This is a fairly timely post for me. A few weeks ago I was interested in creating some fairly simple 3D objects, the first piece of software I tried was Blender 3D. After about a night's work of playing around with Blender I still couldn't get it to do what I wanted it to. A few days later, I came across Art of Illusion, and within an hour I was able to create what I wanted. It may be that Blender may be better for the more experienced user but Art of Illusion was a lot more intuitive and productive for the casual user.
My guess for this reason is that the problem lies with the heat. As people overclock it will mean more power consumption which in turn will generate more heat with this current generations of chips - which are already on the verge of damaging themselves from too much heat.
How can we know all/some of the companies that do this? Sounds like there should be a comprehensive site that list companies like these (if there isn't already).
There are fewer viable companies to compete. The problem is that only big publishers like EA can get things out now, and they don't want to innovate they want to go with what is successful - hence the brand building.
For one thing he comparing an industry in its infancy to what it is now. The plateau in the eighties happened because of an over saturation combined with industry growing pains and maturation.
The video game industry has been far more innovative than the movie industry (yes there are plenty of copy-cats but the movies is full of those and remakes as well).
Actually the fact that he correlates movies to videos games it probably his weak point in rhetoric. People strive entertainment. As long as companies keep updating/remaking/re-inventing the same genre, people will keep buying. They have been doing it in the movies for years and now that video games can tell stories (something it does a lot better now that in the 80's) it will continue to thrive.
Wrong again, there are no "parties" at play here...just my computer - this was a LAN game not a WAN, just my network. This crashed occured when I attemped to just to start a host server so no other "parties" were involved.
I installed this yesterday, mostly because Microsoft's Impossible Creatures wanted it installed. Later I tried running a networked game of Dungeonsiege but it would crash when I tried start it. My guess was that DirectX 9 broke the networking module. To test my theory I went back to a restore point before DirectX 9 and sure enough directX networking was working again. I have XP installed, I'm not sure if anybody else has seen this. Maybe it is just an issue with my config.
I picked up an LG 5350 with the SprintPCS service, and I'd have to say I'm very happy with the phone. Although they don't advertise it the LG 5350 comes java enabled, I nice surprise after buying the phone. I've used a few freely available java apps and I've been very impressed with the quality of J2ME applications on the phone. If anyone is interested in the next-gen phone they should definitely make sure it is java-enabled (and color too!)
My company's website needs cookies enabled. So a week ago when we ran a survey all of a sudden all of our IE 6 users were not working at all. We had no idea of why these users could not get through other than that they had IE 6 and their cookies were not enabled. We searched the web for any signs of this and yet still nothing. It wasn't until one of our employees looked at the IE site and saw the section about P3P that we figure out what was wrong. Essentially all our cookies were being rejected by IE 6.0 because we did not have a P3P policy. The next day we created a policy and haven't had a problem with IE 6 cookies since. Sad but true. Any site that relies on cookies are going to need a P3P policy.
If I had digital tickets the first day I would have. But considering that the digital theatres were sold weeks ago on opening day I waited until last night to go. I have to say digital theatres are very very nice, definitely worth the extra day.
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This is a fairly timely post for me. A few weeks ago I was interested in creating some fairly simple 3D objects, the first piece of software I tried was Blender 3D. After about a night's work of playing around with Blender I still couldn't get it to do what I wanted it to. A few days later, I came across Art of Illusion, and within an hour I was able to create what I wanted. It may be that Blender may be better for the more experienced user but Art of Illusion was a lot more intuitive and productive for the casual user.
Another person who knows nothing about games predicting a meltdown of the industry. How can anyone take this guy seriously?
Microsoft plans on giving it's cash reserves of 50 billion away to charity.
My guess for this reason is that the problem lies with the heat. As people overclock it will mean more power consumption which in turn will generate more heat with this current generations of chips - which are already on the verge of damaging themselves from too much heat.
I agree completely.
I've had to interview 2 bosses at my current job. One a Director of Engineering, and when he left a Vice President of Engineering.
Come now, is there really any profession better than programming?
I think it a fine invention. Beer has a greater impact on the world thus far than quantum computing.
How can we know all/some of the companies that do this? Sounds like there should be a comprehensive site that list companies like these (if there isn't already).
But...but they can have broadband!
Pure capitalism is ugly, generally you want a mix of capitalism and social reform.
There are fewer viable companies to compete. The problem is that only big publishers like EA can get things out now, and they don't want to innovate they want to go with what is successful - hence the brand building.
Most this guy's arguments do not hold any weight.
For one thing he comparing an industry in its infancy to what it is now. The plateau in the eighties happened because of an over saturation combined with industry growing pains and maturation.
The video game industry has been far more innovative than the movie industry (yes there are plenty of copy-cats but the movies is full of those and remakes as well).
Actually the fact that he correlates movies to videos games it probably his weak point in rhetoric. People strive entertainment. As long as companies keep updating/remaking/re-inventing the same genre, people will keep buying. They have been doing it in the movies for years and now that video games can tell stories (something it does a lot better now that in the 80's) it will continue to thrive.
Is it just me or do the main characters look exactly like the ones from X, just with different names?
Yeah they have extra money from not paying for an overpriced OS
Anybody who's been programming long enough should have already come to this conclusion.
Wrong again, there are no "parties" at play here...just my computer - this was a LAN game not a WAN, just my network. This crashed occured when I attemped to just to start a host server so no other "parties" were involved.
Wow I guess you woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
1. The point was not that Impossible creatures needed directX 9.
2. The point is that Dungeonsiege "CRASHED" (not just fuction) when I tried to set up a network game.
I installed this yesterday, mostly because Microsoft's Impossible Creatures wanted it installed. Later I tried running a networked game of Dungeonsiege but it would crash when I tried start it. My guess was that DirectX 9 broke the networking module. To test my theory I went back to a restore point before DirectX 9 and sure enough directX networking was working again. I have XP installed, I'm not sure if anybody else has seen this. Maybe it is just an issue with my config.
I picked up an LG 5350 with the SprintPCS service, and I'd have to say I'm very happy with the phone. Although they don't advertise it the LG 5350 comes java enabled, I nice surprise after buying the phone. I've used a few freely available java apps and I've been very impressed with the quality of J2ME applications on the phone. If anyone is interested in the next-gen phone they should definitely make sure it is java-enabled (and color too!)
Nothing wrong with it.
The "Impossible appeal." It reminds me so much of the Patriots last year as the "Impossible team" *sniff*
I must not be ordinary.
My company's website needs cookies enabled. So a week ago when we ran a survey all of a sudden all of our IE 6 users were not working at all. We had no idea of why these users could not get through other than that they had IE 6 and their cookies were not enabled. We searched the web for any signs of this and yet still nothing. It wasn't until one of our employees looked at the IE site and saw the section about P3P that we figure out what was wrong. Essentially all our cookies were being rejected by IE 6.0 because we did not have a P3P policy.
The next day we created a policy and haven't had a problem with IE 6 cookies since. Sad but true. Any site that relies on cookies are going to need a P3P policy.
If I had digital tickets the first day I would have. But considering that the digital theatres were sold weeks ago on opening day I waited until last night to go. I have to say digital theatres are very very nice, definitely worth the extra day.
But isn't "Microsoft Guru" an oxymoron?