They'll deliver a very highly polished FPS, or racing game, etc, but wont risk something new.
How are Flow, Cash Guns Chaos, Blast Factor, and some of the other Playstation store games considered polished? If anything, Sony is reaching out to all aspects of gaming in the PS3. Even the Home aspect, albeit MMO like, still has some innovative ideas like in world purchasing and mini games. That's alot for a game console to put out there. Even a few months back you wouldn't have imagined such an undertaking unless it was all done with sliding tabs and cheesy advertising banners.
I think you need to set the Wii controller down for a second and take a look at what's available. Sony's pushing real hard this time around.
You even comment on how the Wii controller opens so many new aspects of gaming and it's supposedly the creme of the crop. I have to tell you right now that Flow, Blazing Angels use the motion sensing in the PS3 controller VERY well and I'm glad to have it as a control type. I can't wait for Lair to see how it feels but so far nothing about it feels "tacked on" as many people will try to say.
And while I own a DS, (as much as you don't want to know) it has a spot dedicate in my bathroom. It's completely replaced the trusty magazine and it hasn't left that spot in months. It is intuitive, but I can't play it more than a few minutes at a time. I guess that's what Nintendo is looking for this gen. A quicky.
Nintendo invents? I'm not even going to touch that.
I used to love my Nintendo 8-bit, Super and even a few games on the Cube, but I wouldn't say any of it (except FF3 on the SNES) kept my attention for hours on end as I would have liked. I almost feel cheated having played a Wii. I played it once, and haven't had the "drive" to go back and play it again because it's going to be the same every time I play. Flick your wrist, hit the button, flick your wrist. Woo! Episodic content is what I look for. Something to keep me coming back day after day to see what will come next. Nintendo has the "party" console for sure, but there is a very large part of the existing console generation that want more. I would even go so far to say that the Wii is like the WoW of MMOs. It's a quick fix to get people into the genre, but after they "complete" it, they long for something bigger.
Show her Go Sudoku, Flow, and even Blast Factor. Now you'll have "Home" to help convince her. I know when I took my PS3 home for Christmas my Dad couldn't get enough NFS:Carbon and Motorstorm Demo my Mom kept wanting to play Blast Factor.
Exactly...Just the other day I was in the store walking around and I was forced to buy a spatula. I don't want that damn thing. I have a closet full already and I'm even starting to run out of space there. These damn companies keep forcing me into these purchases!
Hardcore or PC gamers are, yes. But your talking about a Console here. Most people want to plug these in, slide in a disc or cart, and play. They don't want to configure their IP, setup a firewall, edit router settings, upgrade to 10,000 RPM drives, configure SLI and memory timings to get the best performance. The line between PC and Console is thinning, but it's still going to be a very hard line to break.
I'm just curious as to when the phrase "When I was a kid, I used to ___ in freezing snow...uphill both ways!" will be replaced by "When I was a kid, I used to ___ on a cathode ray tube...and we only had 2 buttons!"
That analogy doesn't work in this situation. He was "working" for Wiki in a sense, but not getting paid. So someone must have thought that the guy had some skill before they decided to hire him unless they were looking only at the paper.
To use the doctor analogy would be like saying that you had back surgery and your feeling great, only to find out that your surgeon never went to school. He did what was expected of the job and made you feel better, but by your standards, he was a lesser being for not sitting through boring lectures for years of his life.
Did they want to hire him because he did quality work or just because he went to college? I understand the business world takes that sheet of paper almost too serious, but this is ridiculous.
If the kid knows his stuff or knows how to get it, isn't that more valuable than what he wrote for his educational background?
As much as it's hated (for it's abuse), AJAX could load the content in hidden DIVs while you read and display them when you click. I've yet to see anyone do that though. What if someone loads the page and doesn't want to read page two. You've just wasted bandwidth. It still would be quicker to load only the text using AJAX instead of the whole page plus images.
I had a designer tell me once that people don't like to scroll. ("wtf!?") They want to read everything on one page. If they want to read further, they will click the link. I'm sure Ad revenue has a fair bit of play in it as well.
I dislike Microsoft as much as the next guy and think Wine is a great way to get users to switch, but what are YOU doing to help the Wine project? Are you testing applications, reporting the messages and making Wine better each day? It's one thing to preach that people should switch, but if you tell them to switch and they have a bad taste, they are less likely to switch again in the future. I don't know how many of my friends have tried Linux back in the Redhat 4 days and been completely turned off up until this day thinking that Linux is a mess of dependency problems, interface nightmares and lack of "replacement" software for their everyday tasks. Even the MP3 nightmare today keeps some people away simply because they can't open their song and play it without having to run command lines to edit their yum configuration in Fedora 6. Sure, Ogg Vorbis may be a better format, but go into Best Buy and tell the guy/girl behind the conter that your looking for an Ogg player and (s)he'll stare at you funny unless (s)he truly knows what it is.
As an above poster mentions, and as one of my favorite Metallica songs (The Call of Ktulu) not having words seems to allude to... maybe there are no words and he's just happily humming... It all makes sense now!
In WoW I like raiding because it challenges me as a player, and as part of a team. Every raiding group has pretty much the same mix of character skills and equipment, but they key to defeating the bosses is each individual learning how to use those skills as part of a team. Sure you get the phat lewt payoff, but you also improve as a team to tackle more difficult challenges.
And here I was under the impression that WoW raiding was all about DKP, putting in your time and standing in the spot your raid leader tells you to spamming the same spell over and over again because it is the only purpose to your existence. If you changed strategy or left the spot you were told to stand, you were penalized and would have to go on more raids to gain more points toward "buying" your equipment. Your mission to kill the boss is already planned out by some other high end guild and your raid leader if following the script laid out to the "T". When the boss is dead, the loot manager grabs all the paperwork they had drawn up to decide who gets the loot this time around and how many points it's going to cost them.
Maybe they should compress Windows. Think of the total worldwide data space saved by merely replacing Microsoft in every PC around the world with something a little shorter or removing it totally. Good bye Start Menu/Programs/Microsoft Office/Microsoft Word/Microsoft Office Application Recovery, Microsoft Office Document Imaging, Microsoft Office Document Scanning...
Hell, even this post could have been 14% lighter.
..which is why (and I stand by this thought) programs should only have access to the directory they are installed in. Nothing more unless granted. Say you want to install your favorite office package. It should be setup as a package. The install directory is an empty directory with a links directory with (symbolic links, etc) to the binary or executable in a sub directory. If the user wants to save a document, the document goes in a sub directory of that application. If they wish to share it with someone else on the PC, they simply right click and share the file or directory just like they do with network shares, but the network is local. They select the users that have access and those users will be able to "see" those directories or you simply have shared folders that everyone can see locally.
You could opt on the install to share the entire application with local users only by installing it for all users and the OS would take care of the installation parameters on the other user profiles. If it was setup as a shared install, each user would be given a private directory and access to the shared directory.
In my ultimate "package" there would be: (ignore the ugliness of the list)
The main directory [The Office Package]
bin [directory]
settings [directory]
Bob's settings [directory]
userfiles [directory]
shared [directory]
Bob's files [directory]
links
links to executables/binaries
install
uninstall
Anything in the root directory that is not a directory will be available to the program list when the person opens the operations menu. If a link to the directory of user files is made, the OS will check the settings folder to determine what application will open said file when clicked. The Settings should also have sub directories for each user's personal preferences.
It should be a standard for user space programs. Those programs requiring more access should be heavily secured and the user prompted when required install. These would include in Windows: Defrag, etc.
Take for example, Firefox/IE/Opera/etc. They would install to a directory and be limited to that directory alone. The user would have to grant special permission to save a file outside that directory. If they download a trojan that wanted to access a directory outside the scope given, the user would be told that it is requesting access and informed of the hazard. At this point, even virus software could intercept this "outsider" and check it against the records to see if it's a known offender.
No applications would be given hardware access directly unless granted by the installer. In the case of games, the GPU/Sound/NIC would be granted. Input hardware would be granted by default, output or bi-directional would be denied by default. If required, the user would be prompted to allow access to the printer for instance. If the user decides to "trust" the package they could grant it by default.
I know this is possible. I just have to get off my butt and build up a Linux that supports it for a "Proof of Concept" though I'm pretty sure that's about as far as it will ever go. Getting support from third parties that like to install everything to "Productivity/Billy Bob's Software House/My Software/This Version/" would really be a pain, but by putting those directories in the links sub they could appear to the user in that manner if they wanted to.
Hell, even installing it should be as easy as dragging an install icon from the disk to the desktop (as much as some of you dread the GUI, most people don't do command line). When the OS intercepts this drop action it will see that it's an install and fire off an installation routine from a sub directory on the disc that will walk the user through the differe
Media Player Classic is my choice as well. It does an awesome job playing anything I throw at it without hassle. I can hide the parts I don't want to see and have a nice small button bar to control all my music. No silly web interface to view the picture of the album I'm listening to or convoluted visuals of my music.
I think he means Windows Vista Ultimate Home Graphs Edition, thought I could have thought that option was only available on the more expensive Vista Ultimate Professional Home Office Graphs Edition.
I think the second main processor you see is for the PS2 EE chip. I'm not positive though. The only other thing I could think of is that possibly the SPE does two threads and they split these into two seperate/dev(s).
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I think you need to set the Wii controller down for a second and take a look at what's available. Sony's pushing real hard this time around.
You even comment on how the Wii controller opens so many new aspects of gaming and it's supposedly the creme of the crop. I have to tell you right now that Flow, Blazing Angels use the motion sensing in the PS3 controller VERY well and I'm glad to have it as a control type. I can't wait for Lair to see how it feels but so far nothing about it feels "tacked on" as many people will try to say.
And while I own a DS, (as much as you don't want to know) it has a spot dedicate in my bathroom. It's completely replaced the trusty magazine and it hasn't left that spot in months. It is intuitive, but I can't play it more than a few minutes at a time. I guess that's what Nintendo is looking for this gen. A quicky.
Nintendo invents? I'm not even going to touch that.
I used to love my Nintendo 8-bit, Super and even a few games on the Cube, but I wouldn't say any of it (except FF3 on the SNES) kept my attention for hours on end as I would have liked. I almost feel cheated having played a Wii. I played it once, and haven't had the "drive" to go back and play it again because it's going to be the same every time I play. Flick your wrist, hit the button, flick your wrist. Woo! Episodic content is what I look for. Something to keep me coming back day after day to see what will come next. Nintendo has the "party" console for sure, but there is a very large part of the existing console generation that want more. I would even go so far to say that the Wii is like the WoW of MMOs. It's a quick fix to get people into the genre, but after they "complete" it, they long for something bigger.
Show her Go Sudoku, Flow, and even Blast Factor. Now you'll have "Home" to help convince her. I know when I took my PS3 home for Christmas my Dad couldn't get enough NFS:Carbon and Motorstorm Demo my Mom kept wanting to play Blast Factor.
Exactly...Just the other day I was in the store walking around and I was forced to buy a spatula. I don't want that damn thing. I have a closet full already and I'm even starting to run out of space there. These damn companies keep forcing me into these purchases!
Hardcore or PC gamers are, yes. But your talking about a Console here. Most people want to plug these in, slide in a disc or cart, and play. They don't want to configure their IP, setup a firewall, edit router settings, upgrade to 10,000 RPM drives, configure SLI and memory timings to get the best performance. The line between PC and Console is thinning, but it's still going to be a very hard line to break.
I'm just curious as to when the phrase "When I was a kid, I used to ___ in freezing snow...uphill both ways!" will be replaced by "When I was a kid, I used to ___ on a cathode ray tube...and we only had 2 buttons!"
I wonder what it would cost to advertise Linux/Mac/PS3 on the XBox360 platform. Hmm.
Ah, so you watched The Island too?
That analogy doesn't work in this situation. He was "working" for Wiki in a sense, but not getting paid. So someone must have thought that the guy had some skill before they decided to hire him unless they were looking only at the paper.
To use the doctor analogy would be like saying that you had back surgery and your feeling great, only to find out that your surgeon never went to school. He did what was expected of the job and made you feel better, but by your standards, he was a lesser being for not sitting through boring lectures for years of his life.
Did they want to hire him because he did quality work or just because he went to college? I understand the business world takes that sheet of paper almost too serious, but this is ridiculous.
If the kid knows his stuff or knows how to get it, isn't that more valuable than what he wrote for his educational background?
As much as it's hated (for it's abuse), AJAX could load the content in hidden DIVs while you read and display them when you click. I've yet to see anyone do that though. What if someone loads the page and doesn't want to read page two. You've just wasted bandwidth. It still would be quicker to load only the text using AJAX instead of the whole page plus images.
I had a designer tell me once that people don't like to scroll. ("wtf!?") They want to read everything on one page. If they want to read further, they will click the link. I'm sure Ad revenue has a fair bit of play in it as well.
Slashdot poster, or Microsoft paid viral blogger. You decide.
I dislike Microsoft as much as the next guy and think Wine is a great way to get users to switch, but what are YOU doing to help the Wine project? Are you testing applications, reporting the messages and making Wine better each day? It's one thing to preach that people should switch, but if you tell them to switch and they have a bad taste, they are less likely to switch again in the future. I don't know how many of my friends have tried Linux back in the Redhat 4 days and been completely turned off up until this day thinking that Linux is a mess of dependency problems, interface nightmares and lack of "replacement" software for their everyday tasks. Even the MP3 nightmare today keeps some people away simply because they can't open their song and play it without having to run command lines to edit their yum configuration in Fedora 6. Sure, Ogg Vorbis may be a better format, but go into Best Buy and tell the guy/girl behind the conter that your looking for an Ogg player and (s)he'll stare at you funny unless (s)he truly knows what it is.
As an above poster mentions, and as one of my favorite Metallica songs (The Call of Ktulu) not having words seems to allude to... maybe there are no words and he's just happily humming... It all makes sense now!
Damn, what game was I playing?
Maybe they should compress Windows. Think of the total worldwide data space saved by merely replacing Microsoft in every PC around the world with something a little shorter or removing it totally. Good bye Start Menu/Programs/Microsoft Office/Microsoft Word/Microsoft Office Application Recovery, Microsoft Office Document Imaging, Microsoft Office Document Scanning ...
Hell, even this post could have been 14% lighter.
# Dense linear algebra
# Sparse linear algebra
What about Average linear algebra?
# Structured grids
# Unstructured grids
Are there any other types?
(** Warning: Car analogy...)
Isn't that kind of like selling a car and listing on the spec sheet:
# Goes slow
# Goes fast
You could opt on the install to share the entire application with local users only by installing it for all users and the OS would take care of the installation parameters on the other user profiles. If it was setup as a shared install, each user would be given a private directory and access to the shared directory.
In my ultimate "package" there would be: (ignore the ugliness of the list)
Anything in the root directory that is not a directory will be available to the program list when the person opens the operations menu. If a link to the directory of user files is made, the OS will check the settings folder to determine what application will open said file when clicked. The Settings should also have sub directories for each user's personal preferences.
It should be a standard for user space programs. Those programs requiring more access should be heavily secured and the user prompted when required install. These would include in Windows: Defrag, etc.
Take for example, Firefox/IE/Opera/etc. They would install to a directory and be limited to that directory alone. The user would have to grant special permission to save a file outside that directory. If they download a trojan that wanted to access a directory outside the scope given, the user would be told that it is requesting access and informed of the hazard. At this point, even virus software could intercept this "outsider" and check it against the records to see if it's a known offender.
No applications would be given hardware access directly unless granted by the installer. In the case of games, the GPU/Sound/NIC would be granted. Input hardware would be granted by default, output or bi-directional would be denied by default. If required, the user would be prompted to allow access to the printer for instance. If the user decides to "trust" the package they could grant it by default.
I know this is possible. I just have to get off my butt and build up a Linux that supports it for a "Proof of Concept" though I'm pretty sure that's about as far as it will ever go. Getting support from third parties that like to install everything to "Productivity/Billy Bob's Software House/My Software/This Version/" would really be a pain, but by putting those directories in the links sub they could appear to the user in that manner if they wanted to.
Hell, even installing it should be as easy as dragging an install icon from the disk to the desktop (as much as some of you dread the GUI, most people don't do command line). When the OS intercepts this drop action it will see that it's an install and fire off an installation routine from a sub directory on the disc that will walk the user through the differe
Media Player Classic is my choice as well. It does an awesome job playing anything I throw at it without hassle. I can hide the parts I don't want to see and have a nice small button bar to control all my music. No silly web interface to view the picture of the album I'm listening to or convoluted visuals of my music.
I think he means Windows Vista Ultimate Home Graphs Edition, thought I could have thought that option was only available on the more expensive Vista Ultimate Professional Home Office Graphs Edition.
I could be wrong on this, but OpenGL does support Pixel Shading through Cg...
This page could be wrong too: http://www.3ddrome.com/articles/cgshaders.php
Christmas of what year?
Wait, did you just say that the new Linux Kernel will have a singing penguin at boot up? I'm totally there!
I think the second main processor you see is for the PS2 EE chip. I'm not positive though. The only other thing I could think of is that possibly the SPE does two threads and they split these into two seperate /dev(s).