removing PS/2 ports will allow for even smaller motherboard form factors as well as a marginal cost reduction in manufacture. Besides Model Ms are available in USB flavor, or you could always use a PS/2 - USB adapter.
PATA is long overdue to be obsoleted, even optical drives are starting to come in SATA interface configurations. Next to go should be PCI slots.
More regional linguistic *weirdness*, consider the state of Missouri (I lived there once, I found this quite funny after I moved there). Rural areas pronounce it "Mizz-urr-uhh", whereas the urban areas there pronounce it "Mizz-urr-ee", and NO where do they pronounce it "Mizz-urr-aye" which is what you would think it would be just looking at the spelling if you had never seen it or heard the name before.
I spent 5 years in Missouri for college, 3 in a rural town (population 20,000 something) the explanation I got for the difference in pronunciation was that those who were born and raised in Missouri pronounced it "Mizz-ooo-ruh" to differentiate themselves from "city-slickers" and those who were just residents of the State of Missouri.
I'm still not sure why its the "Show Me State" though.
As opposed to what? Speed run through the game, then get a new game? Diablo II style, where the map is always different, not like it matters anyway? Hell, most LAN parties are FPS, and they generally use the same level over and over again.
The difference is that with online play or at a lanparty, the otherwise meaningless repetition of playing through the same level over and over again, is made meaningful by having copious amounts of fresh meat, who will hopefully start behaving differently after I've nailed them in the head with an AK-47 for the third consecutive round.
Playing said level single player or against bots (as is the case with platformers like mario) is entirely pointless, unless it is to familiarize yourself with the level in order to "pwn some n00bs" at a later date.
Nintendo has repeatedly resisted and refused to incorporate online play as a component of their consoles and games. Yes I do own a Wii, but its collecting dust in my living room, the novelty wore off in about 2 weeks. Its modded and yes I do have a considerable amount of bandwidth with which to download wii games, but I can't even be bothered frankly.
My PS3 is only occasionally used right now (busy with work these few months) mainly to play Ninja Gaiden.
what is this sun of which you speak? I've only read references to it in ancient mythology, seems like a pretty unhealthy thing, caused skin cancer, melted wax-based wings and whatnot..
The simple fact is that there is *NO* supporting evidence for life elsewhere.
Until some is uncovered, your thoughts are just pure speculation.
A century or so ago, everyone just assumed there was life on the moon. Guess what? We didn't find any. Not too long ago people assumed there was life on Venus and Mars. Guess what? We're not finding any.
I hate to burst your bubble, but "life" is just a relatively thin "bio-film" on this planet. Astronomically speaking, it's really, really, really thin. Almost non-existant. You may think life find "away", but it really hasn't been able to spread very far.
Good grief. Please learn English.
The simple fact is that there is *NO* supporting evidence for the Earth being round.
Until some is uncovered, your thoughts are just pure speculation.
A century or so ago, everyone just assumed that the Earth was round. Guess what? We they fell right off the edge. Not too long ago people assumed there was a way to circumnavigate the globe. Guess what? They're laying at the bottom of the salty abyss now.
I hate to burst your bubble, but "the globe" is just a relatively flat "square landmass". Astronomically speaking, it's really, really, really flat. Almost non-spherical. You may think sailors find "a way", but nobody has been able to sail around the world.
I concur. I have vista business installed on an almost 2yr old Thinkpad R50e. its a Pentium M 1.7Ghz (single core) with 768mb ram and onboard intel integrated graphics, I did upgrade to an 80GB seagate IDE 2.5" though.
I use the "Windows Classic" interface on both Vista and XP, both are clean installs with OEM versions of windows. Guess what, vista boots faster than XP. Also there is no really discernable difference in speed between launching applications between XP and Vista (delay of a 2 or 3 seconds at most), though I don't play games on this laptop.
As for the responsiveness of the OS it doesn't feel any more slow or sluggish than XP does.
In fact, Vista only trails Ubuntu's bootup by maybe 4 or 5 seconds on the same hardware.
Yes it does have bluetooth, but I'm not sure if it suffers the ringtone issue you've described, I don't own a bluetooth headset (nor do I use the phone while driving)
The handwriting recognition is pretty good and doesn't need training, but I usually use the virtual qwerty keyboard and stylus, as such sending messages on this phone is a 2 handed affair.
I know the A1200 and the E6 Rokr are both also running Linux, and the bluetooth/ringtone works fine on those.
Actually yes to almost all your questions. With the time/money/inclination you can do probably all of the above.
You can find out more at http://www.motorolafans.com/ not my site, but thats where I download firmware updates, apps, read up on the latest projects etc.
As far as running Linux is concerned, that should be plenty sufficient, with a little backup from the Mesa lib, to run almost any OpenGL or GLX app with great performance.
Therein lies another problem, I've bought a PS3 already, and am having a really good time with Motorstorm, Resistance and Ninja Gaiden Sigma..but they have not provided the support for GPU acceleration in linux, and do not seem poised to do so in the near future.
If they did decide to finally release the source for the GPU, I think we would start to see a lot of really cool stuff in PS3 Linux. Yellowdog will be releasing 5.02 (now with wireless drivers) for the PS3 soon but its not free, though Ubuntu 7.04 is also available free, as is the beta for Ubuntu's Gutsy Gibbon.
Kinda interesting also that the PS3 has contributed in excess of 400 Teraflops to the Folding@home project.
*boggle* I've been using a Linux based Motorola phone for over 2 years, this model is about 4 years old.
When I last posted about my Motorola e680i (a low priced phone, for the China market) the only responses I got here were that I was elitist and linux phones weren't for everyone..
pfeh..now all of a sudden its cool.
There are a couple on sale on ebay at the moment from $36 to $195.
I like good sound, and I have decent surround setups for both of my TVs and my computer. However, I'm not a huge stickler. I can't tell the difference between say a 128kb MP3 and the original lossless WAV file.
If you can't tell the difference between 128kb and lossless formats, its quite likely that your source either sucked originally, or your speakers aren't good enough.
If you try "audiophile grade" earphones, headphones or speakers (Grado, Shure, Klipsch, Etymotic Research etc) you will likely hear a big difference between the two. The side effect of buying higher end audio equipment is it makes your mp3s harder to enjoy, I've since switched to ripping my CDs in FLAC.
Yeah, because all those grandmothers buying the Wii are l33t h@x0r pirates. Get a life.
While we're on the subject of ad hominem attacks.. Get your head out of your ass, Nintendo fanboi.
You honestly believe grandmothers are the ones who are wiping these consoles off the shelves?
I'm sure the wii has the largest following of elderly gamers of any console to date, but you think the sales to the older folks even accounts for 5% of the wii sales? I think you're deluded.
And yes, people are pirating wii games, as well as Xbox360, PSP, Gamecube, PC and games from every single platform that has had its DRM bypassed. Just because you're not doing it doesn't mean its not prevalent.
As far as cracking the PS3 copy protection which will be done sooner or later I assume you have a cheap collection of Blu-Ray disks that you can afford to copy your games to. That and that alone makes copying PS3 games expensive. This was one of the reasons why the PS2 had DVD since coping games to a DVD was expensive in 2000. Over time as Blu-Ray disks come down in price you will start to see pirating of games but this becomes a none event when you can get second-hand games and even some newer games fairly cheap.
HDloaders. Rip or FTP/Samba the files over to a harddrive. No burning involved. As far as bluray is concerned I don't think it will happen any time soon.
People generally do not download or pirate bargain bin or older titles. They do it with the latest releases, preferably before they hit store shelves.
I think one of the strongest selling points for the Wii is that there are modchips already available. And you can download and burn games onto DVDRs.
Its likely that once the PS3s copy protection has been broken, their sales will increase drastically (much more so than a price cut would induce.) Because even without the relative availability and affordability of bluray burners, being able to easily swap out the harddrive (or hack the interface to fit a full size 3.5" SATA drive) will work.
This also seemed to be the case with the Xbox 360 hacked drive firmware and the PSP downgrades. I'm not sure if anyone has tabulated any sales figures, pre or post each consoles DRM being defeated, but I'm willing to wager those numbers would look quite interesting.
I'm sure this is a bad thing (tm) for software publishers and developers, but as far as the competition for the number of consoles sold goes, having your DRM cracked = console sales.
You forgot also that no chicken is capable of sending a thermonuclear device into a chicken coop halfway around the planet and wiping them out because they looked at them funny.
Cos the day chickens could do that I'd be welcoming a new overlord..
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FUD.
You do not need drivers for your mouse or monitor to work in Vista or XP for that matter. Drivers may allow some additional functionality, but nothing that I've ever seen to be necessary in either OS.
I've installed vista on numerous PCs, at home, in the office and on an old Lenovo R50e. I've not had hardware conflicts, I've not experienced instability, and the only showstopping incompatibility I've experienced is ironically with MS' own.NET Framework 1.1.
I've managed to find drivers for every card and peripheral except an older Soundblaster.
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removing PS/2 ports will allow for even smaller motherboard form factors as well as a marginal cost reduction in manufacture. Besides Model Ms are available in USB flavor, or you could always use a PS/2 - USB adapter.
PATA is long overdue to be obsoleted, even optical drives are starting to come in SATA interface configurations. Next to go should be PCI slots.
The only way I could see someone bragging to the average joe about their fastest most kickass rig is if high end gaming PCs cost as much as Ferraris.
Hmmm...
1) Build Rigs that run 50% faster than the latest Dell offerings.
2) Spray casing Ferrari Red
3) Price at $500,000 per unit..
4) Profit!
I spent 5 years in Missouri for college, 3 in a rural town (population 20,000 something) the explanation I got for the difference in pronunciation was that those who were born and raised in Missouri pronounced it "Mizz-ooo-ruh" to differentiate themselves from "city-slickers" and those who were just residents of the State of Missouri.
I'm still not sure why its the "Show Me State" though.
The difference is that with online play or at a lanparty, the otherwise meaningless repetition of playing through the same level over and over again, is made meaningful by having copious amounts of fresh meat, who will hopefully start behaving differently after I've nailed them in the head with an AK-47 for the third consecutive round.
Playing said level single player or against bots (as is the case with platformers like mario) is entirely pointless, unless it is to familiarize yourself with the level in order to "pwn some n00bs" at a later date.
Nintendo has repeatedly resisted and refused to incorporate online play as a component of their consoles and games. Yes I do own a Wii, but its collecting dust in my living room, the novelty wore off in about 2 weeks. Its modded and yes I do have a considerable amount of bandwidth with which to download wii games, but I can't even be bothered frankly.
My PS3 is only occasionally used right now (busy with work these few months) mainly to play Ninja Gaiden.
what is this sun of which you speak? I've only read references to it in ancient mythology, seems like a pretty unhealthy thing, caused skin cancer, melted wax-based wings and whatnot..
Good grief. Please learn English.
The simple fact is that there is *NO* supporting evidence for the Earth being round.
Until some is uncovered, your thoughts are just pure speculation.
A century or so ago, everyone just assumed that the Earth was round. Guess what? We they fell right off the edge. Not too long ago people assumed there was a way to circumnavigate the globe. Guess what? They're laying at the bottom of the salty abyss now.
I hate to burst your bubble, but "the globe" is just a relatively flat "square landmass". Astronomically speaking, it's really, really, really flat. Almost non-spherical. You may think sailors find "a way", but nobody has been able to sail around the world.
Halo and Halo have also "lived" on PCs. Though they had to be running Windows, they most definately were not consoles.
Not a chance..I assure you they will try to extract a monthly "Live" fee from you if you wish to play Gears of war online.
I concur. I have vista business installed on an almost 2yr old Thinkpad R50e. its a Pentium M 1.7Ghz (single core) with 768mb ram and onboard intel integrated graphics, I did upgrade to an 80GB seagate IDE 2.5" though.
I use the "Windows Classic" interface on both Vista and XP, both are clean installs with OEM versions of windows. Guess what, vista boots faster than XP. Also there is no really discernable difference in speed between launching applications between XP and Vista (delay of a 2 or 3 seconds at most), though I don't play games on this laptop.
As for the responsiveness of the OS it doesn't feel any more slow or sluggish than XP does.
In fact, Vista only trails Ubuntu's bootup by maybe 4 or 5 seconds on the same hardware.
Yes it does have bluetooth, but I'm not sure if it suffers the ringtone issue you've described, I don't own a bluetooth headset (nor do I use the phone while driving)
The handwriting recognition is pretty good and doesn't need training, but I usually use the virtual qwerty keyboard and stylus, as such sending messages on this phone is a 2 handed affair.
I know the A1200 and the E6 Rokr are both also running Linux, and the bluetooth/ringtone works fine on those.
Actually yes to almost all your questions. With the time/money/inclination you can do probably all of the above.
You can find out more at http://www.motorolafans.com/ not my site, but thats where I download firmware updates, apps, read up on the latest projects etc.
Therein lies another problem, I've bought a PS3 already, and am having a really good time with Motorstorm, Resistance and Ninja Gaiden Sigma..but they have not provided the support for GPU acceleration in linux, and do not seem poised to do so in the near future.
If they did decide to finally release the source for the GPU, I think we would start to see a lot of really cool stuff in PS3 Linux.
Yellowdog will be releasing 5.02 (now with wireless drivers) for the PS3 soon but its not free, though Ubuntu 7.04 is also available free, as is the beta for Ubuntu's Gutsy Gibbon.
Kinda interesting also that the PS3 has contributed in excess of 400 Teraflops to the Folding@home project.
*boggle* I've been using a Linux based Motorola phone for over 2 years, this model is about 4 years old.
When I last posted about my Motorola e680i (a low priced phone, for the China market) the only responses I got here were that I was elitist and linux phones weren't for everyone..
pfeh..now all of a sudden its cool.
There are a couple on sale on ebay at the moment from $36 to $195.
The original xbox had a better GPU than the PS2, look where that got them.
Regardless of the hardware, I'd say developer support is the most important. Well that and bribing developers for exclusives doesn't hurt either.
OS/2 Warp was available on CDs or a huge stack of 1.44 Floppys.
If you can't tell the difference between 128kb and lossless formats, its quite likely that your source either sucked originally, or your speakers aren't good enough.
If you try "audiophile grade" earphones, headphones or speakers (Grado, Shure, Klipsch, Etymotic Research etc) you will likely hear a big difference between the two. The side effect of buying higher end audio equipment is it makes your mp3s harder to enjoy, I've since switched to ripping my CDs in FLAC.
http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html
I'd argue that at least Diablo was fairly genre defining, if not revolutionary in its implementation.
:P
I can't seem to recall any games that were "Diablo style" back in the day. And no, Nethack doesn't count
Actually you do still get the BSOD, before it restarts. Default settings restart after a BSOD and generate a memory dump in your root directory.
BSODs are in my experience almost always caused by hardware failures. Though sometimes driver problems or a corrupted OS will also generate them.
My vote is for CLustered Units of Multiple Processors.
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While we're on the subject of ad hominem attacks.. Get your head out of your ass, Nintendo fanboi.
You honestly believe grandmothers are the ones who are wiping these consoles off the shelves?
I'm sure the wii has the largest following of elderly gamers of any console to date, but you think the sales to the older folks even accounts for 5% of the wii sales? I think you're deluded.
And yes, people are pirating wii games, as well as Xbox360, PSP, Gamecube, PC and games from every single platform that has had its DRM bypassed. Just because you're not doing it doesn't mean its not prevalent.
Refer to today's news if necessary.
HDloaders. Rip or FTP/Samba the files over to a harddrive. No burning involved. As far as bluray is concerned I don't think it will happen any time soon.
People generally do not download or pirate bargain bin or older titles. They do it with the latest releases, preferably before they hit store shelves.
From your link. then "veggie abuse" trailer is "age gated"
It wanted me to download a suspicious plugin to view it though, something about MS windows media player 11, I closed the tab right around there.
I think one of the strongest selling points for the Wii is that there are modchips already available. And you can download and burn games onto DVDRs.
Its likely that once the PS3s copy protection has been broken, their sales will increase drastically (much more so than a price cut would induce.) Because even without the relative availability and affordability of bluray burners, being able to easily swap out the harddrive (or hack the interface to fit a full size 3.5" SATA drive) will work.
This also seemed to be the case with the Xbox 360 hacked drive firmware and the PSP downgrades. I'm not sure if anyone has tabulated any sales figures, pre or post each consoles DRM being defeated, but I'm willing to wager those numbers would look quite interesting.
I'm sure this is a bad thing (tm) for software publishers and developers, but as far as the competition for the number of consoles sold goes, having your DRM cracked = console sales.
You forgot also that no chicken is capable of sending a thermonuclear device into a chicken coop halfway around the planet and wiping them out because they looked at them funny.
Cos the day chickens could do that I'd be welcoming a new overlord..
FUD.
.NET Framework 1.1.
You do not need drivers for your mouse or monitor to work in Vista or XP for that matter. Drivers may allow some additional functionality, but nothing that I've ever seen to be necessary in either OS.
I've installed vista on numerous PCs, at home, in the office and on an old Lenovo R50e. I've not had hardware conflicts, I've not experienced instability, and the only showstopping incompatibility I've experienced is ironically with MS' own
I've managed to find drivers for every card and peripheral except an older Soundblaster.