DNA Barcode... Is DNA not unique to individuals? Why not just take a sample of everyone's DNA at birth instead of barcoding it or are there too many people claiming in court "It wasn't me. It was my evil twin" and getting away with it
The only thing that worries me about this whole thing is resale.
I like to buy second hand games, I occasionally like to be able to sell them, or loan them to friends, or whatever. Much like with books. Steam doesn't really do that AFAICT.
the pc game used market is pretty much not existant anyway because of cd keys, the original owner can still reuse the cdkey to play with a cracked copy of the game or even sell it to someone else
"This stupid computer shit is a waste of time. Put in that closet with the water and no air conditioning."
(Equipment fails)
"What the fuck do you mean you can't be out here by noon to fix this shit? This is critical to my business, if its not fixed by noon I am out of business."
Is there a disconnect?
can't agree more, I always find myself going into server rooms that are actually a restroom or dwarves holes under some staircase, and of course nobody cleaned up this places nor the computers in the last century, so it's a bit like being Indiana Jones
Now is it relevant? Are you kidding me? In this day and age of all these platforms it is _THE_ library. Direct3D is only viable on Micrsoft platforms.
Android, Playstation3, Mac OS X, iOS, Linux, Windows. They all have OpenGL support and thus anyone is now porting, if they haven't already and newcommers all use OpenGL. In fact all the CAD apps have been using OpenGL solely! All the big players and studios are using OpenGL now.
Now the real question is; What is Microsofts next move to stay in the game?
Microsoft doesn't have to do anything, how many opengl games came out in the last years? I can think of wolfenstein, some indie games and then what? every other games is running on directx
opengl may be available on a lot of platforms but who cares it's not like you can port crysis from pc to an iphone in a day just because it's in opengl(I know it's not in opengl, it's just an example)
I'm not a game developer but I think that directx/opengl can easily be abstracted by the engine to use whatever is best on the platform it runs, something like Qt, and I think valve is doing that with the source engine right now
I am a bit puzzled because most Italians I know abhor Berlusconi. Still he was elected and re-elected and it seems that only him manages to stay in power for more than a few months. How come there is no real opposition in position to win elections and reform the country?
because till a few years ago we did have many political parties, especially on the left wing, then most of them reunited together to create the two major political parties we have now PD(left wing) and PDL(right wing), the problem is that all the parties that formed PD had really different ideas since some of them were more center sided while other were from the extreme left(yes we are one of the few country with a communist party still alive) so everytime they tried to do something nobody could agree and of course they failed.
we vote for berlusconi because there are no alternatives, the commies had their chance a few years ago and their government blew up after less than 2 years because they couldn't agree on anything even if they were allied
he might not be the best option ever, but it's the best we have right now
yeah it's funny that in the US people are against the NSA wiretapping, while here in italy people wants to give up their freedom and be wiretapped while the government doesn't want it
also this law doesn't ban wiretapping per se, but it bans the public disclosure, so let's say someone records you while peeing, he can't publish it without your permission
Features such as PS2 backward compatibility. I'd mention Linux but, frankly, the backward compatibility is the big one.
Funny that they don't mention dropping hardware for PS2 games. Wikipedia says they don't even emulate anymore. Guess that saves them some time and money too.
the ps2 hardware emulator was removed right after launch, european ps3 never had it, instead they used a software based emulator, so yeah there was no real reason to remove it from newer models to cut the price, the only reason is that the ps2 is still selling well after 10 years, and probably because the emulator didn't work very well. Microsoft halted the xbox1 emulator development after a few months too but I don't know if they removed it from newer models.
Unfortunately linking a Gawker site ruins any credibility, funny, troll, or serious
and this ruins your credibility, you read kotaku in the link and you didn't even read it, the article is an interview with kotick in which he talks about a meeting with steve jobs when he was young, not about steve jobs sabotaging the tax cut, this is a piece of the interview so you don't have to enter the dark land of gawker
"I was really scared about the meeting because he was like my hero," Kotick said. "I showed it to him and he started screaming at us. He threw it on the floor and said it was a piece of shit and then he started criticizing it."
SkypeKit beta is only available for Linux on an invite-only basis, with Windows and Mac versions planned in coming weeks. The SDK does not cover Android or Mac
just don't update, I'm still using 3.3 or 3.4(can't remember) and I can play all offline and online(yeah all two of them) games without any problem. here on slashdot many people criticized sony for removing otheros, but nintendo is trying to do the same with every update and they aren't giving anything valuable in return, at least sony usually adds new functionality with each ps3 update, I can't speak for microsoft since I don't have a 360, but I think they are adding new features like sony
Yeah. Not only that, but anyone (eg: the submitter) who thinks that Twitter is in any way pushing the NYT into obsolescence is insane. Twitter is inane and stupid, the NYT is actual, you know, news.
Other variations on news may or may not be making the NYT obsolete, but Twitter has not a damn thing to do with it.
I actually find twitter very useful at least in the way I use it, I do follow game developers twitters like http://twitter.com/OfficialBFBC2 to get almost realtime news, and you can even ask something directly to them and get an answer sometimes, things like this were unthinkable just a few years ago
of course this is way different than saying that twitter will replace NYT, but still it's not something "insane and stupid"
Most video games have stories that straight-to-DVD movies would be ashamed of*.
Other than that it is because Uwe Boll makes 90% of game movies.
*The games with good stories general can not compress a 20-40 hour experience into an hour thirty.
and this is the same reason why games based on movies are very bad too, nobody would buy a game that last 1-2 hours, so they have to add pieces that didn't exist in the movie to make it longer
Much simpler solution:
Pay google a meager sum to add some javascript that displays an "upgrade to IE9" link instead of google search for people still running IE6.
Do the same thing on Bing.
google already does that on youtube and google docs
If you understand programming, picking up any given language is straightforward.
If you don't understand programming, it doesn't really matter what languages you know.
this is true but every language has its way to do stuff and experience is important, for example most of these languages don't allow the use of pointers so they probably won't even know about them
also it's good that they choose python but why pascal or visual basic? it's not like those students will use them when they get out in the real world, imho it's better to stick with a useful set of languages instead of switching later "since they are all the same"
With online distribution (like steam) they could stop second hand sales altogether, and as a bonus you don't need a silo for your discs. Pretty awesome in my opinion.
but this is aimed to console rather than pc gaming, because on pc the used market is almost non existent due to the cd key, I wouldn't trust anyone selling me his used key hoping that he wouldn't reuse it with a copy of the game, as a matter of fact battlefield bad company 2 had the vip key only in the console version while the pc version had the extra content for free without any extra key
on console the online distribution is still very limited and it's mostly used to sell small or old games
Heh. But it's not too far-fetched to think that Apple's infamous new rules for the iPhone have something to do with Adobe suddenly annoucing that they're working on Flash->HTML5 conversion. It looks like something good might come out of that decision after all.
Please guys, don't go to EA, that is like going from a semi-evil organization to the ultimate evil organization. Go work for Valve or Bungie or one of the other decent studios out there.
actually EA isn't that evil anymore, in the last couple of years they have released some very good games(dragon age, mass effect, battlefield bad company 2, need for speed shift etc..), even innovative like mirror's edge, it's clear that they are going towards quality rather than quantity
Activision on the other hand just opened another studio dedicated to make yet another call of duty game
Nobody in the group had RPGs or anything that looked remotely like them.
Did you even watch the video?
Did you? I saw nothing that made the group that was attacked look like anything but civilians. Tell me at what point in the video you saw an RPG, and I'll see if I can spot it.
Slashdot Mirror
DNA Barcode... Is DNA not unique to individuals? Why not just take a sample of everyone's DNA at birth instead of barcoding it or are there too many people claiming in court "It wasn't me. It was my evil twin" and getting away with it
not really, for example twins have the same DNA
The only thing that worries me about this whole thing is resale.
I like to buy second hand games, I occasionally like to be able to sell them, or loan them to friends, or whatever. Much like with books. Steam doesn't really do that AFAICT.
the pc game used market is pretty much not existant anyway because of cd keys, the original owner can still reuse the cdkey to play with a cracked copy of the game or even sell it to someone else
About 4 years later, and after Russia's done 75% of the work...
you mean after russia helped the attackers doing 75% of the work? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov-Ribbentrop_Pact
unfortunately you can't use DNF jokes anymore since it will be released early next year http://www.gametrailers.com/game/duke-nukem-forever/360?show=Gameplay#Content
"This stupid computer shit is a waste of time. Put in that closet with the water and no air conditioning."
(Equipment fails)
"What the fuck do you mean you can't be out here by noon to fix this shit? This is critical to my business, if its not fixed by noon I am out of business."
Is there a disconnect?
can't agree more, I always find myself going into server rooms that are actually a restroom or dwarves holes under some staircase, and of course nobody cleaned up this places nor the computers in the last century, so it's a bit like being Indiana Jones
Now is it relevant? Are you kidding me? In this day and age of all these platforms it is _THE_ library. Direct3D is only viable on Micrsoft platforms.
Android, Playstation3, Mac OS X, iOS, Linux, Windows. They all have OpenGL support and thus anyone is now porting, if they haven't already and newcommers all use OpenGL. In fact all the CAD apps have been using OpenGL solely! All the big players and studios are using OpenGL now.
Now the real question is; What is Microsofts next move to stay in the game?
Microsoft doesn't have to do anything, how many opengl games came out in the last years? I can think of wolfenstein, some indie games and then what? every other games is running on directx
opengl may be available on a lot of platforms but who cares it's not like you can port crysis from pc to an iphone in a day just because it's in opengl(I know it's not in opengl, it's just an example)
I'm not a game developer but I think that directx/opengl can easily be abstracted by the engine to use whatever is best on the platform it runs, something like Qt, and I think valve is doing that with the source engine right now
I am a bit puzzled because most Italians I know abhor Berlusconi. Still he was elected and re-elected and it seems that only him manages to stay in power for more than a few months. How come there is no real opposition in position to win elections and reform the country?
because till a few years ago we did have many political parties, especially on the left wing, then most of them reunited together to create the two major political parties we have now PD(left wing) and PDL(right wing), the problem is that all the parties that formed PD had really different ideas since some of them were more center sided while other were from the extreme left(yes we are one of the few country with a communist party still alive) so everytime they tried to do something nobody could agree and of course they failed.
lobbyists never give up!
In this case the lobbyist is the president and his gang of thugs. The voters still love him though, so he stays in power despite countless scandals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi#Legal_problems ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi#Controversies. Democracy doesn't work so well when people vote on looks and television presence rather than actual issues. Or when one person control vast amounts of the news media.
we vote for berlusconi because there are no alternatives, the commies had their chance a few years ago and their government blew up after less than 2 years because they couldn't agree on anything even if they were allied
he might not be the best option ever, but it's the best we have right now
yeah it's funny that in the US people are against the NSA wiretapping, while here in italy people wants to give up their freedom and be wiretapped while the government doesn't want it
also this law doesn't ban wiretapping per se, but it bans the public disclosure, so let's say someone records you while peeing, he can't publish it without your permission
Features such as PS2 backward compatibility. I'd mention Linux but, frankly, the backward compatibility is the big one.
Funny that they don't mention dropping hardware for PS2 games. Wikipedia says they don't even emulate anymore. Guess that saves them some time and money too.
the ps2 hardware emulator was removed right after launch, european ps3 never had it, instead they used a software based emulator, so yeah there was no real reason to remove it from newer models to cut the price, the only reason is that the ps2 is still selling well after 10 years, and probably because the emulator didn't work very well. Microsoft halted the xbox1 emulator development after a few months too but I don't know if they removed it from newer models.
Unfortunately linking a Gawker site ruins any credibility, funny, troll, or serious
and this ruins your credibility, you read kotaku in the link and you didn't even read it, the article is an interview with kotick in which he talks about a meeting with steve jobs when he was young, not about steve jobs sabotaging the tax cut, this is a piece of the interview so you don't have to enter the dark land of gawker
No, it was probably Activision/Blizzard, they're bigger than EA now, and Bobby Kotick, the CEO, is a big bully.
it's all steve jobs fault http://kotaku.com/5559201/a-delightful-chat-with-the-most-hated-man-in-video-games
SkypeKit beta is only available for Linux on an invite-only basis, with Windows and Mac versions planned in coming weeks. The SDK does not cover Android or Mac
just don't update, I'm still using 3.3 or 3.4(can't remember) and I can play all offline and online(yeah all two of them) games without any problem.
here on slashdot many people criticized sony for removing otheros, but nintendo is trying to do the same with every update and they aren't giving anything valuable in return, at least sony usually adds new functionality with each ps3 update, I can't speak for microsoft since I don't have a 360, but I think they are adding new features like sony
yesterday http://kotaku.com/5562639/get-a-look-at-kinects-star-wars-game
the first device that see your movements in the future!
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http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/9/2010/06/07757512fe01652a77d524cf51795baf/original.gif
Yeah. Not only that, but anyone (eg: the submitter) who thinks that Twitter is in any way pushing the NYT into obsolescence is insane. Twitter is inane and stupid, the NYT is actual, you know, news.
Other variations on news may or may not be making the NYT obsolete, but Twitter has not a damn thing to do with it.
I actually find twitter very useful at least in the way I use it, I do follow game developers twitters like http://twitter.com/OfficialBFBC2 to get almost realtime news, and you can even ask something directly to them and get an answer sometimes, things like this were unthinkable just a few years ago
of course this is way different than saying that twitter will replace NYT, but still it's not something "insane and stupid"
Most video games have stories that straight-to-DVD movies would be ashamed of*.
Other than that it is because Uwe Boll makes 90% of game movies.
*The games with good stories general can not compress a 20-40 hour experience into an hour thirty.
and this is the same reason why games based on movies are very bad too, nobody would buy a game that last 1-2 hours, so they have to add pieces that didn't exist in the movie to make it longer
Much simpler solution: Pay google a meager sum to add some javascript that displays an "upgrade to IE9" link instead of google search for people still running IE6. Do the same thing on Bing.
google already does that on youtube and google docs
folding@home has nothing to do with this, it's a gameos application you can run it on any model, you don't need to install linux or anything else
But, so what?
If you understand programming, picking up any given language is straightforward.
If you don't understand programming, it doesn't really matter what languages you know.
this is true but every language has its way to do stuff and experience is important, for example most of these languages don't allow the use of pointers so they probably won't even know about them
also it's good that they choose python but why pascal or visual basic? it's not like those students will use them when they get out in the real world, imho it's better to stick with a useful set of languages instead of switching later "since they are all the same"
With online distribution (like steam) they could stop second hand sales altogether, and as a bonus you don't need a silo for your discs. Pretty awesome in my opinion.
but this is aimed to console rather than pc gaming, because on pc the used market is almost non existent due to the cd key, I wouldn't trust anyone selling me his used key hoping that he wouldn't reuse it with a copy of the game, as a matter of fact battlefield bad company 2 had the vip key only in the console version while the pc version had the extra content for free without any extra key
on console the online distribution is still very limited and it's mostly used to sell small or old games
Heh. But it's not too far-fetched to think that Apple's infamous new rules for the iPhone have something to do with Adobe suddenly annoucing that they're working on Flash->HTML5 conversion. It looks like something good might come out of that decision after all.
I doubt that, the video is from october 2009
Please guys, don't go to EA, that is like going from a semi-evil organization to the ultimate evil organization. Go work for Valve or Bungie or one of the other decent studios out there.
actually EA isn't that evil anymore, in the last couple of years they have released some very good games(dragon age, mass effect, battlefield bad company 2, need for speed shift etc..), even innovative like mirror's edge, it's clear that they are going towards quality rather than quantity
Activision on the other hand just opened another studio dedicated to make yet another call of duty game
Did you even watch the video?
Did you? I saw nothing that made the group that was attacked look like anything but civilians. Tell me at what point in the video you saw an RPG, and I'll see if I can spot it.
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