Re: On a similar note
Extremely well?
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It's not fair to mention a thing that happened? He was talking about the firefighters using correct methods at that point, and stating that the battery was hard to extinguish. I'm imagining that blazing petrol-powered cars are also a bastard to put out.
It's the car's fault that it burst into flames, firefighters' initial cockup or no.
Why push for 120fps on a TV that can only manage 30fps (60fps interleaved)?
If 120fps is your peak, then your game is very unlikely to visibly lag when the more stressful sections come up. It's amused me for years to hear console manufacturers brag about maintaining a "solid 30fps" in their games.
No, Fallout is a FPS with some scripts.
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OK, well then while you're being a tabletop snob and bragging about your ability to roll dice, why don't you check out the earlier Fallout games, which are isometric, and undeniably RPGs. If you're just going to turn your nose up at what video games have to offer, then go back to the tabletop where we don't have to put up with you. Either way, no-one who actually knows thing 1 about video games is going to class Fallout as an FPS.
If HL3 is like HL2 or the mini adventures, then what's the point? It's a long set sequence of shootemups.
You mean Half Life is *gasp* an FPS game? Who knew??
You can't turn right, you can't turn left, and it's practically an interactive movie, but your only dialogue is gun fire.
So it's an FPS game with a good story? You know, just because it's linear doesn't make it bad.
This coldly explains why there will never be a 'year of the Linux desktop'. There is endless reinvention of things that don't really need reinventing.
You know, you have a very appropriate name..
The reasons Canonical gave for developing Mir are fairly straightforward, and stated in the article. Perhaps you'd like to read it? X works just dandy on the desktop, but desktops are dwindling in market share, and X across devices is a ball-ache, hence Mir.
There will never be a "year of the Linux desktop" (a phrase I've honestly never heard actual Linux users give a shit about) because desktops are ten minutes away from not mattering to most folk.
You think we're joining the gang because we hope it will make us more popular and better liked? Or that we believe that MS and Nokia really don't deserve to succeed in the light of crimes past?
So in your head downvoting anyone who likes a product simply because the company that made it were once dicks and you don't like them....isn't OTT? MS aren't my favourite company in the world, but I evaluate their products individually, almost like I'm a rational person. I'd much prefer it if Nokia had been allowed to continue their Maemo/MeeGo/Linux nuttery alongside Windows, because that line of phones was superb for me, but none of that makes Windows Phone a bad product, so I'm not going to say that it is.
So let me get this right. In the market where it has the best showing, it has just under 10% market share. Therefore in other markets it has a lot less, so overall it's share is less than 10%. This is good?
Are you under the impression that market domination is the only way to be successful?
Ah, why bother? I'd only be arguing with a brick wall. Looking at the number of downvotes I got for saying "Windows Phone is actually alright", the tribalism in the commentard section only ever increases...
As long as they are not fake improvements. Seen companies "manage" and "massage" figures and systems to give the desired, though not practical, results.
Valve have no interest in doing that, far as I can see. Why piss off your majority Windows base? They did the port of L4D2, optimised it, and it turned out to be 15% faster on Linux.
Great Steam but first how about releasing some of your own titles on Linux first like frigging CS GO.
Come on now, that "some of" is unfair and you know it. So far, on my Steam Linux client, I have:
Counterstrike
Counterstrike: Source
Day of Defeat
Half Life
Half Life: Blue Shift
Half Life: Opposing Force
Half Life 2
Half Life 2: Deathmatch
Half Life 2: Lost Coast
Half Life 2: Episode 1
Half Life 2: Episode 2
Left 4 Dead 2 (The latest port/current beta project)
Ricochet
Team Fortress Classic
Team Fortress 2
Are you really going to sit there and tell me they're not putting the effort in?
People like you are pathetic. I have loads of tech friends and none of them (none of them) would even consider using LINUX in any real capacity.
Programmer over here, real name included. I use Linux every single day for the vast majority of that day. I'm typing from Kubuntu right now. Wouldn't use anything else for my work, and especially not Windows (unless you don't consider working a "real capacity"). I do have Windows on here - Windows 8 in fact - but that's for other uses.
I like the way you put "none of them" in brackets a second time, like on a lyric sheet. Is that an instruction for your backing singers?
Yeah, that's probably why Apple are being aggressive patent trolls, to give Samsung free advertising. That, and in an attempt to legally injunct sales of Samsung phone in the USA...but probably more to give them 'free' (as in expensive international lawyer time) advertising, sure.
I don't think he implied that it was intentional on Apple's part...
If the old saw, "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" * comes to mind as you read this, your observation is well substantiated by Forbes' survey.
Apart from the second part of it, of course, which isn't substantiated at all.
Congrats to those who mastered the system the rest of us set up. I aspire to your position, rather than merely envy it over a pint glass.
The way I see the progression, Mozzy restarted the browser wars, aiming for useful and easy-to-extend functionality that was missing from the market leader, and forcing the rendering engines to advance along open standards.
Chrome then came along and started a whole new war, based almost entirely around two things: speed, and bleeding-edge support. If nothing else, Chrome made Firefox, IE and every other browser faster. It's not my browser of choice, but you can't deny its impact. Happy birthday, Chrome. You're a buggy little sod, and in your pure Google form I think you're actually rather evil, but I suppose you did some good too. :-p
Ah, of course, you know better. It's all a conspiracy, clearly.
Incidentally, Penello and the Major have both stated that the Xbox was FCC approved earlier this year. It might have been under a different name, perhaps. Either way, the red label says "do not sell or display before November 22nd 2013". Wanna know how I know that? I clicked the link, genius.
Out of interest, how does one inline-replace images on a Whosay update?
Answer me this, can you do any of that with Steam?
Actually, similar things have been proposed and rumbled around Steam for a while now. In fact, people digging around in a recent beta found this:
http://www.pcgamesn.com/steam-might-allow-game-borrowing-says-latest-beta-update
It seems inevitable that they will arrive, especially with other marketplaces starting to provide real competition. Which neatly leads me to...
A purely digital market place would hopefully see game prices come down significantly much like they did on Steam and have on Origin!
Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnope. Think about it. Xbox would have one marketplace, and you'd be tied to it. What in ten hells is the incentive to reduce prices? Steam, Origin, GoG, GMG, etc reduce prices and flash sale products because they have to compete with each other for your dollar. Steam used to be way more expensive than it is now, but the emergence of other marketplaces led to their aggressive pricing. Now, what competition is there for that on Xbox?
Don't know what it's like elsewhere, but here in BC launch orders for the PS4 are just gone, everywhere. Back when the two systems were both detailed at E3, the pre-order slips in Best Buy were nearly full for the Xbox, and nearly gone for the PS4. It's been selling absolute gangbusters, to the point where EB are telling me I might not even get my PS4 in the second batch, let alone the first.
1/ PS4 isn'tt hot in it's heels, it launches the week before, so it's actually the other way round. And the PS4 has full functionality in ALL launch teriroties, (Many of the XBox One features are not available in many regions, voice control for instance).
El Reg is based in the UK. The PS4 comes out two weeks later in the UK. Keep up.
2/ It isn't in manufacturing yet. no company would be stupid or desperate enough to start full production without FCC approval. Sony got approved on 22nd July.
Might wanna tell Major Nelson that, because he's posting pics of the things being shipped:
https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/375299181272780800
I just wonder how Sony are paying for all the advertising they get on EVERY SINGLE XBOX ARTICLE the Reg decides is anti-Microsoft enough to publish.
Oh look, another fanboy accusing El Reg of hating their favourite corporate overlords. Because El Reg never laid into Sony after that whole hacking business, or when Other OS was removed, nooooooooo.
Fuck off.
Shame they turned round on the always online thing,
Really isn't.
was looking forward to being able to digitally sell games
Not anywhere near launch you wouldn't.
and borrow digital games from friends.
For an hour.
Seriously, the original plans were some straight up anti-consumer bullshit. Ask yourself this: why would either of the features you've mentioned as benefits (dubious as their apparent implementations were going to be) require the console to constantly check in with MS?
Doesn't surprise me in the least that Windows Phone is on the rise. It's pretty slick, and I think it's really good for people who are new to smartphones, or would use them as feature phones anyway. Wouldn't have one myself, but then as I've said before, I hate pretty much all the currently available glossy candybar crap.