Ubuntu doesn't support my wireless nic so Vista wins. Ubuntu doesn't support my soundcard so Vista wins. Ubuntu is nice but like most Linux distros the hardware support is lacking:(
At this level of pricing, to purchase all 47 tracks from GH1 would cost roughly 7,850 points or $98 USD. That does not sound reasonable. So much for Activision extending the life of GH2 by allowing to you purchase content, it looks like they're more interested in milking GH2 for all that it's worth until the release of GH3 (which is coming out sooner than it should).
If you look at the numbers, MS could practically sell nothing, reduce staff, and still exist in 2015. They also do a lot more than sell Windows, although that is the real money maker. Whilst I am not happy at all with Vista, I am under no delusion that MS will vanish in less than a decade.
...It's less than the size of a dvd and contains half-life 1, half-life 2, counterstrike, cs:s, dod, dod:s, garry's mod, and quite a few other things. That's a lot of gaming in the space of one dvd.
Of course they are going to do that. Look at operating systems, or cars, or almost any other business. The innovation only happens once, after that a business has to continue to innovate whilst "catching up" with innovations created by their competitors. Would you rather only one car manufaturer have air conditioning whilst the others focus solely on innovation, or them all have A/C and all continue innovating? Would you rather only Nintendo have the analog stick on their controller, or all 3 console makers? etc...
Care to show me that feature in the current build or a link to a microsoft document that says such? Let's pretend for a second that you are correct, do you really think that Dell, HP, etc will ship without IE7 installed? Do you really think the "automatic install" option in Vista won't install IE7 by default? Give me a break...
It's the default browser in Vista, come '07 your statement is wrong. And that's the big problem here. IE is bundled with an OS (Vista) and Firefox is not. If IE was a completely seperate application then I'd have no problem here, but with Vista that is not the case.
On another note, Google doesn't own Safari or Firefox, so they can pick whatever default search they want.
For bandwidth and processing reasons. I'm sure they'll be using a good % of the power of the DS for the game which leaves little or none left over to do voice in game. There's also bandwidth to be concerned about as I believe the DS is only capable of 2Mbps not 11 Mbps.
Hopefully they will have had enough time to figure out how to code in a way that takes full advantage of the Cell. If all that we get is the equivilant of PS2 games with shinier graphics, then who really cares?
The Cell processor is highly centered around multithreading design and performance. To take full advantage of it will require extremely complicated programs that are multithreaded in such a way to take advantage of all 8 cores. No one in the industry has truely conquered this task yet. Even on the 360, which is also a multi-core system, 99% of the games you're seeing only use 1 of it's cores, however I think Ghost Recon coming up uses a 2nd but only for minor things.
The real "revolution" for both the 360 and the PS3 won't come for a couple years most likely. As it will take developers time to learn the best ways to develop for the hardware. This has always been the case with consoles, however expect the growth potential of both the 360 and PS3 to be massive compared to previous generations.
Anyway, if you're expecing the PS3 to do anything beyond what you've seen on the 360, at least for the first couple years of it's life, you're in for a huge let down.
Firefox 1.5 has really let me down. It's memory footprint is only slightly larger but what really irks me is that it is a processor hog. Not only that but there was a huge list of bugs they didn't knock out before launching 1.5, I'm not really sure why they chose to do this. (Before you say, "but there's always bugs", there were some serious UI bugs that should have been dealt with.) I'm back to running 1.0.7 until Firefox 1.5 can a nice point release but Opera is looking more and more tempting.
I'm scared that Firefox 2.0 will have twice the system requirments than the operating systems on which it runs which, imho, it shouldn't.:(
Because at 22 your pre-frontal cortex isn't developed enough to make long term decisions like getting married. You change a whole lot more than you'd think between 22 and 25 (which is when your cortex should be close to finished developing).
I played the 360 at Wal-mart and posted a mini-review on the shack. The reason the X360 kiosks look like shit is mostly due to the fact that the "free" anti-aliasing was not enabled for the 3 demos. Microsoft got a little bit ahead of themselves and pushed their kiosks out the door with X05 builds which (most if not all?) were lacking the free anti-aliasing that we've all been hearing about. I can't really comment on what the final product will look like since I haven't seen it, but I can only assume that the final games will be smoother looking. The 360 offers 4X anti-aliasing for free I think.
Do you guys really think that either Blu-ray or HD-DVD will be the next gen format? I was thinking it'd be digital along the lines of mp3. Notice that there is no physical replacement for CDs.
The biggest fear everyone seems to be buzzing about right now is that the Revolution Controller won't be capable of playing "normal" games. Well, do you really think Nintendo would actually exclude themselves from those types of games? I think they're more clever than that; read this excerpt from one of the reviews:
But what about for SNES or N64 games where there are more buttons or a need for a second analog stick? The Revolution controller can rest in a sort of controller shaped cradle which could add different buttons or control sticks to mimic the controller's predecessors. For example the analog stick portion would work quite well in the center of a N64 shell. Whether or not these shell cradles will come in the box, or if third parties will make shell cradles is also not determined. Not only that, but the expansion slot will enable any controller type to be hooked up to it allowing for wireless gameplay including dance pads, konga drums, and the like. No specific peripherals have been announced, but the possibilities are virtually endless.
So, the system will be more than capable of playing games the "regular" way. Although I'd expect that most games for the system will end up supporting the gyro in some way. I for one, am excited!
I think we are about to get a great controller upgrade from Nintendo (once again). They recently bought these guys: http://www.gyration.com/ . This could also explain why Nintendo said that twilight princess was the last of "this type" of Zelda game. I expect the next one to actually let you swing the controller to swing your sword.
But what's your response to new content? What's going to happen to things like free levels and, for example, the free ninja gaiden update that was made available. Nope. No more of that. So his point is correct. And honestly, what's wrong with FIXING something? I see no problem with updates. I like getting new maps and new player moddles for FREE from valve. I also like fixing cheat bugs and such that simply cannot be solved once.
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Ubuntu doesn't support my wireless nic so Vista wins. Ubuntu doesn't support my soundcard so Vista wins. Ubuntu is nice but like most Linux distros the hardware support is lacking :(
At this level of pricing, to purchase all 47 tracks from GH1 would cost roughly 7,850 points or $98 USD. That does not sound reasonable. So much for Activision extending the life of GH2 by allowing to you purchase content, it looks like they're more interested in milking GH2 for all that it's worth until the release of GH3 (which is coming out sooner than it should).
If you look at the numbers, MS could practically sell nothing, reduce staff, and still exist in 2015. They also do a lot more than sell Windows, although that is the real money maker. Whilst I am not happy at all with Vista, I am under no delusion that MS will vanish in less than a decade.
...It's less than the size of a dvd and contains half-life 1, half-life 2, counterstrike, cs:s, dod, dod:s, garry's mod, and quite a few other things. That's a lot of gaming in the space of one dvd.
Of course they are going to do that. Look at operating systems, or cars, or almost any other business. The innovation only happens once, after that a business has to continue to innovate whilst "catching up" with innovations created by their competitors. Would you rather only one car manufaturer have air conditioning whilst the others focus solely on innovation, or them all have A/C and all continue innovating? Would you rather only Nintendo have the analog stick on their controller, or all 3 console makers? etc...
I'm still waiting on that url that confirms that it's optional...
Care to show me that feature in the current build or a link to a microsoft document that says such? Let's pretend for a second that you are correct, do you really think that Dell, HP, etc will ship without IE7 installed? Do you really think the "automatic install" option in Vista won't install IE7 by default? Give me a break...
It's the default browser in Vista, come '07 your statement is wrong. And that's the big problem here. IE is bundled with an OS (Vista) and Firefox is not. If IE was a completely seperate application then I'd have no problem here, but with Vista that is not the case.
On another note, Google doesn't own Safari or Firefox, so they can pick whatever default search they want.
And the 360 is doing massively worse than the first Xbox...
Atually, the 360 has managed to sell out everywhere since it's release - I'd hardly qualify that as a failure of any kind.
I'm sorry, but to assume it'll cost between $350 and $400 seems a little ignorant. I'd expect it to launch for $500 most likely.
For bandwidth and processing reasons. I'm sure they'll be using a good % of the power of the DS for the game which leaves little or none left over to do voice in game. There's also bandwidth to be concerned about as I believe the DS is only capable of 2Mbps not 11 Mbps.
Hopefully they will have had enough time to figure out how to code in a way that takes full advantage of the Cell. If all that we get is the equivilant of PS2 games with shinier graphics, then who really cares?
The Cell processor is highly centered around multithreading design and performance. To take full advantage of it will require extremely complicated programs that are multithreaded in such a way to take advantage of all 8 cores. No one in the industry has truely conquered this task yet. Even on the 360, which is also a multi-core system, 99% of the games you're seeing only use 1 of it's cores, however I think Ghost Recon coming up uses a 2nd but only for minor things.
There's a good article on this topic called "The Free Lunch Is Over".
The real "revolution" for both the 360 and the PS3 won't come for a couple years most likely. As it will take developers time to learn the best ways to develop for the hardware. This has always been the case with consoles, however expect the growth potential of both the 360 and PS3 to be massive compared to previous generations.
Anyway, if you're expecing the PS3 to do anything beyond what you've seen on the 360, at least for the first couple years of it's life, you're in for a huge let down.
Doesn't this just show that telephone systems over twisted pair is dying? Why does some government body need to regulate it into extended-existance?
Firefox 1.5 has really let me down. It's memory footprint is only slightly larger but what really irks me is that it is a processor hog. Not only that but there was a huge list of bugs they didn't knock out before launching 1.5, I'm not really sure why they chose to do this. (Before you say, "but there's always bugs", there were some serious UI bugs that should have been dealt with.) I'm back to running 1.0.7 until Firefox 1.5 can a nice point release but Opera is looking more and more tempting.
:(
I'm scared that Firefox 2.0 will have twice the system requirments than the operating systems on which it runs which, imho, it shouldn't.
Because at 22 your pre-frontal cortex isn't developed enough to make long term decisions like getting married. You change a whole lot more than you'd think between 22 and 25 (which is when your cortex should be close to finished developing).
I played the 360 at Wal-mart and posted a mini-review on the shack. The reason the X360 kiosks look like shit is mostly due to the fact that the "free" anti-aliasing was not enabled for the 3 demos. Microsoft got a little bit ahead of themselves and pushed their kiosks out the door with X05 builds which (most if not all?) were lacking the free anti-aliasing that we've all been hearing about. I can't really comment on what the final product will look like since I haven't seen it, but I can only assume that the final games will be smoother looking. The 360 offers 4X anti-aliasing for free I think.
Do you guys really think that either Blu-ray or HD-DVD will be the next gen format? I was thinking it'd be digital along the lines of mp3. Notice that there is no physical replacement for CDs.
It uses those censors only to know where your viewing area is, it uses gyros to determine how the device is tilted and so on...
The biggest fear everyone seems to be buzzing about right now is that the Revolution Controller won't be capable of playing "normal" games. Well, do you really think Nintendo would actually exclude themselves from those types of games? I think they're more clever than that; read this excerpt from one of the reviews: But what about for SNES or N64 games where there are more buttons or a need for a second analog stick? The Revolution controller can rest in a sort of controller shaped cradle which could add different buttons or control sticks to mimic the controller's predecessors. For example the analog stick portion would work quite well in the center of a N64 shell. Whether or not these shell cradles will come in the box, or if third parties will make shell cradles is also not determined. Not only that, but the expansion slot will enable any controller type to be hooked up to it allowing for wireless gameplay including dance pads, konga drums, and the like. No specific peripherals have been announced, but the possibilities are virtually endless.
So, the system will be more than capable of playing games the "regular" way. Although I'd expect that most games for the system will end up supporting the gyro in some way. I for one, am excited!
I think we are about to get a great controller upgrade from Nintendo (once again). They recently bought these guys: http://www.gyration.com/ . This could also explain why Nintendo said that twilight princess was the last of "this type" of Zelda game. I expect the next one to actually let you swing the controller to swing your sword.
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Kinda neet:
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But what's your response to new content? What's going to happen to things like free levels and, for example, the free ninja gaiden update that was made available. Nope. No more of that. So his point is correct. And honestly, what's wrong with FIXING something? I see no problem with updates. I like getting new maps and new player moddles for FREE from valve. I also like fixing cheat bugs and such that simply cannot be solved once.
Voice chat and friends lists without the ability to play games? That's two game-oriented features sans the actual gaming. Sounds silly to me.
Install these:
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p ?id=433
pdf download
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
flashblock
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
As most people will never hear about this, or simply forget to get their cash in time.
Because the engery required to do this would be ENORMOUS and very costly to implement.