According to this article the newest generation of game consoles is about to be released by Nintendo and is apparently ‘Mac based’… I think because the video controller is ATI and the CPU is PowerPC it would only make sense to use a low level MacOS to get it booting and rendering. All in all good news for the Mac gaming community.
Stever Ballmer is nervous. Or at least that’s what he told the audience at Comdex Canada during his ill-fated keynote address. Apparently, he fumbled through demo after demo, and compared the future of the internet to a hockey stick, apparently trying to get the kanucks to like him. What a goofball.
You can try to view the keynote here, but don’t even try if you’re on a Mac. It’s in Windows Media Player format. Surprise sur-fucking-prise.
What a dork.
This is an absolute must see. End of story.
According to this article, certain hackers have hacked their hearts out, and have cracked the Sega encryption mechanism for Dreamcast games. If you burn a certain software onto CDROM, and run that in your Dreamcast, it allows you to run games downloaded from the internet that you burn onto another CDROM. The only problem: Dreamcast games come on discs similar to DVDs, and some games won’t fit entirely on a CDROM. The answer in most cases? Just remove the soundtrack. No word as to whether DVDRAM drives will work to burn DVDs with the games on them.
So you can spend $400 for a low-end computer, $200-$300 for a decent burner, $300 on a Dreamcast, and pay upwards of $80 a month for DSL so that you can download the games within a reasonable amount of time.
OR you can just spend the money on the Dream cast (which you’d have to do anyway) and simply buy the games you want for like $50 or something apiece.
The latter option seems much easier.
Despite the fact that Connectix Vitrual GameStation is buggy, plays nothing like a PlayStation, and requires getting used to using the keyboard to control games, Sony has been fighting Connectix tooth and nail to get Virtual GameStation off of store shelves. And Sony is losing. They’ve lost in two hearings already, and today they “voluntarily withdrew” the case that alleges that Connectix is violating eleven copyrights.
Honestly, I’m very surprised by all this. I knew (and was right) that days after Connectix introduced this product in early 1999, Sony would be all over them like stink on a monkey. I just didn’t think that Connectix would win. Well good for them. Apparently justice does tend to prevail. Now if we could just fix that Microsoft thing any time soon.
Spam is not cool! Read that again. I get about 20-40 pieces of SPAM a day… this one has to take the cake as by far the most aggressive and ridiculous SPAM I’ve ever seen:
This message is in full compliance with U.S. Federal requirements for commercial email under bill S.1618 Title lll, Section 301, Paragraph (a)(2)(C) passed by the 105th U.S. Congress and cannot be considered SPAM since it includes a remove mechanism. Further transmissions by the sender may be stopped at no cost to you by replying to the email address remove_my_name@hotmail.com and placing remove in the subject line.
We practice responsible mailing by honoring all remove requests, following all U.S. laws, and oppose spamming. If you complain and have the remove address closed you are doing a disservice to other receivers of this message since they will have no mechanism to be removed from future mailings. In addition, this message is in strict compliance with U.S. law so if you flame the “remove mailbox” we will report you to your ISP as a SPAMMER, which will result in your account being closed.
Nice remove mechanism, eh?
What the FUCK people!!!???
Underscoring the dramatic pace of development in the storage industry, IBM introduced the world’s first gigabyte-capacity disk drive, the 3380, in 1980. It was the size of a refrigerator, weighed 550 pounds (about 250 kg) and cost $40,000. The Microdrive announced today is smaller than a matchbook, weighs less than an ounce and will be available for less than $500.
Uh, wow…. damn, I had no idea that drives used to be that big….
According to this article, Emachines stock prices are falling due to a profits warning of a loss of 30 to 33 cents a share.
The reason? “The drop in the demand has coincided with concerns about interest rates, the state of the economy and the growing instability of the public securities markets.”
That, and they make shitty computers.
‘I’m a total fucking idiot,’ says Bill Gates, when asked how he thought he could get away with all of this.
