There was a Victoria Secret bra that I remember hearing about that had diamonds all over it and it cost a million dollars. Basically it reminds me of this because of one reason. It was just a freaking diamond covered bra, the bra probably cost 20 bucks but the diamonds upped the value, this device probably could cost 1K if you really worked at it (the solid state might make it 3K but still) except for the diamonds.
This is just an example of someone putting a diamond in something. What's next me putting a diamond in the middle of my car and selling it for 1 mill.... wait a second that's not a bad idea.
You must be new here. Sorry but I'll disagree with most of the responses here. Slashdot since it's inception has been subverted by many groups.
We can argue which nerd is interested in this but in the end this is NOT news for nerds, this is politics that has no point except to be political.
If we even want to start talking about if it's appropriate or not let's first get article links IN THE SUMMARY, and then show us the wording of the vote. But in the end this is not interesting.
If you want to pretend there's political nerds, fine but realize they are really "people who are into politics and nerds" pot-smoking nerds are "pot-smokers who are nerds", neither of these have anything to do with this site. We could argue people in this state who are nerds care, but a vast majority of us don't give a fuck.
There's a reason that we have sections for Slashdot, you can find news for nerds who care about apple/books/games/developers issues/hardware/interviews/IT/Linux/Politics/Scien ce/Your rights online. However the front page is for IMPORTANT news for all nerds, not just what ever people want to promote mindlessly.
At least that's how I understand this site perhaps kdawson or the promoter (I assume it's not just kdawson who moves this to the main page) has a different opinion on this matter.
The response to adisakp's post hits it on the head. The DMA which is "easy" has latency on it. So you need to avoid DMA as much as possible. Assume you have a 129 Megs of data that constantly interacts with each other, Take a large scale Havok model as a for instance. If you don't know Havok is slow and needs quite a bit of power to do work, throwing in DMA latency every couple frames will just cripple the system.
The cell process is only here because Sony forced it onto game programmers. It's a brilliant piece of crunching hardware as I said but for game programmers it's forcing the programmers to do unnecessary work that no one should need. Keep watching the 360 vs. Ps3 battle, 360 games will keep having minor improvements, (the PS3 has 40 megs of Ram missing still) and more functions for the user. The code for networking that the 360 produces is why almost every 360 game has a online component. On the other hand the Ps3 has the less memory, worse hardware for most games, especially open world styled stuff (the variable information just plays with the memory in such ways that what's easy on the 360 becomes a chore to even correctly load into memory and if some data that needs to be worked on can't fit on one of those 128 meg blocks (let's say you have 10 blocks of 51 megs of memory, you can arrange 8 of them so they will work efficently, but the last 2 will slow the system down, on the 360 it avoids the DMA, while it might be slower, it's easier to program for in this type of problem)
In the end the 360 is the easier hardware to work with and produces similar if not better results so far. I've yet to see a Ps3 game that made me go "wow", and my company has every major game (I just tried motor storm, ok game, nothing impressive though). The bigger problem is moving a game to the PS3 can cause issues, moving a game to the 360 is a much easier transition.
Note: when I say "simple" I don't mean weak, I mean it has tools and is setup in a way that the programmer has the freedom to do what he wants with out having to constantly battle the hardware.
So the PS3 looks amazing, up to 20 times faster then an average computer?
Well as others pointed out the Cell processor is MADE to do this, it's not made to do games (believe me, the processor has stuff that's directly against good programming design for video games, the size of the memory available to each process is a big problem) but it can do this.
However also remember that for the PC you're also running an OS under it. running a firewall, a anti-virus software, Explorer or firefox, and other fun tools will slow you down even more. The way I read it is that a raw Ps3 with nothing else running is about 20 times faster then an average PC with an average workload of stuff on it. I still run folding at home, I support it, but my Bittorrents, my video tools, my firefox will all take away the precious cycles that Folding is after, however on a Ps3 if it's running at all it's running at maximum speed as there's nothing else really in the background. So the numbers will run a bit higher.
Overall the Ps3 is a remarkable crunching computer, too bad that doesn't make for a great video game system....
Funny the article also claims Nikoli to be the godfather of sudoku? They are more like the taxi driver.
"Try your hand at three different puzzles from Nikoli, a company run by the self-proclaimed godfather of sudoku,"
Why is it that Garms isn't mentioned at all in the article. It's not hard to mention the founder of these puzzles that Nikoli appropriated. The obvious point is it's shabby journalism to call them the godfather and not clairify what they mean. An American invented the puzzle? So does that mean he's not worthy of mention, is Cross sums more worthy because Nikoli took it from someone else? Are logic puzzles worthless because Nikoli doesn't print them? These simple facts just prove that the article is a fluff piece at best.
Feel free to be lead around by the nose, but I demand a better level of journalism from a "newspaper of record"
Howard Garns did, he published in magazines, it was called Number puzzle. The earliest found copies are 1976, almost 9 years BEFORE nikoli even published a "sudoku puzzle"
The difference between number puzzle and sudoku is.... the name, it's 100 percent the same, same rules, same game.
It's doubtful that "kakuro" is even Nikoli's either, that was another invention first found in american culture in the same magazines as number puzzle. That was called Cross Sums.
But then again why am I expecting a massive news publication like the New York Times to do a little research about these topics before announcing them. It's not like they are nationally read.
Seriously, when the top 4 are Halliburton, Exxon, RIAA, and walmart, it sounds like a liberal hitlist + The RIAA.
Why is it that I first hear about this after it's done. and only 10,000 votes? This sounds like a good competition.
Btw I find it odd they have Verizon and AT&T going up against clear channel and Halliburton. Why not make a better bracket system (all consumer stores in one bracket, all media outlets in another, all of faceless corps (halliburton, riaa) in another. and so on?) So we get the "worst" of each and those compete.
Besides about the only reason we are even hearing about this is that the RIAA won. If it was Halliburton, Exxon or Walmart the news would have been "Riaa number 2 worst company ever." or "RIAA not the worst company ever", if it was even posted here.
You're 100 percent right, but you're 100 percent scary!
It's become apparent over my short 25 years that asking congress to do anything is worthless, no matter who's in charge, They are like a mini version of the UN, a lot of talk a lot of work, and something might get done a couple years after the first discussion begins.
And you're right about the Copyright lawyers being biased (hell any law they write will be written in such a way that both sides will still be needed for years to come. AKA Active lawyers should not be allowed to write laws)
And you also identify the issues associated with looking to the EFF for help. Personally I find them to be extremists in a bad sense of the word, they want freedom even if it means the destruction of everything America is and was.
It's basically time to define "fair use" if I tape a football game off the tv I should be allowed to give it to a buddy or to show it the next day at a friends house where 20 of us get together to root for our team, I should be able to charge admissions (it's something that every person gets) as long as I'm not just making copies and selling the copies themselves.
I mean I'm allowed to invite everyone at the party to my house when the game is originally on (even if it's on a network they don't get) and so on.
However the NFL would probably disagree with that. Instead of relying on the courts to solve this type of issue let's get a senate committee to investigate this and maybe figure out some rules, unless they are all too busy looking at the best way to pay back Bush/burn the republicans. They are the ones supporting the FCC, why not make the FCC do something and ratify simple rules to clarify fair use for television and internet. However at the same time realize that if we do ask them to do this, we shouldn't constantly bitch if they disagree with out personal rules, we have elected these officials (or in the case of the FCC the officials who appoint them) to lead us.
Exactly, this sounds like an internet win... aka sounds really good online but when the courts get their hands on it they will rip her a new one.
Do you really think it took 20-40 years before someone realized that the NFL's copyright notice isn't binding? My guess is it's binding enough that she's screwed.
Sony has recently said not to expect too much from the backwards compatibility upgrades for the European market claiming that the system isn't exactly powerful enough to software emulate these old games.
Both the 360 and the Ps3 claim better numbers but the simple fact is in single threaded performance it's a bit lacking. Even the Ps3's specs should be able to PLAY every ps2 game but it can't, Xbox has an issue where a single thread is slower than the original xbox.
So expect them to patch, but even they have admited they can't patch everything (and one response they had was that you have MGS3, but not MGS2, the newer game is better right?
The reason this is better is because the publish pays the developer for the game. The developer pays the employees for the game. So the only way the game is made is if the programmers get a fair share of the money.
Basically that 45 percent they are talking about is already spent by the time any of this profit comes in. And suprisingly it works. Most programmers are salaried and they get paid whether the game does excellent or awful, but they are held accountable because they really do want to make the best game possible because it makes them look better in the future.
The PS3 has been identified by many in the industry as not being overly friendly to the developers. For instance the Ps3 takes up approximately 50 more megs than the Xbox 360, while containing weaker tools. The cell processor with it's independent memory has only stymied developers instead of made their life easier. At the same time this causes the consumers to have less games or weaker games available. The consumers are being asked to pay more for a similar system with more games available on it and the same as another system with their HD video attachment.
Who exactly are you aiming the PS3 for? The Developers are having a hard time with it, the consumers are asked to pay a higher price for a machine that has been proven to be on the same level as the 360?
In addition was there any consideration for developer buy-in before shipping the system?
Finally will there be any work made to bridging the gap between what the consumer ultimately wants and are getting? The buyer of a PS3 wants backwards compatibility which is being removed from the European release and possibly future American release. The buyer wants unique games, they don't exactly demand PS Home, they don't need Blu-ray movies, why is the PS3's target goals so different than the PS3's target consumer's goals.
This is the exact reason why Debian is poorly made.
More Choices != More Knowledge needed.
More Choices should be accompanied by more relevant text. Inform the user what a MTA is and give them a default choice THAT WORKS. Having to do 10 minutes of research to answer a question is a joke when you're using a computer and the computer should be able to inform you what the choice is about.
Oh and shipping with broken and missing header files (happened a couple years ago ) is the first and last problem I had with Debian, just as shipping with a broken GCC executable was the first and last problem I had with Red hat.
There shouldn't be excuses like "we're only for powerusers" if you want to make Linux distros get some common sense.
I only approve if EFF has a giant muzzle on their mouth. I applaud EFF on a few occasions, however in the past couple years these are few and far between. Basically they are sorta like the child who kicks and screams every time something doesn't go his way, yet at the same time they seem to miss important fights. The 2600 court case they didn't seem interested in, but they are willing to attack anything the government does.
Basically they feel like they are anti-government, more than they are pro-freedom, and while they can sound similar they are not.
Btw this will never work because no one is going allow the internet to be completely recreated from the ground up. Removing analog television and trying to implement IPV6 should have proven that a long time ago. Neither is going to work until they MUST work. And that's years off.
I'm hoping the US versions of the Ps3 will always have Hardware compatibility, but then again sony really needs to find a way to save money and selling games isn't working to well.
It's pretty sad because I really hate using memory cards and if the PS3 stops supporting backwards compatibilty I'll be stuck with those because outside of BC I'm not seeing a reason to get the PS3 until well into next year.
Exclusives that stop being exclusive, higher price, and weaker games just don't make for a good system.
The real problem is that shutting down Lik-Sang and forcing blu-ray on us isn't the problem, at least not the big problem. Sony believes they are the big dog, they want developers to support their own online system, they want consumers to buy everything they tell them too, they want everyone to believe in them and they act like it's so.
However the consumers and developers already are moving away from them. There's a scant few exclusives and that list is now down to two or three major games. Even stuff like Warhawk isn't getting the response they expected.
I was heavily in the Ps2 corner to the point where I didn't have a Xbox, I already have a 360 with a good collection of game and see it growing, the 360 did everything I wanted it to, and the PS3 did nothing I wanted it to. I'll have a Ps3 once they fix their Backwards compatibility problems (I'd probably but a premium PS3 at 300-400 for just a good Backwards compatitibly system of the PS2 with a Hard drive.), and make games I want to play, I see nothing for their system I don't already have a better version of on the 360, which sounds normal but is really quite sad as I don't feel a need for MGS4 and FFXIII, and even GT5 isn't worth the 600 dollar buy in.
Coming in to GDC Sony is in a hard last place in a lot of ways, yet apparently at this talk it sounds like a huge amount of the time is spent on Home, that's a huge win. Avoiding talking about the Blu-ray, price and games for the most part and talking up their new Home is good. Let's forget that GDC is about developers rather then the press, and the fact that they have taken the first steps to turning GDC into the next E3.
But from the sound of this they really got away with something at GDC this year, and kudos for them, too bad most of us are already too jaded to turn back and most developers still find the system a hassle even with this new item. Overall though it sounds like a huge win for Sony at least this week.
Essentially the same as people not blaming bush for this even though he doesn't run the FBI himself, or the democratic party completely ignoring this. Slim, not exactly none, but not visible by the human eye.
Well let's see Black and white, amazing AI that you can easily teach and train to help you do all sorts of thing. Wait it didn't have that.
But wait Fable, everything you do will change the entire world. Amazing... wait but it's a shadow of what you promised.
The answer is simple Molyneux blows too much smoke, and almost never delivers, at least not in the first game or the expansion. Why is the Sims 2 amazing? because Will Wright promised us an amazing experience and we got it. Why is Meier games a huge hit because we are giving great gameplay. Molyneux constantly promises huge experiences but never delivers.
This time he's promised us a Spector-esque type game where everything you do matters (again), but personally I won't be buying into the hype.
Yeah every study shows music piracy doesn't hurt. But I can tell you a great on the PC and early on in the life of the PS2 easily sold more on the PS2. It's even greater now that the PS2 has a huge install base. So yeah let's sell games to PC games and get a smaller market share, great! Or we could try to protect our profit with heavy anti-piracy software and get yelled at by fans. Oh genius.
Sure you mention Blizzard, but let me ask you this. How many MMOs are doing as much as Blizzard. The answer is none, Everquest is doing good, City of Heroes is good too but too many are trying and failing. Using one game out of 20-30 mmos that have come and gone, doesn't prove the PC is viable.
If your 360 title works on 1 system it'll work on all working 360s. If your computer works on 1 PC, a nearly identical PC won't work. You never have to worry about what Ps2 people are running it on, they all will work with your game, you can just focus on making the best game. If it doesn't work with all PS2s then it's something with the programming or some special feature, but I've not heard of any problems like this. Besides 400-500 for a gaming console or for a top of the line graphics card.. your choice.
Yes choosing one platform locks you into their pricing, but the difference per unit is negligable, more people will actually buy the game than downloading it, and if you've made a decent game they also are willing to work with you on marketing. The hardware for the Ps3 isn't great but that's a choice to design for it, or port it later. At least you're not expected to work with every video card out there right now, on the PC you are. New card comes out tomorrow... why aren't you compliant, even if it's the manufacturer's fault or they just arn't supporting your game 100 percent.
Sounds like you worked at a bad company, because if it's done right game development is great, crunch sucks but that's up to you. Don't like the job there's other studios out there. But then again it sounds like you worked at a company that knows nothing about the industry. However I shouldn't have to spell this out for you but there I did it.
There's a fence, on one side is the developers, on the other side is gamers. I recently hopped that fence. The biggest thing I noticed is developers are gamers too. most of them buy games and play them. Shocking.
The reason I bring this up is that while 60 bucks is a lot for a game, I learned the true cost of games. Everyone wants the next GTA and so on but look in your instruction books, there's a LOT of people involved in a sandbox game. Even a regular game now takes crews of 20-40 people to produce. Then if you look at SNES games you'll have groups of 10-20 people. Development time is about the same but the cost for producing the game has only increased. It's true that companies are getting more money but the size of those companies have expanded.
Claiming a pc is a better version is just foolhardy because companies are avoiding the PC like the plague for the most part because there's no money there, you can produce a game on the PS2 and the PC and the PS2 will out sell the PC with a large factor because piracy is just too common. In addition every PS2 sold will play your game, not ever PC sold will play it.
So if they can get money from advertising all the more power too them as long as they know how to handle it properly. Games like crackdown worked for the most part because it felt like part of the world. As long as people don't start doing stupid things with the advertising this is something developers will have to embrace and in theory gamers will have to also. It'll produce better games in the long run and perhaps more support (and DLC) too.
Why? Don't you want GDC to become the next E3? Over hyped? booth babes? They already have an expo that's going to probably explode next year because sony's trying so hard.
My question is where's microsoft? I didn't hear much from microsoft themselves this year. But I fully agree, GDC outside of this speech sounds like it's going the way of E3, media fluff, with out an actual focus on the developers yet again.
This is predictive math, and if anything computers have proven predictive math wrong.
Another solution is as others suggested restructure the Classes as I'm sure there's a couple (read: a lot) of class As that could easily become class Bs, or a couple class Bs together. that would free up 126-7 class B size slots.
IPv6 will come around, but I'm pretty sure well have time for another 3 or 4 versions of windows before then.
Because as I pointed out, the GCC version now is under GPLv2. You can use that for right now and nothing changes.
At the same time I also pointed out there's still those who don't accept GPLv3 and likely will not support it so there can grow two linux groups, the v2 and the v3.
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There was a Victoria Secret bra that I remember hearing about that had diamonds all over it and it cost a million dollars. Basically it reminds me of this because of one reason. It was just a freaking diamond covered bra, the bra probably cost 20 bucks but the diamonds upped the value, this device probably could cost 1K if you really worked at it (the solid state might make it 3K but still) except for the diamonds.
This is just an example of someone putting a diamond in something. What's next me putting a diamond in the middle of my car and selling it for 1 mill.... wait a second that's not a bad idea.
You must be new here. Sorry but I'll disagree with most of the responses here. Slashdot since it's inception has been subverted by many groups.
n ce/Your rights online. However the front page is for IMPORTANT news for all nerds, not just what ever people want to promote mindlessly.
We can argue which nerd is interested in this but in the end this is NOT news for nerds, this is politics that has no point except to be political.
If we even want to start talking about if it's appropriate or not let's first get article links IN THE SUMMARY, and then show us the wording of the vote. But in the end this is not interesting.
If you want to pretend there's political nerds, fine but realize they are really "people who are into politics and nerds" pot-smoking nerds are "pot-smokers who are nerds", neither of these have anything to do with this site. We could argue people in this state who are nerds care, but a vast majority of us don't give a fuck.
There's a reason that we have sections for Slashdot, you can find news for nerds who care about apple/books/games/developers issues/hardware/interviews/IT/Linux/Politics/Scie
At least that's how I understand this site perhaps kdawson or the promoter (I assume it's not just kdawson who moves this to the main page) has a different opinion on this matter.
The response to adisakp's post hits it on the head. The DMA which is "easy" has latency on it. So you need to avoid DMA as much as possible. Assume you have a 129 Megs of data that constantly interacts with each other, Take a large scale Havok model as a for instance. If you don't know Havok is slow and needs quite a bit of power to do work, throwing in DMA latency every couple frames will just cripple the system.
The cell process is only here because Sony forced it onto game programmers. It's a brilliant piece of crunching hardware as I said but for game programmers it's forcing the programmers to do unnecessary work that no one should need. Keep watching the 360 vs. Ps3 battle, 360 games will keep having minor improvements, (the PS3 has 40 megs of Ram missing still) and more functions for the user. The code for networking that the 360 produces is why almost every 360 game has a online component. On the other hand the Ps3 has the less memory, worse hardware for most games, especially open world styled stuff (the variable information just plays with the memory in such ways that what's easy on the 360 becomes a chore to even correctly load into memory and if some data that needs to be worked on can't fit on one of those 128 meg blocks (let's say you have 10 blocks of 51 megs of memory, you can arrange 8 of them so they will work efficently, but the last 2 will slow the system down, on the 360 it avoids the DMA, while it might be slower, it's easier to program for in this type of problem)
In the end the 360 is the easier hardware to work with and produces similar if not better results so far. I've yet to see a Ps3 game that made me go "wow", and my company has every major game (I just tried motor storm, ok game, nothing impressive though). The bigger problem is moving a game to the PS3 can cause issues, moving a game to the 360 is a much easier transition.
Note: when I say "simple" I don't mean weak, I mean it has tools and is setup in a way that the programmer has the freedom to do what he wants with out having to constantly battle the hardware.
So the PS3 looks amazing, up to 20 times faster then an average computer?
Well as others pointed out the Cell processor is MADE to do this, it's not made to do games (believe me, the processor has stuff that's directly against good programming design for video games, the size of the memory available to each process is a big problem) but it can do this.
However also remember that for the PC you're also running an OS under it. running a firewall, a anti-virus software, Explorer or firefox, and other fun tools will slow you down even more. The way I read it is that a raw Ps3 with nothing else running is about 20 times faster then an average PC with an average workload of stuff on it. I still run folding at home, I support it, but my Bittorrents, my video tools, my firefox will all take away the precious cycles that Folding is after, however on a Ps3 if it's running at all it's running at maximum speed as there's nothing else really in the background. So the numbers will run a bit higher.
Overall the Ps3 is a remarkable crunching computer, too bad that doesn't make for a great video game system....
Funny the article also claims Nikoli to be the godfather of sudoku? They are more like the taxi driver.
"Try your hand at three different puzzles from Nikoli, a company run by the self-proclaimed godfather of sudoku,"
Why is it that Garms isn't mentioned at all in the article. It's not hard to mention the founder of these puzzles that Nikoli appropriated. The obvious point is it's shabby journalism to call them the godfather and not clairify what they mean. An American invented the puzzle? So does that mean he's not worthy of mention, is Cross sums more worthy because Nikoli took it from someone else? Are logic puzzles worthless because Nikoli doesn't print them? These simple facts just prove that the article is a fluff piece at best.
Feel free to be lead around by the nose, but I demand a better level of journalism from a "newspaper of record"
Howard Garns did, he published in magazines, it was called Number puzzle. The earliest found copies are 1976, almost 9 years BEFORE nikoli even published a "sudoku puzzle"
The difference between number puzzle and sudoku is.... the name, it's 100 percent the same, same rules, same game.
It's doubtful that "kakuro" is even Nikoli's either, that was another invention first found in american culture in the same magazines as number puzzle. That was called Cross Sums.
But then again why am I expecting a massive news publication like the New York Times to do a little research about these topics before announcing them. It's not like they are nationally read.
Seriously, when the top 4 are Halliburton, Exxon, RIAA, and walmart, it sounds like a liberal hitlist + The RIAA.
Why is it that I first hear about this after it's done. and only 10,000 votes? This sounds like a good competition.
Btw I find it odd they have Verizon and AT&T going up against clear channel and Halliburton. Why not make a better bracket system (all consumer stores in one bracket, all media outlets in another, all of faceless corps (halliburton, riaa) in another. and so on?) So we get the "worst" of each and those compete.
Besides about the only reason we are even hearing about this is that the RIAA won. If it was Halliburton, Exxon or Walmart the news would have been "Riaa number 2 worst company ever." or "RIAA not the worst company ever", if it was even posted here.
You're 100 percent right, but you're 100 percent scary!
It's become apparent over my short 25 years that asking congress to do anything is worthless, no matter who's in charge, They are like a mini version of the UN, a lot of talk a lot of work, and something might get done a couple years after the first discussion begins.
And you're right about the Copyright lawyers being biased (hell any law they write will be written in such a way that both sides will still be needed for years to come. AKA Active lawyers should not be allowed to write laws)
And you also identify the issues associated with looking to the EFF for help. Personally I find them to be extremists in a bad sense of the word, they want freedom even if it means the destruction of everything America is and was.
It's basically time to define "fair use" if I tape a football game off the tv I should be allowed to give it to a buddy or to show it the next day at a friends house where 20 of us get together to root for our team, I should be able to charge admissions (it's something that every person gets) as long as I'm not just making copies and selling the copies themselves.
I mean I'm allowed to invite everyone at the party to my house when the game is originally on (even if it's on a network they don't get) and so on.
However the NFL would probably disagree with that. Instead of relying on the courts to solve this type of issue let's get a senate committee to investigate this and maybe figure out some rules, unless they are all too busy looking at the best way to pay back Bush/burn the republicans. They are the ones supporting the FCC, why not make the FCC do something and ratify simple rules to clarify fair use for television and internet. However at the same time realize that if we do ask them to do this, we shouldn't constantly bitch if they disagree with out personal rules, we have elected these officials (or in the case of the FCC the officials who appoint them) to lead us.
Exactly, this sounds like an internet win... aka sounds really good online but when the courts get their hands on it they will rip her a new one.
Do you really think it took 20-40 years before someone realized that the NFL's copyright notice isn't binding? My guess is it's binding enough that she's screwed.
Sony has recently said not to expect too much from the backwards compatibility upgrades for the European market claiming that the system isn't exactly powerful enough to software emulate these old games.
Both the 360 and the Ps3 claim better numbers but the simple fact is in single threaded performance it's a bit lacking. Even the Ps3's specs should be able to PLAY every ps2 game but it can't, Xbox has an issue where a single thread is slower than the original xbox.
So expect them to patch, but even they have admited they can't patch everything (and one response they had was that you have MGS3, but not MGS2, the newer game is better right?
Link: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3158104
I just hope the 360 releases a couple more BC upgrades for some of the best classic games and ignores this page in the PS3 playbook.
The reason this is better is because the publish pays the developer for the game. The developer pays the employees for the game. So the only way the game is made is if the programmers get a fair share of the money.
Basically that 45 percent they are talking about is already spent by the time any of this profit comes in. And suprisingly it works. Most programmers are salaried and they get paid whether the game does excellent or awful, but they are held accountable because they really do want to make the best game possible because it makes them look better in the future.
The PS3 has been identified by many in the industry as not being overly friendly to the developers. For instance the Ps3 takes up approximately 50 more megs than the Xbox 360, while containing weaker tools. The cell processor with it's independent memory has only stymied developers instead of made their life easier. At the same time this causes the consumers to have less games or weaker games available. The consumers are being asked to pay more for a similar system with more games available on it and the same as another system with their HD video attachment.
Who exactly are you aiming the PS3 for? The Developers are having a hard time with it, the consumers are asked to pay a higher price for a machine that has been proven to be on the same level as the 360?
In addition was there any consideration for developer buy-in before shipping the system?
Finally will there be any work made to bridging the gap between what the consumer ultimately wants and are getting? The buyer of a PS3 wants backwards compatibility which is being removed from the European release and possibly future American release. The buyer wants unique games, they don't exactly demand PS Home, they don't need Blu-ray movies, why is the PS3's target goals so different than the PS3's target consumer's goals.
This is the exact reason why Debian is poorly made.
More Choices != More Knowledge needed.
More Choices should be accompanied by more relevant text. Inform the user what a MTA is and give them a default choice THAT WORKS. Having to do 10 minutes of research to answer a question is a joke when you're using a computer and the computer should be able to inform you what the choice is about.
Oh and shipping with broken and missing header files (happened a couple years ago ) is the first and last problem I had with Debian, just as shipping with a broken GCC executable was the first and last problem I had with Red hat.
There shouldn't be excuses like "we're only for powerusers" if you want to make Linux distros get some common sense.
I only approve if EFF has a giant muzzle on their mouth. I applaud EFF on a few occasions, however in the past couple years these are few and far between. Basically they are sorta like the child who kicks and screams every time something doesn't go his way, yet at the same time they seem to miss important fights. The 2600 court case they didn't seem interested in, but they are willing to attack anything the government does.
Basically they feel like they are anti-government, more than they are pro-freedom, and while they can sound similar they are not.
Btw this will never work because no one is going allow the internet to be completely recreated from the ground up. Removing analog television and trying to implement IPV6 should have proven that a long time ago. Neither is going to work until they MUST work. And that's years off.
I'm hoping the US versions of the Ps3 will always have Hardware compatibility, but then again sony really needs to find a way to save money and selling games isn't working to well.
It's pretty sad because I really hate using memory cards and if the PS3 stops supporting backwards compatibilty I'll be stuck with those because outside of BC I'm not seeing a reason to get the PS3 until well into next year.
Exclusives that stop being exclusive, higher price, and weaker games just don't make for a good system.
I race my friend, it's a marathon though, when the gun fires I run 100 feet faster then my friend and claim I won even though I'm exhausted.
Do you see a parallel between Sony and my race strategy?
The real problem is that shutting down Lik-Sang and forcing blu-ray on us isn't the problem, at least not the big problem. Sony believes they are the big dog, they want developers to support their own online system, they want consumers to buy everything they tell them too, they want everyone to believe in them and they act like it's so.
However the consumers and developers already are moving away from them. There's a scant few exclusives and that list is now down to two or three major games. Even stuff like Warhawk isn't getting the response they expected.
I was heavily in the Ps2 corner to the point where I didn't have a Xbox, I already have a 360 with a good collection of game and see it growing, the 360 did everything I wanted it to, and the PS3 did nothing I wanted it to. I'll have a Ps3 once they fix their Backwards compatibility problems (I'd probably but a premium PS3 at 300-400 for just a good Backwards compatitibly system of the PS2 with a Hard drive.), and make games I want to play, I see nothing for their system I don't already have a better version of on the 360, which sounds normal but is really quite sad as I don't feel a need for MGS4 and FFXIII, and even GT5 isn't worth the 600 dollar buy in.
Coming in to GDC Sony is in a hard last place in a lot of ways, yet apparently at this talk it sounds like a huge amount of the time is spent on Home, that's a huge win. Avoiding talking about the Blu-ray, price and games for the most part and talking up their new Home is good. Let's forget that GDC is about developers rather then the press, and the fact that they have taken the first steps to turning GDC into the next E3.
But from the sound of this they really got away with something at GDC this year, and kudos for them, too bad most of us are already too jaded to turn back and most developers still find the system a hassle even with this new item. Overall though it sounds like a huge win for Sony at least this week.
Essentially the same as people not blaming bush for this even though he doesn't run the FBI himself, or the democratic party completely ignoring this. Slim, not exactly none, but not visible by the human eye.
Well let's see Black and white, amazing AI that you can easily teach and train to help you do all sorts of thing. Wait it didn't have that.
But wait Fable, everything you do will change the entire world. Amazing... wait but it's a shadow of what you promised.
The answer is simple Molyneux blows too much smoke, and almost never delivers, at least not in the first game or the expansion. Why is the Sims 2 amazing? because Will Wright promised us an amazing experience and we got it. Why is Meier games a huge hit because we are giving great gameplay. Molyneux constantly promises huge experiences but never delivers.
This time he's promised us a Spector-esque type game where everything you do matters (again), but personally I won't be buying into the hype.
Yeah every study shows music piracy doesn't hurt. But I can tell you a great on the PC and early on in the life of the PS2 easily sold more on the PS2. It's even greater now that the PS2 has a huge install base. So yeah let's sell games to PC games and get a smaller market share, great! Or we could try to protect our profit with heavy anti-piracy software and get yelled at by fans. Oh genius.
Sure you mention Blizzard, but let me ask you this. How many MMOs are doing as much as Blizzard. The answer is none, Everquest is doing good, City of Heroes is good too but too many are trying and failing. Using one game out of 20-30 mmos that have come and gone, doesn't prove the PC is viable.
If your 360 title works on 1 system it'll work on all working 360s. If your computer works on 1 PC, a nearly identical PC won't work. You never have to worry about what Ps2 people are running it on, they all will work with your game, you can just focus on making the best game. If it doesn't work with all PS2s then it's something with the programming or some special feature, but I've not heard of any problems like this. Besides 400-500 for a gaming console or for a top of the line graphics card.. your choice.
Yes choosing one platform locks you into their pricing, but the difference per unit is negligable, more people will actually buy the game than downloading it, and if you've made a decent game they also are willing to work with you on marketing. The hardware for the Ps3 isn't great but that's a choice to design for it, or port it later. At least you're not expected to work with every video card out there right now, on the PC you are. New card comes out tomorrow... why aren't you compliant, even if it's the manufacturer's fault or they just arn't supporting your game 100 percent.
Sounds like you worked at a bad company, because if it's done right game development is great, crunch sucks but that's up to you. Don't like the job there's other studios out there. But then again it sounds like you worked at a company that knows nothing about the industry. However I shouldn't have to spell this out for you but there I did it.
There's a fence, on one side is the developers, on the other side is gamers. I recently hopped that fence. The biggest thing I noticed is developers are gamers too. most of them buy games and play them. Shocking.
The reason I bring this up is that while 60 bucks is a lot for a game, I learned the true cost of games. Everyone wants the next GTA and so on but look in your instruction books, there's a LOT of people involved in a sandbox game. Even a regular game now takes crews of 20-40 people to produce. Then if you look at SNES games you'll have groups of 10-20 people. Development time is about the same but the cost for producing the game has only increased. It's true that companies are getting more money but the size of those companies have expanded.
Claiming a pc is a better version is just foolhardy because companies are avoiding the PC like the plague for the most part because there's no money there, you can produce a game on the PS2 and the PC and the PS2 will out sell the PC with a large factor because piracy is just too common. In addition every PS2 sold will play your game, not ever PC sold will play it.
So if they can get money from advertising all the more power too them as long as they know how to handle it properly. Games like crackdown worked for the most part because it felt like part of the world. As long as people don't start doing stupid things with the advertising this is something developers will have to embrace and in theory gamers will have to also. It'll produce better games in the long run and perhaps more support (and DLC) too.
Why? Don't you want GDC to become the next E3? Over hyped? booth babes? They already have an expo that's going to probably explode next year because sony's trying so hard.
My question is where's microsoft? I didn't hear much from microsoft themselves this year. But I fully agree, GDC outside of this speech sounds like it's going the way of E3, media fluff, with out an actual focus on the developers yet again.
Or if ... the math is wrong?
This is predictive math, and if anything computers have proven predictive math wrong.
Another solution is as others suggested restructure the Classes as I'm sure there's a couple (read: a lot) of class As that could easily become class Bs, or a couple class Bs together. that would free up 126-7 class B size slots.
IPv6 will come around, but I'm pretty sure well have time for another 3 or 4 versions of windows before then.
Because as I pointed out, the GCC version now is under GPLv2. You can use that for right now and nothing changes.
At the same time I also pointed out there's still those who don't accept GPLv3 and likely will not support it so there can grow two linux groups, the v2 and the v3.