Honestly, I hope they start charging monthly fees for this! I don't think enough games charge monthly fees! Maybe we can get people to charge monthly fees for offline games too!
Seriously, I don't see enough of a market to justify a full scale MMO game. People log on and play everquest like there's nothing better in the world, but I have a hard time beliving that the type of people willing to play sports games would be dedicated enough to play them in an MMO format (which inevitably means monthly fees)
I've got a great idea... lets bring up a point that is no longer applicable!
Cube sales were slowing with all video games in 2003. Nintendo stopped production to sell a backlog. They dropped their price, and suddenly they sold their whole stock of cubes. Slashdot ran an article a few months ago saying Nintendo had started production again.
I love my Gamecube. I've got a PS2, but I don't use it online. Nintendo is not going to die because they didn't innovate online play.
Well, from what I've heard, the Centrino is a really highly clocked P3 with SSE2 and a few other modifications. The pipeline is much shorter and it has a bigger cache. They're pretty damn expensive though.
Yea, plamsa burn in is quite bad. Many high end plasma televisions have methods of removing short term burn in, but Plama also suffers from perm. burn in. In fact, the blue pixels have about half the usable life of the rest of the pixels so be prepared for lower quality images as your pannel ages.
Guess what? You're a fanboy. Yup. The vast majority of Gamecube games also support 480p. Theres quite a bit of 16:9 support, but not so much 720p or 1080i.
Most Playstation 2 games do not support progressive scan or 16:9.
Is the Itanium's (Itanic?) 64 bit setup faster or better then AMDs? For that matter, is WindowsXP 64bit compatible with BOTH 64bit chips or only with the AMD ones?
So it's a simple memory error. I'd say that the best route to take would be to just sit tight and see if it happens again. Big sticks of memory that lack ECC or a suddenly undervolted northbridge can cause em. Check out memtest86 and test your RAM for stability.
I'm not a Unix user, but thats what all us uneducated Windows PC users do when we overclock or have memory errors.
There's been plenty of gain in cooling technology. It came out a bit less then a hundred years ago and it's called a refrigeration. Several companies offer phase-change cooling systems for CPUs. I wouldn't be surprised if we have to go that way in the future.
From what I've heard, the yields on the new Athlon 64 FX chips have been atrociously low. We're not talking high prices because of speed bining here, but high prices because of terrible yield. Someone needs to move to 300mm wafers.
a tactic to try to capture the 64/32 bit standard leaving Intel in the rear
I was sure that Intel had announced plans to integrate it's 64bit "Yamhill" extensions into the Prescott chip which should be launched early next year. I think AMD is trying to wish it away.
I guess they looked pretty cool for the 3 days they were functional. I figure it's best not to mess with things that can be utterly destroyed by a piece of dust.
Imagine a world where Real Audio replaces Windows Media Player as the most popular multimedia program. I just imagined it... and I can see myself laying on the floor with a balled up sock stuffed deep into my throat. Can you belive that stock was once worth $300+ a share!?
I'd hate to offend the average self-rightous-MS-hating slashdotter, but seriously... I don't want an empty shell of an OS. I don't use linux because it isn't convenient for me. Want to watch a movie? I can go grab it, and maybe a codec or two, and I'm set. While winamp is a decent MP3 player, I have yet to find a video player that works as well as WMP. I don't like Quicktime, and I'll never use "The Divx Playa" as long as I live. If you have Windows XP installed and you don't want to use WMP, then dont.
Microsoft suxxors... groupthink roxxors.
Whatever...
Is anyone honestly surprised that there are so many flamebait modded posts on a Final Fantesty Topic?
I'll probably end up buying it, playing it, and being mildly dissatisfied at the end. Such is life.
Average prison terms:
5 years, 11 months for homicide
4 years, 9 months for rape
2 years, 9 months for sex crimes against children and Three years for filesharing!
A friend of mine bought an Intel webcam a few years back that came with several motion games. (hit the bouncing ball with your hand, scrub the screen clean etc) They were pretty shallow, but from what I hear, Sony's is too. Why is this such a big deal? Do they expect us to run out and buy this thing just because Sony tells us we should?
Honestly, I can't think of a better use for Intellectual Property laws then throwing college students in jail. I'm pretty sure we all learned back in the 70's how dangerous students can be. If we're lucky, the RIAA, FTC, and FCC might form a special ops team that hunts down and "neutralizes" pirates in their sleep.
People walk out of the store I work at with items in their pockets all the time. The younger ones who are caught get yelled at and a picture snapped, and sent on their way. If they're older or been caught before, they get a trip in a cop car to the station and MIGHT possibly spend the night.
What use is a 64bit processor in a gaming console? The largest limitation so far has been RAM. I mean, the PS2 had only an 8MB frame buffer. If it needed more then 8MB for textures (which happened ALL the time) it had to swap out of the main 32MB memory. Thats not enough.
The GC had 48MB of RAM and a 16MB frame buffer
The Xbox had 64MB of unified memory. The GPU memory was shared.
My computer has 1024MB. Games often take 200-300.
Actually Several years ago Microsoft issued a statement that when they were done supporting XP at the end of it's life, they planned on releasing a patch to remove product activation.
I think that immersion is the largest problem in MMORPGs today. You wouldn't belive how large the percent "churn" (people who cancel accounts early on) is. The problem lies in the fact that it's difficult to really get into a lisenced game world when you feel like the actions that you're allowed to take are all superficial.
I played SWG for exactly one month after launch, just long enough to get out without having to large a time or monatary investment. Everything I was allowed to do in the game was superficial. I could kill randomly spawning rocks (burrows) or randomly spawning rats. I could craft using randomly spawning resources, or go on randomly spawning missions to destroy randomly spawning burrows for a random amount of gold. I don't remember the Star Wars Universe as portrayed in the movies to be anything like that. Heck, they STILL don't have landspeeders!
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Honestly, I hope they start charging monthly fees for this! I don't think enough games charge monthly fees! Maybe we can get people to charge monthly fees for offline games too!
Seriously, I don't see enough of a market to justify a full scale MMO game. People log on and play everquest like there's nothing better in the world, but I have a hard time beliving that the type of people willing to play sports games would be dedicated enough to play them in an MMO format (which inevitably means monthly fees)
I've got a great idea... lets bring up a point that is no longer applicable!
Cube sales were slowing with all video games in 2003. Nintendo stopped production to sell a backlog. They dropped their price, and suddenly they sold their whole stock of cubes. Slashdot ran an article a few months ago saying Nintendo had started production again.
I love my Gamecube. I've got a PS2, but I don't use it online. Nintendo is not going to die because they didn't innovate online play.
Your problem:
You're using RealOne Player
If my car ran RealOne Player, it'd probably burst into flame in my driveway.
Well, from what I've heard, the Centrino is a really highly clocked P3 with SSE2 and a few other modifications. The pipeline is much shorter and it has a bigger cache. They're pretty damn expensive though.
100W isn't that impressive. The high end P4s are putting out close to 80W under load. It's not like out of nowhere power usage skyrocketed.
Yea, plamsa burn in is quite bad. Many high end plasma televisions have methods of removing short term burn in, but Plama also suffers from perm. burn in. In fact, the blue pixels have about half the usable life of the rest of the pixels so be prepared for lower quality images as your pannel ages.
Guess what? You're a fanboy. Yup. The vast majority of Gamecube games also support 480p. Theres quite a bit of 16:9 support, but not so much 720p or 1080i. Most Playstation 2 games do not support progressive scan or 16:9.
Is the Itanium's (Itanic?) 64 bit setup faster or better then AMDs? For that matter, is WindowsXP 64bit compatible with BOTH 64bit chips or only with the AMD ones?
So it's a simple memory error. I'd say that the best route to take would be to just sit tight and see if it happens again. Big sticks of memory that lack ECC or a suddenly undervolted northbridge can cause em. Check out memtest86 and test your RAM for stability.
I'm not a Unix user, but thats what all us uneducated Windows PC users do when we overclock or have memory errors.
There's been plenty of gain in cooling technology. It came out a bit less then a hundred years ago and it's called a refrigeration. Several companies offer phase-change cooling systems for CPUs. I wouldn't be surprised if we have to go that way in the future.
From what I've heard, the yields on the new Athlon 64 FX chips have been atrociously low. We're not talking high prices because of speed bining here, but high prices because of terrible yield. Someone needs to move to 300mm wafers.
a tactic to try to capture the 64/32 bit standard leaving Intel in the rear
I was sure that Intel had announced plans to integrate it's 64bit "Yamhill" extensions into the Prescott chip which should be launched early next year. I think AMD is trying to wish it away.
What limits throughput on a wireless connection? Is it broadcast power, frequency, amount of spectrum, or "c"?
I guess they looked pretty cool for the 3 days they were functional. I figure it's best not to mess with things that can be utterly destroyed by a piece of dust.
Good god... you just scared me half to death.
Imagine a world where Real Audio replaces Windows Media Player as the most popular multimedia program. I just imagined it... and I can see myself laying on the floor with a balled up sock stuffed deep into my throat. Can you belive that stock was once worth $300+ a share!?
I'd hate to offend the average self-rightous-MS-hating slashdotter, but seriously... I don't want an empty shell of an OS. I don't use linux because it isn't convenient for me. Want to watch a movie? I can go grab it, and maybe a codec or two, and I'm set. While winamp is a decent MP3 player, I have yet to find a video player that works as well as WMP. I don't like Quicktime, and I'll never use "The Divx Playa" as long as I live. If you have Windows XP installed and you don't want to use WMP, then dont.
Microsoft suxxors... groupthink roxxors.
Whatever...
Is anyone honestly surprised that there are so many flamebait modded posts on a Final Fantesty Topic?
I'll probably end up buying it, playing it, and being mildly dissatisfied at the end. Such is life.
Average prison terms:
5 years, 11 months for homicide
4 years, 9 months for rape
2 years, 9 months for sex crimes against children
and Three years for filesharing!
source: http://www.house.gov/judiciary/3585.htm
A friend of mine bought an Intel webcam a few years back that came with several motion games. (hit the bouncing ball with your hand, scrub the screen clean etc) They were pretty shallow, but from what I hear, Sony's is too. Why is this such a big deal? Do they expect us to run out and buy this thing just because Sony tells us we should?
It's obvious that reversible chemical batteries will never be up to the standards that fuel cells have.
Portable power should be lightweight, long lasting, and quickly rechargable/refillable.
Honestly, I can't think of a better use for Intellectual Property laws then throwing college students in jail. I'm pretty sure we all learned back in the 70's how dangerous students can be. If we're lucky, the RIAA, FTC, and FCC might form a special ops team that hunts down and "neutralizes" pirates in their sleep.
People walk out of the store I work at with items in their pockets all the time. The younger ones who are caught get yelled at and a picture snapped, and sent on their way. If they're older or been caught before, they get a trip in a cop car to the station and MIGHT possibly spend the night.
Hang me, I'm a pirate.
I'm pretty sure it stems from some desire to justify their purchases.
Probably like how people with Apple Computers brag about how fast they can run photoshop because there aren't any other programs for them. -Zing!-
What use is a 64bit processor in a gaming console? The largest limitation so far has been RAM. I mean, the PS2 had only an 8MB frame buffer. If it needed more then 8MB for textures (which happened ALL the time) it had to swap out of the main 32MB memory. Thats not enough.
The GC had 48MB of RAM and a 16MB frame buffer
The Xbox had 64MB of unified memory. The GPU memory was shared. My computer has 1024MB. Games often take 200-300.
Actually Several years ago Microsoft issued a statement that when they were done supporting XP at the end of it's life, they planned on releasing a patch to remove product activation.
I think that immersion is the largest problem in MMORPGs today. You wouldn't belive how large the percent "churn" (people who cancel accounts early on) is. The problem lies in the fact that it's difficult to really get into a lisenced game world when you feel like the actions that you're allowed to take are all superficial.
I played SWG for exactly one month after launch, just long enough to get out without having to large a time or monatary investment. Everything I was allowed to do in the game was superficial. I could kill randomly spawning rocks (burrows) or randomly spawning rats. I could craft using randomly spawning resources, or go on randomly spawning missions to destroy randomly spawning burrows for a random amount of gold. I don't remember the Star Wars Universe as portrayed in the movies to be anything like that. Heck, they STILL don't have landspeeders!