That is the joy of Open Source. There isn't a games dept with a manager who says "we need x, y and z" to be able to develop serious games". You just have a bunch of hackers who find a library out there that does some of what they want and develop round that. By the sound of it, if OGL3 was that different it should have been called something else. Leave OGL2 for the CAD people and start something games based for the games people.
and i have to say i was a bit disappointed. The overwhelming feeling I got was of 12 issues of Alan Moore screaming "WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE IN A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST!!!!". Very loudly. While Moores stuff was popular at the time (80s), it was because we all thought the same thing. Same for V for Vendetta. Take all that out and what have you got left? A hollywood superhero film about people who used to be superheroes. Thats more of a film like the Ang Lee Hulk one, not the X-Men ones.
Just because you currently play an RTS with a keyboard doesn't mean you have to. I played through LOTR-BFME on the 360 using using the two sticks, select, the build unit menu, the spell menu and the select all command. While I am sure that your average PC RTS has dozens more commands available, how many of them actually get used?
You can easily get all the controls you need on a console controller.
Problem is home cinema has caught up with proper cinema. They are only now installing dugutal projectors while we have had DVD for years. The movie theartres needs a new gimmick to get the punters in. It will probably be 3D or something. Maybe different edits or mixes to the home versions.
I am no astro physicist so this is all purely speculation. The "universe" would look a bit like a lava lamp with lumps growing off the side and lumps growing off those lumps. Nothing ever breaks away though. Our universe would end when a) it stops getting filled from somewhere else and b) there are enough black holes leaking stuff out that it eventually drains away. There are supposed to be millions of black holes out there of various sizes.
My main beef with all the big bang/black hole stuff is that scientists spend half their time trying to justify how a universe worth of matter came form no where and the other half trying to cram it all back in again afterwards. There just seems a simpler solution than anything else i have heard so far.
I like to think Black Holes and Big Bangs are just two different ends of the same tunnel. Matter gets sucked out of our universe and doesn't disappear, it just gets pumped into some new one. Same way the Big Bang that created us was the remains of some other universe. Expansion == initial inflation of universe. Contraction == the point when enough Black Holes have opened up in a universe to start draining it. Think lava lamp.
Slightly different. Cameras get extra MPixels and new features with each release, its not just "exactly the same camera but smaller and lighter". The whole thing about consoles is that, performance wise, they are exactly the same. If there is a new 360 then it will be the same as an existing 360 but (hopefully) thinner and quieter. No new graphix chips or blu ray discs. Having said that, each new PS3 seems to have a small bit of functionality removed, so i could be wrong.
Adding features that have been dropped in Windows in favour of newer and better ones? That's nice. I suppose it saves them porting.Net over to the mac.
Most teens watch the ads as that is the market most of the ads are aimed at. Apart from the odd SAGA/stairlift ad on afternoon telly, what was the last oldie advert you saw?
Just imagine a world where websites worked on every browser, where websites and URLs are a bit more logical, where you don't need 5 different techniologies to do one thing. Imagine an internet was designed to work properly.
Now look at what we have. A dozen groups trying to do their own thing a dozen different ways with a dozen different technologies. Some say the way the internet evolved is its greatest feature while i say it is its worst.
or for something a bit simpler there is Electronic Music Learning Projects. Slightly more basic circuits for making noises and very, very simple keyboards.
Hey, it is very basic but it worked for me. Lots of diagrams and some simple projects to make. Having played about with some simple breadboard circuits for 6 months I get the feeling I will never "understand" it properly but once you know the basics you can do osme fun stuff.
Considering it is all that Twitter does, I am suprised that more apps like Facebook haven't started doing it themselves. Once Facebook lets you text your innermost thoughts to all your friends Twitter will cease to exist.
Menus are not really that great. Ribbons are more like context sensitive toolbars on steroids. Menus are bad as they hide all the functionality. Better than using the keyboard though. Too many small buttons on a tool bar and it just looks cluttered. People have the screen real estate the days so you can afford to have hierarchical toolbars now. Best of both worlds.
What part of making all the commonly used features much more accessible is NOT a benefit. If you are one of those peole who spends most of their time in word using a mouse then its a great benefit.
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Precisely.
Is that what they mean by a "restoration comedy"?
That is the joy of Open Source. There isn't a games dept with a manager who says "we need x, y and z" to be able to develop serious games". You just have a bunch of hackers who find a library out there that does some of what they want and develop round that. By the sound of it, if OGL3 was that different it should have been called something else. Leave OGL2 for the CAD people and start something games based for the games people.
and i have to say i was a bit disappointed. The overwhelming feeling I got was of 12 issues of Alan Moore screaming "WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE IN A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST!!!!". Very loudly. While Moores stuff was popular at the time (80s), it was because we all thought the same thing. Same for V for Vendetta. Take all that out and what have you got left? A hollywood superhero film about people who used to be superheroes. Thats more of a film like the Ang Lee Hulk one, not the X-Men ones.
Still, could be good.
Say what you like about VB but you knew where you were (literally) with End If, End Sub and End Select, etc.
Just because you currently play an RTS with a keyboard doesn't mean you have to. I played through LOTR-BFME on the 360 using using the two sticks, select, the build unit menu, the spell menu and the select all command. While I am sure that your average PC RTS has dozens more commands available, how many of them actually get used?
You can easily get all the controls you need on a console controller.
When I was getting into 3d software a few years ago I found this site which I always though was a bit weird. Seems it's the pron of the future.
Problem is home cinema has caught up with proper cinema. They are only now installing dugutal projectors while we have had DVD for years. The movie theartres needs a new gimmick to get the punters in. It will probably be 3D or something. Maybe different edits or mixes to the home versions.
I am no astro physicist so this is all purely speculation. The "universe" would look a bit like a lava lamp with lumps growing off the side and lumps growing off those lumps. Nothing ever breaks away though. Our universe would end when a) it stops getting filled from somewhere else and b) there are enough black holes leaking stuff out that it eventually drains away.
There are supposed to be millions of black holes out there of various sizes.
My main beef with all the big bang/black hole stuff is that scientists spend half their time trying to justify how a universe worth of matter came form no where and the other half trying to cram it all back in again afterwards. There just seems a simpler solution than anything else i have heard so far.
Boom, boom!
My dog has no nose.
What are these "book" things that you talk of?
I like to think Black Holes and Big Bangs are just two different ends of the same tunnel. Matter gets sucked out of our universe and doesn't disappear, it just gets pumped into some new one. Same way the Big Bang that created us was the remains of some other universe. Expansion == initial inflation of universe. Contraction == the point when enough Black Holes have opened up in a universe to start draining it. Think lava lamp.
Slightly different. Cameras get extra MPixels and new features with each release, its not just "exactly the same camera but smaller and lighter". The whole thing about consoles is that, performance wise, they are exactly the same. If there is a new 360 then it will be the same as an existing 360 but (hopefully) thinner and quieter. No new graphix chips or blu ray discs. Having said that, each new PS3 seems to have a small bit of functionality removed, so i could be wrong.
Adding features that have been dropped in Windows in favour of newer and better ones? That's nice. I suppose it saves them porting .Net over to the mac.
Most teens watch the ads as that is the market most of the ads are aimed at. Apart from the odd SAGA/stairlift ad on afternoon telly, what was the last oldie advert you saw?
It was the original Doom with a higher screen resolution. That was all.
Just imagine a world where websites worked on every browser, where websites and URLs are a bit more logical, where you don't need 5 different techniologies to do one thing. Imagine an internet was designed to work properly.
Now look at what we have. A dozen groups trying to do their own thing a dozen different ways with a dozen different technologies. Some say the way the internet evolved is its greatest feature while i say it is its worst.
or for something a bit simpler there is Electronic Music Learning Projects. Slightly more basic circuits for making noises and very, very simple keyboards.
Hey, it is very basic but it worked for me. Lots of diagrams and some simple projects to make. Having played about with some simple breadboard circuits for 6 months I get the feeling I will never "understand" it properly but once you know the basics you can do osme fun stuff.
Considering it is all that Twitter does, I am suprised that more apps like Facebook haven't started doing it themselves. Once Facebook lets you text your innermost thoughts to all your friends Twitter will cease to exist.
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Menus are not really that great. Ribbons are more like context sensitive toolbars on steroids. Menus are bad as they hide all the functionality. Better than using the keyboard though. Too many small buttons on a tool bar and it just looks cluttered. People have the screen real estate the days so you can afford to have hierarchical toolbars now. Best of both worlds.
I would say it "just" works. The number of people out there having issues with their Mac/iTunes/iPod set up is amazing.
What part of making all the commonly used features much more accessible is NOT a benefit. If you are one of those peole who spends most of their time in word using a mouse then its a great benefit.