God can create a stone he can't lift, God can commit suicide, God can have tea and not have tea at the same time. He can do everything. Just because it's contradictory doesn't mean it's impossible for an omnipotent being. However, performing any of these in front of a human audience would make their mortal heads explode.
You make it sound like the iMac magically stays up to date.
On average I replace the performance guts (CPU, mobo, RAM, graphics card) of my computer every two years nowadays. ~600 Euros for that (split into two upgrades usually quite some time apart). If, instead of my next upgrades, I bought a Mac for those 600 Euros, what would I get? My PC can run all new games at maximum details for almost a year after the upgrade, what would the 600 Euro Mac deliver? And could I upgrade just the performance stuff on it or would I have to replace the entire thing for that?
According to apple.com/de I'd pay 639 Euros for the basic Mac Mini. That'd be 1.5GHz single Core, 60GB HDD, Intel GPU with 64MB shared, 512MB RAM. I'd be lucky if that thing can run Quake 3 Arena at a decent framerate (Intel GPUs make gaming impossible). BF2 wouldn't even start. For a comparison, my current system: 1.8GHz Athlon 64, 160+80 GB HDD*, Nvidia GeForce 6800 with 128 MB, 1024MB RAM. The thing runs everything** I throw at it with good framerates. Granted, I haven't tested Oblivion on it but so far it has held up very well. Not bad considering that my last upgrade was more than a year ago.
To get a Mac that's comparable to my current system (okay, it'd be a bit better except for the RAM but that's to be expected a year later), I'd have to blow 1350 Euros at my next upgrade. So the Mac would eat two upgrade cycles. Means it would have to hold up twice as long as a PC I'd get through the cycle. Do you think the 17" iMac sold today would play the newest games four years from now?
*= Granted, I've got that separate from the 600 Euro cycle. But I couldn't reuse it if I were to do the 600 Euro Mac upgrade so it has to factor in.
**= Excluding RTSes with LARGE numbers of units. Perimeter and Earth 2160 are prime offenders here. They remain playable, though.
It will definitely discourage game developers from porting to OS X. No one minds a two minute pause to reboot into Windows when they want to spend the next three hours playing a game.
It will not do anything to application developers, however. No one would tolerate a two minute pause when they want to run Photoshop, for example. And then a two minute pause when they want to check their email, and have to reboot again.
The problem I see is that some people (like me) need Photoshop and a game running at the same time. E.g. when I'm working on textures and stuff. Dual booting isn't an option so I'd need to have my applications on the same OS as my games. And while we're at it, why don't I move the remaining few apps over to Windows as well and throw OSX away?
Never mind that if I wanted a *nix for dual booting I sure as hell wouldn't replace my entire computer with a Mac, I'd just install Linux.
I don't know about you but I measure the value of backwards compatibility on the number of games I previously didn't have access to. The Revolution can emulate four consoles I never owned (NES, TG16, Mega Drive and N64) whereas the PS3 supports one console I didn't own (PS1) and that's already covered by the backwards compatibility of the one I do own. If I can stick my SNES carts in there isn't important since I can just stick them in the SNES.
Two wrongs don't make a right. If you don't like a company's conduct then don't buy their products but don't try to acquire them illegally, either. That only makes them think that you can't go without their product and they just need to find a way to force you to pay for it.
So, if we conclude that the longer someone holds power the more corrupt they become, a solution may be to make sure noone holds power for long. Maybe that was the intent of the two term presidency limit, especially in a time before the parties really existed. If this whole party BS was disbanded and you had a number of candidates, each with his own programme, none of them could think much about staying in power since noone would hold on to power for more than two terms. It may require more effort on the side of the populace to figure out which candidate matches their oppinion the most but maybe that's for the better instead of taking some slogan a party established hundreds of years ago and thinking it holds true today.
The second term would of course be necessary to make sure the president would have to do a job the population (and especially his supporters) agrees with, hopefully carrying the effect over into the second term.
I think he's saying that the major parties suck and they like to make you think that everyone sucks so you keep ignoring the minor parties that may actually be competent.
I'm referring mostly to the intro and outro of Super Mario Sunshine. And some of the Nintendo-translated second and third party games (e.g. Eternal Darkness). Curiously Doshin The Giant had translated voice acting.
Especially since they don't even bother with translating the voice acting, they just slap subtitles on the game and call it translated. That sure helps making these games accessible by "everyone"...
The act of changing the disc is easy as long as you have only a handful of discs that you can keep within an arm's reach. It becomes more difficult once you have 40-50 of them and have to store them out of arm's reach. It means searching for the disc (unless you've used it recently and didn't put it back in storage), which can take quite some time depending on how well ordered your discs are.
Back when CDs were introduced most of the game ran from the CD, these days the entire data is copied to the harddrive, the disc is not used except for reading a small file to verify the disc. That's why people crack their games, because there is no good reason they have to insert the disc each time they want to play.
Never mind that copy protection can't be good for the disc drives, judging by the noises made. I can tell by the sound my drive makes how heavily protected the disc inside is, if it's pretty quiet and produces a "healthy" sound the disc is unprotected, if it sounds like a sawmill there's a nasty protection on the disc. I've even had cases where the PC wouldn't boot because Windows tried to read the disc on startup and the drive didn't manage to, causing an infinite loop of spinup, spindown that wouldn't end until I removed the disc. I'm pretty sure my old CD drive died because it read too many copy protected CDs because that was the last thing it read before ceasing to function.
On the console noone complains because again the games run completely from the disc, they aren't copied to your harddrive. The disc is actually used instead of being nothing more than a dongle.
Not on every box. I think they started adding that only after they shipped the first couple of games that used the protection and got a large number of complaints from users. I certainly can't find anything like that on the boxes of older games crippled with such malevolent copy prevention. Can't reference anything recent since I stopped buying Ubisoft titles because of it.
I hope it stops these practices, I've held off from purchasing quite a few games because I'm not sure starforce is trustworthy and I'm VERY sure that I as a legitimate customer do not tolerate being treated like a criminal. Well, actually the criminals get treated much better since the warez versions usually remove such inconveniences completely. "Here's your reward for purchasing our software instead of downloading: A worse user experience! Isn't that great?"
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You probably can't hook up a 10 Ghz oscillator to it
Of course you can. The question is: What will remain of the CPU?
u might want to consult a dictionary.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic when those too-lazy-to-type-yo fucks try to go grammar/spelling nazi on someone?
Yes but why would they want to?
God can create a stone he can't lift, God can commit suicide, God can have tea and not have tea at the same time. He can do everything. Just because it's contradictory doesn't mean it's impossible for an omnipotent being. However, performing any of these in front of a human audience would make their mortal heads explode.
You make it sound like the iMac magically stays up to date.
On average I replace the performance guts (CPU, mobo, RAM, graphics card) of my computer every two years nowadays. ~600 Euros for that (split into two upgrades usually quite some time apart). If, instead of my next upgrades, I bought a Mac for those 600 Euros, what would I get? My PC can run all new games at maximum details for almost a year after the upgrade, what would the 600 Euro Mac deliver? And could I upgrade just the performance stuff on it or would I have to replace the entire thing for that?
According to apple.com/de I'd pay 639 Euros for the basic Mac Mini. That'd be 1.5GHz single Core, 60GB HDD, Intel GPU with 64MB shared, 512MB RAM. I'd be lucky if that thing can run Quake 3 Arena at a decent framerate (Intel GPUs make gaming impossible). BF2 wouldn't even start.
For a comparison, my current system: 1.8GHz Athlon 64, 160+80 GB HDD*, Nvidia GeForce 6800 with 128 MB, 1024MB RAM. The thing runs everything** I throw at it with good framerates. Granted, I haven't tested Oblivion on it but so far it has held up very well. Not bad considering that my last upgrade was more than a year ago.
To get a Mac that's comparable to my current system (okay, it'd be a bit better except for the RAM but that's to be expected a year later), I'd have to blow 1350 Euros at my next upgrade. So the Mac would eat two upgrade cycles. Means it would have to hold up twice as long as a PC I'd get through the cycle. Do you think the 17" iMac sold today would play the newest games four years from now?
*= Granted, I've got that separate from the 600 Euro cycle. But I couldn't reuse it if I were to do the 600 Euro Mac upgrade so it has to factor in.
**= Excluding RTSes with LARGE numbers of units. Perimeter and Earth 2160 are prime offenders here. They remain playable, though.
It will definitely discourage game developers from porting to OS X. No one minds a two minute pause to reboot into Windows when they want to spend the next three hours playing a game.
It will not do anything to application developers, however. No one would tolerate a two minute pause when they want to run Photoshop, for example. And then a two minute pause when they want to check their email, and have to reboot again.
The problem I see is that some people (like me) need Photoshop and a game running at the same time. E.g. when I'm working on textures and stuff. Dual booting isn't an option so I'd need to have my applications on the same OS as my games. And while we're at it, why don't I move the remaining few apps over to Windows as well and throw OSX away?
Never mind that if I wanted a *nix for dual booting I sure as hell wouldn't replace my entire computer with a Mac, I'd just install Linux.
Clearly you haven't seen the preview videos for Killzone
It's an impressive showcase of what modern rendering farms are capable of but what does it have to do with the PS3?
I don't know about you but I measure the value of backwards compatibility on the number of games I previously didn't have access to. The Revolution can emulate four consoles I never owned (NES, TG16, Mega Drive and N64) whereas the PS3 supports one console I didn't own (PS1) and that's already covered by the backwards compatibility of the one I do own. If I can stick my SNES carts in there isn't important since I can just stick them in the SNES.
Isn't this "ban games" talk mostly on the Republicans-under-another-name (Democrats) agenda?
With all this dispute going on about the name I'd say that Eris would be an appropriate translation.
I counted 6 hours; an hour of concepting, an hour to model and an hour (two hours max) for the normalmap, an hour for the texture.
Fuck, you're fast! I think you're breaking a record there.
But what I don't get is exactly how is the GW "pay as you go" fee's different from a monthly fee?
What the hell are you talking about?
Two wrongs don't make a right. If you don't like a company's conduct then don't buy their products but don't try to acquire them illegally, either. That only makes them think that you can't go without their product and they just need to find a way to force you to pay for it.
So, if we conclude that the longer someone holds power the more corrupt they become, a solution may be to make sure noone holds power for long. Maybe that was the intent of the two term presidency limit, especially in a time before the parties really existed. If this whole party BS was disbanded and you had a number of candidates, each with his own programme, none of them could think much about staying in power since noone would hold on to power for more than two terms. It may require more effort on the side of the populace to figure out which candidate matches their oppinion the most but maybe that's for the better instead of taking some slogan a party established hundreds of years ago and thinking it holds true today.
The second term would of course be necessary to make sure the president would have to do a job the population (and especially his supporters) agrees with, hopefully carrying the effect over into the second term.
Yes but did the German cockroaches conquer any nearby Polish or French cockroach colonies?
I think he's saying that the major parties suck and they like to make you think that everyone sucks so you keep ignoring the minor parties that may actually be competent.
I'm referring mostly to the intro and outro of Super Mario Sunshine. And some of the Nintendo-translated second and third party games (e.g. Eternal Darkness). Curiously Doshin The Giant had translated voice acting.
Is "dice" some euphemism for crack rocks?
If an electronic version of the book exists on the Internet which you have some kind of access to (torrent, P2P, etc), why would people buy them?
Dunno, why does iTunes sell so many songs?
Is there something about the ds opera browser that should not make it possible to play games like the ones on websudoku.com and http://dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Browser_Based/ ?
No flash support?
The hardware can't do WPA. At least not while playing a game at the same time.
Especially since they don't even bother with translating the voice acting, they just slap subtitles on the game and call it translated. That sure helps making these games accessible by "everyone"...
The act of changing the disc is easy as long as you have only a handful of discs that you can keep within an arm's reach. It becomes more difficult once you have 40-50 of them and have to store them out of arm's reach. It means searching for the disc (unless you've used it recently and didn't put it back in storage), which can take quite some time depending on how well ordered your discs are.
Back when CDs were introduced most of the game ran from the CD, these days the entire data is copied to the harddrive, the disc is not used except for reading a small file to verify the disc. That's why people crack their games, because there is no good reason they have to insert the disc each time they want to play.
Never mind that copy protection can't be good for the disc drives, judging by the noises made. I can tell by the sound my drive makes how heavily protected the disc inside is, if it's pretty quiet and produces a "healthy" sound the disc is unprotected, if it sounds like a sawmill there's a nasty protection on the disc. I've even had cases where the PC wouldn't boot because Windows tried to read the disc on startup and the drive didn't manage to, causing an infinite loop of spinup, spindown that wouldn't end until I removed the disc. I'm pretty sure my old CD drive died because it read too many copy protected CDs because that was the last thing it read before ceasing to function.
On the console noone complains because again the games run completely from the disc, they aren't copied to your harddrive. The disc is actually used instead of being nothing more than a dongle.
Not on every box. I think they started adding that only after they shipped the first couple of games that used the protection and got a large number of complaints from users. I certainly can't find anything like that on the boxes of older games crippled with such malevolent copy prevention. Can't reference anything recent since I stopped buying Ubisoft titles because of it.
"What you reap is what you sow".
I hope it stops these practices, I've held off from purchasing quite a few games because I'm not sure starforce is trustworthy and I'm VERY sure that I as a legitimate customer do not tolerate being treated like a criminal. Well, actually the criminals get treated much better since the warez versions usually remove such inconveniences completely. "Here's your reward for purchasing our software instead of downloading: A worse user experience! Isn't that great?"