What I meant was DX10 is the only platform out there that's embraced this mentality. Which means Mac and Linux our SOL unless someone steps up. I didn't have time to proof read, posted at the end of my lunch.
In fact my whole statement feels really rushed. I wish/. would just add a frickin' edit button for your own posts like every other forum.
Sounds like the last console you played was the PSone. Hardly any of the games I've purchased for the PS2 or Xbox 1 were on more than one DVD (I only say hardly cause I can't remember ANY but can't be certain I'm not forgetting one). With HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, I'm sure that isn't an issue even for next gen.
You do know who their CEO is right? That guy does not, never has, and short of having the violent portion of his brain surgically removed, come off as an altruistic and peaceful guy to me.
PC games could wipe the floor with consoles if a few chinks in their armor were sorted out.
First off the communication between hardware/software needs to be made as transparent as possible to alleviate the whole "We have so many different types of hardware to support." problem. It's moving in this direction, but unfortunately it is DX10 and MS saying "You have to meet these requirements on your hardware to be compliant." OSS can't seem to pull itself together here.
Second, there needs to be a framework for loading/caching game data on the fly. No more installing 5+GB of data. I want to drop the disc in and go. Optionally you could give the user the ability to install if they are so inclined and they could gain the benefit of shortened load times and +5 FPS.
Finally, I agree the keyboard+mouse is the most robust control system in the world, but better support for gamepads and games designed with them in mind on PC will only help bring attention to the platform.
Ultimately this is pointless though. I still firmly believe that at some point we'll stop buying consoles, DVD/CD players, cellphones, etc. Everything will be networked, integrated into one device, we just buy data. Who knows what the time frame is for this, especially with big business today still trying to keep their hands gripped tightly around their "niche". The promise is there though, lookit iPhone. If it delivers, it could very well be the start.
Surely the new tagging system could be used to let people filter stories rather than relying on the/. crew to find time between posting dupes, slashvertisements and poorly edited hyperbole, to add new categories. For a site that is all about technology it sure feels archaic and behind the times anymore.
It's always so nice to find someone else who shares my viewpoint. There is no way Burning Crusade cost more than what WoW makes a month just from the US player base (14.99 x ~2.5 million = ~37,000,000/mo). Throw in the varying fee's from around the world that makes up the rest of the 8 billion subscribers (haven't kept up with what regions pays how much) and you have a HUGE monthly cash flow coming in.
The 39.99 price tag is nothing but guys in Versace suits hoping for a huge bonus so they can afford to put 22" rims on their entire fleet of Bentley's and H2's.
Coming from someone who hasn't written more than a couple shell and Python scripts, why does it feel like there is nothing but resistance from the "seasoned" IT crowd over new ways of trying to do things?
I'm not saying either way is better or worse, but suggesting a new method, and from my already admittedly newbie viewpoint, more "human readable" methods (in this case assuming one is a pure math junkie), for coding would seem far more natural and easy to accomplish tasks in. Inevitably though, someone always tries to cut if off at the knees as "not as good as what we already have." Is that really the case? Is it resistance to change?
I guess what I'm trying to say is, without even giving something "new" a chance it's derided as a flawed product.
The pages are still "loaded" in the background so that when you click on them it doesn't have to retrieve anything and maybe a little popup preview when you hover over them.
Sometimes I have a lot of tabs and it's annoying to deal with them.
"These guys" are based in Canada it seems, though they have offices in the US. I'm not sure if that would put them under any kind of influence of US Trademark law.
Strangely I was just thinking about this recently. Over the last year I've been getting PC Gamer, EGM, Maximum PC, PC World, Wired and other non-tech mags. All thanks to frequent flier miles my roommate had to cash in or lose.
Now they are all expiring and I'm gettin' those "LAST ISSUE! ACT NOW!!" but really I have no interest. They were mostly toilet material and I started feeling like all they are anymore is paid product advertisements, and those were the articles!
PC Gamer is the best of the, IMO and PC World the most useless. I was saddened to discover my once beloved (4-5+ years ago) Maximum PC is really not what I remember it being. Dunno if there was a real change or I'm just wearing rose colored glasses on the issue.
All the info combined in those magazines can be found online in 30 minutes. Nuff said.
The fact that there are quite a few posts saying Cringely got that one wrong makes it look like he was in fact right. They dropped the Pentium brand name as their primary line, a name that they had been using for ~13 years. How many times have you looked at a software box and seen "Pentium Required/Recommended" over those last 13 years?
The reason no one noticed is because it isn't as big a deal. Yes the Core 1/2 chips offer better power, performance and aren't as hot, but the average computer buyer doesn't look at hardware like that. They look at what software will work on it, Windows? Check. Office? Check. An Intel or AMD sticker only matters to zealots anymore.
DuBois added, 'This is a unique opportunity for someone to buy the company for pennies on the dollar. We welcome all vultures.'
There's one hell of a joke about lawyers being vultures themselves, unfortunately the fact that a lawyer of all people said this has rendered my brain unable to make it.
I think he was trying to be sarcastic while at the same time pointing out our prison system and the ideology that maintains it is fundamentally flawed.
In other words, that loud woosh you heard was his point flying over your head at Mach 1.
I have a bad feeling about Obsidian's future. This is the second game they've released with severe playability issues for many people (and a seeming lack of strong QA KOTOR2 also had tons of bugs. I couldn't even finish the PC version because of a CTD, even on a clean Windows and driver install.). Whether this has been because of publishers rushing them (which was the big rumor over KOTOR2), Obsidian still runs the risk of struggling as a company if they continue to down this path (whether its their fault or not, sadly.)
I've spent multiple hundreds upgrading my PC this year and can run Quake 4, FEAR, Company of Heroes, etc wonderfully. But I've uninstalled NWN2 because it ran for crap and more recently I was running into an inability to patch to current (FFS release a standalone.exe!). The help I received on the forums (From Obsidian people) was "Try reinstalling."
You think all those fancy widgets, transparent windows, fading/sliding/animated in some assinine way menus only require a couple lines of code to work?
A lot of the computer code a system loads any more is stuff that makes it more "useable" for everyday folk. You kids and your fancy UI's!
Parent's, clergy, neighbors and family friends that are trying to "save" your soul and keep you on the good path are a barrier. It's pretty hard to indulge your curiosity when you don't even know there's anything to be curious about in the first place.
Keep in mind Rockbox doesn't support the "newest" 30GB video, 80GB video and 2nd-gen Nano because Apple changed controller chips and the Rockbox gang has yet to decipher it.
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What I meant was DX10 is the only platform out there that's embraced this mentality. Which means Mac and Linux our SOL unless someone steps up. I didn't have time to proof read, posted at the end of my lunch. In fact my whole statement feels really rushed. I wish /. would just add a frickin' edit button for your own posts like every other forum.
Sounds like the last console you played was the PSone. Hardly any of the games I've purchased for the PS2 or Xbox 1 were on more than one DVD (I only say hardly cause I can't remember ANY but can't be certain I'm not forgetting one). With HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, I'm sure that isn't an issue even for next gen.
You do know who their CEO is right? That guy does not, never has, and short of having the violent portion of his brain surgically removed, come off as an altruistic and peaceful guy to me.
PC games could wipe the floor with consoles if a few chinks in their armor were sorted out. First off the communication between hardware/software needs to be made as transparent as possible to alleviate the whole "We have so many different types of hardware to support." problem. It's moving in this direction, but unfortunately it is DX10 and MS saying "You have to meet these requirements on your hardware to be compliant." OSS can't seem to pull itself together here. Second, there needs to be a framework for loading/caching game data on the fly. No more installing 5+GB of data. I want to drop the disc in and go. Optionally you could give the user the ability to install if they are so inclined and they could gain the benefit of shortened load times and +5 FPS. Finally, I agree the keyboard+mouse is the most robust control system in the world, but better support for gamepads and games designed with them in mind on PC will only help bring attention to the platform. Ultimately this is pointless though. I still firmly believe that at some point we'll stop buying consoles, DVD/CD players, cellphones, etc. Everything will be networked, integrated into one device, we just buy data. Who knows what the time frame is for this, especially with big business today still trying to keep their hands gripped tightly around their "niche". The promise is there though, lookit iPhone. If it delivers, it could very well be the start.
All was good until you evoke Ol' Faithful and I think of Tubgirl. Burn in hell!
Of course we'll know when they do become evil... They'll simple add the tagline "Do Evil" instead of "Beta" to everything
Surely the new tagging system could be used to let people filter stories rather than relying on the /. crew to find time between posting dupes, slashvertisements and poorly edited hyperbole, to add new categories. For a site that is all about technology it sure feels archaic and behind the times anymore.
It's always so nice to find someone else who shares my viewpoint. There is no way Burning Crusade cost more than what WoW makes a month just from the US player base (14.99 x ~2.5 million = ~37,000,000/mo). Throw in the varying fee's from around the world that makes up the rest of the 8 billion subscribers (haven't kept up with what regions pays how much) and you have a HUGE monthly cash flow coming in. The 39.99 price tag is nothing but guys in Versace suits hoping for a huge bonus so they can afford to put 22" rims on their entire fleet of Bentley's and H2's.
Coming from someone who hasn't written more than a couple shell and Python scripts, why does it feel like there is nothing but resistance from the "seasoned" IT crowd over new ways of trying to do things? I'm not saying either way is better or worse, but suggesting a new method, and from my already admittedly newbie viewpoint, more "human readable" methods (in this case assuming one is a pure math junkie), for coding would seem far more natural and easy to accomplish tasks in. Inevitably though, someone always tries to cut if off at the knees as "not as good as what we already have." Is that really the case? Is it resistance to change? I guess what I'm trying to say is, without even giving something "new" a chance it's derided as a flawed product.
Here's what I want, a side bar like the one for history that has a nested list of pages I've opened from each domain. So you'd have a listing for
Slashdot.org
|
- http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl/etc/etc/etc
- http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl/etc/etc/etc
The pages are still "loaded" in the background so that when you click on them it doesn't have to retrieve anything and maybe a little popup preview when you hover over them.
Sometimes I have a lot of tabs and it's annoying to deal with them.
Then you rebrand it as "Hentai"
"These guys" are based in Canada it seems, though they have offices in the US. I'm not sure if that would put them under any kind of influence of US Trademark law.
Strangely I was just thinking about this recently. Over the last year I've been getting PC Gamer, EGM, Maximum PC, PC World, Wired and other non-tech mags. All thanks to frequent flier miles my roommate had to cash in or lose.
Now they are all expiring and I'm gettin' those "LAST ISSUE! ACT NOW!!" but really I have no interest. They were mostly toilet material and I started feeling like all they are anymore is paid product advertisements, and those were the articles!
PC Gamer is the best of the, IMO and PC World the most useless. I was saddened to discover my once beloved (4-5+ years ago) Maximum PC is really not what I remember it being. Dunno if there was a real change or I'm just wearing rose colored glasses on the issue.
All the info combined in those magazines can be found online in 30 minutes. Nuff said.
Sailed the ocean blue! Sorry every time I hear/see 1492 that pops into my head.
The fact that there are quite a few posts saying Cringely got that one wrong makes it look like he was in fact right. They dropped the Pentium brand name as their primary line, a name that they had been using for ~13 years. How many times have you looked at a software box and seen "Pentium Required/Recommended" over those last 13 years? The reason no one noticed is because it isn't as big a deal. Yes the Core 1/2 chips offer better power, performance and aren't as hot, but the average computer buyer doesn't look at hardware like that. They look at what software will work on it, Windows? Check. Office? Check. An Intel or AMD sticker only matters to zealots anymore.
I guess I only half read it the first time. That's what I get for reading /., writing PHP and being on a conference call at the same time.
What the hell is this thing? A Tivo without a hard drive? Do I hook it to my TV or my computer? Or both (via ethernet.)
DuBois added, 'This is a unique opportunity for someone to buy the company for pennies on the dollar. We welcome all vultures.'
There's one hell of a joke about lawyers being vultures themselves, unfortunately the fact that a lawyer of all people said this has rendered my brain unable to make it.
It's not identity theft it's identity fraud.
I think he was trying to be sarcastic while at the same time pointing out our prison system and the ideology that maintains it is fundamentally flawed.
In other words, that loud woosh you heard was his point flying over your head at Mach 1.
But I could be wrong.
I have a bad feeling about Obsidian's future. This is the second game they've released with severe playability issues for many people (and a seeming lack of strong QA KOTOR2 also had tons of bugs. I couldn't even finish the PC version because of a CTD, even on a clean Windows and driver install.). Whether this has been because of publishers rushing them (which was the big rumor over KOTOR2), Obsidian still runs the risk of struggling as a company if they continue to down this path (whether its their fault or not, sadly.)
.exe!). The help I received on the forums (From Obsidian people) was "Try reinstalling."
I've spent multiple hundreds upgrading my PC this year and can run Quake 4, FEAR, Company of Heroes, etc wonderfully. But I've uninstalled NWN2 because it ran for crap and more recently I was running into an inability to patch to current (FFS release a standalone
Try releasing useable software.
You think all those fancy widgets, transparent windows, fading/sliding/animated in some assinine way menus only require a couple lines of code to work? A lot of the computer code a system loads any more is stuff that makes it more "useable" for everyday folk. You kids and your fancy UI's!
Parent's, clergy, neighbors and family friends that are trying to "save" your soul and keep you on the good path are a barrier. It's pretty hard to indulge your curiosity when you don't even know there's anything to be curious about in the first place.
Keep in mind Rockbox doesn't support the "newest" 30GB video, 80GB video and 2nd-gen Nano because Apple changed controller chips and the Rockbox gang has yet to decipher it.
Lemme grab my "gizmo" and squirt one off.
Ok yeah given the sloven stereotype of geeks, I guess it could be pretty bad.