Im sorry but BFBC2 had a decent story and really decent dialog/banter. It was a funny, not so serious game in the single player. It was refreshing versus always playing Uber Elite Tier One Operator Bullet Mcbiggun #7.
There are NO full board AAA titles on PS3 that run at 1080p native. Wipeout HD gets away with it because its a simple game. Nothing with Lair's (Lair = 800x1080 (2xAA) - AA buffers are merged to produce 1600x1080 for further scaling) complexity will run at 1080p on PS3
The problem is this is a bit of a socialist problem because the spectrum used for them to conduct their business is licensed from THE PEOPLE with specific and clear provisions that they NOT do block stuff. SO it may smack of Marxism to you because at its core, its a socialist issue.
Mods are for the most part dead. Why provide tools for amateur mods when they can make professional ones, call them 'map packs' and charge $15 for a pack of 4 maps.
Recently they have had to scale back some of the severity of this behavior. They changed daily $currency gain from dungeons to a weekly set. SO instead of having to log in every day you can do 7 runs at any time during the week.
Seems they are getting more desparate then first realized.
So what your example tells me is that game publishers CLEARLY saw that after a game was released, more consumer activity ensued via amateur mods and that their fans were hungry for more. What they have done is monetize that with professionally made product instead of amateur hour.I dont see this as amoral more so as filling a need. I may not like it, but its not immoral.
Ever hear the saying that the fun is in the journey not the destination? Did you have FUN playing Falcon 4.0? Did you enjoy it? I would like to add your arguments are arbitrary. If you were a pilot, playing a classic video game sim might translate to real skills and real social benefits (old fans of the game, flight sim fans in general). I know for a fact that playing the new DCS flight sims can teach you the real world skills of operating a KA-50 Black Shark or A-10C Warthog. These games are made by the people who make the actual military grade simulators.
Is the XT a SSD, no. Can it increase performance over pure HDDs? YES.
ITs a hybrid device and so it acts that way. Of course SSDs are faster, they are also ALOT more expensive or a 2 drive solution. The biggest strengths of the XT are very fast 'time to usuable desktop' that wont fade over time, large storage, realtively cheap price point ($99/500 GB), and single drive solution. If you go in understanding this, you will be alot happier. Its a good product that fills a niche at a decent price. Im very happy with mine in my desktop gaming rig.
Mine was acting up in TF2 with slight delays (all the voice loading during gameplay), but not BFBC2 on firmware SD23. I flashed to firmware SD25 and it works like a champ.
OCZ is definitely shady. They come out with bleeding edge stuff, but they skimp on QA and they do bait and switch. I would like to point out that the newest sandy bridge boards can do this behavior with discrete parts now too (SSD cache + mechanical)
O noes the toxin has a scary vector so its different.... Death is death, it doesnt matter if its black lung from coal dust or a giant tumor from radiation. I dont want to blow your mind or anything but you are being bombarded by radiation RIGHT NOW!!!!! Better get your lead/tinfoil hybrid hat on just to be safe.
Thats all well and good, but misses the point i was making that devices and features that dont have ongoing software revenue streams are being stifled. I was pointing it out as a reality of our time, not calling for their heads.
A ton of tech progress is being stifled by the desire to capitalize on digital distribution. Almost EVERY piece of tech is now sold with a built in store. My wife has a Bodybugg. Its a device that measures your daily activity etc. TO be able to USE the device at all, you have to subscribe to their webservice. There is no way to upload the contents to your local machine or use it at all without paying a subscription. They have inserted themselves between the device and the user for no REAL reason other then monetization.
"From Bodybugg support
Posted By: bodybugg Support Team
Posted Date: 6-3-08 1:01PM
We are sorry if you were misled in any way, but bodybugg does require that you maintain an active subscription to the web application. This is comparable to a cell phone company wherein you pay for the phone as well as the calling plan."
Its amazing that they compare operating and maintaining a cellular network to collecting and visualizing personal data on a website. Really?
I mention all this becasue the REASON TV tech is 'meh' is because everyone is jockeying to lock up the digital frontier and ignoring actual technological progress. I would LOVE to have a simple 1 hour TV buffer. No record, no storage, just a 1 hour TV buffer to pause, FF, rewind. It cannot be that hard to make a simple inline buffer like that. But the likelyhood of seeing it in the next decade is slim partly because of patents and partly because there is no ongoing revenue stream from it.
Imagine I published details on how to access Ford's proprietary engine mapping codes via the in-dashboard Sync system. Would it be the correct decision to disable ALL Ford Sync systems on the chance that information might leak? NO it wouldnt.
Removal of Other OS is THEFT, plain and simple. Sony had no right to take that action regardless if the platform comes crashing down. Thats not my concern. My concern is the rights guaranteed by the constitution, which Sony attempted to subvert. That is wrong and it amazes me that you defend a FOREIGN corporation taking pot shots at the First.
And the Proletariat has always tried to portray themselves as victims. At least in a Republic you can pick yourself up by your bootstraps, regardless of what station you were born in. You have the capability to start a corporation and amass power too, NOTHING is stopping you. If you want to fight symmetrically, become a strong opposing force, instead of a whiner peasant.
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Im sorry but BFBC2 had a decent story and really decent dialog/banter. It was a funny, not so serious game in the single player. It was refreshing versus always playing Uber Elite Tier One Operator Bullet Mcbiggun #7.
There are NO full board AAA titles on PS3 that run at 1080p native. Wipeout HD gets away with it because its a simple game. Nothing with Lair's (Lair = 800x1080 (2xAA) - AA buffers are merged to produce 1600x1080 for further scaling) complexity will run at 1080p on PS3
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The problem is this is a bit of a socialist problem because the spectrum used for them to conduct their business is licensed from THE PEOPLE with specific and clear provisions that they NOT do block stuff. SO it may smack of Marxism to you because at its core, its a socialist issue.
You dont. This is going to be an IPTV implementation like Uverse etc.
Mods are for the most part dead. Why provide tools for amateur mods when they can make professional ones, call them 'map packs' and charge $15 for a pack of 4 maps.
Lawrence Kasdan wrote the screenplay. He also penned Raiders of the Lost Ark, Wyatt Earp, Silverado, The Big Chill, etc.
Recently they have had to scale back some of the severity of this behavior. They changed daily $currency gain from dungeons to a weekly set. SO instead of having to log in every day you can do 7 runs at any time during the week. Seems they are getting more desparate then first realized.
So what your example tells me is that game publishers CLEARLY saw that after a game was released, more consumer activity ensued via amateur mods and that their fans were hungry for more. What they have done is monetize that with professionally made product instead of amateur hour.I dont see this as amoral more so as filling a need. I may not like it, but its not immoral.
Ever hear the saying that the fun is in the journey not the destination? Did you have FUN playing Falcon 4.0? Did you enjoy it? I would like to add your arguments are arbitrary. If you were a pilot, playing a classic video game sim might translate to real skills and real social benefits (old fans of the game, flight sim fans in general). I know for a fact that playing the new DCS flight sims can teach you the real world skills of operating a KA-50 Black Shark or A-10C Warthog. These games are made by the people who make the actual military grade simulators.
Google Talk includes VOIP functionality, Google Voice is a different product.
How exactly is Skype P2P? its a centrally managed system. If skype goes down, i cant call anyone, thats not P2P.
Is the XT a SSD, no. Can it increase performance over pure HDDs? YES. ITs a hybrid device and so it acts that way. Of course SSDs are faster, they are also ALOT more expensive or a 2 drive solution. The biggest strengths of the XT are very fast 'time to usuable desktop' that wont fade over time, large storage, realtively cheap price point ($99/500 GB), and single drive solution. If you go in understanding this, you will be alot happier. Its a good product that fills a niche at a decent price. Im very happy with mine in my desktop gaming rig.
Mine was acting up in TF2 with slight delays (all the voice loading during gameplay), but not BFBC2 on firmware SD23. I flashed to firmware SD25 and it works like a champ.
OCZ is definitely shady. They come out with bleeding edge stuff, but they skimp on QA and they do bait and switch. I would like to point out that the newest sandy bridge boards can do this behavior with discrete parts now too (SSD cache + mechanical)
ATI's Catalyst suite is still dull and unintuitive compared to Nvidia's Forceware. (recently upgraded from ATI 4850 to Nvidia 570).
Lost my 5 year core group 3 months into Cata at 9/12. Quite simply no one CARED anymore.
O noes the toxin has a scary vector so its different.... Death is death, it doesnt matter if its black lung from coal dust or a giant tumor from radiation. I dont want to blow your mind or anything but you are being bombarded by radiation RIGHT NOW!!!!! Better get your lead/tinfoil hybrid hat on just to be safe.
A user with root explicitly installing a program IS NOT A HOLE.
Thats all well and good, but misses the point i was making that devices and features that dont have ongoing software revenue streams are being stifled. I was pointing it out as a reality of our time, not calling for their heads.
A ton of tech progress is being stifled by the desire to capitalize on digital distribution. Almost EVERY piece of tech is now sold with a built in store. My wife has a Bodybugg. Its a device that measures your daily activity etc. TO be able to USE the device at all, you have to subscribe to their webservice. There is no way to upload the contents to your local machine or use it at all without paying a subscription. They have inserted themselves between the device and the user for no REAL reason other then monetization.
"From Bodybugg support
Posted By: bodybugg Support Team
Posted Date: 6-3-08 1:01PM
We are sorry if you were misled in any way, but bodybugg does require that you maintain an active subscription to the web application. This is comparable to a cell phone company wherein you pay for the phone as well as the calling plan."
Its amazing that they compare operating and maintaining a cellular network to collecting and visualizing personal data on a website. Really?
I mention all this becasue the REASON TV tech is 'meh' is because everyone is jockeying to lock up the digital frontier and ignoring actual technological progress. I would LOVE to have a simple 1 hour TV buffer. No record, no storage, just a 1 hour TV buffer to pause, FF, rewind. It cannot be that hard to make a simple inline buffer like that. But the likelyhood of seeing it in the next decade is slim partly because of patents and partly because there is no ongoing revenue stream from it.
Imagine I published details on how to access Ford's proprietary engine mapping codes via the in-dashboard Sync system. Would it be the correct decision to disable ALL Ford Sync systems on the chance that information might leak? NO it wouldnt.
Removal of Other OS is THEFT, plain and simple. Sony had no right to take that action regardless if the platform comes crashing down. Thats not my concern. My concern is the rights guaranteed by the constitution, which Sony attempted to subvert. That is wrong and it amazes me that you defend a FOREIGN corporation taking pot shots at the First.
Terrorism is the sowing of fear. You dont have to kill anyone for that.
And the Proletariat has always tried to portray themselves as victims. At least in a Republic you can pick yourself up by your bootstraps, regardless of what station you were born in. You have the capability to start a corporation and amass power too, NOTHING is stopping you. If you want to fight symmetrically, become a strong opposing force, instead of a whiner peasant.
High likelyhood of being a Goatse link. Proceed with caution