I haven't tried them yet, but they seem to have older games from a few years back. If your not looking into playing the newest games, it should work fairly well. They do offer a free two week trial if you want to give it a go.
If you want to play the newest games, your best bet would be Gamefly which is like a video games Netflicks. Except they are console only.
Actually I read an interview with the creators at Arenanet and there is a very large number of servers. They have servers spread throughout the world (US, Europe, Korea, Singapore, Japan, and Australia) connected to the backbone. The game will automatically check was server has the lowest latency for all players in a group and will transfer them to that location.
With Guild Wars there is only a single point of login with some central place to hold player data. They do not seem to have the problems that WoW is having with simply trying to authenicate.
Overall Guild Wars has a good design that more MMOs will likely be moving to. City of Heros, Everquest 2, and WoW to an extent. This allows for a large player base without the issues of one server being full and the others empty which is an nice change. The only real issue is the shortage of player names since you can't have 50 Leroy Jinkins spread across 50 servers.
I'm not so sure after seeing the new Apple commercials saying how PCs have all of these Viruses; however, Macs are not susceptible to them. This could get more people to purchase Macs and while it might not be as large a target, if the majority of the community isn't being cautious it could be seen as an easy target. You will see outbreaks of Mac viruses. It's only a matter of time.
As for Mac purchasers being more computer savy. I don't really consider the majority of the artsy, yuppies that are the majority of the Mac audiance to be over savy.
The new IPac interest group is doing just that. It's run from someone in the EFF and they are trying to promote and lobby sane tech bills. They will also list representative who are proposing bad tech laws that take your rights, and promote representatives who are upholding them. They recently sent out 12 iPods to Senators who are in influental positions for copywrite laws to show them what some of the bills the RIAA is promoting will prohibit.
Please help support them. And I'm surprised we haven't really heard much about them on Slashdot. http://www.ipaction.org.
The money lost was via money trading. Nintendo like many companies takes additional assets and invests them into stocks and money markets. You can easily purchase foreign currency funds and make money if they are doing well; however, if the currency losses value in the international world you will lose money.
The Playstation brand has been keeping Sony afloat for a few years now. Unless they really mess up the PS3 in some way expect it to be a success.
Nintendo while not number one has been having constent profit, and has had one quarter in company history that was not profitable. This was causing by the extra investments and the USD taking a dive in value. But over 100 years of profit looks good.
Microsoft while a rich company does not have limitless funding. Shareholders will eventually get upset with all the money being pissed away. While it remains to be seen what happens this generation, I'd be extremely suprised if Microsoft killed off both Sony and Nintendo. Hell it will be surprising if the Xbox360 turns a profit 1/2 through it's life cycle.
I remember ScifI showing Firefly around the time Serenity came out. It was also stated that Fox holds the TV rights for new episodes, so Scifi can only show reruns. That is why the movie was made since it's not bound by the same contract. However, whether is was a good move for the series is up for debate.
The whole Vista only thing is very likely due to the games being designed for DirectX 10 which will only be on Vista. This is because of a graphics subsystem rewrite that can't(won't) be back ported. This change in the display system isn't being aggressively advertised, but from my reading it will cause a performance increase.
There is also the change is how hardware is going to be DX10 certified. Now your hardware must support every feature in hardware to claim compatibility. So no more ATI X8(0/5)0s which claim DX9.c support, but they don't support the full Pixel Shader 3 model.
I've also run the beta of Vista and it is choppy on a current fast gaming machine; however, the beta still has the debugging enabled so everything is going to run slower. Once they leave beta and the release version start getting compiled you'll notice some major speed increases.
Nintendo's Revolution console, as seen on-display at the Game Developers Conference 2006
Clearly, numbers don't mean everything, but on paper Revolution's CPU falls performance-wise somewhere well beyond GameCube and just shy of the original Xbox"
Which should be interesting to see what happens. In the end the Gamecube ran neck and neck with the Xbox performance-wise limited only in lower bitrate movies and music due to the 1.5GB disks vs. the 9GB disks. With the revolution being twice as powerful as the Gamecube, could it be the promised twice as powerful as the Xbox we've been waiting for?
The other thing that sticks in my mind is a post mordem from Factor 5 on Rogue Leader. They coded the game for the Gamecube's specs with how many polygons and such it could output, and it ran perfectly fine and they were even able to increase some of the graphical effects. We'll see what happens with the Revolution.
I'm not sure about the yaroze, but I believe it did play original games. The Linux Kit supposedly wasn't able to share the HDD with games; however, there were ways around it. And since no games really used the HDD outside of Japan it wasn't a major issue.
And as the final exhibit: notice how Sony never actually bothered marketting or even selling (more than theoretically) that Linux they've flaunted all along for the PS2. They _didn't_ really want you to play Tux Racer on their subsidized machine.
As someone who has purchased and still owns the Linux kit for the PS2, I'd have to say that yes Sony didn't really market the device. But you could easily optain it by going to their website and order it right off playstation.com. Sure it wasn't as easily as walking into a store and buying it, but it was never meant to be.
The Linux Kit was meant for Hobbiest to develop and run code on their PS2s, and it in that it successed. Sony even went so far as to include 6 out of the 7 reference manuals that come with the official development station that runs over $10,000. So no you could go and program your own PS2 games and release them to your friends (unless they also had the Linux Kit). But it was a good way to play with the hardware and try out coding for the vector units. It was definately a step up from the old Net Yazrois(sp?) which was the black PSX that you could run 256k programs off your computer by uploading them via a serial port.
As for why Sony even developed the Linux Kit? Sony Broadband adapter interface that was only released in Japan which became the new system interface after you installed an HDD was based off Linux, hell they included the modified source on the disks you used to install it. So while you might think of Sony as some big evil company, at least they were respecting the GPL.
It sounds like that will have you download some of the game. So for a 4GB game you download 600MB and start playing. As you play the rest of the game is streamed down so in the end you'll have all 4GB. You just won't have to wait for the whole thing to download.
Yes it's a single player offline game; however, the interface closely resembles FFXI's gameplay with continuous areas where you don't switch to a subscreen to fight. Dragon Quest VIII came with a demo of FFXII that shows off this new system. A lot of people complained about the system in the demo, but as a fan of FFXI, the new system is a good change for the series that needed to reinvent itself to avoid grow more stale.
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No, it's just a different market. Just like Adventure games are doing ok in Europe but are almost non-esistance in the US. But looking at the game list is there any wonder why Microsoft has been having so many problems selling consoles there?
You can easily backup your steam data files. Right click a game and goto properties. You'll see a backup option where you can the put the files on the media of your choice. The cd key is not needed as you just reinstall Steam and the restore your backup which will then be patched to the latest version. As for Steam going under, it's been stated that if that happen Valve will release a patch to untie the games from Stream but it going under is very unlikely for at least a while seeing how popular it is starting to become.
It will likely still be required. I'm assuming this was released as a mod for HL2. Since Valve is selling this Episode 1 they can distribute the Source Engine (HL2's engine). You may be able to get away with purchasing Episode 1 and and playing the mod without owning HL2, but that will remain to be seen until the game is released.
The only issue is that the market will be fragmented again. You stated that the G5 didn't get starved for registers like 32-bit x86; however, since they are now on P4 there would be an increase. Also you wouldn't have to worry about backwards compatibility for 64-bit since the x86 executable code could have all been 64-bit. In the future Apple will run into issues if they decide to start using 64-bit processsors and code. Sure you could just use Rosetta and have both x86 32-bit & 64-bit code in the executable, but that will just increase executable file sizes and development time for testing both versions of the software so the majority of developers will just stick with 32-bit. The laptop chip issue could have been a small problem, but it is still very odd of Apple to stick with 32-bit when the rest of the machine is legacy free.
Of course having a 64-bit processor would allow XP 64-bit Edition to run which supports booting without the legacy BIOS. But I'm sure Apple had some other perfectly logical reason for not using 64-bit chips.
Then you should probably type out what the point you are attempting to make is. You never meantioned HDCP, and you said Xbox360 won't have HDTV problems where currently it can't play either BluRay nor HDDVD so of course it won't. Stating that HDCP is a requirement for the TVs to be called "HD-Ready" in Europe and Japan would help people reading your post understand the point your making.
The issue isn't whether or not the PS3 and 360 will display correctly on the HDTVs since both will work just fine. The issue the OP is talking about is that your TV is required to have HDCP (High Definition Content Protection) since few/none of the original HDTVs that were sold in America support. This means that protected BluRay and HDDVD movies will not display the HD version of the movie and will instead fall back to the 480p version. Thankfully it looks like a conversion box that decodes the signal and outputs a non-encrypted signal will be available, but that doesn't mean people should need them.
While you posted as an AC I hope you will respond to this on what is prohibiting Blizzard from banning people like that? It is a privately owned and operated system and they could ban you if they didn't like the look of your face if they wanted to.
Finally this whole argument is pointless. Blizzard did not ban the people for having a gay guild in the game. The ban was for the advertising of such in game which normally will bring out biggets shouting back an forth and leads in undesirable conversations.
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If you want to play the newest games, your best bet would be Gamefly which is like a video games Netflicks. Except they are console only.
Only by the people who consider themselves Singaporean-American. The majority of the country would just consider them Asian.
2K Games is a division of Take-Two.
With Guild Wars there is only a single point of login with some central place to hold player data. They do not seem to have the problems that WoW is having with simply trying to authenicate.
Overall Guild Wars has a good design that more MMOs will likely be moving to. City of Heros, Everquest 2, and WoW to an extent. This allows for a large player base without the issues of one server being full and the others empty which is an nice change. The only real issue is the shortage of player names since you can't have 50 Leroy Jinkins spread across 50 servers.
I'm not so sure after seeing the new Apple commercials saying how PCs have all of these Viruses; however, Macs are not susceptible to them. This could get more people to purchase Macs and while it might not be as large a target, if the majority of the community isn't being cautious it could be seen as an easy target. You will see outbreaks of Mac viruses. It's only a matter of time. As for Mac purchasers being more computer savy. I don't really consider the majority of the artsy, yuppies that are the majority of the Mac audiance to be over savy.
Please help support them. And I'm surprised we haven't really heard much about them on Slashdot. http://www.ipaction.org.
The money lost was via money trading. Nintendo like many companies takes additional assets and invests them into stocks and money markets. You can easily purchase foreign currency funds and make money if they are doing well; however, if the currency losses value in the international world you will lose money.
Nintendo while not number one has been having constent profit, and has had one quarter in company history that was not profitable. This was causing by the extra investments and the USD taking a dive in value. But over 100 years of profit looks good.
Microsoft while a rich company does not have limitless funding. Shareholders will eventually get upset with all the money being pissed away. While it remains to be seen what happens this generation, I'd be extremely suprised if Microsoft killed off both Sony and Nintendo. Hell it will be surprising if the Xbox360 turns a profit 1/2 through it's life cycle.
I remember ScifI showing Firefly around the time Serenity came out. It was also stated that Fox holds the TV rights for new episodes, so Scifi can only show reruns. That is why the movie was made since it's not bound by the same contract. However, whether is was a good move for the series is up for debate.
There is also the change is how hardware is going to be DX10 certified. Now your hardware must support every feature in hardware to claim compatibility. So no more ATI X8(0/5)0s which claim DX9.c support, but they don't support the full Pixel Shader 3 model.
I've also run the beta of Vista and it is choppy on a current fast gaming machine; however, the beta still has the debugging enabled so everything is going to run slower. Once they leave beta and the release version start getting compiled you'll notice some major speed increases.
The other thing that sticks in my mind is a post mordem from Factor 5 on Rogue Leader. They coded the game for the Gamecube's specs with how many polygons and such it could output, and it ran perfectly fine and they were even able to increase some of the graphical effects. We'll see what happens with the Revolution.
I'm not sure about the yaroze, but I believe it did play original games. The Linux Kit supposedly wasn't able to share the HDD with games; however, there were ways around it. And since no games really used the HDD outside of Japan it wasn't a major issue.
The Linux Kit was meant for Hobbiest to develop and run code on their PS2s, and it in that it successed. Sony even went so far as to include 6 out of the 7 reference manuals that come with the official development station that runs over $10,000. So no you could go and program your own PS2 games and release them to your friends (unless they also had the Linux Kit). But it was a good way to play with the hardware and try out coding for the vector units. It was definately a step up from the old Net Yazrois(sp?) which was the black PSX that you could run 256k programs off your computer by uploading them via a serial port.
As for why Sony even developed the Linux Kit? Sony Broadband adapter interface that was only released in Japan which became the new system interface after you installed an HDD was based off Linux, hell they included the modified source on the disks you used to install it. So while you might think of Sony as some big evil company, at least they were respecting the GPL.
It sounds like that will have you download some of the game. So for a 4GB game you download 600MB and start playing. As you play the rest of the game is streamed down so in the end you'll have all 4GB. You just won't have to wait for the whole thing to download.
Yes it's a single player offline game; however, the interface closely resembles FFXI's gameplay with continuous areas where you don't switch to a subscreen to fight. Dragon Quest VIII came with a demo of FFXII that shows off this new system. A lot of people complained about the system in the demo, but as a fan of FFXI, the new system is a good change for the series that needed to reinvent itself to avoid grow more stale.
No, it's just a different market. Just like Adventure games are doing ok in Europe but are almost non-esistance in the US. But looking at the game list is there any wonder why Microsoft has been having so many problems selling consoles there?
You can easily backup your steam data files. Right click a game and goto properties. You'll see a backup option where you can the put the files on the media of your choice. The cd key is not needed as you just reinstall Steam and the restore your backup which will then be patched to the latest version. As for Steam going under, it's been stated that if that happen Valve will release a patch to untie the games from Stream but it going under is very unlikely for at least a while seeing how popular it is starting to become.
It will likely still be required. I'm assuming this was released as a mod for HL2. Since Valve is selling this Episode 1 they can distribute the Source Engine (HL2's engine). You may be able to get away with purchasing Episode 1 and and playing the mod without owning HL2, but that will remain to be seen until the game is released.
The only issue is that the market will be fragmented again. You stated that the G5 didn't get starved for registers like 32-bit x86; however, since they are now on P4 there would be an increase. Also you wouldn't have to worry about backwards compatibility for 64-bit since the x86 executable code could have all been 64-bit. In the future Apple will run into issues if they decide to start using 64-bit processsors and code. Sure you could just use Rosetta and have both x86 32-bit & 64-bit code in the executable, but that will just increase executable file sizes and development time for testing both versions of the software so the majority of developers will just stick with 32-bit. The laptop chip issue could have been a small problem, but it is still very odd of Apple to stick with 32-bit when the rest of the machine is legacy free.
Of course having a 64-bit processor would allow XP 64-bit Edition to run which supports booting without the legacy BIOS. But I'm sure Apple had some other perfectly logical reason for not using 64-bit chips.
Then you should probably type out what the point you are attempting to make is. You never meantioned HDCP, and you said Xbox360 won't have HDTV problems where currently it can't play either BluRay nor HDDVD so of course it won't. Stating that HDCP is a requirement for the TVs to be called "HD-Ready" in Europe and Japan would help people reading your post understand the point your making.
The issue isn't whether or not the PS3 and 360 will display correctly on the HDTVs since both will work just fine. The issue the OP is talking about is that your TV is required to have HDCP (High Definition Content Protection) since few/none of the original HDTVs that were sold in America support. This means that protected BluRay and HDDVD movies will not display the HD version of the movie and will instead fall back to the 480p version. Thankfully it looks like a conversion box that decodes the signal and outputs a non-encrypted signal will be available, but that doesn't mean people should need them.
Yup it's free, searches file content, and will index PDFs which last I checked Google Desktop needed paid plug-ins to do.
Finally this whole argument is pointless. Blizzard did not ban the people for having a gay guild in the game. The ban was for the advertising of such in game which normally will bring out biggets shouting back an forth and leads in undesirable conversations.