No. GPLDAN just used the word the wrong way. What he really meant was that while the absolute number of PS3s sold to customers are going up - more people buying than returning - the relative numbers (=market share) goes down, because the competitors keep outselling it.
What I'd like to know is the real install base of the three consoles. You know, not every Xbox360 sold is actually going to a new customer due to a so-called RROD phenomenon. Is there any good data to clear that up?
Did anyone ever try to connect your regular USB keyboard and mouse to a PS3? Most Unreal engine games will recognize them out-of-the-box, for example. See, even Age of Empires for PS2 had keyboard and mouse support.
I feel the same on my Mac. The best way to test is to run this video in Fullscreen and compare (the stuff coming after the 'invented by Gandhi' part is especially sucky). Actually I didn't notice any performance boost at all.
Adding proper hardware acceleration to Flash. Seriously, performance of Flash apps is horrible, especially video applications. Try playing a H.264 video in full screen on anything less than a Core 2 Duo... And then play the same video in VLC.
I wasn't nitpicking. Many people wouldn't even consider Bavaria a part of Germany, because despite being the richest state in Germany, it's also a state being ruled by an ultra-conservative religious right-wing party (called CSU) infamous for their war on violent games for almost fifty years, now. And I think that Lederhosn look just stupid. You could probably compare Bavaria to Texas in some ways. Filled with rednecks.
Furthermore, there are games that are really banned in Germany. See Manhunt. 2005 the district court of Munich, capital of the state Bavaria which many people confuse with Germany ruled by a religious right-wing conservative party called 'CSU' (Christian Social Union) - infamous for their crusade against those so-called 'Killer Games' (with no real definition ever made by them) and flip-flop maneuvers in order to gain absolute majority in elections - for more than fifty years now, ruled that all copies of this game sold throughout Germany be confiscated.
Why keep people making violent movies? And violent theater plays? Why do people keep composing music without any tonality? Why do people play jazz solos that makes people go crazy and beat each other up?
They do it, because they can and they got a target audience for it! Apparently Dead Space is not for twelve-year-olds. Some right-wing conservatives (and Germany has been ruled by them for many years, unfortunately) seem to love liberalism in economy (neo-liberalism), but not in culture.
One more reason we need that space elevator quick (j/k).
Anyway, storing nuclear waste is a problem and a conservative like McCain should see the dangers of leaving tons of radioactive waste for terrorists to build dirty bombs from. Imagine someone flying a plane full of TNT into La Hague. That'd be Tchernobyl by a few orders of a magnitude.
Yeah right! Nucular power for the win! We already got enough problems with storing nuclear waste and I don't see the day coming when we'll finally be able to fire that crap into the sun.
In my opinion there's two feasable options, probably to be combined:
The first one is decentralized production. We got many examples for this, at least in smaller towns. There are places that have tried Wind energy to finally be able to shut them away from the increasingly expensive centralized production (in Germany mostly caused by speculation), others could meet their demands by producing biogas themselves. There's lots of different options, if you really want to, but it only applies to smaller regions, I suppose.
The second option is actually being made use of for years, now, but still many haven't seen its prospects, yet: Solar thermal energy using high-temperature collectors. Of course it can only be done in deserts (this is where Nevada kicks in), but many analysts say that this is the energy source of the future (the infrastructure is not much of a problem), because it is clean and basically free from the first kWh. And you can collect enough heat to keep those running even during night time. According to research we just need an area from the size of Austria (no, not Australia!) to meet the demands of the etire world. Keep in mind that this can be scattered pretty much, so there's little risk that we'll be getting a monopoly here.
Who told you this? We have been monitoring your articles based on leaked Microsoft information and like this one, they are ALL incorrect. Please let us know who your source is so we can correct him. (Editor : Or fire him???)
Note that we have notified our legal department and the FBI as all Microsoft internal documents are not meant to be taken out of the building. They will be in touch shortly. Please extend all courtesies in cooperating with their investigation. (Editor : Good luck! We are in Malaysia!)
Anyway, I was talking about all those hardcore 2D arcade and console games during the time he was still developing DirectDraw (ten years ago, remember?). And no, the PC wasnt capable of those. At that time.
If you looked at the launch titles and measured the time PC games took to achieve similar results, you might be correct. But that would be a somehow unfair comparison. Console games are evolving, as well, and therefore you should take landmark titles for this comparison.
For example, take Conker Live and Reloaded. When did PC games start to look like that awesome title? Or God of War. Metroid Prime is a good example, too. Final Fantasy XII or Shadow of the Colossus probably not, because they had pretty low frame rates. Anyway, your estimation can surely be extended quite a lot.
And I guess he got severe depressions from the experience that 2D console games always looked better and ran smoother than games developed for his beloved DirectDraw architecture. Looks like a lot of things unspoken between those consoles and him. I can literally feel his grudge....
It depends on where you work. If an operation only affects your home directory (GConf or all those ~/.something folders and files), you won't have to enter your password, anyway. However, all the things you describe modify your OS on a low-level basis by modifying, adding and removing files from your root directory and sub-directories which can break your installation and might be hard to fix while most GConf-related things are pretty easy to revert. It is the way Unix-like OSes work. Even Mac users have to enter passwords for such tasks.
But: Look forward to the next release of Ubuntu (and/or Gnome 2.22) which finally integrates the PolicyKit. There you can set how you want to authenticate certain tasks.
Slashdot Mirror
Prior Art®
No. GPLDAN just used the word the wrong way. What he really meant was that while the absolute number of PS3s sold to customers are going up - more people buying than returning - the relative numbers (=market share) goes down, because the competitors keep outselling it.
What I'd like to know is the real install base of the three consoles. You know, not every Xbox360 sold is actually going to a new customer due to a so-called RROD phenomenon. Is there any good data to clear that up?
Interesting fact: It'll always choose the last option by default as a safety measure.
What the hell are you guys talking about?
Did anyone ever try to connect your regular USB keyboard and mouse to a PS3? Most Unreal engine games will recognize them out-of-the-box, for example. See, even Age of Empires for PS2 had keyboard and mouse support.
GOTO is evil, didn't you know?!?
10 FORA=1TO300
20 PRINT"YAY!"
30 NEXT
RUN
They'll probably do the same thing they did with X.Org: Circumvent the entire thing.
I feel the same on my Mac. The best way to test is to run this video in Fullscreen and compare (the stuff coming after the 'invented by Gandhi' part is especially sucky). Actually I didn't notice any performance boost at all.
Adding proper hardware acceleration to Flash. Seriously, performance of Flash apps is horrible, especially video applications. Try playing a H.264 video in full screen on anything less than a Core 2 Duo... And then play the same video in VLC.
I wasn't nitpicking. Many people wouldn't even consider Bavaria a part of Germany, because despite being the richest state in Germany, it's also a state being ruled by an ultra-conservative religious right-wing party (called CSU) infamous for their war on violent games for almost fifty years, now. And I think that Lederhosn look just stupid. You could probably compare Bavaria to Texas in some ways. Filled with rednecks.
Who said that Bavaria was Germany?
No, it's probably running off Qemu.
Furthermore, there are games that are really banned in Germany. See Manhunt. 2005 the district court of Munich, capital of the state Bavaria which many people confuse with Germany ruled by a religious right-wing conservative party called 'CSU' (Christian Social Union) - infamous for their crusade against those so-called 'Killer Games' (with no real definition ever made by them) and flip-flop maneuvers in order to gain absolute majority in elections - for more than fifty years now, ruled that all copies of this game sold throughout Germany be confiscated.
Why keep people making violent movies? And violent theater plays? Why do people keep composing music without any tonality? Why do people play jazz solos that makes people go crazy and beat each other up?
They do it, because they can and they got a target audience for it! Apparently Dead Space is not for twelve-year-olds. Some right-wing conservatives (and Germany has been ruled by them for many years, unfortunately) seem to love liberalism in economy (neo-liberalism), but not in culture.
We should worry about the CSU, not the USK ;)
One more reason we need that space elevator quick (j/k).
Anyway, storing nuclear waste is a problem and a conservative like McCain should see the dangers of leaving tons of radioactive waste for terrorists to build dirty bombs from. Imagine someone flying a plane full of TNT into La Hague. That'd be Tchernobyl by a few orders of a magnitude.
Yeah right! Nucular power for the win! We already got enough problems with storing nuclear waste and I don't see the day coming when we'll finally be able to fire that crap into the sun.
In my opinion there's two feasable options, probably to be combined:
The first one is decentralized production. We got many examples for this, at least in smaller towns. There are places that have tried Wind energy to finally be able to shut them away from the increasingly expensive centralized production (in Germany mostly caused by speculation), others could meet their demands by producing biogas themselves. There's lots of different options, if you really want to, but it only applies to smaller regions, I suppose.
The second option is actually being made use of for years, now, but still many haven't seen its prospects, yet: Solar thermal energy using high-temperature collectors. Of course it can only be done in deserts (this is where Nevada kicks in), but many analysts say that this is the energy source of the future (the infrastructure is not much of a problem), because it is clean and basically free from the first kWh. And you can collect enough heat to keep those running even during night time. According to research we just need an area from the size of Austria (no, not Australia!) to meet the demands of the etire world. Keep in mind that this can be scattered pretty much, so there's little risk that we'll be getting a monopoly here.
A healthy dose of Ciprofloxacin should well be able to off those little buggers, just in case.
Read the version tag on the third page. It has been filed on April 1st, so it is definitely April Fools.
By the way: It is already April 1st over there.
You didnt get the irony, did you?
Anyway, I was talking about all those hardcore 2D arcade and console games during the time he was still developing DirectDraw (ten years ago, remember?). And no, the PC wasnt capable of those. At that time.
If you looked at the launch titles and measured the time PC games took to achieve similar results, you might be correct. But that would be a somehow unfair comparison. Console games are evolving, as well, and therefore you should take landmark titles for this comparison.
For example, take Conker Live and Reloaded. When did PC games start to look like that awesome title? Or God of War. Metroid Prime is a good example, too. Final Fantasy XII or Shadow of the Colossus probably not, because they had pretty low frame rates. Anyway, your estimation can surely be extended quite a lot.
And I guess he got severe depressions from the experience that 2D console games always looked better and ran smoother than games developed for his beloved DirectDraw architecture. Looks like a lot of things unspoken between those consoles and him. I can literally feel his grudge....
It depends on where you work. If an operation only affects your home directory (GConf or all those ~/.something folders and files), you won't have to enter your password, anyway. However, all the things you describe modify your OS on a low-level basis by modifying, adding and removing files from your root directory and sub-directories which can break your installation and might be hard to fix while most GConf-related things are pretty easy to revert. It is the way Unix-like OSes work. Even Mac users have to enter passwords for such tasks.
But: Look forward to the next release of Ubuntu (and/or Gnome 2.22) which finally integrates the PolicyKit. There you can set how you want to authenticate certain tasks.
There you go. But as already mentioned, be warned. Working as root all day is a thing most distros prevent you from for a reason.