Final year high school subject (though I still had a year to go, I did the subject early).
The subject's name: Information Processing and Management (IM&M)
A week before the exam, and we are being taught for the 1st time the stuff that will be on the exam (we wasted the year playing with Excel and Access)
Sitting in a group, giving us a quick rundown on things.
We reach the mouse.
My teacher pipes up: A mouse... Well, a mouse is a GUI.
I, and a few others, were dumbfounded. We didn't even TRY to fix that. No, she didn't confuse it for being a way to interface with a GUI, the mouse IS the GUI.
Thank god I got out of that class alive...
(The other 'bad thing' that springs to mind was using NT's command prompt to ping to see if the network was up and copping it for 'accessing DOS'...)
...my most likely candidate for a console purchase is the Gamecube (when it costs less than $200 that is)
Great news for you! Nintendo have made a console for GAMES, not an interactive central entertainment hub, and because of this the GameCube will be lauching cheap.
$199 is the maximum that the GameCube will launch for in the USA, with rumours (that are very likely untrue) that it might go at $149 to undercut the other two.
Any console getting Mario, Metrod, Wave Race, Star Wars and Zelda (just to name a few) all fairly close to launch will have a very strong lineup just from 1st and 2nd parties. And with the 3rd parties starting to appear and leak (Capcom and Resident Evil 0, EA with 'Sport 200x', Acclaim with Turok just to name a couple) the GameCube is on course to have the best QUALITY of games. And we all know that quality comes over quantity...
Nintendo won't win back the crown this generation; this generation will probably be a three(or two)-way tie. But with the sad lineup of PS2 games at the moment, and a probable launch delay (typical of Microsoft- they don't even have finalised dev kits to developers) from the overhyped and overrated Xbox (you have to look at this image rebutting MS fud), Nintendo should regain a large portion of marketshare this time around.
Hrmm, I think I got carried away again;)
Anyway, these are just a few of the reasons while I'll be buying a GameCube on day 1...
As far as I can tell the only way to fix the problem is elect a govenment that gives a shit about the way the world looks at us.
The dilemma is that there isn't one around. However, with my new-found ability to vote in the election we will have this year, I'll be voting for "not Liberal". I don't know if they alternative will be better, but these guys have been in control for too long now.
I agree with what Microsoft is saying, broadband in Australia is in a shocking state. But then I think "Why do Microsoft care?". Why do Microsoft want people to have high bandwith internet access? Can't we read MSNBC, talk on MSN Messenger, and read out MSN Hotmail on 56k modems?
This makes more sence: Microsoft's.net strategy is going to have it's whole 'downloadable aspects' of software bit going. Your office suite will be downloaded from Microsoft. Your Operating System will be downloaded from Microsoft. Your media player, web browser, paint app, game of solitare (well, maybe going overboard here) will all be downloaded from Microsoft.
Obviously 'taking to Microsoft over the net and downloading stuff' will be a big thing with.net, and Windows in a version or two. And now it all makes sence; Microsoft NEED a large rollout of high bandwith in places all around the world or their latest jihad has a major flaw. Why else would a company obessed with profit give out free advice to nations on their current flaws?
.net is Microsoft's planned future. Broadband is.net's platform. Microsoft need broadband.
We both have the same problems with companies called Telecom. Looks like the 200 or so years hasn't changed Australia that much from the 'mother country':)
Pity the people that live here were too incompetent to vote for a republic when they had a chance (no offence intended, I just think Australia could stand on it's own two feet in writing, it does in every other way)
Actully, the state I live/just got educated in (Victoria) has a deal worth multi-million dollars where all of the Victorian public schools from Primary though to the end of Secondary have as many Microsoft licenses as they want (or something very similer). If it's a Victorian public school, it's running on NT.
The bad thing is I just spend the past 13 years in that system.
Oh, and that "10 minutes of random flashing color." That sequence lasts only a few minutes and is one of the most famous scenes in movie history.
Actully, I watched the film just last week, and took a quick glance at my watch as it started. It actully IS just over 10 minutes! I'm not against it though, I love it, and the entire film (and books), however, it does actully go for 10 minutes.
Perhaps a nice US member of the Slashdot community will create DivX's for everyone else?:)
Please?:))
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I remember this in the dark ages of 2000 when the 'IT' teacher was teaching Pascal on the NT4 boxes littered around my high school.
She has been trying to learn Visual Basic, so I'm sure that'll be a big improvement *sarcasm*
My school's computer teachers sucked. I got told off for using ping to see if the network was up last year. Of course, to do that requires me to use the evils of DOS! Ironic, if they don't want me to use the command prompt on an NT box, why is it in my Start Menu? But then, they are the same people that tried to convince me that a mouse was a GUI, so who know what the hell is going on in their minds.
I am fucking happy that part of my life is over.
(Look at what one idle comment about Pascal can do to me now...;)
The thing is, they DO have a DVD option, a 3rd party is developing it I believe.
Yeah Matsudkdhdkjsdhj is planing to release a DVD version in Japan, however, even if it even sees the light of day there, I doubt a Panasonic branded version would ever see the light of day outside the land of the rising sun (bad pun intended).
Even Sega has done a 180 and has developed a DVD addon for the Dreamcast.
Really? That seems odd, and a waste, considering that the Dreamcast's games are only on Sega's GD-ROM format. Sega are really going to re-release a console that was dead-in-the-water from the beginning and dying now to add an expencive add-on? Even if they do, it won't save the dead Dreamcast. Personally, I've been saying for years they'd make more money focusing on the arcade and porting to Nintendo and Sony consoles (and then there are the constant rumours that Microsoft will buy them....)
Anyway, Nintedo hasn't been doing so well in the console scene lately, except for the gameboy.
Lately? In the last 2 generations of console preceding the current 'next generation' consoles (N64, PSX, Saturn), Nintendo was more sucessful with their NES over the SMS and the SNES over the Mega Drive/Genesis (sales of the SNES were massive towards the end of it's life cycle, with a low price and Donkey Kong Country storming the entire video game market in late 1994). So Nintendo were not number one this generation? So what. They've still profited quite well from the N64 and it's software, they are hardly going broke off it. I personally see the next set of consoles being closer, back like the 16-bit days. but a 3 way split instead of 2 ways, with Nintendo's Gamecube, Sony's PS2 and Microsoft's Xbox. Nintendo have the franchises and the 'traditional' gamers, Sony have the 'cool' gamers and the Playstation 2 hype (though under supplying hardware was a very bad idea), and Microsoft have the money to get any 3rd party they want, and to push into any established market they want.
They aren't the console guru's you seem to think they are.
If talking hardware, they are this generation, with the Gamecube being much easier to develop for over the PS2. Nintendo also are willing to change things with their controller... such as a new button style layout, that if studied looks like it will be excellent. And then we could look into the last generation's hardware. Nintendo managed to make Sony redesign their controls twice, 1st with their anologue release, and then a 2nd time to add their 'dual shock' to copy the rumble pak's effect (which isn't all that wonderful anyway).
If you mean the market, I think otherwise. Nintendo do know what they did wrong in the last generation with the Nintendo 64, and they have taken steps to rectify it. People, including Nintendo themselves, have come out calling the Gamecube the 'anti-Nintendo 64'. Any company that can come out insulting their last console like that can see things realistically.
If you mean software, Nintendo are the console guru's. Who else is? Sony and their 3rd Party drones spinning out crappy mass produced software, oh-so rarely making something half decent?. Sega and their constant console failing (apart from the Mega Drive/Genesis that managed a 50/50 split)? Or Microsoft, a company that has yet to release definate specs and a fucking console design, much less an actual piece of console hardware before, that will be relying TOTALLY on 3rd Party and companies it has assimilated?
Nintendo are the only company that constantly innovates in both hardware and software. With their Miyamoto-lead in-house development constantly creating classic games in the Mario, Zelda, and other francises, to the ideas that spawn total new types of games (Super Mario Kart single handly created the 'cartoon karting game genre'), to 'idea' games such as the prototype Catroots (look on IGN64 somewhere, Nintendo are the console gaming gods. And with a 2nd Party like Rare, and creating a new Rare-like company called Retro Studios, Nintendo will be the company making the quality games for some time to come.
Oh, of course, there could be a maturity rant now, but is someone that really thinks that maturity = blood and violence, then perhaps they need to rethink their maturity. Wave Race was a 'mature' game. Excite Bike 64 was a 'mature' game (and a great flashback). Just because a game isn't violent does not mean it's not entertaining, it's just some sad people tend to think otherwise.
Nintendo ARE the console gurus. This is not measured by sales, or by the fact that their last console didn't sell as well as their competition's. This is measured in what it is that they do. And the constant quality of the products they have produced over the past 15 years all says that Nintendo are the gurus.
Oh, you mean like Spiro the Dragon, and Crash Team Racing?
Oh, no, wait, they are Playstaion clones of Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64....
There is not a game on the Playstation that I want. I'm a hell of alot happier with the 15 or so incredibly high quality games I have on my Nintendo 64. If I wanted lame sport games or mass produced crap, I'd get a PSX. But I'm happy with quality thanks anyway.
Give me Nintendo and Rare over the shit that comes from Sony and their 3rd parties.
Nintendo have in fact profited from the Nintendo 64, with incredibly strong first party software sales, and strong second party (eg Rare) sales. When you have a console that doesn't have a huge selection of software, but a a few truly excellent games released each year from the 1st and 2nd parties, a fair chunk of the user base buys them. That is why Nintendo 64 software can hit the top of Sales and Rental charts - because a greater percentage of a smaller user base buying software in better then a small percentage of a huge user base.
Also, Nintendo have one huge advantage over Sony- piracy. Piracy is every bit as bad for the PSX as it is for the PC. However, with their cartrage, and soon proprietory (but inexpencive) optical discs, Nintendo have been alot safer then Sony from the pirating scene (I'm not trying to say Nintendo products aren't pirated, quite the opposite, but compared to Sony with common household equiptment able to burn their CDs, Nintendo's problem is practically zero.)
And one final thing to keep Nintendo afloat: you know how well the Game Boy is doing now? Very fucking well. Even before the Pokemon craze the things were starting to sell more again, and with the Game Boy Advance upcoming and fully backwards compatible (fully = it has the Gameboy Color chipset onboard AS WELL as it's new 32-bit processor), and no real competition in the foreseeable future, this is one market Nintendo has 100% penatration in it. Cracking into the handheld game market is like trying to crack into Microsoft's x86 OS market (except Nintendo isn't breaking the law [please, don't paste me any of the crap about stuff Nintendo have done in the past that could be seen as anti-competitive, I know, I know]).
Nintendo have, and are, making money. If they manage a userbase equal to the N64's with the Gamecube, they'll survive fine. But, the Gamecube will get a bigger market then the N64, just read about the advantages of the thing here to see why.
Daddy forked out the money for the NES, the Game Boy, the SNES, the N64; they didn't playback DVD or any other media of the time. I don't think Nintendo were shot in the foot then, and this will be no different. Nintendo is marketing a GAMING PLATFORM, not a 'Home entertainment and internet connected central electronic hub'.
Nintendo have, and will always be, primarily a company that makes games, that's what they want, and that is what has constantly made them money. The company has profited well enough on the N64, and is making an absolute killing with the Game Boy at the moment.
And, why the HELL are you ranting about Dolphins. It a CODENAME that is GONE. Like it says in the title of this story, and in the story posted in August, the name is 'Gamecube' (lowercase c, alot of people get that wrong). What was the PS2's codename? What was the Dreamcast's codename? Most people don't know/remember them, so why the hell do you think Nintendo's will be any different?
I think you've made an uneducated post, and next time you should make an attempt to know the topic you are posting on.
You are a small company in the dot.com world, and you want to make a buck.
Step 1:
Get 'large dot.com' company that people know of with fun and well known name to 'use' your product, no matter how flawed their implementation is.
Step 2:
'Mainstream' online news service (*cough* CNet, ZDnet etc *cough*) latch on to the story that 'large dot.com' is using your product, and that the use of this product is vital to stop the 'evil internet hackers' from doing evil things with your children and credit card numbers.
Step 3:
Due to 'informed' userbase, people begin to demand your service for large dot.com's competitors services. Other companies require what the service you provide. Providing service equals more coverate.
Step 4:
IPO you well known service.
Step 5:
Get out before bubble bursts (well, if it hasn't all ready)
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I pronounce it 'Zen-ecks'. It's probably meant to be pronounced differently, but too bad :)
Anyone that makes reference to Xenix and my nick in the same sentance gets blows to the head, but that is another story....
And that WINE icon is just evil...
The subject's name: Information Processing and Management (IM&M)
A week before the exam, and we are being taught for the 1st time the stuff that will be on the exam (we wasted the year playing with Excel and Access)
Sitting in a group, giving us a quick rundown on things.
We reach the mouse.
My teacher pipes up:
A mouse... Well, a mouse is a GUI.
I, and a few others, were dumbfounded. We didn't even TRY to fix that. No, she didn't confuse it for being a way to interface with a GUI, the mouse IS the GUI.
Thank god I got out of that class alive...
(The other 'bad thing' that springs to mind was using NT's command prompt to ping to see if the network was up and copping it for 'accessing DOS'...)
Anyway, time to supress these memories again...
Great news for you! Nintendo have made a console for GAMES, not an interactive central entertainment hub, and because of this the GameCube will be lauching cheap.
$199 is the maximum that the GameCube will launch for in the USA, with rumours (that are very likely untrue) that it might go at $149 to undercut the other two.
Any console getting Mario, Metrod, Wave Race, Star Wars and Zelda (just to name a few) all fairly close to launch will have a very strong lineup just from 1st and 2nd parties. And with the 3rd parties starting to appear and leak (Capcom and Resident Evil 0, EA with 'Sport 200x', Acclaim with Turok just to name a couple) the GameCube is on course to have the best QUALITY of games. And we all know that quality comes over quantity...
Nintendo won't win back the crown this generation; this generation will probably be a three(or two)-way tie. But with the sad lineup of PS2 games at the moment, and a probable launch delay (typical of Microsoft- they don't even have finalised dev kits to developers) from the overhyped and overrated Xbox (you have to look at this image rebutting MS fud), Nintendo should regain a large portion of marketshare this time around.
Hrmm, I think I got carried away again ;)
Anyway, these are just a few of the reasons while I'll be buying a GameCube on day 1...
...isn't this a Slashback?
Be's press release - Be Announces Development of BeIA Client Software for Sony's New e Villa Network Entertainment Center
Sony's press release - SONY SIMPLIFIES -- AND MAXIMIZES -- THE INTERNET WITH NEW e Villa(TM) NETWORK ENTERTAINMENT CENTER
CNET - Sony trots out Web-browsing eVilla with Be OS
BeNews - Sony's eVilla "Network Entertainment Center" Uses BeIA
It's just Sony's entry into the IA market, and it used BeIA. But then, Sony are just a little company after all.... :P
The dilemma is that there isn't one around. However, with my new-found ability to vote in the election we will have this year, I'll be voting for "not Liberal". I don't know if they alternative will be better, but these guys have been in control for too long now.
This makes more sence: Microsoft's .net strategy is going to have it's whole 'downloadable aspects' of software bit going. Your office suite will be downloaded from Microsoft. Your Operating System will be downloaded from Microsoft. Your media player, web browser, paint app, game of solitare (well, maybe going overboard here) will all be downloaded from Microsoft.
Obviously 'taking to Microsoft over the net and downloading stuff' will be a big thing with .net, and Windows in a version or two. And now it all makes sence; Microsoft NEED a large rollout of high bandwith in places all around the world or their latest jihad has a major flaw. Why else would a company obessed with profit give out free advice to nations on their current flaws?
Xenex's thought of the day...
I am Australian. I hate beer.
What an innovative suggestion ;)
Pity the people that live here were too incompetent to vote for a republic when they had a chance (no offence intended, I just think Australia could stand on it's own two feet in writing, it does in every other way)
Broadband in Australia is expencive, limited, and almost totally controled by one company (Telstra).
Nothing in Australian law is hurting Microsoft.
The bad thing is I just spend the past 13 years in that system.
Umm, how long was there between Slink and Potato?
Debian is geneally a LOT more out-of-date then Slackware.
Actully, I watched the film just last week, and took a quick glance at my watch as it started. It actully IS just over 10 minutes! I'm not against it though, I love it, and the entire film (and books), however, it does actully go for 10 minutes.
Please? :))
She has been trying to learn Visual Basic, so I'm sure that'll be a big improvement *sarcasm*
My school's computer teachers sucked. I got told off for using ping to see if the network was up last year. Of course, to do that requires me to use the evils of DOS! Ironic, if they don't want me to use the command prompt on an NT box, why is it in my Start Menu? But then, they are the same people that tried to convince me that a mouse was a GUI, so who know what the hell is going on in their minds.
I am fucking happy that part of my life is over.
(Look at what one idle comment about Pascal can do to me now... ;)
But isn't Billy G's full name 'William Henry Gates the Third' (or something like that). It says so in Encarta, so it must be true.... ;)
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Have fun.
Yeah Matsudkdhdkjsdhj is planing to release a DVD version in Japan, however, even if it even sees the light of day there, I doubt a Panasonic branded version would ever see the light of day outside the land of the rising sun (bad pun intended).
Even Sega has done a 180 and has developed a DVD addon for the Dreamcast.
Really? That seems odd, and a waste, considering that the Dreamcast's games are only on Sega's GD-ROM format. Sega are really going to re-release a console that was dead-in-the-water from the beginning and dying now to add an expencive add-on? Even if they do, it won't save the dead Dreamcast. Personally, I've been saying for years they'd make more money focusing on the arcade and porting to Nintendo and Sony consoles (and then there are the constant rumours that Microsoft will buy them....)
Anyway, Nintedo hasn't been doing so well in the console scene lately, except for the gameboy.
Lately? In the last 2 generations of console preceding the current 'next generation' consoles (N64, PSX, Saturn), Nintendo was more sucessful with their NES over the SMS and the SNES over the Mega Drive/Genesis (sales of the SNES were massive towards the end of it's life cycle, with a low price and Donkey Kong Country storming the entire video game market in late 1994). So Nintendo were not number one this generation? So what. They've still profited quite well from the N64 and it's software, they are hardly going broke off it. I personally see the next set of consoles being closer, back like the 16-bit days. but a 3 way split instead of 2 ways, with Nintendo's Gamecube, Sony's PS2 and Microsoft's Xbox. Nintendo have the franchises and the 'traditional' gamers, Sony have the 'cool' gamers and the Playstation 2 hype (though under supplying hardware was a very bad idea), and Microsoft have the money to get any 3rd party they want, and to push into any established market they want.
They aren't the console guru's you seem to think they are.
If talking hardware, they are this generation, with the Gamecube being much easier to develop for over the PS2. Nintendo also are willing to change things with their controller... such as a new button style layout, that if studied looks like it will be excellent. And then we could look into the last generation's hardware. Nintendo managed to make Sony redesign their controls twice, 1st with their anologue release, and then a 2nd time to add their 'dual shock' to copy the rumble pak's effect (which isn't all that wonderful anyway).
If you mean the market, I think otherwise. Nintendo do know what they did wrong in the last generation with the Nintendo 64, and they have taken steps to rectify it. People, including Nintendo themselves, have come out calling the Gamecube the 'anti-Nintendo 64'. Any company that can come out insulting their last console like that can see things realistically.
If you mean software, Nintendo are the console guru's. Who else is? Sony and their 3rd Party drones spinning out crappy mass produced software, oh-so rarely making something half decent?. Sega and their constant console failing (apart from the Mega Drive/Genesis that managed a 50/50 split)? Or Microsoft, a company that has yet to release definate specs and a fucking console design, much less an actual piece of console hardware before, that will be relying TOTALLY on 3rd Party and companies it has assimilated?
Nintendo are the only company that constantly innovates in both hardware and software. With their Miyamoto-lead in-house development constantly creating classic games in the Mario, Zelda, and other francises, to the ideas that spawn total new types of games (Super Mario Kart single handly created the 'cartoon karting game genre'), to 'idea' games such as the prototype Catroots (look on IGN64 somewhere, Nintendo are the console gaming gods. And with a 2nd Party like Rare, and creating a new Rare-like company called Retro Studios, Nintendo will be the company making the quality games for some time to come.
Oh, of course, there could be a maturity rant now, but is someone that really thinks that maturity = blood and violence, then perhaps they need to rethink their maturity. Wave Race was a 'mature' game. Excite Bike 64 was a 'mature' game (and a great flashback). Just because a game isn't violent does not mean it's not entertaining, it's just some sad people tend to think otherwise.
Nintendo ARE the console gurus. This is not measured by sales, or by the fact that their last console didn't sell as well as their competition's. This is measured in what it is that they do. And the constant quality of the products they have produced over the past 15 years all says that Nintendo are the gurus.
Oh, no, wait, they are Playstaion clones of Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64....
There is not a game on the Playstation that I want. I'm a hell of alot happier with the 15 or so incredibly high quality games I have on my Nintendo 64. If I wanted lame sport games or mass produced crap, I'd get a PSX. But I'm happy with quality thanks anyway.
Give me Nintendo and Rare over the shit that comes from Sony and their 3rd parties.
Also, Nintendo have one huge advantage over Sony- piracy. Piracy is every bit as bad for the PSX as it is for the PC. However, with their cartrage, and soon proprietory (but inexpencive) optical discs, Nintendo have been alot safer then Sony from the pirating scene (I'm not trying to say Nintendo products aren't pirated, quite the opposite, but compared to Sony with common household equiptment able to burn their CDs, Nintendo's problem is practically zero.)
And one final thing to keep Nintendo afloat: you know how well the Game Boy is doing now? Very fucking well. Even before the Pokemon craze the things were starting to sell more again, and with the Game Boy Advance upcoming and fully backwards compatible (fully = it has the Gameboy Color chipset onboard AS WELL as it's new 32-bit processor), and no real competition in the foreseeable future, this is one market Nintendo has 100% penatration in it. Cracking into the handheld game market is like trying to crack into Microsoft's x86 OS market (except Nintendo isn't breaking the law [please, don't paste me any of the crap about stuff Nintendo have done in the past that could be seen as anti-competitive, I know, I know]).
Nintendo have, and are, making money. If they manage a userbase equal to the N64's with the Gamecube, they'll survive fine. But, the Gamecube will get a bigger market then the N64, just read about the advantages of the thing here to see why.
Nintendo have, and will always be, primarily a company that makes games, that's what they want, and that is what has constantly made them money. The company has profited well enough on the N64, and is making an absolute killing with the Game Boy at the moment.
And, why the HELL are you ranting about Dolphins. It a CODENAME that is GONE. Like it says in the title of this story, and in the story posted in August, the name is 'Gamecube' (lowercase c, alot of people get that wrong). What was the PS2's codename? What was the Dreamcast's codename? Most people don't know/remember them, so why the hell do you think Nintendo's will be any different?
I think you've made an uneducated post, and next time you should make an attempt to know the topic you are posting on.
I'd assume he didn't want to say Intel as processor company of choice, because he prefers AMD. It was a attack on both PowerPC and Intel processors.
I guess he wants an x86 box with an AMD processor that runs a few Linux distros....
Step 1:
Get 'large dot.com' company that people know of with fun and well known name to 'use' your product, no matter how flawed their implementation is.
Step 2:
'Mainstream' online news service (*cough* CNet, ZDnet etc *cough*) latch on to the story that 'large dot.com' is using your product, and that the use of this product is vital to stop the 'evil internet hackers' from doing evil things with your children and credit card numbers.
Step 3:
Due to 'informed' userbase, people begin to demand your service for large dot.com's competitors services. Other companies require what the service you provide. Providing service equals more coverate.
Step 4:
IPO you well known service.
Step 5:
Get out before bubble bursts (well, if it hasn't all ready)
Internet 'Profits'. Fun huh?
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