If Microsoft was smart, they design the Xbox2 with a n area to pop-in an upgrade. Keep it hidden and secret. So that after two years you can "PLuS" your Xbox 2 with a dual-core and new GPU.
They already sell an item like this. It's called a PC.
Seriously, though. How hard would it be to implement a journaling file system into XP? Apple did it with Panther when it wasn't available in previous version of OS X. If we can "quickly" convert file systems from FAT32 to NTFS, it should be as "painless" to do it from NTFS to Journaling NTFS.
which is why no other system has a controller layout exactly like that
The SNES button layout is exactly like the PS1/2's. This is because the PS1 was originally the SNES CD, and made into a stand-along system. Sony basically ripped off Nintendo's controller design and added handles. Also note that Sony did not add analog sticks to their controller until Nintendo announced the N64 controller would have an analog stick standard.
RSS? PNG support? Popup blocker without a service pack? Proper CSS support? Integrated Sherlock? Tabbed browsing?
Oh wait, those are all features Firefox has that IE doesn't. About the only thing IE has that Firefox doesn't is ActiveX support, and the only good thing that has come from that is keeping me in business (people pay me to clean their computers of spyware/malware).
It wasn't a port. Not minding the different JP and USA release dates, keep in mind the PS2 and PC versions were developed at exactly the same time. They planned on a simultanous release.
FF7 and FF8 were ports they weren't planning on at the time of the PS1 version's development.
So if I were to patent "a software suite that digitally edits images" and gave Gimp.org royalty-free rights to it but not to Adobe, would Photoshop be in trouble?
Furthermore, Nintendo has made enough money off of Link and it is time that the character entered public domain.
This is dumb. You cannot say a character "should" become public domain since you've decided Nintendo made enough money off of him. THat's not even an opinion, that's just false. Disney will fight you over this with Mickey Mouse. Do you think they've made enough money with him too? If Link ever does become public domain, it could only happen about 70 years AFTER Shigeru Miyamoto bites the dust anyway.
I mean front page? Come on. Anyone who trades tech stocks knows that companies are constantly participating in various financial conferences where these sorts of presentations are given.
True. Frontpage sucks so bad the Microsoft even dropped it from the standard Office suite. I think they replaced it with Publisher.
You know a product sucks really bad when it loses market share to Notepad.exe
True. Not to mention the binaries for OS X software is built for PowerPC, not x86. Let's take Photoshop for example...
Say, for argument's sake, that Mac OS X 10.5 came out for Pentium/Athlon PC. You buy it, install it, presto. Now, you want to run Photoshop. OOH, which do you install? Photoshop for Mac OS X? No, it's compiled for PowerPC. Photoshop for Windows? No, it's compiled for Windows. You would need to buy a special Photoshop for OSX/x86, a third option.
Basically, when you put aside the software pirates (99% of Slashdot users who use Photoshop) and the rich artist/musician types (who would buy the Mac hardware anyway), OS X for x86 would be a software nightmare. For corporations, it would be a software investment crash. You can't use your legally owned Windows software on it. You also can't use your legally owned OSX PowerPC software. It just would be a failure.
The only reason Linux works on multiple platforms is because 99% of its software is open-source and can therefor be compiled for the installed architecture when needed. When you get to the prorpietary stuff, like Photoshop, it becomes a nightmare.
If you need a Linux example, look at Macromedia Flash (player) and VMware Workstatioin. Heck, even look at official NVidia drivers. Try and get those for SPARC or PowerPC Linux (or any non-x86 Linux). You can't. Now, imagine all the software for your operating system in the Flash/VMware situation. You go to buy Photoshop for OSX only to realize it's coimpiled only for PowerPC.
The only way it could work is if Adobe, Macromedia, Apple, even Microsoft (Office 2004 for Mac) needs to compile an x86 version of all its Mac OS X software and then recall all discs that only contain the PowerPC software. It would be a financial nightmare, for the consumer and the manufacturer. If you want a living example of the whole situation, look at the "64-bit" Windows XP for Itanium, or hell even Solaris.
Of course, 99% of Slashdotters who use Windows XP run a pirated copy, with a pirated version of Photoshop or whatever, so I'm sure this has all gone through one ear and out the other...
A lot of people here don't seem to understand that Sakaguchi left Square a while ago to form his own development company, Mistwalker. As Mistwalker is just a developer (not a publisher) all this means is that some Mistwalker-developed games are going to be published under Micrsoft Game Studios. This doesn't mean M$ is Mistwalker's only publisher.
This doesn't mean at all that a Final Fantasy game will appear on (another) Microsoft system (not counting Windows PC). More likely though is the Final Fantasy series jumping to Nintendo's Revolution if the PlayStation3's Cell processor Assembly code proves more trouble than its worth (Square already knows PowerPC Assembly well, which is what Gamecube games are coded in, and PPC ASM is not the same as Cell ASM).
Heck, even Nintendo published some of Square's developed games (Final Fantasy I/NES, Sword of Mana, Crystal Chronicles).
Interesting to note is that Nobuo Uematasu (the music composer for Final Fantasy's 1 - 10) is now working for Mistwalker. This means some diehard game music buffs are going to have to buy an Xbox Next when it comes out.
So this has nothing to do with the Square button being too close to the LCD inside so that the pressure point it sort of off center? Hmmm. I think Sony (and president Ken in particular) are way too full of themselves with this one. They think they're going to take down Nintendo DS as well as the iPod, and in reality it's not even going to take down the Gameboy Advance.
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If it's truely journaled, then why does it need to be defragmented all the time then?
If Microsoft was smart, they design the Xbox2 with a n area to pop-in an upgrade. Keep it hidden and secret. So that after two years you can "PLuS" your Xbox 2 with a dual-core and new GPU.
They already sell an item like this. It's called a PC.
Dump a product that actually WORKS for two that crash and/or lock up all the time.
Sounds like the lifecycle of Windows NT to me.
IMO the ration seems to be... Intel/AMD/IBM = Windows/Linux/MaxOSX
Broadband to Kill Off DVD?
No, but Blu-Ray probably will...
Seriously, though. How hard would it be to implement a journaling file system into XP? Apple did it with Panther when it wasn't available in previous version of OS X. If we can "quickly" convert file systems from FAT32 to NTFS, it should be as "painless" to do it from NTFS to Journaling NTFS.
11. Profit
which is why no other system has a controller layout exactly like that
The SNES button layout is exactly like the PS1/2's. This is because the PS1 was originally the SNES CD, and made into a stand-along system. Sony basically ripped off Nintendo's controller design and added handles. Also note that Sony did not add analog sticks to their controller until Nintendo announced the N64 controller would have an analog stick standard.
Is it a coincidence that the cell phone battery companies are sponsoring Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest for cell phone?
What features does IE have over Firefox?
RSS? PNG support? Popup blocker without a service pack? Proper CSS support? Integrated Sherlock? Tabbed browsing?
Oh wait, those are all features Firefox has that IE doesn't. About the only thing IE has that Firefox doesn't is ActiveX support, and the only good thing that has come from that is keeping me in business (people pay me to clean their computers of spyware/malware).
It wasn't a port. Not minding the different JP and USA release dates, keep in mind the PS2 and PC versions were developed at exactly the same time. They planned on a simultanous release. FF7 and FF8 were ports they weren't planning on at the time of the PS1 version's development.
Them? The underwear gnomes?
So if I were to patent "a software suite that digitally edits images" and gave Gimp.org royalty-free rights to it but not to Adobe, would Photoshop be in trouble?
Linux is not ready for the deskjet.
As far as I know, the only operating system you could install on a Deskjet is NetBSD.
Furthermore, Nintendo has made enough money off of Link and it is time that the character entered public domain.
This is dumb. You cannot say a character "should" become public domain since you've decided Nintendo made enough money off of him. THat's not even an opinion, that's just false. Disney will fight you over this with Mickey Mouse. Do you think they've made enough money with him too? If Link ever does become public domain, it could only happen about 70 years AFTER Shigeru Miyamoto bites the dust anyway.
I mean front page? Come on. Anyone who trades tech stocks knows that companies are constantly participating in various financial conferences where these sorts of presentations are given.
True. Frontpage sucks so bad the Microsoft even dropped it from the standard Office suite. I think they replaced it with Publisher.
You know a product sucks really bad when it loses market share to Notepad.exe
True. Not to mention the binaries for OS X software is built for PowerPC, not x86. Let's take Photoshop for example...
Say, for argument's sake, that Mac OS X 10.5 came out for Pentium/Athlon PC. You buy it, install it, presto. Now, you want to run Photoshop. OOH, which do you install? Photoshop for Mac OS X? No, it's compiled for PowerPC. Photoshop for Windows? No, it's compiled for Windows. You would need to buy a special Photoshop for OSX/x86, a third option.
Basically, when you put aside the software pirates (99% of Slashdot users who use Photoshop) and the rich artist/musician types (who would buy the Mac hardware anyway), OS X for x86 would be a software nightmare. For corporations, it would be a software investment crash. You can't use your legally owned Windows software on it. You also can't use your legally owned OSX PowerPC software. It just would be a failure.
The only reason Linux works on multiple platforms is because 99% of its software is open-source and can therefor be compiled for the installed architecture when needed. When you get to the prorpietary stuff, like Photoshop, it becomes a nightmare.
If you need a Linux example, look at Macromedia Flash (player) and VMware Workstatioin. Heck, even look at official NVidia drivers. Try and get those for SPARC or PowerPC Linux (or any non-x86 Linux). You can't. Now, imagine all the software for your operating system in the Flash/VMware situation. You go to buy Photoshop for OSX only to realize it's coimpiled only for PowerPC.
The only way it could work is if Adobe, Macromedia, Apple, even Microsoft (Office 2004 for Mac) needs to compile an x86 version of all its Mac OS X software and then recall all discs that only contain the PowerPC software. It would be a financial nightmare, for the consumer and the manufacturer. If you want a living example of the whole situation, look at the "64-bit" Windows XP for Itanium, or hell even Solaris.
Of course, 99% of Slashdotters who use Windows XP run a pirated copy, with a pirated version of Photoshop or whatever, so I'm sure this has all gone through one ear and out the other...
A lot of people here don't seem to understand that Sakaguchi left Square a while ago to form his own development company, Mistwalker. As Mistwalker is just a developer (not a publisher) all this means is that some Mistwalker-developed games are going to be published under Micrsoft Game Studios. This doesn't mean M$ is Mistwalker's only publisher.
This doesn't mean at all that a Final Fantasy game will appear on (another) Microsoft system (not counting Windows PC). More likely though is the Final Fantasy series jumping to Nintendo's Revolution if the PlayStation3's Cell processor Assembly code proves more trouble than its worth (Square already knows PowerPC Assembly well, which is what Gamecube games are coded in, and PPC ASM is not the same as Cell ASM).
Heck, even Nintendo published some of Square's developed games (Final Fantasy I/NES, Sword of Mana, Crystal Chronicles).
Interesting to note is that Nobuo Uematasu (the music composer for Final Fantasy's 1 - 10) is now working for Mistwalker. This means some diehard game music buffs are going to have to buy an Xbox Next when it comes out.
Name one FF game that was simultaneously released for more than one system.
Final Fantasy XI Online (PC and PS2)
I dont think I could deal with a Final Fantasy loss too
Hmmm, I was pretty disdained when Nintendo lost Final Fantasy in 1996. Let's not all pretend Final Fantasy ever was a Sony-exclusive series.
Mandriva.... Man-gina Linux?
This won't elevate us to the status of Red Hat or Novell/SuSE yet...
Or the userbase of Debian either.
Sounds like Rotten Tomatoes to me...
So this has nothing to do with the Square button being too close to the LCD inside so that the pressure point it sort of off center? Hmmm. I think Sony (and president Ken in particular) are way too full of themselves with this one. They think they're going to take down Nintendo DS as well as the iPod, and in reality it's not even going to take down the Gameboy Advance.