The application that actually makes a sustaining market for a promising but under-utilized technology. First used in the mid-1980s to describe Lotus 1-2-3 once it became evident that demand for that product had been the major driver of the early business market for IBM PCs. The term was then retrospectively applied to VisiCalc, which had played a similar role in the success of the Apple II. After 1994 it became commonplace to describe the World Wide Web as the Internet's killer app. One of the standard questions asked about each new personal-computer technology as it emerges has become âoewhat's the killer app?â
What does it matter, since no game that will be released in the next 10 years is going to need more graphics power then the shitty xbox one can crap out?
...the PS3 buttons even just outright feel like they don't respond sometimes.
This is actually why I prefer the ps3 controller over the 360 one. The reason being the buttons on the ps3 controller are pressure sensitive. Unlike the buttons in the xbox 360 controller which are simple mechanical switches with just 2 states, on or off, the buttons in the playstation 3 controller have 1024 possible states, where 0 is not pressed and 1023 is pressed all the way.
Most games do not use this functionality and instead track ps3 buttons as anything over 200 is on and anything under is off. Some games however, such as Wipeout HD, make use of the full range of the controller's sensitivity, meaning if you assign throttle to X and press X only half way down, you will only go half your maximum speed; same thing with your craft's ailerons; pressing the button half way down will only open your flaps half way...
As a result, the ps3 controller allows for far more precision, at least if you are familiar with the device's performance envelope.
Well, actually the first Unreal was not bad at all. Beautiful landscapes with a lot of mood (back then coming out of that prison ship and seeing Na Pali for the first time was breathtaking).
Yeah, tech demos usually do look totally awesome, with beautiful landscapes with a lot of mood. Doom 3 looked amazing when it was released too. However, the gameplay itself was mediocre and had very little depth. Unreal had levels such as Illumination, which were specifically created to showcase the engine's technical features.
Illumination was perhaps the worst level in the game, from a gameplay perspective. But it was perfect to showcase the Unreal engine's dynamic volumetric fog and terrain deforms.
TOR is a horrid mmo, but a decent enough RPG. In fact, I think if TOR had been released as single player console game it would have gotten GOTY. The game lost more then it gained in the transition from single player to mmo. For example, the main story is actually quite good, but the pacing is way off, due to the need to stretch out the story through a typical mmo style grind. If there was no grind the story would be way better - not because of content, but pacing.
Hell, all the most respected studio's are those who develop their own games. Unreal, Id, Blizzard etc etc. It is the publishing houses and their slave companies that everyone looks down upon.
Really? ID and Epic are notorious for releasing games that are little more then tech demos for their latest engines, which is where those two studios have traditionally made most of their money. The best games developed using ID tech engine have been 3rd party games; Doom engine gave us Hexen and Strife, Quake engine gave us Half-Life, Quake 2 engine gave us SiN, and SoF Quake 3 engine gave us Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Enemy Territory, Jedi Academy, Alice. The best games developed using Unreal Engine have likewise been 3rd party; Deus Ex, BioShock, Republic Commando, Arkham Asylum, Borderlands, Mass Effect, XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Convenience. You do not need a different machine to run each different piece of software you own. Backwards compatibility is basically what made Microsoft Windows so popular.
"The Katamai core, I owned one... That was one of the best computers I ever owned."
Agreed. I absolutely loved mine. It was a p3 667, Dual Slot 1 OR840, 2gb rambus. I bought two matching machines; 2 motherboards, 4 cpus, 4 gigs of ram, 2 voodoo 5s (later upgrading to GeForce 5s). One for myself and one for my girlfriend. We ran the machines for almost 5 years, and did not upgrade until the dual core 3.0 mhz pentium D was released.
One of the p3 machines is still running today, as a firewall.
On a side note, the pentium D's lasted about a year and a half before they burnt out and were replaced with 32mn core 2 duos.
You are correct. For the longest time I ran a dual 667mhz pentium 3's in an Intel OR840 Dual Slot 1 Workstation Board, with 2 gigs of rambus.
That machine was such a beast - it benchmarked faster then 1.8 ghz pentium 4s. It was not until dual core pentium D's were released that I was willing to give up using it as my desktop. In fact the machine is still running right now as a firewall.
I've always wondered why the guy who made gnome did not just use a damn mac. If you like mac, you like it because it is a mac (and all that entails). I mean what is a mac? The culture, the marketing, the packaging, the case, the hardware, the user experience. You will never be able to reproduce that mac user experience, unless of course you can match the level of engineering and support and design and effort and genius that went into creating the mac user experience. But here is this guy, who is going to make a system that is just like the mac, except better, all by himself.
Is what we are seeing de Icaza succumbing to the Dunning–Kruger effect?
Have you seen the proposed specs on the PS4 and next Xbox?
Yes, I have. Both systems are built using mid range off-the-shelf PC components. The systems are not targeting hardcore gamers, but rather casuals and soccer moms.
It is completely beyond me how those two stories have not garnered more press. Thats bigger than the Dorner case considering it's basically giving rights to the LAPD to open fire on absolutely anybody and get away with it.
They already do open fire on absolutely anybody, and they get away with it. Police are not here to protect the people, they are here to protect the government.
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From the jargon file:
killer app
The application that actually makes a sustaining market for a promising but under-utilized technology. First used in the mid-1980s to describe Lotus 1-2-3 once it became evident that demand for that product had been the major driver of the early business market for IBM PCs. The term was then retrospectively applied to VisiCalc, which had played a similar role in the success of the Apple II. After 1994 it became commonplace to describe the World Wide Web as the Internet's killer app. One of the standard questions asked about each new personal-computer technology as it emerges has become âoewhat's the killer app?â
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/K/killer-app.html
More like Rick Priestley's Skinplants & Electoos from Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader, circa 1987.
What does it matter, since no game that will be released in the next 10 years is going to need more graphics power then the shitty xbox one can crap out?
I am pretty sure the telescope itself fits the definition of an unmanned drone.
I pretty much read gawker, kotaku, io9, etc for news and only browse Slashdot comments when I am bored.
...the PS3 buttons even just outright feel like they don't respond sometimes.
This is actually why I prefer the ps3 controller over the 360 one. The reason being the buttons on the ps3 controller are pressure sensitive. Unlike the buttons in the xbox 360 controller which are simple mechanical switches with just 2 states, on or off, the buttons in the playstation 3 controller have 1024 possible states, where 0 is not pressed and 1023 is pressed all the way.
Most games do not use this functionality and instead track ps3 buttons as anything over 200 is on and anything under is off. Some games however, such as Wipeout HD, make use of the full range of the controller's sensitivity, meaning if you assign throttle to X and press X only half way down, you will only go half your maximum speed; same thing with your craft's ailerons; pressing the button half way down will only open your flaps half way...
As a result, the ps3 controller allows for far more precision, at least if you are familiar with the device's performance envelope.
...after 20 years of FUD.
Well, actually the first Unreal was not bad at all. Beautiful landscapes with a lot of mood (back then coming out of that prison ship and seeing Na Pali for the first time was breathtaking).
Yeah, tech demos usually do look totally awesome, with beautiful landscapes with a lot of mood. Doom 3 looked amazing when it was released too. However, the gameplay itself was mediocre and had very little depth. Unreal had levels such as Illumination, which were specifically created to showcase the engine's technical features.
Illumination was perhaps the worst level in the game, from a gameplay perspective. But it was perfect to showcase the Unreal engine's dynamic volumetric fog and terrain deforms.
TOR is a horrid mmo, but a decent enough RPG. In fact, I think if TOR had been released as single player console game it would have gotten GOTY. The game lost more then it gained in the transition from single player to mmo. For example, the main story is actually quite good, but the pacing is way off, due to the need to stretch out the story through a typical mmo style grind. If there was no grind the story would be way better - not because of content, but pacing.
Hell, all the most respected studio's are those who develop their own games. Unreal, Id, Blizzard etc etc. It is the publishing houses and their slave companies that everyone looks down upon.
Really? ID and Epic are notorious for releasing games that are little more then tech demos for their latest engines, which is where those two studios have traditionally made most of their money. The best games developed using ID tech engine have been 3rd party games; Doom engine gave us Hexen and Strife, Quake engine gave us Half-Life, Quake 2 engine gave us SiN, and SoF Quake 3 engine gave us Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Enemy Territory, Jedi Academy, Alice. The best games developed using Unreal Engine have likewise been 3rd party; Deus Ex, BioShock, Republic Commando, Arkham Asylum, Borderlands, Mass Effect, XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
You can still install a 3rd party IPX driver though. Compared to everything else, Windows is the most backwards OS ever made.
Why not?
Convenience. You do not need a different machine to run each different piece of software you own. Backwards compatibility is basically what made Microsoft Windows so popular.
Ever since the linux game tome stopped being updated, I switched to indiedb to publish my open source games.
http://www.indiedb.com/games/dungeon-tactics
Oh, there were no planes filled to the brim with jet fuel or high buildings used in that attack?
You gun nuts take logic and cast it off at the first possible point during an argument.
So you are saying the logical thing to do would be to ban jet fuel and high buildings too?
"The Katamai core, I owned one... That was one of the best computers I ever owned."
Agreed. I absolutely loved mine. It was a p3 667, Dual Slot 1 OR840, 2gb rambus. I bought two matching machines; 2 motherboards, 4 cpus, 4 gigs of ram, 2 voodoo 5s (later upgrading to GeForce 5s). One for myself and one for my girlfriend. We ran the machines for almost 5 years, and did not upgrade until the dual core 3.0 mhz pentium D was released.
One of the p3 machines is still running today, as a firewall.
On a side note, the pentium D's lasted about a year and a half before they burnt out and were replaced with 32mn core 2 duos.
You are correct. For the longest time I ran a dual 667mhz pentium 3's in an Intel OR840 Dual Slot 1 Workstation Board, with 2 gigs of rambus.
That machine was such a beast - it benchmarked faster then 1.8 ghz pentium 4s. It was not until dual core pentium D's were released that I was willing to give up using it as my desktop. In fact the machine is still running right now as a firewall.
I've always wondered why the guy who made gnome did not just use a damn mac. If you like mac, you like it because it is a mac (and all that entails). I mean what is a mac? The culture, the marketing, the packaging, the case, the hardware, the user experience. You will never be able to reproduce that mac user experience, unless of course you can match the level of engineering and support and design and effort and genius that went into creating the mac user experience. But here is this guy, who is going to make a system that is just like the mac, except better, all by himself.
Is what we are seeing de Icaza succumbing to the Dunning–Kruger effect?
If I had mod points...
According to the official sony press release it comes with a blue ray.
Main Processor
CPU : x86-64 AMD “Jaguar”, 8 cores
GPU : 1.84 TFLOPS, AMD next-generation Radeon based
Memory : GDDR5 8GB
Optical Drive : BD 6xCAV
www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/130221a_e.pdf
The official press release says the ps4's exact specs.
CPU : x86-64 AMD “Jaguar”, 8 cores
GPU : 1.84 TFLOPS, AMD next-generation Radeon based
Memory : GDDR5 8GB
Optical Drive : BD 6xCAV
www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/130221a_e.pdf
The game does not even have to be built - only the engine.
The engine is not any harder to build then say, PHP and Apache, which are requirements to play the HTML5 entries.
I am disappointed my project didn't win...
...but then again there was no prize for technological superiority.
Look at the video trailer. There are in-game screen shots that you can clearly see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwOUi4JDC4o
Have you seen the proposed specs on the PS4 and next Xbox?
Yes, I have. Both systems are built using mid range off-the-shelf PC components. The systems are not targeting hardcore gamers, but rather casuals and soccer moms.
It is completely beyond me how those two stories have not garnered more press. Thats bigger than the Dorner case considering it's basically giving rights to the LAPD to open fire on absolutely anybody and get away with it.
They already do open fire on absolutely anybody, and they get away with it. Police are not here to protect the people, they are here to protect the government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal