Huh? Are you saying that using a mouse and WASD is overly complex for the typical consol gamer? Seriously? I think you do console gamers an injustice. Mouse and Keyboard takes almost no time to learn. I spent longer figuring out the controller in Halo then the mouse.
I think what the GP is trying to say is as long as you can write code on a PC, you can write a game. Therefore, gaming will exist. For example a lot of games made in the 80s and such were done by hobbyists, and even the EA's of the world were small fries. Gaming on the PC will never ever die. It'll grow, it'll shrink, it might even be considered marginal someday, but it will never ever be dead.
And using your example, I could "popularize genres that deployed consoles still can't handle, such as RTS's, FPS's (still can't beat the mouse!), where the computers controls are superior, or the fact that games on the PC are cheaper especially for the Mom and Dad's of the world, not to mention the inherent openness of the PC"
You seem to be conflicted. You don't want to have inhouse IT, but you want them there and available anytime you need them onsite. I think you first need to determine which is important: reduced costs of outsourcing (And all the issues that goes with it) or the improved service of inhouse (and all the issues that go with that)
Even if they're onsite, are you going to have someone paid to stand over their shoulder and watch? if so pay that person to do the damn work for ya.
To be honest your probably safer with an outsourcing company since no sane company would risk their reputation by stealing your "zomg important" secrets.
Agreed.. I remember winning a 3.2 Extreme Edition CPU 4-5 years back or something like that. My 2 year old C2D I've been able to overclock to 3.2, but the Mhz battle is truely dead, at least for now.
Not that it's a bad thing, CPU's are way more efficient and still faster then the CPU's 5 years ago, but it was fun watching the battle. AMD isn't much more then a whimper right now.
Just like OSX is nothing more then a distro of BSD? If someone (say Google) makes "just another distro" that actually brings Linux out into the mainstream, then I'm all for it. What's the harm of it, anyways? Google's releasing the source code so can't really understand how this may be evil. I must be missing the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt angle.
Other then one is being built by one of the largest tech companies on the planet? Besides this wouldn't be the first *nix/BSD based OS succesfully targeted to the consumer market...
Legit question here as I am probably missing something, but how would a controller requiring motion (Be it MS's, Sony's, or Nintendo's) be helpful to those with _limited_ mobility? Would'nt a controller with buttons be easier? I would think even hacking a controller to work with whatever physical disability you may have would be easier then something requiring say moving a leg if you don't have any? Quite curious.
Was a bit suprised that it seems like in the article he goes with Nintendo.. for me I think Sony and Microsoft showed technology that surpas anything Nintendo has. Most of the news and excitement seems to be for one of those two, not Nintendo.
Nintendo's new hardware was last E3's Motion Plus and a Vitality Sensor (wtf?). I'm not saying it was all bad, the new Mario and the new Metroid games sound VERY impressive, almost enough for me to buy a Wii again. But I think the winner would have been Microsoft or Sony.. honestly I'd give more of an edge to Sony simply because their game announcements to go along with their motion tech was more exciting to me then Microsoft's. I'm very excited to see what MS and Sony do now with their motion tech, I have high hopes.
I'm sorry, I must have missed it when the US started rounding up citizens because they follow a religion the State doesn't like, or blocking news sites like the BBC. I know it's really cool to beat up on how bad you Americans are, but I'm not aware of what makes China so damn great. When was the last time the US used tanks in a student rally?
Last I heard you can stand in the street and bad mouth Bush or Obama. Try doing that in China....
Ditto, nothing like a game of Parsac or Tunnels of Doom (including the 20 minutes of loading from cassette with noises loud enough we kept the door closed)
That I don't know... from what I read the Marketplace is Audio/Video... so probably not. I'm not sure why it is but we're also one of the last places on earth to get access. Probably mix of federal regulations / not worth it for our population size. Hulu comes to mind (damn Brits getting it before us!:P)
This is great! The BIOS can run enough to get us on the network and then everything is on the interweb! But then I bet some company will, in an effort to be the #1 BIOS PC Maker include a really cool ability to actually do oh I don't know... text editing right on your box while the network is down! And then maybe we can throw in a dvd watching program, or maybe a simple card game to play while waiting for the network to come up.
I bet then they'll come up with the idea of seperating these "offline components" from the BIOS so it's easier to update. Maybe we can store it on some sort of internal storage device?
Hmmm this sounds so familiar just can't..quite..place...it...
ATI? Linux? No offense I love what their doing with their open source stuff but looking at places like the Wine site and other gaming site it still seems nVidia is the way to go. I won't touch ATI until they get good 3d performing drivers that work as well as nVidia's (and nVidia's ain't exactlly all that hot, but they do work with everything I've ever thrown at em gaming wise) in Linux. Shame really the 4770 seems pretty impressive.
Unless your talking 2D, then I think ATI is probably a bit better.
I'm not aware of any version of Windows that came with useful drivers for nVidia, in fact one of the first things I do is download drivers from their site, which is a bit more painful then clicking the box to install them. And that's assuming if Windows has my Network driver installed and I don't have to hunt for the CD or copy from one machine to another with USB.
Reminds me a lot of one of the benefits of Windows ME over the other consumer grade OS, WIndows 98. I don't remember the specific numbers now, but at the time the computer had about a gig of RAM. a gig in 98 would cause it to fail, while ME recognized it no problem. So in a way ME actually ran better.
Was still complete and utter shite tho. Ran into this problem with XP too.. XP is superior but installing my SATA drives in my computer was a PITA compared to Vista.
When you can buy a computer (with the windows OS) for almost the same price AS the OS.. no I don't think it's good value. Add in the fact their competitors are Apple ($150 I think for OS X?) and Linux (don't need to go there)... I find it rather expensive. Comparing an OS to a software package that is completely different doesn't validate it.
I don't run Windows at home because I'm not about to fork over that kinda money for each machine.
Home Basic? Correct me if I'm wrong but that's the version that's Vista without the "Vista"? Most people I know when they talk about Vista never even include the Basic version. $400 MIGHT be what Ultimate goes for, but also isn't what most people think of when they think Vista. I think the amount for Home Premium or Business is closer to $250 which might be more accurate. Far less then $400 but also far more then $100.
I think $250 for full retail of an OS is a bit much, but that's just me.
"Do you you encase all the cabling in pressure-alarmed conduit?" Do you encase your wireless bits in pressure-alarmed conduit? Oh wait, you can't! What kind of argument is this? Oh and um you must realize it's quite trivial to lock down unused ports right? I can do intrusion detection, encryption, and locking down of the network to specific devices quite easily too. If your going to implement 802.1x on a wireless network why not do it on a wired network throw in some VPN encryption and gain the security of BOTH?
I sense someones been going to a few too many tech presentations put on by salesmen... there isn't a security "feature" of wireless that wired doesn't already have an equivalent or better of. however the actual physical means of transporting the data can never ever be as secure. As long as the bits are floating in the air vs a cable it's over.
Every technology has holes in security and vulnerabilities will be found, that's a given. I'd rather some guy have to go into a wiring closet and get his face plastered all over security cameras and possibly finger prints then have him take advantage of a 0-day flaw by just driving by my building. Wireless has it's uses, and in some places makes more sense, but to improve security? That's the best joke I've heard all month.
My apologies if I misinterpreted. However I wouldn't recommend opening up with something like "Sure, if you know nothing about security. Why does everyone think wired is so secure? " if you don't feel that Wireless is more secure then Wired.
If you have to make a comparison between two things, but you give one of them a handicap (well secure vs average), and then say the other one is better, that's a poor comparison.
I guess I would never recommend wireless if security was the #1 concern.
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Huh? Are you saying that using a mouse and WASD is overly complex for the typical consol gamer? Seriously? I think you do console gamers an injustice. Mouse and Keyboard takes almost no time to learn. I spent longer figuring out the controller in Halo then the mouse.
I think what the GP is trying to say is as long as you can write code on a PC, you can write a game. Therefore, gaming will exist. For example a lot of games made in the 80s and such were done by hobbyists, and even the EA's of the world were small fries. Gaming on the PC will never ever die. It'll grow, it'll shrink, it might even be considered marginal someday, but it will never ever be dead.
And using your example, I could "popularize genres that deployed consoles still can't handle, such as RTS's, FPS's (still can't beat the mouse!), where the computers controls are superior, or the fact that games on the PC are cheaper especially for the Mom and Dad's of the world, not to mention the inherent openness of the PC"
You seem to be conflicted. You don't want to have inhouse IT, but you want them there and available anytime you need them onsite. I think you first need to determine which is important: reduced costs of outsourcing (And all the issues that goes with it) or the improved service of inhouse (and all the issues that go with that)
Even if they're onsite, are you going to have someone paid to stand over their shoulder and watch? if so pay that person to do the damn work for ya.
To be honest your probably safer with an outsourcing company since no sane company would risk their reputation by stealing your "zomg important" secrets.
Agreed.. I remember winning a 3.2 Extreme Edition CPU 4-5 years back or something like that. My 2 year old C2D I've been able to overclock to 3.2, but the Mhz battle is truely dead, at least for now.
Not that it's a bad thing, CPU's are way more efficient and still faster then the CPU's 5 years ago, but it was fun watching the battle. AMD isn't much more then a whimper right now.
Well considering ATI is actually AMD now.. not too sure AMD would even want that. I'm fairly certain you can get SLI going on AMD platforms still.
Except this is about a Canadian company, and in Canada neither Netflix nor Hulu is available. Nor movies through the 360 or PS3.
In Canada your only real alternative to Cable or Satellite is Torrents and Renting the DVD's.
Uh, Google did?
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. "
" and we'll soon be working with the open source community, "
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-chrome-os-faq.html
"Later this year, the Google Chrome OS code will be open sourced. "
Just like OSX is nothing more then a distro of BSD? If someone (say Google) makes "just another distro" that actually brings Linux out into the mainstream, then I'm all for it. What's the harm of it, anyways? Google's releasing the source code so can't really understand how this may be evil. I must be missing the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt angle.
Other then one is being built by one of the largest tech companies on the planet? Besides this wouldn't be the first *nix/BSD based OS succesfully targeted to the consumer market...
Legit question here as I am probably missing something, but how would a controller requiring motion (Be it MS's, Sony's, or Nintendo's) be helpful to those with _limited_ mobility? Would'nt a controller with buttons be easier? I would think even hacking a controller to work with whatever physical disability you may have would be easier then something requiring say moving a leg if you don't have any? Quite curious.
Was a bit suprised that it seems like in the article he goes with Nintendo.. for me I think Sony and Microsoft showed technology that surpas anything Nintendo has. Most of the news and excitement seems to be for one of those two, not Nintendo.
Nintendo's new hardware was last E3's Motion Plus and a Vitality Sensor (wtf?). I'm not saying it was all bad, the new Mario and the new Metroid games sound VERY impressive, almost enough for me to buy a Wii again. But I think the winner would have been Microsoft or Sony.. honestly I'd give more of an edge to Sony simply because their game announcements to go along with their motion tech was more exciting to me then Microsoft's. I'm very excited to see what MS and Sony do now with their motion tech, I have high hopes.
I'm sorry, I must have missed it when the US started rounding up citizens because they follow a religion the State doesn't like, or blocking news sites like the BBC. I know it's really cool to beat up on how bad you Americans are, but I'm not aware of what makes China so damn great. When was the last time the US used tanks in a student rally?
Last I heard you can stand in the street and bad mouth Bush or Obama. Try doing that in China....
Ditto, nothing like a game of Parsac or Tunnels of Doom (including the 20 minutes of loading from cassette with noises loud enough we kept the door closed)
That I don't know... from what I read the Marketplace is Audio/Video... so probably not. I'm not sure why it is but we're also one of the last places on earth to get access. Probably mix of federal regulations / not worth it for our population size. Hulu comes to mind (damn Brits getting it before us! :P)
You can actually get the Zune up here in Canada, and contrary to popular belief we're not the 51st state ;)
This is great! The BIOS can run enough to get us on the network and then everything is on the interweb! But then I bet some company will, in an effort to be the #1 BIOS PC Maker include a really cool ability to actually do oh I don't know... text editing right on your box while the network is down! And then maybe we can throw in a dvd watching program, or maybe a simple card game to play while waiting for the network to come up.
I bet then they'll come up with the idea of seperating these "offline components" from the BIOS so it's easier to update. Maybe we can store it on some sort of internal storage device?
Hmmm this sounds so familiar just can't..quite..place...it...
ATI? Linux? No offense I love what their doing with their open source stuff but looking at places like the Wine site and other gaming site it still seems nVidia is the way to go. I won't touch ATI until they get good 3d performing drivers that work as well as nVidia's (and nVidia's ain't exactlly all that hot, but they do work with everything I've ever thrown at em gaming wise) in Linux. Shame really the 4770 seems pretty impressive.
Unless your talking 2D, then I think ATI is probably a bit better.
Probably the same people that buy a Honda Civic and put enough money into it they could have bought a real performance car.
Sorry had to throw the car analogy in there..
I'm not aware of any version of Windows that came with useful drivers for nVidia, in fact one of the first things I do is download drivers from their site, which is a bit more painful then clicking the box to install them. And that's assuming if Windows has my Network driver installed and I don't have to hunt for the CD or copy from one machine to another with USB.
Reminds me a lot of one of the benefits of Windows ME over the other consumer grade OS, WIndows 98. I don't remember the specific numbers now, but at the time the computer had about a gig of RAM. a gig in 98 would cause it to fail, while ME recognized it no problem. So in a way ME actually ran better.
Was still complete and utter shite tho. Ran into this problem with XP too.. XP is superior but installing my SATA drives in my computer was a PITA compared to Vista.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that remembers Shadow Warrior.. I swear that game was as good if not better then Duke3D.
When you can buy a computer (with the windows OS) for almost the same price AS the OS.. no I don't think it's good value. Add in the fact their competitors are Apple ($150 I think for OS X?) and Linux (don't need to go there)... I find it rather expensive. Comparing an OS to a software package that is completely different doesn't validate it.
I don't run Windows at home because I'm not about to fork over that kinda money for each machine.
Home Basic? Correct me if I'm wrong but that's the version that's Vista without the "Vista"? Most people I know when they talk about Vista never even include the Basic version. $400 MIGHT be what Ultimate goes for, but also isn't what most people think of when they think Vista. I think the amount for Home Premium or Business is closer to $250 which might be more accurate. Far less then $400 but also far more then $100.
I think $250 for full retail of an OS is a bit much, but that's just me.
"Do you you encase all the cabling in pressure-alarmed conduit?" Do you encase your wireless bits in pressure-alarmed conduit? Oh wait, you can't! What kind of argument is this? Oh and um you must realize it's quite trivial to lock down unused ports right? I can do intrusion detection, encryption, and locking down of the network to specific devices quite easily too. If your going to implement 802.1x on a wireless network why not do it on a wired network throw in some VPN encryption and gain the security of BOTH?
I sense someones been going to a few too many tech presentations put on by salesmen... there isn't a security "feature" of wireless that wired doesn't already have an equivalent or better of. however the actual physical means of transporting the data can never ever be as secure. As long as the bits are floating in the air vs a cable it's over.
Every technology has holes in security and vulnerabilities will be found, that's a given. I'd rather some guy have to go into a wiring closet and get his face plastered all over security cameras and possibly finger prints then have him take advantage of a 0-day flaw by just driving by my building. Wireless has it's uses, and in some places makes more sense, but to improve security? That's the best joke I've heard all month.
My apologies if I misinterpreted. However I wouldn't recommend opening up with something like "Sure, if you know nothing about security. Why does everyone think wired is so secure? " if you don't feel that Wireless is more secure then Wired.
If you have to make a comparison between two things, but you give one of them a handicap (well secure vs average), and then say the other one is better, that's a poor comparison.
I guess I would never recommend wireless if security was the #1 concern.