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Come on, he has a point - and yes, podcasts are not streamed but they are audio files online! That they're syndicated via RSS is of little consequence; you could deliver it the same with a plain vanilla web page.
He was talking about developers. These days games seem to be all about graphics (sadly enough), but all the amazing graphics this technology has to deliver are of no use for game developers if they can't work with it. High profile engines like D3 and Unreal offer a full developement framework which makes development easier (and cheaper), covering pretty much everything a game developer could need. Including graphics.
As for the sneak preview video itself... wow. It is mindblowing, and the motion blur effect alone makes the graphics much better. Still, i'd like to know what kind of hardware rendered that in realtime. And yes, for all we know, this is nothing more than a tech demo. An amazing tech demo, yes, but i've seen a lot of amazing tech demos elsewhere... i'll reserve judgment until the game is out.
Mmm good point, it eluded me completely (maybe it's because of my disgust for podcasts to begin with:).
Still, RSS is overdoing it: even while it might be well suited to the task, the idea behind RSS is that you recive updated information about something as soon as it's avaliable while using as little bandwidth as possible. I've seen a lot of sites, like the op mentioned, that miss the point completely: either they deliver a lot of data through it or very brief headline-like updates, which most of the time doesn't cut it.
Delivering links through RSS for FTP/WWW downloads would be a better way of Podcasting, but i doubt it'd ever catch on.
Well, it's not that RSS doesn't have a point (it does), it just gets awfully misused. Take podcasts, for example; why bother setting up an RSS/Atom feed with mp3 files when you could do it as easily with a simple web page?
It's not an argument - it's just my opinion. Flawed as it might me.
Also, as another member of the Rest Of The World, I disagree with your analysis of US foreign involvement's part in the current batch of terrorist ideologies.
Thing is, the US presented its' foreign involvement in the Middle East (Iraq, particularly) as a war on terror... and as a liberation crusade... and a hunt for evil WMD, whichever was more convenient at the time. Again, this is my opinion - but one i seem to share with a lot of non-US residents: the US current foreign policies have nothing to do with the so-called "War on terror", and this is specially true in the Middle East.
Anyone who believes that "terrorists want to take away Americans' freedoms" is deluding themselves.
Indeed, they just wish to create fear as a deterreent. The sad part is that the US finds that limiting personal freedoms is a viable way to combat terrorism. It just doesn't work. There's a lot of European countries that suffered terrorism for much longer and never resorted to such measures.
They likely just interpret our foreign involvement as bullying and wish us to stop.
Actually, the rest of the world feels that the US foreign involvement has little to do with terrorism. I should know, i'm part of them:)
Not to rain on your parade, but check the definition of terrorist: it's well accepted that a terrorist is someone who employs terror as a political weapon.
The more the US resorts to giving up freedoms in order to "combat" terrorism, the more terrorists win. It's simple, sadly enough.
Even on Linux, the NVIDIA and ATI GL libraries are much faster than the standard X11 ones.
Granted; but that's because both nVidia and ATI release very limited specs for their most modern videocards. The OSS support for videocards with complete specs published is top notch.
Still, yes, it is a lot of work. But could be done.
Just did - it's still an alpha, but it looks like it's shaping up just fine! I tried the game on DOSBox and it runs just fine (it's still as fun as it was back then), but a native version of the game would be amazing...
By the way, impressive work with the original SkyRoads and the level data! My hat's off to you guys.
Ditto. I said the same a couple of posts below: it was technically impressive and groundbreaking (it certainly put to shame everything in that era), incredibly influential, with lots of production values, and FUN. Yes, FUN. The levels were so well designed... i only had that much fun when i played Doom 2, and then again, i felt like i've already seen it all. Doom was just a riot to play. And if you did multiplayer? Nirvana. It defined the term "FPS" (yes, even more than Wolfenstein 3D), and no one did it best ever since. Not even iD.
It's easy to forget it now, but when it came out, it was a revolution. I know a lot of people who upgraded their PCs simply so the game would run smoother.
It's not that bad at all, but's heavily biased towards modern games. I mean, God of War, Halo, Burnout... they're all fine games, granted, but among the best of all time?. People do forget quick....
... specially from the golden days of home computers like the C64 and such. Marble Madness? Uridium? Ghostbusters? Beachhead 2? Elite? The Summer & Winter games series from Epyx? Zak McCracken and the alien mindbenders? The original Maniac Mansion? And i'm sure i'm missing a lot that others that deserve to be atleast considered for a list of the top-100 best games OF ALL TIME. It didn't all began with the NES, you know.
And, BTW, i feel Doom should be ranking a bit higher. It truly was a groundbreaking, well made, influential and fun game. The rest of the list was actually quite fine, and i enjoyed seeing so many Lucasarts games and System Shock 2 in the list.
I beleive that Apples' move to x86 happened because a number of different reasons, all of them debatable. What's important is that, once they decided to do the switch, they chose the x86 implementation that suit them best.
In that context, you can bet that Intel having a DRM roadmap clearly laid out (and already unveiling, back to the hatred CPUID incident which still exists on Pentium CPUs), was a major point in favor of Intel on Apples' eyes.
I never bought that AMDs' lower production capabilities were the reason Apple chose Intel. See, it doesn't matter if AMD offers better performing CPUs, with better technology, or with lower power consumption. Hell, it doesn't even matter if they're cheaper. What matters is that Intel makes easier for Apple to lock down the software to their hardware and, as you said, move DRM to a hardware level. This is essential for Apple, whose primary buissnes was always selling computers as a whole; a tightly integrated hardware/software solution for people who want their systems to just work. You can say anything about Apple, but even Apple haters agree that when you buy an Apple computer, it works. No hassles, no configuration nightmares, etc. They don't want OSX to become the new Windows. Controlling media with hardware DRM is just the cherry on top.
Thing is, while Opera can render pages "designed for IE" just fine, a lot of sites still refuse to load if the browser's not IE. Nevermind sites like Hotmail, which deliver purposedlybroken CSS if the browser detected is Opera - making the page look funny or disabling functionality like purging of the spam mail folder.
Opera makes it easy to change the browser identification (via "Quick preferences"), but still, it can be annoying. Specially for non-technical users.
I think it was until NT that Windozes ran the BSD TCP/IP stack; some assorted BSD utilities are still available on Windows to this day. Then again, if they meet the requirements of the BSD license, they're more than entitled to.
Don't wait any longer - play the final level from Quake 2 ("Final showdown"), beat the boss, and look in the small corridor where powerups spawn for a small crack that wasn't there before. Shoot it, press all buttons inside the room that's revealed and a stairway will apear. Use it:)
I've been told The Rock was hillarious in "Be cool" by several friends of mine, though i haven't seen that movie yet. Still, he has a star for action movies, with the right mixture of charisma and ass-kicking - like you said, he was great in "Walking tall" and "The rundown"
PS: Vin Diesel was excellent on "Knockarround guys", one of his very few movies i can stand watching.
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Come on, he has a point - and yes, podcasts are not streamed but they are audio files online! That they're syndicated via RSS is of little consequence; you could deliver it the same with a plain vanilla web page.
I just don't get the craze over podcasts.
This demo looks sweet, but it was incredibly choppy. Was it like that for everyone else?
Same here (Mplayer on linux-x86). I thought it was my box alone...
He was talking about developers. These days games seem to be all about graphics (sadly enough), but all the amazing graphics this technology has to deliver are of no use for game developers if they can't work with it. High profile engines like D3 and Unreal offer a full developement framework which makes development easier (and cheaper), covering pretty much everything a game developer could need. Including graphics.
As for the sneak preview video itself... wow. It is mindblowing, and the motion blur effect alone makes the graphics much better. Still, i'd like to know what kind of hardware rendered that in realtime. And yes, for all we know, this is nothing more than a tech demo. An amazing tech demo, yes, but i've seen a lot of amazing tech demos elsewhere... i'll reserve judgment until the game is out.
Actually, the nerd factor is ok :) It's just that's a "recorded radio show"; i used to do those when i was 10 with a dual deck cassete stereo...
Mmm good point, it eluded me completely (maybe it's because of my disgust for podcasts to begin with :).
Still, RSS is overdoing it: even while it might be well suited to the task, the idea behind RSS is that you recive updated information about something as soon as it's avaliable while using as little bandwidth as possible. I've seen a lot of sites, like the op mentioned, that miss the point completely: either they deliver a lot of data through it or very brief headline-like updates, which most of the time doesn't cut it.
Delivering links through RSS for FTP/WWW downloads would be a better way of Podcasting, but i doubt it'd ever catch on.
Well, it's not that RSS doesn't have a point (it does), it just gets awfully misused. Take podcasts, for example; why bother setting up an RSS/Atom feed with mp3 files when you could do it as easily with a simple web page?
...with the best damn rock game soundtrack of all time: Quake 2. Yeah baby!
I still play that CD (as audio) from time to time.
It's not an argument - it's just my opinion. Flawed as it might me.
Also, as another member of the Rest Of The World, I disagree with your analysis of US foreign involvement's part in the current batch of terrorist ideologies.
Thing is, the US presented its' foreign involvement in the Middle East (Iraq, particularly) as a war on terror... and as a liberation crusade... and a hunt for evil WMD, whichever was more convenient at the time. Again, this is my opinion - but one i seem to share with a lot of non-US residents: the US current foreign policies have nothing to do with the so-called "War on terror", and this is specially true in the Middle East.
Anyone who believes that "terrorists want to take away Americans' freedoms" is deluding themselves.
:)
Indeed, they just wish to create fear as a deterreent. The sad part is that the US finds that limiting personal freedoms is a viable way to combat terrorism. It just doesn't work. There's a lot of European countries that suffered terrorism for much longer and never resorted to such measures.
They likely just interpret our foreign involvement as bullying and wish us to stop.
Actually, the rest of the world feels that the US foreign involvement has little to do with terrorism. I should know, i'm part of them
Not to rain on your parade, but check the definition of terrorist: it's well accepted that a terrorist is someone who employs terror as a political weapon.
The more the US resorts to giving up freedoms in order to "combat" terrorism, the more terrorists win. It's simple, sadly enough.
Even on Linux, the NVIDIA and ATI GL libraries are much faster than the standard X11 ones.
Granted; but that's because both nVidia and ATI release very limited specs for their most modern videocards. The OSS support for videocards with complete specs published is top notch.
Still, yes, it is a lot of work. But could be done.
You forgot Heinlein. And you're very right too. Mod up!
Awwww, crap guys. Let it go already. It's a bit like kicking a crippled at this point.
Just did - it's still an alpha, but it looks like it's shaping up just fine! I tried the game on DOSBox and it runs just fine (it's still as fun as it was back then), but a native version of the game would be amazing...
By the way, impressive work with the original SkyRoads and the level data! My hat's off to you guys.
If you're porting Skyroads to Unix, i'll worship thee. Seriously. I'll even build a statue.
OMF2097 and Body Blows were two fighting games me and my brother played until our fingers bled. One must fall, particularly, was great.
Ditto. I said the same a couple of posts below: it was technically impressive and groundbreaking (it certainly put to shame everything in that era), incredibly influential, with lots of production values, and FUN. Yes, FUN. The levels were so well designed... i only had that much fun when i played Doom 2, and then again, i felt like i've already seen it all. Doom was just a riot to play. And if you did multiplayer? Nirvana. It defined the term "FPS" (yes, even more than Wolfenstein 3D), and no one did it best ever since. Not even iD.
It's easy to forget it now, but when it came out, it was a revolution. I know a lot of people who upgraded their PCs simply so the game would run smoother.
It's not that bad at all, but's heavily biased towards modern games. I mean, God of War, Halo, Burnout... they're all fine games, granted, but among the best of all time?. People do forget quick....
And, BTW, i feel Doom should be ranking a bit higher. It truly was a groundbreaking, well made, influential and fun game. The rest of the list was actually quite fine, and i enjoyed seeing so many Lucasarts games and System Shock 2 in the list.
I beleive that Apples' move to x86 happened because a number of different reasons, all of them debatable. What's important is that, once they decided to do the switch, they chose the x86 implementation that suit them best.
In that context, you can bet that Intel having a DRM roadmap clearly laid out (and already unveiling, back to the hatred CPUID incident which still exists on Pentium CPUs), was a major point in favor of Intel on Apples' eyes.
I never bought that AMDs' lower production capabilities were the reason Apple chose Intel. See, it doesn't matter if AMD offers better performing CPUs, with better technology, or with lower power consumption. Hell, it doesn't even matter if they're cheaper. What matters is that Intel makes easier for Apple to lock down the software to their hardware and, as you said, move DRM to a hardware level. This is essential for Apple, whose primary buissnes was always selling computers as a whole; a tightly integrated hardware/software solution for people who want their systems to just work. You can say anything about Apple, but even Apple haters agree that when you buy an Apple computer, it works. No hassles, no configuration nightmares, etc. They don't want OSX to become the new Windows. Controlling media with hardware DRM is just the cherry on top.
Thing is, while Opera can render pages "designed for IE" just fine, a lot of sites still refuse to load if the browser's not IE. Nevermind sites like Hotmail, which deliver purposedly broken CSS if the browser detected is Opera - making the page look funny or disabling functionality like purging of the spam mail folder.
Opera makes it easy to change the browser identification (via "Quick preferences"), but still, it can be annoying. Specially for non-technical users.
I think it was until NT that Windozes ran the BSD TCP/IP stack; some assorted BSD utilities are still available on Windows to this day. Then again, if they meet the requirements of the BSD license, they're more than entitled to.
No no, i mean beyond that - after a while a stairway appears that leads to a room with a big Strogg doin' the nasty with two Iron Maidens.
Don't wait any longer - play the final level from Quake 2 ("Final showdown"), beat the boss, and look in the small corridor where powerups spawn for a small crack that wasn't there before. Shoot it, press all buttons inside the room that's revealed and a stairway will apear. Use it :)
I've been told The Rock was hillarious in "Be cool" by several friends of mine, though i haven't seen that movie yet. Still, he has a star for action movies, with the right mixture of charisma and ass-kicking - like you said, he was great in "Walking tall" and "The rundown"
PS: Vin Diesel was excellent on "Knockarround guys", one of his very few movies i can stand watching.