You're going to find that the BSD license is approved by the FSF. If anything, the BSD license has more freedom, as many people have said in earlier threads.
Sorry, Apple is doing nothing wrong or out of the ordinary.
The 'problem' stated was that someone could use Software Update to crack the box.
If they need to use Software Update to 'root' the box, and the only way to make Software Update do what they need is by using root, then, well, we have a chicken-egg situation....
Cooperative multitasking? Pfft, even Win9x multitasks better then Mac OS 9. I wouldn't touch it.
However, I've been looking into buying a Mac for months? Why?
Mac OS X.
My god it rocks. Sweet GUI outside with a crunchy UNIX center. Forget everything you know about the Macintosh, because OS X takes their OS from being a piece of crap to being fucking awesome. That is the hardest thing to tell people when I say I'm looking into getting a Mac. I get "Mac's are crap". My responce "Yes, they WERE".
Apple needs to be hammering this OS and their hardware at geeks more. It's like a friggin' upotia OS (almost). Really, OS X is bringing UNIX home.
I'm reading this with Opera on a 486 DX2/66 with 32Meg of RAM running Windows NT 4 right now, and I have used it to play the occasional game of Doom against the Duron in the other room...
Yes, exactly. That is an example of 'mature violence'; the game is violent, but not for the sake of being violent.
I used the examples of GoldenEye and Perfect Dark in my original post, but MGS is up there too as being a 'violent' game that happen to also be excellent mature game.:)
I wouldn't mind a few links to info about the RPG insults and the refusing of high unit selling developers.
And, Nintendo hasn't stopped violent content since Mortal Kombat 2 on the SNES had blood.
I know Yamauchi is eccentric (and that he had a nice shot at Square:) but I hadn't heard those 2 claims you've made, and I generally like to think I'm in the know about Nintendo... so I can't wait to see you back your statements up:)
Actully, neilest said they were in the UK. The Virtual Boy was not released outside Japan and the US.
I'd love a Virtual Boy though, should look into getting one off Ebay...
Anyone out there got one they want to sell?;)
Re:AMEN! Zelda & Mario for PS2 - please!
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"What's wrong with the console I already own?"
Umm, it's not made by Nintendo, so porting their games to it are not going to sell their consoles.
And I could tell you why the GameCube is better then the console you already own, but that would just create a flamewar:)
Nintendo are a hardware and software company. They do both, and they do both well. The are alot like Apple in that reguard. I guess you want an x86 Mac OS X port too?;)
Re:Hope this means more gamers will buy a PS2.
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"I'm hoping gamers looking for a GameCube won't move towards the Xbox."
Nah, gamers looking for a GameCube will buy a GameCube. This story is total rubbish; the GameCube will launch, and the GameCube will rock.
But, I agree, I'd rather see PS2 sales then Xbox sales...
Actually, I think his 'dumbfuck' comment came from the fact that you think the GameCube is vapor, and will not ship this year.
Nintendo have already shipped hundreds of completed dev kits to 3rd parties, whereas Microsoft haven't even shipped finalised kits yet. Even with this fact, the masses still seem to think that the Xbox will be out this year, and Nintendo are the ones struggling to meet their deadline.
As for your Oct 2001 comment, well, you're wrong there too; the GameCube is being released in the US in Nov 2001.
And Pokemon, well, where have Nintendo made the impression they plan on launching the GameCube hoping for Pokemon to support it? The games Nintendo seem to have the most 'console selling' faith in are their traditional Mario launch title, and Metroid.
Anyway, I think this is why that AC had a shot at you. Calling you a dumbfuck was a little harsh, but people that read cube.ign.com fairly regularly do know the 'truth' behind the common GameCube misconceptions. And I do think just pointing people at that basic FAQ was a bad move...
The GameCube will launch this year, and it will not be depending on Pokemon.
The Nintendo 64 has kept itself afloat, not the Game Boy. Nintendo has made a nice profit off the N64 software they have sold. The N64 has not beena failure profit-wise, and profit is really all a console needs...
You've admitted yourself that your list is flawed. Nintendo had the NES then the SNES. If anything, the SNES/Genesis(Mega Drive) should be called a 50/50 split, but if you want to crown one of then, it's Nintendo with Donkey Kong Country that wins that battle.
Sony 'won' the last generation, but this new set of consoles will be the first time the market will support 3 consoles. Why? Sony and Microsoft will be battling for each other's market with their rediculous money wars, and like always Nintendo will be doing their own thing. If Nintendo fare as well as they did with the N64 (and they will, at least) then they'll make a nice profit from the GameCube.
However, if one of the 3 consoles were to die, it won't be Nintendo's; they are the constant in the industry, have been since the NES days. Their consoles always profit enough for them (except the VB, but that doesn't count;) and they are always different enough from their competitors to have their own market.
Nintendo might not win "the war", but they'll make a nice profit from it.
Well, Nintendo, it can throw money at itself :-)
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It says in one of the linked stories that to make itself less of a takeover target, Nintendo went and bought back $2b of it's own stock. Nice move:)
Everyone seems to think Nintendo is broke, but they do have money to throw around; the Game Boy hardware and software and N64 software have been making them alot of money in recent years. Your console doesn't need to be number one to be profitable, as N64 software has shown Nintendo (I'm talking 1st party stuff here, not 3rd parties). Nintendo will be content with not being number one if it's bringing them in profit.
"Nintendo either failed to provide games that still interested us (focusing on Pokemon)"
Nintendo didn't release a Pokemon game on the Nintendo 64 until at least 2 years afters the console's initial release (at least not outside Japan, and ever there there was not one in the 1st year). Pokemon has been, until relatively lately, very much a Game Boy thing. The first N64 Pokemon game was "Pokemon Snap", a game based around taking photos. The first 'true' Pokemon game didn't hit the N64 until Pokemon Stadium, and that is less then 2 years old outside Japan.
What was Sony's launch title for the PS2? A fireworks game.
As for maturity, anyone that believes maturity is playing games that are just gorefests really should be asking themselves if they are mature.
There are more to games then violence. Oh, I'm not saying there is anything wrong with 'violent' or 'gory' games, they can also be fun. GoldenEye and Perfect Dark were great games on the Nintendo 64, and Half-Life and co on the PC are also great. However, if you think maturity is something along the lines of "Mortal Kombat is more appealing to a mature audience then Zelda because you can kill people", then you really don't understand maturity.
A mature person wants a game that has some depth to it, and/or is fun. Nintendo provides this in the majority of 1st party games. I am a mature gamer. My favorite games are the Marios and the Zeldas. Does that make me an immature gamer? I think not.
An extremely annoying copy protection used on commercial VHS videos and the output of DVD players. Although it is easily worked around with a Macrovision Buster, it's a necessary evil that content producers need to use to protect their assets.
(thing) bygetzburg
Sun Apr 2 2000 at 00:54 utc
I lack technical details on this one, but basically what it does is mess with the gain control on whatever device you attach it to, particularly VCRs, so that the picture keeps alternating between light and dark. Tremendously annoying.
(No, I wasn't going to merge all the node linkage! Some people [] too much! Perhaps Slashdot needs some E2 intergration... that would rock...)
Opera has an undocumented feature that works so doggoned beautifully that you want to throw a party when you first try it.
My party was for Shift-Ctrl-Click 'New Window in Background'. That is without a doubt my favorite features (apart from the whole 'self contained' bit), and the feature I miss the most in EVERY other brower!
And it can be gestured with 'Down Up' on a link! Woop!:)
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2. KSpread
3. Aethera
4. KDE PIM
5. Kapital
6. KDevelop and Kylix (Delphi for Linux. You have to here my Delphi-mad housemate ranting about how great this is...)
7. KMatplot
8. Licq
9. LOTS more that I don't have time to type, however http://apps.kde.com will show you.
There's KIllustrator (photo-editing), Konqueror and Mozilla (web browsing, HTML editing etc), and again a good many others.
Oh, and anti-aliased fonts are very very nice, but that's just a bonus of a superior toolkit...
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
Go on, read it. I dare you.
You're going to find that the BSD license is approved by the FSF. If anything, the BSD license has more freedom, as many people have said in earlier threads.
Sorry, Apple is doing nothing wrong or out of the ordinary.
If they need to use Software Update to 'root' the box, and the only way to make Software Update do what they need is by using root, then, well, we have a chicken-egg situation....
Yes, but they were not refering to the hardware 'adress' of an Ethernet NIC, were they?
However, I've been looking into buying a Mac for months? Why?
Mac OS X.
My god it rocks. Sweet GUI outside with a crunchy UNIX center. Forget everything you know about the Macintosh, because OS X takes their OS from being a piece of crap to being fucking awesome. That is the hardest thing to tell people when I say I'm looking into getting a Mac. I get "Mac's are crap". My responce "Yes, they WERE".
Apple needs to be hammering this OS and their hardware at geeks more. It's like a friggin' upotia OS (almost). Really, OS X is bringing UNIX home.
Now, all I need is a Mac...
I'm reading this with Opera on a 486 DX2/66 with 32Meg of RAM running Windows NT 4 right now, and I have used it to play the occasional game of Doom against the Duron in the other room...
I used the examples of GoldenEye and Perfect Dark in my original post, but MGS is up there too as being a 'violent' game that happen to also be excellent mature game. :)
Like Nintendo's 1st party games, such as Mario, Zelda, Metroid, StarFox, Donkey Kong...
It might not be the biggest seller, but it did make them money...
Got any URL's to backup your claims?
I wouldn't mind a few links to info about the RPG insults and the refusing of high unit selling developers.
And, Nintendo hasn't stopped violent content since Mortal Kombat 2 on the SNES had blood.
I know Yamauchi is eccentric (and that he had a nice shot at Square :) but I hadn't heard those 2 claims you've made, and I generally like to think I'm in the know about Nintendo... so I can't wait to see you back your statements up :)
I'd love a Virtual Boy though, should look into getting one off Ebay...
Anyone out there got one they want to sell? ;)
Umm, it's not made by Nintendo, so porting their games to it are not going to sell their consoles.
And I could tell you why the GameCube is better then the console you already own, but that would just create a flamewar :)
Nintendo are a hardware and software company. They do both, and they do both well. The are alot like Apple in that reguard. I guess you want an x86 Mac OS X port too? ;)
Nah, gamers looking for a GameCube will buy a GameCube. This story is total rubbish; the GameCube will launch, and the GameCube will rock.
But, I agree, I'd rather see PS2 sales then Xbox sales...
Nintendo have already shipped hundreds of completed dev kits to 3rd parties, whereas Microsoft haven't even shipped finalised kits yet. Even with this fact, the masses still seem to think that the Xbox will be out this year, and Nintendo are the ones struggling to meet their deadline.
As for your Oct 2001 comment, well, you're wrong there too; the GameCube is being released in the US in Nov 2001.
And Pokemon, well, where have Nintendo made the impression they plan on launching the GameCube hoping for Pokemon to support it? The games Nintendo seem to have the most 'console selling' faith in are their traditional Mario launch title, and Metroid.
Anyway, I think this is why that AC had a shot at you. Calling you a dumbfuck was a little harsh, but people that read cube.ign.com fairly regularly do know the 'truth' behind the common GameCube misconceptions. And I do think just pointing people at that basic FAQ was a bad move...
The GameCube will launch this year, and it will not be depending on Pokemon.
The Nintendo 64 has kept itself afloat, not the Game Boy. Nintendo has made a nice profit off the N64 software they have sold. The N64 has not beena failure profit-wise, and profit is really all a console needs...
Sony 'won' the last generation, but this new set of consoles will be the first time the market will support 3 consoles. Why? Sony and Microsoft will be battling for each other's market with their rediculous money wars, and like always Nintendo will be doing their own thing. If Nintendo fare as well as they did with the N64 (and they will, at least) then they'll make a nice profit from the GameCube.
However, if one of the 3 consoles were to die, it won't be Nintendo's; they are the constant in the industry, have been since the NES days. Their consoles always profit enough for them (except the VB, but that doesn't count ;) and they are always different enough from their competitors to have their own market.
Nintendo might not win "the war", but they'll make a nice profit from it.
Everyone seems to think Nintendo is broke, but they do have money to throw around; the Game Boy hardware and software and N64 software have been making them alot of money in recent years. Your console doesn't need to be number one to be profitable, as N64 software has shown Nintendo (I'm talking 1st party stuff here, not 3rd parties). Nintendo will be content with not being number one if it's bringing them in profit.
Nintendo didn't release a Pokemon game on the Nintendo 64 until at least 2 years afters the console's initial release (at least not outside Japan, and ever there there was not one in the 1st year). Pokemon has been, until relatively lately, very much a Game Boy thing. The first N64 Pokemon game was "Pokemon Snap", a game based around taking photos. The first 'true' Pokemon game didn't hit the N64 until Pokemon Stadium, and that is less then 2 years old outside Japan.
The N64 was not built on a foundation of Pokemon.
What was Sony's launch title for the PS2? A fireworks game.
As for maturity, anyone that believes maturity is playing games that are just gorefests really should be asking themselves if they are mature.
There are more to games then violence. Oh, I'm not saying there is anything wrong with 'violent' or 'gory' games, they can also be fun. GoldenEye and Perfect Dark were great games on the Nintendo 64, and Half-Life and co on the PC are also great. However, if you think maturity is something along the lines of "Mortal Kombat is more appealing to a mature audience then Zelda because you can kill people", then you really don't understand maturity.
A mature person wants a game that has some depth to it, and/or is fun. Nintendo provides this in the majority of 1st party games. I am a mature gamer. My favorite games are the Marios and the Zeldas. Does that make me an immature gamer? I think not.
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Re:Date of moon landing (Score:1)
by ari_j on 02:04 AM April 23rd, 2001 EAS (#31)
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In Australia or the US?
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If you are in the USA, compare the time shown above to the time Slash is showing you. Yes, you are a long way behind the world ;-)
Details here on Nintendo's official GameCube accessories page, and IGNcube has a more in-depth look here.
Hope this is of some (somewhat offtopic) interest...
Beowulf Cluster
Linux port
Quake port
Blue LED hack
17" Monitor hack
Web Server
Game Boy Emulator
Way to wire yourself
Ethernet hack
Ok, well, that's stopped people from having to make a few jokes. Hopefully that'll keep the posts down...
Macrovision
(thing) byZorin
Sat Nov 13 1999 at 14:28 utc
An extremely annoying copy protection used on commercial VHS videos and the output of DVD players. Although it is easily worked around with a Macrovision Buster, it's a necessary evil that content producers need to use to protect their assets.
(thing) bygetzburg
Sun Apr 2 2000 at 00:54 utc
I lack technical details on this one, but basically what it does is mess with the gain control on whatever device you attach it to, particularly VCRs, so that the picture keeps alternating between light and dark. Tremendously annoying.
(No, I wasn't going to merge all the node linkage! Some people [] too much! Perhaps Slashdot needs some E2 intergration... that would rock...)
Anyway, hope this helps!
Just wondering, I've been pondering a Mac purchace just for OS X for a few months now, and it'd be nice to be able to use Sensiva with it...
My party was for Shift-Ctrl-Click 'New Window in Background'. That is without a doubt my favorite features (apart from the whole 'self contained' bit), and the feature I miss the most in EVERY other brower!
And it can be gestured with 'Down Up' on a link! Woop! :)