Any good looking gamer geek female will soon develop a superiority complex due to all the attention she will obtain. They are not worth getting worked up over.;) Just about every "hot gamer girl" I've seen has turned into a snotty or self absorbed brat.
I'm in total agreement with just about every point you made. I just don't think the technology is there to be able to do what Microsoft claims (without some frustration and oddity.) If they do manage to get it working flawlessly, I'll be surprised but I'm not holding my breath.
Is it just me or is there an abundance of overly zealous and wishful thinking people in the past year or so? Obama, Microsoft Natal... it's like someone put the world on "uppers" and they all think that somehow magic things will just start happening.
Heck, I just read the first two and last three paragraphs, looked a the photos and gleaned enough information from those to determine: The article seemed to me to be slanted toward Nintendo.;)
I also believe that Sony's been working on something like that to capitalize on the EyeToy a bit more than just for goofy side games, but they likely found out that it would take too much processing or be rather difficult to program around to make it relevant. I've seen many tech demos using the EyeToy as face trackers for "simulated 3D" and other things.
A fist is still curving your fingers around to match your palm. If we open that up a little, you make a fist and open it slightly... I hope that's not what he's talking about.
I hated Eve because combat was slow and boring to me. I only hit the frigate classes, but it was enough for me. Jumpgate looked to be like Freespace or one of those more action oriented games. Eve was pretty much an online space-based spreadsheet with fancy graphics and tedious skill gains.
I know a lot of people who aren't in school who use MMOs to "get through" winter when they can't always go outside, go to bars, or hang out with friends... so there's always another side to it. Also, one of my friends hates gaming in the summer because it's always too hot with his video card and computer heating up his computer room. In the winter, he cracks the window.
In fact, I'd think there are a lot of people playing games to kill time in the winter. Right before spring/summer, the game market slumps as less people buy games because they know they'll be active soon and don't need entertainment as much.
About 4-5 (or more depending on how many windows are open...) keystrokes, less programs open on your task bar, and if you don't code in the same fonts/colorization as your command prompt, the shifting of your eyes to another style of window and/or color scheme. (ie: moving from white to black or vice versa)
Doesn't sound like much, but if you can hit F9 (or whatever) and have the environment automatically create it...
This could be a totally off the wall theory, but I believe Google is trying to make it compete by making Javascript compete... I think they realize that in order to make web apps that compete with desktop apps, the JS engines and browsers have to get much more efficient and Chrome/V8 is their "ace in the hole" to get this all kicked off.
Once JS is capable of "emulating" the performance of a desktop app, then you will see improvements in "cloud" apps.
I hear that recently Heinz decided that sauce 57 may only be used on hamburgers now and any vendor selling that ketchup on hotdogs will be sued by Heinz for violating the terms of use for it's ketchup.
Actually, there's plenty to improve in a typical OS: making the OS more componentized, programmable, adding new layers of APIs for different functional domains, and otherwise supporting the developers that write code for that OS, so that they can be more productive and write more functional code in a fraction of time. For example, things like COM, WMI, DirectX,.NET, or the new WDF toolkit for driver development in Windows Vista. I don't see how you can separate any of this from the rest of the OS.
You don't see how it can be separate? Like GTK, OpenGL... shall I go on? I hope you mean that you CAN see how it could be separated, but Microsoft WON'T separate it. They make too much money when people can't take the DirectX modules from Windows and hack them into OSX/Linux. Technically, or legally.
But despite the absolutely punishing gameplay, despite the rare mobs that you had to camp for days because that was their spawn interval, despite the forced grouping, that game had a sense of community in the first few years. It had the feel of a real world—in that it was a good place to be.
I'm a little drunk right now... but yeah... that's the feeling. Helping people because you know it's a bitch. I remember sitting in EC as a level 50 Enchanter giving out buffs and helping to break camps. It was actually fun and empowering to help other people. I would help people get through dungeons. Not getting a lick of experience. Not because I was bored, but because it was fun. Sharing my experience with someone and helping them out. I really miss it quite a bit. Today, getting a group is a 15 second ordeal. People complete their mission and they leave because the quest itself give more experience than staying in the group. It's sad.
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Tuesday. That's when all the patches come out. ;)
Any good looking gamer geek female will soon develop a superiority complex due to all the attention she will obtain. They are not worth getting worked up over. ;) Just about every "hot gamer girl" I've seen has turned into a snotty or self absorbed brat.
So much hubris in that statement, I don't know where to start...
I'm in total agreement with just about every point you made. I just don't think the technology is there to be able to do what Microsoft claims (without some frustration and oddity.) If they do manage to get it working flawlessly, I'll be surprised but I'm not holding my breath.
Is it just me or is there an abundance of overly zealous and wishful thinking people in the past year or so? Obama, Microsoft Natal... it's like someone put the world on "uppers" and they all think that somehow magic things will just start happening.
Heck, I just read the first two and last three paragraphs, looked a the photos and gleaned enough information from those to determine: The article seemed to me to be slanted toward Nintendo. ;)
Most gamers know that the claims put out during E3 are crap (my favorite this year "Only the PS3 has the power to run this 40' x 80' display!")
...anyone that thought that was not an attempt at humor or sarcasm anyway is a fool or a "fanboy."
You don't honestly think they wanted people to believe that, do you?
Create a new blank squares
Add Linux, Windows, Mac
Add column "market share"
Add column "usage"
I apparently failed myself. Damn you URL encoding!
I was hoping for some neat graphs from that, but Wolfram failed me: http://www41.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(3%2F16)+%C3%91^4+%C3%90^4+O+E
How about they work on their DX 10 performance first.
Because this one goes up to 11, so obviously it's better.
I also believe that Sony's been working on something like that to capitalize on the EyeToy a bit more than just for goofy side games, but they likely found out that it would take too much processing or be rather difficult to program around to make it relevant. I've seen many tech demos using the EyeToy as face trackers for "simulated 3D" and other things.
A fist is still curving your fingers around to match your palm. If we open that up a little, you make a fist and open it slightly... I hope that's not what he's talking about.
They definitely lost sales from me... and I regularly buy motherboards from them.
I hated Eve because combat was slow and boring to me. I only hit the frigate classes, but it was enough for me. Jumpgate looked to be like Freespace or one of those more action oriented games. Eve was pretty much an online space-based spreadsheet with fancy graphics and tedious skill gains.
some of the more successful MMO's on the market, like [...] Warhammer.
Warhammer was a success? 800K -> 300K subs... cutting back on their staff... It's following the wrong curve for success.
I know a lot of people who aren't in school who use MMOs to "get through" winter when they can't always go outside, go to bars, or hang out with friends... so there's always another side to it. Also, one of my friends hates gaming in the summer because it's always too hot with his video card and computer heating up his computer room. In the winter, he cracks the window.
In fact, I'd think there are a lot of people playing games to kill time in the winter. Right before spring/summer, the game market slumps as less people buy games because they know they'll be active soon and don't need entertainment as much.
Just my observations.
A single _file_ of 10k lines is big, but why for the love of god would you do that?
Because headers go at the top of the code...not in another file that's why they call them headers! /sarcasm
Not just you. I found Netbeans far more responsive than Eclipse.
I can't believe I have to type this...
About 4-5 (or more depending on how many windows are open...) keystrokes, less programs open on your task bar, and if you don't code in the same fonts/colorization as your command prompt, the shifting of your eyes to another style of window and/or color scheme. (ie: moving from white to black or vice versa)
Doesn't sound like much, but if you can hit F9 (or whatever) and have the environment automatically create it...
This could be a totally off the wall theory, but I believe Google is trying to make it compete by making Javascript compete... I think they realize that in order to make web apps that compete with desktop apps, the JS engines and browsers have to get much more efficient and Chrome/V8 is their "ace in the hole" to get this all kicked off.
Once JS is capable of "emulating" the performance of a desktop app, then you will see improvements in "cloud" apps.
I hear that recently Heinz decided that sauce 57 may only be used on hamburgers now and any vendor selling that ketchup on hotdogs will be sued by Heinz for violating the terms of use for it's ketchup.
No you idiot, it's to upgrade. It isn't crippled because you're perfectly aware of what you're going to buy in the first place.
But is the average user? Really?
Actually, there's plenty to improve in a typical OS: making the OS more componentized, programmable, adding new layers of APIs for different functional domains, and otherwise supporting the developers that write code for that OS, so that they can be more productive and write more functional code in a fraction of time. For example, things like COM, WMI, DirectX, .NET, or the new WDF toolkit for driver development in Windows Vista. I don't see how you can separate any of this from the rest of the OS.
You don't see how it can be separate? Like GTK, OpenGL... shall I go on? I hope you mean that you CAN see how it could be separated, but Microsoft WON'T separate it. They make too much money when people can't take the DirectX modules from Windows and hack them into OSX/Linux. Technically, or legally.
A) Just have her remote desktop into your computer, log in as another user, and play that way
B) fiance... fiance.... SPEND TIME WITH HER
A) Last time I checked, RDP has trouble with accelerated video. Has this changed?
[...and why is it always about "her" wants? Get a two way relationship for heaven's sake.]
But despite the absolutely punishing gameplay, despite the rare mobs that you had to camp for days because that was their spawn interval, despite the forced grouping, that game had a sense of community in the first few years. It had the feel of a real world—in that it was a good place to be.
I'm a little drunk right now... but yeah... that's the feeling. Helping people because you know it's a bitch. I remember sitting in EC as a level 50 Enchanter giving out buffs and helping to break camps. It was actually fun and empowering to help other people. I would help people get through dungeons. Not getting a lick of experience. Not because I was bored, but because it was fun. Sharing my experience with someone and helping them out. I really miss it quite a bit. Today, getting a group is a 15 second ordeal. People complete their mission and they leave because the quest itself give more experience than staying in the group. It's sad.