eh. SLI/crossfire has always been a niche market. Buying 1 top of the line nvidia or ATI card is always a stronger solution then buying two mid level cards. So this would only make sense if you are buying 2 top of the line cards and honestly while the charts make it look impressive, it's just that, a bragging right. You don't see human detectable improvement in performance in most games/apps. It's a very small market. I believe that's why nidia or ATI hasn't done any real development of their own products to allow a older card to work with a newer card to work together. It seems like a good market idea, increase brand loyalty, if they had a product, knowing you can add a new card a year later and keep the one you already have, the trick being you'd have to buy the same brand again. But no GPU maker has any main stream stuff like this. Why? Because it's fr ricer rigs. GPU's gain performance so fast.
From TFA; "We have started to address this by undertaking a grounded theoretical analysis of reviews garnered from games, both good and bad, to distil from these common features that characterize good and bad games. A good game is cohesive, varied, has good user interaction and offers some form of social interaction"
Look there are good movies with car chases, a rouge cop and one liners, and there are bad movies with such things. Any kind of list of 'qualities' is useless because it's not what it has it's/how it has them/. I think these researchers time would be better spent dusting books at the library of congress personally. I'm sure you could study a selection of successful literature, come up with a list of "whats most important in a work"
and not only realize it doesn't apply to 90% of the masterpieces out there but also is completely useless in predicting future successes. Honestly this is just a few steps better then voodoo predictions.
"The consumer judged that it was the right hardware and the right software. Look at the software that was on that system. Look at the sporting titles that". Compared with it's rivals, Nintendo 64, already out with a fair string of Great Mario games, Zelda games, and 3d party titles, ps2 was on it's way, as was xbox. " Look at the software that was on that system" You mean um, 'crazy taxi' (good for a little while, but wears thin) and um, Mavel v. Capcon 2? and um, well I"m sure if you owned the system you could think of more, but those are the only ones I ever saw that looked worth playing. That's the problem, even if it had great titles, no one was aware of them.
Face it, those old games weren't that great. Take of your nostalgia glasses and realize they were ok for being on a a system that came out 19 years ago. When you were 10 years old they seemed pretty ok. You have to realize a entire game consisting of holding down the right directional pad for an hour to win is hardly the stuff of the ages.
..and will quickly go through just a few points why from top to bottom "saves developers from having to develop a camera system independent of the playerâ(TM)s control." FP cameras are not set in stone, do you show movement with head bod, or weapon bob or neither or let player choose? Handling peripheral vision focus, do you see your shoes when you look down., etc. "...Wolfenstein 3D for the Atari Jaguar....my first interaction (in perhaps '97 or '98)...with proper fps...had me pretty convinced that first-person games werenâ(TM)t for me, all the way until Halo 2" wow, someone who hadn't played doom even 4 years after it was out, played Wolfenstein on a TV, and generally didn't like FPS's till halo 2. Yeah, He sounds qualified to comment on the pros and cons of FP camera.
"used to [third-person view] Having an avatar gives us a strong frame of reference, and allows us to better navigate the world. If I see a little running guy, and I try to make him jump, I can gauge that distance."
That is so subjective it's useless. I could turn around and say 3d person games lack a frame of reference, FP camera lets me better gauge the distance. Even if you think the quote is right, that doesn't make it a better or worse game on that point. maybe the fun is knowing in the fray when you would jump in quake you might fall through the cracks and learniing how to judge them.
"Consider the last time you felt like you actually were the character in a game you played. Iâ(TM)d be willing to guess that most people will say âoenever.â
go away, learn not everyone thinks the same way you do
"how do you identify with a character you canâ(TM)t see, a character who usually doesnâ(TM)t even talk or have any opinions about the horrible things going on around him? This goes back to the âoesilent heroâ dilemma..."
Not all FP camera games have slient hero's, sounds like you have been playing shitty games, and what does that have to do with the camera? 3d person games are just as likely to have silent hero, just because you can see them doesn't mean they all talk, sounds again you are just picking the right 3d person games and the wrong 1st person ones. anyways a lot of this goes back to small budgets and marketing
"Innovations on the interface side could help lower the casual block,"
Are you a gamer or a publisher? Can't we have both the Casual games and the... other? As a critic you should want more artisic games, not dumbed down ones. Only the sellers would want the art dowmbed down. Why do you care about 'helping casuals'? Thats like a film critic saying she hopes they make more formulaic movies casual people will see them. huh?
I could go on, but yeah.
I hate people who think there are 7 steps to every problem and the like. There are too many variables in too many combination's in a project for these things to work. Budget, timeline, skill lvls, peoples lives and personalities Either the guidelines are too simple or they are so long and complex as to become useless for it's intent, like union laws, or such.
Use the most popular media formant. I.E. DVD's. And not data DVD's, standard encoded DVD's that can be played on any walmart DVD set top box. The sheer millions of them around will assure something will be around or able to to be bought used super cheap to watch the Video and Music files. The trick is you'll have to order a pressed DVD, not a burned one, to make sure it will last that long. You can easily store Text on their too. Granted it would be in image formant, hard to transfer, but for a birthday gift it's fine.
Please. How is this any different then metered parking with a meter at every space except you have to walk/up to/ half a block. Oh noes! Note most of the time you'll be walking much less then half a block statistically. Plus these take credit cards and cash. No more worries about carring around useless change in your car for the meter. It would be too expesinve and silly to place a machine that takes credit cards and cash at every space, not to mention expensive to maintain and empty.
Everyone says they want cities to stop over spending on infrastructure and to have realistic services but every time they inconvenience you just a little bit it's back to "spend spend spend! I can't walk half a block!"
That's pretty much the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time.
Where to start. The only reason old artists were able to do that was because they were part of the repressive noble class i.e. inherited money. Having people specialize into a trade makes them better at it, and gives the world better art.
Why do they _have_ to live from their art? Just because someone says so? Cant they just do something else not based on enforcement of a artificial scarcity (copyright) and do their art as a hobby in their free time
So all actors, directors, writers etc should film the TV shows and movies in their spare time and work a 'real' job for money, because charging for their work is creating a artificial scarcity? I sure hope you get your entertainment from playing Bridge all day.
There are no magic three color pigments that actually exist to make all other colors. red, blue and yellow as the 'mother' colors is just a construct. as far as those TV's are concerned, using the subtractive method (light, not pigment), Red Green Blue ARE the primary colors, because it uses them to make all others it can. Read up on trichromats. You can use lots of 3 different colors as the primary colors.
The OQO's, like all UMPC's so far, is a device looking for a propose. Still too small for touch typing, so you end up thumb typing like a smart phone with a slide out keyboard, except the OQO is much more unwieldy to hold. The 5 inch screen Doesn't add much from a smart phone. Netbooks cover the small portable functional browser. Too big for a pocket so a netbook still easily goes anywhere this does. Consumers have no use for it
and industry has specialty solutions. I can't think Vista would be the best OS GUI for a 5 inch screen. Then you realize the greatness about getting to run a windows on something so small lacks
appeal because all the apps you would care about run better on embedded devices
At the last trade show demos just over a month ago the T91 had a Multi-touch screen(!), and everyone who like "cool!!" but it was rumored the ones released July 15 won't be multi touch?? That only the ones that ship with Win 7 in a few months would have the better screen. TFA doesn't say anything about this either way, anyone know if there is a better screen in a few months?
if 37% do do it by end of next year, that's really good. No sane IT department would spend money on large deployments before hardware makers have first released win 7 drivers, and second, those drivers have had some good test time in the wild. Not to mention win OS's are hugely complex systems and with big verison changes only happening every 5 years, or what not, a lot of new problems get introduced all at once.
The point of free speech is not to protect what you agree with, but what you don't agree with. If free speech didn't offend someone, you wouldn't need the amendment .
id has made nothing except tech demos for years and years. Valve has made actual full good games. Being owned by a publisher is not likely to improve Id's games much.
Valve build on what 3d realms did with duke3d, and just went from there, making more and more fleshed out worlds, and encounters, more and more interactive environments. Id just remade Doom 2/quake 1 over and over with better graphics. They don't oven make the best engines anymore (CryEngine 3).
Graphics hardly make a game good, and we are not seeing the huge leaps in graphics we used to.
Each successive Bioware product this decade has gotten a little worse. They started amazing, and ever release took them to great, pretty great, to good, to decent. I expect this trend to continue as the last great minds leave
Jack Tretton is CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America. Last time I checked Sony Japan was the company that actually produced things, and made things. Jack works for a shell of a company which is mostly responsible for local AD's and running promotions. I'd be upset too if my job as a glorified county fair caller become more marginalized. "Step Right Up! See The Amazing New Sony Product!" He's just afraid Sony will realize they don't really need him.
I've already drafted a letter to my internet company, which happens to be one of the ones paying money to espn360, asking why they are driving up my rates by making me pay for content I'm not using. It will do nothing. If everyone who saw this./ summery did this, it would do something.
What's with calling everything by near meaningless terns like 'cloud computing' all the time now?. The coverless servers are not due to 'cloud computing', they are just a different technic for server farms. It could be for databases, large analysis, supercomputing, regular network hosting, etc. There is nothing about this that makes it exclusively meant for 'cloud computing' , it's just an idea for large arrays. Unless you a a marketing tool stop saying cloud computing just because it's the hot new phrase. Save it for when it's relevant
When you buy a discounted phone and sign a 2 year contract, say it again,/contract/, you are getting a Loan. You get the Phone for cheaper but a piece of your monthly bill is actually payment towards your debt. What's so odd about them wanting you to complete your loan payments before they give you a new loan?
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eh. SLI/crossfire has always been a niche market. Buying 1 top of the line nvidia or ATI card is always a stronger solution then buying two mid level cards. So this would only make sense if you are buying 2 top of the line cards and honestly while the charts make it look impressive, it's just that, a bragging right. You don't see human detectable improvement in performance in most games/apps. It's a very small market. I believe that's why nidia or ATI hasn't done any real development of their own products to allow a older card to work with a newer card to work together. It seems like a good market idea, increase brand loyalty, if they had a product, knowing you can add a new card a year later and keep the one you already have, the trick being you'd have to buy the same brand again. But no GPU maker has any main stream stuff like this. Why? Because it's fr ricer rigs. GPU's gain performance so fast.
Seems Microsoft has been doing this for 15 years or more. Isn't it a little late for Washington to start whining about it now?
Look there are good movies with car chases, a rouge cop and one liners, and there are bad movies with such things. Any kind of list of 'qualities' is useless because it's not what it has it's /how it has them/. I think these researchers time would be better spent dusting books at the library of congress personally. I'm sure you could study a selection of successful literature, come up with a list of "whats most important in a work"
and not only realize it doesn't apply to 90% of the masterpieces out there but also is completely useless in predicting future successes. Honestly this is just a few steps better then voodoo predictions.
"Former Sega Prez Discusses" "Prez"? Prez??? Who wrote TFA title, and it is from the article, not /. A highschool AOL reject?
"The consumer judged that it was the right hardware and the right software. Look at the software that was on that system. Look at the sporting titles that". Compared with it's rivals, Nintendo 64, already out with a fair string of Great Mario games, Zelda games, and 3d party titles, ps2 was on it's way, as was xbox. " Look at the software that was on that system" You mean um, 'crazy taxi' (good for a little while, but wears thin) and um, Mavel v. Capcon 2? and um, well I"m sure if you owned the system you could think of more, but those are the only ones I ever saw that looked worth playing. That's the problem, even if it had great titles, no one was aware of them.
Face it, those old games weren't that great. Take of your nostalgia glasses and realize they were ok for being on a a system that came out 19 years ago. When you were 10 years old they seemed pretty ok. You have to realize a entire game consisting of holding down the right directional pad for an hour to win is hardly the stuff of the ages.
oh wait, that one wasn't that good either
..and will quickly go through just a few points why from top to bottom ...my first interaction (in perhaps '97 or '98) ...with proper fps...had me pretty convinced that first-person games werenâ(TM)t for me, all the way until Halo 2" ... other? As a critic you should want more artisic games, not dumbed down ones. Only the sellers would want the art dowmbed down. Why do you care about 'helping casuals'? Thats like a film critic saying she hopes they make more formulaic movies casual people will see them. huh?
"saves developers from having to develop a camera system independent of the playerâ(TM)s control."
FP cameras are not set in stone, do you show movement with head bod, or weapon bob or neither or let player choose? Handling peripheral vision focus, do you see your shoes when you look down., etc.
"...Wolfenstein 3D for the Atari Jaguar.
wow, someone who hadn't played doom even 4 years after it was out, played Wolfenstein on a TV, and generally didn't like FPS's till halo 2. Yeah, He sounds qualified to comment on the pros and cons of FP camera.
"used to [third-person view] Having an avatar gives us a strong frame of reference, and allows us to better navigate the world. If I see a little running guy, and I try to make him jump, I can gauge that distance."
That is so subjective it's useless. I could turn around and say 3d person games lack a frame of reference, FP camera lets me better gauge the distance. Even if you think the quote is right, that doesn't make it a better or worse game on that point. maybe the fun is knowing in the fray when you would jump in quake you might fall through the cracks and learniing how to judge them.
"Consider the last time you felt like you actually were the character in a game you played. Iâ(TM)d be willing to guess that most people will say âoenever.â
go away, learn not everyone thinks the same way you do
"how do you identify with a character you canâ(TM)t see, a character who usually doesnâ(TM)t even talk or have any opinions about the horrible things going on around him? This goes back to the âoesilent heroâ dilemma..."
Not all FP camera games have slient hero's, sounds like you have been playing shitty games, and what does that have to do with the camera? 3d person games are just as likely to have silent hero, just because you can see them doesn't mean they all talk, sounds again you are just picking the right 3d person games and the wrong 1st person ones. anyways a lot of this goes back to small budgets and marketing
"Innovations on the interface side could help lower the casual block,"
Are you a gamer or a publisher? Can't we have both the Casual games and the
I could go on, but yeah.
I hate people who think there are 7 steps to every problem and the like. There are too many variables in too many combination's in a project for these things to work. Budget, timeline, skill lvls, peoples lives and personalities Either the guidelines are too simple or they are so long and complex as to become useless for it's intent, like union laws, or such.
text, video, music files.
Use the most popular media formant. I.E. DVD's. And not data DVD's, standard encoded DVD's that can be played on any walmart DVD set top box. The sheer millions of them around will assure something will be around or able to to be bought used super cheap to watch the Video and Music files. The trick is you'll have to order a pressed DVD, not a burned one, to make sure it will last that long. You can easily store Text on their too. Granted it would be in image formant, hard to transfer, but for a birthday gift it's fine.
Everyone says they want cities to stop over spending on infrastructure and to have realistic services but every time they inconvenience you just a little bit it's back to "spend spend spend! I can't walk half a block!"
Where to start. The only reason old artists were able to do that was because they were part of the repressive noble class i.e. inherited money. Having people specialize into a trade makes them better at it, and gives the world better art.
Why do they _have_ to live from their art? Just because someone says so? Cant they just do something else not based on enforcement of a artificial scarcity (copyright) and do their art as a hobby in their free time
So all actors, directors, writers etc should film the TV shows and movies in their spare time and work a 'real' job for money, because charging for their work is creating a artificial scarcity? I sure hope you get your entertainment from playing Bridge all day.
There are no magic three color pigments that actually exist to make all other colors. red, blue and yellow as the 'mother' colors is just a construct. as far as those TV's are concerned, using the subtractive method (light, not pigment), Red Green Blue ARE the primary colors, because it uses them to make all others it can. Read up on trichromats. You can use lots of 3 different colors as the primary colors.
The OQO's, like all UMPC's so far, is a device looking for a propose. Still too small for touch typing, so you end up thumb typing like a smart phone with a slide out keyboard, except the OQO is much more unwieldy to hold. The 5 inch screen Doesn't add much from a smart phone. Netbooks cover the small portable functional browser. Too big for a pocket so a netbook still easily goes anywhere this does. Consumers have no use for it and industry has specialty solutions. I can't think Vista would be the best OS GUI for a 5 inch screen. Then you realize the greatness about getting to run a windows on something so small lacks appeal because all the apps you would care about run better on embedded devices
At the last trade show demos just over a month ago the T91 had a Multi-touch screen(!), and everyone who like "cool!!" but it was rumored the ones released July 15 won't be multi touch?? That only the ones that ship with Win 7 in a few months would have the better screen. TFA doesn't say anything about this either way, anyone know if there is a better screen in a few months?
if 37% do do it by end of next year, that's really good. No sane IT department would spend money on large deployments before hardware makers have first released win 7 drivers, and second, those drivers have had some good test time in the wild. Not to mention win OS's are hugely complex systems and with big verison changes only happening every 5 years, or what not, a lot of new problems get introduced all at once.
The point of free speech is not to protect what you agree with, but what you don't agree with. If free speech didn't offend someone, you wouldn't need the amendment .
jumped the shark, is over the hill, run by the marketing department, etc
Extreme Scientists will be on x TV next year
Valve build on what 3d realms did with duke3d, and just went from there, making more and more fleshed out worlds, and encounters, more and more interactive environments. Id just remade Doom 2/quake 1 over and over with better graphics. They don't oven make the best engines anymore (CryEngine 3).
Graphics hardly make a game good, and we are not seeing the huge leaps in graphics we used to.
Each successive Bioware product this decade has gotten a little worse. They started amazing, and ever release took them to great, pretty great, to good, to decent. I expect this trend to continue as the last great minds leave
Jack Tretton is CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America. Last time I checked Sony Japan was the company that actually produced things, and made things. Jack works for a shell of a company which is mostly responsible for local AD's and running promotions. I'd be upset too if my job as a glorified county fair caller become more marginalized. "Step Right Up! See The Amazing New Sony Product!" He's just afraid Sony will realize they don't really need him.
I've already drafted a letter to my internet company, which happens to be one of the ones paying money to espn360, asking why they are driving up my rates by making me pay for content I'm not using. It will do nothing. If everyone who saw this ./ summery did this, it would do something.
"Cloud computing is causing servers to..."
What's with calling everything by near meaningless terns like 'cloud computing' all the time now?. The coverless servers are not due to 'cloud computing', they are just a different technic for server farms. It could be for databases, large analysis, supercomputing, regular network hosting, etc. There is nothing about this that makes it exclusively meant for 'cloud computing' , it's just an idea for large arrays. Unless you a a marketing tool stop saying cloud computing just because it's the hot new phrase. Save it for when it's relevant
When you buy a discounted phone and sign a 2 year contract, say it again, /contract/, you are getting a Loan. You get the Phone for cheaper but a piece of your monthly bill is actually payment towards your debt. What's so odd about them wanting you to complete your loan payments before they give you a new loan?