There might be some prototypes in testing phases, but our insane automobile taxes prevent any innovation in cars. Which is probably the reason hybrid cars have not become very popular here, when the added cost premium of a hybrid gets a 100% boost from taxes a hybrid car has a difficult time competing.
Nintendo got tired of baking the same car as everyone else. This time around, rather than try to make that same car better, they just made an entirely different one.
Good point, I completely forgot corporate users. I wonder why you're modded as a troll, don't really see any reason why. The magic of slashdot moderation I guess.:P
You missed the GP's remark about pirated windows, which probably make up at least 10% of the market; the higher MS raises their prices, the higher the incentive to pirate windows becomes. Another poster pointed out that if MS started charging 3000$ everyone would switch to their competitors, but I disagree with that view; in such a scenario windows would still have a huge part of the market, but 99% of those systems would be running pirated windows.
But on a more serious note, the cold, hard truth is that people use DirectX because it's more advanced than OpenGL, and more importantly, includes more than just the GPU part. SDL is more of a competitor to DirectX than OpenGL.
One day, I fear that the US, like all other "major empires" of the past, will be irrelevant. When this happens China Brazil and India will matter. This is scary!
They are being treated unfairly by Sony, who have decided to create artificial scarcity and hype for the PS3. By refusing to meet demand Sony is favoring those willing to pay thousands of dollars for the PS3 while still claiming to sell it for $600. If they just flat out sold them for $2000 at retailers, then I would consider it fair. This is just IMO, of course, moral silliness like fairness has nothing to do with economics.
Wronged in the sense of treated unfairly. But I do agree, it's not like they have a constitutional right to have a PS3 for christmas, they'll just have to wait until the beginning of 2007 or buy a Wii.
Technically the best way to simulate free markets is to not spend time and effort on the economy system, and leave it up to the players to produce goods and work out things. =)
But the fact that the developers have grasped this and let the market forces sort it out so to speak, is what makes Eve such a cool game.
AFAIK, the end game in WoW consists of raiding elite dungeon X for Y months until you have the best set you can get from said dungeon, and then moving on to the next dungeon. This, and the lack of a player-based crafting economy has kept me away from WoW. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that doesn't really sound enjoyable.
While I agree that greed is not an "admirable" trait, I have to wonder who you and the GP think is being exploited? Certainly not the homeless person who got paid ~$170 for his troubles. The only one I think that could meet the qualifications are the people buying these consoles from the Japanese equivalent of ebay for outrageous sums of money; but if you can afford to spend thousands of dollars on ebayed consoles, then it's a bit of a stretch to say you're being exploited. The only ones being wronged here are the people who really wanted an PS3 for christmas but can't afford one now, but the only one to blame for that is Sony (and Microsoft) for their lame hype-inducing marketing tactics that are based on artificial scarcity. It's been pretty much common knowledge that the real PS3 launch will happen in Q1/2007.
Not only textures, but animations, models & sounds will eventually be generated procedurally. Everything natural around is procedural, with the laws of physics, evolution and genetics deciding the look, feel and sound of our environment. Having artists produce textures, animations etc manually has been just a hack & shortcut to better graphics; now that it is becoming infeasible to produce the art required by the most realistic games manually, we'll finally start to get procedural games. I look forward to seeing a rebirth of the industry, with small developers being able to compete with bigger studios thanks to the increased cost-efficiency gained from procedural art.
How about increasing our power production capacity by building nuclear&fusion&solar&hydro&wind power? We can't avoid increasing our power consumption if we want to advance on the Kardashev scale, so why not get it over with already.
I think what he meant was that instead of killing off yet another science project, why not build a couple of F-22 Raptors less? Cancel 10 and you save over $3 billion, that should be enough to keep the observatory going.
Heh, my post does sound a bit like I am astroturfing, and maybe I shouldn't have bolded the key points but it was difficult to read without them. I've never had any problems with security on my XP computer (a hardware firewall & Firefox is all you need) so it didn't even occur to me, but it is a good point. And moving big files isn't as improbable as you think, when someone starts leeching files from you when you're connected to a 1 Gb LAN it can really hurt performance.
Lower CPU usage than what? XP? I've run XP on a 500 MHz with a 320 meg ram and a whopping 4 meg vid card and it's still usable. Vista _requires_ an 800 MHz CPU and a half-gig of ram (one gig preferred) minimum. You call that LOWER usage? If the UI is run on the (128 MB _minimum_) GPU, why should the CPU requirements be HIGHER?
Lower CPU usage compared to not running the UI on the GPU. After you get rid of most of the pointless services Vista runs as default, the CPU usage will most likely be on par with XP, and less with a GPU.
That's nice...
I'm sure it is, but that doesn't really help XP users.;)
Good lord, things like ssh have been able to do that for almost a decade. You can even restart networking/samba/ftp service on a remote machine via a remote shell and not lose your connection.
Using SSH/FTP for casual file sharing on a LAN is overkill (though I have used bittorrent on occasion, when there has only been a 100 Mb switch available). SMB is also excellent for LAN environments where you don't know the other participants, this way you don't have to advertise your tracker/FTP/SSH server.
The registry is perhaps one of Microsoft's biggest blunders, in my opinion. Having a single point of failure for the entire system is just a Bad Idea(TM).
I agree, which is why I think the virtualized registry is an important feature. It provides a backwards compatible way of phasing out the registry.
Don't most things like that include a volume control within the app itself? I may be mistaken on the concept though, that's for sure.
Most applications do, but some programs like e.g. Firefox don't.
If you've got more than one GPU, I would hope to god they'd be multitasking.
Multitasking, as in running multiple programs that utilise the same GPU. Running two games simultaneously wouldn't be very useful, but alt-tabbing and running e.g. a IM-application on top of a fullscreen game is.
After 5 years, you'd hope there would be some bugfixing going on, instead of just dumping much touted features (i.e. winfs)
I was very disappointed when they dumped WinFS, hopefully they'll bring it back in the near future.
Why exclude mac & linux users? Are they not computer users?
Because there is no reason for them to switch. While my post might have seemed like a copy of Microsoft's marketing handbook, I don't work for Redmond.:)
If I could play all the good games on Linux, I would switch in a heartbeat (XGL ftw), but the way things are now it looks like I will be chained to the Windows platform for the foreseeable future. Emulation isn't the solution for me, I'm not interested in giving up any fps.
#1 Cost - increased hardware requirements, in the license, loss of rights to do with what we buy as we see fit
I get excellent rebates from http://thepiratebay.org/ which is why I overlooked that point, but you are correct.
#2 Cracked DRM? Is that even legal? AFAIK, it's punishable by law.
I don't know if it's illegal here, and don't care TBH. If I want to crack the DRM on stuff I've bought then I'll do it, stupid laws are meant to be broken.
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Ignoring robots, what would a world be like if no personality ever died.
http://www.orionsarm.com/intro.html
But then someone else would have to own you, and a CEO would decide what you do. I'd rather take the human/sentient rights.
IMO, scalping is more akin to abducting every woman in the village, then demanding a billion dollars of anyone who wants a wife.
Interesting village you live in. How much is the suggested retail price for wives?
But we don't have them. :P
There might be some prototypes in testing phases, but our insane automobile taxes prevent any innovation in cars. Which is probably the reason hybrid cars have not become very popular here, when the added cost premium of a hybrid gets a 100% boost from taxes a hybrid car has a difficult time competing.
The NES Zapper was not wireless, and the SNES Super Scope probably wasn't either.
Insightful?
While I do prefer the metric system, it would be nice if the mods remembered to have their funny detectors on. =)
What does engineering 101 class have to make with this?
Nintendo got tired of baking the same car as everyone else. This time around, rather than try to make that same car better, they just made an entirely different one.
Good point, I completely forgot corporate users. I wonder why you're modded as a troll, don't really see any reason why. The magic of slashdot moderation I guess. :P
You missed the GP's remark about pirated windows, which probably make up at least 10% of the market; the higher MS raises their prices, the higher the incentive to pirate windows becomes. Another poster pointed out that if MS started charging 3000$ everyone would switch to their competitors, but I disagree with that view; in such a scenario windows would still have a huge part of the market, but 99% of those systems would be running pirated windows.
The same people also ruined Fallout 2.
But on a more serious note, the cold, hard truth is that people use DirectX because it's more advanced than OpenGL, and more importantly, includes more than just the GPU part. SDL is more of a competitor to DirectX than OpenGL.
Obviously you enter the ASCII/UTF codes (that you've memorized) for the characters! What kind of nerd are you? ;)
One day, I fear that the US, like all other "major empires" of the past, will be irrelevant. When this happens China Brazil and India will matter. This is scary!
Why is it scary?
They are being treated unfairly by Sony, who have decided to create artificial scarcity and hype for the PS3. By refusing to meet demand Sony is favoring those willing to pay thousands of dollars for the PS3 while still claiming to sell it for $600. If they just flat out sold them for $2000 at retailers, then I would consider it fair. This is just IMO, of course, moral silliness like fairness has nothing to do with economics.
Wronged in the sense of treated unfairly. But I do agree, it's not like they have a constitutional right to have a PS3 for christmas, they'll just have to wait until the beginning of 2007 or buy a Wii.
Technically the best way to simulate free markets is to not spend time and effort on the economy system, and leave it up to the players to produce goods and work out things. =)
But the fact that the developers have grasped this and let the market forces sort it out so to speak, is what makes Eve such a cool game.
enjoying end game content
AFAIK, the end game in WoW consists of raiding elite dungeon X for Y months until you have the best set you can get from said dungeon, and then moving on to the next dungeon. This, and the lack of a player-based crafting economy has kept me away from WoW. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that doesn't really sound enjoyable.
While I agree that greed is not an "admirable" trait, I have to wonder who you and the GP think is being exploited? Certainly not the homeless person who got paid ~$170 for his troubles. The only one I think that could meet the qualifications are the people buying these consoles from the Japanese equivalent of ebay for outrageous sums of money; but if you can afford to spend thousands of dollars on ebayed consoles, then it's a bit of a stretch to say you're being exploited. The only ones being wronged here are the people who really wanted an PS3 for christmas but can't afford one now, but the only one to blame for that is Sony (and Microsoft) for their lame hype-inducing marketing tactics that are based on artificial scarcity. It's been pretty much common knowledge that the real PS3 launch will happen in Q1/2007.
Not only textures, but animations, models & sounds will eventually be generated procedurally. Everything natural around is procedural, with the laws of physics, evolution and genetics deciding the look, feel and sound of our environment. Having artists produce textures, animations etc manually has been just a hack & shortcut to better graphics; now that it is becoming infeasible to produce the art required by the most realistic games manually, we'll finally start to get procedural games. I look forward to seeing a rebirth of the industry, with small developers being able to compete with bigger studios thanks to the increased cost-efficiency gained from procedural art.
How about increasing our power production capacity by building nuclear&fusion&solar&hydro&wind power? We can't avoid increasing our power consumption if we want to advance on the Kardashev scale, so why not get it over with already.
My guess is, smarter than humans.
I think what he meant was that instead of killing off yet another science project, why not build a couple of F-22 Raptors less? Cancel 10 and you save over $3 billion, that should be enough to keep the observatory going.
Heh, my post does sound a bit like I am astroturfing, and maybe I shouldn't have bolded the key points but it was difficult to read without them. I've never had any problems with security on my XP computer (a hardware firewall & Firefox is all you need) so it didn't even occur to me, but it is a good point. And moving big files isn't as improbable as you think, when someone starts leeching files from you when you're connected to a 1 Gb LAN it can really hurt performance.
Lower CPU usage than what? XP? I've run XP on a 500 MHz with a 320 meg ram and a whopping 4 meg vid card and it's still usable. Vista _requires_ an 800 MHz CPU and a half-gig of ram (one gig preferred) minimum. You call that LOWER usage? If the UI is run on the (128 MB _minimum_) GPU, why should the CPU requirements be HIGHER?
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Lower CPU usage compared to not running the UI on the GPU. After you get rid of most of the pointless services Vista runs as default, the CPU usage will most likely be on par with XP, and less with a GPU.
That's nice...
I'm sure it is, but that doesn't really help XP users.
Good lord, things like ssh have been able to do that for almost a decade. You can even restart networking/samba/ftp service on a remote machine via a remote shell and not lose your connection.
Using SSH/FTP for casual file sharing on a LAN is overkill (though I have used bittorrent on occasion, when there has only been a 100 Mb switch available). SMB is also excellent for LAN environments where you don't know the other participants, this way you don't have to advertise your tracker/FTP/SSH server.
The registry is perhaps one of Microsoft's biggest blunders, in my opinion. Having a single point of failure for the entire system is just a Bad Idea(TM).
I agree, which is why I think the virtualized registry is an important feature. It provides a backwards compatible way of phasing out the registry.
Don't most things like that include a volume control within the app itself? I may be mistaken on the concept though, that's for sure.
Most applications do, but some programs like e.g. Firefox don't.
If you've got more than one GPU, I would hope to god they'd be multitasking.
Multitasking, as in running multiple programs that utilise the same GPU. Running two games simultaneously wouldn't be very useful, but alt-tabbing and running e.g. a IM-application on top of a fullscreen game is.
After 5 years, you'd hope there would be some bugfixing going on, instead of just dumping much touted features (i.e. winfs)
I was very disappointed when they dumped WinFS, hopefully they'll bring it back in the near future.
Why exclude mac & linux users? Are they not computer users?
Because there is no reason for them to switch. While my post might have seemed like a copy of Microsoft's marketing handbook, I don't work for Redmond.
If I could play all the good games on Linux, I would switch in a heartbeat (XGL ftw), but the way things are now it looks like I will be chained to the Windows platform for the foreseeable future. Emulation isn't the solution for me, I'm not interested in giving up any fps.
#1 Cost - increased hardware requirements, in the license, loss of rights to do with what we buy as we see fit
I get excellent rebates from http://thepiratebay.org/ which is why I overlooked that point, but you are correct.
#2 Cracked DRM? Is that even legal? AFAIK, it's punishable by law.
I don't know if it's illegal here, and don't care TBH. If I want to crack the DRM on stuff I've bought then I'll do it, stupid laws are meant to be broken.
You seem to have a tech-savvy mom, I don't think mine would even notice that the UI has changed. ;)