I just wish that AMD will finish its open-source drivers and ditch the infamous proprietary ATi legacy. Than Nvidia will have no other choice than to open their drivers or go bankrupt. I know, I am a dreamer.
...which has a full-sized keyboard, a mouse and a huge display? I bet you call it 'a computer' or 'PC'. Because editing documents, watching videos, even web surfing on a 5 inch display with a micro keyboard sucks.
Remember StarForce? The awfully obfuscated, almost unhackable protection? Its developers were so proud of their product, they said it was impossible to hack into it. And pirates believed them. They simply copied the whole drive image along with its smart protection, bit-by-bit.
Same thing will happen here. Pirates won't try to figure out how the online stuff really works, they will simply capture all the trafic during the test run and replay it locally in the pirated version. Never underestimate the human lazyness.
In Germany, almost every game with violence gets repacked. Say hello to green blood and no gore. In China... well, it's China after all. In Russia the recent Call of Duty is missing a whole mission in the ariport. The funny thing is, nobody officially told publishers to censor anything.
My first disappontment in Steam was, when it didn't allow me to watch the game trailer, because that game was not sold in Russia at that moment.
You'd be surprised, but there are other countries in the world apart from US, UK, AU and Canada. Unfortunately, some game publishers are surprised by that fact, too.
Oh, I forgot to mention, the game is way too repetitive. Decorations change slightly, but everywhere there are Omar, Ms. Spears and two other organizations, whose names I can't even recall. Just making up 4 competing fractions is not enough even for a RTS game plot, you need some... well, plot.
Every time I see it, I curse both Ion Storm and Microsoft.
The 64Mb memory of Xbox lead to room-sized levels. I had a feeling that game designers were more concerned about advertising this console graphics (oh, look, we have shaders and are not afraid to use them), than actually making a decent game. The six-button controller crippled the interface. The teenager target group lead to oversimplified gameplay (same ammo for pistol and flamethrower, WTF?) and a stupid plot (virtual Britney Spears clone is remarkable).
And despite all that, it ran really slow on my PC, which had four times more RAM and a better videocard than this X-crap.
I dare to say, if it's not in Google, it doesn't exist. And that's another reason why monopoly is bad. At the current point, no other company could potentially compete with Google in web search, taking into account its vast processing resources and experience in this field. Yahoo is stagnating, Bing was never considered a rival, despite all Microsoft tricks to steal customers.
The only hope is that someday a p2p indexing technology (like BitTorrent) arises, which would use peoples' resources to index sites. But today Google is so powerful, it's influencing politics and governments. G8 will need to welcome another G soon.
I never understood why adult games should be banned. "Cuz gamez r for childr'n"? Here in Russia, there was an attempt to ban adult cartoons, with the same motivation "c-toons r for childr'n, Amerikka spoils our youth".
the square tiles will be changed to hexes, which provides... 'more realistic gameplay.'
Because all of us, normal people, walk in hexes. Square walking is stupid, you can't cut a corner and walking around obstacles is bothersome. I once saw a guy walking like a rook on a tiled floor, that was really retarded.
They could use honey instead of vinegar. Offer rich online experience, multiplayer, mods, ladders, community support. The people would want that and buy a legitimate copy.
But no, they're actually telling the customer "We know you're a petty criminal, we'll be watching you all the time, so you can't steal our precious product. Pants down and prepare for cavity search". Good luck with that attitude.
Of essential and completely unimplemented features only Power Saving is left. Otherwise, it's fixing bugs, enhancing existing features and speeding up the driver.
The designers are normally just clueless and have no wish to learn code or how stuff works after taking their 1-week Adobe course and getting accreditation as a "web developer".
Not willing to spend a year learning technologies, which were not intended to be used for games, then spend another year writing some kind of a game engine, which would try to bind these technologies together in a suitable way, then spend another year writing a game development environment for that engine, then at last actually making the game, then testing the game in different browsers, because the JS implementation still varies much between them, then making workarounds for browser incompatibilities...
But it's the tru way, the slashdotter has shown us!
Unfortunately, some programs still use Glade. I don't remember now, but I think it was Deluge which wanted libglade.
Anyway, this doesn't answer why there are no references to Glade on gtk.org? Or why Glade is shipping with its own Gtk?
When I open QT website I get a full development suite, including SDK, IDE and GUI designer. What do I get on gtk.org? A bunch of assorted zipped sources and libraries, like it's 1995. It's a pity, because I like Gtk more than Qt.
So it doesn't bother you... So what? I thinks, there are lot of people, who are bothered by it. Should we listen to them? Or should we not?
My post was ironic in that all your ideas were once offered to "cure" homosexuals. Yeah-yeah, psychology, colonies, medications, hypnosis, chemical castration, religion. Should I remind, how many of these worked? Now, if you offer to apply these "techniques" to homosexuals, rather than pedophiles (boo! boo!), you're modded troll on/. and punched in face or sued offline.
Homosexuals aren't something new. They have existed in humanity for at least as long as recorded history. Putting our fingers in our ears and going lalalala will do nothing to protect our children or get homosexuals the treatment that will enable them to participate in our society.
I would like to see the creation of programs where homosexuals can go in and receive counseling without getting a life long stigma. Perhaps we could create colony towns (or more like prisons) out in the middle of nowhere so they can live their lives without temptation. We could do more research on the brains of homosexuals and develop drugs to re-orientate homosexuals to a more healthy sex, preferably in a delivery mechanism like the Norplant birth control so the homosexual just needs to get it replaced every few years.
I just wanted to note the fruitlessness and the cruelty of your idea. Oh, I forgot, homosexuals are protected by law now.
Well, I'm not a programmer, but I hate Google Code. I hate their design. I mean, really hate. It reminds me of Gnome and its HIG philosophy (which is "users are retards"). Those curved edges and the two-color palette... ewww.
Also, sourceforge offers web hosting, so free projects can keep their sites (which could have a better design) at no cost. I don't know if Google Code does this, never saw it.
The SF interface started sucking after recent "update". It was really awful, 404 and 501 errors all the time. Now it is more reliable, but still awfully slow and unintuitive. A very bad "update" that was. Can I have the old design, please?
And maybe, just maybe, we're becoming lazy and ignorant information consumers sitting in front of our computers. Maybe we are becoming so effective at filtering out, that we do not care for anything at all.
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I just wish that AMD will finish its open-source drivers and ditch the infamous proprietary ATi legacy. Than Nvidia will have no other choice than to open their drivers or go bankrupt. I know, I am a dreamer.
...which has a full-sized keyboard, a mouse and a huge display? I bet you call it 'a computer' or 'PC'. Because editing documents, watching videos, even web surfing on a 5 inch display with a micro keyboard sucks.
I would like to see one.
With EA, Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard out, who is left?
Remember StarForce? The awfully obfuscated, almost unhackable protection? Its developers were so proud of their product, they said it was impossible to hack into it. And pirates believed them. They simply copied the whole drive image along with its smart protection, bit-by-bit.
Same thing will happen here. Pirates won't try to figure out how the online stuff really works, they will simply capture all the trafic during the test run and replay it locally in the pirated version. Never underestimate the human lazyness.
In Germany, almost every game with violence gets repacked. Say hello to green blood and no gore. In China... well, it's China after all. In Russia the recent Call of Duty is missing a whole mission in the ariport. The funny thing is, nobody officially told publishers to censor anything.
My first disappontment in Steam was, when it didn't allow me to watch the game trailer, because that game was not sold in Russia at that moment.
You'd be surprised, but there are other countries in the world apart from US, UK, AU and Canada. Unfortunately, some game publishers are surprised by that fact, too.
No, I thought that was too obvious and stupid.
Oh, I forgot to mention, the game is way too repetitive. Decorations change slightly, but everywhere there are Omar, Ms. Spears and two other organizations, whose names I can't even recall. Just making up 4 competing fractions is not enough even for a RTS game plot, you need some... well, plot.
Every time I see it, I curse both Ion Storm and Microsoft.
The 64Mb memory of Xbox lead to room-sized levels. I had a feeling that game designers were more concerned about advertising this console graphics (oh, look, we have shaders and are not afraid to use them), than actually making a decent game. The six-button controller crippled the interface. The teenager target group lead to oversimplified gameplay (same ammo for pistol and flamethrower, WTF?) and a stupid plot (virtual Britney Spears clone is remarkable).
And despite all that, it ran really slow on my PC, which had four times more RAM and a better videocard than this X-crap.
When we were shooting bullets, we didn't want anyone to get hurt. Blame the pistol!
Apple removed them after getting complaints that they were degrading to women.
How exactly is this degrading to women?
I dare to say, if it's not in Google, it doesn't exist. And that's another reason why monopoly is bad. At the current point, no other company could potentially compete with Google in web search, taking into account its vast processing resources and experience in this field. Yahoo is stagnating, Bing was never considered a rival, despite all Microsoft tricks to steal customers.
The only hope is that someday a p2p indexing technology (like BitTorrent) arises, which would use peoples' resources to index sites. But today Google is so powerful, it's influencing politics and governments. G8 will need to welcome another G soon.
People shouldn't be watching videos of a tragic event like this.
Who are you, and why are you deciding what should I watch?
I never understood why adult games should be banned. "Cuz gamez r for childr'n"? Here in Russia, there was an attempt to ban adult cartoons, with the same motivation "c-toons r for childr'n, Amerikka spoils our youth".
the square tiles will be changed to hexes, which provides ... 'more realistic gameplay.'
Because all of us, normal people, walk in hexes. Square walking is stupid, you can't cut a corner and walking around obstacles is bothersome. I once saw a guy walking like a rook on a tiled floor, that was really retarded.
They could use honey instead of vinegar. Offer rich online experience, multiplayer, mods, ladders, community support. The people would want that and buy a legitimate copy.
But no, they're actually telling the customer "We know you're a petty criminal, we'll be watching you all the time, so you can't steal our precious product. Pants down and prepare for cavity search". Good luck with that attitude.
Of essential and completely unimplemented features only Power Saving is left. Otherwise, it's fixing bugs, enhancing existing features and speeding up the driver.
Is it better than using a software 3D stack? Because I have a feeling that nothing is really accelerated.
The stable version is 1.1. The next stable version will be 1.2. Everything in between is considered a development release.
The designers are normally just clueless and have no wish to learn code or how stuff works after taking their 1-week Adobe course and getting accreditation as a "web developer".
Not willing to spend a year learning technologies, which were not intended to be used for games, then spend another year writing some kind of a game engine, which would try to bind these technologies together in a suitable way, then spend another year writing a game development environment for that engine, then at last actually making the game, then testing the game in different browsers, because the JS implementation still varies much between them, then making workarounds for browser incompatibilities ...
But it's the tru way, the slashdotter has shown us!
Unfortunately, some programs still use Glade. I don't remember now, but I think it was Deluge which wanted libglade.
Anyway, this doesn't answer why there are no references to Glade on gtk.org? Or why Glade is shipping with its own Gtk?
When I open QT website I get a full development suite, including SDK, IDE and GUI designer. What do I get on gtk.org? A bunch of assorted zipped sources and libraries, like it's 1995. It's a pity, because I like Gtk more than Qt.
...when it's simple negligence. While package maintainers take care of Gtk for linux, Gtk for windows is in ruins.
There's no installer on official gtk page. C'mon guys, it's 2010, and you still package it in zip archives?
Ok, there is an installer on SF, but wait, there's no Glade support in there!
Oh, here is Glade, but oh, it's shipping with its own Gtk bundle, which is outdated and incompatible with the first one.
Ok, let's install the major Gtk app, GIMP... Wait, I already have two gtk bundles installed, I don't need another one! What do you mean, "no choice"?
Hmmm, let's try this Deluge app... At last, I can skip Gtk installation and use one of the previously installed. Hey, why did it crash?
F**k it, even .NET is better.
So it doesn't bother you... So what? I thinks, there are lot of people, who are bothered by it. Should we listen to them? Or should we not?
My post was ironic in that all your ideas were once offered to "cure" homosexuals. Yeah-yeah, psychology, colonies, medications, hypnosis, chemical castration, religion. Should I remind, how many of these worked? Now, if you offer to apply these "techniques" to homosexuals, rather than pedophiles (boo! boo!), you're modded troll on /. and punched in face or sued offline.
Homosexuals aren't something new. They have existed in humanity for at least as long as recorded history. Putting our fingers in our ears and going lalalala will do nothing to protect our children or get homosexuals the treatment that will enable them to participate in our society.
I would like to see the creation of programs where homosexuals can go in and receive counseling without getting a life long stigma. Perhaps we could create colony towns (or more like prisons) out in the middle of nowhere so they can live their lives without temptation. We could do more research on the brains of homosexuals and develop drugs to re-orientate homosexuals to a more healthy sex, preferably in a delivery mechanism like the Norplant birth control so the homosexual just needs to get it replaced every few years.
I just wanted to note the fruitlessness and the cruelty of your idea. Oh, I forgot, homosexuals are protected by law now.
Well, I'm not a programmer, but I hate Google Code. I hate their design. I mean, really hate. It reminds me of Gnome and its HIG philosophy (which is "users are retards"). Those curved edges and the two-color palette... ewww.
Also, sourceforge offers web hosting, so free projects can keep their sites (which could have a better design) at no cost. I don't know if Google Code does this, never saw it.
The SF interface started sucking after recent "update". It was really awful, 404 and 501 errors all the time. Now it is more reliable, but still awfully slow and unintuitive. A very bad "update" that was. Can I have the old design, please?
And maybe, just maybe, we're becoming lazy and ignorant information consumers sitting in front of our computers. Maybe we are becoming so effective at filtering out, that we do not care for anything at all.
Next time they will nominate Atomic Bomb for "ending the most violent war in the human history".