IMO, DRM and or lack of support of open standards is what's killing sony on portable music. Their ties to their music division is not healthy for the hardware guys.
Although the psp is not actually a portable music machine (or dedicated to being jsut taht) imagine how much greater it would be if the standards were more open. It's a great piece of hardware but is sadly lacking in ability due to content/media restrictions. If they supported those small standard half-size cd-r's or dvd-r's and supported a long list of video decoders (or at least some popular mpg4 related one) it could have been much more customizeable and popular.
They could have put heavy restrictions one game discs and gone easier on non-game discs.
Well, IANAD (not a dev) but i can imagine how games can easily cost less to develop.
For games you need to make the character models, worldmap, set the effects, etc. For movies you have to do something similar for many scenes. However, whereas a movie will usually rush through that scene and much of the artwork used will only be on the screen for a few minutes or less. In the game you will usually spend a great deal more time in a map or whatever the environment in which the character roams around is called.
You can reuse textures and make walls for a 5 story building with a similar texture throughout the entire building. There will be quite a few other things in the building (well thats oversimplifying but it's still true) but a lot of that can also be repeated. You can have teh player spend one hour or 4 hours in just one of these maps/environments.
Currently, the ps3 should easily have enough graphics power to outdo old movies like toy story or match it on regular old ntsc tv's. HDTV will be a bit harder to match the quality on but i don't think it will be too far off.
I was gonna suggest something similar =P. From what i've seen the in the last few years from experience on my windows machines, work machines, and that of numerous family members and friends, the primary reason for win xp and 2k to crash is hardware driver issues.
After that would be having over 20 pieces of spyware/adware/malware on your computer and perhaps even some viruses.
I personally run a pretty clean and hardware intensive (for the hardware it operates on) operation on my primary machine at home. I'll usually have at least 5 programs on. Photoshop like the grandparent, usually dreamweaver or some ide for coding, a browser, and usually a media player.
I've managed to slow down my machine to a crawl at times whelst having numerous things on and transfered mult-gig video files but I've never had it crash since all the drivers were fixed over 2 years ago. Infact i've had the god damn machine on and haven't restarted it for over a month. I've had it running over 2 months at some point.
The difference in stability in win nt/2k/xp is from the win9x series is amazing.
Rather, the movie will most likely not get a nomination or win any awards because not enough of BAFTA's 5k members will have seen it. They've been trying to get multiple screenings and will have about 3-4 done soon in london for Bafta's members due to the dvd crisis but it will most likely not be seen by enough people still.
It's too bad, I have a feeling the brits would have really liked this one.
You say that now... IMO, we will probably end up getting whichever is available first and or most widely supported by the film industry. People WILL buy these drives and more hdtv's to go along with.
Currently you can buy a hdtv but there are very limited places from which you can get hd signals. Many electronics stores display regular progressive scan dvd video on many hi def tv's.
Once customers see a great hdtv with great source material, I guarantee people will want it. Frankly I personally am tired of the NTSC resolution. It's served us well for many decades but it's about damn time we move up from 300kish pixels to over 2 million pixels provided by the highest standard currently available. Hopefully we'll have mainstream flatpanel tv's that will be able to go that far within 3 years. Regardless we can get 1 million pixels easily with modern largescreen plasma's which is still more then 3x the pixels of ntsc.
Yep, I work in the electronics section in Sam's Club and i've seen plasma's progress over the years. Most 42inchers are indeed 1024x768 but we've got as high as 1366x768.
Which should improve the picture on hd signals. 1080i/p runs at 1920x1080, 720p should be just around 1300 lines (vertical). Basically 1024x768 is actually missing some lines (vertical ones) that you'd normally find on a widescreen monitor.
After extensive testing we have found these PC's aren't able to run numerous popular games. The games that this machine runs, does so at a much lower frame rate then expected.
Unless Dell changes their software policy and stops shipping new systems with so much crap @ startup it won't matter how good the hardware is. To get decent performance from one of Dell's recent gaming machines one has to spend over an hour uninstalling crap and disabling random services @ startup.
The following is a hardocp review of the Dell Dimensions XPS 400. Covers the buying process, Dell's support, along with the hardware and software it ships with. The system's hardware potential was great, too bad you had to make an extensive software cleanup make this perform respectibly.
Sigh, I'm not so sure I ever saw the superiority of the one button mouse. The number of right clicks I've done per day and wished I could do the same without holding ctrl button on macs is many.
I now have a 5 button mouse and the obligatory scroll wheel. You'd have shoot me to go back to 2 buttons now. If programmed correctly those extra buttons will easily help in the long run. From running apps, browsers, and many games:D.
Dunno, how this got insightful... Bots are easy to catch in this game and hard to create. You simply report the suspect and the gm will try to talk to the person (hard to talk if your not there!) and ban them.
I've seen this happen first hand a few times in alterac valley. Anyone who tried to gain faction while afk were given a minimum of a 3 day ban on first offense when they got caught.
Next, your lvl 24... the bots you see are probably just anti-social geeks who farm like robots. None of the real farmers are anywhere near you. They are all out farming in zones where you'd die within 5 seconds of setting your foot there.
Is separate from wow north america and wow europe. So the farmers in china would have to sell to chinese consumers. The playerbase would always have to be much greater then the number of farmers for them to be able to sell their shite.
Thats funny, i currently use that same chipset and it's been working solid for over two years now. Even the fsb has been overclocked by about 33% all this time. There's a good chance you just have a defective board made by some ultra cheap motherboard maker. There are many taiwanese companies that will cut a lot of corners to make the mobo cheap. The chipset itself is excellent. From the sound of it you bought a cheap pc from a cheap manufacturer:( and are now feeling the burn.
During test time i ran some extreme testing programs that worked the chipset and the processor for long periods of time. Basically ran both the chipset 5% slower from the point i was error free. IE, at 200mhz the fsb was working just fine after a long 12 hour burn in test (zero calculation errors--overworking some compaq amd machines that some relatives bought did not fair as well), i'd run it at 190 mhz (motherboard was made to run at 133mhz).
Then and again i built my machine myself and handpicked almost every component, everything was from a reliable/reputable company...nothing purely on price (many small pc manufactures will choose the cheapest components).
If your putting in more then two "expensive" scsi cards (this much even low end amd boards will handle quite well--i have a setup with two+other pci cards) then you shouldn't be running a desktop board like that. You need to get a workstation or opteron board. NForce pro series is not that much more expensive.
But for general home/gaming/enthusiast use amd boards even on the low end have enough pci performance. You will not realistically find many using all pci expansion slots with high end scsi cards (that alone would cost several times the mobo price).
Thats very nice and all but this article is about giving the role players "lower security" clearance. They can still be conditioned to kill others as you say. They just won't know the classified intelligence behind it.
Easily impressionable goes both ways, enemy spy's can use them for intel.
Um, the cell is closer to being the cpu of the ps2 not the gpu (however it does many vector processes which modern gpus are known to excel in). As a matter of fact nvidia is making the gpu for the ps2.
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Um, 2.8ghz pentiums at their lowest price is around $160 (www.pricewatch.com). I don't think he's going for the same performance lvls or running the same apps.
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Doesn't seem that amazing... The smaller the code the less likely it has bugs. Whats really amazing is that they got everything to work in that small space.
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IMO, DRM and or lack of support of open standards is what's killing sony on portable music. Their ties to their music division is not healthy for the hardware guys.
Although the psp is not actually a portable music machine (or dedicated to being jsut taht) imagine how much greater it would be if the standards were more open. It's a great piece of hardware but is sadly lacking in ability due to content/media restrictions. If they supported those small standard half-size cd-r's or dvd-r's and supported a long list of video decoders (or at least some popular mpg4 related one) it could have been much more customizeable and popular.
They could have put heavy restrictions one game discs and gone easier on non-game discs.
I doubt very many apple "users" could have run the company and brought it to where it is now.
Well, IANAD (not a dev) but i can imagine how games can easily cost less to develop.
For games you need to make the character models, worldmap, set the effects, etc. For movies you have to do something similar for many scenes. However, whereas a movie will usually rush through that scene and much of the artwork used will only be on the screen for a few minutes or less. In the game you will usually spend a great deal more time in a map or whatever the environment in which the character roams around is called.
You can reuse textures and make walls for a 5 story building with a similar texture throughout the entire building. There will be quite a few other things in the building (well thats oversimplifying but it's still true) but a lot of that can also be repeated. You can have teh player spend one hour or 4 hours in just one of these maps/environments.
Currently, the ps3 should easily have enough graphics power to outdo old movies like toy story or match it on regular old ntsc tv's. HDTV will be a bit harder to match the quality on but i don't think it will be too far off.
I was gonna suggest something similar =P. From what i've seen the in the last few years from experience on my windows machines, work machines, and that of numerous family members and friends, the primary reason for win xp and 2k to crash is hardware driver issues.
After that would be having over 20 pieces of spyware/adware/malware on your computer and perhaps even some viruses.
I personally run a pretty clean and hardware intensive (for the hardware it operates on) operation on my primary machine at home. I'll usually have at least 5 programs on. Photoshop like the grandparent, usually dreamweaver or some ide for coding, a browser, and usually a media player.
I've managed to slow down my machine to a crawl at times whelst having numerous things on and transfered mult-gig video files but I've never had it crash since all the drivers were fixed over 2 years ago. Infact i've had the god damn machine on and haven't restarted it for over a month. I've had it running over 2 months at some point.
The difference in stability in win nt/2k/xp is from the win9x series is amazing.
Mass production of preprinted dvd's is far cheaper then VHS. The other things aren't so clear cut.
Rather, the movie will most likely not get a nomination or win any awards because not enough of BAFTA's 5k members will have seen it. They've been trying to get multiple screenings and will have about 3-4 done soon in london for Bafta's members due to the dvd crisis but it will most likely not be seen by enough people still.
It's too bad, I have a feeling the brits would have really liked this one.
You say that now... IMO, we will probably end up getting whichever is available first and or most widely supported by the film industry. People WILL buy these drives and more hdtv's to go along with.
Currently you can buy a hdtv but there are very limited places from which you can get hd signals. Many electronics stores display regular progressive scan dvd video on many hi def tv's.
Once customers see a great hdtv with great source material, I guarantee people will want it. Frankly I personally am tired of the NTSC resolution. It's served us well for many decades but it's about damn time we move up from 300kish pixels to over 2 million pixels provided by the highest standard currently available. Hopefully we'll have mainstream flatpanel tv's that will be able to go that far within 3 years. Regardless we can get 1 million pixels easily with modern largescreen plasma's which is still more then 3x the pixels of ntsc.
Yep, I work in the electronics section in Sam's Club and i've seen plasma's progress over the years. Most 42inchers are indeed 1024x768 but we've got as high as 1366x768.
Which should improve the picture on hd signals. 1080i/p runs at 1920x1080, 720p should be just around 1300 lines (vertical). Basically 1024x768 is actually missing some lines (vertical ones) that you'd normally find on a widescreen monitor.
After extensive testing we have found these PC's aren't able to run numerous popular games. The games that this machine runs, does so at a much lower frame rate then expected.
Unless Dell changes their software policy and stops shipping new systems with so much crap @ startup it won't matter how good the hardware is. To get decent performance from one of Dell's recent gaming machines one has to spend over an hour uninstalling crap and disabling random services @ startup.
The following is a hardocp review of the Dell Dimensions XPS 400. Covers the buying process, Dell's support, along with the hardware and software it ships with. The system's hardware potential was great, too bad you had to make an extensive software cleanup make this perform respectibly.
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=OTI0
Sigh, I'm not so sure I ever saw the superiority of the one button mouse. The number of right clicks I've done per day and wished I could do the same without holding ctrl button on macs is many.
:D.
I now have a 5 button mouse and the obligatory scroll wheel. You'd have shoot me to go back to 2 buttons now. If programmed correctly those extra buttons will easily help in the long run. From running apps, browsers, and many games
Dunno, how this got insightful... Bots are easy to catch in this game and hard to create. You simply report the suspect and the gm will try to talk to the person (hard to talk if your not there!) and ban them.
:P.
I've seen this happen first hand a few times in alterac valley. Anyone who tried to gain faction while afk were given a minimum of a 3 day ban on first offense when they got caught.
Next, your lvl 24... the bots you see are probably just anti-social geeks who farm like robots. None of the real farmers are anywhere near you. They are all out farming in zones where you'd die within 5 seconds of setting your foot there.
Besides getting to lvl 24 takes like 20 hours
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Is separate from wow north america and wow europe. So the farmers in china would have to sell to chinese consumers. The playerbase would always have to be much greater then the number of farmers for them to be able to sell their shite.
That makes no sense at all and wow players can see this person is talking out of their ass.
South korea is where the net gamers are... north korea is like broken down tech deprived and just awful... ugh... fucken jungles.
Eh???? We aren't talking about the players themselves right... As you'll still need different lasers to read them both.
Thats funny, i currently use that same chipset and it's been working solid for over two years now. Even the fsb has been overclocked by about 33% all this time. There's a good chance you just have a defective board made by some ultra cheap motherboard maker. There are many taiwanese companies that will cut a lot of corners to make the mobo cheap. The chipset itself is excellent. From the sound of it you bought a cheap pc from a cheap manufacturer :( and are now feeling the burn.
During test time i ran some extreme testing programs that worked the chipset and the processor for long periods of time. Basically ran both the chipset 5% slower from the point i was error free. IE, at 200mhz the fsb was working just fine after a long 12 hour burn in test (zero calculation errors--overworking some compaq amd machines that some relatives bought did not fair as well), i'd run it at 190 mhz (motherboard was made to run at 133mhz).
Then and again i built my machine myself and handpicked almost every component, everything was from a reliable/reputable company...nothing purely on price (many small pc manufactures will choose the cheapest components).
If your putting in more then two "expensive" scsi cards (this much even low end amd boards will handle quite well--i have a setup with two+other pci cards) then you shouldn't be running a desktop board like that. You need to get a workstation or opteron board. NForce pro series is not that much more expensive. But for general home/gaming/enthusiast use amd boards even on the low end have enough pci performance. You will not realistically find many using all pci expansion slots with high end scsi cards (that alone would cost several times the mobo price).
And they have much more then just several companies licensing their code for use with linux.
Your title read, "Easily Fixed by fembots." lol
why stop their? perhaps we should give equal representation to some other religions like islam or buddism.
Thats very nice and all but this article is about giving the role players "lower security" clearance. They can still be conditioned to kill others as you say. They just won't know the classified intelligence behind it.
Easily impressionable goes both ways, enemy spy's can use them for intel.
Um hello, why the heck would you get anything but an ipod, its the popular thing to do nowadays FM/Schmeffin. Fall in line soldier!
Um, the cell is closer to being the cpu of the ps2 not the gpu (however it does many vector processes which modern gpus are known to excel in). As a matter of fact nvidia is making the gpu for the ps2.
Um, 2.8ghz pentiums at their lowest price is around $160 (www.pricewatch.com). I don't think he's going for the same performance lvls or running the same apps.
Doesn't seem that amazing... The smaller the code the less likely it has bugs. Whats really amazing is that they got everything to work in that small space.