Definatly. Though the overhead of emulataion is incredibly high, especially when the architecture you're emulating bears absolutly no resemblence to the one the will be crunching the numbers.
Only time will tell as to whether this a well placed PR red-herring, or, if infact the X360 is backwards compatible.
Halo is only thought of as 'superb' in the console arena. On PC, it was 'Just Another FPS', with nothing to distinguish it from more popular titles such as the BattelField's, FarCry, etc... the action was repetitive, the weapons bland, and the terrain was homogenous through out the entire game.
Halo 2 I believe will be more of the same, with the only real difference between the first and this sequel being the story line, and prettier graphics. It will be loved by people who own consoles, and have yet to properly experience what an FPS should really be like. I predict that gamers who are FPS purists, will have the same gripes with this games as they did with the first one.
IMO, the hype surrounding the first game was completely unwarranted... and thus I suspect the same will ring true when I bother getting around to play this.
Have you played the console version of the original half-life? What a scam that was... I suspect the console version of HL2 will also be bastardized in the same way.
Prediction: Doom 3 (or HL2) on any current console will be fucking crap.. those kinds of games just DO NOT translate well to consoles... it's a matter of the differing aestetics of console and PC platforms.
He's extremely tempted to type 'cat/dev/core' at the CLI...
I gotta say I felt the same way, but after quickly checking the size of that file, I decided that having a 256M avalanche of binary data inundate my monitor wouldn't be all that exciting
The program becomes a Trojan for whatever adware or other scheme a company has up its sleeves.
Ahhh, but with an open source program, you'd be able to see the code for the trojan, remove it, and soldier on as if it was never there in the first place.
You should be able to right click on the Half Life 2 item in your games menu, and select 'pre-loading status'. Then you should be able to resume from there.
You really should have done it first oportunity you got. Me? I got the story before it went live on slashdot and therefore beat the rush. yay for subscription... but, now you'll have to contend with the hoards of people who rush to open steam after seeing this
So, it's somewhat questionable if sudo would really block the claims. I'm sure if one were to send the patent office the sudo info, MS would argue that they have an "already running admin. process" that then actively accepts requests from other user processes.
you may be correct... I wonder, in security terms, if its a good idea to have such a thing constantly on, like you describe.
Your Creative MuVo2 is not a limited resource computing device, it's a music playback device
While I think it's debatable as to whether an MP3 player is could be classified as a limited resource computing device, I believe the fact that it even has this kind of interface shows that this patent is "obvious" and should never have been granted.
This ties in with the sentence further on which pertains to it being relevant to devices with limited resources, i.e. not very many buttons.
My Creative MuVo2 only has 2 buttons... the Pause/Play button can be held for different lengths of time to perform certain functions... I think this qualifies as prior art, and this patent should be vaporized.
You have to buy a new DVD player every 5 months (it doesn't matter which brand), because the read speed of the laser in your current one isn't enough for the new Enhanced Image Quality(tm) movie, because the size of individual frames is now larger then your DVD player can stream in a second.
YAY!
The good thing about consoles is this: hardware consistency.
Unlike a PC, there is rarely ever more than 1 hardware configuration to cater for, and thus a game can be made to push that one config to it's absolute limit. A PC on the other hand could consist of a near infinite number of configations, and games must be made to cater for the lowest common denominator, as people don't reallyu buy games that doesn't run well on their system, and they wont buy a game that doesn't look good on their hardware.
This is the problem I see with XNA: The sheer number of hardware configurations it will need to cater for will detract from the over all visual quality of the games.
Yes, I understand that drool worthy graphics do not a good game make... doesn't mean I want them any less.
It shouldn't, but when a game's graphics are so offensive to the senses that they hamper your enjoyment of the game, it does.
Question:
How can you make an assumption that the graphics would hamper your enjoyment of the game if you've never played it?
To be honest, I wasn't hot on the whole cel-shading idea either... that was until I played the game, and I realized why they did it. The story is as mature as any Zelda game I've played, the only thing that was different from the N64 Zeldas was the artistic style of the graphics... which IMHO, worked well within the game world. Gannon still looed evil; The monsters looked very manga like (which was the case in ALL previous zelda games). I get the impression you've only ever seen stills of the game, because it wasn't all sugar-coated like you say.. and the look of the models was quite gritty when appropriate.
So Link was a fat little kid... it's not the same Link from the N64 Zelda's anyway. He's still a hylian knight decendant, so he's still a champion...
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a catapult for getting up, and slippery slide for getting down, I believe was the initial proposal.
ahh, no. you need to know one command:
~$ uptime
Real men play Tekken... I don't even own a PS2 (I own a GC), and I know that.
$prev_post =~ s/bear/bare/g
Definatly. Though the overhead of emulataion is incredibly high, especially when the architecture you're emulating bears absolutly no resemblence to the one the will be crunching the numbers.
Only time will tell as to whether this a well placed PR red-herring, or, if infact the X360 is backwards compatible.
I have my doubts
Or the sane solution:
Include libs/dll's with office
I will not buy a PSP because I'm not going to shell out that much money for a knowingly defective product.
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My thoughs exactly
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yes... punctuation is a wonderful thing.
Thats what I think...
Halo is only thought of as 'superb' in the console arena. On PC, it was 'Just Another FPS', with nothing to distinguish it from more popular titles such as the BattelField's, FarCry, etc... the action was repetitive, the weapons bland, and the terrain was homogenous through out the entire game.
Halo 2 I believe will be more of the same, with the only real difference between the first and this sequel being the story line, and prettier graphics. It will be loved by people who own consoles, and have yet to properly experience what an FPS should really be like. I predict that gamers who are FPS purists, will have the same gripes with this games as they did with the first one.
IMO, the hype surrounding the first game was completely unwarranted... and thus I suspect the same will ring true when I bother getting around to play this.
Yes. His brother.
Shady...
Your post has made me wonder:
To charge the PSP battery, does the battery need to be in the PSP, or can it be charged independently of the main unit?
I don't think I've ever seen a rechargable battery pack, for this kind of device, that was rechargable outside of the products housing.
Anyone know the answer to this question?
Have you played the console version of the original half-life? What a scam that was... I suspect the console version of HL2 will also be bastardized in the same way.
Prediction: Doom 3 (or HL2) on any current console will be fucking crap.. those kinds of games just DO NOT translate well to consoles... it's a matter of the differing aestetics of console and PC platforms.
He's extremely tempted to type 'cat /dev/core' at the CLI...
I gotta say I felt the same way, but after quickly checking the size of that file, I decided that having a 256M avalanche of binary data inundate my monitor wouldn't be all that exciting
The program becomes a Trojan for whatever adware or other scheme a company has up its sleeves.
Ahhh, but with an open source program, you'd be able to see the code for the trojan, remove it, and soldier on as if it was never there in the first place.
You should be able to right click on the Half Life 2 item in your games menu, and select 'pre-loading status'. Then you should be able to resume from there.
You really should have done it first oportunity you got. Me? I got the story before it went live on slashdot and therefore beat the rush. yay for subscription... but, now you'll have to contend with the hoards of people who rush to open steam after seeing this
setiud is part of an IEEE standard that dates back to at least 1988, if I'm not mistaken
So, it's somewhat questionable if sudo would really block the claims. I'm sure if one were to send the patent office the sudo info, MS would argue that they have an "already running admin. process" that then actively accepts requests from other user processes.
you may be correct... I wonder, in security terms, if its a good idea to have such a thing constantly on, like you describe.
So, I guess the prior art will be easy to show... right?
It's this kind of strategy that will keep them from ever beating google
Microsoft may end up being the biggest GPL'd opensource company
Open source, maybe... GPL, no
Your Creative MuVo2 is not a limited resource computing device, it's a music playback device
While I think it's debatable as to whether an MP3 player is could be classified as a limited resource computing device, I believe the fact that it even has this kind of interface shows that this patent is "obvious" and should never have been granted.
*ZAP*
This ties in with the sentence further on which pertains to it being relevant to devices with limited resources, i.e. not very many buttons.
My Creative MuVo2 only has 2 buttons... the Pause/Play button can be held for different lengths of time to perform certain functions... I think this qualifies as prior art, and this patent should be vaporized.
Forgive my ignorance, but are you for real when you say that MATHEMATICAL METHODS can be patented? That seems to outrageous to be true...
Yeah? Well imagine this:
You have to buy a new DVD player every 5 months (it doesn't matter which brand), because the read speed of the laser in your current one isn't enough for the new Enhanced Image Quality(tm) movie, because the size of individual frames is now larger then your DVD player can stream in a second.
YAY!
The good thing about consoles is this: hardware consistency.
Unlike a PC, there is rarely ever more than 1 hardware configuration to cater for, and thus a game can be made to push that one config to it's absolute limit. A PC on the other hand could consist of a near infinite number of configations, and games must be made to cater for the lowest common denominator, as people don't reallyu buy games that doesn't run well on their system, and they wont buy a game that doesn't look good on their hardware.
This is the problem I see with XNA: The sheer number of hardware configurations it will need to cater for will detract from the over all visual quality of the games.
Yes, I understand that drool worthy graphics do not a good game make... doesn't mean I want them any less.
It shouldn't, but when a game's graphics are so offensive to the senses that they hamper your enjoyment of the game, it does.
Question:
How can you make an assumption that the graphics would hamper your enjoyment of the game if you've never played it?
To be honest, I wasn't hot on the whole cel-shading idea either... that was until I played the game, and I realized why they did it. The story is as mature as any Zelda game I've played, the only thing that was different from the N64 Zeldas was the artistic style of the graphics... which IMHO, worked well within the game world. Gannon still looed evil; The monsters looked very manga like (which was the case in ALL previous zelda games). I get the impression you've only ever seen stills of the game, because it wasn't all sugar-coated like you say.. and the look of the models was quite gritty when appropriate.
So Link was a fat little kid... it's not the same Link from the N64 Zelda's anyway. He's still a hylian knight decendant, so he's still a champion...
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