People like to see the best play. Its as simple as that.
See, the problem is, *watching* people play video games is mind numbingly boring. Either you're watching a demo/movie of the game itself, or you're watching a room with a pasty geek sitting, twitching infront of a console.
Niether of those is entertaining. Football, basketball, hockey, etc. are entertaining becasue you actually get to see real people do really exciting things like ram into each other on ice at 70mph, and viceral, exciting acts like that.
After 5 minutes of watching a quake demo, I'd rather go play quake myself. Try it and see.
The only people who are generally interested in watching demos and analysis of video games are those who play seriously themselves, and want to improve thier game.
Check out http://www.shoryuken.com/ - it's a Street Fighter tournament site (I'd give a better link, but it looks down right now). There are tournament videos, and analysis of videos there. Would you really pay to see shit like that?
Either that, or if you have radical enough ideas about what should be changed, two things generally happen :
* You end up trying to modify the original code, and the effort the modifications take eclipse the effort that it would take to write a new one.
* You wind up rewriting everything module by module anyway, as things change.
You shouldn't be afraid to throw everything away and start from scratch, especially if your design goals conflict with what you have now. Code Reuse is overrated, especially in a situation like this where one is a replacement for the other.
(Oh, and btw, this is a Java implementation, while slashcode is in perl).
I don't know where this Anti-MS FUD that no games run on Win2k comes from. I've been successfully running all Q3-engine games, Unreal-engine games, Diablo II, BGII, numerous driving games - the ONLY game I've encoutered problems running under Win2k has been System Shock 2, and that was because the installer simply refused to try because it was written with NT4 in mind (it's my understanding that there is a patch released for it - I'm going to do a manual copy off of the CD when I get time and see what I can do).
Windows 2000 is a better overall gaming platform than Windows ME, in my experience.
To increase speed, Microsoft Excel developers started by identifying the most commonly used areas of the product, and re-wrote the code for the recalculation engine in assembler. Most of other improvements were made by writing more efficient routines. This process allowed them to decrease redundancies in the code. As a result, there is a more efficient level of software coding. These code refinements had a drastic benefit to speed, as it produced speed enhancements of over 100%, in some instances.
Okay, answer me this - what does Sega gain by opening up the DC to Linux hackers?
Nothing.
They just stand to loose revenue.
See, as has been pointed out gazillions of times, a console is not a general purpose computer. A console is a content delivery device, sold at a loss, for the purposes of making you buy games.
Giving you the ability to do something else other than play Thier Games on it does nothing but cost Sega the loss that the sale of the console generates, with no promise of revenue from you buying games.
1) The Dreamcast can dial up to a standard pppd running on Linux. See? None of this crappy game ISP thing you pulled out of your ass.
2) My Dreamcast cost $200 cdn. My video card alone cost $450 cdn. Gathering enough for a good Dreamcast setup (dreamcast, 3 games, carry case, 2nd controller, VGA adapter and memory card) cost about $500. What were you saying about the same price?
3) BTW, if you like Tony Hawk, you had better not try SSX for the PS2, or you'll find yourself trying to get one. That game is fucking hard to stop playing.
1) The Dreamcast can dial up to a standard pppd running on Linux. See? None of this crappy game ISP thing you pulled out of your ass.
2) My Dreamcast cost $200 cdn. My video card alone cost $450 cdn. Gathering enough for a good Dreamcast setup (dreamcast, 3 games, carry case, 2nd controller, VGA adapter and memory card) cost about $500. What were you saying about the same price?
3) BTW, if you like Tony Hawk, you had better not try SSX for the PS2, or you'll find yourself trying to get one. That game is fucking hard to stop playing.
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People like to see the best play. Its as simple as that.
See, the problem is, *watching* people play video games is mind numbingly boring. Either you're watching a demo/movie of the game itself, or you're watching a room with a pasty geek sitting, twitching infront of a console.
Niether of those is entertaining. Football, basketball, hockey, etc. are entertaining becasue you actually get to see real people do really exciting things like ram into each other on ice at 70mph, and viceral, exciting acts like that.
After 5 minutes of watching a quake demo, I'd rather go play quake myself. Try it and see.
The only people who are generally interested in watching demos and analysis of video games are those who play seriously themselves, and want to improve thier game.
Check out http://www.shoryuken.com/ - it's a Street Fighter tournament site (I'd give a better link, but it looks down right now). There are tournament videos, and analysis of videos there. Would you really pay to see shit like that?
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Wouldn't it suck if everytime you walked by a game room you got the urge to throw your money on the table and whip out your drug supply?
You pretty much just described modern arcades.
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I thought the salesperson did fine.
*You* try and politely handle the other end of a phone when you're dealing with what is obviously a prank call.
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Well, what else are you going to do with all those chips fried while overclocking them, but hang them above your computer?
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the heroin [sic] should have had her body modified as in the short novel. That was great.
Gibson was quoted as saying that he wanted retain the rights to Holly's character design for any planned Neuromancer flick.
Of course I don't have the quote, or proof, but all I'm saying is that there was a reason she was like that, and it wasn't from some studio fuckwit.
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Either that, or if you have radical enough ideas about what should be changed, two things generally happen :
* You end up trying to modify the original code, and the effort the modifications take eclipse the effort that it would take to write a new one.
* You wind up rewriting everything module by module anyway, as things change.
You shouldn't be afraid to throw everything away and start from scratch, especially if your design goals conflict with what you have now. Code Reuse is overrated, especially in a situation like this where one is a replacement for the other.
(Oh, and btw, this is a Java implementation, while slashcode is in perl).
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I don't know where this Anti-MS FUD that no games run on Win2k comes from. I've been successfully running all Q3-engine games, Unreal-engine games, Diablo II, BGII, numerous driving games - the ONLY game I've encoutered problems running under Win2k has been System Shock 2, and that was because the installer simply refused to try because it was written with NT4 in mind (it's my understanding that there is a patch released for it - I'm going to do a manual copy off of the CD when I get time and see what I can do).
Windows 2000 is a better overall gaming platform than Windows ME, in my experience.
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Doesn't the GPL contain exceptions for linking with "system libraries" which would be the BeOS code it conflicted with?
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Being the original poster of this meme, I quote:
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So, the first mass produced computer that you can have a conversation with
Actually, that would be the Dreamcast
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he's paying in canadian currency, and converting it to US for you.
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How would that be impacted if the creator was a corporation?
The corporations life + x number of years? Or does copyright have to be held by a person?
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I have a 486 dx/2 that's still in use.... what's your point? =)
(It was my first Linux box. All it new was Slackware. *sniff* those were the days =)
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Bah. 640 Gigs should be enough for anybody.
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You don't get the point.
A Dreamcast sold to you to fuck around with and not play games on is money lost to Sega.
Get it?
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If you want to talk horrendously uncomfortable, look at the N64's - it's impossible to comfortably use the analog stick at all.
BTW, I wouldn't consider Nintendo doomed....
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Umm, yeah...
Look at the 'Sections' on the left side there. See 'apache', 'askslashdot', 'books', etc? There are posts placed there that aren't on the front page.
They need a 'rumours' section. Badly.
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Okay, answer me this - what does Sega gain by opening up the DC to Linux hackers?
Nothing.
They just stand to loose revenue.
See, as has been pointed out gazillions of times, a console is not a general purpose computer. A console is a content delivery device, sold at a loss, for the purposes of making you buy games.
Giving you the ability to do something else other than play Thier Games on it does nothing but cost Sega the loss that the sale of the console generates, with no promise of revenue from you buying games.
Keep dreaming, though.
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I have no idea what you're talking about, as SSX for the PS2 kicks fucking ass.
It's like, amazing. I was in awe. Addictive gameplay, beautiful graphics. I was in love.
And I own a Dreamcast, not a PS2.
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http://www.ioccc.org/
'nuff said.
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Local EB in canada places the DC Broadband adapter for Nov. 9th or thereabouts.
It was allegedly released alongside Quake 3, but I haven't even seen that here, so...
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BTW, Slashdot ate my link.
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Mother fucker....
1) The Dreamcast can dial up to a standard pppd running on Linux. See? None of this crappy game ISP thing you pulled out of your ass.
2) My Dreamcast cost $200 cdn. My video card alone cost $450 cdn. Gathering enough for a good Dreamcast setup (dreamcast, 3 games, carry case, 2nd controller, VGA adapter and memory card) cost about $500. What were you saying about the same price?
3) BTW, if you like Tony Hawk, you had better not try SSX for the PS2, or you'll find yourself trying to get one. That game is fucking hard to stop playing.
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1) The Dreamcast can dial up to a standard pppd running on Linux. See? None of this crappy game ISP thing you pulled out of your ass. 2) My Dreamcast cost $200 cdn. My video card alone cost $450 cdn. Gathering enough for a good Dreamcast setup (dreamcast, 3 games, carry case, 2nd controller, VGA adapter and memory card) cost about $500. What were you saying about the same price? 3) BTW, if you like Tony Hawk, you had better not try SSX for the PS2, or you'll find yourself trying to get one. That game is fucking hard to stop playing.
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I had the same macrovision problem with the Panasonic deck that I bought.
A $50 (cdn) Digital Video Stabalizer between the DVD & the VCR solved that (can't wait until those are illegal under the DMCA somehow).
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