Posts by mrscott1337

MARIO MOBES: Nintendo hooks up with DeNA, births NX gaming system

I've always maintained that Nintendo going third party would kill them since I've always felt that Nintendo work better when they're developing their own games on their own hardware. However, from what I've seen of this so far, it appears there is potential for them to make this into something really good. If Nintendo make a truly cross-platform experience and stay true to their word about making games optimised for each different type of device then this could be awesome. But knowing Nintendo, it's as if they're always intentionally a couple of steps away from perfection.

It's without doubt that Nintendo has needed a response to the mobile games industry since handhelds simply aren't going to be around forever, I'd be surprised if we see a dedicated successor to the 3DS. However, the type of response that people have been calling for, for Nintendo to just publish their games on the Play Store and App Store, that definitely would be a bad move for them because it just brings down their status.

As for them publishing older console titles to mobile devices and/or PC, I'm really not too sure if they're going to do that since they must be well aware by now of the breadth of emulators available for these platforms, the mass availability of old console game ROMs and the fact that there really isn't much more Nintendo could do to offer a better experience than that already offered by using emulators. Maybe offering achievements and online play for old retro titles could give a Virtual Console service on Android/iOS the unique edge it would need to make it worthwhile, but as I said earlier; Nintendo always seem to intentionally keep themselves a few steps away from perfection.

Sinclair is back with the Spectrum Vega ... just as rubbish as the ZX

Greater Potential

I have to say this seems quite underwhelming due to the lack of keys. I doubt this will succeed if it turns out to be nothing more than an 80s video games console as opposed to an actual home computer like the original ZX Spectrum was.

Half of the fun with old computers like these was being able to get source code from magazines and the likes, entering it in yourself and seeing exactly what goes into writing software.

If Retro continue with what they've got for their prototype, I think they're missing out on an opportunity to succeed where the Raspberry Pi failed; getting kids interested in programming.

systemd row ends with Debian getting forked

Re: It's all about CHOICE

>What lack of choice? If you don't want systemd then just install sysvinit (or upstart if you prefer).

You should know it's not as simple as that. Yes it'll work for the time being but as updates move on, anything but systemd is getting left behind on the distros that choose systemd as default init system.

>I cannot understand what this shouting is all about.

It's not shouting, it's just a bunch of people who are rightly annoyed with everything that's surrounding systemd and the way that it's adoption is being forced upon users (or as much as you can force anything in the FOSS world).

>Some people will say "but one day every package will depend on systemd". So I guess they've already given up and I don't known why they're still complaining.

That's not giving up, that's recognising the serious problems with systemd attempting to assimilate everything and that alternatives need to be made. Hence we have Devuan.

Debian's default init isn't simple a choice that a user can make in the long term by uninstalling and installing certain software packages, it's a choice made by the distro maintainers and other developers as to what software is going to be supported in the long run and what's going to get left behind. Using sysvinit and systemd-shim is just a hack that will only work in the short term, we need a long term solution like Devuan that simply doesn't incorporate systemd into it's design so that systemd is unable to incorporate everything else into itself.

My point still stands; that providing choice to users a la Gentoo, won't hurt anyone and will only please everyone apart from Poettering and his religious following. And honestly, the more people that get needlessly defensive about any criticism of systemd, the more reason I see to get rid of it.

It's all about CHOICE

My problem with systemd lies in the lack of choice available to people regarding it and to me, the whole thing just flies in the face of everything that I've always loved about Linux. If I was happy with simply accepting whatever software gets fed to me, I'd still be using Windows as my primary OS.

Fair enough systemd might make things faster, but I don't see that as any reason as to why it's practically being forced upon everyone who uses a desktop-centered distribution. Why can't distros just do what Gentoo does and give people the option? Giving people choice won't kill anyone.

Good on the Devuan people for actually listening to users instead of just shouting down at us that we don't know what's best for us.

iFixit boss: Apple has 'done everything it can to put repair guys out of business'

This is how Apple is, they operate a walled garden and everything is in-house. Of course, to most techies this feels like a cage, which is why a lot of us prefer Android over iOS, but to your average person this brings a lot of benefits; you have software optimised for each device, you have excellent customer service and support, everything is made to be straightforward because they limit the amount of ways in which you can do things.

At the end of the day, all you need is access to the same tools as Apple and any mobile repair technician can do just as good a job as any of these "Geniuses". It's all down to how Apple devices are locked down in such a specific way, they can only be opened and modified correctly using the specific tools designed for it.