Games just aren't getting that much more impressive as time goes on. We're reaching areas of dimishing returns to where we can probably slow the pace in exchange for focusing on making good games that are fun, and have been properly QAed. There's no need for these last-minute additions or patches. Especially as the market revolts, and moves more and more toward console gaming. (Where proper QA is a requirement.)
Gamers want good games. Technology is only a canvas on which games are painted. It should not be the be-all-to-end-all of the game. If companies can reorganize around making high-quality games on more reasonable schedules, then I don't doubt that costs would lower and the products would improve.
Games are still getting better, people just aren't noticing as much.
Slow the pace, possible but I predict something else.
A lot of games are modelled on reality, and the tools for modelling reality are getting better all the time, new mapping and skinning and motion capture equipment will lower the cost of making a game eventually (think hardware turning into software) as seen in valve's bump mapping technology and the 360's massive photorealistic textures (Why design textures when you can just take a picture of what you want and slap it on), patches are largely a product of new features being implemented in games and changing hardware requirements. The hardware requirements part will (unfortunately) largely be solved by DirectX X which will include the technologies that companies are currently cobbling on to the outside of engines (Think Valve's HD lighting) and it will also further abstract the hardware.
"Technology is a canvas on which ideas are painted", you're right, but what game makers are facing right now is an unwillingness to move to a standard set of tools which they feel will restrict their creativity.
Actually with better wireless systems it is a lot easier to aim those rockets, say at a certain president?
The bigger issue here is that they are circumventing the people's ability to "keep and bear arms", as we all know rifles aren't particularly useful against tanks, however rockets are very useful for "Violent protest".
The sad thing is that these people are commited and intelligent enough to build their own rather than just buying them so they get shafted.
If people willing to go to the effort of building a gun before they shoot you, well you probably did something wrong.
This is increadible they are taking one of the LEASE PLEASANT ASPECTS OF REAL LIFE and imprinting it on the virtual world... for no reason, they can just tax the sale of the goods!
In Canada our postal service is SO much cheaper than UPS or FedEx that it's ludicrous. Unfortunately medium companies don't use it even though it has all the functionality of UPS or FedEX.
Make it more reliable, the iPod case is beautiful but it's also scary scratchable, also the battery issues suck.
Make it sound better, having owned several creative players and several iPods I'd say the creative players sound significantly better than iPods.
A 40Gig HD, if I'm too lazy to change my music every 5 months of playtime, bury me, I'm dead.
The problem with all this is that releasing such a product would offer no chance anyone would ever upgrade it.
Conclusion: the Chinese will come out with an iPod killer, why? Because electronics are just electronics to them they don't try and specialize in miniscule upgrades to technology that no one really needs (CPU's, GPU's, iPod 20-30-40 rev1 rev2 rev3 ad nauseum). They'll make one that lasts 20 years make em cheaper and cheaper until they're commodity (like walkmans were) then move on.
Western MBA's are scared of the business model of the pencil, 5c but it works.
And when the dominant platform is the one at $200 developers will develop for it to sell more units.
And then the prices will go down, the platforms will be unified (Or at least logically diversified [high end low end mid range etc]) and all will be good with the force!
An interesting example is a game by Nintendo called electroplankton, it basically allows you to create music using diffrent systems. Peraps you simply need to find the metaphor that helps you understand math better.
This affects everyone, most people really need a graphical representation to understand say calculus.
Anyway find your own metaphor (pies, lines, etc) but that won't help with Calc.
So if it should be then we should use retroactive laws to get him?
The Government is more powerful than corporations but they are faster and meaner.
The government should be able to dissolve a corporation any time (And in fact they can) but they don't want to because the employees would lose their jobs...
The government is trying to attack policies inside a company which is tough, the best way to do it is to raise the minimum wage, by doing so you force companies to work smarter not harder.
There are no other technical constraints and we'd be able to launch things that couldn't survive 2000g's (Like people, or chemicals in solution, or genetic material or stuff not designed a billion times over.
Rockets are massive because they need to limit their acceleration, blasting off super fast would be considerably easier.
This solution seems good because it slows the accelleration and cheapens the cost of launch, with this tech you don't need to spend a rediculous amount of time engineering stuff for space.
We passed the point where most things cost more to design then to actually produce a long long time ago.
Screw lowering manufacturing costs, concentrate on lowering design costs.
It's just silicon people!, or steel or whatever it is... there's no need for it to cost 000's of times it's scrap value.
Macroscope, hypnotise people until they dissolve their body into a mush which can be reconstituted...
Then use a laser to bring them back:P
Can someone check that they absolutely need to have 2000g's of accelleration? It doesn't make sense to me... what's the point of having a really long track (Long enough to switch to a straight track for launch.
A brick and mortar casino gaming license wouldn't be quite as lucrative a give away to the wealthy and well connected if they had to compete with online casinos that anyone can set up overseas. Lets face it, a legal casino in an area where gambling of most forms is illegal is basically an ATM machine with flashing lights.
In my state the hypocrisy is reaching new heights as the GOP governor continues to try to allow slot machines at horse tracks while it is still technically illegal to play poker among friends.
Gambling is a disease, people lose homes and ruin lives.
So theoretically the taxation is to pay for support for the children who's father can't afford education or electricity anymore.
Conservatives also support gambling because it is a tax on the stupid, you don't win in the long run.
Casinos are very close to government institutions which is why the government collects debts for them. This is why many socialist countries don't support gambling, an addiction to gambling is not totally correllated with being a moron (Though I'd argue it often is) and the lives affected go beyond the gambler him/her self.
Cutting back on gambling is a good idea, especially gambling based on high interest debt (Credit Cards).
Kudos to the Conservatives for FINALLY getting one right.
You can't fight City Hall, the State, or the U.S. Government...
Seems to be working for the Iraqis, and looks like Afghanistan is joining the party.
It's strange to me how large a percentage of the U.S. population seems to feel disenfranchised by their government and some honestly fear them without taking any actions.
Maybe it's because Bush has the church in his pocket.
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Someone is going to make A LOT of money from these things. They are so deliciously ironic! The Emo crowd will love them!
Yes but the pirates of today are the voters of tommorow.
Where they are going looks a lot like a brick wall.
Is anyone else super enthused by the clearness of the HD rather than any performance improvements?
Sure faster boot ups will be great and eventually bootup will equal Flash -> DDR2 memory transfer speed but this seems like more of a limited upgrade.
Except the clear shell that's just too sexy for words!
movie scarface...
WTF kind of artform have we created?
We used to play British Bulldog on a grassy field at my elementary school till they cancelled it.
:(
I guess it was pretty dangerous, especially in winter when the field was 4cm thick ice...
It was fun though, people are too strong to really play British Bulldog anymore, last time I tried to get people to play 5 young adults got hurt
Games just aren't getting that much more impressive as time goes on. We're reaching areas of dimishing returns to where we can probably slow the pace in exchange for focusing on making good games that are fun, and have been properly QAed. There's no need for these last-minute additions or patches. Especially as the market revolts, and moves more and more toward console gaming. (Where proper QA is a requirement.)
Gamers want good games. Technology is only a canvas on which games are painted. It should not be the be-all-to-end-all of the game. If companies can reorganize around making high-quality games on more reasonable schedules, then I don't doubt that costs would lower and the products would improve.
Games are still getting better, people just aren't noticing as much.
Slow the pace, possible but I predict something else.
A lot of games are modelled on reality, and the tools for modelling reality are getting better all the time, new mapping and skinning and motion capture equipment will lower the cost of making a game eventually (think hardware turning into software) as seen in valve's bump mapping technology and the 360's massive photorealistic textures (Why design textures when you can just take a picture of what you want and slap it on), patches are largely a product of new features being implemented in games and changing hardware requirements. The hardware requirements part will (unfortunately) largely be solved by DirectX X which will include the technologies that companies are currently cobbling on to the outside of engines (Think Valve's HD lighting) and it will also further abstract the hardware.
"Technology is a canvas on which ideas are painted", you're right, but what game makers are facing right now is an unwillingness to move to a standard set of tools which they feel will restrict their creativity.
Actually with better wireless systems it is a lot easier to aim those rockets, say at a certain president?
The bigger issue here is that they are circumventing the people's ability to "keep and bear arms", as we all know rifles aren't particularly useful against tanks, however rockets are very useful for "Violent protest".
The sad thing is that these people are commited and intelligent enough to build their own rather than just buying them so they get shafted.
If people willing to go to the effort of building a gun before they shoot you, well you probably did something wrong.
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IRS: Hey Timmy...
This is increadible they are taking one of the LEASE PLEASANT ASPECTS OF REAL LIFE and imprinting it on the virtual world... for no reason, they can just tax the sale of the goods!
In Canada our postal service is SO much cheaper than UPS or FedEx that it's ludicrous. Unfortunately medium companies don't use it even though it has all the functionality of UPS or FedEX.
v er?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article &cid=1160776234367&call_pageid=970599119419 which I suppose is exactly why the Republicans are "cutting costs" in this area.
Plus as privately managed companies they have all kinds of fun stuff like this http://http//www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentSer
If anyone can tell me how to create sexy URL's it would be appreciated.
There is a simple way to make an iPod killer:
Make it more reliable, the iPod case is beautiful but it's also scary scratchable, also the battery issues suck.
Make it sound better, having owned several creative players and several iPods I'd say the creative players sound significantly better than iPods.
A 40Gig HD, if I'm too lazy to change my music every 5 months of playtime, bury me, I'm dead.
The problem with all this is that releasing such a product would offer no chance anyone would ever upgrade it.
Conclusion: the Chinese will come out with an iPod killer, why? Because electronics are just electronics to them they don't try and specialize in miniscule upgrades to technology that no one really needs (CPU's, GPU's, iPod 20-30-40 rev1 rev2 rev3 ad nauseum). They'll make one that lasts 20 years make em cheaper and cheaper until they're commodity (like walkmans were) then move on.
Western MBA's are scared of the business model of the pencil, 5c but it works.
1. Nanobots will not recycle your tissue to create more Nano bots.
2. We reserve the right to change this agreement at any time.
And when the dominant platform is the one at $200 developers will develop for it to sell more units.
And then the prices will go down, the platforms will be unified (Or at least logically diversified [high end low end mid range etc]) and all will be good with the force!
An interesting example is a game by Nintendo called electroplankton, it basically allows you to create music using diffrent systems. Peraps you simply need to find the metaphor that helps you understand math better.
This affects everyone, most people really need a graphical representation to understand say calculus.
Anyway find your own metaphor (pies, lines, etc) but that won't help with Calc.
Slashvertisement much?
I've got to say I'm definitely aching to try this game out, it's coming out for pc too right?
That Sony doesn't have such a person but they only speak in Japan? To Japanese gamers?
The Japanese seem to
Who is Xbox's Japanese leading man??? Japan is a market about as big as the U.S. right?
So if it should be then we should use retroactive laws to get him?
The Government is more powerful than corporations but they are faster and meaner.
The government should be able to dissolve a corporation any time (And in fact they can) but they don't want to because the employees would lose their jobs...
The government is trying to attack policies inside a company which is tough, the best way to do it is to raise the minimum wage, by doing so you force companies to work smarter not harder.
Pirate the fucking game?
Um 30km underground is nothing.
There are no other technical constraints and we'd be able to launch things that couldn't survive 2000g's (Like people, or chemicals in solution, or genetic material or stuff not designed a billion times over.
Rockets are massive because they need to limit their acceleration, blasting off super fast would be considerably easier.
This solution seems good because it slows the accelleration and cheapens the cost of launch, with this tech you don't need to spend a rediculous amount of time engineering stuff for space.
We passed the point where most things cost more to design then to actually produce a long long time ago.
Screw lowering manufacturing costs, concentrate on lowering design costs.
It's just silicon people!, or steel or whatever it is... there's no need for it to cost 000's of times it's scrap value.
Macroscope, hypnotise people until they dissolve their body into a mush which can be reconstituted...
:P
Then use a laser to bring them back
Can someone check that they absolutely need to have 2000g's of accelleration? It doesn't make sense to me... what's the point of having a really long track (Long enough to switch to a straight track for launch.
Pay more taxes, so businesses pay less.
Then all parental money should be confiscated at death as well?
:(
There should be no inheritance?
I agree this affects us but they totally deserve it more than some business mogul.
Too bad
What's that smell?
Oh it's bluetooth.
No because if you use up the money you spent it's just gone.
They won't take more and more leaving you penniless.
See the diffrence.
A brick and mortar casino gaming license wouldn't be quite as lucrative a give away to the wealthy and well connected if they had to compete with online casinos that anyone can set up overseas. Lets face it, a legal casino in an area where gambling of most forms is illegal is basically an ATM machine with flashing lights.
In my state the hypocrisy is reaching new heights as the GOP governor continues to try to allow slot machines at horse tracks while it is still technically illegal to play poker among friends.
Gambling is a disease, people lose homes and ruin lives.
So theoretically the taxation is to pay for support for the children who's father can't afford education or electricity anymore.
Conservatives also support gambling because it is a tax on the stupid, you don't win in the long run.
Casinos are very close to government institutions which is why the government collects debts for them. This is why many socialist countries don't support gambling, an addiction to gambling is not totally correllated with being a moron (Though I'd argue it often is) and the lives affected go beyond the gambler him/her self.
Cutting back on gambling is a good idea, especially gambling based on high interest debt (Credit Cards).
Kudos to the Conservatives for FINALLY getting one right.
You can't fight City Hall, the State, or the U.S. Government...
Seems to be working for the Iraqis, and looks like Afghanistan is joining the party.
It's strange to me how large a percentage of the U.S. population seems to feel disenfranchised by their government and some honestly fear them without taking any actions.
Maybe it's because Bush has the church in his pocket.