The Revolution will probably come out next year or the next. 2006 would be consistant with N releasing a new (non-gameboy) console every 5 years. (note, I do not count the gb because they dont compete with the "at-home" console")
The Parent has shown that they are not diluting them selves in the market any more than sony, who also have released a major console every 5 years since the playstation.
I am not surprised about it crashing when coming out of hibernation. FF is a cross-platform app and I am fairly certain that Linux does not have hibernation at all. So there may not be a lot of testing in that area. You might want to sumbit a bug. I don't see it on the buglist.
However, I think hibernate is a bit buggy. I know that the 1st time I used it, I could not get windows resume it. It just crashed, then booted normally. I have never used it since though.
Won't the light go out one day a month? Unless I am mistaken, when there is a new moon, there is no light on the moon at all. For that matter, won't it be dark about half of the time due to the phases of the moon? It seems taht even the center of the part of the moon we can see would be dark quite often.
Well, for one, nothing is free. If they get wifi, there will be more taxes. If I got DSL and still had to pay for the wifi, it would accually cost me even more money for this 'free' wifi.
The goal is to provide information to people who wouldn't normally be able to access to it.
I belive librarys already do a better job of this than wifi. Computers are not cheap. The librarys provide both the computer and the internet connection to the public. You can get dail-up in a city for a rather low price. If you can afford a computer, you really should be able to afford that.
On that point, why public wifi? Why not public dail up? It would be much cheaper for everyone. Most name-brand computers come with modems. I belive not very many come with wifi cards. If the public wifi is anything like the wifi at my school, then I would sooner take the dial up.
SBC should not be any more worried than your local bookstore.
SBC is scared of this because people would have to pay for the wifi. They would stop getting their DSL because there are already paying for wifi. Why should you have to pay for two internet connections when you are only using one?
That is an easy one. Companys make money off of services. Whereas the government does not. They still have to pay people, but the owners do not take a great deal of money off the top. The government (hopefully) would do the wifi at cost.
That being said, the world is far from perfect and the government will likly be ripped off enough that it may negate the savings. Though, it could work if the people in office do it right.
This is an alpha. They probably have not done any testing to see what the system requirements are. I am pretty sure that people don't design a game with requirements in mind. That would be very difficult. Im fairly sure that they just make it as small as they can and hope it will run well.
Anyway, I rarly find any that are really right anymore. Command and Conquer: Generals needed a lot more ram than they said on the box.
I wonder if it applies to both CC "channels". There is a closed caption 1 and 2. I understand why CC has to be the same as SAP, so the deaf can read exactly what everyone else can hear.
Anyway, I wonder if they could have CC1 Japanese and CC2 english? Does anyone know if that will work?
IMHO, builting TV out would have killed the PSP. I think a lot of developers would have made game with the TV in mind oppses to the screen. Then these games could be diffucult to see on the tiny screen.
If they dont make many MMORPGs. There simply is not the market for many of them at all. Unless there is one flat fee to play all square-enix mmorpgs.
Even then, I prepher the D2 and UT style online play. Where players have their own servers and it is free to play online.
If that is the case. Then this is awsome. I would love it if they made a game like that for the DS. Or just an old school-esque FF game with online play.
From what I have heard about FFXII an optional online mode like D2 could be great.
You know, IMHO, most slashdoters don't really want there to be less government. I think that most of us here accually just hate big companies, and just do not like it when the government sides with companies on anything, which is the norm.
Or maybe it is just that comapanies are above the government on the/. hate scale.
That is a pretty bad/. title and article. Nintendo said that 3rd parties will be alienated if they dont like nintendo innovations. However, if these companies like the innovations, they will probably make games only for the revolution.
Sounds like a rather bold business plan. I suppose Nintendo has decided to take very big risks in order to innovate gaming further and of course make N #1 again.
Good Luck N!
I for one welcome our new innovative gaming overlords.
If the state can take IP from a large corperation, what would stop the state from taking other things from less wealthy businesses and private folks.
Eminent Domain only refers to land, and even then only for the government to use. Also, the 'victems' are very fairly compensated. And that is fine and well, because somethings need to be well placed. Such as roads, schools, and libraries.
But if the government could take IP, and since big corperations can usually buy laws, what would stop the MS from using government money to take say, the rights to the Linux kernal?
That is simply far too much power for the government to have.
<kinda off topic> on the whole SCOTUS case, if they can take land and give it to other private citizens, what would happen if some company got a man elected, and then he seized all competition for said company, giving the propery to the company? It would be terrible, but very posible if the supreme court rules for the state. </knida off topic>
It seems that Nintendo wants thier gamers to go out and play games, opposed to sit in their house and play games. I guess they want to make gaming a real socail event. This could be the reason they seem to hate online gaming. They want face to face gaming. Though, this could hurt the DS in smaller, less populated areas, but this could lead to very interesting events in malls and other places with similar machines. They could have say, a DS hub in video game stores, so you can play with a lot of people.
These hubs could say, keep up with your stats and the like. DS tournies, playing game that are distroed though this hub.
Regardless, I hope we either get these in the states, or rig emulators that let us use wireless networks.
Are there good ntfs drivers yet under linux? I know that we can read NTFS, but I belive linux still cannot write to NTFS very well. Though, you could have a FAT partition on the windows box, but that could be messy.
The article says it is a portable PC, so is this some form of laptop?
The textbook idea is awesome. My old highschool wanted to do this sort of thing a while back, but it was really expensive. But at $100 a pop, that would be cheaper than textbooks. Although you would still have to buy the text books, I would imagine Ebooks would be much cheaper, and it would allow smaller companies to get in on the text book market, since a much smaller investment is needed to make Ebooks. Though, with the minimum order of 1 million, it would have to be a state wide deal. I hope this gets done rather soon and the US gets in on it. Of course, all of this assumes they mean laptop by portable PC. Maybe after this goes for a year or so, they will open the offer to the average guy and let you buy just one for some where around $200 to $300.
If I made some open source program, and there was some security problem that, for whatever reason, I could not fix it, some one else can.
There is no accountability in the open source model, but it does not need it, because any one with the knowledge to fix a problem or add a feature or whatever not only can do so, but they are encouraged to.
I read that statment as lessening the reliance on the legacy platforms that suck, appose to lessing the reliance on legacy platforms, which suck.
The differance is the frist one does _not_ say all legacy platform sucks, but we will no longer be reliant on the ones that suck. Whereas the second one says legacy platforms suck.
I have been using Knoppix 3.7 from the CD for a couple weeks, and klik is a great way to get software that is not normally availble. However, I would hate to run this on a writable system.
For one thing, as far as I know, you have to run klik in a webbrowser. It is a protocol (klik://). I do not think there is a way to run it from a command line yet, and that would just makes it easier sometimes.
Also, the way it is set up right now, it is very dependant on the central klik site, which was down for a couple days, so I could not run the klik software during that time.
I would like to beable to easily download the.cmg files directly and just run something like AppRun appname.cmg and be done with it. then if i were to save the file to a diskette or another computer, I would not have to worry if the site was down.
But, it does serve its purpose. I can usually run nearly anything from my livecd, which is great.
Did you really have to say copyrighted? This is just as legal as any p2p. No more and no less. The content is all that is illegal. The means of distrobution does not matter. Piracy is Piracy, no matter how it is done.
However, other than that, you are very right. It is p2p streaming of audio/video.
I think it will be a great boon to projects such as Overclocked Remixes, creative commons, and freedom TV. Also, it will open the world of television to everyone. You can start you own online TV station easily with this technology! That is, if you have the time to do so.
To flesh this out a little more... The reason why Capitalism works best when there is just enough stuff to go around is because it is based on Supply and Demand. If there is too much Supply, then the price drops so low that you can not sell it and make a profit. This is one of the many factors that cause the great depression in america. (too much food was produced, so farmers could no longer afford to grow food and sell it). Communism doesnt have this problem because everything is distributed by the government, which can cause its own problems if the government it bad. There is a lot more too it, but that is the basics. However, I am no expert, this is just how i see it.
But, as you said, since there is no limit to the amount of software, you dont need anyone to regulate the distrobution of the software.
Well, I would have to say that the reason Gambas is a big deal is that it is Open.
However, being cross platform is very nice. Hopfully Gambas will add that functionality soon.
I have a Y2k proof box that runs windows 95. There was a freeware program I got on a 1000 windows programs CD that could make a windows box tell the year in 4 digits instead of 2. To this day i wonder why people (on windows anyway) could not just get that program. Does anyone know the program I'm talking about?
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The Revolution will probably come out next year or the next. 2006 would be consistant with N releasing a new (non-gameboy) console every 5 years.
(note, I do not count the gb because they dont compete with the "at-home" console")
The Parent has shown that they are not diluting them selves in the market any more than sony, who also have released a major console every 5 years since the playstation.
I am not surprised about it crashing when coming out of hibernation. FF is a cross-platform app and I am fairly certain that Linux does not have hibernation at all. So there may not be a lot of testing in that area.
You might want to sumbit a bug.
I don't see it on the buglist.
However, I think hibernate is a bit buggy. I know that the 1st time I used it, I could not get windows resume it. It just crashed, then booted normally. I have never used it since though.
Won't the light go out one day a month?
Unless I am mistaken, when there is a new moon, there is no light on the moon at all. For that matter, won't it be dark about half of the time due to the phases of the moon? It seems taht even the center of the part of the moon we can see would be dark quite often.
Well, for one, nothing is free. If they get wifi, there will be more taxes. If I got DSL and still had to pay for the wifi, it would accually cost me even more money for this 'free' wifi.
The goal is to provide information to people who wouldn't normally be able to access to it.
I belive librarys already do a better job of this than wifi. Computers are not cheap. The librarys provide both the computer and the internet connection to the public. You can get dail-up in a city for a rather low price. If you can afford a computer, you really should be able to afford that.
On that point, why public wifi? Why not public dail up? It would be much cheaper for everyone. Most name-brand computers come with modems. I belive not very many come with wifi cards. If the public wifi is anything like the wifi at my school, then I would sooner take the dial up.
SBC should not be any more worried than your local bookstore.
SBC is scared of this because people would have to pay for the wifi. They would stop getting their DSL because there are already paying for wifi. Why should you have to pay for two internet connections when you are only using one?
That is an easy one. Companys make money off of services. Whereas the government does not. They still have to pay people, but the owners do not take a great deal of money off the top. The government (hopefully) would do the wifi at cost.
That being said, the world is far from perfect and the government will likly be ripped off enough that it may negate the savings. Though, it could work if the people in office do it right.
This is an alpha. They probably have not done any testing to see what the system requirements are. I am pretty sure that people don't design a game with requirements in mind. That would be very difficult. Im fairly sure that they just make it as small as they can and hope it will run well.
Anyway, I rarly find any that are really right anymore. Command and Conquer: Generals needed a lot more ram than they said on the box.
I wonder if it applies to both CC "channels". There is a closed caption 1 and 2. I understand why CC has to be the same as SAP, so the deaf can read exactly what everyone else can hear.
Anyway, I wonder if they could have CC1 Japanese and CC2 english? Does anyone know if that will work?
IMHO, builting TV out would have killed the PSP.
I think a lot of developers would have made game with the TV in mind oppses to the screen. Then these games could be diffucult to see on the tiny screen.
If they dont make many MMORPGs.
There simply is not the market for many of them at all. Unless there is one flat fee to play all square-enix mmorpgs.
Even then, I prepher the D2 and UT style online play. Where players have their own servers and it is free to play online.
If that is the case. Then this is awsome. I would love it if they made a game like that for the DS. Or just an old school-esque FF game with online play.
From what I have heard about FFXII an optional online mode like D2 could be great.
You know, IMHO, most slashdoters don't really want there to be less government. I think that most of us here accually just hate big companies, and just do not like it when the government sides with companies on anything, which is the norm.
/. hate scale.
Or maybe it is just that comapanies are above the government on the
That is a pretty bad /. title and article. Nintendo said that 3rd parties will be alienated if they dont like nintendo innovations. However, if these companies like the innovations, they will probably make games only for the revolution.
Sounds like a rather bold business plan. I suppose Nintendo has decided to take very big risks in order to innovate gaming further and of course make N #1 again.
Good Luck N!
I for one welcome our new innovative gaming overlords.
If the state can take IP from a large corperation, what would stop the state from taking other things from less wealthy businesses and private folks.
Eminent Domain only refers to land, and even then only for the government to use. Also, the 'victems' are very fairly compensated. And that is fine and well, because somethings need to be well placed. Such as roads, schools, and libraries.
But if the government could take IP, and since big corperations can usually buy laws, what would stop the MS from using government money to take say, the rights to the Linux kernal?
That is simply far too much power for the government to have.
<kinda off topic>
on the whole SCOTUS case, if they can take land and give it to other private citizens, what would happen if some company got a man elected, and then he seized all competition for said company, giving the propery to the company? It would be terrible, but very posible if the supreme court rules for the state.
</knida off topic>
That is just too much power for the government!
It seems that Nintendo wants thier gamers to go out and play games, opposed to sit in their house and play games. I guess they want to make gaming a real socail event. This could be the reason they seem to hate online gaming. They want face to face gaming. Though, this could hurt the DS in smaller, less populated areas, but this could lead to very interesting events in malls and other places with similar machines. They could have say, a DS hub in video game stores, so you can play with a lot of people. These hubs could say, keep up with your stats and the like. DS tournies, playing game that are distroed though this hub. Regardless, I hope we either get these in the states, or rig emulators that let us use wireless networks.
Are there good ntfs drivers yet under linux? I know that we can read NTFS, but I belive linux still cannot write to NTFS very well.
Though, you could have a FAT partition on the windows box, but that could be messy.
The article says it is a portable PC, so is this some form of laptop?
The textbook idea is awesome. My old highschool wanted to do this sort of thing a while back, but it was really expensive. But at $100 a pop, that would be cheaper than textbooks. Although you would still have to buy the text books, I would imagine Ebooks would be much cheaper, and it would allow smaller companies to get in on the text book market, since a much smaller investment is needed to make Ebooks.
Though, with the minimum order of 1 million, it would have to be a state wide deal. I hope this gets done rather soon and the US gets in on it.
Of course, all of this assumes they mean laptop by portable PC.
Maybe after this goes for a year or so, they will open the offer to the average guy and let you buy just one for some where around $200 to $300.
Well, those are my thoughts on the subject.
If I made some open source program, and there was some security problem that, for whatever reason, I could not fix it, some one else can.
There is no accountability in the open source model, but it does not need it, because any one with the knowledge to fix a problem or add a feature or whatever not only can do so, but they are encouraged to.
Is that not the point of the open source model?
I read that statment as lessening the reliance on the legacy platforms that suck, appose to lessing the reliance on legacy platforms, which suck.
The differance is the frist one does _not_ say all legacy platform sucks, but we will no longer be reliant on the ones that suck. Whereas the second one says legacy platforms suck.
English can be very confusing.
I have been using Knoppix 3.7 from the CD for a couple weeks, and klik is a great way to get software that is not normally availble. However, I would hate to run this on a writable system.
.cmg files directly and just run something like AppRun appname.cmg and be done with it. then if i were to save the file to a diskette or another computer, I would not have to worry if the site was down.
For one thing, as far as I know, you have to run klik in a webbrowser. It is a protocol (klik://). I do not think there is a way to run it from a command line yet, and that would just makes it easier sometimes.
Also, the way it is set up right now, it is very dependant on the central klik site, which was down for a couple days, so I could not run the klik software during that time.
I would like to beable to easily download the
But, it does serve its purpose. I can usually run nearly anything from my livecd, which is great.
I dont think that is a very good analogy, because he did not accually use the exploits, merely pointed them out.
Did you really have to say copyrighted?
This is just as legal as any p2p. No more and no less. The content is all that is illegal. The means of distrobution does not matter. Piracy is Piracy, no matter how it is done.
However, other than that, you are very right. It is p2p streaming of audio/video.
I think it will be a great boon to projects such as Overclocked Remixes, creative commons, and freedom TV. Also, it will open the world of television to everyone. You can start you own online TV station easily with this technology! That is, if you have the time to do so.
Well, not to flame or anything, but Republicans are always saying things like we should ban gay marriage and keep abortions banned.
These things seem a lot more serious and life-altering than playing GTA before you are 17.
To flesh this out a little more...
The reason why Capitalism works best when there is just enough stuff to go around is because it is based on Supply and Demand. If there is too much Supply, then the price drops so low that you can not sell it and make a profit. This is one of the many factors that cause the great depression in america. (too much food was produced, so farmers could no longer afford to grow food and sell it). Communism doesnt have this problem because everything is distributed by the government, which can cause its own problems if the government it bad. There is a lot more too it, but that is the basics. However, I am no expert, this is just how i see it.
But, as you said, since there is no limit to the amount of software, you dont need anyone to regulate the distrobution of the software.
Ms. Fiorina will show it on friday.
There, you know have the entire article.
No need to bother bugmenot to RTFA =P.
Well, I would have to say that the reason Gambas is a big deal is that it is Open. However, being cross platform is very nice. Hopfully Gambas will add that functionality soon.
I have a Y2k proof box that runs windows 95. There was a freeware program I got on a 1000 windows programs CD that could make a windows box tell the year in 4 digits instead of 2. To this day i wonder why people (on windows anyway) could not just get that program. Does anyone know the program I'm talking about?