I am "devoutly and unquestioningly religious" and have no interest in being a yes-man for any government group. Social and political anarchists are not exactly the people I want in the military anyways. I also agree that it's de rigueur to bash the political right/left/anyone who disagrees with you. What happened to E Pluribus Unum?
Ignorance is bliss. Yes, everything "just works" but not necessarily how you want it to. It doesn't "just work" when Joe User expects that when he clicks on the "Desktop" icon in the Dock that it will show a Windows XP Start menu. "But that's what it does in Windows!" I'm sorry but that's just plain stupid.
Wasn't trying to have a contest. Just saying that I've used a few and have had the worst experience with Linux. But you have compiled a very impressive. Yes, there are more OSes out there than you can shake a stick at.
I'm not attacking Linux. For being free and developed mostly in people's spare time it's absolutely phenomenal. What I'm trying to get at is the fact that it really isn't as great as the Linux evangelists make it seem. Granted, many distros are quite user-friendly (heck, I dual boot WinXP and SuSE 9.1), but in my opinion they're just not ready for prime-time, wide-spread, desktop use. Give Linux another three years and it will probably be a viable alternative for the hundreds of millions of Windows users out there.
As for the server argument, Mac OS X Server comes preinstalled on a 1U Xserve with
Postfix, Apache, and MySQL support.
Well, if you really want to get down to the nuts and bolts, let's look at it this way:
Home Theater: Cost of home theater system = $10,000 to achieve theater quality sound/picture quality (digital theater). Theater: $8.75 where I live.
Home Theater: Cost of movie = $3 for a rental or $19.99 if I buy it. Since the legality of downloading movies of the Interweb is questionable at best I'm not even going to include that in my calculations. Theater: cost of movie was already covered.
Home Theater: Cost of electricity = $ per Kilowatt hour to power all that hi-tech equipment. Theater: cost of gas to get to movie theater = ((Cost per gallon of gas/MPG)*(# of miles to theater))*2 = 2($2.19/35mpg)(2miles) ~ $0.25 of fuel.
So, if let's do some math now. According to the MPAA, the average American goes to the theater 5.3 times per year MPAA report. So, that would be 5.3*$8.75=$46.38 per year on movie tickets. Let's assume you have a significant other or friend that accompanies you on a regular basis. So that's $92.75. Add our fuel costs of $0.25 per movie and we have $94.08. Now let's calculate the approximate annual costs of our all-digital home theater entertainment system. I'm not going to add in costs like a house or food because those are necessary, assumed expenses that you would have even if you were not to view movies. A decent HDTV is $2000. Add in $1000 for surround sound, $150 for a good DVD player, $300 for an amp, and then the $20 per movie purchase. We have a total of $3556.
So, divide $3556 by $94.08 and we get ~38. How many people do you know that have owned an entertainment center for 38 years? How many systems will even last that long?
Granted, there are things like fluctuating fuel and electricity costs. However, I just can't justify the expenses of a home theater system.
Maybe Linux isn't inherently secure. Maybe Linux shouldn't be pushed as a computing solution for the masses. Maybe HP et al shouldn't be pushing its development because it has significant, crippling errors in its kernel. Maybe Linux isn't a good alternative to Microsoft Windows. Maybe...maybe...maybe...
To continue your car analogy, Linux doesn't "just turn on" when you turn the key. In fact it's more like when you turn the key, the windshield wipers come on and the trunk opens. When you consult the owners manual it derides you for having to read the manual in the first place and then offers vague instructions for disconnecting the wires from the trunk and windshield wipers and makes some reference to connecting them to the ignition, but offers no insight into what tools are needed or what wires connect where. It is obviously a hodge-podge of disparate parts. It would be like buying a Chrysler, lifting the hood and seeing a Ford block, a cardboard distributor cap, sparkplugs made by h4x0R_B0b in his garage, tinfoil connecting the distributor cap to the sparkplugs, and having interchangeable upholstery.
I have worked on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, DOS, OpenVMS, and HP-UX. The one that befuddles me the most is Linux.
It sounds to me like Mac OS X might be better suited for you. It has the media capabilities of Windows, BSD underpinnings, and strong device/application support. Ever considered switching?
How do you know that it was "probably meant as a joke"? Have you examined the code? Are you qualified to make that assessment of the code? Maybe Linux really isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I don't know about that. I've known people in the IT industry that made at least twice as much as I did who gave real "high quality" answers. Ignorance and bullshit exist on all levels.
Compare a machine running OS 8 or OS 9 to a Macine running OSX
A 6100/66 running OS 9.1 will be significantly slower than a Dual G5 2.7 running OS X 10.4. Maybe if you were to say which hardware and which revision of either OS you were comparing, you might be able to scrape together a valid point...but I doubt it. Now, running OS 9.1 on a dual-mirror drive G4 and running OS X 10.4 on said hardware would show a significant difference in operating speed.
The problem isn't FPS on consoles. It's the porting of PC FPS games to the console. Halo on the Xbox is one of the best FPS I've ever played. I really enjoyed playing it with two analog thumbsticks. However, it was good because it was designed with those analog thumbsticks in mind instead of "how can we map a mouse keyboard configuration to the Xbox/PS2 controller?"
Exactly. If I tell my wife that I can buy a Revolution and she can play her precious SMB and Mario Kart, she'll be the one insisting on buying it. I'm buying one.
i mean they are what? two minutes from making the mini-DVD format obsolete
Until (and most likely even after) Sony authorizes the release of a UMD burner, the mini-DVD will still see wide-spread use. Sure, Lik-Sang will have a UMD burner in the next few months, but I'm talking a legitimate, mass-market UMD burner that you can stick in a 5 1/4" slot on your PC. Sony might stop using mini-DVDs in their DV Camcorders, but that alone won't kill off the medium. Look how successful Memory Sticks, MiniDiscs, and Beta tapes have been. Who uses them? Sony. But that's it.
honestly, how many gameboy titles were really, really quality?
Replace gameboy with Playstation and/or PS2 and the sentence still works.
Yes, competition is good for the consumer. But last time I checked, the PSP and DS were targeted at different markets. That's not competition. That's co-existence.
the developers have a bit more power and say than you think
You mis-read my post.
I'm not talking about FF, Madden NFL, or any other third party games. I'm talking about the Nintendo-Rare partnership. Again, I could be mistaken, but I believe Rare developed games for Nintendo on the SNES and N64 that were Nintendo First-party titles such as DK Country.
Nintendo owned 49% of Rare at the time they sold to Microsoft. From this article over at GameSpy.com, "Nintendo indicated that it retains exclusive rights to franchises in which Rare had a hand recently, such as Donkey Kong and Star Fox." You will not see Donkey Kong Country or Diddy Kong Racing sequels on Xbox (unless, for some reason, Nintendo decides to sell the rights to Microsoft, but DK is one of Nintendo's biggest franchises).
im happy that now that nintendo isnt the only company playing the portables game
Care to qualify that statement? Nintendo has never been the only company in the portable gaming market. Tiger has had handhelds for quite a bit longer than Nintendo. Remember the Wonderswan? NeoGeo Pocket? Sega Game Gear? Tapwave? N-Gage? The list goes on and on...
Ummm...Nintendo has hardly dropped the ball. If I've heard correctly, Nintendo has already sold 5 million + DS units worldwide since last November. That's pretty good. THey have also shipped about that many GB Advances/SPs in that same time frame. Nintendo is still undoubtedly the leader in handheld gaming. This is nowhere near the success that Sony had with the PS1. Whether you like it or not, Nintendo is still in the lead.
When did it become wrong to pay for things? If there is something that I really enjoyed from previous generations, I will pay for it. This whole "everything digital has to be free" movement is sickening. It's this idea of entitlement. Nintendo's not just going to release old games for the hell of it. Suck it up and pay for good software.
I don't recall Nintendo saying that they would re-release "every single game" again. I believe the wording was more like "select titles".
If I remember correctly, Rare developed the games for Nintendo. I'm no lawyer, so forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't this work like the deal between Disney and Pixar? Pixar makes the movies, but Disney distributes them. Disney can release Toy Story until the cows come home even if Pixar no longer makes movies for Disney.
Also, I would imagine that someone bought/will buy Acclaim's IP.
Did I miss something? If you think adding a keyboard, email, and web support to the PSP is going to make it an iPod killer you are sorely mistaken. That might be what you want, but that's obviously not what people who buy iPods want. You're argument is ignoring logic. Last time I checked, the appeal of the iPod wasn't that it did everything and then some. It's appeal lies in the fact that it does one thing (two on the iPod photo) - play music - and it does so very well. You can also get one with a 60GB hard drive. I'm not aware of any 60GB Memory Sticks.
Just say what you want to say, "I don't want to buy an iPod because I don't like it. But that makes me feel unappreciated because people don't like what I like. I hate that the iPod is so popular. I love my PSP. It makes me happy and I want what makes me happy to make everyone happy because then I will be popular too."
You are obviously not part of the target market for both iPods and PDAs.
...or is "ipod killer" the new slang term to replace "the cat's meow"?
I agree in terms that this would violate our right to privacy. However, this is something that is already commonly done by your peeping toms.
So that means because voyeurs do it, our government can too? I'm not following that logic. Our current "security" systems in place for passenger screening, immigrant tracking, and ID verification are not protecting anyone from another terrorist attack. How much more difficult is it to forge five documents as opposed to two? Not much. It might just cost a little more. How secure are biometric scanners (thumb, iris, voice)? Not very.
There are so many breakpoints in the "security" systems that the systems themselves are laughable. How hard would it be to bribe a security screener with a several thousand dollars to let someone get through a little easier? How difficult is it really to get a muslim extremist (especially a white, middle-aged one) hired at an airport and start working the plan from the inside?
I honestly believe that we're just making it harder for honest Americans to go about their normal lives.
Actually, the "metal detectors" installed at airports do not actually detect metal. They detect magnetic substances. Don't believe me? Hold a handful of change in an open palm while going through one. Since none of your coins (at least in the U.S.) are made of magnetic substances, the alarm won't go off. Airport security won't be too happy with you though...
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I am "devoutly and unquestioningly religious" and have no interest in being a yes-man for any government group. Social and political anarchists are not exactly the people I want in the military anyways. I also agree that it's de rigueur to bash the political right/left/anyone who disagrees with you. What happened to E Pluribus Unum?
Ignorance is bliss. Yes, everything "just works" but not necessarily how you want it to. It doesn't "just work" when Joe User expects that when he clicks on the "Desktop" icon in the Dock that it will show a Windows XP Start menu. "But that's what it does in Windows!" I'm sorry but that's just plain stupid.
Wasn't trying to have a contest. Just saying that I've used a few and have had the worst experience with Linux. But you have compiled a very impressive. Yes, there are more OSes out there than you can shake a stick at.
I'm not attacking Linux. For being free and developed mostly in people's spare time it's absolutely phenomenal. What I'm trying to get at is the fact that it really isn't as great as the Linux evangelists make it seem. Granted, many distros are quite user-friendly (heck, I dual boot WinXP and SuSE 9.1), but in my opinion they're just not ready for prime-time, wide-spread, desktop use. Give Linux another three years and it will probably be a viable alternative for the hundreds of millions of Windows users out there.
As for the server argument, Mac OS X Server comes preinstalled on a 1U Xserve with Postfix, Apache, and MySQL support.
Theater: $8.75 where I live.
Theater: cost of movie was already covered.
Theater: cost of gas to get to movie theater = ((Cost per gallon of gas/MPG)*(# of miles to theater))*2 = 2($2.19/35mpg)(2miles) ~ $0.25 of fuel.
So, if let's do some math now. According to the MPAA, the average American goes to the theater 5.3 times per year MPAA report. So, that would be 5.3*$8.75=$46.38 per year on movie tickets. Let's assume you have a significant other or friend that accompanies you on a regular basis. So that's $92.75. Add our fuel costs of $0.25 per movie and we have $94.08. Now let's calculate the approximate annual costs of our all-digital home theater entertainment system. I'm not going to add in costs like a house or food because those are necessary, assumed expenses that you would have even if you were not to view movies. A decent HDTV is $2000. Add in $1000 for surround sound, $150 for a good DVD player, $300 for an amp, and then the $20 per movie purchase. We have a total of $3556.
So, divide $3556 by $94.08 and we get ~38. How many people do you know that have owned an entertainment center for 38 years? How many systems will even last that long?
Granted, there are things like fluctuating fuel and electricity costs. However, I just can't justify the expenses of a home theater system.
Maybe Linux isn't inherently secure. Maybe Linux shouldn't be pushed as a computing solution for the masses. Maybe HP et al shouldn't be pushing its development because it has significant, crippling errors in its kernel. Maybe Linux isn't a good alternative to Microsoft Windows. Maybe...maybe...maybe...
To continue your car analogy, Linux doesn't "just turn on" when you turn the key. In fact it's more like when you turn the key, the windshield wipers come on and the trunk opens. When you consult the owners manual it derides you for having to read the manual in the first place and then offers vague instructions for disconnecting the wires from the trunk and windshield wipers and makes some reference to connecting them to the ignition, but offers no insight into what tools are needed or what wires connect where. It is obviously a hodge-podge of disparate parts. It would be like buying a Chrysler, lifting the hood and seeing a Ford block, a cardboard distributor cap, sparkplugs made by h4x0R_B0b in his garage, tinfoil connecting the distributor cap to the sparkplugs, and having interchangeable upholstery.
I have worked on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, DOS, OpenVMS, and HP-UX. The one that befuddles me the most is Linux.
It sounds to me like Mac OS X might be better suited for you. It has the media capabilities of Windows, BSD underpinnings, and strong device/application support. Ever considered switching?
BTW, I drive a Nissan.
Agreed. And if that really shouldn't be there, it can be removed and the kernel recompiled.
How do you know that it was "probably meant as a joke"? Have you examined the code? Are you qualified to make that assessment of the code? Maybe Linux really isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I don't know about that. I've known people in the IT industry that made at least twice as much as I did who gave real "high quality" answers. Ignorance and bullshit exist on all levels.
Compare a machine running OS 8 or OS 9 to a Macine running OSX
A 6100/66 running OS 9.1 will be significantly slower than a Dual G5 2.7 running OS X 10.4. Maybe if you were to say which hardware and which revision of either OS you were comparing, you might be able to scrape together a valid point...but I doubt it. Now, running OS 9.1 on a dual-mirror drive G4 and running OS X 10.4 on said hardware would show a significant difference in operating speed.
The problem isn't FPS on consoles. It's the porting of PC FPS games to the console. Halo on the Xbox is one of the best FPS I've ever played. I really enjoyed playing it with two analog thumbsticks. However, it was good because it was designed with those analog thumbsticks in mind instead of "how can we map a mouse keyboard configuration to the Xbox/PS2 controller?"
Exactly. If I tell my wife that I can buy a Revolution and she can play her precious SMB and Mario Kart, she'll be the one insisting on buying it. I'm buying one.
Right, because Xbox Live Arcade lets you download Super Mario Brothers, GoldenEye, Punch Out and Super Metroid.
Keep dreaming.
i mean they are what? two minutes from making the mini-DVD format obsolete
Until (and most likely even after) Sony authorizes the release of a UMD burner, the mini-DVD will still see wide-spread use. Sure, Lik-Sang will have a UMD burner in the next few months, but I'm talking a legitimate, mass-market UMD burner that you can stick in a 5 1/4" slot on your PC. Sony might stop using mini-DVDs in their DV Camcorders, but that alone won't kill off the medium. Look how successful Memory Sticks, MiniDiscs, and Beta tapes have been. Who uses them? Sony. But that's it.
honestly, how many gameboy titles were really, really quality?
Replace gameboy with Playstation and/or PS2 and the sentence still works.
Yes, competition is good for the consumer. But last time I checked, the PSP and DS were targeted at different markets. That's not competition. That's co-existence.
the developers have a bit more power and say than you think
You mis-read my post.
I'm not talking about FF, Madden NFL, or any other third party games. I'm talking about the Nintendo-Rare partnership. Again, I could be mistaken, but I believe Rare developed games for Nintendo on the SNES and N64 that were Nintendo First-party titles such as DK Country.
Nintendo owned 49% of Rare at the time they sold to Microsoft. From this article over at GameSpy.com, "Nintendo indicated that it retains exclusive rights to franchises in which Rare had a hand recently, such as Donkey Kong and Star Fox." You will not see Donkey Kong Country or Diddy Kong Racing sequels on Xbox (unless, for some reason, Nintendo decides to sell the rights to Microsoft, but DK is one of Nintendo's biggest franchises).
There's actually a way to pull that cartoon up on the Newton. Write "egg freckles" on a 2.0 Newton then tap Assist. Somewhat amusing.
im happy that now that nintendo isnt the only company playing the portables game
Care to qualify that statement? Nintendo has never been the only company in the portable gaming market. Tiger has had handhelds for quite a bit longer than Nintendo. Remember the Wonderswan? NeoGeo Pocket? Sega Game Gear? Tapwave? N-Gage? The list goes on and on...
Look at it from another perspective: PS2 has outsold Xbox by a LONG-SHOT worldwide. DS has outsold PSP by a LONG-SHOT worldwide.
Yes, you must live in Topsey-Turvey town because obviously reality has not settled wherever it is that you live.
Ummm...Nintendo has hardly dropped the ball. If I've heard correctly, Nintendo has already sold 5 million + DS units worldwide since last November. That's pretty good. THey have also shipped about that many GB Advances/SPs in that same time frame. Nintendo is still undoubtedly the leader in handheld gaming. This is nowhere near the success that Sony had with the PS1. Whether you like it or not, Nintendo is still in the lead.
I agree whole-heartedly. I for one will be first in line to buy a Revolution. Nintendo really seems to have gotten this one right.
When did it become wrong to pay for things? If there is something that I really enjoyed from previous generations, I will pay for it. This whole "everything digital has to be free" movement is sickening. It's this idea of entitlement. Nintendo's not just going to release old games for the hell of it. Suck it up and pay for good software.
I don't recall Nintendo saying that they would re-release "every single game" again. I believe the wording was more like "select titles".
If I remember correctly, Rare developed the games for Nintendo. I'm no lawyer, so forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't this work like the deal between Disney and Pixar? Pixar makes the movies, but Disney distributes them. Disney can release Toy Story until the cows come home even if Pixar no longer makes movies for Disney.
Also, I would imagine that someone bought/will buy Acclaim's IP.
Did I miss something? If you think adding a keyboard, email, and web support to the PSP is going to make it an iPod killer you are sorely mistaken. That might be what you want, but that's obviously not what people who buy iPods want. You're argument is ignoring logic. Last time I checked, the appeal of the iPod wasn't that it did everything and then some. It's appeal lies in the fact that it does one thing (two on the iPod photo) - play music - and it does so very well. You can also get one with a 60GB hard drive. I'm not aware of any 60GB Memory Sticks.
...or is "ipod killer" the new slang term to replace "the cat's meow"?
Just say what you want to say, "I don't want to buy an iPod because I don't like it. But that makes me feel unappreciated because people don't like what I like. I hate that the iPod is so popular. I love my PSP. It makes me happy and I want what makes me happy to make everyone happy because then I will be popular too."
You are obviously not part of the target market for both iPods and PDAs.
HP isn't a bad company either
I beg (on oh so many levels) to disagree with you.
I agree in terms that this would violate our right to privacy. However, this is something that is already commonly done by your peeping toms.
So that means because voyeurs do it, our government can too? I'm not following that logic. Our current "security" systems in place for passenger screening, immigrant tracking, and ID verification are not protecting anyone from another terrorist attack. How much more difficult is it to forge five documents as opposed to two? Not much. It might just cost a little more. How secure are biometric scanners (thumb, iris, voice)? Not very.
There are so many breakpoints in the "security" systems that the systems themselves are laughable. How hard would it be to bribe a security screener with a several thousand dollars to let someone get through a little easier? How difficult is it really to get a muslim extremist (especially a white, middle-aged one) hired at an airport and start working the plan from the inside?
I honestly believe that we're just making it harder for honest Americans to go about their normal lives.
Actually, the "metal detectors" installed at airports do not actually detect metal. They detect magnetic substances. Don't believe me? Hold a handful of change in an open palm while going through one. Since none of your coins (at least in the U.S.) are made of magnetic substances, the alarm won't go off. Airport security won't be too happy with you though...