The consumers may be dumb, but not dumb enough to spend tons of extra money for a fancy chip they won't use. I doubt most of them will even read the required specs for Longhorn, they'll just try to install it on their old Acer and hate Microsoft for it being so slow.
Orsen Welles almost finished making a movie out of Moonraker in the fifties. The movie looked like it would have been great had it been completed. It'd be a long shot but I think some game company might be able to license that film out from under UA. Not only would it be an opportunity for more Bond but it would show fans a new story that had been massacred by United Artists.
And a Bond game doesn't necessarily have to be a shooter. It was a bit of a surprise that Rare decided to take that route in the first place, and EA seems to have just decided to make Bond themed shooters without having any real Bond essence left in them, like the referenced article says Bond is about style, style, style not stunts, stunts stunts. With a focus on style a great Bond game could be made in the form of a LucasArts style adventure game, or some sort of mesh between Splinter Cell and Deus Ex. Heck, I should just write a text adventure based on Bond, and EA wouldn't care, but gamers might.
that seemed particularly intriguing, as much as I despise EA I think they might try a bit with something like this that attracts so much attention. It is good to see EA involving outside developers for once, much in the way Wideload Games is basing its business model.
Does anybody own the rights to the literary James Bond series? EA may have bought the rights to make sucky games based on such an awesome movie franchise, but could someone (better) license the books and make (better) James Bond games based on them, just like Sierra is making (unfortunately suckier) games based on the literary Lord of the Rings?
I would love to see Ian Fleming's James Bond appear in games, rather than Brosnan. You could even cast a digital Sean Connery, since I don't think EA owns him.
The doors are locked with traditional magnetic striped cards, it's only inside the rooms that RFID tags are used help configure the room. It's amazingly secure, so secure that I cannot enter the rooms I need to do my project in, and if I step out for some fresh air on the fourth floor balcony I will not be able to get back in.
Though the university itself can only carry coca cola products, at the ACM office in Siebel they've got a "robotic" soda machine called Caffeine that will give you Mountain Dew or whatever else it is currently stocked with, and just bill a few cents to your account. There is even a website I think where you can view soda statistics (yes, mountain dew wins).
and could never get through an RPG because they have the attention span of a hummingbird on crack.
Or, it's because many people here would rather not throw away dozens of hours living the life of a pixelated little man who fights weird monsters in front of psychedelic backdrops. I do enjoy some of those games, but I think it's dangerous to get too caught up in such a timepit. Hey, at least with the shooters we can improve our reflexes and close combat tactics?
Yeah, there was no command - option start new game cheat in Halo, and I don't remember any vidmaster videos. But there is a bit of the Bungie spirit left, look real close on one of the shotgun shells for an example...
None of the radio stations on iTunes are of sufficient audio quality to replace purchased (AAC or otherwise) music, in my opinion. They have some very good stations with awesome music selection, but it isn't exactly a free music library. On the other hand, the quality may be better than most mp3's on kazaa (they all tend to suck for some reason compared to my ripped CD's, even though I use the same bitrate.)
Rather, could this be the catylyst that might prompt hackers to engineer their own equipment, rather than just taking a PC with Windows and some downloadable software to do mischief. The earliest traditions of hackers were based off of trying to avoid stuff like this, with big Intel locking down its architecture to keep out script kiddies might we see a new renaissance of serious hardware hackers working on hackable hardware?
It said it was controlled remotely by computer... Are they implying that they had a guy sitting at a computer, or that they had a beefier computer than whatever is in this robots skull (chest?) doing the actual computation? Having a remote mainframe do the thinking for a robot might actually be a good idea, it'd eliminate some weight, decrease energy consumption and possibly allow the unit access to more sensory data than what it takes with it.
Does this mean that Maya will be made to a proper Mac implementation now? The mac interface on that is a bit buggy, I hope Alias spends some more time optimizing it now that such a huge client is using it. Not to mention the lack of Maya Unlimited, though I'm sure Pixar has written most of their own tools opposed to the tools available to the public.
You mean like WHOIS? The database you're talking about has existed since the birth of the internet, and possibly before. Type whois [ip or domain name] and you'll get all kinds of useful little tidbits! Like, street addresses, phone numbers and e-mails, except in my case it's the address of my sysadmin (didn't think I REALLY lived at DCL;)
From what I hear the WHOIS database is the first stop for spammers, though it's not quite so useful because it normally returns info on your ISP, the last place spammers would want to spam.
Well, if he made it a dog then he wouldn't be able to charge four times as much for a 'bot that does less. Seriously, how hard to write a software for the AIBO so it would call your phone if it detected intruders? For the price of a Nissan it better have gatling guns.
I had a Macintosh Portable. It was a sweet system, just unfold it in your hotel room, plug it in and you're playing Sim City in no time! It was also powerful enough to run Timbuktu, predecessor(?) to VNC so I could control my Mac II back home. but . It was not intended as a laptop, just a more portable computer that would let you work in more places than your desk.
The power connector on that looks a little wonky too. Seems too short to be a standard male plug. And the pdf file is password protected too (against opening in Photoshop)! Those guys certainly are paranoid.
There already is a DirectX implementation of sorts for OS X, called MacDX by Coderus. It was responsible for a number of buggy ports of some lower profile titles.
Yeah, but you can fool the software into thinking it's running on different hardware. I remember a couple of programs called Wish I Were and X-post-facto that let OS X be installed on things such as Beige G3's with an accelerator card. Of course, after the whole Linux on X-Box fiasco Microsoft will probably drop the hardrive from the system, or only allow applications to run that it has signed.
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The consumers may be dumb, but not dumb enough to spend tons of extra money for a fancy chip they won't use. I doubt most of them will even read the required specs for Longhorn, they'll just try to install it on their old Acer and hate Microsoft for it being so slow.
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Orsen Welles almost finished making a movie out of Moonraker in the fifties. The movie looked like it would have been great had it been completed. It'd be a long shot but I think some game company might be able to license that film out from under UA. Not only would it be an opportunity for more Bond but it would show fans a new story that had been massacred by United Artists.
And a Bond game doesn't necessarily have to be a shooter. It was a bit of a surprise that Rare decided to take that route in the first place, and EA seems to have just decided to make Bond themed shooters without having any real Bond essence left in them, like the referenced article says Bond is about style, style, style not stunts, stunts stunts. With a focus on style a great Bond game could be made in the form of a LucasArts style adventure game, or some sort of mesh between Splinter Cell and Deus Ex. Heck, I should just write a text adventure based on Bond, and EA wouldn't care, but gamers might.
http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/articles/gaming_ge2_ talent.php3
that seemed particularly intriguing, as much as I despise EA I think they might try a bit with something like this that attracts so much attention. It is good to see EA involving outside developers for once, much in the way Wideload Games is basing its business model.
I would love to see Ian Fleming's James Bond appear in games, rather than Brosnan. You could even cast a digital Sean Connery, since I don't think EA owns him.
The doors are locked with traditional magnetic striped cards, it's only inside the rooms that RFID tags are used help configure the room. It's amazingly secure, so secure that I cannot enter the rooms I need to do my project in, and if I step out for some fresh air on the fourth floor balcony I will not be able to get back in.
Though the university itself can only carry coca cola products, at the ACM office in Siebel they've got a "robotic" soda machine called Caffeine that will give you Mountain Dew or whatever else it is currently stocked with, and just bill a few cents to your account. There is even a website I think where you can view soda statistics (yes, mountain dew wins).
Or, it's because many people here would rather not throw away dozens of hours living the life of a pixelated little man who fights weird monsters in front of psychedelic backdrops. I do enjoy some of those games, but I think it's dangerous to get too caught up in such a timepit. Hey, at least with the shooters we can improve our reflexes and close combat tactics?
But WMP for Mac is. There should be no reason for Microsoft to charge more for linux users to get the ability to play the latest windows media files.
I'm pretty sure he was using sarcasm... [Writer] takes up megabytes of memory! That's obviously less than what word takes up.
Yeah, there was no command - option start new game cheat in Halo, and I don't remember any vidmaster videos. But there is a bit of the Bungie spirit left, look real close on one of the shotgun shells for an example...
None of the radio stations on iTunes are of sufficient audio quality to replace purchased (AAC or otherwise) music, in my opinion. They have some very good stations with awesome music selection, but it isn't exactly a free music library. On the other hand, the quality may be better than most mp3's on kazaa (they all tend to suck for some reason compared to my ripped CD's, even though I use the same bitrate.)
Rather, could this be the catylyst that might prompt hackers to engineer their own equipment, rather than just taking a PC with Windows and some downloadable software to do mischief. The earliest traditions of hackers were based off of trying to avoid stuff like this, with big Intel locking down its architecture to keep out script kiddies might we see a new renaissance of serious hardware hackers working on hackable hardware?
It said it was controlled remotely by computer... Are they implying that they had a guy sitting at a computer, or that they had a beefier computer than whatever is in this robots skull (chest?) doing the actual computation? Having a remote mainframe do the thinking for a robot might actually be a good idea, it'd eliminate some weight, decrease energy consumption and possibly allow the unit access to more sensory data than what it takes with it.
God help us all if there's a problem with the AE-35 unit.
Does this mean that Maya will be made to a proper Mac implementation now? The mac interface on that is a bit buggy, I hope Alias spends some more time optimizing it now that such a huge client is using it. Not to mention the lack of Maya Unlimited, though I'm sure Pixar has written most of their own tools opposed to the tools available to the public.
From what I hear the WHOIS database is the first stop for spammers, though it's not quite so useful because it normally returns info on your ISP, the last place spammers would want to spam.
Well, if he made it a dog then he wouldn't be able to charge four times as much for a 'bot that does less. Seriously, how hard to write a software for the AIBO so it would call your phone if it detected intruders? For the price of a Nissan it better have gatling guns.
Dragoncow says M'roar.
This is left as an excercise to the reader.
I had a Macintosh Portable. It was a sweet system, just unfold it in your hotel room, plug it in and you're playing Sim City in no time! It was also powerful enough to run Timbuktu, predecessor(?) to VNC so I could control my Mac II back home. but . It was not intended as a laptop, just a more portable computer that would let you work in more places than your desk.
The power connector on that looks a little wonky too. Seems too short to be a standard male plug. And the pdf file is password protected too (against opening in Photoshop)! Those guys certainly are paranoid.
The article mentioned that some of the pictures released were actual photographs. Which one might that be? The one with the most ray-tracing passes?
Well, he did remove $1000 dollars from circulation (not exactly pennies in a fountain) so maybe the government would be bothered by that.
There already is a DirectX implementation of sorts for OS X, called MacDX by Coderus. It was responsible for a number of buggy ports of some lower profile titles.
Yeah, but you can fool the software into thinking it's running on different hardware. I remember a couple of programs called Wish I Were and X-post-facto that let OS X be installed on things such as Beige G3's with an accelerator card. Of course, after the whole Linux on X-Box fiasco Microsoft will probably drop the hardrive from the system, or only allow applications to run that it has signed.