Now in 'Plain Old Text' flavour:)
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Nintendo are without a doubt the best for GAMES.
I want to play games, not watch movies on a poor quality DVD player, or have fancy FMV intros.
I love my NES.
I love my Game Boy(s).
I love my SNES.
I love my N64.
I will love my Gamecube.
Give me Super Mario Bros the original, or Super Mario 64 - I love them all. From the original Legend of Zelda to Majora's Mask, Nintendo just don't dissapoint (except for the pushing back of release dates....)
But their games always are of the highest quality, and they are always the most inovative in software and hardware. Just look at the N64 control, and now the Gamecube (and the current Gamecube control pics are supposedly missing some feature....). After the N64 control was out, EVERYONE rushed out anologue controls.... Sega and their warped Saturn thing, and Sony and their dual anologue (no-one uses both, because the 2nd one is in such a bad place).
Nintendo is where quality is from. And they are the only consol company that will be seeing my money.
Nintendo are without a doubt the best for GAMES.
I want to play games, not watch movies on a poor quality DVD player, or have fancy FMV intros.
I love my NES.
I love my Game Boy(s).
I love my SNES.
I love my N64.
I will love my Gamecube.
Give me Super Mario Bros the original, or Super Mario 64 - I love them all. From the original Legend of Zelda to Majora's Mask, Nintendo just don't dissapoint (except for the pushing back of release dates....)
But their games always are of the highest quality, and they are always the most inovative in software and hardware. Just look at the N64 control, and now the Gamecube (and the current Gamecube control pics are supposedly missing some feature....). After the N64 control was out, EVERYONE rushed out anologue controls.... Sega and their warped Saturn thing, and Sony and their dual anologue (no-one uses both, because the 2nd one is in such a bad place).
Nintendo is where quality is from. And they are the only consol company that will be seeing my money.
I don't know, the SNES and Genisis/MegaDrive were really one generation.... not really segmented.... who could forget Street Fighter II Turbo on SNES vs Street Fighter II Special Championship Edition fighting it out.... well, most people actully....:)
However, the one little thing I loved about the end of the SNES's life cycle was the fact that at the end of 1994, Donkey Kong Country was a bigger seller then the entire new 32-bit generation (Saturn/PSX).
Anyway, back onto topic - I believe the market can support 2 consoles. The Nintendo 64 was supported though this generation - the companies make their money from software sales, not hardware sales. Look at the Top 10 games sales lists. New 1st and 2nd party N64 software is constantly in the top positions. People buy the software, N64 games sell incredibly well. The Ocarina of Time was a huge seller (and a damn great game too).
2 consoles can survive, this has been shown. And, in this next generation, 3 might squeeze in. The PS2 is here, if only due to it's hype machine fooling the public that it is a great consol (it's not imho). The Gamecube will be at least as successful as the N64 (and the N64 made Nintendo money), if not more (it is FAR easier on 3rd parties to code for then the N64 or PS2). Nintendo always manage some classic games, ALWAYS. And, I think Microsoft will squeeze the X-Box into the market, mainly because they could make no money at all this generation just to push the X-Box into the market as part of a long-term (next or 2 generations time), or it might just be successful this time.
Well, I've ranted, hope it makes some sence. I have my 1st VCE (final year of high school in the Victorian [state of Australian] education system) exam in 11 hours. It's an English exam. I should have been revising. All well. Hope I can write a nice piece on Montana 1948 and Cabaret then....:)
I won't be buying it. Final Fantasy's glory days were the (S)NES days.
The Ocarina of Time, now that was a nice GAME. Not a FMV-fest, but a GAME. Sure Zelda might not be a 'true' RPG, but it's still one of the most wonderful video game series even.
And Majora's Mask is out today (for you lucky US bastards;)
I'll be buying a Gamecube. And I'll enjoy it, just like I enjoy my Nintendo 64. Nintendo make better games, I don't care what the market share is - people can deprive themselves and go with Sony, their loss, not mine. If superiority is measured by market share, then isn't Windows 9x the best OS around?
Square can keep Final Fantasy, I'm happy without it. (and they'll probably port to PC again if I really want to play it anyway....)
Air-powered cars on the way to SA
By Johann Verster
A car that could revolutionise the motor industry and which led to death threats against the designer will be unveiled at the Auto Africa show in Johannesburg next week.
The e.Volution vehicle is powered by compressed air from high-pressure cylinders similar to those used by deep-sea divers. Made of feather-light material and weighing only 700 kg, it is essentially a city run around but can reach a speed of about 130km/h on the open road.
The e.Volution will be able to travel 200 km on one tank of compressed air at a cost of about 1c/km and can run for 10 hours in city traffic.
The inventor is Guy Negre, a French motor vehicle engineer and former Formula One engine designer. He has apparently received death threats because of the invention, which could cripple the world's oil industry.
Having devoted the past decade to his creation, which uses a suction "engine" of only 35 kg, Negre has licensed groups of SA investors to manufacture the vehicle locally. Up to 2 000 units a year will be made here initially.
He says the energy efficiency levels of his vehicles compared favourably with those of petrol, diesel and electric engines. Air stations could be erected anywhere to fill the tanks in just three minutes. Alternatively, the vehicle can be refilled in about four hours with the aid of an electric pump and an ordinary power socket.
It will sell for R65 000 and the first vehicles could roll off the local assembly line by next June as a factory employing 120 people on eight-hour shifts is to be established in Gauteng.
SA group Zero Pollution Motors will finance the first factory outside France with Helen Brown the founder. Matthews Phosa, former premier of Mpumalanga, is a shareholder and chairman of Zero.
The vehicle will be launched to the motoring press next week and the show will be open to the public from next Friday.
(Caption under picture):
Running on empty - The innovative air-propelled car, e.Volution, will be able to travel 200 km on one tank of compressed air at a cost of about 1c/km. A production plant for the car will be built in Gauteng and the vehicle could be available to the public from June 2001. (Beeld)
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Yeah, Metroid's in the works, Retro Studio's (a new Nintendo 2nd party based in the US) are currently making it.
Matsushita (the parent company of Panasonic), who are providing Nintendo with their proprietary DVD drives and 8cm mini-DVDs, plan on intergrating the abiliy to play Gamecube games into their line of DVD players in Japan.
These hybrid systems are currently only slated for a Japanese release, with no US release planned (where US release = anywhere outside Japan). At the moment, Nintendo is trying to go down the 'games only' road (which I personally believe in), so I doubt they'll make a big push for the hybrid to be released outside Japan.
There are heaps of news stories around on Matsushita and their somewhat hazy Gamecube plans, and instead of me putting in heaps of effort and actully making heaps of links, I'll make you all a special link today;)
(Offtopic rant: The best thing happening in the gaming world in the next week is the US release of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Nothing else worthwhile is happening.)
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Well, I think it would be cool anyway...
Metroid skipped a generation (N64), so, I guess Battletoads may have too...
Goto Rare's website and e-mail them... you never know...
/me waits hoping for DK, DKR, BK, KI, JFG, DI, PD, and BT for the Gamecube (If you're in the know, you'll know what they all stand for....;)
So all of them are redundant when they are posted:
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[Insert rant about 'this is all well and good, but closed and commercial' here]
There we go, just saved Slashdot from a few hundred Open Source/GLP nuts.;)
Seriously though, one thing I see though: Opera uses Qt-2.2 (the dual GPL/QPL licensed edition of Qt). Obviously Opera have paid TrollTech for the rights to use Qt in this closed app under the license of the QPL. Nice to see a great company supporting open source with a toolkit with the power of Qt being able to profit on it WHILE it is released under a 100% GPL compatible license - the GPL.
Long live Opera. I love it in Windows, Linux, and eventually will in BeOS.
The Barenaked Ladies of porn sites all over the internet are having their work stolen and distributed all over the internet using so called 'search engines', such as Google, Yahoo!, and AltaVista.
To combat this, many 'fake' pictures of the ladies are being added to these 'engines's databases. These 'trojan horse' images feature the same women, however they are fully clothed, and contain advertising links to their homepage.
"This is a just a way for us to combat the theft of our hard work" Wippin' Wendy of HardCoreXXX had to say. "This just helps bring back our real customers."
No-one from any of the engines was avalable to comment.
...as interesting. This is what the rest of the world REALLY thinks of the USA (at times.) Sometimes its shocking to belive, but you people can be very self-centered and blind to what is happening outside your own borders.
Unfortunatly for the USA, that post made some very valid, if not troll-like points.
You Yanks really do piss off the rest of the planet sometimes...
/me watches as he loses karma for expressing himself...
Yes, GNOME = GNU Network Object Model Environment.
It is hardly GNU GNU Network Object Model Environment, as "GNU GNOME" would imply.
It's already long enough - "Gnu's Not Unix Network Object Model Environment". If RMS's evil "extra GNU" is allowed to continue, then what will happen?! THIS:
Gnu's Not Unix Gnu's Not Unix Network Object Model Environment
But scariest of all is the fact that GNU doesn't stop... at all! That name will just keep growing and growing! GNU, as widly reported, "harbors a stack overflow bug that can cause the English language to crash". Perhaps GNOME trying to expand part of its name's continuous loop explains it's high memory usage and instability.
People, you must understand this. GPL'ed software is evil. It hosts an evil stack overflow bug in its name. RMS knows this. He wants to build society's dependance on his "GNU/[insert name here]" software, then bring it crushing down!
The new website, http://www.gnomefoundation.org has much information on the development and use of the best open desktop environment avalable.
http://browser.gnomefoundation.org, a site dedicated to the best GPL'ed browser around, hosts development news and how the browser will be integrated into the desktop environment/file manager.
Also, http://office.gnomefoundation.org details news on the great open-source and maturing office suite. This is without a doubt the maturest currently open office suite.
Linux is the future. The software at http://www.gnomefoundation.org will, and already is, putting Linux onto the desktop, and is easily the best desktop environment available.
[There are no lies in this post. Just don't make assumptions from a URL;) ]
Slashdot Mirror
Now in 'Plain Old Text' flavour :)
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Nintendo are without a doubt the best for GAMES.
I want to play games, not watch movies on a poor quality DVD player, or have fancy FMV intros.
I love my NES.
I love my Game Boy(s).
I love my SNES.
I love my N64.
I will love my Gamecube.
Give me Super Mario Bros the original, or Super Mario 64 - I love them all. From the original Legend of Zelda to Majora's Mask, Nintendo just don't dissapoint (except for the pushing back of release dates....)
But their games always are of the highest quality, and they are always the most inovative in software and hardware. Just look at the N64 control, and now the Gamecube (and the current Gamecube control pics are supposedly missing some feature....). After the N64 control was out, EVERYONE rushed out anologue controls.... Sega and their warped Saturn thing, and Sony and their dual anologue (no-one uses both, because the 2nd one is in such a bad place).
Nintendo is where quality is from. And they are the only consol company that will be seeing my money.
Nintendo are without a doubt the best for GAMES. I want to play games, not watch movies on a poor quality DVD player, or have fancy FMV intros. I love my NES. I love my Game Boy(s). I love my SNES. I love my N64. I will love my Gamecube. Give me Super Mario Bros the original, or Super Mario 64 - I love them all. From the original Legend of Zelda to Majora's Mask, Nintendo just don't dissapoint (except for the pushing back of release dates....) But their games always are of the highest quality, and they are always the most inovative in software and hardware. Just look at the N64 control, and now the Gamecube (and the current Gamecube control pics are supposedly missing some feature....). After the N64 control was out, EVERYONE rushed out anologue controls.... Sega and their warped Saturn thing, and Sony and their dual anologue (no-one uses both, because the 2nd one is in such a bad place). Nintendo is where quality is from. And they are the only consol company that will be seeing my money.
I don't know, the SNES and Genisis/MegaDrive were really one generation.... not really segmented.... who could forget Street Fighter II Turbo on SNES vs Street Fighter II Special Championship Edition fighting it out.... well, most people actully.... :)
:)
However, the one little thing I loved about the end of the SNES's life cycle was the fact that at the end of 1994, Donkey Kong Country was a bigger seller then the entire new 32-bit generation (Saturn/PSX).
Anyway, back onto topic - I believe the market can support 2 consoles. The Nintendo 64 was supported though this generation - the companies make their money from software sales, not hardware sales. Look at the Top 10 games sales lists. New 1st and 2nd party N64 software is constantly in the top positions. People buy the software, N64 games sell incredibly well. The Ocarina of Time was a huge seller (and a damn great game too).
2 consoles can survive, this has been shown. And, in this next generation, 3 might squeeze in. The PS2 is here, if only due to it's hype machine fooling the public that it is a great consol (it's not imho). The Gamecube will be at least as successful as the N64 (and the N64 made Nintendo money), if not more (it is FAR easier on 3rd parties to code for then the N64 or PS2). Nintendo always manage some classic games, ALWAYS. And, I think Microsoft will squeeze the X-Box into the market, mainly because they could make no money at all this generation just to push the X-Box into the market as part of a long-term (next or 2 generations time), or it might just be successful this time.
Well, I've ranted, hope it makes some sence. I have my 1st VCE (final year of high school in the Victorian [state of Australian] education system) exam in 11 hours. It's an English exam. I should have been revising. All well. Hope I can write a nice piece on Montana 1948 and Cabaret then....
I should get some sleep....
I won't be buying it. Final Fantasy's glory days were the (S)NES days.
;)
The Ocarina of Time, now that was a nice GAME. Not a FMV-fest, but a GAME. Sure Zelda might not be a 'true' RPG, but it's still one of the most wonderful video game series even.
And Majora's Mask is out today (for you lucky US bastards
I'll be buying a Gamecube. And I'll enjoy it, just like I enjoy my Nintendo 64. Nintendo make better games, I don't care what the market share is - people can deprive themselves and go with Sony, their loss, not mine. If superiority is measured by market share, then isn't Windows 9x the best OS around?
Square can keep Final Fantasy, I'm happy without it. (and they'll probably port to PC again if I really want to play it anyway....)
And Nintendo saved the industry last time with the NES.... hope the Gamecube does it again....
Air-powered cars on the way to SA
By Johann Verster
A car that could revolutionise the motor industry and which led to death threats against the designer will be unveiled at the Auto Africa show in Johannesburg next week.
The e.Volution vehicle is powered by compressed air from high-pressure cylinders similar to those used by deep-sea divers. Made of feather-light material and weighing only 700 kg, it is essentially a city run around but can reach a speed of about 130km/h on the open road.
The e.Volution will be able to travel 200 km on one tank of compressed air at a cost of about 1c/km and can run for 10 hours in city traffic.
The inventor is Guy Negre, a French motor vehicle engineer and former Formula One engine designer. He has apparently received death threats because of the invention, which could cripple the world's oil industry.
Having devoted the past decade to his creation, which uses a suction "engine" of only 35 kg, Negre has licensed groups of SA investors to manufacture the vehicle locally. Up to 2 000 units a year will be made here initially.
He says the energy efficiency levels of his vehicles compared favourably with those of petrol, diesel and electric engines. Air stations could be erected anywhere to fill the tanks in just three minutes. Alternatively, the vehicle can be refilled in about four hours with the aid of an electric pump and an ordinary power socket.
It will sell for R65 000 and the first vehicles could roll off the local assembly line by next June as a factory employing 120 people on eight-hour shifts is to be established in Gauteng.
SA group Zero Pollution Motors will finance the first factory outside France with Helen Brown the founder. Matthews Phosa, former premier of Mpumalanga, is a shareholder and chairman of Zero.
The vehicle will be launched to the motoring press next week and the show will be open to the public from next Friday.
(Caption under picture):
Running on empty - The innovative air-propelled car, e.Volution, will be able to travel 200 km on one tank of compressed air at a cost of about 1c/km. A production plant for the car will be built in Gauteng and the vehicle could be available to the public from June 2001. (Beeld)
IGNCube has a decent story about the new Metroid game here, and a short mpeg demo clip of game here. Oh, I can't wait for the Gamecube....
These hybrid systems are currently only slated for a Japanese release, with no US release planned (where US release = anywhere outside Japan). At the moment, Nintendo is trying to go down the 'games only' road (which I personally believe in), so I doubt they'll make a big push for the hybrid to be released outside Japan.
There are heaps of news stories around on Matsushita and their somewhat hazy Gamecube plans, and instead of me putting in heaps of effort and actully making heaps of links, I'll make you all a special link today ;)
Google search for 'Matsushita Gamecube dvd movies'.
Heaps of articles there, enjoy. :)
(Offtopic rant: The best thing happening in the gaming world in the next week is the US release of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Nothing else worthwhile is happening.)
Metroid skipped a generation (N64), so, I guess Battletoads may have too...
Goto Rare's website and e-mail them... you never know...
[Insert rant about 'this is all well and good, but closed and commercial' here]
;)
There we go, just saved Slashdot from a few hundred Open Source/GLP nuts.
Seriously though, one thing I see though: Opera uses Qt-2.2 (the dual GPL/QPL licensed edition of Qt). Obviously Opera have paid TrollTech for the rights to use Qt in this closed app under the license of the QPL. Nice to see a great company supporting open source with a toolkit with the power of Qt being able to profit on it WHILE it is released under a 100% GPL compatible license - the GPL.
Long live Opera. I love it in Windows, Linux, and eventually will in BeOS.
Posted by CmdrTaco on
01:22 PM October 1st, 2000
from the what's-he-got-to-say dept.
Jacek Fedorynski writes: "There's an interview with Michael Abrash on Daily Radar. Michael is an ex-id Software programmer now at Microsoft working on the Xbox, which is the subject of the interview." Covers a lot of stuff including NVidia, HDTV, Lens Flares, and how the X-Box might run quake.
Hemos, check before you post man! You did this with the Gamecube article from the other day too...
Is married like THAT bad? ;)
To combat this, many 'fake' pictures of the ladies are being added to these 'engines's databases. These 'trojan horse' images feature the same women, however they are fully clothed, and contain advertising links to their homepage.
"This is a just a way for us to combat the theft of our hard work" Wippin' Wendy of HardCoreXXX had to say. "This just helps bring back our real customers."
No-one from any of the engines was avalable to comment.
One of the more interesting posts I have seen on /. today....
Pity I have no points left....
...as interesting. This is what the rest of the world REALLY thinks of the USA (at times.) Sometimes its shocking to belive, but you people can be very self-centered and blind to what is happening outside your own borders.
Unfortunatly for the USA, that post made some very valid, if not troll-like points.
You Yanks really do piss off the rest of the planet sometimes...
/me watches as he loses karma for expressing himself...
- From cube.ign.com
ECTS Wrapup
PC and Console news
- From ZDNet's GameSpot
ECTS Final Wrap-Up
- From psx.ign.com
Nothing major at pocket.ign.com (Game Boy Advance), xbox.ign.com, or dreamcast.ign.com. Maybe I'm too tired and missing them... ;)
Hope some of this is somewhat useful :)
It is hardly GNU GNU Network Object Model Environment, as "GNU GNOME" would imply.
It's already long enough - "Gnu's Not Unix Network Object Model Environment". If RMS's evil "extra GNU" is allowed to continue, then what will happen?! THIS:
Gnu's Not Unix Gnu's Not Unix Network Object Model Environment
But scariest of all is the fact that GNU doesn't stop... at all! That name will just keep growing and growing! GNU, as widly reported, "harbors a stack overflow bug that can cause the English language to crash". Perhaps GNOME trying to expand part of its name's continuous loop explains it's high memory usage and instability.
People, you must understand this. GPL'ed software is evil. It hosts an evil stack overflow bug in its name. RMS knows this. He wants to build society's dependance on his "GNU/[insert name here]" software, then bring it crushing down!
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
(Some sence of humour required ;)
It's 1am, and I've had no caffine for 6 hours.... so I have SOME excuse ;)
The link is http://www.trolltech.com/c ompany/announce/generalpl.html
Link is http://www.trolltech.com/c ompany/announce/generalpl.html
That links to the old QPL announcement.
My friend Soc has chucked a mirror of the 2.85 meg installer up on his webpage The un-offical Top 20 to anything.
Huge link at the top, you can't miss it.
Have fun :)
Around 5min 20sec on Geeks in Space Ep29, Rob says he has no sence of smell.
RealAudio
Mp3 Instant Play
Mp3 Download
Looks like CmdrTaco will find this stuff useful after all (maybe).
It's one step closer to being Borg ;)
Well, it's going to make some people's lives better anyway.... which can never be a bad thing...
http://browser.gnomefoundation.org, a site dedicated to the best GPL'ed browser around, hosts development news and how the browser will be integrated into the desktop environment/file manager.
Also, http://office.gnomefoundation.org details news on the great open-source and maturing office suite. This is without a doubt the maturest currently open office suite.
And you might want to see http://apps.gnomefoundation.org for news about the hundreds of applications available, and http://developer.gnomefoundation.org to help improve the best, fastest, most feature rich, and most mature desktop environment available.
Linux is the future. The software at http://www.gnomefoundation.org will, and already is, putting Linux onto the desktop, and is easily the best desktop environment available.
[There are no lies in this post. Just don't make assumptions from a URL ;) ]