About the only interesting thing is that they are remaking Castle Wolf, not the 3d thing. Actually, Wolf3D was called Wolfenstein becuase it was set in Castle Woldenstein- when you beat the first 10 levels that was what you ran out of, after collecting all the Nazi gold and killing a bunch of german soldiers. So this is a remake of Wolf3D, they are just calling something a little different.
I mean, if you want reality, go outside. And get arrested for blowing someone's arm off? "This guy's" whole point was that games such as Quake and Redneck Rampage are not reality, they are set with aliens and you shoot everything you see. Ask a inner-city gang member or a prof. soldier how often you indescriminately shoot everything. The author's point is that by adding intelligence to the characters in the game, you can no longer shoot everyone, you have to interact with them and decide the best course of action. It brings first-person games one step closer to reality. And yeah, it will never be reality, unless your reality involves blowing people's arms off with shotguns. The whole point of simulations is to do things that are not possible in reality, be that flying a 747 10 feet over the Golden Gate bridge, or shooting a fellow human in the face.
And the reporter uses him to make another story on how we are all going to turn into Satans minions. Get down from whatever pedistal you are on long enough to actually read and understand the article. The reporter put togeather a well balanced article about an individual that makes very violent games. Both sides were presented evenly. If the reporter had neglected to present the side that fells games are evil, it would have been a poor story. But every argument against games was countered by the view of the industry. I for one thought it was an intelligent and well written piece.
And what's with this Sony naming convention? AIBO? VAIO? What does it all mean?
From the FAQ...
Q: How did AIBO get its name?
A:The first two letters of AIBO stand for Artificial Intelligence. Since it has eyes, you can also think of it as an eye-bo(t). Finally, AIBO is also named after the Japanese word for "pal."
Picture a world where all of your personal devices can talk to one another.
That world is here, its called Jini. http://www.sun.com/jini/ Sun has done things like make Dig. Cameras talk directly to Palm Pilots, without special software or drivers... just Jini Enabled. Saw a presentation/demo of it a few weeks ago.
Ok, I am surprised that it does not seem that many people have latched on to his whole MP3/Email client analogy. How can one compare the different email clients with music file formats?
MP3 is a file format, a standard for distributing information. Email clients are programs that display information distributed according to some standard. Big difference.
To try to compare file formats to clients is, like the cliche says, to compare apples to oranges. The number of different email clients is allowable, and indeed works, becuase they all communicate with each other using the same *standard* for the *transfer* or information. However, multiple file formats would in no way work the same way. If you have 10 different compressed CD audio formats, it is not the same as having 10 different email clients. If I choose to use MP3 and my buddy chooses to use some other format, XXX, we cannot share this music in the same way we can share our email using Netscape and Pine. The two simply do not equate. Now had he desired a better comparison, he could have chosen Jpeg vs. Gif, or AU vs Wav. IMHO, anyway.
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About the only interesting thing is that they are remaking Castle Wolf, not the 3d thing.
Actually, Wolf3D was called Wolfenstein becuase it was set in Castle Woldenstein- when you beat the first 10 levels that was what you ran out of, after collecting all the Nazi gold and killing a bunch of german soldiers. So this is a remake of Wolf3D, they are just calling something a little different.
I mean, if you want reality, go outside.
And get arrested for blowing someone's arm off? "This guy's" whole point was that games such as Quake and Redneck Rampage are not reality, they are set with aliens and you shoot everything you see. Ask a inner-city gang member or a prof. soldier how often you indescriminately shoot everything. The author's point is that by adding intelligence to the characters in the game, you can no longer shoot everyone, you have to interact with them and decide the best course of action. It brings first-person games one step closer to reality. And yeah, it will never be reality, unless your reality involves blowing people's arms off with shotguns. The whole point of simulations is to do things that are not possible in reality, be that flying a 747 10 feet over the Golden Gate bridge, or shooting a fellow human in the face.
And the reporter uses him to make another story on how we are all going to turn into Satans minions.
Get down from whatever pedistal you are on long enough to actually read and understand the article. The reporter put togeather a well balanced article about an individual that makes very violent games. Both sides were presented evenly. If the reporter had neglected to present the side that fells games are evil, it would have been a poor story. But every argument against games was countered by the view of the industry. I for one thought it was an intelligent and well written piece.
And what's with this Sony naming convention? AIBO? VAIO? What does it all mean?
From the FAQ...
Q: How did AIBO get its name?
A:The first two letters of AIBO stand for Artificial Intelligence. Since it has
eyes, you can also think of it as an eye-bo(t). Finally, AIBO is also named after
the Japanese word for "pal."
Picture a world where all of your personal devices can talk to one another.
That world is here, its called Jini. http://www.sun.com/jini/
Sun has done things like make Dig. Cameras talk directly to Palm Pilots, without special software or drivers... just Jini Enabled. Saw a presentation/demo of it a few weeks ago.
Ok, I am surprised that it does not seem that many people have latched on to his whole MP3/Email client analogy. How can one compare the different email clients with music file formats?
MP3 is a file format, a standard for distributing information. Email clients are programs that display information distributed according to some standard. Big difference.
To try to compare file formats to clients is, like the cliche says, to compare apples to oranges. The number of different email clients is allowable, and indeed works, becuase they all communicate with each other using the same *standard* for the *transfer* or information. However, multiple file formats would in no way work the same way. If you have 10 different compressed CD audio formats, it is not the same as having 10 different email clients. If I choose to use MP3 and my buddy chooses to use some other format, XXX, we cannot share this music in the same way we can share our email using Netscape and Pine. The two simply do not equate. Now had he desired a better comparison, he could have chosen Jpeg vs. Gif, or AU vs Wav. IMHO, anyway.
Yeah, perhaps in the 3D realm. Who wants ATI 3D anyway, is it that great compared to 3dFX?
A good reason to get an ATI card however, is the 2D support... go take a look at the XFree86 support for various ATI cards. Pretty big list.