PC Gaming: - Buy the CD/DVD - Load the game on HD - Download patch(es) - Load newest/special drivers - Buy more memory/new video card - Configure network settings - But special controller - Play game
I'm more interested who this Gravity guy is that made this document? Is it a pirate who didn't want register his name? And how is he affect by nearby celstrial objects?
Of course Microsoft would create this document using their own products, naturally, they are the big proponent of the "Eat Your Own Dog Food" methodology.
So why then when I click on Document Properties on this PDF do I see?
Creator: QuarkXpress 4.11 Producer: Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Macintosh
Bill: while you're transferring this over to Microsoft Publisher perhaps you'd like to fix the typo on page 1: "rteam".
I think your forgettin one other thing in all this: Infalation
Our jobless recovery(damn I have to live in a manufacturing town) is actually driving wages up and causing inflation. Game production cost is going down(ie outsourcing, smaller packaging and instructions, and cheaper cd burning prices) but production cost drop is currently it in sync with inflation.
Ya know the real push in the late 90's was these 'multimedia' atm's. I remember seeing on/. somewhere about watching movies(or rather 3rd party video advertisements and movie trailers) to entice people in to come to their machines.
I wonder how many banks got stuck with these over priced machines that no one wanted to buy advertising time on?
Simple: If your OS fraks up you got someone to give you support. With open source you ussually don't have that.
You can get a easier platform and GUI to program for(VB.NET, Flash). Also if something radically goes wrong you've got someone to sue. Try suing open source/as is software sometime and see how far you don't go.
Vigilanties usually don't fix a problem. They almost always make things worse. If one person is saying an auction is real and another says they are fake then who should you believe? The answer is no one, go other to Yahoo! Auctions or somewhere else.
E-bay will have to restructure and get rid of these fake auctions or die.
Art imitates life? This reminds me of the premace of the dotHack//sign video. The internet is attacked by an uber virus destroying must of the know universe. The shards of humanity have to recreate an newer, faster internet with fairly strict usage regulations. Ok, I'm embellishing the series a little but you get the gist.
IMHO we will evolve into one of two directions before that happens:
Government sponsored RFID tracking everything we do through a world wide ID.
A challenge based network were each individual says who can and can't access their information or send them information.
I personally opt for the later and have. I use regular email but it goes through a filter(si20.com). I can set the level to block only the worst offenders or block everyone but who is on my list.
I hope people wake up before something really bad happens and the government is forced to do something. We all know what happens when the government interferes.
I have to disagree with you. People had a ton of trouble setting up VESA and Sound Blaster drivers in DOS just so that they could play Commander Keen and Doom. Remember dealing with IRQ's? Yet people did it. Why fuss when they could use an easier platform like MAC? 2 reasons: The PC/DOS platform was cheapers to purchase AND thats the platform games were being made on.
You could do plug and play type gaming on Mac nearly a decade before you could on PC's. But PC's offered better graphics and more games for half the price.
Give people a killer application or game and they will switch. For Microsoft it was Windows and Office. What will it be for Linux, games or video editing? Both need a good set of video drivers.
Give us an f*@king demo, not just some rendered shoot of what it might look like and some specs of what it might do. Don't bitch unless your bitchin' where the damn system.
You could build a system by the time it comes out.
Anyone trashing Infinium here has not bothered to try out Infiniums offerings themselves. If you lazy asses would go to their web site you'd see that they have produced many great things already, including a really cool logo, an Acrobat PDF file with cool graphics embedded in it, and a kick-ass schweeet streaming video file that has techno beats, flashy words and graphics flying all over the screen, I was was like "Whoa! That logo is cool!" I want to upgrade my connection to T3 so I can download the bigger versions of the promotional versions, and here them in Dolby Surround!
The problem with most lame-ass gamers these days is everyone expects to go to the store and buy a plastic box and you bring it home and plug it in and "play with it", as if pushing buttons and controllling things on the screen really matters. Well that's old thinking. Now days we don't have to hold a gaming system in our hands to appreciate it. We can just download a promotional video clips (that are all free by the way, why pay for games when promotional videos are free?) and it shows you what the system would look like, that is if you wanted a plastic box taking space in your home, but we don't have to actually hold it and play it, do we? No!
Infinium is taking the next bold step into "non-interactive promotional gaming" and all of you are just screwing around wasting money on your Pac-Man ancient history non-promotional I-have-to-hold-it-in-my-hands gaming systems. Losers! All of you! I'm never reading Slashdot again, at least not until I come back to work on Monday, I swear, all weekend no Slashdot!
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PC Gaming:
- Buy the CD/DVD
- Load the game on HD
- Download patch(es)
- Load newest/special drivers
- Buy more memory/new video card
- Configure network settings
- But special controller
- Play game
Console Gaming:
- Buy the CD/DVD
- Play game
Which would you prefer to do?
I'm more interested who this Gravity guy is that made this document? Is it a pirate who didn't want register his name? And how is he affect by nearby celstrial objects?
Of course Microsoft would create this document using their own products, naturally, they are the big proponent of the "Eat Your Own Dog Food" methodology.
So why then when I click on Document Properties on this PDF do I see?
Creator: QuarkXpress 4.11
Producer: Acrobat Distiller 4.05 for Macintosh
Bill: while you're transferring this over to Microsoft Publisher perhaps you'd like to fix the typo on page 1: "rteam".
John.
So when will these changed be added to Firefox? Of course these optimization could be coming from Firefox. Anyone know one way or the other?
I think your forgettin one other thing in all this: Infalation
Our jobless recovery(damn I have to live in a manufacturing town) is actually driving wages up and causing inflation. Game production cost is going down(ie outsourcing, smaller packaging and instructions, and cheaper cd burning prices) but production cost drop is currently it in sync with inflation.
Ya know the real push in the late 90's was these 'multimedia' atm's. I remember seeing on /. somewhere about watching movies(or rather 3rd party video advertisements and movie trailers) to entice people in to come to their machines.
I wonder how many banks got stuck with these over priced machines that no one wanted to buy advertising time on?
Simple: If your OS fraks up you got someone to give you support. With open source you ussually don't have that.
You can get a easier platform and GUI to program for(VB.NET, Flash). Also if something radically goes wrong you've got someone to sue. Try suing open source/as is software sometime and see how far you don't go.
Vigilanties usually don't fix a problem. They almost always make things worse. If one person is saying an auction is real and another says they are fake then who should you believe? The answer is no one, go other to Yahoo! Auctions or somewhere else.
E-bay will have to restructure and get rid of these fake auctions or die.
So which will it be e-Bay?
Soon you can buy the new Indian operating systems Indows XP for the desktop and Inux for the server market!
IMHO we will evolve into one of two directions before that happens:
- Government sponsored RFID tracking everything we do through a world wide ID.
- A challenge based network were each individual says who can and can't access their information or send them information.
I personally opt for the later and have. I use regular email but it goes through a filter(si20.com). I can set the level to block only the worst offenders or block everyone but who is on my list.I hope people wake up before something really bad happens and the government is forced to do something. We all know what happens when the government interferes.
So how much will it cost to get a place on one of these network? Is low cost $25 for a half block? $10,000 or $100,000 for a continous channel?
Q: Were do you find enough Linux users to have enough people to buy your games?
A: Create a self-booting CD/DVD like Knoppix and you've got almost every PC users out there.
I have to disagree with you. People had a ton of trouble setting up VESA and Sound Blaster drivers in DOS just so that they could play Commander Keen and Doom. Remember dealing with IRQ's? Yet people did it. Why fuss when they could use an easier platform like MAC? 2 reasons: The PC/DOS platform was cheapers to purchase AND thats the platform games were being made on.
You could do plug and play type gaming on Mac nearly a decade before you could on PC's. But PC's offered better graphics and more games for half the price.
Give people a killer application or game and they will switch. For Microsoft it was Windows and Office. What will it be for Linux, games or video editing? Both need a good set of video drivers.
It sounds like this guy wants us to write 2 engines: A high end engine and a low end engine.
Why not just write a good low end machine engine that will be killer on a high end machine?
Can anyone suggest a good place to get an LCD screen for a project like this?
You can read it here.
So does this mean we could see an embedded version of MySQL in PHP? With PHP 5 embedding SQLLite MySQL stands to lose a good market share.
I can see it now Knoppix Northland! This is what everyone was talking about a year ago: Bootable Linux game CD's.
Well, at least Microsoft isn't funding them.
Don't even bring up that one story from yesterday.
Question: Has anyone considered what happens when a wild virus comes in contact with a vacine that was made from enhanced virals?
Answer: The wild virus eventually evolves takes on the attributes of the enhanced virus plus new traits to give the wild virus immunity.
Isn't that just MSN Messenger with a skin? I think Yahoo better counter sue.
Cheap photo printers.
How about a $150 with $30 color cartriages?
Give us an f*@king demo, not just some rendered shoot of what it might look like and some specs of what it might do. Don't bitch unless your bitchin' where the damn system.
You could build a system by the time it comes out.
Anyone trashing Infinium here has not bothered to try out Infiniums offerings themselves. If you lazy asses would go to their web site you'd see that they have produced many great things already, including a really cool logo, an Acrobat PDF file with cool graphics embedded in it, and a kick-ass schweeet streaming video file that has techno beats, flashy words and graphics flying all over the screen, I was was like "Whoa! That logo is cool!" I want to upgrade my connection to T3 so I can download the bigger versions of the promotional versions, and here them in Dolby Surround!
The problem with most lame-ass gamers these days is everyone expects to go to the store and buy a plastic box and you bring it home and plug it in and "play with it", as if pushing buttons and controllling things on the screen really matters. Well that's old thinking. Now days we don't have to hold a gaming system in our hands to appreciate it. We can just download a promotional video clips (that are all free by the way, why pay for games when promotional videos are free?) and it shows you what the system would look like, that is if you wanted a plastic box taking space in your home, but we don't have to actually hold it and play it, do we? No!
Infinium is taking the next bold step into "non-interactive promotional gaming" and all of you are just screwing around wasting money on your Pac-Man ancient history non-promotional I-have-to-hold-it-in-my-hands gaming systems. Losers! All of you! I'm never reading Slashdot again, at least not until I come back to work on Monday, I swear, all weekend no Slashdot!
This just in WINE development moves at an exponential rate! Ever wonder?
Why is it that it has taken X Company 15-20 years for people to think about suing over what is now considered accepted practices?
SCO and a handful of questionable Linux, every little thing in MS-DOS/Windows, 1-Click shopping.
I need to duct my head to together so that when it finally does explode all the little bits will be there.