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Same here, but, I was away from gaming 10 years pretty much due to the exact same reasons
now that I have hit the mid 30s and have not found someone I am back to gaming.
(You would call me the typical slashdot joke, but some guys simply are not made for marriage in womens eyes although I am not the typical stereotype)
Anyway, it might depend on your family state, but I managed to make a distinction between work and home and enjoy gaming again, not days of gaming like back then when I was younger, but the occasional fun game is enjoyable. A game on a long train ride, or just to sit down and play for a few minutes.
Actually that is what vms and emulations are for, it would be easy to shift the entire old
part of windows into a vm, but the main problem is,
the apis are so entangled in each other that even microsoft does not have a clue probably
if you pull an 8 or 16 bit dll out of windows if you do not crash the entire system!
They usually wait for OSX or linux showing it, than they have to wait for the working linux implementation
and about one year after the technology has been in the opensource they announce it for their next Windows as
something they invented:-)
Most families do not even have a clue that a PC can be used as console replacment, and also can be hooked onto a TV,
split screens do not make sense on monitors, most monitor setups while having very high resolution have a rather limited screen size (17 - 19 inch are normally found)
to sum it up split screen gaming on a monitor workplace setup is not fun, it only works on consoles
because those are in the living room where you easily can group around a bigger tv.
Unfortunately true, the last mac probably will be my mac mini for the next years unless something decent in the mid range comes along.
Apple has a severe problem in the product lineup, they have an affordable low end range, they have a mid end range with integrated monitor and good graphics, and they have an absolute high end range.
But they do not have any mid end model witout integrated monitor.
Most of us have enough monitors but they need graphics power, Apple really could open an additional market with a mac mini like model with an Nvidia or ATI graphics chip!
Split screen gaming is not really wanted on a pc, people usually sit in front of a monitor with very high resolution. Multiplayer on a PC is pretty much network centric.
Split screen high res gaming is a non issue on a PC due to the multicores and threading units,
but it is not really wanted.
I think from the architecture the Xbox probably is best suited for split screen gaming, several multi purpose cores can go a long way, while the playstation probably will have the biggest problem, the playstation 3 simply sucks in multithreading (but is an excellent number cruncher which will show in the areas of physics, texture processing and 2d imaging)
Ahem they did, if it wasnt for Apples work on rosetta Office would not even run.
A handful of OSS programmers in their spareteime fortunately have ported and adjusted OpenOffice
(http://www.neooffice.org) to the Mac to a big degree so that Apple has a viable office pack.
Microsoft still does not have one, unfortunately once Microsoft drops their shitware again on the mac natively they will get 10 times as much in a single day than the Neooffice developers probably will get in their entire life.
Anyway give Neooffice 2 a chance it is the best office you can get on the Mac and probably will be also in the future!
You still can find the fanboys raving that the PS3 will have a 10 years lifespan, which I highly doubt it, if it takes off, it will be replaced around 2012 if not way earlier.
History repeats itself, no matter how powerful you make a console it always is at PC level or lower at the time it comes out.
There is a reason, not too much custom hardware for consoles is developed anymore, most of the development stems either from the PC area or from the server area (in the low end server range)
There is no SGI anymore which can spin off a next gen 3d hardware which surpasses the PC at least two years at the time it comes out, the current crop of 3d processors in consoles are all derived directly or indirectly from the PC high end gear of the time of planning the console!
# - All graphical output is unaccelerated monochrome.
No decent games programming unless you extend nethack, checked, sony did its work
# - All source code must include #rootkit.h
Excellent but I rather doubt it
# - All output is watermarked with a picture of Sony's MD fucking you in the ass.
I also doubt this.
No seriously, the PS3 as general purpose computing device has severe limits,
one being the ram, which is not too much
Secondly, face it, the Cell is a lousy general purpose processor, it has
in its core a standard powerpc core which is quite good, but stripped of all
optimizations most general purpose cpus have. It has its merits however as pure number cruncher
which makes the PS3 an interesting target for research facilities, as cheap number crunchers.
For graphics, even graphical uis, which general purpose computers also requires, the exposed
framebuffer device does not really cut it, this would be like running Linux on a Vesa graphics
card on a Pentoum 200MHz this comes close to the specs the PS3 exposes to the average Linux install.
A console which cannot do 3d in general purpose computing and costs as much as a PC, does the same graphics level as a similar priced PC!
Yiehaa, what an achievement!
Yes, shoot first ask questions later, is a good way to start a business in one of the biggest emerging markets, especially in a country, stuffed with very proud people who do not have too many problems except one, they do not like to be mocked with from the outside, especially not in a very arrogant way!
Drink with them,
make friendship,
du not fully trust them,
too many crooks, but many also are nice,
make business with them,
but never every try to be arrogant against
them or bully them.
They are very proud people,
and the usual american arrogance
is not really accepted.
(I am not russian and live in central europe btw.)
The russian mentality in many ways is somewhat different
to the usual western mentality, you really have to be open
to keep friendships with them or generally deal with them
and you have to learn their ways to some degree.
Ahem Russia with approx 300 mio people is one of the bigger emerging markets.
This is really a severe blow to Microsoft, I hope some chairs are now flying!
Russians are generally nice, but they are somewhat different, they do not like
to be bulled with from out outside (they do their bullying themselves)
There are other pitfalls, like lazily hardcoded paths, \ / problems which are covered by java but some guy coded it in etc...
It is always good to test it.
But java is very good in this respect, i once moved an app developed in windows onto a tomcat running in a IBM VM on an RS6000 and it ran without a single problem, the program and its libraries were way over one mio locs...
Ahem I live in Europe, and I can assure you, the DVD capabilities of the PS2 were a non issue
dvd was more important on the PC than on the PS2 over here, most people who were going to get
DVDs were getting back then region free drives, due to the region code issues especially in the early years (shoddy european releases often no releases)
The PS2 was none of them, most people buying a PS2 bought it for gaming, and because it could
also run the PS1 games, most people who have a PS2 over here do not even know that it also plays dvds.
I know a lot of people who bought region free standalone players, who bought cheap chinese dvd players which also could play divx and xvid and were region free, but I have yet to meet one who used his PS2 for serious DVD playing!
Adventure games are not really dead, they dont even smell, in the last 2 years 10-20 of those games habe been released.
They are definitely not anymore high profile, double page ad games, but they are released on a constant scale with about 20
titles per year.
Thing is, nowadays those games are cheaply produced with many tools already available, so smaller studios nowadays do them (except for Nintendo who has Cing on their Payroll for the DS adventure games)
they do not have to sell millions but those studios seem to survive.
There are a lot of issues playing into this, the graphics are not the issue.
Occarina of time was the first of its kind on the cube and almost the first game entirely
showing modern 3d action rpg roleplaying.
So once you stepped into occarina of time it indeed was entirely new.
Newer Zeldas recycle the game mechanics.
Actually the controls are way easier, i am playing currently windwaker and twilight princess
and I must say, the Wii controls do not add a different dimension to the game but they make
the game way more accessible.
The thing about dealing with a foreign country is to go in and appreciate their background, their culture, and their style of work. To go in and trample all over their acheivements in an attempt to hock your wares just doesn't cut it.
I also doubt it, the chinese very likely value their emperors above all others.
Out of historical reasons
Btw. Rome is indeed an interesting issue, even nowadays-
Anyway, we have way too many countries already claiming to be inheritors of the roman throne.
Currently we have, indirectly russia, basically france, or nowadays the whole EU,
also maybe you can add greece, and also the united states.
None of those countries or regions currently claim anything in this area directly, but all of
them see themselves and indirect successors.
Also add to that that the western roman emperor title, currently is vacant but could be given
to someone anytime, also the eastern roman emperor title currently is legally defunct, but
not yet directly dead.
Also we have quite a few families who could make a claim due to historical reasons, with the Habsburgs
and Romanovs being happily alive but not claiming it currently.
I did not say the games were bad, but buying the same sports game, and face it, madden, fifa, need for speed etc... 2000-2001-2002-2003-2004-2005 is pretty much the same year after year, full price is simply idiotic, but those games are the cash cows of EA and sell to millions to the we want the same again although we have it idiots.
I mean lets be serious, go to a games or electronic store and look at the shelves, they are a disgrace. Pokemon 300, Madden 500, Castle Wolfenstein 3d Clone 700, Fifa Soccer (fill in the current year), add to that the recent wave of girls games, Pet simulator 700 same game but one new dress for the dog. But this is the stuff which sells in millions. Or to sum it up, shitware for the people who do not care.
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Same here, but, I was away from gaming 10 years pretty much due to the exact same reasons now that I have hit the mid 30s and have not found someone I am back to gaming.
(You would call me the typical slashdot joke, but some guys simply are not made for marriage in womens eyes although I am not the typical stereotype)
Anyway, it might depend on your family state, but I managed to make a distinction between work and home and enjoy gaming again, not days of gaming like back then when I was younger, but the occasional fun game is enjoyable. A game on a long train ride, or just to sit down and play for a few minutes.
Actually that is what vms and emulations are for, it would be easy to shift the entire old part of windows into a vm, but the main problem is, the apis are so entangled in each other that even microsoft does not have a clue probably if you pull an 8 or 16 bit dll out of windows if you do not crash the entire system!
They usually wait for OSX or linux showing it, than they have to wait for the working linux implementation and about one year after the technology has been in the opensource they announce it for their next Windows as something they invented :-)
The lawsuit was inevitable, Microsoft tried to steal away java from Sun!
Most families do not even have a clue that a PC can be used as console replacment, and also can be hooked onto a TV, split screens do not make sense on monitors, most monitor setups while having very high resolution have a rather limited screen size (17 - 19 inch are normally found) to sum it up split screen gaming on a monitor workplace setup is not fun, it only works on consoles because those are in the living room where you easily can group around a bigger tv.
Unfortunately true, the last mac probably will be my mac mini for the next years unless something decent in the mid range comes along. Apple has a severe problem in the product lineup, they have an affordable low end range, they have a mid end range with integrated monitor and good graphics, and they have an absolute high end range. But they do not have any mid end model witout integrated monitor. Most of us have enough monitors but they need graphics power, Apple really could open an additional market with a mac mini like model with an Nvidia or ATI graphics chip!
Split screen gaming is not really wanted on a pc, people usually sit in front of a monitor with very high resolution. Multiplayer on a PC is pretty much network centric. Split screen high res gaming is a non issue on a PC due to the multicores and threading units, but it is not really wanted. I think from the architecture the Xbox probably is best suited for split screen gaming, several multi purpose cores can go a long way, while the playstation probably will have the biggest problem, the playstation 3 simply sucks in multithreading (but is an excellent number cruncher which will show in the areas of physics, texture processing and 2d imaging)
Ahem they did, if it wasnt for Apples work on rosetta Office would not even run. A handful of OSS programmers in their spareteime fortunately have ported and adjusted OpenOffice (http://www.neooffice.org) to the Mac to a big degree so that Apple has a viable office pack. Microsoft still does not have one, unfortunately once Microsoft drops their shitware again on the mac natively they will get 10 times as much in a single day than the Neooffice developers probably will get in their entire life. Anyway give Neooffice 2 a chance it is the best office you can get on the Mac and probably will be also in the future!
You still can find the fanboys raving that the PS3 will have a 10 years lifespan, which I highly doubt it, if it takes off, it will be replaced around 2012 if not way earlier. History repeats itself, no matter how powerful you make a console it always is at PC level or lower at the time it comes out. There is a reason, not too much custom hardware for consoles is developed anymore, most of the development stems either from the PC area or from the server area (in the low end server range) There is no SGI anymore which can spin off a next gen 3d hardware which surpasses the PC at least two years at the time it comes out, the current crop of 3d processors in consoles are all derived directly or indirectly from the PC high end gear of the time of planning the console!
# - All graphical output is unaccelerated monochrome. No decent games programming unless you extend nethack, checked, sony did its work # - All source code must include #rootkit.h Excellent but I rather doubt it # - All output is watermarked with a picture of Sony's MD fucking you in the ass. I also doubt this. No seriously, the PS3 as general purpose computing device has severe limits, one being the ram, which is not too much Secondly, face it, the Cell is a lousy general purpose processor, it has in its core a standard powerpc core which is quite good, but stripped of all optimizations most general purpose cpus have. It has its merits however as pure number cruncher which makes the PS3 an interesting target for research facilities, as cheap number crunchers. For graphics, even graphical uis, which general purpose computers also requires, the exposed framebuffer device does not really cut it, this would be like running Linux on a Vesa graphics card on a Pentoum 200MHz this comes close to the specs the PS3 exposes to the average Linux install.
Wake me up when you get accelerated graphics in PS3 Linux all it does is to push you into a VM with the hardware entirely being isolated!
A console which cannot do 3d in general purpose computing and costs as much as a PC, does the same graphics level as a similar priced PC! Yiehaa, what an achievement!
Yes, shoot first ask questions later, is a good way to start a business in one of the biggest emerging markets, especially in a country, stuffed with very proud people who do not have too many problems except one, they do not like to be mocked with from the outside, especially not in a very arrogant way!
Drink with them, make friendship, du not fully trust them, too many crooks, but many also are nice, make business with them, but never every try to be arrogant against them or bully them. They are very proud people, and the usual american arrogance is not really accepted. (I am not russian and live in central europe btw.)
The russian mentality in many ways is somewhat different to the usual western mentality, you really have to be open to keep friendships with them or generally deal with them and you have to learn their ways to some degree.
Ahem Russia with approx 300 mio people is one of the bigger emerging markets. This is really a severe blow to Microsoft, I hope some chairs are now flying! Russians are generally nice, but they are somewhat different, they do not like to be bulled with from out outside (they do their bullying themselves)
There are other pitfalls, like lazily hardcoded paths, \ / problems which are covered by java but some guy coded it in etc... It is always good to test it. But java is very good in this respect, i once moved an app developed in windows onto a tomcat running in a IBM VM on an RS6000 and it ran without a single problem, the program and its libraries were way over one mio locs...
Ahem I live in Europe, and I can assure you, the DVD capabilities of the PS2 were a non issue dvd was more important on the PC than on the PS2 over here, most people who were going to get DVDs were getting back then region free drives, due to the region code issues especially in the early years (shoddy european releases often no releases) The PS2 was none of them, most people buying a PS2 bought it for gaming, and because it could also run the PS1 games, most people who have a PS2 over here do not even know that it also plays dvds. I know a lot of people who bought region free standalone players, who bought cheap chinese dvd players which also could play divx and xvid and were region free, but I have yet to meet one who used his PS2 for serious DVD playing!
Adventure games are not really dead, they dont even smell, in the last 2 years 10-20 of those games habe been released. They are definitely not anymore high profile, double page ad games, but they are released on a constant scale with about 20 titles per year. Thing is, nowadays those games are cheaply produced with many tools already available, so smaller studios nowadays do them (except for Nintendo who has Cing on their Payroll for the DS adventure games) they do not have to sell millions but those studios seem to survive.
Ahem, i am playing this game as we speak... :-)
No dead horse there.
There are a lot of issues playing into this, the graphics are not the issue. Occarina of time was the first of its kind on the cube and almost the first game entirely showing modern 3d action rpg roleplaying. So once you stepped into occarina of time it indeed was entirely new. Newer Zeldas recycle the game mechanics.
Pong, Mule, Archon!
Actually the controls are way easier, i am playing currently windwaker and twilight princess and I must say, the Wii controls do not add a different dimension to the game but they make the game way more accessible.
The thing about dealing with a foreign country is to go in and appreciate their background, their culture, and their style of work. To go in and trample all over their acheivements in an attempt to hock your wares just doesn't cut it.
Typical american mistake!
I also doubt it, the chinese very likely value their emperors above all others. Out of historical reasons
Btw. Rome is indeed an interesting issue, even nowadays- Anyway, we have way too many countries already claiming to be inheritors of the roman throne. Currently we have, indirectly russia, basically france, or nowadays the whole EU, also maybe you can add greece, and also the united states.
None of those countries or regions currently claim anything in this area directly, but all of them see themselves and indirect successors. Also add to that that the western roman emperor title, currently is vacant but could be given to someone anytime, also the eastern roman emperor title currently is legally defunct, but not yet directly dead. Also we have quite a few families who could make a claim due to historical reasons, with the Habsburgs and Romanovs being happily alive but not claiming it currently.
I did not say the games were bad, but buying the same sports game, and face it, madden, fifa, need for speed etc... 2000-2001-2002-2003-2004-2005 is pretty much the same year after year, full price is simply idiotic, but those games are the cash cows of EA and sell to millions to the we want the same again although we have it idiots.
I mean lets be serious, go to a games or electronic store and look at the shelves, they are a disgrace. Pokemon 300, Madden 500, Castle Wolfenstein 3d Clone 700, Fifa Soccer (fill in the current year), add to that the recent wave of girls games, Pet simulator 700 same game but one new dress for the dog. But this is the stuff which sells in millions. Or to sum it up, shitware for the people who do not care.