So it's kinda like a game where the game focuses on graphics (pictures) and ends up with a shitty story (captions)... and then it has shitty graphics anyway. Perfect recipe for a shitty game (article)!!
Yeah, you're right. Of course it depends on the factors that you mentioned although consoles with several CPUs and other chips are usually well known for being easier to emulate, since all of the chips need to be kept in sync.
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From the article: "Nintendo stuffed everything possible into as few chips as they could"
I'm not an emulator guru, but from what I do know, the fewer chips, the easier a system is to write an emulator for! Of course, if those chips are highly complex (as they probably are), then it's still hard but probably not quite as difficult. Is it possible Nintendo have finally succumbed to emulation and have thought about the possibility of themselves writing a GameCube emulator for PC?
Treat for Microsoft whilst people (note: not consumers... consumers don't exist, People do) get tricked.
Heres my idea: George Bush ain't very smart. He's a sheep to any public opinion, thats why he bombed Afghanistan so quick without really leaving enough time to ponder his idea (considering the pressure he was under). So I think if the public can convince Bush that Microsoft is a terrorist organization and then pressure him into bombing the Redmond HQ, Billy and friends might regret terrorising consumers for over a decade.
Also, I don't think theres many caves in Silicon Valley so Bill might have a hard time hiding.
But the next Windows will have full integration with.NET, I thought XP was introducing part of.NET or something like that, but I could be wrong about that. Either way, it's definately in the next OS after XP.
You raised a good point about the Win2k users having to upgrade to use new programs, although hopefully if newer OS's don't exactly "take off" then perhaps developers would be inclined to develop with backward compatibility in mind. On the other hand, Microsoft are likely to offer superior development tools for.NET.
I wouldn't have thought Microsoft would have underlying anything. Whilst they keep their source code very much closed-source, their business practices, fears and strategies are so damn obvious that anyone knows their next move and why.
They pretty much repeat a pattern. Set their own standards that stray from other standards so that competition falls behind and they dominate the market. Then when competition starts to catch up on their standards, they create new standards to ensure their market domination. Lots of users upgrade to their latest product because their previous one is bug-ridden. The users then start using some of the new features in that product and hence competition starts losing ground. For example, Microsoft's latest evil is.NET, although there is a chance they might have failed this time! I know plenty of Windows 2000 users who are happy with that and have clearly said they're not going to upgrade, this will be beneficial in resisting.NET.
I just thought it was kinda obvious what Microsoft's tactics are. They stay in business by setting standards and obviously they'd be very scared of losing that advantage.
A great article though, as it goes into much greater detail.
From the article: The spokeswoman that clarified the situation for us was one Ms Knight (no relation but some irony).
The article has been updated to acknowledge that Jedi Knight is not officially recognised as a relgion but also states that no religions are officially recognised. If that's the case, then isn't it "as good" as recognised as an official religion?!? (it's in the same boat as all of the "real" religions)
Well... you only really stated three things (fusion, cloning and AI) of which cloning has materialized. It is also arguable that AI has materialized in some capacity (Neural networks based upon the human brain, perhaps? Still being tested but they might work out...) and here we have fusion maybe materializing. So all three have basically materialized to some extent. There's been plenty of progress.
Its easy to forget things like this once they materialize. How about GUI's, 3D accelerators which have a fill rate of 1 billion+ pixels per second (GF3 Titanium 500) and CPUs which are measured in gigahertz rather than megahertz?
Incidentally, its the same as the Win32 and Mac except its for Linux!! Was this really worthy of a story when the test has already been discussed here?
I have to say, I did try it out again and this time it was much less laggy and much more fun. I wouldn't quite say it was bliss... but it definately does have the teamwork factor in there!!
Running around as a medic and healing (kinda resurrecting) your injured teammates is quite fun and makes you feel as if you're truly helping out.
Hopefully once the lag issues are sorted out as well as a few other things being tweaked it should be great!
The two major gameplay issues I can spot are when hitting and being hit. I'd like to see my screen flash red when being hit... since right now the player just tends to get knocked around and sometimes it almost looks as if you have respawned. When hitting another player, its very hard to tell whether or not you're hitting them due to a distinct lack of blood, that ends up being quite annoying.
Apart from little issues and the lag, the game is pretty good. The single player ought to truly shine!
Gamespot have now fixed their file. However, anyone who previously downloaded from Gamespot should check that their file is named "WolfMPTEST0915.exe", otherwise it is the old version.
Note that the old version still works but has some performance issues, more bugs, etc.
Gamespot have the WRONG version of the Wolfenstein test. Their version is an older version so you should download it from either Fileplanet, Bluesnews or 3D Gamers.
I just came out of a game of it and I'm disappointed. I guess its a test so a lot of the criticism is just because of that... but its VERY laggy. I had a ping of about 150 and it was verging on unplayable.
It just doesn't feel good. It feels like a Quake 3 World War 2 mod with lots of latency added. Not an entirely new game. The flamethrower was impressive but not mindblowing. The rocket launcher and grenades are completely useless due to the lag (might be different for pings around 50... but 150 isn't all that high).
Quake 3 was much better at handling lag, so since this is a multiplayer test hopefully any lag issues will be straightened out.
For now, the DOD mod for Half-Life is a MUCH better WW2 fix. Wolfenstein's single player looks VERY impressive but the multiplayer test is quite disappointing. I suppose thats why they stress it's a TEST.
Throw them in jail, all of them!!
Wha-at?!? They're not in the US and they're out of jurisdiction?? Lets go get them, then throw them in jail!
Little earthquake-inducing bastards...
Violation of the DCMA... uh... "thinking freely and breaking copyrighted world records".
Also, any way that this can somehow be blamed on Skylarov? Just incase the computer-related case doesn't work out... We can't let an innocent Russian get away, now can we?
Does it have anything like the emotion engine?
Uh, yeah... in fact, the X-Box sports an NV25. Pretty much a beefed-up GeForce 3. Thanks to that, it can out-perform the PS2 quite easily.
In my opinion though, the X-Box will suffer from a lack of great games and will probably be telefragged by the GameCube. Thats just my opinion though.
How commendable.
Its quite disgusting that anyone actually patented such a thing in the first place. Human life is sacred and every life is worth more than all of the money in the world.
Then again, given the sick and twisted world of today, it would be quite naive to think that someone WOULDN'T patent such a thing.
Given all the money that is donated into research for medecines into diseases like AIDS, surely any organization that manages to create that medecine has been funded by the donations. Surely noone needs to profit off such a thing.
You said it yourself -- its fraud and forgery. It's illegal to sign for other people's packages (especially if they haven't given their approval), likewise, it is illegal to sign other people's letters (especially if they haven't given their approval).
Put simply, you cannot ever legally forge someone's signature. Although it's technically illegal, many people might do it with someone elses approval and as such that never becomes a legal issue. Here, Microsoft, if found guilty, are breaking the law, not due to a technicality but due to their fraudulent intent.
It's a crime.
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Take a look on this picture and ask yourself a question: Do I wanna be there?
Hell no!! Imagine what it would smell like!!
Who said anything about overclocking?!? Everyones excited at the prospect of underclocking it and making it more stable... for sure!
So it's kinda like a game where the game focuses on graphics (pictures) and ends up with a shitty story (captions)... and then it has shitty graphics anyway. Perfect recipe for a shitty game (article)!!
Yeah, you're right. Of course it depends on the factors that you mentioned although consoles with several CPUs and other chips are usually well known for being easier to emulate, since all of the chips need to be kept in sync.
From the article: "Nintendo stuffed everything possible into as few chips as they could"
I'm not an emulator guru, but from what I do know, the fewer chips, the easier a system is to write an emulator for! Of course, if those chips are highly complex (as they probably are), then it's still hard but probably not quite as difficult. Is it possible Nintendo have finally succumbed to emulation and have thought about the possibility of themselves writing a GameCube emulator for PC?
Treat for Microsoft whilst people (note: not consumers... consumers don't exist, People do) get tricked.
Heres my idea: George Bush ain't very smart. He's a sheep to any public opinion, thats why he bombed Afghanistan so quick without really leaving enough time to ponder his idea (considering the pressure he was under). So I think if the public can convince Bush that Microsoft is a terrorist organization and then pressure him into bombing the Redmond HQ, Billy and friends might regret terrorising consumers for over a decade.
Also, I don't think theres many caves in Silicon Valley so Bill might have a hard time hiding.
But the next Windows will have full integration with .NET, I thought XP was introducing part of .NET or something like that, but I could be wrong about that. Either way, it's definately in the next OS after XP.
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You raised a good point about the Win2k users having to upgrade to use new programs, although hopefully if newer OS's don't exactly "take off" then perhaps developers would be inclined to develop with backward compatibility in mind. On the other hand, Microsoft are likely to offer superior development tools for
It's sad that things have to be like this.
I wouldn't have thought Microsoft would have underlying anything. Whilst they keep their source code very much closed-source, their business practices, fears and strategies are so damn obvious that anyone knows their next move and why. .NET, although there is a chance they might have failed this time! I know plenty of Windows 2000 users who are happy with that and have clearly said they're not going to upgrade, this will be beneficial in resisting .NET.
They pretty much repeat a pattern. Set their own standards that stray from other standards so that competition falls behind and they dominate the market. Then when competition starts to catch up on their standards, they create new standards to ensure their market domination. Lots of users upgrade to their latest product because their previous one is bug-ridden. The users then start using some of the new features in that product and hence competition starts losing ground. For example, Microsoft's latest evil is
I just thought it was kinda obvious what Microsoft's tactics are. They stay in business by setting standards and obviously they'd be very scared of losing that advantage.
A great article though, as it goes into much greater detail.
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From the article: The spokeswoman that clarified the situation for us was one Ms Knight (no relation but some irony).
The article has been updated to acknowledge that Jedi Knight is not officially recognised as a relgion but also states that no religions are officially recognised. If that's the case, then isn't it "as good" as recognised as an official religion?!? (it's in the same boat as all of the "real" religions)
Well... you only really stated three things (fusion, cloning and AI) of which cloning has materialized. It is also arguable that AI has materialized in some capacity (Neural networks based upon the human brain, perhaps? Still being tested but they might work out...) and here we have fusion maybe materializing. So all three have basically materialized to some extent. There's been plenty of progress.
Its easy to forget things like this once they materialize. How about GUI's, 3D accelerators which have a fill rate of 1 billion+ pixels per second (GF3 Titanium 500) and CPUs which are measured in gigahertz rather than megahertz?
"We can emulate worms if we want to!"
WINE: WINE Is Not an Emulator
Well, I wouldn't say we can "emulate" worms... Would you?
Incidentally, its the same as the Win32 and Mac except its for Linux!! Was this really worthy of a story when the test has already been discussed here?
If you can't find a job that you find fun in your industry... (technology in this case) perhaps you're in the wrong industry?
I have to say, I did try it out again and this time it was much less laggy and much more fun. I wouldn't quite say it was bliss... but it definately does have the teamwork factor in there!!
Running around as a medic and healing (kinda resurrecting) your injured teammates is quite fun and makes you feel as if you're truly helping out.
Hopefully once the lag issues are sorted out as well as a few other things being tweaked it should be great!
The two major gameplay issues I can spot are when hitting and being hit. I'd like to see my screen flash red when being hit... since right now the player just tends to get knocked around and sometimes it almost looks as if you have respawned. When hitting another player, its very hard to tell whether or not you're hitting them due to a distinct lack of blood, that ends up being quite annoying.
Apart from little issues and the lag, the game is pretty good. The single player ought to truly shine!
Gamespot have now fixed their file. However, anyone who previously downloaded from Gamespot should check that their file is named "WolfMPTEST0915.exe", otherwise it is the old version.
Note that the old version still works but has some performance issues, more bugs, etc.
Gamespot have the WRONG version of the Wolfenstein test. Their version is an older version so you should download it from either Fileplanet, Bluesnews or 3D Gamers.
I just came out of a game of it and I'm disappointed. I guess its a test so a lot of the criticism is just because of that... but its VERY laggy. I had a ping of about 150 and it was verging on unplayable.
It just doesn't feel good. It feels like a Quake 3 World War 2 mod with lots of latency added. Not an entirely new game. The flamethrower was impressive but not mindblowing. The rocket launcher and grenades are completely useless due to the lag (might be different for pings around 50... but 150 isn't all that high).
Quake 3 was much better at handling lag, so since this is a multiplayer test hopefully any lag issues will be straightened out.
For now, the DOD mod for Half-Life is a MUCH better WW2 fix. Wolfenstein's single player looks VERY impressive but the multiplayer test is quite disappointing. I suppose thats why they stress it's a TEST.
"but it certainly isn't good"
Ya think?!?
Throw them in jail, all of them!!
Wha-at?!? They're not in the US and they're out of jurisdiction?? Lets go get them, then throw them in jail!
Little earthquake-inducing bastards...
Violation of the DCMA... uh... "thinking freely and breaking copyrighted world records".
Also, any way that this can somehow be blamed on Skylarov? Just incase the computer-related case doesn't work out... We can't let an innocent Russian get away, now can we?
Does it have anything like the emotion engine?
Uh, yeah... in fact, the X-Box sports an NV25. Pretty much a beefed-up GeForce 3. Thanks to that, it can out-perform the PS2 quite easily.
In my opinion though, the X-Box will suffer from a lack of great games and will probably be telefragged by the GameCube. Thats just my opinion though.
How commendable.
Its quite disgusting that anyone actually patented such a thing in the first place. Human life is sacred and every life is worth more than all of the money in the world.
Then again, given the sick and twisted world of today, it would be quite naive to think that someone WOULDN'T patent such a thing.
Given all the money that is donated into research for medecines into diseases like AIDS, surely any organization that manages to create that medecine has been funded by the donations. Surely noone needs to profit off such a thing.
It's nice to see this patent being disregarded.
You said it yourself -- its fraud and forgery. It's illegal to sign for other people's packages (especially if they haven't given their approval), likewise, it is illegal to sign other people's letters (especially if they haven't given their approval).
Put simply, you cannot ever legally forge someone's signature. Although it's technically illegal, many people might do it with someone elses approval and as such that never becomes a legal issue. Here, Microsoft, if found guilty, are breaking the law, not due to a technicality but due to their fraudulent intent.
It's a crime.
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