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A Peek At the Origin of PS3's New Visualizer
Folks at the Gamasutra network had a quick sitdown with the Q-Games team, the people behind the PlayStation 3's new Gaia music visualizer. They discuss the origins of the project, as well as some possible plans for the future. "McLaren explains: 'This representation of the earth is a 3D model with some shaders and SPU trickery going on. We tried to accurately model the earth's atmosphere and have all the correct highlights on the oceans, etc. The texture data is sourced from the NASA Blue Marble project.'"
Pique = a state of annoyance, or to torment/irritate someone.
He was piqued by yet another case of semi-literate, lemur-brained oafs posting lame poppycock to slashdot..
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Sony PS3 is a proprietary format, does not play games for any other platform, which is exactly the same as the other two consoles in the current generation. Sony PS3 uses USB and Bluetooth for controller communication, which are as standardised as anything else. Sony PS3 has slots for Sony's Memorystick, right next to its slots for SD and CF, the competing media. PS3 supports Sony's Blueray format as well as Toshiba's DVD and Sony's now standard CD.
As for the **AA, my (unhacked) PS3 lets me rip CDs to MP3s then copy them to other devices. I don't get what people are supposedly missing on the PS3 from those Japanese media tyrants called Sony, I can't speak for the XBox, but I've looked all through the Wii for the "Rip DVDs then share them on bittorrent channel" but if it was there I couldn't find it.
The Sony rootkit was a very evil thing to do, but it wasn't developed in house and only the music publishing division was involved. As for the competition, Microsoft calls its flagship rootkit an Operating System and still distributes it with impunity even though it contains DRM like NGSB and spyware like genuine advantage. As for Microsoft, everyone here has been chiding Sony because MS now has all the software being target for it. Doesn't this seem at all familiar to any of you? When Microsoft created the slightly cheaper platform that managed to take the market despite being not quite as powerful? All I know is that Sony's two generations of gaming hegemony were fun but Microsoft's twenty years of PC dominance brought nothing but crippled innovation and instability.
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
Topic: The new visualizer for the PS3
Off Topic: Ranting about why any other aspect of the PS3 sucks
For the record, the new visualizer looks nice if you happen to be playing music, which the PS3 does fairly well. Please feel free to tear this comment to shreds if you'd like to get back on topic. In exchange, I promise not to rant about the red ring of death when responding to any article where Xbox hardware isn't specifically mentioned.
Cheers,
TW