People buy these games in their Wii form. People do not buy these games in their Flash form. As an independent developer without experience in the game industry, I do not have access to an official Wii devkit. So the question remains: for what platform should an indie develop its first commercial game in order to demonstrate "game industry experience" to Nintendo and earn enough money to lease an office for the first year?
You make a flash game (or Python/Pygame/SDL). That is your portfolio. You don't show it to Nintendo, you show it to dev houses. Then, if they like your work, they contract/hire you. One man in a garage doesn't cut it anymore, you should be focusing on getting an entry level dev job with an existing company.
Then, after you get some experience, maybe you can form your own small dev house (with a few other people) and get some actual financial backing in a professional manner.
They did abolish ATRAC some time ago, for the US and Europe at least. They shut down the Connect store and told everyone to convert their ATRAC to some other format because they were stopping support for it.
I take it you're just going to the PS3 link in the browsers interface and clicking that big youtube button? You do know you can go to any address, like say the regular youtube one. Hit F4 on the keyboard or the Start button on the controller to enter any address. And even if you just hit that big youtube button there's a search field at the top right, and that blue vertical bar on the left takes you to some menu choices like "Most Viewed" "Top Rated" "Spotlight" "Sign In" "Settings".
Did Sony recall all the rooted "CDs" and apologize/compensate the victims?
As a matter of fact, they did. Recalled the discs, offered exchanges, and paid for damages up to $150 that may have been caused to computers.
And I suppose it was Sony BMG who decided to push the proprietary MemoryStick?
Define proprietary. Memory Stick came out before SD, remember? I suspect Sony excpected other companies to adopt it, since it was smaller than CF and SM and supported DRM (expecting portable music players and the early music stores to support it)
SD cards aren't exactly "Free" either since companies have to pay royalties to the SD consortium.
For memory cards the proprietary/non-propietary thing is moot, just buy the cards that your device uses. Maybe you wish there was only 1 card type, but really does it matter?
The rootkit was created by a second company for Sony. Sony just rushed it into use without checking it out. Did you know that Sony actually sued the company who made it, bascially saying, "This is NOT what we wanted."
You have to remember that Sony is a big company whose divisions don't entirely have the same goals. Sony BMG wants one thing, Sony Computer Entertainment another. So sometimes SCE (or the other manufacturing divisions) win, sometimes they lose.
Boycotting the whole company because of what Sony BMG did, which wasn't even entirely their fault, seems a bit excessive. So go buy that PS3, it's pretty darn "open", in part because Sony Computer Entertainment likes it that way.
There's an option for texture smoothing in the XMB, what the PS3 doesn't have is the PS2's ability to fast-load PS1 games. Funny thing is, the PSP does have that ability.
And you're quite correct that some later PS1 games really benefit from that texture smoothing, IIRC it was released in the US after the PS2 came out in the US.
ATARI- Asteroids. Eliminate all the boulders except one, and then take-on the UFO in a one-on-one gunfight.
That's a standard high scoring tactic in Asteroids, sometimes referred to as the Circus-Circus option. A guy who wrote one of the early books on video games saw the tactic used by a young girl at the Circus Circus casino in Vegas. It works even better on the 2600 version because the more regulated asteroid movement. Then you just shoot Beaver (that's the traditional nickname for the small saucer, the big one is Wally.) over and over and over.
Frankly, I'd rather they put the card reader and backwards compatibility back in and rip out the BluRay player... (yes, I do realize that is nonsense since the effing games come on BluRay. All I want to say is I'd have beeen content with DVD media)
I, for one, don't want to go back to the days of disc swapping, and the forced linearity that caused in RPG's. i.e. once you hit disc 2 you'll never see certain locations again. In the PS2 era there was a least one late PS2 RPG that had to use 2 discs for space reasons
And this time it wasn't even one of their own tech teams that did it, they farmed it out (probably a rush job they didn't have time for themselves). Sony trusts their second parties to do a a good job a little too much.
This sort of thing has happened before with Sony. They ask some second party company to do something for them and then don't "double check" to see if they really got what they wanted in the first place and just implement the second party solution, probably because they're in a rush and don't have time to do it themselves which is why they asked the second party in the first place.
It is? I've never had any pressed optical media fail on me. I've got 15 year old PSone games that still work fine. Burned is a different story, of course.
Considering that a six digit ID could have been reading Slashdot for years, I think I signed up in 2000, after starting to read Slashdot in 99 IIRC, they ought to get the memes right. I, for one, welcome our 7 digit ID overlords.
Perhaps it's only lost it's gendered meaning among the young? I'm 42 and for my sake, Dude is still a gendered word. I read a short story recently where the teenage main characters of either gender called each other Dude all the time and it was jarring to me.
I hear ya, it also applies to socio-economic class as well. I liked Roseanne more than I probably would have otherwise because the characters were blue collar and "just getting by"
I think the person you responded to was annoyed that you automatically assumed that anyone posting on slashdot is a "dude" We all know the stereotypes of slashdotters: living in their parents basement, surviving on a diet of cheetos and jolt, not being good at social interaction, running Linux, and of course, being male.
In fact I've seen people who say that they're female in comments be accused of not being so (mostly jokingly) or being assumed to be transgendered.
I've even been guilty of that myself, I'm no saint, but the thing is, we shouldn't do that. We shouldn't start a reply with "Dude", unless we're pretty darn sure that the person we're responding to is/or identifies as male.
When you install Linux on a PS3, it doesn't remove the GameOS functionality. It's similar, but not exactly similar, to a dual-boot situation. I'm using Linux on my PS3 as I'm writing this response, but if I want to, one "ps3-boot-game-os" in the terminal and a minute later I'm back in GameOS.
My response is a reaction to those 'nix guru's who intentionally try to complexify solutions. Like the guy I responded to, who told the GP that he shouldn't use a.emacs but emacs.d/ You'll notice I used the term "personal configuration files". Configuration files for servers a sysadmin would want to work with as a group are a different matter.
And you're right, I'm not a sysadmin, but there's this tendency on Slashdot to assume every Linux user is, and to assume that Linux users want sysadmin style solutions to everything. IIRC there was an "Ask Slashdot" where a poster asked about a solution for sharing pictures/video and recent happenings with an entire family where the whole family across the country could contribute/view/etc. You had some guys saying things like, "set up a server with an svn/git/cvs solution with a php/mysql web based frontend for the images/video and either an NNTP server or mail server for an e-mail list, and don't forget the RAID. It also should run on Linux." Then finally someone said something like, "Why don't you just use flickr and set up a flickr group with the flickr group message board for your extended family?"
Even if I updated my.vimrc a few times a year, I'd not version control it. I'd be more likely to just rename the old version with a date and keep a copy of the current version with "_current" attached to it's name rather than go through the rigmarole and hassle of using cvs/svn/git. But I don't need to, because I believe in reasonable defaults, keeping things simple, and getting it the way I want just once, setting and forgetting it. If I'm constantly changing my configuration files that means there's something wrong with my "workflow", though it really isn't a "workflow" at all since I'm not a "professional" 'nix user.
I'm the kind of user who doesn't have a cron job automatically back up my home directory on a regular basis even though I know that cron can do that, simply because I don't want to go to the hassle of learning cron, crontab, yadda yadda. There's probably a graphical frontend these days, but I'm still not used to that sort of thing being available or actually working or being easy to use.
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I know that WildTangent (Alex St.John's company) does farm out dev work to Russian/Chinese devs, he's mentioned doing so.
inFamous is a single player title, not multiplayer. Apples and Oranges.
There's still plenty of PS2 games with internet play still up, you just chose the wrong games. Try the original SOCOM (2002) or EQOA (2003).
You make a flash game (or Python/Pygame/SDL). That is your portfolio. You don't show it to Nintendo, you show it to dev houses. Then, if they like your work, they contract/hire you. One man in a garage doesn't cut it anymore, you should be focusing on getting an entry level dev job with an existing company.
Then, after you get some experience, maybe you can form your own small dev house (with a few other people) and get some actual financial backing in a professional manner.
Think incremental steps over the long term.
They did abolish ATRAC some time ago, for the US and Europe at least. They shut down the Connect store and told everyone to convert their ATRAC to some other format because they were stopping support for it.
I take it you're just going to the PS3 link in the browsers interface and clicking that big youtube button? You do know you can go to any address, like say the regular youtube one. Hit F4 on the keyboard or the Start button on the controller to enter any address. And even if you just hit that big youtube button there's a search field at the top right, and that blue vertical bar on the left takes you to some menu choices like "Most Viewed" "Top Rated" "Spotlight" "Sign In" "Settings".
As a matter of fact, they did. Recalled the discs, offered exchanges, and paid for damages up to $150 that may have been caused to computers.
Define proprietary. Memory Stick came out before SD, remember? I suspect Sony excpected other companies to adopt it, since it was smaller than CF and SM and supported DRM (expecting portable music players and the early music stores to support it)
SD cards aren't exactly "Free" either since companies have to pay royalties to the SD consortium.
For memory cards the proprietary/non-propietary thing is moot, just buy the cards that your device uses. Maybe you wish there was only 1 card type, but really does it matter?
Why would you need to stream Youtube to the PS3 via PlayOn when youtube works in the PS3's own browser just fine?
The rootkit was created by a second company for Sony. Sony just rushed it into use without checking it out. Did you know that Sony actually sued the company who made it, bascially saying, "This is NOT what we wanted."
You have to remember that Sony is a big company whose divisions don't entirely have the same goals. Sony BMG wants one thing, Sony Computer Entertainment another. So sometimes SCE (or the other manufacturing divisions) win, sometimes they lose.
Boycotting the whole company because of what Sony BMG did, which wasn't even entirely their fault, seems a bit excessive. So go buy that PS3, it's pretty darn "open", in part because Sony Computer Entertainment likes it that way.
HDMI has much higher bitrate than optical or coaxial digital audio, so you're doing what you should be doing:
Hook your player via HDMI to the surround sound system, then have the surround sound system pass through the video via HDMI to the TV.
Living room size TV's have multiple HDMI ports for those folks who don't have surround sound setups, which is the majority of people.
There's an option for texture smoothing in the XMB, what the PS3 doesn't have is the PS2's ability to fast-load PS1 games. Funny thing is, the PSP does have that ability.
And you're quite correct that some later PS1 games really benefit from that texture smoothing, IIRC it was released in the US after the PS2 came out in the US.
That's a standard high scoring tactic in Asteroids, sometimes referred to as the Circus-Circus option. A guy who wrote one of the early books on video games saw the tactic used by a young girl at the Circus Circus casino in Vegas. It works even better on the 2600 version because the more regulated asteroid movement. Then you just shoot Beaver (that's the traditional nickname for the small saucer, the big one is Wally.) over and over and over.
I, for one, don't want to go back to the days of disc swapping, and the forced linearity that caused in RPG's. i.e. once you hit disc 2 you'll never see certain locations again. In the PS2 era there was a least one late PS2 RPG that had to use 2 discs for space reasons
And this time it wasn't even one of their own tech teams that did it, they farmed it out (probably a rush job they didn't have time for themselves). Sony trusts their second parties to do a a good job a little too much.
This sort of thing has happened before with Sony. They ask some second party company to do something for them and then don't "double check" to see if they really got what they wanted in the first place and just implement the second party solution, probably because they're in a rush and don't have time to do it themselves which is why they asked the second party in the first place.
It is? I've never had any pressed optical media fail on me. I've got 15 year old PSone games that still work fine. Burned is a different story, of course.
Considering that a six digit ID could have been reading Slashdot for years, I think I signed up in 2000, after starting to read Slashdot in 99 IIRC, they ought to get the memes right. I, for one, welcome our 7 digit ID overlords.
Sunday? It's against the Will of Heaven to have stores open on The Lord's Day. You mean Saturday. :-)
And Phil Collins was Peter Gabriel's successor as lead singer for Genesis.
Perhaps it's only lost it's gendered meaning among the young? I'm 42 and for my sake, Dude is still a gendered word. I read a short story recently where the teenage main characters of either gender called each other Dude all the time and it was jarring to me.
1. Heavenly Sword
2 Sam & Max
3. Oblivion?
4. ?
5. Little Big Planet
6. ?
7. Ratchet & Clank.
8. Flower.
I hear ya, it also applies to socio-economic class as well. I liked Roseanne more than I probably would have otherwise because the characters were blue collar and "just getting by"
I think the person you responded to was annoyed that you automatically assumed that anyone posting on slashdot is a "dude" We all know the stereotypes of slashdotters: living in their parents basement, surviving on a diet of cheetos and jolt, not being good at social interaction, running Linux, and of course, being male.
In fact I've seen people who say that they're female in comments be accused of not being so (mostly jokingly) or being assumed to be transgendered.
I've even been guilty of that myself, I'm no saint, but the thing is, we shouldn't do that. We shouldn't start a reply with "Dude", unless we're pretty darn sure that the person we're responding to is/or identifies as male.
When you install Linux on a PS3, it doesn't remove the GameOS functionality. It's similar, but not exactly similar, to a dual-boot situation. I'm using Linux on my PS3 as I'm writing this response, but if I want to, one "ps3-boot-game-os" in the terminal and a minute later I'm back in GameOS.
The Cell's PPE is dual threaded, with an Altivec unit for each. Easy enough to prove:
My response is a reaction to those 'nix guru's who intentionally try to complexify solutions. Like the guy I responded to, who told the GP that he shouldn't use a .emacs but emacs.d/ You'll notice I used the term "personal configuration files". Configuration files for servers a sysadmin would want to work with as a group are a different matter.
And you're right, I'm not a sysadmin, but there's this tendency on Slashdot to assume every Linux user is, and to assume that Linux users want sysadmin style solutions to everything. IIRC there was an "Ask Slashdot" where a poster asked about a solution for sharing pictures/video and recent happenings with an entire family where the whole family across the country could contribute/view/etc. You had some guys saying things like, "set up a server with an svn/git/cvs solution with a php/mysql web based frontend for the images/video and either an NNTP server or mail server for an e-mail list, and don't forget the RAID. It also should run on Linux." Then finally someone said something like, "Why don't you just use flickr and set up a flickr group with the flickr group message board for your extended family?"
Even if I updated my .vimrc a few times a year, I'd not version control it. I'd be more likely to just rename the old version with a date and keep a copy of the current version with "_current" attached to it's name rather than go through the rigmarole and hassle of using cvs/svn/git. But I don't need to, because I believe in reasonable defaults, keeping things simple, and getting it the way I want just once, setting and forgetting it. If I'm constantly changing my configuration files that means there's something wrong with my "workflow", though it really isn't a "workflow" at all since I'm not a "professional" 'nix user.
I'm the kind of user who doesn't have a cron job automatically back up my home directory on a regular basis even though I know that cron can do that, simply because I don't want to go to the hassle of learning cron, crontab, yadda yadda. There's probably a graphical frontend these days, but I'm still not used to that sort of thing being available or actually working or being easy to use.