In the game industry, I have seen people with 3+ monitors and various machines configurations. Often you'll have one monitor for your IDE and/or debugger and the application or game on the monitor. Then you toss in people monitoring server / client interaction and various game console dev kits for a third+ monitor. The more screens you have the more crap you can observe at once -- it is that simple. Trust me when I say it's easier to test multiplayer bugs with more than one machine -- it's just common sense.
I'll repost my reply from the linked story as well:
By 2008 both Final Fantasy and Metal Gear titles have been released. Also in a shorter time frame: Assassin's Creed, Heavenly Sword, Ninja Gaiden Simga, Lair, and a dozen other AAA titles will already be out there on shelves. I don't think anyone will care much about Edios not publishing PS3 titles in 2007. Other publishers are already launching 'big name' titles in the mean time.
I still find it odd Team Ninja don't get as much flak as Capcom did for being 'turncoats' -- haha fanboys. Speaking of Capcom they'll release all their major titles cross platform from here on out. Personally, I think DMC jumped the shark in DMC2 -- but it's hard to knock a game that values form over function -- it's entire subjective. I do like the fruit looped colored enemies in DMC4, since fanboys can't bitch about it being 'brown'. That's a fact to take to the bank.
As for first party Xbox vs first party SONY, I don't even care for halo or fable so it's not a contest. I will be playing Enemy Territory and Oblivion, which are multiplatform including PC. I can't wait for the new ET release. The PS3 version will support kb+mouse last I checked just like UE3-UT. I can see a controller for GoW, but for an FPS -- and even worse a tactical FPS? I guess if you like to respawn a lot it's fine. Got a little ranty there. ^_^
I guess you never been to the OC or bay area. Irvine is cleaner than disney world and twice as planned out. It's just a ton of cute asian girls mostly Japanese/Persians/Indians all over the place. Lots of good food and way too many shops. Also the nearby beaches and the nature preserves are nice. It does suck that the weather is so dry, but most people perfer it that way.
Hello, I'm curious if you're a fanboy troll or just repeat stupid things you hear that aren't true. You can swap out off the shelf drives in your PS3 since launch. Many people buy a '20GB' model and have put 120GB drives and larger in without a hitch. In the words of 4chan your troll is an 'epic failure'.
It's also interesting there is some speculation has already started over weather Microsoft will release a Blu-ray add-on now. I have to say I agree with the articles coming out this 'validates' the PS3. I know several people that got the '20GB model' and upgraded the HDD for more capacity. Here's an article I didn't see linked above:
You mean D3D is for crap like games I guess. If you develop appliactions and systems that have a real development lifecycle you want OpenGL. It's clear OpenGL is superior for forwards / backwards compatibility -- also cross platform support is a nice bonus. Not to mention embedded systems. The F22 uses OpenGL and not D3D for a reason. Also it's a bitch to refactor a large 3d modeler or CAD system every forced DX release/OS bundle. Think about that.;)
D3D is a very tiny share of the 3d market even considering console games on Xbox and Xbox 360, since all other consoles released recently support OpenGL implementations. There was a fun OpenGL partial implementation ( pre ES ) for Playstation 2 that was functional enough for many types of games even with the aging hardware. It's moot to compare D3D and OpenGL -- OpenGL will continue to gain more product support as D3D loses more installed platforms. It's just the nature of the platforms involved and services users demand. Microsoft will only continue to lose home computer market share from here on out, and even then that platform is also supporting OpenGL. You have 2 platforms for D3D now that Xbox is retired... OpenGL plays nicer with the new mainstreaming of the multiprocessor development model... it would be a good time to start learning more about OpenGL.
I took a look at it the other day linked from ars and again today. It's mostly a bunch of fanboys jerking each other off, and spreading misinformation. Also everyone is modded down around -1 to -5 no matter what they say in general. I saw posts saying "you can't run Linux on PS3 / can't use Cell from hypervisor" all over the place and corrections marked down to -6. I'm using PS3 as an example, since I know that hardware best. Imagine if someone came on slashdot and started spouting out misinformation to push some agenda for their love of Microsoft. It would be better if it wasn't some horrible mix of digg and a blog. They need to setup wiki pages for some community quality control, and remove the trolling box too. I don't think a thousand fanboys telling you how they feel about the Wii controller or an uninformed or purposely misleading blog entry contributes anything.
What a peice of garbage, and a blight to wikis everywhere. I only give it 1/5, because you can't give 0/5.;)
If you never played a game with summons like in the Elder Scrolls you might miss the point. Just load up Oblivion, and make a character with high Marksman and Conjuration skills. Now play a couple of hours and see what I mean. You can use them as meat sheilds for sure, but it really helps with strategy and balancing fights. You can take on more enemies at a time now without making your character 'godlike' or making enemy AI do a 'holding pattern'. I don't have to mention games for those two as it's often seen. ^_^
The fun part about the marksman+conjuration character is you can swap out dozens of creatures for their special abilities while you're pointing them in the right direction and gimping enemies from far away. It's almost like a fantasy Advanced Fire Squad or Call of WWII game gameplay. I'm sure a lot of the content will be cut in Fable, but I think the dog is going to stay from what I've read in other interviews and it'll be nice.;)
You don't take your job seriously? A lot of game developers are very passionate about theirs.
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Honestly, I don't think he cares what you think. This was directed at other developers -- and Nintendo itself. Remember the name is 'Game *Developer Conference'. He wants Nintendo to change before it's too late for them to get out of the trap of DS and GameCube rehashes. Do you seriously want to play the same games you played since the SNES over and over -- never getting something really different and new? That's what he's arguing with just a little bit of venom turned up to be sure it gets across.
He's just putting his foot down now before all the Wii is first party games and movie licenses. Toss in a DS and PS2 port ever so often. I think he's already too late for that personally. All Wii users seem to want is more Wii sports and mini games, and he's actually standing up and saying that's not good enough for Spore.
HP is about to unseat Dell has the big box manufacturing king. HP has worked in the past with hardware driver support and even the Debian distrobution. Why not ask HP to do what Dell can't or won't? I'm sure HP would love to take even more market share from Dell, and if they can get another customer they will. If you're a small business using Linux now is the time to leverage the new market share shift.
Well, sadly you might be best off with powdered for the price. The fun part with powder is you can do things like whip some up in a bowl; and turn the bowl upsidedown to let as much water as you want to drain out. You can end up with a nice texture this way. This is more presentable, and it tastes fine. It's not like many people in the US bother to grade up 'fresh?' root and serve that.
FYI you can grow wasabi pretty well in GA if you have a riverbed handy. I'm unsure about commerical farms in the US. =)
Actually, many people upgrading to Vista are reporting to have to change their router firmware to get it working. The reviewer isn't a moron... at least for upgrading router firmware. I have to admit it is funny that whatever changes they made to their stack fucked up basic networking. Just google some manufactures up and laugh your ass off. =)
You like it when patent trolls win? Even if you don't like Sony -- at least they tried to avoid paying out to Immersion. This will be for PS2 controller compatibility more than anything else, so you can play your older games with rumble. You didn't see Sony shaking down Microsoft for making a vision based controller.
This whole week has had a ton of unverified, crap posts. Is slashot becoming another mob-minded digg? If it's posted on some guy's blog it must be true!
Dear blog, Slashdot.org is becoming just like Digg. I expect this to be front page in about 5mins.
I was cooking on the grill today, and I started to feel warmer and warmer. It started getting so hot the meat cooked to a nice brown. Gobal warming ( thermaldynamics ) must be stopped! If only we could get another pop star to sing about the volcanic vents of the ocean caused by man!
I was talking about this the other day. How can you still be using installers over packages in 2007? Packages are primarily data where as installers are ( in this case ) win32 exec. A limited scripting support for mundane things is all you really need. A dependency system might be impossible for Windows to ever implement at this point, since they're locked into their DLL versioning shortcomings. However installing drivers like applications ( and poorly at that ) is a joke. Oh they have their little OEM text files and browse directory / cdrom dialogs, and this is pretty much unchanged for years. Linux kernel modules and deb packaging you can give you control over your drivers at a fine grain level. I also perfer how with Linux provides a large 'frist party' bundles of about anything you could need. I don't need a driver disk for anything I buy for Linux for this reason. Only certain things like Nvidia drivers and VMWare drivers require a seperate package with this model, which is how Ubuntu for example bundles them.
If Microsoft could fix their 'DLL hell' problem, revamp their driver model, and add a dependency/packaging system Windows might be almost as easy to use as Ubuntu. Users shouldn't have to hunt down drivers off websites like it's Windows 95.
I got a USB Keyboard from Sony for Playstation 2 RTE, and it's got pretty diamonds on the 'super' keys. I still use this keyboard on my main workstation at home. I also built my own box to avoid Windows logos and ugly Dell cases and horrible internal componets.;)
When that comment was made ( right after Christmas ) the PS3 was still being sold for an outrageous amount on eBay. It is fun to laugh at Penny Arcade proving once again they jumped the shark a long time ago. Way to go to bring this comic up in the middle of Feburary! If they wanted to collect on your reward maybe you should've atempted this back in the first week of January. I haven't had any respect for them since their 'Microsoft Xbox sell-out' edition of their news page a while back. They bitch about a lot of things they don't understand when it comes to game development as well. Wrapping up they're arm chair game developers like the kids in that devry commerical -- now they're not even funny too boot.
My grandmother PWNED you, dude. It's on the Applications menu -- right where the XP start menu is by default depending on setup. Pretty hard to miss with the section break in the menu. Maybe we can make it flash and shrink/grow with a picture of a snake biting you. =)
Actually, beagle is installed by default now. Your bitch is moot anyway, since Ubuntu even has something even easier than synaptic -- Add/Remove Applications. You just browse/search, click, and go. It'll even install applications like vmware player and opera. It handles everything else for you.
Once Ubuntu has ClickNRun bundled you'll even be able to BUY and INSTALL things like Crossover Office with the same system more or less. Tell me how are you going to beat that for usability?
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In the game industry, I have seen people with 3+ monitors and various machines configurations. Often you'll have one monitor for your IDE and/or debugger and the application or game on the monitor. Then you toss in people monitoring server / client interaction and various game console dev kits for a third+ monitor. The more screens you have the more crap you can observe at once -- it is that simple. Trust me when I say it's easier to test multiplayer bugs with more than one machine -- it's just common sense.
The Dreamcast... was seriously injuried... but the soul still burns.
I guess you haven't seen it yet.
I'll repost my reply from the linked story as well:
By 2008 both Final Fantasy and Metal Gear titles have been released. Also in a shorter time frame: Assassin's Creed, Heavenly Sword, Ninja Gaiden Simga, Lair, and a dozen other AAA titles will already be out there on shelves. I don't think anyone will care much about Edios not publishing PS3 titles in 2007. Other publishers are already launching 'big name' titles in the mean time.
I still find it odd Team Ninja don't get as much flak as Capcom did for being 'turncoats' -- haha fanboys. Speaking of Capcom they'll release all their major titles cross platform from here on out. Personally, I think DMC jumped the shark in DMC2 -- but it's hard to knock a game that values form over function -- it's entire subjective. I do like the fruit looped colored enemies in DMC4, since fanboys can't bitch about it being 'brown'. That's a fact to take to the bank.
As for first party Xbox vs first party SONY, I don't even care for halo or fable so it's not a contest. I will be playing Enemy Territory and Oblivion, which are multiplatform including PC. I can't wait for the new ET release. The PS3 version will support kb+mouse last I checked just like UE3-UT. I can see a controller for GoW, but for an FPS -- and even worse a tactical FPS? I guess if you like to respawn a lot it's fine. Got a little ranty there. ^_^
-- March 30, 2007 @ 12:45PM
I guess you never been to the OC or bay area. Irvine is cleaner than disney world and twice as planned out. It's just a ton of cute asian girls mostly Japanese/Persians/Indians all over the place. Lots of good food and way too many shops. Also the nearby beaches and the nature preserves are nice. It does suck that the weather is so dry, but most people perfer it that way.
Hello, I'm curious if you're a fanboy troll or just repeat stupid things you hear that aren't true. You can swap out off the shelf drives in your PS3 since launch. Many people buy a '20GB' model and have put 120GB drives and larger in without a hitch. In the words of 4chan your troll is an 'epic failure'.
It's also interesting there is some speculation has already started over weather Microsoft will release a Blu-ray add-on now. I have to say I agree with the articles coming out this 'validates' the PS3. I know several people that got the '20GB model' and upgraded the HDD for more capacity. Here's an article I didn't see linked above:
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You mean D3D is for crap like games I guess. If you develop appliactions and systems that have a real development lifecycle you want OpenGL. It's clear OpenGL is superior for forwards / backwards compatibility -- also cross platform support is a nice bonus. Not to mention embedded systems. The F22 uses OpenGL and not D3D for a reason. Also it's a bitch to refactor a large 3d modeler or CAD system every forced DX release/OS bundle. Think about that. ;)
D3D is a very tiny share of the 3d market even considering console games on Xbox and Xbox 360, since all other consoles released recently support OpenGL implementations. There was a fun OpenGL partial implementation ( pre ES ) for Playstation 2 that was functional enough for many types of games even with the aging hardware. It's moot to compare D3D and OpenGL -- OpenGL will continue to gain more product support as D3D loses more installed platforms. It's just the nature of the platforms involved and services users demand. Microsoft will only continue to lose home computer market share from here on out, and even then that platform is also supporting OpenGL. You have 2 platforms for D3D now that Xbox is retired... OpenGL plays nicer with the new mainstreaming of the multiprocessor development model... it would be a good time to start learning more about OpenGL.
I took a look at it the other day linked from ars and again today. It's mostly a bunch of fanboys jerking each other off, and spreading misinformation. Also everyone is modded down around -1 to -5 no matter what they say in general. I saw posts saying "you can't run Linux on PS3 / can't use Cell from hypervisor" all over the place and corrections marked down to -6. I'm using PS3 as an example, since I know that hardware best. Imagine if someone came on slashdot and started spouting out misinformation to push some agenda for their love of Microsoft. It would be better if it wasn't some horrible mix of digg and a blog. They need to setup wiki pages for some community quality control, and remove the trolling box too. I don't think a thousand fanboys telling you how they feel about the Wii controller or an uninformed or purposely misleading blog entry contributes anything.
;)
What a peice of garbage, and a blight to wikis everywhere. I only give it 1/5, because you can't give 0/5.
If you never played a game with summons like in the Elder Scrolls you might miss the point. Just load up Oblivion, and make a character with high Marksman and Conjuration skills. Now play a couple of hours and see what I mean. You can use them as meat sheilds for sure, but it really helps with strategy and balancing fights. You can take on more enemies at a time now without making your character 'godlike' or making enemy AI do a 'holding pattern'. I don't have to mention games for those two as it's often seen. ^_^
;)
The fun part about the marksman+conjuration character is you can swap out dozens of creatures for their special abilities while you're pointing them in the right direction and gimping enemies from far away. It's almost like a fantasy Advanced Fire Squad or Call of WWII game gameplay. I'm sure a lot of the content will be cut in Fable, but I think the dog is going to stay from what I've read in other interviews and it'll be nice.
You don't take your job seriously? A lot of game developers are very passionate about theirs.
Honestly, I don't think he cares what you think. This was directed at other developers -- and Nintendo itself. Remember the name is 'Game *Developer Conference'. He wants Nintendo to change before it's too late for them to get out of the trap of DS and GameCube rehashes. Do you seriously want to play the same games you played since the SNES over and over -- never getting something really different and new? That's what he's arguing with just a little bit of venom turned up to be sure it gets across.
He's just putting his foot down now before all the Wii is first party games and movie licenses. Toss in a DS and PS2 port ever so often. I think he's already too late for that personally. All Wii users seem to want is more Wii sports and mini games, and he's actually standing up and saying that's not good enough for Spore.
Thanks. I have friends ask me all the time about how to make dashi, maki, etc. Now I can point them to fresh roots. =)
HP is about to unseat Dell has the big box manufacturing king. HP has worked in the past with hardware driver support and even the Debian distrobution. Why not ask HP to do what Dell can't or won't? I'm sure HP would love to take even more market share from Dell, and if they can get another customer they will. If you're a small business using Linux now is the time to leverage the new market share shift.
You like it when people use the word leverage. =p
Well, sadly you might be best off with powdered for the price. The fun part with powder is you can do things like whip some up in a bowl; and turn the bowl upsidedown to let as much water as you want to drain out. You can end up with a nice texture this way. This is more presentable, and it tastes fine. It's not like many people in the US bother to grade up 'fresh?' root and serve that.
FYI you can grow wasabi pretty well in GA if you have a riverbed handy. I'm unsure about commerical farms in the US. =)
Actually, many people upgrading to Vista are reporting to have to change their router firmware to get it working. The reviewer isn't a moron... at least for upgrading router firmware. I have to admit it is funny that whatever changes they made to their stack fucked up basic networking. Just google some manufactures up and laugh your ass off. =)
It's a fairly wide spread issue, which is sad.
You like it when patent trolls win? Even if you don't like Sony -- at least they tried to avoid paying out to Immersion. This will be for PS2 controller compatibility more than anything else, so you can play your older games with rumble. You didn't see Sony shaking down Microsoft for making a vision based controller.
I guess trolls of a feather flock together. =)
This whole week has had a ton of unverified, crap posts. Is slashot becoming another mob-minded digg? If it's posted on some guy's blog it must be true!
Dear blog,
Slashdot.org is becoming just like Digg. I expect this to be front page in about 5mins.
I was cooking on the grill today, and I started to feel warmer and warmer. It started getting so hot the meat cooked to a nice brown. Gobal warming ( thermaldynamics ) must be stopped! If only we could get another pop star to sing about the volcanic vents of the ocean caused by man!
Calmari would be in the EU, this is Auckland -- they'll sell it to Japanese tourists as ika nigiri! ;)
I was talking about this the other day. How can you still be using installers over packages in 2007? Packages are primarily data where as installers are ( in this case ) win32 exec. A limited scripting support for mundane things is all you really need. A dependency system might be impossible for Windows to ever implement at this point, since they're locked into their DLL versioning shortcomings. However installing drivers like applications ( and poorly at that ) is a joke. Oh they have their little OEM text files and browse directory / cdrom dialogs, and this is pretty much unchanged for years. Linux kernel modules and deb packaging you can give you control over your drivers at a fine grain level. I also perfer how with Linux provides a large 'frist party' bundles of about anything you could need. I don't need a driver disk for anything I buy for Linux for this reason. Only certain things like Nvidia drivers and VMWare drivers require a seperate package with this model, which is how Ubuntu for example bundles them.
If Microsoft could fix their 'DLL hell' problem, revamp their driver model, and add a dependency/packaging system Windows might be almost as easy to use as Ubuntu. Users shouldn't have to hunt down drivers off websites like it's Windows 95.
I got a USB Keyboard from Sony for Playstation 2 RTE, and it's got pretty diamonds on the 'super' keys. I still use this keyboard on my main workstation at home. I also built my own box to avoid Windows logos and ugly Dell cases and horrible internal componets. ;)
When that comment was made ( right after Christmas ) the PS3 was still being sold for an outrageous amount on eBay. It is fun to laugh at Penny Arcade proving once again they jumped the shark a long time ago. Way to go to bring this comic up in the middle of Feburary! If they wanted to collect on your reward maybe you should've atempted this back in the first week of January. I haven't had any respect for them since their 'Microsoft Xbox sell-out' edition of their news page a while back. They bitch about a lot of things they don't understand when it comes to game development as well. Wrapping up they're arm chair game developers like the kids in that devry commerical -- now they're not even funny too boot.
My grandmother PWNED you, dude. It's on the Applications menu -- right where the XP start menu is by default depending on setup. Pretty hard to miss with the section break in the menu. Maybe we can make it flash and shrink/grow with a picture of a snake biting you. =)
Actually, beagle is installed by default now. Your bitch is moot anyway, since Ubuntu even has something even easier than synaptic -- Add/Remove Applications. You just browse/search, click, and go. It'll even install applications like vmware player and opera. It handles everything else for you.
Once Ubuntu has ClickNRun bundled you'll even be able to BUY and INSTALL things like Crossover Office with the same system more or less. Tell me how are you going to beat that for usability?