But I'm waiting for the Rareware games before considering the cube... Mario was ok, but its the sheer billion dollar gameplay of the likes of Goldeneye and Banjo Kazooie which get me...
(Currently snapping up the old N64 titles, and stuck on level 9 on Banjo Kazooie)...
While I fully support all efforts to get out of the MS world, I really don't think native linux games are sensible in the near future...
Why? Because the linux community will want it open source or free. There's no real money to be made off of providing support for it (like there is for the OS), so all you'll get is the people who develop it in their spare time, or a large amount of those being a comittee which tends to ruin visions and gameplay...
If games were free, we'd probably end up with a load of tetris, minesweeper and solitaire clones, and certainly none with the depth of detail of MOHAA, the long term community of UT or the pure damn fun of NOLF.
We have to pay for these games... Otherwise they don't get made. Ok, so there are good open source alternatives now, but they're derivatives of the original styles of games. Not a problem, but there had to be the original trailblazing the way...
I don't want to use MS, pure and simple, but I want to play games, and WineX at the moment seems the only alternative. I don't want to waste 10 minutes of my time, I want to immerse myself for hours in them. I have to pay for that type of game...
I'm sorry if this seems vague, I think I might have a cold coming on, and I've always been bitter I couldn't get UT to work under linux...
George Lucas worked this out with his Star Wars movies. Twenty years later, there are people in their thirtys which have a fit if theres a cool new Star Wars toy issued...
What are they up to?
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I don't know, but every time I read yet another story about MS storing our behaviour patterns, I wonder...
Why do they want to know what we're doing???
Is my life particularly interesting? God help the poor lad who has to search through my personal searches...
Ah, you missed the meaning of his call, your company will soon be out of business because a number of hired goons with sledgehammers will come around and do a "reinstallation" on behalf of Microsoft...
UT is a funny old multiplayer game, its community is the same size of Q3's, but is largely made up of people who didn't like Q3, and Q3s community is often made up of players who have never played UT...
A friend of mines is distributing it to his friends...
I asked him "Why?" and he initially said because it was faster and more stable. Having pushed him further, he admitted it was probably his new machine which was faster, and it wasn't more stable, it was different bugs...
He still can't provide an answer as to why people want to upgrade to it. Apart from the fact its new...
Maybe Microsoft are very good at tapping into the global stupidity...
I think I'll stick with win98, and when the games stop working, it will be linux all the way...
Smid
(Most of the games have been crap recently anyway, still playing Unreal Tournament and that has a linux port)
Nostradamus's predictions have been constantly discredited, being not only applicable to all sorts of events in past 500 years, but also originally written in an obscure version of french that was regularly mistranslated.
Please, put your doomsayer sandwichboards down and stop ringing the bells.
I think its the usual slashdot self-perspective...
Yesteryears 15 year old is todays 35 year old...
You can indeed argue it all back to whichever wave of home computing you joined under... The net is merely another aspect of what is essentially a home computer revolution...
You're always paying a premium, its the premium of boasting, and since the actual performance increase merits at max 50% (probably far less unless you're using max-cpu apps, and the rest of the kits not bottlenecks).
I read the article over a year ago.
Well before the tech crash. Its points are valid about skill specific searches and not retraining their own people...
Smid
I've worked for a company which would attempt to
stop people acquiring marketable skills. While
you could program in C++, only one person was
allowed near Corba/Oracle/Sybase, ie: the
complementary skills which would allow employees
to easily find another job...
Slashdot Mirror
I've been wondering if I'm the only one...
But I'm waiting for the Rareware games before considering the cube... Mario was ok, but its the sheer billion dollar gameplay of the likes of Goldeneye and Banjo Kazooie which get me...
(Currently snapping up the old N64 titles, and stuck on level 9 on Banjo Kazooie)...
I mean msn doesn't show any editorial bias towards their parent company at all does it?
Smid
None of us use windows, right?
RIGHT?
While I fully support all efforts to get out of the MS world, I really don't think native linux games are sensible in the near future...
Why? Because the linux community will want it open source or free. There's no real money to be made off of providing support for it (like there is for the OS), so all you'll get is the people who develop it in their spare time, or a large amount of those being a comittee which tends to ruin visions and gameplay...
If games were free, we'd probably end up with a load of tetris, minesweeper and solitaire clones, and certainly none with the depth of detail of MOHAA, the long term community of UT or the pure damn fun of NOLF.
We have to pay for these games... Otherwise they don't get made. Ok, so there are good open source alternatives now, but they're derivatives of the original styles of games. Not a problem, but there had to be the original trailblazing the way...
I don't want to use MS, pure and simple, but I want to play games, and WineX at the moment seems the only alternative. I don't want to waste 10 minutes of my time, I want to immerse myself for hours in them. I have to pay for that type of game...
I'm sorry if this seems vague, I think I might have a cold coming on, and I've always been bitter I couldn't get UT to work under linux...
More like "Media Savvy and Lucrative".
George Lucas worked this out with his Star Wars movies. Twenty years later, there are people in their thirtys which have a fit if theres a cool new Star Wars toy issued...
I don't know, but every time I read yet another story about MS storing our behaviour patterns, I wonder...
Why do they want to know what we're doing???
Is my life particularly interesting? God help the poor lad who has to search through my personal searches...
+UT +MOHAA +GAMEBOY +ADVANCE +DREAMCAST +GTA3 +N64 +SUPERMARIO +GAMECUBE
(Note: no +XBOX)
Ah, you missed the meaning of his call, your company will soon be out of business because a number of hired goons with sledgehammers will come around and do a "reinstallation" on behalf of Microsoft...
:)
(Just sowing my own FUD)
A fifty hour version of Stephen Kings "The Stand"
So why do they keep paying people to write articles they obviously know nothing about.
.NET? C#? VB.NET? Good god, a less diverse view of the programming industry there cannot be.
Does he imagine computers are all MS? Does he believe everyone programs net based applications?
In my industry (telecoms), they used C, C++, unix, perl, tcl, python and maybe some java for the graphical things.
And thats just my industry. But every time a tech journalist writes such obvious nonsense, a thousand pointy haired bosses sit up and listen.
So expect your telecoms products to all crash in about 2 years time...
Weren't the bugs supposed to be fixed in:
98
98 SE
2000
ME
XP
?
Smid
Erm...
Ok, I'll get my coat...
Smid
(Who remembers the shocking days when it was announced they would move from Quake to Unreal engine.)
If they could just do an Unreal Tournament which works on a recent version of linux *at all*...
I think it might have worked ages ago, but us recent users have had no chance...
Smid
UT is a funny old multiplayer game, its community is the same size of Q3's, but is largely made up of people who didn't like Q3, and Q3s community is often made up of players who have never played UT...
Smid
(UT Instagib player)
Nothing wrong with the original description techwise, but the statement "Quake 3 is the biggest game for windows" is absolute nonsense.
It might compete and win as best benchmark against 3dmark.
It lost a long time ago against counterstrike onlinewise, and has about the same amount of regular players as Unreal Tournament.
And saleswise, its a mere drop in the ocean compared the awful Myst series.
So did they put it out in the really big box or what?
Smid
A friend of mines is distributing it to his friends...
I asked him "Why?" and he initially said because it was faster and more stable. Having pushed him further, he admitted it was probably his new machine which was faster, and it wasn't more stable, it was different bugs...
He still can't provide an answer as to why people want to upgrade to it. Apart from the fact its new...
Maybe Microsoft are very good at tapping into the global stupidity...
I think I'll stick with win98, and when the games stop working, it will be linux all the way...
Smid
(Most of the games have been crap recently anyway, still playing Unreal Tournament and that has a linux port)
"most world-wide spammers are Americans."
Could I add something...
"Who live in Canada because often have outstanding fraud charges in the states"?
Ok, so it might not be 100% true, I just like to say bad things about spammers...
Smid
Give us the next UT update and I'll be interested...
Smid
"British citizens have "chosen" to give up their freedom for nothing."
Sorry mate, if you ever thought British citizens ever had rights, then you are sorely mistaken...
Smid
Nostradamus's predictions have been constantly discredited, being not only applicable to all sorts of events in past 500 years, but also originally written in an obscure version of french that was regularly mistranslated.
Please, put your doomsayer sandwichboards down and stop ringing the bells.
(Not you Diomedes, you talk sense)
Smid
I think its the usual slashdot self-perspective...
Yesteryears 15 year old is todays 35 year old...
You can indeed argue it all back to whichever wave of home computing you joined under... The net is merely another aspect of what is essentially a home computer revolution...
Smid
Buy a 386dx40 at $80, or a 486dx33 at $600?
Buy a 486dx100 at $80, or a P1-166 at $600?
Buy a P120 at $80, or a P233MMX at $600?
Buy a P300-CelebA at $80, or a PII-450 at $600?
Buy a Ath800 at $80, or a P4-1.3g at $600?
You're always paying a premium, its the premium of boasting, and since the actual performance increase merits at max 50% (probably far less unless you're using max-cpu apps, and the rest of the kits not bottlenecks).
So, No. Unless someone else is paying...
Smid
I read the article over a year ago. Well before the tech crash. Its points are valid about skill specific searches and not retraining their own people... Smid
It was crap. The original movies were barely watchable, its people harking back to their youth...
I never understood why people complained so much, Lucas is simply a childrens moviemaker...
Don't encourage him...
Smid
Well, there only seems to be one world economy which is failing at the moment...
And you're sitting in it.
Smid
I've worked for a company which would attempt to
stop people acquiring marketable skills. While
you could program in C++, only one person was
allowed near Corba/Oracle/Sybase, ie: the
complementary skills which would allow employees
to easily find another job...
Smid