A month? Do you remember the magazine exclusive from 10 years ago? I do. By today's standards - even with good graphics - that game looked like you'd have to be braindead to appreciate what's going on. "Look! It's a ROCKET!!". I'm sure it's not tech holding them back. I'm sure they've got gameplay issues. DNF is going to come out, and everyone out there is going to give it a 1/10 - oh, and no one will buy it.
It was 10 years ago! My brain probably increased it an order of magnitude for dramatic effect - But I do remember that there weren't any more spells - and that my stats (all of them) were maxed - getting more strength/magic could be done w/items only.
My logging is setup so I can quickly filter down to the type of data I want. It's more than just "information", "warning", and "error" - but by (cpp)file, module, etc. That way, if an issue arises, I can eliminate the cruft and see just what I need. Just takes planning.
Ah the mana shield. My sorcerer drank mana as if it was liquid crack. My *entire* family played this game together for recreation every weekend - I think I had hit level 146 before 2 finally came out....sheesh - I can't believe I'm semi-excited about 3
The original Midtown madness fit this description. The demo ran so well, I RAN out and bought the game. The final released version wouldn't run on my video card!!! Hot damn, was I pissed!
Spiro: Year of the dragon employed exactly this. But it was to stop piracy for a few weeks in order for sales to peak. The right idea is to not affect paying customers by delaying the availability of a pirate release - Not to stomp it out completely.
XSI? Are you kidding? That interface was clearly made to be intuitive! Once you learn the basics of how to navigate, I can do advanced things in XSI MUCH faster than in Maya or 3DS, for a fraction of the price! The scripting is spot on, though the API is quite confusing. But the UI does have it's quirks (don't they all?) - but I learned it AND made a rigged/animated 3D human model in less than a week. Good luck "learning" maya to that level as quickly.
I've recently taken to threading building blocks in C++ (over OpenMP, which has limited use since it's centered around loop optmization). It's cross-platform, and fairly complete. The docs/oreilly book were all I needed to get going. It can stand some growth - but I've managed to prototype a scalable game engine with it quite easily. All I did was change my design of my engine components (which were already classes that could be called in a main loop, one by one, in order) to emit "tasklets" into a pipeline for parallel execution. Each module derives it's own tasks and only emits what needs to be executed. Added a class to manage dependencies and control execution order, and then run the tasks through a pipeline. Additionally, I can use TBB or openMP to optimize within the tasks as much as I want, TBB takes care of assigning threads for me.
What I ended up with is a game engine that, on a single core system with no hyper-threading, executes just a touch slower than the main loop version due to overhead. But on 2+ cores, or 1 w/HT, the engine will parallelize whatever it can. If it's running two+ unparralized tasks, they run in parallel. Tasks that have parallelism get multiple threads assigned to them. So now, my frame/video rendering runs alongside my input updates and networking code - but my physics goes full-bore across what's available. It wasn't hard, it just took a different approach than what's taught at school. Not all algorithms are easily parallelized, but nearly all tasks are.
With more work, I'm sure it could be even better. And, if TBB ever gets some kind of affinity specification, I'd have a pretty good amount of power over my code. OpenMP is almost too easy - as it uses #pragma too hint the complier. The tools are there, we just need to use them and build a community.
When I was in basic (not long ago - 03) The requirements went WAAAY up, and I'm quite fit (by geek standards, at least). Most slashdotters wouldn't make it in the door. Not saying that they should be exempt,
but the standard is high.
Consumers have everything to gain from this. Nowadays it's impossible to write a gui'd "hello world" without stepping through a minefield of patents. As a small business owner, it's unreasonable and likely impossible to expect me to research every patent and pay royalties/license fees for "a piece of software that beeps when it wants the user's attention", or other things. Only large companies can afford such things, and they use it stifle competition. (What do you think MS's sabre rattling over linux has been about?)
Any CS person will tell you that when it comes to software, there's more than one way to skin a cat - probably thousands. But software/business patents let you find one, and squash the rest.
You might be on to something, coward. The FDA would then have to enact rules to keep cloned meat from being presented as "Non-Cloned", and enjoying the business of the "loyal" 1/3.
It's not all bad. We've been waiting for the housing market to downturn so we can get a decent deal on a house. If you're in looking to get your first home, now is the time. With all the "Hey! Real estate is BOOMING" people out prospecting for houses to resell instead of live in.
5. Abolish social security... response
I totally agree. I've already paid in thousands upon thousands into social security, the odds of me seeing it again.... somewhere below zero (meaning I'll just be losing more.) I'd much rather see universal healthcare, or privatized healthcare/funds, and oh yeah - retirement. Either way, I can make sure my wife/kids are taken care of, and not taken advantage of.
Self-destructing emails or using DRM to restrict the dissemination of documents is "wise" use of drm. Attaching strings to something I have *bought and paid for* just to offer worse customer service than the pirates...unwise (wink, wink.)
What do you mean by "correctly"? I went through the process and it said it was active/genuine. I just run XP 99% of the time. Kinda sad that I have to crack my OS along with my games (to avoid having to insert a disc when harddrive space is damn near free.)
No, I run vista on a second partition - I installed it when I thought Crysis was going to be DX10 only. Turns out, if you don't boot it up for a month or so, it comes up in reduced functionality mode, and wants to re-authenticate/authorize itself by calling home. That's totally, completely, and *utterly* unacceptable. I'm not paying MS a monthly fee here - the don't have the right to cripple my shit just because it hasn't been on the internet for a while. Individual applications shouldn't have this power de-facto either. If I pay for something, I should be able to use it - period. So I'm claiming "actual harm" on the GP's behalf....There.
Oil? Obviously, you wouldn't be able to get a meter of it, but if you spray a jet of oil just before landing, then maybe that would break up the surface area of the water enough (especially if the oil has penetrated the surface and even inserted some bubbles....
There wasn't a whole lot of stores with a wii on the shelf *at all* on black friday. For Nintendo, every friday is "black friday". - Though I've had a few opportunities to buy another one these past few months - if I were thinking, I would have bought a few to scalp in a parking lot on black friday - that would have worked out great!
...and admit that I've copied more than my fair share of games. I've heard all the arguments about why I should support developers and blah-blah-blah. I didn't try the demo, but I did run out and buy bioshock, completely ignorant of the securom bastard rootkit, only vaguely aware of the activation required (but there was no mention of a limit.)
After installation, Bioshock decided to automatically download/install an update, and tell me nothing about what changed.
Then, it directs me to get the newest nvidia drivers, which nearly hosed my computer!
I manage to rollback my drivers, check slashdot on my laptop while I wait for it to come back up....whaddya mean 2 activations? Or 5?
If I crash, I 'lose' an activation...forever. I *paid* $50 at Gamestop for THIS?...It's much cheaper to buy a $4 DVD9, download a bin/cue, and wait for a crack.
What if their activation servers go down - for good? What if I wanna play, or if my kids wanna go "old school" in some years?
Pirates may be pirates... but I must say - when it comes to customer service - they aren't the ones who make you walk the plank!
That would get you arrested anywhere except for Vegas or an Indian reservation.
And this is consistent with international politics how? It's either repugnant, or it's not. "You can old do it if you are this company or in this city or on this 'special' plot of land." Doesn't exactly count with most people - whether they support gambling or not. Those who are against like the status quo because it prevents the "spread of corruption", those who are for it like it because it's a safe-heaven/money pot. But just because some company got around it by *leaving* the US doesn't make the double-standard OK.
* Crackdown(TM)
* Fuzion Frenzy 2
* Gears Of War®
* Halo® 2
* Kameo(TM): Elements of Power(TM)
* Ninety Nine Nights(TM)
* Perfect Dark Zero(TM)
* Project Gotham Racing® 3
* Viva Piñata(TM)
* Xbox Live® Arcade Unplugged Vol. 1
That's it, that's all of em. But what if I like Lost Planet? I'm sure the 360's library is MUCH larger than 10 titles:-p. I want a 360, but the horror stories just keep coming!
To watch more silly love stories between accountants and corn farmers? No thanks. Why bother with a Jericho mmo when Fallout would be soooo much better?
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A month? Do you remember the magazine exclusive from 10 years ago? I do. By today's standards - even with good graphics - that game looked like you'd have to be braindead to appreciate what's going on. "Look! It's a ROCKET!!". I'm sure it's not tech holding them back. I'm sure they've got gameplay issues. DNF is going to come out, and everyone out there is going to give it a 1/10 - oh, and no one will buy it.
It was 10 years ago! My brain probably increased it an order of magnitude for dramatic effect - But I do remember that there weren't any more spells - and that my stats (all of them) were maxed - getting more strength/magic could be done w/items only.
My logging is setup so I can quickly filter down to the type of data I want. It's more than just "information", "warning", and "error" - but by (cpp)file, module, etc. That way, if an issue arises, I can eliminate the cruft and see just what I need. Just takes planning.
Ah the mana shield. My sorcerer drank mana as if it was liquid crack. My *entire* family played this game together for recreation every weekend - I think I had hit level 146 before 2 finally came out....sheesh - I can't believe I'm semi-excited about 3
The original Midtown madness fit this description. The demo ran so well, I RAN out and bought the game. The final released version wouldn't run on my video card!!! Hot damn, was I pissed!
http://www.openmoko.com/
Spiro: Year of the dragon employed exactly this. But it was to stop piracy for a few weeks in order for sales to peak. The right idea is to not affect paying customers by delaying the availability of a pirate release - Not to stomp it out completely.
XSI? Are you kidding? That interface was clearly made to be intuitive! Once you learn the basics of how to navigate, I can do advanced things in XSI MUCH faster than in Maya or 3DS, for a fraction of the price! The scripting is spot on, though the API is quite confusing. But the UI does have it's quirks (don't they all?) - but I learned it AND made a rigged/animated 3D human model in less than a week. Good luck "learning" maya to that level as quickly.
I've recently taken to threading building blocks in C++ (over OpenMP, which has limited use since it's centered around loop optmization). It's cross-platform, and fairly complete. The docs/oreilly book were all I needed to get going. It can stand some growth - but I've managed to prototype a scalable game engine with it quite easily. All I did was change my design of my engine components (which were already classes that could be called in a main loop, one by one, in order) to emit "tasklets" into a pipeline for parallel execution. Each module derives it's own tasks and only emits what needs to be executed. Added a class to manage dependencies and control execution order, and then run the tasks through a pipeline. Additionally, I can use TBB or openMP to optimize within the tasks as much as I want, TBB takes care of assigning threads for me. What I ended up with is a game engine that, on a single core system with no hyper-threading, executes just a touch slower than the main loop version due to overhead. But on 2+ cores, or 1 w/HT, the engine will parallelize whatever it can. If it's running two+ unparralized tasks, they run in parallel. Tasks that have parallelism get multiple threads assigned to them. So now, my frame/video rendering runs alongside my input updates and networking code - but my physics goes full-bore across what's available. It wasn't hard, it just took a different approach than what's taught at school. Not all algorithms are easily parallelized, but nearly all tasks are. With more work, I'm sure it could be even better. And, if TBB ever gets some kind of affinity specification, I'd have a pretty good amount of power over my code. OpenMP is almost too easy - as it uses #pragma too hint the complier. The tools are there, we just need to use them and build a community.
When I was in basic (not long ago - 03) The requirements went WAAAY up, and I'm quite fit (by geek standards, at least). Most slashdotters wouldn't make it in the door. Not saying that they should be exempt, but the standard is high.
Maybe it's because the cake was a lie.
Consumers have everything to gain from this. Nowadays it's impossible to write a gui'd "hello world" without stepping through a minefield of patents. As a small business owner, it's unreasonable and likely impossible to expect me to research every patent and pay royalties/license fees for "a piece of software that beeps when it wants the user's attention", or other things. Only large companies can afford such things, and they use it stifle competition. (What do you think MS's sabre rattling over linux has been about?)
Any CS person will tell you that when it comes to software, there's more than one way to skin a cat - probably thousands. But software/business patents let you find one, and squash the rest.
You might be on to something, coward. The FDA would then have to enact rules to keep cloned meat from being presented as "Non-Cloned", and enjoying the business of the "loyal" 1/3.
2. Abolish the Federal Reserve... response
It's not all bad. We've been waiting for the housing market to downturn so we can get a decent deal on a house. If you're in looking to get your first home, now is the time. With all the "Hey! Real estate is BOOMING" people out prospecting for houses to resell instead of live in.
5. Abolish social security... response
I totally agree. I've already paid in thousands upon thousands into social security, the odds of me seeing it again.... somewhere below zero (meaning I'll just be losing more.) I'd much rather see universal healthcare, or privatized healthcare/funds, and oh yeah - retirement. Either way, I can make sure my wife/kids are taken care of, and not taken advantage of.
Self-destructing emails or using DRM to restrict the dissemination of documents is "wise" use of drm. Attaching strings to something I have *bought and paid for* just to offer worse customer service than the pirates...unwise (wink, wink.)
What do you mean by "correctly"? I went through the process and it said it was active/genuine. I just run XP 99% of the time. Kinda sad that I have to crack my OS along with my games (to avoid having to insert a disc when harddrive space is damn near free.)
No, I run vista on a second partition - I installed it when I thought Crysis was going to be DX10 only. Turns out, if you don't boot it up for a month or so, it comes up in reduced functionality mode, and wants to re-authenticate/authorize itself by calling home. That's totally, completely, and *utterly* unacceptable. I'm not paying MS a monthly fee here - the don't have the right to cripple my shit just because it hasn't been on the internet for a while. Individual applications shouldn't have this power de-facto either. If I pay for something, I should be able to use it - period. So I'm claiming "actual harm" on the GP's behalf. ...There.
Oil? Obviously, you wouldn't be able to get a meter of it, but if you spray a jet of oil just before landing, then maybe that would break up the surface area of the water enough (especially if the oil has penetrated the surface and even inserted some bubbles....
There wasn't a whole lot of stores with a wii on the shelf *at all* on black friday. For Nintendo, every friday is "black friday". - Though I've had a few opportunities to buy another one these past few months - if I were thinking, I would have bought a few to scalp in a parking lot on black friday - that would have worked out great!
LOL!!! Mod parent funny! (If you pay attention to the start of the game, this makes perfect sense)
...and admit that I've copied more than my fair share of games. I've heard all the arguments about why I should support developers and blah-blah-blah. I didn't try the demo, but I did run out and buy bioshock, completely ignorant of the securom bastard rootkit, only vaguely aware of the activation required (but there was no mention of a limit.)
...It's much cheaper to buy a $4 DVD9, download a bin/cue, and wait for a crack.
After installation, Bioshock decided to automatically download/install an update, and tell me nothing about what changed.
Then, it directs me to get the newest nvidia drivers, which nearly hosed my computer!
I manage to rollback my drivers, check slashdot on my laptop while I wait for it to come back up....whaddya mean 2 activations? Or 5?
If I crash, I 'lose' an activation...forever. I *paid* $50 at Gamestop for THIS?
What if their activation servers go down - for good? What if I wanna play, or if my kids wanna go "old school" in some years?
Pirates may be pirates... but I must say - when it comes to customer service - they aren't the ones who make you walk the plank!
And this is consistent with international politics how? It's either repugnant, or it's not. "You can old do it if you are this company or in this city or on this 'special' plot of land." Doesn't exactly count with most people - whether they support gambling or not. Those who are against like the status quo because it prevents the "spread of corruption", those who are for it like it because it's a safe-heaven/money pot. But just because some company got around it by *leaving* the US doesn't make the double-standard OK.
Firefly reference?
Have you checked the list of games?
:-p. I want a 360, but the horror stories just keep coming!
* Crackdown(TM)
* Fuzion Frenzy 2
* Gears Of War®
* Halo® 2
* Kameo(TM): Elements of Power(TM)
* Ninety Nine Nights(TM)
* Perfect Dark Zero(TM)
* Project Gotham Racing® 3
* Viva Piñata(TM)
* Xbox Live® Arcade Unplugged Vol. 1
That's it, that's all of em. But what if I like Lost Planet? I'm sure the 360's library is MUCH larger than 10 titles
To watch more silly love stories between accountants and corn farmers? No thanks. Why bother with a Jericho mmo when Fallout would be soooo much better?