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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17627 |  larsig (593) Sep 29, 2007 - 08:06 am
| | Highly doubt it. It anything they are still working out the optimizations on their libraries. Just look at the difference between early original xbox and later xbox games. I'm sure they'll steadily look better, but the question still is how much better. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17597 | larsig (593) Sep 28, 2007 - 08:03 am
| I'm not saying that writing code for a more standardized system is not easier, I wold know. I've had to deal with the issues that arise from developing on my home computer and trying to run it on my laptop as well as 5 different university systems. But that doesn't mean that you can find all the bugs in the code. Take for example the fact that NO C/C++ program can be proven to be crash free, nor is it possible to predict when every crash will occur. Even a simple Hello World program can crash if the OS freaks out.
You are also making the assumption that all that matters in a 360 game is the interaction between the game and the hardware. The game interacts with the OS also, and there are uncountable things that can go wrong there. Not to mention that the OS gets updated and such so that can cause further complications.
By the way, working with programmers means jack shit on stuff like this. All that tells me is that they know a little more about it than you do, and that's not saying much. A monkey can write code, it takes talented and skilled software engineers to write good code. Why do you think the programming jobs are getting outsourced to India and China while most software engineering jobs are staying in the US? India and China are good at spitting out code for a lower price but, at least for now, they are pretty bad at designing good code. Kudos to your buddies for having programming jobs, but it doesn't mean they know the theories involved in computer science. I know a guy that has been writing code for Java for a decade, he can do amazing stuff with the language and knows more about the intricacies of the language than I do. But if you asked him to write the rotate algorithms to keep an AVL tree balanced, he can't do it. Hell, he couldn't even give you a general notion of how OS's schedule tasks on the CPU.
So I will say it again, don't slam them for having bugs in their code. It is inevitable that there are problems. You are far from getting a grasp of what it takes, both business and technical, to fix the bugs in a program. You don't have the authority to make any claims on what they should or shouldn't have done. I don't even have the authority and I've spent years as a programmer and learning the basic skills to be a software engineer. I have as much respect for them as the people behind OS's. If you have any clue of how much goes into an OS, you'll know that is a lot of respect. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17597 | larsig (593) Sep 27, 2007 - 08:27 pm
| | It doesn't matter about uniform hardware or not. ANY program of significant complexity will have bugs. Unless you are actually a programmer, you don't have the right to say anything. And if you are and you are still claiming it should be bug free, you are one naive programmer. The 360 isn't uniform hardware by the way, they change components over time. Don't forget about the different versions. One of the major changes recently is a new motherboard that came with the 360 elites. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17597 | larsig (593) Sep 27, 2007 - 07:02 am
| | If you think that any piece of software is shipped bug free you are kidding yourself. Any complex piece of software, particularly games, WILL have so many bugs that a team can spend a decade on it just debugging and not fix all of them. That is why there are patches. There are classes in software engineering focused on statistics about when a software is reasonably bug free. These classes balance time spent and how often bugs are found and fixed. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17554 | larsig (593) Sep 25, 2007 - 06:33 am
| Might not have evolved the FPS genre, but it inspired beer filled halo parties with grown men swearing at each other and calling the pink guy that assassinates everyone a fruit. How many computer FPS's can you get fragged by someone that is close enough for you to punch in real life? And no, dragging your gamming rig to someone else's house is not a common practice.
Point is- the game changed and expanded the audience, not the genre. It drew in more people than many other FPS's. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4376 | larsig (593) Sep 23, 2007 - 03:57 pm
| | If you think a UN treaty would stop a country that is determined to get nukes... you are kidding yourself. In reality, the UN holds little power when a country really wants to do something else. The real world is far from like Civ4 where you can vote for no nukes and no one can build nukes period. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17481 | larsig (593) Sep 19, 2007 - 01:39 pm
| | Err.. right. It's a matter of principle. They can give it to whoever they want, whenever they want, but people who get it early and are not supposed to used less than acceptable means to do it. If you wanna complain about fairness in real life, don't live a real life. Life ain't fair Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4375 | larsig (593) Sep 19, 2007 - 04:59 am
| | Andromeda Strain? At least I think it was something falling from the sky killing everyone by spreading a virus that killed people by turning their blood to dust or something. Plus if you were talking about that movie, I doubt most people here have seen it. It was made in the early '70s. I saw it about 5 years ago, all I can say is that my bio teacher was a nut, great teacher though. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17409 | larsig (593) Sep 15, 2007 - 06:40 am
| | I love free speech and all, but morons like these parents don't deserve it. I'm sure the phobia has always been there, at least after WWII and the Korean War. Note that we didn't have mass protests to stop wars back then. The phobia more or less has grown since then and now with the internet and the ability for people to post their opinions anywhere so the world can see, the actual number of morons that feel this way about a simple toy gets magnified. And it doesn't help that the media is more interested toward sensational stories about the dangers of a toy rather than facts. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17229 | larsig (593) Sep 05, 2007 - 06:47 pm
| | Yeah... If Apple wants to make me redo my web sites so that it can be displayed properly on the iPhone, they can take it and shove it up their ass. I have enough to deal with Firefox and ie(Mostly ie) without having to worry about safari. Hell, the Mac version of safari doesn't even display the site I am working on properly while the Windows version does. WTF is up with that? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17201 | larsig (593) Aug 31, 2007 - 11:44 am
| Well, if you think about it, games go for about $60-$50 once. Compare that to about $50 once and tack on about $15 a month. Take off some for maintenance costs and you still get a bunch left over. You don't need all that many subscribers assuming you don't spend a ton on servers.
Plus you don't get much of a pirating problem. People will get past Bioshock's limited installs easily, but it's a lot harder to fool a server into thinking you bought a subscription.
As for interesting PC games coming out, isn't there Hellgate London later this year? Or am I mistaken about the release date? I hope it turns out to be as great a hit as Diablo 2 was. And regardless of your stand on the Crysis/Halo3 fight, Crysis will be a PC game to look forward to. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17198 | larsig (593) Aug 31, 2007 - 11:36 am
| The reason is cost. It takes money to change the code around and optimize it for the 360 and the PS3 at the same time. Not to mention that you now need to debug your code on two completely different systems. It's why a lot of developers were pissed at Sony when they designed the PS3 the way they did.
Plus I'm sure Sony had some hand in convincing the developers to focus more on the PS3 in the first place, that or the developers just like the PS3 more. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17188 | larsig (593) Aug 31, 2007 - 06:58 am
| | They don't lose money in this(Not to players shooting each other anyway) and if they get enough people playing, then they might actually make money- they get money from players and until they pay it out to players they can invest it or whatever. It's not a bad idea, kinda like gambling online except you are shooting people. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17159 | larsig (593) Aug 29, 2007 - 01:16 pm
| Learn to use a computer first... Or get a computer that doesn't suck. The people who say that Vista is unusable don't know jack shit. My vista has only ever crashed on me once when I was forcing drivers for a wireless card that Belkin refused to provide proper drivers for. Other than that, I've only restarted my computer for the occasional updates and it works perfectly.
Vista is not perfect, but those that say it is unusable don't know what the hell they are talking about. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17159 | larsig (593) Aug 29, 2007 - 01:09 pm
| | It is annoying, but for the most part it's not too bad. The auto update will take care of it, not like you have to download each one separately. I'd know, i reinstall xp on my parent's computer every couple months since they can't get it through their heads that certain Chinese web sites love to fuck up computers and they don't know how to protect their computer. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17110 | larsig (593) Aug 25, 2007 - 07:58 am
| | There's no real point and the high costs aren't worth it. Any announcements they were gonna make they already made at the new E3. If you wanna play demos and stuff you can already download them with the 360 while the Wii doesn't offer that. And lets face it, if soemone doesn't have the internet to download these large demos, chances are they're not gonna spend the time and money to goto that convention. Sony and Microsoft not attending has little to do with their loyalty to consumers, it's just that the convention isn't worth it. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17056 | larsig (593) Aug 22, 2007 - 01:41 pm
| Well, the LCD isn't meant for you to look at constantly, it's just a quick check for settings and stuff. Displaying the stuff on screen would cause a similar distraction.
I do agree though it is a bit excessive, if I were to get that I probably wouldn't use the LCD at all. I'm just fine with my Razer Diamondback. Taking an inch and a half of movement to turn 180 is enough sensitivity for me. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17045 | larsig (593) Aug 22, 2007 - 06:25 am
| | "Programs demand perfection, unfortunately humans are far from perfect" or something along those lines. Don't remember the exact quote nor the one who said it, but the meaning is there. There is no game that is absolutely problem free, just the fact that Blizzard released a path for a 10 year old game shows true devotion to their customers. Heck, some people stop support after about 2 years. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=17001 | larsig (593) Aug 19, 2007 - 04:10 pm
| | "Get things done" I don't think that's why people buy macs. Any task you can do on a Mac you can get done on a Windows or Linux box. Really I only see people buying Macs cause they are manipulated by misleading advertisements targeted to the less computer literate or cause you want the unique style(ie the monitor computer things they have). That or they just hate Microsoft and don't want to bother with Linux. Flag this | Edit this post |
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