There is a DivX format file on the same page (without the Zero-G footage). And DivX is available for ~all platforms.
2.) The WM Player may be a little on the 'blech' side, but arguably most players are. Real Media? Yuck. Quicktime? Yuck. DivX Playa? Yuck. Heck, just fire up MS's v6 Media Player. It's a great little player and it still plays WM9 formats if you have the codecs.
That's your opinion. The WM Player on the Mac (what I use) is terrible.
Quicktime (for Sorensen stuff) is fine on the Mac, and Video Lan Client and MPlayer are both very good for DivX and pretty much anything else.
WM Player on Mac is still in a beta, hasn't been updated in probably six months, looks terrible, and runs very slowly even for small, low-quality movies.
I don't see what you're complaining about. I can understand Mac users or Linux users being annoyed, but then again intelligent gamers mainly run Windows anyway.
Yes, because using Windows is obviously the 'intelligent' choice when talking about a console game.
I've been trying to remember all day where that phrase came from.
The Simpsons, where Millhouse (Milhouse? I have no idea how to spell his name) gets cast as the sidekick to...uh... what's his name? Atomic Man, thingy. Anyway, it's been a while since I watched The Simpsons because I'm generally not near a TV when it comes on.
But the guy playing Atomic Man see a wave of acid rushing towards him when they're filming a scene, so he puts on his safety goggles and gets carried away screaming... you guessed it.
No one is an island in this world, MS is no exception. If MS really wants a fight, then lets make it one that MS wins nothing but financial ruins.
Yes, let's. While we're at it, let's cure cancer and bring about world peace, as well. Also, we can put that whole 'intelligent life elsewhere in the universe' thing to rest, one way or the other. Are you ready, my brothers? Let us be off!
Jobs made a statement along the lines of: "[Windows Music Store version] software is a little less... predictable" in his presentation.
That was in reference to the USB 2.0 software for the new iPod--it's not coming out until June (or was it July?). Nothing to do with iTunes for Windows.
I tried, but it didn't work in Safari and I really don't feel like switching to something else.
There was a huge jumble of text in the upper left corner of the page, so it looks like the menu is all being collapsed into one line. It changed into "Forgotten password" on mouse-over, and the other stuff disappeared.
The remaining 0.1% would get just as easily turned on by a million other things, including hundreds if not thousands of literary "classics", many of which are mandatory reading in schools. As an example, the main character in a Mark Twain books has another character killed for telling a bad joke (IIRC correctly, anyway--the book in question is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court). Movies, TV, books, games... a dead bird on the sidewalk, stepping on an anthill, shooting a BB gun... Too many things are just as likely as anything else to make a certain kind of mind go "hey, I can kill/maim/hurt/steal". Blowing any one of these out of proportion is just stupid.
Basically, anything can be a trigger. Whether it's going to be tripped or not at any point is impossible to determine.
None of this is to say "why bother trying?" but merely to go after the _cause_, which is not necessarily the trigger.
But how much overhead would using SDL or OpenGL add to, say, Doom3, which is already going to require quantam computing to load the title screen?
(They might already be using OpenGL, actually--I haven't kept up at all--but I doubt they're using SDL. My point is basically that these cross-platform libraries aren't exactly optimized and while they might work for smaller games/applications they're not exactly great for bigger titles.)
Speaking of Final Fantasy, did anyone watching that notice the characters Biggs and Wedge anywhere? They've been in every US release of the Final Fantasy games since FF2. I had my eyes peeled during the movie and didn't see them, but I figure they've got to be on a name-tag or something...
How is the responsiveness of the editing environment?
We were coding in C++, and in their default coloring scheme comments are green. I noticed when we having comment conversations that there's a small lag after typing (him or me) where the text is black, before it switches to green. Somewhat distracting but easily gotten over. There's also a bit of a lag when you move the cursor inside a function before it updates the display of which function you're editing, which is quite annoying. I expect these to clear up, though.
Are changes reflected immediately, and if so, what is the latency between parties?
Chages are indeed reflected immediately, by background colors. Considering we were some thousand miles apart it was hard to really get a handle on latency ("we're typing at the same time; has he just not noticed that I'm typing or is there lag?"), so I can't really tell you. However, his responses to my questions were very quick, and I could see him scrolling through the document very easily.
One thing that really impressed me is that I had the same file open in both Project Builder and Hydra. After a while I switched into PB to compile and I was fixing bugs noticed in the compile. I switched back into Hydra some time later and saw that all my changes had been entered and my background color was behind the changes. Very good work, there. Unfortunately my friend had left by this time so I don't know if the changes we updated in real time. Still, impressive.
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Note to self: Always preview.
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P.S. Conker's Bad Fur Day was an awesome single player the game. The multiplayer was fun as well, but framerates tended to plumment for me.
Did you turn it off in disgust or something? You really shouldn't.
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I wish you could meta-mod as 'funny'.
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There is a DivX format file on the same page (without the Zero-G footage). And DivX is available for ~all platforms.
2.) The WM Player may be a little on the 'blech' side, but arguably most players are. Real Media? Yuck. Quicktime? Yuck. DivX Playa? Yuck. Heck, just fire up MS's v6 Media Player. It's a great little player and it still plays WM9 formats if you have the codecs.
That's your opinion. The WM Player on the Mac (what I use) is terrible.
Quicktime (for Sorensen stuff) is fine on the Mac, and Video Lan Client and MPlayer are both very good for DivX and pretty much anything else.
WM Player on Mac is still in a beta, hasn't been updated in probably six months, looks terrible, and runs very slowly even for small, low-quality movies.
I don't see what you're complaining about. I can understand Mac users or Linux users being annoyed, but then again intelligent gamers mainly run Windows anyway.
Yes, because using Windows is obviously the 'intelligent' choice when talking about a console game.
dalamcd
Hell, even if they could, why would they want to?
dalamcd
Fuck. =(
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The Simpsons, where Millhouse (Milhouse? I have no idea how to spell his name) gets cast as the sidekick to...uh... what's his name? Atomic Man, thingy. Anyway, it's been a while since I watched The Simpsons because I'm generally not near a TV when it comes on.
But the guy playing Atomic Man see a wave of acid rushing towards him when they're filming a scene, so he puts on his safety goggles and gets carried away screaming... you guessed it.
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Yes, let's. While we're at it, let's cure cancer and bring about world peace, as well. Also, we can put that whole 'intelligent life elsewhere in the universe' thing to rest, one way or the other. Are you ready, my brothers? Let us be off!
We can figure out the details later, right?
dalamcd
That was in reference to the USB 2.0 software for the new iPod--it's not coming out until June (or was it July?). Nothing to do with iTunes for Windows.
dalamcd
There was a huge jumble of text in the upper left corner of the page, so it looks like the menu is all being collapsed into one line. It changed into "Forgotten password" on mouse-over, and the other stuff disappeared.
dalamcd
Basically, anything can be a trigger. Whether it's going to be tripped or not at any point is impossible to determine.
None of this is to say "why bother trying?" but merely to go after the _cause_, which is not necessarily the trigger.
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And then you'd probably whine about the cost of bandwidth that you need in order to not spend 2 weeks downloading the CD.
dalamcd
(They might already be using OpenGL, actually--I haven't kept up at all--but I doubt they're using SDL. My point is basically that these cross-platform libraries aren't exactly optimized and while they might work for smaller games/applications they're not exactly great for bigger titles.)
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Yes. It is reason #65,934,834,989.
Reason #1 is: It would be the stupidest thing ever done in this universe or any other.
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We were coding in C++, and in their default coloring scheme comments are green. I noticed when we having comment conversations that there's a small lag after typing (him or me) where the text is black, before it switches to green. Somewhat distracting but easily gotten over. There's also a bit of a lag when you move the cursor inside a function before it updates the display of which function you're editing, which is quite annoying. I expect these to clear up, though.
Are changes reflected immediately, and if so, what is the latency between parties?
Chages are indeed reflected immediately, by background colors. Considering we were some thousand miles apart it was hard to really get a handle on latency ("we're typing at the same time; has he just not noticed that I'm typing or is there lag?"), so I can't really tell you. However, his responses to my questions were very quick, and I could see him scrolling through the document very easily.
One thing that really impressed me is that I had the same file open in both Project Builder and Hydra. After a while I switched into PB to compile and I was fixing bugs noticed in the compile. I switched back into Hydra some time later and saw that all my changes had been entered and my background color was behind the changes. Very good work, there. Unfortunately my friend had left by this time so I don't know if the changes we updated in real time. Still, impressive.
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