Why didn't they mention the survival of slashdot in the face of countless disasters. The great troll strike of 2002 comes to mind! The revival of beowulf jokes, the lawsuit from Nat Portman and the hot grits famine that followed were all destructive but/. survived. Slashdot is able to survive just about any disaster whether in Soviet Russia or at home, and for that it should be commended!
Are you sure that they aren't faster? I really don't have any numbers for new DVD drives, but my dvd drive is only 2nd or 3rd generation and it maxes out at around 5.5 megabytes per second (around 40X in terms of CD speed).
It had a real effect on Enter the Matrix. The in game movies actually looked better on console because they didn't have to compress so aggressively. I personally don't like keeping track of 3-7 game disks for every game especially when they all come in those cheap paper sleaves.
Just to clarify I love PC gaming, but I just believe it has a couple weaknesses. This particular weakness could be addressed with a $30 dvd drive. When most gamers spend $100 for a soundcard and even more for a videocard it makes sense.
Look at Enter the Matrix. On an XBox or PS2 I assume you get the game on one 4 GB disk. On GC you get it on two 1.8 GB disk. On the PC you get it on 700 MB disks. Am I the only one who sees a problem here? To get decent sized games they have to release it on 3-7 disks (think Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate the list goes on). If you don't do a mind boggling full install you have to switch disks all the time. I just want a bold game company to release its games on DVD so we don't have this disk spanning issue. The things are what $30?
Also when I said controller I meant gamepad. I know that mouse/keyboard is best for FPS and strategy and many types of very good games (not to mention flight-sticks, racing wheels for other types of games), but PC gamepads stink. I wish MS would just sell X-Box-S controllers with a standard USB plug and drivers (I am aware you can do it yourself, btw).
You can't trust results for older games, and you can't trust benchmarks evidenlty. I think the best thing is just to wait for the new generation of games which will surely clear things up.
It doesn't make sense to buy a card to run Doom 3 when the game isn't out. Here is a clue, when Doom 3 does come out I will be able to buy something as powerful as the FX 5900 for $150.
I'm going to go into an offtopic rant now. It is sad that we have huge displays and crazy-go-nuts graphics processors on computers, but consoles will probably always beat PCs for game size. Game makers are too scared to release a DVD only game, so our games are limited to 700MB by disk, and don't even get me started on controllers.
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It took me days to convince my girlfriend that bonzi buddy was not her friend. The same thing happened with comet cursor. I had to explain to her that you can get southpark cursors without a special program. It is just too easy to fool people into installing this software. I basically do the maintenance on all of my friends' computers (for free), and this spyware stuff is getting out of hand. In my opinion it is already more hostile to the average user than spam and viruses combined.
I make it a point to never visit any.org sites at all. Vile things, they are. I haven't visited a single.org website in over 2 years.
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3) create an intergrated development solution ala DirectX with 3d, 2d, sound, controllers, etc support. Maybe unify current solutions under a common and consistent API ?
Doesn't that already exist in the form of OpenGL and others?
They should give a percentage to go to free software development. I don't particularly like most open source software, but a lot of people use a lot of CD-Rs to burn Linux distros. It only seems fair that they get a chunk.
So, if you held the device in front of you and looked at it, you could see exactly what you'd see if your hand was empty. Why do you need all this equipment just to display a picture of your hand?
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Why didn't they mention the survival of slashdot in the face of countless disasters. The great troll strike of 2002 comes to mind! The revival of beowulf jokes, the lawsuit from Nat Portman and the hot grits famine that followed were all destructive but /. survived. Slashdot is able to survive just about any disaster whether in Soviet Russia or at home, and for that it should be commended!
At least that is the only online game with those initials that I can think of.
Did that trigger thoughts of the Animatrix for anyone else?
Except for a few pockets in Alabama and Mississippi that isn't an accurate representation of the South.
It ran *BSD right? I like how the editors are getting into troll-tuesday just like everyone else. They are a little late though.
Wil Wheaton will be mud-wrestling Mickey Mouse.
Those are both well known websites. You might as well try that when someone links to redhat.com.
It is funny how fast epcot went from "whiz-bang this is the future" to total comedy. Robobutler would be amused.
Are you sure that they aren't faster? I really don't have any numbers for new DVD drives, but my dvd drive is only 2nd or 3rd generation and it maxes out at around 5.5 megabytes per second (around 40X in terms of CD speed).
Just to clarify I love PC gaming, but I just believe it has a couple weaknesses. This particular weakness could be addressed with a $30 dvd drive. When most gamers spend $100 for a soundcard and even more for a videocard it makes sense.
Will they outsource tech support to a Venezuelan insane asylum next?
That is exactly what I'm hoping for.
Also when I said controller I meant gamepad. I know that mouse/keyboard is best for FPS and strategy and many types of very good games (not to mention flight-sticks, racing wheels for other types of games), but PC gamepads stink. I wish MS would just sell X-Box-S controllers with a standard USB plug and drivers (I am aware you can do it yourself, btw).
You can't trust results for older games, and you can't trust benchmarks evidenlty. I think the best thing is just to wait for the new generation of games which will surely clear things up.
It doesn't make sense to buy a card to run Doom 3 when the game isn't out. Here is a clue, when Doom 3 does come out I will be able to buy something as powerful as the FX 5900 for $150.
I'm going to go into an offtopic rant now. It is sad that we have huge displays and crazy-go-nuts graphics processors on computers, but consoles will probably always beat PCs for game size. Game makers are too scared to release a DVD only game, so our games are limited to 700MB by disk, and don't even get me started on controllers.
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You energy would be .25E. For a cessna that would be huge....
Just install Windows XP like everyone else. Stick the free version of ZoneAlarm on there, and you will be as secure as any box out there!
It took me days to convince my girlfriend that bonzi buddy was not her friend. The same thing happened with comet cursor. I had to explain to her that you can get southpark cursors without a special program. It is just too easy to fool people into installing this software. I basically do the maintenance on all of my friends' computers (for free), and this spyware stuff is getting out of hand. In my opinion it is already more hostile to the average user than spam and viruses combined.
I am a loser, and therefore have no life to log.
I make it a point to never visit any .org sites at all. Vile things, they are. I haven't visited a single .org website in over 2 years.
3) create an intergrated development solution ala DirectX with 3d, 2d, sound, controllers, etc support. Maybe unify current solutions under a common and consistent API ? Doesn't that already exist in the form of OpenGL and others?
Design... document...? I know what the individual words mean, but taken together it sounds like nonsense!
Since 80 gig hard drives are so cheap I just use ape lossless format, but then again my CD collection is relatively small.
They should give a percentage to go to free software development. I don't particularly like most open source software, but a lot of people use a lot of CD-Rs to burn Linux distros. It only seems fair that they get a chunk.
So, if you held the device in front of you and looked at it, you could see exactly what you'd see if your hand was empty.
Why do you need all this equipment just to display a picture of your hand?