I'm a bit befuddled as to why the story submitter considers Madden 2006's response to be "lukewarm".
Firstly, as mentioned by other posters, the rankings he linked to were for the PC version, the PS2 version got an 88% rating and the Xbox version an 87% rating, both respectable scores and hardly 'mediocre' (I would also argue that 79% is quite respectable).
I also am unsure of why the submitter is referring to Madden 2006 Xbox/PS2/PC as a "next-generation title"...
And as to the "what are players to do?" comment, it appears that they are running out in droves to buy this game. After all, they did sell 1.7 million copies in the first week alone...
Before having a universal driver in a BIOS on an add-in card would be useful, you would need specifications for interfacing with said universal driver so it could be used by the various OSes you mention.
Developing some sort of 'common driver api' can happen regardless of if the actual driver code lies on a BIOS or is loaded from an HD and give mostly the same results (you would just have to load the driver from a disk or the net).
I share your experience with recent Sony products. My VAIO R505 has had numerous issues (LCD latch has broken 2 times for no apparant reason, docking station has had issues, and the battery has problems and is costly to replace).
I also have a dead PS2 (my newer PS2 works perfectly though, seems they fixed the DRE problems) and it seems any discman I've bought int the past few years has died in 6 months.
Interestingly, I had a discman from early-mid 90's that lasted a good 6 years as well as a bookshelf stereo system from '94 that still runs great. I also have a Sony Trinitron-FD monitor that is 3 years old and runs perfectly.
Interestingly, Sony gives 3 year warranties on their monitors (compared to much shorter warranties on the products mentioned above) - so if you are looking at any Sony products check the warranty. If they only expect it to last 90 days you probably shouldn't expect it to last much longer...
While I have never used their services, this company www.intelligentoffice.com lets you rent a "virtual" office where they handle incoming phone calls and mail, and if needed can set you up with conference rooms, etc. if you have clients you need to meet with.
Again I've never tried their services, but I really like the idea:).
There's no way you can describe it as simple or fixed function. I'd suggest that whoever wrote this article boot up Pikmin, walk out into the water on level four and take a look at what Flipper can do in a single pass over a flat polygon.
Well I'd suggest you learn what "fixed function" means with regards to graphic chipsets...
Yes, I was going to post something along these lines myself.
Your main problem is going to be latency. Even a few milliseconds of latency is glaringly noticeable when working with audio. Many of the effects that you are wanting to use even use delays by this small amount to achieve their goals (phasing using around 3 ms, and flanging a little bit longer delays, chorusing slightly longer, etc.).
The second issue I was going to bring up is why use a cluster of CPU's at all? You do realize there are _MANY_ DSP PCI boards available that can handle the tasks you want. They aren't cheap, but neither is a cluster...
Creamware, Korg, and Digidesign all make boards that perform the tasks your talking about with several DSP's on a board. Going with a Pro Tools system from Digidesign allows you to add more boards as your processing needs increase.
Going with a computer cluster is the wrong way, if you need DSP's, by god use DSP's!
The most addictive game I've played in a _LONG_ time has to be Pokemon... While most people my age would never touch it, or admit to playing it anyway;), this game has insane replay value. Satoshi Tajiri and the rest of the Pokemon design team are pure geniuses for coming up with a game that is not only extremely fun to play, but for one that has reached such market saturation...
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Well, they won't hook up to your PC, but the DC has a keyboard and mouse. Also, you can buy a box that lets you hook up a normal keyboard (not sure if USB, PS/2, or AT) to your DC... don't think it supports a mouse though.
Well, there are many Dreamcast games that look better than any of the PS2 games, so the crappy graphics comment is unfounded.
And on a second note, what is with you people calling a Playstation 2 a PSX2? Yes, the Playstation was abbreviated PSX, but, the Playstation 2 has PS2 on the box and console itself... ITS NOT PSX2, ITS PS2!!!
Well Windows CE _DOES_ have a TCP/IP stack... and the iPaq has a PCMCIA slot expansion object, and I'm not sure if they're wireless LAN setup is finished or not, but its definitly in the work.
I somehow _STRONGLY_ doubt this, Nintendo having a highprofile game such as Metroid made by a non-Japanese team is HIGHLY unlikely, actually, it not being made by Miyamoto is unlikely. Then theres the fact that you mentioned people who make PC games and have had no previous work with Nintendo or console games as far as I'm aware.
Just because the enduser has more bandwidth doesn't mean they are going to suck up more bandwidth from servers than they do now. For most data it will just mean the enduser is downloading quickly for a shorter timespan, instead of downloading slowly for a much longer timespan. Also, shouldn't a TCP/IP stack be able to distribute the bandwidth over available connections? I mean, its not like someone with a 100mbps connection is going to be the only person able to access a server with 100mpbs bandwidth, it will just be slower when the next person comes along. Of course this doesn't address DoS attacks, but the ISP could simply put a cap on the maximum upload speed that an enduser could send at or something similar to this.
Before you get too excited, you need to make sure the picture book is something acceptable for you. They have a small screen, small keyboard, no internal cd-rom, floppy, etc.
At first glance you might think its possible, but look a little deeper. Whats to say you would actually do _ANYTHING_ if you could sit at home and do nothing and still have the quality of life as someone who is working hard every day of the week? It's simple, you couldn't unless you had some kind of powerful government or other force to over see the economy and make sure it was balanced. And a government such as that would have to be very powerful to function properly, and well as I think it's been pointed out in this thread government officials aren't always looking out for the good of the people, seems most of the time they're looking out for themselves.
"hack that makes money off of giving his work to people with talent"
Oh come on, so your saying that talent rests with people such as Britney Spears who probably wouldn't know the difference between a microphone and a mixer, much less have any idea on how to read music notation. In music there is two levels of talent, the creator and the performer. Performers are nothing more than actors unless they are writing their own music (or atleast cowriting some of it). I guess in your little make believe world everything would be OK however, no one would have a job, but everything would be free... Nice fantasy, but wake up.
It's not the job of a C compiler to be secure, thats the job of the programmer. Granted with scripting languages such as Perl security may be useful, but in a language such as C, it would do nothing but get in the way.
Well the price of the SDK is just the price of a CD and shipping ($7.50). And this includes not only the SDK, but compilers and an IDE as well. I've considered getting an iPaq because it IS easy to develop software for them.
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I'm a bit befuddled as to why the story submitter considers Madden 2006's response to be "lukewarm".
Firstly, as mentioned by other posters, the rankings he linked to were for the PC version, the PS2 version got an 88% rating and the Xbox version an 87% rating, both respectable scores and hardly 'mediocre' (I would also argue that 79% is quite respectable).
I also am unsure of why the submitter is referring to Madden 2006 Xbox/PS2/PC as a "next-generation title"...
And as to the "what are players to do?" comment, it appears that they are running out in droves to buy this game. After all, they did sell 1.7 million copies in the first week alone...
Latest issue (May) of DDJ has an article on compiler performance.
For C code, VC++ 7.1 ranked 2nd (tied with Intel and Open Watcom) whereas GCC ranked 8th.
For C++ code GCC and VC++ 7.1 were tied for 2nd.
I'll leave it to you to buy the magazine if you want the details (they tested 9 x86/Win32 compilers all together).
Windows has an execute permission as long as the user is using NTFS.
Your post is still relevant however because this permission is ignored by virtually all programs that should be using it.
Before having a universal driver in a BIOS on an add-in card would be useful, you would need specifications for interfacing with said universal driver so it could be used by the various OSes you mention.
Developing some sort of 'common driver api' can happen regardless of if the actual driver code lies on a BIOS or is loaded from an HD and give mostly the same results (you would just have to load the driver from a disk or the net).
I share your experience with recent Sony products. My VAIO R505 has had numerous issues (LCD latch has broken 2 times for no apparant reason, docking station has had issues, and the battery has problems and is costly to replace).
I also have a dead PS2 (my newer PS2 works perfectly though, seems they fixed the DRE problems) and it seems any discman I've bought int the past few years has died in 6 months.
Interestingly, I had a discman from early-mid 90's that lasted a good 6 years as well as a bookshelf stereo system from '94 that still runs great. I also have a Sony Trinitron-FD monitor that is 3 years old and runs perfectly.
Interestingly, Sony gives 3 year warranties on their monitors (compared to much shorter warranties on the products mentioned above) - so if you are looking at any Sony products check the warranty. If they only expect it to last 90 days you probably shouldn't expect it to last much longer...
Check out http://www.fic.com.tw/product/sff/.
While I have never used their services, this company www.intelligentoffice.com lets you rent a "virtual" office where they handle incoming phone calls and mail, and if needed can set you up with conference rooms, etc. if you have clients you need to meet with. Again I've never tried their services, but I really like the idea :).
There's no way you can describe it as simple or fixed function. I'd suggest that whoever wrote this article boot up Pikmin, walk out into the water on level four and take a look at what Flipper can do in a single pass over a flat polygon.
Well I'd suggest you learn what "fixed function" means with regards to graphic chipsets...
Yes, I was going to post something along these lines myself.
Your main problem is going to be latency. Even a few milliseconds of latency is glaringly noticeable when working with audio. Many of the effects that you are wanting to use even use delays by this small amount to achieve their goals (phasing using around 3 ms, and flanging a little bit longer delays, chorusing slightly longer, etc.).
The second issue I was going to bring up is why use a cluster of CPU's at all? You do realize there are _MANY_ DSP PCI boards available that can handle the tasks you want. They aren't cheap, but neither is a cluster...
Creamware, Korg, and Digidesign all make boards that perform the tasks your talking about with several DSP's on a board. Going with a Pro Tools system from Digidesign allows you to add more boards as your processing needs increase.
Going with a computer cluster is the wrong way, if you need DSP's, by god use DSP's!
The most addictive game I've played in a _LONG_ time has to be Pokemon... While most people my age would never touch it, or admit to playing it anyway ;), this game has insane replay value. Satoshi Tajiri and the rest of the Pokemon design team are pure geniuses for coming up with a game that is not only extremely fun to play, but for one that has reached such market saturation...
Well, they won't hook up to your PC, but the DC has a keyboard and mouse. Also, you can buy a box that lets you hook up a normal keyboard (not sure if USB, PS/2, or AT) to your DC... don't think it supports a mouse though.
Well, there are many Dreamcast games that look better than any of the PS2 games, so the crappy graphics comment is unfounded.
And on a second note, what is with you people calling a Playstation 2 a PSX2? Yes, the Playstation was abbreviated PSX, but, the Playstation 2 has PS2 on the box and console itself... ITS NOT PSX2, ITS PS2!!!
They've been saying this for almost as long as people have been saying Apple is fixing to go bankrupt...
1 word - Pokèmon...
hmm...
try looking up some stuff on Joseph Lieberman...
Well Windows CE _DOES_ have a TCP/IP stack... and the iPaq has a PCMCIA slot expansion object, and I'm not sure if they're wireless LAN setup is finished or not, but its definitly in the work.
I somehow _STRONGLY_ doubt this, Nintendo having a highprofile game such as Metroid made by a non-Japanese team is HIGHLY unlikely, actually, it not being made by Miyamoto is unlikely. Then theres the fact that you mentioned people who make PC games and have had no previous work with Nintendo or console games as far as I'm aware.
Just because the enduser has more bandwidth doesn't mean they are going to suck up more bandwidth from servers than they do now. For most data it will just mean the enduser is downloading quickly for a shorter timespan, instead of downloading slowly for a much longer timespan. Also, shouldn't a TCP/IP stack be able to distribute the bandwidth over available connections? I mean, its not like someone with a 100mbps connection is going to be the only person able to access a server with 100mpbs bandwidth, it will just be slower when the next person comes along. Of course this doesn't address DoS attacks, but the ISP could simply put a cap on the maximum upload speed that an enduser could send at or something similar to this.
Before you get too excited, you need to make sure the picture book is something acceptable for you. They have a small screen, small keyboard, no internal cd-rom, floppy, etc.
At first glance you might think its possible, but look a little deeper. Whats to say you would actually do _ANYTHING_ if you could sit at home and do nothing and still have the quality of life as someone who is working hard every day of the week? It's simple, you couldn't unless you had some kind of powerful government or other force to over see the economy and make sure it was balanced. And a government such as that would have to be very powerful to function properly, and well as I think it's been pointed out in this thread government officials aren't always looking out for the good of the people, seems most of the time they're looking out for themselves.
"hack that makes money off of giving his work to people with talent"
Oh come on, so your saying that talent rests with people such as Britney Spears who probably wouldn't know the difference between a microphone and a mixer, much less have any idea on how to read music notation. In music there is two levels of talent, the creator and the performer. Performers are nothing more than actors unless they are writing their own music (or atleast cowriting some of it). I guess in your little make believe world everything would be OK however, no one would have a job, but everything would be free... Nice fantasy, but wake up.
It's not the job of a C compiler to be secure, thats the job of the programmer. Granted with scripting languages such as Perl security may be useful, but in a language such as C, it would do nothing but get in the way.
Yea, the one in Win2K
Well the price of the SDK is just the price of a CD and shipping ($7.50). And this includes not only the SDK, but compilers and an IDE as well. I've considered getting an iPaq because it IS easy to develop software for them.
So having people pirate even the older games is causing problems with their current products.