Dude, we were stupid enough to hire Arnold Schwarzenegger to be our glorious leader. Say what you will about democrats or republicans. We're fucked either way.
Kind of makes you wonder if something like that actually happened, if the TSA would even have to worry about the repercussions. I'm sure it would be spun that the continued efforts to protect us from terrorism is worth the life of the occasional diabetic child.
No, The 360 is running the game. The PC is only running the debugger. You're confusing the ability to test XNA games for the 360 on your PC as a requirement, rather than a mere convenience. The system requirements to install the SDK requires you have a shader model 2 graphics card, however this shader model was released in 2002. Even most netbooks can traditionally handle this regardless of their extremely low end integrated graphics cards. (I've personally never seen one that couldn't)
The sort of person who buys an Xbox 360 on contract is probably the same sort of person who, say, uses a netbook or a 5+ year old paid-for PC as a primary PC.
The requirements to play most XNA games is not in line with top tier gaming. A 5+ year PC would be more than capable of playing most XNA games on the market. My machine is around that old (bit older actually) and it was a mid-range PC from the start and I do just fine working with and playing XNA games compiled for PC, as well as most current AAA PC games to some level of acceptability.
As much as I and others have been able to avoid getting involved in social networking websites, it's not as though anyone should seriously believe Facebook would vanish into the night suddenly and leave everyone stranded. The only way Facebook is going down is through a competing product taking away its users, like Facebook did to MySpace.
This is business as usual for Google. None of their flagship products were straight from the minds of Google, and that's certainly not a bad thing.
Why is it that Google is copying Dropbox? Dropbox was not the first, either. Isn't the whole point of innovation to take something and make it better? Dropbox did that by making cloud storage and syncing far less painless than it currently was. Google can further that goal even farther as the product matures.
This honestly just looks like a weak attack on Google. Would anyone even have cared negatively about a competing product had it been anyone other than Google? We'd probably be applauding the added competition to drive the various cloud storage providers to create better products.
It wouldn't matter, because he can claim to have all the medical degrees he wants, but if he doesn't have a verifiable medical license, he can't do squat anyway.
Their usage is so common that I'm really confused why you're nitpicking this. Virtually any time I've ever heard someone mention something about school they used to go to, the phrase was always along the lines of "at/in my old elementary/middle/high school".
That's not even considering the possibility that they're still in high school and they switched to a different one.
So let me get this straight. Microsoft makes a public promise not to sue over implementing the.NET framework, which they declare is both a legally binding and irrevocable promise, and you can't take their word on that?
You'll have to excuse me if I'm a bit skeptical you're not just a nut with a full bodysuit of tinfoil.
Neither of those are particularly convincing examples. Blizzard doesn't pop out a new game every year. It took them what, 12 years to go from Diablo 2 to Diablo 3, 12 years to go from Starcraft to Starcraft 2, and 6 or 7 years to do Warcraft 2 to Warcraft 3?
As for KOTOR series, did you just pull that out of your ass because it had an recent MMO? Was there ever any expectation there would be more? There hasn't been a new one since 2004.
Does not compute. The only linear content in Skyrim is the main questline (if you can mark that as a negative. Could you even have a nonlinear main story?), which can pretty much be entirely ignored, just like any other questline you might not care for.
Anyone else happen to notice the slide that seems to imply they're striving for... aerodynamics, to imply speed? I don't even get Mozilla anymore. It's a goddamn browser not a sports car.
The (irrevocable, legally binding) promise Microsoft made was not just related to C#, but the.NET framework. So long as it's implemented properly (eg. all elements Microsoft deems "required" for the implementation is implemented), Microsoft will not peruse any legal action on anyone using the technology. That includes the API. The reason Microsoft did this was so people would not be afraid to use it. They want people to use it.
The two situations are not comparable at all. Microsoft would not sue over someone implementing the API.
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I've seen this before but every time I get a good laugh out of it.
Any kid could make a nuclear device that would blow us all to hell. This police officer was obviously just doing his job to protect us.
Dude, we were stupid enough to hire Arnold Schwarzenegger to be our glorious leader. Say what you will about democrats or republicans. We're fucked either way.
Kind of makes you wonder if something like that actually happened, if the TSA would even have to worry about the repercussions. I'm sure it would be spun that the continued efforts to protect us from terrorism is worth the life of the occasional diabetic child.
No, The 360 is running the game. The PC is only running the debugger. You're confusing the ability to test XNA games for the 360 on your PC as a requirement, rather than a mere convenience. The system requirements to install the SDK requires you have a shader model 2 graphics card, however this shader model was released in 2002. Even most netbooks can traditionally handle this regardless of their extremely low end integrated graphics cards. (I've personally never seen one that couldn't)
The sort of person who buys an Xbox 360 on contract is probably the same sort of person who, say, uses a netbook or a 5+ year old paid-for PC as a primary PC.
The requirements to play most XNA games is not in line with top tier gaming. A 5+ year PC would be more than capable of playing most XNA games on the market. My machine is around that old (bit older actually) and it was a mid-range PC from the start and I do just fine working with and playing XNA games compiled for PC, as well as most current AAA PC games to some level of acceptability.
USB keys are practically free these days. 16GB keys are what, $10 these days? I don't think it's as big a deal as you're making it out to be.
Yes, this is clearly something that only happened predominantly in American markets. This absolutely does not exist anywhere else.
Why? Perhaps the reason they're doing the deal is so the hundred dollars for the XNA license hits them less hard up front.
As for your development rig comment, anyone with Windows in effect has a "developer rig" capable of doing 360 development.
As much as I and others have been able to avoid getting involved in social networking websites, it's not as though anyone should seriously believe Facebook would vanish into the night suddenly and leave everyone stranded. The only way Facebook is going down is through a competing product taking away its users, like Facebook did to MySpace.
What, is everything a bubble that has to burst?
The truth doesn't need to be pleasant to be informative.
Since when is the symbol called "hashtag"?
Yes, you caught my accidental double negative.
This is business as usual for Google. None of their flagship products were straight from the minds of Google, and that's certainly not a bad thing.
Why is it that Google is copying Dropbox? Dropbox was not the first, either. Isn't the whole point of innovation to take something and make it better? Dropbox did that by making cloud storage and syncing far less painless than it currently was. Google can further that goal even farther as the product matures.
This honestly just looks like a weak attack on Google. Would anyone even have cared negatively about a competing product had it been anyone other than Google? We'd probably be applauding the added competition to drive the various cloud storage providers to create better products.
It wouldn't matter, because he can claim to have all the medical degrees he wants, but if he doesn't have a verifiable medical license, he can't do squat anyway.
Their usage is so common that I'm really confused why you're nitpicking this. Virtually any time I've ever heard someone mention something about school they used to go to, the phrase was always along the lines of "at/in my old elementary/middle/high school".
That's not even considering the possibility that they're still in high school and they switched to a different one.
What, that someone was the victim of social engineering?
So let me get this straight. Microsoft makes a public promise not to sue over implementing the .NET framework, which they declare is both a legally binding and irrevocable promise, and you can't take their word on that?
You'll have to excuse me if I'm a bit skeptical you're not just a nut with a full bodysuit of tinfoil.
Neither of those are particularly convincing examples. Blizzard doesn't pop out a new game every year. It took them what, 12 years to go from Diablo 2 to Diablo 3, 12 years to go from Starcraft to Starcraft 2, and 6 or 7 years to do Warcraft 2 to Warcraft 3?
As for KOTOR series, did you just pull that out of your ass because it had an recent MMO? Was there ever any expectation there would be more? There hasn't been a new one since 2004.
That was seriously your retort?
Skyrim...linear content?
Does not compute. The only linear content in Skyrim is the main questline (if you can mark that as a negative. Could you even have a nonlinear main story?), which can pretty much be entirely ignored, just like any other questline you might not care for.
Anyone else happen to notice the slide that seems to imply they're striving for... aerodynamics, to imply speed? I don't even get Mozilla anymore. It's a goddamn browser not a sports car.
So it's Windows only, except that it's not Windows only?
The (irrevocable, legally binding) promise Microsoft made was not just related to C#, but the .NET framework. So long as it's implemented properly (eg. all elements Microsoft deems "required" for the implementation is implemented), Microsoft will not peruse any legal action on anyone using the technology. That includes the API. The reason Microsoft did this was so people would not be afraid to use it. They want people to use it.
The two situations are not comparable at all. Microsoft would not sue over someone implementing the API.
Do you have $200k up front and then $60k a year to blow? Then sure.