> (This is also one of the reasons why games look nicer on CRTs - the other is higher refresh rates)
The 3rd reasons CRTs have better picture quality (PQ) is due to a better gamma then LCDs.
Agreed that "native" sub-pixel stretching is one of the reasons that CRT look better for games, ala "smoothing". For coding or reading of text, LCD tends to be "sharper."
I don't know why these new LCDs have these oddball resolutions of 1680 x 1050, aka 16:10... sucks for gaming.
> Blizzard always releases late. People understand them. Why?
Having shipped & worked on a few titles the answer is simple:
Because no one remembers if a bad game ships on time, but if a good game is late, no one will really care _too_ much. In order to do this, you need:
1. Money, to "buy" you the time to polish. 2. Faith in your good team to produce a great product.
Most game studios are short on both.
Blizzard is not innovative -- they just copy what _works. BUT, they DO put a ton of work into UI and balancing. Wow would not be anyway popular as it is without the mods. (They implemented this lesson perfectly from the FPS scene: Quake, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, etc.)
> Why is it that so FEW companies actually put out workable, GOOD products?
For a few reasons...
- Because of the percieved ROI, and short-term cost. Management & Publishers freak out if you tell them "You want to extend a game's development schedule by another year?! We can't afford that!" Partly they are right. Someday they will realize "Can you afford _not to_!"
- Good Design is _hard_. Even popular games, such as the wow designers, don't have a fucking clue about something as basic as 'dead time.' (They are getting MUCH better about this Thx God.) The rule is simple: If the player is _bored_, you, the game maker fucked up, but Coders, Designers, and Management don't understand this or over-rule this. Most Game Developers are at the whim of the publisher, and publishers don't want to pay r&d to find "a solution", when the existing system "is good enough."
- Herd mentality. Easier to produce something that everyone is familiar with, then to approach things in a different way. To their defense, just because you know what you shouldn't do, doesn't imply that you know what you _should_ do. To do things "right" takes time and money, something in short supply in this biz.
- The most innovative games are not rewarded financially. The consumers continue to buy this year's crap that has prettier graphics. Ico should of sold millions, instead everyone is raving about yet {insert game of this year.} i.e. Halo, CoD, GTA4. (Not saying those are bad games. They are half-decent games. Everyone focuses on the latest sequelitis because really _good_ games are out in the _fringe_ of people's comfort zone.)
- People don't want to pay for "Quality", because they don't value it. This problem, effects all industries. Some would call it the "Wal-Mart syndrome"
DVDs are compressed / quantized with mpeg2. Text Editors using the full 24-bit colors (assuming your desktop is set to 24+ bpp) so they are not suffering from the PQ issues you mention.
I would rather have a deep blue background (0,0,0x40) with bright text to provide some contrast for syntax coloring (white, yellow, neon green, etc) then any other color.
* No standardized pragmas * Macros after-thought and not type safe * No 24, and 32 bit (unicode) chars * Still has float / double crap, instead of being properly deprecated and f32, f64, f80 used instead * Still has short / long crap, instead of being properly deprecated, and i8, i16, i32, i64, i128, u8, etc... * No distinction between typedefs and aliases * Inconsistent left-to-right declarations * Compilers still limited to ASCII source * No binary constant prefix (even octal has one?!) * No standard way to assign NaN, +Inf, -Inf to floating point constants at compile time
> Linux/OSS is the ultimate problem for them - they can't buy it and they can't beat it in a price war, which is why they repeatedly vow to crush it, yet can't.
I know! Most Open Source programs were barely usable a few years ago, now they have basic functionality. OSS is going to win in the long run, and I love it.
I'm getting tired of people bitching about this or that license. Oh noes! Someone is making a buck from shared & public information. What else is new. People will always abuse any principle.
Since the site is _dependent_ on wikipedia for the information in the first place, the real "value" is the contributors, not some artificial one, and as a contributor, that is the main thing to me: guaranteeing that the information will stay free for everyone. if i was concerned about someone "ripping" the info off, I wouldn't contribute in the first place.
-- "Wikipedia is proof that that you can take the people out of politics, but you you can't take the politics out of people"
You seem to be confusing the past with the future. Beliefs are the past. Faith is acting towards something that can (or will) become true. If you never do anything with your beliefs, they are just that -- beliefs. But once you act on them, it becomes faith -- an in-between state between what is, and what might be.
Let's use an example: Today, I had faith that I could fix a software bug. If I didn't have the belief I could fix the bug, I never would of acted in the first place. But by acting on what I believed I could do, I was able to manifest a new reality -- namely of the bug being fixed.
Do you understand the process of Visualization and why so many atheletes use it?
Now you can continue whine about how faith doesn't exist, but there is a clear seperation between beliefs, faith, and works.
Do you first build a home, and THEN get the idea of having a home? Or do you first get the idea that you COULD build a home and THEN _do_ it, _because_ of the belief.
Atheism or not, everyone has "religion" -- namely how they put their beliefs into practice by the life you live. Some go the extra mile and prove their beliefs by their actions.
Maybe you're listening to the wrong people. Just because _you_ don't understand or are unable to define god, does not mean or imply that no-one can. Critical thinking and logic are most certainly an aspect of god -- but you seem to unable to come up with your own definition.
Blaming theologians and most people's ignorance of the true nature of sex, isn't going to help you understand god. Just because what you recognize is reject error, doesn't mean that what is left is truth.
As a game developer who has shipped 5 titles across PC and consoles, game developers have better things to do then putting in copy protection -- such as fixing bugs. If you take a look at the history of copy protection from the early 80's, it has NEVER worked. It is the _publishers_ insisting on it because they are under the delusion that it will magically make people buy their game.
DRM exists because of one reason: greed to maximize profits. If publishers & 1st party titles could ban libraries, or loaning of games, they would.
Lastly, you can't "steal" a game. All you do is copy it. The pirates have their own principles -- namely that the ownership of a some game is absurd.
You probably think loaning of CDs is "immoral" too.
All this DRM crap done has motivated me & others to stop buying or playing new games. If I have to go thru the hassle of getting a crack just to play the game without the CD, then I don't even want to bother supporting an outdated business model. I _don't_ want your shitty copy protection messing up my system with hidden or system.dlls. I'll stick with my old games.
a) You are missing the point -- it is to find your own proof, not to take someone else's word as truth, and b) You can't measure something without influencing the result. Randi's mind is closed to any deeper understanding of meta-phyiscs. As they say "A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still"
Education comes from the latin word Educo, which means "draw out, lead out, march out, to foster." Instead of indoctrinating with the current status quo of whatever theory is popular this day of the week, it would be better to guide them to their own answers. You want to encourage her strength of intution -- she knows the destination, but doesn't how to get there, which is where you fit in as a father.
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> (This is also one of the reasons why games look nicer on CRTs - the other is higher refresh rates)
The 3rd reasons CRTs have better picture quality (PQ) is due to a better gamma then LCDs.
Agreed that "native" sub-pixel stretching is one of the reasons that CRT look better for games, ala "smoothing". For coding or reading of text, LCD tends to be "sharper."
I don't know why these new LCDs have these oddball resolutions of 1680 x 1050, aka 16:10 ... sucks for gaming.
Cheers
Just because some judge doesn't have a fucking clue how software works, doesn't make his decision "right", only "legal & stupid."
> Blizzard always releases late. People understand them. Why?
Having shipped & worked on a few titles the answer is simple:
Because no one remembers if a bad game ships on time, but if a good game is late, no one will really care _too_ much. In order to do this, you need:
1. Money, to "buy" you the time to polish.
2. Faith in your good team to produce a great product.
Most game studios are short on both.
Blizzard is not innovative -- they just copy what _works. BUT, they DO put a ton of work into UI and balancing. Wow would not be anyway popular as it is without the mods. (They implemented this lesson perfectly from the FPS scene: Quake, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, etc.)
> Why is it that so FEW companies actually put out workable, GOOD products?
For a few reasons...
- Because of the percieved ROI, and short-term cost. Management & Publishers freak out if you tell them "You want to extend a game's development schedule by another year?! We can't afford that!" Partly they are right. Someday they will realize "Can you afford _not to_!"
- Good Design is _hard_. Even popular games, such as the wow designers, don't have a fucking clue about something as basic as 'dead time.' (They are getting MUCH better about this Thx God.) The rule is simple: If the player is _bored_, you, the game maker fucked up, but Coders, Designers, and Management don't understand this or over-rule this. Most Game Developers are at the whim of the publisher, and publishers don't want to pay r&d to find "a solution", when the existing system "is good enough."
- Herd mentality. Easier to produce something that everyone is familiar with, then to approach things in a different way. To their defense, just because you know what you shouldn't do, doesn't imply that you know what you _should_ do. To do things "right" takes time and money, something in short supply in this biz.
- The most innovative games are not rewarded financially. The consumers continue to buy this year's crap that has prettier graphics. Ico should of sold millions, instead everyone is raving about yet {insert game of this year.} i.e. Halo, CoD, GTA4. (Not saying those are bad games. They are half-decent games. Everyone focuses on the latest sequelitis because really _good_ games are out in the _fringe_ of people's comfort zone.)
- People don't want to pay for "Quality", because they don't value it. This problem, effects all industries. Some would call it the "Wal-Mart syndrome"
Cheers
> It's not "free" energy since there's no such thing.
Quick, someone tell the sun!! It's giving away its energy and doesn't want anything in return!!!
On a more seriously note, so if a magnet is stuck vertically on something
a) where is the energy come?
b) how long will it stick?
Cheers
You're comparing apples and oranges.
DVDs are compressed / quantized with mpeg2. Text Editors using the full 24-bit colors (assuming your desktop is set to 24+ bpp) so they are not suffering from the PQ issues you mention.
I would rather have a deep blue background (0,0,0x40) with bright text to provide some contrast for syntax coloring (white, yellow, neon green, etc) then any other color.
> people complained about Microsoft integrating those in the OS so that you couldn't remove them.
Exactly.
How the hell am I supposed to install IE4, IE5, IE6, IE7, DX7, DX8, DX9 on the same computer for testing??
* No standardized pragmas
* Macros after-thought and not type safe
* No 24, and 32 bit (unicode) chars
* Still has float / double crap, instead of being properly deprecated and f32, f64, f80 used instead
* Still has short / long crap, instead of being properly deprecated, and i8, i16, i32, i64, i128, u8, etc...
* No distinction between typedefs and aliases
* Inconsistent left-to-right declarations
* Compilers still limited to ASCII source
* No binary constant prefix (even octal has one?!)
* No standard way to assign NaN, +Inf, -Inf to floating point constants at compile time
> Well then the solution's simple. Give people a license to use a computer.
Riiiiiight, just like a driver's license prevents traffic accidents, a gun license prevents shootings....
A license is not an indicator of any safety, wisdom, or experience.
You can't regulate stupidity or intelligence.
> Linux/OSS is the ultimate problem for them - they can't buy it and they can't beat it in a price war, which is why they repeatedly vow to crush it, yet can't.
I know! Most Open Source programs were barely usable a few years ago, now they have basic functionality. OSS is going to win in the long run, and I love it.
I'm getting tired of people bitching about this or that license. Oh noes! Someone is making a buck from shared & public information. What else is new. People will always abuse any principle.
Since the site is _dependent_ on wikipedia for the information in the first place, the real "value" is the contributors, not some artificial one, and as a contributor, that is the main thing to me: guaranteeing that the information will stay free for everyone. if i was concerned about someone "ripping" the info off, I wouldn't contribute in the first place.
--
"Wikipedia is proof that that you can take the people out of politics, but you you can't take the politics out of people"
> Believing something doesn't change the facts.
You seem to be confusing the past with the future. Beliefs are the past. Faith is acting towards something that can (or will) become true. If you never do anything with your beliefs, they are just that -- beliefs. But once you act on them, it becomes faith -- an in-between state between what is, and what might be.
Let's use an example: Today, I had faith that I could fix a software bug. If I didn't have the belief I could fix the bug, I never would of acted in the first place. But by acting on what I believed I could do, I was able to manifest a new reality -- namely of the bug being fixed.
Do you understand the process of Visualization and why so many atheletes use it?
Now you can continue whine about how faith doesn't exist, but there is a clear seperation between beliefs, faith, and works.
Do you first build a home, and THEN get the idea of having a home? Or do you first get the idea that you COULD build a home and THEN _do_ it, _because_ of the belief.
Atheism or not, everyone has "religion" -- namely how they put their beliefs into practice by the life you live. Some go the extra mile and prove their beliefs by their actions.
Maybe you're listening to the wrong people. Just because _you_ don't understand or are unable to define god, does not mean or imply that no-one can. Critical thinking and logic are most certainly an aspect of god -- but you seem to unable to come up with your own definition.
Blaming theologians and most people's ignorance of the true nature of sex, isn't going to help you understand god. Just because what you recognize is reject error, doesn't mean that what is left is truth.
Obligatory: Reality.
You don't understand faith. It is "belief in action."
If you have ever built, or created, anything, you would understand this.
> critical thinking and logic are anathema to anyone who believes in god.
...
First, define "god"
Someone have a link to the 3x3 parity function?
Except that you can't prove a negative, only predict what the outcome "should" be.
For those too lazy to order it :-), you can always watch the youtube Evidence The Case For NASA UFO version.
You mean compared to NASA ignoring & hiding their own data ??
> Well, the whole chromatic scale is 12 notes per octave including sharps/flats
Thats only true for Western music. Eastern music isn't so "dogmatic." i.e. 22-note scales
So numbers, ideas, concepts and virtue exist in the physical universe?
Methinks someone doesn't understand meta-physics.
Yes, cut the rest of the link off starting with "ref=..." so that it looks like http://www.amazon.com/Bebop-Boolean-Boogie-Unconventional-Electronics/dp/0750675438/
Oh please...
.dlls. I'll stick with my old games.
As a game developer who has shipped 5 titles across PC and consoles, game developers have better things to do then putting in copy protection -- such as fixing bugs. If you take a look at the history of copy protection from the early 80's, it has NEVER worked. It is the _publishers_ insisting on it because they are under the delusion that it will magically make people buy their game.
DRM exists because of one reason: greed to maximize profits. If publishers & 1st party titles could ban libraries, or loaning of games, they would.
Lastly, you can't "steal" a game. All you do is copy it. The pirates have their own principles -- namely that the ownership of a some game is absurd.
You probably think loaning of CDs is "immoral" too.
All this DRM crap done has motivated me & others to stop buying or playing new games. If I have to go thru the hassle of getting a crack just to play the game without the CD, then I don't even want to bother supporting an outdated business model. I _don't_ want your shitty copy protection messing up my system with hidden or system
a) You are missing the point -- it is to find your own proof, not to take someone else's word as truth, and
b) You can't measure something without influencing the result. Randi's mind is closed to any deeper understanding of meta-phyiscs. As they say "A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still"
Education comes from the latin word Educo, which means "draw out, lead out, march out, to foster." Instead of indoctrinating with the current status quo of whatever theory is popular this day of the week, it would be better to guide them to their own answers. You want to encourage her strength of intution -- she knows the destination, but doesn't how to get there, which is where you fit in as a father.