If you are using XNA, then yes, its basically a checkbox.
Not full DirectX by a long shot, but most of the API is there (just none of the DX10 gear, you are stuck with an older sound library, etc). XNA is basically DirectX dumbed down to Xbox 360 level in all aspects.
I'd also suggest that a whole bunch of coders are greedy, pretentious, and overestimate the value of their work. They'll write a bit of crappy skeleton code, release it GPL - valuing their practically worthless scribbling at "Everything that is ever based on this code".
"This game engine would be great if someone added physics!"
It was pretty. It had some cool bits (the fire propogation was very nice). The AI had 'reasonable' alertness (none of this Op Flashpoint style 'seeing you and shooting you through 200m of forest').
That said, the AI was incredibly dumbed down. You had a couple of 'cease fire zones' where the AI was in passive mode, and everywhere else they were aggressive. There was meant to be a handful of factions - not evident in gameplay - everybody shot at you.
The mission briefings had a fair amount of laughable "...and this is a deniable operation, so everyone is going to be shooting at you...". No, sorry, everyone was going to be shooting at me, because nobody could be bothered coding in any factions.
Got so sick of repeatedly cleaning guardposts, I just wanted to do the job. Admittedly there was some great gaming moments, some good fun, and some quite hilarious fuck ups (usually setting my exit path on fire by mistake).
The random-buddy system seemed to be quite cool, however I felt like the development budget had gone into a heap of dialog that I would never see. Buddys were nice, and fairly developed characters.
The ending was bloody terrible (and also left you locked out of the open-world much before the ending).
The big fucking glowing orb that comes up with a big fucking tooltip on first one telling you to click the big fucking glowing orb if you want to "..open, save, or print...". It even invites you to "Press F1 for more information" if you are too fucking retarded to understand that.
What else do you want, fucking MS to send around Ballmer to throw your dining suite around and hold your hand?
They were talking about contributors to the project, not users.
I think the main question is "Does OO expect to attract professional developers when they pay them with 'a free Office equivalent, which I guess you could just download anyway'".
Its not like people are going to be rolling much OO code into their own projects - which is where the GPL licensing breaks down. The cost (giving up your entire codebase) is probably "high" when its likely a small fraction of OO code that is wanted (say some paragraph breaking logic). If the project was under a more commercial friendly license, such as BSD/Apache then I suggest people would be happy taking small pieces and contributing their changes back.
In the case of BSD code I have used at work and changed, I give the changes back. My client doesnt want to maintain them anyway. Using GPL is usually completely out the question - even if they don't care now they worry about needing to care in future. BSD code is very free in all senses of the word, and its utility is therefore higher.
Complain about how companies should always provide source all you like, and use viral licensing to force them to release code if they use yours, sure. Don't come complaining when people think the cost is too high, and nobody is interested on pushing your ideals when they could just be getting on with doing business.
Highest incarceration rate in the world. 5% of the world's population, and 25% of the world's imprisoned population. Land of the free? LOL!! USA... USA... etc
Interestingly the Irish have the lowest incarcerations rates, presumably because they are too busy being drunk.
Word is not a revision control system. Sharepoint is (if you are from MS marketing) - and a real man would use SVN. Word will even act as a merge utility for conflicts (which is better than diffing binary):D
Yeah, just saying - you have to price it so low to beat the "new" price that you start to reconsider whether its worth selling. Case in point - HL1 + expansions - $15 new, so I'm selling for $10. At that price I think a lot of people would rather keep the games.
I don't disagree that people should have the choice - but people aren't being seriously disadvantaged by losing their right to sell.
Theres not really much point selling my Steam "second-hand" games collection for me anyway. All the old games (HL1 and expansions) I'd want to sell are avaliable in the "Half-Life Anthology" pack - for $15.
You could buy everything I have installed in the "Valve Complete Pack" with the exception of GTA4 for $100.
So I guess it inflates the cost of older games slightly. I'd probably prefer to buy HL1 "new" from Valve for $10 - rather than messing around with HeadCrabHumper23 on ebay to save a couple of bucks tbh.
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DirectInput is now XInput. Audio is now XAudio 2.
DirectPlay is gone in favour of whatever the hell XNA uses (which has always been pathetic anyway - use something higher level like entanglar).
If you are using XNA, then yes, its basically a checkbox.
Not full DirectX by a long shot, but most of the API is there (just none of the DX10 gear, you are stuck with an older sound library, etc). XNA is basically DirectX dumbed down to Xbox 360 level in all aspects.
I'd also suggest that a whole bunch of coders are greedy, pretentious, and overestimate the value of their work. They'll write a bit of crappy skeleton code, release it GPL - valuing their practically worthless scribbling at "Everything that is ever based on this code".
"This game engine would be great if someone added physics!"
Yeah I bet it would asstard :P
Well they are pretty good, but I wouldn't say "better" than their commercial counterparts (Havok, Physx).
That said, Entanglar uses Box2D to make a physics engine that works with multiplayer, and thats BSD licensed. So I guess YMMV.
He is on +2 Funny which is a good enough label for me to believe he is funny...
Do you really think that a shipping container full of CFLs or incandescents is going to be charged by weight or volume?
Hint: I wouldnt be surprised if the contents dont even match the weight of the container.
There once was a small brown zune,
Which made music fill my room.
One day it bricked,
My mouth was dicked,
even unable to whistle a tune.
The main reason that plan makes me sad-in-the-pants is that people would be 'squirted' to death :(
I have a massive dissenting opinion on FarCry 2.
It was pretty. It had some cool bits (the fire propogation was very nice). The AI had 'reasonable' alertness (none of this Op Flashpoint style 'seeing you and shooting you through 200m of forest').
That said, the AI was incredibly dumbed down. You had a couple of 'cease fire zones' where the AI was in passive mode, and everywhere else they were aggressive. There was meant to be a handful of factions - not evident in gameplay - everybody shot at you.
The mission briefings had a fair amount of laughable "...and this is a deniable operation, so everyone is going to be shooting at you...". No, sorry, everyone was going to be shooting at me, because nobody could be bothered coding in any factions.
Got so sick of repeatedly cleaning guardposts, I just wanted to do the job. Admittedly there was some great gaming moments, some good fun, and some quite hilarious fuck ups (usually setting my exit path on fire by mistake).
The random-buddy system seemed to be quite cool, however I felt like the development budget had gone into a heap of dialog that I would never see. Buddys were nice, and fairly developed characters.
The ending was bloody terrible (and also left you locked out of the open-world much before the ending).
The big fucking glowing orb that comes up with a big fucking tooltip on first one telling you to click the big fucking glowing orb if you want to "..open, save, or print...". It even invites you to "Press F1 for more information" if you are too fucking retarded to understand that.
What else do you want, fucking MS to send around Ballmer to throw your dining suite around and hold your hand?
WhatAmIDoingHere (742870) sexwithanimals@gmail.com on Monday December 29, @12:09AM
I had guessed... ;)
(|)
Fixed that for you with added ascii pubes.
They were talking about contributors to the project, not users.
I think the main question is "Does OO expect to attract professional developers when they pay them with 'a free Office equivalent, which I guess you could just download anyway'".
Its not like people are going to be rolling much OO code into their own projects - which is where the GPL licensing breaks down. The cost (giving up your entire codebase) is probably "high" when its likely a small fraction of OO code that is wanted (say some paragraph breaking logic). If the project was under a more commercial friendly license, such as BSD/Apache then I suggest people would be happy taking small pieces and contributing their changes back.
In the case of BSD code I have used at work and changed, I give the changes back. My client doesnt want to maintain them anyway. Using GPL is usually completely out the question - even if they don't care now they worry about needing to care in future. BSD code is very free in all senses of the word, and its utility is therefore higher.
Complain about how companies should always provide source all you like, and use viral licensing to force them to release code if they use yours, sure. Don't come complaining when people think the cost is too high, and nobody is interested on pushing your ideals when they could just be getting on with doing business.
A blind man can't read non-existant writing at 20ft that a sighted man couldn't read at 20ft?
*shrug* If you want to see who has the most criminals now, a quick check of wikipedia will tell you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprisonment#Incarceration_rates_by_country
Highest incarceration rate in the world. 5% of the world's population, and 25% of the world's imprisoned population. Land of the free? LOL!! USA... USA... etc
Interestingly the Irish have the lowest incarcerations rates, presumably because they are too busy being drunk.
This contest will be another excellent example of how infinity unpaid volunteers can't match a single well paid expert.
I'm sure I'll have a good lol at the results though.
So basically copying the MS ad?
Mod parent up +1 Why The Fuck Didn't Anyone Think Of This Before?
Wouldn't surprise me. On my bike I'm scanning left-right-speedo... right-left-speedo.
Doesn't help that a small twitch can add another 50kph to your speed :D
1. You aren't printing the million copy run.
2. PEBCAK
3. Stop overclocking
4. You aren't typesetting. Thats your publishers job.
Guess theres a difference between what you think is funny and what everyone else does.
I had a lecturer like that once. Dr Kim, is that you? :D
Word is not a revision control system. Sharepoint is (if you are from MS marketing) - and a real man would use SVN. Word will even act as a merge utility for conflicts (which is better than diffing binary) :D
Yeah, just saying - you have to price it so low to beat the "new" price that you start to reconsider whether its worth selling. Case in point - HL1 + expansions - $15 new, so I'm selling for $10. At that price I think a lot of people would rather keep the games.
I don't disagree that people should have the choice - but people aren't being seriously disadvantaged by losing their right to sell.
No. You can't really sell.
Also theres the question of finding a buyer. The cost of a "second hand era" game on Steam is quite cheap - eg Half-Life 1 is $10, Half-Life 2 is $20.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/70/
Theres not really much point selling my Steam "second-hand" games collection for me anyway. All the old games (HL1 and expansions) I'd want to sell are avaliable in the "Half-Life Anthology" pack - for $15.
You could buy everything I have installed in the "Valve Complete Pack" with the exception of GTA4 for $100.
So I guess it inflates the cost of older games slightly. I'd probably prefer to buy HL1 "new" from Valve for $10 - rather than messing around with HeadCrabHumper23 on ebay to save a couple of bucks tbh.
And then theres the ridiculous GTA4 bullshit.
Steam + GFW Live + Rockstar Social Club + SecureROM.
I mean FOR FUCKS SAKE ASSHOLES... enough already!