Because one soundcard can't play 6 different MP3s at the same time and keep them seperate. If he wanted the same sound to go to all 6 rooms/speakers, what you suggest would work.
Yes. While most soundcards can handle 6 MP3s at the same time, they can't handle 6 different seperated output speakers at the same time. They'd all be playing on the same speakers. Besides, most soundcards don't have 6 seperate outputs anyway. I'm sure it could be done with some interesting interface hardware and some hacking though.
given that the majority of Slashdot readers use Windows as indicated in a recent poll I think it's kind of funny to refer to the whole of Slashdot as "Open Source culture."
You ever heard of open source software for Windows, bud? Yes. It does exist! *Gasp*
The reverse effect is also true. Sometimes I wish they'd make new games using old SNES style engines. Sometimes I see new games as all graphics and no gameplay. The classics are classics for a reason!
Many of those game in fact have been remade if you consider emulators. Although, when I think of remade, I think of remade with modern graphics etc. Many of the classic SNES Square/Enix RPGs would acquire a new audiance if they redid them in 3d. I'd love to play FF4 or 6 with the graphics of FF10. Not to mention Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, Breath of Fire 1, Breath of Fire 2... *wanders off*
In the latter of the two articles posted by the parent, therein lies this quote.
âoeWe have the right to control the property we own the way we want to,â said David Munns, the chief executive of EMI Music North America. âoeTo be successful I have to listen to what the consumer is telling me, but if that means me going broke that's not the answer. You've got to do what you've got to do.â
This guy can't see the forest through the trees. He says he's gonna go broke but he doesn't realize it's because his business model is obsolete! So instead he blames his lack of success on everyone except himself.
In actual fact, only 20 million americans use P2P software.
But some of those people use it alot, far more than the average person, so really what they mean is "the equivalent of 43 million americans use P2P sofware".
Uh, no. In actual fact, I'd wager 100 million Americans use some form of "illegal" P2P or piracy. Consider FTP servers, IRC channels, or your neighbor who burns full albums for 2$ a CD. This "crime" is so common that it should just be legalized and then RIAA can draw up a replacement for their obsolete business model.
Normally it's adapt or die, but since the RIAA is so ridiculously rich, instead of dying they force their outdated business model down the public's throat. So we (the public) have responded with P2P. The saddest part about the whole ordeal is the absurd number of people who take the side of the RIAA blindly. "If it's illegal, it MUST be wrong!" Actual quote from someone I discussed this with once. Sad isn't it?
You're right, Java can't compete with stuff like C++ for overall power. But Java could easily be used to, for example, design a Super Nintendo-like graphics game. Easily. Not everyone wants 3d rendered games you know. Many people like simple 2d sprites in a simple 2d environment. Brings back a cartoony, video-game feel.
hardware doesn't exist to run them at any reasonably acceptable speed.
You forget that not all games are first person shooters. A good game of chess online can be done just as fast in Java as it can be in C++ if you're running a reasonably modern computer. Take it a step further and consider empire building games such as Civilization. Those are also easy on the system. Java can handle it quite nicely. Java was built with crossplatform compatability in mind. It's slowness is minimal and a wonderful tradeoff for the fact that I can run a java app in Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, or any other major OS.
Actually as a matter of fact I am currently involved in a large scale software project (currently two years in the making) and I know exactly what it's like. Bugs are inevitable, but its not the user's responsibility to take the heat for the programmer's screw ups. That'd be like you going to jail for taking Advil yesterday because the drug was made illegal today.
As far as I'm concerned, the SB players who exploited the bug were well within their right to do so. Deadline or not, software should be released functional not early. I'll gladly wait for a game to be released an extra year if it is guaranteed to be quality. Developers never seem to take the time to test for this crap. The very fact that a bug existed in their public release so large that any old user could wiggle his way into "god mode" is shameful.
If I were in charge over there, I'd have a good laugh with it, fix it, revert the server, and move on. Treating this retarded exploitation of an in-game bug like some kind of evil crime is silly, and so is anyone who actually takes crap like that so seriously.
This is one of the many reasons so many people hate MMORPGs. The makers are usually so anal retentive about the exploitation of bugs. Seems so hypocritical seeing as how its their fault the bug exists in the first place. If they don't want people "exploiting" they should just fix the damn bugs. Furthermore, this mass banning benefits no one. Players are pissed, company looses money, so what's the friggen point?
As a "weenie who can't handle pointers" I take Java's slowness very seriously. I wish that a better method could be used to process Java programs because I believe that future high level programming languages are going to be modeled around Java. PHP certainly is being modeled around Java. Am I the only one here who'd like to some day be rendering serious 3d graphics through Java? I think the language has potential and I don't just shrug off its slowness as an inherent property, I want it to improve in that respect too.
I disagree. I found the article to be pretty shallow. He tells us that we'll never resolve this issue because computers have no room for bending the rules and I find his pessimism quite tiresome. Summing it up well would have been an analysis of the current politics surrounding the DMCA and other copyright laws, then possibly offering a solution to this major disagreement that both sides of the issue could live with.
Several friends of mine credit their above average vocabularies and problem solving abilities to RPGs among other games. There's a reason why most nerdy smart people play video games!
Also, there seems to be a lot of politics between 802.11g and a supporters, and that every article posted on the Internet about this subject might not be true, or could be politically motivated.
I mean, good fucking lord.
You do have a point. That sentence has grammar and clarity problems.
I just, 5 minutes before this article popped up, showed a friend of mine the previous slashdot article saying that 802.11g's 54mbps is not-so. Damn contradictory news services! *shakes fist*
Ever tried to have 3 mates sit around a PC for a bit of multi-player fun? No?, guess not then.
Emulator + gravis gamepads = Yes. I have.
1. They [consoles] are cheap
No argument there, but you get what you pay for seeing as how their usefulness compared to a computer is crap.
2. They JUST work. No need to install and maintain an OS, not to talk about updating it.
Sounds a lot like the first reason I mentioned. People don't know how to use computers.
3. A game loads almost instantly.
That argument is valid if the computer you're using to do games is dated. I've had no problem loading high end games like quake3 just as fast as you can load any playstation game.
I, myself, think that if you have a reasonably high-end PC, there's not much reason to invest in a console.
My point exactly. I play, and enjoy console games quite readily except via ZSNES, ePSXe, Project64 etc emulators. You can do more with an emulator than you can with a console. For example, you're not limited by the tiny space of a playstation memory card. If I want to save my FF7 286 times well hot damn I can do that! And no you don't have to be a super-nerd to use an emulator. Besides, think of how much easier it would be if the "emulator" were infact manufactured by Sony/Nintendo/etc themselves intead of a bunch of college kids.;)
Point being, computers are, and always will be superior to consoles. And no amount of -1 Troll moderations is gonna change that.
Online games are meant for PCs not consoles. Sometimes I wonder why game companies like Sony and Nintendo even bother making consoles anymore as PCs clearly have more uses. There are only 2 reasons consoles sell.
People are dumb and don't know how to use computers.
All the best games from Sony and Nintendo are ONLY released on consoles which forces the people who want to play them to buy the respective console.
Personally I think everyone would win if game companies stopped making consoles and focused strictly on PC games.
I wouldn't pay a dime for something that doesn't run on Linux.
A screenshot of UO running on Linux. Yes, under WINE. But there was also development long ago of a Linux client. There also exist free servers which use that client. I can tell you that UO runs quite stable under WINE on EA servers because I know people who play, regularly, on EA servers using WINE.
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Actually, the America parallel works like this: FF2A = FF4J and FF3A = FF6J
Meaning FF4 (2) = Cecil et al and FF6 (3) = Terra et al.
Easy way to remember? Take the real number of the game and divide it by two to get the Americanized version!
The reverse effect is also true. Sometimes I wish they'd make new games using old SNES style engines. Sometimes I see new games as all graphics and no gameplay. The classics are classics for a reason!
Many of those game in fact have been remade if you consider emulators. Although, when I think of remade, I think of remade with modern graphics etc. Many of the classic SNES Square/Enix RPGs would acquire a new audiance if they redid them in 3d. I'd love to play FF4 or 6 with the graphics of FF10. Not to mention Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, Breath of Fire 1, Breath of Fire 2... *wanders off*
Normally it's adapt or die, but since the RIAA is so ridiculously rich, instead of dying they force their outdated business model down the public's throat. So we (the public) have responded with P2P. The saddest part about the whole ordeal is the absurd number of people who take the side of the RIAA blindly. "If it's illegal, it MUST be wrong!" Actual quote from someone I discussed this with once. Sad isn't it?
You're right, Java can't compete with stuff like C++ for overall power. But Java could easily be used to, for example, design a Super Nintendo-like graphics game. Easily. Not everyone wants 3d rendered games you know. Many people like simple 2d sprites in a simple 2d environment. Brings back a cartoony, video-game feel.
Actually as a matter of fact I am currently involved in a large scale software project (currently two years in the making) and I know exactly what it's like. Bugs are inevitable, but its not the user's responsibility to take the heat for the programmer's screw ups. That'd be like you going to jail for taking Advil yesterday because the drug was made illegal today.
As far as I'm concerned, the SB players who exploited the bug were well within their right to do so. Deadline or not, software should be released functional not early. I'll gladly wait for a game to be released an extra year if it is guaranteed to be quality. Developers never seem to take the time to test for this crap. The very fact that a bug existed in their public release so large that any old user could wiggle his way into "god mode" is shameful.
If I were in charge over there, I'd have a good laugh with it, fix it, revert the server, and move on. Treating this retarded exploitation of an in-game bug like some kind of evil crime is silly, and so is anyone who actually takes crap like that so seriously.
This is one of the many reasons so many people hate MMORPGs. The makers are usually so anal retentive about the exploitation of bugs. Seems so hypocritical seeing as how its their fault the bug exists in the first place. If they don't want people "exploiting" they should just fix the damn bugs. Furthermore, this mass banning benefits no one. Players are pissed, company looses money, so what's the friggen point?
Enough said.
As a "weenie who can't handle pointers" I take Java's slowness very seriously. I wish that a better method could be used to process Java programs because I believe that future high level programming languages are going to be modeled around Java. PHP certainly is being modeled around Java. Am I the only one here who'd like to some day be rendering serious 3d graphics through Java? I think the language has potential and I don't just shrug off its slowness as an inherent property, I want it to improve in that respect too.
But Safari > MSIE
Several friends of mine credit their above average vocabularies and problem solving abilities to RPGs among other games. There's a reason why most nerdy smart people play video games!
Seeing as how EA has been getting a record number of people complaining and quitting from their recent Ultima Online rate hike, I can see why EA is looking for a corporate partner to lean on.
That headline has been on my website for 4 days.
I just, 5 minutes before this article popped up, showed a friend of mine the previous slashdot article saying that 802.11g's 54mbps is not-so. Damn contradictory news services! *shakes fist*
Point being, computers are, and always will be superior to consoles. And no amount of -1 Troll moderations is gonna change that.
People are dumb and don't know how to use computers.
All the best games from Sony and Nintendo are ONLY released on consoles which forces the people who want to play them to buy the respective console.
Personally I think everyone would win if game companies stopped making consoles and focused strictly on PC games.
For reasons I can't possibly understand, there weren't any World War II-themed first-person shooters on display at E3 1903. Isn't that weird?
[snip]
The only difference was that there weren't any video games to look at yet.
Other than that minor little detail, E3 has remained essentially the same for hundreds of years now.
So what's this doing in the "Games" section? =p
Seriously though it is kind of funny that the years have transformed E3 from a modern technology show to a gamer's Mecca.
You want reliable? Strip back features left right and centre, design an elegant architecture, then unit test properly.
*nodnod* Yes sir, my system does absolutely nothing but at least it doesn't crash!
... there was plenty of space in the outback...