more likely to launch SteamBox;
a launch title that's exclusive to steam, not cross platform.
to be be put on the shelve next to XBOX360+GTAV and PS4+GT7.
SteamBox+HL3.
would make console gamers post pictures of HL3 with subtext "most expensive game I've bought";
in reference to PC Gamers posting pictures of PS3/XBOX360 and GTA-V and stating the same:)
getting people to buy a "console" for a game. The hook is in, the reel them in with steam on PC, play it on steamBOX and your laptop;
cross platform (Mac, Linux, Windows), take it where-ever you go.
I don't accuse you of anything. From your comment about Mac OS X having timemachine and "let's see you do that on windows system", it just shows you don't have experience with the 2 latest Microsoft OSes, which have timemachine functionality build-in.
so again. Don't make incorrect statements about Windows just because you didn't take the time to research if the latest versions have something similar to Timemachine.
but than again, timemachine is a copy of Vista's backup and previous version functionality. Vista release: Jan 2007, MAC OS X 10.5: Oct 2007.
now you can go on about programming for the last 100 years, doesn't change the fact you can get timemachine-like functionality in the latest "windoze" out of the box, without hassle.
you use a server OS on a daily basis, and complain about the lack of backups.
Windows 2003 comes with shadow copy technology, which is "previous versions" under WinVista/7.
I think it nothing to do with "opinion", but rather stating incorrect "facts" due to lack of experience and knowledge.
build in Vista/7, takes 5 minutes to set up, you can easily do incremental backup of OS/APPS and DOCS to any destination device of your choice.
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/53645.aspx
don't randomly post anti-"windoze" crap; research before you start posting inaccurate statements.
what are you on about? Rocket Jumping was known since the launch of Quake 1 in 1995, TFC came much later and they designers of it very well knew what the rocket launcher was capable of.
The only game devs which did not know about the RJ were... ID Software when the released Quake 1:)
scar3crow: Quake has always had wonderful deathmatch, and it certainly popularized something many take for granted these days - rocketjumping. Aside from your lateral use of it in Mt Erebus in Doom, did you foresee it in the way it came about in deathmatch?
John Romero: We had no idea until after the game was released and I started hearing the word being used... Even then I thought it meant jumping over someone's rocket! When I saw it in action i was amazed and immediately starting doing it all the time.
scar3crow: It certainly makes for a different dynamic in the flow of maps, in some cases completely circumventing the pace the mapper may have intended (such as in DM4 where it makes the map even tighter). John Romero: Yeah, most of the single-player maps break with rocket-jumping. E2M1 in 11 seconds. Heh
It's Ironic that Nintendo captured the casual market and yet there are very few games for them exactly! Well said, the Wii is a "casual gaming" multiplayer console, that's how they marketed it, in every PR stunt you see the multiplayer hotseat action, but after 1 year we only have VERY FEW games worth their money if you bought the Wii for casual gaming crowd.
Rayman Raving Rabbits is a good success, Wii Sports a little less but still okay. Haven't found any other game to add to the list, single player games ala Mario and Metriod are not interesting at all for multiplay, and even for Single play, there are much better games out on other platforms that you shouldn't waste money for the Wii.
Ordered Guitar Hero III now for the Wii, hope this will be multiplayable and enjoyable (even with Mono sound:/) but it's a multiplatform game and not really unique for the Wii.
So far i'm pretty disappoint by the lack of party games released since last year; and even after 1 year, the current party games are becoming quickly too repetitive and boring, even for the none gaming crowd.
Wario Smooth Moves was quite a mistake to buy, it lasted 10min before it was removed and never look at again, ugly graphics, lame games, dumb multiplayer, a disappointment...
doesnt IBM make the 360 CPU? Three cores at 3.2Ghz powerPC config, they are not known for being very cool (remember the water cooled apple G5?) so put three of those cores on a single CHIP and it will use a lot more than older PCs:)
from the current one: While text mining 330,000 New York Times articles poses an interesting challenge, it's not as interesting as sifting through 70 million words (from over 70,000 unique documents) found in the Congressional Record. A team of political science researchers has done just that (PDF), and found that their software was able to answer questions too difficult for humans to handle on their own.
from the one posted yesterday: The discipline of text mining took a step forward recently as a team from the University of California-Irvine used a new technique called "topic modeling" to sift 330,000 articles from the New York Times archive (hardcore geeks can read one of the team's papers [PDF] for more information). The team's goal was to have their computers sort the stories by topic--without requiring any human training or intervention. Computers have trouble understanding large fields of unstructured text without guidance, but the new approach enables them to engage in some unsupervised learning that could soon pay huge dividends for academics, corporations, and government security programs alike.
Since the NDA expired I've complied a list of official benchmarks, there are 43 on there already; Top 3 imho are those from Techreport, HardOCP and Anandtech
at 30" LCD resolutions of 1900+ pixels with higher detail (4xAA/16xAF) you'll find that a single 7900GTX or X1900XTX is too slow in games like Call of Duty 2, FEAR and of course Oblivion...
that's all nice theoretical, but in praticise we're talking about 1-2% increase in FPS at higher resolutions and details levels... worth the extra money? Hell no
"Gamers, this appears to become the most exciting year for you in a long time!"
Games on the PC are for 99% of the time restricted by the video card, only in rare cases the CPU will actually be the bottleneck, if you run a game at higher details (AA/AF) and resolutions you will put more strain on the VGA card, and an increase in CPU power will not translate into a boost in performance worth mentioning.
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Audi has this already for quite a few years ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAeel-JmZVg
more likely to launch SteamBox; a launch title that's exclusive to steam, not cross platform. to be be put on the shelve next to XBOX360+GTAV and PS4+GT7. SteamBox+HL3. would make console gamers post pictures of HL3 with subtext "most expensive game I've bought"; in reference to PC Gamers posting pictures of PS3/XBOX360 and GTA-V and stating the same :)
getting people to buy a "console" for a game. The hook is in, the reel them in with steam on PC, play it on steamBOX and your laptop;
cross platform (Mac, Linux, Windows), take it where-ever you go.
I won't ever go back to Windows
that's your right.
don't ever accuse me of a lack of experience
I don't accuse you of anything. From your comment about Mac OS X having timemachine and "let's see you do that on windows system", it just shows you don't have experience with the 2 latest Microsoft OSes, which have timemachine functionality build-in.
so again. Don't make incorrect statements about Windows just because you didn't take the time to research if the latest versions have something similar to Timemachine.
but than again, timemachine is a copy of Vista's backup and previous version functionality. Vista release: Jan 2007, MAC OS X 10.5: Oct 2007.
now you can go on about programming for the last 100 years, doesn't change the fact you can get timemachine-like functionality in the latest "windoze" out of the box, without hassle.
you use a server OS on a daily basis, and complain about the lack of backups. Windows 2003 comes with shadow copy technology, which is "previous versions" under WinVista/7. I think it nothing to do with "opinion", but rather stating incorrect "facts" due to lack of experience and knowledge.
Try that with Windoze.
build in Vista/7, takes 5 minutes to set up, you can easily do incremental backup of OS/APPS and DOCS to any destination device of your choice. http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/53645.aspx don't randomly post anti-"windoze" crap; research before you start posting inaccurate statements.
how can they not play the game enough when they were making levels for it which required precision navigation; thus playtesting;)
last time I checked this was about gameplay events which were not intended by the devs; Q1 & RJ applies here.
The only game devs which did not know about the RJ were... ID Software when the released Quake 1
scar3crow: Quake has always had wonderful deathmatch, and it certainly popularized something many take for granted these days - rocketjumping. Aside from your lateral use of it in Mt Erebus in Doom, did you foresee it in the way it came about in deathmatch? John Romero: We had no idea until after the game was released and I started hearing the word being used... Even then I thought it meant jumping over someone's rocket! When I saw it in action i was amazed and immediately starting doing it all the time.
scar3crow: It certainly makes for a different dynamic in the flow of maps, in some cases completely circumventing the pace the mapper may have intended (such as in DM4 where it makes the map even tighter).
John Romero: Yeah, most of the single-player maps break with rocket-jumping. E2M1 in 11 seconds. Heh
src: http://qexpo.quakedev.com/interview_romero.php?page=2
Correct, the original Quake TF mod was made about 10 years ago by the same people who were later hired to do TF2 for Valve!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Fortress
Anybody got the pagecount on that one? 150 pages? seriously... I tested over 150 HSF so far; latest roundups are for AMD/INTEL's latest CPUs Roundup of HSF of 2006 http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articI D=519
Roundup of HSF 2007 P1 http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=556
currently adding 8 more to the list, closing in on 200 HSF tested; and all this in less than 150+ pages per article...
doesnt IBM make the 360 CPU? Three cores at 3.2Ghz powerPC config, they are not known for being very cool (remember the water cooled apple G5?) so put three of those cores on a single CHIP and it will use a lot more than older PCs:)
what do you want from a multi-core CPU? ;)
It has been done before... long time ago, hot running CPU's is nothing new... or is it? How to fry an egg on an Athlon XP
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- http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=33872
- http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/23/review_at
- http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/X1950XTX
- http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=954
- http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/radeon-x1950
- http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,200732
- http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/08/23/ati_releases_ra
- http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/375/
- http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/131
- http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=
- http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_radeon_x1
- http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/X1950XTXrevie
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is this a double dupe by Ars AND /. ?
7 ( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060802-7408 .html )
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/22122
from the current one:
While text mining 330,000 New York Times articles poses an interesting challenge, it's not as interesting as sifting through 70 million words (from over 70,000 unique documents) found in the Congressional Record. A team of political science researchers has done just that (PDF), and found that their software was able to answer questions too difficult for humans to handle on their own.
from the one posted yesterday:
The discipline of text mining took a step forward recently as a team from the University of California-Irvine used a new technique called "topic modeling" to sift 330,000 articles from the New York Times archive (hardcore geeks can read one of the team's papers [PDF] for more information). The team's goal was to have their computers sort the stories by topic--without requiring any human training or intervention. Computers have trouble understanding large fields of unstructured text without guidance, but the new approach enables them to engage in some unsupervised learning that could soon pay huge dividends for academics, corporations, and government security programs alike.
most likely because the can is mostly attributed to Coke, since they were the first soft drink makers to use it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_can
ATI/Intel chipsets might come to end soon according to this piece of information.
Since the NDA expired I've complied a list of official benchmarks, there are 43 on there already; Top 3 imho are those from Techreport, HardOCP and Anandtech
MSDN site works perfect in FF here... http://img151.imageshack.us/my.php?image=clipboard 014ml.jpg
1.5.0.4
at 30" LCD resolutions of 1900+ pixels with higher detail (4xAA/16xAF) you'll find that a single 7900GTX or X1900XTX is too slow in games like Call of Duty 2, FEAR and of course Oblivion...
here ya go http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/vistab2.ars
that's all nice theoretical, but in praticise we're talking about 1-2% increase in FPS at higher resolutions and details levels... worth the extra money? Hell no
"Gamers, this appears to become the most exciting year for you in a long time!" Games on the PC are for 99% of the time restricted by the video card, only in rare cases the CPU will actually be the bottleneck, if you run a game at higher details (AA/AF) and resolutions you will put more strain on the VGA card, and an increase in CPU power will not translate into a boost in performance worth mentioning.
uhm.. not 19 monitors but 19" monitors, there are less then 19 tested:)