Many people made predictions as to what "IT" was before yesterday's announcement. In fact, there is/was an entire website dedicated to the question. Interestingly, a poster with the pseudonym "Your Dad" seemed to be closest with "an electronic, gyroscope-stabilized G-spot locator." Not a g-spot locator, per se, but 2 out of 3 ain't bad! Nice guess, Your Dad.
True.. I remembered her immediately after I clicked submit. However she was still only popular among the sub-culture of video game geeks. It's not the CG version that everybody went to the movies to see, it was Angelina Jolie.
The difference is that Mickey Mouse is not a teen idol. Yuki Terai is something of a sex symbol. The only thing similar in American pop culture might have been Jessica Rabbit or the nurse from Animaniacs. Hardly idols though.
A super-intelligent, omnipotent being in the future? Bah, we created that millennia ago. We called him God.
Incidentally, while Vinge mentions a few 20th century minds who have envisioned the singularity which he describes, his super-intelligent being is not unlike Neitzsche's idea of the Uber-mensch or Superman.
According to the Transgaming website, The Sims works the best, receiving the only "5."
The Sims
Working Rating: 5
Popularity: 119
Forum Posts: 27
Too bad they don't work on games based on popularity. There's only one reason I still use Windows:
EverQuest
Working Rating: 0
Popularity: 122
Forum Posts: 11
Of course EQ is changing to a new engine for DX8, so that will probably bump them even further down the list.
Actually, there's another reason I still run windows, and that's so I can play the latest games as soon as they're released. Not weeks, months, or years later. As long as there's a delay between playability on Windows and Linux (which will always be the case unless developers start writing/releasing titles for Linux), I see no incentive to go through the headache of trying to get Windows games working outside of their native OS.
Like they don't lose at least that much to people who ALREADY install their products on multiple systems?
It's funny how people change to different sides of the argument when it suits their needs. When the subject is copying software, piracy isn't a big deal because, "I wasn't going to buy it anyway, so the companies aren't losing money." But when the subject is Microsoft giving away software, suddenly they are in fact losing money by piracy?
At any rate, this argument doesn't make any sense. Just because money is falling out of your left pocket doesn't mean you want it to start falling out of your right pocket too.
I do, however, agree that MS giving their own product away is a bunch of BS, but for the opposite reason. Odds are they would be giving their software to entities who would never be customers anyway, therefore they wouldn't really be taking a loss - these are profits they would never realize anyway. Not profiting != taking a loss.
Commodore is (was) a company, not a model. He didn't specify whether it was a C64, or Amiga 4000, either of which could be considered "ancient," however the Ami4k (Or even 2000) is quite capable of web browsing and playing movies.
Ah, the long awaited PG->R conversion. Finally a chance to see the darker side of Jim Henson's Muppets, as well as the lost Princess Leah bedroom scenes. Never again will we have to suffer through non-explitives and cameras panning from the bed to a spinning clock.
Not releasing a PC version of the game would defeat the purpose of the X-Box, which is not so much to capitalize on the console market, but to stimulate PC gaming development. To summarize an article in November's Wired magazine: While sales of new PCs have dwindled, sales of video cards have remained steady. Why? Gaming is currently the only real reason for upgrading a PC. However, IIRC, PC Games sales only make up 12% of the video game market. By creating a console which is essentially a PC and pricing it below cost, MS hopes to boost the creation of games which can easily be ported to a PC (running Windows of course). More high-end games for the PC means, hopefully, more purchases of new PCs which of course will come with Windows pre-installed.
IMO, this seems like a stretch - what's the incentive for consumers to buy a new PC when their X-Box will run their games - but it does have some merit. PCs will be capable of running the games with more detail, smoothness, and content than their X-Box counterparts. Personally I hope their efforts are successful as I would love to see a larger variety of quality games for the PC.
At what point does re-entry become a factor? Parachuting in from space definately sounds exciting, as long as you don't become a screaming class A in the process.
Unfortunately, just because she's against the RIAA doesn't mean she's in favor of P2P.
For those that chose not to read the speech in its entirety:
"I will be the first in line to file a class action suit to protect my copyrights if Napster or even the far more advanced Gnutella doesn't work with us to protect us. I'm on [Metallica drummer] Lars Ulrich's side, in other words, and I feel really badly for him that he doesn't know how to condense his case down to a sound-bite that sounds more reasonable than the one I saw today."
A wise man once said, "From what I can surmise, the speech dealt both with her love of money and her desire to roll around naked in a pile of money."
Not that there's anything wrong with wanting to get paid, but let's be clear about where Ms. Love stands.
You fucking find something else to do, that's what. Guess what, most things in life rarely live up to expectations. As Denis Leary said, "Happiness comes in small doses. It's a cookie, or a cigarette, or a five second orgasm. You cum, you eat the cookie, you smoke the butt, and you go to sleep. End of fucking story."
So CS isn't fun anymore.. Quit crying about it and move on.
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Well, if ZDNet doesn't qualify as a "big news organization," then maybe CNN does. Of course, they did "bury" it on the front page of the Sci-Tech section. Publicity isn't the problem, it's getting people to listen.
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I believe Amiga made something similar about 10 years ago. It was called a bridgeboard. It even had onboard CGA graphics..! I didn't have the slightest clue of the existance of Linux at the time, so I can't say whether it would have worked or not. Maybe someone else out there has tried it.
The U.S. Army, in an unprecedented alliance with Hollywood and a major university, is providing funding and technical advice for video games that aim to hone the skills of the next-generation of military field commanders.
So I guess we weren't satisfied with merely teaching terrorists to fly...
image quality suffers, which results in higher framerates. Here is the google translation of a german article which compares the Quake/Quack screenshots from the original HardOCP article. Wave the pointer over the ATI pictures to see the difference. You can't get something (high framerates) for nothing (image quality).
It's not really optimizing, it's cheating.
The difference between theory and practice..
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"Lindows" Coming Soon?
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theoretically many DirectX games should run under Windows.
Theoretically, all of them should. Maybe they'll have better luck running under Wine.;)
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Many people made predictions as to what "IT" was before yesterday's announcement. In fact, there is/was an entire website dedicated to the question. Interestingly, a poster with the pseudonym "Your Dad" seemed to be closest with "an electronic, gyroscope-stabilized G-spot locator." Not a g-spot locator, per se, but 2 out of 3 ain't bad! Nice guess, Your Dad.
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You forgot a DING! after the University of Bologna - perhaps the biggest name in higher education for processed meat.
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True.. I remembered her immediately after I clicked submit. However she was still only popular among the sub-culture of video game geeks. It's not the CG version that everybody went to the movies to see, it was Angelina Jolie.
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The site seems to be slashdotted, but I found a few other stories on it, and this one has a small picture of the device in question.
Enjoy
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The difference is that Mickey Mouse is not a teen idol. Yuki Terai is something of a sex symbol. The only thing similar in American pop culture might have been Jessica Rabbit or the nurse from Animaniacs. Hardly idols though.
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A kinder, gentler overbearing corporate monopoly. How refreshing.
A super-intelligent, omnipotent being in the future? Bah, we created that millennia ago. We called him God.
Incidentally, while Vinge mentions a few 20th century minds who have envisioned the singularity which he describes, his super-intelligent being is not unlike Neitzsche's idea of the Uber-mensch or Superman.
According to the Transgaming website, The Sims works the best, receiving the only "5."
The Sims
Working Rating: 5
Popularity: 119
Forum Posts: 27
Too bad they don't work on games based on popularity. There's only one reason I still use Windows:
EverQuest
Working Rating: 0
Popularity: 122
Forum Posts: 11
Of course EQ is changing to a new engine for DX8, so that will probably bump them even further down the list.
Actually, there's another reason I still run windows, and that's so I can play the latest games as soon as they're released. Not weeks, months, or years later. As long as there's a delay between playability on Windows and Linux (which will always be the case unless developers start writing/releasing titles for Linux), I see no incentive to go through the headache of trying to get Windows games working outside of their native OS.
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Duh.. everyone knows you're supposed to carve your name into the playable side of the CD.
Looks like writing shareware is pretty profitable. Man, I picked the wrong career.
Like they don't lose at least that much to people who ALREADY install their products on multiple systems?
It's funny how people change to different sides of the argument when it suits their needs. When the subject is copying software, piracy isn't a big deal because, "I wasn't going to buy it anyway, so the companies aren't losing money." But when the subject is Microsoft giving away software, suddenly they are in fact losing money by piracy?
At any rate, this argument doesn't make any sense. Just because money is falling out of your left pocket doesn't mean you want it to start falling out of your right pocket too.
I do, however, agree that MS giving their own product away is a bunch of BS, but for the opposite reason. Odds are they would be giving their software to entities who would never be customers anyway, therefore they wouldn't really be taking a loss - these are profits they would never realize anyway. Not profiting != taking a loss.
Good point! Conversely, I bought Sonic because I thought it was a game about a bunch of roller-skating waitresses in tiny skirts.
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He's trying to download movies on a Commodore?
Commodore is (was) a company, not a model. He didn't specify whether it was a C64, or Amiga 4000, either of which could be considered "ancient," however the Ami4k (Or even 2000) is quite capable of web browsing and playing movies.
Ah, the long awaited PG->R conversion. Finally a chance to see the darker side of Jim Henson's Muppets, as well as the lost Princess Leah bedroom scenes. Never again will we have to suffer through non-explitives and cameras panning from the bed to a spinning clock.
The meteor storm is travelling at 160,000mph and will pass near Earth next weekend.
Nasa has already taken steps to protect the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.
The controls for the countermeasures can be found here.
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Not releasing a PC version of the game would defeat the purpose of the X-Box, which is not so much to capitalize on the console market, but to stimulate PC gaming development. To summarize an article in November's Wired magazine: While sales of new PCs have dwindled, sales of video cards have remained steady. Why? Gaming is currently the only real reason for upgrading a PC. However, IIRC, PC Games sales only make up 12% of the video game market. By creating a console which is essentially a PC and pricing it below cost, MS hopes to boost the creation of games which can easily be ported to a PC (running Windows of course). More high-end games for the PC means, hopefully, more purchases of new PCs which of course will come with Windows pre-installed.
IMO, this seems like a stretch - what's the incentive for consumers to buy a new PC when their X-Box will run their games - but it does have some merit. PCs will be capable of running the games with more detail, smoothness, and content than their X-Box counterparts. Personally I hope their efforts are successful as I would love to see a larger variety of quality games for the PC.
At what point does re-entry become a factor? Parachuting in from space definately sounds exciting, as long as you don't become a screaming class A in the process.
Unfortunately, just because she's against the RIAA doesn't mean she's in favor of P2P.
For those that chose not to read the speech in its entirety:
"I will be the first in line to file a class action suit to protect my copyrights if Napster or even the far more advanced Gnutella doesn't work with us to protect us. I'm on [Metallica drummer] Lars Ulrich's side, in other words, and I feel really badly for him that he doesn't know how to condense his case down to a sound-bite that sounds more reasonable than the one I saw today."
A wise man once said, "From what I can surmise, the speech dealt both with her love of money and her desire to roll around naked in a pile of money."
Not that there's anything wrong with wanting to get paid, but let's be clear about where Ms. Love stands.
You fucking find something else to do, that's what. Guess what, most things in life rarely live up to expectations. As Denis Leary said, "Happiness comes in small doses. It's a cookie, or a cigarette, or a five second orgasm. You cum, you eat the cookie, you smoke the butt, and you go to sleep. End of fucking story."
So CS isn't fun anymore.. Quit crying about it and move on.
--
Well, if ZDNet doesn't qualify as a "big news organization," then maybe CNN does. Of course, they did "bury" it on the front page of the Sci-Tech section. Publicity isn't the problem, it's getting people to listen.
--
I believe Amiga made something similar about 10 years ago. It was called a bridgeboard. It even had onboard CGA graphics..! I didn't have the slightest clue of the existance of Linux at the time, so I can't say whether it would have worked or not. Maybe someone else out there has tried it.
The U.S. Army, in an unprecedented alliance with Hollywood and a major university, is providing funding and technical advice for video games that aim to hone the skills of the next-generation of military field commanders.
So I guess we weren't satisfied with merely teaching terrorists to fly...
Lemme guess, they minor in internet appliances?
image quality suffers, which results in higher framerates. Here is the google translation of a german article which compares the Quake/Quack screenshots from the original HardOCP article. Wave the pointer over the ATI pictures to see the difference. You can't get something (high framerates) for nothing (image quality).
It's not really optimizing, it's cheating.
theoretically many DirectX games should run under Windows.
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Theoretically, all of them should. Maybe they'll have better luck running under Wine.