Actually I think 'Mass Effect' works without using the secondary definition of effect:'to create'. It's not the Mass affecting objects, it's a change in mass resulting in the effect of objects being affected.
The full title for "Mass Effect" should be:
"The resulting Effect of Advanced Space Technology(tm) manipulating the Mass of a given object is people with super powers and an excuse for spaceships to fly around the galaxy faster than the speed of light... by Bioware the company who made Knights of the Old Republic and operates out of Alberta... that's in Canada for you Americans who don't know where that is...Buy it."
I guess someone in marketing decided that the print costs would be too high on all promotional material which charges by the word and just dropped out everything else.
Actually while Assassin's Creed was originally marketed to Sony in an effort to make it an exclusive--all evidence points to the actual initial development of the game being on the 360.
All of the original tech demos and gameplay demonstrations were on 360 Dev kits.
But Epic isn't licensing an "FPS Engine" They're marketing a 'flexible' middleware rendering engine.
A lot of studios are feeling like Epic exagerated the specs of their technology. I remember some of the claims they were making before GOW was even announced things that were more demonstration hacks than engine features.
Epic over promised, under delivered and failed to meet their deadlines. As a result Silicon Knights effectively said "Screw it it's easier to start from scratch" and now want out of their contract and the court to recognize that the engine they developed is not Unreal 3 but their own IP. (Epic is claiming the inhouse engine SI Developed instead of UE3 is Epic property.)
There are some other demands being made for compensation but as far as the claims of wrong doing go, it sounds like SI has a pretty good case.
Please upload the applicable code and how to reproduce the security glitch and slashdot can make an assessment of the feasibility of the timeline. kk thanks.
Being able to reshuffle a bad interface a good interface makes not.
A good interface is the philosophy behind how you use the application. Flow between tools. Context sensitivity. Tool interactivity... the list goes on and on.
Watch a user of photoshop and a user of painter try to paint and you'll see the difference. Menus and buttons are a poor substitute for a good UI. Being able to rearrange the buttons is like "rearranging the chairs on the deck of the titanic"
If I had time I could specifically enumerate the many many failings of GIMP's interface which somehow make photoshop look intelligent. But I'll leave that for another individual.
Lightning bolts I have observed over the course of Twenty One years: Hundreds?
Number of natural lightning bolts I've seen with any sort of useful or productive result: 0
Benjamin Franklin saw the obvious benefits of harnessing electricity. If you can't see the obvious benefits from extra terrestrial contact then you clearly lack in imagination.
The guy has 7 kids is married and is a techie. He's too corporate to be hip, so he buys his way into being 'cool' through being the provider. I bet he had like a 15 terrabyte home server that just ripped movies, software and music all day long.
He probably has the 25+mbps bonded DSL, some sort of outlandish automated ripping system and was sharing the spoils of his hobby with his co-workers and friends. You know the kind of piracy setup that only a 6 figure salary can afford.
Microsoft then finds out that he's A) in deep shit with a whole lot of companies and organisations (MPAA, RIAA, etc etc) and B) has even been pirating Microsoft software and distributing it so they can him without being specific in an agreement to not get him arrested and sued for $10,000,000 in copyright violations.
Bioshock - First Person Shooter Blacksite: Area 51 - First person shooter Fatal Inertia - First person shooter Hour of Victory - First person shooter Mass Effect - Third Person RPG with shooter elements Monster Madness - Simple third person slasher Stranglehold - Third Person shooter Vegas - Third Person Shooter Medal of Honor: Airborne - First Person Shooter Fury - RPG Shooter and Unreal Tournament 3 - First Person Shooter
Now with the exception of 2 or so games on that list almost every single one of them could practically be built on the Gears of War SDK as a Mod and required no extensive engine changes. Now mind you Epic only gave up the Gears of War Source code after widespread complaining from developers.
The claim from SK is that Epic was late (easily verified), with held code (until they finally begrudgingly gave up GoW Code) and didn't release enough of the code on time (per the contract) to meet internal deadlines. As a result they claim that they had to develop an in house engine devoid of the UE3 to continue development.
Now based on an an informal surveying from friends who are developers on many AAA titles... just because they ship doesn't mean that they aren't cheering on SK and off the record agreeing with everything in the claims. The general consensus seems to be "Making Gears of War 2 is pretty easy with the UE3, but trying to deviate from that is an enormous headache and very very difficult."
Yes. Mass Effect is releasing on time (SK isn't actually *that* far behind) but don't mistake having the full backing of Microsoft game studios to fund an army of programmers to overcome the shortcomings of UE3 as UE3 working well.
Given enough time a code team can create an entire engine from scratch (and often do). So starting from UE3 might save a few years and it might save a few days. In the end Mass Effect for all we know might be 99% independent engine. SK just decided it wasn't worth it and Epic breached their contract.
I can hire 20 Mexican immigrants for $5 an hour to replace me... in the end the work will still be inferior to my work (unless you randomly pick up someone with my skillset).
Sometimes things cost money because it's worth it.
Whoa I think you got things backwards there. VSC has been around for years. Therefore Leopard's Time Machine is Apple's version of VSC with a spiffy new interface. Even then Time Machine is a far more "Back up to disk" application than VSC's per file histories.
Yeah fuck story and emotional connection. I want to play a slow shitty version of ping pong for hours on end!
Complete bullshit. Pong was a graphics demo. "Wow look an animated dot!" It had little strategy. No replay and is about as aesthetically appealing as a 3 year old's crayon drawing.
Selling multiple versions of a game console: Really Realllly confusing for consumers... because like.. some come with big hard drives and some with smaller hard drives and some with even smaller memory capacity yet! The choices Oh my! The confusion! What to buy!?!
But selling multiple operating systems for your computer: Consumers are just itchin' to make a choice on an operating system. A word they don't even know the meaning or ramifications of.
You're mistaking a reyes rendering process (like PRMan) with raytracing.
A Reyes based renderer breaks the entire scene into sub pixel sized micro-polygons. So perfectly curved or perfectly straight or displaced... doesn't matter. It's the same number of micro-polygons.
Raytracing simply shoots a ray out and intersects something. It then from that point calculates luminance and or reflection.
It's a multiple choice question. In which you choose one option that "best describes" the timeframe you intend to upgrade.
Technically they could all upgrade tommorow with some giant service pack of doom being released, but they don't intend to until later in their projections.
>>>>They think they understand something about computers and operating systems, but it comes down to they kinda understand how Windows works on the front end, and it's a HUGE blow to them when they have to start over. A lot of it is an ego thing. Instead of admitting they know less about computers than they thought, they pass it off as inferior. They do the same thing to Macs.
Yeah because to use computers you should know how to recompile your applications, write your own drivers and fuck around with the OS for 3 hours every day instead of--you know... use it!
I was always a huge fan of sitting in a chair staring at a wall. It was *always* more enjoyable than homework.
Also grades *are* relative. They're relative between classes. Ever heard of "the easy" class. I'm with parent. It sounds great in theory but forbiding purchases based on grades is not a standardized process. I had friends who went to a public highschool who were failing every single class at my highschool. As soon as they got to public highschool they got straight As because the teachers graded so much easier.
Service: Provide internet Process: Any means necessary.
Using *your* clients as hostages to save you some work is about as poor form as it gets. I can get onto my internet just fine with Vista through a linux server so I'm assuming it's possible.
Somebody over in sweden has a god complex and I hope it bankrupts them for their childish antics.
How is this different from being allowed to tap someone's phone or plant a bug? As long as warrants are involved this sounds like the privacy law actually working since they aren't allowed to carry out any espionage that isn't specificially allowed by law.
Cloning is nothing more than tricking a cell to do what it's already designed to do. You aren't creating anything, the cell is creating another cell.
It's the difference between going to a Frys buying a motherboard, processor, case etc and assembling it at home vs mining ore, refining, designing, building a fabrication unit printing circuits and assembling that.
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Isn't that what microsoft is trying to do with PopFly?
http://www.popfly.ms/Overview/
Actually I think 'Mass Effect' works without using the secondary definition of effect:'to create'. It's not the Mass affecting objects, it's a change in mass resulting in the effect of objects being affected.
The full title for "Mass Effect" should be:
"The resulting Effect of Advanced Space Technology(tm) manipulating the Mass of a given object is people with super powers and an excuse for spaceships to fly around the galaxy faster than the speed of light... by Bioware the company who made Knights of the Old Republic and operates out of Alberta... that's in Canada for you Americans who don't know where that is...Buy it."
I guess someone in marketing decided that the print costs would be too high on all promotional material which charges by the word and just dropped out everything else.
Actually while Assassin's Creed was originally marketed to Sony in an effort to make it an exclusive--all evidence points to the actual initial development of the game being on the 360.
All of the original tech demos and gameplay demonstrations were on 360 Dev kits.
But Epic isn't licensing an "FPS Engine" They're marketing a 'flexible' middleware rendering engine.
A lot of studios are feeling like Epic exagerated the specs of their technology. I remember some of the claims they were making before GOW was even announced things that were more demonstration hacks than engine features.
Epic over promised, under delivered and failed to meet their deadlines. As a result Silicon Knights effectively said "Screw it it's easier to start from scratch" and now want out of their contract and the court to recognize that the engine they developed is not Unreal 3 but their own IP. (Epic is claiming the inhouse engine SI Developed instead of UE3 is Epic property.)
There are some other demands being made for compensation but as far as the claims of wrong doing go, it sounds like SI has a pretty good case.
Please upload the applicable code and how to reproduce the security glitch and slashdot can make an assessment of the feasibility of the timeline. kk thanks.
Being able to reshuffle a bad interface a good interface makes not.
A good interface is the philosophy behind how you use the application. Flow between tools. Context sensitivity. Tool interactivity... the list goes on and on.
Watch a user of photoshop and a user of painter try to paint and you'll see the difference. Menus and buttons are a poor substitute for a good UI. Being able to rearrange the buttons is like "rearranging the chairs on the deck of the titanic"
If I had time I could specifically enumerate the many many failings of GIMP's interface which somehow make photoshop look intelligent. But I'll leave that for another individual.
Lightning bolts I have observed over the course of Twenty One years: Hundreds?
Number of natural lightning bolts I've seen with any sort of useful or productive result: 0
Benjamin Franklin saw the obvious benefits of harnessing electricity. If you can't see the obvious benefits from extra terrestrial contact then you clearly lack in imagination.
The guy has 7 kids is married and is a techie. He's too corporate to be hip, so he buys his way into being 'cool' through being the provider. I bet he had like a 15 terrabyte home server that just ripped movies, software and music all day long.
He probably has the 25+mbps bonded DSL, some sort of outlandish automated ripping system and was sharing the spoils of his hobby with his co-workers and friends. You know the kind of piracy setup that only a 6 figure salary can afford.
Microsoft then finds out that he's A) in deep shit with a whole lot of companies and organisations (MPAA, RIAA, etc etc) and B) has even been pirating Microsoft software and distributing it so they can him without being specific in an agreement to not get him arrested and sued for $10,000,000 in copyright violations.
Bioshock - First Person Shooter
Blacksite: Area 51 - First person shooter
Fatal Inertia - First person shooter
Hour of Victory - First person shooter
Mass Effect - Third Person RPG with shooter elements
Monster Madness - Simple third person slasher
Stranglehold - Third Person shooter
Vegas - Third Person Shooter
Medal of Honor: Airborne - First Person Shooter
Fury - RPG Shooter
and Unreal Tournament 3 - First Person Shooter
Now with the exception of 2 or so games on that list almost every single one of them could practically be built on the Gears of War SDK as a Mod and required no extensive engine changes. Now mind you Epic only gave up the Gears of War Source code after widespread complaining from developers.
The claim from SK is that Epic was late (easily verified), with held code (until they finally begrudgingly gave up GoW Code) and didn't release enough of the code on time (per the contract) to meet internal deadlines. As a result they claim that they had to develop an in house engine devoid of the UE3 to continue development.
Now based on an an informal surveying from friends who are developers on many AAA titles... just because they ship doesn't mean that they aren't cheering on SK and off the record agreeing with everything in the claims. The general consensus seems to be "Making Gears of War 2 is pretty easy with the UE3, but trying to deviate from that is an enormous headache and very very difficult."
Yes. Mass Effect is releasing on time (SK isn't actually *that* far behind) but don't mistake having the full backing of Microsoft game studios to fund an army of programmers to overcome the shortcomings of UE3 as UE3 working well.
Given enough time a code team can create an entire engine from scratch (and often do). So starting from UE3 might save a few years and it might save a few days. In the end Mass Effect for all we know might be 99% independent engine. SK just decided it wasn't worth it and Epic breached their contract.
I can hire 20 Mexican immigrants for $5 an hour to replace me... in the end the work will still be inferior to my work (unless you randomly pick up someone with my skillset).
Sometimes things cost money because it's worth it.
I'll play the devil's advocate's advocate here.
Here is how the deal breaks down.
Microsoft requires that every computer that might have its software installed in the school registered.
In exchange Microsoft offers an 80% discount on everything.
I can't believe people are complaining about the nuances of Microsoft's school discounts. They offer seats of office for $7!!
If you ask me they could demand that you pay twice for every computer in the school and they're still saving an obscene amount of cash.
Whoa I think you got things backwards there. VSC has been around for years. Therefore Leopard's Time Machine is Apple's version of VSC with a spiffy new interface. Even then Time Machine is a far more "Back up to disk" application than VSC's per file histories.
Yeah fuck story and emotional connection. I want to play a slow shitty version of ping pong for hours on end!
Complete bullshit. Pong was a graphics demo. "Wow look an animated dot!" It had little strategy. No replay and is about as aesthetically appealing as a 3 year old's crayon drawing.
Just so we're clear:
Selling multiple versions of a game console: Really Realllly confusing for consumers... because like.. some come with big hard drives and some with smaller hard drives and some with even smaller memory capacity yet! The choices Oh my! The confusion! What to buy!?!
But selling multiple operating systems for your computer: Consumers are just itchin' to make a choice on an operating system. A word they don't even know the meaning or ramifications of.
Yep that makes perfect sense to me too.
Ahhhh the gift of giving with expectation of return. The philanthropic spirit of open source.
But Apple doesn't bundle all sorts of applications with their OS? Windows Media Player... BAD! iTunes.. Good?
You're mistaking a reyes rendering process (like PRMan) with raytracing.
A Reyes based renderer breaks the entire scene into sub pixel sized micro-polygons. So perfectly curved or perfectly straight or displaced... doesn't matter. It's the same number of micro-polygons.
Raytracing simply shoots a ray out and intersects something. It then from that point calculates luminance and or reflection.
50%.
It's a multiple choice question. In which you choose one option that "best describes" the timeframe you intend to upgrade.
Technically they could all upgrade tommorow with some giant service pack of doom being released, but they don't intend to until later in their projections.
>>>>They think they understand something about computers and operating systems, but it comes down to they kinda understand how Windows works on the front end, and it's a HUGE blow to them when they have to start over. A lot of it is an ego thing. Instead of admitting they know less about computers than they thought, they pass it off as inferior. They do the same thing to Macs.
... use it!
Yeah because to use computers you should know how to recompile your applications, write your own drivers and fuck around with the OS for 3 hours every day instead of--you know
I was always a huge fan of sitting in a chair staring at a wall. It was *always* more enjoyable than homework.
Also grades *are* relative. They're relative between classes. Ever heard of "the easy" class. I'm with parent. It sounds great in theory but forbiding purchases based on grades is not a standardized process. I had friends who went to a public highschool who were failing every single class at my highschool. As soon as they got to public highschool they got straight As because the teachers graded so much easier.
Service: Provide internet
Process: Any means necessary.
Using *your* clients as hostages to save you some work is about as poor form as it gets. I can get onto my internet just fine with Vista through a linux server so I'm assuming it's possible.
Somebody over in sweden has a god complex and I hope it bankrupts them for their childish antics.
How is this different from being allowed to tap someone's phone or plant a bug? As long as warrants are involved this sounds like the privacy law actually working since they aren't allowed to carry out any espionage that isn't specificially allowed by law.
They're attempting to manufacture a cell.
Cloning is nothing more than tricking a cell to do what it's already designed to do. You aren't creating anything, the cell is creating another cell.
It's the difference between going to a Frys buying a motherboard, processor, case etc and assembling it at home vs mining ore, refining, designing, building a fabrication unit printing circuits and assembling that.
The Real Question is how much less time will my renders take compared to not having a G34X! chip?
That's why it costs the overbearing price of $189 a year for poor college students.