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Re:Not Quake, but GL Quake!
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I remember seeing GLQuake for the first time. It really blew me away. The thing that convinced me that 3D was the way to be was the effect where rockets became their own light source. I seem to recall reading that this effect was coded in 30 minutes on a bet.
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I may be a Canadian but I'll still be calling these individuals since we Canucks get splash damage from this greedy BFG!
The harddrive in the PS3 is there to be used for Linux and your downloaded media. There will be a small area for caching if a developer decides to use it for that.
I was thinking more along the lines of something like Steam where people could buy games online. You know, E-Distro. Like they mention in TFA. Then again, Kutaragi's claim of "content" isn't very well defined.
Harddrive != fast loading. Despite what Microsoft marketing convinced so many Xbox fans to believe. With the tremendous amount of space at BluRay disc holds developers aren't having to do heavy compression and are able to just stream directly off the drive. There is no need to unload game data to the PS3's harddrive for the vast majority of games.
See if you sing the same song while you sit at loading screens on your PS3 games. I don't know what the BDROM throughput is but I guarantee it's nowhere near the speed of a hard disk. Plus, streaming uncompressed data works fine while playing movies\cutscenes, but when you start pulling nonsequential data off the disc like textures and speech you have to deal with latency caused by the laser moving across the disc radius. HDD was no big deal in Xbox because they didn't take advantage of its potential. Try burning an old installed PC game and play it off the disc on a 16x DVDROM drive and tell me with a straight face that it's just as fast as even a 5400RPM laptop HDD.
My point is that a 60GB HDD is hardly next-gen. They're calling this thing a computer replacement but you can hardly even find HDDs under 120GB on second-hand Emachines anymore. If they really wanted to boost speed they could have put in 1GB of low latency RAM and pre-streamed textures, or something. Of course I'm only speculating that the PS3's load times will be no shorter than PS2's, but I've seen no reason to believe otherwise. It's just another disc format limited by laser latency and spin-up time, and installing the game on HDD seems the obvious fix if my assumption is correct.
$499 for a 1080p BluRay player that also plays almost every major console developers games? Expensive, I don't think so...
A 60GB drive seems incongruous with Sony's insistance of a BD-ROM drive. Considering a BD-ROM disc can hold 25GB, that's as few as just 2 games the drive can hold. Since the console is already so expensive, couldn't they have splurged another $10-$20 per unit to double that HDD capacity?
yeah because everyone that had windows 98 bought it in 98. Besides have you ever tried calling microsoft for support? I think not.
Not personally, but my sister's friend did. She called them up because she was having trouble with viruses. It turned out her copy of XP was pirated, of which they informed her, but they said they'd help anyway just this once. They spent almost an hour on the phone with her since she's next to computer illiterate. I was very impressed with that.
Or it took 8 years for someone to find that security flaw. If you know a way to future-proof software securely for 8 years I congratulate you on your soon-to-overflow bank account.
"this basically is the first time Microsoft has admitted that Windows 98 is so broken that it's crazy to be running it on today's Internet."
What crappy journalism. This is like saying "trees are cut down so easily by chainsaws that we shouldn't bother planting them," or, "iPods hold so much music that it's crazy to buy a CD player." If you're going to post a story, be objective and let the readers draw their own conclusion.
Windows may be expensive, but at least purchasers of 98 got 8 years of free support. How many products, never mind software apps, promise that?
The stupid Oblivion gates are one of the main reasons why I hate this game! You have to close how many of them? Like 15? And they're all pretty much identical! I can only kill those whirly stone guys and spider chicks and sword douches so many times (3 - that's how many gates I put up with) until I get bored.
And I found the main story really weak and uninteresting. Saving whatshisname from the burning city was the dumbest crap I'd ever seen in a game. Our 15 escorts in plate mail all got killed, but the NPC in a bath robe just got knocked unconscious over and over and over!! And he was as dumb as a post too! As my archer I'd sneak up slowly and stealthily on a group of enemies, waiting to get a 3x damage shot from the shadows, when the NPC would charge with his stick into a group of 10 demons, get knocked unconscious, and then all the demons would charge straight for me!
If only they'd kept Patrick Stewart for more of the game I'd at least have his UGLY UGLY character to look forward to. But this big budget game couldn't afford more than 3 lines from him, so my only motivation to play is to escort these morons VERY SLOWLY to some mountains. I got bored of waiting for them so I ran ahead, thinking they'd catch up. When they didn't show up after 10 minutes I backtracked (on foot because the horses are completely useless) until I found them standing still. One guy's horse was stuck between a hill and a tree, and the other horses were stuck as well, anally pleasuring the first guy's horse with their snouts! So I walked up to them one by one and pushed their horses sideways by walking into them until they got unstuck.
That's as far as I got in the game. I did zillions of side quests, but it was totally pointless. Enemies got stronger as I did so leveling up actually hurts you. Bandits would threaten my life if I didn't give them 100 gold, but I'd kill them and sell their $20,000 armour. Basically I felt like my 50 hours was completely wasted, except for the time I spent appreciating the sometimes perfect lip syncing.
I agree with your argument 100%. From Dan Glickman's argument:
"The fact of the matter is that people who create content for movies and television have to make a profit.
...
But he is right to the extent that we need to be finding new and different ways to get our content to people, whether it's internet or whether it's iPod or whether it's remotely accessed in various parts of the world. If [we] don't the consumer will not be satisfied and in this business the consumer is king and queen."
So who is really the king and queen? The producers or the consumers? You can't please everybody. The harder they press down on the consumers, the more efficient and widespread piracy will get.
People look to the entertainment industry for entertainment. The more people are reminded of the industry, the more desperate they will get for the entertainment.
I think, to grossly generalize, linear games will be looked upon more favourably in the future than open-ended games. Linear games have a narrow, well defined goal. Open-ended games strive to do things a little better than the last open-ended game. For instance, I can't even play Vice City anymore now that I've played San Andreas.
Oblivion is definitely an evolution in some aspects over Morrowind in some aspects, but some features are a step down (the made-for-TV interface is worthless on a PC monitor and mouse) and the fundamentals haven't changed one iota since Dragon Warrior for the NES (and are a huge step down compated to some of the Ultimas).
That being said, for some reason I'll always look back fondly at the Ultima Underworld series. However, the crazy mouse-only control scheme is really obnoxious in the WASD generation.
So I vote for FFVII in terms of longevity. Then again, Oblivion bored me to tears before long (granted, pretty long - 50 hours).
Those weren't the exact criteria we evaluated, but the project was intended to test the "hard" and "soft" aspects of installing services. This absolutely included a degree of technical comparison, but also considered how the testers felt about the procedures they did themselves and what the other guy did. The white paper is now property of Microsoft so I'm deliberately skimming the details. Sorry.
Microsoft contracted the company I work for to select similar experts based on specified minimum criteria. I'm not sure what that criteria was, but they both had at least 10 years of experience and more than one certification pertaining to their OS of specialty. Incidentally (I assume), they both prescribed to their "OS religion" and had a lot to prove to eachother. It was really entertaining and educational watching them argue, but it was all in good spirits.:)
You're absolutely correct in your claim that the tests were performed by two different people with different backgrounds, and that there are certainly some variables that could not be kept equal in the comparison. For example, one linux distro didn't support one of our test platform's NICs so we had to install a different vendor's - but while setting up the second NIC the linux guy already knew where the menus and conf files were so it went more quickly.
We did provide a disclaimer that the paper basically illustrated the unique and shared opinions of the two experts. Ours was definitely not a definitive breakdown of the entirety of either OS by any measure. All we were hired to do was to give a fair cross-sampling of what we felt were the most important features in administering an enterprise populated with servers and desktops.
It was disappointing to see our honest wording diluted by someone else's marketing prose on microsoft.com, but even so we felt that our observations were reasonably represented. I don't even know if an MS marketing team wrote that document - likely they subcontracted a business writer just as they subcontracted 2 OS experts and a technical writer.
Exchange is an enterprise service but Office and Outlook aren't. The linux distros didn't only came with sendmail which doesn't take advantage of DNS and LDAP by default. Exchange's integration with Active Directory offers tons of functionality and ease of user administration. Exchange makes it a snap to associate additional email addresses with a single user account, remote access, security management, and Kerberos handshaking. All that stuff has to be done manually in linux, bringing many dissimilar services in sync.
And I don't know why you're bringing up security. That wasn't in the scope of my paper so I'm not educated enough on the matter to defend it.
If your sponsor is paying you either way, why should you be afraid to tell them your honest opinion? What would you gain by lying?
I really don't care whether I convince you of my professional integrity. Do the study yourself. I'm sure you can find a "disinterested party" who is interested.
I'm not sure where you get the idea that there are "bugs" in the system. Windows was just easier to use and\or more powerful. For instance, the built-in integration of Active Directory and Kerberos made secure user authentication a trivial task in Windows, but configuring Kerberos with ANYTHING in the tested linux flavours was a friggin nightmare. The linux guy had to write all kinds of custom scripts and workarounds to get 10% of Windows' functionality, and that simply isn't a viable option when you're administering a 10,000 seat enterprise.
You're right to be suspicious, though. If there was any sway in this test, it's that they chose to compare enterprise-class operating systems. Maybe MS knew in advance that the linux NOSes were not mature yet, or maybe they had us do the test to determine this. Going into the test, both experts held linux in the very highest regard, but neither had considered testing it in an enterprise environment. In the end we all agreed that linux is a fantastic server in small to medium-sized implementations but it's simply too much work from a top-down enterprise perspective.
Why shouldn't they? They paid me to give them an honest opinion and that's what I did.
What do you suggest? That I purchase tens of thousands of dollars worth of software and test it myself? That Microsoft should try to find impartial, pro-bono research firms?
The real answer to this conundrum is to search Google and try it yourself, if you have the resources. Either that, or talk to sysadmins at several companies and ask their opinions.
If you want the opinions of professionals, presented by a professional writer, then someone has to pay their professional fees. That's what makes it a profession.
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I remember seeing GLQuake for the first time. It really blew me away. The thing that convinced me that 3D was the way to be was the effect where rockets became their own light source. I seem to recall reading that this effect was coded in 30 minutes on a bet.
Voodoo2 SLI! Not that I could afford it. I spent all my hard earned babysitting money on a Matrox Millennium and it wasn't even a real 3D card!
That CD was awesome! It also had unlockable versions of Doom, Ultimate Doom, Final Doom, Doom 2, Heretic, and Hexen!
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+12022243004 (+1, area code, number, no spaces)
I may be a Canadian but I'll still be calling these individuals since we Canucks get splash damage from this greedy BFG!
This should be at the top of the page!!
The stack of cash is pretty modest indeed. Less than $200 on average. Any motivated party could afford that.
The harddrive in the PS3 is there to be used for Linux and your downloaded media. There will be a small area for caching if a developer decides to use it for that.
I was thinking more along the lines of something like Steam where people could buy games online. You know, E-Distro. Like they mention in TFA. Then again, Kutaragi's claim of "content" isn't very well defined.
Harddrive != fast loading. Despite what Microsoft marketing convinced so many Xbox fans to believe. With the tremendous amount of space at BluRay disc holds developers aren't having to do heavy compression and are able to just stream directly off the drive. There is no need to unload game data to the PS3's harddrive for the vast majority of games.
See if you sing the same song while you sit at loading screens on your PS3 games. I don't know what the BDROM throughput is but I guarantee it's nowhere near the speed of a hard disk. Plus, streaming uncompressed data works fine while playing movies\cutscenes, but when you start pulling nonsequential data off the disc like textures and speech you have to deal with latency caused by the laser moving across the disc radius. HDD was no big deal in Xbox because they didn't take advantage of its potential. Try burning an old installed PC game and play it off the disc on a 16x DVDROM drive and tell me with a straight face that it's just as fast as even a 5400RPM laptop HDD.
My point is that a 60GB HDD is hardly next-gen. They're calling this thing a computer replacement but you can hardly even find HDDs under 120GB on second-hand Emachines anymore. If they really wanted to boost speed they could have put in 1GB of low latency RAM and pre-streamed textures, or something. Of course I'm only speculating that the PS3's load times will be no shorter than PS2's, but I've seen no reason to believe otherwise. It's just another disc format limited by laser latency and spin-up time, and installing the game on HDD seems the obvious fix if my assumption is correct.
$499 for a 1080p BluRay player that also plays almost every major console developers games? Expensive, I don't think so...
Every journalist at E3 disagrees with you.
A 60GB drive seems incongruous with Sony's insistance of a BD-ROM drive. Considering a BD-ROM disc can hold 25GB, that's as few as just 2 games the drive can hold. Since the console is already so expensive, couldn't they have splurged another $10-$20 per unit to double that HDD capacity?
yeah because everyone that had windows 98 bought it in 98. Besides have you ever tried calling microsoft for support? I think not.
Not personally, but my sister's friend did. She called them up because she was having trouble with viruses. It turned out her copy of XP was pirated, of which they informed her, but they said they'd help anyway just this once. They spent almost an hour on the phone with her since she's next to computer illiterate. I was very impressed with that.
Or it took 8 years for someone to find that security flaw. If you know a way to future-proof software securely for 8 years I congratulate you on your soon-to-overflow bank account.
"this basically is the first time Microsoft has admitted that Windows 98 is so broken that it's crazy to be running it on today's Internet."
What crappy journalism. This is like saying "trees are cut down so easily by chainsaws that we shouldn't bother planting them," or, "iPods hold so much music that it's crazy to buy a CD player." If you're going to post a story, be objective and let the readers draw their own conclusion.
Windows may be expensive, but at least purchasers of 98 got 8 years of free support. How many products, never mind software apps, promise that?
The stupid Oblivion gates are one of the main reasons why I hate this game! You have to close how many of them? Like 15? And they're all pretty much identical! I can only kill those whirly stone guys and spider chicks and sword douches so many times (3 - that's how many gates I put up with) until I get bored.
And I found the main story really weak and uninteresting. Saving whatshisname from the burning city was the dumbest crap I'd ever seen in a game. Our 15 escorts in plate mail all got killed, but the NPC in a bath robe just got knocked unconscious over and over and over!! And he was as dumb as a post too! As my archer I'd sneak up slowly and stealthily on a group of enemies, waiting to get a 3x damage shot from the shadows, when the NPC would charge with his stick into a group of 10 demons, get knocked unconscious, and then all the demons would charge straight for me!
If only they'd kept Patrick Stewart for more of the game I'd at least have his UGLY UGLY character to look forward to. But this big budget game couldn't afford more than 3 lines from him, so my only motivation to play is to escort these morons VERY SLOWLY to some mountains. I got bored of waiting for them so I ran ahead, thinking they'd catch up. When they didn't show up after 10 minutes I backtracked (on foot because the horses are completely useless) until I found them standing still. One guy's horse was stuck between a hill and a tree, and the other horses were stuck as well, anally pleasuring the first guy's horse with their snouts! So I walked up to them one by one and pushed their horses sideways by walking into them until they got unstuck.
That's as far as I got in the game. I did zillions of side quests, but it was totally pointless. Enemies got stronger as I did so leveling up actually hurts you. Bandits would threaten my life if I didn't give them 100 gold, but I'd kill them and sell their $20,000 armour. Basically I felt like my 50 hours was completely wasted, except for the time I spent appreciating the sometimes perfect lip syncing.
I agree with your argument 100%. From Dan Glickman's argument:
...
"The fact of the matter is that people who create content for movies and television have to make a profit.
But he is right to the extent that we need to be finding new and different ways to get our content to people, whether it's internet or whether it's iPod or whether it's remotely accessed in various parts of the world. If [we] don't the consumer will not be satisfied and in this business the consumer is king and queen."
So who is really the king and queen? The producers or the consumers? You can't please everybody. The harder they press down on the consumers, the more efficient and widespread piracy will get.
People look to the entertainment industry for entertainment. The more people are reminded of the industry, the more desperate they will get for the entertainment.
I think, to grossly generalize, linear games will be looked upon more favourably in the future than open-ended games. Linear games have a narrow, well defined goal. Open-ended games strive to do things a little better than the last open-ended game. For instance, I can't even play Vice City anymore now that I've played San Andreas.
o lls-oblivious.html - my various bitches about why Oblivion felt dated the day it was launched
Oblivion is definitely an evolution in some aspects over Morrowind in some aspects, but some features are a step down (the made-for-TV interface is worthless on a PC monitor and mouse) and the fundamentals haven't changed one iota since Dragon Warrior for the NES (and are a huge step down compated to some of the Ultimas).
That being said, for some reason I'll always look back fondly at the Ultima Underworld series. However, the crazy mouse-only control scheme is really obnoxious in the WASD generation.
So I vote for FFVII in terms of longevity. Then again, Oblivion bored me to tears before long (granted, pretty long - 50 hours).
http://demodulated.blogspot.com/2006/04/elder-scr
Can anyone recommend a freely available outgoing email service so that we can tender a lovely hello to these charming people?
Those weren't the exact criteria we evaluated, but the project was intended to test the "hard" and "soft" aspects of installing services. This absolutely included a degree of technical comparison, but also considered how the testers felt about the procedures they did themselves and what the other guy did. The white paper is now property of Microsoft so I'm deliberately skimming the details. Sorry.
:)
Microsoft contracted the company I work for to select similar experts based on specified minimum criteria. I'm not sure what that criteria was, but they both had at least 10 years of experience and more than one certification pertaining to their OS of specialty. Incidentally (I assume), they both prescribed to their "OS religion" and had a lot to prove to eachother. It was really entertaining and educational watching them argue, but it was all in good spirits.
You're absolutely correct in your claim that the tests were performed by two different people with different backgrounds, and that there are certainly some variables that could not be kept equal in the comparison. For example, one linux distro didn't support one of our test platform's NICs so we had to install a different vendor's - but while setting up the second NIC the linux guy already knew where the menus and conf files were so it went more quickly.
We did provide a disclaimer that the paper basically illustrated the unique and shared opinions of the two experts. Ours was definitely not a definitive breakdown of the entirety of either OS by any measure. All we were hired to do was to give a fair cross-sampling of what we felt were the most important features in administering an enterprise populated with servers and desktops.
It was disappointing to see our honest wording diluted by someone else's marketing prose on microsoft.com, but even so we felt that our observations were reasonably represented. I don't even know if an MS marketing team wrote that document - likely they subcontracted a business writer just as they subcontracted 2 OS experts and a technical writer.
Exchange is an enterprise service but Office and Outlook aren't. The linux distros didn't only came with sendmail which doesn't take advantage of DNS and LDAP by default. Exchange's integration with Active Directory offers tons of functionality and ease of user administration. Exchange makes it a snap to associate additional email addresses with a single user account, remote access, security management, and Kerberos handshaking. All that stuff has to be done manually in linux, bringing many dissimilar services in sync.
And I don't know why you're bringing up security. That wasn't in the scope of my paper so I'm not educated enough on the matter to defend it.
Well I'll get right on the horn with Bill and let him know your concerns.
If your sponsor is paying you either way, why should you be afraid to tell them your honest opinion? What would you gain by lying?
I really don't care whether I convince you of my professional integrity. Do the study yourself. I'm sure you can find a "disinterested party" who is interested.
I'm not sure where you get the idea that there are "bugs" in the system. Windows was just easier to use and\or more powerful. For instance, the built-in integration of Active Directory and Kerberos made secure user authentication a trivial task in Windows, but configuring Kerberos with ANYTHING in the tested linux flavours was a friggin nightmare. The linux guy had to write all kinds of custom scripts and workarounds to get 10% of Windows' functionality, and that simply isn't a viable option when you're administering a 10,000 seat enterprise.
You're right to be suspicious, though. If there was any sway in this test, it's that they chose to compare enterprise-class operating systems. Maybe MS knew in advance that the linux NOSes were not mature yet, or maybe they had us do the test to determine this. Going into the test, both experts held linux in the very highest regard, but neither had considered testing it in an enterprise environment. In the end we all agreed that linux is a fantastic server in small to medium-sized implementations but it's simply too much work from a top-down enterprise perspective.
P.s., the paper took 3 people 2.5 months, 40 hours per week, to write.
Why shouldn't they? They paid me to give them an honest opinion and that's what I did.
What do you suggest? That I purchase tens of thousands of dollars worth of software and test it myself? That Microsoft should try to find impartial, pro-bono research firms?
The real answer to this conundrum is to search Google and try it yourself, if you have the resources. Either that, or talk to sysadmins at several companies and ask their opinions.
If you want the opinions of professionals, presented by a professional writer, then someone has to pay their professional fees. That's what makes it a profession.
Most enterprise admins don't browse the web on Win2K3 servers.