it'll do wonders for load time and with enhanced gfx (if they don't mess up the coding which they inevitably will).
as to why it isn't on sony's machine... well firstly the technical specs wouldn't support the game in its current state. they'd have to chop off a lot of things, including gfx.
imagine what that'll do to the load times, especially the fact that you don't have a hd as a standard part of the system.
for such an inferior system, you'd think it would be priced more in accordance but nah, it still lags behind the xbox in pricing.
and nintendo's "kiddie" games are usually imo (among many others) a lot of fun.
seems mostly everyone has forgot that games are supposed to primarily fun...
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--Give a monkey a hand grenade, and sooner or later he will pull the pin.
you are under the naive impression that reviews are anything but a person's opinion (as in 6billion+, what makes your opinion special).
and thats not forgetting the enormous corruption and payola (bribes) going on since the birth of the industry(ies).
if you like and enjoy reading reviews and base your buying decisions on them, fine. you have a right to that and you can ignore my comment if you'd like.
but i still feel the need to chip in with my comments (aka opinion/facts)
thats why they are heavily invested in Treacherous computing and the only reason to use it (DRM).
the fact that the TPM's key is NEVER EVER NEVER EVER revealed to the owner (the buyer, which is you) can only mean one thing: its one and only use is DRM and nothing else despite all the bullshit they spew.
if they were truly and honestly interested in the so called "security", then giving the option of knowing the secret key would be allowed.
thats all i need to know.
and the !only! effective means of fighting this is in by no way technological.
only by letting everyone and their dog know about Treacherous computing can we even hope to undo its evil influence.
i very much doubt you would have projected 5ghz by this summer.
ppc chips have only relatively recently adopted a longer pipeline to enable higher clock speeds.
in order to reach 5ghz (a task which intel cannot even accomplish with its 30 stage pipelined processors) you'd have to use far more advanced techniques than are available in 2005.
i'm not sure how that could happen though.
even though it's not publicly announced, chip manufacturers know pretty well how far a current or even experimental process can go.
"I understand that there are people out there who wish we did it another way. I understand that there are people out there who basically wish we just sold parts from a catalogue. But that's not our business model. Arguments of the form "But I'd buy one if so-n-so" don't really touch anybody here, because that's just not the way we want to do things. Other companies already to things that way. That's fine for them. We do things our way."
unfortunetly, that also leaves out a lot of people who would otherwise buy into your platform.
well no offense but once you're used to a high end system coming down to a mac mini is not a great tradeoff.
and even applying the "mhz are not all alike" you can still see that the mini is quite underpowered.
the problem is and has been that apple hw will not be like x86 hw. you have to buy the whole system from one vendor who can set prices to whatever they want.
just look at how much of a hold they have on resellers.
personally i would like them to open up a lot more but then i know i'll get 200+ people screaming at me that it wouldn't be in their interest etc...
people need to really understand that copying is not a bad thing.
throughout human history people have copied and shared and copied some more.
thats the whole point of information: it is made for shareing/copying.
except of course thanks to the modern copyrestriction system, we as a people think it's morally objectionable to do what we've been doing for so long and that comes naturally.
yeah MS is far more of a business than they are a software producer and it shows.
but of course it's not easy to make software that runs perfectly and bug-reduced when you have 10 to the 50th power number of combinations of hardware and usually very buggy drivers/3rd party code. (and not to forget ms's suckULENT tactics and behavior)
i'm not sure where it'll go in the future... consoles themselves are getting far more buggy/unstable than they ever were thanks to code bloat and hw/sw complexity.
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i'm pretty sure that JE is coming to the pc.
it'll do wonders for load time and with enhanced gfx (if they don't mess up the coding which they inevitably will).
as to why it isn't on sony's machine... well firstly the technical specs wouldn't support the game in its current state. they'd have to chop off a lot of things, including gfx.
imagine what that'll do to the load times, especially the fact that you don't have a hd as a standard part of the system.
for such an inferior system, you'd think it would be priced more in accordance but nah, it still lags behind the xbox in pricing.
and nintendo's "kiddie" games are usually imo (among many others) a lot of fun.
seems mostly everyone has forgot that games are supposed to primarily fun...
--Give a monkey a hand grenade, and sooner or later he will pull the pin.
:)
define "give" and "monkey" and "hand grenade"
you are under the naive impression that reviews are anything but a person's opinion (as in 6billion+, what makes your opinion special).
and thats not forgetting the enormous corruption and payola (bribes) going on since the birth of the industry(ies).
if you like and enjoy reading reviews and base your buying decisions on them, fine. you have a right to that and you can ignore my comment if you'd like.
but i still feel the need to chip in with my comments (aka opinion/facts)
the problem though is that they charge you the full 50 buck admission fee just the same.
if they cut the price of this game down to 30-35 then it'd be worth it for the 20 hours of entertainment.
games are way too expensive sometimes, especially the BS games that are just there for the sake of product tie-ins etc.
20 dollar games need to make a serious comeback.
AAA titles = 40-50
AA titles = 25-30
A titles = free with happy heart-clogging meal.
i remember seeing early atari 2600 games go for 30-40 bucks... now i know they were greedy sobs.
the market will not bear it, as evidenced by the massive rise in copyright infringement.
the two you listed aren't very good games int he storyline area though.
they're just teenie bopper soap operas.
most console rpgs have horrendously bad storylines and sickening dialog.
but the game play is tolerable, especially if you have some time to kill.
like our previous winners,
whitman, price and haddad.
thats why they are heavily invested in Treacherous computing and the only reason to use it (DRM).
the fact that the TPM's key is NEVER EVER NEVER EVER revealed to the owner (the buyer, which is you) can only mean one thing: its one and only use is DRM and nothing else despite all the bullshit they spew.
if they were truly and honestly interested in the so called "security", then giving the option of knowing the secret key would be allowed.
thats all i need to know.
and the !only! effective means of fighting this is in by no way technological.
only by letting everyone and their dog know about Treacherous computing can we even hope to undo its evil influence.
since we all know he would have paid 600+ bucks for each program, then we can assume it was a financial loss.
please adobe, inform your potentially broke pseudo-customers of the wonderful free alternatives.
apparently you are not bright enough to rename the files with instructions for the clueless to rename them back when decompressing them.
stealing intangible, infinitely copyable things is never wrong.
i very much doubt you would have projected 5ghz by this summer.
ppc chips have only relatively recently adopted a longer pipeline to enable higher clock speeds.
in order to reach 5ghz (a task which intel cannot even accomplish with its 30 stage pipelined processors) you'd have to use far more advanced techniques than are available in 2005.
i'm not sure how that could happen though.
even though it's not publicly announced, chip manufacturers know pretty well how far a current or even experimental process can go.
well considering that pci express is far superior to pci-x, i don't understand your line of reasoning.
pci-e is the future. it is massively scalable as opposed to the end of the line, parallel pci-x.
it also has quite a number of other improvements that make it more attractive.
no i think it was not adopted for another reason.
don't you mind buying a high end system with a tiny amount of ram at a high price?
considering ram prices, they could give you 1.5gig-2gig of ram for about the same price...
the only problem with the suggestion of upgrading later is that you'll be paying twice for what you should have gotten in the first place.
they charge you for a miniscule amount of ram, and an anemic video card not to mention the palrty (comparatively speaking) hd.
price does matter to a lot of people, including myself.
"I understand that there are people out there who wish we did it another way. I understand that there are people out there who basically wish we just sold parts from a catalogue. But that's not our business model. Arguments of the form "But I'd buy one if so-n-so" don't really touch anybody here, because that's just not the way we want to do things. Other companies already to things that way. That's fine for them. We do things our way."
unfortunetly, that also leaves out a lot of people who would otherwise buy into your platform.
astroturfer is another word for
get ready for it
SHILL.
call a spade a spade and get on with life.
maybe PR can stand for Propoganda Relations.
double speak is alive and well, he'll be discharged next week folks.
doesn't anybody find it ironic (or funny) that the chips that macs use are called powerPC?
:)
and co-developed with IBM?
the contributor of my y chromosome
well there aren't any pics of aero glass...
to be fair, the new aero glass is quite a bit more advanced than quartz extreme.
and i'm almost sure apple will be going more 3d in the future also.
currently i believe its mostly 2d image manipulation going on (compositing/2d bitmaps).
the problem with microsoft is that they are a heavy monolithic organization.
little suggestions like the one you mentioned will have to wait until hell freezes over to be implemented but make a great difference to end users.
they are unresponsive. (as if i even need to say thats a massive understatement)
they have the vast capabilities of money/programmer power to do lots of cool/useful things but somehow or other they don't.
well no offense but once you're used to a high end system coming down to a mac mini is not a great tradeoff.
and even applying the "mhz are not all alike" you can still see that the mini is quite underpowered.
the problem is and has been that apple hw will not be like x86 hw. you have to buy the whole system from one vendor who can set prices to whatever they want.
just look at how much of a hold they have on resellers.
personally i would like them to open up a lot more but then i know i'll get 200+ people screaming at me that it wouldn't be in their interest etc...
but times do change...
people need to really understand that copying is not a bad thing.
throughout human history people have copied and shared and copied some more.
thats the whole point of information: it is made for shareing/copying.
except of course thanks to the modern copyrestriction system, we as a people think it's morally objectionable to do what we've been doing for so long and that comes naturally.
yeah MS is far more of a business than they are a software producer and it shows.
but of course it's not easy to make software that runs perfectly and bug-reduced when you have 10 to the 50th power number of combinations of hardware and usually very buggy drivers/3rd party code. (and not to forget ms's suckULENT tactics and behavior)
i'm not sure where it'll go in the future... consoles themselves are getting far more buggy/unstable than they ever were thanks to code bloat and hw/sw complexity.
they are copying apple's lawyers' cease and desist campaign.
leave it to bill not to be outdone.
you do realize that quartz is only a subset of pdf and even then the OS is highly optimized for displaying them quickly and smoothly.
the fact that your opengl card helps with the process surely doesn't hurt.
and every pdf viewing program i've used has bogged down with gfx, including adobe's own viewer.
i wonder... how smoothly do pdf DOCUMENTS display on your syste,?