They might be a problem for me. What are you using them for? Overnight rendering, compiling, file server, IRC and instant messaging? Or are you just wasting electricity to avoid a 2-minute boot up each morning?
The games won't require 2 or 3 monitors because not enough gamers have them. A hard core gamer probably invests in a single 21" screen instead of dual 19". Also because framerate is so important, and the framerate hit between 3200x1200 and 1600x1200 is so huge, don't expect that to happen anytime soon. If dual screen gaming ever catches on, the second monitor will only be for stat info because few people are willing to game with a one or two inch gap right in the center of their view.
Dual core? xbox360 has 3 of them. SLI video cards? Will remain a luxury for the top third of PC gamers.
Next gen consoles will play the gorgeous games this winter, people won't have to wait three years.
If one of the consoles supports keyboard and mouse as a primary input device, kiss most of PC gaming goodbye. Then the PC-only genres will be viable in HD on a console.
Interesting, in my tens of hours of playtime I've never seen anything so dramatic. A crash only costs me 5 seconds, unless I don't have boost, because then it takes another second or two extra to get back to full speed.
Even though the game says he's right on your tail, checking your rear view camera proves that's BS. The game just flat out lies most of the time with that warning. I figure it's a bug. You're still 20 seconds ahead. Just keep power sliding the turns and you'll keep your boost up. You can still spend some of it to build a lead, but fact of the matter is the cars in back can crash each other and earn lots of boost allowing them to catch up. That's just the way the game is, and it has to be like that. It's how humans in third place are able to catch the AI leader, by crashing the car in second place and getting boost. Frankly I find races where I ditch the AI early are the least interesting.
Like the AC said, old housewives don't care about Evil Dead and Bruce Campbell. Particularly the ones who read the National Enquirer and probably People.
They can start by removing the tracks with pillars that lanes actually dead-end into. Those go against the spirit of the game. It isn't a racing sim, where I have real control over the car. It's no fun to powerslide around a corner and crash by bad luck. Even worse is when a race on that track starts, like Kings of the Road, the AI bumps the player around and possibly into pillars. But restart the race and perhaps that time the bump will miss the pillar. If skill can't save the player, and it's just a matter of chance, that's stupid.
Also, they need more, if not all of the single-player tracks, available for multiplayer. My friend and I have played out all the multiplayer tracks, but half of the single-player tracks aren't available to us. How dumb is that?
They also need it to remember my audio settings. I don't like their 40 tracks that all sound like weak Alien Ant Farm and 311 alternative-light ripoffs. When I do single or multiplayer I want my five albums of Offspring, and I want Burnout to remember that.
The AI doesn't rubberband in the traditional sense. When it's winning, it drives more conservatively and lays off the boost, just like a human in the lead might. When the player is leading, it drives more aggressively to catch up. But since it plays by most of the same rules as the players, the AI crashes more often when trying to catch up. Just like players statistically do when boosting.
Ever noticed the AI fighting with itself? It does all the time, and that's how it's possible for a human or AI car to win by 15 seconds just because 2nd and 3rd place "decided" they were more intent on crashing each other than catching up to the leader.
If we did a better job as a "police force" the people in the countries we invade would have been happy to see us. Bush and his advisors screwed up Afghanistan by not giving the country enough resources to rebuild and protect itself from the warlords and everyday criminals. The people there don't like us for leaving their country a mess. So the people become easier recruits for Al Qaida. We pulled our troops out of Afghanistan too quickly so we could take over Iraq because they actually have oil. Then since there wasn't enough post-invasion planning done ahead of time, Iraq went to hell and the people there are easy recruits.
I have no problem with nation building so long as there is actual building happening, not just invasions to enrich corporations.
The excuses are nothing new, people just used to have a longer list of them. Apple's been dealing with the objections, but not all of them. PC Gamers are what keeps ATI and nVidia improving video cards. They're a large market segment, and no they're not going to stop. My brother volunteers on the Hornet aircraft carrier floating museum. He's in shape and like to play WWII on-line among other only-for-PC games.
Now you are right $499 won't buy a powerful new PC, but I can' upgrade my CPU, mobo, and RAM for that price and keep gaming for two or three years on it.
My biggest problem with switching is all the little programs I like to use that are only for PC's. Presming they have a counterpart on Mac's, I'd still have to learn how to use them, not to mention possibly PAY to purchase them.
They're NE-friggin_eSs games! Who hasn't played them to their heart's delight already? Who still cares about them and doesn't own all their favorites? I'm guessing whoever wins this "prize" will dump them on ebay for $10,000.
Anyone familiar with the BA topography with an idea of where I can see this from, clouds permitting of course? Obviously going to the Marin headlands and Mount Tamalpais would be preferrable but that's not a possibility for tonight. I'm in the east bay and hoping I can go up to the Laurence Hall of Science or maybe just Indian Rock (in north Berkeley) and see close enough to the horizon, without the peninsula and Mt. Tam blocking the view.
There is a difference in that when the xbox launched there were PCs at 800 or 900 MHz. This fall no PC will have triple 3.2GHz chips. Intel and AMD will have dual cores, but not three. The Cell processor when programmed well will probably smoke dual core chips for performance. It's not like Microsoft wanted to pay for three chips, but they have to compete against the Cell.
The turbine produces electricity to lower the pressure in the chamber. The warm water loses energy when spins the turbine. If the water loses enough energy, there may be some electricity to power other things.
Thanks, but no good because iTunes doesn't tell me how much more often 5-stars plays compared to 3-stars. Do you know? It also won't let me adjust the formula so 5-stars plays twice as often as 3, and six times as often as one-stars. Why am I limited to 5 stars anyway? Because most people don't need more? I'd like ten stars so I can have a larger range of how often the better songs play.
At least it remembers where in a playlist I was the next time I turn on my computer, unlike iTunes. I make static playlists because I want rated songs to play more often based on how high they're rated. Friggin iTunes Smart Playlists aren't smart enough to do that.
Because controvercial claims need evidence (more sentences) to back them up. If there was evidence the poster had valid points, it could be insightful.
Psychological barriers and how parents think about prices are really important too though. Consoles have been 199 or 299 for a long time and people associate those numbers with what a console should cost. $399 is likely going to cause many parents to wait until next christmas for the price to drop. They'll think Four Hundred Dollars sounds like an awful lot of money for a gift.
Racing on a console sucks because the resolution is low and limits visibility. Most games compensate with large signs and simpler track layouts. This gen, expect tracks to become more complicated thanks to HD. People with SD will have to work harder at memorizing the track since they won't see it as well.
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They might be a problem for me. What are you using them for? Overnight rendering, compiling, file server, IRC and instant messaging? Or are you just wasting electricity to avoid a 2-minute boot up each morning?
The games won't require 2 or 3 monitors because not enough gamers have them. A hard core gamer probably invests in a single 21" screen instead of dual 19". Also because framerate is so important, and the framerate hit between 3200x1200 and 1600x1200 is so huge, don't expect that to happen anytime soon. If dual screen gaming ever catches on, the second monitor will only be for stat info because few people are willing to game with a one or two inch gap right in the center of their view.
Dual core? xbox360 has 3 of them. SLI video cards? Will remain a luxury for the top third of PC gamers.
Next gen consoles will play the gorgeous games this winter, people won't have to wait three years.
If one of the consoles supports keyboard and mouse as a primary input device, kiss most of PC gaming goodbye. Then the PC-only genres will be viable in HD on a console.
that was the sound of the joke going over ducttapekz's head
Interesting, in my tens of hours of playtime I've never seen anything so dramatic. A crash only costs me 5 seconds, unless I don't have boost, because then it takes another second or two extra to get back to full speed.
Even though the game says he's right on your tail, checking your rear view camera proves that's BS. The game just flat out lies most of the time with that warning. I figure it's a bug. You're still 20 seconds ahead. Just keep power sliding the turns and you'll keep your boost up. You can still spend some of it to build a lead, but fact of the matter is the cars in back can crash each other and earn lots of boost allowing them to catch up. That's just the way the game is, and it has to be like that. It's how humans in third place are able to catch the AI leader, by crashing the car in second place and getting boost. Frankly I find races where I ditch the AI early are the least interesting.
Like the AC said, old housewives don't care about Evil Dead and Bruce Campbell. Particularly the ones who read the National Enquirer and probably People.
They can start by removing the tracks with pillars that lanes actually dead-end into. Those go against the spirit of the game. It isn't a racing sim, where I have real control over the car. It's no fun to powerslide around a corner and crash by bad luck. Even worse is when a race on that track starts, like Kings of the Road, the AI bumps the player around and possibly into pillars. But restart the race and perhaps that time the bump will miss the pillar. If skill can't save the player, and it's just a matter of chance, that's stupid.
Also, they need more, if not all of the single-player tracks, available for multiplayer. My friend and I have played out all the multiplayer tracks, but half of the single-player tracks aren't available to us. How dumb is that?
They also need it to remember my audio settings. I don't like their 40 tracks that all sound like weak Alien Ant Farm and 311 alternative-light ripoffs. When I do single or multiplayer I want my five albums of Offspring, and I want Burnout to remember that.
The AI doesn't rubberband in the traditional sense. When it's winning, it drives more conservatively and lays off the boost, just like a human in the lead might. When the player is leading, it drives more aggressively to catch up. But since it plays by most of the same rules as the players, the AI crashes more often when trying to catch up. Just like players statistically do when boosting.
Ever noticed the AI fighting with itself? It does all the time, and that's how it's possible for a human or AI car to win by 15 seconds just because 2nd and 3rd place "decided" they were more intent on crashing each other than catching up to the leader.
If we did a better job as a "police force" the people in the countries we invade would have been happy to see us. Bush and his advisors screwed up Afghanistan by not giving the country enough resources to rebuild and protect itself from the warlords and everyday criminals. The people there don't like us for leaving their country a mess. So the people become easier recruits for Al Qaida. We pulled our troops out of Afghanistan too quickly so we could take over Iraq because they actually have oil. Then since there wasn't enough post-invasion planning done ahead of time, Iraq went to hell and the people there are easy recruits.
I have no problem with nation building so long as there is actual building happening, not just invasions to enrich corporations.
You're just a whiney bastard. No offense intended to actual bastards.
The excuses are nothing new, people just used to have a longer list of them. Apple's been dealing with the objections, but not all of them. PC Gamers are what keeps ATI and nVidia improving video cards. They're a large market segment, and no they're not going to stop. My brother volunteers on the Hornet aircraft carrier floating museum. He's in shape and like to play WWII on-line among other only-for-PC games.
Now you are right $499 won't buy a powerful new PC, but I can' upgrade my CPU, mobo, and RAM for that price and keep gaming for two or three years on it.
My biggest problem with switching is all the little programs I like to use that are only for PC's. Presming they have a counterpart on Mac's, I'd still have to learn how to use them, not to mention possibly PAY to purchase them.
They're NE-friggin_eSs games! Who hasn't played them to their heart's delight already? Who still cares about them and doesn't own all their favorites? I'm guessing whoever wins this "prize" will dump them on ebay for $10,000.
Anyone familiar with the BA topography with an idea of where I can see this from, clouds permitting of course? Obviously going to the Marin headlands and Mount Tamalpais would be preferrable but that's not a possibility for tonight. I'm in the east bay and hoping I can go up to the Laurence Hall of Science or maybe just Indian Rock (in north Berkeley) and see close enough to the horizon, without the peninsula and Mt. Tam blocking the view.
Is a small 256x192. If it was 320x240 it would've had 50% more pixels.
Where did you hear that the 360 and PS3 will have HD support for a monitor? I've been hoping for this, but haven't seen any news of it.
There is a difference in that when the xbox launched there were PCs at 800 or 900 MHz. This fall no PC will have triple 3.2GHz chips. Intel and AMD will have dual cores, but not three. The Cell processor when programmed well will probably smoke dual core chips for performance. It's not like Microsoft wanted to pay for three chips, but they have to compete against the Cell.
User's name is Eunuch. Yeah it's a troll account, but the content of the post was not. Now you've learned to never click on a link ending in .cx again.
If I state the opinion that OS X is better than Linux, without evidence backing it up, I'm still a troll.
The turbine produces electricity to lower the pressure in the chamber. The warm water loses energy when spins the turbine. If the water loses enough energy, there may be some electricity to power other things.
Thanks, but no good because iTunes doesn't tell me how much more often 5-stars plays compared to 3-stars. Do you know? It also won't let me adjust the formula so 5-stars plays twice as often as 3, and six times as often as one-stars. Why am I limited to 5 stars anyway? Because most people don't need more? I'd like ten stars so I can have a larger range of how often the better songs play.
At least it remembers where in a playlist I was the next time I turn on my computer, unlike iTunes. I make static playlists because I want rated songs to play more often based on how high they're rated. Friggin iTunes Smart Playlists aren't smart enough to do that.
Because controvercial claims need evidence (more sentences) to back them up. If there was evidence the poster had valid points, it could be insightful.
Psychological barriers and how parents think about prices are really important too though. Consoles have been 199 or 299 for a long time and people associate those numbers with what a console should cost. $399 is likely going to cause many parents to wait until next christmas for the price to drop. They'll think Four Hundred Dollars sounds like an awful lot of money for a gift.
Racing on a console sucks because the resolution is low and limits visibility. Most games compensate with large signs and simpler track layouts. This gen, expect tracks to become more complicated thanks to HD. People with SD will have to work harder at memorizing the track since they won't see it as well.
Or revolution, as the poor and unemployed come after the heads of those living in mansions.
The number of jobs that cannot be outsourced is significantly less than the number of Americans who want jobs. Then what?