This "ask slashdot" story is racist on itself. It would've been racist even the policaly correct term du jour (like "non anglo-saxon" or whatever) were used insted of the very racist "of color". Making a compleatly unfounded statistic remark about racial participation in "IT/OSS/Web/CS" projects is calling for more uninformed bable and flames.
My (now very old) Radeon 9600SE turnet out to be a 9600PRO without fan. The newer drivers even set the clock to 400 Mhz by default (the 9600SE chip is 325 Mhz). They probably test some samples and when QA fails they jut box the whole batch of cards in a lower model box.
Read some posts above. Two reasons basicaly, the extreme optimizations that can be done when you know exactly on what hardware your game is going to be run on, and the relative low res of a regular or even an "HD" tv set.
As far as I'm concerned, they could name their product "Xbox Reloaded" or "XBox: So much better than PS3" if they please. "Xbox360" sounds better than "xbox next", or "xbox 2". The name doesn't matter, it's just merc talk, In the long run is the games that matter, always the games.
If you read the complete keynote transcription you'll know what I mean with "strong developer roots": He programed a baseball game on his hp calc in college, worked in a 5 employee dev house named HAL (that later became a Nintendo's 2dn party in the NES era). He even showed a picture of himself at that age when he survived on pizza and rice balls coding until sunrise. Later on, when he was working in a higer position for Nintendo he asigned himself full time back to HAL in order to finish a game. If that's not "true geek" material I don't know what would.
... and practicaly the same core chip. I rememmer an/. post about some IBM engineer saying they were (on their clients request) making both chips look as far apart from each other as posible (specs, interface, etc) but that the core tech (PPC) were the same.
I haven't realized that the current Nintendo's President had such strong developer roots. He was behind Super Smash Bross Melee, and Kirby. Does any one have a good link on this man's history and how he became Nintendo's #1?
Blame the localization for that. In Japanese the relation between the Job Names and Action Names (menu names) is more clear, like Monster Tammer/Tamming instead of Beastmaster/Control.
But even in the English version, with the exception of Holy/White Magic, all the action-ability related laws were named the same as the A-Ability menu for a particular job. The generic laws were a little more confusing I agree, but those were very rare. Coloring the forbidden actions different in the menus kind of misses the point of having you to remember the laws and plan ahead (like choosing your party) and it was kind of the point of the game to work the laws out.
If the cat can come out the house is very unlikely for it to die in just a week left alone. Do you know how many sources of food are available for a cat in a regular neighborhood? Not to mention little birds and rodents.
My sister leaves her cat alone for three or four days once in a while (with plenty food and water). Never the less she always found feathers and other bird remains in her service room when she returns. One time her cat got into the living room with a chicken leg in his mouth... a raw and partially frozen chicken leg, probably taken from a neighbor kitchen.
I know this probably never happen but Nevertheless: I ask for a native bash shell for Longhorn (and better porting support for compilers of *nix like source code). What would be the reason for Microsoft not permiting this?
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Well said.
.. and I must add: CountBrass, why do you read/reply comments about a rant that you consider childish in the first place?
This "ask slashdot" story is racist on itself. It would've been racist even the policaly correct term du jour (like "non anglo-saxon" or whatever) were used insted of the very racist "of color". Making a compleatly unfounded statistic remark about racial participation in "IT/OSS/Web/CS" projects is calling for more uninformed bable and flames.
One of the articles mentions that the research is being supported by the military, for pilots to be more specific.
That "Ghosts of Mars" reference is a joke right?
I'm a Carpenter fan as much as anybody but you must admit that "Ghost of Mars" is crap.
My (now very old) Radeon 9600SE turnet out to be a 9600PRO without fan. The newer drivers even set the clock to 400 Mhz by default (the 9600SE chip is 325 Mhz). They probably test some samples and when QA fails they jut box the whole batch of cards in a lower model box.
What the heck are you tlaking about? Only someone out of his/her mind would even fantom porting Longhorn.
Read some posts above. Two reasons basicaly, the extreme optimizations that can be done when you know exactly on what hardware your game is going to be run on, and the relative low res of a regular or even an "HD" tv set.
Time to start working on that superconductor plague
And a dup it is.
Let's wait for some mayor aplications support both AMD64 and Intel 64 (itanium 2 or the new Pentium EE) and then talk ok?
As far as I'm concerned, they could name their product "Xbox Reloaded" or "XBox: So much better than PS3" if they please. "Xbox360" sounds better than "xbox next", or "xbox 2". The name doesn't matter, it's just merc talk, In the long run is the games that matter, always the games.
The latest oficial Linksys firmware for the WRT54G incorporated the QoS features of the svesoft release.
If you read the complete keynote transcription you'll know what I mean with "strong developer roots": He programed a baseball game on his hp calc in college, worked in a 5 employee dev house named HAL (that later became a Nintendo's 2dn party in the NES era). He even showed a picture of himself at that age when he survived on pizza and rice balls coding until sunrise. Later on, when he was working in a higer position for Nintendo he asigned himself full time back to HAL in order to finish a game. If that's not "true geek" material I don't know what would.
... and practicaly the same core chip. I rememmer an /. post about some IBM engineer saying they were (on their clients request) making both chips look as far apart from each other as posible (specs, interface, etc) but that the core tech (PPC) were the same.
I haven't realized that the current Nintendo's President had such strong developer roots. He was behind Super Smash Bross Melee, and Kirby. Does any one have a good link on this man's history and how he became Nintendo's #1?
I ask for a "always pospone my modpoints asingment to the next monday" preference checkbox.
But even in the English version, with the exception of Holy/White Magic, all the action-ability related laws were named the same as the A-Ability menu for a particular job. The generic laws were a little more confusing I agree, but those were very rare. Coloring the forbidden actions different in the menus kind of misses the point of having you to remember the laws and plan ahead (like choosing your party) and it was kind of the point of the game to work the laws out.
By simply lying you wouldn't get insigthfull mod points. It's lying with style what makes the trick.
My sister leaves her cat alone for three or four days once in a while (with plenty food and water). Never the less she always found feathers and other bird remains in her service room when she returns. One time her cat got into the living room with a chicken leg in his mouth... a raw and partially frozen chicken leg, probably taken from a neighbor kitchen.
This was reported ages ago.
I know this probably never happen but Nevertheless: I ask for a native bash shell for Longhorn (and better porting support for compilers of *nix like source code). What would be the reason for Microsoft not permiting this?
Yes, yes, he's a very very smart man. But the real question is: Do you use your powers for evil or for awsome Mr. Gates?
Do you know that "ano" in spanish means "anus"?
Yea, it ran around the same time as The Incredible Man and Automan. Those 3 where really cool geek shows.
You've never played Starcraft, aren't you?