Yes, let's get rid of pre-rendered cut-scenes, most people from what I've seen -- don't want them.
How many DVDs are you willing to shuffle for one game?
Honestly? It really depends on how long the game is. If it's every half an hour changing to another DVD, no. If it's after say, seven hours of game play to get another set of stages, sure.
It's not like older games which ran on disks where you had to constantly swap disks 1, 2 and 3 for every map. You get to a certain stage, then you starting using DVD 2 only, later on, DVD 3 only etc.
You're really trying extremely hard to be a short-sighted dipshit, and your comparison between BMP and PNG is retarded.
Yes, they are both graphicy things!
The real comparison you're looking for is BMP => JPEG.
When it takes me, 12 minutes to view a huge BMP file stored on a CDROM VS a good fifteen second load of a PNG, I see the difference.
Lossless compression simply isn't enough to fit modern games on a DVD.
Uhm, most games can do this already for huge resolutions on a DVD, what is your point?
Now, you can criticize Sony all you want for the expense they went to in order to add the extra storage, but to deride the fact that they added more storage is short-sighted and stupid.
At the moment, no I don't see the need for it -- Worst comes to worst, we will see games with two DVDs -- which by the way, we don't see people constantly switching DVDs to play - Think final fantasy.
Just because cut-scenes are the most obvious way to use space that's mentioned does not mean that's all that they are being used for.
No, but most.
Think of playing a FF game where EVERYONE talks.
You know, I really hate FF as a RPG, because well. It wasn't really a RPG, how about they make the next FF game, one where I can have a dynamic role, and not set to really linear story lines. Or, what about embedding a text2speech engine, we've had the technology for years and had very reasonable results with preprogrammed dialog and their expressions, where the characters can even speak YOUR DEFINED NAME -- That's next generation for me.
Also, with all that new geometry (which takes space) you also have all the high-rez textures so things look good when you're NOT 10 feet away.
You're not going to convince me that, that alone can take 25GB of drive space, especially with all the nice file formats we have available.
We are talking about a GAME CONSOLE FORMAT. Your comments don't make much sense in that context. What you are saying is basically...
Parent poster I was replying to didn't seem to be specifically referring to that at all.
The point of the article is that next-gen games are already taking up 25 gigs so Sony's move to not use DVDs (like MS did) seems like it was a very smart one (on that issue, price could be argued otherwise).
Really? I didn't read about about next-gen games taking up the space, only cut scenes and other crap many gamers complain about in games are taking up that space.
If you take a look at the cines in a game like GuildWars, for example, you'll notice that until recently there's no lip movement at all, and even now, the lip sync leaves a lot to be desired.
Freelancer had lip movements and did not use pre-rendered movies for those. Also, didn't some xbox games have lip sync on characters of players integrated when someone spoke on a mic?
Virtually unlimited storage has only made programmers more lazy. It has done nothing to make better games.
I have to agree here. I still find my self playing old adventure games that came on disks and small games like Frontier: Elite II. Very few new games have interested me in a while.
I am however quite interested in getting a Wii though (the price is right and some of the games I hear are promising), particularly if I can get network gaming (requires decent games to come out before I will get one) with my online friends. This is coming from someone who hasn't owned a console other than the NES his parents bought him many years ago.
People piss and moan about Blu-Ray, "You don't need it!"
Why do I need DRM?
When you're posting your Sony flames, just think of the irony in Slashdot posters arguing that we don't need a new technology.
I bought a Mini-disc player from Sony, the format and devices flopped in the end. I bought a (what was considered at the time) next-generation MP3 player from Sony that couldn't play MP3s -- Flopped too in the end.
Give me reason to trust any more Sony technologies?
I've found that a lot of users seem to get upset when others aren't using their preferred software.
I (KDE user) get worse from Microsoft office/windows users (in real life and online) to be honest. Gnome/KDE users just tend to argue about the superiority of the software from what I've seen on IRC.
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I wonder, is the parent trying to be funny? Or is it involuntarily funny?
In theory, he could be a little confused about what's out there for Linux. Many commercial Linux distributions offer a 'free' version of their distribution that doesn't come with Flash, Java etc. They claim you should pay for a commercial version to get it. Even though that they conveniently forget to mention there are probably 'alternative' and free repositories available for their free distribution that provide such things.
Don't underestimate the value of having applications integrated each other and the desktop. While you can just install the KDE libs if you must run KOffice, it certainly isn't an ideal arrangement.
It was my understanding that KDElibs did have some freedesktop specifications implemented in them for support for basic support of other desktops too.
If you start pushing all this stuff into the actual application, we start getting messy programs that behave differently because the same specifications have been reimplemented in different ways over and over rather than standardizing on the base library -- Which is part of KDE's philosophy.
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there's also been instances where I've renamed ASCII text files to ".doc" for the sake of people who had no idea what a text file was.
I used to have to-do this practice a lot a few years ago.
They run a business designed to profit from promoting artists.
I couldn't careless how their buisness is 'designed' when they're attacking old ladies, little girls, poor mothers and many people who did nothing wrong at all. Does allofmp3 do this? No.
allofmp3 is run by russian mafia thugs who sell music they haven't licensed.
I suggest you read this FAQ or this wiki entry on allofmp3, those sites say otherwise on the issue of licensing, Mafia etc.
It belongs in the same box with the diatribes about how DRM is a single entity that can only be bad.
Give me DRM that lets me exercise my fair-use rights (without having to pay more), by allowing me to convert the song into a unprotected format without losing any of the quality. So I can do what I wish with it (to the extent fair-use lets me), such as remixing it etc.
It works when the player can hold your entire music collection, you can just drag&drop everything at once. t breaks down when you want to fill a 20GB player from a 32GB music collection.
Point taken.
Building an iTunes playlist for all tracks rated 3 stars or more and syncing it to an iPod takes about 5 mouse clicks.
If one uses ratings.. (I don't -- and I use Amarok which supports it).
Building an iTunes playlist for all tracks rated 3 stars or more and syncing it to an iPod takes about 5 mouse clicks.
I'd have to rate them first:P Plus I'd prefer to just copy specific albums over and a few songs (easy for me since everything is stored in folders).
Putting the same set of songs onto a drag&drop player requires spending hours of quality time with Windows Explorer, Finder, or "man rsync".
I think rating all my music would be spending hours of quality time too... Which would be kind of stupid since I don't think any other player supports Amarok's databases or iTune's databases for that matter -- I'm not going todo something like this, only to find myself unable to use the information later (having to recreate it) if I decide to change player.
Not unlikely enough for a techie to be asked to help with it.
At worst a re-auth of that computer would be required.
Apple support was unhelpful. iTunes went 'Your computer has been successfully activated!', but whenever he tried to play a song on the stupid thing would go into a login loop and asking for authorization again.
I finally gave up after nothing seemed to work (confirming we tried Apple support, Google, help site and all that).
The conversation ended with something along the lines of:
"You'll have to use version 5/6, because I can't figure out how to help you" "But I like 7" "Then enjoy seven" "But my files won't play" "Well... If you want them to, use version 5/6"
Did he try it on a totally different PC, that he could also auth?
No, he had only one PC, and he even tried reinstalling the OS.
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Honestly? It really depends on how long the game is. If it's every half an hour changing to another DVD, no. If it's after say, seven hours of game play to get another set of stages, sure.
It's not like older games which ran on disks where you had to constantly swap disks 1, 2 and 3 for every map. You get to a certain stage, then you starting using DVD 2 only, later on, DVD 3 only etc.
I thought GTK+ wasn't specific to Gnome only? (Think of the equivalent to KDElib for Gnome)
I am however quite interested in getting a Wii though (the price is right and some of the games I hear are promising), particularly if I can get network gaming (requires decent games to come out before I will get one) with my online friends. This is coming from someone who hasn't owned a console other than the NES his parents bought him many years ago.
I bought a (what was considered at the time) next-generation MP3 player from Sony that couldn't play MP3s -- Flopped too in the end.
Give me reason to trust any more Sony technologies?
If you start pushing all this stuff into the actual application, we start getting messy programs that behave differently because the same specifications have been reimplemented in different ways over and over rather than standardizing on the base library -- Which is part of KDE's philosophy.
Nevermind, ignore my previous comment. I miss understood what EasyBCD was from the article.
So... any particular reason why BCD instead of GRUB or Lilo? I don't get it.
I won't mind using it then.
There are other, more 'legitimate' as you've seen in my post too. Although I'd still buy from allofmp3, it's a lesser evil to the RIAA in my opinion.
iTunes went 'Your computer has been successfully activated!', but whenever he tried to play a song on the stupid thing would go into a login loop and asking for authorization again.
I finally gave up after nothing seemed to work (confirming we tried Apple support, Google, help site and all that).
The conversation ended with something along the lines of:
"You'll have to use version 5/6, because I can't figure out how to help you"
"But I like 7"
"Then enjoy seven"
"But my files won't play"
"Well... If you want them to, use version 5/6"
No, he had only one PC, and he even tried reinstalling the OS.
How is this flamebait?