Actually no, the Wii has failed at its intended goals as Nintendo itself is the only one producing games for the system that are worth playing, but they neglect to show off what he hardware can actually do aside from the gimmicky wiimote motions.

Even the CEO has stated that the console has lost it's momentum due to the lack of game that people want to play: From [NSFW] http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/10/30/iwata-wii-has-lost-momentum-has-no-decent-games/

<quote> Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has publicly admitted the Wii&rsquo;s momentum has slowed and that a failure to deliver any decent games has soured the public to the console.

His statements were made after the company had to announce a 58% drop in net profits and a 43% drop in Wii sales&#8230;

Along with the nosediving sales, he frankly admitted the Wii was having difficulties:
<quote> &ldquo;The Wii has lost momentum. We&rsquo;ve been unable to keep introducing good software, and the favorable mood towards the console has cooled.&rdquo; </quote>

In April he admitted that &ldquo;the Wii&rsquo;s position is perilous,&rdquo; but it seems he has done nothing much in the mean time to rectify matters.

The recent Wii price cut, made in response to the PS3 Slim&rsquo;s release, did have a positive effect on hardware sales, but this does not disguise the fact that the most notable Wii title of late is nothing but a remake of a 25-year-old Mario game &ndash; possibly Nintendo will have to do better than rehashed fitness games and remade &ldquo;classics&rdquo; if it wishes to compete with compelling line-ups from Microsoft and Sony&#8230;</quote>

Whats even more comical is the Wii's worst selling game has sold only 100 copies: [NSFW] http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/11/02/wiis-worst-game-ever-sells-100-copies/

<quote> The Wii&rsquo;s curious lack of quality software is being highlighted by the release of the worst selling Wii title ever, Sukeban Shachou Rena Wii (&rdquo;Woman CEO Rena&rdquo;), a game centered on the managerial leadership of a talking female cat, Rena.

In the week since its release it has sold a total of 100 copies.

The cat is undeniably well animated however.

The bustling scene of a post-launch event:

Sadly, with all this publicity (including a TV feature and a thread being featured on Itai News) there is now a danger of people actually buying the game out of morbid curiosity, creating a perverse incentive for developers of other spectacularly poor titles.

Even Nintendo&rsquo;s CEO himself admits the console is having trouble securing a compelling line-up, and with such dismal titles as this and certain previous debacles, some might wonder if perhaps some kind of quality seal system might be useful&#8230;

At the risk of increasing its sales, the game is available internationally. </quote>

Videos of the game can be seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBz_9OWamE0 :|: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgR9JzthRIQ :|: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy2LCmjKowU :|: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68zdnWdi4mg

Not hard to see why the console is losing traction when this is the kind of trash that the 3rd party game makers are trying to push.

Just implement team kill as well, then slaughter idiots that are blocking dungeon doorways. That or have your guild ally with guilds from enemy sides to come and take out the retards for you, with impunity from your guild.

As I remember it, the PPC models required a larger firmware then the PC model's BIOS chip could fit normally, so when a card came out for Macs you first had to find a way to get the open firmware cut down to work, this often meant you lost something like the TV out or the DVI out capability.

I've not done it for the new intelmacs but I suspect something similar has to be done in a bios flash of the PC version cards to support Macs. You see more options these days since most option cards are from nvidia, since nvidia has been rebranding their 8800 series for a while now without really making improvements. See why AMD/ATI have DX10.1 support and has had it for over a year, while Nvidia doesn't. Also note that nvidia paid to have DX10.1 support removed from the game Assassin's Creed as it caused the game to run faster with higher detail settings then the direct competition cards from Nvidia.

The drivers are pretty good now, and for the older hardware the open source drivers are getting pretty nice http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

and ioquake3 is how old now? Tried anything with graphics demands from this decade? Even older games like Quake4 and Doom3 at their lowest settings are unplayable on even Intel's fastest, the X4500HD.

Generation for generation Intel's fastest IGP graphics are at least half as fast as the bottom end IGPs from AMD/ATI and Nvidia.

And with AMD/ATI you can still have your open source drivers. http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

It's the American way, capitalism for the poor and socialisim for the poor.

The "Free Market" has never existed in the US, and never will.

Yes, I made myself a nice little system wide white on black theme with minimal space wasted in under 5 minutes on Ubuntu with items grabbed from Gnome Art. No issues, no glitches and its easier on my eyes for extended use.

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<p>So why does Ubuntu now need a lot more hardware to run properly than when it was first released?</p><p>And maybe it's a little too early to walk about Windows 7 like it has failed, since it has not yet been released :)</p></quote>

Lolwut? Ubuntu's recommended specs or what will actually run it? The recommended are assuming yu want to run Compiz with all the glitz and glamm, for the normal Gnome desktop with no 3d junk I can get by just one on a 1.5Ghz Celeron M and 1Gb of ram on a lowly Lntel GMA900 graphics.

I think it's like the US Cigarette tax, like all things sold though, the government wants it's cut on the sales tax. Selling black market goods only mean that the government doesn't get any tax from it, thus is considered quasi-illegal, if you just sell a bushel or 2 of spuds a year you're too small to care about, if you're selling potatoes by the truckload however, the government is going to want to see a little something floated their way.

Interesting, I'd have guessed that would have deadlocked the machine or cooked the board.

Defiantly some serious balls of steel right there to do it.

Don't most mobo makers still allow you to get a replacement bios chip though? I remember them being about $5 shipped when I last needed one.