My felony record says I'd straighten your ass out for thinking you'd even stand a chance of being a RLTG versus the ITG you're currently portraying, and you'd only bend over and take it. Especially with a name like ClownPenis! What, you gotta inflate your junk first?
Well, first we can press a class action, then we can press for criminal charges for theft. I paid for OtherOS. Fuck them, I want full criminal sanctions imposed upon them for taking it from me. I want their ass sued for their current false advertising scheme of "It does everything" When in fact they're stripping some of its functionality from us, and I want their ass nailed for not providing BC for ALL PS3 units, which this current "It does everything" ad scheme you can see in Best Buy stores pretty much contradicts - the new PS3 can't do HALF of what the original PS3 could do. It's about time Sony was 100% DESTROYED for all the bullshit they've been pulling on us for all these years from rootkitting our PCs to effectively STEALING OUR HARDWARE FROM US.
They took down most of the options on their 'Contact Us' page. You can't e-mail, or anything.
BUT they were stupid enough to leave the phone numbers on the site so feel free to clog their phones with calls expressing your displeasure over their violation of your property rights.
Dear Anonymous Hacker with absolutely no clue about how the law works,
I paid for OtherOS - Sony will allow me to keep it and access their online network or I will destroy them in a lawsuit, plus press for criminal charges.
By the way, for those of you wanting to join me in the class-action I'm gong to form - just look up Finkelstein and Thompson if you're in the state of CA - they helped me out with Spore and they'll most certainly come in handy for this nonsense NOW.
100 Bush Street San Francisco, CA 94104-3954 (415) 398-8700
The demoscene wasn't trying to impress anybody but the technical people.
If they REALLY focused on it and intended it for release to everybody as a serious attempt, It would be a game on a floppy disk and it would probably destroy anything graphically, thchnologically, and it would run on hardware that couldn't run crysis, while beating the crap out of how crysis looks, offering better AI (Crysis' AI sucked goat dick) and likely a better musical track.
Or have you not seen what they've been able to do with their stuff? 5k synthesizers, animation models, texture generation, etc.
Lots of stuff Spore claimed to be able to do but wasn't in reality. Demoscene did it first and Wil Wright fucked up trying to half-ass fake it.
UT3 under Linux uses OpenGL - Since the PS3 can't fucking do D3D It's a goddamned safe bet to assume it's using the PSGL on the PS3, also PSGL is the only offered rendering option through the hypervisor (another reason they killed that in the slim PS3 - because then devs could write their own stuff entirely and bypass Sony's stuff.)
All of that *MIGHT* change when Sony releases PhyreEngine, but even then I bet that's only going to be as originally planned and just be some minor improvements, mainly lighter libraries and better access to leveraging the RSX GPU, instead of a whole new rendering system and such.
That kind of forced standards is what ruined creativity in gaming. Instead of a game developer going "Oh, hey I could implement vendor x's new feature now." they have to go "I have to wait for the next standard to be released and PRAY feature X is implemented."
"Directx 8 - 11 have been very solid and offers features that OpenGL could not accomplish."
What are you talking about? The beauty of OpenGL is you don't HAVE to wait for new features, you simply programmed them in. You could do hardware tessellation RIGHT NOW WITHOUT DX11 by simply implementing an OpenGL call.
Feature missing? OpenGL allows you to add it in. D3D does NOT.
"Mobile phones don't scale up to same performance as consoles or PC."
Compared to what and when, eh? Most smartphones have more power GPU and CPU wise than a Dreamcast.
And I guess you never heard of "Source" this wonderful auto-scaling engine whereupon I can use a crappy 32MB video card to run HL2 just fine. You don't need to re-write for multiple platforms, you focus on the common rendering system and make the engine scalable so it can self-tune to the detected hardware environment.
"If PC gamers understand the technical difference, then they know DirectX is technically superior."
Never. You have to wait for new revision of D3D to implement new features. OpenGL allows you to add those features in without needing to wait for Microsoft's 'blessing.' D3D takes more power to run versus OpenGL. To play Unreal Tournament using D3D I needed at LEAST a 233Mhz machine with 64MB RAM, PLUS I needed at least 8MB of video RAM. OpenGL and the fun little subset known as the 3Dfx GLide API only needed a 133MHz machine, 32MB system RAM, and 4MB video RAM, and even then it STILL ran faster than the 233MHz with double the system and video RAM running D3D.
'And who exactly are those who want to use OpenGL? Not the developers"
Do you even develop games? OpenGL barely has ANY drawback.
"Gamers and their hardware will catch up."
No, our hardware is already there, the programmers need to learn how to fucking optimize.
If demoscene guys can write a small two-level fully 3D game using 96k of code that runs on old nasty-ass Netburst-based P4s with 512MB RAM and a 128 meg minimum GPU that *ALMOST* look as good as todays games, you know there is something HORRIBLY wrong with these lazy programmers.
'WoW for example is nowhere near as fast on Windows with OpenGL as with DirectX."
What, are you still running a single-core processor? D3D is halfway tied through the OS first so it's ALWAYS been slower if you've had a crappy CPU, regardless of how well your GPU ran, because OpenGL ran direct calls to hardware without the OS interfering, while D3D kept some stuff on the CPU.
It's been like that since the first Unreal, and hasn't changed in ANY benchmark where I can test OGL vs D3D.
"1) 360 doesn't support OpenGL, it supports DirectX"
I got some news for you, pal. The GPU in the 360 is 100% capable of OpenGL. Should you choose to write a game engine that doesn't use MS's crap, you're free to do so. Sure you'll probably have to jump through some hoops to get it to work but all the functions and calls are still in the hardware.
For example, Darkest of Days uses 8MonkeyLabs own proprietary Marmoset Engine, which in turn uses OpenGL, Physx, SpeedTree and OpenAL.
I swear, just because it has MicroSoft on the package doesn't mean you're stuck with DX.
Actually, this isn't that important. We've known about hardware vulnerabilities for decades. They're more difficult to exploit, typically, but they've been known about for at least 30 years, now. We used to just exploit the processor embedded microcode. Nothing new here, just moving to a different processor on a different PCB (unless it's built on the motherboard)
Not so obvious given that human behavior is fairly unpredictable. You can't guarantee that anybody would buy or use the added DLC. Sure, maybe fanboys/girls, but that's about it. I know I've got tons of DLC options available to me right now through the games that I own - I have no need for them, so far the core story and gameplay has been pretty awesome for me.
I guess I'm one of the few 'educated consumers' that the law doesn't cover. For the rest, there's lawsuits. This one is 100% misguided. I've spent plenty of time suing other gaming companies, I've got the experience to say "This is bullshit."
There is where your logic fails - as-is means as is sold. In the case of software, where NOBODY can be reasonably expected to keep track of every single license out there, there is no reason or means of determining whether that something included with the product as a one-time only offer has already been used.
it is not economically nor logistically feasible, at least not yet. No publisher wants to have a common easily-hackable accessible database where things can be checked/compromised. Too much liability.
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Contact Finkelstein and Thompson in San Francisco - they rocked for my EA class action suit.
yes they did.
and even now their current ad campaign is "It does everything." Which is a flat-out LIE.
My felony record says I'd straighten your ass out for thinking you'd even stand a chance of being a RLTG versus the ITG you're currently portraying, and you'd only bend over and take it. Especially with a name like ClownPenis! What, you gotta inflate your junk first?
Well, first we can press a class action, then we can press for criminal charges for theft. I paid for OtherOS. Fuck them, I want full criminal sanctions imposed upon them for taking it from me. I want their ass sued for their current false advertising scheme of "It does everything" When in fact they're stripping some of its functionality from us, and I want their ass nailed for not providing BC for ALL PS3 units, which this current "It does everything" ad scheme you can see in Best Buy stores pretty much contradicts - the new PS3 can't do HALF of what the original PS3 could do. It's about time Sony was 100% DESTROYED for all the bullshit they've been pulling on us for all these years from rootkitting our PCs to effectively STEALING OUR HARDWARE FROM US.
They took down most of the options on their 'Contact Us' page. You can't e-mail, or anything.
BUT they were stupid enough to leave the phone numbers on the site so feel free to clog their phones with calls expressing your displeasure over their violation of your property rights.
Dear Anonymous Hacker with absolutely no clue about how the law works,
I paid for OtherOS - Sony will allow me to keep it and access their online network or I will destroy them in a lawsuit, plus press for criminal charges.
Successful EA Litigant - Versus Spore DRM.
The Memory Bandwidth of XDR is well on par with that of some of the fastest DDR2 on the market.
Maybe a little more ACTUAL MEMORY would've been nice.
PCSX2 is pretty close to usable PS2 emulation. Just get yourself a computer and roll. Even the latest Persona (Persona 4) ran just fine.
By the way, for those of you wanting to join me in the class-action I'm gong to form - just look up Finkelstein and Thompson if you're in the state of CA - they helped me out with Spore and they'll most certainly come in handy for this nonsense NOW.
100 Bush Street
San Francisco, CA 94104-3954
(415) 398-8700
Ask for Mr. Punzalan.
"It doesn't run linux anymore."
Want to bet? I PAID FOR FUCKING OTHEROS - You take it from me and I WILL SUE YOUR ASS FOR THEFT OF SERVICES.
The demoscene wasn't trying to impress anybody but the technical people.
If they REALLY focused on it and intended it for release to everybody as a serious attempt, It would be a game on a floppy disk and it would probably destroy anything graphically, thchnologically, and it would run on hardware that couldn't run crysis, while beating the crap out of how crysis looks, offering better AI (Crysis' AI sucked goat dick) and likely a better musical track.
Or have you not seen what they've been able to do with their stuff? 5k synthesizers, animation models, texture generation, etc.
Lots of stuff Spore claimed to be able to do but wasn't in reality. Demoscene did it first and Wil Wright fucked up trying to half-ass fake it.
ALL RENDERING is PSGL. PERIOD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_games
Under the Development section.
UT3 under Linux uses OpenGL - Since the PS3 can't fucking do D3D It's a goddamned safe bet to assume it's using the PSGL on the PS3, also PSGL is the only offered rendering option through the hypervisor (another reason they killed that in the slim PS3 - because then devs could write their own stuff entirely and bypass Sony's stuff.)
All of that *MIGHT* change when Sony releases PhyreEngine, but even then I bet that's only going to be as originally planned and just be some minor improvements, mainly lighter libraries and better access to leveraging the RSX GPU, instead of a whole new rendering system and such.
That kind of forced standards is what ruined creativity in gaming. Instead of a game developer going "Oh, hey I could implement vendor x's new feature now." they have to go "I have to wait for the next standard to be released and PRAY feature X is implemented."
It utterly destroys flexibility.
Nah, some of us just give up in that field and start our own businesses using all the skills we acquired during those 20 years of bullshit.
"Directx 8 - 11 have been very solid and offers features that OpenGL could not accomplish."
What are you talking about? The beauty of OpenGL is you don't HAVE to wait for new features, you simply programmed them in. You could do hardware tessellation RIGHT NOW WITHOUT DX11 by simply implementing an OpenGL call.
Feature missing? OpenGL allows you to add it in. D3D does NOT.
"Mobile phones don't scale up to same performance as consoles or PC."
Compared to what and when, eh? Most smartphones have more power GPU and CPU wise than a Dreamcast.
And I guess you never heard of "Source" this wonderful auto-scaling engine whereupon I can use a crappy 32MB video card to run HL2 just fine. You don't need to re-write for multiple platforms, you focus on the common rendering system and make the engine scalable so it can self-tune to the detected hardware environment.
"If PC gamers understand the technical difference, then they know DirectX is technically superior."
Never. You have to wait for new revision of D3D to implement new features. OpenGL allows you to add those features in without needing to wait for Microsoft's 'blessing.' D3D takes more power to run versus OpenGL. To play Unreal Tournament using D3D I needed at LEAST a 233Mhz machine with 64MB RAM, PLUS I needed at least 8MB of video RAM. OpenGL and the fun little subset known as the 3Dfx GLide API only needed a 133MHz machine, 32MB system RAM, and 4MB video RAM, and even then it STILL ran faster than the 233MHz with double the system and video RAM running D3D.
AND THAT HASN'T CHANGED ONE BIT.
'And who exactly are those who want to use OpenGL? Not the developers"
Do you even develop games? OpenGL barely has ANY drawback.
"Gamers and their hardware will catch up."
No, our hardware is already there, the programmers need to learn how to fucking optimize.
If demoscene guys can write a small two-level fully 3D game using 96k of code that runs on old nasty-ass Netburst-based P4s with 512MB RAM and a 128 meg minimum GPU that *ALMOST* look as good as todays games, you know there is something HORRIBLY wrong with these lazy programmers.
"While the PS3 is supposed to support OpenGL ES in theory, nobody actually uses it for games.'
PSGL is a modified OpenGL ES 1.0 (2.0 compliant minus using Cg instead of GLSL)
Unreal Tournament 3 on the PS3 runs PSGL. Most PS3 games run PSGL, because D3D sure as fuck is not supported on the PS3.
'WoW for example is nowhere near as fast on Windows with OpenGL as with DirectX."
What, are you still running a single-core processor? D3D is halfway tied through the OS first so it's ALWAYS been slower if you've had a crappy CPU, regardless of how well your GPU ran, because OpenGL ran direct calls to hardware without the OS interfering, while D3D kept some stuff on the CPU.
It's been like that since the first Unreal, and hasn't changed in ANY benchmark where I can test OGL vs D3D.
"1) 360 doesn't support OpenGL, it supports DirectX"
I got some news for you, pal. The GPU in the 360 is 100% capable of OpenGL. Should you choose to write a game engine that doesn't use MS's crap, you're free to do so. Sure you'll probably have to jump through some hoops to get it to work but all the functions and calls are still in the hardware.
For example, Darkest of Days uses 8MonkeyLabs own proprietary Marmoset Engine, which in turn uses OpenGL, Physx, SpeedTree and OpenAL.
I swear, just because it has MicroSoft on the package doesn't mean you're stuck with DX.
Actually, this isn't that important. We've known about hardware vulnerabilities for decades. They're more difficult to exploit, typically, but they've been known about for at least 30 years, now. We used to just exploit the processor embedded microcode. Nothing new here, just moving to a different processor on a different PCB (unless it's built on the motherboard)
Not so obvious given that human behavior is fairly unpredictable. You can't guarantee that anybody would buy or use the added DLC. Sure, maybe fanboys/girls, but that's about it. I know I've got tons of DLC options available to me right now through the games that I own - I have no need for them, so far the core story and gameplay has been pretty awesome for me.
I guess I'm one of the few 'educated consumers' that the law doesn't cover. For the rest, there's lawsuits. This one is 100% misguided. I've spent plenty of time suing other gaming companies, I've got the experience to say "This is bullshit."
There is where your logic fails - as-is means as is sold. In the case of software, where NOBODY can be reasonably expected to keep track of every single license out there, there is no reason or means of determining whether that something included with the product as a one-time only offer has already been used.
it is not economically nor logistically feasible, at least not yet. No publisher wants to have a common easily-hackable accessible database where things can be checked/compromised. Too much liability.
A reseller license allows you to purchase at wholesale without tax liability.
Try again.
whereupon a burned DVD only costs about ten cents....
Yea, no.
See, I already tried that. Didn't work.