Not here. Most of the states are rural areas, and cell technology is just not up to par. I work tech support in a city with a population of 10,000. The next closest city is about 40miles away, so we have a lot of rural customers in the area. I positively HATE when one of those customers tries to call me from a cell phone. I can barely understand what they are saying, and half the time I just hang up. And what about bandwidth? How can we expect wireless bandwidth get good enough for data if it can't even balnket the country with decent voice?
As one of those PC gamers who spends hundreds of dollars a year on his machine just so he can keep up with the bleeding edge, I take exception.
I am a PC gamer because it is superior to everything else available, price be damned. I am what is known in the community as a "hardcore" gamer, I appreciate a monster experience with characters so realistic their clothes sway in realtime, and the last thing I want is for companies to start making all of the games run on your piddly 233mhz.
I LIKE the bleeding edge. Thats why I'm here. Every month I'm constantly being wowed by amazing technology. I sit in anticipation of the latest release to create the feasts for the eyes the like of which many people will never witness. Should developers lessen that experience just so you can run it on your dated machine? No.
Now if you please, kindly go back to your "next generation" consoles, with your crappy resolution, and your lower poly counts and leave me to my hobby.
There are plenty of things for you to play without trying to bring my stuff down.
Either version runs on both operating systems. Thats why the Linux one didn't sell well, the Windows version was out months earlier and was cheaper to boot.
Not a good idea. The power companies wouldn't have any problem with producing pollution and just passing the cost on to the buyer.
Free market might prevent that sort of thing, but I wouldn't rely on it.
An mp3 player for the dreamcast has existed already for quite awhile. It's called "dcmp3", but last I checked their official page was down. You might want to read more about it at www.dcemulation.com (where I think it can be downloaded). And so long as you are there, check out gypplay, the DC movie player. Neat stuff.
That is true, but the benefits of porting existing API's to the architecture is that it would make porting existing software that uses those API's very easy. If we could get SDL on Linux on Dreamcast, then all of the SDL software out could be easily ported giving Linux game software a larger market.
I work a computer store/isp/repair shop. We had someone bring a machine in once, about 3 years ago, that they had just purchased from Gateway. She was a nice older lady who didn't really know anything about computers and got confused by the tech support on the phone so she brought the machine to us. What we found inside was astonishing, the cards and the memory were just loose inside of the machine. I believe it was a video card and a sound card, just laying in the bottom of the case along with the memory.
It was all quite astonishing.
Offtopic is a bullshit mod. It should not be in there. Conversations should be allowed to follow their path, if someone doesn't like a thread then they don't have to follow it.
Who are you say the color of my shoes has nothing to do with the price of tea in china?
I come from a long line of underacheivers. Most of the people in my family have worked their asses off at minimum wage jobs where they could be easily replaced, with management who didn't like them, doing jobs that were aging their bodies twice as fast as nature would. Think "meat plant" "roofing" "line manufacturing".
That stuff sucks ass, I even did some of it when I was a teenager. I had a job in a bacon factory where I took big slabs of back from a rack and threw it into a machine. I then pressed 2 levers on the machine to make it compress the meat. It was 30 degrees in the factory and constantly wet. The bellies weighed between 30 to 50 lbs and I had to maintin a high rate of speed because I supplied 2 production lines. There were no unscheduled breaks, if I left my position then that means 2 lines of people (around 20 or so total) would be standing around waiting on me. Now -that- job sucked. Tech support isn't roses, but it is a far cry from "The worst job.". Yes, I do tech support now. I have a frame of reference.
The people in my family are thrilled that I get paid to sit behind a computer screen and talk to people on the phone. Beats the shit out of packing meat.
No. The culture isn't going to degenerate or stagnate if you let it alone. It just gets bigger with many subcultures and groups with like interests. We are seeing this already a LOT in the states. For instance my town has an anime shop and I just think it rocks. Not everybody likes it, but for those of us who do, its great.
And thats the point, if you allow the cultures to intermix you gain and you give. This is a GOOD thing, and far preferable to trying to dictate to your populace how they can act.
The Mcdonalds thing is a good example. Would they have destroyed the Mcdonalds if there hadn't been people who liked it? No. They were combating the fear that lots of people -would- have liked it, and eat there once in awhile instead of the local eateries. Those people are being deprived of being able to eat what they want because some others in their city said "Hey, everybody around here has to act like us, it preserves our culture."
This whole combating foreign cultures thing is insidious evil.
You just don't get it do you?
Claims of preservation of culture are nothing but close minded bigotry. Never have there been attempts to fortify American culture against the rest of the world, and due to that we are a beautiful melting pot of all cultures. Of course our culture is not all good, but what culture is?
Bringing people together is a worthy goal, and language is a huge barrier to that. That goal shouldn't be compromised just because you are afraid it will "tarnish the culture". Besides, legislating what people can say or write is an affront to your peoples liberty.
Have you been paying attention to the console scene lately? Considering the way the console scene is now, not having a DVD option is not a good call. The thing is, they DO have a DVD option, a 3rd party is developing it I believe.
Even Sega has done a 180 and has developed a DVD addon for the Dreamcast.
Anyway, Nintedo hasn't been doing so well in the console scene lately, except for the gameboy. They aren't the console guru's you seem to think they are.
Unless I am mistaken, Virginia is one of only 2 states that have passed UCITA. UCITA is the bill that gives a great deal of strength to shrinkwrapped software licenses. Did this impact MS's choice of Virginia Beach as a target?
Just a FYI: ip_masq_irc does not work "just fine". It has problems sending (yes sending) outbound DCC connections for whatever reason. I had this problem and a quick search on Deja shows that I am not alone. Ended up using 3rd party software to relay DCC.
They also the world would be covered by a massive network of computers that acted as a single global entertainment and information medium accessible to the masses. Commonly predicted in the 70's as 20-30 years away.
A manager went to his programmers and told them: "As regards to your
work hours: you are going to have to come in at nine in the morning and leave
at five in the afternoon." At this, all of them became angry and several
resigned on the spot.
So the manager said: "All right, in that case you may set your own
working hours, as long as you finish your projects on schedule." The
programmers, now satisfied, began to come in a noon and work to the wee
hours of the morning.
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
Very true. Management should love flex time, people tend to work more with it.
I see a lot of people saying Bush is going to be harmless as president, but there is something they are overlooking. Bush is likely to appoint between 2 and 4 supreme court justices to the Supreme Court this term because the justices are going to be retiring.
The Christian Coalition has been backing Bush for president because he promised Pat Robertson that he would put ultra conservative justices on the Supreme Court if the CC gave him their support.
The CC has many reasons for wanting to do this, but it all comes down to the fact that the supreme's have always stomped on the draconian things they try to get passed. Be it overturning Roe VS Wade, brining prayer into public schools, or getting federal funding for private religious schools, the supreme court has always been a huge obstacle.
Regardless of if Bush sits in his office high on cocaine for 4 years or not, if he never does anything else besides those appointments, he will have had a huge impact on the nation for decades.
Remember there is ultimately 1 thing standing between your liberty and the thought policing, zealot, dictators; the justice system that is sworn to uphold the constitution. If they win the justice system it's a sad day.
Yes. This is called transparent proxying. It's done by rerouting traffic on a certain port to a proxy machine wich then completes the connection on the clients behalf. It is completely transparent to the client.
If noone is making hardware, what are you going to emulate?
Also, the PC game market is nothing compared to the console market. Sure lots of people have computers, but how many people have powerful enough systems to run this kind of software? Then further how many of those are going to be using the system primarily for gaming?
Most PC owners buy a few games during the first few months of ownership and thats it.
The best reason to develop for a console (and EVERY console developer will tell you this) compared to devloping on a PC is this; you KNOW what the hardware is going to do.
That said, why would you want to make DC titles with PC porting in mind?
You wouldn't.
Although making a PC title with a console port in mind is a good idea, and you see this a lot.
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Not here. Most of the states are rural areas, and cell technology is just not up to par. I work tech support in a city with a population of 10,000. The next closest city is about 40miles away, so we have a lot of rural customers in the area. I positively HATE when one of those customers tries to call me from a cell phone. I can barely understand what they are saying, and half the time I just hang up. And what about bandwidth? How can we expect wireless bandwidth get good enough for data if it can't even balnket the country with decent voice?
Bryan
Hahahahaha right.
If we ever have another bad economy in the states we will see if thats true.
Things haven't been bad here since the 30's.
As one of those PC gamers who spends hundreds of dollars a year on his machine just so he can keep up with the bleeding edge, I take exception.
I am a PC gamer because it is superior to everything else available, price be damned. I am what is known in the community as a "hardcore" gamer, I appreciate a monster experience with characters so realistic their clothes sway in realtime, and the last thing I want is for companies to start making all of the games run on your piddly 233mhz.
I LIKE the bleeding edge. Thats why I'm here. Every month I'm constantly being wowed by amazing technology. I sit in anticipation of the latest release to create the feasts for the eyes the like of which many people will never witness. Should developers lessen that experience just so you can run it on your dated machine? No.
Now if you please, kindly go back to your "next generation" consoles, with your crappy resolution, and your lower poly counts and leave me to my hobby.
There are plenty of things for you to play without trying to bring my stuff down.
kthx.
Either version runs on both operating systems. Thats why the Linux one didn't sell well, the Windows version was out months earlier and was cheaper to boot.
Not a good idea. The power companies wouldn't have any problem with producing pollution and just passing the cost on to the buyer.
Free market might prevent that sort of thing, but I wouldn't rely on it.
I doubt it. Techniques to do that exist already and he probably even had to use some of them to get the port working.
An mp3 player for the dreamcast has existed already for quite awhile. It's called "dcmp3", but last I checked their official page was down. You might want to read more about it at www.dcemulation.com (where I think it can be downloaded). And so long as you are there, check out gypplay, the DC movie player. Neat stuff.
That is true, but the benefits of porting existing API's to the architecture is that it would make porting existing software that uses those API's very easy. If we could get SDL on Linux on Dreamcast, then all of the SDL software out could be easily ported giving Linux game software a larger market.
I work a computer store/isp/repair shop. We had someone bring a machine in once, about 3 years ago, that they had just purchased from Gateway. She was a nice older lady who didn't really know anything about computers and got confused by the tech support on the phone so she brought the machine to us. What we found inside was astonishing, the cards and the memory were just loose inside of the machine. I believe it was a video card and a sound card, just laying in the bottom of the case along with the memory.
It was all quite astonishing.
Offtopic is a bullshit mod. It should not be in there. Conversations should be allowed to follow their path, if someone doesn't like a thread then they don't have to follow it.
Who are you say the color of my shoes has nothing to do with the price of tea in china?
Heh.. this post is offtopic.
I come from a long line of underacheivers. Most of the people in my family have worked their asses off at minimum wage jobs where they could be easily replaced, with management who didn't like them, doing jobs that were aging their bodies twice as fast as nature would. Think "meat plant" "roofing" "line manufacturing".
That stuff sucks ass, I even did some of it when I was a teenager. I had a job in a bacon factory where I took big slabs of back from a rack and threw it into a machine. I then pressed 2 levers on the machine to make it compress the meat. It was 30 degrees in the factory and constantly wet. The bellies weighed between 30 to 50 lbs and I had to maintin a high rate of speed because I supplied 2 production lines. There were no unscheduled breaks, if I left my position then that means 2 lines of people (around 20 or so total) would be standing around waiting on me. Now -that- job sucked. Tech support isn't roses, but it is a far cry from "The worst job.". Yes, I do tech support now. I have a frame of reference.
The people in my family are thrilled that I get paid to sit behind a computer screen and talk to people on the phone. Beats the shit out of packing meat.
No. The culture isn't going to degenerate or stagnate if you let it alone. It just gets bigger with many subcultures and groups with like interests. We are seeing this already a LOT in the states. For instance my town has an anime shop and I just think it rocks. Not everybody likes it, but for those of us who do, its great.
And thats the point, if you allow the cultures to intermix you gain and you give. This is a GOOD thing, and far preferable to trying to dictate to your populace how they can act.
The Mcdonalds thing is a good example. Would they have destroyed the Mcdonalds if there hadn't been people who liked it? No. They were combating the fear that lots of people -would- have liked it, and eat there once in awhile instead of the local eateries. Those people are being deprived of being able to eat what they want because some others in their city said "Hey, everybody around here has to act like us, it preserves our culture."
This whole combating foreign cultures thing is insidious evil.
You just don't get it do you?
Claims of preservation of culture are nothing but close minded bigotry. Never have there been attempts to fortify American culture against the rest of the world, and due to that we are a beautiful melting pot of all cultures. Of course our culture is not all good, but what culture is?
Bringing people together is a worthy goal, and language is a huge barrier to that. That goal shouldn't be compromised just because you are afraid it will "tarnish the culture". Besides, legislating what people can say or write is an affront to your peoples liberty.
Have you been paying attention to the console scene lately? Considering the way the console scene is now, not having a DVD option is not a good call. The thing is, they DO have a DVD option, a 3rd party is developing it I believe.
Even Sega has done a 180 and has developed a DVD addon for the Dreamcast.
Anyway, Nintedo hasn't been doing so well in the console scene lately, except for the gameboy. They aren't the console guru's you seem to think they are.
Unless I am mistaken, Virginia is one of only 2 states that have passed UCITA. UCITA is the bill that gives a great deal of strength to shrinkwrapped software licenses. Did this impact MS's choice of Virginia Beach as a target?
rofl
omg, good one.
I think it flew over the moderators heads though.
Just a FYI: ip_masq_irc does not work "just fine". It has problems sending (yes sending) outbound DCC connections for whatever reason. I had this problem and a quick search on Deja shows that I am not alone. Ended up using 3rd party software to relay DCC.
Things change, but naturally if you don't try the new things then everything will seem the same to you. Big "Doh!" on that one.
They also the world would be covered by a massive network of computers that acted as a single global entertainment and information medium accessible to the masses. Commonly predicted in the 70's as 20-30 years away.
A manager went to his programmers and told them: "As regards to your
work hours: you are going to have to come in at nine in the morning and leave
at five in the afternoon." At this, all of them became angry and several
resigned on the spot.
So the manager said: "All right, in that case you may set your own
working hours, as long as you finish your projects on schedule." The
programmers, now satisfied, began to come in a noon and work to the wee
hours of the morning.
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
Very true. Management should love flex time, people tend to work more with it.
paraphrased: Dumb newbies use Mysql, but us smart people use postgres.
This is insightful? Surely it should be moderated as flame bait.
I see a lot of people saying Bush is going to be harmless as president, but there is something they are overlooking. Bush is likely to appoint between 2 and 4 supreme court justices to the Supreme Court this term because the justices are going to be retiring.
The Christian Coalition has been backing Bush for president because he promised Pat Robertson that he would put ultra conservative justices on the Supreme Court if the CC gave him their support.
The CC has many reasons for wanting to do this, but it all comes down to the fact that the supreme's have always stomped on the draconian things they try to get passed. Be it overturning Roe VS Wade, brining prayer into public schools, or getting federal funding for private religious schools, the supreme court has always been a huge obstacle.
Regardless of if Bush sits in his office high on cocaine for 4 years or not, if he never does anything else besides those appointments, he will have had a huge impact on the nation for decades.
Remember there is ultimately 1 thing standing between your liberty and the thought policing, zealot, dictators; the justice system that is sworn to uphold the constitution. If they win the justice system it's a sad day.
Yes. This is called transparent proxying. It's done by rerouting traffic on a certain port to a proxy machine wich then completes the connection on the clients behalf. It is completely transparent to the client.
$10k to taxes on $25k a year? You pulled that out of your ass.
At 25k a year and with kids you actually get back more taxes than you pay in (earned income credit).
If noone is making hardware, what are you going to emulate?
Also, the PC game market is nothing compared to the console market. Sure lots of people have computers, but how many people have powerful enough systems to run this kind of software? Then further how many of those are going to be using the system primarily for gaming?
Most PC owners buy a few games during the first few months of ownership and thats it.
The best reason to develop for a console (and EVERY console developer will tell you this) compared to devloping on a PC is this; you KNOW what the hardware is going to do.
That said, why would you want to make DC titles with PC porting in mind?
You wouldn't.
Although making a PC title with a console port in mind is a good idea, and you see this a lot.