I use tinyogg for my youtube watching unless I'm in a hurry. What they do is get a youtube URL from you, transcode the video into theora and cache it for a fixed period. Much better service than just recontaining, although you have to wait in a queue.
The big dilemma I see in FOSS world is when it comes to games. Projects like Linux or OpenOffice get support from the corporate world because it is profitable to use them for business. By support I mean both cash and workforce.
For games, your only market is individuals, who hardly pay unless they are forced to. Lacking a steady income, nobody can organise enough people to work on a game engine. There is the Sauerbraten folk, trying to earn money with their cube2 engine but I do not know how business is going for them. At this point, our only hope becomes someone with money develops and releases their engine with a free licence but they are not likely to do that(Thanks ID, for being kind of an exception).
Also there are great original titles like Narbacular Drop(Which evolved into Portal), Cave Story and Spelunky. Much more fun than today's "AAA" action titles(I wish I could say Action/Adventure, there is almost no adventure alive on big market).
Then it also heavily depends on the location. I'm from '84 and in Turkey of '90s, you either looked at underwear catalogs, or watched lots of boobs(and nothing else) in late night TV for free. Otherwise, buy paid TV subscription, adult magazines or pirated VCDs. Things changed a lot now.
It probably runs remote desktop client on top of a lightweight Linux setup, or some other small OS. In theory, it can run Linux because it's simply an arm-based device.
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I thought Red Faction featured fully destructible environment and even cave digging?
Obligatory H2G2 reference: http://wso.williams.edu/~rcarson/lizards.html
It's sort of like being in the middle of a giant warehouse,
Oops, I accidentally read it as a giant whorehouse, your point is still valid though.
I use tinyogg for my youtube watching unless I'm in a hurry. What they do is get a youtube URL from you, transcode the video into theora and cache it for a fixed period. Much better service than just recontaining, although you have to wait in a queue.
The big dilemma I see in FOSS world is when it comes to games. Projects like Linux or OpenOffice get support from the corporate world because it is profitable to use them for business. By support I mean both cash and workforce. For games, your only market is individuals, who hardly pay unless they are forced to. Lacking a steady income, nobody can organise enough people to work on a game engine. There is the Sauerbraten folk, trying to earn money with their cube2 engine but I do not know how business is going for them. At this point, our only hope becomes someone with money develops and releases their engine with a free licence but they are not likely to do that(Thanks ID, for being kind of an exception).
I don't think they have a version for iPhone anyway.
No, they are just releasing the engine as Free-to-use, not free as in free speech.
Also there are great original titles like Narbacular Drop(Which evolved into Portal), Cave Story and Spelunky. Much more fun than today's "AAA" action titles(I wish I could say Action/Adventure, there is almost no adventure alive on big market).
I would be happy to see a real Windows Mobile OS pop up
No thanks, I had enough with the pop ups on their desktop OS.
is a crime for >80% of the high school students in your state.
AFAIK, that really depends on the purpose.
Probably mostly shiny flashy ads
Sorry, nobody seems to get the joke.
Then it also heavily depends on the location. I'm from '84 and in Turkey of '90s, you either looked at underwear catalogs, or watched lots of boobs(and nothing else) in late night TV for free. Otherwise, buy paid TV subscription, adult magazines or pirated VCDs. Things changed a lot now.
Really depends on your age. If you were born before 1990, you have probably paid for porn.
It probably runs remote desktop client on top of a lightweight Linux setup, or some other small OS. In theory, it can run Linux because it's simply an arm-based device.
I loved the coffin shaped monument for incandescent lamp, presented in Eindhoven Cemetery, Netherlands. I'm not sure where it is currently now.
You mean it was something else? I'm serious.