In other words, swim at your own risk, but don't bitch to us if you get eaten by an alligator; you were told to stay out of the water.
I love allegories! Let me try one:
In other words, swim at your own risk, but don't bitch to us if you get eaten by an applegator that we release when you decide not to pay us to go swimming in the otherwise-safe lake.
"..I'm reluctant to say more, as I'm not sure what's common knowledge at this point, but blah blah blah..."
Well, Zonk, since THE GAME ISNT EVEN OUT YET, the amount of 'common knowledge' is pretty damn close to zilch. Not that it matters all that much. I've always found the story to be kind of lacking in the Halo games. All the characters look alike. It's pretty fun mindless shooter, tho.
Sure, people can have relationships online. The interwebs should be used to supplement traditional communication, though, not *replace* it.
There is an oft-cited study that was done at UCLA (1971, Albert Mehrabian) that determined that 93% of communication is NON-VERBAL, meaning vocal queues(38%) and visual queues(55%). Even on voice chat you're only getting half the story. It's easy to see internet communication is a whole lot more suceptable to a misunderstanding (whether intentional or not).
Your feelings are always real, you just have to make sure they are based on accurate information, then you'll be fine - irregardless of communication medium.
If I remember correctly, American McGee's next game was actually going to be 'OZ'. But he had trouble getting a publisher/backing so he went to McFarlene and turned the idea into a toy line. Maybe the toys proved popular enough for Todd to take notice.
I wouldn't be surprised if McGee was involved with this in some way.
The 'Domain' shopping center in north Austin also seems to have this problem. They have free wireless access that used to work decent, but once they got the iphones in the Apple store there, it's gone to shit. Damn access points reset themselves every other minute.
More anecdotal evidence, I suppose, but it's fishy.
You are right in that the SPU local store doesnt have any protection. You can write straight off the end and screw up your SPU program. The SPUs can only access their local store directly, though, so they cannot ever trash main memory.
And what exactly is the 'overall' power of a system?
Performance always has a context (despite what some marketers will have you believe) and in this context, yes, the Cell in the PS3 really is that much more powerful than an x86 chip.
This article mentions it, but it's easy to miss. Chris was talking in the annual "Developers Rant" forum, which is sort of an tongue-in-cheek, humor-laced exaggeration-fest. I'm sure he doesn't hate the Wii *that* much. His point was he wishes it was a faster, basically. You have to be able to see through the satire and wit, to understand what he's talking about.
Of course I wasnt there though - it's possible he could have taken it too far, it's always hard to judge where that line is and this guy seems to enjoy pushing that line.
You don't need a new bus to use more than one Cell. The Cell blades IBM sells have two Cells on board already and you can access all 16 SPEs. The blades can also cluster up for more resources. You just need code to manage it all.
Anyway, my point was, it would be much easier to supply a 1080i resolution (540 lines) verses a 720p (720 lines) from a graphics processing standpoint.
That's not true. You are correct in that 1080i sends less lines to the TV (or what have you), but graphics processors dont render interlaced images. Interlaced images are necessary for analog display devices so when your machine is connected to one, the controller only sends half the data because the display wants that. It still has the full resolution image in it's frame buffer.
This is why MS can 'add' 1080p support easily. The machine does the work regardless, the resolution is the same for 1080i and 1080p as far as its concerned.
So it's no skin off nintendos bum to incude 480p. That basically means the wii supports digital displays. Of course, unlike the higher resolution standards, 480p doesnt always mean widescreen. Widesreen 480p would take extra processing power over 480i because it has more pixels to render. Nintendo is leaving that decision up to developers.
Dude name Andrew Jones did the concept art work for the two Prime games. I got a chance to see some of his early work for the series before Prime2 came out and Jones depcited Samus in a really interesting way. Some shots had her in human form with the suit super-imposed over. He depcited her as battle torn, with short dirty hair, carbon residue from countless battles caked on but with fierce eyes. Cool stuff.
Can't seem to find any links, although, here are some to Jones' other stuff. Theres a pic of concept cover art for Prime2 in the second link
changelog: This free update, is now available over Xbox Live. There are no new features in this release, but rather a series of fixes and enhancements. Some of the items the update addresses are: * Improved logic around deciding if saved games should be deleted and offer the option to only delete the profile and to leave all save data. * Users reporting blank Friends List on the Xbox 360 dash after muting a friend while playing a game in Backwards Compatibility mode. * Improved synching of games played to Web and in console. * Network settings: keyboard does now allow entry of - (dash) character in the keyboard. * Improvements to the Xbox Guide. * Increased accuracy of "last time played." * Network configuration improvements for Xbox Live members in the Netherlands. * More detailed messaging for unreadable disk or region errors.
So there are female spartans now? I guess having a male spartan was "not Master Chief" enough. So now it's Master Chief with Super Armor boobies? Looks pretty lame to me.
Anybody read those Halo books? (what am I talking about, this is slashdot, of course you have) Is there any precedent in the Halo universe for female spartans? I was kinda under the impression that spartan were almost manufactured, cloned maybe, and enhanced to be supa-stong. What would be the benefit of having a female? Or do they need female ones to make little baby ones?
I want to play a baby-spartan! maybe a kart game with little baby spartans with big heads?? sweet.
Dont read too much into my post there. Obviously you're allowed to like what you like. I just sensed a bit of 'everything-old-school-is-better' snobery in the original post.
Not to be contradictive, but I DO like old school games just as much as the new fancy ones. My point was, though, that MP and MP2 recreated the feeling of the original ones rather well.
Metroid Prime 1 and 2 were almost universally hailed as excellent games. Metroid Prime made IGN's list of 100 best games of all time. They are FAR from generic FPS.
Maybe try PLAYING it, before you knock it. Both games recreate the feeling of the originals exceptionally well, this coming from a huge fan of the 2d games.
It's a trick to make the monitor 'look' brighter. They use the pixel shaders on the graphics adapter(HW) and with some nifty algorithms and a floating point pipeline, appoximate the look of light saturation as it would appear on film. Like most nifty realtime graphics effects, HDR is a short cut, enabled by recent HW advances.
Tha being said, I wasn't too impressed by the Lost Coast pics. HDR needs a few more rendering passes for it to look real. It's cool that they are pushing the tech, but it'll be another few years until we see really good lighting implementations in games.
I absolutely love Alamo drafthouse - saw Ep.III there the other day, but I've actually had a bad experience there once. An example of the strange taste of whoever puts together these outlandish movie events they so often have.
It was entitled "The 100 sexiest moments in film" and it will go down in infamy as the most misnamed show ever.
It was advertised with "Lady and the Tramp" and, to be honest, half of the 100 were somewhat innocent. The Graduate, that type of thing, but the other 50 or so were so over the top raunchy, it would make the webmaster at goat.cx crinch. I'm not just talking porn, this was stuff with animals, dead people, vegetables... I was woozy after that one, and I do not flinch easy...wow.
To make an understatement, my date wasn't exactly receptive that night.
Actually, Panera bought St. louis bread co back in the mid-90s and went ahead and made STL its headqtrs. Panera was originally a east coast bread company (forget the name).
Anyway, they kept the STL Bread CO name in STL, cuz people liked the place. Of couse, the food sucks now compared to the old STLBC and is more expensive.
Kudos on the free wi-fi though. Much better than Starbucks that charge by the freakin minute.
Right...try looking up Fahrenheit. MS had no intention of persuing it. It was, in essence, a thinly veiled attack to kill OGL. Almost succeeded too.
And OpenGL has mostly stagnated because of the nature of open standards and the weight of having to support so many disparate fields.
Stop spreading this crap, seriously. Yes, the ARB moves slowly, but that does not equate to stagnation. There is a whole world outisde of windows gaming, y'know.
One can easily download the OpenGL libraries (just as one normally has to do for other operating systems), and GL apps still compile in VC.
True, although it's essentially a big driver hack getting all the new GL stuff supported. Nothing unethical there by MS, though, for once - business is business.
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I love allegories! Let me try one:
In other words, swim at your own risk, but don't bitch to us if you get eaten by an applegator that we release when you decide not to pay us to go swimming in the otherwise-safe lake.
Well, Zonk, since THE GAME ISNT EVEN OUT YET, the amount of 'common knowledge' is pretty damn close to zilch. Not that it matters all that much. I've always found the story to be kind of lacking in the Halo games. All the characters look alike. It's pretty fun mindless shooter, tho.
Sure, people can have relationships online. The interwebs should be used to supplement traditional communication, though, not *replace* it.
There is an oft-cited study that was done at UCLA (1971, Albert Mehrabian) that determined that 93% of communication is NON-VERBAL, meaning vocal queues(38%) and visual queues(55%). Even on voice chat you're only getting half the story. It's easy to see internet communication is a whole lot more suceptable to a misunderstanding (whether intentional or not).
Your feelings are always real, you just have to make sure they are based on accurate information, then you'll be fine - irregardless of communication medium.
If I remember correctly, American McGee's next game was actually going to be 'OZ'. But he had trouble getting a publisher/backing so he went to McFarlene and turned the idea into a toy line. Maybe the toys proved popular enough for Todd to take notice.
I wouldn't be surprised if McGee was involved with this in some way.
The 'Domain' shopping center in north Austin also seems to have this problem. They have free wireless access that used to work decent, but once they got the iphones in the Apple store there, it's gone to shit. Damn access points reset themselves every other minute.
More anecdotal evidence, I suppose, but it's fishy.
Maynard,
You are right in that the SPU local store doesnt have any protection. You can write straight off the end and screw up your SPU program. The SPUs can only access their local store directly, though, so they cannot ever trash main memory.
And what exactly is the 'overall' power of a system?
Performance always has a context (despite what some marketers will have you believe) and in this context, yes, the Cell in the PS3 really is that much more powerful than an x86 chip.
This article mentions it, but it's easy to miss. Chris was talking in the annual "Developers Rant" forum, which is sort of an tongue-in-cheek, humor-laced exaggeration-fest. I'm sure he doesn't hate the Wii *that* much. His point was he wishes it was a faster, basically. You have to be able to see through the satire and wit, to understand what he's talking about.
Of course I wasnt there though - it's possible he could have taken it too far, it's always hard to judge where that line is and this guy seems to enjoy pushing that line.
You don't need a new bus to use more than one Cell. The Cell blades IBM sells have two Cells on board already and you can access all 16 SPEs. The blades can also cluster up for more resources. You just need code to manage it all.
That's not true. You are correct in that 1080i sends less lines to the TV (or what have you), but graphics processors dont render interlaced images. Interlaced images are necessary for analog display devices so when your machine is connected to one, the controller only sends half the data because the display wants that. It still has the full resolution image in it's frame buffer.
This is why MS can 'add' 1080p support easily. The machine does the work regardless, the resolution is the same for 1080i and 1080p as far as its concerned.
So it's no skin off nintendos bum to incude 480p. That basically means the wii supports digital displays. Of course, unlike the higher resolution standards, 480p doesnt always mean widescreen. Widesreen 480p would take extra processing power over 480i because it has more pixels to render. Nintendo is leaving that decision up to developers.
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http://www.conceptart.org/artist/andrew-jones/ima
Dude name Andrew Jones did the concept art work for the two Prime games.
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I got a chance to see some of his early work for the series before Prime2 came out and Jones depcited Samus in a really interesting way. Some shots had her in human form with the suit super-imposed over. He depcited her as battle torn, with short dirty hair, carbon residue from countless battles caked on but with fierce eyes. Cool stuff.
Can't seem to find any links, although, here are some to Jones' other stuff.
Theres a pic of concept cover art for Prime2 in the second link
http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/articles/andre
http://www.conceptart.org/artist/andrew-jones/ima
Woo hoo! I hope 'offloading' MS Office to the CPU is next!
Seriously, though, is this supposed to be a feature?
Nintendo has something else up its sleave for the cube.
check it: http://cube.ign.com/articles/708/708018p1.html
Found this on xbox-scene.com
changelog:
This free update, is now available over Xbox Live. There are no new features in this release, but rather a series of fixes and enhancements. Some of the items the update addresses are:
* Improved logic around deciding if saved games should be deleted and offer the option to only delete the profile and to leave all save data.
* Users reporting blank Friends List on the Xbox 360 dash after muting a friend while playing a game in Backwards Compatibility mode.
* Improved synching of games played to Web and in console.
* Network settings: keyboard does now allow entry of - (dash) character in the keyboard.
* Improvements to the Xbox Guide.
* Increased accuracy of "last time played."
* Network configuration improvements for Xbox Live members in the Netherlands.
* More detailed messaging for unreadable disk or region errors.
So there are female spartans now? I guess having a male spartan was "not Master Chief" enough. So now it's Master Chief with Super Armor boobies? Looks pretty lame to me.
Anybody read those Halo books? (what am I talking about, this is slashdot, of course you have) Is there any precedent in the Halo universe for female spartans? I was kinda under the impression that spartan were almost manufactured, cloned maybe, and enhanced to be supa-stong. What would be the benefit of having a female? Or do they need female ones to make little baby ones?
I want to play a baby-spartan! maybe a kart game with little baby spartans with big heads??
sweet.
Ign has some more info:
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/642/642647p1.html
Looks pricey!
$50 for the wireless controller and then $12 more for the damn battery, and what's the $20 Play and Charge kit?
Does that mean you could spend up to $82 per controller for all the bells and whistles?? Yikes!
now now,
Dont read too much into my post there. Obviously you're allowed to like what you like. I just sensed a bit of 'everything-old-school-is-better' snobery in the original post.
Not to be contradictive, but I DO like old school games just as much as the new fancy ones. My point was, though, that MP and MP2 recreated the feeling of the original ones rather well.
Gimme a break.
Metroid Prime 1 and 2 were almost universally hailed as excellent games. Metroid Prime made IGN's list of 100 best games of all time. They are FAR from generic FPS.
Maybe try PLAYING it, before you knock it. Both games recreate the feeling of the originals exceptionally well, this coming from a huge fan of the 2d games.
It's a trick to make the monitor 'look' brighter. They use the pixel shaders on the graphics adapter(HW) and with some nifty algorithms and a floating point pipeline, appoximate the look of light saturation as it would appear on film. Like most nifty realtime graphics effects, HDR is a short cut, enabled by recent HW advances.
Tha being said, I wasn't too impressed by the Lost Coast pics. HDR needs a few more rendering passes for it to look real. It's cool that they are pushing the tech, but it'll be another few years until we see really good lighting implementations in games.
I absolutely love Alamo drafthouse - saw Ep.III there the other day, but I've actually had a bad experience there once. An example of the strange taste of whoever puts together these outlandish movie events they so often have.
It was entitled "The 100 sexiest moments in film" and it will go down in infamy as the most misnamed show ever.
It was advertised with "Lady and the Tramp" and, to be honest, half of the 100 were somewhat innocent. The Graduate, that type of thing, but the other 50 or so were so over the top raunchy, it would make the webmaster at goat.cx crinch. I'm not just talking porn, this was stuff with animals, dead people, vegetables... I was woozy after that one, and I do not flinch easy...wow.
To make an understatement, my date wasn't exactly receptive that night.
Every time I hear about these "source" releases, I keep reading it as source *code* releases.
Like: 'Damn! More Valve source code on the net? They needs to get the latest 15 windows mega-critical security patches, like, quick!"
Then I realize that we're talking about the source *engine*. D'oh.
That reminds me... *goes to windowsupdate.com*
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/16/news_61246 81.html
mem card slots, 7 bluetooth controllers, 2.18(!) teraflops processing power, 1080p rez
wowzer..
Actually, Panera bought St. louis bread co back in the mid-90s and went ahead and made STL its headqtrs. Panera was originally a east coast bread company (forget the name).
Anyway, they kept the STL Bread CO name in STL, cuz people liked the place. Of couse, the food sucks now compared to the old STLBC and is more expensive.
Kudos on the free wi-fi though. Much better than Starbucks that charge by the freakin minute.
Right...try looking up Fahrenheit. MS had no intention of persuing it. It was, in essence, a thinly veiled attack to kill OGL. Almost succeeded too.
Stop spreading this crap, seriously. Yes, the ARB moves slowly, but that does not equate to stagnation. There is a whole world outisde of windows gaming, y'know.
True, although it's essentially a big driver hack getting all the new GL stuff supported. Nothing unethical there by MS, though, for once - business is business.