I hate it when poeple talk like DNA is this big all encompasing thing. There's nothing in my DNA that tells me to reproduce, etc. So you can't just translate DNA into english. All of your cells, and the handful of braincels work together to unbelievably create the walking chemical reaction that you are, it's a whole big picture, and DNA is just one of the tiny factors in it.
They aren't abandoning ppc. I think stevie said it would take until 2007 until every new product was x86. That's why they are encouragine fat binaries (.app's with x86 and ppc binaries included in one package)
Market share for things like computers also count the amount of people using machines that they haven't upgraded in the past 12 seconds, there are still people running os9, lol, so osx's share is less than apple's overall share. There have been a few studies showing pc users ditch their computers more often than mac users, so that obscures the results. Of course we are talking about osx marketshare, not os9+osx, but when the switch to x86 occurs, it will be with osx, so not all osx users will be on x86 right away, not even close. So, their marketshare can only increase or stay the same, its not like people are going to throw out their macs when the first x86 machines come out (and AFAIK the macmini and ibooks will be the first, whos going to through out a dual G5 powermac because of that?)
65.8% of statistics are pulled out of your ass. 1.9% are mac users? Do you know how many schools have apple computers? All of the educated guesses I've seen (since marketshare % isn't a science) put apple anywhere from 3% to 5%, and as you can tell from recent news, alot of people have made the switch with the macmini, possible boosting them another 1%.
I won't argue with the linux %, since you did say client, and it's kind of hard to seperate servers from clients in statistics (since there isn't a "server" linux distro, they can all be used for clients) so it's just a guess, as valid as any one i could make up. Of course only 3 people use osx as a server, so it doesn't matter obviously.
Nah, Yoshi's Island for the SNES. Level 2-7 I think, called "Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy", if you touched one of the fuzzy cotton balls, the screen would swirl, yoshi's eyes would dialate, the music would go wonky and it would be filled with weird psycadelic colours. I guess thats not insane though, just a stoned dinosaur...
The idea was you sent your iPod in to get "serviced", I had it happen once (under warrenty thank god) and all they did was replace it with a shiny new one (that I managed to drop and scratch right when I got it)
If you weren't under the warrenty, it costed a hair less than a new iPod.
So wait, you mean instead of downloading media files off p2p your downloading cd keys? Well son they don't take up much space, so they don't count.
It's the truth, I'm sorry. Movies are gigabytes, and I have friends that download them like crazy. It surprises me that the traffic in these terratories is only 1TB, I have friends that go through more than that in a week of file sharing.
P2P is used for stealing stuff. Plain and simple. Sure, maybe you (I doubt it, but maybe) use it soley for legal purposes, but 99.99999999999% don't. Do I think it should go away? No, I'm greedy. At least I admit it though. Tell the truth, you downloaded the latest Brittany Spears album didn't you?
Googe is *not* like napster was. Napster was for stealing music, plain and simple. They advertised it as such. They *cached* hand selected (as to google's robot spiders) songs which were popular on their servers. Google is a tool people use to find sites, without search engines the internet would be pretty pointless, and most average joes just wouldn't use it. If Google is comparable to napster, than I'm going to take a leap forward and say that the whole Internet is too. Those sites that stole the copyrighted material, they did so over the internet, and they are accessed by the internet, and without the internet, they wouldn't be available.
Let's sue the internet. So, I guess we go for Al Gore right?
the whole idea of cell doesn't lend well to pc's. It has a slower main core, in the pc its a ppc chip like the G5, and a bunch of SPE's. Good for a server? Sure. Good for OSes, programs and games of the present? No, it would be a huge step back in performance.
Lot's of people are getting sucked into Sony's hype. Hey - I don't have an emotion chip in my computer, what gives Sony?
Oh fuck. I read that as Apple ports developer tools to OSX. How embarassing. I assumed maybe they weren't there, and everyone was crosscompiling for x86 on their ppc's. Crap. Sorry man:(
because they're not? Have you ever used OSX? It's almost completly different. For example, with the dock+expose+the way windows get tiled, you don't need multiple desktops. First thing I did (after installing developer tools, x11 layer etc..) when I got OSX was download a multidesktop hack, but within about 2 days I found it wasn't necissary. Even the hacks that try and make KDE/etc into Aqua don't get it right (I'm assuming they're jsut looking at screenshots or something)
KDE/etc are way closer to windows then Aqua. The whole NeXT (neXt? NEXT? who knows) thing its got going is really different. Having all the windows pseudo PDF's, having everything done in opengl, all the vectorized graphics etc, and thats just visuals. The interface is vastly differnt.
Okay, there are two types of games as I see it. The games you're talking about, typical to the Atari, are "game games". Simple and fun. Personally, I tire of them quickly, but I know they mean something special for some people, and the more modern ones (examples you listed at the end) are actually quite awsome games.
Then there are simulation games. Iw as just looking at a pic of MGS3 (not my cup of tea, but oh well.) It's trying to simulate the real world, stealth and AI as best as possible. Some people really enjoy this. Personally, a defining moment in my video game playing career was playing a used game I got at EB for $2, x-beyond the frontier. It's a space sim, with an economy where you trade crap, buy ships, blow shit up and build factories etc. Not like starcraft or anything, its a persistant universe, and fighting is done through the cockpit of a single ship, maybe using the AI commands to make your other ships attack with you. I remember, the first solar system you land in. The graphics were shit, let me tell you, pure shit. Some alien dudes are talking, the Taladi or something, but the voice acting is crap and you can't understand it. When your flying in the system, the first thing you notice is size. it takes like a minute to fly to the nearest station, as you watch it come closer and closer. The funny thing is, you could see the seams in space, like in the FAR off distance, where the level ended, everything was enclosed in a cube, with the stars textured on, but they did it badly so you could see the edges of the inside of the cube. (/me hands the dev's a tutorial on texturing and lighting) If you play it, and sit back and think about it, each sector, no matter how big it is, is actually small. Distances mean shit in computer graphics, since its all just empty space, so technically, in a sense, its easier to do "big" than small. For some reason though that didn't matter, because I felt like I was flying through space. The cool thing is, in space stations, you had to manually dock until you got the autopilot upgrade. Fly to fast, or not in a straight line, and boom your dead. The sequel X^2 is great too, great graphics.
What am I trying to get at in this off topic post? The simple atari games dont appeal to me, that doesn't mean they don't have soul. If the new fangled first person shooter with a million polys per character doesn't appeal to you, it doesn't mean someone else doesn't, and doesn't mean it doesn't have soul in their perspecitve. It's all about what kind of emotional response you personally get, whether its a joy from the pure mechanics of the game, or immersion from the realistic setting.
Alright, you know all these things are relative? Who made you the sole decider of what has soul or not? I admit I hate most movies/music these days, but the crap:good ratio is about the same as 20 years ago, you just don't remember the crap, you remember the classics. Also, it appears that you've just got a hate-on for new stuff. Did you have to walk 15 miles, in snow, uphill both ways to school when you were a kid?
I have an atari 2600 emulator on my xbox. I can't stand the majority of the games. I'm not a graphics-loving omg-i-need-more-polygons whore, but the graphics are a serious impedement to game play for me. Green blocks and blinking pixels doesn't translate into fun for me. Personally, the NES is where games get fun for me. Tetris doesn't have flashy graphics, but it's fun. It's all personal prefrence. To me, Atari games generally don't have soul, they feel like a neat little program that pushes the crappy hardware to its limits by having more than 4 blocks on the screen at once. When I play em I think wow, the code must be pretty tight, but theres not enough gameplay to get me into the game.
The revolutions controller is supposed to be more accessable, but they've said it won't limit developers or stop ports from other systems, so I think your hopes are doomed.
I wasn't saying that battery life isn't important, it's just that people don't shell out as much money for it because they are more concerned with power in most cases, since most people don't go very long without having access to an electrical outlet.
Do you know what VPN is? Virtual Private Network. Google probably (and by probably I mean the odds are infinantly close to 1) has a VPN going, so all they do is just allow access to their IM server only through VPN connections. For example, an employee connects via his home computer, and it maps the 1.0.0.* range of IP's to the VPN (since they are unused) and the IM server is located at lets say 1.0.0.69. Putting it on the VPN has no disadvantages, and provides the advantage of security.
NN started to slip at the end, adding crap tastical features and getting buggier and buggier. At the time, IE truely was better. Then of course came the exploits, the spyware and all else. Out comes FF, better in every way, except maybe rendering IE only sites (which it can't really be blamed for, and the number is small anyways)
The slippage your quoting is a fraction of 1% as far as I remember. Judging browser usage is a muddy thing. Right now my site is at around 85% firefox users, however the majority of the his are from: 1. me 2. my friends, most of which (9 out of 10) have converted to firefox because i told 'em to 3. my friends that know what firefox is, know what slashdot is etc and have made the decision themselves 4. the random clicks from my slashdot account
However, I bet the usage of msn.com and msn search are near 100% IE. So judging this kind of thing isn't easy. Did FF's usage drop? Maybe, maybe alot, or maybe none, maybe it increased 5%, its slim that theres that big of an error in their reports but who knows.
No. Modern games are too complex. Too many variables going on, why do you think save files are so big? They save entire data structures into files, you sure as hell wouldn't want to type them out. Save passwords are only good for arcade type simple games
How are they going to do savefiles? A $40 64mb memory card. That's right. Since you need the memory card, the budget system is actually only 60$ cheaper, and you loose the 20GB harddrive (100$ for a 20gb 2.5 inch harddrive isn't so horrible, $40 for a 64mb flash card that they will be mass producing is)
He starts off saying they didn't make any compromises in the system, next question he's talking about how they amde compromises and that it wasn't designed for the hardcore gamer.
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I hate it when poeple talk like DNA is this big all encompasing thing. There's nothing in my DNA that tells me to reproduce, etc. So you can't just translate DNA into english. All of your cells, and the handful of braincels work together to unbelievably create the walking chemical reaction that you are, it's a whole big picture, and DNA is just one of the tiny factors in it.
They aren't abandoning ppc. I think stevie said it would take until 2007 until every new product was x86. That's why they are encouragine fat binaries (.app's with x86 and ppc binaries included in one package)
Market share for things like computers also count the amount of people using machines that they haven't upgraded in the past 12 seconds, there are still people running os9, lol, so osx's share is less than apple's overall share. There have been a few studies showing pc users ditch their computers more often than mac users, so that obscures the results. Of course we are talking about osx marketshare, not os9+osx, but when the switch to x86 occurs, it will be with osx, so not all osx users will be on x86 right away, not even close. So, their marketshare can only increase or stay the same, its not like people are going to throw out their macs when the first x86 machines come out (and AFAIK the macmini and ibooks will be the first, whos going to through out a dual G5 powermac because of that?)
65.8% of statistics are pulled out of your ass. 1.9% are mac users? Do you know how many schools have apple computers? All of the educated guesses I've seen (since marketshare % isn't a science) put apple anywhere from 3% to 5%, and as you can tell from recent news, alot of people have made the switch with the macmini, possible boosting them another 1%.
I won't argue with the linux %, since you did say client, and it's kind of hard to seperate servers from clients in statistics (since there isn't a "server" linux distro, they can all be used for clients) so it's just a guess, as valid as any one i could make up. Of course only 3 people use osx as a server, so it doesn't matter obviously.
Nah, Yoshi's Island for the SNES. Level 2-7 I think, called "Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy", if you touched one of the fuzzy cotton balls, the screen would swirl, yoshi's eyes would dialate, the music would go wonky and it would be filled with weird psycadelic colours. I guess thats not insane though, just a stoned dinosaur...
There wasn't a "battery replacement program".
The idea was you sent your iPod in to get "serviced", I had it happen once (under warrenty thank god) and all they did was replace it with a shiny new one (that I managed to drop and scratch right when I got it)
If you weren't under the warrenty, it costed a hair less than a new iPod.
Originally, back with my 2G, it was almost the same cost, they changed it though after complaints. So I think you should be the one S'ing TFU.
So wait, you mean instead of downloading media files off p2p your downloading cd keys? Well son they don't take up much space, so they don't count.
It's the truth, I'm sorry. Movies are gigabytes, and I have friends that download them like crazy. It surprises me that the traffic in these terratories is only 1TB, I have friends that go through more than that in a week of file sharing.
P2P is used for stealing stuff. Plain and simple. Sure, maybe you (I doubt it, but maybe) use it soley for legal purposes, but 99.99999999999% don't. Do I think it should go away? No, I'm greedy. At least I admit it though. Tell the truth, you downloaded the latest Brittany Spears album didn't you?
Googe is *not* like napster was. Napster was for stealing music, plain and simple. They advertised it as such. They *cached* hand selected (as to google's robot spiders) songs which were popular on their servers. Google is a tool people use to find sites, without search engines the internet would be pretty pointless, and most average joes just wouldn't use it. If Google is comparable to napster, than I'm going to take a leap forward and say that the whole Internet is too. Those sites that stole the copyrighted material, they did so over the internet, and they are accessed by the internet, and without the internet, they wouldn't be available.
Let's sue the internet. So, I guess we go for Al Gore right?
Wow, that post made me rethink my life, rethink humanity, and want to die. I love you.
/me adds you to the friends list, because that was so goddamn amazing.
the whole idea of cell doesn't lend well to pc's. It has a slower main core, in the pc its a ppc chip like the G5, and a bunch of SPE's. Good for a server? Sure. Good for OSes, programs and games of the present? No, it would be a huge step back in performance.
Lot's of people are getting sucked into Sony's hype. Hey - I don't have an emotion chip in my computer, what gives Sony?
Oh fuck. I read that as Apple ports developer tools to OSX. How embarassing. I assumed maybe they weren't there, and everyone was crosscompiling for x86 on their ppc's. Crap. Sorry man :(
Uh, are you some kind of dumbass? Xcode, i.e. their developer tools, is an IDE with some extra apps, and guess what compiler? That's right. GCC. Dolt.
If you don't know what you're talking about at all why are you posting?
because they're not? Have you ever used OSX? It's almost completly different. For example, with the dock+expose+the way windows get tiled, you don't need multiple desktops. First thing I did (after installing developer tools, x11 layer etc..) when I got OSX was download a multidesktop hack, but within about 2 days I found it wasn't necissary. Even the hacks that try and make KDE/etc into Aqua don't get it right (I'm assuming they're jsut looking at screenshots or something)
KDE/etc are way closer to windows then Aqua. The whole NeXT (neXt? NEXT? who knows) thing its got going is really different. Having all the windows pseudo PDF's, having everything done in opengl, all the vectorized graphics etc, and thats just visuals. The interface is vastly differnt.
Okay, there are two types of games as I see it. The games you're talking about, typical to the Atari, are "game games". Simple and fun. Personally, I tire of them quickly, but I know they mean something special for some people, and the more modern ones (examples you listed at the end) are actually quite awsome games.
Then there are simulation games. Iw as just looking at a pic of MGS3 (not my cup of tea, but oh well.) It's trying to simulate the real world, stealth and AI as best as possible. Some people really enjoy this. Personally, a defining moment in my video game playing career was playing a used game I got at EB for $2, x-beyond the frontier. It's a space sim, with an economy where you trade crap, buy ships, blow shit up and build factories etc. Not like starcraft or anything, its a persistant universe, and fighting is done through the cockpit of a single ship, maybe using the AI commands to make your other ships attack with you. I remember, the first solar system you land in. The graphics were shit, let me tell you, pure shit. Some alien dudes are talking, the Taladi or something, but the voice acting is crap and you can't understand it. When your flying in the system, the first thing you notice is size. it takes like a minute to fly to the nearest station, as you watch it come closer and closer. The funny thing is, you could see the seams in space, like in the FAR off distance, where the level ended, everything was enclosed in a cube, with the stars textured on, but they did it badly so you could see the edges of the inside of the cube. (/me hands the dev's a tutorial on texturing and lighting) If you play it, and sit back and think about it, each sector, no matter how big it is, is actually small. Distances mean shit in computer graphics, since its all just empty space, so technically, in a sense, its easier to do "big" than small. For some reason though that didn't matter, because I felt like I was flying through space. The cool thing is, in space stations, you had to manually dock until you got the autopilot upgrade. Fly to fast, or not in a straight line, and boom your dead. The sequel X^2 is great too, great graphics.
What am I trying to get at in this off topic post? The simple atari games dont appeal to me, that doesn't mean they don't have soul. If the new fangled first person shooter with a million polys per character doesn't appeal to you, it doesn't mean someone else doesn't, and doesn't mean it doesn't have soul in their perspecitve. It's all about what kind of emotional response you personally get, whether its a joy from the pure mechanics of the game, or immersion from the realistic setting.
Alright, you know all these things are relative? Who made you the sole decider of what has soul or not? I admit I hate most movies/music these days, but the crap:good ratio is about the same as 20 years ago, you just don't remember the crap, you remember the classics. Also, it appears that you've just got a hate-on for new stuff. Did you have to walk 15 miles, in snow, uphill both ways to school when you were a kid?
I have an atari 2600 emulator on my xbox. I can't stand the majority of the games. I'm not a graphics-loving omg-i-need-more-polygons whore, but the graphics are a serious impedement to game play for me. Green blocks and blinking pixels doesn't translate into fun for me. Personally, the NES is where games get fun for me. Tetris doesn't have flashy graphics, but it's fun. It's all personal prefrence. To me, Atari games generally don't have soul, they feel like a neat little program that pushes the crappy hardware to its limits by having more than 4 blocks on the screen at once. When I play em I think wow, the code must be pretty tight, but theres not enough gameplay to get me into the game.
The revolutions controller is supposed to be more accessable, but they've said it won't limit developers or stop ports from other systems, so I think your hopes are doomed.
I wasn't saying that battery life isn't important, it's just that people don't shell out as much money for it because they are more concerned with power in most cases, since most people don't go very long without having access to an electrical outlet.
A better battery doesn't get any more polygon's out in Quake 4.
If it's internal then they don't want to. It would be for employees to talk to eachother, and to talk with people that work at home etc (with a VPN)
Do you know what VPN is? Virtual Private Network. Google probably (and by probably I mean the odds are infinantly close to 1) has a VPN going, so all they do is just allow access to their IM server only through VPN connections. For example, an employee connects via his home computer, and it maps the 1.0.0.* range of IP's to the VPN (since they are unused) and the IM server is located at lets say 1.0.0.69. Putting it on the VPN has no disadvantages, and provides the advantage of security.
The games are saved onto the internal 512mb flash or to an external SD card. You really think Nintendo would charge you for each play?
It's a joke, laugh.
NN started to slip at the end, adding crap tastical features and getting buggier and buggier. At the time, IE truely was better. Then of course came the exploits, the spyware and all else. Out comes FF, better in every way, except maybe rendering IE only sites (which it can't really be blamed for, and the number is small anyways)
The slippage your quoting is a fraction of 1% as far as I remember. Judging browser usage is a muddy thing. Right now my site is at around 85% firefox users, however the majority of the his are from:
1. me
2. my friends, most of which (9 out of 10) have converted to firefox because i told 'em to
3. my friends that know what firefox is, know what slashdot is etc and have made the decision themselves
4. the random clicks from my slashdot account
However, I bet the usage of msn.com and msn search are near 100% IE. So judging this kind of thing isn't easy. Did FF's usage drop? Maybe, maybe alot, or maybe none, maybe it increased 5%, its slim that theres that big of an error in their reports but who knows.
No. Modern games are too complex. Too many variables going on, why do you think save files are so big? They save entire data structures into files, you sure as hell wouldn't want to type them out. Save passwords are only good for arcade type simple games
How are they going to do savefiles? A $40 64mb memory card. That's right. Since you need the memory card, the budget system is actually only 60$ cheaper, and you loose the 20GB harddrive (100$ for a 20gb 2.5 inch harddrive isn't so horrible, $40 for a 64mb flash card that they will be mass producing is)
He starts off saying they didn't make any compromises in the system, next question he's talking about how they amde compromises and that it wasn't designed for the hardcore gamer.
Although it is kind of pointless to mod it down anymore, it doesn't deserve to be modded up. If it was not an AC post it would definantly be a karma whore, since the site shwos no signs of giving up, and since its major-nelson.com which is a microsoft hosted site, its not going to. And, its a textfile for fuckssakes, not a .mpeg or something