Processing power != fun (or for you VHDL jocks, processing_power/= fun) (or PERL, processing_power ne fun)
What really matters is the GAMEPLAY. A great game with fewer polygons is still a great game. A crappy game with more polygons is still a crappy game. This war will NOT be won or lost on technical specifications. It will be decided by the game quality, availability, and price. Period. In the end, that is what people look at.
Yes very very true. Sony actually has been better in that department. More developers = more games = more chances for something good to be made = more fun. None of the games for Xbox have apealed ot me except Ninja Gaiden. Otherwise it's a lot of PC games dressed up for the console. I especially despise console FPS and even PC FPS bore me after an hour. GC has soem funs games though, so did the DC.
Before the PS2 came out, Sony was raving about how the DVD playing ability would blow people away, how the Dreamcast was gonna fail, and how they'd already 'killed' Nintendo (which just about everyone mentions, every time, since the PS1).
Which was all basically true.
I'd say Microsoft is just taking a page out of Sony's marketing book here. Artifical shortage? PS2 did that. The supply wasn't that low, also there was a true shortage of dvd lasers at the time. The shortage may nto have been planned.
First to launch? PS2 did that to the Xbox and Gamecube.
Except it wasn't first to launch. Microsoft is actually taking a page from Sega's play book.
Claiming the opposition is already defeated? PS2 did that to the Dreamcast.
Yeah, that's Sony Entertainments game division alright.
Hyping up hardware as primary feature? PS2 did that.
? Hyping the hardware is apart of anyone campaign for a new system From Atari to SNES to PS1.
Yeah, it was kind of cool to see people progress from the counter-strike mindset ("teamwork, that's one of those theoretical things that doesn't really matter, right?") to people who really would start cooperating from the very beginning of a round.
This has less to do withthe game and more to do with the players. CS requires team work, with it your team rules all maps. But unfortunaely it has a sea of 12 years olds insting on camping so while the team loses every roudn he at least has a 3:1 kill ratio...
It's funny, but with all the growing focus on broadband markets, and the inherent costs in making broadband geographically widespread in a country as physically diverse as the US, there's a growing segment of potential gamers out there who are stuck on yesteryear machines and yesteryear internet connections. If I had as much drive as ideas, I'd find a way to make games tailored to that market.
Canada has a fair amoutn of broadband penetrations. It's not geography keeping it from you it's pop density, lack of gov subsidies, and lack of desire for it in some areas.
I donno about that, Europeans seem to like Sweden and Norway nowadays. Then again, that was quite some time ago. And it raping and pillaging definitely seemed to be pretty trendy at the time. So maybe that's why they've been forgiven, just like everyone who once liked New Kids on the Block or Pogo balls.
It's been about a thousand years, so I think they've let bygones be bygones. It'll be at least 1 or 2 generations mroe before they give up this grudge.
Not your presumably fictional Bioware employee again... please, name several major 3rd party studios that are clearly ignoring the 360. Public statements only (or similar), please.
" Given that the machine is now 3 years newer it is only ~2-3 times more powerful." In part of that range you give this thing would be beating out Moore's law (if you equate transitors to performance.. which isn't exactly valid.. so it is really even better) and otherwise it is just meeting it. That isn't unimpressive whatsoever.
It's over all power isn't something that is common knowledge. it's numbers stat that it has 3 times the clock cycles as it's predisessor (3.2 GHZ vs 733 MHZ) and has 3 cores. The initial run of games won't be multi-threaded for time related reasons. This is ~3 times faster but as we know CPU is no longer the limiting factor . The memory bandwidth is impressive at a theoretical 22.4GB/s (triple it's predisessor as well).
But the complaints against it is that the hardware shaders arent' up to snuff, using a older version of microsofts Direct X standard and not quiet adhering to it. The input media is going to stay DVD limiting capacity. And it isn't true 1080i support since it renders at a lower resolution and simply stretches the image via hardware. those will hurt is in the future, as texturs get larger and as common resolution increase. Even though the PS3/Revolution will only be a few months behind these design choices will limit it for the duration of ti's lifespan.
1) If you were you recompile the games, you'd have to release new media - this is supposed to work by sticking your original Xbox CDs in the drive and go
2) It says in the associated article that it's a software emulator
However only a handful of game are initially supported. You need a HD to make it work and live/internet to get the updates on the "emulator". As well the 360 isn't powerful enough by traditional Emulator standards and the architecture is widly different. I think it's not really software emulation but is instead a mix of recompilations and a software abstraction layer. Thats is why only select games are emulated and you have to download updates.
From what i understand with most emulators, it takes roughly 5-10 times the processing power to emulate one piece of hardware on another. but i remember reading years ago that since the xbox was basically a pc, that 1:1 emulation should be possible and not require a 6 ghz pc to run games at full speed. i haven't looked for awhile but was curious as to how this statement was flawed.
From the looks of it, it may not be true emulation, it might simply be a new binary of the game recompiled for the new system.
Assuming you aren't lying (Bioware has already announced they are doing at least two exclusive X360 titles) your friend is apparently a bit of an idiot. He presumably isn't an actual developer at Bioware (janitor, maybe), but it probably should be pointed out that Bioware isn't really known for taking advantage of fancy hardware anyway. Their games have always sold on the strength of their gameplay and stories, never their usually average graphics. If you are seriously being honest please don't trust your friend about this kind of thing anymore. Plenty of big developers who are willing to give their actual names completely disagree with them (ex: Itagaki, Carmack, Cliffy B), and that's ignoring how absurd the comment is when you just think about it (no PC videocard out is up to the X360's GPU standard, it has 8 times the RAM of the Xbox1, three CPU cores that are each individually at least four times faster than the Xbox1 CPU, etc.).
It's a business decision. Their looking at it, seeing very little improvement over the last generation and decising they need to hedge their bets and not bank exclusively on one horse next generation. BTW he's a dev in the Graphics Dept. Given that the machine is now 3 years newer it is only ~2-3 times more powerful. Which is underwhelming since this machine has to last another 6.
PGR1 was the second best-selling launch title for the Xbox1. It was the second game to hit one million units, and its sequel also did tremendously good business. I think it's a pretty safe bet that PGR3 will sell consoles, especially with how amazing the graphics are. That kind of thing is very important for a system seller at launch, and it probably has the most positive hype out of any of the launch titles. Call of Duty 1 was also extremely popular, and the X360 demo for 2 is getting a lot of mostly positive attention. Gears of War isn't a sequel to anything so I am not sure what you are talking about (and it will seriously move systems once it eventually is released - a lot of people are already waiting for that game before they pick up the console). But I'm pretty sure the argument was about graphics anyway, not system selling potential...
Halo sold systems, PGR sold to the pre-exsisting base. FFX/MGS2 sold PS2's, Damacy Katamari sold to the pre-exsiting customer base. There is a difference, one is successful while the other expanded the market. None of the initial few inspires enough buzz to make anyone move to get one except the bleeding edge people.
Actually, there is a very interesting point behind the fact that *NOT ALL* Xbox games are immediately runnable on the 360's emulator. There are two issues here.
- Firstly, if not all Xbox games run under the emulator, this clearly implies that the Xbox emulation is incomplete. If it were complete, then any Xbox title wouldn't even know that it's running under emulation, and all games would run by default. So, it's not complete, currently.
- Secondly, since the interview says that the emulator can be downloaded for burning to CD and loading into the 360 from media, this means that the emulator is pretty much fixed. Since the set of compatible games is most definitely not fixed, but growing all the time, this implies that the Xbox 360 must be connected online for it to validate that a particular game is compatible.
In other words, Microsoft seems to be identifying "compatibility" with "authorization by us" for a game to run on the 360 console. I guess it's what one would expect, given their desire for control, although it certainly isn't helpful to players who own
I'm actually guessing from the information they have provided that they aren't atcually emulating anything. Instead their recompiling the code for these games with the 360 libraries istead of the Xbox libraries. With equivilent calls. This would circumvent Nvidias IP concerning graphics calls and would also allow things like higher resolutiosn ect.. the draw back is it's labour intensive and games have to be done one at a time. There is enough evidence to suggest this is what their doing.
We wont' know until someone takes a closer look but this is my guess.
What, you mean the same Metropolis Street Racer that had to be recalled in the UK because the developer left a bug in there that meant that you lost half your accumulated Kudos points every time you completed a certain type of race - making game completion impossible? The same Metropolis Street Racer that was due for release with the console on 9th September, 1999, but didn't actually see a release until 3rd November, 2000?
You're right. They aren't bad coders. Just sloppy. And yet I still love 'em.
The word among developers is the 360 is underwhelming. Unless it's a smash hit many 3rd party studios may over look the 360.
Perhaps you should have looked at any of the following:
Project Gotham Racing 3 NBA2k6 Gears of War Call of Duty 2
I'm getting sick of an obvious troll being modded up by MS bashing. But i'm sure it's pure coincidence you picked the one that was a rush job port from the XBox 1 instead of a native game, right?
Project Gotham Racing 3 NBA2k6 Gears of War Call of Duty 2
out of those, only 1 may move the console, and only if it turns out to be exactly what it promises. Basically their all sequel filelr that some people are excited about but most aren't. Halo 3 is the only thing that will move this machine given how much negaive press it's gotten. IT's beign damned by faint praise.
I have a friend in Bioware. During this last generation they backed the Xbox because the PS2 was originally a nightmare to code for, and the xbox was the most powerful machine. When they got a dev kit for the 360 they are now considering developing for the PS3 because they are thoruoughly unimpressed witht he 360. His exact words were "like a 6 month video card upgrade on a Xbox".
Depending on how Sony and MS have designed their systems, this is going to be a challenge for developers. Most gamers will be playing at 480p, while the minority have 720p or 1080i available. The games need to look great and run smooth in both SD and HD. Anyone know how the systems have been designed to accomodate this? Which is more likely; when rendering HD some effects or polygons will be reduced, or will standard def renderings just run at higher framerates?
In the electronics/technology game 6 years is a long time. For a console 6 years is a fairly good life span. If the Xbox only fakes 1080i and even fakes 720p then eventually you will notice. I have a 1080i HD-tv and I notice the drastic difference between gamecube and PS2 and Xbox even though they are all coming out of a RCA 480p wire. With a HD hook up the difference woudl eb that much greater. IF the Xbox fakes it, in 3-4 years when HD tv's become more prominent people are goign to notice.
For the United States residents among us, 6 million British pounds = 10.4712 million U.S. dollars. When you look at it that way, privacy does seem within the realms of affordability.
I actually meant it was 6 million pounds in weight. And luging it around is a small price to pay. Neutronium is a theoretical material composed entirly of neutrons all clumped up in 1 visible atom. Meanign it's weight would be enourmous, but nothing could penetrate it.
Umm, no, they usually don't, especially when the developers provide a patch to support the new settings rather than a user forcing it.
Go back about as far as you can in the 3D spectrum to glQuake. That's about as far back as you can go on modern hardware. Now, crank up the res, apply AA, and AF. It looks like... you increased the resolution and applied AA and AF. How does it look worse? I mean, the textures are sharper at distances, the jaggies are gone, and everything is just sharper in general due to the higher resolution. I'm not seeing your point here.
You can have the engine re-render eveything at a higher rez but you can't re-patch all the textures so esily so it will look a bit fuzzy simply because the textures will now have to be upsized (stretched). It will beb etter on a big TV becaus eyou can now see mroe detail but it will suffer from a bit of fuzzyness
But why should you expect them to become French? These people cam to France looking for economic prosperity, not because they wanted to eat horse-meat. If they can live in France and be economically productive, both them and the French will benefit. This is a good thing.
BEcause it's the France. It's be different if they moved to Canada and were expected to be French (excepting Quebec of course, they expect you to be french too), but they moved to france. If they wished to have a betetr life but wanted to stay the way they are they should moev to the United Arab Emerate, where there is even more anti-immigrant bias but a muslim culture. If you chose to live in europe you must adopt the european culture. IF not, then why shoudl France/Germany/ect.. bend to accomadate you?
I was going to quote this article but I'll just quote it directly since it's already succinct:
This is not about Muslim poverty (the Islamist terrorists who hit London all had good jobs. Mohammed Atta, who struck us in New York, was well-born and came from a prosperous family.) It is about radical Islamist self-confidence and contempt for the West. And, it is about Western weakness.
It's true, it is as much about wealth distributuion for some as it is a deep distaste for our Culture. They actually hate you for beign who you are. It's like our Extreme fundemetalist and how they hate all non-christians.
Actually, from what I've read, unemployment is more like 50%. Add to it that there is little or no represntation of the north african imigrant in the upper echelons of government, and it's understandable why there's dissatisfaction.
If there are no jobs for them, why is france letting them in? If france isnt' and the majority are illegal immigrants then france has no obligations to them.
Hmmm. Given the blatant illegality of the Iraq war, does this mean the webmasters who publish those US Army Field Manuals should be in jail?
Givent he blantanly Tresonous (and thus technically illegal if your american) nature of your statement shoudl I spend time in jail if I hired soemoen to murder you? Problably. Because it's not why I did it that I deserve jail, it's that I did it.
By the way, multi-culturalism doesn't have to do with the accepting of the color of one's skin. The color of your skin is not your culture. Your language, spirituality, and social customs are your culuture. The collective values of your society are your culture. This comment makes it absolutely clear how AGAINST multi-culturalism you are, since only Christians are welcome in your world.
If you are devout, We'll only tolerate devout christians, otherwise you must be a lapsed what ever in order to fit in to liberal society. You have to conform to a certain cultural attitude and behavior. No different then anywhere else, slightly betetr then some other cultures still.
You can scream till your blue in the face but despite the intolerance in western cultures they are still the most tolerant people around. All other are very very much less tolerant.
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Gaaaa. Processing power again.
/= fun)
Processing power != fun
(or for you VHDL jocks, processing_power
(or PERL, processing_power ne fun)
What really matters is the GAMEPLAY. A great game with fewer polygons is still a great game. A crappy game with more polygons is still a crappy game. This war will NOT be won or lost on technical specifications. It will be decided by the game quality, availability, and price. Period. In the end, that is what people look at.
Yes very very true. Sony actually has been better in that department. More developers = more games = more chances for something good to be made = more fun. None of the games for Xbox have apealed ot me except Ninja Gaiden. Otherwise it's a lot of PC games dressed up for the console. I especially despise console FPS and even PC FPS bore me after an hour. GC has soem funs games though, so did the DC.
The US is a larger market, and Europe's not too bad either.
For video games, Japan is still the larger market. Although Games are making inroads in North America.
Before the PS2 came out, Sony was raving about how the DVD playing ability would blow people away, how the Dreamcast was gonna fail, and how they'd already 'killed' Nintendo (which just about everyone mentions, every time, since the PS1).
Which was all basically true.
I'd say Microsoft is just taking a page out of Sony's marketing book here. Artifical shortage? PS2 did that.
The supply wasn't that low, also there was a true shortage of dvd lasers at the time. The shortage may nto have been planned.
First to launch? PS2 did that to the Xbox and Gamecube.
Except it wasn't first to launch. Microsoft is actually taking a page from Sega's play book.
Claiming the opposition is already defeated? PS2 did that to the Dreamcast.
Yeah, that's Sony Entertainments game division alright.
Hyping up hardware as primary feature? PS2 did that.
? Hyping the hardware is apart of anyone campaign for a new system From Atari to SNES to PS1.
Yeah, it was kind of cool to see people progress from the counter-strike mindset ("teamwork, that's one of those theoretical things that doesn't really matter, right?") to people who really would start cooperating from the very beginning of a round.
This has less to do withthe game and more to do with the players. CS requires team work, with it your team rules all maps. But unfortunaely it has a sea of 12 years olds insting on camping so while the team loses every roudn he at least has a 3:1 kill ratio...
It's funny, but with all the growing focus on broadband markets, and the inherent costs in making broadband geographically widespread in a country as physically diverse as the US, there's a growing segment of potential gamers out there who are stuck on yesteryear machines and yesteryear internet connections. If I had as much drive as ideas, I'd find a way to make games tailored to that market.
Canada has a fair amoutn of broadband penetrations. It's not geography keeping it from you it's pop density, lack of gov subsidies, and lack of desire for it in some areas.
I donno about that, Europeans seem to like Sweden and Norway nowadays. Then again, that was quite some time ago. And it raping and pillaging definitely seemed to be pretty trendy at the time. So maybe that's why they've been forgiven, just like everyone who once liked New Kids on the Block or Pogo balls.
It's been about a thousand years, so I think they've let bygones be bygones. It'll be at least 1 or 2 generations mroe before they give up this grudge.
North Korea and Japan don't have the best of relations (or China and Japan, to a lesser extent).
Actually most of asia don't like Japan that much. somethign about raping and pillaging that doesn't make friends.
Not your presumably fictional Bioware employee again... please, name several major 3rd party studios that are clearly ignoring the 360. Public statements only (or similar), please.
Time will bear my statements out.
" Given that the machine is now 3 years newer it is only ~2-3 times more powerful." In part of that range you give this thing would be beating out Moore's law (if you equate transitors to performance.. which isn't exactly valid.. so it is really even better) and otherwise it is just meeting it. That isn't unimpressive whatsoever.
It's over all power isn't something that is common knowledge. it's numbers stat that it has 3 times the clock cycles as it's predisessor (3.2 GHZ vs 733 MHZ) and has 3 cores. The initial run of games won't be multi-threaded for time related reasons. This is ~3 times faster but as we know CPU is no longer the limiting factor . The memory bandwidth is impressive at a theoretical 22.4GB/s (triple it's predisessor as well).
But the complaints against it is that the hardware shaders arent' up to snuff, using a older version of microsofts Direct X standard and not quiet adhering to it. The input media is going to stay DVD limiting capacity. And it isn't true 1080i support since it renders at a lower resolution and simply stretches the image via hardware. those will hurt is in the future, as texturs get larger and as common resolution increase. Even though the PS3/Revolution will only be a few months behind these design choices will limit it for the duration of ti's lifespan.
It's emulation.
1) If you were you recompile the games, you'd have to release new media - this is supposed to work by sticking your original Xbox CDs in the drive and go
2) It says in the associated article that it's a software emulator
However only a handful of game are initially supported. You need a HD to make it work and live/internet to get the updates on the "emulator". As well the 360 isn't powerful enough by traditional Emulator standards and the architecture is widly different. I think it's not really software emulation but is instead a mix of recompilations and a software abstraction layer. Thats is why only select games are emulated and you have to download updates.
From what i understand with most emulators, it takes roughly 5-10 times the processing power to emulate one piece of hardware on another. but i remember reading years ago that since the xbox was basically a pc, that 1:1 emulation should be possible and not require a 6 ghz pc to run games at full speed. i haven't looked for awhile but was curious as to how this statement was flawed.
From the looks of it, it may not be true emulation, it might simply be a new binary of the game recompiled for the new system.
Assuming you aren't lying (Bioware has already announced they are doing at least two exclusive X360 titles) your friend is apparently a bit of an idiot. He presumably isn't an actual developer at Bioware (janitor, maybe), but it probably should be pointed out that Bioware isn't really known for taking advantage of fancy hardware anyway. Their games have always sold on the strength of their gameplay and stories, never their usually average graphics. If you are seriously being honest please don't trust your friend about this kind of thing anymore. Plenty of big developers who are willing to give their actual names completely disagree with them (ex: Itagaki, Carmack, Cliffy B), and that's ignoring how absurd the comment is when you just think about it (no PC videocard out is up to the X360's GPU standard, it has 8 times the RAM of the Xbox1, three CPU cores that are each individually at least four times faster than the Xbox1 CPU, etc.).
It's a business decision. Their looking at it, seeing very little improvement over the last generation and decising they need to hedge their bets and not bank exclusively on one horse next generation. BTW he's a dev in the Graphics Dept. Given that the machine is now 3 years newer it is only ~2-3 times more powerful. Which is underwhelming since this machine has to last another 6.
PGR1 was the second best-selling launch title for the Xbox1. It was the second game to hit one million units, and its sequel also did tremendously good business. I think it's a pretty safe bet that PGR3 will sell consoles, especially with how amazing the graphics are. That kind of thing is very important for a system seller at launch, and it probably has the most positive hype out of any of the launch titles. Call of Duty 1 was also extremely popular, and the X360 demo for 2 is getting a lot of mostly positive attention. Gears of War isn't a sequel to anything so I am not sure what you are talking about (and it will seriously move systems once it eventually is released - a lot of people are already waiting for that game before they pick up the console). But I'm pretty sure the argument was about graphics anyway, not system selling potential...
Halo sold systems, PGR sold to the pre-exsisting base. FFX/MGS2 sold PS2's, Damacy Katamari sold to the pre-exsiting customer base. There is a difference, one is successful while the other expanded the market. None of the initial few inspires enough buzz to make anyone move to get one except the bleeding edge people.
Actually, there is a very interesting point behind the fact that *NOT ALL* Xbox games are immediately runnable on the 360's emulator. There are two issues here.
- Firstly, if not all Xbox games run under the emulator, this clearly implies that the Xbox emulation is incomplete. If it were complete, then any Xbox title wouldn't even know that it's running under emulation, and all games would run by default. So, it's not complete, currently.
- Secondly, since the interview says that the emulator can be downloaded for burning to CD and loading into the 360 from media, this means that the emulator is pretty much fixed. Since the set of compatible games is most definitely not fixed, but growing all the time, this implies that the Xbox 360 must be connected online for it to validate that a particular game is compatible.
In other words, Microsoft seems to be identifying "compatibility" with "authorization by us" for a game to run on the 360 console. I guess it's what one would expect, given their desire for control, although it certainly isn't helpful to players who own
I'm actually guessing from the information they have provided that they aren't atcually emulating anything. Instead their recompiling the code for these games with the 360 libraries istead of the Xbox libraries. With equivilent calls. This would circumvent Nvidias IP concerning graphics calls and would also allow things like higher resolutiosn ect.. the draw back is it's labour intensive and games have to be done one at a time. There is enough evidence to suggest this is what their doing.
We wont' know until someone takes a closer look but this is my guess.
What, you mean the same Metropolis Street Racer that had to be recalled in the UK because the developer left a bug in there that meant that you lost half your accumulated Kudos points every time you completed a certain type of race - making game completion impossible? The same Metropolis Street Racer that was due for release with the console on 9th September, 1999, but didn't actually see a release until 3rd November, 2000?
You're right. They aren't bad coders. Just sloppy. And yet I still love 'em.
The word among developers is the 360 is underwhelming. Unless it's a smash hit many 3rd party studios may over look the 360.
Perhaps you should have looked at any of the following:
Project Gotham Racing 3
NBA2k6
Gears of War
Call of Duty 2
I'm getting sick of an obvious troll being modded up by MS bashing. But i'm sure it's pure coincidence you picked the one that was a rush job port from the XBox 1 instead of a native game, right?
Project Gotham Racing 3
NBA2k6
Gears of War
Call of Duty 2
out of those, only 1 may move the console, and only if it turns out to be exactly what it promises. Basically their all sequel filelr that some people are excited about but most aren't. Halo 3 is the only thing that will move this machine given how much negaive press it's gotten. IT's beign damned by faint praise.
I have a friend in Bioware. During this last generation they backed the Xbox because the PS2 was originally a nightmare to code for, and the xbox was the most powerful machine. When they got a dev kit for the 360 they are now considering developing for the PS3 because they are thoruoughly unimpressed witht he 360. His exact words were "like a 6 month video card upgrade on a Xbox".
Depending on how Sony and MS have designed their systems, this is going to be a challenge for developers. Most gamers will be playing at 480p, while the minority have 720p or 1080i available. The games need to look great and run smooth in both SD and HD. Anyone know how the systems have been designed to accomodate this? Which is more likely; when rendering HD some effects or polygons will be reduced, or will standard def renderings just run at higher framerates?
In the electronics/technology game 6 years is a long time. For a console 6 years is a fairly good life span. If the Xbox only fakes 1080i and even fakes 720p then eventually you will notice. I have a 1080i HD-tv and I notice the drastic difference between gamecube and PS2 and Xbox even though they are all coming out of a RCA 480p wire. With a HD hook up the difference woudl eb that much greater. IF the Xbox fakes it, in 3-4 years when HD tv's become more prominent people are goign to notice.
50% more pixels along the axis, not in total.
50% more along each axis makes the rendering ~twice as much power intensive.
For the United States residents among us, 6 million British pounds = 10.4712 million U.S. dollars. When you look at it that way, privacy does seem within the realms of affordability.
I actually meant it was 6 million pounds in weight. And luging it around is a small price to pay. Neutronium is a theoretical material composed entirly of neutrons all clumped up in 1 visible atom. Meanign it's weight would be enourmous, but nothing could penetrate it.
Umm, no, they usually don't, especially when the developers provide a patch to support the new settings rather than a user forcing it.
Go back about as far as you can in the 3D spectrum to glQuake. That's about as far back as you can go on modern hardware. Now, crank up the res, apply AA, and AF. It looks like... you increased the resolution and applied AA and AF. How does it look worse? I mean, the textures are sharper at distances, the jaggies are gone, and everything is just sharper in general due to the higher resolution. I'm not seeing your point here.
You can have the engine re-render eveything at a higher rez but you can't re-patch all the textures so esily so it will look a bit fuzzy simply because the textures will now have to be upsized (stretched). It will beb etter on a big TV becaus eyou can now see mroe detail but it will suffer from a bit of fuzzyness
Tin foil hats work. Aluminum foil hats do not.
I'm not even going to get into this debate. I've just upgraded to a lead helmet!
It is rather cumbersome, but as a bonus to blocking everything, I've got a strong neck now.
I'll do you one better, a neutronium hat.... unfortunaely it's 6 million pounds but it's a small price to pay for privacy.
But why should you expect them to become French? These people cam to France looking for economic prosperity, not because they wanted to eat horse-meat. If they can live in France and be economically productive, both them and the French will benefit. This is a good thing.
BEcause it's the France. It's be different if they moved to Canada and were expected to be French (excepting Quebec of course, they expect you to be french too), but they moved to france. If they wished to have a betetr life but wanted to stay the way they are they should moev to the United Arab Emerate, where there is even more anti-immigrant bias but a muslim culture. If you chose to live in europe you must adopt the european culture. IF not, then why shoudl France/Germany/ect.. bend to accomadate you?
I was going to quote this article but I'll just quote it directly since it's already succinct:
This is not about Muslim poverty (the Islamist terrorists who hit London all had good jobs. Mohammed Atta, who struck us in New York, was well-born and came from a prosperous family.) It is about radical Islamist self-confidence and contempt for the West. And, it is about Western weakness.
It's true, it is as much about wealth distributuion for some as it is a deep distaste for our Culture. They actually hate you for beign who you are. It's like our Extreme fundemetalist and how they hate all non-christians.
Actually, from what I've read, unemployment is more like 50%. Add to it that there is little or no represntation of the north african imigrant in the upper echelons of government, and it's understandable why there's dissatisfaction.
If there are no jobs for them, why is france letting them in? If france isnt' and the majority are illegal immigrants then france has no obligations to them.
Hmmm. Given the blatant illegality of the Iraq war, does this mean the webmasters who publish those US Army Field Manuals should be in jail?
Givent he blantanly Tresonous (and thus technically illegal if your american) nature of your statement shoudl I spend time in jail if I hired soemoen to murder you? Problably. Because it's not why I did it that I deserve jail, it's that I did it.
By the way, multi-culturalism doesn't have to do with the accepting of the color of one's skin. The color of your skin is not your culture. Your language, spirituality, and social customs are your culuture. The collective values of your society are your culture. This comment makes it absolutely clear how AGAINST multi-culturalism you are, since only Christians are welcome in your world.
If you are devout, We'll only tolerate devout christians, otherwise you must be a lapsed what ever in order to fit in to liberal society. You have to conform to a certain cultural attitude and behavior. No different then anywhere else, slightly betetr then some other cultures still.
You can scream till your blue in the face but despite the intolerance in western cultures they are still the most tolerant people around. All other are very very much less tolerant.