Talking about run windows, Is it possible(or legal) for Nvidia to sell proprietary software to do system demanding activities like video and audio encoding and runing it in their hardware only, taking advantage of its supercomputer-like properties?
If your're eating human chops I'd recomend a Grande Estude Grenache Merlot 2002, its fruity complements well the flavor. If you're having a human ass roast beef, I'd prefer a Sauvignon Blanc 2001, the appleness quality goes well with the pork taste of human meat.
How about creating a new license, All rights reserved, except for Youtubing.
We can call it Tuberight and it could be represented by this symbol: @_@ .
Nintendo strategy with the Wii is very different then all consoles in the previous 7 generations. It's more similar to the DS strategy, a low end, cheap hardware, with games that appeal to people who are not gamers and were always excluded from gaming because of the complexity or dedication demands of games.
I'm a long time gamer and this is my view of the next-generation future:
In the best case scenario, Wii becomes a niche or fails miserably, in the worts case, Nitnendo Pulls a DS, and 3rd party developers start developing simple "fun" games with mass appeal, lusting after low development costs, big market and high profits. It will be a dark age for gaming like the rising of pop music.
And what probably will happen is, Wii becomes and enourmous sucess and developers jump in some making crappy "fun" games for the profits and others making regular games, sucking the support and killing other platforms, effectively stucking everyone in the 6th genereation/w upgraded controllers.
That's when I'll drop consoles and go back to PC gaming exclusively.
OK, maybe none of those scenarios will happen, but nintendo strategy scares the crap outta me. I just hope there's an ELE in the console world and wipe the bad ideias out of the map.
VC is a pretty cool feat, and nintedo certaily has a huge library of classic games, but since I spend so little time at home, I'd favor playing classic Ps1 games on the PSP than classic VC nintendo games at home. They have to come up with someway to use the DS to run these games, that'll be a killer app.
If so, then whould a "Virtual Game Machine", something like Java or.Net VM, build upon some sort of open standards and specifications for CPU, Memory and GPU interface, an Open "Closed" sandbox exclusively to run games.
Developers would just need to develop considering the standards, that would common for all implementations, and could even evolve as fast as linux(on pace with hardware evolution).
Am I talking bs here or is the Free community just not that organized?
"'If the only way to obtain music online continues to be through illegitimate means, then we are no better off than in the days of Napster.'"
Pff, this guy is living in the past, with bittorrent and gnutella we can pirate music 10x faster and much more efficiently, not mentioning movies, xbox games, pr0n, etc...
That's easy. We just need to make a nuclear waste ball of the same volume and desity and use it to intercept the incoming one, deflecting it, perhaps to the sun.
Everyone blames Sony, but this ideia has probably originated from publishers or developers.
Used games sales bring no profit whatsoever to hardware manufacturers, game publishers or developers. This way they could still allow a used game market, yet, cashing in on it.
I don't like this one bit, if they don't release a full version of the game I simply won't buy it, but I can see their point of view.
As I see they could go even go the extra mile and provide console-locking ability, publishers would just climax and consumers would swallow or shun it. It's the same with DRM in music and movies, most consumers don't notice or don't care(well that might be changing, since only 5% of ipoders buy from ITMS), and the few people who now that DRM is devil, aren't express enough to fight the wishes of MPAA and RIAA.
We should come up with an acronym for money-sucking-DRM-lovers-Game-developers.
The big problem with wii is Nintendo trading power for "fun".
All that HDR, HD textures, Ray tracing for awesome graphics, the complex physics and realism the game industry was walking towars since the begining of the 8bit era is waved with the Wii.
I belive most gamers want new and revolutionary gameplay WITH new and revolutionary graphics, not a trade off.
I really hope Wii fails or at least becomes a niche market, just because the ideia of wii model catching on and the next generations being less power then they could have, trading off advances for "fun" just freaks me.
Lasers and turbines on chips?
I think this is an elaborate plan to make deadly military level pc components.
With the detection of non-drm'd media, the chip will eject, fly close to you and shoot you in the face.
It's the next level after "Trusted Computing", "Feared Computing".
Sony stated ps3 would be region-free,I'm not sure if it's really region-free or region-lock up to publishers, but if the frist, how big a impact it will have in europe(market and gamers)?
True, only hardcore games keep track of console news, 80% of game conumers only care about the games.
But, damn, they had promissed 6mi by launch and 2mi every month. That's major disappointment.
I guess you could classify games with only one tag, but it would be extremely useless.
In order to classify a game you need not only to classify its setting and story but also its gameplay and type of interation.
Turn-based, Real-time Action;
3D, 2D, 4D(PS3 added a new dimension to gaming:D);
Frist Person, 3rd person, Ortogonal;
And those are only technical tags for the gameplay.
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Misformating problems: million = 10^6
billion = 10^9
trillion = 10^12
Those british and their weird scales... million = 10^6 billion = 10^9 trillion = 10^12
Talking about run windows, Is it possible(or legal) for Nvidia to sell proprietary software to do system demanding activities like video and audio encoding and runing it in their hardware only, taking advantage of its supercomputer-like properties?
Luckly for sony, that's the group with hundreds of games per console attach rate. And real hardcore gamers get the 120GB pack
If your're eating human chops I'd recomend a Grande Estude Grenache Merlot 2002, its fruity complements well the flavor. If you're having a human ass roast beef, I'd prefer a Sauvignon Blanc 2001, the appleness quality goes well with the pork taste of human meat.
How about creating a new license, All rights reserved, except for Youtubing. We can call it Tuberight and it could be represented by this symbol: @_@ .
What's the difference between the DVD consortium and the Blu-ray one?
Nintendo strategy with the Wii is very different then all consoles in the previous 7 generations. It's more similar to the DS strategy, a low end, cheap hardware, with games that appeal to people who are not gamers and were always excluded from gaming because of the complexity or dedication demands of games.
/w upgraded controllers.
I'm a long time gamer and this is my view of the next-generation future: In the best case scenario, Wii becomes a niche or fails miserably, in the worts case, Nitnendo Pulls a DS, and 3rd party developers start developing simple "fun" games with mass appeal, lusting after low development costs, big market and high profits. It will be a dark age for gaming like the rising of pop music.
And what probably will happen is, Wii becomes and enourmous sucess and developers jump in some making crappy "fun" games for the profits and others making regular games, sucking the support and killing other platforms, effectively stucking everyone in the 6th genereation
That's when I'll drop consoles and go back to PC gaming exclusively.
OK, maybe none of those scenarios will happen, but nintendo strategy scares the crap outta me. I just hope there's an ELE in the console world and wipe the bad ideias out of the map.
VC is a pretty cool feat, and nintedo certaily has a huge library of classic games, but since I spend so little time at home, I'd favor playing classic Ps1 games on the PSP than classic VC nintendo games at home. They have to come up with someway to use the DS to run these games, that'll be a killer app.
If so, then whould a "Virtual Game Machine", something like Java or .Net VM, build upon some sort of open standards and specifications for CPU, Memory and GPU interface, an Open "Closed" sandbox exclusively to run games.
Developers would just need to develop considering the standards, that would common for all implementations, and could even evolve as fast as linux(on pace with hardware evolution).
Am I talking bs here or is the Free community just not that organized?
And I've been using since 1997 with IE
I'd say in 100 years tops we should have the genetic manipulation capabilites shown in Gattaca. This guy is very off.
You're confusing moral and etics. Moral is a private set of values and rules. Etics is coletive.
"'If the only way to obtain music online continues to be through illegitimate means, then we are no better off than in the days of Napster.'"
Pff, this guy is living in the past, with bittorrent and gnutella we can pirate music 10x faster and much more efficiently, not mentioning movies, xbox games, pr0n, etc...
That's easy. We just need to make a nuclear waste ball of the same volume and desity and use it to intercept the incoming one, deflecting it, perhaps to the sun.
How come they still weren't sued for breaking the creative commons license by drming copyleft songs?
His method is flawed, unless he used his brother or sister as control group.
Everyone blames Sony, but this ideia has probably originated from publishers or developers. Used games sales bring no profit whatsoever to hardware manufacturers, game publishers or developers. This way they could still allow a used game market, yet, cashing in on it. I don't like this one bit, if they don't release a full version of the game I simply won't buy it, but I can see their point of view. As I see they could go even go the extra mile and provide console-locking ability, publishers would just climax and consumers would swallow or shun it. It's the same with DRM in music and movies, most consumers don't notice or don't care(well that might be changing, since only 5% of ipoders buy from ITMS), and the few people who now that DRM is devil, aren't express enough to fight the wishes of MPAA and RIAA. We should come up with an acronym for money-sucking-DRM-lovers-Game-developers.
So this isn't just more powerful than internet like internet2. Should we call it Wiinternet?
The big problem with wii is Nintendo trading power for "fun".
All that HDR, HD textures, Ray tracing for awesome graphics, the complex physics and realism the game industry was walking towars since the begining of the 8bit era is waved with the Wii.
I belive most gamers want new and revolutionary gameplay WITH new and revolutionary graphics, not a trade off.
I really hope Wii fails or at least becomes a niche market, just because the ideia of wii model catching on and the next generations being less power then they could have, trading off advances for "fun" just freaks me.
Lasers and turbines on chips? I think this is an elaborate plan to make deadly military level pc components. With the detection of non-drm'd media, the chip will eject, fly close to you and shoot you in the face. It's the next level after "Trusted Computing", "Feared Computing".
Sony stated ps3 would be region-free,I'm not sure if it's really region-free or region-lock up to publishers, but if the frist, how big a impact it will have in europe(market and gamers)?
Wow, $18,995. And people say the ps3 is expensive.
True, only hardcore games keep track of console news, 80% of game conumers only care about the games. But, damn, they had promissed 6mi by launch and 2mi every month. That's major disappointment.
I guess you could classify games with only one tag, but it would be extremely useless. In order to classify a game you need not only to classify its setting and story but also its gameplay and type of interation.
:D) ;
Turn-based, Real-time Action;
3D, 2D, 4D(PS3 added a new dimension to gaming
Frist Person, 3rd person, Ortogonal;
And those are only technical tags for the gameplay.