> EA's ambitious goal is to create more such innovative, internally developed games while lessening the company's dependence on professional sports and Hollywood movie franchises."
This is great news. EA is massive and their focus affects the whole gaming industry. I always hated all those boring EA sports titles and dull titles that just cashed-in on having the same name as the latest movie.
1) turn off player and weapon bob... The mode in many FPS games where the picture bobs up and down as you move (to simulate each footfall). Set it so that as much as possible you glide rather than bob when you move.
2) reduce fish-eye effect Some FPS games have a wierd fish-eye effect... as you rotate, things moving towards the edge of the screen gets unrealistically large and even may warp/wrap. try adjusting field-of-view/perspective if the game supports it.
Many games have more settings hidden away in config files than are generally acccessable through the gui. It may take some hacking to figure out (especially if the file is stored in binary rather than text) but you can often improve things much more dramatically by directly modifying those files rather than using the 'game settings' gui.
>> The last thing for linux to do (before Vista comes out please) Is get all the phreakin games working.
I hope you mean wine, not linux. Its wrong to imply that Linux somehow has a shortcoming because it doesn't run binaries for a whole other (crappier) operating system. Why should it?
The real answer is to contact the developers of your favourite games and tell them you won't buy any more of their prodcuts because they aren't providing native Linux versions.
Actually, many of the most popular games developers do provide linux versions of their games already, (Doom, Unreal Tournament etc.) although sometimes it not obvious because they hide it on the install CD or low on the downloads pages of their website.
Its a case of getting the perceptions of the games developers changed, not the Linux developers.
As a European now living/working in the USA this just really highlights what I've personally observed as a frequent difference between Americans and Europeans at work.
Many Americans will chose to give their qhole lives over to their company even at a cost to their family and own personal lives. (e.g. giving up weekends to go into the office even without anyone telling them to). It seems to me that either most Americans are crazily work-addicted or possibly too scared to risk being perceived as non-conformist. I'm not clear which, but its definately sick, and legitimises abuse by employers.
The European attitude is much more that you should work to live, not live to work.
Hopefully this signals the beginning of a new era with old-fashioned values. Movies will (again) have to rely on a decent plot and actors ability rather than some formulaic storyline with tons of expensive eye-candy. Unfortunately, the obverse is probably true; they'll replace all expensive human actors with CG characters.
Of course it will have a backdoor. Apart from anyone else, the NSA would want it. This is just smoke and mirrors to cover that up. The only way the OS won't have a backdoor is if Microsoft are providing a tool to selected parties that circumvents the whole OS anyway.
>> The local government for the last twenty years is the actual cause of the problem
You're missing the BIGGER PICTURE here. Weather is becoming more extreme as a direct result of global warming, which in turn is happening becuse of man-made pollution.
Why is this so hard for Americans to grasp or accept? Its not doubted by any other nations in the world.
>> he [Bush] urged Americans to welcome global competition for their jobs.
What a fuckwit.
So maybe he'll reduce taxes and cost of living in the US so we can compete with people in economies where houses cost $2k and you can feed a family on $1k a year.
This sets a precedent. If they actually get away with this it will be a clear indicator to other providers (i.e. yours) to charge for emails and probably other net-based services too.
Isn't it funny how businesses think were stupid enough to believe statements like the following:
>>> Implementation of this timely and necessary safety and security measure for our members
Of course their motiviation is all about concern for the end-user. The fact that they will make money on every fricking email has no bearing on their decision to implement this.
>> Microsoft will introduce a search engine better than Google
Microsoft just don't have what it takes.
It won't be at all innovative and it will be so skewed towards whatever products or services Microsoft are selling that it just won't be useful. The only way they will get market share is becuase they will make it difficult to not have their search engine as the default in vista. No doubt some 'security agent' or somesuch will keep resetting it if you change it.
>> He says the marketing and positioning is all going to be based around the character herself, revamped in every way imaginable. "This character is coming to life in every way; in terms of physics and animation...
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> EA's ambitious goal is to create more such innovative, internally developed games while lessening the company's dependence on professional sports and Hollywood movie franchises."
This is great news. EA is massive and their focus affects the whole gaming industry. I always hated all those boring EA sports titles and dull titles that just cashed-in on having the same name as the latest movie.
1) turn off player and weapon bob...
The mode in many FPS games where the picture bobs up and down as you move (to simulate each footfall). Set it so that as much as possible you glide rather than bob when you move.
2) reduce fish-eye effect
Some FPS games have a wierd fish-eye effect... as you rotate, things moving towards the edge of the screen gets unrealistically large and even may warp/wrap. try adjusting field-of-view/perspective if the game supports it.
Many games have more settings hidden away in config files than are generally acccessable through the gui. It may take some hacking to figure out (especially if the file is stored in binary rather than text) but you can often improve things much more dramatically by directly modifying those files rather than using the 'game settings' gui.
>> The last thing for linux to do (before Vista comes out please) Is get all the phreakin games working.
I hope you mean wine, not linux. Its wrong to imply that Linux somehow has a shortcoming because it doesn't run binaries for a whole other (crappier) operating system. Why should it?
The real answer is to contact the developers of your favourite games and tell them you won't buy any more of their prodcuts because they aren't providing native Linux versions.
Actually, many of the most popular games developers do provide linux versions of their games already, (Doom, Unreal Tournament etc.) although sometimes it not obvious because they hide it on the install CD or low on the downloads pages of their website.
Its a case of getting the perceptions of the games developers changed, not the Linux developers.
They deserve everything they get if they can't be bothered to check out what they're buying in person.
Yeah I don't get it either. I guess windows-only games might be the only justification.
Can I install Linux on it?
As a European now living/working in the USA this just really highlights what I've personally observed as a frequent difference between Americans and Europeans at work.
Many Americans will chose to give their qhole lives over to their company even at a cost to their family and own personal lives. (e.g. giving up weekends to go into the office even without anyone telling them to). It seems to me that either most Americans are crazily work-addicted or possibly too scared to risk being perceived as non-conformist. I'm not clear which, but its definately sick, and legitimises abuse by employers.
The European attitude is much more that you should work to live, not live to work.
There is SO MUCH prior art that this can't be considered a serious patent.
Hopefully this signals the beginning of a new era with old-fashioned values.
Movies will (again) have to rely on a decent plot and actors ability rather than some formulaic storyline with tons of expensive eye-candy.
Unfortunately, the obverse is probably true; they'll replace all expensive human actors with CG characters.
>> After all, it doesn't even have an e-mail client!"
Good! I just want a word processor with no bloatware.
If I want another email client I'll install the one I want, not the one MS thinks I need.
Of course it will have a backdoor. Apart from anyone else, the NSA would want it. This is just smoke and mirrors to cover that up. The only way the OS won't have a backdoor is if Microsoft are providing a tool to selected parties that circumvents the whole OS anyway.
>> The local government for the last twenty years is the actual cause of the problem
You're missing the BIGGER PICTURE here. Weather is becoming more extreme as a direct result of global warming, which in turn is happening becuse of man-made pollution.
Why is this so hard for Americans to grasp or accept? Its not doubted by any other nations in the world.
>> he [Bush] urged Americans to welcome global competition for their jobs.
What a fuckwit.
So maybe he'll reduce taxes and cost of living in the US so we can compete with people in economies where houses cost $2k and you can feed a family on $1k a year.
This sets a precedent. If they actually get away with this it will be a clear indicator to other providers (i.e. yours) to charge for emails and probably other net-based services too.
Isn't it funny how businesses think were stupid enough to believe statements like the following:
>>> Implementation of this timely and necessary safety and security measure for our members
Of course their motiviation is all about concern for the end-user. The fact that they will make money on every fricking email has no bearing on their decision to implement this.
Getting a shock from DC is much worse than AC.. AC tends to kick you away while DC welds your skin to the conductor and keeps you in the circuit.
Of course Microsoft aren't guilty of those tricks at all
You're wrong.
Just 2 or 3 articles lower down is one about Comcast blocking Vonage VOIP in favor of their own.
>> I was a bad kid.
No you weren't. You read some books that only moralistic bible-bashers find offensive and you explicitly weren't aggressive to people or animals.
>> Despite the large body of evidence that supports a link between playing violent videogames and aggression...
Care to provide some references? I understood that most studies found exactly the opposite.
>> Microsoft will introduce a search engine better than Google
Microsoft just don't have what it takes.
It won't be at all innovative and it will be so skewed towards whatever products or services Microsoft are selling that it just won't be useful. The only way they will get market share is becuase they will make it difficult to not have their search engine as the default in vista. No doubt some 'security agent' or somesuch will keep resetting it if you change it.
>> He says the marketing and positioning is all going to be based around the character herself, revamped in every way imaginable. "This character is coming to life in every way; in terms of physics and animation...
So even bigger tits then.
DRM, HDCP, minimum HW specs, RAM/diskspace usage, cost, etc...
Amazing how they seem to be doing everything possible to get people to hate them.
>> programming should be opened out to non-developers. ..and from the same think-tank:
Brain Surgery kits could be sold at Home Depot