Actually, at the moment they can only hit Los Angeles.
Pretty much all the nuclear powers of the world have submarines cpable of launching nuclear missiles. The range is pretty much unlimited if you can move the launchpad.
I think they are referring to the way in which a soccer ball is sewn together, there are lots of pentaogonal (?) shaped patches on the outside of a soccer ball.
Valve may lose a lot of money through engine licences but a game is more than an engine. Without content a game is nothing and content creation is not a trivial process.
It's interesting for Sony, because one division (movies) want's region coding, while the hardware division wants to do anything to increase sales, e.g. easy region free.
This is something that runs all the way through sony. Perhaps the most interesting dichotomy is the battle between the hardware division (which wants a slice of the currently profitable mp3 player market) and all of sony's content assets (they are a music publisher, own tons of labels and one of the major hollywood studios) who want DRM as soon as possible.
I have a 64 MB muvo, I use a program called DMC Power Amp to downsample mp3 files on the fly while I copy them over.
If you are willing to go as low as 96 or 64 kbps then you will find that you can fit a very respectable amount of music in 64 MB. I'm not a fidelity fascist and am only listening on a cheap pair of headphones so I don't consider such low bitrates to be such a problem.
This is the most sensible thing I have read in this thread, much as we all love linux it is not going to magically solve all the worlds computer problems.
I know its not a new idea on slashdot but maybe if we required all non bussiness users to have a licence for there computer which they get once they pass a test proving they understand the fundamentals of network security...
VeriSign's wildcard creates a registry-synthesized address record in response to lookups of domains that are not otherwise present in the zone (including restricted names, unregistered names, and registered but inactive names). The VeriSign wildcard redirects traffic that would otherwise have resulted in a "no domain" response to a VeriSign-operated website with search results and links to paid advertisements.
The question is not whether GNU/Linux could be an OS for gamers. It could indeed. Yes, gamers would be a little lost, not having to install new drivers for the graphical device twice a day. But if there were a real game market, the manufacturer might spend more time on up to date drivers for our OS. (to have more game we need the drivers -- chicken-egg problem -- blah blah -- YES. Still, you won't succeed unless you try. This is the very essence of GNU/Linux).
I have seen a couple of suggestions on this thread that maybe a modified Knoppix like live cd could turn a pc into a instant linux based games console. I have to say this sounds like a great idea but for it to work you really need decent linux drivers for both nvidia and ATI to availiable on the game cd. So a linux release would be delayed until the drivers become availiable.
I guess the next biggest problem would be HDD access. Would it be possible for a live cd distro to examine an ntfs partiotion and make use of any free space without harming the performance or the integrity of the data ?.
I don't think so. If a big issue is DirectX networking, then how do they manage to have a Linux server in the first place? Also, Half-Life had the ability to be rendered using either DirectX or OpenGL - it SEEMS like that would be possible with HL2 as well, thus giving the game the ability to be rendered in Linux (or any other OS with OpenGL compatibility).
Nope, HL 1 was based around the quake engine (kinda a mixture of Q1 and Q2).
HL 2 uses valves own proprietary engine called "source". We don't really know yet how different this is to the other major engines (Unreal, Quake 3, Doom 3 and others) but it almost certainly won't be able to be quickly ported like Q3 was (because it was designed to run on Linux and Windows from the start).
Your uptime is more important than playing this game so it appears that it isn't for you.
I think that is the most insightful thing I have read today. On the one hand we have a handful of linux gamers moaning about the lack of a port and on the other we have lots of linux users who really aren't interested enough in games to even consider booting windows.
There is no market here, why should valve port when they won't make any money ?.
Your story makes no difference. Gaming will not come to linux with more users, because gaming must exist on linux before people can switch to gaming on linux. nVidia and ATI drove the nail in Linux's 3D coffin a good long while ago.
Nvidia is getting very good in terms of linux support, considering their Unified Driver Structure I don't see how things can get worse. Hopefully some time in the future we will have up to date linux drivers released with the windows ones. This really isn't as unlikely as you might think.
What I do have a problem with is the "Submit t-shirt suggestions which will then be our property." It just violates what the Slashdot seems to be about. Information wants to be free and what-not. They could've made the shirts, and still kept the logos open-source if someone else wanted to go around printing their own shirts (which I doubt too many would).
So don't buy the t shirt then, no one is forcing you to. Maybe if they hadn't told the people who entered the competition that/. would own their designs then you might have something to maon about.
Every time I decide to investigate this, everything I can come up with indicates that only Microsoft takes this approach.
All the major console makers have done this a some point, the playstation 1 was sold at a loss when it was first released even though at the time it cost in the region of 300 pounds here in the uk, but sony have gained a lot more experience in making console hardware since then, the PS2 was never sold at a loss, it always either broke even or made a profit.
What makes Microsoft different is that they don't expect to ever make money on the hardware during the current generation of consoles. This is unusual, most consoles that are loss leaders at the start of their lifetime tend to become small profit makers by the end of it.
Halo was ALWAYS going to be a PC/Mac game. But once MS purchased them, they saw potential in releasing it on the xbox.
What you mean is that MS paid them a similar amount to what they could have potentially earned if they had released it on all the availiable mediums (pc and consoles). MS needed a killer app that badly.
Often people who steal computers are much more interested in the data than the hardware. Probably because it is a lot more complicated to track data theft than following the physical trail of stolen hardware.
Surely electric would be best ?, you could have a load of solar panels connected to the space station and the cars could recharge whenever they get to the top before they descend.
There are some interesting cases availiable, for instance I have an iTee case. There are interesting cases out there to be had, saying that while I am not completely unsatisfied with the i-Tee I am not sure I would buy one again, there are lots of great design features but also lots of little niggles.
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Actually, at the moment they can only hit Los Angeles.
Pretty much all the nuclear powers of the world have submarines cpable of launching nuclear missiles. The range is pretty much unlimited if you can move the launchpad.
Trek II is still the best
Who's gonna argue with that ?, the rest are all flawed in some majorly obvious way.
mod above post up
I think they are referring to the way in which a soccer ball is sewn together, there are lots of pentaogonal (?) shaped patches on the outside of a soccer ball.
I think it was gabe newell's laptop that was running outlook, we don't know what mail client is used internally.
Valve may lose a lot of money through engine licences but a game is more than an engine. Without content a game is nothing and content creation is not a trivial process.
It's interesting for Sony, because one division (movies) want's region coding, while the hardware division wants to do anything to increase sales, e.g. easy region free.
This is something that runs all the way through sony. Perhaps the most interesting dichotomy is the battle between the hardware division (which wants a slice of the currently profitable mp3 player market) and all of sony's content assets (they are a music publisher, own tons of labels and one of the major hollywood studios) who want DRM as soon as possible.
I have a 64 MB muvo, I use a program called DMC Power Amp to downsample mp3 files on the fly while I copy them over.
If you are willing to go as low as 96 or 64 kbps then you will find that you can fit a very respectable amount of music in 64 MB. I'm not a fidelity fascist and am only listening on a cheap pair of headphones so I don't consider such low bitrates to be such a problem.
the users ARE the WEAK link
This is the most sensible thing I have read in this thread, much as we all love linux it is not going to magically solve all the worlds computer problems.
I know its not a new idea on slashdot but maybe if we required all non bussiness users to have a licence for there computer which they get once they pass a test proving they understand the fundamentals of network security...
Wow, thats gotta worry you a little when even the geeks on slashdot don't understand you.
VeriSign's wildcard creates a registry-synthesized address record in response to lookups of domains that are not otherwise present in the zone (including restricted names, unregistered names, and registered but inactive names). The VeriSign wildcard redirects traffic that would otherwise have resulted in a "no domain" response to a VeriSign-operated website with search results and links to paid advertisements.
Why should VeriSign get the money ?
England uses the metric system officially, thats what I was taught in school.
The question is not whether GNU/Linux could be an OS for gamers. It could indeed. Yes, gamers would be a little lost, not having to install new drivers for the graphical device twice a day. But if there were a real game market, the manufacturer might spend more time on up to date drivers for our OS. (to have more game we need the drivers -- chicken-egg problem -- blah blah -- YES. Still, you won't succeed unless you try. This is the very essence of GNU/Linux).
I have seen a couple of suggestions on this thread that maybe a modified Knoppix like live cd could turn a pc into a instant linux based games console. I have to say this sounds like a great idea but for it to work you really need decent linux drivers for both nvidia and ATI to availiable on the game cd. So a linux release would be delayed until the drivers become availiable.
I guess the next biggest problem would be HDD access. Would it be possible for a live cd distro to examine an ntfs partiotion and make use of any free space without harming the performance or the integrity of the data ?.
I don't think so. If a big issue is DirectX networking, then how do they manage to have a Linux server in the first place? Also, Half-Life had the ability to be rendered using either DirectX or OpenGL - it SEEMS like that would be possible with HL2 as well, thus giving the game the ability to be rendered in Linux (or any other OS with OpenGL compatibility).
Nope, HL 1 was based around the quake engine (kinda a mixture of Q1 and Q2).
HL 2 uses valves own proprietary engine called "source". We don't really know yet how different this is to the other major engines (Unreal, Quake 3, Doom 3 and others) but it almost certainly won't be able to be quickly ported like Q3 was (because it was designed to run on Linux and Windows from the start).
Your uptime is more important than playing this game so it appears that it isn't for you.
I think that is the most insightful thing I have read today. On the one hand we have a handful of linux gamers moaning about the lack of a port and on the other we have lots of linux users who really aren't interested enough in games to even consider booting windows.
There is no market here, why should valve port when they won't make any money ?.
Your story makes no difference. Gaming will not come to linux with more users, because gaming must exist on linux before people can switch to gaming on linux. nVidia and ATI drove the nail in Linux's 3D coffin a good long while ago.
Nvidia is getting very good in terms of linux support, considering their Unified Driver Structure I don't see how things can get worse. Hopefully some time in the future we will have up to date linux drivers released with the windows ones. This really isn't as unlikely as you might think.
What I do have a problem with is the "Submit t-shirt suggestions which will then be our property." It just violates what the Slashdot seems to be about. Information wants to be free and what-not. They could've made the shirts, and still kept the logos open-source if someone else wanted to go around printing their own shirts (which I doubt too many would).
/. would own their designs then you might have something to maon about.
So don't buy the t shirt then, no one is forcing you to. Maybe if they hadn't told the people who entered the competition that
Every time I decide to investigate this, everything I can come up with indicates that only Microsoft takes this approach.
All the major console makers have done this a some point, the playstation 1 was sold at a loss when it was first released even though at the time it cost in the region of 300 pounds here in the uk, but sony have gained a lot more experience in making console hardware since then, the PS2 was never sold at a loss, it always either broke even or made a profit.
What makes Microsoft different is that they don't expect to ever make money on the hardware during the current generation of consoles. This is unusual, most consoles that are loss leaders at the start of their lifetime tend to become small profit makers by the end of it.
Halo was ALWAYS going to be a PC/Mac game. But once MS purchased them, they saw potential in releasing it on the xbox.
What you mean is that MS paid them a similar amount to what they could have potentially earned if they had released it on all the availiable mediums (pc and consoles). MS needed a killer app that badly.
Often people who steal computers are much more interested in the data than the hardware. Probably because it is a lot more complicated to track data theft than following the physical trail of stolen hardware.
ermm... that wasn't supposed to be a funny comment.
even if you doubt their technical ability I don't think it would be wise to underestimate their will and determination.
Well maybe China's plans to take up residence on the moon will motivate american politicians to take space seriously again.
I think the current list is...
Iran
Syria
N Korea
France
Surely electric would be best ?, you could have a load of solar panels connected to the space station and the cars could recharge whenever they get to the top before they descend.
There are some interesting cases availiable, for instance I have an iTee case. There are interesting cases out there to be had, saying that while I am not completely unsatisfied with the i-Tee I am not sure I would buy one again, there are lots of great design features but also lots of little niggles.