People use more and more opengl-enabled devices. Of all the top sellers I can't think of any that use DirectX.
Developers actually paid to make games actually are moving to OpenGL because they do not want to be stuck with MS in the future and be limited to Windows and Xbox.
My bill is steady at 30 euros for unlimited monthly and unlimited telephone within europe.
I rarely watch streaming content as I actually use my connection as part of a P2P-topology type network, so on average i do end up with similar up/down traffic.
Good news you dont need to subsidize software/content theft. It is free. Except of course if you are part of the direct download crowd. Then I agree they are pathetic worms. Sharing is sharing, no money comes into it.
I happen to live in a country where the men and women digging the holes are actually paid with my tax money anyway to do just that...
And again I am going to argue that power going to A -> B and B - A as data is transfered. I send a packet, I get one back... Zero-sum.
Also in the country I live in the ISP provides the modem/router, should I charge them for the power used by their contraption ?
I don't know where you live however, perhaps you live in the UK where BT is despotic and their network infrastructure and pricing is beyond retarded. or perhaps you live in the US, where free-market for better or (usually) worse runs the show. but this sort of argument about bandwidth use is invalid in mainland europe where national communication networks (including Orange's) are heavily subsidized by government money (taxes)...
I live in the aforementioned country. I don't stop using torrents because of that... In fact I don't give a toss, the chances of them catching me (especially considering i don't download the latest crap from hollywood) are extremely slim. Even if caught they actually do not have any valid arguments if they take it to court as their system is basically hit and miss... misses most of the time.
OpenGL IS a graphic library ! it is its sole purpose in life !
Now maybe MS fanboys expect their APIs to do everything for them but some people are actually serious about programming and do not want bloatware.
Oh, yeah how did it hurt them? Well how are they going to port to PS3? iPhone? iPad? Linux? OSX ?
Valve had to rewrite alot of the Source engine for their OSX port because they made the poor decision to use DirectX for it; I hope they learn from that lesson; though I don't hold much hope for greedy people like them.
I am not surprised; I am just depressed at the shortsightedness of game developers again and again drinking the MS koolaid knowing that down the line it will hurt them.
Electrons ARE energy... Oh dear you fail hard at physics.
Well if you want to split hair. You could say that each packet "uses" (lets remember here that one can only transform energy) a definite amount of electrons, the ISP, the backbone and so on each buy electrons from (and to, but that is another matter) the electricity company. Yourself probably buy some electricity to have electrons to send to your ISP. The ISP exchanges electrons with the other network peers as well, in the end it seems all pretty zero-sum to me as all the parties are presumed to take and give away electrons equally (which is not true but as I said if you are going to count individual electrons, you have major mental issues).
If anything, at the end of the day, because you pay your electricity company for the electrons going to your ISP, your ISP should be pretty close to free, save the "admin fees" or whatever, because they have to make a profit of some kind. However they cannot charge you for the electrons because you merely swap them around with them.
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until he recover...
Hopefully time holding their breaths will allow for a decline in their population...
Yes because they could have made millions in the first place and not use any fraction later on and make more millions.
Using OpenGL is really win-win for game developers.
This is hoping they don't keep a history of all changes on the account...
Correction: You THINK your account is now closed.
Do you really think Facebook is going to delete data they can easily sell to third parties without you realizing ?
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Europe here...
Indeed, Facebook could easily face major problems with European laws if some EU users would wake up and realize they are being fucked over ...
I am so glad we all get our asses fucked by Mr Suckerberg enormous iPenis...
FFS WHEN WILL PEOPLE WAKE UP AND REALIZE THEY ARE BEING FUCKED OVER AND OVER BY iCorporates...
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You should step out a bit into the real world.
People use more and more opengl-enabled devices. Of all the top sellers I can't think of any that use DirectX.
Developers actually paid to make games actually are moving to OpenGL because they do not want to be stuck with MS in the future and be limited to
Windows and Xbox.
My bill is steady at 30 euros for unlimited monthly and unlimited telephone within europe.
I rarely watch streaming content as I actually use my connection as part of a P2P-topology type network, so on average i do end up with similar up/down traffic.
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Good news you dont need to subsidize software/content theft. It is free. Except of course if you are part of the direct download crowd. Then I agree they are pathetic worms. Sharing is sharing, no money comes into it.
Sorry forgot also to ask...
How do you define legitimate content in this context? It is not a very scientific definition. "Legitimate" or not the same bandwidth is used.
"Legitimate" bytes aren't smaller than illegitimate bytes.
I am starting to think that you sir are a "legitimate" troll...
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Yeah they are ripping off...
I happen to live in a country where the men and women digging the holes are actually paid with my tax money anyway to do just that ...
And again I am going to argue that power going to A -> B and B - A as data is transfered. I send a packet, I get one back... Zero-sum.
Also in the country I live in the ISP provides the modem/router, should I charge them for the power used by their contraption ?
I don't know where you live however, perhaps you live in the UK where BT is despotic and their network infrastructure and pricing is beyond retarded. or perhaps you live in the US, where free-market for better or (usually) worse runs the show. but this sort of argument about bandwidth use is invalid in mainland europe where national communication networks (including Orange's) are heavily subsidized by government money (taxes)...
You are going off topic, i was talking about game developers as a whole, not that particular instance.
I live in the aforementioned country. I don't stop using torrents because of that... In fact I don't give a toss, the chances of them catching me (especially considering i don't download the latest crap from hollywood) are extremely slim. Even if caught they actually do not have any valid arguments if they take it to court as their system is basically hit and miss... misses most of the time.
I don't have to puke everytime I visit wikipedia anymore, Mr HappyFace is gone and I hope he won't make another appearance.
OpenGL IS a graphic library ! it is its sole purpose in life !
Now maybe MS fanboys expect their APIs to do everything for them but some people are actually serious about programming and do not want bloatware.
Oh, yeah how did it hurt them?
Well how are they going to port to PS3? iPhone? iPad? Linux? OSX ?
Valve had to rewrite alot of the Source engine for their OSX port because they made the poor decision to use DirectX for it; I hope they learn from that lesson; though
I don't hold much hope for greedy people like them.
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Pfff no.
LOL
Boohoo!
I do not see any reason to use DirectX and VC nowadays; portability is key and in that area DirectX is going to be defacto waaaaay behind OpenGL.
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Sadly HINSTANCE and all that WinAPI gayness is what developers are lead to believe is best for them.
I am not surprised; I am just depressed at the shortsightedness of game developers again and again drinking the MS koolaid knowing that down the line it will hurt them.
Electrons ARE energy... Oh dear you fail hard at physics.
Well if you want to split hair. You could say that each packet "uses" (lets remember here that one can only transform energy) a definite amount of electrons, the ISP, the backbone and so on
each buy electrons from (and to, but that is another matter) the electricity company. Yourself probably buy some electricity to have electrons to send to your ISP. The ISP exchanges electrons with the other
network peers as well, in the end it seems all pretty zero-sum to me as all the parties are presumed to take and give away electrons equally (which is not true but as I said if you are going
to count individual electrons, you have major mental issues).
If anything, at the end of the day, because you pay your electricity company for the electrons going to your ISP, your ISP should be pretty close to free, save the "admin fees" or whatever, because
they have to make a profit of some kind. However they cannot charge you for the electrons because you merely swap them around with them.
Nice troll try harder.
In case you are not trolling, hahaha keep drinking the MS koolaid bro; OpenGL is actually ahead of DirectX...
TV over IP isn't exactly my top priority though...
They cost nothing, unless of course you count electrons... In which case you have major mental problems with greed...