Kids (and adult gamers) don't want to have to switch devices to check their Facebook and Twitter accounts, watch a movie, listen to music, etc.
in 2004 a company released, a portable gaming device that soon had a built in web browser, that had the ability to watch video and listen to music. Some Slashdot nerds said back then that the media ability was a waste and that it should have focused ONLY on games. So you're saying that the company involved, whos name might be Sony, and that the device which might be called the PSP, was a good idea all along?
Consoles with a flat keypad are probably part of why the market crashed in 1983.
No it wasn't. The crash of 83-84 was simply do to everyone and their dog thinking they could make a video game for the 2600 given a single programmer and a month and thinking the game would be any good. Then customers getting burned by too many crap shovelware games and not buying.
So to which platform should an indie developer port a platformer that has been developed for the PC?
All of them. Or more accurately as many as you can.
Or are platformers a genre for major labels only?
No, but if you want to publish it, it would help if one was an already established developer. Many of those so-called "indie" dev houses did JME games before they did their big hit. As i've told you, the easiest way to break in the industry will be to work for an already established company. If you don't want to do that, just give it up already.
This means that when Nouveau doesn't work, which it never has with my 5900XT
Known issue with the 5xxx series...6xxx or later for nouveau 2D to be fine. If I only needed 2D I'd have stuck with Nouveau and the default 6150SE in this thing.
That's funny because my 8400 had no problem driving my monitor to it's native resolution. Even the libre drivers were able to do better than 320x200.
When I first installed Linux on this machine, I had trouble getting it to do anything over 1024x768 (or was it 800x600) can't really remember, but it sure wasn't 320x200. But the REAL problem is that my monitor (which is actually a small HDTV) doesn't properly respond to EDID requests over VGA, so I had to do some xorg.conf editing.
Now when I bought a GT200 and installed it, I switched to HDMI...and I got remove my xorg.conf edit, and let it handle configuration automagically.
The problem is that the binary drivers don't always survive kernel updates So people who rely on nVidia's proprietary binary drivers can't always update their kernel or they lose their graphics until nVidia puts out an update.
There's an easy button way for Nvidia's drivers to survive a kernel update on Fedora:
Install rpmfusion repositories.
yum install akmod-nvidia
Do that once, and you never have to worry about kernel updates....or the F16 to F17 update either, messing with your Nvidia driver.
And that's a really that bad a thing, being constantly connected? Now I can understand someone not liking it if they wanted to play Diablo on a laptop without an internet connection...but gee I wouldn't want to play it with a trackpad anyway. And hell's bells, if you wanted some Diablo-style action on the go, you'd be better off with a PSP/Vita Diablo-clone.
HOw is this any different from Sacred 2, on the PS3/360. Just make your game private and ignore any invites and it's pretty much a standard single player game. In fact, you can use the same Sacred 2 character in your local story game and in other games.
gnash is simply not a good replacement. Had a YDL install on my PS3, so tried out Gnash and swfdec. They're not up to par. For youtube it was either "youtube without flash" using embedded Xine/VLC/mplayer or youtube-dl. At that time there wasn't an HTML5 capable browser available, still might not be.
and it seems unable to understand my kids at all, which is very frustrating for them.
Voice recognition seems to have issues with people with high and/or squeaky voices. My late mother, who had Rheumatoid Arthritis was simply unable to use Dragon Naturally speaking because it simply wouldn't recognize her high pitched squeaky voice, not even for the first "welcome to dragon naturally speaking...." training. It worked for me out of the box, though.
its voice control capabilities are its most enduring feature to me. Being able to control the various video streaming services by talking to the TV still feels like we are living in the future.
Considering "Hey You Pikachu", though flawed was an N64 game and there were PS2 games with voice recognition I'm surprised Nintendo and Sony haven't done more with voice control./recognition. Never had a Dreamcast but there was Seaman on that.
quote{Throwing money at schools won't improve the quality of the education unless the lack of funding is already preventing a program from being deployed./quote{
In Illinois, the highest performing schools are the highest spenders. Last I checked the highest performing school spends triple per student than the lowest performing. Money buys books, equipment, transportation. It lets schools be more picky about teachers because they get more applicants.
How about a longer school year, and add an hour or so to the school day.
Reduce the number of hours people under 18 are allowed to work. Sure grocery stores would lose their cheap complaint labor but School should be a kids job, not something else.
Throw some cash at poor schools to match that places like New Trier spend. If the kids in New Trier (which is a public school mind you) deserve what they get, don't all kids? There are schools that DON'T have gifted programs...let alone the enriched stuff New Trier has, even today.
School consoidation...it's time to force it in some less populated areas.
Every so often we get articles on Slashdot where some Engineer/IT guy/Progammer thinks he knows best and recommends adding more "nerd stuff" like LInux or model rockets or RPG's in education. Then all of Slashdot hops on the "Wow, I loved model rockets....this is a great idea" bandwagon.
Most kids, aren't nerds. And while we might love to see our pet hobbies in schools. a la "All kids should learn Python!", this is no different from a concert Pianist saying "all kids should study piano because it makes them smarter"
And lets not forget class differences...model rockets is one of those usual upper middle class son of an engineer" hobbies we see so many Slashdotters have. It's like all those articles where Slashdotters reminisce about their C64's and they don't even realize that most people "didn't" have a home computer in the 80's. Even the consoles of that time had less household penetration of today.
So no, turning every school into a Slashdotters affluent suburban school with rocketry and computer clubs, isn't the solution, even if they mean well.
Please revert to what ever was being done in the 30s 40s and 50s as it clearly worked.
No it didn't. My father was born in 1927, I in 1967. He attended one room schoolhouses. He told me directly that he could easily tell that young people of my day were far better educated than his generation was. We studied advanced topics earlier than they did
They did release the Eyetoy you know, during the PS2 days...wandless motion control. Never did the wand thing, in part because they thought the PS2 and the Eyetoy weren't quite up to snuff for what they really wanted to do...so they waited.
Amazingly enough, the Eyetoy is the best selling PS2 Accessory. Sold like hotcakes in Europe...USA...not so much.
I also forgot to mention we may HAVE to do both. I have a feeling that MMO's and F2P still won't be pushed on the consoles.
Considering the first console MMO was released...how many years ago was it? 03, and only just got shot down this year. I think there will be MMO's and F2P, There are now, as you know: Freerealms and DCUO. those with CECH(A/B/E) models can even install FFXI on their PS3's! lets not forget all those free games with premium content like Sodium or Novus Prime in Playstation home. Plus Dust 514 this year.
The reason why game cafes or so big outside of the US/Japan/Western Europe is simply money! Brazilians, Indians, Thai's simply don't have the upfront money for a PC or Console or games, so they pay small fees and play freemiums. Since developers and publishers aren't making money of them, not withstanding the massive piracy rates in the 2nd/3rd worlds, they aren't part of the marekt.
Yep, there'a a LOT of great PSone games that deserve to be on PSN. I think it some cases it's the games publisher that says no, or has perhaps gone defunct. For example, I'm very surprised Sony didn't slap the PSone port of Diablo on PSN before the D3 launch.
No mouse/keyboard support.
That's a developer/publisher problem, not Sony's. It's their choice to implement it or not, Sony's not the one stopping them.
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Kids (and adult gamers) don't want to have to switch devices to check their Facebook and Twitter accounts, watch a movie, listen to music, etc.
in 2004 a company released, a portable gaming device that soon had a built in web browser, that had the ability to watch video and listen to music. Some Slashdot nerds said back then that the media ability was a waste and that it should have focused ONLY on games. So you're saying that the company involved, whos name might be Sony, and that the device which might be called the PSP, was a good idea all along?
But do they buy one cell phone over another because of available games or because of another factor?
Almost always another factor, games are a bonus, not the function of the device.
I bought my dumbphone over a smartphone because smartphone plans cost $35 per month while mine costs $5 per month. It's cheaper to carry more devices.
Yes, but you are not the "average person".and don't realize how much of an outlier you are.
Consoles with a flat keypad are probably part of why the market crashed in 1983.
No it wasn't. The crash of 83-84 was simply do to everyone and their dog thinking they could make a video game for the 2600 given a single programmer and a month and thinking the game would be any good. Then customers getting burned by too many crap shovelware games and not buying.
So to which platform should an indie developer port a platformer that has been developed for the PC?
All of them. Or more accurately as many as you can.
Or are platformers a genre for major labels only?
No, but if you want to publish it, it would help if one was an already established developer. Many of those so-called "indie" dev houses did JME games before they did their big hit. As i've told you, the easiest way to break in the industry will be to work for an already established company. If you don't want to do that, just give it up already.
This means that when Nouveau doesn't work, which it never has with my 5900XT
Known issue with the 5xxx series...6xxx or later for nouveau 2D to be fine. If I only needed 2D I'd have stuck with Nouveau and the default 6150SE in this thing.
That's funny because my 8400 had no problem driving my monitor to it's native resolution. Even the libre drivers were able to do better than 320x200.
When I first installed Linux on this machine, I had trouble getting it to do anything over 1024x768 (or was it 800x600) can't really remember, but it sure wasn't 320x200. But the REAL problem is that my monitor (which is actually a small HDTV) doesn't properly respond to EDID requests over VGA, so I had to do some xorg.conf editing.
Now when I bought a GT200 and installed it, I switched to HDMI...and I got remove my xorg.conf edit, and let it handle configuration automagically.
The problem is that the binary drivers don't always survive kernel updates So people who rely on nVidia's proprietary binary drivers can't always update their kernel or they lose their graphics until nVidia puts out an update.
There's an easy button way for Nvidia's drivers to survive a kernel update on Fedora:
Install rpmfusion repositories.
yum install akmod-nvidia
Do that once, and you never have to worry about kernel updates....or the F16 to F17 update either, messing with your Nvidia driver.
The Fedora 16 version WILL install and run in F17.
No according to most players SSI's Gold Box games were all about:
Saving before and after EVERY battle to achieve the best outcome every time. And basically resting and restoring all spells aftery EVERY battle.
Saving before AND after every level up to achieve the best outcomes.
And figuring out hwat exact position and what obscure item you needed to use to defeat the Mulmaster Beholder Corps.
Plus making your own maps and notes.
In other words, excercises in geek tedium only the most hardcore nerds truly enjoyed.
And that's a really that bad a thing, being constantly connected? Now I can understand someone not liking it if they wanted to play Diablo on a laptop without an internet connection...but gee I wouldn't want to play it with a trackpad anyway. And hell's bells, if you wanted some Diablo-style action on the go, you'd be better off with a PSP/Vita Diablo-clone.
HOw is this any different from Sacred 2, on the PS3/360. Just make your game private and ignore any invites and it's pretty much a standard single player game. In fact, you can use the same Sacred 2 character in your local story game and in other games.
Don't forget the NMI, the National Minimum Income, Nixon was in favor of that too. Wasn't Title IX Nixon era as well? Also Head Start IIRC.
Obama isn't even as liberal as Clinton or Carter, let alone Tricky Dick except on the GLBT thing.
Obligatory XKCD reference:
There's an emacs command for that, ol C-x M-c M-butterfly
http://xkcd.com/378/
Still at 6.1? I used to run YDL on my PS3, but haven't since 2010, so I don't know about updates, other than any available at the PS3bodega repo.
gnash is simply not a good replacement. Had a YDL install on my PS3, so tried out Gnash and swfdec. They're not up to par. For youtube it was either "youtube without flash" using embedded Xine/VLC/mplayer or youtube-dl. At that time there wasn't an HTML5 capable browser available, still might not be.
and it seems unable to understand my kids at all, which is very frustrating for them.
Voice recognition seems to have issues with people with high and/or squeaky voices. My late mother, who had Rheumatoid Arthritis was simply unable to use Dragon Naturally speaking because it simply wouldn't recognize her high pitched squeaky voice, not even for the first "welcome to dragon naturally speaking...." training. It worked for me out of the box, though.
its voice control capabilities are its most enduring feature to me. Being able to control the various video streaming services by talking to the TV still feels like we are living in the future.
Considering "Hey You Pikachu", though flawed was an N64 game and there were PS2 games with voice recognition I'm surprised Nintendo and Sony haven't done more with voice control./recognition. Never had a Dreamcast but there was Seaman on that.
quote{Throwing money at schools won't improve the quality of the education unless the lack of funding is already preventing a program from being deployed. /quote{
In Illinois, the highest performing schools are the highest spenders. Last I checked the highest performing school spends triple per student than the lowest performing. Money buys books, equipment, transportation. It lets schools be more picky about teachers because they get more applicants.
Suggestions?
How about a longer school year, and add an hour or so to the school day.
Reduce the number of hours people under 18 are allowed to work. Sure grocery stores would lose their cheap complaint labor but School should be a kids job, not something else.
Throw some cash at poor schools to match that places like New Trier spend. If the kids in New Trier (which is a public school mind you) deserve what they get, don't all kids? There are schools that DON'T have gifted programs...let alone the enriched stuff New Trier has, even today.
School consoidation...it's time to force it in some less populated areas.
Every so often we get articles on Slashdot where some Engineer/IT guy/Progammer thinks he knows best and recommends adding more "nerd stuff" like LInux or model rockets or RPG's in education. Then all of Slashdot hops on the "Wow, I loved model rockets....this is a great idea" bandwagon.
Most kids, aren't nerds. And while we might love to see our pet hobbies in schools. a la "All kids should learn Python!", this is no different from a concert Pianist saying "all kids should study piano because it makes them smarter"
And lets not forget class differences...model rockets is one of those usual upper middle class son of an engineer" hobbies we see so many Slashdotters have. It's like all those articles where Slashdotters reminisce about their C64's and they don't even realize that most people "didn't" have a home computer in the 80's. Even the consoles of that time had less household penetration of today.
So no, turning every school into a Slashdotters affluent suburban school with rocketry and computer clubs, isn't the solution, even if they mean well.
Please revert to what ever was being done in the 30s 40s and 50s as it clearly worked.
No it didn't. My father was born in 1927, I in 1967. He attended one room schoolhouses. He told me directly that he could easily tell that young people of my day were far better educated than his generation was. We studied advanced topics earlier than they did
They did release the Eyetoy you know, during the PS2 days...wandless motion control. Never did the wand thing, in part because they thought the PS2 and the Eyetoy weren't quite up to snuff for what they really wanted to do...so they waited.
Amazingly enough, the Eyetoy is the best selling PS2 Accessory. Sold like hotcakes in Europe...USA...not so much.
haven't seen a scratched disk since the PSOne days, PS2 DVD's and PS3 Blu-Rays have much much harder coatings.
I also forgot to mention we may HAVE to do both. I have a feeling that MMO's and F2P still won't be pushed on the consoles.
Considering the first console MMO was released...how many years ago was it? 03, and only just got shot down this year. I think there will be MMO's and F2P, There are now, as you know: Freerealms and DCUO. those with CECH(A/B/E) models can even install FFXI on their PS3's! lets not forget all those free games with premium content like Sodium or Novus Prime in Playstation home. Plus Dust 514 this year.
The reason why game cafes or so big outside of the US/Japan/Western Europe is simply money! Brazilians, Indians, Thai's simply don't have the upfront money for a PC or Console or games, so they pay small fees and play freemiums. Since developers and publishers aren't making money of them, not withstanding the massive piracy rates in the 2nd/3rd worlds, they aren't part of the marekt.
No digital downloads for everything.
Yep, there'a a LOT of great PSone games that deserve to be on PSN. I think it some cases it's the games publisher that says no, or has perhaps gone defunct. For example, I'm very surprised Sony didn't slap the PSone port of Diablo on PSN before the D3 launch.
No mouse/keyboard support.
That's a developer/publisher problem, not Sony's. It's their choice to implement it or not, Sony's not the one stopping them.