Why would they want to? Intel and AMD have the x86 market pretty well locked down.
More importantly, why would ANYBODY want to implement the x86 ISA (Instruction Set Architecture or smtn like that). It's the most horrid instruction set in use today.
Some instruction sets can't really be mapped to others easily, and optimizing for good performance with PPC would probably not have good x86 performance anyways.
In Pentiums and Athlons, the instruction set isn't really emulated. It's translated to a smaller instruction set (uops, iops, pick whatever term you like and run with it). However, these smaller sets are still made pretty much specifically to cover the overlying ISA (x86 in this case).
It would start with some lame add that wouldn't let you skip to the next track, fastforward, or hit the menu button. I think I even tried stopping and then hitting play and it just resumed where it was.
I watched the movie once and never again because of this even.
The thing to remember is this... Regardless of what that little contract you may sign says, you can't sign a piece of paper that takes away a legal right. Company has power, but guess what, the government trumps it. If they say you can sue, which they do, then you can sue. You can't sign away legal rights like that, even if you want to (of course there are certain exceptions to this)
In this case, I say sign the paper, get your money, and if you feel the need to sue in the future do so, because they can't legally take that right away from you
So does this mean that ISP's are going to be forced to pipe ALL port 80 traffic through a proxy, because hey, how else do they get EVERY web page we go to...
Either that or they just keep track of what connections are being made through them to port 80 of places...but then what about web sites simply not on port 80...seems an easy enough way for "terrorists" to avoid being caught.
And then there's the issue of people who run their own mail servers...I'd LOVE to see the government FORCE me to log all my own damned emails. It's not like it's hard to setup your own sendmail box and use that instead of your isps
If you check it out, you'll notice they're not run by the IDSA (The happy people that bring us E3 yearly) or anyone of consequence...
It's just like every magazine having its own Best of E3 list. I mean come on, a game I made made it on one of the lists, so trust me it's not seen as a huge accomplishment.
They pulled it because the Towers represented a part of the plot, where bad guys were trying to blow up the building (something along those lines, bad guys, bombs, and the towers). I guess they thought that would be a "bad idea" after all that crap that happened...
And before you blame me for accusing them, trust me on this one. First of all, I work in the video game industry. A lot of people I've worked with used to work in magazines doing reviews and such. Needless to say I was a bit shocked (though looking back I shouldn't have been) to hear them all ADMIT that they've reviewed games based on the box art, intro sequence, or just what they think it'll be like.
Ouch
Never have I heard of a sports-caster go home during half time to write up a review of the game, but this is what the game industry does regularly.
that would be the Model 2 and Model 3... Sega AM2 is one of Sega's 10 software teams along with Sonic Team, Sega Rosso, WOW Entertainment, Hitmaker, Wavemasters (GODS of video game music), Overworks, Amusement Vision, Smilebit, and UGA.
I see a small problem with this...
My computer is idle...it works on someone elses stuff...the second I do anything it stops that. That means that distributed task will take FOREVER to get back to the owner...because lets face it my computer doesn't stay idle that long. In the long run it could take LONGER for a computer to shell out tasks than to just do it itself.
And more importantly...I'm paying for my hardware, I'm paying for my electricity...if someone else needs more processing power let them do it themselves. It sounds rather prick-ish but oh well. My computer is for MY use and not for thousands of random people around the world to mess with.
And how long before someone cracks the encrypted data that's distributed...guess what, someone's reading all your email, and your work, and your accountants payroll information, etc. Distributed information on a large-scale like this (hopefully) won't catch on.
Do you really think the government would go for this? It's bad enough Intel has us doing bio-chemical research (they claim it's trying to find a cure for anthrax, but how do I know?) for them for next to no cost.
I never stated it was "My Bible" or even what I believe (with the exception of my Last Tuesday theory). And yes, there's evidence that the world is older, but like I said also, if there is some God up there making all this last tuesday, he made it already aged (hence why I have so much credit debt etc.).
I personally don't care what people believe, and find both sides of the argument interesting and informational...
I just also believe there's a good chance everyone's wrong (and through a study I did with my bosses, it seems the case of everybody being wrong happens more often than not).
Can you prove the Earth is older than 6 or 7 thousand years? I still maintain my personal theory that the world was created last Tuesday, and seeing as you cannot prove me wrong (though lets face is, you can easily prove it highly unlikely).
And remember, the fact that something's possible doesn't mean that it happened. It's possible that evolution over billions of years, but it's also possible that we were all created by some cosmic master last Tuesday and all our memories are false. Did either happen? Probably not:)
Get the medium clip, use wget to grab it, and play it through the latest quicktime under wine. Works for me atleast, with only minor UI glitches, but the movies are very watchable.
Only 1 problem with this...Assembly is by NO MEANS cryptic...not nearly as cryptic as C.
I don't know about you, but in my mind a line of
add ax, bx
is easier to follow than
a += (b > 32) ? (b) : ((b > 16) ? 16 : b);
True, they don't do the same things, but that's not my point. The point is, reading assembly code is often MUCH less cryptic...though yes, there's more of it. Atleast you don't have to worry about misplaced )'s?
That's what ARB extensions are for.
Standardized extentions which aren't necessarily part of the spec, but, they work the same accross implementations. I don't think it'll be too long before we see some sort of standardized shader extension. But then, if you have to write microcode for the vertex shaders etc. then don't you have to do that over anyways unless the cards are binary compatible with their shader processors. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't trust DirectX to take my optimized per-vertex code and translate it to a different shader language set.
When he said Primary Key he wasn't referring to a database. He was referring to life in the US. A SSN is like, the key to totally mess with someone's life. You can get any other information (fairly) easily with it.
I think you have the wrong idea of this...
A better comparison is calling this like a "bad browser". It's not changing content, or adding content. It's changing how the information is displayed slightly (but putting small dots under some words) so that if you want more information on something, you can get it. If you're going to call this illegal, then call almost every browser illegal, for the occasional mis-displaying of a web page (displaying it other than it was originally intended) and we could go a step further, lets make looking at art illegal if you don't see it the same way the author does.
Now yes this is extreme. No, I don't like this strategy, but everything I've read is such extremes...it's being made out to be as if Microsoft is replacing other links to go to their site, or adding ads for MS.
Anyways, if I'm on a site and there's a big ass word I don't know, it could be cool to click and be taken to dictionary.com, or encarta, or britannica, or where-ever.
Nothing is all bad...it's just being taken out of proportion.
MS is one of NVidia's biggest supporters...there's a reason just about every nvidia request makes it into the next version of DirectX. On top of that figure that all of thise hardware is made especially to fit perfectly within the DirectX specs and functionality to provide the best DirectX support out there. Ditching MS in the PC market is something akin to stopping breathing. Sounds like something to try, but give it a few minutes, you'll regret it.
First of all, this process is what I've seen in console development, not PC games...it may very well be different.
First of all, since this is your first game, you need a lot more than if you were an established developer. If you're looking for money, that's where the publisher comes in. Warning, publishers are a different breed of people, somewhat like Music Execs. Since, again, you're new to the "game" game they'll want a lot to even speak of you. You should have at least:
1) A full game design doc. This should cover the game, it's design, it's basic functionality, as well as other key points such as style, what it will "feel" like when playing, what technology you are using, and most importantly, why it will be fun and sell LOTS of copies. If a publisher isn't impressed with this, most likely you can say goodbye. And honestly, be as buzzword compliant as you can with these, because lets face it, lots of long words DO impress suits, as sad as it sounds.
2) A game. Have your game with you, playable, and as full featured as possible. Having recently been to e3, I heard too many horror stories of people with great ideas for games, full documentation and everything, shot down. My friend on the other hand goes up to a publisher with a game they (publisher) can play, and he walked out with 3 or 4 offers from publishers to buy it. You really should have the game atleast 75% done and as "wow-worthy" as possible. Let's face it, these days tech and looks sell a game more than gameplay, and while gameplay is important, your game has to look good to be bought.
Talking with friends who try to start up game companies, or just want to sell a game they've made, this is all they had, in the past...a nice design document, and a more or less finished product, and they've had luck with finding publishers, and therefore money.
And a hint: If you're going to talk to a publisher, make sure that you get money on signing, as well as on completion, and your royalties. Money on signing is a great way to stay motivated enough to finish a game...trust me.
From what I read, the flash is only 4mb...and that's hardly enough for the full os...
Of course, if you could add a floppy you could probably just add a harddrive or soemthing of that sort. but then, that kills the whole boot in 5 second thing.
Now you see, there's a problem with your ideas of how they could have done this with transmitters and receivers. These things need to be CHEAP. Keyboards and mice aren't exactly a major expendenture (ok my spelling sucks I'll admit it) for people. They see wireless keyboards, hmm, this one's $29.99, this one's $79.99, which do I get...
If you expect the words "secure" "wireless" and "cheap" in the same sentence, you are asking for far too much from consumer products, I'm afraid. If you want security, keep a regular wired keyboard, if you want convenience this is ok. How many people CARE if people know what they type (random keys are of little use really) and more importantly, how many people are "important enough" for people to get within 100 ft. to sniff them out?
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Why would they want to?
Intel and AMD have the x86 market pretty well locked down.
More importantly, why would ANYBODY want to implement the x86 ISA (Instruction Set Architecture or smtn like that). It's the most horrid instruction set in use today.
Some instruction sets can't really be mapped to others easily, and optimizing for good performance with PPC would probably not have good x86 performance anyways.
In Pentiums and Athlons, the instruction set isn't really emulated. It's translated to a smaller instruction set (uops, iops, pick whatever term you like and run with it). However, these smaller sets are still made pretty much specifically to cover the overlying ISA (x86 in this case).
The Sixth Sense did this...
It would start with some lame add that wouldn't let you skip to the next track, fastforward, or hit the menu button. I think I even tried stopping and then hitting play and it just resumed where it was.
I watched the movie once and never again because of this even.
The thing to remember is this...
Regardless of what that little contract you may sign says, you can't sign a piece of paper that takes away a legal right. Company has power, but guess what, the government trumps it. If they say you can sue, which they do, then you can sue. You can't sign away legal rights like that, even if you want to (of course there are certain exceptions to this)
In this case, I say sign the paper, get your money, and if you feel the need to sue in the future do so, because they can't legally take that right away from you
So does this mean that ISP's are going to be forced to pipe ALL port 80 traffic through a proxy, because hey, how else do they get EVERY web page we go to...
Either that or they just keep track of what connections are being made through them to port 80 of places...but then what about web sites simply not on port 80...seems an easy enough way for "terrorists" to avoid being caught.
And then there's the issue of people who run their own mail servers...I'd LOVE to see the government FORCE me to log all my own damned emails. It's not like it's hard to setup your own sendmail box and use that instead of your isps
If you check it out, you'll notice they're not run by the IDSA (The happy people that bring us E3 yearly) or anyone of consequence...
It's just like every magazine having its own Best of E3 list. I mean come on, a game I made made it on one of the lists, so trust me it's not seen as a huge accomplishment.
They pulled it because the Towers represented a part of the plot, where bad guys were trying to blow up the building (something along those lines, bad guys, bombs, and the towers).
I guess they thought that would be a "bad idea" after all that crap that happened...
So, they removed it.
...that they write these reviews for...
And before you blame me for accusing them, trust me on this one. First of all, I work in the video game industry. A lot of people I've worked with used to work in magazines doing reviews and such. Needless to say I was a bit shocked (though looking back I shouldn't have been) to hear them all ADMIT that they've reviewed games based on the box art, intro sequence, or just what they think it'll be like.
Ouch
Never have I heard of a sports-caster go home during half time to write up a review of the game, but this is what the game industry does regularly.
that would be the Model 2 and Model 3...
Sega AM2 is one of Sega's 10 software teams along with Sonic Team, Sega Rosso, WOW Entertainment, Hitmaker, Wavemasters (GODS of video game music), Overworks, Amusement Vision, Smilebit, and UGA.
I see a small problem with this...
My computer is idle...it works on someone elses stuff...the second I do anything it stops that. That means that distributed task will take FOREVER to get back to the owner...because lets face it my computer doesn't stay idle that long. In the long run it could take LONGER for a computer to shell out tasks than to just do it itself.
And more importantly...I'm paying for my hardware, I'm paying for my electricity...if someone else needs more processing power let them do it themselves. It sounds rather prick-ish but oh well. My computer is for MY use and not for thousands of random people around the world to mess with.
And how long before someone cracks the encrypted data that's distributed...guess what, someone's reading all your email, and your work, and your accountants payroll information, etc. Distributed information on a large-scale like this (hopefully) won't catch on.
Do you really think the government would go for this? It's bad enough Intel has us doing bio-chemical research (they claim it's trying to find a cure for anthrax, but how do I know?) for them for next to no cost.
I never stated it was "My Bible" or even what I believe (with the exception of my Last Tuesday theory). And yes, there's evidence that the world is older, but like I said also, if there is some God up there making all this last tuesday, he made it already aged (hence why I have so much credit debt etc.).
I personally don't care what people believe, and find both sides of the argument interesting and informational...
I just also believe there's a good chance everyone's wrong (and through a study I did with my bosses, it seems the case of everybody being wrong happens more often than not).
Can you prove the Earth is older than 6 or 7 thousand years? I still maintain my personal theory that the world was created last Tuesday, and seeing as you cannot prove me wrong (though lets face is, you can easily prove it highly unlikely).
:)
And remember, the fact that something's possible doesn't mean that it happened. It's possible that evolution over billions of years, but it's also possible that we were all created by some cosmic master last Tuesday and all our memories are false. Did either happen? Probably not
The FBI Warning episode wasn't so bad, as was the one that one aired with it...Door to Door.
For those that haven't seen these 2 episodes:
In FBI Warning, Zim sees the FBI Warning in front of a rented movie and thinks they're on to him.
Then, in Door to Door, well, lets just say mass destruction of a city, etc. was the reason this wasn't aired.
This I have to TOTALLY agree with.
I Feel Sick is by far his best work in my opinion.
THANK YOU!
It does my heart good to see someone remind others that just because you can find it, doesn't mean it's not selling well...
And of course add on to this the fact that something like 100,000 more GC's are shipping every week.
Other fun facts:
Gamecube hardware made more money on its opening day than Harry Potter did in its opening weekend at the movies...
Gamecube sold twice as many units as Xbox did in its first week...
etc. etc. etc.
Isn't this basically what a CAVE setup is?
And yes, Quake3 has been ported to CAVE, as has Unreal Tournament...
Get the medium clip, use wget to grab it, and play it through the latest quicktime under wine. Works for me atleast, with only minor UI glitches, but the movies are very watchable.
Something to the effect of 2500 people or so died at Pearl Harbor, if I recall correctly...but that may be way off...what do I know right?
Only 1 problem with this...Assembly is by NO MEANS cryptic...not nearly as cryptic as C.
I don't know about you, but in my mind a line of
add ax, bx
is easier to follow than
a += (b > 32) ? (b) : ((b > 16) ? 16 : b);
True, they don't do the same things, but that's not my point. The point is, reading assembly code is often MUCH less cryptic...though yes, there's more of it. Atleast you don't have to worry about misplaced )'s?
That's what ARB extensions are for.
:P
Standardized extentions which aren't necessarily part of the spec, but, they work the same accross implementations. I don't think it'll be too long before we see some sort of standardized shader extension. But then, if you have to write microcode for the vertex shaders etc. then don't you have to do that over anyways unless the cards are binary compatible with their shader processors. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't trust DirectX to take my optimized per-vertex code and translate it to a different shader language set.
...but then what do I know
When he said Primary Key he wasn't referring to a database. He was referring to life in the US. A SSN is like, the key to totally mess with someone's life. You can get any other information (fairly) easily with it.
I think you have the wrong idea of this...
A better comparison is calling this like a "bad browser". It's not changing content, or adding content. It's changing how the information is displayed slightly (but putting small dots under some words) so that if you want more information on something, you can get it. If you're going to call this illegal, then call almost every browser illegal, for the occasional mis-displaying of a web page (displaying it other than it was originally intended) and we could go a step further, lets make looking at art illegal if you don't see it the same way the author does.
Now yes this is extreme. No, I don't like this strategy, but everything I've read is such extremes...it's being made out to be as if Microsoft is replacing other links to go to their site, or adding ads for MS.
Anyways, if I'm on a site and there's a big ass word I don't know, it could be cool to click and be taken to dictionary.com, or encarta, or britannica, or where-ever.
Nothing is all bad...it's just being taken out of proportion.
I hope you're joking...
MS is one of NVidia's biggest supporters...there's a reason just about every nvidia request makes it into the next version of DirectX. On top of that figure that all of thise hardware is made especially to fit perfectly within the DirectX specs and functionality to provide the best DirectX support out there. Ditching MS in the PC market is something akin to stopping breathing. Sounds like something to try, but give it a few minutes, you'll regret it.
First of all, this process is what I've seen in console development, not PC games...it may very well be different.
First of all, since this is your first game, you need a lot more than if you were an established developer. If you're looking for money, that's where the publisher comes in. Warning, publishers are a different breed of people, somewhat like Music Execs. Since, again, you're new to the "game" game they'll want a lot to even speak of you. You should have at least:
1) A full game design doc. This should cover the game, it's design, it's basic functionality, as well as other key points such as style, what it will "feel" like when playing, what technology you are using, and most importantly, why it will be fun and sell LOTS of copies. If a publisher isn't impressed with this, most likely you can say goodbye. And honestly, be as buzzword compliant as you can with these, because lets face it, lots of long words DO impress suits, as sad as it sounds.
2) A game. Have your game with you, playable, and as full featured as possible. Having recently been to e3, I heard too many horror stories of people with great ideas for games, full documentation and everything, shot down. My friend on the other hand goes up to a publisher with a game they (publisher) can play, and he walked out with 3 or 4 offers from publishers to buy it. You really should have the game atleast 75% done and as "wow-worthy" as possible. Let's face it, these days tech and looks sell a game more than gameplay, and while gameplay is important, your game has to look good to be bought.
Talking with friends who try to start up game companies, or just want to sell a game they've made, this is all they had, in the past...a nice design document, and a more or less finished product, and they've had luck with finding publishers, and therefore money.
And a hint: If you're going to talk to a publisher, make sure that you get money on signing, as well as on completion, and your royalties. Money on signing is a great way to stay motivated enough to finish a game...trust me.
From what I read, the flash is only 4mb...and that's hardly enough for the full os...
Of course, if you could add a floppy you could probably just add a harddrive or soemthing of that sort. but then, that kills the whole boot in 5 second thing.
Now you see, there's a problem with your ideas of how they could have done this with transmitters and receivers. These things need to be CHEAP. Keyboards and mice aren't exactly a major expendenture (ok my spelling sucks I'll admit it) for people. They see wireless keyboards, hmm, this one's $29.99, this one's $79.99, which do I get...
If you expect the words "secure" "wireless" and "cheap" in the same sentence, you are asking for far too much from consumer products, I'm afraid. If you want security, keep a regular wired keyboard, if you want convenience this is ok. How many people CARE if people know what they type (random keys are of little use really) and more importantly, how many people are "important enough" for people to get within 100 ft. to sniff them out?