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Comment Controller Advantage (Score 2, Interesting) 389

by Setheck on Friday August 28, 2009 @04:38AM (#29228163) Attached to: Why Is It So Difficult To Allow Cross-Platform Play?

I'm sure there are some architectural reasons why games don't talk, but just think if TF2 was cross platform online play. How bad would XBOX 360 players do vs people with keyboard and mouse. I think they would be at a HUGE disadvantage because they don't have anywhere close to the same control scheme. This destroys all balance to the game. Granted you can buy an adaptor to use keyboard and mouse on the 360, but i don't think that more than the top 2% of hardcore games go so far as to buy a $100 add on to do it.

Comment Re:free downloads (Score 1) 647

by falconwolf on Friday August 28, 2009 @04:30AM (#29228131) Attached to: Apple To Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard On August 28

Other than itunes, and safari, there is practically no real software.

Again, you didn't read and click links. For Aperture Apple lists 93 downloads, there are 277 audio downloads, and business and finance shows 204. Those are just 3 categories of software Apple offers downloads in, and I doubt 5% of them are Apple software. In open source Apple includes NeoOffice, PHP, Apache, Samba, and more than 80 more downloads.

Microsoft offers windows media player and Internet explorer which offsets those two. And then it offers a shit-ton of utilities, power toys, honest to goodness applications

Apple offers 369 System/Disk Utilities, 453 productivity tools, and 314 imaging and 3D downloads. The first one, most recent download, right now is Autodesk Maya 2010.

My point was that Apple develops and releases this class of features as part of the "OSX upgrade package", whereas Microsoft has been building thme, but making them available separately (and for free).

Most of Apple's downloads are free stuff, or do you think OS X requires Maya?

The service packs and hotfixes are readily available via download. I have an NT4 VM I still occasionally fire up myself. They've been moved around a few times, but I can't recall them ever not being available.

As I said, little more than 3 years after I bought my NT4 PC I had to order, and pay for, the latest updates for NT. And I bought it 1 year after NT4 came out.

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/usa/nt40/

Thanks for the link, I bookmarked it so I can use it later. The last tyme I ran Windows Update in NT4 the MS website said I had to order the updates on CD, that was in January 2000.

They even have the service packs for 3.5 and 3.51 if you'd like them, including stuff for the mips and alpha chips...

My NT4 PC has an Alpha CPU. Following links in the one you provided I read one readme that said what .exe to download for Alphas. However the last tyme I ran Windows Update a message box popped up telling me I had to order the update on CD. I'd like to upgrade the PC, add more RAM and replace the 2 HDDs with bigger ones. I'd also like to add Firewire and USB as well as Gigabit Ethernet. Now that I know where to look for some updates I just need to find the hardware. The PC is still good and I don't want it to go to waste.

Falcon

Comment Re:Check out twinhan DVB-S cards for an alternativ (Score 1) 345

by cawpin on Friday August 28, 2009 @04:18AM (#29228069) Attached to: An End To Unencrypted Digital Cable TV and the HTPC

So what? That's completely useless and irrelevant because the only current devices that support cable cards are TiVos and the cableco's set top boxes themselves!

There are many TVs on the market that have cable card slots built in. I have no problem with a Tivo because I can buy one, and own it outright, and take it with me whenever I move and not have to rent a box.

Comment Re:Our robocalls are in Spanish (Score 1) 277

by sconeu on Friday August 28, 2009 @03:18AM (#29227823) Attached to: FTC Rules Outlawing Robocalls Go Into Effect Next Week

Well, then you'd better get that cheese to Sickbay!

Classic Game Console Design Mistakes 185

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @02:24AM from the you-could-land-a-helicopter-on-that-controller dept.

Harry writes "Some bad decisions in game console design get made over and over. (How many early systems had nightmarish controllers?) Others are uniquely inexplicable. (Like the Game Boy Advance's lack of a headphone jack.) Some stem from companies being too clever for their own good. (Like the way the RCA Studio II and Atari 5200 drew their power through their RF switches.) Benj Edwards has rounded up a few classic examples, and has attempted to figure out what was going on in the designers' heads — and what we can learn from their mistakes."

Comment Bah (Score 0, Offtopic) 181

by SillyWilly on Saturday December 06, 2008 @02:36PM (#26014297) Attached to: The Beginnings of Apple Computer

Where's my iTablet Steve?

One Step Closer to IPv6 281

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 05, 2008 @02:22PM from the many-steps-long-path-lots-of-numbers dept.

gbjbaanb writes "IPv6 came a step closer yesterday as ICANN added IPv6 host records to the root DNS servers, reports the BBC. 'Paul Twomey, president of Icann which oversees the addressing system, told the BBC News website there was a need to start moving to IPv6. "There's pressure for people to make the conversion to IPv6," he said. "We're pushing this as a major issue." The reason for the urgency, he said, was because the unallocated addresses from the total of 4,294,967,296 possible with IPv4 was rapidly running out. "We're down to 14% of the unallocated addresses out of the whole pool for version 4," he said. Projections suggest that this unallocated pool will run out by 2011 at the latest.'"

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