Who says you can only get one? I've got both and they're both pretty great for what I use them for. Both machines were well worth the money, IMO.
Also, saying the DS has "512x384 pixels of screen real estate" is both misleading and incorrect, considering it's split between two screens and almost always display different things at a given time. It's not a 512 pixel wide bye 384 high single large screen, but two 256 × 192 screens. In addition, when they are displaying the same scene continuously, they are more like a single 256x384 screen, which is not a practical resolution for things like videos, emulators, or PC game ports (which are often in a 4:3 aspect ratio). The "screen real estate" you described would be about twice what the DS actually has, and four times what a single screen has.
I think it's ridiculous that people complain about how many BSDs there are when there are so many redundant Linux distros out there. Each of the BSDs has a different development focus, making them all more relevant and important than any of the few dozen Debian-based distros, for example, which all really don't do much to build on what Debian has already done. When people quit starting up go-nowhere Linux distros and contribute their efforts to "more relevant projects", guys like you can go ahead and tell these guys to quit wasting their time on NetBSD.
At least your company provides coffee, even if you have to pay for it. The company I work for is so cheap I had to bring in my own coffee pot, grounds, and filters.
People have been saying this since this project was announced and yet these clowns still haven't gotten the picture. I'd love to have one of these things to fuck around with, and like you I'd be willing to pay a little extra to subsidize the whole thing since it seems like a good cause. And yet the OLPC people keep saying "not fucking happening". You've got to wonder if there is something wrong with these people.
...but I would like to see them be able to grow chicken skin without the rest of the chicken. Properly prepared and crispified, it's the best part of the bird, clogged arteries be damned!
You can argue this point all you want, but you're still wrong. In this instance, Ubuntu may provide the X.org driver, and it may only support the X.org driver, but it does not develop it and it is not officially supported by the hardware vendor. Nvidia provides a driver which they have developed for their hardware, this is the "official" driver. Your ridiculous definition would mean that Nvidia's driver is not official on any platform, since it does not ship with Windows XP and Microsoft will not provide support should I have problems with it. It's the same with the iPod. Apple provides hardware, and they provide software which will allow you to use it. This is the very definition of "official". You don't like that because it means Linux isn't "officially" supported? Tough.
BZZT! Wrong! I use Amarok with my iPod and have no problems, but it's not official in the sense that Apple developed its iPod support. It's not even official in the sense that Apple supports it. It works great, but it is the very definition of a "third party addon".
The Brute Shot was also great for killing Brutes, ironically. You had to score a couple of direct hits to put one down (just getting them in the grenade's explosion isn't enough) but it worked a lot better than firing off a carbine or plasma rifle and hoping you put the bastard down before you either run out of ammo or burn your hand.
The beam rifle had it trumped if you were in a position where a rampaging Brute couldn't come and get you but those situations were few enough that you were better off engaging them with a Brute Shot instead. If one of those fuckers got close before you could put them down with a Beam Rifle you were in Fucked City, and the Carbine was a more sensible general-purpose weapon to carry alongside the Brute Shot.
So is there going to be Co-Op mode over a LAN or XBox Live in this one? Because that was seriously lacking in the first two and let's face facts, split-screen gaming sucks. Doom had it over 10 years ago. Doom 3 had it on XBox. Seriously, there is no reason for a game with the budget and backing of Halo 3 to not have this feature. So, how about it, Bungie?
Yeah, there's so much bad blood between Sega and Nintendo that Nintendo had Sega develop the Gamecube F-Zero title! Those two companies sure do hate each other.
It got infected with this crap and started spewing spam. Primary cause of this is kid browsing BTW. They are the most likely to click on the baddies. Put 'yer kids on Linux or a Mac and lots of this just goes away.
You must not deal with a lot of "normal" computer users. Believe me, the average user is at least as bad as any child you've left on one of your computers. Left to their own devices (ie without an IT department to baby them) these people will wreak all manner of havoc. But who am I to complain? Stupid users are keeping me employed.
Sorry troll, your argument falls apart in two places.
First, Whether or not Evolution is an "Outlook clone" is irrelevant. It is possible for the copy to be better than the original, and whether or not you think that's the case here, if someone has a preference for one they are regardless not going to be as happy without it.
And Linux not being able to run iTunes has no effect on its iPod compatibility. I've been using my iPod with Linux for a long time now. Hell, if I want to shop at the iTMS with Linux, I can do that too. This means that the lack of a Linux iTunes port is at worst a minor inconvenience, not a "major shortcoming". There are Windows apps that aren't available for OS X (and vice versa), but when there are decent alternatives nobody rants about how the those platforms are "not ready for the desktop". The alternatives are there, and they work fine.
It's funny how the similar the extremes of the political spectrum are. The further to the left or right you go, the more you have in common with the guy at the other end.
Who's the n00b here? Iced_773 is referring to this episode of DS9, which took place during "The Trouble with Tribbles". And both were pretty great episodes.
Are these really the people you want to turn against you?
Well, if you've been paying attention to the RIAA's tactics over the past couple of years you'd know that yes, these are the people they want turning against them. They don't really give a fuck what people think of them, they just want a captive audience. If you can't get music any other way, then you have to buy it from them.
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256*192*2=98304 pixels
512*384=196608 pixels.
If you are combining the resolutions of the two screens, you only double one of the sides, not both of them.
Who says you can only get one? I've got both and they're both pretty great for what I use them for. Both machines were well worth the money, IMO.
Also, saying the DS has "512x384 pixels of screen real estate" is both misleading and incorrect, considering it's split between two screens and almost always display different things at a given time. It's not a 512 pixel wide bye 384 high single large screen, but two 256 × 192 screens. In addition, when they are displaying the same scene continuously, they are more like a single 256x384 screen, which is not a practical resolution for things like videos, emulators, or PC game ports (which are often in a 4:3 aspect ratio). The "screen real estate" you described would be about twice what the DS actually has, and four times what a single screen has.
Leslie Nielsen was actually a fairly serious actor for the first half of his career.
I hope the 360 goes the way of the Dreamcast. Then I can pick one up for cheap along with a bunch of games.
I think it's ridiculous that people complain about how many BSDs there are when there are so many redundant Linux distros out there. Each of the BSDs has a different development focus, making them all more relevant and important than any of the few dozen Debian-based distros, for example, which all really don't do much to build on what Debian has already done. When people quit starting up go-nowhere Linux distros and contribute their efforts to "more relevant projects", guys like you can go ahead and tell these guys to quit wasting their time on NetBSD.
At least your company provides coffee, even if you have to pay for it. The company I work for is so cheap I had to bring in my own coffee pot, grounds, and filters.
Why would you need the OS to run Perl scripts? Shouldn't you be using Perl to do that?
People have been saying this since this project was announced and yet these clowns still haven't gotten the picture. I'd love to have one of these things to fuck around with, and like you I'd be willing to pay a little extra to subsidize the whole thing since it seems like a good cause. And yet the OLPC people keep saying "not fucking happening". You've got to wonder if there is something wrong with these people.
...but I would like to see them be able to grow chicken skin without the rest of the chicken. Properly prepared and crispified, it's the best part of the bird, clogged arteries be damned!
You can argue this point all you want, but you're still wrong. In this instance, Ubuntu may provide the X.org driver, and it may only support the X.org driver, but it does not develop it and it is not officially supported by the hardware vendor. Nvidia provides a driver which they have developed for their hardware, this is the "official" driver. Your ridiculous definition would mean that Nvidia's driver is not official on any platform, since it does not ship with Windows XP and Microsoft will not provide support should I have problems with it. It's the same with the iPod. Apple provides hardware, and they provide software which will allow you to use it. This is the very definition of "official". You don't like that because it means Linux isn't "officially" supported? Tough.
BZZT! Wrong! I use Amarok with my iPod and have no problems, but it's not official in the sense that Apple developed its iPod support. It's not even official in the sense that Apple supports it. It works great, but it is the very definition of a "third party addon".
The Brute Shot was also great for killing Brutes, ironically. You had to score a couple of direct hits to put one down (just getting them in the grenade's explosion isn't enough) but it worked a lot better than firing off a carbine or plasma rifle and hoping you put the bastard down before you either run out of ammo or burn your hand.
The beam rifle had it trumped if you were in a position where a rampaging Brute couldn't come and get you but those situations were few enough that you were better off engaging them with a Brute Shot instead. If one of those fuckers got close before you could put them down with a Beam Rifle you were in Fucked City, and the Carbine was a more sensible general-purpose weapon to carry alongside the Brute Shot.
So is there going to be Co-Op mode over a LAN or XBox Live in this one? Because that was seriously lacking in the first two and let's face facts, split-screen gaming sucks. Doom had it over 10 years ago. Doom 3 had it on XBox. Seriously, there is no reason for a game with the budget and backing of Halo 3 to not have this feature. So, how about it, Bungie?
I think you mean:
Ash Williams!
Best. Character. Evar.
Because let's face it, Duke is little more than a cheap ripoff of the real deal.
Yeah, there's so much bad blood between Sega and Nintendo that Nintendo had Sega develop the Gamecube F-Zero title! Those two companies sure do hate each other.
It got infected with this crap and started spewing spam. Primary cause of this is kid browsing BTW. They are the most likely to click on the baddies. Put 'yer kids on Linux or a Mac and lots of this just goes away.
You must not deal with a lot of "normal" computer users. Believe me, the average user is at least as bad as any child you've left on one of your computers. Left to their own devices (ie without an IT department to baby them) these people will wreak all manner of havoc. But who am I to complain? Stupid users are keeping me employed.
Sorry troll, your argument falls apart in two places.
First, Whether or not Evolution is an "Outlook clone" is irrelevant. It is possible for the copy to be better than the original, and whether or not you think that's the case here, if someone has a preference for one they are regardless not going to be as happy without it.
And Linux not being able to run iTunes has no effect on its iPod compatibility. I've been using my iPod with Linux for a long time now. Hell, if I want to shop at the iTMS with Linux, I can do that too. This means that the lack of a Linux iTunes port is at worst a minor inconvenience, not a "major shortcoming". There are Windows apps that aren't available for OS X (and vice versa), but when there are decent alternatives nobody rants about how the those platforms are "not ready for the desktop". The alternatives are there, and they work fine.
Funny, my iPod works fine on my Linux machines.
It's funny how the similar the extremes of the political spectrum are. The further to the left or right you go, the more you have in common with the guy at the other end.
OpenBSD forked from NetBSD, but they all share a common ancestry. ;)
That joke would have been funnier if he were talking about Genesis games. "Blast Processing" was never an advertised "feature" of the Sega Saturn.
Who's the n00b here? Iced_773 is referring to this episode of DS9, which took place during "The Trouble with Tribbles". And both were pretty great episodes.
Unfortunately the Coral link is now giving me the same page as the main site, that being "bandwidth exceeded".
Are these really the people you want to turn against you?
Well, if you've been paying attention to the RIAA's tactics over the past couple of years you'd know that yes, these are the people they want turning against them. They don't really give a fuck what people think of them, they just want a captive audience. If you can't get music any other way, then you have to buy it from them.