If we were all running on dial up the viruses would still spread nearly as fast.
What has doomed the internet is the monopoly over software that makes one vulnerability in the dominant software to take down almost everyone on the internet.
If the population was using an even mix of different email clients, browsers, and operating systems we would all be much safer.
What I think really accelerates virus distribution are MS Exchange workgroup email servers. Those viruses go through contact lists that can contains hundreds of thousands of emails in seconds! That's where viruses really multiply.
I don't understand why no one puts anti virus software on their email servers. I have several email addresses and the only one that I DON'T pay for (a family run server) is the only one that has server side anti-virus and it works great. Why can't ISPs and large corporations do the same? Have they not seen how viruses can cripple networks?
At the college I attend (and work at) they push down a script on the domain that makes everyone computer in the school run this annoying virus specific clean up tool from Norton everytime a new virus makes its run around the internet. This is run before the logon screen so it can make the computer take 5-10 minutes longer to boot up! That's simply ridiculous.
The way Peter Jackson has been handling things, he doesn't seem to be a money grubbing a-hole like Lucas. The amazing amount of extra footage that was released with the Extended Editions has to be atleast MOST of what they have, if they managed to come up with extra footage I'd be surprised.
I doubt the Trilogy Edition will have any extra material (what, it's already going to be 6-7 DVDs!) other than maybe one or two special features on the trilogy as a whole (ie. life after LOTR for the cast, etc)
I can see why this might be newsworthy in the games section. But why is this on the front page of slashdot? WOW A WEB SITE WITH SCREENSHOTS AND ARTWORK ABOUT A GAME IS OUT!! WHOA.
Yes, most emulators never work 100% because they don't have access to the original source code of the games or the system API's. They have to reverse engineer everything and sometimes they just can't figure out everything. But if Microsoft were to make an emulator for the Xbox: 1) the x86 platform is open, easy to emulate 2) they wrote the software running on the machine including directx.
So they have two options if they chose to emulate the original xbox: 1) emulate their old processor and hardware environment and then just run the old xbox software ontop of it or 2) emulate their old software and translate it to the new system.
It was standard practice before when each console was using cartridges that were all different sizes, but with optical media being used it's much more viable to include backwards compatibility.
The playstation 2 was the only "sequel" console of a optical media console so they're the only ones who have had a chance to play with it. I hope everyone follows in their foot steps.
It's a huge selling point, atleast it is in my books.
Sure if this was the only product to use GLOO it could of been done in another language like C or C++ but GLOO is meant to be easily ran on any Java enabled device. Imagine your Wi-Fi+Java PDA also accessing all your music on your network, or a Wi-Fi Smart phone, etc.
Obviously Java has no use if it's just a one time final use. But this is meant to be applied to lots of devices EASILY.
Imagine having a meeting with a company trying to sell them the idea of GLOO. Try telling them they'll have to spend months writing the code for it. Or you could just give them the code in java and have them implement it in an afternoon.
Sure you're desktop computer will be able to product real-time photorealistic graphics, but what about your laptop? And then what about your palmtop? and then your watch? what about chips implanted under your skin?
There will always be new uses for computers that you can't begin to think of. Sure if we limit all our computing to what we are doing today we won't need much faster computers. It's new technologies that will make people want faster computers.
Example: a pda sized device that uses some yet to be invented technology to scan your body and keep track of everything going on at an amazing level of detail... surely you'll need an insaly powerful and small computer to do this.
Just because the game is running at 30fps it doesn't mean that it is synced with the refresh rate of the monitor and also in sync to when you're eyes refresh. That's why we can tell when something is running at 60 or 100fps.
Switching FSAA on and off would look weird, you want to keep it consistent! If anything it's keep everything high unless it's about to go god awful slow then kill things off so it's atleast playable.
I played Ultima Online for almost 2 years and it took over my life for a large part of that time.
I didn't decide to play any of the new MMORPG's because I couldn't stand the First Person perspectiv e for an RPG. A world so complex and engaging requires peripheral vision that no first person, or third person game can recreate. The only way I can play these games is from a top-down view (2d or 3d) with no loading times, like Ultima Online. Exploring UO was fun because you never knew what was coming up because you couldn't see into the distance, it was a wonderful game.
I think that would be saved for the next gen system from nintendo, not on the gamecube.
Nintendo usually sticks with a style for a few games and the latest look for the zelda game is phenomenal and got an awesome response, they'll surely keep using this engine for atleast one more game.
This comes in time to try and entice people to renew their one year membership soon. x-box live has done marginaly well, but we'll see for sure how well it does when it comes to membership renewals during the holidays.
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rtfa. the article was pretty much only about what equipment they used.
If we were all running on dial up the viruses would still spread nearly as fast.
What has doomed the internet is the monopoly over software that makes one vulnerability in the dominant software to take down almost everyone on the internet.
If the population was using an even mix of different email clients, browsers, and operating systems we would all be much safer.
What I think really accelerates virus distribution are MS Exchange workgroup email servers. Those viruses go through contact lists that can contains hundreds of thousands of emails in seconds! That's where viruses really multiply.
I don't understand why no one puts anti virus software on their email servers. I have several email addresses and the only one that I DON'T pay for (a family run server) is the only one that has server side anti-virus and it works great. Why can't ISPs and large corporations do the same? Have they not seen how viruses can cripple networks?
At the college I attend (and work at) they push down a script on the domain that makes everyone computer in the school run this annoying virus specific clean up tool from Norton everytime a new virus makes its run around the internet. This is run before the logon screen so it can make the computer take 5-10 minutes longer to boot up! That's simply ridiculous.
Next time your heater breaks I'll expect you to RTFM and try to fix it yourself.
Look who is gonna be the lazy one now.
The way Peter Jackson has been handling things, he doesn't seem to be a money grubbing a-hole like Lucas. The amazing amount of extra footage that was released with the Extended Editions has to be atleast MOST of what they have, if they managed to come up with extra footage I'd be surprised.
I doubt the Trilogy Edition will have any extra material (what, it's already going to be 6-7 DVDs!) other than maybe one or two special features on the trilogy as a whole (ie. life after LOTR for the cast, etc)
I can see why this might be newsworthy in the games section. But why is this on the front page of slashdot? WOW A WEB SITE WITH SCREENSHOTS AND ARTWORK ABOUT A GAME IS OUT!! WHOA.
Yes, most emulators never work 100% because they don't have access to the original source code of the games or the system API's. They have to reverse engineer everything and sometimes they just can't figure out everything. But if Microsoft were to make an emulator for the Xbox: 1) the x86 platform is open, easy to emulate 2) they wrote the software running on the machine including directx.
So they have two options if they chose to emulate the original xbox: 1) emulate their old processor and hardware environment and then just run the old xbox software ontop of it or 2) emulate their old software and translate it to the new system.
Nothing to do with Apple? They are using Apple computers to run their OS and SDK.
I actually thought of the saturn midway through that post and I forgot to go back and modify that part of it.
my bad
So you'd rather pay $300 for a videocard to play doom3?
It was standard practice before when each console was using cartridges that were all different sizes, but with optical media being used it's much more viable to include backwards compatibility.
The playstation 2 was the only "sequel" console of a optical media console so they're the only ones who have had a chance to play with it. I hope everyone follows in their foot steps.
It's a huge selling point, atleast it is in my books.
"This day's been a long time coming, but it's finally here"
Since when is 2 months notice a "long time coming"?
Because the trailers were better than the actual movie.
Sure if this was the only product to use GLOO it could of been done in another language like C or C++ but GLOO is meant to be easily ran on any Java enabled device. Imagine your Wi-Fi+Java PDA also accessing all your music on your network, or a Wi-Fi Smart phone, etc.
Obviously Java has no use if it's just a one time final use. But this is meant to be applied to lots of devices EASILY.
Imagine having a meeting with a company trying to sell them the idea of GLOO. Try telling them they'll have to spend months writing the code for it. Or you could just give them the code in java and have them implement it in an afternoon.
It doesn't just magicly pick up mp3s on computers, you have to install a GLOO server on the computers that will do the sharing.
People will always want faster computers.
Sure you're desktop computer will be able to product real-time photorealistic graphics, but what about your laptop? And then what about your palmtop? and then your watch? what about chips implanted under your skin?
There will always be new uses for computers that you can't begin to think of. Sure if we limit all our computing to what we are doing today we won't need much faster computers. It's new technologies that will make people want faster computers.
Example: a pda sized device that uses some yet to be invented technology to scan your body and keep track of everything going on at an amazing level of detail... surely you'll need an insaly powerful and small computer to do this.
Are we supposed to know who Linus is for some reason?
He's a legendary game designer and doesn't need any introduction to most up-to-date game enthusiasts.
The lessons learned in engineering a new breed of fish can be used in the future to say, engineer cancer fighting genes.
This is just a side effect of a useful experiment, why not make some money from it and raise awareness for genetic engineering?
Just because the game is running at 30fps it doesn't mean that it is synced with the refresh rate of the monitor and also in sync to when you're eyes refresh. That's why we can tell when something is running at 60 or 100fps.
Switching FSAA on and off would look weird, you want to keep it consistent! If anything it's keep everything high unless it's about to go god awful slow then kill things off so it's atleast playable.
I am sure there will be a benchmark mode of some sort where there is no cap.
I played Ultima Online for almost 2 years and it took over my life for a large part of that time.
I didn't decide to play any of the new MMORPG's because I couldn't stand the First Person perspectiv e for an RPG. A world so complex and engaging requires peripheral vision that no first person, or third person game can recreate. The only way I can play these games is from a top-down view (2d or 3d) with no loading times, like Ultima Online. Exploring UO was fun because you never knew what was coming up because you couldn't see into the distance, it was a wonderful game.
I can't even beat an Apple II at chess. DAMN YOU CHESSMASTER 2000!!
The SP just came out but the GBA platform itself is a couple of years old already.
I think that would be saved for the next gen system from nintendo, not on the gamecube.
Nintendo usually sticks with a style for a few games and the latest look for the zelda game is phenomenal and got an awesome response, they'll surely keep using this engine for atleast one more game.
This comes in time to try and entice people to renew their one year membership soon. x-box live has done marginaly well, but we'll see for sure how well it does when it comes to membership renewals during the holidays.
but my pants have pockets.