will require a monster video card, not a monster processor, I bet that it will run fine on a 1400 mhz or better intel system, as long as you've got a top of the line video card to support it.
Your video card is probably just as powerful as your processor in todays pc world.
We've finally reached the point where it matters more if your processor is stable rather then fast. Software is usually to blame when something dies, but the hard ware plays an important role too. Bad ram == unstable system as well, or an unstable ( overclocked?) processor.
When people see a game box with bad graphics on it they assume it to be old and dated. Not so with shiny new 256-bit blast processed graphics (who remembers blast processing)!
Anyway, the point is that graphics are not supposed to do anything for the game except sell it. For an independent style game, it is more important to have good gameplay rather then have picture perfect graphics. Unless of course you plan on selling a million copies, then it had better have good graphics.
Remember a little game named Doom? The reason that it sold more copies then any other game before it was the fact that it had the best graphics combined with all the features other games had..
Other games had networking , other games had shoot em up action, other games had good AI. Doom just had it all and then some. for the time, this is 1993 we are talking about.
Almost all artists hate computers because most are not as technicly skilled as the programmers that make the engines.
Which is why the real beauty behind games like Unreal, Quake , etc... are in the people who write the tools for the artists. Without good easy to use tools, it doesn't matter how good your engine is.
Still doesn't solve the problem. Even if you have a dongle, then you write some code that sits inbetween the dongle and the network that injects cheated packets and info to the server or lets you see more, etc... (as a side note, all usb devices use more cpu then they should) You will always be able to reverse engineer the protocol, it will just take more and more effort to do so.. Could encrypt the network packets as you send them, but someone can still patch the binary of the game to inject bad data into them. Could encrypt the instruction code for the network play, until a valid key is obtained from a server, but then it has to be decrypted sometime, probably ahead of time to be good. Maybe if they implemented a hardware feature where you could give the processor an encryption key, and sent it an encrypted instruction stream, it would decrypt it on the fly. That would be hard to decrypt, unless the attacker were to get ahold of the key, then they could decrypt it.
Any way you look at it, someone, somewhere will be able to figure out a way around it. Social solutions are a much better way to solve the problems of cheating.
they are using doc.layers, which I believe is a netscape only function. They just need to recode their site for mozilla. They are probably using IE and netscape 4.7 only javascript.
that mozilla renders incorrectly, are ones that are hard coded to not display in anything except ie, via browser detection, and the one or two pages that use a crazy function they dug out of the bowels of the ms library.
All the pages I see look fine. Can you find a signifigant number of pages that look bad with Mozilla but not IE?
The web 'standards' are the ones that everyone agreed that they would implement. There is this thing, called the W3C that the companies in question, Netscape, MS, and whomever else wanted to say got together and decided to agree that there was a way to do things like style sheets and DOM, etc... MS has not implemented them, which is their right, they don't have to. Trying to emulate them will only cause their stranglehold to increase, not decrease. Mozilla is a better browser, but not because it renders HTML faster, but because it actaully does MORE then IE does.
most people who can program already, did it the hard way by just simply diving in and doing it until it works. So it's very hard for people like that to go back and say what would to have worked better since they had to figure it out by themselves.
Programming is a process and modern US school don't teach processes at all. They teach you what 2+2 is, not how to add numbers. If someone figures out how to add on their own it's not cause they were taught it in school. How many people can add up all the numbers from 1 to a hundred quickly?
but not to make this a pessimistic post, I would say that teaching others how to program is probably best started with a flowchart type modeling, since that is easy to understand and can be represented graphically and then easily turned into code. State diagrams are harder to understand at first, but once you get them they are very good tools for writing programs.
I don't plan on getting one. My dvd player is way better, except that it won't play the old star wars videos (since they are on VHS). I guess that the responce to that is well, "buy a VCR you looser", but I don't want to so I guess I'll just have to deal with the new version on DVD, if I decide to buy it at all since I liked the original more then any of the newer versions. The new special edition wasn't that much better, and who knows about the as yet unreleased version. I'm not HC enough of a fan to get upset about this, but it would be nice if Lucas decided to stop changing things. If he really thinks that the movie should be changed, maybe he should just redo it then. It's not like it would be that expensive to redo, just time consuming. He believes in digital actors, just get the guys who did FF the movie to redo it with the original cast looking like they did 25 years ago. They are all still alive so they could redo the voices if lucas wanted to record a new soundtrack as well. (Or just reuse the old one... hehehe) But I digress.
If you consider that every playstation and playstation 2 in the world uses it. They all use the MIPS III ISA (I know the ps2 does, not sure about the ps1, that might be MIPS II). I don't know if they are going to use it again for the PS3, but I would guess so. Something like 100 million playstations (psx+ps2) all use it. Crazy to think, but true.
if they could patch x-box games, morrowind would be out by now.;)
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I still don't understand why enegry based weapons generate so much internal heat for the mech. I guess that they assume that the weapons will be very inefficient. If you've got a laser, and you've made it like 50% efficient, then half the enegry you produce goes straight to the laser and comes out as photons, which then hits the target. Most lasers are are only 5% efficient (according to google) but I guess diode lasers are like 50 % efficient. I bet that by the time we have the technology to make high power lasers en mass, they will be over 50% efficient. Especially by the time that we have the ability to make mechs.
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I LOVE realistic mech sims
Because they are so much like real mechs? Mechs are cool, but the crazy systems that they make up to control them are too much for me sometimes. (why again does heat even come into play so much in Mech games? is this a factor in realistic tank sims?)
If this doesn't work then they are going to make everyone install shutters over their eyes and ears that close whenever you get near or look at an unauthroized sound/symbol. That way you won't be able to enjoy the copyrighted material unless you pay them for it.
Laws like this make me want to steal all my music and movies because that way I can't support these bastards. Too bad I still want to support the people actually doing the work to bring these movies and sounds to film and record.
not owned by Nintendo? I think that DK would have to throw a barrel at you.
But seriously, online games have gotten a little out of hand, but do you really expect them to use a whole new universe for every game instead of just recycling an older one?
The point of this kit it to let the normal person access the hardware of the ps2 so that they can write their own game. You don't need to be able to read the dvd-rom/cd drive to do that. Yeah, I agree that it kinda sucks, but they are not selling you a general purpose PC, they are selling a games machine. If you are really hc, then you can write a game using the linux kit and then take it to a publisher, maybe it will get picked up. Maybe you'll be able to get a job, who knows. I pirated games for the PS one, I had a chip-mod, but I still bought games when I knew they were good. They don't want a large underground group releasing non-sony licensed games.
How exactly is MS competing with the phone companies? Do they provide a service like the phone company? I guess that you could call the MSN messenger or MS Netmeeting competing, but I don't think that many people use it like that.
If MS actually starts to be able to compete with the phone companies, then MS will be crushed. There is no way that MS will be a phone company, they can't afford to do for free what the phone companies charge money for.
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will require a monster video card, not a monster processor, I bet that it will run fine on a 1400 mhz or better intel system, as long as you've got a top of the line video card to support it.
Your video card is probably just as powerful as your processor in todays pc world.
We've finally reached the point where it matters more if your processor is stable rather then fast. Software is usually to blame when something dies, but the hard ware plays an important role too. Bad ram == unstable system as well, or an unstable ( overclocked?) processor.
but they sell it rather well.
When people see a game box with bad graphics on it they assume it to be old and dated. Not so with shiny new 256-bit blast processed graphics (who remembers blast processing)!
Anyway, the point is that graphics are not supposed to do anything for the game except sell it. For an independent style game, it is more important to have good gameplay rather then have picture perfect graphics. Unless of course you plan on selling a million copies, then it had better have good graphics.
Remember a little game named Doom? The reason that it sold more copies then any other game before it was the fact that it had the best graphics combined with all the features other games had..
Other games had networking , other games had shoot em up action, other games had good AI. Doom just had it all and then some. for the time, this is 1993 we are talking about.
Almost all artists hate computers because most are not as technicly skilled as the programmers that make the engines.
Which is why the real beauty behind games like Unreal, Quake , etc... are in the people who write the tools for the artists. Without good easy to use tools, it doesn't matter how good your engine is.
Still doesn't solve the problem. Even if you have a dongle, then you write some code that sits inbetween the dongle and the network that injects cheated packets and info to the server or lets you see more, etc...
(as a side note, all usb devices use more cpu then they should)
You will always be able to reverse engineer the protocol, it will just take more and more effort to do so..
Could encrypt the network packets as you send them, but someone can still patch the binary of the game to inject bad data into them.
Could encrypt the instruction code for the network play, until a valid key is obtained from a server, but then it has to be decrypted sometime, probably ahead of time to be good. Maybe if they implemented a hardware feature where you could give the processor an encryption key, and sent it an encrypted instruction stream, it would decrypt it on the fly. That would be hard to decrypt, unless the attacker were to get ahold of the key, then they could decrypt it.
Any way you look at it, someone, somewhere will be able to figure out a way around it. Social solutions are a much better way to solve the problems of cheating.
they are using doc.layers, which I believe is a netscape only function. They just need to recode their site for mozilla. They are probably using IE and netscape 4.7 only javascript.
The browser is the best tool you can have for developing a web application.
It's got a debugger for script, and the DOM inspector lets you add/remove/edit any element you see on the screen in realtime to get the proper look.
I don't know what more you could want.
Which popular web pages are 'unviewable' with mozilla? Almost none that I see. ,etc.
BTW, popular like the portal sites, newspaper sites, stores
if a page isn't viewable on a text terminal, then it isn't a real web page, QED.
that mozilla renders incorrectly, are ones that are hard coded to not display in anything except ie, via browser detection, and the one or two pages that use a crazy function they dug out of the bowels of the ms library.
All the pages I see look fine. Can you find a signifigant number of pages that look bad with Mozilla but not IE?
The web 'standards' are the ones that everyone agreed that they would implement. There is this thing, called the W3C that the companies in question, Netscape, MS, and whomever else wanted to say got together and decided to agree that there was a way to do things like style sheets and DOM, etc...
MS has not implemented them, which is their right, they don't have to. Trying to emulate them will only cause their stranglehold to increase, not decrease. Mozilla is a better browser, but not because it renders HTML faster, but because it actaully does MORE then IE does.
that they killed the lone gunmen? Those bastards!
If they were to do that, there would be no way that they could make the kind of profit on MSLinux or any gpled software that they do now.
As you said, their embrace and extend tactic would not work with GPLed software. Which is a great thing about GPL software.
most people who can program already, did it the hard way by just simply diving in and doing it until it works. So it's very hard for people like that to go back and say what would to have worked better since they had to figure it out by themselves.
Programming is a process and modern US school don't teach processes at all. They teach you what 2+2 is, not how to add numbers. If someone figures out how to add on their own it's not cause they were taught it in school. How many people can add up all the numbers from 1 to a hundred quickly?
but not to make this a pessimistic post, I would say that teaching others how to program is probably best started with a flowchart type modeling, since that is easy to understand and can be represented graphically and then easily turned into code.
State diagrams are harder to understand at first, but once you get them they are very good tools for writing programs.
I don't plan on getting one. My dvd player is way better, except that it won't play the old star wars videos (since they are on VHS). I guess that the responce to that is well, "buy a VCR you looser", but I don't want to so I guess I'll just have to deal with the new version on DVD, if I decide to buy it at all since I liked the original more then any of the newer versions. The new special edition wasn't that much better, and who knows about the as yet unreleased version. I'm not HC enough of a fan to get upset about this, but it would be nice if Lucas decided to stop changing things.
If he really thinks that the movie should be changed, maybe he should just redo it then. It's not like it would be that expensive to redo, just time consuming.
He believes in digital actors, just get the guys who did FF the movie to redo it with the original cast looking like they did 25 years ago. They are all still alive so they could redo the voices if lucas wanted to record a new soundtrack as well. (Or just reuse the old one... hehehe) But I digress.
If you consider that every playstation and playstation 2 in the world uses it. They all use the MIPS III ISA (I know the ps2 does, not sure about the ps1, that might be MIPS II). I don't know if they are going to use it again for the PS3, but I would guess so. Something like 100 million playstations (psx+ps2) all use it. Crazy to think, but true.
if they could patch x-box games, morrowind would be out by now. ;)
I still don't understand why enegry based weapons generate so much internal heat for the mech. I guess that they assume that the weapons will be very inefficient.
If you've got a laser, and you've made it like 50% efficient, then half the enegry you produce goes straight to the laser and comes out as photons, which then hits the target. Most lasers are are only 5% efficient (according to google) but I guess diode lasers are like 50 % efficient. I bet that by the time we have the technology to make high power lasers en mass, they will be over 50% efficient. Especially by the time that we have the ability to make mechs.
Because they are so much like real mechs? Mechs are cool, but the crazy systems that they make up to control them are too much for me sometimes. (why again does heat even come into play so much in Mech games? is this a factor in realistic tank sims?)
If this doesn't work then they are going to make everyone install shutters over their eyes and ears that close whenever you get near or look at an unauthroized sound/symbol. That way you won't be able to enjoy the copyrighted material unless you pay them for it.
Laws like this make me want to steal all my music and movies because that way I can't support these bastards. Too bad I still want to support the people actually doing the work to bring these movies and sounds to film and record.
not owned by Nintendo? I think that DK would have to throw a barrel at you.
But seriously, online games have gotten a little out of hand, but do you really expect them to use a whole new universe for every game instead of just recycling an older one?
In Myst you have to trap them in the book.
My personal favorite way to kill the sims is to make a pool with only a diving board. They dive in but can't get out.
The point of this kit it to let the normal person access the hardware of the ps2 so that they can write their own game. You don't need to be able to read the dvd-rom/cd drive to do that. Yeah, I agree that it kinda sucks, but they are not selling you a general purpose PC, they are selling a games machine. If you are really hc, then you can write a game using the linux kit and then take it to a publisher, maybe it will get picked up. Maybe you'll be able to get a job, who knows.
I pirated games for the PS one, I had a chip-mod, but I still bought games when I knew they were good. They don't want a large underground group releasing non-sony licensed games.
How exactly is MS competing with the phone companies? Do they provide a service like the phone company? I guess that you could call the MSN messenger or MS Netmeeting competing, but I don't think that many people use it like that.
If MS actually starts to be able to compete with the phone companies, then MS will be crushed. There is no way that MS will be a phone company, they can't afford to do for free what the phone companies charge money for.