2 to 3 years is not affordable to me. Especially when it's not 1 thing you're upgrading but a plethora of things. My Xbox is all the way back from 2001, and it runs Halo 2, and Half Life 2 well enough for me to play online and in multiplayer mode, while my dual 1ghz PC with 1.5gb of ram, and the latest ATI video card I could buy at the time that cost me well over $1200 couldn't even run anything new that was coming out 6 months down the line, not to mention that my CRT 17" cost me another $200 and I couldn't even crank anything higher than 1120 X 768. Sorry, but my money goes to consoles, they just last longer. I'm glad you can afford to change machines ever 2 to 3 years to support your gaming habits, I can't afford to do that, especially when it could be invested in more important things.
"How can it be cheaper to buy a console when I already have a PC? I might not have the latest hot graphics card, but most games don't need them."
Because you pay an initial investment only, and the hardware on average will have a lifespan of 5 years (unless people jack your machine, or you break it). Where as in order to play the latest games on a PC, you can't have a machine that's older than a year at most. Meaning you have to constantly upgrade hardware just to play a game.
If you can afford to be a PC gamer that's fine, but leave us poor folk alone, not everyone can afford to buy new video cards, motherboards, processors and ram everytime a new pretty game for the PC comes out. Not to mention you still need a really good monitor that works with the ultra high resolutions.
Microsot if better than Apple on this for many reasons. When people were bashing the Xbox and saying Microsoft had no business entering the game market, I thought pretty stupid, because MS has put a lot of work into developing tools used to develop enhanced graphics games. DirectX (while it is proprietary though) is by far a better api for developing games than OpenGL.
With so many years of high quality, and highly detailed games working on the Windows platform, I don't know why so many people bashed the Xbox before it was released.
However the same does not apply for Apple, while for a short time, Apple was able to support some good quality games, it has lagged far behind in utilities needed to game quality as good as what you get on Windows.
I for one think that Apple moving to the game industry is a bad. While it definatley would help them gain some market share, I think they are too inexperienced to try and spend the amount of money it would require for them to advance in the gaming industry.
I'm personally counting on that as well, however, until the Mac Pro machines come out either this year or next year we really won't know for sure. Here's hopeing though.
Graphics / 3D Art / 2D Animation and Game Engine development and Game Design are not all the same.
Yes, Macs have been touted as better for graphics, that's not really true, but the difference is in the work flow, and the community.
3D development is just as powerful on a Mac as on a PC no difference there.
Game development is a whole other ball game, all the while Macs were running on PPC, it has made it very difficult for game companies to port their systems from x86 to PPC, not to mention that also the OS structure is different than Windows. Even though now Macs run on Intel, developers have to use tools for the Mac like Xcode, to take their Windows code, and change all that code to be compatible with OS X.
Additionaly things like MS' DirectX are not available for Mac, so they have to make sure their engine will run under OpenGL using OS X's window displays.
Games won't be "better" on Macs because it doesn't work that way, you're not designing something, you're playing with something that was already created. Something that was created for a larger market.
While game development software does exsist where you can develop on Mac and port out to Windows (ie OTEE.dk Unity), the market share is very small.
I'm happy not being able to play games on my Mac. That's what my console systems are for. I'm tired of spending money on hardware just to play the latest games, and then find out the next awesomest specatular game will require the next level card up.
My Xbox cost me 500 dollars in 2001, and it has given me plenty of enjoyment for nearly five years without having to constantly upgrade just so I can play the next cool game. Granted can't play MMORPGS, but they are soul sucking demon spawns anyway (granted, they're fun soul sucking demon spawns).
Now with the 360 it's all happening again.
While the PC market has a very large gaming community, I believe most of them are already content with Windows, and really have no desire for the Mac OS, except out of idle curiosity.
Most want all the goodies DX9 offers, and they pay buku bucks just to get the high screen resolution, most anti aliased, and fasted frames per second possible.
They already know Windows can offer this, and has been offering it for a long time. Why switch now?
What kind of API can Apple provide that will be as powerful as DX? How about video cards, will there still be an Apple premium for video cards?
I say there is no technology safer and more useful to a child than a graphing calculator. It promoted my interest in math and programming. Which led me into an interest in computers.
blah, no warranty, and overtly expensive. I'll just wait for an official apple tablet machine. I'm praying that they'll contract Wacom for the Cintiq technology.
WOW, PDF support in Office 12, amazing how innovative microsoft is... let me just print and save this amazing article through my Native PDF print driver here on my little ole' primitive Macintosh for later use...
"Perhaps iPods combined with iPods are selling music as well, and it's not just a one-way street?"
How do you combine and iPod with an iPod? Do you get Super Mega Ultra iPod? Does he mean iTunes? is this guys head so far up his ass he doesn't even know what he's attacking?
This isn't one of those buy out, or stock purchasing deals, this is just SCO buying a license to have MySQL in there POS...(oops forgot the IX, or did I?) OS for commercial use. It doesn't look like MySQL is handing over IP rights of any it's code over to SCO. They are just doing the same thing they've been doing with Novell and Dell. SCO is probably the one calling this a "partnership" to try and change it's image.
They have a new "Open Server" coming out. It just goes to show that they are accepting defeat.
They realise they're OS sucks, they realise Linux is kicking it's ass, and they know they can't win. They're trying to embrace their new overlords like the spineless money hungry idiots they are.
If they attempt lawsuites such as those against Linux, MySQL can use copyright infringement against them.
Worry when you read SCO buys 55% of MySQL AB, or MySQL sells IP to SCO.
No, you're pretty on topic, I submitted a year ago the teaser/trailer of Prisoner of Azkaban and it was denied posting because it was noted as "Off topic/not relevant".
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2 to 3 years is not affordable to me. Especially when it's not 1 thing you're upgrading but a plethora of things. My Xbox is all the way back from 2001, and it runs Halo 2, and Half Life 2 well enough for me to play online and in multiplayer mode, while my dual 1ghz PC with 1.5gb of ram, and the latest ATI video card I could buy at the time that cost me well over $1200 couldn't even run anything new that was coming out 6 months down the line, not to mention that my CRT 17" cost me another $200 and I couldn't even crank anything higher than 1120 X 768. Sorry, but my money goes to consoles, they just last longer. I'm glad you can afford to change machines ever 2 to 3 years to support your gaming habits, I can't afford to do that, especially when it could be invested in more important things.
"How can it be cheaper to buy a console when I already have a PC? I might not have the latest hot graphics card, but most games don't need them."
Because you pay an initial investment only, and the hardware on average will have a lifespan of 5 years (unless people jack your machine, or you break it). Where as in order to play the latest games on a PC, you can't have a machine that's older than a year at most. Meaning you have to constantly upgrade hardware just to play a game.
If you can afford to be a PC gamer that's fine, but leave us poor folk alone, not everyone can afford to buy new video cards, motherboards, processors and ram everytime a new pretty game for the PC comes out. Not to mention you still need a really good monitor that works with the ultra high resolutions.
https://www.redhat.com/training/training_special.h tml?sc_cid=MSI_GTRRTKB_4
and personally I don't think it should ever be.
Remember this thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin
Microsot if better than Apple on this for many reasons. When people were bashing the Xbox and saying Microsoft had no business entering the game market, I thought pretty stupid, because MS has put a lot of work into developing tools used to develop enhanced graphics games. DirectX (while it is proprietary though) is by far a better api for developing games than OpenGL.
With so many years of high quality, and highly detailed games working on the Windows platform, I don't know why so many people bashed the Xbox before it was released.
However the same does not apply for Apple, while for a short time, Apple was able to support some good quality games, it has lagged far behind in utilities needed to game quality as good as what you get on Windows.
I for one think that Apple moving to the game industry is a bad. While it definatley would help them gain some market share, I think they are too inexperienced to try and spend the amount of money it would require for them to advance in the gaming industry.
I'm personally counting on that as well, however, until the Mac Pro machines come out either this year or next year we really won't know for sure. Here's hopeing though.
Graphics / 3D Art / 2D Animation and Game Engine development and Game Design are not all the same.
Yes, Macs have been touted as better for graphics, that's not really true, but the difference is in the work flow, and the community.
3D development is just as powerful on a Mac as on a PC no difference there.
Game development is a whole other ball game, all the while Macs were running on PPC, it has made it very difficult for game companies to port their systems from x86 to PPC, not to mention that also the OS structure is different than Windows. Even though now Macs run on Intel, developers have to use tools for the Mac like Xcode, to take their Windows code, and change all that code to be compatible with OS X.
Additionaly things like MS' DirectX are not available for Mac, so they have to make sure their engine will run under OpenGL using OS X's window displays.
Games won't be "better" on Macs because it doesn't work that way, you're not designing something, you're playing with something that was already created. Something that was created for a larger market.
While game development software does exsist where you can develop on Mac and port out to Windows (ie OTEE.dk Unity), the market share is very small.
I'm happy not being able to play games on my Mac. That's what my console systems are for. I'm tired of spending money on hardware just to play the latest games, and then find out the next awesomest specatular game will require the next level card up.
My Xbox cost me 500 dollars in 2001, and it has given me plenty of enjoyment for nearly five years without having to constantly upgrade just so I can play the next cool game. Granted can't play MMORPGS, but they are soul sucking demon spawns anyway (granted, they're fun soul sucking demon spawns).
Now with the 360 it's all happening again.
While the PC market has a very large gaming community, I believe most of them are already content with Windows, and really have no desire for the Mac OS, except out of idle curiosity.
Most want all the goodies DX9 offers, and they pay buku bucks just to get the high screen resolution, most anti aliased, and fasted frames per second possible.
They already know Windows can offer this, and has been offering it for a long time. Why switch now?
What kind of API can Apple provide that will be as powerful as DX? How about video cards, will there still be an Apple premium for video cards?
being able to work with computers...
You'll have to pry it from my cold dead fingers.
Won't they also need Sean Connery's vocal chord genes?
"To the stars Bowen, to the stars."
3D Artists, Game Developers, Scientists who do three dimensional simulations, Weather forcasting models, Engineers who do real time simulations.
They're not really for gaming as much as they are for developing stuff.
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If only I didn't have to sell my car to buy one
I say there is no technology safer and more useful to a child than a graphing calculator. It promoted my interest in math and programming. Which led me into an interest in computers.
blah, no warranty, and overtly expensive. I'll just wait for an official apple tablet machine. I'm praying that they'll contract Wacom for the Cintiq technology.
WOW, PDF support in Office 12, amazing how innovative microsoft is... let me just print and save this amazing article through my Native PDF print driver here on my little ole' primitive Macintosh for later use...
I always thought Squid, like most other invertebrae, could regenerate missing limbs.
ummm wait that quote isn't in the article... that's from the poster... oh well, the record industry still has their head up their ass.
"Perhaps iPods combined with iPods are selling music as well, and it's not just a one-way street?"
How do you combine and iPod with an iPod? Do you get Super Mega Ultra iPod? Does he mean iTunes? is this guys head so far up his ass he doesn't even know what he's attacking?
OMG an attack on my spelling and grammar how original, and how not relevant.
This isn't one of those buy out, or stock purchasing deals, this is just SCO buying a license to have MySQL in there POS...(oops forgot the IX, or did I?) OS for commercial use. It doesn't look like MySQL is handing over IP rights of any it's code over to SCO. They are just doing the same thing they've been doing with Novell and Dell. SCO is probably the one calling this a "partnership" to try and change it's image.
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They have a new "Open Server" coming out. It just goes to show that they are accepting defeat.
http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/news/article
They realise they're OS sucks, they realise Linux is kicking it's ass, and they know they can't win. They're trying to embrace their new overlords like the spineless money hungry idiots they are.
If they attempt lawsuites such as those against Linux, MySQL can use copyright infringement against them.
Worry when you read SCO buys 55% of MySQL AB, or MySQL sells IP to SCO.
Wind River Systems built the POSIX compliant based OS into the Odyssey, Stardust and Rovers, so it's possible the MGS has a similar OS to those.
g ies/os/vxworks6/
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The OS is VxWorks and it's been used in Sattelites, Robots and for some reason Movie editing (probably a file management system)
http://www.windriver.com/products/device_technolo
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/
if all the aliens come out looking like Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson and Rosie O'Donnel. We're fucked.
Oh no, there goes tokyo, go go Godzilla.
Who didn't see that fucking coming?
No, you're pretty on topic, I submitted a year ago the teaser/trailer of Prisoner of Azkaban and it was denied posting because it was noted as "Off topic/not relevant".