Because 102,000 wanted to try the game out first before deciding if the company deserved their money.
Result: Turns out the game sucked bawls and nobody wanted to buy it.
Piracy hardly hurts. If anything it's making companies want to make the best games they can, not just churn out crap. Back in the day people usually bought a game to try it, or if they were lucky got demo's. No longer is that the case. Also a large majority of pirates can't afford to buy every game that g...
They need to ramp up the amount of frames the camera/computer processes if they want to make this tech more of a reality. There seems to be a roughly around 100ms delay between each calculation of the persons position. Which is way to choppy if you wanted to apply this to a game. But interesting none the less.
If there are going to be systems with it pre-loaded in October, then the actual OS will most likely be released then also. Microsoft would be incredibly stupid if they didn't.
Here's the original story from comedy news site "the Onion"
http://www.theonion.com/con...
No, it's designed to be thin and simple. That was the goal. But at the expense of internal disc drives.
Minimalism isn't innovation.
Quite silly.
Totalitarian.
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Yep. It's a prime example of Totalitarianism.
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It's why I despise Apple. Steve Jobs has this exact mind set, anyone can see this by looking at how he runs Apple and it's products.
@FantasyStar:
Neither are playing catch up. They merely took different approaches to processing. CPU's did good by having a high clock rate and good instruction sets, floating point accuracy.
And GPU's did good by being massively parallel at the sacrifice of a high clock and floating point accuracy.
Now CPU's and GPU's are heading towards the same direction. Except GPU's have a head start, because they are already massively parallel without the need for thread...
@SkyGamer: Your obviously not very educated in this subject. Because you don't seem to even know that AMD and ATI are the same company. ATI is a subdivision of AMD that's targeted towards graphics.
And Nvidia is doing what it does best, massively parallel computational chips. It's enabling it's GPU to do even more.
Correction: You have a POINTLESS second by second backup that's robbing you of system performance. The chance of your drives failing if you have good parts is very low. So just doing a backup every night is perfectly fine.
@archpsyker: Read the article, it's not about the sata drivers. It's the core file system of Mac's operating system.
Yes and no.
They have actually done a few great improvements to their architecture. Plus it looks like the 5870 will have around the same power as 2 4870's. So it may not be a whole new architecture like Nvidia's GT300. But it is a vast improvement over the 4870.
Actually, the bugs are pretty ironed out now.
And yeah they are expensive still. But the sub 100GB ones are under $200 now. So they make a good drive to install you OS on and your main applications. Uber fast boot and program loading :D. Great place for your windows pagefile also. And 64GB is a pretty good amount of room for just OS, programs and some games.
@DARKKNIGHT:
Nah, it's mainly about Die Size that constitutes most of the cost. This chip will be around the same range as the GTX 280 was when it first came out. Perhaps a bit more. But not to much. Nvidia knows it can't price it's gaming cards to high, or else it won't make enough sales.
Only a 10mb's difference for now. As SSD's get faster, that gap increases. It's explaining a fundamental flaw in Mac OSX file system that doesn't allow it to go any faster.
Preferences, preferences, preferences.
I love technology, so I like to see advancements like this. And I like to play with the most advanced technology. This isn't just about gaming, but the future of computing.
And of course, not extra detail settings are "needed". They are just "wanted" if available. It's a strive to bring gaming to life like realism. You can still make cut unrealistic games like on a Wii. This isn't meant to eliminate those kinds ...
Still doesn't change the fact you guys didn't hear about this story yet even though it's already been spread all over the internet and on various other tech/gaming related sites.
Come on, it's the Onion guys!