I downloaded ClamAV for MacOS X to see what it was about just to find out that I had a windows virus in some of my archived files. If I had used that file on my Windows machine before scanning I would have had to spend several hours cleaning up the mess.
Always use some form of AV, even if it's just for other's people's sake.
It'll also play PS1 & PS2 games, act as an electronic secretary, automatically sort your socks, render the special effects in LOTR in real time and double your TV resolution. Meanwhile, if you plug in your PSP into the PS3 it'll make it play all of Nintendo's portable games as well as all of the Xbox games available. A software update late next year will allow the PS3 to play Xbox 360 at twice the speed.
Seriously, doesn't anyone remember the hype that surrounded the PS2? How much of that was true? Sony couldn't live up to it's OWN hype, nevermind what the press and fanboys came up with.
Have you checked the credits for the games John Romero worked on? There is one game in which he is the lead game designer (yes, the "bitch" one). All the other games that he worked on in the last 10 years he was either a programmer or one of 3+ designers. The last two games he claims credit on he is listed under "special thanks" and "additional design." In other words, he did very little or pissed off the wrong person.
So, given this track record I'd say that if he is working on an MMO as a programmer or level designer it's a good thing. He does good work. If he's in charge of design, I'd be worried because he tends to overreach the technology/time constraints.
I do admire his unwavering confidence (apparent, at least) and enthusiasm. If he had not tried to be a game design rock star he would be seen in a much different light. How much of that is his fault, though?
The "OptimalGrid" technology only runs on an intranet. The game itself can run on the internet via proxy servers and modified game servers.
I know this is Slashdot where you're not supposed to read the article before commenting on it but reading parts of the article and then spreading false information is far, far worse.
From the site: "Using biblical presuppositions to build a way of thinking to interpret the evidence."
I see where creationists have a hard time understanding scientists debating about evolution. Creationists assume that the bible is the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth.
Scientists don't. Why? The bible is claimed to be the word of god because those that wrote/edited/translated it say they were "divinely inspired." If the person who did the work didn't say why they did it, it's assumed that they were "divinely inspired" or even taking dictation from god.
Your "eye witness account" is the bible. That's not scientific, that's wrapping Christianity with a science wrapper. Your "scientists" site scripture to prove their point. The arguements presented against evolution are laughable and don't give any actual evidence to falsify evolution or give a theory for creationism.
In other words, the only evidence the web site actually has against evolution is that "the bible says." Scientists don't take the bible as fact because they know much of it's history and someone claiming divine inspriation isn't enough to prove it's 100% Truth.
I may not make one of these to put in my living room, but I may make one to mount on my ceiling so I can use it during RPG games. I hope my ceiling is strong enough.
Check out Cool Drives, that's where I got the smallest USB 2.0/Firewire drive enclosure I've ever seen. Unfortunately, they no longer have the enclosure I have. Never had a problem with them.
Publishers of porn should be held responsible, too! After watching a XXX video I has sex with my wife and she got pregnant! They should pay child support.
I played an educational game and learned how to get a better job and now my paycheck is bigger. Unfortunately, I have to pay the publisher a cut because they are responsible my my increase in pay.
It gets worse...I played those shooting games FOREVER, got all of the high scores and could beat any game. So I bet this guy at the shooting range I could beat him with REAL guns. I lost $20! The publishers should pay up!
The game industry is funded and run by people who don't play games. At all. They read reviews and have focus groups with people off the street that play games and then make decisions based off of that data.
Once you know that, the rest makes sense in a strange and depressing way.
I bought my first Mac when the nearest store was a two hour drive away. I never had a problem. My Airport base station had a problem and I had to send it to Apple. They
sent me the box to ship to them
got it back to me within a week
99.9% of the time Apple computers just work. I know it's hard to accept it when people say that, but they do. The other 0.1% of the time it isn't that big of a deal to get it fixed. If a google search doesn't fix it, a call to Apple will.
Unfortunately, the total cost of an Xbox for use as a Linux desktop is:
Xbox port to USB converter - $8 x 2 = $16 Xbox off Ebay - $120 (seems to be average going price) Xbox VGA box - $65 Renting MechAssault - $7 ? haven't rented in a while so I could be wrong here.
That makes it $208 and it assumes that the Xbox can be modded to boot Linux without buying a chip and you can find the right version of MechAssault.
Mind you, that's a hell of a lot closer than you'll get with almost anything else.
I think a lot of people are missing the main failing point for OSS in game development.
The arguement for making money on Open Source software is by providing a service modifying and maintaining the software for clients. That falls apart for games. A shipped game is a completed project (patching jokes aside) that usually costs millions of dollars to make. If you give away everything at the end of development, how do you make money? There's no companies or people with enough money that will pay you to modify the game. Hell, people play the game for just a few months and then move on.
There's no way to make enough money on an OSS game to create anything but shareware or a labor of love.
I don't know if it's still there but when I was younger and living in northern NY there was a store that sold Gas, Gun, Guitars and Groceries. Maybe we could convince them to add GNU to the list.
I'm torn when it comes to saving computer history.
On one hand, nostalga runs deep with machines I spent a long time with. My Timex Sinclair, C64 and 486 computers were hard to depart with because of how much I learned and enjoyed using them. My G5 is starting to get that way too and I haven't even had it that long. I almost went looking for an old VAX machine to buy to re-live some of my college days (thank god for my wife, she was the voice of reason that day). So I can understand why people would want to preserve these machines.
On the other hand, old computers are (in the grand scheme of things) not that old. If we keep museums filled with each generation of computer then every couple of years we have to add a handful of computers to the stock. The industry moves so fast it's difficult to decide what's historical and what's not (aside from a few computers). So I can understand why people wouldn't be interested in a museum of computers (a dull subject for many to begin with).
I guess I have to fall back on the phrase "when in doubt, don't pay out." Sorry, guys.
Because I have. Five of them. They're all holes in the wall, at least thirty minutes away and you can walk around for half an hour before they'll even acknowledge your presence. Then they charge 10% more than Apple does on their web site.
I was in one where I walked in, started browsing around and was completely ignored by the staff. A pretty woman walked in about five minutes later and the salesman immediately asked what he could do for her. I was going to buy an external HD but since they couldn't be bothered to help me I couldn't be bothered to buy one.
It's no wonder they don't like the competition, they suck. Apple's stores are a world better.
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That is the same guy who says you can get artificial intelligence from the bible. He's a loon with a large vocabulary.
I didn't know my Blue-ray player was also a game machine!!!
Hear! Hear!
I downloaded ClamAV for MacOS X to see what it was about just to find out that I had a windows virus in some of my archived files. If I had used that file on my Windows machine before scanning I would have had to spend several hours cleaning up the mess.
Always use some form of AV, even if it's just for other's people's sake.
It'll also play PS1 & PS2 games, act as an electronic secretary, automatically sort your socks, render the special effects in LOTR in real time and double your TV resolution. Meanwhile, if you plug in your PSP into the PS3 it'll make it play all of Nintendo's portable games as well as all of the Xbox games available. A software update late next year will allow the PS3 to play Xbox 360 at twice the speed.
Seriously, doesn't anyone remember the hype that surrounded the PS2? How much of that was true? Sony couldn't live up to it's OWN hype, nevermind what the press and fanboys came up with.
Have you checked the credits for the games John Romero worked on? There is one game in which he is the lead game designer (yes, the "bitch" one). All the other games that he worked on in the last 10 years he was either a programmer or one of 3+ designers. The last two games he claims credit on he is listed under "special thanks" and "additional design." In other words, he did very little or pissed off the wrong person.
So, given this track record I'd say that if he is working on an MMO as a programmer or level designer it's a good thing. He does good work. If he's in charge of design, I'd be worried because he tends to overreach the technology/time constraints.
I do admire his unwavering confidence (apparent, at least) and enthusiasm. If he had not tried to be a game design rock star he would be seen in a much different light. How much of that is his fault, though?
"overweight a contagious condition"
I knew I shouldn't have made out with that fat chick in college. Damn beer goggles.
"Everyone wants episodic games."
Everyone? I don't think that means what you thinks it means.
Yeah, BSD licenses sure have killed a lot of projects.
That's just five minutes of searching for BSD licensed projects, I didn't look for MIT licensed projects.
It's not stealing when you give it away. Some people don't mind giving their work away and the GPL isn't applicable for ALL development.
The "OptimalGrid" technology only runs on an intranet. The game itself can run on the internet via proxy servers and modified game servers.
I know this is Slashdot where you're not supposed to read the article before commenting on it but reading parts of the article and then spreading false information is far, far worse.
I see where creationists have a hard time understanding scientists debating about evolution. Creationists assume that the bible is the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth.
Scientists don't. Why? The bible is claimed to be the word of god because those that wrote/edited/translated it say they were "divinely inspired." If the person who did the work didn't say why they did it, it's assumed that they were "divinely inspired" or even taking dictation from god.
Your "eye witness account" is the bible. That's not scientific, that's wrapping Christianity with a science wrapper. Your "scientists" site scripture to prove their point. The arguements presented against evolution are laughable and don't give any actual evidence to falsify evolution or give a theory for creationism.
In other words, the only evidence the web site actually has against evolution is that "the bible says." Scientists don't take the bible as fact because they know much of it's history and someone claiming divine inspriation isn't enough to prove it's 100% Truth.
I may not make one of these to put in my living room, but I may make one to mount on my ceiling so I can use it during RPG games. I hope my ceiling is strong enough.
Check out Cool Drives, that's where I got the smallest USB 2.0/Firewire drive enclosure I've ever seen. Unfortunately, they no longer have the enclosure I have. Never had a problem with them.
Publishers of porn should be held responsible, too! After watching a XXX video I has sex with my wife and she got pregnant! They should pay child support.
I played an educational game and learned how to get a better job and now my paycheck is bigger. Unfortunately, I have to pay the publisher a cut because they are responsible my my increase in pay.
It gets worse...I played those shooting games FOREVER, got all of the high scores and could beat any game. So I bet this guy at the shooting range I could beat him with REAL guns. I lost $20! The publishers should pay up!
The game industry is funded and run by people who don't play games. At all. They read reviews and have focus groups with people off the street that play games and then make decisions based off of that data.
Once you know that, the rest makes sense in a strange and depressing way.
The same thing you do when your iPod breaks.
I bought my first Mac when the nearest store was a two hour drive away. I never had a problem. My Airport base station had a problem and I had to send it to Apple. They
99.9% of the time Apple computers just work. I know it's hard to accept it when people say that, but they do. The other 0.1% of the time it isn't that big of a deal to get it fixed. If a google search doesn't fix it, a call to Apple will.
Unfortunately, the total cost of an Xbox for use as a Linux desktop is:
Xbox port to USB converter - $8 x 2 = $16
Xbox off Ebay - $120 (seems to be average going price)
Xbox VGA box - $65
Renting MechAssault - $7 ? haven't rented in a while so I could be wrong here.
That makes it $208 and it assumes that the Xbox can be modded to boot Linux without buying a chip and you can find the right version of MechAssault.
Mind you, that's a hell of a lot closer than you'll get with almost anything else.
I think a lot of people are missing the main failing point for OSS in game development.
The arguement for making money on Open Source software is by providing a service modifying and maintaining the software for clients. That falls apart for games. A shipped game is a completed project (patching jokes aside) that usually costs millions of dollars to make. If you give away everything at the end of development, how do you make money? There's no companies or people with enough money that will pay you to modify the game. Hell, people play the game for just a few months and then move on.
There's no way to make enough money on an OSS game to create anything but shareware or a labor of love.
No, it isn't a problem.
...now I have to deal with being surrounded by crying cars on the way to work.
Screw that.
And people wonder why there aren't more female astronauts.
I don't know if it's still there but when I was younger and living in northern NY there was a store that sold Gas, Gun, Guitars and Groceries. Maybe we could convince them to add GNU to the list.
I'm torn when it comes to saving computer history.
On one hand, nostalga runs deep with machines I spent a long time with. My Timex Sinclair, C64 and 486 computers were hard to depart with because of how much I learned and enjoyed using them. My G5 is starting to get that way too and I haven't even had it that long. I almost went looking for an old VAX machine to buy to re-live some of my college days (thank god for my wife, she was the voice of reason that day). So I can understand why people would want to preserve these machines.
On the other hand, old computers are (in the grand scheme of things) not that old. If we keep museums filled with each generation of computer then every couple of years we have to add a handful of computers to the stock. The industry moves so fast it's difficult to decide what's historical and what's not (aside from a few computers). So I can understand why people wouldn't be interested in a museum of computers (a dull subject for many to begin with).
I guess I have to fall back on the phrase "when in doubt, don't pay out." Sorry, guys.
And interrupt their game of Burning Monkey Solitaire?!?! Who am I to interrupt their game time? I don't even have breasts!?! :D
Because I have. Five of them. They're all holes in the wall, at least thirty minutes away and you can walk around for half an hour before they'll even acknowledge your presence. Then they charge 10% more than Apple does on their web site.
I was in one where I walked in, started browsing around and was completely ignored by the staff. A pretty woman walked in about five minutes later and the salesman immediately asked what he could do for her. I was going to buy an external HD but since they couldn't be bothered to help me I couldn't be bothered to buy one.
It's no wonder they don't like the competition, they suck. Apple's stores are a world better.