most if not all games aren't built on a 'from scratch' game engine. See the thing is, it would be too risky and very time consuming to build a new engine for each game. Actually if i remember right, game engines are hot items these days, and alot of older engines are being updated and improved and they are making thier way into today's games.
good example of this was that 'Alice' game, it used the quake 3 graphics engine in it, but had a completely different style of game play (and no, i didnt find the controls difficult, i felt the gameplay was in sync with the game) but anyway, my point is that with out the reusability of game engines, games would be cost prohibitive for anyone, even the big companys, to produce any games at all
Also what that article doesn't say is that counts all the revisions, and doesn't give a TRUE number of unique downloads.
actually, it probably does give a true number of downloads because of the way kazza upgrades. When you upgrade kazaa it finds its upgrade off of the network. And besides, the point of the article wasn't really how many were downloaded, but that it surpassed icq as the #1 download. icq, by the way has had alot of revisions too:)
You can. IIRC, my Radeon original (now worth about $45) outperforms the PS2. Heck, the PS2 often chokes in games like Vice City, giving me frame rates that I am guessing are about 2 or 3 fps when there's "too much" action going on. I doubt anyone sells a PC that bad anymore...
actually i think thats more of a software problem, ive noticed lots of bugs in ps2 games lately, seems like they're game development is really rushed and theres not enough time for doing alot of the more cosmetic work, like those few seconds in a game wehre the frame rate crawls.
the first objective in making a video game is a working product, regardless of bugs, then it is played and played by testers... but testers miss stuff
actually, i was fixing someones printer a while back, it is a compaq... which is lexmark, its a crappy printer, but on to my story. The problem was they put a brand new cartrage in and the printer wasnt printing, well, i thought, whats going on, so i pull the new cartrage out, and.. IT DOSENT HAVE ANY INK IN IT!, i took it back to the store, and they refused to return it, since it was out of the packaging, so i had to buy a new cartrage for this printer.. it was 38 bucks!!! i couldnt believe it was that expensive.. sigh.. i told them not to buy that printer
I think cheating in one player games, like I did after I went through and beat Hitman 2 the first time, is fun.
Yea, played hitman 2 on xbox, i found that the only way to play that game was to cheat, i actually wanted to play it through, but, it was very tedious... well, you know, you played it
actually i was referring to a game i used to play along time ago, i do know that that is a cheat code, but i have no idea where its origins were... i just thoguht i would enlighten the masses with my ambiguous post
I have the key to the front door of a building, but it's inconvenient to use the front door so I blow a little secret hole in the back wall and use that instead.
what if you get a person that specializes in blowing little secret holes, i think that alot of places would be more secure with one of these things, as long as it was properly installed. For instance, you are a really important person, and you cant just walk in the front door of this building cause... well the stuff you take in and leave with is super secret... think a tunnel to work, most of the secureest (sp?) buildings have lots of secret tunnels and pasageways in them... think pentagon
I read the post and understood it that this guy was dissapointed with the quality of the royalty free music that he was finding, not that there was any problem with decoding it, but that it was just encoded at a lower quality _because_ it was being given away as royalty free. Of course he could just go out and download the music illegaly, but i think he wanted the challenge of being able to produce something that could be distributed without any kind of worrys. and no, i am sorry, i dont know any good places for a high schooler to find royalty free music for free, unless maybe you know someone that works in a production studio like i used to, they usually have shelves of royalty free music, but, airc, most of it isnt really what you would consider... um... not sucky...
its hard to fight the gub'ment, espically wehn they are making hella money on this stuff... whats that guys name.. i forget.. but he said.. 'i never saw a patent i didnt like' yeah.. they make buckets of money selling patents, i dont think they care, as long as ppl are stupid enough to let them enforce the damn things
yeah, actually theres alot of post-processing and guessing that goes into the senses... the eye for instance... it is constantly moving to take different images of its context, if one is to use a special device to hold the eye completely still, said person's vision will fade out until the device is removed and teh eye can resume normal operations. also, there is a hole right in the middle of your field of vision where all the nerve endings go back through the retina... cause they connect to teh front not to the back like one would think, so your brain has to fill in that hole.. The brain does alot of processing of form, it trys to interpret everything we see, its really interesting, i mean, ever seen someone do acid?? hehe, but seriously, our hardware is horribly inadequate, so we have to come up with our own systemes to compensate for it
i am fairly sure that i read an reputable story a while back that was talking about a program that the CIA has, they supposedly have extensive computer programs that monitor the phone lines for key words and suspicious people. it does sound like a bit of a conspiricy theroy, but the more i think about it... the more it just sounds... possible
so, wouldnt the best idea be to implement some sort of hardware standard where the motherboard is just a connceting device where you can just plug in these other boards that contain whole computer systems, it would be good... (imagines what it would be like) mmmmmm... tasty, just imagine, any kind of processor you could put in your computer... it would be universal... i dont really have teh money or skills to prusue that right now, but if anyone has some vc they want to give me, i would try to make it happen...:P
a computer won't be able to beat kasparov or anyother chess player any time soon, although i believe it could be done easily. If any company were (stupid enough) to _really_ sponsor a project that could beat a human, it would be sucide for said business. Who is going to be the evil comapny that builds a machine greater than man!!!!... i can just hear the mobs now...
I think that we have had this balance for a while but _choose_ not to accept our fate(think cloning).
ok correct me if im wrong, which i very well could be, but when Apples shares were worth virtually nothing a few years ago i thought that i remembered something about M$ buying up bunches of the shares until they owned like 49%... so they really dont have any say in the company and they avoid the whole antitrust monopoly thing, but either way they win... right..??
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i think the point was to use the hardware to its limit, that takes more work than just building a game to run on the latest and greatest
most if not all games aren't built on a 'from scratch' game engine. See the thing is, it would be too risky and very time consuming to build a new engine for each game. Actually if i remember right, game engines are hot items these days, and alot of older engines are being updated and improved and they are making thier way into today's games.
good example of this was that 'Alice' game, it used the quake 3 graphics engine in it, but had a completely different style of game play (and no, i didnt find the controls difficult, i felt the gameplay was in sync with the game) but anyway, my point is that with out the reusability of game engines, games would be cost prohibitive for anyone, even the big companys, to produce any games at all
Also what that article doesn't say is that counts all the revisions, and doesn't give a TRUE number of unique downloads.
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actually, it probably does give a true number of downloads because of the way kazza upgrades. When you upgrade kazaa it finds its upgrade off of the network. And besides, the point of the article wasn't really how many were downloaded, but that it surpassed icq as the #1 download. icq, by the way has had alot of revisions too
You can. IIRC, my Radeon original (now worth about $45) outperforms the PS2. Heck, the PS2 often chokes in games like Vice City, giving me frame rates that I am guessing are about 2 or 3 fps when there's "too much" action going on. I doubt anyone sells a PC that bad anymore...
actually i think thats more of a software problem, ive noticed lots of bugs in ps2 games lately, seems like they're game development is really rushed and theres not enough time for doing alot of the more cosmetic work, like those few seconds in a game wehre the frame rate crawls.
the first objective in making a video game is a working product, regardless of bugs, then it is played and played by testers... but testers miss stuff
Why dont they simply make aircraft out of the same material that they make flight recorders out of?
They dont make the interstates wide enough.
actually, i was fixing someones printer a while back, it is a compaq... which is lexmark, its a crappy printer, but on to my story. The problem was they put a brand new cartrage in and the printer wasnt printing, well, i thought, whats going on, so i pull the new cartrage out, and.. IT DOSENT HAVE ANY INK IN IT!, i took it back to the store, and they refused to return it, since it was out of the packaging, so i had to buy a new cartrage for this printer.. it was 38 bucks!!! i couldnt believe it was that expensive.. sigh.. i told them not to buy that printer
I think cheating in one player games, like I did after I went through and beat Hitman 2 the first time, is fun.
Yea, played hitman 2 on xbox, i found that the only way to play that game was to cheat, i actually wanted to play it through, but, it was very tedious... well, you know, you played it
actually i was referring to a game i used to play along time ago, i do know that that is a cheat code, but i have no idea where its origins were... i just thoguht i would enlighten the masses with my ambiguous post
smashing pumpkins into small pieces of putrid debris... :)
oooh, i love metaphors
let me give this one a shot
I have the key to the front door of a building, but it's inconvenient to use the front door so I blow a little secret hole in the back wall and use that instead.
what if you get a person that specializes in blowing little secret holes, i think that alot of places would be more secure with one of these things, as long as it was properly installed. For instance, you are a really important person, and you cant just walk in the front door of this building cause... well the stuff you take in and leave with is super secret... think a tunnel to work, most of the secureest (sp?) buildings have lots of secret tunnels and pasageways in them... think pentagon
if you read slashdot religiously like i do, you would know that this is being done. Its reallllly nice, i suggest you check it out
I read the post and understood it that this guy was dissapointed with the quality of the royalty free music that he was finding, not that there was any problem with decoding it, but that it was just encoded at a lower quality _because_ it was being given away as royalty free. Of course he could just go out and download the music illegaly, but i think he wanted the challenge of being able to produce something that could be distributed without any kind of worrys. and no, i am sorry, i dont know any good places for a high schooler to find royalty free music for free, unless maybe you know someone that works in a production studio like i used to, they usually have shelves of royalty free music, but, airc, most of it isnt really what you would consider... um... not sucky...
its hard to fight the gub'ment, espically wehn they are making hella money on this stuff... whats that guys name.. i forget.. but he said.. 'i never saw a patent i didnt like' yeah.. they make buckets of money selling patents, i dont think they care, as long as ppl are stupid enough to let them enforce the damn things
oh man, dont talk about food, im broke.. i dont have any food, and slashdot is the only thing that can make me forget all that
yeah, actually theres alot of post-processing and guessing that goes into the senses... the eye for instance... it is constantly moving to take different images of its context, if one is to use a special device to hold the eye completely still, said person's vision will fade out until the device is removed and teh eye can resume normal operations. also, there is a hole right in the middle of your field of vision where all the nerve endings go back through the retina... cause they connect to teh front not to the back like one would think, so your brain has to fill in that hole.. The brain does alot of processing of form, it trys to interpret everything we see, its really interesting, i mean, ever seen someone do acid?? hehe, but seriously, our hardware is horribly inadequate, so we have to come up with our own systemes to compensate for it
i am fairly sure that i read an reputable story a while back that was talking about a program that the CIA has, they supposedly have extensive computer programs that monitor the phone lines for key words and suspicious people. it does sound like a bit of a conspiricy theroy, but the more i think about it... the more it just sounds... possible
i think that drug use is encouraged in a dorm setting... keeps the complainers content...
so, wouldnt the best idea be to implement some sort of hardware standard where the motherboard is just a connceting device where you can just plug in these other boards that contain whole computer systems, it would be good... (imagines what it would be like) mmmmmm... tasty, just imagine, any kind of processor you could put in your computer... it would be universal... i dont really have teh money or skills to prusue that right now, but if anyone has some vc they want to give me, i would try to make it happen... :P
haha, where have i heard this argument before... oh yeah... :)
how does homestarrunner hold things?
especially most (ALL?) financial software rounds to the cent.
and it just throws the rest away... so we take these fractions of a cent and have it deposit to a bank account... its like superman 3
actually the sound of one hand clapping is explained here
a computer won't be able to beat kasparov or anyother chess player any time soon, although i believe it could be done easily. If any company were (stupid enough) to _really_ sponsor a project that could beat a human, it would be sucide for said business. Who is going to be the evil comapny that builds a machine greater than man!!!!... i can just hear the mobs now...
I think that we have had this balance for a while but _choose_ not to accept our fate(think cloning).
ok correct me if im wrong, which i very well could be, but when Apples shares were worth virtually nothing a few years ago i thought that i remembered something about M$ buying up bunches of the shares until they owned like 49%... so they really dont have any say in the company and they avoid the whole antitrust monopoly thing, but either way they win... right..??
ahhhhhh ... why did you send me to that horrible horrible site? ahhhhhh.... *whimper*