Speed. The stick would never give you the speed needed. On the stick the speed is related to inclination of the controller, which has a maximum. If you get a mouse, speed is related to the actual speed you move the mouse. After you get used to it, if you want to turn 180degrees, for example, you just make a REALLY fast mouse move with the precise distance to rotate your character and make it look behind. This can't be done with a controller. I would have to move the stick to maximum and just wait
Besides, Microsoft had a project for online play mixed with PCs and Xboxes. The project was canceled because the xboxers got their asses kicked every time. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the arstechnica article about that.
I would do something that I don't like, but it comes out perfectly on this occasion:
The people who hacked hypervisor didn't give two shits about "getting games for free." It was about getting linux running with full hardware access.
The people who hacked the PSP didn't give a shit about "getting games for free" either. They did it because they wanted to get their programs and code to run freely
I had to giggle when I saw that you typed "spelt" instead of spelled. Sure, you spelled spelt correctly, if you we referring to a grain. Interestingly.
Its your fault. Why in hell a slashdotter will spend its time reading the freaking article? Shame on you. I for one didn't even think about clicking that link
Another things that bites sometimes is that the practice can introduce of and external dependency that will limit the portability of your code. Note that I'm not against the practice, but one has to be careful and understand the consequences.
Maybe people will see my post as a troll, but it is not my intention at all: in my experience, your reasoning goes along with people who wants to have fun coding, and not from people who are committed with the final result.
It is the NIH syndrome, a.k.a "I can do it better". Usually the guy looses a couple of weeks reinventing the wheel and turn up a result similar to what was available in first place (assuming it is a good software engineer).
99% of the time people get modded troll because of the way they express their opinions and NOT because of what they think. If this one falls on the 1% I can't really say, but one can guess...
Now every tech company has to get an ipad competitor on the market. Kudos to Apple for leading innovation like no one else. How many years have we seen people talk about thjs particular form-factor? Appple makes one and boom. Now everyone is doing it.
Don't take me the wrong way. This is not a rant! I'm actually happy to see this kind of development
So if steam is on Linux, nothing changes from the sales point of view. You will buy Bad Company for Linux instead of Bad Company for Windows.
My point is, valve is not going to sell much more games. Their audience will just migrate from one OS to another. They (we) will be very happy, but it won't come out as more money to the company.
Reality is a little cruel sometimes. It would love to get something like steam running on my Linux box. I would be great. But I see their reasoning...
Don't ask me. I am just giving you the facts. Quoting (emphasis mine):
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (SUN) hereby grants to you a fully paid, nonexclusive, nontransferable, perpetual, worldwide limited license (without the right to sublicense) under SUN's intellectual property rights that are essential to practice this specification. This license allows and is limited to the creation and distribution of clean room implementations of this specification that:
(i) include a complete implementation of the current version of this specification without subsetting or supersetting;
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At work I can't use chrome 'cause its not installed. So its Firefox. At home, my netbook just lags with firefox, so I use Chrome.
In this situation, Xmarks was the only option I had to keep both browsers synchronized (Firefox at work, Chrome on the netbook)
As far as I know, there is no version for chrome
... and the 0.1% that do are going to reply to your post
Speed. The stick would never give you the speed needed. On the stick the speed is related to inclination of the controller, which has a maximum. If you get a mouse, speed is related to the actual speed you move the mouse. After you get used to it, if you want to turn 180degrees, for example, you just make a REALLY fast mouse move with the precise distance to rotate your character and make it look behind. This can't be done with a controller. I would have to move the stick to maximum and just wait
Besides, Microsoft had a project for online play mixed with PCs and Xboxes. The project was canceled because the xboxers got their asses kicked every time. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the arstechnica article about that.
You should at least mind that Steam don't let you give away your game to a friend. The transformed a product on a license. A not transferable one, BTW
I would do something that I don't like, but it comes out perfectly on this occasion:
The people who hacked hypervisor didn't give two shits about "getting games for free." It was about getting linux running with full hardware access.
The people who hacked the PSP didn't give a shit about "getting games for free" either. They did it because they wanted to get their programs and code to run freely
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I had to giggle when I saw that you typed "spelt" instead of spelled. Sure, you spelled spelt correctly, if you we referring to a grain. Interestingly.
Maybe the article meant to say that ImageMagick would be installed by default in your Linux box
And if apropos don't help, you can alway pray
Its your fault. Why in hell a slashdotter will spend its time reading the freaking article? Shame on you.
I for one didn't even think about clicking that link
Hey, you can do everything in assembly!
Another things that bites sometimes is that the practice can introduce of and external dependency that will limit the portability of your code. Note that I'm not against the practice, but one has to be careful and understand the consequences.
The reason are two fold:
1) The amount of morons *always* exceeds the amount of experienced and reasonable people
2) Usually, morons don't have a clue that they... well... are morons!
I for one can assure you that I'm NOT a moron :-)
One build bridges and the other one codes. Oh, wait!
Maybe people will see my post as a troll, but it is not my intention at all: in my experience, your reasoning goes along with people who wants to have fun coding, and not from people who are committed with the final result.
It is the NIH syndrome, a.k.a "I can do it better". Usually the guy looses a couple of weeks reinventing the wheel and turn up a result similar to what was available in first place (assuming it is a good software engineer).
Aren't comments part of the code?
LOL to both. And I am brazilian... We need to be more realistic here...
99% of the time people get modded troll because of the way they express their opinions and NOT because of what they think. If this one falls on the 1% I can't really say, but one can guess...
Are you Brazilian? I am sure you are not. I am Brazilian and I assure you that we are a Western country. I will not even argue about that with you.
About the rest, somethings are true, some are exaggerated and other are even worst than you said. I doesn't matter
Now get off my lawn!
Now every tech company has to get an ipad competitor on the market. Kudos to Apple for leading innovation like no one else. How many years have we seen people talk about thjs particular form-factor? Appple makes one and boom. Now everyone is doing it.
Don't take me the wrong way. This is not a rant! I'm actually happy to see this kind of development
So if steam is on Linux, nothing changes from the sales point of view. You will buy Bad Company for Linux instead of Bad Company for Windows.
My point is, valve is not going to sell much more games. Their audience will just migrate from one OS to another. They (we) will be very happy, but it won't come out as more money to the company.
Reality is a little cruel sometimes. It would love to get something like steam running on my Linux box. I would be great. But I see their reasoning...
Don't ask me. I am just giving you the facts. Quoting (emphasis mine):
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (SUN) hereby grants to you a fully paid, nonexclusive, nontransferable, perpetual, worldwide limited license (without the right to sublicense) under SUN's intellectual property rights that are essential to practice this specification. This license allows and is limited to the creation and distribution of clean room implementations of this specification that:
(i) include a complete implementation of the current version of this specification without subsetting or supersetting;
You read news = GOOD. You reading news without paying attention to details = BAD
They will have to take my android from my cold dead hands
Now we need a JVM implemented on Flash and bingo. Infinite loop, here we go