I hate the concept of 'censoring' or 'restricting' the Internet, but when it's a matter of personal security -- I suppose I'll let it go for now.