OpenGL is cross platform because it works on both Windows and Mac, which has a larger share of the market than Linux is likely to in the next 5 years. Also, it works on playstation, iphone, android, etc.
Agree with above pretty much. I was a linux die hard between 1996 and 2006 or so, but by then i grew up, got a decent paying job and am more than willing to pay for stuff to "just work". I screw around with computers enough at work, at home i can't be bothered any more.
Does this mean i never use linux? No, i still use it for servers. I still follow its development for the "oh, that's neat" features. But for my desktop use, I'm happy enough with OS X. its like a linux distribution that just works out of the box with minimal fucking around. I pay some nominal upgrade fee every couple of years, and by the time the box is unsupported i have junked the hardware for something better anyway.
The shell is still there if i need it, and they ship with excellent development tools.
Most non-nerds are similar. Very few people actually care about open source at all, most of the market is willing to pay money to not have to deal stuff.
I now use the appropriate tool for the job, rather than trying to fit square pegs in round holes.
... we're going to go from a codec that works, has superior compression, has hardware support in virtually every video device out there, support in every video generation tool, and has millions of hours of video encoded in it, to some random other open source format which may well be patent encumbered anyway.
what the fuck.
Yes, VP8 is supposedly more open. However, thats just because no patent trolls have attacked it yet. Google could do much better by simply releasing an H.264 plugin for firefox/opera, and leave it at that. No one's tools would have to change, no one's content would need re-encoding, and the world could just get on with it.
I suspect this has more to do with sticking their fingers up to apple than anything else.
I don't think its going to get any traction, because joe end user doesn't care about patents they just want their content to work, and to continue to work. they're not going to re-encode everything that comes off their camera, they're just going to install flash, if their browser of choice doesn't support h.264 anymore.
I abandoned firefox around 3.0 (phoenix / firebird user since 0.x) because it just grew too bloated, unstable and unresponsive. Compared to chrome, stability and responsiveness to user input was like night and day.
And Safari has the funky visual bookmarks/history browsing in 5.x (maybe earlier). I have no reason to bother with it any more.
They could. But that "entirely compatible" requirement costs a lot of time/money to get right. hell, even between different versions of (supposedly) the same hardware there are sometimes obscure compatibility issues.
Plus increased software testing for every game developed. No... i'd suggest that if sony/whoever are going to bother putting out new hardware it will be more of an improvement than some incremental step. My point is that hardware these days is good enough to go quite some time before the software catches up, and they (hardware devs) can afford to wait longer to perform more of a leap. It took until about 2005 for the PS2 to really get pushed hardware wise. The PS3 and xbox 360 are way off. PCs are never even close to being pushed properly as its cheaper/easier to just throw hardware at the problem.
In the console world, you want identical hardware if possible to minimize support... so it gets pushed harder, for longer...
Dude, the typical PS3 user experience has been improved with the lesser models. Hear me out...
The average joe doesn't CARE about linux support. He doesn't CARE about PS2 support (he just bought a PS3).
What he DOES care about is that he now has a couple of hundred bucks to spend on a few more games that WILL enhance HIS user experience.
Backwards compat is over rated. I bought a PS2 because of it, and you know how often i've run a PS1 game on the PS2 since 2001? About 3 times. You know how often i've played the PS2 since getting my PS3 slim? Once.
And i'm a bit of a nostalgic nerd. The average gamer simply doesn't care.
Actually I would argue that for the past decade, consoles have been "Good enough". There is not a lot of popular game software that you can do on a PS3 that would not be possible (admittedly in lower def) on a PS2.
The hardware upgrade cycle has slowed down simply because hardware is now good enough. The same goes for PCs too. I remember back in the mid-late 90s, 18 months to 3 years was well beyond any useful gaming machine's life.
I've got a Q6600 PC that I purchased in 2007 that is still more than capable of running any game I throw at it in a very playable manner.
Sure, I could get more FPS or higher resolution textures, etc with a quicker CPU, but the visual difference and impact on playability would be negligible.
A PC purchased in 1995 for gaming would have been nearly unusable in 1998... Ditto for 1992-1995, and previous generations.
It would not surprise me if the ps2 is still doing more volume in terms of game sales than any individual console of THIS GENERATION. The PS2 is everywhere. Only the "hard core" gamers I know bothered to step up to a 360, or ps3.
Also iirc, AMD were originally allowed to license x86 way back when (in the 80386 days) to provide a second source for x86 components. Various parties (military, i think?) did not want to be locked into a single source for x86 hardware.
The antenna works fine in most instances. We've got several iphone 4s at work, none with bumpers and i'm yet to see/experience a reception problem. Not saying the problem doesn't exist, but by fuck is it overblown.
You've overlooking the hundreds of millions of iphone/ipad like devices that are coming onto the market in the next few years. The PC market is saturated. For many people their hardware is plenty "good enough". Trying to compete/sell new machines in that space is going to be a lot more difficult than the phone/tablet market.
No they don't. They're fine for business grade laptops performing business grade activity. I've had several of them. An OPTION for a high end part would be nice, but for my ultra portable 12.1" work machine i do not miss the lack of nvidia GPU at all.
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OpenGL is cross platform because it works on both Windows and Mac, which has a larger share of the market than Linux is likely to in the next 5 years. Also, it works on playstation, iphone, android, etc.
Ah, but at least the OS X drivers are likely fairly consistent with the bugs due to the limited amount of different mac hardware out there.
I'm not sure why you say windows openGL drivers are practically non-existent, because every id game in the past decade or so has been openGL.
rather, amazon will advertise their price as something like "50% off RRP!" and make a killing.
Agree with above pretty much. I was a linux die hard between 1996 and 2006 or so, but by then i grew up, got a decent paying job and am more than willing to pay for stuff to "just work". I screw around with computers enough at work, at home i can't be bothered any more.
Does this mean i never use linux? No, i still use it for servers. I still follow its development for the "oh, that's neat" features. But for my desktop use, I'm happy enough with OS X. its like a linux distribution that just works out of the box with minimal fucking around. I pay some nominal upgrade fee every couple of years, and by the time the box is unsupported i have junked the hardware for something better anyway.
The shell is still there if i need it, and they ship with excellent development tools.
Most non-nerds are similar. Very few people actually care about open source at all, most of the market is willing to pay money to not have to deal stuff.
I now use the appropriate tool for the job, rather than trying to fit square pegs in round holes.
or you can pay 99 bucks for a developer license and compile/upload anything you like to it. assuming you have a mac of course...
what the fuck.
Yes, VP8 is supposedly more open. However, thats just because no patent trolls have attacked it yet. Google could do much better by simply releasing an H.264 plugin for firefox/opera, and leave it at that. No one's tools would have to change, no one's content would need re-encoding, and the world could just get on with it.
I suspect this has more to do with sticking their fingers up to apple than anything else.
I don't think its going to get any traction, because joe end user doesn't care about patents they just want their content to work, and to continue to work. they're not going to re-encode everything that comes off their camera, they're just going to install flash, if their browser of choice doesn't support h.264 anymore.
Path of least resistance, and all....
Then do what safari does and have a fucking tickbox to turn it on/off.
How about fixing the DHCP proxy auto-detection that even had a patch submitted in 2006?
You're a bit of a stalwart then.
I abandoned firefox around 3.0 (phoenix / firebird user since 0.x) because it just grew too bloated, unstable and unresponsive. Compared to chrome, stability and responsiveness to user input was like night and day.
And Safari has the funky visual bookmarks/history browsing in 5.x (maybe earlier). I have no reason to bother with it any more.
They could. But that "entirely compatible" requirement costs a lot of time/money to get right. hell, even between different versions of (supposedly) the same hardware there are sometimes obscure compatibility issues.
Plus increased software testing for every game developed. No... i'd suggest that if sony/whoever are going to bother putting out new hardware it will be more of an improvement than some incremental step. My point is that hardware these days is good enough to go quite some time before the software catches up, and they (hardware devs) can afford to wait longer to perform more of a leap. It took until about 2005 for the PS2 to really get pushed hardware wise. The PS3 and xbox 360 are way off. PCs are never even close to being pushed properly as its cheaper/easier to just throw hardware at the problem.
In the console world, you want identical hardware if possible to minimize support... so it gets pushed harder, for longer...
Dude, the typical PS3 user experience has been improved with the lesser models. Hear me out...
The average joe doesn't CARE about linux support. He doesn't CARE about PS2 support (he just bought a PS3).
What he DOES care about is that he now has a couple of hundred bucks to spend on a few more games that WILL enhance HIS user experience.
Backwards compat is over rated. I bought a PS2 because of it, and you know how often i've run a PS1 game on the PS2 since 2001? About 3 times. You know how often i've played the PS2 since getting my PS3 slim? Once.
And i'm a bit of a nostalgic nerd. The average gamer simply doesn't care.
2021? 2025? Lol. Give it 18 months.
Normal people don't give a shit about sony, hype, or linux are more than happy to pay some money to play some games.
Actually I would argue that for the past decade, consoles have been "Good enough". There is not a lot of popular game software that you can do on a PS3 that would not be possible (admittedly in lower def) on a PS2.
The hardware upgrade cycle has slowed down simply because hardware is now good enough. The same goes for PCs too. I remember back in the mid-late 90s, 18 months to 3 years was well beyond any useful gaming machine's life.
I've got a Q6600 PC that I purchased in 2007 that is still more than capable of running any game I throw at it in a very playable manner.
Sure, I could get more FPS or higher resolution textures, etc with a quicker CPU, but the visual difference and impact on playability would be negligible.
A PC purchased in 1995 for gaming would have been nearly unusable in 1998... Ditto for 1992-1995, and previous generations.
It would not surprise me if the ps2 is still doing more volume in terms of game sales than any individual console of THIS GENERATION. The PS2 is everywhere. Only the "hard core" gamers I know bothered to step up to a 360, or ps3.
lalalalala i can't hear you ios is bad android is teh best!!11
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Also iirc, AMD were originally allowed to license x86 way back when (in the 80386 days) to provide a second source for x86 components. Various parties (military, i think?) did not want to be locked into a single source for x86 hardware.
I read that as google wants to give google more time to port youtube
/. noobs and gamers with no budget are not "the general public"
Ditto here. The issue is massively overblown.
The antenna works fine in most instances. We've got several iphone 4s at work, none with bumpers and i'm yet to see/experience a reception problem. Not saying the problem doesn't exist, but by fuck is it overblown.
field testing = early adopters
You've overlooking the hundreds of millions of iphone/ipad like devices that are coming onto the market in the next few years. The PC market is saturated. For many people their hardware is plenty "good enough". Trying to compete/sell new machines in that space is going to be a lot more difficult than the phone/tablet market.
Given that the market for ARM is many times larger than x86 (mobile phones, tablets, desktop phones, embedded systems), thats not such as bad move.
No they don't. They're fine for business grade laptops performing business grade activity. I've had several of them. An OPTION for a high end part would be nice, but for my ultra portable 12.1" work machine i do not miss the lack of nvidia GPU at all.