In fact it's now so expensive that we're starting to see class stratification re-emerge as a result; the only people who can afford an education are the children of people who have an education, so education has ceased to be the "great leveler" and instead become an element in the ever-widening gap between rich and poor.
I don't see how that's true. I myself come from a single-income home where the father is only a postal worker, but I somehow managed to get into a university and complete it up to the Masters level (now pursuing the PhD). Then again, I did go to a state school.
People got to stop thinking that university = ivy league shit. Your state probably has a great university system (we in NY have SUNY, one of our schools is Cornell). You don't have to go to Harvard. On the contrary, a lot of companies lately are starting to favor ivy leaguers less.
When I dropped out of College I moved to London, joined a rock band, travelled the World for free, got drunk for free and generally had a great time for about ten years. Then at 34, broke and bored, I realized I'd better get it together FAST. Luckily the internet was just starting to happen so I borrowed some money for a computer and started a business. If it hadn't have been for the internet I really don't know what I'd have done. I was lucky, I managed to brave the rapids, but not everyone can go with the flow and stay ahead of oblivion.
Racism is a problem also, not just having a tattoo or piercing but having the wrong color skin can prevent you from being hired, even having the wrong gender or sexual preference.
Sexual orientation, maybe. There's no such thing as sexual preferences, unless you're talking about the way you prefer your girlfriend to tie you up with rope instead of handcuffs.
Even so, I doubt those are relevant to your job, unless of course you work in Las Vegas...
Gameboy losr market share to PSP? Please. Are you on crack? The PSP already lost in Japan (where it matters). The DS is still hot. The future line up for the DS is hot. The PSP, well, might as well back out of the race now while they can do it gracefully. Many, much better than Sony, have tried and all failed to de-throne Nintendo from the handheld market.
No doubt that a new breed of cool factor will come from having an x86-based Apple Mac G6 with Linux on it, but also with the ability to run x86-only Linux apps such as WINE, Nvidia drivers, VMware, Acrobat, Flash and NeroLINUX. (All subject to taste of course, but the ability to run them is there if you want it)
Also, Microsoft hater or not, imagine the possibility of a dual-boot system with Windows and Mac OS on it. It would be the ultimate developer's machine. Or just boot into Windows when you want to run Windows-only games. Triple-boot it with Linux too.
This is of course assuming that by "Intel chips" they mean something like Pentium or Xeon, and not Xscale or other non-x86 processors.
This explains why Luigi's Mansion, Mario Sunshine, Wind Waker and Minish Cap are pretty short compared to their ancesotrs. The Twilight Princess had better not suffer shortness due to this.
Assuming these "Intel chips" are x86, probably EMT64 (sp?), and not some sort of ARM like Xscale...
Then what's to prevent us (besides good taste) from taking one of these Mac G6 and installing Windows on it, the same way we can install Linux on it? Special x86, OpenFirmware, Apple roms, whatever it is that makes Mac OS X only installable on these chips... Windows is able to install on all modern x86 equipment.
So if in 2006, Mac OS X is available for some kind of Intel processor, what's to stop us from buying all of the components that make up a Mac G6 seperately (or better ones) and making home-made Macs ourselves?
Or.... is that what Apple wants, eh?
Then again, closed hardware means a tighter OS, which has always been one of their stronger advantages.
Um... I don't think so... Can you name a $100 (new, not used) video card that'll run HL2/CS:S at a decent framerate (40+ fps)? If you can, then I'll return my $300 video card and buy your $100 card!
You can good prices for Radeon 9800's, X800's, and GeForce FX 5800's and 6800's here
Games such as Half-Life 2 were made when those were the top-of-the-line cards, and were designed to run at full speed. Anything such as a X850 or such $400+ cards is just excess for those games.
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[sic]... perhaps offering the peripheral optionally in the same way it currently sells Memory Card units separately from PlayStation 2.
Oh, like the same way the current PlayStation2's harddrive is sold seperately, and no one is using it other than for one, below-average online RPG? Sounds like a plan.
PDF killer? Please. PDF is so mainstream and a standard now that it's impossible to replace. That's like trying to say they've come up with a plain-text killer, Flash-killer, or a GIF killer (oh wait...)
The new formats will apparently include XML files along with other files...
Doesn't AbiWord already do this, and for years now? I'm pretty sure AbiWord's doc files are XML, just open up an AbiWord file in Notepad or gEdit and check it out. How is this new?
That would be a valid point, if Four Swords Adventures sucked, but it didn't... (and BTW, no one is a moron here, at least I'm not. You might be, maybe.)
You mean like he is in every other Zelda game besides OoT?
Actually the "kid" Link first appeared in Ocarina of Time...
Zelda 1 - Debatable, but it takes place immediately before...
Adventure of Link - Clearly a teen/adult
Link to the Past - In-game is debatable, but the artwork shows a teen/adult
Link's Awakening - Follows LTTP, so he is an adult. Has a sorta-romance with Marin so can't really be a kid.
Faces of Evil - Just for a laugh. He's an adult.
Wand of Gamelon - Again. Laughs, and is an adult
Ocarina of Time - No Explaination needed
Majora's Mask - Definitely child Link
Oracle Seasons/Ages - Takes place after LTTP/LA, so must be a teen/adult. Same artwork as LTTP/LA too.
Wind Waker - Definitely a child
Four Swords and Minish Cap - Child again. Same as Wind Waker?
Twilight Princess- Adult, apperantly exclusively. But we've seen both child and adult Zelda, so it's in the air...
I dont think Final Fantasy is going anywhere, as there are too many rabid fans of Square-Enix.
Not as many as there use to be, though.
Remember, Super Mario Bros 3 was once the highest selling video game ever. Now the Mario series is... well, Mario Baseball. Which happens to be what's happening to Final Fantasy. Forget your Final Fantasy 6's and your Super Mario World's... now all we have are the Final Fantasy X-2's and Mario Dance-Dance Revolutions's.
Seems these days the only bastion of hope with video games is the fact that the current most popular/hyped (and deservidely so) series is an old one: Legend of Zelda. It's also the only old series left that seems to have any quality in the latest titles. When we start seeing Zelda: Crystal Chronicles and Zelda XI: Online, then you know it's gone to shit.
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The only people who would bad-mouth higher education are those too bitter because they were not accepted in or failed out of it.
In fact it's now so expensive that we're starting to see class stratification re-emerge as a result; the only people who can afford an education are the children of people who have an education, so education has ceased to be the "great leveler" and instead become an element in the ever-widening gap between rich and poor.
I don't see how that's true. I myself come from a single-income home where the father is only a postal worker, but I somehow managed to get into a university and complete it up to the Masters level (now pursuing the PhD). Then again, I did go to a state school.
People got to stop thinking that university = ivy league shit. Your state probably has a great university system (we in NY have SUNY, one of our schools is Cornell). You don't have to go to Harvard. On the contrary, a lot of companies lately are starting to favor ivy leaguers less.
When I dropped out of College I moved to London, joined a rock band, travelled the World for free, got drunk for free and generally had a great time for about ten years. Then at 34, broke and bored, I realized I'd better get it together FAST. Luckily the internet was just starting to happen so I borrowed some money for a computer and started a business. If it hadn't have been for the internet I really don't know what I'd have done. I was lucky, I managed to brave the rapids, but not everyone can go with the flow and stay ahead of oblivion.
Is that you, Ronnie James Dio??
Gentoo and Microsoft. Two of the most highly regarded organizations on Slashdot. Surely, only good could come from this?
So is this what they meant by Apple using Intel chips?
"Upgrade" a G4 to a Pentoum M? More like a downgrade to me...
If they're going to do movies based on video games, they should do them based on ones that have actual plots...
Hmmm, a sci-fi with a lot of macho heroes, lots of guns and lots of demonic looking aliens. Is it Doom or Halo? Does it matter?
Racism is a problem also, not just having a tattoo or piercing but having the wrong color skin can prevent you from being hired, even having the wrong gender or sexual preference.
Sexual orientation, maybe. There's no such thing as sexual preferences, unless you're talking about the way you prefer your girlfriend to tie you up with rope instead of handcuffs.
Even so, I doubt those are relevant to your job, unless of course you work in Las Vegas...
Superior graphics and the price drop did not get the Gamecube to overtake the PS2 though. Let's face it, the handheld market belongs to Nintendo.
You don't have to use FPS or chess games, you can do thiseasily with RPG's as well...
If your first RPG was...
Final Fantasy VII: Not hardcore, but you think you are
Final Fantasy VIII: You bought into the FF7 hype and bought its sequel. Shame on you.
Final Fantasy IX: You exist?
Final Fantasy X or later: Definitely not hardcore
Chrono Trigger or FF6: Part of a dying breed, the last generation of hardcore
Final Fantasy IV: Hardcore, but you skipped the 8-bit era
Final Fantasy II, III or V: You are Japanese
Final Fantasy 1: Not really hardcore, just an avid Nintendo Power reader
Non-Square NES or SNES RPG: You are hardcore, and wonder what the fuss over Squaresoft was all about
Non-Square PSone RPG: Shame on you
Dragon Warrior: Ah, this is the definition of hardcore
Ultima: Well, you would be hardcore, if you didn't die of old age
Gameboy losr market share to PSP? Please. Are you on crack? The PSP already lost in Japan (where it matters). The DS is still hot. The future line up for the DS is hot. The PSP, well, might as well back out of the race now while they can do it gracefully. Many, much better than Sony, have tried and all failed to de-throne Nintendo from the handheld market.
Wow, HAL really is a derivative of "IBM" then!
Apple G6 + Intel chips + no DRM = Ultimate Microsoft-free PC ?
No doubt that a new breed of cool factor will come from having an x86-based Apple Mac G6 with Linux on it, but also with the ability to run x86-only Linux apps such as WINE, Nvidia drivers, VMware, Acrobat, Flash and NeroLINUX. (All subject to taste of course, but the ability to run them is there if you want it)
Also, Microsoft hater or not, imagine the possibility of a dual-boot system with Windows and Mac OS on it. It would be the ultimate developer's machine. Or just boot into Windows when you want to run Windows-only games. Triple-boot it with Linux too.
This is of course assuming that by "Intel chips" they mean something like Pentium or Xeon, and not Xscale or other non-x86 processors.
I love the guy, his games are my favorite, but...
This explains why Luigi's Mansion, Mario Sunshine, Wind Waker and Minish Cap are pretty short compared to their ancesotrs. The Twilight Princess had better not suffer shortness due to this.
OK then how about this:
Assuming these "Intel chips" are x86, probably EMT64 (sp?), and not some sort of ARM like Xscale...
Then what's to prevent us (besides good taste) from taking one of these Mac G6 and installing Windows on it, the same way we can install Linux on it? Special x86, OpenFirmware, Apple roms, whatever it is that makes Mac OS X only installable on these chips... Windows is able to install on all modern x86 equipment.
So if in 2006, Mac OS X is available for some kind of Intel processor, what's to stop us from buying all of the components that make up a Mac G6 seperately (or better ones) and making home-made Macs ourselves?
Or.... is that what Apple wants, eh?
Then again, closed hardware means a tighter OS, which has always been one of their stronger advantages.
Um... I don't think so... Can you name a $100 (new, not used) video card that'll run HL2/CS:S at a decent framerate (40+ fps)? If you can, then I'll return my $300 video card and buy your $100 card!
You can good prices for Radeon 9800's, X800's, and GeForce FX 5800's and 6800's here
Games such as Half-Life 2 were made when those were the top-of-the-line cards, and were designed to run at full speed. Anything such as a X850 or such $400+ cards is just excess for those games.
[sic]... perhaps offering the peripheral optionally in the same way it currently sells Memory Card units separately from PlayStation 2.
Oh, like the same way the current PlayStation2's harddrive is sold seperately, and no one is using it other than for one, below-average online RPG? Sounds like a plan.
PDF killer? Please. PDF is so mainstream and a standard now that it's impossible to replace. That's like trying to say they've come up with a plain-text killer, Flash-killer, or a GIF killer (oh wait...)
The new formats will apparently include XML files along with other files...
Doesn't AbiWord already do this, and for years now? I'm pretty sure AbiWord's doc files are XML, just open up an AbiWord file in Notepad or gEdit and check it out. How is this new?
That would be a valid point, if Four Swords Adventures sucked, but it didn't... (and BTW, no one is a moron here, at least I'm not. You might be, maybe.)
You mean like he is in every other Zelda game besides OoT?
Actually the "kid" Link first appeared in Ocarina of Time...
Zelda 1 - Debatable, but it takes place immediately before...
Adventure of Link - Clearly a teen/adult
Link to the Past - In-game is debatable, but the artwork shows a teen/adult
Link's Awakening - Follows LTTP, so he is an adult. Has a sorta-romance with Marin so can't really be a kid.
Faces of Evil - Just for a laugh. He's an adult.
Wand of Gamelon - Again. Laughs, and is an adult
Ocarina of Time - No Explaination needed
Majora's Mask - Definitely child Link
Oracle Seasons/Ages - Takes place after LTTP/LA, so must be a teen/adult. Same artwork as LTTP/LA too.
Wind Waker - Definitely a child
Four Swords and Minish Cap - Child again. Same as Wind Waker?
Twilight Princess- Adult, apperantly exclusively. But we've seen both child and adult Zelda, so it's in the air...
So it's about half and half.
Eh? Big Deal. The Gameboy Advance already HAS a Gameboy Color emulator in it...
I dont think Final Fantasy is going anywhere, as there are too many rabid fans of Square-Enix.
Not as many as there use to be, though.
Remember, Super Mario Bros 3 was once the highest selling video game ever. Now the Mario series is... well, Mario Baseball. Which happens to be what's happening to Final Fantasy. Forget your Final Fantasy 6's and your Super Mario World's... now all we have are the Final Fantasy X-2's and Mario Dance-Dance Revolutions's.
Seems these days the only bastion of hope with video games is the fact that the current most popular/hyped (and deservidely so) series is an old one: Legend of Zelda. It's also the only old series left that seems to have any quality in the latest titles. When we start seeing Zelda: Crystal Chronicles and Zelda XI: Online, then you know it's gone to shit.