The same thing was said about the PS2. The developers of Oddworld switched from the PS2 to the XBOX early on, citing the fact that the PS2 was too hard to code for. There was widespread concern then that the PS2 was going to be too difficult to be viable.
How about everyone wait for the system to actually come out before making judgments on it?
There are a lot of annoying things out there, but this doesn't break any Google-specific rules. Or any rules at all, really. And would you really want them taken away? Do you want a searchable representation of the web or not?
I'm sure nobody cares, but the company that made Giana Sisters was not a "tiny shareware outfit." They were a moderately sized, commercial game company in the early 90s, making mostly C-64 and Amiga games.
I don't see this as THAT big of a deal. If Verizon is foolish enough to throttle their customers' bandwidth down noticeably, there are many other offerings in the ISP industry, and people will not put up with slow Internet, pretty video feeds or not.
I think one of the reasons that older games are more 'refined' could be due to the fact that the industry was much smaller then and millions of dollars were not riding on whether or not your compile completed that night.
Back in the days of the Atari 2600, games were often made by one guy in a basement writing assembly code for small, fledgling companies that did not stuff 10 million dollars into the development of Combat.
I cite the example of The Sims Online. Never played it myself, but I heard horror stories. A lot of the things that were advertised on the box were disabled so they could be finished later in a patch. This apparently would have been a decent game is EA had left well enough alone, but the pressure from the suits, who DID put millions of dollars into the game, forced it to come out early and unfinished.
No, it's the reverse now. Back in the days of DOS you had to code everything manually, which was a terrible hassle, but it also meant that the developers were much more in control of what was going on. If you tested that your game worked with an SB16, it was pretty safe to assume it's going to work on your neighbor's SB16 too.
Now you have to worry about new patches from Microsoft, new drivers from NVidia, Creative and that obscure Taiwanese company you've never heard of that made the onboard sound for that red motherboard.
Yes, DirectX/OpenGL shield you from a lot of things, but that's both good and bad. You as a game developer are often at the mercy of the API, OS and driver.
The patriot act is scary, but that has nothing to do with the rest of the article. If the feds decide to start grabbing information about what people read and buy from Amazon, they would just say to Amazon, "Give me the records." They wouldn't bother to mine the wishlists.
Besides, the wishlists are publically available by choice of the poster. Buying choices and library records are not.
From the article:
On a final note, the FBI is now hiring computer scientists to implement a project that sounds very similar to what I just did:
"Currently, the FBI is strengthening systems engineering in order to tie new systems together architecturally and ensure that standards for custom and packaged applications are enforced, and it needs engineers to accomplish this goal, the agency said.
(etc...)
Where does he read data mining into this? I read that the FBI wants to update their computers to make their databases better. Their databases.
This article strikes me as scare mongering, and until I hear that the government plans on breaking the knuckles of people who read Aldous Huxley, I don't care about what's merely possible.
This is cute, but unfortunately that's all I give it. Granted, I don't know much/anything about how Swedish politics works, but in the US I could never vote in someone who only runs on one platform, even if it was a platform I agreed on.
First of all, launch titles tend to be quick, easy, short-dev-time games. GTA is clearly none of those. So unless Take Two wants to release a half-assed launch quality GTA game, I don't see this happening.
Also, Take Two said GTA4 was in the works and it would be for the PS2. Granted, this was some time ago, but they haven't said anything to the contrary.
One thing to keep in mind is that most of the photos in Google Earth are a year or two old, so any activity bad guys might see on any given installation has most likely changed considerably from what they see.
These satellites have been up there for some time, and they're not government satellites, they're commercial satellites. This means that any terrorist with enough money could see an image of whatever they want to bomb, Google Earth or not.
I beleive it's time governments figure out a solution to the problem that doesn't involve the reversal of technology. Because it isn't going to get any better for them from here on in.
Personally, I consider the tweakability of an IDE to be a key aspect of the usability itself, so if you make me use the defaults, I probably couldn't tell you whether I liked it or not.
Now, while I do feel your pain, there is a simple solution to this - wait and see which one is victorious before buying either one. DVDs are going to be good enough for me for some time.
The.js code didn't crash my browser, an I did indeed have a history entry called AAAAA(...), so nuts to that.
On the other hand, though, having a 12MB history file DID slow the browser down considerably, especially while the history window itself was open.
I suppose, then, that if you managed to create a 500MB header, that would cause some computers extreme issues, but it desn't sound like it could be used for a buffer overrun, because Firefox does actually seem to be interpreting the huge topic correctly.
Maybe we should all start using Mosaic. After all, I don't know of any Mosaic exploits.:)
Perhaps it's done and they're afraid to release it. After all, if they ship this thing and half of the geeks in the world don't have a simultaneous orgasm, 3D Realms' offices will be set aflame within minutes.
I'd move to Mexico before releasing anything called Duke Nuk'em.:)
It's not unusual, even in my own personal observation, to see an ISP advertise higher rates than they can realistically provide on a regular basis. I mean, how many people with Charter 3Mb get far less than that?
Time will tell. It might be time to move to the UK and endure the kidney pie for a while.
Perhaps I'm being a bit hard on whoever wrote this article, but I don't think someone who doesn't truly know the history of video game music should be writing an article on video game music.
The first multi-channel sound chip was not that of the NES, it was of the C-64. In fact, the 64 was the first machine to really call attention to video game music, and it was the first to form a following of video game composer celebrities, such as Rob Hubbard and Ben Daglish.
90% of you don't care, but I find it just silly to write an article on game music without mentioning the SID chip
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The same thing was said about the PS2. The developers of Oddworld switched from the PS2 to the XBOX early on, citing the fact that the PS2 was too hard to code for. There was widespread concern then that the PS2 was going to be too difficult to be viable.
How about everyone wait for the system to actually come out before making judgments on it?
There are a lot of annoying things out there, but this doesn't break any Google-specific rules. Or any rules at all, really. And would you really want them taken away? Do you want a searchable representation of the web or not?
I'm sure nobody cares, but the company that made Giana Sisters was not a "tiny shareware outfit." They were a moderately sized, commercial game company in the early 90s, making mostly C-64 and Amiga games.
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http://www.the-underdogs.org/company.php?name=Rai
I don't see this as THAT big of a deal. If Verizon is foolish enough to throttle their customers' bandwidth down noticeably, there are many other offerings in the ISP industry, and people will not put up with slow Internet, pretty video feeds or not.
So let them try.
And I was so looking forward to having my very own cat-woman.
Kind of reminds me of when Napster installed that half-assed search filter. Midonna and Mitallica suddenly became quite popular.
People who want to get information will get it, and you can't stop them.
Sony has said they won't use that patent(http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/ 2005/11/9/1779) on the PS3, and I beleive them. There is too much competition in this market for them to do something that obviously asinine.
I think one of the reasons that older games are more 'refined' could be due to the fact that the industry was much smaller then and millions of dollars were not riding on whether or not your compile completed that night.
Back in the days of the Atari 2600, games were often made by one guy in a basement writing assembly code for small, fledgling companies that did not stuff 10 million dollars into the development of Combat.
I cite the example of The Sims Online. Never played it myself, but I heard horror stories. A lot of the things that were advertised on the box were disabled so they could be finished later in a patch. This apparently would have been a decent game is EA had left well enough alone, but the pressure from the suits, who DID put millions of dollars into the game, forced it to come out early and unfinished.
No, it's the reverse now. Back in the days of DOS you had to code everything manually, which was a terrible hassle, but it also meant that the developers were much more in control of what was going on. If you tested that your game worked with an SB16, it was pretty safe to assume it's going to work on your neighbor's SB16 too.
Now you have to worry about new patches from Microsoft, new drivers from NVidia, Creative and that obscure Taiwanese company you've never heard of that made the onboard sound for that red motherboard.
Yes, DirectX/OpenGL shield you from a lot of things, but that's both good and bad. You as a game developer are often at the mercy of the API, OS and driver.
The patriot act is scary, but that has nothing to do with the rest of the article. If the feds decide to start grabbing information about what people read and buy from Amazon, they would just say to Amazon, "Give me the records." They wouldn't bother to mine the wishlists.
Besides, the wishlists are publically available by choice of the poster. Buying choices and library records are not.
From the article:
On a final note, the FBI is now hiring computer scientists to implement a project that sounds very similar to what I just did:
"Currently, the FBI is strengthening systems engineering in order to tie new systems together architecturally and ensure that standards for custom and packaged applications are enforced, and it needs engineers to accomplish this goal, the agency said.
(etc...)
Where does he read data mining into this? I read that the FBI wants to update their computers to make their databases better. Their databases.
This article strikes me as scare mongering, and until I hear that the government plans on breaking the knuckles of people who read Aldous Huxley, I don't care about what's merely possible.
This is cute, but unfortunately that's all I give it. Granted, I don't know much/anything about how Swedish politics works, but in the US I could never vote in someone who only runs on one platform, even if it was a platform I agreed on.
Perhaps this is true for some people, but in my case GRUB works fine with legacy support turned on.
I don't see a new GTA at PS3 launch.
First of all, launch titles tend to be quick, easy, short-dev-time games. GTA is clearly none of those. So unless Take Two wants to release a half-assed launch quality GTA game, I don't see this happening.
Also, Take Two said GTA4 was in the works and it would be for the PS2. Granted, this was some time ago, but they haven't said anything to the contrary.
It's possible. But unlikely. At least in my view.
Hundreds of people are, as we speak, frantically searching P2P services for a download of Death Death 2000.
One thing to keep in mind is that most of the photos in Google Earth are a year or two old, so any activity bad guys might see on any given installation has most likely changed considerably from what they see.
These satellites have been up there for some time, and they're not government satellites, they're commercial satellites. This means that any terrorist with enough money could see an image of whatever they want to bomb, Google Earth or not.
I beleive it's time governments figure out a solution to the problem that doesn't involve the reversal of technology. Because it isn't going to get any better for them from here on in.
Personally, I consider the tweakability of an IDE to be a key aspect of the usability itself, so if you make me use the defaults, I probably couldn't tell you whether I liked it or not.
So, let me get this straight. They want me to spend the time on a 1,644.5MB download for a demo that's going to expire on Saturday?
Right.
Heh.
Now, while I do feel your pain, there is a simple solution to this - wait and see which one is victorious before buying either one. DVDs are going to be good enough for me for some time.
...he's already dead and that's why they can't finish the damned game.
The .js code didn't crash my browser, an I did indeed have a history entry called AAAAA(...), so nuts to that.
:)
On the other hand, though, having a 12MB history file DID slow the browser down considerably, especially while the history window itself was open.
I suppose, then, that if you managed to create a 500MB header, that would cause some computers extreme issues, but it desn't sound like it could be used for a buffer overrun, because Firefox does actually seem to be interpreting the huge topic correctly.
Maybe we should all start using Mosaic. After all, I don't know of any Mosaic exploits.
Perhaps it's done and they're afraid to release it. After all, if they ship this thing and half of the geeks in the world don't have a simultaneous orgasm, 3D Realms' offices will be set aflame within minutes.
:)
I'd move to Mexico before releasing anything called Duke Nuk'em.
It's not unusual, even in my own personal observation, to see an ISP advertise higher rates than they can realistically provide on a regular basis. I mean, how many people with Charter 3Mb get far less than that?
Time will tell. It might be time to move to the UK and endure the kidney pie for a while.
Perhaps I'm being a bit hard on whoever wrote this article, but I don't think someone who doesn't truly know the history of video game music should be writing an article on video game music.
The first multi-channel sound chip was not that of the NES, it was of the C-64. In fact, the 64 was the first machine to really call attention to video game music, and it was the first to form a following of video game composer celebrities, such as Rob Hubbard and Ben Daglish.
90% of you don't care, but I find it just silly to write an article on game music without mentioning the SID chip