but much like a government, or the RIAA, or the MPAA, game designers are trying to fix the wrong problem. Games don't really need more special effects and fancy stuff, they need to get back to quality storylines and gameplay. There are reasons that people spend so much time playing emulated games...
From the News.com story "Clogging pirates' outgoing connections
Wouldn't this be considered a DOS attack against the ISP? I don't own the connection, I just lease it. This would be especially true of cable internet where there are many users per area...their tactics would cause congestion across the entire segment...Also, would there be grounds for a lawsuit if their activities caused you to go over your bit cap?
until the RIAA attempts to break into my network here in Canada...where I'm fairly certain their little powers don't apply. I'll lawsuit them back to 8-tracks.
wish to announce my lawsuit against the major players involved in paving and maintaining roads. It seems that stolen cars are sometimes driven on these roads, and we have to put a stop to that.
Look at those benchmarks. If they can match a Parallel ATA drive with only 8 wires, imagine what they could do if they used as many as the parallel ATA drive.
with the advent of "Cell", IBM, Sony and Toshiba have formed a new company known as the "Red Ribbon Army". They have also named a new lead scientist, a fellow by the name of "Dr. Gero".
The idea of a free OS that is completely optimized for audio/video is a neat idea, the problem will be getting professional quality audio software available. I wouldn't dream of switching from a Mac or Windows until you could get a version of Cakewalk, Logic, or Pro Tools on it. If the companies that make these tools (arguably the top 3 multi-track recording software packages) ported them to linux, that'd be nifty, but since most people who do audio recording via software use one of these three, it'll be tough to crack the market.
Last I checked, IEEE 1394 (Firewire) completely kills USB. USB 2.0 only just catches up in speed, and the next version of the IEEE 1394 standard is on the way...and who had the first support for Firewire? Apple. I guess that makes MS number 2 and relegates linux to number 3 of this little artbitrary ranking system.
Like all that abandonware that's already free, or all those old console games that you can download from almost anywhere, and emulate? I don't know if trying to open source old games is such a great idea...I don't think it would really help anything.
It would be nice to see some music editing software (like a multi-track editor/recorder/mixer) that's closed source go open source...ooh, who wouldn't want an open source version of Cakewalk? Or Logic?
that most game coders are lazy. This thing is running dual GPU, so it probably can't run in AGP mode and take advantage of all the memory bandwidth that no one take advantage of.
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but this article has a valid point. A few years ago, the big hype was how Linux would take over and do all these amazing things for average joe user, and "liberate him from paying for software". That hasn't happened. Linux has evolved considerably, and I absolutely love it as a server OS. I'll take it over almost anything else for server stuff, but on the desktop, the Windoze does more stuff, and has more software that I want to use. All of the clients in the office are familiar with it, and the apps they want to use are all on the Windoze platform. As far as "liberating users" it really hasn't done that. If I were to retrain all of those clients to learn how to use Linux, it would probably cost just as much as if I were to upgrade to the next Windoze version, no to mention the wasted productivity while they trained and got used to using Linux. It's liberated tech-junkies, and people with low budgets...that's about it IMHO.
the big problem that I have with coding in exams is the whole enviroment. When I code, I have 2 displays going, mp3's playing and a couple of ICQ chat windows open. For me, coding without these things makes me concentrate too much, and get hung up on little details that don't really affect my code...
but where does the "a" come from in WaSP.... or maybe that's part of the proposed standard...being able to add any required letter to your project acronym to make it sound cooler.
and as far as I can tell, it's a pretty realistic depiction of everyday life in LA...
But seriously...is it just me or do game companies care way more about fancy graphics than gameplay lately? I still play Megaman 2 all the time on my NES, graphics are shitty, but the gameplay is amazing.
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but much like a government, or the RIAA, or the MPAA, game designers are trying to fix the wrong problem. Games don't really need more special effects and fancy stuff, they need to get back to quality storylines and gameplay. There are reasons that people spend so much time playing emulated games...
Wouldn't this be considered a DOS attack against the ISP? I don't own the connection, I just lease it. This would be especially true of cable internet where there are many users per area...their tactics would cause congestion across the entire segment...Also, would there be grounds for a lawsuit if their activities caused you to go over your bit cap?
would this make a great fallout shelter, but you could heat up all of your cans of food with all that microwave goodness.
the big hog on network bandwidth is TCP/IP...big surprise there.
if there's a spyware app in this technology that automatically installs a trialware version of Adventure Island...
until the RIAA attempts to break into my network here in Canada...where I'm fairly certain their little powers don't apply. I'll lawsuit them back to 8-tracks.
wish to announce my lawsuit against the major players involved in paving and maintaining roads. It seems that stolen cars are sometimes driven on these roads, and we have to put a stop to that.
Look at those benchmarks. If they can match a Parallel ATA drive with only 8 wires, imagine what they could do if they used as many as the parallel ATA drive.
with the advent of "Cell", IBM, Sony and Toshiba have formed a new company known as the "Red Ribbon Army". They have also named a new lead scientist, a fellow by the name of "Dr. Gero".
The idea of a free OS that is completely optimized for audio/video is a neat idea, the problem will be getting professional quality audio software available. I wouldn't dream of switching from a Mac or Windows until you could get a version of Cakewalk, Logic, or Pro Tools on it. If the companies that make these tools (arguably the top 3 multi-track recording software packages) ported them to linux, that'd be nifty, but since most people who do audio recording via software use one of these three, it'll be tough to crack the market.
Last I checked, IEEE 1394 (Firewire) completely kills USB. USB 2.0 only just catches up in speed, and the next version of the IEEE 1394 standard is on the way...and who had the first support for Firewire? Apple. I guess that makes MS number 2 and relegates linux to number 3 of this little artbitrary ranking system.
I don't know if trying to open source old games is such a great idea...I don't think it would really help anything.
It would be nice to see some music editing software (like a multi-track editor/recorder/mixer) that's closed source go open source...ooh, who wouldn't want an open source version of Cakewalk? Or Logic?
I'm salivating at the thought.
If anyone thinks they're conscripting me, I'll move to some other Internet in protest.
that most game coders are lazy. This thing is running dual GPU, so it probably can't run in AGP mode and take advantage of all the memory bandwidth that no one take advantage of.
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the big problem that I have with coding in exams is the whole enviroment. When I code, I have 2 displays going, mp3's playing and a couple of ICQ chat windows open. For me, coding without these things makes me concentrate too much, and get hung up on little details that don't really affect my code...
...if anyone works at the post office, please be on the lookout for a letter from IBM labs, I left my glasses at home, and it looked like a stamp...
but where does the "a" come from in WaSP.... or maybe that's part of the proposed standard...being able to add any required letter to your project acronym to make it sound cooler.
Buh??? Why would you need to write a virus to do this, most linux boxes out there have lots of stuff you can exploit to get root yourself.
You asked for it
is download and compile me up a new videocard. sweet.
C4lif0rni4 h4x0r3d?
But seriously...is it just me or do game companies care way more about fancy graphics than gameplay lately? I still play Megaman 2 all the time on my NES, graphics are shitty, but the gameplay is amazing.
yeah, but at least it wasn't posted by the same editor...now that would have been priceless.
that probably explains why noone really understand the universe then...