Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo all have QA processes that games must go through before they can be released on their platforms - regardless of who produces it. Edge magazine did an interesting feature a while back that described what the processes entailed at each of the console makers.
You could always span the z-axis across multiple pages. Of course it would be a bit of a mindfuck to have to flick between pages, but it would be interesting at least.
The 10 hours battery life claim is for playing MP3s. You'll get 8 hours for a game that doesn't do a lot of streaming from the UMD or use WLAN and 2 hours for a movie (guess LOTR is out of the question).
All of a sudden the battery life doesn't look too hot.
I suspect the battery will be the usual flat rectangular Sony affair - no way you'll be able to fit AAs - the unit is too slim.
Hear hear! There is something seriously wrong when platform exclusivity extends to regions. The whole thing really pisses me off! It's bad enough that we europeans have to wait 3 or more months to even sniff the games that are available for the machines we spend our hard earned on. But now we can't even play the games that we have heard so much about over that period thanks to Sony dropping a wad of cash in the publishers laps.
The sad thing is that it seems to negatively effect games companies. Sony's exclusivity deals on Prince of Persia and Beyond Good and Evil have done nothing to help sales of the games. In Europe both have barely scraped the charts, despite both being excellent games. I really hope the pay-off was worth it (you fucking money grabbing cunts!).
I've only had a little tinker with Open Office - but I've seen what looks like a fairly extensive macro language. It seemed like a wierd Java/BASIC cross.
This is the argument that opponents of CCTV come up with all the time.
If you actually believe that anyone is interested in you're habits then you have a seriously ego problem.
You don't really need to worry. Instead of just a tin foil hat you could wear your tin foil full body suit. You know the one I'm talking about - the one with the super signal scattering antenna grid that makes you invisible to all information capturing devices.
Congratulations to the hackers at NASA. I don't know whether to be jealous or glad that it isn't me sitting there hacking away at a machine that is sitting on another planet.
As humans we cannot control two different elements at one time. It is beyond our evolutionary capabilities.
Never used a dual monitor setup then young man?
I hear "oh, for maps, inventory" etc. So? How hard is it to press a button to bring that up then resume to your game.
Perhaps you should consider taking your favourite game, remove the HUD and stick it on an adjacent screen. You now have the full screen area reserved for your game and a cursory glance to the adjacent screen gives the all the information you need. Before you get worked up about the difficulty involved in looking at two things at once, consider that these are likely only 3 inch screens with a space of less than 1/2 an inch between them. Now if you have a problem with that then you must have some real difficulty playing console games on a decent sized televison - or using a computer for that matter.
Most employers are not concerned about whether the software you can produce is useful. They want to know that you can follow a specification and produce software that fulfills the client's needs.
By producing software that matches the needs of the client your software is inherently useful.
Simply opening the source of your software does not make it useful.
What is it about *BSD that makes it irrelevant on Intel?
I'm not a fanboy trying to start a flamewar. We've recently decided to move our (W2K) web servers to FreeBSD at work - so I'm asking as a concerned individual who doesn't want to see a shit-storm starting in the office.
That's quite an interesting question. I considered this after reading the SCO filing where they stated that they have requested all source from AIX since the year dot. Surely this can't be made public since IBM's (closed?) source code would then be public? Kind of like someone someone suing Coca Cola and asking them to produce the recipe for making the stuff.
Show me a single positive review of it then. Personally I think that the reason it sold so well may have something to do with the fact that review copies were only made available after the game had shipped.
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What about MS Word. It went from version 2 to 6.
Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo all have QA processes that games must go through before they can be released on their platforms - regardless of who produces it. Edge magazine did an interesting feature a while back that described what the processes entailed at each of the console makers.
You could always span the z-axis across multiple pages. Of course it would be a bit of a mindfuck to have to flick between pages, but it would be interesting at least.
The 10 hours battery life claim is for playing MP3s. You'll get 8 hours for a game that doesn't do a lot of streaming from the UMD or use WLAN and 2 hours for a movie (guess LOTR is out of the question).
All of a sudden the battery life doesn't look too hot.
I suspect the battery will be the usual flat rectangular Sony affair - no way you'll be able to fit AAs - the unit is too slim.
And, if their browser supports it, you can pass the XML and XSLT to the client and let them do the transformation for you.
Hear hear! There is something seriously wrong when platform exclusivity extends to regions. The whole thing really pisses me off! It's bad enough that we europeans have to wait 3 or more months to even sniff the games that are available for the machines we spend our hard earned on. But now we can't even play the games that we have heard so much about over that period thanks to Sony dropping a wad of cash in the publishers laps.
The sad thing is that it seems to negatively effect games companies. Sony's exclusivity deals on Prince of Persia and Beyond Good and Evil have done nothing to help sales of the games. In Europe both have barely scraped the charts, despite both being excellent games. I really hope the pay-off was worth it (you fucking money grabbing cunts!).
Bitter? Moi?
I've only had a little tinker with Open Office - but I've seen what looks like a fairly extensive macro language. It seemed like a wierd Java/BASIC cross.
This is the argument that opponents of CCTV come up with all the time.
If you actually believe that anyone is interested in you're habits then you have a seriously ego problem.
You don't really need to worry. Instead of just a tin foil hat you could wear your tin foil full body suit. You know the one I'm talking about - the one with the super signal scattering antenna grid that makes you invisible to all information capturing devices.
Congratulations to the hackers at NASA. I don't know whether to be jealous or glad that it isn't me sitting there hacking away at a machine that is sitting on another planet.
As humans we cannot control two different elements at one time. It is beyond our evolutionary capabilities.
Never used a dual monitor setup then young man?
I hear "oh, for maps, inventory" etc. So? How hard is it to press a button to bring that up then resume to your game.
Perhaps you should consider taking your favourite game, remove the HUD and stick it on an adjacent screen. You now have the full screen area reserved for your game and a cursory glance to the adjacent screen gives the all the information you need. Before you get worked up about the difficulty involved in looking at two things at once, consider that these are likely only 3 inch screens with a space of less than 1/2 an inch between them. Now if you have a problem with that then you must have some real difficulty playing console games on a decent sized televison - or using a computer for that matter.
You're right! Pre-rendered FMV really adds so much more to a game than using scripted sequences and letting the engine do the rendering.
The two examples you give are of insurance fraud and terrorism suspects being traced. Sounds like a good argument for CCTV to me.
I find it unlikely that anyone really gives a toss that you are heading to your local newsagent to buy porn mags and hand cream.
And that's why it pisses me off when idiots drive right up your arse. There is a reason why we get taught the two second rule.
The Mars Express is intending to do just that with its twin high resolution cameras.
Most employers are not concerned about whether the software you can produce is useful. They want to know that you can follow a specification and produce software that fulfills the client's needs.
By producing software that matches the needs of the client your software is inherently useful.
Simply opening the source of your software does not make it useful.
You'd think by now I would have realised that asking for advice on Slashdot is an entirely futile action.
:)
However, I'm always keen to hear all sides of the argument - one man's troll is another man's mentor
What is it about *BSD that makes it irrelevant on Intel?
I'm not a fanboy trying to start a flamewar. We've recently decided to move our (W2K) web servers to FreeBSD at work - so I'm asking as a concerned individual who doesn't want to see a shit-storm starting in the office.
Yet this is still no different from running a local webpage/app in IE with security settings set to low.
You could indeed open a popup with no toolbars or status bar (chromeless as well if you really want) as well and hey presto - infringement!
... Milk that license!
That's quite an interesting question. I considered this after reading the SCO filing where they stated that they have requested all source from AIX since the year dot. Surely this can't be made public since IBM's (closed?) source code would then be public? Kind of like someone someone suing Coca Cola and asking them to produce the recipe for making the stuff.
I can only begin to wonder what all of that will do to the battery life. We might get to see the splash screen before the batteries die.
If they take anything out we can only hope it'll be the 7.1 surround support.
if every music label used this, they'd keep feeding us the same music over and over...
So - looks like it's been working for quite a while then.
Now that is fucking funny!
Show me a single positive review of it then. Personally I think that the reason it sold so well may have something to do with the fact that review copies were only made available after the game had shipped.