You can release the code for a game but still sell the media. Did you think Id just gives their games away for free? All the Quake code in the world is useless without a pak file to play.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather play classic Playstation roms and my gigantic MAME collection than the kind of Windows games that don't run in Wine (especially DRM-laden works like MW2)
It's not like their server couldn't log the IP along with the anonymous comment. And what about services like 10minutemail, mailinator, or guerrila mail? I doubt hunting down someone by one of those email addresses would be any easier than just using whatever IP they posted under.
I'm not talking about exploits. Cracking a ps3 opens up the software to all sorts of modification - compare it to rooting an android phone and putting custom firmware on. If the hardware vendor won't fix their product, people will fix it on their own with mods.
This is why ray tracer demos love showing off spheres made of millions of polygons and so on. It is cheap to do. However turns out polygons aren't the only thing that matters for graphics.
The spheres would most likely be represented as an equation, not a soup of polygons. It's much more efficient (not to mention a whole lot easier) to raytrace. It's also infinitely precise, which is actually why a lot of people are more interested in raytracing than approximating things with polygons.
For instance, it's a heck of a lot easier to render isosurfaces in a raytracer than turning them into a big polygon soup and rasterizing that.
In my experience the open source ones were actually more stable than the closed source fglrx. Before AMD fixed their driver for Xorg 1.7 my Fedora 12 install was horribly buggy. Random lockups and screen corruption would happen at least once a day. The experimental radeon driver worked great though.
Nowadays fglrx runs fine on Fedora 12 but F13 is already out - I wonder how long it will take AMD to fix their driver this time...
The reality of it is a lot worse than most people imagine. Instead of easily manageable, solid chunks of plastic it's in the form of tons of tiny particles. This makes cleanup extremely difficult as well as makes the plastic much more lethal to wildlife. Animals try to eat the colorful bits, mistaking them for natural food sources: http://coastalcare.org/wp-content/images/issues/pollution/plastic/bird-carcass.jpg
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Vi was made for productivity. It was built to help you edit text efficiently over low bandwidth connections (specifically Bill Joy's 300 baud modem). Since Vim has more features designed for convenience, you could argue that it was made so you could be even more productive when editing text.
For one, Steam doesn't charge you to store crap in their cloud. For two, there is still a copy of the save on disk. You could manage all your saves manually just like before (keep a backup in case the cloud copy overwrites it). The service just copies them to new installs/computers so you don't have to.
Well, it's a primary partition and if you plan on adding more two on top of that you'd be stuck with extended or LVM and the like. It's not the size that's so much of a problem - its the fact that it's a partition.
The question is, is it a big enough difference to justify blowing a grand? My point was that giant displays are getting to be dirt cheap, so your argument that you're going to be spending $1600 anyway isn't justified.
For myself, I know many people are critical of the iPad, on the other hand, I think I will still buy one - it looks like a cool ebook reader - whether it has multi-tasking or not.
Except for the whole screen-that-melts-your-eyes thing. For long reading sessions, nothing beats a screen designed for it (E Ink).
Believe it or not, most people use their computers for tasks other than playing games. The problem is the loudest people only complain about not being able to play their Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 3.
Most people I know run Gimp on a desktop solely for image editing. That way you just swap over to the image editing desktop and you don't have to fool with the taskbar at all.
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It would probably be a lot easier to dump it into sqlite or something similar.
You can release the code for a game but still sell the media. Did you think Id just gives their games away for free? All the Quake code in the world is useless without a pak file to play.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather play classic Playstation roms and my gigantic MAME collection than the kind of Windows games that don't run in Wine (especially DRM-laden works like MW2)
It's not like their server couldn't log the IP along with the anonymous comment. And what about services like 10minutemail, mailinator, or guerrila mail? I doubt hunting down someone by one of those email addresses would be any easier than just using whatever IP they posted under.
I'm not talking about exploits. Cracking a ps3 opens up the software to all sorts of modification - compare it to rooting an android phone and putting custom firmware on. If the hardware vendor won't fix their product, people will fix it on their own with mods.
If you patched to 3.42 you're already out of luck. 3.41 was the last crackable version (until somebody figures out another exploit).
This is why ray tracer demos love showing off spheres made of millions of polygons and so on. It is cheap to do. However turns out polygons aren't the only thing that matters for graphics.
The spheres would most likely be represented as an equation, not a soup of polygons. It's much more efficient (not to mention a whole lot easier) to raytrace. It's also infinitely precise, which is actually why a lot of people are more interested in raytracing than approximating things with polygons.
For instance, it's a heck of a lot easier to render isosurfaces in a raytracer than turning them into a big polygon soup and rasterizing that.
My trackball doesn't, but I have a bind to hold mouse4 so I can scroll with the wheel. It feels great with the trackball's momentum!
... low amount of apps, etc.
You can install Debian packages on an N900. It's essentially a tiny ARM tablet running Linux.
In my experience the open source ones were actually more stable than the closed source fglrx. Before AMD fixed their driver for Xorg 1.7 my Fedora 12 install was horribly buggy. Random lockups and screen corruption would happen at least once a day. The experimental radeon driver worked great though.
Nowadays fglrx runs fine on Fedora 12 but F13 is already out - I wonder how long it will take AMD to fix their driver this time...
Wine is capable of translating DirectX to OpenGL in realtime, which is how you're able to play that in Linux.
A lot of games in both Windows and Linux use OpenAL (including modern games from id and Epic)
The reality of it is a lot worse than most people imagine. Instead of easily manageable, solid chunks of plastic it's in the form of tons of tiny particles. This makes cleanup extremely difficult as well as makes the plastic much more lethal to wildlife. Animals try to eat the colorful bits, mistaking them for natural food sources: http://coastalcare.org/wp-content/images/issues/pollution/plastic/bird-carcass.jpg
Vi was made for productivity. It was built to help you edit text efficiently over low bandwidth connections (specifically Bill Joy's 300 baud modem). Since Vim has more features designed for convenience, you could argue that it was made so you could be even more productive when editing text.
But it's still loading the ads - all it does is hide them. The whole point of his post was that Chrome adblock still loads them.
they didn't release the source code too! My head would explode if somebody rigged up the engine to play turn based Battletech rules.
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Good to see all the fanboys out in force today...
Someone really thinks this is flamebait??
For one, Steam doesn't charge you to store crap in their cloud. For two, there is still a copy of the save on disk. You could manage all your saves manually just like before (keep a backup in case the cloud copy overwrites it). The service just copies them to new installs/computers so you don't have to.
Well, it's a primary partition and if you plan on adding more two on top of that you'd be stuck with extended or LVM and the like. It's not the size that's so much of a problem - its the fact that it's a partition.
The question is, is it a big enough difference to justify blowing a grand? My point was that giant displays are getting to be dirt cheap, so your argument that you're going to be spending $1600 anyway isn't justified.
Considering you can get a 27" at 2048 x 1152 for $450 right now, I'd save myself the $1000 or so and just get something like this.
For myself, I know many people are critical of the iPad, on the other hand, I think I will still buy one - it looks like a cool ebook reader - whether it has multi-tasking or not.
Except for the whole screen-that-melts-your-eyes thing. For long reading sessions, nothing beats a screen designed for it (E Ink).
Believe it or not, most people use their computers for tasks other than playing games. The problem is the loudest people only complain about not being able to play their Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 3.
Most people I know run Gimp on a desktop solely for image editing. That way you just swap over to the image editing desktop and you don't have to fool with the taskbar at all.