I've actually read most of the books, and they're total garbage. They're at least three or four times thicker than they need to be. There's now a prequel series, too. Jerry Jenkins is probably the most successful hack writer of the past decade.
This is something I've never thought about before, and there's probably some interesting research one could do in this area. But my gut reaction to this is that the minimal amount you move your head when playing a computer game would negate most of the effect of this. Have you experienced this phenomenon yourself? Is it disorienting?
If you want to take your system over to a friend's house, it's a pain. If you want to take it on a trip with you, it takes up a bunch of space.
Also, the original Xbox was received very poorly in Japan partly because of the butt-ugliness of the machine and the huge space it took up, keeping in mind the size of housing there.
Um, yeah, all gamers are identical, and hate the same thing. Not.
Until Sony actually LAUNCHES a next-gen console, they don't have one. Same for Nintendo.
Until MS actually has some next-gen games for their "next-gen" system, they don't have one either.
Right now though, the PS3 and Revolution are exactly as tangible as the Phantom.
Um yeah, Sony and Nintendo are notorious for announcing consoles and then never releasing them.
Having a 3rd player in the console wars was the single best thing that happened to console gaming anytime recently, especially since Nintendo has really, really lost their step...
Yep, Microsoft is the first "3rd player" in the console race. Companies like Sega, Sony, NEC, Coleco, Atari, and Fairchild never existed! Oh, and Nintendo seems to be doing just fine, compared to the financial reports coming out of the Xbox division.
Then again... seeing you add a worthless, offtopic line about Linux on the bottom sums up your own fanboyness relatively nicely,a nd your personal experience with it.
I know Jr. high composition class is hard, but you might want to study a bit more about making a coherent argument to avoid posting trash like this.
This is just an effect of the way the game industry has grown up. One hit game spawns dozens of copycats. Look at games like Super Mario Brothers, Doom, or Tony Hawk. Out of the copycats, sometimes a genre emerges. But the problem is that the fans of the genre keep wanting "more", so you get more violence or whatever they want. Eventually, the genres fade (a la REAL shooters, which are relegated to the uber-hardcore now), or they get reinvented as something else.
but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a modern autogarbage-collecting dynamicly typed modularise language which can handle low-level programming anything like as well as C.
There were some compounding issues here as well. Sega released the Sega CD, the 32X, and the Saturn all within a pretty short time period. This confused a lot of people. They also thought they could get a jump on the competition by releasing the Saturn as soon as possible. This meant the hardware wasn't as refined as it could have been, and it drove the price up as well.
Programmers have likely had specs on the chip and the architecture for some time now, and also have probably had docs on what kind of compiler they'd be dealing with. This way, if they're any good at all, they should already have code that only needs to be tweaked to work on this thing.
Also, they could just program some bits in assembler. Game programming is one of the places where assembly is still used.
Yep, 90% of the computing population is obviously aware of this and consciously makes the choice to use IE over something else. Oh wait. Sounds like somebody hasn't been in contact with "average" people very much.
Considering I can understand the premise of the entire discussion,
One must include his assumptions in order to make a valid argument. You have not included your assumptions. Therefore, your argument is pure horseshit.
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Haha, you almost had me there, except for the "the 360 has games" part.
Oh really? And you have evidence that you are correct?
Oh really? Got a link to back that number up?
Well, if they're using version stable.3.25 of whatever packages they audited, I think there would be quite a few less bugs than version new.0.0 .
I've actually read most of the books, and they're total garbage. They're at least three or four times thicker than they need to be. There's now a prequel series, too. Jerry Jenkins is probably the most successful hack writer of the past decade.
Or, more accurately, they're convicted criminals in the two richest economic regions on Earth (the US and the EU).
And 99% of proprietary software has beautiful UI design and functionality? I didn't think so.
Hmm, I thought they were trying to drive conservatives toward sanity, but hey, whatever does it for ya.
Sounds good to me.
Shouldn't this be on the list "Why X11 doesn't suck"?
Are you ever NOT going to post non-replies?
The 360 is not significantly smaller than the original Xbox.
Send flames to /dev/nul ... I mean ... this guy.
On a semi-related note, this is what Nintendo uses for surround in the Gamecube. I'm guessing they did it because it's cheaper than "real" 5.1.
This is something I've never thought about before, and there's probably some interesting research one could do in this area. But my gut reaction to this is that the minimal amount you move your head when playing a computer game would negate most of the effect of this. Have you experienced this phenomenon yourself? Is it disorienting?
Also, the original Xbox was received very poorly in Japan partly because of the butt-ugliness of the machine and the huge space it took up, keeping in mind the size of housing there.
Um, yeah, all gamers are identical, and hate the same thing. Not.
Until Sony actually LAUNCHES a next-gen console, they don't have one. Same for Nintendo.
Until MS actually has some next-gen games for their "next-gen" system, they don't have one either.
Right now though, the PS3 and Revolution are exactly as tangible as the Phantom.
Um yeah, Sony and Nintendo are notorious for announcing consoles and then never releasing them.
Having a 3rd player in the console wars was the single best thing that happened to console gaming anytime recently, especially since Nintendo has really, really lost their step...
Yep, Microsoft is the first "3rd player" in the console race. Companies like Sega, Sony, NEC, Coleco, Atari, and Fairchild never existed! Oh, and Nintendo seems to be doing just fine, compared to the financial reports coming out of the Xbox division.
Then again... seeing you add a worthless, offtopic line about Linux on the bottom sums up your own fanboyness relatively nicely,a nd your personal experience with it.
I know Jr. high composition class is hard, but you might want to study a bit more about making a coherent argument to avoid posting trash like this.
This is just an effect of the way the game industry has grown up. One hit game spawns dozens of copycats. Look at games like Super Mario Brothers, Doom, or Tony Hawk. Out of the copycats, sometimes a genre emerges. But the problem is that the fans of the genre keep wanting "more", so you get more violence or whatever they want. Eventually, the genres fade (a la REAL shooters, which are relegated to the uber-hardcore now), or they get reinvented as something else.
Does D count?
There were some compounding issues here as well. Sega released the Sega CD, the 32X, and the Saturn all within a pretty short time period. This confused a lot of people. They also thought they could get a jump on the competition by releasing the Saturn as soon as possible. This meant the hardware wasn't as refined as it could have been, and it drove the price up as well.
Also, they could just program some bits in assembler. Game programming is one of the places where assembly is still used.
Yep, 90% of the computing population is obviously aware of this and consciously makes the choice to use IE over something else. Oh wait. Sounds like somebody hasn't been in contact with "average" people very much.
If that wasn't clear enough for YOU, then you are beyond help.
The Gamecube uses them. On another note, I'd like to see discs that have either a small protective carriage or a more scratch-resistant surface.
Considering I can understand the premise of the entire discussion,
One must include his assumptions in order to make a valid argument. You have not included your assumptions. Therefore, your argument is pure horseshit.