Compare this to regular accepted treatments and their deathrates or 'weird' results and you'll see that these kind of things happen all the time (especially in countries like thailand, but also in any western country like the US or UK)... Any medical treatment can be dangerous, just let them study what went wrong and hope we can learn something from it..
I'm sorry but over the 1.5 year the I had my PS3 before they took away OtherOS I haven't seen ANY new feature that I needed or used. And as a real Gamer the OtherOS options i actually a must have if you want to play old games that are actually fun and don't only look great, the only problem with OtherOS was the missing RSX support which meant nog having real 3D HW accelerated support, but the community has come a long way with the SPU OpenGL drivers, and even according to Geohot the RSX isn't even blocked, but is just missing the correct drivers (although I don't believe that).
I don't have to remind you that the PS3 wasn't presented as a gamesconsole, but as a multimedia console which could do it all, but as a multimedia console it can't even match a $90 multimediabox.. I personally bought the device because of the bluray/mulitmedia and the OtherOS feature and games was a nice extra feature (I have 90+ PS3 games)...
It's not the fact you can run linux on it, it's the fact you can run anything you want on it, and the comon linux for the PS3 like yellowdog is perfect for running emulators and old games (and that's why I want the linux, not really as a desktopcomputer replacement, althought the FF browser in linux is way WAY better as the Sony crapbrowser....
I wonder how you would yell and scr
WOW, you talk about MS stealing a great deal..... Apple is even worse at that, they patent a lot of stuff other people have invented long before them, and yet still they get it patented (me wonders how much money they have slipped into the patentoffice).. but then again Applefanboys never see past Steve Jobs brown little star.....
I hope they stop him from doing this.. as this clearly is a hefty privacy invasion.. Some people just think they can put anything on the internet, well if it's only them that's in the image than I say 'do whatever you want', but you will never see him (unless he looks in a mirror) and I wonder if he would tell anybody if he's wearing a camera (especially when he's intimate with a woman (or man, don't know his preference)), I even suspect he certainly WOULDN'T tell so he get's more hits as it's something like 'the Truman show' or some other reality show...
Hmmm.. your whole comment is nothing but your own opinion, especially your remark about 'ill-conceived technologies..... etc..' makes you nothing more than a stupid linuxfanboy..
HA don't make me laugh about the culture of Apple, Steve Jobs is nothing but a good salesperson and he makes you believe everything even if they sell crap and 'stolen' ideas (even more as microsoft).. Apple is even much more restrictive about their stuff as Microsoft is, but it seems a lot of apple fanboys can see further as the Steve's brown little star...
But I think you misunderstand something.. You can perfectly write proprietary software using GPL libraries and distribute it, the only part which you also need to publish is any alterations to the used libraries. So if you only USE libraries you can keep your own code closed source (or not distribute the sourcecode)..
It's good for the customers, as a lot of people just bought the Wii but never used it after 1 week of use..
The biggest problem is the motion-controller, it's fun on paper, but most games are just regular games with the MC badly incorporated into it. There aren't many games (you can count them on 1 hand) that actually are worth being called a real MC based game..
It is nice to have better graphix, but if the controls just suck (and wiimote control does suck for a lot of games because it's so imprecise) it doesn't make the game any better, and that's what the wii 2 would be just another wii with better graphics..
Also Natal is great on paper and for some game, but mostly it requires too much space in front of your tv, and having to move a coffeetable/chairs everytime you want to play a game isn't great fun.. yeah in the commercials people have big rooms, but most people don't have such big livingrooms..
The only problem is in this story for apple is: The actual finder tried to return the phone to Apple (he even claims to have a ticketnumber), but Apple never returned his calls and claimed noone lost it (if we must believe his story). So the finder tried, the owner didn't do anything to get it back, IMHO the finder can do whatever he want's with the device.. A lost prototype would surely be high on the priority list to get it back, so if someone calls and says it found a prototype and Apple doesn't do anything, then it's apples own damn fault, and not lay the lbame afterwards on the finder..
I personally can't work with people around me, so for me the best thing is my own office. If I need to work with somebody else (like pairprogramming), or have a question, I just go to their office, and they come to me if they have a question. I'm so easily distracted when somebody is on the phone, or talking to another person, or like I do myself:) talk to myself during programming. I just can't get anything done as I keep watching up to see if they are talking to me.
Headphones also aren't the best solution, as they aren't healty for your ears on a long term.
And that's exactly my problem too, I can't find anything on which platform it runs... But luckily if it's going opensource there's a good chance it will start appearing on more platforms (if it's only running on one)..
But even if it runs on LInux, I still wonder on which distro, as I have seen too many program's like this only work for a specific distro.
We were talking about 'Original' gameplay... those RPG-series you are referring to can hardly be called 'original gameplay' (not that those games aren't great, maybe they are but I've never even heard of them)..
But I also know these days it's very VERY difficult to come up with something really original, most is just a rehash of different genres blended together (or remakes of older games).. Personally I haven't seen an original game in years..
And rogerborg has a good point, most indy games are just rehashes, mostly bad, and sometimes even better as any commercial product (which also is likely to be picked up for release on stuff like Xbox live, or PSN)
That's great news for indy-gamemakers.. Unreal Engine 3 was already cool, but now also CryEngine3, it's a good day to be a 'modder'.. hehe..
But I wonder what the price will be if you want to sell your game.. Well, at least you've got choices now which suit your financialsituation..
it all depends on the runtime-enviroment that is created for each platform. If you only stick to the API which is provided by your own created runtime which you have written specifically for each platform it won't be a problem.
The only problem with this approach is that your application won't make the best use of the hardware for any specific platform. But apperantly these days nobody cares anymore as (web)programmers seem to think people have supercomputers anyway, and otherwise they'll buy a new computer anyway. (just like this slashdot site which is hindered by it's scripts and is sluggish as hell sadly on my XP IE8 Intel P4 3..2Ghz 3GB mem).
5 years? the PS3 is only 3.5 years old (in the US, and 3 years in the EU), and you call removing a complete feature 'patching? and Geohot only looked at it for not even 3 months and got where he was when he first announced the hack, also he was going for RSX support under linux, not piracy. But now because of what Sony does tomorrow he is going for customfirmware, and if there is someone who can do it, it's him, the only problem is that his 'customfirmware' will in the end lead to piracy.. So Sony is better of just leaving OtherOs in there (and even add support for RSX) so the hacking isn't needed anymore, which will put the 'smartpeople' to rest because they can do with the PS3 what they want, and the PS3 is safe from piracy for yet another long time.
Never underestimate a very small dedicaded group of people after you take something away from them which they used....
Don't forget that FireFox and Linux have just as many security holes, the only reason why you are safer on linux is because of the diversity of distro's/versions (that's the biggest problem with linux) and because it's not an interesting platform (yet) for malware-makers because too few (regular)people are using it..
A university wasting money on something that is already commercially available for quite a while, and later figuring out where all the money was spend and holding their hands up for more money to waste... Please teach something real educational instead of wasting our tax-money on trivial stuff like this..
there are 2 things that's holding bakc pc-gaming..:
1. too much difference in end-user GPU/CPU performances..
one of the problems a developer faces is the variety of users, you cannot only target the high-end pc's and you also must keep in mind the lowest-specced pc's. But by the time you are finished the difference has advanced enormously between a high-end and low-end.. these days about every other month there is a new GPU which is even faster as the one before that.. The biggest market isn't the high-end (most 'gamers' don't have triple SLI hexa-core PC's)..
2. too much piracy on the PC..
well some of you will effectivly deny this, but piracy is another big factor why publishers aren't investing less and less money into new PC games (without it being a console-'port'). Piracy is also a problem on the Wii and xbox360, but compares to the PC it's very small.. PS3 still hasn't got any piracy (yet) so that platform is even more interesting for publishers now (Except for the slightly more difficult architechture).
Personally I'm also beginning to think consoles are a better target for developing especially because it's fixed hardware, and 'we' learn more and more about using that hardware instead of relying on consumer to just buy a better CPU/GPU or more memory (the latter is actually the biggest problem with the current consoles especially the PS3)..
The only problem with consoles is the controllers which makes it harder to do certain types of games..
Funny, because my personal experience is exactly the opposite, I've had so many problems with my 4 ati-cards (one being a 9800 Pro) and never had any problems with any of my nvidia cards, especially with the drivers, back in the day of the 9800Pro the openGL drivers for running Unreal Tournament 99 where much MUCH better for nvidia as for the ati cards.. I'm not fixed on one vendor, but after the trouble I had I'm not confident enough to buy another ATI card again even tough (at this moment) they seem to be the better bang for your buck in benchmarks, but that's the problem with benchmarks, they never test the durability of a card (which ofcourse is also difficult to do)..
You're not obliged to buy cards from companies who don't provide open source drivers, that's all up to you.. But don't be a snob to think that everything has to be open source because you want it to be, if you really want it, then go ahead and create your own hardware.
It's really naive if you think this can 'save online banking', it's just as (un)safe as doing it via windows.. Even with this method a 'man in the middle' attach is possible.. And don't think Ubuntu/firefox is safe/secure.. There are just as many (even more) vulnerablities found as with windows (according to some security reports) but they don't have the effect as a vulnerability found in window, as the userbase is a lot LOT smaller..
I think you are the preverbial idiot if you really believe it's possible to create something that doesn't have flaws/exploits.. How many flaws/exploits are found every day in software that was deemed flawless.. right too many to count.. Because you don't think there is an exploit possible, there's always some smartass who finds a way... some exploits are sooo genius no-one would have ever thought of them and always thought it was secure...
Real secure software just isn't possible, there's always a way to circumvent the security...
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Compare this to regular accepted treatments and their deathrates or 'weird' results and you'll see that these kind of things happen all the time (especially in countries like thailand, but also in any western country like the US or UK)... Any medical treatment can be dangerous, just let them study what went wrong and hope we can learn something from it..
I'm sorry but over the 1.5 year the I had my PS3 before they took away OtherOS I haven't seen ANY new feature that I needed or used. And as a real Gamer the OtherOS options i actually a must have if you want to play old games that are actually fun and don't only look great, the only problem with OtherOS was the missing RSX support which meant nog having real 3D HW accelerated support, but the community has come a long way with the SPU OpenGL drivers, and even according to Geohot the RSX isn't even blocked, but is just missing the correct drivers (although I don't believe that). I don't have to remind you that the PS3 wasn't presented as a gamesconsole, but as a multimedia console which could do it all, but as a multimedia console it can't even match a $90 multimediabox.. I personally bought the device because of the bluray/mulitmedia and the OtherOS feature and games was a nice extra feature (I have 90+ PS3 games)... It's not the fact you can run linux on it, it's the fact you can run anything you want on it, and the comon linux for the PS3 like yellowdog is perfect for running emulators and old games (and that's why I want the linux, not really as a desktopcomputer replacement, althought the FF browser in linux is way WAY better as the Sony crapbrowser.... I wonder how you would yell and scr
WOW, you talk about MS stealing a great deal..... Apple is even worse at that, they patent a lot of stuff other people have invented long before them, and yet still they get it patented (me wonders how much money they have slipped into the patentoffice).. but then again Applefanboys never see past Steve Jobs brown little star.....
I hope they stop him from doing this.. as this clearly is a hefty privacy invasion.. Some people just think they can put anything on the internet, well if it's only them that's in the image than I say 'do whatever you want', but you will never see him (unless he looks in a mirror) and I wonder if he would tell anybody if he's wearing a camera (especially when he's intimate with a woman (or man, don't know his preference)), I even suspect he certainly WOULDN'T tell so he get's more hits as it's something like 'the Truman show' or some other reality show...
Hmmm.. your whole comment is nothing but your own opinion, especially your remark about 'ill-conceived technologies..... etc..' makes you nothing more than a stupid linuxfanboy.. HA don't make me laugh about the culture of Apple, Steve Jobs is nothing but a good salesperson and he makes you believe everything even if they sell crap and 'stolen' ideas (even more as microsoft).. Apple is even much more restrictive about their stuff as Microsoft is, but it seems a lot of apple fanboys can see further as the Steve's brown little star...
That's not true, only a few people use Linux or OS-X as their primary operating system...
But I think you misunderstand something.. You can perfectly write proprietary software using GPL libraries and distribute it, the only part which you also need to publish is any alterations to the used libraries. So if you only USE libraries you can keep your own code closed source (or not distribute the sourcecode)..
It's good for the customers, as a lot of people just bought the Wii but never used it after 1 week of use.. The biggest problem is the motion-controller, it's fun on paper, but most games are just regular games with the MC badly incorporated into it. There aren't many games (you can count them on 1 hand) that actually are worth being called a real MC based game.. It is nice to have better graphix, but if the controls just suck (and wiimote control does suck for a lot of games because it's so imprecise) it doesn't make the game any better, and that's what the wii 2 would be just another wii with better graphics.. Also Natal is great on paper and for some game, but mostly it requires too much space in front of your tv, and having to move a coffeetable/chairs everytime you want to play a game isn't great fun.. yeah in the commercials people have big rooms, but most people don't have such big livingrooms..
The only problem is in this story for apple is: The actual finder tried to return the phone to Apple (he even claims to have a ticketnumber), but Apple never returned his calls and claimed noone lost it (if we must believe his story). So the finder tried, the owner didn't do anything to get it back, IMHO the finder can do whatever he want's with the device.. A lost prototype would surely be high on the priority list to get it back, so if someone calls and says it found a prototype and Apple doesn't do anything, then it's apples own damn fault, and not lay the lbame afterwards on the finder..
I personally can't work with people around me, so for me the best thing is my own office. If I need to work with somebody else (like pairprogramming), or have a question, I just go to their office, and they come to me if they have a question. I'm so easily distracted when somebody is on the phone, or talking to another person, or like I do myself :) talk to myself during programming. I just can't get anything done as I keep watching up to see if they are talking to me.
Headphones also aren't the best solution, as they aren't healty for your ears on a long term.
Only this time Kassa doesn't seem to be interested in coming up for the customers...
And that's exactly my problem too, I can't find anything on which platform it runs... But luckily if it's going opensource there's a good chance it will start appearing on more platforms (if it's only running on one).. But even if it runs on LInux, I still wonder on which distro, as I have seen too many program's like this only work for a specific distro.
We were talking about 'Original' gameplay... those RPG-series you are referring to can hardly be called 'original gameplay' (not that those games aren't great, maybe they are but I've never even heard of them).. But I also know these days it's very VERY difficult to come up with something really original, most is just a rehash of different genres blended together (or remakes of older games).. Personally I haven't seen an original game in years.. And rogerborg has a good point, most indy games are just rehashes, mostly bad, and sometimes even better as any commercial product (which also is likely to be picked up for release on stuff like Xbox live, or PSN)
That's great news for indy-gamemakers.. Unreal Engine 3 was already cool, but now also CryEngine3, it's a good day to be a 'modder'.. hehe.. But I wonder what the price will be if you want to sell your game.. Well, at least you've got choices now which suit your financialsituation..
I want the feature back (through official firmware not customfirmware) not money.....
it all depends on the runtime-enviroment that is created for each platform. If you only stick to the API which is provided by your own created runtime which you have written specifically for each platform it won't be a problem. The only problem with this approach is that your application won't make the best use of the hardware for any specific platform. But apperantly these days nobody cares anymore as (web)programmers seem to think people have supercomputers anyway, and otherwise they'll buy a new computer anyway. (just like this slashdot site which is hindered by it's scripts and is sluggish as hell sadly on my XP IE8 Intel P4 3..2Ghz 3GB mem).
5 years? the PS3 is only 3.5 years old (in the US, and 3 years in the EU), and you call removing a complete feature 'patching? and Geohot only looked at it for not even 3 months and got where he was when he first announced the hack, also he was going for RSX support under linux, not piracy. But now because of what Sony does tomorrow he is going for customfirmware, and if there is someone who can do it, it's him, the only problem is that his 'customfirmware' will in the end lead to piracy.. So Sony is better of just leaving OtherOs in there (and even add support for RSX) so the hacking isn't needed anymore, which will put the 'smartpeople' to rest because they can do with the PS3 what they want, and the PS3 is safe from piracy for yet another long time. Never underestimate a very small dedicaded group of people after you take something away from them which they used....
Don't forget that FireFox and Linux have just as many security holes, the only reason why you are safer on linux is because of the diversity of distro's/versions (that's the biggest problem with linux) and because it's not an interesting platform (yet) for malware-makers because too few (regular)people are using it..
A university wasting money on something that is already commercially available for quite a while, and later figuring out where all the money was spend and holding their hands up for more money to waste... Please teach something real educational instead of wasting our tax-money on trivial stuff like this..
there are 2 things that's holding bakc pc-gaming..: 1. too much difference in end-user GPU/CPU performances.. one of the problems a developer faces is the variety of users, you cannot only target the high-end pc's and you also must keep in mind the lowest-specced pc's. But by the time you are finished the difference has advanced enormously between a high-end and low-end.. these days about every other month there is a new GPU which is even faster as the one before that.. The biggest market isn't the high-end (most 'gamers' don't have triple SLI hexa-core PC's).. 2. too much piracy on the PC.. well some of you will effectivly deny this, but piracy is another big factor why publishers aren't investing less and less money into new PC games (without it being a console-'port'). Piracy is also a problem on the Wii and xbox360, but compares to the PC it's very small.. PS3 still hasn't got any piracy (yet) so that platform is even more interesting for publishers now (Except for the slightly more difficult architechture). Personally I'm also beginning to think consoles are a better target for developing especially because it's fixed hardware, and 'we' learn more and more about using that hardware instead of relying on consumer to just buy a better CPU/GPU or more memory (the latter is actually the biggest problem with the current consoles especially the PS3).. The only problem with consoles is the controllers which makes it harder to do certain types of games..
Funny, because my personal experience is exactly the opposite, I've had so many problems with my 4 ati-cards (one being a 9800 Pro) and never had any problems with any of my nvidia cards, especially with the drivers, back in the day of the 9800Pro the openGL drivers for running Unreal Tournament 99 where much MUCH better for nvidia as for the ati cards.. I'm not fixed on one vendor, but after the trouble I had I'm not confident enough to buy another ATI card again even tough (at this moment) they seem to be the better bang for your buck in benchmarks, but that's the problem with benchmarks, they never test the durability of a card (which ofcourse is also difficult to do)..
You're not obliged to buy cards from companies who don't provide open source drivers, that's all up to you.. But don't be a snob to think that everything has to be open source because you want it to be, if you really want it, then go ahead and create your own hardware.
It's really naive if you think this can 'save online banking', it's just as (un)safe as doing it via windows.. Even with this method a 'man in the middle' attach is possible.. And don't think Ubuntu/firefox is safe/secure.. There are just as many (even more) vulnerablities found as with windows (according to some security reports) but they don't have the effect as a vulnerability found in window, as the userbase is a lot LOT smaller..
Well, the code might be exploit free, but when you compile it, it is possible the result might not be exploit-free..
I think you are the preverbial idiot if you really believe it's possible to create something that doesn't have flaws/exploits.. How many flaws/exploits are found every day in software that was deemed flawless.. right too many to count.. Because you don't think there is an exploit possible, there's always some smartass who finds a way... some exploits are sooo genius no-one would have ever thought of them and always thought it was secure... Real secure software just isn't possible, there's always a way to circumvent the security...