Why did they have to go and rename it? This has to be one of the strangest console names I've heard of.
Nintendo "Wii" will find it difficult to be taken seriously as a game machine for the masses when the console's name looks like you're asking a question (though I know that's not how you're supposed to pronounce it). "Revolution" was a much more fitting title for the device they hoped to "revolutionize" gaming with and it had decent mindshare as well.
But then again, who would have thought that "Playstation" would be an extremely successful videogame console when the name sounds a bit like it could be an Fisher-Price toy. If the games are there, the name shouldn't matter much.
I've found them to be useful not for marking files, but for marking the content of folders - for example, the bomb icon for dangerous scripts, photo icon for my pictures, etc.
Well, there was also the small matter that the PlayStation had significantly better 3D than the Saturn; the Saturn was strong in 2D but 3D seemed like an afterthought. Plus the PlayStation had the launch title of all launch titles... Tekken.
I appreciate that the urban legend is that the three magic words "two ninety nine" at E3 caused the Saturn to fail, but I don't buy it. Price alone is not that significant a factor. If it was then the Gamecube would have been far more popular than the PS2 or Xbox. It's more about the games and the PlayStation had the better games. That's also why the Dreamcast tanked; it was a better console but PS2 had better games.
I agree with most of what you say, but the PS2 didn't have better games than the Dreamcast at the time Sega left the hardware business - it was the hype that killed the Dreamcast. Coming off of the poorly received Saturn and facing the hype-machine that is Sony, Sega had trouble competing for mindshare. At least that's my view - I wasn't very impressed by the PS2's launch games and it took awhile before it got to have the impressive games it has today.
I'm running Firefox 1.07 on Ubuntu as well - having no problems. I also have adblock running, however, and I heard that site contains a malicious cookie on it so I might not be seeing it because of that.
I would choose Debian, hands down... When you go with a corporate-branded distro, you have the potential for vender lock-in. Look at Red Hat - many organizations which depended on its free distribution (which ended with Red Hat 9) now have to pony up large sums of money to get its RHEL or are forced to go with the fairly buggy and IMHO unstable Fedora.
Debian's stable, community-supported, free as in beer AND in free speech, and won't be going away any time soon. Some complain about Debian's slow release process, but in an organization with hundreds of PCs you don't want to be forced to upgrade each of them every year or so in order to continue receiving security updates.
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Why did they have to go and rename it? This has to be one of the strangest console names I've heard of.
Nintendo "Wii" will find it difficult to be taken seriously as a game machine for the masses when the console's name looks like you're asking a question (though I know that's not how you're supposed to pronounce it). "Revolution" was a much more fitting title for the device they hoped to "revolutionize" gaming with and it had decent mindshare as well.
But then again, who would have thought that "Playstation" would be an extremely successful videogame console when the name sounds a bit like it could be an Fisher-Price toy. If the games are there, the name shouldn't matter much.
You make some valid points, but remember, "Gnu's Not Unix"...
I've found them to be useful not for marking files, but for marking the content of folders - for example, the bomb icon for dangerous scripts, photo icon for my pictures, etc.
Well, there was also the small matter that the PlayStation had significantly better 3D than the Saturn; the Saturn was strong in 2D but 3D seemed like an afterthought. Plus the PlayStation had the launch title of all launch titles... Tekken.
I appreciate that the urban legend is that the three magic words "two ninety nine" at E3 caused the Saturn to fail, but I don't buy it. Price alone is not that significant a factor. If it was then the Gamecube would have been far more popular than the PS2 or Xbox. It's more about the games and the PlayStation had the better games. That's also why the Dreamcast tanked; it was a better console but PS2 had better games.
I agree with most of what you say, but the PS2 didn't have better games than the Dreamcast at the time Sega left the hardware business - it was the hype that killed the Dreamcast. Coming off of the poorly received Saturn and facing the hype-machine that is Sony, Sega had trouble competing for mindshare. At least that's my view - I wasn't very impressed by the PS2's launch games and it took awhile before it got to have the impressive games it has today.
I'm running Firefox 1.07 on Ubuntu as well - having no problems. I also have adblock running, however, and I heard that site contains a malicious cookie on it so I might not be seeing it because of that.
I would choose Debian, hands down... When you go with a corporate-branded distro, you have the potential for vender lock-in. Look at Red Hat - many organizations which depended on its free distribution (which ended with Red Hat 9) now have to pony up large sums of money to get its RHEL or are forced to go with the fairly buggy and IMHO unstable Fedora.
Debian's stable, community-supported, free as in beer AND in free speech, and won't be going away any time soon. Some complain about Debian's slow release process, but in an organization with hundreds of PCs you don't want to be forced to upgrade each of them every year or so in order to continue receiving security updates.
And of course, the Atari 7800 was backward compatible long before all of these console systems...