What about a player that lets you re-cut a movie with the footage on the DVD? Say so that you could make a version of SW:TPM without JAR-JAR.
Or how about a cut-sheet for Memento that shows the movie in the correct order? (Something they didn't do in the DVD)
Or a hundred other movies that you could show in different orders for dramatic/comedic effect. You could re-cut the simpsons dvd and make a whole new episode. mmmmmm Simpsons.
They didn't do that to make money, the ROB was Nintendo's ticket into the world of TOYS!. Yes, if you study your history, the way that nintendo marketed their game system was as a toy and NOT as a computer. The ROB helped give that image to comsumers. Also, they had to break the stigma generated by the gaming crash of 1984 against home video game systems.
Ethernet? BFD.... the only people who even know what ethernet is are the geeks on/.
If the X-Box is easy to network for LAN style parties, then the ethernet will be a useful feature. Otherwise, is everyone going to have to split their cable modem/DsL to get this thing online? I mean what's the point of having a modem/ethernet at all if you never hook it up? Not one person I knew of 4 ever hooked up their Dreamcast to the internet and it wa built in. Is the X-Box/PS2/GC going to be the same. You don't want to browse the WEB on a TV (well at least I don't).
Too right Dave, too right. MS-Dos wasn't required until Win95 was released and they shut down any attempt to use the 'other' dosses that were out there.
I wonder what Bill and Co. would to have done if they had controlled the hardware from the start? I think that we'd all be using apples right now. Cause they would to have tried to control the HW platform too much. The reason that the PC is the number one platform by numbers is that back in the day, when nobody could make any other type of computer, you could always make a PC. The same thing happened to VHS. Since more companies could make VHS, there were more on the market.
The prevailing thought that you can hire just anyone to administer a NT box is just crazy. Have you really thought about that claim? Can you take anyone off the street, and sit them down in front of a NT box and have them start administrating it ? no you can't, same goes for unix. Just because everything has a GUI for windows doesn't make it easier to use. It just makes it look easier to use. You still have to have the same knowledge of the internet, of TCP/IP, of security holes ( and how to plug them ) in either case.
What makes unix more expensive in the long run is that MS, unlike unix, makes it harder to change the WAY in which you do things on your machine. Take the boot system for example, every linux distro has a slightly different way to set up the runlevels. SuSE, RedHat, Debian all differ slightly in the way they start the daemons on boot right? Why, because Unix is set up to be changeable in the way that is non-standard. You can set up any way for starting these programs, even your own Runlevel system if you so please. Thus a Sysadmin ( especially one who doesn't know anything) can come in and change it all around to fit her view of the system. Not document anything and then leave the company, leaving the next Sysadmin with a pile of usless scripts that must be decoded or destroyed.
Windows on the other hand, makes it very HARD to change the way things of that nature work. You can't (easily) start defining your own boot system. If you learn how to change the services on one box, then you can for ALL windows boxes in the world. Thus if a sys admin leaves, it's much easier to replace them since all the windows machines are the same no matter where you go.
His point isn't that NT/XP is full of holes (linux and NT have the same number of security holes if your admin is bad) , it's that people assume it is because you pay for it!
It's the same with speaker wire. People assume that monster wire for speakers / Svideo/whatever is better because it is more expensive. However, most of the time, you can go to the local hardware store and get 12 gauge wire that is the same or better and solder your own connections. The difference is that the latter is harder and most people want a guarantee ( even if it is worthless).
Yes, the dreamcast had a liquid based cooling system for it's graphics processor. Rather then have a HUGE heatsink, they had liquid filled pipe that circulated over the processor and then a fan. Unlike the Largest heatsink in the world that the PS2 has. The X-Box probably has a huge HS as well. ( not as big as the one they would be using if the had gone with athlon ).
The only reason that the DirectX api is developing quickly is because MS see it as necessary to move quickly, right now. As soon as they don't see sales go up they will stop developing the API. If (and this is an if I don't want to bash) the XBox fails, I don't think they will continue to develop the API as quickly as they have been in the past.
DirectX is not a bad thing, but as soon as it's unprofitable, it will be dropped.
Layers had to go, the new DOM makes all elements like layers, with the exception that you can't position the new tag as easily as layers. The p tag is just a bad tag IMHO.
I totatly agree with you, but the people creating the sites are not the ones that are making those design decisions. "The customer is always right" is a phrase that comes to mind when I think about this subject. The people paying the web developers to make the sites make the decisions about how the site looks. As a web developer, I get to push people to the 'low bandwith/faster/easier' direction, but if a customer wants that 500k background picture, then there is nothing I can do to stop them. Same goes for any 'feature' of a website, be it flash, applet, javascript, or movies.
Why haven't there been more research into interlaced style images, so that you could say... download half the image if you wanted to. Get an IDEA of what the image looked like, then download the rest if you really wanted. What happened to all those fractal image comression techniques that were supposed to make downloading images a joy instead of a pain. Some of them were really cool, letting you zoom in on the picts and stuff, with very, very small file sizes. Alas, no browser uses them.
Don't forget that Resident Evil 4 is a GameCube Exclusive! And that the GC Zelda (despite all claims) will rock. I'll be getting a GC, not at launch cause I don't want to fight the crowds. Maybe in Jan/Feb.
After reading this article I tried to type in a few words to this GREAT product and I realized that MS is not really trying to be evil or 1984ish or whatever. It's just selling us a bad product.
Type in 'hello' and got the Thesaurus, you'll get
a box that says to replace with the following synonyms:
ciao
hi
goodbye
so long
see you later
Are goodbye and so long synonyms for hello? According to the default Word Thesaurus they are. I don't write a lot of documents, and I don't know english as well as I should, and so I rely on computers to tell me what is correct and what is not. In other words they note that some words given to queries are actually antonyms.
In my opinion, it's just a bad product, not an evil plot to change the world. Also, don't forget that this is the DEFAULT thesaurus, you can add your own words if you want to. The DEFAULT thesaurus is designed to apply to the LARGEST possible market (everyone) which means that it has to cater to the lowest common denominator. I bet that most people don't ever even use the Thesaurus.
I think that no matter what company you choose as your umbrella for your information it will be unsecure. The harder it is to get my data, the better. Sun, MS, IBM, whomever has it will not make it safe. I guess my question is why do we want this technology? Will it make us more efficient?
What does this technology do that I can't do already?
Will I be able to show faster with MS wallet?
I guess that a unified workspace would be nice, but I don't think that the WEB is the way to do it.
Actually, that's Sony's mantra. The PS1 has a way of not working after about a year or so im many (not all) cases. Mine only works correctly when it's on it's side, for about 2 years now. Maybe I shouldn't to have chipped it..
Assuming that the people who program it can get their graphical heads out of their arses long enough to make a game that is FUN to play and not just another clone or Doom.
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For myself, I have massive problems with IE all the time. Both on my work PC and my home. Ever since I 'upgraded' to version 6, it seems to be LESS responsive and work LESS of the time. Thanks to the slow proxy at work, it will sometimes LOCK UP on my machine until the page is loaded, no status, no response. Just a white window after I hide/show it. Mozilla at least show me some sort of progress bar.
Your results may vary.
Maybe it's just my machines, but I feel that IE 6 is less stable then Mozilla, at least I know that mozilla will crash when I do certain things, but I never know when IE will crash/stop responding.
I just looked up the info @ ign.com (we all know how reliable the internet is... ) and they say that the xbox processor is at 250mhz. (http://xbox.ign.com/hardware/168.html)
Also, they say that the memory speed of the xbox is 200mhz. I don't know if they are doubling the memory bandwith by using 2 buses, but assuming they are it's like a 400mhz bus. Considering that the Geforce 2 Pro has the same claimed memory bandwidth (6.4 Ghz) (http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/01q4/011001/ titanium-02.html)
The MAX performance that this chip will have will be somewhere around the level of a Geforce 2 Pro that is overclocked. However, one major counter to this is the fact that the GF2 has it's own memory and own buses to memory. It has to contend with the main processor for memory bandwidth. This will cause a huge loss in performance. How much? Who knows, but it can only get worse if they reduced the size of the caches on the XBox Pentium CPU.
Yes, I'm a Sony supporter. I just want to get that damn hd and play with linux on my ps2.!!!
I don't think that the XBox has a geforce 3 in it. I'm fairly sure that it's more similar to the nForce chipset ( except with an AMD processor rather then the Intel P3 they use in the XBOX ). So it's probably a Geforce 2 MX level chip.
It's not like that whole region has billions of our dollars. It's only a select few who do. The average person in that area doesn't have a pot to piss in.
The top ten downloads according to MS themself are......
Top Downloads
1. Internet Explorer 6
2. Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2
3. Windows Media Player 7.1
4. Internet Explorer Security Update: (IE 5.5 SP1 and Internet Tools)
5. DirectX for Windows 95, 98 and Windows Me
6. MSN Messenger Service
7. Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 2
8. Internet Explorer Security Update: Late May 2001 5.5 SP1
9. Internet Explorer Security Update: (IE 5.01 SP1)
10. Office 2000 Service Release 1a (SR-1a) Update
Yes.. about half of this list comprises security updates to the MS browser.
DirectX is a monster, it does more then just 3 things. According the newest SDK from MS, here are the features of 8.1
Microsoft® DirectX® 8.1 is made up of the following components.
DirectX Graphics combines the Microsoft® DirectDraw® and Microsoft® Direct3D® components of previous DirectX versions into a single application programming interface (API) that you can use for all graphics programming. The component includes the Direct3DX utility library that simplifies many graphics programming tasks.
DirectX Audio combines the Microsoft® DirectSound® and Microsoft® DirectMusic® components of previous DirectX versions into a single API that you can use for all audio programming.
Microsoft® DirectInput® provides support for a variety of input devices, including full support for force-feedback technology.
Microsoft® DirectPlay® provides support for multiplayer networked games.
Microsoft® DirectShow® provides for high-quality capture and playback of multimedia streams.
Microsoft DirectSetup is a simple API that provides one-call installation of the DirectX components.
Also, you can use DX from VB and before they killed support for it, Java as well. Why would you want to use it from VB/Java? Prototyping a game is a good idea. Anyway, DX will win because in the end, programmers (in the general sense) are like everyone else, they are lazy. The API that provides the most bang for the buck will win.
It looks great, but in actuality does it matter if you can have a full outlook client if you have to recharge the batteries every 10 minutes? These guys should take a cue from Nintendo, the maker of the longest lasting handheld monopoly, Game Boy and get a screen that uses next to nothing for power. I've got a Visor Prism (don't ask, dot commie mistake) and it also looks great but the batteries don't last that long under use. You should be able to use these things for multiple days without recharge or swap of batteries. The new GB (not advance) lasts for a whole day on only a single battery. If Palm can keep up it's crazy long battery life then I think that it can beat MS. Handhelds are good in areas where using a laptop is problematic, not tethered to a power supply.
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What about a player that lets you re-cut a movie with the footage on the DVD? Say so that you could make a version of SW:TPM without JAR-JAR.
Or how about a cut-sheet for Memento that shows the movie in the correct order? (Something they didn't do in the DVD)
Or a hundred other movies that you could show in different orders for dramatic/comedic effect. You could re-cut the simpsons dvd and make a whole new episode. mmmmmm Simpsons.
They didn't do that to make money, the ROB was Nintendo's ticket into the world of TOYS!. Yes, if you study your history, the way that nintendo marketed their game system was as a toy and NOT as a computer. The ROB helped give that image to comsumers. Also, they had to break the stigma generated by the gaming crash of 1984 against home video game systems.
Ethernet? BFD.... the only people who even know what ethernet is are the geeks on /.
If the X-Box is easy to network for LAN style parties, then the ethernet will be a useful feature. Otherwise, is everyone going to have to split their cable modem/DsL to get this thing online? I mean what's the point of having a modem/ethernet at all if you never hook it up? Not one person I knew of 4 ever hooked up their Dreamcast to the internet and it wa built in. Is the X-Box/PS2/GC going to be the same. You don't want to browse the WEB on a TV (well at least I don't).
Too right Dave, too right. MS-Dos wasn't required until Win95 was released and they shut down any attempt to use the 'other' dosses that were out there.
I wonder what Bill and Co. would to have done if they had controlled the hardware from the start? I think that we'd all be using apples right now. Cause they would to have tried to control the HW platform too much. The reason that the PC is the number one platform by numbers is that back in the day, when nobody could make any other type of computer, you could always make a PC. The same thing happened to VHS. Since more companies could make VHS, there were more on the market.
The prevailing thought that you can hire just anyone to administer a NT box is just crazy. Have you really thought about that claim? Can you take anyone off the street, and sit them down in front of a NT box and have them start administrating it ? no you can't, same goes for unix. Just because everything has a GUI for windows doesn't make it easier to use. It just makes it look easier to use. You still have to have the same knowledge of the internet, of TCP/IP, of security holes ( and how to plug them ) in either case.
What makes unix more expensive in the long run is that MS, unlike unix, makes it harder to change the WAY in which you do things on your machine. Take the boot system for example, every linux distro has a slightly different way to set up the runlevels. SuSE, RedHat, Debian all differ slightly in the way they start the daemons on boot right? Why, because Unix is set up to be changeable in the way that is non-standard. You can set up any way for starting these programs, even your own Runlevel system if you so please. Thus a Sysadmin ( especially one who doesn't know anything) can come in and change it all around to fit her view of the system. Not document anything and then leave the company, leaving the next Sysadmin with a pile of usless scripts that must be decoded or destroyed.
Windows on the other hand, makes it very HARD to change the way things of that nature work. You can't (easily) start defining your own boot system. If you learn how to change the services on one box, then you can for ALL windows boxes in the world. Thus if a sys admin leaves, it's much easier to replace them since all the windows machines are the same no matter where you go.
His point isn't that NT/XP is full of holes (linux and NT have the same number of security holes if your admin is bad) , it's that people assume it is because you pay for it!
/whatever is better because it is more expensive. However, most of the time, you can go to the local hardware store and get 12 gauge wire that is the same or better and solder your own connections. The difference is that the latter is harder and most people want a guarantee ( even if it is worthless).
It's the same with speaker wire. People assume that monster wire for speakers / Svideo
Yes, the dreamcast had a liquid based cooling system for it's graphics processor. Rather then have a HUGE heatsink, they had liquid filled pipe that circulated over the processor and then a fan. Unlike the Largest heatsink in the world that the PS2 has. The X-Box probably has a huge HS as well. ( not as big as the one they would be using if the had gone with athlon ).
The only reason that the DirectX api is developing quickly is because MS see it as necessary to move quickly, right now. As soon as they don't see sales go up they will stop developing the API. If (and this is an if I don't want to bash) the XBox fails, I don't think they will continue to develop the API as quickly as they have been in the past.
DirectX is not a bad thing, but as soon as it's unprofitable, it will be dropped.
Both the P tag and the Layer tag were bad.
Layers had to go, the new DOM makes all elements like layers, with the exception that you can't position the new tag as easily as layers. The p tag is just a bad tag IMHO.
I totatly agree with you, but the people creating the sites are not the ones that are making those design decisions. "The customer is always right" is a phrase that comes to mind when I think about this subject. The people paying the web developers to make the sites make the decisions about how the site looks. As a web developer, I get to push people to the 'low bandwith/faster/easier' direction, but if a customer wants that 500k background picture, then there is nothing I can do to stop them. Same goes for any 'feature' of a website, be it flash, applet, javascript, or movies.
Why haven't there been more research into interlaced style images, so that you could say... download half the image if you wanted to. Get an IDEA of what the image looked like, then download the rest if you really wanted. What happened to all those fractal image comression techniques that were supposed to make downloading images a joy instead of a pain. Some of them were really cool, letting you zoom in on the picts and stuff, with very, very small file sizes. Alas, no browser uses them.
Don't forget that Resident Evil 4 is a GameCube Exclusive! And that the GC Zelda (despite all claims) will rock. I'll be getting a GC, not at launch cause I don't want to fight the crowds. Maybe in Jan/Feb.
After reading this article I tried to type in a few words to this GREAT product and I realized that MS is not really trying to be evil or 1984ish or whatever. It's just selling us a bad product.
Type in 'hello' and got the Thesaurus, you'll get
a box that says to replace with the following synonyms:
ciao
hi
goodbye
so long
see you later
Are goodbye and so long synonyms for hello? According to the default Word Thesaurus they are. I don't write a lot of documents, and I don't know english as well as I should, and so I rely on computers to tell me what is correct and what is not. In other words they note that some words given to queries are actually antonyms.
In my opinion, it's just a bad product, not an evil plot to change the world. Also, don't forget that this is the DEFAULT thesaurus, you can add your own words if you want to. The DEFAULT thesaurus is designed to apply to the LARGEST possible market (everyone) which means that it has to cater to the lowest common denominator. I bet that most people don't ever even use the Thesaurus.
I think that no matter what company you choose as your umbrella for your information it will be unsecure. The harder it is to get my data, the better. Sun, MS, IBM, whomever has it will not make it safe. I guess my question is why do we want this technology? Will it make us more efficient?
What does this technology do that I can't do already?
Will I be able to show faster with MS wallet?
I guess that a unified workspace would be nice, but I don't think that the WEB is the way to do it.
Actually, that's Sony's mantra. The PS1 has a way of not working after about a year or so im many (not all) cases. Mine only works correctly when it's on it's side, for about 2 years now. Maybe I shouldn't to have chipped it..
Assuming that the people who program it can get their graphical heads out of their arses long enough to make a game that is FUN to play and not just another clone or Doom.
For myself, I have massive problems with IE all the time. Both on my work PC and my home. Ever since I 'upgraded' to version 6, it seems to be LESS responsive and work LESS of the time. Thanks to the slow proxy at work, it will sometimes LOCK UP on my machine until the page is loaded, no status, no response. Just a white window after I hide/show it. Mozilla at least show me some sort of progress bar.
Your results may vary.
Maybe it's just my machines, but I feel that IE 6 is less stable then Mozilla, at least I know that mozilla will crash when I do certain things, but I never know when IE will crash/stop responding.
I just looked up the info @ ign.com (we all know how reliable the internet is... ) and they say that the xbox processor is at 250mhz. (http://xbox.ign.com/hardware/168.html)
/ titanium-02.html)
Also, they say that the memory speed of the xbox is 200mhz. I don't know if they are doubling the memory bandwith by using 2 buses, but assuming they are it's like a 400mhz bus. Considering that the Geforce 2 Pro has the same claimed memory bandwidth (6.4 Ghz) (http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/01q4/011001
The MAX performance that this chip will have will be somewhere around the level of a Geforce 2 Pro that is overclocked. However, one major counter to this is the fact that the GF2 has it's own memory and own buses to memory. It has to contend with the main processor for memory bandwidth. This will cause a huge loss in performance. How much? Who knows, but it can only get worse if they reduced the size of the caches on the XBox Pentium CPU.
Yes, I'm a Sony supporter. I just want to get that damn hd and play with linux on my ps2.!!!
I don't think that the XBox has a geforce 3 in it. I'm fairly sure that it's more similar to the nForce chipset ( except with an AMD processor rather then the Intel P3 they use in the XBOX ). So it's probably a Geforce 2 MX level chip.
It's not like that whole region has billions of our dollars. It's only a select few who do. The average person in that area doesn't have a pot to piss in.
The top ten downloads according to MS themself are......
Top Downloads
1. Internet Explorer 6
2. Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2
3. Windows Media Player 7.1
4. Internet Explorer Security Update: (IE 5.5 SP1 and Internet Tools)
5. DirectX for Windows 95, 98 and Windows Me
6. MSN Messenger Service
7. Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 2
8. Internet Explorer Security Update: Late May 2001 5.5 SP1
9. Internet Explorer Security Update: (IE 5.01 SP1)
10. Office 2000 Service Release 1a (SR-1a) Update
Yes.. about half of this list comprises security updates to the MS browser.
I think that he means your nickname, or Handle.
Thing is, you program will give different results then the other program. Thanks to the inconsistancies of floating point.
But the PC hardware manufacturers are larger then MS. The software people are not.
It looks great, but in actuality does it matter if you can have a full outlook client if you have to recharge the batteries every 10 minutes? These guys should take a cue from Nintendo, the maker of the longest lasting handheld monopoly, Game Boy and get a screen that uses next to nothing for power. I've got a Visor Prism (don't ask, dot commie mistake) and it also looks great but the batteries don't last that long under use. You should be able to use these things for multiple days without recharge or swap of batteries. The new GB (not advance) lasts for a whole day on only a single battery. If Palm can keep up it's crazy long battery life then I think that it can beat MS. Handhelds are good in areas where using a laptop is problematic, not tethered to a power supply.