I'd like to point out that it make take several titles to recoup the cost of a single game engine.
That said, I think they're focusing too much on detail [the wrong details], which is why the games cost so much. If you had to hire 200 artists, musicians, modellers, etc. for a year to make a game, you'd sell it for $60 too. Back when games were the product of 10-20 folk, it was totally possible to sell them for $20 and profit.
Problem is the market isn't always informed and can take far too long [re: never] to come to its senses.
Not that I'm a fan of reactionary policies, nor do I think politicians are always on the ball. Couple that with I don't really know the stats on ethanol vs. standard gasoline efficiency and well there ya have it.
I think ethanol should be promoted as an alternative, but not at the cost of the existing farming market. On the otherhand, they already use corn for sugar substitutes already, usually with crappy tasting effects [cola anyone?]. So it's not like the farmers haven't been given a free ride already.
Aggressive is like cutting people off, merging unsafely, etc. Impatient is speeding or denying right of way (of stationary cars). Nothing that is seriously harmful, just inappropriate.
Though I don't make a habit of it, most of the time I'm a "proper" driver. My point was that the goofs I do make while driving have nothing to do with what I'd do while playing GTA.
That's standard, most SATA cables lack any sort of locking clip which makes them fantastically unsafe to use. My suggestion is to not move your desktop a lot. And if you do move it, check the cables first.
In my case I spent an hour or so chasing cables that would pull out, e.g. secure it to the mobo, it would pull on the drive. It didn't help that I had 4 SATA drives at the time...
If you're so inclined you could try gluing them into the mobo, then tape it to the drive. Bonus points for using duct tape, the true Canadian solution:-)
See this is the sort of thing that should be penalized. How about ban LSI from filing patents for a year. See how they like them apples.
This doesn't really surprise me. Most likely this is the work of an over zealous marketing droid looking through some slides and thought, my god, we have invented perfection!
I'd like to think the engineers at LSI aren't going around thinking they invented computer science...
Hey did you license her pages for $5000 per view? [read the fine print at the bottom].
I think she should read how about contract law. There is no "license" unless we have a contract, and for that we have to have signatures [or other forms of non-repdutiation].
While the pages may be copyrighted, she can't stop you from printing them for yourself as that's just fair use.
MY ISP knows that I download lots of porn, read slashdot and fark. well, for starters, my ISP serves me those pages. So, um, I'd hope they are involved.
Though in this case, if they tie names or other identifiers to the data I could see the uproar. I mean we do pay the ISP, so they shouldn't go out of our way to spread our info to others [more than it already is].
Of course this opens the door to "unlisted" ISP accounts where the ISP doesn't log your data if you pay a premium...
I didn't mean to say he did, I just think he's about 1 step away from doing that. He's so desperate for attention and to be "right" that I think he'll make the leap [if he hasn't already] soon enough. And yeah, I agree about the super-villain comment.
It's funny when people like him wonder why others object to being told what they should and should not consume (media, food, whateverwise). I don't think he's clued in that just because he doesn't like something doesn't mean it should be illegal.
Oh well. Dude hasn't accomplished anything with his life, why start now?
Well, nobody should run Gentoo for the "ricer" aspect of it. And certainly, that's not why I run it.
As an OSS developer I run a lot of random OSS tools, I also like to try stuff that isn't super mainstream. Look at Fedora (what I use at work). Most major packages are at least one release cycle behind (like Gnome) and a lot of other tools are not fully up to date (GCC 4.1.1 here not 4.1.2).
Having not tried Ubuntu I don't know how up to date the packages are there. But I stand by my comment. It isn't "wrong" to run Gentoo just because you think Ubuntu is better. Use what serves your purpose, choose what you use.
You can get disbarred for filing falsified court documents. As for being a pain in the ass, aside from contempt I don't think so.
In this case though Take Two is looking to enjoin him from filing lawsuits over two specific games on the basis that his previous lawsuits have all been without merit. Frankly, the guy is an assclown. He has had zero effect on the sales of the games and is making enemies all over the world. He should be proud.
Likely the injunction seeks to prevent a type of lawsuit from being presented (re: the baseless kind). I imagine if Take Two broke into his home he could legally sue then.
But, I should point out that even though [for example] you have the right of free association, that can be stripped (re: prison, restraining order, etc).
So as punishment for filing baseless lawsuits, I can see a judge ordering that Thompson leave Take Two the fark alone.
I don't know why there is anymosity between OSS users. If ubuntu does what you want, and you chose it, all the power to you. In my case, Gentoo did what I want, and I chose it.
I only defend my choice of Gentoo when people knock it as a go-nowhere OS. Other than that, I don't really care what OS you run so long as you choose it.
Um, I have a fully functional workstation running very recent software. None of which is masked.
What are you talking about? Development software (e.g. beta/rc) has always been masked. That's because Gentoo admins don't want to spend time helping newbies using unfinished software.
In many cases an OSS tool doesn't exist in Windows because the developer don't run Windows, and their isn't much incentive. There are also technological reasons. For example, my pthread based application will run happily in Linux, BSD, and MacOS but requires a clunky emulation layer to work in Windows. etc...
In the Windows case, many applications are written for Windows only, despite the draw from paying customers for Linux/MacOS/BSD ports. And they're limited not by the technological advancements of Windows, but by corporate greed. It wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft paid off popular studios to not release Linux ports of software.
I called them sheep because people like MSFT and Blizzard tell them "that's the way it is," and they fall for it. There isn't any reason a game of the WoW genre can't exist in Linux or BSD. Other than they used Microsoft specific API hooks and are too lazy to fix it. It's one thing to decide on your own terms to use Windows. It's another to use it because they told you it's the only way to render polygons, play sound files, register mouse movements and transmit IP datagrams.
That aside, I don't subscribe to the "it's the way it is" scenario. There are other things to do than shell out money to companies that don't respect your freedoms. They're doing something wrong. Plain and simple. And you don't reward them because it's familiar and comfortable.
As to your comment about MMOs, the only [and last] one I played was Champions of Norrath. Single player sucks, multiplayer wasn't much more fun. Granted the graphics are nice and the music well done, the "hack and slash" crap is really boring after 5 minutes. oh look, another moving object, I wonder what I do, oh I know, hack and slash it. Boring.
I'm not against playing games though. I'm just against making excuses for poor business practices because you can't control yourself.
When installing from source do they also build dependencies from source too?
Sure you can type "make install" but with Portage [and ports] dependencies are built as well.
Nobody runs Gentoo because they get to build software, they use it because it's relatively easy to install packages and their depends, and also to configure them as you want.
Hint: some of us own more than one box. At one point I had a laptop and several desktops (all different platforms). I've also had disks die, and I've installed Gentoo for friends.
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I'd like to point out that it make take several titles to recoup the cost of a single game engine.
That said, I think they're focusing too much on detail [the wrong details], which is why the games cost so much. If you had to hire 200 artists, musicians, modellers, etc. for a year to make a game, you'd sell it for $60 too. Back when games were the product of 10-20 folk, it was totally possible to sell them for $20 and profit.
Tom
Agreed. But researching how to make ethanol work could lead to a solution.
Though yeah, forcing reactionary policies doesn't help.
Tom
Problem is the market isn't always informed and can take far too long [re: never] to come to its senses.
Not that I'm a fan of reactionary policies, nor do I think politicians are always on the ball. Couple that with I don't really know the stats on ethanol vs. standard gasoline efficiency and well there ya have it.
I think ethanol should be promoted as an alternative, but not at the cost of the existing farming market. On the otherhand, they already use corn for sugar substitutes already, usually with crappy tasting effects [cola anyone?]. So it's not like the farmers haven't been given a free ride already.
Tom
Aggressive is like cutting people off, merging unsafely, etc. Impatient is speeding or denying right of way (of stationary cars). Nothing that is seriously harmful, just inappropriate.
Though I don't make a habit of it, most of the time I'm a "proper" driver. My point was that the goofs I do make while driving have nothing to do with what I'd do while playing GTA.
Tom
Routinely carjack cars and then drive them 90mph in the wrong lane looking for the biggest collision I can cause.
:-) ) come from not being patient enough. They have nothing to do with speeding or aggressive driving.
Hehehehe..
Most of my driving mistakes (no collisions
Tom
That's standard, most SATA cables lack any sort of locking clip which makes them fantastically unsafe to use. My suggestion is to not move your desktop a lot. And if you do move it, check the cables first.
:-)
In my case I spent an hour or so chasing cables that would pull out, e.g. secure it to the mobo, it would pull on the drive. It didn't help that I had 4 SATA drives at the time...
If you're so inclined you could try gluing them into the mobo, then tape it to the drive. Bonus points for using duct tape, the true Canadian solution
Tom
Texture mapping.
How about slocate?
Or rsync?
Oh and data muxing.
Fantastic!
To be fair ... the first patent that the examiner cited is PRIOR ART (I'd argue it too is invalid) for this patent.
What's worse? LibTomCrypt uses quad-lists (prev/next, parent/child) so it seems that I violate this patent. Gotta go cut a cheque to LSI.
Tom
See this is the sort of thing that should be penalized. How about ban LSI from filing patents for a year. See how they like them apples.
This doesn't really surprise me. Most likely this is the work of an over zealous marketing droid looking through some slides and thought, my god, we have invented perfection!
I'd like to think the engineers at LSI aren't going around thinking they invented computer science...
Tom
Hey did you license her pages for $5000 per view? [read the fine print at the bottom].
I think she should read how about contract law. There is no "license" unless we have a contract, and for that we have to have signatures [or other forms of non-repdutiation].
While the pages may be copyrighted, she can't stop you from printing them for yourself as that's just fair use.
I wonder if Mrs. Shell is new to the "Interwebs?"
Tom
MY ISP knows that I download lots of porn, read slashdot and fark. well, for starters, my ISP serves me those pages. So, um, I'd hope they are involved.
...
Though in this case, if they tie names or other identifiers to the data I could see the uproar. I mean we do pay the ISP, so they shouldn't go out of our way to spread our info to others [more than it already is].
Of course this opens the door to "unlisted" ISP accounts where the ISP doesn't log your data if you pay a premium
oh shit I gave them an idea...
Actually I drive a Ford Malibu ... when mom isn't using it. :-)
My life, the very definition of success!
Who needs heat? Parents basement is comfortable year-round! :-(
OMG WOW a 800W box to play video games. Good thing to know my 300mW gameboy can play games too.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Or are people incapable of learning that lesson?
Tom
I didn't mean to say he did, I just think he's about 1 step away from doing that. He's so desperate for attention and to be "right" that I think he'll make the leap [if he hasn't already] soon enough. And yeah, I agree about the super-villain comment.
It's funny when people like him wonder why others object to being told what they should and should not consume (media, food, whateverwise). I don't think he's clued in that just because he doesn't like something doesn't mean it should be illegal.
Oh well. Dude hasn't accomplished anything with his life, why start now?
Tom
Well, nobody should run Gentoo for the "ricer" aspect of it. And certainly, that's not why I run it.
As an OSS developer I run a lot of random OSS tools, I also like to try stuff that isn't super mainstream. Look at Fedora (what I use at work). Most major packages are at least one release cycle behind (like Gnome) and a lot of other tools are not fully up to date (GCC 4.1.1 here not 4.1.2).
Having not tried Ubuntu I don't know how up to date the packages are there. But I stand by my comment. It isn't "wrong" to run Gentoo just because you think Ubuntu is better. Use what serves your purpose, choose what you use.
Tom
You can get disbarred for filing falsified court documents. As for being a pain in the ass, aside from contempt I don't think so.
In this case though Take Two is looking to enjoin him from filing lawsuits over two specific games on the basis that his previous lawsuits have all been without merit. Frankly, the guy is an assclown. He has had zero effect on the sales of the games and is making enemies all over the world. He should be proud.
Tom
Likely the injunction seeks to prevent a type of lawsuit from being presented (re: the baseless kind). I imagine if Take Two broke into his home he could legally sue then.
But, I should point out that even though [for example] you have the right of free association, that can be stripped (re: prison, restraining order, etc).
So as punishment for filing baseless lawsuits, I can see a judge ordering that Thompson leave Take Two the fark alone.
Tom
I am happy for you.
I don't know why there is anymosity between OSS users. If ubuntu does what you want, and you chose it, all the power to you. In my case, Gentoo did what I want, and I chose it.
I only defend my choice of Gentoo when people knock it as a go-nowhere OS. Other than that, I don't really care what OS you run so long as you choose it.
Tom
Um, I have a fully functional workstation running very recent software. None of which is masked.
What are you talking about? Development software (e.g. beta/rc) has always been masked. That's because Gentoo admins don't want to spend time helping newbies using unfinished software.
Tom
In many cases an OSS tool doesn't exist in Windows because the developer don't run Windows, and their isn't much incentive. There are also technological reasons. For example, my pthread based application will run happily in Linux, BSD, and MacOS but requires a clunky emulation layer to work in Windows. etc...
In the Windows case, many applications are written for Windows only, despite the draw from paying customers for Linux/MacOS/BSD ports. And they're limited not by the technological advancements of Windows, but by corporate greed. It wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft paid off popular studios to not release Linux ports of software.
I called them sheep because people like MSFT and Blizzard tell them "that's the way it is," and they fall for it. There isn't any reason a game of the WoW genre can't exist in Linux or BSD. Other than they used Microsoft specific API hooks and are too lazy to fix it. It's one thing to decide on your own terms to use Windows. It's another to use it because they told you it's the only way to render polygons, play sound files, register mouse movements and transmit IP datagrams.
Tom
OMG use paragraphs.
That aside, I don't subscribe to the "it's the way it is" scenario. There are other things to do than shell out money to companies that don't respect your freedoms. They're doing something wrong. Plain and simple. And you don't reward them because it's familiar and comfortable.
As to your comment about MMOs, the only [and last] one I played was Champions of Norrath. Single player sucks, multiplayer wasn't much more fun. Granted the graphics are nice and the music well done, the "hack and slash" crap is really boring after 5 minutes. oh look, another moving object, I wonder what I do, oh I know, hack and slash it. Boring.
I'm not against playing games though. I'm just against making excuses for poor business practices because you can't control yourself.
tom
Sadly in my case, not much more. Bleh.
Oh slashdot, comfort me so!
When installing from source do they also build dependencies from source too?
Sure you can type "make install" but with Portage [and ports] dependencies are built as well.
Nobody runs Gentoo because they get to build software, they use it because it's relatively easy to install packages and their depends, and also to configure them as you want.
Hint: some of us own more than one box. At one point I had a laptop and several desktops (all different platforms). I've also had disks die, and I've installed Gentoo for friends.
TOM