The REAL reason game movies stink is because they are imitations of an imitation. Games already borrow so much from movies -- Raiders of the Lost Ark : Tomb Raider, Aliens : Doom, Starcraft, countless others, Night of the Living Dead : Resident Evil, etc, etc. So by the time you make a movie from a videogame, you're making a watered-down copy of a watered-down copy that is originally already based on a classic, well-loved movie. Of *course* it is going to suck!
Who really cares about getting EU addresses anyway? I guess asking that makes me sound like an isolated bumpkin American, but honestly the same goes for.us and pretty much any other TLD that isn't.com. Do companies really stand to make megamillions selling non-.com addresses? I just don't see it.
Did you even read what you cut & pasted? Because it clearly only applies when you're going less than "the normal speed of traffic". One asshole tailgating you and beeping in the left lane trying to go 130 when you're going 80 does not constitute a change in the "normal speed of traffic".
I fully understand why some people prefer the single menu bar as it both wastes less space and ties into "Fitt's Law"... However, I honestly prefer each application instance having its own menu for totally subjective "just feels better to me" reasons.
What bothers me about the single menu issue the most is that it is something that Apple could easily make a display preferences type option and just keep the default like it is now.
Sometimes simplicity for its own sake is awesome (love my iPod) but sometimes it seems like the engineers/managers at Apple are just being smug dicks, since such an option would have no negative impact on those who didn't want to use it.
The absolute worst part of April 1st isn't the deluge of stupid "pranks" listed on sites like Slashdot, but rather the few gems of stories that you WISH were true and could/should be true, but aren't.
As a former but recovered WoW addict, I can say that you'd get my $60 and monthly dues again for at least another year and a half if you made this happen, Blizzard. I'd love to play a GOOD sci-fi MMORPG.
Of course, at the end of the day its all about the games and how fun they are, but even if you DO focus on the graphics, consider:
The original Xbox is, on paper, much more powerful than the GameCube and yet for my money (and I own many games on both of these systems), nothing on the original Xbox looks nearly as good as Resident Evil 4 on the GameCube.
I'm a lot more excited about the Revolution than either of the other next-gen systems (though I'll probably buy an Xbox360 when more good games come out for it)... in the meantime I'll keep trying to boost my online ranking in Tetris DS.
But building more special effects in the OS level will rob the extra power and memory from the applications and games which rightfully require them.
I generally play games that require a lot of processing power in fullscreen mode, so the OS using fancy features for display will have very little impact (all of the OS's textures will be swapped off the GPU unless I alt-tab or otherwise task switch away from the fullscreen game). And the vast majority of applications I use just aren't going to have any significant negative impact from a bit of eyecandy. Computers are ridiculously fast these days... Word processors and web browsers have more than enough power to spare some for eye candy. There aren't too many applications for which this kind of eyecandy actually hurts performance on modern systems. Even things like, say, movie encoding or other heavy number-crunching apps aren't impacted significantly because almost all of the work in displaying the eye candy is done on the video GPU which would otherwise be unused anyway.
There are other valid reasons too which prompt me to take the viewpoint that less eye candy is better for the OS. Experience tells me that it is futile to do productive work within a desktop with all the special effects enabled. The last time, I tried it, I was severely distracted and fell short of completing my work. Is it just me or are there others who have been through the same experience ? To do productive work, it always helps to have a fully functional but spartan desktop.
I disagree here too. "Eyecandy" if used well (see MacOS X for some examples) can give subtle cues that actually make me more productive. This part is clearly subjective so YMMV.
But the Windows users do not have this luxury. For example, a person using Windows 2000 will be forced to buy a copy of Vista if he needs the added security and extra features like better search. And to install Vista on his computer, he will most certainly have to embark on a spending spree to upgrade his PC to accomodate the extra special effects that are integrated into the OS
The guy who wrote this should have done some research. You can run Vista without the Aero Glass UI being active, just as Windows XP can be dumbed down to look, feel, act and perform like Windows 2000 (except with much faster booting times).
If you don't want the eyecandy, shut it off. You CAN do this in Windows XP and Vista, despite what the misinformed article states.
This move isn't surprising because of the fact that ASP.NET has become fairly well adopted among a sizable group of web developers. Merits of Linux vs Windows on the server aside (each has pros and cons), it is clearly easier to standardize on a single platform than to support both, and if you're going to support ASP.NET, Windows is required. On the other hand, all the web technologies that are often deployed on Linux like Apache and PHP and mod_perl and whatever else are also available for Windows, giving Windows the superset of oft-used web development technologies and thus the win.
Note: I am, of course, aware of Mono, and it is great, but doesn't implement all the.NET APIs (particularly.NET 2.0), and therefore isn't really a solution for people who need ASP.NET support that Just Works.
Like George Lucas has ever given a damn about continuity. Didn't Yoda mention that he taught Obi-Wan? How does Vader not recognize R2-D2 and C3P0?
There are tons of other droids that look a lot like R2D2 and various ones were shown in the films that look EXACTLY like C3PO, simply with different paint jobs. Why would anyone recognize them as specific droids when they live in a galaxy full of such droids that look pretty much the same?
Also... Yoda did train Obi-Wan, he trained all the Padawans.
There is plenty to dislike about the prequels, but the examples you use make me wonder if you even watched the movies.
I love shopping online for many items, mostly 'data' type stuff (software, books, CDs, DVDs, etc), but I'm surprised there are people who actually make serious real estate purchases online-only. I won't even buy a pair of jeans online... Some things you just need to see/try in person!
That isn't true -- there are lost opportunity costs too, though in practice they certainly won't come out to anywhere near the $90mln number. They do exist, though.
Don't you wish Slashdot would allow you to delete posts? Since it doesn't, proof that you can't read plainly written English will be archived here virtually forever.
Who cares if Firefox or any app is a bit of a memory hog???
As long as it is just using the memory as cache space and not accessing the memory randomly, it'll be paged out into virtual memory as needed.
I suspect a lot of the people who are bitching about this are the type that stare at 'top' output or the Task Manager all day looking for programs that are using a lot of memory so they will have something to bitch about when in practice having the program use that much memory just doesn't have much impact on system usability, assuming you're using an OS with decent vmem support.
On another note, I still buy VHS every chance I get. At least when a HVS tape gets a little worn out it just keeps on going with some blips and squiggly lines instead of just.......stopping and displaying a "Can't Read" error.
Yeah but the VHS tape is guaranteed to wear out eventually just from use whereas the DVD will last virtually forever if well maintained.
Every big-name commercial security product I've ever installed on Windows had made my system SOO drastically slower, less stable and more prone to ridiculous UI interactions (security popups instead of advertisement popups, as an example... just as annoying!) that I honestly believe these "solutions" are worse than the software they are trying to block.
Needless to say I haven't had any installed for years now, and I also haven't been hit by any viruses or spyware.
This is about the same as some independent mod team looking to make a game mod out of someone else's IP (actually, much more pie-in-the-sky thanks to the costs associated with producing the actual episodes, if they did get permission, which they won't).
It wouldn't fly no matter which big broadcaster owned the Firefly rights, and the fact that it is Fox should make this extremely obvious to anyone with half a brain.
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The REAL reason game movies stink is because they are imitations of an imitation. Games already borrow so much from movies -- Raiders of the Lost Ark : Tomb Raider, Aliens : Doom, Starcraft, countless others, Night of the Living Dead : Resident Evil, etc, etc. So by the time you make a movie from a videogame, you're making a watered-down copy of a watered-down copy that is originally already based on a classic, well-loved movie. Of *course* it is going to suck!
Isn't that kind of like:
STOP = Stop Teachers Against Pollution?
You're posting on Slashdot and that's the best example you can think of??.... Richard Stallman (truly an American icon) must be spinning in his grave.
Who really cares about getting EU addresses anyway? I guess asking that makes me sound like an isolated bumpkin American, but honestly the same goes for .us and pretty much any other TLD that isn't .com. Do companies really stand to make megamillions selling non-.com addresses? I just don't see it.
Did you even read what you cut & pasted? Because it clearly only applies when you're going less than "the normal speed of traffic". One asshole tailgating you and beeping in the left lane trying to go 130 when you're going 80 does not constitute a change in the "normal speed of traffic".
Wow! How lazy are we that we need a robot to "fetch a bear, or help carry the groceries"!!! come on ppl, get off your butt and DO something!
When my Slashdot posting bot arrives, expect a long and well reasoned rebuttal to your post.
Now I don't need my wife anymore.
You should probably sell her now, before this things come out and ebay gets glutted with used wives, driving the selling price way down.
I fully understand why some people prefer the single menu bar as it both wastes less space and ties into "Fitt's Law"... However, I honestly prefer each application instance having its own menu for totally subjective "just feels better to me" reasons.
What bothers me about the single menu issue the most is that it is something that Apple could easily make a display preferences type option and just keep the default like it is now.
Sometimes simplicity for its own sake is awesome (love my iPod) but sometimes it seems like the engineers/managers at Apple are just being smug dicks, since such an option would have no negative impact on those who didn't want to use it.
The absolute worst part of April 1st isn't the deluge of stupid "pranks" listed on sites like Slashdot, but rather the few gems of stories that you WISH were true and could/should be true, but aren't.
As a former but recovered WoW addict, I can say that you'd get my $60 and monthly dues again for at least another year and a half if you made this happen, Blizzard. I'd love to play a GOOD sci-fi MMORPG.
The original Xbox is, on paper, much more powerful than the GameCube and yet for my money (and I own many games on both of these systems), nothing on the original Xbox looks nearly as good as Resident Evil 4 on the GameCube.
I'm a lot more excited about the Revolution than either of the other next-gen systems (though I'll probably buy an Xbox360 when more good games come out for it)... in the meantime I'll keep trying to boost my online ranking in Tetris DS.
FR to FP!
First reply!
We know what happens when the Germans and the Japanese collaborate
The Italians are already trying to find ways to use this technology to make the trains run on time.
Italics are quotes from the article:
But building more special effects in the OS level will rob the extra power and memory from the applications and games which rightfully require them.
I generally play games that require a lot of processing power in fullscreen mode, so the OS using fancy features for display will have very little impact (all of the OS's textures will be swapped off the GPU unless I alt-tab or otherwise task switch away from the fullscreen game). And the vast majority of applications I use just aren't going to have any significant negative impact from a bit of eyecandy. Computers are ridiculously fast these days... Word processors and web browsers have more than enough power to spare some for eye candy. There aren't too many applications for which this kind of eyecandy actually hurts performance on modern systems. Even things like, say, movie encoding or other heavy number-crunching apps aren't impacted significantly because almost all of the work in displaying the eye candy is done on the video GPU which would otherwise be unused anyway.
There are other valid reasons too which prompt me to take the viewpoint that less eye candy is better for the OS. Experience tells me that it is futile to do productive work within a desktop with all the special effects enabled. The last time, I tried it, I was severely distracted and fell short of completing my work. Is it just me or are there others who have been through the same experience ? To do productive work, it always helps to have a fully functional but spartan desktop.
I disagree here too. "Eyecandy" if used well (see MacOS X for some examples) can give subtle cues that actually make me more productive. This part is clearly subjective so YMMV.
But the Windows users do not have this luxury. For example, a person using Windows 2000 will be forced to buy a copy of Vista if he needs the added security and extra features like better search. And to install Vista on his computer, he will most certainly have to embark on a spending spree to upgrade his PC to accomodate the extra special effects that are integrated into the OS
The guy who wrote this should have done some research. You can run Vista without the Aero Glass UI being active, just as Windows XP can be dumbed down to look, feel, act and perform like Windows 2000 (except with much faster booting times).
If you don't want the eyecandy, shut it off. You CAN do this in Windows XP and Vista, despite what the misinformed article states.
Maybe he was speaking in ebonics and knows the original poster's name is Amy.
This move isn't surprising because of the fact that ASP.NET has become fairly well adopted among a sizable group of web developers. Merits of Linux vs Windows on the server aside (each has pros and cons), it is clearly easier to standardize on a single platform than to support both, and if you're going to support ASP.NET, Windows is required. On the other hand, all the web technologies that are often deployed on Linux like Apache and PHP and mod_perl and whatever else are also available for Windows, giving Windows the superset of oft-used web development technologies and thus the win.
.NET APIs (particularly .NET 2.0), and therefore isn't really a solution for people who need ASP.NET support that Just Works.
Note: I am, of course, aware of Mono, and it is great, but doesn't implement all the
Like George Lucas has ever given a damn about continuity. Didn't Yoda mention that he taught Obi-Wan? How does Vader not recognize R2-D2 and C3P0?
There are tons of other droids that look a lot like R2D2 and various ones were shown in the films that look EXACTLY like C3PO, simply with different paint jobs. Why would anyone recognize them as specific droids when they live in a galaxy full of such droids that look pretty much the same?
Also... Yoda did train Obi-Wan, he trained all the Padawans.
There is plenty to dislike about the prequels, but the examples you use make me wonder if you even watched the movies.
I love shopping online for many items, mostly 'data' type stuff (software, books, CDs, DVDs, etc), but I'm surprised there are people who actually make serious real estate purchases online-only. I won't even buy a pair of jeans online... Some things you just need to see/try in person!
All this is costing Google are the legal fees.
That isn't true -- there are lost opportunity costs too, though in practice they certainly won't come out to anywhere near the $90mln number. They do exist, though.
I also want a commitment from Dell to support the principle of Freedom
While we're making unrealistic requests of Dell, I'd like a Moon Pony. k'thx.
Not dissing Any of the BSDs, they're cool,
NetBSD is very cool, like the cold touch of something that is dying. Netcraft confirms it.
Don't you wish Slashdot would allow you to delete posts? Since it doesn't, proof that you can't read plainly written English will be archived here virtually forever.
STFU you stupid bish!
Virtual memory, look into it!
Who cares if Firefox or any app is a bit of a memory hog???
As long as it is just using the memory as cache space and not accessing the memory randomly, it'll be paged out into virtual memory as needed.
I suspect a lot of the people who are bitching about this are the type that stare at 'top' output or the Task Manager all day looking for programs that are using a lot of memory so they will have something to bitch about when in practice having the program use that much memory just doesn't have much impact on system usability, assuming you're using an OS with decent vmem support.
On another note, I still buy VHS every chance I get. At least when a HVS tape gets a little worn out it just keeps on going with some blips and squiggly lines instead of just.......stopping and displaying a "Can't Read" error.
Yeah but the VHS tape is guaranteed to wear out eventually just from use whereas the DVD will last virtually forever if well maintained.
Every big-name commercial security product I've ever installed on Windows had made my system SOO drastically slower, less stable and more prone to ridiculous UI interactions (security popups instead of advertisement popups, as an example... just as annoying!) that I honestly believe these "solutions" are worse than the software they are trying to block.
Needless to say I haven't had any installed for years now, and I also haven't been hit by any viruses or spyware.
This is about the same as some independent mod team looking to make a game mod out of someone else's IP (actually, much more pie-in-the-sky thanks to the costs associated with producing the actual episodes, if they did get permission, which they won't).
It wouldn't fly no matter which big broadcaster owned the Firefly rights, and the fact that it is Fox should make this extremely obvious to anyone with half a brain.