Just as I read your post, then saw DRM in your sig, it made me connect your accurate description to some sort of 'DRM of the mind', ie: control the mind to only think what you allow it to.
How about iCantPlayFPSWithOneMouseButton . . . thanks, I'll be here all week (or until the mods show up). Tip your waiters.
Just think about it for a minute though, imagine how realistic this could get! Us windoze gamers are used to our 50 button mice, but with a Mac, it would be like a true experience, because guns (excluding some double barrel shotguns and pistols) have only one trigger.
They could market the shit out of that, "Game on a Mac for realism"...and just leave out the part that you are always the first one dead in counter strike because you only have one mouse button.
Whats with all the Apple stories lately? They are outweighing the Google stories and I'm beginning to become confused as to who I should support and who I should bash.
I have an xbox, first person shooters on a console suck.
You wanna have a general purpose machine? Use something open, I would say Linux.
Who said my machine was general purpose? It's not, its multi-purpose, that's why it's a computer, and not a console. Computers are made to do multiple things, hence why I invest in the newest technology for that instead of 10 other things (ie: consoles, tv's, etc; why buy a newer TV when I could buy a nice large monitor and watch TV on it instead? Why buy a new console when in 2-3 years it will be outdated when I can buy a computer and upgrade a part or two a year and get the ability to do many more things with it).
Your problem is that you insist in playing games for a machine that is not designed to do so. Well, pay the premium for it, but there are clea alternatives, you are just chosing to be locked.
Not designed to play games? Are you kidding me? Did you seriously just say that computers are not designed for playing games? So MS developed directX because it was bored? Good one, keep trolling buddy, you might catch something in a few years......or in a pro-linux article.
As for clear alternatives, could you explain what you are talking about? I have a console, graphics are sub-par, they are overpriced, games are even more overpriced, they are not upgradable, they are not as customizable/moddable (games and the system both), etc.
Your problem is you are a fanboy, my problem is that the products on the market isn't perfect. At least I forsee a solution to mine in the future.
DirectX 10 adds an extra type of shader into the mix, the geometry shader. This type of shader has the ability to create extra triangles if requested to do so. One of the many benefits of this type of shader would be to create displacement mapping (a way to make textures and scenes look more detailed by adding the illusion of height to an otherwise flat texture).
DirectX 10 is hardware limited as well, it gives graphic cards the ability to use unified shaders meaning that if the game is wanting to make use of pixel shaders all of the graphics cards onboard shaders can be used for that purpose if required meaning that there's much better usage of the chip at any one time which will speed things up.
From ATI: DirectX 10 also allows new abilities for the developer such as morphing so expect to see monsters changing shape. Another new feature is the ability to get the graphics card to handle physics instead of the CPU, which can significantly allow more objects to be interacted with and making games more realistic. ATI showed off a demo a while ago which showed off an ocean where the wave physics were entirely done on the GPU rather than the CPU so expect more games to use this type of feature in the future.
I have tried various linux distro's and yes, I enjoy running them, but the headaches they cause are enormous, MORE SO than windows, and I said THAT RUNS MY GAMES AND APPS, none you listed meet those requirements. I shoudln't have to spend two weeks pissing with wine to MAYBE get my game to work.
The games will be backwards compatible dumbass. But in order to get the eye-candy you will need DX10......don't speak if you are that uninformed, nice flamebait though.
I'll betcha Vista and pay-as-you-go winds up being Microsoft's next Windows ME. Nobody will touch either with a ten foot pole.
In the business world, I wouldn't doubt it. But they are fuxxoring consumers making DX10 Vista-only, which means if you want to game 'with eye-candy', you need Vista.
*Disclaimer, I play games for content, but I enjoy pretty graphics while I'm at it as well.
Actually the more I think about it the more I like it. If they did pull something like this then I can't imagine a better incentive to switch to a different OS.
I can, show me an alternative OS that 'just works' and will play popular games and I'll switch.
A better video card than a 7600GT? I highly doubt that considering its a 2 month old card. I would imagine many 5000 and even some 4000 series cards could easily run the glass interface dealy. The RAM on the other hand is an issue I'm aware of, but only for gaming in Vista. I shouldn't need 2GB of ram to open My Computer.
Is the thing usable yet? The last revision I tried, you would click, and then like an hour later it would load the window I told it to open......and this was not on a slow system by any means.
"You are not better than everyone else. Neither am I. Don't run as root."
Well now, that's an awefully defeatest attitude. I say damn the torpedoes. No computer needs more than one account and that account is root. Real men run as root.
I believe its real men run as root while drinking.
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I hope this was a sad joke...ProE is one of the worst modelling programs I've ever been forced to use.
Actually, I live in Pennsylvania, its worse than San Fran probably. Can't wait to graduate college in a year and move.
Just as I read your post, then saw DRM in your sig, it made me connect your accurate description to some sort of 'DRM of the mind', ie: control the mind to only think what you allow it to.
He didn't because, just like you, he kept hitting the U key instead of the W key.
Couldnt you just link to goatse or something, now I have images of nerds going "oh home row, oh home row" stuck in my head. Thanks a lot.
Just think about it for a minute though, imagine how realistic this could get! Us windoze gamers are used to our 50 button mice, but with a Mac, it would be like a true experience, because guns (excluding some double barrel shotguns and pistols) have only one trigger.
They could market the shit out of that, "Game on a Mac for realism"...and just leave out the part that you are always the first one dead in counter strike because you only have one mouse button.
Whats with all the Apple stories lately? They are outweighing the Google stories and I'm beginning to become confused as to who I should support and who I should bash.
No, AMD is not worth that much *yet*.
Funny about the DRM thing in your sig, your post outlines DRM of the mind (from my POV).
This will work out great, just like it does for drug abuse and drunk driving!
Try living here...
I think I've fed the trolls enough today.
Well I'm not sure about the AES, but I'm pretty sure I have a net that will handle that blowfish.
Not a bad price condsidering I pay $45 per month for my shitty Road Runner Cable (3MB/s down).
I thought this was a requirement for a slashdot ID? Did they change the rules?
I have an xbox, first person shooters on a console suck.
You wanna have a general purpose machine? Use something open, I would say Linux.
Who said my machine was general purpose? It's not, its multi-purpose, that's why it's a computer, and not a console. Computers are made to do multiple things, hence why I invest in the newest technology for that instead of 10 other things (ie: consoles, tv's, etc; why buy a newer TV when I could buy a nice large monitor and watch TV on it instead? Why buy a new console when in 2-3 years it will be outdated when I can buy a computer and upgrade a part or two a year and get the ability to do many more things with it).
Your problem is that you insist in playing games for a machine that is not designed to do so. Well, pay the premium for it, but there are clea alternatives, you are just chosing to be locked.
Not designed to play games? Are you kidding me? Did you seriously just say that computers are not designed for playing games? So MS developed directX because it was bored? Good one, keep trolling buddy, you might catch something in a few years......or in a pro-linux article.
As for clear alternatives, could you explain what you are talking about? I have a console, graphics are sub-par, they are overpriced, games are even more overpriced, they are not upgradable, they are not as customizable/moddable (games and the system both), etc.
Your problem is you are a fanboy, my problem is that the products on the market isn't perfect. At least I forsee a solution to mine in the future.
I think you spelled 'dollars' wrong
DirectX 10 is hardware limited as well, it gives graphic cards the ability to use unified shaders meaning that if the game is wanting to make use of pixel shaders all of the graphics cards onboard shaders can be used for that purpose if required meaning that there's much better usage of the chip at any one time which will speed things up.
From ATI: DirectX 10 also allows new abilities for the developer such as morphing so expect to see monsters changing shape. Another new feature is the ability to get the graphics card to handle physics instead of the CPU, which can significantly allow more objects to be interacted with and making games more realistic. ATI showed off a demo a while ago which showed off an ocean where the wave physics were entirely done on the GPU rather than the CPU so expect more games to use this type of feature in the future.
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I have tried various linux distro's and yes, I enjoy running them, but the headaches they cause are enormous, MORE SO than windows, and I said THAT RUNS MY GAMES AND APPS, none you listed meet those requirements. I shoudln't have to spend two weeks pissing with wine to MAYBE get my game to work.
Fanboys are so damn blind.
The games will be backwards compatible dumbass. But in order to get the eye-candy you will need DX10......don't speak if you are that uninformed, nice flamebait though.
In the business world, I wouldn't doubt it. But they are fuxxoring consumers making DX10 Vista-only, which means if you want to game 'with eye-candy', you need Vista.
*Disclaimer, I play games for content, but I enjoy pretty graphics while I'm at it as well.
I can, show me an alternative OS that 'just works' and will play popular games and I'll switch.
A better video card than a 7600GT? I highly doubt that considering its a 2 month old card. I would imagine many 5000 and even some 4000 series cards could easily run the glass interface dealy. The RAM on the other hand is an issue I'm aware of, but only for gaming in Vista. I shouldn't need 2GB of ram to open My Computer.
AMD 3700+ @ 255x11, 1GB Ram, nVidia 7600GT, etc.
I believe its real men run as root while drinking.