(from Alienware) with 4 gigs of RAM and a nVidia Quadro 3450.
Now, granted, the Quadro is a top of the line CAD card, and not a gaming card but still you'l think that my setup would be able to handle Oblivion without hurling.
I can't think of a successful industry, anywhere that doesn't invest a significant (if not major) portion of time to new customer acquisition. The word "Newbies" all by itself, reflects a culture hostile to new blood.
Its amazing when you compare Linux culture to Mac culture which almost resembles a cult in its "love-bombing" approach to new members.
What I find amazing about this is that these drives weren't smuggled for intelligence purposes. If they had been, they'd be in some room full of other gathered/stolen data files somewhere in Fallujah....But these drives are for sale in stores. This speaks volumes about the motivation of the thieves....and its more evidence that what we're really fighting is a symptom of poverty.
Mac users typically know very little about windows or linux, and yet they still claim they use the "best" operating system?
The Mac equation is a minimal set of software options and guaranteed interoperability. Its idiot proof. That's what people like about it.
Its also IMHO what sucks about it.
I have a mac, I have a pc and I have an okay linux box.
The mac is for sure the sexiest, but its option poor. Mac users feel free to flame away, but if you can't back it up with a logical comparison, then you've only furthered my point.
...When Firefox is infinitely and openly extensible?
A quick visit to the Firefox extensions archive, and anyone can see IE is primitive by comparison. I've got at least 15 extensions running in Firefox, which add functionality to Gmail, Amazon, Ebay and yes, Hotmail.
I've also got FireFTP, for in-browser FTP'ing, G-Space for file storage on Gmail, weather reporting, in-page/on the fly foreign-currency to dollar conversion, a sophisticated download manager, right-click access to Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, and TinyURL and a host of other features that aren't available for IE.
Its not like we're comparing similar feature sets and picking either/or. We're comparing the infinite extensibility of an open-environment with a limited, closed, non-standard and security flawed product line.
The only reason its not "Game Over", is that Firefox doesn't advertise or bundle.
But if anyone needs proof that the better service rises to the top despite bundling and advertising, look no further than Google.
No publisher with any sort of standards would allow the game setting to be destroyed this way. I think we'll see the games with low subscribership succumb to this trend, and lose even more players as a result. Its one thing for Anarchy Online, City of Heroes or a game with a futuristic setting to use in-game ads (since ads exist within those worlds thematically), but a Volvo ad in a dungeon?
Ambience, mood, storyline, graphical quality and believability are hugely important in a MMORPG. All I can say is, if my Lvl 20 Monk/Ranger comes across a "Lower Your Mortgage" ad in the depths of Hell, I'm never playing Guild Wars again....Not to mention the inherent problems with advertising Pepsi on some bloodstained field of carnage.
I think it has to be said that something big has happened here.
Its not that old-school games are back. Its that online gaming changes the paradigm of "bragging rights" -- and that changes the motivation for playing old school games.
Asteroids was never networked. High scores were something that kids whispered to each other -- but never saw. With 360's LIVE arcade, we're looking at whole new reasons to play: to rank, to rank nationally, and to have your score visible to thousands of other players. Its what bragging rights *should* be about.
This isn't to say that the success of GW is purely linked to a national hi-score list -- the game is also great looking. Its an old-school concept with a lot of things old-school games couldn't do visually, and that in itself keeps it fresh.
But I wouldn't be surprised at all if we see a whole new cult of players trying to top high-scores of a new generation of "twitch games" in a huge global competition for bragging rights.
Flash benefits from its ability on a technical level to be user friendly and appeal to the creative community. (You can scoff, but its something MSFT has never once accomplished no matter how much money they throw at something.)
Flash is also small and fast. (Something else Microsoft has never accomplished no matter how much money they throw at something).
I'll go so far as to say that given Microsoft's corporate culture and programming techniques, this project is beyond their capacity.
I haven't seen it, but there are plenty of ways to make a mouse + 2 button interface handle lots of commands. Neverwinter Nights had a good interface (although unfortunately it was the 'only' option, so those who hated it were stuck with it) which worked on a 'spoke' menu system with alternate options radiating outwards from a central point. This setup allowed you to quickly access any menu option with equal speed.
This marks the point where Google turns evil
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We all knew they'd turn eventually, but this is the first solid evidence.
Google doesn't need a browser (or a platform) at all... unless of course they want to kill Microsoft. And that's not a war that'll be good for the consumer.
But Gun looks like a PS2 game -- at best! There are moments when its vaguely reminiscent of the N64. What on earth is with the low-poly stuff???
I bought three titles when I got my 360: Gun, Condemned and Perfect Dark. All in all I have to say that Condemned is far and away the winner -- a very, very nice job by Monolith. Perfect Dark I give a low B, and Gun I give an F -- not for gameplay, but for the absolutely miserable job they did visually.
Believe me I've taken years of philosophy classes and art history classes and if you can come up with a definition of art that *is exclusionary* in any way, you'll be wrong.
Art has expanded to encompass all things. (urinals, shit, toasters, underwear, garbage, noises, etc.)
All that is necessary to make something art, is quite literally "for its maker to proclaim it as art".
So, Roger (since I know far more about art than you): "I declare the videogame I am currently coding to be art".
There. Try you philosophical best to take its status as "art" away, punk.
KOTR was a step off the edge of a very large precipice, from which there may be no return.
Let's hope BioWare gets back to their roots and starts work on BGIII. They have some amazing properties, but lately they've succumbed to the console crowd.
Diebold's statement that they "can't possibly provide code, or list Windows programmers" is not really the issue here.
Yes, the software runs on the Windows platform, but that's not the code that the State is *really* looking for here. Clearly what the State *really* wants to know is: HOW THE FRIGGIN CODE THAT TALLIES THE VOTES WORKS!
And furthermore, how the systems are CONFIGURED, firewalled, backed-up, secured, etc. How events are logged, and how permissions and admin priveleges are controlled.
Diebold should be held in contempt of court for deliberately trying to obfuscate the discovery process. At no point since the election has Diebold been remotely forthcoming (s should be its obligation to the American people) with information about the function, security and reliability of its systems.
The State of North Carolina should not only eject and fine Diebold -- but they should seize Diebold machines and undertake a LEGAL REVERSE ENGINEERING PROJECT to determine the exact function of all Diebold's systems.
Then we can watch Diebold slowly sh*t their pants.
As I see it, if the gaming industry became filled with moneymen and fewer creative geniuses...... that would only be part of a larger, well-established pattern of media businesses.
Film, TV, Music... its all the same.
There are only about 1, maybe 2 good films in a year also... but we don't use the scarcity of quality to predict the downfall of cinema.
The gaming industry is doing fine. On a revenue basis, it grows every year. End of story.
Please, this "technology" could be replicated by anyone with a cursory knowledge of audio files and WinAmp.
And how is this different from when I turn up the music to make a phone call? Because this is pre-recorded speech? Congratulations Herman, you've replaced "hip" with "weird".
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(from Alienware) with 4 gigs of RAM and a nVidia Quadro 3450.
Now, granted, the Quadro is a top of the line CAD card, and not a gaming card
but still you'l think that my setup would be able to handle Oblivion without
hurling.
Fully patched, ready-for-release, version of Oblivion heading to PS3!
George Lucas: How'd you make that sound Andy?
Andy Moorer: We electrocuted a sperm whale.
George Lucas: God damn that sounds great.
Andy Moorer: [Giggles} I *know*
George Lucas: Thing is... we need a story that's not going to bring those Greenpeace punks down on top of us.
Andy Moorer: I coded the sound with 20,000 lines of C?
George Lucas: Nice. Let's go with that.
I couldn't agree more.
I can't think of a successful industry, anywhere that doesn't invest a significant (if not major) portion of time to new customer acquisition. The word "Newbies" all by itself, reflects a culture hostile to new blood.
Its amazing when you compare Linux culture to Mac culture which almost resembles a cult in its "love-bombing" approach to new members.
What I find amazing about this is that these drives weren't smuggled for intelligence purposes. If they had been, they'd be in some room full of other gathered/stolen data files somewhere in Fallujah. ...But these drives are for sale in stores. This speaks volumes about the motivation of the thieves. ...and its more evidence that what we're really fighting is a symptom of poverty.
"The Mac equation is a minimal set of software options and guaranteed interoperability. Its idiot proof. That's what people like about it."
How in the f*ck is this "Offtopic" you nimrod?
Mac users typically know very little about windows or linux, and yet they still claim they use the "best" operating system?
The Mac equation is a minimal set of software options and guaranteed interoperability. Its idiot proof. That's what people like about it.
Its also IMHO what sucks about it.
I have a mac, I have a pc and I have an okay linux box.
The mac is for sure the sexiest, but its option poor. Mac users feel free to flame away, but if you can't back it up with a logical comparison, then you've only furthered my point.
A quick visit to the Firefox extensions archive, and anyone can see
IE is primitive by comparison. I've got at least 15 extensions running
in Firefox, which add functionality to Gmail, Amazon, Ebay and yes, Hotmail.
I've also got FireFTP, for in-browser FTP'ing, G-Space for file storage
on Gmail, weather reporting, in-page/on the fly foreign-currency to dollar conversion,
a sophisticated download manager, right-click access to Wikipedia, Dictionary.com,
and TinyURL and a host of other features that aren't available for IE.
Its not like we're comparing similar feature sets and picking either/or. We're
comparing the infinite extensibility of an open-environment with a limited,
closed, non-standard and security flawed product line.
The only reason its not "Game Over", is that Firefox doesn't advertise or bundle.
But if anyone needs proof that the better service rises to the top despite bundling
and advertising, look no further than Google.
No publisher with any sort of standards would allow the game setting to be destroyed this way. I think we'll see the games with low subscribership succumb to this trend, and lose even more players as a result. Its one thing for Anarchy Online, City of Heroes or a game with a futuristic setting to use in-game ads (since ads exist within those worlds thematically), but a Volvo ad in a dungeon?
Ambience, mood, storyline, graphical quality and believability are hugely important in a MMORPG. All I can say is, if my Lvl 20 Monk/Ranger comes across a "Lower Your Mortgage"
ad in the depths of Hell, I'm never playing Guild Wars again.
Now let's compare it with the Top 100 Jewish, Christian, Buddhist and Hindu inventions.
No matter how you slice it, from a comparitive standpoint the Islamic world hasn't contributed jack sh*t in the last 500 years.
I think it has to be said that something big has happened here.
Its not that old-school games are back. Its that online gaming changes the
paradigm of "bragging rights" -- and that changes the motivation for playing
old school games.
Asteroids was never networked. High scores were something that kids whispered
to each other -- but never saw. With 360's LIVE arcade, we're looking at whole
new reasons to play: to rank, to rank nationally, and to have your score visible
to thousands of other players. Its what bragging rights *should* be about.
This isn't to say that the success of GW is purely linked to a national hi-score
list -- the game is also great looking. Its an old-school concept with a lot
of things old-school games couldn't do visually, and that in itself keeps it fresh.
But I wouldn't be surprised at all if we see a whole new cult of players trying
to top high-scores of a new generation of "twitch games" in a huge global
competition for bragging rights.
Microsoft -- and -- Graphics Applications
Flash benefits from its ability on a technical level to be user friendly
and appeal to the creative community. (You can scoff, but its something
MSFT has never once accomplished no matter how much money they throw at
something.)
Flash is also small and fast. (Something else Microsoft has never accomplished
no matter how much money they throw at something).
I'll go so far as to say that given Microsoft's corporate culture and
programming techniques, this project is beyond their capacity.
I haven't seen it, but there are plenty of ways to make a mouse + 2 button interface handle lots of commands. Neverwinter Nights had a good interface (although unfortunately it was the 'only' option, so those who hated it were stuck with it) which worked on a 'spoke' menu system with alternate options radiating outwards from a central point. This setup allowed you to quickly access any menu option with equal speed.
Everybody meet proprietary, closed-source, platform oriented Google.
We all knew they'd turn eventually, but this is the first solid evidence.
Google doesn't need a browser (or a platform) at all... unless of course
they want to kill Microsoft. And that's not a war that'll be good for
the consumer.
But Gun looks like a PS2 game -- at best! There are moments when its vaguely reminiscent of the N64. What on earth is with the low-poly stuff???
I bought three titles when I got my 360: Gun, Condemned and Perfect Dark. All in all I have to say that Condemned is far and away the winner -- a very, very nice job by Monolith. Perfect Dark I give a low B, and Gun I give an F -- not for gameplay, but for the absolutely miserable job they did visually.
You can't.
Believe me I've taken years of philosophy classes and art history classes and if you can come up with
a definition of art that *is exclusionary* in any way, you'll be wrong.
Art has expanded to encompass all things. (urinals, shit, toasters, underwear, garbage, noises, etc.)
All that is necessary to make something art, is quite literally "for its maker to proclaim it as art".
So, Roger (since I know far more about art than you): "I declare the videogame I am currently coding to be art".
There. Try you philosophical best to take its status as "art" away, punk.
I'm a big fan of BG.
NWN was a step down.
KOTR was a step off the edge of a very large precipice, from which there may be no return.
Let's hope BioWare gets back to their roots and starts work on BGIII. They have some amazing properties, but lately they've succumbed to the console crowd.
Oh, and you'll also get this t-shirt... signed by the guy who used to have your job!
... Me..."
He, uh, left for some reason.
Hey, wait a minute. He wrote something on the back. It says:
"Kill
Remember, don't give CD's!
http://www.whatacrappypresent.com/
Save your wallet.
We're talking about "slowing" the non-paying traffic. That's completely different, and most likely illegal. The FCC is going to eat their lunch.
It is we users that reach websites. We make HTTP requests, the
websites respond.
And we *already* pay for that traffic, it is covered in access fees.
But none of this matters, really. Bell doesn't have a monopoly
on backbone. Its the Internet afterall, they can be circumvented.
Furthermore, Google will have the last laugh. They can say, "How
about this: We won't serve any of your customers. Period."
Then we can watch Bell lose unprecedented amounts of business...
Diebold's statement that they "can't possibly provide code, or list Windows programmers" is not really the issue here.
Yes, the software runs on the Windows platform, but that's not the code that the State
is *really* looking for here. Clearly what the State *really* wants to know is: HOW THE
FRIGGIN CODE THAT TALLIES THE VOTES WORKS!
And furthermore, how the systems are CONFIGURED, firewalled, backed-up, secured, etc. How
events are logged, and how permissions and admin priveleges are controlled.
Diebold should be held in contempt of court for deliberately trying to obfuscate the
discovery process. At no point since the election has Diebold been remotely forthcoming (s should be its obligation to the American people) with information about the function, security and reliability of its systems.
The State of North Carolina should not only eject and fine Diebold -- but they should seize Diebold machines and undertake a LEGAL REVERSE ENGINEERING PROJECT to determine the exact function of all Diebold's systems.
Then we can watch Diebold slowly sh*t their pants.
As I see it, if the gaming industry became filled with moneymen and fewer creative geniuses...
Film, TV, Music... its all the same.
There are only about 1, maybe 2 good films in a year also... but we don't use the
scarcity of quality to predict the downfall of cinema.
The gaming industry is doing fine. On a revenue basis, it grows every year. End of story.
Please, this "technology" could be replicated by anyone with a cursory knowledge of
audio files and WinAmp.
And how is this different from when I turn up the music to make a phone call?
Because this is pre-recorded speech? Congratulations Herman, you've replaced "hip"
with "weird".