Re:Moving on to the games consoles ?
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Nah...
It doesn't depend that much in the PC or the consoles hardware, to me the controllers are the relevant issue to game-play.
There used to be a time where if a PC game needed a game-pad or even a joystick then it was an absurd requirement, and had low sales, like Descent. Now such PC game-pads are so cheap and easy to get that the argument is nonexistent.
I can have all the game controllers I want in a PC. I have a PS-like controller (two in fact), a steering wheel, keyboard and mouse. All the different genres in a single machine. And there's nothing like rFactor in a console.
With a console, I have the game-pad, a cheaper steering wheel, and now the Wiimote. So PC+Wii = all possible games.
But, you have a point. Some media hype surrounding consoles just declares PC-gaming dead. And in fact PC-gaming had a period where it slowed down and consoles far surpassed them in sales with almost no indication of it changing. But quality-wise PC-gaming is getting so much better than consoles (except obviously for the Wii) and with software like hamachi that let me play with my friends no matter where they are and without paying any subscription, we PC-gamers have only good times coming.
And there is also the fact that gaming is the only thing holding back a huge user base to the Windows platform, as everything else can be done in Linux or OSX. So MS has to make Windows Vista gaming absolutely better for gaming than anything else in order to maintain the Windows market stronghold. However after looking at the Nvidia GeForce 8800 and the DirectX 10 screen-shots, it looks like it really will look much better.
Try playing in a console at insane resolution like 1920x1200. Not possible? Can you aim like I can with aim my mouse? Then consoles aren't better than PCs. They are cheaper however.
He could know a lot about computers, but computers are amazingly simple compared to living systems.
No matter how great genius he could be, the human immune system is more complex than what any single person could study in his/her lifetime.
Would had he dedicated his life to medicine, he would know far less about the human body than he knows about technology, by several orders of magnitude.
Well, a leak of a new product makes that you stop buying all current competitors of said product.
A leak of a new MacBook would slow down MacBook sales.
A leak of an iPhone would slow sales of competing MP3 cell phones, but not slow much any Apple product. This leak could potentially slow down sales of Sony Ericsson phones.
In fact, Sony Ericsson would benefit from the feature list of the phone, but we don't know anything yet about it. Except that scrollable border patent.
We don't know if we will buy the iPhone... but we WANT information about it so bad that it creates a strong iPhone brand.
-Hey, there, take a look of this new SE/Nokia MP3 cell-phone! -Buzz off! I want to know about the iPhone first!
My Sony Ericsson has all that, and a gameboy emulator, HP48 emulator, ebook reader, and the alarm clock has 5 alarms, 4 timers, stopwatch, I can even play Quake on the thing! Well, what was the point of all this?
It's clear that you religious types always try to find weakness and unfulfilled desires to try to find a way to put our mind in child-mode to be able to program us with your superstitions.
You are not an idiot at all. You are a very resourceful and manipulative meme-spreading infectious vector.
The best GPU money can buy this week, the NVidia GeForce 8800 had Linux drivers the very same day it was launched.
However I see no game companies going to develop Linux game after Linux game. After all games are a market where money makes the decisions, and Linux users are used to have software but not pay for it.
(Having said that ugly generalization, I believe I'm just going to install Heavy Gear 2 for Linux as I really like that game and the Windows version doesn't work in my XP)
I am planning to buy a GeForce 7600GT, a card that gives me the framerates and resolutions I want with a very small price compared with the high end cards. Also because a more expensive card would be bottlenecked by my CPU so it would be a waste.
However I now want to get a card of the same price and watts requirements of the 7600GT but with the G80 chipset (the one inside this beasts), just because of the better anisotropic filtering and antialiasing.
So... how long until we have the mid end versions of this card ???
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Nah...
It doesn't depend that much in the PC or the consoles hardware, to me the controllers are the relevant issue to game-play.
There used to be a time where if a PC game needed a game-pad or even a joystick then it was an absurd requirement, and had low sales, like Descent. Now such PC game-pads are so cheap and easy to get that the argument is nonexistent.
I can have all the game controllers I want in a PC. I have a PS-like controller (two in fact), a steering wheel, keyboard and mouse. All the different genres in a single machine. And there's nothing like rFactor in a console.
With a console, I have the game-pad, a cheaper steering wheel, and now the Wiimote. So PC+Wii = all possible games.
But, you have a point. Some media hype surrounding consoles just declares PC-gaming dead. And in fact PC-gaming had a period where it slowed down and consoles far surpassed them in sales with almost no indication of it changing. But quality-wise PC-gaming is getting so much better than consoles (except obviously for the Wii) and with software like hamachi that let me play with my friends no matter where they are and without paying any subscription, we PC-gamers have only good times coming.
And there is also the fact that gaming is the only thing holding back a huge user base to the Windows platform, as everything else can be done in Linux or OSX. So MS has to make Windows Vista gaming absolutely better for gaming than anything else in order to maintain the Windows market stronghold. However after looking at the Nvidia GeForce 8800 and the DirectX 10 screen-shots, it looks like it really will look much better.
Try playing in a console at insane resolution like 1920x1200. Not possible? Can you aim like I can with aim my mouse? Then consoles aren't better than PCs. They are cheaper however.
Yes, they have hard balls.
And the OS has "hairy" code.
You're spot on.
I now play Descent 3 (yes that old game) with a game pad AND a mouse!
Ok, sometimes only with the gamepad, much better for navigation. But if things get to hard, I move one hand to the mouse to aim better to my enemies.
No keyboard involved.
It seems you could be able to enjoy rFactor. :D
However I stopped using that gamepad technique when I bought the steering wheel.
You can't mention those games without mentioning the most addicting, deep and rewarding board game, also the most ancient still played today.
:P
Suggestion: Weiqui is to chess as Lisp is to Java
He could know a lot about computers, but computers are amazingly simple compared to living systems.
No matter how great genius he could be, the human immune system is more complex than what any single person could study in his/her lifetime.
Would had he dedicated his life to medicine, he would know far less about the human body than he knows about technology, by several orders of magnitude.
You caught me.
It's a three years old P900. I want to trade it for a P910
Here I found more info about the models
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http://www.techsmessage.com/2006/11/15/apple-fina
Sorry, I'm a little busy right now patenting your idea.
Well, a leak of a new product makes that you stop buying all current competitors of said product.
A leak of a new MacBook would slow down MacBook sales.
A leak of an iPhone would slow sales of competing MP3 cell phones, but not slow much any Apple product. This leak could potentially slow down sales of Sony Ericsson phones.
In fact, Sony Ericsson would benefit from the feature list of the phone, but we don't know anything yet about it. Except that scrollable border patent.
We don't know if we will buy the iPhone... but we WANT information about it so bad that it creates a strong iPhone brand.
-Hey, there, take a look of this new SE/Nokia MP3 cell-phone!
-Buzz off! I want to know about the iPhone first!
My Sony Ericsson has all that, and a gameboy emulator, HP48 emulator, ebook reader, and the alarm clock has 5 alarms, 4 timers, stopwatch, I can even play Quake on the thing! Well, what was the point of all this?
I still want to see the new iPhone.
An AI stronger than all the humans that ever lived?
I would give that prediction 500 or even 1000 years.
And I could also be too optimistic.
It's clear that you religious types always try to find weakness and unfulfilled desires to try to find a way to put our mind in child-mode to be able to program us with your superstitions.
You are not an idiot at all. You are a very resourceful and manipulative meme-spreading infectious vector.
But your psicology doesn't work with us.
Go away.
That's the beauty of the SIM Cards isn't it?
I can take the SIM Card of my phone and put it on the new Apple phone and the phone company can't do anything to stop me.
(Except that there is not Apple phone yet.)
Uhhhhh?
I read books and listen MP3 in my cell phone and there is no way the cell phone companies know what do I read or listen.
I do however, agree on the batterie life issue.
I believe it has been very lucrative for PC-CHIPS.
And for VIA and its C3 processor.
That gives about $350 for a full PC after VAT and import fees (expensive import fees here).
Sorry, I mean Identify.
:S
I'm not a native english speaker. Should have used the spellchecker.
Never save a penny. That will ruin your career in the goverment.
(Or something like that, was the quote I saw yesterday in the slashdot fortune at the bottom.)
The best GPU money can buy this week, the NVidia GeForce 8800 had Linux drivers the very same day it was launched.
However I see no game companies going to develop Linux game after Linux game. After all games are a market where money makes the decisions, and Linux users are used to have software but not pay for it.
(Having said that ugly generalization, I believe I'm just going to install Heavy Gear 2 for Linux as I really like that game and the Windows version doesn't work in my XP)
I believe they only want to identificate and send to jail anyone who can point out the flaws of the electronic voting systems.
"Sir you published a way to change the votes in your web site, and that is clearly an act of terrorism. You are under arrest!"
So in the future no one would even try to publish that kind of results.
Yes, some people fuck goats and donkeys...
but the donkeys don't get pregnant!
I am planning to buy a GeForce 7600GT, a card that gives me the framerates and resolutions I want with a very small price compared with the high end cards. Also because a more expensive card would be bottlenecked by my CPU so it would be a waste.
However I now want to get a card of the same price and watts requirements of the 7600GT but with the G80 chipset (the one inside this beasts), just because of the better anisotropic filtering and antialiasing.
So... how long until we have the mid end versions of this card ???
It runs all the DirectX 7, 8 and 9 games with amazing framerates.
It just happens to be the first to be able to run DirectX 10 games too.
The real test for all current cards is Oblivion.
Then another tag would be "nottheoriginal". I find that more useful than "dupe".