The Sony guy also said that they had their hands on the tech for a couple of weeks, suggesting they havn't been working on the feature for a large duration of development.
Yeah, that was very telling. This was an obvious last minute effort to confuse the market. As sparse as the clapping was throughout the rest of the presentation I almost expected them to get booed when they pulled out the controller.
That was the most pathetic E3 conference I have seen. I felt embarrassed for them when they announced the controller and they kept smiling and saying it was their "innovation." Then the nerdy guy got up and demoed it and it looked like it didn't work very well. He could barely land the stupid plane.
The games they showed real footage of didn't look any better than the 360 titles that are already out.
Really sad. This press conference removed most of my desire for a PS3. If you didn't watch it, go grab a copy from somewhere.
Yes. It is a well known fact that every scientist on the planet, as well as every journal and communication medium, are directly controlled by a handful of top oil executives.
During a normal day, the typical "oh, clicking on links doesnt work anymore->close firefox->open task manager->kill zombie process->restart firefox" procedure happens at least once, sometimes 3 or 4 times.
I'm glad it's not just me. I can't figure out what is causing it. Sometimes I'll go a week without it happening. Sometimes it happens multiple times in one hour.
That wasn't a quote from Perrin Kaplan. It was text from the article not attributed to him. There was a quote from him above that section, and one below it.
No, this is a 400 dollar alternative to buying some kid a kick ass machine with a 400 dollar video card to play games on. The alternative to this alternative is to let the 12 year-old-know-it-alls beat up on mom and dads PC installing every demo that comes down the pike as well as all the crap the accompanies the demos for unknown reasons. I've seen what my nephews have done to my brother's PC and I can tell you 400 dollars is a small price compared to the pains that brats will cause you by fouling up your machine.
No, the alternative is that your kids don't have to have every damn thing they want.
As long as you look at the $8,000,000,0000,000.00 national debt, the $400,000,000,000.00 deficit, the fact that Bush has borrowed more money in a few short years than every other administration in the history of the United States combined, our $723,429,444 annual trade deficit, massive consumer credit debt, the general population's lack of retirement planning or saving, and sky rocketing energy costs, and pretend that they aren't going to cause any problems, the economy is rocking and rolling!
Right. I guess you have another explanation for all of the markets that compete based on specs and power and have more than two top brands successfully competing in defiance of your inital blanket and unsupported assertation?
I'll post it again so you don't try to alter history.
I'll let you know something you may not know. In every product category, there's always two top brands that fight about specs, speed and power. A third brand doesn't stand a chance to fight with those brands.
I'll let you know something you may not know. In every product category, there's always two top brands that fight about specs, speed and power. A third brand doesn't stand a chance to fight with those brands.
He probably didn't know it because you obviously just made it up.
Please don't put all optometrists into the same basket, and characterize them all as quacks!
Apologies, that's not what I was trying to do at all. The quackwatch page has a lot of good information on it that I think helps to clarify the issue of near/far sightedness, as well as correct what seemed like a misperception on the part of the original poster.
I consider lag going into a sim and having it take two minutes to finish drawing. Your latency may be 200ms, but that really doesn't have anything to do with how laggy the game is.
There are definitely more bugs than an issue with the mute list. The physics engine in the game is implemented terribly. They've been saying the upgrade to Havok 2 is just around the corner since I started logging in, which was a while ago.
Look at the issue resolution voting area. People vote and vote and nothing gets done. Well, I take that back. They added a pony.
A pony.
And fancy new camera scripting tools.
And teleportation changes.
And a whole slew of other crap that doesn't make the game less annoying to play or fix any of the problems that have been plaguing it for the last year.
I'd be happier seeing more effort put into making clothing and hair move naturally, or making a rope ladder that doesn't look like it's built out of construction paper, rather than advancing "glowing arm" technology.
How much better? What is there left to make totally realistic?
The last few jumps in graphics have been stupid.
- Lens flare!
- make everything blurry.
- make everything shiny.
- make everything bumpy.
- make everything washed out (HDR).
Pretty disappointing. Oblivion is the poster child for why you shouldn't combine every effect available. It doesn't look realistic. It looks way too shiny, way too bumpy, and way too washed out. HDR is the dumbest effect yet. Sorry, but when I walk outside from a dark room, my arms don't start glowing...
I'm guessing the next generation of graphics engines will deliver these amazing new effects:
Linden is a company of great talk and promises and terrible at delivery. I still log in every month or two to see if they've fixed some of the problems, but they haven't. If anything it's gotten worse as they pile on new and useless features. It does suck, because making stuff is a lot of fun when the lag and bugs aren't destroying the experience.
And as a pre-emptive rebuttal to anyone about to cite the $15-20 sales prices of the "NES Classics" series for Gameboy Advance, the difference there was that physical distribution expenses were still involved. Producing a cartridge costs money, packaging costs money, shipping pallets full of game boxes around the country costs money.
Riiiight.
The other companies re-releasing classic hits are generally putting them out in collections. "Midway Arcade Treasures," or "Sega Classics Collection" or "Capcom Classics." Nintendo could have gone the same route. The reasons why they didn't have nothing to do with how much it costs to print a Gameboy box.
I agree with you to some extent, especially for NES/SNES games because the SNES controller is essentially the same as modern gamepads. Some of the Genesis games are a pain to play with PS2 controller, though, due to the 3 in a line layout.
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The Sony guy also said that they had their hands on the tech for a couple of weeks, suggesting they havn't been working on the feature for a large duration of development.
Yeah, that was very telling. This was an obvious last minute effort to confuse the market. As sparse as the clapping was throughout the rest of the presentation I almost expected them to get booed when they pulled out the controller.
That was the most pathetic E3 conference I have seen. I felt embarrassed for them when they announced the controller and they kept smiling and saying it was their "innovation." Then the nerdy guy got up and demoed it and it looked like it didn't work very well. He could barely land the stupid plane.
The games they showed real footage of didn't look any better than the 360 titles that are already out.
Really sad. This press conference removed most of my desire for a PS3. If you didn't watch it, go grab a copy from somewhere.
Yes. It is a well known fact that every scientist on the planet, as well as every journal and communication medium, are directly controlled by a handful of top oil executives.
Moron.
oh yes, that stock sure is a horror show.
It has been stagnant and slowly declining for the last six years. That isn't generally something you look for in a stock...
During a normal day, the typical "oh, clicking on links doesnt work anymore->close firefox->open task manager->kill zombie process->restart firefox" procedure happens at least once, sometimes 3 or 4 times.
I'm glad it's not just me. I can't figure out what is causing it. Sometimes I'll go a week without it happening. Sometimes it happens multiple times in one hour.
Yeah, the following sentence makes it ambiguous. Maybe it is a quote and CNN just screwed up.
That wasn't a quote from Perrin Kaplan. It was text from the article not attributed to him. There was a quote from him above that section, and one below it.
Nice misdirection.
You original post said there were three possibilities.
- Buy them a 360.
- Buy them an expensive gaming PC.
- Let them destroy your PC.
I was simply providing a fourth and more realistic option.
No, this is a 400 dollar alternative to buying some kid a kick ass machine with a 400 dollar video card to play games on. The alternative to this alternative is to let the 12 year-old-know-it-alls beat up on mom and dads PC installing every demo that comes down the pike as well as all the crap the accompanies the demos for unknown reasons. I've seen what my nephews have done to my brother's PC and I can tell you 400 dollars is a small price compared to the pains that brats will cause you by fouling up your machine.
No, the alternative is that your kids don't have to have every damn thing they want.
As long as you look at the $8,000,000,0000,000.00 national debt, the $400,000,000,000.00 deficit, the fact that Bush has borrowed more money in a few short years than every other administration in the history of the United States combined, our $723,429,444 annual trade deficit, massive consumer credit debt, the general population's lack of retirement planning or saving, and sky rocketing energy costs, and pretend that they aren't going to cause any problems, the economy is rocking and rolling!
Until Microsoft does a real ground-up re-write, XP is the final, penultimate version of Windows
Something cannot be both the "final" and "penultimate" version.
"it is the last, next to last, version."
It doesn't make any sense, does it? Penultimate does not mean "extra-ultimate."
The CD. You may not have heard of those, but they were pretty popular.
If you open up your ffdshow config panel you can add "oblivion.exe" to the exclusion list and that will stop happening.
The approach they should have taken would be to bunlde the UMD with the DVD for an extra $5.
If only they had thought of this!
Right. I guess you have another explanation for all of the markets that compete based on specs and power and have more than two top brands successfully competing in defiance of your inital blanket and unsupported assertation?
I'll post it again so you don't try to alter history.
I'll let you know something you may not know. In every product category, there's always two top brands that fight about specs, speed and power. A third brand doesn't stand a chance to fight with those brands.
I'll let you know something you may not know. In every product category, there's always two top brands that fight about specs, speed and power. A third brand doesn't stand a chance to fight with those brands.
He probably didn't know it because you obviously just made it up.
Please don't put all optometrists into the same basket, and characterize them all as quacks!
Apologies, that's not what I was trying to do at all. The quackwatch page has a lot of good information on it that I think helps to clarify the issue of near/far sightedness, as well as correct what seemed like a misperception on the part of the original poster.
I consider lag going into a sim and having it take two minutes to finish drawing. Your latency may be 200ms, but that really doesn't have anything to do with how laggy the game is.
There are definitely more bugs than an issue with the mute list. The physics engine in the game is implemented terribly. They've been saying the upgrade to Havok 2 is just around the corner since I started logging in, which was a while ago.
Look at the issue resolution voting area. People vote and vote and nothing gets done. Well, I take that back. They added a pony.
A pony.
And fancy new camera scripting tools.
And teleportation changes.
And a whole slew of other crap that doesn't make the game less annoying to play or fix any of the problems that have been plaguing it for the last year.
Whatever, though.
True.
I'd be happier seeing more effort put into making clothing and hair move naturally, or making a rope ladder that doesn't look like it's built out of construction paper, rather than advancing "glowing arm" technology.
and my optomotrist explained it to me as my eyes being too lazy to focus correctly.
Start here.
How much better? What is there left to make totally realistic?
The last few jumps in graphics have been stupid.
- Lens flare!
- make everything blurry.
- make everything shiny.
- make everything bumpy.
- make everything washed out (HDR).
Pretty disappointing. Oblivion is the poster child for why you shouldn't combine every effect available. It doesn't look realistic. It looks way too shiny, way too bumpy, and way too washed out. HDR is the dumbest effect yet. Sorry, but when I walk outside from a dark room, my arms don't start glowing...
I'm guessing the next generation of graphics engines will deliver these amazing new effects:
- make everything really dark!
- make everything blink!
- make everything green!
and finally
- make everything out of $600 graphics cards!
Linden is a company of great talk and promises and terrible at delivery. I still log in every month or two to see if they've fixed some of the problems, but they haven't. If anything it's gotten worse as they pile on new and useless features. It does suck, because making stuff is a lot of fun when the lag and bugs aren't destroying the experience.
And as a pre-emptive rebuttal to anyone about to cite the $15-20 sales prices of the "NES Classics" series for Gameboy Advance, the difference there was that physical distribution expenses were still involved. Producing a cartridge costs money, packaging costs money, shipping pallets full of game boxes around the country costs money.
Riiiight.
The other companies re-releasing classic hits are generally putting them out in collections. "Midway Arcade Treasures," or "Sega Classics Collection" or "Capcom Classics." Nintendo could have gone the same route. The reasons why they didn't have nothing to do with how much it costs to print a Gameboy box.
If that's what makes you happy, run with it. Your tunnelvision is quite impressive, though.
I agree with you to some extent, especially for NES/SNES games because the SNES controller is essentially the same as modern gamepads. Some of the Genesis games are a pain to play with PS2 controller, though, due to the 3 in a line layout.