Are you really sure you could do stuff on Mars or Moon? You'd require either a complicated spacesuit or a dome over your head sustaining a different atmosphere. A human being dropped off on Mars would freeze to death, die of overheating on Moon during the day or freeze during the night. Not to mention the lack of breathable air.
2.25Gs rather sucks, but if the planet's temperature is in the 0-40C range, you could definitely survive as you are. Though admittedly, I can't find any references as to whether this newly discovered planet's atmosphere is anything close to breathable.
Yes, there are native clients for both games. The Doom3 client actually uses the same data as the Windows one, it's really a small download, consisting of little else than the binary itself.
Funny how they benchmark two of the very few popular games that have native Linux clients, indeed.
I don't think anyone can doubt that the Stalker team created a lot of unique art. But the problem lies with creating precedents. If GDC stole some HL2/Doom3 assets, it doesn't matter if they're just some small shaders - if Valve/iD let it slide, they're basically setting a precedent.
Sorry, but the fact that the game is very loosely based on a Strugatsky novel doesn't mean that the developers can use works of others. If you want to use HL2 assets, you need Valve's permission, even if what you're making isn't at all similar to HL2.
It seems that Half-Life 2's normal maps and water are used. For those too lazy to read TFA.
Wouldn't it be ironical if the reason Stalker finally turned from vapourware into a real product is that they "borrowed" HL2 and D3 assets...
Advanced starts aren't the same as starting in a later era. It's about "buying" stuff for your empire as well, as the announcement says.
By the way: hi Friedrich, fancy meeting you here:).
Eh, they do carry zat guns. Those have been seen many times and are quite possibly standard gear by now. I think giving them energy weapons as their main weapons wouldn't work well in the show - simply put, it would go to far in destroying the similarity between SG guys and our military. I think they've handled that well, as they've alluded in numerous episodes to how projectile weapons are - at least - on par with energy ones.
For the first few seasons, they also maintained the whole advanced tech thing extremely well, IMO. We would have access to advance tech through allies like the Asgard or Tok'Ra, but they were unwilling to actually trade this technology, so it wasn't often that tech could be used.
Well, you have examples in the show such as creation of those anti-Replicator and anti-Prior devices, which were created by the SGC, based on alien technology. That's fairly advanced. Also, take the ships. Advanced systems (hyperdrive, etc.) were installed on the Prometheus by the Asgard, but the Daedalus and other new ships were apparently built entirely on Earth.
True, the new enemies did put them back to square one. That had to be done anyway - they couldn't start Season 9 with a new enemy as powerful as the Goa'uld, because those wouldn't be much of a threat. I still found the last parts of Stargate enjoyable (Season 10 was, I think, excellent overall), but it did ruin the believability aspect, to the degree it can exist in sci-fi in the first place.
Essentially, there were two stages. First, Earth using contemporary, real technology to fend off advanced aliens. Second, Earth using advanced technology to fight off even more advanced aliens. It comes down to which you prefer in the end. But one feeling I never got was that they "barely understand" all this new technology. In so many episodes, you had Carter easily tweaking acquired alien technology, or interfacing with alien devices, etc., that I got the feeling it's not barely understandable to them. Ditto for how, particularly in Season 10, beaming was used quite casually, instead of being a big thing.
I'm sure by "our" he means contemporary Earth.
But actually, that part of SG has become lost over the years. It used to be our (contemporary Earth) military and people putting up a fight against evil aliens. However, by now (Season 10 of SG1/Season 3 of Atlantis), it actually bears little resemblance to our contemporary situation. In the series, the US Air Force maintains three battle spaceships, several squadrons of space fighters, and beaming technology has been routinely used for several years now.
Funnily enough, the technology used by people on Battlestar Galactica is closer to what we have now than what Stargate Command is using in the recent seasons.
apt-get dist-upgrade isn't supposed to be super-smooth or anything. The Ubuntu forums and wiki recommend NOT using that, but rather upgrading by, if memory serves, 'gksudo update-manager -c -d'
Using since Herd3 here, and it is indeed a big improvement over Edgy. Edgy was, well, edgy for me. On the 64-bit version, many minor things, such as not having the boot splash, or CPU timing sometimes screwed up. Herd4, which was recently released, was quite surprisingly stable, although there remained issues with running 32-bit apps on the 64-bit version.
Now, if only they had 1.2.3.1 in Feisty, saving me the need to compile & install it.
Piracy is still helping Microsoft. I don't know about Ballmer, but I'm sure Gates realizes this. If Microsoft could come up with the Perfect Anti-Piracy Defense (TM), they'd be royally screwed a year later.
In Central and Eastern Europe, there are numerous countries that don't get super-cheap MS software like some Asian countries do, but where the salaries are low. Low as in laughable by Americans standards, as in less than the worst-paid jobs. Example? Romania, with an average gross wage of 545 USD. Piracy is prevalent in these countries, and if they could no longer pirate, most home users would have to seek alternatives. And every Linux enthusiast would start advertising it really actively, and Microsoft's market share would be gone just like that.
MS are smart enough to realize that they should fight those who produce counterfeit software or companies that have the money but decide to save up by not buying legal software. But certainly they shouldn't fight piracy by home users who can't afford the software and would switch to an alternative the moment they could no longer pirate.
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Are you really sure you could do stuff on Mars or Moon? You'd require either a complicated spacesuit or a dome over your head sustaining a different atmosphere. A human being dropped off on Mars would freeze to death, die of overheating on Moon during the day or freeze during the night. Not to mention the lack of breathable air. 2.25Gs rather sucks, but if the planet's temperature is in the 0-40C range, you could definitely survive as you are. Though admittedly, I can't find any references as to whether this newly discovered planet's atmosphere is anything close to breathable.
foreach (Tester ReallyUnluckyGuy in GetTestersByName("Richard"))
{
ReallyUnluckyGuy.DenyAccess(Now);
ReallyUnluckyGuy.AskQuestions(Later);
}
Try the WL-16IV robot, which apparently can do just that.
Yes, there are native clients for both games. The Doom3 client actually uses the same data as the Windows one, it's really a small download, consisting of little else than the binary itself. Funny how they benchmark two of the very few popular games that have native Linux clients, indeed.
I don't think anyone can doubt that the Stalker team created a lot of unique art. But the problem lies with creating precedents. If GDC stole some HL2/Doom3 assets, it doesn't matter if they're just some small shaders - if Valve/iD let it slide, they're basically setting a precedent.
Sorry, but the fact that the game is very loosely based on a Strugatsky novel doesn't mean that the developers can use works of others. If you want to use HL2 assets, you need Valve's permission, even if what you're making isn't at all similar to HL2.
It seems that Half-Life 2's normal maps and water are used. For those too lazy to read TFA. Wouldn't it be ironical if the reason Stalker finally turned from vapourware into a real product is that they "borrowed" HL2 and D3 assets...
Oh, you know me, if it weren't for the NDA, I'd write a truly gargantuan essay on the AI ;).
Advanced starts aren't the same as starting in a later era. It's about "buying" stuff for your empire as well, as the announcement says. By the way: hi Friedrich, fancy meeting you here :).
Eh, they do carry zat guns. Those have been seen many times and are quite possibly standard gear by now. I think giving them energy weapons as their main weapons wouldn't work well in the show - simply put, it would go to far in destroying the similarity between SG guys and our military. I think they've handled that well, as they've alluded in numerous episodes to how projectile weapons are - at least - on par with energy ones. For the first few seasons, they also maintained the whole advanced tech thing extremely well, IMO. We would have access to advance tech through allies like the Asgard or Tok'Ra, but they were unwilling to actually trade this technology, so it wasn't often that tech could be used.
Well, you have examples in the show such as creation of those anti-Replicator and anti-Prior devices, which were created by the SGC, based on alien technology. That's fairly advanced. Also, take the ships. Advanced systems (hyperdrive, etc.) were installed on the Prometheus by the Asgard, but the Daedalus and other new ships were apparently built entirely on Earth.
True, the new enemies did put them back to square one. That had to be done anyway - they couldn't start Season 9 with a new enemy as powerful as the Goa'uld, because those wouldn't be much of a threat. I still found the last parts of Stargate enjoyable (Season 10 was, I think, excellent overall), but it did ruin the believability aspect, to the degree it can exist in sci-fi in the first place. Essentially, there were two stages. First, Earth using contemporary, real technology to fend off advanced aliens. Second, Earth using advanced technology to fight off even more advanced aliens. It comes down to which you prefer in the end. But one feeling I never got was that they "barely understand" all this new technology. In so many episodes, you had Carter easily tweaking acquired alien technology, or interfacing with alien devices, etc., that I got the feeling it's not barely understandable to them. Ditto for how, particularly in Season 10, beaming was used quite casually, instead of being a big thing.
I'm sure by "our" he means contemporary Earth. But actually, that part of SG has become lost over the years. It used to be our (contemporary Earth) military and people putting up a fight against evil aliens. However, by now (Season 10 of SG1/Season 3 of Atlantis), it actually bears little resemblance to our contemporary situation. In the series, the US Air Force maintains three battle spaceships, several squadrons of space fighters, and beaming technology has been routinely used for several years now. Funnily enough, the technology used by people on Battlestar Galactica is closer to what we have now than what Stargate Command is using in the recent seasons.
...this article still hasn't been tagged with 'thinkofthechildren', though so many articles are, usually tongue-in-cheeck as well ;).
And the same in your neighbouring Latvia. Criminal responsibility at the age of 14, not before. Oh well, we all know the US is strange ;).
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Speaking of windows. Vista has "glass" style Aero. Now Windows Vienna will have a new "nanocoating" style, even less reflective than Vista!
apt-get dist-upgrade isn't supposed to be super-smooth or anything. The Ubuntu forums and wiki recommend NOT using that, but rather upgrading by, if memory serves, 'gksudo update-manager -c -d'
Using since Herd3 here, and it is indeed a big improvement over Edgy. Edgy was, well, edgy for me. On the 64-bit version, many minor things, such as not having the boot splash, or CPU timing sometimes screwed up. Herd4, which was recently released, was quite surprisingly stable, although there remained issues with running 32-bit apps on the 64-bit version. Now, if only they had 1.2.3.1 in Feisty, saving me the need to compile & install it.
Piracy is still helping Microsoft. I don't know about Ballmer, but I'm sure Gates realizes this. If Microsoft could come up with the Perfect Anti-Piracy Defense (TM), they'd be royally screwed a year later. In Central and Eastern Europe, there are numerous countries that don't get super-cheap MS software like some Asian countries do, but where the salaries are low. Low as in laughable by Americans standards, as in less than the worst-paid jobs. Example? Romania, with an average gross wage of 545 USD. Piracy is prevalent in these countries, and if they could no longer pirate, most home users would have to seek alternatives. And every Linux enthusiast would start advertising it really actively, and Microsoft's market share would be gone just like that. MS are smart enough to realize that they should fight those who produce counterfeit software or companies that have the money but decide to save up by not buying legal software. But certainly they shouldn't fight piracy by home users who can't afford the software and would switch to an alternative the moment they could no longer pirate.