But then that erases console gaming's big advantage over PC gaming: low cost per player. If you're going to splurge for a separate system for each player, you might as well play a PC shooter instead of Gears 2 and benefit from mouse aiming.
By gum, you're right! It is cheaper to buy a another gaming PC than it is to buy another xBox.
Wait - you don't play splitscreen FPSs on PC, do you?
So I can attach a keyboard and mouse to a SNES, and it becomes a PC?
A PC is a multi-purpose computing device. A gaming console with a keyboard and mouse is still a gaming console - at least until you install alternative software. It's not the keyboard and mouse that makes it a PC, it's the functionality.
You people have such short memories. This is the same dude that asked to intervene in SCO vs Novell, and "take over part of the case via FRCP 24 because SCO [wasn't] competent".
You'll note that modern wheels do not have stone hubs. The wheel was not simply built on (or around). The person who decided that wood would be better scrapped the whole thing and started again. It's round, just like the stone wheel, but lighter, easier to work with, and apart from the idea, completely new.
The modern wheel, while built on the same principles, is a completely new thing, compared to the stone wheel. Sure, you could build on the stone wheel, but you'd end up with a rubber tyre on 200kg of stone. Not a huge improvement.
There is nothing wrong with reinventing the wheel every so often. It seems like a lot of work at the time, but sometimes the result is worth it.
AI think that the vast majority of/. users are in excess of 256-boobie aware. That doesn't me that they actually use them though. They are just aware of them.
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I assume you have video proof of the Big Bang creating time and space...
Then the vast majority are not bright enough, or are cynical enough to realise that that includes them as well.
I thought they'd misspelled "(Useful) Stupid Ubuntu Tricks"...
By gum, you're right! It is cheaper to buy a another gaming PC than it is to buy another xBox.
Wait - you don't play splitscreen FPSs on PC, do you?
I think you may be mistaken.
-beav007, Australia (part of the world)
Oddly enough, TFA says nothing about the site being cleaned up.
This statement seems odd to me. How do you know this?
I expect it would be hard to find a 5:4 anything screen. The most common screen aspect ratios are 4:3 and 16:9.
Yes. I "chopped" their new logo as soon as it was released. It's still in my photobucket somewhere...
I always say "I-rahk" and "I-rahn"...
How about an email client that works properly with Exchange?
I expect there will be a flurry of attempts to circumvent the filter AND to invoke it on harmless pages, just so that iiNet will publicize it.
Well, they might be now that they own Westnet...
So I can attach a keyboard and mouse to a SNES, and it becomes a PC?
A PC is a multi-purpose computing device. A gaming console with a keyboard and mouse is still a gaming console - at least until you install alternative software. It's not the keyboard and mouse that makes it a PC, it's the functionality.
Nearly. It's 'Z', not 'Zee'.
Here in Australia, we sing the same song, but we say "zed" at the end. Screw the rhyming :P
You people have such short memories. This is the same dude that asked to intervene in SCO vs Novell, and "take over part of the case via FRCP 24 because SCO [wasn't] competent".
I always thought it was CPMs, until someone reminded me that Americans can't pronounce "Z" correctly. Then it made sense...
Wait, what?
You'll note that modern wheels do not have stone hubs. The wheel was not simply built on (or around). The person who decided that wood would be better scrapped the whole thing and started again. It's round, just like the stone wheel, but lighter, easier to work with, and apart from the idea, completely new.
The modern wheel, while built on the same principles, is a completely new thing, compared to the stone wheel. Sure, you could build on the stone wheel, but you'd end up with a rubber tyre on 200kg of stone. Not a huge improvement.
There is nothing wrong with reinventing the wheel every so often. It seems like a lot of work at the time, but sometimes the result is worth it.
Ever used Compiz Fusion? Ever used Aero?
Ever notice the difference?
In my experience, I can run Compiz on computers that will hardly run Vista at all, even with Aero turned off.
If we didn't occasionally reinvent the wheel, we'd still be driving around on solid stone wheels...
AI think that the vast majority of /. users are in excess of 256-boobie aware. That doesn't me that they actually use them though. They are just aware of them.
That's better than the WYSIWTF that Frontpage managed...
So, in fact, it's not 10 million lines of code at all. It's just 10 million lines. Wooooo.
Nearly 8 hours, an no one with mod points gets it? For shame, slashdot. For shame!
See shell. On a see sure. Or something...