So you mean the same way mobile phones do it right now?
Ok, not exactly, but the idea is the same. The zooming in their little animated gif or whatever seems like it might be kind of tough to get used to and it goes fast!
"emerge --pretend --update world"
mustn't forget to check what it is going to do before letting it go nuts.
"emerge --update world"
leave it on over night and you've got a fully optimized, fully up-to-date system. Can't beat Gentoo as far as I'm concerned.
While I agree with you that the current trend of graphics over gameplay is destroying gameplay, you should get your facts straight. Half-Life is on a modified Quake 2 engine... not Quake.
First of all, you're assuming the people benefitting from this are poor people and that they are only going to be looking at porn. LOTS of Canada is rural enough to not have broadband even though it might be a very wealthy town. I live in such a town. You also ignore the fact that it helps give everyone equal access to information and an equal chance to learn from everything on the 'net. Isn't that one of the foundations of the US? Freedom and that stuff?
Second, the Canadian government doesn't believe in filtering what its citizens see. it has stated that it won't censor the 'net many, many times.It believes that we are intelligent enough to form our own opinions.
Oh by the way, people who live in the city also have the choices you have. Imagine that!
This plan is trying to help those in rural areas that DON'T have choice and are stuck with >56k or, worse, nothing.
But despite Canada being bigger and having a lower population density, we are still beating the US.
It's not because the US is bigger than the Scandinavian countries....
First of all, the government is paying for the infrastructure along with private cable companies and telcos. The telcos will run the ifrastructure afterwards.
Second, the Canadian gov't has repeatedly said they want to stay away from controlling the net and that they think it is better left free as in speech.
So I believe the ramifications you are hinting at are not going to be there.
When the US was putting in electricity for everyone it wasn't *absolutely* necessary to live. It was really nice to have electricity, but you could get along without it.
Now replace "electricity" with "high-speed internet access" and you get where we are today with the 'net. It's an almost perfect example.
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stands a good chance of being dead in the water due to 'updates' to libraries made by more recent games installing themselves over the top of ones critical to that 1 year old game and breaking it. DLL Hell claims another casualty
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What? Last time I heard DirectX was backwards compatible, so no library problems with DirectX.
I've never had any problems with DirectX at least.
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When I buy games, I want more than 12 months of use out of it.
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12 months? On windows 98/95? I can still run Warcraft 2 on Windows98 and War2 is much older than 12 months. Not to mention other older games.
Half-Life, which is older than 12 months still runs on Windows 2000 and windows2000 wasn't even supposed to support games very well!
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My TNT2 card flies along quite nicely with XFree86 4.0.1 and the NVIDIA drivers
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That's great. My TNT2 Ultra "flies along quite nicely" in Windows98 and 2k. Better than Linux in fact.
Or you could just load BeOS off the CD instead of Linux. It's already more responsive, boots quicker and has a smaller footprint... without tweaking.
And it has better hardware detection... when it supports the hardware that is.
agrafe
I read someone that iD was looking into making a "game OS" that would run their games from a bootable CD-ROM.
I can't remember where I heard it or who said it so it may have just been a rumor...
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So you mean the same way mobile phones do it right now?
Ok, not exactly, but the idea is the same.
The zooming in their little animated gif or whatever seems like it might be kind of tough to get used to and it goes fast!
er, whoops. I made a mistake. It's actually "emerge --world update".
"emerge --pretend --update world"
mustn't forget to check what it is going to do before letting it go nuts.
"emerge --update world"
leave it on over night and you've got a fully optimized, fully up-to-date system. Can't beat Gentoo as far as I'm concerned.
While I agree with you that the current trend of graphics over gameplay is destroying gameplay, you should get your facts straight. Half-Life is on a modified Quake 2 engine... not Quake.
Jack Handey does... from Saturday Night Live skits.
*cough*tired joke, get over it*cough*
You also ignore the fact that it helps give everyone equal access to information and an equal chance to learn from everything on the 'net. Isn't that one of the foundations of the US? Freedom and that stuff?
Second, the Canadian government doesn't believe in filtering what its citizens see. it has stated that it won't censor the 'net many, many times.It believes that we are intelligent enough to form our own opinions.
Oh by the way, people who live in the city also have the choices you have. Imagine that!
This plan is trying to help those in rural areas that DON'T have choice and are stuck with >56k or, worse, nothing.
But despite Canada being bigger and having a lower population density, we are still beating the US.
It's not because the US is bigger than the Scandinavian countries....
Second, the Canadian gov't has repeatedly said they want to stay away from controlling the net and that they think it is better left free as in speech. So I believe the ramifications you are hinting at are not going to be there.
When the US was putting in electricity for everyone it wasn't *absolutely* necessary to live. It was really nice to have electricity, but you could get along without it.
Now replace "electricity" with "high-speed internet access" and you get where we are today with the 'net. It's an almost perfect example.
John Rocker?
BioWare is doing that exact thing with NeverWinter Nights. It is not all that difficult for a game company that has its act together.
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stands a good chance of being dead in the water due to 'updates' to libraries made by more recent games installing themselves over the top of ones critical to that 1 year old game and breaking it. DLL Hell claims another casualty
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What? Last time I heard DirectX was backwards compatible, so no library problems with DirectX.
I've never had any problems with DirectX at least.
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When I buy games, I want more than 12 months of use out of it.
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12 months? On windows 98/95? I can still run Warcraft 2 on Windows98 and War2 is much older than 12 months. Not to mention other older games.
Half-Life, which is older than 12 months still runs on Windows 2000 and windows2000 wasn't even supposed to support games very well!
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My TNT2 card flies along quite nicely with XFree86 4.0.1 and the NVIDIA drivers
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That's great. My TNT2 Ultra "flies along quite nicely" in Windows98 and 2k. Better than Linux in fact.
Agrafe
Or you could just load BeOS off the CD instead of Linux. It's already more responsive, boots quicker and has a smaller footprint... without tweaking. And it has better hardware detection... when it supports the hardware that is. agrafe
I read someone that iD was looking into making a "game OS" that would run their games from a bootable CD-ROM. I can't remember where I heard it or who said it so it may have just been a rumor...