I generally disregard any review that says "A+" or any variation thereof, or that simply strike an alarm instinct in me. There's unfortunately quite a few fake reviews out there =/
I meant, people won't spend money on that "inferior" N64 game at all. Period. They'll just buy a 360 or PS3 and buy normal games, no difference. If it's too expensive, it is no longer a terrific selling point for the console.
I didn't factor in pirating an N64 game: most people wouldn't do that, waste the time finding it, and some that would only do it because they're too cheap to buy the stuff. Personally, if I could buy a console that let me put down say $10 to quickly buy and download a fun game, and have it stored on the console or available to stream whenever I want to play it, I would definately pay for that convenience. I don't want to waste time trying to fiddle around with emulators on my PC and downloading things and trying to get a suitable gamepad hooked up and whatnot.
And I forgot about PocketNES, think I read on GBADev that it was used or something. My stupid inconsistant memory:/
Try pouet.net or other "demoscene" websites. The Demo Scene guys still do a fair amount of stuff in low level languages, especially for the 64k (or smaller) competitions. Some of the stuff they do is quite amazing, for its technical merits as well as the artistic aspect.
I'll bet you they tag that on having to make an emulator for the portable, and then to create the cartridges. Bandwidth is cheaper, especially considering that the NES games are 1mb. They need room to scale up too, as I wouldn't doubt that the N64 games will cost more than the SNES, which will cost more than the NES. No one will buy into this on a large scale if it isn't inexpensive enough. The whole backwards compatibility thing could be a huge selling point.
What? Of course there's a good probability that they got paid to include the game...
I was responding to the guy that proposed that the "judges" may have played the final build of the unreleased game. If votes actually mattered, as the show purports, then that would be impossible. The show is a sham any way you slice it.
... is that the definition of "Geek" has expanded, mostly because of those people mentioned in the summary that like to pretend that they are geeks, and have expanded the definition to fit themselves.
For example, it seems anyone who likes gadgets can call themselves a "Geek", even if those gadgets are simply iPods. People who surf the web a lot and are mostly tech-savvy may call themselves "Geeks". Those who create websites, or edit wikis might call themselves that. People with weak fasion sense might be called "Geeks". People who play video games? Geeks. Etc.
I'm not aware of an Xbox game that uses the DVDs to their full potential. The games that are the closest use prerendered video sequences, which naturally take up a lot of space. The next gen consoles avoid that in two ways. Firstly, they're powerful enough to render pretty impressive cinematics in real-time. And secondly, they can use more powerful compression algorithms to save space due to their increased processing power and multi-threading.:)
and now we are finding out the PS3's NVidia subsystem is in the 6800 Class of PC Cards, not even the current 7800s.
I loathe Sony, don't take this a fanboy comment, but where exactly is your source for this information? It sounds like one of those lovely unsubstantiated rumours, such as the former one about it being the 7800-range.
New video card, motherboard, CPU, RAM, wireless controllers, USB ports, GUI, etc. And you likely won't get the same quality video card at a lesser price yet, though you probably will in a year or two.
What did you expect from a new console? Since they went 3D, there really hasn't been much of anything new to them, mostly just graphical/processing/memory upgrades. The only ones trying anything new (gameplay wise) this round are Nintendo with their crazy controller, but unfortunately some people still have an "omg Nintendo makes kiddy games" fear around them.
They've committed copyright infringement on a fairly large scale if this is true (and they havn't, say, paid the LAME people for a non-LGPL licensed version). It doesn't affect their ability to bundle Linux with the PS3, unless they violate the license there as well, but they can be sued and whatnot by the LAME folks.
An EULA in the booklet? Do you have to read and click agree on the booklet before you can use the CD? A contract like that isn't going to hold up if one party doesn't agree to it in the first place, or may not even have knowledge of its existance.
When I buy a CD, I shouldn't have to expect it to install a rootkit, and have to check the included materials to see if it does; it's Sony's responsibility to tell me they're messing with my software, and ask for consent...
Near as I can tell, that link is completely irrelevant to the discussion. Is there any reason you included it? You should consider using it in a signature, unless you want to mislead people or bump up your google rank or something.
Reminds me of the Amazon.com ad for an anal douche that I had sitting on the right side of an interview with Adam Savage (of the Mythbusters). I have no idea whatsoever where their ad software got the idea to show me that one.
This isn't that huge a problem. To execute, one needs to run it with a Passme / Wifime / Flashme, all of which most people would most likely not use, only those interesting in ze homebrew would.
Narrowing it more is indeed a "security feature" included in Flashme, the modified DS firmware that many or even most people with interest in homebrewed stuff use. The flashme adds a small failsafe to the beginning of the firmware that can not be overwritten without the person actually sticking some metal into a hole on the back of the DS (under the battery cover) to short some contact thingie. If a person's DS is "bricked", they simply have to put Flashme on their cart, put it in the DS, and let the failsafe boot it.
What happened to having your own opinion on matters, rather than going with whatever "your side" is supposed to think?
Here's what I'm seeing wrong with a lot or all of these stupid opinion shows and whatnot on American TV: the conservative nuts seem to label anyone who has anything that they percieve as a liberal thought as a "left-wing idiot", and the liberal nuts tend to tell things with a stereotypical left-wing slant (often subtly biasing it, often in a weaker Michael Moore style in presenting nonsense as truth).
A lot of the "real news" is sensationalized to hell and isn't worth watch either.
OSI and GPL are two competing Open Source licenses. I'm never heard of any others.
The OSI is the "Open Source Initiative", they approve OSS licenses. There are many OSS licenses, not just the GPL. And looky here, OpenSolaris' license is indeed listed by the OSI as an "official" open source license.
Heck, I got an Amazon add for an Anal Douche, complete with picture. This was when reading an interview with Adam Savage (of the Mythbusters). I don't recall either word appearing in the interview, especially not together...
Seriously, this looks like a pile of BS. Unless it was running on full CPU (which is stupid and not sensible for real-world situations), the differences between those screenshots should be handled almost entirely on the GPU. The difference between 32 and 64 bit shouldn't really affect a lighting effect like that. As for the texture resolution, that's pretty much memory bound...
(Not to mention that the graphics in these screenshots are not "advanced" by today's standards. It's pretty ugly.)
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I generally disregard any review that says "A+" or any variation thereof, or that simply strike an alarm instinct in me. There's unfortunately quite a few fake reviews out there =/
If Windows 95 and 98 were such successes, why were they so buggy? ;)
I meant, people won't spend money on that "inferior" N64 game at all. Period. They'll just buy a 360 or PS3 and buy normal games, no difference. If it's too expensive, it is no longer a terrific selling point for the console.
:/
I didn't factor in pirating an N64 game: most people wouldn't do that, waste the time finding it, and some that would only do it because they're too cheap to buy the stuff. Personally, if I could buy a console that let me put down say $10 to quickly buy and download a fun game, and have it stored on the console or available to stream whenever I want to play it, I would definately pay for that convenience. I don't want to waste time trying to fiddle around with emulators on my PC and downloading things and trying to get a suitable gamepad hooked up and whatnot.
And I forgot about PocketNES, think I read on GBADev that it was used or something. My stupid inconsistant memory
Try pouet.net or other "demoscene" websites. The Demo Scene guys still do a fair amount of stuff in low level languages, especially for the 64k (or smaller) competitions. Some of the stuff they do is quite amazing, for its technical merits as well as the artistic aspect.
I'll bet you they tag that on having to make an emulator for the portable, and then to create the cartridges. Bandwidth is cheaper, especially considering that the NES games are 1mb. They need room to scale up too, as I wouldn't doubt that the N64 games will cost more than the SNES, which will cost more than the NES. No one will buy into this on a large scale if it isn't inexpensive enough. The whole backwards compatibility thing could be a huge selling point.
What? Of course there's a good probability that they got paid to include the game...
I was responding to the guy that proposed that the "judges" may have played the final build of the unreleased game. If votes actually mattered, as the show purports, then that would be impossible. The show is a sham any way you slice it.
Think of who Spike TV was expecting to watch this show, and this makes sense.
Except, didn't they do it through vote? I distinctly remember a voting componenet of some sort to last year's. I could be wrong though.
... is that the definition of "Geek" has expanded, mostly because of those people mentioned in the summary that like to pretend that they are geeks, and have expanded the definition to fit themselves.
For example, it seems anyone who likes gadgets can call themselves a "Geek", even if those gadgets are simply iPods. People who surf the web a lot and are mostly tech-savvy may call themselves "Geeks". Those who create websites, or edit wikis might call themselves that. People with weak fasion sense might be called "Geeks". People who play video games? Geeks. Etc.
I'm not aware of an Xbox game that uses the DVDs to their full potential. The games that are the closest use prerendered video sequences, which naturally take up a lot of space. The next gen consoles avoid that in two ways. Firstly, they're powerful enough to render pretty impressive cinematics in real-time. And secondly, they can use more powerful compression algorithms to save space due to their increased processing power and multi-threading. :)
The whole backwards compatibility featuremajig is definately aimed at older gamers. What kid really cares about Super Mario Bros. ?
and now we are finding out the PS3's NVidia subsystem is in the 6800 Class of PC Cards, not even the current 7800s.
I loathe Sony, don't take this a fanboy comment, but where exactly is your source for this information? It sounds like one of those lovely unsubstantiated rumours, such as the former one about it being the 7800-range.
Perhaps it's...
And it comes with a free lifetime subscription to the Xbox Live online service.
Which is only partially true (subscription is to the watered down Xbox Live that doesn't allow online play, except during "special events").
Do I win?
New video card, motherboard, CPU, RAM, wireless controllers, USB ports, GUI, etc. And you likely won't get the same quality video card at a lesser price yet, though you probably will in a year or two.
What did you expect from a new console? Since they went 3D, there really hasn't been much of anything new to them, mostly just graphical/processing/memory upgrades. The only ones trying anything new (gameplay wise) this round are Nintendo with their crazy controller, but unfortunately some people still have an "omg Nintendo makes kiddy games" fear around them.
They've committed copyright infringement on a fairly large scale if this is true (and they havn't, say, paid the LAME people for a non-LGPL licensed version). It doesn't affect their ability to bundle Linux with the PS3, unless they violate the license there as well, but they can be sued and whatnot by the LAME folks.
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I see your point. Awesome.
An EULA in the booklet? Do you have to read and click agree on the booklet before you can use the CD? A contract like that isn't going to hold up if one party doesn't agree to it in the first place, or may not even have knowledge of its existance.
When I buy a CD, I shouldn't have to expect it to install a rootkit, and have to check the included materials to see if it does; it's Sony's responsibility to tell me they're messing with my software, and ask for consent...
Near as I can tell, that link is completely irrelevant to the discussion. Is there any reason you included it? You should consider using it in a signature, unless you want to mislead people or bump up your google rank or something.
targeted ads. often seem completely off-base
Reminds me of the Amazon.com ad for an anal douche that I had sitting on the right side of an interview with Adam Savage (of the Mythbusters). I have no idea whatsoever where their ad software got the idea to show me that one.
This isn't that huge a problem. To execute, one needs to run it with a Passme / Wifime / Flashme, all of which most people would most likely not use, only those interesting in ze homebrew would.
Narrowing it more is indeed a "security feature" included in Flashme, the modified DS firmware that many or even most people with interest in homebrewed stuff use. The flashme adds a small failsafe to the beginning of the firmware that can not be overwritten without the person actually sticking some metal into a hole on the back of the DS (under the battery cover) to short some contact thingie. If a person's DS is "bricked", they simply have to put Flashme on their cart, put it in the DS, and let the failsafe boot it.
What happened to having your own opinion on matters, rather than going with whatever "your side" is supposed to think?
Here's what I'm seeing wrong with a lot or all of these stupid opinion shows and whatnot on American TV: the conservative nuts seem to label anyone who has anything that they percieve as a liberal thought as a "left-wing idiot", and the liberal nuts tend to tell things with a stereotypical left-wing slant (often subtly biasing it, often in a weaker Michael Moore style in presenting nonsense as truth).
A lot of the "real news" is sensationalized to hell and isn't worth watch either.
OSI and GPL are two competing Open Source licenses. I'm never heard of any others.
The OSI is the "Open Source Initiative", they approve OSS licenses. There are many OSS licenses, not just the GPL. And looky here, OpenSolaris' license is indeed listed by the OSI as an "official" open source license.
Heck, I got an Amazon add for an Anal Douche, complete with picture. This was when reading an interview with Adam Savage (of the Mythbusters). I don't recall either word appearing in the interview, especially not together...
Compare this: 32-bit image vs. 64-bit image.
Seriously, this looks like a pile of BS. Unless it was running on full CPU (which is stupid and not sensible for real-world situations), the differences between those screenshots should be handled almost entirely on the GPU. The difference between 32 and 64 bit shouldn't really affect a lighting effect like that. As for the texture resolution, that's pretty much memory bound...
(Not to mention that the graphics in these screenshots are not "advanced" by today's standards. It's pretty ugly.)
Freelancer is overly simplistic, while X2 is overly complex (the UI is a pain for instance). Combat is dull in both.
I'm looking forward to trying X3, but there's no Linux 3 for that yet.