You've never used the gestures in Opera for more then a few seconds, have you? Once you get used to them, you'll swear by them.
A quick set of down-up's on a bunch of links on a news site, and they're all loading in new windows in the background.
Down-Right, and a window closes.
Down, in new window in the forground.
Up-Down, refresh.
This is really only scraching the surface, but they are the ones I personally use.
With these gestures, I can browse the web with literally only the mouse, and still use it as easily as if I had access to keyboard shortcuts.
Sure, it's not for everyone, and I'm still split 50/50 between my usage of keyboard commands and gestures, but don't call something a gimmic just because YOU don't like it.
However, the SNES wasn't a '3D console' either, yet it had games such as Starfox/wing, Stunt Race FX etc (SuperFX games).
I'm sure with the superior hardware within the GBA they could do a game like Starwing without a special chip in the cart...
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"My guess is Nintendo will do some cool bundles for the Thanksgiving and Christmas ones, where you pay $200 but get an extra game or a Pokemon version instead."
The Pokemon Nintendo 64 was released 4 years into that console's lifespan. I doubt Nintendo would be redesigning the GameCube so soon...
"The controllers are going to be Game Boy Advance - throwing in spares eats into the GBA upgrade path from the GB Color that they're looking at right now."
This idea that Game Boy Advance units can be used as GameCube controls is wrong. True, there are some games that you can link a GBA with to control the game or aspects of the game with it(Kirby springs to mind from Spaceworld), however the GBA will not just work as a control for any game.
The GameCube control has two analogue control sticks, a digital D-pad, Digital buttons A B X Y Z and Start. The Game Boy Advance has a digital D-pad, digital buttons A B L R and Start. Even if Nintendo wanted to use the GBA as GCN controls, they simply lack the required functionality.
"Now if they could just release some of the cool Japan-only games for North America and throw those in the bundle, that would be severely cool."
It is a t-shirt that states "I flew a plane into the world trade center, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt", with an image of a plane hitting one of the towers.
He was in the early N64 Mario Kart screen shots, but then was dumped for Wario (I didn't agree either; Wario is a crappy knock-off Game Boy charcter, Kamek is a cool 'make-things-big-now' magic guy from Yoshi's Island).
I doubt he'll be back though. But, you make the petition, I'll sign it (and make sure you ask for the koopa troopa back too...;)
(Pinocchio, however... why?!)
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"I haven't felt like changing even though good GPL'd tools are now available."
I've used Partition Magic for a few years too, and I haven't see any Free alternatives around, apart from fips, and, well that comes no-where near PM for features.
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"All these features bring GNOME into a more mature level and a complete product that will help us regain the desktop market share."
Now, without meaning to be flamebait, but does anyone else find it a little unnerving when a open-source project leader starts talking about "desktop market share" in relation to another open-source 'competitor'?
I thought there was more to open-source then market share...
Just a point: Digimon is a clone and competition of Pokemon. Nintendo do not own it, nor do they have video games of it on their systems. Your view of Nintendo already seems clouded.
"Resident Evil, Twisted Metal, Metal Gear Solid"
The Nintendo 64 actully has Resident Evil, and there is a RE game in the works for the GameCube too.
Twisted Metal, well, there's always 4 player Mario Kart for real destructive racing fun, however the N64 also has Destruction Derby.
Metal Gear Solid, well, there's always Rare's Perfect Dark, and to a lesser extent Goldeneye.
Dragon Warrior has actully originated on the NES, and is avalable on Nintendo's Game Boy Color. I assume, however, you're refering to the 'modern' PlayStation version, and that has only been released in Japan thus far.
In fact, all the games you mentioned are third party games, and could potentially be ported to any console, including Nintendo's. The games of Nintendo's that you mention are first party. Better then Sony's first party efforts, such as Fantavision.
Nintendo has somewhat been forced into their anti-emulation stance with high quality emulators, such as UltraHLE, becoming available early in one of their products' (the Nintendo 64's) life cycles. However, what does their stance on emulation matter if they don't have the law behind them?
I do disagree with Nintendo's "emulators are illegal" stance, and I agree that people should be able to play the games they own on their computers. However, "playing already purchased games on a computer" doesn't justify the illegal ROM sites. Shouldn't people that own the software back it up themselves? Lack of access to the required hardware isn't exactly a fair defence; I'm not allowed to post an image of a DVD on the Internet because some guy doesn't own a DVD-ROM in his PC, so why should that be different for a cartridge?
On Nintendo's anti-commercial ROM stance, I can understand Nintendo wanting to protect their software; they are still re-releasing their older software updated on their new consoles (GBA's Super Mario Advance for example), and preventing software they own, old or not, is still within their rights.
And I don't think Nintendo held back on a non-cart console until the GameCube due to the DMCA; Nintendo are primarily a Japanese company, and (IMHO) would be more concerned with Japanese copyright laws. They just wanted to keep a tight grip on control (and would also claim they wanted quick load times).
(By the way, as well as the Game Genie ROM, a ROM of the NES game Elite was also released as freeware I believe, which is an example of a 'real' NES game going free.)
Nintendo have shown one technical demo of a some Pokemon on the GameCube. They have yet to announce or show-off a Pokemon game. Sure, they'll probably make one, but it's hardly been a selling point thus far.
And besides, if you don't like Pokemon, don't buy the games. Simple. I have a Nintendo 64, and I have no Pokemon games, and I plan to have a GameCube with no Pokemon games.
Calling the GameCube 'PokeCube' is like calling x86 'Wintel'.
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Well, I personally use start.com.au for my free e-mail, however you might not want an .au domain...
Opera 5.12 for Windows cannot access MSN.com at all.
It comes with 5 different Browser Identification settings:
MSIE5.0, Opera, Mozilla 5.0, Mozilla 4.76, Mozilla 3.0
None of these setting can connect to MSN.com, as of 2 minutes before this post was posted.
Exactly.
:)
I was about to write something exactly like that...
Actully, I have a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer, and find myself using the gestures anyway...
Actully, I left off the 'left' and 'right' movement gestures for back and forward. I use them a lot too ;)
You've never used the gestures in Opera for more then a few seconds, have you? Once you get used to them, you'll swear by them.
A quick set of down-up's on a bunch of links on a news site, and they're all loading in new windows in the background.
Down-Right, and a window closes.
Down, in new window in the forground.
Up-Down, refresh.
This is really only scraching the surface, but they are the ones I personally use.
With these gestures, I can browse the web with literally only the mouse, and still use it as easily as if I had access to keyboard shortcuts.
Sure, it's not for everyone, and I'm still split 50/50 between my usage of keyboard commands and gestures, but don't call something a gimmic just because YOU don't like it.
How could this not affect Dingo Blue accounts? The hostmasks are identical to an OptusNet one.
I personally use Dingo Blue, and (on IRC for example) there's no way to tell that I'm not an Optus user.
I'm going to be somewhat annoyed if stuff stops working....
However, the SNES wasn't a '3D console' either, yet it had games such as Starfox/wing, Stunt Race FX etc (SuperFX games).
I'm sure with the superior hardware within the GBA they could do a game like Starwing without a special chip in the cart...
"My guess is Nintendo will do some cool bundles for the Thanksgiving and Christmas ones, where you pay $200 but get an extra game or a Pokemon version instead."
The Pokemon Nintendo 64 was released 4 years into that console's lifespan. I doubt Nintendo would be redesigning the GameCube so soon...
"The controllers are going to be Game Boy Advance - throwing in spares eats into the GBA upgrade path from the GB Color that they're looking at right now."
This idea that Game Boy Advance units can be used as GameCube controls is wrong. True, there are some games that you can link a GBA with to control the game or aspects of the game with it(Kirby springs to mind from Spaceworld), however the GBA will not just work as a control for any game.
The GameCube control has two analogue control sticks, a digital D-pad, Digital buttons A B X Y Z and Start. The Game Boy Advance has a digital D-pad, digital buttons A B L R and Start. Even if Nintendo wanted to use the GBA as GCN controls, they simply lack the required functionality.
"Now if they could just release some of the cool Japan-only games for North America and throw those in the bundle, that would be severely cool."
What cool games on the GCN are Japan only so far?
Why the hell have moderators moderated my post up as funny?
What the hell is wrong with you people, it's not funny, it's pathetic that a shirt like that is being sold.
Would somebody please moderate my parent post down; better that then it being high as funny.
I'm sorry for this being posted twice, once anonymously. I'm not sure what happened there... (I'll just blame IE...)
It is a t-shirt that states "I flew a plane into the world trade center, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt", with an image of a plane hitting one of the towers.
This is pathetic.
It's a post about web browsers to a story about a web browser.
This is not offtopic. A troll perhaps, but not offtopic.
To whoever moderated that: get a clue.
There's a "The Register" slashbox?
However, GameCube media is cheap, so multiple disk games would be a viable option to companies wanting to release games larger then 1.5G.
Sqaure used multiple CD's for some (all?) the Final Fantasy games on the PlayStation, so this won't be anything new for the industry.
Sega did get in bed with Microsoft, however, to get WinCE ported to the Dreamcast.
;)
Sure, MS got it too them so late they only had it as an optional extra to developers, but, it was still there...
So, Sega have slept with Evil Software Corp...
(And, before anyone asks, I don't know how two large companies sleep together.
Poor Kamek.
;)
He was in the early N64 Mario Kart screen shots, but then was dumped for Wario (I didn't agree either; Wario is a crappy knock-off Game Boy charcter, Kamek is a cool 'make-things-big-now' magic guy from Yoshi's Island).
I doubt he'll be back though. But, you make the petition, I'll sign it (and make sure you ask for the koopa troopa back too...
(Pinocchio, however... why?!)
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"I haven't felt like changing even though good GPL'd tools are now available."
I've used Partition Magic for a few years too, and I haven't see any Free alternatives around, apart from fips, and, well that comes no-where near PM for features.
Do you have the names of any of the 'new' ones?
Probably someone Japanese...
Now, without meaning to be flamebait, but does anyone else find it a little unnerving when a open-source project leader starts talking about "desktop market share" in relation to another open-source 'competitor'?
I thought there was more to open-source then market share...
Just a point: Digimon is a clone and competition of Pokemon. Nintendo do not own it, nor do they have video games of it on their systems. Your view of Nintendo already seems clouded.
"Resident Evil, Twisted Metal, Metal Gear Solid"
The Nintendo 64 actully has Resident Evil, and there is a RE game in the works for the GameCube too.
Twisted Metal, well, there's always 4 player Mario Kart for real destructive racing fun, however the N64 also has Destruction Derby.
Metal Gear Solid, well, there's always Rare's Perfect Dark, and to a lesser extent Goldeneye.
Dragon Warrior has actully originated on the NES, and is avalable on Nintendo's Game Boy Color. I assume, however, you're refering to the 'modern' PlayStation version, and that has only been released in Japan thus far.
In fact, all the games you mentioned are third party games, and could potentially be ported to any console, including Nintendo's. The games of Nintendo's that you mention are first party. Better then Sony's first party efforts, such as Fantavision.
Nintendo has somewhat been forced into their anti-emulation stance with high quality emulators, such as UltraHLE, becoming available early in one of their products' (the Nintendo 64's) life cycles. However, what does their stance on emulation matter if they don't have the law behind them?
I do disagree with Nintendo's "emulators are illegal" stance, and I agree that people should be able to play the games they own on their computers. However, "playing already purchased games on a computer" doesn't justify the illegal ROM sites. Shouldn't people that own the software back it up themselves? Lack of access to the required hardware isn't exactly a fair defence; I'm not allowed to post an image of a DVD on the Internet because some guy doesn't own a DVD-ROM in his PC, so why should that be different for a cartridge?
On Nintendo's anti-commercial ROM stance, I can understand Nintendo wanting to protect their software; they are still re-releasing their older software updated on their new consoles (GBA's Super Mario Advance for example), and preventing software they own, old or not, is still within their rights.
And I don't think Nintendo held back on a non-cart console until the GameCube due to the DMCA; Nintendo are primarily a Japanese company, and (IMHO) would be more concerned with Japanese copyright laws. They just wanted to keep a tight grip on control (and would also claim they wanted quick load times).
(By the way, as well as the Game Genie ROM, a ROM of the NES game Elite was also released as freeware I believe, which is an example of a 'real' NES game going free.)
And, yes, I'd prefer Yoshi to Pikachu anyday too :)
Are all Nintendo ROMS on the Internet Illegal?
They are saying that pirating THEIR software is illegal, which, well, it is.
Nintendo have shown one technical demo of a some Pokemon on the GameCube. They have yet to announce or show-off a Pokemon game. Sure, they'll probably make one, but it's hardly been a selling point thus far.
And besides, if you don't like Pokemon, don't buy the games. Simple. I have a Nintendo 64, and I have no Pokemon games, and I plan to have a GameCube with no Pokemon games.
Calling the GameCube 'PokeCube' is like calling x86 'Wintel'.