Freeworlds is already released under its 18.xx version. Freeworlds: Tides of War (aka 2.0) is slated for an early 2011 beta release.
I should know, I'm on the development team and I can tell you there is no way this doesn't get released. Not after all the work that's been done, such as porting the game to DX9 and making high-polygon models for all the ships. You are considering Freelancer as it was in 2003 - today's reality is much different. You should take a closer look.
If you really want some Star Wars action in space, I've only one suggestion: Freeworlds: Tides of War, a mod for Freelancer. It's as close to a remake as it'll get and more.
Until you have read the tweet, you can't honestly say anything. Seriously, just read the damn thing and you'll understand how idiotic this is:
"Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"
It's obvious that it isn't a threat, it's obviously said by an angry person over missing his flight and I honestly am totally stunned by how this thing blew out of proportions.
They're con artists. Are you saying you don't want artists to get their fair share of the work they produce? Are you valuing automobile design more than the incredible art of conning? It takes skill and cunning to be a con artist, something which very few people have. You should respect their profession instead of denigrating it as "fraud".
Ah! Artists are never really understood by the masses.
Too bad you can't really make life out of a handful of atoms, eh? Matter isn't continuous, it would be impossible to create something ever smaller, since at one point you'd be trying to break down something which cannot be broken down.
On the other hand, WE may be the creation of very very very large aliens with their Very Very Very Large Hadron Collider...
Having access to a 14.5px font has absolutely nothing to do with using 8px font. One is about flexibility, the other is about accessibility. Firefox is doing the good thing here, and a 12px font in IE will still bother you as much as a 12px font in FF.
I honestly don't see what your reply has to do with the GP.
That, and the fact that many ISPs also are copyright owners and content makers. Then they're just defending their own interests in a different subsection of the company.
Interestingly, I recall something similar. At my university, it appears that many physics bachelors end up in an economics master's. The key thing about physics - problem solving - gave them such an advantage that they often would surpass people with an economics background during their BSc, even though they didn't know that much about it.
With many EU countries implementing a three-strikes law, I'd be really curious to see what would happen when a hypothetical government-ran search engine started indexing copyrighted content. We all know it would be inevitable. Would you like a search engine in bed with Hadopi?
... controlled by the US government (who else would have the means and would volunteer?), the same which will soon have an Internet kill switch and is almost completely submerged by lobbyists? Is it really that much better?
I wish I had mod points now. I'd often rather not have MP at all, for I barely ever do multiplayer. There isn't a whole lot of fun to getting shot at by people you don't know who'll rub it in your face in the typical well-mannered way a 14-year old can.
Big, big correction here: SSDs are only affected by writes. You can write to them a finite number of times, but read from them for as long as the device is physically in good shape. If you know your SSD is becoming old, you can make it a read-only storage and have it work forever. Magnetic hard drives have a tendency to fail catastrophically; SSDs will never do that, and that is a very large plus for them.
Why was this post modded informative when half the thing should be marked with [citation needed]? The GP gave numbers backing what he was saying. I could say that RIM has, in fact, sold 100x more BBs than Apple has sold iPhones in the last 70 years. What exactly makes my or the parent's sayings have any credibility? I'm not saying they're wrong (although it does look a little suspicious that you essentially contradict the GP directly by saying that iOS outsells Android when Android has more market share in the US from the data provided), but until what you've said has been backed up, it's all hot air.
Plus, your demand quality part is ironic; wouldn't that be a thinly veiled attack saying that Android does not offer quality? So much for not being a fanboy...
Even then, it still requires effort to make the switch. If you go to Best Buy (and while geeks here don't do that, plenty of people do) to buy a desktop, it will come with Windows, whether you like it or not. Since Linux is striving to be able to do all that Windows can do, then since you've already paid for Windows, it's already installed for you and it's what you're familiar with, then why exactly bother switching?
The only possible reason that would make people switch would be for Linux, whatever the distribution, became better in a very recognizable fashion. Being less affected by malware is not enough; your common layperson probably knows a geek who'll fix it for them for free, or they'll actually think it's normal "wear and tear" and that after a few years, a computer has gone "slow" and needs to be replaced, while in fact it's just their bad computer hygiene screwing up their OS. Since no big advertising is done and since a great majority of people behave that way, there's no real reason that would ever change.
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Ah, so a mod that is in development is doomed to failure? Interesting to know.
I assume you think Diablo 3 is likewise doomed to fail. After all, the downloads section of the site only has videos and wallpapers.
Freeworlds is already released under its 18.xx version. Freeworlds: Tides of War (aka 2.0) is slated for an early 2011 beta release.
I should know, I'm on the development team and I can tell you there is no way this doesn't get released. Not after all the work that's been done, such as porting the game to DX9 and making high-polygon models for all the ships. You are considering Freelancer as it was in 2003 - today's reality is much different. You should take a closer look.
If you really want some Star Wars action in space, I've only one suggestion: Freeworlds: Tides of War, a mod for Freelancer. It's as close to a remake as it'll get and more.
Obviously being slashdotted stops the test from loading, but the ads show up just fine.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
The iWorldDominator.
Until you have read the tweet, you can't honestly say anything. Seriously, just read the damn thing and you'll understand how idiotic this is:
"Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"
It's obvious that it isn't a threat, it's obviously said by an angry person over missing his flight and I honestly am totally stunned by how this thing blew out of proportions.
You bet.
They're con artists. Are you saying you don't want artists to get their fair share of the work they produce? Are you valuing automobile design more than the incredible art of conning? It takes skill and cunning to be a con artist, something which very few people have. You should respect their profession instead of denigrating it as "fraud".
Ah! Artists are never really understood by the masses.
Micro black holes will swallow Dan Brown! OH GOD.
Too bad you can't really make life out of a handful of atoms, eh? Matter isn't continuous, it would be impossible to create something ever smaller, since at one point you'd be trying to break down something which cannot be broken down.
On the other hand, WE may be the creation of very very very large aliens with their Very Very Very Large Hadron Collider...
Before bills C-32, C-61 or C-60.
Having access to a 14.5px font has absolutely nothing to do with using 8px font. One is about flexibility, the other is about accessibility. Firefox is doing the good thing here, and a 12px font in IE will still bother you as much as a 12px font in FF.
I honestly don't see what your reply has to do with the GP.
That, and the fact that many ISPs also are copyright owners and content makers. Then they're just defending their own interests in a different subsection of the company.
Interestingly, I recall something similar. At my university, it appears that many physics bachelors end up in an economics master's. The key thing about physics - problem solving - gave them such an advantage that they often would surpass people with an economics background during their BSc, even though they didn't know that much about it.
Actually, the dominant player in Quebec is Videotron for web services. They have more than a million subscribers.
With many EU countries implementing a three-strikes law, I'd be really curious to see what would happen when a hypothetical government-ran search engine started indexing copyrighted content. We all know it would be inevitable. Would you like a search engine in bed with Hadopi?
... controlled by the US government (who else would have the means and would volunteer?), the same which will soon have an Internet kill switch and is almost completely submerged by lobbyists? Is it really that much better?
Children below age 8-9 don't even really get the sense of "right" and "wrong". How in hell can you sue someone who doesn't even grasp that?
The parents should be the ones sued, if any, but an accident is what it is. They probably couldn't have avoided that kind of thing.
I wish I had mod points now. I'd often rather not have MP at all, for I barely ever do multiplayer. There isn't a whole lot of fun to getting shot at by people you don't know who'll rub it in your face in the typical well-mannered way a 14-year old can.
Big, big correction here: SSDs are only affected by writes. You can write to them a finite number of times, but read from them for as long as the device is physically in good shape. If you know your SSD is becoming old, you can make it a read-only storage and have it work forever. Magnetic hard drives have a tendency to fail catastrophically; SSDs will never do that, and that is a very large plus for them.
What the hell was illegal in what she did?
Whoosh.
Why was this post modded informative when half the thing should be marked with [citation needed]? The GP gave numbers backing what he was saying. I could say that RIM has, in fact, sold 100x more BBs than Apple has sold iPhones in the last 70 years. What exactly makes my or the parent's sayings have any credibility? I'm not saying they're wrong (although it does look a little suspicious that you essentially contradict the GP directly by saying that iOS outsells Android when Android has more market share in the US from the data provided), but until what you've said has been backed up, it's all hot air.
Plus, your demand quality part is ironic; wouldn't that be a thinly veiled attack saying that Android does not offer quality? So much for not being a fanboy...
Even then, it still requires effort to make the switch. If you go to Best Buy (and while geeks here don't do that, plenty of people do) to buy a desktop, it will come with Windows, whether you like it or not. Since Linux is striving to be able to do all that Windows can do, then since you've already paid for Windows, it's already installed for you and it's what you're familiar with, then why exactly bother switching?
The only possible reason that would make people switch would be for Linux, whatever the distribution, became better in a very recognizable fashion. Being less affected by malware is not enough; your common layperson probably knows a geek who'll fix it for them for free, or they'll actually think it's normal "wear and tear" and that after a few years, a computer has gone "slow" and needs to be replaced, while in fact it's just their bad computer hygiene screwing up their OS. Since no big advertising is done and since a great majority of people behave that way, there's no real reason that would ever change.
Remember, humans are creatures of habit.