the only problem is, with flash media (SD cards I have), I've been running into problems where I can't stream data off the card fast enough for my palm to play it. I have a zire 71, and tried to give it a fullscreen divx (320x320) to play, and all mmplayer could do was give me errors about transfer speed off the sd card. So I think UMD could be good.... if they make cheap writers for it:)
of course shader model 3.0 won't be used until directx 9.0c comes out (summer I think). Which then means that developers *might* use it then (yes i know the beta is out now), which means, it won't be needed probable until late this year, and maybe into next year as developers get familiar with it. By then, I'm sure there will be a new gen of vid cards out from ati and nvidia that will support it. And as far as image quality goes.... ATI wins. Look at the screens. And there is also the new AA stuff ati added in for when you are getting 60+fps in games to have a more dynamic AA done to the scene makign it look even better. The best review/comparison you will get is gonna be from HardOCP, so i suggest anyone thats interested in PS3.0, and the ati/nvidia battle to check them out.
apparently mmplayer will play divx on palm.. but i havent tried it yet. And the kinoma bundled with my zire 71 kinda sucks... I tried making some aqua teen hunger force to throw on my sd card.. but the quality was extremely lacking.. ill have to try again though.
well.. you said less than spectacular.. so I'm sorry if I sounded trollish, but yes... you should be able to hand an event w/ that box. Is there many detail settings in COH?? just wondering, as I'm eager to check it out
not to flame.. but you are basically saying that you didn't get a good framerate as they were stress testing. the 100+ heroes in one area not doing good is YOUR machine.. not their fault... list some specs so we can see if it's reasonable. Do you expect them to drop the quality level of the whole game because your machine can't keep up. Some of us are willing to spend the extra to make our games look good, and run well... and I don't think we should be punished because of people who expect their old machine to play everything current. Lag is their fault, but it was beta... an d they were obviously stress testing, so what did you expect. They basically gave you a cool event while at the same time getting important info so they can tweak their servers and make it better for the masses.
I'm a linux n00b, installed slackware 9.1, ran xf86cfg... upgraded to kde 3.2, selected alsa sound. ran the little prog that came up on boot for the mixer. And lo and behold.. my SB live plat 5.1 worked flawlessy (and thats with plugging a digital coax cable into the live drive and ignoring the plugs on the back).
heh.. ive got a focus that I was putting some stereo stuff in w/ a friend (who is a pro installer), one wire got pinched under a cover on the right side (we had popped the cover off the lower door edge to run some wires, saw a bunch there and put it back **note** those wires are also supposed to be in a conduit u can clearly see there, but werent... causeing the pinch). That one pinched wire cause the entire car to be non-functional, no computer codes, no lights.. nothing. Had to take it to the dealer, and it cost me $450CAD for them to spend all day tracking down one wire. And even though they admitted to me that the wire was probably run wrong from the factory, because we were "modifying" the car, it wasnt under warranty. Thanx ford.
no... DEF-G and DEF+G will have to be two separate specs that arent compatible with each other at all. Then we can have big corps battle it out until the poor compilier makers have to write DEF+-G compilers for us.
its easy to get a near silent pc:
case: antec sonanta (quit psu, drives on rubber grommets, fans use rubber dealies so they dont vibrate case, and their are 2 fan only connectors to control fan speed for the 2 120mm fans you can put in.)
fans: 2x vantec stealth... quiet, good airflow
cpu: zalman flower
gpu zalman crazy big but silent heatpipe cooler.
and if you are really board... you can seal the "antec" holes that they use for psu air inflow, and widen the front intake a bit. and maybe some dynamat for the case covers. The only noise I hear out of mine now, is the hard drive click, and the cdroms when they spin up.
well.. the school was called CDIS, but it was recently bought by the arts institute, so now I think they are calling it AICDIS. You can check out their site at Artschool From what I've heard, they will soon be offering a degree program in game development. The teachers there for the most part are very skilled and good to the students. The cost is kind of high because it is a private institution also. As far as getting a job... I ended up getting a programming job at a business doing.NET and database stuff... but at this point I don't have a demo reel to give to any companies I apply at which can be a HUGE bonus. Some of the other people I went to school with (as well as one one my past teachers), do have jobs... some with ubisoft... and a couple other companies. On the whole.. it was a positive experience, but for a career, I recomment a computer science degree from a university, and spend you spare time making a demo to hand out as well as reading all you can on game design and engineering. 3d math, physics, and good object oriented design are key things to know. Game companies seem to be willing to teach you the sdk related things once you are working there... you are best off with a solid grounding in the concepts you will be using while there.
as someone who went through a 3 year course in game development (programming) and took a multitude of game design courses along the way. The most important lesson we were ever shown was:
----> ---->
It's strange how many people (and game companies) don't know this simple concept... so there's my free advice for the day;)
I think its just that it feels different. Think about if a windows install fails... your only option is to crawl up into a ball in the corner and have yourself a good cry. And yes.. I agree that more GUI will make linux easier to use, and I'm looking forward to it. But if something breaks.. at least theres the option of fixing it. When something breaks in Windows, sure I could probably fix it... but who knows what broke with it. If something fails in windows, I'll trust a re-install to fixes.. if something breaks in linux.... well..... umm..... I thought stuff just didnt break in linux:) Except for the apps that can just be re-installed.
I understand that linux might be more difficult in some cases to install over windows. But if I look at my experiences with users I know, even though windowsXP might be an easy point and drool install, they still phone me, and pay me to do it for them. I have friends that are for the most part computer literate, yet when it comes to a re-install, they shy away and get me to do it so that they have a properly configured install. Sure, it works after a fresh install, but there are options to be turned off and on, 3rd party software to install, updates to do. Any they can't handle most of that on their own. I usually end up with a working install that will prompt them to install all the updates for any software they might need, just so they don't have to deal with it. The only time I can see an average user being able to install windows on their own now, is usually with "recovery cds", and most of them are scared of that. So at this point, the only thing I can see that is holding back linux from mass amounts of people switching over, is hardware vendors not releasing drivers (or letting others make them), and games. I long for the day that openGL 2.0 comes out and hopefully a plethura of games for it also, then I can make a complete switch. I run windows for one reason... DirectX. At this point its the only reason I don't tell everyone I know to switch. So for now I'm stuck with a windows gaming box, and a linux workstation at home:(
Ive had 2 IBM 40Gb drives die on my in the last couple years. When the original died, I went through the retail stores warranty... took 4-6 weeks (turned into like 7). Then when the replacement died, I figured, hell, lets see how IBM does it. Sent it down there w/ like 11 days shipping (from canada). It gets there, they send the replacement back, overnight shipping. day 11, call from customs to approve it going over border, morning of day 12, re-installing windows. So at least we can be impressed w/ how IBM covers their RMAs. I cant remember exactly what it was, but they paid a pretty hefty price to ship that brand new drive overnight internationaly. So they get props from me... just no new money for drives;)
hmm.. looking at the way windows runs.. dont think i want to copy their ways of doing things.
Also, I wonder if we are gonna have underground patches for security flaws now;P
no way i can sit for 10 hours in front of the screen, w/out having to get up and go walk outside for a smoke. And just think of all the exercise my lungs get w/ all the extra inhaling;)
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the only problem is, with flash media (SD cards I have), I've been running into problems where I can't stream data off the card fast enough for my palm to play it. I have a zire 71, and tried to give it a fullscreen divx (320x320) to play, and all mmplayer could do was give me errors about transfer speed off the sd card. So I think UMD could be good.... if they make cheap writers for it :)
HAHA cause the NDP spending all our money was so much better for the province than a Premier who is cutting back on overpaid union workers
of course shader model 3.0 won't be used until directx 9.0c comes out (summer I think). Which then means that developers *might* use it then (yes i know the beta is out now), which means, it won't be needed probable until late this year, and maybe into next year as developers get familiar with it. By then, I'm sure there will be a new gen of vid cards out from ati and nvidia that will support it. And as far as image quality goes.... ATI wins. Look at the screens. And there is also the new AA stuff ati added in for when you are getting 60+fps in games to have a more dynamic AA done to the scene makign it look even better. The best review/comparison you will get is gonna be from HardOCP, so i suggest anyone thats interested in PS3.0, and the ati/nvidia battle to check them out.
oh no... why did you have to make me rememeber that... time to break out the xt and fire it up :)
yeah.. i feel your pain :) i think the codec that kinoma uses by default is kinda weak, I'd much prefer xvid.
apparently mmplayer will play divx on palm.. but i havent tried it yet. And the kinoma bundled with my zire 71 kinda sucks... I tried making some aqua teen hunger force to throw on my sd card.. but the quality was extremely lacking.. ill have to try again though.
if it came with your dvd drive, it's not free. It just means it's bundle into the price. Might be dirt cheap, but not free.
well.. you said less than spectacular.. so I'm sorry if I sounded trollish, but yes... you should be able to hand an event w/ that box. Is there many detail settings in COH?? just wondering, as I'm eager to check it out
not to flame.. but you are basically saying that you didn't get a good framerate as they were stress testing. the 100+ heroes in one area not doing good is YOUR machine.. not their fault... list some specs so we can see if it's reasonable. Do you expect them to drop the quality level of the whole game because your machine can't keep up. Some of us are willing to spend the extra to make our games look good, and run well... and I don't think we should be punished because of people who expect their old machine to play everything current. Lag is their fault, but it was beta... an d they were obviously stress testing, so what did you expect. They basically gave you a cool event while at the same time getting important info so they can tweak their servers and make it better for the masses.
I'm a linux n00b, installed slackware 9.1, ran xf86cfg... upgraded to kde 3.2, selected alsa sound. ran the little prog that came up on boot for the mixer. And lo and behold.. my SB live plat 5.1 worked flawlessy (and thats with plugging a digital coax cable into the live drive and ignoring the plugs on the back).
heh.. well apparently all it took was some electrical tape to fix.. everything else was fine. Just $450 in labour to find the problem.
heh.. ive got a focus that I was putting some stereo stuff in w/ a friend (who is a pro installer), one wire got pinched under a cover on the right side (we had popped the cover off the lower door edge to run some wires, saw a bunch there and put it back **note** those wires are also supposed to be in a conduit u can clearly see there, but werent... causeing the pinch). That one pinched wire cause the entire car to be non-functional, no computer codes, no lights.. nothing. Had to take it to the dealer, and it cost me $450CAD for them to spend all day tracking down one wire. And even though they admitted to me that the wire was probably run wrong from the factory, because we were "modifying" the car, it wasnt under warranty. Thanx ford.
no... DEF-G and DEF+G will have to be two separate specs that arent compatible with each other at all. Then we can have big corps battle it out until the poor compilier makers have to write DEF+-G compilers for us.
its easy to get a near silent pc: case: antec sonanta (quit psu, drives on rubber grommets, fans use rubber dealies so they dont vibrate case, and their are 2 fan only connectors to control fan speed for the 2 120mm fans you can put in.) fans: 2x vantec stealth... quiet, good airflow cpu: zalman flower gpu zalman crazy big but silent heatpipe cooler. and if you are really board... you can seal the "antec" holes that they use for psu air inflow, and widen the front intake a bit. and maybe some dynamat for the case covers. The only noise I hear out of mine now, is the hard drive click, and the cdroms when they spin up.
haha.. thanx.. though i *still* want a game dev job... hint hint ;)
well.. the school was called CDIS, but it was recently bought by the arts institute, so now I think they are calling it AICDIS. You can check out their site at Artschool From what I've heard, they will soon be offering a degree program in game development. The teachers there for the most part are very skilled and good to the students. The cost is kind of high because it is a private institution also. As far as getting a job... I ended up getting a programming job at a business doing .NET and database stuff... but at this point I don't have a demo reel to give to any companies I apply at which can be a HUGE bonus. Some of the other people I went to school with (as well as one one my past teachers), do have jobs... some with ubisoft... and a couple other companies. On the whole.. it was a positive experience, but for a career, I recomment a computer science degree from a university, and spend you spare time making a demo to hand out as well as reading all you can on game design and engineering. 3d math, physics, and good object oriented design are key things to know. Game companies seem to be willing to teach you the sdk related things once you are working there... you are best off with a solid grounding in the concepts you will be using while there.
hmm... preview before posting :)
player ---> gameplay ---> enemy.
as someone who went through a 3 year course in game development (programming) and took a multitude of game design courses along the way. The most important lesson we were ever shown was: ----> ----> It's strange how many people (and game companies) don't know this simple concept... so there's my free advice for the day ;)
I think its just that it feels different. Think about if a windows install fails... your only option is to crawl up into a ball in the corner and have yourself a good cry. And yes.. I agree that more GUI will make linux easier to use, and I'm looking forward to it. But if something breaks.. at least theres the option of fixing it. When something breaks in Windows, sure I could probably fix it... but who knows what broke with it. If something fails in windows, I'll trust a re-install to fixes.. if something breaks in linux.... well..... umm..... I thought stuff just didnt break in linux :) Except for the apps that can just be re-installed.
I understand that linux might be more difficult in some cases to install over windows. But if I look at my experiences with users I know, even though windowsXP might be an easy point and drool install, they still phone me, and pay me to do it for them. I have friends that are for the most part computer literate, yet when it comes to a re-install, they shy away and get me to do it so that they have a properly configured install. Sure, it works after a fresh install, but there are options to be turned off and on, 3rd party software to install, updates to do. Any they can't handle most of that on their own. I usually end up with a working install that will prompt them to install all the updates for any software they might need, just so they don't have to deal with it. The only time I can see an average user being able to install windows on their own now, is usually with "recovery cds", and most of them are scared of that. So at this point, the only thing I can see that is holding back linux from mass amounts of people switching over, is hardware vendors not releasing drivers (or letting others make them), and games. I long for the day that openGL 2.0 comes out and hopefully a plethura of games for it also, then I can make a complete switch. I run windows for one reason... DirectX. At this point its the only reason I don't tell everyone I know to switch. So for now I'm stuck with a windows gaming box, and a linux workstation at home :(
I can't remember the last time I went somewhere expecting to fall :)
Ive had 2 IBM 40Gb drives die on my in the last couple years. When the original died, I went through the retail stores warranty... took 4-6 weeks (turned into like 7). Then when the replacement died, I figured, hell, lets see how IBM does it. Sent it down there w/ like 11 days shipping (from canada). It gets there, they send the replacement back, overnight shipping. day 11, call from customs to approve it going over border, morning of day 12, re-installing windows. So at least we can be impressed w/ how IBM covers their RMAs. I cant remember exactly what it was, but they paid a pretty hefty price to ship that brand new drive overnight internationaly. So they get props from me... just no new money for drives ;)
just make an STL list or vector; include stl library dynListOfPointers = new list(); dynListOfPointers.add(new MyClass()); done. :P
hmm.. looking at the way windows runs.. dont think i want to copy their ways of doing things. Also, I wonder if we are gonna have underground patches for security flaws now ;P
no way i can sit for 10 hours in front of the screen, w/out having to get up and go walk outside for a smoke. And just think of all the exercise my lungs get w/ all the extra inhaling ;)