Safari a replacement for FF? I don't think so. The second I got my mac, I loaded up Safari, expecting some revolution in browsing, a high quality app like GarageBand or something. Sure, it's better than IE, but its meh. First thing I did was download FF (which I then used to download X11 and all that fine stuff.) Safari doesn't support all the cool extensions FF has, like adblock and gmail notifier and slashfix (haha jk about that last one.)
Safari is like, a lite weight browser, it just doesn't feel as good as FF. Oh and the combined stop/refresh button sucks. What the fuck. All the buttons are little pods, which goes against Apple's own HID standards (every button should have a distinct shape)
Online MarioKart, online Animal Crossings, a new super mario bros sidescroller with 3D stuff mixed in (watch the movies, it looks very stylish) Katamari Damachy DS (yes, touchscreen katamari) AoE DS, metroid hunters ds (unfortunantly not online) the new zelda ds (not another four swords game) and the crap load of other games. You can't honestly tell me that list doesn't excite you in the least bit? Also, those are only some of the 1st party games (with two 3rd) that are coming out this fall. The future is looking good for the DS.
Yes, scratching whiteout off with your nail is about the same effort for a child as getting an action replay and the specific codes to go into it to modify the game. Nice comparison.
we will soon be seeing characters that are assembled from skeleton, to muscle and tissue with clothing on top. Erm, what the fuck? We will also have FTL travel to other planets in about ten years, and timetravel will be passe by then. Actually building a model that detailed wouldn't serve any purpose but to slow down whatever super computer (and I mean super-super-duper computer, with a few extra RAM upgrades) is running your game. Bones? Sure, they already do that to some extent (skeletal animation, maybe not what he's thinking but oh well) muscle and tissue? What good does that do? Honestly, that doesn't make the games any more realistic at all. Clothes on top of the models 'skin'? That can be done now, but it's too hard on physics to do in real time, and doesn't really do any good (unless you want clothes blowing in the wind, in which case there are plenty of ways to fake it, or use 'tight' clothes that are just textures over the model)
Most people don't understand how much of video games, especially physics, is faked. As long as the eye can't tell the difference, then who cares if that collision was off by 0.0001 degrees? You'll never ever see anything dumb like models being 'assembled from skeleton to musicle and tissue with clothing on top', because that serves absolutly no purpose for the speed hit it would take on such a supercomputer, and doesn't make any noticable difference to the viewer (except the clothing one)
Now, if by 'assembled' you meant in the literal sense, like taking a dead human body, inserting it into my computer to make bad guys for Doom 147, then you have a sick sick mind:)
Maybe it's because the games they played, all the coin-ops etc, were innocent. They may hear a games rated M for Mature, but it might not register that yes, their son (because of course girls dont play video games) is going to be killing hookers, stealing cars, killing police and having pixellated sex.
I'm not saying that kids shouldn't be allowed to play those games or anything (personally I think its harmless, if a kid is going to grow up to kill hookers, then if its not video games influencing him, its movies. or tv. or books. All else failing, the voices in his head) but maybe this is why parents don't care?
Uhm, no it isn't. It's an SEC filing. They legally have to state risks for their shareholders, to avoid class action lawsuits. SEC filings from every company are always doom-and-gloom.
you can tell Linux has used Unix code (mainly their apps) by just using their programs. Some dude sitting at his computer probably noticed the similiarity between every POSIX *nix implementation and Linux.
Dude, you can't tell that the source is the same by running a program, shut up. Especially since this is talking about Linux, a fucking KERNEL. Linux isn't the apps. Most 'Linux' distro's use the GNU suite of apps. Also, "some dude sitting at his computer" doesn't have sco's unixware installed. And that bit about Microsoft stealing source - I'm sorry, I love hating on Microsoft, but that just shows how much of an idiot you are. If your talking about the code they took from BSD, that was perfectly legal and morally fine, since it was under the BSD license, which permits it.
Also, it seems this time it isn't "SCO says Linux contains their proprietory code.",but "SCO may have Linux code." Good job sherlock, I couldn't have gathered it by the title of the article.
I have no idea how you got moderated interesting. The only thing interesting about your post was its showcasing of how idiots will post when they have no clue what they're talking about. Your nickname (WindozeSux) say's alot about your intelligence, by the way.
Your not getting it. We need diversity, and everyone knows diversity only comes from dudes with different skin colors. We have to make sure every race is 100% equally represented, otherwise we're racist (because caring about things this much sure doesn't make you a racist) In fact, while we're at it, we need more women developing games, 50% infact should have vagina's, otherwise we are being sexist.
Alright, I can see your new here. Judging by your comment history, you need some help. When your going to post a troll, check the "Post Annonymously" button before you hit Submit. Slashdot has a Karma system in place, and the more of an idiot you are, the less good karma, and more bad karma your going to get. Posting anonymously makes it so you don't have to suffer the loss, and people who ignore anonymous coward posts won't have to see your shit.
Of course, you could just not troll, but we all know it's impossible for some assholes. It's a reflex.
Goddamn it, just read the article. The slashdot summary was slightly misleading. I still hold that they are vastly different technologies, but a little less so now that I RTFA. Sorry.
Damnit, are you talking about spotlight in Tiger? There's a huge goddamn difference between a desktop indexing search and an internet search engine. My god. The scale is like, so insanly different (and if the Apple PR has said anything about it being scallable to the likes of an internet search, then I'm selling my mac, NOW) How does this compare to spotlight? How does an apple compare to an orange? How does the color red compare to the number 7.623? How does 6 in the afternoon compare to the goatse man?
When it happens, Aug 7th 2035, everyone will remember RM6f9, slashdot UID 825298, was the person that predicted this. You shall go down in history young sir.
See, if I have a knife in my house, most likely its there to make peanut butter sandwiches, not kill people. Statistics can back me up. However, if I have a machine gun, odds are it's for killing things, as machine guns don't serve many practical purposes besides that (they're not good for hunting, they sure don't make very good p&b sandwiches... )
p.s. I'm not saying everyone who owns a machine gun is a murderer, but the percentage is higher than people who own knives.
I wouldn't be so sure of the power of the Revolution (er, that sounds weird.) Nintendo has never exactly played up their tech specs that much. For example, the gamecube. It's definantly more powerful than the PS2 (except at flat polygon count, which is pretty irrelevant) and actually in most cases is better than the xbox. While the xbox has bigger numbers, a higher clock speed, the gamecube is designed much better. For example, the xbox uses shared RAM. The gamecube uses very fast 1T-SRAM (although only 24mb of it), their ppc cpu proforms better / mhz than xbox's intel x86 one (although not as much a gap as the ppc mac zealots may say:) ) actually I don't feel like listing off stuff, you get the idea. That's why you get games like metroid prime, RE4, rebel strike etc looking so good. However, the xbox has much better support for shaders. Anyways...
The point is, Nintendo isn't going to pack an gamecube up in a new shiny black box and call it a Revolution.
If it launches 3Q 2006 it could be somewhat less powerful than the Xbox 360 Quite the opposite. If it launches almost a year later, then prices of hardware will have dropped, and new technologies will have arrived, so I would assume they would take advantage of this and make it much more powerful to make up for the time loss. Also, no date has been set yet, last I heard, sometime around E3, was spring 2006 (iwata?)
Well slashdot is a portal site, don't expect original content. It's an easy way for lazy people like me to get news without visiting a billion different sites, and then theres the comment system so I can read the trolls afterwards.
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Safari a replacement for FF? I don't think so. The second I got my mac, I loaded up Safari, expecting some revolution in browsing, a high quality app like GarageBand or something. Sure, it's better than IE, but its meh. First thing I did was download FF (which I then used to download X11 and all that fine stuff.) Safari doesn't support all the cool extensions FF has, like adblock and gmail notifier and slashfix (haha jk about that last one.)
Safari is like, a lite weight browser, it just doesn't feel as good as FF. Oh and the combined stop/refresh button sucks. What the fuck. All the buttons are little pods, which goes against Apple's own HID standards (every button should have a distinct shape)
Online MarioKart, online Animal Crossings, a new super mario bros sidescroller with 3D stuff mixed in (watch the movies, it looks very stylish) Katamari Damachy DS (yes, touchscreen katamari) AoE DS, metroid hunters ds (unfortunantly not online) the new zelda ds (not another four swords game) and the crap load of other games. You can't honestly tell me that list doesn't excite you in the least bit? Also, those are only some of the 1st party games (with two 3rd) that are coming out this fall. The future is looking good for the DS.
Yes, scratching whiteout off with your nail is about the same effort for a child as getting an action replay and the specific codes to go into it to modify the game. Nice comparison.
we will soon be seeing characters that are assembled from skeleton, to muscle and tissue with clothing on top.
:)
Erm, what the fuck? We will also have FTL travel to other planets in about ten years, and timetravel will be passe by then. Actually building a model that detailed wouldn't serve any purpose but to slow down whatever super computer (and I mean super-super-duper computer, with a few extra RAM upgrades) is running your game. Bones? Sure, they already do that to some extent (skeletal animation, maybe not what he's thinking but oh well) muscle and tissue? What good does that do? Honestly, that doesn't make the games any more realistic at all. Clothes on top of the models 'skin'? That can be done now, but it's too hard on physics to do in real time, and doesn't really do any good (unless you want clothes blowing in the wind, in which case there are plenty of ways to fake it, or use 'tight' clothes that are just textures over the model)
Most people don't understand how much of video games, especially physics, is faked. As long as the eye can't tell the difference, then who cares if that collision was off by 0.0001 degrees? You'll never ever see anything dumb like models being 'assembled from skeleton to musicle and tissue with clothing on top', because that serves absolutly no purpose for the speed hit it would take on such a supercomputer, and doesn't make any noticable difference to the viewer (except the clothing one)
Now, if by 'assembled' you meant in the literal sense, like taking a dead human body, inserting it into my computer to make bad guys for Doom 147, then you have a sick sick mind
Maybe it's because the games they played, all the coin-ops etc, were innocent. They may hear a games rated M for Mature, but it might not register that yes, their son (because of course girls dont play video games) is going to be killing hookers, stealing cars, killing police and having pixellated sex.
I'm not saying that kids shouldn't be allowed to play those games or anything (personally I think its harmless, if a kid is going to grow up to kill hookers, then if its not video games influencing him, its movies. or tv. or books. All else failing, the voices in his head) but maybe this is why parents don't care?
Uhm, no it isn't. It's an SEC filing. They legally have to state risks for their shareholders, to avoid class action lawsuits. SEC filings from every company are always doom-and-gloom.
you can tell Linux has used Unix code (mainly their apps) by just using their programs. Some dude sitting at his computer probably noticed the similiarity between every POSIX *nix implementation and Linux.
Dude, you can't tell that the source is the same by running a program, shut up. Especially since this is talking about Linux, a fucking KERNEL. Linux isn't the apps. Most 'Linux' distro's use the GNU suite of apps. Also, "some dude sitting at his computer" doesn't have sco's unixware installed. And that bit about Microsoft stealing source - I'm sorry, I love hating on Microsoft, but that just shows how much of an idiot you are. If your talking about the code they took from BSD, that was perfectly legal and morally fine, since it was under the BSD license, which permits it.
Also, it seems this time it isn't "SCO says Linux contains their proprietory code.",but "SCO may have Linux code."
Good job sherlock, I couldn't have gathered it by the title of the article.
I have no idea how you got moderated interesting. The only thing interesting about your post was its showcasing of how idiots will post when they have no clue what they're talking about. Your nickname (WindozeSux) say's alot about your intelligence, by the way.
"read/write web" is going to make a very annoying buzzphrase
When Al Gore created the internet, it was chmod +r-w, but he soon saw the errors of his ways and chmod -r / +rw for great justice.
Your not getting it. We need diversity, and everyone knows diversity only comes from dudes with different skin colors. We have to make sure every race is 100% equally represented, otherwise we're racist (because caring about things this much sure doesn't make you a racist) In fact, while we're at it, we need more women developing games, 50% infact should have vagina's, otherwise we are being sexist.
Probably, because MAC's arent computers, they're Media Access Control codes for your ethernet device.
For the rest of your post, I have no idea where you'd get that kind of an idea, so I'm gonna just leave it be.
Alright, I can see your new here. Judging by your comment history, you need some help. When your going to post a troll, check the "Post Annonymously" button before you hit Submit. Slashdot has a Karma system in place, and the more of an idiot you are, the less good karma, and more bad karma your going to get. Posting anonymously makes it so you don't have to suffer the loss, and people who ignore anonymous coward posts won't have to see your shit.
Of course, you could just not troll, but we all know it's impossible for some assholes. It's a reflex.
So stay in school, don't do drugs etc etc.
Goddamn it, just read the article. The slashdot summary was slightly misleading. I still hold that they are vastly different technologies, but a little less so now that I RTFA. Sorry.
Damnit, are you talking about spotlight in Tiger? There's a huge goddamn difference between a desktop indexing search and an internet search engine. My god. The scale is like, so insanly different (and if the Apple PR has said anything about it being scallable to the likes of an internet search, then I'm selling my mac, NOW) How does this compare to spotlight? How does an apple compare to an orange? How does the color red compare to the number 7.623? How does 6 in the afternoon compare to the goatse man?
It was a troll, you must be new here.
When it happens, Aug 7th 2035, everyone will remember RM6f9, slashdot UID 825298, was the person that predicted this. You shall go down in history young sir.
might hopefully show that hydrogen is a more attractive fuel than petroleum-based fuels.
Given how much energy electrolisis takes, I don't be thinking so, not in this case.
Warning, you are about to enter an alternate dimension...
It's only accepted for medical uses in Canada, teens still get busted just as hard for it.
See, if I have a knife in my house, most likely its there to make peanut butter sandwiches, not kill people. Statistics can back me up. However, if I have a machine gun, odds are it's for killing things, as machine guns don't serve many practical purposes besides that (they're not good for hunting, they sure don't make very good p&b sandwiches... )
p.s. I'm not saying everyone who owns a machine gun is a murderer, but the percentage is higher than people who own knives.
I wouldn't be so sure of the power of the Revolution (er, that sounds weird.) Nintendo has never exactly played up their tech specs that much. For example, the gamecube. It's definantly more powerful than the PS2 (except at flat polygon count, which is pretty irrelevant) and actually in most cases is better than the xbox. While the xbox has bigger numbers, a higher clock speed, the gamecube is designed much better. For example, the xbox uses shared RAM. The gamecube uses very fast 1T-SRAM (although only 24mb of it), their ppc cpu proforms better / mhz than xbox's intel x86 one (although not as much a gap as the ppc mac zealots may say :) ) actually I don't feel like listing off stuff, you get the idea. That's why you get games like metroid prime, RE4, rebel strike etc looking so good. However, the xbox has much better support for shaders. Anyways...
The point is, Nintendo isn't going to pack an gamecube up in a new shiny black box and call it a Revolution.
If it launches 3Q 2006 it could be somewhat less powerful than the Xbox 360
Quite the opposite. If it launches almost a year later, then prices of hardware will have dropped, and new technologies will have arrived, so I would assume they would take advantage of this and make it much more powerful to make up for the time loss. Also, no date has been set yet, last I heard, sometime around E3, was spring 2006 (iwata?)
Well slashdot is a portal site, don't expect original content. It's an easy way for lazy people like me to get news without visiting a billion different sites, and then theres the comment system so I can read the trolls afterwards.
Everyone on slashdot runs Windows, they only talk about running Linux. You must be new here.
:)
Yes before anyone mentions it, I saw his UID
Dude, step three is "???", or optionally "...", step four is "PROFIT!!". Get your trolls right please.
I thought the article was titled "Best Linux Distrobution" when my eyes passed by it, wouldn't that have been a fun discussion.