Yes the OS can do some of the legwork, but the software has to be able to take advantage of all of that processing power by knowing that it can launch 11 rendering threads and keep them all in sync.
Rendering doesn't do it this way, from what I've done multiprocessor rendering on my own time. The way these are rendered (usually), is that each processor is given their own frame to render, or the renderer does its job in buckets/tiles, whereas every core has its own tile to render from the final frame.
But the people who will own these, will probably have software that takes advantage of said amount of cores. I've had the first Mac Pro model ("only" a quad-core 2.66GHz Xeon 5150), and it's still blazingly fast after nearly 4 years.
Also, the screenshot on their front page is actually a 1280x1024 image, resized in HTML to thumbnail size, which, of course, usually ends up as a mess of pixels that you don't know what it's supposed to be in the first place. I know, we have bandwidth etc., but come on!
Regardless of public perception, either Vista will, or it will not, have drivers for some particular video card. It will, or it will not, let you watch a HD movie over a non-HDCP video channel.
Thought you were talking about Schrödinger's cat there for a second.
Of course, there'd been no article like this, if he'd read that his monitor doesn't support HDCP. I can't read the article seriously because of the way things are told. Yes, DRM is bad, but come on, get some facts.
As for the Gamecube being a failure, well, if you go by the number of consoles sold then, sure, it wasn't as popular as the PlayStation 2, and was a "failure" but if you use that whacky profit metric that those crazy kids down at Wall Street are so fond of, the Gamecube did quite well.
But, OTOH, if you look at the consoles out there, how many of those are suitable for social gaming, like party games? The original Xbox tried with Fuzion Frenzy, which was a so-so attempt at a party game. PS2? Singstar and Guitar Hero, basically. Gamecube and Wii? Those are made for party games.
Of course, people say that "lol, the Wii doesn't have anything besides party games" - fine by me; party games is usually what defines a console for me; social gaming is fun, when you're a group of four, playing a game with each other in the same room.
This post is completely contradicting itself though; I'm posting on Slashdot, talking about Party Games and SOCIAL INTERACTION? GTFO my Slashdot!
I don't know, but I like the approach OSX has on dialogs; instead of putting up a Yes/No-option when asking whether or not you want to save a phone number, I'd like to have the options "Save/Don't Save". Otherwise you'll just enter "Yes, yes, no, no, yes, no" without knowing what you do, because let's face it - nobody really reads the dialogs too carefully to actually understand what the button does.
I'm having a hard time believing this. Either the arcade that you've seen RedOctane's guitar controllers on GF arcade cabinets have been modded by the arcade owner him/herself or then it's a bootleg AC. Why? Mainly because of; 1) RedOctane is an american company founded in 1999, that started out with renting games and manufacturing 3rd party DDR controllers, and 2); Konami is a japanese company, who mainly produce and manufacture their own hardware themselves. Why I'm finding difficult to believe this is that Guitar Freaks has not been licensed outside Japan as of yet (Konami registered a patent in the US, though) and from knowing Konami's habit of licensing/subsidising their stuff, they are incredibly reluctant about that.
Sorry, dug out the link from my archives. Gamespot has changed the review, because in the original review said explicitly in the summary it being a Guitar Hero rip-off. I know that the reviewers are just ordinary humans, and can't hold knowledge of everything, but I think that the reviewer should have done some research before saying it being a rip-off.
Now, on the topic of Guitar Hero, was that it introduced the guitar simulation to a larger audience that wasn't interested in hardcore gaming -- i.e. removing the timing judgement completely, and introducing two more buttons, compared to Konami's Guitar Freaks -series that came out in 1998.
The most likely reason why I think the reviewer originally called Beatmania a GH ripoff, was that he probably never played anything besides the 5-key mode that Beatmania offers for beginners.
As a matter of fact, I just wrote about this in a blog, on the topic of Windows vs OSX;
There's one thing annoys the hell out of me with Windows. It's not Windows per se -- but it's the constant brainfarts I feel that Microsoft made when designing their product. That's actually one reason why I switched over to Apple, because when I'm OSX, it can take days before the OS itself has something to tell me, or I notice the OS itself. I know, these are some incredibly small things and many people might think that I shouldn't be using a computer at all , but for me, some of these things are really frustrating and they make the user experience worse.
Now, I don't mean to start the traditional Windows vs OS X war, but here are a few points I have noticed with my somewhat long experience with working in Windows -- the most recent one that I came to think about is how XP for instance is nagging about cleaning up your desktop icons, *even when they're hidden*. I know for one thing that I usually use the desktop for alot of stuff, and hide the icons because I rarely have to use it anyway, and this is something that I feel that Windows is screwing up with; it doesn't take into account the things you have done, e.g. hid your desktop icons.
Then, let's take another thing -- dialogs. The thing that strikes me with the dialog boxes in Windows is that they rarely tell you in a coherent way what the dialog does. Of course, you have the usual "The text in the file X has changed. Do you want to save changes?" dialog box -- with Yes, No and Cancel buttons. This is just normal, right? Usually, the normal user would just click the button that they think is the right choice -- and I think anybody who has worked as computer support knows, that when people work a little bit longer with computers, they stop reading the dialogs and go with routine -- and this usually ends up in something being lost; "I clicked that one button and it disappeared". Another example of stupid dialog boxes is the WinXP Safe Mode prompt, when you get to choose whether you want to go to Safe Mode or System Recovery; "Press Yes to continue to Safe Mode, No to go to System Recovery", followed with a dialog box filled with a lot of text. What I do like, is the OSX way of dialog boxes; they have the same text, usually, but instead of having a generic Yes/No/Cancel-selection of buttons, the buttons themselves are captioned by what they do when you press them -- e.g. "Save/Don't Save/Cancel".
As with Vista, the user access control is another nice feature, that I'm puzzled over what it's supposed to do. Sure, it's supposed to have your attention when a program wants to do something what the program isn't supposed to do. I've grown a bit tired in "authenticating" -- or to put it more accurately -- "approving" the actions programs want to take. I'll go to the Task Manager, start up the Resource Monitor - I get to click the approve button there already once. I wish to install Firefox? Sure, after I approve.
Of course -- after the initial installation, I'm being bombarded with tips, tricks, tutorials and balloon tips what I can and can't do. There isn't even a checkbox anywhere, that I have the possibility to tell the System that "Yes, I have used Windows before and I would not like to receive any notification [about new features]." This is the thing that frustrates me -- the System is so in my face the whole time, that it distracts me from the work I'm supposed to do, instead of babysitting the computer.
But this is just me. I'm sure there are somebody who agrees with these things and some others that think that maybe I should stop using computers. Maybe I should -- because with the current usability and frustration, I think we'd be better off.
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Rendering doesn't do it this way, from what I've done multiprocessor rendering on my own time. The way these are rendered (usually), is that each processor is given their own frame to render, or the renderer does its job in buckets/tiles, whereas every core has its own tile to render from the final frame.
But the people who will own these, will probably have software that takes advantage of said amount of cores. I've had the first Mac Pro model ("only" a quad-core 2.66GHz Xeon 5150), and it's still blazingly fast after nearly 4 years.
Well, if you mean with "backdoor" that we're getting buttfucked with this, then yeah.
Interestingly, I'd like to know how this affects things over here in Finland, since a huge portion of our internet traffic is coming through Sweden.
Also, the screenshot on their front page is actually a 1280x1024 image, resized in HTML to thumbnail size, which, of course, usually ends up as a mess of pixels that you don't know what it's supposed to be in the first place. I know, we have bandwidth etc., but come on!
Reminds me of this meteorite collision animation; not realistic, but interesting nonetheless.
Obligatory quote for this, I can't help myself, sorry, so please bear with me while I take a karma hit:
Oh if it was as easy as using the SVN 'blame' -command..
Thought you were talking about Schrödinger's cat there for a second.
Of course, there'd been no article like this, if he'd read that his monitor doesn't support HDCP. I can't read the article seriously because of the way things are told. Yes, DRM is bad, but come on, get some facts.
I can't help it, but I come to think of a certain quote from Portal.
Of course! They agreed to the EULA, so they have no right to complain whatsoever!
Oh wait..
I feel that the article itself is procedurally generated.
Oh fuck it, the whole site and its layout is procedurally generated with some odd seed that does not make any sense at all!
Of course, people say that "lol, the Wii doesn't have anything besides party games" - fine by me; party games is usually what defines a console for me; social gaming is fun, when you're a group of four, playing a game with each other in the same room.
This post is completely contradicting itself though; I'm posting on Slashdot, talking about Party Games and SOCIAL INTERACTION? GTFO my Slashdot!
I don't know, but I like the approach OSX has on dialogs; instead of putting up a Yes/No-option when asking whether or not you want to save a phone number, I'd like to have the options "Save/Don't Save". Otherwise you'll just enter "Yes, yes, no, no, yes, no" without knowing what you do, because let's face it - nobody really reads the dialogs too carefully to actually understand what the button does.
I think that Quicksilver would belong on that list.
Well, isn't it good knowing that a government agency has figured it out now? Usually they realize these things 6 years later, after the upgrade.
Pfft, he'd been much faster if he'd used Vista's speech recognition.
I think this is in the same category as piracy causing losses to record labels. "It's this way because we say so."
That's just great. Squirt and penetrate in the same sentence.
I'm having a hard time believing this. Either the arcade that you've seen RedOctane's guitar controllers on GF arcade cabinets have been modded by the arcade owner him/herself or then it's a bootleg AC. Why? Mainly because of; 1) RedOctane is an american company founded in 1999, that started out with renting games and manufacturing 3rd party DDR controllers, and 2); Konami is a japanese company, who mainly produce and manufacture their own hardware themselves. Why I'm finding difficult to believe this is that Guitar Freaks has not been licensed outside Japan as of yet (Konami registered a patent in the US, though) and from knowing Konami's habit of licensing/subsidising their stuff, they are incredibly reluctant about that.
Sorry, dug out the link from my archives. Gamespot has changed the review, because in the original review said explicitly in the summary it being a Guitar Hero rip-off. I know that the reviewers are just ordinary humans, and can't hold knowledge of everything, but I think that the reviewer should have done some research before saying it being a rip-off.
Now, on the topic of Guitar Hero, was that it introduced the guitar simulation to a larger audience that wasn't interested in hardcore gaming -- i.e. removing the timing judgement completely, and introducing two more buttons, compared to Konami's Guitar Freaks -series that came out in 1998.
The most likely reason why I think the reviewer originally called Beatmania a GH ripoff, was that he probably never played anything besides the 5-key mode that Beatmania offers for beginners.
Good thing that they're taking the Guitar Hero series further, unlike Konami, making Guitar Hero ripoffs like Beatmania!
As a matter of fact, I just wrote about this in a blog, on the topic of Windows vs OSX;
There's one thing annoys the hell out of me with Windows. It's not Windows per se -- but it's the constant brainfarts I feel that Microsoft made when designing their product. That's actually one reason why I switched over to Apple, because when I'm OSX, it can take days before the OS itself has something to tell me, or I notice the OS itself. I know, these are some incredibly small things and many people might think that I shouldn't be using a computer at all , but for me, some of these things are really frustrating and they make the user experience worse.
Now, I don't mean to start the traditional Windows vs OS X war, but here are a few points I have noticed with my somewhat long experience with working in Windows -- the most recent one that I came to think about is how XP for instance is nagging about cleaning up your desktop icons, *even when they're hidden*. I know for one thing that I usually use the desktop for alot of stuff, and hide the icons because I rarely have to use it anyway, and this is something that I feel that Windows is screwing up with; it doesn't take into account the things you have done, e.g. hid your desktop icons.
Then, let's take another thing -- dialogs. The thing that strikes me with the dialog boxes in Windows is that they rarely tell you in a coherent way what the dialog does. Of course, you have the usual "The text in the file X has changed. Do you want to save changes?" dialog box -- with Yes, No and Cancel buttons. This is just normal, right? Usually, the normal user would just click the button that they think is the right choice -- and I think anybody who has worked as computer support knows, that when people work a little bit longer with computers, they stop reading the dialogs and go with routine -- and this usually ends up in something being lost; "I clicked that one button and it disappeared". Another example of stupid dialog boxes is the WinXP Safe Mode prompt, when you get to choose whether you want to go to Safe Mode or System Recovery; "Press Yes to continue to Safe Mode, No to go to System Recovery", followed with a dialog box filled with a lot of text. What I do like, is the OSX way of dialog boxes; they have the same text, usually, but instead of having a generic Yes/No/Cancel-selection of buttons, the buttons themselves are captioned by what they do when you press them -- e.g. "Save/Don't Save/Cancel".
As with Vista, the user access control is another nice feature, that I'm puzzled over what it's supposed to do. Sure, it's supposed to have your attention when a program wants to do something what the program isn't supposed to do. I've grown a bit tired in "authenticating" -- or to put it more accurately -- "approving" the actions programs want to take. I'll go to the Task Manager, start up the Resource Monitor - I get to click the approve button there already once. I wish to install Firefox? Sure, after I approve.
Of course -- after the initial installation, I'm being bombarded with tips, tricks, tutorials and balloon tips what I can and can't do. There isn't even a checkbox anywhere, that I have the possibility to tell the System that "Yes, I have used Windows before and I would not like to receive any notification [about new features]." This is the thing that frustrates me -- the System is so in my face the whole time, that it distracts me from the work I'm supposed to do, instead of babysitting the computer.
But this is just me. I'm sure there are somebody who agrees with these things and some others that think that maybe I should stop using computers. Maybe I should -- because with the current usability and frustration, I think we'd be better off.
The easiest way is to actually typo the FCKGW serial into Google, and it will autocorrect you with a working CD-key. Handy!
Write this down and let's see with how many years they miss this one -- 5 years? 6 years? Will Duke Nukem Forever still be in development?