A guy over a Bluesnews came up with the perfect way to make your own Doom 3! And save the money!:
For all of you that have yet to buy the game, you can easily recreate it: Go in your living room around midnight, pull all the blinds down. Buy a two dollar flashlight and stand in the center of your living room. Have your friends quietly walk around you, every once in a while yelling in your ear and punching you in the face. You can punch back, but you have to shut the light off first. There yah go, all kinds of money saved.
Sorry, you and I both know that if some one donwloads it, even if they do so with the intention of buying it as well, many wont get around to shelling out the cash. I say this as a software devloper that has had one too many products fail due to rampant piracy.
Ah of course - that explains it. All the software producers who can't belive that their crappy software doesn't sell in the millions - it must be pirates!
People used to say the same thing about Quake 1. However, if you got rid of all ambient light and played, you could see everything you were supposed to and without the washed out-ness that comes from upping your gamma too far.
And then ID learned to design well lit maps... no wait, we are still waiting for that...
Are there crates!? Are there big powerfull rockets who can't make a dent in the walls?! Are there tiny rooms and corridors very badly lit? Are there keycards!?
Turning up gamma and brightness settings on your computer won't help, and nor are they meant to. You see, as I have discovered, id has deliberately made this game so that the above won't work. Why?
Because then they would have had to make something that actually looked good instead of blackness.
Since when is charging a price that people are willing to pay "a bad move ethically"?
Since someone started the practice.
Let me ask you. Do you try to maximize the money you make in your workplace (I'm assuming you work)? Or do you say to your employer, "You know, you really pay me more than I need. I wish you would lower my pay by $.50 an hour, or whatever. Do you? Don't you feel bad that you are so unethical for trying to make the most money you can at what you do?
Even if he doesn't its still greed.
Do you think companies are out to break even? Of course not, that's not why they exist. Would you rather id and Activision not even exist, so they wouldn't have even made Doom 3, and their evil plot to make money hadn't occurred?
Since its the same game they release everytime, i'm sure we would have survived.
Mitchell said he found WinSpy on
Dobbs' computer when transferring material and programs in his computer to a new one and at that time saw that the program had an "imbedded address" that allowed someone outside the department to have access to DOT's computer system. The imbedded address was traced to Australia.
Or you could have 100% of programs work correctly by configuring your network in the correct manner.
Newsflash: You don't get to decide what is correct. And "roaming profiles" are not desirable.
the app works fine
Not for me. Accept it.
Find pages in which the javascript isn't broken that don't render correctly in firefox, then you have an argument.
Don't be stupid, i wouldn't have said it if it wasn't the case. My local page for one - sure i could change the javascript, but why should i - it works in MSIE if some other browser wish to entice me, it must be Javascript compatible.
"In the interest of saving time, i have reduced you reply to "Yes.""
Well my reply can be properly reduced to either "You don't know what your talking about." or "Yes it does".
Only by a liar (or perhaps a religious browser zealot)
I said "it can't store favourites in a MSIE compatible way".
It can't. End of discussion.
It also doesn't remove the files it has put in documents and settings when you uninstall the product.
Irrelvant. (What other programs do wrong is not a justification) And like all applications on windows systems are supposed to do?
Thankfully all applications do not, there are 'green' programs which do not. It fills me with joy each time i find one. And NO, they SHOULD allow the user the choice, not follow a boorish dictate of a mega cooperation.
The app does run out of a directory,
No really???!
preferences and user specific settings are stored under that users profile.
No really???! Wake up buddy, that was what i was complaining about.
When i switch between different windows installs or access program directories via network shares i'm screwed with such programs. No dice. I need programs which support the user not the megacorps.
Otherwise the application doesn't work
It doesn't as it is. So that's easy enough.
I'm sure there must be some, but I haven't seen any in a long time.
Boring on strawman argument there "I've never been mugged so nobody has been mugged". What you have or haven't seen isn't relevant.
The answer is to set your useragent string to lie and say it's IE.
Actually no it isn't, since it doesn't support the Javascript 100% the user agent is irrelevant.
"Also it can't store favourites in a msie compatible way."
In the interest of saving time, i have reduced you reply to "Yes."
I realize this is probably an unpopular opinion to have on slashdot, but I don't think most people understand that someone has to pay the hosting fees, bandwidth, editing time, content, etc.
Yeah, but that's their problem - not ours. Also, they should consider hosting it outside the US - seems the US is really raping people on bandwith charges.
Not to get all MPAA on you, but when you block the ads, you're hurting the site.
Hey you are MPAA - because you are lying. It doesn't hurt them (and if they are serving it from their own server it is actually saving them some money).
I don't and wont click on annoying and stupid adds, nor do i click on irrelevant adds - thats about 99% of them right there.
I don't give a hoot about their expenses, that's not my responsiblity - they could use Google Addwords: They don't flash, blink, jump or make stupid noises, they dont skate all over the page and they are actually quite often relevant to what the page is about. If a site chooses *PISS OFF THE CUSTOMER* adds they've only got them selves to blame. And if they have to close because they are unable to make money - too bad - i'm sure the rest of us will survive.
And if i'm going to use something else it must be able to run out of it's own directory, firefreak and mossila insist on using that my documents setting crap.
Also it can't store favourites in a msie compatible way.
And there were a few other things i didn't like when i tired firefox last time.
B5 was better because it got to tell its entire story
Its funny with B5: Lame effects, bad writing, mostly bad acting (sometimes every totally atrocious "acting" - the president at the end of season 4 should be replaced with YarYar Binks and it would be a vast improvement) - but its still entertaining to watch because of the overall arch.
But better than Firefly? I no possible way. Even if Firefly had been after the pilot it would have been infinitely better.
Slashdot Mirror
Blooms every 4 to 20 years? With precision like that it must be female ;)
(Runs for cover)
We expect a tech demo to be cheaper ;)
A guy over a Bluesnews came up with the perfect way to make your own Doom 3! And save the money!:
For all of you that have yet to buy the game, you can easily recreate it: Go in your living room around midnight, pull all the blinds down. Buy a two dollar flashlight and stand in the center of your living room. Have your friends quietly walk around you, every once in a while yelling in your ear and punching you in the face. You can punch back, but you have to shut the light off first. There yah go, all kinds of money saved.
bla bla bla
That's some great rationalisations there pal.
Instead of realizing the amount of work and study that went into this, people are brats.
It doesn't matter if they worked 50 years on it, if its bad its bad (and bad is subjective)
That Time article said Carmack studied optics for four years to make the engine work better, be more realistic. Thats fucking dedication.
The man invented our pastime, lets show some respect for christ's sake.
Sure, if he gives us a free copy. If he wants money then its not dedication its just work - to pay for all those shiny cars.
Sorry, you and I both know that if some one donwloads it, even if they do so with the intention of buying it as well, many wont get around to shelling out the cash. I say this as a software devloper that has had one too many products fail due to rampant piracy.
Ah of course - that explains it. All the software producers who can't belive that their crappy software doesn't sell in the millions - it must be pirates!
I'm going to buy Doom3 from id directly at the id Store [idsoftware.com].
My way of thanking companies that still create good titles.
And if its not a good titel, can you return it?
People used to say the same thing about Quake 1. However, if you got rid of all ambient light and played, you could see everything you were supposed to and without the washed out-ness that comes from upping your gamma too far.
... no wait, we are still waiting for that...
And then ID learned to design well lit maps
Are there crates!?
Are there big powerfull rockets who can't make a dent in the walls?!
Are there tiny rooms and corridors very badly lit?
Are there keycards!?
Turning up gamma and brightness settings on your computer won't help, and nor are they meant to. You see, as I have discovered, id has deliberately made this game so that the above won't work. Why?
Because then they would have had to make something that actually looked good instead of blackness.
And next time they may learn to release it world wide at the same time ;)
Since when is charging a price that people are willing to pay "a bad move ethically"?
Since someone started the practice.
Let me ask you. Do you try to maximize the money you make in your workplace (I'm assuming you work)? Or do you say to your employer, "You know, you really pay me more than I need. I wish you would lower my pay by $.50 an hour, or whatever. Do you? Don't you feel bad that you are so unethical for trying to make the most money you can at what you do?
Even if he doesn't its still greed.
Do you think companies are out to break even? Of course not, that's not why they exist. Would you rather id and Activision not even exist, so they wouldn't have even made Doom 3, and their evil plot to make money hadn't occurred?
Since its the same game they release everytime, i'm sure we would have survived.
He spied on a superior - that's not his job. He complained, if that didn't help he should have lived with it or moved on.
Straw-man argument.
Mozilla Firefox is JavaScript compatible. Real JavaScript, as it was designed by Netscape, not as it was "extended" by Microsoft.
So you agree with my comment: "Its still not compatible with MSIE javascript."
And from my point of view its a strike against it.
Oops, i should have read this first.
You don't get to call me moron, if you can't behave properly i have no wish to interact with you. I suggest you grow up.
"Its still not compatible with MSIE javascript."
Uh...
You mean to say:
Nope.
Or you could have 100% of programs work correctly by configuring your network in the correct manner.
Newsflash: You don't get to decide what is correct. And "roaming profiles" are not desirable.
the app works fine
Not for me. Accept it.
Find pages in which the javascript isn't broken that don't render correctly in firefox, then you have an argument.
Don't be stupid, i wouldn't have said it if it wasn't the case. My local page for one - sure i could change the javascript, but why should i - it works in MSIE if some other browser wish to entice me, it must be Javascript compatible.
"In the interest of saving time, i have reduced you reply to "Yes.""
Well my reply can be properly reduced to either "You don't know what your talking about." or "Yes it does".
Only by a liar (or perhaps a religious browser zealot)
I said "it can't store favourites in a MSIE compatible way".
It can't. End of discussion.
It also doesn't remove the files it has put in documents and settings when you uninstall the product.
Oh, you mean like IE does?
Irrelvant. (What other programs do wrong is not a justification)
And like all applications on windows systems are supposed to do?
Thankfully all applications do not, there are 'green' programs which do not. It fills me with joy each time i find one. And NO, they SHOULD allow the user the choice, not follow a boorish dictate of a mega cooperation.
The app does run out of a directory,
No really???!
preferences and user specific settings are stored under that users profile.
No really???! Wake up buddy, that was what i was complaining about.
When i switch between different windows installs or access program directories via network shares i'm screwed with such programs. No dice. I need programs which support the user not the megacorps.
Otherwise the application doesn't work
It doesn't as it is. So that's easy enough.
I'm sure there must be some, but I haven't seen any in a long time.
Boring on strawman argument there "I've never been mugged so nobody has been mugged". What you have or haven't seen isn't relevant.
The answer is to set your useragent string to lie and say it's IE.
Actually no it isn't, since it doesn't support the Javascript 100% the user agent is irrelevant.
"Also it can't store favourites in a msie compatible way."
In the interest of saving time, i have reduced you reply to "Yes."
I realize this is probably an unpopular opinion to have on slashdot, but I don't think most people understand that someone has to pay the hosting fees, bandwidth, editing time, content, etc.
Yeah, but that's their problem - not ours. Also, they should consider hosting it outside the US - seems the US is really raping people on bandwith charges.
Not to get all MPAA on you, but when you block the ads, you're hurting the site.
Hey you are MPAA - because you are lying. It doesn't hurt them (and if they are serving it from their own server it is actually saving them some money).
I don't and wont click on annoying and stupid adds, nor do i click on irrelevant adds - thats about 99% of them right there.
I don't give a hoot about their expenses, that's not my responsiblity - they could use Google Addwords: They don't flash, blink, jump or make stupid noises, they dont skate all over the page and they are actually quite often relevant to what the page is about.
If a site chooses *PISS OFF THE CUSTOMER* adds they've only got them selves to blame. And if they have to close because they are unable to make money - too bad - i'm sure the rest of us will survive.
Yeah, doesn't work.
Its still not compatible with MSIE javascript.
And if i'm going to use something else it must be able to run out of it's own directory, firefreak and mossila insist on using that my documents setting crap.
Also it can't store favourites in a msie compatible way.
And there were a few other things i didn't like when i tired firefox last time.
Hopefully not studing communication, eh. Whats UofM ?
B5 was better because it got to tell its entire story
Its funny with B5: Lame effects, bad writing, mostly bad acting (sometimes every totally atrocious "acting" - the president at the end of season 4 should be replaced with YarYar Binks and it would be a vast improvement) - but its still entertaining to watch because of the overall arch.
But better than Firefly? I no possible way. Even if Firefly had been after the pilot it would have been infinitely better.
...he will be dumped in gitmo and his house leveled with the ground.
Well apart from the fact he was an arrogant ass, they feds don't have a right to trash his eqiupment.