I didnt say it was the dvd FORMAT that cuases it, for christsakes. What I'm saying is that custom made drives arent neccissarily going to be less reliable. Oh, and I didn't get modded up, its called a Karma bonus, anonymous coward.
Then why did the drives on PS2's suck so much? Those damn crappy stabalizers broke, the lasers fucked, the whole shebang. The Xbox has also had a fairly bad reputation with its drive. The Gamecube, with its custom drive? Works perfectly. I guess Nintendo should've bought an off the shelf dvd drive to use in the gamecube, right?
HAVe you ever played a virtual boy? They sucked. I'm sure they could make something better, that didn't make you throw up, but then all the sony-trolls on/. would need something else to make fun of the Revoltion & DS for.
Its modded troll presumably because you don't know what your talking about. The "revolutionary" features are yet unnannounced, says Nintendo. Being smaller and having better graphics is not the revolution. (Hell, the pres of Nintendo even said, the better graphics are becoming moot anyway, as games get closer and closer to photorealism theres eventually a limit you hit, i.e. graphics is not the wave of the future)
You don't have a DVD drive already? Their 40$ you cheap basterd, my dvd player was cheaper than the xbox dvd remote. Everyone has a dvd player, and nobody bought a xbox to play dvd movies. Nobody. I heard japanesse people bought the ps2 as a dvd player because it was cheaper at the time, but it wont be this time. The reason some developers didnt like the cartridge format is because n64 carts were like 8mb, and a cd is 700. Square likes cutscenes, which wouldn't fit on a cart. The Revolution uses 12cm discs, and theyre blu-ray discs if I recall. They will have equal, or near equal (possibly higher?) capacity then the xbox (still uses standard DVD's) and who knows for the PS3. Also, 99.99% of games dont use the full DVD disc anyway, so the gamecubes smaller (2GB?) discs weren't much of an issue. As I said before, the Revolution uses 12cm disks, with a higher capacity. Think before you post.
I guess the big N are counting on this console once again appealing to hardcore gameplayers, especially since you can't watch DVDs on this.
Uh, EVERYONE has a dvd player now, who cares. Nobody bought an xbox for watching DVD's (not to mention the required 50$ remote) I don't know a single non-gamer (the majority of my friends) who watches dvd's on their xbox or ps2.
Not to mention, adding this drives up the price and drives up the complexity, which drives down the quality (I'm not saying the DVD funtionality is what causes xbox and ps2 drives to break so often, but complexity always makes things less stable)
Water cooling doesn't mean the xbox360 is faster. It could be designed crappy, with bad airflow. Hell, if the revolution is that small, it wouldnt need water cooling. Also, the water cooling could've been added to make the xb360 sound that much powerfull, a marketing ploy, which if true, you've fallen for.
You really think Nintendo would FORCE it? I'd imagine its more of a parental option, so parents can stop their kids from trading pokeman with strangers, or planning to meet this kid he met on PokemanOnline down at the park. Obviously there is NO way Nintendo could actually think this would work for *everyone*, what if some adult doesnt have any friends who play video games? Or maybe it just matchmakes games with people you know preferably, etc etc.
How would culling work? Does it like project a 3D scene out into your room, if so then it would have to be a pretty powerful machine, since you couldn't cull none visible polygons. What would the viewing distance on something like this be? Hmm I'm having a hard time imagining but major props to the big N if they pull it off.
I want one of these dudes for christmas
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Imagine waking up christmas morning, and one of your presents jumps up into the air? That would rock. Everyone will want an exploding toad for christmas.
-List an example of a program (besides games, windows wins there) that there isnt a counterpart for on *nix (since OSX can run linux apps)
-Hardware on linux is much better on Linux than it is on Windows, where have you been the last 3 years? The only concievable issue with hardware is the REALLY obscure stuff, but otherwise drivers are fine, if not better on linux. If you took the supported hardware list of linux and XP, linux's would be much larger. Especially when you count legacy hardware (such as ISA stuff)
The reason it doesn't happen is because it's alot of work. You have to redo EVERY piece of artwork. Plus, most games try and use (with the exception of that Barbie Horserider game thing possibly) the whole disk. Therefore if windwaker used a whole disk, and redone graphics would make it use a disk and a half (because of the lack of textures needed in its cel shaded world), then how is it going to fit on one disk with the new Zelda GCN?
Yeah, Linux GUI is way better than Windows, but its no where near OSX. Sad to say, since I'm a big fan of Linux (I use Gentoo actually) but it's the truth. The OSX GUI let's you get work done so much faster, but still lets you fall back on its unix command line.
A big part of this, I believe, is it's lack of theme support. At first thats a really annoything thing. Even for colors - you have the choice of Aqua or Slate. Think about it though. This means that apps always look the way they're intended. Setting the Main BG color in linux/windows to black causes alot of problems, some apps dont use the system colors for fonts and use black automatically, and buttons can sometimes look out of place with the rest of the colors (more so in windows, those buttons are damn ugly) in OSX you don't have to worry about that. Luckily the default theme is beautiful, unlike default KDE/Gnome/Windows etc.
Then he waves a low powered laser around in the sky? Oh noessss! The deadly horror.
I doubt some trailor trash is going to get hired to do the job anyway, and hell I bet it will be controlled by computers, how could a human do it very good? (No I haven't read TFA) Now, what would happen if the computer got bored? Scary indeed.
You do realize most apps that run on linux work in OSX? Right now I'm running X11 along with OSX's window server (quartz or something), so you have plenty of free apps you cheap basterd. What do you mean Firefox is better when its not in OSX? I'm failing to see a difference, I've had my mini since it came out, and my PC runs Gentoo (which means its up to date;)) and the only difference I can see is the close/max/min buttons are on the left in osx:)
Modern X font rendering? I prefer OSX's thank you very much. They both look equally nice, but in OSX I don't have to spend hours getting things working.
You can repair and upgrade OSX - it's still a BSD. For example, you can still get all that scrolling boot text ala *nix by changing a setting in the BIOS to remove the bootup framebuffer. You can do anything in OSX that you can in BSD. Just some of the things aren't open source, like Aqua. If that bothers you, you can switch to only X11 and use KDE.
Oh, and show me a PC that is 1.5--2x cheaper than a Mac Mini, with equivelent hardware (That rules out the Dell knock off pc's) and with the same software bundle. (I hate to tell you, but some open source apps aren't as good as their closed source counterparts. iLife just plain rocks.)
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I didnt say it was the dvd FORMAT that cuases it, for christsakes. What I'm saying is that custom made drives arent neccissarily going to be less reliable. Oh, and I didn't get modded up, its called a Karma bonus, anonymous coward.
Then why did the drives on PS2's suck so much? Those damn crappy stabalizers broke, the lasers fucked, the whole shebang. The Xbox has also had a fairly bad reputation with its drive. The Gamecube, with its custom drive? Works perfectly. I guess Nintendo should've bought an off the shelf dvd drive to use in the gamecube, right?
HAVe you ever played a virtual boy? They sucked. I'm sure they could make something better, that didn't make you throw up, but then all the sony-trolls on /. would need something else to make fun of the Revoltion & DS for.
Its modded troll presumably because you don't know what your talking about. The "revolutionary" features are yet unnannounced, says Nintendo. Being smaller and having better graphics is not the revolution. (Hell, the pres of Nintendo even said, the better graphics are becoming moot anyway, as games get closer and closer to photorealism theres eventually a limit you hit, i.e. graphics is not the wave of the future)
You don't have a DVD drive already? Their 40$ you cheap basterd, my dvd player was cheaper than the xbox dvd remote. Everyone has a dvd player, and nobody bought a xbox to play dvd movies. Nobody. I heard japanesse people bought the ps2 as a dvd player because it was cheaper at the time, but it wont be this time. The reason some developers didnt like the cartridge format is because n64 carts were like 8mb, and a cd is 700. Square likes cutscenes, which wouldn't fit on a cart. The Revolution uses 12cm discs, and theyre blu-ray discs if I recall. They will have equal, or near equal (possibly higher?) capacity then the xbox (still uses standard DVD's) and who knows for the PS3. Also, 99.99% of games dont use the full DVD disc anyway, so the gamecubes smaller (2GB?) discs weren't much of an issue. As I said before, the Revolution uses 12cm disks, with a higher capacity. Think before you post.
I guess the big N are counting on this console once again appealing to hardcore gameplayers, especially since you can't watch DVDs on this.
Uh, EVERYONE has a dvd player now, who cares. Nobody bought an xbox for watching DVD's (not to mention the required 50$ remote) I don't know a single non-gamer (the majority of my friends) who watches dvd's on their xbox or ps2.
Not to mention, adding this drives up the price and drives up the complexity, which drives down the quality (I'm not saying the DVD funtionality is what causes xbox and ps2 drives to break so often, but complexity always makes things less stable)
Water cooling doesn't mean the xbox360 is faster. It could be designed crappy, with bad airflow. Hell, if the revolution is that small, it wouldnt need water cooling. Also, the water cooling could've been added to make the xb360 sound that much powerfull, a marketing ploy, which if true, you've fallen for.
You really think Nintendo would FORCE it? I'd imagine its more of a parental option, so parents can stop their kids from trading pokeman with strangers, or planning to meet this kid he met on PokemanOnline down at the park. Obviously there is NO way Nintendo could actually think this would work for *everyone*, what if some adult doesnt have any friends who play video games? Or maybe it just matchmakes games with people you know preferably, etc etc.
You know whats funnier? "Informed" AC's.
I'd consider PSP a major system from Sony, yet it didn't come out Q4
You need a UMD burner, retard. UMD is not a minicd. Of course, by project, you mean "warez" project. Duh.
Why did I have to buy the mac mini? I want one of these guys instead!
How would culling work? Does it like project a 3D scene out into your room, if so then it would have to be a pretty powerful machine, since you couldn't cull none visible polygons. What would the viewing distance on something like this be? Hmm I'm having a hard time imagining but major props to the big N if they pull it off.
Imagine waking up christmas morning, and one of your presents jumps up into the air? That would rock. Everyone will want an exploding toad for christmas.
Have you seen that start menu? More usable? It's got a motherfucking scrollbar inside of a fucking menu.
Whats next, a row of ugly windows tabs, with some hidden, or even better multiple rows of tabs?
-List an example of a program (besides games, windows wins there) that there isnt a counterpart for on *nix (since OSX can run linux apps)
-Hardware on linux is much better on Linux than it is on Windows, where have you been the last 3 years? The only concievable issue with hardware is the REALLY obscure stuff, but otherwise drivers are fine, if not better on linux. If you took the supported hardware list of linux and XP, linux's would be much larger. Especially when you count legacy hardware (such as ISA stuff)
The reason it doesn't happen is because it's alot of work. You have to redo EVERY piece of artwork. Plus, most games try and use (with the exception of that Barbie Horserider game thing possibly) the whole disk. Therefore if windwaker used a whole disk, and redone graphics would make it use a disk and a half (because of the lack of textures needed in its cel shaded world), then how is it going to fit on one disk with the new Zelda GCN?
Sorry but that was dropped. Theres still something called WinFS, but it's not the same as what your saying.
Anyway, OSX has HFS+, which is *similar* to the idea of winfs, and hey look I'm using an HFS+ drive now, can anyone say that about WinFS?
In my book that makes Longhorn the winner by two country miles.
Yeah, Linux GUI is way better than Windows, but its no where near OSX. Sad to say, since I'm a big fan of Linux (I use Gentoo actually) but it's the truth. The OSX GUI let's you get work done so much faster, but still lets you fall back on its unix command line.
A big part of this, I believe, is it's lack of theme support. At first thats a really annoything thing. Even for colors - you have the choice of Aqua or Slate. Think about it though. This means that apps always look the way they're intended. Setting the Main BG color in linux/windows to black causes alot of problems, some apps dont use the system colors for fonts and use black automatically, and buttons can sometimes look out of place with the rest of the colors (more so in windows, those buttons are damn ugly) in OSX you don't have to worry about that. Luckily the default theme is beautiful, unlike default KDE/Gnome/Windows etc.
OSX is pretty and functional, both 100 times than anything you could do with windows.
Haha, too bad the whole point is to cut down on sending up the F16's because it costs too much. RTFA next time.
Then he waves a low powered laser around in the sky? Oh noessss! The deadly horror.
I doubt some trailor trash is going to get hired to do the job anyway, and hell I bet it will be controlled by computers, how could a human do it very good? (No I haven't read TFA) Now, what would happen if the computer got bored? Scary indeed.
If by million you mean million divided by a half million, then you are indeed correct.
You do realize most apps that run on linux work in OSX? Right now I'm running X11 along with OSX's window server (quartz or something), so you have plenty of free apps you cheap basterd. What do you mean Firefox is better when its not in OSX? I'm failing to see a difference, I've had my mini since it came out, and my PC runs Gentoo (which means its up to date ;)) and the only difference I can see is the close/max/min buttons are on the left in osx :)
Modern X font rendering? I prefer OSX's thank you very much. They both look equally nice, but in OSX I don't have to spend hours getting things working.
You can repair and upgrade OSX - it's still a BSD. For example, you can still get all that scrolling boot text ala *nix by changing a setting in the BIOS to remove the bootup framebuffer. You can do anything in OSX that you can in BSD. Just some of the things aren't open source, like Aqua. If that bothers you, you can switch to only X11 and use KDE.
Oh, and show me a PC that is 1.5--2x cheaper than a Mac Mini, with equivelent hardware (That rules out the Dell knock off pc's) and with the same software bundle. (I hate to tell you, but some open source apps aren't as good as their closed source counterparts. iLife just plain rocks.)
I'd rather have a kickass spankin' new telescope than old rusty Hubble. All respect to it, those images were neat, but no need to hang to it anymore.