This is where is good. If your printer is supported, chances are it will work out of the box. My printer is working fine (samsung clp300) although the ibook prints better in colour, Ubuntu drivers are easier to install.
but then the real problem will kick in, they won't be able to protect their source code, so they'll never release it. If they can't make a profit (no matter the size) and protect their assets, they won't do it.
How would you optimize it better? Code redrawal in assembler for the graphics card instead of using direct draw or whatever?
For starters, you could strip out alot code, start hard coding software to do certain things where needed, ie you don't need to ca tore for different hardware, you don't need to allocate for conditions that *might* occur if your running on one cpu type instead of another, every one of these adds in things that will slow down the main program. If you can't out preform a general use application (which is what MSIE is) with something that is custom built for a purpose then you have serious issues.
i think the system is great, and it fills something that wasn't around at all, me and my friends will play wii for 10minutes (what ever game * people) while we wait for a taxi, or someone to get back with pizza and a movie etc. One of the best features of the system is that you can pick it up, play it for 5-10 minutes, AND have fun. it's hard to do that with almost anything else on the market.
Your welcome to call it a fad system, but be aware, to alot of people that own one, the power is in been able to play it for 5-10minutes and put it down. Hardcore gamers might see it as a fad, but not every one is addicted to gaming
implement in a single game on anything approaching a reasonable timeline
The path players take through the missions can vary â" the storyline branches frequently â" but they will end in the same place
Yes, they are saying they are doing it as 3 different games because the stories are to big, to fit together.
1) They say they won't affect each other
2) The stories are too big to put together
3) They are been released at the same time
Now, to me, it'd take a hell of alot more time, to break it up into 3 titles (which includes artwork altering code to stop access to other races etc), then one title.
This is an absolute grab for cash, absolutey no excuse for it.
Look i know, this day and age, more then 3 levels on an rts is going over bored, but stating that 26-30 missions is two long is absolute b*llshit...
Finally, there is one HUGE incentive for developers to switch to consoles; piracy. Say what you want about it, but piracy is a cancer on the PC market. Is your game actually going to do well, or is it gonna get pirated to hell and back? Will you even make a return on that investment? Consoles have significantly lower piracy, and that makes them a safer bet.
That's all great, but that isn't a problem you have with mmo's, you can't copy the game and play, you need a unique key (ie cd key) to create an account, and it's the account your paying for, not the game. You can give the games away, copy it as much as possible, but it's still useless without account. MMO's have a much lower piracy rate then a console...
Console mmo's will never been huge, for a reason you stated above, unless it's made for the console from the ground up, it's not going to sell, just look at phantasy star online, that was obviously made for consoles, on pc's it just outright sucks (and then there's the gameplay....).
There was an underworld boss in australia, that wanted to get his car fully bullet proofed etc etc, how ever they stated they needed a second one for crash testing to ensure it was safe.....one off conversion...
MMO's would be an exception to this, as you are buying an account online, in which no matter how many times you reinstalled, formatted etc, everything is still there when you log back on again.
you can reinstall the game as much as you want, but all the features and bonuses are attacthed to you ingame, and not to the software itself.
Well i can see where you are coming from, but what you would be talking about, is buying a limited edition game, which had a free poster map, or making of dvd.
If i brought a car, but sold it to you in a year, but i couldn't sell you the seats in the car, because the car company came and took them out, then you'd be pretty pissed off, because that is devaluing the product.
Offering Bonuses that don't affect the game is one thing, offering bonuses that are apart of the game is someting totaly different, once you start claiming "required" or "core" content as a bonus, then something is wrong.
So are the iPod Touch and the model with a built-in phone, but that's selling like hotcakes.
No, it's not. The Touch and Iphone, come with a small baseline of features, if you want more, you have to go and get what you want, therefore the average user is going to have a semi decent idea of what everything else.
But if they had 200 Applications installed by default, how the hell would they know what is what.
there is a very big difference, if you something that large, your going to throw it into the to hard basket by default.
they started selling the software standalone, they might not have the same profit margins, but i'm quite sure that'd be total oblitirated by the amount of software they'd sell.
well it wouldn't be a microsoft tax anymore, it'd be a choice inbetween apple tax, and microsoft tax, you'd get to chose your poison so to speak.
but i can see the day, where either apple don't win a court case stoping people making compatible hardware (ie os installs right on it) or they get some type of antitrust and are forced to remove the hardware restrictions on their software, it's not a matter of if, but when...
The is one huge difference inbetween consoles and pc's in which you totaly bypass.
With Consoles, when you leave, you take the game with you.
With PC's, you install the game, and leave a copy ON the pc.
With a console disk, goto 12 friend's places, still one copy of the game. With a PC disk, goto 12 friend's places, and you got 12 copies of the game, This is what they are trying to protect against. I don't like it, or agree with it, but it's that type thing they are trying to protect themselves from.
In australia, to get one of the full hd blue rays, we are paying 50-60$ off the shelf, that's almost triple it costs to buy a dvd, what do they expect, comsumers aren't tech's, they don't know the difference inbetween dvd and blue ray, they'll see the massive prices on the players, and then the massive prices on the movies themselves, and pretty much flee in terror, why pay more for the same thing?
It's not that easy anymore, programs like windows, anti virus software just to name a few, require you to either phone a number to active the software, or connect to the internet, if you don't do that, it won't run until you do. Now add in they usally only let you install the software X number of times per key/product, your going to be screwed in ten years if you need to activate software from today.
Safely storing your serial/product keys these days for long term use is pretty useless.
absolutey, drm help stop the pirates...
1) Release extremely buggy game with restrictive drm
2) Release 2 patches a week for 3 months (normanly the ???? step)
3) pirates buy game because their sick of not been able to play the game due to waiting 4 days for patches every 3 days.
4) Profit!
well in this case i would belive so, the person had proir information of the products, and registered domains based on those products, if the company had his name down on the testing run, it wouldn't be hard to prove they where registered in bad faith.
registering the domain city/year in bulk seems seriously flawed, but 1) it was speculation, 2) it was for the purpose of what was is something that forseeable, and 3) he's use of it is inline with what it's purpose is intended, honestly, i hope he gets smacked down.
(just a note, if he on the otherhand was using it for anything except the Olympics, then he'd have fair use.)
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This is where is good. If your printer is supported, chances are it will work out of the box. My printer is working fine (samsung clp300) although the ibook prints better in colour, Ubuntu drivers are easier to install.
there fixed...
but then the real problem will kick in, they won't be able to protect their source code, so they'll never release it. If they can't make a profit (no matter the size) and protect their assets, they won't do it.
ya it'll be great when they port all the codec's over to run in javascript realtime....
it's holloween tomorrow, has google and microsoft teamed up for a double trick or treat ?
How would you optimize it better? Code redrawal in assembler for the graphics card instead of using direct draw or whatever?
For starters, you could strip out alot code, start hard coding software to do certain things where needed, ie you don't need to ca tore for different hardware, you don't need to allocate for conditions that *might* occur if your running on one cpu type instead of another, every one of these adds in things that will slow down the main program. If you can't out preform a general use application (which is what MSIE is) with something that is custom built for a purpose then you have serious issues.
absolutely not, what is best for their shareholders is best for everyone.
i think the system is great, and it fills something that wasn't around at all, me and my friends will play wii for 10minutes (what ever game * people) while we wait for a taxi, or someone to get back with pizza and a movie etc. One of the best features of the system is that you can pick it up, play it for 5-10 minutes, AND have fun. it's hard to do that with almost anything else on the market. Your welcome to call it a fad system, but be aware, to alot of people that own one, the power is in been able to play it for 5-10minutes and put it down. Hardcore gamers might see it as a fad, but not every one is addicted to gaming
Of course i can, that's what the sticker on the outside of the machine is for.. you did put one on it right?
i do, but i'm afraid they'll still sue me for downloading it....
of course it doesn't need to exsist, how else are they going to charge you a montly fee for playing a game with your friends ?
so what does that say about linux been given away ?
Yes, they are saying they are doing it as 3 different games because the stories are to big, to fit together.
1) They say they won't affect each other
2) The stories are too big to put together
3) They are been released at the same time
Now, to me, it'd take a hell of alot more time, to break it up into 3 titles (which includes artwork altering code to stop access to other races etc), then one title. This is an absolute grab for cash, absolutey no excuse for it. Look i know, this day and age, more then 3 levels on an rts is going over bored, but stating that 26-30 missions is two long is absolute b*llshit...
Finally, there is one HUGE incentive for developers to switch to consoles; piracy. Say what you want about it, but piracy is a cancer on the PC market. Is your game actually going to do well, or is it gonna get pirated to hell and back? Will you even make a return on that investment? Consoles have significantly lower piracy, and that makes them a safer bet.
That's all great, but that isn't a problem you have with mmo's, you can't copy the game and play, you need a unique key (ie cd key) to create an account, and it's the account your paying for, not the game. You can give the games away, copy it as much as possible, but it's still useless without account. MMO's have a much lower piracy rate then a console... Console mmo's will never been huge, for a reason you stated above, unless it's made for the console from the ground up, it's not going to sell, just look at phantasy star online, that was obviously made for consoles, on pc's it just outright sucks (and then there's the gameplay....).
"As I predicted a week ago, it looks as if the third quarter was ugly for software vendors"
Any chance you got next weeks lotto numbers there as well ?
There was an underworld boss in australia, that wanted to get his car fully bullet proofed etc etc, how ever they stated they needed a second one for crash testing to ensure it was safe.... .one off conversion...
Because, well you know, nobody would show up with 100 of their mates at every voting booth in the county/state to stack an election would they ?
MMO's would be an exception to this, as you are buying an account online, in which no matter how many times you reinstalled, formatted etc, everything is still there when you log back on again. you can reinstall the game as much as you want, but all the features and bonuses are attacthed to you ingame, and not to the software itself.
Well i can see where you are coming from, but what you would be talking about, is buying a limited edition game, which had a free poster map, or making of dvd. If i brought a car, but sold it to you in a year, but i couldn't sell you the seats in the car, because the car company came and took them out, then you'd be pretty pissed off, because that is devaluing the product. Offering Bonuses that don't affect the game is one thing, offering bonuses that are apart of the game is someting totaly different, once you start claiming "required" or "core" content as a bonus, then something is wrong.
So are the iPod Touch and the model with a built-in phone, but that's selling like hotcakes.
No, it's not. The Touch and Iphone, come with a small baseline of features, if you want more, you have to go and get what you want, therefore the average user is going to have a semi decent idea of what everything else. But if they had 200 Applications installed by default, how the hell would they know what is what. there is a very big difference, if you something that large, your going to throw it into the to hard basket by default.
they started selling the software standalone, they might not have the same profit margins, but i'm quite sure that'd be total oblitirated by the amount of software they'd sell. well it wouldn't be a microsoft tax anymore, it'd be a choice inbetween apple tax, and microsoft tax, you'd get to chose your poison so to speak. but i can see the day, where either apple don't win a court case stoping people making compatible hardware (ie os installs right on it) or they get some type of antitrust and are forced to remove the hardware restrictions on their software, it's not a matter of if, but when...
The is one huge difference inbetween consoles and pc's in which you totaly bypass. With Consoles, when you leave, you take the game with you. With PC's, you install the game, and leave a copy ON the pc. With a console disk, goto 12 friend's places, still one copy of the game. With a PC disk, goto 12 friend's places, and you got 12 copies of the game, This is what they are trying to protect against. I don't like it, or agree with it, but it's that type thing they are trying to protect themselves from.
In australia, to get one of the full hd blue rays, we are paying 50-60$ off the shelf, that's almost triple it costs to buy a dvd, what do they expect, comsumers aren't tech's, they don't know the difference inbetween dvd and blue ray, they'll see the massive prices on the players, and then the massive prices on the movies themselves, and pretty much flee in terror, why pay more for the same thing?
It's not that easy anymore, programs like windows, anti virus software just to name a few, require you to either phone a number to active the software, or connect to the internet, if you don't do that, it won't run until you do. Now add in they usally only let you install the software X number of times per key/product, your going to be screwed in ten years if you need to activate software from today. Safely storing your serial/product keys these days for long term use is pretty useless.
absolutey, drm help stop the pirates...
1) Release extremely buggy game with restrictive drm
2) Release 2 patches a week for 3 months (normanly the ???? step)
3) pirates buy game because their sick of not been able to play the game due to waiting 4 days for patches every 3 days.
4) Profit!
well in this case i would belive so, the person had proir information of the products, and registered domains based on those products, if the company had his name down on the testing run, it wouldn't be hard to prove they where registered in bad faith. registering the domain city/year in bulk seems seriously flawed, but 1) it was speculation, 2) it was for the purpose of what was is something that forseeable, and 3) he's use of it is inline with what it's purpose is intended, honestly, i hope he gets smacked down. (just a note, if he on the otherhand was using it for anything except the Olympics, then he'd have fair use.)