Have you seen this article over at Adrenaline Vault?
It makes the point that the gaming press covers big-title games like the non-existent Duke Nukem Forever over and over while thousands of smaller titles go ignored.
If the game review media broadened their scope a bit, or narrowed it to exclude vaporware, we the gaming public would be a lot better off. Too bad this is unlikely to happen anytime soon.
I do have a concrete suggestion for all game review mags, however, to help them maintain some kind of journalistic ethics. Simply add to all reviews, next to the number of stars or the numerical rating, a second rating, supplied by the financial officer, as to how important that publisher's advertising is to the gaming magazine. I suggest a simple three point system:
1 = this publisher's advertising buys are very important to us, we must do everything in our power not to piss them off
2 = this publisher's advertising buys are below average for our mag, we can call things a bit more as we see them
3 = this publisher's advertising buys are not important to us or are nonexistent, what follows is our true opinion
I recommend the above referenced series of articles at the Adrenaline Vault to everyone.
Someone mentioned that CVS barfs on Windows/Unix synchronization, since the CRLF issue makes it appear that every line has changed. This is in conjunction with the Windows CVS client.
You might want to take a look at the Unison file synchronization mechanism.
I use CVS on my Unix boxes, and keep my Windows laptop synchronized with Unison. I synch to my main development Unix box. The chain looks like this:
Repository <-cvs-> Unix box <-unison-> Windows laptop
Thus my Windows mods are synched to the Unix box, and checkin/out is only done on the Unix box.
>wondering if anyone has draw a parallel with what crystal space is doing
>with what the FSF did way back in it's early days (before the Linux)
>did RMS use non-free dev tools and libraries in order to begin the FSF
Why not go read the history of FSF? You young punks can't even imagine life without GNU/Linux. People like ESR wouldn't exist without RMS. Dissing RMS because he doesn't know what a console is makes me laugh. As if your world view must of course be his as well. RMS is fighting a very tough fight. As for the "handshaking protocol" of the exchange, of course RMS needs to get terms like Open Source and Free Software nailed down in email conversations. That's the whole point!
I couldn't adopt his stance for myself, but I admire him for it.
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It makes the point that the gaming press covers big-title games like the non-existent Duke Nukem Forever over and over while thousands of smaller titles go ignored.
If the game review media broadened their scope a bit, or narrowed it to exclude vaporware, we the gaming public would be a lot better off. Too bad this is unlikely to happen anytime soon.
I do have a concrete suggestion for all game review mags, however, to help them maintain some kind of journalistic ethics. Simply add to all reviews, next to the number of stars or the numerical rating, a second rating, supplied by the financial officer, as to how important that publisher's advertising is to the gaming magazine. I suggest a simple three point system:
- 1 = this publisher's advertising buys are very important to us, we must do everything in our power not to piss them off
- 2 = this publisher's advertising buys are below average for our mag, we can call things a bit more as we see them
- 3 = this publisher's advertising buys are not important to us or are nonexistent, what follows is our true opinion
I recommend the above referenced series of articles at the Adrenaline Vault to everyone.You might want to take a look at the Unison file synchronization mechanism.
I use CVS on my Unix boxes, and keep my Windows laptop synchronized with Unison. I synch to my main development Unix box. The chain looks like this:
Thus my Windows mods are synched to the Unix box, and checkin/out is only done on the Unix box."What?!"
"That's what I'm telling you kid, it's been totally blown away."
>with what the FSF did way back in it's early days (before the Linux)
>did RMS use non-free dev tools and libraries in order to begin the FSF
Why not go read the history of FSF? You young punks can't even imagine life without GNU/Linux. People like ESR wouldn't exist without RMS. Dissing RMS because he doesn't know what a console is makes me laugh. As if your world view must of course be his as well. RMS is fighting a very tough fight. As for the "handshaking protocol" of the exchange, of course RMS needs to get terms like Open Source and Free Software nailed down in email conversations. That's the whole point!
I couldn't adopt his stance for myself, but I admire him for it.