Is the ragdoll thing really the only reason? Notice that they don't put children in a lot of games where the player has a lot of free agency at the human scale. No children in Elder Scrolls, no children in GTA.
Honestly, the most fun I ever had in Black & White was teaching my giant ape to eat the children at the school when he was hungry. The first time he did it on his own I was so proud.
I missed Ultima VII so I assume the reference meant there were childrean eaten in that game as well.
Ah, what do you expect from Republicans?
Generally speaking, different justifications for the same bullshit as the Democrats. Either way it boils down to taking away our rights for false security justifications.
i'm curious as to why they chose to do it in CG...
I don't believe it is in CG. Unless I missed something on the site, the director's entire body of work is Saturday-morning style children's cheap TV animation. On the bright side, Larry Elmore, who did the book covers, is listed as Lead Artist on the project.
I suggest switching from WINAMP to foobar2000, at least for background music playing. It's much smaller than WinAmp. On my system, foobar2000 takes less than 3MB while playing streaming audio.
Really? Then perhaps you can explain the actual real-world benchmarks in how gaming with the PhysX PPU actually lowers scores and framerates in many games, and at best offers no improvement in performance?
I know you're just flaming a troll, but the very next page of the article you linked explains that the benchmarks are questionable.
I think the only trustworthy benchmark is going to be one where the same calculations are performed using the PhysX SDK and a different SDK or hand written CPU/GPU code. The SDK from the hardware vendor will probably always be faster with the hardware, even if they cheat to make it so.
Well, I'm not quite twice your age. Smack in the middle of the so-called Generation X. We had Atari 2600s in grade school, probably making us the first to "grow up" with gaming.
At least early on, my parents played with me, when typical games were like Pac-Man and Frogger. After all, the first video games were marketed to people my parents' age -- mid 50's now.
But they quit playing when games became complicated. I suppose a large part of that is the mid-80s video game crash. What seemed like a fad to them had passed. For a few years, truly new games only came out for the home computers. Realm of the hard core gamer -- Dungeons & Dragons and war/board game geeks. At least that's the perspective I had coming into middle school as a D&D/computer geek.
Then the NES hit the scene and "arcade-style" simplicity was back. But the older crowd never really came back from what I could tell.
I hope you don't think that the 50-60 crowd are "dying off." Those folks are just now considering retirement -- when they'll have lots of potential leisure time to spend on video games if they find something that appeals to them.
Modern gamepad ontrollers ARE weird to folks who haven't really played video games since the one-button joystick and paddle controller were king. Breakout's gonna be a no-brainer on the Revolution.
Also don't forget a large number of Japanese folks are getting on in years. Hell, Shigeru Miyamoto himself is 53. Not that 53 is old, which is the point I'm trying to make, eventually.
Good point. Also notice that the Gyration mouse and the Revolution controller appear to be vertically symmetrical, so you can switch hands when you get tired. From playing games, naturally.
If it were Sony and not Nintendo, I'd say we should start taking bets on when the similarity of that motion is more than coincidence. Then one would have to learn to make the motion with both arms at once to get the "full experience." Someone from the adult film industry might be the next "Wizard" !!!
Forgive me! Since you had to be browsing at Score:1 to see my post in a gaming console thread on Slashdot, I know your time must be precious.
I'm so sorry you had to count all the words in my post, too. You must be exhausted!
Thankfully you're here to protect innocent Slashdotters from my laziness and ignorance. The poor souls might have thought I was more interested in a possible discussion than a succinct answer. Good thing you were here to stop that from happening.
I believe this started when they decided Java should try to stake a claim in game programming territory. There was some initial talk of positioning Java as a cross-platform solution, and I think that worked out for them in the mobile space, rather than the console space where everyone was talking about it.
Has anyone heard of any console titles using a JVM? I'm curious.
Like another poster is trying to say, this is probably because of your video driver. Assuming a Windows setup, you need to look for settings related to "Overlay" in your driver's advanced settings. Some ATI drivers have a setting called "Theater Mode" where they only thing displayed on the extra output is the "Overlay" in full screen. This is handy for presentations and also not getting the GUI in the way of your pr0n.
4) Booting from ROM. The Amiga started the rot, back in the old days you could turn a PC on and start to use it in seconds. Hard OSes were practically immune to piracy, and the 'it has to be right, we can't patch it' OS coding ethos has a lot going for it too!
To be fair, the Amiga had OS patches. I forget the command, but the ROM patch is loaded in the startup batch. I think it was 'setpatch' or something similar.
Usually, though, the final patch was included with the shipping OS. This probably had more to do with the lack of Internet connectivity in it's heyday.
That would make sense if it weren't on the ballot this year.
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in recent years revenues generated from gaming have rivaled and then surpassed the revenues generated from movies (including things like DVD and Video sales)
Are you trolling? You know most of what the gaming industry makes comes from consoles, not PC games, right? And when you include "things like DVD and Video sales" AND merchandising, the movie folks still make more.
Just looking at the U.S. -- Video game sales were $9.9 billion in 2004. Ticket sales in 2004 were estimated at $9.4 billion. Just subtract console sales figures for "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" and "Halo 2" (currently console-only games) and the movie people should catch up. I can find sales figures for the games but only in units moved, not $$.
Anyway, the grandparent was talking about PC gaming, not the whole video game industry. And I have to agree with the grandparent -- when you have to spend about $500 per year overall to keep up, consoles look better at $300 every 3 years. Of course, you miss out on the innovation, customization, and superior user interface of PC games, but the point is that it's expensive and complicated. With the computer boom pretty much over -- almost everyone has a system they can use to browse the web -- less folks will be willing to put up with it.
I can believe that you didn't intend to offend anyone. Honestly, I took the opportunity to push a political point. I might be a dirty anarchist who agreed with your basic point.
It was worth the risk of off-topic points to have the discussion, though. I think "CNN journalist" or simply "broadcast journalist" would have conveyed the ignorance level you were highlighting.:P
Well, considering if they are charging for the data, thats a revinew source for the NWS, if they gave it away for free, they would have to get money to support them another way, which would basicly mean they would have to request more money from the government, thus people would pay higher taxes.
The companies in question are NOT paying for the data, the taxpayers are. Perhaps, if the companies are intending to collect their own data, the NWS should be disbanded and the savings returned to the taxpayer? Or perhaps the NWS could be funded by charitable donations, instead of under threat of imprisonment?
Check the barebones systems at MWAVE.COM, you can configure a barebones with an Athlon 64 2800+ on a KM800 motherboard with 256 MB RAM in a cheap case with enough $ left for a cheap hard drive and maybe even a copy of Windows XP Home. (OEM, but you ARE building the machine.) Granted, you are taking the minimums on everything, but it can make it under $500. Use a downloaded Linux distro instead of XP and it's under $400.
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Is the ragdoll thing really the only reason? Notice that they don't put children in a lot of games where the player has a lot of free agency at the human scale. No children in Elder Scrolls, no children in GTA. Honestly, the most fun I ever had in Black & White was teaching my giant ape to eat the children at the school when he was hungry. The first time he did it on his own I was so proud. I missed Ultima VII so I assume the reference meant there were childrean eaten in that game as well.
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The poster should have been more specific, but I understood him to mean the DirectX versions, not the Windows versions.
Ah, what do you expect from Republicans?
Generally speaking, different justifications for the same bullshit as the Democrats. Either way it boils down to taking away our rights for false security justifications.
i'm curious as to why they chose to do it in CG...
I don't believe it is in CG. Unless I missed something on the site, the director's entire body of work is Saturday-morning style children's cheap TV animation. On the bright side, Larry Elmore, who did the book covers, is listed as Lead Artist on the project.
I suggest switching from WINAMP to foobar2000, at least for background music playing. It's much smaller than WinAmp. On my system, foobar2000 takes less than 3MB while playing streaming audio.
Really? Then perhaps you can explain the actual real-world benchmarks in how gaming with the PhysX PPU actually lowers scores and framerates in many games, and at best offers no improvement in performance?
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I know you're just flaming a troll, but the very next page of the article you linked explains that the benchmarks are questionable.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=275
I think the only trustworthy benchmark is going to be one where the same calculations are performed using the PhysX SDK and a different SDK or hand written CPU/GPU code. The SDK from the hardware vendor will probably always be faster with the hardware, even if they cheat to make it so.
What is wrong with a PC with TV-Out?
Well, I'm not quite twice your age. Smack in the middle of the so-called Generation X. We had Atari 2600s in grade school, probably making us the first to "grow up" with gaming.
At least early on, my parents played with me, when typical games were like Pac-Man and Frogger. After all, the first video games were marketed to people my parents' age -- mid 50's now.
But they quit playing when games became complicated. I suppose a large part of that is the mid-80s video game crash. What seemed like a fad to them had passed. For a few years, truly new games only came out for the home computers. Realm of the hard core gamer -- Dungeons & Dragons and war/board game geeks. At least that's the perspective I had coming into middle school as a D&D/computer geek.
Then the NES hit the scene and "arcade-style" simplicity was back. But the older crowd never really came back from what I could tell.
I hope you don't think that the 50-60 crowd are "dying off." Those folks are just now considering retirement -- when they'll have lots of potential leisure time to spend on video games if they find something that appeals to them.
Modern gamepad ontrollers ARE weird to folks who haven't really played video games since the one-button joystick and paddle controller were king. Breakout's gonna be a no-brainer on the Revolution.
Also don't forget a large number of Japanese folks are getting on in years. Hell, Shigeru Miyamoto himself is 53. Not that 53 is old, which is the point I'm trying to make, eventually.
Good point. Also notice that the Gyration mouse and the Revolution controller appear to be vertically symmetrical, so you can switch hands when you get tired. From playing games, naturally.
If it were Sony and not Nintendo, I'd say we should start taking bets on when the similarity of that motion is more than coincidence. Then one would have to learn to make the motion with both arms at once to get the "full experience." Someone from the adult film industry might be the next "Wizard" !!!
I'm so sorry you had to count all the words in my post, too. You must be exhausted!
Thankfully you're here to protect innocent Slashdotters from my laziness and ignorance. The poor souls might have thought I was more interested in a possible discussion than a succinct answer. Good thing you were here to stop that from happening.
Did Nintendo license the tech from the same company, I wonder?
I believe this started when they decided Java should try to stake a claim in game programming territory. There was some initial talk of positioning Java as a cross-platform solution, and I think that worked out for them in the mobile space, rather than the console space where everyone was talking about it.
Has anyone heard of any console titles using a JVM? I'm curious.
Like another poster is trying to say, this is probably because of your video driver. Assuming a Windows setup, you need to look for settings related to "Overlay" in your driver's advanced settings. Some ATI drivers have a setting called "Theater Mode" where they only thing displayed on the extra output is the "Overlay" in full screen. This is handy for presentations and also not getting the GUI in the way of your pr0n.
4) Booting from ROM. The Amiga started the rot, back in the old days you could turn a PC on and start to use it in seconds. Hard OSes were practically immune to piracy, and the 'it has to be right, we can't patch it' OS coding ethos has a lot going for it too!
To be fair, the Amiga had OS patches. I forget the command, but the ROM patch is loaded in the startup batch. I think it was 'setpatch' or something similar.
Usually, though, the final patch was included with the shipping OS. This probably had more to do with the lack of Internet connectivity in it's heyday.
That would make sense if it weren't on the ballot this year.
Are you trolling? You know most of what the gaming industry makes comes from consoles, not PC games, right? And when you include "things like DVD and Video sales" AND merchandising, the movie folks still make more.
Just looking at the U.S. -- Video game sales were $9.9 billion in 2004. Ticket sales in 2004 were estimated at $9.4 billion. Just subtract console sales figures for "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" and "Halo 2" (currently console-only games) and the movie people should catch up. I can find sales figures for the games but only in units moved, not $$.
Anyway, the grandparent was talking about PC gaming, not the whole video game industry. And I have to agree with the grandparent -- when you have to spend about $500 per year overall to keep up, consoles look better at $300 every 3 years. Of course, you miss out on the innovation, customization, and superior user interface of PC games, but the point is that it's expensive and complicated. With the computer boom pretty much over -- almost everyone has a system they can use to browse the web -- less folks will be willing to put up with it.
I can believe that you didn't intend to offend anyone. Honestly, I took the opportunity to push a political point. I might be a dirty anarchist who agreed with your basic point.
It was worth the risk of off-topic points to have the discussion, though. I think "CNN journalist" or simply "broadcast journalist" would have conveyed the ignorance level you were highlighting. :P
Ah, how I love bourgeois assholes who think classist terms like "hillbilly" aren't as bad as racist terms like "nigger."
The companies in question are NOT paying for the data, the taxpayers are. Perhaps, if the companies are intending to collect their own data, the NWS should be disbanded and the savings returned to the taxpayer? Or perhaps the NWS could be funded by charitable donations, instead of under threat of imprisonment?
Sorry, missed the grandparent -- this system is NOT top spec.
Check the barebones systems at MWAVE.COM, you can configure a barebones with an Athlon 64 2800+ on a KM800 motherboard with 256 MB RAM in a cheap case with enough $ left for a cheap hard drive and maybe even a copy of Windows XP Home. (OEM, but you ARE building the machine.) Granted, you are taking the minimums on everything, but it can make it under $500. Use a downloaded Linux distro instead of XP and it's under $400.
Yay! We are super lucky. I much prefer the Red Elephant brand of fascism over the Blue Donkey brand. We are saved!