Let's look at this from the other angle, if a indie band is wildly successful, but keep basically the same sound & never changed the way they do things from the technical or business angle, do they somehow lose their indie-ness?
BTW, Radiohead was a bad example because if you buy a the physical "In Rainbows" CD from them, it's still being published by ATO / RED records which is a RIAA affiliated label. So no, I wouldn't consider Radiohead indie. Nine Inch Nails would have been a better example.
Is it possible to set up Truecrypt or any other encryption system so that the volume / drive will destroy itself after a certain amount of consecutive bad passwords? That could have some interesting applications.
Yes, Valve would qualify as a wildly successful "indie" dev / publisher.
a.) They are a privately held company
b.) They aren't contractually beholden to another publisher to "rush out" an unfinished game or any of the other hijinks we've come to associate with EA, Atari, etc.
No one in this conversation thread was saying that SoaSE should have been included in this article. You said it wasn't an indie game & I disagreed.
Let's break this down for you since you seem to be having a hard time understanding. I'll even use an analogy since we all know Slashbots love analogies. In the music world "indie" means independent from one of the Big 5 (or 8 or whatever) publishing companies; WEA, Sony, Capitol, etc. Those guys that form the RIAA basically. Some indie record lables (Barsuk, Dischord, Sub-Pop) are quite profitable. When we talk about an "indie" game company we are talking about a game company that isn't published by Atari, EA or 2K Games or another huge faceless publishing house. This doesn't mean that "indie" games have 0 production value. You will find that Stardock has been around for quite a while (back to the OS/2 days) & were at first primarily a game developer. They still are ala Galactic Civilizations. The publishing part came later when they figured out a profitable way to do it online with Drengin.net & Stardock.com.
Faster for what? I use both daily for gaming & CAD & I see speed decreases going from XP to 2000. Nothing game-breaking, but it's there. XP uses a bit more memory as well.
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It's always about income, why do you think there are over 1 million Americans in prison? The prison industry has to make money somehow.
I've had one of the bastards fly into the side of my car before, so they aren't *that* bright :D
For some reason that mental image made me giggle my ass off.
The damn thing is going to be heart-breakingly bad anyhow from what I've seen & read about it.
Some would say that goes both ways. Mind the foam, please.
Florida banned them? Good news, but it's the first I've heard of it.
Let's look at this from the other angle, if a indie band is wildly successful, but keep basically the same sound & never changed the way they do things from the technical or business angle, do they somehow lose their indie-ness?
BTW, Radiohead was a bad example because if you buy a the physical "In Rainbows" CD from them, it's still being published by ATO / RED records which is a RIAA affiliated label. So no, I wouldn't consider Radiohead indie. Nine Inch Nails would have been a better example.
Is it possible to set up Truecrypt or any other encryption system so that the volume / drive will destroy itself after a certain amount of consecutive bad passwords? That could have some interesting applications.
Yes, Valve would qualify as a wildly successful "indie" dev / publisher.
a.) They are a privately held company
b.) They aren't contractually beholden to another publisher to "rush out" an unfinished game or any of the other hijinks we've come to associate with EA, Atari, etc.
No one in this conversation thread was saying that SoaSE should have been included in this article. You said it wasn't an indie game & I disagreed.
Let's break this down for you since you seem to be having a hard time understanding. I'll even use an analogy since we all know Slashbots love analogies. In the music world "indie" means independent from one of the Big 5 (or 8 or whatever) publishing companies; WEA, Sony, Capitol, etc. Those guys that form the RIAA basically. Some indie record lables (Barsuk, Dischord, Sub-Pop) are quite profitable. When we talk about an "indie" game company we are talking about a game company that isn't published by Atari, EA or 2K Games or another huge faceless publishing house. This doesn't mean that "indie" games have 0 production value. You will find that Stardock has been around for quite a while (back to the OS/2 days) & were at first primarily a game developer. They still are ala Galactic Civilizations. The publishing part came later when they figured out a profitable way to do it online with Drengin.net & Stardock.com.
All I can say is Bye-bye buggywhips.
Amazon is incorrect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sins_of_a_Solar_Empire
Developed by Ironclad & Published by Stardock. You can't get much more "indie" than Stardock.
There are ads on that blog?
Faster for what? I use both daily for gaming & CAD & I see speed decreases going from XP to 2000. Nothing game-breaking, but it's there. XP uses a bit more memory as well.
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Yeah, great game, great publisher. The game-balance in it reminds me of Starcraft for some reason.
Galactic Civilizations are pretty awesome too.
Space Rangers 2 is great if you can stand bad Russian translations.
Max Payne had a cool drug-fueled shift at one point of the game.
Or you could do the intelligent thing & use your vote towards getting a 3rd party federally matched funds in the next election cycle.
I think we should give them steroids & in the case of American Football, chainsaws as well.
No, but it could be considered a strength as well.
I thought the arctic sea ice was melting at an incredible rate?
How's that working out for California?
... really give a shit about the Olympics & even less so this year. I wish there was an Olympic category so I could block it.
How's China's dick taste, IOC?
I can't want to play it either!
Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.
* CEO Nwabudike Morgan "The Ethics of Greed"